skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is something fundamental about my right to read whatever I please, in total privacy. Readwise violates that principle. [1]

I've been thinking about writing a simple script to transform my highlights into Anki [2] cards to achieve the same thing but without sharing my reading habits and highlights with a private company.

[1] https://readwise.io/privacy

[2] https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Why lbry instead of peertube?
Too slow, too weak, too inefficient, too much backlash, not backdrivable, no energy regeneration, no built in force sensing.
Agreed, the tech will take time to become viable. But Bezos is patient, is he not?

I mean, he founded Blue Origin in 2000 and it finally emerged from its self-imposed silence in 2015.
It looks like everything after Dec. 11 2018 is slideshows. Is there a link to the minutes of those meetings?
I feel like YouTube is doing their best with a really hard problem.

(Shrug) They have an almost-infinite amount of money and resources to tackle those problems. It's not unreasonable to expect better results.
Aw shoot, yeah it is. :( Thanks!
It's unclear to me how the "K" rating is affected by the holographic features, but for normal monitors 8K is a waste.

Every monitor size and resolution has an "optimal" viewing distance where the human eye can resolve the maximal amount of detail. Unfortunately sometimes the "optimal" viewing distance deserves its scare quotes, as it results in the viewer sitting so close that they hurt their neck trying to get away from said overwhelming screen.

For a 55" 4K display, the size of my TV, the optimal viewing distance is 3.7ft, far closer than I sit to my TV. Between 3.7ft and 7.2ft (ideal distance for 1080p), you get some benefit from 4K, but not all of it. In order to even detect the difference for an 8K display I would need to sit somewhere between 3.7ft and 1.7ft (ideal 8K distance) in order to reap the benefits of my purchase. Needless to say, I am not sitting that close.

For monitors the story is a bit different, because they're small and we sit close to them. A 32" 4K display has an optimal range 2ft, which is actually pretty reasonable, while an 32" 8K display has an optimal range of 1.1ft, which is again too close. I personally suspect that this is part of why Apple started pushing to 5K and 6K (although the latter might be cinema related), because ~5-6K is probably the maximum useful resolution for a desktop monitor.

This is a long winded way of saying that 8K is kind of a gimmick, at least for desktop and home use.

Source: https://stari.co/tv-monitor-viewing-distance-calculator
Just a note, xkcd has 2 image sizes.

Small: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/confidence_interval.png

Big: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/confidence_interval_2x.png

Though not for older ones.
I get the sentiment, but let us take a moment to remember that truly extinct species are not coming back, only those which were thought to be extinct or close to extinction.

We should not think that a 6 month shutdown will undo all atrocities of man or nature
> The most obvious one is fairly basic traffic correlation using the IPs and timing information.

That is made very difficult by Signal's volume. The more people use Signal and the more things they use it for, the harder it becomes to discern a meaningful pattern.

> I don't understand the point you're making.

No I sort of gathered, which is why I used the Times Square camouflage analogy. You stand out because you've gone out of your way to "protect yourself". That traffic correlation you were so excited might be possible for Signal is instead trivial for your personal homeserver with its handful of users.

You've gone out of your way to make yourself less safe because of a misunderstanding of the threat. It's very common.
Thanks for the reply. But I am still not convinced. It seems these are watered down versions of outlines of the actual decision making. Which is different from what I am suggesting.

Here is an actual example:

> "• Question: How much will we communicate about this? We usually don't want people to
game the Feed but this change might hit their pocketbook so my instinct is to be open
about this.

> • Answer: Comms is aware and we will be proactive about communicating this. Inside
Feed is one channel we can use to do this. The only way this can happen at the domain
level is with full transparency and product is aware we can't do this unless we have that."

So the commitee passed the buck and all the transparency is gone. Also there are no names or responsible persons assigned. And by the way, the words "feed", "news feed" or "ranking" appears only once throughout the span of 4 months. I very much doubt there were no decisions in any form throughout those 4 months regarding the news feed.

So overall this looks to me like pixie dust rather than a true representation or involvement in decision making.
To read the article normally, open the web inspector and add

em {
font-style: normal;
}
Yikes. Given how atrocious Alexa is at doing anything more complicated than telling the current time, this won't end well.
I’m giving something to my friends. This makes them happy, and it makes me happy to see them happy. I’ve made a few new friends because of this, I’ve gotten to know some acquaintances better too. I am richer in my connections.

There’s a low-key buzz of occasional thanks and favors in my life that I wouldn’t get if I wasn’t doing this, either. And occasionally this connection lets one of my friends help out another who needs it, financially or emotionally, when they wouldn’t even necessarily be contact with each other, much less interested in helping out, without the shared space I’ve created.

I think this is a great experience.

(Total active user count is more like a few dozen, btw.)
India opensources 'AarogyaSetu' – COVID19 contact tracing app
Being hard of hearing and losing it, i am really hopeful of stem cells and regenerative medicine or something else helping to restore sensorineural hearing loss. I had seen talks as early as 2010 about the potential for this which had 2020s as the goal date. However 1 decade later the Heller lab at Stanford which worked hard on this, does not seem to have a lot of results to my knowledge, real science indeed is hard.

I always wished that better data sharing mechanisms, more open source culture in different fields and probably new developments such as machine learning and significant computing power used in innovative ways would accelerate science and make it exponential. However Physical sciences have their limit at which progress can be done.

Personally i am of the view that some Chinese competition in the space might help too, however ethics in areas such as genetic selection is going to get crazy.
Obvious now you point it out.
Great writeup! It's always interesting to see what cruft is coming along for the ride (and what makes it past the reverse proxies).

I did a similar (not nearly as well visualized) analysis of every domain registered under the .nyc gTLD about a year ago[1]. Lots of servers running old, vulnerable HTTPd/SSHd/FTPd services, even for a relatively new TLD.

[1]: https://blog.yossarian.net/2018/11/11/Scanning-the-nyc-gtld
With some very simple sharding (we are talking splitting lists and dictionaries) you can bypass the GIL and not balloon your memory usage. To do so you would use aiomultiprocess which inherits from asyncio classes (and therefore interfaces) but lets you await on methods running in their own processes.

https://github.com/omnilib/aiomultiprocess
Add sloppy controls to the list.
Well, I mean, back in 2006, Bezos' company was saying that they could be launching into space as early as 2010, so I don't think it was self imposed silence for that long. (Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB116312683235519444)
Because to optimize the analytics, you optimize the site for analytics and inherently give Google more detailed data. There’s no way Google isn’t using that data.
One of regular meetings.. from 2018? Did you publish minutes from this year?
Facebook having a "VP of Integrity" is laughable. They must have workshopped it and discovered "Minister of Truth" was a bit too on the nose.
Scroll down one page; it's an Emacs hotkey.
I’m not so sure.
We do have finite brains but that doesn’t mean forgetting is necessary for learning. There are many examples of people with prodigious natural gifts for memory and more who trained it. Physical and theoretical limits aren’t really relevant to your claim.

> According to Herman Goldstine, the mathematician John von Neumann was able to recall from memory every book he had ever read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory
10 years of Instagram: the (hi)story
"P.S. The dev engine has all the same limitations as the game, so Mac 10.10, Win 10 (dx12) and unfortunately (at this time) no Linux build"

No Linux build yet. Ouch. Well at least better than nothing.
I don't know about this particular course but almost anything on Hinduism comes with huge biases from western institutions. This is explained in the book 'Academic Hinduphobia' available recently as a free PDF.

I would recommend reading the book 'Being Different' by Rajiv Malhotra to balance out any such courses on Hinduism.

Disclaimer - Indian hindu
I have a few questions about this but I would prefer to ask them privately. Is there a non-twitter way to contact you, such as an email address?

My email address is in my hn bio if you don't want to make that public :)
Is Github, being owned by Microsoft, really that much more trustworthy?
I helped conceive, and managed, a product that handled $1B revenue per month at a single customer site (and was installed at many more). You don't see me going around and bragging about it (oh wait...)

Funny enough, the significance went completely over my head at the time. We were too focused on making sure it worked and not losing any deposits. It wasn't until a year later when I ran some stats for a product review / presentation that it sank in.
Interesting take. You've given me pause to think about this some more.
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That is interesting. My take would be that the older population may spend less time on social media (who can compete with a 20 year old with a phone welded to their hand anyway), but that a disproportionate number of these seniors are babes in the wood where technology is concerned, and are more amazed by, believing of, and susceptible to the influence of social media than youngsters who have grown up along with those social media platforms.

Would be very interesting to learn about these countries where polarization has fallen if you have links to hand.
Masterclass is a straight up grift and this is obviously a paid advertisement in the NYT. Cmon, lets be real.
As the concept of fairness is innate in primates including humans in the 4th grade I wouldn't stop and correct the students but try and re-frame the problem in terms of a problem where fairness was involved and then immediately the ratios and the units would come into more clear focus. As an example I might say that if I promised to give you 1/3 of the pizza as a reward for cleaning your room. And then how much should you get if I had 1 pizza. How about 2 pizzas? Things like that.
The Puritan Bohemian
The government budget crisis that the pandemic will cause as tax receipts decrease and outflows increase might be a catalyst for this.

I could see a big company or conglomerate of companies being willing to take over part or all of certain parts of road development and maintenance as long as they can have one or more dedicated autonomous lanes.

I imagine that there will be a lot of room for creative solutions over the next 10 years.
I disagree. Threads with conflict were among the longest. Only in moderated communities, there are active attempts to reduce conflict.
Semolina Chocolate cupcakes without Oven
Or Python, or ES6 JS. Or Rust. or Go. Or TypeScript. Or Swift. or Kotlin. Or anything (half) sane and useful going forward basically.
Lol, his success is a gimmick. Are this many SDEs actually huge marks? WOW
There are lots of tech improvements, but many of them are public, so even just waiting helps.

Using EfficientNet instead of ResNet, depth detection algorithms, better object classifiers are available than just a few years ago.

I believe that there's less than 5 years between the first company achieving self driving and many other companies.
Not quite the right place for this comment, but it's timely, and I wanted to share it. Over the long weekend, I started bookmarking and closing my months-long collection of browser tabs. The number of "to read" and "to watch" links vastly outnumbered the "to dos" (I don't mean that like it's a chore, but related to an activity). I accidentally focused too much on learning over doing.

Don't watch these classes just to watch these classes. Watch them to enrich an active part of your life.
Fair point; I think we both probably agree that there was a lot of needless hysteria. However, the ability to decompile / reverse engineer the app itself was explicitly disallowed in the app ToS [1]:

“...You agree that you will not tamper with, reverse-engineer or otherwise use the App for any purpose for which it was not intended including, but not limited to, accessing information about registered users stored in the App, identifying or attempting to identify other registered users or gaining or attempting to gain access to the cloud database of the Service.”

exposing the software engineer / group that did it & published the analysis to significant harassment & risk.

One could argue that this was for data protection, but it reeks of security through obscurity, especially the way the clause is worded (including but not restricted to). Whatever the intentions, the initial roll-out was a disaster from the transparency / info-sec PoV IMO.

[1] https://sflc.in/our-concerns-aarogya-setu-app

edit: added link to the Software Freedom Law Center India site with details on the clause prohibiting reverse engineering
Everyone Need to Hear This, Repeatedly
> Is it xenophobic to be disturbed at influence the Chinese government seems to have over international organizations and American companies?

No. This distrust is not because the Chinese are outsiders, or have slanted eyes, or anything else on their physical appearance.

This distrust is because of their autocratic, mass murder justifying ideology. It is not xenophobic to be distrustful because of ideologies.
Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
> We reduce distribution of posts that use divisive and polarizing tactics like clickbait, engagement bait, and we’ve become more restrictive when it comes to the types of Groups we recommend to people.

This seems inherently a political evaluation. What are the criteria and is this driven manually automatically?
I wish Notion had a self-hosted version. I store a lot of things in Joplin (previously Evernote) that I'm just not comfortable having on 3rd party servers :(
Yeah, I agree with what you said. My point is that it's pointless and misleading to bring up retention numbers if most what you're retaining you already knew previously. It's not a measure of how much you're actually learning.
"Might be a long list. We've got >35,000 people working on safety and security. I expected some challenges recruiting people with all the bad press we got over the last few years, but instead I've seen that talented people eager for a really hard challenge are even more excited to join and wok on this area."

I didn't read the article, because paywalled.

So you're implying seriously that 35'000 people are actively involved in such decisions? Really?

Let me wager a guess:

A Google search reveals 44'942 Facebook employees as per December 31 2019.

You're implying here that 78% of all your employees are directly involved in such decisions?

Here's my take. 99.998 % (and yes, the number is pulled out of thin air) of those 35000 people are lowly paid contractors sifting through the horrible crap that some of your users post.

Sure, they're working on "safety and security" in the broadest sense, but are sure as shit far away from any such decisions.
....and most don’t use or want.

Of course they conveniently only bundle these features so they can pretend it’s what customers want—hell downloading and playing when the screen is off should be a part of youtube. Just another step in the long saga of companies intentionally crippling their own services to bilk customers.
Many Trie Problems here - https://www.techiedelight.com/list-of-problems/
The original half life release did this too back in the day. It would lead to the entirely of program files being deleted based on a default install.
> There are blackout periods etc. just to make sure that the analysis is valid and not tainted.

This is an interesting potential debate. In some sense we are sacrificing lives for scientific validity, because it is potentially possible that we could deploy early, ignore blackouts, and have probabilistically fewer deaths + tainted data. But the world is apparently wanting to choose probabilistically more deaths + clean data.
Can you qualify what you mean by “rigorous” ? I think this is an important point of contention because Facebook is so accustomed to using data to justify decisions. Yet these ethical issues often either have no data and/or the consequences of Facebook’s actions impact users who are not on Facebook. Moreover, the data is not available to the public (despite the public generating the data) so the public can’t actually reproduce the warrant used internally at Facebook. This lack of reproducibility is why I think there’s so much friction around Facebook claiming their decisions are made with “rigor.” Thanks.
I have a family member with an imported Japanese right-hand-drive car. I've driven it briefly, though not long enough to get accustomed to the differences. From what I've been told, the key lingering differences are the blind spots and the inconvenience of things like paying at parking garages or toll booths if there's no one in the passenger seat.
I Agree, failing to acknowledge the difference between them will make you worry about publish quality when you should be writing raw.
So where's that list? I would imagine it is not hard for a company at the size of FB to reliably host a static file of 35000 redacted names. :-)

And my snarky response is inspired largely by what I would call your diversion of a response. To me reads like you are not acknowledging the real answer: no, as FB VP of Integrity I can't and won't provide the list.

Would that have not been easier?
> I see a lot of people complaining about things like this, but I also see a lot of people complaining that YouTube/Twitter/etc aren't doing enough to take down false/immoral/illegal content quick enough. [1]

It looks more like YT is busy censoring content for political/ideological reasons and doesn't care too much about porn, complaints about censorship and attacks such as reported by the OP.

If some fanatics still don't get their way of censoring content they don't like quickly enough, that's not really an excuse for YT's bad service.
Are you really trying to take credit for a flimsy correlation between facebook usage and polarization (in some countries, though you didn't say which ones or how many compared to other heavy use countries)
“Hi Mom! We’ve decided to leave Facebook. Jane’s set up our own little substitute. It’s where we’ll be posting all the pictures of the kids from now on. I’ve written up the basics in this letter; if you have any questions we can talk about it when I see you next week.

— Suzy <3”
MTAs, if configured correctly, do not talk to anything outside your network that is not specified by MX DNS records. Unless we are talking about emails traversing internal networks and even then competent admins do not transmit data in cleartext, so sniffing is out of question.
Of course, some metadata is always leaked, but that is the reality of most internet protocols, HTTPs notwithstanding. Now if we're talking about backdoors, it's a game over in any scenario.
I think the images are failing to load in this one. Does the scraping take time ?
Everyone's throwing out suggestions for CLI libraries, so let me plug my mate's: https://github.com/jpillora/opts

I definitely prefer it to cobra
I like this idea, but I feel like it's shifting the problem to "how do you discover cool directories made by other people?"

Maybe an idea would be something like what you have, but using some sort of standard that could be pulled down similar to rss feeds?
oh yes, true
Hey they showed up once from non-existence, they can do it again. Just got to dig deep.
StrandHogg 2.0 – The Evil Twin
> Now we're struggling to deal with existential threats like climate change because a lot of people get their worldview from Facebook

You state this as a matter of fact. How do you know this?

Even if it were to be true, that people were more polarized in the climate worldview by Facebook and more so to the wrong side than the right side, we all know that climate change is the result of our behaviour the last centuries and that counter efforts has been resisted the last 50 years.
As others have said, this is apparently a common practice, but what does it mean for the credibility of The Washington Post? If a Bezos-run has no problems pushing a press release as news, what's to stop a Bezos-owned newspaper from doing the same?
AskQL: Send executable code instead of JSONs
Dear idiot, let me help you. Stop trying to control people. Just stop. You are the anti-christ. Stop trying to social engineer opinions. Stop censorship. Just let people say what they have to say.
You didn't answer either of his questions.
A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression
A Japanese car that has similar charm (to me anyway) is the Daihatsu Copen. The original looks suspiciously similar to the Figaro :-) Lately I haven't been so impressed with the styling, but it still has a European roadster look going for it. It's a ridiculously cheap car as well :-)
Or people with bipolar disorder or health issues. As someone who had to get my thyroid removed due to cancer last year, it's been a challenge to feel the same everyday. Still working hard at routines - morning yoga, breathing exercise, etc
They aren’t sexy, isn’t that it — you want a sexy robot and RC servos don’t cut it
I recall Zoox dumped their CEO founder quite suddenly, this announcement reminded to look up the story. Food for thought re founders and controlling stakes in startups.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/why-self-driving-c...
> The one thing from the article I'd agree with is bad is Bloomberg interferring with the journalists reporting at his own company. There should be a strict line between Bloombergs other business interests and the editorial at the newspaper.

Should there be? The mantra we keep hearing is that private companies have no obligation to observe human rights like freedom of speech or freedom of the press. Don't like it? Why just start your own news service of course.
apparently on the darkweb, etc [1], among other leaks [2,3]. To be fair, the issue doesn't appear to be with the aadhaar database itself but the many agencies that use / store the data but do not protect it properly. Poor to non-existent data handling practices, limited understanding of privacy risks at the end user level..

Aadhaar has been transformational; but I hope we don't go down the path of the US SSN: one of the simplest vectors for massive identity theft in the US. I don't think we will, but it does appear that there are significant teething issues that could be better addressed if the powers that be were more willing to acknowledge shortcomings instead of saying the data is protected by 13 feet walls. [4]

[1] https://www.moneylife.in/article/aadhaar-data-breach-largest...

[2] https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/major-aadhaar-d...

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/aadhaar-data-leak/

[4] https://www.news18.com/news/india/aadhaar-data-protected-by-...
How is your success as VP of Integrity measured, as in what are your OKRs or KPIs?

I'm curious at to what you and others in the 35k you mentioned do?
I want one to carry my groceries :D