skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of many attack vectors. Weaken the encryption, backdoor the encryption. Secret flaws in plain sight in the app.
Conversely, maybe the people who should be replaced by such AI are teachers and professors.

What if you could beneficially weaponize an AI to teach children/people a vast body of knowledge quickly on any given subject.

Please see the movie; Lawnmower Man
That’s a great book. It has a lot of details provided by the mission participants and also reveals the politics between the CIA and the Navy.

A bonus for me in this book was the coverage about how the CIA built the U-2 and the A-12 Oxcart in secret.
This was taught to us as kids.

3 types of arguments - vaada, vivaada, and vittanda vaada.
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>macroscale differences aren't [necessarily] inherent.

That's true up to a point. In general, phys ed classes/requirements in high school and university aside, if you're a thoroughly so-so team athlete in general, society is mostly perfectly fine with programs that strongly prioritize attention on the gifted.

To some degree this happens with academics at the university level. But in high school there's an, if not zero sum something close to, tradeoff between focusing on the students who are more motivated and/or have seemingly more aptitude for certain subjects vs. focusing resources on mainstream or even struggling students.
The executive order doesn't actually do anything about debt.

It just requests reports from various agencies, which will then be used to help shape policy in 2020 when the Higher Education Act is reauthorized. Similar reports have been requested by previous administrations, to little effect.

The EO was largely about free speech at research universities, which is extremely narrow and ignores the really problematic institutions both in terms of free speech and in terms of student loan debt.

The free speech rules apply to places like UC Berkeley and UIUC (who are already obligated to follow 1A, and who the courts are adequately dealing with when the don't) but not places like Wheaton College and Cedarville University (both of whom will fire tenured faculty for not being Christian or Republican enough, and expel students for being unapologetically homosexual).

Because the oversight is targeted at research institutions, it also completely ignores for-profit institutions where 50% of students fall into default as well as non-research private institutions which are often far more expensive than their public counter-parts.

Both are by design -- requiring free speech and financial accountability from any recipient of federal student loan money would put lots of conservative christian colleges in very hot water...
> These characters are tiny and cartoon like but the voices of them suffering in this made me feel so bad and similar to stuff happening the real world I thought we should take the mission out of the game - I think they toned it down a bit but it was in the final version.

I definitely see your point. Though, I also think that mission was extremely memorable and effective in illustrating Arthas's "win at all costs" mentality, probably in part because of how brutal and potentially similar to real events it was.

That mission was definitely the turning point where I (and likely many other players) realized "oh, maybe Arthas isn't really a good person" and the whole descent into madness made a lot more sense.
You just accurately described many of the problems in this world.

For the record though I don't have a degree myself and I've never been denied for it during the HR screening process, I'm a developer and I use my existing work to market myself. I understand that in other fields this is either very hard to do or near impossible (Doctors, for example, could never do that).

In an ideal world, if we could restructure society, we'd have corporations take on the burden of educating their workforce entirely - for instance perhaps out of high school if you were interested in being an accountant you'd intern or do a 2 year rigorous learning/onboarding process at company X where you'd agree to work for less or stay on for Y amount of years. I think a system like that would work a lot better for a lot of people and ultimately bring the cost of higher education down for the people who simply can't avoid it.
> Actually, they are not. I mean, there are entity tables (the resources) and then there are the relationship tables (the... relations)

Foreign keys are put in entity tables in normalized databases.

> The identity of neither the pet or the owner depend on each other

So then the only thing that belongs on the pet itself is an arbitrary id? Because the identity of the pet doesn't depend on it's age or when it was born, and a timestamp is just a timestamp, so putting "time of birth" could just be a link relationship to another entity.

Same for breed. Location too, that's not a tool for identifying the pet. Heck, even the name is often defined by the pet-owner relationship but not the pet itself.

So we're left with a pet object that has only a uuid, and a set of link relations in the headers.

Why is that better? You've said my way is "wrong", but you haven't actually explained what your way does to improve the situation. I just demonstrated that any arbitrary piece of info can be represented as a link relationship, so the whole thing is arbitrary anyway.

So the simple question, the only question is, as a designer or user of an API, how does sticking some relationships in headers make my life easier? How do I decide which relationships those should be?

You clearly have opinions on how this should be done, but neither you nor the RFC explains what I gain from your way of doing things. So again, I'm not asking what I should do, I'm asking why?
What it's missing: federation, a stable/open protocol
AI scales much better, than human bs generators. I consider at least this aspect concerning.
When I used Android, Signal doubled as a regular SMS app.

That meant you would only use Signal, and the recipient would receive the message via Signal if he too was a user. Basically it worked like iMessage on iOS, but was 100% OSS.

Which from what I can tell, is a thing people here on HN (not to mention /r/Android) are asking for all the time.

Using Signal on iOS though indeed feels weirder because you always need to “discover” who has what IM-service, and then start the corresponding app.

That’s a flaw of iOS though, and not Signal, and all non-iMessage services suffers for that.
There was a time when it was possible to sit for the bar exam without having to pay rent to a law school, but naturally the law schools lobbied to change this.
Thanks a lot for it. Your words are really helping me to take the decision. :)
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In your written testimony, the goals for privacy regulation seem quite watered down from past proposals of yours like prohibiting behavioral ad targeting, or eliminating data brokers altogether.

Does this represent a shift in what you think is reasonable, or achievable, or just language tailored for the audience?
The language learning mechanisms for children and adults seem very different at any rate.
It prevents high power careers like lawyers and doctors from 'doing away with their loans' as removing those degrees means you can't practice while making lesser degrees dischargeable.

It would also make lenders want to make your succeed (it is their money)
The data Snowden took relative to his access level does not support your theory.

The most amazing thing about Snowden case was his access to information. Normally NSA employees have a combination of clearances: TS (top secret) and then SI (signals intelligence), TK (talent keyhole), and Gamma (with subcompartments).

But then they gave some IT staff like Snowden special "root access like" clearance called PRIVAC (Privileged Access) where people had access to all data collected. Snowden had open list of live feeds from all active operations, drone feeds and other information regardless of classification all over the world.

PRIVAC didn't have two man rule, restricted access to contractors or compartmentalization until Snowden came out and Senate hearings happened. NSA clearly prioritized cost and data collecting over security.

If there was actual spy in the same position as Snowden, or if Snowden really had
the intention to spill everything to harm the US, the damage done would be catastrophic.
Maybe this paper is of interest: Panzner (2016): "Comparing hidden markov models and long short term memory neural networks for learning action representations"

https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2903474/2907910/MOD201...
cope however you want. I have a tesla the auto braking alone saved my ass once. you’re going to get into an accident one day that a modern car would have avoided.
> just how complicated modern software is

I went to a coding camp. I sat in a group working with my classmates on our group project and I noted that what we were learning was "just enough so that we can learn reasonably well on our own.... so that maybe later we will be good at this".

They looked horrified...

Most boot camp students really do not know at all the level of complexity involved, how much you need to just go figure out yourself / learn about ... learning, and etc.
Bootcamps don’t provide an adequate training to become an engineer, yes, but believe it or not there are plenty of very good engineers who have things besides work at the top of their value list. Your post reflects narrow mindedness and a lack of empathy.
Yes, I would eat lab-grown meat (fish or otherwise).
> If I am still injured, I should know it so I don't over do it before my body has healed

To address this specific point (not the rest of your comment, which I largely agree with): this is in line with the "old" bio-medical model of pain, and not up to date with the modern bio-psycho-social model of pain. In many cases, the biological insult to tissues will fully heal far in advance of pain subsidence, or conversely will heal long after pain subsidence. The point being that a pain experience is not an accurate indicator of the state of one's tissues.

For a primer on this more modern model of pain experiences, please give this excellent video a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCF1_Fs00nM
The same thing happened with the "cookie law" too. The law was created to gently nudge companies away from abusive tracking, by requiring to inform users about third-party cookies. But instead of stopping to use third-party trackers, the web world has simply shown the finger to the regulators, and that's how we got cookie notices on every site.

My guess is that's where GDPR got its teeth from - the regulators tried the "industry self-regulation" route before, and it failed spectacularly.
Deliquency can be traced to lies about placement rates and non-dischargeable loans.
Treasure island is basically a superfund site. But they dont want to talk about it.
Signal isn't federated. Use Matrix instead.
If you can't find gainful employment with your new degree, not much worth repossessing, is there?
An analogy:

Go down a sea wall and dunk a measuring stick in. As the waves lap against it, how far in advance can you predict the exact height measured? Not much more than a second - it's too chaotic.

But observe it for a day or two, and deduce the existence of tides. Now you can easily predict the average (minute-to-minute) water height months in advance.
Wtf? How did they get credit ratings and where was that reported? That sounds like a huge red flag.
Modded Roomba screams in mortal pain when it runs into things
> Voluntarily giving up control, and voluntarily taking steps to deprive oneself of the ability to do mischief, does not come naturally to many people

Nor to the author, himself, clearly.
I manage FB ads for a living. I can guarantee you the cambridge analytica data was close to useless (custom audiences almost always are compared to lookalikes. Especially a broad untargeted audience like that.)

Much more impactful was organic (non paid ads) russian efforts.
Interesting its normally parents wanting kids to do one of the big 3 law, medicine and engineering.
It’s amazing to think that it was invented by Theramin. Also:

Theremin created the Buran eavesdropping system. A precursor to the modern laser microphone, it worked by using a low-power infrared beam from a distance to detect sound vibrations in glass windows.
Yo Mama Is a Dev
-They've kept the melody (which, I agree, as far as national anthems go, is the one to beat) - but the lyrics have changed, three times I believe in Soviet times and then again as it became Russia's anthem.

Now they're stuck with it, though - all versions had lyrics written by the same guy, Sergei Mikhalkov, who died in 2009.
* free market intensifies
Recommending a solution for a critical need without communicating the limitations doesn't seem like good engineering practice.
I'm not sure if you're being tongue-in-cheek, but:

* Training on Sci-hub or book torrents would probably get them sued, so that's right out.

* The point of training the model on reddit-linked-articles with 3+ karma (not reddit comments, as the article suggests) is to filter out worthless content (spam or non-text pages) while still getting a large, diverse sampling of human writing. They're training huge models and they need as much data as possible to do so.

* Every native english speaker is a "domain expert" for the purpose of evaluating the model's results. The point at which we need subject-matter experts to evaluate the quality of neural-net generated research papers is many decades away; the excitement around GPT-2 is that it can generate coherent English sentences at all.
It was also overblown to the extent that there as a material 'scandal'. Most of the issue really had to do with the very public fact of Facebook's API's at the time.

Facebook rolled that stuff back long ago when it seemed there could be problems.

And of course, the misrepresentation of how the data was acquired - because the story was tied into other entities who got 'special access'. The blending of those stories created a false narrative.

To me - this is not about CA, it's about the press, clickbait, narrative management, PR and communications.

Knowing roughly 'what's happening' and lining that up against the narrative, the glowing glam-shots of the whistleblower in the Guardian, Facebook's response, the various versions of 'outrage' among the politicos. And nary anyone seemed to be on top of the basic reality.
I was thinking the same thing - Style Transfer GAN's
you need to chill. he will not go to jail for writing software and releasing it. the fact that you think it’s ok to jail people for programming makes me want to throw you in the gulag instead.
'We got showed up by a 19-year-old': A daughter's ingenuity saved two lives
What is the point? How many people have you talked today? Everyone outside has an interesting story to share. The world is a fascinating place that should never cease to amaze you.

Honestly, IMHO your stance borders with depression, please get that checked.

For example, we could continue development of nuclear technology and solar arrays. Both of these technologies are guaranteed to be a success (the principle is proven) and offer solutions to most of our energy-related problems. We need to push harder! And I'm sure we can do it. Cultured meat and vertical farming is going to help solving our environmental crisis and will free significant space for new and old population.
> Aside from that, I'm curious how do you manage alowing API clients to create new relationships or change them?

What's hard to understand? If you add a resource then you update your link relations. If you actually tried to implement a REST API instead of RPC-over-HTTP then the client navigates link relations just as before. That's pretty much the whole basic premise of REST.
What's the alternative for something as complex as self-driving system?
Nearly all the times when a fiat currency "dies", it does so by people simply converting all their money into its replacement. More often than not, there's even a nominal equivalence between the old and new currencies. Describing this process as "death" is just sensationalist.

The cases where a fiat currency disappeared and left its holders without nothing are so rare that they make it into high-school history books.
And I'm still skeptical either were that effective. Domestic efforts go into the billions of dollars and involve entire sectors of the domestic economy.
Thanks so much for injecting facts into this, and changing my view a bit!

My, now less certain views, were based on some article I read years ago where the peak ages for various fields were listed, and were quite further spread out. I especially remember that historians peak in their 60s!

Like someone says in your article "This myth, if you wish to call it a myth, is so prevalent that it's quite probable that there's some truth to it", but I'm now far less certain and flippant about. Thanks again!
Not as they currently do it, no, but I imagine (at least with future loans), it could have the penalty that the university would not issue your transcript or vouch for your degree when the loan became delinquent enough. That would be similar in spirit repossession (except that the bank couldn't sell it).

But of course, they wouldn't get to take back any of that valuable knowledge and human capital you acquired there /semi-s
For the record - I haven’t seen any of the current spiderman movies and have no idea who Ned is.
Are you sure? Seems to me that less skilled and less dynamic engineers are the first people to have their jobs automated away.
I’m convinced you can’t fix the education problem in the US until you can fix the demand side as well. Where I live in Maryland, you can do two years at the local community college (which is excellent) for $8,000 in tuition and fees (total), before finishing up at a four year-college. Very few people take advantage of the opportunity.

Why are people clamoring for free college when they’re not using the cheaper options that are already available? Say we had free tuition at public colleges. Would we be able to get rid of federal student loans in that case? Or would people just turn their nose up at public colleges, and demand the government pay tuition for private schools? There is something psychologically messed up on the demand side.
Anything that forces adversaries to have novel (let alone sci-fi) technology instead of a warrant is a huge win. Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Julian Assange’s Computers, Cell Phones & Documents to Be Given to United States
That is true but the cohort that have that background is relatively small - in the example mentioned ex miners there will have been a small proportion of such people but a lot will have retrained and gone to work in gas oil or fracking which pays a lot more.
Many thanks for taking advantage of your opportunity to give a thoughtful and reasoned statement to the committee! Your advocacy of late has done a lot to raise the profile of these privacy issues, and you've been able to keep your explanations clear and understandable. That's not easy, and you've clearly taken time to prepare your critiques.

This extends to your Tech Solidarity [1] work, coaching politicians and journalists... (Thank you for updating/clarifying your recommendations last month to keep it current!)

Your Tech Solidarity security guidelines are purely defensive in nature, while this testimony was much more proactive and forward-thinking... Have you given consideration to spending more of your time lobbying in favor of specific legislation or educating politicians about these topics on a longer term basis? You seem to have their ear, and could conceivably fundraise around these issues. (I realize the personal commitment it would require on your part - just curious whether you're thinking about next steps...)

In the meantime, are there things that average internet citizens can do beyond following the Tech Solidarity guidelines to both protect their own privacy and also support/advocate for progress on these issues? I can pretty easily block trackers, use 2FA, use HTTPS Everywhere, but as you've articulated in your testimony, what we really need is a sort of "herd immunity" like what vaccines attempt to achieve. How do we get there from here?

[1] https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm
So then it should refer to a press release, release announcement, github commit, or whatever. Just linking to the site and saying "Snowden supports it!" isn't really useful.
I think you mean it can't be proven not to have 8 bytes of enciphered information.

But anyway, you can use a hash function to generate the 8 bytes of nonce.
I didn't take it as outright "hostile", but rather more of a basis with which to pivot into the idea of doing something different. Which feels like playing to lawmakers' interest / American exceptionalism of doing something "better", but counterproductive given how the US lawmaking process works.

I'm also not personally a huge fan of the GDPR as is, because I agree we have no idea how it will actually play out. But I don't think the American philosophy will be productive at coming up with a different approach. So if it's to be one national regime, why not simply match the EU for now?

If we can't do that, then honestly each state having a different approach sounds better for individuals (assuming it it doesn't devolve into companies demanding one's physical address for compliance). It's more likely that one state will properly codify the idea that users should have full control over data about themselves.

Ultimately I don't think we'll end up with sensible-looking legislation unless legislators actually get down and dirty with the technical specifics. For example, the brokenness of the cookie law actually necessitating cookies could have been avoided by mandating a fixed cookie/header format to express the preference rather than allowing every site to come up with its own bespoke implementation.
Current-day HN strikes me as very similar to early 00s Slashdot, albeit more self-serious and with an ideology more informed by SV capitalism/entrepreneurialism than the convoluted politics of open source software.
Mortal Kombat's whole selling point is the gore and over-the-top violence. It's not known for it's stellar gameplay.
Because most people who study are looking to use their qualification to further their careers, and hiring tends to be very reputation based. It's that demand that would need to change.
> it sounds like Cambridge Analytica was overblown, in the sense that the information wasn’t as useful as claimed

The consequences of the breach were overblown. Its scale and depth, however, were not.
> There is now the risk that iFinex (who control both Bitfinex and Tether) could be technically insolvent

There seems to be a sizable amount of confusion about the difference between insolvency and illiquidity in the tether-watching community.

The fact that they loaned out funds to Bitfinex means that their balance sheet is fine (they are solvent), but if everyone redeemed their tether tomorrow, they would have to delay the payout, which is a liquidity issue.

In short: Liquidity issues are solved by capital injections (loans or equity sales, much like the BFX LEO), but solvency issues are not.
Terrible idea because high doses of Ibuprofen has been shown to reduce protein synthesis.

A quick search returns several data like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11832356/

The era of no pain no gain workouts should be done by this point but no like that...