skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Authoritarians emphasise the fact he broke laws, everyone else appreciates the moral act.

It was an immoral act done as far as I can tell, for immoral purposes, which were successfully attained. That it was also illegal is why it can be punished rather than merely pointed to as the kind of thing that must be tolerated despite its immorality.

The argument has, however, been made that the law as it is prohibits some other acts that are not so immoral and it could not effectively address what Assange did without so doing, and so it should be narrowed (or treated as more narrow by the executive) so as to let Assange go free in order to not chill more legitimate acts. This is, IMO, a not entirely unreasonable argument that I can respect, though I am unconvinced by it as yet.
Plenty of workplaces are paying good money to use Slack. If I were paying for it I wouldn't stand for this at all.
Is this the sections the OP is referring to with their link title?

> Your TV viewing history includes information about the networks, channels, websites visited and programs viewed on your Smart TV and the amount of time spent viewing them. We may use automatic content recognition (ACR) and other technologies to capture this information. Your Smart TV transfers video snippets or TV tuner information in order to determine the programs watched.
I suppose you're right. ECS explicitly calls out a system that separate from the components while most of the decorator examples run code in the components. I've written decorators that are closer to ECS but I guess its fair to say ECS implies a specific implementation.
This isn't Reddit but the troll who created a new article for spreading propoganda has to be called out and I ain't afraid to do it.
>but I probably trust those companies more than I do Samsung.

Care to explain why? It looks like both roku and firetv spies on what you watch.

https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...
I forgot that HN is a place of massive censorship, so unfortunate that people have gamed HN to censor views they don't like. I don't blame dang or anyone like that, it's just the way HN works and has been gamed, but it really shows the limits of reasonable discourse on this platform.
>> It just has to present the appearance of possibly working some of the time in order to...

I though that was going to say "... ensure continued funding."

Why would I think that?
> Alice, YOUR physical address and family names are available in public information aggregation site ABC. Did your bank ask you what your mother's maiden name is "for security"? Did your HR set your password to YourLastName+StreetNumber?
Everything you ever wanted to know about choosing a database
The sad thing is that if eg Twitter decides not to accept that VC money, the VCs will turn their back on Twitter and invest all of that into another Twitter clone, and that’s when competition may suddenly become an issue.
Not really anymore. It's now anonymized by default.
Ask HN: Are we getting closer to a Mr Robot future?
What is the future of privacy ? Do you think hacker groups will actually form ? Will there be sub communities of coders / networking enthusiats that will develop DIY solutions to evade privacy ?

Maybe I'm living in a fantasy but I look at China is doing and I can't help but think this will happen to us soon ?

Anyway what are your thoughts on this ?
Most of the "news" reported by mainstream newspapers and news stations is almost across the board anti-Trump and anti-conservative. It is extremely biased, but tries to keep up the appearance of being unbiased, which is part of why the unaware masses consider them mainstream and standard bearers of truth.

What WikiLeaks revealed was the extent of this bias. If what the mainstream news networks and their executives are doing is acceptable, then what's the problem with WikiLeaks revealing it? The problem is that opponents of the Right understand how damaging it is to the image of the mainstream news networks - which shape the opinion of tens of millions in America and across the world - for the people to understand just how biased they really are.
It's a shame that operating systems exist with no functioning system-wide API for authentication, let alone storing passwords.

That would change things.

Just look how Apple now inserts long random passwords in registration forms and immediately saved it. That's how users will use secure authentication. By helping them, not telling them to do better on their own.
... Aren't all the Teslas skateboard design? Isn't the skateboard design the basic EV design since the EV prototypes from the 90s?

This seems basically like a Rivian press release reprinted.
Actually the 635 had no virtual memory or I think even memory protection (no more than the IBM 7090 it was closely modeled after). The difference was that GE promised to add the all-singing, all-dancing MMU (paging, segmentation, rings) of MIT's dreams so they won the contract, resulting in the Multics 645.

The problem long term was that while every MMU option was available, the Multics base platform remained an extended, async 7090 (itself an extended (circa 1952) 704), rapidly falling behind in performance (and ability to be re-implemented quickly/well in rapidly advancing technology). Look at the trajectory from 645 to 6080 to DPS8 and shudder. Compare with the 360 as a modern ISA re/implemented at close to the state of the art.

Multics proper became excellent, highly capable software but to use the term the Germans used about Austria-Hungary in WW1, it was "shackled to a corpse".
I didn't get compensated as if I had 4 YoE when I had 0.
What do you mean not possible to reinstall the OS?

They don't make it easy, but you can download older OSX images from apple's servers (Sierra, Yosemite, etc..) and install them with some effort.

Not impossible.
What’s a real moderate? An on-purpose one or an accidental one?

My take on PG’s point is that the vast majority of moderates are on-purpose, and those people are not going to be curious.

An accidental one isn’t going to be a real moderate, except occasionally. Otherwise they’d be on-purpose.
> civil servants can't and should not be expected to stop enforcing the law

In general, criminal law permits but does not mandate prosecution and every prosecution is a judgement about not only the law but policy priorities. This argument is almost completely vacuous where it concerns offenses primarily against the state (it has some weight in equal protection terms when there are victims besides the state and the issue is whether the state is discriminating among victims on improper grounds in the manner in which it chooses to prosecute or not prosecute offenses against them.)
I'd like to joke that we could replace the link with [0] and it would be a massive improvement. Seriously, though, these descriptions of type-theoretic programming as a solution to a problem, rather than a tower to be climbed, are increasingly obscurantist, hiding the meat of the correspondence behind analogies and narratives.

[0] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/computational+trinitarianism
“You and Your Research” by Richard Hamming
Wait who would recommend making that journey unarmed today?
> If you want to shock your colleagues into action

Another way to shock your colleagues is making them point their browsers at https://myactivity.google.com

(and let them scroll down)

Part of the information shown there is likely to be part of what's in their phones.
The problem I have with this is that love is a complicated thing. I love playing soccer, but without the social validation of my friends who also play it I would absolutely never practice. Similarly for most careers, even highly lovable ones.
AI System Warns Pedestrians Wearing Headphones About Passing Cars
When my friend worked briefly @ Morgan Stanley he was shocked by the copious amounts of perl they were still using. This was ~7 years ago I believe.
Twitter Made Us Better
You do know that Wikileaks was on the verge of releasing damaging info on Putin. Then magically it never happened after Assange was visited by Russian agents.

Sorry they are nothing more than a propaganda machine of Russia at this point.

They went political in the last election choosing to keep GOP documents silenced and release the DNC data.

I have no issue if Wikileaks wasn’t playing political games. But they are.....
I remember reading in popular Mechanics about a skateboard design from GM back when the EV1 was new.
Completely agree with this. It's one reason why I like being a teacher (and one reason why it'd be hard to leave, even if it's for a job that has a much higher chance of allowing me to make FU money). I have several months off (well, not off as I do have to do stuff, but I can work from home mostly), of the course of the year, to pursue hobbies and basically anything I want to, even if it's just being super lazy. I really enjoy that, and it makes for a much better work-life balance.
Both my parents were math teachers. I qualified for SMPY/SET (and came from a rural high school where only ~10% went on to four-year colleges).

I am fairly convinced that outcome was likely from years of math education in daily life, on car trips, doing math puzzles with my parents, etc. We’re doing the same with our kids now. My daughter just scored perfect on the SSAT practice math test and finished in half the allotted time. My total extent of “dedicated” prep was under an hour. Our total extent of informal prep was thousands of hours over nearly a decade. (That test isn’t nearly as difficult as the SAT, of course.)

I suspect your mom had more to do with your outcome based on years than the expensive tutor did in a few dozen hours. (I’ll also not hesitate to do that if I think it’s needed.)
I went to replace the memory in a 2018 Mac Mini yesterday. I have small Torx screwdrivers from doing this older Mac Minis and MacBooks. I have bigger security Torx bits (they have a pin in the center so ordinary Torx bits won't work) that I bought when replacing the fuse in a microwave.

What I don't have are small security Torx bits or screwdrivers. Which is what you need for the 2018 Mac Mini.

I had bought the small Torx screwdrivers as part of a kit with small Phillips, pentalobe, etc. Major use case was replacing broken screens on Chromebooks when the kids were littler. Secondary use was replacing hard drives in Mac Minis (2011, 2012) with small SSD/1 TB combos.
If the court isn't submerged by then...
I don't understand what you mean by tit for tat.

If BBC spreads something racist about Indians using their channels and Indian media does the same then it doesn't really matter does it?

Propaganda works when it's dumped upon their audience it isn't like Indian Media who sold themselves to BJP government are influential out of India.

But yes, Propaganda is bad.
Then they add some kind of display connectivity DRM like HDCP and suddenly all older dumb monitors are unable to connect to a newer device until someone figure out a way to break it.

DRM were never about protecting the content, it's all about control.
"I am and, for as long as I can remember, I have always been a poor visualizer. Words, even the
pregnant words of poets, do not evoke pictures in my mind. No hypnagogic visions greet me on the
verge of sleep. When I recall something, the memory does not present itself to me as a vividly seen
event or object. By an effort of the will, I can evoke a not very vivid image of what happened yesterday
afternoon, of how the Lungarno used to look before the bridges were destroyed, of the Bayswater
Road when the only buses were green and tiny and drawn by aged horses at three and a half miles an
hour. But such images have little substance and absolutely no autonomous life of their own. They stand
to real, perceived objects in the same relation as Homer's ghosts stood to the men of flesh and blood,
who came to visit them in the shades. Only when I have a high temperature do my mental images come
to independent life. To those in whom the faculty of visualization is strong my inner world must seem
curiously drab, limited and uninteresting. This was the world - a poor thing but my own - which I
expected to see transformed into something completely unlike itself"
I really don't know what to make of the filter bubble discussion. I get the feeling that the problem began well before social media. The political divide in the USA is what fuels those bubbles, and that started well before Facebook and Twitter.

Social media almost certainly accelerates the divide, but I'm not sure we can entirely ignore the fact that there are billion dollar corporations that feed off of it.

In the best case, we can say we just want to point out blatant lies. But those lies are often reinforced by traditional media, politicians, etc. Facebook has repeatedly said they will not come out on the side of truth. They'll let any politician lie as much as they want, even if it would otherwise break their ToS. How can we break filter bubbles if the powerful are allowed free reign to execute disinformation campaigns?
While we are both here, if you are not aware of this paper it might give you a giggle (3500th order simulations on a supercomputer): https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4222

They simulated Lorenz reliably up to 10000 time units; I managed 1400 units using MPFR on my NUC using my own code (500th order, took about 13 hours!).
That implies they are not really content so much as ignorant about the realities of their mortality.
intermittent fasting is an eating disorder
Declaring who is and is not a valid journalist is essential to democracy. The failure to distinguish journalism from propaganda is in no small measure responsible for the mess we're currently in.
Some of the newer TVs need to be configured with internet access to even work.
I stand corrected thank you! (Perhaps I was confused as they were both rejected nominees around the same time?)
Shadowsocks can get past most. Many have yet to update to catch wireguard, too.
Lucy Kellaway – don’t worry less, worry smarter
Thankfully it isn't quite that simple for electronics in the US. If it is sold commericially, it has to be registered with the FCC.

In this way, you at least know if it has WiFi, LTE, etc, and can see the module that is installed on it. This makes it much easier to go into the device and physically disable the radios on it.

Heck, maybe that is something like iFixit could do, have a how to to completely remove radio capabilities.
I almost missed that this project is supported by Andrew "Bunnie" Huang.

That alone has me very interested.

As most ycnews readers already know Andrew has made it his mission to direct his considerable talents on projects that push up against oppression - instead of focusing his energy on helping unicorns. I'm a huge fan/supporter of his work (e.g. Novena, NeTV, Safecast) and will likely pick one of these up when it goes GA.
I feel like you're talking past a lot of the other commenters in this thread. I'll try to frame it another way:

Generating value is synonymous with growing the economy and being more productive. You can't inflate incomes without either increasing productivity or printing money. If degree holders command higher incomes without offering higher productivity, it comes at the expense of non-degree holders earning lower wages than they would have without the degree holders around.

In my opinion, much of the income premium comes from employers using degrees as a filter (similar to a standardized test). Doing well on the SAT doesn't make you more productive, but does give you a leg up over your peers.
> If your package relies on other systemd capabilities

Such as? Which other "systemd capability" besides the init system part exposes an API to general user-space applications? The only one I can think of is logind, for which an alternative implementation (elogind) exists.
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I submitted this as a link a few weeks back, and since then ironcast have basically added/updated every point of concern fellow HN posters had:

- HDR

- analog volume “puck”

- more hdmi connections

Also - source code is at least claimed to be open.

Nothing really like this on the European market to be found.
"Which dumb 4K TV(s) should I buy?"

That's a really good question, as it is qualified by the '4k' requirement ...

It's very easy and relatively inexpensive to buy a 1920x10280 commercial display unit, such as the NEC p461, which you have probably seen 10k times in airports.

However, there is not much demand for 4k panels for videowalls since ... the videowall grows to larger than 4k resolution anyway just by virtue of being a wall of panels.

So, at this time, in 2019, it is difficult and very expensive to buy a commercial display panel (that is what you would search for) that is 4k.

If I had to find one I think I would probably get that Dell 43 Ultra HD 4K Multi Client Monitor (P4317Q) with the caveat that it is "only" 43 inches in size.
I agree it's a terrible waste, my suspicion is just that if they want to keep unauthorized devices off their network, it wouldn't be hard to implement.
"Russian asset"

That's your definition. He would probably argue "enemy of my enemy is my friend".

But by using the language of the military industrial powers that be, you are engaging in doublespeak.
Damn, are caffeine and coffee associated with bad gut health? Is that anecdotal, or do you know of any research?
Features:
Import / Drop and drop images
No Programming needed.
Animation scripting using everyday sentences such as:
Cowboy say "Hi"
Cowboy run to Point P1 in 4 seconds.

Ability to fork others creations and create your own.
It is possible to post to a Samsung endpoint so we can help them gather data?

This is why I never connect my TV to the internet and made it 'smart' via the HDMI input.

Next step is to rebuild my house as Faraday cage.
Coincidentally (or not?), Power Mac G5's later used the PowerPC 970MP (a dual-core part) which also carried the code name 'Antares'.
I definitely think it shouldn’t be your source of truth.

However, I think as a public facing content engine it’s fine. I know of one major e-commerce brand that does this for products. This works great for their use case, given how easily Elasticsearch lets you filter, sort, search pretty seemlessly. But they can always rebuild Elasticsearch from another system.
In that case, the only hope you have is play the cat and mouse game and hope they give up before you do. Realistically though, they probably won't bother escalate past this point because the people who would go to such lengths are a tiny minority, and going after them don't make business sense.

>If you've got logic to connect to nearby open Wi-Fi, why wouldn't you also use it as a fallback if the primary Wi-Fi is down?

One idea to counter this would be to use something like this[1] to deauth the TV instantly, or spam a bunch of open networks so it gets stuck trying to connect to those rather than actually working ones.

[1] https://github.com/spacehuhn/esp8266_deauther
I really hope they deliver. I'm definitely getting one when I'm in the market for a TV.
Another way would be to get that 50B location point data that some analysis was done on recently, and send them a list of all of the people that visited their home and all the homes the people in their home visited. Do that enough and you'll likely discover some clandestine activities.
Last I checked, on the mobile web interface there is an option to always give you the desktop site, and it remembers your preference. I never see the Reddit mobile site and never need to tell the browser to request the desktop mode. It's completely usable if you don't mind zooming and panning, which I'm fine with.
This has been a reality for years.

I can't tell you how I know this - but I can tell you it has been a fact for more than five years.
People born with talent have an opportunity to both themselves and the world to make use of this talent to do great things. When you replace a drive for greatness with contentment with mediocrity, you make us all worse off.
No one complains about the Turkish information dumps. What "asset" portfolio did he belong to there?
> I'm not sure you can rely on popcon to make decisions like that

I'd go further and say you definitely can't rely on popcon, for two main reasons:

1 - Not many sysadmins are happy to install a program that "phones home" at regular intervals about system usage.

2 - Popcon records file access times, so a server that runs for long periods between restarts or reboots shows init files are accessed infrequently. This skews the result towards desktop and laptop installations (which are most likely to use the default init).
Are there?

I couldn't point to one IoT / internet-enabled appliance that I would say is transparent about its adtech to non-technical users.
I'm sorry, but that's only a good way to approach Lisp programming when you know everything that your language comes with, and are sure that none of it provides a good representation for the problem.

Otherwise, the way to approach Lisp programming is the same as with any other language: how can the existing syntax and library features (such as macros!) be orchestrated to solve this problem?

Which kinds of macros would be useful will become apparent during development. You often don't know what language features may be nice to have until you have worked in that problem domain.

Lisp programming sometimes happens without knowing what the ideal language of the problem domain would look like; you don't know that upfront to just it down and make macros for it.

Secondly, there may be third-party libraries for the problem domain. For instance, if you're sure that the problem domain requires solving goals stated as queries over logical predicates, that doesn't mean you have to implement your own Prolog in macros.

So the priority is roughly: built-in macros > stable third-party macros > experimental/own macros.
> IoThieves

Hah, love it! I’m buying a TV today actually, I’ll use this when I have to convince the Micro Center guys that a dumb TV is really what i want
Each shortcode is 6 characters and is case insensitive. That gives us roughly 1.8 billion (1838265625) combinations.

That's only 1.8 billion combinations if you only have computers talking privately to other computers. But in the scenario outlined in the article, people will see the URL, so you must filter millions of those combinations.

For example, if I come across a recipe for shoo-fly pie, I don't want to forward my grandmother a shortened url like example.com/FuckUG. More importantly, you don't want someone posting a screenshot of your expletive shortcode on social media, or worse.

When wetware is involved, even in just one step, things get messy.
Doesn’t that kind of make my point? That kids who either grow up in an environment where they have affluent parents with access to resources or in my case, highly educated parents teaching me what ended up being 11th grade math in 8th grade is advantageous? That still doesn’t make the SAT unbiased.
Due process will strangely, coincidentally, be EXTREMELY SLOW.

... kind of like Guantanamo.
The problem isn't the common name, it's the tight coupling between components. This is antithetical to the Linux philosophy, which emphasizes modularity, interchangeability, and configurability.
Yeah, that's why I presume GGP preferred GiveWell.

I also think it might be good not to be too critical in general. As in, I don't care too much about overhead for most of my purchases, so if an organisation delivers a good amount of Good, then I'm not going to worry too much about whether it's the absolute most they can do. It's not like I donate that significant a part of my income anyway.
The problem is that putting up with this doesn't actually send a message to the manufacturer that this is not OK, so they'll just keep doing this and perfecting their malware-like techniques until it's completely unblockable without some military-grade signal jamming equipment.

Even if it can be blocked, I don't recommend anyone buy these and look for alternatives (commercial displays, old second-hand ones, https://ironcast.tv, etc)