skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand of the story it started with an email sent to internal activists explaining why there were some performance issues with internal campaign tools. The attack was just a DDoS but once it hits the press it takes on a life of its own. Simplified technical details for a non-technical activist base get used to create a story, it's interesting to see how the sausage gets made but other than referring to the government body for cyber attacks as a matter of protocol I don't think there's much to it.

As an aside Labour really do seem to have a pretty good technical team. Both the party and the loosely affiliated activist group Momentum have built a variety of campaign tools which have helped organise and mobilise large canvassing efforts. I've been impressed by what they've managed to put together. It sounds like they shared ideas and expertise with Bernie's campaign team in the US when it comes to building these tools.
I'm not from academia but is it unusual to have 21 authors on a paper?
paraphrasing: 'Getting compensated for your efforts is politically contentious, so we won't help you. But hey, we're open sourcey and stuff, so you can do it yourself. toodleydoo :) '

Look I don't really want this to fail. Would be great if streaming a video would no longer mean sending free money across the ocean. But they will have to change their attitude just a tiny bit.
All weight loss is due to caloric deficit in the end. There's no magic from eating fat/protein/carbs. It does happen in the US that most of our carb heavy food is also very calorie dense and doesn't give us a lot of satiety, so by targeting low carb it's easier to be in a calorie deficit (which is why I do low carb).
> But if you have compassion to one person, do you not have, in theory, the capability of compassion towards all?

This seems like an example of this weird cognitive quirk that frequently appears in discussions on (and only on, as far as I can tell) certain identity-related topics: the apparent belief that because something is possible, therefore it is, always and everywhere.

Of course you can have passion/compassion/love for one person, but honestly, where did you pick up this idea that these feelings are some sort of a binary, that you either love all people and things identically, or you don't love anyone at all? The only thing I can think of that even remotely resembles this in observable nature is the behavior of dogs, and even there it seems mostly limited to interactions with humans and other dogs.

> If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty. In fact, they even believe that it is proof of the intensity of their love when they do not love anybody except the "loved" person.

I can see how people can be attracted by such prose, but if you look a bit more carefully, note the extremely unusual premise it is built upon, described in the first sentence: a person who loves only one other person, and is indifferent to all others. This is so uncommon, I suspect it would be considered some form of a mental illness.

> As George Orwell said, either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does

Lots of people says lots of things all the time. The question is whether they are true and practically meaningful. Mr. Orwell may enjoy defining the entire planet in terms of a binary of decent or not, utterly ignoring the fact that this has precisely no bearing on the actual experiences of most people, and may even draw people into certain ideologies by doing so, but even a small amount of critical thinking suggests this isn't a terribly useful or "true" idea.

> personally I can't wish well for my "own" country without also wishing well to others, too

Technically, I'm not sure if I can either, because it just so happens that I wish well for my own country and people in all others, and simultaneously, I am also a passionate Nationalist. That which others seem to consider literally impossible, is absolutely effortless to me.

> Because by the same token that I have a "right" to wish well for myself and people close to me, others also have the right to be well.

I wonder if this is a noteworthy difference in our thinking, this notion of "rights". I can agree that everyone has the right to wish themselves well (the pursuit of happiness), but who's obligation is it to fulfill the "right" of being well? (Did you notice you switched from wishing to being in that sentence? Do you personally draw a distinction between the two?)
Are you saying that there's a difference in deterrent effect between a 2013 glock and a 2019 glock?

If not, how are these police privileges remotely relevant to any need beyond that of a normal citizen?
I haven't figured out how they will dig themselves out of the hole of not being ubiquitous like Netflix. I'm a prime candidate for buying their service (small children who are definitely going to be missing some of the Disney content they've previously gotten on Netflix) but as far as I can tell, I have no options to subscribe on my two smart TV devices (Roku and Samsung). I'm sure as heck not buying another device just for them.

I actually went looking for an app on the Samsung app store and found several Disney-branded things that just added to my confusion. One seemed to be streaming TV but 1) it didn't seem to have any recent content, and 2) when I tried it, it wanted me to sign in with my "local TV provider", which just makes me shake my head.

My initial experience as a willing consumer doesn't give me much hope they're gonna pull this off...
I, too, am familiar with (and bound by) HIPAA. I agree this is likely a violation.

Having said that, my job in the healthcare IT world is building interfaces, i.e. facilitating the transfer of health data from one system to another. Most likely what's going on here is Google and Ascension have a project together, and part of that project is either an interface or a data dump from Ascension to Google for the purposes stated in the article. I haven't read all the information, but generally the data will be "de-identified", which some interpret as sufficient to avoid HIPAA violations.

Neither company is small or ignorant; they both had their lawyers look at the contract and they signed off on it. So either the lawyers at both companies are mistaken or mislead, or somewhere after the initial scoping the scope changed (which, btw, happens all the time) and nobody updated legal or felt the need to update management or raise a concern

And that's concerning, regardless of which option it is. Either the legal teams at both companies are ill-informed or outright ignorant (perhaps intentionally), or there are no checks -- and no responsible project managers -- in place to prevent this from occurring. Somewhere along the line, someone should have suggested that this was perhaps not cool, and taken the issue up the chain of command. Most healthcare companies have a well established process in place for that, and I can't believe either of these would be different in that respect.
Reasonable compared to what?

California black market?

Colorado recreational market?
Bamtech is heavily based on ECS and other AWS services.
With respect, then don't. I don't see why your unwillingness to establish trust with your end users is an issue. There are multiple ways you can do that and you don't seem to want to. If that's the case, I don't want to use your apps anyways.
Google Search becomes less and less usable/desirable. The pressure for growth by Wall Street and the lack of profitable products besides Search would be the existential threat to Google Search.

Well, it would be in theory. The problem is mobile. Since both major OS are tightly controlled by Google and Apple, Google Search won't be challenged by any alternative. Apple won't give their search profits away to push DDG or any other company, and Google wouldn't even think about that.

Any search engine that wants to cut into Google's market share has to start on the desktop web, buy the iOS integration for billions and would need to develop an alternative to Android, or call on regulators to force Google into showing a selection screen as they did to Microsoft.
Assuming you mean Backblaze and not Blackblaze..

I have data that is important to me (family photos, etc.) on my hard drive. I have a backups of that data running on a Raspberry Pi with an attached drive. If my house gets broken into, or burns down, or hit by a tornado, basically something Really Bad, Backblaze has a copy of my data offsite.

It is tempting to use Backblaze as my only backup, but like they describe on their site, their primary value is as a backup of your backups. Normally you should never have to use them, and if you do, it will be slow. Now if you are in a hurry they offer a service to ship you your data on a thumb drive or hard drive, but that gives you an idea of their primary use.
Blogging is also for your own benefit, and to have a history of your ideas. You can also post your bog articles to HN, Reddit, etc. And blogging like much else is a bit of a marketplace / ecosystem. We don't need you are blogging on generic popular topics that anyone can and does write about, we need you to blog about niche topics that aren't being covered.
Adam Neumann's Older Look-Alike Might Make We Work
Building React Microfront Ends Using Piral
I've been reading it a few decades. I would say it's socially liberal and financially conservative on balance. More than once I've seen two articles arguing opposite sides of the same topic in the same physical magazine. So they're not afraid of opposing views when things are not clear.

Right now, what The Economist hasn't twigged to yet is that Trump's specific task for Putin is to mess up the US-EU relationship as much as humanly possible.
> They didn’t help themselves by breaking with the solar/light-themed name either. Few people know the relation of “Indiana” to Solaris. But naming things is hard for some programmers I suppose.

I think I only knew what it was cause I go on DistroWatch a bit to keep tabs on any new distros. I assume not a looot of people do this.
Be careful making flip counteroffers like that, if you actually do care about the domains at all.

Offering to sell can be twisted into "extortion" in a UDRP proceeding if you're not careful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Re...
A key thing drawing me from Netflix to Disney+ is that the latter is willing to actually just give me lists A-Z of all available shows and movies. I'm sure there have to be others who feel the same way.
+1, thanks for the link.

Since the original article is more about Google, I would like to say that while Google's paid gmail+office is a compelling product that I liked paying for until I realized that there was no way I could merge services bought with my "free" Google account with the paid account. I think this is a lesson for Twitter if they ever do offer a paid service: integrate well with the old free account or convert old account and history smoothly.
It takes O(log n) bits to represent the value n, here the number of lines counted so far.

Does it make sense when expressed compactly like that?
Do any current databases support replicas with heterogeneous indexes? It seems like that would greatly reduce this problem.
>framing issues with certain wording

I've seen this repeated a few times now. Can you provide an example?
Facebook Pay
Screening using fingerprint sweat detects Δ9-THC, cocaine, opiates, amphetamine
> your diagrams are stored in the "cloud" and you have zero control over it

I made a diagram on Sunday and saved it to my local device without logging in; nothing stored in the cloud. Just opened it again from my local storage and it loaded into draw.io with no problem.
I mean what I said above. A business model whereby (1) one sits under a bridge made of copyrights/patents, or options to that effect and (2) uses the legal system (usually letters, but also litigation/etc.) to bully settlements out of passers-by.

In this case, (1) get the right to sue for profit on photos. (2) Find an infringer or grey area (3) sue (4) Try to get a settlement smaller than likely damages.. because "it's cheaper and less scary than court."

Did you read the article? The precedent is only relevant because the defendant will incur $100k in legal fees to defend against likely damages of $1k, that he'd/she'd already agreed to settle.

This is literal trolling, bridge, big teeth and all. He doesn't care about the damages/rulings, all he cares about is causing enough legal costs to bully the defendant into a settlement.
It doesn't change the fundamental principles though. Meal timing and composition can affect how your body burns those calories (resting metabolic rate, thermic effect of food, etc.), but they're relatively minor effects overall. At best, meal composition and timing can improve adherence, and that's a very important factor.
Notion for Startups
These two different ways your brain works on ideas, focused and diffused, were my biggest takeaways from Barbara Oakley's Learning How To Learn class. I've found that actively going between them, say by studying hard for 90 minutes and then going for a long walk, has been tremendous for learning.

Highly recommend the course (or the book form, A Mind for Numbers).
Yes, maybe we have seen the same articles by them.

The headlines will say "X is FALSE" implying that a claim is unilaterally false, while one can see in the article's text that it's actually half-true, even more than half-true in some cases.
See virtually any fine against any industry ever. It never stops behavior. It just lets the government in on the action
Systemd as a project only exists to allow the CIA to sneak more binary blobs into the Linux ecosystem.
Don't take it bad, but it looks like the java launch a (long) while ago. What makes wasm better than java ?
Thank you for stating this so aptly and concisely. People are throwing "fake news" around for anything and everything they don't agree with. It really is making it difficult to have a reasoned discussion with people when they just dismiss something so generally.
I got one of these last week and almost lazily put it on the to-be-paid pile until I realized that I had a memory of paying for it already on the USPTO site, and double checked. They made it seem old school enough that it could have been a government letter.
I've found a few other interesting uses for w3m over the years:

* Render HTML email in mutt.

I put the following in ~/.mutt/mutrc:

set mailcap_path=~/.mutt/mailcap
auto_view text/html

Then in ~/.mutt/mailcap:

text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump %s; copiousoutput

* Reading Markdown files:

markdown README.md | w3m -T text/html
CICO is too simple a model. Satiety is a factor but it’s facile to say fat satiates more so you eat fewer calories. If I understand it correctly that’s not how leptin works (satiety hormone). It doesn’t trigger at eg 500 calories regardless of which macro you ate.

In reality it’s more nuanced:

“It is true that fat has more calories than carbohydrates, including sugar. But by that logic, a sugary beverage is better for you than a handful of nuts. That’s just not what the unbiased studies have shown. Looking only at calories ignores the metabolic effects of each calorie; the source of the calorie changes how you digest it and how you retrieve energy from it.”

From https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/theres-no-sugar-coating-...
Yeah, calling bull shit on this.

Maybe they just don't know what they're talking about? Or maybe they're knowing exaggerating so as to talk about Russian interference in brexit... again.

If you don't think putin would celebrate pm corbyn you're deluded.
Elon Musk: Part II – Artificial Intelligence Podcast [video]
If you're the breadwinner, it's complicated, and you'll have to think hard about your options.

If not, I'd start looking.
The draft of my (part time) PhD thesis uses draw.io to present a flowchart of the findings - hopefully it makes the final cut next year.

Fascinating to hear the other uses, and thankyou for a wonderful and elegant tool!
Well, it doesn't necessarily make sense to be prepared.

You'd basically be preparing for a load spike that you're unlikely to see ever again. It probably makes more sense for most systems to just take the L on day 0 and design for day 1+ instead of designing for day 0 and being overengineered for day 1+.
On the one hand, of course launch day of a big service is going to have problems; they always do.

On the other hand, Disney owns Hulu. Why is this a launch day of anything other than the cosmetic parts of the frontend and a new empty copy of some databases? What is there to break that's not already well-established?
You don't think that was the plan? Sounds to me like the sort of thing that happens all the time in messy divorces.
Yes, everyone will be equal. Equally screwed.
NASA’s latest (free) software catalog has been released
Reminds me of https://nypost.com/2013/06/30/cab-lost-found-scam/

Pay shame site to "submit" items lost in NYC taxis. I think all it does is post your submission to the site so it is publicly viewable.
It's interesting how in this entire HN thread, the demand for racism and hate is far higher than the supply, and based on their voting patterns, people seem unhappy about it - as far as I can tell, in certain scenarios people prefer more hate.

Humans are such curious creatures.
Good point. That probably gets us up to the $3 to $4/month price point, or much more.
I have no idea why people would ever choose to deal with a middleman than the merchant directly, especially when they have their bank as the arbiters in disputes since they're paying with credit cards.
Anyone with even a casual understanding of video delivery technology and/or any kind of sketchy, high-level awareness of some of Netflix's largest engineering efforts would've seen this coming. The question is where the engineer's "lolwut" gets transmuted into "Of course Mr. Iger" by that Good Ol' Disney Magic, and why the top executives weren't savvy enough to root that pixie out before it led to public humiliation representing a loss of consumer trust and a serious starting blow to Disney's play to nuke Netflix from orbit, which is probably more important than most people realize, as home ESPN subscriptions represent a huge double-digit percentage of WDC's earnings (which, of course, have been plummeting as more people cut the cord).

Maybe Disney would be better off allowing Netflix to handle all these intricacies and just accepting that they're just going to have to let that $9 per month go to someone else.
Revisiting Actor Programming in C++ (2016) [pdf]
Honestly, I want it to be more like Music. I can choose whichever streaming music company I want and get 99.9% of the same music, because they have standard fees they pay each other, etc.

Streaming Video is incredibly fragmented. It's honestly frustrating. I don't want to subscribe to 5 services. I currently have Hulu+Live, and it has ESPN, and lots of other channels I like, but doesn't have the local Fox station, or the local ABC station (only the national fox news and abc news).

Excessive Fragmentation is going to cause everyone to go back to pirating stuff, like they did before Netflix made it too cheap and easy to bother.
Google's employees appear from their past behavior to protest when the issue at hand is one about which the far left cares. [0][1][2][3][4] This issue is rather bi-partisan, so I don't expect any significant protest.

[0]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-employees-protest-dont-...

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20695964/google-protest-l...

[2]: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/01/tech/google-employees-protest...

[3]: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/6/19/18691870/google-employe...

[4]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/1/18525473/google-employee-s...
Three! The three hard things are naming things, cache invaliCONCURRENCYdation, and off by one errors!
This statement neglects the role that hormones and other bodily functions play in homeostasis. Calorie-in calorie-out has not really stood the test of time/testing. The body can save calories in a number of weird ways when it needs to
They should also be careful with E. Most supplements only have α-Tocopherol and not gamma. The imbalance increases risk of prostate cancer in males. Some studies found that increasing selenium offset the risk, but there is a point of diminishing returns where selenium becomes toxic.
If you read the article, the original claim was "Democrats" have tried to impeach every republican president since Eisenhower. It was Snopes that changed it to "The Democratic Party".
>And there's no reason why someone ... can't be redirected

And how would you propose they do that? If there's no article that addresses the specific article, nothing would come up on a Google search for that which means there's no prompt to redirect them. They would still have to create some kind of content that gets indexed which would serve as the redirect.
Yes and the memory to store a number scales with the log of the number
And of course, they are so obsessed with DRM, that it doesn't work on Linux. What else to expect from Disney.
Lynx isn't dead, posted this comment thru the terminal on my mac running lynx.
> Of course, the only honest tactic would be an opt-in, but that would destroy the revenue the feature makes...

This would destroy a lot of companies..
I received about 20 of these scam letters after buying a house. I kept all of them in a folder for my records. One thing that I noticed is that all these scam letters included a no-postage-required, Business Reply Mail envelope. I guess they make so much money off these scams that they can pay the return postage.

I returned all of these envelopes filled to the max with random pieces of junk paper. BUT, I made sure that my name and address (or zip code) did not appear in anything that I sent back. If I understand the USPS rates correctly (https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm), each returned mail costs them $1.38. Maybe if enough people sent these envelopes back (with junk), the low hit rate compared to cost of the returned letters would make this business unprofitable.
Equality of opportunity is dying, Dalio says
I wonder to what extent this is a function of how one uses Instagram: ie, perhaps the parent comment's feed contains posts superficially similar to ads, while the composition of yours makes ads stand out in content and caption (my experience is closer to yours on Twitter and upon occasionally IG use).

Tangentially, I find IG's place in the social media panoply to be fascinating. It's the only service that everyone seems to feel positively about: it doesn't inspire the loathing that Facebook and Twitter does or the mockery that Snapchat does (even by their users).

But watching people use Instagram is the closest I see people coming to the popular addict/junkie metaphor and the stereotype of smartphones and social media turning us into slackjawed automatons in thrall to a colorful Skinner Box. It's really eerie.
Strange how I instinctively knew this as a kid ;)
Color Theory for Marketers and Small Business Owners
Pretty interesting how independent latin-american governments succeeded in conquering native lands and subjugating native population:
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Araucan%C3%ADa

Please note I'm giving sources.
Would be nice to have both: draw on pen and paper and then use some "OCR" (wouldn't be called that obviously) to turn a screen shot of your paper into a digital file.
Funny how everyone chimes in with their Seagate horror stories. My experience with them isn't much better.

But another fun story: I had a PSU blow up a couple years ago in a machine with three WDs and three HGST. All WDs were dead after that, the others worked flawlessly. Probably not a large enough sample size for any definite conclusions but at least it put a failure mode on my radar that wasn't there before.