skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook can receive whatever they deserve, but let's clap our hands on their development team. React is what currently puts bread on my table and it seems like it will do so for a long time. I can't think of a single big win from a social network in spending their money for R&D than FB ( look at LinkedIn for example ).
It is common. You have likely experienced it without even realizing it. The point of the white noise is to reduce the distance voices carry in open environments so they are less distracting. Some places crank it pretty loud, though, to the point where it becomes an irritant.
The author notes this in the article.
Normally I don't particularly mind the meandering, personal style that typifies these magazine-type pieces but this one was fairly grating. Maybe it's the more or less immediate elimination of any suggestion that there could be a difference between Young's views, the author's views, and "the truth."

> At ground level, which is to say not the level where technologists live but the level where artists write and record songs for people who care about the human experience of listening to music, the internet was as if a meteor had wiped out the existing planet of sound.

> digital-recording technology, as opposed to low-quality streaming services, can be a gift to musicians, properly deployed

The article doesn't really have any interest in talking about streaming, or quality, or music, or the various actually realistic options people currently have... I guess that's fine. The closest this comes to having something useful to say about its ostensible topic is a small aside about how music production has changed over the years.
> [3] Throughout the record, they found that a combination of two naturally-occurring climate patterns—the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)—were associated with “hot spots” of sea level rise along the Eastern seaboard, including the southeastern hot spot from 2011 to 2015. (...) the Pacific Decadal Oscillation might also be playing a role.

> we will hit that scenario in about 30 years at current rates

Oscillation =/= Trend

https://xkcd.com/605/
I mostly get the same response. It’s a slow moving revolution. :)
New model agrees with old: US-Russia nuclear war would result in nuclear winter
It is an incomplete enumeration of facts which presents a biased picture. This is not some kind of novel technique, it's been around for a long time under the name "lying by omission".
I was able to take all of Donald Trumps tweets and using GPT2 to make a program that would mimic his tweets.

I found that it might be very effective. I have the test at

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1p7tlobl5y5plBCu_enK4KawR7B8...

I got the information from trumptwitterarchive.com

I also explored creating a system that could recognize fake tweets from real ones and I believe I got 94% accuracy. It was a Bayes classifier but I think I have to double check my work.
I don't see where he made any such dismissal.
I’ve read a lot of time management/productivity books, and there seem to be only two things all of the authors agree on: write stuff down, and continuously tweak your system.

The latter is usually mentioned offhand in the preface, as the author wants to deliver a fait accompli instead of just some tips and tricks.
>So why not print all the money everyone needs?

We do. That is how money is created and we tend to print a bit too much because not having enough restricts ability to trade. Inflation is essentially the money we printed and it turns out we didn't need.
You call it revenue, I call it inflation reduction.
The article said they sold several weeks worth of gas in two days. That's gotta be worth something, now? Regardless of margins, that's just more money straight into the pocket.
You've managed to acknowledge and then ignore the point. You aren't trustworthy. Or maybe you are, but I don't know that. A bank is. There's history of acting, if not ethically, at least not totally unethically, even without government regulations. Wells Fargo, Visa, and Coinbase all have decreasing sets of regulations, but all have more consumer trust than "badrequest".
I'm not writing an academic thesis. It's just my opinion in a short blog post. Deal with it :-)
IMHO mercurial's usage is so low because github/gitlab don't support it. I understand bitbucket not wanting to, but it says nothing about what mercurial's usage would be like if people didn't have to choose between it and being able to use github or gitlab.
I even got 2nd tier Microsoft support on a call for the second problem. That level of MS support is usually quite good, but in this case it was totally ridiculous. The engineer did not even understand the advertised functionality, but instead kept steering me to bookmark export/import.
This can be spoofed/hidden extremely easily if both devices are open source and you want to change it though. It's not like TTL can't be changed.

The tethering device can just rewrite the packets to hide the tethered device.
IBM Deepens Plunge into Open Source; OpenPOWER to Join Linux Foundation
How much was made up from the tariffs? I suspect it was the roughly the lost revenue.
We're So Close: Urge Governor Cuomo to Sign the Child Safe Products Act
I think making reshares and retweets much harder than the 1-2 clicks it takes now would have far more impact.
This story makes me think that I really should have more cash in reserve at home (typically I have nothing). And other "prepper" thoughts..
There's a reason malpractice insurance exists.
Having lived through many hurricanes this is true. However, I can't recall a truly dire situation where everyone ran out of food and water and had no hope of being saved by the government. Don't underestimate the lengths an ordinary person would go to feed their starving child. At a certain point resources become so scarce it is truly a zero sum game.
Wow, that's really cool! I haven't seen anything like that in a long time (CrossFire & SLI excepted).

How often do companies band together x16 links? What else benefits from it?
Not to mention:

> Each dot represents one case of Lyme disease and is placed randomly in the patient’s county of residence. The presence of a dot in a state does not necessarily mean that Lyme disease was acquired in that state. People travel between states, and the place of residence is sometimes different from the place where the patient became infected.
What does the last sentence mean exactly? "The IRS is fundamental in preventing businesses from engaging in transactions that aggressively reduce their tax liability."

It's not clear to me what is actually being said here because engaging in transactions that reduce tax liability is legal.
And makes a mess of conflicts. I would rather not be able to do those things than to fix a conflict of a head with the working files on HG.
>As part of our staged release strategy, our current plan is to release the 1558M parameter model in a few months, but it’s plausible that findings from a partner, or malicious usage of our 774M model, could change this.

This seems naive but I think it's a misdirection. Of course the model will have malicious users. Propaganda teams started testing its integration as soon as it was released. It's likely that OpenAI is counting on this for insights into HOW the model can be used maliciously. It's also possible that the model results have inherent trackable markers and OpenAI can later say that X% of social media posts were made using this model.

So what are the positive applications, aside from prettifying data like sports and weather reports?

Even with Skyrim's 800+ books, you frequently ran into the same book. Imagine libraries filled with plausible text that hides nuggets of lore seeded by developers. Along with more realistic text-to-speech this can allow games to support a large diversity of NPCs that have true radiant dialogue and sound more realistic than "I saw a mudcrab the other day".

With some modifications, I think models like this can outweigh even their nefarious applications:

Defense against text decomposition analysis. The model can be used to obfuscate writing patterns that can reveal a person's identity, either by randomizing form or standardizing it. Take your post and run it through the formatter to get the same idea and intent, but in a style that can't be traced to your other writing. Or you reform it into style of Ernest Hemmingway, like thousands of others.

Realtime plausible deniability encryption. Messages in a monitored chat can look like mundane conversation but contain encrypted messages. This would require the model accept seeds and work partially in reverse to diff two sets of text to reveal the hidden message.

In it's current form it doesn't look like it can do any of those things, but there's the potential.
> Everyone feels uncomfortable when a conversation goes off-script, but we as a society expect the 'abnormal' people to be the ones who bear the consequences of that discomfort whenever it arises. It doesn't seem fair, especially since the 'abnormal' people are expected to bear their discomfort in silence, but that's life for you.

Reminds me of something I say a lot.

There are some people that will point to geeky developers (as an example stereotype) and say they have poor social skills while believing they have good social skills.

When in truth it's always easy to get along with people you have things in common with. Good social skills is getting along with people you don't have a lot in common with. Meaning: If you find yourself struggling to get along with those geeky developers, you don't have great social skills either.
Edge's "IE Mode" is depressing. We fit exactly into the problem space it aims to solve (enterprise with a mix of both Java Applets and modern "internal" web sites that could target current web-standards if not for the Java Applets backlog).

The problem with "IE Mode" as implemented is that it only works for devices connected to AD/fully managed. Our "internal" sites (both Java Applet and modern) are externally accessible and via BYOD like a lot of enterprises today. Employees work from home. Employees work remotely.

I can see why "website list" would be their preferred solution to routing, but unfortunately it won't work for a lot of enterprises in 2019. We aren't using internal sites like 2005 anymore, they're "internal" only in name and function, they're very much externally accessible (even via VPN in some cases, but you aren't managing the actual device).
"Could you please" is pretty universally considered basic politeness. I wouldn't consider it to be especially soft. "Do it now" is really an escalation to be used only if someone is somehow not understanding that they're being given a direct order.

But then I'm British and apparently we're odd like that :)

As for being seen to be acting like a man - seen that way by who, unforgiveable according to who, and do they actually matter?

I can't say I've heard someone complaining their female manager was acting like a man, or saying they wish their manager would be more feminine. I hear people quite often wishing their managers would be more decisive though.
There are facts in here, but they're very selective facts.

For example, in the "Sabotage" section, it describes how by turning off a server, Google turned a device "into a $300 out-of-warranty brick."

Now, it is a fact that the device did cost $300 and it was out-of-warranty, but pointing out that the device is out of warranty without also pointing out that Google offered full refunds for all of the devices is deceptive wording.
Who’s to Blame When Algorithms Discriminate?
Then GNU shouldn't try to use providing censorship tools as a pejorative.

If we agree that there are ethical ways to use censorship, providing censorship tools cannot be inherently unethical and companies shouldn't be faulted for doing so.
Up next: the .io domain
I was in high school at the time (in Toronto), working at a technology camp for kids— the blackout hit late afternoon when our day was mostly wrapped up, so I took the bus home as usual.

My experience into the evening was totally different from yours though. People in my parents' neighbourhood sat out on each other's front porches, barbecuing, eating ice cream before it all melted, hanging out. It was a pretty unique moment of community, almost like an impromptu street party that went on for blocks and blocks. It was kind of liberating, I think, in a reverse paradox of choice kind of way, to suddenly not be able to do a whole bunch of things, and to be forced to just kill time away from the TV (and probably outside, as the reality of not having A/C descended).

Anyway, I don't think I'm unique in this recollection: https://www.google.com/search?q=2003+blackout+party
> If you do, you'll rarely do something interesting and new.

And if you don't you'll also rarely do something interesting and new.

It's not as fun to talk about, but most startups will not be particularly impactful and exceedingly few actually change any paradigm. And that's ok too.

I guess I'm saying if you are trying to find general advice based on analysis of outliers, it may not work well.
Because they mean different things. A robust system is one that can tolerate stress without suffering much harm. An antifragile system is one that actually benefits from stress.
Probably elwell is a Dvorak user. hu is pressed with both index fingers in their home positions in Dvorak.
Thank you for the validation!

My purpose in life is to serve as an example of what not to do.
Seems to have totally missed Usenet spam, where the term "spam" originated. Usenet seems to have been totally overwhelmed by spam, to the point of uselessness, and I suppose the reasons are complex. Also seems to have missed out on fax spamming, which at one point threatened to render faxing useless. Noted sociopath Sanford Wallace was key to both fax and Usenet spam overwhelming the medium, which is something.

I think that without those two cases, this article is not very complete. Apparently legislation helped the fax spam problem some, but has been useless in helping the email spam problem, and wasn't even attempted for Usenet spam, so there are experiments that worked and failed for different media.

Since email spam has almost rendered that mode of communication worthless, there's probably some merit in considering a "lifecycle" of parasitic advertising communications.

The article also doesn't seem to consider the fact that almost all spam is advertising. The perverting effects of ads on the medium in question should be considered.
> They consider the ability for users to remotely reset their Android lockscreen combo if they know their Google account password a "back door"

It literally is a backdoor into your phone. Whether it's ethical or not depends if they've ever used it with law enforcement or for their own personal gain.

> They describe a bug where Google Assistant incorrectly identified the "Okay Google" hotword as "Google Assistant recording users' conversations"

This isn't necessarily great but I've run into situations where it activated on completely unrelated phrases. Is it Google's best interest as an ad company to sell data to fix this? No.

The issues you see as someone else pointed out are because you implicitly trust Google. I personally don't trust Google. The fact they manipulate their products for "algorithmic fairness" is proof they have ulterior motives one way or another. Is it that far of a stretch to think they could be abusing other components of their platform either intentionally or not?
> point out just one for whom the privacy implications around autocomplete have imposed a non-theoretical cost

Type "p" in the address bar at work?
How do you envision this working?
I was going to write this exact comment. I'm sure the "marketing" of "Linus Made!" and "used for the Kernel!" did git some favors, but git is technically superior in my experience, despite UI short comings.

I'm sure it's changed now, but the lack of cheap fast branching was jarring.

I think many UI fetishists forget: Good UI helps begginer adoption but has to be incredibly way better to drive any readoption. But professionals will often have to suck it up and use a shitty UI if it means solving a technical shortcoming better.
> The amount that Olympic swimmers eat is legendary... Michael Phelps —- he of 21 gold medals and counting -— made headlines when he boasted of his 12,000-calorie-a-day diet:

> > Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee. One five-egg omelette. One bowl of grain. Three slices of French toast topped. Three chocolate-chip pancakes.

> > Lunch: One pound of pasta. Two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayonnaise on white bread, plus energy drinks.

> > Dinner: One pound of pasta, an entire pizza, and even more energy drinks.
I know Stallman hates Netflix because they use DRM, but I don't know what part makes it "malware."
Guess what buybacks are!

The problems for anybody else are diminished returns and the limited amount of banks that are willing to give you money for nothing.
I think too that, while you may not be able to check each agent's logs and find out that they netted big gains individually, the idea is that over time, when the big fish are caught - possibly reported in the news, other big fish start cooperating without having to catch them. The money just starts getting collected.
Possibly a stupid question, but does AMD lift such restrictions on models with its unified memory, by allowing the GPU to "page out" chunks of vram to system ram?
GitHub: Find all references in public repositories
A data visualization curriculum using Vega-Lite and Altair
It's totally possible to get along with people that you would describe as 'having poor social skills'. It sounds like you're conflating "getting along with" with "thinking highly of their social skills".
I am close to someone with Lyme disease, and it's far more serious than I realized in terms of impact on day to day life. What I've learned is that it doesn't get the kind of funding or research as other debilitating diseases because it's relatively rare and hard to diagnose, so there's simply fewer people who go into medicine with a personal connection to it.
There isn't a "smoking gun" detector for Lyme in much the same way that there isn't a "smoking gun" detector for cancer. Diagnosing Lyme with blood tests is only one tiny piece of the controversy around Lyme.
Should we do this for other types of law enforcement?

Local police pay for themselves in traffic and parking tickets, among other fees. So maybe we should keep adding cops until we've maximized fine revenue.

Or maybe marginal profit isn't a good way to measure law enforcement...
Agreed. "Aggressive" telemetry is still annoying, but google is on a whole other level.
Doesn't everyone benefit from the fact that there are people obsessed with finding content that appeals to them? It's like reposts: what do I care? Though I suppose you could argue this is good for their mental health.

And I'm not convinced it would even have the tiniest impact on a polarized circlejerk like r/politics.
Nah. In fact that's the whole reason "contrarianism" is a thing.
Did your parents do everything for you?

Foraging and collecting water, making fires (chopping the wood with hand tools), cleaning, preparing and cooking food, ... you've used most of the day; couple of hours of reading. Rinse and repeat.

Even camping when you have gas and water on tap, it's surprising how much of the day is meal-prep, and cleaning (pots, tools, self).

When you needed to hunt, make clothing, maintain tools just with basic tech then I Can't see there being so much time to be bored.
Not exactly sure what there is to deal with here, and it's certainly not easy to have an interesting discussion about a topic if you decide that it's not worth trying to argue your point instead of telling the other person to "deal with it" when they ask for clarification about what some of your points mean or point out things that would make your argument stronger if addressed
If only there were some middle ground between "not having autocomplete" and "ruthlessly data mining the everliving fuck out of everything I do in order to sell me shit." Oh well, nothing we can do, I guess, except shut up and take it.
Thanks, the reviews were entertaining.
> “It appears that a build/test system was compromised some time last year and the exploited added to code in the directory from which packages are built (and file timestamps modified to make this change not show up in a git diff),” Cameron said in an email.

How, exactly, does that happen?

Does git look at timestamps first and, assuming they aren't different, not hash the file contents to compare the SHA1? This [0] git FAQ makes me think the answer is "no".

Another FAQ:

> git diff and other Git operations is optimized so it does not even look at files whose status (size, modification time etc) on disk and in Git's index are different. [...] If the file has been touched somehow, git diff has to look at the content of and compare it which is a much slower operation even when there is in fact no change.

[0]: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Git_FAQ#Why_isn.27t_Gi...
I mean, that could also be the result of some selection or survivor bias.

Such as, documentary producers had enough footage to exclude it from anyone who was not photogenic. Or the obese people who attended Woodstock didn't live to their 70s.
> Say you want to send data to an untrusted destination and want the data to be read-only and non-copyable.

Barring quantum technology, I don't think this is possible.
I backed the Pono Kickstarter. I got a player that had some cool features, but I ultimately stopped using it after a few months because it was slow and battery hungry compared to my old Sansa Clip with Rockbox.
If you squint hard enough, cherry pick and are highly motivated, more or less anyone who makes sweeping predictions about the future can be 'precisely right'. Even this particular essay isn't really 'precisely right', never mind every single prediction, dire warning or position the FSF has ever taken.
off-topic, @glennon, I remember you compiled a list of all YC companies under github/investor-school before their official launches on demo days. Was expecting similar for YC S19. Not doing it this time?
Same numbers and thoughts here, except swap London with NYC. The government needs to incentivize behavior that's good for everyone. Offering some incentive to businesses who allow, for instance, 1-2 days a week from home would be huge. The amount of congestion that would cut down alone would be massive, in theory removing 20% of commuters every day.
I think you mis-understand just how easy it is to create a corporation with no employees...
So that blog post quotes a demo of passing 1024 qubits by 2008. Anyone know where we are at on reality now?

Or is that d wave claim material for/r/agedlikemilk?
It seems that a lot of Rule of Law goes out the window when it comes to (apparent) matters of national security.
I hope they are able to find the source control logs and prosecute whoever embedded that code maliciously.
DuskStar is pretty close.

Anti-fragile describes systems that improve from disorder. Robust describes ones that resist disorder.

The ceramic plate is robust: it’s very strong, and unlikely to break when things go wrong (e.g. it gets dropped). But it’s not anti-fragile, it will never be made better by dropping, at best it won’t get worse.

The petrol market in Puerto Rico is anti-fragile because the disorder of small power failures made it better, they added backup power so that the system would be more robust next time the power went out.