skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"No tracking and logging Google records literally every action done by its users. This includes your IP address, every search that you do, which emails you open, which websites you visit, and much more. ProtonMail takes the opposite approach and by default, does not monitor or record user activity, not even IP addresses."

Has this been verified by an independent third party?

Also how do you determine there's an issue with with IP prefixes in AS 15897 Vodaphone Turkey[1], if you don't log IP addresses?

[1] https://bgpview.io/asn/15897
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https://twitter.com/vnik5287/status/974439706896187392
http://cyseclabs.com/exploits/upstream44.c
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That's only true in the most technical of senses. Yes, there is a spread, but other brokerages take a spread AND additionally charge you another fee on top of that which is often an outrageous $5-10.
>> I put zero probability on my creations (kids, code, businesses) resembling me for long. I wouldn't wish them to

I think this is a good attitude (or maybe just acceptance of the inevitable!)
Examples or it didn't happen
Yes, your first 2 paragraphs clarify it a bit. Thanks.

As for races vs species, that well has been so thoroughly poisoned that I for one refuse to drink from it. But, you know... you do you.
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Not really, just because they're selling order flow doesn't necessarily mean the customer gets a worse deal. Robinhood still has to follow reg nms, they have to fill you at the NBBO.
As someone relatively young still, if I found myself on an early deathbed, it wouldn't do much to comfort me to imagine that perhaps most others are content with what they've created by the time they reach their deathbed. The best thing for me would be more time to create things/impact myself, and the next best thing would be an agent that I'm confident that would finish up (or continue) those things the very same way I would've done. Maybe those aren't entirely different outcomes depending on the fidelity of the agent and my interpretation of identity.
73% of gold is used in jewelry, a significant portion of the remainder is used in electronics and aerospace. To be honest though, if I were going to invest in a precious metal, I’d pick platinum, because it’s primary use is industrial, but it’s no less fungible than gold.
The question you're begging is whether the computer oracle is accurate or transparent at all, let alone more so than traditional police work. The point isn't that the whole thing is a bad idea, it's that the comparison to wall street should not be encouraging. Frankly from the article, it sounds like the system they had just wasn't that useful, so this is moot.

From the outside, it's reminiscent of the LA school system's ipad fiasco. A flashy silicon valley purchase that hits the top three requirements for a government program:

1) Appear to be useful by spending a lot of money
2) Without addressing actual structural problems
3) While funneling large amounts of public money to well connected contractors.
Isn't it basic profiling, in this case based on wealth? Should rich people be penalized more for their mistakes than poor people?
The only new thing the Internet has brought, in regards to information, is the ease at which any moron can find a platform.

That barrier to entry used to be very high. Now it's almost non-existent. That's the cause of the symptoms that a number of other commentators have mentioned, such as "the death of ubiquitous, reliably-sourced information".

The flipside to this is that it's also a threat to propaganda from those who had the resources to create their own platforms when that was actually an achievement.

Also, as other commentators have said, critical thinking was always important, it's just a bit more important now because, as above, every moron has a platform. Or, maybe, the more things change the more they stay the same.

Tangential relationship:
Music used to be a rebellious form of expression. It has been forcefully moulded into another tool of conformity once the powers that be worked out how to profit from it and boil off everything but the hooks that attack human evolutionary weaknesses.

The powers that be have already used Social Media to asset some amount of influence on the US election. That's a big proof of concept.
So I posted a comment criticizing the fact that the mods revoked my upvoting privs. That prompted a HN user to reach out to me via Keybase, who shared some of my experiences. Apparently his voting privs were revoked back in 2014 or so.

My other comment got flagged, so if I want other people to also reach out and submit stories, I have no choice but to repost yet another comment. This will be the last one for awhile.

If you have similar stories of abuse by the HN moderators, I encourage you to reach out and share them with me. Unlike pretty much anyone else, I happen to care a lot about this. This feels unethical, since there's nowhere else for us to go. We all helped shape this community into what it is today.

I'll be collating the experiences and posting them somewhere. At least people will know what's happening to those who participate on HN.

The mods' standard defense is always the same: We have more data. We know better than you. It's our job. You can't possibly understand and we certainly don't have time to explain it.

And the front page appears to work and the comments appear to be good on HN, so nobody sticks up or tries to change anything.

But that's little consolation to those who have to suffer the gaslighting effect of having their privileges passive-aggressively yanked from them without explanation, with no choice other than to grovel to hn@ycombinator.com or switch accounts.

I'm up to four others who have contacted me so far. It's taken months of effort to even get those few. But I'm convinced there are very many people in similar situations. We just never hear about it because you're not allowed to talk about it.
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Medium is focused on medium to longform content. However, it is not focused on high quality content but rather the opposite - clickbait. It is sort of a grassroots buzzfeed platform.
I remember reading about audible sound produced from interference of ultrasound decades ago. As TFA indicates it's just math, which math has certainly been done before now. After reading TFA, I'm not convinced there was an attack, that if an attack occurred it had anything to do with ultrasound, or that if an ultrasound attack occurred it had any of the qualities discussed in TFA. It's interesting to compare this credulous hypothesizing with the article by the same author in the sidebar that is super-skeptical about the pacemaker hacks, which hacks have since been confirmed by FDA.
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Hopefully not, given that starting a real war is never in the interest of the people. This entire topic is a convenient rebranding that distracts from the apparent gross negligence of the administrators of these critical systems.
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Streaming by ability wouldn't solve that. To illustrate why, I am reminded of a quote by Stephen Hawking;

“The prevailing attitude at Oxford at that time was very anti-work. You were supposed to either be brilliant without effort or accept your limitations and get a fourth-class degree. To work hard to get a better class of degree was the mark of a ‘grey man’, the worst epithet in the Oxford vocabulary.”

You could stream by behavioural attributes to achieve that if you wanted, but then you would have to accept that the classes would be very wide in ability, unless you stream by both behaviour and ability and then end up with a massive logistical nightmare.
Cryptocurrency trading is very volatile, speculative and un-regulated.

RobinHood is aggressively going after the young and naive "investors" who will quickly be parted from their money.

Obligatory Tweet: https://twitter.com/robinhoodapp/status/756262680537759744
Hello fellow Capital One Investing refugee. I too was thinking about moving my portfolio over to Robinhood, but they'll need a web app before I'll make the jump. I'd say I'm only a semi-active trader (maybe 2-3 trades a day) and it's still hard to envision doing that on a mobile device.
That's the problem with a strong type system and a designing a tool that does one job well.
For me it's as simple as making it so the stores don't look like they've been through a looting riot recently. I still go to Walmart sometimes, but I'm generally not happy about it.
Constructive interference of microwaves is the most likely candidate I think. Each beam would be essentially harmless, but at their intersection you’d have a bad time. This could be used by adversaries to power bugs as you reference in another post, but also by friendlies sweeping for bugs. As a bonus the emitters could be compact compared to some monstrous speaker systems, and probably mobile.
They are if the transaction does not involve the company. If the value of hedge funds is in IPOs, i’ve veen missold!

I am not an economist, but I would love it if you could correct me if I am wrong :)
Walmart accepts open box returns. They also accept returns without a receipt, though I'm sure they impose some limitations on those.
So did you also contact their NOC via the handle listed for them in their RIPE routing registry entry? That's the normal protocol.

Just because there's "ProtonMail users who work within Vodafone Turkey" doesn't mean they have enable level access on Vodaphone's routers.
Likewise, I am foaming at the mouth to replace some internal google sheets with air table but as you mention, webhook capability is table stakes to front the effort.
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Same situation here. They actually deactivated my account when I asked them why it still wasn't enabled after 3 months (even if I did send them all the info they asked for; even had to send it twice!)
they now have a web-app.

it might be invite-only, not sure, but I have been using their web app for 3 weeks.
That outrageous $5-10 probably helps the average person make money in the long run by not overtrading.
Have any AI chip startups actually shipped?
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Definitely! You should check out https://base.run - it's a solution targeted to developers that want to quickly build and test out ideas or internal tools
I am also super hesitant to rely on a raspberry pi for anything that should really work, networking related, considering that the ethernet interface is actually a USB 2.0 device hung off a very cheap USB bus. It's not like having an Intel or Broadcom PCI-Express interface NIC on the motherboard of an x86-64 platform PC. It also has only one NIC. All of the methods to get >1 NIC on a raspberry pi use additional USB devices and are ugly hacks IMHO.
Thanks! Any ideas for other improvements? (even if it's just fixing "paper cut"-style little annoyances)
The assertion here by this activist group that the decline is due mainly to herbicides used on GMO crops doesn't seem to hold up on closer inspection:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-p...

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/11/04/save-monarch-b...
Thanks for the renaisance link, interesting firm. I still dont think 2 sigma was a good example for a counter claim though, their primary success has been post-financial collapse. Renaisance on the other hand has consistent performance over the decades though isnt really representative of the field. But I take your point none the less.
I wonder if they're able to separate their cryptocurrency risk from the rest of their brokerage. I figure I'm insured to the $500k limit by their SIPC/FINRA insurance, but it'd be annoying if they lost millions of dollars of tokens and went out of business because of it.

Or are they somehow insured against that risk? I'd find that hard to believe.
Everywhere is regressing at the moment. Brexit, US protectionism, China's a dictatorship again.

It's like none of the 'leaders of the world' have read any history. Or they have, and are arrogant enough to think 'that won't happen now that I'M in charge'.
It won't work with anything that is expressly forbidden in the constitution. Other than that currently it's pretty broad. There's a Harvard Law Review article [0] about the limits such as they are and does a better job than I ever could being professionals and actual lawyers.

[0] https://harvardlawreview.org/2014/01/limits-on-the-treaty-po...
I've tried one and only one time to speak to someone at Google (not for adsense). At that time I was trying to recover an old email account that had been unused for awhile. I was perfectly ready to just create a new account but still wanted to try to get at an email that I thought might be inside this account.

I was 100% ready to smack into a brick wall of non-responsiveness after I sent an email from a different account to their tech support. What actually happened was a live person called me back from Google and gave me access to the old account on the spot - despite my not remembering much about the account itself (date I opened it, name I registered it under, etc).

That resolution was practically out of the twilight zone...
If you're struggling to read the text like I am, setting the `font-weight` to 400 (instead of 300) makes the page infinitely more readable.
Well, my server runs for 19 years now without a major secuirty breach... so do I know.

But to answer OP: you cannot ever delete gmail message. Even spam is kept forever to comply with LE, since some of your real messages could by accodent go to junk. With Proton once I delete a message, its gone forever since it was part of my internal encrypted blob of messages. once I logged off deleted message is gone.
There's a free open source desktop version already available: https://www.stockstalk.club
My point is that there is nothing wrong with this technology in principle. I'm not saying anything about this technology in particular. The comparison to wall street should be extremely encouraging - a small number of extremely smart firms consistently beat the market. If a small number of firms can produce policing tools that make it more efficient, that'd be great.
I really want to use it, but I'm not fully clear on the use-cases. We already have specialized tools for project management such as Asana. We already have specialized tools for sales, such as Salesforce.

Seems like Airtable is the step between a simple CSV / excel file and a hyper-specialized tool for that problem. So if you're not quite ready for the latter, but you are experiencing pain with Excel, then Airtable is the way to go?
What will be the effect if we stand on Jupiter?
I wouldn't call Rakuten dead yet, but that is interesting to see Amazon just barely edging them out for the first time. Thanks for the link suls.
There are many environmental poisons that affect brain development, consumption of lead, for instance. Also there are many diseases that can effect brain development, such as congenital syphilis.
Random users in the wild are unlikely to recognize that they've been attacked after the fact.
> I've had search so bad I can't even find what I'm looking for so I just give up and buy it on amazon.

Hang on, Amazon is the last place I'd go if poor search is something I want to avoid.
Are you assuming that nobody would be based in Bratislava who is not Slovakian?
So long as you're covering your tracks when creating these and using these fake accounts. Covering your tracks by using all the tools that are outlawed and detectable, thus putting a bigger target on your back.

If you're going to tickle the toes of dictatorially-run law enforcement, your security had better be watertight.
Ya, I wouldnt worry about that for a long time.
I had a quick play to create a project plan for the team. Yes it's very nice indeed. And intuitive if you happy with Excel/Google Sheets. However I like how you can effortlessly create a 'schema' on the fly. So it isn't as fast and loose as Excel.
Movidius kind of did, as a part of Intel. They sold dozens of their sticks, maybe even hundreds. By EOY “good enough” built in power efficient acceleration will be available on sub-$100 dev boards. So they have to raise while they still can.
I'll try one of those -- might be good to have something separate. I use Emacs as my main editor and there's already a lot added onto it. Thanks for the links.
Their web app is in closed beta right now
Don’t forget the most obvious: diet, both of the pregnant, mother, and the growing child. The link between insufficient nutrition and lowered IQ is well established.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2628311

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041117005027.h...
For a non-American, you do a great impression of a 73-year-old Midwestern Republican who managed to miss both Korea and Vietnam and who has taken Time magazine for most of his life. I might not convince you of anything, but mostly I would just urge you to be skeptical of American media reports that encourage spending more money on the military.
Your argument assumes absolutely none of the information that Palantir uses is tainted. That's a surprisingly difficult thing to demonstrate, and based on the amount of data analyzed highly unlikely.

Thus, the impetus to use parallel construction to sidestep these issues.
Take a look at no other than Turkey.
They do seem to have a schema which I like. You can say a column is a "pick from list" or a "date" and it'll enforce it and provide the best ux for picking the thing you need. This is much better than Excel. It's like an Excel/Access hybrid but for the web and very usable.

Alas, it's not an application development environment
OK I won't get into an argument of whether stereotypes or prejudices are good/bad and I'm sorry if I implied that. I can't speak for the GP (u/alexk), but I interpreted his assertion of "People should try harder to decouple their biases from facts especially in their public writing" as saying that using stereotypes as factual evidence leads to weak writing.

For example, this graf:

> Yet if these people or their friends were the only ones who had contact with your data, no issues at all. Slovaks, particularly in the service industry, are astonishingly honesty.

> [the next section is about how technical work is outsourced from Slovakia]

The author apparently thinks IBM's off-shoring would be fine (indeed, "no issues at all") if the work outsourced to Slovakia stayed in Slovakia (rather than be outsourced to India), and his supporting argument is that "Slovaks are astonishingly honest". Take away the stereotype, and we see how flimsy the author's assertion is. It's not the stereotype that's wrong, necessarily, it's how the author uses it as evidence.

Yes, I suppose I agree with you that people being explicit about their biases makes it easier to identify weak essays. But it's also worth arguing that no matter your biases, your writing is stronger when you rely on empirical evidence, rather than using generalizations/stereotypes that you assume the audience will agree are true.
Assuming the best intentions: To make it easier for you to invite your team.
That didn't answer anything. How can you trust the result if anyone can write there. How can you trust the individual store that it doesn't manipulate its contents, etc.
Spoiler: you're wrong, the author is Canadian.
Excellent series. English is easy to understand and the thought process is simple to follow. The only suggestion that I have is to make the videos a bit shorter. 10 to 15 minutes will work great for me.
> Xu’s 2017 paper “DolphinAttack: Inaudible Voice Commands” describes how we used ultrasonic signals to inject inaudible voice commands into speech recognition systems such as Siri, Google Now, Samsung S Voice, Huawei HiVoice, Cortana, Alexa, and the navigation system of an Audi automobile.

So cool. I had this idea a long time ago but never approached it. Kudos to them for some follow through.
I understand variant 1, and I do not share your pessimism. It is not fundamental to speculative execution as a concept, only current implementations.

Speculative execution in modern processors already requires performing heroic feats to enforce correctness in the face of mispredicted branches. Fixing Spectre variant 1 requires more heroic feats of a similar kind (rolling back state changes), and I don't think it is fundamentally impossible given what has already been done.

It won't be easy, and it won't be free, but it needs doing. Nobody thought it was worth doing until now, so nobody tried, but that doesn't indicate that it's impossible.
I'm enjoying this very much too, but the bell is jarring.
That can happen with new accounts, and may be corrected by mods. New accounts to subvert bans also tends to be frowned on.

Source: I view "showdead" and email mods periodically on both misbehaviour and suspected bad flags. Reasons are frequently given, some flags reversed.
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> "People don't like things that auto-play as a rule"

Really? In amazon's case they auto play the next episode, so given that the user statyed up through the entire episode, that means they probably like that series and so like the next episode.

Also I find YouTube autoplays to be more often than not to be enjoyable by me. And I discover new stuff I like that I wouldn't have discovered otherwise.
This is from 2016 actually https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39772/
Crypto trading is the least notable reason why they are valued so high. Real reasons:

1) Large number of users

2) Large number of younger users (Millennials love Robinhood)

3) High amount of use per user (due to no fees)

They are still a growth company. If they add IRAs (they said they would soon), Website (currently in closed beta), Options (currently in closed beta), and OTC (not sure if they will), then they'll likely be the top broker for individuals.
I haven't had any issues with the audio. How are you listening to it?
If you look at the history of what happens to first movers you'll see it's pretty occurrence. Reality has no constraint to be sensible.
It’s not all that much thinner than “$100k in FB ads spent _after the election_ altered the results of the election”.
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Even if it's just the client components, if it can be used to improve the UI/UX of VPN clients then that's definitely worthwhile.
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It doesn't really place any burden on business

Sadly, that is not true.

But the biggest real problem is that since the GDPR, read literally, is borderline draconian and the defence is that the regulators will enforce it selectively and pragmatically, literally no-one really knows how great that burden will be... which itself then becomes a significant burden.
The Disconnect
Because my organisation will shit bricks if they see me running something "not official" in production.

Oracle is "safe" if you're upper management.
Baron Fig notebook in dot grid all the way. Nothing beats paper and pen in my opinion.
But is their NBBO worse than other firms (worse routing options)?
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> gives part of their ad revenue to the music owner. That seems fair.

It's only fair if the money goes to the real copyright holder. We know that Youtube is broken here, and allows non-copyright holders to claim the ownership.
Are these significant in the first world though? I thought that phasing out leaded gasoline and lead paint happened enough time ago to not be a significant factor anymore these days. Similarly, congenital syphilis prevalence is not high either, especially as syphilis is quite easy to treat today.