skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People mistake privacy for security.

Google has one of the most secure services on the Internet. At the same time Google is the biggest threat to privacy.

These two statements are not mutually exclusive. People simply don't get what privacy is about.
There is no dropping Google. Use Fastmail or anything else, Google still gets a copy of all of your emails; all of your correspondents are hosted on gmail or g suite.
holedown is really fun: https://holedown.com (was released a few days ago)

You just need to pay once, with no in-app purchases, and doesn't require any unnecessary permissions.

I ended up buying some other games from the developer: http://grapefrukt.com
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That goes down to base values.

Questioning ones that fundamentally don't align, but you never actually know, because you only see your own side.

You can think you see the other side, but that often is incorrect. Those things are built into us from everything we learn as we grow, from experience.

It's easier to just not consider people opponents, ones you choose to interact with. That's sometimes hard when the world seems screwed up.
Decentralized, can be filtered, everyone has it... yep, email.
Yes, like a medieval guild. That would work very well in tech where the apprentice/journeyman/master levels are still very applicable
That's pretty fascinating, because as I understand it, downvoting pushes comments down a page and makes it harder to see, it functions as an added method along with flagging and moderating of enforcing community norms and removing unwanted behavior. I'm surprised that extends to valid but unpopular opinions, as well. Thanks, that's interesting.
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The top-level comment is not representative because sub comments may be voted higher. It is unfortunate that you base your opinion on a site by top-level comments instead of top-quality ones. I have unwaveringly been against Apple's approach here, made it clear in posts like the one you linked to, and yet still as a whole we're branded. It seems the real problem is volume (in frequency and loudness) and the inability for people to look beyond it.
> ...especially the OpenGL ES GPU...

Does Virgil3D not work in DBT QEMU targets?

Generally agree that cross-compilation is a better solution, but I think it could also be nice to have everything (except the drivers for your actual hardware) tested as delivered.
Around here it is still mandatory, that or something on the SIM card of the phone that 1) displays a popup that you can match with the bank login screen and then 2) type a separate pin code on your phone to unlock.
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Email, not gmail.
One thing that's harder for a contractor is that the insurance rates are noticeably higher if you buy a policy as a private person. Large companies can usually negotiate a bit nicer terms form insurers for a collective policy.

I can imagine that schemes exist, or will crop up, for this benefit to be passed to the contractor, as a part of compensation package which is also less expense to the "employer". E.g. doing contracting work via a shell company that only exists to hire contractors who already got a bit of contract work, and provide them the benefits of scale for a cut of them.
Check out keybase, I've been using it as a Dropbox replacement, and it works pretty well. Its file access on mobile is still in development, as is everything else.
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IBM's XT also cost nearly $6k when it debuted (quick Google search, maybe I'm wrong). We get so much value for free now that paying directly for all of that would be a huge step back.
Roughly speaking, Google makes something like $120bn a year, spread across 1bn users. Would you pay $120 for using Google a year? Realistically though you'd pay much more because there's no chance Google would charge a person in the developing/3rd world what it charges a US citizen. It's not unthinkable to get a bill of $500 per user in USA to get these services.

This is one side of the coin, the other side is that for economic activity to take place, advertising must be available. People need to be informed of services and consumption needs to be encouraged to grow economic activity. How would that happen if companies locked down their platforms altogether? Would P&G, J&J and all the other conglomerates just shrivel and die in a world where they can't access consumers?
Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10171469
In the way that's not the result of a real pro-privacy strategy, but a unintended side effect of losing the voice assistant battle. Because Siri was getting behind, they now market themselves, directly or not, as privacy friendly. IMHO, they haven't yet found a way to market those vast amounts of tracking information without causing another scandal.
I first read SICP after 25 years of professional development, and while I didn't learn anything new I did see things in a whole new light. I think it would have been really useful to have read the book 25 years ago: I think you're going to benefit from having a few years of real-world development experience before reading this book. The profundity, impact and applicability to your work will be much greater. Highly recommended.

This comment is for the Scheme-based book. I've never seen the Python-based version.
I use DDG as default, and Google when DDG's results don't have what I'm looking for. The upshot is I use DDG 80-90% of the time.
I gave up utterly confused and annoyed at "page 5".
Do these “benefits of employment” include actual benefits, as most employees understand the term?
If you trace the history of that capital to a violent past, such as slave owners or government eviction of natives or violent suppression of people's rights or unfair distribution of wealth by the government or redlining, ... is it still fair?

If fairness is a concern, one would seem to be led, at the very least, to want to wipe the slate clean for every new individual; no transference of wealth or privilege from one generation to the next. Only self-made people, self-made by above board behaviors, nothing morally or legally questionable. Then sure.

Since that has nothing to do with the actual distribution of wealth in the world, saying it is only fair seems an inadequate justification.

In general, I have always thought the idea is that successful investors can invest successfully and so giving new capital to such individuals leads to further successful invested in ventures, enriching society further.

The same thing goes here. Living individuals have been successful at living, which usually requires great effort and skill by both the individual and the community, and so why not give a bit back to further that journey, a journey that enriches us all.
You can use WireGuard with rather expensive but conservative PQ primitives like Classic McEliece using the PSK feature of WireGuard, giving you hybrid PQ secrecy. The PSK feature was explicitly designed for this. The idea is that first you create a normal WireGuard tunnel. Then _through it_, so that it's authenticated, maybe even over boring old TCP, you negotiate your potpourri of experimental post quantum exchanges, maybe several of them if you don't want to trust a first round NIST submission right off the bat. Then you put the resultant key from this into WireGuard's PSK slot, and voila, now you have post quantum forward secrecy.

The Noise protocol framework (on which WireGuard is based) is now looking into doing PQ authentication, so that will be interesting. But until we actually have a clue which PQ primitives to use and have spent some time working out PQ handshakes, I think it's best to keep this all separate and ad-hoc, making it possible with the simple PSK feature.
This is exactly my experience! I breezed through math all the way until I got to calculus because I was excellent at rote memorization. Calculus made me realize that I didn't really understand most of what I had learned for the past several years.

Years later, I'm trying to relearn math, but I'm taking the exact opposite approach. No calculator, no rote memorization, just reading about the concepts and thinking about what they mean until I can do the manipulations in my head. When I do practice problems, I don't care so much about the specific numbers, but about my ability to understand what's happening to each part of an equation, what the graph looks like, etc.
Greg from Twilio here.

This is a great question, and we can do a better job describing what’s happening here.

Messages are encrypted between your users and Twilio using WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption. Your requests to Twilio are secure with our HTTPS REST API. You can also redact your messages on Twilio for even greater privacy.

Appreciate you highlighting this. We’re working on getting the copy updated on our website to be more clear.
Your comment is very insightful. This is some new perspective for me.
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How can I see the documentary referenced at the end? The trailer is 2 years old, there are some reviews but not rental options ...
Yes, UIUC offers very good online math courses: https://netmath.illinois.edu/college/math-415. There is also a more pure/abstract version of that course available.

If you don’t care about accreditation and are patient, sit down with Axler’s Linear Algebra Done Right and Hoffman & Kunze’s Linear Algebra, in that order.

I would caution you against trying to learn linear algebra using a “take what you need” approach. A random walk approach to learning the material is faster than an accumulation approach, but it’s more brittle and prone to confusion. A lot of things which appear to be irrelevant or unnecessary for machine learning (computation or research) can be imperative for understanding or implementing much more complex concepts later on.
It's for people like my parents who have a difficult time with some accents. It's just easier to subtitle it if there's any risk of it being unclear.
> Aren't they an asset too? A contractor doesn't really care about the long term health of your company, if your company folds, he'll go down the street and work for a competitor.

Is this any different with an employee?
You are completely mistaken if you think adding a subscription-only would not reduce usage of WhatsApp by 10x at least. I am an Indian (WhatsApp's biggest market by far), and know for a fact that hardly 1% of people using it right now in India would be able/willing to set up a payment system AND willing to pay $1 for it (which is not as inexpensive as you think) when there are so many free alternatives. And then it immediately loses its value as a messaging platform (since if my relatives/friends are off it due to forced subscription, what will I do on WhatsApp even though I am ok paying $1). #networkEffect

So adding forced subscription is a definite death sentence for WhatsApp. Also remember that even if everyone of the 1B people did pay $1 for the service, it will still be impossible for FB to recoup $19B it purchased WhatsApp for.

On the other hand, I would love a "Ad-free" mode for people who are willing to pay (like YT Premium), and ads to support other 99.xx%.
I like "Coding the Matrix" by Philip Klein of Brown delivered via Coursera. It's a deep content intro to linear algebra (and more), with a focus on applications in computer science. The course is accompanied by a textbook written by Klein, which makes the course material better organized and more in-depth than slides and videos alone would allow.

http://codingthematrix.com/
>There's a curious habit in US media to put subtitles on anyone with an accent.

Which is ironic because there are plenty of Americans with undecipherable accents!
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Facebook didn't lose any money they need for day-to-day operations. The company lost value in the eyes of its shareholders, that's all. Facebook doesn't need to fill any void, as there is none.
The profit made by the bank needs to also cover the cost of employees, bureaucracy, huge buildings, etc. For a peer-to-peer lender, even tiny profit is enough.

As an example, imagine that you lend someone $100, and there is a 50% chance they will pay you back, and in that case they will pay you $210. And all this costs you is a mouse click. Some individual would click "yes". In their free time.

Now in the bank, there is an employee doing this as a part of their paid job. They have a manager, that manager also has a manager, plus you need to pay the janitor, etc. You also need to pay diversity training for all of them. And all financial transactions they do must follow all kinds of regulations, which regularly change. Simply, the overhead is not worth it.
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Do you mean like this?

https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/

And no, I'm the same age as you. I do not remember nearly as many devastating hurricanes in the first 20 years of my life, whereas in the second half I've seen Katrina, Harvey, Maria, Sandy, saw California in drought for what, a decade? I have personally seen the glaciers in New Zealand that have receded by miles and miles. And the temperature record is undeniable. And the ocean temperature measurements. And the ocean acidification measurements. And the ice cap melt measurements.

The linked report, by the way, suggests that while the current trends are in line with increases that actual statistically significant diversions from usual won't be detectable until the possible to see until the end of the century (for Hurricanes). Of course by then the temperature will be 3C or so hotter, and lots of other things will be impacted more directly sooner like crop yields, fish populations, and other things.

The problem with this thinking is that, as I said, the timescale that responses show up is on par with the human life span. This is a huge problem for a species with massive future-discounting built into our DNA. No, we don't see these things (strongly) yet. That's not the point, the point is that the impact on our lives to change this is shockingly small compared to the enormous and extremely likely risks of doing nothing. The timescale might be wrong, that wouldn't be surprising. But given a choice between "do something that might not be needed" and "do nothing until it's too late even if it is needed" shouldn't be hard.

Current technology can remove CO2 from the atmosphere for $90-230 per ton. That's with current technology to capture it from literally the air.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611369/maybe-we-can-affor...

A gallon of gas emits 8.9kg of CO2. So capturing that emission with current technology costs $2.25 per gallon. If that sounds expensive, compare that to the further collapse of fish stocks, massive water and food insecurity globally forcing mass migrations, and entire cities being flooded. Suddenly that sounds a lot more reasonable.

Anyway. I don't think your attitude is a good one. Switching to a carbon neutral economy is just frankly not nearly as costly as people seem to think, and the risks of not doing it are way too big to ignore. Of course, people with this attitude that we shouldn't act until proof of specific harm that impacts them specifically is available... not going to lie, I think that's a huge moral failing.
>But these new companies are certainly not in that space, as some are charging up to 20% on interest!? Who's taking loans at that level, and who's funding it at that level on this type of trust system??

That's cute. LendUp is charging upwards of 900% APR on short term loans [0]. Usury is nothing new, but until the "disruptive" tech economy picked it up, it had been mostly regulated and outlawed.

Turns out fleecing poor people for everything they have is profitable enough for people to not care.

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I know what you're trying to say, and I agree - not every app will be able to leverage SEO...

...but more of them can than meets the eye at first. In fact, the dating category seems like a prime target:

1. Publish local dating pages, like this one: https://www.pof.com/personals/2700onlinedating.htm

2. When people sign up for an account, promote your mobile app

3. The influx of signups will help with ASO, which will generate more signups, which will help with SEO.

4. Wash, rinse, repeat.

My first site was in the calorie counting space, and we followed the above approach to acquire about 8 million users (our content on the web was related to search terms around food names). Eventually, MyFitnessPal did the exact same thing but much better, and it's still growing to this day using the same strategy.
> ...he'll go down the street and work for a competitor. He knows that you'll dump him in an instant if you want to so he has no incentive to go the extra-mile for your company....

Exactly how I feel as an "at will" employee. At least the contractor has... whaddyacallit... a contract.

I really have no incentive link to the company I work for beyond ensuring that they'll continue to have enough paid tasks to offer me for as long as I want to take them. Even if the company announced some sort of profit-sharing or bonuses, there's no reason for me to believe that I'd be able to collect.

As far as I can tell, the only reason companies around here have employees at all is so they can credibly attach their resumes to bids and proposals.
I think it's not the format but the telling. Or maybe the format made the story jumpy and fuzzy.
Perhaps "travel" would have been a better word, but the point still stands.

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EDIT: Actually it does do that for specific subsets of people (those with disabilities and similar), but it's a very limited subset as opposed to the entire population, and I think the difference is significant.
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The link was changed from the original Nature article which has the original title. The new link is unrelated.

You're correct that the innovation is really about sparse linear algebra (though not just solvers) done in hardware. However the advantages are exploited not just by way of solving linear systems for implicit time-stepping. They implemented a Jacobi iteration in hardware for solving a system arising from discretization of the Poisson equation, but they also used an efficient forward-map of the coefficient matrix to do explicit time-stepping for a wave solver. So they solve both a time-independent and time-dependent problem, but neither with implicit time-stepping (though there appears to be no technical limitation here, it's just what they focused on).
FYI, the cofounder of this website/product (Cake) is also the author of the post. So this has some similarities to content marketing.
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