skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about them, but Sync https://www.sync.com seems to be in this space.

Has a 5GB free tier, higher tiers cheaper than dropbox.
Based in Canada if that matters.
The government should not treat any right specially compared to any other

Of course it should. Taking off my shoes when I go through airport security is a pain in the ass but, in the grand scheme of things, a relatively minor inconvenience.

Telling me that I'm not allowed to have a child is a fundamental restriction on my humanity.
Make the mobile website work well instead. Diff view is unusable, as are many other views. I'd much rather have a working web version than an app for GitHub (and almost all other services). Their UI is all document retrieval and matches the web model really well.
> usually, it's the bride's family who has to pony up all this largesse, in what's called a "dowry".

Pedant here. Hello everybody!

There is a difference between dowry and bride price. Traditionally the dowry in culture with custom of primogeniture was the portion of inheritance the bride brought with her. It's a bribe to the groom's family not to contest the rest of the inheritance when his father-in-law dies, not to put a fine point on it.

Following Anglo-Saxon customs (which was heavily influenced by the Vikings) brides were given morgangifu, literally morning gift, from her husband the morning after the wedding. This is hers to take with her and her children, after a divorce or death of the husband. See also morganastic marriage, where a woman and her children get nothing except the morning gift, that is, she and the kids don't get the traditional inheritance (crown, title, land, such). It's a payoff to the bride's family to not contest what's regarded as the groom's family's property, not to put a fine point on it.

The bride price is the cost paid by the groom to the bride's family, this practice was more common in Asia and the tribal Middle East. Women were regarded as property, her leaving the family home and joining the family of her husband is regarded as a loss to her clan. In ancient Chinese text, lesser wives not just concubines were bought, literally.
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The point about insurance is not accurate. In some low-lying areas, these statements are accurate, but even in coastal areas it is far more common to have a finished 1st floor with the standard insurance rules. It all depends on the flood/evacuation zones.
When someone says they don't want to travel to the USA because they are afraid of being killed by a gun, it is disingenuous to inflate their chances of dying by including suicide as an option.

If I say "What are my chances of dying by gun or car if I go on a vacation to the USA?" are you really going to factor in suicide as an option? Generally it is presumed that the person is not considering going to the USA to commit suicide on their vacation.

Thus, most people discount suicides to tailor the gun figure such that a more apples-to-apples comparison can be made.

It's like people claiming to be terrified of going to Japan because the chance of dying by a rope around your neck is insanely high compared to the USA.
They are probably not willing to sacrifice low-light performance and dynamic range for resolution. When you only have a few millimeters to work with, you can't make the sensor larger without making the lens wider, and no one wants a fish-eye for a web cam.
Right, the rising average sea AND the rising weather/atmospheric energy combine to make formerly rare flooding events more common.

Eg Wall Street flooded during Sandy.
I do not understand this at all as the break in between the up/down arrow keys is far more apparent to touch than even the bump on the F key that's supposed to allow you to blindly return to the home keys. If that little bump works, how can a full break not be working for you?
> When any governing entity no longer respects those rights, it's time to turf the bums out and start again.

Interesting that you read it that way. I read it as when YOUR governing entity no longer respects YOUR rights, it's time to turf the bums out and start again.

Yeah, everyone has the rights, but not everybody has the same government. The People are not random people, they are citizens.
> The creators end up getting a crapto token at the end of it and then have to wait a long time to accumulate enough to justify the time, hassle and transaction fees to turn it back into actual money they can spend on beer/rent/etc. All for some tiny fraction of the browser market.

The same would be true for actual dollars... you would have to wait for it to get high enough to justify the transaction fees but also the service time. Most service won't let you take it out until your cash reach an high limit. With a concurrency, at worse you can keep using it in other alternative ways (at a bare minimum, on your web browsing in this case).
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If the guns were removed, you'd be more safe, as if there are no guns your chance of shooting goes down from "very rare" to 0.
I've had good luck with dehydrated (https://github.com/lukas2511/dehydrated)

It takes a file with a list of domains to check and you can write your own hooks to handle the DNS management and certificate deployment however you want.
And here [1] you can see what the region would look like with rising coastlines, based on a Climate Central interactive map (which can be used for any global coastal city).

1 - https://ss2.climatecentral.org/index.html#8/44.984/11.272
Seems like they have to be. How else can a person choose a role of potentially violent arbitrarily given authority over all others.
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I have my touchbar display the time, battery percentage and current song, so when I look down it's mostly to look at these. I also have a script that displays the last line of a particular file, so if I pipe a script's output in there I can look at its progress. I can swipe anywhere with two fingers to change the volume, three fingers is ctrl+tab (that one isn't useful, I need to figure out a better use), four fingers is brightness. I like it better than the F keys.

I did have to remap Caps Lock to ESC, because ESC on the touchbar was nigh unusable.
Purple Sea urchins are an appreciated "connoisseur" dish in all Southern countries of Europe. They are really, really good in fact, with a fine flavour and soft taste, but only when in season, when they feed on the appropriate algae and when taken from a clean source.
Well, in Europe rivers flow from high terrain to the sea ( low terrain ).

We are at sea. Rivers come from central Europe.

As I said, nobody worries except climate alarmist and poorly educated people.
Perhaps there is some truth in your assessment but I think the lack of pressure on tool support is more related to the lack of industry-grade alternatives, more so than HDL teams clinging on to a desire of developing like it's 1989. The reality is that nowadays HDL teams are composed of a lot of people with CS and CE background, who are obviously aware of sane development processes and practices. You will find that a lot of people simply use their text editor of choice and then just use the vendor's tool whenever absolutely necessary with a 7 foot pole (from a script or CLI if possible).

The problem again (in my very speculative opinion) is that you have a very limited set of vendors who have a complete lock down on their hardware.

Imagine a world without gcc or llvm and only Intel or AMD could provide you with a compiler. Imagine also that they would provide you with this compiler for free, such that their business model was entirely based on them selling their CPU's. How much pressure would they have in providing a high quality toolchain?

It's not like their customers are gonna run away to a non existent competition they still need to buy CPU's and they would be stuck with their 'barely works' toolchain.

You can see the difference if you compare FPGA vendor software with HDL simulation software. Simulators are in the business of selling you software so they have pressure to actually deliver quality software. FPGA vendors are in the business of selling _silicon_ (@saagarjha) so they pretty much see the toolchain as an operational cost.
you're talking about "piecewise end-to-end".

the "end"s are the _browser_ and the _origin_, and if there isn't a single secure channel that goes all the way between them, that's not "end to end".

I mean take the "piecewise" argument to its natural conclusion.

If the reason it's okay for you to be in the middle is that you're going to ensure that your request to origin is also encrypted, why should you be the only party in between that can decrypt the contents of the connection?

Why not let the ISP also decrypt the contents? What about the layer 3 interconnect providers? How about your cable modem and your router (they're _probably_ patched 'enough' that it's safe to let them see your plaintext).

I'm harping because misuse of the term "end to end" is _actually dangerous_ to real people.

All of this is to say nothing of the fact that when you allow "middle-boxes", the client no longer has control over the ciphers that are used for the end-to-end connection, so they lose control over perfect forward secrecy.
Even if there were an increase in demand for the purples you'd still be hard pressed to get them commercially, California has been squeezing the number of licensed commercial boats down to about 100 and the market's flexibility is constrained by that.
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All those specs and yet only has 802.11ac, and not 802.11ax?
What surprises me the most is the huge divide between these horrific things that happen at government level and the fact that 99% of Americans I met were instead very lovely people.
> Funny enough, OpenBSD's unfriendly behavior just had me go back to Linux land after running a FreeNAS server for two years. I got tired of every single help thread I was reading start with "Well you're stupid and you shouldn't do that" in one form or another.

In fairness to the people who called you stupid, you have some pretty glaring misunderstandings about whichever product you were using. (FreeNAS? OpenBSD?)
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527206 (but no comments there).
will there be a computer in there that can survive 10,000 years so that you can compile the code?
I've seen a HN poster promote filestash.app which looks like it's either self-host or hosted. I guess you might have to add in something like Spideroak, Backblaze, or tarsnap if you want to self host + backup.

Or Syncthing as others have pointed out.

I'm still thinking which is best.
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VCs sell rocket fuel.

If you're building a rocket, buy some rocket fuel. Otherwise, go to the gas station/bank.
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I understand "fuck trackers". Why "fuck ads"?
>People, unlike machines, tend to regard differences between groups with suspicion and are biased against acknowledging these differences.

That is true for people in the western world that have been heavily dosed with the ideas coming out of the western social sciences in the past 100 years or so, and not really anyone anywhere else, ever.
React native is an inferior product to IONIC when you want to have your own UX style which github probably want.
CSS is unmatched that's as simple as that.
Moreover, they would be able to reuse far more code.
Thanks! I have edited my post to account for my missing part2.
I would absolutely not want the justice system to use historical statistical information without considering factors like lead exposure and past overpolicing, and even pure boots-on-ground distributions of law enforcement resources should take into account historical over- and under-policing and its effects on the statistics being used to distribute those resources.
So Charles Wood gets banned for wearing a Make America Great Again hat, but Kim can say:

"WHITE MEN, FOR ALL THEIR CHEST BEATING, ARE SO FUCKING WEAK"
"[White] Women In Tech Organizations Are Full Of Shit"
"I’ll continue to say, white dudes in TECH ain’t Shit"

And this is OK...

America, you are very strange right now.
First thing that comes to mind when mentioning the Fn keys is debugging, however I always found that is feels unintuitive to use and would be eager to change my habits to learn more intuitive shortcuts.
That may be how you use the term, but that's not what the term means.

> The metaphor was first coined by feminists in reference to barriers in the careers of high-achieving women.[0]

> "A glass ceiling" represents a barrier that prohibits women from advancing toward the top of a hierarchical corporation.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_ceiling
You might reconsider your use of StartPage. It was taken over by an Ad company recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577
Anybody else thinking about the scene from the Bourne trilogy where Jason opens Noah Vosens safe using a voice sample he took of him on the phone?
I like their "Shield", looks very well. 128k blocked ads/trackers for ~month when uBlock/uMatrix are enabled too.

About their Ad program - money are very small yet, for both: site owners & users.
And unfortunately using multiple accounts too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500881
"neural network achieves sentience" - bad: 1.0 good: 0.0

"neural network fails Turing test" - bad: 0.9964 good: 0.0035

I think this AI might be a bit biased against AIs
This actually terrifies me and I have recently be pondering if I should switch from my gmail to something else to secure my accounts. I worry one day they will say something like, sorry you used an adblocker on Youtube that is against our terms now you are cut out from your gmail. I do hope one day legislation is made giving consumers some protections. Until then I would like to find an alternative email provider, even a paid one, and get off of gmail.
>there's nothing inherently wrong with advertising in an academic sense.

There is so much wrong with advertising in an academic sense.

- They distort the product market as they favour those players with the highest marketing budget, rather than with the best product.

- They distort the media market as getting people to look in your direction is the only thing that has value. Clickbait and fake-news are a direct result of advertising, and wouldn't exist without it.

- They are an attempt at manipulation. People have to constantly expend the energy to counteract that manipulation. I also believe this to be a big factor in the decrease in trust in media. Since the stuff that is meant to inform you is always surrounded by stuff trying to manipulate you, how could you ever build trust to it?
I'm building these labs/teams in Latin America, with a few remote people from around the world. Ping me at: alex.rozgo @ vertexstudio.co
If it's irrelevant than your comment "prior to their marriage" is also irrelevant, yes? Because that's what I was responding to.

They don't claim to not know the person's gender. They write "Our credit decisions are based on a customer's creditworthiness and not on factors like gender, race, age, sexual orientation or any other bias prohibited by law,"

That is, they might know the person's gender, but not include that in the assessment.

Why must their statement be a lie if there is a gender bias? There are plenty of reports of risk models which have an illegally discriminatory bias even when not designed that way. For one example https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm... .

In that case, 'Brennan said it is difficult to construct a score that doesn’t include items that can be correlated with race — such as poverty, joblessness and social marginalization. “If those are omitted from your risk assessment, accuracy goes down,” he said.'

As I pointed out, there are correlations between names and gender. Almost certainly there are other correlations. A model might have trained on those factors to produce a result with an illegal gender bias, even if that wasn't deliberate.

When you write "the bar for demonstrating sexism is indeed much higher", do you mean the bar for legal action, or the bar by which someone can make a public accusation?

If I am black, and walk into a restaurant and refused service, then my white spouse walks in 5 minutes later and gets service, do you expect that I must remain quiet about it until I've demonstrated in a court of law that actual illegal discriminatory practice occurred?

And if I go public before that's done, will you say that I haven't given you enough evidence?

If yes, then in both cases, I think you are using the wrong threshold for when it's relevant and useful to go public, because doing so is part of one way to drive the resolution process.

Or, if I have a child who gets a rare illness due to some heavy metal poisoning, and a local company is dumping those heavy metals into the water supply, do I need to wait until there's conclusive evidence, as for a court of law, before I go public about it?

In all three cases, sure, I can be wrong. (Courts can be wrong too.) But ... so what?
If you already know what you want the model to say ahead of time and are tweaking it to fit that narrative then there is no point in creating a model in the first place.
We have a modular laptop in our office-- it's a Dell Precision, and practically everything in the machine's serviceable and replaceable (complete with a detailed service manual, provided by Dell). Replaceable, externally accessible disk drives, replaceable RAM, replaceable modular keyboard, even (IIRC) a socketed processor.

The catch is that all that modularity makes the thing massive-- the thing's a good 2-3 inches thick (with lid closed) and weighs nearly 8 pounds. It looks like what you'd get if you took a '90s-era laptop chassis, stretched it to modern screen proportions, and stuck modern innards inside. It's just not practical unless it's going to spend all its time sitting on a desk, and that begs the question of why you wouldn't just buy a desktop in the first place.
It turns out that people who buy laptops -- a mobile-ish form factor differentiated from a tablet by its keyboard -- might really really care about keyboards as the main interface between user and device.

I'd concluded that Apple didn't really think much of laptops anymore, and had simply moved on to caring more about other form factors: it seemed a logical conclusion if one assumed that people at Apple were in fact competent.

This shows some real care regarding laptops as a form factor and puts them back in the running for a lot of buyers, including me. But there's still one major issue that I don't see people talking much about -- the way that Apple's decisions regarding storage (namely soldering it to the board AND making it so that there's no way to access it in the event of a logic board failure) increases consumer risk as well as decreasing consumer choice:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-removes-the-Customer-Dat...

It increases risk of data loss. That's a choice that impacts the day-to-day experience much less than the keyboard, which explains why the keyboard has gotten much more attention, and it really is nice that a company arguably built on attention to experience returned to that aspect of it. But this kind of choice makes a huge difference in a moment of failure, and it's at least equally user-hostile, especially in a product bearing the name "pro" where data recovery can be a matter of business continuity.

I suppose that one can argue a responsible professional will be using network and external backups (and of course all responsible professionals worth considering or selling anything to will do this, right?), and so this isn't necessary, and Apple's thing (wise or unwise) is that they frequently reconsider and eliminate things that aren't crucial. But redundancy in some areas is wise, and I can't see what they think eliminating both removability AND emergency direct access when it come to storage actually buys them. Even if one assumes it's a lock-in action for service, it makes the actual service more difficult and costly.

I'm liking the keyboard correction. I just bought a 2014 MBP to replace an older failing MBP, so I'm not in the market for something else for a year or two, but when that comes up, I'll be seriously looking at the 16" as an option. And this will be what I'm thinking about.
Yup, it's the same concept as GNU social, Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.
I'm well aware that models are used for a variety of applications. But regardless of the application, we usually want the model to reflect reality in some way.

Say you have an AI that predicts probability of re-offending for prospective parolees. If we observe that this system is flagging men as high risk more frequently than women, then this is not indicative of bias.

But!, one might say, men are socialized to be more violent and are more frequently recruited by gangs. These factors are being absorbed by the AI. Yes, they are, and this does not make the AI biased. The job of the AI to predict risk of re-offending in real world conditions. Not risk of re-offending in a hypothetical world where everyone has the same environment and experiences.

If we were to manually adjust the model to make it display equal risks for both men and women then that is not elimination of bias. It is deliberate introduction of bias to make the output fit our ideal worldview.
Duple home page states "CREATE YOUR OWN PRIVATE CLOUD AT HOME, IN ONE CLICK." This is blatantly false as is most everything that advertises itself as "one click". Please change it to a real number like, oh I don't know, 12 maybe? Plus a bunch of keystrokes... Sorry for the unsubstantial comment but this really grinds my gears.
Typically the AI to detect the AI is exactly what they use to train networks like Deep Fake in the first place. GANs are effectively just a local arms race between two machine learning networks.
The problem is not guns I think, it's the culture of violence, and fear. Don't Swiss families all have shotguns from the military in their homes?
Ross Ulbricht made some mistakes by reusing account names etc that he had made on the clearnet[0, 1]. But at the time there were (tinfoil-hat-wearing) folks that thought that this was actually parallel construction and Tor was backdoored.

Here is the relevant section from the Times article on the IRS agent that figured it out:

"""

Mr. Alford’s preferred tool was Google. He used the advanced search option to look for material posted within specific date ranges. That brought him, during the last weekend of May 2013, to a chat room posting made just before Silk Road had gone online, in early 2011, by someone with the screen name “altoid.”

“Has anyone seen Silk Road yet?” altoid asked. “It’s kind of like an anonymous Amazon.com.”

The early date of the posting suggested that altoid might have inside knowledge about Silk Road.

During the first weekend of June 2013, Mr. Alford went through everything altoid had written, the online equivalent of sifting through trash cans near the scene of a crime. Mr. Alford eventually turned up a message that altoid had apparently deleted — but that had been preserved in the response of another user.

In that post, altoid asked for some programming help and gave his email address: rossulbricht@gmail.com.

"""

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Silk_Road,_arres...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)#Arrest...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/dealbook/the-uns...
If Apple had provided me the cables to connect the current generation of their two products to each other, I would use them.
you can still live in Berlin and be close to the site and in that area of Berlin is is also less housing problems, if any.
Awfully mean