skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Texas GOP is planning to do similar in 2020 [1]. It’s also happening in small towns across the country [2].

[1] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/11/26/republic...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/19/locality-lab...
For cases like these I semi-seriously suggest using a keyboard with programmable macros. Usually people laugh it off but I think it's not the worst idea. Almost no one I know would know how to find and execute a macro on my keyboard, if they even considered looking for a password there.
As the owner of a giant CD collection I'm honestly kind of bummed I didn't hear about this service sooner. About 6 months ago I spent a solid week gathering and ripping a ton of my older CDs to lossless. I still have a ton of albums that are just VBR mp3 I didn't care enough to re-rip.
It's an example of why collective bargaining is important in your relationship with a big company.

Standard terms dictated by an employer and accepted by the employee are that you have no expectation of privacy, period. With modern EDR tools and smartphones, even less sophisticated companies can do big-brother stuff that only a relative few could years ago.
Have you even considered the possibility that perfectly intelligent people simply might not always share your beliefs or values?

This entire sub-thread is so absurd. I can't tell if it's a wisecrack that people have run with, tongue in cheek, or if its lack of self-awareness is truly genuine.

"If everyone wrote more book reports on 'Catcher in the Rye', then no one would take jobs in the defense industry"? Come ON, people.
I can't find it but I distinctly remember that there was part of an episode of 3-2-1 contact in the 80s about what must have been an early version of this system. It was the exact same thing as brundolf mentions* about the common sense system and how they set up the system to ask questions when contradictions arose. An example they used was it had asked if a human is still human when shaving. It is interesting that the system still exists.

Of course, I don't recall them mentioning any of the more dystopian things it could be (and sounds like has been) used for :/.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21784105

On second thought, it might have been an Alan Kay presentation. I couldn't find that either but looking I did find this interesting Wired article from 2016:

https://www.wired.com/2016/03/doug-lenat-artificial-intellig...
Yes, when there is no money left, that sincere person who wrote that statement will not be able to afford to send everything back. Faith in silos is a bad idea.
Facebook Scraping, Still a Privacy Disaster
I know some people who worked on building bespoke software/automation systems for the homes of the ultra rich.

There are of course family office wealth management firms, know a few people there too. Basically if you have >$10bb (min threshold might be less, but their clients are in this range) you might just make your own wealth management firm where everyone is 100% focused on your stuff only.

A lot of the services only for the ultra rich are kind of boring though, boiling down to running large personnel teams for specialized tasks. Like chefs/catering, cleaning and groundskeeping, transportation.
I would say, seeing a company advertise something like this without an actual verifiable escrow mechanism is a huge red flag. Because it means they are targeting people who don't understand how limited liability works and are very likely not planning to hold up their promise.
Isn’t that the implication of the headline? I.e. “No robots nothing to fear.”
From quick glance at falco documentation it appears to be much simpler to run and configure, on the other hand this can be also perceived as disadvantage because it offers less capabilities.
Fully agree.

That's why I registered as a member of the Ronin Institute[1], and would encourage you to do the same if you are not employed by a university!

[1]http://ronininstitute.org/
> I don't think anyone wants that

The group of people that is pushing the "fake news" line definitely wants that. It is absolutely dependent upon lying to maintain power.
FT "How to spend it" magazine. The economist has something similar.
I wonder why these types of gossipy internal company strife articles are never written about big news orgs. For example, I'd love to know how 2k+ reporters who work at Bloomberg feel about their recent editorial decisions re: Mike Bloomberg's campaign. Is it that these orgs are so ideologically homogenous that everyone mostly agrees?
Simpler PyPI publishing sounds very appealing.

I still don’t feel hungry for new dependency management solutions (requirements.txt + virtualenv works reliably for me) but I do like the idea of refactoring setup.cfg and setup.py for simpler PyPI publishing.
To the experienced data scientists / statisticians here: does this sort of regression analysis between the actual and predicted age seem legit to you?

It seems very weird to me. From what I understand, the p-value tests the hypothesis that the predicted and actual data are correlated, which seems like a very weak way of assessing the reliability of the prediction.

An estimator of the test error seems more relevant, and that's kind of what the R^2 does, but why do an affine regression between predicted and actual value instead of say an RMS error? Isn't this using the test data for parameter-fitting, i.e training?
Xbox Series X 4K gaming console
> They experience a barrage of negative press because they deserve it.

Ah, how could I forget, humans are one-dimensional cartoon characters and moral complexity is tossed out the window the moment you own a certain amount of property.
I don't think that looking at lifespans for the industrial revolution has any bearing on what lifespans used to be 'historically'. It was pretty clear to me, from reading the GP that they were talking about pre-industrial revolution times.
> We actually do have reason to believe that [intelligence relies on quantum properties]

Are you leaving the reason unsaid, or am I in fact reading your argument correctly: "We don't understand consciousness, and we don't understand quantum, therefore it is likely consciousness relies on quantum." There's already plenty of mystery in an ordinary deterministic computation-driven approach to intelligence.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/19/drums-of-cyberwa...

“a cybersecurity researcher .. demonstrated .. the easy availability of the .. unsecured access points of the industrial control system — the ICS — of a wastewater treatment plant not far from my home in Vermont.”

Have these people ever given consideration to not connecting their SCADA units directly to the Internet.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/08/20/slammer_worm_crashe...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/16/power_grid_cybersec...
A VAT is a regressive tax inasmuch as the poorest people would end up paying the largest share of their income to the VAT.

And yes, in Europe and other places where VAT is used the cost ends up being passed-along to consumers.

The other thing that concerns me is the mathematics of paying for UBI with this VAT: US consumer spending is at about $40 trillion annually. [1] That means the VAT raised would be approximately $4 trillion.

$4 trillion divided by $12,000 per individual pays for about 333 million people. While that is approximately the population of the US I'm afraid Mr. Yang has forgotten one of the most basic principles of economics: When you tax some behavior you get less of it. I'm afraid consumer spending will drop sharply if his tax plan is implemented, resulting in shortfalls of tax revenue for UBI. A sharp drop in consumer spending would also result in job losses and an economic slowdown that may harm the economy of the US more than any benefit gained from UBI. I'm also afraid that the cost to administer and distribute UBI will be huge and has not been accounted for by these numbers.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/consumer-spending
No. It didn't.
Reminds me when Ballmer changed MS's original mission statement from "A computer on every desk and in every home" to "enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential". One clearly defines a victory condition, the other is nebulous BS. It accurately reflects that Ballmer had no vision whatsoever except for counting money.
I'm a couple decades older than you, and in my mid-40s, I realized that my social life had really stagnated. Here's how I fixed that...

I started having twice-monthly board game nights with my longstanding friends, where we gather together physically and play games. Originally, this was just to ensure that we stay active in each others lives, but I've found it's also useful for making new friends -- when I meet someone that I get along with, I invite them to join us.

I also make a strong effort to keep dating. The key to this for me is that I'm not looking for a serious relationship (but wouldn't resist one either), but just someone to go out and have fun with. I used to be very shy about asking women out, but that was because I was "looking for someone special". Now that I'm not, the stakes are lower and asking interesting people I meet out for coffee and such is much easier. Doing this keeps me circulating in social circles that I wouldn't be a part of otherwise. My goal is to go out on a date every week.
Word to the wise: as someone who actually works in the field, trust NO claims until you can verify them with real code.

Papers very often contain the very uppermost bound of what's _theoretically_ possible when it comes to benchmarks. Researchers rarely have the skill to realize those gains in practice, so any performance numbers in papers should be assumed theoretical and unverified unless you can actually download code and benchmark them yourself or unless they come from a research organization known for competent benchmarking (e.g. Google Brain). In particular any "sparse" approach is deeply suspect as far as its practical performance or memory efficiency claims: current hardware does not deal with sparsity well unless things are _really_ sparse (like 1/10th or more) and sparsity is able to outweigh architectural inefficiencies.
Is There a Loneliness Epidemic?
Web of Stories: Marvin Minsky (2017)
Big houses are all that's built and is on the market. You can't buy apartments in anywhere except New York and Seattle. They also cant't build mixed housing that isn't single family homes in most cities because of zoning laws.
If I remember correctly, cellphones with radio receivers tell you to plug in headphones whenever you're tuning in. My guess is the headphones cables act as the antenna.

[Edit: TIL AM stations seem to transmit at frequencies way smaller than FM]
Elixir Wizards S3E4 Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck on Nerves and Performance
Agreed. Though there is something to be said for skilled and unskilled labor.

Where the advent of the automobile brought about a labor market for machine operators (taxi drivers, combine driver, etc.), what happens when the machines automate themselves.

Or the bar to acquire the technical skills of an operator (ML engineer) is so high and move too fast coupled with institutions reacting far too slow to adopt policy aiding the unemployed in high skill acquisition.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21781771.
What would you define as a serious contender? I'm not a Yang supporter but very early on, he loaded up most of his many policy positions on his website and he has been making the rounds in terms of media exposure e.g. the debates, the Joe Rogan podcast, etc. He's polling at 5th or 6th nationally the last time I checked.

Trump was a Democrat for a lengthy period of time and the Republicans still nominated him. I think Bloomberg is betting that the party and its supporters will not build a coalition around a more left-leaning candidate (Sanders, Warren) and they desire a candidate who, at least for the intent and purpose of electability, can appear more moderate to attract the swing voters. He's also betting that Joe Biden's support will peter out as the campaign moves along - perhaps a gaffe to top all gaffes? - and Bloomberg will slowly vampirize Biden's base. At least, that's my hypothesis on his motivations.

I think the problem Bloomberg will find is that many who lean farther left will not settle for another moderate Democratic candidate who promises only to carry on the status quo (and of course, to defeat Trump). I think his likability and charisma (or lack thereof) will become hindrances to him as this election progresses (Joe Biden, for all his faults, is much more endearing and 'folksy' if you will). I can't imagine hardened Bernie supporters rallying around an old New York billionaire who has the gall to enter as late as he did and basically buy his way into electoral momentum.
Status Labs posted content on this site to improve the profile of their client:

http://medicaldailytimes.com/

That site is in no way legitimate in its construction or messaging. It makes no mention that it's run by Status Labs, or NOT run by a legitimate medical reporting outlet. Why obfuscate the true governance of such an online property? Why are there zero contributors listed in the masthead or contributors page?

How on earth do you look at this website and think "yeah, they're just trying to help the defenseless welathy"?
There's no comments in the Slashdot thread, we should update the URL to https://towardsdatascience.com/security-and-cryptography-mis...
We are at the top of the hype curve for AI. It’s very good at specific tasks, ie speech to text, object recognition, but cannot reason at a high level. Although advances in RL are showing some promise with planning, I don’t think we’re nearly as close to fully self driving vehicles everywhere in all conditions as anyone thought. I think it’s hard to predict when advances will happen that will enable automation in healthcare and education. Most healthcare recommender systems I’ve seen turn into glorified search upon closer examination.
Then you're likely in a very different situation. A condensed version of the US situation is that telcos here were incentivised through subsidies to upgrade and update the networking infrastructure to deliver more speeds and bandwidth to existing customers as well as connection to more rural customers. By and large, the telcos did not do that in spite of receiving the money.
Not so much, they're using ECS which takes care of a lot of those headaches and sounds like they're coordinating with a load balancer / reverse proxy for distributing those requests... A 1-1 request model in that kind of system is really simple to setup. Setting up to orchestrate multiple requests per node was probably much more time intensive.

https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
Bandcamp and many independent music shops and labels (like electrocd, boomkat, etc) offer flac downloads. It’s too bad streaming services like Spotify don’t support direct purchases of drm free files like bandcamp does, I’ve never understood what the downside to giving the option to purchase files would be for them.
Why? An economy needs people to grow, how can you fund universal programs like this without tax revenue to find it.
> Pretending that these tools can't be or aren't being used to influence the population is naive.

Fortunately that's not what we're talking about, at least not so broadly.

But saying the stories are artificial or plants directly from the Bloomberg campaign - basically saying "ignore anything to do with his competitors from Bloomberg News because it's obviously at the direction of the chairman". That's what I don't buy.

Another example which would be crossing a line is any reporters getting silenced or stories getting squashed.

Even worse is the idea there's a broader conspiracy to protect the 1% class that Bezos et al and all of the big newspaper teams are engaged in is an even bigger yawn.

If we're just talking about hiring people with a certain bias and budgeting then eh.. I really don't see the problem with that, which as you mentioned every paper or editor/management would be guilty of it. That's why we have more than one newspaper.

I'd rather judge each story on their individual merits, with the obvious consideration of the source being a factor.
Because if you can't trust a large tech company with your most intimate data, who can you trust?
> I'm honestly kind of bummed

Even after learning that you would have lost your entire collection?
Scientists Say They're Sick of Quantum Computing's Hype
> AIUI the bulk of the training was self-play.

Maybe but it also has played against humans in many instances across many years time span.

> The bots had no communication channel.

The execution between them was flawless though, acting as one mind whereas a team of human has to communicate ideas. It's a clear advantage, but it just feels hacky in a way since it's not really comparing the same thing. 5 humans are a diverse group of people. Maybe it's not fair to knock the bots for this behavior though.

> That was covered by the openai open matches. humans could play against the AI for several days and find exploitable flaws. Most didn't, a handful did. That is pretty impressive considering that humans can learn while the AI is frozen during those matches.

I'm talking about playing against OG, who didn't spend days playing against bots. Beating regular players is great, but not the accomplishment they are portraying. The bots had a pretty specific playstyle, and if pros had dedicated time to beating them I think there would be different results.
You'll presumably access those services eventually. And for the huge majority of people if they are memorizing a password for a infrequently used service means using a shitty password.

"Even though the malware has access to my email, which I presumably login to with frequency, and therefore can perform password resets for many services, I might notice it and reformat my machine before I login to some other important service" is not exactly a compelling threat model.
Is it really all that different from a site asking you to do:

python setup.py

Do people ever open up setup.py to check the code and all that imports for side effects?

As a matter of fact the construct makes it easier to inspect the code without running it:

curl -L dephell.org/install | more

I do understand the main concern though - that supposedly websites are easier to hack than a repository. It is also a valid concern that a hostile agent may serve different versions of the code to different people.But all those concerns apply when downloading code as well.
What's the service? If it's a local one, you're way better off doing it in a market that you are familiar with (your hometown). Not sure what you really mean by "not known for startups" and that shouldn't matter. If your app provides a useful service, people will use it.

There are many other unknowns launching in a city you are entirely unfamiliar with, especially if you have to move there.

It comes back to what the app actually does. Do you have to be in the city to launch it? Is there an offline component of it? If the answer is yes, stay home.
yeah, that -L is the absolute cherry on top

you're begging to get owned at that point
More likely it's that they don't cover themselves, or each other, with nearly the same scrutiny.
It looks like the spec would be similar to high-end PC?
Promises are cheap. Be able to sue or absorb the loss (financial and sentimental).
I have a hard enough time typing 4mfkD.Q.27cC8,'@eG}a4{\* , I am very much not worried about a "shoulder surfer" either seeing the cleartext password on my tiny phone screen, or watching all of those keystrokes without me noticing them.
The issue here is the Palantir tool versus the Palantir company.

When I did DoD contracting work I worked both with the Palantir tool and worked on a competitor to it. The tool itself basically correlates data from multiple sources and works very well for that.

The AI work mentioned in this article, I believe, is separate contracting work.

Granted these two things (their AI work and their tool) may end up being combined. Also, as part of contracting work there may be times where they are directly connected to tools and could technically be considered as surveiling. But, in general, they're mostly used as the glue between a bunch of databases to let analysts better understand the data already collected.

So, in a way, I think you're both kinda right?
To me, there's an irony in that "Zaphod Beeblebrox's kite harasses Tuscon." is not only _more_ memorable on it's own, but is probably a _better_ password than "ZBw3hHg1tFWdhdt?Hoh2hXcrZmn"

Stop using passwords, just use a "pass sentence."

My last few passwords at my previous employer:

"Tim, bring me chicken #15"
"Mary, stop looking at me!"
"Nothing you can do about 2!"
"The coffee here is gross."

Seriously.
Google never signed a contract with Genius? How would violating a terms of use they were never subject to be illegal?
One better: a password generator in keyboard.

You give it a master key and a short code, it derives a password from those two.

Doesn't work in organizations that don't let you bring your own custom hardware though :C
Frankly the reality is so surreal there, it's actually surprising it doesn't mention uploading csv files over ftp, generating excel files, having cameras pointing on monitors of legacy systems that read data (no, this is not a joke) or spawning a promise for Martha to cross check something and click ok somewhere behind two bastion hosts, three firewalls and one and a half soap integrations. I'm not defending "4k containers because even loop can be blocked" which is silly, just reminding of the context - in other words you can do shittiest automated thing there and you're a hero. Next year-or-two hero is going to be somebody shrinking it by another X orders of magnitude.
TLDR: How to spend millions of dollars of our investors' money because we hired junior devs who chose a framework that was trendy but couldn't scale.
Login.gov neutered the security of 2FA
I interviewed and got offered to work here. I saw the inside. They had like 1 guy working on ruby and he was leaving. Probably 5 or 10 college students sorting through big pallets of cds. This was like 2016.
I'm not sure I'm able to answer that in a satisfying way just because my memory is fallible. The degree to which the system is unsure of something (to the degree to which that can be coarsely represented) certainly shows up in the results, and I suspect the underlying search heuristics tend to prioritize things with a represented higher confidence level.

The latter thing sounds like something Doug Lenat has wanted for years, though I think it mostly comes up in cases where the information available is ambiguous, rather than unreliable. There are various knowledge entry schemes that involve Cyc dynamically generating more questions to ask the user to disambiguate or find relevant information.
Something that has been lost is genuine reviews. First you have all the sponsored reviews and then all the equally worthless "I don't know how to use it so it's junk" or "it never arrived" 1 star reviews.
And so many "review" sites look like they've been procedurally generated then SEO optimized and filled with ads.
Bogus Norton security alert. I'm outta there.
Anyone working on a Trader Joes meets Amazon? That curates maybe 1-3 versions of things, largely eliminating paradox of choice.

I guess Costco is kind of a bulk version of that...

Also I've been increasingly interested in just buying things once and having them last a decade+, ideally a lifetime (less waste). But this takes a lot of research. Trader Joes does a good job of curating groceries and I've come to trust their choices. It would be nice to have this for products.

Essentially, "This is the version of X that will last 10+ years."