skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting talked into working late because your boss is persuasive and his bonus is on the line happens all the time here.

Working late because people are dying is a much better justification, but you will burn out just as fast. People who are too earnest about a cause have difficulty pacing themselves. Every org has people who burn the candle at both ends.
I have a cheaper thermostat with wifi, a few months ago it alerted me that the temperature had been more than 5 degrees over setpoint for half an hour and something was probably broken. I was able to remotely shut off the unit and after I came home from work, sure enough the coils had iced over due to a refrigerant leak.

It was only hot enough for this to happen at the peak of the heat when I was at work. I was able to catch the problem early and fix it cheaply all for the cost of a thermostat (Emerson Sensi) about $40 more than a non wifi model.
Personally, I don't date anyone I don't trust with my passwords, work excluded, of course. Works out pretty well for me.
It’s content marketing and according to the 150+ comments people still find the story worthwhile.
"Violate the user's privacy in order to build a product" is lazy engineering.

There are plenty of avenues to collect the data needed at that scale, it's just that none of them are as cheap as simply spying on users.
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I don't see how this is confusing to people. EU and USA laws don't apply to the data- you can't put data in jail and you can't fine data. The laws apply to the people that control the data. It's not about whether or not the data is stored in a particular locality, it's whether or not there is a person within your jurisdiction that has access to/control of the data (if a server is located in your jurisdiction that implies that a person is around to shut the server down). The big issue is that we underestimate the exposure we have to other countries, especially if you sell a service or ads to foreign entities.

The large scale of big websites means that they have people working in multiple countries, so they are subject to multiple sets of laws. I don't really think any American lawyer is arguing in a courtroom in the EU that American laws apply in Europe. But they might be telling a company HQ in the EU to follow American laws or they will shut down their American servers, bank transactions, employees, and supporting contractors/software- all of which are subject to American laws. And if a European citizen travels to the USA, breaks the law, and then travels back to Europe, then an extradition request is valid, and the EU is going to have a tough time if they deny it.

The EU won't comply with an extradition request from the USA if the law wasn't broken in the USA. However, I think we often underestimate the amount of exposure that these multi-national companies really have. A company in the EU can't flaunt American laws and tell their American employees to break American laws.

So when we find situations where it is literally impossible to comply with both the GDPR and CLOUD act these multi-national companies are going to have to separate themselves. Facebook-EU and Facebook-USA are going to have to have a big wall between them, and there can be an API that lets Facebook-EU users see the profiles of Facebook-USA users, but they will have to be separate entities to comply with each set of laws, and so that American lawyers can't pressure Facebook-EU to comply with something by threatening the American version.
Someone at my local makerspace made something like this, but for vertical surfaces.

https://github.com/brandonagr/gocupi
Oh wow, this is the best comment we could have gotten! Thank you! Still a lot of work to do definitely
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I don't follow, I'm sorry. OpenBSD has never used GNU libc. The BSD projects have long developed their own C libraries.

The clang compiler is a part of the LLVM collection, it is not derived from gcc at all.

As for GCC, The GNU project changed the license for their compiler sometime after the 4.2.1 release to the GPLv3. Meanwhile, up until the Clang 9.0.0 release, Clang was developed under a permissive license (NCSA). We're facing a similar problem now with LLVM/CLang, with their re-licencing to the non-permissive Apache 2.0 license.
Thank you for sharing this.

> Sometimes a fit of longing is so acute you feel your lungs cracking, as if a creature inside wants to break out of you. It feels as if you’re dying. At such times, you have to move about in order to escape from the creature.

> If it’s daytime you go out to the courtyard. You walk and walk and walk. For hours. Until you calm down.

> But what if it happens at night? You have no place to go, no place to walk, no place to move. You have to sit in a chair. The doors are locked. Those are the hardest hours of the voyage around my cell.
It is probably worth mentioning that the Google Nest Thermostats are one of the only Nest devices without a microphone.

Source: https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9330256?hl=en
I think a digital democracy has the potential to be more direct and less representative. Ancient Athens was a direct democracy, where citizens would vote almost every day on a huge range of issues. Representative democracies take citizens out of the day-to-day process, and up until now that has made perfect sense. Nation states got too big, and we needed representatives who could travel to the capitol and vote in our interest on little issues that we didn't understand.

Now we have the ability to do things radically different. What if everybody's personal device had a secure way to vote directly on things? What if we could vote weekly on the various levels of government - city, county, state, federal? What if citizens could sign up to be "micro-delegates" for whatever issues they are interested in, and you could have distributed voting committees for different issues like education, environment, etc. on the scale of thousands or tens of thousands of people? We would still need representatives to write the bills but we could even have more granulated voting on particular sections of bills, on alternative wordings, etc. And it would all happen fast because it's on the internet. No more stopping the legislature for two weeks because representatives have to fly home and take a shower.

If our digital economy has as much powerful potential as we all pay lip service to, then these should be some of the things we are discussing in order to make democracy truly democratic again. We have to ask ourselves (in America), how would the constitution have been written differently if everybody had a smartphone in the 1790s?
I'm currently waiting for parts for https://hackaday.com/2019/07/27/lack-of-space-is-no-longer-a...

Its creator is the developer behind the ESP-32 GRBL port.
Typo in the title, DoNotPay is the correct name.

https://donotpay.com/
FWIW, China's direct copy of S-70 has ingenuously developed fly-by-wire.

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/china-s-z-20-helicopter-lo...
Then why does the EU commission's own website have that same type of cookie popup?[0] If this isn't the intended outcome then why can't they make their own website not have the annoying popup?

[0] https://europa.eu
MarkF from the Azure team. Dapr is not a service mesh, however it will work with service meshes such as itsio, linkerd etc. Dapr does provide direct service-to-service invocation which you can use in place of a service mesh if you want, however Dapr does not handle network policies or traffic management that service meshes do. Dapr is a side-car that is language agnostic, and using http or gRPC provides distributed system building blocks via open APIs for asynchronous pub-sub, stateful services, service discovery and invocation, actors and distributed tracing. All of this is extensible, so you can add new building block capabilities and only choose the use the ones you care about.
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If you are so sure, you are welcome to make some money on it by shorting bitcoin before the halving which is in May.

And no, it's not word juggling, the value of money comes from the people who exchange things for money. Here they exchange either electricity, or USD for it. Miners are paying their bills by selling virtual tokens, if those tokens didn't have any value for anybody, they wouldn't be able to sell them. Whether the token comes from block reward or transaction fees doesn't change anything on the fact that somebody gave up USD to get the token.

> Bitcoin pays itself by "printing itself"

Kinda ironic now after FED printed more money in one week than the whole Bitcoin economy is worth. I'd rather have the printing controlled by math, than any person.
https://medium.com/co-star-engineering/continuous-improvemen...
EU could've tried becoming GDPR compliant ?

Can you elaborate on that ?
Good. I find it unlikely to pass, but I'd like it to pass.

If a CEO says publicly, "Our product is safe and good for the public, and there should be no concern" and it turns out they knew their product was actively harmful, or that they were marketing it in harmful ways (see: cigarettes, opiates) then they were willfully misleading the public and jail-time should be a very real possibility.
> Can someone from US explain how come there is still no open source alternative to TurboTax

Actually there is one (depending on your definition of 'alternate'): http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

I have used it for the last two years to do my Fed and State taxes.
Also, 'Hey Siri' is supposedly processed locally on the phone using the Neural Engine part of Apples custom ARM chip so it should only upload voice data after you have said 'Hey Siri' or held down the home button to activate it. You can test this if you put the phone in airplane mode or go somewhere with no reception and say 'hey siri', it still recognises that you want to ask it something but just presents a message saying 'internet not available'
I'm liberal, and lots of the unsolicited Democrat emails go to my spam folder.
Not a direct counter-point to this piece, but:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-commissioned-report-respond...

It's a high-level view of the 2 sides arguing about the Free File program.
Sure. We've always tried to do that. Actually we have to, because once a title becomes inaccurate, the thread will fill up with complaints about its inaccuracy until it's corrected. It's less important for stories not on the front page.
To be fair, most of that doesn't require the internet— it would be perfectly possible to build a simple learning thermostat that was offline, or perhaps was only periodically online (eg, dumping a compact data log while it's connected to your laptop for its yearly firmware update).

I feel the same way about voice assistants. Recognition can be done locally— playing your playlists or turning the lights on and off should require no internet connection. Updating a todo list or calendar, maybe, but then it should be an API call to that service provider, indistinguishable from an action originating in any other third-party app.
Yeah I do not exactly understand why FF is not the preferred browser of developers either. :shrug emoji:
Passcodes are at least easier to rotate than fingerprints. You get 100,000,000 possibilities with 8 digits, compared to 10 possibilities with 10 digits.
> I object to calling them sovereign nations when they're clearly not.

Are the individual states sovereign? By the highest law of the land (the Constitution), they are.

Nevertheless, this is not an objection or an argument against the viewpoint I espoused: that they need to be granted full sovereignty. If they lack all indicators of sovereignty, as you claim, then this simply makes my claim that much more urgent.

> A perfect counter-example is that post 9/11 the US stopped accepting VISA's given by the tribes. And federal law enforcement ABSOLUTELY has jurisdiction over tribal land.

Um, sure. The feds also have jurisdiction over state land, but that doesn't mean the states lack sovereignty by federal law.

Also, the USA can object to any other country's VISA's for anyone entering its territory.

> Those 2 things by themselves put the nail in the coffin of the idea of tribal sovereignty.

You object to the law as it is? The current policy of the federal government is to grant certain parts of self direction to the tribes. The tribes are above certain US laws. This is a quasi-sovereignty, and I think it needs to be ended, because it is anti-thetical to a free nation (the United States). There are two ways to do this: get rid of tribal nations and Indian land entirely, or let them exercise their full rights as the nations the federal government claims they are.

Also, I am again arguing that they be granted full sovereign status. If they lack any sovereignty currently, that does not detract from my argument. They are clearly a separate people and want self-direction, as indicated by the fact that they established an entire justice system and government when allowed to. If -- as you claim -- these are not indicators of sovereignty, then these governments -- who claim sovereignty -- are in effect separatists. I am arguing that we should follow their desire to separate.
It's quite possible, even likely in fact, that someone asked them to go to the UK.
> Installing it on linux or windows is an exercise

...? Am I missing something obvious? Installing docker on Ubuntu is as simple as

sudo apt install docker.io

and you're done. Installing from the official repos is simple too if you want the latest version [1]

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...
Only if you have Google Photos installed and have configured it up to backup your photos and videos.
The counterargument given by one of the proponents of MOND (a non-dark-matter counterargument) is that the bullet cluster can be explained by a combination of slight modification of GR, and additionally by the presence of a significant (but not crazy) amount of cold regular matter. Cold regular matter can't be easily detected because it isn't emitting any light, but it is just regular matter.

I'm not actually familiar with the specifics so I don't know whether this is actually a good explanation, but it's at least worth discussing.
Translation : "Some exec should have spooked by now"
I'm not sure you understand what limited liability means. Limited liability doesn't mean that the CEO can't be put in prison or Equifax liquidated. It means that after Equifax is liquidated, if there's still debts to be paid, I can't go into a private individuals 401(k) plan, see that they held stock in Equifax, then demand they empty their savings account to pay the debts for “their" company that they theoretically "own" in the form of stock. Limited liability doesn't mean corporations don't have to follow the law or can't be sued.
Even saying "no" is annoying though. If I don't want cookies then I can turn cookies off in my browser settings and turn it on for the sites I like.
You're right that it is hard to disentangle cause and effect, but Google's senior leadership has been very stable over time. Pichai was clearly the continuity candidate. The things I've named were all bottoms up - Google's leadership has always been quite reactive hence policies like 20% time. But when I joined the whole company was 10k people and only 5k in engineering. Now it's over 100k people.

Google does track user data but if you aren't logged in it's anonymous, resets frequently and is a very noisy dataset. That's why they create lots of good incentives to be logged in, like useful products.

Facebook isn't suffering at all, it continues to do great. To the extent users get bored of the classical product they move to Instagram which Facebook also owns. There's no evidence of any real change in user behaviour: free is a great price.

But most as targeting isn't based on personal data. The core Google cash cow is ads targeted to your current searches. That works even if you're anonymous. The rest is worth doing but not that massive. It's certainly not worth worrying about. Bear in mind the media had for years been claiming Google "sells your personal data to advertisers" which as I'm sure you know is totally misleading (really is just a lie).
> That is a side effect, not the purpose. Millionaires can use Bitcoins to move their wealth too. I'd say even for a transaction of $1,000, it is often cheaper to move in Bitcoins.

Compared to a free domestic ACH or wire?

Internationally you have to pay exchanges on the receiving end >1% fees to convert it to something you can actually spend.
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How is it "not that difficult"? Can you go into detail?

What are the consequences of failing to serve a popup to e.g. a European who's using a VPN, or who has a slightly unusual IP address for which geolocation doesn't work properly, or to someone with a non-European account who is in Europe on a visa?
This was before an official release, late 1990s. I'm sure he'd gotten his hands on either some documentation discussing the concept, or an early alpha release of Oracle's ApEx.
I suppose, but they did say that they accounted for health and lifestyle factors, so I'm pretty sure that means that it's another cause they hadn't pinned down at the time of the study.

From what I understand, the current theory is chemicals used to make plastic more pliable ended up being endocrine inhibitors, which decrease testosterone production. BPA, and other similar chemicals.

Also, reports that many flame retardant chemicals do the same thing. The law requires that furniture with fabric and curtains and things like that have those chemicals to lower risks of fire. But, those chemical treatments physically break down into dust and we get exposed to them.

There are probably other contributing factors too.
You are probably thinking of "raids" in the wrong sense, in that you probably think the raid needs to be funny. However, they are discussing /pol/ and online harassment instead.

The researchers point out they looked for YouTube links and Twitter hashtags. As for not making headlines, you probably just aren't remembering GamerGate, and the harassment of roughly every public feminist figure in the last 10 years. And that's really just the tip of the iceberg.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.07784.pdf
I disagree, Labour would win if we had a general election but they don't want to win because they don't want to deal with this mess, politically most of Parliament sees this is a damned if you do damn if you don't situation.
The overarching idea with OAM is to standardize the model by which applications are composed and operated, regardless of the environment you end up working in. So as you go from one platform to another, you have a consistent experience and a transferable process. We fully expect the implementing platform capabilities to differ, and the model is designed around this assumption. I think some standardization here is valuable.

At the same time, we aim to improve application modeling on systems like Kubernetes that currently focus more on container infrastructure.

disclosure: I'm one of the spec authors.
Bell's Theorem is really about locality rather than randomness. It's possible to define quantum theory in terms of deterministic but non-local random variables. In fact, this is a pretty apt description of the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation.
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> That is not entirely true, it all depends on who the target of the speech is. Law enforcement certainly can lie to the public.

Why can law enforcement lie to the public? I honestly don't know what you're alluding to.
Why is it controversial? The controversy came from C# vs Java and if you have programmed in both you’d know that exceptions are broken in C#. Broken because you have to catch the base Exception class if you want to avoid crashing and that’s disrecommended by all C# linting tools.
what "very large downsides” are you talking about? the possibility that a company might be unable to repay a debt? do you also think we need to take a long hard look at bankruptcy? to me, the fact that I can hold a few thousand dollars in stocks without risking everything I own seems pretty good. I'm not sure how you could change it in a way that wouldn't shift the balance of power even more towards the well-capitalized.
I really wish Java had associated types and static methods as parts of interfaces (i.e. constructors as part of the interface). Those two features make complex architectures much easier to design and use.
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You're doing great work! I'd love to try it next year. If I do, what do you recommend for filing my federal?
Posted elsewhere, but my A/C had a small leak and was slowly loosing efficiency. At peak heat it could not keep up, but I had no way of knowing that at work. My $99 Emerson Sensi messaged me that the cooling was not keeping up and there was a problem. I could turn off the unit remotely to prevent stress on the compressor and fixed the small leak well before I would have known without a internet enabled thermostat.

I did A/C repair in college, fixing it early more than paid for the maybe 50 extra bucks wifi cost. The thermostat itself is on an isolated wifi network,
I wonder what the survival rate for infant CPR is. I know for adults it's shockingly low, particularly without an AED. Pediatric AEDs exist, but I doubt many concerned parents have one.

Don't get me wrong, I support people learning CPR. It's better than nothing.
Always-on audio capture is a HORRIBLE idea in general. First, if it's stored - at all - then you have to ask "who else could get access to the recording besides (Google|Apple|whoever)?" Whether it's a nation-state via a search warrant, or some random script kiddie who hax0red the storage mechanism, once it's recorded you don't know WHO is going to get access, or what their intentions will be.

Secondly, even if it's not normally recorded, so long as the capability is there, you've basically bugged yourself. Now if you become a target for surveillance, all the other party has to do is arrange for (Google|Apple|whoever) to give them a real-time feed from your device and now all of your conversations are fair game.

Smart phones are bad enough, but why put more devices in your home (car, office, etc.) that make it trivial for others to monitor you?
I just feel like the example Ben Horowitz gave here is likely colored by his experience. Were his gut feelings really foretelling the dot-com crash? How many times were similar anxieties wrong?
I'd describe the mobile UX as less optimized and more straightforward than Chrome. Definitely easier to tweak your privacy settings as well.
> the general stance is Trump is horrible, not because of his policies, but because of the low impact of his policies

Low impact?

What were they hoping for, global thermonuclear war? US Civil War 2?

If wayoutthere's post is to be taken as correct, and they actually are nihilistic and think this is all "a game" - then they should be considered a very dangerous "group" of people. Seemingly advocating for regional or planetary existential threats - and coming close to implementing such actions (and some could argue that to an extent they have been successful - just maybe not as successful as they wanted?) - well, that is insanity.

And it shouldn't be tolerated or encouraged.

The world isn't perfect. Our global and regional societies aren't perfect. We're human - nothing we do is perfect. All we can do is try to do better next time. The answer to this imperfection is not to destroy everything. I find it sickening that there are large groups of people who not only think this way, but have found each other, and have organized to try to make their sick dreams come true.