skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Provided you know the exact method you can in theory recover even the edges. Although this is very numerically unstable, to the extent that just double precision might not be quite enough. That said, that's just the theoretical exact inverse. With proper regularization you might be able to recover far more (although with a complex prior like a neural network it becomes debatable what information you are recovering and what information you are putting in yourself).

Side note, even with a mere 25px image (effectively) of someone's face I'm not sure if it leaks as little information as you think it does. Just 33 bits would be enough to uniquely identify someone, let alone 75 bytes. Practically you wouldn't be able to recover more than some basic estimates of skin colour and distance between the eyes etc, but in extreme cases that might still too much.
>It may be self-serving but it may also be targeted to other Facebook employees and recruits or to the general FB-using public to let folks know how dire and complete their complicity with things is.

Fair enough and I do consider his action to be a moral stance that took courage to make. And I certainly respect your decision to not work for these companies.

Having said that, I think you are way overstating how bad FB or Twitter or Google is (I wasn't sure which two companies you were talking about). And I say that because I look at the full picture of the economy that has, for example, timeshare companies, payday lenders, banks and credit card companies, casinos, alcohol and beer companies, pharmaceuticals (especially with opiates). Products from those companies can have terrible real-world consequences on people that may take decades to rectify, and then when I look at Facebook and the negative things they bring .. Facebook doesn't even rank. I'm sure FB has problems that they need to work on fixing but the hyperbole around them is so outrageously disproportionate, it feels like gaslighting.
I believe it was actually one of the more strongly limiting factors on the frequency with which space shuttle launches could be conducted because the factory producing them could not turn them out particularly quickly.
Assuming you are saying this in good faith--EDIT: and, speaking of heuristics, I looked at your posting history and I will confess to some skepticism about the assumption but somebody who has the same question in a more genuine way may be curious as to the answer!--there are a whole lot of white-supremacist dirtbags out there and they want to hurt decent people and, more importantly, waste their time and energy. That makes good filters important because otherwise they will sap your time and energy and make you less effective at the things you want to be effective at. Things like these are heuristics; they help you filter down the garbage. When you see consistent results when some dude with a Latin name (especially an obvious new account) comes into your mentions Just Asking Question over and over again, you, y'know--notice.

Puffy Latin names, anime avatars, new accounts, that kind of thing? One is not necessarily a tell. More may be, and depending on how much of that you see, you may need to tailor your filter to accept false negatives 'cause the alternative is to get brainworms.

(For an example of what is not a heuristic, consider 1488 or "Deus vult"--that's just racist agitprop.)
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thanks for the source article; it has the same graph as the BBC article, and references https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/
Not really, given the left bias of technology companies there is zero chance that his act will be ignored by companies. If anything, standing behind free speech is brave nowadays

If nothing works he can probably open a gofundme campaign.
AFAIK German law doesn't care how my filled out and double-sealed vote gets to the election office. Although I also don't see a point of why I'd hand it to some party representative when I can just drop it in a mailbox (I guess it might make sense as a service for less mobile people - who also can authorize someone to go fetch the voting materials for them), and I'd guess people just going round and ask to collect vote envelopes would cause lots of suspicion - door-to-door canvassing isn't really a thing here.
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Classifying formal methods as a 'fear response' strikes me as asinine in the same way that calling safety belts a fear response would be.
If it's software where failure can cause a lot of damage, why wouldn't fear be a natural response?

Frankly, I'd be outright horrified if say the people responsible for autonomous driving weren't anxious about mistakes, since I'd either have to assume that they just didn't care or - perhaps even worse - do not realize the potential consequences of their actions.
Is it related to the countless phishing pages hosted on your service? I’ve noticed an uptick.
Google Domains locked my domains at renewal time and refused to renew them until I provided proof of identity in the form of a scanned government ID -AND- a scanned copy of the credit card.

Coupled with the horror stories of non-existent support, the first thing I did was move my domains out this month.
I honestly hope the economy gets back to normal, I just think you need to have a rational and thorough response, like South Korea and Taiwan in order to do that. Otherwise, you’re talking about the possibility of regionally endemic disease with sporadic flare-ups that’s constantly throwing things off course.

You also can’t really shift goal posts comparing Taiwan to Sweden because we’re talking about a global pandemic that originated in China. It honestly doesn’t matter who’s doing best in Europe if people are better off in SE Asia, both in terms of economic damage and that caused by disease. Hand-waiving at “cultural differences” seems mostly an excuse because there is as much difference in culture between the high-performing countries in Asia as there is between the low-performing ones in Europe.
>If making it easier to vote hurts the Republican Party, then presumably it's on the Republican Party to make itself more appealing to people.

You could turn this around since its possibly that people who wouldn't normally vote but would vote if they could do a mail in ballot are probably less informed. The Republican Party is afraid that people who are less informed are more likely to vote for the Democratic Party.
Not saying it is cut-and-dry, but atm the users doesn't get to make that tradeoff for themselves - signal made it on their behalf when it could have allowed the users to choose on activation to which of their contacts they wish to be discoverable.
> It all indicates the problem isn't the gun, it's the person.

Really? How did the persons become worse because of the gun control laws? Because that's what your message implies, that said rise in violent crimes is related to enacting gun control.
The "logic" behind this concept of privilege as often applied within HN does not add up.

For who has the privilege of judging others privilege and where does it end?
Oh man...this would make a great easter egg.
A solution to this would be to use congress instead of expecting companies to comply.

Create a law that prevents elected or people who have declared themselves a candidate for office from using social media platforms. Extend it to their offices/teams/associates etc.

Politics shouldn’t be reduced to 160 characters in my opinion. I don’t want to live in a society where this is the primary way this kind of important information is conveyed.

Keep social networks for the chattering class, not the political class.
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That's most likely Firefox's Facebook container. Once you click on a link that leads outside Facebook, the container closes and you can't go back anymore.
Wouldn't a non-AppleOS version of iMessage just be written to be compatible with iMessage's wire protocol, rather than relying on any of Apple's code?
Hey sorry if that was not easy to understand, I was referring to the name of the thing. "Deno" is the same as "Node" with the syllables arranged backwards.
I don't think what you have said here is wrong. I do think that judgements about social media are made from the point of view of people who hear about the evils of big (fast food) websites mostly second-hand while wrongly believing they don't participate in it.

My understanding is that this website was created was to make YC more famous among the kind of people who would post here. Posts are indexed by search engines and, after some period, undeletable. Like all social media - including all the way back to usenet, before the phrase existed - flaming, high-tensions, and consequences are non-negligible. I've seen someone write a post as an insider that got a reply from their CEO asking them not to do it. The sum of this is that YC's advertising is creating a platform for people to harm their careers.

Yet, despite knowing this, I continue to browse because I find value in the content that exceeds the dangers. I imagine others feel the same and hope that, by viewing HN under the same umbrella as Facebook etc., they might not view the negatives as fatal. At least not to the point of demanding other people leave their jobs.
SeekWell[1] just launched a "Stories"[2][3] feature that helps you write narratives about your data using SQL. It's like an always up-to-date Wall Street Journal article about your company that is automatically refreshed and delivered to your inbox daily. We're using it internally for investor updates, daily recaps, and alerts (e.g. a customer that was inactive visiting our pricing page).

[1] https://seekwell.io/
[2] https://www.notion.so/seekwell/Stories-d4dcb303d28b400492741...
[3] https://youtu.be/lTkv8o0j7Pw
> but what about using TOR with TAILS on a laptop that's dedicated to nothing else

This does not really help regarding what I mentioned.

> using said machines or TOR alone from an IP address that isn't one's own identifiable address

Slightly better I guess but in most cases you can still be identified.

> what do you concretely propose as alternatives to TOR for the seriously privacy-conscious

Honestly, no idea. I would keep using tor for the time being but we really need an alternative.
I have not. Though, I have been eyeballing chrismarshall.com for years, setting calendar reminders on expiration's and such.

Have you been doing the same? Was curious if all the CM's are competing for that domain lol
> You would be amazed at how much money a bank can make on card interchange

Not in Europe. Do you have any links?

> Also most central banks don’t have negative base rates,

OK not negative, just zero Eurozone is 0%, UK is 0.1%, Scandies are zero or 0.05%
https://www.global-rates.com/interest-rates/central-banks/ce...
Calling it "AI" is a stretch, it's more like using the TensorFlow infrastructure to do Bayesian inference. Here's a presentation on the process: http://hyperion.usc.edu/UQ-SummerSchool/pres/Langmore.pdf
Isn't the advantage of Make that it does dependency resolution: so you can tell it to "make a" and then it will run "b" and "c" because "a" depends on those?
Would be awesome to see one of these converted into a camper-van/RV, with solar array on roof to charge while parked for days. EV delivery trucks would be a great platform for this because of the space reclaimed from ICE. The same camper EV idea is behind VW's awesome looking "ID Buzz" concept, which alas, has been stuck in concept mode forever.
Why does there need to be empirical evidence of widespread cases of abuse before we address a measure that seems ripe for abuse? Was there widespread security breaches based on Spectre before operating system developers implemented mitigations?
1. Pick some established business idea

2. Make it digital

3. Collect VC money

4. Subsidize service / product with VC money, and expand

5. GOTO 3 until IPO pressure starts mounting

6. Pray to god that you've outspent and outlived your competitors when it's time to go public
Why? It doesn't seem to be a problem of resolution.
A few years back there was Do.com which I really liked. Unfortunately it got swallowed up by AWS and has since disappeared.

Here are some others that might do what you're asking about:

https://www.lucidmeetings.com/
https://meetnotes.co/
http://www.meetingsense.com/
https://ecuria.io/
https://hmm.techrsr.com/hmmhome/hmmhome/home
https://soapboxhq.com/
https://www.meetin.gs/
https://meetingking.com/
https://lessmeeting.com/

Some are more on target than others for your specific request, but they were all in my notes when I was researching this market for my own startup, https://reclaim.ai.

Btw, we're close to launching a couple new capabilities that dynamically schedule custom daily habits and tasks (w/ due dates) onto your calendar. We don't do meeting notes like you're asking, but we're the first service I've seen that treats task due dates as "defend my time before this date" vs "do it on this date".

If you're interested in trying it out, just drop us a note at hello@reclaim.ai :)
So Social Media is any digital tool that allows people to interact? I really dont understand your definition as every human interaction across all mediums could be defined as social media. And yet the term and the tools did not exist prior to 2003ish... So was Usenet social media? Was Aol and Prodigy?
at best, you possibly found evidence, not fraud. leave the determination to judges and juries. intent matters and due process shouldn't be circumvented.
Silicon Valley people live in a bubble where everyone they know is smart and liberal. After a while they forget that there exist smart people who are not liberal and implicitly think that if someone disagrees with them, they are uneducated and just wrong. Consequently they take it upon themselves to demand that people not be allowed to say incorrect and uneducated opinions (really just anything the Silicon Valley hivemind disagrees with).

When nearly everyone in your bubble has the same beliefs on politics and culture you will react violently towards threatening ideas.
I don't see how protecting your property is fascist.

I agree that a life is worth much more than any property, but stealing might lead to the death of the victim, so you are not just protecting property.

They could use non lethal force, but it's not radical to think it could escalate.

I think your comment sums it up, Trump needs to be censored in the pursue of societal change, which is a political statement.

Should a platform be making political statements and have protection as if they are neutral?
That analogy does not work though. Landmine's sole purpose is to kill/injure whoever steps on it. I don't use Facebook much, but plenty of people have benefited from it.

Instead of personal cost to him, I'd rather view it through the lenses of the impact of his action. It's inviting a lot of constructive conversation and making people re-evaluate Mark's decisions, which I think overall is a net positive.
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I think this is kind of the tip of the iceberg, a general reflection on biomedical research and academics. Not that this is how most researchers act, but in the sense that it's not unusual for the field as a whole to encounter this. I mean, if this happens in the Lancet and with the WHO with something with worldwide significant consequences, what do people think is happening with stuff with less scrutiny?

It also is a twist on all the calls for the importance of rigorous peer-reviewed studies, as if the preprint flood is just an example of why we need traditional academic structures. Here's a case where we needed the traditional academic structure and it failed miserably, even when prestigious institutions.

The irony is that this is being caught, but outside the confines of the traditional peer review. That is, there is peer review, but in the general public of scientists. So which is better? It seems like open publication and transparency is key, more so than the traditional structures per se.
Facebook loses much more money with this employee's departure (if their salary is indeed 250k like you're claiming) -- the cost of recruiting, training, and keeping employees is incredibly high, especially in tech.

Now imagine that OP inspires 100 employees quit -- now Facebook has a problem that it must address, because it's threatening their bottom line.
>A junior software engineer taking a stance on a public matter goes to front page on HN.

I guess you are really emotional on this topic.
We can't and won't, because that's not the way humans or human cultures work.
This is overly cynical and also quite far fetched.
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That is not what praying is about. A healthy prayer is a form of meditation, like "meditate on how you want your future to look like". It is a reconnection with the higher self. It is already an attempt to access something from within. It is a technique to understand thing about oneself, to build up internal structure and organize inner spiritual work.

But if you base your conception of prayer on a sketch from Monty Python or maybe a mentally ill person on the street who uses some christian terms for progressing their own insanity, then in that conception maybe prayer is a way to "magically grant with a wishing wand". But this is not what healthy use of the term is about. I assume the original poster who used this word is not insane and looks at the implicit meaning of the quote, which if looked at in that light, makes a lot of sense.
> My point is, the market reacts to what is put out there. There is almost no case where you can find a car without parallel from another company. You can certainly find better and worse, cheaper and more expensive, greater or fewer features, etc; but rarely does the market leave the field open for one player to run wild.

That's really only true when the car is intended to be sold in volume. Many vehicles are introduced as compliance vehicles designed to bring down overall fleet emissions levels.

The Volt and Bolt were both compliance vehicles and when the Bolt exceeded expectations in terms of popularity, GM's response was to eliminate the Volt platform entirely as it was redundant to the purpose of the vehicles.
Those people can’t afford new cars. They probably could afford an LPG conversion kit. Such kits are widely available outside the US, and are a good stopgap technology to reduce CO2 emissions between now and when the fleet is 100% electric.
"Over there is worse" is not equivalent to "over here is safe."
> small government, no regulations

looks at the encryption law
Somehow I think demolishing the suburbs is somewhat out of scope for this discussion
Yes, after 6h without getting much responses from Google Domains support, we just got a notification that they unblocked our domains.

We are working on making sure that everything is correctly working.

Workaround that we've setup to allow our users to still access the platform through different hostnames will continue working.
Okay, but companies like Google, FB, and Twitter are already putting great efforts towards implementing that type of thing in production.

Whats so difficult about letting a user toggle those existing filters on and off? Or allowing users more control over their news feed, such as allowing it to be chronological? Or hiding items based on keywords?

Its our job as technologists to not only tell people if/when their request is technologically impractical/impossible, but more importantly, to make informed recommendations of what is technically feasible and most closely matches their intended goals (which they might not yet even fully understand themselves).
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They already have processes in place to flag and remove covid information and violent content, so you obviously don't need general AI.
It doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with the quote, the concern OP had was that Facebook was refusing to apply its policies against glorifying violence (and the quote absolutely is) to specific individuals.

(Certainly the POTUS is not the average person, but Twitter's solution of marking that his comment was against terms of use is an extremely easy compromise.)
Just a question. Will we actually see those things in the nightsky? I hope not...
>Voter id laws disenfranchise more people than fraudulently vote.

A lot of people in the US are very much opposed to voter id but many western countries have it? Why is the US the only country where people seem to claim it disenfranchises people?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_Identification_laws
100% code coverage does not mean a full test suite. You can still find huge numbers of bugs in code that has 100% coverage in a test suite. The two are not the same!
Interesting! Once you're at Swift and Kotlin, is there any reason to pick up Dart?

As a web dev, I've done Ruby, JavaScript, and Common Lisp; and have dabbled in Dart, Elixir, and now SwiftUI. If I wanted to start building mobile apps, I'm wondering if that would suffice or if I'd have to pick up Kotlin as well.
Keystrokes aren't slowing me down at work. It's shitty debugging, long build and test times. Keystrokes are negligible.
If anything that makes the actions of employees even more powerful. As CEO he doesn't need to keep investors happy as he has full control. But he still needs (and always will need) employees to run the company. Employee protests are one of the few things that can directly impact Zuckerberg.

Employment is a two way street. They signed up knowing Zuck was in charge but expecting certain behaviour from him. Now that he's breaking that behaviour employees are protesting.
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Progressive Democrats and Never Trump Republicans need to vacate their respective parties. No idea how you and I could effect that change though -- awkward thing about "democracy", we only get the choices presented to us by those in power.
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Big auto companies plan a lot and send away press releases about electric concepts a lot too. It's been like that for the past decade, at least. They should start building and selling, then I will believe them again.