skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More info.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson's book, "THE FAT OF THE LAND": https://web.archive.org/web/20180802084820/http://highsteaks...

Vilhjalmur Stefansson's coverage of the same topics from Harper's Monthly Magazine, November 1935:

- Part 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20180109155358/http://www.biblel...

- Part 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20180104021843/http://www.biblel...

- Part 3: https://web.archive.org/web/20171206075942/http://www.biblel...

The Harper's Magazine articles cover the same ground as the book but are better written in my opinion.

Also note: I am not associated with any web site.
you know what is worse than inferior cryptography? no cryptography. security is a human problem and people like me needs a well supported tool with lots of tutorial and plugins for almost every application and a manageable sets of quirks.

I agree that the illusion of security has drawbacks, but so does using too many tools that you don't properly understand.
It depends if you are American or Chinese, really. Local authorities are more dangerous than remote authorities
There is nothing sad about it.

It's about time. Especially in countries that do not posses any reasonable ways of discarding the produced waste as well as countries that have other capabilities to generate power.

This tech IS dangerous. There WAS fallout and you can still find 9000Bq wild animals in the middle of Europe. Not even mentioning the cancer rates all over East Europe here.

So please spare us this overhyped new rush for nuclear.
I think this was going on with the mafia because the Italian legal system was conducive to it.
True, nefarious is a strong word.

Sounds like he thoroughly embarrassed the art world but I would reserve nefarious for a select group of serious crimes.
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No, that's the point. For long term encrypted storage, GnuPG is one of few options and perfectly good best practice.

Telling users that it's broken without pointing to a clear alternative is counter productive as they are likely to end up much worse.

A more modern KDF would be welcome, but it is also important to communicate the benefit to an end user: You get comparable security with a shorter password. There are other things to consider when choosing an encrypted file format.
Classic plagiarism on plagiarism: https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/the-ecstasy-of-influence...
> I didn't realize Zsh (and Bash) was capable of removing zero padding in that way.

Well, it's for transforming an integer in a different bases like octal, binary until base 24 (or more don't recall), but it can be abused to strip padding zeroes from variables. Using printf should probably be cleaner but usually I only recall the the C syntax...

I think I have parallel installed but I tend to use xargs out of habit, mostly because I was forced to use xargs in locked out production systems.

If the number of files wouldn't be so big, I'd simply expand them on ls and capture stderr:

ls {0001..0500}_A.csv 1> /dev/null

It's a little nosier with the error messages but it's fast. With 500 files I'm sure I'll exhaust the shell parse(?) buffer:

(ls {0001..0500}_A.csv 2>&1 1> /dev/null) | awk -F\' '{print $2}'

and too much complications to suppress stdout and pipe only stderr. ^__^;
The nuclear power dilemma
That makes sense if it’s a monopoly, but presence of many insurance carriers and variety of plans introduces some price checks.

Insurers routinely exclude drugs that they think are overpriced, they also switch to generics the day a drug goes off patent, sometimes forcibly.
>I'd much rather ...

How can you be sure that the NSA is any better than the chinese?
While I did not purchase the document, I did rely on famous economist Tyler Cowen to summarize it. I feel pretty comfortable with that decision as he's an SME.

> the 1% are mostly working people who supplement wage income with some kind of side business income. This is exactly what you would expect if you think about lawyers, doctors, software developers, consultants

This is.... not what I would expect, at all. If you told me my thesis was just wrong and that the 1% (not .1%) just made wage income, I could accept that. But- you think it's normal for highly paid professionals to work a self-employed side gig, and that's what tips them into that top percentile? Like, a Bain consultant is going out and doing some extra side consulting in her copious spare time outside of her 80 hour a week job? This seems bizarre & unlikely (I am just relying now on your interpretation of the paper).

Worth noting that high-earning doctors, lawyers, some developers can be self-employed, and so neither an employee or employer (especially for doctors I think that's the path to the highest income). Not sure how that factors in to the paper
Why would it change anything? Unless it's close to 100% compatible with GDPR it won't help. The reason sites are blocking Europe is that serving content to European users is too great of a liability compared to the amount of money they make. Unless the US one has basically the same terms, that liability is still going to be there.
He will end up in the rogues gallery.
I found the right person almost right away... during the free trial. I sifted though people in my area, contacted about 15 of them. Only about 3 wrote back and the first to do so was my top pick anyway. We arranged a phone meeting, then in person, then made a deal.

One thing I think helped is that I had a very complete profile along with a website and whitepaper. A lot of people there don't even put anything in their profile. Who would contact them?
> Right, it was, long before the ability to aggregate this information en masse existed.

No, it was not, please educate yourself:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide/

> The fundamental problem there is that there are people who want to kill other people because of their religion.

Yes, that is the fundamental problem. And technology makes that much easier to achieve. Of course the religious idiots in Algeria murder people. As do the religious idiots in many other places. But they tend to be a lot less effective than what can be achieved when one harnesses the engines of progress: industrialization and automation.

> Taking away information from them doesn't solve the problem, it just delays it a little. It's a form of security by obscurity.

That is dangerously naive. No, it does not 'just delay it a little', it is the difference between mass genocide and a slow trickle.

> If anything, they can still go and target the actual place of worship itself, which is not hidden.

They can and they do, but this is not about any adversary, it is about all adversaries and that includes the ones who would have zero compunction about going after places of worship and everybody who visits them. Now, given a bit of tech and a place of worship you can target all those who ever went there long after the fact even if they decide to stay away from the place of worship because they are on to the would be murderers.

> The larger point here, is that if we can't trust the authority figures, the government, the corporations, etc. It doesn't matter how well we hide.

If not for the ability of people to hide other people the number of Jews today would be substantially smaller than it is. Really, again, go and educuate yourself.

> The problem of a fascist government can't be solved by hiding.

No, but individuals can stay alive by hiding.

> It has to be solved by enacting a government that's not fascist.

Unfortunately Fascist governments will happen every now and then, saying that they shouldn't is denying the fact that they will, several countries are on the path to Fascism today, whether they will get there or not is anybody's guess. But if they do, I guarantee you that all this tech will make the next pogrom a lot more effective than the previous one.
Possibly, I used to work for a smaller ad company and one of the tests we did was random ranking of ads. Problem is that it can be a very expensive test to run so you wouldn't run it on anything except a tiny fraction of traffic.
>but forcing companies to use time and energy on privacy is super positive.

Until you find out that for some reason your country/region has far fewer strong internet companies than other regions of the world. Then you realize that you effectively shot your own economy in the foot.
Running my own server for occasional file transfer is when it becomes even smarter alternative to PGP, isn't it?
> Those costs are entirely political.

This is simply not true. There has been tremendous ongoing incompetence and mismanagement in the reactor construction process in recent years. You may blame regulation -- that's the goto excuse for pronuclear people to avoid coming to unpleasant conclusions -- but the problem is that reactors are complicated things, and reactors with safety systems are even more complicated things (and reactors without regulation are complicated things that will almost certainly fail in unpleasant ways.) Building complicated things is hard, especially if all the institutional knowledge of how to do it, and the supply chains for the parts, have decayed away.

The huge advantage solar/wind have is they are simple and scalable. Installations consist of thousands, or even millions, of replicated parts. Experience builds up rapidly as the same damned thing is built and installed over and over. Nuclear doesn't have that.
Exactly. People forget the role of IT ("data processing") at all of our peril.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
It doesn’t necessarily cause more suffering. The only thing it necessitates is more death. Suffering of livestock is not a given, though it’s very likely.
No, it's actually a terribly polluting and inefficient mining process. Only a tiny fraction of what is dug up is usable. It requires many (even more toxic) steps in order to turned into fuel. There's a good documentary about uranium tailings and how they pollute the local water permanently.

Besides, there isn't enough uranium in the world to provide baseload nuclear power that would replace coal.
Given some people commenting how they liked the screen names and anonymity of irc, it's hard to see telegram being a replacement with its requirement for a phone number identifier
Why do you think you can trust the people that handle the data just because it's illegal to do something in Europe? If the entity running the website or handling the data is outside of EU jurisdiction then they can take all of your data and there would be no repercussions for them. It's also possible that you agree in some step to having your data used or your data falls under one of the exceptions. GDPR is feel-good legislation first and foremost.
> Where is Bill Gates putting all his money?

He has.... pledged to give 99% away to charity by the end of his & Melinda's life? I don't think 'foundation' in this case means what you think it means. It's not a secret tax dodge to pass it on to their children indirectly, their heirs will get very little
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Deep learning applications in drug discovery and protein structure analysis
Amazon has emailed me multiple times to answer questions about an item I never bought (in the email they literally say "as the owner of" which I'm not). If they can't even get that right then I suspect they have a lot of data quality issues which would result in bad predictions.
This drives me crazy, this all stems from Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan. We have no idea what JP or his daughter are actually eating. This is the smallest sample size of anecdotes. The fact that this diet has gotten this much attention is absurd.
I'm curious, who do data brokers sell this data to, and how is it eventually used?

For instance, if they know where I live and who my family is, do real estate companies buy data of people that died recently to contact my family and get a deal on my house?
Putting on my conspiracy hat, blocking the global web from within Russia would also make it easier to have huge sweeping "purges" toward targeted groups, without Western interference.
I used it as my primary home machine for half a year or so back in c. 2013. I dreaded running pacman -Syu. It seemed like every time, some package required my attention to keep working.
By the way, in signal processing that’s an example of an IIR filter, but that particular filter is also referred to as an exponential moving average (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average) and is a really key tool in statistical process control and other kinds of “industrial” mathematics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWMA_chart). It has effectively the same purpose — remove fine detail (“high-frequency noise”) from a time series.
I've blocked reddit some time ago on all of my devices, what events happened that the post is referencing at the start?
It probably isn't meant to be punitive, just a deterrent. A 5p charge for plastic bags cut the usage massively in the UK.
> My health cares not for your wife's education.

From all I've seen nutritional sciences barely qualify as a science given the large corpus of falsehoods produced by it, even in recent years. (Remember cholesterol in eggs?)
I wrote about this relatively recently, basically there’s now enough data and enough good systems out there that companies can start predicting what you’ll do next.

This has been a thing since credit scores. However, now it’s to the point they can even mimick your voice and predict how you’ll respond to situations.

We are walking dangerously and blindly into a nightmare right now, and no one seems to realize it.
How much did you take Chicago cabs? It wasn’t great. Broken seat belts. Cabby talking on speakphone entire trip. Skip stop lights. A few extra turns to add some distance.
> This isnt a nothing to hide argument because there is fair trade of information

You can have the one with or without the other.

> Also the information is not publicly available

Until the next hack or subpoena.

> And the counter argument is an FUD theory that all information should be banned because it can potentially be misused

That is nonsensical and a strawman argument to boot.
Owsley "The Bear" Stanley (legendary SF producer of acid and sometimes sound engineer for Grateful Dead) was huge all-meat guy.

http://highsteaks.com/carnivores-creed/owsley-the-bear-stanl...

Stayed healthy till his death in a car crash at 76.

A fun story here:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/uncle_johns_ham_the_grat...
Flag won't make it better. If user needs to run own server, it kills the only advantage in comparison with PGP - relative simplicity.
I've been looking for an open source graph nosql style database that makes it easy to do gather-scatter on a GPU. It's been tough.

Plug: some people are working to fork/restart Blazegraph development, which is the database Amazon took to make Neptune. Its GPU features are missing, as they were originally kept proprietary. If you have any interest and know how, this could be an exciting project to contribute to!

https://github.com/blazegraph/database/issues/86
Was he murdered?
You can put the mouse off-screen and continue forever, but anyway nice game!
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Native speaker here. You sign in when you arrive at a fitness club, or when you take your child to daycare. It's a regular, reoccurring action that you use to indicate you've arrived. I wouldn't normally use sign in for a hotel visit since it's not normally reoccurring; you check in to a hotel, not sign in. Sign in would be appropriate if the hotel had a policy of asking you to sign every time you enter or exit (to keep a minute to minute record of when you're in your room). I've never seen a hotel that does this though.

By the way, this is why an English speaker would say "sign in to a website" but not "check in to a website". Check in is generally a non reoccurring action.
I'd add to that the astronomical costs of decommissioning (always passed on to ratepayers) and the fact that nuclear is basically uneconomic. It requires enormous subsidies and always goes over budget. Perhaps most disturbing is the aging fleet of nuclear plants we already have in the country, almost all of them way past their designed lifetimes. This is a recipe for accidents.

I notice that no one brings up that all recent plant construction in the US has been cancelled except one -- which could get killed any day. And no new nuclear plants are planned or proposed for the US.
I was pleased to notice that the author used DuckDuckGo search link in their article instead of Google.
In general, when you're in the majority this information doesn't matter much since you're washed out among the crowd. When you're in a minority however it can be used for nefarious purposed by the right group. For example, the KKK may like to know all the black people who live in predominantly white neighborhoods so they can set a few crosses on fire. Or maybe, you live in a fundamentalist Christian town and prefer your neighbors not know you're not actually Christian since they'd harass you (and the cops would help).
I actually had this happen to me with my first submitted paper as faculty. Its actually a pretty common practice. I'm so happy to have left science...
The beauty of RDF is it can support schema promiscuity i.e. you can have many schemas for your same data. You can do that with OWL. In typical graph databases you are fixed on nodes, properties and edges, but in RDF you can choose what should be node and properties arbitrarily. My issue with RDF has been performance works great for categorical, relationship heavy data, but not so much for numerical data.
As an American, I'd rather be spied on by the Chinese than by my own government. The Chinese government has fewer ways they can use my data against me. Add in the fact that Huawei products are cheaper, and I'll be buying Huawei products for the forseeable future.

Privacy IS something I'd be willing to pay for, but that's not an option. If the US government and corporations wanted me to trust them, they shouldn't have spied on our communications at every turn and then attempted to silence every whistleblower. The US calling out Huawei on security concerns is obviously the pot calling the kettle black, and I don't think many people internationally will be persuaded.

Any government could make a serious play for privacy by making some privacy laws with civil and criminal penalties for violation, and protections and rewards for whistleblowers. But as things are currently, lack of privacy comes standard with communication devices from any country, and Americans calling Huawei out for it is just inane posturing.
Closed-door meetings on unions preceded Amazon's withdrawal
If rules are enforceable on users of the system, you have too much authority in it, it cannot realistically be called a decentralized system. It's irrelevant if it happens to be a peer-to-peer system without a single point of failure on some level.
Pro tip for vegans or veggies taking B12: chew the pill before you swallow. You’ll absorb more, according to “vegan for life” by Norris and Messina (which seems pretty well referenced).
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> Why do you think you can trust the people that handle the data just because it's illegal to do something in Europe?

Why do you think you can trust people not to do illegal things just because they're illegal?

> GDPR is feel-good legislation first and foremost

I guess that's true, I do feel pretty good about it.
> You can have the one with or without the other.

then that is not fair trade

> Until the next hack or subpoena.

here, the FUD again

> That is nonsensical and a strawman argument to boot.

if something doesnt make sense i can explain. where is the strawman/
I suspect car companies will move in at that point to disintermediate the ride companies, possibly spinning up subsidiaries using fleet purchasing to get around their dealership networks.

It's just as easy to rent a self-driving Camry from Toyota.

Oh and then there's the thing where Google and Apple and probably a hundred startup hopefuls scraping APIs will try to disintermediate them at the device.
Have mentioned it before. Watch any recent videos of Yuval Noah Harari and he almost always talks about the concept of 'The Hackable Human'. Forget about what data they have. Soon they will know more about you than you do. It has far reaching effect but let's hope humans find a way to keep outsmarting technology.
AFAIK, none of these studies have been done on humans.
The CIS benchmarks are a great place to start for hardening a system (https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-benchmarks/) and there's also OpenSCAP gives you a nice way to scan systems for compliance against a set of hardening rules (https://www.open-scap.org/).
I pretty much only eat meat and bread. I’ve only eaten vegetables a handful of times in my life, usually because my parents were forcing me when I was young. It’s not so much a conscious choice as just who I am, I personally find vegetables pretty gross.

Though it’s not really about vegetables either I think I just have some weird food phobias: I don’t like my food to touch, I only eat ‘plain’ things, I need my food to be homogenous (like smooth salsa vs chunky salsa).
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> Unfortunately Fascist governments will happen every now and then, saying that they shouldn't is denying the fact that they will, several countries are on the path to Fascism today, whether they will get there or not is anybody's guess. But if they do, I guarantee you that all this tech will make the next pogrom a lot more effective than the previous one.

And, unfortunately, information such as what religion you are can and will be recorded. Even if it's just someone standing outside a place of worship and watching who goes in and out or the records of the church/synagogue/mosque etc itself. Saying that it shouldn't is just diverting resources into a futile attempt to stamp out information that cannot be contained.

Fascist governments don't just "happen", they are not a force of nature like a hurricane or an earthquake. They are a result of conscious decisions by human beings, which are within our power to control.
The hardware replacement cycle is much longer than you’ve implied. Servers I am building today will still be TCO-positive for 15 years. In 2010 Google data centers would still have been full of their first generation dual-socket Opteron machine.
> here, the FUD again

It's only FUD if it does not happen.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/facebook-hack-affected-3-mil...

And tens of thousands of other examples besides that one.

> if something doesnt make sense i can explain. where is the strawman/

Nobody said 'all information has to be banned'. You made that up.
Originally this was a trusteeship problem: the card-holders were the named beneficiaries of points schemes, but the cards belonged to the company.

So there's a pile of points growing, which must be accounted for in the balance sheet, but which are essentially worthless to the company. And being a trustee is a legal hassle nobody wants to deal with if they can avoid it.

So the companies just hand those points and rewards over to the employee contractually, which dissolves the trust (since the employee now beneficially owns and legally owns the points). Much easier. And you can spin it as benevolent generosity to boot.

(Of course, I am not a lawyer.)
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