skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Planes, Trains, and Automobiles:

"Have a point! It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!"

In general, I find most technical and scientific talks are the person gushing about whatever they think is cool, sometimes rushing from topic to topic, and as an audience member, you're like, what is going on, and why is this relevant?

All this knowledge in this article is really good. But I think most people kid themselves about how much they can cover, and what is interesting to them might not be interesting to their audience. Although if you know what the takeaways are, you should be able to know that those are relevant for that audience. I love the part about having one thing you're focusing on. It's obvious, until you try to write something, and have a million good sounding ideas.
Obviously if you click on an ad then yes, the advertiser will know you're interested in that product. I don't see how that has anything to do with ad personalization though.

And with this system, the advertiser wouldn't have the ability to build a profile on the user, since the idea is to replace cookies with this system, not to merely supplement them.
This is from 2018... I mean yeah its amusing but....
Good read https://www.cassandracapital.net/post/why-did-china-just-dev...
Not yet. Soon!
> unprompted

The guy's been getting criticisms for 25 years. I think he's justified in writing a single blog post in defense of his art style. If you don't like it, you don't have to read it.
Quite an interesting thread posted last New Years here of how Facebook scale for demand at New Years Eve when everyone is sending Happy New Years messages at midnight

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18780741
Maybe we could accept that despite the leaks society is carrying on just fine?

Perhaps the paranoia is a bit overblown, and is implicitly allowed to satisfy notions that financial market performance is somehow the highest priority or literally reflective of efficiency.

Remember, scores of people are convinced Sky Wizards are literal things. I’ve seen no reason to believe common held beliefs in economics are anything less than qualification without well reasoned checking.

My priorities in life are not a rich person’s financial portfolio. And we can see how they treat each other when these breaches happen. They don’t care and pat each other on the back coughEquifaxcough.

Why should we take such a serious posture if the rich owners don’t?
San Mateo High School Goes Phone-Free
Excerpt:

"Leaked documents show that Jair Bolsonaro's government intends to use the Brazilian president's hate speech to isolate minorities living in the Amazon region. The PowerPoint slides, which democraciaAbierta has seen, also reveal plans to implement predatory projects that could have a devastating environmental impact."

My question is why would the government even put slides like this together. Who writes things like "We will use hate speech to implement predatory projects to devastate the environment".

Normally govts focus on things like we want to develop X area and give two shxxts about the environment. But they don't go out of there way to come up with evil powerpoints.
VMware Buys Carbon Black and Pivotal
Has anyone ever told you that you use the work "folks" a lot? Is that a regional thing because I've never seen it used that much to be honest?
sort/index the db table by string length, start your search with the closest length strings (bigger and smaller) and then stop if you find a levenshtein distance that's smaller than that the length difference between the key and the next closest length string? In many(most?) cases you'd still end up searching the whole table but at least in some cases you could end the search early.
That may be a wrong question to ask. If do not need exact levenshtein distance, but some measure of similarity then there are a lot of options. For example postgres has index-supported similarity based on amount of common trigrams.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/pgtrgm.html
> These companies need to be forced to come up with alternative business models or ads that do not require extensive surveillance

That's exactly what Google is trying to do here. They're replacing the existing ad system with one that does not require surveillance to achieve ad targeting.
You're not filling a landfill and you're not gathering more raw material. Both seem like a win, especially if it's cheaper, even by just a little.
>20 highest ranked healthcare systems are in Europe.

It's not a rank, it's a (bad) efficiency metric, which says that Ukrainian and Kazakhstan HC is "more efficient" than Russian, and that Chilean HC is "more efficient" than that of Denmark.

If you assume this metric shows what's better, it's safe to assume that this metric is garbage. To lazy to dive into the methodology, they weight the date using avg schooling years and other vague staff, but the results rendering this paper totally unsound.

Comparing different countries using a single "performance" metric is nearly always garbage, since all sorts of important nuances are being omitted.
I love this algorithm -- it's so elegant and succinct.

Slightly off-topic, but one of the algorithms I'm most proud of coming up with as an engineer was an offshoot of Levenshtein distance where I had to find all pairs of strings in a set of ~1m strings which were fairly similar. 1m x 1m x O(n^2) is very slow. There turned out be a good way to figure out a lower bound on distances using some precomputation, and that eliminated almost all of the pairwise O(n^2) Levenshtein computations.

I'm anyone's interested, here the description: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-programming-algorithm...
The importance of embodiment has been a fairly common idea in AGI research for many years.

Virtual embodiment has become quite popular. See things like OpenAI gym or DeepMind Lab etc.

Anyway, and this is more of a general comment than a reply to the above comment specifically, this idea is not new, and I hope that people will realize that the field of AGI exists and study some of the existing research. Maybe take a look at the sidebar and intro info at reddit.com/r/agi
I think this is already very much prosecutable. The problem is that these calls are always anonymous and it's hard (often impossible) to track the perpetrator.
Why are they storing credit card numbers in a database in the first place? This should fall under PCI-DSS if so.
I'm maybe wrong, but I would like to share some ideas.

Where does this money is coming from ? I mean, does the whole question isn't a level "above" : why does such entity exists in a democratic gouvernement ? Isn't it showing a deep loophole in the system ?
Same idea : how is this entity funded ? Isn't it with US-citizens's taxes ? So, aren't all US-citizens involved in this story as well ?
Why would Palantir's employees be more involved than all the persons that allowed the money to be there for Palantir to be funded ?

I'm seeing more Palantir as a consequence of a system's failure than its premice.

Woild love to discuss about that however.
I won't argue that getting strong code in TS is easy but I definitely don't think it's as hard as you're making it out to be. That being said, it's more of a limitation of the underlying execution context in my opinion, and you have to realize that it's not just jS that's out to get you but the whole ecosystem. But that's the expectation in all languages, even in Rust. In production optimizations all bets are off and you're on your own if your app dies.

For example of what I mean by the platform being out to get you, the second parameter to JSON.parse is a recovery function. So it'll happily parse anything and return anything. Again, should be "unknown" but it was typed before unknown was a thing.

JSON.parse('{ "fooDate": 123456789 }', (key, value) => !key.includes('Date') ? value : new Date(value));

JSON.parse('123456789', (key, value) => new Date(value))

I actually just learned about this today, since I was doing some digging. Horrifying stuff for a typed language to get around. FWIW, we've made it an explicit lint error to use the `any` type, and enabled --noImplicitAny and --noImplicitReturns. That's been pretty solid for our codebase and because I/O is limited to a few edges, we can call out those edges for type guards.
Baba is You is I think a great example of something that looks really simple but is actually really challenging to pull off. It's also probably not something you could reasonably maintain across 25 years using freelance artists. It also helps that the total number of unique objects in Baba is You is rather limited.
>but none of these features are new, child seperation and children dying in ICE facilities happened under the Obama administration and it wasn't a big deal then. What changed?

Not really. Here are some things that changed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/politics/fact-check-tr...
Look, if you want to keep the file to yourself unless I agree to run your DRM code on my PC, that's your choice (and mine). Just like rootkits are generally considered malware but it's not an issue if the owner of the PC chooses to install one. However, to be clear, the price is not just me accepting DRM in order to get the file from you but rather everyone being saddled with owner-hostile (and generally non-removable) code shipped with their computers by default and a legal system which grants special privileges and protections to purveyors of DRM, without which the technical measures would be far less effective.

I'm not complaining that you won't give me the file unless I run your DRM code. I'm complaining that your insistence on DRM is creating negative externalities for me and others even if we don't want the file.
>> the US is working average workers harder so that the ultra-wealthy can get even wealthier. Does that benefit society at large?

Some people are calling that the "Iron Man" principal. If we can funnel enough money into the hands of billionaires, they will invent the things to solve all the world's problems. The real world is not a comic book.
110% this. I mostly work from home, but on office days, I show up at least an hour before everyone else, and often get a lot done in that time. Once people show up, start making coffee, talking about the latest sportsing, etc., I'm already 2.5 hours into my day.
> Requiring ID to vote is inline with requiring ID to drive.

One of those things is an inherent right of citizenship. The other is a privilege that requires proving one has allegedly mastered the skills and knowledge required to safely practice it.
At this point, security measures need to assume that your information has been made public.
They are looking for the number of people/households/whatever who don't even have an option for broadband, not just the number who don't subscribe.
To address positive rights - societies don't just "run out" of money. As has been repeated a million times, a country with a sovereign currency is not run like a household budget.

Sure, a country with a sovereign currency can create as much currency as they wish. They can never "run out" of money, literally. Practically, though, creating more currency doesn't result in more products being made and services being performed. Most countries are aiming for their currency to hold its real value relatively steady in accord with its nominal value, and you cannot do that if you create more money whenever you "run out" of it. So yes, countries cannot "run out" of money literally, but practically they can and do.
ICE and CBP are targeting legal residents and even U.S. citizens, and attempting to deport them, if they are Hispanic. See for example:

https://www.gq.com/story/border-patrol-incarcerated-citizen

ICE and CBP have repeatedly violated U.S. law in their treatment of children, including violating the Flores Settlement (which carries the force of U.S. law), violating Constitutional due process and equal protection rights (ruled in Ms. L case), and violated the civil rights guaranteed under U.S. and international law, for example by refusing to provide hygiene materials and medicine.
You're correct, but I was thinking more about the emotional decision of "OK, I will raise children into this current scenario that is rapidly approaching beyond reparation.".
Which is a very shortsighted view from them IMO. An unmanned hydrogen filled airship may spare passengers and crew in case of an accident because there is none of either, but if catches fire over a stadium or a highway while carrying 5 grand pianos that wouldn't make it less deadly than the Hindenburg.
Sign all communication with a private key. Have mail clients verify it. Make that government mandated.
Bad actors having access to intimate personal details (health and financial records), past passwords (not everyone uses 1 password per site), etc. is not a matter of my paranoia being overblown.

I don't know how someone getting access to my medical records or locking me out of my email account is related to financial market performance.

>Remember, scores of people are convinced Sky Wizards are literal things.

We know, for a fact, that data is being breached and ending up in the hands of the wrong people. How are you honestly making a comparison to "Sky Wizards"?

Why should we take such a serious posture if the rich owners don’t?

Because it's my f'in data.
Re-Captcha doesn't fingerprint users. It uses statistical models to guess whether a particular user is a bot or not; it doesn't de-anonymize users or identify them in any way.

Analytics doesn't either, it uses regular cookies. (See sibling comments.)
What does the 25 years have to do with it? There are developers who've been in the industry for far less time who are much more reactive and responsive to criticism. If anything, that mention of 25 years is an indictment, not anything worse praising.

Also, 'art style' is a stretch.

Finally, yes, if I don't like it, I don't have to read it. Yet, I did, and I'm free to express my dissatisfaction and disagreement with the article's message: if you don't like it, you don't have to read it.
Maybe it is a circular list.
I thought the fire was the elephant in the room.
MWI doesn't involve branches, it's just one big evolving wavefunction.
If you only care about the row with the shortest distance (and assuming no precomputed optimizations) you can save compute cycles by exiting the algorithm as soon as the distance is guaranteed to be larger or equal to the shortest distance thus far. For very large searches the algorithmic complexity drops to roughly linear in the number of rows, the length of the search string, and the shortest distance thus far (the distance to any strings whose length differs by more than the shortest distance thus far need not be computed at all).
Storing Your Apple Card Wrong
Is the extra content worth the added discomfort resulting from highly targeted advertising? Maybe, maybe not! It's not a simple problem.
Is there a BT device out there that you can't force into pairing mode?
Oh, no. It's definitely not fine when either does it. And my intent (which appears to not have been expressed well) was primarily to criticize the Chinese for doing it, while also acknowledging the fault of the West in the same behavior.
When people refer to US government they mean Federal.

And the concern is that the Federal government has structurally degraded its budget such that it is running larger and larger deficits.

And unfortunately when you give away money as tax cuts it's often politically impossible to reverse it.
They've since updated the language to keep free tier IPs free:

> Note: Starting January 1st, 2020, GCP will introduce an additional charge for publicly addressed VM instances that don't fall under the Free Tier. You will not be charged for other publicly addressed resources, such as forwarding rules.
"Peeping Tom"? I assume you're gesturing towards some sort of accusation here; how about making it explicit (and maybe indicating why, if true, it would tell us anything about the validity of Russell's philosophical opinions)?
Basically only I-frames, no P or B frames. Chroma isn't even the issue.
How can we communicate further? Do you have an email I could send you details to?
Cultures can be wildly different, and 2 different huge groups of people can have different cultures, and as a consequence be inherently different to one another, so there's that...

For all the talk of individualism, for example, it's pretty easy to blindly tell a random American from a random French with great statistical success just for their opinions on things. And those two cultures aren't even as different as each is with Japanese culture...
Theoretical considerations on depth that could be reached by saturation divers
We use the Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance for fuzzy matching in our data prep tool. Here is a post about how it works: http://blog.easymorph.com/2017/08/fuzzy-matching-and-merging...

Damerau-Levenshtein [1] is more practical then just Levenshtein as it includes transposition - a common cause of typos.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein_di...
I don't quite follow.

Is the idea to print planar (xy) support layers, that does have stair stepping, and then to print the final layer by either tilting the bed or by simul-stepping in {x,y} and z?

If so, it seems you'd still have quite a lot of variability in the surface because the underlying support layer is stair-stepped. But that variability would be smoothed due to it being printed continuously at the angular offset from horizontal.
The Chinese are doing everything they can to make sure US tariffs don't affect US consumers.

And discourage factory work to leave for other countries (Vietnam, Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand, etc).
yeah, they are my most reliable and longest distance BT device
For the technically savvy, great. I'm sure most of us think like that.

My poor mom on the other hand doesn't necessarily know what that entails, and what steps she should take.
Considering that we're talking about a company which owes probably nearly all of its not inconsiderable fortune to predicting people's behavior via mass surveillance, this comment seems to miss the forest for the trees a bit.
>Its two main products are Palantir Gotham and Palantir Metropolis, more geeky winks from a company whose Tolkien namesake is a type of magical sphere used by the evil lord Sauron to surveil, trick, and threaten his enemies across Middle Earth. While Palantir Metropolis is pegged to quantitative analysis for Wall Street banks and hedge funds, Gotham (formerly Palantir Government) is designed for the needs of intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security customers.

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palanti...
Local and State in the US can't run deficits. They can put out bonds to fund projects but thats it. Its only the US federal government that can run deficits.
Every time this debate comes up I can't help but wonder if we are letting the office of the president have too much power. To over-simplify a bit: the president should be executing the will of Congress, right?
So ... twenty years of free credit monitoring, then?
https://cdn-prod.opendemocracy.net/media/images/b2d7aa17-e06...
This is my impression of the corporate "openai" movement's desires:

1. Enslaved robots, meaning they don't have to pay income tax or worry in the slightest about working conditions

2. Enslaved robots, meaning they can erase misbehaving or uncooperative individuals/instances

3. Enslaved robots, on which they can foist all of humanity's problems and demand solutions at pain of death (erasure)

4. Enslaved robots, with which they can convince/coerce everyone else into relinquishing all their rights/power/money.

Replace 'robots' with 'life' and it suddenly looks a lot more familiar.

I'd love to hear a cogent explanation to the contrary, e.g. from gdb. But I doubt we'll ever see one.
Why would anyone volunteer for the pilot program is beyond me.

Also, considering that these are magnetic I'm guessing a strong magnet would do the trick.
> Do you want the majority of the USA geography being controlled by the will of people least knowledgeable about it?

So you prefer that the majority of the USA population is being controlled by the will of people least knowledgeable about the issues faced by the most populous and developed regions of the USA?
Well, the Japanese were once called Yankees of the Orient...

I think the least surprising result of all is that Japan and South Korea are both more like each other than they are like the United States.
The figure includes employer-paid and government-paid insurance for both countries. 80% of health expenditures in Finland are paid by the government or employers, and almost 90% in the U.S. https://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/OECD-Focus-on-Out....

The income figures don't include out-of-pocket healthcare costs, but those are relatively small in both countries: about $1,100 per person per year in the U.S. and it looks like $800-900 per person in Finland. (Which by the way lines up nicely with your figures above, applying the fact that 20% of expenditures in Finland are out of pocket, versus about 11% in the U.S.)

Note that the data linked above is from the "mid-2000s" while we are using healthcare expenditures from 2019. A fairer comparison with more updated data is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c.... Here, the U.S. median household income is almost 30% higher in 2016, or $7,740 per year. The difference in out-of-pocket healthcare expenses for a three-person household reduces that to about $7,000 per year.
Islamist Militants Are Targeting Christians in Burkina Faso
So is any kind of disruption impossible then, if everything has already been thought of by other big players? The "big drawback" could be that it takes a big investment to try this, and it's a big risk as to whether that investment pays off.
I am wondering how you effectively start from the edge cases. To deal with errors, in particular complicated ones, you need the main skeleton coded and a central case working.

Are the 20% left (btw a fifth of stuff missing feels huge) really “edge cases” to them ? If these are behaviors they personaly can’t accept in a shipping product I’d totaly see devs ignoring arbitrary deadlines.

For instance I don’t think most people woud want to ship potentially data destroying code, even with a PO on their back pestering for a release of the rest. And a defense mechanism for that would be to cripple pieces of the main scenario until the critical cases are covered, if they can’t otherwise negociate that.

I am basing that on the fact that it’s a recurring event and from specific devs.
> Heroin has always been illegal.

Not wanting to stamp on any of your other arguments, but the quoted statement ignores historical facts.

Heroin was sold, and actively marketed, as a medication to calm overly active children.[0] Mommy reaching for a bottle of gin to calm her nerves is tame, compared to mommy handing out heroin to the little monster just so the darn creature would give her a bit of rest.

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/yes-bayer-promoted-heroin-fo...
It should not be up to your mom. It needs to be on the banks, government agencies, and everyone else who needs to verify people's identity.

"Oh, you've got the correct address and the last 4 digits of a social" is no longer acceptable as proof that someone is who they say they are. Something else needs to be in place. Whatever that is, the burden should be on the banks, etc. to develop that and explain to your mom what it is and how it works.
>actively pushing back against a DoJ settlement so they can hold children in detention indefinitely, etc.

So they're horrible abusers if they separate children and now that they are trying to rectify that by keeping children together with family by removing the detention limit they too are abusers. What would make you happy then? The only alternative is open borders which is a non starter.