skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why they even need to gives these kids a single grade. The biggest consumer of grading are schools, colleges and university anyway. Just make more of the underlying data available to them and let the decide for themselves. And as an employer I think it would be useful to have a more complete picture of the student than just a single grade. All this fiasco does is demonstrate how unnecessarily reductive the whole concept is.
I am for any law or policy that hurts Google. And I really don’t care whether it’s fair or unfair.

I’m not sure any two companies have caused more worldwide carnage, in the history of the world, than FB and Google.
Weird, for me it's the opposite. I would prefer it to be 2.5x wider.
Agreed. I know it's a common issue with large institutions, commercial or otherwise, but you would think they could pivot to a new model quicker than they have.

I'm currently studying a part-time undergrad in CS at the Open Uni and even they have failed to provide an alternative to exams this year. You would think if any educational body would be prepared, it would be the Open Uni. If an institution that prides itself on distance learning can't make it happen, lord knows what's happening at traditional schools.
2 kids, 8 & 11

Happier, not sure. I think its gives higher highs and lower lows to life whist becoming more content with it all, though maybe the latter is age.

More content I think. More purpose to many things.

I think they have helped my partner and I settle down more. Enjoy a quieter and a simpler life.

They add meaning to things.

Definitely more tired and time poor.

I've said before kids are 70/30 in good bad they bring to our life.

If I was doing over, I would start earlier and have more.
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Nope. ”Naïve” is an accepted variant of ”naive” in every major English dictionary. [a-zA-Z] is never a ”correct” way to match natural language text.
User behavior has changed. Look what happened when a similar law was passed in Spain. Google News pulled out and people stopped visiting Spanish news sites, they didn't flock back to purchasing subscriptions and physical newspapers.
Interesting that some science deniers in our modern times use scents in the form of essential oils to fend off or even treat diseases.

Are there no written records testifying the effectiveness of such suits?
Really? Wiki said no when I looked this up.
Extra bytes at end of file will be ignored by most formats. You generally don't want to depend on file length.
You mean.. because they wouldn't be able to rely on free third-party content anymore?
>Google did not state this. The ACCC - the supposed detached "fair" regulator, in charge of creating this code, just made something up to suit their own ends.

From Google's open letter: `A proposed law, the News Media Bargaining Code, would force us to provide you with a dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia.'[1] Note the second part of this statement. This is a very clear statement from Google that, if this code comes into law, their currently free services may begin to incur a charge. The ACCC's statement says, in no unclear terms, that Google is free to do this but that it would not be required by the law - something which is either implied by Google, or presented as their having no other business choice.

>"The responsible digital platform must ... give information about how the registered news business corporation can gain access to ... the data that the digital platform service collects (whether or not it shares the data with the registered news business)about the registered news business’ users through their engagement with covered news content made available by the digital platform service" (Page 10, Section 52M).

I can't find where it says this in the document you linked. I can find pieces of it, but you've constructed a statement here which doesn't seem to exist in that form in that document - a fair bit of artistic liberty. If it is in that document, a screenshot would be helpful. Further, does any of this constitute sharing `additional user data with Australian news businesses'?

Let's not mince words: Google is saying that this law affects their bottom line, and they're using their immense platform to say to the users of their free services that Google might charge them if this law is passed. This in itself is an indication of the incredibly uneven playing field present in this particular market - no other company could reach over half of the users of the WWW in Australia with a statement like this[2], in a way which could profoundly impact the process of consultation with interested groups and the passage of this legislation. Whatever you think of this legislation, this is about nothing more than money - the fact that content producers (journalists) aren't getting enough of it, while Google's advertising empire reaps incredible profits.

[1] https://about.google/google-in-australia/an-open-letter/
[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/australi...
> All that and you still think housing records should be on a public blockchain? What happens if someone steals my private key?

Then you lose your house.

Here's the alternative: someone steals your house, and they didn't have to steal your private key first. It happens every few years. Usually the victims have been overseas for a while.
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> There will always be some people aggrieved by the new process and they will always have plausible ways to spin it as racist or classist or whatever else is necessary

But if you have a transparent process and documented algorithms, it's much, much harder for them to do that. Of course, UKGOV has neither of those things in this instance...
A bank is not a single entity, it's made of people converging after reaching consensus

There are a lot of banks, with different interests that usually compete with each other and work under regulations that have been discussed and approved after reaching consensus

There are several different central banks, that work together under regulations discussed and approved because they reached consensus

The "decentralised" exchange already exists
> This doesn't seem like the kind of vulnerability a security service would really care about. It's just about whether Windows does or doesn't show a nag prompt when trying to run the malicious file.

And yet, if memory serves, they went to the trouble of stealing a code-signing certificate from a software development company so that they could do exactly that in an Iranian nuclear facility!

Besides, even if this one weren't all that useful on its own, we've seen time and again how a few of these these "minor" vulnerabilities can be "chained" together, eventually resulting in a full compromise.
My starting assumption is that octopus, cuttlefish, and squid have similar intelligence levels. If chromatophore manipulation is correlated to cephalopod intelligence then bobtail squid are small but smart.

My own anecdotal evidence is that juvenile cephalopods exhibit adult-level intelligence which is a good reminder not to project mammalian behavior assumptions on cephalopods.
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My point is pop-up election booths is a bit assinine. Very error prone. Waste of tax-payer dollars, just put that money the state would pay into the Post Office coffers, and let them handle ALL aspects of elections (w/ some collaboration so they follow local laws / election guidelines since it's at a state level).
They aren't, and the article notes as much.
You mean Minetest, right? Minecraft doesn't have native modding support, let alone Lua modding support.
Japan does something like that; according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country), its date format is 2020年08月16日
Hard-realtime performance is very important for Microcontrollers. Do you think WASM can do hard-realtime?
> can coerce citizens and companies to install backdoors into their companies software [1]

No, no it can't. I don't know how the media managed to get this so wrong and how so many people just accepted it without questioning it.

The law explicitly limits, and limited from the start, the effect that a government request could have [0]: a request cannot introduce a "systemic weakness".

Some relevant quotes of what a systemic weakness can entail:

- "one or more actions that would render systemic methods of authentication or encryption less effective"

- [when targeting a particular person] "any act or thing that will, or is likely to, jeopardise the security of any information held by any other person."

Note that this is a restriction on the "effect" that a notice can have. It's not just the the government can't ask for this, it's that the government can't ask for anything that would result in this.

So no, there are no backdoors.

What there is, is a a requirement to assist when it can be done in a way that doesn't have any of these effects. For example if the government wanted to intercept WhatsApp messages, it could require that WhatsApp introduce a hard-coded identifier into the app and if a user matches that identifier, then copies of every message would be sent to the Australian government. This doesn't introduce any systemic weakness and doesn't compromise anybody else's data, so should be permitted.

And I don't see how the above could be considered a "backdoor", as it requires that the app be pushed through the app store, a capability that WhatsApp already has.

[0]: http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ta1997...
52M has 3 sections 1,2,3 which have even further sub-sections.

52M -> 1 -> (a)

information covered by subsection (2) is given to the registered news businesscorporationfor the registered news business; and
etc...

52M -> 2 -> (a)

a list andexplanation of the data that the digital platform servicecollects(whether or not it shares the datawith the registered news business)about the registerednews business’users through their engagement with covered news content made available by the digital platform service
etc...
It's all a storm in a tea cup. People leave the city -> rents go down -> new creative people are attracted by the cheap rents -> they create a new vibrancy -> people want to move back. Rinse and repeat.
It's the same with security.

Hiding the fact that you're vulnerable doesn't make you secure. "Hacking is illegal", yeah, but you'll be hacked. -> Don't sue researchers!
As much as I love to see it, I don't see the damage. Users have a choice these days to even download/install a free! OS. This is a clear case of vote with your wallets. There are TONs of Operating systems, why stick with Microsoft at this point?
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If I may add:

theguardian.com/au

michaelwest.com.au

theconversation.com

themonthly.com.au

All do decent analysis of policy and economics and holding government to account.
Note that this legislation is the direct result of other companies getting involved in the politics business and pushing for this regulation. Google is seeing their business model made impossible and warns for the consequences, as they should, and certainly have the right to do.

Sometimes legislation can make a business model impossible or undesirable. For example, making information available in China with a strong censorship regime. Or in this case, being required to link to news sites while being forced to pay for it. If this loses Google more money than it's worth, they may have to abandon Australia.
Other than a possible checksum calculated from the entire file contents, many binary formats use either:

- Headers describing a section, including the length of a section.

- Prefixing each section with a size.

- Using a marker pattern (such as a null byte) to mark the end of a section of data.

(there are more than these three, but these are the most common)
That last one isn't used very often, and when it is, it's mostly for textual data.

The consequence of using the first two techniques is that it's entirely possible to add data to the end of the format, since a parser would just read the last section and stop (assuming the format supports knowing what the last section is).
>It trusts the signature. //

Wtf? Am I reading this right, if part of the file is signed by MS then it just doesn't bother running it through the detection algo?

That looks exceedingly like a designed in security hole.

Presumably paired with the OP "bug" means MS could, with an NSA letter say, drop malware on devices if those devices were using Windows Defender for AV.

Just as well MS don't snoop on what software user's are running./s
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But it can be a multi-decade cycle.

Also I've seen a few creative people that are admitting defeat on (say) Detroit.
This.

It's actually a step in the right direction even if they "suffer more": this is merely the first step. But this is an issue if they get stuck here unless driving this to the conclusion.
There are some issues with Power10, although Raptor hasn’t revealed them yet until they clarify things with IBM:
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Various, including some very popular, mods for Minecraft include Lua. I assume that's what they are referring to.
I just don't understand how IBM - being acutely aware of what happened to Itanium and SPARC + running a cloud platform themselves - still believes this notion of "enterprise hardware" is the way of the future. Surely IBM was/is even better entrenched in this area than HP and Sun/Oracle/Fujitsu, but come on. POWER has a lot of history in consumer accessible products even. This is just a recipe for fading into irrelevance ever more.
Well, Covid definitely meant some drastic action had to be taken, but when the UK government originally discussed suspending high school 'finals' for all students, they strongly suggested the derived grades would be based on mock exams, and teachers predictions / appraisals. Which would have at least localised the appeal system.

Then any regulatory board could have worked 'backwards', so to speak... Only look at schools where there are blatant discrepancies across aggregated results.

There was never any mention of the application of an opaque post-process.
You would think that would be the kind of detail you would have to discuss in a national assembly before the state commissions it's implementation, but clearly, it was never raised.

So while I understand your point (accusations of 'classism' are premature), I think the fact that we're only learning the details of this system now, is an outrageous abuse of trust and technology.
This is about a predatory open access journal that isn't even indexed on Pubmed. Scientists will never see papers from that journal anyway.

And anyone publishing in it is either hopelessly naive and without support from an experienced researcher, or just publishing there to put publications on their CV, knowing that the paper will likely accept anything you throw at them.
It's a predatory journal, so what else would you expect?

There is a reason why these are ignored in Academia or might even get you into trouble with your university and/or funding authorities if you publish in one of those. They prey on postdocs who are under insane publication pressures - the amount of high quality publications that used to ensure you're getting tenure nowadays barely manage to get you a temporary follow-up postdoc grant. I've personally been in committees for crappy short-term postdoc calls in which the majority of candidates should have been assistant professors.

These journals will publish anything, they are only in it for the money. Nobody reads them and if they are in your CV they count against you. Academics are bombarded with "invitations" to those predatory journals, I'm getting several mails a day and sometimes even have to check carefully because they tend to have almost the same title as highly reputable journals. To be fair, it's quite easy to recognize them once you see their "publication fees".

I'm personally more worried about the many non-predatory crap journals that reside in some grey zone, since many colleagues successfully overinflate their CVs with the help of those and in some countries universities are relying way too much on mere indicator counting in their hiring policies. Quality research takes time and there is a race to mediocrity at some places in some disciplines. (Arguably, this does not apply to the top universities but most universities are not top, of course.)
I am somewhat enraged that it doesn't mention the fact it is inspired by amazing Rust's https://docs.rs/structopt/0.3.16/structopt.
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Cool. I make my org notes into a Hugo blog like this, but with a search box too. My Questions as headings have lately been becoming, what was that thing you saw?
Or that Google thinks that it would be useful for users to think that running the service for free might not be viable.
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Hacker News seems like an easy website to game, way easier than Reddit, and people game Reddit all the time. I assume it happens more than we realise.
I personally don't think so. I see roughly two categories:

1) Professional type degrees such as health related occupations (medicine, dentists, nurses, etc) and engineering (mechanical, chemical, etc). These are occupations where you more or less need a relevant degree, and the salary has more or less priced in the cost of that degree.

2) Jobs that require a degree as a screening mechanism. These are jobs that do not require highly specialized skills, but pay better than local average/better than minimum wage. There are usually a lot of interest in these jobs. A college degree acts as a filter to reduce the hiring pool to a manageable size. A lot of people in this group see the cost of college as a type of investment (large, upfront investment, long term higher annual salary).

Coding related jobs is somewhat an exception to these groups. While a lot of big companies are more likely to want a degree, there has historically been a lot of opportunity for a self-taught developer to find a job. I think the vast majority of jobs still fall into one of the two buckets, however.
In the age of low-scale manufacturing, how hard would it be to create a film factory with today's technology, creating or buying the various chemicals and the physically transferring them on film rolls? Can't believe there wouldn't be a boutique market by now.
Chemical warfare?
I used to work on an IBM AIX system as a data warehouse developer. That was on Power architecture but unfortunately I didn't know much about this architecture back then.
Similar situation - still sharing in London and thinking how for the same amount I can have a whole flat to myself somewhere else in the UK. It's kind of difficult to plan things if I expect to move back to London in 6 months or so.
I think this cycle will turn around much quicker. There is a lot of pent up energy by the lack of social interaction we're all experiencing and that will explode once we take our foot off the brakes. I'd say 3-7 years until cities like SF & NYC are hot again. They've got advantages and a brand Detroit doesn't.
You're right, it's not a tax it's an involuntary contract. Google is required to get a license to link to these news sites, and isn't allowed not to link to them or abandon the whole concept of linking to Australian news sites.

It violates every concept of free trade and free enterprise.

I'm all for sensible regulation and taxing big corporations, but this doesn't sound like that.
This is not the full story.

That specific journal was targeted because they published an article in favour of Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin back in July by a team of French doctors (https://www.journalajmah.com/index.php/AJMAH/article/view/30...)

That same article was then cited by French member of parliament Martine Wonner as being sufficiently peer reviewed and having the same value as a paper published by Lancet, with intent to let doctors prescribe hcq as they see fit.

Details (in French): http://www.mimiryudo.com/blog/2020/08/le-meilleur-article-de...
google search is already going down the tubes. for example, i search every variation of “when is grass fungus active” and am served up with results on how to cure grass fungus. just one example of many in how there search engine cannot deal with different angles to a search and has huge delivery buckets that aren’t useful, if you need a more granular search ability
Or any signed MSI if downloaded from a country where security services can secretly oblige companies to act against their users - China, USA, and probably many others.
I for the contrary can say otherwise: most of people I've met who's taken a lot of beer and religion tend to believe more in conspiracy theories and reject science - psychedelic users are the contrary.
There are also quite cheap hosted instances of Nextcloud from Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
It's a kind of COVID-19 dress/cover, but with prolonged nose... maybe for better breathing...
I'm Australian, and I created an account just to comment on this issue.

Imagine Google News or the Facebook news feed were normal news websites. If you count their traffic as the amount of times people went to those websites just to read news, their raw traffic would dwarf any other news website in Australia by an order of magnitude.

Journalistic websites have editorial standards, and at least some relationship and commitment to the truth (even the Murdoch ones). A news feed, while algorithmically generated, is for all intents and purposes the front page of a newspaper for many, many people.

There is no editor of a news feed. No one checks that what bubbles up to the top passes basic fact checking standards. Most importantly, there's no consequences for misinformation and conspiracy theories being on the same front page as a story about some construction disrupting your commute tomorrow.

The main gist of the new code of conduct, to me, seems like the ability for news websites to collectively bargain with a multinational corporation that essentially controls the news landscape in this country. We aren't the USA. Our news websites aren't the New York Times and the Washington Post. Unfortunately, the two biggest are owned by fairly evil companies (Channel nine and News Corp). Rupert Murdoch himself controls 70% of the Australian media landscape. When he dies, however, this law will still exist.

We've seen the consequences of a journalistic landscape that exists solely through social media without any significant independent news sources in Myanmar in 2015. Australia won't end up like that, but allowing independent journalism to wither on the vine distorts our ability to participate in democracy.

As a collective, if every single news organisation decided to go on strike from Facebook or Google tomorrow, the amount of money advertisers would pay them would drop off a cliff. Google is scared by this because they know that the value they give to the consumer is the sum of Australian journalism, a tasting menu of all the best stuff that newspapers have to offer. Why, then, shouldn't that sum itself have the ability to bargain against Google and get itself a better deal?
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