skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, phones do have microphones too. The were a confidentiality risk even before becoming mobile. You also have piping running through your house, which could be tapped, you don't even need microphones, and the EM field emitted by your monitor can be read across the street. So why even care? Why should I encrypt anything, if I can't even prove not living in an all powerful simulation?

Back on topic, it's not a phones intended purpose to snitch on you, they usually do not listen into the room, without extremely malicious manipulation, and more so you simply can not realistically avoid having a phone in your reach, today. If I were talking business I would probably leave the phone outside too, for that matter, and I don't trust cheap communication hardware, either.

In real life drawing analogies by principle doesn't make for a good argument, most of the time, as life is adaptation and compromise, not a path through a logical circuit.

Do you honestly not see an obvious difference between a phone and an Amazon wired device intended to record and remotely analyze what's happening in the room?
That's nice, but it doesn't explain why SR&ED is bad.

If the reporting was crazy burdensome - ok - but that doesn't seem to be the case.

The article makes the impression that it's more like a 'welfar trap' type scenario.

In my view, it's just not relevant, the money just doesn't matter that much. Good projects tend to get funded.
Let's just forget that the US got the current administration after an 8 year stint of a Democratic President.

Candidate which managed two start two wars, didn't end a third war and managed to increase drone based deaths.

So much for tolerance, less hate and protecting the marginalised.
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Intel Confirms 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Production Has Started
I know that's standard practice. But, none of those are happening right now. So it was a bit surprising.
>Parler contained realistic threats and refused to moderate or remove those threads.

Parler has filed a lawsuit alleging precisely the opposite, and alleging further that, due to Amazon's contract with Twitter, Amazon's actions were a matter, not of TOS, but of anti-competitive action, especially given that "Hang Mike Pence" was trending on Twitter at the same time that Parler was getting kicked off of AWS. Anyway, I don't know the specifics of how Parler was moderated, so I won't comment further on the matter.

What I do see is a company whose mission was not explicitly political, but whose clientele was largely composed of the faction who lost the most recent election losing critical infrastructure, to the point that their service is effectively dead, even as myriad other companies move to denounce the faction who lost the most recent election. That is disturbing.
No doubt that they would come up with “new” terroir- every spot has its own “terroir.” My point was that it’s not something that can be quantified, so there’s no point trying to game it.
One mention of Threema along with WhatsApp. Not mentioned is how they obtained the messages, as far as I can see.
There's no collective punishment here. The RNC is a single legal person. All the individual members of the RNC are still welcome to use SalesForce themselves or in other organizations.
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I'd assume fowl to be much more common carriers but why are bats always the ones? Is there something glaring that I am missing?
Can you elaborate? As for as I've seen, disabling telemetry in VSCode is pretty straight forward.
Signal syncs fine between my iPhone and MacBook. I don't actually understand how, but it does.
The beautiful thing about this comment is that if anyone questions it or asks for sources you get to say that it confirms your point.

Left wing violence is at an all time high? Really?
its good, but amd will have zen4 at 5nm soon, does intel have a node shrink coming soon, and can they execute?
slippery slope that encompasses everything
He already is banned from twitter. How did it help with anything?

I don't know who do you think you're talking to, but no, violence is not "my solution" and I didn't have any "last time".
> Don’t forget the significantly lower tax burden

Very dependent on where you work. High tech salaries are concentrated in California, where the tax burden at your numbers will be higher than most provinces. I remember doing a comparison of BC to California, and the cross over point was about $250k USD (where taxes become more favorable in California).
>I wonder if paradoxically we'd all be better off if wages were higher (and offshoring / labor arbitrage were mitigated). Labor would certainly have more dollars to spend across the board. That would give businesses more dollars to spend in turn.

People hate on CPI inflation because they simply don't understand supply and demand in the labor market.

CPI inflation low = low demand for workers

CPI inflation high = high demand for workers

You want CPI inflation to be at least 2% and a small 5% spike for a year doesn't hurt if you have been stuck in a liquidity trap. Runaway inflation is extremely unlikely because we have spent a decade perfecting our economic deflation skills.

CPI inflation generally reduces inequality because the price of goods is rising faster than the value of assets because the money is arriving in consumer goods first and only businesses that are productively investing into providing more goods or services are actually getting the inflation money. At current valuations you are hard pressed to find companies that can justify their current market cap let alone further growth that would track CPI inflation.

If your wages rise from $15/hr to $30/hr the only one who is hurting is someone who owns a million dollars in stocks because their purchasing power just dropped by half.

The answer? Demand side stimulus. This is nothing new. Just get your government to spend money on domestic industries. Renewables, electric cars, road maintenance, electric grid upgrades are the new Keynesian gold digging. No one is losing money except those who have too much of it already.
No you won’t, and it’s exactly why we use the social security system for identification even though it is explicitly stated to not be used as such: Americans consistently shot down attempts to identify its own citizens. Any suggestion otherwise ignores history and why we use what we use today.
Qt. It has an intuitive API, is well documented, and provides plenty of code examples.
I'm pretty sure designing with the expectation that people might try to drive a truck/plane into the building is pretty normal for data center design. People have been aware of destructive people for a while.
Yep, it's not like Signal is eager to include features. They have shown that again and again.
I used to think this but my experiences have not backed that up. Bought my first $1k jacket (Paul Smith). It took me a while to work up to that but I had mental list of features I wanted (belt, pockets for hands, flip up collar, certain style) and this one had them so a friend pointed out it would last years so $1k not really that much divided by years of use. It developed a whole in the pocket within 4 weeks of purchase as well as the hanger loop in the collar broke in the same amount of time. I've never owned a jacket that broke that fast.

Similarly I talked myself into Rimowa Air Salsa suitcase $699 vs the < $150 stuff I'd always bought previously. It was lighter than other so can fit more loot. Two flights later a wheel came off. Took it in for repair at Rimowa, next flight it came off again. Took it in again. Worked for a few flights but next time it came off Rimowa couldn't fix it in time for my return flight so they forwarded me to a local fix it shop at my expense. They fixed that particular wheel better than Rimowa (screw instead of glue) but a few more flights and a different wheel came off.

Similar issues with Schott jackets.

So at least for me, expensive brand != quality. It just equals expensive and possibly in a style I like.
Pretty clear at this point that the US govt is willing to do nothing to claw back big tech. Its going to be things like cryptocurrency, encrypted and decentralized messengers and social networks, etc, that pave the way to getting freedom back. Being loud about using these things especially with younger folks is going to be crucial.
Didn’t Spielberg work on The Dig with Lucasarts? Now that you mention it, it does seem weird they’ve never made that into a movie.
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Intel Rolls Out 10nm Pentium/Celeron CPUs, Previews Rocket Lake
wow, a completely unsourced conspiracy theory. what a surprise
If only there were some sort of... article you could read to find out about Moderna's vaccine plans :-P

"The development programs announced today are mRNA vaccine candidates against seasonal flu, HIV and the Nipah virus."
And all the time wasted on SR&ED. My manager is constantly pulled away to fill out some document to do with it.
Yes, I used to use TinyWall ( https://tinywall.pados.hu/ ), which is light and simple. But, if I remember right, it uses Windows built in firewall and so I don't know if it can completely block some Windows 10 system software from contacting Microsoft.

ZoneAlarm also used to be good, but used more resources and is not free - https://www.zonealarm.com/software/firewall (note that you do not need their crap browser extensions that it will ask you to install).
The same argument could be made to allow companies to do whatever they want, including discriminate based on race, etc. And in some sense, if the market were efficient enough, we wouldn't need laws against discrimination, sexual harassment, etc. The problem is that the market is not so efficient that you can just replace Facebook and Twitter with any number of services, at least not readily.
A large part of the reason there are only 3 large "bars" (ignoring the fact that there's no need to use cloud computing to run a service, it's merely convenient) is that the RNC had worked hard for decades to protect the financial moats of large wealthy businesses.
OpenVPN Access Server Fixed License Key Price Increases over 400%
What a nice and user friendly operating system.
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>Section 230 was created when Twitter (and the likes) were much less important for public discourse.

Section 230 (which was part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, 10 years before Twitter was founded) has nothing to do with this. This is about the First Amendment. Section 230, by allowing moderation that isn't 100% perfect, certainly does encourage forums to be much more tolerant towards speech since only those who make the speech will be liable. But if Section 230 didn't exist, it wouldn't stop bans one single bit and in fact would only encourage vastly more stringent moderation and banning (assuming any unvetted user created content continued to be allowed at all on the general web).

>Consider this precedent :

Look, particularly with 1A SCOTUS has made many changes over the years and EXCLUSIVELY in the direction of more, not less. So if you're going to cite very old case law you really, really need to double check to what extent it's been superseded since. In this particular case the cite is in fact done for you, because if you'd actually read all the way to the bottom of the very Wikipedia[1] piece you cited you'd have noticed that it already has dealt with this:

>In Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, the Supreme Court distinguished a private shopping mall from the company town in Marsh v. Alabama* and held that the mall had not been sufficiently dedicated to public use for First Amendment free speech rights to apply within it.

>Recently the case has been highlighted as a potential precedent to treat online communication media like Facebook as a public space to prevent it from censoring speech. However, in Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck* the Supreme Court found that private companies only count as state actors for first amendment purposes if they exercise “powers traditionally exclusive to the state."*

SCOTUS, particularly the current one, isn't going to eliminate the general 1A rights of organizations despite the authoritarian fever dreams of many.

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1: Incidentally, the end of 230 would mean that Wikipedia-the-organization would be directly liable for everything users contributed which would result in certain changes, the exact nature of which will be left as an exercise to the reader.
So, as all chinese companies have communist party members in their board of directors, this is effectively like making your personal profile go and be shared to "the KGB". Is the "a new chinese KGB" but you get the idea. Change my mind.

The finger on top of the facebookcide button feels heavier for some reason...
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What you’re describing was in a Black Mirror episode. You might want to think deeper on what “rough justice” looked like historically and how it was treated by history before so eagerly embracing it.
When I installed Signal recently I was asked for a passphrase. What is this passphrase used for if not to encrypt my messages?
>Because calculating the salted hash on the client side will just substitute the hash for password and render the whole hashing useless.

It would help in the case of reused passwords, which is still rampant in my experience.
Ask HN: Good and affordable E Ink reader?
As a developer living in Poland getting (original English) print books from O'reilly, Manning or others is expensive, plus this is unnecessary use of paper and space. Up until now I've been using iPad Air 2 (from 2015) for reading books and while it's OK, I desperately need to reduce my daily screen time. I think E Ink reader could help me with that. Features I am mostly looking for are:

[*] good formating/display of code
[* ] support for Epub formats and non-DRM books is a huge* plus
[* ] quick transition between pages
[* ] not too heavy
Funding of GCC Front-End for Rust
A distributed Posix file system built on top of Redis and S3
Teamspeak is still the best when it comes to chatting when gaming, it is usable with voice activation, push to talk and it has so good echo cancellation that it works when both of us are on speakers.

Though the current version uses almost a full core on my machine, it's still worth it in my opinion and you can find many free servers you can connect to.
2. You dislike algorithms that feed right wing propaganda to people. What about left wing propaganda? What about sites that don't feed right wing propaganda? How would you craft rules that address what you see as the problem? The devil is in the details. I totally get you want to attack Facebook and its ilk, but regulation can entrench the incumbents and reduce competition if not thought through.

3. Thanks for answering the question this time. So advertisers are getting taxed, which will increase the cost of advertising for companies seeking to drive awareness for their products. Some potential effects of this:

* It raises the cost of advertising. This means that you'll need higher margins for the increased cost of advertising to make sense as an advertiser. Given the higher cost/margin requirement, you may see smaller advertisers drop-off, having the potential to reducing competition in different markets. This would be a good thing for big companies/incumbents.

* Depending on the size of the tax, it could put upward pressure on prices elsewhere, as businesses attempt to maintain their margins and account for the increased marketing costs.

* Tax collection will add a new operational cost for ad networks. Google and Facebook, given their size and profitability will be able to deal with this cost easier than most.

* If it reduces total ad revenue for publishers, you'll likely see a bunch of smaller companies go out of business that depend on ad revenue. Smaller and local news/content sites will be hurt, leaving fewer sources, and further entrenching the major news companies. Ad revenue models by their nature promote strategies to appeal to the widest audience possible, in order to maximize impressions/engagement. The alternative model in news (just to use as an example) is subscription, which doesn't have that same incentive. The incentive is to maximize paying customers. In some niche areas you may likely see higher quality (which we already see today). But some of the downsides are: less privileged people won't have access to the same information that they may have previously, increased polarization & bubbles as publishers cater to exactly what their paying customers want to hear (and thus continue paying for).
I wanna know what action is Disney+, HBO Go, Netflix, the WWE, and WWF foundation going to take against Trump?
Might be because while IPv6 rollout to residential customers started more than a decade ago, including governments making a lot of noise about it back then (and a few years later too), IPv6 wasn't really finalized until 2017 ?
Russia may fine citizens who use SpaceX’s Starlink Internet service
Probably a move that satisfies both sides?
What did you not like about Element AI's model? I have no idea what it was really, I am just curious.
You are missing the point. I am trying to argue that these people self-select. If they are at Facebook occupying a white-collar job, it is very likely that they share the ethics of the company. The challenge for those (rare) people that want to leave Facebook (or any FAANG, really) due to a realignment of personal values will be in finding a place where they can prove that they are not just a mindless robotic drone like Zuck, not their technical chops.
That's what cryptoparties are for though, it's kind of like a workshop for technical and non-technical people to learn how to use those tools with hands-on examples
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The gallows were clearly for show in my opinion, but the same group also did actually storm the building and send a bunch of cops to the hospital, killing one.

I've been reading Trump spaces online for a long time and I feel strongly that a subset of those protesters absolutely would have murdered members of Congress if they got that far in time.
> Fastest Laptop Processor (Single Thread) On The 10nm SuperFin Process

That last part of the title would seem to imply that it's not the fastest overall.

Wonder what are:

1. the fastest overall

2. the fastest overall single thread

3. the fastest overall on the 10nm SuperFin process
Which people do you mean by “these”? The insurrectionists had pipe bombs and molotovs. No idea about the BLM or the anticapitalism stuff in the summer.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2-pipe-bombs-and-cooler-of...
At-home test for colon cancer is as reliable as traditional screening: experts
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It's brilliant, everything works fine. I've even used the USB port with a smartphone for 4G backup tethering (just need to add relevant usb packages, the openwrt wiki details all this). Plus there's the luci web interface which runs like a charm. No complaints whatsoever.
I've been using ledger [0] in the past 2 years very successfully in keeping track of my personal finances.

I've tried with many accounting apps, but the clarity of the plain text, editing it with my preferred editor, and the capabilities of ledger (reading only!) are what kept me (I think). I also wrote an intro for ledger here [1].

[0] https://www.ledger-cli.org/

[1] https://sirodoht.com/blog/introduction-to-plain-text-account...
mecrisp a forth implementation for microcontrollers is very relevant
Open protocols, or non profit open source projects will never compete with true entrepreneurship and hardcore entrepreneurs creating products. They just can't move as quickly, or deliver good enough products.

What I think internet 3.0 will be is websites and services segregated politically, just like the media is. Just like we have CNN and Fox, we will have Twitter and [Parler?] Facebook and Rightbook.

It will take time to build. But the assault on half the country will result in the market taking care of this. Just like parler almost did.

(It's not clear exactly what Ben means by his internet 3.0, his article could be interpreted this way as he says "decentralised".)
The Democrats right now are coming off as willing to sacrifice civil liberties wholesale to ensure their own power. This has gone far beyond "a return to sensibility". When you start outsourcing unconstitutional behavior to the private sector, I see issues. Then again, in a twisted sort of way, I'm 100% a large chunk of the population has just given everyone ample evidence they are not to be trusted.

I'm sad it's come to that for us as a nation, but it's galvanized me to work with the handful of people I hold close to start building up Nexii of good business. So there is that.

The American Ideal, and the values we're supposed to stand up for do not look like how people are acting right now. The rest of the world is watching this meltdown, and our wholesale burning ofany high ground we managed to achieve, and well... That's it. Sad to see is all.
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Unless said technologies are for stealing user data, what would be the point?

At the risk of angering Godwin, did post-WW2 Germany tear down the incredibly useful "Autobahn" highway system that the Nazi party built during their reign?
The way he describes the problem in the introduction alludes to this. I.e. "here's a some data, 12 is a clear outlier, let's see if we can confirm this using the mean and standard deviation of the sample to derive lower and upper bounds".

Then he proceeds to include 12 in the calculation deriving these bounds. This is not really the way to do it. In fact, if he had excluded the anomalous measurement from the training data, the '5' values would have been excluded as outliers as well, given his criteria for defining the bounds.

I agree that this is a trivial point made on a trivial example though, and that it is more a matter of 'sensible definitions' of what counts as anomalous or as training set in the first place. But it's still worth thinking about explicitly though, so I thought I'd mention it.
The language core of SmallTalk seems pretty straightforward and lots of people have built their own. But then there is all those standard objects to implements...