skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you hear a company talk about the promises of synthetic data, you should run far far away. The fundamental problem is that in order for synthetic data to be useful for model training the generative synthetic model must have already solved the problem at hand. Training on the synthetic data is just a charade: you would be better off simply extracting the model you need from the source generative model. For generative models with densities this is as simple as P(Y | X) = P(X, Y) \ P(X).

So, what do you get out of it compared to simply training models as a service for people? Almost nothing useful. All you get are:

- Much worse privacy guarantees. (People selling synthetic data love to talk about improved privacy, but it's actually the reverse. The privacy guarantees for synthetic data are much, much worse than selling direct models to people.)

- Much worse model performance. See the previous notes about how a synthetic data generating procedure must have already solved the problem at hand.

- A much more complicated setup with much more expensive model training. Training generative models is hard and requires a lot of data and compute due to the difficulty in learning such a complex outcome space. This can easily cost 100-1000x as much as simply training a straightforward xgboost model.
I don't necessarily disagree with what you're saying, but that's not what my comment was about.

"conspiracy theorist" has, to a large extent, become a phrase used to describe a certain class of fairly nutty folks these days, rightly or wrongly. I was noting that it's possible that someone pointing out a possible political outcome based on money transfer/golf games can do so without being a member of that group, as its effectively defined today.
Sort of interesting to think about the fact that used mattresses are a no-go for people, but they'll gladly sleep on hotel beds used by orders of magnitude more people.

Don't think I'd buy a used mattress either though...
A workaround to this is to use Process Explorer[1] to search for the filename, then kill the process that has a handle with that file name.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...
The EU disagrees: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries_en#28mem....

The UK may still be following some of the EU's rules, but they have officially left the union.
Systems like that are actually great for the employees, because every minute is accounted for and when you stay an hour longer at work you can expect to be paid for it at overtime rate.
Article author has clearly never worked in a call center.
Congrats on the launch!

Will have to see where I can fit this in to a project.
Goodreads is a good concept, but it's a dumpster some Amazon bought it.
There’s a 404 at that link
Roblox’s 10 biggest games of all time – each with more than a billion plays
shhh.. if they figure it out they'll start to provision single use numbers (or LRU style churning) to track specific behaviors.
I'm also somewhat suspicious that foam mattresses are quite bad for your health, not necessarily from a sleep mechanics perspective, but from an air quality one. I mean you are literally sleeping on a piece of plastic that is optimized for surface area. You then squish it constantly while using it and inhale those aerosolized plastic particles for about 8 hours per day.
I think you forgot the /s at the end.
JPEGs were never meant to be <1KB, so the header can be rather large-- looking at one example, the truncated JPEG data Instagram sends is 248B, and the additional fixed header information is 607B, resulting in an 848B thumbnail (the truncated data includes dimensions).

That 607B of fixed header includes some compression settings that don't need to change between images:

- 132B of quantization tables, saying how much to divide every coefficient by-- for subtle details the difference between "128" and "129" doesn't matter, and you can just send "2 * 64".

- a 418B Huffman table, which stores the frequencies of different coefficient values after quantization-- small values are much more common than large ones, given the divisors. You can have smaller image data with properly tuned tables, but that only matters for large images. For 250B of image data, it's a waste.

- Miscellaneous other details that are fixed, like the file type magic headers, the color space information, and start/end markers.

You can dig in more by putting a thumbnail like https://i.imgur.com/M0EsJH1.jpg into this site: https://cyber.meme.tips/jpdump/
This actually happens a lot in call centres. This is why I am very polite to those on the phones because I know they are likely to be working in a horrid office.
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Honest question: does the NSA have good engineers? Like, FAANG good? It seems like a funny "hype line" for a startup, because I think of government engineers as ok, but not like, rockstars.

But maybe I'm wrong?
I am not a gun enthusiast like the grandparent commenter. However, the toy gun emoji is an act of editorialization and politicization. Apple (and some others) took an emoji that had a particular intent and changed it to something else, to better suit their ideological views.

The harm is that it disallows citizens from expressing themselves precisely and accurately. It makes it harder to send communication involving guns (for example reacting to a comment with a gun emoji) and it sends guns to a less visible medium (full text). This change is a political stance on guns and therefore editorialization, since it diminishes the opinions of those who back the 2nd amendment. Likewise, taking a hotly debated politicized topic like transgender people, and adding gender neutral emojis, is also editorialization. And likewise, Apple fighting back to prevent a rifle emoji (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/20/apple-rif...) is editorialization.

It's not just me noting that these changes are politically motivated. It's pretty clear to everyone. See https://www.wired.com/2016/08/apples-new-squirt-gun-emoji-hi...
Could you please point where is backend code in your github ?
Big List of Public Resources for Intelligence (Osint)
I'm thinking I might do a write-up when I've had some more progress!

And yeah, my requirements in terms of performance are pretty light but my main candidate for whenever I need more power on a single node (though I guess I'd have to get at least two to keep my HA approach, so I want to see how far I can get with horizontally scaling SBCs first) is a mini-ITX with Ryzen 3900.
>Those cameras in retail stores are, first and foremost, used to track employee theft

In my history, before finding my terminal career, I worked retail management. I worked for a chain that is no longer open, so I'm fairly certain I can say whatever I want about it now.

I was fast-tracked for upper-level corporate management (I think it was the combination of not-giving-a-fuck based on depression and low-grade sociopathy that did that). During this process we were asked to optimize a store in our region. This optimization process included outlining for store staff the process to remove "internal shrink" read: employees stealing.

One of my stores had the highest "internal shrink" and "employee arrests" in the entire chain. My solution was to make a differential pay scale for that store. I increased all wages across the board by $3/hr up to the store manager level.

"Shrink" stopped in the first month. Not just "internal shrink" but external as well. The employees were actually NOT stealing and ACTIVELY stopping people from stealing.

I was told it wasn't as cost effective as installing cameras in common theft areas and outsourcing security to a third party, and it was scrapped after a year.

That was when I decided to leave retail and the corporate world in general.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370346 (businessinsider.com) 3 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370879 (yahoo.com) 2 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22374590 (bloomberg.com) 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22368762 (jalopnik.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22365454 (bloomberg.com)
The internet has solved the problem of computer researchers needing to be somewhere.
It was actually just the WHO saying all those things, parroting the information released by China's health services.

The CDC did not make any statements about the transmissibility of WCV because they didn't have the information to make any statements. In fact, in one of their first press releases on the WCV they even noted that it might be possible for person-to-person transmission to occur because not enough was known about how the virus was spread. https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/han00426.asp
It's a bit of a red-herring because the only thing that changed on Febuary 1st was that we're no longer having representation in the EU parliament, until the end of the year we're still following all the same laws and regulations.

And that assumes that the transition period is not extended. (Which it doesn't seem likely to be, frankly).
Excuses me for being ignorant but why would you need a DNS to stream from a cloud drive?
20 years of supporting the dems financially and otherwise ... what goes around comes around.
Does trump understand anything?
Thank you for the feedback.
I agree that the guy is creepy but disagree about the paedophile-ish vibe you get. As a result we need to change it anyway :)
What about the flip side of that. If the NYT prints a slanderous story about you, can you sue the deep-pocketed times, or do you have to go after the underpaid reporter?
I volunteer in coral restoration efforts, the article is complete junk science and is just another environmental disaster that the climate change gang is trying to latch onto. If they succeed they will have successfully divert money away from critical research and restoration efforts to chase a fix that will certainly see our reefs die, while the true killer is ignored.

There is very clear science on what is killing the coral reefs and it is not ocean warming:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190715164652.h...

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742050975/floridas-corals-are...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187734351...
It's not whataboutism. I am demonstrating that two politically opposed administrations came to the same decision. This implies that the basis of the decision may not be campaign contributions.
8A, of course my dad helped
Just curious, why are all the comments mentioning Larry Ellison's fund raiser downvoted?
Okay, seems like language misunderstanding. The system is just very slightly different where I live; the law systwm here is predominantly based on the Austrian one.
When you watch a PowerPoint presentation, what do you hate
I'm not looking for citations to how to make a great presentation, I'm asking for something more focused: when you watch someone in your field do a presentation, what specific things either about the slide or the talk irk you?
I agree that this is very tricky. I think the most interesting synthetic healthcare data generation I saw was using causal inference (where SMEs can bake in a bunch of expert knowledge during skeleton construction) and then generated data by getting the weights on the edges from a smaller dataset. At the same time, it is very hard to ensure that you synthetic dataset actually reflects real world. On one hand SME knowledge might give extra oomph to synthetic data generation (as this knowledge is equivalent to some highly abstracted training) but also if the "expert knowledge" is wrong then it's a recipe for disaster.
You hit the nail on the head.

They want to shape the content and do whatever curation or editorializing via human or algorithmic means, yet be seen an an open forum of user-generated content. Have it and eat it too scenario.

Not to mention adding paid content that blends in in a way that is indistinguishable from user submissions. This further complicates the intentions of the platform.
Hi! If you mean the PostHog code itself, most of it is in the PostHog folder.

If you want to send events from your own backend to PostHog, there's instructions for Ruby/Python/Node/API in the docs[0]

[0] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/wiki
GitHub itself works fine for science. I see no particularly compelling reason to use an science-oriented service given that people are more likely to be familiar with GitHub.

Here's an example (or shameless plug): I use GitHub to share research data: https://github.com/btrettel/pipe-jet-breakup-data

There's code in that repository too. The code merges a variety of different data sources and performs some analyses. Nothing particularly fancy, and the code is probably not much better than average as far as academic code goes (which is not good), but I'm slowly adding tests and improving the code otherwise.
Hi guy so thx
Money is just a piece of the underlying monetary system, which is constantly priced based on what the economy using that money does.

If that economy expands without corresponding increase in the money supply, then prices go down (because there are more stuff, but the same amount of money, so the same amount of money now represent more stuff). But this represents a deflation, which would auto-magically counteract the expansion, because it would incentivize people to wait and spend just at the last minute. (Time value of money and all would revert, wages would fall, fixed amount mortgages would start to spiral out, and all the regular deflation doomsday scenarios.) So the central banks make sure that even in an expanding economy the money supply "stays ahead" of the expansion of the economy. Targeting 2%. (And usually falling short, so inflation is somewhere between 1-2%.)

So holding money did not became worthless, quite the opposite, holding cash is now better than holding it in a bank. But the central bank has only a few policy tools available, and one of them is the interest rate manipulation.

The central banks want to encourage people to make some investments, to take on some risk, or at least spend. Sure, one way is to simply fund the government, as that usually seems the least risky. And it's not like there's nothing to spend on - the Green New Deal and co, but governments are quite reluctant to do so.
No, it became a draft. It just hasn't become a RFC. See: https://github.com/paragonie/paseto/issues/108
The action in the 90's wasn't to break up their desktop dominance, it was to prevent them using that power to dominating the internet too.
Most of your money is already on a centralized architecture of you are using a bank. But I agree that a decentralized system would be preferable.

However I can see a benefit in electronic money becoming a public utility rather than being controlled by private companies trying to extract rent.

Visa and MasterCard engage in massive rent extraction.

Would have been nicer with some form of robust international system for money transfer and exchange where middle men could not nickel and dime you the whole way.
How do you plan on monetizing?

edit: whoops didn’t read.
Primary blast wave protection in combat helmet design: A historical comparison
Is the tab switching synchronous? If not then I couldn't do it in parallel without inadvertently hitting the wrong tab.

If it is then its no better than using a page handle (as a handle would be required)
Of course, and many people are perturbed that telecom companies sell their information. However, perturbed != illegal.
The Dangers of Treating Marketing Like Physics
Since currency is de-facto already digitized, and everyone does everything electronically, how the h is an e-currency different from what's already there?
Not sure how that happened. I had replied to a comment where someone posted a link to https://www.windows93.net/

Sorry for the confusion.
Another decision that erodes my trust in Google Cloud further.
Anybody using keybase? I think they have excellent security, Superior to telegram and signal in some ways.
For those who don't know, Ben's Youtube channel is "Applied Science"[1]. All the described devices have videos on their design/construction/use.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333
I was happy with the two IKEA mattresses I bought. I have one super-cheap foam one that I used for many years and keep around for guests; guests say they like it more than their mattress at home, and I think it only cost $30 and has lasted going on 15 years at this point. I also had one of their more expensive latex foam mattresses, and that kind of developed a sunken in spot in the middle where I slept on it after ~5 years. I replaced it with a more botique latex mattress and the same thing happened; so I think that's more of an intrinsic weakness in the material rather than a manufacturing defect. And, you have to expect that something used every day for 8 continuous hours is going to need replacement after a few years anyway.

What I like about IKEA is that you just walk in and self-serve yourself a mattress. No sales. No marketing. If you don't like it, at least it was cheap. So I'm giving them a recommend.
To be fair, that's not their landing page.
> There are many reasons why you should MITM your hosts

Which is why I do it, although I didn't start until DoH came around. Your comments are very well taken, though -- doing this certainly does bring an entirely new collection of problems with it.

But for some people (at least, for me), the cost/benefit of properly implementing a MITM is lower than the cost/benefit of remaining vulnerable to marketers and other tracking ne'er-do-wells.
Yes. In my experience you change your state to an unavailable state with a particular reason (lunch, end of day, restroom, etc.). This way, when the people monitoring the efficiency of the call center know why person XYZ hasn't taken a call in 10 minutes, they know why.
Even though I know how to program, I really like Ansible and probably wouldn’t have gotten into it if it had the same functionality but used Python instead of YAML.
or don't use low resolution displays. 5K displays are currently run of the mill. 8K displays are on their way and may be the end of the road for the resolution race. Printers went to what 1200DPI?

How many pixels is a 0.5CM icon at 8K? A dell 8K display at 31.5" has a PPI of 279. at 27" it'd be 326. Does vector scaling work at 326PPI?

If so any effort is wasted handcrafting icons. Simply wait 3-4 years.

This feels like the tail wagging the dog.
Thanks! Yeah it was always annoying to us that you needed to give away all your personal details before you even found out whether something would be worth it, so we wanted to be different. Glad to hear you like it!

On a jobs page, thanks for your interest! We have something up on AngelList right now: https://angel.co/company/goodcover-co/jobs
Targeted individuals?

They, for years until it was leaked, "targeted" every phone call in the United States:

https://gizmodo.com/this-government-phone-tapping-thing-just...

And 125,000,000,000 globally, along with almost a hundred billion internet requests per month in a time when the Internet was much smaller, years ago, under a program that hasn't stopped:

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

This definitely damages everyone, and I think more fundamentally than adtech companies. You can escape adtech companies: use different websites, install an adblocker, block trackers, whatever. There's no obvious way outside of strong encryption and hermitry to avoid NSA getting its paws on every single public or private communication you ever make, given their record. When privacy doesn't and cannot exist, human behavior changes deeply. I think it's the greater of two evils.

Adtech companies definitely aren't good, by any stretch, but I think it's the difference between Ghengis Khan and a common killer: sure, they both want to kill you, but the scale and the level of cruelty is much different.
Abuse of these mattress return policies is also incentivized when new online mattress companies are popping up every month.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/unintended-perk-of-the-online-m...
In a previous company I worked for, they implemented a clock-in / clock-out system. The system "broke" after a month when employees asked for their overtime sheets. It was never replaced.
That's up there.
That's actually not a claim you could make. You don't know why the poster has, thus far, not addressed "the evidence in the article."

That said, I am also seeking out this "evidence," of which you write. The Fidelis article you linked to did nothing but show some similarity in naming schemes, binary packaging conventions, and code style. And, it's building a case upon the precedent of prior "evidence," which we cannot see for ourselves either.

We all know that the FBI could put all of its evidence in a GitHub repo, along with a README.md that explains how to run the code that offers the substantiated proof of their claims. The problem is, they don't have any.
Not when everyone is classed as Exempt staff and therefore ineligible for Overtime.
Evil UX patterns for attention seeking apps
Should also search HN for "piercing the corporate veil" to see the numerous past discussions on the caveats.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Why fully distributed is by far the best way to run a software team
Interesting. So, my understanding is that most male violence is committed by males between the ages of 15 and 25 (roughly). That is also generally the period of highest testosterone levels in men. What would cause the spike in violence if not the elevated testosterone levels?

I have a couple guesses:

1. This may be a period in which men experience the greatest status uncertainty and so may resort to violence in an attempt to solidify their place in a social hierarchy.

2. This is generally the age range during which many disorders that are more prevalent or severe in men (such as schizophrenia, bi-polar, etc.) begin to manifest.
Respond to Ctrl+C interrupt signals gracefully with context in Golang
The Wiki article makes it hard to feel bad for this guy.
You shouldn't use func main in Go
But the i5 is much more power hungry than the Pi.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev

> It's pretty clear the crime here was unauthorized access to the server, not the sending of the information on to the media.

I think this is a good place as any to reassert that the CFAA is irrepairable and irredeemable at this point and MUST be scrapped with no replacement.
It's clearly a complex legal issue, but is there any logical reason why the internet should be treated differently from print and broadcast media in that regard?

The only reasons I've heard are related to how -current- internet content providers' business models work. Those companies' business models are heavily enabled by the CDA itself, so isn't it sort of begging the question?
It is encouraging to see YC accepting Open Source products. It is generally difficult to monetize OSS and will be interesting to see how a collaboration with YC helps a startup like this.
Fates of humans and insects intertwined, warn scientists
There is no API for that currently. And there is pressure to not add new complications around memory management because allocating memory is so often called that it affects the performance of everything.
Very nice, I'll use this on my next project for sure.
What is their current valuation? I wondered if google or microsoft would buy them, amazon can't due to anti-trust issues, but the others might be able to.
I have this exact setup (vault/consul/nomad + glusterfs and zerotier for networking) and its pretty awesome. Still dependent on letsencrypt for SSL certificates. It runs plex amazingly well (though I am using some machines which are probably overkill for this purpose), even with the data coming from a glusterfs drive. Most of my nomad tasks can just launch anywhere because of gluster.

For internal DNS at least, you can just use consul. I set up dnsmasq to forward to consul on all of my machines which is super convenient (esp when that DNS just points to a docker container ipv6 address on the zerotier network, not port remapping on networking insanity needed)