skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you want poltergeists? Because this is how you get poltergeists.
> Housing is like health care in that the market is sorely lacking in its ability to distribute those resources equitably

This is simply untrue, in that it depends on how regulations have set up those markets. There are plenty of markets around the world that distribute both housing and healthcare far more equitably than the US (e.g. Germany).

The problem is that regulatory capture in the US has prevented regulation that would allow equitable distribution. We allow homeowners to prevent equitable distribution of property that doesn't even belong to those homeowners, because the homeowners feel that they have the right to not see an apartment building a few blocks over. For healthcare we set up markets so that really encourage such a disconnect between the payor, care giver, and patient such that nothing can be performed efficiently, and that care givers and paors are incentivized to raise prices as high as possible.

These are market failures, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible to make a market that would work; we just need to choose to regulate the markets into working like the examples we know.
The IAP lets you change fonts, tint color for buttons and the dark mode theme is unlocked permanently. I didn't want to lock the dark mode for free users - so free users can still enable dark mode but it's on a per session basis. When the app is relaunched (closed from the app switcher or killed by the OS), it defaults to the light theme for free users. I thought this was a good balance for free users and also have the ability to use dark mode permanently.
How does it work, given that the Hacker News API doesn't seem to support write access?
Wow. Quite worrying what this technology may lead to when used in conjunction with voice reconstruction.
«with a fifth of the population struggling to get by» - isn’t this just per definition of poverty: the lower quintile? That is in any place lower quintile is poor. Regardless of their absolute living standards.
Serverless Analytics for Tracking Custom JSON Data
> Investigators can also combine these two tactics with a third: financial information. What is the student’s credit rating? What plastic cards does she carry? Does her purchasing history and behavior match her cover story? Every one of these questions is revealing if answered and devastating if not. There are, after all, very few people who travel abroad without a bank account or credit rating, with no social media history, and a prepaid burner phone—and those who do tend to have something to hide.

Heh, is it something that rare. I personally knew people never ever had even a landline in Russia, and I can't say about that being rare.

On other hand, Russian own spies are said to be intentionally recruited from small towns in Russian Far East
Suggestion: include either default values, example values, or buttons to fill in predefined scenarios. I don't know what would be typical in any given setup, and I'm not sure what a Sabatier is.
This entire thread sounds like the "gamers are the most oppressed group on earth" meme. Maybe it's a generational thing, but "Nerd Culture" was normalized when people stopped caring about the concept of nerds. I don't think I've met anyone under 30 irl who strongly identifies as a nerd the way people in this thread do.
There are also plenty of less dystopian uses for pose tracking, including games, cashless convenience stores, VR/AR applications, and driverless cars predicting pedestrian behavior.
Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
I never said there was a "vast right wing conspiracy" nor did I imply that. You are the only person saying that and thinking that in this thread.

You don't want to jump to conclusions, but you already did, didn't you?

I wrote: "... that a small minority of people (who could be Rs or Ds) can effectively block legislation to change housing laws."

How did you turn that into a vast right wing conspiracy UNLESS you already felt that "someone out there" already thinks that (well before my post)?
Or perhaps even more likely, that both are caused by things like good nutrition.
Guess which President Trumps aren't particularly interested in substantial policy reform as much as picking fights on irrelevant cultural issues.
Very cool, this part is neat:

> ...We present LibSignal*, a brand new, verified implementation of the Signal protocol in WebAssembly, that can be readily used by messaging applications like WhatsApp, Skype, and Signal.

I'm particularly interested in WASM for desktop apps (i.e Photoshop on the browser) but this looks very promising in the security side of things.

The paper is way over my head, but is there any work on WASM security?
It gets the feeds directly from HN website. So whatever content you see on the /front in your browser is what shows in the app. Do you see a difference?
That's big news! Apparently any day now is by the end of June. Here's the announcement for anyone who (like me) hadn't already heard:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/

I'm a little skeptical given the shortcomings/difficulties I encountered last year, but a solid competitor to macOS as a unix workstation with broad desktop app support would be great to have.
They don't matter to the longer run view of civilization.
24 hours seems a little fast. I’ve encountered bodies that have sat for 2-3 days unnoticed (estimated) inside of their house, in the summer, and it’s not too terrible of a smell. If anything, you’d start to see bloating and discoloration, but not enough decay will happen within 24hours that would result in a closed casket viewing. Also, once they stick ‘em in the freezer at the morgue, you’re stalling that decay tremendously — at least long enough to make it to the funeral, which is sometimes up to a week later.

Also, to talk about the parents point on prime real estate, i’m not sure what current rates in other states for a plot but where i’m at, you’re looking at >$1,500/plot for one casket.
They do care about the whole attribution process since this is very relevant to incrementality (which is equivalent to 'they aren't just throwing money away'). But this doesn't necessarily mean that they want to deal with all the details themselves. This is my guess for the parent reply's intention.
What can us kids do to stop this? As sitting down and talking doesn't work. I'd rather not have people knowing when I'm not home.
> Without fingerprinting/certification of the entire javascript-source the server
> could serve a manipulated source code that exfiltrates data

This is actually one of the described use cases of the new webpackage specification:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yasskin-webpackage-use-cas...

Here is the current draft:
https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-dispatch-web...
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You're going to get a lot of comments like these because when you say 'natural language' and 'programming' or 'code' in the same sentence people think coding directly in some 'natural'-like language. Also people often don't click on the actual links and many don't necessarily watch endlessly looping video clips when they do. A little bit of verbiage on the site might help that and head off the more obvious-but-inaccurate critiques. .
> EDIT: To be clear, the browser is a code distribution platform, just like the App Store.

Not exactly the same, and the difference is important.

An iOS app is an iOS app is an iOS app: every user gets the same app. Malicious updates to bonafide releases cannot be targeted to specific users and will be distributed to everybody. Same for playstore.

A browser effectively requests an update, directly, every single time the app is started.† Updates can be targeted very precisely, both to a time and a user.

Circumventing this difference is not a detail, and eliding that when talking about browsers, honestly, implies regular use. Including the behaviour described above.

† An exception is a trick using web workers and github which appeared on HN a while back. That was an actual novice use for JS crypto.
It's fascinating to see how many people jump apparently with little pause feet-first with their pet theories, about which they seem to have no doubt. And this is on HN, which is supposed to be a bastion of rationality.

Folks, it's OK to be uncertain. This is fairly recent research, the world is complex, and we don't know everything.
Maybe I'm just a security nut, but I would probably also relegate ssh to a non-default port, allow key-only authentication, narrow ciphers, close all other ports (except 80, 443, and 53). Also fail2ban, sysctl tweaks (networking, disable coredumps), and a whole bunch of other things I have in a script.

I've seen way too many people get their boxes trashed to leave an internet-accessible one exposed and unsecured.
Could someone explain the difference between a programming language and a framework? I’m confused how a programming language can be implemented in java or lisp. Doesn’t that just make it a java/lisp framework?
No, the unlock key is for the user to keep, and never be transmitted by anyone else than the user themselves. If you do the transmission, it's not end to end anymore.

This option is only for users concerned about security, the other unlock methods are less strong but still provide security.
Could you provide a source for your final two statements? The page that you have linked doesn’t make the same claim.
They're not conservatives by the usual definition. If you want to say, "well on this issue they're actually behaving in a very conservative fashion" I'll agree with you; nevertheless, by the usual standards of conservative and liberal/progressive, they're voting very liberal at least for state and national-level issues.
Yeah, I've been training for years and I'll still do deadlift work on a day I squat. Deadlift volume alone is so low it feels like a waste to just do that for my primary movement that day.

The only time I get shoulder & elbow pain squatting is when I'm going too heavy on volume and my form is breaking down. Otherwise I don't notice it.
That article was discussed 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19958313

It's barely more than a thinly-veiled book ad, though. If you want to learn more about the topic, you're probably better off reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
I haven't seen the reboot of Queer Eye, but most of the cast of the original were hardly stereotypical. Ted Allen?
Perhaps in a decade or two if I see no one else has gotten around to organizing that kind of thing.
First killer app was calculating trajectories for artillery.
The leagues will eventually get around to offering live and on-demand direct to the consumer - the cable networks don't own the statiums or the teams, broadcast gear is freely available on the open market, and servers are a commodity. Cutting out the middleman is an inevitability.

The bigger question in my mind is whether a company will come along to build and market such a solution to the leagues (seeing as how there are many local/minor and foreign leagues that could benefit from similar tech), or whether the larger leagues will build it in-house first.
Detailed per play/player stats involve quite a bit of effort to collect, and thus are not typically free. Sports stats in general is a fairly closely guarded and proprietary area. Here an interesting article about it from 2014:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-people-tracking-eve...

I have to assume computer vision will largely automate the process of collecting sports stats, even in real-time, if that hasn't already happened. For that I think you would need access (and licensing rights) to a quality video feed of the matches, different than what is broadcast for human consumption (i.e. shows the entire field of play the whole time).
Visual Studio Code Remote Development may change everything
That last unless is what the value prop is. Personal site is indeed just fine on a cheap vps (and I can also put up the occasional file), but AWS has better reliability and much better scaling. When you consider the opportunity cost of time, AWS can come out cheaper.
DevLids is a gallery of stickered laptops from tech/design/science
Hide in the bushes and take pictures of your parents. Send them to your friends. If told to stop, ask your parents how they define the terms "double standard" and "leading by example".

Not sure if I'm joking...
Do you think Leonardo Da Vinci have been a programmer and digital artist instead of a mechanist/inventor if born today? And would his contributions have the same impact?
I think you're being overly dismissive of thousands(?) of years of human tradition. Yeah, we don't act completely rationally when it comes to death, because death is a deeply emotional thing, and we're not robots. People honor the dead by burying them in beautiful places, it's pretty simple.
>Interesting, that I saw a similar pattern like "at first I complained, but as time went on I found some benefits" quite a lot.

Isn't that also a classic example of "boiling the frog" or Stockholm Syndrome?
Regarding the arrow, what arrow are you referring to for collapsing a thread? There's no arrow for collapsing. You collapse comments by tapping on them. The arrow on the comment is for up voting which can also be done by swiping on a comment. Am I misunderstanding the issue?
The cost shouldn't even be attention, we have little enough control over the silence of our minds in the modern world - we should fight against all those sources that feel falsely entitled to get a slice of our brains and time for themselves.

There is no implicit link between "stuff on the internet" and advertising, this "free service" isn't free, we're all paying a gateway fee to get into the internet to begin with, then many content providers have judged their content valuable enough to justify asking for payment, with others relying on soft/burst funding sources like crowdsourcing. The internet and most people's sites really aren't so expensive to maintain that we need this level of crazy marketing.
That's actually part of the problem: those two are seen as the same.
It's actually quite simple and easy.

Did a fundamental shift in incumbent political power occur? Yes/No

Was that fundamental shift away from the previous incumbent political power sustainable, or did it fall as well(after X time)? Yes/No

I sincerely hope I'm not coming across in an unintentionally rude or abrasive way, if so, I apologise.

To be honest, you kind of are.
I won't go into detail for us but there are some good tools on this page - https://asecure.cloud/tools/#Security%20Assessment
Well your mistake is thinking that the rock64 has power consumption anything like an opteron.
A low power opteron is like 55W just for the processor and a rock64 is like 5W for the whole SBC.

All of the always on parts of my home network are built out of compact low power parts that are faster than the rock64 and, no surprise it's expensive.
I used a nano-itx celeron that's much faster than a rock64 and gives me 2 gbe links to bond. It would have cost him 10 dollars more and would use 2-5x the power.

This shit gets really tricky
None of my statements ever said that I think Republicans have a right wing conspiracy to prevent affordable housing.

I am refuting the assertion made by the article that says Liberals are to blame. I think it is more complicated.

I point out that there are voters in SF who vote Republican. DOWNVOTES because I must be saying Republicans are to blame. Hint: I never said that, nor do I believe that.

I point out that people that align with Trump's immigration policy that live in SF might not be open minded about changing their mind. DOWNVOTES because I must be saying Republicans are not open minded. Hint: I never said that, nor do I believe that.

Hint: downvoters, you aren't reading carefully. And, if there is a hint of people making assumptions about who you are, and you are angry, and it is translating into downvotes, then you have some introspection work to do.
Don't worry, BBT does stereotyping of women and minorities too.
By that logic, every programming language is just an assembly framework ;)
Out of curiosity, what made you decide to purchase a ".xxx" domain for your blog? And do you regularly get comments?
There are. I am using them myself which is why I had to read many recent papers about them. Though if you look specifically at activity detection, identifying abnormal movements associated with crime or social disturbance, Chinese authors dominate there. They probably receive many grants from their government on these specific topics.
> I'm not sure what a Sabatier is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction#Manufacturin...
Yup, that’s right. For those that like podcasts there’s a 99% Invisible episode about it - https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-modern-necropolis...

And for those that like videos, that link includes a Tom Scott YouTube video as well.
There is nothing in this article that the U.S. hasn't been doing via technology exported out of the Acela corridor _forever_. Both are bad, but it will likely take China another 50 years to match what our MIC has done. Just this morning I was reading about how the notorious Azov Battalion of Ukraine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion) got much of its military training and weapons from the U.S. amongst others.
MIT's new robot takes orders from your muscles
1) Crowd control exports:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezu...

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA07/20170913/106398/HHRG...

2) Running over of protestors (NSFW):

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-base-v...
You can always hire people from outside E.U with a temporary work visa.
Maybe the person you're replying to was thinking of the philosophical metaphysical concept of materialism, i.e. opposed to idealism. But your usage seems correct to me, it's that the word has multiple meanings.
You're confusing concepts. Regression to the mean doesn't depend on any IID assumption. Conditional expectations are right in the definition! In the bivariate normal case (height, intelligence, etc), it's a necessary consequence of a correlation coefficient < 1.
Well, we now have positive queer role models in other shows mixed in with those caricatures, which is leaps and bounds above what we used to have. Go back and watch In Living Color's Men On Film, which is one of the more "positive" portrayals. I find it incredibly cringeworthy today.

Shows like Next Top Model and Queer Eye play up their queerness for ratings, but that's actually progress: queer folks (actually played by other queer folks, not straight people parodying us) are being queer on camera, and people want to watch them for that. Millions of people. It's actually the point of those shows. That's huge!

Commonly people's first reaction to things they don't understand or things that are unusual is fear. I used to resent Will and Grace for being over the top, contrived, and playing on stereotypes. But I think, like Big Bang Theory, however cringeworthy the humor is, they've both put gay folks and nerdiness in prime television slots. People watch them, and they become less "foreign" to millions of televison watchers. They're made relateable (simply because not as many folks would watch it if it wasn't), and in turn nerdiness and queerness are made relateable and understandable. I don't need to watch either, but... I don't have to. It's not for me.
I wrote a comment about how it works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19985482. Will do a short blog post sometime soon.
"Xinjiang is now the only province in China to register a recession after eighties" Where is the source?
Losing a family member definitely qualifies as harm.
For the record, I do appreciate you actually explaining your thinking. It's not accurate thinking given what I wrote, and it displays courage to write up and not just click the downvote button.
I'd suggest going an extra step: keep the imagery of you and your family out of the cloud altogether. Spending a decade in adtech, ML, and behavior targeting scared the willies out of me, and I'm building something for my family to use: https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/
I've had this thought before, but always come back to what happens after they hit that limit?
There was video here recently linking rising test scores to increases in prevalence of abstract thinking.

Having the answers to "everything" at your fingertips may be blunting that for us.
Sure, but I was referring to a spill. If I spill hot water on myself, I don't expect the consequences to be the same as being immersed in it at constant temperature. Both because the time is short and it cools as it falls and spatters.

I mean, I have spilled boiling water on myself occasionally and I don't think I got third degree burns.

Although maybe I'm just comfortably numb.
>I have Combinatorial Algorithms Part 1 Volume 4A and it makes me cry every time I peruse it.

Is that a recommendation or anti-recommendation? Or both?
The western politicians already subdue minorities via the Justice and financial systems. Just look at our incarceration rate, and differential outcomes for the same crimes. No need to buy flashy new tech for it.
Is is too much of an ask if you can add a filter option?

For example I do not want to see post titles containing a certain keyword or from a certain popular domain.
Yea you're right. But what about this, the client uses the password as a seed to create a public/private key pair, and sends the public key to the server. If it is during password creation, the server stores this public key in relation to the user, otherwise verifies it. Then the server sends a challenge* and the client uses the private key to sign it and return a response.

* actually the server would send the challenge ahead of time along with serving the web page
Other sources estimate the inflection point around 1850s, see Woodley of Menie & Figueredo, 2013 and their references. The reason was relaxation of Malthusian regime brought by the industrial revolution, and ensuing demographic transition.

Think about it this way: in pre-modern times, fertility rate was high, and women would bear many children, much more than 2 on average. Despite high infant mortality, still much more than 2 would survive childhood. Yet, the population has been growing extremely slowly. This implies that many people haven't had a chance to reproduce, and even among those who could, many of their children didn't, so on average people would have only around 2 descendants who would maintain the progeny line, despite relatively many births -- otherwise the population would have grown, and it didn't. We also have good evidence that it's more intelligent and richer people who enjoyed better reproductive success in pre-modern times, for example from the dying wills of medieval and pre-modern Englishmen. See Gregory Clark's "Farewell to Alms" for references, it's a great book by the way.

Also, the fact that IQ was on the rise was probably due the Flynn effect, which is confounding the issue. There are two effects going on: one is the Flynn effect, which is apparent growth in IQ scores without corresponding increase in what we tend to think of intelligence. The Flynn effect is unrelated to genetic influences on intelligence, it's unrelated to g (which is why it's not predictive of real life outcomes, since it's g that's predictive). At the same time, there was a sort of anti-Flynn effect that I'm talking about above, which is in fact genetic, and acts on g, so it is predictive of real world outcomes. The Flynn effect rise in IQ score was masking the drop in actual intelligence, and now that the Flynn gains are starting to plateu in developed countries, the second effect is starting to become more apparent.