skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they do this with directional encrypted radio. what would be the advantage of doing it with a laser other than 'friggin' laser'?
Whoa! Thanks for checking that out! Seems like a new contender for jeopardy lol
This is a great way to turn the anti-vaxxers, hahah.

The more people take the vaccine, the less society bothers to social distance and other low-tech things, the more dangerous not taking the vaccine becomes.
I agree. You don't sue the contractor because they built to the specification you provided.

At the same time, if Google is advertising Recaptcha as accessible and it's not really, then they need to be held accountable for that, because that has a real impact on huge swaths of the internet, and especially for sites that try to do the right thing and find out Google has screwed them.
In the AI dungeon app, regardless of the setting, you can ask the NPCs to sit down and play super smash brothers with you, and they will.
Re "no judicial review": that is one of the big concerns about national security letters though, the lack of judicial review; I read the Wikipedia page you linked and it says, even after the Doe v. Ashcroft case, "there is still no requirement to seek judicial approval for the FBI issuing an NSL". Per the EFF [1], the change was to give "technology companies a right to request judicial review of the gag orders accompanying NSLs", but companies must issue a reciprocal notice to trigger this procedure. The EFF advocates that the government should "bear the complete burden of going to court and proving the gag is truly necessary"; but currently that is not the case.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/requiring-judicial-rev...

I agree that it is a night and day comparison, the fact that the legality of this process is even argued in the courts is evidence of that, but national security letters are today still deeply problematic.
> IRV also has a long history – Australia has been using it at the federal level for over a century now (and at the state level for even longer than that).

If the goal is to prevent the two-party system, Australia has basically turned into that with two major parties i.e. Labor and Liberal with smaller parties choosing sides, and being negligible.

Although, IRV would generally be better than the current American system in a number of ways, but not necessarily something that would break the two-party hegemony.
There are some (research) work on proof-of-human protocol, interesting direction
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Great comment! You touched on something that got me wondering: do you know of something similar to MGF that determines a distribution but is not based on expected values?
I mean, reddit and Discord are still this. They both graft on cross-community navigation and account systems for user convenience and increasing user retention.
Bloomberg did a milkround at my university about 10 years ago - showing off their new terminal. I noticed it looked like it was running on Windows with their terminal GUI implemented using standard Win32 hWnds and GDI painting (you can tell by how text and shapes are rendered - and how it couldn’t seem to smoothly animate above 30fps) - and the built-in newsviewer was playing a video using the Windows Media Player ActiveX control.

So if they have switched to Electron - at least that will hopefully deliver a better UX - it’s not like users are meant to run other programs on those things (I think?) so they don’t care about Chromium’s memory usage.
For me, the biggest disappointment was when they were defending hosting terrorist site for "free speech" reasons:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90312063/how-cloudflare-straddle...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-free-speech/

> the company serves at least seven groups on the U.S. State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations, including al-Shabab, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), al-Quds Brigades, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and Hamas.

> CEP has sent letters to Cloudflare since February 13, 2017, warning about clients on the service, including Hamas, the Taliban, the PFLP, and the Nordic Resistance Movement. The latest letter, from February 15, 2019, warns of what CEP identified as three pro-ISIS propaganda websites.

All this while routinely censoring other sites. Their actions are very different than their words.
They vote on the first one and the next bill will be a generalized regulation that allows some member of the executive branch to determine which apps will be banned from federal devices.

Then a follow up bill will allow that same bureaucrat to decide which devices are allowed to be federally owned devices.
Back then (2003,2004) Opera showed me what the web could be. The tool outshined everything else on the market. Hell, I remember loving dragonfly and presto and it's what got me interested in web stuff. So thanks!
Check out planet labs. Not a government agency, and taking high resolution scans of the entire planet very frequently.
This is not about perfection, this is about not supporting a system the is explicitly designed to exploit wedge issues to avoid having to make an significant amount of change to a status quo that is completely broken in almost every way.
Are those numbers correct? In the worst case, the chord would be the diameter and the great circle would be half the circumference, so the ratio would be (pi.d/2)/d = pi/2 = 1.57.

For fun the cos rule can be used to derive a general formula for the ratio of great circle to chord, given the angle (theta) in radians subtended at the centre of the Earth:

theta / sqrt( 2-2.cos(theta) )

where: theta = (great circle distance) / radius

(Assuming I haven't mucked up my algebra.)

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Not sure why my comment is rendering in italics. No emphasis is meant. Figured it out, it was the asterisk I used for a multiplication symbol.
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Well, radio communication is serial (and even television signal is encoded as a linear sequence). Looks like serial protocols are the most natural, simple, and reliable of all. And do not forget about the natural numbers!
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I really feel like everyone is getting one of the broad points in this discussion wrong. If Twitter is a national security risk because people can hack it to speak in the official voice of prominent leaders, or discover state secrets through direct messages, that is nobody's fault but the government's, for relying on a platform they have no control over for official business.

Can you imagine the military complaining that the enemy was able to give false orders or discover troop movements through messages on a privately owned communications network completely outside their control? No, because it would be absurd for the military to rely on such a network. It is no less absurd that the civilian government (which nominally has more power than the military) is doing so.

It was a scandal when Hillary Clinton relied on a private email server. It is a far larger scandal that so many leaders, and especially the President, are now relying on a private company for their official communications.
Do the others ones not consume power when you don’t need to change the display, are legible in daylight, or otherwise not emit light?

These are unique advantages to e-ink as far as I’m aware.
Yeah, I see your point, AI-generated CGI is still CGI!
It's a little worrying that the UK already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine, even though it hasn't passed trials yet.

I understand that tons of resources are being poured into making a vaccine, which will make developing this vaccine a lot faster.

However, this still makes me worry that the media ( and the UK government in part ) is showing false potential false hopes to people that read this article. Yes, we might get a vaccine next year, but we might never get a vaccine either.
Not sure if `rg` or `fd` are of either cargo subcommands or tools for developers.
Which does nothing to stop it from happening
Murdoch doesn't own Sky anymore.
You've previously been anchored to a price around $25. It's a bad example, but this is a real effect, check out the research, e.g. https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/07/27/anchoring-effect/
There is enormous difference between 'China' and the 'US' and frankly quite a bit between 'US' and 'Germany' and 'UK'.

Being able to hack into systems to hunt down individuals of interest to the state, is something totally different than everyone, everywhere, at all times surveyed, by everyone, even their neighbours, and then putting people in 'internment camps' because of their ethnicity.

This is all tricky stuff, it all needs context.
I don't buy it.

1. I personally find syntax highlighting incredibly helpful as a way of setting off syntactic elements, and incidentally as a way of calling attention to typos (like a missing quote or misspelled keyword). The author seems to dismiss this without any analysis.

2. Using color for syntax highlighting doesn't mean you can't also use color to highlight other useful things (like search results or errors), as the author suggests. Many editors which support syntax highlighting do exactly this!

3. The author's examples aren't particularly compelling. For example, using colors to denote levels of nesting will make code flash between colors as you edit it. Highlighting variables by type feels like a form of syntax highlighting, not something new, and most of the examples of highlighting code which meets specific conditions (variables which are assigned to multiple times, long functions, functions without documentation, etc) all feel like they could be summarized as "linter warnings/failures".
VR would be great. As it gets more adopted, we will certainly play with this technology. Currently, we use 43 inch displays as a replacement in our office.
Is it US Marshals? I thought it was CBP BORTAC.
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The authors express the problems with their paper very well within it: "the model contains several obvious sources
of error, as it was motivated more by considerations of theoretical insight and tractability than by realism."
> But I do have concerns on trying to push out any novel vaccine in less than two years without adequate testing.

This sounds like how you get zombies. I’ve seen this movie before.
Take a look at the hospitalization rate (~20% for all age groups)

0.66% of NYC residents have been hospitalized (https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page). Antibody tests show that at least 20% of NYC was infected, and that's likely an underestimate (antibodies take weeks to show up and may soon drop to undetectable levels). So the hospitalization rate is at most around 3%.

Once we run out of hospital resources, the death rate will jump 5-10x. If that happens, you're talking 20+ million deaths in the U.S

That's just not going to happen. There was essentially uncontrolled spread in NYC, and the hospitals were strained but not overwhelmed. The hospitalization and death rates in currently hard-hit states are much lower than peak NYC, and may already be at a plateau.

It seems as if the older people are dying, and the younger patients are surviving, but with long-term damage.

This is a real concern, but I'd like data rather than anecdotes.
Could be of interest to HN, as many tech companies on the list:

“The list of sanctioned companies includes current and former suppliers to major international brands such as Apple, Ralph Lauren, Google, HP, Tommy Hilfiger, Hugo Boss and Muji, according to a report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a think tank established by the Australian government. The group cited the websites of the sanctioned Chinese companies, which mentioned their financial relationships with major American brands.”
Thanks for giving us a spin!

1) We don't support custom resolutions yet, but you're spot on that the way we would do this is by allowing you to create device profiles in your account. The Desktop, Tablet and Mobile profiles are all that we support today.

2) Visual Validations will capture _both_ a screenshot of the element and the visible text of the element. In order for the visual validation to pass during execution, the text must match and the element's screenshot must be within your account configurable % difference. Default image difference is 0.5% pixels. We do a pixel by pixel comparison of the images and show you a delta when the images differ.
Sort of. I have several projects I'm working on, and in a sense I don't "know" which one to focus on. But underneath everything, I know that I ultimately want to build a company that makes money. Not that "make money" is the only thing I want to do, but it matters for $REASONS.

Anyway, given that, I can work backwards from "what action(s) are most likely to lead to somebody paying me even 1 dollar for any of this?" And if I keep that "time to first dollar" in mind as a north-star of sorts, it helps me focus. To a degree.

In reality I don't always actually know what is going to minimize "time to first dollar", and sometimes I just say "screw it" and work on what seems like the most fun. So it's a really rough sort of heuristic at best. This is probably one reason why we aren't making any money yet. But that's OK, because other goals besides "make money" include "learn cool new stuff" and "have fun."
CHAZ was subject to several murders already, so it's not merely "destruction of property" here.

I presume they changed the name to CHOP because someone told them that creating an "autonomous zone" sounded a lot like insurrection, which is also the kind of thing that feds normally involve themselves with, but it's not like the feds need that as an excuse given that they already have plenty of authority to enforce the law whether or not Portland wishes to do so.

> Where in the Constitution are our rights subject to conditions on behavior?

In the 13th amendment:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

(emphasis added)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
Per [1] it seems national security letters are generally served in person by e.g. an FBI agent. So I don't think phishing by foreign governments is likely, unless the foreign government sends spies dressed as U.S. FBI/NSA/CIA agents to visit the company in person.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/testimony-aclu-client-and-nationa...
Why is security never first...
Usually China is brought up in order to deflect and avoid discussing how much power our government has accumulated and how disturbing the parallels are.

This is one of the rare cases when China has been brought up in the opposite direction.
or 325,000 users counts as broadly disseminated

Insider trading is complicated in the US because it is a creature of the executive branch and the courts. Congress largely quiet on exactly what constitutes it, and the regulator learning to leverage broad fraud statutes and a few wins in the court, alongside many losses.
Like basically trying to do a Steve Jobs new product announcement internally before the products were developed?
Why would bitcoin be spared this systemic impact?
There appears to be little to no vernacular architecture in the PNW, nothing evolved here, it appears to all have been copied from the east coast and California. The upshot is that there isn't a common house type that really "works" here
> What's it all about? No one knows what Woodward was really thinking, but with the geometrical mania that blossomed with the birth of the United States, it should not be surprising to find a backwoods judge thinking along the same lines as architects of the Italian Renaissance.

Is this sarcasm? Am I being wooshed? The street plan is the same obvious Masonic imagery that's on the back of every Federal Reserve Note. Take a look at the incredibly beautiful Detroit Masonic Temple and imagine it as the "Eye" in the Eye of Providence that would have been the street layout:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Masonic_Temple

And look where it is in Detroit compared to the tiny bit of the street plan that was implemented: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Masonic+Temple/@42.3351973...

Really cool; thanks for the link!
> This is putting the cart before the horse, for sure. The reason why you only know the mean and the variance of your data is because you chose to summarize your data that way.

No, it's not... A Gaussian is the best way to represent your knowledge of a value if you only know the mean and variance of its value.

So if you start with a stack of data and compress it down to a mean and variance, you've discarded most of your knowledge, and are left with a Gaussian as your best guess representation.

Yes if you were to boil it down to different summary data, like a max and min, you'd end up with a different state of knowledge and a different distribution.

But given a mean and variance, the Gaussian is your best choice of distribution, and not because of the central limit theorem, but because it has maximum entropy on those constraints. You don't always even have access to the source data in the first place, maybe just the summary statistics.
You used to be able to fly without an ID...you could fly as John Smith or whatever. Certainly has turned.
> I have no idea what people are supposed to do with all of the empty space in a giant house

They fill it with shit they don't need. Kudos to you.
hacker:HUNTER had a good little 25 min doco on ATM jackpoting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXSn5lwRF5o
Actually in general, what _should_ happen to the property of a government that gets dismantled?

On the one hand, this stuff probably gets into private hands by theft at some point, and it hardly seems just to legitimize opportunistic plundering.

On the other hand ... the state which owned it went out of existence. It's not as though there was a German government whose property rights were being infringed.

Perhaps the Allies could have fastidiously gathered all the assets of the German military and held a big liquidation sale at Alexanderplatz, and used the proceeds to buy food for the refugee camps.
> even if I have a vastly different perspective on how to accelerate problems like this

Do tell more!

After the initial optimization, I did hint at an approach to Andrew that I thought could get a further large speedup. Essentially, the idea was to "rotate" all the stored data 90 degrees, so that instead of counting the features present in each compound you read lists of compounds that contain a given feature, storing the hits in some very fast custom data structure. He wasn't particularly interested, likely correctly realizing that it would be a lot of work for an uncertain amount of gain. The question wasn't really whether I could achieve further speedup (although there was question as to how much), rather (as alluded to in the paper) whether he would be able to sufficiently increase sales to justify the additional development cost and added complexity of the codebase.
Is there a way to see which books have been referenced most?
> The US doesn't have concentration camps with hundreds of thousands of their own citizens.

No, instead we have mass incarceration that is rife with corruption and mechanical to the point where prosecutors don't care if people are guilty, they just pile on whatever charges they can so they can pad their resume.

We literally have the world's largest prison population, millions of people in prison. We have private prisons and literally have had judges SELL KIDS to them.

At most? LMAO.
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Hopefully someone with access to GPT3 will show up and answer. I wag that with a well setup prompt and low temp it probably will.

GPT2 1558M (k=1) will answer it correctly, FWIW. But it doesn't count because if you mismatch the last case (e.g. alive,alive,dead or dead,dead,alive) it gets it wrong...

(at least with the best prompt I constructed for it, which is a series of Q. A. logic puzzles with Yes/No answers.)
If a motivated small company wanted to work with NASWA in a "not business as usual" approach, perhaps with 18F involved, I believe it could be done. Part of their role is to reduce duplicative efforts across states and try to establish best practices.

The problem of course is how many small companies are knowledgeable about the UI IT systems, and can put together a strong proposal? It's a bit chicken and egg. Yes, NASWA could push this harder if they really wanted to, but it's hard to manage a consensus oriented organization.

(I was not implying NASWA was going to build things themselves...though if I were king, I would have them develop an open source UI platform, and then give it to the states to customize for their individual scenarios. Companies could compete on how well they make those customizations, and support contracts. Of course the trend seems to be going in the opposite direction, unfortunately... c.f. VistA -> Cerner).
Yes! our surveillance woes are on us. In China you have no choice.
It's interesting that CT effectively publishes all of your HTTPS endpoints. Using your example, it's possible to see a bunch of twitter hosts it might be hard to find otherwise. This effect of CT has been surprisingly uncontroversial, in contrast to DNSSEC where enumeration concerns have probably delayed adoption:

https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/dnssec/dnssec-complexities-an...

I suppose you can get around enumeration concerns with CT by using a wildcard cert. It's always seemed odd to me to worry about information in a public database like DNS being retrievable on bulk anyway - that approach is just security by obscurity.
This is what I was thinking. Institutions that last a long time are those that are effective in accomplishing their mission and passing knowledge down from generation to generation (which they very well might do simply to be effective), and this doesn’t necessarily have to have anything to do with their intentions regarding longevity.
You do not unfortunately.

However, what you can do is utilize a VPN into your home network where you already have a pi-hole set up. Doing so will route all your phone's traffic through your home network (and pi-hole) first. You'll have the same "ad protection" on the go as you would at home. I recommend checking out WireGuard.
There is an active Chinese propaganda campaign on HackerNews. New account, upvoted to the top despite all comments disagreeing with them. I've noticed this over the past several months. This example perfectly encapsulates it. I have been avoiding talking about it because it's part of the rules to bring up astroturfing etc. but this comment was too much. You think the people running hackernews have time to fight a disinformation campaign? Twitter, reddit, facebook, etc can't, I can't imagine the minor resources that go into HN even have a chance.
From the article

> In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California today announced criminal charges against Shamim.
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Since they're on HN they likely use uBlock, which means that they're not profitable for Google regardless of how they search
Pretty much. I think the main issue with people like this is that their product visions keep on changing. So it becomes almost impossible for the tech team to execute properly.
Possibly a case of a Hacker News Hug of Death.