skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Auditing privacy settings on social, minimizing ability for anyone but their immediate circle to see activity. I’d encourage them to be cautious about what they do post and make sure they are aware that location data may be attached to images. I’d likely coach them to use a photo app that removes this metadata for any pic they might want to share (no matter who they intend to share with).
I spent hours as a kid trying to figure out the serial number scheme for Ambrosia games. (Sorry.) I had learned how to read PowerPC assembly but the Ambrosia registration application was obfuscated and had very long functions I couldn't follow, I suspect compiled from machine-generated C.

Andrew dropped an enigmatic hint once that it involved "polynomials" and when I eventually learned about these in school I spent a lot of time wondering how you could turn one into a serial number.

Maybe @khalwat can finally reveal the answer to a question I've had for at least 20 years?
Yes, but there seems to be a lot of "first amendment" talk in the comments.
wishing someone is not around != a wish for that someone to be dead.
In South Carolina, where I work for a hospital, you automatically qualify for Medicaid when you’re diagnosed with cancer.

This way people don’t die from untreated cancer.

Getting diagnosed early when uninsured is where we fail as a society. Our politicians cover up this failure by giving them Medicaid so we spend $500k treating advanced disease and they still die, rather than universal coverage.
> “How will you compete with the tech giants?

The one and only thing people who are concerned with the tech giants should be talking about is ending #ImaginaryPropertyLaws.

Anyone talking about problems with big tech but not talking about ending IP Laws are just paying lip service.

I worked at Microsoft. Great and brilliant people. They don't need #ImaginaryProperty protection. End that and sure, shareholders of MSFT will be worse off, but the world will be better off—a ton of people there will go off and start their own companies and there will be a lot more competition in the space.

Same for Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, etc. All of these companies rely on #ImaginaryPropertyLaws for the root of their power. Such laws are just plain wrong (we could enable every child on earth to have the same access to information as the richest with a snap of our fingers, but everyday we choose not to), but putting all that aside, if all you care about is ending the monopolization going on in the tech industry, this is the thing you should be looking hard at.
Sony smartphones still have a headphone jack, so this should be less of a concern for them, I think.
> Looking at the comments here I have to conclude that HN is no longer on board critical thinking much less common sense.

The book burners are running the show. And the complaints you see on hackernews are just people with no power or influence complaining about the censorship you support. Seems like a decision was already made by people much more powerful than us, and this is the path we are on. Free speech and freedom of the press are over. America is done. Nothing special about this place anymore.
Ideally, the mapping from object to image is injective. What you're proposing will lead to "hash collisions" aka blurriness, since each point in the object will bleed colors into neighboring points in the image.

The entire object doesn't get collapsed to a single point. Rather, a single point of the object radiates light in all directions. A lens then captures a fraction of that radiation and collapses it back down to a single point. Then we iterate over each point in the scene with a "for each".
I think the conversation is just a little more sophisticated than you imagine it to be.

And you can be generally in favor of free speech (!= the First Amendment) without accepting its more extreme interpretations. I mean, I'm guessing that you personally are too if you are like most people. For example, most of us would think that YT shouldn't censor either of two people saying (respectively) "Trump was elected in 2016 as a result of Russian disinformation" and "Trump was not elected in 2016 as a result of Russian disinformation."

The interesting question here is, "What speech should a privately-owned forum allow that its owners disagree with?"
FDA Clears Pfizer Vaccine, and Millions of Doses Will Be Shipped Right Away
WebAssembly – Where is it going?
It's an explanation why Mozilla won't fight Apple harder.

Web developers don't just use 1 or 2 mobile devices they own. They develop with desktops where they could use Firefox. They test with desktops or emulated Android devices where they could use Firefox. They find ways to test Safari even if they don't have anything that can run it. They used to find ways to test IE even if they didn't use Windows.
I blame AT&T/Verizon. The power to stop scam calls is well within their control.
Pin Analysis (2012)
The Youtube issue seems analogous in that it's ok if "our guys" prevail. My bias is it's hard to interpret things without empirically predictive power as meaningful.

It's strange for me because I can see the rift between people as a tangible thing, where micro-classes have used the internet to become alien to one another, to where neighbours have developed completely different ontologies that are irreconcilably foreign. I think the problem is even those of us looking to bridge it keep looking for ways to repair it instead of forward to the ways in which it eventually heals.

Youtube is doing this because they think they're going to win. I'd just like to take the other side of that bet.
It's worth reading Barry Goldwater's opposition [0] to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, despite him claiming to be "unalterably opposed to discrimination or segregation on the basis of race, color, or creed, or on any other basis". His stance was exactly what you describe: that government did not have a right to force private parties to conduct business against their will.

There's a good-faith debate to be had about positive rights vs. negative rights; or the potential backlash from forcing individuals to do the right thing; or the usual right-libertarian arguments about the sanctity of property rights. But I'll bet dollars to donuts, that the vast majority of those cheering for tech media giants booting out those with verboten views, based on private property rights, would also be horrified at the idea of even questioning the CRA under the same logic.

[0] https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/06/barry-goldwater-decla...
Yes. Almost everything in farming of major crops has been mechanized for years, if not decades. Fruit picking is still a problem, but it's slowly being cracked.

In the more advanced countries, cow milking and meat cutting is done by robots. The US is starting to catch up.[1] Advanced technology from New Zealand is finally reaching the US. The countries that don't have a supply of low-wage illegal immigrants are ahead in advanced ag technology.

[1] https://www.robots.com/applications/meat-processing-automati...
And this is via Rosetta 2?
Each state has its own laws regarding elections and recounts, but in all the states I've looked at, voters have to sign either a document at their precinct if they're voting in person, or on an envelope for their ballot if they're voting by mail. If there are more votes in a precinct than there are in that precinct's voter registration database, or if they have a mismatch of signed envelopes or sheets and ballots, or the hash on the envelope doesn't correspond to the ballot, or votes from people not registered to that precinct, or multiple signed sheets/envelopes for a single registered voter, all of this makes the "they just dumped in more ballots in" theory more unbelievable, as the amount of coordination and access needed to successfully execute that theoretical tampering without leaving plenty of evidence becomes realistically impossible.

It's fine to investigate a hypothesis if you're willing to accept the hypothesis is false. But if you continue asserting your hypothesis is true after many competent investigators, including investigators ideologically aligned with yourself and your desired outcome, investigate the system and find no evidence to support said hypothesis, instead finding evidence that repudiates your hypothesis, well, it's bad for democracy to continue pushing that hypothesis.
> Yes you should.

Thank you. This is exactly the basis upon which we justify the proposal to force YouTube to host content that their shareholders would prefer not to host. Or the alternative formulation, this is the basis on which we justify prohibiting YouTube from censoring political speech that their shareholders disagree with.
Mozilla had an alternative to Electron and they dropped it before Electron was born even. Who do we have to blame if not them? Their priorities have always been wrong.
I was a corporate manager in a few retail chains with a national presence, a professional services consultant for a software company selling inventory management and point of sales systems to mid-sized chains, and I now consult to distributors and manufacturers regarding ERP and accounting system implementation... roughly 25 years in areas dealing with this question. Your take is pretty good. U.S. sales tax is pretty much a consumption tax across the board. If you are business and are buying for manufacture or resale, you don't pay sales tax; those same businesses will pay sales tax if they business is itself a consumer... so a manufacture will pay sales tax on the paper they buy for the office printer, etc. but not until you get to the end consumer (and by consumer I don't necessarily mean individual person... a consumer can be a business).

I stopped reading the article at "The Sales Tax Regime": it's just wrong. It's not how taxation works for the most part in the supply chain. Not that this was the only problem to this point in the article. The opening point about the "rest of world" is itself one of the classic informal fallacies: argumentum ad populum. At that point it became clear to me that the author didn't have anything on offer that I would learn from.

There is a real problem with sales taxes in the US, but its not found in the article. The problem is the complexity. While there are broad rules of thumb that allow us to generalize that products sold as raw materials or for resale aren't taxed: there are many very nuanced exceptions. Sales taxes and exclusions/inclusions of same are determined at the city, the county, and the state level individually: all with different rates and rules and reporting schemes. And then introduce things like sales tax holidays and the like and get these changing constantly and it's amazing that any of us in the business aren't in prison for tax evasion.... whole companies exist just to keep up with it all. Now of course, that's not just limited to "the sales tax regime". The most difficult tax rule I ran across in retail was in Canada. British Columbia had a rule at the time that certain classes of clothing being sold to children 14 years or younger between certain dates (in the fall as I recall) didn't have to pay the provincial tax (GST applied however)... I might be remembering some details wrong: that was the mid 90's. But getting a general purpose point of sale system to enforce that in a general sort of way was an interesting challenge.
Should you be free to make (acknowledged) sub-optimal decisions for yourself that adversely affect others?

Anticipating the "no - if it's illegal" argument, how would that be the philosophically consistent with freedom to choose free from having a group of people who are "smarter and better" choose for you?

This is the challenge of externalities and market pricing.
Why Millennials Are Interested in Real Estate Investing
I’ve also read that levels of exposure inversely correlate to outcomes: all else being equal, being exposed to less virus leads to better outcomes.
I think he wanted more content, more tests, not more words.
Great, now that we have this new fast hardware, time for developers to make everything 2x slower again.
"They recast what reason does — winnowing wheat from chaff — as an act of censorship."

https://logicmag.io/play/u-mad/
Norwegian Boy Fends Off Wolf Pack with Heavy Metal
Clearly, they are poorly informed. The obvious solution is that public education should be improved, rather than abolished.
This is an excellent summary of the dilemma. Thank you for summarizing it so clearly and succinctly.
In the Pearl River Delta's electronics souks, AI lets the haggling happen
Sure their may be consequences for speech that is later determined by a court and with due process to be unprotected.

But no US law can prevent you from saying it in the first place.
The Hunter Biden Business
Very nice - I'll have to take a look at your COBOL when I've got some free time.

My AOC code is also on GitHub: https://github.com/kimmeld/AOC2020

There are two things to keep in mind here:

First, UniVerse BASIC isn't the old BASIC like you'd find on an Apple ][ or C-64, nor is it the QBasic you'd find in MS-DOS. It has its own unique features, such as dynamic arrays.

Second, I'm taking advantage of UniVerse features where they make sense. When I do this I document it since the code only has a portion of the solution. So far, I've done these for an alternate version of day 4 and for day 7. In particular, I used a UniVerse file in place of a hash table for day 7.
Not a single word in the article hints towards the 1st amendment. I suggest reading the article before acting all high-and-mighty about your "common sense."
Feeling exactly the same. I am trying my hardest to wait for a couple of generations after grabbing a 2019 16".
The way it is in US is deliberate - the premise is that you want people to be aware of how much tax they're paying, on the basis that they would be more politically active about taxes if they knew.

There are other countries with sales tax which don't have this cultural quirk, and where prices normally (whether by custom or by law) include the tax.
It's not far from reality; suddenly there's 100% more capacity for analytics and behavioral tracking.

God I hate this timeline.
Common ways to generate entropy in a way that’s friendly to computers include: measuring noise from a zener (or other electronic component), delta between two or more oscillators, or timing between external events (eg keystrokes, packets, etc). These are all super cheap to manufacture (~$1). If you want to go high end, you can spent ~$1000 and get a generator based on some quantum property (photon spin or background radiation detector).

Computers will typically combine two or more sources of entropy. In newer tls version handshakes, the entropy from both, the server and client comes into play. So there’s ways to build defense in depth.
You thought wrong. The term is neither universal among developers, nor obvious without clarification.
If you ever wondered just how slow modern web development has made the web – Lynx will show you the meaning of haste.

Slow and perhaps also unusable --- such as the popular anti-pattern of requiring JS to render static text, a great example of that being Twitter.
what's the point in DDG then?
About 1.5 times as many people died of Covid in the last seven days than people who died due to drunk driving in 2016.

Drunk driving may be more dangerous to the individual, but not all wearing masks appears to be doing much more damage.

For context, the number of covid related deaths over the past week are equivalent to 5.47 times the number of people killed in 9/11.

These numbers don't include those who survive but suffer from lasting effects caused by covid.

Sources:

https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/impaired_driving/im...

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_deathsinlast...

Edit: Add Drunk ... 9/11.

Edit 2: Change the paragraph about 9/11 to be more respectful.

Edit 3: Add comment about lasting effects.
> "infringement of our rights."

> you don't have the "right" to a spot on their platform

Who are you quoting? Those words, or that sentiment, don't appear in the article. If you're quoting a comment then reply to that comment. And if you didn't read the article then consider reading it next time.
Sametime seemed to have an AOLIM connection too; or was that imagined?
IP laws are a negligible factor in the dominance of tech giants. When was the last time Google or Facebook sued a startup for violating one of its patents? It's far easier to just buy them out.
I recall reading this and some related papers a while ago, and for the fun of it I tried my hand at mocking up a UI based on the ideas laid out. The basic premise was that the application menu was replaced with a "new document" menu (like Google Drive has) that would take you to the relevant place to get things done automatically. Standard apps could still be run, but like you might go "new>text document>template" you'd go "new>app>terminal" for example. The File Edit View menus were also gone, replaced with a search function much like the Unity Desktop HUD where you just type what you want rather than drill through menus and point at what you want. Window management would be mainly tiling except for dialog boxes related to the programme that made them, but ideally the search function would handle most cases where you need a dialog box, employing a simple command parser reminiscent of Zork and the like, where you would just type out what you want to be done in mostly natural language and the agent responsible for the programme will automate as much as possible. Finally, window switching and virtual desktops would be handled by an exposé similar to GNOME 3 Activities or macOS Mission Control. While I don't think its the best approach, a little bit of intelligent arrangement of windows so that maximised windows move to a new workspace, remembering what apps are opened together on the same workspace, and encouraging the user to keep to about three or four tiled windows per workspace just for the benefit of keeping clutter low, and I think it could be easily managed without too much effort - and some keyboard combos or trackpad gestures would go a long way to quickly switching workspaces.
There are cases where 8-core Intel/AMD chips beat the 4-core M1, but the reason and solution to that are obvious.
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"The hardest part is knowing which 100 books to reread."

Not if you're like me - my total number read is only about that many in my adult life (other than textbooks and reference books).
It's my civic duty not to, because people are trying to make it mandatory and we have to set a precedent that mandating it is unacceptable.

I honestly think I would have said otherwise a year ago. But after seeing the mishandling of COVID-19, I no longer have faith in my countries ability to use emergency powers scientifically.
> At recent user interface conferences, several speakers have lamented that the human interface is stuck. We seem to have settled on the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) model, and there is very little real innovation in interface design anymore.

Alternately, you can say that UX design stabilized on a known good pattern.

This reminds me of how some people will refer to stable software projects that only receive the occasional security patch as "abandoned". They're not abandoned, they're just stable.
This would be mathematically equivalent to a wealth tax on savings in cash or cash-equivalent, no? Meaning that the burden would fall mostly on those who have enough money to save it, but not enough to invest into real estate etc.
The collection is quite impressive, and $19 is a no brainer to buy because of the lifetime upgrade.

I have already bought the Tailwind UI with lifetime upgrade and use it for every design I need to make. Hopefully this collection will be a cherry on the top!

Please don’t roll out a monthly fee for it and stop supporting lifetime customers like some companies do.
Generally you can do this in system settings, but yeah, most people don't realize this a) follows the image no matter where it goes and b) is enabled by default

Honestly with some stuff we've seen lately, even reflections of notable locations in sunglasses or even eyes might be a concern. Not sure what you do about that.
Fraud is a very specific (and hard to prove) term of art in US law.

There is no US law that would stop someone from making expressions that are later determined to be fraudulent.

Note, commercial speech (e.g., advertisement) is considered a less protected species of speech and may be subject to prior restraint in limited viewpoint neutral circumstances.
A lot of places are more wealthy or as wealthy as California. Why don't they have the same cost of living or higher?
From the UK 2 days ago: “People with a history of significant allergic reactions should not have the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid jab, regulators say.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55244122
My impression was that the Chief did not cover the meal at all, except through his influence. The restaurant was "gifting" the meal to him in exchange for something. Perhaps it was "protection", or perhaps it was a "get out of jail free" card related to other corruption.
Pretty good. Streisand effect.
"We cannot afford to lose faith in the election process. Period." Half the country doesn't vote, because they've lost faith in the election process.
This is a good point and often ignored.

Also something I was thinking about lately: in every other human endeavour there has been increasing specialisation and humanity has benefited from greater productivity. Why is domestic duties (cooking, cleaning, looking after kids) something where we cannot have specialisation? I don't really care if the man or woman does it but would we not benefit from one partner doing most of it efficiently rather than both doing it badly in between stressful jobs?
It COULD compete with tech giants, it COULDN'T live up to the valuation and had a fiduciary duty to take the offer.

Slack's worth $27bn (which is in the top 100 GDPs by country) and was FCF positive. With the right cap table it could stay private and self fund. But it went public, and by the rules of the game it chose to play ended up valued at like 30x forward revenue. To maintain that valuation it had to sell.
If your interested in a semi modern bank robbery. Evil Genius on netflix is a strange and winding story that begins with one.
Slack will add the calling capabilities of Zoom and Zoom will need to add the chat system of slack.
I see this argument all the time. Sweeping opinions you don't like under the rug doesn't make them go away. People will still hold the same opinions they will just do so where you can't hear them. I prefer the racist I can see. This pushes them underground and radicalizes them.

You mentioned reddit. Do you remember what voat became when reddit closed down subs? That hate didn't go away it just moved and concentrated itself.
Almost every company on that list was the target of comprehensive antitrust action by the government, so you're proving the opposite.
We meed to work to repair this.

No matter who wins the election, we are likely to see half of the USA saying "not my president".

We need the families to be stronger.

We need more patience for things we disagree with.

We need to love and enjoy those who we disagree with. To have deep conversations that help others better understand different points of view. That's how real change could actually happen, instead of tribalism and every four years a new political party removes all the progress from the previous four years - so that nothing truly changes
Sure, it reduced tensions on reddit, but what about tensions everywhere else? The author doesn't care about how toxic Youtube is, he cares how toxic the US is. Pushing these radicals onto radical websites only further radicalizes them. That should be an axiomatic fact, yet nobody seems to understand it.