skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Same way you ensure any other person isn’t being exploited.

"It's estimated that internationally there are between 20 million and 40 million people in modern slavery today."

"Human trafficking earns global profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, $99 billion of which comes from commercial sexual exploitation"

"Estimates suggest that about 50,000 people are trafficked into the US each year, most often from Mexico and the Philippines. "

>Society provides resources allowing the person to have the opportunity to not be leveraged into exploitation as their only option.

"In 2018, over half (51.6%) of the criminal human trafficking cases active in the US were sex trafficking cases involving only children"

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-human-tr....
And previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23185166
Actually to understand his stories you have to understand the complexity of the history of military dictatorship in Myanmar in a system of power like no other ( only found in Orwell's works and today's state of controlling minorities in Myanmar- every day war with thousands of refugees and deads from napalm bombs for years with no coverage by any sort of media.In a real Orwellian state you can watch the behaving of Aung Sung Ki after her rise in power with the blessing of surveillance provided by a mix of military , police, casts and church)
It would also decimate their trustworthiness; how would anyone trust a secondhand iphone if it can be compromised like that? Could it be done in pure software, opening it up for malware?

I mean I get why one would want unrestricted access to hardware, custom software, etc, but at the same time I understand the resistance to allowing it. In Apple's case, security is really high up in their priorities.
Train powered by human waste could replace city trams
Discussion of how it was done here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kuqvs3/all_par...

Edit: this Reddit post appears to be inaccurate. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25725268
Nuclear is being phased out due to cost. As more things are discovered that could go wrong, it gets more and more expensive to fix all of them.

Nuclear is also bad at this kind of thing. You really want either storage (storing heat is easy, by the way), or cheap plants. It doesn't really matter if they are expensive to run as long as they only run a few days a year.
> the service providers must ask themselves: which scenario will hurt democracy worse?

As I mentioned above, what they are likely asking themselves is pragmatic instead of moral, i.e. "which option exposes us as a company to the most legal problems? What hurts profits?"

That explains why service providers changed their thinking so suddenly and dramatically after, you know, a whole lot of serious crimes against the state happened on the 6th, and the evidence trail runs through those service providers.
I asked Terry about Super Hexagon a while ago. His reply:

Hey!

This is something I'm thinking about! Super Hexagon's 10th anniversary is in 2022, but it's possible I'll end up doing it sooner than that...

- Terry
I don't think private institutions, especially when there are a small number of extremely powerful ones that exert control over publishing, should be applying or enforcing subjective standards on publishing.

This isn't a legal opinion but a personal one: people who decide unilaterally for other adults what they should be allowed to read or see are assholes.

My web host is in many senses like my ISP: I don't pay them to editorialize.

In the US there is already a huge and well- (and perhaps over-)funded machinery for investigating and enforcing the law. If the laws are being broken, why not let them handle it? (This has the added benefit of applying the existing body of legal wisdom regarding state censorship.)

If the laws aren't being broken, what's the problem?
I thought, great! I now am curious about how it was implemented. So I did:

$ git clone http://git.bytex64.net/blerg.git
Cloning blerg...
error: Empty reply from server (curl_result = 52, http_code = 0, sha1 = 95d56e6cc [...])
[...]

Sigh! How can we look at the C code?

[EDIT: now looked at other comments about how this is a joke... is this error intentional?]
The reason we don't live in sub third world conditions like our ancestors of the 1700s is that with the Industrial Revolution, a few % of jobs have been automated each year.

Through this history people have always been worried about those whose jobs are automated, but they've always, on average at least, managed to find new and better paying jobs.

It's important to understand that 3.5m jobs won't disappear in a month. It will take at least a decade to switch around an industry this big, and people will have time to adjust.

Also, this means transportation will be cheaper and faster (computers don't need sleep), which benefits everyone.

> No society where an average person - of average intelligence, average skills, average potential - cannot make a good living for themselves, can survive as a civilized society.

I'm actually also worried about this, but I think it's a separate issue.
But you're still robbing a truck...
Reading a bit deeper into this... the real big difference to me is "context".

If you want someone to critically think, they have to have business context and in many cases a vested interest in what they're building.

This crops up quite a bit when your engineering is primarily outsourced/overseas and your work involves an issue that might be a primarily US based problem.

How can you expect people to critically think when they don't have context around the issue?
“A naive observer, reading the reports of falling prices for photovoltaic cells and wind turbines, might conclude that the rising shares of solar and wind power will bring a new era of falling electricity prices. Just the opposite has been true.”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/policy/electricity-its-wond...

this is the reality

“Before the year 2000, when Germany embarked on its large-scale and expensive Energiewende (energy transition), that country’s residential electricity prices were low and declining, bottoming at less than €0.14/kWh ($.13/kWh, using the prevailing exchange rate) in 2000.”

“By 2015, Germany’s combined solar and wind capacity of nearly 84 gigawatts had surpassed the total installed in fossil-fueled plants, and by March 2019 more than 20 percent of all electricity came from the new renewables. However, over an 18-year period (2000 to 2018) electricity prices more than doubled, to €0.31/ kWh. The E.U.’s largest economy thus has the continent’s highest electricity prices, followed by heavily wind-dependent Denmark, at €0.3/kWh.”

and finally,

“A similar contrast can be seen in the United States. In California, where the new renewables have taken an increasing share, electricity prices have been rising five times as fast as the national mean and are now nearly 60 percent higher than the countrywide average.”
I Created a Quilt Pattern Generator App for My Fabric Store with Racket
Are you sure? I'm not a cryptogrpher and I think neither are you while Filippo Valsorda is indeed a serious cryptographer. And yes, I copied that list from Wikipedia because people is genuinely trying to replace the word without altering the abbreviation.
Come on. Anyone who supported the insurrection on Jan 6th should be expelled from Congress and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for supporting a rebellion against the US. The fact you make me spell that out that to dance around the issue is disturbing.

This is pretty straight forward. If you:

Support violence against other groups because they look different

Seek to restrict someone's rights/voting because of the above

Then you should not be tolerated in our society and you should be punished.
That's disappointing. Chrome on iOS also has a QR code scanner. Surprising that Chrome on Android does not

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/7862896?hl=en
2021? More like 2010. Hadoop is getting deprecated rapidly and more companies split their write and read workloads. Separated storage and compute is also popular. Scala is not used that much, I think it is not worth the time investment. More and more companies go for Kotlin instead of Java when these want to tap into the Java ecosystem.
Can anything save the American family (or America itself, after this last week) seems like a better question.
People are planting WWI-style victory gardens
It was always clear that Putin was/is trying to interfere. Putin hating Hillary does not necessarily implicate Trump.
>The way things are going crypto may actually become a real currency

Not as long as it continues to have insane electricity demands and bogs down when it receives even a fraction of the transactions in a given period that Visa or Mastercard processes routinely in an identical given period.
Does this work with a 7Plus as well? Asking for a friend.
Especially when it comes to making and performing art in a a specific genre, the devil is in the details.

Serato control vinyl might have found a happy medium or even surpassed what is capable with certain aspects of cdjs or the state of late 70s through early 2000s vinyl djing, but its not cheap, and it doesn't replicate the discovery or ownership aspect of purchasing vinyl.

It would quite odd to me for someone to say that serato control vinyl is a nostalgia oriented product.
Pull over and contact HQ? I mean it's a blown tire, not rocket science.
Pretty sure it's illegal to put up traffic signs without permission.
Does, "This won't make us any money, and could further result in the company going under or otherwise severely being hindered in the market due to the negative backlash and resulting decline in business." count as a subjective standard that you believe a private institution should not be applying?

What are corporations allowed to do then, in your mind?
The real issue would be how to make it profitable. If your user base is much further right than Fox, you’ll be hard pressed to attract advertising because most companies would not want their brand associated with you.

Which poses the problem of building your user base on a clone site. Where all your first movers would be exactly the kind of people that no one would want to join. Just look at voat, it was a Reddit clone and many people went to see what it was like, but left because of how disgusting the regular voat users were, and since 99% of us aren’t going to get banned from Twitter, why would we leave it to join a bunch of degenerates?
Vision Fund backs Chinese fitness app Keep in $360M round
I'm glad TBL is working on this stuff, but at this point I can't help but feel like this is doomed to a very slow uptake, like how Semantic Web and IPv6 are still emerging technologies. I am reminded of esr on Plan 9:

> Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its position. There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: The most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.
> Once an undergraduate is cleared to move in, they must not leave campus for the rest of the term. This should be fairly easy.

Maybe CalTech is very different, but I truly cannot imagine this at MIT. Students go out and party, even at top programs that have a disproportionate number of "traditionally nerdy" people.

Further, students aren't the only people present. Faculty exist, and some of them can bring Covid into the bubble. Administrators and staff exist, and some of them can bring Covid into the bubble. Once a few students are infected the "don't leave campus" plan does not achieve much of anything. You mention daily tests, but you can be infectious before a test is positive. And faculty will throw a fit about this.

> At Caltech, every undergraduate could understand the science and the mathematical models behind the policy, and see that it is correct.

There are STEM faculty at top universities who can't seem to understand the basics of how the pandemic functions. I cannot possibly imagine that every single 18-year-old who is smart and interested in science is going to be able to resist the enormous amount of misinformation about the pandemic and stay-at-home orders.

> Same for MIT and Harvey Mudd on the science aspect, although I'm not quite sure about MIT. MIT does offer undergraduate degrees in quite a few fields that aren't STEM, such as music, theater arts, global studies and languages, and several others, and I'm not sure how much STEM people in those majors have to take.

This is crossing a STEMlord line for me. Where my wife works, her department (in the humanities) has more teachers choosing to teach online than the computer science and physics departments. I think you are enormously quick to treat fresh out of high school engineering students as rational actors and everybody else as ignorant buffoons.
It shows up in other places as well, The Netherlands has a lot of traffic islands at crossings, they often have a metal "fence" on it around schools to force kids on bikes to zig-zag (slowing them down instead of crossing at speed). It's very manufacturer dependent how these are handled. The systems I have experience with are Volvo, Tesla and BMW and they handle things quite differently.

My girlfriend's Volvo was very trigger happy on the emergency brake feature, it would hit the brakes for traffic islands all the time because it didn't know you were going to steer around it. It nearly caused us to be rear-ended at 50 km/h a couple of times.

My BMW and previous Tesla on the other hand almost completely ignore stationary road-side kind of objects. Both have never braked for a traffic island in the few years that I drove them.

The downside is I guess that there are known cases of Tesla Autopilot driving into things (the famous lane-divider incident comes to mind). BMW doesn't sell their system as autopilot, but their manual also has a big warning to be aware of things blocking the road and not to rely on the car to stop for those. So I expect their system, faced with that same lane-divider would probably also crash into it.
They mean that the corporation is paying for the people downloading 70 terabytes from them.
For reference, that got called the "Python paradox" back then when Google was exploiting it. Of course, Python is now mainstream, so it doesn't have this effect anymore.
Talk-radio owner orders conservative hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric
It already is; autonomous vehicles active now are e.g. airport light rails. Short hauls, fixed track and schedules, very controlled environments so not even a need for e.g. lidar or smart cameras or anything. Distance sensors to kick in in case of unexpected obstacles maybe.
>If it was indeed a backdoor, sure, but that's a judgment call, not something anyone knows. As others have noted, e2e was a novelty at the time, not a norm, and the platform itself was extremely new (less than a year old), and their stated reason for this was to protect against weak client RNG, which in retrospect sounds like a weak reason, but looking back at the news of 2013, this was right around the time the Snowden leaks caused everyone to believe RDRAND could indeed be compromised, so "client having state-compromised RNG" was indeed something on everyone's mind.

Everything you said here was addressed by the OP. The connection to telegram servers is already encrypted, the only adversary this server-side RNG could possibly defend against is one that has access to the server.
This is true, but the size of the vehicle is probably correlated to the scale of any failure modes.
Really nice work! And good response from Google.
Interesting in a technological sense, but what problem it solves isn’t obvious to me.
It lets me granularly authorize first party access what data I have in my pod, but there can’t be any technical guarantees with regards to illegitimate sharing or otherwise copying (many might at least cache, for instance) – nor about what is collected and shared outside this system.

I keep seeing data-hubs and identity-providers touting themselves as solutions to the web's privacy issues, but I don't see how they actually solve anything.

It seems like an attempted technical solution to a social problem to me.

The real problem with data based services (ads, Google search, etc) is really that a bunch of data is collected opaquely, unethically, and in some cases illegally. The whole system including data brokers and real time bidding is out of control.
Opinion: Tesla's rise should cheer climate change campaigners
The last-modified headers indicate that the front page and docs have not been updated since May 2018. This is not a viable platform and the analysis of Twitter's technical shortcomings is facile. The original 140 character limit, now doubled to 280 characters, was originally constrained by the SMS interface Twitter supported but ultimately imposes a preferred content style that distinguishes the microblogging experience.

The scaling problem is what AWS's James Hamilton use to call the "Hairball Problem" in which there is no single database partitioning scheme that performs well under all workloads. The Subscriptions [1] section of the documentation demonstrates this problem:

> I immediately came up with the naïve solution: keep a list of users to which users are subscribed, then when you want to get updates, iterate over the list and find the last entries for each user. And that would work, but it's kind of costly in terms of disk I/O. I have to visit each user in the list, retrieve their last few entries, and store them somewhere else to be sorted later. And worse, that computation has to be done every time a user checks their feed. As the number of users and subscriptions grows, that will become a problem.

> So instead, I thought about it the other way around. Instead of doing all the work when the request is received, Blërg tries to do as much as possible by "pushing" updates to subscribed users.

This approach works well except when some users have hundreds of thousands of followers which results in an explosion of "pushing" updates. This doesn't even take into account geography related latencies of a global user base. Furthermore, naive attempts at databases without fault tolerance assume that losing recent data is not a big deal. It isn't, the big problem is failures that corrupt data and can't be restored to a known good state.

[1] https://blerg.cc/doc/#subscriptions
As to weather, I was commenting on the relative number between summer and winter. In both years, they hold up better than I would have thought, at around 50%. That would fit with, for example, commuters using the bike year-round, with the other half in summer consisting of tourism, generally increased activity, joyrides, etc.

As to Giffen: people are shifting public transport -> car & bike. The "budget" (road capacity) is fixed and close to full utilisation. Increased demand with inelastic supply results "inflation", which is the somewhat convoluted way the income effect comes about. Aaaand... yeah, I can't quite remember how I made the next part fit. so you may be right.
I agree. Liberals and most people in the tech space believe Trump got elected due to racism. It just is not the case. He got elected by being an opportunist and latching on to the real biggest issue in America, the decades of downward pressure and degradation of lower and middle class families.

There just are not enough opportunities for average or poor people to find meaningful quality work. Going to work as a cog at some global chain store will keep you alive barely but good luck being able to buy a home or have children.

Housing is through the roof, the education system is a scam using undischargable debt to turn our youth into indentured servants. Almost every American is 1 health care crisis away from bankruptcy. We are living in a powder keg.

I am seeing a lot of evictions where I live. Food bank lines are miles long.

It feels like identity politics are being used to distract us from how dire things are becoming for literally everyone not in the 1%
I live in a big city with a lot of tech workers and white collar professionals so plenty of disposable income.

Just from talking to people out riding this summer it seems like a lot of people bought bikes they could technically afford but were way above their preferred price range simply due to availability.

What people wanted was $500 bikes but there were only $2500 bikes so that's what they got. It's not like they're stupid or even necessarily made a bad choice. They wanted a bike and got the bike they could get.
They also quit their jobs if they had one.
The submission never explains what "dead NAND" refers to.
Not qualified to comment on any technical aspect of this. But this observation:

> "Living and working aboard a sailboat was for us a constraint, it liberated our imagination by eliminating possibilities."

Rings very true to me. When you're in a tent in the woods, without mobile internet and just human company for "entertainment", it's incredible how easy it is to have long conversations or to think/make up games to pass the time.
> Easy to imagine someone at night, taking liberties with the speed limit, hitting that thing at 70mph and taking off.

"Easy to imagine illegal, reckless, dangerous behavior posing a danger."
> unless the data corpus it is trained on likewise bears no relation to reality

It’s trained on Reddit, so I wouldn’t rule that out.
> Testing proves only the presence of errors not their absence.

I've never thought of it that way, but that totally makes sense.
there is a currently available machine for which the pc110 was likely a direct inspiration: https://gpd.hk/gdpwin2

(their next model revisits sony vaio ux instead: https://gpd.hk/gpdwin3)

i got gpd pocket 2 (same hardware as win 2, but in a more traditional 7" laptop shell) as a collectible and ended up using it as my daily driver -- it is very much a typical intel 'ultrabook' in all aspects but size.
Even if 1 out of 20 gimmicky bots work out or better yet solves a problem another Hyundai platform has makes that purchase worthy.
I'm an avid biker, and commute by bike all year around even in harsh nordic winter climate. But my numbers for 2020 are faaar lower than usual. Normally I would bike to and from work 5 times a week, to swimming 3 times a week, to meet a friend for jogging, to the mall, etc. But now all those things are closed, so I use the bike for something maybe once a week instead.

So I hope and believe the numbers will be even greater for 20211, actually. Multiple new people with bikes, and soon people will move about as usual.
Allow me to dodge answering directly:

If gigantic multinationals and infrastructure providers stop hosting anything that might be unpopular or generate bad PR, then we quickly approach a world where the tyranny of sheep logic[1] (not what people think, but what people think other people think) will dictate the very narrow range of what products, services, media, literature, and art are available.

That world sucks and we should avoid it.

This has already mostly happened for concert venues in the US, as well as video hosting.

Already we've made a world where the basic human unclothed form is all but outlawed except in clinical (or apparently yoga) settings online. I don't think there's any upper bound to what a culture can contort into believing is unacceptable.

[1]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/sheep-logic/
>if I listen to songs on Spotify, are they supposed to somehow not store it, but still give me recommendations?

This is perfectly possible.

In your example, Spotify could store the data they needed for their recommendation algorithm in aggregate form so that any link to a person was destroyed and not reversible.

And then make recommendations by running that algorithm on your locally/privately stored data, with no loss of functionality.

As such, a recommendation algorithm does not technically benefit from storing your personal data, at all.