skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're not talking about "call logs". Sky is collecting information about where their heavy traffic is going, which as Mindwipe says, is just sensible network management.

Then they share some of that data with 3rd-parties. That's not information about their customers; it's the IP addresses of IPTV servers they've been streaming from.

They could be sharing information about which customers have been streaming from those addresses; but that's not what the article is claiming.

I subscribe to Sky satellite for TV. I get my broadband elsewhere. The Sky box is not susceptible to inspection, and since it integrates online "catchup" services, it might well be using my broadband connection to send home information about my viewing habits.

The Sky box also creates a shadow wifi network, by default. The shadow network uses at least two wifi channels. On the face of it, this is to allow multiple Sky boxes on the same household account to communicate with one-another, share recordings and so on. I'm not keen to have wifi networks I don't control piggy-backing on my ISP connection; and since I only have a single Sky box, I disable toe wifi.

I trust Sky as far as I could throw them, so I have plans to find out what my Sky box is talking to, and firewall it.
> instead of investing money into security they choose to roll the dice and set aside some peanuts for litigation

Even if it was security, which it isnt, they would still have to 'invest money' to comply post being sued. So they save the invesment, get sued for 255mil and have to spend the money anyway.

I find it unlikely that when they skimped on the t's and c's writing they 'saved' themselves 255milion in lawyer time? Whats that, say 51,000 lawyer hours billing out at 5k an hour? So 100 high priced lawyers billing 100 hours a week for an entire year to write the t's and c's?
36% is not that bad. It's cold, Finns are a little 'different' and -> wages are low.

If wages were higher, that would make a big dent.

Removing requirements for any kind of language fluency would help as well.
> So what are we out of?

Cures for diseases and cancers, people being not-poor, cities being clean and beautiful, a sustainable climate, equal opportunity for everyone, justice, kindness, not-having-war, not needing to work, etc...

Why can we only be "out of" toasters and toilets and not "everyone having an easily imaginable higher quality life"?

I get it that the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates is unlikely to give everyone a better life. That takes hard work and progress, something which cannot simply be bought by changing numbers on a spreadsheet.

But these could things could - theoretically - be financed! Most, probably not with VC.
Pentel is probably one of the most common mechanical pencil companies in the US and is Japanese. They are so common in fact I didn't even know this till I was in a Japanese language class in college and my professor asked me where my pencil was made to point out this fact and it came as a surprise.
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I know at least some, if not all, pan-Scandinavian organizations use English as their language of communications. I first became aware of this in the 80s when the Scandinavian TeX Users Group was formed and they did all their publications in English.
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It's good if you need to share components across multiple application. Has solid tooling and plug ins for all the relevant IDEs.
I'm not arguing that 3GD wasn't stupid, just that it generates an insane amount of power.

Either way, no more of them will be built - there are not many more gorges like that left.
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This fact seems relevant to the discussion.
Great work! You need some caching and a few more badges:

1. Distinguish people with more karma from comments vs posts if you haven’t already:

- substantive commenter for comment upvote average above xy.

- engaging commenter for high comment replies on average.

- great content curator for high average upvote on submitted content

- engaging content curator for lots of comments received from submitted content

- badge for people whose carma is mostly from comments instead of posts. (content sharing increases the karma quickly, but those with lots of karma from comments have the best insights and that’s worth recognizing)

Then show a leaderboard per each badge that merits it.
Orbit can occur at any distance from Earth if you are the right speed I guess -- although below a handful of fingers you'll get significant drag from the atmosphere. Since the atmosphere doesn't just suddenly cut off at some point, it is a matter of degrees. But for example, the ISS orbits around 400km and needs to be boosted a 'few times a year.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit#Examples

(The Karman line is around 100km, so if we want to use 500ish km as the threshold for reasonable orbits, we really are in the ballpark of a hand's worth of fingers).

The altitude isn't really the point, so much as the trajectory -- if they miss the ground at least once I say we give them a round of applause.
They're a direct mail marketing service and seemingly doing pretty well with it tbh. I guess there's still a lot of people sending mail!
While it was sitting in the back of my mind for a while, Adam was the one who really got me to think critically about it.
These aren't the relevant portions, these are the portions that curtail the freedom. And I agree that there are sensible ones and not sensible ones. Lying is also free speech and I don't like it. Obscenity is extremely subjective.

But that doesn't matter because you said:

> "Free speech is not free from the consequences of said speech."

That is a contradiction to the principle of free speech and you are just moving the goalpost here.

> I have the right to tell you to get out of my house

Of course you have, my speech would not be limited by that. It is also correct that a platform can ban anyone without even stating any reason. If they do that they just plainly don't adhere to the principle of freedom of speech. There is also freedom of association. Also a very important right. I don't have to justify with whom I association in the best case. Doesn't matter if that is ignored all too often in reality.

In case of reddit it is certainly false advertising because they advocated freedom of speech for the longest time. They don't anymore, but they don't get to claim that they still do in that case.
No, the argument is that it won't work because it doesn't have a _body_.
> If my theory about #2 is right, we might expect to see more political posters in places whose electoral systems make votes for minority parties less valuable. I don't know whether that's actually so.

In France the candidate who has the most posters is Asselineau. They are everywhere; but most people know he has no chance of winning the next election.
Fucking great even if a little silly (now, how do I get that Gordon Ramsey badge?)
HDMI killed the audio output star
Something I've noticed, a lot later than most of you I'm sure, is the death of audio outputs on most hardware: laptops, PCs, media streamers. Years ago I bought a Shuttle PC barebones kit that just required CPU, RAM and a hard disk. The tiny motherboard had integrated sound with 6 channels output (3 x 3.5mm jacks) and optical (spdif/toslink). My old 2015 Macbook Pro even had optical output built into the 3.5mm headphone jack. Practically every computer I owned for over a decade provided at least one way to get surround sound: separate amps, a 5.1 PC speaker setup , an AV receiver... Something for every budget!

All of the newer surround sound formats that emerged from Dolby are HDMI-only because it's got built in content protection. This brings a bunch of problems. Do you have the "right" HDMI cable that supports v2.0? Will your AV receiver play music when the 200 watt TV is switched off? "Maybe".

I'm perfectly happy with 5.1 sound - I'm not going to wire up two ceiling speakers for Dolby Atmos. So why should I upgrade my receiver? And if I don't, what other options so I have in 2021?

Answer: Not many.
Which topics are banned in China? Other than the typical Winnie the Pooh, Tiananmen Square, and Taiwan areas?

edit - I guess Tiananmen Square isn't available in spell check
The problems with Helsinki as a place to relocate go well beyond language. Language is a great place to start because learners of Finnish often ask themselves if the effort is worth it. Finnish is a language that works differently from the majority of other languages and is utterly useless on a metric of utility. If you learn Finnish, where outside the immediate boundaries of Finland are you going to use it and how many people will even speak it? There really isn’t a policy solution to this and switching to English won’t be politically popular.

That aside, there are bigger problems in Helsinki such as geography and daylight. There’s too much light in the summer and too little in the winter. Not everyone can adjust to that. There isn’t really a policy solution to that.

There is also population and mobility - Helsinki isn’t easily accessible from other population centres and exists in relative isolation. Two of the closest population centres are St Petersburg - in Russia - and Stockholm in Sweden. It’s much the same problem in Stockholm in that it is a population centre without other ones nearby although you can drive from Copenhagen or Oslo to Stockholm.

Finally, is the challenge of having a society built around strong ethic ties. Even if Helsinki were to switch to English, there will be always be outsiders i.e. those who are not ethnic Finns. Again, this is not something that policy can solve and is one of the reasons that silicon valley and North America in general do very well at.
Wait, is English not also spoken officially in Ireland?
Calling telenovelas “soap operas” is a bit dismissive of them. The best are on par with the top-quality productions of HBO/Netflix/BBC, at least from a writing/acting standpoint. They don't always have the production budget of those others, but there's a reason why they get global distribution into a lot of non-Hispanophone markets.

Anecdata: Among my wife's family, I think everyone speaks/understands English and most have at least one additional language if not more (one of her cousins is fluent in and speaks accentless English, Spanish, French and Arabic and has a working ability in German as well). English speakers, in contrast, tend to be stubbornly monolingual.
In this set, are photos of a man holding a hawk and hugging a camel.
The present inflation suggests that we do not actually have an abundance of capital.
Funny https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=known
That's beautiful. Really beautiful.
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Same is true for Italy.
Comparable software jobs in Berlin - not the richest of cities — are easily 2x to 4x compared to Milan, with costs of living that are lower or similar.
Can speak and will speak are two different things.

Many people can speak English but would like not to. This is especially the case in groups where foreigners are much less in number than natives. They can all speak English but feel unhappy about having to do that to accommodate the foreigners.

Unless Helsinki citizens reach a state in which English is a native language for them and feel other English speakers as co-natives, this whole declaration will be essentially useless at the level of the people foreigners interact with every day. And these matter most. Shopkeeps, colleagues, etc.

In essence being able to speak English does not make one less tribal. Cultural integration of foreigners is very hard to do without learning and living with the native language. Due to this 'expats' flock to places where they pay least taxes and have largest amount of other foreigners to socialize with, e.g. Amsterdam.
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How do you make sure you have maximum deliverability, don't end up spam flagged, and end up in the main inbox and not promotions / spam filtered?
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> The safety agency informed Tesla weeks ago that it was looking into the spate of crashes in which Tesla vehicles operating on Autopilot failed to detect stopped emergency vehicles with flashing lights. The regulator originally said it was looking into 11 such crashes. A 12th occurred on Saturday, when a Model 3 hit a police cruiser that had stopped behind a car that had broken down on an interstate in Orlando, Fla.

12 crashes into vehicles with flashing lights on them doesn't sound like great success from Autopilot, gonna be honest.
And Ireland I imagine, no?
Fascinating to see such a huge company intentionally or unintentionally committing suicide. A failure of this magnitude doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It points to a deep organizational rot.

They have lost the institutional ability to plan for the future. That being the case, I give them 10, 20 years at best. When the end comes it will happen fast and all kinds of graft and illegality will probably come to light. One cockroach out in the open is a sign of hundreds in the wall.
Don't you still start out in physics by learning Newtonian physics? I'm sure if you looked hard enough you'd find excellent coles-notes-esque summaries of Nietzsche's arguments, so you don't really need to read them at all. But that would be the difference between reading a summary of Newton's laws and the Principia itself.
>These safety margins are expensive and they are there for a reason.

Maybe I missed it in the article but did they elaborate on exactly where they strayed?

The White Sands Missile Range is really quite large, even for restricted military airspace standards. I would assume they would have to really go off course in order to appreciably put people at risk, the irresponsibility notwithstanding.
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That's fair. My comment was mainly in relation to the price point being similar to yubi for a vastly inferior form factor (there's e.g. plenty of large blocky U2F keys on the market for much cheaper).

The open-source nature of a lot of their offerings is a big selling point though, you're right. I overlooked that
Then is there much of a cost-advantage to self-hosting or is it more about control?
Bit of a bad comparison of accomplishment. Low Earth Orbit isn't that much higher. But it is much much faster (which is what's hard). Getting into orbit is about going fast enough that the centripetal force from your velocity keeps you aloft. To get into a stable orbit at a precise target altitude requires accurate timings and controls, and lots more energy. The engineering challenge is orders of magnitude more difficult.
Why you can't bring yourself to create content consistently?
Hi guys!

Almost all of us want to have a lot of followers or a personal brand-led community. And the purpose is not ego or "to feel more confident" - your community is the best what you can build for your earns and business. That's why we have the rise of the creator economy.

And almost all of us started to create and share content but can't bring ourselves to do it consistently.

My question is "why"? What's the biggest obstacle or the most challenging part of community/audience building for you?

Share in the comments, please!
In all fairness:
The Dutch sandwich has been illigal for years now

The fine related to 'state aid' in the form of advice to Apple, and was appealed as the Exchequer makes far more money from Apple and other big tech then this fine would ever cover.

Have a look at the effective tax rates between Ireland and France if you want an eye opener
> Sure, but knock off another 10%

> "I would expect HVDC to be a dead end already if it made a difference to my conclusion."

> I didn't get that. Could you re-phrase?

If the conversion losses were as high as 10%, why did anyone bother using HVDC for e.g. a mere 85 km stretch in the Trans Bay Cable?

But even if they were 10%, that’s a multiplier not an adder so it makes a difference of 10% to final energy prices, it wouldn’t break anything (though it might shift the minima to batteries, as those are also cheap and getting cheaper).

> My point you're underestimating the line length since you cannot connect generation to consumption with a straight line. Also, the hub-spoke or a web network would need the connections to be much larger than needed for that city (since the city would also need to transmit to it's neighbors)

I think you’re overestimating how much the losses matter. You only lose half your power from 20,000 km, adding an extra 10,000 km from wiggling around a bit takes you down to 34% of original generation, and even then webs usually have high-capacity connections between important locations and lower-capacity links from the high capacity nodes to the low use nodes. Is anywhere in the US more than about 2400 km from the coast? Because 2400 km is a multiplicative loss of 0.918 compared to whatever losses you get from a trans-oceanic link to wherever (0.77 from Algeria to DC, according to distance from Wolfram Alpha, likewise 0.66 from Queensland to San Francisco). And the USA already has (several) grids, so you’d probably just want to link any global HVDC connection like this into each grid, rather than to each city.

> You cannot dismiss cultural concerns. Look what happened in Kabul last week!

“I am not qualified to discuss them” absolutely is not the same thing as dismissing them.

But my main point is more of we don’t need to tile the Sahara (or any single particular place), so it shouldn’t even come up in the first place.
I really liked Aurelius' quotes, and bought "Meditations" as a result - the book didn't seem to add anything and I quit after 10-20 pages, which I very, very rarely do with books.
Facebook is doing some great anonymization:

> The objection raises that not all computationally possible numbers are indeed assigned. Therefore, the lossy hash refers not to at least 16 numbers but to a maximum of 16 numbers. Furthermore, if additional data is stored along with the lossy hash, the number of individuals represented by the associated phone numbers can be reduced as data subjects not matching this additional data can be excluded. If e.g., so the DE SA, the gender is also stored, it is possible to at least divide these 16 in half.

So their hashcodes can be mapped to 16 different users, which can be trivially reduced to a single person if you have any additional information about them.
> UCSDH has a low threshold for SARS-CoV-2 testing, which is triggered by the presence of at least one symptom during daily screening or by an identified exposure, regardless of vaccination status. From March 1 to July 31, 2021, a total of 227 UCSDH health care workers tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by reverse-transcriptase–quantitative polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-qPCR) assay of nasal swabs; 130 of the 227 workers (57.3%) were fully vaccinated. Symptoms were present in 109 of the 130 fully vaccinated workers (83.8%) and in 80 of the 90 unvaccinated workers (88.9%). (The remaining 7 workers were only partially vaccinated.) No deaths were reported in either group; one unvaccinated person was hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2–related symptoms.

Reminds me of this classic: Wear the ribbon or else! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iV8X8ubGCc
>For people who didn’t grow up in the country and benefit from the social welfare system at all, why would they want to come from outside and suddenly start paying for it?

From what I understand, Finland has the best education system on Earth, bar none.
While migrants themselves might not benefit from this themselves, their children certainly will.
When properly integrated with your phone, the smart watch is not a "second source" of notifications, it's the "primary source", and, being on your wrist, it's easier to check/dismiss those notifications.
But in this set, people are smiling and having fun.
The firmware for the Titan M HSM is open source but the RTL is closed, secret, proprietary, and even if it was open you’d still need to decap the IC to verify they fabbed the design faithfully, which exactly nobody can do, but I digress.
There’s an entirely different design based around the Titan standard called OpenTitan based on LowRISC.
So we know what Titan M does do, the documented functions. But what else does it do? Or put another way can a $1 trillion American corporation design a security chip intended for the 3 billion handset strong Android market and not allow the US government to install a backdoor? I think it’s common sense, the answer’s obvious. And if the HSM can’t be trusted the entire security model is broken.
But maybe let’s call this for what it is: an attempt to fleece the wealthy paranoid. Unfortunately these types of products attract attention and make you a target. Let’s say you’re going through an airport inspection and it comes out that you’ve ripped the mics out of your phone well, now you’ve got a whole lot of explaining to do. You’re either crazy or up to no good and don’t expect to be flying anytime soon. Messing with the baseband probably lights up your handset on the network as well.
No - if you want anonymity, privacy, secrecy from the state then you can’t use smartphones period. This technology is a fantastic advantage for general living in modern society but a cellphone represents 500+ years of R&D labor. You can’t rip a few components off the PCB and rewrite the bootloader and call it secure. This is just nonsense.
Interesting. Physical reality is infinitely complex, and a CGI is a computational model of that reality. It’s become impressive (hair!), and I’m sure I’ve seen plenty of CGI in movies without realizing it. But it’s not the same.
This is a great place to recommend Standard Ebooks's excellent collection of translated Public Domain works, which includes many of the listed titles in TFA:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks
The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet
I believe Win+Shift+S is only for capturing images, not video.

I'm on the latest Windows 10 and I still only see static image capture options.
This is unfortunately common. Even NASA regularly ignores their own standards and procedures due to schedule and budget pressures.
> A&A are amazing

They really are. Their phones are picked up almost immediately. The person you get to speak to is technically competent. E.g. if you call sales, you often get the head of sales.

A&A target geeks; they provide an IRC channel that is populated with knowledgeable geeks (as well as A&A support people). This is my first port of call for technical issues, because I prefer not to burden their support people if that's avoidable. Also because I think an IRC chat is an easier way of dealing with a technical issue than a phone-call, on the whole.
Thanks for clarifying! My mistake in confusing the two, hopefully one can understand how another can make the mistake though as one is named "podman machine" and the other "podman machine".

My main issue with your comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28391265) still stands, you're linking a third-party source with the impression that that source said it's in fact not being deprecated, when there is no such text in that source.

I did not downvote you, but I can absolutely understand why someone would do that, since the tweet seemingly has nothing to do with the comment your original comment was replying to.

For what it's worth, complaining about downvotes is almost never worth it. Makes for boring reading and the people downvoting you won't read it anyways.
Bonus: it was a reminder for me to remove an out-of-date kickstarter link from my profile.