skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook lets you target people for advertising based on the job titles Facebook users enter into their profiles.

So you can advertise Bingo Card Creator to teachers. Or swimming suits to lifeguards.

A few dozen people put gross things like "jew hater" as their job titles. So, if you trawled hard, you could target these "jew haters" on Facebook.

Some blogger screenshotted this and it became a national uproar about the evil Facebook profiting from hatred. None of the popular articles pointed out the nuance. And in response, FB nerfed the job title feature to hell, which means its harder to actually put relevant ads in front of people.

So that's an example of something that disturbed the public but was completely misunderstood.
Not really (that I know of). Andy Grove did spend a few months researching cancer before forcing his doctors to give him a new treatment that was showing better lab results than the traditional one, and the cure he got was probably better than the transnational one (less side effects). However from what I can tell the only thing he spent was his own time which means nothing a poor person couldn't do.

The option is open to anyone who is rich, and if you have an slow incurable cancer it is reasonable to try: you don't have anything to lose and it might work. Of course if your cancer is already curable focus on the existing cure. If the cancer is fast you don't have enough time to for research to produce results. At best it is a long shot, but it is what you have.

If you are young and healthy you actually have a better chance of your small donation making a difference. Just figure out what cancer you are at risk for and start regular donations to that research now. While your donation alone won't do much, the regular source of income helps those already doing the research keep going for the years required to get results. Your smaller donation along with others goes farther because time is a factor. The only problem is which: the cancer mom's mom had, the cancer dad's mom had, the cancer mom's brother had, the non-hereditary cancer both dad's brother and sister had, the cancer someone else in the family will get in two years?
If the exchange isn't authenticated, then Eve can read everything by modifying the traffic (not just observing it). Eve just needs to insert herself in between Alice and Bob, intercept and stop all direct messages between them, and then do her own DH handshake with each one:

Bob starts handshake with Alice:

Bob -> Alice

Eve intercepts and finishes handshake, claiming to be Alice:

Bob <-> Eve Alice

Eve starts and completes handshake with Alice, claiming to be Bob:

Bob <-> Eve <-> Alice

And now, Bob and Alice think they're sending messages to each other, but actually they're sending messages to Eve, which she can read and then forward-on so that they don't notice the difference.

Unless Bob and Alice can authenticate the person they exchange keys with, the whole exchange can be subverted.

This and similar attacks is why cryptographers strongly believe now that authentication is inseparable from encryption and that the encryption should basically never be offered independently (which wasn't properly understood back in the 80s and early 90s, hence crappy protocols like PGP-email where authentication is a optional plugin).
No, not at all. Even a standard CS curriculum doesn't teach enough in the required classes to give enough context to fully understand the preprints in the two subfields you used as an example. An important part of academic research is understanding the topic of a paper within the context of other current and previous work. It's very challenging to start at the end and work backwards when you don't have a solid grounding in the fundamentals.
Not excited about their name. SignalWire suggests a connection to the signal app. What I want is a casual way to send sms programmatically, like notifications from my own system.

I could even use my own google voice sms #, but I haven't bothered to see if someone cracked the api (I'd presumably need to generate some token based on my name/password/yubi-key combo. How many people have made this work by hard coding their name and password in a script :-)
Ask HN: If HN added an AMA feature, who would you want as the first guest?
Enough people have access to Supermicro boards that this should have been found by now. Adding a part seems unnecessary just to add a back door. Intel CPU chips already have built-in back doors; you just have to enable them.
> Except that a NSL can (legally) command the recipient to lie about it.

Do you have a source for this statement? As far as I'm aware, you can be compelled to remain silent but not compelled to give a false statement.
> it’s like running an e-commerce business with the special wrinkle that your customers are entirely price insensitive.

It's obviously very economically inefficient. The larger this thing grows, the more it will distort and hurt the economy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18186392 for RAPIDS

Impala was the wrong thing to posit in the list above - maybe SPARK SQL is better as you can run that under YARN as well.
Which xeons have 12? Are you talking about dual socket?
China is Apple's most important market. They have a huge motivation to deny it, as it could cost them doing business there.
so it looks like intel is having the same issues as amd where more cores means not necesarily better gaming. i5 is still the best it looks like lol. this puts amd in a better position because they are at least cheaper for their cores.
I worked from home for 12 weeks to help my wife recover from a surgery. She initially needed help moving around the house, for her safety, and slept most of the day.

Brain injuries are EXTREMELY difficult and time consuming to recover from, far more so than more typical injuries. The woman in the article was almost certainly going through a massive adjustment and needed tons of help. It's not a simple matter of a bump on the leg and shoulder, and whoops, she's living in a country where she doesn't know the language, as if she was a tourist.
The directors claim to have wrestled with the ethical problems of making such a film, but in the end their own glory mattered more to them than the inevitable deaths their work will inspire.
I've heard through the grapevine that Tensorflow-Lite just makes a CoreML conversion for you? Is that true?
I've been living in the US for almost all of my life, various regions, and I still don't see how small talk is "feigned". (I am curious what your social background is, and what your experience is with US culture.) The construction does not even make sense to me, and the phrase seems logically impossible to me, so my guess is that we are using different definitions for "feigned" or "small talk" or some other term.

"To feign" means to do something in a way that it looks like you're doing something else, so I could feign that I care about you and care about your well-being, but secretly I don't care about you and I hate you. However, small talk is not this. Small talk is just polite conversation that does not cover any issues of real relevance but merely demonstrates friendly intentions or a desire for positive interactions. So when I say, "How are you?", if this is small talk, I am not actually feigning interest. We both understand that I am not actually expressing any interest in your well being, I am only trying to communicate that I want to have a positive interaction with you. In Linguistics this phenomenon is called "pragmatics", and it is the phenomenon that the actual meaning of an utterance can be completely different from its literal meaning. Another example of pragmatics is "Do you have a pen?" This is literally a question of fact, but most likely it is a request to borrow a pen. Someone saying "Do you have a pen?" is not feigning interest in whether you have a pen any more than someone saying "How are you doing today?" is feigning interest in your well being. If you ask me, "Do you have a pen?" and I reply, "Yes," with no further comment or action I'm being rude, just as I would be rude if a sales clerk asked me, "How are you doing today?" and I started rambling about my upcoming divorce and how my mother was recently diagnosed with cancer.

That's not to say waiters don't feign interest or feign happiness. Yes, many people in the service industry are required to "perform" or express certain attitudes. This can be emotionally draining. Small talk is not this; small talk is genuine and it does not express interest or emotion. "Feigned" small talk doesn't make sense logically.

If you think it is creepy then you are applying standards from another culture to our own. You have every right to make these judgments but I don't see a case here for the supremacy of one single culture's interpretation of small talk.
This is potentially valuable but outsourcing decisions about psychiatric liability and confinement to a machine is a Bad Idea that will end poorly. Of course you will hear nostrums about it merely being an aid to busy clinicians but experience suggests that doctors are as prone to over-reliance on technology as anyone else.
Am interesting read. IF is supported by much science and I even studied it in a Coursera course on brain hacking. Along with Mediterranean diet and Keto, it's great for the brain and body apparently.

That said, the best advice my Cirque-coach gave me: match food intake with exercise in a given day. So if do a killer workout today, intermittent fasting is not going to give me enough fuel. But if I sit around in meetings/writing 6AM-10PM, fasting for 16h and eating in 8h of that day could work as it'll simply be lessening how much you one eats.
It's called medical tourism
Probably either Elon Musk or MBS.
Do you have a reference for this? There is apparently case law from the 1970s' where SCOTUS ruled that the government cannot compel someone to speak against their wishes.
There is already a global "nsfw" tag (applied per-post) for users to flag content as potentially objectionable. I don't see this as a huge step beyond that conceptually, it's the same thing with a different purpose.
There are USB-C magnetic adapters available.

eg. https://www.amazon.com/usb-c-magnetic-adapter/s?page=1&rh=i%...

That'll be the way I'm going moving forward.

See my other comment about my dislike of MagSafe, especially MageSafe 2 here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18258495
There is an offshoot of Reddit that I frequent and enjoy, it was made by a former Reddit dev: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

I've got 2 more invites for those are that interested.
In related news, 100% of newly dead people lose their life savings.
Not a clone. Single organism.
Whole Earth Flashbacks (vid.)
Hm, "basic Mandarin" sounds like much less than "native, unexercised" to me, as I feel that the latter implies an earlier native fluency, but I see that could be a matter of opinion. Eg, it's possible they can fully understand her but can't speak it particularly well.
> but he must still be racist because he does not totally condemn racists who happen to want the same goals as he does?

Yes, because those goals are racist.

He's racist because of his belief in and support for white nationalism and racial segregation, and the genetic and cultural superiority of the white race, and his definition of "western civilization" in purely (pun intended) racial terms. He's racist because he views the presence of non-white people as a form of pollution and believes in racist conspiracy theories like white genocide.

Being racist and civil is still being racist.
Lobbing is not inherently corrupt. When a small group cares a lot about a specific issue say astronomers and light pollution lobbing is simply trying to get politions to pay attention to an issue. That effort is not free, in some cases they approach the issue by mailing or dolling people directly, in others they pay somone else to make these calls and phrase things in political terms etc.

Now, that does open the door for people to game the system, but you can’t simply define all lobbing as corruption or even all lobbing you disagree with as corruption.

So, yes their are plenty of blatant cases of corruption but they are relatively rare compared to China.
That something can be minimized to "a browser" when SPAKE+2FA support is finalized in Kerberos. Admittedly, only really useful for enterprise clients who already have krb5 deployed, but still it is something better than JS.
So interesting.

With a year of reporting on this story Bloomberg has a LOT of unpublished info. If they are correct they should have a ton of information to back up the claims in their story, including plenty of stuff to put the lie to some/many of the specific denials Apple has made.

Maybe they are waiting, to let Apple hang itself with strong, detailed, public proclamations. Then, bam! They publish all their proof, blowing up Apple's denials, forcing Cook and many other to resign, etc.

Or... they've actually got nothing. In that case they won't be able to refute Apple. Either they slink away, hoping everyone forgets, or issue a massively embarrassing retraction.

I'm fascinated to see what happens. I think we'll know in the next few weeks or months at the most.
I think humanity is complicating the study of the brain by using the feedback of the individual as a basis to create judgement. Example: "I don't remember" = "memory loss"

For the example above, it could be

"i don't remember"

=> memory blocked

=> too much information interference

OR

emotional hinderance like fear of remembering

OR

insufficient information to recall

It is difficult to explain, but we are studying very basic primitive feedback responses to try to determine very complex problems. And we study mental conditions and neurological conditions separately that one hardly informs the other.

Here is a theory: Prior chronic emotional pain can stymy recovery of cognition permanently. Beneficial emotions can activate new parts of the brain and create new personalities unlike what existed before.
Great idea for an app, not sure how you can make money with this though.
The paper contains this claim:

> FaunaDB is an elegant, software-only solution for achieving global ACID transactions, with complete guarantees of serializability and consistency.

The paper makes it sound like FaunaDB claims strict serializability for all transactions (like Spanner). This means that if Txn(A) ends before Txn(B) begins, then Txn(B) must be guaranteed to see all data written by Txn(A).

However, what if Txn(B) is a read-only transaction? According to the paper, read-only transactions do not contact the global sequencer. Here is an example where an application would fail to read its own writes:

1. Txn(A) performs a write W(X) of data on replica R1.

2. Txn(A) is assigned a logical timestamp of T1 by the global log.

3. Conflict verification is triggered. Replica R1 plays back the global log and verifies there is no conflict.

4. Txn(A) completes, since one replica has verified there are no conflicts, and passes control back to the application.

5. The application now triggers a read-only Txn(B).

6. The coordinator for Txn(B) decides to read replica R2 rather than R1. However, the coordinator is not yet aware that the global log is now at timestamp T1, and it picks T0 as its snapshot timestamp.

7. It reads the value of X on replica R2, which does not yet reflect W(X).

-- From the application's point of view, it did not read its own writes. --

I'm not familiar enough with Fauna DB's subtleties to know if this scenario is possible in practice. Perhaps you could comment?

I did notice that at the end of the article, the language is carefully phrased to only make the claim of "serializable" (not "strictly serializable") for read-only transactions. But that would fall short of the guarantees that Spanner and Calvin make, and undermine the "complete guarantees of serializability and consistency".
Auto Port Enterprise Level C# Library or Project to Native C++
i doubt they have the finances to buy these vast amounts of land... even at $500/acre you'd need millions in cash available to win an auction or sale.

while on the subject, i doubt "many" want to buy, it's much easier to rent, scam and complain.
Good to know. My understanding had been that they used to buy before sale, but more recently it had been inventory they didn't have to pay for until later. It's probably not the same everywhere, anyway.
> At a bare minimum, AVX grossly accelerates memcpy and memset operations.

Not necessarily, for large operations and depending on processor generation a simple rep stos/movsb will be simpler (no alignment requirements) and saturate your memory bandwidth just as well as any AVX sequence will with less icache pressure.
The entire point of insurance is...

Oh good, we're going to hash this out from the very beginning.
The original claim is that Apple conducted it's own investigation and refused to cooperate with the FBI on the matter.

They (apple) have refuted this claim and said they're also not under any form of NSL or gag order.

Your suggestion is that both accounts are false, and that a secret government run investigation was run without Apple management's knowledge, but involving Apple datacenter staff, who are in fact under some form of NSL/gag order?

Perhaps you should go work for Bloomberg, they'll run your theory as gospel next week.
I think it's possible to set things up so that leaders of the companies are shielded from the knowledge on purpose. GM notoriously set up their lawsuit handling legal unit to shield knowledge of problems, among other things with the ignition switch [0]. This was a very specifically organized system where they tried to keep the knowledge of agreements on lawsuits from being visible up the chain - it was no accident. So big companies can and will do this when it suits them. I think this was clearly unethical, but I suspect it's common.

0: http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/attorneys_fired_by_gm...
In other news, the water is wet.

I've only been living for a couple of years on the US now but one thing that is among the hardest to get used to is the costs of medical care.

Often times going to the doctor once shields 3, 4 different invoices. I once made the rookie mistake of going to an E.R. for something I could have waited for, I think I had one of those head splitting head aches. They charged me something like $800 or so for ~10 minutes with the doctor. Another time, I had to pay something crazy like $300 for an X-Ray. Gotta pay for the cost of research of development for that cutting edge technology, X-Rays, huh? :-p

I can only imagine what it would be like if I had a very severe condition like cancer.

This is specially shocking for me coming from a country where health care is of high quality and publicly accessible (Argentina). Private care is also available and reasonably priced, the reasons to go that route is shorter wait times for appointments, nicer facilities, etc.
One's a transceiver. One's an SDR. The first is way more human oriented and focused on utility.
The moral of the story: if what the "person/organization who ought to know about these things" is telling you doesn't make sense or doesn't match with your own experience, consider the possibility that they might be just plain wrong. Especially if it would be wrong in a way that makes them look better.
Depends on the treatment. The cost to a hospital of a typical chemo visit is roughly 50% drugs and 50% labor. An endoscopic surgical procedure for lung cancer is roughly 70% labor and 30% supplies. The average total costs for both are in the tens of thousands of dollars. That doesn't include fixed costs, just variable costs.
The word "admittedly" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
But "exactly representing it" just cashes out as "being able to answer questions to arbitrary precision about its value", and yep, TMs can do that do that, in finite space.
To my knowledge, nothing equivalent exists for men anywhere. Wish it did!
Because its not a meme.

Look at Discord app. Look at Slack. Or any other Electron bloatware. The executable is .1GB big minimum, and eats memory because it first has to start a browser.

Oh, and none of these browsers share memory or anything, so you get X copies of the same thing.
Well, if the numbers are correct, the LR RWD was $49k and this MR is $45k, so that's 4000 less.. and the LR battery upgrade was $9000 more than the SR is supposed to be, so they're effectively splitting the difference. But I agree, it doesn't sound like a lot. (I'm assuming the $45k price assumes the $5000 premium upgrades that the LR forces you to buy at this point in time as well).

As another comment mentioned, you can still get the LR RWD this week. We've got one, very happy with it.
I had a co-worker who got a real kick out of asking me a similar question and seeing me struggle.
The reason it's not used more often is only because it's incrementally better than salted and memory-hard hashed passwords. It has obvious and important benefits, but still only incrementally better.

It's more important that bad implementations are removed immediately. Personally I'd rather get rid of all of my passwords and use FIDO2 or perhaps even something through touch-id on my iOS/Mac. At this point every password I have is unique thanks to great password managers.
Are you saying that when you start a game, you are closing all the programs you have opened and disable all the services/background processes?
If a game uses 6 cores, you can have 2 more for your office, browser and god knows what else running without slowing you down.
Hitchen's razor applies here: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."

It's unfair to assume poor security practices. It's also ridiculous for a Show HN to be expected to meet a burden like "separation of access" when it's likely a person, singular, that has produced this app.
It may be a complete coincidence that Apple introduced crappy keyboards, the idiot bar, and a HUGE trackpad to the MacBook line all at the same time, but I find this difficult to believe.

At the very least, it's a clear message from Cupertino: Apple wants you to touch, not type. Resistance is futile.