skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The monitoring of children is such an insidious topic because it is so easy for the average reasonable person to justify. I know my own Mother has felt parental guilt that she location-track me and my young sister, because, what if something happens? Children generally get less independence and rights than adults and we do this because it is always adults that have to be responsible for their wellbeing. So it is very easy to justify this kind of montoring, and at least here, there are likely legal obligations for schools to do so.

My school in Australia did it completely transparently through a company named "CyberHound" of all things. It advertises in a similar way "protect the children from mental health issues" by running an MITM[1] on all SSL traffic over your school network to inspect all all the push notifications, webpages et cetera sent to your students' devices. The difference is this was transparent and consenting[2].

The thing is I would not expect any institution's internal network to be un-logged, be that the company I work for, or a school or government. Passive logging of internet sessions and metadata is totally acceptable, its this kind of analysis and information sharing that can be really harmful.

Although I suppose I only say that because my shool actually had mental health support that was very visibly available, and the tracking was quite easily circumvented.

1: Root certificate we have to install on devices

2: All school machines have an "I agree to acceptable use" prompt on login and we have to install certificates ourselves.
A lot of art is just "squiggly lines and random colors" - the inherently interesting thing is what kind of feeling or atmosphere the actual arrangement provokes
This should be a post on its own!
Encrypted "borrowed" DRM books that self-destruct after a certain period of time (like many of those historic tech books on Internet Archive) are garbage and a waste of my time. I'll either borrow the real thing or steal a DRM-free ebook. The. End.
Sibling poster replied for me better better than I would have myself. Regarding price I wanted to add that a physical artifact that I can resell or pass down for generations is worth much more than the bits it encodes.

I also think we have a somewhat different definition of forever.
Of course Ring is always watching, that's why people buy those. I mean if I was a customer I would be pissed to know they are not watching
The math to replace fossil fuels is staggering. Look at this analysis of what it would take to replace existing fossil fuel with net zero carbon alternatives by 2050 (11000 days from now). Here's the conclusions:

So the math here is simple: to achieve net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, the world would need to deploy 3 [brand new] nuclear plants worth of carbon-free energy every two days, starting tomorrow and continuing to 2050. At the same time, a nuclear plant’s worth of fossil fuels would need to be decommissioned every day, starting tomorrow and continuing to 2050.

I’ve found that some people don’t like the use of a nuclear power plant as a measuring stick. So we can substitute wind energy as a measuring stick. Net-zero carbon dioxide by 2050 would require the deployment of ~1500 wind turbines (2.5 MW) over ~300 square miles, every day starting tomorrow and continuing to 2050.

Just consider the steel (coking coal) and cement needed to accomplish this.

source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2019/09/30/net-zero...

Its a simple method and easy to validate on your own.
PlantUML in a nutshell
what are the benefits of using k3s in Azure as opposed to AKS?
As in you’re working on a YouTube team? Sounds like great forward progress! Can you give any comment on the repeated autoplays? Seems like that would indeed be a relatively simple feature that would add a lot of value.
They're in prison for defending their ancestral land and burial grounds from foreign colonist occupiers, which not only have taken it over but are now destroying it and its waterways with leaky oil pipelines.
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An extensive freedom of -> speech
For public domain books there's https://standardebooks.org
That's right, nobody except everybody...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-grindr-m-a-exclusive-idUS...
I know this is hacker news but the fact that you don’t need to build the system yourself is the reason why it is so special. Most people want the product to work out of the box without any additional configuration.
Bookmakers make their profit from the margin between the odds they give.

Example. If the probability of outcome is exactly 50-50, he odds they give are 1.9 and 2.11 and they pocket the difference (completely fair odds without margin would be 2.0 both sides) It does not matter what the outcome is. If they balance the bets for and against perfectly, there is no risk. They generally try to balance their liability but having preferred winner can increase profits with some additional risk.

If people place bets on the other side more, bookmakers move the odds to balance the bets from both sides. At some point the odds can be skewed so much that professional better can make money even after the bookmaker takes his margin. That money is taken from other betters. But if the bookmaker is not fully balanced it can come from the bookmakers pocket.
> while recording people in public is legal

...in the US.

In other places the laws can be different, especially if the camera hasn't been registered.
Maybe. I'm happy to run any formally verified C as my basement, for example the seL4 kernel, or for C to be used as an intermediate language. Especially as there should be less code at the bottom of the stack. But C++ seems worse, it's a far more complex language, designed and built to try and scale C to building applications. This creates a far larger attack surface.
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They all have some form of Wifi-to-phone, but I don't think anyone has made it reality enjoyable yet. I only know the Sony side of things which is probably the worst of the bunch, but it's so full of the arbitrary limitations and unpleasantries that others can be twice as good and still suck. It all seems to be merely an afterthought feature that is just there to get a feature checkbox checked.

The only reasonable implementation however would be something like a permanent BTLE connection that wakes up wifi whenever there are unsynced files on the camera. Just push that while I'm shooting, keep it alive until synced (or until permanent connection loss) when the power button is pressed, leave the phone side UI of what to do with all that data to the phone. (OTOH I'm not even sure if phone OS still allowed an app to do that, idle on background BTLE, then fire up the WiFi without user interaction. OYAH this would be the perfect crossover feature for Sony, because a hardware manufacturer could definitely include it in their Android - but even then, if they did it they'd certainly botch it with sticking to their proprietary raw format instead of opening up to Snapseed by going .DNG)
I remember that earthquake. I was 11, home alone, doing algebra homework on the kitchen table with the sun setting behind me. It started as a vibration that then turned to seem like gravity went sideways in a paint shaker for several minutes and the family dog went crazy. Bookshelves spilled like avalanches onto the floor. Half of the pool dumped itself into the bushes and onto the grass. The first thing I did after convincing the dog to get outside was shut off the gas to the house and that of some of the neighbors, fearing a gas explosion should any pipes have ruptured. The biggest thing I remembered was there were aftershocks all night, and we debated sleeping outside. That was one of the last earthquakes I remember in the Bay Area, the ones since were rather small and infrequent. Subsequently, all of our appliances and furniture, large and small, were bolted into studs in the wall. Big, TV-style computer monitors were held down by industrial Velcro.

More recently, I assembled for my mom a trauma kit with woundseal, quikclot and a tourniquet with a metal windlass; I always have mine in the car, readily accessible.
The best part is when you find out your phone supports set of parameters A, your tablet set of parameters B and your MacBook set of parameters C.... and there's no intersection between sets.
Just to counter your cynicism with my own:

I've made the experience that unless they can make profit off you, you threaten to sue them, or take them to the union/board/bureau/cops, no company is ever going to "get back to you immediately".
I’d be interested to hear more about why this 2 hour call happened, if you’re willing to share.
Make clean energy, transport electricity, use electricity to distill ethanol.

Or just use EVs.

If you insist on transporting oil, do the same as countries did with oil tankers: force them to have an insurance policy that would cover all the environmental damage costs. Very quickly, insurers forced the shipping companies to reinforce their safeties.
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This analysis assumes that we can continue on the current consumption spree and growth in energy usage as before.

It has to be a combination and there will have to be painful adjustments to the current western lifestyle.

We need to find better ways of moving around, buy less stuff and produce food in better ways.
Or just have an about:config option that allows users to decide.

Why can't Mozilla treat their users as arbiter of what the use may do? They really don't have to decide for users what the only allowable extensions are; they could just advise rather than dictate.
As a software dev, the biggest gain for me was incorporating the arrow keys under my right hand fingers via a layer switch, and having movement modifiers under the left (jump word, end-of-line etc).

I think one moves around so much in code that anythng else is micro optimization.

YMMV.
I honestly don't know why non-photorealistic paintings always inspire this sort of expressions of disgust. For me, an admitted non-connoisseur, there's always a tale there of some sort, a little story, and it's enmeshed with the feeling of the time. So it's referring to a concept and turning it around or subverting a method or inventing one. I find that enjoyable to see. That idea of something novel or subverting expectations is not really all that different in concept from something like https://www.reddit.com/r/surrealmemes/comments/88qmx2/half_n... in concept.

As for the other bit: In the end, you're part of it as much as anyone else is. So if you see nothing there, then there is nothing there for you. So be it. Onward to the next one. Till you feel emotion evoked. For me, Diebenkorn's Window makes me feel this longing for this particular life I had briefly. And that's it for me. I've walked through halls of paintings that are some repulsive, lots boring, and some just incredibly magnetic. And some of the 'ugly' ones are famous and some of the ones I like aren't and that's it.
And that's basically why any plan that doesn't start with better (drastically less GHG) cement and steel manufacturing is not very insightful.

Furthermore the fact that we aren't building 10 test fusion reactors all around the planet shows how less people are aware of the problem, and how little effort and resources are we willing to allocate toward really averting it.
In reality, it seems that those rules are bound for a change. UN at large needs to recognize that the current nationalistic movements are not going to die out, and go back to the core goal of preventing violent conflicts, which current arrangement is anything but helping.

I am not sure what the solution is, but providing a predetermined cost for separation of a part of the country is a simplistic framework that might work.

Eg. Catalonia gets their independence, owes Spain ~20 billion euros over the next 20 years, and they each guarantee to each other that it will not raise taxes to opposing products in the next 30 years[1]. For Kosovo it's a bit late to avoid violence. But as state separation becomes common and accepted as "normal", there will be less of "this is terrible" storylines that politicans thrive on, so harder to pull people into violent wars.

Oh well, one can only hope. FWIW, I am sure that will lead back to unification efforts (you know, to share costs and optimise development: eg. it's hard to design a good railroad if you are governing only your tiny county), but as long as we define clear uniting and separating guidelines, I hope we can reach acceptable terms for all parties.

[1] Not saying this is a fair arrangement, but I am sure there could be a way to define something that is fair and probably written onto thousands of pages :)
Project Gutenberg also gives you EPUB downloads for any of their ebooks. (Though some older ebooks are transcribed/processed as text-only, so the HTML/EPUB is autogenerated and loses the original structure.)
Is this true? I opened up Grammarly TOS and found this:

Ownership
All intellectual property rights in and to the User Content are and shall remain your property, and Grammarly shall acquire no right of ownership with respect to your User Content.

Link - https://www.grammarly.com/terms#ownership
Very interesting post, thank you for sharing !!

> 2. The RSA key strength is only 1280 bits.

This reminds me that in france, unless cryptography is not used for authentication, it is considered a military weapon, and civil usage is restricted in its key strength. Above a certain strength, you technically have to give your key to the government !!...!!!

I don't have a source, but fr.wiki [1] says that in 1999, the government allowed for 128 bit keys to be publicly used without depositing it to the government. It also says that PGP was illegal in france until 1996 (considered a war weapon of category 2, whatever that means).

So I wouldn't be surprised if it were illegal over here to use key strengths above 2048 for end to end encryption in france...

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiffrement#En_France
Skewed analysis. It assumes:

1. No energy savings.

2. No carbon sequestration.

Now, I'm no expert on either of these, but both are of extreme importance to achieving emission reduction goals, and there is huge potential for such reductions.
For those interested, appears to be the last paragraph under "User Content" [1]

The "royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable and sublicensable, perpetual, and irrevocable license to copy, store and use your User Content" part is pretty broad. It has the caveat "in connection with the provision of the Software and the Services and to improve the algorithms underlying the Software and the Services", but that is also pretty broad, and I wouldn't be surprised if they interpreted it generously.

If you were building a competing service and typed code into the browser somewhere, apparently they would have a license to use that to improve their own service.

[1] https://www.grammarly.com/terms#user-content
I'll see what I can get going next week. cheers nice idea.
The footer reads "written 2001-06-30" and The Wayback Machine confirms that the page has not been updated since 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20020122135113/https://nothings....

I find the design of the page quite beautiful.
I'm not sure I understand this comment. Perhaps someone could rephrase it?
You can just order a book you want from another library's collection in the metropolitan area and grab it from Oodi. For instance, in Pasila they have over 1.6 million titles [1].

[1] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsingin_kaupunginkirjasto
Which section of the TOS is that in? I don't see anything about that, but it's a very long TOS so I just searched some keywords. You are also contradicting their own FAQ.

The closest thing I can see is the indemnity section which limits damages. If you're an editor and paste an author's work in, they can't get any damages from Grammarly, if you paste your own work in, your damages are limited to 12 months subscription - even if they bound your input into a novel and published it, or were hacked and somebody else published it. However, it would still be a criminal act of copyright infringement.
Zooming in on Neuronal Behavior, using DART to treat Parkinson's Disease
I just gave this a shot on the ISO website to get a list of country codes[1], but it seems the selection algorithm breaks down when there's no specific classes applied to elements, as every td.v-grid-cell is selected, which is all of them, instead of the values of the alpha2 column for example.

This seems hard to solve entirely programmatically, maybe having a way to be more specific by providing a selector yourself or selecting multiple entries and having the plugin figure it out could add a lot of utility in such cases.

[1] - https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search/code/
I switched to a Kinesis advantage some years ago, and the arrow keys are such a massive improvement.

I was thinking about using layers like you suggest for movements, but outside of vim where you need to shift+move to select text, isn't that going to be quite awkward?
Humility is a concept missing sorely in practice in the world today.
What do you mean by memory unsafety? A stale read would be bad, but wouldn't lead to arbitrary code execution.
Yes it has ESL now that is kind-of similar.
Charlie Kirk's Culture War, Groypers, Nickers and Q&A-Trolling
Why don't these pipelines run in wider-pipes, which are typically unused, so that spillage from the inner pipe doesn't immediately leek into the soil? Or some other technical solution?

(Yes, I know the answer: It would cost more and oil execs and investors never go to jail for polluting.)
Ownership: All intellectual property rights in and to the User Content are and shall remain your property, and Grammarly shall acquire no right of ownership with respect to your User Content.

Link - https://www.grammarly.com/terms#ownership
People are annoyed that footage from their home was used, without their permission or any payment to them, by Ring for adverts.

People are annoyed that footage from their family trick-or-treat session was used, without their permission or any payment to them, by Ring for adverts.

People are annoyed that millions of unregistered surveillance cameras are being installed with few protections or oversight. They're realising that creating a panopticon might also need to include some protection for how the data is used.
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Technical corrections:

The binding is over a _public key_ not a _shared secret_.

Also that last sentence is confusing and I'm not sure how best to fix it. Maybe the last word should be 'meaning' not 'traffic' or maybe the word HTTP should be inserted?
AstriCon was last week in Atlanta, and had 300+ attendees. Fred Posner wrote about it in https://www.fredposner.com/2243/astricon-2019-thoughts/
Or it's just another example of ridiculous journalists expectations: they make inquiry during weekend / Friday evening and expect you to respond immediately. But you know, even people at Ring have lives....

Generally whenever journalist post sensational article, where they clearly didn't give other party enough time to respond, I see it more as an example of shitty journalism, because clearly journalist is more interested in flashy headline and breaking news, than the truth.
This doesn't excuse DRM. Personally I don't read ebooks because (1) I won't accept DRM, (2) I won't pirate. Instead I buy a few books in dead tree format but mainly lots of authors are losing out.
"You appear to be writing an essay on the causes of the Civil War. Would you like to read an essay on the causes of the Civil War with better grammar from another user?"
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It's not "just" piracy, it also makes DRM-free versions of the content available. Which is something that libraries should be insisting on as well in any "reasonable" agreement, given their archival function. If they can't achieve that, I'd rather they not "buy" any eBooks at all, and just stick to paper.
On AstriCon 2019 and Sangoma's Stewardship of Asterisk and FreePBX
> The entirety of human history is one of conflict.

Oh, that's even better than that other quote of yours:

"If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be."

Eh, Mr. Mussolini ?
People keep forgetting about sensor sizes and pretend like their tiny smartphone flagship can compensate with some smart extrapolation and fake bokeh
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Not saying this is what they mean, but isn't there a difference between ownership and license to use something?
The rights Grammarly (https://www.grammarly.com/terms) take to use your data is limited as follows:

"in connection with the provision of the Software and the Services and to improve the algorithms underlying the Software and the Services."

This on the face of it wouldn't extend to selling your content. Obviously terms of use can change, but a material change like granting Grammarly the right to sell content would usually oblige Grammarly to notify users and at that point users could take a decision to stop using the service.

Also, realistically any proposal to sell data would make use of the service for great swathes of enterprise users a complete non-starter.
bl.ocks.org has been functioning this way for years, allowing to show-case code.

For example, https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/7881887 is rendered from the content found in https://gist.github.com/mbostock/7881887.
I like your UX, but just curious, what is your usp compared to all those notion, caspio, zenkit, quickbase, ninox, airtable, and more platforms out there?
>I don't really understand what makes it so special

You don't have to use YAML? :-)
Are We Flushing Our Resistance to Antibiotics Down the Drain?
Didn't the Obama's just purchase beach front in the Hamptons? https://www.bostonmagazine.com/property/2018/08/20/obama-mar...
IF you pin services to a key you control this mitigates the problem with bad guys obtaining bogus certs, BUT now you need to manage the pinning application to ensure it knows about any new keys before they roll into use. This may force you to compromise on your rotation schedule, maybe you'd prefer to use new keys for the new cert you're buying this week but alas the new app version is still waiting for Apple sign-off, so it'll have to be next year instead.

IF you pin to an intermediate key, which is under the control of a CA, then bad guys who obtain certs from that intermediate will not be inconvenienced by your pin, but these keys are intentionally long-lived (they are protected in an HSM) so the rotation issue isn't as fraught.
I'll also ask is Chromium affected? And does that mean Chrome-based browsers on Android are affected too?
The product description says is for YOU (the buyer) to watch the cameras footage from anywhere, not for the company called ring or their employees; btw this stunt means they had to check a lot of cameras until they found outdoor ones (so the employees probably saw a lot of internal cameras inside childrens rooms among others)
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

- George Orwell
Only when it can access the DOM, which is more or less the point of the post, or when it can draw the whole window of the browser and handle resizes. Not that I like the latter option: HTML is so much easier to code than anything desktop or mobile I worked with in the last 30+ years.
It's hard to understand your message, but... ads in VSCode? Is that a thing now?
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