skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this on PH last week, but will share it here as well. Justin and I are the creators of Taste (Yes! That movie recommendation app)...we spent our entire COVID time developing this shopping version of the Taste app—it was a beast to figure out how to catalog & organized millions of products...much much harder than movies & tv shows I'll tell ya!

Give it a spin, but it's the same idea: swipe & rate the things you like and we match you with more items that you'll like. The algorithm is still based on collaborative. So obviously, the more users/swipes we get, the better everyone's rex will be.

Hopefully this makes online shopping a little more fun and cuts down the hustle of have to go from store to store to look for things.
I mean, I guess you'd have to think that, to think that ensuring deniable emails is "shameful", as this thread suggests. I just wonder what the boundary of that thinking is. Message encryption also impedes activists!
By making the DKIM keys public, you are converting solid evidence of something that was said into something that was either really said, or someone else pretended that they said.

Evidence was destroyed.
> What COVID forecasters can learn from climate models

That they don't work?

I have been working with simulation and models for the past 25 years, and models are just that models. They provide a picture of what you want to see, not the truth.
Can someone briefly explain the mechanisms of these mRNA vaccines? I’ve never heard of them.
Strava raises $110M, growth rate of 2M new users per month in 2020
Yes, but it’s not DKIM or not DKIM that will make it plausible in the court of public opinion.
I presume that like most vaccines, there is a gap between you receiving it and developing immunity?

I hope everyplace offering vaccinations will have something in place to prevent anyone who comes in who is already infected but asymptomatic from infecting others there.

Given some states' track records on how they handled other things that attracted a lot of people, such as in-person voting, I'm not at all confident that we won't have some states that manage to turn vaccination clinics into super spreader events, which should be deeply embarrassing.

A good way to handle it is the way Kaiser handled flu vaccinations this year in western Washington. They had 10 minute windows available. You reserved online your spot in one of those windows. When you arrived a person at the door asked your name, checked you off the list, and gave you a pre-printed label with your information, and sent you in.

There were two or three people administering the vaccine, so two or three people for each 10 minute window. You went an stood in line with the others who shared your window, with the line very spread out.

When it was your turn you went in to get the vaccination, gave the person their your label, got vaccinated, and were sent out a side or back door so you would not cross paths with the people waiting or arriving.
Awareness of Vitamin and immune boosting nutrition needs to be mentioned alongside the call for masks
When I order from a local restaurant, I want THEM to get my money, not somebody in sili valley.

Yelp skims using this man-in-the-middle attack on the restaurant's telephones. (Payment card companies skim too, but there's a lot of competition in that field so it's under control.)

Yelp might argue that I, the purchaser, am not hurt by their shenanigans, so I shouldn't worry about it. But, on the contrary, I am hurt when my local restaurants have their margins shaved. Several have had to close their doors in my neighborhood. How am I hurt? For one thing I like the restaurants that closed. For another, I have neighbors and friends among restaurant owners and workers. For a third, some of my tax and charity money goes to helping unemployed people.

AT THE VERY LEAST Yelp's recorded announcement ("awesomeness???") should inform me that I'm going through a third party.

My local telco just delivered a printed Yellow Pages book for the first time in many years. I'm going to use it. I'm going to keep the takeout menus I get.

I wonder if this can be called "wire fraud" in some new telecom regulations?
I think it is important to note that GitHub's parent company[1] Microsoft is a member of the RIAA[0], the group who initially filed this DMCA.

The cynic in me says this was deliberately pre-planned to garnet free press. That type of behavior would certainly be in-line for the company responsible for the Halloween Documents[2][3].

Even if we give GitHub, and by extension Microsoft the benefit of the doubt here, this is a lesson we should not soon forget: Microsoft will not go to bat for you, not unless you can wield the power of the HN/Reddit/Twitter/etc outrage machine to create a PR problem for them.

Don't rely on Microsoft to be the centralized underpinnings of the open source world. At worst, it paves the way for EEE[4] 2.0. At best, it creates a single centralized target for malicious actors, such as the RIAA.

0 - https://www.riaa.com/about-riaa/riaa-members/

1 - https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/10/26/microsoft-comple...

2 - http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

4 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
I just said the West because I was thinking quickly and didn't know clearly about other countries. It was conceivable, even if unlikely, that officers in China or Russia (USSR? :) ) or someplace else are mostly hereditary, and I saw no need to raise that issue.

> So clearly, if kodah meant what you claim they meant, they would be really really really wrong, like ludicrously wrong. / As such (and this is my point), it's probably better to assume that the kodah didn't mean that. It's probably better to steelman, rather than strawman.

Always important to remember. And I should have phrased it that way. Thanks.
like PEP484 type annotations having a runtime performance hit? I would be very interested in seeing a link to this if you can dig it up.
At least because Linux and GNU software is open source. Using GNU/Linux, you own your device, but using Windows, Microsoft own your device. So if you value your freedom, then this reason is enough for you
Codefresh brings better monitoring to ‘GitOps’ workflows
Emphasis on some haha - I don't want to claim that the collective power of the internet is more valuable than a human that's 100% invested in the business :)

But yes, I'd definitely recommend it! Feel free to DM if want any tips - https://twitter.com/AnotherTimJones.

It was uncomfortable at first, but got easier pretty quickly (and honestly a lot of fun).
On the contrary, they’re doing a lot, including establishing a $1M legal defense fund for developers and a technical team to review the validity of anti-circumvention DMCA notices. It seems like they’re doing a lot more than just paying lip service to EFF / developer freedom, and they should be commended for it.
1. This isn't locking out an entire country.

2. Tinder is constantly at war with bots and scammers. You have no way to know that fixing a CC issue for a tiny fraction of users is more ethical than their other bugs.
oh and here's the iOS link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/autumn-start-swiping/id1492658...

landing page: www.shop-autumn.com
I don't know if you are naive or dumb to believe that woman. Maybe both.
At least with microsoft we could compile and exe and have it work 20 years later...
Interestingly, bogosort cannot actually be implemented in constant space -- at least, not if you're talking about a deterministic algorithm. In order for your PRNG to have a large enough state space to cover all possible permutations, it needs O(n log n) bits.

In the Turing machine model of computation, algorithms that use O(1) space are theoretically equivalent to finite state machines (potentially with a very large number of states). Logarithmic space is where things start to get interesting, because it's enough to store a constant number of pointers into an arbitrarily large input.
Look, I realize this is a meta point: but has anyone else noticed how TYPICAL the discussion in TFA is at the official Apple support forums? The atmosphere is absolutely poisonous there, in the strangest passive aggressive way -- every time I search for help there, I find tons of replies that are useless, and about 5% of the time I find a helpful tidbit. There's one user in particular, whose name I won't mention, who posts EVERYWHERE with just condescending garbage, and yet they have massive forum points (level 10, or whatever).

It's very odd -- something about the moderation or something has created a community there that is extremely hostile to accurately identifying and quantifying real issues in software and hardware, and allergic to useful solutions.

Developer forums are much better, though.
>I believe it's related to its potential to save tens or hundreds of thousands of lives.

Not just specifically with COVID-19. In general, there's at least a few front page stories a month.

Google seems to confirm this: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1660&bih=865&tbs=qdr%3Ay&e...
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Banzai Cloud
GitHub Desktop
There is a special mode for looking for files called "Dired". It is very powerful, especially with the extensions. This link is a good introduction to it:

http://pragmaticemacs.com/emacs/dired-marking-copying-moving...
Their beta web interface and web APIs are actually a lot like Github, but you share access datastreams and not code. https://gretel-client.readthedocs.io/en/stable/?badge=stable
vi has never held the concentric view of life lisp thus emacs did.
I don't see any future path for this project. It looks like it was just a researcher project that was published and got some press, not something that could actually be turned into a product.
Covid-19 may have been in Italy as early as September 2019
Is It Important Who Rules
>Would the world or her perspective on it be improved if instead of spending her summer on a lobster boat she had spent it working at Starbucks?

I think the world would be a much better place if everyone (or at least everyone in America) had to spend at least 6 months in a minimum wage customer service job. If that were the case you'd hope we'd have far less entitled customers abusing workers who don't deserve any such treatment.

This is not to say that a summer on a lobster ship is worthless, but your choice of example is poor - yes, I do honestly believe that a summer at Starbucks seeing people on their worst behavior could do more to shape perspective than a summer of manual labor in relative isolation.
> Skylake

From this I gather that we are talking ~5 years ago?

> First and foremost, sound. I tried to get mixing -- simultaneous playback from different programs

I remember this being a problem 10 years ago, but not since pulseaudio.

> sleep / resume

I successfully use systemctl suspend a lot. But yeah, depends on the hardware, def. a pain point.

> experimental support for the chipset [...] completely froze

Not sure what to respond to this. Experimental drivers are expected to be, well, experimental, as in highly unstable.

> clipboard

Ok.

Thanks for the info, this will be helpful to know what to look out for when getting New hardware.
> Seriously, can someone present a moral argument for why this should be adopted? It seems only harmful to me.

Because this isn't just about politicians, or holding politicians accountable. It affects the rest of us too!

Instead, imagine what would happen if a hacker accessed the email of a closeted LGBTQIA+ person living in a country where being outed is practically a death sentence, and the DKIM signatures were sufficient proof of guilt.
It seems you were lucky enough to not have a detrimental COVID experience with your immediate family members. I wonder how much your view would change, had you lost one or more family members. You seem to lack empathy for the 1M+ people that have lost someone (globally), and probably millions more that were potentially permanently damaged by COVID.
It's actually Google and Bing that are winning. Everyone else is losing to various degrees.

"SEO" depends on a wide array of factors, such as mobile-friendliness and a semantic link structure. But what ultimately ends up winning are established domains with tons of indexable pages. Backlinks matter, but the difference is negligible for sites that operate on the scale of Yelp.

If an aggregator's page appears before yours on the organic search results, your only choice is to pay Google or Bing to put your listing at the top.

If you are a random restaurant, your 3-page website is never going to beat Yelp.
... which seems reasonable to factor in, because most of the software that I use will not be ported to ARM CPUs anytime soon.
Did you actually read that article? It supports what I said-- we're talking 16+ hours before studies notice any difference at all, and even that difference is disputed. In fact, here's a quote from the article, "The risk of graft failure was small when CIT was shorter than 36h." Simply put, the difference in CIT between 2 hours and 5 hours isn't outweighed by driving 150mph on a public road for 2 hours.
It is really a shame to me that DuckDuckGo uses Yelp reviews in their search results. I understand they want to use a common review provider that's not Google, but Yelp is just so antithetical to the stated values of DDG
Several Pacific Islands, and some in the Indian ocean have already lost significant parts of their land. Just because something doesn't personally affect you does not make it a hoax.
That is unfair. Apple has a billion devices in active use so there are bound to be the occasional issue. And even with those issues it is still a _far_ better experience than either Linux or Windows.
Regular VPN clients that manipulate the default route still work like they always have, this particular issue is related to per-app VPNs, which are not nearly as common, and would generally not be used to redirect OS-native traffic anyway.
for what it's worth, my mom and aunt are in their 70s and will have cleared COVID this coming Thursday. When she said they both had COVID i was in tears thinking it was a death sentence given what I've read online. My mom had a fever for one day and just sniffles and body aches since. Same goes for my aunt who is also a breast cancer survivor.
If someone told me that the increased risk of dying from covid is just a part of life and that I should ignore it, I would very much ignore that person's advice on all things going forward. I would also very much not vote for that person.
Covid is additive risk, its additional, controllable risk on top of existing risk. As its controllable and communicable, I choose not to contract it and not to spread it. My spending choices reflect those choices; so do the spending choices of hundreds of thousands of other people. Get the virus under control and lets get the economy back.
Your advice is very much in the nature of 'lets not use seat belts, wear helmets, or masks'
That's correct, but as a parent said, this kind of issue is very rare. I can't actually remember another mac os upgrade actually bricking machines. I may be wrong, though.

What's way more common is random hardware failures, unrelated to the OS. I've never had to deal with apple support and hope I'll never have to, but HP enterprise support isn't frictionless either. A colleague of mine had a swollen battery, which wasn't user replaceable (guess not only Apple has bright ideas). He called up the support, which went relatively fine but in the end he had to send the computer in for repairs for two weeks and was advised to save his data as the machine would be wiped. Luckily removing the SSD was possible and didn't void the warranty...
> Is this real?

I'm as amazed as you are.

> The "love" for microsoft recently is interesting.

The Corporatocracy has never been so polarizing.
Sometimes the way I explain Mathematica to people is that, where Perl is the Perl of string rewriting, Mathematica is the Perl of tree rewriting.

Some comments about the article:

Mathematica has two types of rules, Rule and RuleDelayed, given by a -> b and a :> b. You usually use RuleDelayed unless you want Mathematica to pre-evaluate b. For example, if you create a rule like x_ -> (Print[x]; 1 + x) it will immediately print the symbol x and then result in the rule x_ -> 1 + x, but x_ :> (Print[x]; x + 1) instead evaluates to itself without that side effect.

It might be worth knowing that $Assumptions has a dynamic scope construct (like fluid-let in scheme), where Assuming[a > 0, ...] will temporarily append a > 0 to $Assumptions.

The code for Diff is not correct, since it has patterns on the right-hand side of the rules (and also it's Power, not Pow). For idiomatic Mathematica, you would attach these rules to the Diff symbol itself as "DownValues" so that Mathematica will automatically apply them:

Diff[f_ g_, x_] := f Diff[g, x] + g Diff[f, x];
Diff[f_ + g_, x_] := Diff[f, x] + Diff[g, x];
Diff[Power[x_, n_Integer], x_] := n*Power[x, n - 1];
Diff[n_?NumericQ, x_] := 0;

These := operators append a rule to DownValues[Diff], where the rule is exactly from replacing := with :>.

In[14]:= DownValues[Diff]

Out[14]= {HoldPattern[Diff[f_ g_, x_]] :> f Diff[g, x] + g Diff[f, x],
HoldPattern[Diff[f_ + g_, x_]] :> Diff[f, x] + Diff[g, x],
HoldPattern[Diff[x_^n_Integer, x_]] :> n x^(n - 1),
HoldPattern[Diff[n_?NumericQ, x_]] :> 0}

The HoldPatterns in here are to prevent Mathematica from evaluating the patterns, since Diff has all these rules that really want to activate for those left-hand sides. (Yes, patterns, too, are subject to evaluation. It can be helpful in very limited circumstances, like metaprogramming the rules.)

It looks like it's still missing some rules, though:

In[42]:= Diff[x^2 + 2 x + 1, x]

Out[42]= 2 x + 2 Diff[x, x]

One fix is to change the power rule to

Diff[Power[x_, n_Integer: 1], x_] := n*Power[x, n - 1]

which gives n the default value of 1, plugging into a system where Mathematica knows x^1 and x are the same.

---

Something I use Mathematica for is calculations in things like the Temperley-Lieb algebra (for calculating the Jones polynomial of knots). The Temperley-Lieb algebra is pretty much a calculus of path composition, but you also take formal linear combinations of these, and closed loops evaluate to some polynomial. In the following, P[1, 2] would denote a path between points 1 and 2.

SetAttributes[P, Orderless];
P /: P[a_, b_] P[b_, c_] := P[a, c];
P /: P[a_, b_]^2 := P[a, a];
P /: P[a_, a_] := -A^2 - A^-2;

For example, P[1, 2] P[2, 3] P[3, 1] evaluates to -A^2 - A^-2. (I have a library for these things where the "boxes" it renders to in the Mathematica notebook is a graphical representation of the paths. The graphical paths are the expressions, which has been very helpful to me.)
> On a community level this is all pretty soul crushing because your existence is predicated on your ability to basically put on a show for others (i.e. look quaint).

So, like all of Hollywood? : )

It seems like in your book, “putting on a show for others” is somehow a distasteful means of living. However, many people enjoy this lifestyle. Reinventing something as basic as fishing into an “experience” for tourists, most of who are likely city dwellers who would never get to experience this, seems like a win win to me, and honestly something we could get other industries involved in. You mention the timber industry... if there were places that would allow me to cut down trees with a chainsaw, I would actually be interested in that!

As more of human society urbanizes, we’re going to see a lot more demand for these “experiences”.
I hear you. That’s why I was hoping someone who had crossed over from atheism to theism would be able to provide insights.

Even dipping my toes slightly, I am finding that I need to have a strong faith in an omnipresent/omnipotent being. This is problematic.

I wanted to approach it as an intellectual/philosophical/man made construct, but the pieces are not fitting for a coherent narrative. I think I can even filter some religious dogma.

If I can find a rational reason for the possibility of an omnipresent/omnipotent/omniscient being(proof not required), then it would be easy to surrender. It is not an egoic thing. I don’t want to subscribe to imaginary constructs.

That’s where I am today. Or at least, this afternoon.
In the general case, repudiation is desired by users, and non-repudiation is needed in only very particular cases. Companies serving nontechnical users should make repudiation the default, because if given the choice most users would prefer it to be the default.

In the particular case of Google releasing its DKIM keys, I think I would need more context. What kind of repudiation property do users expect when sending emails over GMail? Is non-repudiability currently used by users for legal or business purposes? Probably the way to do it would be to announce a particular date maybe a year into the future that the private keys would be released.
This sounds hopelessly naive. At the risk of starting a political flamewar, it’s really not possible for any individual to effect large scale change to policymaking beyond the hyper local level. It’s especially impossible to go against massive lobbying interests like the RIAA.
Was doc quality ever a priority for Apple?
thanks, donated $10 to EFF and company matched :)
I don’t understand the fascination with DKIM on this thread.

Yes, journalists verified it. But they consider it supporting data, just as they wouldn’t automatically ignore any email that had no DKIM signature.

Phone calls are never authenticated. Does anyone automatically believe or disbelieve recorded phone calls?

I mean, “conspiracy theorists” (in the common usage of that terms) already believe only what they want to believe.
I very much doubt if these things were possible. I have a strong feeling I will be proven right: Joe Biden will also not impose a mask mandate, rightly realising that he lacks the authority to do so.

It was definitely a huge mistake to appoint a person who has published dodgy research to head the CDC (it is my understanding that this guy was the preferred candidate of the Evangelicals.) The CDC has been conspicuously absent throughout this pandemic, and I think it's because of their spectacular ineptitude. How much of it is attributable to its politically appointed masters, I do not know, but it's a shame nevertheless.
This is an absurd claim.

There is not a popular email system in existence that says

"To: myfriend@mailserver.com
CC: Everyone [NON-EDITABLE]"

Quite the opposite is true.
Gmail, for example, says "Google.com Mail protects your message during delivery
As you add people to this message, this icon will let you know your message is secure."
Two term rewriting algorithms of central importance in their domains: Gröbner bases for systems of polynomials in many variables, and the Schreier–Sims algorithm for computing with permutations.
That is simply not true and just speculation - especially for a disease that has been around for less than a year. Most of the studies that reported things like heart damage and other kind of side effects were retracted, but the retraction never made it in the press and social media, just the initial poorly ran studies that got hundreds of thousands of shares. One of the so called long COVID studies was done through people recruited through Facebook groups and Reddit communities, all of them having self reported symptoms, but none having actual positive tests.
Seems to be the same as https://github.com/bhaller/Jiggler?