skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't get through the video. Dude is so smug it hurts.

He is the Steven Seagal of cyber security.

I got to the part in the video where he asks "Is the question whether I broke the law, or whether breaking the law was the right thing to do?" lul. Good luck in your trial with that 'holier than thou' attitude bud. Judges just _love_ that nonsense. Parole hearings also love it when you show no respect for the laws your broke or the system you harmed.
That's a bummer. All of the articles talking about how MIT SCIENTIST DEFENDS EPSTEIN'S CHILD RAPE RING were incredibly misleading and taking his quotes ridiculously out of context.
Sure, at the individual level graduating from a top tier university or with a phd doesn't mean you're an "intellectual".

But from a population standpoint, the two are certainly correlated. The number of congress people should be large enough to assume population level statistics unless there's some serious biases _against_ intellectuals running for or winning political races.
They're the only brand of USB-C cable I'm willing to buy right now for my MBP chargers. The Apple branded ones all heat up too much and do the yellow discolorment thing, the Anker branded ones didn't hold up for more than a couple of weeks, and I had bad luck with some of the random brands I found, too.

My only complaint is I charge at 65W instead of 87, but it seems to only be slightly slower in practice.

But, it's also the nylon braided stuff, so it's probably built to different quality standards and by different people than the vanilla USB cables.
Is mediocrity in political leadership so bad? History's greatest catastrophes were undertaken by overachievers.
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That would make sense if science was a monoculture and could only be challenged from the outside, but scientists question each others' findings all the time. You can't have a scientific process without scrutiny.
>But this anti-intellectualism may make science better. Rather than agreeing with science, we constantly question it.

Anti-intellectuals by definition don't possess the intellectual curiosity necessary to contribute to science, rather, they fear and mistrust such curiosity, and any result of it more complex or less intuitive than high school algebra.

The myth that science is just slavish dogmatism is pushed by the anti-intellectual crowd, and by people who want to discredit scientific theses like evolution, climate change, parts of physics and astrophysics, mainstream medicine or vaccines. Science already has a process of constantly questioning itself - that's literally what the scientific process is. That constant questioning by science of its assumptions and revising them in the face of new evidence has led iteratively to models of reality which have proven fairly robust against criticism, and appear to accurately describe and predict the universe.

The anti-intellectuals, meanwhile, just scoff derisively at the "globalist elites" in their "ivory towers" with their "mumbo jumbo."
Probably not what you have in mind, but today I saw that KDE interacts well with a phone app to ease device interaction.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...
I am surprised he was being paid by the Institute at all. For decades he was not AFAIK.
Despite, not thanks to the government. They surely were very competitive, but that was not due to intellectual pursuit. Science was seen as valuable to weaponize, not to make life better.

If you want examples of how government officials handled progress, see:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ybnj4jcnwg

The above catastrophe occurred, due to government disregarding safety warnings and pushing personnel to do the test before some official anniversary event.

So I'd differentiate between scientists themselves and the regime, which was hardly intellectual.
Meanwhile there's lots of their old EV platform cars in the Bay Area. I see e-Golfs everywhere (not as many Audi e-trons though).
I mean at some point you would hope that someone that is not a criminal would hold the office.
Fundamentally you have 3 problems

1. securing client - recursive resolver traffic 2. trusting the recursive resolver 3. securing recursive-authoritative traffic.

1. and 2. can both be solved by running your own resolver, either locally, on your gateway or on a VPS reachable via VPN. But doing so makes you more vulnerable to 3. since fewer devices will be pooled behind a single resolver. Thus fixing 3 gives fundamentally a better improvement than futzing around with 1 or 2 where you're still at the mercy of a 3rd party.

If you're serious about privacy then DoH/DNSCrypt-via-quad9/cloudflare/etc. just seem like a distraction. I mean sure, encrypting that traffic by default is not bad, but it's not a fundamental improvement.

Also, I wouldn't say I trust my ISP, but at least it is under a GDPR jurisdiction. All the big resolvers that advertise encryption are under US jurisdiction, which makes any privacy promises seem hollow.
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> Alternatively if advertising became significantly less effective companies would spend less money on it.

What's the strategy for making advertising on Google and Facebook (+Instagram) - where the majority of all online advertising outside of China occurs - significantly less effective?

Google controls search, Android, Chrome and the Android app store (along with of course YouTube, Google Maps and Gmail, three other giant services). Facebook has its own massive walled off kingdom that exists nearly entirely in apps where they can heavily control ad blocking.

Google nearly doubled its sales in three fiscal years, from $74b to $136b. Something that big doubling in that span of time, is extraordinary. They'll probably hit near $160b in sales for 2019. I'll take the bet that a giant that large, entirely dependent on advertising, will continue to figure out how to insulate itself from ad blocking by controlling the territory around it.

Your premise will always be a non-starter so long as the ad giants control their own sprawling acreage (which they will fight to the death to retain, because it is life or death to them). The ad giants have made sure to control their own destiny, they saw the ad block threat plainly a decade ago or more and moved to stay out in front of it.
The We Company reportedly will put its public offering on hold
I've described it here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15756044
Well, if I had lots of money, then I would do whatever I want.

Feeling like playing music? Music then is!

Feeling like writing a blog post? No worries, consider it done.

Ah the memories...exactly as I was as a college student; those were the days of my life!
Is there anything specific in Prop C to financial services companies? I thought the only criteria was making over $50M in revenue, and GMV would not be relevant to the calculation.
Sigh. Not an investor, just a developer who's read their stuff and knows the pain points, and generally a fan of people doing things out of the box w/r/t software tooling. It is possible to be excited about a design pattern without knowing how a specific implementation pans out - and I probably should have said "plug what Dark is trying to do" rather than "plug Dark." But I'm chill with people disagreeing with that.
I agree, the key here is that it's best to ship with what you know, rather than what is simplest on paper.
> It seems like SF over regulation will push fintech companies to pretty much anywhere else.

I personally hope that happens. I never want to live/work in SF ever again, so the more tech jobs that leave, the more options I have that aren't SF. These companies are in a city and state that do not deserve their golden geese. The entire time I lived there I was constantly asked myself why I was paying such high taxes to a state that consistently works against my self interest.
I don't want to detract from your point about sympathy for chronic pain. But you can't mainline oxycodone into everyone who claims to have chronic pain, because that system is easily abused, as we've seen. A more nuanced approach is needed. We need a balance, and IMO we need to improve our ability to objectively measure pain instead of relying on a 1-10 scale.

I am curious about your conclusion that "opiate deaths and suicide deaths due to chronic pain are in the same order of magnitude", though. According to my simple Googling, opioids are the cause of death for 21.7 per 100,000 people in the US, while suicide is only 14 per 100,000. So per your link, chronic pain suicide is about 10% of that, or 1.4 per 100,000. That means opioid deaths are about 10-15x more common, or am I missing something?

edit: I'm realizing my understanding of this debate is significantly out-of-date. So I apologize if anything I've written seems tone-deaf, that wasn't my intention.
I agree. If you have a billion people you should have 3 times the intellectual achievement as the US.
It doesn't encourage the peaceful transition of power, either. If I'm the sitting president, and I know that the next one will lock me up, why should I hand over power to him peacefully?
I've found that profiling startup time and lazy loading plugins could reduce your startup time to 100~200ms even if you have more than 50 plugins.
Do you really think the government needs to get involved when no demonstrable consumer harm is being done? Have you actually considered how house brands might be beneficial to consumers?

Let me explain. I just did a search for "lightning cable" on Amazon. I don't want to pay $19, or whatever it would cost, to buy an Apple branded lightning cable. So I'm going to go for something cheaper. The top result is by Amazon Basics. Then we have YUNSONG, PLmuzsz, and KRISLOG. I have no idea what those are. I have no idea if I'm going to get a steaming pile of inauthentic shit. But with Amazon Basics, I can at least feel confident that they did a reasonable job of finding and vetting a factory to source the product from. And, more importantly, that they have a vested interest in me having a good experience, since Amazon Basics is Amazon.
This isn't sensitive information. Anyone with a BGP session can have this information. [1]

[1] = https://bgp.he.net/AS714#_prefixes
I'm not so sure. I heard (second-hand anecdote, sources welcome) that primary education in the US is of poor quality - that seems like a more likely cause. Unless we blame anti-intellectualism for that poor quality.

Edit: dlp211 inspired me to find a source, and it confirms his suspicions - US education seems reasonably good: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-...

Even so, a few doubts remain. Could the US have good students on average, but fail to fully utilize its more talented students?
I would say pro-educational, but not openly pro-intellectual, because that could be seen as bourgeoisie.

My uncle - an engineer born in communist Poland - is to this day frustrated by the way he was treated by the system.

Interestingly my father - also an engineer - had no such issues, although this might be explained by the fact that he was a son of a military surgeon.
Can someone at Apple solve multilingual users problems (especially when your small country is not one of 15 supported ones)?

Also wouldn't mind being able just use Google's assistant natively...
Completely agree, and I'd like to add that it should only be broken out when performance is actually a measurable issue and there's a good business case for it.

A lot of people get caught up on "x is slow, y is fast" and try to over-architect too early on, then end up focusing on the wrong parts of their product, and sooner or later the project falls apart.
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"pro-intellectual" by sending intellectuals to Gulag?
Instead of having payment systems that seem to go out of their way to make it inconvenient to pay, there should be a small number of very well defined friction points (such as: “maximum daily expenditure”) with literally zero friction anywhere else.

By now for instance we should really have a security technology that allows anyone to spend $5 a day any way they want, in any denomination (e.g. literally 2 cents here and 2 cents there), without having to go through ridiculous virtual-cash systems, cards and other hoops. The money should simply be there, and it should be able to go anywhere. If it’s a relatively small amount, it doesn’t require a lot of gate-keeping, e.g. you do not need a customer-refunds infrastructure or fraud protection scheme for pennies. The money can then either reset automatically, e.g. each day, or after some explicit more-secure action, e.g. you log in to something with your face.

I know that it would personally make me spend a lot more if a lot of transactions could “just happen”. Once I got a tap-here-and-pay watch, I spent more. Once I could shop online with a fingerprint, I actually did shop online. When I had to type in credit card details though, I hardly ever wanted to. When “fees” would appear as part of seemingly-small transactions, I hardly ever wanted to continue. Some things just sound like scams (don’t get me started on subscriptions), making me more likely to find an exit.
Complaining about unstableness, while chasing fads. Thoughts and prayers are with you ;)
You can allow anyone to read it and pay as long as they authenticate with AWS so aws can bill them.
I don't recall saying it would be easy or trivial..

But those concepts you listed are certainly more straightforward (and aligned with "building an app") than dev ops, hosting, deployment, scaling, database config, etc..
Ask HN: How to find business problems to solve as a data scientist?
To provide some context: Our entire data scientist team is about to join our parent company. In anticipation, how can we determine a business problem to solve given that 1) we don't want to do the dirty work for other data science teams or steal their work, and 2) there is no clear mandates being passed down to us from the higher up.

Obvious processes to go through include talking to all the data science team and learn more about their work and future pipeline, speaking with the business folks if possible to understand their needs. But is there something else that we can do that hasn't been listed yet?
It's also distressing that through undergrad, medschool, residency they never learned that opioids are fucking addicting as fuck and how to think for themselves.

I mean, this opioid crisis didn't just begin this year, or last, but it's been decades in the making. So imo doctors happen to be just as part of the problem as big pharma.
And how do you transfer large quantities of goods and personnel from the flying aircraft to the dangling elevator?

"Pie in the Sky" thinking, of course.
I was about to answer you point by point, but it's probably not much use.

The argument that I've made many times in this thread is that jQuery, built through iteration, feedback loop and with the benefit of hindsight is a better API than document.querySelectorAll() et al.

And there's no reason why we couldn't have used the former instead of the latter. Why would a library to “smooth over the differences” be needed for sel(".element") and not for document.querySelectorAll(".element") ?

No one was suggesting changing document.getElementById(), etc, so nothing would break.

DOM manipulation is not going anywhere, React and friends notwithstanding.
That's configurable and depends on your VPN use. If you just want to reach some internal corporate network ranges and have everything else go directly to the internet that's perfectly fine.

If you're using a VPN for privacy reasons you have to set it up properly of course. On linux network namespaces can help with that where you can make sure that default namespace goes through your VPN and your ethernet device gets moved to a separate namespace that applications don't even see by default.
I'm starting to think this was more of a "whistleblower" situation the longer they don't say to whom or what he sharing.
Cameras are important to most people in the way that shoes are important to most people. You can take perfectly fine photos with budget phones.

In any case, I have a lot of friends with phones much more expensive than mine. Their photos aren't that great.
I mean, government regulations are designed for large companies. By themselves, they act as a moat to protect monopolies and oligopolies. Of course smaller companies need to essentially break the law. Every time we see success only at the cost of breaking laws, we should really start to re-examine our laws instead of continuously blaming those who succeeded. In this case square not only succeeded but literally makes life better / possible for many many people.

If there were regulations in the way that would have prevented them from doing so, we should probably self-reflect a bit and have a sense of shame.
Related: I've found that to run time-consuming number-crunching code from Elixir, the most convenient approach is to call a Python script via ports. It's super easy and can't crash your VM.

To convert from/to Erlang terms in your Python script, you can use a library like https://github.com/skosch/python-erlastic (a fork I maintain, the original project was abandoned).
Agreed, the quality of their web site tells a lot, especially when their product is for developers

- Trendy font that reminds me of Comic sans
- 1 MB of images and JS
- Mission statement and values read as generic lifestyle brand copy.
- A 1.4 mb PNG header image on their beta sign up page
- Tiny unreadable video (with huge black borders) or full screen only.
How do you like the Nokia 3310 3G? Have been tempted to buy one of those (or the 8110 4G bananaphone), main hesitation is around losing Signal and maps(?) though I understand there are ways to sideload an old version of Google Maps to the 3310.
My company's Slack is just me and ~12 Slack bots all doing various things (reporting subscription changes, feedback, bug reports, error alerting, CI status, etc). It's amazing to look at and functions immaculately, but occasionally does have the grim reminder of just how alone it is being on your own.

Especially when you think "this all works great, but would still work equally great with another human or two here."
OK, but that's less than half of eBay. This is just a non-serious puff piece and I have no idea why it's being voted up on HN.

https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-q4-2018-results/

> In 2018, eBay enabled $95 billion of gross merchandise volume
You shouldn’t extrapolate from Stalin’s regime to the whole Soviet era. Stalin is infamous for making the USSR backward in genetics, history, archaeology, and linguistics. Yet as soon as he died, those fields recovered and significant progress on even a global level was made. My own academic background is in the latter three subjects, and I cite work by Soviet scholars in any publication I write.

Most academic libraries in the West keep Soviet academic publications from the Stalinist era in the closed stacks, because no one ever asks for them. There is a reason for that: the level of scholarship is poor, and the author feels compelled to praise the “Great Leader” (вождь) even if he was writing on something so removed from the modern Soviet Union and Communist ideology as e.g. 3rd-century CE grave finds. However, from the Khrushchev era on, Soviet scholarship in many fields was as strong as in the West and, as I said, some of those works are standard references for the field regardless of where on earth you live and work.

I would consider the late Soviet Union a fairly “intellectual” culture, because even as in the West the attraction of many such academic careers declined in the 1970s and 1980s (i.e. the belief that such degrees were useless and there was no way to make a living from them), in the USSR it was still very respectable to enter such fields. Naturally, however, that was only possible under an overall planned economy that turned out to be deeply flawed and inhuman, and as I mentioned elsewhere here Russia’s intellectual culture declined after the fall of Communism, but still.
I've used this to create a font for an app and it works well, given the effort it asks of you (not much!). It gives you a grid to print and then scrawl each letter. I brought the grid into my iPad, wrote over the top with an Apple Pencil, and then uploaded that. Here's what the grid with my handwriting looks like:

https://imgur.com/a/urulzby
They already did this, it didn't work, and it would be foolish to try again and join Amazon's race to the retail bottom. And there would almost certainly be no money in it until, you know, they beat Amazon at their own game.

Pretty sure Shopify's head is screwed-on straighter than that.
> The Wall Street Journal in particular seems to define

It's a Bloomberg article. There is no need to throw petty ideological jabs.
> are happy to view ads in exchange for free content and services they couldn't otherwise afford

So advertising doesn’t work on these people? Seems unlikely. That would imply content providers are giving stuff away, and wasting bandwidth on adds they know will never work.

Seems more likely to me that the advertising does work, and people aren’t getting content for free. They’re paying for stuff they don’t need, with money they don’t have.
Excessive endurance training can be too much of a good thing
The Uber of fintech and e-payments.
Does anyone know of an example of a rust library or function that’s been turned into a NIF? Ideally available on GitHub both before and after the conversion?

Also, the “nerves” framework is basically 80% NIFS of embedded C code.
> Does OpenBSD trust RdRand for such occasions?

It is used as one source among many to seed the PRNG, so I think the answer is no.
When working on APIs meant to be used client-side (especially mobile clients) by different customers are partners, use one subdomain per integrator. If there's a bug in their integration, it could easily DDoS your servers, but DNS is an easy way to have a manual kill switch.
To your last point, I think we'll have to wait and see?

Funny that you bring up Wix, I was thinking of that comparison too earlier..

In the early days, we had Geocities, Angelfire and other hosted web publishing sites where people could tinker with the CSS and images and post their content.

Then came Wix and Squarespace and the like, where you could also edit the HTML and start to add some functionality..

Now we have Darklang where you can write code as well..

Each one targetted the level of sophistication of the current generation of digital natives who wanted to build something for themselves on the web.

And each one is likely a stepping stone along the way for those who want to keep learning and have more power and control as they build more sophisticated things.
I've been to Disney World exactly once and I plan to keep it that way.

Not because it was bad per-se, it was an experience but I don't need to repeat that experience.

With so many great and interesting places to visit in the world, why would you want to go over and over to a tacky manufactured landscape like that?
Financial services companies often have low margins against their revenues, so the tax disproportionately hits them relative to earnings.
Honestly, I would expect compilers to lag behind the official Go compiler, unless the Go core maintainers were to release specs before they implement new features. It wouldn't do those projects good to just implement upcoming features that might not make it though.
Science was seen as valuable to weaponize

I don't think they were much of an outlier in this. Some of the greatest accomplishments of the US were done either to compete with the Soviet Union, or to make better weapons.
Just saying: please post the documentary when it comes out! ELIZA is the most bizarrely cool thing from the early age of AI.
Well as long as they present -some- other options I'm fine with it. I always look through the first 2 or 3 pages.
I wonder if a poor level of civics education could also be a factor?