skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is closer to a ne'er-do-well taking someone else's signs and hanging them off a bridge over a highway. The person producing the speech is having their speech hijacked for malicious purposes by an MITM; that doesn't mean that it's not censorship when the sign's/webpage's creator gets caught in the censorship crossfire during the attempt to take down the malicious actor.

To put it another way: if someone steals my car and uses it to rob a bank, even if that car is now evidence in a criminal investigation, it's still my car. The police have every right to confiscate it from the thief—it's not their car—but that doesn't mean that it suddenly belongs to them; it belongs to me. In both this case and the above case, I have a right to not be unduly punished for the actions of an unrelated third party (by having my website taken down; or by having my car permanently confiscated, respectively.)

The context here is very similar to a story that was on HN just yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671579). Banning a site from the internet for happening to be MITMed by China is very similar in its ethical implications to banning a site from the Internet for happening to have a domain-name that fits a pattern used by a botnet.
Following the Status of Visual Cortex Over Time in Patients With Macular Degeneration Reveals Atrophy of Visually Deprived Brain Regions
>> but actually lose your users to a competitor

Twitter would be incredibly hard to supplant at this point.
Wow, wasn't expecting that to happen anytime soon. I wonder if Apple is prepared to release AirPlay 3 to start the process all over again, or if they will just eventually open-source the spec in defeat.
Are there any sites that accept OpenID but that you still suspect of poor password/auth practices?
The Chinese government can do this for systems sold within China. They don't have the authority to do it for computers globally.

If I'm understanding other comments correctly, browser vendors installing HTTPSEverywhere cuts down the potential for this Great Cannon attack from 7.7 billion users to 1.4 billion. An 80% reduction seems significant.
While undoubtedly useful, I feel like this will further the divide in programming models when dealing with primitive types vs objects in java.
These are not a real problem. The bigger threat is automated facial recognition throwing false positives and having swat teams mow down innocent people because a computer said they were criminals.
As soon as my family expressed an interest in IoT devices, my compromise was the devices had to be on a separate network. I bought an inexpensive managed switch and set up a vlan specifically for our IoT devices. Our firewall segregates the IoT traffic from our LAN. Although I'm still not crazy about the potential privacy implications of Alexa devices and the like, I sleep a bit better knowing they do not have access to anything but the internet.

Until ISPs ship a modem/router combo that makes it easy for the average consumer to set up segregated networks, I don't think too many people are going to heed the FBI's advice.
You can think of various ways to fast track justice for small crimes, similar to small claims court. You don't need a jury trial for an obvious bike theft.

But you don't even need to get to this stage. If you have 99% conviction rate, people will just stop doing crime, starting with the ones for which crime was just a marginal thing anyway (maybe even for the adrenaline rush), and as a result you'll have even fewer crimes to prosecute. It's a positive feed-back loop.

And you don't need to put people in prison. Something like China's social credit is coming everywhere. Steal a bike, you pay double for everything.
2.1 to 2.2 can be a bit of a pain though
try startpage
I have designed some file formats for some programs. But your question is not specific enough, I think.
Haven't they learned from General Magic [1]?

>“Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.” [2]

If you call your company magic then the product most likely is not just at the brink of your understanding but so far out that it is impossible to close the gap by hard work alone.

Steve Jobs mentioned in a very early interview somewhere that he wants to build a computer for everybody. He waited years and decades patiently until every duck was in line and he could launch the iPhone.

This thought doesn't lead to a meaningful point. I am just wondering why he and Apple (e.g. the A7[3]) got the timing right several times but many others push too soon or wait too long.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/547452-magic-s-just-science...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21704954
I don’t think this was ever the case for Magic Leap. All threads were always full of ‘I think this is waaaay too much funding for something we haven’t even seem yet’.

I’m just confused how the press and investors were misled in such a miraculous way.
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. They are profitable; they exceeded expectations by a lot Q2. Not sure what the problem is.

This happened to Yahoo too. They were quite happily tooling along, making profits, building cool stuff, and employing people with remote-work policies, small-biz tools for folks, and what-not. Then along came an activist investor who turned it into a royal shit-show.

He finally convince Verizon to buy it, but man it was a wild ride. I don't know if it made the investors money, but it made a lot of people sad.
>you have to satisfy their wants and needs

I don't think this is true at all, even if we accept that all wants and needs are good ones (opiods, for instance). I pay a substantial portion of my income in rent. That's not because my landlord is satisfying my wants or needs. Far from it. Actually, he's the most miserable, difficult person I regularly have to deal with. However, because land is a natural monopoly, I have to suck it up. There are many, many companies that work like this.

The social utility of taxation is simply that in a democracy, the people can decide what they need. Notable achievements of this system include stuff like courts, roads, and (in some countries) efficient, affordable healthcare.
New Lab Results Show Smartphone RF Radiation Levels Exceed Federal Limit
So, I guess that there's an one-line script in robots.txt to prevent Google from crawling my website?
He pass substantial veterans aid reform as chairman of the VA committee, and passed it with the help and support of John McCain.

Important to also remember his time as an Independent Congressman, where he passed more amendments than anyone else. And if we are to believe the stories (from both sides of the aisle), he worked behind the scenes to get legislation and amendments done.

The last 6 years he's been campaigning for progressive ideas. M4A is talked about constantly, he pushed what healthcare should be in America beyond the ACA. He got younger more diverse people elected to congress and on a state level, and has helped unions, workers, and others receive the wages and benefits they deserve by using his current standing as a public figure.

Before he went to Washington, as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, he stopped the development of industrial buildings on the lakeshore. He made housing more affordable, by creating more public housing and allowed residents to own their homes (with an asterisk).

And so much more that I need to get back to work...

For a single mayor, congressman, senator from a small eastern state, he's done a ton.
I think Brave's potentially most important (and least certain) contribution to the world is its automatic micro-payments system. It's genuinely innovative and the only viable alternative that anyone has proposed to ads-based funding for smaller sites. It's also, by nature, incredibly hard to bootstrap. But I really hope it gets real traction and ends up standardized and/or copied by other browsers.
> So while you can live on a McDonalds income, it's only because your fellow citizens are chipping in. Effectively we are subsidising McDonalds as they can now give you a lower income and get away with it.

No, before social support networks of the modern mixed economy companies paid worse for basically unskilled jobs. The surplus of people desperate for work meant that if the pay was better than no job but inadequate for survival in the long term, people would still take it, and if the inadequate pay meant they died or became unable to work, well, there were always more people in the surplus labor pool to replace them.

Decreasing the desperate need for employment puts more power in the hands of labor, not capital.
Yes, that's the point. We're here for reasoned discussion. Facile appeals to emotion are always unfair, and always OT on HN. No one was on Mars sitting out the last big economic event.
I live outside the US and struggle with a good mapping solution... I make a point to stick with Apple Maps on my phone but sometimes I am forced to resort to Google Maps to find some place I know exists but Apple Maps doesn't have it :/

So I just tried Mapquest and it had the same problem :(

Google's mapping dominance outside the US is really only challenged by Bing maps... which I can't get on iOS. Nearest is HERE maps but it's not quite the same product.
First mover is an advantage, but it can't overcome the problem of releasing a product before its underlying technology is ready. It's not first mover so much as the company that moves at just the right time.

Magic Leap smells a bit like the Apple Newton. Too far ahead of its time to be a market success, even with so much effort behind it.
Give Google Cloud Run a try. Can run any Docker container, and billing is per request. It is basically a fully managed knative.

https://cloud.google.com/run

My side projects all run for free.

(I work for Google Cloud)
Yea honestly - that's the only way to do it when you're going out on a limb like this. That's why business often prefer more conservative incremental changes. These folks took a giant risk making such a drastic tech leap and they just need to reap what they've sown. They're selling units to the public so we're out of alpha, they're trying to pawn off alpha units as a finished product, or they really don't know what they're doing. Either way signs aren't great.
I was once in a Walgreens in New Orleans, waiting on other members of the party to finish shopping, and someone walked in, filled a backpack from one shelf in under 30 seconds, and walked straight back out again. I looked to the registers, and saw that one of the cashiers had also seen the whole thing, apparently doing nothing.

It felt a little odd to realize that I didn't feel like I owed Walgreens anything in that moment, not even to report what I saw. At the time, I really identified with the scene in the 2002 Spider-Man movie when PP steps aside for the wrestling venue robber. Go on, li'l Robin Hood; stick it to The Man and be well. My relationship with Walgreens has always been purely transactional; they did once have an opportunity to upgrade it, back when I lived in Chicago, but chose not to.

The money that goes into their registers gets sent to Deerfield, and from there on to the shareholders. The merchandise that walks out the door presumably stays local. So why should the cashiers care? They're only hurt if the whole store shuts down.

An entity like that would not do well on the honor system, I think. Walgreens isn't even a person to me. If they won't support my community at even a minimal level, by hiring one local to mind the store, I don't feel particularly motivated to keep their operating costs low out of some sense of goodwill. And I don't have qualms against stealing from robots. If you want me to not steal, on the basis of my own honor, you need to show me the person that would be harmed if I did. If they are all anonymous, and far away, it just doesn't feel as much like stealing. But that real live employee, who may be getting only $10/hour, suffices entirely, even if they just sit there and watch as I check myself out at a kiosk. If I steal, and the store shuts down, that real person loses a part of their livelihood.

Like corporate loyalty, "honor" is a two-edged sword. To benefit from the honor of others, the business must cultivate honor of its own. Walgreens hasn't build up enough for me to care. And they did bribe government customers with kickbacks, and murder that homeless guy in Hollywood, and back Theranos.
Newly discovered Mac malware uses “fileless” technique to remain stealthy
i've heard of it before. i'll be honest: i don't much like haskell. for example, this makes me crazy (haha):

mmult mA mB = result
where
mBT = transpose mB
dot a b = sum $ zipWith (*) a b
result = map (\ar -> dot ar <$> mBT) mA

either way, this is along the right lines. however, what FPGAs can you target? any xilinx chips?

it's really gonna take xilinx or altera to innovate in this space, but that is unlikely any time soon.
I wouldn't try to teach it to elementary algebra students either; I was explaining for maths-weak HN readers. It would be worth trying with some of my first year university students (but definitely not all). What's shown in the article is also a derivation of the quadratic formula. I'm not convinced the less general solving method at the end of the article is any easier than completing the square, and it's certainly more mystifying, as completing the square can be checked by expanding, but this is a bit out of nowhere. I will try the article's method if I get an opportunity, but I think the introduction of an extra variable z is quite an obstacle, and that the fact that -b/2 is the average of the roots will be quite a leap for most students.
The last 6 years he's been campaigning for progressive ideas. M4A is talked about constantly, he pushed what healthcare should be in America beyond the ACA. He got younger more diverse people elected to congress and on a state level, and has helped unions, workers, and others receive the wages and benefits they deserve by using his current standing as a public figure.
I think this is generally a good thing about Silicon Valley culture.

It’s the reason you get successes like Tesla or SpaceX and it’s generally good to bias towards optimism over pessimism - you get more people able to try more things and successes that have exponential returns make up for the failures.

Otherwise you get stagnation which ends poorly for everyone.

That said, optimism still requires a plan that makes sense and shipping a real product.
This is one of the most simplististic, reductionary arguments against socialism I have read. Anyone who uses the 'human nature' argument shouldn't be taken seriously. Especially with this article's mischaraterization of socialism in the first place.

The idea that all of human nature can be boiled down to only the 'selfish' and 'greedy' traits is pretty insulting, and in this case, propagandistic.

We really shouldn't continue nurturing the selfishness and greed traits on a mass scale as we currently do.

Socialism is never about people working for free or forcing lazy people to work. Its about workers owning the means of production. Giving workers dignity and eliminating the oppresive employer - employee relationship. Slave owners also thought that they were unfairly being "forced" to give up their freedoms of owning people.
The GDPR law is complex, but I'm 99% sure that this guy is misinterpreting it here.

Sending data to Google, FaceBook and AppsFlyer (and other American companies) is generally legal under GDPR.

All three companies are covered under the US-EU Privacy Shield framework: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant_search

Furthermore, sending PII data to a non-EU country is also allowed under GDPR as long as the company in question obeys the GDPR rules. Like I said, those rules are complex, and there could very well be some technical violations by TikTok, but that's not demonstrated here.

Browser/device fingerprinting for anti-fraud is a well established industry practice. Browser makers don't like this practice and have taken steps to make it harder, but the truth is that it's used across the industry.

The open source license violations could be actual civil, but not criminal, violations. TikTok does maintain a list of open source licenses here: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/open-source?lang=en It looks like it's only for its app and not its website though. Violations of the MIT/BSD license by using a npm package and forgetting to include it in the documentation, unfortunately is pretty common across the industry. That doesn't make it right, and we should hold big companies to a higher standard of compliance, but if anybody wanted to make a complaint it would have to be the copyright holder.

TL/DR: I don't think the author demonstrated anything illegal here or out of line with normal industry practice. You can argue about the morality of certain industry practices (like fingerprinting) but TikTok is far from an outlier here.
From a correctness point of view you don’t program for FPGAs at all. You configure them.

So, other than a headline I’m not seeing any advantage over Verilog or VHDL to consider this at all. I think there is a much larger issue in people not understanding FPGAs than the code used to configure them.
> eliminate the need for glasses or goggles

What is the other option? Implanting projectors in our eyeballs? Having some drone flying in front of your face that projects stuff right onto your eyeballs?
further, most people who fare-evade (or shoplift) do so because they're desperate. jail time doesn't deter behavior for those cases nor does enforcement provide additional revenue (couldn't pay in the first place).

no need to punish such folks more with jail time because they're already being punished by circumstance. being detained and fined is more than enough additional punishment here.
Until there are criminal penalties for data leaks and badly architected or insecure devices, there will be no IoT devices in my home. When the incentives are purely to lower costs, of course security will be neglected. And using a separate network is a very poor stopgap that might help, but is not really a solution in any sense of the word.
This 2015 story did already sent the wrong message, blatantly ripping off other people in the industry.

Magic Leap Ripped Off Those Awesome UI Concepts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8974976
I'd say dozens of times in my adult life I've dealt with and recovered lead acid batteries that were completely discharged due to the headlights left on or similar.
Also, the Chrysler Pacifica hybrid. I'm not sure if those are the same cells used in the Bolt, but Pacifica battery packs are where a lot those LG chem batteries on the used market come from.
I'm torn on this, on one hand it's a bit shady, on the other I get why they're doing it. The only impressive bit about this piece of hardware is to actually experience virtual 3D objects projected onto the real world. If you capture a 2D video of this through the lens you're effectively left with very mediocre 3D models in a darkened environment. There's simply no way it can look good without cheating. It'll look like VR but worse.
Is it even possible to use TikTok with noscript?
Brave will be the next browser. No doubt about it. It is made by a genius.
Paul Graham's Essays Visualized
I love Firefox and moved back from Chrome in 2018. But, occasionally there are websites that just don't work in Firefox and work in Chrome/Safari. For example, go to https://my.t-mobile.com
And I will see:

502 Bad Gateway
The server returned an invalid or incomplete response.

Firefox Web Console reports an error: "The character encoding of the HTML document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the page must be declared in the document or in the transfer protocol."

I'm not sure at this point what the issue could be, and why it works for Chrome/Safari. I don't have any extensions that could alter the requests or responses (i.e https everywhere, CORS, etc...)
Neuron EV Introduces Pure Electric TORQ
I was very skeptical about this company, but I actually got to demo the technology a few nights ago, and I have to say my mind was blown. There are definitely a lot of kinks to work out, but I would say that the experience was not too far off from the whale video they used to have on their homepage, probably better. In the demo I saw, you are immersed in a sort of coral reef, but it's all within the confines of your living room. It basically looks like you're living room has turned into a fish tank. It feels real enough that I wanted to reach out and touch the fish swimming around in front of me. Yes, it wasn't perfect at mapping the room, but the technology was much more impressive than I imagined. And the fact that it is augmented reality rather than virtual reality made things much more interesting, because you're interacting with the real world and the virtual world at the same time.
Yes, they don't give the data they harvest to an authoritarian government that already has proven they will use said data to target and ID people for arrest/detention/torture.

Which is an important distinction.
One issue is that "a decent Google Maps alternative" would cost literally billions at this point.
This kind of infrastructure is really the government's job, but they have struggled to keep pace...
What’s your business model? Cliqz seems to employ more than 120 people and I can’t find any mention of how you’ll make money.
It only took Alexa five years to take over our lives
Yeah... BJJ is not a perfect solution, but it is a real community and we try to be very inclusive. So, if someone truly can't afford the fees, they can often teach classes or do a certain number of hours of work around the gym cleaning up after class, etc. Churches and large community gatherings foster a sense of "we are in this together". It is the oldest social safety net in the books probably, where you know when you are a part of this group, even if you fall on hard times, these people are here for you. BJJ is the same way. In a visceral way, like if shit is going down, I know these guys and gals have my back, but also in a community sense of if I am ever hungry, there are people who will help me out. It is definitely a challenge in modern society. I am not sure the mega-church style community needs "replacing" so much as people need to really buy into the concept of their place of residence as a genuine community and not just a bunch of silo'd off individuals. Of course politics and government policy does a lot to encourage/discourage this at a macro level (fostering segmentation in the population and outright disdain for our neighbors, who happen to be poor, etc... but that is a whole different discussion).
> Wouldn't it make sense that the further back you go, the more "compatible with human nature" the social structures are?

Well, if you go back to social structures that have really stood the test of time, it turns out that they didn't scale beyond 150 individuals. That's the limit that human nature places on naïve 'anarchy' working - in order to scale beyond that, you need some sort of structure for dispute resolution and decision-making, at the very least. Liberal democracy generally makes it a point of being as 'free' as possible - that is, as close as possible to that original, tribalistic model.
I've been using it for a bit and really enjoying it. Mobile version anyways. Only downside is it doesn't seem to be able to autofill all my information for forms, so I switch back to chrome when I'm making a purchase on my phone or something like that.
Well, I wasn't old enough to know what was going on, so essentially that.
At least with Proximityai, you don't show up if you leave your cell phone at home when you go to a protest.