skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still quite a fairly active user on reddit going on a decade now. If they started implementing this on a wide scale then I'd like to think I'd stop using it completely. I've gone on a few hiatus during some of the controversies regarding the degradation of the communities and values that they original founders represented, think like 2014 during that debacle with the office move, or the "good cop, bad cop" that was taking place with Pao and her restrictions on what some communities viewed as free speech. As more corporate interests and perhaps even governments take notice of reddit's community impact, I'm sure that more restrictions will be implemented and content watered down until it's hardly any different than facebook. At that point I will hopefully have found and fully moved on to a better place.
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I've never seen any claims by authors behind JWT claiming the purpose of JWT is limited constrained delegation, and I highly doubt that is the case.

The fact that RFC specifies a subject claim (for the authenticated principal), but not claim for clients or scopes, shows quite clearly that delegation was not the immediate goal behind JWT [1].

JWT and JOSE annoy cryptographers and security researchers so much precisely because they're trying to be a generic cryptographic format that's supposed to solve everything under the sun. The tragedy of JOSE is that instead of trying to solve a small set of problems well, it is basically failing at solving any kind of problem in a satisfactory manner.

JWT can be used in the way described above, but it doesn't seem like particularly a good fit for this purpose. If we can't trust the clients not to lie about their users and their delegated claims, we need to make calls to some mutually trusted STS (or a Token Exchange) anyway. But if we already call an STS, we can just let the STS produce any type of opaque tokens for any type of server and let the backend verify the tokens (delegated or not) with the STS.

[1] Yes, these claims appear in the draft for OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange, but they came a few years later, and that draft is still not standardized.
"Getting such large teams to work on a project would not be possible if people could just donate for that work or something, because you'd get much much less money from it. "

Currently yes. Because the normal person is conditioned to only pay if he or she has to.

But imagine if there is sudddenly no more copyright and ... oh my god, no more episode of series xyz because of no money ... you really believe all those hardcore fans would not quickly adopt to pay freely if the result is more of the content they want, if the alternative is no more content?
It's like once people have children something flips in their brains and they become unable to think rationally about perceived dangers.

Screens are not bad. Screens display things. What is on the screen and how the child is interacting with that defines what is good or bad. Screens just are.

And re: this study, when I was a kid in the 90s I used my screens to read books (and still do). It's not either or when it comes to books and screens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm9oMGJDY-8&feature=youtu.be...

comes to mind :)
Unfortunately, in comparison to the patent trolls, the bigger copyright trolls are also the biggest producers of "copyrighted content" (not that content produced by anyone doesn't have copyright, but they often forgot this fact) and they push for damaging legislation.
I would definitely use it. Save up a bit of money and then go and do whatever you like. What's not to like?
> 'I'm not a professional researcher on this topic, just an passionate observer and n=1 having healed an "Incurable" autoimmune condition using a carnivore (ketogenic) diet.'

> 'The rationale for an animal (and animal fat) based diet is more complex, but it revolves around the fact that all plants contain compounds that damage the intestinal lining to varying degrees. This leads to a cascade of events in which the immune system devolves into a diseased state that leads to the wide array of chronic illnesses that we see today.'

Here is the actual truth:

Glyphosate, aka Roundup, which is found throughout the American food system and especially in wheat, is responsible for all of those autoimmune disorders. "Leaky gut syndrome" etc. It wasn't the 'keto' diet which cured you, it was stopping ingesting all of that FDA-approved poison which did it.
> It was always economically impossible for Google or Youtube or Reddit or any major website with thousands of new user-generated posts a day (let alone millions) to review each of these cases.

The only review required is that the notices and counter-notices are signed, identify the work in question, have the filer's contact information, include a statement that the filer has a good faith belief about the infringement or lack of infringement, and include a statement (in notices) that the information in the filing is accurate or (in counter-notices) that you consent to jurisdiction of the Federal District Court in the district the address in your contact information is in.

This level of review should not require much effort, and the people doing it just need basic literacy. They don't need any legal training.
Handwritten PDP-6 hardware log from the Stanford AI Laboratory (1967) [pdf]
Is Evolutionary Psychology Impossible?
I've seen a couple of different definitions, but the most restrictive appears to be that RCE means the ability to execute arbitrary code on a remote host (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary_code_execution). Note that the definition returned at the top of a Google search for RCE is considerably more general than this.

There are many pieces of software that allow a remote user to execute arbitrary code remotely. Some examples are ssh and the Jupiter notebook running a Python or Julia kernel.

Of course these types of software usually include an authentication/authorization mechanism limiting access to authorized users. Any bug in the implementation of this mechanism could potentially allow the unauthorized remote execution of arbitrary code. No "safe" language alone can prove the absence of all such bugs. At a minimum doing so would require a complete specification of who is authorized to execute what code and how they are to prove their identity to the software along with a formal proof that the implementation completely implements the spec.
I've been using Babbel to learn Spanish. Anyone have suggestions for where to go after maxing resources like Babbel and Duolingo? I feel like I hit a wall somewhere and the next steps aren't so clear. Some of the steps the author used look helpful like changing phone language and heavy use of anki
At which NLP tasks are they state the art?
The only one where they are really competitive is dependency parsing. (from my own disjonction of cases)

Also were there any new real SOTA on any NLP tasks since last summer? I feel like accuracy progress has frozen..

What I would love would be to get a notification/mail when a task from which I subscribed got a new SOTA (from paperswithcode.com obviously).
Cybersecurity Jobs Going Begging as College Computer Science Grads Lack Skills
Bear app for notes, and also see recommendations on thesweetsetup.com... my only grip with bear is it’s iOS only, no web access even. I didn’t care until my iOS and mac both died during travel and i couldn’t use bear from droid or linux
Actually, what's the net rate of money lost and people who've lost money as a result of that?
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There's also the category of "infinite outliner apps". The OG of these is Workflowy[1] which is a minimalist's take on the idea. Personally, I use Dynalist[2] which is Workflowy with more features.

My current problem with these tools is that I tend to treat them as mostly a "write-only" medium. i.e., I don't really refer back to them that often. What I'm really looking for is a tool that will let me _serendipitously_ encounter ideas from the past. For that, I think that Roam[3] with its Mediawiki style "backlinks" might be the next thing that I spend some serious time with.

Either that or a tool that somehow encourages me to refactor thoughts from the past into more (currently) useful content.

[1] https://workflowy.com/

[2] https://dynalist.io/

[3] https://roamresearch.com/
> The correct line of action IMO would have be to tell straight the situation (urgent funding needed), then attempt to crowfund the development, and only then in case of failure sell to someone else. That way nobody could have complained.

I’ve posted about it throughout the years (linked to one such in the blog) and even had donations set up and asked with every update post for people to help by either donating or to use the default search.

It just wasn’t enough to grow.
This is an awesome post. The one thing I wish it included was context around their lifestyle during this time period. How many hours a day did they devote? Were they working full time? If so doing what? What other responsibilities / life things got in the way.

It's one thing to imagine yourself doing this given six months of dedicated time (not that they claimed to have had this) and another to get a real sense of how one might fit this into one's life. Anyway, great, detailed article and an impressive accomplishment.
This is about repeatedly ignoring clear user preferences because one of the options gives more access to the user’s data for marketing. I’d have nothing against them offering the app, doing the standard banner, etc. – what makes it abusive is pretending there’s a choice when one of the options starts a cycle of nagging and “accidentally” breaking the experience until you switch.
Interesting read, The title should have 2015 in it though.
I personally suspect it's an attempt to "sell" the religion. Someone can google Ballard and find out all about Joseph Smith!

But the quote is sort of bland and not that insightful anyway.
Reminds me of this [0].

Ikenna learned (conversational?) French in 6 months. It's quite an inspiring video. After watching a few of his videos now, it definitely plays a part in continuing to motivate me learning Japanese.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8gno6Uzuo8
Anyone care to explain why they downvoted this?
Why should I trust people working at universities with my private data?
You can basically approximate a 1F change to 0.5C change (or 0.55C) for non scientific purposes.

50F -> 10C
51F -> ~10.5C
52F -> ~11C

Unless you hate decimals, I don't think there's much granularity gained.
I think the point is that it wasn't better security. And nowadays it likely has no improvement or actually decreases security.
This seems perfectly in line with the DMCA, as much as I disagree with it:

- DMCA, circumvention means that there is a user attempting to “descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner”

- trafficking in devices or tools that help other people circumvent access-control and copy-control measures

That being said, it seems to be overly largely used for spam
Deliberately false or recklessly false claims ought to be punished.

Make any claimant or their lawyer put up a bond of 100 usd before making any claims. Publish the claims on a site. Allow anyone, not just the damaged party, to claim the bounty for the fraudulent claims by submitting proof.

Increase the bond exponentially as it is paid out making it eventually hideously expensive if you keep breaking the law.

Make the increases eventually expire allowing people to reform their behavior.
lol. the risk of it becoming public has increased now that it's accessible by more people. NDAs are a deterrent, but it doesn't deter everyone.
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Call for Grant Proposals – Raku / Perl
Any language that can be compiled for x86 can be transpiled to any language in which an interpreter of x86 opcodes could be written. The question is what level of abstraction can be preserved; if it requires lowering that far, it's not likely to be worth it.
What do you mean, "not likely in the U.S."? Didn't you hear their perfectly accurate description of the typical selfish, greedy doctor, whose only real concern is making money and not the patient's health? Sounds exactly like a thousand another similar anecdotes I've heard from a thousand different people.
No, it's not smart. It's clickbait, and "hacker" "news" eats it up, every time.
The taxi cab story is easily a top-5 math story, and is quintessential Ramanujan.

Has there been a genius of his kind since? Maybe Terry Tao, but his work also lacks the ease and lack of machinery that Ramanujan had. Truly amazing.
If I want to build a big company how do I prevent stuff like this? What if I aggressively fire those kinds of managers and anyone playing these kinds of political games? I imagine you'd have to deal with lawsuits but you'd be more successful as a business so it wouldn't matter.

Setting the right vision and hiring well helps. But I think you need to have consequences for when you make mistakes there.
I wish they taught this in college because if you have to learn it on your own, it's a painful lesson.
Just in case the author stops by HN: I want to echo the sentiment that this post was awesome, informative, and motivating. Thank you for posting, and please continue with your blog!
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Agreed, I'm also an SWE, pro FOSS and all but the Linux Desktop is just not there.

also these days my first suggestion for most users would be chromeOS or similar.
This person is talking about durability and integrity of data—“safety” as it pertains to data loss and lost profits. They’re not talking about data leaks.
are bridges supposed to function as much more efficient inserters?
What infringement? The 'infringement' of using 'did' in a dictionary definition, of all things?
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13286503
Lingvist [0] has been useful to me for vocab building post-Duolingo. The mobile apps are thoughtfully designed -- you can use text or speech input fairly easily -- and they're rolling out (for Spanish and French so far; I'd expect German will come soon, but Russian seems to be a ways off) the ability to generate domain-inspired personalized courses using sample text you input. I'm mainly practicing my German right now, so I haven't tested it much, but this might be very powerful in combination with Project Gutenberg texts, etc. I also appreciate that they have Spanish courses for both Latin America and Spain.

[0]: https://lingvist.com/
Proji: A fast and powerful project scaffolding tool is now available in the AUR
No automatic backups could be a feature but not having any way to migrate your old chats to a new device is not a feature.
In similar vein, rumour has it that the Belgian revolution of 1830 started at the opera in Brussels, during a performance of "La muette de Portici" (The mute girl of Portici). I'm sure the story is much embellished, given that Belgium was already in open revolt against the Dutch, and independence wasn't far behind.
> And I think you're unable to see or you're plainly ignoring the issue from concerned users perspective

I don’t think that’s fair; I’ve done my best to reply to everyone.

> what's more, you managed to insult them here saying there's some conspiracy theory just because users don't like what happened to the browser.

People were making things up on reddit (which is when this blog post was posted) about what was happening. I think it’s a valid thing to say.
The most valuable creative works require all of one person and little technology. If all of TV and movies were lost not much would be lost. I cannot imagine configuring our society and culture to this end.
No mention of it in the English Wikipedia Munich article, but there's one about LiMux, their custom distro:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

German Wikipedia's München article does mention it:

(Deutsch) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_M%C3%BCnchens

(English) https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3...

Edit: Sorry, actually my trail was

1) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchen

2) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchen#Geschichte

3) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_M%C3%BCnchens
when I experimented with GCP, I found it weird that cloud-run would not work together with the GLB. That was really a surprise.
> 'Why aren't all cancer companies, organizations, also researching or putting funding towards prevention? The answer is obvious to me,'

The truth is much more sinister than you imagine. Profit actually has little to do with it. The reality is, all of this cancer is caused by all of the carcinogenic chemicals that this "civilization" is exposed to daily. There is no cure, other than a complete reworking of the entire civilization from the ground up, which won't be allowed to happen. Which is exactly why they like to pretend so strongly that everything is just fine and they are "racing for the cure." It's all bullshit. THERE IS NO CURE.

What they are actually "racing" to do is get their bomb shelters built and stocked with food and supplies, so they can set all of the nations of the world at war with one another while they hide away and let you apes kill each other off.

What is this "we as a society" business you're talking about? Especially in regards to taxation. You think it's "society" that taxes people? No, it's the government. The same people who own the medical cartel own the government also, and the news media, and everything else. They own HN also--which is why this account isn't long for this world, just as the previous ones were quickly downvoted, flagged, and shadowbanned.
Yes, I do believe that.

However I actually would love to switch to a more kickstarter/etc like system where fans fund the creation of works they enjoy and then those works are just in the public domain / culture as a result. The creators and everyone else involved would be paid before, not after, making something.
South korean developer here. I am quite aware of government plans for software since I've done my service as a software developer for army.

There is a company called TmaxSoft which advertises itfself as only builders to the 'Korean OS'. Fueled by relatively high patriotism shared by average koreans, the government had been subsidizing this firm for more than 10 years. Despite the effort to liberate the nation from a private US firm this wasn't successful so far: first they tried to build their own kernel which froze at the public demo. After realizing it was dumb to write kernel from scratch, they began focusing on tuning the visual interface. The result was criticism that is was just a pathetic clone of MintOS(linux distro).

Due to bureaucratic debt over 10+ years, I think those government officials are desparately trying to meet an end to this mad project. The money and time they've spent well deserves a spot in governmental future plan in converting all american OS: Windows into Homemade korean government friendly OS.
Out-of-context photos are a powerful low-tech form of misinformation
I've used FLEE for this. Compiles down to IL so it's fast, you can define your own functions, etc.

https://github.com/mparlak/Flee/wiki/Getting-Started
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Honest question: why don't you include books as a media?
Sorry, but I still fail to see how it's considered a good to have used $50 million to make "yet another messaging app" (because anything "for the masses" is "yet another thing" because of network effect).

With 50 million, one would have hoped instead that they would have helped improve XMPP, that they would have developed the "perfect" XMPP client that everybody could and would use, and that they would run "for free" one XMPP server with all the features one can expect of a good messaging service while letting the hard-core base have their own server if they want (no need to support the hard-core base, they do it already on their own).

Or maybe with Matrix if one really don't want to contribute to XMPP, but still, with OMEMO, ... I feel like all the "security features" are coming to the XMPP world.

I still believe that if you're not in control of the whole chain (open source client + open source server), you're not in control at all, because you still have to believe the they are doing what they are promising they do, without being able to verify it.
I learned french in 3 months aprox. while living in France. Ive arrived there without much knowledge of the language. First weeks I was feeling like an alien. Then I started to understand but couldn't speak. Then I started to use translate and dictionary to build some phrases beforehand to be able to be polite and ask the questions I wanted. After 3 months something clicked during a talk I was watching, I not only began to understand without having to think but was able to ask questions to the French guy on my side about the talk (it was about a ML algorithm). I am a native speaker of a Latin language (Portuguese).
I felt this same way. Survival is the real challenge. Campaign is just for fun / learning the mechanics.
He credited his work to his family goddess. From wikipedia:

"A deeply religious Hindu, Ramanujan credited his substantial mathematical capacities to divinity, and said the mathematical knowledge he displayed was revealed to him by his family goddess. "An equation for me has no meaning," he once said, "unless it expresses a thought of God.""
Kotlin constants can be overridden by variables
Interesting development. I wonder if Excel/VBA are a big part of their work. If so, there could be large costs in converting, testing, and deploying the alternatives.
Most of the time the computer I sit in front of is my company provided work computer. That is not a piece of hardware that I would use to access my (non work related) secure messaging platform.
> Once all developers have cross-compiled their apps

This is what I'm referring to specifically. If this were to happen, there would be a transition period where an obscure technical difference would mean they can do certain things on one mac model, and not on another.

And this won't even be like 'the entire new generation of macbooks can run this, the older ones can't' but 'this particular new model of macbook air can't run this, all the rest can, including all the other new ones' - Apple will never allow that to happen, it's completely antithetical to their product positioning strategy - simple computers that just work.

I concede that in the mac(book) line they do go into detail on some technical specs, but these are pretty much sliding scale numbers, bigger is better and more powerful and more expensive. It's very clear even to casual consumers (perhaps with a little explanation) why a bigger frequency number, more storage, more memory, is better. I.e. it's the same thing, just more powerful.

That's a very different thing than trying to explain to a consumer that the chip architecture is different, and why that means certain software doesn't work now, but will once the developer does this and that, etc etc. Again, Apple will simply not put themselves in that position.

To be honest I kind of hope I'm wrong - I'm interested in seeing what a macbook with Apple's own chips in it would look like, and if that's their plan then for me the sooner it happens the better. I just don't see it happening in any other way than all at once, though.
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I would have thought Facebook contained interaction, competition, and surprise, for better or worse.
How? Uber’s market cap is higher than the investment by SoftBank. Plus they had possible deals during IPO.
Has Facebook run out of ideas? The company's long history of copying rivals
I'd assume they're working at the OS level since part of the exploit involves the hardware (hyperthreading)...
The market cap of Uber is higher than the investment valuation.
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