skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seaside[1] and (IIRC) arc[2] both do this too.

My understanding was that __ViewState was intended to be encrypted in production by setting something in machine.config[3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside_(software)

[2]: http://arclanguage.org/

[3]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dotnet/ar...
That is changing as well. US tech companies are hiring more and more across Europe, and the local startup ecosystem is growing also. Some local founders who have made money in the US are coming back and seeding local startups, which has an accelerating effect. Another factor is remote work, with some developers getting nearly US-level salaries while living in Europe. The result is a new class of ultra-well-paid software developers enjoying the good life in many European cities. It's still a niche phenomenon, but not for long. The SF Bay Area was in the same place around 2011-2012. I expect a massive wave of gentrification and anti-tech sentiment in Europe in 2-5 years, similar to what the US is experiencing now.
In the West, everything is up for debate. People don't like to be told what to do.

<sarc />I guess that's how we in the USA managed to reject the TSA full-body scanners and pat-downs.

It seems to me that most of us complained a lot, the government ignored us, and we knuckled under and complied.
US tech companies are doing it as also, on behalf of ? is the question.
Chrome extension to track your Twitter follows
Otherwise, HDF5 offers every single advantage that zarray has and is much more mature, stable, better documented, and has better support.

Absolutely not. HDF5 is an awful format with terrible implementations. For example, try writing a python program with multiple threads where each thread writes to a different HDF5 file. This should just work -- there's no concurrent access. And yet it doesn't because HDF5 implementations are piles of ancient C code that use lots of global state. There's no technical reason for this; one could easily store all the state needed in a per-file object. But back in the day, software eng standards were lower (especially for scientists) and HDF5 changes at a glacial place.

I've been bitten by this particular bug, but you really have to wonder: given how poorly it speaks to the software engineering behind HDF5 implementations, what else is broken in the code or specifications?

If you're working in a situation where it makes sense to have things on disk or some sort of NFS share, use HDF5. If you're working with objects in a cloud bucket, you'll incur additional overhead with HDF5, as you'll have to read its table of indices, then make range requests to each chunk. Zarr is optimized for the cloud use case.

When last I looked, there were no open source HDF5 implementations that were smart enough to do range requests to cloud hosted hdf files. Has this changed?
> I could care less...

So you do care?
A former Microsoft engineer stole more than $10M from the company
The cops often behave like an occupying army and don’t apply any common sense. A while ago I got hit in an accident really hard. The cops asked me for license and insurance but my concussed brain couldn’t compute what they wanted and gave them all kinds of other stuff. I still remember one cop checking his gun, pulling out his handcuffs and yelling at me. Thank god another cop was calmer, took my wallet and pulled out my license. I am pretty sure I would soon have been arrested for the reason of being hit by a drunk driver in a car accident.

It probably also helped that I am white and 50 years old.
Exactly.

a+b should be the same as a.add.b

A high level programming language should be designed for communication instead of dictating the computations.
Hell yes! Thank you for the response!

Edit: Totally missed the Windows 7/10 requirement in the landing page, thanks for your patience!
I wrote this Chrome extension in response to the rumors that twitter was unfollowing accounts without the user's knowledge.

The code is up on github and no data is sent to the cloud or anywhere outside the browser.
I think it's more apt to put it that monetizing is the default. You could subscribe, though of course that's exposing even more than just tracking.

I suspect that if somebody were to invent a good anonymous micropayment system they'd be happy to adopt that instead. They just want to get paid; your privacy just happens to be the currency that's easiest to come by.
The obvious explanation for why we've heard no details is that they don't plan to work especially hard at it. Some DOJ messaging sounds very much like they don't believe it's a real problem[1] - companies can keep their centrally-managed signing keys secret, they say, so why couldn't we keep centrally-managed backdoor keys secret?

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-...
A book a week...for my career...how many hours do you want me to freaking work? I already spend 40 at this desk, I’d like a life outside of work, please.

Bringing up people like Warren Buffet constantly as capitalist idols and role models is horrifically annoying, too. Nobody’s going to become Warren Buffet by reading the same quantity of books as him.
In Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, there is an interesting section on intuition, and specifically the intuition of experts. It says something very similar, that "intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition." With expertise, one has more things that they can recognize, and they can do so quickly and almost effortlessly.
My first (and only!) game of GO was ruined by my deep understanding of Chess.

I applied chess-logic (focusing on gradients of control) and demolished my opponent, who refused to believe it was only my first game, and refused to play again.
Seems like they are just an index now, with no ETF? All I can find for ETFs is "BUZ ceased trading on 03/01/19"[1].

[1] https://www.etf.com/BUZ
>That doesn't seem like a very enlightened ethics discussion.

That is an apt summary of my college ethics discussions. Even in cases where the professor was doing their best to encourage discussion, the majority of the class couldn't think beyond first order effects and hypotheticals would quickly get emotional and devolve into character attacks.
is the lucene search indexer synchronous with couchdb days updates?

I'm wondering how people solve the common search after create pattern when using external indexes
I work on Windows (speaking informally here, these are my own opinions and not those of my employer, etc.)

We care a lot about GDPR and privacy, and there's been a big top-down push to reduce the amount of telemetry collected, including giving good justifications for anything we want to keep collecting. We have to make sure all the data is kept in GDPR-compliant systems that can handle the deletion and security policies, and we regularly take training to tell us what is and isn't compliant use of customer data. My team uses it mostly for seeing the success rate of our feature across different hardware, firmware and OS versions, which helps us identify issues and poke certain partners to improve ecosystem reliability. I can't speak for the Edge/Bing/Whatever teams, but I'd hope they take it as seriously as us.

I definitely wish users had more control over data collection without resorting to group policy, and I wish users had more visibility and control over more of the OS in general, but I feel we've learned the wrong lessons from Apple so everything must be unconfigurable and only give vague feedback like, "Something is happening..." (but I digress). In terms of caring about privacy I'd still give Apple the crown, but I don't think it'd be unfair to give Microsoft second place.
There’s a limit on how many hours staff can work per day. Extending hours would require more staff, so that might not be economically viable. Also, kids are pretty attached to their caretakers, young ones even more so. So you can’t just go and swap them mid-day. In our day-care, late pickup means that some caretaker that the kid knows and trusts needs to extend their hours. And they’re rightfully pissed at you if you’re late.
This topic is also interesting to me and I’ve thankfully had some opportunity to observe friends and family in a way that verifies a lot of the claims.

Here are my thoughts on why it’s not in the zeitgeist to the level you’d expect:

1) A lot of people have normalized to inflammation and just assume that’s how their brains function

2) In addition to the “obvious” things like diet and exercise, there’s a significant impact through environment: lack of clean fresh air, mold, detergents, building material (and/or furniture) off-gassing, dust and dander especially in the sleeping space, and so-on. In cases like this people “try eating properly”, don’t see the kind of benefits that people talk about, and write off the whole thing as a not working “for them” before going back to their original diet.

3) We rarely talk socially about symptoms like brain fog, memory lapses, mild pain, anxiousness, speediness, etc as anything related to diet or environmental exposure. Previous generations seem to have mental and emotional wellbeing the same attention as they gave to the supernatural, and we seem to have to continually shake off mindsets like “if I can’t measure it it doesn’t exist”
https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues/7987
It depends on whether the access is to be to encrypted data at rest or something like a realtime wiretap, and if there needs to be a way to prevent the spied-on party knowing they were being spied on or not.

One way to do data-at-rest (e.g. a locked phone) is to require physical access to the phone along with some kind of expensive, destructive procedure (e.g. an electron tunneling microscope and shaving away the housing of the secure enclave area).

Also, I'd assume that any competent target would just layer their own encryption on top of the existing stuff, so the whole system would only be good for catching unsophisticated criminals (and spying on the general public).

Or I'd just subpoena the iCloud backups and have Apple decrypt them, which they can already do.
The article specifically cites the EARN IT Act, which the same author has written about in more detail: https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-b...
I can tell you my kids' school is now driving a program to improve what I like to call "digital skepticism" (defense against dark arts?) - these are elementary school kids

I think Facebook's tactics were a landgrab before the global populace starts to build an antibody to pervasive advertising/spam/surveillance.

Clearly this needs to be bolstered by legislation/regulation.
8MB is just the default, you can switch it back to 4GB if you want, but you won't have an easy time switching to 4.0 due to the 8MB limit imposed by FoundationDB.
which tcp/ip? There would be 10, all with incomplete feature sets and poor reliability.
You seem to have confused a couple of things - or else posted the wrong link.

The 'precedent from 1604' was that parliament couldn't be asked to vote twice on the same matter in the same sitting; but that isn't archaic and disused, it's common practice and Bercow (and other members) quoted numerous occasions on which speakers had disallowed votes on its basis.

Your link is about Bercows 'unprecedented ruling' giving MPs more control over the business of the HoC, as opposed to the Government.
Maybe this? [0] I had an issue where I was sub'd for a while, "lost" emails, then it shows up fine again.

[0] http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-s...
> Everything's a poison depending on the dose. The same could be said for alcohol or junk food.

I mean, yea? The alcohol industry in the US and worldwide is kinda shameless in how much they reinforce overindulgence with their advertisements.

Junk food should absolutely have a tax, not a sin tax because it's bad - but a tax that brings in the currently externalized health costs that will come from eating it regularly.
Oral History of Larry Tesler, part 1 of 3
It does allow individuals to sue, and our right to justice is set out in article 79. It allows you to bring a suit to court in your (European) country of residence. You can sue for compensation for immaterial or material damages as set out in article 82. You should/might be able to sue for other things as well, such as forcing a company to delete data or provide you with a copy of data under processing. In Sweden there is case law where a claimant has received compensation for damages. So at least in Sweden court can be expected to award compensation when the case merits it.

I have myself brought two cases to court in Sweden, but settled before verdict. The reason I was able to settle is the verdict would probably have gone my way.

I agree with you that your local DPA is toothless. There are way to many cases for them to handle, that’s why we need to turn to the courts and not to our DPA to protect our rights.

Lastly, most claims will be small claims, that is, less than 1000 EUR. In small claims you’re only liable for a small portion of lawyers fee should you lose.

IANAL.
Not as mistaken as it appears.

The NSA placed key people into companies like Google who had security clearances that specifically forbade them from saying exactly what they were doing to higher ups. They then created systems for extracting data in an automated way based on requests from the NSA. All that executives knew was that they were doing something important for complying with law enforcement requests.

The CEOs of these companies learned about the existence of the back doors from public reporting based on Snowden's revelations. When they first heard, they issued public denials that were, as far as they knew, truthful. Their subsequent actions upon finding out that they were wrong strongly suggest that they wouldn't have approved the programs had they known what was happening.
Estimated car cost as a predictor of driver yielding behaviors for pedestrians
Another fairly common take on this is a preference for technical risk over business risk. For the VCs that are from the "real" technology era, there seems to be a distinct preference for "if you can solve the technical challenges, you'll mint gold" businesses over things like social networking which simply work or do not in a way that cannot be addressed by the addition of technical or business skill.

These companies tend to be very expensive and take 3Y or so to be tested on the market, so in a way they are not for people who want to follow the as-quick-as-possible MVP approach, but they also tend to have defensibility which your generic SaaS does not have.
German court: Ban on assisted suicide is unconstitutional
Intel Promises Full Memory Encryption in Upcoming CPUs
My solution has become to give food if I want to give something.

Being on the streets can mess-up a person's digestion. A lot of homeless people won't take random food because they don't know if they can keep that food down - and, here in the US, you don't know if someone who hates the homeless might be trying to poison you.
Thanks for pointing that out. Just pushed a fix.
Lemon may have negative connotations, we have laws called "Lemon Laws" to protect consumers from being sold crappy cars

Also thinking of a Led Zeppelin quote :]
I can't tell if they're being serious or not. One of the commenters was right. It's almost exactly Stratton Oakmont https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont
Forget about 7 years ago (I think it was more like 10-11 actually), it literally happened this year - the US government complained China found its CALEA telecom wiretapping backdoor ("lawful intercept"):

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/us-gave-allies-e...
Seems like there would be the possibility of WFH pharmacists whose job is to do the educated guesswork on any newly observed combo. Log it into the system after some validation and voila we have timeless knowledge for all who come later, automated at low costs.
Solid? The entire ecosystem has been down for two weeks because it's a centralized shitcoin.

There's nothing "solid" about this. It's a scam.

And yes, that's exactly how they described it.
> I continue to struggle with the notion that expertise is merely pattern-recognition. It seems too simple — there has to be more.

I think people struggle with that because almost all cognition is at some level pattern recognition. Identifying your mom's face as a baby is pattern recognition. A dog learning to sit is pattern recognition. A mathematician finding the integral of some really difficult function is pattern recognition. A chess grandmaster playing is pattern recognition.

So I think this statement is correct, but it is pretty close to a tautology and hence not that helpful.
The 30-day window is better because if your refund policy is designed to not give refunds, and the law says your customers are entitled to refunds you are possibly committing fraud yourself. Steam was fined a couple million dollars for this.

Steam rolled out their own no-questions refund policy during that trial and it didn't end up disastrous - all that happened was game developers stopped being able to count on money from people who don't like their games. Bad, buggy and incomplete titles won't be buyer-beware. A massive discount will affect recent full-price purchases. This is not unreasonable.

https://www.ibtimes.com/steam-vs-australia-valve-fined-3-mil...
This article brings up a specific inflammation-related protein (HMGB1) as being correlated with cognitive impairment after an ICU stay.

Usually an ICU stay is the result of being profoundly and dangerously ill -- going to the ICU likely means that you need significant pharmacological and/or mechanical assistance in the basic things like... circulating blood. Or oxygenation. And once there, you may have tubes/catheters/wires in various orifices and puncturing vessels and organs. You're often medically sedated, and if you become too awake or agitated, you are sedated further. Unsurprisingly, many patients become agitated or delirious -- they don't know where they are or when it is or maybe even who they are. Which makes things worse. I mean, imagine it -- maybe you wake up in the midst of this horrendous state of affairs, and you become understandably upset and confused, but if you move around or holler (if you can) you may well get further sedated. Repeatedly. The cognitive impact of this alone can understandably be immense.

I don't mean to say that ICUs are some evil thing, though surely they could be improved. But the causes of "post-intensive care syndrome" are undoubtedly enormously multi-factorial, what with the level of derangement and insult to your body (and especially your mind!) from whatever illness led to you the ICU to begin with, and the experience of being there. And as such I am skeptical that this single protein could be terrifically useful either as a marker of or a therapeutic target for cognitive impairment in this setting.

(I think as protein mass spec and other technologies improve, we might gain a better understanding of how sets of dozens or hundreds of proteins in the body may be related to disease states, and perhaps therapies will target combinations of proteins or more complex interactions rather than "blocks this one protein".)
Sort of off topic: A lot of their older games rely on DosBox to run on Mac. Their version of DosBox is 32 bit and doesn't run on the latest MacOs.

There is a 64-bit version of DosBox. Does anyone know either how to switch out their version of DosBox for the 64 bit, or know when they might do it?
LinkSquares Raises $14M in Series A to Make Its AI More Powerful
Lines like this:

> The AI will eventually be able to implement any reasonable program, as long as it gets a precise enough specification

make me less worried about the job apocalypse.

It feels to me like getting good, consistent specifications for software is incredibly hard, particularly if some unbound set of humans is meant to interact with it.

Delivering domain specifications for even simplistic "things" is incredibly hard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNOTDn3D_RI&t=2782s
Remember when the OS provided the UI, and you could just focus on solving your users problems without thinking much about the UI. Those were the days.
He'll be in the room where it happens, sure. Point is that if anyone has creative differences with him, they'll feel no desire to align with him. It won't be like he'll be held accountable if he's wrong, and he'll be long gone by the time any current projects see daylight.

Disney (even Iger himself) has done this to quite a few people over the years. At Disney we called it putting someone in the "aloha suite"
You got a product when your users interact with other users while you sleep.
The worst thing about those online education startups is how they've actually made online education worse.

All those universities that donated lecture videos to places like edx and Coursera? Yeah, you can't access most of those lectures anymore. They're either paywalled or deemed not to fit in with their paywall platform of the day and are no longer accessible.

For a brief glorious moment it actually seemed like we'd have a great quantity of quality University material available over the internet for anyone who wanted it. But it's all gone now.
I think that would be even worse. It'd be like you pre-paid your late pickup for the entire month and then get it refunded when you pick up on time. If you're trying to prevent late pickups, I don't think that will help.
This article doesn't seem to address 3 big issues:
Firstly, most of the stuff on /r/WSB is talking about massive market cap companies like TSLA and AMD. Some punter putting his life savings in AMD puts is not going to actually move the market. I would love to see numbers on this but my gut says that reddit posters posting about their $50k investment in a company that is worth several billion is just retail noise. It's not moving stocks.

Secondly, maybe there are some people genuinely attempting to use the forum to pump and dump but frankly, they're probably not succeeding and even if they are, that's exactly the sort of person the SEC is actually interested in prosecuting. But literally there is no evidence it's happening at all, let alone at any scale or is profitable.

Finally, I love the idea that market makers are just sitting there going "sure is weird that we've seen a lot of retail flow on MIK, better continue straight forwardly hedging using the future and not exploit this predictable market pattern"
I think it's more complicated than this. I think the article is using two terms interchangeably that have very different meaning:

+ pattern matching - matching a series of events or a system state against an existing inventory of models or patterns to find a good fit and take action based on it

+ pattern recognition - decoding a pattern at work in a series of events or a system that is novel to you (or may be a hybrid of familiar and novel patterns)

As an example of the latter: the fire captain in Klein's "Sources of Power" who finds himself fighting what appears to be a small fire that is very hot and cannot be extinguished even after they douse if with water several times.

He becomes alarmed and orders his crew to pull back just as the floor collapses due to a fire in the basement below. It was not a pattern he recognized (one that matched prior experience) but it was anomalous in a way that he intuited was dangerous.