skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Robert Spencer Video: Why Muslim Persecution of Christians Has Escalated
> By the way, modelling everything as an analytic surface rather than as a discretized polygon mesh is called "Boundary Representation" or b-rep

I thought that was iso-geometric analysis? What is the difference?
I was aware of that. But I would be surprised if the contemporaneous MKULTRA program existed today.
"Unsolicited Photographs" is a specific defence to possession:

> The defence is made out if the defendant proves that the photograph in question was sent to him without any prior request by him or on his behalf and that he did not keep it for an unreasonable time.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/indecent-images-childr...
Those ads read like parodies of a Russian attempting to write English. Nearly every one has a grammatical error or a factual inaccuracy that is obvious after 2 seconds of thought. I particularly like "dynastic succession of the Clinton family in American politics breaches the core democratic principles laid out by our founding fathers", especially given that the son of one of our presidential founding fathers himself became president, and the presidencies of George HW Bush / George W Bush occurred during the lifetime of nearly everyone eligible to vote.

If those ads truly had any influence whatsoever, it suggests that the problem of democracy is far deeper than Russian interference.
Sure do. This kind of double speak is rampant. One that bubbles to the top of my head is that when some people were targeted for anti-HRC messages(I think specifically it was Haitian Americans on the gulf coast), then that was labeled as "voter suppression", but targeting likely voters for Trump and spreading negative information about him, say the access Hollywood tapes, is "informing the voters"
> Also... I don't see how her being homeless has anything to do with it.

well, higher than average rates of substance abuse in the homeless population. other than that I'm not sure how it could be relevant or why the article mentioned it. we wouldn't know without an autopsy but being drunk could explain walking out into traffic.
What if someone put a bomb in your car or mess with your breaks?
It's morally acceptable to violently end the lives of bystanders if its in the name of progress. Got it.
Because they don't want people price shopping for everything. If their margins are thin on 3 items and high on one, they want buyers to buy all 4, not to buy the 3 razor-margin items and the 4th elsewhere.
Or... #deletefacebook
>> 2. Any person can validate that their voted counted towards their intended candidate.

This is a bad idea even in concept. If anyone can validate their vote went for the candidate of their choice, someone else can force them to perform the same validation for money, under threat of violence, familial ostracism, or whatever really.

I get that you understand there is a problem with coercion here, but it's not just an implementation problem, it's a problem with the concept.
Are you really scaling off a single data point? I feel like you'd also have to compare the types of driving. What is the death per 100 million miles on a city street? If you exclude highway miles I'd imagine it's much worse.
That's a good and useful clarification - thanks.
This is stupid question. The answer is - the same as if someone will physically mess with your car.
I thought the tech scene in Minneapolis revolved almost entirely around healthcare. Is this incorrect?
From what I've read, CA wasn't Facebook's customer. CA bought the data from a researcher who was authorized to slurp the data.
Sort of, but Epic Games seem to actually know how to program. PUBG, not unlike it's former competitor H1Z1, has languished with a terrible code base whose technical debt seems to have kept PUBG from ever really fixing things. The netcode is bad, the game runs AWFUL on all setups (Twitch streamers with state of the art computers were forced to play on low settings while streaming on the same computer), and there seem to be some particular performance issues with AMD CPUs.

Cheating is also a major issue.

So it was a clone, but basically a better one than the original.

Fortnite is the first survivor game that just works.

I felt bad for PUBG first, but PUBG is still such a huge mess, I do have to give it to Epic for building an extremely solid game that runs well and isn't rife with cheaters.

Shame about the business model, though.
"Second, I want to see a VHLL defined by an XML DTD. Doing this will allow me to put as much information into my program source as my niece can put into the email messages she composes using Netscape."

... is he trolling?
The underreported fact is that the vast majority of activity traced to the Internet Research Agency (Russian Federation) was in the free portion of Facebook and Twitter with automated and manually-curated accounts, not through ad spending.

There is a situation where enterprising researchers planned a protest via Facebook Events and also the counter-protest for an event in Texas. Altogether an impressive feat.

Facebook underplays this fact in Congress, in the hopes of evading regulation.

None of this should invalidate a lawfully-conducted election. There is no evidence ballots were tampered with whatsoever. Democratic leaders should do their best to allow Republicans to save face to their constituents by emphasizing the election is final and that all Americans are victims in this matter.
7 Reasons Why the AT&T/TW Trial Matters So Much to the Future of Antitrust
Yeah, not saying you did, just commenting on the general narrative...
Survey says: 5.2 million DNSSEC domains, and ~12,000 with 512-bit RSA keys concentrated at just two small DNS providers. So good job knowing only the few stuck with early 90's export crypto. :-) They'll be shamed into fixing this soon enough. An even larger provider that had 512-bit RSA keys no longer does.

And even a 512-bit RSA key is slightly better than nothing. One needs to remember that DANE in SMTP is a mechanism for downgrade-resistant transition from unauthenticated opportunistic STARTTLS to authenticated required STARTTLS.

Below is the frequency table for RSA key lengths in zone signing keys (primarily 1024-bit RSA keys):

count | bits

---------+------

8402 | 4096

1135 | 3168

17 | 2432

103 | 2304

20 | 2088

5 | 2064

55927 | 2048

15 | 2024

315 | 1536

17 | 1352

43 | 1304

185095 | 1280

63 | 1152

74 | 1048

291 | 1032

4019966 | 1024

28 | 768

12545 | 512

The KSK (key-signing keys registered in parent DS RRs) RSA key size frequencies are (mostly and increasingly 2048-bit):

count | bits

---------+------

39715 | 4096

11 | 3248

1149 | 3168

47 | 3072

267 | 2560

25 | 2304

20 | 2088

3051386 | 2048

17 | 1552

180111 | 1536

171 | 1304

1568 | 1280

34 | 1152

1118500 | 1024

11806 | 512
Sorry, but what's the point of this?

> Elcock said he believed Herzberg may have been homeless.

I do not think that Herzberg possibly being homeless adds any meaningful information. On the contrary, I feel this may subtly support unconscious prejudices.
> Not to sound too crazy but I also have a strong suspicion that if you tied a physics engine to a raytracer, you might get your physics 'for free' which could be a big deal for pushing forward more realistic physics too.

Why is that?
> “The pedestrian was outside of the crosswalk. As soon as she walked into the lane of traffic she was struck”

Uber has some fucking shitty programmers guaranteed. They murdered this lady. Think about it:

Smart cars basically have 360 degrees of sensors. There’s no way it didn’t detect that lady coming up on the car and the fact that it kills her says to me there was no counter measure. It probably didn’t even slow down until the moment of impact. That's some fucking elementary school shit.

> Chance of Collision? 100%. Maintain Speed

In structural engineering if you designed a bridge poorly and it collapsed killing people you'd lose your ability to practice engineering. The same should be applied.
Is America Governable: What Happens When Freedom Means Barbarism?
Trump and Brexit?
I do adhere to the view that wrong is wrong even when others do it, but I'd like a better look into the big data fantasy of the past decade, and that includes a deeper look into the times when this social/data/analytics/targeting bonanza seemed sweet because the teams who were more adept at it were not associated with people or institutions one abhors.

Whataboutism taints conversations when it's an excuse; other kinds of excuses also shut down conversations that should be had.

More plainly, the CA approach to starting the graph was nauseatingly scammy, but how many friends of Obama supporters (and perhaps Clinton - the API changed before the campaign, but maybe some data persisted with the DNC) were aware that their data was being processed by political parties?
It is the only data we have. Ironically, one reason for the paucity of such data is that these companies have been so reluctant to make public their records—the reason this accident occurred in Arizona and not California is because Arizona has relaxed reporting requirements. And the commenter notes that extrapolating might not be wise.

Are you really asserting your statements without any fact whatsoever?
Twitch VODs are automatically deleted after a couple of days, so either check it out now at https://twitch.tv/ninja (with the chat archive intact) or watch the recap on his YouTube channel.
Interesting point.

I think you're probably right. There's a different emotional impact between being manipulated to consume versus being manipulated in what you think. Of course at the end of the day it's exploiting a similar vulnerability in our wetware.
most of my contacts didn't change their email address in last ten years so you could always reach them through email if you don't have their whatsapp
Authorities cannot get in until an estimated Wednesday. Tomorrow, they will apply for a warrant from the court, as they did not get sufficient answers to questions previously asked. Now Facebook has moved tonight to go into the London offices. I wonder what they are doing.
and in the end you are suspecting my credibility, you can checkout my Github I am a public person, I am actually presenting K8Guard for Kuberentes for Linux Foundation in a few weeks. I can stand and testify for every claim I made.

The leaked document inside facebook was also verifies a lot of things I said. (the leaked document was very old not sure how many years ago 6-7 years ago maybe) that they clearly had examples of what flags to and what words to ban. including innocent kurdish flags.
There are always different levels of privacy. Everybody knew Google was "reading" their emails. The understand of that was never that Google will expose your individual email to a company. Similarly people understood that Facebook used the data about them to monetize and advertise to them. I don't think anyone assumed they'd let someone else literally take that data.
Pixar is also using Machine Learning to denoise path traced images: http://graphics.pixar.com/library/MLDenoisingB/paper.pdf
Yeah, not sure why the author was praising the excellent library and string class. That’s what std provides. Why reinvent the wheel?
Right, "breach (of trust)" is the terminology getting bandied about, and is absolutely more accurate, but I think it still obscures the issue.
Makes you wonder why are they running this story now then. Hell of an interesting timing, almost as if to fit a narrative.
I've had mixed results using Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/).

In all, I've converted 3 PDFs to Kindle format -- one is OK, one is a slog to read, and the third I forgot I was reading a converted version. Have never tried using it to convert a LaTeX-generated document of my own, though.
Valid point - when I reread the statement as "hire someone full-time", whereas i had defaulted to "hire someone to do some work". "Would be a remote hire" - should have been the clue :-/

Working "for" the usa company remotely, is I believe, still quite different to "selling services to a foreign us company while self-employed under your own company".

Right now for instance, I have a regular job, plus tominini which allows me to do additional work for whomever I like, with the onus on me to pay taxes / benefits etc.

So yeah, Europe to me seems to take a generally very negative view of the "Uber/food delivery"-style of potentially abusive employee relationships, and you'd have to be careful about that, but I don't think it's an insurmountable hurdle.

I guess narrow down the country and role description and it might get clearer, and contact some other startups like thenaturalist suggests.
>- Russia has been into poisoning since the days of Stalin.

Unlike say the US, France, or Israel? E.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Fide...

>Some of the poisons (Polonium) would be very hard for anybody else to get hold of, let alone use.

But trivial for any false flag state actor.

>- London is a city where a lot of wealthy Russian ex-pats live.

Yes, but how is this relevant to whether Russia as a state (that is, not them) is involved? Unless they are those giving the command, or the targets...

>Being skeptical of everything is just as corrosive to realism as being overly credulous. Just look at Alex Jones.

Sure, but this is basic due diligence. I'm not going to take the assurances of this of that state agency - without public proof besides what their "experts" say-- at face value, like, ever.
"What did most people think Facebook was doing"

People don't think.
As someone said on Twitter, among software developers, "ethics" is seen as a hobby at best.
Read HFS filesystem on FreeBSD
Leaving FB? Exporting all your posts/data is easy: Login > little arrow at top-right > Settings > "Download a copy of your Facebook Data"
I hope they at least got a fair price for selling out U.S. democracy.

If they sold it too cheap I'm going to be pissed.
Probably boils down to investor expectations. Google's revenue has, for a long time, grown more and faster than general internet growth.

They are running out of ways to keep that going. Once everything above the fold is an ad, there's not much more you can do.

This idea is one of a few remaining things they can do. At least until something other than search is driving revenue growth, like maybe GCE.
Supply and demand defining price is economics 101. If you’re going to propose an alternative reality, you’re going to have to provide some data to back it up.
As commented in another thread here [0], HAL at Duke University [1] is putting forward proposals for this.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620439

[1]: https://hal.pratt.duke.edu/research
I think that might be where the buzzwords were at back in 1999, unless I'm completely misreading.
> avoids that criticism

is that really important to avoid? and one is just gaining new criticisms in trade, no?

and of course, going bespoke and inventing everything yet again has it's perks. maybe you'll get to be the person who "invented" a term, should it catch on. great for the resume. :)
This looks super cool. Have you uploaded the code anywhere so we can all try it?
Why wouldn’t the wealthy pay more for education if it was truly worth it?
An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
Source on spez?
Would this lead to the same or very similar interfaces being defined multiple times? Maybe that's not a problem?
The prices are realistic in terms of supply and demand. Too many people with a lot of money having nothing better to do than buying and selling houses. Reasonable? No, especially for the little guy. Healthy for society? Absolutely not.
I have been writing a lot of CSS (well SCSS) lately and this seems like a good time as any (though I admit somewhat off topic) about a question I have regarding the newer Combination & Multiple selectors https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Introduct... and Attribute Selectors https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Introduct...

This stems from the fact that I have inherited the task of re-writing a very large (at least for one person, I feel) task of re-writing an internal framework that is really gotten too burdensome to add anything to. I have been contemplating instead of trying to get crazy with a ton of different selectors where you end up with a pattern like this:

```
.selector .selector1 li,
.selector .selector1 li a {
some-style: some-value;
}
```

Which I find A little crazy compared to something like this:

```
[class*="selector selector1] {
some-style: some value;
}
```

or my person favorite:

```
ul > li > a {
color: blue;
}
```

While these examples are I think very simplistic (I don't wanna junk up the page with tons of stuff) I've met alot of resistance to this idea, and splunking other frameworks for inspiration (Shout out to https://bulma.io ! I like their work, its really wonderful FYI.) I don't see alot of this.

While the resistance I've met from others who have some input on this project (and rightly so, they're also part of our stellar in house design team) seem to resist this idea, but haven't articulated why.

I was wondering if it comes down to: is there actually an issue with using these heavily vs some of the older semantics or, which I feel is quite possible, people have done things for so long one way its hard to see another way?

While its seemingly less verbose sometimes (not always) I feel like the new selectors give you a way to combat specificity problems by controlling when context around your classes is better than having ton of different classes and nesting those over and over.

Am i missing something?
turkey is no china, china is a economy power, contributes a lot to the world. Turkey is nothing like that, they do contribute in promoting Jihadi and extremist version of islam but that is not the contribution you want.
Spend some time in any major city and you'll see homeless people doing all sorts of reckless things around cars. Just last week I saw a homeless man jaywalk into oncoming 40+ MPH traffic without so much as looking or stopping.

In this sense, it is a possibly relevant detail of the story.
>but it's now blatantly clear to me that he deliberately used authoritarian tactics to win the election.

How on earth is such a baseless comment voted to the top of this thread? The truth is that this is a scandal, only because it involves Trump.

Pretty much all of what you've described is run-of-the-mill marketing, that has been used by all political parties for years. You also described some astroturfing, which is also widely used by all political parties (though perhaps some more than others).

How is any of that authoritarianism?

>favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
Agreed. But, what is your point? That HN shouldn't crucify Stamos, there is something else more important we should be looking at?
You stated as fact that DNSSEC was badly designed, specifically because its designers do not understand the Internet threat model.

I pointed out that the design for offline signing makes for interesting use cases. You now claim that every real world deployment is online signed, which is not my experience. At least you acknowledge real world deployments.

That has nothing to do with the complexity of pinpointing a connection to break, and nowhere did I make the claim that any attacks are straightforward. I did make the point that it is not easier and that it may very well be more complex. Pinpointing a TLS stream and inserting a false certificate is trivial if you posess a valid CA key, pinpointing the DNS query corresponding to a specific TLS stream is an added complexity (especially where multiple resolvers can be involved, where you also run the risk of being stuck in a cache).

I'm not sure what kind of TLS stack ever delivered telemetry on valid signatures post facto, unless you refer to web browsers on the public Internet which is a different question entirely.
Yes i get that. Even so, the request is pretty... weird.
I'm hijacking my own post, but this is a very relevant MIT lecture on 'Technology, Policy and Vehicle Safety in the Age of AI' [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDprUza7yT4
Yes, it's funny. Titles for two articles, both are easy to google:

1. How Obama’s Team Used Big Data to Rally Voters (MIT Technology Review, 2012)

2. How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions (NYT, 2018)

No bias here.
People definitely should not be making huge bets on such unstable industries.
Just that Stamos' clarification doesn't really clarify anything in the NYT story itself.
In which case he knows exactly what to do, which is shut up. There's nothing he can say right now that will make things better.
Probably because they just learned about it? Doesn't seem all that complicated.
How much equity is given out?

IIRC, YC use to take 6% for $100k. The link above says average now is $1m is raised from demo days.

Is that $1m for 6% or some higher equity percentage?
There IS a mental element to possession in UK law:

> Section 160(1) creates an offence for a person to have any indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child in his possession. [...] "Possession" involves both a physical and mental element. [...] The mental element is knowledge. A defendant must knowingly have custody and control of the photographs found on the device in question.

Downloading the blockchain, should it contain such images, would constitute "making", but it subject to similar mental requirements:

> The act of making or taking the indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph must be a deliberate and intentional act, done with the knowledge that the image made is, or is likely to be, an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child.

I suspect that not knowing that the blockchain does contain such images, not having knowledge of which transactions do, and that it requires specialised decoding rather than just being embedded per se/a default/intended usage would be enough to raise a defence.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/indecent-images-childr...
> a lot of this is already possible in the current renderers at a reduced cost.

Maybe this misses the point of standardizing an API? Isn't there considerable value in having a simple framework that can achieve all those effects, and be shared and communicated easily with others? I'm sure a lot of studios would welcome faster dev times, fewer authoring tools, and fewer geometric limits for their rendering effects.

Also worth considering is that all those specific tricks are very limited, either in applicability or in quality or both. Screen space reflections only work on flat surfaces. PCSS still needs a hand-tuned shadow map. DOF has problems at image space contact points. Etc. Let's not oversell today's workarounds as so good they should be preserved forever.

> even if you have a better way of doing things, if it takes more CPU/GPU cycles that a hack that achieves basically the same quality, it will not be adopted. It is that simple.

That's true for any one specific game on any one specific platform. OTOH, that framing misses the trend: there has been consistent and very strong pressure towards higher fidelity, more realism, better physics, faster processors, higher resolution, and overall larger numbers of everything, ever since the first video game ever made. Ray tracing might not be adopted today, but one thing I will guarantee is that next year the CPU & GPU cycles used for rendering will exceed today, and it'll be even more the year after that. When I think about that, I feel like seeing ray tracing take over in games is inevitable.
I really like the pixi and thought it was the perfect size. I also think virtually every smartphone sold today is too big, so maybe I'm the outlier.