skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you trust Edward Snowden (a lot of HN users appear to), wouldn't his leaks be tangible evidence?
Everyone has a smartphone and a dataplan now. This ruling won’t stop anyone, it will just drive them underground. Secret WhatsApp groups are the future of social networking.
Given how closed Apple is with HomeKit, and how Google removed the Nest API, I don't have high hopes for whatever this is exactly.
I don't know why are downvoted and flagged. Here is similar opinion from genocide expert.

[Preparation for a genocide under way in India: Dr. Gregory Stanton](https://www.sabrangindia.in/article/preparation-genocide-und...)
I have been thinking about these types of cases lately. It seems like any proof can be dismissed by three letter agencies with them using their "state secret" card as evidence to the contrary. i.e We have evidence to the contrary but you cannot see it. Darn, guess the case can't proceed.
> built Amazon’s recommendation algorithm, and it’s largely trash

What is trash for you may not actually be reflective of how good the algorithm is. My experience is that Amazon's algorithm actually works somewhat well.

Recommendation algorithms usually work well for people who are closer to average (i.e. their preferences being closer to the aggregate). People who deviate from the average tend to get poorer recommendations. It does even worse for segments that deviate so far from average where there are few sample points.

Recommendation algorithms optimize for aggregate conversion -- if it can get the most number of people to convert, it is good (for the merchant) even if it looks like your personal recommendations suck. It's all a matter of perspective on what "good" is.
Pretty much everyone is going to say they are seeking asylum if they are caught.
Its a bhakt. Don't waste your energy. Not many people understand the Indian troll market. They'll most likely ban us
This entire article summed up in one image.

https://files.catbox.moe/ipv8a9.png
From the article: "Judge Ellis said: "For Wikimedia to litigate the standing issue further, and for defendants to defend adequately in any further litigation, would require the disclosure of protected state secrets, namely details about the Upstream surveillance program's operations. For the reasons that follow, therefore, the standing issue cannot be tried, or otherwise further litigated, without risking or requiring harmful disclosures of privileged state secrets, an outcome prohibited under binding Supreme Court and Fourth Circuit precedent."

This is why whistleblowers are so important. The "state secrets" firewall means that the public has no ability to police government surveillance.

It's a frustrating situation because intelligence agencies obviously do need to keep secrets while at the same time they can use this as justification to keep anything they want secret, even when there is no real national security concern with revealing the information.
Please run simple code to verify accuracy before publishing it.

The unary plus operator coerces undefined to NaN, not to zero as your article states.

The unary plus operator coerces NaN to NaN, not to zero as your article states. (Remember that NaN is already a number, despite its name.)

If you need to coerce any falsy value to 0, the simplest way is to use bitwise operators. If you want to do it the six character way, I guess use Math.imul
there's definitely a big push from entrenched industries that will suffer with marijuana's legality, and Boomer's treating it like a taboo.

the front runner for the LIBERAL party in America is anti weed ffs.
Does this let you neuter phishing? I'm not certain of all the moving parts but it's not obvious to me that it defeats proxy attacks of a sort now available out of the box to bad guys and effective against things like TOTP.
Maybe podman “just works” on Linux but it still has some work to be done before the same could be said for macOS.

E.g.
https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/4039#issuecommen...
> And I'm also unsure whether he needs to build the list of include statements like I do or whether that's somehow captured in the annotation itself.

> the workflow could be better. In the example above, we had to define the function body, prelude, if statement, else statement and both if/else blocks.

> It would be much better if we could inverse this: defining the whole function block with holes for the if/else blocks that the code generation would put in.

The original CWEB and newer NOWEB do handle these things a bit better - sections can be defined and included in any order, and sections can define which file their in.

It lends itself particularly well to laying out a program "top down", ie:

We define the utility ctof as consisting of a c file: ctof.c.

It has the following structure:

standard header includes

defining constants for conversion

defining the function ctof that converts a float value of degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit, returning a float

A help procedure that prints help

A main function that parses command line parameters, and conditionally call the help procedure or ctof function... Etc

Then can go on to define the inner bit of ctof first (the calculation).

In general literate programming is very nice. It can be a bit of a challenge when breaking out small sections (we define a loop that iterates over an array like so...) - because of scoping issues - if the programming language discourages many small (max 10 lines) functions/procedures.

At that point the literate system itself takes on the role of a macro assembler of sorts - which can work with old school "structured programming" - short programs, well defined global state (a few array/lists, a few "in" and "out" global variables).

See eg: http://literateprogramming.com/cweb_download.html (historic relevance)

http://leoeditor.com/ (not sure if it's alive - an interesting idea in "all literate, all the time"

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/ modern-ish take on literate programming - if you want LaTeX for the document part

Finally, the most pragmatic variant I'm aware of - literate markdown tangle - which might be close enough to what's in op to encourage a port:

https://github.com/driusan/lmt/blob/master/README.md
If you're interested in exploring this line of thought further, you might want to check out Erik Loomis' book Out of Sight: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23258901-out-of-sight
The purpose of System Integrity Protection is to create a privilege level that not even superuser has access to.

Luckily, if you’re an experienced user you can boot into recovery mode and permanently disable it, so it will never bother you again. Takes five minutes. Then sudo will be able to do anything.

You can also selectively disable parts of SIP.
If you smoke heavily and quit, your endocannabinoid system underperforms by about 20% for two or three weeks. It basically dulls pleasure in everything, producing anhedonia, depressed appetite and irritability. It impacts sleep negatively too.
whats an alternative for sharing information ? Cause in parts of India where protests got out of hand, they shut down the Internet and no news came in or out from there. They imposed a curfew too.

what can be the alternatives for sharing information during an Internet Shutdown
Literally no one is impressed by your cynicism.
There's some useful information there. It sometimes takes a lot of digging, especially if you're dealing in things that have existed for a long time, but change a lot (UI stuff tends to be pretty bad, questions from 5 years ago rank highly but are nearly useless because it's three frameworks ago).

Also, I was able to cargo cult an applescript accessible objective C program utility (returned the color of a specified pixel from the screenbuffer) from stackoverflow without having to actually learn anything about objective C. That was mostly because the online sources to get started on objective C weren't geared towards writing a short one off program; Apple's documentation in general is hard for me to process.
Founder here. Aito does help with some of the data cleaning concerns:

- There is automatic feature selection/filtering to selec most relevant features from huge feature pools

- Inference through links does help with the data aggregation / flattening work

- There are also new techniques coming in in the future release, which does some feature engineering automatically

- Then there is the ability to express missing data, the ability to bin numeric values and Bayesian mathematics helps with certain data chacteristics

In future, you could likely large skip the step, where data scientist turns deep datastructures into flat dataframes.
It makes the contract more confusing, and often you don't even have complete information. You get two offers for different amounts, both with insurance - which is the better offer? If the higher offer includes worse insurance it may be the worse offer, but it is really hard to figure this out. In fact in many cases they won't even tell you enough about their insurance plan until after you accept so you didn't compare well.

Even if we ignore the above, is the plan they offer right for you? If you don't have a doctor you can save a lot of money just taking an in-network doctor they assign to you - so long as they have enough doctors in network, and doctors are qualified it doesn't matter how many other doctors could see you. Or maybe you have one you like and are willing to pay extra for that. Both are reasonable choices for different people - but you don't get to choose. I'd personally take an extra $5/month in my pocket in exchange for a small in-network list of doctors (so long as it is large enough that I can get help when I need it), my wife is pickier and would pay an extra $10 to choose whatever doctors seems good at the moment - both are valid choices (I'm not sure what we would do if we actually had any choice in the matter: the conversation is only hypothetical now)
Maybe just a detail for USA workers, a brief explanation how some things work in some EU states, as an alternative to union, much softer one, but it has teeth (as an extreme, it can get CEO to a jail).

I am 8 years (elected, 2 mandates, around 1200 workers) in workers council (Germans might be well aware of this). This is a "political body" which as its basic description, has to work in favor of workers AND company (distinction between union - union will defend the worker even if company goes down - workers council tries to do what is best for company and worker, sometimes annoying but beneficial at most times for both - and there is always a baseball bat that it can transform to a union. The definition can make a lot of decisions hard, but at least it does take the company into account). And as most important, it can break owners decisions that are harmfull to the company.

The company has obligation to get a conformation from the workers council for important decisions, like selling the company. And we can break a deal (the CEO goes to jail case).

The confirmation also needs to be given for any larger lay off of employees. No we wont allow that for short boost of cash to satisfy management bonus conditions (HP).

It can also effect the decisions where it can affect workers contract changes. It can veto them.

Monthly reports about company financials. We are still bound to NDA, but we hava enough informations to decide.

Selling a company. We can veto.

There is hell of a lot more legislation behind this, buf I think it can solve a lot of issues that USA has.

(I have a hell of a lot to say to this, but I dont want to translate hunderds of pages of legaslation for nothing. Please DO ask.)
> You can't force a shop owner to sell his products to you if he doesn't want to.

The very first article of the Dutch constitution actually says that people have to be treated equally in equal cases. If you live in a country with a similar principle, do you know how this works with someone refusing to do business with you? If they sell to your peer, wouldn't they have to have a reason for not selling to you (i.e. to indicate that the case is unequal)?

A reason like creditworthiness or "looking like you won't pay the bill" may or may not be sufficient, I'm not questioning which reasons may be used. I'm just wondering if it's true that a shop can indeed refuse someone for no reason at all.

For those who are curious about the phrasing, source (in Dutch unfortunately): https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001840/2018-12-21
> mostly to prevent competition from low cost devices manufactured in China.

mostly to prevent competition from patent-infringing clones manufactured in China.

FIFY
Why would the Fed allow this? Who created the regulation saying they needed a threshold and why aren't they putting more teeth into it? It seems silly to me to have a regulation without proper enforcement and it seems insane to me that the Fed is complicit.
I mean, if it was done on non-Google hardware, off Google property, and using resources that you paid for / own, then I can't see any problems with that. They can still argue that it competes with their core business, but they would have to provide some justification if they wanted to fire you for cause or have the IP assigned to them. I guess they can just terminate you for no reason (I think?), but that's the risk you take.
This is a very wrong understanding over how unions work these days.

Union "bosses" don't control raises, promotions, or hours, and haven't for several decades. Union bosses simply don't have the power they used to have (and for some reason, are still portrayed as having in TV or movies). The Irishman, for example, is based on a decades-old perception of union bosses that was only ever true of the NY-based unions...decades ago.

"Superstore" on NBC is actually a pretty accurate portrayal of how unions work in real life: pretty mundane, and not all that different from being non-unionized.
but that's exactly the case where things become an issue. if you were able to write a library, it would be worth the effort to write it once more from scratch and make sure that the copyright of the previous code is not infringed.

instead however, what happens is that you have a problem that looks similar to a previous problem, so you take the old code and modify it to fit the new problem.

NOW you have the additional problem of having reused code that's owned by employer A, for a project at employer B.
Snake people.
I'm not sure what you mean. Could you explain your question in more depth?
Generative Teaching Networks: Learning to Generate Synthetic Training Data
> could you shed some light on why this came about unexpectedly

There are hypotheses. The involve post-crisis capital-requirement rules making banks more conservative with their cash interacting with unexpected demand for cash from tax payers. (There is another around carry trades [1].)

At the end of the day, this is all speculation. Predicting demand for cash is difficult. It's also the Fed's job. That we can complain about an overnight rate spiking for a few hours is, itself, a luxury.

> as I understand it if the fed hadn't stepped in the repo rate would've been high single digits and things would've ground to a halt

Probably. Liquidity crises in leveraged markets force selling, which lowers collateral values, which forces selling, et cetera.

The Panic of 1907 is one of the clearer cases of an unregulated money market turning a liquidity crisis into a solvency crisis [2]. This is a known market failure for which a lender of last resort is a solution.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21827998

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907
Thank you for linking to ’old.reddit.com’ subdomain. I don’t like the new website and this saves me a step.
" In a discussion about whether to invest in the stationary bike startup Peloton Interactive Inc. in 2017, according to two people who were in the meeting, Housenbold opined that its exercise equipment appealed in part to men who masturbated to its workout videos. "

lol lol lol
That was what Ted Nelson wanted. He called them "Silverstands". Visualize a cross between McDonalds and Google. Or Starbucks, with built-in machines.

The Berkeley Community Memory Project did it, though. They had dumb terminals in coffee houses and such, connected to a bulletin board system. Free to read, you had to put in a quarter to post.
Ask HN: How do you deal with phone scams?
A number of my close friends and relatives have fallen victim to phone scams. Either they received a scam call or reached out to a fake number listed on Google. What are some ways to avoid such scams? It'd be very helpful if you could share your experience and approaches you have explored to block/detect fake numbers. EDIT: Failed to garner enough response last time, I'm posting this question again.
I'm the same I used brave for a while and fully support what they are doing just wish they had forked from firefox so it would actually have a functional sync rather than the pipeline rubbish they have current
So disable SIP. I do.
> It being hard to track is no excuse.

Indeed. I have a good buddy who is inside council for a really visible guitar company. One of his main functions is tracking the provenance of any endangered hardwoods that go through the factory. From what I've been told there's a pretty big paper trail to document the date and place where "x" piece of Brazilian Rosewood or Ebony was harvested, but the penalty if they were to be caught building guitars from restricted or endangered wood is steep.

Maybe it wouldn't do much to dissuade the primary purchasers of cobalt, but a federal regulation popping them for a few million bucks for buying what essentially amounts to "blood diamonds" certainly wouldn't hurt the cause.
Justice as in peace is brought to the local population and they are kept from murdering and stealing from each other. Whether they get to keep their local resources or not I think is a secondary concern to whether they have a peaceful society.
> The "state secrets" firewall means that the public has no ability to police government surveillance.

The public can change the composition of the Congress, which has oversight and lawmaking authorities over domestic intelligence agencies.
Oddly enough... the same site has it.

https://www.expeditedssl.com/azure-in-plain-english
I actually don't have a bone in this fight. I am critical of Bitcoin and BCH in equal measure because I don't agree with their view on how money works.

I do respect people in both projects for being intellectually honest about their work and goals.

I have unmitigated contempt for Bitcoin SV and the shills who promote it (and am disappointed in those I used to respect who've hitched their wagons to it), but I do appreciate the entertainment value of following the drama.
Great, strikes will be limited to 255 participants now.
Thanks, that's very useful! I've been trying for ages to get my Yubikey to ask me for my PIN that I've set on it when authenticating, to no avail. It doesn't seem reasonable to have a site authenticate me with no PIN, since someone could just steal my yubikey and log in as me everywhere. Would anyone happen to know how I can force asking for a PIN?
Google doesn’t want its employees organizing. Why? One of the most crucial things about organizing is being able to contact your fellow employees. Yes the equipment is Google’s, but also I would contend that conversing with your fellow employees is in service to the company, in service of making the company better.

If I am trying to organize I would just send a blast asking everyone to add their personal emails to list. Could google call that organizing and penalize? What if I just wanted a personal email so I could schedule getting a beer.
> Of those with PhDs, more than half were told that women aren't cut out for academia by their supervisor.

I want to respond to this but I'm having a hard time thinking of a response that isn't profane. I don't mean to aim my ire at you, the messenger, of course.

But seriously, is it really that bad? I mean when I did my degree ('74-'77 Exeter Uni., Physics) out of about forty of us only three got firsts and one was a woman, she went on to do a Ph. D. I'm pretty sure no one said any such thing to her.

Does it depend on which country you are in? I know of plenty of women in high technical positions in industry in Norway and I can't imagine that they suffer from this, at least not to that degree. I also can't imagine them suffering in silence.
So would this apply if a Google employee used their personal Gmail account?
This is pure hogwash. All that productivity and more has been available for two decades with Java and C#. It's just that hipsters rejected it wholesale because those are their parents' programming languages.
Why is Reddit so hostile to mobile web users?
On small (mobile) devices, reddit is ridiculously aggressive about moving you to their app. Why?

The randomly shown modal where you have to tap carefully to continue in browser is pretty annoying.

Now image links don't open on tap any more. You have to tap, hold, and open in new tab.

Why don't they just let us use our browsers?
When they kept the already known secret key for pairing bulbs in the new supposedly secret version of Zigbee it was obvious they didn't care about security at all
Their client? Just use OpenVPN or wireguard?
> the better approach would obviously be to work with FF developers to add the extra extension APIs they need; I can only assume they took that path but got rejected. If you're a Firefox user, ie someone who inherently places their trust in the security and privacy decisions of Mozilla, that's probably a red flag.

Hi, I'm an engineer at Mozilla working on the address bar of Firefox. We recently released a rewrite of the address bar with the explicit goal of making it easier to extend and experiment with the address bar: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=quantumbar

You're welcome.
Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action
I don't know if this is what the OP is after, but I found this guide on running a social network for a group of close friends to be a good read: https://runyourown.social/
> If I lend my friend $10 every day for lunch and he pays me back the next day and this happens 5 days in a row in what context would it make sense to say I have lent him $50 dollars?

If I plan on bailing out his broke ass for the next 5 days, then I have to set aside $50 to do so regardless of whether or not he actually repays me on time. This is closer to the actual situation at hand.
IIRC Amazon does allow for this. I use Smartthing + Homebridge for operating my lock (Prompts me on my phone to unlock the door when I get near the house and locks the door when I close it) but I do have Alexa as well and I at least looked into using it to lock/unlock. For the unlock I have to read off a pin, it will lock without needing a pin.
Alternate headline, equally true:

"Wall Street Banks Will Funnel $2.93T to the New York Fed over the Next Month"