skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USB/NFC tokens and phones/computers are all "loseable". There are cool ideas about backup tokens https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/backup_u2f_token but IMO they can't be the only way to sign in, there should be some way to restore access from nothing (I guess my specific paranoia is about being locked out :D)

There are many specific auth "factors":

- valid signature from an extrernal hardware token (U2F/WebAuthn via e.g. YubiKey)

- valid signature from a device's embedded token/TPM (something like Touch ID / Windows Hello / Android keystore thing)

- … as a WebAuthn implementation

- … in response to a push notification on another device (Twitter, if they still have that)

- … in response to a QR code (SQRL, Yandex.Key)

- one-time code via push notification to another device (Apple)

- one-time code generated from a shared secret key (TOTP)

- one-time sign-in link via email (Tumblr)

- passwords

- secret questions (like extra passwords but worse)

- behavior pattern analysis (IIRC Google showed an Android demo that looked at keyboard typing patterns and whatnot)

A good auth system should combine multiple factors in a correct way to minimize both impersonation and lockout chances, and maximize usability. How? That's the challenge…
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She states simply that it didn't look for proper controls or caveats. As I said in my original comment, I would need an in-depth analysis of why the study is bad. Merely mentioning controls is not enough to convince me, even if the person has a PhD.

And as for her "calling for more research", that is simply not true:

This is one open access article the world does not need right now.

She is literally saying here that it should not have been published.
>I think Marxism is fundamentally

Did you get this from reading the works Marx and Engels (that is to say, the founders of Marxism), or elsewhere?

>caused by wealthy elites exploiting common people

No. Even a cursory reading of Marx (other than the Manifesto, which is a propaganda pamphlet he wrote) would suggest that Marx's issue is with capital and abstract labour. The title of his magnum opus is: Capital, a critical analysis of capitalist production. If you read it, the references to actualized instances of "wealthy elites" is paltry in comparison to his references to society, political economy, abstract structures and history. In fact, there's a wonderful little quote from the man himself demonstrating this:

"To prevent possible misunderstanding, a word. I paint the capitalist and the landlord in no sense couleur de rose [i.e., seen through rose-tinted glasses]. But here individuals are dealt with only in so far as they are the personifications of economic categories, embodiments of particular class-relations and class-interests. My standpoint, from which the evolution of the economic formation of society is viewed as a process of natural history, can less than any other make the individual responsible for relations whose creature he socially remains, however much he may subjectively raise himself above them."

This is from the preface, by the way. You don't even have to open the book properly to read this.

>sufficiently eliminating this exploitation will lead to a utopia

No. There is no "sufficiently" about it; the Marxist project is to eliminate what Marx sees as the class structure, present in "all societies hitherto" which leads to such exploitation. Beware that "exploitation" is a technical term, not a moral one. Marx does not mean to cast any moral judgement on the fact.

>How else could it be so superficially appealing to naive college students for centuries of history?

Marx was generally not appealing to college students around the time of his death in 1883. One century from then makes 1983, so you're right for about one century. Since then the popularity has generally declined, only recently seeing a resurgence. I question why you brought up "naive college students" when academics at the forefront of sociology, philosophy and political economy describe themselves as Marxists or at least influenced by his ideas. The student protests in May '68 France were joined by academics and the massive French trade unionist movement.

>Marxism is one level above Nazism in a level of evil

Marxism does not prescribe the indiscriminate murder of people (including capitalists!) due to their inherent characteristics. Although we'd both agree that the actions of the 20th c. Communist dictators were horrific, Badiou and Zizek question whether these are "inherent" to the Marxist project at all, or even the Marxist-Leninist project.
I live in Los Angeles and the first 5 boxes sounded like that is what you were describing. But public transportation is lacking so you need a car pretty much. Public healthcare I'm not sure anywhere in the US has that...you just buy insurance. And Los Angeles has the highest rent vs salary ratio in the country. But we have the best weather in the country so that makes it worth it for many people.
Most Facebook videos have captions burned in at this point.
As my advisor used to say when I hit low motivation phases, “stupid people get PhDs all the time. What’s taking you 5 years?”
I wonder if speed will still be a reason for doing something like this going forward now that Intel is starting to include SHA acceleration instructions in its processors.
No it's not. It's an automated malware scan.
They can already revoke Developer ID certificates and block whatever they want by updating XProtect (even unsigned apps).
> Yes, precisely that's what I would expect from an NLP system

> I'm still interested in a possible technique which could lead to this type of bias without it being explicit (or requiring google to have an extremely naive approach).

I don't understand. If it's what you expect, then what's left to explain?
I agree with everything you just said, but with respect, you are exactly the problem that the author was talking about. Lots of (probably great) ideas mean absolutely nothing until you’ve signed your name on a lease and put your own neck on the line. Until then, you’re just “the idea guy”.
Good thing they don't have infinite storage space.
Exactly. It's either valid research or it isn't.
It's not as controversial anymore attributing differences of athletic success to genes, but academic success is still a thorny issue . My guess is there is a lot of money and jobs at stake in perpetuating a set of systems and beliefs that don't work as well as previously thought (sunk cost fallacy comes to mind).
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I take your point about misleading historical data, but I’m not sure that was the sentiment behind the statement. I took it more to mean “if this feels transgressive to you, don’t publish it!”. Your explanation is a valid observation of a phenomenon, but the “socially appropriate” part feels shoehorned in.
Your definition consists of one description that distinguishes "snowflakes" (safe spaces, etc), and three general, similar flaws that apply equally well to their counterparts within the "anti-PC" crowd. I think that's probably the (sarcastic) point the parent comment was making.
Yeah, I was referring to that thread. Without explicitly stating what's wrong with the study (in which many factors could go wrong), Or stating how/why environmental factors could still derail the study despite twin control, the twitter thread derails into "social responsibility" etc.

I have a political bias towards the left (equality, more democratic control etc), but I would never say scientific truth should be subservient to my ideology. That kind of a view has a huge stench of the postmodernist ideology on how even science is subjective like literary criticism.

Any ethical axiom is cannot be contingent on facts due to the is-ought problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem). But the moment some the moral axioms are used to make decisions in the real world, the decisions have to be consistent with the axioms. The effect of decisions is contingent on facts aka Science. So given a belief in induction, science can help inform what you "ought" to do with respect to your axioms.

Contrary to the subset of people in the left who blindly believe the Blank Slate hypothesis, or fear that genetic studies will change their ethical assumptions, I argue that more knowledge (genetic, sociological etc ) through science would only help you to be more committed to you ethics by allowing you to exercise it properly.
I think Steven Pinker's argument against (part of) left's obsession with blank slate rings true https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_chalks_it_up_to_the_...

I think Peter Singer (of Animal Liberation fame) alludes to the same point in the Darwinian Left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Darwinian_Left (haven't read it yet)
I agree, to me, the maximum entropy argument for the Gaussian most convincingly makes it one of the most fundamental distribution.

Click on chapter 7 here for a good discussion: http://omega.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html
A good rule of thumb is to write your posts so they convey sarcasm to a reader who doesn't know you personally.
> you can walk into almost any cafe in the country and get a much better cup of coffee at a comparable price.

This is also true in the United States and yet here we are.
Don’t discount the fact that he also gives time. Time that eh could literally do anything in the world he wants with, since he has all of that money. In my mind, time is where the real giving happens.

Anyone with a lot of money can give a lot without any impact on themselves. When someone inconveniences themselves / gives their time and sweat, I’m more impressed.
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My stance on fish consumption has to do with lack of global regulation. If the place you're eating from a local, wild caught source that doesn't have byproduct waste (also a huge problem) go for it.
It's a balance between accepting and integrating everybody vs removing people who degrade the former.
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But knowing “radio theory” isn’t enough to have global SSB conversations on HF. You need a high antenna and reasonably high power, something which most of the population will never be able to have because of how harshly antennas are judged by others in the real estate market.
I don't see why you can't just accept that that naive approach is their approach? Those two words almost always occur together as part of "-American scientist." This happens to work very well in general for search engines. I don't think Google or DuckDuckGo is hoping their image page for American Scientist just returns African Americans and are therefore subtly changing their algorithm to that end.
If you can write a function to quantify those errors, then you can use it to train the neural networks that produce the deepfakes. The better your error function, the better the deepfakes.
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Right. The rent is the problem. You can find coffee shops/bookstores/wine bars/libraries that will provide or rent out space for these events and it's far less risky.
This looks super neat, but only works on generated PDFs, not images, for now. While it uses imaging tricks to extract lines and table-like structures, it needs actual text (not images of text) to extract. So, there's an OCR step missing.

Something that could take a picture of a bill or invoice and structure that data would be pretty useful, I imagine (even better if it ran on mobile devices). Even something that used a third party (like AWS Rekognition, whose text bits are pretty great) and added text would help this library be useful in more cases, without really having to add features to it.
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Eating meat is killing your health, your body imagine, your productivity. It’s killing YOU.

Meat consumption is the reason heart disease is our number one killer.

Will that convince you? Eating a plant-based diet is simply logic: for your health, for the environment, for ethics, for the health of society, etc, etc.

Read How Not To Die by Michael Gregor. Read Pubmed. Get educated on what meat is doing to your body.
These sorts of organizations wouldn't exist unless they were doing things right. Lots to learn for personal community projects.
It’s money for research.
After the Windows update fiasco, Microsoft needs to shake up its dev process
>I honestly think they print them because businesses pay to be in them

Well, sure. That's what the yellow pages basically are--advertising for local businesses. (There may be some level of listing that's free. I don't know.) As other have noted, my local yellow pages is pretty small and thin these days though with the caveat that I don't live in a city. I suspect that a listing/ad is no longer quite the requirement for local businesses that it once was.
> Justifying regular animal consumption in any environmental or ethical sense is pretty much impossible

My issue is most people overlook the impact we've had on fisheries. It's much harder for fish populations to get back to where they need to be without massive regulation. Which is extremely hard on a global scale considering the economical impact it can have on some areas. The PBS documentary "Fish on my Plate" (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-fish-on-my-plate...) goes over this a bit in various ways, but one story they highlight is how Peru fixed their anchovy problem.

Never mind the issue of byproduct waste when it comes to line & trolling boats. Raising chickens & cows have an impact, but byproduct kill has an entire ecosystem impact.
> "So it has been almost a decade. How much longer before the whole move semantics addition to the language specification becomes relevant to you?"

I'm not debating the usefulness of move semantics. I'm debating the weight being placed on them in these so-called "C++ interview questions". Wouldn't it be better to discuss the actual problem, rather than a concrete solution we ended up having in C++11?
Photoshop has been around forever but I can't remember a time any forgery caused an issue publically.
If you are desperate for something to judge people by, maybe start with their compassion towards those less fortunate than themselves.
One thing to bear in mind is that university success depends more on being compliant to authority than intelligence, at least until you get to the grad school level, and maybe then too.
Videos are so shareable though. The video will go viral before it's successfully disputed.
Thanks! This is fair and useful criticism. I will update the post.

In the case of the particular person I originally wrote this for he wasn't looking at FAANG, and my impression is that most large companies are not competitive with them. In your experience, is that part still accurate?
Images are too.
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I done think you read the article. It says they sold it via a partnership.
I'd argue (with no malice) that there's just as big a problem, if not a bigger problem, on the opposite end of the spectrum, where having any reaction at all to one's self or others being insulted, attacked, or mocked will draw hateful calls of "snowflake", "safe space", etc. Even the president mocks and insults individuals who haven't done anything to deserve it, which is a pretty dramatic problem. People might disagree on which side has the "bigger" problem, but they both do have big problems, and communication will always be absolutely impossible as long as those problem attitudes remain so common.
You are arguing that the frying pan is not as bad as the fire. If your morality is so impoverished that this is the least-bad you can think of, you should take a break from judgement.
Do we really need a "store" (in the sense of a centralized and "controlled" repository of android apps? [0] [1]

I mean, set aside the Apple Store and the Google store (and the abomination that is the Windows store) all the rest (Linux and Windows before the latest) worked just fine downloading programs from the publishers.

[0] Where you can find tens or hundreds of similar and/or similarly named apps, mostly crap, or spin-offs, usually without a proper way to understand what the app actually does (or if it is the one which you actually want), if it works, etc., so that you have anyway to read online reviews, consult the publisher's site (if any) for reading the docs (if any), to have (if any) support, etc.

[1] and where the "store manager" can at any moment remove your app for whatever reasons (legitimate or not) ...
Mio – Cross-platform header-only C++11 library for memory-mapped file IO
Orders of magnitude faster.
The utility value of money means this is not true.
Did it?

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-the-untold-story-...

https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-man...
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Your friend's thesis sounds very interesting. Does your friend run any sort of blog or post publicly? I'd be interested in seeing their work.
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As someone else has pointed out, it's because "American scientists" is a substring of "African American scientists." And it's easy to check that's the case. Search for "African American scientists" and those first results are the same. Makes sense: exact match vs inferred connection. Then go search for "English scientists", "French scientists", "German scientists."
How about fairness in taxation? What do Google know about that?
Not just years; decades. About a quarter of a century.
I imagine it would work the same as any other information today, like press releases. Who is the source? Where did they get it from? Do I have any reason to doubt them?

Ie, the end of "trusting" videos from unknown sources with unknown reputations and agendas.
Is that always true ? I know nothing about AI whatsoever but wouldn’t the function have to satisfy certain properties for a NN to be able to learn from it? Properties that the discussed “3D verifier function “ wouldn’t necessarily have?

It sounds very much like complexity theory, where you definitely have problems that are easier to verify than solve (see NP hard).

(Otherwise I could do stuff like use a hash function to train a NN to compute input for hashes , for example, no?)
I think blank slate is the common prejudice and simplistic narrative. Calling out the paper as bad science without giving any valid reason is stupid. If the argument had been that a single study is not enough to conclude the author's conclusions (which are not too broad). But one can say that to any study in a new/nascent topic.

But what is in the thread is that such a study should not have been published because it violates ethics, without pointing out the scientific flaws in such a study.
I think household name internet companies that aren't FAANG per se will still offer competitive compensation and work life balance. I mean here places like Twitter, LinkedIn, Square etc. judging from my last job search and conversations with people in my network. Working at a large bank or non-tech f500 will probably be a different experience for an individual contributor.

I know there are some aggregators like comp.fyi if you want to take a closer look at some self-reported data.
Here's a snippet about the proposal from ballotpedia[1]:

> The following impartial analysis of the measure was prepared by the office of the San Francisco Controller:

>> Should the proposed ordinance be approved by the voters, in my opinion, it would generate new tax revenue of approximately $250 million to $300 million annually beginning in 2019. The proposed tax is dedicated for defined homeless services, including housing, shelter, prevention, and mental service services.

That's an insane amount of additional money for a city of only 800K.

[1]: https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Propositi...
I feel like this has been some months in the making. We have an IAP enabled app (https://www.bestcoffee.guide/app) just turned a year old. When we launched last year we had no issues with our - very clear - subscription page.

Subsequent updates, however, have required closer and closer adherence to the specifics of the Apple iap guidelines. All the boiler plate text needed to be displayed, the button needs the price on it, and to be on the same page.

Overall a good change for the user but man it makes it hard to design a remotely aesthetic subscription page.
Excellent point. The study of genetics and its influence seems to be trapped between two extremes due to racial horrors of the 20th century. 100 years ago, social darwinists claimed genetics (race/blood) was everything. It was destiny. And as a result the world endured senseless horrors. As a reaction to the horrors of ww2, another extreme has taken hold - the side that claims genetics has no influence. To proclaim otherwise would make you are nazi.

The more sensible and correct middle ground, that genetics isn't destiny but a major component of many contributing factors to your life and success, seems verboten in academia and the public in general.

It's both obvious that genetics plays a role and it's equally obvious that environment plays a role. But due to historical baggage, scientists have to tread lightly.

If michael jordan grew up in the congo, he wouldn't have been one of the greatest basketball players. If einstein grew up in iraq in the late 1800s, he wouldn't have been one of the greatest scientists.

Both nature and nurture play a part in success.
Have you so quickly forgotten Emma Gonzalez? We don't need Deep Fakes to cause problems, regular ones will do just fine.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/emma-gonzalez-ripping-up-c...
That is exactly how it works now. You don't get convicted of manslaughter because someone died in your shop, you get convicted because you were grossly negligent in preventing someone dying in your shop. If the place was inspected regularly, and was as it should be (fire extinguishers etc), then they won't be convicted. And typically, prosecutors won't charge them unless they are confident of a conviction.
My definition of distributed metadata for a FS is the same as you would have for a distributed database. If I shard a database across many servers and do not define semantics for transactions that cross shards, that is what you are talking about. I am talking about a system that supports cross partition transactions.
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lobste.rs does something similar:

Invite only. But any member can hand out invites.

If there's a trend however that you invite the wrong persons I think you can get banned or punished somehow yourself. Edit, exact rules: """There's no limit on how many invitations a user can send (though that might be prompted by scaling problems in the future). When accounts are banned for spam, sockpuppeting, or other abuse, moderators will look up the invitation tree to consider disabling their inviter's ability to send invitations or, rarely, also banning. """

Also there is a public list tree on the site of who invited who: https://lobste.rs/u
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Google really needs to improve their search quality then.

Searching for razor doesn't give results for occam's razor.
A lot of small kids got iPhone SE. Including my daughter and her classmates.

It's relatively powerful in its price class, and not too large — perfect for kids.
We definitely used the phonebook in Miami. Between the white pages and mulitple yellow pages there was enough stack height for several kids. And my mom would've killed us if we sat on her books.

Speaking of road maps, my first real road trip, early 90s, I used a AAA TripTik. I’m glad not to need that anymore, but there’s still a place in the world for paper maps.
I think what GP meant was that MD5 is meant to be cryptographic, and parenthetically, it's bad at it. MeowHash is not even meant to be cryptographic, so it is much faster.