skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again we continue to look at data privacy and identity theft in the wrong way in my opinion. To me the solution is very simple. If you are reselling my data, allowing access to my data, or deriving data / servives from my data that identifies me in any way and then selling that to a third party for a profit or giving it to them as part of a license so that they can generate profit from it (including ad targeting or analytics) then when I visit your site or use your service there should be a big box in simple to understand English, not legalese or a lengthy EULA, that says "we [do one of the things listed above], are you ok with that?" If I say "no", then you cannot descriminate against me and you cannot do those things. You still have to let me use your site or service; you still have to provide me with identical services; etc. You can still show me ads (non-personalized), charge me a bit more money commensurate with the value of my data, or introduce a different monetization method, but you can't deny me service all together.

Further, if you collect my data, YOU are liable for it. Breaches should not be the user's problem. Meaning, if someone walks off with the contents of your database containing my PII using anything less than a crazy number of zero days, you are liable for a set financial penalty per user's info lost (in the way HIPAA does it) and / or you are liable in perpetuity for protecting against identity theft with an insurance policy. I don't need to prove attribution. If I ever have a problem that could plausibly be linked back to the data exposure, you are liable for damages.

Finally, it should not be the user's problem to clean up identity theft, ever. If a bank opens an account in my name without properly authenticating me, that is the bank's problem, not mine. It should be up to them to conclusively prove it was me that did it, not up to me to prove that I didn't. Does this mean it will be more complicated to open up various accounts and credit? Yes. Does it mean that there will be lost business for these institutions? Yup. Tough luck; that is the price we have to pay.

The entire point of this should be to heavily disincentivize collection of PII unless absolutely necessary for core business function.
Currently I'm using Diigo for inter-platform annotation. It annotates web pages as well as PDFs, with a solid free plan.
Huh. I suppose that is more powerful than a bluefin tuna. Not as efficient though.
Ketogenic (including carnivore) diet will greatly reduce inflammation. You'll also want to do an Igg food sensitivity test to see what specific foods your body is creating inflammatory markers for, and a microbiome test can also let you know if bacterial/yeast infections that could be adding to brain fog.

Fasting is useful for seeing how your mental state is while limiting external food resources (you're using internal fat reserves otherwise), otherwise intermittent fasting is the best option.
Yeah, nah. I sympathize with your point of view, but implementing Pernosco requires some serious science. If you try building a database of all memory and register changes in a naive way, it isn't going to work at all for nontrivial programs. Of course it could be cloned, but you would need a very good team and a lot of work.

Also either you start with rr as a base, in which case you need people with deep rr knowledge, and I know their names, or you build or buy your own record and replay framework --- more time and money.
"I'm not sure it's fair that you're terrified."

This is probably the darkest distillation of 2019 neoliberal energy I've heard across many platforms.

"That shouldn't push one into depression to the point of suicide or drug use."

Please spend some effort in 2020 developing empathy for other humans.
That’s one way to look at it. Usually the answer is simpler, this is where you have divorced and widowed women who need additional work to survive and pay for healthcare until social security and Medicare kicks in.

When I worked in a social services agency in the early 2000s, this was one of the growth demographics for food stamps and Medicaid enrollment.
I always wanted to drive a Honda Element for Uber... one with hydraulics... pick up people from the bars, and “expedite” their vomiting. The element is designed to be hosed out, so 5 min of cleaning, and you’re back on the road.
Well, guess there is a reason for it being disabled by default - like compatiblity or stability?
Google Scholar is a thing.

https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=relationship+between...
In postwar France the PCF had a large swathe of support after the war due to the Communist role in the resistance (among other reasons). At this time the PCF was a very pro-Soviet party and this support for the Soviets may have translated into the result that you see in the referenced poll.

Support for the PCF waned after de-Stalinization, the Hungarian Uprising and finally the Prague Spring; I'd wager that if one were to look at levels of support for the PCF over the years one could map the switch in perception as to which country contributed most to winning the war.
I had a similar experience with a rideshare service. My driver drove near me, but then pulled into a nearby neighborhood to pick me up. In retrospect, he was probably trying to get me to cancel the ride for the fee. After the ride, he claimed I damaged in internals of his door(?). They slapped me with a $100 charge and refused to dispute it. It took a lot of escalation with Lyft in order to get the $100 charge refunded. The experience has definitely made me more weary of using rideshare services.
Often what looks like an effect of grandparents on kids (controlling for parents) is just genetics -- what you observe in the parents is a noisy measure of some hidden variable, and the grandparents give you additional (noisy) data.

> outside a few notable outliers, that there are no "short genes", just environments

Predictions based on about 20000 different genes gave correlation 0.65, in the best paper I can find in 5 minutes. (Which was from 2017, a long time in this game.) This is for differences within a European-descended population.
Did Leonardo Da Vinci Have ADHD?
This is totally unsurprising given an uber driver in manhattan told me he does a clean up charge at the end of every shift, because... he basically feels like with "pool", it's victimless.
It's not "specific studies" its "All the studies ever done on this topic since we decided to start looking"

https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=relationship+between...
Just try kdb+/q instead. It’s really the only APL derived language that is used in industry. It’s blazing fast and if you get good at it, you can make more money than maybe any other programming language. It’s a very nice environment and the language (q), comes with a great time series database (kdb+). It’s proprietary, but the 32-bit version is free to use, I believe.
The box has flaps lined with copper (https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Uwc9SHzot/?igshid=5dgayhtfayad). The box was a bit of a joke since I have no background in EE and couldn't find good reference material.
Show me a mammal who has values beyond continuing to oxidize food.

Survival is an overriding value for everyone, but acting in accordance with other values can be a part of how that's achieved--ideally corporations are rewarded with profitability when they act in accordance with society's values. How best to achieve this, though, is a matter of some disagreement.
> Chess engines have been defeating humans for 20+ years (and are overwhelmingly stronger for a long time), but that hasn't diminished the interest in competitive chess

Is that true? I feel like chess was a bigger deal in the past. Among my peers, poker and computer games seem a lot more popular.
We used public money to go to the moon and our government recorded over all of the video footage. Can you name a single piece of video footage that is more valuable than that which was recorded on the Apollo missions? I can't. Governments are either incompetent or corrupt - usually both.
Cyborg chess is here.

As we have seen in the latest championship blitz chess is the future for chess.

Computers compete in their own championship.
Generally, I feel as though Uber and Lyft improved the taxi landscape most places; however, it’s really easy to see degradation in service as they’re trying to become profitable.

The other day I canceled a Lyft because the driver was taking too long. He came up and started screaming at us, swearing at us for canceling. I reported the issue to Lyft as a safety issue: they gave no indication they dealt with the driver: just a $5 coupon and an apology.

I recently wrote on here about the terribly unaccountable process of reporting cabs via TLC in New York. Uber and Lyft are quickly realizing that same level of unaccountability as they realize the reality of scaling such a business. I wonder within this frame whether the improvements to taxi service we’ve seen with Uber were just temporary: disappearing as they scale and become profitable.
Missed that one. It is a mess in there. But said mess did already happen and I was talking about future. Russia had definitely taken advantage of the situation where 2 regions wanted to separate. The end outlook is not encouraging.

I am curious here about one thing here. Government leaders supposed to be smart people. Where did Saakashvili (Georgian president at the time) loose his last 2 brain cells before allowing military attack on stationed Russian peacekeepers. Try to imagine Syrian soldiers attacking US military and see what happens.
Interesting and fair enough. Crimeans that I've spoken to are mostly happy with the annexation, but they have complained about the loss of purchasing power (Ruble is stronger than Hryvnia). So infrastructure is better, but their incomes have not adjusted to be in line with rest of Russia and things are more expensive than before.
Exactly. What else started collapsing in that period?

A: Retail
Depends what you're doing - NTFS is considerably slower for many operations.
Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels
Spamgourmet is amazing and has been really responsive when it comes to fixing the sorts of issues that come up when running an email service (e.g. blacklisted IPs, messages getting shunted to spam, etc). I've been using it since 2007 and it's kept more than 10,000 junk emails out of my inbox. I think it actually started almost 20 years ago.

Unfortunately the operator of the site is really sick and has talked about shutting the site down. Last I heard he'd found someone who seemed trustworthy to run the site when he isn't able to, so we'll see.
This is blatantly false.
There is a team at Microsoft doing optimizations and there is another team adding ads and whatnot.
If you're in the PNW, I'd hang out with you.
Electric cars still have a gas pedal :-)
True, Germany got rid of tuition fees after a short period. Still a far cry from the US, so.
Again - I was referring to her tweets, commenting on the real US. Not her fiction.

There were demonstrations inspired by her fiction. In the real world. She commented on those.

Since then she has released a whole book about the US becoming a handmaid's tale world. That book is fiction. Here Twitter comments before that were not. They refer to the real world.
2020. The year of the Linux desktop.
Really? KDE runs pretty well on my aging machines. Do you mean just animations and other graphical stuff?
That was my point. It's trying to illustrate a point that is so well understood that I cannot tell if this paper is satire or not.

If you'd actually bothered to understand the domain we are commenting on...
In my case, it is enabled by default in Chromium if you have a libva installed, which I think most desktop distros do.
Has anybody thought of asking the people of the disputed region which country they’d like to be a part of?
Thank you! I'm new here but have more stuff in the works. Right now I'm mid-project on some 3D printer enclosures but I've got some more stuff planned in the months ahead.
To that end, there are proposals for OSM to handle disputed boundaries.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/M...

The idea is that OSM captures the multiple views of the boundary in dispute, allowing the user to choose their rendering.

Whilst good in theory, it's probably not different to other's approach in practise. Thinking people can choose to see a boundary as disputed, whilst nationalists on either side can choose to see it as soley theirs, thus amplifying their own echo chamber. The main difference from others is that the choice of rendering is potentially up to the individual, due to the availability of all the data, but in practise most people will be using a provider who has already made the choice for them.
This metric was recently posted on HN, but received little comment. The Jobs Quality Index shows that the available jobs for Americans have been declining in quality (despite rising classical metrics like GDP).

https://qz.com/1752676/the-job-quality-index-is-the-economic...
Has it, though?

Sure, you can now fat-finger a launcher icon and the comically oversized hide/close buttons, but basically all graphical applications (even the tiny handful of redesigned Gnome apps) are still primarily designed to be used with a keyboard and mouse.

You need to throw that model out the window if you want a program to really work well on a touch screen. But if you do that, running the program on a desktop will be infuriating.
I agree with this 100%. Russia is huge and big enough. Just move instead of bringing death and destruction to your village.
I find the mental model of "circle of concern vs. circle of control" immensely helpful.

The only appropriate things to worry about are things within your circle of control. Otherwise, let it go.
> I'm not following some of your logic

There are 3 things that limit regenerative braking in its braking capacity at normal speeds:

1. Battery capacity, as you mention. Mostly a concern if you started high, as you mention.

2. Battery charge rate (thermal and lifetime concerns), as you're within or exceeding fast-charge charging rates. Especially important as the battery is likely already operating hot from pulling the load uphill. To give an idea of battery wear, note that a Tesla Model S only allows you to fast-charge a fixed amount on a given battery before you are permanently locked out to not further deteriorate the battery.

3. Charge capacity from the motor controller, which limits total regenerative braking capacity.

The first two are unique to batteries, and become an issue with continuous regenerative braking (such as a long downhill slope with a heavy trailer). Number 2 is likely to be the biggest issue.

Optimal regenerative braking sinks take whatever you throw at them: Either a brake resistor for rheostatic braking, or a connection to the grid which from the perspective of the vehicle is an approximated load of infinite size. Rheostatic braking is only limited by cooling of the brake resistor, which can both operate much hotter than a battery and is much easier to cool.

So why do cars not have brake resistors? Because normal vehicles do not have problems with excessive regenerative braking. Even going downhill, their weight is unlikely to cause severe battery load (although it may fully charge). However, gravity is a bitch when your total weight exceeds 10 tons.

> Also, peak braking performance is much different than effective regen potential, since you shouldn't need to do hard braking very often.

Exactly. The reason I mentioned this is that you noted peak brake numbers, which have no meaning in relation to continuous load capacity, which is much, much lower.
Academia has solved this problem.

You are 100% right, the world has yet to catch up. But mostly because politics, politicians, voting... etc. Not because we don't understand the problem/solutions.
Correct. I find that most meaningful information you can derive from such numbers is inter-national, i.e. comparing countries over periods of time wherein internal indicators don't change (and that's already a tall order, but consistency is better at supranational levels such as OECD etc).

It allows the comparison of "labor structure", how national economies tend to behave in that regard. It shows correlation with socio-economical policies, e.g. from the more 'socialistic' regimes to the more 'individualistic' ones.

For instance you'd find that Germany and France have implemented vastly different economic structure since the turn of the century, and the German way consistently produced ~1% more growth with half the average unemployment rates; however productivity isn't higher (France is a weird champion at that), so for all its choice to massively reduce working hours comparatively to other countries, as well as de facto institute massive unemployement (about twice as much as comparable economies), France isn't losing too much on the comparative front — what it does to its population is another matter though, as the French show up as one of the most depressed and most pessimistic country on Earth.

So these numbers are like relative fiat money to me; the actual face value means nothing, what matters is how they fare between each other, and what economic policy underpins each currency. I could take physics analogies of "relativity" but I guess the word alone is enough in that field.

I suppose the 'rich account' of labor structure above, from sophistication to hours passing by morale and national policy/strategy is also enough to read that no, no "KPI" will cut it if we are to discuss complex matters. I'm sometimes appaled that we take very specific studies and then paint a whole world by deduction, without context, as it ever got us anywhere. Perception and opinion at its worst.
You're going to have to back that up; like, a lot.

Aside from the few obvious things (OpenOffice being beastly and MS Office being C++ && h/w acceleration being disabled in browsers by default) there's a lot in linux that makes it largely outperform windows in equivelant tasks.

Opening files, reading from network, multi-threading, even rendering 2d windows with Wayland are demonstratively faster than on modern Windows.
That's cool, thank you!
Visualizing Hip-Hop Melodies (2016)
If people really use computers with less than a gigabyte of RAM and a CPU slower than a single gigahertz, they will surely not be happy with a modern Linux distro either.

I am surprised that Windows 10 would have so low minimum requirements!
You seem to be ultra paranoid about astroturfing.
Cool. It would be nice if it could also show a link to the source of the quote in the export.
I bought into the rhetoric about the superiority of using real tech when I was studying for IT. It will make you more competent when you actually get on the job. It gets you used to encountering issues that come up in real environments far more than virtualized/simulated ones E.G. loose cables.

Yet to be honest I wouldn't recommend going the real tech route because I don't think it justifies the time and money investment when you can learn the lessons it teaches you on the job. One thing I realised is that it really doesn't really help you pass certs or look good in interviews aside from your ability to say "I made an k8s cluster out of raspberry pis". I might endorse it from a strict fun standpoint.
Linux might have better device driver support than Windows 10.
You can read their financial statements if you’d like to comment on their financial position.

The pre-order deposits are not recognized as revenue and do not improve their cash flow. But in any case, Tesla has had ~$1B of positive cash flow over the last two quarters and has over $5 billion of cash on hand.

The $100 deposit is definitely designed to inflate the pre-order numbers versus the $2,500 Model Y deposit, for example. I think reading into the 250k pre-orders is extremely difficult. But the refundable cash itself will sit in escrow earning approximately nothing for Tesla other than the marketing value of the pre-order count.
I think Usain Bolt no longer runs - he retired - but point taken.
I'm on Windows 7 because I think it has a superior UI and because I feel it is under my control whereas Win10 is under Microsoft's control.
> Microsoft has teams doing boring whole-system benchmarking and holistic optimization.

Facebook and Google do too and you can see how well that’s working out for their properties. Skipping bloat is a lot better than keeping it in and trying to optimize it.
My son’s teacher is 4’11”. I’m filing a complaint immediately.
Late 80's and early 90's as a teenager? Look, you can visit live gigs of Nirvana, Soundgarden, Shotgun Messiah, Bad Religion and such, make some modest money and buy a couple of SF properties? What's not to like about that?
I have some computers where I've tried both an upgrade to Windows 10 and a switch to Linux. Both have similar problems, like trackpad not working, WLAN not working, in both cases because they only worked properly with Windows 7 drivers, so I'll keep them on Windows 7 even after Jan 2020 (I hope, at least). I just don't expect to use them for any surfing -- they will remain to be the backup machines for the tasks that don't involve browsers. They are anyway already struggling with the modern ad-laden web pages. In case I'll need surfing, maybe I'll install a VM with Linux only for that purpose, avoiding the driver issues...

And the irony was, Microsoft's "upgrade to Windows 10" program claimed they will be OK. Only afterwards, running 10, the old drivers misbehave, and the newer simply don't exist. And it's not that the hardware producer is some small company, it's Intel who doesn't want to produce newer updates of their drivers for their older hardware.

The another irony is that the Linux also has driver and desktop performance problems, resulting in WLAN not working but also local videos stuttering, if they are using more modern codecs and higher resolution: mplayer running on Windows manages to play the same videos OK which the mplayer on Linux plays unstable. So it's still https://xkcd.com/619/ "but who uses that?" even when striking out the flash word. On such desktops, VM with Linux will work, but don't expect miracles for demanding content.
With improved support for games (thanks to Proton from Valve) Linux is actually the best alternative to Windows 7.
And to get Windows 10 running as you'd like (remove telemetry, crapware, etc.) there's probably even more work fiddling with configuration than setting up Linux.
Windows 10 performs better than Windows 7 in most cases on lower end hardware. The only upgrade you'll want is a cheap $35 SSD: Windows 10 runs terribly on spinning disks in particular.
Most likely patents. Firefox only has video acceleration on Windows if you have codecs installed already (because the codec people paid the patent license fees) and the acceleration relies entirely on the codec+driver combo.

Chrome ships libavcodec/ffmpeg bits because they've paid the license fees.
It's not about which specific categories of work are valuable, it's about treating labor in general as more valuable than capital. Currently in the US, income from capital is taxed at far lower rates than income from labor. Why?
> anything a user can do to avoid third-party tracking at sites like these?

Not really, other than as you say simply going elsewhere. The trouble is most users don't know to go elsewhere as they don't know about the matter without digging.

You could start treating changes of sub-domain the same way cross-domain references are handled by tools that block 3rd party cookies, but there are plenty of sites that use multiple sub-domains which have genuine uses for shared cookies (single sign-on for instance) that might be broken by this so you'll have an initial inconvenience of white-listing them. Also if a previously white-listed site goes rouge, detecting that could be difficult, or at least fraught with false positives.