skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think signing is a particularly weak approach, but we're going to see other tech advances to handle this problem. And I think you're right about the biggest problem: trusted sources were fine before photo evidence and will be fine without signing, but what we're going to miss is the ability for arbitrary people to provide trustworthy accounts of events.

The classic example of a tech fix is a hostage taking photos with the day's newspaper; it's a way to specify an oldest-possible date of a photograph. Similarly, you can prove that a video is not newer than some specific time by publicizing a hash of it. After that, format conversions, rehosts, etc. are all believable as long as they can be traced back to the same-hash original. And until deepfakes reach realtime speed, any specified-time event like a politician's speech can be authenticated just by posting a hash immediately after it ends.

That isn't a full solution to authenticity; a video of some unexpected event could always have been prepared in advance. And trusted-third-source verification is tricky; I'd mostly believe a Periscope or ACLU Mobile Justice video is being shot live, but uploading a pre-faked stream to the service is hardly impossible. Even there, though, I expect we'll see technological solutions. Apps could issue steganography (or other directions, like when to set keyframes) to the client as they record a video, so that pre-altered video won't update the way it's meant to. And I'm sure a lot of other options exist also.

It's going to be an interesting time, but I think we'll see quite a few clever attempts to preserve both anonymity and source-independent trust.
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Ultimately, there is a balance to be struck. Labor and Capital need each other even though they have competing interests.

But the proliferation of absurdly exploitative non-compete clauses illustrates just how far we are from that balance.
Very interesting project indeed! Thanks for the effort put into this, I know many data scientist who really like it.
I have a hard time assigning malice to the recaptcha more blocking = lower score because while it's a fun conspiratorial position it's also true that the more you block the less you look like the average user who doesn't. Also the less info they can pull from to determine how likely it is you're an actual person so of course people without a trail are going to be more suspicious.
Yes, and the highly-valuable rights of way which were later monetized by telecom,etc: SPRint (Southern Pacific Railroad), QWest, etc.
Just a bit more background from Germany:
This article largely focusses on broadband connections. It doesn't even begin to adress the even bigger issue, which is that mobile internet is extremely bad compared to most other european countries.

Also interesting that even the reporter fell for one of the lamest excuses: "Among them are the country’s large geographic area". Northern neighbor Sweden, which happens to be one of the countries with fiber connections even in very rural areas, is larger and much less densely populated.
well, maybe because in some other EU countries it's 22 EUR for 500Mbit :-)
Teach a man to fish and he'll fish for a lifetime. But give a man fish for a lifetime and he's free to do something worthwhile.
I worked on Xamarin app and saw how things worked there. I also think that it's a logical conclusion from these conditions:

1. You want to support N native platforms.
2. Each of these platforms has it's own way of doing this, bugs, etc.
3. Each of these platforms is being actively developed.
4. There are differences between those platforms. One doesn't have guassian blur, the other one doesn't have right-to-left languages.
Maybe I'm just behind the times, but I can't think of anything I'd do that would saturate my 20Mbps link, other than maybe downloading an iso or something. I'm using 1 und 1's ultra cheap plan, and browsing works fine, streaming works fine, video conferencing works fine, remote desktops work fine. I work remote, and only once have I experienced an outage.
So! that's competitive for a 35Mbs (inc phone service) in the Uk - consumer broadband doesn't need more than 35-50Mbs any how.

At least "Duecherbuderpest" is not still fixated on making you all use ISDN. "Duecherbuderpest" is what other Telco's use to refer to the German PTT as.
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Unfortunately journald leaves out things like MDC information as well, which usually means JSON logging and trying to avoid broken JSON objects due to log message truncation in some part of the chain.
Do you mean you're compiling the interpreter from scratch with C/C++ code that performs this initial allocation? It's really confusing trying to decipher what you're doing, since it doesn't sound like something that you could do to an existing CPython interpreter without corrupting memory...
Patriot Act and the NDAA are nails in the coffin of a free society.
Not saying it's the case here but it was usually one public operator controlling the entire country, which then got privatised in the 90s or stuff. So they have access to 99.9% of the population.
As a working mathematician who has rarely managed to solve an IMO problem, I have to say this isn't the best advice for everyone, though I agree that focusing on linear algebra and combinatorics is probably a better use of one's time.
Im using fd for quite a while and find it superior to find.

Other nice, modern replacements:

* rg (replaces grep)
* lsd (replaces ls)
* mcfly (replaces reverse-search)
Great, what is their background? And why exactly do they like it?
Heh, presuming management knows what a hard feature looks like.
Or understands the reason why it is hard. They sometimes conflate a patch, a hairy patch or writing correct code from start.

Bonus points if said manager does not understand that writing tests makes one go faster rather than plugging the code and trying to run scenarios manually...
That's connection speed what payload do you get on average.
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It seems to me France also has a comparable surface, although with more concentrated population centers.
Purely a guess on my part, but I'd wonder if it corresponds to whether your location on Earth is pointing towards or away the galactic core.
I can see myself actually using this site, which is a very rare reaction to these for me.
Yes, I thought the article would be about privacy concerns. Instead it was a rant about v2, not mentioning v3 at all (except for mistaking v2 for v3). Ultimately there was little substance here.
One can argue that those representatives who claim to be fiscally conservative but vote for unfunded liabilities are not, in fact, fiscally conservative.
UK releases masses of spectrum for private, shared usage; squeezes operators
Try setting privacy.resistFingerprinting for the extra challenge.
How is that the “easy things” are done by humans, often in paper and the “hairy” problems are done using a computer? Why not let the computer do all simplifications and precalculations and precomputations?

I am an external and maybe I see the things a bit different but if I should write a decimal number I would prefer to keep sqrt(2) as in my code rather than writing an approximate, almost equivalent, float. And I see formula simplifications and analysis in the same way... work to feed the compiler.
From experience, Akismet works well, so reCaptcha is not the only anti-spam measure that works for WordPress.
(I do not speak french, so I am referring only to your post)

The logical relation between (a) and (b) is the important detail here.

If the majority of drug dealers are either black or arab, this does not logically conclude, that the majority of blacks and arabs are drug dealers!

The only logical reasoning for racial profiling would be, if there was a significantly higher probability to catch a drug dealer if you randomly pick someone from that group.

The math:

Let's assume a population consisting of 20 percent group A and 80 percent group B. 0,1 percent of the population is drug dealers. 60 percent of the drug dealers belong to group A, 40 percent belong to group B. Group A therefore makes the majority of drug dealers.

With the majority of drug dealers in group A and only 20 percent share of the population, there is a six times higher probability that a random pick of group A will be a positive hit. In absolute numbers: the chance to make a positive random hit in group A is 0,3 percent, in group B it is 0,05 percent.

But: the likelihood to make a negative hit in group A is 99,7 percent (99,95 percent in group B), so even with a six times higher probability for a positive hit, the overall change for a positive hit - on a random basis - in both groups is still extremely small.

The small chance to catch a drug dealer on a random pick out of a population (not regarding race) does not qualify for an effective police procedure – to begin with. The small difference in probability of 0,25 percent between the groups does not qualify for racial profiling either. Any other visible attribute of a person that correlates with drug dealing with a higher value than 0,25 percent (clothing, cars, peer groups, haircut, jewelry, behaviour, slang, provenance and and and) is a better qualifier for random picks than racial profiling.

So, back to the case:

- France has good reasons, to forbid racial profiling under its law. It IS discriminatory, because you cannot define 99,7 percent of a group by 0,3 percent of that group.

- (b) does not conlude from (a), as it does not significantly rise the success rate, but at the same time feeds prejudices and harasses innocent people.

- Insisting on (b) clearly shows the will to ignore data and a will to feed prejudices and having innocent people harassed, so government decides to stop this behaviour.

Did they really sentence him for (b), or was he rather obliged not to repeat that statement?
Do they specifically require reCAPTCHA v3, or just any sort of bot-prevention CAPTCHA?
Is that particularly surprising though? Coming from a TOR exit node where a bunch of spam also comes from and blocking tracking so it looks like you're appearing on the site from no where... Both of those are pretty suspicious and reasonable things to crater your humanness score.
Why does California - a state with one of the lowest gun ownership rates, and extremely restrictive gun laws - have so many mass shootings, then?

The relationship you're proposing (more gun owners means more mass shootings) doesn't seem to hold within the US.
It's very frustrating that there's no "your AI is an idiot, there isn't one" button. I saw an example of one that said "click the tiles containing the bus" where it was clear what the AI thought was a bus, but it definitely wasn't.
Bush ushered in the modern surveillance state. Since him, the differences of the 2 parties has blurred insomuch while the government may vary from administration from administration as to what services the federal government as a whole provides, but one thing is for sure: it will always be watching you no matter what. The alphabet agencies will never relinquish their newfound surveillance powers.
What percentage of homes get that speed ?
> Their second-to-last paycheck, already deposited, evaporated out of their bank accounts.

Wait how is this possible? Doesn’t your own bank represent you? On what basis can bank transfer he reversed. Here in Australia the employer generally can never reverse funds out. If say someone gets double paid you’d just have to leave it there and adjust what you pay in the next pay run.
The world has far more individuals than hundred billion dollar corporations.
I love this tool.
I have customized Emacs keybindings that open RegExr in a xwidget-webkit instance, type in regexes, and exit RegExr with the regex inserted at the cursor.

Great for reading monstrous regexes or sharpening my regex skills.
Asking the "dumb" questions is actually often a good thing.

For one, you learn faster. Secondly, there's a chance someone else was thinking the same question and was too afraid of looking "dumb" to ask it. Just make sure you don't occupy all of their time with questions, especially in a public forum, thereby wasting other peoples' time.

The quote was actually talking more towards speaking up in an attempt to impress the expert with the little bit of knowledge you have in the subject. It's patronizing and they often see right through your front. It is much more effective to let the expert do their thing and for you to learn than trying to impress them with your little bit of subject matter knowledge.
Super-pleased to see the attention to this little piece. It gets updated from time to time, and it's always useful to see comments. I appreciate it.

Some responses:

1. hos234 asks "Why do they use the word Release? Release of entropy suddenly drops into the picture when talking abt ice to water. Why not just say info/entropy/uncertainty of the system is increasing or decreasing?"

It can be useful (or, at the very least, fun) to think of uncertainty as a fluid that moves through a physical system. Imagine an air-conditioner, for example; it is doing work, but not changing the overall energy of the system (at least in approximation and if it is working very slowly). It's just separating out particles.

The more advanced version is Maxwell's Demon; Rolf Landauer at IBM did the full analysis of this system, which you can think of as creating useful energy by "consuming" a pristine hard-drive (or, equivalently, dumping entropy into it.) http://www.w2agz.com/Library/Limits%20of%20Computation/Landa... or https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375960196...

2. I called it "for intelligent people" because I wanted to emphasize that just because you don't know what information theory is, or are not particularly mathy, it doesn't mean the author (me) thinks you're dumb. The hope was to counteract the usual physics-style arrogance that xkcd captures in "why does your field need a journal?" https://xkcd.com/793/ And yes, per jldugger, it was a play on the "for Dummies" series.

Ironically for me, the humanities people that it was aimed at often took it amiss. Dan Dennett told me as much. throwawayjava thank you for the suggestion; I'll use it in a footnote in the next iteration!

3. if you liked "information theory for intelligent people", you'll LOVE "Bayesian reasoning for intelligent people", the shocking prequel featuring characters that will ruin everything for you and plus be mildly racist? http://santafe.edu/~simon/br.pdf
Call me a naïf, but I think exit interviews are a great way to speak candidly to skip-level managers about dissatisfactions you have—with the aim of making the company you’re leaving potentially a bit better for your colleagues.

EDIT: I think “feedback” here is somewhat vague. You guys are talking about issues there would be no point in raising. For me this is not systemic issues.

I would bring up more minor things, “I think Chris would be better suited to work on XYZ project”, “The company work parties make me a bit uncomfortable with the amount of alcohol.” “I know Jane wants to be a manager but I’m not sure she’d be so great at it.”

I think these fall into the realm where I wouldn’t bring it up before the exit interview, but they might provide some benefit that skip levels would be able to provide.
...for 22 years until eventually undone by gun lobbyists.

One big help is that the country is an island with metal detectors guarding their airways.
I made no comment with regard to cause and effect. The GP is stipulating that "those communities will just be driven underground", I am responding to that statement by stating that this is ok.
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This is the ultimate humble brag. To work at the leading cloud operation would be an honor.
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Supply and demand and your explanation are both true. They are competing.

Managers want it be structured like your explanation, what they actually get is structured by supply and demand. Because they setting below the market rate they then struggle get anyone.

If a company comes along and does not follow hierarchical setting salaries, then they will get all the better programmers.

Overtime if the software is critical to their business, then they will die out.

It just takes time.
Not really a great option. People only really see stuff on HN that's relatively fresh so anyone coming in after the initial wave of engagement dies down won't see any discussion.
They target the interest rate through the monetary base. It is a means to an end.

If you don't feel that quote clarifies feel free to read the rest of the section on monetary policy instruments.
> I think this is just what Google does when it thinks you're a "bot": i.e. they don't know who you are.

I do wonder why though. For a long time, I assumed it was a rate limiter, but then another HN commenter pointed out to me that time is more valuable to humans than bots. Bots can work on multiple captcha's in parallel.
That's actually a great idea. Or how about a simple statistics email with a chart over time?
Try using Tor for a day or two, you'll get reCAPTCHAs on almost every website and in many cases you need to fill multiple out with increasing levels of distorted images. The best one is CloudFlare which can not only ask you to solve a reCAPTCHA once -- but several times when trying to load a single page. And sometimes Google will even refuse to give you a challenge at all because your exit IP is "especially dangerous"!

If 10% of web developers used Tor on weekends, no website would use reCAPTCHA because they'd realise how painful it is to certain users. I run a Tor relay (non-exit) at home, and now I get more reCAPTCHA even though there's no possible reason to assume my home IP is "bad". I'm still going to run my Tor relay -- I just think it's interesting to note that users are being punished by a giant MITM-as-a-Service company for trying to help other people use the internet anonymously.
That's correct. ReCAPTCHA v2 is the one where if your opaque, invisible ML humanity score is below a threshold it makes you squint at weird little photo squares and try to figure out whether the part of a bumper at one edge is enough to count as a car. ReCAPTCHA v3 is the one where if your opaque, invisible ML humanity score is below a threshold the website just breaks in unpredictable ways until you either give up or (for highly technical users) notice that ReCAPTCHA is at fault and interact with enough Google services to raise your score before trying again.
100 Mbit/s can be had for 20 euro for first 12 months in Berlin. 40 afterwards.
The source is speedtest.net, which probably biases toward “users that care about speed and run tests”, but also average likely is mean, not median, and the mean can get to 120Mb/s pretty easily with a fairly small fraction of Gb/s-class connections. even if the rest are in the 1-20Mb/s range.
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Is this due to PartiQL?
Really? $80? I haven't seen $80 for internet.

In a suburban area outside of Tacoma ~300mbps was about $50, and now just outside of Seattle I pay $75 for 1 gbps. The non-gigabit plans were south of $50.

I Googled a bit and most websites said Americans generally pay somewhere between $50-$60.
oof, not comparable at all. The increased mechanical latency from a cello, compared to a violin, is an incredible source of tonal and musical complexity. First of all, the latency can be felt by the musician, so I don't lose control of the feedback loop. Second, the latency isn't a hard start/stop, but you can feel and hear the string first displacing under the bow and then starting to move. There is zero latency in terms of the physical universe... there is just some more latency between when you start an action and when the note reaches its full steady state.

The comparison is like the difference between driving a truck and a car compared to driving a car with a 500ms delay on its inputs.
A single 4k Netflix stream is up to 25mbps.
I bought it with high hopes but ended up really disliking it. My main criticism is his decision to invent his own notation. For readers new to the subject, it's a great intro to the concepts, but afterwards they've got to learn the proper notation anyway. Why obfuscate it? For readers not new to the subject, the unfamiliar notation just gets in the way.
The source of the “data” is Speedtest.net tests, which is absolutely not an actual survey. At best, it represents the average speed of “enthusiasts who like to test their internet speed”. Who, not surprisingly, are going to have faster connections than the actual nationwide average.

Shame on WSJ, this is a blatant example of using poor data to support an already-written article.
In Firefox, log out of your google account, block cookies and enable the anti-fingerprinting features. Or just browse with Tor Browser.

You will start getting challenged more often, you'll find you're asked to solve several multi-select challenges in a row even if you get them right, the multi-select challenges will replace tiles after you select them, and the tiles will start fading in and out very slowly.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5KSZSpDFY for an example video.

These are (AFAIK) intentional features deployed Google - you just don't see them if they can already track you via something like your Google account.
My point is that the described "warning signs" are not red flags, unless you think that 30% of the population is just waiting to commit mass murder next time they get cut off at a red light.
Where do you bank that being a week late on a mortgage or car payment is even a problem? I've literally forgotten a car payment for a month and my next statement just had two payments worth. I've had my checking account zeroed, it took a 20 minute phone call and 1-2 business days to get fixed. I certainly did not have to take a week off work.
What has my attention in 2019?
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After 10,000 hours of meeting people, I would think one would have some well-honed skills required for managing people. Of course being a good manager requires more than just understanding people. But that level of empathy and instincts are valuable skills for anyone who wants to work with people.
It seems like there could hardly be fewer amateur mathematicians making great contributions to science.

The number of potentially great mathematicians who stop learning because they're satisfied with the informal coverage has to be absolutely dwarfed by the number of potentially great mathematicians who are scared away from mathematics entirely at an early age by excessive formality.