skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I feel seen. I had trouble with TouchID on the 5S, upgraded to a 6S, and a 7 and continued to have trouble. It never reliably worked for me. I partially blamed it on oily hands, but my fingertips are fairly scarred as well. As soon as FaceID was revealed, I jumped ship to the X series phones and can't imagine going back. It's crazy how much more reliable FaceID is for me than TouchID ever was.
Copying works of art is a longstanding tradition when learning to draw/paint. This would likely get kudos from the art department, not laughs.
Blizzard (Activision): https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/legal/b2e0b082-fddb-4824-93fa...

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/#11

Epic Games: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/tos (they run a storefront for third-party games alongside their first-party games)
I built a personal project on Elixir, Phoenix, and Postgresql(currently on hiatus).

It have a somewhat steep learning curve with the ORM Ecto. Debugging Ecto, changeset, etc.. is not fun. Dumping whatever Ecto returns can be a puzzle because by default other than the main tables are not preloaded and it loaded with meta data. Also how you deal with Ecto and forms in phoenix is not clear, lots of gotchas. The common thing is that you have a form template that update/edit and new/create share. The problem here is if you don't know what you're doing one of your template will expect a changeset and the other will expect a list. I forgot which one gotta look into my code but it was an annoying gotcha.

The lack of things baked into Phoenix makes it a hunt to find packages/libraries to add features to it.

Examples are Laravel having rate limiting router built in and signed links built-in. I don't believe the html form is as good as other frameworks; can be at time confusing. I think while Phoenix may not be aiming to be full features as Laravel, I believe security measure such as rate limiter and signed links should be built in.

Deploying is also a learning curve. You need to compile Elixir in production server and then the folder layouts is different than development. So hunting for the root web folder of your application is a thing I did and learning about the layout of production.

Having said all that, I enjoy coding in Elixir and using Phoenix. It is fun getting better at it. While there aren't many thing baked in like Laravel, it made me more educated in the things I've taken for granted. I re-did the authentication system 3 times. I tried jwt, did more research and realize when to use session and when to use them.

I enjoy coding in Elixir more than PHP. I see myself building my side web projects in Elixir in the foreseeable future. I do recognize that it's a smaller community with less contributors so I hope this come off as a constructive criticism of something I love and know well enough.
Tanya Khovanova has a paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556 with a list of some more of these problems with easy solutions that are hard to find. She calls them "Jewish Problems" because they were used by USSR universities to discriminate against Jewish applicants. The applicants would fail to solve them but the university would justifiably be able to claim they were easy.
"Correct" intuition is the underlying key to this article.

The smartest people I know tend to often see things correctly, or do things correctly. Their intuition is just a form of intelligence, where something has been recognised but it can't necessarily be rationalised. Intuition has deeply negative connotations to many people, so we often use other words instead like: pattern matching, foresight, common sense, seeing connections, feeling in my /\w/, etc.

The problem with the word intuition, is that plenty of people have "incorrect" intuitions that fail, and often they overestimate their intuitive abilities (Dunning-Kruger intuition?). It is very hard to identify people with good intuitions, and sometimes we just say they have good luck.

Good intuitions are especially valuable with soft skills - anything where you have to deal with people and you start to spot someone with a knack - this should be highly prevalent in successful CEOs (and politicians, marketers etcetera).

"Obvious" is another way to say this: seeing something is obvious, then stating the rationalisations why it is obvious, only later to find out they were right but their rationalising was wrong (I find this frustrating).

From another comment: "it’s just that he’s doing it in such a vague and generalized way and passing it off as actionable advice that it becomes almost comical" -- it really is extremely hard to write about intuitions, and we often dismiss good commentary (even when written by a smart person trying to communicate something difficult to us).

Disclaimer: I am an engineer type that loves rational thought. I see my smart friends come up with intuitive answers that turn out to be correct, and then I struggle to try and learn the same skills.
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I'm having trouble understanding how one can seriously consider NPR 'internal propaganda.' Their national broadcasts are like radically centrist and unbiased while the local/syndicated programs can be hard hitting and completely opposed to the government.
Would be good to add some in there about social engineering and what to count as suspicious. Otherwise a fantastic list.
All of those rights or stronger are already in effect in the EU since last year, which means most companies doing online business already have to comply with them. In fact it's pretty clear that Yang mostly just copied GDPR with this whole proposal. I'm not complaining, it's a great law if you're for consumer protection.

Many companies already provide the option to download all data, and I've written GDPR data request mails to multiple US based companies with success. Mostly you get the data in JSON files (without schema).

Right now, many companies are trying as hard as they can to skirt the law, but there's land mark cases happening already that will hopefully put an and to that soon [1].

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/01/europes-top-court-says-act... ironically, techcrunch is a prime example of a "tracking cookie consent" popup that is absolutely illegal and will hopefully get them huge fines once the data protection agencies have their hands less full with bigger fish (google, facebook, etc).
Encrypt your data; publish to public blockchain. Instead of ever giving out the data itself, you give out the right to do something with that data, in the form of signing a method call on a smart contract platform. This is basically the capability security model applied to data in the cloud. Capabilities have well-known patterns for things like revoking access over time (see eg. the Membrane Pattern).

To prevent cases where the "something" that the smart contract does is "copy all your data bit-for-bit and upload it to my evil masters", you could perhaps apply information entropy, on a platform level, to the source and output data, and only allow the transaction if the output data contains many fewer bits than the input. So say you have all of your location data and review history on the blockchain, encrypted with a private key known only to you, and you want to grant an application the ability to recommend nearby restaurants that you might like. You authorize the transaction, and expect that the contract will release ~1K to you (a restaurant name, description, menu, reviews, and geocode) and will increase the data stored within its own data ownership by 0 bytes. If it does something otherwise, it's broken the contract, and can be automatically penalized financially (because this is a blockchain, it inherently needs a cryptocurrency).

I've had an idea for something like this since hearing about Google's Federated Machine Learning research paper and reading the Ethereum spec, but have other more pressing projects right now and don't have time to implement it. If anyone feels it's interesting, feel free to steal - I'd still love to work on it at some point in the future, but there're still some holes in the idea (notably around the information theory & federated learning aspects) and another speculative research project isn't really what I'm looking for now.
Side note: Why do some people insist on calling it "a code" or "codes" (plural)? It's bizarre
Yep I saw the video after my post above also, and it didn't make any sense to me either.

Couldn't tell whether the N10 was completely naked during scan due to the quality of the video.

Would like to see verification, and to learn if the S105G sensor would be affected as well. It operates a bit better than the S10+, so it may not be identical - although that might be position only.
This feels illegal and I bet there'll be a lawsuit...
Interesting that one passed on SIS (the traditional tap on the shoulder by a don)

I was surprised that the CIA will take dual nationals on as Officers.
This is uncanny, I have a single olive tree with a very modest crop - I just picked and begun curing this evening.

I just did a quick search and applied the first/simplest I found - 1 part salt to 10 parts water for a brine cure.

There's only ten moderately sized olives, and about the same but smaller left on the tree (I'm hoping with focused resources they'll have a chance to plump up a bit).

Funny coincidence seeing this here!
> This is about what we can measure, not what we already have.

That is not so, this discussion started with a claim that we already have observational proof that distinguishes between the two scenarios. I have already suggested that the Hubble constant could, in principle, be measured without cosmological assumptions, but we do not, AFAIK, have good enough data, and you have not offered anything to alter that opinion.

>... look at how the redshift of a star changes over time instead of staying static.

Up until now, you have been very vague about what sort of measurements you have had in mind. This is getting closer, but under which scenario does the redshift stay static?

> This is that part where I see a breakdown in your logic...

All you are doing here is disagreeing with the conclusion; you have not offered any refutation of the argument that leads to it. The reason for me saying "the relevant differences must be causally dependent on what form the expansion takes" is that if they were not, then they would not be the sort of differences that could be used to choose between the alternatives. And if they were so dependent, then the mapping from what we observe from here to what would be observed there also has that dependency.

> It's very possible that we can make measurements on Earth that would tell us exactly how our telescopes would differ from a distant galaxy.

There is something very confused here, but I cannot figure out what it is. I can say that my point does not have anything to do with "how our telescopes would differ from a distant galaxy."

> Note that the proposition "We can only get this data by going to another galaxy and using telescopes there." is not part of this scenario.

Actually, Swebs' original claim was pretty much that, as it could accurately be paraphrased as "we have seen, with our telescopes, that, when observed from a different galaxy, the expansion also seems to have originated there." You seem to have put yourself into the position of defending a claim that you do not actually believe in.

Note that there are some conditionals here that you have to be careful of. What I said was that there are certain claims that, if they were made, would result in a circular argument. I did not say that Swebs had made those claims, as he had not done so; I wrote it in an attempt to forestall a trip down a dead end (so much for that!)
EDIT: I wrote this comment before watching the video. I stand by this comment, but the video is very good and I wholeheartedly agree with its conclusions.

As someone who writes pure FP for a living at a rather large and well known org, these threads physically hurt me. They're consistently full of bad takes from people who don't like FP, or haven't written a lick of it. Subsequently, you get judgements that are chock full of misconceptions of what FP actually is, and the pros and cons outsiders believe about FP are completely different from its practitioners. It's always some whinge about FP not mapping "to the metal", which is comical given say, Rust's derivation from what is quite functional stock.

My personal belief? We just don't teach it. Unis these days start with Python, so a lot of student's first exposure to programming is a multi-paradigm language that can't really support the higher forms of FP techniques. Sure, there may be a course that covers Haskell or a Lisp, but the majority of the teaching is conducted in C, C++, Java or Python. Grads come out with a 4 year headstart on a non-FP paradigm, why would orgs use languages and techniques that they're going to have to train new grads with from scratch?

And training people in FP is bloody time consuming. I've recorded up to 5 hours of lecture content for devs internally teaching functional Scala, which took quadruple the time to write and revise, plus the many hours in 1-on-1 contact teaching Scala and Haskell. Not a lot of people have dealt with these concepts before, and you really have to start from scratch.
Fun fact: C used to be considered a high-level language. Now everyone talks about it being "close to metal" which to olds like me is a dead give-away the person either doesn't know C or doesn't know the "metal". Most of the stuff people think of as being the "metal" in C are, in many cases, virtual abstractions created by the operating system. Embedded development w/o dynamic memory allocation less so... but that's not what most people are talking about.
Is it just me, or is Canonical just doing ridiculously good engineering these days? Like.... 2 days ago I read about the sudo bug, then I ran `sudo apt update ; apt list --upgradable` and BAM the patch was there. Their contributions to the Gnome desktop are fantastic, they're really pushing for Wayland support across the board and their even implementing ZFS on root.... Like... Dude, the openZFS project just made ZFS on linux their "mainline" and Canonical has already got a decent implementation available. Not only are the enterprise products good though, they've incorporated the community Yaru theme as their main theme for their Gnome implementation. So they're doing right by businesses and doing right by their community. Major major kudos to the team!
Using the nose is practical when it is minus 20 C and you really don’t want to remove your mittens.
Machine learning isn’t effective at identifying fake news
Why are you implying that the right to be forgotten only applies to silencing "truths?"

What truth am I forcing someone to be silent about if I simply don't want my personal data used for malicious or unwarranted commercial purposes?
Altered chromosomal topology drives oncogenic programs in SDH-deficient GIST
I’m assuming that they’re comparing Firefox to Chrome.
It worries me a lot that it seems like mozilla’s burn rate is pretty close to their income rate.

They aren’t operating like a charitable trust that accumulates money during good times and then lives off the residuals. Which means if they ever piss off google we’re kind of fucked.
Why Bruce Ames? Bruce Ames is long retired, and his research was on the free radical theory of aging, which is largely seen as a dead-end for the past 15 years after it was realised that merely throwing different antioxidants into the works gummed up the normal function of reactive oxygen species and did nothing or worsened aging.
but what if I'm trying to pretend to be an engineer and I'm really a barista that doesn't know how to linux? I have a macbook and know node.js - doesn't that help?
The most common explanation I've heard is that home and mobile networks are adopting IPv6 more quickly than businesses, so you see more v6 traffic on the weekends when people are using their personal connections.
Worked in a helpdesk for a while, with a similar system, (this was after working support for iomega). I have no desire to work with anything like this ever again.

Systems push to drop location. Backup services pull from drop location(s). Redundant storage, etc. I don't trust "disposable" media at all anymore, and limited trust for hard storage (hdd/ssd/etc).

To me, if it's not on at least 3 devices at at least 2 locations, it's not properly backed up.
Fear might be the most important emotion from an evolutionary perspective. Pretending you can simply run towards your fears and things will get better is awful, awful advice. I am not saying you should let your fears consume you or that they can never be conquered, but maybe an alcoholic's fear of being in a bar is a healthy thing (there are plenty of other examples but that was the first I thought of after 5 seconds).
You're right but guess what VISA 3DSecure is using?
As a layperson:

Changing genetics seems to me a bit like changing an engine in-flight. Mappping the brain to a computer is more like building a plane from scratch in a hangar.

In a computer, we build the materials but we also build the world around them. With biology, all we have to work with is are the real-life materials, which are harder to grok than their digital equivalents.
Never heard of this guy before.

I read the email that this post links to, and thought he seemed fairly reasonable, even if he seemed to be airing some dirty laundry that didn't seem to do much other than to stir up drama.

Now that I read the two articles you posted, I feel unsure of who is in the wrong here. As someone who almost certainly falls into a part of the political spectrum that he views as "problematic", I feel less inclined to take his plight seriously...
"Over the space of a year, we had a 60% MoM Growth Rate, 35K MAU and a great team!"

60% MoM growth = 281x growth in a year. So you had 35k/281 = 125 users a year ago? This seems like a disingenuous growth rate unless I'm missing something
More like every several blocks in urban areas, and less dense than that in suburban areas. That’s a huge improvement over running fiber to each house, because the fan-out kills you.

When I had fiber installed at my house, it took just half a day to run it about half a mile down the main road to my subdivision. It took another half a day to run it 200 feet down my side road, and another half a day to trench it under my driveway. With a base station you can perform the first step once and cover dozens of houses (even more townhouses or apartments). With fiber, you’d have to do the second step half a dozen more times, and the third step dozens of more times.
Every time an article like this comes up on HN it's the exact same concerns, the exact same HN comments, and the exact same arguments. I don't feel like the conversation has moved on significantly since Alexa came out. It makes me wonder why articles like these keep getting upvoted and commented on with the same stuff. Is this tabs vs spaces for the privacy world?
Short recap from somewhere else:

In the Netherlands we had (for a very short while at least as far as I remember) a DOS program as well on diskette. I never used it but my dad did when internet explorer was not yet evil and msn was a network. You could send it in via modem (9k6 baud yay!) and it would work ... sometimes or hand it in via the diskette. Once the internet got going you could send it more easily as you could send the created files directly instead of relying on the modem dial-in via dos.

For myself I never filed on paper (2002 first one). After the introduction of windows programs they ported it to linux the next year (filed the first one on windows only on a library pc, program might have existed earlier) and have now switched to web based. If you had a company which did their taxes on time everything was (and is) filled out mostly correct. You check it and sign off. As a student it took a while to fill in all the deductibles but if you just have to pay you are done in minutes.

Is/was it perfect? Far from. Does it work for most people? Yes.
Course, now we have Bluetooth: Wired Edition with USB-C layering many different optional protocols over the base transport. I understand the rationale, but I fear it means the days of "just works" USB may be coming to an end...
I think society has come together and decided we're all going to pretend we're not paying and talk publicly about how nobody should ever pay, while mostly everyone is paying.

Society also seems to have come together and decided we'd rather save money than spend it on effective backups and security.
Why is profitability important for a government-run entity?
I guess it could be a regional thing. I never had problems with vimeo the last few years (albeit not using it very often)
And there's no way to compress/eliminate snapshots?

Also, redundancy and snapshots are not a backup.
CA likes to ban everything they cant control, its the enforcement part that is difficult.
> The fake celebrity scandal hinted at in the ad is the hook that gets people to click so they can be pitched on what appears to be a no-risk, product trial for a small shipping fee, such as $4.99.

Maybe it's different for people who didn't grow up on the internet, but this checks nearly ever box in my automatic this-is-a-scam heuristic. It reads as not even trying; it's practically a cliche at this point. Amazing that it still works at this scale.
Can someone give me the ELI5 or subreddit drama of what is going on over at SO? This is the second post on the subject I've seen.
This article sources Fortune article, which sources a Rolling Stone article, which says "[The source IMF study] defines “subsidy” very broadly, as many economists do. It accounts for the “differences between actual consumer fuel prices and how much consumers would pay if prices fully reflected supply costs plus the taxes needed to reflect environmental costs”"

In other words, the the quoted '$649 billion in fossil fuels subsidies' is not a subsidy, but the difference between current prices and what some IMF quant thinks the prices 'should be' to offset the climate effects of those fuels. This is intentionally misleading, as the word 'subsidy' has an actual meaning and implies a dollar cost--line item in a budget.

It is difficult for me, personally to get on board with any environmental cause, given the heavy reliance with hyperbole and misinformation that seems to accompany climate advocacy.
It's worth noting that there are a lot of active efforts towards tackling the different hallmarks of age related disease to extend healthspan. Some are in clinical trials already: https://www.lifespan.io/the-rejuvenation-roadmap/
When did "eatery" become an acceptable term for restaurant?
One problem with that... international borders.
> "The Voyager FDS would be the first spaceflight computer to use CMOS volatile memory. This was a big step since it was a fairly new technology and, if power was lost to the ICs for a moment, all memory would be lost, too. However, a direct line from the radioisotope generators, which provided direct current, was used to ensure the CMOS ICs would never lose power unless something happened to the generators. It was decided that, if something had happened to the generators that rendered them inoperable, there would unlikely be a need for the FDS, anyway."

Sort of like having a PCI-Express bus RAM drive card full of DDR4 DIMMs, in a computer that'll never be powered off, because it has the most ridiculously protected N+1 power supply and UPS system imaginable.

Since there's a single RTG per craft, and failure of the RTG would very quickly kill the entire craft due to lack of power and extremely cold temperatures, seems totally logical.