skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that the FBI has no right to a couple sexting without a warrant is exactly why encryption is fine. When they present evidence to a judge that there is something they need in those conversations to prove a crime, and get a warrant, then it becomes evidence in a criminal investigation.

IANAL or law enforcement, but I don’t see the problem with this system.
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I'm no expert, but I would wager that costs are so high due to a mix of: state capture, a complex regulatory scheme, and relatively minor process inefficiency throughout the value chain that when taken as a whole slow down large projects.

The Congressional Act cited in the article explicitly states a timeline of 9 months for the GAO report to be delivered and yet it was 7 months late.

Many state budgets have not reached pre-2008 levels and regulatory agencies are ripe to be exploited by labor groups, lobbying, private property owners, etc.
Yes. The more specialized a field is, the easier it is to tailor the speech recognition system for that.
When did that change ?
I see tipping as a form of profit sharing. If a server or barista gets more volume for the restaurant, they get a cut. Often times, servers leave at the end of the night with $200+. I used to be a valet and was paid $5/hour but would make easily over $100 in tips.
Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy
> Why would that be different from everywhere else though?

Corruption in New York is a whole different animal than any other state. New York has, hands down, the most corrupt state government in the country.[0]

As just one example, the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, openly orchestrated an illegal[1] coup to ensure that Republicans maintained control of the state senate, despite losing control in the then-recent elections. He did this because it ensured that he had unilateral power to decide which laws were even brought to a vote in the state legislature, so he could essentially pre-veto any legislation behind closed doors, instead of having to veto a potentially popular piece of legislation openly after the legislature passed it.

Or, on the topic of public transit, Cuomo stole $5 million from the MTA (public transit for NYC metro area) and gave it to upstate ski resorts that he has a personal interest in[2].

[0] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/how-new-york...

[1] A judge later ruled that the caucus was illegally formed and ordered them to return the money, though I don't know if they ever actually did.

[2] https://gothamist.com/2017/07/10/mta_tips_down_k_val.php
This type of attitude is what scares me.
The investor case -- I mean, it depends on how much of an investor you were, and what the relevant rules are. But if anybody could become an investor in the company, then it's obviously not a real barrier... giving it to every investor would be like giving it to everyone, which they obviously wouldn't want to do.

The shut-down case: well, maybe you feel they don't have a reason not to tell you internal info for a dead company, but the general hesitation would still be there, and I don't see what they would gain from it either. Hardly seems like evidence for hiding information.

> My question to you is: why would you ever trust a claim without evidence (especially when the people making that claim stand to personally profit from it)?

"Ever"? I mean, it's a case-by-case thing. I might do it if the evidence isn't available to me, and the opposite might imply believing there's a large-scale conspiracy to lie. Or I might not. The lack of someone telling an outsider internal information is not really strong evidence either way.
It helped make them one of the largest, most-efficient empires the world had ever seen. All empires come to an end. The duration is what makes one special. Rome didn't completely collapse until the 1500s when Constantinople was lost. Ceasar was around 0AD and there was roman history before way before him too.

Not sure what your comment was getting at lol. Roads were fantastic for Rome.
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Project Plan, Testing Plan, Upgrade Plan

"A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something. See also strategy. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal."
Lovely work! Can we have arrows too please? So we can build the flow between screens into the document
Breaking encryption would cause breaches orders of magnitude more catastrophic than encrypted communications between bad guys.
I'm going to reply to myself and also point out that we don't require safe makers to make "breakable" safes.

Safe manufacturers make the strongest safes they can, and in parallel, the government develops their own capabilities to attack those safes to execute warrants.

The same thing is true for encryption. At its base theory, encryption is just math--but it is implemented in software, and software is imperfect. The government can, and does, attack devices to break encryption systems to get what it needs.

In fact, the Justice Department Inspector General found that the FBI did not go far enough in trying this, before it tried to sue Apple in 2016. And ultimately the FBI did get into that iPhone by breaking it.
And if you met me, how would you judge that I'm experiencing what it's like to be me? Is there something like a Turing test for that?
The head of the FTC voted against it and gave his reasoning here:

https://twitter.com/chopraftc/status/1154010756079390720

One that stood out for me is complete immunity for for the execs for "known" and "unknown" violations:

"Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and other executives get blanket immunity for their role in the violations. This is wrong and sets a terrible precedent. The law doesn’t give them a special exemption. The settlement fine print gives Facebook broad immunity for “known” and “unknown” violations. What’s covered by these immunity deals? Facebook knows, but the public is kept in the dark."
“What's Related?” Everything but Your Privacy (1998)
> "I don't expect people to use it" just seems like the sort of awful excuse you'd usually be jumping on people for.

I think it was pretty clear, by calling it a specific niche that ObjectHash does a good job of exploring, that I am not making a recommendation.
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> terrible working culture

Might be true for some of them, but for the ones on the list where I know people that work there, it sounded pretty good. In the end good working culture is one of many axis to optimize on.
> So from Facebook's perspective, this is probably a big win.

being fined 25% of annual profit (2018 $22.111bn) is probably not "a big win".

But yeah, the business terms of the settlement are surely inspiring a champagne toast back at HQ.
After spending a few months getting neck deep into K8s I’m resolved to steer clear of it until 2020-2021 while the smart people work out all of the sharp edges. Picking a tooling stack is complicated, and safe deployments still seem to be a matter of technique rather than technology. I have no doubt the ecosystem will reach a steady state, but until then Fargate ‘Just Works’ for me.
Many people do that already, perfectly legally. Certainly some percentage would choose not to follow laws banning them.
It seems to me that the reporter never asks the really important question: Can we realistically get rid of nuclear weapons. I just don't see any pragmatic way for America to disarm as long as countries who are our enemy have nuclear weapons.
Ultimately, enforcing agencies want privacy for themselves and transparency for everyone else. At the scale and speed of digital services, this asymmetry can go down very fast towards an authoritarian path.

There can only be 2 solutions:

- enshrine a right to privacy. Individuals should have a way to communicate in a way that is completely secure and free of evesdropping because they are believed to be innocent until proven guilty. Likewise, enforcement agencies should be granted the same to do their work.

- adopt symmetric transparency. Individuals will then be allowed to follow the intimate communications of any leaders or enforcement agencies, with the same level of ease. So if you want me to have to file a FOI to get info about an official, an equally difficult/time-consuming process should exist the other way around. OR if you want an officer to be able to monitor any individual in real time, then I should be able to monitor any officer in real time.

That second case should be automatic anytime the "nothing to hide" argument is invoked.
Right, just with more people onboard and also owning the apps in user space.
In-Ear Stimulation for Parkinson's
iSlam is not an educational app.
I don't know how it compares but there's also Cosmonium, which looks like a FOSS alternative to Space Engine: https://github.com/cosmonium/cosmonium

Anyways, both look absolutely stunning.
They completely fucked me over. Not only did they not pay out commuter benefits (send the confirmation emails, didn't actually put the money in my account), but they ignored 4 (!!!) support requests in a row, sent once per day for a week. It wasn't until I got on the phone and was rude to someone that they deigned to help... and then missed their self-imposed communication deadlines.

Complete incompetent shitshow.

So yeah -- in case you were pondering using Gusto, just know that

* not paying out $250 in commuter benefits owed;

* not noticing the extra cash in their bank account;

* ignoring 3 polite emails to the support addresses, and one less polite request;

* ignoring the first phone call;

* requiring you to be rude;

* blowing their self-set update deadline;

is all part of the wonderful Gusto experience!

If you use them, I'd strongly suggest checking that all your commuter benefit reimbursements actually landed in your bank account.
I'm not saying self-maintenance == attractiveness, I'm saying that no matter what industry you're in there's some minimum level of something you need to maintain to be acceptable for work.

For me as a syseng that's getting enough sleep, staying ahead of my field and basic hygiene. I'm not in the best health but I'm also not in a position where I can get a lot of people sick.

I'm overweight and as a result my skin is terrible. Not so much that people notice but I certainly don't think that I should have my hands in anyone's food.
Last year about 70 million automobiles were produced, and there are something like a billion of them in the world. They must be replaced with EV's as soon as possible. It would be great to get people off of cars, but that would take decades, and EV's are here already. Also for many applications like trucks you have to have individual vehicles, and they need to be EV's rather than ICE's. Any damage to the environment from EV's is outweighed at least 10 times over by the damage that ICE's do.
It says it mirrors PyPI. Does that mean I can use --index-url rather than --extra-index-url? The latter has some properties that make it less than ideal for private packages.
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Yes I do. Why? It raises the bar. Its all too easy to whisper someone via electronic communication. If you need to get to speak to the person, and they hear my kid yelling at the background, perhaps they'll wonder if I got other things to do in my leisure time.

Furthermore, I don't find it particularly bright to host sensitive data by such a vague company. Bonus negative points for the infosec community using such.
Some queries can only fast by essentially having a materialised view
Reading that decision: it looks like Rothstein specifically asked the sales agent what constituted "fraudulent use" at the time he purchased the pass. The court doesn't explain the agent's response, but goes on to argue that Rothstein could have forced the company to include it into the contract language -- and since he did not do that, that response doesn't bind the company.

Again, I don't know what the actual response was, but this hints that the explanation Rothstein was given at sales time was not the same as what American enforced upon him. I guess this may be a reasonable legal outcome, but it doesn't seem terribly just.
It's impossible to entertain this kind of absurdity -- there is no world in which you can effectively ban math.

The law can say anything it wants -- math is still math.
I haven't used Mac OS for a while

> macOS dialogs for closing an unsaved file have shifted from “Don’t Save, Cancel, Save” to “Delete, Cancel, Save.”

Does that mean if I write some essay, save it, then make some changes and close the application, it will ask this? This would imply like it would delete the whole file from disk instead of just discarding the changes I made since saving. I really hope I am wrong here and there is a different dialog for this case, otherwise this is just very horrible.
Both Spanish and English have a fair bit of influence from Latin and from languages that were influenced by Latin. A better example would be what the word is in Swahili, or Mandarin.
Same experience today with foobar2000. Faster than any webapp could ever be. And, by the way, to have a vast collection is still just as appealing.
Sure, it needs to be accurate, but why can't it be quick too? Unless it's truly cost-prohibitive, quick is always a better user experience.
> Regardless of whether it is cost effective to do so or not, each and every one of the beneficiaries from such corruption should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent possible under the law, no matter how expensive it gets, to set a precedent so others might think twice in the future.

I think you underestimate the extent of corruption in New York state government.

New Yorkers unfortunately can't do anything about it, because a combination of state laws have ceded electoral power to a handful of local pay-to-play clubs[0] which determine which candidates are permitted to run (unopposed) in elections.

[0] Each district is controlled by a local club; membership in these starts around $1000/year, and these clubs are responsible for deciding when a local candidate receives a primary challenge. If the clubs don't approve a challenge, then the primary election is cancelled.
Does rippling work better for non-US and contractors?
We don't and can't. Because we can't even come up with a universally accepted definition, there can be no bright-line test.

Coupled with our innate arrogance, where we allow ourselves to "just know that we are", just like we are pretty sure that we get to exert "free will", you end up with a lot of sloppy thinking. I'm not claiming to have any answers (I'm more of an intentionally extreme skeptic of the answers I come across), but I don't think you can deny that there is a lot of sloppy thinking (esp. on a layman's board like this) around "consciousness", "intelligence" and "free will".
Labradors usually have a genetic disorder that causes them to gorge themselves, so they are highly prone to obesity. They are also very popular breeds in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrador_Retriever#Inherited_d...
Some people would, yes. Especially rudimentary single shot weapons. However, its much harder to make a reliable gun than it is to make reliable tough encryption. There are designs available for both and there always will be, illegal or not. But making a gun is manufacturing whereas using encryption would just require installing some software. Trivial.
What about when the receipt/order slip explicitly says "any delivery charge is not paid to the driver"? many if not most national pizza chains have this disclaimer. I get around the tipping issue by ordering my pizza for pickup.
No, they shouldn't. If these were actual employees, that would be theft. The only reason it's not is that DoorDash has decided to classify them as "independent contractors", which don't receive the same protections.
That's many hundreds of thousands of miles down the road.
Could I just have "work" buy me the $200 mini-PC for RDP sessions from home so that it is not a personal device?
Cheese is as specific as pork as far as constituent ingredients.

You're just attempting to replicate the sensory experience. Sweetness, texture, moisture, etc. As in, say, beef vs pork barbecue. Beef vs pork steak.

Jackfruit probably mimics pork better than beef - not all substitutions are equivalent.
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Sure but I mean most work on algebraic effects (or at least the papers I know of) deals with the associated type system.

Instead most people here seem to focus on the semantics, which indeed boil down to call/cc + handlers or previous condition systems.
It's another word for awareness. It depends on information and a drive to map information and navigate it.

I think that there is no hard divide between conscious and unconscious, more like a continuum. All sentient beings are conscious, but maybe not about themselves if the information about themselves doesn't get fed back to them in some way. But they're certainly conscious about their environment to be able to find food.

Consciousness is essential for actions within an environment. Self consciousness isn't essential for learning though, you can learn by doing, like animals. But it's essential for betterment, expanding your options and not relying on the first best thing you've found that worked by doing.
Thanks!

Can you comment on the how steep the learning curve is for Python Crash Course?

The Michael Hartl suggestion is great, too. My first serious push into programming was with Ruby & Ruby on Rails. I also remember feeling the initial learning curve for Rails to be somewhat steep, especially when trying to do it in a test driven manner.
Are there other languages that provide interfaces as cleanly as exposing C header files?
>those 720p/700MB torrent encodes

Are those still produced for recent movies?
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Wish there was some screenshots so I'd get an image before downloading
Similar to what cbsks said, Amazon Prime Video usually starts with low quality fuzzy video, which I've also seen happen in between while watching something. On Netflix, the video quality has been great from start to finish almost all the time. There have been only a few instances where I have seen fuzzy videos on it for a few seconds. This is over broadband that's usually at 40Mbps or so, which is way more than what these streaming services need for even 1080p quality videos.
Rick Scott invested in Raytheon, voted to make its ex-lobbyist Defense Secretary
you can get great young engineers who are very smart and work hard for early stage (ie crappy) wages. but you need at least one seasoned expensive grownup in the room and they will be extremely hard to attract even with competitive wages because of work hours and stability.
Having traffic be predictable is far more important than the specific rules it follows. Human driven traffic follows rules, including a massive context specific set of rules about when it is reasonable to break the written rules.

Drivers that adhere to the letter of the laws and totally disregarding the unwritten rules make terrible drivers because they do not follow the full set of rules that the majority of human drivers follow. All current autonomous cars drive like this. A small but infuriating subset of human drivers behave like this too. Generally it's expected that you pass these obstructions when possible and safe enough to do so (legal or not, though what's safe is usually legal too).

What people consider safe varies somewhat between people. Anyone will pass a tractor on a country two lane. Only the most bold will pass a Cruise in traffic. Of course there's a danger zone around it.

The current system is designed for humans and if we're ever going to automate it the autonomous cars need to be able to coexist with the human cars without causing problems. Boys will be boys isn't an excuse because it doesn't need to be. One of the engineering requirements is to get along with the boys.
At FB level, this is already a requirement for GDPR. The only difference is that it must be shared with an independent assessor rather than held strictly internally.
Of course one can make proofs of programs written in Turing complete languages.
Is that true though? "service with a smile" and "The customer is always right" are notions I've seen far far more in the US.

I think its more of a cultural thing than an effect of tipping, but service in the US is usually pretty high quality.
Toilet paper isn't the most optimal solution for home use. It is what's been used for millennia but Japanese on-toilet bidets are superior. (American companies have noticed, and have stayed manufacturing their own.) There is an adjustment period, but (and I am not a professional plumber) without the semi-solid waste, I think it would also be better for our sewers.
> Your initial comment seemed to imply that a warrant to break the encryption was "government overreach".

I have no idea how you could possibly reach this conclusion. My initial comment did not contain the word "warrant".

By "government overreach" I mostly meant spying on me without a warrant, e.g. the activities brought to light by Edward Snowden, and the common practice of seizing devices at the border.
>> “All we knew is they were each being paid about $1,000 every day.”

Assuming a 5-day work week, $270,000 a year is a crazy amount, isn’t it?
That sounds like you found an alternative format where finding something canonical to sign is easy (files, the shasum CLI) and punted on canonicalizing the in-band signature (which is good!).
Cool good to know, I just remember hearing something like that on an episode of Air Crash Investigation so it jumped out at me.
This "theory of mind" can be called "imagination" in a limited form. Allowing our conceptual self to act and predict what will happen is key to "consciousness".

We don't need to die by walking off a cliff, if we can have a conceptual version of ourself walk off, imagine the result of walking off the cliff and choose not to do it.

Yes this expands consciousness to animals, but I doubt it goes much farther than that. I think it fits.
We're still ramping up. So far, our only publication has been co-authoring Activation Atlases with our wonderful colleagues at Google (https://distill.pub/2019/activation-atlas/).

One thing we're thinking a lot about how you can transition from "what" a neural network represents to "how does it mechanistically do that"? I hope we'll publish on that in the next couple of months.

By the way, while I'm flattered by the esteem it implies, I'd generally rather people not refer to us as the "Olah Team", just as you wouldn't refer Google Brain as "Jeff Dean Research" or MILA as "Yoshua Bengio Institute" or OpenAI as "Sutskever AI", etc. I think academic culture of branding groups after the PI is kind of unhealthy.

My teammates are doing the hard work and I see my position as a team lead as just to serve and support them. :)