skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure there were high-touch traders, they were still employed up to and around 2017-2018. Since the early 201x's bonuses have been pared to fractions of what they were and each month, every bulge bracket bank lets some formerly well-paid traders go. Fixed income notwithstanding, it's been a tough road for those guys since 2007, have you been to the floor of a major exchange lately? It's lonely. Gone are all those seven-figure a year specialists. No, low-latency and HFT are the dominant paradigm, they are business today. Want more change? Downtown Manhattan used to be all financial. Every block had dozens of Wall St. firms, trading houses, research organizations, etc. Today, it's residential. It's lots of city, state and Federal Government offices. The legions of well-dressed yuppies rushing to get to the trading floor by 7:30 AM... they're gone. Perhaps your experience is different, but this is the reality.
Great idea. Was thinking of doing something like this for a while, but obviously the drawback is that you're suspect to being the exit node for someone who's doing something illegal, which is a risk I'm not willing to take for the sake of privacy.

Obviously you can start a whitelist, but as some other comment said, it's pretty limited... and I don't want the hassle to add in every domain I go to (given the number of different blogs posts from different domains that show up on HN).

For now, I'll be sticking to AlgoVPN because I can't imagine how they'll protect the safety of users too (maybe a blacklist... although that'd be hard to given the numerous "bad" websites out there that make you suspect of further surveillance).
I wouldn't recommend it with PCs, notebooks, phones, random crapware, but:

When you control¹ all the devices on the network, the network is small enough and the danger from the non-authenticated protocols isn't too high, then I would say it is reasonable to assume being present in the network is sufficient authentication. Not saying it could not be improved, but there are probably many more pressing concerns.

¹ you don't fully control anything anymore, but you're not going to fix that either.
…but they have ads and in-app purchases.
Summary of the takeaway: the GetNamedPipeClientProcessId function returns the PID of the process that opened the pipe, not the one that is currently communicating. However, the client PID can sometimes be specified manually, and even when it can't, handle duplication followed by PID recycling can make this PID point to an arbitrary process (hence it should not be used for security checks).
I’d check the privacy policy, except there doesn’t seem to be one…
This is a fantastic article with valuable knowledge, though it really should be stressed that the conclusion are still opinions.

Open Core as 2.0 is a terrible ideology, as it is basically crippleware.

Open Source 3.0 as blockchain tokens is a junk idea promoting ponzi ideology.

Or the claim that Open Source will be advertising driven is just a horror waiting to happen as we've already seen with FB.

None of these are good ideas.

What is important to observe tho is that Open Source has driven all of the value creation that he's talked about. WITHOUT cheap memes or gimmicks. For 30 years!!!

OSS is just fine and will continue just fine, and I predict, will even transform other industries (medical, manufacturing, etc.) with the same type of value add.
> is why I prefer walled garden apple for my family

You can install family link, which blocks that option. It's a good option for parents to keep tabs on their kids - it shows you location, and which apps are installed.
Sigh, I really like DO but this just shows how much they still need to learn about operations. AWS does “raise” the bar for that, but unfortunately you can only really see that from the inside.
I don't particularly find these cool but you may.

A) Nootropics & performance enhancing/herbal supplements
B) (regulation is attemped but limited on) Research Chemicals aka designer drugs

These are still fairly "wild west" but will not always be. I had a friend who manufactured herbal supplements and made a killing before selling his business and retiring. His factory was... interesting.
I see that samsung s series is also affected. The thing about the samsung phones is that you can root them, but that basically breaks the KNOX (secure folder) functionality forever (efuse AFAIR). Couldn't this exploit be used to root the phones while preserving knox by not tripping the efuse?
Dude you don't know me. Be civil or fuck off.
That's such a cop-out.

Either people will shift, moving or working someplace else. Or buses can be added (and more effective not being stuck behind thousands of cars).

Removing cars doesn't happen in a vacuum.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/116933207976885453.... Thanks!
> Which nosql system did you pick?

I used Google's NoSQL datastore database. It's generally worked well for me, and has scaled from 1GB to 100TB incredibly well, it feels like magic. But I made the decision to go with it years ago. If I were starting from scratch today, I'd want to do a lot more research before endorsing it.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUpTJg2EBpw
And the example of masculinity that is not toxic is…?
Obviously you can do a block for *.onion. But suppose someone searches up "how to make a [insert bad thing]" or something else inappropriate on something as simple as Google. It'd be somewhat hard to block all urls from Google or DDG that contain some text (not to mention that I've heard that people who are in this business use acronyms or other slang... which to the general user (like me) probably won't know.

Don't want to take that risk.
That’s like asking a gun shop why americans need so many guns
> But if you realize that they're not just out to "destroy the world" and have the same basic drive as everyone else, do well for their family, you approach the "problem" differently.

The world needs more of this style of thinking. Pure logic, or more accurately what people commonly think they're engaging is, even at its best falls short when trying to figure out what's really going on in a system as multi-dimensionally (and often counter-intuitively) complex as multicultural but globally integrated humanity.

Gosh,it's taken me hours to get this post through, I'd love to see HN open source their "you're posting too fast" algorithm, I suspect speed isn't the only thing involved.
IIRC you can only turn it off completely on a business or enterprise plan. Probably a bandwidth-saving measure, or an upgrade incentive, or both.
I freaking love public/pedestrian streets. Wish there were more of them at least.
The link to the pdf is in the OP
My parents got a Mac SE in 1989 and continued using it heavily through at least 2005. It still works perfectly (though at some point the hard drive needed replacement). It had a great keyboard, and very simple effective software.

It was a much better writing machine than most of the later machines I have encountered.
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t one of the strongest signals recaptcha uses to prove “I am not a robot” the fact that you’re currently logged into a google account, have the associated cookies, etc? This “phoning home” from all these sites is a clear privacy challenge.

The good news is Safari and Firefox are making this harder and harder. The bad news is that you’ll be solving a lot more captchas.
Getting banned from HN or some other website is way different than getting fired. I'd talk about this sort of stuff here all day long and shut the fuck up at work about anything political.
I'm not sure if i'm parsing this conversation correctly, but 'corpus based concatenative synthesis' reminds me of Scrambled? Hackz! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlhKaxcKpA
Thanks for the valuable information! I 'll follow your advice.
> To the extent that there is any controversy here, it's in this guideline. I'd just soften 'rude' to unreasonable.

Yes. There's a lot of grey area here. I personally don't think it's unreasonable to ask people to use 'he', 'she', or 'they' regardless of how someone presents themselves.

And I do think it's unreasonable to ask people to use 'xe' and 'hir' except every odd Tuesday when it's 'xim' and 'phe'.

At least recognizing that there is a grey area is better than sticking to the extremes. Rejecting the outlandish pronouns doesn't make you a transphobe bigot, you can't expect everyone to bow to your slightest whims, and accepting that some people prefer different pronouns to what they present as won't dissolve society, and it's not fascism to ask people to respect each other.

> I honestly wish some people would decide that this whole thing is too complicated to legislate completely and institute some sort of jury system, at least on appeal, to decide what counts as reasonable.

I think we're already doing pretty ok with names, without any formal system.

"I'm John!"

"Ok, John."

"I'm Sir Master Kensington Fuckbuttery Waddlesworth III Jr!"

"No, you're Kenny."
Me too, though I think her concern is more the huge amount of money being spent on a project with nebulous aims, and what she perceives as an unhealthy tribalism or peer pressure that discourages hard questions.

I don't think many would object to research that probes rather than has a specific end goal like discovering a predicted particle; it's the billions diverted from other potential smaller projects to one that might not reveal anything new - beyond a torchlight sweeping through and revealing just an extension to our current darkness - that is more questionable.
The poster was likely referring to the astronomical rates of suicide among trans people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/1...

Obviously, misgendering someone is not likely to be the thing that triggers such an act. But it is part of a pattern of bullying and general disregard that transgendered people face every single day.
Yes, but nearly all cruise ships are registered with tiny countries like Panama and the Bahamas, in order to have the most lax laws applied to them. Hasan Minhaj did an interesting episode about cruise ships recently on "Patriot Act" if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nCT8h8gO1g
Jobs wiped out the original Pixar engineers' stock options by selling the company, "Old Pixar", to "New Pixar", which he had created specifically for this purpose. It was a mere formality to him as he was the controlling shareholder in Old Pixar, just signing some papers. "As part of the reorganization, Jobs exercised a clause in the employee stock option agreements that allowed him to buy back their options at the original strike price, which was a pittance." *

[Charles Ferguson, High Stakes, No Prisoners pp 98-99]
They don’t make you solve captchas if they have enough information about you to think you’re unlikely to be abusive.
I agree on the premise: yes eventually every analysis needs to become an app. Also let me add: no, dashboards are not going to cut it, they don't offer enough interactivity. I also love that the app here is a script and hence can be version controlled with git. However, there is no description anywhere of what happens when you need to scale with this. If you have to go from a couple of testers to 100 internal users like it very often happens in analytics, how does this react?

Also caching is a great idea but I would expect a lot of this logic to be managed on the server side, or I am missing something and ML is different here? I would expect to pipe as little data as possible back to the application because I want the user to wait max 3-4 seconds for the app to load at start.
Boeing contends otherwise:

> Myth: Aerospace is different from other industries and requires some level of government support.

> Fact: Boeing has proven otherwise. We have financed all of our new airplane programs without the kind of government handout that launch aid represents.

http://www.boeing.com/company/key-orgs/government-operations...
>But it was you who introduced...

I did do that. With the intent to determine whether the discussion is about denotational semantics (theory) or operational semantics (practice).

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is...

>Either your program is about the LNC or it isn't

>The CPU thing is nonsense and I don't see what I have to answer about it

Until you decide on the 'CPU thing', I don't see how you can possibly decide whether ANY program is about the LNC or not.

Denotationally - it clearly is about the LNC as defined. It expresses precisely "P ∧ ¬P".

Operationally - it is about the LNC IF and only IF "P ∧ ¬P" can be evaluated simultaneously.

If your notion of "simultaneously" doesn't mean "evaluated in a single CPU cycle/instruction" then explain what you mean?

The leaky abstraction of CPU time is somewhat inconvenient to functional purists. As is the fact that strongly-typed Haskell reduces to untyped machine code.

Somewhere between typed and untyped Lambda calculus lies the choice of "right tool for the job".

>Getters/setters aren't about extensibility, by the way.

Would this be a good time to call out the fact that all you have been doing is Socratizing? Saying that X is not Y, says nothing about Y.

You asked me to give you an example, and trivially extending an object-model to support new fields in unstructured (read: untyped) data is not good enough for you.

If you think 'extensibility' has some universal/objective /theoretical meaning devoid of practical context, then go ahead and tell us what that meaning is.

> Finally, Haskell excels at....

How are you measuring that and against what objective standard for 'excellence' (or lack thereof)?

>People write distributed sysyems in Haskell.

People write (and have written) distributed systems in all sorts of languages.

In what measurable way is Haskell better?

>Google is my home page, does that help you somewhat?

Only in so far as Google doesn't use Haskell.

If Haskell offers value at that scale/complexity, then I imagine "building a better Google with Haskell" is a great idea for a startup?
Firstly, I have loads of respect for @dang and the community here. I think a slight misunderstanding occurred here. I made no claim to facist behaviours nor tendencies toward such: Just the claim that we all want to belong, that we all want to be seen, and that we also call others out for behaviour that doesn't match our view of the rules (such as this feedback).

I too walk away from immoral things... but that doesn't mean I'm not sheep like in other areas of my life (eg. blindly obeying a red traffic light when there's no one else on the road)

This is what the teacher was teaching the kids in the article: "You are no better or worse than the German Nazis we have been studying"
The Epic app installed other apps using a private Samsung API, so the apps were installed using the permissions of the Samsung Galaxy Apps Store app, which has permission to install other apps (on Samsung devices). There is nothing to stop a similar confused deputy vulnerability in the iOS App Store. The Android permission system prevents it from taking pictures or doing other things it was not granted permission to do.
The use of hurtful nicknames in the workplace can indeed be considered harassment in the eyes of the law and/or polite society.

That being said, not sure pronouns are indistinguishable from names. As a species, we evolved sexual dimorphism alongside a visual apparatus to detect the dimorphism. We are able to tell a male from a female at a glance with high accuracy, even in presence of elaborated disguises. Being asked to call someone we perceive as male "her", or someone we perceive as female "him" is often times difficult. The pronoun is not an arbitrary tag detached from perception, visual or linguistic. Picture a couple more situations:

* A 6ft bearded hulking person insisting to be referred as "she".

* A person insisting that their name is "Susan", but that we should refer to them as "he".

Plenty of people would have to make an explicit effort to comply with such requests, beyond what's required for remembering the mere name/pronoun tag.

Online, we interact with a huge number of people, possibly only for a few brief moments. Most of us simply use the name tag under our eyes, and infer the pronouns using linguistic clues. For example, most people would use "he" to refer to u/henrikschroder. For name tags with less obvious genders, most people would default to gender neutral. Taking offense at people using an inferred pronoun when no other information is readily in sight is akin taking offense at HN readers that don't read the linked article before commenting. Nobody has time to click links on the Internet.

As a culture, we'd do well to stop catastrophising and taking offense at people minding their own business and not being hyper-aware of everyone else's special circumstances.
I believe selling your products in some of those counties can get you in legal hot water as well.
You could run everything in containers.
I used "I'm" four times in a span of three sentences. Facepalm.
The quality of the mapping to this 2D space would seem to be pretty subjective, but incredibly powerful once an intuition of it is developed. For example, I've been watching a bunch of guitar pedal reviews, and it would be very cool to vizualize the 'topography of tone' comparatively between products.

Does the work you're doing give you that ability to compare the outcomes of various reduction schemes to compare them?
TSMC and Foxcon are Taiwanese. Hard to believe this would happen. If it’s true - shame on Apple.
The website is very basic right now. But there is a video at:
https://www.screencast.com/t/HEO16Ix7
Please people do the internet a favor and disable the captcha.
Go to Firewall > Settings > Security Level (captcha)
And set it to "Essentially Off"

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170096-H...
It's funny that "usury" has gone from mortal sin (Thomas Aquinas :https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/aquinas-on-usury; but also Jesus in the temple) to everyday activity, and that the communities that outlaw it (the whole of Islam, old style communism) don't get a mention in discussion. Very much in contrast to discussions of food ethics and human rights !
Interesting. Did you try learning it?

Also, effective techniques might not be taught for various reasons other than effectiveness, like foreign language classes' seemly inability to teach students how to speak foreign languages well.
Data laundering

This means crawling or using illegally obtained datasets then processing it with "machine learning" until you have enough plausible deniability to use it.

This could be used for bypassing copyrights. For example you can remix stock photos you don't want to pay for. You can crawl a competitor's dating network to build similar looking fake profiles. You can steal writings and automatically paraphrase it. You can steal algorithms by cloning their inputs/outputs. You can generate new porn by swapping faces and background.

An illegal dataset can also be used as a hidden input to improve your core product. For example you can buy up all stolen databases and logs and correlate the users. This can then be used for better ad targeting using data that isn't even available to google and facebook.
A couple decades ago I used Wayback Machine to win a DMCA takedown case that almost bankrupted me.

An American military contractor (I'm Canadian) stole a large chunk of content from my site, search/replaced my company name for theirs. They even made really slick PDF files complete with graphics (that were possibly actually theirs) to make it look legit. When confronted, their legal dept claimed I actually stole it from them. I was FUMING!

The worst thing was that when confronting their lead techie, I asked him to describe a particular bit of terminology that is very specific to me and my business. He claimed he couldn't because it was proprietary. Of course it was because he simply didn't know anything about that particular term. I guess he thought that would drag things out long enough that I'd eventually drop it. I didn't.

I then demonstrated that this bit of terminology is attributed to me in a published IEEE document that also predated the content appearing on his web page. But for whatever reason, their web page and all their marketing collateral said that they created it all.

Needless to say, they ended up removing the content and paying damages. I couldn't afford to take it further, and given their significant wealth, would have easily quashed me if I tried. I won and got paid for it, so I accepted it was probably the most I could possibly get.

I got the idea based on the "poor man's copyright," which is when musicians, for example, postal mail lyrics to themselves and then store the unopened envelope in a safe in order to prove, via postmark, that the copyright date is legit.

I suspect github could also be used this way. Anything that keeps a strongly maintained timeline.
Bootstrapping the Right Way?
The US has a 25% tariff on light trucks and 2d SUVs since 1964. As manufacturers tried different ways to circumvent the US government has closed these loopholes. The most famous is Ford Transit vans were shipped to the US with seats in an exempt configuration. In Baltimore the seats were removed before delivery to dealers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
That’s what they did for Russian sanctions. We had nice prawns, freshly caught in Belarus. Belarus is a magical place, we also had some oranges and other tropical fruits from there. Suddenly it became a major producer of cheese and so on ;-)
Please don't do tit-for-tat flamewars like this on HN. The further they get to the right of the page, the nastier and more repetitive they get, and curiosity has been lost long ago.

You guys have been going at it in other subthreads too. That's not what this site is for. In the future, please take a step back and refrain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Agreed entirely with this. But it's also just an evolving social norm that these HR rules are based on. (As a few generations back, I assume, males got away with maybe calling their female colleagues "missy".) So, with that, I'm just curious where the average HR stands on pronouns.
Google in talks to acquire TikTok rival Firework
Not cool, its still widely permitted to burn stuff in your fireplace or garden in most parts of the world.
Gathering wood in the forest or ordering a truckload of coal or taking your trash to burn for the annoyance of everyone else.
I think that being in a hotel/on holiday might have something todo with it.

It's like the retsina that tastes lovely in a Greek taverns, but take some home and it tastes awful.
If they “sell” it to a firm in Iceland and then said firm sells it to US does the same apply?
Taking public transportation in the bay area is incredibly stressful.

Counterpoint: all of the shootings up and down the I-80 corridor, wrong way drivers, sideshows, and road rage.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Update-4-Killed-...

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/06/25/traffic-stop-in-rich...

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/05/05/chp-seeks-weekend-i-...

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/09/14/shooting-in-vallejo-...

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/07/10/video-police-release...

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/08/27/fremont-police-inves...

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Shooting-on-I-880-in-O...

https://patch.com/california/sanleandro/shooting-i-880-chp-s...

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bay-Area-Police-Crack-...

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/06/03/oakland-weekend...

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/05/09/mother-of-four-kille...
Machine Learning in Medicine
Judging by how much Binder's "elegant design" of BeOS pedigree was praised, I was expecting it to be quite good.

I just had a look at binder.c and the ref counting and locking in general looks like a nightmare to maintain. This reminds me of how much I hate resource management in C.