skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Data seizures of this kind used to be based on probable cause.

I think they get away with this because they are just collecting the information in mass and are not targeting an individual.

There was a point where they were only scooping up information on foreign entities, and at some point that shifted and they started collecting all foreign and domestic information. I believe it was right around the time 9/11 happened.

This is what caused William Binney to leave the NSA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(intelligence_o...

In order to parse that information and look up information about a particular subject or individual, I believe they still require a subpoena, but who is to say someone with access doesn't use this giant trove of information nefariously.

It also opens up the possibility of someone getting blackmail/dirt on a competitor and bribing a NSA employee to get the information.

Also what is to prevent someone from retroactively going back through the information on what used to be allowed but now has changed to being illegal because of an administration change/laws being passed.

The alphabet agencies definitively need more oversight, however I feel anyone tasked with that job ends up becoming entrenched in the corruption and have a hard time holding them accountable.
It’s not like Safari is blocking all ad blockers like Google Chrome did... its more of deprecating & removing APIs that can be abused to track users browsing history by disguising itself into a browser extension.
Safari provides an alternative API that allows content blocking, that IMHO is better considering that

* it doesn’t allow leaking browsing history

* it runs in native code (not js like alternative ad blockers) so much fast

In a way, Apple is doing this to protect user privacy.
Exactly. An overwhelming majority calling for banning guns; 1. Are white 2. Live in reletive security. 3. Are personally unfamiliar with the operation of firearms.

Every minorty gets nervous when their right to defend themselves is stripped. The history of most confiscations is a harbringer of despotism. The politicians outward pandering to minorities is nearing truly insulting levels, while the issues we really care bout are duly ignored by both parties.

As with most devisive issues surrounding us today, the answer is again, education of those of either view. There is clearly some wisdom on both sides of the debte. To deny that is to deny progress itself, because you are uncomfortable with nuance.
There is no mystery.

Arctic sea floor

Canadian permafrost

Siberian permafrost

The Arctic sea floor is releasing Methane Clathrates, i.e. the so-called Methane Clathrates Gun is firing.
As for the two instances of "permafrost", both are melting en mass and that is leading to organic matter that has been frozen and accumulating for millenia to now be decomposed by bacteria, leading to massive methane releases.

Methane is 30-times for damaging than CO2.
Reads more like a religious quest then a scientific expedition.
This news is from a couple days ago, on the 17th.

Huawei had their unveiling yesterday on the 19th...review in article:

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/huawei-mate-30-pro
I love this saga!

We're well on our way to having every article about MIT use the adjective-phrase "the Epstein-funded..."
I always wonder if people were tougher before, when death, blood, violence were much more common (< 100years ago: famines, wars, diseases, life conditions, crimes in general).

Surely the average person back then were confronted to a much more difficult life than the modern average first world country inhabitant, did nobody talk about it ? Did they just plow through it all ? Were they less prone to complain ? It seems like today you can't go more than a week without a "x" gave me ptsd article[0]. I used to be on chans back in the days, and I saw my fair share of isis videos, they're awful there is no doubt about that but I never felt any of what these people are describing, anyone with the same experience ?

[0] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/new-york-daily-news-journ...
It's a great narrative for them: giving compassionate sanctuary to a heroic whistleblower being persecuted by the evil, imperialist US.
Not some, all email marketers do.

There's nothing stopping them either, they're entitled to do so, given they obtain consent for that data processing.
Bears also don't have any emotional strife about killing cubs to increase their odds of mating. Perhaps looking to them for moral guidance is not the best idea.
> that moral and practical concerns are separate things.

I agree. This separation I find problematic. How often we hear "I want to be vegan (for the animals = moral) but I cannot give up cheese/meat/etc (too convenient/tasty = practical)"

To me they are not separate. Oppression is oppression, I hate it regardless who does it or how inconvenient it is to stop it.
Could you be more specific?

It worked fine for me on Firefox(Android and Windows), no containers.
Actually you’re just subsidizing the people who can resell their physical disk copies.
This is exactly what Chrome intends to do and everybody hates Google for it. Defending this when Apple does it is a double standard.
“I deleted all the news off my phone.”

Found your problem.
>> People who grew up in the soviet union might disagree with your self image.

What is it you mean by that? I do not necessarily disagree with you, I am not sure I understand the direction you're taking.
> I think this is part of the answer to free speech absolutists.

You can't argue with them, they'll say "don't like it, don't watch it".
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Missed a couple of sics:

Writing emails directly to Senior EHS / Facilities teams at MIT, especially those that effect [sic] our groups [[sic]] ability to do research, without asking [the project’s assistant director] or I [[sic]] to review, comment and approve is inappropriate… If emails are directed to you regarding our teams [sic] EHS responsibilities please redirect them to me until further notice.
I flubbed today's date. But I'll participate in events in the coming week. Especially on September 27 on which the grand finale demonstrations will be held.
I think this is the act you are referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act :)
Furthermore, I'd go so far as to say that the reason these faces "feel" weird sometimes is that your mind is reconstructing the structure of the fictitious persons' bodies and warning you that they have bones that are misshapen and lumps under their eyes, and teeth that point strangely, etc.

A biological response might be "misshapen eye ... likely parasite detected, avoid this person" or "mismatched emotional cues ... likely brain damage / person unpredictable, avoid"
That quote does not support your statement "She literally said she gets applications from a demographic that she doesn't want to hire from...". She did not literally (or even figuratively) say anything of the sort.

"We'd like a more diverse pool of applicants" does not mean "we'd like a pool of applicants with zero of <over-represented demographic> in it".

It doesn't even mean they want less of that demographic at all. It can (and likely should) be read as wanting a larger applicant pool overall, adding in folks from demographics who simply aren't applying currently.
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There was a shooting in my neighborhood just 12 hours ago. 6 in the hospital, 2 in critical condition, 1 confirmed deceased. Outside of the 'psych-it-up-to-light-it-up' mentality the shooter(s) would've needed to garner in the minutes before, was this not impulsive?

https://www.popville.com/2019/09/confirmed-shooting-in-colum...
Following that line of reasoning, isn't a bank incentivised to accrue as much debt as possible because the fed will just bail them out if they can't pay it back?
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> alias

Right. And it ships with sensible aliases for pretty much everything right out of the box as well as excellent completion.

Don't really get the 'too verbose' argument at all.
Given there's so much of this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs) right now, I'm not convinced #1 would have a such a negative impact. If we broaden are thinking it could have an awesome impact long term.
Can't people without medical grade issues talk to their wife/husband?
Is that true? I'd only guess there are more cameras in Times Square than Wastingtion Square in NYC. I don't know how you would divide most cities into areas of uniform camera coverage such that totaling one area is representative of all other areas in that city. Most cities have several hot spots
My point is that in setting out to replace X, they created something that doesn't actually do that and it took about ten years for third parties to do it for them and there still isn't consensus that Wayland is superior to X.

In comparison, Windows Vista introduced a perfectly functional compositor with brand new driver model at about the same time and I can't think of any significant functionality it lost in the process, while I can name many significant improvements.
We joked at work that these are perfect for bot-farms looking to take Twitter trolling to the next level. Will be really interesting to see how these crop up in usage.
Apologies if you know this already, but ...

That's likely exactly how these pictures were generated.

Generative adversarial neural networks (the typical approach for this type of problem) have two nets that compete against each other.

One net tries to generate images that look like the sample data, the other one tries to tell them apart.
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Many rodents eat their own babies when stressed, and many animals practice rape. Following nature for ethical concerns is sketchy at best.
Whatever figures you want shown, aso show what they are doing in areas that have not had a comparable policy change.
The NYT banging the Iraq war drum back in 2002-03 was enough for me to develop terminal cynicism about that particular august institution.
> "The target is for a net zero electricity grid by 2030."

It's more like 2050 according to National Grid's forecasts. Carbon capture and storage is still a pipe-dream, really. The technology exists (arguably - not proven at scale) but not in an economically viable way.

To put it another way, it's cheaper to avoid emitting carbon in the first place than to try and capture and store it.
Chapter 21 in the attached pdf gives a brief overview.

There's also a (very challenging, I would guess 150-300 hours time commitment) MIT course online: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algeb... But it has videos.

I would focus on Chapter 21 in the pdf because it tells you exactly what you need for this application. And supplement it as needed.
A SUV costs what? Tens of thousands of dollars likely. Besides the efficiency sucks.

A gun+ammo costs hundreds.

A propane can costs idk what, because they cost more to get rid of than to buy one. Its refill is what, 30 bucks for a 13 gal one maybe? 13 gal is quite enough to demolish a building.

Countries that have less killings have that not because they have ridiculous restrictions on guns. It's because people there _FOR_SOME_OTHER_REASON_ do not wish to kill other people.

If nothing is done about that and instead guns are just banned, then it would be something else that people will keep dying to.

This is what I was talking about.
- users could always install an adblocker if they dont consent.

- users could consent once for each tracker if thats what the law cared for. Consenting for each tracker x for each website is purposeful obstruction in order to make advertising optional
>Here in Germany we have offshore wind parks that are not connected to the power grid

Source (incl reason for lack of grid connection) please?
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There's even a musical about the subject, at London's St. James Theatre:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinetown
Thinking that changing the climate to which animals are specifically adapted to and on which they exclusively sustain themselves is likely a major contributing cause to their death is not really "stretching." It may not be the exclusive cause or a cause at all but its hardly anything but a prime suspect.
Well it is kind of temporary when Congress is functioning normally. The President can say hey I’m doing this and Congress could say no..
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> Literally the only thing that matters is moving fast

> Code quality is really not important at all as long as the product works and is bug free

According to Robert C. Martin is not possible to move fast without good quality.
I don't want to consume more, I want to consume less, because it's better for the environment.
Subpoenas have been used frequently for decades to request "records kept in the ordinary course of business". The only thing different in this case seems to be that there is a perpetual gag order. But if the local prosecutor subpoenas your phone records because you are being investigated for bribing an athletic coach at a university, I don't think the phone company will tell you about it.
> Who started that war, and why?

Funny you ask... It was called the cold war, you might want to look it up. US was a pretty big player there.
We keep inventing new names for old problems. Shell shock (WWI), battle fatigue/combat stress reaction (WWII), Gross Stress Reaction (Korea and Vietnam), and soldier's heart (Civil War) continue a long trend. You can even read descriptions of such problems in the Iliad.

PS: Nostalgia was apparently the term used in the 1700’s.
=)

Sounds fair.
The USA is a federal republic, not a democracy.
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You got that right. Alcohol is a straight up dirty drug that’s only around because it was simple to make and a part of Roman culture.
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It's somewhat mitigated by the fact that Meetup talks are informal, and in general people like hearing what worked/what didn't work - not perfection. People are generally nice at meetups, especially towards side projects. Of course I'd prefer to show something amazing, but sometimes that doesn't work out :)
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It's not just tech, it's most of the modern workplace.

In Europe, my friends working in finance are close to going mental as well.
There’s a way around the 50k limit:

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Fair enough, I see that now on a re-read. Sorry for mischaracterizing your position.

But I still think taxing a thing, especially in this particular way where the policy is very clearly saying "we want to address this particular behavior" is a way for a society to indicate that it wishes to change. Stigma can be very powerful and useful for changing behavior and, through attrition, culture. Though obviously it can go overboard.

[EDIT: wording]
On the upside, having resale value is a direct attack on loot boxes, micro transactions, and other forms of in-game financial exploitation. You might be less likely to sink a thousand dollars into loot boxes if you're thinking about selling the game.
Hmm, curious as to whether there is any real evidence for this or whether its wishful thinking - not seen any among my kids (2010 and 2013) and their friends. My elder son did decide to give up screens for a month after reading an article about the idea, but that's the nearest I've seen and he is definitely back on them now, and of his friends, he's the only one apparently whose parents don't let him play Fortnite...
How many of us work for a company fueling egregious human-rights abuses? I work for a company that just sells handbags and stuff.

My anxiety is about deadlines and such.
Ah, thank you for the explanation!
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The other point worth making is one from the article -- people have varying levels of tolerance and recovery ability.

A comment which bounces off one person may well cause serious damage to another.
You can, but I for one wouldn't want to burden others too much.
Humans (researchers) are already doing the work. What I'm suggesting is that you add a classifier so that in the future, some of the work is done for you by the machine.
In the later scenarios, what assurance does the Ablocker have that their requests are respected? I could easily see a scenario where an Adblocker says "Hey Chrome block all requests to ads.google.com" and Chrome saying "Sure thing buddy" then completely ignoring that request.
This is how adversarial networks work. You have a network trying to build images of humans and another one trying to guess what image is from that network and what image is real.
It's the people who do like it that I worry about.
I'm not convinced he is in a state where we can be sure his conscious is driving what he says.
None of those are weasel words.
>the concept of users and user groups have failed

Hopefully we won't go back to the Win95/98 era of everything running as single user!

Having services run isolated as their own users is not merely a good security mechanics, it provides for a clear and simple mental model of what is what. A clear permissions barrier that's enforced pretty strictly by the OS.

Moreover we see separate user accounts more and more; even on small devices like phones it makes sense to have, for example, separate "private" and "business" accounts.

>does that mean processes have failed?

Nah, that's too general of a take. There are two more specific failures. First up, people fail to realize the present-day crop of containers are re-inventing processes. "Those who do not learn history, etc, etc."

Secondly, there's a significant failure of certain key features (like IP stack, FS handlers, etc. - in general, NAMESPACES) having been provided almost exclusively in kernel, and thusly requiring either superuser access or complex work-arounds (like FUSE) to manage. Plan 9 did it the right way; on P9, processes == containers.
Wouldn't that potentially present problems similar to everyone getting unnecessary medical tests done and following up on false positives causing more problems than they are worth? If your life is going well then a certain percentage of people going to a therapist could actually make things worse, not to mention that if everyone went then quality of therapists would probably go down. Just a thought.
Well, if you can't expect sanctuary in your home country or any of its allies, where else should you go? In the end, the enemy of your enemy really might be a friend or at least the least bad choice after all.
> Sometimes if it's in source control, someone has still edited something on production and not checked it in.

I worked at a large fintech company that had serious problems with this. About the only hope we had for mitigating it was moving all the services to run inside docker containers and of course ban developers from accessing the systems directly.
When my parents went to jail, I didnt go with them. There are obvious logical considerations both sides are ignoring here. While seperation is clearly not good, the alternatives may be worse in some cases, as they were mine.
DRM is a crazy thing. Now it distorts the already DRM-distorted reality.
Is there a therapist that specializes in all the trauma Judith Miller has caused me personally? I would really like to get into that with someone, it was a big part of my youth.
That was my impression as well! It looks like those projects where a kid did the initial sketch and a skilled artist did a photo-real rendering.
The british once built an empire with large thanks to off-shore wind power.
I just don't see anything they can do to help. Most of my issues are rooted in mistakes I made and many have concrete origins that aren't something a therapist will fix.
They're one step above a tabloid at this point.
Run as root to avoid typing sudo or su? That is like having a handgun without the safety! No thank you!
I found this handout an interesting analysis of the contexts in which the different Japanese pronouns are being used. It explicated some of the tendencies in which they are being used.

https://people.umass.edu/partee/MGU_2009/papers/Ponamareva.p...
There is an overlap in features but these are different, and possibly complementary things.

Pyhole vs uBlockOrigin:

- is hardware based

- works on a global scale, including the browser, apps, and the OS itself

- can only block domains, not full URLs

- doesn't have cosmetic filters

- works at home, not really on the go. there is a VPN, but it still uses your home connection

The intermediate solution would be hosts-based blocking.
England gave up on the mandatory hard cut-off at 11pm a decade or so ago exactly because it seemed counterproductive.
They also got by without electricity or running water.
an interesting take - it has been a while to see a non-password, no sign up network around.

But I can imagine it popular in apartment buildings. To be fair, if my TV connects to a network on its right own, I'd return it.
> you let the whole system die and see if company can recover or continue either with disaster recovery or paper based process or combination of multiple strategy.

You're not describing a security breach scenario here but basically a disaster scenario. It's security vs. resiliency. I mean there are plenty of threat models to protect from, hackers trying to steal secrets, hackers trying to take down your systems, etc. But in the end security is about making sure you detect and/or stop the attacker, other processes take care of rebuilding after they took you down.

So you wouldn't hire an ethical hacker to take down your systems but rather to identify weak points, exploit them, infiltrate the system and then possibly exfiltrate data. The aftermath of what the hacker did is something else entirely and will be dealt by your disaster recovery, business continuity processes, PR, etc.
There’s no double standard. Everyone hates Safari for this too… all the 500 users of it.

Of course you’ll hear a lot more noise from the users of the browser with the larger share by a wide margin.