skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, the article is pretty absurd, but to play devils advocate: I think most people would feel that tricking children into doing something harmful is worse than tricking an adult because they don't know any better. They don't have the reasoning to be able to decide and give consent. If an adult gets tricked, that's "on them", but it's different for children. Despite the author saying how smart baluga whales are, even the smartest animals can barely reason as well as a human child, so isn't tricking them even worse?
You seem pretty optimistic about the economics of your tech. Is that based on extracting CO2 from air or from more concentrated sources such as power plant flue gas?
Have you tried shifting to RSS? It takes setup getting things situated but it's excellent. I get everything on the web into my RSS reader now: youtube, twitter, reddit, hn, news, blogs, pubmed alerts, journal tables of content, just about everything can be had via RSS. Even email newsletters can be turned into an RSS feed. It's all right there, and instead of checking a dozen sites I can skim through my feeds in no time at all, from my desktop or my phone.
Invert a Binary Tree in JavaScript
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

Certainly not a new thing.
"Maybe 2 years ago there was still room for honest debate among Python package tooling. There just sincerely isn’t anymore."

That is way out of line.

I'm not going to try to talk you out of conda, but for the benefit of anyone reading your comment who doesn't know better I have to point out that your opinion is far from universal.
Which would be fixed by setting a legal maximum cost.
RSS didn't go anywhere you know. Found this thread from my feeds :)
They’ve been lying for years and are only admitting they’re not fully backed now because they got caught. Who knows how much they’re really missing.
Link or it doesn't exist
See also: “student-athlete”
Thanks for the feedback! We are working with Flickr to ensure that we are able to index all their CC-licensed images; currently there's an issue with their API that hides some images. It should be resolved by the end of the summer.

We have images from a lot of other collections, such as the Met, Rijksmuseum, Behance, Thingiverse etc. Flickr has more images than any of them by a couple of orders of magnitude, though.
Medicaid does okay.
Genuinely interested to hear/read these use cases.
I'm using a serverless stack at the moment (AWS Api GW + Lambda), and after the initial headaches of wrestling with Cloudformation it's been relatively simple and performant
If you'd like a full perspective of the Citrix hack three security people from Detroit discussed it on a recent episode of their show, How they got hacked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMgdrq0xMLk
Facebook's design isn't the problem. The unethical use of our data is the problem.
I tried using this today. I couldn't find a way to rename the site I signed up for; I didn't make the connection that the username would be the URL/site name.
I also couldn't delete my primary site to create a replacement, so I had to close my account just to create a site with a new name.
Just thought I'd let y'all know a minor inconvenience I ran into.
Just assume they only catch the dumbest 20%.
Billions, in fact...
If you had the power to choose when to be born, you might also have the power to choose where to be born. In which case you might want to choose someplace other than the U.S.
The crack down will probably come, just delayed by a few years.
Hi, this is Rob, founder of Prometheus. The conversion of CO2 and water to gasoline is not a super efficient process, likely 50-60% at best in the near term, but that's ok, if the electricity is from a zero carbon source like solar or wind, and the cost of the electricity is low (which these days it is).

The CNT membranes are being made at full commercial scale now by my previous startup, Mattershift. Ready to go!

We've got scientists and engineers from national labs and previous efforts like Project Foghorn at Google. Hope to share some new hires soon.

There was a podcast that was associated with the article, that runs 21 minutes and goes into more details: https://megaphone.link/BLM3585271197
Thanks for the feedback! We will figure out if there is a way to communicate this better.
Air is awash in N2 but has darned little carbon, e.g., parts per million for CO2 and that has the O2 and not just the C and each O weighs 16 or so and each C about 12. There ain't much C in air.

There's so little C in air that it's astounding that some plants can get the C they need to grow just from air.

For C, we have much better sources than air. And if want C from air, then go to, say, any electric power plant burning fossil fuels, any plant making cement (heat calcium carbonate and let the CO2 escape), etc.

We know the prices of oil and gasoline, and oil prices are due to fall due to the Arctic, ANWAR, Venezuela coming back on-line, pipelines to make better use of the Alberta tar sands, US offshore drilling, much more in fracking, e.g., what the USGS reported about west TX, etc. more fuel efficient cars, etc.

As expensive as gasoline is, it is still much easier to fill up a 20 gallon tank of gasoline than to get the same energy that fast from electric power. Gasoline just ain't that easy to compete with, fundamentally and from existing well engineered infrastructure.

In a car, super tough to compete with a 20 gallon take of gasoline. Yes, it takes an internal combustion engine to use the gasoline to turn the wheels, but we're really good at making those -- 300,000 miles with minimal maintenance. Typically the body, fuel lines, brake lines, gas tank, radiator, parts of the frame, even the oil pan are rusted out before the engine wears out. We're GOOD at making the engines. Yes a battery in every way as good as a 20 gallon tank of gasoline would be terrific because the motor is much simpler and don't need a transmission, but batteries are a long way from such a tank of gas. And, again, as shocking as it is, now the piston engines are really good.

If we really care about the waste from the oil patch, then demote Jane Fonda from our de facto Secretary of Energy at large and get back to good nuclear fission power and also breeding, fissionable elements other than uranium and plutonium, really safe reactor designs, etc. Then make gasoline like South Africa and Hitler did -- start with coal and add water and electric energy. Besides can use the same nukes to make really good drinking water, maybe cheap enough for a lot of farming, and get down electric bills and permit electric home heating, etc. "too cheap to meter".

If solar power were so cheap, then the US SW would be covered with solar panels, importing water and coal, and filling pipelines with gasoline whenever the sun was shining. Same for lots of places with lots of sun. But they aren't -- net, solar power is not as cheap as it is cracked up to be.
If Tether worked as it was advertised there would be no profit opportunity. The purported reason Tether exists is to help the crypto markets deal with the liquidity problems because of how difficult Fiat banking is, essentially Tethers value proposition was “we (by some miracle) have reliable banking, we can buy and sell 1 Tether for 1 USD at any time regardless of other crypto currencies value”. In reality Tether is a shit-show because it doesn’t provide reliable banking (even before considering the fact that it isn’t even solvent) and that’s why the value of Tether offers any arbitrage opportunities.

If we were in a fantasy land where Tether wasn’t fraudulent then the price variance of Tether on exchanges would be so minuscule that there would be no arbitrage opportunity for anyone to take advantage of. Your hypothetical profit opportunity only exists because Tether is (ultimately) fraudulent.

Remember that Tether was pitched as a 1:1 USD backed cryptocurrency that could be exchanged 1:1 at any time (in both directions). The mess that it is now (only liquid on exchanges at a variable rate) is not what Tether was marketed as.

Tether (as promised) is the equivalent of you accepting $100 USD from your friend and giving them $100 of Monopoly money and promising them that at any time they can trade their monopoly dollars for your real dollars... and you won’t ever use the USD for anything, it’ll be locked away untouchable by you. How do you profit from that? You can’t lend it, you can’t invest it, you can’t use it as collateral, it has to be unencumbered at all times and you have to incur the costs of managing it.

Read the original whitepaper and try and identify a profit opportunity. This is all before considering that Tether is a fundamentally flawed concept: if Tether could operate a reliable banking relationship, so could others, and Tether would be pointless.
Have a conversation. As a code reviewer you're looking to increase the understanding of the person whose code you're reviewing -- which starts with understanding why they wrote the code they way they did. Some people simply understand things differently and what's intuitive to them isn't to others. Consider the code sample I talk about in the following blog post: the only thing that's "wrong" about it is that it's probably not obvious to anyone other than the author.

URL: http://www.mikece.com/2015/08/clean-code-vs-really-clever-co...
I've been to Australia a few times and was also surprised at this sort of thing. The words "don't need to have suspicion of anything specific" is code for "we have reason to suspect you're hiding something, we just aren't sure what it is". Not appearing to be cooperative further raises suspicions and will lead to more invasive searches/questions. If your goal is to get out of the situation ASAP and be subject to as few searches as possible, be friendly and cooperative.

This doesn't mean I agree with how things are. It's clearly a blatant violation of basic rights, but you can't fight it at the border when you're being searched. Raising awareness and making it a political issue is the only way it can change.
"First-class and native support for visualization and model debugging with TensorBoard"

This is huge. TensorBoard makes it so much easier to understand what's going on when you're training a model over hours or days, and need to tweak hyperparameters.

I was recently applying NVidia's stylegan model (https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan) to a different type of image. Their model uses TF and supports TensorBoard out of the box, so I didn't even try to use pytorch, even though others have shared their implementations (e.g. https://github.com/rosinality/style-based-gan-pytorch).
I'm pretty impressed with WSL. I've just moved back to Windows (Dell XPS) after ~13 years using Mac OS, and in many ways WSL is nicer than what I used to do before with juggling Homebrew packages and Parallels VMs depending on the demands of a particular task. Between that, PowerShell, and installing stuff via Chocolatey, I feel right at home.

But without things like WSL and native OpenSSH, I doubt I would even have looked; I would have stuck with MacOS forever or just gone native Ubuntu.
I was with you up until the last paragraph, but no. That's not 2fa, that's switching one factor for another.

People should use a password manager with an rng to generate and store passwords. IT departments should run password spraying attacks themselves as well as blacklisting known-compromised passwords. There's really good tooling for this (likely the same tooling this adversary used!)

Separately from this, people should use hardware 2fa tokens whose weakest link isn't the cell phone company support.

Edited for clarity.
No. (And I think it should stop, if it's happening.)

If a trove of private correspondence is found from an ancient civilization, that was clearly not meant for disseminatuon but intercepted unlawfully, do you think we should destroy it?

I think it's okay to answer this question in the negative. But an argument could be made that people should have a right to privacy unbroken even by long posterity.

What do you think of that question?
> and they might not want socialism, but it seems like they dont understand that democracy has problems too

Isn't the contrast between capitalism and socialism? It seems like I could have democracy with either.

Of course it doesn't help the conversation that Americans use term socialism differently than Europeans or Marx himself did.
So you think that 80% of attacks are better than stuxnet?
They started out with some really good ideas a few years back, but the whole "effective altruism" movement seems to have been hijacked by a weird focus on avoiding a hypothetical malevolent AI. It's absolutely bizarre to me.

At least planet-killing asteroids are a real thing that's known to exist.
People get addicted to social media too. Next time you get in an elevator notice how many people immediately whip out the phone and start scrolling the minute they are standing still. It's completely subconscious, like what are you going to read in the 20 second elevator ride, yet people do it all the same because there's a dopamine hit.
Perhaps it just pays realistic prices and "below cost of care" is the provider's way of saying "reduces the income I am accustomed to.".

The regular pricing also builds in an assumption that some patients can't or won't pay. If they can more easily get Medicare, less padding is necessary.
So what is the efficiency of your process? How many joules of chemical energy do you get from 1 kilowatt hour? (i.e. 3.6MJ)
New Facebook Redesign
We do have an API available, although we're not encouraging use of it until we build a few more features in.

Docs: https://api.creativecommons.engineering/

Terms of Service: https://api.creativecommons.engineering/terms_of_service.htm...

Code: https://github.com/creativecommons/cccatalog-api/
Yes. 8000 hours was in YC for non-profits.
> "Do they take the profit from their non-retail efforts, which today is primarily cloud computing, and then reinvest those profits to take share in grocery?" Forte said.

Yes. Even better, they can push people to sign up for Prime by jacking up prices for non-Prime members. When faced with these "loyalty" programs elsewhere, I just type in a fake phone number, or an old land line that has probably been reassigned. I suspect you can't do that at Amazon stores.
Because there's ads in the sidebars.
This what I'm thinking too. Facebook doesn't want a clean and efficient UI, they want it to be just tricky enough that it increases "engagement" by forcing each interaction to take at least a little longer to perform (I'm being generous here, I know.)
>"We have seen companies signing up for Linux desktop support, because they want to have fleets of Ubuntu desktop for their artificial intelligence engineers."

Those engineers would be coming from Macbooks due to weakened support for Nvidia CUDA applications.
> Citrix said in a later update on April 4 that the attack was likely a result of password spraying, which attackers use to breach accounts by brute-forcing from a list of commonly used passwords that aren’t protected with two-factor authentication.

How did Citrix not have 2FA in place?
Not sure whether it's moot. Even though they're not legally required to provide cash, Tether's accomplishment of establishing and then maintaining a $1 market value is presumably assisted at least to some extent by their offer to provide it. To what extent precisely remains to be seen. The longstanding doubts about Tether's reserves didn't impair its market value; the more recent revelations may not either, but that's not certain yet (in particular, if the market is being manipulated, the muted short-term response may not last).

But yes, they are protected from runs.

Edit: Also, that text wasn't always there; in 2015 they claimed Tether was "redeemable for cash at any time" [1] and didn't have any similar disclaimer in their terms, as far as I can tell [2]. In addition, even with the disclaimer, if someone sued Tether for breach of contract (because they breached their promise to hold 1:1 reserves), fraud (because at certain points they made false claims that they did hold them), etc., they might be able to recover some USD in the form of restitution.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150320090830/https://tether.to...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150921163244/https://tether.to...
There's always https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/
It’s sincerely not out of line. You can still use pip to install within conda environments, yet conda packaging just supersedes other approaches. Of particular inportance is the unambiguous failure of pipfile/pipenv and similar approaches.

I’ve been working day in and day out with packaging and environments in Python for 12 years, and nothing has come close to being as serious of a general solution as conda. I count my blessings every day I get to use it, remembering the bad old days with Python’s native packaging, wheels & eggs, and then also the pipfile / pipenv mess.
> No one is coercing anyone else.

Specifically because Schmidt made a career as a lobbyist for privacy erosion, I think he's open to criticism on this basis, even if he is not guilty of coercion.

If it were some random person who was just developing a product I would agree with you to leave well enough alone, but I think the lobbying angle is enough to clear the bar of "theses actions should be publicly scrutinized".
That phenomenon is worse in environments with lots of compliance, as the security people tend to think like auditors instead of security professionals.
Meh, their TOS are nonsense.

Facebook wouldn't have a snowflakes chance in hell of demonstrating that even the most technically include user, or even a regular lawyer, fully understands what their agreeing to.

As far as I'm concerned, contracts are only binding if informed consent is given, and that's strictly not possible with Facebook's end user agreements.

Edit to add: what I mean to say is, we need strong legal protections for the average person in this the-user-isn't-the-customer world we live in.
My buddies from highschool and I used to have one for posting goofy internet stuff, but it's been pretty dead for years.
There is nothing wrong with using ROC for imbalanced data. It is also perfectly reasonable to use an enriched dataset for a reader study, this is the standard practice.
The carbon costs of manufacturing a replacement fleet of cars is surely vast.

Meanwhile, the internal combustion engine is perfectly capable of running on a whole slew of renewable fuels, including but not limited to hydrogen gas, methanol, etc.

It's not the most efficient in the long run, but it's a piece of the puzzle, especially when you consider the baseline energetic/carbon costs of building new vehicles from scratch.

P.s. lithium is a conflict mineral now.
I tried to create a group on cryptography (in order to fill my newsfeed with interesting posts) buy nobody seemed to be interested. If anyone here is I could post the link.
Tricare (which is for active duty and retired) is entirely different from the VA.
Thanks for your feedback! We plan to add audio to CC Search later this year (probably in Q4). We will have searching by license type built in from the beginning and those all sound like great filters to add.
Indiscriminate click fraud means small advertisers get screwed too.
Yeah just kind of recklessly scrolling through the article and the specimen in there caused me to back up and take a cloer look. Something compelling about those, definitely would like to tool around in one.
OK, I was curious so just did some math.

Gasoline has energy density of 34.2 MJ/L, or 9.5 kWh/L[1]. Its retail price is about $3/gallon, or $0.8/L.

So, assuming 100% efficiency, the energy source for making gasoline should be ~$0.084/kWh to break even.

Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates 2022's solar/wind generation cost at $73.7 and $55.8 per MWh [2], or $0.0737 and $0.0558 per kWh.

Assuming wind power, gasoline generation has to be ~66% efficient to break even, which is (I guess) not physically impossible, but an incredible engineering challenge.

...and that's assuming retail price. I'm not an energy expert, but [3] seems to say that gasoline's current bulk price is ~$1.5/gallon, which pushes the technology firmly on the side of losing money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

[3] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=e...
They have to accept a more normalized - ie slow - rate of economic growth. They have to switch from the non-stop stimulus & extreme debt based approach, to allowing organic growth to mostly take over.

They've been riding an unsustainable approach since the great recession mess tanked the global consumer. Simply put, they have to switch to a sustainable model for their economy. It's a painful process, made worse by the choices of delay that they've previously made.

It's also not uncommon. The US nearly got thrown into a depression by the stupidity of the Fed trying to avoid a recession after 9/11 and the stock market crash post dotcom bubble. You can try to dodge reality, usually though it'll just compound the painful price you pay later. In China's case, the potential price is best represented by what has happened to Japan through their previous attempts to dodge economic reality (via debt, keeping zombie corporations alive, etc).

China's organic rate of growth would be very low (for them, versus the recent past). Strip out the fake numbers, then reduce the stimulus efforts to mostly emergency circumstances, and you'd see something more typical like 2% to 3% GDP growth. That's obviously unacceptable to the government authorities.

The Chinese Government is trying to both delay and buffer that process, of dropping from the previously fast rates of growth to the rates you see in more developed nations. I think they fully understand it's inevitable. They want to minimize the social disharmony of it, for the purpose of retaining their power. The fear of revolution is always present. They're trading future stagnation for present buffering of the downside to dropping rapidly from high growth to slow growth (they'll worry about the consequences of that trade later). China faces the not enviable situation of ending up with a mature, slow growth economy, while still having hundreds of millions of people in near third world poverty. I think that's impossible for them to avoid given the scale of their population, the present phase that it's in in terms of transition, and typical rates of more normal organic economic expansion (whether domestically or in the global economy).

How do you explain to 500 million extremely poor people that the best days of growth are permanently over and they'll never get to become well-off like the lucky ~10% that were in the right places in eastern China 20-30 years ago and got to ride the easy boom? To maintain that fantasy (that everyone will get to participate, even though the party is already over), you need to project extremely high rates of growth. Traditional service economies with their far slower growth can never deliver on that.
One piece of advice almost never given is that some people just should not work for a boss. It's hard to know when you're that person because you can be smart and engaging and still qualify.
Oh not much worse than nuclear war. Carry on then.
Probably my wording was wrong. I was thinking more of a system where the password itself was generated and stored on a hardware device. The user need not interact with any application, whatsoever, like 1Password or Lastpass to generate or store a password at all. Everything happens behind the scenes on the device. The user would be responsible only for keeping the hardware device safe.

This probably makes 2FA moot for some scenerios. For scenarios where losing the token is a real risk, you would implement 2FA.
>Running a small to medium site isn’t too hard.

It's hard enough that most people don't do it and a lot of them can't do it without expending unreasonable amount of time on learning how to jump through hoops. If you don't see that, you live in a bubble.