skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without knowing anything about it, I'm inclined to think that it's a combination of Finland's offshore oil drilling income of at least $5.23 billion and their tax rate of 51.6%:

https://oec.world/en/profile/country/fin/

https://tradingeconomics.com/finland/personal-income-tax-rat...

The US has a lower top income tax rate of 37%:

https://www.debt.org/tax/brackets/

Other more democratic socialism leaning countries redistribute income tax from the wealthy to fund the needs of the general population, but the US just gives that money to people who are already rich. Supposedly this raises all incomes, but incomes have not risen appreciably since the mid 1970s:

https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/15558/producti...
The "Jonathon Blow" of reading inspiredly.
- Mint, the Indian takeaway in Edinburgh

https://mint-takeawayonline.co.uk/
> Nuclear produces waste that must be continuously cooled at great cost so that it does not set itself on fire and release massive amounts of radioactive gasses.

Seems like you are talking about high-level waste (HLW) which is just 0.2% [1] of all radioactive waste by volume.

The cooling you are referring to is a passive cooling pond [2], there's no active cooling. There are no radioactive gases escaping from the spent fuel - not small or massive amounts. Spent nuclear fuel is a solid. Liquid waste is from weapons programs, not power generation.

[1] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_fuel_pool

Is radioactive fuel wildly more difficult and dangerous to manage than a few thousand inert turbine blades? Absolutely.
>Actually, there is no clear definition of causality in classical and quantum physics, simply because the elementary equations of motions are time reversible (if you also reverse charge and parity). For every phenomenon that can occur, the same phenomenon can occur backwards in time (with corresponding anti-particles).

This is super misguided. Causation doesn't need physical grounding. The usual definitions are grounded in counterfactuals and interventions.

It's like defining the causal effect as the difference in potential lines of code I write today, depending on whether I do or don't eat breakfast this morning, but then arguing that under classical mechanics the universe is deterministic so I couldn't possibly take an intervention to not eat breakfast. Really, it's just another argument that counterfactuals are counter factual, and therefore don't have a clear definition. But yeah, that's in the name already.

Regardless, physical equations are pretty much all causal, because they are stable under intervention. If I intervene to do whatever, they still hold. That lets me cause a change in friction be intervening and swapping out a material.
The collection of the data is almost never what’s problematic. What’s problematic is the lack of transparency about what is being collected (doing it to users in secret or burying it in a privacy policy somewhere), and the lack of a way for the user to consent or not consent to it via an opt-in or opt-out. If the company provided these, then this is kind of a non-story.
From the install page:

> To easily install Crystal on MacOSX you can use Homebrew.

I think "Crystal" should be "Mint"...
What will Infor's future look like?
£10 says he's kicking back on a CIA island in the gulf.
See my response to another comment below ...
Huh? I don't think you own or bought a Wacom Tablet nor do you do any digital art. It is safe to say this is a troll/no effort comment.
"On the other hand, it may be very hard to see the situation from the inside; I don't know."
It is? The GitHub project page does not indicate that: https://github.com/rkt/rkt/
Yes, the fact that you applied a filter or 'shopped a family photo etc. wouldn't be a red flag; possibly it could be weighted more for images getting more traffic/shares that also show evidence of modification.
Did the vikings travel through what is now called Russia?
So why is the operating system providing peripherals this information? What's provided will be used for tracking...
And even the ones who do practice decent anonymization are generally contributing to the problem just by holding a lot of data.

Lots of companies are content to stop at "our data can't be linked back to a person's identity", which doesn't prevent building a uniquely-identifying user profile. (e.g. via browser fingerprinting, plus enough metadata to associate a user's computer and phone accounts.) Even if they do better than that, its typically "our data is not uniquely identifying in isolation", which still isn't enough. If your differential privacy model says that these four pieces of data have a specificity of 10,000 possible individuals, that's a good start. But if someone with an individual's PII and three of those keys comes looking, they can still narrow down information about the fourth value from your aggregates.

And even if no one screws up, what happens when someone queries a half dozen differential datasets for different subsets of a uniquely identifying key? It's something like the file-drawer problem, where one researcher hiding bad data is malicious, but a dozen studies failing to coordinate produces the same result innocently. If outright failures to anonymize become rarer, cross-dataset approaches become more rewarding.
The private sector goes out of business. The government lives until it collapses.
The details around his relationship with Les Wexner (billionaire owner of L Brands; Victoria's Secret, Bath and Body Works, etc.) are especially bizarre. Wexner gave Epstein power of attorney; basically granting control of all of his financial assets!
So your argument is that there are somewhere secret payments from the Sanders campaign to ACRONYM, a related entity of PACRONYM, an anti-Sanders dark money group and their “tech” company, Shadow?

My comment was in response to someone claiming that all the campaigns in Iowa had funded both groups. There is no evidence of that.
Phew, yes my bad
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And saying that "you are not allowed to have this conversation" is like saying: "If you argue against me you are part of the problem". So it is a good way of just throwing out an argument and killing conversation.
That is just silly. Reminds me of the old saying; "When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail."
In communist China, large organizations should be considered extensions of the government. Tencent is a massive media corporation, so they are likely working in lock-step with the CCP in regards to aggregation and dissemination of this information. They operate a messaging app with over a billion monthly active users. Their participation in all of this is extremely involved.
> I noticed for my two sons how much of a difference it makes being around your kids when they are young. You cannot cannot substitute short time with "quality time." The amount of time you are there matters a lot to small kids.

I agree as well, but not so much in the ages of 0-6 months. The biggest bonding for me when I was on parental leave was definitely with my older children, who I was now the primary caregiver. That time was really special and meaningful to all of us.

Don’t get me wrong. I love holding my new born, but (for me) it wasn’t the same type of bonding experience.
Is "T2D3" right for you!?

Isn't that kinda like asking if you want to run a Billion dollar company? No shit, yes it is right for me!
Sign me up, I'll T2D3 whatever ya got, worst case scenario I end up in a drinking group with Travis Kalanick and Adam Neumann.
What happened:
Twitter asks users on sign up to scan their contacts (read: steal and upload them).
If you say no, twitter asks again and again every day / every login until you finally allow it to.
Twitter builds a huge and unnecessary db of users and phone numbers, as well as non-users IDs tied to phone numbers.
Someone uses an API to steal this info that in most cases twitter only collected by tricking their users / forcing it.

Anyone affected by this should be suing twitter for even collecting this information! My friend can give away my phone number because of this data collection.
Please, seek psychological treatment.

This is not to say that the intelligence services don’t target people for surveillance or physical attack. They do. But what you’re saying doesn’t add up. It’s possible you may be suffering from paranoid delusions.

If you go and speak to a psychiatric professional, in the case that you are not delusional, it will not harm you. In the case that you are, they will help you detect that and assist you appropriately.

Good luck, and I hope things get better for you.
I mean I put Pihole on all my networks but this is at best a solution to “nice malware” that doesn’t bother to hardcode addresses or perform lookups via an attacker controlled DNS server.

You can catch slightly more aggressive malware by forcing all DNS traffic to your server at the network level but you’re now playing the role of malicious network operator. I would whitelist this to only devices you own.
Thank you, that's so helpful! This is a really great idea
Wacom's a public company. There's a lot of things they might be chasing, but VC money seems unlikely to be high on that list.
You didn't waste our time.
So I guess Twitter applied for a technology embargo exemption to Iran?

I mean, I guess that's been public knowledge already that they serve there, but the overwhelming majority of public companies block the IP space of every country on the embargo list.

I'd think that serving Iran right now would be fairly politically untenable
Distributed search is great to make searching less dependent on a few big players. But if many more bots start crawling your site, the load and waste of energy can get very high.

Sitemaps help a bit, but site needs to be crawled completely initially and changed pages need to be retrieved.

It'd be more efficient if there were a standard by which websites could create and publish their own index. Web search engines could collate the pages and add page ranks.

The correctness of the index can be tested by randomly sampling a few pages with a bias to the highest rated pages.
That's not really the impression I got from the article at all. There were many factors that contributed to that debacle, but SAP seems fairly far down the list.
You think this is schizophrenic paranoia? No, I'm serious about it. sctb/pg even talked to me in person and can confirm it.
Independent Performance Benchmark: Apache Druid versus Presto and Apache Hive
They even wrote shit into my E-Mails I was writing, so I wasn't only keylogged on a hidden level but on an obvious one.
Absolutely - and I love the change, in case that wasn't clear.
But I think the motivation was about equality for the sexes - and specifically, making it easier for women to work. The rest is just a bonus. A very nice bonus.
My partner and I agreed ahead of time how the workload would be divided. Is the problem that you take issue with how it's divided? Why must the workload be shared equally?
This is an article on the BBC. So expect a one sided view of history.
They let Google stalk visitors to their websites. Yes, it's UK local government
Morally and ethically, you're absolutely correct in every single possible way.

I was attempting to illustrate the decision-making processes that may have led to this juncture and what happened to communicating with customers. Please accept my apologies, as I have plainly failed to be clear that this was not an argument as to the moral or ethical questions concerned.

Again, you're completely right. It's not at all difficult to see the morally and ethically correct way to go about this.
sorry, that was "maternity leave", not "raising a child leave". for "raising a child" it's a maximum of 2 years, granted you've worked for 12 full months before, right?
why is there some texture thrashing in the lower left corner in a small rectangle of the viewable area?

i'm on a laptop with an nvidia gpu.
This post is an opinion. It's a fine opinion, and a compelling point, but it's an opinion. And an opinion shouldn't be the basis of a policy that claims to be from an impartial referee.
1) they didn't [1]

2) ...but the current political climate in Sweden is such that there is a frantic search for anything and everything which can be used to 'prove' that Sweden has always been a melting pot of different cultures (which it hasn't, it used to be one of the most homogeneous mono-cultural countries in the world) so that those who decry the current efforts to make it so can be countered with those arguments. Truth or fiction does not really matter here as those who tend to proffer these 'truths' also tend to adhere to the school of thought which does not hold with 'absolute' truth, instead posing that all truth is relative and should be seen in context of 'alternative' explanations.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/vi...
1. I know the people working on this and they really care.

2. It would be a pretty big fiasco if they lied on e2e encryption. You can assume that people are actively and periodically reverse engineering their mobile apps, so this would surface at some point or another.
I've worked with lot of different codebases in my life, but nothing ever like the one im dealing now, so thats why i had no idea how/if i could handle it.

Of course theres a erosion process if you dont touch that piece of code for more than 1 year, and it happens with a codebase of that side, but the 'partial data' is is still there, and with a couple of minutes dealing with it, you recover the information.

Its better when you shape the code yourself.. when you lay down the objects, methods, etc.. But this also works great with code i've happen to just use.

For the architecture and where things are.. be it files, methods, or where i could find something i want.. there were no lost.

I feel i need this partial recovery process mostly for codebases with 2 or more years, and the lost is minimal and can be recovered quickly.

Now being more specific over your question, for me it fells more like a map, smaller maps or trees connected to top-level maps... But yes, it feels a little like rooms as in a quadtree, where you need to specialize and ignore the other parts of the tree for a bit, much like the occlusion/visibility process that algorithm gives.

By the way is great that you have used this analogy, because this is also part of an observation i've had about laying down the information for a specific goal i have in mind.

I cant wait to experiment with this as soon as i finish this thing im working on, to see if its really cool as my intuition is telling me..
There are still stay at home moms, either cause they like it, for children or because it makes economical sense. And there were always women who had to work. At every single point in history.

And to be flippant, it is easier to swap employer when things go wrong, abusive or violent. And practically, ability to earn money do improve this aspect significantly.

It makes things better if husband dies or get sick too.

Also, if the husband is working 12 hours a day in two jobs, you don't get much familly with him either. He kind of becomes wallet.
This is true!

I have completed replaced my 2015 MBP with this Dell XPS13 DE and been exclusively it using since Dec. I had also ordered a MBP 16 inch and System 76 to do a comparative evaluation for our entire company.

I haven't tweaked anything from the default setup with came with.

What is great about the machine:

* The display resolution on a 4K monitor screen just beats MBP (with a scaling factor) - my MBP colleagues are jealous of the resolution I get. The ubuntu font looks nice and crisp!

* The hardware/build quality is just strong - it is compact

* Very light 2.6lb (MBP 16 is almost 4.3lb/2kg!)

* Keyboard feels great and sturdy (even compared to the new MBP 16)

All the below work out of box:

* Airpod/bluetooth devices just works

* Zoom meetings

* Wifi switching / Personal hotspot while traveling

* Sleep/awake

What is not so good:

* Trackpad really sucks compared to MBPs - it took me few weeks to get used to it.

* For work requiring windows VPN client etc I have to use a VirtualBox

* At one point my zoom meeting and entire computer froze. Never had this with MBP for past 5 years.

* Battery is not as good as MBP.

* The screen size is small even compared to MBP 13inch to work for long hours.
We had a giant garbage bin beside the table, everything was tossed.
You can either write a comparison function that returns an Order, or a function that converts your type to a comparable. Then you use List.sortBy or List.sortWith.
I don't really know how a generic sort function would work without typeclasses/interfaces.
I’d really like to understand more of this. Any chance you could make an Ellie or something to demonstrate?
All good points, but one thing people should look at very closely before choosing DynamoDB as a primary db is the transaction limits. Most apps are going to have some operations that should be atomic and involve more than 25 items. With DynamoDB, your only option currently is to break these up into multiple transactions and hope none of them fail. But as you scale, eventually some will fail, while others in the same request succeed, leaving your data in an inconsistent state.

While this could be ok for some apps, I think for most use cases it's really bad and ends up being more trouble than what you save on ops in the long run, especially considering options like Aurora that, while not as hands-off as Dynamo, are still pretty low-maintenance and don't limit transactions at all.
Here are older 'state of the onion' talks:

https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6251_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412301...

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7307-state_of_the_onion
I was surprised to learn that Baltic/Arab trade dates all the way back to neolithic times and was prevalent during the second century BC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Road
I don't think it's as black-and-white as government bad private sector good.

People do bad things and we've been trying to fix our selves for a long time now.

We need to take personal responsibility for our own actions, and be honest and transparent, ready to accept the repercussions for what we have done. I'm speaking directly to individuals involved here, but I'm also speaking for and to all of us.

It's scary to come out about how fucked up we are, but it's how to heal.

We need to stand up and openly repent when we have done wrong. We need to stop defending and hiding our own evil.
At first glance, this seems like one of the more interesting projects to come out of Facebook AI. Justification: In the future, AI models will increasingly become interwoven with tech. It's not going to be so much "AI programming" as just "programming".

That raises an interesting question – one that has bothered me for a long time: Who owns copyright on training data?

As we saw with Clearview AI, a lot of data is being used without consent or even knowledge of the creators. And it's extremely hard to detect this usage, let alone enforce rights on it.

I might be misunderstanding this work, but it seems like this would give you the ability to mark your digital data in such a way that you could prove it was later used in a model.

Unfortunately, it's not that simple. You don't have access to the models (normally). And I'm betting that this work is somehow domain-specific, meaning you can't really come up with a generalized marker to imprint on all your data.

But this implies you might be able to mark your data with many such markers, in hopes that one of them will later be triggered:

We also designed the radioactive data method so that it is extremely difficult to detect whether a data set is radioactive and to remove the marks from the trained model.

The flipside is interesting, too: This might give companies yet another way of tracking users. Now you can check whether a given user was in your model's actual training set, and if not, fine-tune the model on the fly.

Looking forward to seeing what comes of this.
Whether pseudonymized background data collection constitutes a violation of right to privacy is a hot-button political topic. The GDPR has put a stake in the ground on this but is not the final say on the matter.
https://docs.docker.com/compose/startup-order/

>The problem of waiting for a database (for example) to be ready is really just a subset of a much larger problem of distributed systems. In production, your database could become unavailable or move hosts at any time. Your application needs to be resilient to these types of failures.

absolute bullshit. docker compose thinks that it can excuse its bugs by dint of the fact that we're supposed to build "more resilient" applications to accommodate them.

and, their proposed workaround with "wait for" is disgusting. their tool should be able to handle readiness detection. it's so fucking basic.

it's not only this but this is an example of the bullshit in this shitty tool excused with shitty reasons.
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Did you cross-reference to the councils whose websites are serving ads?

Perhaps the ads are run by 3rd party web hosting providers. Just a guess.
Consider the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Why can't you test this machine out in Store, You do know that once a Machine is returned they cannot sell the machine again as brand new but only as refurbished. I think for a low volume/low margin product 15% restocking fees is justified.
Free Return if their is no defect in product is not a norm in countries apart from Europe and USA.
How do you know that doesn't already happen? Maybe instead of researching the algo and investing in manipulation, they just hand a check to someone at google and you're done.

Without transparency, you have no way of knowing.

Good old fashioned corruption is way more effective than modern hacker approaches.
That would be blackmail. Extortion is "the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats." Brave extorts websites by threatening to block the site's choosen revenue stream and to instead earn revenues from visitors to the site unless the site uses Brave to funnel their revenues.

I don't have an issue with ad blockers or alternative payment methods but the way Brave combines the two in my opinion amounts to extortion.
How is your experience so opposite to mine?

My XPS-13 crashed twice this morning. This is a 2019 model.

Its battery life is about 4 hours, idling.

Multimonitor support is impossible to get functioning properly.

Dell updates don't work through the system update UI (it straight up fails, various permissions errors). I need to sudo apt-get upgrade.

Do we have different computers? I think the machine itself is awesome, the display and touch pad are great (although the keyboard has a bit too much flex for a $2k laptop) - but the OS is crazy finicky. I'm still sticking with this machine because all the problems I have point to having something fucky in a dependency, but it's tough to know what that is.

Outside chance here, but do you have the GLFW/GTK development libraries installed?
You can't without client side JavaScript if you're using the Shadow DOM. If you're not using Shadow DOM, just Light DOM, then you can do so: https://lamplightdev.com/blog/2019/07/20/how-to-server-side-...
It's batshit crazy. But the PR campaigns/marketing by the companies that want your phone number for other reasons seems to have worked.
I really dislike the choice of `fun` to represent function, `func` is acceptable, `fn` is acceptable, I don't even mind `def` in Python, but `fun` is a widely used english word that is making me do mental gymnastics while reading mint source code.
Yes. Arguably, they founded what is now called Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27