skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they won't tell you as long as you're under suspicion. That's normal and makes perfect sense.

But after the case is closed (and there is no accusation) they should inform you so you could take legal steps to validate the rightfulness of such actions. If observation over a long time doesn't lead to accusation there is a strong pointer that this observation wasn't actually justified in the first place…

As it stands there is no possibility for those affected by state surveillance to ever prove any wrongdoing of the agencies that spied on them!

Now only a very small group in parliament can check cases after the fact. But they can't check mostly anything as this is I think 10 or so people against three agencies and hundreds of cases (if you take internet surveillance into account it's actually millions of cases…).
Right. The whole purpose of science is for others to repeat the experiment and verify it’s result. Never trust a scientist! “Scientists” these days are really more modern day priests.
if Word made writing so much easier that not using meant not being able to write at all, then they would agree to this TOS to use Word.
There are many reasons why one could be interested in that.

On the personal decision making level you might want to know what car provides the best safety record for your budget. If you can afford a tesla you would be interested in the safety of similarly priced cars to compare with.

On the society wide statistics level Tesla drivers are not exactly like the whole driving population. If for no other reason the price selects a specific demographics with their associated behaviour patterns. By controlling for the price we can hope to better control for these differences too.
I think threads like this tend to end up with a specific subset of people reading them and weird voting patterns. Let’s look again at the point I was responding to:

>> Also, human contact and informal communication make life and working more enjoyable.

>To you.

Present the second statement to anyone outside a certain subset of HN readers and they would just sigh and shake their heads. But on HN we can actually have lengthy debates about whether or not humans are indeed social animals!

The votes are pretty even, incidentally. My comments have been alternately positive and negative.
Yeah it's been crazy to experience - white liberals lecturing minorities on how they should feel or think is itself extremely racist and insulting.
It's a question of resource allocation. There is limited space for [trains,trams,cars,buses,pedestrians,taxis,motorcycles,scooters] and it must be allocated between those modes. A decision to build a bike lane leaves less space for cars, and a decision to make a space 100% free-for-all makes it worse for cyclists and pedestrians. The art is in appropriately weighting the different modes, but there will always be some group with an axe to grind.
But that's the problem of the market.

The fuel would not go to the people that need it the most, it will just go to the people that can afford to pay the most.

Market allocations happen not on need but on liquidity. In that aspect it's fundamentally inferior to that other mechanism that distributes according to need and from ability.
I recall a video where a biologist talked about how students from prestigious universities had become completely incapable of doing science.

He would take them in the field, and they were utterly unable to study the real world. To make predictions, observe the world, challenge their assumptions. All they could do was fall back on peer-reviewed papers.

If it wasn't in a peer-reviewed paper, it simply didn't exist.
Doesn’t mean that it’s anywhere near widely enough used to be the “most trusted”.
Games Encourage Reading in Young Population: Dutch Study
Linux Page Cache for SRE
>Even PWR don't take 'forever' to build if you actually build a large number. The problem is that, specially in the West, we have gone to a policy where its like 'lets do a tiny bit of nuclear' and that leads to basically 1 plant being in construction supported by a increasingly small nuclear industry getting endlessly delayed because nobody working on it

And then we even think in terms of reactors, not power plants. So you get a permission for a reactor. As you only get one you want to buy the biggest one you can get. Which likely meant the newest theoretically available. Instead of two or three more mature and sensible designs, likely costing less in long run.
Sustainable coffee grown in Finland with cellular agriculture
Yeah mac is a mixed bag, eg. preview is awesome, finder absolutely sucks.
I don't think it makes sense to talk about "the goal of AI".

First, different researchers or their funders presumably have very different motivations. Compete with China, fire all our employees, become famous as an inventor, make lots of money, work on something interesting ...

Second, at some point AI's are likely to have their own goals and "help humans" quite famously is not guaranteed to be their North Star.
The Netherlands is tiny compared to the US, not sure how useful the comparison is tbh.

I mean it’s an hours cycle between The Hague and Rotterdam, two of its largest cities.

Amsterdam is a small city as well compared to most other EU capitals.

Edit: just to be clear I am a strong supporter of cycling and building up cycling infra I am just saying that comparing the infra between such massively different size countries with massively different geographies (Netherlands is completely flat) might not be the best approach.

Germany is probably a better comparison for how you can build up great public and cycling infra in a car centric country
I'm throwing my butter knifes in the freezer and hot water right now. Let's see how it goes :)

edit: inconclusive. temperature is a bit hard to control. even with the chunky knife handles.
Let me give you the scope of the problem.

The genetic code is a redudant code, small difference in the code can still yield the same information.
There are 64 triplets, start is one and stop are 2 and there are 20 coded amino acids coded with the rest. So 22 out of 64.

There is a direct similarity and a similarity of information. For redudant code the former is useless. You can have a direct similarity of 30% and a similarity of information of 100%. (Considering a 1:3 redundant code at its worst, DNA performs much better)

There is also a third layer of redundancy, that is still under investigation, where certain sequences of triplets can be permuted and still yield the same result. The order of assembly is redundant for some big projects also, allowing for the code to be permuted in chunks as well.

So we are looking for the similarity of a redundant code that allows for permutations on two scales.

Without considering how the measure of similarity is taken, something being X percent identical means absolute BUNK.
It can not be a direct comparison of the code.

SARS COV2 ~ 30000 pairs
HIV ~ 10000 pairs
Spike ~ 4000 pairs

The SARS COV 2 virus has 3 times the code of HIV. You are also dealing with different sizes.

But one can cut everything between start and stop, translate it to amino acids and permute the result into oblivion.
Whatever is left can be compared by a huge variety of measures.

But when working with it, you just sequence your stuff, feed it into the commerical software and click compare.
Electricity is from renewables, gas is made green through offsetting. They supply both.

Edit: at least in the UK, they only claim green, not fully renewable.
I wonder if this is a modern marriage thing with the ride of individualism. Not saying this is right but back in the day the roles were very defined.
> I was required to take vaccines too, so what?

What do you mean, “so what?” Isn’t this exactly what you’ve been complaining about?

> We are talking about a vaccine that doesn't even prevent infection.

No vaccine against any disease guarantees that in any specific individual. Yet at a population level, all the various COVID vaccines which were validated by the trials all reduce symptomatic infection, and the one I took in particular definitely reduces the risk of non-symptomatic infection.

> A vaccine that requires 2 doses ( apparently now a 3rd dose is coming in )

Commonplace. I’ve had several like that; I’d have to look up which disease they were against.

Also, how many doses you need for COVID depends on which of the half-dozen completely different vaccines you’ve been given.

> for a questionable immunity in effectiveness

False, assuming you’re using the word “questionable” in anything other than the sense in which scientists call gravity a “theory”.

> and lifespan.

Common in vaccines, because viruses mutate. Literally why influenza vaccines only last one year.

> A worldwide campaign for vaccination,

So like smallpox? And the only reason yellow fever (and polio, diphtheria, rubella, etc.) isn’t endemic in (e.g. the USA) are the various vaccine campaigns.

> followed by pressure and mandating that a number of public places and businesses only vaccinated people to be,

Quite a lot of childhood vaccines are “your child has the vaccine or they are not allowed to school”.

> along with a tracker or pass being checked when visitors go to a restaurant,

Those were put in before the vaccine, so as to help prevent the spread. They go away when enough people are vaccinated — or get ill — to create population immunity.

> those are radical measures and a threat to individual freedom.

Nothing you’ve listed is radical, and none of it is a threat.

What is a threat to individual freedom is that immunodeficient people have to hide in their homes because too many other people think vaccination is just a personal choice.

Plausibly also when the same get ill and fill up hospital beds so that people with non-pandemic illnesses and injuries can’t get treated.

As the saying goes: “your freedom to swing your fist stops with my nose“.
My city has large parking lots just outside the city center, great public transport and the city is actually walkable. The city council limits the sprawl by ... not allowing it(sic).

We welcome many foreign visitors (mostly German) every weekend and they seem to have no problems with it.
Got it. Thank you.

I've been using the Google Closure compiler for many years with advanced and every time I look at the code output I'm like "there's no way in a 100 years I would be able to de-obfuscate back to my own code to a great extent". But I don't specialize in reverse engineering, so I might be missing something big.
The issue is if you need to add an async call to an existing synchronous code base. If you introduce async in this situation, you’ll probably need to rewrite a huge chunk of your code to allow it. To prevent inconsistencies, this leads to a practice where programmers return promises or tasks by default, even in synchronous functions; which can cause a myriad of problems beyond simply looking really ugly.
> Are you sure about that? I’m sure nobody said it out loud, but I have a hard time believing these people rather wanted to endure another assault just as long as the perpetrator was caught on camera. It seems more logical that the intention was to prevent another assault.

You have to consider how these decisions are made in a large political organisation.

In my specific example the people making the decision never actually spoke to the employees on the floor, they just assumed more surveillance would signify that they were reactive and took the issue of safety serious. Along with cameras they improved alert procedures so that now all our janitors are summoned when the alarm is pressed. (This may sound odd in countries where citizens have guns, but it’s not that weird here).

I can’t claim that no one wants to impact citizen behaviour through things like surveillance, but I’ve never experienced any sort of evil motivation in any top level decisions even when the results turned out to be evil.

Most people genuinely aren’t evil, especially not people who have been successful enough to reach positions of actual power. They make bad decisions, but they tend to do so while they are trying to do good. Sometimes money is involved making the area a little more grey, but you’re really not going to find a lot of Hollywood CIA bosses gone rogue or super villains in the real world.

If you want to make people listen, it’s important to understand that. If it’s easier for you to still think of these people as evil, then there is an old punk quote that goes: “the guilty don’t feel guilty, they learn not to.” and I don’t say this jokingly. If you don’t take the fact that the pro-surveillance people actually mean well, even if they are very wrong, you’re just never going to get through to them, but what is worse, you’re not going to get through to anyone else who isn’t already on your side either. Because your points will be dismissed the moment you claim that someone is installing cameras to intentionally alter psychological behaviour.

You have to keep in mind that decision makers work together, and while they may appear to be very much opposed to one-another in public, they’ll also be spending long hours working together to come up with compromises behind doors. So even the anti-surveillance decision makers know that that pro-surveillance decisions makers mean well, because they’ve spend hours upon hours discussing it in private.
> if they do not notify you automatically, can you ask them? are they obligated in law to disclose these records on demand?

No, of course not. What the German secret services do is mostly, well, secret. One of our ministers for inner affairs said once the following in an interview as an answer to some questions about what the agencies know: "Ein Teil dieser Antworten würde die Bevölkerung verunsichern."¹

It's actually even difficult to get to know what the normal police knows about you. But there they at least have to disclosure such information if you ask as long as there is no open investigation.

> Something tells me they'd simply decide to have an active investigation on everyone from birth to death and simply decline all requests due to "ongoing investigation".

The German agencies don't have the capacity for such thing at the moment. I guess they really would like to have some data-centers like the NSA, but they don't have them currently.

"Physical" surveillance is expensive and needs people. They also need usually some "real reasons" (like you're anti-government and you reach a lot of people online) to spy on you.

What's expanding is digital mass surveillance—as it's considerably cheap. But that's a problem not only in Germany I guess…

¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgmys5K1UnA
> Under a program introduced in 2019 for high-school students starting that year, students are to create portfolios to be used for university applications, which include their grades, extracurricular activities and other information related to their character and achievements.

They're not using entrance examinations? How did this happen?
There's a tool built by friends in the IndieWeb community called https://granary.io that allows you to produce a single RSS feed for lots of handy things - like your full feed, specific lists, or specific people!
The MIT press series is like a gateway to the subject.

I often pick them up when I’m flying, they’re short enough to read on the flight.

Recently I picked up the data science book it was quite good and I found I had a better understanding of the industry and relevant buzzwords to go and learn more.

The cloud computing one was not as good, it was more aimed at managers deciding to buy cloud services rather than say a dev wanting to figure out docker and aws.

The real value is they have great references to learn more and can point you in the direction of good technical books to dive deeper.
Sounds like a job creator :P
May I be so bold to enquire which country you live in?

Your position is certainly not the median one in most of Western Europe (though I suspect you're from one of the Scandinavian countries).
While I think itcs bad to use obfuscation to hide security holes, I do think obfuscation has it's uses. If there's reasons to make data private, then there's reasons to make execution private as well. Not to mention, it was recently proved that indistinguishable obfuscation is possible, so I'm not sure how useful de-obfuscation tools will be in the future
The page you linked to doesn't contradict what I wrote.

It does suggest that a common usage of the term "security by obscurity" can mean security ONLY by obscurity. Which I made clear was not my usage.

The other mis-use of the term is the opposite overreaction is to forget that obscurity does remain an indispensable component of practical security. Its most common form being as a password (or biometric) used to unlock an otherwise impenetrable (for practical purposes) system.

Without an obscured backdoor (password, biometric, ...) the an otherwise completely secure system would not even be accessible to its owner.
The Netherlands also have the advantage of being completely flat.
> by selection of being able to afford a Tesla - in average more qualified then the minimum wage test driver.

How does “income received” translate into “qualified for driving”? A good lawyer, doctor, it consultant, … is probably on average a less safe driver than someone that has been through a training, despite earning more.

If your worry is that the test drivers are tired because they need to work multiple jobs - mandate better pay. And from what I know from my doctor acquaintances, being tired from overwork is part of the job description.
It's about something else than just having to work out who to trust - that just sounds like a restatement of the relativization.

Not everyone can be scientifically literate. And I agree, there are many things masquerading as scientific literacy - including picking out single papers while being clueless of the wider stream of knowledge in that field.

Yes, it really is much better to ask someone in the field - for example - what does this paper mean when you see it in context, and so on. That's what the good science journalists use to do.

But, we can't just give up. We can't be perfectionists in the sense that - "either you're an expert and know the field or you just don't know anything". We can all be curious and humble about what we don't know, while still trying to understand things in their context and fit them into our model of the world.

> We’re not just an environment where we need to make sure people aren’t making mistakes. It’s also highly adversarial.

Here I'm a bit unsure what you mean. Maybe, if I do: I don't think 0 mistakes is the goal. Mistakes are allowed. The differentiator is always, how we handle and correct our mistakes.
Unlike most other programming languages it is super easy to write hello world and proceed from there.
The newest phone I can find on that list was released over a year ago, so it's just old models (old stock even?)
but it shows that your argumentation to show that it wouldn't be is flawed, and it is certainly possible that more trust is put in Matrix than it is into Signal
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I’m not saying that it couldn’t be, I’m saying that it isn’t.
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Online Ads produce 60 Megatons of CO2 every year (2018)
No they cannot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity.

They had to pass a special law to allow the 9/11 families to sue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Against_Sponsors_of_...
Oh cool, looks like much of the enhancements I'm used to from Joker's pack have been added to JGR. I stopped playing shortly after Joker left, and wasn't keen to going back to vanilla.
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Again, there are no dollar influencers, with millions of followers, urging people to mortgage their homes to buy more dollars. That's because everybody knows you can't get rich by buying dollars, because dollars are not an investment. And something that isn't an investment can't be a pyramid scheme, because a pyramid scheme is a type of investment scheme. Therefore we must dismiss the idea that the dollar is a pyramid scheme. Bitcoin on the other hand is a pyramid scheme wrapped in a cult.
Ask HN: What is the best programming book you've read?
Whole language is an approach to, or attitude toward
learning that sees language as a whole entity, and writing, speaking,
reading, and listening should be integrated when learned.
You're merely repeating the GP's assertion, and completely ignoring the parent's request for corroborating evidence. What you hold as self-evident is still just your anecdata, and cannot be extrapolated to "the tech set", unless the tech set includes only you.
> Positive (i.e. passionate, warm) pitches increase the probability of funding, but on receiving funding, high-positivity startups tend to underperform. Women are more heavily judged on delivery when evaluating single-gender teams, but they are neglected when pitching alongside men. The results of an experiment suggest that persuasion delivery works mainly through leading investors to form inaccurate beliefs.

Here is VoxTalks podcast discussing this paper with authors: https://voxeu.org/vox-talks/pitching-passion

Here is the paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3583898

TL;DR Probability of funding increases dramatically with pitch passion, but it don't transform into company performance.
The only thing my city centre is particularly good for is going out drinking. Coincidentally that's the only activity you can't do with a car.
> Name at least one DEVELOPMENT project that was killed by them.

Google code.
Google code search.
I am not saying it could become either.

Saying that it isn't is a bold claim to be backed up by proper arguments
Roads aren't sucessful in the US. They are a massive drain of resources that survive primarily as a result of subsidies and government policy.
Light computes any desired linear transform without a digital processor
https://web.archive.org/web/20210926093923/https://www.econo...
You’d also want to control for age of car. Recent expensive cars are more likely to have advanced safety features that older or cheaper cars lack. Maintenance can also be a factor.
I never suggested that. It's about incognito mode like the title of the article.
If you ask an electronics or computer guy to design you an archive that will last 2000 years their answer will be "Well, I can give it a try, but computers are only ~70 year old tech, so there aren't any proven thousand-year designs"

Stick with 2000 year old technology and we know what has a chance of lasting that long.
Alright, let me just go to market with my “Cure For Cancer”. It doesn’t actually cure anything, but what’s that got to do with anything?
I totally agree about DMCA and internet-copyright, and the analogy to patents here.

That said, IDK if AI-invented patents really pose a challenge. It might be a philosophical challenge to the idea of patents, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a challenge in practice.

IMO logically, if machines cannot be inventors than anything invented by machine is arguably trivial. However, I don't think this kind of reasoning translates to a legible legal argument.
Tesla has nothing to do with the person? Not founded by anyone named such, clearly dubious marketing too?
It seems USA Today claim otherwise [0]; mind if I ask you for a source?

[0]: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/25/fact...