skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am working as a developer for a medium sized publisher in germany. Im pro GDPR and dont like the way the industry treats the users. But they just seem to continue on their course. Reaction on GDPR was very slow. Cookie Banners (before GDPR) where ignored. When GDPR was there we started to implement regular cookie banners - despite the warning from us developers that this would be illegal.

The first real reaction on GDPR came at that moment Google forced them to. There was a deadline (somewhere in february 2021) where Google would limit ads if no consent-manager is implemented.

When we finaly implemented it they set everything they can to fight against the user: The big blue floating button for the consent manager was hidden - instead i had to implement a link into the footer. Nobody will find it there. Then they disabled the "disable everything"-button. Now you can just allow everything or manually tick a hundred boxes. They totally know that its not legal. But nobody cares. Ad revenue is the most important thing and if they would follow the rules they would loose quiet a lot of money.

As a developer its frustrating to see how user hostile the web has become ... Sure you can get another job, but its the same situation in every other place ...

If you are just a user browsing the internet and beeing annoyed by all this stuff and mistreatment: Im sorry.

Get an ad-blocker (uBlock Origin) and maybe additional uMatrix and learn how to protect yourself. The only way to "vote" is with the active denial of your data. They can see that statistics. They can see the rising number of people blocking all this tracking and advertisement stuff.
> It's a bit surprising they didn't get into the whole "hygenic macro" business...

Slight typo but it's "hygienic", not "hygenic" AFAIK.
Reminiscent of Cisco IOS patches being stuck behind support contracts - and inaccessible to many until they pony up.
I never understood why Coursera chose to use a .org URL, since they were clearly a for-profit corporation. Perhaps coursera.com was simply not available. Or perhaps this was an attempt to market themselves as if they were an educational institution. Anyone know the truth?
What's funny is that this “open” environment of android now is nearly the opposite.

With any android device openly spying on you while locking down all the open source apps you might want to install.
Because comparing against a "competent human" is enough of a control group to be sure that it's finding interesting signal in the data and not just exploiting something trivial like race or political clothing.

It doesn't need to be better than humans to be interesting. Coming pretty close would do. But if you told me humans score 90% on the same pictures, I'd believe there's something unrepresentative about the sample pictures, because I don't expect humans to have that accuracy.
I also object to the part you object to:

> ask them to redraw whatever object they drew but from a different angle or perspective.

since the context presented in the original article is the question of how to learn to draw.

It is asking too much to expect a student to redraw an object from a different perspective before they have even learned how to render anything.

Learning takes place in steps. Roberthahn was being far more constructive with his comment that offered the exercise of copying a black and white drawing in order to learn how to see light vs shade. That's the first two steps in learning how to draw - learning how to see light vs shade, and translating that perception into your fingers.
At some point I need to give Tie Fighter another try. The more I played of X-wing the less I liked it, and so when my friends were raving about Tie Fighter I was less than enthused.
Sadly, the mother probably graduated from this same school system so it’s a vicious cycle.
Someone quoted 15k USD spent in Baltimore for each student. That is a lot of money to attract top talent.
I did live cheaply around black people when I was younger, I lived in a maybe 90% black neighborhood in a literal mansion, for a few hundred a month. It was a dilapidated mansion, and the gunshots from the open air drug market a couple streets over started around 7 most evenings, but it was a mansion and it was cheap. I have fond memories of those times.

But when you talk about raising children...

Here's a link to another story that was on the front page today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26361352.

It's about a student in Baltimore who failed every class but 3 in his four years of high school, skipped class half the time, and got a 0.13 grade point average.

That put him just short of being in the top half of his class, he was an average student in that school. Can you think of any reasons other than racism that a parent might choose a different neighborhood to live in?

The neighborhood with the mansion has been gentrified for years now, I don't have kids but I still wouldn't seek out a similar neighborhood to what I lived in back then now. My attitudes towards risk and crime are different than they were when I was younger. I guess I am a racist now too?

But yeah, that's certainly one way to save on rent. Worked for me.
How else am I supposed to interpret your citation from a teacher that common core was intended to combat privilege, followed by your statement

> Often the war on white privilege manifests itself as preventing white success rather than helping PoC.

other than you intrinsically view common core as a zero sum strategy, that's taking from privileged students to as a strategy to relatively help less privileged students?

Addressing your point head on isn't making a strawman argument, and doesn't make me a troll.

Would you care to address my point, that your understanding of student success is wrong here, and that's the core of your misunderstanding, and they are in fact helping students across the privilege spectrum? Or will you just continue to call people who disagree with you trolls?
>>That's an artificial construct designed to promote science and the useful arts, but in this situation it's being used to suppress art.

Do you honestly believe you're "suppressing art" if you fail to force the rightful owners if said art to go against their own will and instead follow your orders and desires on what others should do with what's rightfully theirs?

It sounds an awful lot like your are not as much interested in anyone's freedom as you're interested in imposing your personal will into everyone around you.
Could the data be retained on something like IPFS so that cloning of the tracker could happen independent of its existence?
Reading the patent description is like seeing a blueprint for the destruction of human happiness: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2020060606A1/en
The lithium beryllium molten salt they’ll use as a coolant and useful heat extractor should be enough to capture free neutrons.

It’s the same mixture that is used in molten salt fission reactors so it’s neutron absorption profile of it is well understood.

As a bonus you should be able to extract tritium from the molten salt which means it will produce some of its fuel too so it’s a partial breeder reactor too.
In the bottom half, but near the top half, so at the top of the bottom half. In other words: in the middle. That number makes it look like he's an average student, which he clearly isn't, if he never passed any of his classes.
The entire "midatlantic region" is a carcass of a bygone industrial era, with many of the cities functioning as a satire on society.

San Francisco should take better notes.

I can offend two coasts, I'm not trying to make any friends here.
Sure, but they are mostly seen as superficial differences that people don't much care about in practice. One might not want to go to Mass because they prefer the style of a modern evangelical service, but they couldn't care less if you go to Mass and have no interest in converting you to their style. As an example, Catholics who move to a new area might start attending a Methodist church because of the similarities in services. I'm sure many of the leaders are aware of the deeper differences, but among the people not many care.
What's your plan? Let's hear it
Some Udemy courses are pretty good and are taught by practicioners, while Coursera is much closer to what you get in University.

Coursera -> Helped me to graduate

Udemy -> Helped me to get useful skills quicker and make money
They are a post-doc? They probably don’t see it is a priority in their budget.
Is this even relevant nowadays? I've been doing some tests with Edge and Firefox, and with their built-in tracking prevention + uBlock, it didn't matter whether I accepted all or only essential cookies, because at the end, only first party cookies are set.

One might argue that accepting all allows tracking by the site itself. But, does it really matter? I'm already on the site because I'm willing to. At this point, we're no longer talking about tracking but analytics.
the old wisdom used to be "don't expose microsoft stuff directly to the internet" apparently that's still true?
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I'm guessing information isn't put in the email because of federal privacy laws around education (FERPA). Email isn't considered a secure communication protocol since it isn't encrypted in transit, so schools can't email grades or other information related to education records. I'm guessing sending all messages through a secure web portal is just an easy way to avoid FERPA liability from the schools perspective.
It's not free to implement. If they were to enforce this law it would bear costs to the city to get those citations. I'm willing to bet this law goes unenforced like the same law does in Los Angeles.
If you're a real person and not a bot, you would be doing yourself a favour by stepping away from the keyboard, tar a break, and thing about what you're writing and how it looks.
There's a typo there, it works with the underscore
Direct cash payments have been shown to be very beneficial to those in poverty, so it's definitely a place to start to encourage better outcomes. With that said, it doesn't fix cultural or other challenges around educational value and beliefs. "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Your perception of the ship position is definitely more similar to "a simulation" than to "the absolute truth about where the ship is", so if you want to understand it like that then yeah. If by this statement you mean that the ship or we are all some kind of software construct programmed by some other beings that can simulate things then I think you should leave religion out of the dicussion.
lol - don't run services you can't competently manage.

edit: this tweet restates this in a much nicer way:

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/13668672289148108...

> If you're not an F50 running your own Exchange Server is organizational clownery at this point.
Yeah I'd heard of that and was wondering exactly where that law covered? Just LA City or the whole county or what?
I'm just going to say, if you don't think this _isn't_ going to be massively abused - take a look at what the CCP, or any authoritarian regime does really, to silence dissent.

Don't have a good enough social credit because you shared an opinion somebody doesn't like one too many times? Intel and Microsoft will just remotely brick all your devices.

> Is there a privacy-respecting solution that you prefer?

Yeah, it's called being media literate, using my brain and being vigilant. I don't need Pat Gelsinger, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Shantanu Narayen, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey or any other power hungry jackass telling me what to think.
Rust is getting real type-level numbers in a couple of weeks. It’s just the bare minimum though. More to come in the future.
How does a software engineer with a cs/ml background get into cool and impactful industries like energy?
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Fermi guess: 60 wpm, that's one 5 character word per second, it probably doesn't make sense to give a new prediction more often than once per character -- that's 200ms to chew on autocomplete and linting and fancy animations. Meanwhile, please render the specific character out of your lookup table in 16ms, thank you.

Do modern graphics drivers for X or Wayland hand off font rendering to the GPU? They probably should -- it's maybe 100 or so small textures per font-selection, 150KB or less prerendered with 3-bit alpha, and maybe 100 loaded up into graphics RAM at a time -- 10MB is nothing, really.
I think the point is that you can provide a lot of functionality by using back-end APIs to communicate to servers in different trust zones rather than having a big ball of trust - especially an internet facing big ball of trust.

And you are right, loose coupling does rule out a very small set of functionality. For example an email sent to a user might have an smb: link, and then Outlook used to do a preview of the email, automatically loading all the links, which would cause your credentials to be sent to the smb:// server just by previewing the email, thereby allowing malicious attacker to steal password hashes by sending emails to victims (no click was needed).

So that would be an example of excessively tight integration and a design philosophy that was fast and loose with shipping both credentials and executables across the network. I think we have learned from those lessons.

In terms of why it is dominant today, it is because of fairly rational C level decisions, not users clamoring for it as opposed to some generic email/calendaring solution. Microsoft still knows how to do support, there is a large pool of cheap IT admins certified to work on it, and it allows you to run your own server instead of buying a service from gsuite. Really if Google could shed their disdain for human beings and learn to think of them as customers, they could take a lot of market share away from Exchange, because right now it is a trade off of security versus support - the functionality is basically the same.
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No, this thing is not necessary. That's an excuse for giving up privacy to a group of unaccountable corporations who exist to make money and are often abusive of their positions.

I don't have an answer per se, but if your answer is some sort of content blockchain so everything is traceable, then it doesn't matter that I don't have the answer. That's so repulsive as to not require an alternate solution. It's like giving yourself a lobotomy because you have a headache. It's the wrong answer full stop.
This is right wing pseudohistory which can be easily demonstrated to be false from the simple fact that India was at its global economic peak (20%of world gdp) under the muslim mughal empire.

The hindus didn't just survive under Muslim rule, they flourished.

Knowledge is definitely not the currency in India today. The government has set aside half a billion dollars for a pseudoscience ministry called Ayush. Pseudo physicians will now conduct surgery. Research institutes are being compelled to research the therapeutic benefits of cow piss. High school students are being taught pseudoscience- Indian cow milk is superior to Jersey cows milk because it contains gold!!

From your comments itself, it is obvious that India is moving towards ethnocentrism and you are excited about it. This we can both agree upon.
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That's a great question and one we're answering ourselves as we launch the self-service piece. The usability of the app is really similar to an Asana or Trello but still provides similar value to the base version of an enterprise procurement tool. So the goal is to find that sweet spot in the middle with pricing too.
End-users are still more familiar with a download link on a website for a exe/dmg installer on desktop.

You also need to need to redo your subscription/payments to support the stores and give a percentage of your revenue to Apple/Microsoft. On mobile you have no option but on desktop it's hard to justify giving up so much of your profit margin when there's a popular alternative.

BTW, Linux has the Snap Store.
There must have been others?

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Threads broke through of old, and where They shall break through again.
Latency variance is known as jitter. What gives you the impression that it would be high on Android?
>"It doesn't help Exchange Server is most likely developed using programming languages and approaches that more or less demand complecting the solution with OOP-related ceremony"

What on Earth OOP has to do with the quality / security of the Exchange? This reads like someone is on crusade.
But again with these 3 ships why is it only the ships themselves being precisely cropped out and not even small remnants of the immediately surrounding water?
That ship hasn't just sailed, it's been around the world a few times.
Sure, she and her kids can just be homeless instead.
> send a chunk with a negative length...and the spec doesn't even define how to handle this

Hmm. I suppose it isn't explicitly called out, but I think it's fair to say that such a request is a 400 Bad Request, as it doesn't match the grammar. (There's no possibility for a negative chunk length, as there's no way to indicate it.)
Really? I thought the article was quite clear.

> On March 2, Microsoft released emergency security updates to plug four security holes in Exchange Server ...

> ... [Volexity] first saw attackers quietly exploiting the Exchange bugs on Jan. 6, 2021, ...

If it still wasn't apparent by then, though, I would have thought that this line should've cleared things up:

> We’ve worked on dozens of cases so far where web shells were put on the victim system back on Feb. 28 [before Microsoft announced its patches], ...*
Briefly: Because the ship is above the sea. If conditions were slightly different you might also see some part of the sea hovering, or the lower part of the ship missing. In this case the "cutoff" happens to align with where the sea would end (i.e. the horizon).
Russian animation of it is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc
I was more sarcastically referring to the - I thought - common saying that fusion will always be 25 years into the future.
Couldn't Windows users boot into Linux then to get games for free? Like, it would probably increase the share of Linux users but Windows users would decrease. And when you start charging for the Linux port, a large amount of those users would flock back to Windows.
It's spying on me, but I can still install whatever i want.
Same as Windows 10.
Hi,

I'm still not quite clear on what service you're offering.

Are you saying you will help me find the right vendor for certain services/procurement needs that I would have as a company? For example, instead of me having a contract with Office Depot to supply all of my 'Office Supplies' purchases at X dollar, you would recommend for me another supplier who would do the same for lower figure? Same thing for service vendors?

Do you also handle systems/software for the individual employees to buy stuff against those contracts?
I think one issue with this is you would probably have to identify yourself. Many companies would only offer credit card / paypal to pay for the stuff you use. With BAT (or an alternative) you can pay without identifying yourself (more than say IP).
That's true, a quick Google search tells me that an optimized SIKE implementation is ~30x slower than an optimized X25519 implementation. Still, according to this document, running time of SIKEp751 is ~25ms: https://sike.org/files/SIDH-spec.pdf

I don't think that's a problem for end users, you are not constantly generating keys. It will be a problem for servers handling thousands of connections per second, but I'm sure dedicated HSMs will appear if there is a need for them.

In any case, I'm not an expert in crypto, just a poor sysadmin-by-accident who likes reading about the latest security developments so the bad guys don't pwn my servers. And as you said, engineering is always full of trade-offs, let's see what the NIST PQC standardization process will decide.
This soothes my soul.
It depends on how the cutting goes I suppose. Will the electric saw cut as easily as the STIHL? Or, will it be binding up into the wood and struggle with knots? These sorts of complicated cuts we take for granted with our overpowered gas saws might be more challenging and take more time under higher load for a lower powered saw, and those run times probably assume the chainsaw is not under full load and is ran in best conditions (such as, not freezing outside, factory new battery).
many industries are dependant on Excel also. entire industries. Accounting, finance etc...
It would have shown some minimal involvement.

For me, I don’t think checking a report card once would matter. But never checking in three years is indicative of many other problems.
> The Dr. Seuss books are an example of intentional book banning on political grounds.

No, it really isn't. When a book edition goes out of print that does not mean it's banned. If the editor decides not to invest in a re-edit ion that does not mean it's banned. If you go to a book store and it doesn't have a book that does not mean it's banned. If you go to a library and it doesn't have a book in its inventory that does not mean it's banned.

If you lack arguments, please don't fabricate lies and misrepresentations like that. That only makes you look dishonest and desperate to grasp to an argument that even yourself acknowledge has no basis nor merit.
> Those key value pairs in chunked encoding ("chunk extensions") are spec'ed to only be hop-by-hop, which makes them more or less completely unsuitable for actually using by end applications.

Oof, I hadn't mentally connected those dots, but you're completely right. (As Transfer-Encoding is hop-by-hop, not end-to-end…)
When I read these sorts of stories I always feel so torn between fascination at the ingenuity required to figure out these things (remember that one about predicting where the battleships were in Wind Waker? Amazing!) and that the things they are figuring out are so utterly pointless.
Many people draw very well by using models. Even some of the best known artist used models to make their master pieces. I understand what you are pointing out but keep in mind that there are many styles of learning to draw. It all comes down to what works for you.
Our core beliefs on communication probably vary considerably on this matter.

Analogies are a method to quickly transmit wealth of information, cultural biases, and to determine a set of shared assumptions which become to a "common ground" on which the relevant points of the argument can be discussed, rather than fighting back on forth on every property of the scenario under discussion.

> I think it’s generally better for one to write what one means rather than using stale or disjointed metaphors.

If I was offering instruction, then maybe. If I am writing to convince then I use the literary tools which convince the most people; analogy and thematic devices. In this case I am asserting a social argument and bald data convinces very few people.

If all you have are the facts, then all you will receive is an argument over the facts.
I used to run a large on-prem exchange system with about 75k users. It’s literally the only product I’ve ever seen where the admins were the biggest, loudest advocates for outsourcing it to the predecessor to O365.

It was more beastly back to run back then though. We did reduce our risk profile at the time by putting OWA behind a sslvpn and only allowing BlackBerry.