skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excluding steganography, an eavesdropper will know if they're unable to understand your communications. What's important is that what they can glean isn't enough for them to be specifically motivated or able to harm you.

Being seen to be using a VPN only labels you as a VPN user. In China, the authorities dislike individual VPN use, and attempt to curb it with technical measures, but for the most part, they don't go around imprisoning people only for VPN use, because there isn't much expected gain to be had from the average VPN user.
Just ran across this when browsing HackerOne for fun last night. Bravo, great job!
> India got partitioned into 3 countries ...

This is a huge simplification of the history of the Indian subcontinent. The British are the architects of the new boundary lines, but they are also the architects of what is now a unified country, India. Indian subcontinent as a unified entity prior to the arrival of the British as a major colonizing force in India is a lie. India was quite divided before that, which made it easy for them to play their little game of "divide and rule".

None of this absolves them of responsibility, but this over-simplified statement irks me, as it is a gross misrepresentation of the politics of the Indian subcontinent prior to the British.
This in no way affects existing buildings and companies that value parking are still free to provide it.
To clarify, I'm not arguing against commit message bodies entirely. They're valuable and I write them regularly. Not for every change, but lots - maybe sixty - eighty percent.

I'm just saying that huge, multi-paragraph essays are often a sign you're putting information in the wrong place.

I should also add I'm a big believer in small, focused commits - I fairly often will have a branch that has a few hundred lines changed and twenty commits.

You make a good point about the issue tracker dying - I've worried about that but have yet to encounter it in practice. Reducing the impact of such an event is probably a good reason to denormalize a little there.
How does the difficulty of the trade imply the need for state enforced certification?

In my personal opinion, I'm happy to rely on the reputation of a branded salon/barber shop/individual stylist. I've had both good hair cuts and bad hair cuts from state certified barbers. As far as I can tell the state doesn't provide any value to me other than limiting my choices. To the extent we might be concerned about poor people cutting people's hair without the state's permission, and doing so with non-optimum sanitary practices... well... poor people are already doing this and it doesn't seem to be causing any real public health crisis. I say we give it a shot in some locales and see what happens.
Latest Facebook bug exposed up to 6.8M users’ private photos
> and the material harm

please, if there is provable material harm they can take it to civil court.
> Essentially this is just the city of Minneapolis making it harder for people to actually work in Minneapolis.

I'm pretty sure the idea is actually the exact opposite. Mandatory parking is expensive, this drives up the cost of housing. 2040 is about reducing the costs of housing and not making the same mistakes that San Francisco continues to make every day. 2040 is about getting ahead of NIMYism and making sure there is housing that is affordable inside the city so people don't have to drive from the suburbs.

>very few people actually live in downtown minneapolis.

This way people can live closer to work and not have to drive cars. Its more sustainable, its better for the environment, its better for people. So the idea is to change Minneapolis into a city where people do live downtown again.

> a commuter city

The result of terrible city planning starting in the mid century that is going to be expensive and difficult to undo. 2040 is a good plan that will fix this.
What you are saying about how Minneapolis currently works is true, but the car-dominated commuter culture is an unfortunate situation that will not change unless Minneapolis changes the incentive structures that made it this way.

Minneapolis proper needs more livable core communities that aren't dominated by cars and commuters. I'm glad they are taking these steps because even though you are right that it makes the status quo more difficult in some ways, the status quo is not good and makes Minneapolis much less attractive long run.
I believe you are quite foolish if you think an opportunistic power wouldn't invade if they had the opportunity.
> Expecting great rail, road, or internet service without paying high taxes and strong government involvement hasn’t worked out. Nothing in your post contradicts that.

All of the examples in my post are ones where "high taxes" aren't used to pay for infrastructure, or where "government involvement" is limited because infrastructure is managed by for-profit corporations. Stockholm doesn't have pervasive fiber because of "high taxes" (tax dollars were not used to build the network) or "strong government involvement" (while Stokab is owned by the city, it is a for-profit corporation and the city does not control its rate and expansion plans). Denmark's telecom system, likewise, is owned by a private company, was not built with public money, and is loosely regulated (Denmark got rid of its telecom regulator recently). Japan's railways (owned by private companies which mostly run at a profit), and London's subway (which breaks even through fare revenue) are examples of great infrastructure that are not the result of "high taxes" and "strong government involvement."

It's fair to point out that European systems aren't completely privatized and often receive subsidies. There is a spectrum. But the U.S. is generally on the left-side of that spectrum. U.S. passenger rail is almost entirely government-owned, government-run, and heavily subsidized. New York receives half its budget from taxpayer funding, for example.

Europe tends to be further right on the spectrum. For example, in the U.K. a government agency owns most of the track, but private Train Operating Companies own the trains and provide service. And London's subway system receives all its funding from fares. You see high levels of privatization in the U.K., Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, etc. You also see multi-national competition--half of train operating companies in the U.K. are foreign firms; Deutsche Bahn subsidiaries operate passenger rail service in the Netherlands, etc. Can you imagine NY MTA opening up its network to competing operators from Europe? Now, European systems receive subsidies, for sure. But Deutsche Bahn at least runs an operating profit. U.S. rail operators universally rely on tax dollars just to meet their operating expenses (and rely on the government for all of their capital expenses).

At the other end of the spectrum, many Asian rail systems receive few subsidies, and are mostly responsible for their own capital expenses. Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore systems are operated (and often owned) by private companies, and run a significant profit.
The topic is inflammatory, which means flamebait guarantees flamewars. The comment was flamebaity in the ways I described. It's possible to write about these things in a less flamebaity way—that's just not the style people reach for by default on the internet. I agree with your second sentence btw.
In the USA, Internet access is a luxury entertainment product. It is not a public utility, as you seem to be thinking of it. I'd argue it absolutely shouldn't be a luxury entertainment product, but our law is carefully constructed to ensure that it remains as such. This actively prevents government considering too deeply the idea that citizens need or should have access.
Driving is not like cutting hair at home.

I can drive a car in public and kill other people, not only my own family. Considering how safe cars are today it's even more likely my family will be safe while I kill other people.
speaking as someone who works in a small town in the midwest as an auto mechanic, the people that shot themselves in the foot with this idea were the very ones who proposed it.

I got 5 months of free online Python classes from the local government. This was part of some larger state plan to 'revitalize' us as a 'web 2.0' something or other for the 'silicon valley' of the midwest. The whole thing read like snake oil but I learned some pretty good skills in python and a lot more about Linux than I knew before.

Our state has these lofty goals but couldnt attract more than a mega-truck-stop diner in the past 8 years. The reason for this is that unless you have a winning complexion (are white and male) you arent going to have a lot of fun here.

Want birth control? well thats a 2 week waiting period and a mandatory consultation. Did you run out? well you have to renew that script every month. Want it covered by your insurance? tough, legally, our state outlawed that. Need an abortion? book a flight, we require a trans-vaginal ultrasound and a waiting period.

Are you LGBTQ? enjoy our bathroom law. adoption providers can also legally discriminate against you for even asking to adopt. theres also no protections in the workplace, so enjoy being fired for "gay."

Are you a blue-collar minority? Unless you know exactly when and where to go to get a license, then voting is practically impossible. our bowling alleys and food courts/theaters also enforce a dress code thats loosely translated to "no blacks."
I leave that game to Figma :)

I do work on a design product and my first target platform is the browser. Cheers ;)
HIPAA only carries criminal penalties when someone knowingly discloses covered information

This is false.

Source: Works for a company that has mandatory HIPAA training for every employee every six months.
In the last ten years I have also seen 'backplane' be:

* A protocol for helping web widgets on a page communicate and share data https://openid.net/wg/bp/ . We used to support it at Livefyre to interop with certain Janrain products, but the ecosystem wasn't so big at the time. It wasn't under OpenID at the time.

* This roller coaster of a
social network startup https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/06/the-backplane-black-box/
Switzerland to test ‘hyperloop’ train technologies
I think the part you quote is very poorly written. But from the rest of the article seems like the specific ways in which Sketch was "better" was by being cheaper and simpler, and catering to a motivated subset of users (the Mac design market).

So classic Innovator's Dilemma stuff, really.
I just spent som time going through this.

The relevant rfc and drafts perhaps?
https://tools.ietf.org/wg/oauth/

Also checkout OWASP
https://www.owasp.org/

If your implementing openid connect, use a certified lib
https://openid.net/developers/certified/
Visualizing the History of Fugazi
That particular argument isn't really sound, because the question is one of magnitude. However it still isn't obvious why China should enforce US IP law if it doesn't want to.

IP is the ultimate human creation, it has no basis in the physical world. If pretending ideas are property puts China at a disadvantage there isn't a moral or practical reason to do it.
good point.

Vanguard has a pretty good reputation regardless of it's company structure. I'm not so trusting of some other financial firms.
I was good friends with a stylist. She told me the training she received and it's pretty in depth. Cutting hair involves a lot more than operating sharp objects within an inch of another person's head.

Most of their income comes from dying, high-lights, etc, which involve applying harsh chemicals to another person's hair. They need to understand what can be mixed safely and how to identify issues. Plus there's the whole sanitation aspect.

Even the person who wipes your butt in a hospital has more training than a stylist.
Applied Category Theory Seminar
Bs. Asians eat out all the time. It is the type of cuisine and establishment one decides to eat at that makes a difference.
If they flew through rain it might wash the blood away.
>Adobe's pricing is just off from other professional tools.

Adobe's pricing is just in line with most professional software. AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Vectorworks all cost a similar amount of 1000s of dollars.
Frozen or canned is not always as good for you as fresh, depends on the produce. So access to fresh is still good.

There's also a bathtub curve I think. Bulk carrots, onion, potatoes, and celery are cheap. But as you move up the scale it starts to be not-cheap, with spices, shallots, olive oil, garlic, leafy greens, organic anything (which has been shown to be healthier long term). I cook from scratch and shop savvy but, perhaps partly due to cuisine and partly caloric needs, struggle to keep it in the $300/mo range I hear some couples and small families manage.
Calcutta was a tiny village when the British arrived.
>they aren't guiltless either

How is the bill's author/sponsor at all to blame for centurylink doing this? They could just as well be doing this without the bill existing.
If you invest in public transit then it will be fine.
in the distant past, China's silk industry tried to prevent the knowledge of silk making from spreading outside of China. and China's tea growers tried to prevent the exportation of Chinese tea plants.

ultimately, neither of these efforts succeeded.

but it is evidence that people and industries in China truly do understand the notion of protecting trade secrets, IP, etc.
> If it becomes more common, it might eventually become less damaging.

I mean that's like saying if a huge percentage of Americans have been arrested then it might eventually become less damaging; that happened, and it has become less damaging, but at the end of the day it's still extremely damaging.
No laws are written in a vacuum. Century Link most likely even participated in having this law drafted. No doubt they have lawyers in every state capital watching for laws that affect their business.
So basically regulation that impacts them directly or materially?

The ideal of some arbitrary cut off point has been tried in lots of scenarios, and is gamed by all parties.

Example: Copyright will protect new works for x years, at which point Disney lobbies for the arbitrary goal posts to be moved.
It can’t be engineered, it can only be enforced. There have to be rules against these kinds of storms and those rules have to have some sort of effect. Social media platforms have to be actively moderated. There is no alternative to this. Having rules and enforcers is how we deal with negative behaviour everywhere, because that is the only thing that works. People’s lives are meaningfully impacted by these things to the degree that they, if perpetrated by an individual, would be considered a crime. Something will have to be done to temper the crowd.

Of course I’m willing to be proved wrong about that if anyone has an example of people collectively being good and self-moderating.
The tldr section of the article says that's not the case.
This is an exciting work.

Gradient noise scale would be interesting to compute individually for each weight/bias. I'm curious how it scales as a function of layer depth, for example -- it could well be that different layers require very different treatment in terms of learning rate. Supporting this is that gradient magnitudes are typically very different for different layers, although they evolve similarly in time. Here's something I just whipped up in Mathematica:

https://imgur.com/a/HhCnlDL
Smart thinking. Similarly, I would not travel to China if I am big into research or am C-level. In case they want to respond in kind.
the same "eye for an eye" goes for "if you have nothing to hide" - well then, you first

You misunderstand what "eye for an eye" means.

"Eye for an eye" means let the punishment fit the crime.

Before "eye for an eye" was established by religious texts, the common retaliation for poking someone's eye out was death.

"Eye for an eye" was a step towards a more civilized justice system.
I really like Daniel's writing and exposition of the area. There are, however, a number of assumptions here which don't hold for what he calls 'partitioned consensus' systems. The whole article is written with Calvin and Spanner in mind.
We, however, build our platform on a 'partitioned consensus' system that is built on a fully 2-phase commit DB, NDB, with a transaction coordinator at every node. It doesn't fit in his model - cross-partition transactions across availability zones on google cloud take just a couple of milliseconds - nowhere near the "10ms for single-region deployments" that he claims. He assumes partitions have a leader, which again is not true for NDB. But, he knows this - as Spanner is the competition, not NDB.

NDB's concurrency model is "lock-aware programming". You, as a programmer, decide whether you need to lock a row for writing or reading or whether you don't need a lock at all. Calvin serializes transactions for you, which is great, but you pay the price in terms of scalability (nowhere near NDB) and latency (nowhere near NDB). Spanner is a global OLTP DB, which is not comparable to NDB or Calvin.
Rizzke keep on trucking - congratulations on starting your journey. It's the road that'll make you, not the destination. Learn, do, rinse, repeat.

P.S. Thank you dgivney. You know what for.
Fidelity CMA balances are swept into FDIC-insured bank accounts. One trick with this account is that you can purchase Fidelity Money Market funds, which are treated as cash, and which Fidelity will auto-liquidate as-needed to cover debits, without intervention on your part. You can select any Fidelity Money Market fund for this. SPRXX, for instance, currently pays 2.09%. Plus you get a debit card that refunds any ATM fee in the world, free wire transfers, bill pay, paper checks (if needed), and competent customer service that's available 24 hours per day.
China's approach to nuclear isn;t just environmentalism. It is largely a national pride project. Fission is an area of science that china knows it can excel in because, frankly, the west isn't doing much. I applaud china's efforts. I think we need fission energy. But I worry national pride isn't reason enough to maintain the program indefinitely. Coal prices are dropping. Will china continue to roll out fission reactors if/when coal falls off the price cliff?
> Nuclear fusion is probably still decades away.

I wrote that sentence in a 10th grade report on fusion, in 1977. Disappointing that it's likely still true four decades later. In another four decades it's up to you to make this comment.

On the other hand, so much has arrived that I never dreamed of in high school, though I consumed scifi obsessively. Not sure I'd swap the internet for cheap fusion energy. But not sure I wouldn't.
I've snowboarded for years and I still get up toe-side! It's way easier in general and also easier to keep my toe-side edge dug in so that I don't start sliding before I'm ready. It's been way too long since I've snowboarded anywhere, hope I can get out there at least once this season.
The combination of both Windows and Lightroom being so incredibly buggy has pushed me to Linux last week. Previously I couldn't make the switch because I couldn't work the same way. But changing from 'work the same way' to 'achieve the same output' in my mind has meant I have been able to make the transition.
Sure, living in a city drives me crazy.
I find this unique trait of the Internet tiresome at times. I’d prefer not to feel like I have to include a disclaimer on a question comment to avoid coming off hostile.
iOS Developer, ex-skater, and snowboarder here.
Skating is much more technical than snowboarding. There are many variations of the same trick as well as the entire flat-ground realm of skating. However, I have taken my worst bails snowboarding. The terrain park is on a different scale of "bigness" than a skatepark, creating more potential risk.
A big portion of fault lies with the consumer. If 20% of CenturyLink customers canceled their service for a week in a very publicized way, CenturyLink would scramble.

For example, they could all wear yellow vests and block the entrance to the CenturyLink parking lot.
> keeping clocks in sync is nontrivial.

masterful understatement imo
Yeah, definitely not fun for those impacted.

In my eyes it's evidence that you definitely shouldn't bet your company on a startup unless you have a backup plan that you can implement quickly or the benefits are massive (ie: the reward is worth potentially losing your business). Larger companies also kill products but they tend to give a lot more heads up.
Sounds like you're suggesting we take no action when law violations happen.
Not everyone wants to be ‘richer’. That economists push that idea begs the question. I’m not placing a value judgement on either worldview, just pointing out that in one worldview, there’s an assumption of constant growth. I happen to fall into this worldview, but I’ve grown an appreciation for those who don’t. Unbridled growth = cancer.
I consider the goal of scoping styles is to not require overriding styles, in which case the order shouldn't matter... perhaps that's not practical in all cases but it's worked for me so far.
Apparently they purposely called it a "checking & savings" account because they were well aware that technically it is neither a "checking" nor a "savings" account and that a "checking & savings" account does not really exist to protect themselves from accusations of false claims...
Uh, bullshit? Thousands of components? Yeah, okay. You create a single new component for every permutation, route, and derivation? Where are these projects with thousands of components? What open-source projects can we use for reference? Are they all commercial and therefore private? That'd be convenient wouldn't it? Bootstrap lists 21 individual ones, not counting layout, content, utilities, or other classes.

Lets say you have a SaaS project with a couple hundred individual routes, and you count them as individual components, you still haven't reached the magnitude you're talking about.
Skated regularly for 31 years, in many countries, with thousands of others. Skateboarders are not nerdy.

The accessibility of skateboarding puts it leagues ahead of an expensive sport possible only in certain locations at certain times of year.
I was plowing with horse when I was 5 years old in 1995 in south-east Poland. This is when we switched to self-made tractor and anyway farm was gone in 2000s when my grandpa stopped to care. Things changed a lot but south-east outside cities is still relatively poor.
Ok, they install applications. I thought the context was clear enough that software would be understood in the intended way. And yes, you're right that installing, say, Ubuntu isn't particularly difficult. It does entail more 'risk' than installing Chrome, since you could wipe out your existing OS and/or data/home-directory unintentionally if you're not careful.

> Consider that part of the reason Linux Desktop has failed to gain any traction is people like you who would rather imagine that everyone not using their favorite software is just too inept to do so.

I never said that they were too inept to do so (I think we agree that it's really not that difficult even for a non-techy person), just that they don't. I think it's fairly clear that ordinary people don't install OSes (again, not that it would actually be difficult for them to do so, just that they don't).
Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person
Even if they did consult specialized lawyers, you don't really know if it works until there's an adjudication.

Unless they worked with the SIPC up-front to ensure that these funds would be covered, and that the SIPC actually, you know, has the means to cover them, then the only way account holders are going to find out if their are protected or not is in the aftermath of a crisis, after a long and drawn out lawsuit.

When I saw the headline, I thought about signing up but hadn't gotten around to reading the fine print.

Glad I didn't waste my time.
This kind of scaling was rigorously shown for a related metric called "gradient diversity" in https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05699