skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Looking for a blogpost link, help needed
Hello! Some time ago here at HN was a link to an interesting article where an author describes a technique and theory of representing some complex metrics in a path-on-a-plain-like structures. I know this description is rough and incomplete but, perhaps, someone could help me! :D Spent the half of a day trying to find this link.
Ok, but by paying you basically hand them your personal information which they can now tie to your internet access patterns. So now, besides your ISP, there's one more party with this info.

EDIT: they accept cryptocurrencies, so the problem is slightly less critical.
Seems like i've misinterpreted the previous comment, and then had my misinterpretation misinterpreted for good measure. Ah well.
It's pretty common these days, many courses at top universities feature a Kaggle competition/datasets.
Maybe try some meetups? Do a new one each week. Some techie, some social, some fitness oriented.
Microsoft's Xbox ones are actually preferred and compatible these days on PC. They work out of the box.
Another reason to hate MS.
Makes perfect sense to me - I would have had a harder time reconciling a legendary absurdist contrarian comedian with a conformist historian! ;)
> I have to admit, it's hard to believe we'd allow this sort of thing these day

Playing the devil's advocate for a moment- suppose you had some information about 9/11 one week before, would you torture your informant to get the precise date and location ? one person's rights in exchange for thousands.

And still under the devil's advocate cover- why are tortures different than killing terrorist (or "terrorists") in remote countries without trial while many times causing suffering collateral damage ?
Better, make it based on your e-mail:

"Sorry, you are likely a cheater, we logged you out and banned forever."
Probably this is the best explanation by Oliver Emberton on how to beat procrastination. https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/01/15/how-do-i-get-o...
Looks great, but it's suspicious that is free. What's their business model?
Why Kubernetes is important for highload projects in 2020
I think the actual usefull training, would be - the generalizable abilitys- managers, programers, they need to be able to budget time, to think abstract, to take steps back, think about the overlap of all the fields people migrate- and you have what should be schooled.

But that is very difficult to train for.. cause abstract abilitys without direct application dont stick, unless you felt the pain.
Ask HN: What is modern approach to neural networkish content-addresable memory?
Hopfield network was created 1982 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopfield_network

Deep learning has been used for various tasks in machine learning but I cannot seem to find anything new for Content-Addressable memory neural networks.

Have there been any developments since hopfield network?
Looks correct on https://github.com/OSSIA/score/contribute
https://caniuse.com/#feat=mathml
Interesting concept, really clean execution - although I wonder:
Where do you see the use-case?

Something domain-specific, like maybe cooking recipes where you combine icons representing the ingredients?

A search where you could mix and match all kinds of game genres?

It would have to be something where the icons are understandable at a glance, and where you can just throw them into the 'pot' without much further thought.

As it is right here, I don't see why I would use this over a traditional text-based search engine, but I could imagine this working rather well in a more confined setting, maybe embedded in another website :)
The “democratic society” ie general population was never consulted on this. We can blame the executive and the CIA.
Big Oil has a do-or-die decade ahead because of climate change
It seems kind of fair...
The modern definition of service dog is a dog you want to bring into places that restrict dogs. Cheating is rampant.
I don't think there are globally accepted standards. In this specific case, in which the captured data shows clear misconduct by prosecutors working together with a conflicted judge who selectively leaked private data to the public, is that the data is of public interest and the means by which it was obtained are a lesser issue and not Greenwald's responsibility. All communications between government employees in their professional capacity should be public anyway and have no expectation of privacy.
Different views of AI fuel distrust between China and America
True, but we forget how also Chrome attempts to set itself automatically as standard browser in Linux _WITHOUT_ asking. That is also a malicious behavior, isn't?
I don't like malware tho'
> It's a scam as old as public education, an idea that emerged from the Industrial Revolution because back then the "jobs of tomorrow" were stations along an assembly-line

Is he suggesting here that public education is a scam? It doesn't seem so in the later paragraphs, and that's an extreme view to hold. Also the idea I don't think actually emerged as a way to fulfil national labour requirements. Condorcet, I think an early French pioneer in public education systems, seemed primarily concerned with equality, not creating labour supply.
Maybe Firefox should change the default screen from containing search to containing the address bar instead. That way if you type in a proper URL there it should go directly to it rather than doing a search.
He scraped the test set, then encoded the correct answer in the id.

If one can excuse scraping the data to build a better model, I can't see how one can excuse this.

He wasn't really making predictions at all, just looking up the answer.

And the goal really is a prediction system, not something that looks up previously known answers.
The Mathematics of Diseases (2001)
I would be really surprised if they failed to do it with the language they invented.
China locks down two cities at epicentre of virus outbreak
By what right does google set the search engine to begin with? They use their browser's popularity for a competitive advantage and that's legal.

Now, your comment is popular because of the hype train but nobody complains when a linux distro has a non-google default search for chrome or firefox. Microsoft(or any OS maker) has a competitive advantage also by dominating the desktop OS market like Chrome dominates the browser market,the installer gets to configure the browser.

Anyone has the right to bundle 3rd party software and make n installer that configures the software a certain way,even if the config gives them a competitive advantage.

I don't disagree with your comment about corps getting broken up but I disagree with this being your reason. Think of it the other way "It is now illegal to make installers that change default settings of the publisher" that would sound as more of a reason to get worked up over to me.
Analysis of a Fake Threema App
That is insane. What could possibly lead to those decisions?
People do scrape test answers and use them to optimise hyperparameters in ML models and blends of them in Kaggle. That's cheating, but at least they built a learning system here.
Always happy to see a Stanislaw Lem reference.
When you have a $300k loan and refinance midway from high to low or low to high interest you will pay the same amount of interest in the end. The reason why low interest rates are bad is because everyone is bidding prices up. Paying $1000k at low interest for the same house is fundamentally worse than paying $300k at high interest.
Apart from Racket is this applying to other Lisps?
Misinformation
There privacy policy is succinct and to the point:

https://nextdns.io/privacy

> 1. We do not (and will never) sell, license, sub-license or share any of the data submitted directly or indirectly by our users with any person or entity.

Which is easily said. Whereas their pricing page tells a different story:

https://nextdns.io/pricing

> Completely free during the beta,
then free up until about 300,000 DNS queries/month — $1.99/month for unlimited queries.

... which makes for a very particular business model indeed.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. Which makes me wonder how they keep the lights on, and where the money comes from.
> Interestingly, the page as I just read it does not (no longer, I guess) mention "version control". Probably the author changed their mind towards simplicity. This is funnily, ironically meta.

Author here. The article has not been edited since it was originally published. I agree that version control is an important topic, and I applaud efforts such as IPFS; it is, however, tangential to the main point of "documents vs applications" that I was trying to make.
Kaisen Linux: A Dedicated System Rescue Linux Distribution Based on Debian 9
They should not use anything.

Or server logs, if they really must.
No-Code Resources to Start a Business
Yeah, Sony, Xiaomi and IIRC Google does that too. It's not both, it's either. Each individual customer of these companies gets to choose X or Y.
It's not a feature, it's an annoyance. Don't use the flag in CI and don't allow merges until CI passes. It's not hard.
FWIW, I did submit this in 2019, but it did get no traction; it got resubmitted by the mods as they thought it was interesting.
> Surely when you look at grass and the sky

Sometimes maybe. Most of the time, who cares? Grey, clear or dark skies seem most important to distinguish. Do we mean the temperate daybreak blue, midday tropics blue, or depth of full moon night blue? Grass and other plants can have degrees of blue in there too. What about sea? Sometimes blue, sometimes green, most of the time somewhere in between. What probably matters most to a mariner is swell and temperature(?).

I suspect it only really started to matter after Perkin's mauve in the mid 19th century, and matters far more now in a world of a trillion pantone shades.
Yes, this would be great.
Previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22121150
Data Mining vs. Machine Learning: What’s the Difference?
SDI freaked out the Russians because it was possible, if not feasible. A number of research projects (e.g. Brilliant Pebbles, Project Excalibur, Shiva Star) were spec'd and tested to various degrees. It would have cost many trillions, but we could have built a missile shield. SDI lives on as the Missile Defense Agency, which has had some modest successes (though nothing like taking down ICBMs during midcourse.)

Russia realized they couldn't afford to clone SDI, so they came up with an asymmetric tactic - MIRVs. A cat-and-mouse game on paper followed - the Soviets planned dummy warheads in MIRV payloads to confuse SDI, the Americans devised sensors to measure warhead density, etc.

AFAIK, Reagan really wanted SDI to work - if he'd been willing to compromise on it, we could have had denuclearization at the Rejkyavik summit. The myth that SDI was a misinformation campaign seems unsubstantiated by what I've read.
And even later on it turned out, that perversion against children does happen un-exceptionally in authoritarian environment with no checks and balances and no one to investigate the claims. Which pretty much describes environment his patients were subject to.

So while alcohol is not truth serum and Sigmund Freud was not working on peer reviewed modern studies, some of perversions those people talked about might really happened. lLcohol or not, some of his patients might as well be suffering from what we call ptsd from child abuse.
A sliding-scale subscription model would be nice, where I could say "I'll pay $100 per month and have no adverts at all" or "I'll only $5 per month, and I'm happy to have a lot of adverts".

But the advertisers probably want access to the kind of people who are prepared to part with a lot of money to avoid advertising. You see this in the FT and Economist where it's more expensive to advertise to subscribers, because the advertisers know those people have higher disposable income. If all they can have access to is lower-paid people, I guess there’s a risk a lot of the advertisers will not bother.

Maybe there's just an inherent problem here. News can be good quality, independent from government, free from advertising, and available to all. But it can't be all of those things at the same time at a national level.
Did you read the article? There doesn't seem to be any particular evidence that he _did_ anything; he's detained without trial.
Note to self: build this in VR :O
Of course this is also true. Chrome should be forced to offer a selection of search engines when it first runs. This is something for example Android is now forced to do (in the EU).

I tremendously disagree with software being allowed to modify other software installed by me. A proper app sandbox model would never ever allow this. This is one of the things I really love about iOS, no app from wherever it came from can ever modify other software on the system without my permission. (iOS is not perfect either, this is just one area where I would wish desktop OSes would catch up with.)
This “ticking time bomb” scenario where torture was effective at stopping some terror attack has as far as I can tell never happened.

When I was in college Alan Dershowitz participated in a public debate about torture in front of students where (aside from a great deal of incoherent blather and blatant disrespect his opponent, a woman whose husband had been tortured and murdered) he pulled some example of torture stopping a terror plot in (I believe?) Southeast Asia.

But when I looked up the details after the debate, it turned out that in fact torture hadn’t accomplished anything and the plot was stopped through unrelated regular investigative police work.

The whole argument is disingenuous, and many of the torture apologists behind it are lazy and academically dishonest.

> why are tortures different than killing terrorist (or "terrorists") in remote countries without trial

Personally I would argue that assassination is an unjust, illegal, and ineffective tactic for fighting against criminals, even violent criminals.

But still, assassination and torture are pretty clearly different. One is killing someone who presumably cannot be easily captured by ordinary law enforcement action. The other is inflicting horrific pain and suffering on a defenseless person in custody out of spite, for no practical benefit.
I think if the installer explains it clesrly and transparently then its fine. It should be entirely opt-in. Matter of fact default search engine should be entirely opt-in on first time use.

Microsoft needs to really do a better job with these sort of decisions to make sure they arent stepping on a landmine.
Ideally, no news sites would have a comment section; they just attract crazy people.
By distributing its requests across the many authoritative servers for the domains you visit. The only one that still sees all your DNS requests is the ISP.
Interesting remark.
Gut microbes could predict whether you’re likely to die in the next 15 years
What we know – and don’t know – about the virus spreading in China and beyond
Regarding distributing such documents, they are cheaper to distribute than applications.

Regarding producing the documents, the author mentions Xanadu as inspiration, and in the linked wikipedia article we find rule 9: "Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any portion accessed, including virtual copies ("transclusions") of all or part of the document.". So the idea for a mechanism to allow payments was foreseen. I guess there can also be advertisements, only not personalised.

(Edited the Xanadu rule cited)
What's the advantage in using this over something like say, Blokada?
Play Dungeons and Deadlines
That gymnastic doctor managed to have hunderds victims and it was during era where existence of child abuse was acknowledged as real thing.

Also, see Lolita as a popular book.
Stress turns hair gray by triggering the body's fight-or-flight response
In case you use their DOH service (or TLS), it's only them, not your ISP.
For those not wishing to read the pdf, these are Bjarne thoughts about the C++ evolution and about reaching consensus.

A couple of notable points:

“Say not ‘This is the truth’ but ‘So it seems to me to be as I now see the things I think I see.’ “ (attributed to geologist David Love,)

"We are defining a language for decades of use. A bit of humility is necessary"

"We need to focus on “what?” and “why?” more than “how?” More on stable interfaces than on optimal performance given current techniques. A standard differs from most products by requiring stability over decades. I am of the impression that we have been focusing too much on detailed controls lately, on getting programmers to be very specific on “How?”, thus making it harder to evolve use patterns and improve implementations. "
I'm sure they did have a solid basis. The FBI statutes referenced are forfeiture related and don't describe the underlying crime they are accused of, and I'm not familiar with UK or NL law where the accused are located. USA is ironically the only country I would hypothetically bet freedom on to operate such a website not that I need/want to, if it's done without intent to defraud. I'll reply why to a lower comment but the fact that no Americans were able to be charged is a good start.
Seattle is the first area in the US where residents can vote via smartphones
I don't know why people here are surprised about this. Companies like Microsoft are not interested in acting in the interest of users and their privacy, but they do whatever they please with their products; thus you don't own them. If there are laws to prevent this, they'll find other ways in bending them to continue to do nasty things.

With that, personally I don't trust any company with a closed source OS these days and will treat all closed source programs as malware.
yes, he does come out as a proper engineer.
Collectors find plenty of bees but far fewer species than in the 1950s
"level of Calculus" is not very deep, Calculus is a first year college math course at best, most who study stem take it already in high school, it is hard to get much shallower than that and still call it a college course.
Sure, but when the Roman Empire collapsed, it didn’t take the rest of the world with it. If the US went through a similar scenario, it would have a dramatic impact on pretty much everyone.
Actual news, maybe, opinion pieces? No, or the whole thing is a comment section for one.

Plus even news articles can be corrected in comments. I've read many misleading articles where the flaws/bias are pointed out in comments, so ling as the author isn't allowed to "curate" them freely.
> Playing the devil's advocate for a moment- suppose you had some information about 9/11 one week before, would you torture your informant to get the precise date and location ? one person's rights in exchange for thousands.

This is a pretty classic example of a utility monster. It's part of the reason that many have issues with utilitarianism.

Regardless, we're talking about Abu Ghraib. This was a rape factory that pushed several thousand through it's doors, so it's important to keep that in view, rather than drifting off into fantastical hypotheticals that presupposes our defensive reaction instead of our continual aggression.
The way you dance is unique, and computers can tell it’s you
Who doesn't? If we didn't there wouldn't be a whole industry dedicated to helping you do it.
Weird edge case: there's a big gap in the middle of London where the City of London is. Technically the City of London is a seperate entity, but for most practical day to day purposes they are considered the same.
>By what right does google set the search engine to begin with?

Your argument makes no sense, Chrome can set it's own default configuration and I think it asks if you want to make it the default browser. I think it is correct to call the practice of changing user or other apps configuration without asking for user permission. A prompt with a nice text and a catchy image that explains why the user should accept the change would be enough for me.

Now if you think this is fine then you would also think that would be fine that Google will do the same and change the search engine back to Google in all browser, change the windows search to Google search , maybe change the settings so your word,pdf and other files open in Chrome.
The most relevant section of US criminal law I'm told is 1030 6a which reads:

>(6) knowingly and with intent to defraud traffics (as defined in section 1029) in any password or similar information through which a computer may be accessed without authorization, if—

>(A) such trafficking affects interstate or foreign commerce; or

>(B) such computer is used by or for the Government of the United States;

The key text here is with intent to defraud as an element of the offense. Prosecutors in the USA must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you had intent to defraud. This language is very clear due to the first amendment and they cannot speculate nor can they say ignorance alone proves intent. Obviously my earlier post of "without intent to commit a crime" was wrong, but should have read "without intent to defraud".
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A few years ago I found a high-res version of the Histomap [0] somewhere and printed it with a height of roughly 2 meters. It is still hanging on my kitchen door.

Edit: here is a decent version:

https://i.4pcdn.org/hr/1376691454739.jpg

[0] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c9/62/15/c96215866e46a1d55958...
1. You can a share your config across all your devices. Also works on desktops (AFAIK Blokada is just for mobile)

2. You can create multiple configs and easily switch between those

3. Works everywhere (Pi-hole is very cool but only works within the local network you set it up, AFAIK)

4. On my smartphone Blokada regularly stopped, probably because I use an energy saving profile. I could never keep it running for longer than a few days, no matter what I tried. NextDNS seems to work fine so far, had it running for some weeks without a single crash
Summary of Jeff Bezos' 1997 letter to shareholders
Nothing? why do they need analytics?
I meant that's cool, but I'd argue that's the nichest of niche uses I've ever seen. And as someone else already said, in Europe you would actually need a full D class licence to drive this in the first place, so you might as well get something like a modified Mercedes Sprinter with 12-15 seats.
It sounds like you've been watching too much 24. In reality, according to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, it doesn't seem to actually work effectively. Their key findings:

1. The CIA's use of its enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees.

2. The CIA's justification for the use of its enhanced interrogation techniques rested on inaccurate claims of their effectiveness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniq...
What is it with this all-or-nothing attitude? GA provides objectively superior data and they probably get a lot of value from it, otherwise they wouldn't be using it - value which allows them to grow their business which ultimately benefits their users.

(at least for me) Considering the value of their service, GA on their marketing page seems like a very small compromise. If you don't like it you are free to block it - hell, they literally provide a service to do so.
> However, the reading club with 20 members and yearly income of 300€ cannot afford a 100€ .org.

Correct, I already seen that happen where smaller club shut down their web page because a hosting provider was unreliable. Since the lack of funds and expertise to move their WP site
they now use facebook instead.