skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, but now we need to be able to spawn processes (at least one extra), otherwise we app developers can't secure the user's data in our own app...
But doesn't every hash function have some collisions? Why would this particular example be very bad?
Speaking of morals, is it really moral to not promote and invest in kidney transplants rather than have the federal government pay for dialysis for 5+ years before a person dies (due to the failed kidneys usually)?

We could easily get most people off Dialysis, and allow them to live much healthier and longer lives if we allowed patient collectives (akin to Iran) to reward donors with cash and healthcare for the rest of their lives.

Why do we choose to let this chunk of our population die slowly and at great expense, rather than do a (relatively) inexpensive & safe transplant? Seems twisted and sadistic on society's part to basically tourture this segment of the populace.
Although, at this point it's mostly just spam, porn, and political bots at really really low quality. Imagine the day when worthwhile content with journalistic, artistic, or intellectual value is posted by machines. There are already some great bots pumping out tweets with color palette, non-sensical invention patent ideas, and historical events.
Haha, oh wow. Sorry for that.
I have JS disabled and didn't get that notice.
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I doubt it applies in this case, but many newspapers have obituaries on file (periodically updated, of course) for famous persons, just in case they need one soon.

They would still have to finish it when the day comes they need it, but at least they wouldn't have to rush to get things like the birth date, name of first wife, etc. right.

So, same-day obituaries aren't that rare.
Poe's law at work. It is quite a genuine extremist wiki, only a bit of troll.
I asked the same at https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/151675/how-to-s...

Basically, the safest is, add Google Auth via App to your account, then remove all the phone numbers from Google. If any phone number is linked to your account, no matter what your account recovery options are, Google will always give you option to "recover" it by SMS.
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kk at least how I understood it was the 'kay' part in okay so kk == kaykay or okay okay.
Technically any program which loads a file is executing loaded code - the file is interpreted as a set of instructions about what data structures to create. This is more explicit for things like vector formats, and reaches its logical conclusion with things like postscript files.
Winner Effect... it's an excellent book.
How would an extra process protect your app's memory? Also, I'm sure those apps will not be allowed to execute code outside their own process.
All the examples you mention are on the "futile" side of actions to take though. Like, if someone is driving a fossil car anyway, sharing a ride is very eco-friendly. There is very little extra CO2 emitted by you getting into the car.

However, you can buy an electric car yourself (and share rides with it). Noone would think you an ass for that. For those with a house, noone thinks you are an ass for installing solar panels on the roof. Same with not taking a plane on your next vacation, at least noone at work should get upset by that (and friends/family can hopefully more easily understand it).

On the disposable plastics side, going for the vegetarian option with disposable cutlery is orders of magnitude more eco-friendly than meat with reusable cutlery. And vegetarianism is somewhat socially accepted. While on the topic of symbolic actions, talking about it like a "50% meat reduction" that has an easier chance of spreading socially may do more good in this world than being strict about it -- better to have some influence and have 4 people reduce 50% than 1 person reduce 100%. Again, the option that rubs people less socially may be the rational optimum on the whole.

I.e., "conforming" doesn't mean you have to hide your concern for the environment, it just means it is better to focus on rational actions that actually make a difference (that others can easily understand), rather than symbol statements that have little actual effect. The latter is what makes one feel like an ass.
> We need heuristics because when somebody tell us something that goes against a developed heuristic we should be surprised and examine the evidence more carefully. A kind of comprehension algorithm if you want. Maybe it's another way of saying that if you are invading a country the burden of proof is on you.

That is an excellent point.

However, I too often see people treat heuristics as a rigid rule instead; case in point: original comment. Treating heuristics as heuristics and digging deeper requires untypical intellectual honesty, especially when talking about politics - where most of the arguing is an emotionally charged aggression towards out-group rather than search for the truth.

Therefore, while I perfectly understand usefulness of heuristics as a concept, I think that in this kind of topic it's useful to abstain from heuristics altogether.
It would be nice if we could reason about security and privacy properties of software simply by considering which company or organization provided it, but that is not how software security --- particularly cryptographic software security --- works in the real world.
We must draw a line here.

If we talk about diversity it's true women are under represented in tech.

If we talk about discrimination in the valley I'm quite sure that American white women are not suffering the most. At least they have the entire female American society backing them up.
This was featured on HN the other day:

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/shutit/

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I might be wrong, tried long ago, but maybe it is that even if you don't list SMS as your backup code delivery option, clicking forgot password (need only your username), and then going to Other Options, and choosing to gey identified by providing a phone number (Google shows type your number * * * * * * -1234), hijacking its SMS, can provide access to your account.
Same as answering complex questions with yes. (whether or not you understood or agree) Aggreableness is valued in the east, as is deference to authority.
Yes, I be interested in having it shipped to the UK. Keep me posted with any plans and updates.
> Qt is an easy sell on fresh projects, but switching a large existing codebase is huge.

There have been a lot of major projects ported to Qt over the years, both commercial and open source (e.g. Wireshark, Subsurface).
If you're going to run arbitrary user code, you really want a sandbox, ideally in a separate address space for added protection. An interpreted language has an easier time isolating itself via its runtime (though it's just a bug away from code execution or data access), but any kind of compiled or JITted language desperately wants a completely separate address space.
> Suffering is better than nothing to measure morality.

You seem to imply that "something is better than nothing". I don't agree: IMO, it's much more useful to honestly say that you don't know something than to cling to a bad substitute for knowledge.

Also, "nothing" is not the only alternative here. Humanity has been figuring out ethics for a long time; there are plenty of alternative measures. Can we start with mens rea, for example?
PS and JS are heavily sandboxed though. With this exception an app's user will be able to code up integrations with other apps, additional push notification handlers, or load remote code like native OCR modules or drone controls.
I don't think it is hate, more that people have learned to not put all their eggs in the same basket. Ask any Firebase user what they feel about this.

Also, the more players we have the less proprietary web interfaces for things like issues and PR will dominate.
I think the downvotes are partly because of your "Cue the downvotes" at the beginning... beyond this, even as a big fan of Electron based applications, for a lot of things, it's not a great fit for a many things. I'm not sure a vector graphics program is a good fit or not, or where the edges in performance may be. I know that using it for heavy filters on raster art would be too slow comparatively for many.

Frankly, VS Code is probably the only moderately complex application that really shows off Electron. Many electron apps just aren't that well written, and not to besmirch any developers working in other toolkits, making good JS code in a larger codebase is a different kind of skill than most are used to, beyond this, the techniques and approaches for performance gains are also fairly different.

I don't think Chrome, JS, Node or Electron are going anywhere any time soon. There are some definite value wins in that space. That doesn't make it a great fit here, but I'm happy to be surprised.
This is quite a piece...

> During the Age of Trump, Year One, a single word has emerged to capture the essence of the prevailing cultural mood: resistance. Words matter, and the prominence of this particular term illuminates the moment in which we find ourselves.

Are there any responses to the points raised? I'm thinking about breaking my personal protocol and asking something on facebook. I've a few friends who fashion themselves members of 'la resistance' [1]...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LonKGuS9uuQ
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Not sure about UK but in Poland direct debit is something you need to manually enable and pay small fee for it.

And even if you enable it someone needs to forge your signature under direct debit order to allow someone to charge you.

So still no.
Modify it to say:

YAY>

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Can you expand on that? As far as I know, no major power in WWII used prevention of genocide as their reason to join the war.
It shows that the author is not willing to invest a few minutes to fact-check this particular assertion that they're putting in the article. After something like this, one cannot stop wondering how many more assertions in this article are false.
attempts to, to be fair

Output of ls in PS is an Array of objects (DirectoryInfo or FileInfo instances). How is that merely an attempt?
"What is better? Authenticator apps/hardware devices?"

Mobile signature (SIM-based)(0) is the most secure method as far as I've seen in banks. Citing wiki: "supporting the authentication on the Internet with a parallel closed network like mobile/GSM and a digital signature enabled SIM card is the most secure method today against the man in the middle attack."

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_signature
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Meanwhile men can tell the same stories of harassment, under payment and stalled careers but nobody cares because, you know, they kinda deserve it for being men.

I won't deny there is a problem in the valley, that's why I stayed in Europe, but the narrative men Vs women is wrong, US media should explore the fact that the whole American dream is about being abusive.

Hypocrisy! Brutality! The elite!
All of which are American dreams!
-- RATM
I haven't seen anything that indicates iOS apps will be allowed to map memory as executable, though. Traditionally, only a few Apple apps like Mobile Safari have been blessed with these types of code signing entitlements to enable JIT. So I'm assuming applications running code must do so via an interpreter?
You'd say "ta bom"
> PSI research and other nonsense

What is PSI here? The disambiguation page on Wikipedia doesn't suggest a fitting expansation AFAICS.
Healthcare is inherently political.

This article shows nothing but disregard for the cause of his death: awful healthcare.

It shows a stunningly blind lack of compassion. It's a self congratulatory pat on the back when they are opposed to everything that could have helped.

It's political because it's the national review.
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I second this. I've been using Affinity Designer for posters, UI mock-ups, icons, etc. Honestly, I can't use Inkscape at all. I find the interface highly bloated and the whole application generally slow.
>> If you have $250k stolen, it is bad but you are probably wealthy enough you won't go in deep trouble stress.

Or it might be your entire life's savings and if you can't get it back you kill yourself from the stress of losing 40+ years of work. It's very dangerous to make assumptions about other people's money.
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What about indifference?
I'd expect a first world healthcare system, but the USA lacks that.

So at the very least I'd expect the National Review to not try to lionize itself over feeling sad that someone has died after they've spent their lives helping that state of affairs to happen.
My boss uses "understood" heavily for that purpose.
Security model of banks is completely different from everything else. They will only consider 2FA if the total calculated cost /to them/ becomes significant if they don't.
She names specific people who she met at Berkeley as geniuses:

As a mathematician who studied at Berkeley, Harvard and Princeton, I’ve known geniuses. I got to hang out with Andrew Wiles, who is credited with solving Fermat’s Last Theorem, and I met Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincare Conjecture.

I don't think she means that everyone she met at Berkeley was a genius.
That would be more true if currencies could not be exchanged.
You mean like how Swiss Germans are parodied as ending every statement in "..., oder?" ("..., or?")?
I don't know where OP is from, but over here(Poland) you need two forms of ID(Passport/national ID/driving licence) if you want the T-Mobile clerk to do anything for you in-store. I got quite annoyed once because I needed a new sim-card for my company phone, but despite having two forms of ID confirming that I am the company owner, they also wanted to see the incorporation papers saying so.
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Office 365 SharePoint. Seriously. It's great and just works.
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I was not expecting "sick babies displayed at carnival sideshow" to be a wonderful, heartwarming story.
So the source repo has a binary file in it, which seems to have been made by vec2bin:

https://github.com/sneha-belkhale/gender-word-plots

The python scripts are pretty simple. I'd like to see some methodology drill down / peer-review to make sure these models are sane. I don't really have the mathematics background myself.
A doctor's job is to restore health, using whatever mechanisms they can. In the case of miscarriage, tender loving care is literally the best treatment available, as confirmed by numerous studies.

Unfortunately, most doctors are basically giant hash tables mapping conditions to prescription drugs, sorted on the kickbacks you get from pharma companies.

My dad was in pharmaceutical sales for two plus decades -- I know all the tricks.
> I don't think it is hate, more that people have learned to not put all their eggs in the same basket.

I'm just waiting for GitHub to be bought up by MS and turn into Sourceforge 2.0.
That's a bit different than receiving text messages aimed at a different number.
"Apparently after I had left, someone went into a T-Mobile store and somehow convinced the associate that my number was theirs."

How that can happen? When I visit my cell provider's store, nobody is going to talk about any account details while you haven't provided a government issued ID to prove that you are an account holder. Sure, it's not 100% bulletproof method, but if somebody went a great lengths to counterfeit my ID, phone number is the least of my worries then. I assume, this happened in USA, so is ID check so unpopular there or it's easily circumvented somehow?
Given,

>a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC

I will translate the paragraph you quoted: "We don't want to show this content to people in the UK."

That is literally exactly its meaning. (I didn't investigate if it is true but that is the meaning of the paragraph you quoted, as written.)

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EDIT: this got a downvote, so reread my comment more carefully.
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Remember that, for these soundness issues to result in vulnerabilities, they (1) have to be accidentally relied upon in code (2) that can be controlled by attackers (3) in a way that results in a vulnerability (use after free with attacker controlled heap, etc).

It's worth comparing to other languages. There are known ways to segfault PHP and most other scripting languages, but those bugs aren't considered security problems unless they meet all three criteria above. In Go, there are even known ways to get use-after-free without using the unsafe package that won't be fixed by design. That doesn't stop security experts from recommending the language, because, again, any such UAFs are not likely to meet all these criteria.

Now in Rust we prioritize soundness issues highly, because we want safe code to actually be safe. We have high standards for ourselves--our standard is almost as high as that of runtimes that are intended to execute hostile code, such as JavaScript engines. Unlike with JS engines, though, fixes to soundness issues around the edges of Rust are probably not going to have much of a practical security impact. (The probability of these correctness issues having security implications is not zero, to be sure, but it's small.) Finding and fixing these problems mostly serves to keep us honest.
Do you usually have your life savings in a checking bank account and not in an IRA account? Shouldn't that has more red-flags for the bank.

I'm not saying that investigating the $250k is not important; but just not more urgent than the $2k theft.
Anyone know how Swift Playgrounds work? Do they interpret the Swift code or compile it against a set of mock APIs?
What? iPad Air 2 is slow as hell in many websites and always when using more than one application. I recently had to buy a laptop just because doing any kind of work was really slow on the Air 2.
Actual article title: "Don't use a blockchain unless you need to"
> I just bumped the RAM up to 8GB on both of those computers and they are just fine for web browsing, word processing, and HD video playback.

My notebook is also from 2012 and still going strong. I just deeply regret getting one with soldered-on RAM and no expansion slot. 4GB is still enough for productivity work, but games could use more.
People had positive experience with SourceForge too, before they started bundling adware. I wouldn't really use these proprietary platforms for anything more than a dumb DVCS host.
I feel like we are inching closer to being able to write code on iOS. Swift storyboards on the iPad kind of opened the door and I hope we can keep chipping away at this.

The day I can run and write Python natively on iOS is the day I buy an iPad Pro. Right now there are some good ssh clients and I can write code from a terminal, but pros of the device are not worth that tradeoff right now IMO.
This is something that needs to be repeated until everyone internalises it: for language pairs other than the "easy" ones Google translate sucks.

I am Greek and translations from and to my language are utterly ridiculous, on the level of Bozo the clown doing the translation with his underpants on his head back to front.

Typical example: I put in the Greek word for "swallow", the bird, and ask for the French translation. I get back the word "avaler" - the French word for "to swallow", the verb.

That's my little benchmark there, useful because Google translate has been doing this consistently, for a good few years, before it used neural networks, before it started claiming its setup essentially constitutes an "interlingua" etc etc.

Note that the bird and the verb sound nothing like each other in Greek, or French. They sound the same only in English, so GT goes from Greek to French through English. Because it doesn't have enough parallel texts to go directly to French. And so it sucks, because it doesn't have enough data. You can ask native users of other languages-that-are not-English or have few ish speakers, perhaps Turkish or Hungarian etc. I'm pretty sure you'll find out they have similar experiences.

So I don't know what metric they use to evaluate their results, it doesn't seem to be a particularly good metric of translation quality. Maybe they just care more about how many people use their system and try to optimise for that, rather than going for the much harder to know quality.
> Instead, each word should have a vector based on context, for disambiguation and nuance.

You do realize even under vanilla Word2vec, each word embedding is a sum of both the word vector and a vector of a surrounding window of words? Each embedding results from maximizing the likelihood of a small surrounding context given the word. Thus, context is factored in.
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Jokes aside, you actually make a good point.

github is loosing money like crazy while gitlab and bitbucket are actually profitable.
Where I live you need a copy of your passport to port a number, in addition the new sim can only be sent to your government registered address, I think that would be quite hard to game.

Even so, hackers can still use SS7 to hijack phone numbers.
My head is not in the sand. Your head is in the sand if you say that every single tech company condones sexual harassment. It's actually an extraordinary claim that's hard to believe, but it's become so common to make bold claims about the ubiquity and universality of racism and sexism that it sounds normal to us. The idea is that if a woman is saying she likes her job as an engineer and doesn't feel mistreated, there's something wrong with that story and I'm sure she could dig a little deeper and remember a night out where somebody made an inappropriate comment, or she wasn't invited along, or she was just in some way treated differently because of her gender. If you take it that far, you're not just fixing tech company cultures, you're fixing the patriarchy, and that's not something that a bunch of consultants can fix. I think we need to be more specific about what we're trying to fix and where the problem begins and ends, otherwise we'll just put together ineffective diversity initiatives that never really gain traction. It can't be taboo to be critical about the effectiveness of diversity and inclusion programs, otherwise we'll all just wind up with our heads in the sand, hoping we aren't next on some journalist's hit list.
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