skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll Proposition 22
For 1 - keep in mind that frequentist inference cannot be used to support a statement like “the probability that variant A is better than variant B is X” or “the distribution of improvement from variant B over variant A is Y” - the only question a frequentist analysis can answer is, “Assuming the null hypothesis distribution is true, the unlikeliness on the observed data is Z.” From that point of view, we find frequentist analysis simply is epistemologically unsuited for comparing multiple (or a continuum of) policy options, period. Given this, then we start to ask totally new types of experiment design questions. We no longer ask an unphysical question such as, “assuming effect size X and sample size N, what is the probability of falsely rejecting the null” - the idea of “rejecting the null” doesn’t map to any notion of optimal policy selection, so we just don’t care about such a question when designing an experiment. Instead we ask ourselves, “if the true effect size is X, what is the probability I will make a mistake in estimating that effect size, and how large a mistake?” or “if the true relationship between the target and the covariate is positive, what is the probability I’ll mistakenly think it’s negative?” - basing experiment design on how my physical beliefs can be wrong helps me make decisions. Basing it on tail properties of a null distribution does not.

2. It really depends on the experiment. For causal inference, both type s and type m need to be very low, but type I can be high (I don’t care about rejecting a null). For inference where I only care about final predictive accuracy, this may not matter. For example in an extreme case I could have two perfectly collinear predictors, which means their coefficients can be arbitrary as long as the sum yields the true coefficient on the underlying linear component. If my goal is causal inference of the effect size, this would ruin it, since type m error can be unboundedly bad. But if the goal is overall predictive accuracy, it doesn’t matter at all - I just ignore the coefficients.

> “ it still seems like the final sample sizes you calculate could end up being very sensitive to the prior.”

I prefer to flip this around. A frequentist model has a prior too whether anyone wants to admit it or not - usually it is some unrealistic flat / uninformative prior or improper prior. The results of a frequentist method are equally sensitive to this implicit (huge) assumption. A Bayesian approach at least makes it explicit, admits the sensitivity, puts the range of prior choices out in the open for skeptical review, lets you carry out sensitivity analysis, and very often relies of real data and domain expertise to posit a much more physically plausible prior.
Yes, the original leaf has 110hp, does 0-60 in 9.9 and tops out at 93mph. It is similar in performance to other entry-level cars in the US, like a Yaris, Fit, etc.

They are cheap because they are similar in performance to other entry level economy cars, and the warranty for the battery is up. If the battery fails you’re in the ballpark of 6 or 7 thousand dollar repair.
There will probably be a handful of users who go bananas with rage and start blindly uploading everything they can before the cutoff. I have a feeling there will be some very interesting stuff accidentally being uploaded in the coming months, and we will probably hear about some it.
Interesting idea... are you sure? Do you want to pay extra fees to transfer it internationally, have to deal with sanctions/etc. depending on where you're sending it, pay taxes on it when you acquire it, have a copy sent to the government if it's over 10KB of data, etc.?
> For most people, if there computer was ‘theirs’, it would be that way for about 10 minutes until it was pwned by a bad actor.

I own a company which manufactures and sells showerheads. Since "most" people are prone to a fall while taking a shower, my company also mandatorily installs a camera alongside, so that we can monitor for accidents, given our deep concern for our customers.

"Some" customers have raised concerns about their privacy, but this is for the greater good. My company is very ethical in its practices, and really values each customer's privacy (pinky promise).

The footage of you and your loved ones showering is completely safe with us, although you can choose not to be recorded while showering by not purchasing our products.

Oh by the way, our showerheads are sleeker and more convenient than anything else in the market.
Show HN: Create a Slideshow with Excalidraw
Super Dark Mode with time based switching
That is completely absurd. How many artifacts are being destroyed or concealed because people either can't pay or refuse to pay for such archaeology "services"?
Easy automation wins: why do organisations still use paper?
Reduce redundant arch from Big Sur
"voting with your dollar" does less than most boycotts which are basically worthless. I mean, you could cut yourself off from nearly every form of entertainment created in the last 150 years going forward to stick it to the man I guess...
Personally, I'll stick with paying for stuff when I want and can afford to and if a company charges too much or places too many restrictions on the works they've bought the rights to from a creator I'll consider seeking out alternative means to get what I want or work around those restrictions.

It's a nice balance that lets me reward companies that acquire great works that are priced well and not overly encumbered by DRM while still letting me participate in our culture.
Is there a one-time donation alternative?
They are not changing down the service, merely changing the price for it. A price increase after 5 years of service can hardly be considered "bait and switch".

We need to remember that $0 is still a price.
I think the point your parent comment is making is that Microsoft may break away from Blink just like Google broke away from Webkit.
Your first choice to edit a config file should be: sudo --edit pathname

This trick has the same problem, $() has to be evaluated before sudo sees anything.

I see so many people flailing about here, and I've done it myself. So let's consider why these tricks don't work.

sudo is an ordinary command that accepts an environment, a series of words, and whatever filehandles it inherits.

Read /etc/sudoers to note that it's then munging its environment per the env_reset and env_keep directives.

man sudo notes that it's closing non-standard filehandles, by default.

And, by design, sudo doesn't want you to do clever tricks because it's trying to stop you from hacking the Internets.

Let's also look at what a shell is doing. All a shell really does is munge some environment vars, set up redirections, and ultimately fork itself and run commands.

All the redirection, command substitution, process substitution, etc. must take place either before or after the shell forks to run sudo. All the shell can provide to sudo is command line arguments, environment variables, and usually stdin.

All the shell can get from sudo is going to be a return code, and whatever it can capture from the stdout and stderr.

The 'echo foo | sudo tee -a path > /dev/null' trick works because we redirect stdin, and we delegate opening the file for append to the 'tee' command, which has now been run as the privileged user by sudo, and we ignore the stdout.

Likewise, if you want to read a privileged file, var=$(sudo cat foo) will work, because you get sudo's stdout.

You can try sudo sh -c 'arbitrary shell script', but it's not good general advice as shells are often banned as a security precaution.

Also, if you get curious and want to edit sudoers without locking yourself out by corrupting it, use 'visudo'. Note that it won't prevent you from locking yourself out by removing your own permissions! RTFM, take some notes, and experiment on a machine you have a root account on or can log in via single-user mode.
Regarding Dresden, it is worth noting that his source David Irving (which he also name drops in this interview) turned out to be a neo-nazi and holocaust denier. Important context for the quote about "the largest massacre in European history."

Slaughterhouse 5 is a brilliant book, but as a historical source it is only valid as far as Vonnegut personal experience goes. The information taken from Irving's book is very dubious, for example Irving wildly inflated the number of dead.
I've been reading and discussing Turchin for over a decade with interested pseudo-intellections like myself.

I sense there could be a "loop hole" preventing disaster by recognizing a partial solution to the elite overproduction problem: cap the scale of organizations, forcing corporations, states and other larger entities to bifurcate into multiple smaller entities that must now compete to continue to exist.

Do this across the board, breaking up every larger entity into smaller entities. This provides roles for the large numbers of "elites" as well as provides a place for lackluster elites to drift out to pasture with other less aggressive organizations catering to their less aggressive demographics. This also forces economic efficiency, because the larger corporate and other giant institutions are filled with bloat-scale inefficiencies. This would also create product and service diversity, as well as force multi-organization cooperation at a scale rarely seen today.
Very little. I think training data for image classification is one benefit.

Google conspiracy theories are just HN's preferred sport.
The google AI will think cats rule the earth.
probably going to migrate to icloud soon
Classic! I used to read these before I dropped out of Physics to make software for a living.
Hah, I've become a skater relatively recently. It's my Zen place.

It's s good analogy, you have to want it, either skater or hacker, any label really, must be earnt with time and effort. True for all things, and those who have earnt it can spot the pretenders a mile away.
I don't know about others but I certainly value my own freedom so I'm not going to live in any country which doesn't have it. I'm glad I visited the US last year because I have a feeling I'm never going back there. Same reason why I wouldn't go visit North Korea.

BTW why am I hearing this 'freedom is not important' stuff from so many people on HN? Is that what your leaders are preaching? I'd be suspicious of your leaders if that were me.
If we accept Popper's falsification, one of the characteristics that distinguishes real science from psuedo science is the making of falsifiable predictions. Turchin's Cliodynamics reminds me of Elliot Waves, and other technical (as opposed to fundamental) analytic techniques for financial market price prediction. Which begs the question: do Turchin's models make tradable predictions?
Data for training neural networks?
> If I have to pay, I'll pay for Apple iCloud instead, since it has better integration with my devices.

If you ever, for whatever reason, stop using Apple devices, can you continue using your iCloud storage from other devices? If not, that'd be a deal breaker for me.
You clearly don't know me. It is a lot more likely to be my own fault!
Yggdrasil[1] (partially) works around this issue by using a very large (64k) MTU size.

[1]: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2018/07/13/about-mtu.htm...
>One turn-off for us for machine learning products was going to the website, wanting to try the software, and then finding a button that says "Schedule a demo" or "Schedule a sales call".

Share the sentiment but both of us are likely not the target audience for these kinds of funnels then. Decision-makers who go down the "talk to our sales team" route are more likely to sign big enterprise-y contracts in the end I guess
My t460p can go up to 64 GB. Some of the newer ones have part of the ram soldered on though, need to watch for that if you want to max it in the future.
The Focus on the Goal Is the Way
> For me, Apple products really are designed to protect my personal information.

For me, the cost of "protecting my personal information" is too high.
Feudal lords protected their serfs too.
Well yes, if you stick to a purely physicalist framework then determinism is fair to defend, but you incur in a lot of debatable compromises to be able to stick to physicalism, and most of the philosophers (if not all) that defend free-will are not physicalists. And even then, if you are a hard determinist, there are fair objections such as Huemer's(1) minimum free will proof, which defends that determinism is self refuting.

[1] https://www.owl232.net/papers/fwill.htm
> It's mostly about getting used to the language usage style used in Google (the style guides are open, so you can see it).

> The philosophy is that all Google code base should look like it was written by 1 person.

But all google products look like they are written by only one person so the aim is achieved. The worst thing however is that other person started doing the same.
Not OP but technically the FBI as a matter of public fact and obligation (child pornography in that case). Probably more "run a known hash list against it and peak manually before reporting to verify that it isn't a freak collision with a perectly innocent photograph of a cupcake" style unless reported.
Yes.. that sounds honestly perfect. Make them respect the data.

Send a copy though.. do you have to give the government 10 grand when you send 10 grand? Course not. But you would tell the government it exists if it goes anywhere
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveill...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/19/federal...

By providing ML training data, you're indirectly supporting the consolidation of power in the hands of the few who have the ability to surveil everyone and the physical might to enforce their will.
Where? I see $10 a month or $100 a year prepaid for 2 TB: https://one.google.com/u/1/storage
The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson (2017)
Are you referring to an hvac boiler for heat? That can be replaced with efficient air source heat pump. Have a link to one of these example combi boilers?
Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing depression
If they don't charge you for the product, then, you are the product, eh?

Well, guys, does anyone use amazon prime photos? Is it as good at google photos? My main usage was automatically backing up all my phone pics.
We operate a k8s cluster with our own software and lots of opensource stuff.

If i can't run our own images on a future mac, i will no longer buy one.

I can't force my team to maintain two versions if there is no better business reason.

I'm quite curious how this will play out.
If you know this is a risk, then Google certainly does.
Apple Announces the Apple Silicon M1: Ditching x86 – What to Expect Based on A14
Apple still is best for audio and animation applications and there are synergies in certain industries like game development.

But apart from that it is a bad deal.

Windows degraded itself with its bad store, telemetry and PaaS dream, but yes, as soon as they could Apple developed in the same direction. Microsoft suffers from bad decisions on some management level.
I second Lev Gumilev. https://www.carnevalemanfredonia.it/political/social-science...
I use Flickr as well but I also back up in other ways, including locally. As I wrote on another thread, I'd never depend on a photo sharing site as my primary storage.
It really depend on what you want to do - Linux distro on x86 is IMHO good start, but of course its not the only option - there are now some reasonably open arm devices (including an atm laptop) from pine, there is the very open Tales workstation running on Power & RiscV showing up everywhere.
Hi! I spent a few hours working on this small fun project. I thought it might be cool to be able to use Excalidraw (which I love) to create minimalistic slides. Here is the result :)

Note that it is very basic for now, and I know there are a lot of features that should be implemented: display a preview in slides list, export to PNG or even PDF, handle better the zoom and elements position, etc.

For now I didn’t want to fork Excalidraw, so I just used the embedded components they provide (https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw-embed). This has some limitations, so I had to use a few tricks to make it work (such as hiding some elements by CSS…). There is probably a better way to achieve this.

What do you think?
I could write this exact sentence out and it still be true :D

Seriously, a great collection of notes. These were easily the most well written, thought out, understandable & digestible notes I ever came across during my studies.

Blows most textbooks and professors out of the water
Because they own shares
We expect you to be a hacker.
You're not wrong, but that doesn't mean that we can't take other measures to get back below R=1. The primary one I can think of is for governments of the world to give long term contracts to N95 mask makers so they can fully spin up their factories. It's been 9 months for $diety's sake.

Non-fit homemade and non-rated masks help prevent others from getting sick. But if everyone had access to cheap N95 that actually prevented them from getting sick we'd be a lot better off. The kids would still be getting it and getting everyone sick at home/school because they wouldn't wear them consistently right, but people without kids at home wouldn't be getting sick at nearly the rate. Every bit counts.
To his credit, intentional or not, according to his CV [1] he's only advised four PhD students and hasn't advised any since 2004. Four students per advisor lifetime might even be below replacement rate for having enough professors.

[1] http://peterturchin.com/curriculum-vitae/
In healthcare this is referred to as the Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) model.

Instead of waiting for sales orgs to band together, purchasers band together to negotiate and vet products and services.

This is a much better model, in my opinion, because it keeps the incentives on the side of the buyers, not the sellers.

Keep in mind, certain products still have to be vetted by the individual purchasers due to statutory requirements. But, as a buyer you narrow the scope of offerings you have to consider and you increase the likelihood that your in-house audit will pass. So, there's still a benefit even if you absolutely must inspect their facilities yourself.
As much as I love Safari, I found that Zoom is not working properly on Safari
They could also keep the current solution and just use a CRL as a backup to OCSP to check the revoked certificates and update it every other hour...
Any specifics what does not work ?
1 picture is worth a 1000 google adwords
Not in the US but having hired quite a few fat guys over the years (agriculture, construction) I can say that obesity has always turned out to be a sign of them being lazy and untrustworthy, even in management positions. All drinkers mostly.

Sadly one of them died recently at ~40, turns out he had an underlying heart condition since birth which might explain alot about his past performance.

Having said that I did know a particularly fat and ugly friend that has a great personality and was quite successful running her own small publishing business. Smarts and drive can shine through no matter what you look like.

If you can't get a job, start your own. Once you start seeing opportunities instead of wages you'll probably never go back.
that kind of statement is harsh. what gives you a guarantee that any other paid service is not going to do this "machine learning" on your data. has Google ever made public your data?
> Computers are tools to do work.

They stopped being mere tools for work a long, long time ago. Computers are - apart from nowadays being ubiquitous in many everyday objects - sold as consumer appliances for end users to watch TV and store their personal photos, texts, correspondence and conversations.

And even if people stop doing that, computers are also used to do banking and contact government agencies, in many places so much so that they're _needed_ to do this, creating a massive lock-in for most people to accomplish everyday tasks.

I wonder how many people there'd be who'd really have to "do work" on computers if the above wasn't the case.
I don't think they are "checking"; they've carefully planned a path and are slowly and meticulously executing on it. They have no intention to stop at any point. Should the money stop flowing, they'll just come up with a new gadget. To make them backtrack on the walled garden would take an extinction-threatening event that (unfortunately) will never be on the cards as long as nobody can seriously threaten the iPhone.
has Google ever made your data public?
> * Screen sharing full screen or other windows than browser tabs doesn't work on Google Meet / MS Teams. This is and has been an issue in Wayland since forever.

Chrome has experimental Pipewire support; enable it in here: chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer

Firefox (at least on Fedora) has enabled it out of the box.
Theoretically you can. You just need 6 different email addresses and add them to your onedrive account. You won't be able to use it as a single 6TB volume though.
> Computers are tools to do work.

What a despondent and dystopian attitude shift from "bicycles for the mind." If this is the modern attitude of Apple users, no wonder the products have also gone to shit.
Store it where you can easily access it, because >>90% of the very radioactive "waste" is actually fuel for breeder reactors.
If you ever think you're great at programming something like this comes along. This is insane.
i mean, paying for google photos storage is not even that expensive. it's $10 for 2TB, which i happily pay every month because it means i don't have to worry about photos backups.
Dutch law also has provisions against DRM circumvention technologies, so if they have proof that you're doing it, you can expect a lawsuit.

They won't find proof if you host the code on a git instance that's only accessible to you, but if you share that server with the internet, you can expect the RIAA (or more likely, their friends over at BREIN) to sue you (after getting your details from your ISP through another lawsuit).

Responding to a DMCA is free, copyright lawsuits are purposely expensive. You'd better have money for a good lawyer or good legal insurance if you plan on sharing your local Gitlab with such code.

One thing I considered is getting myself an instance of a small Gitlab clone with little attack surface and hosting the code on TOR. Ignoring the potential ethical issues, that should provide good defence against legal repercussions from groups like the RIAA and the MPAA. There's always a possibility that you'd get Kim Dotcom'd if your code gets popular enough, though.
I would be very surprised if Google is not data mining everything they can, it's always been their main business model.

With the photos it could be as simple as merging the meta data from those photos together with a user profile for even more targeted advertising.

Somebody making a lot of photos of certain things might be more interested in buying these things.

I'm pretty sure the real data wizards can think of quite a few more, and better, ways to monetize such data, particularly at the scale that Google is collecting it.
The hacker ethos didn't go mainstream. People who don't deserve the moniker started self applying it.

I'm not a hacker, I'm a corporate shill because I work for my own profit within a system that's set up to ensure its own continuity. I'd like to be a hacker, but I have a family to support and am too weak or addicted to lifestyle or scared or realistically-minded to actually commit to what's required to earn the title of hacker. Same with anyone working towards advertising, marketing, consumer data collection. Doesn't matter how intelligently you solve a problem in those fields, ain't no starry eyed kids ever wanted to grow up to make the world a better place by more accurately identifying and individuals preferences on the internet.

Fuck fake hackers. The best thing I've done with my life is being a good husband to a teacher.