skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now, the schools are treating the kids as they have not rights. For example, no right to delete the video with the private conversation. I had to lawyer up to deal with my kids school pushing "safety" software on the computers my kids use (that I own, that connect in my home network) that was leaking data to Chinese and Indian servers (there was some kind of affiliate background ad clicker that was bundled with the software or something). This will have to change.
He Designed a Smartwatch App to Help Stop His Dad's PTSD Nightmares
I remember trying to set up k3s a few months ago and encountered a hard error that gave zero results when googling. I don't remember the error anymore. Was not impressed though and would not call it trivial to set up.
Perhaps rather than focusing on very broad systems of government, we could look at changing the system of fire regulation and inspection. There's ground in between "blame individuals" and "blame capitalism".
This comment is entirely part of the problem. Insubstantial inferences and half truths are not useful
Top Signs That Indicate You Are About to Suffer a Cyber Breach
Hmm. A lambda platform that just runs spreadsheets. This is a killer idea.
Usually real estate companies or the original developers. It creates all sort of opportunities for abuse. Most of these long term leaseholds have a symbolic rent (“peppercorn rent”) though unscrupulous developers started setting up contracts with an initially small rent but with a steep contractual step up over time (most people do not read the small print). The servicing of the property is also often a way to squeeze leaseholders. The landlord has control over the servicing company and can overcharge through the service charge.

There are some projects of laws to remediate this mess, but this requires to overwrite private contracts, something gvts have been reluctant to do so far.
The Sound of a Perfect Fluid
>As far as I'm aware, attention does not even attempt biological plausibility, nor was it in any way inspired by biology.

It may not have been the intention, but associative memory is the one of the only mechanisms that computational neuroscientists can agree on broadly. There's been recent work on energy-based models that suggest biologically plausible methods adjacent to attention. [0]

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06996
The idea for row indices 100% comes from R, as it's been in S for longer than I've been alive ;)
> The idea, Tyler says, was to use technology to imitate something service dogs were already doing — recognizing a traumatic nightmare and then nudging or licking the person to disrupt the bad dream. He thought the smartwatch could do this with a gentle vibration.

> But the tricky part was to provide "just enough stimulus to pull them out of the deep REM cycle and allow the sleep to continue unaffected," Tyler says

> With constant fine-tuning as his dad slept in the next room, Tyler eventually perfected the algorithm. "Having someone that close to you and knowing exactly when those nightmares happen was super important to training a model like that," Tyler says.

> For Patrick, once they got the formula right, the watch was life changing. "It was night and day when I put that watch on and it started working." The vibrations, he says, were "little miracles."

> An investor purchased the rights to the app and started a company called NightWare[1].

> Last month, the Food and Drug Administration approved the app[2], which works with an Apple Watch, to treat PTSD-related nightmare disorders. It will soon be available by prescription through the VA.

1. https://night-ware.com/

2. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-perm...
I see your point. What name would sound better as the email sender (a name is required)?

FeedFeedback is the original app that I built that allows people to easily ask for and get feedback. I added this new feature of anonymous email on top of that.
> In the UK, I have low-cost, fast, reliable, accessible money transfers. Basic bank accounts are free, and come with reliable free instant transfers to any other UK bank. That may not be reality in all countries, but it is in many.

It is also a reality in Brazil. Last month the government and the banks released a standard money transfer protocol (PIX) which superseeds the other protocols (similar to ACH in USA). Cheap, instant payments 24h a day regardless of the bank are a reality here today.

Hence I don't see FB having much success in Brazil with this product.
Also similar: http://www.improvmx.com/
Sad to read. Does seem like anxiety and stress is a big factor of the tech world.
> I think our institutions have been corrupt for a lot longer than social media has been around.

That's probably right. Well then... on the bright side the bar is set pretty low!
The Spectator can be crazily right-wing (case in point: Toby Young) but it also publishes work that goes against type. It's not a monoculture.
Only in the US, you are four years off on it, and since the results of the election are likely to actually be honored, it is, in a way, reverting to the mean.
It sounds good. I just can’t wrap my brain around it.

Basically if you get called out you wait for the price to come back down and buy in?

If it was a hot stock though you could be burned forever if you miss the rocket takeoff.
Small claims court is usually more time consuming and expensive than opening a complaint with an appropriate regulatory agency.
> HN rules indicate that if a post didn't get enough attention that's alright

Which is why I explicitly stated I assumed it's just an experiment of sorts and I didn't imply anything nefarious.

The optics of posting the same links from the same websites suggest going beyond "I found this interesting" towards something more about getting the clicks.

Sometimes HN is used just to garner audience, and while the letter of the rules may be observed, the spirit certainly isn't [0] (you may need to enable seeing dead threads).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dev.to
Looks like I got my timeline somewhat backwards! Initial Linux build was the 32-bit x386 version, though 68k amiga portability also started rather early. Ultimately resulting in a variant for the 64-bit dec alpha, after receiving an AlphaStation 500. My recollection of the AlphaStation circa 2000: it was indeed a powerhouse for CAD type apps, though Silicon Graphics would come to dominate in arenas like Hollywood. Thanks for clarifying ;)
From the report:

"Frey reported these symptoms with an RF source transmitting at 1.3GHz(which provides the greatest absorption depth into cortical tissue)..."

So they are implying that not all RF is stopped by the skin and some does penetrate deep enough to reach the brain. I don't suppose it will be long until some shortsighted YouTuber tries this as the experiment would not be hard to replicate at all.
I don’t know. As someone who recently built a Linux workstation but whose computing is generally done on a Mac, I had all sorts of trouble with surprising things. Like my mouse stopped working one day ... no idea what happened, tried googling, tried asking, but nothing I did fixed it. Ended up just reinstalling the OS.
It states: "Successful college dropouts are not rare in Silicon Valley. The current president of Y Combinator is one." This is merely an observation of his and says nothing about his personal attitude towards dropouts. But you have addressed him in your appeal, so take your chance.
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That's the problem, I don't even use SMS, I deprecated it starting in 1999 and ended deprecation in 2007. It's 2020 already. Use e-mail. It's better than SMS in every way.
> mostly related to the "basket of currencies" model. I think that will stay even with value only being pegged to the US Dollar, but there is less need for that

Indeed, that was their most unique feature.

A stablecoin pegged to a basket of fiat (say just USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, JPY, SGD), using traditional crypto tools (burning, pegging) definitely has a place and a bright future ahead.

However, there's no need for facebook - defi may be able to do that with smart contracts over wrapped stablecoins (say USDC for the USD, etc.)

Hell, even USD, EUR, JPY would still be EXTREMELY valuable and useful.
"We claimed our device met USB, which claimed a max power draw while unenumerated of 1mA, yet our device actually used 500mA. Whoops. How long did you have this device unenumerated for? 1 second each time you plugged it in? Well damages can be calculated then...

1 second * 365 (number of times plugged in per year) * 500mA * 5 volts * 5 years (expected lifespan) * $0.14 ($/kWh electricity)...

Total compensation is $0.00014... Would you like a check for that?
I think the R reputation for stability is entirely driven by CRAN. If your package doesn't build on the latest version of R, it is marked unavailable. This means that people can build on R-current, in a way that simply isn't possible with the state of python packaging.

Maybe Python just needs a bigger repository with more stringent rules for what will be allowed?
IMAP/POP3 - not SMTP
Ask HN: Do you sandbox different uses of your laptop
I want to poll the community on whether you try to sandbox different uses of your pc/laptop/mac.

I am usually careful about what applications I install on my Mac, so I try to keep it safe for all kinds of uses, including banking. However, I feel that this might be a false sense of security.

The other day I was installing some plugins for my VsCode and IntelliJ setups and realized I had no idea how much access these random plugins have on my laptop. I understand plugins have access to my source code, but I doubt that access is limited to my project folder.

I understand I could be totally safe by using some VM virtualization, but I feel that is overkill. Is there simpler alternatives? How about just a different user in your machine? With a Mac though, that becomes unnecessarily complicated with having to establish an iCloud login for each account. What do folks do? Just trust everything and try to be careful?

I tried keeping a personal device for trading/bank use, but that is just not convenient. There must be a better way.
> a ton of hot air blown

I see what you did there!
USB compatible, and USB compliant may be two separate things?
Oh, many thanks for this explanation. Even more interesting.

Yes, Voedovsky’s abd Scholze’s candidness is encouraging and liberating. And a great call to responsibility for us reviewers.

And thanks for your work on formalization. Truly important in my view.
Speaking of typos: "chuck full" should be chock-full.

You're welcome
It would also fry your electronics and be incredibly noticeable and very easy to prove.

Also, 10 000W wouldn't be enough because that power isn't into a single resonant cavity, we'd be talking about pulses with instantaneous power an order of magnitude higher at the very least.
> She told them she wanted confidental information

I understand this is only because upper management had chosen to anonymize their review of the paper, which is apparently quite unusual in Google.
YARA has been a pleasure to work with ever since i switch from IDA with sigmaker to Ghidra with YaraGhidraGUI.

Really made me think of how to actually make patterns match asm by hand when needed.
A few years ago I got an unsolicited sales call from godaddy, offering me all sorts of bullshit that I didn't need (I did have some domains with godaddy then). I promptly told them no and thought that was that. A few days later I notice an $800 charge to my credit card I had on file with them. I call them and ask about the charge, they say I agreed to the purchase in the sales call. When I refuted this they said they had a recording of the call, and verified that I agreed. I asked them to play the call back and they refused. I called them a few times again asking for a refund or to hear the call that supposedly proved I agreed to the purchase. Anyway, a few weeks of bullshit later, I sent and email to HQ@godaddy.com, laying out what happened and telling them that in 24 hours I would be filing a complaint with consumer protection Ontario[1]. I got a full refund and an apology within a few hours. Needless to say I transferred all of my domains out of godaddy.

[1] https://www.ontario.ca/page/consumer-protection-ontario
apple is a cell phone company now. in the same way that users in the US hate Verizon, ATT etc for rubbing our noses in the fact that we have no choice but to use their service, which frees them up to treat us, the customer, like trash, that’s how anyone paying attention and being honest with themselves now feels about apple. there’s not a sliver of sunlight of a difference between these corporations, and in fact, they enable one another. I wish this weren’t the case, and even if apple didn’t have sycophants populating 80% of this message board it wouldn’t matter. they are beyond having to give a crap about users, technically inclined or otherwise, at this point.
Some of these can be worth the squeeze / time (e.g. stuff from Mark Manson imo), but the litmus test I use is whether the author trying to do any one (or more of the following):

* "inspire" me with useless stories from other people, i.e. stuff that isn't anything beyond "wow amazing feat!" with no practical utility. These are most of the trash pop-biz or pop-psych books that talk about the marshmallow experiment for the Nth time...
* use their book to get speaking engagements (e.g. by checking their website)
* does the book contain a goofy diagram to abstractly illustrate their point in a bass-ackwards way? (The Conjoined Triangles of Six-Sigma Success!)
I tried making my own page with normal #anchors and it works but this one does not.
They are not the same thing, no.

Pretending they aren’t related is insanity.
What I haven't seen posted here is this:

- the prospect of large corporations making thousand percent ROI is very real, while the common person using this does not get any of that.

My opinion of this is that we should be concerned - what are the possible upsides of corporations having outsized returns that can't be touched by governments at all (at least with current day laws)

This would only serve to make the wealth gap more extreme.

I urge everyone to read more here:
https://www.coindesk.com/billion-dollar-returns-the-upside-o...
IIRC every time I've manually downloaded the latest game driver for my card its installer has tried to get me to install Experience too.
Why is metric collection still a hard problem in 2020?
On AmigaOS filetype recognition was very sophisticated. There were several ways to do it:

1. Filemanagers allowed you to configure a full combination of tests, which included magic bytes, binary or string seek to location and test for value, filename suffix, that all as often as liked, combined with boolean operators.

2. The system's datatypes.library had little slave drivers, that would "implement" a filetype, including any code a developer could write to do complex recognition. Modern filemanagers allowed to combine this with (1)

3. There was a shared function library (freeware), that did nothing but filetypes recognition, configurable by the user.

How I miss these days...
Deep learning is mostly irrelevant for AGI but the best part of the article is bringing up the "recursive process called Merge”.

This Merge [0] is called "chunking" in cognitive psychology [1, 2], first mentioned in classic paper "The Magical Number Seven" by George A. Miller [3].

In the original Chomsky work[0] it is buried so deep in linguistics jargon it's easy to miss the centrality of this concept, which is the essence of generalization capability in biological mind.

It's the JOIN in Leslie Valiant LINK/JOIN model [4, 5]:

"The first basic function, JOIN, implements memory formation of a new item in terms of two established items: If two items A and B are already represented in the neural system,
the task of JOIN is to modify the circuit so that at subsequent times there is the representation of a new item C that will fire if and only if the representations of both A
and B are firing."

Papadimitriou & Vempala [6] extend it to "predictive join" (PJOIN) model.

Edit: As I think about it deep learning might be useful in implementing this "Merge" by doing nonlinear PCA (Principal Component Analysis) via stacked sparse autoencoders, kind of like in that "Cat face detection" paper by Quoc Le [7]. The only thing missing is hierarchical memory representation for those principal components, where NEW objects emerge by joining most similar existing objects.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_(linguistics)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)

[2] http://www.columbia.edu/~nvg1/Wickelgren/papers/1979cWAW.pdf

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...

[4] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.208...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/Circuits-Mind-Leslie-G-Valiant/dp/019...

[6] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.7955.pdf

[7] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6639343
Hah, this is exploiting the old, 'back in my day music was good, unlike whatever you are listening to now'.

In other words, you let everyone else filter for you.
Not sure if this question even makes sense, or if it sounds hopelessly naive to someone in the know, my maths education ended in undergrad -

can this type of push towards formalizing mathematical proofs be seen as a sort of continuation of Hilbert's program? If no, what's the difference? If yes, how are the fatal issues in that program avoided?
When I was a student, I was struck by the lack of focus on the weirdness of QM in the QM courses. It hit me super hard when it switched from courses where you could spend extra time and feel like you really understood it to instead having a course where that extra time is a counterproductive rabbit hole and “shut up and calculate” is the most useful school of thought.

I absolutely love anything that tries to make progress on the foundational questions.
I believe the motivation is mostly energy saving (climate change), not aesthetics. In france there is also a programme to sponsor adding cladding on all houses, with similar abuse by small unscrupulous firms which install anything and collect the subsidy.
> not tied to archaic concepts like sort codes and account numbers

What are the problems with sort codes and account numbers? Are you after binding the account to your identity like Australian PayID?
> It's 3rd in the number of most developers behind Bitcoin and Ethereum.

It's a gameable metric. How do you track it anyway- by github contributors? By number of people submitting patches?

Also, not all contributors are equal...
What facts do you think are missing, and what do you mean by ‘a deliberate choice to believe one side or the other’?
I use mini cube and It went pretty smoothly.
:claw author reporting in. At first, I was semi-skeptical too, but not anymore. I've managed to wrap a few C++ libraries (GLM, Filament, PhysX). Not without a manual intervention (claw is still evolving and adapting to C++ edge cases), but those libraries pretty much work now. I'm not sure I would be able to cover all C++ idiosyncrasies, but huge parts are already in.

That said, claw's C++ support is still in the works and I don't recommend diving into that mess yet. Stay tuned for Q1 2021 semi-usable alpha release. Or not. C++ is such a pile of shinies, I'm pretty sure I lost a few screws during :claw development.
Agree. And that makes it worse. The government washed their hands of responsibility - in the name of their favourite mantra "shrinking the state" - and the results are horrific to see. If government, and those who profit from these schemes, can shirk responsibility and point their finger elsewhere, they'll suffer little electoral repercussions.
To be frank, if everybody else is sheltering in place, that means the staircases will be clear for me to run down. If everybody thinks as I do, maybe there will be problems. But, judging by my experience with staircases in America (namely them being fairly wide and numerous), I prefer my odds in the staircase. Even if I only manage to get a few floors down before becoming tangled in other humans, maybe those few floors are enough to put me below the fire, or below the floors now filled with toxic smoke.
> For those not familiar with how flat purchases work in the U.K. We have a crazy system where people purchase “long-leases” for their flats, you don’t own the flat, your just renting it for a long period of time (normally 99 or 999 years depending on your landlord). When you sell your flat, you’re just selling the remaining period on your lease (the 99 years doesn’t reset). And yes this does mean that once the lease expires you no longer own your flat anymore, there are ways of purchasing extensions etc but it’s a bit much to put into a HN comment.

That sounds like real estate in China: the government owns all the land, but sells "land use rights" that last for a maximum of 70 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_law#Procedure...
>know that your connection is being monitored or modified

Probably some low hanging fruit here are
1. Inspect the CA used by a few different websites
2. Try visiting the website from different countries (vpns and proxies) to see if the same cert is used

Theoretically a MITM could tamper with the software download but I think for most cases this would be reasonable
Is there a list of commonly used software and packages that are incompatible with M1 currently, and the efforts being done to address that (or alternatives)?
I make trades based on analyzing data that historically has not been available in financial markets.

I designed custom compression algorithms to manage the huge amount of data.

I came up with a new charting technique for the data that I have yet to see elsewhere.

Then I apply some "technical analysis" principles that traders use to analyze price data, but I add a few ideas of my own devising to make the analysis appropriate for the kind of data I'm using. Edwards and Magee are a huge influence on my work.

I'm working on algorithms now to automate the analysis.
If you pull on that thread you’ll find that’s utter nonsense.

Not to mention that the hand recount would have revealed it.

Please stop posting unsubstantiated nonsense.

https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/...
Alec Fucking Mwali again?

Guessing it's the same affiliate manager I documented here:

https://reviewsignal.com/blog/2016/04/22/dirty-slimy-shady-s...

Trying to get me to publish fake reviews about companies he represents. He also likes using fake 'Re: BS subject that you never sent' tactic and claims it was a keyboard error.

Not surprising he's continuing to work with shady companies.
it actually happened recently to me with an unused .io domain I let expire. Io is an Italian pronoun for me/I; judging by the silly joke-page he put on it, the new registrant is also Italian and is basically just squatting.
You want helm or one of the many, many tools built on top of kubernetes to ease the deployment of applications. All of the same complexity of deploying services was there with docker, you were just insulated and hidden from it by some of its opinions. Whether you want to or not, if you want to manage costs and performance of your app you're going to need to learn (or pay people who have learned) about how to deploy and manage apps in production at scale.
check out my comment on this thread, or this article:

https://www.coindesk.com/billion-dollar-returns-the-upside-o...
Who is matching your bets? Other recreational players that don't understand the true odds? I'm assuming not BF?
Because it gives people a good reason to use Facebook’s Diem
Blinkist and similar tools are a good enough solution for this. But those are locked up behind a paywall. I've been importing links to book summaries (along with authors' TED talks, podcasts etc) in LearnAwesome.org (my open-source project) so that when looking up a book, user can easily discover summaries,interviews,talks covering the same ideas in a more preferable format.
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