skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anima Anandkumar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_Anandkumar) is a Director of AI at Nvidia, and a former Principal Scientist at AWS. She recently published a list of people she has blocked on Twitter as a list for her followers and AI/diversity/inclusivity communities to harass to try to "change their views". She also further clarified in a later tweet that if these people cannot be convinced, they should be cancelled (https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/13382985616922542...). She's also looking to purge those who hold non-progressive views from the press (https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/13383472542440243...) as well as in academia even outside of the AI space. For instance, she is trying to pressure Harvard to drop renowned public intellectual Steven Pinker (https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/13379977073868636...).

Her feed is particularly focused on going after Pedro Domingos (https://twitter.com/pmddomingos), a UW Professor who is also author of the bestselling "Master Algorithm". Professor Domingos is not aligned to progressive/far-left political views, which has made him a target for Anima Anandkumar as well as others. He has posted numerous comments that go against "woke" ideology, and has drawn attention from others in the academic community as someone to be purged for having different political views and opinions.

Lastly, Anima Anandkumar admitted her list contains false positives as well, meaning that some of the people she has targeted are not even people she meant to target (https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/13383461255358218...). She asks that people DM her if there is a mistake, which is not possible since you can't send DMs to someone who has blocked you. She claims here her list is not meant to be "punitive" even though she is urging followers to "cancel" those she lists.
Like all good things, this will initially blow up on 4chan.
Watching the media say one thing about Hydroxychloroquine and the medical community saying the opposite - at the same time - was really eye-opening for me. As was watching how many people blindly accepted the media's take on it. Every time I brought it up on HN I got down-voted, even when providing citations. It's made me wonder what other things I'm unaware of where the biases in the media lead to large numbers of people believing falsehoods.
You look like a good Joe.
I agree. I have tried to come up with some reasonable way to constrain macros, but its really hard!
The Ngneat/Dag Library
I feel pretty certain it will be different from what it is today, sure, but how much would be kept? Wearing masks? Some sort of vaccine proof so you don't have to wear them? Still no indoor events with more than, say, 500 people?
The comment isn’t about the temps outside, it’s inside the house. The point was that in really cold places people have to have good heating and insulation so the house feels better than places with more mild winters.
The system you describe is the government. The government would tax it and then redistribute the revenue to the communities of those affected, if that’s what we decided was most important. The state is the mechanism through which groups of individuals take action in public.
Prof. Anima Anandkumar's Enemies List
Of course if you _have to_ heat then do it, as I said when I was going through -20c degrees winter you can't really escape it. I'd argue most people can live perfectly fine without heating. (not living up north / at high altitude / in cold micro climate).

People don't heat their flats/offices to 25c in Berlin or London to avoid frozen pipes. Unless you live in a 1800s house there is no way your pipe would freeze here
For sure. It's like going to interview someone with the previous interviewer telling you every has hated them so far.
Yeah, look at the popularity of OnlyFans. It’s the same concept just not yet fully outsourced to AI.
Don't know why you were downvoted, this is 100% what everyone should be doing. Don't even write shiny_api_key = "A-CLEARLY-FAKE-KEY". Don't write ANY secret AT ALL in your code, no matter what. Even for test frameworks. Just don't do it.

Build in the secret retriving function from day one. Have it grab from an environment variable and it will be 100% seamless from development to production. Add more complexity/security if and when you need it.

This can later be leveraged to allow for zero-downtime credential rotations for running services, which allows for seamless use of ephemeral credentials, which is what we should all be moving towards.
The consolidation seems to be really accelerating in the video game space in the last couple of year.
Microsoft, EA, Sony Worldwide Studios and other seem to be on an acquisition spree.
Plenty of Top SaaS Companies Are Worth a Lot Less Than 10x ARR
The article actually covers it:

> Pornhub's announcement also cites a report by third-party Internet Watch Foundation, which found 118 instances of child sexual abuse material on Pornhub in the last three years, and notes that in the same period, Facebook's own transparency report found 84 million instances of child sexual abuse material on the social media platform.

There was also such an issue with it cropping up on Tumblr and not being removed in short enough order that Tumblr was briefly removed from the iOS app store.[1]

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46275138
The decisions to withdraw particular features or modes of certain EA games, or to retire online services relating to older EA games are never easy. The development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into our games, their features and modes almost as much as the players, and it is hard to see one retired. As games are replaced with newer titles, the number of players still enjoying the games that have been live for some time dwindles to a level – typically fewer than 1% of all peak online players across all EA titles – where it’s no longer feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping the online services for these games up and running. [1]

[1] https://www.ea.com/service-updates

Games impacted by the above policy:

https://www.ea.com/service-updates/a-h

https://www.ea.com/service-updates/i-q

https://www.ea.com/service-updates/r-z
Extend the AI to incorporate not just your chat, but everything. Location, playlists, all other chats, phone calls, purchases, e-mail, physical activities, ...

An AI that is designed to incorporate all personal input and ingratiate itself into the lives of 100s of millions and trained at that scale and become effective to the point that very large populations could be dramatically influenced to satisfy the ends of those who determine the AI's objectives. Civil war? Genocide? Virtual enslavement?

This eventuality is around the corner. I think I'll switch off now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TjyGmvNBfM
Google has more money, and it doesn't come from porn
I find it interesting that the conversation in the screenshot reads like an Eliza transcript; the individual sentences (from the bot) don't actually look like they're connected. They're always responding to the previous message. See, for example, the message randomly talking about GIFs (translation error?), or the medical plaster thing that's really more generic sentence about love, and nothing like what they're framing the context as.

Of course, I'm also confused by the half-transliterated, half-translated name…
/r/programminglanguages has good content. Most of the contributors are hobbyists, and some are just starting out, but there are always good discussions to be had.
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Torrent aggregator sites/discords have small groups of people behind them to arrest or sue. A blockchain would have a large impractical group of people to arrest or sue, it would be like when the RIAA tried to sue Kazaa users.
I read most of the Nickolas Kristoff editorial in the NY Times (don't confuse editorial with actual reporting, in the NYT or anywhere - editorial has 'license' to do hit pieces). While I agree that online porn is a horror show, Kristoff oddly omits what looks like the biggest problem to me:

(This might be upsetting. Read at your own risk.)

What I've seen of online porn sites is a strong emphasis on the real physical and sexual abuse of women. It's advertised brazenly in video titles: I am confident that if you search for something as horrible as 'woman gets the crap beaten out of her', you'd find lots of videos, and I'm not using more stomach-turning and sexual examples that I'm confident would find equal success. It's shown in the videos (at least the still frames that are part of the video title): Women expressing pain and showing bruises and even bleeding.

I understand sexual fantasy, and that to widely varying degrees and frequencies people enjoy these fantasies - PornHub has many customers - and that a few people even consensually engage in them in a safe, controlled manner. That is all people's private business, not mine or the public's, and I have no objection to it. But these are not fantasies - these are real people, real human beings, getting hurt and abused, physically and emotionally, for others' entertainment. It's on an enormous scale.

We can argue to ourselves that they are actors and it's all made up, like a Hollywood movie. We can say the women choose to do these things. And I will tell you what I told myself: We are full of shit and we know it.

Almost everything we see and read tells us otherwise, and yes many of these people are assaulted on camera by any definition of the word; many are beaten and tortured. Also, if you think Amazon workers are vulnerable, imagine the situation of these women. Are they going to take the video producers to court? Call the National Labor Relations Board and file a complaint? Has it ever happened? If it has, it's a drop in the ocean of porn online. From what I understand (and see), these are among some of the most vulnerable people in communities with limited resources. The world and the system tell them (wrongly): You're work in porn, you are the lowest of the low, we don't care. Imagine Amazon treating employees this way - and then selling the videos for profit.

I don't want to speak for the people in the videos or define them; I encourage you to find online them speaking for themselves. They are all different people with different responses to different experiences, but a lot of it is much worse than this HN comment. Also, imagine seeing someone you know or love being hurt like that; imagine how you would feel if it was you, beyond the pain. These are people just like us and our loved ones; they feel the same things.

It's straightforward: It should be illegal to hurt people, and to distribute videos of it, and to do it for profit. It's not hard to understand. It is happening on a wide scale and publicly. It's a horror show, and it's real.
Plastics such as parabens are endocrine disrupters and weak estrogen mimics. Sounds hellish to me.
In the event we finance an ISA of a student who has not graduated we have to refund what we received if a student doesn't graduate.

You are incorrect in your understanding of how ISA financing works. Our interests and incentives remain aligned.
Gimme That Re-Moat
Tome raiders: solving a great book heist
You're talking past me. I'm not denying that these people are leftists, I'm saying that it doesn't matter. There's nothing wrong with quoting a leftist in a rightist argument (or vice versa).
Agree. Humidity and altitude play a huge role in how cold it feels (and in how effective the cold is - specific heat).
Also "20 000 new cases" - out of how many tests? 20 000? 100 000? There are claims of some companies returning only positive results, others only negative.
Also the data collection has been so erroneous that analyses are therefore meaningless, and response action therefore just theatre.
That ban has been leaky for a while -- HBO & Cinemax have carried pornographic content for decades, yet both have apps in the App Store. On top of that, you could buy HBO & Cinemax directly from Apple before the launch of HBO MAX earlier this year.
Outage Disrupts “Majority of Google's Services” Across US, Europe
Right. When the implication is spies, lockpicking, laser limbo.... The more likely scenarios are a CFO that thinks they are also a CTO, a sr tech that was given admin credentials to fix a problem that kept coming up for some reason, or some inconsequential service bot account was given admin privileges in development and never fixed later.
Nvidia Under Fire for Banning Review Site That Doesn’t Focus on Nvidia Strengths
Wouldn’t your blockchain be several PB in size right away, immediately censoring itself because nobody could store it?
The WHO very blatantly lied about masks in the beginning to preserve protective equipment for frontline medical personnel. They then changed their tune afterwards. Do you think the science on mask wearing suddenly changed - or do you think they were lying to people because they thought it the lesser evil?

Framing this as a right or left thing is not constructive. Deal with each thing point by point with citations if you want to have a real engagement about the issues.
The "old" Reddit we loved is precisely what kept a lot of people away - it was walls of text with basic, minimalist design language. I personally loved it (hence why HN appeals to me) but I understand why lots of folks wouldn't "get it".

I introduced my S/O to Reddit ~6 years ago. It took a long time for the site to stick. What finally did it was having the iOS application.
We can see this with smartphones as well
This article is extremely dishonest and should be removed. It offers zero proof this is what lead to the compromise. The leaked credentials were reported over a year ago and patched according to FireEye.

There are already comments here from users who presumably haven't read the article and are parroting this as fact.
Thank you so much! (Have been looking for this for a while and forgot the domain)
It’s an incorrect assumption that mining follows the local energy mix:

Electricity is the main cost of mining, so miners compete in minimizing their electricity costs in order to maintain profitability, including by co-locating mining facilities with point sources of underutilized power (e.g. remote dams). The sources like this, hydroelectric and natural gas flares, the profitable mining electricity rate is regularly competed below the fuel cost of e.g. coal power. So anyone buying coal to mine Bitcoin is losing rather than making money.

E.g. in this example it’s currently hovering around the cost of natural gas: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertanzalone/2020/08/13/bitco...

> As both the cryptocurrency markets and the power markets are constantly fluctuating, we do whichever is more profitable at any given time - either sell the generated power or mine crypto with that power.
You can "just" do a lot of things yourself. The premise of all services is that they help you reach a certain outcome more efficiently and/or effectively.

No single service will be valuable to everyone. There might be services that provide no added value to anyone, but I would argue those are not actually services.
Yep, I agree. Facial recognition is a field where you commonly see overfitting to culture where the tech package was created in.

One dead stupid example, I can think of is biometric cameras being unable to differentiate between faces accurately on the default settings. The cameras are sourced from Europe, and universally use an exposure setting that's too short to do anything more than bring out the whites of someones eyes if you have dark skin tones and are in a normally lit room. Just setting the explore to be a little longer, results in decent results for dark skin tones (and of course, worse results for light skin tones).

Consumer technologies like iPhone camera's on the other hand get it right, because they were forced to start testing on different culture groups due to bad press, but their ubiquity leads to people forgetting that every single setting in a camera can lead to better or worse outcomes, and you can't always rely on having a fast processor like an iPhone to autocorrect for you.
Workaround:

#define LOCK(mutex) lock lock##__LINE__(mutex)

Or even C compatible scoped locks:

#define SCOPED_LOCK(mutex) \
for (int i##__LINE__ = lock_mutex(mutex), 1; \
i##__LINE__ --; \
unlock_mutex(mutex))

Use like

SCOPED_LOCK(foo->mutex) {
do_stuff();
}
Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft Announce Shared Commitment to Safer Gaming
Well, the most forward-thinking performers are already outsourcing parts of their tailored interactive experiences to emerging markets...
And whether economic progress is a good proxy for societal progress
It's not that consistent which stances get upvoted. Different stories attract different readers, and comment upvotes depend on the quality of the message as well as the content.
Fun fact, multireddits existed very early on after publicly created subreddit launched, they just didn't have a UI for a very long time. But you could always do multiple reddits with a + between them. That's how we constructed your front page on the backend, we just didn't expose the URL.
It already is happening https://www.neowin.net/news/youtube-will-launch-a-new-age-ve...
Yes, well, sort-of.

Colin McRae was a pretty cool game in its day but didn't really have the great physics that RBR did. But it was an earlier game so it was the best that there was available.
This is the wrong answer. At a company I worked at, we had a well known saying: "Favor mechanisms over good intentions." As the saying went, if good intentions worked, we "wouldn't need mechanisms."

The right answer here (as stated in sibling comments) is to install a mechanism into the build. A push that accidentally commits credentials should break the build. How it goes about doing that is up to you, but the specific way I've done that in the past is a git hook [1] specifically the pre-commit hook. It looks like there's a reasonably well-updated package by Yelp to help do this kind of thing [2].

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
[2] https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets
The humidity is still a big factor inside, and it's why you feel colder than in places with low humidity.
Isn’t that the whole intent of section 230?
Whole-house dehumidifiers are more popular in humid climate zones, which also tend to be hot/not-cold. Though there are places that are both, at times cold and hot/humid:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humid_continental_climate

However, the general point stands in mostly-cold zones: it is possible to control humidity independently of temperature.

Also, most people want good indoor air quality, so bringing in filtered outside air, and tempering it with exhausted stale air is becoming more common (and is part of the building code in many regions):

* https://www.ecohome.net/guides/2276/choosing-between-an-hrv-...

* https://www.venmar.ca/23-detail-faq-en-what-is-the-differenc...

And that venting could help control humidity as well.
Poisoning the well
yeah. this is really bad. austen's in here responding so its not constructive for me to play armchair CEO but i really hope they fix up their act. they were on to a good thing.
It means that in the sort of zero interest rates environment that we are in, where investors are desperate for yield, they will probably be able to sell these for years longer than they otherwise would have (and ruining lives in the process) before the house of cards finally comes crashing down.

In theory you are right, and in theory savvy investors would have never allowed the subprime mortgage market to get so ridiculous to allow the 2009 GFC to manifest.

But I think in reality it changes the game greatly. Before securitization Lambda is incentivized to produce grads with lucrative job placements. Now they may find that they get a better return on their efforts going for volume and marketing their ISA bundles. Teaching 5K bootcampers to code is hard. They may find that roping in a Masa Son or other less savvy fund to overpay for a portfolio of 100k ISAs (growth produced by lowering standards and taking on unqualified candidates ) to be relatively easier.
2-3 whiteboard interviews with 2 questions each. All questions need to be answered correctly.
> Typical Balkan mentality.

The Balkans are quite far from Germany, and I'm originally from west of Germany actually. Not sure what you're trying to insinuate here
Code security: now there's a tool for developers
ARM-Backed Servers – Better Performance for Less Money
Yeah, someone in our company was convinced to sign the department up for it - but noone uses it because promotions and bonuses shouldn't be based on social media "likes".

That's a big problem internally at Facebook these days friends told me - where value of employees work is reduced on how many likes they get on that platform. It seems pretty toxic.
For example, Prop 13 in CA caps property tax increases on primary residences, which keeps people in their homes longer than they would otherwise stay, which in turn reduces the for sale inventory.

Another example is Trump's Tax Act, which capped "SALT" deductions (State and Local/Property Taxes). This impacts housing prices relative to rents because you can't deduct the full amount of your property tax in high value states like California.

These are two examples...
This reminds me of Houellebecq's concept of sexual/romantic relationships becoming a parallel struggle to that of survival in the economic market. Obviously, they have already been fundamentally about competition, but the nature of the competition is starting to resemble the brutality of applying for jobs on online platforms.
That's the interesting thing; they don't seem to have.

If they'd gone for ref-counting benchmarks, that would have shown something more like 5-10x; it's really good at that. The graphs they showed seem to be reflective of performance in general-purpose benchmarks (SpecINT et al).