skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: This is not me, but someone I met through The Recurse Center ( https://www.recurse.com/ ), and was enthralled by this story.
Then there would be 1.5 billion people above the age of 65 and 0.5 billion below it. That seems problematic.

If you really wanted to get to 2 billion people, better to do it over a thousand years than a hundred. But is that actually good for anything? Having a hundred billion people would probably be problematic, but we seem to be doing alright with 7.5 (once we stop burning oil).
What were you referring to?
> plethora of social programs to provide your basic necessities and then you can spend your days writing your 2D game engine in Java. ... But you won't do that. And we both know why.

And that is because these basic necessities is not enough. To be human is to have family and travel (in economy not in business class).

> OK. So this is where hysterics start against the best socio-political system we have developed. And you do agree with that, right? That the modern iteration of capitalism (i.e. a market-economy with democratic government oversight and social safety net) is the best system we have ever tried?

Doesn't mean it is good enough. And you do agree with that, right? Feudalism, Caste System, Slavery, Central Planning, Capitalism, Church control. One replacing the other. And with less centralized power, we get a better system.

> and you've been put out of business by automobiles, it doesn't matter whether you're employed by a Capitalist corp or a co-op - it is still hard.

Well during 2008 recession. One of the big products of Mondragon was creating Washing Machines. Then demand suddenly fell, and they had to lay-off man-power like many other Capitalist corps. However because their policies was made democratically, they have handled it better than traditional Capitalist corps.

Any excess worker of the Washing Machine Cooperative (remember Mondragon is a group of many Co-ops) is offered two options:

1) Keep their membership in Mondragon. Company will re-skill you and get you to work in another coop. Any additional commute time will be compensated by the company.

2) Retire early. You get your retirement benefits. And parting compensation.

Mondragon, since they are not servant to investors can afford to do this. The profits are used for the workers, not for the 1% capitalists. Oh and by the way, compensation for managers and CEOs are only several times the lowest salary. Unlike your capitalist corps where CEOs get a bajillion times more than the avg salary. The key is in the details.
It would be super sketchy if it records any audio, since there's no real reason or need to do that for the features it provides.

Also, if we're going conspiracy mode: we're all surrounded by devices with very good microphones that are always on, primarily our phones.
They're insignificant in all of this compared to smartphones.
You get it, but it's sad you get down votes instead of good discussion. Let's also not forget: John Kiriakou, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake, William Binney, Daniel Elsberg, James Risen, Ray McGovern, Sibel Edmonds, Michael Scheuer, and many more.

Collectively, they point to a much more insidious state of affairs than I think most people want to admit.
Amazing that you are just reading but already know what most mathematicians think about it :)

Realistically and honestly, most mathematicians agree with it. Most mathematicians consider constructivism to be useful AND a subset of normal mathematics.

Also, it intellectually pains me to see proofs of meta theorems in intuitionistic logic use classical logic (not talking about object level proofs).
Oh, I see - so freebsd jails are used for this. At least for process isolation that seems like a solid approach.

Still, I do wonder how much of the problem with containers is container overhead. To me a big difference is about what costs can be amortized. With CGI, pretty much every cost is paid at every request. With long running daemons, the per request overhead is removed. With Cloudflare's functions, the scheduling, request, and startup overhead are (theoretically) removed, leaving mostly just execution.

With just CGI there's some win since you can drop the scheduling overhead, but I think you would probably lose that advantage as soon as you hit the upper limit where forking per request stops scaling. With FastCGI you can enable better scaling but since you now have to manage long running processes, you are officially in the scheduling business, though you could probably beat container scheduler like Kubernetes in terms of raw overhead.

I don't know. Maybe this is a good idea, but I'll admit my first impression was mostly "isn't this just CGI as it always was?"
Well, the recording could be near-continuous, but compressed and stored until a user makes a request. Therefore, you’d need to record the amount of data transmitted over a certain time period and set an upper bound based on that.

Of course, if you could install a custom cert on the device, you could just MiTM the connection and see exactly what is sent...
Ah. I see. TIL something about CDNs. Thanks. Good stuff.
Twitter was in decline well before Trump took office. The feed algorithm makes it more or less impossible to actually have a conversation, and as evidenced by the article the company itself is spineless.
Education for mostly business. I spend the most money on books and courses but I find myself usually dissatisfied with courses. I'm always interested in taking the latest digital marketing courses that can be thousands of dollars but I am usually disappointed when they over promise and under deliver. A lot of the courses are the same info. Same goes with expensive conferences that are usually general info with a high price tag.

The flip side is that you can find a lot of great info for free but it's a challenge to sift through everything to find the gold nuggets.
If only they supported NixOS... I would use them if/when they make the leap.
Off-topic: Growing up in the late 80's and going to college in 2000's, I've always romanticized about places such as Bell Labs and Xero Parc in terms of their talent pool, innovation and revolutionary ideas. It feels like all the cool stuff happened 30-40 years ago.

What are some of the modern equivalent of such places?

I can think of Boston Dynamics.
Anyone confused between Causation and Correlation?
You have to admit that this headline coupled with the (2017) is pretty funny.
FBGEMM is faster than theoretical peak FP32 (single-precision floating-point) performance, therefore its faster than SGEMM/DGEMM in any BLAS library
How do the particulars of this case have any relevance as to;

1) The implication of widespread proliferation of these types of recording devices

2) The accessibility/retention of the recordings for law enforcement

3) The long-standing legal framework around the third party doctrine and the NSA’s willingness to abuse third-party private data for data mining

It smacks of “think of the children!” to talk about what a bad guy they’re using the tech to help catch. Of course the early cases are sympathetic!

It’s not hard to see what’s coming when they put large blinking neon signs like this case up for us.

It just so happens that the company that makes these devices will be deriving a large portion of its profits in the coming decades from the same government which will very deeply want access to these records.

It also just so happens the company that makes these devices has already demonstrated how eager it is to hawk its panopticonic AI to that very same government for the purposes of mass surveillance.
Very short article (which I like) and some great points that have been occupying my thought process lately.

Every other day our local newspapers mention the word "techy" to describe someone work in IT, he could be a product manager or an operations manager in facilities, just because he is in Silicon Valley of India.

The agile example is great. We enforced something which works for assembly line where things are repetitive and we know how much time it takes exactly to assemble two parts of a car. Software Development is could not be more different than this. We want iterative development yet we need to have
fixed deadline.

We don't trust the developer, we hire a scrum master who in most cases just moves stories in Jira if a developer forgets to do it religiously. In that process, we (read middle management ) are happy to have stories in "done" section but have a problem with "in progress" section tough later is likely to have higher quality. Because earlier one looks good on paper.

I have seen when scrum master/co-ordinators / middle managers when getting a tech-related question from other teams or execs, they loop the engineers saying "rookie question".Really just say "I don't know anything about engineering that my team does"

Also the "IC track" for engineers? Seriously if someone works in teams that is engineering teams. Why should they be called "Individual contributor"?

IMHO, if engineers were little more disciplined we did not need middle managers or these dedicated agile coaches, scrum masters who neither has any tech skill nor has any vision, unlike the leadership / executives.
American taxpayers paid over 500 million for Healthcare.gov.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCare.gov
The conclusion is there's no problem, that it wasn't the nefarious activity that he originally thought it was.

The additional point he's trying to make is that app developers should use FLAG_SECURE if its confidential data - messaging probably should be, and his bitcoin app should almost certainly be.
Geez, sounds tough. You seem like a smart person, I think you'd be worth knowing.
This quick pick of GDPR to abuse certainly says something about the potential for abuse and it's palatability for those that do abuse law.
The truth about the roots of most terrorism
What, BSD jails all over again?
Great article with interesting historical insight. Thanks for posting!

This part (and the slavery justification stuff) particularly stuck out to me:

> "If you're unacclimated, you basically languish in professional and social purgatory," says Olivarius, who is writing a book about how the disease shaped the city's social structure. "Bosses will not hire clerks and bookkeepers who are not expressly acclimated. Women will not marry men not described as acclimated. You can't live in certain neighborhoods, and people will not rent rooms unless you're acclimated. Certain social circles will exclude you. And so this creates this hierarchy where you have people who are actively seeking to get sick.
That NCBI article claims there are 13 known survivors of rabies. In total. Nothing to do with whether they got the Milwaukee protocol treatment

It also notes the deaths of at least two of the "known survivors", that others received the PEP vaccine either completely or partially, and that one survivor likely didn't have rabies at all due to no anti-bodies being found.

That leaves just the original case in 2004 where someone survived without vaccine and received the MP.
Amazon, Alphabet, Intel, Microsoft, Apple, SpaceX, etc [1]. Just look at what companies are pumping 10's of billions of R&D dollars into. But, they are doing some very cool things at Google & some of the X bets. I suspect that's why Rob Pike is there today. Personally, SpaceX looks like they are also very much pushing the envelop technically and must be a very cool place to work [2]. By the way, this was a pretty awesome talk. Rob also helped created UTF-8 & Go [3]. Pretty amazing career.

[1] https://www.recode.net/2018/4/9/17204004/amazon-research-dev...

[2] https://youtu.be/u0-pfzKbh2k?t=19

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike
I think this is a "the journey is its own reward" type of story. The author is interested in sharing the "how" of sleuthing around.
Similar issue with Quora. Pop up blocks the site after a few scrolls, and there's no way to exit. Doesn't matter if you're in the middle of reading a long answer, the site just stops working.
Ah, that makes sense, thank you. I think I was thrown off by the link's title, "Unauthorized Screenshots in Android Phones" - I read it as a security issue
Tracking JavaScript Performance with Zone.js
And the next question, what would you say to ensure it was recorded, identifiable, sent to the right person and had the right phrasing to ensure it could be used in court?
Learn How Git Works in 20 Minutes
Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression
Apple trees take years to begin producing fruit. A new orchard is very expensive in terms of labor and the opportunity cost of tying up acreage with non-producing plants.
It's a norm pretty much everywhere to penalize people's performance reviews for failure to perform required job tasks on time

3 of the last 5 full-time jobs I've had were in health care. Which comes with at the very least HIPAA and, depending on the exact type of health stuff you do, possibly other training, every year in order to show compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

I've never been told "if you don't do the training we penalize your performance review". I have been told "if you don't do the training, you don't work here".
Judging from the amount of trash and bad behavior I see on trails everytime I go: no, there haven't been enough lectures.
Isn’t it early to say Boston Dynamics has had any impact, outside of the occasional cool YouTube video? Neat, without a doubt...

Re: other modern equivalents - would free software, in general, count? We get to observe first hand, tinker-with, talk-to-creators-of, and contribute-to some of the heaviest-lifting software ever. Linux and BSDs, MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, Python, Blender... any of those, or others, and the right research paper or YouTube video or book, and there’s a good chance you can have your mind blown.
CPUs without microcode exist. While microcode isn't exactly a new innovation, early mass-market CPUs were not implemented that way.
When you get the chance have a listen to some of the discussions about organic chemical processes occurring in cells by Dr James Tour. From an engineering and manufacturing point of view, the processes that occur in a cell are far beyond what we are able to achieve in any of our engineering and manufacturing processes.

It is not about simulating processes, it is about doing those processes.
Being a non-js person, it wasn't clear if this is just for JavaScript or not. If it is, then it's not really fair to compare against containers or vms, right?
Keepass2Android and Signal have it as an option, Orfox just enables it on webpages but disables it on the settings screen, Netflix enables it on video playback. My banking app doesn't have the option at all, yay banking!
Aside from the risks of smoking (tar etc. like you said) nicotine has some health benefits. To the extent that it is used as a supplement by some.

https://examine.com/supplements/nicotine/
What they seem to be doing is judging people based on surface traits

Do you believe that a poor black kid from Detroit is only different in "surface traits" as compared to a rich white kid from Orange County?

Or would you be willing to concede that there may be reliable correlations between some "surface traits" and diversity of life experiences and viewpoints? Demographic analysis of things like voting patterns in the US seems to suggest differences of such magnitude that I doubt you'd find another factor more strongly predictive.
That whine's almost 100% coming from the CPU as it's a common issue with Intel CPUs these days. It's the weirdest thing ever, but my Hackintosh makes it as well (i7-6700k) so you're not crazy. It also very notably comes and goes independent of workload and mouse polling rates, but no matter the case I'd still return/replace the Mini just because it's an option.
Would be nice if they would publish the known search strings. Right now I am assuming "expected income >= 100,000" - that could give many a sigh of relief perhaps. Article mentions "engaged in excessive searching” and some of the details taken include "expected income"

At this point hackers could be a better source of credit rating given that they could combine info from hacks like this and the other credit agency (experian?) hacks with other insurance hacks (anthem?) -

I wonder if my signup app info is still in this system from a couple years ago or has been removed?
Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso
This is what I was thinking as well. Slowly creep until they have to power to turn on a persons phone at will to look and listen.
What’s slowing down the pace of AI innovation?
these guys (stamos and millen) are either being intentionally daft or are embarrassingly naive.

nobody needs a primer to decode pichai’s statement. it’s political positioning.

to think that these guys are shining a light is laughable. stamos is obviously using this to help wash his own hands of his complicity at fb. millen i don’t know.
Job matching is drastically asymmetric, though. For a company, it may work, but from a person's perspective, I wouldn't describe it that way. I don't want a dating website to treat me as poorly as any job website does.

Simply meeting more people isn't useful unless you have reason to believe the people are good potential matches -- even if you're on the strong side of the asymmetry. Companies don't find their new CTO by going through the phone book in order and interviewing every person.
It's a stretch to call Facebook _essential_. If you're worrying about someone, pick up the phone. Using Facebook has its own heavy costs.
I'm more and more becoming convinced that we should just put a hard cap on company size. It's radical, yes, but all attempts to regulate those large corporate behemoths either turn out to be toothless in practice, or so heavy-handed that they cause too much trouble to everybody else.
It's standard practice to validate forecasts on non-randomized test/validation splits of the same time series, since this simulates the conditions where the model will be deployed in reality: It will know everything there is to know about the past, and it will know nothing about the future.

See Hyndman's fpp2 — https://otexts.org/fpp2/accuracy.html

Also, his description of rolling window validation: https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/rolling-forecasts/
Cell-site location data is collected by cell phone companies incidentally but inseparably as a side-effect of using the phone. And using a phone is no longer seen as an optional device to carry around.

The Alexa recordings are collected as a primary function of the device purchased and setup at the whim of the owner specifically for the purpose of capturing audio in their own home for advanced processing and analysis by a third party.

The precedent you cite is unfortunately not going to protect this data, in my opinion, because the specific rationale the Supreme Court used to start requiring a warrant for cell site data are perfectly avoided in this case.

As for the NSA doing things that are illegal or “pointless for their institutional mission”, which also happen to massively infringe on basic human privacy rights,... it would seem from recent history that that is exactly what they are most likely to do.
I'm not a fan of 1password, but their Android app does block screenshots.
At least in the US:

* Health-care is a cost center.
* Denying Health-care is a profit center.
* The populace has been conned in to believing it's an "insurance"
* vvv

The population also mostly doesn't realize, at a logical level, that those without coverage still factor in to costs.

* Increased suffering
* Increased crime
* Decreased GDP (both from less able workers and more broken windows)
* Actual costs of care are passed along as inflated prices.

I would really like, and as long as there weren't other blockers would vote, for candidates that supported at least /basic/ healthcare for all. Profits to be had in line cutting during non-triage critical moments.
Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin wins Arthur C. Clarke award
One of the things that really scares me about working with a therapist is that I have suicidal thoughts a lot. Like, I don't deserve to be alive or that I want to die. I'm still pretty productive, make a good salary, was recently promoted. I'm scared that if I were really open about these feelings, something bad would happen, that I could be hospitalized. Which feels like a real step backwards to me. A step towards not actually getting better.
If "techies" assume as much personal liability as surgeons, then they may deserve seen in the like.

Where are the malpractice suites for person info leaks of infrastructure downtime?
> The idea of a virtual anchor was pioneered >10 years ago

I can cite an earlier example, perhaps?

Back around '98 I was part of a 3d game project that had a dynamic news reader that moved his lips in accordance with a wav file being played. So, although 'not AI', it did do a realtime FFA on the waveform and 'guestimate' the shape of the mouth based on significant frequencies. Analysis of volume in the wav would trigger other movements (rocking backward), or increasing pitch might trigger eyebrow movements, etc. I recall that the 'wav' itself was stitched together from multiple wav snippets at runtime to give an accurate account of the game play that had just happened.

At the end of it all, it definitely satisfied the 'virtual anchor' as described here, and was all achieved with simple heuristics.

That said, I think I would've enjoyed being part of the virtual anchor team in the video.
>Principal agent problem: for all payment techniques thus explored for online dating, the interests of the dating service are not in alignment with daters who want a monogamous LTR.

The principle agent problem is a general refutation of the free market - why would a lawyer try to help you, when that means you won't need their service anymore? It is solved by the fact that people eventually realize when a service isn't working in their interest, and switch to another, and tend to recommend those services that worked best to their friends. For facebook in particular, they are interested not in having you use their service as a dating platform, but having you use their platform for anything. If you use facebook to meet people, you will be more likely to use their service for other tasks as well, like messaging your new friends, or organizing events with them. Purposefully handicapping their service would lead to people leaving all of facebook in despair when they find themselves unsuccessful.

>the statistics back this up

and yet you've failed to recognize the statistics related to replication in psychology.

>1) Histocompatibility -some people smell right. Some people don't. Chemistry isn't something you're gonna capture over the internet

Presumably AI could be used to filter for this. The way someone smells is no doubt related to various other factors - their family, their diet - which facebook could pull in as datapoints. By analysing the history of all successful relationships in america for the past decade, they can see which datapoints predict a successful relationship and which don't. This would then be used to suggest potential partners. If not, then this will have to be figured out on the first date instead.
I gave up and used their app after being hit with that 100s of times. Whether it is a viable long term strategy or not they probably are driving ad revenue from it, bit of a sad state of affairs if you have to be hostile to your users to build a sustainable business.