skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Facebook / Cambridge Analytica story is completely baffling to me.

Here we have a company whose business idea it is to lock up as much of the web as possible on their platform. Contacts, messageboards, photos, events, calendars, chat, dating, anything goes really. They then earn money from selling data.

Then the Cambridge Analytica scandal breaks where a company has used data from Facebook unethically. How was this not expected? Had it been better if this company used their data a little less unethically? Had it been better if Facebook sold PR-as-a-service directly instead of enabling an ecosystem of smaller companies offering this?

(Because the latter is what is going to happen over the long run should Facebook continue to be successful. When there is no room to grow anymore the ecosystem is going to be cannibalized.)

This is all inherent to business models dependent on data ownership. Upon observing the majority of the population migrating to closed platforms, the discourse among the people who care about open data must instead be framed in terms of how to shape the conditions of said business models. Codifying data ownership is one way to move forward, GDPR being the most known example. It may be blunt but it at least poses the question of who owns which data.
A month ago I had an especially good workout then a few hours later the dengue fever that was incubating hit.
What you can do with email is move the problem to your most secure account or to an account that you know how to recover under essentially all circumstances.
Of course it can, but I believe the things men derive intrinsic satisfaction from are much more slow to change.
What is your opinion of using a monoclonal antibody against 7KC instead of cyclodextrin since mAbs are very well understood from a regulatory and PK/PD point of view. In your review I only see that you discuss 7KC antibodies as a method of screening for people who could benefit from your therapeutic idea.
>I'm leaning towards the third possibility, but I'm curious what other readers think here.

True "haters" are way more rare than overly sensitive people imagine, and those people have a tendency to label any criticism as "hate". I think it's as simple as that.

How else do you explain Elon Musk being on the cover of mainstream magazine publications 50 times in the past 5 years while at the same time claiming the media treats him unfairly?

These overly sensitive people are the same type who believe their accomplishments are all skill, no luck.
For a lot of folks with epilepsy, this is nothing new. Plenty of medications that treat epilepsy are known to induce changes in mood, mental state, etc.

Probably the biggest one is levetiracetam (also known as Keppra). If you read the warning label, it says it can induce "mood changes", which is a euphemistic way of saying "it can turn you into an uncontrollable rage monster".

I've been there. Whatever you think you know about getting ticked off, you haven't felt angry until you've felt it on Keppra. There is no gradation of anger-- no "subtly annoyed", no "getting ticked off", no "this is really getting me angry". Just "zero" and "Incredible Hulk on a bad day". The stuff that annoys you may not be anything that annoyed you in the past, but now it's something that makes you want to bash somebody's skull against the pavement until it goes soft. And there is no warning, no ramp-up-- you just suddenly find yourself enraged beyond all human comprehension, and you're doing everything you can just to restrict yourself to yelling incoherently instead of resorting to physical violence.

There's even a cute nickname for this whole horror show: "Kepprage".

I'm off levetiracetam now (onto lamotrigine, which is also prescribed as an antidepressant). But it scared me pretty badly. I genuinely fear getting angry now-- because I worry that I'm going to wind up back where I was. I was single when I was on Keppra, but I'm in a relationship now-- it scares me to think what I might do if I ever get back to Kepprage levels of anger, because it could easily cost me my partner.

So, to your question: was I a different person on Keppra? I mean, I still responded to my name and worked the same job and had the same favorite foods and such. But I was a lot angrier, I was getting angry all the time, and there was no off switch. It's a valid philosophical question as to whether that makes me a "a different person". Looking to your example, consider that feeling that you have on alcohol, and its assorted side effects and behavioral changes. Now imagine that you were stuck in that mode, 24/7. Would you be "a different person"?
We should realize that there is not always a very sharp distinction between a participant and a spectator. We all are sometimes a participant and sometimes are tired and just want to watch TV and be a spectator. Drawing a disctinction between spectator and participant may on occasion be helpful. E.g., a young person might hear this and start wondering by him/herself 'what am I doing on these social media for hours and hours' and cut back on it. Such things occasionally happen. The question is more whether a person is doing enough participation for the purposes of his/her creativity or not enough.

You are right that systemic inequalities should be pointed out and improved upon. On the other hand we should also not lose sight of the fact that the most equal and fair societies on the planet are the western ones. Even if one is part of a disadvantaged minority it might well be possible to make much of ones life in the West. Try being part of a disadvantaged minority in China and one might find oneself in a concentration camp instead.

I don't live in the US so I am a spectator as far as racism goes there but I agree that this exists and is a problem. Especially police shooting unarmed black people is obviously a horrible thing. I do have to note though, that your example comes from a long time ago and that much improvement has been made on this front over the decades. I also agree about imperialistic intellectual property, especially patents are a big problem. Software patents should just not exist, for instance. As far as the global south vs the global north I was under the impression that this situation has actually been improving in the last decade or so. People starving to death has been a diminishing problem, as far as I know.

On the one hand it is good to point out inequalities and do something about them but on the other hand it can also make people feel hopeless so that they will achieve less then they otherwise would. This is also something that is happening to black people in the US. I once was on an online forum where the posts of a young black person gave me the impression that a case of self-learned helplessness was going on there where most of the racism involved was coming from fellow black persons and that the group-think thing was not beneficial at all.
> how does nuclear energy help with climate change?

and the answer is: it doesn't. Simply because it does not scale to make anywhere near of the needed impact in the next 50 years. Nuclear production will struggle to keep it's current levels for the next two decades. Renewable does expand rapidly.

Draw the trend curves for energy consumption, deployment of production and you'll see that nuclear is a costly mistake. That's just basic mathematics.

"Atomkraft, Nein Danke" was the rational reaction to investing billions into the wrong energy landscape.
TASBot’s semi-secret, probably legal effort to control the Nintendo Switch
> It’s such an infrequent purchase that you don’t have a baseline for what is a good price or not.

Well, we have Google now.

But if you're willing to buy something of that price range without doing a little bit of research then it's an issue.

I had to buy a mattress recently (because the one I had bought online - for a discount price - sucked). I went to the store and tested the different models.

Though I agree the once a decade thing complicates things.
Ah yes, I skimmed the code too quickly. Again :-P

The result local holds a future/task, not the result itself, and get() may force a synchronous wait, like Task#Result in .Net.

Somewhat related ramblings: I couldn't have misread the code in this way were it not for C++'s new type-inference with auto. In C#, I generally only use type-inference when first writing a statement, and then have the IDE substitute the var keyword to give a traditional 'explicit' declaration. Explicit types greatly help a codebase to be 'self-documenting'. Readability outweighs writing speed.
Yes, like my mobile service is provided by a German supermarket chain that has outsourced the operation to somebody else, who run it as a virtual network over somebody else's cell network. The nearest of these supermarkets is hundreds of kilometres away, and the checkout operators are unlikely to be of much help.
>The Tesla autopilot is a mere driving assist system.

Yes, when you follow ambiguous instructions, which contradict things like, "Only waiting for regulatory approval!", or"1 million robotaxis this year!" or "Cars can drive by themselves coast-to-coast!"
Indeed woha
Right, so experts in the field with experience are unable to speak to the performance of other directors. Sounds like the current administration is a little over sensitive.
Teenager discovers new planet on third day of NASA internship
Even this should have minimal overhead. If the file is present in the snapshot, then it's simply moving the blocks over to the deadlist which is a very cheap operation. If it's not in the snapshot then the blocks will get recycled in the background. In both cases you should have the unlink complete almost immediately.

All of the snapshot functionality is based upon simple transaction number comparisons plus the deadlist of blocks owned by the snapshot. Only the recycling of blocks should have a bit of overhead, and that's done by a background worker--you see the free space increase for a few minutes after a gargantuan snapshot or dataset deletion, but the actual deletion completed immediately.
I have never seen alcohol free beer offered in Berlin or Amsterdam. I can’t tell whether I just haven’t noticed, or whether your experience is really specific.
It's easy to solve the problem of science ignoring the ghosts and visions. All you need is a good experiment. Preferably something reproducible like saying "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice". An alternative is something that can convince Randi, but a lot of people will claim he sell out.

My favorite example is high temperature superconductivity. In 1970 if you claim that you have a high temperature superconductor people will dismiss you. It was not theoretically impossible, but all tries had failed and there was no theoretical support to expect one. But one day, someone made a high temperature superconductor and published a difficult to follow recipe, and then someone else published an easy to follow recipe, and now everyone with a good lab can make a high temperature superconductor.
That's not Western, but American. In Europe much weaker painkillers are prescribed due to risk of addiction, and in places like germany a lot of placebo (= overpriced homeopatic bullshit)
That seems like an ill omen because DNF was not only years late it was also not very good when it shipped.

I think people are hoping for Cryptography II to be more Terminator 2 than Duke Nukem Forever in terms of sequels.
A billion medical images are exposed online
Similarly, I've learned to avoid running when I begin to feel any symptoms of a sinus infection or head cold.

Time and time again, I wake the next day will the full-blown illness.

Instead, a little rest goes a long way in letting my body heal itself.
So... my understanding---please correct me if I'm wrong---is that the current practice is to send the password in plaintext to the server over a TLS connection. While this might not be the coolest way to do this (there might be something like a ZK-proof) it is the standard way. Also, why is it not okay for the person who controls the server on the other end to have a plaintext copy of your password? We hash passwords to protect against a 3rd party who gets a data dump, not against people who control the servers. (If you control the servers, you can change the protocol!)
>> I have no idea why people would take offense to 'If you haven't tried it, I suggest you do'.

On its own it’s an innocent enough statement, and even correct. But in this context, i.e. when people are accusing you of something, and it is part of your response, it comes off as very condescending and smug.

There is a reason PR departments exist: they tend to be hypersensitive to the different ways in which a piece of communication can be perceived, and to dull its sharp edges.
Yes, but it won't be an actual thing to worry about until there's a legal precedent set. Right now, without any conclusions from the trial, it's not a problem.
The point about eating properly and exercising - that’s irrelevant since it’s not mutually exclusive with moderate drinking. You can drink moderately AND eat properly and exercise. The point about alcohol being a carcinogen is sort of irrelevant too since apparently it’s not enough of a carcinogen to affect longevity
This is basically the story of my mother.

About 15 years ago she was suffering from a panic disorder. Instead of trying to help her, her doctor prescribed a fairly high dose of benzodiazepines and be done with it.

These 'medicine' only made matters worse and changed her behavior radically. She became very closed up, never wanting to do anything, never leaving the house and always finding excuses not having to do anything. The stuff is also terrible for her memory, so she can't really remember anything since she has been taken these pills.

The worst part is that these medicine are highly addictive, and we have now passed to point where we had to accept that my mother will be on these pills for the rest of her life.
Reputable hosting providers typically don't try to quantify such a loss, but rather outright offer a credit/compensation that is very obviously generous (say, a year or even two of free service).

Especially when a small set of your customerbase is affected, it won't cost you that much, and "overcompensating" like that means that virtually noone is going to criticize you for quantifying it wrong; instead, the public narrative will be centered around "well, shit happens, they did their best and generously compensated".
If you asked them for a commitment (i.e stop looking for other buyers) then you should be ready to commit too. If not money, what would be your commitment?
Post your email or find me through my profile.
If you aren't in a city center, why would the ride be short?
One of the best parts of Baremetrics is that it's an "Open Startup". I can't help but think that the acquisition is clearly not open if he didn't talk about it during the acquisition and doesn't name names here.

I think he's right not to dox the company, but perhaps in the future having an "open acquisition process" could have avoided some of the headache.
The article just states "Sand from the desert is unsuitable for construction," without further explanation. A search on that comes up with:

"Desert sand grains are finer and smoother so their surface chemistry would not be able to offer sufficient number of multidirectional chemical linkages. ... Sea sand does not have high compressive strength, high tensile strength etc so it cannot be used in construction activities."
> But she cannot go to gmail or outlook to create hundreds of accounts

Too bad the author doesn't know about plus addresses. That's infinite aliases without setting anything up per web site.
If you read this carefully, that’s not what this study says. 3 leading causes of death they associate with alcohol globally is tuberculosis, road accidents and self harm. Obviously none of those three apply to a moderate drinker ( who doesn’t drink and drive )

Here is a quote right from this paper “Females, particularly in high SDI locations, experienced some protective effects for ischaemic heart disease and diabetes beyond 60 years of age. For males, only high SDI and low SDI locations had noticeable protective effects for ischaemic heart disease”
There will be a much bigger overhead in accounting for all of the allocations from the "thin pool".

The overlying filesystem also lacks knowledge of the underlying storage. The snapshot much be able to accommodate writes up to and including the full size of the parent block device in order to remain readable, just like the old-style snapshots did. That's the fundamental problem with LVM snapshots; they can go read-only at any point in time if the space is exhausted, due to the implicit over-commit which occurs every time you create a snapshot.

The overheads with ZFS snapshots are completely explicit and all space is fully and transparently accounted for. You know exactly what is using space from the pool, and why, with a single command. With LVM separating the block storage from the filesystem, the cause of space usage is almost completely opaque. Just modifying files on the parent LV can kill a snapshot LV, while with ZFS this can never occur.
At the risk of drawing an inordinate volume of fire and critique, I’m going to be candid and state openly that there’s no way ai could possibly integrate this kind of material into my world view and therefore it stays on the cutting room floor.

I’m so utterly materialist and rationalistic that the lack of plausible mechanisms by which any of this might occur leads me to (arguably ‘unscientifically’) dismiss it out of hand.

Not can I support the idea that promoting a benevolent fiction can in any way be positive. After all, one could always hew to honesty (as indeed this piede does) by arguing that benefits can accrue from believing in something irrespective of its veracity, without directly engaging with the truthfulness of the beneficial statement itself.
Yeah, for all the shit that Microsoft gets, their backwards compatibility efforts are extraordinary. I work in games and we recently dug out a project from 1998, last built using Visual Studio 5, and everything just compiled, linked and ran using Visual Studio 2019 with some extremely minor changes in project config.
Maybe they don't want a bedbug invasion in their warehouse.

I bought a cushion for my desk chair from Amazon and it turned out to be garbage so I tried to return it. They said they could only give me a refund if I sent them a picture of the cut up cushion. I didn't have to send it back, just send a picture of it with a big gash down the middle.

I guess, at least with 1800 Junk there is a good chance a employee will pluck the mattress out and put it up on Craigslist.
better late than never: i don’t know what community moderation tools you’re talking about here. we certainly haven’t closed the door on any moderation features in Matrix, and certainly wouldn’t make them client specific. my guess is you are conflating random feedback from randoms in matrix rooms with input from the actual matrix core team. https://matrix.org/docs/guides/moderation/ is the official moderation guide, which is evolving fairly constantly, and we have a tonne of work on communities & moderation coming up in Feb/Mar.
Having many dependencies can be a problem. And the node ecosystem is a total joke.

But if the question was why not split it up into smaller files (which it was), then that's nothing to do with the number of dependencies or the number maintainers. My point is that auditing a program with no external dependences doesn't get any easier if the code is contained in one file or across ten.
That was first thing I did - check if I can navigate vim style. However it has different philosophy. It has fuzzy search, so that you just type name of directory which you want to enter, it will be filtered out and hit enter. Now you can explore it.
The Blaze plan is one of the paid tiers that has the higher limit. It's pay as you go so it's free if you have low usage.
tbf there was a big player (Jabber Inc), and they sold out to Cisco. Hopefully the difference is already visible for Matrix, or if it isn’t it should be visible this year.
>They could do it dutch auction style. Suppose there are five drivers and three rides. The drivers bid per-mile rates of $.75, $1, $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75. The rides go to the three lowest bidding drivers and they all get $1.25, i.e. the highest rate of the drivers who get rides.

The problem with all these variables is that the more "preferences" you introduce into marketplace to matching, the longer your pickup time will be.

The 2nd most frustrating change is going to be the increase in pickup times because drivers will now optimize for rides that are exclusively in city limits.
I couldn't find any reference to it being blocked except in that article.

A test seems to show it's not blocked though:

https://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=sci-hub.tw

Closest mention outside of original article is this The Verge article (2018), saying that they blocked China and Iran for a while because of too many requests from users; but this is sci-hub blocking not China banning

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakya...
That's part of the worst writing I have read about people. Writing a complete armchair analyst pamphlet indicating among other things than some people are "less than a man" reflects rather poorly on the author. I hope I'm not a "hater" by saying that -- at the same time if he wrote that because he encountered some "haters" of him, I can imagine where that hatred could came from.

Should also serves as a lesson illustrating it is not easy to point faults at other, even less so at whole classes of people, when yourself have your own elephant in the room ones...
> Obviously none of those three apply to a moderate drinker

I don't think you can say that.
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge/blob/... explains how to write them.

For adding them to a chat as a user, you need to use an integration manager (eg t2bot.io) or to run one yourself.
Iran doesn't have the capability to deliver their nukes. No ICBMs capable of reaching the US, they can only try to use a long range bomber plane.

https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2017/9/23/75c570944...
>"It turns out many ordinary medications don’t just affect our bodies – they affect our brains."

I feel like perpetuating this mindset is the ultimate sin of modern psychiatry and the entire industry of psychiatric pharmaceuticals - your brain is your body. It's not some special thing that sits apart from it. It is an integral part of the whole, no different than your kidneys or liver. People think they can take an antidepressant and it just "works" on their brain somehow. It affects absolutely everything.
The key word you missed was contrived. The current problems solved to produce "Quantum supremacy" are basically "What would this quantum computer do?" and yup, the current quantum computers can answer that by doing it and a simulation is harder, but this is a contrived question.

Shor's or Grover's aren't contrived problems, they're real problems which is why they're interesting. And none of today's quantum computers can run these for non-trivial inputs.
Highly recommend not giving up on getting off it. My grandmother thought she needed it to sleep for many years. But finally, after pressure from the family (several who are health care professionals), the doctor took her off it. She became so much better, even her sleep improved! Having worked as a health care professional myself, the rule was maximum 3 weeks, only for temporary treatment, long term need to find other solutions. Always some exceptions but then everything else had (or should have) been tried.
> IBM mainframes language environments

Not just mainframes either, AS/400 (for minicomputer-class machines, as opposed to mainframes) is the same way. A binary, hardware-independent VM is the officially-supported programming environment.