skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is just a site with very a specific use case

Nope, LinkedIn is in fact the best social website you have this day. I post same content on FB, Twitter and LinkedIn all the time. To my surprise, I get most most engagement on LinkedIn! Not only that but LinkedIn engagement is typically higher value because its not some random dudes and long lost friends liking and moving on but your colleagues and collaborators who you see everyday.

In my view, Twitter as a social media is only useful to those who have won the lottery of a viral tweet and have racked up few thousands followers. Without that you might as well be talking into a empty bucket. As I often say, Twitter is best described as broadcast media for 1% while the rest 99% talks into the black hole.

Facebook is becoming less and less effective social media because it literally ignores majority of posts from friends and instead shows posts from random pages you liked or groups you became member of. On any day, you can click on your individual friends and see astonishing amount of their posts you missed while FB served you all the other clickbaity junk.

This leaves LinkedIn. You see posts from your actual connections and your connections see your posts. Engagements and impact is very real.
That does seem like a much better deal than Netflix.

Side note: would love to see an extensive study on the subscription economy - stats on what the average household spends by category.
i dabbled in it early on for LAN usage. This or a varient of this tech is apparently how the electric utility predicts power usage and upgraded line requirements, in my area.
they send a report along with your bill and it contains a graph of daily usage, and you can see houly usage and current spikings online. Im sure they know more than they are telling, and probably searched for certain devices before legalization of a certain brand of tobacco.
“It is prudent to anticipate that a major incident may well occur at any time that will galvanize public opinion on these issues ... Whether we end up with legislation or not, the best course for everyone involved is to work soberly and in good faith together to craft appropriate solutions, rather than have outcomes dictated during a crisis.” -- AG William Barr, July 23 2019

"Never let a good crisis go to waste" -- Winston Churchill, probably
I read this as putting people's behaviors under scrutiny because "just in case". You could use your reasoning to expand the surveillance state, etc. I cannot say I like the idea.
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It's the same argument as this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/

Though granted it confuses keys for passwords.
Do i need to be an expert in CSS first to use this ?
Other than all the other psychos who kill a lot more people but are considered legitimate in their doings... We need more access to their information, drug companies making opiates that kill tens of thousands, various other corporations, various world leaders... etc. If we can tolerate them, then we can tolerate your run of the mill psycho doing things now and then and usually immediately being stopped from doing anything else.
As someone who first started working with infrared photography on crops some 36 years ago this is an interesting development.

My biggest problem in Michigan was clouds obscuring the field. I'm not certain however if you can see crop stress as well with infrared. But if I was still in ag I'd sure like to try;<).

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That gov’t road was likely built by a private company. And being heavily regulated doesn’t make a private utility a good example.
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Of course. The FBI always claims this shit because in their opinion no longer having access to everyone’s data is “going dark” and throughout history they have always had complete access to everyone and everything.

They don’t stand here saying “we need to deal with white supremecists”, they say “we need the ability to violate everyone’s rights”. They already have a public track record of mass illegal surveillance.
Much of the Medicare business is funded by the gov’t, but executed by private insurers (Part C and Part D).

And based on the scandal around the VA a few years ago, no it wasn’t well run at all.
Why would you send money to people just to be nice?
It didn't used to regularly happen, despite the high availability of guns.
I wonder how much for ad-free (Hulu already offers it) if that’s even a thing.
Disney+ is different than the current service, and has not launched yet: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/disney-streaming-faq-price-rele...
There is a great deal of human civilization that works well despite looking nothing like the postwar suburban United States. This idea that anything outside status-quo zoning codes will lead to the collapse of civilization seems easily disproven by most middle-class people's travel experiences.
Seems like im wrong. However this puts oregon in a minority of states i believe. Most states do not tax residents on income earned in another state though they certainly could
This sounds more like an urban legend than an actual event.
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It appears Hulu with ads is the only option for the bundle.
read the article, or just listen here [.WAV]

https://images.newscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1...
I honestly don't know what your position is because the right against unreasonable searches and seizures and right to arms are both specifically enumerated in the fourth and second amendments, respectively.
I have seen an alternative explanation: A lot of my Korean friends from privileged backgrounds say the problem with Korea today is nepotism, cheating and corruption. Though that is what is said in private, candidly.

Interesting that less-successful Koreans don't seem to actually share the same views.
And we are one step closer to being back to cabel and likely a swing back toward pirating shows instead of working out what combo of 12.99 subscriptions are needed to watch some subset of shows and movies.

I would honestly just like blockbuster back.
As per example the templates are in compute intensive part of the app — pull that out to a library, compile once and done - no need for JIT in the standard /runtime (did they mention +75MB! runtime?)
You're assuming the centralized "neocortex" model (i.e. communism/socialism) is more effective than the distributed model (i.e. marketplace/capitalism/crowd sourced). Who knows, at this point, but the next decade will be very interesting to watch.
>Editors’ Note: An earlier version of this referred to philosopher Roman Krznaric as Austrian; in fact he is Australian.

Very easy mistake to make when you have here an Australian philosopher who for some utterly inexplicable reason, probably deeply philosophical, refuses to call themselves Bruce.
> That sounds completely different. "BankID På Kort" is basically the same experience as using an OpenPGP smartcard: it prompts you to insert the card, enter your PIN, and everything else is handled in the background.

Agreed, sounds completely different. We had some smartcard id system here as well, but last time I saw any of that in practical use for banking was 10 or so years ago, and even then it was standalone (battery driven, small enough to fit in my pocket) and not dependent on a PC with proprietary OS.

> Many banks here (and at least Nordea used the CC for this) also support manual challenge/response auth like you describe, but this is unrelated to BankID and seems to generally be considered deprecated.

I see. Around here this is official from BankID and it seems you need a "proper" physical BankID to even log into hour bank to issue a mobile BankID[0].

> From what I can tell, Swedish and Norwegian BankID are completely separate. NorBankID seems to be operated by Vipps [...] and have existed since 2004, while SweBankID is owned by Finansiell ID-Teknik[...]since 2002.

The Vipps situation might be a bit confusing, Vipps wasnt created until a few years ago but it is more or less universally loved by everyone, so it seems they have used that name to cover everything.

>They also don't share the logo, or seem to have any ties between their websites.

You are right. Good point. I'm not sure anymore that they are related.

> Government services usually also support Telia's NetID (which is similar to BankID På Kort, but at least seems to provide a Linux driver).

Around here the government have their own (MinID), but yu can also use buypass, COMMFIDES, or Norwegian BankID. I never see anyone using anything except MinID or BankID though.

> However, BankID is also starting to become popular for services that would otherwise have been fine with plain old username/password authentication, rather than implementing U2F or TOTP. These services usually don't put a lot of thought into their implementation, and don't tend to implement alternative auth methods. Older services will support username/password for existing users, but expect it to be considered deprecated. Examples of this category would be Hallon (mobile network), Hemfrid (home cleaning service), or Kivra (crappy email without the federation).

With a broken system that by design isn't cross platform like you describe this seems like a bad idea, yes.

>Don't let decent be the enemy of good.

Agree. That said I find the Norwegian implementation is good now after they got rid of the applets a few years ago, and even back then I was able to somehow get it to work - and it was about as broken on Windows as well ;-)

Today it Just Works across alll devices I use for work as well as at home: Linux laptops, Windows laptops, iPad, Android phone and probably whatever else as long as it has a any modern browser (I use FF mostly, but it seems to work in everything from IE and Edge to Opera and Chrome).

Summarized I guess the Norwegian BankID is good, and the Swedish one is bad?

[0]: https://www.bankid.no/privat/kom-i-gang/
Freedom is more important.
It's not even about freedom. The NSA and FBI would love to get legislation in place that weakens encryption, but the fact of the matter is you can't weaken encryption without breaking it.

Your options are basically to either force everyone to use short keys that can be brute forced by the NSA (and anyone with cash to throw at AWS) or to set up a trusted-third party to store everyone's private keys and then either enforce long key lives or come up with a mechanism to transport the keys to the third party as old ones expire.

Weakening encryption would lead to massive issues for both corporate and personal security. What's worse is there wouldn't be anything stopping anyone from rolling their own crypto without the NSA's permission (it's literally just math), so it'd be business as usual for terrorists and black-hats.
>>And based on the scandal around the VA a few years ago, no it wasn’t well run at all.

Scandals aren't unique to government. The private sector has them all the time. In fact, sometimes private sector scandals are so massive they crash the entire economy.
Private care is de facto banned in Canada.
It also looks to be no mention of streaming Premier League games.

Does anyone know if NBC owns those rights to stream stateside? IIRC, NBC Sports is the Premier League hub while Fox Sports tends to host more Bundesliga (German football club) matches.
they did become secretary of state, and many shady situations and abuse of power appear to have happened. I am inclined to believe the intelligence apparatus was turned against their political opponents unethically and perhaps illegally. They succeeded in this and so far they have gotten away with it.

Bill Barr has had the ability to declassify for 80 days, nothing yet. I expect nothing but covering up for the DoJ and Wray's FBI.
No thanks. I live in america and the fifth amendment means I am never under obligation to incriminate myself.
Why is it important that the FBI can access that person’s phone?
In Russia a theft of a company comes immediately after the initial start-up phase is over and company starts to post profits. Immediately noticed by tax office, groups of lawyers zero in and simply take it away from the owner. I was told about such an example from one high-profile Russian who escaped to keep his company alive. US entrepreneurs in China had similar experience; once company took off, they had to "share the technology" with some state companies that then produced the same thing cheaper and knocked the original company out. Kleptocracy is a proper term for both.
I found the selection of digitally rentable movies on iTunes and Amazon (not the streaming services, the pay per rental one’s) to be pretty good. If you are willing to pay to rent (ie the blockbuster model), I think either has a much larger and better selection than blockbusters ever had.
Rights are more important than lives. The United States has spent the lives hundreds of thousands of soldiers in defense of those rights. We should no more surrender those rights to fear and alarmism than we would surrender them to a foreign invader.
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I know a psychologist who offers this to clients who are moving to another city, seems to work alright if you already have a good therapist.
I think it just adds Marvel live action to the current service. Apart from that seems the same content to me?

Everyone's talking about Disney+ like it's some mythical streaming service yet to be revealed that you can't already get as Disney Life.

If you want to know what Disney+ will be like, presumably look at Disney Life.
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Voluntarily protecting your online identity so it is clearly not a bot, becomes valuable.
I'd actually like to see that argument used more often. The ones they tolerate kill in larger numbers.
I'm not sure I would agree with your statement. To me, Norway's socialism is just as abhorrent as China's communism.
My mother’s friend did medical tourism and it went horribly wrong. When she got back home, local doctors were like “i’m not dealing with that problem because I didn’t cause it”.

The continuity of care is way better if you can keep the same doc once you get home.
There's still a distinction of quality for reinforcing your world view. Humans have more impact than bots. Bots all lead back a human anyway so taking some meaningless bot chat is still less valuable than a human's perspective.
It adds Marvel, Star Wars, and Fox content.
The UI is so smooth that I visit almost daily and just punch in cities to see what itineraries come up. I just moved to New York and I'm having a blast seeing all the new nonstop destinations I have.
Is your definition of freedom not being able to access the phone of a dead gunman?
China is not Communist or Socialist though. They are basically fascist, or if you want to be strict about the definition of fascism they represent an entirely new form altogether.
I tried to read one of his books back in the 80's and really couldn't get started. Now I have no regrets at all so thanks for that!
This is an interesting take. The equilibrium state is when all player use more or less same tech to flood their propaganda. This should lead to people eventually become more and more skeptic and lean on chain of trust instead of whatever random thing.
Kubernetes has already seen far more production-hours of operation than most infrastructure management software will ever see. Age is no substitute for experience.
Really like who? There are only engineers in “engineering” at the company that I work at. Pretty sure it’s always the case unless you’re discounting EMs, which I don’t think you should.
Because no one wants it
To what extent do CEOs like Jack Ma, who are known in the West (at least on here), acknowledge the reality of this system?

Or do they?
So "carpe diem" is akin to saying "stop and smell the flowers".

Admittedly, there was a time when I considered the phrase "memento mori" (translated as "remember death") to be similar to the general public's interpretation of "carpe diem", though a closer examination shows it's more focused on the acceptance of one's mortality.
I second this recommendation! We took the Emperor Norton tour a couple of years ago. It was great fun and we learned a lot of San Francisco history. You even get to go into one of the tunnels where they Shanghaied people. [1]

Since I had done my homework before taking the tour, we had a bit of fun at the beginning when the group met in Union Square. A dog went running by and the Emperor said, "Bummer, is that you?" I called out "Bummer, get Lazarus!" [2] [3]

The Emperor also offers a food tour in his modern disguise as Chef Joseph. Maybe we will take that one next! [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bummer_and_Lazarus

[3] https://www.dogster.com/lifestyle/bummer-and-lazarus-san-fra...

[4] http://www.sffoodsafari.com/index.html
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I want to know what changed between 2016, when the FBI bought a tool to hack the San Bernardino shooters iPhone[1] for $900,000[2] and now — with presumably an up-to-date iPhone running 2019 iOS — that forced them to come to this conclusion.

1: https://www.engadget.com/2016/04/07/fbi-iphone-third-party-t...

2: https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/08/fbi-paid-900000-to-unloc...
The comparison to the CIA and Mossad is rather absurd. Huawei has grown because it has been able to offer similar or better networking equipment as competitors for lower prices. Recently, it has also been able to produce smartphones which are arguably superior to the iPhone and cheaper. In other words, they clearly are trying to outperform their competitors in their key markets. They're growing rapidly because they've succeeded in doing so.
If you wanted to track that you'd need to do the opposite of what GP is suggesting.

That is, a dense urban area would have more face-to-face interactions than a sparse rural one. Given two areas with equal levels of per-capita violence, it would then follow that the more sparsely populated one would have more violence per face-to-face interaction, not less.
It was already said that violent crime rates are actually higher in rural areas than urban ones, but it should also be mentioned that areas with high minority populations, especially black communities, are more heavily policed.

In addition, studies like this one (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1745-9125.1...) have found that the relationship between crime rates and undocumented immigrants actually decreases

As someone who came to America undocumented at the age of 5, my personal intuition is that undocumented people tend to be more fearful of authority and therefore more likely to avoid getting in trouble
You would write better posts if you imagine yourself writing a physical letter in a professional capacity rather than tweeting.

For example, Um is a sound we make while composing a thought it has no place in the written form. People commonly abbreviate things like "you" as u because typing letters by hitting a numeric keypad the correct number of times is incredibly cumbersome whereas everyone now has a passable keyboard even on their phone. Please write out the entire word.

Once you get past all that the point made is very shallow and ill formed. It suggests that because the world is rife with bad behavior by powerful people that this is uninteresting. I disagree.

If you have something substantive to say about the matter feel free to express it.

Instead of posting low effort
I'm pretty conflicted on this topic.

On the one hand, I've heard that authoritarianism is soul-crushing and I've been raised to believe that individual freedom is paramount. On the other hand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasystem_transition

I keep coming back to this idea of a society united by a shared telos that cuts across all racial and religious divides, acting together as a tightly-integrated social organism, a large-scale collective agent. What if this is the next stage of human evolution? Is there a way to embrace integration without stifling the uniqueness of the individual?

There's that fear of a Borg-like outcome, where diversity is annihilated by assimilation into the collective. But I was recently reading "The Phenomenon of Man" by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (originator of the Omega Point[1] concept) and this quote stuck out to me:

"In any domain -- whether it be the cells of a body, the members of a society or the elements of a spiritual synthesis -- union differentiates. In every organized whole, the parts perfect themselves and fulfil themselves."

So perhaps integration doesn't necessarily mean the erasure of the individual. Food for thought.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point
apparently he was suspended for it.
Doesn't communism and socialism eventually lead to fascism though? It's an inherent flaw in these ideologies. They are too optimistic and fail to account for the basic human nature that a show of weakness will immediately be capitalized on by a more aggressive party. It's a cynical take but humans have always been a kill or be killed species, and modern day capitalism has been the most successful system at controlling our worst impulses.
I'm wondering this too. The person already killed a bunch of people. The person is dead. What more to they hope to gain? Some secret cell of others? Unlikely .. and if there is, why not regular warrants, wiretaps, e-mail searches, etc.

They already have sooo many tools they can use, both with a warrant and bypassing it via FISA. They had all this domestic spying stuff and still couldn't prevent the shooting!

They get nothing with phone access, so why even bother brining up compromising everyone else's security just because they failed to use all their current surveillance means to detect and prevent the shooting to being with?! You want more access? Why? That's fucking unbelievable.
I would say that this topic is more political and less

> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity

per the guidelines, hence it got flagged as being off-topic.
I didn't see a phone mentioned in the article? Is it an iPhone. Where are modern Android phones at with privacy/encryption?