skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me think.

What happens when partial profiles are matched to the wrong person? Like, it's very likely these systems are going to match different people in the same household/network because... how can they even separate different people with different interests and a single person using many profiles?

I suspect all our "valuable user data" is tainted by default and its monetary value is an illusion. We do know that the systems are overzealous, and the algorithms driving those systems are far from perfect (and in case of ML models, high chances of it being non-deterministic, to boot).

A friend recently got some of those ISP copyright strikes because the fiancee of his sister got relocated to his house for a few days and decided to leech from the network to download some AAA videogames. Of course the strikes were to my friend's name, because they have no way to know some stranger did it instead.

I can easily see my data profile saying I'm into horoscopes and that voodoo because my mother browses that stuff all day from the network assigned to my name. I'm sure there are attempts to defeat incognito/private tabs by bundling all "indecisive" data to the main profile in a given IP, so a large household can be a completely schizophrenic data profile with data mixed from a lot of users in that household. Imagine someone in your house has been using some extremist or taboo site. If that data is mixed up with yours, and a person with bad intent wants to take advantage of leaked data they obtained on you...they have a pretty strong weapon to assassinate your image. "You can't deny it, it's in the data. Your cousin did it? Oh what an ignoble attempt to save your butt, how lowly!". Since you have no way to plausibly deny it, it can be a strong blackmail weapon. Maybe stronger than medical data leaks in this weirdly political climate we got now.
Note that in Julia these are often referred to as array comprehensions, as the data structure involved is a (very efficient) array. C.f. Python
More than you would imagine.
Keep in mind that downvotes without explanation are likely coming from people on Hacker News whose income comes from advertising.
Conviction: a fixed or firm belief [dictionary.com]; a strong opinion or belief [Cambridge Dictionary].

Atheism: the doctrine or belief that there is no God [dictionary.com]; the belief that God does not exist [Cambridge Dictionary].

Also, "this person's" father was an atheist, he studied philosophy, and was in-and-out of addiction recovery programs throughout adulthood. He likely had more insight into the minds of non-religious, religious, and whatever people than you're giving him credit for.
Perhaps you should try watching Birdman.
I think the perspective you describe -- that one should be able to purchase and own a device with a certain set of inherent functions, without being beholden to a third party supplier of software/services -- is probably the best one in terms of consumer interests.

Completely divorcing the idea of 'essential functions' from the nature of the device is a dangerously slippery slope, and you're starting to see it creep into things like automotive sales: things that many manufacturers have treated as basic features like CarPlay and Android Auto are now subscription features with some 'premium' brands. And with VW pushing to make driver-assist features a pay-per-hour subscription...how long will it be before simple vehicle diagnostics and other high-value features end up paywalled behind a monthly subscription plan?
> someone that is blocking their caller ID.

They do give you valid login and password, why is that not enough?
500% interest rate O.o that might just set unrealistic expectations when for so long interest rates have been at _best_ 2% on a savings account
It’s just a series of small parts that’s a convenient step up from using inline styles. And you can easily modify it.

You can do anything you want with it without a reliance on predefined widgets, modals or layouts key to a specific framework.

If you want that, there’s TailwindUI but it’s by no means necessary.
As an English speaking Canadian, now living in the USA, I concur. "The Americas" refers to the whole super continent.
The stats don't do justice compared to the experiences of real people, for sure.

Statistically, the median family income in the county is $73,929 (2010 census). I see a house in Hailey right now on Zillow whose mortgage would likely scrape right under the 30% of income mark. Not a great situation.
This kind of crap is the reason it's much easier to block people who can't contribute or formulate proper criticisms and focus on properly submitted GitHub issues. All this is just noise
The author is confused between tax avoidance and tax evasion. Tax evasion is illegal; tax avoidance is not. Rather than blaming companies for shifting profit offshore and just hike up the tax rate, maybe look at ways to improve the complicated tax system in the US.
If everyone is to be judged by the worst sentence they've written then literally everyone ends up in the junk pile. This is not a substantive argument, and it's completely off topic. Please don't take HN threads further down lame generic tangents.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Would any of the people who downvoted my post[1] without comment care to explain why?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761401

EDIT: Didn't think so.
Please don't take HN threads on offtopic flamewar tangents. What a useless train wreck.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Mods: This one needs 2020 in the title since the linked post is from November 2020.

I’m not sure what actions anyone reading this can take now. They may have already succumbed to the relentless prompts and accepted the new messenger.
>but cash is also near useless for me.

Did your bank/ATM stop accepting it? Do you never settle debts with your friends?
https://maps.org or, more specifically, https://integration.maps.org
Tech companies probably won't return to offices in September
Many tech companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, Uber, etc) have set early September as the time in which employees will be required to return to the office. In a world before the delta variant it seemed plausible that vaccination alone could allow everyone to return to office. But looking at the data coming out of Israel, UK, and the EU, as well as variant data in the US, we can assume that COVID-19 cases are going to significantly increase in the US in the upcoming weeks, followed by increased hospitalizations (albeit at a lower rate than pre-vaccination). Tech companies could still decide to force employees back into the office but outside of Apple I find it hard to believe that they'll force everyone to come back in the midst of an outbreak, which now seems inevitable.
It would have a negative impact on the pricing bundles that individual shops have as well, depending on how strictly you would interpret such a law. Consumers would lose out on good deals relative to their own preferences, and suppliers would lose revenue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader
Moving Forward – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Hm well the first two aren't really costs, are they?

The third is a conjecture, and as I understand it this is only being offered to people who already have linked their Facebook and Instagram accounts?
Speaking of SQLite, this CoRecursive podcast a few days ago was enjoyable: https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
> it has to be paired with increased access to education

Maybe some sort of skills training cooperative? You teach me and I teach you?
Oh I can tell you exactly why, particularly because I've worked with a bunch of ex HP printer devs.

"Hey we should upgrade to the latest standards!"

"Why?"

"Because they are safer!"

"Yeah, but it might break things"

"But it's safer!"

"Yeah, but the current shit is working. Don't mess with a working thing".

It's practically a religion there. I interned there years ago, it was a momentous task getting internal people to move from IE 7 to firefox, chrome, or IE8. What I'd done was improve one of their internal tools with an updated javascript library. However, it ran like ass on IE 7 and perfectly fine on pretty much everything else.
Doesn't every language get to make up their own words?

If there was a priority thing, shouldn't English speakers be using "cosmonaut"? They launched the first person into space, as well as the first one to orbit and a bunch of other accomplishments.
It's easier to get in the face of local politicians vs. ones hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Indeed I would argue the more we defer to national politics the worse (dramatically worse!) things get. Senators were set up to be elected by the state legislatures on purpose to encourage people to pay attention to their state legislatures. The House of Representatives were selected by popular vote.

Separation of duties/check and balances. The 17th amendment "fixed" that - and I'd say every since it's been downhill from there. Pure democracy's CAN NOT work - it's why we are (for now) a representative republic. There is no perfect system as long as humans are involved, but we were blessed with a pretty good one. I wish people would stop trying to tear it down - we know from history the alternatives are pretty gawd awful.
If you don’t like it, you don’t have to use Instagram and you don’t have to use Facebook. These are completely non-essential services in every way.
The terms and conditions should state:

I will provide you with all of my personal data for you to sell it.
Check here _

I will be spammed with ads for useless shit that I don't need.
Check here _

I will not sue you for performing any unethical or illicit practices
Check here _
> a few actors can obtain competitive advantages by collecting data from across websites...

This is going away: all the major browsers have said they are going to block cross-site tracking.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
"Scholarpedia [.org] : the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia (where knowledge is curated by communities of experts)."

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

This fills an important gap.
I was thinking the other day that at the pace at which all the AI stuff is advancing, including hardware accelerators in consumer devices, it won't be long until captchas become useless for their purpose of telling humans and machines apart. It's already at the point where captchas are increasingly frustrating and require way too much attention instead of the simple "enter these characters".

Also, yes, I really wish recaptcha dies a painful death because it often does discriminate me for my IP address and non-acceptance of third-party cookies.
An individual, absolutely. But a company? The arguments in favour of “you can block anyone for any reason” don't really apply.
More like can pick one these days
I don't think market share is much relevant here. Small cell phone carriers can ban customer text message conversation based on political opinion, but not AT&T?

On page 8:

> Why does the law preclude the companies from doing this—even when they’re not monopolies, such as landline companies might be, but are highly competitive cell phone providers?
I mean, we can't really completely inspect a working brain to see what's happening. To get that level of inspection, we'd need to dig into the brain while it is functioning. Unfortunately, this kills the patient

Leave out the completely and it's a different story though: it's perfectly possible to 'dig in while functioning' i.e. inspect small parts using electrode arrays and that will not kill the patient and only do minimal damage (the couple of cells killed by that are nothing in comparison with the entirety). Non-invasive fMRI techniques also have come a long way but temporal resolution is low. But as you say: difficult, slow, and by no means a 'complete' view. On the other hand: no idea how one would even begin to handle the insane amount of data which would come from inspecting a complete brain. So what goes on now, tackling smaller areas/connections thereof one by one, is not even that bad of an approach.
I think the typical scenario is that you understand how big of problem it is only in retrospect.

In the moment, your first thought is that there is some type of quick fix that will restore functionality (if your site is down) or evict the intruder if something funny is detected. As a sibling commenter said, most teams would try to deploy a previous known-good build asset.

But I stand by my point that a DoS of a development system can indeed be critical! I’m surprised to find that I appear to be in the minority here...
While the figure for deaths isn't that high, not sure if the modelling of 'do nothing' would include the extra covid deaths due to overwhelmed hospitals?
Powershell with its inconsistent returns, weird pipeline behavior at random, and bad default output settings is not better but like all crappy pop songs pushed by the music industry it will gain popularity.

NodeJS and Python could be contenders but Bash has them beat in longevity.
If you, as an attacker, are going to make a fraudulent commit and change package.json, you could just pull in a bogus dependency or add a new script/command that gets run on the build/dev machine. I agree the bar to submitting a fraudulent commit is unfortunately too low for many teams. But, this also extends to package publishing, too.

We've seen packages published through compromised dev keys or the maintainer granted a new bad actor rights to publish. Here we could envision a situation where someone reports a legitimate, but low impact, security issue and also publishes a bogus package that everyone is now upgrading to. On the whole, these messages aren't encouraging people to upgrade to a new, verified release (i.e., a fixed version). They're encouraging people to upgrade to the latest release. Even if you suspend the bad actor thought experiment, the latest release of a package in all likelihood hasn't been audited beyond ensuring the previously reported security issue has been addressed. Upgrading indiscriminately is a risky activity as well. I don't think we should be encouraging people to do that (in any language ecosystem).

It's not lack of imagination of attack vectors at play here. Treating extremely low risk factors as if they're high priority reduces trust in the system as a whole. Getting developers to care more about security is a laudable effort, but I think the `npm audit` approach (as reported in the post) is going to encourage bad practices.
i disagree. The US has arguably a better, larger, and cohesive economy.

Also EU talent comes to the US because EU companies just dont value their tech workers as much. EU has to pay tech workers more, or else it will loose in tech, 100%.

Lastly, there's regulation and taxes that makes it hard for businesses to develop.
Please don't take HN threads into race flamewar hell or any other flamewar hell. With this glib and snarky provocation of atrocity grievance, you turned what was already a wretched subthread into a tire fire. I assume you didn't intend that, but if it wasn't arson it was criminal negligence. We want the exact opposite of this on HN.

You also have a history of posting flamebait to HN. Please review the site guidelines and take a lot more care with this place. The ecosystem here is fragile. I'm sure you wouldn't drop lit matches in a dry forest or at a gas station, or toss Molotov cocktails into crowds at parks. So please don't do the equivalent here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For example companies like door dash that run at a loss while forcing restaurants to take in less profits (because restaurants must pay door dash and can’t raise prices just for door dash users). It’s a ponzi scheme of investors. The real business for many SV companies is keeping the investor money flowing in.
I guess it's google accounts then. No one uses their messengers because they keep changing names.
You'd have 2fa for your online banking anyway.
OP's comment still holds true: "Plenty of available jobs" is what happens when the deal you are offering- cash for labour- is not an acceptable deal to the labour side. When businesses cannot be profitable at market-chosen labour prices, the businesses will close down.

When low paid workers can't afford to live locally because of availability of affordable housing, they must live further away. Commuting has a cost too so if low paid workers can afford housing an hour away, it still might be cost prohibited to take those jobs because commuting costs too much (or "affordable" transportation isn't available). Then if you include the 2+ hours of commute time per shift to take those jobs, it may very well make those jobs less attractive as the effective hourly pay rate is lower than elsewhere.
In Cloudflare's case they already have a consumer-facing product that supports relaying over their network (WARP, with separate IP range versus their reverse proxy service) so Apple is likely using a variant of that.

I was very surprised when I checked and saw Fastly on my iPad as I wasn't aware Fastly had any similar product, in my mind they are (were?) strictly a reverse proxy CDN.
Have you quit your job to live off handouts? Why not?

Humans have a natural drive to be self sufficient, and it is unpleasant to rely upon the charity of others. We wish to be masters of our fate, not slaves.

Further, it is dumb to structure a society in a way that depends on significant numbers of its members routinely going against their own self interest.
This article makes the same equally persuasive point if you substitute the word "crack" for "Twitter."
Will Sentient AI Commit Suicide?
This essay generated a lot of interesting discussion in several subreddits:

https://link.medium.com/HNdhmXdFHhb

What do you think?
Friendly suggestion: read the comment that you’re replying to, and the comment that it is replying to, at least one more tome each.
While you are right in that we have not yet seen the foreclosure/eviction impact, I think not all of it is 'head in the sand'.

At least in the US, there are more systems in place to help people who are behind. Lenders are more apt to do a modification then risk another market collapse.

And, I would be willing to bet our current administration will be happy to do what they can. A failure to contain the situation will not be good for them -or- their donors.

One thing we are already seeing; the CFPB is putting in safeguards in that will likely delay a number of foreclosures even further [0]. Another change is FHFA loans being eligible for interest rate reductions that wouldn't be possible under the LTV.

How this 'smoothing' plays out remains to be seen.

[0] https://www.housingwire.com/articles/cfpbs-roadmap-for-the-f...
I don't think most people realized that not only is remote work feasible but for many professions - especially those in "knowledge work" - it's a huge boon.

Peoples eyes have been opened and the genie is out of the bottle. I fully expect remote work to transform America to the extent that the post WWII suburbanization will look like a statistical anomaly by comparison.
A Black Hole's Core Could Be a Strange “Planck Star”
> The soil moisture is falling

You just restated what I said. What am I wrong about?
Vendors do that because they’re left holding the bag in chargebacks. Addresses are de facto knowledge based authentication questions in lieu of dynamic credit card codes.
I can't be the only one who hears "Figma" for the first time ever. From a quick google it appears to be an Illustrator like vector format?
I have the same question and a followup: What is the difference between "surveillance-based advertising" and observation-based advertising?
Thanks, glad you like it. Yes, I am. I have a couple of them already out, actually. I would recommend you episode 55 or episode 50. Those are some of my favorite interviews so far form the show.
> is that the same hyper liberal people who are so against development

A bit of a nit pick here, but this issue does not fall cleanly across partisan lines. Some of the most vocal advocates for zoning reform are on the left. And at least in my town, a fair number of folks in the anti-development camp are traditionally right leaning well off suburbanites. If I could pick one issue that most scrambles the traditional partisan alignments, this would probably be it.
Voice to Text via https://speechtyping.com/voice-to-text-english

I have bookmarked this a while ago. May not be open source, and does not use the internet to convert. Would work for many use cases, but wont be as good as Google's AI.

works with just the browser with help of webkitSpeechRecognition built into the browser. Works on both Chrome and Safari (not Firefox).
Graph databases have been the great white whale at my org for a number of years. We gave a crack at Janus a while back. It (like a few attempts at Neo4J) failed to deliver on the promise of unlocking queries with more than a hop or two, while dramatically underperforming on those one or two hop queries vs a graph implemented in MySQL.
This is a really good point. Because the stakes are so high it makes sense. No one would want to live in a building that's yolo designed. Certifying and insuring it after the fact though would be really hard because a lot of critical decisions are hidden away.

We accept that possibility in SaaS though... for now.

Most successful SaaS applications probably weigh in at 250k LOC or more (I know LOC isn't a great metric, but it serves as an idea of an application's complexity) and will use many libraries that themselves could be questionable. Seems like it would be pretty complicated to certify.
Is that sarcasm? De-platforming him was the right move (I agree it should have happened earlier) but I don't feel like the right-wing fever has broken at all. The temperature may have lowered, but the sickness is still very much with us.
Personally, I'm not bothered by Amazon doing this on their site when I'm there, and I even disable my adblocker on Amazon but limited to Amazon because I'm there to buy a product or service. Advertising at me if it doesn't get in the way of that quest is appropriate there.

Covering my entire webpage I'm trying to research something else at with a full-page Amazon ad for a product I already bought just because I expressed interest in that product by buying it is not okay. Thus, I block all ads elsewhere to avoid that sorta thing.

Works pretty well for me, but it's sad I should have to jump through as many hoops as I have to to avoid such crapware being forced upon me. Ads I'm not wanting literally steal a portion of my allotted bandwidth and give me less than zero value in return. Perhaps advertisers should start paying us for our valuable time, attention, and bandwidth?
Aries: Europe's first zero commission options trading platform live
I don't know much about Haiti's international affairs, but I'm curious if other countries will be involved at all in the investigation of this murder (because the victim was a head of state). Complicating the situation of course, is the english and spanish speaking assailants, indicating that they might be foreigners.

Will the D.E.A. (audio of the event being shared has a clip of someone yelling "this is a DEA operation, stand down" in a southern american accent) be expected to make some sort of statement regarding this? Should we believe them without a formal investigation and evidence?
Increasingly, the ULA-Blue Origin marriage is an unhappy one
I'm not sure the third part is conjecture. The EFF has an entire article about it: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/changes-facebooks-real...
> Tesla has had the past couple quarters be profitable

They have been profitable for almost 1.5 years.

> (though amusingly more on bets on Bitcoin than actual car sales)

That is simply false.
How is python better? If I want to say install 5 different yum packages and then do a kubernetes command the bash is pretty straightforward. With python I would have to do subprocess.call and then handle the exit codes and errors in python.