skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; the Value Proposition of a VPN
IoT devices are cheap and tiny and so are rarely on the latest cellular standards. Your typical IoT use case is smart metering and logistics - hardly big data users.

In most of those other use cases, the carrier serves as basically a big dumb pipe.
I would love to see an image like that combined with a depth map to allow us to move it around and get a sense of the vertical scale of those storms!
You could def make this not suck by just making it so facebook automatically 'tagged' content and users can filter out certain tags. Since it'd be public, users could decide for themselves if the tags are reasonable for their filtering needs. But they'll never do it, because ad conversion rates and engagement would likely drop significantly.
This was a thing back in the day where shady Adwords advertiser registrars would ‘register’ any unregistered .com that was searched.

That is when I learned my lesson to use a ‘trusted’ registrar for searching.
billing weekly for things like this i’ve found works nicely. they basically get everything you got for a week. still requires some level of trust, and understanding of the work by the client.
Sure it does but the OS integration isn't there so it's not nearly as useful.
political views !== who you think deserves human rights
A Freemium model seems like the way to go for Mozilla.
Is there any reason it wouldn't work that I'm not seeing?
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom has had preliminary talks about becoming TikTok's CEO
I thought this was obvious because of the Kiyv Rus
In a move you can increase a dimension.
Sure. But why? We're talking about 1MB to keep a week's worth of logs. It's just not worth even a minor hassle, or the most remote possibility of failure.
I've had this happen plenty of times to be before in the past. Back when I did freelance web services, I used to tell my clients to never search on GoDaddy in advance for domains.
Under US law the burden is on the manufacturer to show that a modification impacted the functioning of the device/machine.

It's kind of funny, because parts DRM could be seen as the manufacturer breaking the device when a replacement could have succeeded.
Censoring is when an authority removes content without your consent. Installing something that lets you decide what content to see (or not see) on a site is not censorship.
A bit tangential, but I had a tendency to just sleep through my alarm. I ended up getting an alarm called "The Earthquake", or some similar cliche. It had a module that you'd stick under your sheets or mattress and would violently vibrate when the alarm went off.

I quickly learned how to disable an alarm while groggy instead of sleeping straight through it.
I object a tiny bit to the article's assertion that inequality is the category's fault.

If we got rid of dyslexia as a category, there is still going to have to be prioritization between different kids based on their relative abilities, there are still going to need to be tests to determine whether someone is struggling enough to need free assistance and access to special resources. If you just get rid of the category but don't address the systemic problems of people being able to pay for diagnosis, then you haven't solved anything. Because that category doesn't go away just because it's called something else. The category is, "who is getting special access to resources, and who is considered functional enough to leave where they are?"

It's the prioritization and diagnosis that sounds broken, not the word.

What these people should be campaigning for is to expand dyslexia to cover more kids who don't fit into the tidy, innacurate IQ box, and to set up more impartial diagnosis methods that aren't as subject to monetary abuse. The dyslexia critics are quick to point out that they're not trying to get rid of resources, they're trying to expand access. But the only way that getting rid of designations would be an equalizer is if it's exactly the scenario that dyslexic kids/parents are worried about -- that nobody gets resources or special attention any more; that the category itself stops existing.

If these researchers genuinely do want to help people, then I don't get what their end goal is -- it sounds like they're just playing pedantic word games. Just expand access, why is worth worrying about what word people use?

I mean, what should we call the category that describes, "child with a reading disability that needs special attention and extra government resources from the limited budget we have?" How about the word that's already widely used that pretty much everybody already understands? How is it helpful to anyone to have this fight instead of just expanding the existing category to fit more people?
Because all those side projects are not made to make Firefox, or Mozilla foundation better, but to have nice greenfield projects that allow to boost CV and find a job elsewhere.

All those side projects is the reason while Firefox is dying. They completely ignored their core product: they made a worse copy of Chrome that killed all extensions.
How to share what you make so that people see it
I get your point, but you also have to keep track of castling rights. If King or Rook have moved at any point (not necessarily on previous move), you can't castle even if they're in their starting position again.
I am getting very much downvoted. Any fallacy in my reply? Please tell me so that i can correct it in future
Both the major incidents (Chernobyl and Fukushima) were reactors designed in the era of slide-rules. Neither is a 3rd or 4th generation design. Chernobyl was a bad design, and the incident resulted from Soviet mismanagement (keeping known RBMK reactor flaws secret) in tandem with local mismanagement (the test protocol was completely fucked).

Fukushima required active cooling and could not cool itself using its own power output. And the backup generators were below sea level and the thing was on a fault line.

Neither caused major loss of life.

Three Mile Island was a scare, and did not cause significant damage or loss of life.

Any newly constructed reactor would not have the design flaws of the Soviet RBMK and would be designed to fail-safe.
From a cursory reading it does not really sound similar; it sounds like Google is picking a side and doubling down on it. The description of the Facebook policy, on the other hand, suggests that Facebook are trying to suppress the drama, not picking a side in it.
> Does anyone blame the postal service?

Yes?

Do you think the USPS does nothing to detect bombs in the mail?

You can’t earn trust by saying “that’s not my problem.”
As someone who works at a somewhat big registrar, it always amazes me how opaque the whole domain ecosystem and politics is to anyone not in the business.

Even some "basic" stuff like the difference between registrar and registries is widely unknown to the public.

It's a shame really, because knowing how it works is extremely empowering. Knowing where and how to escalate complaints (registrar -> registry -> ICANN if not a ccTLD) for instance is just mandatory.
And this is why we all should have shouted louder when Google set this precedent five years ago. This is going to become the status quo.

If Google can do it why can’t we?
AFAIK, Facebook is not used for internal discussions. Unlike the Facebook we all have, there are no controls to block users, flag posts as "see fewer like this", etc. I've used those to great effect and see zero political content on my FB feed.
Probability Is Subtle (2014)
Intentional Opt Out Delay with Trust Arc
How about making sure you have all the countries? I think it was .it that I couldn't find.
I think it's different in that in a state of flow, you are intensely focused on whatever it is you're doing, and are able to maintain that focus without struggle.

In a "zombie" state, you may not really be focusing on anything at all, least of all what you're doing.
or noise reduction, feel these features should be part of conferencing apps itself vs having to use multiple apps on computers that feed into conference app.
I'll bet they got gunshy dealing with abuse and illegal uses of the service. A real shame as it's a no-brainer service to have in their software suite, and a great complement to the browser
The joke says "Now that covid is less prevalent, scandinavians do not need to follow the 2m constraint .... and go back to their usual 5m"
A 20% or greater ownership position with an active role in management of the business will exempt you from that requirement:

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=e026726958b72eec799...

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...
I completely agree with your first sentence, but would not characterize any of your examples in your second as being inherently political as opposed to having been needlessly politicized.
It's the one service of the new wave of Mozilla products I actually liked.

Well, maybe lockwise might be ok, but I already have a password manager.
This is something I was always worried a registrar would do, but I always told myself not to be so silly. That they had better things to do. I guess godaddy don’t have anything better to do. Very crappy behaviour indeed.
Ah I see. But this is precisely a usecase for cloudflare's own caching service.

It wouldn't be fair to use archive.org's community-sponsored resources for propping up businesses which are too cheap to pay for proper IT :)
Only ~10% of all homes in the US were designed by architects, and it shows.
https://ibb.co/JQ9vcYs
You're oversimplifying to an absurd degree.

Consider Socialist Yugoslavia, the main difference between its electoral system and those of non-communist states was the amount of indirection involved.

Also, you ignored the second half of jariel's comment.
they were using s3 for file storage. This was likely just burning incredible amount of cash and had absolutely no monetization angle in play.
I can't help you if you don't even understand the scale of renewability of resources such as oil and gas, the ratio of energy extracted to energy put into the various kinds of machines that produce what we need to keep our energy consumption up, the limits to energy extraction for solar power, the lack of predictability and controllability of energy sources other than gas-oil-coal-nuclear, and the CO2-related effects on the atmosphere for the first three out of those four, the depletion of current controllable energy sources, and the energy available in the various kinds of uranium-plutonium-thorium isotopes which lead to the different kinds of nuclear power plants. Amongst other things which take hours of actually trying to wrap your head around the problem instead of putting your fingers in your ears and screaming bloody murder.

Because apparently you seem to believe that "there is absolutely no 'physics'" in all of this.

edit: as a side-note, take a look at all the countries that have increased their renewables energy consumption and show me that it corresponds to a decrease in production and investments of {oil or gas or coal or nuclear}, i.e. controllable energy sources. You will soon see that the sources that cannot be predicted in a way that ensures your fridge continuously works and you can take a hot shower at all hours of the day are only secondary sources that people are happy to have (and renewables are a great thing to invest in) but that in itself is not enough - unless, again, one accepts that their patterns of behaviour and consumption would change drastically, which is only one of the many possible discussions around the evolution of our societies that you seem to be so anxious to sweep under the rug.
Interesting, I wonder if on a meta-note we're seeing an evolution of Nvidia's strategy. For a while, it was hardware, then it was leveraging that hardware to create developer-facing APIs (CUDA being a driver for many ppl in ML to buy Nvidia in particular), and now it seems they may be trying out leveraging that compute to create specialized, end-user facing services.

Are there any more examples of this?

I wonder if Nvidia will try to move upmarket to own the best UI powered services (e.g. if you want a camera with a virtual background, it has to be nvidia or something similar)
If Facebook doesn't want to talk politics, it should stop making political donations to PACs.
Right...I'm not done the article yet, but I wonder why they didn't just remove all the dirt from the roof, or install an impermeable membrane over the entire hill.
> I'm not American, but the Americanophobia present here and the schadenfreude towards bad things happening in the US is quite the subject for a study.

As an American in a European country, this rather nicely sums up my experience with some (and to be extra explicit, definitely not all) people from a wide variety of European countries. I've grown to find it rather amusing especially as it serves as a convenient litmus test to identify people with whom it is worth discussing interesting political topics. I suppose my point is that it's probably not just an HN effect.

Many Americans also have their own bits on which to improve here, obviously, but I haven't personally been on that side of the table.
So about the ratio of non-selfies to selfies.
Population goes up, useful land does not. That’s why we’re paving suburban farmland and cutting and burning rainforests and even going to war. I agree that space makes Antarctica and Death Valley look inviting, and major settlements in those places would be good practice, but how feasible is that while we’re limited to a share of the energy and resources readily available on Earth?
As a brew-pub-owning home-brew friend said, "I took a fun hobby and turned it into work." I'm the same way, I've had some software businesses. Man, sure is fun building that product. Man, sure does suck doing customer support/business stuff/dealing with local government/pick your poison. That slurping sound? Yeah, that's the fun being sucked out of it. So about half the time (probably less, actually) I go work for The Man...until I once again think that this time will be different.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24054313
All while collecting nice paychecks thanks to the google money
But, it's a "hack workaround" that a professional consensus has converged upon. Pythonistas have developed supporting tools & help-texts, & many assume the use of silo'd virtual environments as 'basic hygiene' for serious work. The approach is also highly analogous to other "alternate virtual root" solutions across OSes/containers/user-customization schemes.

So instead of that, you'd rather... make you own custom hack workarounds? That will be idiosyncratic to your installations/projects? That will hit unique errors/tradeoffs the standard convention has already worked around? That will be harder for others to understand?

OK, to each their own!
there's kinda that ironically-lame hipster vibe to using aol.com email addresses. they're coming back in style.
Yes. SEM assumes that all relationships are linear and that all variables are normally distributed (for standard errors and fit indices calculations). Those assumptions are baked into the model and are usually never discussed.

Non-linear models are not common in social sciences so that's probably why I never used them. There are a few variables that are usually quadratic (like the effect of age on wages). Other than that, linear relationships are good enough most of the time.

The only real application of non-linear model that I have seen are generalized structural equation models (GSEM). These allow for the use of link functions in SEM (logits, logs, poisson, exponentials, etc.) and are the multiple equations analogue of generalized linear models.

I am not familiar with structural causal models (SCMs), but a quick google search shows that these are a non-parametric version of SEM based on Baysian estimation and are a generalization of Baysian network. They sound cool but I don't think that they will become mainstream in psychology research anytime soon.
Are you using Chrome? If so https://killedbygoogle.com/. Google is guilty of the same.
100% same as my experience with GoDaddy several years ago. Checked for domain availability, found an open one, didn’t buy it and it was registered the next day.

I hope they go down in flames. Their whole business was built on misogyny and preying on ignorance. Their products are rough to work with, and their service hasn’t been kind to me. Super Bowl ads and loss leaders have worked to hook a lot of people into the type of subpar website ownership experience that gave rise to social networks in the first place.
I find it interesting, and somewhat amusing, that we're seeing Data-Oriented-Design becoming popular in C++ and Rust while Data-Oriented-Programming/Data-Driven-Design[1] is being promoted in languages like Clojure and Elm. Both have similar names, and seem to have arisen out of frustrations with OOP. However, their solutions went in completely opposite, though not unrelated, directions. Seems like DOD is about improving program performance by optimizing for data locality in memory; while DOP/DDD is about improving programer performance by optimizing for data locality in source code.

On the other hand, maybe this isn't interesting at all and I'm just thinking about it too hard.

[1] This one isn't a well defined, and there's no commonly agreed upon terminology for the concept. But there is this: https://livebook.manning.com/book/the-joy-of-clojure-second-...
The word Modern absolutely does not mean new, recent, or contemporary in the context of design (or really in reference to any visual presentation). The design of Walkman was innovative and new when it came out, but at no point in time did it qualify as Modern.

Modernism, as applied to the design of tools and other useful objects, was codified by Dieter Rams half a century ago. The recent resurgence of Modernism as applied to computer software and hardware is not the result of inevitable progress. It’s the result of Steve Jobs deliberately choosing Modernism in the early 90s (although this wasn’t apparent in products until his return).

https://ifworlddesignguide.com/design-specials/dieter-rams-1...
Lately I've noticed websites dynamically changing price for domain names using AI to determine how valuable that name is? I don't like that practice, it used to be same price for all domains names of certain kind (.org, .in, .com etc) but now not just the TLD but also what name you pick can dramatically increase the price.
That could be true in your jurisdiction. In general it isn't.[1]

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/sexual-harassment
The TikTok Oracle Grift: Insiders Hunting for a Tech Company the President Liked
The article is talking about two things simultaneously that really need should be talked about separately, or at least in order- the technical criteria for diagnosing an learning disability and the policy response to it.

It might be that any reading difficulty, whether it is someone who test to a high IQ reading below expectation or just generalized below grade level, has the same cause/treatment. It doesn't make it any less important to identify, treat, and accommodate it.

This article talks about some specific, strong policy responses that sound unique to the UK and are very expensive. In the US, a family member was diagnosed with dyslexia in early high school and all that was provided was 30% more time on tests. And you know what? It was enough to let him significantly increase his grades. In his advanced classes he'd consistently been the only person in his class to not finish timed tests, not because he didn't know the material but because he was a slower reader (and writer) than the rest of the class.

The article seems to want to do away with the diagnosis of "dyslexia" entirely, because it has lead to inequities in the past, rather than revamp it to be more inclusive of general reading comprehension issues. That seems wrong to me. Dyslexia and other educational disability diagnoses provide a "cheat sheet" for more individualized education and have value. That it is more a symptom than a disease in and of itself doesn't make it any less real for people afflicted.

The exact policy response (special schools, extra tutoring, or just extra time on tests) are far more debatable, especially given the limited resources of any educational system. I wish the article had given more thought to it not being an all or nothing change.

I really like powersnail's comparisons to physical ailments. We understand that many causes may lead to a single symptom- for example, being wheelchair bound. Yet that symptom is real and worthy of accommodation.
They are going through the necessary but deeply painful process of diversifying their income away from Google payments, which is much easier said than done.

Mozillas initially incredible partnership with Google, from which they earn the vast majority of their income, essentially turned toxic once Google started experimenting with Chrome. On that day Google’s favourite browser to support shifted from Firefox to Chrome.

Being financially reliant on your main competitor is a deeply troubling and dysfunctional position to be in.

Regardless of how good it started, its time to move on.
Imagine if those satellites were never made, we wouldn't have had the Hubble space telescope either.
Nope. They used the Abbott IgG antibody test which was validated to have 99.63% specificity and 100% sensitivity. There is no need for field researchers to test the test. Unless there was widespread contamination of specimens or something the study results are solid.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.27.20182741v...

https://www.abbott.com/antibody-testing/top-COVID-19-antibod...
Perhaps, but it's easier to deal with a user you can contact at [alias]@registrardotcom versus a corporation you can contact at spam@corporationdotcom
Those are fair infrastructure reasons, but not necessarily cost-effective. There are always competing perspectives. What does the business want. What do the developers want. What does the infrastructure team want. When power is centralized in one area, decisions can be made that overlook those competing purposes.

I see containers being adopted without openly discussing the options and long-term consequences.
They timed their releases perfectly. I ended up buying the game 3 times. First was PS3, then a year or so later on PS4 because it was night and day better graphics. Another year or so later I dropped yet another $60 on it for the 1080p60.

I'm guessing the next gen console dev cycle was just a little too short for GTA 6 to hit the same stride though.
> but the law is what determines culpability, not the cofactor analysis of the actual problem root.

We are talking about what ought to be, not what is. The law falls under the category of is, and does not imply ought. I think everyone in the conversation understands that PG&E bears some amount of legal liability for these fires.
Yea, for easy github forking! :) Firefox Send was such a great and simple tool for sharing those >10MB (anything that won't fit in an email) files with literally anyone.

Now that we'll be maintaining our own fork (https://github.com/plyint/send), if anyone has any thoughts on features or fixes you'd like added I'd love to hear from you. Just send us a message from our website (https://plyint.com), open a github issue or contact me through my HN profile. I can't promise will implement it, but we'll definitely give it a serious look.
Well,... for example, the National Institute for Health Research University College London predicted ~580k excess 1-year mortality in a "do nothing" scenario in their "high" relative-risk (RR) assessment. That's ~0.9% of the population in 1 year, or 70 million people if extrapolated worldwide.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...