skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly what we need is an equifax-style hack at the NSA/Facebook/Google to absolutely shock people into reality about privacy.

Imagine being able to type in anyone's name and see their entire search history for the last 10 years. It would be total chaos. We'd have a constitutional amendment enforcing digital privacy within a few months.
> pursue ideas that were previously not possible

That's uncomfortably vague.
Best I can find is a photo on the wiki... https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/PluginQuake

https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/pub/Main/PluginQuake/out.jpg
I think if you look at most application owners (not the top 1%/10%), they don't care that much about selling the data to someone. Better to use it themselves to gain better understanding. And as long as you can reach the user, it's good enough.

But maybe I'm naive, or biased because of my location and personal wants.
> justifies the use of "defensive"

Where I grew up this was the norm. There were things that could only be said with full understanding that physical violence is the only possible response. And while I do not condone violence and would not want children to grow up in the same environment, I have to admit that the possibility of things escalating from words to punches did act as a deterrent. I also wonder if the modern zero tolerance attitude to violence is the reason for such wider spread bullying problem.
A systemic answer is required to improve this case. I very much doubt there is any single magic bullet thing that will make the problem better.
The comments are very often not true, that's why there's so much push back
> We are constantly impressed by others more accomplished and drive ourselves to try to attempt to reach their success.

Not sure if this can be applied to your specific life situation but in my case after I had reached 30 years of age I realized that "chasing everyone else" is simply not worth the hassle, and, worst off, that it changed me into a person I didn't like, a "fake" me, so to speak. Mind you, I'm still stressed about money and bills and paying rent/mortgage like almost everyone else, not sure if there's a way of eliminating that, but for me at least it came as a huge stress reliever the fact that I didn't have to "chase" everybody else anymore.

If it matters I came to that "realization" that chasing others is futile after I had read a compendium of Stoic writers (there is another HN-er mentioning Marcus Aurelius, and for good reasons), but I'm sure there are also other writers/thinkers that have written about this.
One of the best features of macOS is its tight integration with the hardware. If they officially supported custom hardware, not only would they create tons more work for themselves and likely slow down the progress of the OS overall, they would also dilute their brand.
Bats naturally have high body temperature from flying. This likely make them more resistant to viral infection, which turns them into carriers. https://www.livescience.com/44870-bats-viruses-flight.html
No - I don't need to provide citations for widely publicized, factual information.

But why don't you take Khamenei's own words, literally from his Twitter account: "Our stance against Israel is the same stance we have always taken. #Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen." [1]

Or a random sampling of the same stated objective through the times:

"Israel should be wiped off map, says Iran's president" - The Guardian [2]

"Referring to comments by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic revolution, Admadinejad said, "As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map."" - NY Times [3]

"Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, who leads the Basij volunteer force, made the declaration to mark Islamic Republic Day in Tehran on Tuesday. “Wiping Israel off the map is not up for negotiation,”" The Independent [4]

This is not a single statement or an off-hand remark - it's made consistently, publicly and empathetically by many representatives of the Iranian regime, without retraction or contextualisation afterwards, throughout the entire history of the regime.

These statements must be taken as a credible articulation of the objectives of Iran - and considered in the context of their goals of obtaining nuclear weapons.

As for the article, I would love to visit Iran, but they are grabbing Western tourists willy nilly, accusing them of being spies etc., so that won't be happening.

[1] https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1003332853525110784

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/27/israel.iran

[3] https://www.nytimes.com./2005/10/27/world/africa/wipe-israel...

[4] https://www.jpost.com/International/Merkels-govt-says-Irans-...
I took an old tablet, stuck it to the wall above my desk with 3M's Command picture hanging doodads, and now have an always-on display of my kanban board: https://kanbanflow.com/

It's great to have a permanent visible reminder of what I intended to be doing. I used to do that with sticky notes, but that had the big disadvantage of not being visible except right at my desk.
Waterproof and soapy-waterproof aren't necessarily the same thing.
None of the lawyers I know use Chrome and use whatever their corporate IT provides for them (IE/Edge/FF/Safari). Most also don't use Macs.

You're also going to need to provide some "proof" that you don't leak privileged information, not sure exactly how you do that.
So you’re saying people can tell fiction from reality in film (even if film re-enacts actual events), but can’t use that same construct to evaluate a “bot”?

Maybe... but it seems like a bit of a stretch.
Thank you so much for the "bringing a sword to a pen fight" phrase. Now I need to find a good place to use it.
This seems that a more complex approach, not simpler. To try to emulate a form of intelligence we don't understand and even worse, monitor its progress through some proxy interactions that don't tell us much.

Like if you're going to create a creature from scratch why create something that can't communicate with you?

Unless you mean we should just tackle simpler forms of intelligence in general, which is what the rest of the AI field outside of conversational AI are doing.
This industry is poised to be regulated. Reap rewards while you can.
The coup of 1953 consisted of the Prime Minister of Iran ignoring the shah's legal order dismissing him from office and attempting to seize pre-eminent power for himself. To the extent that the U.S. and the U.K. were engaged in Persian politics in 1953, they were supporting the legitimate government against a usurper.
Yeah, I wish they did, but nobody gives a shit in any way that actually matters (i.e. one that might change their purchasing decisions).
In theory. In practice, they often negotiate it with their board.
> The issue is making someone suffer more than is necessary or making them suffer for the wrong reasons

Agreed. I just think that most people would call causing suffering more than is necessary and for the wrong reasons "violent".

If not "violent", what would you call a shame based intervention that causes unnecessary suffering or is done for the wrong reasons?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4P0c9xBu1A
wow posts like this are what make HN still valuable. This was a really interesting look into this situation.
Decent article, though a little thin on details. For example, alludes to but doesn't mention Polynesian wayfinding techniques, which are quite fascinating. The Polynesians developed some really clever nautical wayfinding techniques without instruments, or with rudimentary, imprecise, non-machined ones, that enabled them to reliably traverse the islands of the South Pacific, even to remote ones like Tahiti. Lots of articles on "Polynesian wayfinding" across the web, and a great exhibition on it at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu in case you happen to be in the vicinity.

https://www.bishopmuseum.org/?s=wayfind

Probably the best observation in the article, is the way theories can potentially become distorted the further away in time they are from their subject of study:

>GAZETTE: The book deals also with the flip side of that wondrousness, the Western skepticism that an “unsophisticated,” “primitive” people could manage this feat. What underlies Western skepticism? Was it also wonder at the distances involved? Or was it rooted in racism, in ignorance? Why not just take folks at their word when they say they did it?

THOMPSON: There was a lot of skepticism, and I think that was basically rooted in a sense of Western superiority and classic colonialism and that set of attitudes. But one of the things that I think is misunderstood is that this was not a uniform view. There are periods, at the end of the 18th century and in the 19th century, when Europeans who were interested in this subject were actually not that skeptical at all of Polynesian voyaging capacity.

Some of the 19th-century figures I write about took for granted — completely — that Polynesians had been the greatest navigators ever. They were convinced that they had sailed these distances and they had gone back and forth repeatedly.

What I saw that sort of surprised me, because it ran contrary to the conventional wisdom, was a rise in skepticism in the 20th century. My interpretation is that this is because we’re actually moving away from understanding the people. We’re moving away in time from real contact with the islanders and a real understanding of what they were doing.

The earlier theorists of the 19th century had many bad ideas, but they did believe in Polynesian voyaging. And they were quite close to the people. They spoke the languages. They often married into these cultures. They were intimate with them. And they lived in a period before there was so much lost knowledge. So that was an interesting aspect of the story that I didn’t foresee.
That's possible, but it seems unlikely, as it was a conscious decision made in one day when I moved/necessitated by heating. If it was aging, I would expect it to at least be gradual, or unconscious, or something.
That's my assumption too. I was just pointing out all the reasons that it seemed strange.
As an addition to the above - New Zealand was the last major place in the world to be settled by humans, in around 900AD, by Polynesians who had left Taiwan (according to recent DNA evidence), traveled across the Northern Pacific, likely reached the Americas (there's some archaeological evidence though controversial) and back across the Southern Pacific to NZ - they had maps and could repeat their journeys
Obviously it's not the same, but here's Doom on an iPod classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgpMhJijlmM

Hope we can see a vid of Quake on iPod soon!
I would really like a bot that could summarize topics for me then drill down into specifics based on questions I had. Even if it was all just from the Wikipedia page. This would be so nice to triage information while driving.
> Societies are ultimately shaped by what people believe is possible.

This is exactly my point. If 100% of the people calling for climate change "rules/laws" have no ability to follow their own ideas now, what hope is there?

(I removed one sentence that I felt was a little inflammatory, it was extraneous)
> In discussions about low income families I often see somebody comment along the lines of blaming the parents for making bad choices and choosing to have children they couldn't afford/care for/want.

So just to be clear on some points before I get accused of holding positions I do not hold. I am all for helping children who were let down by their parents. I don't think they should be condemned. I also grew up very poor, my parents had to go into debt to buy basic necessities and I still have to support my parents financially and will likely always have to do this.

When it comes to this issue, you need to pick a lane and stay in it. Either people have agency and are responsible for their actions and ultimate responsibility lays with the parents - or people do not have agency and nobody is responsible for anything and concepts like democracy makes no sense.

I personally pick the lane that people do have agency and do bear ultimate responsibility for their actions. I do make exception for those who are severely mentally ill but this is not the root of poverty.

Consequently, while social support for those who were let down by their parents is good - this alone cannot fix all problems. Maybe in a place like Norway with very low unemployment it is enough, but it will never be able solve the problems in places like South Africa where the unemployment is ~30% (calculated in the same way as unemployment reported for US and EU economies is calculated).

So sure, lets help the children - but lets stop making excuses for those who put the children in that position to begin with. I don't think it is okay to run cover for absolutely horrible human beings who bring children into this world that they cannot adequately provide for.
Something which comes handy for me in everyday life is

sudo -s

which gives you a root (login) shell, so you don't have to type "sudo" in front of every single command.
Absolutely. I use an old phone specifically for all social media apps. It doesn't have my contacts or other data on it, so they can't steal that. When I want to be distracted by Twitter, I have to find it and turn it on explicitly. Which is enough of a barrier that I do it a lot less.
This is false...

The store chooses which credit cards to accept (at the birds-eye level, i.e., Amex, Discover, Mastercard, Visa), and the POS sends the transaction to the appropriate card processor based on the identifying digits in the card number (the first 4).

Apple Pay transactions are identified as Visa transactions, so Visa would handle the transaction...if the POS terminal is configured to accept NFC cards. Most older ones don't even have NFC functionality, and until 2 years ago even terminals with NFC functionality didn't have it enabled because they were shipped before NFC payments was a thing. Today, almost all POS terminals come with NFC payment built-in and enabled.
Tethers Unlimited says early results of deorbit hardware test promising
If it plays out as fullblown skynet then I can see it receiving a lick of religious antichrist treatment.

I find it more interesting that this is a discussion in Islamic circles specifically. Can't really picture a "let's discuss AI at a bible group". Perhaps that difference is just imagined / me being narrow minded though
Introduction to Genetic Algorithms in Python
For all 'basic needs' there should guaranteed competition in the market. Either the government directly (or more likely) low / not profit companies that get created by prospective business leaders with government backed loans for plans believed to benefit the public good.

This would be much less crazy than it sounds if we also required open financial records and publicly registered contracts for all businesses.
Mozilla ignores the people at their peril. Many, if not most, small business type customers have already moved to Microsoft Office365 or Google Suite or have a plan to do so. By default, they use the web interface provided by the giants, but both providers also provide excellent APIs along with IMAP support. Mozilla can help the internet stay open by providing an excellent free and open source email client that can run alongside the proprietary ones that are constantly being developed and re-developed. I think an open platform for email client innovation is badly needed.
I've wondered if the geography of Polynesia didn't help in this regard. The area is a series of small islands out in a big ocean. People who wanted to move between the islands would gain a lot of experience in sea navigation in whatever their ships of the day were. Enough experience plus the human desire to explore means longer trips could mostly be a factor in how much food and fresh water you can pack with you.

By comparison their contemporaries had the luxury of being on the same landmass so they could stick to coastal waters and inland seas for the entire journey. They were not forced to learn the harsh lessens of the open oceans until much later so they have this mindset that open ocean sailing is a monumental feat that requires advanced technology.

As for why it was lost. The article speculates that it was climate change, but I think the lack of a system of writing is probably even more to blame. Some disaster kills off the school of deep ocean navigation and the skills are lost as the old sailors die off.
That other mechanism is comments.
On this topic I suggest "We,the navigators" by David Lewis.
“Fighting” can cover a large range of actions, from arguing to violence.

If it’s the former, I can understand — e.g. frustration from a personality difference where one of them wanted to spend money on something nice so that life wasn’t just an endless pointless slog of dull grey, while the other wanted to save the money for an emergency.
Strikes me as a good decision.

The deal is that core networks are supplied by European NEP's mostly Nokia and Ericsson and radio elements are supplied by Huawei. There is very little information can be gleamed from from RAN, its all encrypted between the end point and the core network. Anyone wanting to harvest data will want to backdoor core network elements.

Another factor is that Huawei code has been provided and audited for a number of years now. Sure that is not full proof, but its way more than we have had available from any US vendors. I will be honest, as it stands I would trust a huawei box, way more than a cisco box.

On another note I expect this is a political play. The UK gets to not piss off the Americans too much (well putting aside Trump and his crazies) and the Chinese see us as favorable still. It's also quite interesting how this is coming off the back of Trump stating his displeasure at the UK governments plans to tax the tech giants more, with most of them being companies who are spying on global citizens at a volume never seen before.
I can recommend to listen to a few talk by Robert Sapolsky who dedicated the majority of his life researching that kind of questions.

To summarize a bit (and likely leaving out a lot of important details), do stress reducing activity if you can find one that you genuinely enjoy. Meditation is great if you enjoy it, but if you hate it every minute it going to just increase your stress. Same with finding a physical activity. Studies on stress show great results if and only if the subject enjoy and do it volunteerly because they want to do it.

The second way to reduce stress is to have control over things in life, but with a major caveat. A bit cliche, but have a feeling of control for things you can control, do not try control that which you can't, and have the wisdom to know the difference. Its a complicated balance.

The third way is to be respected. Studies show that judges, conductors and similar professions have significant lower stress and live longer. Being part of a community and receiving genuine respect is great in order to reduce stress. Don't need to be ones professional life, as family or hobby can achieve similar results.
John Bolton’s impeachment bombshell, explained
There's always this range of books. Not sure you can get more simple than this
Beginning Programming All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0470108541/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_...
Working Copy and CodeHub handle git repos. I code from an iPad Pro sometimes with Blink (mosh/ssh client) and Working Copy with Textastic.

I sympathize about not running local dev environments, but for the actual work I do the apps won't run on a laptop or local PC anyway without a lot of trouble, so I'm used to working over ssh to a dev server. That works very well on an iPad, even better with a decent keyboard with an escape key.

As someone else mentioned Pythonista gives you local Python.

I work on multiple large web applications for a few clients and I've tried using my iPad Pro exclusively. I've only run into two issues that make it less than ideal: No web inspector/JS debugged in Safari (though workarounds exist they're clunky), and difficult text selection (not an issue in a terminal window with vim but imprecise and fussy in iOS apps). Otherwise it's great and I do use my iPad a lot. My main work setup is a Chromebook (Pixel Slate), which I only prefer over the iPad Pro because of the trackpad/mouse text selection and Chrome web developer tools.
I think you missed the point. I don’t want to read on the web. I want to replace books.

I want books published in a better format. Too many books are pdf only:

https://www.freetechbooks.com/

ePub is an HTML format. It’s just not sufficient
See, this is the problem with communism; without incentives, people just do whatever they feel like. And what they feel like might not be valuable.

If Wikipedia had revenue-generating potential for companies, it might be a better resource. As it is, it's turned into a money-generating resource for people who freeload off the goodwill.

(I donated to Wikipedia once; never again.)
Having used all three, I was rather impressed by Octopus Deploy’s ease of use and deployment. You can set up Jenkins to do whatever you want but it’s a pain. You can also set up TeamCity to deploy, but again it’s a pain. Octopus Deploy is not a CI server, it’s a CD product. That’s Important. It specializes in deployment/delivery, and because of that it does better than Jenkins and TeamCity out of the box for deployments.
Is it like back then where significantly advanced science was treated as witch craft?
Goroutines are definitely an improvement, no argument from me.

It's just that there exist ways to shoot yourself in the foot quite easily.

Example: I'd find it much more intuitive if writing to a closed channel returned an error value and didn't issue a panic.

But I'm guessing that the Go programmers get used to the assumptions that must be made when working with the language so such things are likely quite fine with them and cause them no grief.
Companies like this are Evil. Plain and simple. If your business model involves distributing/processing personal information you had no consent to take and sharing it with 3rd parties, then that's evil.
> Second to this, they should probably work on their own first class mail and calendar server as at least open core, and probably as SaaS as well.

I quite disagree here. Servers and clients are very different in their architecture and implementation, and you are going to have very little opportunity for code reuse or even knowledge sharing between the people implementing the client and those implementing the server [1]. I don't think you can turn email servers into a profitable revenue stream unless you do full SaaS, and I don't think Mozilla is really capable of putting in the resources to make a Mozilla Email SaaS feasible.

A better bet would be to try to put together something to more effectively cobble together the existing open-source email server components and do the installation and support as a service, but I again don't think that Mozilla is the organization best-placed to provide that service.

[1] The big exception here is LDAP. But Thunderbird doesn't even really maintain its own LDAP library--it should move to WinLdap/OpenLDAP depending on OS.
> Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that claims to have amassed a database of more than 3 billion photos scraped from Facebook, YouTube, and millions of other websites [...]

Let me guess - neither FB nor YouTube will go after them legally, because its probably waste of money anyways, since their clients did not experience immediate/direct harm?