skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is profoundly and all-too-conveniently incorrect in your casual conclusion there, and there are substantial research papers on the topic. Details on request
I hate to be defending Google on this, but their Incognito Mode repeatedly states that the only thing it does is hide your activity from users on your computer, and explicitly points out that web sites can still see your activity.
This attack took place in February.
It is interesting, though, that a portion of the article is dedicated to discussing how it's important to make the proof simpler and more generally available. Although machine-verifiability is surely a good goal, it can't replace humans being able to comprehend the proofs as well. In this world where proof can all be verified, we may be more confident in our mathematical knowledge, but we'll also be unable to generate new knowledge.
Submitted 20 minutes before this post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553794 (45 points, 8 comments)
Windows has great High DPI support. It's Windows applications that often haven't seen upgrades since before even 2012. Windows' commitment to backward compatibility is the struggle. Windows hasn't had the option to just change processor architectures every dozen years on a seeming whim and subsequently force all software to be rewritten or die.
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Eric Rosen is the Bob Ross of chess.
I do it to make full-fat, low-sugar yogurt, which is harder than it should be to find at the grocery store. Almost all of them besides the Fage Greek are loaded with sugar. Guess which one our store doesn't stock? (the Fage 5%)
Hey Jeff, curious what the battery life of this device is?

I'm on a team that has a need for remote compute power, but getting to our devices on anything more frequent than a monthly basis is sometimes a challenge.
> The classic "blub" post by Paul Graham is usually read in "upwards" direction where people using a language without some abstractions (say, monads or borrow checkers) can't understand why they would need it when looking at a language that has them. There is probably also a "downwards" interpretation where people using such a language can no longer understand that it's possible to be productive in languages that lack the advanced abstractions.

Thank you, this is a very helpful framing of something I've recently been struggling to articulate about languages with sophisticated type systems after having surprisingly positive and productive experiences with Clojure and Go.
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Use cases that are pretty valuable:

- Black box that will confirm authority's bias about who is guilty, and who isn't.

- Black box to absolve authority of accusations of bias by offloading the bias to another biased party.

- Black box to absolve authority of responsibility, because they were just following the black box's orders.

- Dragnet identification of people in order to investigate, charge, serve warrants or make arrests.

The latter is their most likely stated reason, there are several reports of law enforcement going through footage and pictures to identify people with outstanding warrants and to issue others with new charges. There is also a strong desire to identify everyone a suspect interacts with, because they must be guilty by association.

Law enforcement is very paranoid, in general, and like most of the general public, think what they see computers do on CSI is real.
According to the study, it's, at most, 5 percentage points of the population over the last ~2 decades suffering from this. 5% is a lot of people, but it's hardly an overwhelming effect, is likely driven by other well studied factors like economic stress.
I should have put this quote at the top of the article! :)
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After their comment on how willing they are to cooperate with FBI and law enforcement I can only believe in this PR stunt if they make the code open. Otherwise it's safe to assume a backdoor
One thing I can agree with: I've no idea why github never attempted a DM system.

I realize it could be abused, but being able to talk to people directly on the platform seems so essential...
> If everyone has a "Under video surveillance" sticker on their door...

Ftfy.
I use a 2k Dell monitor which I picked up for around $400 a few years ago. To me, this strikes a nice middle ground between high resolution and affordability/comparability.
The video [1] quickly lists a number of use cases.

> Explore the new AWS Snowcone with Bill Vass and Jeff Barr (2:46)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RNRssCiR_E&feature=emb_rel_...
I'd also love a feature that lets me block non-advertising political content.

A lot of people like to use Facebook as a political soapbox. That's not what I want out of it. I want to stay connected to people, hear updates, socialize, etc.

Some people push it so far that the solution of unfriending them is easy. But not everybody is so egregious that I want the nuclear option. (For example, relatives who are vocal about politics.)

Text classification is a thing, and there are many other techniques, so it seems possible to recognize political content with some reasonable level of accuracy and show me a lot less of that.

Maybe this would even go beyond making my own feed better. If enough people feel the same, maybe it would cut down on the audience size and reduce people's temptation to get on a soapbox.
And so I ask the question which is always the test: how would you feel about the algorithm including "information" which is directly opposed to your personal stance. Imagine a "CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT REAL" poster. Would that also be acceptable? That is, after all, the world view of some.

My guess is that you would answer no to that, that such a thing would not be permitted. And so it begins ... who vets such a thing? And we are back to the issue of making Facebook (or anyone else) responsible for some kind of monitoring of what is and is not allowed.
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I feel like everyone should read up on the War on Drugs, and how people of colour (Blacks and Latinos in particular) are over policed and receive far stiffer sentences (we’re talking on the order of decades here) than their white counterparts. Call it social grandstanding, but it’s unconscionable that I’d willingly assist in the development of such technologies if I knew it would be used by the DEA and law enforcement. I’d rather be unemployed
Robinhood has had a lot of screwups lately. At what point are they legally liable? Are they not held to a higher standard of accountability than normal tech companies due to being a financial institution?
It's just a weird thing that some online brokers seem to do. I once had exercised contracts for 200 shares put me "in debt" for $4mm. Then the shares settled, and everything in my account went back to normal.
I would suspect extortion. Pay us or we DDOS you offline.
Any centralized E2EE service has the (public) keys; that's the only way to distribute them to users. You have to trust (or verify, in the case of Signal) them to deliver authentic keys rather than MitM'ing you.
Human understanding is critical. See what Bill Thurston said:"The rapid advance of computers has helped dramatize this point, because computers and people are very different. For instance, when Appel and Haken completed a proof of the 4-color map theorem using a massive automatic computation, it evoked much controversy. I interpret the controversy as having little to do with doubt people had as to the veracity of the theorem or the correctness of the proof. Rather, it reflected a continuing desire for human understanding of a proof, in addition to knowledge that the theorem is true." From Bill Thurston: “On Proof and Progress in Mathematics”, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 30(2), 161-177 https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9404236
I highly doubt paedophiles are watching child abuse streams on zoom.
It gets worse. Google what IBM did for a certain country in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s (yes, after the invasion of Poland).
correct, unless he bought on margin, which should have triggered a margin call when he was unable to cover his position, but still unclear.
That's a bit like saying "People in your situation often commit suicide. Would you like me to dial the Suicide Prevention Lifeline for you?" isn't it? You risk causing it by suggesting it when it may have never entered the persons mind to begin with.
I'm not saying you are making things up, but that makes no sense to me. I don't think any Republicans I know are aware of that tactic, use that tactic, or would even think it's effective.
> the 6502... didn't use microcode

Hmm, the top part of the die shot looks like microcode to me:

http://visual6502.org/images/6502/6502_top_op10x_BF_4677.png
I used a 4K display at work for about 18 months.
I still won't trade my 1680x1050 monitors for anything else until they die.

I don't mind the pixels, as long as the font rendering system is good.

Of course I understand the need for a Retina display if you're working on macOS...
> E2EE as an advanced add-on feature for all of our users around the globe – free and paid

How will they square this with the censorship required of them in China? Presumably they are not going to shut down the service in China.
This reminds me of this brilliant interview with Ricky Gervais about atheism and religion : https://youtu.be/rYnjDCZUV6A?t=43
I mean this is good, right? There are a LOT of illegal aliens involved in the drug trade. These people aren't known for their propensity to have correct ID. The only practical way to ID them is with facial recognition, DNA, and fingerprints.
It would have been great (at least from a social good view point) if the “savings” from not cleaning up went to the poor workers, even if the state has to pick up the bill. Meaning, we just live with non-green sources of energy so we don’t hurt oil workers. In this case though, only the corporation benefit. “jobs” is always the excuse but “cxx bonus” is where the money will always end up. This hasn’t changed in last 100 years. So much for democracy and capitalism.
This is a good comment, thanks.

I have one thing I would like to highlight:

> people made up theories of why New Yorkers were more psychotic than Londoners (this is somewhere in "Listening to Prozac").

Maybe I need to read your source for more context. But I could see this being a very alluring theory in prior decades, before New York and urban areas in general started seeing massive crime drops, gentrification, etc. In the 70s and 80s many talked about New York as an ugly place, somewhere to escape from. It's pretty different now.

Then I wonder about some other uniquely American problems, like the extent of our gun violence, or poor health care. And I wonder what people may say about mental illness rates compared to other developed counties. (Surely someone has looked.)
FWIW, my main monitor is a 43" 4k display, and it works perfectly fine on AwesomeWM - but I' don't use any scaling, the 4k is purely for more screen real estate - literally like having 4 perfectly aligned borderless 24" monitors. I can fit 10 full A4 pages of text simultaneously.
Most people on RH are fully aware what they're doing. Even filing for bankruptcy in such a case seems unfair to me. Why would you allow someone to gamble for almost 1m? It's the same logic that if an underage kid shouldn't go to jail if he kills someone.
I totally agree with DHH, Jason, and Hey here. While I may understand why Apple would require them to use IaP if they allowed in-app payments, they aren't in this case.

However, the pact of Basecamp's heads moving to Android and away from Apple's ecosystem would surely be insignificant. Even PR-wise, it's a fun storm, but it's still in a glass of water.
Or even better, push the liability for this clean-up onto the investors. This sort of environmental vandalism is an abuse of limited liability.
What was the peanut butter & jelly thing?

Fermenting in general has been gaining popularity over the past few years and with shelter in place there's been a sudden spike in interest. I've see a lot more content on making sourdough, yogurt, sauerkraut, kefir and kombucha popping up.
Oh.

That makes Apple's stance more clear, then. Do they reference paying for anything anywhere in the app? They might want to take a play out of Kindle's book here. edit: if they haven't already.
I'd be totally cool if it was this once, and actually interested.

But it's every freaking time. Every single time Go is mentioned, there's a ton of Rust folk commenting on how Rust does it (better).

Just for once, it'd be nice to have a comment thread discussing a Go-specific item, that has nothing to do with Rust, without talking about Rust.

And yeah, /r/golang is at least Go-focused. But it has its own problems too. Mostly PHP and JS folks learning Go and asking basic questions (which would be great if they didn't then reply to the answers with "but that's not how PHP/JS does it, why does Go do it so strangely?" and without reading any of the billion answers for that question already).

Sorry if my exasperation is showing ;)
you lost me at "written in PHP"
I can't really imagine a scenario where they're legally liable. Hospitals send six figure bills all the time to people without any legal repercussions.
In past versions, although free, it's default settings would try to ping their servers. You had to manually set offline mode to False.
Depression is a serious problem these days. I imagine this was just the last straw. But if not... that would also really suck.
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But Poland fired first!
> you are going to be paying for Dyalog

Not really. As I see APL is ISO standardized and there are many implementations.
I mean, you still need to buy a computer to even do a git push... what
to avoid things like this, robinhood might be better off if it literally operated as a bucket shop. you take bets on stocks but don't actually buy or sell them.
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Thanks for the suggestion and the associated link.

You're right, the primary motivation was to do tracking for insights but down the line I would like if this can be agnostic even from that., like one feature I was planning to do is "Overlay charts" which lets you overlay data from multiple trackers to figure out patterns. On a different line, I've visioned if it could sort of have a "Streak" builder with triggers after certain "value" is achieved, which then allows it to have "goal" based tracking abilities.

Will do a write-up on the "manifesto" of the product, and will ensure the intent is clear from the landing page.

As for the pricing, I really haven't decided on one and when to charge. But rest assured, I've always planned to grandfather users who signed up before any payment plan is launched. Basically, anything you use for free will forever be free.

Thanks again.
Is it that difficult even after 5 years if you’re making a solid income etc? I’ve heard differing tales. On one hand it sucks for close to or about 7 years. On the other, you can start to get back to being normal after close to 5 years or so. My memory remembers something like it’s not the same, but likely better than someone with a 5XX credit score.
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Ingress filtering (source IP verification) would mitigate by orders of magnitude such an amplification attack by not allowing spoofed packets to leave the network.

People doing a better job with securing their internet exposed servers would also help.
Huh, 4k screens have come down. I could replace this eight-year-old 24" 93dpi Dell screen with a 27" 183dpi HP screen for $540 (plus shipping). I think that's around what I paid for this one when it was new.

(why that HP screen? First thing on Wirecutter's 'best monitors' list, which I think was how I chose the one I'm looking at right now.)

I guess it'd be nice to turn off Illustrator's glitchy anti-aliased previews for good. But this monitor still works perfectly fine. Call me when I can get a color e-paper display with a 60hz or better refresh rate, I'm increasingly tired of staring into a giant light all the time.
Or, you know, just end the War on Drugs altogether? The war is lost and continuing to fight it is a net negative for society.
So what about "compliance with FBI" ? I thought no end to end encryption for free users was initially a move to keep FBI at bay / "comply" with regulations
You can fit 100tb in a Snowball, not the Snowcone, which maxes out at 8tb.

Having dealt with a few Snowballs from time to time, there is zero doubt they have space in those things for 100tb. They're not small or lightweight devices.

I'm super happy to see this device. It fills a niche a lot of my work falls into nicely.
I personally do it because I get a better consistency and taste, with lower lactose than in commercial varieties, and save a couple of bucks. It's really easy to make, I use a teaspoon of the previous yogurt batch as a starter and let it ferment 13 hours in 1L of milk, in the oven with the oven light on. Too much starter and it ferments too quickly, gets chunky and sour.
Maybe that's because our sensory systems can't really feel states, only differences between states. Hot only exists in comparison to our memory of cold. Without that comparison, there is simply numbness.

If that's a general principle, it implies that happiness can only be felt as an improvement over the past. That would also explain why sadness is necessary for us to be able to feel happiness, and why we're attracted to tragic art. Someone who is the same level of happy all the time will become numb to it, but constantly becoming happier is unsustainable in the same way as a drug addiction.
With all respect, I'm afraid that most of what you are saying is incorrect.

Google is a "publisher" but not in any way that uniquely competes with ZH. No Google property takes traffic from ZH, for ZH's audience. ZH is a well known brand, long established, with huge proportion of return visitors and inbound link traffic.

Google is also very much not the only game in town for advertising. They are the default choice for many publishers but there are many, many, many monetization partners, a high degree of liquidity and flexibility, and a brand as well known and with as loyal and wealthy an audience as ZH is ideal for many monetization strategies that are much more valuable than plain old Google ads.

I understand the anti-trust framing and the "teamed up" with NBC business and conflict of interest and so forth, but with all respect, that amounts to conspiracy theory/faulty inference thinking. It is not reality. Google's lawyers are not concerned about any of this.

Ads is just a monetization tool. Advertising is ALWAYS sensitive to messaging and reputation and issues around implied endorsements and so forth. People confuse that with speech, but it is not. It is about b2b contractual relationships with both sides being free to end them at any time. Ads are not "pipes" like ISP service (or arguably CDN). They are not search, not publishing. Just money.

Cheers.
Recent big discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523246
I can speak to part of the rationality around Snowball:

The old method of customers sending in hard disks and AWS importing them turned out to be _incredibly_ high touch.

* Customers would put the wrong labels on the wrong drives. Given they were encrypted, and the label details were critical to matching the right disk with the right encryption key, that was a big issue.

* Imports would routinely fail due to all sorts of driver bugs both on the AWS side, and on the customer side. The number of fringe NTFS quirks was phenomenal, let alone all the wide range of other formats that had to be handled

* Encryption tooling still really isn't all that user friendly. Too many opportunities for mistakes.

* Drives would get damaged during shipping.

* Stuff would go missing in shipping.

It just didn't scale as a solution, and caused unending customer pain and frustration.

Snowball solves _all_ of that, by taking out of the equation almost anything about the process that customers could get wrong. It handles all of the encryption stuff, is extremely ruggedised, has basic tracking. The label is an e-ink display that automatically contains all the right information. It becomes a "just works" solution.
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Yes FP2 has been long supported by UBPorts team, I don't think it's officially supported by FP side like how PinePhone does for PostmarketOS[1] or UBPorts[2]; FP3 has listed Android as the OS officially.

[1]https://postmarketos.org/blog/2020/06/15/pinephone-postmarke...

[2]https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-community-editio...
The last straw even if they knew the loss was how much they put in too? For now, we don’t know if the person knew they weren’t that much in the hole or relatively speaking, how benign a huge debt would be at a young age without dependents.
I hold a diametrically opposite viewpoint and would like to present it.

I think people would be happier if they did think in terms of a six year old. There is nothing inherently "professional" about using drab and dull interfaces for coding and going to an office where you all dress in identical suits.

There is quiet satisfaction in achieving mastery like you mention, but (IMO) it should be accompanied by a pleasant feeling too. GitHub's cheerful, bright colors and interface enable that for me, and I'm grateful to them for it. GitLab and Bitbucket feel flat, dreary, and dull by comparison, honestly. It's like going to a brightly colored room with nice sofas v/s an all-grey room with a white desk. Which one are you going to be more productive in?

I think this is also why Slack is incredibly successful for something that is basically an IRC-in-browser implementation. It made work "fun" for a lot of people and thus steam-rollered opposers.
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Also evaporates some of the water.
> I may be getting this wrong, but doesn't that slide show the PCA being done on multiple images? Each image is 321 x 261, which concats to a 83781 vector. Then they're repeating that for 32 images producing a 83781 x 32 matrix, which they then apply the PCA on to get 32 principle components.

Yes, you are right (except that it's 'principal'), and I didn't read my link carefully. I am a mathematician whose specialty is not a million miles away from these kind of signal-reconstruction techniques, but far enough away that I can't give any better answer from personal knowledge. Sorry!
That's a harmful myth.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140112-is-it-bad-to-tal...

https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/September-2018/5-Common...
rust-analyzer brings this to the table, but it's a pretty recent development. The RLS existed for a while before that, and gave a basic version of this story, but it was much slower.
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>Is there any research into making attacks like these less feasible?

Yes. Such services are developed by most, maybe all, the major CDN and CDN-like providers because they can sell DDOS protection/prevention to their customers. It's an active area of cat/mouse between the people selling the services and the people selling the DDOS attacks.
Pretty much all the big brokers are at 0 now.