skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought I could try this really easily in Python.

Here's what I did:

Open IDLE and type:

from random import seed
from random import random
seed(1)

You can then try typing random() and get values:

>>>random()
0.13436424411240122

>>>random()
0.8474337369372327

>>>random()
0.763774618976614

I actually forgot that random() doesn't just return an integer, like in c where if you type rand() you get a random integer. But these numbers looked great to me. I could easily imagine the first one 0.13436424411240122 just being 13436424411240122 and so on. I thought it's a great way to get the first digit of a random numbers with an unlimited size, and for this result I thought this is a good way to go ahead.

So with the above basis, I want to look at the distribution of the first nonzero digit after the decimal point.

So next put the following function in. (basically it just gets a random as above, but keeps multiplying by 10 as long as the first digit of the string conversion is a "0". this returns the first non-zero digit at the left.)

def getone():
floaty = random()
while(str(floaty)[0] == '0'):
floaty *= 10
return int(str(floaty)[0])

This now gets us the leftmost digit, check it out:

>>>getone()
3
>>>getone()
2
>>>getone()
4

>>>getone()
2

All right. Now let's just do this a few million times and keep track of buckets. Make some buckets:

buckets = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] # buckets for: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

This next line will run for up to a few minutes:

for tries in range(10000000):
buckets[getone()] += 1

Now print the results:

for result in range(10):
print (result, ":", buckets[result])

This gets me....

0 : 0
1 : 1112927
2 : 1110821
3 : 1109741
4 : 1110793
5 : 1111604
6 : 1112178
7 : 1111272
8 : 1110402
9 : 1110262

Clearly Benford's law does NOT apply here.

Why not?
Cut TTFB in 1/2: FPC to CDN POP locations
It’s abusive to tell people they need an app to get access to something when there’s no technical reason for the requirement. Everyone knows the real reason is better ad targeting / data resale but that’s not something a user should care about – users aren’t your shareholders and there are plenty of formerly big companies which spent too much time on things which didn’t benefit their users.

If you’re thinking UX, the question should be how the user benefits. There are some potential answers like better performance, offline support, etc. which generally come back to how badly their current SPA developers failed at networking and error handling but that’s probably just restating that they should take the web UI seriously rather than ignoring it in the hopes that people will install the app.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868605/

Here you go
A federated alternative to Reddit would be nice. Perhaps something that integrates with the Fediverse.

Surely someone must ha e built something like this already?
You probably can sell me “any and all rights that you do have” to the Statue of Liberty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quitclaim_deed
Fahrenheit is a better scale for day to day temperature measurement.
They were not granted the exclusive right to sub licence it.

Happy now?
> The design of the machine is well documented in a book by James Thornton, the lead designer

The type on the twin CRTs of the console is very interesting. The cover of the book shows a sample of it and the slight imprecisions of the beam deflection give it a whimsical quality, as if the fastest computer of its time used Comic Sans to communicate with its operator.
From what I understand, there are energy regulator laws in various Canadian provinces that have made it difficult to charge per kw/h.

Some combination of the two (time and energy) is ideal to prevent station hogging, though.
In China they could probably do the regulatory bit quickly but it still takes a while to test if vaccines are safe and work. I don't any of the stuff being tested in the article are vaccines.
> Which of those things can the official Reddit app do currently?

Looking at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reddit.fro..., scroll down and click the 'View Details' under Permissions. It shows that the app can read your contacts, network connections, approximate location, contents of your USB storage plus much more which would cover all of codedokode's points adequately I think? (I'm not sure of the annoying notifications, perhaps all apps can do that..)

The list in full:

This app has access to:
Photos/Media/Files

read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Location

approximate location (network-based)

Storage

read the contents of your USB storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Microphone

record audio

Camera
take pictures and videos

Contacts

find accounts on the device

Device & app history

read sensitive log data

Identity

add or remove accounts
find accounts on the device

Other

receive data from Internet
view network connections
prevent device from sleeping
run at startup
read Google service configuration
draw over other apps
read sync settings
full network access
create accounts and set passwords
use accounts on the device
toggle sync on and off
install shortcuts
So, why is that part not self-hosted?
> At some point, MrAlex94 will be made to compromise his principles.

Except that at the point at which System1 crosses the line, MrAlex94 can fork the code (since it's all FOSS), create "Earthfox" (or whatever) and start again.

> But when you sell out, you give up control to The Man in exchange for that sweet, sweet cash.

I have no skin of the game (other than not wanting free software developers who stray even slightly from the perfect ideal, to be stigmatised), but this sounds rather condescending given that:

1. (to the extent that I know) MrAlex94 has spent most of his working life on an open source project, with little financial remuneration,

2. he's (most probably) not personally getting some vast amount of cash from the transaction, just his project receiving enough support to be able to employ one (?) extra person and get "fancy" features like CI builds.

If he had spent the time working on a closed source project at a company he would have almost certainly been far better off financially and he wouldn't have had to put up with such targeted attacks.

I think that there's very much space for criticising the trade-offs of the decision, but IMO your phrasing was excessively harsh.
We do use a large IP range but not from residential home. We found out residential IP ranges get blocked fairly easily so that is why we avoid using those.

No Torjans.
No Hacking.

The most shady thing we do is web scraping Google because it is against the Terms of Service.
>The sound is imperceptible to most ears, with the possible exception of young people and dogs

That seems pretty cruel
Maybe you should try iOS :-) it’s quite different here honestly. I’m not saying there aren’t holes they’ve had to patch [like recently adding a popup for Bluetooth LE permissions] but they are pretty good at closing them.
It cost us less than $100/month to run the infrastructure. Seems like a fair price to me. Unless you are suggesting I increase my pricing?

edit: I am still working on optimizing the pricing plan.
>completely offline stuff.

Yeah but not on a raspberry pi...which is what mycroft usually ends up on
good replacement for reddit?
Airdrop $52 of OrchidProtocol crypto tokens
ideas for reddit replacement?
> Also it's not "others" who did it before, but the very same nation-state that is now screaming blue murder.

Well, this is the classic continuity problem: is the US from centuries ago the same US of today ?

> Oh, it should absolutely be debated, but the US has no moral high ground when making its arguments. Turnabout is fair play

I am from Europe. Anyway, I disagree. Moral stances aren't cancelled because past wrongdoings.
Entrepreneur Raised $133M to Help Industrial Buildings Become Carbon Neutral
I’d be curious if people have tried other platforms.
Until shown otherwise, I think it's reasonable to assume that Getty does not have an internal policy of filing bogus copyright claims.

But yes, even if they do.. the authorities probably have worse criminals to pursue.

So in practice you could probably get away with it for a long time.
You still haven't explained what you want to do and why I (as a NetBSD developer) should be interested.
I suspect that it would only work against MEMS microphones. Normal "analog" magnetic microphones physically filter high frequency noise.
I think deaf people might disagree, and would likely make the world much worse for people wearing these in public by beating the crap out of them.
Why unhealthy? Having rules for guests which make you more comfortable in your own home makes sense to me.
So we really have no one to blame but ourselves.
> the average gap between consecutive prime numbers among the first N integers is roughly log(N)

So if you are compressing exceptionally large numbers, say, a whole video file, which is likely to contain very long factors, you could shave log2(log(N)) bits for each factor of length N. Seems like the most impractical compression algorithm imaginable.
One thing to watch out for with this reasoning is that there are a lot of data points which are innocent by themselves, but can produce a high-accuracy fingerprint when combined together. For example, browser, language, screen resolution, timezone, etc. By themselves none of these would identify anyone uniquely, but the combination might be enough to target a single user with very high accuracy.
I can't imagine a prison being nice, no matter how lavish the amenities.

Unrelated: The absolute and total no-holds-barred lack of due process is why I have always been reluctant to go on a cruise. You are basically subject to a mini floating dictatorship the whole time you are aboard. I wonder if this is a press hit designed to distract from that, now that it's been in the news. Cruises are a huge industry.
> Myers was amazed to find that a circle roughly 2,500 miles in diameter, when placed over the right part of Asia, could hold more than half the world's population.

The above is from the article. It says radius in the title and diameter in the article
This has been reported to work:

>China National Biotec Group has been using this plasma, which contains highly potent antibodies, to treat more than 10 seriously ill patients since Feb 8,

> It claimed that those receiving the treatment improved within 24 hours, with reduced inflammation and viral loads along with better oxygen levels in the blood.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-seeks-plas...
I wish Google took a harder line against sites that make content available to their scraper that isn't available to the end user. It's one of the things that pushed me over to using DDG. (I'm not sure if DDG takes a more active approach, but I think less energy goes into gaming DDG's algorithm by the SEO-driven companies who do things like this.)
Fair enough, maybe I should have said that in theory they could go to jail for fraud.

In practice, it's unlikely that even a dedicated scam operation gets the attention of the authorities.. it rarely happens, probably because there are more serious crimes to prosecute.
sound great, doesn't work. if it would work, we would have perfect translations for spoken languages already. and google(translate) with it's massive computing, financial and brain power still hasn't figured it out.
Nose and mouth can both spread germs from a sick person through coughing and sneezing and get infected with germs. A mask stops both those things from happening. Hands can't get infected with a respiratory infection and are easily cleaned by washing.
I am mainly referring to the all atom molecular dynamics world, because that is where I am aware. But within that domain even the traditional simulators can only truly interpolate within experimental data. This is because the parameters within the simulator are generally only fit to a certain set of experimental data and therefore show poor performance anywhere else. Whether this is novel unseen molecules, different temperature domains, etc. While those parameters have gotten better they are laughably bad in certain areas.

But yes if you are creating a mathematical model from the ground and trying to use the model itself as a method to discover something about the system, then you are correct in that the new mathematical model may be able to tell you new things about the system. However, if you are trying to learn things from the simulations, then the type of simulator you are using matters less as long as it is accurate enough.
Many (though certainly not all) of those things require explicit permission from the user (particularly the storage, location, and camera related stuff).
Coronavirus versus the flu: Comparison of cases, deaths
> now there's nowhere in the world a pint's a pound.

was 20 years ago in our student bar. More like 3-4 pounds for a pint now, 5 in London
The poster is 100% correct but kind of missing the point of the platform. Upwork is essentially a platform for US people to hire cheap, interchangeable labor in low-wage countries. Anything else that happens on Upwork (like someone actually making a fair wage) is just a happy accident.

For companies who need a random jobs done like data entry or data cleaning, it's an amazing service where an army of freelancers will fight over your meager $200 budget. They put the cheap labor through hell because they know they can - all in an effort to make the hiring experience better than hiring local help. The person hiring has 110% of the power. The first clue is that the hiring person literally gets to spy on your screen 100% of the time which is insane and not a working condition you should accept form a real job.

If you are a US/UK/other expensive place developer, you should not be using Upwork to find work unless you literally have no contacts and no experience. It's the very bottom of the barrel of consulting. You should be building your own client relationships in your own market. If you can do that, you can easily earn 5x - 10x what you can earn on a commodity platform like Upwork. But if you are in the Phillipines and you can make double a local wage helping someone far away clean up a spreadsheet, that might make more sense.
| So in the end, about 50% of the world population lives in about 50% of the world's habitable land.

Your math may be accurate, but your assessment of habitable land-mass seems to be off.

I know and work with a number of people in Canada, and I've visited many, many times. I'd hardly consider the entire area of Canada "uninhabitable". (Per wikipedia [1], Canada has a total (non-water) area of 3,511,023 sq. mi.) 37 million people live Canada [1].

Also, just a quick visual check indicates that about 1/2 of the area within that circle is ocean. And, the population density of the Himalayas (which is in the circle) is arguably small as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
The Coming AI Autumn (2019)
Google chrome. At the end of the day, this is the most convenient one for me
I remember when load balancing was a case of setting up apache or nginx on a server and letting it handle the upstream connections.
Firefox for everything but development.

I actually run both simultaneously and it's handy because I know docs/notes/confluence will be in the FF windows and dev stuff in Chrome's
Podcasters want an awards show, so they’re trying to start one
Holland America are PR geniuses. They’ve taken one hell of a lemon and made some very sweet marketing lemonade out of it.
Of course there is. It's an improper prior (doesn't sum up to one), see link above. Theoretically the Gaussian is only maximum entropy given a mean and stddev. An infinite uniform is maxent without any knowledge of mean and stddev.

In practice though you can use a wide Gaussian if it is more mathematically convenient and get about the same results.
There is an important distinction you're missing between how you're using fractal and how this article is using it. It's saying something fundamentally different, though related, about turbulence, than you're saying about trees etc., even if you don't realize it.

I live in the mountains and I'm outside in a forest setting multiple times a week. I see exactly what you're talking about; it's just not the same as what the article is saying, even if you use the same word to describe it.
It’s a stage in the bubble process: these companies were funded well beyond their real revenue prospects and those unsustainable business models are also seeing ad rates which have been declining for many years. The investors expect returns which the market can’t deliver and that’s going to lead to more abuses until the users switch to a company earlier in the cycle.

Reddit has had something like $550M in funding, with the last round in December 2019. It’s been around for 15 years so it’s unlikely to become profitable at the desired levels but everyone involved has a strong incentive not to recognize that.
No proxy farm. Just replying on Cloud provider(s).
Which is then problem with the law and justice system, if fraud can be a valid buisness model.
A Norwegian “ski lift for cyclists”
The fact that this article exists actually makes me sad.

When did we as a society give up our privacy for such a small amount of convenience? Or has it been gradually chipped away until we have reached this point?

I feel sorry for my children and the future in which they are going to live in. I also feel a sense of shame for participating in a society that has normalised these things.

Sorry kids. We got greedy. We boiled the planet and normalised blanket spying for profits.
So you don't ever install kernel patches? That's nothing to brag about.
Salesforce and for free.
I can even give you an online free course. Learn Salesforce on trailhead.com. It gave me the opportunity to work on awesome projects. Besides, this tech is so hyped on the market. Jump in the bandwagon!
It didn’t use to be so uncomfortable. Even just two generations ago, the weather was much milder and even when uncomfortable, only for a couple months.

Then everything got paved, all the trees were cut down so there’s no more shade, carbon emissions, population explosion, climate change etc. Even the cultural traditions which used to line up with seasons such as monsoons and spring don’t quite line up anymore.
I'm in Michigan, a manufacturing state. The reason for the timing is all the factories at full capacity from 7am to 7pm.
Disclaimer, I am more referencing classical molecular dynamics in the atomic region. And what I am envisioning this type of thing for is not dependent on the mathematical model per se. So specifically my point is towards say GROMACS (or a similar MD simulation engine) where the force fields generally used for that are parameterized for biological/organic systems. Let's say we train our neural network on data fitting to lipids. So maybe a bunch of random data on lipids like their melting temperature, surface temperature, etc. Then we run the neural network simulator to model how these things form into larger structures (something that is for the most part impossible with current all atom approaches). And then we study that data to make an assessment on how certain structures can form etc.

Now if you are aware of the field, what I just described was (ignoring I do not remember the exact fitting data) the parameterization process of the MARTINI force field which is sufficiently good at lipids, kind of okay at proteins, and pretty bad at everything else. But within the bounds that you know the weakness of the system you can still use it to figure out experimental data. (Also as an aside MARTINI only got access to proteins and other things later on, thankfully force fields improve over time.)
My understanding is that public domain means no license, no nothing. So anyone can sell a copy of it( claiming copyright like in this case is a different story). A licensed piece is not in the public domain. As the creator you can dictate the terms of use, and you do so with a license which basically allows everyone to use the piece( or for certain use-cases depending on the license). Think of it as a hack: a licensed piece is still copyrighted, and will enter the public domain when the copyright expires( or the sun blows up, whichever comes first).
I'm kinda concerned. I'm in Singapore and there have been cases quite near though it's still a small percentage of the population. I'm near the biggest red blobs on the ourbreak map: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-singapore-map-sh...

Slightly eccentrically I ordered some chloroquine (because https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001359446/anti-mala...)

Re whether to worry in the west I'd keep an eye on Singapore because they have pretty good controls here. If it levels out things will likely be ok. If it goes exponential the the rest of the world will probably follow.
> Public health authorities like CDC don't recommend their use among people who are not infected

See: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/index.html

Your link & the CDC don't say what you think they say.

CDC's recommendations are that members of the uninfected public should not wear N95 masks.

This should NOT be understood as: CDC says N95 masks are ineffective at preventing airborne infections of Covid-19.

It IS the CDC saying: N95 masks are non-trivial to use correctly, require decontamination protocols or single-use replacement to avoid infection and contamination from used masks themselves (potentially full of virus particles), and protect against a threat many people are unlikely to be exposed to (close proximity infected persons) -- a mix of criteria that make them inefficient to recommend for general public use.

As you see in the link above, CDC absolutely recommends N95+ respirators for EMS and healthcare workers, when working in close proximity to infected persons.

But healthcare workers have a substantially higher airborne exposure risk, as well as professional support and training for properly using N95 masks.
You are not the customer. The app allows advertisers to flexibly access large numbers of people in specific market segments.
Analyze large scale architectures in broader terms than usual software “ilities”
AdTech companies and data brokers often buy privacy-focused products from single developers / small teams and turn them into data collection devices.

I was part of a team that uncovered such a large-scale data collection schema by a data broker company in 2016. They bought popular privacy-focused browser extensions like "Web of Trust" and turned them into spyware, sending every URL users opened in their browsers to their backend. They then slapped some token "anonymization" on the data and sold it to whomever was willing to pay. They even provided a sample consisting of more than two months of browsing data from three million people in Germany to a team of journalists posing as a startup as a freebie. The data contained tons of highly intimate and sensitive information and users where trivial to re-identify in many cases, e.g. via URLs that contained usernames, e-mail addresses or access tokens.

Chrome and Firefox briefly banned the extension from their app stores, but a few weeks after the incident it was suddenly back, happily exfiltrating data from unsuspecting users again.

I then realized that browser vendors often have perverse incentives when it comes to privacy and really don't care so much about it. Even companies like Mozilla allow plenty of shady extensions to exfiltrate really sensitive user data, because those extensions increase the popularity of the browser.

BTW these companies often lie to the original developers / teams that they acquire. "Web of Trust" for example was originally written by a team of students that really cared about user privacy and trust. So I wouldn't give too much about the promises of such companies, their business is selling data and collecting as much data as possible is one of their primary objectives, privacy always takes a backseat.