skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really admire your faith in human kind.

I am fairly certain that many citizens would be tempted to become creative in their transparency (or activities) if they knew they would never get caught. Such is human nature.
Maybe it is more about just monetizing anything on the web?

I kinda suspect the notion of most of these services just being free and not resorting to really unpleasant ad systems and dark patterns and such ... just not viable generally.
Yeah they tend to show stuff that is "liked" by people you know. So it depends on what THEY like as well.
Pen and paper for me! One big flaw is I occasionally can't read my own handwriting.
> you might want to make the user actually type the same password twice, rather than let them copy/paste the first entry into the second field

Please no. I generate a password in bitwarden, save it, copy and paste twice. Don't do that. I really don't want to type a 24 character password with lower / upper letters and special characters. If you do that to me, I will leave your website and never come back.
Has anyone actually read the paper?

I have some pretty serious qualms with the topology traversal routes over the DOSI vs age manifold — they seem unfounded. This isn’t inherently problematic, but that seems like a core assumption - that the steepness and thus likelihood of falling off the DOSI associated cliff increases with age. The idea being once you fall off the cliff you die.

I don’t think it is a bad hypothesis, it just isn’t a result?

They renamed DOSI from “Age independent mortality” and changed the traversal examples since their 2018 paper [0] - honestly I don’t know how this paper has gotten so much press this week. It is only interesting for the title (Might’ve answered my own question there), but once you dig into it isn’t all that rigorous.

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2018.0048...
Right, win32 is insensitive
I don't trust anyone without running a skeptical eye over their claims. Blind faith in authority is authoritarianism manifest.
There’s fair reason to be skeptical here.

The way databricks deals with user level access control is by passing the user credentials for the user using a cluster to the underlying access control layer (historically, table and column level permissions).

...but, it’s not that simple. Since anyone on a cluster can do anything with that cluster, you need a cluster per user for this to work. This obviously doesn’t scale.

I’ve used this a lot, and it sucks; the best you can do is offer “reporting clusters” that are for reading pre-canned reports and restricted in what they can see, and not allow anyone to do any actual work using notebooks.

...reading all the things about unity, this seems like it’s just applying the same approach to more types of data objects.
For those interested in "Warp Speed", I've written a tutorial about how to exploit group laws to implement fast scalar multiplication: https://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/fast-scalarmult

As a bonus, there are remarks about secure implementations as well.
Pongo2 is a tree walking interpreter from everything I see. It does not compile the templates into bytecode or native code before executing/interpreting.
Those would be our Europan visitors :)
Explains why they care more about the sea as well.
I don't know I see a lot of great stuff from comedians and stuff on twitter posting all kind of shit. I enjoy the silliness, but my feed is definitely highly curated and even then I end up seeing toxic takes because people "like" the takes that I follow.

However, some of my absolute favorite twitter accounts post a lot. To each their own. I don't have to hit the button.
It's an interesting thought; the problem then would be that everyone would take the exam for the easiest subject. I guess that's no worse than the SAT, but a lot of my non-math college courses weren't really like that anyway. Some of them based the grade on a presentation, regular correct participation (I'm thinking of a foreign-language class), homework, or smaller quizzes with regular feedback. Enroll > Study > Pass Final was kind of rare.
> What I would enjoy would be a button to hide all the accounts that post more often than once per day. Because chances are the people who talk too much have no time to think about what they're saying.

Too drastic IMO. Some of the best posts I've read on Twitter come in threads, a chain of consecutive tweets by the same author. I would propose instead an option to filter profanity, most of the low value, or plain harmful, tweets use offensive words.

Maybe a warning that your tweet will get a drastically reduced audience for using X or Y words, so the poster can rephrase it before submitting?
Features I'd want:

* No ads

* No suggested topics

* No suggested tweets, no people I might be interested in, no tweets someone I follow liked - just show me the people I follow and things they explicitly retweet

* The timeline preserves order

* Threads are grouped together and the entire thread is shown
They're asking for source code to a program. AIUI, the input data that was supplied to that program will contain or not contain those DNA (fragments) in a fairly simple format.

It is of course possible that the program doesn't emit a detailed enough report. That it says "match found" without saying where in which files it found a match. But it's also possible that it does say where, in which case the presence of the needles can be verified easily, even if the method used to detect that those were relevant needles rather than irrelevant straws isn't specified.

Either way, rejecting an unknown algorithm because it's unknown is wrong. What matters is whether the output can be checked by others.
There's little practical difference between:

a) I give you my wallet, and you immediately send the coins to a new address to protect against my (potential) copy of the wallet, or

b) I just send the coins to your new address myself.

Either way, the blockchain records a transfer from my address to your new address.
exactly, I had one interviewer who wanted me to write a function to divide x by y without using / or %. I proposed the obvious solution with a loop, which he quickly dismissed. I then proposed to try to do something with bit masks and shifts which he dismissed as well: "I don't think we'll be able to do that in the time we have, I never saw someone do that before in the time we have, etc". He then wanted me to guess that I should use a binary search for this. The resulting code was convoluted and hard to understand and made no sense to me. He had to drag me through it. The experience had nothing to do with how I develop software and write code on a day to day basis.
Not really true. Twitter will pester you with things it thinks will "engage" you, and it can be quite hard to resist. It has a way to push you further than you would go if left to your own devices.
I don't completely disagree but the point is mostly two-fold (which are related to your point).

1. Discoverability and engagement.

2. A tweet thread tends to be more conversational than a blog post and therefore can be more off the cuff (and therefore easier).
But some big games that a lot of geeks use a lot of time tweaking do run better in Linux. Many of these gamers only play the one game for most of their time. If they can use X hours in Windows to gain Y FPS but can gain more FPS by using >X time in Linux then why don't they? My guess is most simply don't know.

Many games do run with lower FPS but it isn't really set in stone. I have used WINE with good FPS gains before. Of course that was back when I had the time and not the money to throw at it.
Sensitive data on Nuclear weapons exposed carelessly through use of public apps
And this, folks, is why local loop unbundling initiatives are important.

Also:

> Dampier found that Charter offers 200Mbps service for $50 a month "[i]n neighborhoods where Spectrum enjoys a broadband monopoly." Charter charges $70 for 400Mbps service in those same competition-free neighborhoods.

Honestly, even the lower-end prices are not great. In France you can easily get 2Gbps for $60 / month.
Honestly this just highlights a weakness of shell scripts. The idea that you cannot use any new dependencies (or even upgraded versions of the current dependencies!) would be unthinkable in most other settings.
Not even a good one (an opinion of a consultant I hired to evaluate the site).
The context maters here. If a boat is being discussed, it won't be air to air.
You probably won't see this, but in fact I've really enjoyed playing with Lobster!

Thanks for telling me about it, I hadn't taken it seriously before.
I’m talking about annual cloud spends in tens of millions here. It’s doable but you have to design for this or it takes a long time
That makes a lot of sense. Most of my github projects are from prior to my first job, which I was quite proud of at the time, but are somewhat less demonstrative of my skill level now over 10 years later.
Certainly, it's possible to sell certain VCs on borderline-fraudulent visions of the future, the so-called Investor Storytime pitch. I'm think of Juicero, YikYak, WeWork, etc.

However, that doesn't mean that to be a fraud-resistant VC you shouldn't be looking for a story, or that as a founder you're pulling a fast one by having a narrative in your pitch.

To understand something, you need to make connections. To convince someone to invest, you need to get the investors to understand what your business is and why it's going to grow and make money. Connecting a series of facts and ideas from a starting point to an end IS the definition of a narrative.

That's just how humans interact, disseminate information, and learn. Even technical work (and pure math!) does this.
>America is a more balanced and equitable society today than it was in 1970.

The inflation adjusted minimum wage peaked in 1968. An American worker in 1970 could graduate high school and get a job that would allow them to support a family of four, buy a home, and take the occasional vacation. To say that we've progressed in terms of equitability since then is a cruel joke. The area under the curve of material wealth may be greater, but we've become a winner-take-all society.
If you look at my recommendation it is that programmers should program more like how painters paint. I don't think it's a virtue to have to hold everything in your head.

Programming, as practiced, is distinct from painting -- but this has more to do with the practice of each. Programming tools do not afford the same ability to externalise thinking.

Fundamentally, they are built to run the code. Not to assist the programmer.

Jupyter notebooks are, here, a notable exception.
> 100g is an acceleration of 1000m/s/s, so after 1s the thing would be 1km away. Yet this was infer by eye. These fantastic values are made up on the spot and not instrument-based measurements.

These values are deducted by an estimation of the space traveled and an estimation of the time it took. And these estimations are consistent with the ones that come from the radar operators.

Also keep in mind that 100 G is a very conservative middle value. They said "hey, what if our estimations are really, really off", and provided a lower and upper boundaries for the g-forces, that are 40 G and 521,770 G, respectively.

> I'll take weird failure over hugely fantastical theories.

I'll take decades of constant and consistent reports over "skeptical" conclusions deducted from wrong a priori probabilities.
Sure seems to me that he is either unaware of or struggles with the point at infinity, so I'll add a link for him in my reply to your comment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_point_multiplic....
I have watched a ton of interviews with Jack and find him extremely inspirational and what he does (and has done) being truly amazing. Easily one of my favorite entrepreneurs to follow.

With Twitter, I get the sense he lost control of the company a long time ago because of a combo of monetization and culture.

So basically he helped build the greatest communication platform in the world and instead we get what Twitter is today.

This kind of weak Twitter Blue announcement, to me at least, just shows at what a lost the platform is for making money in a way that isn't engagement driven (aka, rewarding flaming-type behavior).
By definition, financial transactions are not private, because they necessarily involve a counterparty.
These services show ads in ways that delay you accessing the content you want, banner ads, while annoying do not have that property and are a harder sell
Do we know that? I think most games were free? (I'm not sure).
If all they are doing is allowing color changes and slight UI tweaks (and the undo button), why not take a page from online gaming's playbook and just sell cosmetics?

There is pretty much no limit to what could be sold as a cosmetic...add "flair" to the twitter bird (googly eyes, hats, etc) ($5.99 - $25.99)...make circle logo on your profile an octagon ($1.99), a triangle ($1.25)...with a blue border for an extra $.99....etc

I bet they'd make gobs more than a $2.99/mo.
The HN comments are pretty unanimous on wanting to pay this amount to remove ads, not for more features. The problem with that is that an active US user is already producing more as revenue than that from ads. (40M US DAU, 500M US advertising revenue per quarter -> $4/month). Add to that the problem that for subscriptions they end up paying app store fees, subscriptions to remove ads just can't work. They'd need to price it at like $10/month, but it seems obvious few people would pay that.

This does feel somehow absurd, given how ineffective one would expect Twitter ads to be, but might be illustrative of the problems with paying to remove ads.
According to this, Facebook revenue per-user-per-year is about $30, so $2/mo (post-Apple cut) is probably not far off for Twitter: https://www.statista.com/statistics/234056/facebooks-average.... But of course, why replace that revenue when you could double it?

edit: here's an ARPU estimate for Twitter in 2016, it was around $2/quarter: https://www.statista.com/statistics/430874/twitter-annualize...
NAT is literally the only thing stopping every single personal device in the world from being hacked. It may be a kludge, but it's the best kludge in all of technology. And what do you have against QoS? Would it be better if your VoIP calls stuttered every time you loaded a fat web page?
Interesting - this came just after I'd read through the HN piece on life after an internet mob attack.

https://twitter.com/pasql/status/1366795510355537924

https://pasquale.cool/internet-mob

I'm not on twitter, and poking my head into at least this corner seems pretty damn unhealthy.

In sequence a women accused this guy (falsely) of harassing her from some other random account (it's not clear why). Then another person said they overheard a conversation ages ago and stopped being friends with the guy - which turned out to not be true either. And it continued from there. Is there no consequence on twitter for this type of stuff?

Wonder if there is space for a twitter clone. Basically interesting ideas, sharing information. You'd be stuck with bad information, the response (instead of calling someone an idiot) would be to describe a different theory. No personal attacks of any kind.

HN seems to avoid a lot of this type of mob behavior around personal stuff and it's easier for non-involved people to engage then.
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If you follow the right people then Twitter is amazing. But the out of the box experience is wretched. TikTok for example quickly finds out what you want to see. Twitter puts that burden on you.
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On iOS, the security model has always been Apple signs the code, and no cryptographic protection from Apple modifying it.

On Android, the original security model was that the developer signs the code, preventing a distributor from modifying it (as long as the signature checks are sound).

Apple's system is worthy of complaining about, but you can only bring it up so often. Google taking Android backwards in this regard is worth making a fuss over; but Google is likely to just steamroll through.
Wow, you're actually the real life version of George Clooney's character in "Up in the Air".

I always thought it was an exaggerated portrayal, but it seems your ways are even more extreme than in the movie.

Such lifestyle is so completely foreign to me, that I'm fascinated. If an alien landed on my lawn tomorrow and said "I fart gold coins", I would have an easier time believing such a thing exists than your lifestyle.

How do you make friends? Can't employers sense that you're going to leave soon? Or is that specifically what they're looking for?
According to POS: https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-...

The only big difference between Fox and other networks is that they have way less college educated viewers as a percentage of total viewers.

Not sure how good of a source that is, though. There's several (not great) sources online I can see that say the average FOX News viewer is >65. I also see that the average CNN & MSNBC viewer is >59.

But according to that POS survey, only 20% of viewers are >65 - which must mean a significant portion of their viewers are REALLY old like 80+ (or the surveys are just bad).

538 gives POS an A- for polls: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/public... - which is pretty good. So who knows?
They actually just launched XMR/BTC atomic swaps today. So I'm sure a bunch of atomic swap tech on Monero is now possible.
It could be evidence that ancient people knew from their own experience that the natural upper limit was somewhere around 120 years. Which, in turn, would mean that this limit hasn't really changed much over the millennia.
> Obviously a headline with “STRmix” is not as click-bait as GitHub.

A court has ordered GitHub to hand over the source code. GitHub has refused, believing that they only have to honor requests for the government, not for defendents. This article argues that stance by tech companies has led to morally reprehensible happening. They say tech companies often just pay fines rather than obey court orders to help defendents, while always helping prosecutors. The defendents's lawyers argue this is unconstitutional.

I don't consider that clickbait.
Weird that this was the top post and now it's no where to be found on the front page 1, 2, or 3 of the site.
Gladiators were almost all of them slaves, but they were also entertainers who were expensive to train and keep, and often individually famous, much like WWE wrestlers.

So it was rare that they would be made to fight to the death.

Now, slaughtering prisoners in the arena happened just like you are imagining.
I would pay Twitter to NOT use Twitter. Give me the option to lock myself out for a few hours/days so I can focus on work and withdraw from social media addiction. They can shove their colored icons. What is this?!
> I guess this is their admission that you cannot monetize engagement if your community is highly toxic and mostly just produces shitstorms, lynchmobs, perpetually enraged morally superior idiots and professional victims.

Twitter is already profitable today, even without this subscription service.
Github is reaching peak list.
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the invisible hand doing its work
So why are they going to pay for hosting for the open-source version?

Nothing wrong with building open-source versions of stuff, but I don't see open-source being a viable business model in this case.
I guess more features will come out. Even they know 3 USD a month means they have to have good incentives.
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That's a little unfair, it's a concept, not a public demo. There's apparently only a few people testing it so far. It might have been overlooked or just easier for some reason to inline the normal twitter timeline view, or whatever they call it, and there might not be a dedicated premium adfree view yet.

Surely they'll reduce ads for the public when paid users en masse have access to this.
> I feel quite certain

People who are wrong usually do.

> You can get all the recommendations and referrals you want for an infosec professional; nothing stops that person from holding themselves out

Here is where you missed the point.

You are correct that we do not license, say, pen testers the same way we license doctors. You are incorrect in thinking that this matters.

The point is that in both cases, reputation is the best general-purpose measure of who you want. That's all.

My mentioning certs may have steered you wrong, and that was a bit of a distraction. My point there was that certs tell us something, usually not much, but are still better indicators than their self-advertising.
2nd much more severe, ongoing
Reposted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27316734 with the URL
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I actually experienced an interesting incident that made me switch from Charter with no intention of ever giving them my business again. They had upgraded their default speed in my area from 200 Mbps to 300 Mbps but you wouldn't get it unless you called in for them to increased it. Then a short time later they announced it as a increase to service at no additional cost and it would automatically take affect. Then a couple of months later they reduced again and said it was never an option. I was just so annoyed I switched to 1 Gbps service for an extra $30. I really hope that one day cellular or satellite gut them. Charter/Spectrum is one crooked company that should be sued out of existence.
statamic is incredible...I can't recommend it enough...such a breath of fresh air
If this stops any tracking then sounds good. All platforms should give an option to pay with money rather than personal data.
Tesla reportedly scrambling for IC supply
This is the more pedestrian version of the inscrutability of AI.
The vaccine produced by China's Sinopharm company:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sinopharm+seychelles&t=fpas&ia=web
I think that's not every file, but every executable, right? And doesn't Microsoft do that and call it SmartScreen?
twitter already makes a lot of $ with ads (which have a very high CPC and CPM for advertisers), but this is a way to make money on top of that,
Yes, actually. There's a process that a defendant can go through to convince a judge they should be able to get information from a third party. Tech companies argue there's a special loophole that exempts them.
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Well, living in space proper (zero gravity) probably won't be a mass thing. We will only cross space without living in it, just like we do with the ocean.

But the possibility of terraforming planets or moons cannot be ruled out in the future. We are quite capable of altering environment, actually, even to our detriment (climate change). Maybe we can do it better on Mars or Titan.
People definitely have differing views on what "reasonable checks and balances" mean; here in the US we have whole movements of people with... strong opinions on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement

I agree it's valid not to use a bank; one could try to conduct all one's business in cash. But in practice, people doing that are often doing something criminal, so people using cryptocurrency should not be surprised that they end up being treated with the same level of scrutiny as people running around with briefcases of cash. That is to say, their attempts at secrecy may result in a practical loss of privacy.
How the media covers its tracks when proven wrong