skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one is safe from the propaganda machine, not even the educated, not even the ones in an industry as left-leaning and liberal as ours

How do you know that you are not a victim of the propaganda machine ? How did you keep yourself safe ?
Have emailed, interesting idea!
You sign a contract, TOS, ect?
Is the mechanism of consent relevant here?
There's a real "banality of evil" aspect to this: we are building the infrastructure of a future hellish totalitarian dystopia to get people to click annoying ads and to squeeze tiny amounts of revenue from customers.
The French company Thales basically re-invented BlackBerry for the exclusive use of their government https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/security/telephony-...
Carbn.app – Passively manage your carbon footprint
> Trump... openly has said he would like to be in Putin’s position with a dynasty. A surprising number of Americans are okay with this.

Would you count the Bushes as a dynasty? The Clintons (had Hillary won)? The Adams? A surprising number of Americans do not see being president as disqualifying your close relatives from ever being president.

[Edit: Trump has said that he would like a third term. I don't know of any Americans that are actually OK with this. A surprising number are still OK with Trump after he said that, but that's not the same thing. You can support Trump and still expect - even demand - that two terms will be the limit of his power.]
Karin Knorr-Cetina's Epistemic cultures : how the sciences make knowledge (1999). https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=0372C63887A1EAB996E5E2D...

How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity and historical coincidence, determine how people know and what they know. This text compares two epistemic cultures, those in high energy physics and molecular biology.
Even their server code?
The book Healing ADHD by Dr Amen reccomends diet, and exercise based treatment, as well as stimulants and coaching. It's been a long time since I've read it, but at the time I used some of the techniques, and they worked really well. I should probably read it again.
In data engineering, I think your responses to the 'entity resolution' problem are a good Dunning Kurger style litmus test.

If you don't know, entity resolution is the process of matching unique rows in two or more databases. Are these the same movies? Are these the same person?

Novice DE: Oh easy, just merge on the name.

Intermediate DE: OH GOD NO. <michael_scott_no.jpg>

Expert DE: That's complicated, but I have a plan.
I'm not even thinking about "how it's going to get built" when I write test-first. I'm just writing (test) code as a client that's calling an API. It just so happens that the API (method, or method + object) in question doesn't actually exist yet, so the first thing I do is let the IDE generate them so it compiles.

Once the code compiles I go into the implementation and make it work.

Now and then I realize during implementation that I need some additional parameter, but it's easy to add that.
Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it
Multiplayer game concept meets product engineering
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We are working on a platform powering this future by helping engineers form cloud based product team, define their work and service preferences and get matched with High-Growth Companies globally.

I’ll love to know your thoughts on this idea.

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In a public space?
For larger code bases making direct jump straight to Py3 that breaks Py2 compatibility without a transitional period can be problematic especially if it's a library.

The time may have passed, but lots of code is still out there that needs to be updated.
> I sometimes feel like these articles are popular because procrastination is just a universal part of the human condition. I doubt anyone scrolls past these articles and thinks “that doesn’t affect me at all”.

It's normal, to a degree. When you are failing classes and having problems with your job, relationships and even your hobbies, then it is no longer normal.
I've lived within a mile of the 'magic roundabout' for about 10 years. I traverse it frequently. I have never seen a collision or broken glass on it.

Although it is a bit intimidating the first time you use it (especially if you are from a country that doesn't have many roundabouts) the locals like it. It works very well and the traffic keeps flowing even at busy times. They even put the fire station right on the roundabout. ;0)
I've heard it put this way: the dystopia we're building is Brave New World unless you truly get in the way, in which case it rapidly becomes 1984.
"...consumes thirty-eight times as much as a standard gas oven and hob"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGA_cooker
Growing up, I used to hate reading aloud due to having a mild stutter. English classes were filled with fear and sweaty palms at the thought of being chosen that day to read whatever the book was at the time.

Interestingly, I've started to enjoy reading aloud to my kids and find that I don't stutter while doing so. My older daughter prefers to read on her own now most of the time, though my 4 year old has a mountain of books and loves being read to, so bedtime usually involves reading 3-5 books and has become a pleasant routine.

A few years ago, my daughter insisted I volunteer to read to her class at school, which also turned out to be a good experience and I think the kids enjoyed listening to "Jack and the Beanstalk" as well.

I've been thinking about signing up for something like toastmasters for a while, though a reading group for adults sounds like a good way to start fighting the fear of public speaking as well.
To your edit: yes, that's what "The longer distance that big vehicles have between people and hard surfaces is a good thing" means.

Larger (modern) vehicles do weigh more; car density does not change much, I would be interested if there is a counter example to that.
> The model makes use of “alternative data” – such as credit card purchase data, smartphone location data, satellite imagery and so on

The problem with predicting markets is that they suck up information.

When these predictions become public or anyone acts on them, the market automatically adjusts. Then the cycle repeats with people looking for even more leading indicators because the old ones are already priced in.

So, while it's interesting that these "alternative" data points seem correlated with prices, I'm dubious that anyone will profit off them at above-market returns for any sustained period of time.
The whole argument that they're private cameras is rather pedantic and ultimately pointless.

It doesn't matter who owns what as long as the government can request access to the data.
Studies have repeatedly shown non-ionizing radiation has no long term health effects.

As material science closes the tetrahertz gap, the longitudinal studies, by their very definition, take time to complete (longitudinal studies = exposing animals or individuals at lower doses for much longer periods of times).

It's natural for an undisciplined mind to assume they're also non-ionizing. But it is a mark of a disciplined scientific mind to be cautious and instead not extrapolate outside the existing dataset.
'satellites' = high altitude helium balloons
As a fellow Indian, I think the author has every right to voice their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.
> On the 34 companies tested, the MIT researchers' model beat an aggregate Wall Street analyst benchmark in 57.2 percent of quarterly predictions tested in the experiment.

Sorry but I'm not impressed by this number, for various reasons:

- aggregate benchmark means some average of predictions from wall street investors, which is not the "state of the art" to beat, you should beat the best performing funds. Related: the best (and worst) funds are private and don't (all) report performance. Therefore, they are likely not included in the benchmark used and therefore the benchmark is biased.

- 57% doesn't seem that much (only slightly better than chance). Also, there is no variance number

- if they 'win' 1$ in 57% of the cases but 'lost' 2$ in the remaining 43% of the cases it's still a net loss. No numbers are given

- not clear if they are after-casting, i.e. whether they tuned the predictions after the fact happened. In other words: How well does the algorithm perform if you turn it on now and leave it for a year?
Hitler had that weird ice world theory in order to replace "Jewish physics." So no, he was not a fan of science.
Please drink a verification can: https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
> 1) Citizens can legally opt out by putting on face masks.

You don't have (yet) some beautiful law like we have in France?

https://beta.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/texte_lc/JORFTEXT000022...

> Nul ne peut, dans l'espace public, porter une tenue destinée à dissimuler son visage.

Noboby may, in public space, wear an outfit intended to hide his face.

Clear and simple, I guess. That was directed towards radical Muslims but the definition encompasses everyone. And last year we got this extra one:

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArticl...

It is about hiding all (or part) of your face, within (or near...) a demonstration, in which troubles arose (or might have arisen...). The first law was an infraction, this one is a misdemeanour with much harder sentence.
> and on a moderation level, I will always make sure women are being put at the forefront.

So it will take decisions based on the gender of the participant regardless of the issue at hand? If an issue arises and there is a man and a woman discussing something, the moderation will by default just lean towards the woman? That's just plain old sexism? How is it not?
So it's sort of like a mode switch? You give the prefix, and then you can give it a whole series of commands, based on a crib sheet that it shows you, that have that common prefix - without having to retype the prefix - before passing a different key to drop out of the mode again?

That does sound potentially handy, if I have it right.
There's more to democracy than opposition. I must remind you that the opposition was at the center of many a scams when it was in power. They're no good. There aren't very many better alternatives.

The citizens taking up to protests is the right way forward. The fascist ideals of the current incumbent is plain to see in these times of mass dissent. That's the point of worry here. Not opposition, not the ruling party, not the right-wing politics, per se; but the unsatiable thirst of a pro-violent party fronting a terrorist organisation to consolidate power with facist undertones.
You think the US media supports the US government for everything? Have you been reading the news the past 3 years? It seems to me to be just the opposite, where a majority of the voices in the media are against whatever the government(ie Trump) does. Heck, the few times when segments of the media agree with the government, it comes couched in language like "I hate Trump as much as you, but this time he might be onto something"
This is something I was trying to research at one point:

> While there have been no reported isolation compromises in any major cloud platform,

What about minor cloud platforms? I'm would be surprised if there hasn't been real cases of e.g. the horror scenario where data gets silently exposed via uninitialized/unencrypted disk volumes that were not correctly wiped by the CSP before re-use by a different customer.

I've seen it happening on-premises with e.g. Ganeti, which does not wipe instance disks by default. In that case it was obvious because the OS installer would complain about pre-existing LVM volume groups on the disks. It does offer an option to spend an hour wiping new disks when provisioning them...
I considered that later once my mothers work was done but by that time the dentist seems to have moved elsewhere.
Pwn2Own's High-Stakes Industrial Hacking Contest
I am beginning to think that fascism is mostly a runaway media effect. 100 years ago it was the beginnings of mass-media being understood and incorporated into politics; now it is the internet.

It seems like something akin to witchcraft crazes on a truly horrifying scale.
What did Fascism rise in popularity in response to? Economic hardship (the Great Depression). Maybe the current trend is growing in the same soil.
+1.
I got my low cost mechanical TKL keyboard off Amazon after I started to get more into Fortnite last year with my son. Just having the extra space for wide swooping mouse movements without having to tilt my keyboard or have it way off to the side was terrific.

After having a TKL, I don't know how any gamer can use a full size. Now I can't see myself going back to full size even if I stopped gaming, despite me constantly eyeing the Logitech MX Keys everytime I'm in Best Buy. The mechanical switches (brown) have grown on me finally; this after having went through a mechanical phase years ago only to not see what all fuss was about. The noise I have drowned out and the the smooth presses are pleasure to type on.

I have looked far for a lower profile scissor switch TKL that can handle gaming (NKRO and backlighting) but doesn't exist. The only negatives of mechanical keyboards are a) the noise which I mentioned and b) the tallness of them. I would never consider having a mechanical like this in the work place because of the noise.

FYI this is the keyboard I have. Highly recommended for the price. Held up for a year now so far of daily use.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DFBKYT5/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_0...
Most of the people using discord love it's playfulness.

Be mindful that it's ethos may not be for you. For every silly feature or targeting you've appreciated that has disappeared, there are comments like yours that are the reason.
> Asian and African American people were up to 100 times more likely to be misidentified than white men, depending on the particular algorithm and type of search. Native Americans had the highest false-positive rate of all ethnicities, according to the study, which found that systems varied widely in their accuracy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/19/federal...
Do the facial recognition, then throw out that data if it turns out the face in question isn't in the whitelist of consenting users.

Computers aren't like humans. They have the ability to permanently and irreversibly forget certain information, and they always do exactly what they're programmed to. A local, on-device facial recognition programmed to immediately discard information on unrecognized faces has exactly zero privacy impact. (See also: smart speakers listening for a hotword.)
We existed fine up until now without pervasive facial recognition, but I find it difficult to conceive a future where this technology won't participate in some part of civic life. China is plowing ahead with smart city and rapidly developing surveillance state standards. US is not far behind. Europe is just ceding 5 years for illiberal forces to set standards, normalize behaviour and cultivate acceptance when it should be providing an alternate model - which can't be nothing because these businesses with go on with or without her.
I think the problem is that you shouldn't have to. It's pretty anticonsumer all the way around.
Logs of requests can be viewed at:

https://my.nextdns.io/configuration/abc123/logs

Can anyone who knows your id also view your logs?
I think it's just an awkward way to write $5, $15, and $30.
If they don't report performance, how do they gain new investors?
From one side of your mouth you're demanding perfect privacy and from the other side I'm sure you'll tell me its necessary because of the laws in the US for voting procedure and policy to be bottom up starting with localities, then states, then federal elections.

I think we both know perfect privacy is cost prohibitive at the local and state levels and largely a talking point that ends with the listener assuming it is impossible to achieve online voting with perfect privacy in our lifetime.

If we can't afford to change the way people vote then why not change the way we measure it so its not so cost prohibitive?

Between exit polls, aggregate voter data held by the national parties, private and public data sources it is already possible to accurately predict the outcome of most elections.

Its already being used by national parties as the foundation for when and where they choose to challenge election results and allocate resources.

There is no such thing as a, "Secret Ballot" with modern analytics. There are just those who can afford to find out how you vote and those who can't.

Those who can't in today's world includes regulators and the government themselves.
Maybe from your experience with one agency/department but the DoD is a BIG organization. But it's still a thing in most federal agencies. Some not as bad as the others.
Why are people uploading photos of others who never gave their consent to have their image online in the first place?
Yeah as an American I don't get the EU. Sovereignty is worth more than convenience in trade.
Have you actually read it?

Stories about killing Hitler and saving millions of lives are a staple of science fiction, and an interesting way to reason about time travel.

I created that thread as a creative exercise for others to partake in good, light-hearted fun. Despite the subject, there were absolutely no cases of misbehavior. That's what you get when you're in a heavily moderated community that takes being nice to each other very seriously.
Europeans are so wrapped in beurocracy nothing gets done anyway
How do you avoid cross threading? Can you grab me the 50 mil allen wrench?
> the real answer to this

Alternatively, I like the concept of Tor onion services, where the "domains" are acquired in a permissionless fashion. Names are just randomly generated ed25519 strings so there's no squatting and your address never expires. If you want a vanity domain, you just commit compute time to brute force something human-readable. [1] The obvious drawback is that you have to be a Tor client, but if you manage your own DNS, you could use Tor's DNSPort mode as a kind of forwarding target for non-Tor clients on your lan. [2]

1: https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/onionv3-vanity-address/

2: https://www.grepular.com/Transparent_Access_to_Tor_Hidden_Se...
The killer feature I am waiting for is any site or app with automatic transaction importing from my bank without requiring me to input my online banking password and thus being one data breach away from someone having full access to all my accounts (sms-based 2FA notwithstanding)

This is a solved problem in tech (OAuth, I think) so clearly there are perverse financial incentives (ie. my bank doesn't want to make it easy to me to export my data)

Does anyone know what would have to happen to make this possible? My bank is in Canada, if that matters.
As a private citizen, would I be allowed to set up a camera on my front porch, point it at the sidewalk, and store all the data it takes in, including counts of how many times each "unique" person walks by, etc. Maybe even link it to my facebook, or a public directory and link all their public info to a profile and keep all the data on my servers? Does this chance if I am a business?
Not everyone is in the software industry with 2 messages per day from recruiters, and that probably beats working as a greeter or deep fryer attendant.
Yeah I thought that was pretty common. About 7 years ago I watched a VP walk out to do a startup and he took several key guys with him as his starting dev team, and within a year hired off one more dev and a manager. In California.

Of course, I don’t know what was in whose contracts. Maybe that’s something you negotiate for?
> We don’t have a Web of Documents anymore. These days, the WWW is mostly a Web of Applications.

Yes! It's 'SaaSS' - as defined by Stallman, not 'SaaS'.

"On the Internet, proprietary software isn't the only way to lose your freedom. Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS, is another way to give someone else power over your computing.

The basic point is, you can have control over a program someone else wrote (if it's free), but you can never have control over a service someone else runs, so never use a service where in principle a program would do.

SaaSS means using a service implemented by someone else as a substitute for running your copy of a program. The term is ours; articles and ads won't use it, and they won't tell you whether a service is SaaSS. Instead they will probably use the vague and distracting term “cloud”, which lumps SaaSS together with various other practices, some abusive and some ok. With the explanation and examples in this page, you can tell whether a service is SaaSS."

Source: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
I'm not recommending anything. This isn't a charged environment like Twitter, where it seems 100% of statements are either recommendations that will FIX THE UNIVERSE, or attempts by opponents to misconstrue them as same, for purpose of finding fault (since no recommendation will ever be 100% valid in all cases).

RE reading the article, that's where I'm getting it.

"My mind flutters from the window to reading the little scribbles people left on the desk to my imagination and then back out again" = I am observant of my environment and probably the first one to be aware of new opportunities or threats arising from that environment. And I dream.

"I'm really prone to letting my thoughts get off on the worst tangents..." = I pay attention to tangential (i.e. "touching," related) things and take action on them, investigate them. She looks them up on Wikipedia, learns all about them, and suffers no loss of attentiveness when the topic is meaningful to her and chosen by her. Given that new knowledge tends to come most readily from tangents, and not from out of the blue, and not from some well-intentioned-but-flawed, "legible" (i.e. bureaucratic/"makes logical sense"/industrialized) lesson plan, this is not a bad approach to learning. The problem only comes when you need to get through school, where those lesson plans are de rigueur and the pertinent skill is actually overruling/ignoring what you are interested in and not taking action on it. Huge waste BTW, whether ADHD or not.

"Executive function" - well I would simply open the question of whether the "executive" (slight pun) who is in charge, inside us, is always the one who we think it is. Our parents'/teachers' voices, or our own? Something is always being executed, even when we're not executing on our plan to do homework. The "fitting in, getting by" part of you made a plan to do homework, but the (I would argue) real part of you already realizes it's all silly bullshit & doesn't matter. The former is the one we reward with good grades & good jobs, but the latter is the one who's right.
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>you can change the Linux privileged port range with sysctl

I'm pretty sure you can't without recompiling the kernel, it's defined in the source in include/net/sock.h here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/net/so...
How did learning lisp help you understand the power of Emacs? Just starting down the Spacemacs road myself (from Sublime Text), and curious to hear more about your experience!