skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I've said before of such practices, I want to start a website called "Grubhub-help.com" or something like that. Buy a lot of ads on google. Then I'll redirect customers that go there to whoever pays me the most money.

It's literally the same business model that grubhub/yelp have- misrepresenting myself as another company in order to make money- but turned around on them.

And maybe to make it more fun, if nobody pays then I'll just redirect the user to 4chan or some other ugly corner of the internet.
Anna Purna in Berkeley, CA used to have this sign: "these are water pipes not Bongs! You will be asked to leave" (c1995)
I do my part and wear a mask in public but I can't wait to stop breathing so much re-circulated CO2... I can practically feel my blood-oxygen levels dropping after prolonged use (perceived or actual)...
The word "appalling" describes something that creates surprising distress or dismay (itself implying surprise).

To be surprised at a cryptographer advocating for deniable messaging is to suggest that you're unacquainted with the field of messaging cryptography, in which deniable messaging has been a foundational goal for almost 2 decades, going back to Ian Goldberg and Nikita Borisov, who once yelled at me on Twitter for giving OTR short shrift and thus ensured I'd always associate his name with OTR and thus, I'm sure to his delight, his name being dropped on this thread.

I'd again like to point out how clear it is, the epistemic approach being taken in this thread. You can disagree with deniable messaging as a valid goal (it'd set you apart from cryptography engineers, but that's fine). But you can't be appalled by it in 2020, because the idea is old enough to drink in a bar in Canada, and motivated at least two of the most famous protocols in all of cryptography.

Instead, what people are doing here is skimming this post, digging no further, and then calling to mind their understanding of current events. Then, from that tiny thread of information and a bunch of axioms invented, I presume, in the span of just a minute or two, they're deriving an entire first-principles explanation of how messaging security is supposed to work.

You can do that, but I think it's more than fair to point out that there are people that have dedicated their entire career to studying this subject and publishing on it, and if commenters are going to make it clear that they haven't even tried to engage with that material, it's unclear why they should be taken seriously.

Also, Google should publish DKIM keys.
Hi, just wanted to let you know that you should add on your pricing page some info for larger plans. I potentially could get a record label to use your product but if I can't get a clear picture on pricing I'm not going to get far. Something large like 60 videos a month or more would be good.

Also, there is no way to contact you on SongRender.com, no email and no contact form. If I couldn't reach you here I would just give up on my idea of using the product for the record label.

Otherwise I liked the write up and your project !
I'm an idiot. I did not notice that it was inverted. Which brings me to another question - why set the axis as inverted?
Using the billionaire pedophile example is a disgusting trick. You're trying to set me up for appearing to support that.

Why not use more neutral examples? Like being gay or supporting certain political causes? What if those later become controversial or illegal? What then?

Do you want to live in a world where you have to guard everything you say in semi-private conversations, just in case it one day becomes controversial? That sounds like an oppressive nightmare.

The social media argument is tangential but I do agree with you there.
This is a little meta, but you can use the the -I / --head argument to tell curl to download headers only. This will ignore the rest of the response and means you can eliminate all of those other flags. E.g.:

$ curl -I https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:10:37 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Location: https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/2020.11.12/youtube-dl-2020.11.12.tar.gz
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
I have suspicions that my wrist pain was because of gout. My doctor only seemed to care whether or not I've ever had a full-on attack, but I think it's plausible that there could be negative effects short of that. My wrist pain went away when I modified my diet, which I was advised to do anyway.

I'm sure I made other changes to my life during that period of time so I can't say for certain that it wasn't some other change that caused the pain to go away. I also know that wrist pain can go away on its own without any intervention. I wanted to leave this comment here in case it helps others; I would have been very grateful if simply modifying my diet would have helped me as I tried many things during that period of time.

I'd also be interested in getting feedback from those more knowledgeable as I don't have much of a medical background. I did find a study - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4101606/ which may support what I'm saying, but I might be completely wrong.
Does windows on ARM support emulation of x86 apps? Probably the biggest advantage for windows right now is tat you can run apps from 20 years ago perfectly fine, and of course the large library of playable games built over the years.
> It says that inequality is the highest it has been in 50 years, yet the graph it uses to show this doesn't support that claim. It shows that the top 1% of families held more wealth in prior years until approximately the 1940s.

The 1940s are approx. 80 years ago. "In 50 years" refers to the period starting from ~1970 onwards.
To clarify: You're saying you do this more often than you order takeout? Especially during Covid? Because I explicitly said I believe it happens, just that it's a minority of calls.
Ditto all that, plus the mortality rate in the (very small) comparison group was 44%, which is very high even for the elderly. The mortality rate for the vit D group was not really all that great.

On the flip side, given that they comparison group were receiving vit D3 occasionally, just not lately, it is possible that this underestimates the impact of vit D3 on a group that had long-term insufficient vit D3.

Nothing here to say that vit D isn't good for you, especially if you have a deficiency (such as from insufficient time in the sun), but not a stunning piece of info either.
The title/submission is a bit misleading. The tweet says "locked out" and not "suspended". Based on his follow-up tweets this looks more like a password lockout, or owner-initiated account-locking in case of theft: [1]

> its fun that Steam locked me out of my account and support won't respodn [sic] to me. my favorite thing is owning thousands of dollars' worth of games im not allowed to play

Follow-up thread: [2]

#1

> does anyone know how to get ahold of @Steam support besides emailing and waiting? it's been 2 days and i cant log into my account :(

#2

> Valve probably beats out every other company on earth, in terms of how much money i've given them vs. how much their customer support despises my very existence

#3

> me: here's $5,000 over sixteen years, can i reset my password?

> Steam: hahaha who the fuck are you, stop bothering me. fuck off you piss bitch

[1] : https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6416-FHV...

[2] : https://twitter.com/RobDenBleyker/status/1328351807400243201
for a very rough analogy, consider how programming (especially hacking) is portrayed in popular film/tv. usually it looks very little like what we actually do all day. it's not wrong per se (in the moral sense); it's just what people do to make entertaining content with a reasonable scope. at the same time, it's kind of a slap in the face to see this kind of content and realize that the makers either do not care enough about what we do to portray it accurately, or worse, they do understand and deliberately portray it differently because it would be boring for the audience otherwise.

it's a vaguely similar sort of problem with this type of article. the author probably didn't harm anyone by taking a quick stint on a fishing boat. I don't think writing and publishing the article harms anyone either. but at the same time it raises uncomfortable questions. would someone who makes their livelihood from fishing choose to write this sort of article? if they did, would they have an audience?
I'm really struggling to update my Mac for any reason other than being forced to (looking at you XCode and Developer tool chain).

When these "major" releases risk completely breaking my laptop, I see zero incentive to update. I read through the release material and find absolutely nothing compelling. Apple seem stubbornly intent to celebrate these releases as huge step forward. Yet, the feature set is barely noteworthy.

----

OSX Release Starter Pack

* "Bold New Design" - we tweaked the colors and made some things round.

* "Refreshed X" or "Powerful X" - we took something and changed it for the sake of marketing

* List of Safari Updates - Just, why? Why is that attached to an OS release?

* A bunch of other apps that are apparently only releasable with a new OS version. In particular, messages will take up 20%+ of the release content to essentially highlight the ability to put emojis and faces on everything.

----

I've definitely gone from "I'll buy a mac because it's a mac" to "Maybe my next machine will be Windows. It's cheaper, more reliable, and just works"
There’s always your local bookstore which most likely can order whatever book you want if they don’t have it.
Third party medium format system lenses are not something I see when browsing. Though I would not be stunned to come across a Vmount product. I would attribute most of it to market size and adapters for the mirrorless systems and maybe the availability of used 645 lenses.

35mm is a whole different scale of market with entirely different buyers. The entry point cost to medium format is more than the 99th percentile of 35mm like systems.
Ah that is great to see! Was the motivation about Yelp's practices or UX, or both?

Also is TripAdvisor the long-term plan or a stop-gap until a better 3rd party provider matures or something homegrown catches on?
Apple has like 20-30 models, so testing should be easier. Also you pay a premium for apple hardware, so there is the expectation that it just works.
The headline overstates it: antibodies reactive to the virus were found earlier than expected. But not the virus itself.

That may mean that the virus was spreading earlier than thought. It may mean a closely related virus was spreading that generated cross-reactive antibodies (which we already know is happening with different antibodies). It may mean that COVID-19 was spreading, but later mutated into something more virulent. We just don't know yet.
> [T]urning multiplication/division into addition/subtraction with logarithmic scales felt like a genius level hack when I first learned about it, like the fast inverse square.

Indeed the whole notion of logarithms was developed and introduced by Napier to simplify calculations!
Geez, because there are more than first-order effects from the person who contracts the virus... this argument ticks me off so much, as if the only concern is "well, I don't die/get sick/have lasting effects, so what is the big darn deal?"

Let me tell you what the big darn deal is, from the perspective of someone who likely won't get sick either.

My wife just suffered through sepsis from a previous surgery. She ended up being admitted into the ICU for three days. I learned after the fact that there are roughly 40 staffed ICU beds in the entire county, population ~400,000. Those beds could easily be taken by COVID patients in a situation where you have uncontrolled community spread, and the hospital is now making difficult choices of who deserves those beds.

Now as she recovers her immune system is still fragile. In her normal condition, she probably would be OK after contracting COVID-19. Now, perhaps not so much. If others around me assume that contracting COVID-19 is "no big deal" and end up transmitting it to her, that may not be a problem for those people. It would be a huge deal for me.

What's missing in these rosy pictures of COVID-19 is the lack of awareness that... gasp... we live with other people, and that we all have a duty to protect each other, not just ourselves! What is so wrong with that? If wearing a mask helps me protect others around me, then why not do it? Honestly, if that's the worst encumbrance you've encountered in your life so far, then you've had quite the privileged experience, and as I'd say to my children, you're damn spoiled.

If you don't want to listen to me, listen to the people who have taken an oath to protect my life and yours: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-enraging-deja-vu-of-a.... It's absurd the entitlement that some people display, thinking "well, if something bad happens to me, there will be someone to save me". At the end of the day, the nurses and doctors that treat you are people too. Respecting them means more than sending flowers or banging on pots, it means doing your part to help ensure they can care for the true emergencies and not just idiots who can't be bothered to follow some simple rules to help out the greater good.
The future’s uncertain – but noradrenaline can help us adapt
Eh, I don't think that's fair. Lots of people here make society a better place, as do the companies and organisations they work for/contribute to.

Sure maybe you could argue that Facebook and Google don't make the world a better place. Maybe a bunch of other FAANG companies.

But not everyone here works for one of those. I don't, and I'd say my work probably improves society in a certain sense (depending on whether web development/UX design/usability work does that).
VMware Fusion (now changed name to VMware Player).

But I would expect it to work the same for other virtualisation software, because that's what MacOS does for full-screen apps.

It's nice that the swipe gesture is intercepted by the host instead of passed to the guest.

I swipe to full-screen remote desktops too (in this case to access another work laptop on my desk via my main monitor), it's really nice having them all available this way. It's like having a deluxe KVM, which also has a zoom-out thumbnail viewer when needed :-)
Benefits of My Philosophy Degree
My 2015 MBP bricked when upgrading to Catalina. Thankfully I managed to recover back to High Sierra via Disc Utility/Recovery Mode. I upgraded to Mojave and now refuse to upgrade it any further. I have an iMac which will be staying on Mojave too.

I worry that this opens me up to security risks, but the reality is, upgrading could break it again and force me to replace it when the hardware still has plenty of life in it.
Entering an contract via an email is a ridiculous idea from the start.
Hospitals are already filled with Covid patients. There’s almost 70,000 people who are hospitalized with the virus. Elective surgeries are being postponed again. People don’t understand the seriousness of the virus and it continues to spread uncontrolled straining our medical infrastructure.
"Rotating keys" isn't the important part. "Publishing keys" is the important part. "Rotating keys" is an implementation requirement of "DKIM with repudiability via eventually-published keys."
I wonder what would happen if you had both vaccines.
At some level shouldn't Google feel some heat here? Yelp and GrubHub may be gaming the SEO, but Google owns the kingdom. This problem is prevalent enough that Google can't claim not to know about it. And they've certainly invested time in the past to make the algorithms give preference to more likely correct information. They should be penalizing Yelp and GrubHub sites, they're easy enough to recognize.

It won't take too long before people just quit trusting Google search results. That's probably for the best, unless you're Google, which is why I'm surprised they haven't nipped this practice in the bud.
Very interesting thread with some caveats here: https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/13283520291908771...

Excerpt:

> [With] these early efficacy results, we may be measuring the effects of an impressive front line army that spins up in response to the vaccine - but then we should be careful not to assume the same efficacy persists to hold that line after most of the troops disappear! [...] Only time and careful follow up will tell how much the >90% efficacy of the two vaccines holds after the early vaccine responses fade away.
There's no evidence that youtube-dl actually hurts youtube, you could just as easily say it makes people want to watch more youtube. There's also no evidence of any of the other things you said.

What I think this comes down to is the music industry is coordinating attacks all over the internet (they do this on twitch too recently), in the hopes they'll get some money out of it. Not much more to it than that.
> the Uniform Commercial Code [...] requires that contracts for the sale of goods over $500 to be in writing

Yes, but not all contracts do that. For example, any contract for services is not covered by the UCC.
What seems dubious to me is that it seems like it’s just repricing energy by moving money.

As far as I can see the oversupplied energy isn’t actually ‘moved’ or put to any productive use.

Mining Bitcoin in this instance seems like a pure loss of energy through conversion to heat, even if it results in the creation of money.
Companies spend thousands on things that have dubious impact on the bottom line. This is something that has a direct and measurable impact. If the solution for the parent commenter was as simple as changing something in developer console, then the change for tinder shouldn't take more than a few days or a week.
Ah, but getting your tweet actually read is a whole other ball of wax.
Say you were Emperor of Antagria(Neighbour of Canada). You find out there is a highly infectious mutated virus spreading. It has entered your country. Early modeling places it less deadly than the flu but higher infectiousness. Which likely means mass deaths.

It's February 3rd, Australia and the USA closed their borders to China. Trump's political opponents are calling him xenophobic and racist. Canada denounced "the spread of misinformation and fear across Canadian society" and called on the opposition to "not sensationalize the risk to Canadians",[15][16] while Tam endorsed the position by the World Health Organization, which "advises against any kind of travel and trade restrictions, saying that they are inappropriate and could actually cause more harm than good in terms of our global effort to contain" the disease.[15]

Your own advisors are likely telling to much of the same thing. Afterall, it's not even a Pandemic yet, that doesnt happen until March 11th. You tend to agree Trump is xenophobic and racist. So you don't shutdown the border. But you could potentially save lots of lives if you do shut it down. You decide not to because you dont want to be called xenophobic and racist.

Month later, March 13th comes along and Canada is finally pretending to close it's borders; when in reality is actually not. Multiple flights a day were still coming from China.

You look at the Canadians and think they might have an idea what they are doing. Maybe those flights are just repatriating their own citizens? You look into it and there's absolutely no checks to see if those people are healthy, they arent really serious about the lockdown.

You think, perhaps we should wear masks? But Canada's chief of public health outright dismisses the idea. It's april now and Tam is saying "people who are not sick should not wear a face mask at all"

You figure that perhaps she's educated and knows well, perhaps masks dont work? You could order that you must wear a mask to go out in public. It might save lives but surely Chief of Public Health in Canada knows what she is doing.

It's now May 20th and this same person now says we should wear masks? Why didn't you tell the citizens of Antagria to wear masks sooner?

At what point do you as Emperor make the decision to lockdown? At what point do you face being called xenophobic and a racist and actually lockdown?

You also realize that when you lockdown and removed fundamental human rights. You need to show people you're re-opening. So you lockdown more than you even need to, in order to have a reopening where you end up at the appropriate lockdown level. So you even shutdown your government's parks and other outdoor areas. Only to open them up shortly afterwards.

Why is Covid so politicized? Why is there corruption and suppression of science? Because without suppressing Covid dissent someone might say you have completely screwed up your response to the issue.
I treat emails as postcards: I assume anybody can read them.
No offense intended, but your landing page is a bit rough. If you don't mind some feedback:

- The header "The simplest tool for remote and international teams" doesn't mean anything. The simplest tool for doing what? I have no idea what this is after reading it.

- On a related note, I'm not really sure what the name of the service is. Is it meant to be like "Say Yo Name"? If so, maybe you could change the header to something like "Say Yo Name! Help your remote and international teammates pronounce your name"

- The undismissable floating "start video chat" box is really awful, especially on mobile where it takes up almost half the screen.

- "the whole team creates profiles and record names" -> "records names”

- "Call users using build in video chat functionality" -> "built-in"

- "Add video chat to any website. It is a couple line of HTML to copy to any website." is awkward. I'd suggest changing the second line to "...with only a couple lines of code" or something similar.

- "Pronunciation is different, though, not easier, at all." is a really awkward sentence. "Pronunciation is different, though not at all easier." is much clearer.

- "Next time don't pretend that your colleague hasn't got a name." -> "Next time don't pretend that your colleague doesn't have a name."

- "Start video chat, share screen, no camera? Just chat!" -> "Start video chat or share your screen. No camera? Just chat!"
Thanks for the feedback! It's a browser-based music visualizer generator — basically, you upload a song and graphics and get a video that you can put on social media. Traffic tends to be around ~1k pageviews and ~100 videos rendered per day.
What Gödel Discovered
Does anyone know how good the M1 is for training ML (since there's no CUDA support)?
I have been using tons of open source software on my Mac since 2017 without ever disabling SIP. The only thing I’ve ever had trouble with was gdb and I was able to address that by self-signing the binary. Having said that, gdb has other issues on Mac but I think they may have a shortage of actual Mac developers.

M1 Macs don’t boot any OS not signed by Apple but they did demonstrate Linux running under virtualization. The fact that they included this in their demo indicates that the ability to continue running open source software on Macs remains a priority.
Just lookup what happened to the last Nvidia macs. Completely broken graphics drivers on Lion+
This is likely being done for business reasons rather than technical reasons. It would prevent the use of any "legacy glass" which a lot of medium-format shooters have been collecting over the decades. One would have to buy an entirely new lens collection at the cost of many thousands of dollars.
I disagree and I live in Switzerland and we tend to be a 40h week hard working country (not long ago 42,5h was the norm). Compare that to our neighbors and we are way about the average. Together with Iceland we have the most hours, so I think you might be wrong. Maybe education is different...

Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/greeks-work-longest-h...