skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They lost their relatives due to a declining living standard in the US. Qanon is a thing not because of Facebook, but because it gave people hope that the horrors and apparent wrongness of the globalism that has wiped out their communities, would be addressed.

Things like Qanon and BLM are a result of that declining living standard. No one would care if the country hadn’t been sold out. It absolutely is the slow death of the middle class and working class has led to all of this civil unrest and jumping at shadows. In a heathy, growing society, you just wouldn’t see things like this.
I’d point out that child sexual abuse content is not an “easy to solve case”. The extent to which Facebook, Google, and more recently, Zoom look the other way on this issue is horrifying and it seems to be a very hard problem due to the laws surrounding the handling of such material. I’m not faulting the laws, I just think this is an inherently hard issue to crack down on. Gabriel Dance and Michael Keller at the NYT did some very high quality reporting on this whole issue in 2019 (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...).
The main difference is in the attack surface. Attacking the FDE can happen offline with infinite attempts with a large-scale operation dedicating lots of compute power. Breaking my user password has to happen on site at that exact moment and my lock screen can detect N number of failed logins and shutdown.
I wonder if the current bull run of crypto prices gave the founder of the market a touch of FOMO and perhaps sold some of his earnings without covering his tracks properly?
Elixir's tooling is so good. The documentation is readable by a human, you can jump in and get information at any time. They focus on the developer experience, and it's one of the most compelling reasons why I love the language/ecosystem so much.
This.

I'm pretty convinced the proportion of people who would be likely to expect Apple to be able to recover from a lost password, even though they'd specifically opted out of that, would tend to ~100% of any group of users (not just Apple users).

Many people think "The Internet" is their browser (Oh, mum, [sigh]). Try to explain public key cryptography consequences to them, I dog-dare you. If Betty (Oh, Betty, [deep sigh]) from next door said it was "better" then they'll go for it anyway, and only pay attention to the consequences when it's too late.

The article is a year old, and I think Apple could do some stuff around what they already do (if you forget your password on one device, you can typically reset it using the password from another device, all the while maintaining the cryptography chain). There's some interesting avenues that could be explored there, but until they have a solid-as-they-can-make-it public release-candidate, we won't hear anything about it.
Philosophize this is great. If you were a fan of McLuhan, you should read L.M. Sarcasas. His blog (https://thefrailestthing.com/) was how I was introduced to McLuhan, Postman, and other philosophers of media and technology. He has unfortunately shuttered that blog, but he has a substack newsletter thing that talks about similar things: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/people/1810437-l-m-...
I've thought about this a lot. Currently, my preferred solution to the problem of Sybil attacks in decentralized social networks is a reputation system based on a meritocratic web of trust.

Basically it would work something like this: By default, clients hide content (comments, submissions, votes, etc) created by new identities, treating it as untrusted (possible spam/abusive/malicious content) unless another identity with a good reputation vouches for it. (Either by vouching for the content directly, or vouching for the identity that submitted it.) Upvoting a piece of content vouches for it, and increases your identity's trust in the content's submitter. Flagging a piece of content distrusts it and decreases your identity's trust in the content's submitter (possibly by a large amount depending on the flag type), and in other identities that vouched for that content. Previously unseen identities are assigned a reputation based on how much other identities you trust (and they identities they trust, etc.) trust or distrust that unseen identity.

The advantage of this system is that it not only prevents sibyl attacks, but also doubles as a form of fully decentralized community-driven moderation.

That's the general idea anyway. The exact details of how a system like that would work probably need a lot of fleshing out and real-world testing in order to make them work effectively.
I'm curious, how many purchases do you get per month?
That's not true: the EU had lots of national privacy laws under the privacy directive (GDPR was partially intended to unify/simplify that), and the US had sectoral laws such as COPPA and HIPAA, the former of which very much applies to Facebook.
>Yes, they moved into Inferno, and implemented Alef ideas in Limbo.

No to 9front, 9legacy AND Inferno.
This article is dead-on, but I think it is missing a fairly large segment of where ML is actually working well: anomaly detection and industrial defect detection.

While I agree that everyone was shocked, myself included, when we saw how well SSD and YOLO worked, the last mile problem is stagnating. What I mean is: 7 years ago I wrote an image pipeline for a company using traditional AI methods. It was extremely challenging. When we saw SSDMobileNet do the same job 10x faster with a fraction of the code, our jaws dropped. Which is why the dev ship turned on a dime: there's something big in there.

The industry is stagnated for exactly the reasons brought up: we don't know how to squeeze out the last mile problem because NNs are EFFING HARD and research is very math heavy: e.g., it cannot be hacked by a Zuck-type into a half-assed product overnight, it needs to be carefully researched for years. This makes programmers sad, because by nature we love to brute force trial-and error our code, and homey don't play that game with machine learning.

However, places where it isn't stagnating are things like vibration and anomaly detection. This is a case where https://github.com/YumaKoizumi/ToyADMOS-dataset really shines because it adds something that didn't exist before, and it doesn't have to be 100% perfect: anything is better than nothing.

At Embedded World last year I saw tons of FPGA solutions for rejecting parts on assembly lines. Since every object appears nearly in canonical form (good lighting, centered, homogeneous presentation), NN's are kicking ass bigtime in that space.

It is important to remember Self-Driving Car Magic is just the consumer-facing hype machine. ML/NNs are working spectacularly well in some domains.
>What did you expect the algos to show? Teddy bears?

Junk I actually want to buy might be a good start.
Related to this, it seems FB sort of panicked with the recent Signal exodus.

The app demanded cloud backups from me 8 times over 2 or 3 days.

Presumably so that returning users still have their messages intact.
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I've been involved in interviewing for Elixir positions and found that we got more senior candidates than I've ever seen before. Part of it might have been pandemic displacement. But I'm not seeing a lack of work in my freelancing and I'm not seeing any particular skill shortage.

.Net and Xamarin integration. No clue. Samr as for any other non-.Net language I imagine.
From newspapers’ biographical sketches of the people who were arrested for the Capitol siege, some of them were on the dole and so they didn't have an employer they could shock, why the others came from parts of the US where their small-business employers may well have sympathized with “Stop the Steal” rhetoric.
Basically this manager guy had like a dozen job titles under him, such as Business Analyst, Data Analyst, ML Engineer, and sundry more. Then his HR team came to him and told him to just boil it down to 1. So he made up this title "Data Scientist" because it sounded badass, and then everyone from both the business analytics side and the software engineering side decided this sounds awesome and they want it to be the next step of their career.

Then the federal government came up with this title something like "Secretary of Data Scientist" and the guy who made up the term worked at that.
I recommend the book: Agile Data Science by Russell Jurney[1]. The tech stack is circa 2017, but the chapters on the Agile Data Science Process and Teams are timeless.

He clearly articulates team roles: from Biz Devs, marketers, PMs, UX designers, UI designers, Web Developers, API Engineers, Data scientists, Applied researchers, Platform/Data engineers, QA engineers, DevOps Engineers.

Then he talks about different ways to increase agility by combining these roles into generalists empowered to iteratively explore the "pyramid of data value" until the right product-market fit is found.

Building Data-science Intensive Web Applications is inherently waterfall, not agile, and I find this book to be a fascinating reference.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/agile-data-science/9781...
I had to remove a word because title was too long. Maybe removing “fully” would’ve been better
The idea here must be that somehow Apple or AMD have figured out the magic sauce to making faster processors, while Intel of all companies is oblivious to it and won't be able to catch up.

In reality, there is nothing that Apple or AMD are doing that Intel could not also do, isn't already doing, or isn't in a hurry to also do.

Consider that at 14nm+++++, Intel still manages to outpace AMD with its 7nm CPUs and latest architecture. AMD competes mainly on price, which is not a great position to be in. Intel's profit margins are massively better.

It's possible that x86 will become less relevant in the future, but in that case Intel will still be one of the be best chip designers in the industry. They will once again produce ARM chips, perhaps borrow one or two insights from Apple's architecture. They will continue to outsource manufacturing to other fabs, perhaps even become fabless.
It seems this is supported in CrossOver: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhite/2019/12/10/celebrati...

And it seems possible to build CrossOver wine from sources: https://github.com/Gcenx/homebrew-wine
Come by and check out https://elixirforum.com/ and slack https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/ everyone is super friendly and helpful.

* edit: fixed link
It's the new CIS.
Hopefully none.
Actually, BB10 had an even better feature, you could provide dummy data to wrapped Android applications. So you could fill the Android contact data with an empty contact list and the app would be none-the-wiser. This feature was never advertised.

But noone bought the phones so who cares?
> you have a bunch of Data Scientists just handed a pg_dump or flat file from some ops team.

I feel seen. At a previous job, our output after some cleaning and transforming was a pg_dump for the data scientists to load. We had little visibility of what they did to that database once they got it.
>This was fine with iOS & play store & AWS until they all simultaneously and independently (wink wink) realized it violated their terms of use.

The timing seems more likely due to a major public event than a backroom coordination.
CrossOver seems to have support for 32bit on Catalina through some sort of major effort. Not sure if this will trickle over to open source wine anytime soon? https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhite/2019/12/10/celebrati...
I've been posting that Reuters link repeatedly to HN (in context) for the last year or so; hopefully this is common enough knowledge now that I can stop.

This whole "Apple cares about your privacy and encrypts your data" false narrative really needs to finally end.
SSPL is based on the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE https://webassets.mongodb.com/_com_assets/legal/SSPL-compare...

So apart from adding the cloud non-compete clause (don't offer Elastic as a Service) there are many more restrictions added compared to Apache 2. For example I think linking can only happen with GPL3 code and it is copylefted instead of permissive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-so...
That's not the point I'm making. I'm saying that as an individual it's a probably a good idea to avoid constructing arguments out of prepackaged notions. Whatever "elites" do isn't the factor I am considering here, especially not NY Times pundits or their equivalent. YMMV
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The only reason it is worse with X11 is that it is an inherently networked protocol, so the same statements also apply to any remote connections you might allow to your X server. It also makes it somewhat easier to capture Xkb / Xinput events purely through API, without need for any elevation or excessive polling of the devices ("it just works").

That includes any systems you might have SSHed into with X forwarding enabled, as it automatically extends the trust there. Yes, your ssh client might try to enable X SECURITY extension (which clamps acesss to just the current window), but it is disabled by default or bypassed anyway by the users as that extension is known to crash quite a few programs.

Both are a product of their time when the prevailing approach was to trust the programs you run.
No, but it’s perfectly fine for a company to not want to be in the table/chain saw industry if they have a brand identity around “just works.”

It’s unfortunate because apple has the cash and panache to take it mainstream, but they probably don’t have any market incentive to do so, at least until someone else figures out the ux that doesn’t cut clueless user fingers off.
> Parler wasn't kicked off AWS because of a political disagreement. It was kicked off for multiple terms of service violations and unwillingness to adequately moderate its platform to ensure that further ToS violations didn't occur.

It's a little strange, then, how Amazon took Parler's money until a day after others deplatformed Parler right after the election. Amazon's decision doesn't seem as arms-length and independent as you believe.
Elixir was largely the reason our API scanner is not only super robust and fast, but also super fun to work on.
Technology Review summary of AI and ML adoption into business. It indicates, while you leading thinkers have figured it out, business is a long ways from being anywhere near peak ML.

https://mittrinsights.s3.amazonaws.com/AIagenda2020/GlobalAI...
> They are not accountable to the local population they are serving.

That’s not true, Facebook is accountable to the laws of local populations. And populations aren’t forced to use Facebook, China chose not to.

What are you advocating for here? An international cloud platform with different standards in every country? How is that supposed to work online? What exactly would Facebook do differently ... while obeying the laws of the countries it operates in?

Doesn’t it make some sense, liability-wise, for Facebook to apply the union of all (or most... many are similar globally) free speech exceptions globally across the entire platform, and therefore subject Europeans to US limitations and vice-versa?

You didn’t answer the core question: why should Facebook not be able to apply their own rules? That goes against the grain of the idea of private companies. Are you suggesting that Facebook is too large to be private? Or are you suggesting that no private companies should censor any speech, regardless of company standards? Or that there shouldn’t be private companies? I don’t understand.
Agreed, I would have a subscription in a heartbeat.
Agreed, if their hosted cloud services and premium features aren't viable as a business, and they don't have any intention to develop this software without a profit, then they shouldn't have positioned themselves as a free-and-open-source product in the first place.
Looks like you misspelled "NoSQL" :)
I would use it because I like the convenience of iCloud backup and not having to ever plug my phone into anything.
Contexts are loosely (maybe a little more than loosely) based on the Bounded Context concept in Domain Driven Design. As a good introduction, I would recommend reading Domain-Driven Design Distilled by Vaughn Vernon. It's sort of like the Cole's Notes version of the full Domain Driven Design which is a monster of a book.
That's the funny thing! French with what are called regional "accents" (be it parisian) is more pleasant to speak and easier to get.
I don't think it's really that different. Elastic did that same thing about three years ago when they made all of their enterprise-only features source-available (https://www.elastic.co/blog/doubling-down-on-open). Timescale also made their enterprise features free of charge, but that's a business decision rather than a question of licensing. It's because their revenue model is based completely on their managed cloud offering while Elastic still gets non-trivial revenue from selling their enterprise features to customers who want them.
I have been permanently banned from Facebook for using an incorrect birthday :/

Uploaded government id, correct information, phone number but I'm no longer allowed to create an account.
The data science field has been flooded with PhDs with nowhere else to go that have no background in engineering, and sadly often have a very poor understanding of both machine learning and statistics.

Companies were in a rush hire "data scientists" and boot camps like Insight were more than happy to pump out very impressive PhDs with just enough understanding to build a Keras model.

I've worked in industry awhile doing DS work and have been astounded at the number of PhDs that both don't know how to write Python that doesn't live in a notebook and throw away years of disciplined experimentation experiences to just throw keras models at data until the needle moves.

There do exist excellent data scientists out there, who are both very solid software engineers and really know their stuff mathematically, but I've found most of these people can't reliably find jobs because the people interviewing them know so little that good data scientists will be penalized for answer a stock question correctly.

The field has been so flooded with amateurs that have no idea what they're doing, that potential mentors have been driven out, and now it's just a mess. To get a job doing DS if you do know what you are doing you have to play a weird game where you guess the incorrect answer the interviewer has in mind.
For those who can avoid using iMessage for meaningful discussion, that's why we have Signal/Telegram/etc. Also it takes that extra effort to piece together evidence if you have to search someone else's phone for my data.
>>> You're still only as secure as the client on the other side of the conversation. If that one is compromised ... it could very well be sending all messages in clear text to a malicious party.

>> There's no technical solution in any technology for preventing the other side being compromised, as far as I can see.

I don't know Matrix, but I can guarantee that it doesn't solve the problem of a compromised client obtaining the messages willingly sent to it.
Has anyone benchmarked the vulkan switch? I'd imagine there'd be some pretty good performance gains.
Worked on me. I just bought some AR500 plate armor. Better safe than sorry in today's world. I don't see any downside to buying body armor.
There are so many problems with this NYT opinion piece. The most glaring and worrisome to me is that 2 out of the 3 did not consent to be subjects of this NYT op-Ed.
> It's scary that paying simple attention to the complexity of reality is now considered "leaping into conspiracy land", and that so many people are just fine with the media guessing at what is true, and asserting it as fact (which is then absorbed into people's minds, becoming the fabric of reality).

We're now 5 responses deep into this post and you still haven't put to words what it is you're suggesting that is so obvious to you. Please, please explain what is so obvious that us sheep seem to simply be missing.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5122631/ studied false positives for 34k individuals who underwent colonoscopies in Korea between 2013-2015.

The gist is that they found a significantly higher false positive rate - probably between 2.4x higher and 4.8x higher - and in absolute terms, a meaningful FP rate (15% without or 25% with other abnormalities):

> Among 3946 participants, 704 (17.8%) showed positive FIT results and 1303 (33.0%) had hemorrhoids. Of the 704 participants with positive FIT results, 165 had advanced colorectal neoplasia (ACRN) and 539 had no ACRN (FP results). Of the 1303 participants with hemorrhoids, 291 showed FP results, of whom 81 showed FP results because of hemorrhoids only. Participants with hemorrhoids had a higher rate of FP results than those without hemorrhoids (291/1176, 24.7% vs. 248/2361, 10.5%; p<0.001). Additionally, the participants with hemorrhoids as the only abnormality had a higher rate of FP results than those experiencing no such abnormalities (81/531, 15.3% vs. 38/1173, 3.2%; p<0.001).

The discussion section (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5122631/#__sec1...) has more, particularly some conflicting results with past studies.

Also, everything is different for a patient than a population. If a patient has reasonable expectations (ie, that a positive result could easily be false, and is nowhere near conclusive), and they would otherwise obtain a colonoscopy rather than putting it off, then by far the bigger concern is false negatives. That is, if you can take a FIT (or two a few months apart) and skip a colonoscopy based on negative results, the false positive rate doesn't matter much - you're replacing something annoying with something not at all annoying. I couldn't find any good studies of false negatives.

After reading this stuff, the one thing I wouldn't do is completely replace colonoscopies in favor of FIT.
I thought Parler tailored their site's pitch for be for people who didn't want to be restricted on their speech? That's what it seemed like when I signed up for Parler.

Many of my friends signed up. There was never hateful or violent rhetoric in their feeds, nor mine.

You can be removed from these platforms at any time, with almost no appeal. That's a significant flaw, not a design feature. Like it or not, Facebook and Twitter are the public square for the Internet now. I don't personally like it; I hate it... but that's the way it is. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe its time for everyone to build their own website, host their own video and audio, etc.
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Engagement _is_ moderation! When FB chooses what to show you, it's already moderating things but simply using a different value system. The're a pushback on "censorship" today but censorship has been happening for years.
> This is the free market at work.

It is not. The “free market argument” does not account for entrenched monopolies who buy up - or shut down -competitors long before they can become threats.

Anti-trust laws, which have absolutely no teeth since the 80s (and every then...), are not incompatible with free market capitalism.
Since almost nobody bothers to encrypt their personal data at rest I don’t see the need for a backdoor. If, via a warrant, you have physical access to the hardware you have all you need, in most cases.
That's possible if you use more than 1 TB. Otherwise they're cheaper, quite significantly for smaller amounts.
Links for reference? When the CEO spoke with Kara he said that they have groups of five random individuals on platform moderating each decision.

That’s a filter bubble style of moderation and poor compared to Facebook/Twitter’s efforts for moderation.

The CEO also made it sound like they ignore context and instead only respond to direct threats of violence, allowing vague remarks on platform.
Or the company selling those solvent traps are targeting people that are interested in firearms?