skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hmm, so it is time to clean all these specks off the monitor again - if it were done before I would have noticed the error.

on edit: although, really, bad grammar is important to corporate doublespeak as it lends an element of plausible deniability when you get called in front of committee.
In cognitive behavioral therapy this akin to “catastrophizing”.
Nobody has changed the name of the aircraft. The 8200 that Ryanair is to be flying is the 737-8 MAX 200 that Ryanair wanted.
> - Developer was hacked and is unaware of it.

If that's the case why wasn't that communicated to him?

>- Developer accidentally clicked "revoke my cert" (no idea if that's a real button, but that's not the point).

>- Developer had a mental breakdown and has lost grip on reality.

While these are possible, they seem very unlikely. Compare the numerous cases of Big Tech silently revoking people's account with no notice or appeal, to the number of times that someone made a public announcement, and then went "nvm it was me lol".
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Eh, it was probably just auto-correct being "helpful."

System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > Add period with double-space (disable)
Thanks - that works for me. For a moment I thought Comic Sans was an ahead-of-its-time work of genius.
How does one get to the island by keeping one hand on a wall? Wouldn't an island just be equivalent to a big empty area?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468250/windows-10-...

"As part of inking and typing on your device, Windows collects unique words—like names you write—in a personal dictionary stored locally on your device, which helps you type and ink more accurately.

If you sync your Windows device settings to other Windows devices, your local user dictionary (up to 100 KB per language and 300 KB total of hard drive space) will be stored on your personal OneDrive for the purpose of enabling sharing of your dictionary with your other Windows devices. "

And it may have been worse when Windows 10 was first released:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2974057/how-to-turn-off-wind...
How do you think you get environmental assessments fast tracked? (Except we call it a "political donation" and "lobbying")

What do you think happens when a place like ALEC flies politicians on jaunts to get them to accept pre-written legislation?

Outside of political applications, what do you think happens when pharma reps take doctors to "conferences" in the Caribbean to get them to use their new meds?

On an individual level: What do you think that 'fraternal order of police' donation buys you, and what that car sticker is for?

It might be a bit more dressed up than a naked bribe, but it's still a bribe.
Two of the five cars my family has owned in the last 20 years have had that feature.
The developer's website (software.charliemonroe.net) is also blocked by my ISP (Vodafone UK)'s adult content filter. This is strange as it does not appear to contain any adult content.

I wonder if these things are related?
OCD trekkie, I don’t doubt that you have worked assiduously to remove your data from Google, but I am genuinely curious what actual harm you are trying to avoid here.
How is this a comparison in risk?? It's literally her job to deal with potentially dangerous situations from sick people.

Most elementary and high schools are underfunded, overcrowded, and probably half full of people who do not take COVID seriously at all.

"But kids can't get it!!" Being asymptomatic != not getting it. The fact that kids are often asymptomatic makes it WORSE not better. Kids are just going to unknowingly spread amongst themselves, amongst their families, and their communities.

Opening the schools is a good way to make her job a lot harder for a lot longer.
For cli apps it doesn't really matter if it's reflection-based
Global issues beyond 80,000 Hours' current priorities
hahaha, the same. I thought it would be running through a corridor in a loop!
If we were really seeing the effect of monopolies how would Tiktok hold ground in US. FB could have actively gone after it and not allowed FB authentication or ads of Tiktok on FB. In fact, as mentioned in the article Tiktok grew by leveraging the dominant platforms like FB, Instagram.

I would still wait and watch on Tiktok phenomenon. It is a viral thing but has no moat as such and only $0.5 billion in expected revenue for this year. There are enough companies which can move in this space and suffocate it.
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I think certificate revocation of signed code is a good, useful feature and something that I want as part of my security infrastructure.

I wouldn't want it any other way if I have to use non-open source code that I can't inspect. But the basis of all my core software is going to be open source.
I definitely paid over £5 once for a cd single in the 90's, so pretty sure this isnt when music was worth the most
Django ORM mainly hides the SQL from the developer (which is kind of the idea of any ORM). But if a developer does not understand the underlying SQL concepts, they will soon write performance wise horrific code. But, if you remove the ORM from that equation, I don't see how that same developer doesn't make the same mistakes. So in the end, I don't think that Django ORM (in its core) can help much in this area.

There are of course tools that can help with that (django-debugger and others).
Right, there might be some superficial advantages but I would question them as well. Sure, I don't expect an Apple or Google app to act as a trojan, but I surely expect any bad behavior under the sun, especially concerning data exfiltration.
If that's your standard, then you can never open up schools (or restaurants, or movie theaters, or parks, or beaches) again, at least not until all disease is eradicated. People, including children, have died of the seasonal flu every single year that there have been schools, and many of them contracted it at school.
They don't need Tik Tok's tech. They want the brand and the youth demo it attracts.
This is absolutely correct.

Wikipdia math pages (and for some sciences too) are correct in the details and yet provide no insight.

It's almost backwards what you want from an encyclopedia, which should be an overview with references to more details.
If the threat of Tiktok gathering data is so real, then isn't a much better solution, to pressure Google and Apple into improving their security models? That way, nobody can spy on your phone anymore. Or do you think Tiktok is the only and last threat there will ever exist?

But nobody's talking about actual solutions. All this looks more like a witch hunt to me.
>That it breaks the traditional social media model with a news feed, discussions, a social graph of friends.

don't most social networks have the "sorting hat" in the form of algorithmic feeds?
> In our tests, some of the Microsoft hosts detected in the Windows 10 HOSTS file include the following:

www.microsoft.com
microsoft.com
telemetry.microsoft.com
wns.notify.windows.com.akadns.net
v10-win.vortex.data.microsoft.com.akadns.net
us.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
us-v10.events.data.microsoft.com
urs.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com
watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com
vsgallery.com
watson.live.com
watson.microsoft.com
telemetry.remoteapp.windowsazure.com
telemetry.urs.microsoft.com

I can see the argument for disallowing remapping Microsoft domains in the hosts file as a security precaution [0], but this seems a bit heavy handed.

Oh well, there's always pihole.

Edit: On second thought, how long before they just start hard coding IP addresses?

[0]: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2016/09/hosts-file-...
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I don't see how. If men are perceived as being stronger and more rational, that will help them in acquiring jobs, but hurt them when being found culpable of a crime.

I'm not sure where you learned feminist theory, but it's fairly resolute about the fact that Patriarchy is deleterious to both men and women.
>put them in a position where they might die?

Children or teachers?
In the uk we’ve recorded no deaths for the under 15s from corona and only 339 in the 15 to 44 range. The kids will be fine.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
I've always wondered whether "unwrap"-ing is considered ignoring? I personally always equated it to ignoring if there's an error
So back to your original comment

> They didn't survive, so not sure what that says.

It says nothing because we cannot yet conclude that Homo Sapiens will survive for longer.

> Still, 61 years is within a lifetime. 10k years requires a time machine and makes your proposition pointless.

Interesting! So when does an experiment become pointless? When it takes a 100 years to prove? 200 years? 500 years? 1000 years?

> As good as waiting for second coming to see if Bible's right.

That's not the same. The second coming might never happen, Homo Sapiens will go extinct. In a million years, you can conclude which species survived the longest, but you'd probably still by waiting for the second coming.
In addition to the other concerns raised - this article seems to be glossing over the fact that nurses are given extensive training, experience and equipment in how to avoid getting infected by airborne respiratory diseases.

The relation between nurses and diseases is expected to be different from teachers and disease.
You can replace "user story" with tickets, issues, or tasks - anything that goes into Jira as a part of the sprint plan.

Thankfully, most engineers I know read, edit and mark those items as done in a project / sprint management tool.
I'm impressed that he could find keycaps:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083L6FVPN/
I got it as well and am waiting for official word before taking next steps.
Data breaches are very common. While you, as a consumer, usually can’t make informed decisions about which companies will leak your confidential data, the easiest way to control the damage is to make sure one company doesn’t have too much of your data. This lessens the impact of an inevitable data breach.
I usually just "go-to-definition" to see where a dep is :)
FWIW, many legal political donation in the west will be considered bribery in China.
This article is one big strawman. It assumes that teachers' only concern is their own safety, and then attacks that as insufficient reason to threaten "safety strikes" etc. In the process it totally ignores arguments based on the epidemiological effect of premature school openings. Granted, there has been much coverage of the teachers' (and other staff's) own risks, but only because that issue had previously been given insufficient attention. It was never because the risks to the surrounding community didn't matter.

It also ignores a fundamental difference between the roles of nurses and teachers in this pandemic. Nurses have been caring for people who are already sick, and furthermore in an environment where majority of the people in a room understand about infection control. Teachers are trying to prevent spread before it occurs, in an environment where the vast majority of people in the room are kids who can't be expected to follow infection-control protocols. Hospitals also have different HVAC systems than schools do, and by now we should all know why that matters.

Overall, this comes across as a very slanted and ultimately false comparison, more grounded in a sense of grievance over the author's own burdens (which she took on voluntarily) than in any epidemiological or other necessity. It's the "Blue Lives Matter" of school-reopening rhetoric.
Interesting idea. Will try to do this. If I can automate it, probably that's it.
The number of children that are going to die this year as a result of the mental health burdens being placed on them by incredibly willing adults is far greater than the number that will die from all other causes combined.

Kids are having a very hard time right now. Hell, adults are having a very hard time right now. But children have it much worse. Very little socialization, a news media hellbent on negativity, overstressed parents, and more uncertainty about the world than I ever remember (and I remember crying in school on the morning of 9/11).

Schooling is important for the mental health of the most important asset the world has. Doctors have stated emphatically the importance of resuming schooling. At some point the adults need to stand up and be adults so that the children can remain children.
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I tested that out. A memo of "Syria" causes the payment to go into review and doesn't block it outright. "Niger" in the memo results in the "Please try another payment note" error message shown in the screenshots.
Standard bureaucracy to make people feel important.
> Google's misuse of private information is well known.

The accusations are certainly well known (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_regarding_G...).

Whether anything here constitutes misuse is a matter of both personal opinion (yours being very well known of course given your thoughts and comments about Google) as well as various laws but that doesn't make any of it a universally accepted truth or standard.

In my case I'm much more worried about security than privacy, and far more willing to trade off the privacy (more targeted ads) for the increased security - Google's infrastructure is way more likely to be properly secured vs. Joe Random wearables startup, or even Garmin, as a recent example...
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I can see you're passionate about this and that's a great trait to have as an entrepreneur. I'd invite you to consider that most of life isn't linear. It's full of twists and detours but if you keep your vector pointed in the generally right direction, over time you'll end up somewhere awesome.

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I am in a similar position-- a full-time roboticist and an moonlighting entrepreneur on the side. My goal here is to pick up marketing and sales skills that when the right robotics business opportunity presents itself...I'm ready for it.

If there's anything I've learned by watching the string of robotics companies close shop recently, it's that business model is more important than the technology.

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Latent visual features are likely a strong component. I imagine if you created a new account and started watching content with only blond people in it, the ranking algorithm would pretty quickly start showing you only blond people.
WTF. I dare any one of you who downvoted this to explain why in public.
I'm guessing they believe it suggests a reason the current administration is pushing for the sale is to have some control over said algorithms and thus what videos are served, possibly to the benefit of the current administration and their interests.

"The proposed transaction gained the blessing of senior Trump officials, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who saw value in an American company getting access to sophisticated TikTok algorithms that decide what videos users are served."
I saw a comment on HN a while ago that this reminded me of. It made the argument that the primary value of a lot of machine learning models is essentially to "launder" information about protected classes so that it becomes harder to discover when you have been discriminated against, and harder to assign blame to a specific entity when that's the case. For instance, using a complicated nonlinear combination of address (e.g. predominantly black neighborhoods), educational history (e.g. historically black colleges), work history, credit rating, and who knows what else, might simply allow a model to recover a feature (ethnicity) which is correlated with likelihood to repay a loan in historical data.

Like you pointed out, that would lock us into a positive feedback loop where people are being denied loans based on "statistical, race-blind models based only on data", but the data only looks that way because of existing racism, which is now being further enshrined and legitimized.

But the thorniest issue is that the model reflects an actual, true, relationship in the world, so asking banks to ignore it would be asking them to leave money on the table until such a time as society has eliminated the structural inequalities that cause those correlations. How do we get them to do that, instead of just engaging in more and more sophisticated data laundering like above? Would we have to create an approved list of features that can be used for loan approval, which provably cannot be used to discover race? How would we even know that such a rule was working?
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The number one thing that could have been done was the easiest, government sponsored ramp up of PPE at the first signs of an epidemic. It took nearly half a year for the Federal government to get their head in the game, and even then they've been flubbing it.

I think the war analogy is useful, in that the Federal government should be able to have access to higher authority to execute on strategies quickly. I mean, we use the "War on ____" analogy enough, this pandemic is certainly more fitting than most of those issues.
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How did you know they won’t acquire the talents? Is it because... those people might be Chinese engineers?
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It's worse than that. The hostilities towards everything China in 2020 are pushing all sorts of Chinese people away, who otherwise would have been supportive of US and liberal values.

What baffles me is that nobody knows that this is happening. Nobody is trying to understand how the other side sees it, and to work towards a real solution. Or maybe people are just wilfully blind to this possibility. People are so convinced that their view is the only possible legitimate view, and that no other legitimate views could possibly exist.
Most apps in 2020 are malware by early-2000s standards.
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People are talking about Microsoft paying more than $30 billion for TikTok's operations in just four countries. Vine was losing Twitter 10 million dollars a month at a time when Twitter was desperate for cash.

Microsoft (or Google, or Facebook, or any similar cash rich company) could have bought Vine for tens of millions.

The product and algorithm could have been tweaked to be more compelling. Even if the new owner wasn't able to do that, using an existing established platform/audience then cloning the features of upcoming competitors is very powerful.
Trump's a blow hard. What he says means little compared to what he actually does. MS probably won't end up paying an acquisition fee. At worst it will be some tax pre-payment or some other nonsense that Trump can claim as a victory.
Are you reacting to somewhere that was doing temperature checks, but not requiring masks? Relying on temperature checks alone is clearly foolish.

In my experience, I've only ever seen temperature checks at doctor's offices and hospitals, where they also have mask policies so "thorough" that I sometimes have to argue to keep my P100 non-glasses-fogging respirator on.
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It's against the YouTube terms of service. One characterization of this software is that it is designed to violate the YouTube terms of service.

"The following restrictions apply to your use of the Service. You are not allowed to:

access, reproduce, download, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, alter, modify or otherwise use any part of the Service or any Content except: (a) as expressly authorized by the Service; or (b) with prior written permission from YouTube and, if applicable, the respective rights holders;"

- https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=CA&template=terms
I really like Silicon Valley and their initiative, but again and again American companies have shown that they cannot be trusted with European data

Source?

Btw HSBC [1], Unilever [2] and many other European companies have had customer data breaches. I’m sure there would be even more but Europe has almost no top internet consumer companies

So I don’t have a lot of trust in European companies to safeguard customer data, curious to hear why you do.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2018/11/06/hsbc-ban...

https://www.verdict.co.uk/fresh-film-data-breach-dove/