skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ehh, muddy.ashes.pardon maps to US Holocaust Memorial Museum... (https://www.ushmm.org/) insensitive for sure, is that just a coincidence?
I don't understand. How is this not a straightforward violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause?
Like webcams, microphones should (and even be required to) have a status LED.
Do you have a source for this? Huge loans at very low rates? The current is about 3.85% even for an FHA loan. Even then they won't loan you huge amounts unless you have the income to justify it. Even if interest rates were allowed to "creep up" the government will not stop guaranteeing loans, and banks won't stop lending. They'll find some other way to offset. With higher interest comes higher payments which means only higher income people will be able to afford that housing. That will horribly exacerbate the problem. Now the middle and low income people don't even have a prayer of owning a home. Is that your intention?
I agree. Really, I don't see why Facebook wouldn't monitor audio like this for targeting ads. If you make money from serving ads, that seems like exactly the kind of thing you would want to do.

Like you, I have gotten pretty good at noticing "weasel words" and such in the government's statements (denials). It is clear that they take their time to make sure they word their statements ever so carefully.
The median income supports their point well. Looking at those figures you'd expect Michigan to have no more trouble than Germany maintaining roads.
This should make life easier for Linux users who want something better than integrated Intel GPU. No more Optimus horrors and lack of proper PRIME support.
Nothing wrong with packages. Just everything wrong with packages for particular services. The solution is really simple: Offer packages of traffic. If people need 10 GB/month for low-res video streaming, then sell 10 GB/month for 5 EUR.
Even more, the "solution" to create static binary scales linearly with the number of technologies you use. If you create a tool to create a static binary out of your wordpress blog, but you have also Python, node.js, ruby and Perl running, you still lost.

Containers offer a standard where you can deploy your applications in a language-independent way, so they avoid this scaling problem.

The same is true for most OS-level packages (like rpm and deb), except that they provide much less isolation.
> they certainly find such salaries for administration

This is one of those claims that in a way has become 'common wisdom', but that I've seen no actual evidence of. I wonder if it's just one of those talking points of people who want to cut taxes that has never been challenged or at least defined, like "government waste". It's like an end-user saying 'my computer's software is buggy' - that doesn't tell me anything, and for all I know it's your power supply, monitor, or a million other possibilities, or even a matter of perception by a user in a bad mood or with a bias.

Especially we don't know the problem definition: Which administrators are overpaid? How frequently? Is it certain administrative jobs? In certain size districts? Is it due to some other problem? And which administrators are underpaid?

Finally, while we should pay attention to these issues, let's not catastrophize every problem into a organizational disaster. I know plenty of administrators in business who are overpaid; the perfect human institution doesn't exist.
This is a small point, but to the author: in your first part of the article[0], binding the function argument to f in map, and then binding the head of the collection in filter was a bit confusing when scanning through...
Yet the German pays $5.69/gallon compared to the American $2.56 (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/gas-prices/).
Sure, but that's going to cost a lot more, as it is now a "custom home". Economies of scale apply strongly to houses.
Throttling has nothing to do with net neutrality, unless it's targeted at specific services.
This sounds like a great project. I have some thoughts on how to communicate about it when it is ready to go.

With the general public, you might start with some things they are unhappy about with the present internet, and for each of them explain how things would be better for them if they used Orchid.

For the more techy minded, you could do a list of similar things like tor or IPFS, and for each of them explain how Orchid is similar or different, and what are your reasons for deciding to make it that way.
It is now with Musl libc
There is no doubt that China has weaker ethical rules compared to the West, but I think in this case, as long as the person consents, what's the problem?

Do you necessarily think that it's more ethical to have laws or rules that forbids suicides or self-harm regardless of what a person wants?
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The original word2vec source code comes with a probabilistic phrase detection tool. Keyword: word2phrase.
That depends on the base package, if you get a pre-paid plan you don't get any included Internet service. You can still access the regular Internet, but it debits 2€ for any day you use it, and only gives you 60MB for that day. To use more you must purchase some extra package.
Hmm, I see. Not sure if I'm completely following your understanding though. There is only 1 product version. The paid add-on is a sort of app store that allows you to install extensions on top of the core experience. If you get a chance, please email me at mo@standardnotes.org to explain a bit more. Would be super helpful.
To people who haven't been to Germany: the roads there are not great. Germany did the same thing as the US has: cut funding.

You never EVER cut funding on infrastructure. Not even in a recession. It will come back to haunt you.
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It's never too late. Maybe apart from some age bias in the field (but that most occurs closer to 40). I would suggest starting with some good foundation in stats / modeling, this is an amazing book on that: An Introduction to Statistical Learning by Robert Tibshirani and Trevor Hastie.
If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy the book "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow (2004!), which explores the surveillance state at the intersection of private coronations. Many of the ideas and topics discussed in the book, at the time sounding more like conspiracy theories, have come true.

https://www.amazon.com/Place-Hide-Robert-OHarrow-Jr/dp/07432...
Paywall avoiding link: https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.c...
Apparently. Facebook doesn't cost the ISP anything to provide, and in fact it costs the ISP extra to implement site-specific rules like this, so they don't save any money providing service to people who choose not to use Facebook. The ISP therefore has no reason to reduce their price.
It's a minor nit, unrelated to the article's main point, but I found it strange that the author seems to think you need a high-speed internet connection to order wine across state lines. I'm guessing this comes from ISP marketing which portrays broadband as an absolute essential for all internet activities.
> concrete leaks and tech news of recent years

which ones do you mean?
Also listed in the posted article (at the bottom).
Facebook is doing whatever it wants on its own devices (servers), that’s the whole problem. Regulation is likely to apply to anyone engaged in similar activities (providing interactive services over the internet) although we can certainly dream that it’ll come with a carve-out for small scale operators.
The only problem of passwords is that the they are unsafe and mostly broken.

Having said that, it is the easiest tool to "identify" a regular Joe in a regular web.

All non-regular-more-secure webs should use 2FA.
I think you should specify when you write drug cartels if you mean traditional drug cartels in Central/South America/Asia or if you meant big pharma in USA.
The Intel one has a known technique to disable the ME, the AMD one does not (for the moment).
This seems to be resolved:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=new-ryze...
To clarify, I have no issue with the government requiring companies to disclose who has paid for advertising, the issue that I have is that its becoming increasingly prudent and attractive the government to regulate how we compute and how we respect private data, and if our voices aren't part of that conversation, we're screwed.

Also, I take it you've never worked in a heavily regulated industry. It blows. While regulation is a good thing (PHI protection), it definitely has a chilling effect on innovation, and at times results in ill-informed policy (security via obscurity; pointless protective measures from know-nothing management.)
Apparently this discussion has been on here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11896883
Seriously?

The industry term for this is "drug diversion," and it happens pretty frequently and is very under reported. The patient may not even be aware it's happening because a health care employee, real estate agent, teenager child, nanny, guest, etc may be stealing the medicine. It even happens in a hospital setting, with deadly results - https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/825801

That's why if you have drugs someone may want to steal it's recommend you keep them locked up.

Not even dying in hospice care stops family:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/dying...
Implementing OCR Using a Random Forest Classifier in Ruby
"we've had over 2 decades to become used to them"

Every day, there are lots of new online shoppers making their first transactions: young people who have just gotten their first credit card, and older people who have never bought anything online before.

A 21 year old who just got their first credit card yesterday has not had two decades of experience with CVV codes.

Someone who has had their card for years but has never bought anything online before has not had two decades of experience with CVV codes (since they're never used for in-person transactions).

"Can't we just put a little lock icon next to the CVV on a card, and then put the same icon on the site."

A lock icon would be confusing, since a lock icon is already used to indicate a secure web site. And if someone has never used a credit card online before, they may not have noticed the lock icon on their card.

And good luck trying to get all credit card issuers to agree on a standard icon, when they can't even agree on the format and location of the CVV code. For example, on an Amex card, the CVV code is 4 digits, and is on the front of the card.
Thanks, thats the analysis depth i'm usually looking for but never find anywhere!
Their suggestion about assigning IP to the company seems fairly standard (and employee-hostile), but their anecdotal story doesn't really justify it in my mind:

> Assign Intellectual Property. Ask everyone to sign a Proprietary Information and Inventions Assignment (“PIIA”). This document says that what they do at the company is owned by the company. Early on we had a friend who came by and brainstormed ideas. We thought of it as interesting banter. He later said he owned part of our storage design. While we worked it out together, a PIIA makes ownership clear.

If a friend came by to brainstorm ideas, it does't seem likely that someone would have the nerve to open with "Ok but first we need you to sign this PIAA agreement."
Evidence of an exponential speedup in the solution of hard optimization problems
Facebook is humanitys ilusions of grandeur. Which makes it valuable for advertisers.

All a competitor needs to do is to facilitate the grandeur to become real.

"Johnny read about your dream to make a wooden lifesized viking-boat, that you share with 5 others in your area. Johnny is a skilled carpenter and willing to train you, if you show him how to paraglide. Post the common learning experience on Realbook, to show who you really are, who you want to be, what mistakes happend. Others who tryied to build wooden boats, got stuck in there projects here, here and here. Others that succeeded and could help you on as mentors."

Of course, that would be a real positive thing for the users. Who in there right mind would do such a thing?

Im pretty sure, SV is unable to do so, without trying to fire-sale humanity goodness flavoured waver cookies.
This is a known issue that only affects early revisions of Ryzen CPUs under specific workloads, so it's unlikely to appear in new ones like the mobile Ryzen. If you're affected, AMD will RMA your chip for free.

And AMD isn't the only manufacturer to have such issues. Intel had a bug in Skylake where it would crash under heavy load with Hyperthreading enabled. Modern CPUs are complicated beasts.
> I want reasonable restrictions on the governments AND the businesses in this case... To protect my digital freedom. Regulation isn't always evil.

I agree completely! I'm just saying we should support our lobbying power to make sure we have a voice when these decisions are made.
The 21st Amendment (which repealed prohibition) explicitly grants states the right to regulate alcohol imports and possession.
It's not obvious to me how this is a good thing at all. Can you explain your reasoning?
Fair point. Hopefully Lenovo will get better at this. I kind of overlook it since I don't use my phone for anything other than calls/sms, email, light web browsing (99% of the time wikipedia or hn), google maps, whatsapp, uber and taking a few photos. Rightly or wrongly I don't care too much about security since I'm not installing loads of apps and don't use the phone for much (still encrypt it though in case of physical theft).
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Exactly, and those systems aren't vulnerable to such simple attacks, at least as far as we know. The human visual system, and everything connected to it, is even more complex and sophisticated, so I think it's fair to say that it would be even harder to trick it like that.
On the other hand, maybe this complexity and sheer amount of processing makes us susceptible to another kind of trick (like advanced optical illusions)
It is not a solved issue at all. Chips are still coming off the line with the issue, the only solid fix is getting an RMA'd processor (AMD are hand-checking these units for the issue).

The assertion of there being a "safe date range" (ostensibly, date codes >= 1730, i.e. chips manufactured during/after Week 30 2017) was made by the Phoronix Forums webmaster on the basis that he hadn't seen any user posts reporting problems with chips that had been manufactured within the last 3 weeks. Obviously it takes a while for stock to move through packaging and distribution, so this was a pretty stupid proclamation to make. Since then, chips from the "safe date range" (eg 1733) have started showing up with the segfault problem, but his mis-information persists.

https://community.amd.com/thread/215773?start=1770&tstart=0

The only processors that are relatively certain to not have this issue are the ones that come from filing an RMA with AMD. Full stop. And even some of those still have the issue.

It's a broad-base issue that causes general application and OS instability under load, it is not restricted to either Linux nor compilation workloads. I definitely encourage everyone to test their processor and RMA if necessary.
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The whole point of classification algorithms, including NNs, is to map similar inputs to similar outputs, or indeed the same output, and different images to different outputs. Hash functions usually attempt to erase all information of "similarity" between inputs. However, the metric that determines what "similar" means in a NN is not necessarily what we expect it to be.

But of course NNs are definitely just functions, in the strict mathematical sense. You could replace one with a large lookup table. The interesting part is the training: how to come up with the function in the first place.
Nominally cheaper, sure, but not more affordable, since ability to pay would fall proportionally.
What about SMS? Would you use the service then? Genuinely wondering, I'm planning passwordless logins for my users.
I would highly recommend applying to some jobs on Upwork until you can land some more quality freelance gigs via your own brand. Also, another good tactic could be to find local businesses with poor websites and go pitch the in-person.
Totally agree. And these "maybe they are backdoors" have not actually been demonstrated in the wild yet (apart from Intel's AMT that most people don't have to worry about). If you want to fearmonger, at least do it with demonstrated issues not just "maybes". So a much bigger security issue is buying a laptop from anyone at all at this point that isn't a Mac or a Surface, i.e. directly from the OS vendor. Lenovo does shit like this: http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-rootkit-ensured-its-soft... (which also references the earlier Superfish shit they pulled). Sony has done shit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... Dell et al: http://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-find-insecure-bios-...
I certainly concede the cutural context, and wouldn't care much if the article we're written in German and I were reading a translation, but I assume this article is written for consumption by an English population, which means barring regional difference in English there shouldn't be much ambiguity in interpretation for that population.

Your anology doesn't quite line up. What you point out are specific actions of people. You are now easily empowered to go ask that person why they stood up to the national anthem or ask someone else. The line quoted here is an impression of a German author of what an other culture percieves. This just doesn't sound like good reporting. Is the author projecting third world impressions or projecting what _anyone_ reaching America would feel about non costal cities? The tone of the rest of the article suggests the latter, but what really stood out was the added impression of someone from Switzerland. Growing up in a culture with with tons of colonial baggage, I don't see why I shouldn't feel offended.
All of this insanity could be solved if student loans were treated like any other loan. If student loans could be dismissed in bankruptcy then it would align the interests of lenders and students. As is in the current system, since loans cannot be dismissed, it turns into practically guaranteed profit for the lenders. In the worst case they can garnish wages so the equation changes from repayment to lifetime earnings of at least $x --- loans as 'lifetime rent' packages.

This has completely bastardized education in purpose, cost, and quality. The US now literally pays more per capita [1] for higher education than Germany. Germany has subsidized 'free' education for everybody, including foreigners.

Like all things, I'm certain the current system started out with good intentions -- probably with some good feeling and wholesome name like 'equal access to education act.' But instead of positively changing things, it seems to mostly have just distorted what was already there. For instance giving a loan, which now regularly surpass 6 figures as tuition raises in response to the availability of 'free' money, for somebody to go study a field that's going to have no meaningful impact on their future earnings is simply exploitative. It's take advantage of naivete and the inability to dismiss that loan. Nobody in a million years would do that if loans could be dismissed.

This would leave the less productive degrees to be primarily the domain of the 'bourgeois' and I don't really see that as a problem. Their family and connections can subsidize the value of such education if they see fit -- people from less privileged backgrounds do not have that luxury. And those from less privileged backgrounds are arguably even more susceptible to the belief that if they just get a degree, any degree, they'll be able to get, nay - be entitled to, a great job. Less privileged tends to imply that one's parent(s)s did not manage to obtain 'great jobs' themselves, and so may be less aware of the conditions to find such a job. In any case, the intersection of this myth and reality is something that never ends well.

[1] - https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp
At least they could no longer pretend surprise at the damage cigarettes did to them.

I say "pretend" because it was no great revelation in the 1960s that smoking was bad for you. My father said they were called "coffin nails" back in the 1930s, and the first thing doctors routinely advised their patients was to quit smoking.

And, of course, the black, scarred lung of a smoker was ridiculously obvious to any person who did an autopsy or operation on a smoker.
It's not just a WV thing, I've seen pickup trucks do it in liberal university cities in the midwest.
As a resident of Seattle, it took be a minute to register that "Washington" in that list is part of DC.
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>can't someone just create an open system with a similar concept

There's a pretty good, working parody at http://what3fucks.com
Ironic facebook link ftw
This looks interesting, and I wasn't aware of this API before. The downside is you have to send a plaintext or at best SHA1 to that server, which creates another problem even if the server is not logging and can be trusted.
Upgrading to gravel indeed.

My parents house back in Wisconsin has the bitumen roads all around the area. They litterly slap down tar, then pile small rocks on top of it, occasionally they take a roller to if but mostly they don't and leave the weight of the cars to finish the road. So there is no such thing as a flat road, and continuous tire dips are formed along the whole length of the road for water, snow and ice to collect in.
An important goal we have is to make sure that the web app and desktop app are 1:1, so that any way you depend on using the app can be accessed any time using a browser. This requires a different, hosted architecture. I don't think this will be its final form however.

In the future, I could imagine for example a desktop app that runs all of the extensions locally (but would mean no web access). But the hosted architecture is not bad. The only remote connection made is when the script is first downloaded. After that, the note editing all happens locally in-frame, and the end-to-end architecture remains intact. The question really becomes, can you trust the script that's initially loaded? This will be up to the user. The editor feature is a layer of convenience that comes at a minor cost of potential privacy, but is no more untrustworthy than the SN web app you load in your browser (assuming the editor is coming from our servers and not some random link).
>All I ever hear is anecdotes.

The fact that there is no hard evidence makes me very skeptical.

Every anecdote is explainable another way. Someone in the comments said they were having a conversation about storage units and saw an ad for storage units immediately after. Even if they had never searched for storage units -- and can we really be sure? That would be easy to forget -- Facebook might just have extrapolated they they would need a storage unit from related searches, like searching for a moving company.

I would be willing to bet this type of algorithmic extrapolation explains every one of the microphone-ad-conspiracy stories.
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If you're shopping around for a different distro, you should try out Gentoo or Funtoo. It's fast, customizable, and you'll learn a lot when installing it.