skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved the story. It spoke to me.

I'm optimistic. Things work in cycles. I think I know what would happen next. First, the human touch component would move out of the commodified middle class model to high-cost gentrified models and to low/no cost homebrew models.

Second, the middle class psychedelic exposure would result in hundreds of thousands more psychedelically adept humans, inspired to create meaningful, connected change. More than a cure for disease, it would catalyze cultural adaptation.

As psychedelic chemicals commercialise and normalize, new mystical rituals would develop, secular but profound. Classical civilization will continue, integrating science and spirit, commerce and consciousness. As it was, as it will be.

Capitalism does this. It moves in cycles, growing and corrupting, growing and corrupting. But in the end, with gratitude, we appear to live in a good world that offers us a beautiful future.
I don't know why you are downvoted. Think the dangers are real with social credit systems on the rise. Much has been written on them, e.g.

> The social credit system is used to punish citizens for bad behavior with numerous blacklists preventing them from traveling, getting loans or jobs, or staying in hotels, and even by limiting internet access.

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-b...

Maybe people find it hard to believe these will be implemented in western countries?
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What's the deal with the end-to-end encryption here, I don't understand. If you get control over the server, you can circumvent it with WhatsApp? How did the attackers get hold of the private keys?
Speaking from a hotel owner perspective, this is hurting the business for them.

Hotels are expensive to run, and with the booking sites pushing for cancelable bookings, hotels have to make them cancelable as well.

When you cancel a room at 5:55PM, the room stays empty pretty much 100% of the time.
Doesn't seem to matter, since that comment is getting downvoted as well.

I guess technologists don't want to see the future they're creating, and would rather just come up with tactics that barely defend against the surveillance we have now.
Hey everyone,

My name is Thomas, one of the original founders of cdnjs along with Ryan (linked below by another commenter).

We originally posted cdnjs on Hacker News in 2011 -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828516

The project was originally created on AWS Cloudfront, Ryan and I thought we could handle the bills. In retrospect that was incredibly naive so we were fortunate to partner with Cloudflare.

At the time, cdnjs was a baby, Cloudflare had just started entering the market.

In short, Cloudflare always owned the domain, cdnjs.cloudflare.com, meaning, we were constrained to work under the DNS level.

We have both put considerable amounts of work into the project, but nothing compared to the community and the "core" contributors. I put "core" into quotes because for the last 5 years, cdnjs has largely been run by a highly dedicated man named Peter.

https://github.com/PeterDaveHello

Peter built enormous amounts of infrastructure to support cdnjs. He is extremely diligent, intelligent and determined.

The project was Ryan's and I "baby" but we were happy to relinquish control, sorry for all the "buts", but we were not in a position to control due to the technical and commercial reasons.

Ryan and I have never personally profited off the project, we've only paid bills and late night ssh sessions.

Conversations are underway to move forward, it is likely that the project will move to an unpkg setup (assets are just mirrored to npm).

A lot to say, but I'm at a lack of words.

Happy to answer any and all questions.
I had a similar problem. I was waking up in the middle of the night not able to get back to sleep for hours and then overslept in the morning feeling groggy for the rest of the day.

Here's what I did:
1. Sleep alone in a separate bed since your SO other might wake you up inadvertently - this helped me
2. Wim Hof method for a few weeks: deep breathing and cold showers in the morning.

I'm not sure which of these worked. I did these two things simultaneously and my sleep significantly improved over a couple of weeks. I'm fully recovered in the morning, feeling energized and can actually remember dreams which never happened before. I don't need Melatonin anymore and can even have an espresso in the morning. Good luck!
Even if they reason themselves out of this concern, if that data ever leaks then it will pretty much be like handing over your phone. It'll likely even come with years worth of data.
None catch on? Depends on how you define "programmable".

Lisps are still here (think Clojure). Rust has macros. New-style C++ is mostly about metaprogramming.
Contrary to my comments about wasting time distro-hopping, I was tempted enough by some of pop_os's claims (good hdpi support etc) to give it a try on a spare partition. Probably my worst Linux installer experience yet - it was a mess on my machine (Dell XPS 15). Didn't boot in UEFI mode, then when I got past that it didn't allow me to assign partitions as I wished. I got past that with an installer-bug bypass kludge, and then .. the install itself failed.

When I'm in the programming flow, I kind of love Linux. Everything's super-fast, the UI is unfussy and keeps out of my way, and it mostly kind of leaves me alone.

But when it comes to actually configuring or changing anything, the irritation mounts and I wish we had a real 21st century desktop OS. By the 22nd century, maybe.
It already is implemented in America. Political dissidents are harassed by airport security, get their bank accounts closed and credit cards canceled, are banned from services like AirBNB, and get railroaded in the courts.
"Should". But they do nevertheless. It's a fact.
Airbnb already asks you to keep the conversation inside its own messaging system. A phone call is a smart way for the scammer to make the victim provide instant confirmation and not have the communication recorded at Airbnb.
No one should spy on your life.

Absolute statements are always wrong. ;)

The problem with this way of thinking is that it's very hard to define what 'spying' is, and what 'your life' is. This is best illustrated with an example - when you read this comment you'll have loaded a page on HN. That means HN's server probably has a log of your IP address, browser agent string, etc. There's a complete history of every article you've ever read, upvoted, commented on there for you (and the public at large for some things) to see;

Your profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Altheasy

Your comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Altheasy

Your favourited articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=Altheasy

Taking the first page of your comments and that favourite I can reasonably assume that you're a developer, you don't like testing much, you have a cat, you have a judgemental attitude about how other people spend money, you have a smart phone, etc. Not great insights but you're pretty new here. If I trawled through the comments of someone who has 20,000 comments I could learn a lot.

So... is HN spying on you? Am I spying on you when I read those pages? I don't think so. You put that data out there in the open. The same is technically true for most data that people say is spying - eg Google Analytics isn't spying on you when it tracks everything you do on 50% of the websites you visit. You're giving that data away. That's fine. It's useful. It makes the internet better.

The flow of data in itself is OK. It only really becomes spying when the data is misused. That's what people want to control.
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I see people who have fundamental problems with using tools created by big corporations even though they are open source e.g. some people say they use Vue instead of React because Facebook created React, etc. Personally, as of now, I don't have any problems with these tools if they are open source and widely used. I try to resist closed-source tools as much as I can. Just curious, what is your take on this matter.
There are people still sore about swastikas and roman salute "retconned" too. But well maybe don't use them for supremacist signaling in the first place, that sure could help.
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This is an excellent collection of hacking fictions.
kill lets you send any signal to a process you have control over. Corresponding signal handlers allow a wide range of behavior changes.
Disclaimer: Author of the language / web page speaking.

This one is hopelessly outdated. See https://github.com/c3d/xl for the current state of things. A bit of history of the language here: https://github.com/c3d/xl/blob/master/doc/HISTORY.md.

Warning: this is currently under heavy repair / refactoring, so Nothing Works™.

An interesting (if old, 2010) application of the language here: http://tao3d.sourceforge.net.

Contributions and ideas welcome.
Yes. Please CDNjs, give us enterprise level support because all of us pay you the gigantic salary of...

Nothing.

Wait. Okay, no, You can't take a break because we give you huge donations that make it so the 5 maintainers can afford spend time working on it. You can easily feed 5 people or families on the annual donations of...

$52.65 [1]

Okay. In all seriousness. No one doing open source owns anyone anything. Software at scale is a job. Jobs have salaries. Microsoft depends on it? How about Microsoft spends 10% of an engineering salary supporting it?

[1] https://opencollective.com/cdnjs#section-budget They also have patreon, which is bringing in $0 per month.
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"Prior to notifying victims, WhatsApp checked the target list against existing law enforcement requests for information relating to criminal investigations, such as terrorism or child exploitation cases. But the company found no overlap, said a person familiar with the matter. Governments can submit such requests for information to WhatsApp through an online portal the company maintains."

There is already an official backdoor, or how should I understand that?
I'm not a fan of facebook but lately I'm seeing a lot of attacks on fb. Some are valid and some are outrageous. The problem of misinformation has existed for ages and if fb stops then something else will replace it. I don't use fb anymore but still see fake news/ads all over the internet.

If we seriously need to fix this then it should be enforced by a law which applies to every media/news organization.
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If you use Postgresql's query engine on the Clickhouse data, you lose all the benefits of the columnar query engine of Clickhouse so that's not correct.
You wouldn't. In this case a more likely example would be writing to the file. You don't have to check the return value (in C or Rust) to do something useful, but you should. In Rust you'll get a warning (or error depending on how your workspace is setup). In C, you won't get anything. It's also worth noting that the Result enum can be and is used for things beyond file I/O.
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Well, that’s how it’s supposed to work. Microsoft (has or any other company) supports it by having their engineers contribute to it.

You seem angry about lack of funding. Why do you believe anyone is entitled to impose a paid-by-the-hour model over open source? How do you think the entire technology stack you’re typing this on was built?
Are you including commuting time?

Get hired help for mundane chores. Seriously. It’s so worth it.
Ironically, I suspect people are more concerned now about random people taking their photo, or photos of their children. Remember the outcry over Google Glass?
Grandparent's statement is pretty absolute, but I find myself in agreement with it. Data collection is the right place to intervene, because once collected, data can be copied and misused at any time in the future.

> when you read this comment you'll have loaded a page on HN. That means HN's server probably has a log of your IP address, browser agent string, etc.

Such logging isn't technically necessary to serve web pages, and ideally shouldn't be done without consent.

> Am I spying on you when I read those pages?

That's not spying, because the user consented to making their comments public. (Not sure about favorites though, there's a small note on the profile page but maybe the favoriting action should make it more explicit.)

> Google Analytics isn't spying on you when it tracks everything you do on 50% of the websites you visit.

It's spying if you didn't consent to it.
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It's called "ketchup" :-)
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It is more complex than that. I think that this simplification is hiding a lot of hatred, not really helpful.
It can be much worse than what you mentioned. At some point this surveillance technology will trickle into the hands of every government and they will take advantage of it. What's the chance that none of the warlords in countries in conflict will use this for their advantage? And that could easily be used for mass murder.
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It's like a good book.
There's a lot of different usages that may not heat the GPU as much. Also Windows might have better thermal management in the drivers.

CPU wise, Intel defines their TDP as the average heat dissipation, but the CPU can boost higher than this. But from what I understand they tell manufactures to design to the TDP.
You specifically called out microwaves in your precious comment.
Thanks for good advice.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomic-habits
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What an irony that I open the page source of this article and see this literally on the second line:

var mi_track_user = true

Then there are all the usual suspects: Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter and a few others at the bottom. Is this the price I should pay for reading this article for free?
Religion can be, see the Jews, although there is some language element there, but yeah, I would assume common language is a must.
Have a look at what we use at https://fosdem.org [0][1]. In terms of software, a crucial component is voctomix [2], using it as a headless video mixer. Another invaluable component is nginx-rtmp [3] for streaming.

We made a heavy push to get all of this packaged in Debian. It's a surprisingly powerful combination.

[0] https://github.com/FOSDEM/infrastructure/tree/master/ansible...
[1] https://github.com/FOSDEM/video/blob/master/instructions/FOS...
[2] https://github.com/voc/voctomix
[3] https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/
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There is an example of indexed vecteur in the rustc source code
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/librustc_i...
If you're not using regularisation for logistic regression, you're most likely doing it wrong. If you don't know to normalise your data prior to that, then you need to go back to the basics.

The default makes sense.

It's also clearly stated as the very first parameter in the constructor which defaults to L2. The docs also state in BOLD: "Note that regularization is applied by default."

This post is just a case of pebcac.
Surprised that this is the first comment about this on here but we really need a better turn-of-phrase than "toxins" because kind of language validates the fads going around that are harming people - like the "get skinny in two days!" diets or the anti-vax community.

Also, why do they use the term emphatically in the title of the article and then state, "...presumably removing toxins associated with Alzheimer's, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Science." That comes across as, "We don't actually know what this is doing but we're going to take a guess and just run with it."

In fact, from the abstract of the paper itself, "Sleep is also associated with increased interstitial fluid volume and clearance of metabolic waste products. It is unknown why these processes co-occur and how they are related."

I don't understand how metabolic waste products automatically equates to "Alzheimer's toxins" nor how they're reaching these conclusions if they don't understand their coincidence - whether accidental or intentional.

Can anyone help a stranger on the internets and connect these dots? =]
That’s phenomenal, I didn’t know any virus could do that - I wonder if studying the mechanism at play could lead to treatments for autoimmune diseases
We live in a world where you can lose your job just for making the OK hand sign at the wrong time.
> learning the hard way that you can have newlines in filenames

Speaking as someone who is using Unix-like systems since the days of Santa Cruz Operation and Linux on a 50 MB disk partition - not everything that is permissible is auspicious.

And most often that's because the permissions were too lax to begin with. That's what you get when a bunch of pot-smoking hippies (X) draw your OS specifications.

I avoid using even spaces in file names, for this specific reason.

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(X) - and I say that in the best way possible, though some may be inclined to disagree.

"...he and brethren were attempting to make a small fortune for themselves by secreting away an item - a printed book - that was easy enough to get in 1640 but near impossible to get in Tristan's age, making it of great worth."

"So you're thieves and chancers," said I approvingly.

"No," he objected.

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At the end of the day if you care about those subjects, macOS and Windows are where the fun is.

My Asus Netbook, which was bought with GNU/Linux nowadays still doesn't have the same DirectX 11 feature parity level, hand hardware video decoding, that the previous proprietary AMD drivers provided, so is the beauty of the new open source ones.

Meanwhile Asus has provided updated DirectX 11 drivers to all Windows generations since Windows 7.
AKA “bus factor”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
The truth relies on vulnerability and is often self incriminating; there are those who would use this information to further their own agendas at the expense of the transparently or naively honest
the various 'cancellations' , celebrity images leaking, revenge porn etc should serve to remind people about its dangers. Maybe we need more hackers to put stuff online?
Being this gullible probably won't make you happy in this media climate.
I think he makes a pretty good case for why they're wrong in the article. He also specifically addresses that question:

> I don’t know if it’s true that a plurality of people doing logistic regressions are using L2 regularization and lambda = 1, but the point is that it doesn’t matter. Unregularized logistic regression is the most obvious interpretation of a bare bones logistic regression, so it should be the default

> Why is this a problem? Because one might expect that the most basic version of a function should broadly work for most cases. Except that’s not actually what happens for LogisticRegression. Scikit-learn requires you to either preprocess your data or specify options that let you work with data that has not been preprocessed in this specific way.

Most people running an unparameterized logistic regression would expect that regression to work just fine on un-normalized data. However, a regularized LR is not going to work at all unless your data has been normalized. This is deeply counter-intuitive and has probably tripped thousands of people up who have no idea it even happened.
Your watch doesn't know what it's talking about.

I have a watch, an under-mattress tracker and a headband with a ton of sensors (including an EEG). Typically, none of these agree with each other (and I trust the headband to actually be accurate).

I'd strongly recommend consulting a sleep specialist.

One thing you haven't mentioned is cognitive behavioural therapy, which is often the first thing people will be recommended.
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I agree. The only thing I believe the article gets right however is that the naming doesn't expose this default behavior, which might cause problems for people coming from other software.

Still, any good data scientist I know actually knows to read the documentation carefully and has learnt regularisation is the default.
I’m a native English speaker, and that’s how I would define those words.

E.g., we call people who supported the break up of the Austro-Hungarian empire in favor of self-rule by its constituent ethnic groups “nationalists.”
Not agreeing or disagreeing, just pinning stuff down here...

> Sounds almost like intentionality (sentience) there

Hmm. Clarification needed - does the concept of deceit mean the deceiver understands what it is doing ie. has theory of mind? If so, I'd guess plants do not deceive but do something similar driven by evolution[0] that we need a different word for as it's not sentience-driven.

I'm open to the idea of evolution itself has some sentience but I'd not waste time on it as I don't see it's a testable hypothesis.

> If we 'have' any advantages on plants, sentience may not be it.

Agreed, but sentience may actually be an advantage. After all it's not the sentience in mankind that genuinely makes me despair but other features such as greed and short-termism. Fix those and maybe our chances of racial survival would be hugely increased. IOW we have many mental aspects and sentience is only one of them.

> around for oh, 50 times longer than us

Plants separated from aninmls ~1.7 billion years ago (figure from memory), humans have been around a few hundred thousand years, by various definitions of 'human'. I guess you dropped a few zeros :)

[0] eg. natural variegation in plants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variegation) seems to make insects attack them less as discoloration makes the plants look to the insects less healthy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variegation#Defensive_masquera...).
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> If you're not using regularisation for logistic regression, you're most likely doing it wrong

Why's that? Logistic regressions are perfectly reasonable to run for exploratory purposes. There are tons of situations where regularization is not what you want.

> If you don't know to normalise your data prior to that

It's not a question of not knowing. In an unregularized regression, you don't need to standardize your data beforehand. People who knows this but don't realize regularization is being applied by default can easily make this mistake.
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The question is how do you define false information. Do we rely on consensus ?
For e.g. let's say majority of the world population believe that earth is flat. In that case, will that still be false information?

Even if we go with consensus, it's such a difficult problem to solve in this age of internet where new content is created at such a rapid pace.
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I think the problem is that most sleep trackers try to judge sleep based on heart-rate, which I don't think is valid.

There are a few sleep headbands that use an EEG though and in my experience they've been reliable (e.g. mine correctly judges when I actually fall asleep and has correctly judged that I was in REM sleep when I woke up from a dream).
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Will you be needing "boots on the ground" in SV later?
The call signature does expose it though. Am I a minority in terms of using jupyter notebook and an IDE that shows call signatures and docstrings?
It's spying if you didn't consent to it.

There's no explicit consent but the fact you've told your computer to download some code and run it looks a lot like implied consent.