skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to startpage, no. But if there's no difference then why buy it? It's still an anti privacy company owning a so-called privacy company. They should prove they are private with external reviews if they want trust.
Even I had a TEDx talk ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPe9-OM7vgU
When Mavic 2 Pro came out its camera was better than most stand alone prosumer 4K cameras, really mind blowing.
Exactly. Probably every discovery in math starts out with something that's only close to the truth (like multiplication-is-repeated-addition) but generalizing it to open up whole new areas.

This part of math is so exciting and compelling, I feel like it should be more of a focus in schools.
You misspelled “bitcoin” there. Bitcoin has existed for 12 years now and gone over 1 trillion dollars.
this is about their only redeeming quality to me, ease of maintenance and compatibility. From a design standpoint with all the mix of too many technologies on shabby scaffolding it is annoying. But you know what they say "it works". I have some high hopes for web assembly to reduce some of this. or at least hide it.
I think we’re all too ignorant about potentially including/integrating other animals into the society, Doctor Dolittle style. Wouldn’t it be just fantastic?
I just don't understand why a guaranteed payday if you're even modestly successful doesn't draw competition like flies. I would think that once you're known to be willing to pay a bribe to someone who threatens you even a little you would be bankrupted in short time.
yea, not sure where that second D came from :)
What about segmented digital subscription products?

Micropayments have failed, digital subscription conversion is a lowly 1-3% even at publishers like NYT and WSJ, ad markets are owned by Google and Facebook...

-https://nicklpass.com/

The Atlantic took off like a rocket with this approach. Why don't other publishers follow suit and reduce their reliance on digital advertising? Why even consider micropayments then?
I agree but this new adapted test for cuttlefish is actually pretty smart. They actually zone in on delayed gratification.
One example was being able to write native gems so that I integrate ruby directly with other C based services.
Writing ruby code that directly interacts with mail servers, databases in a thread safe manor was quite useful.

Like learning assembly, sometimes it’s not directly useful, but it does make you write better code; since you understand more of what’s under the hood.
A huge number of diehard carnivores are decades long vegans. Because vegans are the most health conscious people on the planet. This includes Paul saladino, The Godfather of carnivore.
I think Parler's argument was that Amazon broke their contract with Parler. Amazon does have a legal obligation to uphold their end of the Amazon Terms of Service.

These terms also are only enforceable through arbitration (a point I disagree strongly with and wish to see done away with). This is an argument that Amazon could have used.
I don’t understand either. It says private.sh can’t see your query but the “search provider” can, so that’s the other end.

What the heck is a search provider though?

EDIT: looks like it’s “gigablast”. I don’t understand why I just wouldn’t use that search engine directly?
I don't know where this idea came from (I've seen it on reddit a LOT), but it's the same here in Switzerland: you do it yourself because the tax department has no idea how much you made precisely, what you can deduce from it (expenses you had to do in order to acquire your income), etc. It just makes more sense to have everyone manage their own taxes.
We, as in the US and PRC? Or who is we?
Might want to add (1915) to the title. I have no real interest in the specific topic being presented, but it's always fascinating to see writings from other eras that present first-person perspectives on social customs and subjective opinions on relatively minor things; it aids in humanizing the people of the past.
Minimalism has a place — esp. with reduced screen real-estate. An icon I would display in my tool bar or on a button is different than an icon I would display on the desktop.

My beef with Google's icons is the seeming random decision to use rounded miters on some art, sharp miters on others. Very mish-mash.
Read this ProPublica story on how TurboTax has lobbied for 20 years to prevent people from filing for free easily: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
I think people who impulse buy will impulse buy no matter what.

About people downloading illegal copies, in TFA Notch is quoted as saying:

> “If you just make your game and keep adding to it, the people who copyright infringed would buy it the next week”

He also argues that the concept of "lost sales" itself is dodgy, or at least used carelessly. Some examples he mentions:

> “Is a bad review a lost sale? What about a missed ship date?”
> Killing an animal to eat it makes sense, because you can't eat it without klling it.

Just to think through the logic of that statement, let me also point out that killing an animal to mount its head on your wall makes sense, because you can't mount its head on your wall without killing it.

I think I agree with most of what you're saying, but we need to be careful not to hide implicit value judgements in our arguments like "Surely no reasonable person would want to hunt an animal for sport" or, conversely, "Surely no reasonable person would want to eat an animal for food (when there are so many delicious types of plant out there that provide nourishment just as well)".
Yes, because multiplication isn't actually repeated addition :)
Netflix Debuts ‘Fast Laughs’ Clip Feature That Resembles TikTok
When RH sells to a internalizer for payment (PFOF) it is always inside the NBBO (National Best Bid and Offer) which is always going to be a better price than what you would receive on a public exchange AND there are 0 commissions.
Technically you have 0 apples, and you have 2 halves of an apple.
Apophis Passes the Earth on Friday
yes, because i want someone in the irs to evaluate all of my deductions and donations
TurboTax is so full of dark patterns to get you upsold into needless add-ons, I don't think you can say it really "works great".

It's intentionally obtuse and confusing for something that should be simple and straightforward for 80% of the population.
You don't notice the dark patterns because they are dark. Are you sure you haven't paid TurboTax for an upsell when they have a free or cheaper alternative they never mention?
You're absolutely right. There's a whole subset of people who have declared war on meat. They want to replace meat with a diet desperately low in B12 so you have to supplement to be healthy. They want to replace meat with ingredients most similar to the ingredients they use to make dog food. They want to replace meat with extremely processed vegetables made to taste like meat, just like they did with margarine replacing butter, and hydrogenated vegetable oils replacing lard (both of which have killed millions prematurely). They want to replace meat with something very high in phytoestrogens and then demand that you believe that the massive endocrine disruption we're seeing all across humanity isn't related to this push towards foods high in xenoestrogens. They won't even allow for the possibility because it doesn't fit their agenda.

There are issues with our industrial food production particularly around meat. They should be addressed. I would be perfectly happy with lab grown meat if it was proven to be safe over time. I would prefer real meat without massive pollution or cruelty. But I'm not going to shift my diet to something proven to require pills to be healthy.

Just watch, the next phase will be trying to shame people for eating meat. It's only a matter of time.
Almost every working person is invested in the stock market through various pension and retirement plans. To put things very simplistically, if the stock market goes down, people aren't going to be able to retire.
Gebru was fired for throwing tantrums and ultimatums to doxx her colleagues or she would resign, then blasting group email literally calling for sabotage.

her colleagues were 'walking on eggshells' around her for the fear of retaliation for any minor criticism https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...

Mitchell was fired for exfiltrating thousands of files and sending to external accounts. https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/20/google-targets-ai-ethics-...
Thanks for taking a look, and that's a great question. The search is both end to end encrypted and private.

In the sense of end to end, if you rely on TLS alone and send your query directly to the search engine, your IP will be attached to said query and thus your search and identity are coupled.

In private.sh, it's both end to end and private:

1. We utilize client-side javascript encryption prior to routing a search thru a proxy.

2. The proxy cannot read the query, and simply forwards it to the search engine.

3. The search engine decrypts, performs the search, and encrypts the results which are sent back thru the proxy (who, again, cannot even read the results).

4. The results are decrypted client-side.

Thus, your search query and identity are decoupled.
Couldn’t you measure change in avg number of happy vs neutral or unhappy days over a set time period?

I guess that’d only be useful for yourself and not an objective measurement...
For one, I don't blame a company for lobbying for their interests. Lobbying is protected by the first amendment. Congress has sole authority to author and vote on legislation at the pleasure of the electorate. The fact that TT (and H&R Block) have impressed upon reps that they will participate in Free File, it mitigates their need to make a government-sponsored program. Which isn't just barricaded by simply force of will, but rather that the IRS would actually have to do it which means likely means a giant appropriation of funds and the risk of them screwing it up.
Does Firefox/Mozilla sell users' personal data? They claim not to.
Under "How Does It Work?": Every single search request from our website and extension is encrypted locally on the client and proxied through our service, stripping away your public IP address ensuring that only the search provider is able to decrypt and see your query without any knowledge of who you are.

This is vague. It seems like it just means: "we have a TLS certificate and will be a proxy between you and Google"
They need to start using "cracker", not "hacker".
>But the continual barrage of hostile comments in every single HN article looks mostly like groupthink to me.

Every social platform with upvote / downvote moderation will trend to groupthink over time as the losers are pushed out.
There are countries that are much closer to democracies than the US at least.
Sure, but they're at least as awful because the whole concept is awful. I have never seen a counter example anyway.
It's just 18 seconds so far. I doubt they sent the microphone just so they could use it once, but then I doubt sending hours of audio was at the top of the priority list for the first few days of the mission.
If my understanding is correct, Schnorr converts the integer factorization problem to lattice problems: SVP and CVP. Then he claims he had an efficient algorithm to solve this particular instance of SVP and CVP, thus RSA is destroyed. But, the hardness assumption of SVP and CVP in general is the very foundation that another branch of public-key cryptosystems - lattice-based cryptography - is built upon. So, if Schnorr's claims are true (uncertain and still to be determined), I can't stop to think about its impact on lattice cryptosystems: Can we use the same technique to attack them? I think it's a more important question than RSA [0] - lattice cryptosystems are the candidate for Post-Quantum Cryptography, meant to replace all of the existing public-key cryptosystems of today (e.g. RSA and ECC). Even if the attack is purely theoretical, if it can solve other instances of SVP and CVP, it'll certainly affect the security assessment of lattice-based PQC (e.g. NTRU, also LWE).

Of course, I don't know what I'm talking about.

[0] Factorization had a history of speedups, both theoretical and practical. It doesn't really affect the practical security but always comes at a cost of either decreasing confidence or constantly increasing the keysize, so I won't be too surprised if Schnorr really has new insights to speed it up further. In fact, "We need something with a better security record than RSA" was one of the main arguments for transitioning to ECC - which has already completed at large on today's Internet, RSA is only used for digital signature, almost all key exchanges are ECC now. You can't decrypt post-2016 web traffic by breaking RSA.
It encrypts the query with the public key of the search provider (Gigablast) then sends it over to https://search.private.sh/v2/search which then supposedly goes through a few proxies before finally hitting Gigablast, wherein the search query is decrypted by Gigablast's private key.

The point is that Gigablast doesn't know details about the user (though I'm not sure why private.sh's servers can't just forward the IP), and private.sh doesn't know what search query was sent (which, if you're using the extension and disable auto-updates, you can verify that this is actually the case. The code is short and readable.)
The whole idea of the product is it strips your IP address.
> There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.

Park Ranger at Yosemite National Park (on designing secure garbage cans)

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/security_is_a...
Dick is somewhat softer word then the one implied.
They've dropped their federal suit but are refiling in Washington State.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TimCushing/status/136697856540583...
mpol already answered part of the design here about the need for privacy for the people involved; it is a balancing of priorities, both transparency in the judicial system and that privacy are important and this is a way of getting both.

About your other question though: one of the courts states in an answer to one of their frequently asked questions, https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisati..., that a copy of a verdict will always be anonymised. No suggestions are made for when you want to apply for an exception to that rule and I suspect it is not possible at all. I am also struggling to come up with a valid reason for such a request; if it is indeed impossible, that might not be a problem.
I'm not sure that your scientific facilities cumulatively spent as much CPU time as DeepMind spent playing StarCraft. If we want to talk about energy and ethics in machine learning I guess that's where I would start.
There was initial backlash against complex numbers in the math community. i was deemed "imaginary" IIRC by its detractors, for the same reason the primeval atom was dubbed the "Big Bang": mockery, to accelerate its dismissal.

This bad reputation may have carried up to the 1920’s...
It is a risk, but it's still true that the Indian vegetarian diet will cover all major dietary needs. And while that's not the most ringing endorsement, it's more than you can say for cutting meat out of a diet that features a lot of meat.
Short selling doesn’t actually help with price discovery as it can artificially inflate or deflate the stock price in ways that buying and selling doesn’t. Knowing something is 55.54$ not 55.55$ isn’t nearly as important as knowing it’s around 55$ not 155$, thus if anything short selling is harmful to price discovery.
Aside from being all but unenforcable, Restricting short selling like that will almost certainly cause stocks to become overvalued. Short selling is an important balance on overvalued stocks, and there are cases like the Enron scandal where short sellers were the first to detect a company is engaging in fraudulent behavior[1]. Restricting short selling would allow companies cooking the books to keep their stock values at artificial levels despite investor skepticism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal#Timeline_of_down...
The best math class I ever had was a drafting class called "Descriptive Geometry". In that college class we used a drafting table to solve math problems.

An easy example would be the length of line of the corner seam of a hip roof. Sadly I have forgotten what the more complex problems were. Fantastic class that isn't offered anymore.
Can somebody please elaborate what does it mean for the user who installed `pulseaudio` once long ago and never had to bother about audio at all?
Is Turntable.fm Coming Back?
Is it possible to FOIA the IRS tax-computation code itself?
This is the solution. We can already do this. A pilot program was run. The problem is that the anti tax wing of the Republican party and Turbotax are actively opposed.

Instead of developing software, we should be writing our representatives.
Are We Heading for Peak Cloud Native?
Unfortunately, the "we promise not to sell your personal data" disappeared from the privacy policy during the acquisition, so we know why they remain donationware post-acquisition.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/the-canadian-tech-comp...
And that would be a good thing
The government automatically doing it doesn't preclude from letting taxpayers be able to amend it. The vast majority of people have simple tax returns, and all that information is already electronically flying around with unique identifiers (social security number).

It's trivial for government to be able to automatically produce a tax return that's basically almost all done for everyone.
The IRS already has most of your income information and much of your deduction information. They already use this to validate if your return makes sense.

In effect, the IRS already does most of a taxpayer's paperwork. Since they do this, it might be nice to provide it to taxpayers for review and correction, rather than making us all start from zero each time.
this is why it's important to build an open-source tax calculation engine, as @breck and others have done, so that the creation of tax startups are not disadvantaged (they start from step 19 rather than step 1). this is (fairness in) market competition driving the market to efficiency, the exact opposite of monopoly/oligarchy (e.g., turbotax, taxact & hr block) extracting economic rents while languishing under lobbied regulatory protection.
Not true. If you have any capital markets gains, you have to pay TurboTax. I don't need a tax accountant to report simple capital gains. If you have side hustle income, you have to pay TurboTax. Basically, if you're reporting any income other than your standard day job, you have to pay. And TurboTax has done things like advertising free filing but only offering free federal filing and finding out you have to pay for state filing only after you've filled out your federal forms. It's just a scammy business that relies on lobbying and governmental pressure to stay afloat.
On that last point, searches like `-site:example.com` looks like they still work.
> Why did you even make this comment?

I find it crass to gripe about Archive being slow. It's still much better than nothing. If folks want it to be faster than can donate rather than gripe, eh?
If I cannot wear these to a rave in 2022, life is meaningless. I don't want to know when I'm dehydrated. I want to know when I'm fucking awesome. Which is all the time. So I guess I want you to know I'm awesome.

They should go consumer products!
I think you could ask a similar question about how profits work in practice. In a hypothetical perfectly efficient market, all profit margins should be zero. But in practice the world is full of transaction costs, imperfect information, and scarcity. Maybe something similar applies to reasoning about the "acquire your competitors" strategy. In a perfectly efficient market it shouldn't work, but in practice the number of startups willing to take this approach is limited (because the number of available engineers investors is limited, and in competition with other sectors), plus you only have bother acquiring the ones that manage to succeed as a company first, which is somewhat difficult. Maybe we should expect the "acquire your competitors" strategy to be partially effective, if you combine it with a relatively good underlying business and relatively high barriers to entry. Not something that necessarily always works, but a piece of the puzzle?
> please don't use this software to file your taxes for the 2020 / 2021 tax season.

I wonder if there is a PR that Intuit filed to add this to the readme.

Seriously, I wonder how much money Intuit has spent to terrify people into using their software. Each year, I look around for alternatives so I can avoid giving them money, and each year I find some reason to grow fearful of an IRS audit and go with the company that has convinced me they are less risky than anything else. I wonder if that is truth, or if I've been programmed to think that.
I think it's an interesting example of people being too close to something, technically, to really see its totality. I'm a distributed systems person so I basically blew off Bitcoin two bubble-cycles ago because of the 3 tx/sec issue and the obvious deficiencies of the proposed lightning network workaround. I also took an in-depth look at a cryptocurrency with a supposed better protocol (Nano) and was very unimpressed - they didn't have a real solution to the network partition double-spend issue (a coin with a similar protocol, IOTA, solves this with a centralized "coordinator" node that they swear will be removed any time now... it won't). So I found myself in the interesting situation of knowing more about these things than 99% of people with money in them, but missing out on the large gains in value. There is a probabilistic protocol I legitimately find very interesting (Avalanche) that might succeed on a technical level, but analyzing these things at the technical level hasn't really meant much so far.

It's possible this is an enormous bubble that will all go to zero. Of note is that the entirety of Bitcoin's history fits within this larger bull market we've been in since 2008. It will be interesting to see how cryptocurrencies fare in the inevitable wider market downturn, whenever that happens. Regardless it's probably a good idea to hedge against your own ignorance by putting 1% of your money in or something like that.
See https://www.quantamagazine.org/vint-cerfs-plan-for- building-an-internet-in-space-20201021/ for some details on projects related to this. IIRC it's store and forward.
If you're going to rely on any client-side javascript please use subresource integrity for all your assets.
Enzyme (YC S17) Is Hiring Ruby and Elixir Engineers to Speed Up FDA Approval
I'm with you on it. I respect his work. I actually like Javascript. I think considering him a hero is a bit of a stretch. I don't think that's unreasonable.

HN is really not a fun place to express left-leaning views tbh (or any political views, for that matter), but I feel how I feel.
What's the value of an AI ethics conference if the largest AI powerhouse is not allowed to take part?
> They are terrible choices of name, coined by people who didn't really understand them, and didn't want you to understand them either.

Sorry to be blunt, but your comment is horrible. There is far more going on here than you realize. Real numbers have an isomorphism with our reality. We thought we didn't need imaginary numbers to describe reality. They were inteded to be used more as a mathematical tool.

Another good example is euclidean vs non-euclidean geometry. They are both incredibly useful, but the former one was though to be "real" and the latter "imaginary". But it turns, physics is okay with us living in a non-euclidean universe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe).