skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I started to had this thought especially when AI starting to take place in jobs replacing people.

At the moment this worries me less.

This week it became clear that tens of people here in Norway have been punished for crimes that didn't exist (the laws use where overriden by EU laws).

Except one or two managers leaving their positions nobody is likely to see any consequences it seems and it is hard for me to see how accountability should be implemented in such a system in a fair way.

What seems clear however is that a faceless AI has a real chance to make things extremely much worse, especially if most of its decisions are great. (If it mostly makes idiotic decisions it will be thrown out in a few months or years.)
‘El Camino’ Provides a Quiet Coda to ‘Breaking Bad’
banking apps require them anyway (because of pci-dss etc)
I tried a custom layout that did that for a while. I put the arrow keys in the centre (Qwerty's y, g, h, b), I think along with some other usually far away things. Then the letters needed to extend up onto the number row, so I made the function keys the numbers, and the numeric keypad the function keys.

I used it enough to touch type at a decent speed, but I didn't keep using it for long, as at that point I was better off avoiding keyboards entirely.

Numbers only on the numeric keypad would be awfully inconvenient for programming.
Oh no, CHILDREN dressed up for public display to strangers will be publicaly displayed to strangers! All moral decency is lost. America seems to go crazy when kids are involved.
>People are annoyed that footage from their home was used, without their permission or any payment to them, by Ring for adverts. People are annoyed that footage from their family trick-or-treat session was used, without their permission or any payment to them, by Ring for adverts.

They should have read the terms of service. Really I'm tired of this argument. "X service should not exist because nobody reads the terms of service"? What about the people who read them? Why should they be deprived of using this service?

>People are annoyed that millions of unregistered surveillance cameras are being installed with few protections or oversight. They're realising that creating a panopticon might also need to include some protection for how the data is used.

People should be able to put whatever they want in their lawns.

Anyway I'm sceptical about this being actual footage from Ring; I'd say they recorded it with actors.
I'm also working on something like this

https://github.com/place1/wireguard-access-server

It's mostly a hobby project but it'll run a userspace wireguard implementation (boringtun) and a webapp to configure it.

You can run it in docker

docker run \
-it \
--rm \
--name wg \
--cap-add NET_ADMIN \
--device /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun \
-p 8000:8000/tcp \
-p 51820:51820/udp \
place1/wireguard-access-server:0.0.5
SEEKING WORK

Location: Bangalore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Immediately

Technologies: ReactJS, Django, Numpy, Scikit, Pandas

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B68Me4oAD65RWkxLMFlGQ2NvWC0...

Email: anoopemacs AT gmail DOT com
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, but not before Summer of 2020.

Technologies: C# (ASP.NET, .NET, .NET Core, Entity Framework Core), Java, Python (Flask, Django, SQLAlchemy), T-SQL, GCP, Docker, TypeScript/Javascript, React, Vue.js, Angular (2, 5), HTML5, Bash

Resume/CV: https://leastsignificantbit.de/static/CV.pdf

Email: wwtbh.prat.0919@gmail.com

German full stack developer with MSc CS and 4 years of software engineering experience. Experience with Agile (Scrum), both project- and product-based development and interpersonal communication. Interested in public speaking, teaching and architecting for the monolith/microservice dichotomy. Currently looking to find a new opportunity to both grow in the area of project management, and produce meaningful change in an international environment.
And this I think is the crux of how FF has changed its no longer "here's a browser for you to have" it's "here's our browser, you can only use it like this".

This is how you get "we added an addon that you can't remove" and "we re-added icons to the toolbar that you removed" and now "we won't let you simply install any addon".

And presumably next year "only addons from the Mozilla walled-garden"? That seems to be the direction it's going.

Mozilla allow users to do stuff, you say. They used to be about enabling users. Only allowing things a user has a moral right to demand of you doesn't sound like FOSS.
A few seconds earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21426497
Keybase is pretty decent now and is up there with the most secure apps.
It’s checking for chrome versions below the current, 78, so update to that. You also have to be on Windows. On windows, make sure you have your antivirus setup to block random executables from download and execution. I’d also block those hosts at the firewall and dns. It gets more complicated from there if you’re infected. But you probably aren’t.

Edit-just realized you actually asked for how to tell if you were infected. Check the windows task scheduler for unknown tasks. It installs items there for persistence.
Edit-search your history and hard drive for “behindcorona” domains. That’s where it loads things from. There are more specifics in the page.
DART is described in the article as a "A Molecular GPS to Target Neurons", one of the points mentioned in selectively treating the neurons for a Parkinson’s mouse model is:

> Rather than treat the disorder by increasing dopamine (the standard treatment), they used DART to stop the D2 type of neuron from compensating by delivering a glutamate antagonist specifically to these cells in the striatum. The animal’s movement dramaticallyimproved. Remarkably, this improvement was only seen when the drug was targeted exclusively to D2 cells; delivering the drug to both D1 and D2 cells had no benefit.
> which the authors are trying to make a living from

You can monetize content a lot more effectively via "free copying" combined with crowdfunding ala Kickstarter/Patreon.

(That model only hits a potential failure case for something like movies or AAA games, where currently you can only ever hope to defray your costs if close to 100% of your audience pays up, and they're already paying "premium" prices, so they can't be reasonably expected to pay even more as a "patron"'s contribution to the creative process. But then again, that's just another way of saying "this content is unreasonably expensive - there's plenty of stuff that's vastly cheaper to create, and we should be funding that instead!")
Sue but even if those two factors cut the problem in half (they won't) we still can't build at this lower rate. Oil consumption and electrical needs are projected to rise during the next thirty years.
This goes well with doom - https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
You realize employees had to watch a lot of cameras footages (internal and external) until they found the ones at doors right?
Can this system do anything better than normal communication? (Which is also a brain network, obviously, and just as "direct")
Now, if only I could get Emacs running on my iPad mini which is my primary e-reader.
False, you are making a straw man argument, I made no such assumption or claim.
It's asm interpreted.
6 Remarkable features of the new United Nations open source initiative
Alternating hands was certainly better for my hand joint issues. I found Dvorak not really faster, but more comfortable, and the alternating hands is a big part of that. Alternating hands is much better than consecutive keys far apart on the same hand, and way better than consecutive keys on the same finger.
Right/left is the best divide-and-conquer wedge issue found so far, exploited by media corporatists to atomize people further from each other in the name of money, while the real division is between the have-way-too-muches and the have-little-or-nones.
Yeah, 100,000 books sounds like a smallish number for a “book heaven”.
Parent poster seems to be talking about this, which is a standard feature of any ToS that allows services to operate at all.

I think this para clearly tells the user that he or she retains the rights to content, and it goes on to say that Grammarly only needs these rights to provide the service and improve the algorithms. I don't think it says that Grammarly get to keep the content and do what they like with it.

> You retain all right, title, and interest in and to your User Content. By uploading or entering any User Content, you give Grammarly (and those it works with) a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable and sublicensable, perpetual, and irrevocable license to copy, store and use your User Content (and, if you are an Authorized User, your Enterprise Subscriber’s User Content) in connection with the provision of the Software and the Services and to improve the algorithms underlying the Software and the Services.

See eg HN's tos:

> By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.
Not really Book Heaven at all. More like Amazing Community Center. You can host lan parties there, use studio grade audio equipment, 3d printers etc. Its quite massive.
The pendulum has reversed itself away from extremely liberal activism. The long march through the cultural institutions has resulted in an entire generation convinced that its activism is moral, pure, and justified. Yet, the reality is that students were misinformed. Disrespecting colleagues due to political differences is unacceptable. Disrupting operations to protest a political agenda isn't what you've been hired for. Your employment is a privilege, not a right. You've lived in a filter bubble created by your employer. You thought it was a safe space but it was a space designed for worker productivity. You are replaceable and you will be.

Welcome to reality. Don't let the filter bubble door hit you in the ass on your way out.
More here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20812774
If I could design a library, I would throw out all the books. I would have lots of little rooms instead of open spaces. I would toss out all the uncomfortable designer chairs and put in comfortable and ergonomic seats instead.

It would really be an office instead of a library, but I think this is what people actually want.
> Yeah, it actually sucks as a place to read books.

I wonder if that means that it has failed to achieve its purpose. Libraries were created in an age where books were scarce and expensive. This isn’t really true anymore, except for science or art books. What has become rare are common social spaces where you are not expected to consume. Churches used to be that, but now they’re empty. What about „libraries“ that focus on the social part, not the storing-paper part? Quiet places to read for people who want to leave their apartment, maybe because they’re lonely. Book clubs with discussions to foster intellectual exchange. The equivalent of the coffee houses old, without the blaring pop music of todays chain stores.
A science outreach job I had (in Australia) took special care to ask for consent for photos for their media page. If no consent forms were received, then they got a fluoro yellow sticker to wear so that photos were not taken. I was told that the reason for this is that some children are hidden from their bio-parents because said parents were bad people. We didn't want to risk the stalkers/bad parents from finding vulnerable children so no photos without a consent form.

I think this is the implication that should be considered in this situation and I think this makes Ring either very stupid or very greedy (or both).
“A world where you couldn’t say or think what you want.”

Ironic, but here we are...
That is in regards to ownership; it is true that you would still own the content, but they get an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty free, sublicensable, and transferrable license to use it.
2000+ Goodies for Nerds
Yes. I tend to avoid it with ebooks. But textbooks are fair game because of how predatory the buisness model is. Piracy gives people a choice where there would otherwise be a monopoly.
Layoffs has been a trend lately so I can't preclude a possibility where layoffs due to AI taking place. But my concern is not only in taking jobs instead of people, look for how companies are advancing in AI in a somehow creepy way (Boston Dynamics for example) and that deep fake AI (probably developed by NVIDIA) where it created fake and realistic images of humans of different. Those are some real creepy applications.
Go isn’t really a C++ replacement. I‘m not sure if that solves this particular issue, Rust is provably free of data races (excluding unsafe).
Elon Musk: not sure about good of Twitter
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Remote: No.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: Python, Pandas, NumPy, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Matplotlib, Google Data Studio, Seaborn, SQL, Flask, JavaScript...

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kcodtj2i6g3uVsYTPMYlhZN1Btw...

Email: ammar5656@gmail.com
Not the OP, but I'm assuming it was due diligence for a company interested in using the product and that read the ToS, then called to clarify.

With my current job, I've come to appreciate that there are quite a few large companies that thoroughly read the ToS and take issue with them.
In the current climate, if you can create a product a school can refer to to prove they are doing everything for the safety of your kids, you can probably decide the price yourself.

But I agree that this is probably one of the worst ways a school could help reduce these kind of problems.
So, like WeWork? That's a nice startup idea.
Ask HN: Why are there emojis in commits?
I’m ready to transition from working as a contractor to joining a team. I really want to learn from and collaborate with more experienced and knowledgeable people. I was most interested in machine learning and information security curriculum while studying so I'd love if my next role fell into one of those categories. That said, my experience as a contractor and my hobbies have made me a good generalist.

Location: Honolulu, HI
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, Javascript, Google Apps Script, Linux, React, AWS / GCP / Heroku / Etc, Fullstack
Résumé/CV: https://jcconnell.com/resume
Email: jc@jcconnell.com

Experience with:

- Automating workflows for healthcare providers
- Integrating APIs for use in Home Automation / IoT
- Building Python wrappers for easy API interaction
- Connecting supply chain and inventory management software for realtime price and availability updates
- Linux containerization and virtualization
- Used ML frequency analysis and replacement to circumvent firewalls and deliver malicious payloads
- Wrote a ML stock trading algorithm that implemented Q-Learning
You can buy insurance for this today.

https://www.travelers.com/business-insurance/oil-gas/midstre...
I asked them about this in March of this year. I wrote them this:

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Subject: legal question

Does this:

>"a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable and sublicensable, perpetual, and irrevocable license to copy, store and use your User Content" (quote from [link][https://www.grammarly.com/terms])

Mean:

"We can use or sell your text to anyone, in any form, without paying you any royalty." (my translation)

?

I notice despite all of the words about "fully-paid" and "royalty", it doesn't use any words like "publish", nor "sell". Could Grammarly sell a book of its users' writing?

IANAL, so I may have misread the clause. (The other quoted clauses were what I would have expected.

Thank you,

[my name]

---

5 minutes after sending (a Monday), I received this automated reply:

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Subject: Your request # [xxxxxx] | legal question

##- Please type your reply above this line -##
Thanks for contacting us here at Grammarly!

This is an automated reply to let you know we’ve received your request. We know you’re busy, so we will work quickly to get you an answer and let you get on with your day.

While we’re working on this request, you can pop over to support.grammarly.com to check our Knowledge Base, where you’ll find lots of helpful information about our products.

Talk soon,

Your friends at Grammarly

---

The next day a different agent replied:

Hello [my name],

Thanks for reaching out!

The Ownership section of the Terms of Service should address your concern. It states “All intellectual property rights in and to the User Content are and shall remain your property, and Grammarly shall acquire no right of ownership with respect to your User Content.”

Here’s what that means:

By using Grammarly, you are giving us a nonexclusive license to use your content in connection with providing our services. In other words, you’re giving us formal permission to provide writing suggestions and corrections to you and to use your writing to improve our algorithms. You remain the owner of your content.

For example, if you write a novel while using Grammarly, the copyright remains under your control. That means that only you have the right to sell, publish, or distribute your novel.

Importantly, please note that Grammarly does not sell or rent your personal data to third parties.

Best regards,

Alice

----

I thought that was an awesome and well-written reply, so I said:

Hi Alice,

Wow, that is a great (and convincing) answer! One last question: did you use grammarly to help you write this impactful answer?

Best regards,

[my name]

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And received the reply

Sure! Grammarly helps us ensure our writing is polished, impactful, and mistake-free.

Kindly,

Alice

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So it's clear that according to their support agents, they don't own a book you write. Of course, the support agent could be wrong.
> It turns out if you allow children to take (reasonable) risks, then they go on to be more successful in their careers.

How did she control the study well enough to assert that there's a causal relation? Or was it just a correlation?
> Johann Sebastian Bach is a notable instance of this -- he'd languished into near complete obscurity until "rediscovered" (IIRC by Mendelsohn).

I believe that was Beethoven, not JS Bach.
You can use VSCodium, it's a fork of VSCode without Microsoft's telemetry.
This is why I started disabling js by default using ublock origin. I whitelist the websites that I'm interested in but at least I avoid a lots of exploits that requires js. This is in case if I'm unlucky and I land in one of those websites with malicious js. I discovered duckduckgo doesn't block websites as eagerly as Google and landed in a few tricky places.
> They should have read the terms of service

A child puts on a costume and visits someone's home to trick-or-treat them. That child's image is now used by ring in adverts.

When did that child read and accept a ToS?

Where in the Ring ToS / Privacy statement does it say that they'll use Ring video for adverts? Please could you link to the page and quote the text?

I think my protection from being surveilled should not rely on my neighbour's ability to read and interpret a ToS.

> People should be able to put whatever they want in their lawns.

I tend to agree, but lots of ring cameras are installed so that they also capture stuff that happens off the installer's property. They can capture the neighbour's lawn and driveways, or they can capture the public street.
As another commenter, we shouldn’t need to run pipes. Oil is too precious for precarious forms of transportation. It shouldn’t be burned. I’m thinking it’s better uses don’t need it to be pumped like this.
> The solution isn't to take down the posts, but to alert law enforcement.

I agree but on the other hand they should play an active role. Not an expert on this one, but speaking about hate related posts on Facebook, they did turn a blind eye on that. That makes me think they don't care about < 1% content that might be a problem.

If they don't play an active role, they are facilitators. Probably in most jurisdictions this makes people guilty as well.

Moreover it gives law&order proponents arguments to just watch literally everyone. And in any case the law enforcements get only aware of a small percentage of crimes happening. Basically they are no more than a crutch to mend torn fabrics of society.
There is some interesting history to going barefoot in the US.

Historically, poor southern whites went barefoot because that was cheaper than buying shoes. This barefoot lifestyle ensured they would stay poor by infecting them with hookworm, giving them lifelong anemia. This gave rise to the stereotype of the poor southern white as pale, lazy, and sluggish.

Getting these people to wear shoes was actually a major public health accomplishment.
> Please take careful note: If you do not do proper risk analysis of your platform you WILL be used to perpetrate crime and if you find that you did not do what you could have done to stop it you may end up being an accessory to that crime.

Since we're talking about image hosters (I built one some years ago): how do you solve the dilemma that a) you can be sure that at some point somebody will upload images that are illegal to host and look at, b) in order to identify and remove them you'll have to look at them or pay someone to look at them.

What we did (before ML became widely available/easily usable, not sure if there are ready-to-use models for filtering all illegal images out there these days - nobody would want to train one themselves using illegal content...) was to look at access logs and remove all images that had suspicious hostnames in the "Referer" header. It wasn't enough apparently, it got my successor into trouble and a new dilemma (take down the platform immediately, or operate it as a honeypot to help authorities who asked for it, potentially incriminating themselves for not taking down illegal content after being made aware of it... [police can't give you a carte blanche for operating a honeypot, a DA/prosecutor can still prosecute]).

Edit: it doesn't seem to be available for my country, but a service like https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-... might help nowadays.
2019 Scale Conference recap(videos included)
In you analogy it doesn't give the users of the hole more control of how they get in to their city, it gives the city gate controllers more control.

This doesn't give users more control, it gives less.

People who wanted to control their own 'hole' might have wanted to let people in that the city elders didn't care for.
And barely a drop about TGS on the clearnet (aside from some paywalled BBG articles). They are basically the continuation of Ed Thorps business Princeton Newport Partners.
I think that those are separate issues: nations/states as currently instituted might stop some of the bad effects you are referring to, but if we really cared about those, we should work on solving them independently.

Eg. movement of people is not a negative for the people. While it does benefit wealthy corporations and their operators (cheap labour is easier to come by), we should look into ensuring that it does not play into their hands like that instead. However, that pretty much happens organically, just over a longer period (eg. 20-30 years for salaries to catch up in a poorer state).

I am also not a fan of the term "elites". While I dislike any sort of elitism, I would hope that the term is at least used for intellectual or cultural "elites," those able to define and deploy smart and empowering agendas.
And the fact that the android app stops playing when the screen turns off (but the paid one won't, it helpfully says).
Paul Graham is a smart man. Too bad he got lost in a wrong-headed language (Lisp).