skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implications of uniqueness through multiple seemingly innocuous data points are quite worrisome in a wider context. For example, in the digital sphere, if X person has a certain pattern of sites visited, browsing habits and so forth, and then tries to anonymize themselves as person Y for browsing in a way that has no direct connection to any of their regular online accounts, a third party correlating even a small amount of browsing and even vague location data by a bunch of unknown activity profiles could presumably then quickly identify that one of them, Y has a high chance of being X. Or if a bunch of online comment text, buying habits, random basic information or whatever from known person profile X were used to search for similar data points among random people, then correlated together, finding out that Y (who is X but decided to change their physical address, country of residence and so forth for personal reasons) matches very closely with X and is thus very likely to be X seems very easy.
With how often I've seen spaced repetition mentioned online recently, I'm starting to assume there's a grand conspiracy that's trying to use spaced repetition to trick me into remembering about spaced repetition.
Yeah, and China does equally disgusting things to its own citizens. Literally right now they are enacting cultural genocide on millions of their own people (see: the uyghurs)

Do you really have faith that China is going to act any differently to outsiders?
Sounds right, but she wasn't purely mercenary like her friend Charlotte, who admitted to marrying Mr. Collins for his money, which filled Elizabeth with horror.
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Does this mean that no scientist at CERN can use applications like Mathematica? Or is this just focusing on essential foundation software like operating systems (moving away from Windows)
I recommend Dennett's review of Harris's book to people who recommend it: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/13814

Also Elbow Room, or, better, Freedom Evolves.
I think you are both correct. But that only highlights the question about whether we can trust chip manufacturers. I currently tend to say yes, but I would still prefer to buy the American one.
Could be difficult to put in lot of latex or even diagrams. We need something which can auto-generate the notes for us.
> If you want to fight desertification, then you must combat evaporation first,

This is something plants can be remarkably good at!

I don't think you can get around irrigation to bootstrap the process. We could probably begin the process by putting down some irrigated top soil, and laying a bio-degradable, transparent moisture barrier to keep the water from evaporating while the ground cover grows.

Alternatively, I'm sure we could construct a man-made river running through a desert to revitalize it. I'm not a geologist, but I suspect that the existence of an active river is a strong influence on whether a region becomes a rain forest or a desert.
But a posture of honesty appears too expensive even for the Chinese ruling party; how much more power do you need?
I've had the opposite experience with ads on Instagram. It shows me ads for cat products (I don't have a cat), code bootcamps (I have decades of programming experience), and for a while repeatedly showed the same ad for a job as a flight instructor (I have no qualifications for such a job).
>There are a lot more limitations and checks on what the US can do.

I am a German citizen living in the UK and I own a Huawei phone. A while ago the American president issued a domestic law and I still don't know whether my phone will be usable in the future or not.

I am not aware of China having any ability or willingness to do the same. As a European citizen I am accustomed to feel the effects of US politics, I can't say the same thing about China.

If anything the loss of US control in the future gives me modest hope for more alternatives and competition.
I was under the impression that the EU outlawed such practices as part of their anti-trust laws.
>f, as the OP suggests, it would be possible to develop a toolkit such that the concerns about time/resources you raise in your first point are moot, then I think it's worth chasing that down.

I do agree that this is something worth following. If it's really provable that this platform solution is universally safe, that's amazing. But that doesn't mean the system is broken. Just that until now, this was probably not the proverbial low-hanging fruit of medicine, even with a million people there are diseases affecting billions. It may still be worth more investing in those disease that affect billions.

>it's either try it or watch thousands of people die.

How many of these genetic diseases are deadly? A lot of these mutations may be bad but not deadly. If now the treatment is universally approved and kills some people, think about who's going to take the responsibility for it?
Originally, probably the combination of supposed health effects of bathing in salt water and to flex on the less wealthy.

Later, to keep up with the Joneses aka Vanderbilts.
Is there a public-facing list of project activities?
Or offer them at a discount with little to no advertising, which is basically what they did with Orange Box.
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I'm not in school and aren't actively trying to learn one particular thing. But I've always wanted a flashcard phone app where I can browse topics, install the flashcards, and learn at my leisure. Is there a good product like that? All the apps I've seen seem to trend towards making your own cards.
Seems like a typical article from I assume a gafa employee, good advice mixed with "how to be google even if you don't need too" advice.
There's also a precedent for preventing companies with a monopoly in something from expanding into other businesses, like Bell. Clearly facebook isn't a recognised regulated monopoly like that, but there are similarities.
Arguably they should not earn that kind of money.
>> The end of line should be the and, or what the language understands to be the
end of a statement.

The problem with that is that the "," is there not to separate statements
("literals") but to declare a relation between them, specifically,
conjunction.

Conjunction is one relation that you may way to declare between literals.
There is also disjunction and implication. So you do need something to
separate "A and B" from "A or B" and "A if B".

You say- "use whitespace for the and". OK. But then, what about the "or"
and the "if"? And if we use special symbols for the "or" and the "if" then
what's the point of not using one for the "and" also?

As to "block" delimiters, like "." or ";" etc. As far as I can tell the only
languages that do not have "block" delimiters are the kind you can find on
https://esolangs.org/wiki/, and that is for reasons of a) readability,
actually and b) convenience in compiler writing.
I'm not arguing for or against either.

I'm just saying getting to elect your landlord doesn't necessarily make you any less of a peasant. Feudalism is about property rights of land and democracy is about political representation. They operate on different axes.

Feudalism wouldn't be compatible with capitalism or socialism because they are also about property, so that might be a better choice.
> But it helps very little (not surprisingly) when I need to learn a concept and a model

It helps in keeping the memory fresh. The concept you understand today may have little nuances which you will not recall if don't have some kind of revisions with some intervals.
Hope that will help Lydia to have a good long life and other people.
>The adult world, even at the highest levels of authority, largely consists of the same petty cliques, backstabbing, lying, and whatnot that you'd experience in high school

I'm not a fan of claiming this type of behavior is childish and something we leave behind after high school. Before advances in mass transportation that made it feasible for people to uproot and move to a new community, most people were stuck in the same ingroup for most of their lives.

High school is just a cultural relic that mimics this previous social grouping. It's not necessarily something that kids do that we grow out of - it's the other way around - modern society has broken the existing communities we had in place, but in return gives us the freedom to find new ones anywhere we want.
To state the obvious, because abuse (of users privacy, etc.) would then have a bigger negative impact on the company (FB) which would be an incentive to improve this behavior?
While ex. Anki supports community decks (I assume others support such features, of course), part of the resistance is that making your own cards significantly contributes to learning; using premade cards is convenient, but impedes learning them.
FWIW, I just took a look at our HFT trading system. We specialize in colocated low latency market making in an equity market in a mid-sized country. The following line counts are only for the C++ code directly used in the production system. Doesn't count research, model fitting, ETL pipelines, build systems, etc.

75 kloc - Total line count

10 kloc - Common libraries, utilities, data structures, etc.

10 kloc - Reconstitutes the limit order book from the data feed

10 kloc - General framework (order management, margin tracking, logging, runtime control hooks, etc.)

7 kloc - Safety checks (pre/post trade, price, circuit breakers, etc.)

13k - Adapter for the exchange's datafeed protocol

5k - Adapter for the exchange's order gateway protocol

3k - System for correlating our orders within the datafeed

10k - Signals/alphas

8k - Trading logic

Not claiming that other people's systems will necessarily look anything like ours, but my experience jibes with this too. Trading code is only about 10% of the total codebase for a production-ready trading system. Overall strategy-specific code (signals and trading logic) only make up 25% of the codebase, with the rest being all general-purpose "plumbing".

Even a tiny inconsequential function that most people never think about- reliably identifying which orders in the data feed belong to us- takes nearly half the amount of code as nearly all the trading logic put together.
There is certainly an ethical challenge in balancing privacy and data protection issues when there is more than one subject involved, as in this case with both the PhD graduate and those other parties whose emails referred to them.

It seems a terrible precedent if any communications service may in general be required to disclose the otherwise private communications of its users if they happen to mention any individual by name (or, presumably, any other identifying features, since this is the GDPR).

On the other hand, for matters of professional/business correspondence that relate to a specific individual, where the information being stored or shared around may be incorrect or misleading and the individual is being personally harmed as a result, isn't that exactly the sort of problem that data protection laws (and the anti-blacklisting laws, and defamation laws more generally, for that matter) are trying to fix?

It doesn't make any practical difference whether the questionable personal data happens to be stored in something structured like a formal employee record or in unstructured form through emails shared by other staff. It's the data, how it's being used and who is using it that matter the most.
I’m pretty sure someone came up with it before me but it’s catchy...
I enjoy a good beer as much as the next guy, but I am still bothered by how alcohol is ingrained in our culture. Binge drinking seems to be regarded as an important part of social life, for example. Some UK-themed subreddits also have a tendency to celebrate sometimes irresponsible drinking, without considering the consequences.

Another pet peeve of mine is how many people use 'buy you a beer' or similar expressions to mean 'meet you up'. You are aware that not everyone drinks, no?
Other's are definitely experiencing this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SOxb_Lfps
Setting up the case to bomb Iraq twice is a little more than a drive-by. Its more like pre-medidated murder i'd say
They are all over the place for me. I also get a ton of strange ones that are made to look like regular people just taking pictures of themselves, I guess aspiring models? I don't even engage with IG models...I swear.
The other thing Americans find odd is that we call whole milk "Homo" (as in Homogenized).
As the article argues, there's no profit to be made because of lack of patentability. If this is the case, maybe an adjustment in incentives on the side of the law would fix this and make the private sector interested.

A lot of the big medical innovations still come from the private sector. The question is only whether we can get the interests aligned here.
financial services industry? try the governments of the world. a currency outside of their control that is supported by a well known agency, in this case its obviously facebook, would be just another nail in the coffin for them.

look, government, namely the politicians, all truly upset that the facebooks, google, and more, of the world, give anyone the opportunity to get a message out. decades ago the politicians could reliably count on the press of their nations to always pony up.

they have lost control of the message mostly, they are trying to claw it back under the guise of protecting privacy , elections, children, and puppies. they damn well will get in front of any attempt which could affect their control over any means of wealth transfer. even regulated and taxed they would lose manipulation of currency to implement policy.
cool tutorial, love all of the code examples. Some of that code is brutally unreadable with all of the nested statements and loops. I guess it works for the tutorial but ooof!
>Secondly we have no reason to believe the US had implemented backdoors in major processors.

Intel Management Engine has the capability to be a backdoor[1]. Whether the US has keys to it is in question. But it is known that Intel has included features on chips for the NSA[2].

[1] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/is-the-intel-management...

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-visa-undocumented-fe...
I can't imagine it's for windows -- unless maybe they are referring to the admin staff. Scientific users of CERN run Scientific Linux.
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A few strategies used by large companies, e.g. Facebook where the author worked for some time:

* Use external online schema change tooling which operates on a shadow table, so the tooling can be interrupted without affecting the original table. (Generally all of the open source MySQL online schema change tools work this way.)

* Use declarative schema management (e.g. tool operates on repo of CREATE TABLE statements), so that humans never need to bother writing "down" migrations. Want to roll something back? Use `git revert` to create a new commit restoring the CREATE TABLE to its previous state, and then push that out in your schema management system. (Full disclosure, I spend my time developing an open source system in this area, https://skeema.io)

* Ensure that your ORMs / data access layers don't interact with brand new columns until a code push occurs or a feature flag is flipped.
I find it less useful for learning complex things, but more useful for retaining them. So I learn something, but then I make cards for key points so that I'll be able to remember the whole thing later. Otherwise I find that after a while I don't always recall the whole concept.
Uh oh. Since folks are posting their own implementations, here’s mine, written as an exploratory exercise for Angular2:

https://github.com/jonmellman/angular2-minesweeper

https://jonmellman.com/minesweeper/

Grimace
The FISA Court isn't a legitimate court of law. Why would you want another one? There is no adversary there, it's one branch arguing to violate the Constitution while that same branch pretends to defend the target. It the Star Chamber of Technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber

How often are the people making the arguments from the same political party? This problem extends to pretty much every court, as we currently have 3 branches being gamed by 2 political parties.

This will be one of the fracture lines that break the country.
The ideal desktop is out there, you can find it and use it - there are certainly Linux distributions that fill your requirements.

Then again: systemd. Grrumphh! :P
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I don't get it - CPC has inserted many backdoors in different devices like edge routers and even cell phones, I don't recall U.S. has such a record. Why are you so concerned about U.S. but the China ?
> the population is too high for subsistance farming now.

Is it, though? More than half of cultures are used for animal exploitation (which most of the world could do without). It appears we currently have around 2 football fields of cultivable land per person living on earth (though this may change soon with the climate).

We also have to take into account that industrial farming and monocultures kill the humus and dry off the land in the long run (over decades) making it more and more sterile (requiring an ever greater dose of fertilizers to grow anything and making the crops more sensitive to heatwaves).

Many serious agronomists (those not employed by the industry) insist not only that another agriculture is possible, but that it's the only way to prevent food shortages in the coming years (which will happen if we insist on chemical-powered monocultures).

Also, a one-garden-per-person model is not the only way to grow locally. We can of course share the land and the work. It just makes things a lot easier when the population isn't so dense that you can't grow your own food locally anymore (which is only the case with big cities).
1. make a really slow compiler

2. slightly improve it over time

3. write blogs about it

4. win?

How about releasing software with reasonable performance in the first place? This was just discussed yesterday that everyone prefers faster software.
The leak of Sony emails a while back revealed that high-level Sony execs seemed to emailing at the emotional maturity level of middle-schoolers.
not before a massive security incident or two.

yay for delegating prod infrastructure access controls to Slack
I'd say I'm fairly fit for my age (and particularly given my health bullshit) and my time commitment is about 6hrs a week, sufficient to cycle 400 miles a month.

I've been fitter and I've been way unfit (in my 20s I was a gym rat), early thirties I ballooned to 245lbs and these days I sit around 185lbs (because of health reasons I struggle to eat enough to keep weight on) having lost 60lbs a few years ago via diet and exercise.

For someone approaching 40 I look decent physically (which is actually a problem since I have multiple serious health problems).

For me the cycling is important, it's both a fuck you to illness and a pressure valve - as a friend said once "it's impossible to be remain angry on a bike" as you just exert yourself harder.

Added to that is calisthenics every other day (planks, pressups, sit-ups and pull-ups) as I'm focussed on maintaining functional strength as much as I can.
Your entire first paragraph as written conveys that the situation can not be changed, and the victim must change themself. This, in my opinion, is fatalist.

Please clarify what you mean if you find you have been misunderstood instead of getting angry and assuming malice.

I know several people in my tiny part of academia alone, whose eminence is well established, and who would not much change this by telling colleagues a certain individual is impossible to work with. I agree that it would take a vindictive mind to do so, but I am asking you to explain the facts any other way:

> Firstly, my eminent and influential PhD supervisor had let it be widely known that they thought I was an unpleasant person, impossible to work with, fundamentally stupid, and that I definitely shouldn’t be doing a doctorate.

I know no decent people who would say this about someone in a professional setting, let alone write it down and send it to many people. Also, no honest assessment of someone's academic skills can include the words "fundamentally stupid" if they are able to get into a PhD program, right?
The leading example of modafinil is erroneous.

Modafinil works by at least 3 mechanisms. Part of the complexity is because we don’t yet fully understand how and what causes sleep; or why it is so necessary that without it you will surely die. So balancing what does what it (modafinil) works by is difficult, however possibly the greatest contribution to our understanding of the mechanism governing the drive towards sleep has been modafinils insights into this:

As you go about your day, adenosine (yes, the dna base) accumulates in the extracellular space in the brain.
These levels reach a peak before you sleep; sleeping allows re-uptake/cleaning of intracellular adenosine.
Theories have proposed that levels of intracellular adenosine contribute to the drive to sleep/fatigue.

Caffeine binds as an antagonist to the adenosine receptor; which is where the stimulant effect is derived from.

Modafinil causes re-uptake of adenosine; so there is less intracellular adenosine bonding adenosine receptors (and presumably causing the reverse of stimulation), a function normally carried out at night.

There are at least two other known functions since I last did an enormous deep dive in modafinil and read every published paper during Med school
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I often feel like learning things with Anki puts memories into the wrong part of the brain. It happens way too often that I can perfectly recall something from Anki (on a PC or phone), but have a lot of trouble recalling it 'in action'.
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As long as schools use Windows, it won't die.
Zelle has instant settlement for banks that use it, including two of the three banks I use.

ACH goes through the FED before it is processed by the receiving bank. Is SEPA sent to the ECB before clearing?

I’ve worked in Fintech for 6+ years. Banks are dinosaurs and the US banks are terrible at adopting new processes/tech.

In the US we are in a standard war with ACH, Zelle, and other payment schemes fighting for market share.
This could apply to simple text analysis too. some agent looking for now disappeared person X collects a bunch of their known comment, email, chat text, search pattern text and looks for certain distinct words, word patterns and so forth among these things then searches for similar correlations across a broad, maybe global swath of general chat, social media, email, comment, search posting and also correlates some of the sites involved with keyword similarities to easily identify X as Y even though Y has completely disconnected from anything having to do with having been X
An interesting observation, but there's also an analytical side to philosophy: bringing in information from other fields, figuring out the implications, possibly drawing conclusions, and pointing out new directions to try.
Regulations that are stronger than they should are made to be broken and circumvented.

There's at least one likely future in which, following a couple multi-million lawsuit baseds on such requests, a kind of 'blind referencing' becomes the norm, taught and enforced by companies and organizations. "Never refer to individuals by name, use the Company Directory's Hash Function". Or something silly like that.

Just like companies delete employees emails in the second they are allowed to do so by law - can you imagine if the law was to keep them forever? We'd have extreme changes in email formats and technology every decade or so, to render it impossible to read old-enough emails from disgruntled ex-employees and etc.