skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Providing everyone's exact location data to anyone that can extract a key from an apk just seems dangerous to me. Fuzzing, rate-limiting, etc, seems prudent. I understand you're saying Grindr doesn't care though.
Not quite. (Extremely cynical take follows)

Software is reducing the amount of data being collected non-digitally and inefficiently; compressing redundancy out of the process in the form of data structures and normalization.

That’s only going to be the case long enough for ML-algorithms plus approve-button-pushers to be even more efficient.

The current wave of college educated data entry positions is a side-effect, not the terminal goal. Ultimately we’re on track to replace most degree-havers with CAPTCHAs.
> Executing code [...] allows for downloading of content without licensing.
The commonality is “I don’t think that I have anything to hide” or more specifically, “I don’t fully understand what exactly I am hiding from or why I need to hide.”

Last I checked, most people understand privacy from other people at some level. I only say that because I still see people wearing clothes and closing the door when using the restroom.

What they don’t understand is why they need privacy from centralized points of failure/exploitation.
My dad tried to say the same thing. I countered with that in the Book of Job the devil couldn't do anything to Job without God's consent, so that would mean that God was trying to intentionally fool people with no way to prove what we can see with our own eyes wrong.

He changed the subject and never brought it back up to me again.
A defense that the company can offer is 'we intervened to prevent this in the following ways, senior management took this seriously and had a zero tolerance policy, as you can see from the long list of people fired for doing bad things.' That is probably the most common defense for a suit like this. This is the main reason that companies provide annual harassment training, anonymous complaint lines, etc.- it helps to build the case that senior management takes the problem seriously in case a lawsuit like this is filed.

The problem that A-B is going to have is that 'I complained to the CEO personally about Afrasiabi in 2013, and they didn't fire him until 2020' is tough to square with that argument. In order to make that stick you have to actually have consequences for employees who do this sort of thing. And 'we waited until after the investigation into our company had been going on for a year, almost a decade after his first documented complaint' doesn't really fit the facts the company wants. So, can they find enough people who did suffer consequences in 2013, say, to convince a jury? That's probably what the legal argument will come down to (their current tack is probably not the one they will take with a jury, presuming this gets that far).
T-Mobile's home internet is cellular. 4G/5G. And I've heard it's pretty good from a friend that runs a WISP.
I have suicidal thoughts before. I prefer not to let my mental health condition determine if I want to die or not.
If it's not clean money bust me for the crime, not having the money.

No, I don't want the IRS to see what I spend a zillion dollars on, I don't want the IRS to exist. The comment you're replying to is mostly a sketch of how you pay taxes without some government agency sniffing your butthole.

It isn't about being afraid, it is about what's my business and what's your business.

You can't browbeat people into agreeing with you by comparing them to evil bad man.
Yeah, I'm a daily pot-smoker and many of my friends are too, and we're all generally doing great at our careers and personal lives. I did some reflecting upon reading this comment to ensure that I'm not some sort of narcissistic stoner who doesn't get any feedback, but I really can't see that in myself or any of the people I know who are heavy smokers.

I'm worried that OP is just looking down on their pot-smoking peers through the lens of stereotypes with a "that's a lot of confidence for a pothead" attitude instead of recognizing that they're legitimately happy, confident people - traits they likely aren't as critical of when they comes from others.
C++ definitely hasn't a weaker type system than "newer" languages like Java - if any, it is much more richer and complex than most languages out there. What's happening here is a type conversion that has to be in place due to C not having a boolean type until 1999. C++ attempts to construct a boolean from the argument of an `if()`, and given that bool can be constructed from int, the conversion succeedes.

You can define your own conversion operators to boolean, too, which are very useful for stuff like smart pointers and similar classes that may or may not have a value.

struct A {
std::string value;

explicit operator bool() const {
return this->value.size();
}
};

// ...

A a {};
if (!a) {
// ...
}
Isn’t that a far more convoluted explanation, with even less understanding behind it?
Now we still need all the explanation for how consciousness arises, but now how it arises from some unknown place outside the brain. And then we need an explanation for how our brain somehow is a receiver of something from somewhere?
This is outdated info. The latest iPad Pro has the M1 chip, exactly the same as the MacBook. And it comes in 8/16gb ram.

The magic keyboard accessory apple sells for the iPad also turns it in to the same form factor as a laptop.

You very realistically could replace a MacBook with an iPad Pro and magic keyboard if apple let people run macOS on it.
An order of magnitude more staff in any US embassy are spies than diplomats. If this whole thing isn't a mass-hysteria, then the idea would clearly be to scare the spies away, rather than the diplomats.
SirensOfTitan says >"It’s one of my favorite books! I have a first edition lying somewhere around my apartment."<

I too, use spare copies as doorstops. It is bulky enough and has a sufficiently commanding title so that people don't kick it (likely fearing it MAY bite back).
You are probably right. And that is a good point too, it fails economically too.

My original point was only that the Kibbutzen didn't end up massacring their inhabitants like almost every other communist experiment.
Both Sellfy and Selly charge a monthly fee starting at $20 to even create a store. Rocketr has stalled/been abandoned since early 2019 if I'm not mistaken.

However, I do agree with you in that we need to differentiate ourselves a little more, which is what we'll be doing as we progress with our roadmap. Sponsoring does indeed look like a good way to get traction going and we'll definitely be looking into that as a viable way to grow our userbase.

Many thanks for the feedback!
Even this is becoming less true with access to deeper levels of various vendors’ stacks. It’s possible to actually do pulse-level experiments on various platforms, where the results will match theoretical predictions. Again, to fake that has no benefit to anyone and in fact would take an enormous amount of work to create a time-domain solver. For just a handful of qubits, it’s not even feasible, at least to do it accurately.
Their iOS and i-thingy announcement videos pretty much always feature "producers" very heavily, and the features and software they release and maintain often focus on making things. What's the deal with that?
Intel's Q2 2021: PCs Up 33 Percent, Servers Continue Decline
This is a very nice and useful article but how do you design a Windows 95-style icon? I remember trying and trying and mine always looked like crap. I stared in wonder and amazement at the masterpieces of that era and just couldn't reproduce anything similar.
What is so courageous about violating one’s oaths?

If you want to go to gay bars and pick up guys on Grindr, leave the priesthood. If you want to be celibate and follow church teachings, quit going to gay bars. But, there’s nothing ‘courageous’ about trying to have your cake and eat it too.
"I am very humble myself and I will write a scathing, mocking article to explain in great detail how stupid and entitled I think you are if you do the slightest thing I disagree with" -that guy
That’s not tied to a specific race though? Sometimes being ‘green’ is an advantage cause you are able to ask inexperienced questions and given more slack when in a new job, etc.
Thank you. Yes, it seems a lot to me, that's why I think it might be misinterpreted, but I don't know how to interpret it. If anyone knows I'd be grateful for help.

Regarding the polio argument, yes, I agree, but it also works the other way around, how many healthy people have to be harmed for the others to survive? We can argue about this ad infinitum, but this is about numbers and I don't see the whole picture.
Some of those replies are from men too, commenting on the awful behavior they saw. Possibly some are victims as well, but I didn't see any tweets like that.
HrNReader 2000
Just to be pedantic, that experiment literally generates certifiable random numbers; it is also unclear if they have a real physical device; it appears their "Sycamore" design is theoretical and actually simulated on the Jülich (classic) supercomputer.
Excellent work! I really like the UI. I've been using some iOS app for HN because the UI offers easy and quick swipe-based upvotes and bookmarking. But your UI is more reminiscent of a mail app and that's better suited for a desktop app. So kudos!
When did it become a national security issue?
We run our company finances off Google Sheets, which is essentially Excel, but shared. It's an outstanding tool for financial modeling as well modeling in many other domains. We would not be able to function without it. The fact that others may misuse it does not change things for me.

p.s., Google Sheets is one of the more underrated cloud apps of all time.
A contentEditable, pasted garbage and caret placement walk into a pub
I really struggle to understand how in 2021 someone could think that "pay is the product of their skill level". Perhaps they are very young and naive.
Sometimes. When a previous manager quit, he told me he had been a manager for a year and then tried to stop being a manager for another year. No path back to IC at our company so he joined FB as a staff eng.
Satellites aren't going to swerve, though.
This has also harming other fields. I work as a researcher in a traditional engineering field with a very long tradition and well stablished methods.

There is a push to use AI and Quantum such that in order to get funding or publish papers you need to say that you’re applying XYZ AI technique to solve a well known engineering problem.

Because funding agencies want to sell to their investors or government managers that they are in the new hot trend, if you want to get funding money you need to have something related in your proposal. Of course, having previously published papers on the topic helps so that motivates people to send papers on the topic. The journal editors know that the topic is hot so they prioritize papers on this topic as their metrics will increase.

The result is tons of rushed papers saying “Applying XYZ AI technique to well known engineering problem” usually without examining previous research methods or proper benchmarks.

At the end the only barrier for this bro to happen is the individual moral standing of each researcher. Unfortunately, careerism usually trumps over this.

Sorry if this was too bleak.
hmmm, I feel like that is "user-hostile", might not be a great idea for a nascent service. I think that if you're starting a new service you would want to pump it up, make every user feel awesome so they keep using it. you can incentivize upgrade with a carrot without punishing free with a stick. i.e. maybe a "premium" badge only, not the "free" badge. I dont anticipate anyone will be happy that their cheapness is being advertised
Fission plants are expensive for a couple of reasons. One is that they need additional layers of heat exchangers. Another is that their parts must be very reliable, to reduce the probability of serious accidents.

Fusion reactors will also require layers of heat exchangers, to isolate the tritium. They will also require very reliable parts: not because of public safety, but because fusion reactors will have so many parts in the hot area where hands-on maintenance is impossible. And this reliability will be expensive, even though the requirement for it is more to avoid a financial meltdown rather than a physical one.

> The analysis in the fulltext relies on a variety of plasma parameters estimated based on technology available in 1987.

The point of these arguments is that beyond a certain power, the plasma parameters become irrelevant. The limit is imposed by what the first wall can withstand, not what the plasma can put out.

If you look at areal power densities of fusion reactor concepts, the older studies had HIGHER areal power densities. But those higher power densities were found to be unrealistic.

Lidsky concluded DT fusion reactors would be an order of magnitude worse (in volumetric power density) compared to fission reactors. In this, he was being too generous: ARC is 40x worse than a PWR; ITER is 400x worse (and DEMO almost as bad).

The arguments there were farseeing, and experience since then has buttressed them, not contradicted them.
> Age discrimination is only illegal if the person is over 40.

Sarcasm?
I wonder how many would have been okay with lockdowns back in March 2020, had they known that eighteen months later we’d decide that “everyone who wants to be vaccinated can be” isn’t a high enough bar to remove them.
From their abstract:

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After decades of effort, 17% of the total residues in human protein sequences are covered by an experimentally-determined structure1. Here we dramatically expand structural coverage by applying the state-of-the-art machine learning method, AlphaFold2, at scale to almost the entire human proteome (98.5% of human proteins). The resulting dataset covers 58% of residues with a confident prediction, of which a subset (36% of all residues) have very high confidence.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03828-1

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The metric they use (residues) is a bit unusual (I would have used number of proteins instead), but I assume they wanted to account for ambiguity (such as proteins with partial structures).
Especially for accounting, how does your product compare to codat.io?
Right, I made more hidden assumptions, I was not thinking of first-timers.
If legalized, this could be better controlled, similar to alcohol. The information could also be more honest.

Of course there are also alcohol first-timers who get abolutely shit-faced, that's a really bad trip as well. Probably also some who die of alcohol poisoning.

I'm curious, why did you say "dire (psychological) consequences", what do you mean by that?
It also only works if the taskbar is on the bottom of the screen. I wanted to try it out and it took a long time to realize it wasn’t showing up because I use Windows with a taskbar on the top of screen.
So, what does it actually do besides squelching and producing random numbers?
This is a common sentiment I hear from people who bailed during WoD and have just been looking at public commentary about the rest. Everyone I spoke to in-game were at least meh about BfA, loved Legion, and were still stoked on SL until the new patch just took a bit too long. There are legit criticisms of all of them, but to say they're shit is just silly. Those same people also tended to love MoP fwiw.

My only real criticism is related to the majority of all game content being kind of irrelevant, because there isn't a long road to max level and no scarcity of exp. However, I did level through BfA content, and it was really well done.
This is a pretty good analogy for the state of quantum computers right now!

One difference is that (in principle) it is possible to do quantum error correction. Essentially this turns a number of imperfect "physical" qubits into a perfect "logical" qubit. However, this requires extremely low error rates of the physical qubits to begin with and creates a lot of overhead. All existing quantum computers are much too small and noisy to implement quantum error correction except for some proof-of-principle experiments. I am somewhat pessimistic that any of the current technologies can be improved enough to make it possible in practice.
google internally has always had a split mind about mysql. It never really jibed with the underlying google architecture but played an important role in multiple products (at least partly due to its replication features). Replacing it completely has turned out to be a huge challenge. I gained a fair amount of respect for mysql after seeing it applied at scale, but it was also a bit scary.
* The Utility of Spreadsheets

No single application has been as widely adopted by as wide a number of people for such a wide range of uses as the spreadsheet. Love them or hate them, but the spreadsheet metaphor is at once highly useful, highly adaptable, and highly usable requiring minimal support to extract needed value.

The spreadsheet, with all its questionable glory, is here to stay. From the first Visicalc to Excel 2300 I don't think we'll see the end of spreadsheets for a long time coming.
> As mentioned in the article
Notebooks are the next-gen spreadsheets, except they use programming languages instead of formulas.
Raspi-config's mostly undocumented non-interactive mode
Apart from being poorly OCR'd, this article espouses a conspiracy theory that the actual facts on the ground just don't support. Gibson violated U.S. Customs law by accepting shipments of wood that they knew were mislabeled at the port of entry [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson#FWS_raids_&_Lacey_Act_v...
> "isn't 100watts a lot of power?" <-- typed from gaming computer with a 1000watt power supply

This feels like a bit of an unfair dismissal. I'm using a laptop that rarely goes above 30W (and is off half off the time), so I'm not sure you can make that assumption. A 1000W power supply also doesn't mean it's using that continually - a GPU can consume >300W under load, but drop to around 10W when it's idle. Further, 100W 24/7 would add around 12-13% to my power bill (which is already above average) - it is a noticeable amount of power.
I had no problem running a Google search to find this.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...

And if you care to read it, the decision memo is here.

https://www.fda.gov/media/144416/download

Granted that's the Pfizer vaccine. Google is your friend here for other vaccines approved by the FDA.
Is there a difference? I have used grindr, and if someone is close enough, it will say they are "x feet away." They are well aware of the precision of the location data they serve to users, because it's a feature.
The things I've seen 'round here in the telecom boxes and fiber concentrators... It's a miracle anything works at all...
I think the caller ID thing is different. I don't think people should be allowed to opt out of caller ID, except in some pretty narrow cases. If you're going to call someone, you should be required to affirmatively identify yourself.

I do agree that an opt-out-required phonebook sounds crazy now, but it didn't back in the 80s and 90s. Mass data collection was not the norm, and all that information wasn't available in digitized form to any person or company who wanted it. So abuse of that data was pretty low.
> this crisis is massively destructive of shareholder value

So far the markets haven’t reflected that. How long does it normally take for serious allegations to start affecting the stock price?
cperciva's comment there also generalizes to cryptographic protocols which sometimes require batch inversion (i.e. given a1, ..., an \in F, find out all a1^{-1}, ..., an^{-1}; e.g. when converting a bunch of EC points from projective to affine coordinates), and is there known as "Montgomery's trick" (separate from Montgomery modular multiplication). That is, you trade n inversions for 3(n-1) multiplications and one inversion.
In my own experience and discussions, it isn't so much that people are OK with risking privacy in favor of using any given service/application, but rather more a sense of despair: "I hate it but there's nothing I can do." In some ways this may be the same thing, in that they desire the use of the service/app so much that their desire for privacy is weighed lower.

Personally, my desire for privacy is starting to harm my daily life, as I am apparently unable to access Facebook Groups or Marketplace, both of which are heavily and almost exclusively used in my community for meetups and personal sales respectively. I know rationally that I can make a bare bones FB profile just to use these, but my personal (perhaps unjustified) paranoia currently still wins out.

On that note, if anybody knows of any open source or upcoming alternatives to those two services, please let me know so that I can see about making at least a local dent in FB's monopoly.
It might not matter commercially, but it certainly matters from a scientific POV.
Note that the parent comment only applies to liquid vaporizers which function identically to ”e-juice” nicotine vaporizers (not Juul, which is a nicotine salt vaporizer). The safe ones typically contain cannabinoid extracts in a terpene solution.

There are also vaporizers that use dry plant material directly without liquids, e.g. from Storz&Bickel, Arizer, Pax, etc.
> This is a maximalist view of sovereignty that happens to be common in very few countries on the planet

Its actually obligatory under treaties of near universal acceptance; though of course nations are free (and some do) choose not to exercise jurisdiction beyond their borders outside of those areas where treaty requires it. Though I think the more common choice is to apply jurisdiction both to citizens/nationals irregardless of location for at least some offenses as well as general jurisdiction over national territory.

Its true that some countries, like the US, are more inclined than others to assert non-obligatory jurisdiction over acts by foreigners on foreign territory.
You need leverage to blackmail somebody, and your blackmail risk is part of whether you can attain clearance. Hence whether some government jobs are open to you.
The person who wrote the mod does not appear to be the one who linked it on KotakuInAction. Therefore that community can't take credit for the other mods and claim they balance each other out.

>I think your last sentence is really demonstrative of what I'm saying: people harbor a highly prejudiced view of gaming as, "a community that already has a reputation for sexism and misogyny" and are making very skewed judgements.

To be clear, I am not saying this about the general gaming community. I am saying this about the gamergate community. Surely not everyone in that community is sexists or misogynist, but I don't think you can legitimately argue that there is not some sizable portion of that community that is highly sexists and misogynist.

That context and context in general is important because it helps to establish the motivation behind their actions. It is just like how saying the exact same thing to your wife and a random women on the street could be loving in the former context and sexist in the latter.
Why would you have to consider all these costs you’re talking about when it’s been made clear that these power companies will not be allowed to fail and will be bailed out by the government (but never taken over because they’re a convenient whipping boy)?