skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government officials created an untenable law in the name of the technological boogey man?! </mild-shock>
>What is the root of qualification in a field where the foundational axioms are ultimately subjective and there is no reliable source of objective truth

without going into post-modernity and socially constructed truths i'll simply ask you: are you an academic researcher in stem? what are the objective metrics for stem? beyond anything else it's citation count.
Given that it is an OS from a China-fund company, I would hesitate to use it as much as I can away from surveillance.

It is almost guarantee that backdoor will be there.
Given we understand the difference between an open source application and a closed source application that uses open source libraries... Then I can answer.

If Chrome etc were actually open source then the vendors would have less control of the browsers and users would have more control. End users could then build Chrome themselves.

Since these browsers are in reality proprietary it would make little difference to end users vs vendors level of control if they used 0% code from open source projects rather than 99% as they do at the moment. No one but Google can build Chrome either way.

So we broadly agree that there is nothing amazing about the current situation.

I however claim that if these browsers were Foss this would be different.

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Yes I am aware of Chromium. But Chromium is not Chrome. For example Netflix supports Chrome and blocks Chromium.
I tried to find the actual poll to find out what questions were being asked, but link 1 says the 39% figure is from a 2016 study, while link 2 is a 2015 study and doesn't mention 39% anywhere relating to the medical system.

"Less faith in the medical system" could mean just about anything, from people not believing they have the right coverage, to people being afraid that doctors in lab coats are doing voodoo rituals behind closed doors and giving people diseases.

I don't think it means what you're insinuating: that people with serious flu (or initial ebola symptoms) would avoid going to a doctor in the US when they would have a few decades ago.
LibreOffice emits 6.3 with new features, loading and UI boosts
LinkedIn needs to work on pervasive phishing and identity theft. I recently found out about an account that copied my profile photo, name, and CV information and used that to connect to 500+ people at my company and elsewhere, using my reputation to pitch people on some blockchain diamond Ponzi scheme. The account has been shut down, but I have no idea if the connections have been warned that this was a fake account trying to scam them, who the account had connected to, and if anyone was victimized. Speaking with coworkers, these kinds of scams are common. It doesn't seem like there is even a basic automated check during user signup to see if the account is impersonating someone else who is already in the system.
Cassidy Williams also makes some hilarious developer song memes: https://twitter.com/cassidoo/status/1153738731188187141
I really don't want to create an account on LinkedIn, but recruiters seem to want it, and I'd like more leads to be picky about, as I wrap up my consulting business.

I tried the HN monthly jobs post... and some startup emailed me to say they'd scraped my info off HN, and created some kind of resume presence for me on their site. (Dear startup person, if I wanted to be on a creepy resume site, I'd be on the one that recruiters actually use.)
The atonal euphemism is a common alternative to avoid automatic censorship of various websites.
Building a Full-Stack Serverless Application with Cloudflare Workers
Quite. That way I was able to figure out how many students graduated from Washington International School that year.

For that matter, my wife taught a class one year at a local university. The class had 29 students, or at least 29 who bothered to fill out the evaluation, and the evaluation had a couple of places right of the decimal point. I found myself going reckoning, "hmm, 27 of 29 though that ...".
I also feel like I'm suffering from distractions and lack of focus, but my phone is definitely not the source since I'm still someone who will only check my phone every so often, and am usually I'm too distracted by an article I'm reading on my laptop/desktop to be bothered to look at my phone when it tries to demand my attention.

What is distracting for me is this feeling that the stakes are very high right now and that I can't afford to be missing out on available knowledge. This isn't FOMO about what my friends are doing on social media since I'm really only on here and Twitter, where none of my friends are, but a fear that I'm missing some key piece in a puzzle.

It's more a sense that there are major systemic crisis we are facing that need solving and my brain is consumed by finding ways to think about these crisis and how to evaluate and implement some kind of solution. I don't know if anyone else is also feeling this anxiety as a source of distraction from normal life or if this is just a personal psychosis.

Based on my personal experience I think that systemic complexity is driving up base-level anxiety which is being exploited by media and political entities to profit from anxiety-induced distraction, which only increase the complexity of the systems as every agent becomes further debilitated in their role by anxiety and anxiety-exploiting distractions.

PS - When I say "anxiety", I mean a deep feeling of uncertainty about the future.
Uber lost more than $5B last quarter
I meant to ask this by mail but I might as well ask here:

Many other VPNs have opted for not yet adopting Wireguard since they claim it's currently difficult or impossible to offer the same privacy guarantees, and also due to the unaudited/new nature of the code base.

Mullvad has offered Wireguard for a while though, and without any warnings about this topic.
Has Mullvad found a way to provide similar guarantess?

Or is there another reason why Mullvad does not see this as a problem while other providers do?
Uber Holders Bank on Growth Overshadowing Likely $5B Loss
Don't be so sure. These companies have hidden the addictiveness and side effects of these pills for years: https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/501215

In fact, using anti-depressants is more likely to make you relapse after you are off of them, rather than if you got over the depression without drugs: https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/110056

There is definitely an interest from these companies to have people be on these drugs pretty much indefinitely. They have a host of side effects which the companies will also benefit from treating (obesity, sexual dysfunction, liver damage, etc...).

It's pretty clear from what's coming out of the opioid trials that these companies conspire on a regular basis to do what's right for their bottom line, not what's right for people...
Can Google's 'Live View' Popularize AR?
"but what if they don't or they claim to have forgotten their password etc?"

How do you manage this kind of use case in your normal operation? Does it mean that if you cannot reset your password your account is locked forever? If not how is this process less valid to answer a GDPR request?
US Rules Airlines Must Allow Miniature Horses to Fly as Service Animals
Not for poor people, those better situated would eat it more often. More importantly, people were not eating just steaks, but all parts of animals, so (in case of my grandparents in Yugoslavia) they'd eat a chicken or pork on Sundays and holidays, but on other days they'd perhaps have a cooked meat and bone marrow from a soup, or fried liver, or stew made from Sunday's leftovers. Also eggs, milk, cheese and other dairy products, that were affordable to everyone.
Unfollowing is a great feature of the platform. I'm sure people do that to me as well. We're all still connected and happy.
This approaches understanding why this isn't done; it's not just reserved memory for SSH, it's reserved memory for SSH plus bash plus the vim, top, grep, kill, etc commands you'll be running once you SSH. How much RAM does top need? What about vim? Now realize you're imposing this penalty on every embedded, low-memory Linux device which might not ever have this problem.
That's while they are competing with free. It's hard to compete with free. It's much easier to compete with non-existant.
I'm not interested in any language with ambient authority, where every function may decide to read a file and phone home without declaring that in its signature.
Very true. But how do you protect easily scraped data that doesn't sit behind a portal/paywall and has value to somebody? Seems to be one of long-running mysteries of the internet.
> students are oblivious to what actually happens in real world.

Is Node not happening in the real world?
Most job ads I see look for node, far more than python or php, so it makes perfect sense for bootcamps to teach that, not to mention keeping everything in one language.
You can configure your email preferences and you can even delete your account. Setting up filtering rules on the word "LinkedIn" in the body of any email doesn't seem like the best strategy to me.
> Larger scale systems with redundancy? No swap.

Why not give them swap, set off pagers, and _maybe_ kill them? There could still be something worth investigating there, and having swap will make that easier

You also don't want to have a cascading failure where a massive leak makes all your machines fill their ram, and start killing everything like crazy.
Clutch those pearls buddy - clutch em tight.
> You used to be able to report people for abusing that policy by saying "I don't know this person" after you declined the invite. However, LinkedIn are phasing that functionality out

Because Microsoft realizes that the only people who actively use LinkedIn are recruiters and foreign outsourcing salespeople (posing as hot girls) trying to weasel into the networks of people they don't know. Monetizing what used to be unacceptable behavior on the network is the only way for them to make it profitable.
These values are as right as setting least significant digits to 0 would be. The sensor has limited precision and the other digits might as well be 0 or 584985948 and the value would be no more precise.
I do feel that the book had the effect of popularizing the insinuation that trainspotting is a futile, otiose pursuit, where as for many people it is a pleasearuble, fulfilling hobby with some of the same evocations that birdwatching does.
Stuff Goes Bad – Erlang in Anger
It's not an anecdote: it was a wide-reaching security issue that was objectively bad and which irrefutably happened.

Anyway, I think you moved the goal posts. You were implying they should not be included in the group to be sceptical about, rather than any kind of scale.
While this is true, most of the aforementioned relatives in farming have had their farms going since before mid-2000s. So not the heady days of 16% and above, but still high single digits.
Actually, doesn't work for me in Firefox (68.0.1)
Haskell is not a difficult language to learn, but unlike imperative languages, you can't just start reading the code if you "know literally nothing about Haskell". One thing to keep in mind is that every other line in Haskell is basically just composing functions together, but you need to know how all those weird >>= and <*> and <$> effect code/composition flow
I stand on the side of the scrapers
Matlab vs. Python: Top Reasons to Choose Matlab
Can anyone explain the definition of big bang that they're using here? My understanding has always been that inflation happened a very short time after the big bang, arguably as part of the process itself, but pre-big bang is hard to conceive (like going north of north). Is it meant as an antecedent or precondition of the big bang, or as something outside the big bang itself?
> learned and refined over a lifetime

Absolutely. But, what if someone's parents, peers, etc have never really introduced the foundational ideas? I mean, most people are taught ethical rules, but they're often taught as rules and not ideology that should be applied broadly. Also, most parents aren't equipped to teach some of the ethical dilemmas that we face with social media and big data. Having a course on some of these things should be another building block for many, but also a backstop for those who have never given it any thought at all.
It's a common way of getting around censorship (specifically taboo words). A classic (if recent), comedic example is the Grass Mud Horse [1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse
ArXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01214
WhireWheel, Onetrust, and a slew of others (https://iapp.org/resources/privacy-industry-index-pii-vendor...) offer a DSAR module/platform to handle this.

they definitely won't be held liable per their contract nor handle the verification for you, but they do provide a system (a ticketing systems really) with a set of workflows that help put an identity verification system in place.
It's nothing magic, but it definitely helps the privacy lawyers and DPOs who will end up bothering you with verifying all the data and providing it if needed.
You can debug an aspect too eh? Throw a breakpoint before a method call, step into it, "oh I'm in a proxy now" step step "oh I'm in this forgotten point cut I made 6 months ago, okay now I know."
I have no exp with Lisp so not arguing just observing the one side of exp I have.
As an FYI, this phenomenon is called the third-party payer problem in economics.

https://mises.org/library/how-third-party-payers-drive-medic...
replyed to the wrong comment, see parent comment for my reply :)
The important line is at the very end:

> At launch, Aurora Multi-Master supports two node clusters in a single Region. Support for more writer nodes and placement of writers in multiple Regions is planned for future releases.

Great to see more high availability options, but yet again it's just in the same region. When we see the East region go down entirely more often than single availability zones. At least this time they mention that limitation in the announcement and an intention to fix it later. In the mean time I'll stick to our multi-region Galera setup.
Undisputed:Red meat increases testosterone.

Disputed:Phytoestrogens(soy) increases estrogen levels.
> This is the first time a modern off-the-shelf server platform gains coreboot support, and it is an integral part of realizing our vision of transparent and independently auditable VPN servers.

Important work. Could you share more about your envisioned OSS toolchain for independent auditing of servers? What were the factors which lead to choosing this board, e.g. could other VPN providers contribute resources for extending this coreboot port to a newer chipset?
Using GPS/WGS84 to locate is fine, you just need to convert to a plate-local datum before long-term storage of those coordinates.
Collectively people seem have terrible memories. LinkedIn is mega creepy. It was pulling moves like asking for email passwords and then downloading entire contact lists[1] long before Facebook got in trouble for the same thing. Others here have noted LinkedIn’s UI “dark patterns” which are also some of the worst in the social space.

[1] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/09/24/linkedin-denies-...
Here in the frozen north, newpapers^H^H^H^H^H^H sites insert metric conversions everywhere. “I must have lost ten pounds [4.5359237 kg] on that run!”
I was 200 lbs when I cut out sugar and complex carbs from my diet - no more pasta, potatoes, also no bread. I lost 20 lbs fairly quickly. For carbs I still ate sweet potatoes and brown rice. To fill some of the hunger from lower carbs intake I ate high fat avocados. Fastest weight I ever lost. Dairy was fair game though. It's amazing how bloated bread makes your body. Once I cut bread I never again felt bloated.
Can you elaborate by what do you mean with "the whole process"? If you have some internal processes that handle the data, then you can't really separate and outsource the "GDPR part" without outsourcing the whole business process that handles the data - e.g. if you ship goods, then handling of adresses can't (IMHO) be separated from the shipping, if you run a website, then the handling of all the related privacy issues can't be separated from running the website.

Furthermore, even if you outsource the whole business process that handles sensitive data, you're still the 'controller' of the data, and you still carry full responsibility for it - you can and should have legal arrangements with the processor to recoup your damages/costs if they screw up, but you're the party that's directly liable, and if the processor can't/won't pay, that's solely your problem.

You can outsource certain parts of GDPR compliance - such as handling the paperwork and managing the customer enquiries properly, but it's hard(impossible?) to separate "the whole process" from the rest of your business.
A+Path+to+Fluency
AI Analyzes Chess Commentary to Learn to Play Chess
- He is not putting any time limit to when level 5 is achieved, but says Tesla is going to be first because they have more data.

- He does not think that Tesla is going to do it in immediate future as they claim. Willing to bet real money against that.

- Level 5 autonomous cars don't have first mover advantage.
> Why do you need to progress past senior developer?

Age-ism, of course. You can't be a 50yo senior developer.
That sounds like JS developer mentality where you rewrite everything in a different framework every year so figuring stuff out in-depth is a waste of time and you just duct tape everything to get it working.

Ephemera and arcana I've learned decade ago still serve me well today, even when it's outdated people mostly either reinvent stuff so I can recognise new stuff as a variation on an existing thing or build on previous solutions so I know the details and circumstances that lead to some developments and this lets me understand new things better as well (puts it in context).
That is true, but I think the point stands. As (mostly) programmers we're quick to understand and make use of practical rules like Ahmdal's law[1] for optimizing software, and know that you always start by looking at the parts that take the longest. Yet in real life we're sometimes tempted to optimize at the fringes first and ignore the obvious biggest contributing factors first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law#Serial_programs
> And the existence of the vaccine industry does not prove that cures are always commercialized when possible.

For once, the health industry works on planning its own obsolescence (as it should, generally), and a major conspiracy theory pops up countering the trend...

Another domain you didn't mention: imagine the crisis in the food and distribution industry if everyone started having a healthy diet overnight... While those sectors may not have started the obesity epidemics deliberately, they now rely on its expansion for growth.
Salaries generally are lower compared to the US everywhere I've looked. Those labor protections and social safety net aren't free is my guess as to why.
You're right, and that's where the parallel I offered kind of breaks down: the digital-domain hacks can scale much more readily than the older ones could, and even at the targeted level, digital information-gathering may be less risky.
To give you all some background, we are a fabless semiconductor start-up working on solving the range issue of IoT devices.

Anybody who has tried to setup a nontrivial IoT network has ran into this issue. It is very difficult to create a network which covers the entire house without relying on a plethora of gateways and routers, which significantly increases complexity and cost.

There are two ways to increase the range of radio devices: 1) increase transmit power or 2) improve the radio’s receiver
sensitivity (Rx sensitivity). However, legislation in Europe limits transmit power to 10dBm, meaning the only practical way to increase range is to improve Rx sensitivity.

Cascoda has developed a disruptive 2.4GHz wireless transceiver based on a unique patent-protected radio architecture,
which significantly improves Rx sensitivity, effectively doubling the range without using any external power amplifiers. This delivers the range of WiFi to provide whole-house coverage, reduces power consumption by a factor of 6 enabling years of
operation from batteries, provides high security, reliability and reduces equipment costs by a factor 5 as no power amplifiers
are needed.

I'm happy to answer any questions you may have :)
Most of which is probably from their switch hardware business. Android has sucked the money out of the smartphone business.
Why not nodejs? Just curious
Cats understand their names and are probably just choosing to ignore you
Continuous Rust Fuzzing as a Service (Alpha)
Funny how they don't mention uMatrix. Or maybe the editor just removed that part seeing how this page loads 36 different scripts from 9 different domains and sets 16 cookies.
FYI, in the US insurance companies are regulated such that:
"No more than 20 percent of premium revenue can be spent on total administrative costs, including profits and salaries."[1]

So the difficult thing is they are incentivized to increase revenue to increase profits, and cutting costs won't result in more profit.

[1] - https://www.verywellhealth.com/health-insurance-companies-un...
The jealous girlfriend/unfaithful guy meme has an entire story
When people I am connected to post facebook crap, like political posts, I remove them as a connection. I have no desire to facebook my linkedin. Look at the comment section of most of those posts, and people are no better on LinkedIn than they are on facebook, with very inappropriate language and behavior.
I wonder why they don’t mention that Australia’s new datum (GDA2020) will be rolled out next year.

Here are more details: https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/austral...

And on their official web site: http://www.icsm.gov.au/datum/gda2020-fact-sheets
Apparently the Indian way is death by lynching on suspicion of cow slaughter with govt doing a 'wink wink' I was looking the other way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_vigilante_violence_in_Indi...

The govt's behavior is not motivated by climate.
This is interesting because it feels like really only Elon Musk expressing confidence they were on the rails. Hotz saying this is interesting.

Personally, Tesla seems a loooong way from reaching it. The current software makes a lot of bad decisions, even on the Interstate which should be a relatively "easy" environment.

But at least I can play chess and astroids while I'm charging. :-)
Simply refer to the definition:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illegal

> a person who enters or lives in a country without the documentation required for legal entry or residence
That is true. But people rarely develop allergies to meat based protein. The same cannot be said for plant based proteins.
PBDB (Paleobiology Database) Navigator
Take a look at EVwest [0], they sell conversion kits. They even run an electric VW bus as their shop truck [1].

[0] https://evwest.com/catalog/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLRAQu0b8-o
Would You Move from Java to Clojure?
There you go again, dodging the question.
I'm not certain what the author intends by stating that inflation is pre-Big-Bang. It is my impression that there is no bigger bang than superluminal inflation.
Cool! I've been wanting to try a framework like Tailwind, but I get the feeling I'd like something like Atomic CSS [1] better. It generates classes based on what you use, as opposed to Tailwind, which supplies thousands of classes that you may need and leaves it up to you to strip out the ones you don't use (I think?). I dunno, it just seems like Tailwind has it backwards to me, but am I misunderstanding something? Does anyone have experience with both (or some other micro class framework) who can tell me how they compare?

[1] https://acss.io/