skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing this, very interesting! Although a bit old (2015), the article raises some questions on privacy & transparency, which are more important than ever (eg: the increasing legislation like GDPR, CCPA).

Luckily, the TypingDNA solution is secure and compliant, in accordance not only to the Privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA), but also to other kind of legislation like Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) required by the EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2)
The answer is that are too many different kinds of speculative leaks to defeat them all via masking. For example, the supervisor code (i.e. the code of the Wasm Engine) has access to the broader address space, by design. This code can be tricked in various ways (in speculation) into performing out-of-bounds reads and disclosing that information in ways that is detectable by user programs.
I have no problem with negative numbers.

But most people would find your idea of using negative numbers for assets rather idiosyncratic.

It's more natural to say that the assets of Goldman Sachs are $1trn than to say that they are -$1trn, for example.
How would a better alternative surface?
Ask HN: Should I transfer to an online BS?
I'm currently enrolled as a Poli Sci major with a minor in CS (22 credits all the way through assembly and operating systems) and will be a junior this fall. I haven't changed majors because my school is really strict on letting people change majors to CS, and I would not be alble to qualify without restarting as a freshman (even then, ~10% chance of getting accepted despite good grades).

I never wanted to transfer because I like my life here and was planning on going into a research-based masters of CS, but since classes are all online for the foreseeable future I was considering transferring an online program like CU boulder or FSU to get the degree I actually want. However, tuition at every school I've looked at is significantly higher because of out of state costs and I'd likely have to go into a bit of debt as I only have 4 years of school money stowed away.

Is this worth it or should I remain where I am debt free?
It is private equity. I have a bunch of Thompson Center guns. I love them and found the quality to be quite good. They were then rolled up into Smith & Wessen in 2010. They cut most of their line and the quality is now shite. I wouldn't buy one anymore. So sad.
> Rules: Left side of equation: Increase in an asset: debit. Decrease in an asset: credit.

This is the non-intuitive part for me. Everything else seems logical. Why would you debit an asset when it increases?
You don't know if it's the best because there is no competition to discover better info. All other websites are presented with only 2 or 3 lines of text (search results) and have no free access to presentation forms that googles own content has.
> What iconic female voices would you add?

Cate Blanchett, Sarah Silverman, Katey Sagal, Jennifer Tilly, Laura Prepon, Viola Davis, Judi Dench, Whoopi Goldberg, Julie Andrews, Lake Bell, Jane Lynch, Joan Rivers, Martha Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Sarah Vowell, Shoreh Aghdashloo...
Just tested and tried translating English to romanian (my language) - doesn't exist :)
I expect the regulator has asked for a lot of email or messenger comms to investigate something and FB has said "we can't turn over that email, it could contain personal stuff that people deal with in their work email".

For example if you send your paycheck home via your email, that's a "personal financial document", if you send home a receipt from when you got a flu vaccination that's "employee medical information" and private information about families is when your mom/spouse/whoever emails you at work about something.

This is typical in a discovery situation and the lawyers will usually sit down and sift through stuff and figure out what really is relevant, what needs to be redacted/excluded altogether etc.
Either way conceding manufacturing of their flagship products to their competitor is not without consequence, and shouldn't be their primary preference - it's their contingency plan, as it should be.
This, until you needed $1m Dinar for an ice cream cone...
Some would say maybe the little startups should have a chance.
yikes - that's true, we could still move life beyond earth and still never meet another civ. I didn't realize this at first but I was conflating the two
See they admit your search results are most commonly from Bing. It’s really obvious when Bing, Duck, Ecosia all return the same results.
What about translation tools or maps. Hear of any good ones on here?
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Considering only 0.4% of the UK population has gotten covid ( 300,000 cases / 68,000,000 population) I would say it's incredibly tenuous to blame the 400% stillbirths increase on covid infections.
Hi, I'm the author of this page. This tool has a lot of complexity in it and a huge number of corner-cases. If you discover any bugs or XSS vulnerabilities, feel free to let me know.
...while your credit rating drops 200 points for the next 10 years.

The alternative is calling your landlord and speaking to him - almost as if he's a real human being. Tell him you'll have to move if he doesn't temporarily lower the rent.
This is so sad. Would you say the same treatment was given by the lower-downs?
What a great principle. One of those things I've felt for a long time but never express so well as John did.

This idea extends to many other things, like... sports equipment. Beginner runners/bikers/skateboarders/whatever will not really feel the difference between equipment that cost $100 and $1,000, so get the cheap one and use it to (its) death. If you're still into the sport by then, go ahead and get the nicer one. You'll actually appreciate the difference then and be happier, and also know that you'll actually make good use of it.

Another interesting way to put it: Minimum Viable Tool.
It can’t complete all the levels and actually does worse on the first level than a normal human (for example falling down a hole and having to get out again).

So it’s quite far from a speed run.
Bloody hell its too early in the morning for this.
One of these is not like the others.
You like it in the myopic sense of the word. In the way you like a big cake that sits in front of you, even if eating that cake is going to be bad for your health.

Google's monopolistic business practices are the same: they are convenient in the short-term for you, but they are destroying healthy industries. Over time the result won't be something you like.
Half of population have IQ lower that average, so they rely on those with larger brains to help them to make decisions. They are vulnerable. You are trying to make them smarter, like you, but this will not help them. You need to assist them, every day of week, to combat enemy propaganda.
But UBI won't just happen by itself. It needs a few things:

- Work actually getting done (through automation) - i.e. the "supply side" needs to be there

- People that demand it/ see it as necessary solution to _some_ problems (it won't just appear if there's no problem to be solved)

For me, it's simple: does it move society in the right direction? Yes, it creates some transient problems - but progress always does.
> Yes on the surface level it may look like that. But, he lives in Vancouver...

But that's how this works... seems harmless to him due to his context so he goes along with it. Looks different to someone living inland who thinks only rich people have money and time for boats.
It's not really a matter of prioritization. The current WASM platform and toolchain are missing features necessary for AOT-compiling things like .NET executables. For one example, exception filters ... and unfortunately the standard library uses them, not to mention end-user software.

To provide more detail: Exception filters require the ability to stackwalk and search for filters and run them before actually handling the exception. WASM has no stack-walking functionality whatsoever (this also means getting and introspecting stack traces is currently impossible), so searching for filters is already a non-starter. You can try and emulate this through a normal unwind-only exception flow, but you have to rewrite all your application code to insert lots of checks and flow control changes in order to do it, and it's still observably different.

I've spent months just working on fixing this problem, and it's one of the things that wasm AOT is going to need before it can ship.

WASM is a generally weak target platform. A great 1.0, to be sure, but unless your goal is to run posix C code you're going to hit snags. When we were designing WebAssembly to begin with it was an intentional decision for 1.0 to be limited in feature set with the goal of improving it later - a Minimum Viable Product.
Actually, on text translations, DeepL nowadays outclasses Google Translate IMHO. The only downside is that they don't appear to offer some kind of transparent website translate feature ("put a URL in and it translates the entire site, with layout kept intact"), at least not for free. But if I happen to have a paragraph or so in some foreign language and want that translated to some language I can understand, DeepL has become my first stop due to its consistently higher result quality.
> All of a sudden, things get a lot more fuzzy in terms of cause and effect

It got more fuzzy for who?!

The kind of people who will turn the most clear cut case of police brutality we've seen in years into their own personal chance to play "devils advocate" and be the obligatory contrarian no one needed, wanted, or asked for?

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Because, after all, do you think the fact he was in respiratory distress means the officer should have knelt on his neck for 9 more minutes while he begged for mercy and was reduced to crying for his mother?

Do you think having your neck knelt on for 9 minutes is an appropriate response for respiratory distress?

It makes them look like even more cold blooded murders.

It makes their initial excuse of "he was faking to get out of the hold" even more abominable

If he was in such respiratory distress that he was dying before being knelt on, it could be interpreted he additionally needed 9 consecutive minutes of having a knee on his neck?

I was wondering how that could be an unpopular sentiment then I realized, I broke the first rule of HN. You can be as passive aggressive about tech stuff as you want, but don't be overtly heated about anything "political", like police murdering (sorry, manslaughtering) people in broad daylight
> What's wrong with fixing inconsistencies?

There are no inconsistencies to fix; the credit/debit model is fully consistent, just implementation inconveniences. And I don't think anyone would have trouble with this if it was titled “implementing double entry accounting in software” rather than “double entry accounting for developers”; that is, it's a fairly decent explanation of how, if you have preexisting understanding of the domain, to reduce it to software internals, but very bad as an explanation of the domain (whether to an audience of developers or otherwise.)

> Established accounting terms are from 500 years ago when people had trouble with subtraction.

People still have trouble with substraction compared to addition, especially with large numbers.
Not exactly? Structurally yes, in that before we had fancy tools like "ANTLR" the standard way to write an interpreter/parser was to in more or less a straight-forward way translate the grammar into something that would process a stream of tokens. No in that "Tiny Basic" is double interpreted. The idea was that instead of publishing a huge listing of "Tiny Basic" for a particular platform Allison instead would publish one written in an intermediate language where it would be obvious enough (at least to his audience) how to implement each of the "op codes" within the intermediate language. I wanted to keep with that tradition of pseudo-machine instructions and so I made way more use of Goto (for example) than you probably should.
If I was Russian disinformation I'd be plowing out a lot of petitions like these.

They would have some credibility if they occasionally attacked something truly ridiculous like String Theory, but it's easier to paint the bike shed that no one would ever have used.
Here, on ProductHunt and any other way. How did Firefox re-invent itself? It attacked the very thing that Google could not provide: privacy. How is DDG on such a good trend lately? It requires a lot of effort I agree but google also put a lot of effort into their own products.
The old abundance paradox. When you have everything you appreciate very little. We have had the same problem with the middle class here in the US for half a century, but our national culture had a strong focus on competition, winning, and money.

Those old values are fading for better or worse, and it will be interesting to see what happens next.
> The fact that it "makes sense" for companies to become evil monopolies when they are capable of doing so is a problem

I’m no google fan but I don’t think evil is an appropriate word nor would I call them a monopoly when it comes to search. There are plenty of other options out there from all over the world, the fact that they aren’t that great isn’t googles fault (and it would need to be for them to be considered a monopoly).
It's mostly been word of mouth for me - Japanese friends telling me DeepL is way better for Japanese, people on HN complaining about Google Chrome performance vs Firefox.

And competitors are coming pretty close to other Google stuff, Apple Maps is actually getting pretty good for me right now but mainly lacks the metadata about things like restaurant menus + the flexibility of routing like cheapest train fares or searching by last train and what not that Google has - honestly seems like low hanging fruit. Nobody gets close on search yet though, I've tried and failed to stick with DDG many times now.
Awesome. Pretty cool you're giving this away for free - thanks!
> I know there's the sentiment of fear/hate/etc about Google taking over but...

It's the other way around, for these and other such shennanigans by other such megacorporations colonizing our protocols (rather than "building the internet"): yeah, it might make sense for them, in a selfish, short-term, myopic kind of way, but it harms the greater good. Apart from making it rather deplorable how they ate/eat chalk to get their foot in the door.

> For most, all the internet they know is thanks to Google

How so? Because most people "just google things"? You might as well say all the internet they know is thanks to whoever provided the electricity at the time.

People who make good websites made the interwebs something to flock something to in the first place, even though hardly anyone in the real world cared or knew about the web. These days, everybody is on the web because everybody is on the web, and people share workarounds for the latest corporate BS, and "hope" they will "listen" etc. That there are people for whom that's all they know doesn't mean those should be catered to.
I like how it takes 10s to render any text because the font's don't load ;)

But cool project!
Then they have to start by building a better product. Any suggestions for alternative services that outperform Google’s?
Doesn't seem like a productive battle. It's only upsides for stores that roll out facial recognition. If you want this stopped you will need legislation.
I am the product.

I understand this with google and accept it. They can extract whatever information they want in exchange for decent results when I search whether it comes from them or not.

I get gmail, a phone os, a browser, an os, remote desktop and more for free from them. I pay for youtube premium.

The value I get from google is worth it. Everything they provide is good enough and when I want a third party site or information I can get it.

As a consumer, Google offers a great deal.

There are two pain points with google. The first is support, but what can you do when it is free. The second is the rollout of new products and then abandoning them.

I do not run a business that is affected by Google's decisions, though. I understand if you are a company competing in an area google participates it is unfair.
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They have no choice but to say that. Just like in criminal justice one is assumed innocent until proven guilty (beyond any reasonable doubt), in the medical field a drug is assumed harmful until proven beneficial (beyond a certain p-value). As long as the proof of the benefit is not out there (and peer-reviewed), a medical professional needs to give more weight to the known risks vs the unproven potential benefits. They might lose their license if they do otherwise.

But while they may need to think about their license, I need to think about my survival. And here I'm talking about my own survival. I'm not advising anyone else to do the same. I'm not a doctor, and even if I claimed I were one, nobody should just take a random guy's advice over the internet.

That said, my thought process is this: it is aspirin we are talking about, not cyanide. I have taken aspirin many times in my life, including several times recently. The benefit is not proven because doing medical trials is expensive. But the benefit is plausible enough that someone started just such a trial [1]. Separately, the benefits of other blood thinners are considered so great that they are part of the standard of care for Covid19 patients in some hospitals, such as MassGeneral [2]. So, my own assessment of that taking aspirin has for me a higher potential benefit than the potential risk.

But again, this is just for me, not offering advice to other people.

[1] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04365309

[2] https://www.massgeneral.org/assets/MGH/pdf/news/coronavirus/...
Eh, I dunno about the whole 'political system'. Maybe conservative populists, one of which just so happens to be president for now. After inauguration day in 2021, I expect he and everything he stood for will be discarded to the trash bin of history.
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If anything I am searching can even remotely be considered a product or paid service, I get an entire page, minus one link of links that have the [ad] box on them. And they're all shady 3rd party retailers. And when I want to find a product, to get the manufacturers website and product details, it's nowhere to be found. Just page upon page of [ad] links.
I can't contribute anything (luckily), GKE has been absolutely smooth sailing for us (small-ish data eng/data science team doing most of their own cloud ops) – even BigQuery has caused more trouble.

Very curious how others have fared, though.
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> as virtual address spaces already offer exactly that in hardware at full speed

Operating system processors are pretty heavyweight, and there are lots of situations where smaller granularity protection domains are useful.

I'd also quibble with "at full speed." There is a metric shitton of complexity to implement virtual memory, with multi-level TLBs, an extremely careful dance with the operating system currently, IPIs for TLB shootdown, etc. The dynamic cost of the TLB is something that is measurable, and of course, completely depends on your application behavior, kernel, availability of huge pages, etc.

The reality is that we don't really have a control group for hardware without virtual memory because the only such chips are for small embedded (niche) systems, and everything else runs on kernels designed to offer virtual memory to software expecting virtual memory.
Intel Outside Just Like All the Others
>So the solution is to make the bubble impregnable?

I'd say just the opposite. We think of the filter bubble as being only shown ideas we agree with. But an important part of the filter bubble phenomenon is only showing us the worst examples of ideas we disagree with. It's this second part GP is suggesting we can most easily stop tolerating on a personal level. The former is a bias of the algorithms and would take some kind of collective reform, unfollowing contacts who highlight the worst of your shared ideological opponents rather than the best is an action anyone can take.
because food production is much more scalable and competitive imho.

What till you see climate change decimate food production, and you will see how inelastic food is, and the resultant price increases will be eye watering.
Similarly, Indians express large numbers in terms of lakh (10^5) or crore (10^7) which is confusing to people using the thousands-based system.
This would be very helpful in automatically removing parts of a vlog video where although there wulould never be silence, but in case human voice is absent, that can be removed, so that I don't have to manually do that when editing.
The thing is, increasingly I'm catching it returning wrong answers. A few days I was looking up the approximate weight of a cup of flour to do a recipe conversion, and the "helpful answer" was pulled from some random site and was about 15% off-base compared to the median from a handful of other sites, including from flour companies.

I've observed similar bad results when looking up information about medications… I feel bad for those acting on that information.

Just like ads, I've learned to tune out that top part of the search result page. Honestly, the increasing noise feels a lot like Yahoo! in 2001.
If you want to track the bank account on your own books, what they call a debit, you call a credit. Ït’s a mirror image.

Debits come in to an entity, credits go out.
Why do you want to transfer? Are CU Boulder or FSU drastically better programs?
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I think what you're saying has merit.

No data from me, only a personal anecdote.

I avoided the ER during a severe illness comprising intense bloating, severe pain, and constant vomiting for about five days roughly a month ago.

I ended up in the hospital for about eight days and was discharged just over a week ago. Turns out I'd suffered a severe acute necrotizing pancreatitis attack and just "battled through" with gatorade, water (when I could keep fluids down) and sleep. I even worked from home in between falling over on the couch!

I just really didn't want to visit the hospital. Figured it was a bad stomach bug or bad take out.

No—it turns out I was lucky to avoid the ICU and am going to be dealing with it for the next 6-12 months, if not permanently. I lost about 30 lbs in a couple of weeks because I couldn't really eat.

Even now I'm doing what I can to prevent a premature return to the hospital outside of appointments. The intake procedure is slower and requires more attention than normal from people suffering and in pain.

It's quite stressful. And this is in Canada where I didn't have to worry about a single hospital bill after multiple CT scans, ultrasounds, XRays, medications, regular blood work and blood cultures, and a semi-private hospital bed.

Outside of the stress of health issues, the worst thing I've had to endure is my employer asking me to have an insurance form filled out by my attending doctor in case I have to be re-admitted. It's difficult organizing having forms filled out when most appointments are held over the phone presently.

I can't imagine the burden of trying to navigate grants and massive bills on top of it all.
I suppose it doesn't scale, but public shaming seemed to work in this case:

"Last week, however, after Reuters sent its findings to the retailer, Rite Aid said it had quit using its facial recognition software."

Though likely because of the higher use in low income neighborhoods than facial recognition overall.