skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> America as a country has been locked in this sort of country wide PTSD since and have changed completely.

Population wise, that was the case for a number of years after 9/11. In terms of government policy, it's still the case. But in terms of the former, it's fading away as more time passes. People who were born in 2001 are or will turn 20 this year. Just like events like the attack on pearl harbor and the Cuban missle crises, 9/11 will also become an event that's just known by reading history rather than a first hand experience.
It works with multiple cryptocurrency exchanges that you can connect using APIs. If the supported exchanges are available in your country, yes you can use it.
I wonder if it's impossible/unlikely for the other great apes to evolve the capabilities and brain structures described.

Those characteristics that we have, likely evolved in tandem with our use of them, through mutual feedback/reinforcement. We evolved, creating a world that's hospitable to more evolution in similar directions.

We now have the world that humans could and have built with those characteristics.

There may no longer be physical and evolutionary space for the other great apes to similarly evolve, and create the world that they might have, and the mutual feedback between that world and their evolution.

We were first movers.

Speaking from ignorance, of course.
I'm sorry, maybe I'm just dense, but how can the output of your generator be deterministic if you add entropy?

Further, if it's deterministic, how is this different from just running your password through a hashing algorithm and then using the hash as your password? The only extra information an attacker has to figure out is what hashing algorithm you used and he can generate all of your passwords from your memorized one.

Right? That or I don't understand what you are describing.
It‘s just not a good business move to invest a huge amount lf time to create complex UI in the native frameworks if electron is way easier.

Dont hate on electron, criticize the existing native solutions for making it way harder.

Just as an example: in WPF it takes a significant amount of knowledge and work to fully customize a buttons appearance while its a basic task in CSS
Also doing it in memory (which is what all the regular search engines do right?)
It's great that the web is so durable and long-lived, but I wonder about the health of it - it's got so complicated that we're down to only three implementations (Firefox, Chromium, WebKit), no realistic possibility of a new engine emerging, and essentially one implementation defining the standard. I wonder where we'll be in another 30 years?
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Is this offering anything more substantive than you own bias and suspicions?

Is there any response that could get you to consider that the comment "anything which doesn't make people more fearful must be suppressed" is as harmful or even more harmful than the media itself?

Asking because I'd like to better understand how to address people with your beliefs in the future.
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I found a stat that suggested ~100 [1] (another stat says 500 and 15,000 injuries (!) [2] and there's a 3rd between them [3]), so say 600 million. Given the insurance cost of replacing vehicles, that would only be 30k accidents prevented to pay for itself.

FWIW, I've heard anecdotally that the insurance companies pushed for backup cameras more than anyone else, but given the benefits to lower insurance (arguable, but in theory), less deaths and less injuries, it seems like a win. The technology will also get cheaper over the years.

[1] https://www.theregreview.org/2012/05/30/30-rowell-camera/

[2] https://safetyresourcesblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/vehi...

[3] https://kelleyuustal.com/rear-view-cameras-reduce-90-of-back...
2FA is engaged at the authentication stage, so knowing the vault passphrase may not be sufficient.

Further, allowing anyone to download my encrypted vault just feels really uncomfortable and unnecessary.
I probably look like one of these employees. Honestly I don’t ‘work’ that hard.

But I also have a shit ton of institutional knowledge that cost a good decade+ to acquire. And I got there by working hard.

My value add is to break bottlenecks for my teammates. I dig through hard problems that they find intractable. But I don’t grind through the daily drudgery.

I’m lucky in that my manager understands this and values people based on how they fit with the team and I have something valuable to add.
It's honestly deeply comical. It's a classic example of wanting to have both free speech and freedom from consequences.

It seems to me the religion of capitalism has a solve, here, and it's called competition.

If they really believe in freedom, they should support the freedom of Twitter to kick them off the platform, and these folks have the freedom to find another platform elsewhere.

But, of course, freedom isn't what these people are after. They just want to manufacture a different kind of consent.
The technology is just too tempting for totalitarians and tyrants of all degrees. It feels like humanity itself is in some sort of societal infancy.
I think there should be (and probably already is) an FAQ page explaining why a "stateless password manager" is not a great idea for a common user. I guess the answers to this SE question might be a good start: https://security.stackexchange.com/q/214301/2530
Semantic Web and SPARQL were developed to solve this problem of open data. However no one uses it. Outside academic circles of Europe most people have never even heard of these two.

Why didn't it catch on?

There are I reckon two main causes:
1. No one cares.
2. Data has value only when kept behind a paywall. Data is not the new oil as oil is naturally scarce. Data is infinitely copyable.

1. Majority of people are just ignorant. They get their data magically and pay for it with watching ads. The information world starts and ends there for 99% of the populace.

2. The other 1% know very well the value of data, but only when it is kept hidden. If all data were openly available, just a federated SPARQL query away, there would be zero economic sense in founding almost any modern IT company as no profit can be made from data.

There is no way to make non-copyable data. Sure one can encrypt and provide decryption keys for access. And then the receiver has the data and open sources it in semantic web and the seller can't make any more profit from the data. Law and IP rights are the only deterrent here. They don't apply globally. Even locally one needs $$$ to pay lawyers and enforce the IP.

Issue number 1 is solvable with more education of the masses, so that they care. Masses later yield government officials and good stuff happens.

Issue number 2 is much more nuanced. Economic incentives must be placed very carefully so as not to lead to societal collapse. I am not sure what the best way to go is but for starting out we, the people, should pressure the government (see issue 1) so that they enforce that all publicly available data, like the timetables example or all academic work funded by taxpayers, is also available behind a SPARQL endpoint. 99% won't care, some will and have for example Ubuntu Touch timetable app without HTML scrapping.

For other data the question remains if open access is a good idea. I dislike all data mining by Google and Facebook but would the current Silicon Valley and USA wealth be possible if Google/Facebook open sourced their data, even if getting paid money to do so? Would a resell market form even tho it is freely available to anyone knowing SPARQL? What about private data protected by GDPR?

There is also the interesting discussion about technical feasibility of SPARQL endpoints everywhere. Anyone being able to run queries everywhere is a serious security nightmare and potentially waste of compute resources. Among other things.
From the comment, I guess "pricing and closed source" became not OK
I guess I meant that figuratively. The same genre of people who thought prism is ok because they have nothing to hide to give up privacy are now the same genre that think this privacy invasion is ok as well.
It's hard to answer without triggering backlash in places like this, as the whole world of this kind of healing is a minefield of quackery and woo. It's taken me a long time to work through it all and be able to winnow out the practitioners and practices that are solid. And it's tricky to recommend stuff online, as some of it is linked to chiropractic (which I'm still not generally a fan of), and there are big-selling authors who have written multiple books about these topics, some of which is great, but some of which would be a dealbreaker for many.

Having said all that, if you're keen to research this stuff yourself, look up "Neuro Emotional Technique" and Psych-K, and look for books by Dr Bruce Lipton and Bradley Nelson.

But I'm happy to share more about my own experiences and practices if you contact directly. Email address is in my profile.
Very interesting to see this on HN - Heidegger's theory of technology was ground-breaking then and has only become more timely.

If anybody has questions about this article, Mark Blitz was my advisor in grad school and I wrote an MA thesis applying Heidegger's theory to modern AI research. Happy to clarify any of the issues raised here since, even with Blitz's explanation, Heidegger can be a tough nut to crack.
Computers: scientific computing era (1950), business computing era (1960), personal computing era (1980), web era (1995), mobile computing era (2005), social networking era (2010), ML/AI era (2020)
I am a believer in vaccines, but you're mischaracterizing the first link by selective omission. You've cut out the critical words of the sentence (emphasized):

> The new evidence shows that protective antibodies generated in response to an mRNA vaccine will target a broader range of SARS-CoV-2 variants carrying “single letter” changes in a key portion of their spike protein compared to antibodies acquired from an infection.

The paper shows that vaccines produce a more diverse antibody response to the RBD, which is one portion of the spike protein. They admit that natural infection produces antibodies targeted to other portions of the spike protein (also, presumably, to other parts of the virus, though that isn't discussed in this press release):

> Specifically, antibodies elicited by the mRNA vaccine were more focused to the RBD compared to antibodies elicited by an infection, which more often targeted other portions of the spike protein.

Is this evidence that vaccines are "better" than natural infection? No. It can't be. The paper shows that there's a difference between the antibody responses, but beyond that, it's impossible to know what the practical impacts of that difference might be from this paper.

This is a perfect example of the political weaponization of pre-prints that has happened throughout the pandemic. People read these things, don't fully understand what they're reading or what questions they answer, and immediately jump to social media to start waving them around like team flags (and worse, people who should know better -- like Francis Collins -- seem to encourage the behavior. This PR seems to be trying very hard to mislead, without actually stepping over the line.)

This is an interesting paper, but it is in no way a definitive statement about the relative benefits of vaccination vs. natural immunity.
I think Animal Farm provides a nice answer to that. In my reading of the text, the problem was not necessarily with the revolution, it was the fact that the revolution was perverted and in the end the pigs (communist cadre) simply replaced the bourgeoisie (farmers) preserving the system. Orwell was a socialist, believing in large scale redistribution, government involvement in the economy, etc. He just thought this be done in a democratic fashion and actually benefit the working classes. He looked at the Soviet Union and saw it as a totalitarian nightmare that didn't live up to its ideals.
Orwell was a socialist, and he supported democratic socialism, but he vehemently opposed (and wrote Animal Farm as a mocking satire of) totalitarian Soviet communism[0], which he didn't consider to be socialist at all.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Politics
As far as I know the moderator isn’t shown, but that’s probably a good thing as things get approved on a ~overnight schedule so publicly shaming them for mistakes seems counter productive. Additionally the moderation is very light, “April fools” papers are common and I’ve never heard of something being rejected.

For submitting you need to be approved by someone who already has several submissions in that field.
I generally agree and my estimates were of course the bare minumum, but the "we already pay tax" argument doesn't really work since, well, this service clearly isn't tax-funded given the fact that it isn't free. It might be tax-subsidised, which often makes sense for things that are very expensive and have limited usefulness to individual citizens (like many services governments render to businesses are). If we consider accessing court records to be something with very limited usefulness to most people and primarily used by companies to make money (which I do, despite having done it myself on a few occasions), how expensive it actually is to run becomes very important when convincing "the people" to fund it 100%.
It's a cool concept. I follow "World War I as it happened (1914)"

https://twitter.com/WarHappened
That's apples to oranges. The Dow has a long history of excellent returns. Those lottery numbers do not.
That is exactly the reason we have started with Electron. You got it right. Thank you.
This is very cool, what do think the feature roadmap for the next year is?
We really need better open source {OCR, TTS, dictation, ...}. All of the common FOSS tools for these tasks are so horribly behind the state of the art.

The sad thing is most of the state of the art models and algorithms are open research, they just are usually not written by software engineers and need to be rewritten to be deployable. Usually you just get some shell script like "run_eval.sh" that generates the figures in the paper through a bunch of spaghetti code, and most of the time it will depend on a specific old version of Tensorflow, that probably isn't available for your CUDA version, and probably won't compile on your system without hours of Googling.
So you’re saying that anyone can just get any job they want? At any time? Sign me up :)
Yes. http://www.loundy.com/Roadside_T-Shirt.html
> clearly written by someone who is not an addict and does not have close/intimate relationships with any addicts

I have a disproportionately large number of addicts in my family as a percentage. I grew up around this. This article is written by someone working completely in theory.

There is nuance in everything, and many people may actually beat addiction - but from what I’ve seen, to some degree it’s always there somewhere, forever dormant or just napping, just takes the right conditions to come back.
(genuine question) What does prevent us from creating mRNA vaccines that target multiple sites and not only the spike protein?
Maybe that's the reason why programmer using spaces instead of tabs earn more money.
They get payed by file size
I think GP is saying that people who are no longer sick or infected, such as a month later, show false lositives
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Thanks! Don't get me wrong, I hate domain squatters. It's a hell to try and find a good domain for your own things. But at the end of the day, it is a good way to make money, and if I don't snap up the domains I register, someone else probably will for the same reason.
Also, why should you lose access to features because you stopped subscribing? You paid for them and now you don't want to support future features. Why should you lose access to past ones?
Is there any indication at all that facebook would have treated an extension that collected information about normal users (not advertisers) spreading misinformation differently? Otherwise I don't see how that headline is justified.
Added a link to the channel on the FAQ.
So the goal was to keep only 5%?
Sidenote: Dow Jones Industrial average is an incredibly archaic and dumb metric. It weights companies by price per share, not by market cap.

So when Apple does a 1 to 4 stock split its influence on DJI nonsensically falls by 75%.
Read the original telegraph article cited.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/01/08/apple-scan...

>Update January 9, 2020

>This story originally said Apple screens photos when they are uploaded to iCloud, Apple's cloud storage service. Ms Horvath and Apple's disclaimer did not mention iCloud, and the company has not specified how it screens material, saying this information could help criminals.

This confirms the reporting from NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/technology/apple-iphones-...

>U.S. law requires tech companies to flag cases of child sexual abuse to the authorities. Apple has historically flagged fewer cases than other companies. Last year, for instance, Apple reported 265 cases to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, while Facebook reported 20.3 million, according to the center’s statistics. That enormous gap is due in part to Apple’s decision not to scan for such material, citing the privacy of its users
> I've looked at MusicXML as an intermediary format to convert to from MIDI

To do what? I'm curious.
That comparison - the smartphone being 14 and the web being 30 really illustrates what a total warp jump it has all been.

15 years from boxy home computers connected to each other, to glowing high resolution pocket computer slabs. And then 15 years from those slabs being something totally new and revolutionary, to literally 50%* of all humans having them on their person at all times.

The acceleration has definitely come with a lot of turbulence. If this acceleration is exponential, then what's next is a whole lot more turbulence.

(Edit:*originally wrote 80% - I thought it would be higher at this point!)
And if it's an effective method of selection, then those companies will thrive, if instead it's a poor method those companies will fill up with busy workers and sink under there own weight.

I look forward to seeing which it is.
Allow me to offer an opposing anecdote: smartphone means fuck all to me. It changed nearly nothing in my life. Most of the time I don't even know where my smartphone is (except for car navigation).

Do people really consider smartphones "more impressive" / impactful than the World Wide Web?
“fuck’s sake.” --fuck’s sake. Just write “for fuck’s sake” properly. This isn’t Reddit.
It's sad you reduced smartphones to their negatives. I did distance myself from social media but here are things I frequently use my smartphone for:

- Long distance calls with Skype. It is possible to do a cheap long distance call in a foreign country by just buying some data credit. People can still reach you through your Skype number. Not possible with a feature phone.

- Browsing the internet while shopping. Sometimes I find a product that I'm suspicious of its quality. I just do a quick Google search. It's possible to do that with a more advanced feature phone but a smartphone usually have more screen estate.

- GPS/Maps. Big one for people living in big cities or while traveling.

- Payments, notes, quick photos, recording some calls, emails, etc...

There are more to smartphones than social revolutions, though I'm sure it played a certain role in shaping the opinion of people and transmitting the news.

And smartphones are out of reach for most governments, and only an AI powered thing can control it (there is just too many users to read all their messages) which won't likely work in the short-term/present or will be irrelevant in the future.

With the further democratization of tech, I wouldn't worry much about control. The area where government have the most control is currency and tariffs (control import/export goods). If they failed to curb crypto-currencies, they have little chance with texts/news.
Of course it will become the norm. The same people who built today's surveillance dystopia will build this further refinement of it, because "if I don't, someone else will; might as well get paid".
> And the journals are providing real due diligence happening in the process of creating those journals, and somebody has to pay for that process.

Both things can be true. They can be providing valuable due diligence and also sucking a lot of value (much of it funded by public/taxpayer money) along the way.
I'm American. The term I and others use is Black people. "African American" is typically a term people use in some weird attempt at being politically correct.

Personally, I see it as a misnomer and a way to create an other. Note how you rarely if ever hear white Americans referred to as European American.

I also feel you missed my point. I'm not saying "Black" is rude, I'm saying the term "blacks" is rude.
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A very valid comparison, they indeed share lots of characteristics. I also feel that adaption in real estate would have societal benefits.

The difference to real estate business lies in the fact that it is much more diverse and way harder to manage.

Domains are managed by one organization, ICANN (with respective tld management), which facilitates a policy change. We also see changes in digital space progress much faster.

There are approx. 600'000 new domain names registered over Verisign in Q3 2020 alone [1]. In the future, the significance of the problem will only grow.
Yeah, you initiate significant layoffs in any department, especially in a hot market like this one, for any reason, and you can expect most of your real talent you kept to start looking elsewhere and start resigning, which will lead to more people looking and leaving, which leads to more people looking and leaving, until you've lost most of your good employees. I've seen exactly this happen on a couple of occasions (and stupidly stayed longer than I should have myself).
Cool! Are you planning on doing any other time periods like this?
This is a super-interesting transcript I ran across with some discussion re: COVID, but actually mentions backup cameras.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843
There is truth to that. We abuse substances without understanding why. Getting to the root cause of that existential angst is not easy. And I say "abuse" to distinguish between that and physiological dependency. I think the word "addiction" is overused, as most addictive behavior is overindulging and a chronic, negative habit loop.
As botverse pointed out, you offer numerous apologies for the current state of affairs while issuing dire and vague warnings against modifying it.

The approach taken by the machine learning community succeeded and incurred absolutely none of sky-is-falling shyte you moan about.
if it's not open-source and self-hosted then your security is entirely dependent on the good will of your provider.

It's because neither of these conditions are really true - you'd have to assume that source code is only way to assess the security of software and that end-to-end encryption doesn't actually work.
I work on an open source alternative to Algolia called Typesense.

Algolia is a great product but can get quite expensive at even moderate scale. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard this from Algolia users switching over…

I recently put together this comparison page, comparing a few search engines, including Algolia, you might find interesting: https://typesense.org/typesense-vs-algolia-vs-elasticsearch-...
Don't they adjust for that when splits happen?
lol. Flagged.
I had a professor in college--teaching a queueing theory class no less--claim it was 1/3 as long as you didn't care about the order, and I interrupted the class for a good amount to explain it was not.
The source code for two applications might match 89% and yield completely different results