skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it highlights two issues with it. One of which is a matter of "outsourcing privacy/trust" being inherently a risky concept and much of it is learned instead of sold. Since all of the perfect VPNs and end to end enceyption won't protect against poor opsec.

Second for business there is a question of "where is the money from with the business model"? Skipping that step leads to a VC acquisition which will subvert it once it gets big enough to "harvest" it at best.

Data-gaming SEO style seems like it would be the logical consequence of the surveillance but that may fall into the legally dodgy on its own.

GIGO spam may be what eventually bursts an ad-tech market. Phone systems are already notorious for being overwhelmed with scam and spam callers. Now imagine click and view farming being similarly leveraged as noise overwhelms signal.
This is similar to a Star Trek: Voyager episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Void_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)
if you like government solutions to things, the govt should solve the problem of getting people to save for their own retirement. It's the fable of the ant and the grasshopper, it's the parable of the marshmallow test, learning to manage your future is an important life skill; fobbing off responsibilities on other people, out of sight out of mind, is the road to ruin.

I'm not saying that income redistribution and levelling are not necessary ingredients, but in addition the mechanisms should reflect aligning long term outcomes with short term thinking.

people are naturally lazy, but we shouldn't encourage that.
Solid white, actually!
I think this is an issue with phaser. I’ve also made a bunch of web games with various frameworks, and webGL works fine on iOS in many other contexts. The js port of cocos2d is webGL compatible on iOS.
It matters if they're getting paid by the hour. I used to work with someone who was good at handwaving away why his work was falling behind, and the management believed him. In reality, he was missing deadlines because he wasn't working a full 40 hour week. He'd record his commute as working hours because "he's an engineer, and thinking about his work is just as important as doing work", so he ended up working ~10 hours less per week than everyone else because he claimed that thinking about work on his commute counted as billable time.
As a counterpoint, almost every major European power “monitors” certain protest groups. The French Army, for instance was authorized to shoot Yellow Vest protesters. After the 2015 terror attacks in France, civil liberties were greatly curtailed due to the “state of emergency” — a state of emergency that kept getting extended at the whims of the Élysée Palace.
It is a good manager's responsibility to maintain the health and longevity of his team. Obviously, that wasn't the case here, and the burnout superstar even left. Not surprising.
Becoming more "consistently liberal" is hardly the same as being far-left. Hell, even moving more to the left isn't necessarily, depending on where one starts from, and the early 90s are not exactly known to be a left-wing era in the US: the liberal President of the time won on a campaign on a promise of cutting down welfare - “Two years and you’re off”; you can move quite a bit from that without becoming a socialist.
My confession as a privacy-conscious person: yeah, YouTube is the only Google service that I (reluctantly) use. I even pay cash money for it in exchange for no advertising.

However, I only use it on a single tablet that is devoted exclusively to that purpose. As with all Google services, I wouldn't dare to actually use it on a machine that I use for anything else.
Don’t, this is how iterative progress is made!
Since Enterprise was initially intended to go to space, (to be completed after the flight tests) I'd count it for design purposes.

STS-1 through STS-4 all had a crew of 2 on Columbia.
> Banks have code from the 1960s still running

The only reason "old code" still works in banks is because untold man hours are spent wrapping around it, working around it, and testing it.

A long time ago, some exec saw that some old thing needed updating because the world has changed. There are new regulations, new customers types, new products, new strategies...

A bunch of people get hired. A bright future of next thing is promised. It gets everyone excited and devs start cutting little chunks away off the old thing, making a new thing. Now there are 2 things to maintain, but that's ok, some day new thing will become next thing.

But the exec leaves (probably to another bank) before the next thing became a thing. Another exec comes in, declares the new thing is crap because it doesn't quite get the job done. A next next thing is planned. The previous new thing is now the old new thing. It will be removed, someday. Just not today, because it's _a_ thing now. old new thing will be sunset when next next thing arrives.

Many many years and several execs later, there are many things maintained by a small army of devs and testers. These things work in really strange, archaic, or even stupid ways. Nobody knows how (or worse, why) the entire system works. The most knowledgeable people only know how it _behaves_.

But it's there, still working. And your money is in that thing of things. Many peoples' money are in it.

That's not necessarily a good thing.
I think this essay was valid for the year it was written (2007) where much fewer people were doing startups, lots of good ideas had not been executed yet, mobile was about to take off. Just like the belief in 2007 that "real estate prices can never go down" lead to the real estate bubble/crash that eventually invalidated that statement, if everyone starts beleiving if they start a company and never give up they will become rich even if their idea is bad, will end up invalidating that very belief.
Do they really need to make that explicit in the terms of service? I thought it was obvious that I didn't have the right to make Google/YouTube pay for hosting and serving a video just because I created it.

Or could this be a prelude to a culling of videos starting in the first quarter of next year? I would say that now is the time for a wannabe competitor to YouTube to get ready to step into the breech but if I'm not mistaken, YouTube has never made money despite YouTube's attempts to sell advertising content. I could see a future where it's going to cost (not much, but more than zero) to host and serve videos on YouTube.
Video distribution is such a hard thing to develop. YouTube isn't profitable; it only exists because Google props it up.

I'd only imagine someone like Netflix, who has existing infrastructure, to actually create a profitable video site.
That could work only in certain parts of the US; in Europe or Asia a single failure is often terminal.
Salesforce Ventures invested $300M in Wordpress while building a CMS
But who is monitoring the military?
Why do you do both? Why not stick with the one you enjoy the most?
> Do you have evidence to the contrary?

I could assemble a set of information that is suggestive of it, but such things are inherently subjective so it could be rightly easily dismissed as inconclusive.

> Why is the burden to disprove a "love" that has never been proven on me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

> The burden of proof is the obligation on a party in a dispute to provide sufficient warrant for their position (in this case: "I would say the person who loves just one nation over all others loves no nation").
Every meme photoshop now needs a label?
“I was looking into the requirements and I cannot afford $100 a year.“

I don’t understand how someone can’t afford a $100/year expense on something related to their occupation.
Depends I was talking to a Mate who does Java development yesterday about the rebuild times in eclipse -costing an hour or two a week per developer.
Performance of the 100bln fund is given at

https://whalewisdom.com/filer/renaissance-technologies-llc
Funny, I could almost bet your distaste for him comes from his support of President Trump (which I'd bet you don't like, or even hate; judging from the dubious grounding of your current assertions).
The difference is, the other automakers have decades of experience tailoring public pronouncements so as not to provide fodder for trial lawyers. Hence the vaporous noncommunication. Tesla hasn't been sued as much yet, but they'll get there eventually.
Yes, I know infosec people that use gmail and linjedin too. Knowing isn't caring.
Tragedy is not a function of scale.
The root issue here is that the thing people want-- a video hosting site that is free, preserves uploads forever (by contrast with Twitch, which has limited VOD support), has few to no ads, and doesn't algorithmically police copyright-- is just impossible. It can't be operated at a profit. Google is in a better position than anyone to leverage YouTube into profitability-- they have an ad network to take advantage of all the viewership data they get, they own so much fiber and control so much network traffic that they can leverage better rates on bandwidth costs, and they have the expertise of cloud-scale operations-- and they still can't do it: by all accounts YouTube has never made money. And if Google can't, no one can.

People who think that this policy change is going to lead to some kind of exodus to a YouTube competitor are fooling themselves. There's no one else in the game and there never will be; it's economically impossible.
This may not be the case in Finland but in the US the vast majority of mortgage loans are pooled into investment vehicles/bonds that separate the loan & mortgagee from the mortgagor with the day to day servicing and rehab decisions made by a third party lowest bidding servicer having incentives different from that of the bondholders. But for the intermeddling servicer the bondholders would almost certainly come out ahead by doing workouts with struggling homeowners but the servicers lack those incentives and often make money putting the loans into forced sale forclosures. 11 years ago we in the US went through this mess without learning the lessons that would have been learned had the powers that be decided to let everyone sleep in the bed they made rather than foaming bondholder runways with the bodies of mortgagors.
I don’t think the article was saying not to auto-scale as much as realizing it’s less of an edge case than it might sound and being careful not to underestimate the level of effort or overestimate the savings. That rang true to me — I’ve seen a lot of people realize the staff time they spent ended up pushing the time to recoup many years into the future. This is especially common if they’re inspired by a big tech company’s cool blog post or talk describing something amortized across a much larger volume.
now swap ants for your own species. nature is the best horror writer.
I think workout clothes depends on what it is. Wearing a sports bra is surely different from wearing a T-shirt. Before we assume malicious intent by twitch it should be worth specifying what streamer was wearing.
Is the quality of a place only dictated by instagrammability, today?
Walmart plays music depending on the demographic that shopping at a particular time of day (thanks to their endless analytics).

I've gone there at times I wouldn't normally, like Sunday at 6 AM because I put it off and need something now, and it's like I'm on the wrong radio station.

So if you're ever at a Walmart and don't like the music, you're just not shopping at the right time apparently.
The 8% interest banking mobile app
Hey, this is Pat from https://outlet.finance and we just made our 100th dollar.

We just launched 3 weeks ago and are getting some great feedback.

We have a little over 100 users at this point and roughly $20,000 in-app under management.

If you have any feedback or want to know how the product works a bit more please ask. Starting a savings app that feels like a bank account is not easy.

The about page explains how the product itself actually works.
Even if you aren't driven by profit, it's pretty sad to spend time to create content and only have a handful of people see it.
The "acceptable ad" program is pointless, as it doesn't consider tracking to be "unacceptable".
It's a balance.

Part of management's responsibility is to keep interruptions under control. If management does nothing so that everyone goes directly to the engineers; management isn't managing.

Specifically, this includes making sure that everyone is onboarded so newcomers don't need to go to the more experienced engineers to ask trivial questions. It also includes making sure that processes are defined and agreed on by stakeholders, making sure that people don't bypass the ticketing system, and sometimes reminding certain employees about things like manners.
30 years from now we could be looking back at 2019 fondly. By 2048 it is estimated at the current consumption levels salt water fish could be nearly extinct, for example. We could also be dealing with twenty days of lethal heat per year and one billion people displaced due to climate change.
Sadly, those "certain federal crimes" includes drug offenses, which is a wonderful pretext ("I smelled marijuana") for all manner of invasiveness and harassment.
> The guy complaining that he “sent this in confidence” thereby outing himself is priceless.

It's a joke
You need a coating that won’t burn off even if it reflects 99.9% of the beam, and rugged enough to survive being field handled.

Those don’t exist, it will be scratched off well before it’s even used.

Not to mention the cost of such material and the cost loss of scrapping or converting existing inventory won’t make it a viable solution.

The majority of mortars fired at US troops today were likely made in the 60’s and 70’s.

You are better off with simply using mortars in large volleys to saturate the system or simply attacking unprotected targets.

Most rounds fired at US troops can’t penetrate their body armor either it doesn’t stop them from trying not did it force them to switch to armor defeating projectiles.

They just are less effective and hope they’ll either land a lucky shot to the face or lower limbs or a debilitating shot to unprotected areas such as the arms and shoulders.
The spin bit reminds me of the evil bit[1]. Endpoints/clients/servers don't have much reason to set it, except when explicitly running a trace. It may work under initial implementations, but I expect it will eventually become a dead field. Why maintain the code complexity to expose this information to a network operator?
Even worse, "malicious" clients could spin the bit randomly.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
I like the idea of not necessarily removing content just because an algorithm or group of people say it's a deepfake. Apply a label and let people make up their own minds.

Of course if there's no transparency to the process or a known way to contest being classified as a deepfake, this could lead to other problems. And is a work of performance art -- an actor who can do a spot-on impression of someone -- a deepfake if meant as art?
When I read the Twitter thread yesterday there were plenty of people posting that they had the same observation: men getting more credit than their wives. I don't recall seeing anyone posting the opposite.
In my experience, people are already almost completely isolated even without headphones.

With or without headphones, the only strangers who come up and talk to me are people who want something from me, like beggars, people seeking directions, or people trying to sell me something. As someone who's not very social around strangers, I rarely initiate conversations with strangers myself.

Listening to my own music just makes getting through the world more pleasant for me. It doesn't make me significantly more isolated.
The hardest part might be to create one that can store enough energy to last through a five-hour match.
An extra weird thing for me (as a contractor and pretty "free range", since it was in-theater awarded, and multiple parallel contracts) was I could be at a party in the IZ, then sitting in the back of an old BMW with just a Hi Power between bases, working on some weird UNIX network driver issue or RF interference problem, video conferencing with an O-7 and his staff, riding on a medevac helicopter sitting in someone else's blood (always look first), shopping at a huge PX and stocking up on discounted thorlo socks, knives, etc., on a super sketchy Uzbek cargo An-12, and then driving 200kph to a 4.5 star hotel, all in a few days, with basically no one telling me what to do or particularly responsible for me. Plenty of other contractors basically stayed on one base, lived under close control, and had basically one job for 12 months (or on some contracts, especially guys from Asia, they were there for years in the same place). And other contractors were doing convoy security, or vehicle recovery, or other close-to-military jobs.
Its not enough to have a competitor. All of the features we have come to dislike about YouTube are a natural consequence of the pressures it faces. High volume implies moderation by machine along with all of the negative side-effects. Bandwidth, storage, and arithmetic costs imply advertisements with all of their negative side-effects. A large library implies a recommendation engine with all of its negative side-effects.

To be a viable long-term alternative, a competitor will have to break at least one of those fundamental constraints.
1000x this.

I don't get how anti-remote persons manage to track office workers' performance.

Either you measure output, or you don't.

There are valid arguments against remote work, usually related to communication, but performance measurement? Nah
> They are not trying to kill advertisements. They want to replace API to provide better performance.

So they say. I see literally no reason to believe that claim, though.
I know someone who's one of the heads of a large law firm and a few weeks ago they invited a dean from an Ivy League university to their office, probably to discuss their son's education (senior in high school).

While there probably isn't any bribery happening, to me this reeks of sheer unfairness.
I think the university politics part is different because there is at least some "power" or "influence" that you get to field no matter how small. I look at individual sports like running / cycling in an amateur setting as a pure outlet for self improvement. If the only person who is looking at my time is me, then whom am I really cheating by improving it using steroids?
Not a stupid question at all. Weapon systems all have various areas where they are optimum and where they are at their weakest. In ship to ship battles, maneuvering is slow so its difficult to line up behind a ship like it is with a plane. Even so, if this test system works I expect there would be a matching version on the stern.

Frank Dunnigan's "How to Make War", which is putatively about how to develop war games, goes into some depth of comparing offensive versus defensive impact of various weapon systems. It makes for an interesting read.
I don't know about the U.S. specifically, but usually the military in a democratic country is not allowed to care. That's the job of the police.
PyCon Africa 2019 (Recap)
Oh, interesting!

Fun fact: I wrote the sysex communication code used to send configuration to the Midifighter Pro and Midifighter 3D, as well as the first version of the config utility. I see that my code still exists in the Midifighter Twister too! You can see my name in the copyright header.

https://github.com/DJ-TechTools/Midi_Fighter_Twister_Open_So...

https://github.com/DJ-TechTools/Midi_Fighter_Twister_Open_So...

The bulk of the firmware was written by two engineers who worked for DJ Tech Tools at the time, Michael Mitchell and Robin Green. Great guys to work with. I personally was never employed there directly, I started out modding the Midifighter classic and I wrote a crude configuration tool for my mod, they liked it and reached out to me to help develop it into an official tool.
British training reaches some real high points. The SAS famously used MP-5s with flashlights on top and no sights — they were that well trained.
Bombardier has already tried: they ended up partnering with Airbus to market the C-series (now A220).
Yeah, I'm never going to own any Apple crap with these kinds of policies. Pay a crapload of money for a locked down product that you don't really seem to own. No thanks.
Why couldn't it just change batteries as needed, or just be wired up to power for that matter?

I'd expect something like wrestling would be much more challenging than non-contact sports, assuming, of course, that the robot's strength and torque was limited to human levels.

Wrestling is actually a pretty interesting case, now that I think about it for a bit, as robots wouldn't need to be limited to human-like bodies. In principle, they could have, say, a starfish-like or octopus-like body, where its tentacles would allow it to grip its human opponent in ways that may be impossible to escape, even were the robot limited to human strength.

So I suspect that in sports like wrestling (and maybe all other sports), robots that are allowed to compete would likely be limited to human-like forms, as other forms could give them too great an advantage.
When I was looking through the thread I didn't see this. Do you have links to tweets?
It's one of their central features, so probably not.
Can you point to evidence that Apple is rejecting anything from being notarized? I haven't seen any.

And sandboxing is completely orthogonal to the fine-grained revocation that notarization allows for. A sandboxed app could still be malicious: say, a weather app that asks for access to your Contacts ostensibly to show weather at your friends' location, but also uploads all the Contacts info to a malicious tracking service. With notarization, this app could have its notarization revoked once it's discovered.
How confident are you in the estimate of cost? Heck, I'm not even confident in the estimation of emission reduction - this seems very much like something that might have weird knock on effects that causes surprising results.
McKinsey's practices are becoming more and more worrying as the company is coming under the limelight.

I can't forget their shady practices in South Africa which they tries to hide and NY Times aired them out and then they started complaining that the paper was targeting them.

Here is the piece:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/world/africa/mckinsey-sou...
Is it? Can you give an example where I do and must judge facts differently depending on the flag they exist under? I emphasize must, because it's obviously simple to find examples of cases where people may do such a thing, but your claim is that it is necessary....or, correlation vs causation.

> Where that doesn't apply, this discussion doesn't apply.

In which case it would imply correlation (not necessary*), no?
I agree with the sentiment expressed in this article, but notarization is not the hill I'd want to die on.

Want to play experimental itch.io games? Open a Terminal and type:

sudo spctl --master-disable

It takes all of five seconds, and it's permanent. It might take less technical users a bit longer, but entering text into a Terminal window really isn't difficult, and technophobes aren't using itch.io.

Some people will say this is a bad solution because it makes your computer less secure, but, like, you can't have it both ways. Either you allow experimental software and accept the risks involved, or you don't. Maybe don't play experimental games on the same machine you use for important work.
Sure, but even voting for a communist candidate doesn't mean you're a communist or even far-left.
> I would say that now is the time for a wannabe competitor to YouTube

Yes, but how does the new upstart try to get traction from under an avalanche of useful shills that will start to smear them as "NaziTube"?

Edit/Addendum: Do you honestly think a new upstart would enjoy an "understanding press" in their "growing-pains years" like our current incumbents did?