skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How will these systems defend against spam, click farms, troll armies, and AI assisted or powered sock puppeting when they get big and/or influential?

This is usually what kills federated and decentralized communication platforms. They can work fine as long as they are too niche for bad actors to target, but as soon as there is money to be made or political influence to be had from targeting them they are destroyed by abuse.

It's a major threat for the centralized platforms, and those are easier to defend.

Today's Internet is a battlefield in a global information war and new systems must be designed accordingly. Unfortunately most efforts that I see in these areas still make optimistic assumptions and underestimate the sophistication and determination of bad actors.
Python Community Interview with Brian Peterson
>Do you have any examples of this?

Not exactly Youtube but pretty much all professionally produced porn made since ~2005 is like this. They call it "professional amateur" or some buzzword like that. You've got a camera crew complete with lighting, sound and makeup filming the actors screw at some producer's vacation house and it's all done professionally but they try and make the final product look like it's just the actors and cameraman.
I am intrigued. Are the sessions publicly listed or do you attend them more or less randomly?
I spent years and years playing a MUD (Multi User Dungeon) trying to top the leaderboard. Once there, I couldn't stop. I kept going and going, until one day I overflowed the signed 32 bit int experience, and then promptly disappeared from the rankings.

That turned out to be a good thing. I lost most interest in advancing the counter...
Coinbase was founded in 2012, I'm sure they will be fine.
Techmoan is an amazingly soothing 'slow tv' channel in this regard.
I believe as long as you connect to WIFIs that are already geolocated by other people's phones, you are in.

Uncloaked WIFI probes also can expose you to stalker routers.
Spooky tales of testing in production
Well, data point of one here: my partner is an Asian man and I'm black ;)
This article then makes those trades more valuable, which gives an incentive to pursue fraud. It’s an interesting effect against the legal strategy to wear down claimants.
I also have auto-upload enabled, and syncing works perfectly whether I am on the same network or an outside network.

Perhaps the grandparent commentor is using an older version of the android client or server?
The original title was much better: Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret.
Compartmentalization has worked for intelligence agencies looking to stop their agents from putting the whole moral puzzle together.

Why not Google?
Given some results regarding brain damage we might just be rationalizing afterwards separate from the problem solving. Severed corpus callosum I believe it was.

Or that effect might just be how a brain keeps functioning after losing some pieces - better off evolutionarily have data integrity issues than shut down if a checksum fails.

I believe that ML can technically give you an answer but it ammounts to a summation of its training set and how it parses the data. Which isn't too readable to even mathematicians and leaves it vulnerable to stuff like adding a small pixel cloud to cause it to see a toy turtle as an assault rifle. Our errors certainly exist for visual processing but they tend to be more distorion than that.
Also because GPS is unreliable in cities with tall buildings that obscure the satellites. This is important in the case of needing to make a 911 call. I don't know what the laws are around mobile phones needing to be able to place a 911 call (I know you shouldn't have to guess a passcode to do it, or at least that used to be the case), but it's possible that some of these 'location-on' things are to comply with the law.
Well, it is non-public data. I once spoke with a lawyer to see if I could legally use location data to do the same thing (for instance, it’s easy to correlate changes in activity at certain retailers with quarterly earnings), and I was told it’s risky.
These support truncation better than coordinates. With coordinates, truncation indicates a different location, with these it indicates a larger area.
TorfluxDB: Anonymous metrics from Go
Interesting. While I know people could be jailed for most of history for basically no reason, I assumed civilization was collectively moving away from that. It seems to things more predictable if the law is on the books. Do you find my assessment is incorrect when I say that this is the state of US law today in my original reply?
U.S. intelligence sounds the alarm on the quantum gap with China
Advanced TypeScript tutorial – infer
Symbolic AI is machine programming. Connectionist AI is machine learning.

Machine programming simply does not scale. It is also not biologically plausible: it is not as if God put symbols into our brain, these formed, are prefaced by, and were learned from neural activity.

Just try to solve the spam problem using symbolic AI. It will keep you busy (and paid) for a long time, while yielding subpar results.

Deep learning is the most promising direction AI went into since a long time. Finding flaws in DL does not point back to a programmer crafting handwritten rules to correct it. It merely points to more DL research needed to have machines correct this themselves. Preferrably differentiable.
That sounds very much like the trickle-down argument, which has been proven false – if not directly harmful – many times over. Selfish behaviour run amok more often leads to rent-seeking and a stockpiling of resources at the top, with little benefit to the rest of society.
Personally, I would like to see a legislation similar to the Privacy Act of 1974 be passed that governs how cooperation's use PII:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974
Not being familiar with the term XNU, I did a little clicking around and hopefully I understand a bit better:

This file is evidence that Apple has been running iOS/MacOS on the Raspberry Pi 3?
Instances that don't police this get silenced or defederated. Much of the fediverse is made up of small invite-only instances that share information on bad actors like this. The bigger ones have mod teams and are generally run by people who don't equivocate on keeping bad actors to protect ad revenue.

edit: This is, at a minimum, a good experiment to see if these kinds of propaganda are inherent to social media or only possible because ad-funded silos are loathe to ban obvious bad actors and not enable them with their tools.

I'm on the side of blaming Facebook and Twitter. They didn't create propaganda, but they sure did make it cheap and easy.
Agreed. Once the taboo of violence against other officials in the state got broken, all hell broke loose.
Sadly, it is used for authentication sometimes. Name, PESEL and mother's maiden name is sometimes enough to authenticate on bank helpline.
Implementing ResNet with MXNET Gluon and Comet.ml for Image Classification
To be pedantic it's pricing not valuing. Price and value (and cost) are related but different concepts.
No, I didn’t graduate (in mathematics) until I was 49.
You would like to meet them? Go to a university, stand in front of them and ask to business student "who of you creates websites and programs in JavaScript?" if one or more hand(s) goes up, boom, found them.
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I subscribe to this post's message. I was reluctant at first, but after buying a pair of Sennheiser HD650 headphones and a Fiio E10K headphone amp/dac and I can definitely tell the vast improvement in sound clarity.
Well that's made me a bit more worried about my cornea transplant next year.
My hope is that FB takes this same approach to it's internal culture if there is an issue, perhaps I will be mistaken.

Yes, I think you're mistaken.

The reason why I think that is that we're not talking of a single whoopsie or two, but of a massive laundry list of moral and regulatory failures. This includes being a conduit for genocide for years, despite the fact of knowing it happening since 2013 and the fact that instead of cleaning up their act, hiring a black ops pr outfit to spread some vile, antisemitic shit on their oponents.

And there's so much more. For reference: Just check the list of "apologies" by Mr. Zuckerberg since 2008.

Management of this company is so rotten, foul and morally bankrupt that I just don't see anything changing anytime soon. Except, hopefully, their users voting with their feet.
Sounds great, prosecute for these major violations, not for breaking moral ideas the OP is referring to which I may or may not agree with. At least written laws are codified.
Fabian tactics didn't defeat Hannibal. Hannibal's Italian army was never defeated. Rome won the war by ignoring Hannibal and striking at Carthage directly. The threat to the homeland forced Carthage to recall Hannibal, leaving his best troops in Italy, to fight a losing battle with fresh recruits against Roman veterans in Africa.
I don't know.

To me, HN is a place where ideas are workshopped. If one is looking for accolades, Reddit might be a better forum.

I don't think I have any trouble with critical sentiments as long as they are correctly critical. Of course, too often they are not because some HN folks have an ax to grind, and to make things worse, they are misinformed because a little knowledge is a dangerous thing (pseudointellectuals). [1]

But at the same time, if people are not critically examining ideas, that almost defeats the purpose of this place. I've seen some really bad and incorrect ideas on Show HN that are given a pass due to lack of expertise and discernment on the commenters' parts.

Criticism, when done with civility with the intention to build up rather than tear down, can be a wonderful thing.

Also, despite its purported negativity, people still dip their toe in the comments sections from time to time, holding out hope for finding the one or two gems. For all its flaws, there's no other general forum on the Internet (that I know of) that congregates this level of intellectual ability mixed with technical expertise. (specialized forums notwithstanding)

[1] https://danluu.com/hn-comments/
I wonder if this relates to the arrest of Huawei's CFO. Maybe someone who knows about the Chinese court system can say more.
I believe it's possible to achieve the same level of life satisfaction by translating your experience of the world through a lens of gratitude and purpose. I've had opportunities to meet and get to know people with high net worth (mostly successful entrepreneurs) and people that willingly chose to live below the poverty line (religious devotees, teachers in poor communities, public advocates in poorly-funded non-profits, etc). I can't say one is happier than the other. Both require you to sacrifice things you might otherwise want. For the rich, that sacrifice usually takes the form of unstable family life (if any family at all) and alienated relationships with children because they work too much. For the poor, that takes the form of more immediate, material sacrifices like worrying about food, healthcare, and housing. But something both share in common is that they can be happy if they are grateful for what they have. Gratitude is a powerful thing.

Curiously enough, the least happy people I've met are the ones that fall into neither category. Enough money to feel safe, fed, and warm, but no direction or meaning in their life. They aren't sure what to do with themselves. Should they try for more money? Should they choose a less vapid career path? They can't give up the middle-class salary or the middle-class experience. It's very sad.
I followed the recent championship matches on chess24.com and was blown away at how compelling and engaging computers have made the game. There was a chessboard on the screen with the current board state and a computer analysis on the side estimating which player had the advantage and by how much. While waiting for players to move, I was able to test out my own ideas on the board of which moves I thought were best and see what the computer thought of them (every move I made pretty much threw the game to the opponent).

After losing to Deep Blue, Kasparov came up with the concept of "Advanced Chess," where players team up with a chess program of their choice to augment their play. At the time, a chess program with a computer coach was still superior to a chess program alone. That didn't last long, but I think Kasparov was on to something and I would love to see students paired up with open-source chess programs for tournaments that blend chess-playing proficiency with computer-programming.
Are these guys courting VC funding? This looks less like a feature their users actually asked for than a bullet point for a sales pitch.
Make a SUPER simple personal URL shortener with Netlify
> I can't believe color costs so much more

Color is lower volume, given that many books are text-only or just some line graphics, and do not need color. It's also more complex to print (I've seen some surprising failures from cheap color printing in the occasional project I've helped with) and thus also possibly has a higher rate of complaints. And since they do the same rate for everyone there's compensation for overly expensive projects in there too - if you have b/w with some color elements you pay the same rate as someone ordering full-page, full-color graphics.

With more flexible printers, it's common to arrange pages and images inside the book so only some sheets are expensively printed in color, but Amazon doesn't appear to be set up to offer that. With offset-printing, there's also things like using only one additional color instead of full CMY, or printing the color elements for all language editions the same and only varying the (black) text to reduce costs.
Oh, OK, sure. It sounds like the Szilard petition wanted to incentivize Japan to surrender by conceding to them some post-war self-determination. The US would not accept this -- which, I as I said, might have been immoral -- so, to me, the ambiguity of the surrender terms in the Potsdam Declaration is not really surprising or damning. If we can trust Wikipedia, Japan declined surrender even after the first bomb on Hiroshima in the hopes of striking better terms with the USSR.

For others, here are the relevant excerpts from the Szilard petition, which is quite short and worth reading in full:

> We feel, however, that such attacks on Japan could not be justified, at least not unless the terms which will be imposed after the war on Japan were made public in detail and Japan were given an opportunity to surrender....If such public announcement gave assurance to the Japanese that they could look forward to a life devoted to peaceful pursuits in their homeland and if Japan still refused to surrender our nation might then, in certain circumstances, find itself forced to resort to the use of atomic bombs....we, the undersigned, respectfully petition: first, that you exercise your power as Commander-in-Chief, to rule that the United States shall not resort to the use of atomic bombs in this war unless the terms which will be imposed upon Japan have been made public in detail and Japan knowing these terms has refused to surrender; ...

http://www.dannen.com/decision/45-07-17.html
>Seeing something is not the same as having enough information about that thing to avoid an accident.

I'm really confused by this thinking. If there is a blinking white light pointed at you it means the cyclist is on the other side of the road, traveling with traffic in the opposite direction. If it is blinking red then you are approaching the cyclist traveling in the same direction as you, on your side of the road. If you see both lights blinking, with the white light on the left, then the bike is traveling left across your direction of travel. White on the right for the opposite. What information am I missing here? I feel like any of these combinations should be enough for a driver to notice a cyclist and to give them a sufficiently wide berth.
Nice UX.

But it's terrible for search, both internal and external(Google).

Why ?

Let's start with internal search. Ctrl-f fails in thread search. No other mechanism to search inside a thread.

And about external search:

Permalinks to individual comments - great for the search engine when you request a very specific thing - a specific niche comment from this site could get ranked highly in google.

Also, it's making it easy to link to a great comment is import. Impossible here.

Permalinks to webpages that contain full threads - lots of relevant text for the search engine to chew on. But in flarum the content lazily loads. So maybe Google wouldn't be able to chew on all the comments.

And the fact that when Google finds a thread from the site, he doesn't say how many comments per thread , indicates that he doesn't see this as a forum, which could be bad

And all this is a real shame - it's a community with really valuable content.
Screen time changes the structure of kids' brains
Noob here woth a doubt:

“Incredible! We are exhaustively searching an uncountably infinite space in finite time”

Isn’t this like a long stretch? Once lazy evaluation is introduced he is pretty much checking until a first hit happens, isn’t he?

What would happen if I call the function with predicate
‘x == one AND x == zero’?
A handy list of USB-C monitors for Macbook. Couldn't find one so I made it
You need to have six months of buffer to have a low risk of disaster.

Nevertheless, the vast majority of people purchasing their first homes in Canada and the US do not have six months of buffer. No bank has ever denied my application for a mortgage for not having six months of mortgage and tax payments in a savings account. My government backs certain kinds of loans for first-time buyers, and it does not require this buffer.

So while I agree with what you're saying in a logical sense, in a practical social sense, you are asking the vast majority of people who buy their first home to pass on buying a home, in the face of all social evidence that seems to contradict your advice.

It's good advice of a sort, but recognize that this is not accepted wisdom. It's highly conservative and contrarian. Which is smart, but if you want people to embrace it, you'll need to wrap it in a lot of justification and other mechanisms for explaining why they should zig while all around them, people are zagging.

(FWIW, My very first real estate purchase was a loft condo where I actually had cash for the entire thing, but took out a small mortgage to kick-start my credit rating. It was paid off in two years. From that point on, I have not had six months buffer in cash, but I have had more than the nose-bleed minimums in equity, and that's another kind of risk management. So I do empathize with your message, but I suggest it needs a lot of selling to get people to adopt it in the face of a trillion-dollar industry convincing people otherwise.)
> they actually can freely introspect their thought process as part of their thought process.

Do you mean that they can in principle? I don't know existing systems, which can inspect their own weights and output a vector of confidence scores that they can recognize classes A, B, C, ...
Spherical coordinates systems are always a tradeoff between usability and simplicity.

Plus Codes are certainly simple, easier to calculate, and consistent, but UTM has clear advantages in that it utilizes a Mercator projection adjusted for the contour of the earth, so that distances remain close to scale within any given grid zone…

…except in Norway.

In Plus Codes, the scaling is lost, and the distance covered by coordinates of equal precision changes dramatically with latitude.

Of course, there is also the fact that the mapping ellipsoid used by UTM changed at some point, so old coordinates can be off by up to 200 meters compared to the current mapping. But the current system has been in use long since the advent of GPS, so it's really not an issue.
As someone with anxiety and eye problems, I'm not feeling great.
Your comment it out of touch.

The overwhelming majority of first time home buyers do not have enough cash on hand for a down payment and a 6mo long emergency fund. It's just not possible for most first time home buyers to amass that kind of cash in any reasonable timeline while paying for the existing roof over their heads. You save for a down-payment, blow your savings on the down-payment and closing costs then rebuild your savings over the next year or two while putting up with the increased risk as a result of less savings during that time. People buying their 2nd through Nth home can generally roll the money made on the sale of their own home into the down payment and closing costs of the home they're buying without obliterating their savings. Sure, it would be nice if everyone were wealthy enough to have a down payment and emergency fund but so long as renting is the financial equivalent of lighting your money on fire people will stretch themselves as thin as they need to in order to buy.
That's a start, but my concern is that the volunteer militia will get swamped and burnt out when the real attacks come.

Right now Mastodon and other ActivityPub platforms are too small for a Cambridge Analytica / Russian FSB or other similar caliber actors to bother with. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. are where most of the users are so that's where most of the effort will go.

If these platforms ever "tip" into mainstream adoption, prepare to be targeted by organized crime gangs running financial scams, nation states, corporate PR firms, and other organizations with hundred million to billion dollar budgets.

What I really wanted to do was to stress the fact that this is a battlefield. One of the trends I see in the early 21st century is the dematerialization of warfare. Wars can now be fought entirely online. Governments can be toppled. Economies can be destroyed. Corporations can be imploded. All this can be done with a mixture of cyber attacks and propaganda. As a result we are seeing the redirection of military budgets toward these things. The sort of spam and amateur brigading that most volunteers are used to dealing with on social forums and platforms is nothing compared to what the big social media platforms are facing now and that is nothing compared to what's coming. Billions of dollars are currently being spent by PR firms, advertisers, and governments to develop increasingly advanced AI and big data powered propaganda platforms to weaponize the Internet. In the future we'll probably see fully automated AI driven propaganda, what I've started calling "con artistry at scale."

Federated and decentralized platforms are very vulnerable in ways that silos are not, and this has to be thought about. It's easy to create quiet apparently friendly and normal Sybil nodes that passively suck down data and then use that data to mount active attacks from other directions. Volunteers may fight active attacks, but they may have no way of knowing which apparently normal nodes are actually passive participants in those attacks. Also keep in mind that "attacks only get better." With each attack the attackers learn, and it's generally easier to attack than to defend (in cyber-security in general, not just here).