skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Saying that it shouldn't is just diverting resources into a futile attempt to stamp out information that cannot be contained.

You can't stamp out information and you can't contain it. But you can create awareness of the effect of information in the aggregate and that is what this article is doing. You are taking the defeatist position that there is nothing we can do about this so we should all just fall in line and give up our data. I disagree.

> 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.

No, they are not within 'our' power to control. There were many 'good' Germans in WW II. And yet, their government happened and there wasn't a thing they could do about it.
I don't see how that's a good thing. If latency is a concern you can always inform the user what is causing slowdowns and let them decide whether the functionality is worth the cost or not instead of taking the choice out of their hand.

And even if we suppose that it is a reasonable policy for a moment, it's still not all that relevant since we're not talking about the apple ecosystem here in the first place.
Those people have to put a lot of work to make sure decentralization actually happens, to incentivize others to make and promote other implementations, etc. But they don't even want to talk about it. They want everyone to use the thing they control. There is no decentralization here at all.
FYI, Neptune is based on Blazegraph. Amazon's acquisition of Blazegraph halted the database's open development. I'm sure they would welcome interested contributors: https://github.com/blazegraph/database/issues/86
if you encrypted it with a public key then you also need a signature, I am not sure what the parent meant though.
Global Business Summit to Address Challenges of a World in Transition
Reads like an advert.. for nuclear power

All this advert talks about is coal and gas being bad news for the environment.

Frankly if nuclear power is more expensive than renewables then it should go the way of coal and gas which it is more expensive than as well (ie gotten rid of)
AI Can Predict the Survival Rate of Ovarian Cancer Patients
Show HN: Multi-class classification from scratch in pure Python
> Those days are gone.

9130 webpages agree with you.
Well, it's nice when phone is considered secure channel. It's not so for many serious applications, however. PGP invented to deal with situations when you communication channels are untrusted. See, no one says your software is bad, but when it is marketed as a better alternative to PGP it's not true, and worse, it's absolutely irresponsible thing to do.
If you read my comment in context, you'd see that I'm stating problems with the (now hypothetical) situation where Amazon does come to NYC.
Google Research Planet
Decision matrices can be very useful to take rational decisions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_matrix

However indecisiveness is usually due to anxiety and other emotions.
If it becomes burdensome to the point of impacting one's life it needs professional help from psychology.
Object Oriented C: Methods
None of this is theoretical.

- There is a constant reference to how India was such a great and wonderful country and the only problems we have are because of "foreign" influence and "invaders"

- There is an active "othering" of non-Hindus - more specifically Muslims and Christians.

- Anyone who speaks against this government (note: not against the nation) is painted as anti-national

- A bunch of industrialists have extraordinary access to corridors of power (Ambanis, Adani etc) and they are utilising this power to subvert every process.
Unless you audit the source of every piece of software you use as well as that of every compiler used in making their binaries, you aren't in a position to make that sort of absolute statement. OSS has benefits but for most users they are delegating the code review to someone else, which makes it very similar to proprietary code.

There is an argument to be made about motives with free vs non-free software, but open vs closed source is for most people much less important.
I think we are talking about the same issue in different ways.

What’s clear is that this is either about internal efficiency at JPMC or marketing hype. This has no benefits for retail banking customers, unless JPMC provides new benefits (cheaper transfers). It certainly is not transformative to retail clients.
Whenever I read mention of Neptune, I feel obligated to mention Blazegraph, which Amazon based Neptune on.

As I've shamelessly advertised elsewhere in these comments, Blazegraph is in the early stages of a fork and/or reboot, as Amazon's acquisition severely hampered progress on the open source project.

https://github.com/blazegraph/database/issues/86
I once read that Michael Porter, in Harvard's Business School, looked over the fence into the Economics department, took what they said about monopolies, and repackaged all of the downsides of monopolistic behaviour into "Strategy".
Also, if you're sending an encryption key you have to make sure it's a good key, ie generate it from a reliable source of random and with a sufficient length, whereas magic wormhole's password is automatically generated for you.
> Is it creepy when brands pester you on social media?

Used to be, but now I got used to it
This book will probably extend your lifespan by much longer than it takes to read. https://charleseisenstein.org/books/the-yoga-of-eating/
but then also the new systems would not work for them.
i believe we disagree on whether state should serve the people or the other way around.
I don’t see what Jordan Peterson gains by lying. If anything it’s just another thing people can use to attack him.
Are there any hearing aid manufacturers taking this approach? Quite incredible.
I actually found out about Neptune through finding out about Blazegraph. Do you know what's happening with the Blazegraph project now?

Just followed your link and saw this comment from one of the original authors in Jan: https://github.com/blazegraph/database/issues/86#issuecommen...

Since Amazon is effectively selling machine time to run Neptune with no cost for the db, wouldn't it be excellent if the original author and team continued to contribute to Blazegraph. I'm not sure if the linked note is a potential nod in that direction or not. (We have customers that also want to have on-prem deployments, which you obviously can't do with Neptune)
The technology behind OpenAI’s fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained
Yes, I was indeed making a point about the actual conditions of farmed animals; not an abstract one about what may hypothetically be possible. I do consider what happens in the world to be more relevant here, than what we imagine could be happening.

Death, even if painless, is usually something we prefer not to have happen to us, most of the time.
Still a bit creepy, but I enjoy Wendy's trolling:

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/1...

https://cdn.funpic.us/wendys_tweets_are_great-47-242772.jpg

Edit: If they do ever bag on you, though...ask how they make the chili.

Any questionable patty from the grill goes in a unrefrigerated pan, all day long. Then, they mix in the beans/sauce and freeze it for 30 plus days. It's a notable exception to their militant "never frozen", "fresh", schtick. Odd, since the burgers are actually done well, and are fresh.
No mention of shipping off logs to another place? It's probably good to assume someone will gain access and make after-the-fact forensics a primary concern as well.

Something a lot of hardening guides seem to skip!
I never have problems with 1Password and login screens split into two or even 3 screens (for MFA). Just sayin'.
Just a story of one, but here goes:

Back in the 90's, my parents were making a purchase with a card, and the cashier told them that the machine was down, so he had to take a copy of the card to run it later. A quick swipe of their card throughv something that impressed it on carbon paper and off they went.

Not long after, police showed up at their door informing them that said cashier's apartment had been raided and a whole stack of copies of cards had been found; for every one he made for the store he kept one for himself.

Mind you, this was before ubiquitous cell phones, internet access, and way before chips in cards for encryption. Whether a similar tactic could work now I have no idea.
BlueHatIL talks
I don't see how giving a private entity direct claims on tax revenue serves the public's interest.
I thought it was hilarious they were paying Zuck to show me dishwasher soap and basketball ads when I didn't own a dishwasher and don't care about sports. Then I quit, because facebook is evil garbage which wastes my time.
In the end, something was done about it, was it not? Germany is not currently fascist, so clearly it is within the power of humans to reverse it.

Yes, it wasn't easy, but hopefully we have learned something from the last time that we can use to make it easier the next time?

If it is not within our power to control...then how was it controlled? Did the Nazis just lose interest and give up?
Everyone's talking about publication count. Is the quality (influence, number of citations, any other relevant metric) of those publications really so irrelevant?
A couple of million people and their descendants would like a word with you.

It's all fun and word games until its your relatives that end up in a gas chamber somewhere. So yes, sure, 'something' was done about it. But that something did not magically resurrect the people that didn't make it.

And as for having learned something from the last time, it does not look like we have learned all that much.

> If it is not within our power to control...then how was it controlled? Did the Nazis just lose interest and give up?

I take it these are rhetorical questions that need no answer.
A PPP still leaves the public with a piece of infrastructure whose profits they have not been able to realize and cannot reinvest. The "future maintenance" also tends to have a sunset period.

Neoliberal schemes like this impoverish governments over time by selling off the country's wealth one project at a time. It doesn't actually make sense, it just looks good enough in the short run for politicians.
I don't think it's important to remember that in context of the G36. The gun basically doesn't work if you pop a couple of rounds through it, or if it's hot out. I'm certain it didn't pass any of their mil specs.
Do you mean through the dev tools? That would require me to leave the dev tools open while I browsed. I would also need to manually turn it on, which defeats the purpose of it being an automatic thing that interrupts an instinctual behavior.

I don't see an API anywhere that makes network throttling available to extensions, but let's assume Chrome adds one.

In that case, it still lacks granularity -- I only want to slow down some requests on some sites. One thing I've been thinking about doing if I turn this into its own extension is having it respond to your aggregate time on a site. So the more time you spend on a social site, the slower it gets, but if it's been closed for a while it starts to "recharge" and speed up again. In particular I'm thinking about that for sites like Twitter, where I don't mind checking it so much as browsing it.

There's a lot of interesting stuff that's possible with the current API that can't be replicated by just saying, "slow down everything across the board."
Kingdom of Women
is he a serial prisoner now?
This at least is just them being on social media. The article is about brands soliciting folks online in a clearly automated way with basically no personality.
Speaking from experience, Starcraft 1 or Warcraft 3 ship with easy to use world editors.
When you choose to call out a person/company (good or bad) in an electronic public square, I think it's fair for other people/companies to jump into the conversation if they so choose.
Wasn't aware they could accidental fire that easily! That sounds like a massive design defect.
Yes it is creepy. However, broadcasting to the internet and not expecting a reaction is naive.
Mr. Bean“ Rowan Atkinson to Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill. (DeepFake)
oh, that's good to know. Thank you, this will make Microsoft logins much more bearable.
That was an interesting read, thank you.
Reminds me of folks that were convinced Hunger Games was a copy of Battle Royale.
Ryan Reynolds Becomes Hugh Jackman and Hugh Jackman Becomes Ryan Reynolds
A brand cannot pester you on social media. An employee at a company who owns or represents the brand can.

What's creepy is when an employee acts like they have no autonomy or personality beyond the brand.
Yes we do it is called placing import duties to increase the price to match local prices.
Why though? We don't know what the Chinese will do, but we're somewhat informed what the US will.

Sure: the Chinese might be much worse. But they might also not be. So far, I haven't heard of intensive drone usage by the Chinese to bomb weddings half way around the world.
Facebook moderators are in revolt over 'inhumane' working conditions
Funny typhus and hepatitis A outbreaks and rivers of human waste from the tent cities only seem to happen in California.
Its hard, atheists generally don't care and won't try to convert anyone. But every religion created by man is about spreading the message to the heathens. If you're Christian you simply cannot accept atheism.
Blazor: Using C# for client-side web development
It doesn’t necessarily even necessitate more death.

If you ate only meat you eat the equivalent of 1 cow per year.

Compare that with the amount of bugs, nematodes, rodents, etc. killed by modern farming methods.
The world is moving away from nuclear. The last nuke plant under construction in the US will likely be cancelled before it's completed and no new plants are being built. Several countries have agreed to phase out nuclear entirely. Even China isn't building them at the rate they claimed.

The industry promised a "nuclear renaissance" several years which never materialized and it kills them that they can't sell people new plants, so they commission puff pieces like that ignore the big reasons nuclear is going away: unsolved waste problem; risk of catastrophic accidents; costs out of control; uneconomic to operate; uninsurable; incredibly expensive to decommission.
Here’s a bonus one: If you install Docker don’t add your non-admin to the docker group as it’s effectively passwordless sudo.
Indeed. There is the concept of the Good Nazi. Just a regular woman/man living in germany, who goes on about his life, doing nothing to stop the events leading to and including genocide.

For people in China today you have to cheer on the party, or you will get docked social credits. Contrast that to the strongman leading the US now, who is a demented serial failure. Things would be much muddier if he had the ability to undertake the slow and steady march towards persuasive authoritarianism, like the current chinese leadership.
And attaching &kponly to the url also hides the search results for me: https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Beatles&kgmid=/m/03j24kf...

Maybe the change hasn't been rolled out completely yet? I'm in Germany.
> Either stand up for yourself or move to a town with better people

That is extremely optimistic. You're right that it's a "people" problem, but not one that's easily solved in the near future. You can't just say: This would be a problem if there weren't assholes around. Well some people are assholes, so this is a problem.

You should also be able to leave your wallet in the park, without it getting stole, but you can't so you don't. You don't move as a result of it, that would be stupid, the major cities of the world would be empty.

Also we shouldn't forget that one of misuses we have seen of these types of information are law enforcement agents tracking (ex-)partners.

Location data may not be secret necessarily, but it can be private.
> General interest data | .... political leanings, magazine and catalog subscriptions .... preferred {celebrities,movie genres,music genres} ... {Bible,New Age/organic} lifestyle ...

If they wanted to get people's attention, this list should have included "preferred pornography" and maybe even "the other type of pornography that is viewed when your spouse's cell phone and your cell phone are in different zip codes.
They were defeated, trialled and hanged in Nuremberg, by judges from all over. One of the most important things we learned was that following orders is not an excuse.
Some things are very wonky with the experiment:

Brave is intentionally slow on parsing and do as much work there because it doesn't parse from client code, it only use already parsed lists from memory.

"The memory usage of Brave could not be evaluated using the devtools and thus is not included in this section."
That doesn't make sense, I wonder if it's maybe using a very old version based on the old muon code base? If you can get the memory from Chrome you can get it from Brave.

No information was given about versions that were tested.

Total parsed rules is too small.
No, and yes in a way. The quality of the venue matters a lot, and many people seem to obsess over h-index values, which quantify the citation count and journal impact factor. But in my opinion these things are useful but flawed heuristics for the actual importance or impact of research work.
> I’m not thrilled about the amount of information being hoovered up, but....the predictions being made with it aren’t terribly impressive.

Conspiracy theory: what if they intentionally throw random garbage in there so you don't get paranoid? The things they want to hit you with will still be there, but they'll be surrounded by misses, and you're inclined to think "wow, they sent me an ad for a new dishwasher just as soon as mine broke, but they also sent me an ad for cat toys knowing full well I'm allergic to cats"? The dishwasher is still a great hit, but less suspiciously so.
I honestly don't understand complaints like this. When you post something on the internet (on a service that has a documented, public API!) anyone can see it, by definition. Twitter isn't your local pub - it's a public forum visited by millions of people daily. If you don't want those people reading and reacting to the things you write, don't write them on Twitter!

And yeah, brands aren't people. But guess what? Brands are made out of people, and those people have just as much a right to be on Twitter as you do!

There are lots of forms of electronic communication that are non-public. If you don't want people reading what you say, use those.

/rant
> so it's not like he can redirect that into buying real estate.

Yes he can. All he has to do is get Amazon to start buying real estate, and bam, he's a partial owner of real estate.

> The merits of any incentives should be based on the economic realities of the situation, plain and simple. Do the tax breaks result in a net positive for the city, based on generated tax revenue, new jobs, both from Amazon and those providing service to Amazon employees, from the new housing that must be built to support the population increase, etc.

Okay, let's ask this as a question then: does allowing companies to play cities against each other benefit NYC, or does it incentivize more companies to do the same thing, allowing companies to pay less taxes?

Why do you refuse to consider the possibility that if cities in the US all refused to pay incentives to Amazon, Amazon would choose a city to go to anyway, and not get tax cuts, and average citizens would benefit from the taxes Amazon pays?

I'll say what I've said over and over again here: lots of people on HN would rather incentivize nails than use a hammer. Incentives are one tool in a government's toolbox, and they aren't the solution to every problem.

> I don't know if they do. Maybe this would be an amazing deal for NYC. Maybe it would be a terrible deal. I'm not qualified to make a real judgment there. But the 'Bezos and Amazon are rich, why should we give them anything' is just more populist rhetoric, which we need to get out of our politics. It's toxic as hell.

I don't think it's populist rhetoric to demand that the richest companies in the world pay their fair share of taxes. I think blindly ignoring any possibilities that don't involve incentivizing the already-rich is a much more toxic problem, and the main reason we continue to have growing income inequality in the US.

If NYC pays Amazon a subsidy to attract them to NYC, that sets a dangerous precedent and means that every city will have to pay subsidies to big companies to attract them, and the end result is that companies pay less taxes and everyone else suffers the consequences. That's the effect Scott Anderson calls "Moloch"[1] and American cities need to present a united front against it.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
According to parents nice talk[1] you can add a verify switch that lets you compare the signature of the actual key. So a public authenticated channel is enough.

[1] https://youtu.be/oFrTqQw0_3c
I think the creepy part here is that many people are using Twitter simply to express their in-the-moment state of mind. Okay, maybe you let one of these marketing tweets slide and don't think twice on it.

But what if you start getting 10 of these 'offers' per every tweet you send? That sounds like terrible user experience and something Twitter would need to address internally.

In marketing circles, this is an encouraged marketing technique to generate more sales/leads. I know a lot of hosting companies who employ similar tactics.
Don’t Call JP Morgan Chase’s New ‘JPM Coin’ a Cryptocurrency
Not sure that this will help ...

Take a few mathematics and physics courses. In the mathematic course try to think as a mathematician. In the physics courses try to think as a physicist. Sometimes it's good to view the world from a different perspective.

I have a Ph.D. in Math and 50% of a major in Physics. It's very interesting to see similar topics in both areas and understand how each one approach the problem. [And sometimes it's interesting to translate the problem to the other field and fill the details.]
Electronic GPS tags to track thousands of criminals in UK
In Lyft you just cancel when the driver is late and Lyft automatically voids the penalty fee before charging you. And I hope they give an internal demerit to the driver.
Yeah but I guess what I am trying to say is the tools I ahve used miss certain situations.
PAKE takes care of that. Watch the parents nice talk: https://youtu.be/oFrTqQw0_3c
I have thought about this also. I am retiring from my job in a month but I would like to keep writing books and also have one commercial software product. I used to sell my NLP toolkit written in Ruby but open source NLP libraries, and deep learning solutions, are so good that I don’t want to be in that business.
could you please elaborate? would appreciate maybe some links to read about this, find this relevant to my experience.
> That sounds like a massive design defect.

The trade-off is between unwanted firing and failure to fire when wanted. Which risk do you suppose your shootist customer would prefer?
>I personally find vegetables pretty gross.

All of them?! Gee, there's such a wide range. Even, say, potatoes can be cooked so many entirely different ways - steamed/boiled, baked, chips etc. I guess you can say that because you've never tried almost all of them. Your parents 'forced' you only 'a handful of times' to eat vegetables? I can't begin to fathom how someone could have a child and virtually never give them any vegetables of any kind to eat...
If you picked a spot where it's possible to stop, then not coming to your pickup is grounds for a low rating.