skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I already wrote about this in the past and assumed it was the case in the USA. Hard to get a burner phone in person these days. As long as our infrastructure is run by centralized or federated organizations, this is what will be the case.

I suggested sending in homeless people to get the phone if it’s a prepaid one.

But more to the point, if you want anonymity in such a regime, you have to commandeer other people’s accounts and hope they don’t get in trouble. This is what botnets do, etc. But you may be able to use payphones or libraries or hotel phones etc. as long as you cover your face, fake your gait etc. and even that may not be enough when we are talking about heartbeat signatures, infrared signatures and so on.

Timing attacks, style of writing analysis etc. can also be used to easily out someone these days. Anonymity is quite fragile.

Read more about the mechanics here... it goes back to the Digital Imprimatur of 2003 which started it all for me

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=114
Not every pixel! Mozilla posted recently about how they have gone to great lengths to not redraw every pixel every frame because it saves battery. Apparently Chrome and Safari already do that.
It's not as if they weren't flavoring their food, just that we don't count those flavorings as "spices". Most of the plant flavorings native to Europe tend to be considered to be herbs.

Although, it's not exactly consistent as cloves should probably be referred to as herbs instead of spices, since it's the flower being harvested.
Someone with a PhD in math might remind them that modes and medians are averaging techniques too.

“Average” is a very vague term.
Multiple RCE’s reported to MSFT Teams and none have been fixed in over a year
Getting insurance has been by far one of the easiest back off tasks we deal with (Hiscox / Chubb). The upsides you offer seem fairly low compared to having a low trust insurance vendor. Do you have an insurance rating?
I am not going to defend it nor denounce it.

Having reread Oath of Fealty recently I am really of the belief it won't be long before we end up with heavily monitored enclaves simply out of a desire of many to not put one thought into their own safety and security if surrounded by like minded individuals who all give up privacy in order to guarantee the safety and security of the group.

All the photo apps today that are associated with youth involve many many pictures of themselves they tag with identifiable information so it is not a big leap to think that this level of privacy is not something they consider a big deal. To them their image is their identity and they want to be recognized. Privacy would only mean protecting what they chose not to make public.

There certainly is this odd occurrence where we have many denouncing loss of privacy who at the same time ask the government to do more for them which requires giving up more information to more groups. It really comes down to, which items of your identity are public and private. your image certainly is public and why would you in any sane society be afraid of that association?
Hiscox will insure you. Or you can also go to Chubb for stuff like Cyber and Workers Comp.
People also underestimate how much the push for nuclear plants was due to governments trying to sugarcoat nuclear technology, to make it seem less frightening, and to try to make the trillions of dollars spent on nuclear arsenals seem less egregious.
> China already requires an ID to get a number, so I don’t see how requiring a photo will help them track people even more?

If the photo taken to get the number doesn't match the photo on file for the ID, they can now blame the seller. That creates an incentive for the seller to actually check the ID.
Clojure has Ratio numbers. https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/rationalize
The price?
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I would never use NordVPN simply based on FUD-based advertising. The breach is just the cherry on top.
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Highways aren't the only solution to traffic. You can also move that traffic underground (though hopefully without all the graft and pain of something like Boston's Big Dig), or build more and more frequent public transit.

Sure, there are people whose sole reason to be on Van Ness/Lombard (101) or 19th Ave (280 to Golden Gate Bridge) is to drive through the city and not to it, but I'd guess the majority of it is local traffic that could be replaced with better transit (and even if not the majority, certainly enough to make a difference).

People drive in and through SF because the alternatives suck. As much as I love using Uber/Lyft, they've undeniably made traffic in SF worse.
The big difference being that I can use ML.NET on macOS, Linux, Windows, with Tensorflow lite on the roadmap. Whereas Swift, pretty much is Apple only.

Even your examples are a proof of that.

Zero persons from Swift/Tensorflow team at Google are working on improving Linux/Windows support.

Linux was been mostly volunteer and some IBM contributions.

Windows are just volunteers, and have restarted the port multiple times.
Actually it's illegal in the U.S. and Europe to "show people the door" because of a medical disability.
This sounds like a good idea for three modules someone could conceivably build.
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Actually, Pu from fast breeders is better than the Pu from thermal reactors, since (n,gamma) reactions are less likely on Pu with energetic neutrons.
> Text rendering is extremely difficult. Even today, Chrome/Firefox are not fully hardware accelerated on this front.

On the other hand native toolkits have had hardware-accelerated text rendering for years if not decades. Browsers are not actually good at being a UI toolkit. They are good at handling a variety of inputs of a variety of questionable quality with a variety of usage patterns. They are good at being very defensive in the face of arbitrary inputs. They are a great catch-all, but as a result they are never actually fast at anything in particular.
> The “only visible in home country” clause does seem to support TikTok’s claim that they were doing it for the hidden users benefit.

This is actually clever. It allows the person to use local laws and local policing and even local social constructs. It would actually work.

> For people with an actual or assumed disability, this means that instead of reaching a global audience of one billion, their videos reached a maximum of 5.5 million people.

This sentence is sad.
The good ol' "Google the Stack Overflow" method. Except when advice is bogus people die. I frankly held doctors (and especially the very generously paid US doctors) in much higher regard until I got older and had a chance to seriously interact with a few. As far as I can tell unless the situation is blindingly clear (in which case Googling the symptoms works about as well as a doctor), they're basically guessing, often badly. To give just one example: I was once suggested a shoulder surgery (with a 6+ mo recovery period) based on an extremely blurry MRI of my shoulder where I'm pretty sure the doctor couldn't really see anything. Because why the hell not take another $20K in revenue for his practice, right? Ironically the shoulder pain went away in about 4 months after I switched my sleeping position.

I now basically avoid doctors other than for the yearly checkup or if there's something serious that Google can't fix (broken leg, or a prescription).
Yes, you describe your UI from the CPU code and it gets accumulated into a draw list. Differents backends (OpenGL, Direct X, Metal ...) sends them to the GPU for display. It's close to what a game is doing.
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Specifically, housing affordability is 100%, entirely, a problem of artificial constraints on supply by city councils.

If this were true then cities with comparatively less zoning (e.g Houston) would comparatively speaking -- be meccas of affordability.

But in reality this is of course anything but the case.
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Not to mention Reddit -> Reddit
I'm amazed at how successful some crosspost bots are.
And you don't have to disinfect anything?
> That's one of the worst domain name ever.

Maybe the creator's theory is that people will search for 0.30000000000000004 when they run into it after running their code.
Topologically, humans are usually toruses, ignoring that the digestive tract splits into mouth and two nostrils at the caudal end.

It actually occurred to me that the search might be that smarty-stupid before being exposed to the idea that the plural of torus is actually the same as the proper first name of a lot of immodest image models. That made me feel a bit smarty-stupid myself.
I agree. I'm trying to see this through that perspective when we were at that point in the cycle where everything was centralized. I'm wondering if there will ever be a time (or even a reason) for things to go back the other way again.

Also, agreed about the use case - sometimes I get the feeling that quantum computing is a problem looking for a solution (but I am sure that must not be the case). That said, I think things are partially that way because quantum computing is just such a different paradigm, so to truly take advantage of it takes a pivot in thinking, but that great dividends may be possible as a result.

My thought is, it's kind of like how we learned about what FPGAs could do. Different paradigm, incredible opportunity.
Google uses 1000000 as multiplier in their APIs.

Edit: And they forbid equality comparisons for rationals. For some reason even >= is not allowed.
If you got better latency through a VPN than your ISP that means your ISP sucks, not that the VPN is great.
This is all that matters. For most users, privacy is simply less important than the quality of search results. DDG is toast unless they can figure out how to match or beat the quality of Google's results with 1/100th of Google's engineering capacity. They've been around for over 10 years and haven't really made much of a dent, so I don't see it happening.
So... faith? I'm not accusing them of anything. Maybe they aren't harvesting your info.

I'm just pointing out that maybe you're asking the wrong questions.
Interesting because there is a recent tiktok meme going around about being socially accepted (people coming out to their parents, romantic insecurities, teenage pregnancy, etc.) and its really heartwarming and endearing. One thing I've noticed about the younger generation is they definitely seem less harsh when it comes to bullying in general then my generation (I'm 28) at the same age. Although the individual cases of bullying seem more intense.
I have developed a payment plan calculator for asset based finance and you would be amazed how many different rounding schemes and day counters (for fractional periods) exist and are actively used.
I love this demonstration of that phenomenon: https://twitter.com/schteppe/status/1143111757751357440?s=20
He could have phrased it better, but reading the initial post reminded me a bit of banks trusting AIG to insurance their high risk investments.
When I first moved to Palo Alto in 1984 the houses were all underwater (worth less than what was owed on their mortgage) because of the tech crash. The boom had been fun but everybody knew it was over and not coming back. After all, how many disk drives did the world really need anyway? The tech business magazines (upside, red herring, etc.) all had cover stories about how people were fleeing the valley
While a freeway may have increased throughput it doesn't tackle the main issue: Public transport is lacking and could reduce traffic drastically if planned well.
In that case, the 4th amendment is also a right afforded not to individuals because it uses the same wording that the 2nd does regarding "right of the people".

If you want to argue that the "persons" part means the individual, then that would require that you ignore the first part. This contradicts what you said earlier about "being modified by what comes before it".
> It's actually in use in many places, for things like handling currency and money

Which specific places have you seen it used in?
It looks interesting but on an Android smartphone the demo UI was pretty garbled.

Also I like the pitch but I think you need to focus more on what separates this from the status quo.
Does this require the Deep Composer keyboard? Or does it work with any MIDI keyboard?

Would be silly if you had to buy the AWS keyboard considering a lot of people who'd use this would already have a MIDI keyboard.
Same here. The big areas where I find DDG lacking and Google to really shine are technical questions (e.g. "what's wrong with my code, I'm getting stack trace X"), live sports coverage, and of course anything to do with maps.
How do you store Bitcoin?
>cryogenics and such isn't exactly free or easy to maintain

Room-temperature superconductors and other technologies using strange edge conditions are theoretically possible, but quantum computers have only a few specialties.
Have you considered open-sourcing this CLI app? I would benefit immensely from this tool, I think. Right now I just kind of ack and hope for the best.
> My wife has had a few messages "disappear" from WeChat (the Chinese Facebook), and that were not removed by group admins. It seems that at the low end, at least, they're content do just censor, and not take action against the speaker.

Is she in China or overseas? WeChat has different censorship policies for domestic vs foreign accounts, and silent blocking sometimes occurs when foreign accounts communicate with domestic accounts about sensitive topics [1]. It's also not encrypted, and it appears messages are automatically getting forwarded to the local (Chinese) police for investigation [2].

[1] We (can’t) Chat
“709 Crackdown” Discussions Blocked on Weibo and WeChat: https://citizenlab.ca/2017/04/we-cant-chat-709-crackdown-dis...

[2] Over 300 million Chinese private messages were left exposed online: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/4/18250474/chinese-messages-...
FWIW, I prefer DDG's UI and instant answers over Google's (and DDG's !bang searches). I dislike how Google will frequently disregard words in my search queries. I only fall back to Google for extremely narrow searches for technical topics or recent events.
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Most people mean mean when saying average.

It stuck with me because it's a nutshell version of the book "How to lie with statistics" in a humorous and highly memorable form. Someone with one breast, one testicle and a little penis would be a bizarre statistical outlier for the human race, but "mathematically" speaking, it's an accurate description.

It speaks to a lot of common errors of logic and it's pithy.
Process boundaries help you when you start jumping through a ROP chain that spawns a shell because your process doesn't have access to things that it shouldn't, even when compromised. Calling Heartbleed an example of a process "changing its behavior" doesn't really make sense in the context of exploits that can cause arbitrary code execution.
This is the most hipster project I've ever seen.
Solar and wind most certainly do disrupt baseload, and they can do that even if they are not themselves providing a constant output of power. All they have to do is drive the price of power down often enough to ruin the economics of the expensive baseload plants, which depend on there being sufficiently high average prices.
> If speed is an issue, store it in integer types representing the smallest unit in the currency, e.g. pennies

More typically, mills[1] (tenth of a cent).

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_(currency)
I agree. In theory, declarative languages let programs reason about the content more easily. But I can't think of when that has actually been a real benefit.

Flutter gets it right. The code looks almost like it is declarative. But really it's just Dart code (an underappreciated language IMO) and you never get stuck by things that are impossible to express.
Add to the list the list everything else by Bill Bryson and you'll not put your kindle down for months.
Big companies are not autonomous and do not make their own decisions, individual people working at those companies do. I think it’s safe to say that anyone working there today has nothing to do with the time periods you’re referencing, so I don’t know why you would consider decades old issues to be relevant today.
>because any level of exponential growth with any level of resource consumption can't be reconciled with a finite universe.

I think you misread my post. Real world growth with negative or zero resource consumption can be reconciled with a finite universe.

On a mathematical level, there is no reason that GDP can not go infinite in a finite universe as GDP does not need material inputs.
Homemade doritos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrkL9e2w7gQ

(or rather: gourmet doritos)
Technically, it is similar to what happened with computers today — computers of old where warehouse sizes, in tightly controlled environments. The term debugging was a physical process of actually removing bugs from a computer. Lol. As computers became more affordable/smaller, they showed up in more places and allowed more people to use them. It appears the quantum computers of today are following the traditional evolution of computers. 40 years ago, people were able to rent time from university/business computers similar to what AWS Braket is offering. The reason question for me is what is the "PC" of the quantum realm. What will a quantum computer look like 40 years from now? I can't even imagine what it would look like, or what programing a quantum machine will even look like for the masses(AKA the python/ruby/java/c++, etc).
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Is she in China or overseas? WeChat has different censorship policies for domestic vs foreign accounts

Fair enough. This was with an account that was registered within China, but the traffic is physically originating from the USA.
The most famous example is probably Cisco, which was founded to build a clone of the PDP-10 small mainframe computer. To make some money they sold routers on a design they had developed for the Stanford network.

But was it a pivot? The founders later went and started a company XKL doing just what they had originally intended to do: PDP-10 clones.
Our developers love to work in notebooks running Django, it lets you iterate extremely fast.
Jumping in here with an example, since I'm in the middle of doing this right now.... I maybe have some ID Theft issues, so I'm doing some searches to try and figure out if I can find anything that might help me answer what's going on. Did this company screw up and confuse my account with someone else or do I have a real problem? I'm doing different searches for names, locations and some other searches for very specific things. Google results are far and away better, in that they are returning things that are useful. DDG results are... different, and when compared to what I'm getting with Google, they are not as good. I don't know how much I can generalize from this one example, I don't normally compare G with DDG, but right now, G is winning. It's really interesting comparing the results though. DDG may indeed find something G didn't since the results are pretty different.
This is an important point in that, health care systems often are motivated to get you to do more unnecessary things that cost. This is particularly true at end of life stages. Not every provider is trying to do this, but some absolutely are.
By now, we have all seen some of the mind-numbing approaches employed by web developers in order to try to escape the burdens of GDPR via user "consent". I recently saw a pop-up box on a website that stated that by closing the box the user has agreed to accept cookies and be tracked.

It seems much easier to let users indicate their consent in a uniform way via HTTP headers than to have every website come up with their own interactive means of seeking consent.

Even though DNT is "dead", if a user enables "Do Not Track" on Chrome she gets a scary warning. None of the other privacy settings show a warning when enabled.
It would make sense to give them a pass on not knowing correct nutritional information if they admitted they didn't know correct nutritional information. The situation that actually obtains is that they're passing off incorrect information as correct. That shouldn't be excused by the fact that knowing correct information is difficult.
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