skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not possible to create such a system without fatally compromising safety.

Take Bitcoin cold storage: People use offline storage and specialized hardware wallets to store their keys more safely. Now imagine there were some privileged keys that would allow the holder to just take anyone and everyone's bitcoins. It doesn't matter how geographically distributed it is, how elaborate the key ceremonies and oversight is. The system could never be trusted if such a backdoor existed.
Like I wrote above - being a political prisoner does not make you a better person. And it doesn't make your cause just, or the state which you oppose evil.

Having said that:

1. Part of a journalist's job is to obtain state secrets and publish them. Obtaining them is often some form or another of theft. But journalism is important enough even to property-ownership-sanctifying democracies that journalists get a free pass on "borderline theft".

2. If the US had though Assange had assisted in stealing state secrets, it would have: (a) Made that accusation earlier than 13 years after the fact and (b) Demanded his extradition fair at that time. US government statements in recent years, especially Pompeo's characterization of Wikileaks, suggests other motives for the current action.

3. If you'll read the linked-to story you'll see that it is quite unlikely that Assange is guilty of what's attributed to him, even regardless of the circumstances I mentioned.
Ask HN: How do you hire outside of your area of expertise?
For example, you need to hire a machine learning expert, but you don't have any machine learning knowledge to test if they are any good.
The blinking lights.
Minimize or eliminate misuse through fundamental rethink of the solution.
> This attitude of "we know what's good for you" is apparent in more and more modern tech products. I find it pretty gross...

It's even grosser than that. The attitude here is really "we did what was good for us, but we think you're dumb enough to be convinced we did it because it was good for you."
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The WSB strategy: Buying call or puts instead of individual stocks. Calls are when you think a stock is going to go up, puts are when you think it's going to go down. Instead of having to buy an individual stock, you can simply buy a call because you think the stock price will go up. If it does go up like you project, then you will make money. If instead it goes down, you lose money. This is generally a non-standard type of trade for the common investor.

It's easy enough on the surface to understand, but much harder to actually execute, because you generally do want some deeper understanding of market trends and how stocks move. That barrier of entry hasn't slowed down most people on WSB, because the loss porn was kind of the point of the subreddit. They didn't really care if they guessed right, they cared about having the most daring bet.
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> I hope the Russians slip him something into his tea one day.

Obviously you can't post like this here. If you keep breaking the site guidelines we are going to have to ban you. We've given you many warnings and cut you a lot of slack already. It isn't infinite.

It's in your interest to follow the site guidelines anyhow, since breaking them just makes your view look bad and alienates any open-minded readers who you might otherwise have been able to interest or convince.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Would you mind if we have a short chat about your sales approach? This is something I am still struggling with a little bit!
I don't think that's it. Open https://tailwindui.com/css/app.css and Control-F for "placeholder-" -- are there really examples and component pages on this website that set the input placeholder text color to every single different color in the color palette, at every responsive breakpoint?
>The firm drew national attention when The New York Times ran a front-page story about its work with law-enforcement agencies. The Times reported that the company scraped 3 billion images from the internet, including from Facebook, YouTube, and Venmo. That process violated Facebook’s terms of service, according to the paper. It also created a resource that drew the attention of hundreds of law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, according to that report. In a follow-up story, the Times reported that law-enforcement officials have used the tools to identify children who are victims of sexual abuse. One anonymous Canadian law-enforcement official told the paper that Clearview was “the biggest breakthrough in the last decade” for investigations of those crimes.
> No, it's not dependent on chance. It's not some random spin on a roulette wheel.

There are many random factors that can cause your business to succeed or fail.

You might have a terrible business idea that would normally fail, but a coincidental event could cause your business to become wildly successful.

You could be a terrible businessperson, but by luck of birth your family has connections that allow your business to succeed through pure nepotism.

You might have a brilliant idea that fails because of a natural disaster, or because someone doesn't like you and decides to bury you in lawsuits.

You might have a brilliant business idea but a competitor springs up and poaches your labor pool.
It goes farther than that - the comment parent author doesn't even realize they are exhibiting the same behavior:

"This attitude of "we know what's good for you" is apparent in more and more modern tech products"

Billions of people used PYMK and are generally happy with it and Facebook in general. Who are you to tell them it's a bad thing?

If FB is so bad why don't more people leave? Lots of people on HN leave FB and I respect that choice - and lots don't and enjoy using FB with it's pros and cons. What's wrong with that?
The ONLY way that I would believe WSB is "manipulating" anything is if some quant has an AI bot that scours social media and is using that to influence their trades.

So...a second order derivative manipulation at best.
I would take a pay cut if it meant working with a high talent concentration team that was small enough to be agile end to end in the full sales -> ops -> product/dev -> support cycle.

But that's a unicorn. You don't find a unicorn, you stumble upon it one day and miss the opportunity because you can't rationalize the fact that you actually saw a mythical creature.
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US agency stops autonomous shuttle firm from hauling people
A few lucky ones made money on terrible bets. There's no way that the posters to that subreddit are breaking even in aggregate.
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> I hope the Russians slip him something into his tea one day.

Obviously you can't post like this here. Please follow the site guidelines, regardless of how you feel about Bellingcat. That's in your interest too, since ranty fulmination convinces no one and discredits your view.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I actually lived in Belarus for most of my life. I would never leave a bag in a restaurant unless I have a clear view of it while ordering something. (I would not do it here in the USA as well). Also, even in the capital of Belarus, some neighborhoods are still quite dangerous to walk around at night.
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I applied for an Engineering role at Gitlab. I didn't make it past the initial interview screening and politely asked for feedback in order to grow professionally.

I never heard back from the recruiter or company after that yet their handbook says:

"If the candidate asks for further feedback, only offer frank feedback. This is hard, but it is part of our company values."

I always wondered if it was because I questioned the policy of paying people differently based on their location (more specifically, some algorithm's idea of the rent in their area) rather than the work they do.
Counterpoint: If you're looking for a life-changing outcome you probably shouldn't work on a hard startup until after you've already saved some money working somewhere else -- like at least spend two years somewhere stable so you can get approved for a mortgage. Investors in hard startups are often more like patrons who don't really understand the tech in which they are investing. They probably got their first taste at money from selling a software app and then invested that money in other "easy" software startups until they had enough money to patronize your quantum computing project. Think of the clout they are generating from magnanimously throwing money at PhDs they've convinced to waste their lives in a field that will never produce practical outcomes. When there's an economic downturn, the investor will still be rich, just not enough to continue patronizing your project. The PhDs may scrape by somehow or eventually be overcome by the existential dread that they should have worked on something with fewer hurdles and higher probability of success so they pivot to work on a location sharing app or venture capital investing.
If it comes to pass that the department of justice insists on implementation of Exceptional access it would be who’ve the civil libertarians to work towards a better compromise. Hedge your bets.
It seems that Japanese did not have much experience with wool and sheep. Wool would be imported product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_domestic_sheep#...
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Why would a company bother buying back the investment? Surely there’s not much reason to do that unless the terms of the investment were different than what is common today.
Just turn off JavaScript.
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> GOG really doesn't care about Linux, which really sucks, because a lot of Linux users do care about DRM-free games.

I think Linux users are just a slight bit entitled where it concerns gaming. Just two examples:

1. They want anti-cheat stripped out of games so they can play games via Steam Proton, conveniently ignoring the fact that any multiplayer game that does that will be flooded and destroyed by hackers

2. They demand full support from game devs, despite only making up an absolutely tiny fraction of the customer base. They routinely make up less then 0.1% of sales (!), but cause 20%+ of support tickets[0]. No sane business in the world would sink 20% of their support budget into 0.1% of their revenue.

[0]https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760
Yeah there is. It is not like saying that if black hit on roulette 10x in a row that one would be statistically overdue for red. Because those are completely independent events with equal probability on each trial.

With earthquakes if statically speaking a massive earthquake hits on a roughly 1 in 500 year interval, the stresses at the plate boundary are much more likely to be greater at year 600 than at year 1 after a massive earthquake.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1906calif/18a...
> macOS is not for gaming: Apple is making sure of that.

I use it for gaming all the time. To play 20+ year old games. Hence the need for DosBox.
>This topic is interesting to me for a few reasons...

>Cognitive impairment has long been associated with inflammation in older adults: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3390758/

Once upon a time, when I was an itty bitty grad student, I had an appointment with an immunology PI to ask to be involved in their research.

One of the first questions they asked me was, what's inflammation?

"You want the layman's answer or the real answer?"

"Both."

"The layman's answer is that set of cellular and biochemical reactions involved with infections and their resolution."

"And the real answer?"

"There's no such thing. 'Inflammation' is the set of cellular and molecular biology that immunologists discovered before everyone else did. There isn't a single molecule in the body that isn't involved in a wide variety of functions, and there isn't a single function -be it extracellular remodeling, monitoring of cells for expression of abnormal proteins, cell signaling, cell life cycle regulation, etc. - that doesn't hook into a hundred different functions in a hundred different contexts. 'Inflammation' refers to the lens of the person studying the thing, not the thing."

I got a happy smile and a welcome handshake with that answer.

"Inflammation" as an explanation in medicine ranks alongside "Quantum Physics" as an explanation in everything else. When someone starts citing "quantum physics" for why anything, you can safely tune them out 99.99% of the time.
Also the effects are worse when the actor doing those ads has more than 30%, 50%, 70% market share.
I think one problem is opportunity cost for the VC. Arguably, they have to spend as much time on diligence for that .25MM investment as for a 10MM one. Put another way, to deploy a $125MM fund, you’d have to do 500 of these microinvestments.
I believe the parent is referring to the fact that there have been large earthquakes with remarkable regularity in the PNW every ~500 years for the past few thousand years, and it's been well over 500 years since the last one.
Not too worried, but that's what I'm doing just in case supplies chains break down. Mostly beans, dried fruit, chicken stock. You might want to get a few things to boost your immune system, and to compensate for less then ideal nutrition. Vitamin C, D, B12 are the most important ones. Thyme is supposedly very good. Tea, green & rosehip. Red wine, chocolate.

Don't bother with masks or anything, you probably won't be able to avoid infection anyway. Also I'm already convinced the panic & paranoia will cause way more disruption then the virus itself.
How is the emotional aspect any different than an identical twin besides the age not exactly matching?
especially if it had no nicotine, it could help people to stop smoking who miss the fidgeting or social aspect. e-cigarettes/vaping is really good for this, because you can taper down to 0mg liquid, keep vaping until you've kicked the nicotine, and then maybe months later try to stop all together
It's fine, for all intensive purposes.

(This is what happens when a society stops reading books.)
You better not have left your stuff unattended in authoritarian communist Romania... I get what you're implying but authoritarian regime doesn't always imply harsh and effective enforcement of the law for petty crimes. Sometimes it does but the two aren't necessarily correlated although one probably requires the other.
How is that any different from setting CSS in the style attribute of your tag? What happens when you need to update all the "text-sm text-gray-700" to something else?

Seems like a step backwards at worst and identical to Bootstrap/Foundation at best. Everyone provides class primitives like that

What you're describing offends separation-of-concerns
Ground Fault Interrupter ones according to National Electric Code. Minor detail, but you might want to mention it!
How is a virus, more contagious and more lethal than flu/MERS/SARS, a smaller problem?
WhatsApp security flaw: Over 60k groups still accessible online
Buttercup: Multi-Platform Secrets Vault
Beware of multi-host filesystems (e.g., GPFS). The required locking and sync can be far slower than you might get on a local filesystem.

If nothing else, it's very useful to have a "don't use mmap" option in your code.
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The impact that virtual privacy can have on lives is quickly approaching the impact that physical privacy can have. Further, part of the attack surface on physical privacy is virtual privacy, anyways.
Perfect example for survivorship bias. To live in a retirement community you have to have money. So, when you work in a retirement community you see retired people who have money. What you don't see are all the people who made the same decisions, did the same things, but for some reason didn't end up in a retirement community in Florida.
Given the discussion on Zarr, HDF5 and TileDB, I hope I can get feedback from a problem I have. I want to switch from a format I made (the "FPB" format described at http://chemfp.com/fpb_format/ ) to one which scales to more than 250 million entries. (See https://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13321-0... for my recent publication on the system, which implements similarity search for cheminformatics fingerprints.)

I can't figure out if one of those three methods can do what I want. I want to include a multi-valued lookup table so given a string id I can find the 0 or more corresponding records. (I can handle single-valued lookup tables, if multi-valued isn't available.)

I looked at Parquet, but it doesn't seem to handle id->index table lookups. Or 256 byte fields. Do any of Zarr, HDF5 and TileDB offer a better fit?

Background: it's hard to compare molecules directly. Instead, there are hashing methods to turn a molecular structure into a fixed-length bitstring of length nearly always between 166 and 4096 bits in length.

Bitstrings are easy to compare using Jaccard similarity, which gives a decent-enough and very fast way to compare molecular similarity. With help from another HN user (who I paid), we were able to get the performance to within a factor of 2 of the theoretical memory bandwidth.

Going faster requires compressed RAM->uncompressed cache transfer, better indexing, and distributed computing. I don't know how to do it using one of the existing Big Data formats, and developing my own format is hard.

My FPB file format is a FourCC format with several chunks. One chunk stores all N fingerprints, cache size aligned. These are ordered by popcount, so in principle some should be easily compressible - I haven't tried, and can't figure out how BLOSC is supposed to be used.

Another chunk stores the corresponding fingerprint identifiers, UTF-8/non-fixed-length strings, in the same order (fingerprint[i] corresponds to id[i]).

A third chunk stores a multi-valued hash table so I can look up fingerprint(s) by name, instead of by index. The hash table is a variant of the djb's "cdb" hash table. This is a 32-bit hash, which means for large data sets I get many collisions. (I designed it for <100M entries. Some people now want to handle >1B entries.)

I'm hoping to use an existing format rather than roll my own. Again.
Reliability of pricey new voting machines questioned
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Especially not on divisive topics like this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nobody said they were exactly identical. If you're going to argue, please argue with what people actually say.
Yeah, I've been using Nextcloud for two years now. It overshadows Dropbox in terms of features and file-syncing.
The annual flu was worse in terms of numbers, but this illness is still early and was showing a much higher mortality rate, in proportional terms.

Of course, from what I can tell, growth in mortality has been shrinking in percentage terms. [1]

But if judging based on the early stats, it was literally hundreds of times more deadly than a common flu. Approximately to 4% of people in their 60s who contracted it died. And 15% of those in their 80s who contracted it were killed. The annual flu is not nearly that bad.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...
> I’m wondering whether it’d be possible to factor most of it out into a separate layer

We've done this. The layer is called a web browser. You deliver runnable code to it using something called HTTP.
> Singapore is literally touching the equator, and the coronavirus there keeps spreading.

Most Singapore buildings and its public transport system are fully A/C.

"The coronavirus there keeps spreading" is technically true, but we're talking about 1-3 confirmed cases a day, and an absurd number of people who have been served quarantine/stay-at-home orders.
That made me chuckle. I cringe at exaggerated, buzz-wordy, vague sales-copy as much as the other person, but isn't it shown to work (by Apple et al)? I'd be interested if you or anyone else have examples of to-the-point landing pages / sales-copy with zero exaggeration and gimmicks.

I liked the WhatsApp's back in the day [0], but they had a lot going for them and didn't need any extraordinary claims. MissiveApp [1] is another one that feels comfortable, to me.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090914114259/http://www.whatsa...

[1] https://missiveapp.com
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I guess I don't see how it would look that different. A flat value tax on land seems less radical than a wealth tax (for example). But no one sells a wealth tax as an end to capitalism.
how is this different than bootstrap?
UCI and Disney Research scientists develop AI-enhanced video compression model
What does being a CS major having to do with being pro-DRM?
Isn't it mainly an economic/philosophical standpoint on copyright?
Axon rolls out the next level of police technology: Live-streaming body cameras
Tesla's Roadrunner project: new battery production at $100 per kWh
I think the Flu mortality rate is 0.1% and Coronavirus is 2%?

That seems pretty dramatic, the earlier article about the disease in China stated that some percentage of people that get infected require ICU attention to oxygenate their blood or they die (and it doesn't seem like it's limited only to old or at risk people).

That seems a lot worse than the seasonal flu?

With SARS and MERS we got lucky because they didn't end up spreading that widely even though the mortality rate was higher. I'm not convinced that's evidence that this won't be a problem.
There's nothing to be gained by trying to persuade aggressively ignorant people. If they want to go around knowing nothing at all about anyone or anything, that's their right, and it's impossible for me to stop them. The best I can do is keep them from misleading innocent bystanders.
I'm a little curious to see if this distinction might provide a competitive advantage to public benefit corporations. Objectively, I believe there's some literature to back up that a person's belief and interest in the work they're doing plays a role in their likelihood to work at an organization [1] (tangentially, I imagine that this has played a role in the success of Elon Musk's companies).

If we axiomatically say that talent plays a significant role in a company's success, and that top talent cares about the mission of the company that they work for, it follows that a company that puts it money where its mouth is (so to speak) wrt to a corporate governance structure that seems to place that mission at least in the neighborhood of parity with profit motive, they might be able to leverage that as a competitive advantage. Of course, whether that initial assumption is correct is up for debate, as is whether a PBC structure affords enough to move the needle on perceived mission-alignment.

[1] https://hbr.org/2018/11/9-out-of-10-people-are-willing-to-ea...
> Someone's just bought a $1000 call option on a stock that's currently $400? Automated trading systems will probably raise alerts on that stock since someone must know something for that to happen.

People buy far out-of-the-money calls all the time, they're actually overvalued compared to fair returns. Setting the strike price that high just makes the option more and more of a lotto ticket: the vast majority of the time it's just going to expire worthless, but that small chance of being "in the money" when the option expires is your jackpot. A fitting choice for that whole WSB attitude.
Self-driving car looks under the road for a safety boost in rain and snow