skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why?

I see no reason why open source helps here. Closed source clients aren't black boxes. You can examine the bytecode. You can decompile the binaries.

I see no reason why a conspiracy dedicated enough to hide a backdoor as a buffer overrun wouldn't also be capable of making the Telegram server store key material in a single country to make it available to legal requests (since, as you say. the back-end software isn't open source).
Medium account was suspended...
Regional directors of the organizations stonewalling the requests should be fired.
Interesting, that user claims to be especially familiar with the 'gag' protein where the paper claims to find a match. User explicitly says that the "matching" portions claimed in the paper are so tiny as to be negligible, and not unique to HIV. They claim that this is easily verifiable with a simple 'blast' search. Could someone comment on these claims?
Interesting! Where is the physical location? I had the same idea last year after seeing mirror.co. And I did some market research. The market for gym equipment and personal trainer seems to be small.

https://www.statista.com/topics/5325/fitness-equipment-in-th...

https://askwonder.com/research/us-fitness-industry-market-si...

One investor told us, they won’t invest in a market smaller than $10b.
If I die in this room please blame the designer
It’s up for me.
"Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag"

https://biorxiv-cache.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/2020.01.30....

> [ABSTRACT] We are currently witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The evolution of 2019-nCoV remains elusive. We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag. Interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature. This work provides yet unknown insights on 2019-nCoV and sheds light on the evolution and pathogenicity of this virus with important implications for diagnosis of this virus.
While I'm happy to see new solutions in any shape and form, it's strange to see all problems of social media blamed solely on centralization. The misinformation, in particular, is not a problem of centralization, it's a problem of people. As long as it's lucrative and easy to spread misinformation, it will be done. While decentralizing could help curb it, I don't think it's a full fix.
What does the differential operator do and how does it relate to geometric algebra?
That is a major reason why I would never use a white/blacklisting app. The odds of some unknown phone being used to urgently find me may be exceptionally low, but those are also the circumstances when time matters most.
Assange is an anarchist. Asking him to please leave some of the system up while he’s tearing other parts of it down is fundamentally misunderstanding the man. Surprisingly, despite the risks he took with other people’s lives, he’s done more good than harm. I hope you were more outraged by the war crimes committed by both the US and the Taliban than you are at Assange’s informative negligence.
I honestly wouldn't mind a president whose in charge for >8 years.

I don't like term limits because often times, the Congressman most likely to do right by their country are the ones that feel "safe" in their district. They can tell their party whips to fuck off, because they can run as an independent and still be elected. If we instituted term limits on Congress, my guess is that Congress would be inhabited entirely by corporate shills looking to get rich, rather mostly inhabited by such people, as is currently the case.
If you want to extinct homo sapiens you should probably make a virus that infects everybody and has as little symptoms as possible and then kills them a year later.

We don't know yet if this virus has any long-term consequences. HIV would seem harmless if we estimated its effects after 1 month.

But I don't think bioweapons need to be deadly. If you can make a virus that kills 2% of people but shuts down global trade with your main economic competitor for example - that's quite useful (if you don't care for morality of course).

I'm not persuaded it's human-created, but it's a possibility.
Byte Ordered Streams
I'm not pro-chemical, but it's hard to imagine other solutions that are actionable in the timeframe of a weather prediction (this timeframe is critical because these swarms were spawned due to weather anomalies). Indeed, according to TFA it sounds like the UN isn't even trying to curtail the locusts at all but are just preparing for disaster recovery.

Crop insurance seems like a more tractable solution.
Oh my. One swarm is ~2400 square kilometers/~930 square miles, and could contain up to 200 billion locusts. And moving at 150km per day. Madness. You can understand why various cultures have viewed them as a punishment from god.

Here's this quote from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/gro...: "Each locust can eat its weight in plants each day, so a swarm of such size would eat 423 million pounds of plants every day." This is describing a swarm a "mere" 460 sq miles in size.
> "devote attention"

If that's a literal translation (I realize you said "rough"), "devote" connotes to me more along the lines of "devotion" such as a "devoted husband" or "devoted follower of <X> religion."
There was nothing AI about the original four color proof. Are you thinking of something more recent?
Hmm, I wrote a VHDL (a superset of ADA used for hardware design) front end using bison and flex. That's a serious language.

Regarding error messages, if one implements the grammar as specified by the language spec, yes, confusing and useless error messages will result. That's because the language spec grammar includes restrictions based on semantics. To get good error messages, one has to remove/relax the spec grammar and then use semantic checking. Parsing is an art; not a science.
Data Science reveals Rachmaninov was more original than Beethoven
There is an unfortunate lack of technical information in this article, but before the ML naysayers arrive in full force to point out that this isn't real AI or ML or what have you, it's quite possible they were using deep neural nets to heuristically approximate complex simulations 3-6 orders of magnitude more quickly than typical simulation.

We're doing the same in other domains now.
Such a great landing page, clear examples and documentation. Good job!

By the way, there seems to be a css bug in the FAQ/quote section (The text shows dark grey on a dark grey background)
I raised the same point about businesses in a comment a few days ago, among other issues https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22025971

[warning, cynic paragraph ahead]
We don't have time to socialize, we obviously live to work. We might be stressed as we don't get to disconnect much, but you know, that would be so wasteful! Streets are not for people to socialize, they are for cars and for going somewhere else to do business. Spaces can only be there for money, otherwise they are an inefficiency which we'll have to fix. If you are good at something, you should be earning money from it. We live in a global world. We have so many hobbies! But only so many people fits in an area, so matches are unlikely. Anyway, if you are willing to go out for socialization any hobby is ok. If you are interested in finding interesting people... sorry, they are busy at the moment. That's what interesting people do. Be stressed and busy trying to fix the world from crashing by hitting harder the accelerator. Ah, the beauty of an efficient market. Perfecting time and spaces.
1. The article covers many details. What evidence informs your personal opinion that the observations and judgement of the UN Special Rappoeteur on Torture should be discounted?

2. You seem to be indicating that actions by the UK, Sweden, and Ecuador are happening completely independent of any coordination with or influence from the US government. I don’t believe that you believe that.
Checking voicemails actually takes longer and involves more steps than answering calls.
Just keep enough of them in a small enclosure. Be prepared to increase enclosure size rapidly for a few days or weeks.
Oh ok I thought you were making the point that "for humans" is a sort of meaningless marketing term, but I see you understand the nuances of this. Sometimes it is good to be "for humans" but you are saying most people in your experience who make the attempt fail.

The classic example I think is Microsoft Access (databases for humans) which is great until it can't do the one thing you need and then it doesn't work anymore. And everyone needs a different one thing.
Right but like...There are organized movements by governments to do horrific things. China is doing it, Nazi Germany did it, America has and is and will do it.

Random quotes from counter-culture writers doesn't negate that bad actors have coordinated, they weren't bothered by sunlight, and when they got enough power they did truly horrific things.
It is really absurd how quickly rational comments on this thread that do not support the "Assange and everybody who supports him is an infallible saint and all the world's judicial systems, governments and press are in league to get them" narrative get downvoted to the bottom.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204566 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204121 , for example.
A giant net and you could at least eat them after they feast on your crops:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust#As_food

There is no more ferocious predator than humans. If they became a delicacy all over the world they wouldn't stand a chance in hell.

According to the wikipedia article: "Locusts yield about five times more edible protein per unit of fodder than cattle, and produce lower levels of greenhouse gases in the process."
https://outline.com/YThtcD
Mentioned in a separate thread, but DeltaChat [1] offers a WhatsApp-style messaging interface over standard email.

[1] - https://delta.chat/en/
There is no way I would just plop that IPv6 regex into any serious program. :)
That brings to mind subdividing Congressional seats into domains to allow for specialization. The devil as usual is in the details.

Issues include:

* Defining expertises to not become outdated or too general to give any specialization advantage.

* Handling border cases and deciding when every domain may vote on it.

* While allowing specializations would the subdivisions actually be more expert in practice? We have already seen how "sabotour boards" assemble as those who are most interested in it are those who oppose it.

I have already taken it as a given that qualification gatekeeping would take Goodheart's Law to new levels as refusing to recognize reality gives more concrete power. Still it is an interesting concept.
> Social media such as twitter, for example, everyone now has a voice (what it gives), but with its char limit (what it takes) doesn't give critical thinking and rational debate a highlight, therefore it spirals down into madness.

Twitter has a hard, small limit. Most other platforms either have no limit, or the limit is fairly large.

The problem is, people don't use it.

Worse, those that do use it are ridiculed, or their words are ignored (TL;DR anyone?)...

Thinking about this, I wonder if any of it has to do with people's "inner monologue" that was discussed yesterday here on HN? If you didn't see it, the gist was that there are some people who don't have such a monologue, and it came as a surprise to one person. Similarly, those without such a monologue are often surprised that others have it; one person commented that they often wished that the voiceover of characters in a movie, expressing their inner thoughts, was a real thing - and were shocked to find out that for most people - it is!

Anyhow - does this play into how people write online? Do they tend to write less or smaller messages, because their inner monologue is too loud or constant? Do those without such monologue write more thoughtful and longer posts? Then I think of myself; I have an inner monologue, but I tend to write long things (case in point - this post?) - but I don't find my inner monologue a burden.

But some do - I know I have read of people who either must always have some noise around them to drown out their "inner monologue", or if left in silence, even for small moments, will declare themselves "bored", perhaps because their inner monologue isn't perceived as interesting (whereas I and others have no problems thinking and pondering things, in silence, with no boredom)...?

Does this effect how people compose and type their messages? Does it help or hinder understanding? Does it facilitate or does it block meaningful conversations?

Twitter may have tapped into something that was always there to begin with, and in essence has helped foster that communication style - making it acceptable widely - conversation as "sound bites" - which has perhaps led to our present situation.
Timy: Minimalist Measurement of Python Code Execution Time
Must still be a cache somewhere for you. When I try to view it, it says "This account is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium Rules."
To Increase Productivity in the Office, Get Outside
The politicians are lawyers as opposed to former IT professionals.
Five easy hacks to get the benefits of being outdoors while still being ultra productive throughout your workday.
https://archive.is/kMl5m
> How is "I don't consider you human" not an extreme position?

Most bigots do not believe that.
When the article came to the part about teachers encouraging students to be attentive, I couldn't help but think of a schoolmarm chiding a child to "attend to their lessons."
It seems to me like such a uniquely American problem for some reason. I've gotten maybe a single spam call in my life in the UK, most people I asked also say they either never got one or got very few. But you go on HN and it seems like people get a deluge of spam calls all the time.
Everyone in the anglosphere is always online and can talk to each other now. Meanwhile our culture is pretty polarized. Conversations that could never be had in the time of top down privately owned broadcast & newspaper media are now unavoidable.

I don't think it's a "problem" and I don't think there is or should be a technocratic solution.

This is new normal, where political struggle has evolved into a prolonged people's posting war, and civility is not respected. This is freedom of expression, and it's a reflection of ourselves and society, you can break the mirror if it upsets you but it won't change the underlying truth.

It's probably going to be like this for a while, and that's okay.
The trouble is, not everyone is saying that. A few people here and there are, but what about some mode nuance things? For example, what if someone says they're fine with trans-people and think everyone should live their lives whoever they want, but trans M2F shouldn't participate in professional sports because it's not fair.

That's an incredibly polarizing statement, and one who makes it is immediately labeled as a bigot. Some go as far as to say such an individual is "denying trans people exist."

There is a lot to unpack there, and people can have reasonable debates about both sides of that statement. Adam Conover and Joe Rogan have had such a conversation (it's a really good episode of the Rogan podcast), but many people refuse to even listen to it because they consider Rogan a bigot/alt-right-adjacent/etc.

You have to be careful because there is so much room in the details and someone not accepting 100% of x world view doesn't immediately make them a terrible human being.

In the past, controversial views converge over time. Heidegger talked about extreme ideas as a thesis, those trying to keep things as they are as antithesis, and eventually society moves together with some kind of synthesis. All that feels like it's been thrown out the window for extreme left or extreme right ideology.
I just had a dig into what altitude they fly at and 2,000 meter ceiling would make things more complicated.

Hot air balloons dropping nets, or some weather balloons - again tethered. Though would probably want to run with hydrogen for costs, just safety and training go up, so greater initial costs there. So many details.

Kinda gets down to sky versions of submarine nets in predictable flight paths into crop area's as being the best spots to set such trapping nets up.

Though if it turns out you just need to lay down football sized green carpet and that attracts them - well that opens up other avenues in trapping or indeed - zapping them once they touch down.
Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security
I think your interpretation for bible passage is exactly correct, and why it stood the test of time. It is even more relevant in modern days as our ability to make artificial world is so powerful that we can make our wildest dream and worst nightmare to come true at the same time, in virtual reality or even in reality.
I have trouble seeing responding as much of a fix, although it depends a bit on the platform. On Reddit, Facebook, and the like, there is a pattern where you have highly upvoted/liked posts, where the top comment is about how the thing is obviously wrong.

Most people just glance at headlines, image, or whatever, and don't read articles or examine comments. Those comments about it being wrong only help inform the subset of people who bother to look at comments.
There're some entertaining control measures being suggested in the comments. To my knowledge, the best control measure is pesticide application programs that use modeling to suggest optimal treatment locations. If you can develop a better locust population model, FAO would likely be interested.
Packaging a Rust Project for Debian
If you're asking this question after everything over the past four years, you are either:

a.) Not asking the question in good faith

b.) Weapons-grade stupid
> In French I lend (prêter)

"Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears."
>Automatically associating youth with intelligence and "progress" and stereotyping people with years of accrued wisdom to being "old fogies" is textbook ageism.

Is it as much ageism as outright restricting rights based on age? That seems far more like ageism except it is so deep in our cultural DNA we don't view it as such. If we can, as a group, say that everyone below a certain age cannot have rights such as voting, thus saying they have no ability to have a say in politics that will impact their entire lives, then why can't we have age caps like saying no one over 60 can be elected in government because <insert some reasoning that mimics the same logic not letting any 17 year old vote>?
That's a brilliant way of thinking about it. I'd say I honestly spend 80% of my free time (defined as time not spent working or sleeping) scrolling the internet mindlessly and passively. In that case, 4 of my 5 friends are the internet. I definitely have to change this ratio.
I set up a SIP call flow [1] to deal with this. I was getting upwards of ten spam calls per day. Apparently, the last person with my number owes a lot of money.

In short, it's like Google Voice, with a change: The caller is asked to record their name, my phone rings from the SIP number, and the recording plays back. I can then press a key to pick up the call, another to send it to voicemail, and another to add it to a blacklist with an automated "GTFO" message (with the caller being redirected immediately to this message if they ever call again).

Then, I set my cell to whitelist mode, which allows my contacts as well as the SIP number. 100% reject rate for bots and obnoxious callers, with very few false positives, and anyone important has my direct cell number.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/5zIo1sU.png (Provider is Anveo)
People messing around with goatse pics is pretty different then what 4 chan is or was. The internet in general was nothing like the 4chan community.

Discord is very new. I think the point of the post is the current internet has gotten worse. The web wasn't like /b/,its becoming like that though.
Why your A/B tests take longer than they should
> I see no reason why open source helps here

Open source doesn't make things automatically secure, but one can't argue that it isn't much easier to inspect.
The Fremen Mirage, Part II: Water Spilled on the Sand
Most people work at startups because they can't get a job at google if they do they leave. Those who work at google at somepoint feel they need to be closer to the product/customer/action many leave and create a startup (because they have the google brand and can raise money). Those startups hire developers who can't get into google.

You are at a certain point in the cycle. At somepoint you may move to creating your own startup (maybe not because you had a negative experience earlier).

It's just the circle of life.
FWIW, https://old.reddit.com/user/BurrShotFirst1804 is claiming that this (preprint, unreviewed) paper is very misleading, speaking as (supposedly) someone highly familiar with at least one of these HIV proteins. Not sure what to make of either the paper itself or this response to it.
I honestly don't know -- I haven't paid any attention to YouTube video recommendations in years, because they were (are?) so awful.
Unfortunately, it's probably too late. Email caught on because it was the first option, and it's become ingrained in spite of itself.

At this point the closest thing to a standard for person to person messaging is SMS... which like the old guard of ICQ, uses a number rather than a screen name.

That said, I would love to see a good standard for person to person chat, especially one that doesn't rely on magic numbers.
I'm a boomer and I can think of a few things off the top of my head that made the 80's and 90' a great time for a young person to be alive. 1) The previous generation was small because of the depression and ww2 - not a lot of older workers. 2) Paul Volcker came in with Ronald Reagan and tamed the crippling inflation that was hurting everyone. 3) No one at work or at home had a personal computer on their desk - the computer revolution took off 4) The Soviet Union collapsed leaving the US once again the sole super power. 5) People became health conscious and quit smoking. Medical technology advanced and prolonged our working life. There are probably things I am forgetting, but indeed, it wasn't hard to make money, buy a house and start a family.

Edit: I don't see how anyone can blame boomers because it's harder now. I gave my millennial kids a good start.
Carrier sales of phone-location data is illegal, FCC plans punishment
Primary source: https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-50956160 (also in Russian)

It seems all evidence is based on the emails sent by the author of the bomb threats. I don't think it works as evidence against this being an inside job.
The native apps certainly help… Signal’s desktop app is pure afterthought and it shows.

The other thing is that Telegram is just far more feature rich. It feels like what you’d like expect from a modern messaging app.

Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about this all, though, is that third party devs can’t make their own Signal clients to try to improve the situation. If you want to use Signal, you have to take it with all of its warts, and that’s a hard sell.
Can someone translate this?
> remember that not everything is precious and needs to be reserved.

And that's Yahoo's decision to make?