skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aside: I suggest in the future—if you want to avoid pedantic comment like these—that you reword your last sentence to include intelligent life on earth, e.g. “The notion that earth is the only planet to harbor intelligent life...”

Pedantic note on "I suggest in the future": you didn't suggest it in the future. If you want to avoid pedantic comments like these, I suggest you assume good faith and stop being an ass, or, take an English class. Also, Earth, in your usage, is capitalized.
You can easily encode a decimal type as binary data. Not a huge deal.
My surname is incredibly rare (to the extent i'm probably the only one thats used Bloomberg) and my initial is 1-2% in the regions where the surname is found!
By targeted reconnaissance effort do you mean trivial geographic correlation based on your phones location data. So if the Google Street View car had a DNA sequencer on the back and GPS recorded any fragments and location it could trivially reconstruct quite a bit. No one has done this yet, but it's utterly doable. DNA is not private information its the most public information you can imagine is not controllable in any way thats meaningful to traditional thoughts on data privacy.
Why not? Their bug bounty program that they had previously was quite selective, for reference.
Don't be the shrug-shoulders guy, try to do something about it.
I usually have a fantasy where i travel back in time to middle ages/ancient times and try to:

* convince people i am not a devil worshipper/magician/time traveler

* explain how some concept works.

Imagine trying to explain electricity to Pope from 1000 AD, or mathematical functions, and integration/derivative to Greek philosophers etc.
The vast majority of consumers don't know or care about IPv6.

There seems to be more competition here in France than in the US but while I've previously used ISPs with IPv6 support my current one does not. Even as someone who prefers to have IPv6 it's not something I considered when signing up and I probably wouldn't pay much extra for it, as a consumer.

Symmetric bandwidth and connections for anything more than a personal server are available here but only on business plans. Those are easily more than 10x consumer prices so I can't imagine going for them unless you need the SLA's.
I consider myself a fairly optimistic person. Yet here we are deeply immersed in a world of technology that trades privacy for conveniences (that we did fine without before) and week after week these mega data stores are compromised and we just move on. The optimist in me hopes its merely incompetence and greed, but then it seems almost programmatic.
Aren't all imperial units standardized on metric values nowadays? So technically Americans are using metric, they just use a different notation?
Tim Bray is not done with Amazon
It will not help you, but generally, you should go to a university with an intent to learn, not to be taught.
Yeah but that 0.01% it's developers checking API output and whatnot, and being able to read the output without any tooling (or maybe just a JSON 'prettier' tool) is great.
Physicists Show Quantum Tunneling Is Not Instantaneous
> And then there will be a unified voice to fix those issues

By then it will already be too late, and you would have to tear down half or more of what has been built just to fix the issues.
I don't think so. IE6 was bundled with Windows, a software that came bundled with nearly every retail PC and that was basically essential for said PC to be used (in the eyes of the layman, at least).

Teams is bundled with Office, which is neither bundled by so many hardware vendors, nor essential for operating a PC, nor free of competitors.
Ah, thank you. Got confused by that. It doesn't sound too bad (but can't say for sure without seeing the actual plan, of course)
I really appreciate the 91Wh battery on the 15 inch. I was looking at buying a Dell XPS 15 but they shrunk the battery size this year.
If you are referring to writing useful articles (and not referring to paying for articles), Slicehost and Linode definitely started this way earlier than DigitalOcean.
That's really cool that they got the information for even some obscure talents like BjÃ¶rk and BeyoncÃ©.
> Independently, there is a strong correlation between having low Vitamin D levels and living in an environment to which dark skin is not adapted to.

Honest question: what skin color is actually adapted to western Europe or much of North America? Virtually everyone I know with a lighter skin tone needs to apply sunscreen for any outdoor activity to avoid rapid sunburns, and virtually everyone I know with a darker skin tone (jokingly or not) suspects they have a Vitamin D deficiency.
Becuase duplicated keys waste space. So they make the keys smaller and more clumped just to fit some keys TWICE.

BTW don't get me started on Ctrl/Fn confusion. Every other laptop I have switches these keys around.
Any place to get high res versions of these?
True but from what I understand of the matter (which isn't that much tbf), +2.3C is predicted to be already pretty fucking horrible, to say nothing of +3C...
Could be site individual rules set by the site owner. Maybe they blocked whole countries or regions.
It really depends on the project.
My company is hosting multiple ML/AI projects, some with datascientist that are, as you said, glorified data analysts. Usually MBAs or mixed cursus, but also CS guys (my favourite clients as they will never tell you "i can't ssh onto my server" after executing `chmod -R 777 /etc/`).

And some with genuine DS/statisticians. Also the first kind of project almost always end up hiring statisticians in the end, so realistically, having "glorified data analysts" that can sell to the consortium or kickstart project is enough.
Go ahead. See how nobody uses your library.
I checked in my code, I actually used `uuidgen`, not `uuid`. Thus the mixup!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_state

> Present-day examples of multinational states are Afghanistan, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Montenegro, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.
Laravel vapor looked cool. Does anyone know if it implements auth?
A Rust String is encoded as UTF-8, it is not an array of char-s. You can get an iterator over individual codepoints using the chars() method.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html#meth...
> b) ethnicity i.e. White/African American/Latino have quite a different slot of pop culture references in the US, much less pronounced for example in UK or Canada.

I wonder if UK and canada might be more similar to europe, where disco (as a popular culture which belonged to all those ethnicities) never really died in the same way it did in the states, killed by spontaneous popular uprising?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night
I mean in theory a foot is defined as xyz centimeters but i don't think that matters for any practical purpose.
Unfortunately, Pat Benatar and her guitarist husband went on some kind of holy war against their record label, which diverted their artistic energy.

Another mistake was the title and lyrics to her song "Hell is for Children" - her label should have asked for more precision, since it confused a lot of radio stations and listeners (is she pro or anti?). I can only imagine the drama in the Bible Belt over that.

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

I remember when she was one of the top acts - a real trailblazer in rock.
Microsoft’s Control Panel Retirement Plan Advances
I listened to a talk about this at pldi, wrt the auto-vectorizer. Given a piece of of sequential code, there are many ways to auto-vectorize it, and finding the fastest one is computationally complex. The current auto-vectorizer uses a faster algorithm that won't always generate the fastest possible vectorization. When they threw a neural network at it, they found it sometimes generated faster code than the slow 'optimal' algorithm, because the neural net was able to take into account factors the humans hadn't thought to in their model.
I think this is somewhat analogous to the privacy issues around Google Street View. Almost nobody thought the image of the front of their house was really private, but the idea of it being catalogued and searchable bothered more than a few. Removing the barrier of someone having to physically do the work to get that information at least made them feel more vulnerable.

Has Street View been a problem for the world in that way? I haven't personally experienced that. That's probably why the DNA database idea doesn't scare me. If you want to live in the world it's essentially impossible to keep your DNA a secret. It seems to me that eventually someone will pick it all up and organize it.
Goddamn, thanks for reminding me that my dim view of the general population didn't start with the introduction of facebook and discovering that the most most popular youtube videos/channels are.
Is it any wonder so many western nations can't handle even the basics of a pandemic or voting in non-populist idiots? Just look at their taste in music.
Because when the box doesn’t boot you can’t ssh in.
If an action requires less investment and provides the same value, it will happen more frequently — economics. A database lookup requires less investment than a targeted DNA harvesting, sequencing, and location correlation operation.
Tesla is in a spot similar to where Apple was in 2009. The iPhone was a well established product that differentiated itself from a sea of similar looking androids. The world was coming out of a big recession and the iPhone catapulted Apple into a trillion dollar market share in the next 10 years.

This is what Tesla investors hope for Tesla’s future. That ten years from now, there would be Tesla and all other car manufactures looking to emulate Tesla by producing a couple of electric models that would lack the features or refine of Tesla .

Tesla has a first mover advantage similar to what AWS had for the first 5 or so years.
Happens 1 in 100k people every year. It's called Guillain-Barré syndrome [1]. After an infection your immune system gets confused and starts attacking your peripheral nerves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain–Barré_syndrome
China’s Mars Tianwen-1 Mission Launches on Months-Long Journey
> The target is now confused why their phone isn't unlocking, and may not detect the attack for hours.

You might as well let the user in while you’re at it, so it’s truly undetectable.

> Apple really should put these audit devices in a big, boxy, couldn't possibly-be-mistaken-for-an-iPhone case.

Someone in Shenzhen is spinning up their CNC machine as you speak to change that to “you could probably show it to a Genius and they wouldn’t be able to tell at a glance”.
At least it was possible for one person to send two identical samples under two different names a few years ago to one company, but if everyone has closed that loophole yet - I don't know.

Alternatively (a business idea for someone here who has already registered?) you could send in other peoples samples in tour name and then request deletion via GDPR or something. Do things that do not scale and all that ;-)
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only `u8` can be cast as `char`, not `i32`

Can someone explain that in basic english?
Wilders' direct messages accessed in major Twitter hack
>Bart Ehrman says the ideas of eternal rewards and punishments aren't found in the Old Testament or in the teachings of Jesus.

What about Matthew 25:46?

> Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.

That article seems to assert that Jesus taught the soul cannot live apart from the body. There are various other quotes from Jesus contradicting that. John 14:1-3:

> Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

John 18:36:

> Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place."

Luke 23:43:

> Jesus answered him, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise."
> The poor security on android side

You almost got it… almost.
So because it is supposed to be trivial to identify people based on GPS, phone and DNA (which I dont believe), it doesn't matter if one gets his data into a DB, which gets leaked to the internet and then can be found/used by anyone? I don't think I follow u our reasoning.
I'll also state that DNA is hardly the most public information there is, surely your face/skin color/size/other physical characteristics are more public?
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> However an ant colony is not considered intelligent even though it has large scale agriculture, social hierarchy and communication techniques we don’t fully understand.

Actually, ants are frequently deemed smart and intelligent. Such suppositions are common.
True, my point is that Slack robbed Yammer and now they complain that Microsoft robbed them back.
I imagine itd retty much going to be a mix of responses for Dell XPS, Lenovo, and system76.

I use a Dell XPS and it's great.
> since GPT-3 has achieved the algorithmic part of the story

Has it? From what I've seen it's just an autocomplete that looks natural.
I don't really think the name matters; Jesus wasn't speaking English. It's the concept that matters. I think Matthew 25:46 covers the concept well:

> Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.
The bombs are fork bombs
Just so you know svelte + typescript + eslint is currently not working.
I expect similar things exist inside Google/Facebook, and they haven't been opened up to the public because nobody has figured out how to make them not say racist things, which isn't good for the reputation of a big tech company.
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You can see on the graph between March 10 and March 24 the significant increase in the number of people working from home by the proportion of ipv6 usage
I am a big fan of Alexa. It helps me keep track of things like timers, to-dos, grocery lists, etc. while taking care of a toddler and an infant. Is it World Peace or the Cure for Cancer? No but it's pretty cool.
For a quick and dirty on the spot visualization for some data on the command line, I'd like to plug the following:

function plot() {
{ echo 'plot "-"' "$@"; cat; } | gnuplot -persist;
}

For example:

seq 100 | sed 's/.*/s(&)/' | bc -l | plot linecolor 2
2003 says "what about Flash, Java Applets, ActiveX controls, VBScript, Silverlight"

Well maybe 2003 didn't mention Silverlight.
When was the last time you stepped into a region that was already impoverished before the pandemic?
Asking them in the afterlife, apparently.
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My DNA is in this breach and I couldn't care less.
Philadelphia's Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents
> There is a strong correlation between Vitamin D levels and COVID-19 outcome,

They didn't adjust for confounders like BMI or poverty.

https://www.nice.org.uk/advice/es28/chapter/Factors-for-deci...

> Evidence was from 5 published studies in peer-reviewed journals. One observational cohort study (D'Avolio et al. 2020), 3 observational prognostic studies involving published data sets using correlation or regression (Hastie et al. 2020, Ilie et al. 2020 and Laird et al. 2020) and 1 case-control survey (Fasano et al. 2020) looked retrospectively at the association between vitamin D status and development of COVID‑19. None of the studies were intervention trials of vitamin D supplementation for the prevention or treatment of COVID‑19.

> Four of the studies found an association or correlation between a lower vitamin D status and subsequent development of COVID‑19. However, confounders such as body mass index (BMI) or underlying health conditions, which may have independent correlations with vitamin D status or COVID‑19, were not adjusted for (D'Avolio et al. 2020, Fasano et al. 2020, Ilie et al. 2020 and Laird et al. 2020). Vitamin D status was based on serum 25‑hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels in 3 studies and the proportion of participants taking a vitamin D supplement in 1 study. The largest UK study (Hastie et al. 2020) found an association between vitamin D status and COVID‑19 only in a univariable analysis (with this single potential causative factor). Importantly, no causal relationship between vitamin D status and COVID‑19 was found after adjustment for confounders such as comorbidity, socio-demographics, ethnicity, BMI and other baseline factors.
It's a minor detail, but an IPv4 address is easier for humans to use.

It's easier to read, type, remember, share over the phone or even just plan with in a spreadsheet.
> Does it not work to say

No. It does not.

A diagnosis of "you might have cancer but the probability is low and we should just watch it" is not something that most people can psychologically take.

For more than half of the population, that kind of understanding is simply untenable.

And, even for people I knew who could understand it, several of them had so much anxiety that it drove their blood pressure up and it was better to just go get the biopsy so they didn't wind up with a stroke or heart attack.

In addition, "mortality probabilities" are a lot harder to psychologically absorb when you are 50 than when you are 20.

By the time you are 50, you've probably had more than a few of your friends and family in a coffin from a "low probability event".

Emotions are difficult. At some point, I will get diagnosed with a positive prostate screen (practically all men who live long enough do) that will almost certainly be "We should keep an eye on it." I hope I can weather it with the aplomb of my engineering background. We shall see.
I've seen some very successful consultancies going with this tactic as well. You go on their website and it's not just contact us page but a plethora of articles on how to do things.
> I think we are on the cusp

Of another hype-induced AI winter, maybe.
My claim is consistent and perfectly simple. I'm saying that you'd be better off not knowing everything about your future health. It doesn't follow from that you'd be better off not knowing anything. As you seem to have difficulty understanding that, I've been trying to spell the logic of it out in explicit detail. For reasons I don't understand, you appear to interpret that as a modification of what I originally said.

What exactly would you be better off knowing? In general, that's a complex question and I don't know the answer. But certainly there are clear examples of things that are worth knowing (e.g. your weight, your blood pressure, whether or not you have TB ...)

>by the sick individual

I did not specify that the individual in the hypothetical scenario was sick.
To me, what GPT-n really tells is how redundant human text in general is. It doesn't provide a lot of new information (if it does, they are accidental), but more or less wandering around the given topic. It is the redundancy that gives the system a space to churn.
Say you have eight books of equal size on a shelf. It's easy to put these eight books on another shelf of equal size or larger. If you have a shelf holding thirytwo books, it is impossible to fit them all on the smaller shelf, so it's better to simply not do it.
I'm not familiar with what T cells do, I thought they did not have a single target, unlike antibodies -- wouldn't transplanting T cells mean they would immediately attack the patients cells, as they are detected as foreign?
Stryve
We built Stryve as we felt there nowhere dedicated to tech enthusiasts to push their career forward
learning & jobs in a privacy-focused ethos.
Damn, now I have to listen to that again. You're a real tough cookie.

Now, I'm missing Ann Wilson here. I've had friends decide they want to try singing Heart songs at karaoke, and I have to warn them: danger! You do not have that much range.

And honestly, Luciano Pavarotti? Frank Sinatra? Frank wasn't known for his range, but kinda strange to leave him of a list of "greatest singers".
This cell transfer thing is just like a vaccination, but better. And a 2020 car is just like an 1820 train, but better. And a computer is just a programmable loom, but better.
Lenovo X13 with Ryzen 4750U + 32 GB RAM + docking station is quite similar.
I really love his emphasis on modelling as a skill. Its obviously great applied to technical skills like computer science, but he seems to apply it to everything else in the human experience so well.

"everything that we sense is part of the same object ... we learn it all into one model ... we call this model the universe"
https://youtu.be/P-2P3MSZrBM?t=1796
Your street view doesn’t contain your entire genetic record (including propensities towards disease, mental and physical, which could very easily be used to discriminate against you). So they’re not really comparable whatsoever.

And what is with this “this terrible thing X will happen eventually, so why not have it happen now?” argument I keep seeing nowadays? Your argument was quite literally: “Eventually someone will collect all your DNA”, so who cares if it’s now or later?
Given that ipv6 makes it much easier to track individual devices, I'm sure ad companies would be happy to have it deployed. I think Google could strongarm isps into supporting ipv6.
That's a fair point. However, I'm not entirely sure I buy the premise. With the advent of deepfakes and internet scraping facial recognition, I think a public photo collection of your entire likeness could be considered least somewhat at risk for abuse, when compared to the risk that a confidential fingerprint with ~25% of your genes is leaked and then used against you.
Total internet users in 1999 were on the order of 100 million (147mm in Dec 1998 per InternetWorldStats). Today is on the order of 10 billion, very roughly 100x more (4.6 billion, 2020).

https://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm

Use, interactions, control benefits, and ad spend have grown vastly more than linearly as a consequence.

A large Internet service in 1999 might have 1-10 million users (AOL peaked at ~27 million subscribers in 2002). Those were not connected wirelessly 24/7, but had occasional and intermittant, often dialup, access.
Can someone with security industry knowledge comment on how much weight we should give this? Are these sorts of things something you can just buy and they'll go out of their way to give you a favourable report because you're the client? Is Insight Risk Consulting known and credible?
They work quite well on Windows, no need to pollute my installation with WSL.

WSL is for the folks that buy macOS instead of giving money to Linux OEMs, and now are looking elsewhere but still not for Linux OEMs.
Limited userland code.
Quoting the site: "This reduces total cases! Even if you don't get R < 1, reducing R still saves lives, by reducing the 'overshoot' above herd immunity. Lots of folks think "Flatten The Curve" spreads out cases without reducing the total. This is impossible in any Epidemiology 101 model. But because the news reported "80%+ will be infected" as inevitable, folks thought total cases will be the same no matter what. Sigh."

What I said: "temporarily reducing the R number (lockdowns, distancing, masks) reduces the overshoot in the total number of people who get the disease (some proportion of which will die)."

How are these "completely different"?
If you seriously worry that much about far-fetched hypothetical scenarios it simply means you're privileged enough not to have immediate problems that affect you today.