skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/03/19/why-are...

> As the Times put it, the massive exporting of private user data triggered repeated alarms at Facebook due to the volume of profile data going out the door, but that “in each case, the company was satisfied the campaign was not violating its privacy and data standards.” In all, through its data efforts, the campaign ended up with a database of 15 million persuadable voters.

> In short, according to the Times’ reporting, which is borne out by many other reports of the time, the Obama campaign engaged in nearly identical activity to what Cambridge Analytica is claimed to have done: they took a set of users who willingly contributed their data to a cause and quietly mined their friend lists, downloading immense volumes of private material from unwitting individuals that never authorized, let alone had any idea, that a political campaign was harvesting their information from Facebook simply because a person they were connected with had given the organization permission to harvest their information.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/20/obamas-former-media-director-s...

> Obama’s former media director: Facebook was once ‘on our side’

> A former media director for the Obama campaign said Facebook allowed them to access the personal data of its users in 2011 because the social media giant was “on our side.”

> “They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side,” Carol Davidsen, director of data integration and media analytics for Obama for America, wrote Sunday on Twitter.

> Davidsen said she and her team were able to gather massive amounts of personal information from Facebook users, as well as their friends.

Here’s Carol Davidsen’s Twitter account where this entire story comes from

https://mobile.twitter.com/cld276/status/975568208886484997

Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing.

https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568130117459975?s=20

They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.

https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568208886484997?s=20
The Great Courses has a non-free 24 * 30 min Coure "Stress and the Brain" given by Sapolsky .
How much does it impact performance?
> More or less, how often is “occasionally”?
Cosmic ray fluxes vary depending on the energy of the photon you're talking about, but the number of events is, on a human scale, surprisingly large.

> Can this be used as a source of randomness, like for example time as a Poisson?

Yes. Although from an electronics point of view, lower energy photons are _much_ easier to deal with. That's how random.org started -- https://www.random.org/history/
Never heard of Propecia.
So I googled it and I immediately found that it was not recommended in my country (France) due to the side effects.
First time I hear about this. Do you have any stories to share?

Edit: never mind, TC had another article about that.
Every house I can see in my street has no blinds, here in Antwerp.

Coming from France it seems weird to me, and obviously blinds would come very handy right now, but there are obviously a lot of houses with no blinds in Belgium, I can see them from where I stand.

Unless you're talking about curtains or other things that sit inside the house, which are basically useless against heat.
2 person adversarial games with hidden information (eg poker or RPS) exhibit a "Nash equilibrium in mixed strategies". That is, the best strategy involves a random selection between choices with some probability weights. Since RPS is a very simple game, the weights are equal, so the unbeatable strategy is to choose between rock, paper and scissors with uniform probability on each round taking no account of what you or the other player have played before. Any other strategy can be exploited to the extent it deviates from pure uniform random choice (eg trivially the classic "play the thing that would have beat the thing which beat the winner of the previous round" strategy in RPS which you can use to reliably destroy children at the game).

Games with complete information (eg noughts and crosses, chess, go etc) have "pure strategies" (ie randomness is not required and there should always be an absolute best move in any given situation which you should pick 100% of the time).

Here's an intro to the concept of Nash equilibrium in mixed strategies http://www.econport.org/content/handbook/gametheory/useful/e...

Edit: In case it's not clear, the hidden information in RPS is the opponent's move. Whereas in chess you are either starting the game or you know what the opponent has done, in RPS you move simultaneously with the opponent, so don't know their move.
land value in the US has very little to do with buyers or demand, and is exclusively valued by whatever property transactions happen to occur nearby it

I don't understand the distinction you seek to make here. Those transaction values are specifically the result of buyers and demand.

Most residential properties here could have been snapped up in 2009 for about 60% of current costs... because demand was lower. (Probably several hundred percent in areas like Mission Bay.)
You load synth presets using a computer app which seems to be some sort of electron nonsense. It looks pretty bad.

There's also an iOS app called MIDISynthControl which can be used to edit the presets when connected to the Circuit over USB.
We haven't used Druid yet. We did a high level comparison among Druid, Clickhouse & Pinot from material available on the internet. Apparently, all 3 have similar mechanisms. But druid is a little expensive to deploy when at a smaller scale. Clickhouse seems to be performant too. We seem to be inclining towards Clickhouse.
I'm from California ;). I'm just saying, urbanites have no one to blame but themselves for the influx of shitty, uncivilized tourists everywhere. After making fun of people for not being traveled and not having a passport, did you really not expect more and more people wanting to travel so that they don't get made fun of or because they really fell for the thought that traveling would make them a better person?
I didn't claim to have a proper explanation for my observation. Your guess is as good as mine.
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Where I work we spend millions per month on AWS, its our primary cloud platform.

At that scale the UI of the console really doesn't matter, everything is IAC so developers rarely need to directly access AWS. The one thing we do use is the Cost and Usage explorer which has a reasonable UI
A good example of "bad things" happening would be Quantas Flight 72 [1], an event in 2008 in which an Airbus A320 made a series of uncommanded movements, because of a particularly strange design bug in one of its flight computers, the air reference data unit one. Despite being repeated in triplicate, a timing bug occasionally resulted in pitch down movements being voted on as the 'correct' thing to do. Unlike MCAS in the 737, these were _not_ repeated and ultimately the pilots were able to fly in 'alternate law', and land safely.

Subsequent investigations believe that a cosmic ray induced bit flip is the most likely explanation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72
I see. It’s at least every fifth for me. An there’s some cases where it’s 3 or 4. Depends on what content they’re sandwiching.

Second post is always an ad. There’s an ad before they tell you you’re all caught up. And it looks like followed tags effect that ratio as well.
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> The entire idea that losing your hair is bad is socially constructed by the mass media and advertising industry to sell you these expensive crap treatments. Balding is an entirely healthy and natural human process.

Those two sentences seem fine with one another, until you think about what "natural human process" means. It's aging. It's getting old. It's getting out of reproductive phase.

It's completely normal to be devastated for males (and especially females) when they start losing hair. It has been linked with numerous health problems (so it's just not for vanity reasons).

It's very rare the case where bald looks better than full head of hair. Almost never, I would say.

Full head of hair = indicates youth and good health.
I haven’t personally looked at studios outside of open houses I see in my hood, the ones I’ve seen are super tiny and very expensive. But I’d look at everything. Also be prepared to be turned down by competing renters that might be just some single rich person.

If you’re open to a roommate you’ll get more for your money and might find it easier to get established. We did that for 3 years before getting married then later took over the whole place. As long as you keep getting promoted/raises and your rent can only go up by 1-3% annually then eventually it’ll swing in your favor. We played the long game.

Also with roommates there are sometimes situations where you can find something rent controlled and below market rate when someone else is already living there but your much less likely to find that with studios or property management companies.

One downside is in the unlikely situation that you’re evicted (hard to do in most rent controlled houses) and your name isn’t on the check then you’re not protected or paid out to the same extent as the rent payer is.

Oakland will be cheaper and more space and is becoming fairly trendy. But then you have to commute and it’s a totally different vibe than SF. And I believe annual rent increases are allowed there. Home invasions are more rampant there too which freaks me the fuck out.

The Oakland commute isn’t too bad though imo, I’d probably choose commuting from oakland over north or South Bay if living in SF wasn’t an option.

I will say, all complaints aside if you can make it work SF is awesome. I love that I can be at the beach one day, skiing the next, tech and biotech world hubs. Museums and science academy, parks in every neighborhood. There’s a definite energy here. Not NY hustle but CA hustle. Just watch out for the poo on the sidewalks.

Edit: If you both end up working in/near soma and don’t mind living on an island then Alameda is pretty underrated imo. I have coworkers who bike and ride the ferry over. The downtown is cute and safer feeling than nearby Oakland, more family friendly.

Also treasure island just got approved for a ton of construction for the first time. But it might be a couple years out and probably expensive cause new homes.
If you simulate the food chain more by making the rabbits compete for food (green dots) and the fox birth rate much lower than the rabbits / add starvation to the equation (blue dots that don't eat rabbits with enough frequency disappear) you can capture the Apex predator effect too. Too few foxes and you'll see your rabbits eat all the green and the system similarly collapses.
On a recent trip to some more remote areas of Southeast Asia, I had this exact experience.

Since westerners were a rare sight in many of the villages I visited, my friends and I found ourselves constantly being photographed, with the local teens and even older adults alike all posing in selfies with us in the background. I’d say we were photographed roughly 20-30 times per day, for the the month we were there. I’m not kidding.

I’m sure we looked like clowns to them with our height and big noses. I found it hilarious and am glad I brought some amusement to these folks.

Side note: I see every person on this thread thinks they aren’t part of the problem. It’s the other people of course! Tourists complaining about other tourists has a real irony to it. Rich people getting mad they have to share the worlds treasures with a growing population of other rich people. Boo boo. A certain percentage of the population is always going to be assholes, whether they live in a place or are just visiting. Instagram isn’t the root cause to why people suck, this too shall pass.
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Even if the piece reads like a Pocket Operator promo, it still captures a bit of what TE’s products aim for - fun, usable, etc.

That said, I’ve been considering getting an OP-1 for ages but keep hoping someone will come up with a suitable software alternative for iOS - right now there is no shortage of iOS audio software (Synth One is free and amazing on its own right), but I’d love to have an OP-1 style workflow within a single app.
Thanks for the explanation! The OP's question was the first one that popped into my mind too...
Is this a recent phenomenon? I traveled to Valensole two years ago, and haven’t seen anything like this. There were some people taking Instagram shots, of course, myself included, but nothing disrespectful, and certainly nothing like that. What’s even the point of being the “influencer”, are people looking up to it?
Probably not a big deal, but they're reinventing the wheel a bit... Windows has RtlEncryptMemory/CryptProtectMemory for this.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/dpapi/nf-...
Why the cut off at the age of 40? Either it's a "cure" or it's not. I think that you'll find that actually it only slows down hair loss and only for a percentage of people.

Maybe the reason you're not seeing bald men in these bars is the swimmer effect. i.e. bald men aren't successful there so bald men don't show up.

The reason you don't see many bald men on TV shows or that you can count the number of world famous bald "leading man" actors on the fingers of one hand isn't because there's already a magic cure for baldness that actors use but other don't.

It's simply because casting agents don't cast bald men.
Presumably it's more of a financial/efficiency problem. Pumping water is expensive, less reliable and a heap of maintenance nightmare compared to passive options. You'd avoid it entirely if it was feasible.
If you're new to Kubernetes, you shouldn't attempt to run a RDBMS, especially if it's not a dev/staging DB and/or needs to run in a HA config. Operators aren't mature and if you're rolling your own statefulset you better know what you're doing (with kubernetes and with the DB you're running).
The Internet truly is a horn of plenty. Thanks for granting my nerd wish!
Typical modern war is net loss for every participant.

The US could probably do without China but US partners would not. Australia, Japan, South Korea etc. would at some point break rank.
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Ok but there's plenty of broke people or just uninterested in traveling in the big cities.
I've been using Unity for more than half a decade at this point. Some of their choices along the way have been really frustrating to deal with, but on the whole, they've empowered me and plenty of colleagues to create things we might not have been able to otherwise. (Or at least, certainly not as easily).

I know it's popular to hate on Unity for some of the bad games produced using the engine, but I don't really think that's fair -- to me, that's a failure of the storefronts that host subpar games. Creating a tool that makes it easier for people to make games is awesome.

Unity has given me a lot, and I root for the company's success.
Where do you find such cheap DBAs? Are they by chance also in other roles?
It's absolutely due to evolution, not social construction.

Same thing for women - they prefer physically strong, tall men. It's also due to evolution. It boils down to survival of the fittest - the fittest had the most resources, and a mother needs resources to reproduce (mother's can't hunt while breastfeeding, so that's out of the question). Yes, it's that simple.

Same thing for men - they prefer young, sexually attractive, fertile females.

Those are our instincts anyway. We can and we do influence them consciously.
It's vastly a social construct. But it's also an aging degradation sign, and a chore (Young hairs are maintenance free)
the significant bit is :-

Most importantly, though, Huang’s result lays to rest nagging worries about whether sensitivity might be some strange outlier in the world of complexity measures, Servedio said. “I think a lot of people slept easier that night, after hearing about this.”
As someone who has travelled some, the tragedy of the modern tourism industry is that it has homogenized so many places that it’s hard to tell them apart. I first noticed it when I took a Caribbean cruise a decade ago. The port areas are dominated by tourist culture instead of local culture, and you’re hard-pressed to tell one from another.

Here in Iceland(1), shops downtown are regularly being replaced by copies of the same gift shop you’ll find everywhere in the world, and there is active discussion about coming up with “tourist-friendly” English names for landmarks because the Icelandic ones that have been used for hundreds of years aren’t enticing enough.

The tourism industry has figured out how to give people a good show, but it’s ultimately a shallow experience. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing: like everything else, travel needs welcoming, entry-level experiences. The trouble comes when it gets so prevalent that it starts to warp and destroy the local culture in order to sell more spectacle.

(1) Full disclosure: I first came here as a tourist, and would never have moved here without that initial exposure, so I can’t completely comdemn the tourism industry.
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A bit off topic but I liked that you don't force the newsletter or recommended articles in your blog. The links are there and I can visit them if I like them, but I don't feel forced. This is the way it should be. Thank you!
We usually call it "imagination". Not always exact though
Pearl Harbor was partially a response to economic strangulation, countries have gone to war over economic isolation.

Blockading a nuclear power with ICBM and hypersonic missile is the same as claiming the guard at checkpoint Charlie is a USSR deterrent
Just imagine the work that haired people go through.. (sorry)
Dell and other American companies too.
Decentralized Hacker News
Do we have a decentralized hacker news ?

Something like hacker news, where users can post only after they spend a hacker coin.

- For posting require a hacker coin.

- Challenge/wrestle the validity of post by staking some amount of token.

- Whoever wins the argument takes the opponents token.

- There can be a karma component as well, where in the bad actors need to pay 1.5x amount of token if they did a bad karma last time.

PS : Not a fan of everything decentralization. This post was just a thought and so decided to post here.
HN just restricts the carachterset that you can use when commenting, just like they don't support inline images or links with customized clickable text. By that rationale we should stop using images on the web because "some platforms" don't allow them in their comment fields.

In practice unicode icons are widely supported enough to use.
I have had 2 USB flash drives fail, one definitely after being unexpectedly disconnected (about the other one I don't know).
And they made it with Unity, those two things are not contradictory
To be fair, when we were looking for funding a few years ago in Scandinavia, David Helgason (Unity founder) was one of the most supportive, positive and cool people that we came into contact with. He actually had more time for us than a lot of the other investors we spoke to (many of whom could best be described as "toxic") despite being probably the richest and busiest of them all.
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I appreciate it! Druid has been in our priority as we need to process data on a very large scale. I see your point that Druid might be a little expensive when deploying at a small scale! Thanks!
> I still find it baffling what kind of breed game developers are and why they let themselves get fisted day in and day out

Lots of people grew enamored with videogames, so for them it's a chance to work on something they're passionate about and pay the bills at the same time. I don't think many people can say that, including most software engineers.
Not if the device loses power, right? I'm guessing USB flash drives will have the same internal mechanisms as SD cards and thus suffer from the same problems.
Not a bad write-up but one thing that's conspicuously missing is anything about Lynda, John's mother, who apparently was the most devout of the family. Isn't her influence in his life likely to be as or more important than his father's? My guess is that the author had access to Patrick but not Lynda and shaped the narrative accordingly; if true, that would be unfortunate.
The article initially makes it sound like the pianist was caught completely off-guard when the band started playing a different song to what he had rehearsed.

If you read further, however, you discover that the pianist had actually prepared to play both songs, but that their order had been switched, which is a significantly less dramatic story.
There's https://www.creative-tim.com/product/argon-design-system stripe inspired template
It's certainly a useful project but don't call your blood flow simulation or vague activity map "simulating a human brain".
I was going to point that out until I saw your comment, so yes.
The Google guys are (self proclaimed) world improver types and therefore liked and celebrated by statists (which includes a lot of techies - “progress through government-approved AI”).

The FB guys are primarily business people, which in the eyes of the former group is a big minus.

This guy is against FB because he knows more about it than about Google so it makes more sense to fight them than Google or Tencent. I believe other factors (which I mentioned above) are also in play.
A Boolean array is isomorphic to a fixed point number.

The article discusses non-fixed equivalents, though, both a contextual variable length and a quantum super position length bit array.
Sure. But unless we discover some truly green energy source which is able to reliably deliver an abundance of energy (hint: we haven't yet), we will always have the situation that the amount of available green energy is somewhat limited. Thus, we need to save energy.
Well for one thing simply knowing something is possible can be enough to lead others to try. To use an old cliche, look at the number of people who've run sub 4 minutes miles since Roger Bannister showed it was actually possible.

And if the technology was patented in some way that would also lead to disclosure and not all regions respect foreign patents anyway.
> There are rules against circumventing campaign contribution laws.

Yes.

> Intentional suppression (as alleged)

Sure, the allegation is of something illegal

There is pretty much zero evidence presented that favors the conclusion alleged over a policy that is not illegally specifically targeted but happens to adversely impact the candidate.

But the allegation is itself a way of getting a not insignificant quantity of free media, which is a sufficient reason for a candidate that is polling at <1% in most Democratic primary polls at not above 2% in the most favorable, and who has raised close to an order of magnitude less money than the top tier Democratic candidates, to make it. The fact is, Gabbard’s never been anything but a third-tier candidate and no one would have any reason to lift a finger to suppress her campaign because it was never going anywhere.