skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It goes way beyond government financing. The government gave them the damn land.
I am reminded of astronaut Cady Coleman's flute duet with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, in 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC4nqBB5BM
Generally signal is a solid option.

In addition I have a private mattermost server, which is heavily restricted in terms of firewall and users but this is reserved only for a very small selected group of people that I trust and I am 1000% sure that they know what they are doing.
I'm on MacOS, so some stuff I keep in the folders that come with an account by default.

~/Desktop/: nothing here, don't like the clutter.

~/Documents/: mainly just files stores by applications, I don't intentionally put anything here

~/Downloads/: self-explanatory, but I try to keep this clear by either deleting, cataloguing, or short-term storing everything in here.

~/Downloads/stored/: a sort of temporary "not important enough to catalogue, but I'll maybe use it more than once so I'll keep it around for now" folder.

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~/Sites/: websites that I'm working on, generally as git repos so not backed up to cloud

~/Repos/: all my other git repos not in ~/Sites/

~/Repos/external/: git repos that I don't own but that I've forked

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And then the big kahuna, where I actually store everything* that has ever been created by me digitally, which is backed up to cloud...

~/Cranium/: the root folder, which has two sub-folders

~/Cranium/cortex/: the long-term storage, well-organized "catalogue". Everything is sorted by categories and sub-categories, etc., etc. The categories right now are – archive, audio, coding, databases, design, dotfiles, edu, finance, folks, games, gimmicks, image, jobs, modeling, projects, reading, records, sparse, text, video, writing.

~/Cranium/cortex/dotfiles: This sub-folder deserves an honorable mention, because being on Unix I have a lot of dotfiles (config) that normally live in my home folder. I wrote a program that, whenever a new hidden dir/file is added to my home directory, it automatically moves it to this folder and then symlinks it back into the home directory. This makes it much easier to start up new systems and keep my settings / profiles backed up.

~/Cranium/hippocampus/: this is basically what other people would normally have on their desktop. Stuff that I generally want to keep around, but is either a very active project (and therefore want to be able to access quickly without having to click through multiple levels of organization) or is otherwise changing/ephemeral so I do not want to spend the time cataloguing these things in "cortex", lest the content and therefore desired structure changes. When something in here winds down, I either delete it or move it to "cortex".

And that's about it.

* I've started to move a lot of content into my note-taking service, as over the last couple years I've found a pure directory structure is pretty restrictive at the end of the day, even if you have spent a lot of time coming up with a flexible structure that suits you (as I have).
People have a common tendency to connect one thing they don't understand with another they also don't understand.
I'm against Antifa and am afraid to admit this in PDX, for my own safety. Left wing politics is becoming just as fascist as right wing politics used to be.
I think that if we could zoom out to a more historical perspective, things would probably look different. History isn't linear and overlapping things are always going on at the same time. The new coexists with the old. It's true that most practitioners of scientific and engineering knowledge don't give a fig about what the postmodernists had to say, but it doesn't follow that the postmodern critique is without effect. It would be interesting to know who 'wins' a hundred years from now. I wouldn't bet on the practitioners of scientific and engineering knowledge as we know it today.
This site's front page has got a lot of red flags on it. There's another treatment of this over on sciencemag: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/mysterious-company-s...

This would be a pretty serious black eye for both The Lancet and the WHO, which has already been under scrutiny from multiple countries.

However, it's worth pointing out that this wasn't the only study on HCQ. There have been others: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/studies-...

If the Surgisphere observational study turns out to be erroneous, it could knock another leg out from under the WHO, and if it turns out to be fraudulent, everyone involved with it deserves jail time. It'll be terrible in either case that it resulted in a bunch of other trials and studies being canceled.
I'm just trying to get my head around this too. I think the basic mechanics of it are:

1) Abolish gold standard, enabling government to print money

2) Government prints money which is captured by large corporations

3) 90% of the population still owns the same amount of money but it's now worth far less because the rest of the pie is having cash pumped into it.

We're seeing a current example of 2/3 with the Coronavirus government stimulus, which went directly into plutocrat pockets while the masses were handwaved away with a token gesture.
What makes it easy and powerful for Rust is that ~all Rust projects use Cargo as the build system and test runner, so Crater can really test every Rust project in existence, not just code samples hand-picked into compiler's test suite.
Noise levels in cities are already unhealthy. Adding thousands of small rotors is madness.
With the impressive performances of generative AI I'd raises the interesting question of what people actually want when they take a photo. Is it preferable if it looks great, even if the details aren't actually true and imagined by a neural network?

There was some discussion about it a few years ago when one of huaweis phones had a 'moon mode' that afaik basically recognized the moon and pasted in a static picture. Complete fake, but actually a reasonable idea - it's not like the moon will look any different and that's what the people want after all.
> There is no convincing evidence that Sweden’s approach has led to a materially worse outcome

Four thousand people would like to have a word with you, but can't, because they are dead.
Didn't know about "classic" either!

I listed some non-discoverable URLs here: https://gist.github.com/jakub-g/803ad2c074ad1fbe2af5

Happy to discover more - please put comments here or on the gist.
This is easily my favorite Python visualization tool. The declarative nature is intuitive, and the way it integrates with vegalite provides a lot of flexibility. The docs are also great.

If you are missing ggplot2 in Python, I’d say look here first.
what if all workers were shareholders and the 'union' was a subsection of the company like an autonomous entity w/in the company that still had some voice but that ultimately was ALSO about their bottom line so that their shares go up as do the shares of all other employees?
For the case of text, blur can be brute forced.

If you redact, say, a credit card number with a blur, and I know what typeface the number would have been written in, and have a reasonable guess as to your blur radius, it might not be infeasible to compare the blurred version of every possible credit card number.

If you redact an email address with a blur, brute-forcing every possible email address will be harder. But if someone (say) leaks information to you, and you merely blur out their address, it's not infeasible that someone else could apply the same blur to a known suspect's email to verify whether it was them or not.

Of course, with a large enough blur radius it's not an issue. Still, a non-zero amount of times, it's been done badly enough I've been able to mostly "reverse" a blur by just squinting and sitting back a few feet.

Always redact text with solid blocks.

I don't know how feasible this approach would be to human faces. I think Signal has blurred it such to make such an attack infeasible.

I also don't think it's sufficient; if you don't want someone to be identified don't take photos of them, full stop and/or period. Take the photo at the top of the blog post. Who on that day, had that a backpack with that type of strap, a blue mask in exactly that shade of blue, that haircut, and that exact BLM t-shirt, in that place at that time of day? That could be sufficient information for a "fingerprint", though maybe not deanonymisation.
I have come to see postmodernism and critical theory and all that stuff not as inquiry, but as a game.

Usually, academia is inquiry: physicists are inquiring into how matter and energy work, historians are inquiring into what happened and why, etc. From a distance, postmodern philosophy looks like it is inquiring into how society works, what hidden assumptions we have, etc.

But it isn't, really. It's a game about who can say the most interesting thing, constrained by some rules about how things being said have to be grounded in other things that have been said, and with some way of scoring interestingness that i don't have a firm grip on. There's no genuine attempt to understand things, or to test what is said against reality. Truth doesn't matter at all. Foucault, for example, was successful not because he said true things, but because he said new and previously unimaginable things, and expressed them lyrically.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22946264

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Do you think they are convincing, yet? General whatshisface in the recent SW movie looked really really bad. I don't recall how Leia looked in RoTS because that was such a deeply boring movie for me I forgot almost all of it minutes after watching it (though maybe that means the CG there was flawless?)
> But you should never give the correct answer for password recovery.

Exactly. You're supposed to use your password manager to generate a second password and use that as your answer. I know this sounds stupid but it is the only way to stay safe.
You are correct a standard Gaussian Blur can be reversed except along the edges where data is effectively lost outside the blurred rectangle. In this case the radius of the blur is large enough that a lot of data will be lost. Combined with JPEG compression removing a lot of information too, reversing this blur should be impossible.

A better blur algorithm (in that it can easily be proven not to be reversible and is faster to process) is to divide the area to be blurred into a small number of cells, (9,16 or 25) get the averaged colour in each cell and then apply an interpolation between those colours as your output. This algorithm is essentially O(n) where n is the number of pixels to be blurred. You can easily prove that the information in the image is at most 3 bytes (each colour) * 25 (number of cells) = 75 bytes which is not enough to encode a face however it may be enough to encode some limited details (such as skin colour, distinctive clothing etc.) so always better to use a black box.
Would have agreed pre-covid but post-covid it's clear than Zoom is actually a great system for social calls too and the distinction between business orientated video chat and social isn't as harsh as it seemed.

I'm from a big social drinking country and our Friday bar visits are now just a link we can share into a group chat and people can drop in as they please, you can share things from your screen and it all just works great.
If you go out and measure 'inequality', it isn't a measure of homeless vs middle class, it is a measure of homeless vs mega-wealthy. That is a stupid comparison IMO - the gap between the poor and mega-wealthy doesn't matter as much as the actual conditions of the poor.

The homeless vs middle class inequality could easily be much the same as it always has been. The middle class are getting increasingly tenuous in their wealth.
I know it is a controversial name, but I hope/believe that Jordan Peterson's philosophy will actually have a chance at that. At least as an healthier approach to Nietzsche.
Do delivery cars, scooters, trucks not produce noise? Is this a complaint about delivery drones or delivery? Tracking technology will always be at our fingertips. I don't think you'd want a world where that wasn't true. It's governmental regulation that's the answer to large scale abuse.
Are you disputing that some children grow up to be lazier and less disciplined than their parents? No? Then how is that quote relevant? m0zg complained about their very own child, not about children in general.
Genuinely surprised by this, because I have circles in WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Snapchat, Signal and iMessage, but I don't know a single person who uses Duo.

Perhaps a geographical thing and it's only popular in a couple of countries?
It's more about the concurrency abstractions available. And half the joy of writing async code in JS is that it's single-threaded.

Doing many things at the same is inherent to doing networked stuff. How ergonomic that is going to be is one of the only real things that sets languages apart.
that's pretty much my train of thought as well.

trickle down economics don't work like the theories would want it to, just look at quantitative easing and the ECB equivalent. all those cheap loans to banks never ended up in the real economy
Is a police office in a free, democratic country allowed to hide their badge number?
HN moment
I have no idea where you'd possibly get such a bizarre idea.

For one thing, I'm not offering a solution here, but an analysis. But if you want a solution, mine would be to save as many lives and reorganize the economy so less lives will be risked in the name of short-term profits.
Getting started with C# – C# Basics
What makes an iconic book cover?
This is going to be controversial, but Amazon in my mind is one of those companies that gets a pass. They needed to move fast and get people supplies. If that hadn't, there would have been bigger issues.

Very sad all of this is happening, but Amazon should get a little slack.
I've seen this sentiment mentioned quite a bit, but is it still true with the level of blur being shown in their example images? the blur level is extremely high to the point that it has essentially left behind a smooth gradient. Even with the algorithm known is there enough reversible information left?
> Maybe. You only have data on those people who don't have adblockers that block GA. Which is a sizable segment of the internet. Also that they're not using a VPN, etc. Stats collected via GA are inherently less reliable than stats collected from your own site because GA is easily blocked.

You'd be surprised how many marketers don't understand this key point. Those that do just don't care. I'd argue it's part of why the internet is being dumbed down (because people without adblockers are the only ones with a voice).
Judge ‘puzzled’ by suit aimed at lifting secrecy of Epstein grand jury records
Btw. The statistics to calculate herd immunity to 60-90% were extremely flawed. They used numbers that came right out of superspreader-events.
The most likely thing for COVID-19 is, that it has R0 < 1. It will spread by using a series of superspreader-events and will disappear after a while.
Check out Michael Levitt for some understanding of the mathematics of COVID-19...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aHrx68IT7o
Matrix: https://matrix.org/

Unlike Signal, it does not rely on a single server.
As the looks of it, US is pretty non-free when it comes to peacefully protesting. So I guess this feature is very timely and directed towards users there ;)
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Alternatively, you can instrument the code with checks for UB using a sanitizer. It won't be the compiler screaming at you but your CI running all your tests with this instrumented version of your software.

Not perfect, but should work for most sane people running CI before merging changes.
Moore’s Law is an S-curve too. Its already approaching its asymptote - accelerating diminishing returns.
Neither of the text links you posted support what you say, rather the opposite. Do either Tom Britton or Johan Giesecke speak for FHM? I didn’t care to watch the 35 minute YouTube video to figure out what it says.

A lot of people have been talking about herd immunity, but FHM has been quite clear from the start that they don’t think herd immunity will make Corona go away.
True but there are a lot of additional costs (maintenance, council rates, depreciation) to owning a house on top of the mortgage. Again only speaking for myself but I have a small rental property and the rent basically only covers the interest plus expenses.
Lots of info collected by minimaxir here: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Why do people act like having “private APIs” is something evil? The entire purpose of having published public APIs is that they should be something that doesn’t change without a deprecation schedule or warning while the underlying implementation can change without notice. This is software engineering 101.
In ex-USSR SMS are dead, except on old "feature" phones. While in capitals a lot of people have iPhones it's share is not more than 50% and so iMessage never really picked up. Currently messaging it split between Viber (mostly older people) and Telegram (mostly younger people), plus some FB Messenger with FB friends. Whatsapp lost out market when it cost 1$ to install (yes, for many it was a decisive factor). iPhone users just install these apps too.

When traveling in Europe I usually see Whatsapp as a contact method.
Were they never equipped because we were never at war with Russia?
Great book. My father read the book as a Marine stationed in Keflavik Iceland and said it was eerie.
If you want to be completely sure you can't beat boring old PGP. It runs on top of XMPP and is too simple to hide anything in.

The new XMPP hotness is OMEMO. Conversations is a good mobile client that supports both PGP and OMEMO.
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted, every thing you wrote is verifiably true and documented fact, except perhaps the “go it alone” comment which is uncharitable at best but if you rephrase it to indict the public health agency instead I would tend to agree with the characterization.

As a Swede I‘m appalled at their handling of the matter, particularly when it comes to protecting the elderly. (Which is to say they didn’t.)
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If you think async/await is the holy grail of networking, you're up for a surprise in the next few years.

The problem with async/await: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...

A solution proposed by none other than Java (available as an experimental feature in JDK 15): http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/loom/sol1_part1.h...

This seems to me to obsolete async/await, quite honestly.
Vietnam at 0 deaths.

Singapore at 24 deaths (despite a relatively high number of cases).

There's a thread on the front page right now re Sweden's handling. A lot of the comments seem to be trying to rate the performance of various European countries against each other. I guess I'm missing something, because I'd just categorize most of it as a disaster.
A problem is that different fields that sound similar have very different standards.

Epidemiologists appear to frequently take un-reviewed, un-published papers straight to the press and politicians specifically to change government policy.

Actual doctors, not so much.

What's the difference between an expert in infectious diseases and an expert in treatment of infectious diseases, to the layman? Hardly any.

The media plays a part. Journalists routinely conflate doctors, academics and political activists under the rubric of "experts". Sometimes this is deliberate and overt. Guido Fawkes has had a long running campaign where they expose TV news presenting left-wing activists as neutral experts, without telling anyone about the interviewees backgrounds. As can be seen in this particular incident, that campaign has started to have a small effect, but some journalists don't like being exposed that way!

https://order-order.com/2020/05/22/sky-news-gets-there-event...

For people to get better at interpreting studies the first step must be to de-conflate different kinds of "expert". In particular academics need to be referred to as such and separated from the type of practical expert who practices their craft in the real world every day.
Well quite a few countries had stopped chloroquine use even before this study because they found little to no benifit, but significantly increased risks (not based on studies because they are difficult to do, but based on evidence by the treating doctors) , Sweden stopped IIRC mid april. IMO Germany and France also stopped sometime in May. Several smaller studies have also previously showed that chloroquine has increased risks and very little benefit (a number of them actually interrupted the studies because of the high risks). As much as I was hopeful when I first heard about it, I'm now very sceptical. It also doesn't help that Didier Raoult has a bit of a spotty past with ethical research conduct.
There’s something musical about the Pi laser going back and forth:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64728404@N03/8557504795/in/alb...
Apple's refusal to support Windows in any real way and have inferior experiences with iTunes etc was absolutely fine when they had best in class solutions for all your work and home needs.

But in 2020 where their computing products have left so much to be desired this whole system just starts to fall apart. I'm forced over to Windows because they don't make a machine to fit my work needs and when I'm there in Windows I'm not thinking how much I miss iMessage and I wish I'd sacrificed performance and GPUGP just for iMessage, I'm thinking maybe I should stop using iMessage because WhatsApp works great everywhere.

Then now I've switched to WhatsApp well there's one less reason I have to buy an iPhone next time.
What deno wants is something like caja - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project - object-capability security for JavaScript. Sadly I believe the caja project was not successful because it is very hard to avoid ambient authority in JS without becoming incompatible with everything.
That’s not how markets work. If you gave everyone a Lamborghini, the value of a Lamborghini would plummet, so the wealth measure doesn’t move. Also, resources have to come from somewhere, and that has a cost. The theoretical you’ve proposed doesn’t hold up to much scrutiny and doesn’t seem like a useful model.
Today's useless robot deer is tomorrow's mountain rescue robot. Skepticism is healthy in moderation.
True. Once you get rid of cars, the world is a bicycle lane.
Google now highlights search results directly on webpages
> if you want a system that actually allows politicians to work for their voters

The people in power don’t actually want this.
So HE would carry the traffic for free between peers? That sounds very generous of them!
They had the resources to do a better job and to do it earlier. They dragged their feet for some reason and people paid for it. It's why employees were protesting: not because they didn't want to work, but because they wanted to work safely. Some warehouses had insufficient safety practices or didn't have enough access to things like soap, gloves and hand sanitizer.