skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bear in mind that while cloud providers can be more technically sophisticated with their security, they are inherently less secure from the get-go than a box on premise: Because by default, the cloud provider must be configurable across the Internet from anywhere in the world, and my self-hosted box, by default, can only be configured by a mouse, keyboard, and monitor physically plugged into it.

From that point, yes, you open up your self-hosting to the world in a (hopefully) limited fashion and restrict access to your cloud management (hopefully) to a much narrower scope. But by default, a box in your building starts completely secure, and your AWS box starts accessible to anyone on the planet with your AWS password.
This is amazing. There are other games of this quality and artistry, but IMO no other games with the kind of impact TWOM has. There's something special that happens when you play TWOM that isn't possible in other mediums. It manages to actually create circumstances where you feel like you're making hard choices.

IMO, only two other games accomplish something comparable. Portal (as a masterpiece of gaming in every respect) and Stanley Parable (as being another masterpiece that has a "message" inexpressible in any other medium).

If you'd add to that list, I could do with more maximum quality games to have played ;)
It always amazes me when the people who champion "the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society" will also turn around and say something like their political beliefs being mocking by coworkers is "unlawful discrimination". She doesn't want free speech. She wants consequence free speech. She wants her detractors silenced by the law. What a hypocrite.
That this is true at what is supposed to be a reputable publication like The New York Times makes me worried for companies and less known publications. Because if it's happening at the elite end of what is supposed to be curiosity-driven investigation, why wouldn't it be happening elsewhere? And so you end up with a culture where you can't speak about anything, where challenging the orthodoxy means you'll be forced into poverty. Where you don't even know WHAT the orthodoxy is at times because the orthodox eat their own and constantly shift goalposts.

People everywhere need to stand up and issue a firm rebuke to anyone contributing to the toxic environments she described. Either by voting with your wallet, or by being bold and speaking against it in your social circles. It's not too late to turn the ship around.
The Demoscene definitely needs some artistic recognition, but maybe not in the form of being put on the reading list ;)
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> All this bodes ill, especially for independent-minded young writers and editors paying close attention to what they’ll have to do to advance in their careers. Rule One: Speak your mind at your own peril. Rule Two: Never risk commissioning a story that goes against the narrative. Rule Three: Never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain. Eventually, the publisher will cave to the mob, the editor will get fired or reassigned, and you’ll be hung out to dry.

It is supremely ironic for a famous writer, employed for years at America's paper of record, to complain about being silenced by her critics in a resignation letter that will be shared far and wide and read by tens — if not hundreds — of thousands of people.
The system will also be more tolerant for ill-formed numbers, and thus numerically more stable (not running into NAN / INF as frequently).
I agree with most of your points, but not some of the conclusions.

Re-opening schools is very high priority, and very very difficult (some say not possible until we have a cure, full stop). Re-opening a restaurant is fairly low priority, and very very easy.

This isn't a board game where a player can only make one decision every turn. Opening restaurants and bars now does not mean that schools open earlier, or later, or at all.

("re-opening will cause another spike, which is pushing out the epidemic longer" Re-opening is going fine in NYC, terribly in the sunbelt. It can be done safely or it can be done badly.)
Maybe you could use the show notes?
> The Munich court agreed with the industry body’s assessment and banned Tesla Germany from including “full potential for autonomous driving” and “Autopilot inclusive” in its German advertising materials.

Fully autonomous driving won't be here for _at least_ half a decade so this judgement makes complete sense. Tesla was engaged in flase advertising.
LOL, if Covid had an 8% death rate, do you really think politicians would still be walking around? No, they'd all be boarding submarines!

The CDC's most recent estimate is more like 0.65% and that's probably still an overestimate
It has not been possible for me to access my paypalæ account for months. Had a hastely phonenumber change and then all their non-login support lines shut down because of covid. Which have led to me not having any access, as I need a sms to log in.
In the last century the prevailing line the U.S. was that the U.S. would change China through economic engagement, I think what is really going to happen is China is going to change the U.S.

Mainly in the sense that in order to adapt to the competitive threat from China the U.S. has to become more state capitalism and industrial policy guided.

Using strong government to guide industrial policy, fend off or cripple foreign competitors, enact infrastructure. These are the standard tools in China.

As for China, I wonder in the long term if this is not pioneering a completely new mode of the human species. What is the logical end of total surveillance and censorship? Eventually unifying every person into the mind of the state until individualism dissolves and we are all subsumed into a common entity.

Maybe I am speculating too far but if you could have everyone carry an implant from birth wired to a single network then you could achieve the common science fiction trope of an unified collective conscious. Maybe even the leading Party theoreticians haven't even sought about it this far yet.
Google faces €600k privacy fine in Belgium
I believe in reform. 1 year exclusive copyright / patent at most and author always holds the copyright. Its ironic that the movie with the biggest budget is a pirate movie ;)

https://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/the-pirate-party-on-...
That's what I meant,being fully aware of that history, a sovreign nation is not owed further interference into it's internal affairs because of previous interference. Plenty of aid and interference has already happened in addition to the west cancelling the debt of most african nations.

The ideq that you think you owe them further interference is still colonial in nature,as if your wise interference/debt helps the inferior poor. You should respect their sovreignity and help them be responsible for their own fate. Look at how india is transforming over time,singapore turned into a global commerce hub and a few other success stories that happened because the people made it happen,not because the colonial masters interfered once again.
Whats worse is this phenomenon isn't contained to the NYT all media it appears is infected.
Professional (print) journalism (pre-internet if you wish) vs journalism which now includes bloggers, vloggers, anyone who has a profile and presents him/herself literate in the domain they’ve chosen to write in.
The main problem with online is the mental agility of the student - smartness. Some are auto didactic - capable of self teaching. Some are not, we can not all be an Archimedes or an Isaac Newton.
Online teaching needs to develop a high degree of parallelism. Let us say they break the topic down to a large number of short modules. Each one needs to be shown and explained and then the uptake tested. If student fails test 1, he needs to be taken through a different module on the same topic, explained and uptake tested. Repeat until the parallels are exhausted and the fails assessed to determine the composition of the way the student fails. Once assessed, the student needs to enter a new set of modules with greater detail in the explanatory detail.
This will need an exhaustive degree of preparation, but it needs to be done. Once done on all topics you will have a huge massively parallel data base that is capable of teaching a wide range of people. On route, one needs to assess all manner of supportive skills - keyboarding - is that student capable of reading and entering the responses the program will demand of him? If not, that student needs some preparatory modules to deal with all the test and numeracy issues he faces.
In human teaching, this is done via very personally demanding instruction in person.
The program needs to be able to rapidly select from all the modules in it's repertoire.
Ideally, such a system can handle all the way from a child to a graduate student. Assessing all the way and presenting and reviewing, remoduling etc all the way.
Students vary widely, some are highly intelligent (but as yet are untaught), some are not so smart.
AN ideal system will also test for what I call 'physical IQ' - the capacity for detailed physical tasks, such as fencing or basketball or any sport. They may be brilliant at physical tasks, not so good at physics or programming.
Modern computers are capable of this. It is a demanding task to program them, but once done, it can be deployed millions of times amond millions of students.
I hesitate to call it an 'AI', it is just a capable parallel high speed machine.
What about the cost of operating an equivalent service in house?
Look at Hong Kong where China just yesterday told the political parties that holding any pre-election for Hong Kong's parliament is an aggressive act against China.

Or look at the Uyghur internment camps. Or the one child policy that effectively turned some communitys 80% male.

There is no opposition in China that can speak up against this.
Likewise, having the millions of people who don't die but end up in the hospital for weeks, get permanently disabled, cognitive damage, etc etc. I think people are over-indexing on fatalities which greatly underestimates the scope here.
There could be a bunch of airliners for sale due to coronavirus. I suspect the ongoing costs could maybe be similar to renting a large expensive apartment in a centre of a popular US city? Would be super interesting to see someone calculate that though.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. This atrocious quote ("with or without cause") is a great find; I personally have never bothered to read Github's terms of services before. If github literally says this in its terms of service — and it does — it's definitely worth knowing, and should give github users ample food for thought.
This reminds me of Spaceballs: The Movie :)

https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1400xauto/publi...
Welcome to the viral world of hyper-realistic cake slicing videos
You’re adding value judgements into it that are not there. A person can be working, accomplishing the same amount, and take 35 or 40 hours to do the task, without goofing off.
If it weren't for your examples, I wouldn't have believed blackhats would waste time using Python. It seems like it would be easier to defend against Python malware isn't precompiled, and if it is precompiled, we're just back to hand analyzing trojans at the assembly level. When you said that SeaDuke was cross-platform, isn't that a huge problem that could easily be detected since the attacker requires target-side interpretation? E.g., more security built into Python about how it is invoked: requiring user interaction to determine whether the user is running something.
> They should have called it "CoPilot" [rather than "AutoPilot"]

Huh but a co-pilot is much more capable than an auto-pilot system. An auto-pilot mostly keeps you level, going the right speed, and pointing in the right direction, and can do some limited landing and things.

That sounds to me exactly like what Tesla's system does?

A co-pilot is a human who can take complete control from you for the rest of the whole flight and deal with any emergency or unexpected situation. The co-pilot is much more advanced than the autopilot.
The root of your work disagreements are how you interpret and manage risk
I am in the "it's not a monopoly" crowd and yes we should definitely use other words to describe companies that do not have exclusive control over a commercial activity.
Do you work at Lyft?
defactopoly?
Since she hasn't filed discrimination lawsuit, I read it as mocking the victim culture that prevades the others.
That's not the answer to the question I was asking. I wanted to know how many are watching this content , not if this this content exists . If nobody is watching, then result is the same
AWS quietly introduces AI services opt-out policies
Because their ads product is underdeveloped and in closed beta. It'll be there soon.
I'm not sure it should be called level 5 autonomy until Tesla is willing to take responsibility for any accidents it causes.
Same with physics, at least the theory in the classroom. It really became the blind leading the blind and very inefficient.

Maybe I just sucked at it.
If there's something that I really really like YouTube for, it would be the videos showing you how to fix or build things. Good woodworking, metalworking, electronics repair videos are hard to find, but I remember seeing a few that were much better than a manual. The manual typically shows one view of a project or workpiece, but good videos show multiple views, close ups, pictures of different configurations I might expect.

You do typically have to wade through a lot of crappy "Hey Guys Like and Subscribe!" garbage with 30 second title sequences to find the good ones though.
While it sounds bad from the description, the story is still very limited and missing the other side.

However this is just vendor management. You have to balance risk and productivity, and it's even more important now with how many different services a typical business uses.

Most people are better off using third-party services with proper support contracts rather than trying to plan for an edge case while ignoring all the other new challenges it brings to do it all yourself.
Was there any reason to ban it other than “China?”

Has anyone made an Indian TikTok clone, and if so has it got any traction? Seems like an obvious thing to do, if it was that popular.
Interesting observation. I grew up with shitty (but fun!) phpBB forums and the fancier vBulletin, but wouldn't categorize them as 'social media'. The first of those were probably cu2, MySpace, and eventually Facebook/Twitter/etc.

When I think about it, it seems like a somewhat arbitrary distinction to make. I suppose the main difference is that the forums were self-hosted and I could have different identities for each one. And while I generally reused the same username, the fact that it wasn't just a matter of 'clicking on my profile' to see all my activity was something I really liked.

Maybe to me the term "social media" has come to mean "social media /companies/"? That doesn't quite satisfy, but it really does feel like the primary difference is that on these forums I knew that they were generally not run for profit, and the 'gods' were just individuals who volunteered their time to host or moderate. It felt safer, and more personal.
Public school is daycare, the pandemic has made that abundantly clear. We'll be sending our kids to school because even with two parent's working from home distance learning just doesn't work.
Do regulators have an idea of what test a car needs to pass to be able to claim certain things? It there were levels of tests and passing each gave you better rating, that might give everyone an idea of there the system is. But most of the talks about this type of stuff seems to be gut feeling rating. Someone will say they think some car/software is good, other's will say it's no where close and the conversation ends there.

It is also possible that updates can make software worse than it was before right? Say a software does pass some test. But how do you know it's still as good or better after some update?

Is the problem we know for sure if has specific issues or it is more that we have no idea where it might fail while randomly driving? Are all this problems considered solvable in short term?
Couldn't Signal use this, too? I know they use the more limited SGX now.
In large part this is caused by the education system. Instead of promoting thoughtful reading, discovery and broadening horizons, it forces kids to read through literature classics that are boring and completely unrelatable to modern kids.
> that would likely have no impact to policy even if they were demonstrably true because the driving factor is human safety and not efficacy or ease of teaching.

Why would it have "no impact to policy"?

Let's imagine for a moment that we discovered remote learning was 100% ineffective for everyone. Students came out of remote learning programs with no more knowledge than they did going in. Should we:

A) Continue with remote learning anyway, because in-person classes are unsafe.

B) Stop remote learning, and accept that students will have to put their educations on hold for a year, despite all the implications that will have.

Personally, I think option B is the obvious choice. There’s no point in doing anything if students don’t benefit.

Okay, now let's say that remote learning was only 50% effective, or 60%. Is option A now the right answer? Putting everyone’s education on hold is going to have lots of dire consequences—but, is it worse than educating them inadequately? What does that mean for the next generation of high schoolers entering college, or college students entering the workforce?

Alternately, perhaps the correct conclusion is that we really, really do need to reopen schools this fall. Why is so much of the country currently focused on reopening hair salons and outdoor restaurants while keeping schools closed? Maybe it should be the other way around—maybe schools are the most essential service, and we need to reopen them ASAP at the expense of other kinds of businesses.
> It requires an immense amount of motivation to grind away reading 80 pages of a boring CS textbook every day.

But is it worth paying 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars just to keep you motivated?

Maybe that "keep you motivated" functionality can be unbundled and offered for a much lower price?
As another reply mentioned, it does not specify any particular font, so the choice of an ugly font is in fact yours. It looks pretty (to me) on my computer...
I think a lot of users are missing the point. I don't see this tool as a final decision maker and it can never be one. The final decision has a lot of nuisances to that it is difficult to capture in one tool, so might as well just open a spreadsheet and bang it out.

I see this tool as a quick a simple way to eliminate all the tools that might look shiny and slick or save a few clicks, but doesn't actually save employee's time at all.

So the decision becomes, I like the way this new SaaS feels or looks than our current one, but is it really worth the additional cost?
How underqualified are the staff? I'm Indian and I know Chartered Accountants (5+ years of self study, rigourous exams), pharmacists, lawyers doing outsourcing.
Have you flown on autopilot? It maintains speed, height and direction. It doesn't land or take off. Originally it couldn't even turn.
I don't see how this can be read as mockery:

> There are terms for all of this: unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge. I’m no legal expert. But I know that this is wrong.

This is what claiming victimhood looks like.
Neither are mine . I'm not subscribed to IG account of poor ugly disabled anyone, though. Should I feel like self-CCP to me ? Feel guilty about myself ?
I noticed these systems typically immediately take you to a human if you start screaming swear words and overall sound enraged.

Try it next time! "____! Give me a _______ human you ____! ____!!" This is often followed by a prompt click of the line transferring and sure enough you're in the queue for a real person.

Of course, remember to do the opposite with the person. Be polite and respectful with the person on the other end of the line. And I've found, they often can really help you!
An acquirer can't literally force someone to stay on as an employee for 4 years. What they typically do is set up a deferred compensation scheme (golden handcuffs) with a large guaranteed bonus payment or stock vesting at the end of that period. In some cases they also include a non-compete clause in the agreement which leaves the employee with few other employment options, although those are only enforceable in certain jurisdictions.
2 quick comments:

1. Team-sports politics and Identity politics are a scourge and cancer used for fundraising, and I despise them.

2. Conservatives have been poisoning public discourse since at least the 1980's with hate and fear (see Rush Limbaugh), and I despise that tactic. I'm sure you can find instances where Liberals have done the same, but it would be VERY hard to convince me that they have done it at the same level of concerted effort.

I think reasonable people should be able to discuss differences, but I fear that any public discussion will quickly drop to rote positions and bad faith assumptions.
A local copy helps you migrate to a new provider but that's still a lot of effort and downtime. You lose ticketing, pull requests, CI/CD pipeline, artifact storage, etc.
Bari Weiss is responsible for toxic culture in the first place. She's an absolute hypocrite here, so whatever conversation you want to have about speech, it probably shouldn't happen in this context.
Not sure about that, but I'm sure it's not "full self driving capability". It has not been the case ever since they started advertising in 2016.
It sure does get them a lot of attention though! My Jeep Cherokee has lane assist, adaptive cruise control, auto-parking, and crash detection (emergency braking) but they don’t get all this press about it.
Having worked in a call center for Internet, Telephone, and TV about 3 years ago. In my experience most people have the same stupid question.

1. Do I plug in the green wire in the green port or in the red port (They call before they have even tried to connect things).

2. My TV isn't working when they haven't pressed "Source".

3. Something is wrong, restart router.

4. My WiFi is slow when they have one router for 200 m2 in a house of concrete.

5. A few % of the costumers make up the majority of the calls because of how they are.
>Sadly kids nowadays (at least in Poland, where I live) don't like reading books and tend to skip even very important titles.

I'm fairly confident this has been a staple throughout most of the world, and, if I had to wager, time.
Well the Tom Cotton op ed drama was literally this.
> Americans still hunger for news that is accurate, opinions that are vital, and debate that is sincere.

The market would suggest otherwise.
> the Chinese government still enforces the idea that Chinese companies should operate in the interest of the nation.

In most cases, Chinese companies are basically owned and controlled by the state. This has nothing to do with monopoly or trust issues. Acquiring lines of credit in China after you get to a certain size basically means you're owned or partially owned by the CCP.
I realize this is a sarcastic comment, but I think this illustrates the problem.

Tesla vehicles cannot operate fully autonomous as-of now. Tesla has no idea if they'll need to replace or upgrade hardware either. They simply have not solved the problem yet, but want everyone to buy into the hype. And, the hype machine is working, unfortunately.
Yeah, go ahead and call out that clause. I bet that will do more than the petition.
>Since it didn't stop, she was taken to the emergency room immediately, where they've dismissed her with "menstrual problems".

Infuriating.