skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curiously, the author "Jay Riverlong" doesn't appear to exist prior to a month ago, right around the time when GPT-3 came out. For a "professional poker player" who "travelled extensively throughout South America and Europe", it is interesting. Could be a pseudonym, but it's hard to tell whether the author is a real person.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=riverlong

https://github.com/jayriverlong

https://twitter.com/jayriverlong

https://jayriverlong.github.io/about/

edit: I have pinged him on Twitter. Let's see what happens. https://twitter.com/breandan/status/1287148374077186059
Hello again @acemarke, My feedback last month on HN [0] ended up in the original issue thread about this doc rewrite.
Thank you for taking the time to build out this documentation! I'm going to send it along to my team for their review and comments.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23563364
People should not change just because you redefine being racist however you please.
An introduction to mutation testing in Python
What's not so standard, in my opinion, is that people be required to restrict their use of language to the noted restrictive sense of a definition as used "in [that] document."

Yes, yes, all of the adjectival disclaimers were used to try to align the discussion directly to how words are used "in [that] document." While the document is highly important, there are many technical contexts in which it is completely appropriate to talk about decades without the slightest consideration of how the same term might be used therein.
10% is a good number many people are slowly working through perhaps. Plus a lot of people who don't really use redux are curious.

More importantly what is the difference between page 1 and 2?
> Employees will thrive as independent contractors

I'm inclined to call bs on this. Converting regular staff to contractors benefits the employer but not the employee.
Nah it just gives you a more secret id, I'm happy to support people talking about apples at https://textdb.dev/data/apples
> Being able to run metasploit and wireshark does not make one a hacker. By doing this, pentesters test for yesterday's hacks, not tomorrow's.

Funny enough, this thought process shows a failure to understand process and internal influencing. Quite often, the things found by a basic pen-test are known internally. Research will reveal long, boring discussions that end with someone like Bill dismissing things as not important and the risk acceptable.

What the paid-for report does it makes the risk visible, documented, and something the company may have to show to customers or partners. Now it's gone from something that can be shrugged off to something expensive and embarrassing. Bill has to explain why his opinion should matter more than those of the biggest customers. Now it's something that is much easier to prioritize.

Big management often doesn't value unpleasant or critical feedback from below. Once it's advice that's been paid for, its value jumps. After all, if you're not going to listen then why did the company pay the big bucks for it?
Yes, it's mind blowing how much of my procrastination is pure muscle memory and routine.
Wondering what D.E. Shaw did after getting rich? He used his money for building a specialized super computer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer)) which runs molecular dynamics simulations for drug development. His 2008 computer still runs molecular dynamics simulations about an order of magnitude faster than general purpose super computers in 2020.
Almost all mainstream languages are nice to use, have sufficient tooling, and are fast enough for almost any purpose one might care to apply it to.

Java has become an enterprise language and is associated strongly with many negative elements of enterprise culture, though. "Written in Java" may as well be "designed by committee" or something out of a Dilbert comic or Pentagon Wars chimera.
The Mobx, Mobx-state-tree, and Mobx-keystone family are great if you want lots of features. Zustand is very good if you want something smaller.
Ok, so in the setup you describe can the js engineers focus on software engineering and not be involved in the choice of components and UI layout design? I.e. they can have all that handed to them by a designer? I didn’t know that, in my experience the JS engineers also design the UI layout (but have designers work on CSS styling )
Whoa, thank you
Sure! I definitely remember your comment. Not sure if I fully addressed all the concerns you were listing there, but hopefully it's an improvement, and I'd appreciate any further feedback on it.

Still not sure how to split the explanations between the RTK docs and the Redux core docs, tbh.
> But any detailed look seems to show each reason step as both implausible and "weird", senseless.

Trouble here is that we're having this discussion in one of the most unusually concerned-with-logic spaces on the web. Your average facebook user isn't doing a detailed analysis of logical steps in a theory. They see something say "wind power bad" and that's that. Wind power bad.
Simon Willison on Node.js (2009)
Maybe. Charlie Baker and Larry Hogan have used that model of down to earth local governance to become the most popular governors in the country while being republicans in blue states. It just isn’t clear that political model will fly in states without extremely high educational attainment.
I don't know why this comment got downvoted. I personally thing there is so much truth in it.

I practice Olympic lifting (total beginner) and I have to concentrate so much during exercises. Take for instance the snatch movement [1] which is my personal favorite and one of the hardest (in my opinion)

Also I find weightlifting very addictive: when you do the movement successfully is very rewarding. When you get it wrong you can't wait to try again next time

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWYvGDIRwE
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3...
Is there such a thing as an instant test on the market?
> > Manual human labor requirement creates a rate limiting which is removed by automated content creation in the name of the human.

> What if we impose artificial rate limiting with posting fees or some kind of proof-of-work requirement?

These hypothetical anonymized but authenticated interactions are backed (via ZKP or otherwise) by a trusted identity (which itself might be pseudonymous, government verified, whatever). As such, why not track and publish the (approximate) rate at which attestation interactions are undertaken by a given identity (per some very coarse grained unit of time)? This rate could then be linked to the otherwise anonymized actions upon attestation.

Then people or platform moderators would be free to make their own judgments about what constitutes a reasonable (ie trustworthy) rate of interaction within a given context.

(This is a form of information leakage, so in certain scenarios it could allow deanonymization or at least linking anonymous interactions together. Extreme care would have to be taken when selecting the degree of approximation and the duration of unit time.)
It might actually be easier to get federal money for unemployment than for contact tracing.
>>Wax tablets were also a writing surface, and are worth mentioning.

Not paper
Some of our Windows computers were affected but none of our Linux computers were affected.
> After the April lock down it is clear, that we cannot repeat this economically again

It may not be a choice. Then what?
I've done lots of activies, including sports and dance, and some activities simply have a higher barrier than others.

Partner dancing - at least leading - is definitely on the higher side :-)

There are several factors. Leaders must endure months where they can do little or nothing, and they have to do it among people who always look great - if they social dance; if they don't, their learning time increases.

Then there's a lot of pressure of performing with and for somebody who's usually of the opposite sex (this applies also to follows).

It takes a lot (internally) before feeling comfortable enough to "simply enjoy".

Playing an instrument or practicing an individual sport doesn't have such pressures.
I think as more advanced crypto starts being deployed (stuff based on MPC AND zkSNARKs), we’ll see a need for more long-term cryptographer positions
With all these ruthless profit-maximizing firms on Wall Street, it's nice that Silicon Valley VCs have given up on maximizing profits since the early 2000s [0]. Gives them more opportunities to focus on making the world a better place.

[0] https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2020/02/17/venture-c...
You have a pattern of making over-the-top denunciations though. Maybe it's easier to see the problem with one of your other recent ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23943179

Do you seriously believe that everyone who uses C++, not necessarily by their own choice, is a bad programmer writing a bad program? Things are rarely that black and white.
Yes. Completely orthogonal.

Strongly typed dynamic: Python

Weakly typed dynamic: Javascript

Strongly typed static: Haskell

Weakly typed static: C
That makes complete sense this is a scam they are pulling.
OP, don't know you but big fan of your posts,especially the ChaCha20 writeup.

What this article talks about somewhat translates to the larger infosec community.

A lot of the presumptions I had about working in infosec were false:

- You need to be good at and understand software exploitation well

- You need to be a good programmer

- You need to know how to code (I do fwiw)

- Your soft-skills should be great (not more than any regular office job)

- You should know offensive techniques well, including breaking crypto

- You need to go to cons and do heavy infosec social networking

- You need to be good at math

- You need to master every single IT discipline

- How can you work in infosec if you never hacked a gibson? (joke)

And many more.

I can tell you,these types of elitist gate-keeping is why infosec always complains about a "skills shortage". I am nowhere near exhausting my mental/skill capacity with my day to day work and I do fairly well. I meet people all the time who never coded before and never heard of an elliptic curve that do well and impress me in very technical infosec disciplines.

My suggestion to anyone considering infosec is, if you have strong interest in the subject and you enjoy the very technical aspects of it (even if you don't understand some things well), I say go for it regardless of what you lack so long as you don't lack motivation and free time to pursue your studies. There are plenty of jobs that need people with passion in infosec and you need to be an elite hacker as much as a sports team needs every player to be an egotistical superstar.
So that's where Gilfoyle got the name Anton from...
African Proverbs with Hidden Meanings You Didn’t Know
Not only is the "back bias" "helpful", it is necessary to prevent the transistors from conducting when they shouldn't, which could lead to a latch-up and catastrophic failure; hence the power sequencing requirements of these ICs.

(If you search online you'll find discussions such as https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/455745/why-w... where the accepted answer is close but not quite correct; -5 is substrate bias, 5 is the main supply, and 12 is applied to all the gates of the enhancement load transistors to open them. On the 8080, 12V was also used to drive the clocking circuitry, and this explains why the absolute maximum rating on all the pins --- and thus the gate oxide withstand voltage --- is 20V instead of the 6-7V typically seen for 5V devices.)
Being heard is about quality, not quantity. If a hundred nobodies argue on the internet, nobody is listening anyway. It does not matter if they are bots.

If a hundred nobodies leave a reply to some statement by a person that matters, it does not cancel out that statement.

Free speech is necessary, but not sufficient, to find truth and pursue justice.
Inb4 "Subscribe to Matt Levine's Money Stuff"[1]

Particularly in terms of generating what another thoughtful user dubbed "contextual understanding," this is a gold mine. Also occasionally gives very lucid, refreshing descriptions of how lots of things that other finance people take for granted work.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
They have made available some SARS-CoV-2 related simulations: https://www.deshawrd.com/downloads/download_trajectory_sarsc...
Digikam has always been a gem. This sounds like a great improvement.
I'm somewhat surprised by the colors because pigments have changed a lot in two millennia. Art history loves to point out how much more vibrant paintings become as new pigments are discovered and invented.
Yes but you need to configure Digikam to write metadata in its settings. Should be able to write to either EXIF or XMP.
No real research experience until the PhD programme. I did run a blog where I posted about papers I found interesting in the domain, but I hadn't published!
You’re right! Only about 20% of healthcare spending goes to physicians and half of that does to practice expenses like malpractice insurance. So even forcing physicians to work for free wouldn’t do very much to lower healthcare prices.
> Gen Zers will be handicapped by their lack of experience but will succeed by their willingness to occupy initially the lower end of the pay scale and through their sheer toughness born out of experiencing the Great Recession as children and now the pandemic as young adults.

Lol who's telling this person that genZ-ers will be /willing/ to be paid less?

This looks to me like a distopian future, not an ideal one.
At least in C++ - after the initial spec, the language was literally _built_ on exploiting those minor details. A lot, if not most, of C++'s magic and its ugliness goes through those weird minor details.
GLIntercept 1.3.5 Is Out
A company here in Canada tried to bring one to market, but I think it was completely disapproved because it was not precise and specific enough, which baffled me since I don't really see the downside of it being available even if that's the case.

Yes, accuracy is a nice thing to have, but if you aren't tested at all you are worse off. You can still follow precautions if you are negative on an inaccurate test, but we can't afford to have everyone take the precautions that those with positive tests should.

If the test is highly sensitive but biased toward false positives, that would also be a useful form of test.
>What the paid-for report does it makes the risk visible, documented, and something the company may have to show to customers or partners.

Only if there's a lawsuit and it shows up on discovery. Otherwise there isn't really anything preventing it from being buried.
> In a follow-up, it would be cool if you wrote about SRP authentication.

First time I hear of this. Looks interesting, but as PAKE goes I know B-SPEKE, AuCPACE, and OPAQUE better. I'm trying to determine which one I want right now, possibly even design my own, but I found those protocols are significantly harder to get right than authenticated key exchange. I also don't know them well enough to competently write about them just yet.
Reading books written by people who have run tech companies definitely helped me. I recommend books by Basecamp.
You can say what you want, but you've never had the right to force people to listen to what you say.

I don't see what has changed in that regard.

Perhaps no one ever read your banner supporting X in the first place...
Why are they strictly better? You remove interest rate risk at the expense of yield. They currently pay less than high interest savings.
Love this idea! I had built a widget so that any website anywhere can embed practicable flashcards (like quantum.country) by storing user's progress in localStorage. But the idea of an open file format that can be imported in any app of user's choice would be a better approach.

https://github.com/learn-awesome/flashcard
Surprisingly confused. Some kernel of truth in here.

It's not really free speech that's at issue here is it?
It's discourse populated by other human beings, or the "right" to be clearly heard. That's already contested, without AI. No transparent attribution.
So ideally it could work like a meta-study. Meta-studies
combine results from multiple separate studies, making correlations and drawing more confident conclusions. Most 'original' human ideas are just reinventions of older ideas, too.

The interesting part is that GPT-3's leap in performance can be attributed to scaling. That's easier to do than inventing completely new approaches. Scale data, scale compute, scale money, then you have something you couldn't have invented directly.
Kids begin with phones, which are limited, dont even have a keyboard and their screens are suboptimal for reading text. It's not so much a preference than a necessity, they don't know better.

Also, how much money is there in targeting kids as an audience? Mobile eyeballs are rare, 97% of the time is spent on the top 10 apps
Electrons in a typical circuit have a drift velocity that is very low (order of millimeters per hour). Of course, the electrons individually are very fast, but they are also almost as fast when there is no voltage applied.
You know what's interesting here? - The steps/trap or the playbook that these scammers have mastered
I think quick is more about getting the results back quicker. But in terms of taking the test, it takes time to get to a testing site. A take home test would be a huge boon.
If you have a problem with that comment, bring it up in that thread.
> It‘s so sad to watch, but compared to any other developed and affluent nation, the US is a complete shitshow at this point

Idunno man, here in Canada the testing woes are about the middle of the pack, when compared with each of the states, the case fatality rates are higher than in Texas. The overall death rates are still much higher in the UK than either the U.S. or Canada.

I think you're being extremely lopsided in your analysis of this, which I don't blame you entirely for, given how much American-made anti-American propaganda there is out there.

> It‘s just so sad to see how personal „freedom to choose“ turned into the achilles heel of one of the formerly greatest nations on Earth.

It didn't, it's a spectacular country and will continue to be for a long time still. The places in the U.S. where there was more choice and personal freedom did better on almost every metric so far, and we haven't even tallied the totals yet (we'll know for real in a couple years, when we correct our death records, and look at real overall mortality over the whole event, rather than rates on a given date).

You can not simultaneously warn about a second wave and dismiss the Swedish model out of hand. In reality, we won't know who was right until much later.
> Sorry, hardly anyone still practices distancing outside. At a lake people were on a crowded beach 20cm apart.

And the risks at these places are apparently pretty low, even with more lax physical distancing; 20cm does seem a bit close though.
That it will lead to a lot of follow up tests and people that are ill thinking they are not.
Rather more precisely, Simons hired Ax to pursue a dream he'd first had with Baum in the 70s, using math to predict markets. Ax had some success, but the Medallion Fund didn't take off until after he left. Berlekamp gets a little credit, but wasn't really there long enough to have major impact. If you want to know who did the real work, figure out who Simons paid the most.
In journalism, anonymous reports are verified to some extent by the journalists. You're basically relying on the newspaper's reputation. This might work in other cases, where you have some known reputable third party that can vouch for the anonymous account, at least to verify that they're a real person and not a sock puppet.

Wikipedia does the opposite, where most editors are anonymous and untrusted worker bees, but they are supposed to cite reliable sources. That can work too. Teach a GPT-3 successor to cite things correctly and you might have something useful, sort of like a search engine that can combine data from multiple places.

But if all you have is an anonymous account, it's basically a rumor and you shouldn't trust it. Isn't it rather weird to expect strangers on the Internet to believe what we say without knowing anything about us?
Sometimes it crops up in vendor review or similar. I've definitely found myself reviewing pen-test reports for exactly that reason without a lawsuit or discovery.

Needless to say, having a bad pen-test report and then burying it would look extremely bad.
My experience is different. In both sports and dances, I've always been asked/required to pay attention to the entire body. For example, in climbing, it's a mechanical necessity, while in table tennis, it's required for efficiency and power.
If they get caught they just pay a few billion in fines. They do that all the time and still turn a profit. Maybe their shadiness attracts advertisers and makes up for it in part. Criminal consequence is needed to deter them at this point.
Selwyn's statement notes much the same:

> On 16th July, Blackbaud informed us of a data security incident [...] they had been the victim of a ransomware attack between February and May 2020.

> Amongst the information that may been affected were the following[...]

> Blackbaud is unable to confirm precisely which individual records have been affected

https://www.selwynalumni.com/main-website-pages/blackbaud-da...
that's what we've always done, make it up as we go along, since societies and language change.

I doubt you'll find it easy to really split what's porn and what is art. or even what gore vs art is.
This problem is not complicated. If students don't like the fees - don't go to school there! A little more price-shopping in higher education would go a long way toward reducing the tuition.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23535373
> It is unfair to the careful people who invest in government funds to bail out prime fund investors every time it looks like they might lose 0.5-1%.

Can you explain this more? How are they bailing out prime fund investors?
"firing someone for making an OK sign to someone on the highway does not [make sense]"

If they're employed in an at-will state, they can be fired for something like that. No sense needed. The issue lies with the company.

And I disagree. Firing someone for making the OK sign -can- make sense, because it can be a racist dog-whistle. That's the entire point of co-opting an ubiquitous symbol. It may be perfectly fine, it may not; the context matters.

"now they contribute nothing to society even though they are perfectly capable of being productive"

That is simply not the responsibility of a business. The fired person can find another job at a different company if it was such a trivial comment.

"You're going to tell some kid, "Your mom doesn't get child support anymore because your dad said something mean on the web"?"

(If it was really just a mean comment): "Your parent was fired because their employer is irrational. Sucks, but that's life sometimes. <Child>, this is a reminder that getting work is a privilege, not a right, and you should save money just in case you get laid off as well. Companies are not loyal to you."

(If it was actually bigoted / hate speech): "Your parent was fired because they put out bigoted statements online, and their employer didn't want to keep them on their payroll. <Child>, this is a reminder that getting work is a privilege, not a right, and you should save money just in case you get laid off as well. Companies are not loyal to you."

If a company fires people like this, they'll get flak and probably burn out as the smart/talented people move to more stable companies, etc. Making people much harder to fire will just make companies worse; I really don't want to have regular jobs function like government ones where terrible people stay around because it's too hard to fire them.