skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just unfortunate that companies are employing precog future-crime concepts to what (should) be standard privacy approaches.

And, to be clear, I'm not acting like someone I'm not. I'm forthcoming that I have an identity, and I'm even willing to prove that I'm a self-consistent individual. I'm acting like someone that has purchased a month-to-month phone, and have signed up for a free email account, and values their internet privacy. It's become apparent to me that a number of companies discriminate against people for whom this is their only choice... heaven help you if you can't afford a proper phone (or don't have the credit to open a proper cellphone account).

As a transgendered person that's been discriminated against, I do indeed have valid reasons for wanting my most personal conversations to be secure from being used against me. There are other aspects of my private life that that would be wildly misinterpreted if taken out of context. I would prefer to keep my private life wholly separate from my public persona, and that's... harder to do in the age of COVID isolation where everything is online.

It's astonishing to me how many people just... don't care about their privacy these days. And that the bar is so crazy high to be anonymous. To the point that wanting to be anonymous for a few hours is indistinguishable from being up to no good?!

Hell, I'd have to _break_ the law and craft a truly new identity just to be able to be anonymous on some of these platforms that don't have real-world identities as a sign-up requirement.

The argument of "you're not doing anything wrong, so why be concerned about your privacy" is disingenuous. https://lifehacker.com/why-your-privacy-matters-even-if-your...
Biontech, Pfizer's research partner, received 375 million Euro from the German government.

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/themenseite-fo...
The $50 refers to their own story not the one mentioned in the article
How Media Creates Power
The pickle switch is the thumb switch on the control yoke that controls the stabilizer pitch trim. Using it will pause, but not deactivate MCAS.
Developing economies are probably not going to be paying the same prices.
I think the thrust of the complaint is that the society doesn't sufficiently value privacy for its own sake.

In a different kind of society, websites of the sort that you describe would be unpopular, because users at large would place less value on the real-person guarantee than on the non-collection of their identifying information.

Closely related to this is the topic of end-to-end encryption. To withstand attacks that I expect will continue to be mounted on it, I think the society has to believe in privacy as a terminal good. The answer to the argument that "we could catch such and such criminals if we had key escrow" ought to be "yes, and not catching those criminals is a price we agree to pay, because privacy is just that valuable to us".
I recently got an epiphany reading the venerable SICP book. Best abstractions are not about wrapping everything in functions and calling it DRY. You create layers.

If you have 2-3 problems that kinda look similar, you could wrap them up in a function, with some arguments for variation, and pat yourself on the back for DRYing it up. But after some time you get a 4th or a 5th occurrence of the same problem, all slightly different.

Obviously you could create a mess of things by abstracting away what are different problems, but I don’t think “just don’t do abstractions until its really obvious” is a solution, to me it sounds more like giving up. And worse you can end up with piles of code that look kinda similar but with small differences here and there, really hard for new comers to parse and reason about.

What I think is a better approach is to try to come up with abstraction “layers” - smaller pieces of blocks that would make the same problem trivial to solve.

You got your 2-3 pieces of code that look kinda similar. OK do they have smaller parts that its dead obvious that are similar? Abstract away those, now you are left with parts you might be happy to leave as is, don’t need one big function for all of it.

And sure this has pitfalls too, but a good way to test any abstraction is to see how leaky it is. Can I successfully understand and reason about whats going on by just reading the function names / descriptions / types? Does it compose? Yes? Awesome now you have a layer you can build your business logic on. No? Well either change it or get rid of the abstraction until you can come up with a better one.
You could A* your way around the whole planet by using an Earth based computation but only if you knew where every rock was.

There must be some equation of motion in space robots that combines terrain difficulty, robot speed, round trip time to Earth, and how far ahead you’d need to be able to see.

Curiosity moves about as fast as a Roomba. The ping is (min/avg/max) 10’/24’/40’. Ergo, it needs to be able to see X yards ahead of itself to plan A* from Earth, requiring a camera boom Y feet tall producing images with Z megapixels of resolution.

I wonder what X, Y and Z are.
Since we're cherrypicking, I was reading over https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_roulette#Notable_incid... and found this gem:

On July 24, 1973, Dallas Police Officer Darrell L. Cain fatally shot Santos Rodriguez, a 12-year-old Mexican-American child, while interrogating him and his brother about a burglary. Cain shot Rodriguez while conducting Russian roulette on the brothers in an attempt to force a confession from them.

In fairness, that was the 70s. But the 70s were also "one generation ago," so it's not exactly ancient history.

(I could imagine myself being skeptical about your comment before having wised up a little, so I thought I'd chime in to say yes, this really does happen.)
I bet you went to an Ivy or something, this is the theoretical oversimplification a PhD would say.

"Why don't the evil little people just stay home?"
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Spiral binding is a bit annoying, because the opened book never lies completely flat and the left and right page are vertically offset a bit.

I recommend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_binding

The binding machine is heavy, but lives forever, and it's possible to get a used one at hobbyist prices.
Back in university, I had a course on reactive systems, a whole semester of state machines and statecharts. I can't stress enough how useful it was in my career.

I've retrofitted some near unmaintainable embedded systems, and one of the easiest ways to improve spaghetti code is refactoring some of the vars into state machines/statecharts.

Btw, state machines play well with event sourcing and clustering.
I want to think that.. but at the time I’m posting this, ZM is up after hours.
Google Outage Explained
A Google spokesperson attributed the outage of “approximately 45 minutes” to “an internal storage quota issue”. The statement said “services requiring users to log in experienced high error rates during this period”. “All services are now restored”, it said, apologising to everyone affected and promising a “thorough follow up review to ensure this problem cannot recur in the future.”

Google first acknowledged there was an issue in relation to Gmail, and for some time, the status page showed red for most services. “We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Gmail. We will provide an update by 12/14/20, 5:42 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change,” said an update on the Google Workspace Status dashboard, posted at 5.25PM IST.
> This kind of thinking is so common I often wonder how the hell we manage to progress as a species.

Well, your universe is an experiment with a sample-size of n=1. Sure, taking risks might help other humans or other species' civilizations, but...
The zoom founder even worked at WebEx. So yes.
A lot of new genres, that aren't what most people would consider EDM, are hidden under both real and imagined EDM labels in some crazy subgenre. If you are avoiding all EDM because you don't like some shit trance or techno, you could be missing out on a lot of other music just because mainstream music giants don't like it. There are hundreds of electronic music streams going on right now that all have different genres and styles, but if you looked on like XM radio, there is only two streams and both are mostly trash house dance music.

I think a lot of people just don't get exposed to a lot of great new music just because they avoid the electronic label over assumptions of what it will be. But that label means it could be anything and isn't much better than calling it post 2000s music.
http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/

Carl Sagan: Cannabis enables nonmusicians to know a little about what it is like to be a musician, and nonartists to grasp the joys of art. But I am neither an artist nor a musician. What about my own scientific work? ... I have made a conscious effort to think of a few particularly difficult current problems in my field when high. It works, at least to a degree. I find I can bring to bear, for example, a range of relevant experimental facts which appear to be mutually inconsistent.
Refactoring repeated code is toil, but cognitively trivial. Refactoring a bad or leaky abstraction can be fiendishly difficult. I'll take the toil any day.
A literal miracle that was performed three to five times in less than a year! Truly we live in wondrous times.
Ugh, here we go. You’re most likely a progressive white person who has the audacity to think that you can speak on our (minorities) behalf. We don’t need your friggin help. There is plenty of injustice in the world, but as a brown person, I have nothing but good things to say about law enforcement, living in America, and the abundant opportunities I’ve had as a direct result of simply being born in America.

Every time I go to the south, those white rednecks treat me and my brown family as one of their own. In the liberal state where I live, most of what I have to put up with is arrogant white liberals who genuinely believe they have white privilege and are even as racist and arrogant to say preposterous things like, “I’m going to use my white privileged to fight racism.”

People are dying to be little helpless victims today. It’s disgusting. All I see is a bunch of 1st worlders who have no real perspective on what it’s like to NOT live in a developed country.
Lumberyard is widely hated by folks working at Amazon and the only external folks I’m aware of using it are folks who moved from the engine it is based on.

My understanding is they are moving away from it internally, but I have no privileged info there.
Surely out of the good of their hearts. Isn't this nice? :)
I think it comes down to how both sides view impartiality. There's definitely confirmation bias when the president nominates a judge - often the candidates come from the same party so they share some broad ideological positions.

Most judges I think do see themselves as impartial jurists even if the results tend to skew toward political outcomes.
They played it save when designing the protocol. Better to err on that side, than to risk failure because you chose a dose that's too low.

Given that's what they trialled, there really isn't a mechanism that would allow either them or the FDA to change the protocol from what was tested.

Yes, this is annoying. You can make that educated guess and not show up for your second shot and you'll probably help someone.

But medicine has a long history of people being rather convinced of theories that made an awful lot of sense and killed an awful lot of people.

At some point, they noticed. The double-blind trial became not just the preferred method or something like that. It became absolute gospel. Anything else is considered the GOTO of injecting people with... stuff: Even if it's exactly what you believe is needed right now, it's just not going to happen.

See also: "masks don't work" ( = "even though it sounds like a good idea, there is just as much actual evidence for their usefulness in preventing viral diseases right now, January 2020, as there is for crystal healing. Give us a month and we'll have data")
I know Twitter does this. Also saw someone mention Facebook asked for the same when they tried to delete their account. It's a mad mad world out there.
I'd presume most the secrets of importance on electrical circuits are no longer so. Anyone who dared put a certificate online is going to have to revoke and start over. While in there for months, the assailants could have planted back doors and reverse shells or what ever suited them.

The situation in the world is a bit like living in a tough neighborhood that was trusting years ago so things like glass houses got popular. Then the rocks started flying..
Java also has `var` since version 10 (2018).
Sorry, I should have put a disclaimer that my area of understanding here is of physical science, not math or comp sci
> So how are the cores interconnected?

No one answered that and from the core to core ping-pong test the second processor their is some weird, possibly performance crushing issues.
I think he is trolling us :D
That's a different situation. Those Stellar tokens didn't go into /dev/null. They went into the hands of Coinbase, they're just not crediting you. It's not that they can't do anything about it, they just aren't.
Not all code is knowledge, in this sense. And sometimes repeating knowledge is better, on balance, than unifying it somewhere, when you consider the added costs of coupling, of reification, and of abstraction liability.
Somehow those promos have to get done right ? Couple of OKRs, a few perf cycles, launch, and move on. Also great perf stories for people who took care of sunsets
Problems are easy to see in retrospect. You could have made similar arguments after every air crash that was caused by a design flaw.

These problems are found, fixed, lessons learned, new rules enacted, and we move on.
Match WebRTC with Proxy
im using vip72 to create multiple accounts but i need to match webrtc with my proxy , i use multilogin they spoof webrtc but still disable when i check using https://browserleaks.com/
I respect your skepticism :)

It's easy to imagine exceptions to the idea of a simple numerical word-scoring algorithm...

Of course, a word like "bad" might be used ironically, or in some other slang-sense, with a different literal meaning on the page...

But that's totally fine. In principle, the word2vec algorithm is designed to cope with ambiguities like that.

When you analyze billions of words of prose, you can build a model of word-associativity that captures the superposition of all those different word-senses, and the contexts where they tend to appear on the page.

After a big crazy machine-learning process, each word is modeled as a vector in 300-dimensional space, with a vast network of associations and relationships between the other words in the vector-space, based on the way those words are used together in typical English grammar.

When we score the emotional valence of a particular word, we use a "word-vector" technique where those ambiguities are basically already priced into the scoring calculation. Words with a "less ambiguous" sentiment score (joy, paradise, ..., agony, depression) have their lack-of-ambiguity baked into the formula already.

Extreme scores are reserved for words with unambiguous intensity.

But the important thing is: we're not really as concerned about the numerical scores of individual words as we are with the shifting balance of those sentiment scores over the course of a long document.

It's not a perfect way of scoring sentiment of individual words, but it's REALLY reliable for estimating the basic structure of a narrative.
I remember UoM announcing it but a quick look at the website didn't show any details. I would have loved that kind of opportunity when I was an undergrad.
The Man in the Hole structure is essentially Joseph Campbell's hero cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

"A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man."
What language is that? And that issue appears for a number of words in a variety of different languages. While it’s not exactly a minefield matrix, is it really so bad that the makers of a thing don’t know how to check the meaning of their word in every language?
Here's my 2c. All these clever ranking algorithms are irrelevant technicalities in chatting platforms. What matters is the type of people that constitute your audience.

Reddit chooses to cater to emotions: their front page encourages low-effort posts that invoke strong emotions (outrage, etc.) and those emotions nudge their audience to argue with each other and spend more time on the site. This particular type of people - emotional and combative - are good for their revenue model, so reddit specifically caters to them.

HN is the other end of the spectrum: it caters to audience that values dry precise knowledge. HN's (or rather YC's) business model revolves around this type of people, so HN is carefully designed to attract its audience and repel everyone else. The HN's primitive design isn't a flaw, but a carefully designed feature with that goal in mind.

If you're designing a new platform like that, the number one question is "what audience do I want on my forum?" Once you have an answer, you can design the UX and various technicalities: it may be a super-dry arxiv-style forum if you want scientists or a flashy and colorful site leveraging emotions. The common mistake is to try to design a general-purpose forum where people of all types would figure it out among themselves how and what to talk about. That's not gonna work because a Joe-the-redneck can't have a meaningful conversation with a Joe-the-scientist: either the former will start a fight, or the latter will leave. For example, from your description: "an open website for discussing news, science, technology, politics <...> sqwok to be minimal, simple, and approachable for non-tech users." See, you're trying to mix science with politics with non-tech users and so on.

Edit: using words from the Thiel's "zero to one" book, you need to find your niche where you can differentiate from competitors, win that local competition, and only then expand.
Define 'secure'?
I’ve got one criticism in that the over generalisation remark shouldn’t really exist in well designed DRY code - if two function calls and one doesn’t even use most of the parameters then these aren’t covering then these should be separate functions
There is a portion of my brain that might never be able to comprehend digital currency with real money. It’s possible I’m not incapable of understanding it.

All I’ve ever heard are exchanges that are so grossly incompetent that I would never even think about engaging with. Months of waiting for verification that never happens. Waiting for transfers that never happen.

Uploading passports and drivers licenses to an exchange, and bank account information, to only think that 6 months from now there will be a breach and all my information is downloaded by criminals. It’s a full stop to not even consider proceeding.

I would love to know how someone can convert Bitcoin or other digital currency to millions of USD that are capable of hitting a bank account, that can be spent at the local grocery store.

I watched as Bitcoin became a thing and never even considered touching it because I didn’t even remotely wanted to be associated with criminals using it for drugs and other illegal stuff.

Anyways, digital currency is just so bizarre to me.
The private sector has decided to put regular ground chips in spacecraft and just deal with errors using triple redundancy. Low earth orbit where most satellites hang out doesn't have much radiation anyways.

The cost savings from using regular chips is so high that I bet SpaceX will continue to use them even in deep space. Just surround them with sheilding. When a $400 desktop cpu is 500X faster than a $40,000 space rated one a couple pounds of shielding is well worth it
Both GTA 5 and RDR 2 have optional first person cameras, in addition to third person. They handle streaming pretty much seamlessly, and with no apparent bugs. This game is just incapable. Objects sometimes don’t get streamed in. Sometimes it takes 20 seconds for them to transition from low LOD mode to high LOD model. Sometimes the high LOD model loads but the textures remain of the low LOD model. And that’s even when walking on the street, with an SSD. Driving exacerbates the issue further.
Jitsi- use it, love it, host my own instance.
Only downside is the api’s are a bit cumbersome using prosody.

https://github.com/jitsi
Twenty years ago they ran .exes just as freely.
I feel like this is a good application of the two red button meme. Do you want a fat middle class or do you want to get paid in line with the value your work produces?

These aren’t inherently mutually incompatible, but the nature of software is distilling hard problems into products with nearly 0 per unit marginal cost. As a result one pretty ok programmer can generate millions of dollars of value.
> but it is also doubtlessly less oppressive to foreign populations

... So I assume you're counting Uighurs as non-foreign populations? Perhaps you should rethink your perspective.
AI-powered microscope could potentially check cancer margins in minutes
Its an active research area, there are proposals like helios https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Voting which check some of the boxes but aren't perfect . I'm sure cryptographers would love to come up with a fully scalable, trustless, verifiable, anonomous, coercion resistant system. But that's a hard set of properties to satisfy especially if nothing is in the physical world.

If you allow physical voting places, then just make a machine that gives a paper recipt and do risk limiting audits. Problem solved.
Can you give an example of what you would consider to be an actual parody? Because I think that 'The Saga Begins' is indeed making fun of 'American Pie.'

Weird Al is not simply adding any lyrics over the song but instead chose a long and convoluted story arc that awkwardly fits into American Pie's song structure. By including so much story detail from Star Wars into the song Weird Al effectively points out how ridiculous the profound but ultimately meaningless character archetypes are in the original song.
People with night owl genetics might have a low production of sleep hormone. Or have autism which is linked with a low production of sleep hormone.
*if I viewed all proteins as equal... I take solace knowing that if said virus creates something truly catastrophic to the human race - its way beyond the realm of caring for we shall be dead soon. However, its evolutionary time scale factored by its probability of being that horrible means I’m better off waiting to win the lottery.

HOWEVER, knowing we as humans tried to replicate the exact “key card” into our cells that makes this virus so potent (aka the spikey bits with the ACE receptor end) worries me greatly. That’s not on evolutionary time scales or mutations... that sounds like IVF and diabetes.
If I changed companies every time a fired employee did something shady, then there wouldn’t be many companies I can choose from.

Besides, Zoom works really well, and if I propose a change, then I have to own that change and any future problems become my problem.

Unless you are the boss, it’s easier to maintain the status quo.