skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree at all. Quoting another comment I made:

>For example, here's a screenshot of a few of the emails in question: https://i.imgur.com/XNQarwF.png

>Is this a smoking gun of corruption of any sort? Obviously not. But could it raise some questions, before an important election? It could. If someone had completely fabricated this email, in my opinion almost any rational person would, at least once, somewhere, say or write that it was absolutely completely fabricated.

>Additionally, someone on this exact email thread corroborates that the email thread is all real, and claims that "H" is Hunter Biden and "the big guy" is Joe Biden, which seems plausible given the email context.

The smartest move, if they're true, is to be silent. The smartest move, if even a single email is doctored, is to protest that it's fake.

There's already been tons of reporting in non-left-aligned media about the emails and the fact that his silence is suggestive of them being real. If he were to deny it, the very little bit of reporting that NYT etc. did about it, suggesting it's likely disinformation, likely from Russia, could be even more strong with its claims that it's total bullshit.

Combined with the corroboration of the person in that email thread, and the fact there isn't anything that interesting in the emails (why doctor something so boring? like with the DNC emails hacked and leaked by Russian intelligence), I'm happy to bet money with you that they'll be proven to be legitimate within a few months. I don't think it's proven at all, but I think it's more likely than not.
>When consumers buy a DVD or Blu-ray disc, they are not purchasing the motion picture itself, rather they are purchasing access to the motion picture which affords only the right to access the work according to the format’s particular specifications (i.e., through the use of a DVD player), or the Blu-ray Disc format specifications (i.e., through the use of a Blu-ray format player).

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150422/23110430764/dvd-m...
I don't remember phone numbers being listed on hotels.com.

If you dig up the support number it is going to the hotels.com call center. It's not deceptive because they have your booking and your money, they can see your order and rebook you in another hotel which the direct hotel wouldn't be able to do (this happens regularly when there are problems like the hotel has no room).

If you have a corporate discount with a specific hotel you definitely need to deal with the website of the hotel directly, not hotels.com
Per the PDF.

"Our third quarter 2020 effective tax rate was 4%, which reflects a one-time income tax benefit of $913 million related to the effects of a tax election to capitalize and amortize certain research and development expenses for U.S. income tax purposes.Excluding this tax benefit, our effective tax rate would have been 11 percentage points higher and our diluted EPS would havebeen $0.31 lower."
This includes any person who visits a website that has a facebook tracking pixel.
See also Heatshrink[1] based on LZSS

[1]https://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/03/14/heatshrink-embedded...
The iOS app has become unusable for me because of this. Not only are there too many ads but they are so poorly targeted to me that I have to seriously question the capabilities of Google's army of engineers...
I disrecommend using In-Reply-To when sending a revised patchset. Just start a new thread. Mailing lists which prefer In-Reply-To are in the minority.
Excruciating nested acronyms aside, it's like the underwater version of watching birds take flight in the forest to give away enemy locations.
Is there anywhere I can find a clear explanation of expert's reasoning to conclude it's disinformation?

It seems like the information is really up in the air, it will take time to determine what conclusions from it are legitimate and false. The information itself is quite clearly real, at least, I haven't seen any specific piece of information in regards to this claimed as false, just the whole subject referred to as "disinformation".
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The tech capabilities have changed so much that I'd say it's closer to being surveilled than observed in a public place. Compare it to security cameras where you're recorded almost everywhere, but the video is relatively transient and often only reviewed / saved if a crime or disturbance occurs.

That's a lot different than companies tracking me via facial recognition, storing the data in databases that never get deleted, and combining it with behavioral data. It's going to lead to all kind of abuse. We'll end up with many variants of redlining, but digital.

What happens when that type of data is collected for today's youth and 20 years from now employers start using it to screen job applicants? What if the machine learning algorithms can't distinguish between correlation and causality? Does the "profile" of a successful person become someone from a rich neighborhood as a result of naive correlation?

I'm sure it'll be amazing for wealthy people and terrible for poor people. If I'm rich and walk into a mall, I get treated like a VIP. If I'm poor, maybe the doors don't even open.
Really, really appreciate it and I don't think you have too much of a boostrapper mindset at all!

I think there are just different ways of building a business. Ultimately, it's just core to put the customer front and center with every choice you make along the way.

I wish you guys luck and please don't hesitate to reach out if you think we can collaborate — I'll do the same!
Reading the full article really puts me firmly on Greenwald's side of this thing.

Given the controversy, I expected it to the inflammatory.

Instead, this is solid, restrained reporting on the simple facts of the matter, along with completely fair critiques of the way those facts have been handled by other media.
The problem with this analogy is that there is no shortage of uneducated people in other countries. If immigration or export is possible then uneducated people in rich nations don't stand a chance in the first place.
If your current job doesn't give you flexible hours I agree that it's hard. That said, COVID has definitely made more things implicitly flexible. While some companies are still trying to plan for blocks of time (the FAANGs for instance), many others allow for it to be spread out as time is available, interview with one person one day, a different person another.
Netflix and YT are hands down the best money I spend each month. I was a little annoyed they made me switch from play to yt music but that's grown on me now too.
You are being intellectually honest to admit that we can not have one set of rules of ISPs and another set of rules for Twitter.

I think both of them should have the discretion to do whatever they want while the government should constantly work hard to ensure there is always more competition. It is the government which has made it impossible to create credible alternatives to Google, Facebook or Twitter. Firstly, US government will try to kill any foreign competitor in the name of national security or some other straw-man. Domestic level the regulation is darn too complex for anyone to succeed with reasonable capital.
"Corporations don't exist, so they can't "pay" for the tax"

I'm sorry, but how do you square that with the legal rights via judicial precedence they have, like those described in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood ? How do you square it with the plain language of the USC on the matter (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/1) ?
In this case it may actually be how it works. When Glenn Greenwood co-founded The Intercept, he wrote some degree of editorial freedom into his contract.

"The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression."
A few elections back, there was a the “swift boat” controversy with John Kerry. Out of nowhere a bunch of people who worked with Kerry claimed his military experience was fraudulent in some way and the media ate it up, being one of the major factors that costed him the election.

Later on, and with more digging, people who were near him at the time confirmed that the controversy was all a sham. The people who previously claimed Kerry lied all suddenly claimed they misremembered, or gently admitted that they lied. There were just enough bits and pieces of facts to build a story, and BS was used to glue it all together.

I think people are seeing a repeat of that. Some things may be true, but a lot of overly convenient information is coming out to bind it together that’s hard to absolutely verify and will likely collapse under scrutiny.
Sure, but that doesn't "prevent you from using it and installing software and drivers". You can still install previously signed drivers. You can even turn on unsigned driver installation and install unsigned drivers.

Nothing is really changing on the user's side. They might not get new drivers going forward if the company doesn't want to or can't pass HKL, but Windows 7 is out of support at this point. Windows 8 is still supported, to be fair, but I don't know of many people who actually run it; it's either 7 or 10.
> bad actors will use any available tool they can to gain power and do harm

Of course they will. That's what makes them bad actors :)

But are the bad actors in the two scenarios (with/without Coc) the same kind of bad actors? Do they have the same set of motivations for being in the community, and the same ability to rally supporters? My perception is that the bad actors in the two scenarios are wildly different, and that they're different because Codes of Conduct tend to distort the core incentives for participation in the community.
Well, "everyone is in denial" is too strongly worded.

A lot of us are aware that there are all sorts of self-reinforcing feedback loops that we have not found yet, and those will definitely influence the events. But models cannot account for hypotheticals.
The actual article in question was published about 90 minutes after this one, here: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...

I think you'll be surprised by it. There's nothing about it that is fairly characterized as misinformation.
I wouldn't call it the hard way, but it's certainly pre-C++11. My understanding is that the project's lead programmer insists on using older standards for the sake of portability.
Everyone on every side is being downvoted (and then upvoted, and then downvoted, and then upvoted, and then downvoted some more...), it seems. I don't mind at all; it comes with the territory. Anyone entering into a fray like this knows what to expect. If someone strongly disagrees with me, I actually think they probably should downvote me.
I had an hour long ad show up a couple of weeks ago. It was basically a film on some health/food product, but I had never seen something so over the top like that before.
I lose my job for supporting the wrong candidate?
- It gets, uh, sent. If you send it to a mailing list, the mailing list will forward it to the subscribers.

- Yes, there are online archives available for each mailing list.

- Yes.

- Both. It shows up with you as the author and them as the committer.
Thanks for the clear explanation. It's good to know the sources (and history) of the issues that we work-around.
There are public spaces, and then there are private spaces open to the public. I fight this one all the time with a local park. It is a park that is not city owned public, but privately operated and open to the public. They have a very strict photography policy, and their "employees" will interfere with you if you do not have "permission".

I believe shopping malls are private spaces open to the public. The point is that I would not be shocked to see that there are different rules regarding public spaces vs private spaces open to the public.
Now that Rails has StimuluseReflex / ActionCable (which is kind of an additional learning curve), it's got some incredible potential. I was skeptical of WebPacker at first, too, but also have grown to love it.
Users need the power of curation. Not, algorithms built by scum bag tech "platforms"
Firebase is a service that encompasses a bunch of things.

Do you mean Cloud Firestore?

To be clear, when I reference the infinite scalability, I mean the ability of cloud functions to spin up as many instances as I need.

In terms of database load, I'd fully expect to have to migrate to a larger instance, but that is also relatively easy with cloud sql postgres.
An exponent one-fifth algorithm for deterministic integer factorisation
In practice, censorship always comes with this bias:

Mainstream journalists and politicians can say all the lies they want, because they're usually not considered lies by whoever is in charge of the medium (Twitter, Spotify?, the government?).

Fringe movements don't have the popularity to pass off their lies as truth to the general population or the censor, they can only do it to their relatively small group of followers.

In the end, you end up with: popular lies are accepted, unpopular lies are censored. Sometimes unpopular truths get censored too.

Censorship is a problem itself, but a much bigger problem is biased censorship.
Does it then make the use of 1.1.1.1 any dangerous?
Not that it reveals access to torrent sites, but resolving one of them like 30 times in a week might send some alerts.
A Day in the Pandemic Life
The US government wrote the Section 482 tax regulations. Corporations followed the regulations the government wrote. The government provided tons of examples on how taxpayers could follow their rules in the tax guidelines.

I've spend hundreds of hours of my life reading the section 482 regs. Multinational companies need to comply with these. Never really understood the vilification of companies that are following the rules.
They will “optimize” for more ads till people stop going to YouTube for videos. As shown by search, Facebook, etc that limit is far, far higher than people expect. I am not sure if any of them have reached the limit yet.
I think a carbon tax is one of the most efficient solutions available, but it's proven to be very ideological since the burden of consumption taxes tends to fall on people with lower income. They're very unpopular, and few countries have been able to implement them successfully.

It's still worth trying to pursue a more popular version of a carbon tax because of how efficient they are, but we need to acknowledge their political shortcomings. Perhaps we could pair a carbon tax with an annual distribution of revenue raised to everyone - a carbon bonus - so people see a direct benefit too instead of just the tax.

Regardless we need to explore other solutions too, since it's not going to be enough to stop the climate from destabilizing further.
I love this style and didn’t know there was a term for it. Thanks!
Cool, thank you. You can probably see what I mean: if everything from this list works fine it makes a desktop computer sufficient for me and many other people. I imply most of the classic text-mode tools already work or can be ported with little difficulty. I've forgotten to mention Visual Studio Code but I understand it's going to be slightly harder, it hasn't been long since we've gotten an ARM port.
I'm outraged every single time I am accosted by someone with a clip board. Not once, ever, have I been remotely concerned with their concerns.
If curious see also

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8728532

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6231992

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506986
Thanks, if I manage inspire some kids into coding just like I was, my work here is done :)
There are more than 3 Desktop/Window Manager in the Linux/Unix world, right ? What happen to the others ?
Excellent, thank you.

Unfortunately, [0] and [1] are still ongoing and [2] reads like a blog post of somebody ranting about a statistical error, followed by some anecdotal evidence and the demand for an actual study. There could still be something there, but summarizing all of that as "quite obviously works" is stretching it.
CBP Debuts Facial Recognition Technology for International Passengers at Lax
Static IP's are supposed to be the norm for IPv6.
Clearly didn't "Blow Away" the market, down half a percent in after hours trading.
Although I've interviewed for 2 companies in the past that actually appreciated this and basically called me like this themselves. :D They worked on actually complicated stuff and also expected some kind of work sample. Turned out both were jobs where you can burn out quickly so I didn't stay long at either.

But true, normally interviewers already get confused when you mention a skill that is not directly required by the job ad.
If you need the content right now, vs rigging up a van and spending the required few weeks in it, and then the hassle of managing the RAW content.

You've basically just asked why stock photo/video companies exist.
Medium grey and opaque, thanks to cryptography.
Why do you think your intuition is more relevant in the face of expertise about climate than the experts in the countless other fields you trust daily? Do you demand to see structural analysis reports before going into unfamiliar buildings?
I’m not an expert in this area, and IANAL, so...

When I started a business (is the USA) that had a name that wasn’t mine, I needed to file a DBA (doing business as) form in my city. If GrubHub is representing themselves as SomeRestaurantIncorporated without some legal mechanism for doing so, like a DBA, I don’t see how they can justify it.
>Unless it's free of DRM and easily copied, backed up, moved, etc,

Even in most of these cases you don't legally own it, either. Even when you buy a DVD, you are just buying a license to use that DVD to consume the content on it. You don't own the content, and it's a violation of that license to copy a movie off of a DVD and onto your hard drive, for example, even if it doesn't have DRM. It's just that the legal content owner typically doesn't come after that type of violation.
Show HN: CLI app to create playlists based on an artist
It's the firestorms afterwards that cause climate problems. Most above ground tests were not in places that led to big firestorms.

See the paper "A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security", PNAS March 31, 2020 117 (13) 7071-7081 [1]. Here's an article about it [2].

They are looking at a war with 100 Hiroshima-sized detonations in the most populated urban areas of India and Pakistan.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/117/13/7071

[2] https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/03/16/even-limited-india-...
I was wondering whether the numerical representations of individual faces were PCA numerical series. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is the most common method for image-based recognition, image preprocessing, lossless compression, signal-noise analysis, and high resolution spectrum analysis.

PCA can transform an image into a set of unique components, where each component has a numerical degree of distance and relatedness from an agreed on centered component. The first component has the largest possible variance (it accounts for most of the variability in the group). Each succeeding component has the highest variance that is orthogonal to the preceding components. The transformation of the group proceeds linearly from a group with a high degree of dimensionality to a group with a low degree of dimensionality of which the components of the group with a low degree of dimensionality are uncorrelated.

PCA reduces the dimensionality of a complex group of possibly unrelated activities into a smaller group of principal components that accurately represent the entire group with minimum information loss and no loss of essential intrinsic information. PCA also reveals the internal structure of a group of possibly unrelated activities, it can be used to discover meaningful relationships based on commonalities the internal structure of the group shares with other activities that happened in the past. PCA is well known for forcasting with time-series analysis and regression analysis. In most cases the predictability of specific activities can be calculated with high percentages of certainity, by focusing the reconstruction of projected outcomes on the optimization/maximization of the variances of specific activities.

In addition by categorizing the images into age groups and gender groups that information would be very valuable beyond marketing in longer list of industries world-wide.
Well, one downside of the new free tier quota is that I just burned through 60 of my 400 minutes with a job stalled on git fetch...
From my resume: "Experienced m-shaped professional..."
A corporation is a bunch of paper sitting in, most likely, Delaware. Those papers don't have a life of their own; they are owned by a group of people who also own all of the assets.

We pretend that the paper is a person in lots of contexts because it's a convenient fiction. But in this example, the paper very clearly isn't paying income tax.
No one in practice values large stock holdings without marketability or liquidity discounts. Jeff likely wouldn’t even sell stock if he needed cash, he would just get a loan backed by some stock.
> they should carry more liability for what they do allow if they refuse to.

The result would be opening up any and all moderated forums to a tsunami of lawsuits. Twitter would survive, they have armies of lawyers. HN would be shut down.
Are you serious right now? Do you realize how hard it is to predict this stuff?

You actually expect them to nail it down to the year? lol
> This update removes Adobe Flash Player that is installed on any of the Windows operating systems that are listed in the "Applies to" section. After you apply this update, it cannot be uninstalled.
> Note If you must use Adobe Flash Player again on your device after this update has been installed, use one of the following methods:

> Method 1: Reset your device to an earlier system restore point. This feature must be explicitly enabled and a system restore point must have been created on your Windows device before you apply this update.

> For more information about system restore point, see Back up and restore your PC.

> Method 2: Reinstall your Windows operating system, but do not apply this update.

I've always heard that "this update cannot be uninstalled", but thought that was just some marker that appeared in the list of installed updates. But no, it'll somehow prevent reinstallation—does anyone know how?
I disagree- I can trivially move between social networks and in fact have done so recently. As a renter I have exactly one hardwired ISP available to me; AT&T cellular based service is not comparable where I live. It’s the same way we have different rules for your electric bill and Amazon.
That's part of the attraction to me. I'd love my VPN activity to blend in with all the other activity (crawlers, etc.) coming from Google.
> Coming soon: Increase your online security with the VPN by Google One

Translation: Coming Soon: Tell us all about yourself and everything you do by signing up to our new service Google One. It comes with a VPN! Trust us, we won't tell!

> iOS, Windows, and Mac coming soon

It seems that some think you can fool people all the time with 'services' like this but companies like Google don't ever learn from their own mistakes. [0] [1] Phrases like 'Privacy and security is core to everything we make.' is another snake-oil tagline which is another branded trap. Not falling for this one.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-da...
Worth pointing out that The Intercept has posted a scathing rebuttal.

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-...