skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well you see Google selling Pixels which is supposed to be an idiot box to reproduce voice signals but it turns out it's loaded with ads and trackers. Samsung probably followed along the lines that Google pioneered
I'm not sure there is causation here. Far-right ultra-nationalistic movements are gaining speed in many places in the world. I think there are many factors at play, one being that we get further and further away from WW2 and people forget how bad it can get (especially here in Europe). Only the military and very old people in the west now know what a real war feels like. On top of that there's general social unrest and increased inequalities (the infamous 1%), software eating the world etc...

I do think that white supremacy, fascism and nazism was really a lot more fringe even only 10 years ago, it wasn't just under-reported.
Thank you for doing away with this.
You say that, but given how many people are upset with him and how many literal crimes he has publicly admitted to - has anything happened?

He claims to be untouchable and so far it looks like he is.
The relationship between Covid-19 and other seasonal coronaviruses is unclear at best. In particular, this study is contradicted by evidence of long-lasting immunity for SARS-Cov-1 survivors. So far, evidence of reinfection with Covid-19 seems limited to a handful of people. However, if reinfection becomes more prevalent (say next year), then we're really up a creek without a paddle. At that point, the only viable strategies left will be global eradication, or repeat vaccination akin to the seasonal flu.
More like high-end consulting.
On the other hand, in North America, massive amounts of freight are moved by rail, extremely efficiently, and railways are generally pretty profitable. A train might be a mile long (as a child, you count the cars as you go past on the highway, and 80 or so was pretty standard). The freight companies own the rails and their trains get priority over passenger trains. Via Rail has exactly the same problem in Canada.

In contrast, in Europe, while some cargo is moved by rail, the focus is on passengers. Freight trains (all trains) are short, and passengers have priority over freight.

A quick google brought this up, though I haven't read through it in full:

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/railroad/us-and-european-f...
What many people don't know: there exists an opt-in feature for read receipts, built right into all major email clients.
This is an important aspect. People are not aware how big the difference of this is to the usual account name and password. If you want to start over and register a new account, you can have that. Not with this technology. And with the amount of data which Amazon vacuums up, there are totally legitimate reasons for this. Let's say, just as an example, that your girlfriend has bipolar disorder and you order and read a couple of books from Amazon how to cope with that, and how to help her. Fast-forward ten years. She has overcome the illness with good medication, and became your wife, or maybe you have parted ways and live in different states. This is past. But Amazon still has that information about you - a very sensitive kind of information. Maybe if this data is sold to an insurance company, she won't get health insurance. Now, closing your account and starting a new one is an option to handle, even in a limited way, that toxic data waste which is laying around.

Irreversibly tying accounts to biometric identities is a very powerful thing which can easily be abused. Think of Salman Rushdi, the Iranian writer which became target of a religios fatwa and was basically advertised to be murdered. He somehow managed to disappear. But that was years ago. In todays world with Facebook everywhere and your social graph being a different kind of fingerprint, you'd need to axe-murder your whole family and friends to get rid of that social graph which identifies you, whatever name and picture you use. AS no normal human being will do that, it has become basically impossible to disappear. And, having lived in Colombia, South America, I've known many decent and nice people who just had to disappear only in order to protect their life. This is dangerous technology.
Oil traders rush to invest billions into renewables
> libs are placated by...
Sorry but you don’t know WTF are you talking about. Any proposal to expand train service and especially electric trains in MN is vehemently attacked by conservatives, often with the loss of federal money to support light rail expansion.
At some level, everywhere has some form of censorship. For any country you could name, there are, or could easily be, content in any kind of media - books, audio, video, games, whatever, that is so abhorrent that it would either not be published, or would be shut down as soon as possible.

So if you say censorship is binary, it's already here, and has been here for ever. But I would guess that few believe that censorship is truly binary like you say.
I set my router dns to use the custom values nextdns provides for my account, which enabled it for the entire residence. It was fun to see the flotsam in the nextdns logs. I love this service.
A lot of my job involves reviewing other people's models and their implementation including the code and the data to train the models. If the author or team has put together a mathematical description, that's usually a good sign that they've done things with a degree of consideration and capability. However, I do have to remind myself not to fall for the mistake of conflating mathematical proficiency with correspondence to a "correct" model of the real world. The circuit breaker for me is to test my thinking and assessment with someone else. We're all suckers for something.

[EDIT] Grammar.
I've been using ansible to configure my laptops for years now; it automatically installs most of the packages that I'm going to want, clones things like my dotfiles into my home directory, etc.

Edit: Oh, and obviously I keep the playbooks+roles in version control.
Pick up a copy of the book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living.

Its a classic, and the information is still as relevant then as it is today.
Risk-scoring algorithm – Technical information
The definition of it has widened to include more groups than before. The original groups are about the same size.
That is not always the case. Some toilet have the big button for the smaller flush, I would assume because that’s the one you need most frequently or to assume if you just press blindly you’d use the least amount of water.
I always get a lot of pushback when I express this sentiment but I think you're spot on. To me, this situation is another symptom of the weakening social contract I see between societies and their citizens. The responsibility of a society to educate its populace extends beyond mere vocation. It's frighteningly naive and optimistic for societies to assume that flattening that responsibility to such a small fraction will not result in horrific second order consequences.
Not really. The Mac is increasingly a only professional tool. Apple needs developers and scientific users to continue to use the platform.

More importantly they are on record in detail as completely denying this idea and asserting that they want people to be able to install whatever they want, and have access to all levels of the system. This is why you can switch things like SIP off.
This is a super literal take. In the 80s/90s the expense-incurring activity was physical cartridge production. Today it’s bandwidth & delivery infrastructure, card processing, any myriad of things.
"Training performance in images processed per second"?
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Good question.

I've found Samsung to be quite a good brand, as well as HP surprisingly. YMMV with HP though.
From the article:

> The third, was to broaden the definition of the “government servant” category to include “public servants” among the people who cannot receive foreign funds.

So, till now public servants were able to receive foreign funding?
I've bought multiple products from mobile ads just this year.

Heck the yoga app I use I saw through a mobile ad. Same deal for the fitness app I use (BodBot, awesome app, check it out!)

I've gotten onboard Kickstarters from ads, and I've bought keto cereal from an ad I saw.

99.999% of most ads I ignore, but sometimes ads are really well targeted and actually show me something I want.

(None of these ads were on a tv in any way...)
We're not using E, we're strongly inspired by it. It's written in Racket/Scheme because it's a very easy environment to do experimentation with language ideas in. It turns out everything we've built didn't really require language-level ideas, and could be ported to any language that has sane lexical scoping support. And with the CapTP networked layer, we might even be able to achieve interoperability.

In fact, we're in talks with the wonderful folks at Agoric, who are building very similar things in Javascript-land: https://agoric.com/

And we want our two CapTP implementations to be compatible. If we do that, you can have programs written in Scheme/Racket talking to programs written in Javascript just fine.

Hope that makes sense!
Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah has died
Review: The Social Dilemma
I'm surprised these aren't standard. Most American gravity-tank-flush toilets use the same flush valve, and most of the remainder are the tray-tip kind that doesn't really have a flush valve in the traditional sense. There are exceptions and oddities, but it's really nice having singles. Also does mean you can buy just the single part you need. I have no idea how we of all places managed to get this right.

Also I do wonder if a scale preventer injector (they go online like a water filter) would be more or less expensive than the toilet parts?
Do you mean this table which has a caption over it that reads "Training performance in images processed per second" ?? Looks pretty self-explanatory.
D-Wave launches its 5k qubit (quantum annealing) Advantage system
My comment did not talk about the judiciary. It was more about just calling Afzal Guru a separatist.

I don't think the judiciary is sleeping with the government. In recent times, they have given verdicts like the decriminalization of homosexual relationships and abolishing of Triple Talaq. I do agree that they should be more proactive. One reason for them being a bit soft on the government is that the current government has stuff like NJAC in their arsenal, which threatens to dilute the power of the judiciary. While NJAC was declared unconstitutional by the SC some years back, the current leadership can still bring it back by mobilizing support for it.
Nativists campaigned against incomers from Europe
Isn't that because most of the people that fly multiple times a year aren't the ones paying for the tickets? Instead their company has policies on getting the cheaper flights. And people that fly for a vacation once every few years, they may not have enough experience flying to realize the benefit (or, if they do want a better experience, they go all the way to first class).
MCDA as a tool for complex decision making
The thesis behind these programs is explicitly that the government shouldn’t waste timing being paternalistic about the recipient’s spending, like existing programs are. It only matters if in aggregate people’s lives are improved, not whether they are “spending wisely” according to someone’s ideal.

There may be other reasons why programs like this aren’t good, like financial feasibility or positive outcomes aren’t sustained when it’s broadly applied, but “I don’t trust someone to spend it well,” which is just a stand in for “how I would spend it,” needs to go away in favor of outcome-based evaluation.
Why doesn't epic just show the hundreds or thousands of apps apple let remain?
Maybe it will be their money laundering final push?
Is It Too Late to Stop Climate Change? – Kurzgesagt
Like suddenly demanding you register a credit card with them when you have perfectly fine working other payment methods.
Hacktoberfest 2020: The DevOps automation platform with open-source components
Reminds me of a King of the Hill episode where Hank gets a lo-flow toilet to save water, only to find that it wasted water in practice as it required several flushes to get the job done.

It's really a kind of recurring issue, where something is superficially "solved" (sounds good on the surface), but actually ends up making things worse in practice.
Even in the best of circumstances, being subjected to the highlights of 100 other people will make your life feel miserable in comparison. Amazing vacation locations at the best time of day, gorgeous food from the best angle, amazing health and fashion with the best lightning. That's before we go into likes hunting and what that does to the reward paths in your brain. Social media as a concept is deeply unhealthy. At least the traditional celebrity cult, already rather weird in its American incarnation, had some degree of psychological distance between self and the professionals. With social media, everyone is caught in the celebrity game.

Right now is a great time to delete your accounts. The only better time is yesterday.
Trump vs. Biden: Comparing the Candidates Positions on Technology
Pretty good example of selection bias. The people who are concerned are not going to be posting on facebook.
Bankruptcy and poverty, two different things.
`ibmcloud cf push`
I feel like a pre-order or KickStarter type situation might work. Do a small batch initially, get good reviews, do another, larger batch next year, keep cycling until you have enough cash to maintain an inventory.
Right. Apart from the sci-fi tropes, the extreme drama, and aesthetics, it's a spitting image. A great deal of effort is quietly spent on social control, keeping things as they are, and extracting value from people-as-cows, both here and there. Any technology in a position to add robustness to that system, to reduce its upkeep effort, or improve its efficiency at generating wealth for the privileged is likely to succeed, so it's reasonable to think some of the not-yet-here but possible aspects their world will make it to ours in time.

Sometimes I think that authors who see patterns and make reasonable but dire predictions about where society is going actually end up providing a game plan to career oppressors.
Don't think Initially Donald's granddad was that rich.

And to follow up German immigrants where not liked as the liked their beer and some where gasp Catholic
OC doesn't even have school busing. They say it's because of proposition 13 (which is problematic) but the funds for OC schools are not substantially less than elsewhere in the country where the schools are on average better and there are services like busing.

Where is it all going?

Probably to bloated administration. Colleges are the same story. Tuition has risen massively yet there are fewer tenure track positions for good professors. It's all going to administrators.
Perhaps it has been edited. Now the table contains the following title "Training performance in images processed per second".

A "Higher is better" might still be interesting although redundant.
I agree with you, but unfortunately our government is using them for that purpose.
Just a reminder that actually by definition consumer harm is the bedrock standard for antitrust litigation in the US. Scale and market power may be components of an argument for consumer harm, but they are not sufficient in and of themselves.
So people like Assange are useful only when they serve your favorite political party ? Not very objective
Didn't most email providers kill these off years ago? I thought they just cached the images as soon as the email arrived, and showed you the cached version each time you opened the message.
If the Varian Rule is true, that what the rich have today, the middle classes will have in 5-10 years and the poor in 10-15, it's worth noting that what the rich have today is private security.

The real risk is that the ultimate popular reaction to these systems will not be civil.
NASA wants ideas for keeping Moon missions powered in the dark
That's one way to get your username off the FBI's list!
I just started AWS, and find its security absolutely bewildering. It's good that things are locked down by default, and that the security is fine grained, but I was completely unable to locate a best practice for "I'm just writing a basic CRUD app and need the pieces to talk to each other".

Everything I touched was a mass of opaque identifiers -- roles and VPNs and security groups and I can't remember what else. I have no idea what I opened up in order to get anything to work, and I've almost certainly committed massive security violations. (Several entries in that list warn against 0.0.0.0/0, which was advised to do on multiple sites as the right way to open stuff up -- and I don't know what else I'm supposed to do.)

Oh, and it takes a while for changes to propagate, but I don't know how long. Eventually I discovered that something I did actually worked -- but I don't really know what.

So I don't really know what mistakes I made, except to be certain that there are many of them, and that they're going to be very dangerous.
Exactly. I do hasten to add that the toilet BOWL still gets cleaned - but I've never needed to clean out the tank.
Said the Japanese monk to the hot dog vendor: "Make me one with everything" :)
Whole Foods has store brands. You can't buy Whole Foods' store brand items at any other store. That aspect of exclusivity is harmful to consumers, since if they want to get the store brand items from different stores they have to pay money (fuel/bus/etc) to go to each store.
Turning off the ads should also turn off the surveillance.
> Kodak monopolized the aftermarket for parts and service after their customers were "locked in."

It's not clear to me that the timing was essential. Apparently Kodak had a policy since 1975 to only sell parts to direct purchasers of equipment, but the initial case wasn't filed until 1988. So the official terms, which were between Kodak and customers, not Kodak and ISOs, hadn't changed recently.

Clearly Kodak was taking some non-official anticompetitive actions, but that's not the same as changing the official terms.
As a layman: How is immunity defined?

The German virologist Drosten said in an interview (a while ago, sorry, no source) that it is expected that survivors will stop producing white blood cells at some point. The next time they get infected with COVID-19 they will develop symptoms of a common cold and get rid of the virus much quicker.
What about siphon system? Is it also afffcted by hard water?
Jesus christ, when will the ddg crying end?
I've stopped engaging in many places online over the last few years. The reason for me is that engaging with a pseudonym has become the exception rather than the rule.
Anyone who's ever worked on programming language implementation will recognise that you will for all time get a steady stream of occasional bug reports that your floating point numbers aren't arbitrarily precise.

Some language implementation bug trackers have a warning not to submit bugs for it front and centre because they get it so often.
The SPARC tokamak: A critical next step towards commercial fusion
*burning oil
Michael Lonsdale, Hugo Drax in 'Moonraker' and hero of 'Day of the Jackal,' dies
Then we would expect posting on Facebook to go down, yet Facebook's user count keeps going up.
> If this product is capable of collecting that sort of data in the first place

It's based solely on the http referer, which your browser sends.
Sorry what I can do is Google it for you but I have no idea if the first Google results are correct

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh... Apple leads in US smartphones with aprox 40% (not OS but devices)

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta... this one shows iOS at 60%

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/unite... Safari has more then 50% share in mobile browsers.
We have SNI because it's needed to support virtual hosting, which we really only need because IPv4 addresses are scarce. If we could ever get to IPv6, SNI could be retired completely.
(2017)

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14585882

edit:

The author also replied to some comments in that thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=socialcooling
Education determined by private employers will have less groupthink than education determined by a democratically elected group of legislators?
And, what also needs to be pointed out: It is, functionally, a user name. Not a password.
Internet of things is a huge antipattern.

I don’t remember where I read this, but a United Labs for information security is overdue.

It won’t directly help with ad injection, but I think the security implications will put a damper on some of this (the cost of maintaining their firmware which Samsung barely does).
Is my summary actually inaccurate? What are his qualifications to pontificate at length on the life of a middle manager, much less that of a director or VP at a large company, when he's never held any of these roles?
"That’s the security issue. That’s the security issue"

Its' not honest, but it's definitely not 'the security issue'.
I can agree that the ads are dependent on the apps in your top bar. I hve Plex, Prime, Netflix, Disney, & YouTube in mine and I don't see any ads.
So basically you never become a native regardless how many generations you stay in a country, thus nationalism is valid point of view.
You have absolutely nailed it. Over the past 7 years, I have observed EDA tooling frustrating to the point that RTL design/verification/structural engineers in my $megacorp company abandoned this entire industry and move to software jobs. System-on-chip design industry desperately needs to adopt an open source EDA tool chain from architecture to synthesis and layout.
Fortunately we have some amazing developments in this areas over the past year, specifically BlueSpec compiler becoming open sourced, SoC design and simulation framework such as ChipYard based on Chisel and Verilator. Lets hope this open source movement gains momentum and allows rapid innovation in this space.
Absolutely. It's almost unheard of to work at a major academic institution without one.
Becoming a professor is all preparation from 18-30, and then was an assistant you still have to grind and run errands to "earn your place".
> Content is King. If Netflix had crap content, it wouldn't matter how good their programmers are

I don't think I ever once said "content doesn't matter". If they only had dynamite content and a shitty user experience people would simply pirate the content and not pay for it.

> Yeah, I'm old. I've been around. I don't need you explaining anything to me.

I try every day to not become like that.
But a Russian dissident is very very likely to be pro-US...

Also, AI is not there to level judgment about who is worse, North Korea or US. It's there to document human rights abuses wherever they occur. So the premise that the effect of AI reporting is at all the point is false.
It was when I went to school in the UK especially in the lower streams i.e. those expected to leave at 16.

It was considered a bit advanced that some boys took it don't think girls shop classes.
Samsung positions themselves as a high end brand. These ads are appearing on higher end tv models.

If their $300 bargain basement basement tv was ads supported to keep the price low, eeh, maybe.

But that isn't the case here.

Consumer Gmail is free. If Office 365 premium ever starts showing ads, people will also become upset.
No shit. I guess that’s why I get a cold every winter.
There are a lot of people in this industry that think that Apple should and will prevail because of the history of this model. We’ve also seen this movie before and it’s not like iOS and Android are the end of history. There will be new platforms.

The last thing we want is for App stores to be declared public regulated utilities. That would be a way to enshrine in law there are no new platforms for 50 years.