skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whether that interest is legitimate and acceptable is a decision for the user. If I decide to accept the terms for my banking app, what’s that got to do with you?

Whether you accept those terms has nothing to do with me. What has something to do with me is that there is no bank that allows me to access my account with my phone, without requiring me to relinquish control of that phone to its manufacturer.

But you're right, I can always use my PC for access, and, when that option too is removed, go to the bank in person, to one of their increasingly scarce physical offices, and slowly get locked out of more and more modern society. Alternatively, I can try to proselytize free software, to be met with "Sorry I can't install that, if I unlock my PC I won't be able to use my bank".

> I refer you to the market share enjoyed by the iPhone relative to Android (when it was moderately ‘free’). Clearly a lot of people, myself included, are in fact making that choice.

Sorry, I expressed myself poorly - what I meant was that one cannot argue almost all consumers are making that choice. As you point out, many people chose the moderately free Android. That freedom is growing more moderated by the day.

> How valuable can a fundamental, essential freedom actually be when hardly anyone understand what it is or cares a fig about it, and most of those who do understand it still don’t care?

Extremely:

Apple Removes App That Helps Hong Kong Protesters Track the Police - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/technology/apple-hong-kon...

Of 3,200 apps missing from the China App Store, almost a third relate to hot button human rights topics targeted by China’s censors, such as privacy tools, Tibetan Buddhism, Hong Kong protests and LGBTQ issues. Porn and gambling apps made up less than 5 percent. - https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/apple-censo...

Apple orders Telegram to block some Belarus protest channels [..] Among all the things that the Telegram CEO revealed, here is what’s most concerning: Apple apparently restricts app developers from informing their users that some content from their app has been hidden on request by Apple. - https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-orders-telegram-to-block-som...

Cattle that waits until the day of slaughter to attempt escape does not fare well.

(I don't mean to single out Apple - they get the most coverage, but I'm not sure if/how much better the situation is with Google's Play store. Which locked phones cannot escape.)
> So what prevents acquisition of highly valuable inside information by NSO or its customers

Given the Bezos hack two years ago I think the answer to that question is actually, very little. Cisco and Blackberry for example used to provide hardened phones for executives but with the prominence of modern smartphones it seems like even CEOs of large companies are increasingly on insecure hardware.
I've always wondered, but could never find good sources on this: couldn't MSR results simply be produced by mirror neurons firing? I.e., touching a marked part of the body does not mean "Animal in the mirror is me", it can simply mean "Marked part of that animal is 'itching' me"? Similarly to how amputees can "scratch their itch" in an amputated limb by observing another person scratching themselves.

Are there MSR tests that used windows to other animals/puppets with marked spots instead of mirrors as a control?
Sounds like terrorism yet it is treated like petty white collar crime.
Is there a difference between Germany and US in regards to the phone system?
For the life of me I don’t understand why you would do this on the weekend instead of Monday morning when you are getting paid for it, since this work is being done for your employer. Why would anyone trade their weekend time for free for someone else instead of spending that time enjoying their life or on something that would benefit themselves financially. Life is too short.
> I could imagine it being something along the lines of "The economic productivity of a typical black slave was X... yada yada yada... how many dollars in reparations does America owe modern black Americans Y years later at interest rate Z."

That does seems a bit unnecessary example since there is high racial tensions and the book is supposed to be about math. You could just use another example in that case. If it was about cases like that, I might just agree with them being rejected.

> I really wish we could see what it actually was so we could see if the DoE's judgement here was reasonable or not.

Agree, seems weird to not show people what the problem was if it's easy to justify. But then again, a lot of judicial, government and politics from America seems weird to me so...
Slack (and teams, discord, skype) are all antithetical to the style of written communication outlined in the slide deck. They make difficult writing a long, well-structured document to record and transmit a complex idea. IM team coordination platforms are only good for the first phase of writing, that is, just getting ideas down in written format. The issue is that the tools built into those platforms do not aid in the other phases of the writing process, and in fact, they sort of make it difficult, actually. I speak from experience having to go back through thousands of Discord messages to condense the ideas into a collection of documents on different topics.

Someone should write an extension that makes it easier to convert IM thread to an organized document outline in slack or discord. That would be nice.
Phew, I thought I was just bad at parsing this stuff.

It seems kind of weird, like on top of the technical details it is describing some still-in-progress argument with the 7zip folks about who is responsible for the bug.
It's the name of the standard. I'm not sure that those names were ever meant to be user-facing, but unfortunately they are. If device-makers choose to support a newer standard (say 3.2), that standard needs to support older speeds (Gen 1), in addition to newer speeds (Gen 2).
Feminist author Meghan Murphy was permanently banned from Twitter for stating an opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan_Murphy?wprov=sfla1
Sure, tell me the reasons I have for doing something I didn't even do and how they are bad.
I've never received a spam call that I know of, but I never answer unknown numbers (I presume spam would leave voicemails though?). I get spam texts every few hours though. I just treat checking my phone and deleting the spam as a chore to do once every day or two like email.
Your example us two decisions, the decision to make user friendly software and the decision to give it a proprietary license. No matter how praiseworthy your efforts on the first decision are, the second one is still something he's not willing to tolerate.
One thing is amount of precipitation. Another different thing is percentage of time cloud covered. Seattle is surely higher on the list with respect to the second thing, and thus it's reputation. In new Orleans, when it rains, it really rains hard, but it's sunny a lot too.
I like this definition.

> Simply put, critical race theory states that U.S. social institutions (e.g., the criminal justice system, education system, labor market, housing market, and healthcare system) are laced with racism embedded in laws, regulations, rules, and procedures that lead to differential outcomes by race.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/07/02/why-are-sta...

Put another way, it's allowing the possibility that systems themselves can be racist.

However, I think you will find that the definition is heavily swayed by your political bent (especially if you are a politician).
What I can't get over: it appears actual events are so antithetical to some people's world view that they flat-out deny them.

I mean, 12-year-old me was upset when Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" won Best Picture in 1977 but I didn't claim it was a cover-up.

You can tell a lot about someone's world-view by the reality that they deny.
Stallman rightly predicted that corporations want to amass power and control over you, and that counter-culture technologies like the computer and the Internet would slowly revert to mainstream, corporate-friendly and capitalism-friendly ideals as they become wider spread. This is hardly a fringe position.

But whereas a lot of others think the problems are structural to how society operates, and that fixing it would require rebuilding under a new economic framework, Stallman's only insight is that software you can't modify is the devil. DRM is bad not because it upholds a capitalist supply-and-demand system by restricting theoretically infinite supply, but because you can't modify the .c files yourself or send them to a friend.

It's an extremely limited way of thinking that ignores any external structural or economic motivations, and focuses on an unreasonably small niche subset with a black-and-white moral answer. It sometimes makes good points, mostly accidentally, but it still has a lot of misses, e.g. the religious persistence on "software" leads to programs like the FSF's Respect Your Freedoms with incoherent policies around hardware, firmware, and ROMs, mostly from a place of ignorance.

The free software movement was quickly co-opted by corporations as the "open-source movement" by executives looking to offload their labor costs onto unpaid workers, leading to a lot of under-funded core software infrastructure as corporations rank in the cash. Stallman's "Open Source Misses the Point" essay doesn't talk at all about this, it doesn't talk about the ways that open-source is about externalizing costs, nor about the way that it's leading to maintainer burn-out, it just points out that it's kinda bad that they're releasing stuff under the MIT license instead of the GPL, and would really much prefer if people didn't do that, while not realizing that was the goal all along.

The FSF has very little force in accomplishing their goals; it's a wet paper towel tossed vaguely in the direction of actual change.
Lithium is all over. There just hasn't been demand for it.

This is a modest project, but neatly illustrates where we find ourselves:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rio-tinto-plc-lithium/rio...
> But then why rename 3.0 to 3.1 then 3.2?

I honestly have no idea what you're trying to ask.

Keep in mind that:

* USB3.0 was released in 2008.

* USB3.1 was released in 2013.

* USB3.2 was released in 2017.

Each standard is standalone, and specifies all of its transfer modes. I wouldn't be surprised if each of these specs also included fixes, and thus technically would represent different specs.
A couple years ago including "intersection of race, society, and law" in math books was the hot new thing (a lot of "black people can't empathize with the names in the math book" etc.) Articles about it even showed up here IIRC.
basically anybody extending Black History month beyond 28 days and reminding people that black history is US history and that it doesn’t make sense to have any race-history months if US history was taught more accurately. (It includes other heritages too, Black American community is just more organized to more effectively spearhead representation pushes.)

Conservatives news sources spend alot of air time on the idea of this happening than reality. The general idea is that they don’t like unpleasant history for their children, that they preemptively call revisionist. This has now become a boogeyman in conservative leaning states and affecting real world things.
Agreed. It seems useless and brain cell-killing to be subjected to the hot takes from each side's chattering class, without access to the exact books and passages that led to these bans.
A frustrating thing is that it’s cheaper (per letter) to send bulk mail with eg franking or giving letters to the post service pre-sorted.

On the environmental side, if your paper is made from reasonably sustainably sourced wood, isn’t throwing it into landfill a form of carbon sequestration?
I always keep my phone on if I'm interviewing (or dealing with mortgage or govt bullshit) because you have to answer unknown calls regularly. I also turn it on if I'm expecting to sync up with someone specific.

But otherwise, I leave my phone on silent and have it set not to notify me about voicemails. My friends and family know how to reach me.
I did this after discovering it was Comcast and had them try to play dumb till this day and say that someone "guessed" the randomly generated email.
Thanks for this reply, it's great to have some global perspective on this. It is important sometimes to view things as an outsider and this comment made me realize a few things.
I wasn't saying that the problem they were having was real or not, I don't have the knowledge for that, I was simply wondering if the vigilance from an awareness of and a desire to disprove the phenemona exacerbates it.
He could launch a hostile takeover. The obvious most effective tactic.
Same here. However they do have a good reason for that now: https://forums.puri.sm/t/i-mx-8m-quad-availability-and-price....
I understand we don't have any evidence supporting Florida's claim, but you don't have any evidence supporting what you said either. I'm inclined to believe Florida until shown otherwise.
“Big Food” stole your taste buds
Once upon a time, in lands of lore, the consequent loss of prestige and credibility would have shattered that business.

Sweet were the times, when they "tried", and when customers were not forgiving.
Fruit stickers are the scourge of the compost pile
So he powers off after every video? And doesn't think about it until the next video?
Voting independence is preferred over military or terrorist tactics.

An independent town may want to separate but wouldn't have the resources.
Well said, and this feedback loop you refer to fits into the “culture wars” narrative that prepossesses many news establishments as they vie for eyeballs to reinforce their ad revenue and bolster their Twitter feeds. Some of this stuff is click bait, but other stories take on lives or their own whereas they would ordinarily be forgotten about shortly after arrival.
Oh. Seems a bit extreme for you to claim "According to Spanish law [...] what he is doing, is illegal" then, don't you think?

If everything points towards him not breaking the law, shouldn't we by default assume that he in fact didn't break any law? Unless you have something pointing towards that he did break the law after-all.
I love quoting Hayek's suggestion that the franchise be restricted to people between ages 45-60, because young people don't have enough life experience to decide, and old people don't have a stake in the future!
Texan, here. I know exactly what you mean.
I don't know much about it but it sounds like a topic designed to get the citizenry to bicker at each other about so they don't come together on much more important issues like economic, tax policy and justice reform. News has been trying to get it to stick for a while now.
I think it's a study of how race relations affect just more than how people perceive others, it also affects things like big governmental policies. IMO it's like studying how lack of water lead to more than thirst, it causes things like kidney and other organ failure; meanwhile the people who are against the theory seem to think "it's just thirst!".
> Balkanization is the wet dream of many enemies of Europe

Meanwhile, back in the real world, states in the actual Balkans are actively joining the European Union and gaining freedom of movement throughout the region. Even Balkanization is not what it used to be.
Or at the very least, not criminalize competitive compatibility attempts.
Honestly, no. The law-school subject, a certain set of proposed changes to education relating to race in U.S. grade schools (not even getting into which set of changes), and the thing Republicans are opposing are all called "critical race theory", and they really have nothing to do with each other.
Not necessarily. They can call you from (almost?) any country and put whatever number they want in their caller ID, and your phone company will just blindly show you that number.
Moderation in a formal debate and moderation on online platforms and forums have come to mean different things. For better or for worse, the term does largely relate to censorship in the context of online communication.
I'm not talking about the standards, but the marketing names. "USB 3.0" speed is now "USB 3.2 Gen 1" (or "USB4 Gen 1") speed just because the USB Consortium said so.
As I always say "it doesn't rain a lot in Seattle, it just rains all the time."
Consensus is a gradient amongst representatives in a system where compromise is paraded as a feature instead of a bug.

The cognitive dissonance you experience is because there is no specific individual supporting these competing ideas.
Word on the street is, it'll be quicker than TTP
> The government isn't simply "banning textbooks": they're banning books with controversial political messages being shown to the most psychologically vulnerable population: elementary children.

They say they are, while refusing to say what books or why. I fail to see why the government deserves the benefit of the doubt while maintaining this kind secrecy over something that has zero reason not to be transparent if true.
Blocking doesn't help much when they're forging the phone number. I've even gotten spam calls with MY number as the caller ID!

The telecoms know who's PAYING for these calls to be connected and SMSes to be delivered - they should be required to surface that information.
IIRC they said that the state of Florida did not actually provide a list of the rejected titles so no way to verify the state claims.

Knowing past history of these types of things in other states I doubt there is much to hang a hat on.
That's not the API-using part of the code, it's the part that pretends to be a browser, logs in, opens the "custom search engines" control panel and pulls the name+ID data. It's definitely not a public API.
Will give it a try :) looks interesting. Thanks for the share!
I'm inclined to believe Florida until shown otherwise.

You don't need to pick a side. You're allowed to say you don't know.
> anyone in a developed country buying an ICE car now is already throwing money out the window: a few years from now nobody will want it anymore, depreciation will be very high.

Far from universally true. Many developed countries do not have widespread access to charging stations, especially in rural areas.

I'd buy an electric truck if I could go camping and tow a boat for a weekend without refueling, but as far as I can tell that's not possible yet.
I don't think the number of distros endorsed by the FSF is a great metric for the influence of the FSF and free software on users and developers.
I didn't know this was the name of the phenomenon. I suspect others looking this up will come across the great movie called The Bader-Meinhoff Complex.
I think humans actually are doing the same thing. The world is procedurally generated, and so are our creations :)

We also clearly act in pursuit of reward functions. You could go so far as to say that is the definition of “normal” behavior for humans.

Learning about how ML works is actually humbling to me, specifically because it reveals how much our skills reduce to pattern recognition.

Humans seem much better at learning than machines, ie. we can “figure out” the Victorian aesthetic after a mere handful of examples. What’s not clear is how much we learn this blank-slate as children versus how much encoded / genetic knowledge and memory we have (to what degree is the brain pre-trained?). But I assume we’ll close that gap.

So what differences remain to label something as truly intelligent?

We have a strong Theory of Mind (ability to reason about what others are thinking and feeling). I think that for us to recognize a machine as genuinely sapient we would expect it to have theory of mind about itself and us. Many animals seem to have this characteristic.

It seems unique to humans (so far) is that we have intrinsic motivation as well, and our behaviors are the combination of external and internal motivations. This is where true creativity happens - when one person makes something totally new, not directly derived from prior work. Be that a new musical composition or mathematical theorem. as a species we seek out novelty, experimentation, and “progress.”

Now, in our various AI and ML techniques we can and do simulate this with the injection of randomness, and in “genetic programming” we go to lengths to try and emulate that evolutionary model. So maybe there will come a point where the AI is generalized and then it starts having internal motivations that aren’t transparent to us.

I don’t know where the line is, but theory of mind and intrinsic motivation seem important, so perhaps there’s something there.
Yikes. Surely you cannot say that resisting and reconciling our shared history of colonialism is related to the obscure eurasian politics of over 100 years ago unless you harbored some pre-existing hatred and paranoia about losing privileges or were even radicalized by extremists. No reason to drill down on it and we can let it slide here, but out of curiosity, where did you say you worked again?

Found the astronomer.
Spain under Rajoy, a democracy?
You would also create new ones (better ones).
The way I see it, if you're not a hot target then it's less about the individual and more about sweeping up millions of individuals data for bulk selling.

What the buyers can actually do with a million dropbox contents I'm not sure. But it's obviously better not to let that happen.

Best defense is the same as securing your home: Don't be the easy target on your block. Even just the bare minimum on all your sites (2FA, good password system, anti-virus on your computer) will stop you from being low hanging fruit.

I'd also love to hear anyone knowledgeable in this area to chime in!
If I'm enforcing any of this, then I enforce that, yes.

All of these constraints can be enforced programmatically, and if you're going to adopt them at all I think automating them is the way to do it.

Personally, whether I enforce this branching strategy varies from team to team and project to project.

Many projects I've been on had much, much bigger issues to deal with, so something second-order like this never gets to the top of the stack.

That said, it's an approach I like, and I think it yields benefits if you have a team that's bought into it.
The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2
Print media cannot "take down" content, but does enjoy a similar immunity as regards third party content. You should probably educate yourself on the subject, it would save you from making silly arguments.
Some of these will end up on github, but it will take a little time.
Figured it out for a few people.

The current reality is they are no where near adequate for many people. There are no outlets were my car is parked and the nearest charging station is a 2 hour walk.

And for me, the range is also far too low. I make several 8+ hour, 500+ mile trips per year. At least one in the middle of winter. Actual winter. With snow. And temperatures where breaking down in a blizzard without proper clothing is fatal. (Which means you'll be using the heater a lot.)
> Of course both of these compete with mass transit and simply driving less.

Driving less is a solution to reducing vehicular emissions in the same way eating less is a solution to world hunger.
But USB 3.0 supported USB 2.0 and 1.0/1.1 speeds already without this "generation" garbage. If I plugged a USB 3.0 cable (9 pins) into a USB 2.0 (4 pin) hub, the device still worked at the lower speeds. I could even plug it into a USB 1.1 hub, and it would just work. I didn't need "USB 3.0 Gen 4"[a] (3.0) to know that it would work at "USB 3.0 Gen 2"[a] (1.1) or "USB 3.0 Gen 3" (2.0) speeds.

[a]: Made up names; USB 3.0 didn't have this mess