skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically, it's near impossible to erase yourself from the Internet. However, it's good to at least try to disconnect things from yourself as much as possible. Stop using your real name on accounts where possible, for one. Ideally, stop using common nicknames across various sites so that it is harder to track you across the web and between "generations" of websites and platforms. And of course, you can delete your old accounts and posts on a lot of sites to start punching holes in your history.

You will never disappear from the Internet, but for most purposes, search visibility is what's truly revealing: Break common conventions people use to follow your activity across the web.

If I wanted to find out more about say, an HN user, I might try twitter.com/theirusername or github.com/theirusername, from there, it's often easy to see their real name and employer or links to their websites. If someone's HN, Reddit, Twitter, and GitHub usernames are all unique though... there's a good chance the search stops right there.
1961: First CS Thesis in France, defended by Miss Créhange
1. Citation? I seriously doubt punishments like this one have any effect on general traffic-law compliance. (IIRC, similar research has always showed weak penalties + high/consistent enforcement was the most effective.)

2. "foster care being worse" is exactly the issue, no? Even if I buy the "traffic tickets correlate with unsafe environment" assumption, you're suggesting we remove the kids for their own safety (or a guess at it, based on a noisy signal)...but then suggesting their actual safety is a separate issue?
The quickstart is quite clear, but I'd love to see some slightly larger examples like, how is state passed between components? How do event handlers work? The API page seems sparse as well.

But it looks like a great start
Where you have more controlled audiences in a office environment, I find Blazor Server is candidate.

There's not much of upfront transfer. There's some consideration if the latency is excessive high, but there's also benefit of being able to use full netcoreapp (instead of netstandard) lib, and parallelism.
We're working on a similar idea at https://texts.com

It supports iMessage as well, isn't based on Matrix and is completely local.
Speaking of Category Theory: what can be more concrete than points and arrows between them. (That's the thing about "abstract" math - it is in fact no more abstract, and is often simpler, than the "concrete" math, especially applied math. That's why someone [don't remember who] said that less talented people should stick to working in pure mathematics.)
Git Branching strategies – My notes
> Look at a Youtube video of any country where they don't enforce traffic laws. It's chaotic and unsafe.

Those sentencing practices couldn't be further from what, for example, Germany does and Germany's roads are way safer than US roads (going by vehicle kilometers traveled).

You don't need to hand out stupidly excessive sentences like you get for pretty much anything in the US to have safe roads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

> Single motherhood shouldn't entitle you to ignore traffic laws.

So your children should be taken away if you get a parking ticket? What?
So cloud hosted Jira is misconfigured?
A BLM /leader/, plus the claims the organization itself makes.
Excellent comment, you changed my thinking on the issue. I feel like liberal, educated democracies are focused on the wrong problems. It’s only going to get harder to change course the longer we keep sailing in this direction of a laissez faire, anything-goes approach to software.

Apple’s infamous walled garden solves this problem to some extent, but introduces others because it lacks due process, leading to corruption where money can solve any problem, and so apps like Tiktok get to abuse their trust with impunity.
Sidetable Python Package Gives You the Pandas Methods You Didn’t Know You Needed
Out of curiosity, why would the water form layers of different temperatures?
What did Baudrillard think about The Matrix?
However the execution will be tricky. So far electric bike hire doesn’t appear to have succeeded that well in London (Hackney at least).

Very much hoping this works better!
Update on Florida Mystery Unmanned Spy Craft
This is cool.

Futureland (https://futureland.tv/) does something similar to this that I like.
Brand, Avatars, and Being Everything in Gaming
Australian Tax Office Targets Cryptocurrency Investors with 350k Warnings
Or 47x68= (50-3)x(70-2)=50x70 - 50x2 - 3x70 + 3x2
Qntm's SCP Foundation Works
Give Credit to Original Library
1. I don't think the judge has to believe the justice system is flawed. It might just be that the justice system has limits, and that sometimes those limits are not sufficient to bring about the best outcome. Again, consider prosecutorial discretion and how it is used.

2. I don't think the judge has to believe it is flawless. In fact, the judge might believe that it is not flawless, and again exercise in the opposite direction of NOT sentencing someone who would otherwise be correctly sentenced just to keep kids out of a bad foster care system. My point was that, barring a situation where the judge has grounded suspicions about the foster care system, the judge must basically (as a principle of law) endorse the foster care system as a viable caretaker of the children. Judges would otherwise be required to initiate investigations into foster care systems (and the like) whenever they might be utilized in a legal setting. That's an impossible burden.
I want to add that the tasks we get at the planning meeting are just titles of tickets, nothing more. Working out all the details is the responsibility of the dev working on the ticket during the sprint.

Still estimates are considered extremely important...
> I'm better off, and you're no worse off. In an "ideal" society, the free sharing of knowledge would be not just allowed, but encouraged.

I agree that theft of digital goods is not equivalent to physical goods but abolition of copyright does not follow from that fact nor does it follow that theft of intellectual property is not possible.

I also agree this is an important conversation to have. The whole idea around copyright is to encourage the creation of intellectual property. If there is a fundamentally better way to do it that idea should flourish but I have yet to hear a realistic alternative.

> I imagine there's been measurable harm to our society's cultural and scientific advancement because copyright forces us to recreate others' work instead of building off of it.

I would argue that the damage from having no copyright protections would be unquestionably worse than the trade offs they bring. People would of course still create, but so many works would simply not exist if there was no way to protect intellectual property.

Certainly there are minutiae of copyright that have gone too far in protections but that doesn’t mean the system itself should be done away with. The modern world created this system knowing full well there were trade offs.
Linux and BSD are found in a lot of places, it is more to do with its design being supportive of all kinds of deployments rather than only just popularity i think.

Windows Server administrators are lot more likely to be "certified" and "trained" by MS approved courses than linux admins and of course it does not help.

I would say its more likely to find an average joe ( from a devops perspective) running a linux box than a windows box.
I feel naked without my seat belt.

Occasionally, I'll get into my wife's car to simply move it into the street so I have room in my driveway to wash mine, and even though I'm driving less than 50 feet, I still feel awkward not putting on the seat belt.
In Indiana, you can pull up a judge's cases in the court system:
https://www.in.gov/judiciary/admin/2666.htm

Maybe your state has something similar. I found it useful to read a couple decisions written by the judges on our last ballot.
1) Scrums are literally communicating.
2) Just because someone feels there is a failure does not mean other people perceive it that way. If you describe it as a step towards the finish, then it is.
3) Time-boxing is inevitable. If there is a side-step due to some other issue, then you describe why the time boxes must be moved.
Eliminate Hibernate N+1 Queries
I posted this because antimemetics are a great concept, and recently qntm finished their story "Five Five Five Five Five," which is all sorts of creepy and lovely and fun.
Fortunately, it is not an immutable fact.
So basically you have to pay money to go prison which you don't have so you go to prison again for which you have to again pay money which you don't have so you go to prison for which you have to pay money...

What.
I was under the impression that WhatsApp pretty aggressively bans accounts using third party clients.

How did you get around this? Or is it not an issue afterall?
AI-Based Optimization of Interventions for the Covid-19 Pandemic – Paper+demo
Several models have been developed to predict how the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, and how it could be contained with non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing restrictions and school and business closures. This paper demonstrates how evolutionary AI could be used to facilitate the next step, i.e. determining most effective intervention strategies automatically. Through evolutionary surrogate-assisted prescription (ESP), it is possible to generate a large number of candidate strategies and evaluate them with predictive models. In principle, strategies can be customized for different countries and locales, and balance the need to contain the pandemic and the need to minimize their economic impact. While still limited by available data, early experiments suggest that workplace and school restrictions are the most important and need to be designed carefully. It also demonstrates that results of lifting restrictions can be unreliable, and suggests creative ways in which restrictions can be implemented softly, e.g. by alternating them over time. As more data becomes available, the approach can be increasingly useful in dealing with COVID-19 as well as possible future pandemics.

Download the full paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13766

See the demo here: https://evolution.ml/esp/npi/
Who remembers those rumors about something from Apple called the "Brick"?

We all had these wild guesses about a dockable iPhone that could snap into an larger display and turn it into a full desktop.

It turned out the "brick" was the aluminum unibody of the laptops, but it was fun to dream about it. Might be fun to think about it again.
Privately owned e-scooters remain illegal on roads.

I don’t understand why they have chosen this route. Are they expecting to reverse this decision at some point?
Note-Taking with the Zettlekasten Method
And you'll get it! Just check again soon as we should have the official release out there in just a few months, maybe less.
Out of curiosity, would you say it's an improvement coming from Catalina? My confidence in the Mac was really shaken by Catalina but I'm genuinely ready to be impressed by Big Sur.
Light-duty electric vehicles for commercial use
Sorry, but no. There are clear rules what is allowed and what not and this didn't change much over time. This is not about hate speech or similar, this is about owning stolen weapons, ammunition, and Nazi items. Not sure about US laws, but this is not legal in Germany.
Apple shifting Apple Arcade strategy, canceling development of some games
There are two justice systems:
One for the politically connected.
One for everyone else.

Who watches the Watchmen?
I've never understood the logic in these programs. People either think they can something for nothing or that they can fool others into believing that.

Pay people enough to cover their needs, or accept that we don't want them to do whatever they're doing.

Weird systems where you subsidize peoples rent but you won't pay them cash just end up forcing them to spend more on housing than they want. So you spend more than it would cost in cash and they're less happy than if you just paid them. So wtf is the point!?

Plus housing gets very sticky. People get very upset if they are required to move just because a program ends or they go part time. If an area gets more expensive, you have to (rapidly) increase the subsidy, if it gets worse you lose all your employees. Making your employees move house every time they want to change jobs is very anticompetitive

Programs like this are also opaque and hard to value. I knew a teacher who thought she was getting free rent up to X, but the small print said it was actually 25% of rent up to 25% of X. I actually think this is why providers favour these schemes: they're deceptive.

All this so that... We can avoid paying people what they're worth, and being honest about what that number is.
Would make for some excellent ad hoc light saber games too!
Like the US “rescued” Iraq.
> The problem isn't that judges are elected

I'm pretty sure it is... why would you elect a judge? They're not supposed to apply any opinion just interpret the law technically. What are people voting for them based on? Their political affiliation? That's absolutely bonkers.
Fun fact: niche is a French word that doesn't have an accent. So niché is the heavy metal ümlaut version.
Is it just common knowledge the founders have lavish lifestyles or was there talk in articles about the company/product?
Because news stories and editorials are separate sections of news media.

Including that bit of information is not relevant to the facts. You can take any news story and cherry-pick unrelated details to paint things in a certain light.

This is a contrived example, but lets say there's a news report about MIT investing in some new technology and a journalist doesn't like MIT. The headline could read "MIT invests in questionable technology" and begin with "MIT, which has come under fire for having received $750,000 from Epstein is investing $750,000 in foobars".
As commented elsewhere, the OP renders look perhaps not quite right. But in general...

Atoms are little balls. With electron density that's mostly spherically symmetric. It's very high at the nucleus, and falls off exponentially outward. Down by several orders of magnitude by the time you reach distances at which atoms hang out together.

A 2D analogue might be a stereotypic volcano, if height were density. I wish I knew of a better one. Few familiar objects have this degree of fuzzy. Diffusing smells, but you can't see those.

The common representations with a solidish surface at some large distance from the nucleus is... useful when doing chemistry, but badly misrepresents the physical object.

Electron density manifests clearly and concretely. For example, you can poke at it with the vibrating tip of an Atomic Force Microscope.

Electron states, orbitals, seem less often encountered that directly. Rather than at one step remove - seeing density, or some other phenomena, and explaining it with states.

Though there's a fun STM image I'm just now failing to quickly find. An STM scans a tip across a sample, measuring and mapping the tunneling current between them. Usually with a boringly symmetric ball of a tip, so the interestingness is all sample. In this case however, the sample had a grid of boring s states, and tip conduction was through a tilted f state. So the sample repeatedly mapped the tip. The image is thus a grid of little images of the tip's f state, laid out like rows of little buoys. EDIT: Maybe this is it: https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0305103.pdf fig 6 page 12 (though it doesn't entirely match what I'm remembering).

Just to be clear, representing density by dots, rather than say by a color gradient on voxels, is purely a data-visualization rendering choice. Like old newspapers using halftone images. Which I mention only because there are misconceptions around the individual dots themselves representing something about the electron.
Same here, I tried Linear, but the fact that it doesn't use github as the source of truth is a deal breaker for us.

I would love something like Reviewable - it uses github as the "DB" and provides a nicer interface for doing code reviews.
> Why be concerned about your throwaway minutes-old profile with only comments in this one thread?

Not the parent, but that's a weird question. A throwaway account is used precisely because you don't want your main account (and your irl identity) to be associated with something that might get you in trouble.

Giving out information that can massively shrink the number of accounts that may be your real account is counter-productive in that regard.
Correction: Localbitcoins does require KYC.
That's wildly naive and I think with a little bit of imagination you too can envision a scenario where it makes sense. It needn't be "wild guessing" on the judges behalf; there could be even absolutely convictable evidence that would cause any reasonable person to immediately and unquestionably believe in the guilt of the mother, yet might be barred because of a rule governing the admissibility of evidence (that's its own ugly topic). In such a case I find it hard to believe that a judge taking it on himself to "do the right thing" would be seen as "un-American"
OoenID Connect is different. Its basically just OAuth2, and google/fb require the ap developer to register their app with google/fb in order to authenticate users.

Whcih is pretty bad for both developers and users, as a user I cant run my own identity provided and as a developer I have to spend time setting up accounts with ever identity provider i wish to integrate.

Original OpenID just let me as a user use a URL as my identity, so I could use any identity provider I wanted, including running one myself.

EDIT: There is a specification for dynamic client registration but nobody implements it as far as I've been able to tell.
> millions of people are using successfully doesn't do much for your credibility

Millions of people are using it because they are forced to after an update. I do not care what others think about my 'credibility' on a forum where Im sharing my opinion. I find it unusable. Mozilla is fighting every day for relevancy and to maintain as much market share as possible (and I say this as loving FF and being a user for over a decade). They did this to mimic Chrome and hope people find it similar enough to not mind switching. I get it my opinion is not the opinion of everyone on earth nor do I expect it to, I still find the new address bar unusable.
Why not just use podman? It is pretty much a drop in replacement for docker and doesn't require sudo or docker group.
For analysis of new AR/VR technology I highly recommend Karl Guttag's blog: https://www.kguttag.com/

He's an engineer that understands the limitations of physics, especially when it comes to optics and light. He is very good a parsing marketing hype vs reality. (He called BS on Magic Leap years before it launched.)

His posts are exceptionally well researched and explained, even if you don't have a background in physics or optics.

He recently did an analysis of the Apple Glass leaks. I expect he'll post his thoughts on this new technology from FB soon.
Another « hidden figure » of Computer Science. Her Wikipedia page was deleted on a technicality of Wikipedia’s. Let’s keep women in the kitchen, even on Wikipedia!
I keep hoping a self hosted option will pop up that’s easy to setup with Docker or an NPM install.
Eventually jail time would be needed as an alternative if other option are purposefully ignored or other court orders not followed, but there are quite a lot of steps before you get into over a year sentence, and even then by that point it would be for contempt of court and no longer about the individual tickets.
Polya’s book “How To Solve It” is the canonical introduction to this topic and applies far beyond mathematics.
None of us like the crazy number of prompts.

Most (all?) of us like to be the one who controls what we can do with our own devices.

These standards return some control to the user, rather than the corporation.

But then we get more prompts! Well, not necessarily. The user could choose to have all prompts automatically rejected, and only opt-in when they desired. This would not create more information for trackers to track, because Apple could make it the default for all of their devices.

This seems to solve the problem: People who want the features can have them, and the people who don't want them can ignore them without interruption.

This is where our problem with Apple is: there are solutions to be found but rather than solve them, Apple hides behind lies in order to protect their bottom line while harming many users and the internet as a whole.
You know the best way to avoid attacks against your computers?

Don't have any computers.

That's roughly the equivalent of what you're saying. A business cannot just throw out its entire software stack and start over, not to mention the complete lack of equivalents to a lot of Windows only software that's out there.

Even for individuals, it's often not reasonable to expect people to switch to a different platform and drop tools they've been using for a decade.
The data augmentations we are interested in are in fact 'midstream', as they augment the examples before passing into the D or the classification loss but you must backprop from that back through the augmentation into the original model, because you don't want the augmentations to 'leak': the G is not supposed to generate augmented samples, the augmentation is there to regularize the D and reduce its ability to memorize real datapoints. It would probably be better to consider them as a kind of consistency or metric loss along the lines of SimCLR (which has helped inspire these very new GAN data augmentation techniques). It's a bit weird, which is perhaps why despite its simplicity (indicated by no less than 4 simultaneous inventions of it in the past few months), it hasn't been done before. You really should read the linked Github thread if you are interested.
Read novels.
Mystery over monster star's vanishing act
> it was quite boneheaded to do this legal experiment under the same corporate umbrella as their archival work.

I disagree. This is a wickedly good idea, and a very good hill to fight on. It is not a "legal experiment" but a major battle against evil people. Everybody loves the Internet Archive, it is our sacred castle. If a decisive battle is to be won against the publishing parasites, it may be likely this one, and we have to be all on the same side! After Aaron Swartz, the book parasites have never been so potentially hated by everybody. We must go all-in.

The error is on the side of the book parasites for having decided to fight against an institution that is so loved by mankind. They cannot but lose the battle (socially), regardless of what the short-time legal outcome is.
Ask HN: What has more tools for simpler scraping, Python or JavaScript?
A colleague asked me to recommend a language to pick up for scraping. I use Python and I am fine with it. But I know a lot of people use JavaScript as well. I never bothered. Just curious to know from those who have tried both what they eventually settled on and why. I would want to give the better choice to my colleague.
EFF IS on the wrong side of the law. Yes everyone deserves a defense but you yourself admitted IA was in the wrong and EFF is choosing to go to bat for them.
Me, I'm hoping for a Dyson Sphere :-)
Ask HN: Where do you get your privacy policy / terms of service?
When you're starting a new project, as an individual/bootstrapped, where do you get / find your privacy policy and terms of service?
Or how do you create them?
Template?
Legal docs as a service?
Lawyers ($$$)?

Thanks!
Torrents are a distribution mechanism, not storage. Many IA items already have torrent links available (with a fallback to a "web seed" since they are mostly not seeded).
The claim seems unlikely:

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2423/was-j-edgar-h...