skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still haven't picked up the Doom book but Wolf3D was an amazing read. These books deserve to be in university libraries everywhere, for people to really see a proper dissection of real world code.

Awesome stuff and looking forward to the next thing
Thanks, just came back to share that link. :)

From the introduction, it looks like they group participants into smaller clusters, coordinate between those via the centralized server in a star topology, use Diffie-Helman to share secrets between the participants in a cluster, and construct the canceling noise within that cluster.

The Shamir secret sharing squicks me a bit. It looks like if the adversary can control cluster membership (and Google is the adversary, here), they can recover the gradients.

> To prevent the server from simulating an arbitrary number of clients (in the active-adversary model), we require the support of a public key infrastructure that allows clients to
register identities, and sign messages using their identity, such that other clients can verify this signature, but cannot
impersonate them. In this model, each party u will register to a public bulletin board during the setup phase. The bulletin board will only allow parties to register keys for themselves, so it will not be possible for the attacking parties
to impersonate honest parties.
Every Jewel Osco I've been to in Chicago has the magnetic locks. The homeless that steal carts always have Whole Foods carts.
This does not make me think better of Carly Fiorina, it makes me think worse of Mark Hurd.
Assumes grocer’s primary customer is consumers. What does the product manufacturer or the distributor want? Not the same as what the consumer wants. Who pays what to the grocer? Ever seen 3-5 people staring at shelf space and taking notes? Guess what they are buying.
The dark forest theory of the internet
If that's true you're a terrible person.
Could someone give an overview of what is covered and whether it is still worth to invest reading these books ? Are any of the techniques still valid ?
20 years ago, when I was a bright eyed graduate student, I was mesmerized by MEMS (micro-electro mechanical systems), which promised similar revolution. I learnt about 'artificial muscles', and MIT Technology Review even ran a cover issue on how MEMS will revolutionize everything. This article could have been written in the year 2000 except it would have mentioned MEMS then. Now there is no mention of it. I'm older and saner now. Still feels very much a academic pipe dream than real engineering. I dreamed of working with Kris Pister and now he is 20 years older. Another young professor at UPenn and Cornell is trying to get tenure....call me cynical but this too shall pass. Issues of toxicity in human body etc are huge...
This happened to me a few years ago. Due to the volume of (danish) email I would get for this other guy it became impossible to actually use in any real sense.

I had no real choice but to create a new (and more esoteric) email address
> But for Florida’s struggling orange and grapefruit growers, the approvals could not come soon enough. The desperation is palpable

They feel their own economic desperation intensely. How much sympathy can they muster for the desperation of those hospitalized with a racing antibiotic-resistant infection, or their loved ones?

Many of those people will end up economically desperate, too.
Finding Out the Right Trading System
I wonder if there would be any merit in replicating the experience on a fully remote team.

Maybe something like everyone schedules Slack video calls once a day with a random team member. Or a quick Flask app to output a schedule for the day.
This is my favorite augmented reality game:

https://youtu.be/8t4pmlHRokg
It’s solving a performance problem on low-powered, embedded web platforms, such as TVs and even consoles with powerful hardware but inefficient browsers (e.g. PS4’s WebMAF).
>I wonder what aspirational thing we hold dear today will in retrospect become something more the opposite in the future. Renewable energy? Universal basic income? Universal healthcare? Self-driving cars? Electric vehicles?

Self driving cars for sure.

They remove the largest barriers to car use; that is, the costs of ownership, parking, and licensing. This latter fact means that they expand the total set of possible car drivers.

All of this means that the amount of cars on the road is likely to explode, which will dramatically increase congestion.

My expectation is that cities, which are already trying hard to shift people away from car oriented transportation options, will take a dim view of autonomous cars, and continue their efforts to shift away from the car.
In fairness they did do long enough ago that they would have massively messed it up if they at least didn't understand something about running software.

SFDC hate is pretty common, maybe because of how big they are. I think that their tech is actually pretty impressive.
Novosbed+Coupon+Memorial+Day+Savings
> You could never employ somebody as a greeter here, or to pack your groceries, or to pump your gas, or other extremely menial and near useless jobs.

Well, not full time.

Some German grocers have started to employ very young people during Fridays and Saturdays as packers. They look young enough to be still in school, also collect tips with little boxes, but they are not full-time employees but rather "mini-jobbers".

Which is just such a weird transition considering that many of the jobs I did in my youth have now been turned into their own weird job sectors like that.

While delivering papers is now something exclusively done by adults in cars, as an extra income stream for unemployed on social security. I don't know how that can be economic but I see it happening all the time.

> Personally I think it's a big step backwards to have people do extremely basic stuff as busy work.

Some would argue that's been happening on a rather massive scale for a while already. Our productivity constantly increases, so do our numbers, as such it's only a matter of time before we end up with a whole lot of "surplus" humans in terms of labor demand for keeping everything going.
I wish we could spend a little political energy on banning the use of human antibiotics for agriculture. If the EU can do it, why can't we?
> That makes it at best a structured payout program.

This is what prepay's are, and HMO's. You have 2 opinions on HMO: they love it because pricing is transparent, they dislike it because they ration service. An example of that with Kaiser: they put severe barriers on their own mental health services.
An industry gossip for you: one of the biggest consumer of mental health services at Kaiser is Kaiser doctors.

> Insurance companies get paid in advance, and their goal is not to provide the best care but to return the largest amount possible to their shareholders...

At the same time, insurance has an interest in controlling how much the insurance is used, something governments can fail at pretty hard. Remember Medicare insurance already costs 1k per person per month. That's the socialized system america has now, and it won't be more efficient by being bigger.

> Think about it, if you could access any procedure right now, what would you get done? Nothing, because it's not fun, it's not rewarding.

This is just not the reality. It's a well studied effect, denying it is depriving the science behind policy analysis from any legitimacy.

> Respectfully disagree. Both my parents are doctors, and I grew up in numerous medical systems all over the world. I've benefitted hugely from socialized medical systems and not having one right now is downright terrifying even though I'm well 'insured'.

They told you that patients never go to the doctor for superfluous reasons? I won't believe it. I am in the industry and I can see every case imaginable.

We have had this argument before. The U.S. socializing healthcare will not bring out-of-us healthcare results. It will get something else, because what makes healthcare suck is not private vs public, it's the regulatory framework.
Credit card fees are included in every purchase. I typically end up with 20 to 100 bucks every month. If I use that for travel I get even more. Twenty dollars in cash tends to last me an entire month.
He billed these companies without first confirming the rate, estimate, or if he would receive any payment. I wonder if these invoices were sent to the hiring manager or just sent to AP directly hoping they’d pay it out accidentally.
Ban triclosan antibacterial soaps but expand antibiotic use in the food supply to include the produce department, OK.
This is reminiscent of bitcoin mining, except the thing being mined here is an AI's "intelligence", and consumer's data is the key to it. The benefit is that the consumer doesn't have to give up their data, just their compute power. Obviously, this should be an opt-in service and people should be getting paid for the compute time they loan out.
I wonder if one can pin a camera on the ceiling looking down at the conveyor belt, scanning all barcodes at once? Better than doing them manually one by one. If every box has barcodes on every side it should be possible for the software, knowing the size of the box, to get an idea if everything was scanned correctly or if an item had the barcode obscured. Maybe 2-3 cameras under different angles.

Cameras are cheap, and recognition software scales well.
Yours is a fascinating anecdote in the history of private labeling, which originated in the U.K. recession in the early 80’s wherein retailers began store brands to lower prices out of necessity to keep customer loyalty.

Having spent the last 4 years in sourcing, I can say I am excited to try store brands because I know most of the time marquee brands are more expensive because of their unit cost of marketing. I strongly speculate this is the main reason for Kraft Heinz’s struggles.
Ha. Yes, personally I feel there are some overtones. I keep it to myself, but I tend to smile and nod when seeing its use. I admit the term's useful though, as others have explained it does capture more than just a state of focus.
Beijing to punish passengers who eat on subway
Use the wayback machine browser plugin allowing you to conveniently use the "save now" function which immediately saves the website to archive.org https://archive.org/web/
Nature and life is full of diversity, from where you are born to the structure of your brain to the occupation of your parents.

We say "celibrate diversity", but then try to quash it by making everyone appear equal and the same.

We are born in different circumstances. Sometimes being rich is a hindrance, making people lazy and unmotivated. Sometimes being poor is a hindrance. But sometimes it is motivation to work hard to escape poverty.

I think it's a little crazy that a committee of people get together and think they can "fix" someone's life circumstances, while in the process they are also hurting others'. We are not wise enough to make these decisions for others.
Good, that way the subways will stay clean.

Were you implying this was supposed to be a bad thing?
Trouble is that rich people don’t want to share cars with homeless people. If they did, they would actually have to spend money on fixing homeless issue.
anti-science lobby at its worst. Because the solution is absolutely safe genetically modified citrus strain.
Google’s automation with calendar auto-adding events from email and not correcting is so bad that I switched to macOS/iOS Calendar and started weening myself off of Google’s services.

They’ve had issues for years, and don’t seem interested in ficin
> If medical coding were such a simple automateable problem it would have been done

This profession exists only in the US. What are the other modern healthcare systems doing so they don’t need a coder? I’ll leave that for you to discover.
You can download the PDFs and look at the table of contents if you'd like
I mean, they're literally gaming the system. I don't see anything wrong with punishing them for that.
What if I told you... this is literally one of the best ways to use audit systems...
At some point you might be able to just hold your hand in front of the phone and have it recognize your gestures.
Florida is a swing state
> The arguments you're making could really be applied to healthcare in general.

For many areas sure. Most importantly to primary care. I believe primary care should not be part of an insurance model. It's been brought to this for some good reasons and some bad reasons.

Single-payer cannot fix over-utilization. The iron triangle of healthcare: cost, quality, access. If access is unlimited, cost will go up. (Over-utilization a term commonly understood for the use of resources for very low marginal returns).

> The modal number of visits per outpatient therapy client/patient is 1

Even more sensical to make it cash pay! I would agree that cash pay in the current system probably leads to underutilization. Which is why a low(access x quality) x low(price) solution from the state would be great to help the bottom ranks and the rest can pay for it themselves.

> The current zeitgeist with therapy is to taper off or terminate as soon as possible, and reinitiate as needed, at least in the US

This brings another argument on utilization: if you look at it across cultures, it's going to be radically different. It's not something reasonable to insure against.

Long term, freeing therapy from insurance works in the favor of therapists: as a political body I would ask tax exemptions that match what insurance companies get and be on your own. (I would recommend the same strategy to primary care doctors, and they are already doing it with the DPC model).
In those situations, I've had my paychecks deposit into my savings account and "pay myself" out of that savings account at the first of the month. I would recommend this algorithm in general, actually--give yourself a zero-based budget, stop around the point where it's measurably below your monthly take-home income, and then pay yourself that amount every month out of savings while backfilling your savings from your income. If you have an emergency, take it out of your savings. If your savings get big enough, dump some of it into your IRA or get yourself something nice.

I think part of it might be down to numeric intuition. If you get paid $250 a week or $1000 a month, that's the same amount of money, but $1000 is a big enough number that you think in terms of, "ok, $300 for rent, $200 for groceries..." whereas $250 per week makes you think, "hey, I can blow all of this at the bar because there's another $250 next Friday and I'm sure I can scrape up the extra $50 for rent by then". $50 per day makes it a lot easier to blow the money because you're only ever blowing $50 at a time.

And I don't want to make it seem like this is because poor people are stupid. I'm stupid. There are days when I reason, "hey, I can totally eat a pint of Ben & Jerry's today, it's just one pint, I can make up the calorie surplus some other day", but it just adds up in the long run and now I'm fat. And this is exactly the same intuitive gap that would lead someone to blow daily or weekly paychecks far more recklessly than they would blow a monthly paycheck. (Relatedly, I hear that meal planning is a good strategy for losing weight!)
I’m sorry but this doesn’t bely my point. This sounds like insurance companies and healthcare providers have made healthcare needlessly complex. If they are the same procedure why should 2 codes exist at all?
Oh yay, another thing I can't F'king eat now.
How is java expressive when you don't have operator overloads?
Air? For putting more air in your tires?
It amazes and angers me by how much harm is done by:

1) anti-vaxers
2) anti-nuclear
3) anti-GMO

A (much) Better public education is desperately needed
Insurance on chronic disease is absolutely doable and it has to be done before diagnosis.

I wonder if the market offers a low cost health insurance from the moment a person is born dedicated to chronic diseases. I know life-insurance does ,and rather cheaply.
I use uMatrix, which gives better control.
The last image is creepy.
Those are some really weird sales then, what use is the sale if nobody knows about it?

In Germany, most grocers have little leaflets where the majority of sales are announced a bit ahead of time.

Aldi makes a lot of consumer goods business with that, when they sold their first desktop in the mid-90s, all of them built by Medion in the UK, it was a huge deal with long waiting lines even before the stores opened and them running out of stock in a matter of hours.
Woah there. There are legitimate reasons for being anti-nuclear and anti-GMO. Ridiculous that you just lumped those in with anti-vaxxers.
I would be fine with that setup. Its pretty ridicolous to me to keep all the crazy homeless people crapping on the streets of san francisco: very low standards of care will yield fantastic results for them, and not be extended to users that can pay better care somewhere else.

This duality is most common in countries with socialized healthcare: allows for the affluent to spend more, and for everyone to have a base level. (An UBI for healthcare!)
What a thought-provoking short video, thanks for sharing.

As for the researchers aiming to ban autonomous weapons at the UN, how would instituting a ban actually solve anything? It wouldn't prevent someone in their basement from building them, nor would it be a deterrent to states with a strong military from developing them.
Android's default SMS app sends your messages to Google to activate the "Quick-reply suggestions" and "Messages for Web" features.
Reading this really renewed my appreciation for the sophistication and ease of use of pf(4) and related networking utilities in OpenBSD. What a tremendous amount of work has been done in 30 years!

https://man.openbsd.org/pf
What is it like to program for a supercomputer? Where can I learn about it? Not having an academic affiliation, is there anywhere I can run small jobs affordably?
The 3.5% Rule
All arguments I've seen against them have been really weak or intentionally misleading.
anti-GMO means more pesticides, antibiotics, etc.
GMOs are much safer and environmentally friendly solution to pesticides, herbicides, etc.
Don’t even get me started on anti-nuclear (and it is off-topic here)
Cheers for GIL removed!
Does anyone know the store she was referring to? At first I thought it might be Foodhall in 16th and Valencia but it doesn’t quite match the description.
Cloudflare has full Whois and at-cost domains with their registrar.
I’m a bit sad. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to make my company switch to something like this, but if I were ever in the position to make that choice myself?...

The problem is the decision makers don’t mind being interrupted all the time.
>It is a strange space. LOTS of room for efficiency and at the same time so easy to say "oh yeah this could be done better" and then you fall on your face because logic is not how anything / anyone works ;)

Sounds like a perfect opportunity for somebody like Amazon to shake things up. Where a smaller entrant might have trouble breaking that mentality, Amazon can do things however they want without worrying about having to attract customers who want to do things the old way.
Well if large companies have access to metadata like this aggregate or not they know what people are doing, looking at, and talking about. Which allows them to play the financial markets like a drum. Why do they need the aggregate data? To make money plane and simple, tis capitalism 101.
I've been saying that about Apple's privacy lip service and disingenuous privacy marketing for a long time.
Yes. They've been asking for more quarters lately, too. Some will give it to you free (complementary air) if you buy something in the store. Others stay extra greedy.
There are still plenty of rational people out there. If we're lucky, we might be getting GMO'd citrus-green-disease fighting trees using a mustard gene in a few years:

https://www.growingproduce.com/citrus/insect-disease-update/...
From the paper: https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

> We rely on Shamir’s t-out-of-n Secret Sharing [50], which
allows a user to split a secret s into n shares, such that any t shares can be used to reconstruct s, but any set of at most t − 1 shares gives no information about s.
My response, when I hear someone tell me that they see cyclists breaking the law, is to ask how many - in a given day. Five? Ten? Sure, I could believe that. Then I ask them how many drivers they see breaking the law in a given day...
Don’t use confluence. There are knowledgebases with way less friction.
/r/Motorcycles had this posted a couple days ago:

https://i.redd.it/59jp81szfdy21.jpg

A bicyclist likely would have lost their legs, if they survived at all.

Meanwhile, the risk of lanesplitting is that might sideswipe somebody and need to pay to get their paint fixed.
Inside Google's Civil War
Is checkout speed really limiting factor in grocery store growth though? Like are people that sensitive to the few extra minutes (at most) at the checkout counter they'll switch where they shop?

I personally can't see myself switching from my local store even if it takes like 3 more minutes to check out. Maybe I'm just lucky though to think it's 3 minutes extra at most?...
The trees are over 50 years old though, even setting up new gmo orchards would take a long time.
Like nuclear, and also like all consumer products, there have been accidents with vaccines. Unfortunately we live in an imperfect world where there is a tinge of validity to every consumer fear.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0409-349a

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/contaminated-vacci...
Doesn't the 1st amendment apply? Surely the right to free speech includes the right to decide what NOT to speak?
It is hard to entertain a messaging product for which the author says they’re explicitly intending to stay solo.
I'm in Spain and I use 0.5€ and 1€
I honestly think a lot of hiring managers don’t know what is the best way to hire. So many things in life are based on copycat culture (every NBA team shoots 3s now like the Warriors all of a sudden for example), and every software company now needs to make sure all their candidates know how to write optimal algorithms like Facebook/google candidates. But a lot of these companies are not google or Facebook or amazon, so they rely on stuff like Codality to essentially copy the hiring process of a top company when they really don’t even solve the kinds of problems google engineers deal with.

Basically need a Codality for normal companies with reasonable mixture of real world practical problems, and reasonable algorithm questions. Then hopefully the copy cat culture can pick up on that and we’ll have an organic fix to the shitty programming interview puzzle garbage filtering out decent developers who are just fine for most companies.
mems are everywhere my dude!
GMOs is a large category. Some GMOs, like those that derive their genes from other edible plants are pretty safe. Yet other GMOs might not be. You can't be in favor of all GMOs as some sort of panacea. Instead you should be in favor of them on a case-by-case basis where what gene is added from where to produce what. Adding genes to plants so that they are resistant to greater amounts of herbicide to me sounds like a bad idea as does adding proteins that kill a broad range of insects. Also ownership is a rather large issue... in that plants should not be owned by large corporations that then control the livelihoods of farmers and the food supply.

Example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_maize#Con...
this is why we should listen to science and statistics to chose our options, not fear mongering and political agendas
I have it! It sets the country to Panama and a generated e-mail which I guess just redirects stuff to my real address? I haven't bothered to check that. It's using whoisguard.com for the garbled email.

The domain is "thelittleshits.net" (I'm absolutely serious, I needed a domain for testing a deployment and couldn't come up with anything)
Yes, doing that now. :)