skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way are you thinking IP address as PII is exploitable?

My first thought is that you could impersonate a person by spoofing their IP address. PII identifies a person but I don't think anyone is advocating for (solely) IP-address based bank logins.
I completely disagree with you. It's an enormous convenience in poor weather, with very minor risks that are easily mitigated (I can't believe there is anyone that doesn't have a CO detector and smoke detector at least on every floor, it should be illegal not to have them) and they can be very easily insulated. I have had both and I'd never have a place without a garage or carport.
I love when webpages load instantly. When I was a teen I thought the future was just really fast web 1.0 style pages. I feel instant nostalgia when I load up a very simple page.
I'd think this would be more common with remote start.
Since then I've recognised that they come with a lot of effort and don't play nicely with existing systems.

I'm curious if you think this is because the primitives don't exist (seems everyone doing CQRS/ES roll their own) or if it isn an "essential complexity" of doing CQRS/ES?

I'm leaning more towards the former and less of the latter. Although I'm only a month down the road of implementing an CQRS/ES system.
There is nothing worse for a project than finding a mammoth tusk, so sometimes people "don't".
> Also that whole "Android" thing happened.

Yeah, and Google made their opinion of Java quite clear by adding first-party support for Kotlin.

As for Java being popular because it has mindshare, you are agreeing with my original point. It doesn't continue to exist because it's a good language. It continues to exist because of inertia.
What does a "signature" look like specifically, or generally if you can't be specific? Would love to hear about what is actually getting sent to the L7 optimized hardware.
Venmo also uses Plaid for bank connection, though I doubt their user base really cares
The article’s writing isn’t clear but I think CS Lewis wrote that.

Either way, that’s not the same as loathing. It’s more dismissive and pitying. Loathing suggests at least a strong dislike of the person.
I always thought it was a historical choice that simple substitution languages were simpler to implement so were chosen as a default.

It is kind of infuriating that the preprocessor always feels simultaneously _too powerful_ and _not powerful enough_ for the jobs you want to get done. I find myself reaching for other tools (kaitai, m4 etc) a lot more these days to take the role.
Xerox calls off $6.1B sale to Fujifilm
Well now I guess I have even more to read on the train tomorrow.
I’ll tell you one thing that’d be better: prices and wages that make sense. I shouldn’t be faced with dozens of subscriptions just to lead basically the same life I did over a decade ago with half those subscriptions (or fewer). And being paid 5x what I made then shouldn’t feel like I’m making it work but not saving much. And I shouldn’t be getting sales calls over 4 months after having used TrueCar.
A better example might be Minecraft, where there are different servers hosting the game and you can't necessarily port your items over.

But verification of rare digital assets could produce some interesting scenarios. One could make a virtual trophy room showcasing their in-game achievements. Imagine there's some game tournament for StarCraft for example. Winners get paid in cash and also get one-time issued virtual medals as proof of their achievement. Like Super Bowl rings, these medals would have sentimental and tangible value.
Yes, but Ctrl T goes back to at least TOPS-20
This is a good feature. At work we used to get emails about people leaving their lights on, now we get emails about people who left their car running (!) in the garage. Combination of keyless start and quiet engines is the culprit.
E.F. Codd literally designed null into the relational model. I don't think calling someone ignorant is very helpful.
Hopefully plain Bitcoin SHA-256 ASICs become more-or-less perfected and commoditized, leading to mining decentralization around local electricity deals.
Last time I checked mine, it was pretty accurate, but I have a lot of the "PlayStation in <random country>" too!

I also see a lot of PlayStation related ads on my news feed... I haven't used a PlayStation since I got an Xbox one!
This makes a lot of sense, when you think about the difference in their storytelling aesthetics. High fantasy =/= kids' cartoons.
The numbers are not so low, they've simply plateaued recently.
You won't, "be".
A mix. Accidental complexity plays a role, it's just hard to boil an ancient ocean of data.

But I have also come to think that streaming or eventing systems have come to overstate the argument that the stream is the "true" system. It is and it isn't.

The analogy a lot of folk hit on before I did is to calculus, including streaming folks. But I think it actually proves that in "streams and tables", neither is the truest of them all.

I can take the instantaneous velocity of an object, or I can take it over a span of time, or I can calculate its acceleration, or perhaps the distance that has been traveled. These are all functions that can be reached by deriving or integration from each other. But none of them is the high lord master formula. They are just different representations that make sense in different cases.
A Homomorphic Encryption Illustrated Primer
Ah, of course copy pasting random CSS snippets from internet isn't good idea. Who knew?

Just fixed it, I had invisible div over whole page.
Have to agree that this seems like a lot of name-calling and rhetorical suppressive fire which fails to address any actual arguments.

Giving the devil his due, Kurzweil has been proved wrong on almost every single prediction he's made up to the current day--at least from my reading of his 'Singularity' book. Mostly as a consequence of the bottom falling out of Moore's Law.

But like most articles addressing the singularity thesis, the author completely fails to understand it even in the most rudimentary way. The singularity hypothesis depends on several plausible but not guaranteed steps of cause and effect; the author could have discussed anyone, and, as other commenters have mentioned, there are valid reasons to think the singularity highly unlikely. But like so many bloggers, their thought process only went as far as 'sounds weird to me personally--must be a religion!'

More generally, it's both lazy and extremely dangerous to dismiss an idea simply because it seems unusual to you. This is called the Absurdity Bias, and is fairly well demonstrated.

Just for example, there are comments in this thread saying that while some of the radical predictions of technologists are possible, there's 'also nothing to suggest humans are capable of developing it.' Sounds a lot like something Lord Byron would have said about antibiotics or powered flight a few years back.
Crikey is good too:

https://www.crikey.com.au/zxy
> I love HN sometimes. A long thread of nutritional bro science getting basic physiology wildly wrong, literally leading off with the comment “don’t listen to what those doctors tell you”? All kosher.

So you are agreeing with me? Not to take medical advice from anonymous internet sources? Seems like you are saying the same thing I'm saying.
Don't get me wrong, I want it to be a success, and I think it has a good chance of meeting its goals. I just don't want folks to read into it what isn't there.
> a perfectly prepared scallop risotto and a 7-11 steak taquito

+100 I've said this before, but I've not heard anyone else say it. That is an important life-skill.
Schools should do this, let their kids explore the joys of building their own personal online space, rather than the branded and conformed offerings they'll likely use instead (FB, Google, Pinterest, etc)
The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage [video]
The headline conflates 'Disney studios' with Walt Disney, which Tolkien himself might be accused of also doing. The quote from Tolkien's letter is “by the Disney studios (for all whose works I have a heartfelt loathing).”
Note that in Scotland, we don't really have the freehold/leasehold distinction in the vast, vast majority of cases - instead all flat owners are responsible for the upkeep of the building and there is no separate freehold, through a default set of rules defined by statute which may be overridden by the title deeds for each flat. This is different from the rest of the UK, where the freehold is a separate legal entity that is responsible for the upkeep of most structural elements of the building - although each flat owner may own a share of the freehold in many cases.
I think you will find that this is what Big Pharma and their sockpuppets in Washington want you to believe.

Through reading up on the 'opioid epidemic' you realise that a lot of this 'innovation' is not that great. Slow release tablets? There is no big deal there. Furthermore a lot of this 'research' is backwards, i.e. create a molecule that can be patented, see how much of it kills rats and then try and find some medical benefit for this 'new molecule'. If it treats cancer then is that because it kind of prolonged someone's life by a week even if the others in the trial were essentially killed by the 'new molecule'?

This went on with AMGEN and Johnson + Johnson with the EPO drug that Lance Armstrong so enjoyed. They sold this drug into many, many 'off label' side markets - could the same molecule be good for stroke victims too? No trial data, but with profits to be made this sort of thing happens.

You can market a drug a dozen ways even if it is only paracetemol. Back pain? You can buy this tablet. Hangover? This one mixed with caffeine. Kids version? Brightly coloured with a lower dose per pill. Easy.

Then there are those drugs sold with the 'dating website' business model. The 'dating website' business model is to have a few success stories but have everyone else paying their subscription as long as possible. Statins are sold like this, the Big Pharma scam is to have people on these things for life.

The rest of the world - Canada included - care about healthcare more than money. In the UK healthcare is a service, not a business first and foremost. The NHS has to balance the books but not be putting profit before people. In the US it is backwards.

The rest of the world would do better without U.S. Big Pharma stifling innovation and sponging off their citizens.
Doc Seals has been proclaiming that the ad tech bubble is going burst every time he appears on the Gillmor Gang. It's gotten to the point where he now sounds like a broken record. I guess he thinks that if he repeats it long enough it'll eventually come true. I'll be looking forward to his follow up appearances where he backtracks and explains why it hasn't.
Increase by one atmosphere. If it doubled then at the bottom of the Marianas Trench it'd be 10^330 atmospheres, or approximately 10^318 times greater than the pressure at the center of the Sun.
I've read the same summary. I agree nicotine isn't very bad overall, but inhaling it is definitely not good for your lungs. This is anecdotal but I can feel the difference in respiratory inflammation when vaping a lot as opposed to just smoking/vaporizing weed.

And again, tobacco is an order of magnitude worse most likely (if not more). But I highly doubt nicotine is completely harmless to the lungs, throat etc
I hope that reasonable people in both camps can agree that blatant contract violation and assertion failure should result in fail-fast instant death. It's a sad environment that bans assertions.
I recommend visiting Tokyo. The view from the observation dock atop the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building is essentially just concrete extending in all directions as far as the eye can see:

https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/15...
My old diesel car had an electric heater for the cabin. (The engine just didn't produce enough waste heat, I assume. In winter, the bonnet would still be icy after a 20 minute drive.) Such a great feature! The heater didn't start until the engine was running, or anything clever - it was a late 90s design, so nothing fancy - but you'd still get noticeably hot air within 2 minutes of setting off, and, with controls set appropriately, the cabin would become uncomfortably hot and dry, like a sauna, after about 5 minutes.

I've got a petrol car now, a later model of the same line, and the designers clearly decided that there was no need for any trickery, and they could just use the heat from the engine. Big mistake! It's absolutely rubbish by comparison.
Because for certain things, it's better to split the content on multiple parts. For example, I was watching a series of videos on Windows Server administration and the content was split into multiple parts and it made sense.
Nice summary.

The biggest pain with Go is the dependency management. I initially started to commit the whole vendor folder for each project, but lately I only commit the Gopkg.lock and Gopkg.toml

Both those approaches bothered me over time and I'm still undecided about what's the best way to do this. I know some projects only commit their Gopkg.toml (and not lock) with some explicit dependencies.
Also potentially concerning is that whenever the PoW algorithm changes, Obelisk will have a head start, since they're run by the people deciding what the PoW algorithm will be.
That is exactly what is happening. 2 data centers and growing.

As a result, I'm building it for myself as I go, which is a fun sadistic exercise.

Prometheus / Grafana (awesome tools), React / TypeScript, golang
The point of Obelisk ASICs is to increase the security of Sia; it's not unrelated.
Introduction to TBTK – An SDK for quantum mechanical calculations
A non-problem (remote ignition systems) causes another non-problem (thinking about how exhaust works) -- being a luddite is sometimes the correct position.
I equate learning any new domain as going into a zoo. You look at each animal on its own and you can learn about difference between animals. You can complete it reasonably in a weekend. But going into wild wild forest is entirely another. (If you are interested, I wrote about it here: https://jjude.com/are-you-learning-a-new-domain-visit-its-zo...)

I learned React reasonably quick. But when I started writing production application, I got into so many cases which were not covered in introductory materials. I found answers to some of these cases via google; I had to find answers to many others by trial and error.

That is why people sharing these type of patterns helps. We all become wiser before getting into wild forest.
No it doesn’t make any sense that you’d loathe someone because they have a different artistic style to yourself!
Hypothesis: China/Russia are dragging their feet because their censorship/interception infrastructure is holding them off. Freer India gets a nice head start here.
Why are you bucketing users? If you have some sort of current session for their presence on the site, flip a coin and assign them your A or B. Store nonpersonalized info about their experience on the site associated with the given A or B.
"Must" is equivalent to required, "should" is equivalent to recommended, so not at all the same.
He wasn't like that? Says who? Him? And you believe this? The Internet in the late 80s to the mid 90s was like the wild west -- there were a few bad actors as Mitnick was one of them. Sorry.
> This will make a difference how we write regexes. Look at the level 1 properties:

> [\p{letter} \p{decimal number}]

> And compare for instance to the POSIX regexp character classes

> [[:alpha:] [:digit:]]

No need for the future tense; Perl's had that at least since v5.12: http://perldoc.perl.org/5.12.0/perldelta.html#Unicode-overha... .
I saw the Paypal CEO give Rutgers commencement today. He talked about how in 10-15 years the world will be entirely different because of AI and computers with trillions of transistors. He didn't mention how it would be different though.

I struggle to see how life could really be so different. I haven't read of any concrete examples of how faster computers will lead to a singularity. Wealth will change hands and economic inequality will continue to increase, but that's about it. Maybe it'll be different if research in genetics, nanotech, and energy are driven by advanced algorithms. There's still a lot we don't know about the human brain.
"big changes are coming, we'd better get ready!"

that seems to suggest someone else other than us is creating thise changes and they are going to catch us unawares.
The rate at which change happens in technology is painstakingly slow. Each rev of a product typically takes a year. Scientific research typically takes even longer.
At such a slow rate of change its hard to imagine something is going to hit us in the face before we know it.
Instead, it's more likely we'll chart a slow path towards the future. Slow enough that even somehting like the singularity, if it were to happen would occur over an extended period of time which would mean it would no longer be a singularity but a far more gradual change.
> The fundamental unit of Music Theory is the Interval (as in "frequency interval between notes"). A better explanation would have explained Intervals, how particular combinations of Intervals form

Guess what... A perfect fifth is a 3:2 ratio/interval of frequencies (+/- a small allowance for the historical/mechanical constraints that lead to well/equal tempering unless we're talking modern micro-tonalism in which case no adjustments are necessary). The inverse, 2:3, is a perfect fourth.

The example frequencies I gave correspond to concert-A, then E and D. I took a very simple/short path from intervals to harmonic function/progression to try to give a taste of the meat and potatoes before providing a link to additional sources.

I avoided music theory terms because that would've been a circular definition for any readers who had no understanding of even the basics.

In light of your post, I should've added a sentence or two about mood (major = happy, diminished = tense/scary) and compared that to how you can make a 'warm' picture using reds, oranges and yellows or a sombre picture with darker colors, etc.
Surprised the pop up doesn't say "agree to tracking and you'll be shown fewer and more relevant ads" and when they click decline "you will see 2x as many ads, are you sure?". Hardball!
Where I live, Santa Cruz, it's against the building code to insulate the garage lest it get converted into an unpermitted extra room.

Speaking from experience here.
Would be nice if there was a description of what it is when you load the page. I spent several minutes looking at and reading various unrelated things about how they scan documents and where the mirrors are, with absolutely no description of what it actually contained. WTF?!
> Ridiculous - you're not allowed to release a "beta" in medicine.

So your method in beta and saves 50% of dying peoples lives is not allowed becasue it's not up to the 80% which you expect out of beta.

Most of medicine is in beta, this disallowing beta mindset in medicine is why people die. It's why millions die.

Also try going to a place where medicine really counts and makes large changes to peoples lives (developing countries), it's consistently in alpha cause there it's so obvious it's the best way to do it because they don't get the hide the deaths from delayed 'anti' beta mindsets.

Theranos was never in beta or alpha, is was just a scam.
Yeah, my understanding with Humira is that to make generic version would essentially require a clone of the cell line that produces it. Abbot is under no obligation to give that to anyone else.

Anecdote. I take Humira for psoriatic arthritis. It works well for me. I have variously paid $0, $30, $180 for a 4 week supply. The insurance companies require that I use a specialty pharmacy to dispense this. Those companies appear to exist to put as many road blocks in the way of refills as possible. Long phone calls every month, shipping problems that cause a weeks delay, then all subsequent doses are delayed, then randomly need a pre-auth from my rheumatologist, before you know it insurance has managed to avoid paying for this medication for 3 months of the year
I did pick just about the jerkiest way possible to preen about knowing how to implement a software breakpoint, didn't I? Sorry about that.
7 healthy habits of a remote software developer
I lost a good friend to the Kurzweil cult. They genuinely dropped everything to join a "think tank" about how to handle the imminent singularity. They simply could not process the fact that Kurzweil's empirical claims are juvenile fantasy at best, outright willfully ignorant at worst, nor could they deal with the idea that it is meaningless to create elaborate closed-system logical deductions in a fundamentally open world.

For context, I have a background in neuroscience and computer science... the claims about brain modeling are particularly ferociously ignorant in an era when we don't even have the foggiest macroscopic clue about the neurobiological mechanisms that enable reasoning, and in which fundamental neuroscience hasn't evolved substantially at any level above protein expression pathways in the last 25 years.
If you have a thick illusion of understanding regarding how the brain works, don't feel alone - it plagued professionals in neuroscience for the 40-50 years who felt that the big breakthrough in unifying AI, systems neuroscience, and neurobiology must be right around the corner. Every new decade just deepens how crude these original notions were, and how blatantly false our estimates of our knowledge were.

The singularity is not near. It wasn't near in 2000, it won't be near in 2100, and my guess would be that it will never be near, in the same way the end times in Revelations won't be near anytime soon.

Frankly I'm happy to have people around who care about preventing improbable catastrophes, but biological and nuclear warfare, running out of water, collision with a sufficiently destructive meteor, a freak volcanic eruption off the known charts... even for the love of god encountering hostile extraterrestrials (? why not) are higher on the likely threat list in my head.

I think the attraction lies mostly in the fact that the argument avoids the "nasty bits" of reality that make real systems hard. Epidemiology, for example, has a lot to say about preventing the spread of humanity threatening diseases. But the truth is in the gritty details, not in high flown logical deductions.
I’m surprised 23andme doesn’t start marketing directly to law enforcement agencies, to cast a wider net then CODIS familial searches would.
Why should he not make money off fairy tales? By making money he built a company which has brought joy to millions of people over a near century, employed thousands and created value all without doing any real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him. It's a classic win-win.
Huh - how about a CO detector on the air intake of the engine that shuts it off if the concentration is too high.
What happened in between is that the Multi-Billion startup guys took over.

Now the web is the place for yet another pizza delivery startup with a super slick frontend. Websites are made industrially mainly to sell. All the big platforms took over. There is no place anymore for small self-hosted websites (or at least those are extremely rare)

Call me cynical, which is probably true, but I remember the time when the web was the playground of the geeks. Now it feels like it became the playground of business majors.
Distributed element circuit
Yea, I agree that the 2003 Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined) was pretty good.

See, we have that in common. I may have to check out Babylon Berlin. Per your mention, I checked out the wikipedia entry for it. I do like a good period drama, as well as detective shows. Inspector Morse comes to mind. Anyway, I appreciate the exchange.