skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're saying the same thing GP says, just in a different way. Right being "more worth their while" than wrong is another way of phrasing "people follow incentives". Rules and consequences are meant to change the incentive structure, and they don't all have to be sticks. E.g. tax deductions are carrots.
I don't get why any idea to make life better in any way is met with so much backlash. It seems like people don't want life to be better for the next generation than it was for them.
Light – Learning in Interactive Games with Humans and Text
nice, but don't put all your eggs in one basket
privacy is dead!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this doesn't appear to be CalDAV-compatible. If so, xkcd-927 strikes again :-(
I hope (perhaps naively) that CPU vendors will wake up, model all side channel data flows and prevent information leakage or provide features for software to use to do so.

CPU features like software controlled cache compartmentalization could also help, preventing cache related side channel leaks.

> The same comes when you allow random untrusted code be JITed or even ran as is with WASM.

If it's single threaded and WASM "syscall" interface doesn't provide anything that can be used as a clock, I don't see there's much to exploit — as long as each syscall interface itself is secure against direct and side channel attacks.

> ...remove JIT compilation of untrusted code.

You could probably still be able to exploit these issues, just somewhat slower. Also interpreters need to access memory, and those patterns are highly predictable.
Perfect for those of us running our own email server :)
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Almost there, we will launch very soon.
I just use a service to create one. Also if they don't have RSS they probably have Twitter. I use queryfeed.net to get an RSS feed of their tweets.
Fascinating how this isn't the top comment.
Most companies don't know what hosting options they have. They'll take the first recommendation from their "tech person" or whoever developed their site.

The problem is, that's a shit experience for your average company. They rarely touch their site since they don't know how. Someone will create an account, they'll write the username and password down for all the various hosting providers they need to know, and things will usually go smoothly until their credit card expires, their domain name expires (which they don't even know is possible) or some other problem that results in a bunch of downtime and panic from everyone involved.

I pitch it as a worry free solution. I manage their domains renewals, DNS, hosting, security updates, framework updates, all things they don't know they have to do. Their framework will remain current, so if they want something done in 5 years they'll have the latest version of the framework, not some archaic thing that requires PHP 5.1 and relies on a weird MySQL bug from whatever version their host is using.

On top of that, they get a couple hours of maintenance included every month, so if they need a few small changes made to the site it's all included, no extra invoices, no quoting, no needing to get budget approvals or sign offs. They just shoot me an email and I make the changes. (hours don't roll over)
Good article, interesting material to think over.

I don’t think the author’s patronizing attitude towards historical theories is helping his thesis much. He starts off proposing that chemistry in 50 years will be way ahead of chemistry today, and so we need to focus on how evidence from experimentation leads to theories to back them up instead of the converse. Alchemy and humors and the four elements all had some amount of observation of outcomes which lead to those theories, and later on evidence disproved them and a new theory took hold. There’s no need to talk about how silly and wrong those people were—rather, more so just how much more we know about the world.

Additionally there’s a hidden assumption that introductory chemistry should be teaching people what chemists do. I’d venture that a majority of people who take an intro chem class won’t go on to do any experimental chemistry other than baking. Their curriculum specifies that they need the class, and perhaps those theoretical concepts are built upon from a biological, medical, or physical angle. In this case, the important things to know are 1) the theory, and 2) that the theory explains the world as we know it, so that if another theory comes around to explain new evidence we don’t have “new math”-style public backlash of unfamiliarity.
As a product guy, it has been nice to get the certs: agile and pragmatic. I also did an ML bootcamp, which was awesome.
There was recently a story about a "Paean to Alpha Centauri", so I'll leave you with an appropriate quote:

"My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?"

- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"

I have no idea how you'd manufacture both a loyal and genius breed - what/whom are they loyal to?
Yes, the pre invasion claim made to the UN was that Iraq was in violation of its obligation to allow inspectors in to monitor its WMD program.

I'm not justifying the actions of the administration or even the legal basis for it, but per my understanding, the claims were not untrue, notwithstanding how it was sold to the us public (especially as filtered by the complicit media)
Save taxpayer dollars with fewer inspectors! Less burden on industry! Win-win! :-(

As I've mentioned elsewhere, more self-inspection at packing plants, combined with higher line speeds "for worker safety," is why I recently went vegetarian.
This is not true.

Here is the specific chart which shows 36% more protein in einkorn over modern wheat:

https://youtu.be/6fciEfyYyK4?t=128

It also has 62% more fat.

The full video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fciEfyYyK4
> I might be asking wrong...

Asking people how they work in real life is not usually that productive. People often don't really know how they work -- they just work -- and will tell you what they think that they do rather than what they really do.

If you have identified a target market (and if you haven't, then that's what you should do first), then the best thing to do is find a way to watch your target market work in their native environment. This is ideal, but can be hard to swing.

For instance, if your target is narrow enough, you could land a short-term contract gig with a company that fits it, then you'll learn first-hand how things really work and what the pain points are. A bonus to doing that is that it adheres to another principle I believe in -- to the greatest degree possible, each of your activities should generate income in at least two different ways. In this case, you'd get a paycheck as well as free market research.

There are other methods, too. For instance, take members of your target market out to lunch and talk shop. Don't try to sell them on anything at all -- in fact, don't talk about your product. Instead, get them talking about their daily work routine. They may not open up at first, but they'll probably start telling you valuable things on the second or third lunch, or after a cocktail.
Thanks, ya I tend to do a lot of soul searching this time of year. My social media feed is so saturated with bad news that all I really use now is the sad emoji. Right now when I think of tech, I feel emotions like disappointment, loathing, frustration, jealously, resentment, skepticism, etc etc etc. All negative.

You are right about love though, that is very insightful. Even though it seems like tech is this analytical endeavor, I've found that it is really built on passion (love, devotion, etc, the things that got us started making things in the first place). Because when you step back from it, why would someone bang their head against the keyboard day after day in endless frustration, often alone and misunderstood, trying to do even the simplest things but coming up short, unless they saw potential in it. That's the real reason why pretty much every tech job listing is looking for passionate people. It's not about excelling now, it's about survival.

Anyway, after 6 months of writer's block, I have finally started seeing some alternatives. When I think about the opposite of the tech world today, I start feeling good emotions again like inspiration, hope and maybe even some love as you put it. Here is a starting point for anyone curious:

https://qz.com/933681/start-ups-shouldnt-try-to-be-unicorns-...

https://www.zebrasunite.com

The table at the bottom of the second link lists some of the problems with the startup world today and some ways that we might transition from consumerist phantom tech to real tech. Where phantom tech mainly distracts or lowers some prices or makes some people obscenely rich, with jobs that provide time or money but not both, at great cost to society and nature. But real tech is things like distributed alternative energy, robot labor, universal basic income, etc that provide both time and money passively (without human slavery in the developing world) so that people can get back to living freely like we did as recently as the 80s and 90s.
Researchers Exploit Quirk of Human Vision for Redirected Walking in VR (2018)
Well, that's what services like Query Feed are for, or any service that converts Twitter to RSS.
I'm not sure the Panama Papers are a particularly strong example of the thesis. Well into the 1950s, some corporations had the power to get small governments overthrown. If the worst thing a modern corporation can do is construct weird offshore entities to confuse tax collectors, we're doing pretty well.
A bit unrelated, but Onitama [1] is a game based on maximizing/leveraging the "weirdness" you see in the knights. On every turn you select between two choices of movement. Difficult to describe here, but it's a really fun game.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/160477/onitama
the AGPL is clearly the best free software license nowadays. It could supersede the plain GPL, as it inherits the same spirit in the cloud context.
I agree that email shouldn't be considered secure but disagree that you should just give up as a result.

It's trivial to use an email provider in a more privacy-friendly jurisdiction (e.g. Mailbox.org in Germany) and with a bit of effort you can even move to a provider the PGP-encrypts incoming email which can then be decrypted by your email client (which can connect with IMAP).

Given that the first measure is near-zero effort and saves you from silent/warrantless law enforcement requests, I think it's worth it.

Encryption is a bit more annoying but it does save you from later disclosure of your emails.
I took Chemestry 1 and 2 in High School and the classes could not have been more different. Chem 1 was engaging with lab work, real world applications, showing what a reaction meant in real life, etc...

Chem 2 was "memorize some math, do these abstract math problems, take a test, repeat". Zero lab work. No demonstrations. Little discussion about how it relates to the world. Most kids dropped out after that.
Possibly. There is very little to no private funding for true privacy products. I think this is one of the reasons that Proton had to initially rely on crowdfunding. Perhaps, this is because so many tech companies are stuck in the AdRev mindset where sharing customer private data is how they make their real money? If you look at the ecosystem, you see many privacy products are actually government supported either directly or indirectly. For example, the Tor Project has directly taken massive amounts of funding from the US Military and you may recall the story of how Microsoft was forced to buy Skype in order to open it up to surveillance or lose massive amounts US DoD software license contracts. Those are just two examples. But, there are really limitless cases. Trust Google? But, Google receives massive DoD/EU contracts. Apple? Same thing. Role your own? But, nearly all standard encryption and hashing algorithms were either developed by or reviewed by government funded academic researchers in the US or EU.

The way I think of the privacy ecosystem is that it makes dragnet surveillance much harder and it provides some protection if the government has specifically targeted you for data collection. So, companies/products like ProtonMail and ProtonVPN are good things. But, creating something that is 100% safe for the individual is impossible (or at best so impractical to be untenable).
Airbnb Clone with React Native Part 10: Implementing a Splash Screen [iOS]
The extra-territoriality of American law is a weapon of economic war
This old adage is called ‘reductionism.’
Forest ecologist helps refashion Barbie dolls as scientists
Ah yes, the Party Parrot!
DIY Arduino E-Reader: Open Book Feather
Use a SaaS solution like CircleCI, Travis, BuildKite, etc. They all have various upsides and downsides but you will save lots of money vs maintaining you own Jenkins and dealing with all its flaws.

Also, people who are not used to the whole test driven development culture will have an easier time adapting if infrastructure doesn’t constantly break.
Yes, how else am I supposed to keep track of 100 sites?
> It aims to merge the capabilities of a traditional graphical non-linear video editor (NLVE), with the power of a programming language

Which is exactly what AviSynth and VapourSynth have been doing successfully for years.
Have you seen their respective flags? SRSLY! these two nations could do LITTLE more to help curb the confusion.
>Polygenic scores for IQ are correlated with other traits that are less desirable (schizophrenia for example).

Nope. IQ is negatively correlated with most mental illness. It is certainly not positively correlated with schizophrenia: https://www.gwern.net/iq
Generally speaking employment references are free speech protected by the first amendment. So defamation isn't allowed, and any state's law would need to be tested in court for you to really believe in it.
"It's controls designed in the 60s"

Probably even earlier. The trim wheels in the Boeing 707 look pretty similar to the 737.
This is an entirely subjective judgment on your part that you are advancing as though it were a matter of fact. Have you considered the possibility that you know English least well of your three languages, and that you are therefore better able to express yourself in the other two? Also, please provide a source for your "fact" that some languages are inherently more "expressive" than others (whatever that means).
How to find old tweets without using any external application
Changes to accessing and using Geolite2 databases
Scientific funding is a political game only to the extent that the politics are not contradicted by evidence. For example, no matter how good you are at scientific politics, you're not going to get the NSF to give you $1 billion to test whether the Earth is flat, or if gravity is actually caused by little fairies pushing us all down toward the ground.

Why? Because, at least for public scientific funding, it is bad politics for funding committees to look like they value politics over evidence. It opens up a big lane for other scientists to attack them.

If you have 3 groups all studying the same phenomenon, all proposing very similar studies, politics will in part affect who gets that funding. In retrospect, this can look overly conservative and even corrupt... but we must have the discipline to recognize hindsight for what it is.

In real time, trying to make funding decisions with little to no hard evidence for the right course of action, it is scientifically valid to use whatever evidence is available, even if it's something as nebulous as a reputation or a hunch.

Science has a reputation for producing hard evidence and knowledge, but the practice of science exists far out, on the edge of the unknown. The whole point of conducting scientific research is to explore what we don't know. By definition, evidence is scant there.

So what if a group proposes a hypothesis that seems really far out there, or even contradicts existing evidence? It's true that they will be less likely to get funding regardless of their connections.

Is it wrong that radically new ideas and approaches have a steeper hill to climb? Not necessarily; they have worse priors. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." It's true that paradigm shifts often start out looking radically new, but it's also true that most radically new ideas end up being wrong.

Setting aside some funding for crazy ideas is not a bad idea, but it should not be very much... it certainly won't be enough to preempt any hindsight disappointment. There will always be a chance we'll look back and say "I wish we had funded those (seemingly crazy) researchers earlier."
> We have a significant divide between working and living that I personally hope to erase, or at least minimize, in my own life

This, in a nutshell, is why I plan to never retire. "Retirement" for me is finding a business that holds my attention enough to want to do it for the rest of my life. Right now it has to fit into the interstitial bits of time between "day job" and "family time" and "sleep."

BTW: I love your podcast!
Rather, I assume the author will expect her kids brains to not be limited.
>>Well, if human gene editing really would work, than china (and others) would not only select for intellect, but also for obedience. Which is scary.

Generational planning...who will be at the helm 20+ years later? "The Party"? Maybe if it was a Medieval Kingdom, but even then you'd wonder how that would affect the fighting spirit of the people. Might commit national suicide
I find GitHub "Projects" (https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-gith...) is the most flexible. It is basically boards of columns. Each card can be an issue, or a piece of markdown text. You can use the markdown as a note or as a list of tasks and subtasks.

I find GitHub project boards more fun to use than Trello boards, because you can just type and let your ideas flow.

Within GitHub project boards, you can also add cards from issues, or you can convert your markdown text cards to issues.
Just what the doctor ordered: How AI will change medicine in the 2020s
I’ve been doing the same thing (todo.txt) for a while, surprised to learn it’s not just me. I like separating out brainstorm.txt, that would help keep it focused.
> There are two solutions paths which are not mutually exclusive: put a higher price on the resource use or externality, and find a more efficient way to achieve meet needs.

I think the second one isn't really a solution. If you find a more efficient way to achieve the needs, the needs will expand to compensate. Even if everyone executes restraint, an entrepreneur will show up and start selling the remaining resources to people who don't have access to those resources.

As far as I know, the only way to solve tragedies of the commons is for everyone to agree on a set of rules, and punishments that disincentivise breaking these rules. Which, in real life, is achievable only through centralizing the power that sets the rules and executes punishment - ongoing coordination is an unstable state.
The PISA scores they’ve done so far have been limited to Shanghai (the richest city) and then I think Zhejiang or Jiangsu (the richest provinces). It isn’t really a good sample of the entire country. I’ll be convinced when they release the scores for Henan :).

Western institutions biggest advantage is the ability to easily leverage worldwide talent, which is incidentally China’s biggest deficiency. A lot of China’s human capital, for example, has helped with the success of America’s tech industry.

Humans can be enhanced in other ways that don’t involve messing so finely with Mother Nature. We can simply develop and use better tools, for example.
I feel very frustrated when I hear this argument, as if it’s futile to switch to a different email provider. It’s actually hyperbole. Most people use chat and messaging platforms (or social media platforms) to communicate with others. Personal email, IME, has reduced drastically over the years. That leaves emails that businesses send to individuals, which are usually sent through non-free-profiling-based-Gmail methods (including GSuite, which Google cannot use to profile people). Only small businesses that don’t know any better or don’t want to spend money on email would use an @gmail address (or @yahoo, @outlook, etc.) to correspond with potential and current customers.
2019 My year in review: inlets proxy and tunnel
You can read about it in more detail here.[0] Likely responsibility for the (series of) decisions was diffuse enough that perhaps no one person made the call.

[0] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/the...
Great so China has no human rights, an autocratic leader, an ideology that places their ethnic race at the top and declares it should rule the world and now we're basically discussing -- essentially -- scientific experimentation on human beings and eugenics.

Truman should've let General MacArthur take out Mao after we finished off the Japanese fascists. Now we have nuclear armed fascists with a much larger population. Cool cool cool cool
I went to a TVTropes mindset and thought Porkchop plot was going to be a type of story plot, like Jigsaw Puzzle plot[1] or Kudzu plot[2].

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JigsawPuzzlePlot
[2] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KudzuPlot
I would love to have this in as part of `getpocket.com`.
Maybe you could reach out to them about licensing it.
> As another commenter stated, you can mince statistics any way you want to paint any picture you want.

That sounds like something lawyers would study rather than engineers.
See this other link for the case of a Colombian woman whose brain is full of the amyloid plaque but she is dementia free due to a genetic mutation. The biggest difference between her and the rest of her family that suffer from Alzheimer's is the fact that tau buildup is minimal in her brain.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/colombian-woman-s-ge...
Yes and it's so telling to me that you are downvoted for pointing this out. HN is full of CCP apologists.
Don't integrate privacy-focused email service (hushmail/proton etc) into a non-private phone. Access it via the webmail interface.

I've been asked several times to decrypt my phone at international boarders. If you leave things to webmail, unlocking your phone doesn't give them access to your email account, or even tell them where it is. All the TSA/Cops get is my "gmail-for-phone-2018@gmail.com" address that I haven't checked since day one with the phone. My access to my real email is covered by a web browser that doesn't keep records.
Chrome and Firefox both don't even allow reconfiguring most hotkeys. That's not anti power user, that's plain anti-user and anti-accessibility.
> Given China’s almost unique state capacity to think long term

Beijing is presently a dictatorship. It is making the classic short-term decisions associated with placing personal political survival over national imperatives. (It made terrific capital investments between Xiaoping and Jintao. But the incentives changed with Xi for life.)

What makes China uniquely positioned with respect to human genetic engineering is its willingness to treat its population as test subjects. That’s a huge advantage, albeit one with the predictable downsides.
> China already has many highly “intellectual” people

Let a hundred flowers bloom, as they say.