skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use an Apple computer, too, and I only use the system fonts, don’t use adblockers in any browser, and don’t use plugins either.

(Yes, I know how tracking works. It’s ironic to watch people realize that all their protest actions are tracking beacons. I wish it was more widely understood that being obvious is a consequence of being obviously different.)
> and people in China are not taking necessary precautions to protect themselves.

Aren't they? News about the virus is all over Chinese social media. My relatives in China -- who live quite far away from Wuhan -- are following the news and closely, and have decided to stay home as much as possible.
Thanks for the idea, I just toggled the "webgl.disabled" switch in about:config; we'll see what difference it makes; I would only assume that my browsing will become faster now and will crash less frequently.

Is there a list of these useless things that any sane user should disable? I already have had fonts disabled with "gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled" toggled away from the default; any other useless attack vectors with buffer overflows could likewise be disabled?
There's no real dichotomy, it's precisely a reporting of a fact which can be either true or false -- either a direct reporting of a fact can be that, or a guess on what the facts are (speculation).

An opinion in the sense of a value judgement (moral statements, political statements, etc) can't be true or false. One can agree with it or not. At worst it can be inconsistent with its premises (wrongly arrived).
What do you mean anecdotal? I'm really confused at how you even came up with that number. Unless you have some type of firsthand experience.
The rest of us feel the same way about the Church of JC of LDS.
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i would email him but i am afraid of my full first and last name being known...
Good points, actually very interesting, especially the budget part.

But I wasn't talking about just the ads, I was talking about the tracking to optimize those ads. I don't care about the ads. Show me ads, I ignore them anyway. I just don't want to be tracked to build out my personality profile for the rest of my life, because I don't know who will get access to that data and what it might be used for. Show ads based on my search term, not based on my browser, email and location history. They will have the same effect as the optimized ones: none.

Just keep in mind, the cohort I was talking about, was the one that will not be monetized. It is the cohort that still sees ads, but will never convert. So I'm not sure why I would buy my own ad space for an amount of money that is based on the usual conversion rate, when my conversion or click rate for my sample of n=1 is zero all the time. My profile correlates to zero spending, it is not worth the average ad price.

Google Contributor kind of proves my point about the efforts required being too costly. It was easier to inject a person as a buyer for their own profile into the merchandising system, than to rework all the tracking tools and the analytics that runs on it to stop tracking that specific person. So yes, my $10k is still not enough.

> Why would Google let you pay to make their product less useful for you?

Because I value privacy as a principle more than a slightly less useful product, and I would pay for it. But apparently I can't afford it.
I respect your position but I don't agree with your conclusions:

> That would lead to a ton of comments saying why they had flagged or downvoted things. Such comments tend to be of low quality

It's only low quality if the reasons for down voting are low quality and since the purpose of forced replies is to weed out low quality moderation, I think the ends justify the means.

> and (if people could reply) would lead to endless bickering.

People already bicker about the moderation. Constantly. What I'd hope to see it fewer people impulsively moderating posts. Which might have the ironic effect of reducing some of the complaints.

Obviously those who have a tendency to bicker will likely continue to do so but that will be little change to what they're already doing now.

> I once spoke to the creator of a much larger forum than HN, who told me the biggest mistake they made was to add a meta facility to the site.

That may also turn out to be true for HN but equally it may not. Every forum and community is different so what works in one place might not work in another -- and visa versa. As it is, the quality of comments have and peer moderation has already been on a downwards trajectory for a few years now so it's probably worth trying some new ideas to see if it does shake the less confident yet still experienced engineers back into contributing thoughtful posts.
Triage should include a travel history. Additionally, especially during flu season, if you're presenting "like someone who has a cold" you should be wearing a mark.

In terms of what a hospital can do - if you get severe viral pneumonia, intensive care and supportive therapy is about all that can be done.
The opposite is true. WebKit is now quite far diverged from Blink. Apple very much does not keep it "in sync" with Chromium.
And yet here you are bashing vegans in a wholly unrelated thread.
Strongly disagree. While I can accept that it's supposedly valuable for you as a consumer to be "identified and attached" to a company—even though it's something that I want nothing to do do with and consider a net bad for society—the notion that whole-scale identification of persons entering a store may be an acceptable default behavior is absurd, even before considering the so-called "dimension of privacy."

As the other child comment mentioned, there are many ways to identify yourself to a store that don't require facial recognition. The YMCA for example has a system that lets users track their exercise history; there's no reason Macy's couldn't do the same for your purchases. If indiscriminate ID'ing is the default position, then you have decided that _your convenience is more important than the freedom of every other person in the store._ It should be the responsibility of the person who wants this convenience to opt in, not the responsibility of the rest of us to opt out.

The desire to not have PiD stored by anyone should be reason enough to close the debate. But if it's not, we fortunately have hundreds (thousands?) of cases of corporate consumer abuse and irresponsible data storage to point to.
Wow, I did basically the same thing back in middle school! Noticed a checkbox on my computer teacher's monitor that said "Allow privileged applications to run unprivileged applications." Asked for AppleScript privileges so I could "learn some programming" and wrote a bunch of scripts that did nothing but start an application.

Of course, saving and running them didn't work at all. But clicking Run from the AppleScript editor meant that a "privileged application" was starting an unprivileged one :D
This article doesn't make much sense to me, although I admittedly am not familiar with linguistic theory.

> ' One of the most foundational claims of Chomskyan linguistics has been that sentences are represented as tree structures, and that children were born knowing (unconsciously) that sentences should be represented by means of such trees.'

I don't understand how GPT-2 tests or attempts to refute this claim. Can't we view children as being born with a pre-trained network similar to a rudimentary GPT?

> 'Likewise, nativists like the philosopher Immanuel Kant and the developmental psychologist Elizabeth Spelke argue for the value of innate frameworks for representing concepts such as space, time, and causality (Kant) and objects and their properties (e.g spatiotemporal continuity) (Spelke). Again, keeping to the spirit of Locke's proposal, GPT-2 has no specific a priori knowledge about space, time, or objects other than what is represented in the training corpus.'

I'm just very confused. Are nativists arguing that these principles regarding language and "innate frameworks" aren't emergent from fundamental interactions between neurons in the brain?

It seems like either

1. They are arguing these aren't emergent, which seems obviously wrong if we're trying to describe how language actually works in the brain, in which all thoughts are emergent from the interactions of neurons.

2. They are arguing that they are emergent, but pre-encoded into every human that is born. This doesn't seem inconsistent with GPT-2 at all.

This article seems like a fine critique of our performance so far in language modeling, but in no way does it seem to be vindicating nativist views of language, nor do I quite understand how such views apply to GPT-2.

Obviously, the idea that you can encode every thought in a fixed length vector is BS (just because thought space doesn't have a fixed dimensionality it can be reduced to), but seems rather irrelevant to the main point of the article.
Masks are sold out the couple of places I've been to in Beijing. Girlfriend's family cancelled CNY celebrations for fear of the virus.

People are taking it very seriously.
The salesman exploits quantum physics by keeping what their company does in superposition until you collapse the waveform by revealing what you're willing to pay for. Instantly a developer at that company gets a bad feeling about something, but doesn't know what, until their manager walks over with a note from sales. They then retroactively do a bunch of work to have a deliverable by the next quarter.
While a completely open device is the ideal, to many there's nothing inherently wrong with making a few pragmatic compromises as long as they are well thought through. In the case of the radios, they appear to be well isolated from the CPU/system memory on the PinePhone. So if you want to be paranoid and ensure that every byte sent through them is encrypted before they see it, even if some malicious / snooping code is in those blobs, you can do that and they won't be able to accomplish very much. If that's not good enough, you can cut power to the radios entirely if you can live without them. So that's Pine64's approach.

We have two devices coming to market that take ideologically different approaches to choose from: the PinePhone (pragmatic compromise) and the Librem 5 (no compromise). So just pick where on the libre spectrum you want to live and enjoy 2020... it should be a fun year!
The radio is a nice thing to have, but it isn't a realistic substitute for a PLB when you leave civilization. Even if the satellite beacon is received only intermittently and can't get GPS fix or doesn't have GPS the system will figure out where it is in maybe an hour or so anyway (Doppler measurement) and any single message is an unambiguous call for rescue.
Exactly. And when it comes to tuning/fixing your process with small, easy chips at large volumes, Intel have only really got laptop devices to play with at 10nm. TSMC and Samsung did this with SoCs.
> tbf, the only significant difference between organic an not organic in food itself is basically the label.

I suggest you should have qualified with 'in my opinion', rather than 'tbf'.

There's significant behavioural and environmental differences upstream with many practices that come under the organic umbrella, even if you don't agree (for example) that pesticides are profoundly bad for bees, or residual pesticides in food are bad for us, etc.
I have read that Wuhan hospitals are accepting supplies donations. Anyone knows what supplies they need, how to buy them and how to donate?
It's a good plan until that person breaks some rule and gets you punished.
The major driver of overuse of the ER is EMTALA, which means you're going to be treated without regard for your ability to pay in an ER.

There's blame for that, but for many people with non-critical conditions in the ER, it's a rational choice.
My ISP will not sell me anything better than 1G/100M on fiber. Maybe if I looked into business plans maybe.
Of course, we need better data. But
tunesmith was downplaying numbers with unsourced claims, so he needed to be corrected.

The latest stats: 54 deaths out of 1764 cases → 3.1% mortality rate https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/01/the-latest-coronavirus...
The most identifiable data points for me are from JS, except User agent.
I tried it myself in Tor Browser, and I think this conclusion "You can most certainly be tracked" is highly misleading. Without JavaScript, the only information collected by the website is the headers sent by the browser, listed below...

> User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 (all time: 2.19% / 30 days: 10.80%)

> Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8 (all time: 52.15% / 30 days: 37.04%)

> Content encoding: gzip, deflate, br (all time: 66.35% / 30 days: 92.02%)

> Upgrade Insecure Requests: 1 (all time: 27.33% / 30 days: 85.86%)

> Referer: https://amiunique.org/ (all time: 16.55% / 30 days: 60.97%)

> JavaScript disabled (all time: 4.70% / 30 days: 14.09%)

Surely, there are ways to track users without JavaScript, but none of them is inspected by the website. The website only inspects the headers, and from the listed information above, the tracker doesn't learn anything more than "This user is running the latest release of Tor Browser with JavaScript disabled", and at least 100,000 people are doing it right now.

But because the sample size of this website is limited, it only sees the fact that these attributes seem to be a very small percentage of the overall traffic, while ignoring the fact that these headers are generic, it makes the conclusion.

> "You can most certainly be tracked"

Which is misleading. A Tor Browser with JavaScript disabled is still one of the most difficult browsers to track.

The website actually tells you that,

> But only 1440 browsers out of the 1560340 observed browsers (<0.01 %) have exactly the same fingerprint as yours.

If you are the only person using the latest version of Tor Browser to access this website with JavaScript disabled, yes, you can be tracked as a "Tor user without JavaScript", and if you enter personal information, your identity can be crosstracked between websites (if you are still the only Tor user with JavaScript disabled). Otherwise, not much.

Interestingly, when a new Tor Browser release comes out, there will always be an user to upgrade the browser before everyone else, then goes to a fingerprint testing website, tests the browser, and says "OMG! I'm unique and trackable!". In this case, don't panic, just keep using it, you won't be unique anymore within a week.
How would you double $100 in a month?
Imagine you have $100 and you need to double it in a month. What would you do? How would you replicate it again with $200,$400,800,$1600 and etc.?
> Since it lacks common sense and a ton was invested it, the piece posits it is evidence in favor of 'empirical' approaches to intelligence seemingly being wrong and alternatives being a good idea from now on.

It is unclear to me what the distinction between an "empirical" vs not approach even means within this context.

Do nativists a la Chomsky suggest that these "language frameworks" are independent of the basic interactions of neurons in the brain?

If you view human evolution as the learning procedure for building brain structure, GPT-2 seems entirely consistent with the 'nativist' approach, no?
Lets see...

survival, parallel/snow, Amelia2, nlme,vioplot,ggplot2 and deSolve are the big ones.
much simpler by how many orders of magnitude? If it's surface area driven it rises as a function of size more slowly for increases in volume. If it's connectionist then it's an O(n^2) Increase?
to all the duckduckgo comments: ddg also has ads that look like search results. ublock origin nukes ~5 elements for me on a google search and ~ 8 on DDG. as far as i can see the only real differentiator for ddg is that it returns "universal" search results instead of individualized results (based on location, history, etc). aka, results that are 'private' but also more likely to be less relevant. more than ever the internet is ready for a new search engine, but DDG aint it. we need one that isnt based on f'ing advertising: its antithetical to the point of search!!!
My first advisor in graduate school was someone working on SARS.

I'm currently an Assistant Professor of Computational Epidemiology, and my research is on healthcare-associated infections and emerging pathogens.
"normal ranges"? https://d2vlcm61l7u1fs.cloudfront.net/media%2F6a3%2F6a3d1795...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 says that LDS wasn't more than 14 years behind the times.
Quick thanks for everyone’s feedback on this. Some really good points that I hadn’t thought about before.
I've been collected hacks for a couple languages and tools here: https://git.io/shebang
Keep in mind there's an important difference between the 64 and 128 GB models: 64 GB ones use an eMMC for storage, while the 128 GB model uses a NVMe SSD
There's plenty of potential transmission routes. For MERS, drinking camel milk, for example, was a pretty strong risk factor.
Turning Firefox into a Chrome copycat* with built-in blocklists and Tor Browser Bundle features certainly didn't make it gain more users. Mozilla should've left Brave occupy that space. Brave, Pale Moon and Vivaldi deserve praise.

* References:

1. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/firefox-suckfest.html

2. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/firefox-disable-australi...

3. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/firefox-directory-tiles....

[Edit (fixing link)]: 4. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/firefox-addons-future.ht...
>Juries often issue “a speaking of the truth” inconsistent with fact.

That's because they're doing speculation on facts - and can get them wrong.

That they call it "a speaking of the truth" doesn't means it's epistemologically true or that they think it is true and only true with no element of error (any judge will admit to that).

It just conveys their wish and effort for it to be true. Calling a verdict merely: "What we think is true" doesn't have the same ring to it, nor would be as respected by the public as the word of the law. So there's that.

But a verdict, at least the part that is based on a statement of facts (X killed Y), is absolutely either true or false (regardless of whatever we know it or not to be such -- only one set of events transpired in the real world, either X killed Y or he didn't).

Whether e.g. some moral judgement is neither true nor false - it depends on a system of beliefs and viewpoints, regardless of what somebody did in the world.

E.g. "you are a sinner because you wear a mini-skirt". Well, for those who don't believe in such a moral, no, you're not.
Trust.

They lost trust.

Not the same as money, but it will cause them lower profits in the future.
proves we are in hell. Some geek ape figured out to use a rock as a tool-the rest of the apes started throwing rocks at each other and just took what the other apes made. Some geeks figure out nuclear power and a way to provide endless free energy- the rest of us turn it into a weapon. Some other geeks make a foolproof way to communicate for free-the rest of us weaponize that too. Cant wait for skynet to clean out this crap. Our brains just cannot handle complexity.
No, it isn't odd at all.
raco exe will give you an executable that's dynamically linked, so you also need to run raco distribute [0] to get a folder full of the libs you'll need for a "standalone" distribution. (Unless you can depend on Racket being installed).

I've used the two to make Linux and Windows (via Wine) distributions without any issues. It's fairly painless.

[0] https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe-dist.html
I agree that it is an informative and good read.

The [unabridged] audiobook version is well done [performed?] for those who go that route.
Pretty much all fiber services around Seattle offer a symmetric gig (CenturyLink, WaveG, Google Fiber/WebPass).

The only caveat I’ve heard of is that in some older buildings, WaveG offers only non-symmetric 1Gb down/100Mb up, but i am yet to encounter that myself. I didn’t look into this myself, but i have a feeling that one might actually be just a DOCSIS instead of the real fiber.
While this is true for many process nodes, it is not true in general. For instance, the transition to FinFETs greatly reduced leakage power in TSMC 16nm in comparison to their 28nm processes.
Drivers in Calgary can't even figure out which direction to go on one-way streets.
Partly convenience (cards/cash work fine for most things I want to buy, and without needing another account/any sort of wallet setup), and partly support (most sites/services don't get enough people buying with cryptocurrencies, so they have no incentive to support them).
Street drugs. Only way to parlay low capital into high returns. Not without risk of course.
This article is not just about the web, though. MsHTA was a great development platform and supported many features that IE did not because of the trusted nature of the applications it ran. This was nevertheless made possible by Trident.
But this is taken care of by face marks and hand washing, because what would be happening is you touch your eyes.

If you're using a face mask, you should be washing your hands anyway, because if you think it's working, the moment you touch it you've come in contact with virus.
I saw an article about a lady in Australia saying similar and how 'free range' rating was geared to suit big business so she started her own more genuine version.

I can't find it but think I saw on The Land.
Similarly in need of mention: Nix/NixOS's `dockerTools` https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools
This looks very cool. Is there a story for managing users associated with AWS IAM roles or users?
Not related to OPA. This is not an admission webhook, nor deals with gatekeeper and such, it does not enforce policies. It's a simple abstraction on the certs creation mechanisms and native Kubernetes RBAC.
Chrome is making user-agent non trackable (in some time)..

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-phase-out-user-agent...

I think there are actually plenty of examples where the browser vendors are doing this.

Google gets so much free tracking from analytics, ads, and OpenID, I don't think they really need to resist privacy oriented browser changes.

They might resist some privacy changes, idk, and are probably trailing safari and firefox and brave etc
This talk by Adam Bosworth from 2007 is on the same topic and quite interesting take on the early history of IE.
https://www.eweek.com/networking/googles-bosworth-why-ajax-f...
The Surface Pro also fits nicely on a 737 tray, you just need to find the correct placement for the kickstand, I usually take my Pro 4 while flying for this reason
my friend explained to me that it has something to do with the certificate expiring and that i just have to wait until it comes back online. but im scared my school will still block it
> So the Clean Water Act says the EPA can regulate ”the waters of the United States,” which is defined consistent with “navigable waters,” contemporaneous with Congress’s Commerce Clause authority over navigable waterways. The Obama EO extended it to include even small bodies of waters like ponds, such that farmers would have to get EPA permits to make modifications on their own land that was nowhere near navigable waters.

That is a rather distorted view of the water. Note that the definition of "navigable waters" is explicitly laid out in the law (33 USC §1362 (7), for exact reference) as:

> The term “navigable waters” means the waters of the United States, including the territorial seas.

This has been generally interpreted to include at least pretty much all non-ephemeral streams in the US, and ephemeral waterways are rather more questionable. See, e.g., Rapanos v US, decided in 2006 (i.e., before Obama took office).
Umm, wat? Does someone seriously disagree with this?
I am pretty sure I am going to be unique browsing on a version of chrome which is 65 versions old so I am not even going to jump into that pool.