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Show HN: Privacy Focused News, Apps and Services Curated in One Place
https://privasim.com/

Approximately a year ago, I decided to create a simulator game. A Privacy Simulator where you get users, mine their data and sell those data to other people the main purpose was to educate people on how exactly data mining and data collection is being done by Tech Companies in a very easy and fun way. I posted the dev updates on the YouTube channel (you can still see the Devlogs), the first Devlog was posted on 5th of Nov 2018 (Later I realized that it shares the same theme with the V Movie and Guy Fawkes Holiday). I published the demo version on itch.io back in April of this year and someone donated with a message:

"Keep up the good work. I'm a cybersecurity instructor and we are always looking for more tools to teach privacy and security (especially multiplayer games) so it's good to see something like this being made"

And I later realized that being just a game was not enough. I did this whole research thing on privacy, blockchain and decentralization. I have invested a few on altcoins a while back in 2018 and most of them did not see the light of the day, I saw the problem.

I have curated Privacy focused news, apps and services so you can just go to these sites in one click. Apologies if you are experiencing some technical difficulties, it's still in alpha stage but I am planning to improve it.

I have included two call to action buttons at the bottom to support and improve the Privasim. It's still on very early stages so any feedback and support is very much appreciated.

Thank you all and hope you'll like it!
David
Or use 2. That's what we do, use one brain to understand another brain.
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Yeah, but the asteroid might pause in its orbit for a couple months before releasing hurricanes.
Yeah, if you don't trust the people that you hire to fight in the trenches, get the f--k out of this business.
Of note is "Mugsy" [24:50 mark], their 140-camera rig for capturing human expression ;)
A common cold and a flu are two different things.
Drat, scooped again...
>If your first thought was "It's not stealing for such a small amount"

Well, actually... where I live, it would not be stealing for such a small amount, given that you don't know who lost it, and it was found in an abandoned alleyway (and not say, an office, store or station etc. where it could be handed over to local personnel). Had you said fifty, the situation would've been different.</nitpick>
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Most AI is doing overly complicated versions of plain old decision trees or just pattern matching.

Or in the worst cases they are presenting one thing, and really just relying on hundreds or thousands of people in Bangalore to pore through the data sets and tag and categorize.
What it takes to build API Integration
> Amazon already sent out 700 test devices to households in LA to test the access points

I don't think it's a mesh. My first reading of this was the same as yours, but on a second read I think they've just set up a network of base stations, in the same way that something like LoraWAN works.
I don't think you have the right numbers in mind talking about the compute you need for AI. The prices are getting lower and lower of course, but you still need tons of money to train the kind of networks that make the news.
This is like the old adage. "If you truly believe in market efficiency, you would never bother to bend over to pick up a $100 bill because if it were real, someone else would have picked it up already!"
Of course, and we’re already seeing incredible results, even from size-compressed deep neural networks running on custom acceleration hardware embedded now in most major smartphones.

I was simply responding to the parent post’s false claim (”The human brain doesn’t use a billion dollars in compute power, figure out what it is doing.”), in isolation from the rest of the post (which I generally agree with).
Well then don't find out how your brain works, find out how a brain works then.
Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries to build fuel cell powered ships
WeWork has no franchising business model nor is it acting as a middle man like Uber that pushes the risk to the users of the platform. Instead it is the worst of both worlds. They lease the office space and basically resell it at a loss.
Founder here! Thank you for your comment :D

He is one of my main references. If you like his thoughts you may also like:

The Open Source City: http://www.theopensourcecity.com/
Freeland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMoQCRweXdU&t=2s

The first one is being held in Raleigh, EUA and the second one in Almeere Oosterwold, The Netherlands.
On Chinese “Spy Trains”
Have you talked to many single women and asked them what their dating experiences are like?

Are there large groups of single women out there who think online dating is amazing, wonderful, everything they ever wanted?

I encourage you to ask some single women about their dating experiences and see if it matches up with your assumption from reading an OkCupid (marketing) study.
Ha, I used to do the same thing when I drove an airport shuttle for a hotel while I was a bellman. Thanks for stirring up a crazy memory!
The threat from China isn't “spy trains”
I myself upvote submissions I want to see other people comment on rather than ones I wish to.
> The majority of companies outside the HN bubble are full of very average developers.

I think you underestimate the HN bubble : I'm an average dev (I don't even have a Github account !) yet I'm in the HN bubble.
I fail to see the relevance of that to this discussion.

Radio was also used extensively by the various resistance movements in Europe during WW2.

Technology is used by people to facilitate the things those people want to do, good, evil or in-between. "Militarized Disinformation" takes different forms in the internet age but the internet has not revolutionized lying at scale by any means. It just makes everything travel faster.
Oh, nice.. now we will get annoying video popups... (as if we don't get that already...)
Companies of that type should be cooperatives.
Meanwhile, TMT is still facing tons of opposition: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/09/26/solidarity-mauna-ke...
Can we shoot down distant asteroids with a missile?
Amazon unveils a couple new Ring cameras that cost less than $100
This is one of the only non-misogynistic responses to my comment (IMHO).

If you're healthy and have hobbies and socialize regularly finding a romantic partner is not only easier but also less important because you have a rich and fulfilling life.
Interesting article but deceptively titled. I guess for the publication it is in it makes sense. This article is almost exclusively about immigrant bike-based couriers in New York City and basically does not mention car based delivery, delivery apps or delivery workers outside of the NYC area.

It was interesting to learn about the NYC delivery scene and how fresh immigrants who don't even know english have a long history of being bike couriers.

But in my top 10 American city I've never had a Postmates or UberEats driver that wasn't Americanized and speaking good English. Not that it matters at all, food is food and a job is a job, but the article basically describes nothing at all similar to food apps and delivery workers in the rest of the country.
> I'm certainly not claiming to be fundamentally superior to anyone. I was just lucky enough to be born smart enough to do very well in high school and then lucky enough to be admitted via MIT's secret sauce selection methodology.

I mean, I wasn’t so your first statement contradicts the next. It seems like you’re saying the ultimate value of a person’s accomplishments is decided when they choose a college. That certainly has disturbing implications for me if that’s the case!

Ultimately this appears to just be beating around the bush. If this institution is so special a random lottery wouldn’t be that different of an outcome. Some folks have proposed that at other institutions [0]. Personally I disagree because I genuinely don’t think who they admit actually matters for 99% of the country. Society should start considering the value of the P50 instead of only lionizing the contributions of the P99.

[0] https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2019/01/08/why-harva...
Maybe if you're a big name researcher at a top university. Most people are 'forced' to work on whatever happens to be getting grant money that year. But you are more free with regards to how you approach a problem and what you have to deliver.

Fortunately AI is hot right now so there are lots of projects where you can get funding simply by saying I want to apply machine learning to X.
That would be one of the best one-time investments made by humanity then, but I don't think throwing X billions at the problem can solve it.
we're dying here

Who? Where? Why?
"Having a few hundred consumer GPUs or a few dozen "datacenter" GPUs should be within the reach of any University department"

That was funny - however not even close to reality. I have to work on a GTX 1080 (not TI)...
He brought Nicolas Sarkozy to light, who was indeed part of a new generation of cynics.
From The NY Times. The newspaper which has cheerleaded every single US war
I think it's a question of complexity. The idea of ray tracing is actually really simple compared to modern day rasterized graphics.
Founder here! Thank you for your comment :D

I worked in the Director Plan of Goianira in 2018, that is why it is my study object! It has grown a lot this past few years, but I am not from there, I am from Brasilia.

Thank you for the good luck wish!
It may be a sign that CS is becoming a mature field. Aeronautical Engineering doesn't build experimental aircraft. Chemical doesn't build experimental refineries. If you want to do those things you work for Lockheed, Boeing, Exxon, etc.
How scrolling textures gave Super Mario Galaxy 2 its charm
Uncovering the Hidden Intelligence of Collectives
>"Hate Speech", defined essentially as any form of discrimination whatsoever, has been made illegal in Europe following the growth of the anti-immigration far right.

Source? This is not true in my experience.
Average looking shouldn't be a problem to most people. Just don't look for people who want to date models. Use a dating site that focuses on content and interest rather than looks. But even if you're somewhere where the initial decision has to be made based on a photo, you can make that photo interesting.

I met my wife on a dating site 13 years ago (a small, cheap one focused specifically on Christians), and although I probably had a profile with a whole supposedly-witty story about myself, the thing I remember is the photo; I used a photo from a recent vacation to Africa, with me selfie-style in front of the gate of Timbuctoo. Her first message to me included some reference to Ouagadougou, and that got the ball rolling. (Her photo was her on a sailing boat; also effective.)

Don't use a photo where you look average, use a photo where you do something interesting. That says more about you than a chiseled jaw line.
Drake's Well Museum:

https://www.drakewell.org/about-us

I was there this summer.
Well over a 100 years old and some of the original equipment is still running. Sad that our modern equipment has little hope of that.
What you can learn from live coders
Here is the paper:

- Individual and collective encoding of risk in animal groups
-- https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/09/17/1905585116
"For teams to work across the internet, they need to be able to see who else views the document on their team."

"Got it, agreed."

"What if they make it public, and the team is anyone on the internet?"

"Same! Name, email, maybe more?!"

No. No! If something is shared publicly, who views it should not be public knowledge. Or it should be screamed in blaring, blinking, marquee high-contrast banner across the screen to everyone before viewing the document.
Using deep neural networks for accurate hand-tracking on Oculus Quest
Many organizations have been attempting to use AI to extract coded concepts for years. Even the best systems have a relatively high error rate, so if you want to use the output for anything important you still need a trained human medical coder to fix the errors. But that AI rough draft does have value since correcting its errors is still faster than entering all the codes manually.
Cooperatives can be formed today, there are no obstacles for them.
Pluto is “Planet 9”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news18.com/amp/news/buzz/na...
"Reply All" had an episode that touched on an interesting variation of this:

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/j4hl36/112-the-proph...
All too true. I'd guess that short of relying on protein shakes, 70% of my meals are based around legumes, it should definitely be a go to for more people, regardless of whether they keep a vegan diet or not.
Same problem in Western Europe. In Eastern Europe companies train you before you start with hands on work or a paid professional training. In the West, companies expect you to somehow be born a senior dev. :)
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In many countries “hate speech” is illegal, the US is one of the few with truly free speech. Pro Nazi and racial incitement speech is illegal in France, Germany and Austria AFAIK. Here in South Africa too. Even though I’m for free speech, I feel this is understandable and defendable.
This should have been the most predictable result ever. If only the top 20% of students are taking the test, as used to be the case, then the average score is going to be quite high. If you expand that pool with weaker students, it's going to pull the average down. If you make everyone take the SAT, then you are going to wind up with a lot of really low scores dragging that average down hard.

They run into this all the time with mandated standardized testing. In smaller school districts, just the relative number of special ed students from class to class can create so much variance that year-to-year comparisons are useless.
>"At least one woman accused Koestler of rape, but many others described behavior that today would certainly be classified as sexual abuse. "

Aren't we supposed to erase him and his works from history now, then? after all:

>"Anyone who disagrees with the Party’s dictates is on the wrong side of history, and so deserves to be eliminated. "
As a guess, people who are invested in games are more likely to consider themselves techy people, the competition makes everything a bit tenser and elicits more excitement, and games are explicitly online only.
There is no ultimate source of truth so I don't see how AI/ML could make that distinction.
So does this mean it is self aware now?
>While accurately simulating optics is needfully computationally expensive and gives special-purpose graphics hardware an advantage, it's not clear that psychologically subjective high quality graphics (i.e. generating visuals which are inaccurate but convincing to humans) has such a need.

What you're describing is rasterization, which is what the industry standard is (at least for games) for decades.
Ironically there's a lot of intersection with ultra-nationalists
The specialized mining hardware is a red herring.

The security of the Bitcoin network isn't a function of its hashrate or the number of nodes, though these things correlate; it's a function of the cost of running it.

Regardless of whether the network is run on specialized hardware, old desktops, or TI-83s, the network is only secure so long as it costs enough to run that any motivated attacker would have to spend more money than they can leverage to attack it.
But why do we have to slow down? Can't we aim at sol, such that our velocity doesn't matter?
Higgs Troika for Baryon Asymmetry
The stock market is not because good companies really do become more valuable by doing real work. It’s not zero-sum.
A lot of the PhD requirements actually comes from the grants and R&D tax benefits these guys are after. For a lot of those you have to justify you have the right workforce.
Why weren't column numbers a form of addressing?
(sigh) They're comparing averages, so the whole theory is suspect.

Averages are a terrible way to do a comparison. Averages aren't terribly useful unless you know that your data is Gaussian (or a sum of IID Random Variable => see the CLT). Folks love to erroneously assume Gaussian.

In this particular problem, I would expect to see a multimodal distribution for the liberal arts majors.. (i.e. some folks have massive salaries (famous authors) and some have small salaries (high school English teachers)).

In such a case, the average can end up at a value that basically doesn't exist in the underlying distribution. So you end up comparing nonsense.
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A good point regarding context.

Gender-equality has been coming into religion (i.e. women bishops in the Church of England) and dating (i.e. splitting checks). Given the way things are trending, it feels like this will continue to the point that it will impact things such as ballroom dancing and weddings.
The Jessicas are turning 30
Surprised to see no mention of tourists or cellphones. We learned about this telescope in astronomy class on Tuesday and our professor said the place was inundated with so many tourists that it was impossible to get any useful data due to the noise generated by all the cellphones. Part of the reason the telescope was built in such a remote area was to reduce the amount of radio noise from terrestrial sources.
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When was the alternate age when people had access to and revered the truth? That is a trick question; there never was one.

Communities have always relied on a highly slanted version of the truth to make decisions. Propaganda and truth have both gotten cheaper to spread. The evidence is that the truth is doing a much better job relative to what it used to (I can see actual visual evidence of what is happening in Hong Kong, for example, in near real time).

The downside is that it is cheaper for the government to track individual activities, but that is a slightly separate topic.
Although this is technically true, being creative/original and being academically successful might not be the same thing.

There still will be a genius discovered in wild, but an institutionalized effort might make the discovery process quicker and more efficient.

And then there's a correlation of the test score of rich kids and their parent's income.

I want to agree with your sentiment, but the cynical side of me says that sometimes banality wins.
I don't just eat seitan at all, in fact we have it maybe 2 weeks out of every 4, tops, partially because of the effort to prep it.

I also didn't really specify, but there's times we cook with nutrition and health as the main factors, and times we cook for indulgence or for cravings, and I definitely blurred the line some in my original response.
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Before AI was hot they were like other CS professors, maybe they could double their salary by going into industry. And give up the academic freedom to do whatever the hell you want as far as research is concerned, the joy of teaching for those who care, the unshakable job security of tenure, the option of doing the bare minimum to avoid getting fired once you have tenure, summers off.

Then their field got hot and suddenly people are not offering them double their academic salary in industry. They’re offering dectuple their academic salary.

Real demand calls forth supply.
I'm currently building Prosper (tryprosper.com) as a side-project. Video marketing platform to help you grow your email list.

Prosper: Video is eating the world, people are consuming videos more than ever. It's time to change how you ask for an email address. With video popups, show your face behind your business and get more people to give you their email address without being annoying
Didymos has an orbit that only very occasionally brings it anywhere near Earth. Only within a few million kilometres every hundred years or so. The small amount of debris produced will continue along the slightly altered orbit, so won't be a hazard to local space traffic until such time as the larger asteroid comes close enough to hit Eartch, at which point the tiny debris is a lesser concern.
I think to understand your argument I would need to understand how you think Bumble is harming men. In my experience people generally care much more about situations where there is harm in the discrimination (there are so many better targets for energy is a waste). As someone who cares a lot about gender issues Bumble is a symptom of the problem but not problematic itself, why should I care?

Edit: you are talking about a whole generation but the people who are vocal about things like Bumble are a very very small minority and not really indicative of the movement at large in my experience.
If interested in finding examples first hand look into e-packet from ChinaPost, that’s the new name of the service that lets you ship parcels from China to the US for a couple of bucks.
The last president that had the allure and class of a president. Since then it has been worst and worst, each new president being vulgar in its own way. RIP. Also the museum (Quai Branly) is awesome.
If you're going to say adjusting a photo angle is equivalent to rape, please never use a dating website.
Well in response to my questions about why people want to divorce insurance from employment before universal care becomes a law/right/option, one commented answered:

>>Having a critical mass of uninsured people is the foundation we need to resolve the healthcare crisis in America.
I don't see too much of a problem, just that if the download link does not come up right away (this could be caused by a user's browser settings or connection speed, which are beyond your control) it looks like they have been taken to a "Here, have some spam instead" page. I would just switch the position and styling of "Sign up for updates" and "You are now downloading..." so that confirming the download request is the primary message on the screen. You could also ask a user to wait three seconds and make them look at your (now less prominent) appeal to sign-up for emails while they do so.

The project looks very nice and I do a lot of HTTP work so I will try it out today. Good work!
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I even wonder how Tencent thought Kik was worth $50m. That seems absurd.
I know there are quite a few European countries with laws against hate speech, I was mostly referring to the following two parts:

>defined essentially as any form of discrimination whatsoever

>has been made illegal in Europe following the growth of the anti-immigration far right.
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Apparently New Zealand is so pure they don't even bother to draw it in on their corruption map[1].

[1] https://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/201...
It wasn't captured very well in my original comment, but I was just talking about a subset of our cooking, and I was more comparing like-to-like as far as imitating a dish, chicken vs seitan, and less so all vegan cooking.

It was meant to be one example, we cook bean and lentil dishes a hefty majority of the time and usually those I can set and forget in an instant pot.
I work in higher ed tech, and the state I work in has been having showing this trend for more than a decade, losing 2 points or so each year on average.
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