skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans have been changing the climate for longer than we’ve been farming. We killed off the mammoths, which turned the tundra from grasslands into taiga covered in tiny low growth forest and dramatically reduced the albedo of lots of Northern Eurasia. Humans prefer grassland over forest which is part of why eucalyptus are so prevalent in Australia, they do better with fire than other trees. It has been posited that the Little Ice Age was because when 95% of the American population died there was a great deal less land management and deliberate forest fires, resulting in more than two centuries of above average carbon sequestration and a drop in temperatures.

Humans have been changing the climate for a long time.
That's a meeting of technical and moral view. I'd love for corps to have no impact on people, for distributed knowledge and resources, for everyone being in control of their data, and general socialist direction.

But the technical answer to "why is my email landing in spam" is still "follow best practices, build up reputation, and you'll be fine... unless Google decides otherwise, which they can". Posting about how unfair that is is not going to change anything.
The host opening the door before the swap is just for show. Ignore that part. The swap is really just picking the two other doors instead of the one you picked first.
The problem is that smaller companies may not have an appropriate budget for security.
According to [1], Monty didn't always give the players the opportunity to switch. If they picked the wrong door, sometimes he would just end the game there.

"For example, he might open their door immediately if it was a losing door, might offer them money to not switch from a losing door to a winning door, or might only allow them the opportunity to switch if they had a winning door."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall#Monty_Hall_problem
There are also the three MIT volumes called Fundamentals of Mathematics.
Conditional probability is a coherent concept with no need to talk about deleting universes. You can ask "If it's raining in the morning how likely is it to still be raining in the afternoon?" even though it's sometimes not raining in the morning.
A filesystem which allows you to mount HTTP directory listings
Is there an explanation WHY ja WHAT information is collected?
I've no more information than what I posted. I can pretty safely assume she wasn't a streetwalker (they don't make much, I do not envy them at all).
Why was the MIT Media Lab doing an ag school project, anyway? Badly.
They just went smaller - Thunderbolt implements PCIe [1] under the hood. You can connect graphics cards over TB, for example.

[1] It actually implements three protocols that it can switch between based on endpoint negotiation - PCIe, DisplayPort, and in its latest version USB 3.1.
Hey luc4sdreyer, thanks for the link! I'm about to graduate college soon and I find the 80000hours website extremely helpful. Randomly encountering this site is one of the best thing that happened this week, thank you very much!
I'm not surprised, and I don't think many people look to those rankings as good proxies for innovative software.

They just show what's popular, not what's hip. Being part of the borg is not enviable.
UUCP wasn't written until '78 which was much later than we're talking about, though the Internet transition to TCP (and thus, for this conversation, SMTP) didn't happen until (my memory is hazy) '82 or '83.

Also UUCP was for unix machines only (at least back then) which were a small proportion of machines on the net. Most of them were 36-bit machines plus a few IBM machines. You can still see the old 36-bit influence in some contemporary protocols (e.g. a high level protocol like FTP has a commend to set byte size), big-endian traffic etc.
I can't fathom how do people still don't understand the licensing and keep posting FUD about it.

Every single time. How it's even possible?

No, you don't have to pay anything to build and sell your proprietary software built with Qt.
"You don't have to use it" is a very common statement when a part of the userbase battles feature creep, complexity or just bad decisions. And it is always a lie. Most projects are driven by collectives or passed to new maintainers, which naturally takes this choice away from you. Optional is never optional.
Well, I think the market is waiting for Qt.

What I would very much appreciate is:

QT-free (so that everything in that package is clearly LGPL) with React-native built on top of QT-free widgets.

That would make my day (and a year...)
To paraphrase my supervisor "Mathematicians don't read, we write."

Not to be taken literally, of course. But there is some truth in that. If you are an engineer it makes sense to skim all kinds of math books. If you are a mathematician then I would say rather look for something that gels well with your personality and run with it.
Gmail also marks messages from gmail or other google services as spam. Gmail also marks all legitimate mails from Paypal as spam (phishing). I use several email addresses and google accounts, but in the end I forward most mails into the same gmail box. Their spam filters cannot handle the concept of forwarded mail correctly.
Neural Network Learns to Play Snake Using A Genetic Algorithm
We are using react, redux, graphql and mongo
Heterosexuals also have relevant biases. And your statement regarding John Boswell's death is crass and offensive.
>Perhaps part of it is not wanting to switch from a winning position to a losing one

This is reminiscent of the endowment effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect
Ah, OK. My contact surface with MIT is through a) various old lectures of theirs I watched, and b) the "hot stuff" that I read about (which I guess is mostly from the Media Lab). The former was awesome, the latter not so much.
If Monty revealed a goat, then goat-car-goat didn't happen and you just have car-goat-goat or goat-goat-car as the only two possibilities.
Indeed. Search is no substitute for a solid, discoverable information architecture.
قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
You can't fix loss of biodiversity.
This is very cool. I want to do something similar, with a particular focus on enhancing audio quality. How many ideas did you try and discard before deciding to do your "background remover" service? What were they, if you don't mind sharing?
This is a corporate lie that has been promoted relentlessly since the Reagan era. Officers of a corporation are responsible for the operation of the corporation in accordance with the law.

They are responsible to the Board of Directors of the corporation, not the shareholders. The Directors are responsible to the shareholders.

They have a responsibility of care (including a fiduciary responsibility) to operate the corporation in the corporation's best interest, not the shareholders, as directed by the Board.

That best interest can be measured in all sorts of ways as established by the Directors, which may include increasing shareholder value.

The practise of CEOs also being the Chairman of the Board, of executives being major shareholders, of bonuses being driven by share price, are all practises that should be eliminated, given that they are not in alignment with an executive's actual responsibilities and duties.
The problem is that Gmail and G Suite essentially have monopoly on email nowadays. Even some pretty big companies are amongst the users. All startups are using G Suite. As are many billion-dollar companies like Twitter, Arista Networks, Netflix, WeWork, a16z, YCombinator. What do you do if you can't email any of the people at all these corps?
I think the point is much, much earlier. It's just that it makes so much money that people are reluctant to call it for what it is - exploiting your fellow human beings.
http://www.irc.org/history_docs/tao.html
Open Workspace Is the 20th Century Scam and Must Be Replaced by Home Office
Hah, I wrote one as well to prove it to myself in the chrome dev tools console

const pickCar = (switchChoice) => {
const doors = [0, 0, 0];
doors[(Math.random() * doors.length - 1) | 0] = 1
let pick = (Math.random() * doors.length - 1) | 0
let goat
for(let i = 0; i < doors.length; i++) { if (doors[i] == 0 && i != pick) goat = i }
let result = pick
if (switchChoice) for(let i = 0; i < doors.length; i++) { if (i != pick && i != goat) result = i }
return result
}
let switchWins = 0;
let switchLosses = 0;
for(let i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
pickCar(true) == 1 ? switchWins++ : switchLosses++
}
console.log('wins:', switchWins, ', losses: ',switchLosses)
AIUI, the U5 series is BSD/open-sourced as "Rocket", and a version of their shared L2 cache is available as the sifive-inclusive cache. I believe Berkeley uses these artifacts as part of their FireSim (https://fires.im) FPGA-based infrastructure.
There are recurring patterns in a video or audio stream. More often than not these coincide with recurring patterns in the message, revealing information. For the sake of an example, take some pages of a novel as the one time pad. There will be statistical variations (not all ciphers in the ciphertext come with equal frequency) in the ciphertext, where the combination ocuring most will correspond to an "e" in the plain text and an "e" in the one time pad because both occur most often in English language. You can calculate the probabilities for each combination and thus deduce the plain text provided it is long enough. For a one time pad to be secure it must be truly random or pseudo-random.

As a way out you can agree to a seed to a secure pseudo random algorithm but that's commonly called a password or pre-shared secret. In fact it's more secure to use just the string 'The Nth 4096 bits from this week's mod(N,100) top video on YouTube' as pre-shared secret.
A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17552100

and from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178091
The web is not bloated
Achieving Low-Latency in the Cloud with OSS
He could have ruined his reputation with that signature?
I ran into that myself while working on a form heavy project. You can use various react form libraries to help make things easier, but then you need to figure out how to wrap your favorite visual component library. Passing all the properties between the two is really really confusing.

I'm a fan of the Material-UI project which provides the visual components and ability to style them however you want. React Final Form is terrific with managing forms (and easily made very performant).

imho, these form components become really nice to work with...

Demo: https://lookfirst.github.io/mui-rff/

Codesandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/react-final-form-material-ui-exampl...

Code: https://github.com/lookfirst/mui-rff
Good for them. If I were a parent, I might ask my kid why a Chinese-made app does not allow content made in China to be viewed in the US (and allow communication with its original author), or vice versa.

I realize not every parent will attempt to have this conversation with their kids, and that's fine. For me, it's about discovering history and determining what we value.
My friend had to call and argue a charge that was added for not paying the full amount due, except that the only balance left was the amount of the fee. If the fee was never applied the bill would have been paid in full. Of course they argued him about this and he wasted 2 hours on the phone. I'm pretty sure this is on purpose and the bank on the fact that most people would likely ignore the few dollars fee because it's not worth the hassle arguing with them and wasting time.

Edit: For anyone wondering, this was PSE&G in NJ
On fastmail I haven't seen a single legit e-mail marked as spam, whereas it happened nearly weekly under gmail. In the last year I have not seen a single (non-mailing list) spam e-mail show up in my inbox, and I have received ~10k spam e-mail this year.
Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)
Tape is still used for archival purposes, as it has very long shelf life (i.e. longevity when not under heavy usage) and low cost per byte of storage (fancy electronics go into the R/W machine and the library hardware, not the tapes). AWS Glacier (https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/) was built to replace on-premise tape libraries, and while no one knows exactly what storage medium they use, a tape library is one of the possibilities given the pricing model (cheap storage, expensive retrieval) and retrieval delays (on the order of hours, unless you're willing to pay extra for on the order of minutes). Other possibilities I've heard thrown around include I/O-poor NAS boxes, and a tape-like mechanical library of optical disks.
Noisebridge is one I believe. Covered in at least one Doctorow book. Strange Parts did a nice video on it too.
Americans are very religious. They believe in god or in the free market, or in both.
I think you can do a lot worse than random meetups. I have enjoyed the toastmasters debate club[1] though I haven't been going lately. I think work friends are good sources of friends, too. I mean, work friends are work friends, and that's a different thing, but once you leave that job, there's nothing wrong with sending a few texts, and heck, work friends can be a lot of fun even when they are still work friends.

Back in the day, the Hacker Dojo was really great for meeting people. I personally think it's not nearly as good as it was (social stuff, I think, isn't going to be as good during boom times. a lot of the interesting people are just too busy and/or schmoozing less randomly, and we're in a boom time, so the hacker dojo looks like a regular co-working space rather than the coolness it was in the late aughts.) - I mean, I think it's still pretty neat, and still a good place to meet people, just not as good as it was.

A lot of it takes time; I mean, I've been here, more or less, since the late '90s. And a lot of it is just asking. After you leave a job, pick one of your work friends, send them an email and see if they wanna get drinks or something. Like, my experience is that it's okay to be a little weird. just make sure you go away when people tell you to go away. I mean, I know one guy who was my roommate and business partner like fifteen years ago, who is a super introvert. Maybe once a month I send him a text and see if he wants to get pizza. Maybe twice a year he responds in the affirmative.

doing projects with people is... super expensive, but in my life, doing a project/business with someone has been a little like how combat is in the stories, like you have gone through heck with that person and so you will forever have a connection.

[1]https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Articulators-Toastmasters-Club/
Ask HN: What do you think is the soln to the issue of anonymous pseudo-experts?
In platforms like reddit, where there are sub-communities(subreddits) like eli5, askscience, etc--where anyone with half-knowledge can answer a vaguely sciency looking answer or something that resonates with the majority using jargons--how do you bring accountability if no one knows what is true? It is like there is potentially no downsides with such anonymous platforms. My concern mostly is with people who comeback and regurgitate the eli5 version of what they read in reddit about things like human brain and start preaching others what should one do incase of depression and anxiety.

My question is--what do you think is the best solution towards ensuring upvoting of right answers as opposed to majoritarian answers?
Protonmail is my choice, it supports client-side encryption. Custom domain $5 a month - unlike Google you are not paying with your private data.

https://protonmail.com
Oh that's definitely coming.
Also a mathematician; also think this is not a real silver bullet. However, I think for those who don't prove the result, the visual intuition of opening 999 998 doors is sensible.

The problem to me is more that when you go back down from 1M to 3 doors one can just as well say again "but now we only have three doors". Meaning that a proof of the original problem is the only satisfactory answer; the 1M comparison is maybe for people that don't like proofs and want "evidence".
Heh, I get a recapcha from that site. The irony.
His biggest contribution is getting the highest score for CVEs.
Thank you. At last I understood it now.
Pointing Google Lens at the Pixel 4 Box Uncovers an Easter Egg
These tech companies are pushing bi-weekly updates of their 100+ MB apps just ... because that's how it's done.

Meanwhile I'm here having literally never updated a single app on my phone after installing them.
> […] and don't do anything unexpected […]

From the comments here I get the impression that this means, “don't do anything Google's machine learning environment cannot interpret”, which has the added drawback of not ever knowing if you are doing something it considers unexpected.
Bell Canada used to have a “Network Charge” of $5/month on their landlines.

It seemed like a mandatory fee, but instead it was a charge they added on top of their crappy long distance plans. Some of which you paid a monthly fee to have for access to “discounted” rates.

Changing to another LD provider gave even cheaper rates for no monthly fees.
Because JS might be used to leverage technology that can give clues on your browser and connection, it's in general one less open hole to think about when trying to stay as anonymous as possible
Gmail's ML models categorize plenty of Google's own emails as spam.

I honestly don't think they are nefarious, just overly insistent.

I remember email before Gmail's spam filters. Everyday was a task of deleting spam first then responding to emails.
Maybe, but I wouldn't want to rely on it. I don't know anything about real world music encodings but for the analog signal you have zero-crossings at fairly regular intervals.
I Went from a Failed Facebook Interview to Founding a Profitable Business
Freefall is a metaphor here. The way you define it, maybe it's already happening, fine. Let's grant you that the fact that freefall happens is a given. The rate of freefall can still change, drastically.

In California you can lease a Leaf for $95 / month after subsidies. That actually is pretty competitive with a sub $5000 price point on a competing ICE car that would require the purchase of gasoline.
Monty picking randomly adds a third outcome. You then have

a) Staying wins (Monty opens to a goat)
b) Swap wins (Monty opens to a goat)
c) First pick lost, no chance to swap (Monty opens to the car)

each of equal probability.
> Email is all about reputation: it can take a lot of effort to build trust, but just one bad move and it's all gone.

Is it though? That may well be true for small individuals, but the Spam I get these days comes via the large mail providers, Amazon SES, sendgrid etc, and nobody in their right mind is going to block them. "Too big to block" is a thing now, "too big to have to care about abuse reports" is too.
Both the Desktop and the taskbar belong to Explorer and trying to close that is what triggers that dialog. Both still work in Windows 10.
Maybe It’s Not YouTube’s Algorithm That Radicalizes People
When I was 11-13, I did the same. I made about $15/hr in 1990, which was pretty baller for a 6th grader. Hell, there are people who wish they were making that today. I eventually took a pay cut to hire my older brother so I could sleep in on weekends. I blew most of my money on gadgets in the radio shack catalog and I don't regret a minute of it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17175011
I thought this had been getting better. At least more e-mail from my personal server has been getting through to its destinations. I've written about this too a few years back:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made...

..and I reference the Hostile E-mail Landscape blog post by Ribton (really good btw).. which is gone now and redirects to some bullshit software site (there are archives of it).

I've got DKIM, SPF, DMARC, reverse DNS for IPv4 and v6 and I still don't have the volume to show up in the postmaster tools Google has.

My own e-mail server occasionally has spam come through. I really don't care. I sometimes mark it to be learned, but honestly I'd rather have some SPAM get through than get HAM marked and placed in the big fucking SPAM bucket I never check.

But for big providers and dangers like ransomware, this isn't an option. So we have shitty unreliable e-mail (even on gmail back in 2012; I had delivery issues to other people on gmail).

Where does the blame go? The 1% of people who give scammers money, get ransomware infections and click on everything? Over aggressive spam filters? The lack of real e-mail server diversity? Who the fuck knows anymore.
Such as?

I'm struggling to imaging something recorded in this draft that is useful, and not already known?

A lot of timeless wisdom is also obvious.
Better get a nickname.
Living people are harmed by such disclosures if the idea that this might happen to their communications in the future makes them less willing to communicate openly and honestly with their loved ones.
Child’s play. Try being Apple and getting the police to break a number of laws to raid a reporters home. Apple pays for California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team: https://publicintelligence.net/rapid-enforcement-allied-comp...
https://winno.app
I used to use the browser address bar for this, too. Then browsers started sending the crap you paste in it to who knows where. I even used to paste passwords there to make sure they don't have leading or trailing characters unintentionally included. I'm sure at least some people do that to this day and Google and others have their logs full of passwords this way.
Yes this makes sense to me. The way I thought about it is if you win if he picks the door with the car, then you’re in essence getting two choices. So the total probability of winning is 1/3 (probability of Monty picking car) + 2/3 * 1/2 (prob of monty picking goat and you picking car). The reason I commented is I can compute the total probability of winning in your scenario by saying Monty has 2/3 chance of picking a goat and I have 1/2 chance of picking a car after that. The result then is 2/3 * 1/2 = 1/3
Use of Natural Language Understanding term in context of this benchmark is preposterous. No understanding takes place there. Please stick to NLP (Natural Language Processing) term for the next couple of decades. Thank you.
X-Pro3 – An insider's review
That is kind of a myth. For example the concept of Hell and eternal punishment is from the NT.
History of Humankind
I sent a text format mail containing a couple of innocent words and a youtube link of a completely innocent clip to my wife. Gmail in their infinite wisdom classified it as spam. Obviously users need to be protected from watching youtube clips.

I used the smtp server of my ISP. I'm know that it is tightly monitored and not the source of any significant amount of real spam.
It's a combination of terrain and high quality bicycle infrastructure. There are plenty of countries were even I as a Dutchman wouldn't cycle without a helmet.
Just as a data point, our organization is literally this week looking at some form of git UI tool. Due to our security requirements, cloud services are not an option.

On a smaller project, we have implemented Gitlab CE and it was/is in the lead of the various alternatives.

Telemetry to any external service from inside our VPN is a definite no-go. Not to mention that it would be blocked in our configuration, but if that meant that the application didn't run, then we need to make another choice.

Telemetry to a specific provider that we have licensing and other arrangements with would be manageable, as long as the data collected was documented and we could determine that there was no possibility of data leakage beyond that declaration. It would need to be opt-in and it would need to be under conditions that both parties agreed to.

Tell your CFO that if he wants to sell to enterprise, particularly self-hosted enterprise, then he needs to get his head out of the "SaaS" world and deal in the world of Enterprise, where things like SOX and HIPAA and GDPR and PCI/DSS and other standards preclude "collecting data on our users".