skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately Dropbox's revision history isn't reliable enough for a backup. If you notice, their marketing carefully avoids use of the word "backup" despite the features seemingly implying it.

I had a client where a glitch in the Dropbox sync caused 300k+ files to be deleted when we added a new PC. Dropbox support was unable to successfully undo all the file changes, and I had to get a ticket with CS escalated to a special team to get everything restored. Even when it was finished, they could not give a guarantee that every single file deleted was restored.

Maybe things got better since they've launched Dropbox Rewind, but given that revision history has been a feature for years and it still didn't work right, I no longer trust them as a backup.
Thank you very much! Fixed, will be visible once caches are expired.
I did WFH for a while using my work laptop as work environment and my imac as home environment, which helped with switching modes. But because the laptop was broken for a bit I ended up moving entirely to the imac as a dual use device. To keep separation I have set up a separate virtual desktop with a totally different background and a different web browser, just for work. I also have a ritual for starting and ending my work day, with the way I set up the apps on the virtual desktop and the way I shut them down again. It works surprisingly well to switch modes, especially after habituation.
How do you propose a direct payment or cash without giving a buyer your bank account number or address, which you may not necessarily want to do for privacy and security reasons? And mailing cash isn't very efficient or practical.

Payment brokers are always going to be a point of failure. But also, it's about pragmatism: can you name an existing payment broker that fits the criteria? If not, what option are they left with other than to use cryptography as their broker?

But, yes, it's often about avoiding certain kinds of regulation. Regulation isn't inherently good or bad. Some regulation is good in some contexts and some is bad in some contexts. Cryptocurrency lets you enforce your own absolute regulation for cases where legal regulation isn't able to easily help you (like in this scenario).
Germany, but I think it's similar across much of Europe.

The US has a different university structure: the way I understand it, many people don't necessarily choose a major early on or can easily switch it which is why engineers, mathematicians, biologists, etc. often take the same course. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Over here, this is much rarer. Sometimes computer scientists or physicists take some of the same courses as mathematicians, but hardly engineers. Therefore, we can probably afford to be more theoretical right away (although the computer scientists sometimes complain xD).

I can totally understand that for someone with a focus on application theory is less important, and that some people can get more excited about what you can do with matrices e.g. in computer graphics or machine learning than about abstract morphisms and rigorous proofs.

Incidentally, over here I sometimes feel we learn stuff the other way around: first we hear all the theory, but it's only in the later ODE and numerical methods courses that we actually get substantial practice in calculating more complicated integrals or learn about e.g. QR factorisation or Simpson's rule (although we do prove error bounds by then).
I often rewrite solutions to identical problems in different ways. It helps me get a good handle on what works in different situations, and how solutions differ in general.

I recently rewrote a JS problem I did in an interview in a much more functional style, a style that just visually appealed to me, and I feel like I learned a thing or two from it, or at least reinforced some things I already knew.
Reasonable restriction.

Web browsers are so tightly integrated with so many software that they should be considered an essential part of the OS.
afaik they also betrayed similar promises made to the WhatsApp founders, to their dismay.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/30/17304792/whatsapp-jan-kou...
Yeah, if you forget to do that within a day you are locked out forever.
it's not "browser" bookmark. It's "add a bookmark" into the app

see https://github.com/Uzay-G/archivy/blob/master/main/templates...

it's just a form where you paste the URL of the site you're interested.
> For me, the core is not that you can't "recognize" a face, it's that it is very very hard to form a memory of a face. It's not in the storage, it's in the retrieval.

Exactly that. A handful of people I always recognize including team members at work. Actually I had been going to hypnosis sessions one time (not because of that). These sessions are a lot about imagining images/sceneries and during one instance I saw a face of a friend with my inner eye really clearly. That was surreal.
Research is very hard and has low financial rewards. If it’s funded by state, it’s poorly paid (think of grad students, postdocs, APs). If it’s funded by corporate, it’s basically tedious product design and it’s not interesting science or even proper research anymore. In industry, it’s typically done by second class citizens.
Long term research is worse.

We have the classical problem of creating value vs capturing the value.

I believe that’s a major factor. I often meet students and the vast majority want good paying 9-5 jobs and don’t want to bother with research or academic papers.
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This not true. US property taxes nearly all tax both the land and any improvements (i.e. permanent structures) that sit on it.

My property in the US is taxed by: ( [assessed value of the land] + [assessed value of the building(s)] ) * [tax rate] = [total tax]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax_in_the_United_Sta...
Gum disease tied to colon cancer risk
78% of H-1B Employers Offer Above Average Market Wages
Probably for some time
Govt. tried that during WW2, it found that nothing got commercialized because you need a business structure surrounding the research.
They're running software that connects to your overlay of the network, no? It doesn't involve human interaction.
They usually follow through for some amount of time. This is because it takes time to figure out how they are going to absorb you. If they changed everything on day 1 it would be a cluster fuck. A simple example would be if Orcl bought a company that was 100% on SAP for financials. If all your SAP people walk out the door the first week how are you going to file the next quarter financials. So they claim that nothing is going to change and that the SAP people have nothing to worry about.
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The people here are very on point and no doubt said the same thing in 2014 if they were privacy minded at the time. Most are under no delusion that "we will not do _______ , either now, or in the future" as empty promises. They were right then and they're right now. Facebook has obviously been in the business of selling its users out from the very beginning and no one who lives in this reality would have accepted such a promise from them as anything other than a nicety.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1HA9LlFNM0 (Starship SN5 150m Hop, August 4th 2020)

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-raptor-engine-crushes-russi... (SpaceX crushes rocket engine world record during Raptor test)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1295495834998513664 (@elonmusk: Raptor engine just reached 330 bar chamber pressure without exploding!)
>Periodontal Disease, Tooth Loss, and Risk of Serrated Polyps and Conventional Adenomas

https://cancerpreventionresearch.aacrjournals.org/content/13...
Fair enough, even so, as founder non-CEO you have even less standing to make such claims, and at that level you don't get to claim innocence. Incidentally, he then started a defense contractor, also not something where 'naive' is a pre on your resume. I don't know what the share division was at the time, but I am going to assume here that Iribe served at the pleasure of Luckey.

In the end it is nitpicking; the effect is much the same.
Epic's motion is to allow them to continue to deliberately flout the rules of the App Store, which opens up a lot of other issues.

Apple has signaled that Epic is welcome to submit a version of their app which does not violate their rules, and they will approve that. They're walking a fine line, but I think their legal argument is sound on that score.

We can agree or disagree about the overall right or wrong of Apple's rules, that's separate from the issue of Epic's motion, which is absolute nonsense.
> Apple was in my DNA. I believed in Apple’s products, Apple’s services, and Apple’s mission

I honestly can't understand such devotion to a corporate entity. I have a preference for Thinkpads, but I don't worship at the alter of Lenovo. Give me a Mac, Chromebook, Dell, Raspberry Pi... whatever, I'll happily use it.

Apple is a company, not a sodding religion.
Sometimes I wish that people could short sell homes ...
This would be dissociation. It would be different from repression, but not any less neurotic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism
The secure enclave might end up being where the trap door goes. :(
I'd love to use this. But 34 dependencies?

I know ~10 of them are React, and there's some in there that make sense. But I haven't got the time to audit them all, and re-audit it every time any of those dependencies update .

And escape-string-regexp? Really? it's literally 2 lines of code [0]. Why have I got to give the maintainer of that project commit access to this program that will be seeing potentially sensitive data?

Why, if the developer couldn't come up with those 2 lines themselves, isn't this a Stack Overflow copy/paste?

[0]https://github.com/sindresorhus/escape-string-regexp/blob/ma...
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Yes, this is true. Maybe another tax needs to be invented to disincentivize wall st. from trying to kill research (as the article claims)...
Facebook is a private corporation. The first amendment has no bearing on how Facebook decides to operate their business.
I assumed that the B in b-corp stands for bullshit, but I checked. And the explanation is bullshit (label given to some companies which claim to care about stuff that matters), so unfortunately I was right and so was vmception: you can't believe in stuff because it's certified.
When it's something deadly that affects others, then the difficult question of forcing others comes up. What if smallpox got started again. That kills millions of people. Today most of us in the west don't have personal experience with things like that.

It's like masks. You should be able to make laws that force people to wear masks if there is a deadly disease that will kill other people in large numbers, in my opinion. For those that argue about undue force, what about driver's licenses, taxes, health checks at restaurants, food inspection, building codes, rules on water lines, seat belts, etc? Seat belts mostly just affect people in the car, yet masking and cv19 affects others, so it should be an easier thing to understand the impact.

My guess is our tortured political situation convinces people that somehow the situation is different than these other things.
How convenient... At least I made it a point to only purchase VR games from Steam.
How long have you been a teaching high school?
> I think they go back ~5 years?

From introduction, maybe, from sale, definitely not. Apple sold the iPhone 6 until 53 weeks before iOS 13.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_6
This is in jest, but we all know this is what the future holds. Isn’t it interesting how inevitable this all is/seems?
> The good thing about Steam, which makes it good software in my opinion, is that you can easily customize it and turn features off, and nothing really gets forced down your throat. It's almost like Valve feels they actually have to make an effort to keep you as a customer. Compare that to anything from the tech giants.

If there's a way to turn off most of the recent UI updates I'd love to know how.
Of course! It comes from poor diet. I would imagine Weight issues also.
> Reducing the GHG emissions of <sector> to zero/near-zero/net-zero is not "hysteria".

I didn't say that was hysteria, so why are you pretending I did?

The actual purpose of the Guardian piece is to give its readers more reasons to hate the rich.
ICOs aren’t investments, they are consumer products, sold into a hot consumer market where the consumers want to flip them. But where the consumers don’t actually know they are consumers.

This isn’t semantics, token sales are counted for as revenue.

Yes, its too bad that there is a colloquial action called “invest” and a legal term called “investor”
> But not 10x compared to walking + bus or walking + taxi or walking + train

Buses, taxis and trains are even less efficient. You’re arguing that we should use motorized vehicles instead of bikes??

> walkers require paying more takes for the infrastructure to subsidise bikers

Bullshit. Nobody is paying walking taxes. You are enjoying the very same “externality”.
A practical guide for cracking AES-128 encrypted firmware updates
> Marketers are people too.

Yeah. People who should kill themselves – according to the late, great Bill Hicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUd6ARKcPS0

Upvoted in any case.
No.

This development was trivially predictable right when Facebook acquired Oculus. Which is why I bought Vive instead.

You don't need to be a genius to see stuff like this ahead of time. All you have to do is refuse to be gaslit and be honest about the high-level drivers of corporate decision-making.
>It’s unarguably the worst public health crisis in 100 years.

The 1968 flu killed 1-4 million people, in a world with half the population of today. The 1957 flu killed a million people.

So much about covid has been exaggerated. So many screaming headlines in the news and a paucity of facts.
If the opposing side brought up refusing to take a polygraph you would object and ask the judge to explain to the jury why that had to be disregarded, right?
Actually, dissociation of character is a trait that is rewarded.

Although people will claim they want kind-hearted people as lovers, they also very often conveniently ignore what they do for work, and how cruel they have to be, and the partners happily enjoy the shared money (or respect they have from the world). Lovers surely know it: hard to claim Che Guevarra’s wife, Stalin’s wife or Pablo Escobar’s wife didn’t know anything about drug dealings, but it shows that what people actually fall for are people who are nice... with them, and ruthless to the outside of the family.

So the John/Jake dissociation is unfortunately a road to success. I say unfortunately because it brings swathes of problems: John doesn’t mind having less ethics than Jake; wives who suddenly are dumped find themselves on the outer side of the fence, at risk, and very close to a very brutal human; and the last unfortunate corollary is that violent humans who can dissociate (and be someone else in private) reproduce easily from generation to generation. Hitler, Stalin, Che, Saddam Hussein have wives and Salah Abdeslam (the French terrorist, as famously any other mass killer) receives love letters, while people who won’t reproduce include Beaudelaire, Newton, Tesla, the Wright brothers or Alan Turing.

The Jake/John dissociative trait is very interesting.
It's also worth noting that the "Deathstar" fiasco was such a disaster because previously people who cared about reliability had been selecting the IBM drives due to their excellent track record. It took only one generation (or two) of defective drives to completely ruin IBMs reputation.

Years later people noticed that the drives were highly reliable again and the Deathstar problem was a fluke. But now it's too late. All of the HDD manufacturers have been gobbled up by just two companies and all of the interesting competition is on the SSD side.
The "own domain" is the hard part here. I've never owned one and figuring that all out takes time. Even more so getting all the email server configuration figured out.
One problem with that analysis is the idea that the wealth isn't going to go up in value. At 5% wealth tax I could see this being a problem. But you should be able to increase the value of a billion dollars pretty easily to offset a 1% tax.
Actually there is significant research that successful people significantly overestimate their skills/contributions even if they rely largely on luck or advantageous starting conditions. There is also significant research that shows that even in a relatively "fair" trading scenario wealth distribution very quickly becomes completely unequal, just based on luck in the first couple of trades [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-ine...
Meanwhile I was exposed to a known positive carrier and the only option I have to get tested is a chain-pharmacy like a CVS/Walgreens. Even then, it would take over a week for me to get my results back.

I’m not stepping into one of those places when I only potentially have the virus because that’s an easy way to make sure I actually do contract it.

The government handling of this and the overwhelming show of people being proud for not wearing masks makes me realize I want nothing to do with the United States and I’m actively looking to move away in less than 10 years.
We're talking about an open social platform which half the world's population uses, so it's effectively a public space and the fact that a simple political opinion could be enough to cancel my account means that when hundreds of dollars are on the line, my voice may be effectively silenced.

It's a huge problem and even if you don't realize it now, it is going to be a huge political issue in the future.
Here are some problems with prediction markets that Tyler Cowen enumerated in 2006: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/03/wh...

That was before machine learning became a thing. I wonder if ML can detect patterns in voting behavior to downrank/uprank certain predictions to get closer to the likely truth. Obviously the more liquid the market is the better.

Edit: Someone downvoted me but I'm not sure they're aware that Robin Hanson (the author) is a big advocate of prediction markets, which are also a central feature of the original post. I think highlighting the issues with prediction markets and speculating about a solution is germane to this discussion, especially since prediction markets can be very valuable for society.
What happens when some of those billionaires band together and decide that they are better at defending what they have? It'll result in governments being overthrown or the billionaires leaving for somewhere else.

Billionaires are still people. If they become too unsatisfied with their treatment, then they will do something about it. Just like everyone else.
I'm not saying that any of these things are OK.

I'm saying that I know that my application does not start up as quickly as the hardware I personally run it on would suggest, and that I know why that is, but that doesn't help me know what to do about it.
Here's a blog post I wrote in response to the acquisition when it happened in 2014: https://medium.com/@shazow/re-facebook-acquires-oculus-f8589...

I was far from the only one who was saying this at the time. I don't believe Facebook had a significantly different reputation in 2014.

I also have a follow-up draft from 2016 that talks about how the things predicted in the blog post have already begun.
Behind The Bastards - Takes a look at terrible people throughout history and what made them terrible. It doesn't typically focus on well known individuals, which makes it interesting - https://behindthebastards.com

Behind The Police - Hosted by Robert Evans, the same guy behind Behind the Bastards. This is a mini series of sorts that deals with the history of policing in the US
We were actually on NTT (Nipon Telegraph and Telephone) cloud for many many years up until very recently. At the time we started using them AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc. did not exist. But over the past few years the quality of service has dropped considerably. My guess is that their best engineers were being poached by AWS, Azure, etc. and the leftovers couldn't keep it up.
It is quite possible it just sent draw line requests as a list of vertexes after doing all the math on the client, which core x supports just fine.
They still managed, though. Facebook has the technical ability to just walk around all of your encryption.
That's what my friend says, too bad that nobody can see him therefore nobody listens to him.
> I think that coroutines for a platform that's already designed around multi-threading are a bad idea altogether (this goes for C# as well) unless the language has some very specific constraints,

I would actually go one-step further on this: Async processing on a platform that is designed around multi-threading is a bad idea. I think pure multithreaded programs are fine (although data-race and deadlock prone, but tooling like thread-sanitizers and Rust can help here). Pure async (something callback-like) programs are fine. The mixture is pure hell. If I see a multithreaded library which takes a callback, I'm sure 95% of its end users are using it wrong, and are not even aware on which thread the callback will be invoked. This number is based on publishing such libraries, as well as leading teams with junior engineers trying to use them.

So it would be great to avoid to use that idiom at all.

However the reality is that on platforms like Java and C# those are already reality. We have mainloops, GUI eventloops and networking eventloops where all code is bound to a certain thread and can not be executed somewhere else. So either we rewrite those, or we find a paradigm which makes life somewhat easier for them. And I think coroutines do that - at least you are sure the continuation brings you back to the same thread/execution-context you can been before (unless you overwrite it with one of the million and sometimes non-obvious settings). Therefore I think they are beneficial. It might be nicer to get rid of async-processing at all, but that would require the development of new UI frameworks which follow different idioms.

One interesting question is however: Are they actually a good fit for Rust - where common async idioms don't fit well anyway due to borrow-checking, and the main use-case at the moment are request-based network applications instead of UI frameworks. I don't have a clear answer for that one yet. I think in a lot of ways stackful coroutines (virtual threads) might have been a lot easier to deal with. But I also understand the desire to not to have a runtime.
Anyone else have trouble with the page on firefox? I get a giant "kowainik" written on the forefront of the page, and I don't know how to close it.
Apache Kylin vs. Kyligence – Open Source vs. Commercial
Interestingly, the US is perhaps the only major country that makes capital flight like that in France quite difficult: upon renouncing citizenship, there is essentially an immediate wealth tax imposed.

The US is also the only major country to demand citizens file US income taxes even though they may never visit or earn in the US for the entire year.
I don’t have a Facebook account. My birthday wishlist just got one item shorter :(
Or mine: creation of EC2 instances or changes to IAM can only be done via JIRA ticket. Happy hacking!
The only truly private data practice is not keeping any.

The only winning move is not to play
Theoretically, but their history suggests they won't. This is the company that made gaming on Linux viable, has a platform open to all VR hardware, and lets people sell keys on alternative stores without even taking a cut even though they are clearly in a very dominant market position.

They have their faults, but acting like a modern big tech company isn't one of them.