skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Political affiliation doesn't have to be the factor there at all. He can also think you're wrong about those topics - in the counter positions to his views - and he can believe his argument is strong and well supported, superior to the arguments on the other side.

I've met a lot of very smart people in my lifetime that are wrong about all sorts of prominent topics, despite being well-read on the topics in question. Pick nearly any subject and you can bet there are smart people on both sides that will disagree, and some of them will bring very potent arguments to the table even when they're wrong.
Mr. President, we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!
No. Auth is not that hard, it's not hard to scale. It's the bloodline of every interaction between you and your customers. Nearly every "web" language has a open source Auth solution with modern jwts or jwts on cookies. Bcrypt and salting solves "storing passwords". Further more once you do it it's highly repeatable across products.
That seems like an argument for stasis.

We're likely to know more in the future than we know today, which means we should never do anything today because we will be able to do it better / with less risk / more reliably / more efficiently / etc. tomorrow?

We wouldn't be facing climate change if we hadn't industrialized.

But, then, we also wouldn't live in a world of plenty and have increased the human carrying capacity of the planet many times over either.
Wat Tyler
Tesla is going to switch to accepting dogecoin that's why.
What is the most common filename extension of a Forth source code file?
Of course. That has nothing to do with agile MVPs, though.
Thanks! That sounds great!
I saw this in 1983.
War games.
> AFAIK microsoft has never had a C compiler.

Well, MSVC compiles .c files as C, which I guess makes it also a C compiler? It supports most of C99 by now.

> MSVC doesn't officially support C to this day.

Oh, it does: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/walkthrough-compi...
I guess the question is what's more likely, Facebook, Google or Apple leaving the oauth game or a bug in an internal solution.
I've been looking for something like this for data vis exploration. Compared to Observable accessing local data files is more convenient. Currently I use a Jupyter notebook along with Pandas and Matplotlib. I'm not a huge fan of Matplotlib so I would prefer to use Plot or Vega Lite API and Pandas could be replaced with Danfo.js or Arquero.
Same for my org. We'd have the entire team move, if self host was an option.
Hupreter generates python code, which you can see. Right now you cannot edit it, but we plan to allow that in the future.
Marvel's Disney Plus Series' Lack of Showrunners Raises Concerns
The thing I still can't fathom, all these years after Bush II and then Snowden, is just how little human beings really care about mass surveillance. Yeah, the Snowden leaks made a splash, but the media cycle turned over a couple weeks later and everyone moved onto other things.

It's like, if you're of a certain age, you had to read 1984 or whatever in school. You'd think "well, no one would stand for that sort of thing in real life!" Okay, so we don't live in that society, exactly, but time after time, we're shown the breadth of government surveillance and the reaction from the broader public isn't to call for anyone's head on a pike -- it's not even to vote anyone out!

Outside of little communities like this one, people don't give much of a fuck. I guess that was Orwell's real point.
I am curious where you would draw the line between "AI military systems" and existing systems in use such as Iron Dome and other algorithm-assisted weapons.
Google slides doesn't even support vector graphics. Given the tech-savvy nature of people at Google, I've long suspected that nobody there actually uses Google Docs.
Nuclear MAD seems to have worked out well, so far.
But the NSA did collect data on hundreds of millions of US citizens, knew about it, and lied about it to congress and the US people. That is the exact opposite of "unwittingly". That is the action of a domestic threat that has escaped democratic and even government control.

> "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" He responded, "No, sir." Wyden asked "It does not?" and Clapper said, "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly."

> The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-reco...
7 days later... my account still exists. I guess I've quashed the "just email us and we'll delete you're account" lie.
I think it's worth a try.

Getting vaccination rates up will save lives and boost the economy as lower infection/hospitalization/death rates help people feel confident engaging in normal economic activities.

If it works, other states can do it too. If not, well, at least it wasn't a very big pile of money.
I have more respect for and trust in a product that I know is keeping things simple and straightforward vs. fucking around with Big Data consistency problems prematurely.
Predicting replicability – Analysing data from large-scale forecasting projects
Do you think overfunding can be a detriment to a startup?
If a startup has very little money, they are forced to laser-focus on one thing and to make things simple. An overfunded startup may lose focus and overcomplicate, over-hire, and end up delivering later than if they had been underfunded.

What do you think?
I think we underestimate the amount of self-deception that goes on with these deceptions. As evil as some people can be, I think more often we are just unwilling passengers on someone else's delusion.

Waking up every day thinking that things aren't going to work out is hell. At some point you have to do something about it, or you can't keep going on. Hope doesn't care if it's objective or not, and evolution preserves it if it actually works slightly more than never.
A useful exercise in determining whether you need a blockchain is asking yourself "why would a Google sheet with track changes not work here".
On the west coast now more than one third of the population is fully vaccinated (excluding BC that is severely lagging behind).

How long until coastal and urban counties reach 95%?
Unfortunately that's not how the current setup works.

The most successful the gambler is, the more of other's people they get to gamble.

He's at that point where he could never be right again and it'd never personally affect him. I mean if Tesla goes to 100 tomorrow morning, who gets hurt more? Elon or instructional investors that are supposed to be funding things like pensions?
Do you at least have plans to expose audit and access logs to customers yet?
> Court-like proceedings to confirm bans

The EU's initial proposed version of the "Digital Services Act", requires that when a service takes down information that they think is "illegal" or incompatible with the terms of service, They are required to provide the "facts and circumstances" used to arrive at that decision, as well as reference to the specific term of service they think is violated, and why they feel the information violates that.

Furthermore, they must provide an appeals mechanism for both information takedowns and any account suspensions/bans associated with them (and besides things like non-payment, I'd bet the majority of account suspensions/bans on online services are due to some posted content the company finds objectionable).

Lastly, if the internal appeals process fails to satisfy the user, the user initiate a what is basically an electronic binding arbitration process with a certified " out-of-court dispute settlement body" of the user's choosing, with this body having the power to overturn the companies decision.

That last part sound an awful lot like "Court-like proceedings to confirm bans".

I suspect the final law may not be as pro-consumer in these areas as the initial draft is (many big companies will not be happy about this part of the law and will try to kill it off).

If it does survive it would be much better then all too common: "We are banning you because we think you broke an unspecified part of the terms of service. We won't be more specific because we don't have to be, and are scared that people trying to break the rules could learn how they got caught. We won't even tell you that this was a fully automated process with no humans involved, that gets things wrong x% of the time. There is no appeal, unless you can get Twitter or the news media sufficiently riled up against us."
If you are playing some ball sport and you want to temporarily rewrite your brain, watch old Czech movie "Happy end". I played ping pong, watched that movie and afterwards for about an hour I was unable to functioning normally, let alone continue to play ping pong. It's a movie with a plot that progresses forward but the movie is played backwards. You may need a dubbed version, I'm not sure if it will have same effects with subtitles as you need to see what's happening on screen, not reading subtitles.
Mars needs more gravity and raw materials (nitrogen). I suggest a large impactor or impactors to solve both. Now how to get them there...
SNL parodied this in the most recent episode https://youtu.be/FuaDWyCnJxs
Just keep in mind that those who move to the coins that pump during a dump tend to put stop losses. So these coins end up dumping harder later on.
Huh, TIL..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incide...
Detroit Showed What ‘Build Back Better’ Can Look Like
As I understand it, one of the things that was only discovered recently is that the Swiss intelligence services knew about this and kept their own government in the dark.
reminds me of the politicians in my native country. very well educated either lawyers, engineers or doctors. but idiots and corrupt.

I would rather have a non degreed non corrupt politician.
I was a huge Notion fan. However, the long sync times were driving me nuts. I have since moved to inkdrop (https://www.inkdrop.app/) because it's much better for my use case:

* I can write Markdown notes. I've only wanted to write markdown notes.

* The syncing is incredibly fast because it's using an existing technology purpose-built for syncing (CouchDB)

* I can bring my own CouchDB and not have my data locked in

* Has a mobile app that works well

* There is a "vim mode" and that makes me happy.
“The Woman Who Made Van Gogh”
Yea that is a nice to have. But why is going to the Moon so critical and time sensitive we need redundant transport systems? If the Moon lander breaks we wait a few years for the fix. Not a big deal.

Money is not free, there is another priority not getting funded. A better solution would be to buy one Moon lander system and take the money saved and fund other critical tech.
Every time in the past where I had to switch to IE11 in order to use a site, I would always say out loud:

"This site requires an insecure browser."
Chernobyl was one of the best series I’ve seen, period. Regardless of whether you’re a physics lover, this is a well done series.
I'm currently implementing Keycloak for my startup. It's not perfectly documented, but I really like all the things it can do for us and how extensible it is.
Exactly. I know this may give grumpy-old-man vibes, but I find it ridiculous that with a Pentium III with ~0.1GB of RAM we could do similar day-to-day tasks with IRC or AIM or whatever (group chatting, sharing media, etc), but running Slack on a computer that's 10-100x as powerful can get such terrible performance I'm sometimes forced to type in a text editor and copy over.
Look, so I haven't read the article. But what did any of this have to do with an appraiser? Had my house appraised several times, never met the appraiser, they never saw the inside of my house. I wouldn't be surprised to know that they didn't even see my house.
That, even if successful, it's not worth it.
Daily reminder that the market cap does NOT exist therefore it can not be "wiped off". Its imaginary nonsense.

Market cap explained real simple: https://coil.com/p/XRPFax/Understanding-the-Crypto-Market-Ca...
The hard version usually requires me to understand why a number, measurement or chemical or other substance doesn't make sense in the context of what each paragraph is describing. This means I can't just skim it in order to spot the fake, I need to figure out that what it's saying is wrong.

That's close enough for this to be a success if the purpose was to persuade or fool laymen.
> There is no such thing as "constructive criticism" of suspected fraud

You can criticize anyone constructively. What they are today is not what they are in the future. People can change even Andrew, but if something is repeated over and over, it is a sign of their personality.

I see his act as harassment. I know that Vlang had red flags, but I feel Russophobia or Jealousy in his actions. I looked through everything, but the guy didn't let the man talk and explain himself. So, the other side of the story is hushed up. It's like asking someone to prove their worth, otherwise they'll be killed. Naive Bayes can uncover many cases of fraud, but bias can turn things upside down.

I'd hope that Mr Andrew is not an Anarchist.
I don't like how this article buries the important parts of this story. There is good reason to think that this surveillance by public info is legal currently, there was a court ruling stating that's the case.

A law is necessary to codify that this practice is a violation Fourth Amendment, and Wyden is currently one of a handful of senators trying to get it passed.

The story eventually mentions this, but the beginning focus on confidentiality makes it seem like they're hiding evidence of their crime.
Has anyone tried attaching weapons (lasers, tasers, even guns) and a somewhat smart targeting system to a drone yet?
> That central authority is a bottleneck and at times corrupt. We don't trust central authority in government so three different levels of government have to reach an alignment for a law to be passed. Police powers are separate from judigical powers for a reason. Decentralization balances interests.

That is a hell of a lot to write about checks and balances to try to defend the absurd concept of a blockchain classroom quiz. This is exactly what I mean when I say I hope people are just trying to pump up the value and don't actually think this is a solution that provides any value.

If you have a corrupt teacher that can't be trusted/abuses their power somehow, the blockchain is not going to magically improve your education. The concept is absurd.

If you're writing a classroom quiz where students race to finish, a server to handle grading and track scores is the way to go. Or if the device is locked down do the grading there and just take a timestamp.

Hello dystopian future where I get quoted like the famous Dropbox post. I hope I'm not still there amongst you.
I agree. Maybe take it even further and just give $1k outright to everyone who gets vaccinated (or has already been vaccinated). It would even double as an economic stimulus and hardly cost more than previous stimulus rounds.

The country has already suffered enormous financial loss thanks to investments in tracking, emergency medical support, vaccine development and distribution, and economic stimulus. That's on top of the massive economic damage suffered by lockdown, stay-home campaigns, and ongoing restrictions. A $1k payout per citizen for getting vaccinated would be a drop in the bucket by comparison - especially if it means finishing off the pandemic.

EDIT: Is anyone downvoting willing to explain why? I'm genuinely curious.
Users are dumb thats why. We literally have to make 4-5 shortcuts with iexpore.exe website.net and another one with chrome.exe website2.net and rename them accordingly. Some vendors have their web app work only with firefox and an old version like 20+ /:.

Not to upset any dev but really trying to put some fancy stuff and a bunch of frameworks in a piece of software that does one thing and has to work 24/7 is really a bad ideea.
Doesn't take a painter to draw a stick figure.
Um, I sincerely doubt it was the author who submitted it. Having looked at it in a bit more detail it's an extremely impressive piece of work.
I believe a judge recently signed an order allowing the FBI to access and patch hacked exchange servers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/fbi-might-gone-ahead-f...
That goes double for blockchains.
> Keep in mind that The Pokemon Company don't make profit off of secondary sales, so they don't really have much incentive to make it a casino. In fact, I believe in the past they avoided this problem by printing cards to such capacity that prices don't dramatically rise due to lack of scarcity.

The fact that the card pack has a randomness element makes the card pack more valuable in the first place. This is exactly how gamification and random reward schedules drive revenue.
> It is really not difficult to use BCrypt

Something I once saw in production:

An otherwise normal usage of bcrypt, that "prehashed" the password with sha512 before passing the resulting hash to bcrypt. This is conceptually reasonable (although not very useful) for reasons I don't think are worth going into, but had two critical problems.

1. It technically broke bcrypt's side-channel protection against timing attacks (bcrypt runs in constant time, while sha512 does not).

2. The much worse issue was that the binary hash was being passed to bcrypt. If bcrypt encounters a null byte in the input, it considers that to be the end of the input and ignores everything after, c-string style. Every byte of the binary hash had a 1/256 chance of being a null byte, which means 1/256 passwords result in a hash with the first byte being null, which means bcrypt will accept any of them as equivalent to the others. You could login to 0.4% of accounts by guessing ~256 completely random passwords (and a larger number of passwords were similarly but less extremely weakened)

You can say "well that's their fault for mucking with the input to bcrypt" but I bet most people would believe that kind of operation was safe before it's explained to them why it's not. It's very easy to accidentally destroy the security of a crypto scheme without knowing it, and thinking that what you're doing is perfectly run of the mill and safe.
I find the whole thing ominous because there is no "there" there: there is no understanding in the GPT-2 system, but it's able to generate increasingly plausible text. This greatly increases the amount of plausible nonsense that can be used to drown out actual research. You could certainly replace a lot of pop-sci and start several political movements with GPT-2... all of which has no actual nutritional content.
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And sometimes you just can't change your processes enough for no package customization.

I'm currently building what's essentially an internal specialized platform that is used for data science/engineering as well as actually providing the models.

The data is strictly private to the level that you might actually end in jail if you have a breach. While we use AWS, said use of AWS is more than half the reason we have to build custom solution around Keycloak, because a) AWS SSO is purposefully limited in a way that prevents us from using it b) AWS really doesn't work well with SSO for getting credentials for AWS SDK applications.

We also need to self-host because we can't outsource auth, including possibly requiring a legal shield against known hostile actors like USA. (shit's complex on that)

Then we have essentially "normal business requirements", meaning that we actually want SSO that results in user logging in exactly once - when they login to their VDI in closed-off VPC. And that turns out to be really complex, especially in case of accessing AWS services later :/
I believe they are saying that the Mars landscape is akin to the regions he listed and that these native locations are far easier to develop or live on than going to another planet.
No. Truly, the 2 sentences I provided were made of all the real meaning I could find in your paragraph that was relevant to oblio's messages you were replying to, even after re-reading your message several times.

Judging by the upvotes I have received, other readers also agree that my summary was a good summary of your comment. I'd encourage you to practice making that paragraph you wrote smaller, with a goal of reaching a length similar to my rewrite's length. It's something I've been doing more often to make my own messages more concise, and it has definitely helped.
Only if they fix it to sound like a strong Austrian-American.
I think what's novel about Zig's approach is that the metaprogramming is just normal code which happens to be executed at compile-time.

I have found that when any project gets to a certain size, it's almost inevitable that metaprogramming will be required, unless you want to make everything super dynamic and sacrifice performance. The idea of being able to do metaprogramming in the language I used to write the program itself is an interesting one.
Other men manage to praise their partners without calling other women full of shit. The petition quoted several paragraphs before and after to show there was no redeeming context. And there were other passages.
I think he's pointing out that we have cold and arid environments with a standard atmosphere and surface gravity, and a magnetosphere to deflect cosmic rays that we don't colonize right here on Earth. Traveling millions of miles at huge expense to try this on Mars doesn't seem like a sensible endeavor right now regardless of its feasibility.
It’s only perplexing if you assume he knows all that you know.

Musk appears to be a fantastically competent salesman and decent rocket scientist, but we shouldn’t expect him to have the Midas touch on other fields of competence.

And while Musk ought to employ people to warn him about all the issues he now cites as why he changed policy, remember that he did start The Boring Company in response to getting stuck in a traffic jam, and got in trouble with the SEC for repeatedly tweeting stuff that CEOs are not supposed to tweet, and tried to name his kid X Æ A-12 — I assume he has sycophants telling him his every idea is fantastic no matter what he does, just as he has anti-sycophants (sychokrupho? My Greek is terrible) yelling as loudly as possible that he’s evil for failing to spend his money on their pet project.
Why would they become less active in the fall? Wouldn't it make sense for them to be less active after January?
I disagree. While I concede that, if there is credible information that an adversary is developing AI weapons that need to be counterbalanced to reach some sort of Nash equilibrium, simply putting time and effort into the development of any adversarial technology will turn up the temperature in the space, so to speak. More work in this area means more capability, more complexity, more risk of misuse, and a heightened risk of the possibility of additional actors. Look no further than the theory of deterrence, and how it shifted from a tolerable short term strategy during the Cold War (one with few actors), to a high risk strategy as the trove of technology was enlarged, the likelihood of it spreading increased, and the number of active and potential actors increased dramatically also.

In my view AI weapons development demands a judicious, steady, paced, and thoroughly informed approach to keep the whole space from burning up —- figuratively and literally.
There’s also a high probability that you will feel kind of crappy for a day or so. Probably enough to discourage some people on the margin.