skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I don’t understand how people are okay with this version of reality. The CDC (and WHO?) lied to us “for our own good” and apparently the resulting loss of trust in these major governmental organizations was worth the lie.

My social media was much more accurate than the CDC in the first half of the year.
I think more than anything, you've convinced me that I'm probably never switching to Vim. I've really considered it because a lot of people I've worked with use it and claim it makes them much more productive, but I've been pretty productive in my IDE and I've been doing all those multiple selection and "scripting" type things in Sublime and IntelliJ for years.
CC0 is much more thorough than the Unlicense, was written by actual lawyers, and has a fallback to a maximally-permissive license in jurisdictions where willing relinquishment of copyrights into the public domain doesn't exist. Unlicense doesn't have any of these properties so it really should be strongly avoided when choosing a license for a project -- there's no benefit to using it over CC0 and several potential (though admittedly theoretical) downsides.

The Unlicense website also incorrectly states that "CC0 is not intended for software" -- while the other CC licensed aren't good choices for software, CC0 most definitely is intended to be used for software as much as any other copyrightable work.
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lol.. These days it can support up to a million employees! :D
This article seems well below the usual standards of the BBC. It devolves into a soup of disjointed quotes under strange headings (all H2s) towards the end.

There's almost nothing worth reading here.
>How do we solve this problem?

We don't, we accept that encryption is part of the modern world and learn to live with it. Because there's nothing else you can do about it.

See encryption is just math, and you can't really outlaw or limit how math is used.

If we have bad actors who want to encrypt their communication, they absolutely can with or without this bill.

Even if Whatsapp/Telegram/Whatever has to provide the US government with a backdoor to decrypt all messages, anyone can make their own communication platform and simply not give the government a back door. Implementing secure encryption isn't difficult and it's very easy to research how to accomplish it.

Grab a few devs and they can create a simple encrypted messaging app in a few days.

You don't even need to distribute it through official channels. Android allows you to sideload apps from anywhere and you can jailbreak iPhones to install apps from anywhere. So our bad actors can create secure encrypted communication platforms and distribute them without anyone ever knowing about it.

How will this bill prevent that? How will it prevent a few random developers from whipping up their own apps? How will it make it impossible for anyone, anywhere at any time to implement encryption into any app or platform?
The 'recent dispersal' started some 70-50,00 years ago, reaching Europe about 40,000 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations#Homo_sa...

Europeans have pretty low levels of sub-saharan genetic markers, with some remnant markets in southern Europe dating to the late Roman era, diminishing substantially as you move north.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_admixture_in_Europe
The key problem is not automation, it's access.

It's simple to read a letter. It's not difficult to eavesdrop on a phone copper wire. But it's impossible to intercept communications encrypted end-to-end, or encrypted at rest, considering the strength of the algorithms freely available today.
"Unfortunately, your call is unable to go through right now. Please try again later."

We are facing this error for the last few weeks, in case if a member drops off the call due to internet issues he/she can't join back until ~15 to 20 mins. We all are pissed off because of this horrible issue and planning to use something else for our stand-up call
This is great release, it fixes the long standing bug [1] of memory leak in celery beat for periodic tasks.

This combined with flower [2] provides a simple platform to build powerful platform for data integration with real-time and scheduled long running jobs. Apache Airflow also use celery for distributed execution of tasks and jobs.

[1] https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/4843 (fixed in 5.0 will be backported to 4.x).

[2] https://flower.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Cool. Will this obsolete pytz I wonder? It does seem like quite an important thing to be in the standard library given the kind of things Python is used for. It's amazing how few developers actually understand timezones.

I found the Pendulum library [0] very intuitive when it comes to working with time. It makes it easy to do the right thing. For example, if you call `pendulum.now` it gives you a timestamp including your local timezone information. In other words, it preserves "the time on the clock on the wall", which is lost if you do what so many people do and just take UTC timestamps.

pendulum.now()
# DateTime(2020, 5, 28, 13, 32, 1, 303100, tzinfo=Timezone('Europe/London'))

Doing this in the standard library, or with pytz, is very unintuitive and often done incorrectly in practice.

[0] https://pendulum.eustace.io/
What i don't get, yes you can force Facebook to implement Backdoors, but how would you do that with a opensource project like Matrix or even the full opensource Android?
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But they would then not become an ancestor, and thus will not appear in a chain of ancestors.
I'm glad that "compilable with (reasonably) old compiler versions" finally means (at least to some people) that at least C++11 is supported.
At some point, you stop working though right? And all that smart work probably earned you enough money to retire early compared to someone working a dead end job.
So nice of the devs to start their release notes with one-paragraph explanation of what the product is.

A link to more detailed description is missing though.
> You make a simple mistake(like looking weak, with no friends or too smart) and you die, it was as simple as that.

Dying is simple, life living is harder.
I agree, but I interpret the argument as such: Tesla, by using language like "your hands are only there for regulatory reasons" makes no effort to dispel the myth to the driver that the car autopilot can exceed all human drivers in every situation. It aught to be on Tesla's head to instruct the driver that they are the safety net to the computer.

To use the aeroplane analogy that Tesla wants to market: the computer is the first officer in charge of flying the plane, the driver is the captain in charge of everything else.
> China sidesteps this issue completely by using home-grown platforms like WeChat of course.

Chinese avoid the problem of being spied on by their government?
A search warrant for the endpoints.
As a lover of Grafana, I love this! Thanks, didn't know. I'll definitely give k6 a try!
This should stop in a type error just like `0 + False` or `1 + "1"`. This code is almost always a programmer error.
Hmm, I was really surprised about the part on woman creation, as I've never read such version (in Polish), but, indeed this https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2&versi... (very) strange translation mentions woman to be taken from man's rib.

This translation https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&ver... looks much better

"So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them"

and it makes much more sense in context of the rest of the Bible, especially New Testament.
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Taking the Bible at face value, Adam and Eve were created about 6000 years ago. At this time cities had already existed for thousands of years. So no, the Bible did not get "the math down fairly well".
Ah yes, those are things I need to think about eventually. Thanks for the advice.
You just switched from blaming me for not knowing css to blaming me for not using the right tool, as if I had a clear way to do that. It is nothing new and was propheted in bla-blah paragraph. But if you ever tried to size-match in JS, you know that it is not a trivial task. First, an element must be temporarily placed into document.body for all styles to apply correctly. Second, it must repeat all of the hierarchy it was in, which requires to break/duplicate a component encapsulation in your code. Third, in a narrow-width situation you simply cannot guess what surrounding containers would do to the effective width/height based on an intrinsic geometry. Not even speaking of cpu/battery issues, these three alone make it possible only in theory. And no, there is no library for that to "just work" in your project.

I am sure I could discover an equal "simple" example that is easy in CSS but difficult/impossible in GTK.

I doubt it, really. I mean, you could find something for base gtk (which is already out of reach compared to css in ui geometry, because it was done for it), or for the fact that gtk is not a networking engine, but it is just a bunch of predefined containers, calculation phases and signals in C. It is easily extensible in a native way and hides no knowledge about how everything looks or works. Gtk is an example of how you expose distinct particles, pre-implement few useful combinations, and then users build a universe with them. Css is an example of ritualistic black box that hides almost everything about its geometry and requires a non-trivial effort for really basic things. E.g. in css, you have to struggle with dumbest things like a one-pixel vertical scroll in a single-line input. My complaint is not "css is not gtk-like", it is "css is incomplete and unreasoned AF in its own model".
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Apparently the Venetian system looks rather good in retrospect, though it did include more rounds and ceremony than was mathematically necessary. https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-28R1.pdf
It's kind of a bad attitude to flag a comment that one does not like...

But still have a nice Day.
This is a great story thanks for sharing, and I think it can be useful for the poster of screenbreak above. My knee jerk reaction when I saw the product was, wow I can create a book of all the articles I read in 2020 and make it a coffee table book. It is a good gift to give close friends as the articles that shaped your year, or one to reminisce on, but above all this book needs to be picture heavy, it needs to feel like a magazine or coffee table book to have mainstream appeal. I hope OP tests this out, there is def a market here
>> Are you a human?
>
> Yes, I am.
It has succeeded but it has also failed. Using a shared database for many different functions/applications can be a disaster that eventually seizes up. Everyone is afraid to change the data structures because they don't know what it will break. It's a huge piece of global state with no isolation. Enter encapsulation and service orientation and bounded contexts.

So the parent is correct. It's not enough to say data orientation is a good thing. It needs to be compared with previous approaches (encapsulation) and then explain what the tradeoffs are.
And I will refuse to cooperate because I know what my "endpoint" contains, because of course my device is also encrypted and/or will be destroyed if I think I'm about to get caught.

Your script kiddie might break at the suggestion that refusing to cooperate means 2 to 5 years in jail but organised crime, or people who are risking a much harsher penalty, won't.

These are the real, down to Earth issues, not utopian discussions about individual liberties.
That study was the intellectual justification for the policy.

To be fair, I'm not sure if any of the proponents actually believed (or had read) the study, but it was definitely wheeled out in debates against Keynesians.
How has this been solved for distributed systems?
Thank you for your reply! I was asking more specifically, could not write it due to characters limitation, about programming B cells (or any antibody generating system) to make antibodies to target viral spike proteins (peplomers), in an interactive or dynamic way (changing as virus mutates) , until a strong bond is reached/found (e.g., YES/NO decision). I was reading that most viruses have viral spike proteins, so if someone could do that it would be great for the treatment and detection of viral infections. Also, it could save a lot of time and money.
I read this as 'China took a direct route to spying'.
Got the code through email, clicked the link.

uMatrix blocked it. Disabled it.

Then uBlock Origin blocked it. Disabled that.

Still blocked, so disabled NextDNS.

Then it worked.

Just a FYI.
It's a shame that the itemsy.com bot lies to you:

'What personal data do you take?'

...'We take your email address and nothing else'.

https://itemsy.com/privacy/ - Personal data may include, but is not limited to: Email address, First name and last name, Phone number,
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

Whose responsibility is it when the chatbot lies? Itemsy or QuickChat ?
Even if Jabra is better, how many people discover Jabra as they cycle through a bunch of pretty bad options?

It's kind of like suggesting that Lenovo's T14s (I picked it at random) laptop is better and cheaper than a Macbook, so why would anyone a Macbook: People still have to wade through the X1 series, the P series, the rest of the T series, the X series, the Yoga series, the E series, the L series, the 11e series, just to find that one Macbook-killer. Or they can just go to apple.com and buy a laptop and be done with it. Except in this case, it's bluetooth earbuds.
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Already today, as a European iOS developer with your apple developer program contract counterparty being their European corp, you still have to deal with US export restrictions and self reporting paperwork if you make a single HTTPS call in your iOS app (because somehow, your app is being exported from "iTunes in the US" even when both you, your app, your target audience, and the counterpart of your development program are European entities)...
> The key problem is not automation, it's access.

I agree. There is a problem if they have open access to everyone's data.

> But it's impossible to intercept communications encrypted end-to-end, or encrypted at rest, considering the strength of the algorithms freely available today.

What about to people talking to each other in private. That could be considered as "problematic" as end to end encryption. Should their phones be recording them so the government can snoop later? And for encryption at rest, what if someone has a safe that self destructs is someone unauthorized tries to open it? Should that be illegal?
I agree with you that it's not a great idea to obsess about genetic differences between races, but what is true is not necessarily the same as what is socially beneficial.

It's simply a fact that there are important genetic differences between racial groups that manifest as important phenotype differences, and understanding these can help to make sense of the world around us. It's no coincidence that people with African genetics dominate sprints and marathons in the Olympics. This happens because they are genetically superior, on average (and this manifests as large differences in extreme performance), at this particular activity compared to other racial groups. Without recognising this, and other, genetic differences, we are left with a thoroughly incomplete understanding of our social reality.
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I just downloaded the book and glanced over the content. While I've a physical copy of the book by prof. John Tskilis, I will use this as a reference. I'm particularly interested in chapter 9 that deals with the applications in Python.
Honestly, that's not even taking the Bible at face value. Attempting to date events in the Bible was pretty popular at one time, but it required a lot of special pleading and ignoring discrepancies (it's not like the Bible just says in the intro "this covers events from 4000BC to 22AD" or whatever; attempts at doing this mostly involve trying to infer it from ancestry and quasi-historical events mentioned), and isn't generally taken seriously by modern theologians.
>The level of safety before factoring in hubris was much better than "good enough".

I think the point of the argument is "ship the system that doesn't cause hubris if it is much better than 'good enough'"
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>What are your damages from the NSA collecting all your metadata, or even from recording a conversation?

Well, here we have the argument of the 'little man'.

If I am wahern, the answer to your question is: probably not much.

If I am Elon Musk, the answer may surprise you. The damages from retaliation by members of the elite NSA club, and their military-industrial cronies, could be HUGE.

Are we willing to live in that sort of society?

This is not a good basis of support for State Secrecy - which has, incidentally, ALWAYS been a corrupting influence in every single society which makes it a keystone policy of conduct.

Secrets are corruption. States, which do not exist unless they are continually perpetuated as open truths, become utterly corrupt the moment they start keeping secrets - while becoming resolute and strong when secrecy is dissuaded.

>qualified immunity and similar doctrines

If what you are doing requires qualified immunity or similar, it is a reactive, failing doctrine, not a productive one. The problem is obviously further upstream, perhaps in the cause for secrecy in the first place.

NSA need to keep secrets, why? Fix that why.
> The notion that Albright is a "patent troll" friend is incorrect. [...]

There's the problem of possibly being too friendly towards patent trolls. But there's also the problem of supporting and encouraging frivolous patent litigation overall.

Patent lawyers (and apparently now judges) don't really care who wins. Their business thrives if there's simply more litigation around patents. They'll see companies file more patents, need more consultation, and work on more cases.

In that light, whether Mr Albright worked for either side doesn't really make a difference. The point is that his specialization is set to gain from more litigation. More litigation comes from more patent trolls, so questions regarding the impartiality are appropriate.
They where all from that RS -Series i think we had about 15 of them from RS14XX to RS1219 and all of them destroyed their own Raid after around 2 years just like that, no firmware update before that or other things that could trigger such a crash.
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Many options:

- block access ala GFW, ensuring that most people will have difficulty accessing it or using it

- block access to any data you cannot decrypt or from an endpoint you cannot backdoor

- go after creators and ensure some kind of backdoor is inherent to the project

- shut down projects by exerting pressure on developers

- run some kind of propaganda campaign on the evils of using unsanctioned software (supporting terrorism etc.)

- do nothing, knowing that most users will avoid using anything that isn't one of the major web platforms
Yes, with direct previous experience and knowledge of large UK Government IT projects, how they were integrated and how staff were trained, I feel I'm well placed to comment harshly.

"They" in this case was the UK Government, and part of the goal was creating secure backend systems specifically for the NHS as a data store, Public Health England would absolutely have access to it.

Even the most basic of checks at the start of the project would have highlighted that Excel was not a proper solution for the application (Even if the developer(s?) had used the newer(?!?) XLSX format rather than XLS) - which highlights that there was no proper oversight as to how the system was constructed.
> I strongly believe we have lost the war for privacy and security (against state level actors) already. Once the net adopted the platform model, we were screwed.

This is very pessimistic. People still can understand the dangers (and are understanding) and switch to decentralized platforms, which by the way are actively being developed: https://joinmastodon.org.
Sadly Australia did the opposite - they can force us to backdoor applications and punish us for refusing. Australia is not the place to look for security applications.
They don't address the fundamental issue of BPTT in an RNN model. To my mind this is a much larger block to biological plausibility than how to track the error locally. Besides this has been addressed in various forms in earlier work:

- Hochreiter and Schmidhuber present a truncated version of BPTT in the original LSTM paper that tracks part of the error locally and forward in time (https://www.bioinf.jku.at/publications/older/2604.pdf)

- Bellec et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17236-y present a similar algorithm that tracks the error with something they call eligibility traces. Despite the title of the paper the method is also applicable to non-spiking RNNs.

- Bohnstigl et al. present another solution: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.12723.pdf
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A very real problem with "backdoors" and wiretapping in the digital age is that, in the past, wiretapping was for future communications and between two specific individuals.

That is not how E2E encryption breaking will be used.

For E2E encryption breaking, they won't ask for "future conversations between A and B for the next 2 weeks" they will say "give me all historical communication from this person between all of their followers for the last 5 years".

For the first time in the history of the world, were are in a time when, not just your future communications, but your past ones, the ones that you think are private between two people in a modern-world way (that is, over the internet) are not private except when E2E. Worse, by all accounts from a normal person - they are private. I mean, we certainly act like the messages we send family iMessage or whatever are private, and we assume the same level of privacy we'd be afforded for a phone call, except that's not present; and, with laws like this, it will be even less present.

And not only is the former bad, but the latter is much, much worse.
I don't really understand the point you're making, but the Identical Ancestors Point isn't a fixed point in history; it keeps moving forwards. So it is different now from what it was when the book of Genesis was written.
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