skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt their piggyback slurps at major exchanges have access to the pen trace, billing and geoposition streams of the telcos now. If encrypted, it's nudge nudge wink wink here's the key. No need to have the telcos 'transmit' the information anymore.

Tier 1 exchanges -> slurp/selective forward -> 'dark fiber' -> Utah

https://www.scribd.com/document/370336388/Geographies-of-Int...

Skip over the straw man program 'Bulk Metadata Collection' and look for 'NSA splitters'
As a caveat, we only see the winners, so this perspective is biased. But sure, we have casinos as well, so I guess we totally should allow all people to invest in startups.
Eric Weinstein is one of those rare people with whom I disagree a lot but to whom I can actually listen without a vein popping out of my temple and my teeth starting to grind. I guess I just appreciate his cerebral conversational style that lets you engage with the ideas.
“Free speech”
It's never to early to teach consent
Everything within Math can be described Topologically. Topology is gaining a lot of traction. It's pretty remarkable.
Oh definitely. I don't think people know how much work goes into the typical pop song, even though it may sound like anyone could write and record it.

People think they could sing Britney Spears just like her until they get behind a mic to record. Most people don't even know the cringey feeling of "God, I didn't know my voice sounded like that" after having heard their own recorded voice for the first time. Or how out of tune and rhythm they actually are.

So no. Everybody thinks they could sing the typical pop song, but I doubt that they could.
we moved everything we could to a mainland provider, generally there are good alternatives and cdn's for common stuff. what keeps biting is our tracking and re-conversion scripts that our marketing team insists on.
How about private posts? Every time when you type something on Facebook, it's all logging to logs?
You needs boots on the ground. So no.
I think that was actually invented at Facebook in the early days, unless I'm mistaken. Its a good mantra unless its security related
His social circle. Apologies if I missed something, but I don't understand where that comes into the equation.
Lol, so they show you ads to buy stuff on an app you literally open to buy stuff? This is a joke.
In fact, I would say there is no "the way it should be". Capitalism seems to have a net positive effect on the majority of the planet. Let's stick with it.
this argument against IP is really good
Personally I don't think it has any practical applications, but rather that this continues the trend of using the military to fund fundamental research. The main interest would probably be that HoTT allows for automatic theorem proving of more interesting theorems compared to other axiomatisations. It was originally designed to be able to do higher homotopy theory synthetically. The Lean theorem prover has actually dropped HoTT support. There is a certain chance that interest will vane after the founder Voevodsky died.
Technical answer:

Mastodon isn't a startup - it's not even a company. It's a framework, like phpBB forums were (are, I guess). Basically, it's a way that anyone with a web server can set up a Twitter-clone site, but - thanks to the ActivityPub protocol - all those twitter-clones can talk to each other, making the whole universe of Mastodon instances functionally one giant social network.

Mastodon:Twitter::IRC:Facebook Messenger

Practical answer:

Mastodon is a Twitter clone that's currently pretty nice and enjoyable by virtue of being small. It's also decentralized, which is a cool buzzword, but also in practice means that it's nicely broken up into a bunch of small specialized communities in each Mastodon instance that can feel pretty cozy and friendly, way less overwhelming than Twitter.

The really unique thing about it is that it's a weirdo open-source-y alternative social network that actually doesn't appear to be dying off like Diaspora or Voat or Steemit or whatever did - it seems to have reached a sort of social critical mass where people are sticking around because they genuinely enjoy the company and interactions with other users, and is growing at a sustainable rate.
Will IFTTT update to comply?

Also, does this prevent sending emails to my Gmail, as opposed to reading? That was what I used the most.
Just so you know, agree on all counts :)
Let me tell you a secret, Congress ALREADY runs the economy. They just ACT like they don't. Notice they had no issue implementing tax cuts (increasing money supply) AND increasing military spending (increasing money supply). They act like they don't because otherwise, people might wonder "Hmm, if they can do that for the rich, and they can do that for the military, maybe, just maybe they can do that for me!". And then people might get strange ideas like, maybe we can afford universal health care, maybe we can have a system oriented towards their needs.

So Congress doesn't want the people to know they already control the economy, because otherwise, people might want them to do the job they elected them to do.
I wouldn't put it past Elon to be because of Ford's famous edict when ramping the Model T: "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Ford
Maybe a nod to Ford on the model t? I think he famously said, "they can have it in any color they want, as long as it's black"
I've heard this claimed a lot, but I'm unsure what _is_ the current status quo in psychiatry.
I say this as a layman who has undergone treatment from therapists and psychiatrists for years.
Video begins with this Eric touted as a founder/coiner of "The Intellectual Darkweb" which as far as I can tell is something like a new political brand. I don't think it's appropriate for any political branding to appear as a part an exposition of Science & Math positions (or otherwise) on HN. IE, HN usually isn't a platform for any political position.

Vaguely skipped forward and found speculation about like Tom Lahrer as a marker for intelligence. I like Tom Lahrer but this all seems way outside the concrete AI and compiler articles I come to HN for.
> maybe users shouldn't be given the option to make choices they don't understand?

ala brexit!
Back in the 90s, Trek episodes were released in the UK months before they were on TV. The price was typically £12-14 per video, which had 2 episodes on. That puts a season at £170. Inflation wise that's about £320 now, or $422 a season.

How many people bought an entire season for that price is another matter, but that was the asking price.
I cannot speak to the OPs social circle. To me it sounds pretty uninformed to think anybody working with the military is building bombs. The DOD (the US military) has about 2.8 million employees and there are about another 2 million people who work as defense contractors. I find it strange to think all those people could constantly be working on bombs.

By comparison the largest US commercial employer is WalMart with 1.5 million US employees. Imagine (for the sake of numbers) every WalMart employee and two of their kids constantly making bombs.
They're the manufacturer of the largest batteries then. Not the largest manufacturer of batteries.
The film that was shot couldn't simply be overscanned to 14:9 or 16:9. It would work in some scenes, but in others there were bits of the set/booms/etc visible almost upto the actual frame that was cut out. The only way to convert is therefore

1) Throw the top/bottom parts of the frame away

2) Stretch the frame

Neither is acceptable.
Too bad he can't figure out how to apply it to real world commodities.
where is this "third" figure coming from?
I prefer Rab down gear. Arc’teryx has become one with it’s logo.
Well, shitting on Tesla for something like the fatal crashes where autopilot played a role does have a certain appeal. But at the same time, when they released their $35k vehicle I was still cheering them on too.
Cool idea. Build it ;)
eastern block expat also, agree whole heartedly. People who complain about the US have no idea how much worse it would be to have Russia in such a position of power instead.
Capitalism is destroying the planet. That's hardly a net positive. In fact it's the worst thing possible. There is nothing humans are even theoretically capable of that is worse.
Typical Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
We should all feel ashamed for being human. After all, some human, somewhere is doing something horrible at this very moment. Shame on you humans. Shame on you.
Honest question, because I've never used an autopilot feature and have virtually no commute: if you have to watch it so vigilantly, what is the appeal or practical value?
Keep in mind that every single logged-in user has their own blog, whether they use it or not, whether anyone reads it or not. So, theoretically, "an average of one visitor per blog" would also be entirely consistent with "every single Tumblr view represents an active Tumblr user", because the number of people who visit Tumblr would thereby equal the number of blogs.
You mean that the app I explicitly want to be able to manipulate the data I have given it access to will no longer be able to do so? Hm.
In Canada, the term engineer is protected, but in the states it is specialization dependent. I went to school for software engineering and I have my ring (I'm not a full engineer for a few more years though).

We focus a lot on testing and I just finished a mandatory ethics workshop. Its a different approach to software than I read about elsewhere. Almost no time spent on algorithms either - bad for interviews, but great for being able to write software that works though.
Nearest stars are only a few light years away.

There isn't anything 'only' about it and it's what makes something like the development of ocean navigation structurally completely different. You can swim to an island a mile out and the most isolated island is about 2000 times more distant. Every bit of technology incrementally developed to cover that distance is useful in its own right. Every use of the technology comes with a chance of serendipitous discovery.

Proxima Centauri is 100k+ times more distant than Mars. No asteroid belt miner is going to get blown off course and end up on Sirius. Nobody is going to build the 0.3 ly range ship because it might be good for taking tourists to a mindfulness retreat on Pluto.

It rhymes like pickle rhymes with motorcycle. You have to really believe it.
Moral Technology: What Are the Values That Drive Decision Making by AI
So is there another search engine for techies?

Just today I had to ask Google Scholar for a lot of things since Google itself was completely useless. So it's not like it can't be done. Maybe that's the way going forward, one general search for grandma and specialized search engines for everyone else.
It doesn't seem completely random... the first two results which include the number are about Uber SMS messages, and the blog post is about Uber SMS messages.

So Google has clearly determined that this number is somehow associated with sketchy Uber SMS messages, out of a very sparse signal...

That seems pretty cool actually. Like, really cool.
So what is the policy update and can IFTTT comply without breaking functionality?
I'm not sure if you're suggesting that an "OO language" is a better match for web development, but in case you love some of the OO features like inheritance of fields, you can check out https://github.com/rjplevin/Classes.jl
> Solar and wind are reliable and economic in many parts of the world, but much less so in many parts of the world that already have very high population density.

Hence why the article describes one of the projects under consideration is a massive renewables concentration in northern Australia (the population of that area is a rounding error), with the goal of exporting to Asia via undersea cable.
Can't wait for Elon Musk to put up his satellite constellation with broadband all over the world and see how the Chinese deal with that.

Spread spectrum military style internet beamed down in cooperation with radio free Europe (radio free China) so censors have trouble blocking . . .
Maybe they want to get in front of a possible backlash, like what happened to Facebook when it was revealed that 3rd parties you used to send messages through... had access to the messages! (gasp)
Cut corners on amenities, though only compared to their other models. Still a lot nicer than my car
each depends on the other.
Agreed. At least you don't want to drink unfiltered Schuylkill water. The Water Works is definitely worth a visit:

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

The bike path along the river goes right past it, and you can ride all the way to Valley Forge almost completely on a bike path free of motorized vehicles. (I am not paid by the city; I just like riding along rivers.)
The point is that it should cost the "same" to live out in "nowhere" and more centrally, so the government pays for the service.

In reality public transports cost from free, to 10 kroner to 50+ based on where you live. It is normally cheapest where people dont use it, to make a incentive for them to use it more. So in Oslo it costs 36 kroner per ticket (where everyone use it) and in some small/medium sized cities it cost 10 kroner.

Other sea transportation services does not need to be subsidized as they are commercially viable, but they still do to be able to enforce a demand like gas powered ferries or the new trend that is battery powered ferries.

But even if the government pay for the service, the service is often privately owned. That means the company has won a public bid for a contract for x years.
My thanks to the original reporter of the vulnerability, and to the Rails folks for fixing it.

I strongly recommend using at least one tool to help you know when a publicly known vulnerability is reported in a component you use. Then you can update, run your automated test, and immediately ship. Modern systems are typically mostly reused code. Being unprepared for vulnerabilities in them is a little crazy, because you know that such things will happen.
I think he just has hypocognitive and worldview-comforting conversations with people like Eric inbetween bow hunting trips on tropical islands and floating in an isolation tank.
I'm surprised more sites don't hash passwords with a per user salt and hash/match with a per session salt before transmitting them.
Or just a "typo"

https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/27/politics/russia-dnc-hacking-c...

https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/13/13940514/dnc-email-hack-...

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/310234-typo-may-hav...
read up on the gold standard then.
It'd probably get thrown out by the lawyers for various nebulous (though valid) reasons

"What if we go over budget?"

"Does this mean they 'own' any rights to the remaster?"
Civilization VI EULA and Privacy Clarity
You will get all those services at the place the boat goes to.
If your addon works entirely locally, you only need to be "verified as non-malicious software", but if there is any network component then you need the "full assessment" from an independent 3rd-party auditor:

> The assessment fee is paid by the developer and may range from $15,000 to $75,000 (or more) depending on the size and complexity of the application. This fee is due whether or not your app passes the assessment
Fair point, but bad example.
I thought I am the only one
It's not a critique of your design. You solve the problem as you see it pretty spot on.

It's more so that I wish IDEs supported software like this. There's a plethora of such offerings such as CyberDuck, Expandrive, etc that would benefit from reduced read/seek activity if the IDE could just orchestrate when to emit changes to what it thinks is the "disk". As you noted on GitHub, such software gets really laggy when working in directories that aren't trivially small.
Home+Helper:+Startup’s+Robot+Can+Tidy+Up+a+Messy+House+|+Nvidia+Blog
Several people have suggested using a safeword for this. Something like: "I'm going to tickle you, even if you say 'no stop', but if you say 'potato' I'll stop right away". I think this is something my kids would have done well with, though now they're just used to my taking their explicit "no"s literally.
Facebook didn't mean to log failed sign-in information. It just kind of happened.
Sorry, but you’re an edge case. I wouldn’t expect everything to work perfectly when you’re VPN’ing thru different countries.
this is awesome!!! nice work!!
Do you think upfront transparency about CPU throttling is an acceptable manner of extending longevity?
Sometimes my kids act up, so I smash a hole in the fence and call in my home insurance, which kills all the neighbors (and some of the kids).
an independent 3rd-party auditor:

> The assessment fee is paid by the developer and may range from $15,000 to $75,000 (or more) depending on the size and complexity of the application. This fee is due whether or not your app passes the assessment

(snipped from above)
Lyft’s Employees Could Buy Every Single Home for Sale in SF with Post IPO Cash
I can confidently say that Patagonia fleece is totally stolen from WS trading floors. On a side note what does HN think about Zero to One?
They didn’t buy the DLC: feature that could’ve prevented 737 crashes was option
They're essentially doing surrogate model optimization, but using a neural network instead of Gaussian processes. This is the same way that the control policy for the MIT Cheetah robot was created.
Having a list of stopwords is different from discarding half the query.

Yes, most search engines have ignored commonly-used words since at least the late 90s. But Google only started doing its idiotic "Missing: [key word from your search]" fairly recently. And it's a step back.

Although I personally don't think this is the case, it's something that's going to provide ammunition to the conspiracy theorists who'll swear they're just doing it to drive clicks to pages with Google ads.
I have a book on the subject on my desk (several, in fact), and I'm still not sold I'll get to use any of that.

Really hope to, though.
Meh, after seeing a presentation on how genetic algorithms were used to figure out the most optimal walk for a dinosaur with a given skeletal structure, this does not seem that impressive or scary, especially since we probably have way more computing power now for machine learning than we did almost a decade ago.

No programming necessary, just throw in a bunch of variable settings for bone sizes, lengths, and weights, spawn hundreds of dinosaurs firing random muscle movements, and breed only the ones that manage to walk the most distance by pure luck with each generation, until you get descendants who are very good at walking thousands of generations later.
For one-way sync, I'd also suggest: https://axkibe.github.io/lsyncd/
The open letter also clearly states "LHM does not... assert its views publicly".

LHM preaches that sexual orientation can be changed through religious intervention.[1] What do you think conversion therapy is?

[1] https://livehope.org/2018/08/13/a-different-gospel/
Applied Topology and Dante (2010)
I've been involved in treating patients with florid mental illness, and among people with that experience there really isn't any question that most of these illnesses must exist with some kind of underlying pathology.

There are many open questions about the mechanism(s) behind them, as well as the extremely frustrating fact that we can never truly tell if we are actually seeing the surfaces of multiple completely separate underlying pathologies that result in somewhat related loose symptom profile clusters.

But if we were to take an extreme example I encountered, a person whose life was basically over to the point of him trying to butcher people over his delusions[1], and you find a medication with which he can regain control of his own mind, can live in society rather than prison, even hold down a job and have fulfilling friendships, and over months you see numerous patients with this same dramatic reduction in symptoms, there is no question that there must be underlying pathology at play.

There might be numerous underlying pathologies all fitting the same symptom cluster, which would (potentially) help explain why even on the same symptom cluster a medication might have drastically different levels of effectiveness on different people.

The best reason to think underlying pathologies behind psychiatric illnesses are real isn't that we have clear the biology behind them, but that there exist treatments that actually have very measurable effects on the symptoms. The other reason is that we already concede our thoughts and perceptions themselves have a biological basis, so it would just be profoundly strange if 'disorders of thought and perception' somehow didn't.

[1] Just an additional note here, I'm using a specific example of a patient with violent delusions and criminal behavior, but it's important to note that people with mental illness are much more likely to be the victims of violence than perpetrators of it, and it is important we counter the unfair stereotype that mentally ill people are prone to violence.
Especially Article 13 is dangerously experimenting with the core foundation of the Internet’s ecosystem. Making companies directly liable for the content of their users forces these businesses to make billions of legal decisions about the legality of content. Most companies are neither equipped nor capable of implementing the automatic content filtering mechanisms this requires, which are expensive and prone to error.

Crap grammar and rubbish sentence construction, whilst opining, will rarely make friends.

The letter is a dreadful example of how to not plead a case. It has several bold sections that are are shouty - use italics instead.

Although the purpose of these regulations is to limit the powers of big US Internet companies like Google or Facebook, This may be true but again it is not the way to take the moral high ground. Do you have proof of that assertion?

If I was one of those 130 businesses and was charged for that letter then I would feel seen off. I do own a small business in the UK and I will not put my tiny weight behind that rubbish. I acknowledge some of the issues mentioned are potentially a problem but the message is garbled so badly as to be unusable.
What Trump’s Executive Order on Free Speech Says
There is still way too much crime in California and in the Bay Area in particular. Perhaps violent crime from juveniles is down; but my observation as a decade-long SF resident is that crime overall is certainly not getting better, and it certainly seems to be getting worse.

Theoretically any crime is too much and some amount of crime is inevitable given human beings.

I mean, I was mugged twice, once beaten unconscious, saw someone murdered across the street from apartment, scared away someone who pulled out a gun and tried to mug me, and witnessed numerous other crimes in 90s San Francisco.

It's almost as if the article is equating less crime being prosecuted as less crime existing.

I'd believe statistic and neither your nor my anecdotes and statistics say violent crime is down everywhere. Statistics are taken from reports as well as prosecutions btw.

And police have never had more power than today but police very seldom directly stop crime, just prosecute it afterwards.
TypeScript’s Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages
The fact that I can not own parts of my body but an organization can, sort of undermines any claim that the current rules exist out of fears of slippery slopes to slavery.
Britain can get an automatic two year extension without asking anyone's permission.

The EU court ruled that Britain could cancel Article 50 at any time up until the deadline. So they could send a "never mind" letter on the 28th and then send another Article 50 notice on the 29th. Presto: another 2 years to work on Brexit. This could continue indefinitely.

Personally I enjoy the gyrations (from afar) though the risk to my diet of years of popcorn might make this a bad idea.