jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Back in the days of landlines, all corded phones in a house effectively acted as an intercom system. Two or more users could pick up handsets, and their voices would be broadcast to one another.

This worked even while on a call. If you had siblings (or snooping parents), you learned to be alert for the click sound during a call which indicated that someone else had picked up a handset and was now eavesdropping.
Facebook and their ilk aside I wonder how I would deal with this:

If I'm running a service (let's pretend I'm a bit better than facebook please) I would find it hard to keep the Trump account going for the time being:

There's a balance between allowing a form of free speech on the site... and dealing with folks who using their speech incite acts that are inherently undemocratic and if allowed to continue would incite violence, and acts that clearly have no regard for democracy or anyone's rights but their own...

I don't think there's any magic way of deciding this fairly, but I also think it is hard to ignore the implications of allowing for such things.
Because deployment of technology is a policy decision. And policies are what governments are about.
I've heard a lot of people mentioning the pipe bomb, but that was at the RNC, so I don't know either, I have yet to see anyone substantiate it.
> The accuracy largely comes from the fact that addition rarely requires carrying more than a single digit. So it's easy to pattern match from single digit problems that it was previously trained on.

Again, not at all true due to BPEs.

[12] [65] [25] [42] [185]
+ [580] [22] [75] [80] [93]
---------------------------
[706] [75] [300] [278]

(note that GPT-3 is never told that the BPE [580] is composed of the digits [5], [8], and [0]. It has to guess this from the contexts [580] occurs in.)

> With multiplication, which requires much more extensive cross-column interaction, accuracy falls off a cliff with anything more than a few digits.

You couldn't learn long multiplication if you had to use BPEs, were never told how BPEs worked or corresponded to sane encodings, were basically never shown how to do multiplication, and were forced to do it without any working out.

Quick, what's 542983 * 39486? No writing anything down, you have to output the numbers in order, and a single wrong digit is a fail. (That's easy mode, I won't even bother asking you to do BPEs.)

ML models can learn multiplication, obviously they can learn multiplication, they just can't do it in this absurd adversarial context. GPT-f[1] was doing Metamath proofs on 9-digit division (again, a vastly harder context, they involve ~10k proof steps) with 50-50 accuracy, and we have a toy proof of concept[2] for straight multiplication.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03393

[2] https://github.com/Thopliterce/transformer-arithmetic
I agree with you on both counts.

One of my first jobs was wearing a build engineer hat building software in a completely clean-room environment (no network, nothing), using completely vanilla installations of operating systems and compilers.

A few years later, when I moved to Java, I was shocked to see people download .jar files from the central Maven repository without a care in the world, use them in development and do the same process for production. A few years after that, npm came along and made it normal for Javascript. By this time there appeared to be no stopping the madness, and incidents like this https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ seemingly failed to give people pause.

CI/CD as practised today contains huge risks on what is ingested to a given corporate infrastructure -- millions of lines of code from external sources of differing security levels. But instead of all that in plain sight, a single inaccurate article based on speculation can get people worried about something else. (related, but as you say, a very long way off from the most targets potentially most vulnerable and valuable-to-an-attacker). Crazy.
How Vivaldi browser is not different from Google Chrome? It's proprietary.

And that's enough reason for me to not consider it until every open alternative is dead in the water with no hope of resuscitation.

Further, either they cleaned up their act since [1] was published, or they have different definitions for 'zero tracking'.

[1]: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/vivaldi.html
And as of version 10, PGO data gets shared with the store, which probably isn't something HN crowd will enjoy. :)

The idea is that long term each application for a specific device gets the optimal compilation outcome.
Yes, while also providing encouragement for those illegally entering the capital by calling them "loved" and "special".
Anyone archived those tweets? Or did they ever were public at all?
You seem to think China (or the folks running the great firewall) would be unhappy losing GitHub. I don't think they'd care as long as those two repos were effectively invisible to users.
This is the more usual objection that I was referring to with Kolmogorov complexity. Forty random digits has very decent entropy, 40 digits of PI, though they look very random, has much less. From that you can see how it's really hard to quantify exactly how much entropy there is an song verse that exists somewhere on the internet.

If you wanted an absolute ranking of password strength, you'd first want to construct a universal brute force dictionary of passwords. Clearly the password 'password' is going to be near the beginning of the list and a password consisting of 48 randomly picked characters from [a-zA-Z0-9!@#$%^&*()] is likely to be somewhere out beyond the number of particles in the universe. But where exactly is "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose" going to appear? The first 10 million? billion? 10 billion? trillion? I really have no idea.
The problem is that pacofvf's answer assumes you don't need to do this retroactively.

This would work if you were building a new system today, but if you had a DB full of one way hashes you're not going to be able to retroactively modify the pepper.
.head should be right-aligned, imo.

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/qEvqrB
In a manner of speech, yes.

This all started when the person of Christ was co-opted to become the (conveniently deceased) figurehead to a bunch of institutions, his name on the one hand and his followers adopting his name but not really paying overly much attention to the principles (assuming history as recounted is accurate, likely it is not) is the root cause of that.

Imagine that your 'personal brand' of good intentions is stolen from you and re-purposed as a fig-leaf to cover anything from warrior popes to insane riches and abortion clinic attackers. In light of your comment of course 'no true Christian' would ever do anything like that.

I suspect Christ would not be pleased about a large chunk of those that lay claim to being Christian.
Once you learn about Snowplow's canonical event model (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/Canonical-event-mo...) or read Keen's data modeling guide (https://keen.io/docs/event-data-modeling/event-data-intro/) you quickly realize all the stuff that you haven't been recording :)
Yeah, I seem to remember a very similar project (resurrecting this game in HD) being DMCA'd to hell and back a few years ago. Has Nintendo eased up in recent years?
I was joking. Sometimes emojis help as we're missing a whole communication channel in here (body language).
I wrote up an analysis that explores these sort of Kickstarter "product sales":

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/11/the-pros-and-cons-of-usin...
I doubt that's anywhere near as significant as the hard foreign currency they get via arms (and technology) trade (a circa $100 mil/year business at least).
This stuff's been in England at least for at least 5 years, the actual non-trademarked name for these is a smoke cloak. The last two companies I worked for had it. Funny when it goes off accidentally.
Wait, a browser plugin can crash your whole operating system? Or do you mean your browser crashed? (Both don't exactly inspire confidence in the Mac platform)

I just watched it in Firefox on Linux and apart from a quite long time of pre-rendering and high memory consumption, I liked it. The bloom particle effects look like Auditorium (http://www.playauditorium.com/), but it's pretty nonetheless.
> It really bothers me when people trust more in word-of-mouth than they do in science.

Me too. Still I have some sympathy for them, because science is not on-off type of thing. You can't just research if particular substance is safe or dangerous. You must know what you are searching for. You must figure out a level for "safe exposure". Thus it can take long time (even decades) before substance x is found and agreed to be harmful. Considering the history of human evolution and huge changes in our diet and chemical environment in the last 50 years, it's perfectly acceptable to be skeptical, until proven otherwise. Bisphenol A makes good example.
One might say, the Belgians did very well for themselves in the Congo.
Interesting that "Make Call" and "Text Message" disappear from the task list when rating devices on how well they perform. I find this notable because I think iPad's biggest competition will come from devices that are actually big phones, rather than web tablets. Just like phones ate up the PDA and the iPod and the GPS and the gameboy and the portable DVD player.
That’s the thing. By the time the transfer takes place, BTC exchange rate is now 7% off. How convenient is the transfer mechanism when the underlying is a speculative instrument?

Until BTC exchange rate gets stable or gets pegged do the ground, it’s gonna float around in the air of extreme volatility and manipulation - pretty risky adventure to transfer large sums of money.
I sell (well, implement -- but it's a small company, so I wear lots of hats) software to big enterprise companies.

My exposure to big-co IT is that BOFH attitudes are sadly common.

One thing that stuck with me from an early mentor -- who as NOT, I should be clear, talking about IT or software at the time -- is that too many people think there is power in saying "no"; real power comes from the ability say "yes".
I am not aware of anyone actively working on them, though I am also not on the compiler team.

Looks like someone who cares about this needs to step up! You can make it happen sooner than later. It is one of the best things about open source.
It doesn't work like this. If paypal's customers decide to cash out as a whole, then that means there is a net sell. There won't be enough buyers in paypal to cover the sells. They would need to expose themselves to another market by buying / selling actual bitcoin to be able to float like you describe.
The main repos have plenty of non-rhel sw, and people can expend social capital working around IT policies, but that doesn't change it being against the grain.

We are fine because we use Ubuntu for the generally better GPU support, but I don't have control over the reality of others. I repeatedly get on calls with teams where this comes up, and I feel sorry for the individuals who are stuck paying the time etc. cost for this. Docker for RHEL 8 is literally installing Docker for Centos 7, so this isn't a technology thing, but political: A big corporate abusing their trusted neutral oss infra position to push non-neutral decisions in order to prop up another part of its business. This is all bizarre to operators who barely know Docker to beginwith, and care more about say keeping the energy grid running. ("The only authorized thing will likely not work b/c incompatibilities, and I have to spend 2w getting the old working thing approved?")

And again, none of this is technical. Docker is great but should keep improving, so competitive pressure and alternatives are clearly good... but anti-competitive stuff isn't.
Based on this site[0], it looks like you have to use a 'partner' to file the forms if you make under $72,000 a year, is that right?

0: https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...
Yes there are, thanks to positive control from central banks. That's the point of central banks. Provide and maintain stability through the active expansion and contraction of supply against an index.
No, not remotely.

It's like pointing out the absurdity of 1 man, over the past year, having his net worth increase 2.32 million times the annual median household income (of the U.S.) of $68,703 (2019, per census.gov).

While something like 20% of the planet doesn't even have access to reliably safe drinking water and something like 800 million lack the amount of food require for an active life.
Now average over the course of a year? (whichever year you pick, probably not much difference)
I'm a fan of ecosystems.
No, it's a very easy question to answer. How many cups of coffee would a gram of gold buy me?

Yesterday morning, the London gold fix was 803.117 GBP/oz; if i took my gram of gold to my local baristas and traded it, i would get 6.59 flat whites. Yesterday morning, the gold fix was at 798.532 GBP/oz; my gram would have got me 6.55 flat whites.

Whereas if i'd gone in this morning with 4.30 GBP in ready money, i would have got 1.00 flat whites. And if i'd gone in yesterday with 4.30 GBP, i would have got 1.00 flat whites.

You can do this analysis against benchmarks other than flat whites: cappucinos, espressos, and even things that aren't coffee. You will always find that the buying power of a unit of currency remains constant from day to day, while the buying power of a unit of gold does not. It's gold that fluctuates.
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We already have plenty birds of prey (including golden eagles and, here in Scotland at least, sea eagles). There is even occasional talk of re-introducing wolves.

The real problem is that we already have a native species of squirrels, red squirrels, which everybody loves and are being out-competed by the grey squirrels.
The most recognizable form in which the "Default Permit"
dumb idea manifests itself is in firewall rules. [...]
The opposite of "Default Permit" is "Default Deny" and
it is a really good idea.

And now you know why everything from version control systems to video conferencing software tunnel things over HTTP!
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I agree with you, I probably should have been more careful in my word. I should clarify that when I mean "killed", I mean killing either by manually killing, or letting it remain killed. Considering they often exercise their ability to bring around killed stories, they should have brought this one back too.
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> The biggest issue with big data is most of it sits unused

This is really variable. If you're at a place where they jumped on the bandwagon, then yes. There are also lots of companies (and not just Google/FB/LinkedIn) that build mission critical reporting and ML infratstructure on Hadoop. These companies appreciate the value of workflow coordination, and they wouldn't move ahead without (at least) Oozie/Azkaban in place to give some visibility into their workflow.

> But, in the long term, there will be a big change.

I think more types of work will become commoditized. If you just want log processing, there are lots of on-premises and cloud options. Splunk has been doing this forever. Ostensibly with good-enough BI software you could just focus on ingest, and everything else is drag and drop. On a long enough time frame, hand-rolling pipelines will become obsolete. This is like a 10+ year timeline for any player to get significant market share. In the meantime, people have to actually get stuff done, and their skills will be transferable because they understand distributed systems, ETL, warehousing, and a lot of other stuff that hasn't really changed in a decade.

> Becoming an expert in a particular data engineering component

Are you advocating that nobody writes Spark Streaming jobs, because they should rewrite Spark instead? Don't learn to work with Impala, learn to rewrite Impala? I disagree, the tools are only getting better, and it's going to take more and more work to replace the entrenched players. Working on top of solid tools will make you far more productive than engaging in NIH and making your own SQL engine.

> Becoming an expert on quickly and effectively deploying cloud services to get the job done

Like RedShift, EMR and Amazon Data Pipeline? They're hardly turn-key solutions. Amazon's Kinesis is just Kafka with paid throughput - you can absolutely re-use your skills in the cloud, without having to cave and get locked in to a single vendor serving one specific use-case.

> What not to become is one of these OSS DIY bigots: not good enough to build truly differentiating technology, but adamant about building and running their own <up and coming OSS technology>

So in your mind you either pick a vendor to handle all your data for you, or you're an "OSS DIY bigot"? Something like owning your entire user analytics pipeline isn't mission critical for a startup, it's stupid to build it yourself?

> These folks will be wiped out in the next decade or so.

Even though Oracle is amazing and great, lots of people still use Postgres, MySQL, etc. There's always going to be a continuum from "We should buy his turnkey thing" to "we started by rolling our own SQL query engine". You need to be able to identify when each is appropriate, not shoehorn in a one-size-fits-all solution.
I have not rwad the article but from what you are describing it sounds like they probably should just use itch.

I think anonymity in markets might be something we should experiment with getting rid of. Doing that right is hard because it is difficult to prevent sock-puppetry-spoofing which would require regulations and penalties for rat hole order shredding.

So order anonymity is 'easier'. But now the exchange has to deal with spoofers. Or not. but they must be explicit about their policy with regards to spoofing and rigoursly and rapidly enforce that policy. If they are not they create a syatem where some participants will break the rules to gain advantage and others will follow them and suffer. And allowing spoofing might be a violation of dodd-frank (i am not sure if this exchange implicitly falls under its scope or not) so again, some participants might feel to play it safe while others wont have such qualms.

Atleast using an order based feed makes it easier to track bogus orders which increases the difficulty for spoofers vs motivated play by the rules dont commit hundreds of felonies per day liquidity providers.

Trading ...ugh
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The article says they knocked him offline only briefly, but I'm actually having trouble loading krebsonsecurity.com right now.
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Exactly. That's pretty much what multiverse models suggest might be true for "fundamental constants": if you somehow knew the precise conditions of our part of the universe in the moments leading up to our big bang (and the parameters of whatever process triggered it: quantum fluctuations or whatever), you could in principle predict things like the charge to mass ratio of the electron. (E.g. if you knew the precise shape and fluxes of our 6-dimensional Calabi-Yau compactification manifold in string theory, you could work out the low-energy field content and coupling constants of the resulting universe.)

[String phenomenology isn't really my field, but I certainly haven't had a lot of luck deriving a unique background from pure theory. I did once think that I'd found a model that predicted the cosmological constant to within an order of magnitude or two, but that obviously didn't pan out.]
This article is not that well optimized. It could have been much shorter. I think just the lesser-known Knuth quote would be enough.
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Well the assumption of supply adjustments to meet demand in real time that is given for Surge Pricing is just unrealistic. A driver must make a commitment (hours or days before) to be available to drive at a given time. Of course they have no idea what the surge multiplier is, so they'll have to guess. As a result the number of cars on the road is driven by the _expectation_ of the multiplier, rather than the actual multiplier.

This affects the demand side too: people remember stories of people getting burned by huge surge multipliers, and as a result adjust their behavior (being more willing to call a normal cab, driving instead of taking a cab). Here again the actual surge multipliers matter less than the expectations. By providing reasonable estimates, they could set surge multipliers that would ensure a high supply of drivers and demand for them, instead of having the curves moved out of whack by overestimation.
Our local newspaper has also chimed in:

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2021/01/simple-por...
I've never had a single complaint about the android app. Thank you
I see it as a statistics problem where we need to literally choose where to draw the yes/no line:

If COVID was 100.0% deadly and the vaccine is 100% effective, (think rabies) would we be justified to force the vaccine? Sounds like an easy yes? Even here, some would want to die as it is "God's will."

If COVID was 0% deadly and the vaccine is 10% effective, (you are vaccinating to protect other mammals or some rare species of life) how could we justify any force?