skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I need your fedora, your sandals, and your segway.
Yeah but that’s not enough, I thought? Wasn’t there that scandal where Uber figured out your location anyway from the WiFi access points you were near?
How does making the school free solve that specific problem? Wouldn’t the taxpayers foot the bill for whatever the price is? At least with loans there is some consumer price sensitivity, even if it’s lowered via use of loans.
>It makes light of the personal responsibility that they have for the things that they do

I take your point, and it is a valid one.

That said, there's a continuum here. Let's take Clearview AI[0] as an example. The end result of Clearview's activities are absolutely harmful, and I personally wouldn't work for them.

At the same time, not every employee (tech staff or not) is as culpable for the harms caused by Clearview AI's products as others.

What's more, each individual's situation informs their level of comfort/need WRT their employment. Is the dev responsible for front-end UI as culpable as the dev working on the actual facial recognition back end? How about the sales/marketing folks who approach governments and corporations to use their products?

If you have the means/ability to move away from an employer who is causing harm, assuming you see the harm (as the old saw goes, "it's hard to make someone understand something that their paycheck depends on them not understanding.") at all.

Clearview AI is an extreme example, selected specifically for that reason. but in many other cases, "harm" isn't as clear cut. Uber and GrubHub are great examples of that.

Those companies, in some cases, do provide some value, but they do so by extracting (in my view) a level of profit both undeserved based on the service provided, and exploitative of those actually providing real value (rides, food service and deliveries).

Is every Uber or GrubHub employee responsible for that? Should we blacklist them for shirking their "personal responsibility"?

As I said, I take your point, and it is valid it a bunch of cases. But I think there's a continuum here that you're ignoring. Perhaps I misunderstand you, in which case my apologies. If you'd care to expand on your point, I think it would add to the discussion.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/4/22266055/clearview-facial-...
>In fact (and I don't have a link handy) if you extrapolate out from a few different data sources it looks like Tesla's on AP get in these crashes about half as much as vehicles in the general fleet.

Why use that as a comparison? The obvious confounder would be that people would disable autopilot in poor conditions, making such crashes a priori more likely. The relevant comparison would be Teslas (with and without AP) against a similar class of cars, maybe BMWs.
> Python’s type annotations are an attempt to move in this direction, but static languages truly excel at type integrity (which are sometimes the cause of subtle errors in Python).

I wouldn't call it an attempt. I mean, sure it has no chance against for example Rust, but Python's type system is actually quite decent and I think it is more powerful than the one from Go. Also you have freedom of using both nominal and structural typing if you chose.

The only problem I have with it when I have to use a package that don't have types, but fortunately that is happening less and less.

Some package authors refuse to add types, but others provide stubs to solve that problem. For example boto3-stubs provides types for boto3.

I really like that thanks to types I can also easily refactor code without worrying about breaking something in the process. I suspect if types existed and were popular with Python 2 then the whole Python 2 -> Python 3 migration would be a non issue.
>and it's not illegal to exchange peer to peer. I don't know any countries where this would be forbidden.

You're right that it's not technically illegal, if you can somehow find another private person (ie. not a business) to transact with, but good luck finding a supply of those. I suspect someone that makes those transactions enough would get classified as a money service business and would be subject to KYC/AML requirements.
How did you fail within two hours? Was there still some in your home or did you unconsciously walk to the store and purchase more? Getting it out of your house is key. It's important to raise the friction to act on the vice as much as possible or else you will engage in it without thinking.

If its caffeine you are physically addicted to, I will say the withdrawal is probably just as bad as a nicotine withdrawal. Nicotine withdrawal seemed to hit much faster (for me it was within 15 minutes of my last hit of nicotine vs coffee I just needed it bad in the mornings), but other than that the effects of withdrawal felt the same to me between the two stimulants. In both cases, if you are able to deal with a terrible migraine headache and feeling underslept and sick and nauseous for the two weeks it takes to get through these symptoms (in my experience at least), you will have successfully quit. I have cut back my coffee to maybe 3-5 cups a week (after a long initial detox) and I haven't used or craved nicotine in years.
>Obviously the parent was not referring to the entire development history of mRNA tech, any more than one would include the initial work on inventing the internal combustion engine when talking about how much safety testing had been carried out for a new model car

Not obviously. Many people think that tech only appeared for first time "yesterday"

>The usual safety trials were not carried out for these vaccines, full stop.

Kinda yes and kinda no. They were trialing technology for a long time to know overall safety profile. In a moment that it's clear, it's not much different than early flu vaccine updates that don't go through "usual safety trial"
The article seems to make the assumption that this data is collected by apps that would otherwise have no good reason for requiring permission to access your location. Seems like a bit of an assumption.

It strikes me that to build a useful location dataset, just one widely used app would be more effective than any number of niche apps asking for strange permissions. I would build an app that provides many people with a really useful service that obviously requires access to your location. So it would probably provide some sort of mapping or navigation service. To consistently collect data it might well force the user to have data enabled rather than just hold the map data on the phone.

Perhaps I could also shut others out of this lucrative operation, if I could just get my app pre-installed and enabled by default on every phone.

Just speculating - who really knows.
I think the "depart" is not supporting newer OCaml feature. While Rescript/ReasonML at first was just an alternative syntax, it has now become a standalone programming language.
#2 is the same as arguing that anyone can be a great novel writer because what prevents people from doing that is writing words. So instead of writing, great novels can be created by dragging and dropping story elements, plot points, and characters!

#1 is a different but similar problem. "If only language itself was simpler, people would have an easier time writing novels."
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focusing on the ev space != relentlessly bashing one ev company
It is an attempt to become 'panama' without the legal and political framework.
I'm picturing it like an arcade game where you got to put your initials in if you got the high score.
> But that risk level of catching COVID is more or less a 1-time event

No. You can treat the risk of being hospitalized from COVID as a one-time event, but the risk of catching COVID is a continuous event until you've either caught it or it has been eradicated.
I think at some point I read that given the amount of the GDP that remittances are in El Salvador, and the % that Western Union and similar services charge for each transfer, they calculated that a good chunk of the GDP was being left in these transfer services.

In the case of Mexico, remittances would be 3.8% of the GDP, and the WU fee is 8% [1], which means that 0.3% of the GDP is being left in the table. In El Salvador I think it is about 20%, which would mean that 1.6% of the GDP is being left in the WU and similar services.

[1] https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/send-money/app/price-esti...
1. The small subset is to test that your training pipeline works and converges near 0 loss.

2. Sure, but for most new hacks like mixup, randaugment and etc the results usually transfer over. Problem with deep learning is that most of the new results don't replicate so it's good to have a way to quickly validate things.

3. The lower level features are usually pretty data agnostic and transfer well to new tasks.
Because it's great to have multiple options. As a consumer you don't have to use it.
You are correct, lifetimes are being tracked in some form at all times. So let me rephrase: lifetimes are irrelevant to the primary work of a quant during research. The objective is to establish whether an idea works. In 99% of the cases, it doesn't and the code and the project are a dead end. Under these circumstances you need to reduce the amount of cognitive overhead that goes into program structure to a minimum.

Research is fundamentally different from the usual programming exercise. Research is like prospecting. You want to try as many different locations as possible. You don't want to build nuclear shelter grade construction at every potential site because 99 out of a 100 is a dud. You'd never find anything.

You want a tool that allows you to get quick results to confirm if a site has potential and then you want to be able to scale your tools for proper mining.
Oh yeah. I think about that all the time.

I’m thrilled that we have unix with nice GUI that runs Photoshop. That was always my dream machine as a kid.

But boy, was BeOS awesome. The most responsive OS I ever used. The priorities were set straight: user input is king, so is audio and video.

And the aesthetics matched my taste remarkably well. I always thought NeXT was hideous by comparison.
so how come nobody gets fatter drinking nns's vs placebo or water or no intervention
> More specifically, this article should really define what MasterClass is right at the beginning. Because given the picture at the top, I thought it was referring to the generic masterclass

It does, MasterClass is capitalised in the title showing that its a proper noun and the by-line is

> And other lessons from
a 9-figure edtech startup

Not sure how the author could define MasterClass more “at the beginning” than in the title and by-line.
This article addresses automatic emergency breaking, which is ON by default in the vehicles discussed.
What was Rishi Sunak thinking?

Well his father-in-law is N. R. Narayana Murthy so he was probably thinking the IR35 rule changes were pretty good for Unisys.

<cough> conflictofinterests <cough>

I mean he’d probably deny he was in favour of moving British jobs off shore but that is what his in-law’s family business is all about so…
I suspect he did not use the API and rather emulated actions in browser. Action was performed on behalf of the user and data scope he collected was limited to one user using extension, which theoretically equivalent to a user’s execution of a custom script in js console.
It's not legal to drive with any detectable BAC. It's rarely prosecuted, but you can get in trouble for just one.
I think many could
It generates a unique fingerprint for your phone that can be used across apps without permissions. So if you have multiple apps using the same ad network SDK, each of them will get the same unique fingerprint for you and can tie your activity together. If you're logged into one of the apps, then your activity across all the apps can be tied to your login even when you change your wallpaper.
People still talking about high Bitcoin transaction fees pretending like the Lightning Network doesn't exist... it's almost as though they aren't keeping up with latest developments in the space, instead relying on old information they formed their initial opinion on.

Also El Salvadorians can use any app/wallet they want to transact over Bitcoin/LN. However, the government provides incentives to use Chivo. If the government is too exploitative people will move away from Chivo.
writing something that you don't mind if you hate after? PHP. Writing something that you don't mind if you hate after AND if you don't mind if you hate yourself after: Perl
Ohio plans to stop using controversial road deicer AquaSalina
I can appreciate that you derive value from this, however, envision it from Joe Casual walking by, it has in my case discouraged me from using their service because to me this feels dishonest in a lie-of-omission way. I'm not calling them dishonest, I'm not saying anybody lied, I'm saying the marketing and recruitment strategy should encourage people to use it, not use gray patterns like the ones random voip text people do about "claiming your funds" and such. It's just relating my personal experience and perception of it for the purposes of helping them make a better product, that's all.

I have a text message from just today after lunch with a link to click to claim my funds. No name, no context, just a random text that I can only imagine isn't in fact free money waiting for me.
Axel F is the theme tune from 80s film Beverly Hills Cop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E93VEydSRM

mod archive is a great site!
Like I said, USDC is not dollars. If you're betting on Tether collapsing you sure as hell aren't going to take payment on that bet in USDC.
Modern high-end phones use OLED displays. Save your battery and set your background to black.
Chivo is a fiat on/off to bitcoin lightning network. You are free to use any lightning supported wallet, maybe even Twitter.

If you are a merchant you can accept BTC via lightning but settle in USD if you wish.

Transactions costs are around $0.0005.
> No identification is required when exchanging peer to peer, and it's not illegal

People have been prosecuted for the crime of exchanging bitcoin for dollars in person-to-person meetings. It's probably not illegal to do it once for a small amount for a friend, but it absolutely is illegal in the US to do it regularly or for many people or for large amounts.
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Ostensibly, the purpose of adopting Bitcoin is to make possible remittances with lower fees.

This immediately raises the question of why not establish or partner with another bank that would allow lower fee remittances, and instead partner with a shadow bank to do so. And the most reasonable answer, to me at least, is that by using a shadow banking mechanism, they'd evade (international) inspection, which would allow them to potentially skim money out of ordinary El Salvadoran bank accounts.
Lots of jokes about invading or overthrowing the gov't but I believe they would just cut El Savador off from the U.S. financial system entirely.

The same thing was applied to a handful of Chinese and Hong Kong officials. See: https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3098691/h...

> The extensive and complex nature of the US financial system means non-US international banks would most likely comply with the Hong Kong sanction requests to safeguard their overseas network and US dollar-denominated transactions that are ultimately cleared in the US by passing through the US Clearing House Interbank Payments System (Chips).

My understanding is that if you do not comply you are basically unable to trade in USD.
You really don’t have time to wait 5 years for ”complete” results.

People don’t understand basic math and threat modeling.
How likely you are going to get covid and how serious it can be (for you and others)?
How likely you get something serious from vaccine (only you) but most likely avoid serious covid (and spread it less to others)?

Of course, forced vaccine might look bad from very selfish perspective, but benefits from bigger picture are obvious even with side effects.
I agree. I didn't mean to imply that I stopped using it because of the icon. At some point a did a system refresh and never reinstalled it. Perhaps I will again. Regardless, it's great software.
How would you define "clearly better than human" for a driver assist technology? Like if 'driver + automatic breaking' gets into fewer crashes than 'driver', is that a success? What if the assist is constantly doing phantom breaking, but never hits anything?
Not really, given that they are, um, not scanning any pictures. And even once they start, they will be scanning exactly zero of my pictures.

Also, could we argue in good faith, and not tell lies, and not pretend that there's not a complex issue in play regarding the debate over scanning for child porn? That'd be a lot better. Thank you.
Yo that’s super depressing if you’re buying your time back just to watch TV. Do you just assume that people don’t have friends, hobbies, side projects?
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Windows-...

Same power efficiency.

And did you come back here an hour later to get another quip in?
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Forget the negative reputation for a moment.

I just logged into Facebook after a few months not doing so, because someone told me via third party to contact them, and Facebook was the only method available of the ones we both have.

About half the entries on my Facebook feed are ads of one kind or another!

There are some posts from people I know, but because the ads are more prominent, larger, in some ways more interesting, posts from people I know are somehow harder to see while scrolling through the feed.

Why would I want to log in, just to view an endless scroll of ads? What's Facebook's business model these days? Surely people will have had enough of watching an ad stream at some point, and then stop using it?

I keep my account to remain able to communicate with people I know from my past lives, and I do like seeing what people want to share occasionally. These are "weak bonds" but I enjoy them anyway. There's also a couple of memorial pages for people I love who passed away some years ago, that are not anywhere else. But that means I login about once every few months, or when I find out that I should for a specific reason.

The feed page just isn't interesting, so I don't see myself logging in again for another few months. I remember the Facebook feed as being more people focused, more about personal relationships, years ago. Far fewer ads.
Cleanup for me definitely doesn't consist only of the dishwasher; my knives, wok, cast iron stuff to start definitely don't get put in there.

I have optimized what I do quite well, or at least I'm much faster than I used to be. But for example this last weekend, I made some stir fry in a large batch for this week's meals. By the time I left my parents' house (long story but I basically can't cook at the house I live in), I had used up three hours. That was prepping four bell peppers, an onion, garlic, cabbage, broccoli, and chicken, cooking them, and cleaning up afterward.

I'm sure I can speed my prep up even more, mostly with knife skills. But at this point, that's how it is.

I factor in eating because I clean up after I eat. Most of the stuff I make is best fresh out of the frying pan with very minimal resting time.

But anyway, I'm not here to argue. If cooking at home works for you in 15 minutes, fantastic! I can't do that, it never works that quickly. I was mostly wondering how the parent poster's drive-thrus were so slow that they could cook faster because where I live, I never spend more than five minutes in one.
You were downvoted at my time of reading this; but, I have to agree. We constantly talk about how copyright enforcement on memes, etc, would break the internet, and we're constantly yelling about YouTube breaking Fair Use exceptions of copyrighted material, and so on.

Cloudflare not being forced to take down content due to claimed copyright infringement seems exactly in line with protecting the internet and freedom of thought and creativity as a whole.

I'd love to know why people are against it.

They can still choose to take down copyright infringing material, but they're not obligated by power of the gun / legal / monetary / use-of-force rammifications.

Edit: disclosure: of course I'm not a lawyer, etc, blah blah.
My interpretation of that phrasing is that it refers to the risk of hospitalization from a single infection of COVID-19, so I don't think the time frame matters all that much (other than perhaps much later hospitalizations from long-term effects that we still don't know a lot about yet).
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Apple will fight it as long as they can.
Don't even blame them to be honest.
Correction.

Chivo is compatible with the lightning network, but Chivo to Chivo transactions are just centralized database updates.

That's still really great, because people are perfectly free to use any other LN app (both custodied and self-custodied options available) to interact with Chivo users if they don't trust the El Salvador government app.

This open network is why Bitcoin + Lightning will win.
Salts do nothing for people with predictable passwords though. The salt is in the dump, so I can hash known plaintext with the algorithm and the dumped data.

Even if I can only hash a million a day, if your password is one of the top million most popular, and I have a good list, I'll have your password in a day. And if you re-used it...

Salts do make naïve brute-force, all-possible-strings approaches useless, yes.
> Why do customers need to do this when Facebook messed up, and had to learn about this, and look into performance, from a source other than Facebook?

Have you bought anything from anyone ever...?
The irony is that those useless "Regular Expression Denial of Service” alerts create their own denial of service attack against `npm audit` consumers.
Sadly the page isn't available on Google Books anymore[0], you might still be able to get the book itself. There also might be a Hacker News thread on it too or it'll be on Reddit. It's one of those places I'll have seen it on.

[0] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eulODwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA136&d...