skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as Google cares, it is a net win for humanity. Even the worst-case scenario that Google is later bought by an immoral company is a better outcome for humanity than Google immediately becoming immoral.

I also find your argument about Google becoming unprofitable unconvincing. They were very profitable while they held the standards high in the past. Maybe not maximally profitable, but very profitable.
Security issues, like other emergent system properties, can arise at any layer of the stack.

While code level issues should absolutely be a focus in the SDLC, it's common to find security issues crop up from:

* Hardware, kernel, OS, package, and library vulnerabilities

* Component integration / API contract misunderstandings

* Transitive trust between services and third parties

* Accumulation of access over time

* Demos, hotfixes, and workarounds that are somehow now mission critical
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MS has had ".NET on the client side" for quite a while now. It's called Silverlight.
> play the first 3-5 seconds of the ad, and then give the user a big skip button

There is another medium which has a similar interaction model, and most people seem to really dislike those, i.e. in-game cut scenes with surprise quicktime events.
2% a year for 10 years..
No, I'm betting that changes in U.S. production will have little to no impact on inspiring China and India to decrease their emissions.
As I understand, NIMBY-ism is an old and stubborn problem. Probably a consequence of other problems.
Fascinating - after several years of designing and a year of implementation, I'm running a closed beta of an LLVM-compiled language (general purpose but made for audio and dsp) that was strongly influenced by Lucid. For performance reasons it's not strictly "push" dataflow like Lucid, rather it pulls the output. It's a mix of dataflow from Lucid and type system from Haskell, aimed towards being performant and practical.
https://www.elasticaudio.com/

Outside of monitoring systems and hardware specifications, dataflow has been sorely overlooked, and Lucid is truly mind-bending. I could see dataflow becoming more relevant as Moore's law and performance/cost benefits start scaling horizontally, while functional languages are seeing more practical use. Potential uses include Audio, obviously, but UI, graphics, and anything that involves pipelines calling to outside environments.

EDIT I see PyLucid implements what Wadge calls "demand-driven dataflow" which I think is equivalent to "pull dataflow", though the ideal Lucid implements "eager dataflow" (I believe equivalent to my term "push dataflow")
> I reject the premise that ICE must incarcerate these people.

When your boss tells you "do X" and you don't agree with it you have choices. Do it, or don't do it and face the consequences.

There are very few people in ICE who can actually make this sort of decision and not risk consequences. Most of the people who COULD set this sort of policy are politically appointed, they aren't the (more or less) apolitical staffers who simply do as they are told (assuming it is respectful of the law).

> After all, that is clearly the intent of Congress

The intent of congress and the president interpreted by the courts, NOT individual ice agents, or for that matter you or I.

> whose duty it is to set policy priorities via budgetary allocations.

Again, that isn't how it works. Budget can be guiding but it is not always absolute, and sometimes it is (earmarks, pork) but in this case the "cut" isn't a "removal of the underlying law that is to be enforced".
Great article.

Important takeaways for me -

`Being employed by someone is by its very definition, an exploitative relationship, even if your job is great. Your employer can only afford to hire you if you make more money than you cost (again, with a few exceptions of course) so no matter what you are getting paid less than your true value.`

`It’s much, much easier to get to the top, or near the top of the wordpress plugin directory than it is google (essentially it’s making sure the description of your plugin has the right keywords, and then you’ll be there essentially instantly).`
Supposedly Fourier had some insight as well.
It's an automation tool, and I would argue you were clever to do it that way because later maintenance is easier, but because of that... The real question is: Why are you charging for this ?

It really would have been an attractive project to play with. But it looks like you just wanted a 'snatch and grab'.

Again, well done: You did the work but I wont be participating.
You are the perfect user for AdSkipPro :)
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> Don’t hold me to this, but I could swear that at least one version of the Norton Utilities sported an interface featuring an animated version of Peter

That was the in the Mac version at least http://www.atpm.com/3.11/images/norton3.gif
Fun fact. The dos "Norton Commander" program lives on with its open source linux command line tool "Midnight Commander"
(mc on most linux distros).

I use it sometimes still:

http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_adv_mc.php
typo: under supported podcasts, heavyweight is listed twice.
... this is sarcasm? I honestly can’t tell.

Can you elaborate your point of view a little more?
Did you continue to rest positive for IgM? Did you eventually identify an actual cause?
Agreed that post-hoc security cannot work very well. Hope it becomes more and more obvious industry-wide.

One thing I do to practice "continuous security", is to accompany each code review with an additional code review, solely focused on security. Else it's too many balls to juggle when doing a general-purpose code review.

Do you know of similar simple yet effective techniques?
Floppy disks? Do you mean real-life save icons? Yeah I've spotted a few of those around, but how am I supposed to interact with them and save my progress?
How can you say that unless we know how to sort good models from bad ones before observations kick in? As far as I know its always very easy to fit historical data with thousands of models but very few will actually be useful for prediction and we have no idea which ones.
Is this sarcastic? Plenty of photographers sell their services, and I'd wager anecdotally that a lot of photographers who do normally charge per shoot / per hour also contribute images to stock photo sites.
Rumor has it that the Air Force temporally turned off SA so that civilian GPS receivers used by US military forces could get high accuracy positions.
One of my clients has one. They’re all in a conference room and I’m remote in another city. I’ve had remote clients and my own companies since 2007, and the owl is by far the best videoconferencing solution I’ve used. 10/10 would recommend.
Not true, though admittedly I had the same fear.

I have a Hikvision NVR and 4k camera setup. I keep them on a separate subnet and have blocked all access to other subnets and the internet via a Mikrotik router.

In the year or so I have had this setup there hasn't been a single packet from the NVR or cameras in an attempt to access the internet.
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What does that do to your argument?

It does nothing to my argument. Because the tax incidence would all still be on the consumer of the property.

Just like with a rental property: the cost of the property tax is passed on to the renter.
You can buy OLED TVs with 120 Hz refresh rates running 1080p, and 60 Hz for 4k.

https://www.lg.com/us/experience-tvs/oled-tv/features

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/sony/a9g-oled

That criteria has been available to consumers (at a premium) for a few years now. I suspect 240 Hz is only a few years away, but I admit that is a shot in the dark.
If it was just a time-based bug you could alter the clock or use software to fake it.

Look, already exists: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html

Disc rot won't affect anyone that made a backup, and anyone that didn't could find an iso I'm sure. An N64 still works the way it always did, just like if you installed this game on windows 7.
Only up to a week after the purchase. Make sure to TEST every game you buy on a sale; otherwise your old, never-played but doesn't-work games are dead without refund.
Why is Apple required to act as law enforcement? Moreso, even if they could, why as consumers and technicians should we want them to?

HNers go on and on about big brother Cupertino all the time, but ooh some (well intentioned but misguided) refurb/recycling shop writes an article and all of a sudden critical thinking goes out the window.
I’m not sure people need to use a citation when effectively just saying “opening a market up to the world drives prices down”
You are presenting argument in favor of little endian, yet you're provide enough information that is only useful for someone who already knows the answer.
Sorry, I don't have any information related to it but I appreciate for your nice question.
We're already headed this direction. Apple is capturing usage statistics, NPR One Captures usage statistics, Spotify is absolutely capturing this information. Advertisers have gotten a taste for blood with all the data they've gotten from the web, and they want it for podcasts.

Breakdown the ethics violation you see happening here. The way I read your argument, Podcast apps have an ethical obligation to ensure users can't easily should the ads.
1) Turn off any explicit advertising/marketing/drip/promotion systems, even if they’re automated and profitable — they’re hacks that distort your view of the product. Let people sign up, but organic word-of-mouth only.

2) Consider a more relaxed pace of life. Travel widely. The startup world is a microcosm, and if you haven’t personally experienced and understood how people live outside of it for several months or years, it’s easy to overwork yourself and think it’s completely normal. There’s a reason “digital nomad” is a thing — a recurring story is that people try it out on a whim or by chance and then get absolutely hooked.

3) If you still want to invest time, what are you personally interested in building into the product?

I think the traditional “talk to your customers” is great for staying grounded and understanding pain points, but you can get stuck in a local maximum. As an engineer/product person, you have a unique insight into what is technically possible in your space, which new technological capabilities will become relevant as time progresses, and the general direction of the market over longer time spans. This is an opportunity to be a long-term thinker and focus on building features or related products that are specifically targeted at highly technical early adopters, so that by the time the idea becomes mainstream, you’ll have a substantial head-start.

Be a craftsman and use your skill to more deeply address the problem space.

If you’ve hit sustainability, are as lean as most bootstrapped lifestyle companies, and churn is not a major issue in general, I think the risk of being replaced by new contenders is actually a very slow-motion risk — people are not so good at changing their habits. :-)
Who cares? The act of selling it to someone without the obligation to steward is an abdication of that obligation.

and talking about precious years is just off topic and unrelated to the issue at hand.
Not sure if the answer will be clear, but that's inherent in the weird and counter-intuitive nature of the concept itself (which I consider as a major disadvantage of it).

It is an interval that was obtained using a confidence interval generation procedure, for which the following is true: for any true value of the quantity you're estimating, the procedure yields an interval that contains that correct value 95% of the times, when run on different random samples collected conditioned on that true value.

You want to estimate some quantity, let's say the cancer risk ratio of hair-dyers to non-hair dyers. You make some (noisy) experimental measurements on people.

Then, let's say someone hands you a confidence interval generating procedure. You feed it with your measurement data and it spits out an interval. To claim that this interval is a 95% confidence interval is actually a claim about the confidence interval generating procedure, not about the particular interval. And that claim is that for any true cancer risk ratio value, if we ran lots of experiments and fed all the results to this procedure, then 95% of the resulting intervals would contain the correct corresponding value. So in more detail: Assume the true ratio is, say, 1.05. Then if we repeated our noisy experiment in a 1.05-ratio world and applied the confidence interval generating procedure to the results, we would expect to get 95% of those intervals containing the number 1.05 and 5% of them not containing it. If we assume the ratio is 1.2, the same thing should hold. For this analysis to work, we need an idealized measurement model that tells us what the distribution of measurements looks like given any particular underlying value of the quantity of interest (say the cancer ratio). Then using this model and the description of a given confidence interval generating procedure, we may be able to prove mathematically that it indeed has the above property. Most of the time, statisticians use standards procedures, for which this property has been proved and the proof is widely known. They rarely invent new such procedures.

So, in summary: we don't know what the true value is in reality. But we can prove that the confidence interval generating procedure has the above explained property. Then, we will call the interval that this procedure gives us on our real measurement data a 95% confidence interval.

What it definitely does not mean is that the true value is in the interval with 95% probability, and that's the most common misunderstanding.

I'm not sure if this helps at all. These things are really counter-intuitive and twisted against our natural way of thinking.
Ping this thread when you do!
I haven't read these claims, but I have been involved with patents here and there and: aren't almost all granted software and business model patent claims bogus in one way or another, usually either obviousness or prior art?
Exactly. It's not making a controversial claim. But it is telling a specific story. And it's interesting because of that. If the comment was what you'd written to summarize it I wouldn't have payed it much attention.

Also, it's selection bias if "obviously sensical" anecdotes are believed and ones that disagree with our preconceptions aren't.
When I became A+ certified in 2004 I learned about CPU slots from the late 80s, so I wouldn't be surprised if the exams nowadays cover crap from the mid 90s.
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Yes. If you're a search engine, a Reddit, a Twitter, or some other site that presents links to other pages expecting the user to click through to multiple pages, you can safely prerender AMP pages by implementing your own AMP cache but not by using Google's AMP cache.
But they are encrypted and so are of no use to anyone.
How many models are currently published for reference?
Attacking another user like that will get you banned here. Please review the site guidelines and stick to them when posting to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> What people fail to realize, particularly in slippery conditions, is that it's often much easier to gain speed than to shed it. Modern traction control systems make it more (too) easy to gain speed without equally making it easy to shed speed.

Which raises an interesting question: if a traction control system can detect poor traction conditions and compensate, couldn't it just as easily warn the driver to slow down, just like the backup radar on recent cars warns about pedestrians and cross traffic?

I used to own a VW which would turn on a light indicating a high chance of black ice when the temperature conditions lent themselves to that (black ice can form at several degrees above freezing temperature).

I suspect that a car could warn of low traction and recommend slowing down, but no car offers it because consumers won't buy a car that nags them to slow down, Even if it's for their own safety.
Amazon is giving deals to local governments to roll out Ring doorbells, but part of the deal is that they can't imply that what Ring does is "surveillance"

Kudos on the title for that reason alone.
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I think the concept of "inequality" itself is a type of straw man. It's basically a problem that will perputually exist. Arguments (straw man or not) pointing out the lack of a concrete, absolute (non-relative), morally justified goal is appropriate as long as "inequality" itself is the stated "problem."

If we were talking about a fixed, concrete goal, then I'd agree with you. Reducing poverty, reducing world hunger, increasing standards of living, etc are things that can be accomplished by setting some absolute, concrete moral goals, which moving towards by any measure might be considered morally good. But "inequality" on its own is, prima facia, a term that requires comparison to the point of "perfect equality".

Doing good things might result in less inequality, but reducing inequality for the sake of itself is just justification of envy. There's nothing inherently "evil" or even negative about it.

On a side note: "Reducing inequality" is an activists dream. They can sell political solutions forever for a problem that will always exist, by some form of the definition.

(Unless we were to oversimplify it and set some standard deviation type hard-target for income distribution, but I've not heard anyone suggest this, let alone an appropriate "fair" target distribution. I'm not for it, but it's at least a measurable goal.)
>The more power is concentrated, the easier it is for a very small group of individuals to have a very large impact on decision making.

So if we remove the federal government's broad involvement in all aspects of life, we can reduce the power of corporations by reducing their vehicle of control. I agree.
Apparently user fingerprinting is where the money is.

I note that the uMatrix web browser add-on blocks the entire domain of the company.
I would love to have some reference to selling amount.

It sounds like it was easily over $1m but was it 2-4? 5-10? Very curious.
Since when has cyber space been considered sovereign?
This is something we've been practicing as we go distributed and I couldn't agree more. Placing everyone on equal planes in these situations is incredibly important in giving each individual the ability to communicate.
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HN Rules: "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread."

I thought the whole purpose of Show HN is to show what you've created. Should there be restrictions on the types of things being created?

In your example, I think the browser extension would hide every submission on Show HN.
sounds great! I went searching for it on my iPhone, and it's very hard to find by the name "The Program". However, I did find it by searching by author "Ivan Mirko".
Best of luck!
Disagree. China's move to a more market based economy has resulted in them tripling their fossil CO2 emissions compared to the 1990s. India doubled. EU and the US are slowing down in emissions but on the whole China is driving the huge increase of CO2 emissions worldwide, matching their rapid economic development. If you did not take that into account you would miss on the acceleration of CO2 content in the atmosphere over time.
Absolutely. You can even get the license and support contract costs built into the instance’s hourly rate. RHEL, Oracle DB, Windows Server, and SQL Server are all offered this way.
Not react-native, and the port to Android will not be trivial.
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I don't consider it normal or average for a conservative person, but I have come across the "god's plan" part quoted from a politician or two. Sadly. The 'in aid of the devil' I added as my tacit understanding of what "god's plan" means. This was poor judgement on my part, obvious to me in hindsight...

Australia currently has a very conservative government that are in denial of climate change who just happen to be led by a card-carrying Pentecostal. So there's a good chance I'm overly sensitive to such commentary :)

P.S. I think 'conservative', 'liberal', 'progressive', 'left wing' and 'right wing' tend to get in the way of proper discussion of what is actually factual, logical, or at least has basis in valid research.

'Conservatism' isn't helped by it's entanglement with religion and that old quote "A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"

This isn't the article quoting a politican, but it gives a clue as to why a politician may say such a thing:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/religion/climate-change-schism-...
Criticism certainly increased after Trump became president; and I think that had to do with two things:

1- His administration took a bad situation and made it objectively worse, and people (rightfully) got upset about that. Across all border-related agencies, things seemed to take a nosedive: Obama’s DHS(? ICE? I forget which one specifically) wasn’t in court arguing that they had no legal obligation to provide soap to detainees, for example.

2- People absolutely overlooked a lot of what Obama’s administration did wrong. That’s a fair criticism: I know I personally should have paid more attention.

I think what bothers me about your question is that it seems to imply that one shouldn’t be upset about things because “the other guy did it.” But that doesn’t excuse this administration. And I’m furious that Obama’s administration did similar things, now that I know! And if Obama’s administration were still somehow in charge... I would loudly protest them as well.

It’s wrong, no matter which administration is doing it.
This should be the top comment.

I'm a bit disappointed in HN.

So many of the comments here are focused on doubting the victims and ridiculing them for their irrational beliefs.

The irony is that it's those very critics that aren't being rational.

They have the causality backwards and seem to be assuming that if antibiotics didn't eliminate the symptoms then that means the disease can't be real.

Wouldn't it be more rational to conclude that maybe the antibiotic isn't killing the pathogen?
Nah. Per a study The Economist covered some years back, about half of all mergers destroy value.

The acquire-and-cut-to-the-bone strategy is a good way to juice short-term numbers, but it's bad in the long term in that you destroy the drivers of long-term growth. All the execs get their bonuses and get to cash out their options at a high value, it's bad for everybody else in the long term: customers, employees, investors.

The theoretical justification for post-merger cuts has also been declining for some time. Improved computation and communication have made it much easier to outsource non-critical functions, so merged companies will have a lot redundancy today. E.g., in a merger 20 years ago, maybe two merged tech companies could consolidate data centers and get rid of a bunch of ops staff. Now maybe they get a slight improvement on their AWS bill and they can lose a few execs, but it's not nearly the same.

And let's not forget the diseconomies of scale. Everybody here should already know that small companies can innovate much more quickly than large ones. And mergers have their own costs; I consulted for a while for a company that grew mainly through mergers, and you cannot imagine the number of meetings that existed just to bridge fault lines between different legacy software, different teams, different offices. It was a mess.
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