skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until an update or reset switches it back on, or an app or system feature requires you to turn it on, or you buy a device and forget about it, or you're just not aware of the feature at all.
Usually the IP goes to the employer (i.e. the university) rather than the individual researcher.
Changed from https://fosshost.org/Fosshost_Donations.org. Thanks!
It's always funny to see people talk about how important it is that PGP has an installed base and then think about how many PGP users there are compared to Signal Protocol users.
Thanks, I didn't know about this. This is concerning, and I agree, very vague.
So.... by your definition literally everything is a cultural thing? If you aren't talking about this specific situation, wtf are you talking about?
I listened to the podcast, which as it says focuses in particular on John Mew and son, John apparently being on the cruel and crank end by experimenting on his children including on his daughter with expected negative results, and his son now reportedly showing a flair for bringing pseudosciency selective evidence to promotion on social media, and more recently perhaps helping "incels" fix "weak chins." (AKA, perhaps a focus for unstated outrage to help motivate a slightly-weak podcast)

I was offered a tongue depressor by my childhood dentist to help fix a crooked tooth without orthodontia, so when Nestor's book mentioned one orthodontist suggesting that positioning one's tongue to touch the roof of the mouth would matter, I dismissed that part as probably the weakest in the book. That said, the science overall seems to be evolving, research in breathing and the nose apparently increasing, and Nestor is meticulous in maintaining references, including online. Many might be comfortable with some uncertainty and not dismissing this all as pseudoscience. I commend Nestor's reporting.

I also hope that, if industrial civilization eventually passes, and for now where severe poverty without dentistry exists, people will find again whatever practices better prevented dental caries.
> you can’t become worse off than when you started.

Well, having experienced ageism in software engineering the last three plus years I entirely guarantee you this point #1 is totally untrue. I am at my best, at leadership, management, architecture, security, compliance, SRE, testing... And my salary is worse than 12 years ago (and way worse than a few years ago) and my workload way higher.

So, I stopped reading.
Programming Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi with Wolfram (2018)
Not OP, but could be something like ‘radical unschooling’, where the kids set the curriculum.
Ah, but if the sheep don't know a chunk of their bandwidth is consumed by someone else it can be used as a dark business pattern to help upsell a higher tier of service.
Xoogler.

Yes, Google goes to immense lengths to protect user data in all its forms. That is security.

Privacy is orthogonal, and Google is well aware of the difference and how they complement each other.

You are completely wrong about Google's treatment of privacy.

There are plenty of companies that say they take privacy seriously. There are a handful that actually do. But smaller still is the number of those that have actually built what it takes to deliver on those promises, or re-engineered massive systems to deliver on privacy and transparency promises.

I suggest you look at any of Google's public privacy statements. There's no need to read between the lines.
Email is default plaintext, can't force encryption on groups, leaks --- in fact, gleefully publishes --- the most important dragnet surveillance metadata (even when ostensibly encrypted), creates long term archives of secrets, is built on long term secrets, and, to boot, is in the real world itself effectively centralized. It's hard to even imagine a secure messaging system less safe than email. Recommending encrypted email is simply malpractice.
Have you considered that maybe the North American right is just that bad. Reality doesn't magically shift so that it always exists in the exact center of the North American political spectrum
I'm about to get a donor graft soon. Why didn't your's work out?
It's very hard to simply encrypt a file to a given pubkey (due to the key trust model) compared to, for example, something like age (where it's just `age -r $PUBKEY`). You also have to set GNUPGHOME somewhere and import the key first, you can't easily do it statelessly without tracking mud into the filesystem first.
FTA, 1% threshold for income is 400k-ish.
I don't know what Jupyter is, but I want to throw my dollar into your #2 hat - that's what I think makes the difference.

I've earned paychecks teaching and presenting for more than ten years, and the powerpoint is just passive, as you said. You sit back. Your brain lulls as you wait to be fed information. I'm not necessarily opposed to it, but...

Anything that can be manipulated - blackboard, open .doc file projected that you type into, or (maybe best) The Prop - gives a sense of the living tool. It's not the finished product; it's not your Auntie's knick-knacks. It's the living tool. And everybody wants to play with a new tool, even if it's just by asking a question so you'll modify a cell and re-run.

Also, the real-time interaction of changing things in front of people gives them something more: a chance to glance around and take in social cues that are lost while everyone's passively staring at a powerpoint.

Don't know why I wrote all that. Guess I'm preaching to the choir, and maybe I'm just spurring myself to move away from some of my own bad practices... or maybe, I'd love a little experiment, since my money's on #2. Ask a lecturer to give the same presentation, once with a blackboard, once with a powerpoint. And take a survey before and after both lectures (different participants of course) and see if there really is a difference.

Anyways glad you've had some luck with your Jupyter notebooks! (Just looked them up - they seem really cool!)
That doesn't explain why 94% of people opted out of tracking when given the option. It's more like "people don't miss their privacy if you don't tell them you're taking it away from them."
From another perspective, I am a current high school student trying to decide on a future path. While I also think high school is a waste of time that I don't learn much from, I'm not sure that the other options are actually better, at least for my personal goal of attending selective colleges after high school.

I will become eligible for a dual-enrollment program at local community colleges soon, where students get a 2-year associate degree and high school diploma at the same time. This includes the option to take classes at the college full-time, effectively never actually attending the high school. However, from what I've seen, choosing this path instead of AP courses reflects negatively on the student when applying to selective colleges. It seems best suited for completing a 4-year degree at an in-state university after high school. While this minimizes the time spent in education, I'm not sure it's the best option if my goal is to get the best possible education (i.e. including post-secondary). It also poses a logistical challenge due to lack of transportation to and from the college.

On the other hand, the practice of staying in high school and taking as many AP classes as possible does little for the social environment at the school. It helps appease college admissions officers, but it's not an ideal solution either.
AFK right now, but there was

M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead

But it might have been removed after M-x yow was pithed.
“Computer science is not about computers”
> forces that result in inequality don't originate in crypto

Of course. But, this is either a ridiculous argument, or so obvious it's not worth stating. Inequality has been a thing for thousands of years.
Loris Software for Sound Modeling, Morphing, and Manipulation
Watching America from a distance, the left is JUST as bad as the right.
> I’ve been thinking a lot about how to help my kids skip high school, but I don’t quite know how to do it.

I’ve enjoyed reading Bryan Caplan occasionally describe how he home schooled his children through middle school and high school[1]. It started off with middle school on the basis that no one cares at all about middle school grades or achievements, with them doing an AP exam a year. On trying out high school once they were off an age they decided to keep on homeschooling and just ramped up the pace on the APs, while ensuring there was daily Math learning and eventually independent research. Most of the posts discussing it are here[2].

[1] https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/09/why_im_homescho.htm...
[2] https://search.econlib.org/search/#njDqBtLLytoDH9kCdAfS2ZJRl...
You're grasping. I've been very clearly talking about the Apple Watch this entire time. Read my posts. You're the one going down blue bubble rabbit holes.

Though since you're adamant on expanding the scope here, I do believe Apple Silicon has long been driving their software advantage in not just the Watch, but all their mobile offerings. And now going forward, with the arrival of the M1, we're starting to see similar performance and battery life advantages for the Mac.

Seems to me like you're just looking for opportunities to rail about Apple in general. Everyone needs a way to blow off steam, you do you brother.
How else would you expect them to get those cool Founder t-shirts
I have a regular workout schedule at the moment, but only when I wake up after 18:00 local, because cycling on the roads in CONUS when there are normal levels of traffic on them is approximately suicidal. I cover myself in EL wire and way too many flashing LEDs and go at like 03:00. I'm also a lights-off midnight console jockey and being outdoors in the mojave during daytime would cause me to immediately burst into flames.

Doesn't seem to have much effect on my sleep, but I also famously ingest way too much caffeine at all hours of the day.

TBH I prefer to be awake when everyone else is asleep. Crowds and lines and traffic are all pretty terrible, but so is living in low-population-density areas without easy access to goods and services. Being nocturnal in an urban environment is the only mitigation I know of. If I could be "cured" I wouldn't want to be.
It's stupid. If HN implemented a quote feature, it would mean something. if I preceded every quote with a bold pipe | for each line of the quote it would be more noticeable, but of course HN doesn't provide a WYIWYG editor so you never know when a new line starts. It's just a first line visual indicator here.

Consider me your quote symbol iconoclast. There's no reason for > to mean quote in a system that doesn't implement quotes. It's just a cultural construct being followed 'because thats how it was'.
Fascinating - I was ready to downvote the idea that this was the first recorded hack (MIT students had been doing hacks many decades or perhaps even the better part of a century earlier) but reading up on "I think we're all bozos on the bus" [0] I believe you mean the first fictional hacker in film or video, which could well be the case.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AudioPlay/IThinkWereA...
I suppose the homeowners would be the debtors, and since the institution went bankrupt, it presumably missed payments, voiding the contract?
Gonna have dynamic open world video games too, where custom cut scenes can play based on your characters actions.
Risking My Life to Settle a Physics Debate (Veritasium)
Terraforming in Minecraft (2018)
In the SF Bay area there are a number of cricket leagues. We played in the GPL (Google Premiership League) but actually spent more time practicing. There's also cricbay, which has over 110 teams in the bay area. 110. Visit baseball diamonds on a Saturday morning and there's a good chance you'll find a cricket game. (At least, that was before the pandemic.) The cricket and the players is something I'll actually miss about moving out of the bay area!
Dijkstra, to whom that quote is often attributed, preferred to call it "Computing Science" as it is the science of computing.
> So reading the actual paper suggests that the article's summary and title is poor / clickbait.

Ugh, every time, feels like. Science "reporting" tends to be pretty worthless.
It is good that safety is not being overlooked. My problem with it is in expecting us to get locked in to this particular answer to the problem, when cars are going to drive themselves more and more, with better awareness, etc. Maybe I should trust more that we'll also solve the coordination problem of switching to really quiet cars in the future.
This is just insane, especially when there are millions of devices that will connect to this that will never receive security updates, ever.
If you'd gone a little bit further into the article, you'd have seen why. It's context. There's a whole discussion included where the event you're attributing to malicious priming is used as an example.

What's the alternative here? Leave the audience guessing about what's going on? Omitting the highly relevant fact the person under discussion is a TV presenter on a major news network? Going out of their way to obscure the source of a public comment so it's harder for their readers to verify? I really don't see what else they could have done.

The only quasi-reasonable alternative would be to have teased the fact, really let the readers come to the assumption the person is a crazy wacko that nobody would ever listen to, and _then_ drop the bomb he said this on Fox? Except that would turn it from an article on misinformation into a hit piece on Pete Hegseth and Fox, which I can only assume would have made you even less happy.

Seriously, what else were they supposed to do here?
How do we escape the Black Iron Prison?
I absolutely think that qualifies as malware, yes. Apps and browser extensions harvest PII all day and the owners of those platforms (apple, google, microsoft, mozilla) do absolutely nothing to prevent it.
Ok. Where is the evidence that schools are created to create obedient subjects for governments to maintain status quo?
Two airlines will postpone sales of alcohol amid surge of in-flight violence
Knowing location data is not incremental, it's a crucial addition in order to cross sell other services.

The future of Google maps is actually as a recommendation engine. They are adding icons now that are suggested by Google, and advertising that way.
There is a broad range of American public schools. Very nice to very bad with everything in between.
Although orange juice is literally sugar water. I find it maddening that marketing has convinced us juice is healthy.
People who have been ejected from the SFWA are almost always good reads. Vox Day is another great example.
+1 for both Cheapskates Guide and Ran Prieur, both very influential to me in different ways!
Larger objects, such as the rogue (not members of a solar system) rocks you mention, are classed as MACHOs (massive compact halo objects) in possible dark-matter explanations.

Recent studies [0][1] have pretty much ruled out MACHOs as an explanation, by looking for gravitational microlensing events by MACHOs between us and the Magellanic Clouds and Andromeda Galaxy. They found about 1/1000 of the events predicted by a quantity of MACHOs necessary to explain dark matter's effect on our galaxy's gravity. For very small MACHOs that wouldn't produce enough lensing to be detectable, then you need so many that they'd darken the light, like a gas/dust nebula. This is also not observed.

I don't work in the field, but I studied astrophysics, and I have one or two astronomer friends - it seems these results are regarded as a pretty definitive nail in the MACHO theory's coffin. Current research is mostly looking for WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), a novel class of fundamental (atomic/subatomic?) particle, expected to be present throughout all of space, which doesn't interact with the electromagnetic force, so doesn't interact with light, including virtual photons of attraction and repulsion, (such as those holding the particles of your feet together and also repulsing your feet from the ground right now,) that mediate the forces we interpret as "solidity" and "pressure", but has mass.

[0] https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/~george/ay20/eaa-wimps-macho...
[1] https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2019/20190402-subaru.h...
I emailed Jean-Yves Girard -- just to ask this question on whether he was aware of Deleuze (since he's becoming a "continental" type philosopher in old life, after a lifetime of great achievements in logic) once and he replied. It was a great reply too.
It's virtually seamless now that it's native in Thunderbird.
Ah, ok. Sorry I assumed sarcasm because your summary was super short and, in my opinion, kind of missed the point of the article.

A better summary might be:

There was no silver bullet that fixed everything, rather a vigorous campaign of teaching a security mindset.
Yes. That's why we pay tax to the state, not to family members.
This is why I simply sleep during the day: if you wake up and appear after everyone else starts "closing up shop" (around 3-4pm usually) then there is no way for them to fill your head with their "crap"; the secret is that it is absolutely imperative that you go to sleep before they start waking up (which has been a bit hard recently as I am working with someone now who lives on the other coast and wakes up early enough that they can sometimes catch me before I commit to going to sleep at 6 or 7).
How would I go about disabling this feature? The ARS article and the Amazon web page say:

Opening the Alexa app

Opening More and selecting Settings

Selecting Account Settings

Selecting Amazon Sidewalk

Turning Amazon Sidewalk Off

What if I have never installed or activated the Alexa app? I do have some Amazon devices such as Ring and Kindle, and I don't want them exposing the networks to which they're connected.
OpenBSD for many of them, MSDOS for the more hardcore, and things like CP/M or older operating systems depending on obscure hardware for the true freaks.

Alphas were good for that, but the financial industry (at least) wanted them too.
Again, I don't think that was really the limiting factor to performance - it can be addressed by pre-computation and other trickery. It's worth remembering it took until the beginning of the 90s for something like a mario-style side scrolling game to be possible on a PC, with a lot of clever hacking, a much more powerful CPU and slightly more programmer-accessible (but still largely dumb framebuffer) video hardware.
There’s also something to be said about not only being “just as bad”, but being righteously self-unaware about it.
Just wanted to say kudos for the easy onboarding process and great documentation. (https://github.com/fusebit/fusebot)
It's scriptable, but scripting GPG is full of footguns. You generally want to do everything through status-fd to avoid most of the footguns, which is a pain to work with through ordinary shell scripts.
Dick is one of my go-to SF authors when I'm using the public library's book lending app (Hoopla) and want to type in a novelist name and read some completely random piece of their work.

He was so incredibly prolific that there is always more to explore. It's … not always great, huh.

One quiet theme I've seen in sampling his work at different stages is the evolution of San Francisco the city -- Dick has a bunch of stories which paint a particular picture of the mid 20th century Bay Area that of course feels very different from what the place is like today. It reminds me of the place we see in "The Crying of Lot 49".

A few years back while visiting the city I tried to get something fixed at a repair shop in a small office suite in a very old building (I think probably https://www.yelp.com/biz/setraks-watch-repair-san-francisco ) and it looked and felt exactly like the older time SF of Dick's stories.
It's not murder to bully someone but it can shorten their life.
They do it a bit more sophisticated than that. There's an xfinity profile that gets loaded and after the initial authentication you actually connect to a different SSID. When I had Comcast, I used this occasionally, but it was overall pretty flakey and I ended up disabling that SSID on my phone because it kept connecting to non-functioning xfinity hotspots while I was out and about and then I'd have no internet.
Imagus has been abandoned by the developer. Its no longer work on many sites
Here’s a sample video with a custom script produced earlier https://share.synthesia.io/4b75b584-9b3b-4a96-86c2-6b34b8711...
No... Google actually has started hiring AWS style support engineers for GCP.

Google has realized that building up business to business support networks is a profitable approach.

Customers get nothing, because customers don't pay money. Customers are the product.
This the result of the two party systems. Bi-paetisan compromise is rare, and even then is often backdoored with legislation not actually discussed.

This leads to the two parties only ever being in an adversarial relationship.

In other systems, sometime you get to make a majority government with other parties. This differi means that in mutti-party systems the "party line" is "these guys are ok, and reasonable" every once in a while.

Not so in the two party system, where the winner-takes-all perpetual adversarial relationship generates a constant steam of "the others suck, are dumb, evil and want to destroy the country"
It was my case as well. Did you try recently? Quite striking how experience changes you in ways you wouldn't believe when you're young.
It’s straightforward to use GPG via command line. I don’t find its CLI more complex than, say, SSH’s.

I use it daily (with secret keys on a hardware key) for passwords, back up, file encryption, some email (admittedly most recipients don’t use encryption), software verification etc.

Newer tools are simpler, but GPG is also workable.
Yeah, I think adults bully too under the right conditions, but we don't often call it that. Instead, we call the same behaviours harassment, abuse, or assault.

Perhaps the worst bullying involves many people ganging up on a victim. You see this in adults too, from the literal witch hunts, to campaigns to make someone socially untouchable (or perhaps get them fired) for expressing views a group of people dislike.

College just seems less conducive to bullying than high school or middle school.
Does Apple track you? I’m not aware of Apple tracking the behavior and location data that Facebook ever did.
My wife and I used to rate used book stores and thrift stores on a scale proportional to the number of copies of "Future Shock" (and also "Iacocca") on the shelves. I don't see it so much anymore.

I tried to read it in the early 2000's and couldn't get thru it.
Generally if you know that a product can do something is going to happen pre-purchase you can't claim damages from that thing happening, and it's no secret that the smart functionality of the device keep it up-to-date.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/adv...

> In addition, an act or practice is unfair if the injury it causes, or is likely to cause, is: substantial, not outweighed by other benefits, and not reasonably avoidable.

> They could sell my location and browsing habits, they could check the network to see what other devices are on it and when they log in, the could do anything at all apparently.

Quite literally, yes, assuming you're in the United States and you check the box that specifies the terms of data collection. If you live in the E.U,, your GDPR rights mean they have to ask for explicit permission to do so.

> My idea of direct play is an hdmi cable - its much more secure and doesn't' require any wifi at all.

I'm not trying to be witty, i'm showing why devices might create their own wifi network and 'direct play' is just the name used on some TVs for wi-fi direct.
There is a huge resurgence of motorcycling. People aren't calling e-bikes - motorcycles - but that's exactly what they are.

Looking forward to many more EV bikes
Have you considerered your own bias when making this statement ?