skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debate shows Bernie Sanders could win most votes but be denied nomination
Since Facebook and Google shape the information that is seen using a proprietary algorithm, they have become publishers. Perhaps if their algorithm's were open and available, they may have an argument in their defense.

Until then, it is entirely possible they are shaping a narrative based on whatever model they want.

I don't buy the argument made by Barr that the scale of the platform reaches a point that it therefore requires regulation. This seems to be a simple money grab where large tech companies need to tithe to lawmakers.
You laugh but... https://twitter.com/RenditionSec/status/1093998957464817664
Pro-Brexiteers have often cited stronger bilateral ties, such as those with the US, as an advantage of Brexit. And of course, post-Brexit, Britain will be ever more reliant on the willingness of countries such as the US to cut deals with them. As an independent negotiator in these new deals, Britain will have less power to push back over silly things like data privacy; and as a member of Five Eyes anyway, they're all too happy to have the US do their spying on their behalf, just like the US likes Britain spying on US citizens to the US Government's benefit.
"I think software developers don't quite understand how big a deal it is to a 70 year old when the button to do something moves."

My 84 yo mother was technically competent. Currently has mid-stage dementia. Long term recall still remains impressive. Apparently unable to learn new skills, habits.

Every software update is cleaving a few more things from her life.

My siblings and I thought upgrading her to an iPhone was a good idea, some years ago. Initially, sure. But now I wish we had a snapshot of her tech stack from her early 70s, and found a way to keep that working.
Helium author here. Thank you for mentioning us as an inspiration!
There's this addon as well that Firefox marks as "recommended", for whatever reassurance that may give you:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clearurls/?sr...

"Recommended extensions are curated extensions that meet the highest standards of security, functionality, and user experience. Firefox staff thoroughly evaluate each extension before it receives Recommended status."

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...

(presumably any extension like this has access to every URL you visit, which is enough to give me pause)
I made a video explaining this research if you are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmnJfLjDVrI&t=4s
Git is somewhat like a blockchain though
Incidentally, I think Blackrock is worth about 85B, which means Apple could buy the largest asset manager in the world by writing a check.
Yes, this was inspired by that, and the fact that our database engineer went "I'm not putting that much garbage in my database"!

And I figured, yeah, that's still a lot of data, and it's massively misusing several different tools. Why not create something that is actually designed for the task?
There's a pretty big difference between the qualifiers used in the 1st and 4th Amendments.

The 1st begins with "Congress shall make no law.."

The 4th states "..shall not be violated"

This is important because the 1st restricts what the government can do, while the 4th restricts what anyone can do. In other words, Congress need not pass a law restricting the collecting and sale of private information because that activity is already banned by the 4th. This is a job for the courts.
Taiko was initially based on puppeteer, but it was hard to keep up with puppeteer's api changes.

Plus, the abstraction leaked. Taiko is now built on the excellent https://github.com/cyrus-and/chrome-remote-interface
The Play button is internationally standardized in ISO/IEC 18035, as well. Using your own icons confuses users.
I adore Gaiman's writing.

On the other hand I like Pratchett even more, but did not like Good Omens.

I've heard that a lot of people found "American Gods" tedious, but I've always been into Norse mythology, so it hit a sweet spot for me.
Using Ansible is what made me lose faith in DSL's in all the ways mentioned (eventually wanted loops, conditions, variables and namespaces...). Ansible is an API over a domain and if it were originally just represented through a Python language library I don't see why it would be less accessible or productive. Even something as simple as YAML can be screwed up and turned complicated.
When I was 17-18, I read 'Dealers of Lightning' it clued me into the foundations laid for modern computing in the 60-70's in the Bay Area (between SRI, CSAIL and PARC), and markedly changed my own approach to information and computing.

I've always wondered how those who were featured in the book felt about it?
That’s not how it works. Synthetic data is entirely artificial rather than transformed, so you’re not worried about “missing some PII”.

See for example the videos on https://hazy.com/product

Disclosure: Hazy cofounder.
Turns out "designers" are not very creative or thoughtful, and mostly copy "trends"
I don't think the big tech companies should get blanket common carrier protections because they aren't common carriers. They have knowledge and control over content, and therefore should be responsible for it to some degree.

But that doesn't mean they should have no protections or that thry should be treated like a book publisher. There can be some reasonable processes amd limits of liability in place.
This is a function of how schools are funded in the US. This is the system you asked for through voting and tax policy (maybe not you, but you being the broad citizen).

Living inside the beast for my entire career - We have just enough funding to keep the doors open, and remain staffed at a minimal level. Additional funding, above what we can raise through local taxes, ALWAYS comes with an asterisk.

So we can get access to $50,000 supplemental funding this year, awesome. But we have to buy I-pads. Nevermind that literally every other piece of technology in the building is windows based. Oh, and we cannot spend that on infrastructure upgrades to the wi-fi system to support the extra capacity. And it has to be spent in six months or you lose it.

It's the way we're funded in the US. It isn't necessarily a function of the schools or the staff therein. Those people are generally trying to do their best.

It's the shit system and it needs to be burnt to the ground.
The article says

> COVID-19 could infect 60 percent of the globe if left unchecked

Clearly the outbreak is not unchecked. Many measures have been put in place already. I am pretty sure the global community isn't going to just standby and allow the virus to communicate freely.
It's a lot more efficient to do it once, and store it.

Also, it's really simple! Go ahead and create a library for it! The algorithm is tiny, and easily ported, so it's quite fun.
2.4 is unusable in my house. I can only reliably use 5.0 ghz
That interpretation at best offers a thin layer of (not very) plausible deniability. Even if the word "petition" was used, as a politician with decades of experience, Rohrabacher wouldn't even have brought the topic up unless the expectation was that the petition would succeed.
While we are on the topic, if I didn't like the "Mistborn" series, is it worth trying other Sanderson books? I felt like he did a really good job finishing the Wheel of Time, so it's not his writing per-se I didn't like, I just couldn't get invested in any of the characters in the series.
Uh... did you read the page you linked to? The word "citizen" does not appear anywhere on it, and it finishes with this pretty clear line:

> Provided your company doesn't specifically target its services at individuals in the EU, it is not subject to the rules of the GDPR.

(note in the EU - no mention of citizenship)
Sure, I just think it's worth noting again and calling out explicitly, given that there's a lot of assertions that are being made, but some are only accurate in some use cases. It's either a lack of understanding on the author's side, or a rhetoric tactic that I have little respect for. In either case I think it deserves attention.

To some degree, it's not even the threat model which is different, but people's entire use, which of course might change the threat model. The article is treating email as if it's the same as messaging, which it emphatically is not. Email is also the de-facto method of exchanging file for certain types of people (even if it's always been somewhat poor at it), or providing explicit information that should stay around to individuals that isn't desired to be on a website.

Email has always been somewhat poor at the use case of instant messaging, but that's okay, it does other things much better than instant messaging (try finding an instant message from ten years ago and migrating it from the service it was on to a new one). Saying that it's not as good as the security models of instant messaging when being used like an instant messager is not a good reason to stop using it entirely. There are other reasons given that are more compelling, but this one seemed to so fundamentally misunderstand what some people use email for that I though it was important to note.
No, the underlying layer is POSIXy, and uses /. The highest UI layers do the mapping between : and /, and apparently also AppleScript.
It's buzzwords being thrown around again. Blockchain is highly inefficient for anything other than decentralized consensus.
It's pretty clear the crime here was unauthorized access to the server, not the sending of the information on to the media.
It’s also bringing out a lot of pretty useless busy work for a lot of people. Today I went to KFC to pick up an order, and had to write down my name, phone number, and temperature on a clipboard.

They didn’t take my temperature, I just wrote 36. Should have written 37, but then I saw someone else had written 35 on there. Vampires among us.
I wonder if "synthetic data" could be used to proof ML? Ie, rather than start from a huge data set that you _think_ is clean enough to know what a Car is (or w/e), you could use a data set that is perfectly clean and the ML set could be tweaked to give the expected result.

Of course, that would still be hairy as you'd have to ensure your ML still performed on real data sets. All the clean data would do is allow you to write unit tests of sorts for your ML with more confidence than the all-too-common unclean real data.

No idea, just making stuff up. Interesting thought.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is what matters.

Is your idea building "Tinder for job search"?

I don't say that to discourage you. Quite the opposite. If you're passionate about it, do it. As others have said, at the end of the day, it's quite a simple formula: build X, get people to use X.

Even more simply, "solve problem Y for lots of people".
Do FAANG engineers have the same baggage? What about any adtech company ever?
> Do you explicitly need a cyber truck to come to your office for security or do people use the internet these days? "X-Force Cyber Command" sounds like something you'd see on sunday morning cartoons.

For marketing to the US government, this kind of show-off and showmanship is standard.

I didn't believe it could be this dumb, but it was. Anyone who's technical knows you don't need this fluff to do "the cyber", and it's more likely to just get in the way, but everyone goes along with it because you can be getting paid 6 digits to sit around and do nothing all day for months at a cyber workstation of the future.
But that means you are the only source of truth for your anecdote, so it doesn't demonstrate anything.

Are you possibly trying to avoid invoking godwin's law?
A quote from the article says "Whilst no-one’s quite proposing a return to the great age of sail" bit it's not really true. No one is planning to build a square-rigged panamax container ship, but there are several groups that are in fact building modern sailing vessels specifically designed for short-haul cargo traffic. One example that I love is https://www.sailcargo.org/, a group that is currently building a very large wooden ship named Ceiba. In this case, the building material is carbon neutral as well as it's eventual operation.
Good question - yes. "Home computers" would cover it. Just be sure to check the limit you're buying and that it's adequate for the amount of equipment you have.
Not necessarily. They might treat information the same way but generate different paperwork or have different levels of risk from frivolous lawsuits.
Well, Windows is very picky, yes.
URL parameters will be encrypted with HTTPS, so they're not plaintext over the wire. The problem is that requests are usually getting logged somewhere, so anyone with access to the logs can see your password.
Reminds me of in the 1980's of running a big map reduce based system from home on the biggest super mini cluster in the UK

Set up the text only portable terminal in the hall of my parents house next to the phone line kick off the run and slowly see at 300 baud all the systems start to run hoping that they would all pass the initial stage and successfully start the mapping phase.
Experts Weigh in on Enterprise XR in 2020
Both. 50 years of people cynically saying "all politicians are crooks". And now we have legitimate sleazeballs running the country and nobody believes it.

On the one hand, Google is huge and needs competition. On the other hand: not this way. Antitrust and monopoly laws exist for a reason, but if you look at telephones in the 80's and microsoft & intel in the 90's, better lawyers get you around that.

We need trustbusters with teeth. Especially for tech. I wish the EFF was 100x larger.
Feels like an aggressive response to what I said. Feel free to look it up, the statement is noncontroversial. There are regularly conducted surveys of the field that include questions on this topic.
And, these icons adhere to international standards. They are not just "made up" to suit a designer's whim.
From https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.20021675v... it has a case fatality rate of 4.45% for men and 1.25% for women. CFR increases when people don't get treatment for severe complications.
Clearly I've triggered someone who is systematically downvoting all my comments..
I certainly hope not, though that is what Japan and Singapore seem to have settled on.
There is still the challenge of the context of "person X said Y" Were they saying it sarcastically? Were they quoting someone else? Does Y include the content said before or after? That can meaningfully change the "fact"
Except when you go to buy the bulb that is more expensive, hoping it works better, it just ends up dying FASTER. There seems to be no correlation between price and quality anymore.
Don't forget the fundraising efforts by Ellison for the same administration supporting them in this.
>Of course none of the above is as shitty as the government agency my neighbor works at that asked the female employees to serve cocktails at a winter social.

Wow, that's amazing. I wonder which agency this was, and if this is new for this agency or if they were doing this kind of thing before 2016. It sounds like excellent grounds for a lawsuit.
Repeatedly.
You are willfully conflating abstract concepts with known and provable facts. Whether you are doing this due to ignorance or malice, stop it.

"Is your company secure?" has no factual answer, as you state.

"LIBRULZ KILL AND EAT BABIES ON COURTHOUSE STEPS WHILE THE JESUS CRIES" Well... that's pretty damn easy to fact check. Oh, wait, there was nobody on the courthouse steps eating babies? Well shit, I guess that's a LIE.
Accesibility has a quality all of it's own. Literally tens if not hundreds of millions of people can do computational tasks they otherwise would not be able to do.

Considering the "every(wo)man" approach it ability to be useful is near genius, but just because your volkswagon won't get you to mars, it doens't make it crap.
Not sure why you are being down voted for this - we ratified GDPR under UK law, the UK Data Protection act of 2018 - until that law is repealed GPDR still applies under my understanding.
But little do you know, the brand was bought out by a different company so they could sell cheap junk using the reputation of the brand you chose and the review is now out of date.
Too negative my dude.
AI Podcast: Andrew Ng
Flywheel owners found out that their bikes were bricked through Peloton
Most of the popular options don't make sense to me as a robust solution.

miniboards(RPi, something-Pi) - underpowered for transcoding, no SATA/PCIe ports only USB, so little storage capacity via unreliable USB link. For playing it's OK, but if you're building something expandable, to last a long time , forget it.

Synology/QNAP boxes - expensive, proprietary components, if some part (power brick, motherboard) fails after warranty ends, you're SOL. You can't swap parts, repairing anything is very hard.

Rack mounted server in home - absurdly loud fans and impractical form factor

So what is the golden option that is almost never mentioned? Build a quiet pc in tower box. You can choose the right components for your needs. You can repair/swap them for new ones when they fail. And it is cheaper.
Vivaldi – A Browser for Power Users
if the header never changes, it doesn't have to be stored or transmitted. the client-side code can simply prepend the header after getting the data.
If porn sites are liable for their content - FB should be too.
Porn sites managed to survive and thrive and so will FB.
Still think Sarges truck in Agents of Shield looked cooler.
Linkedin isn't faang.
That's not a FAANG though.
Great explanation! I'm now tempted to try this out myself for some experiments. I wish my statistics book in college used these kind of interactive explanations.
Should International Paper be liable if an extremist writes down their ideas?

Should the US postal service be liable if they mail it to their friends?

The US postal service uses dogs to find drugs in the mail, and yet we don't charge the post master general with drug smuggling.

Any attempt to get rid of undesirable content should not then make you liable for the content you miss. The platform vs publisher debate is silly.
If it's coming from Barr it's not a money grab, it's a transparent attempt to shape ALL social networks to be right-wing propaganda outlets.
On the extreme end, a video can be totally fake. Slightly less extreme, a video might be "fake" in that it's an actor playing a role, and the words they're saying belong to the character and not the actor. More commonly, a video might be taken out of context, so that the apparent meaning of a statement in isolation is the opposite of what it originally meant. (Compare "I hate group X" to "I think people who say 'I hate group X' are jerks.") Modern politics is effectively a distributed indexing system for exactly these most ambiguous cases, coupled with large media apparatuses for broadcasting them.

And these are the problems with the simplest sort of fact, "A said B." That's not even the majority of misinformation out there. We usually have to contend with even worse ambiguities, like whether A "caused" B, or whether A "supported" B, or whether A "criticized" B.

In everyday life of course, these problems are solvable. We find ways to punish people for acting in bad faith, and the incentives mostly line up. But that is very much not how things work in politics or in law. People have large incentives to seek out ambiguous cases. These edge cases become the typical case.
I'll just add that I loved the packages on the front page. I never bothered with renter's insurance, because it seemed like a hassle and I have been willing to self-insure. But seeing my options immediately made me think, "Maybe I should!"

Please do put a jobs page up, though. Your thoughtful and frank description here definitely has me curious.
Liability should not be black-and-white. HN has a process for flagging and burying content, and they employ moderators. If some kind of libel is buried in a greyed-out user comment or a flagged post, then no harm. If the libel sits on the front page in the title of a post for two days, there's a real issue there.

It's interesting that you mention HN, because it's basically not a problem here.
Oh my! I literally snorted out my coffee over this. This is hilarious. I have followed LPL for a while, but never seen this before. Thank you!
We are just making better bacteria- we need to quit giving people antibiotics for the sniffles. Its just insane the number of people that think they NEED to have a pill for a viral cold. Your poor doctor has to put up with these requests all day.

Really cool work, I worry that long term we are going to need to find better ways to control Antibiotic abuse.
A system that would make a phone call based in an acelerometer inside the beehive would deserve a look at least.
That's pretty awesome, I really feel like I need to up my Dad game.

Do you mind sharing a game or screenshot so I can see what's possible?

My four year old is really struggling with the alphabet, I'd like to make a Shooter for him called "Destroy Z", where he would have to identify letters and then go kill them.
So what is your litmus test for distinguishing between the New York Time's API for accessing their data and an ISPs API for accessing their data?
Clearly the long term health implications of a severe case of the virus are worrying, however its not clear to me from this article what the implications (if any) are if you get a mild case? Are there any articles discussing this?
As well as other parts. No promise was made, and no specific answer was requested. That "lawyer" (assuming they even said what's being "reported") is working for the DNC, which is trying really hard to get ahead of some extremely damaging revelation (such as, for example, that someone at the DNC leaked the info, which would completely demolish what remains of the "Russian collusion" narrative they rode on for 3 years).

It makes zero sense otherwise for that lawyer to jeopardize Assange's "guaranteed" pardon.
> Ali Alzabarah was panicked. His heart raced as he drove home from Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters in the early evening on Dec. 2, 2015.

Ok, how could you possibly know that? That's a pretty good guess, but writing it like it was the start of a novel… fells like read bait, really. Especially given the following:

> Alzabarah, Abouammo, and al-Asaker did not respond to requests for comment.
Bee theft has a long history, with even Plato talking about it. (Laws 8.843d-e)

>And if any, yielding to his taste of bees, secures for himself another man's swarm by attracting them with the rattling of pans, he shall pay for the damage.
Determining truth from lies is hard, that's true. Doesn't mean we should accept blatant lies and ignore sound truths. That's the problem with "conservative" politics in general.
Or C) Money. There's the whole Ellison/Trump fundraiser thing which might make Oracle's argument fall on more accommodating ground.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/12/21135722/larry-ellison-...

Edit: Beat me to it!
The report says 2.3% killed, 2 out of every 100 is 2%.

11.5 is 2.3% of 500, thus 23 out of every 1000 would die at that rate if accurate.
That page has no reference to citizenship, and multiple to location. It contradicts what you claim it supports.
That's just hilarious. We live in an era where the statistical differences between the appearance of men and women are better understood than ever before, thanks to artificial neural networks, and we can in fact pinpoint the exact combinations of low-level features that make a face look like a man or woman. And then you have people in such a deep denial of reality they pull off this type of joke.
Sure, you cannot identify sex with absolute certainty only with a photo, but ignoring fringe cases you can guess with very high certainty.