skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is interesting in the study web page (https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/) that they consistently mention contacting "websites" instead of "people." As if a website is some autonomous thing that can communicate with a researcher.

I wouldn't be sleeping well if I were involved in this study. There is no way an IRB could determine that this is not human subjects research if you're emailing people and asking them anything.

If I want to ask random people about the weather and publish the results in a journal, that qualifies as human subjects research and IRB protocols must be followed. Emailing people asking about privacy policies is definitely human subjects research. Either they misrepresented the study in their IRB application, or the IRB didn't do due diligence reviewing the application.
Why burn perfectly good hydrocarbons when you can produce various plastics out of it, for the needs of your growing colony?
> An email asking an organization for answers to questions is human experimentation?

Organizations are made up of humans.

Human experimentation is very broadly defined, for IRB purposes. As I understand it, if you're going to be asking humans to interact with researchers, in any way, and gathering data based on those interactions, that's human subjects research, and requires reasonable scrutiny from the IRB.

Source: I have worked fairly extensively with my own university's IRB, as I put together and maintain the website that they use to handle submissions.
Score-Based Generative Modeling with Critically-Damped Langevin Diffusion
Veritasium's video got my only down-vote of the year because he gave the wrong picture to people.

At first order the bulk of the energy follow the wire like a train on its rails.

Sure you could put a windmill turbine one meter next to the train and the wind from the train passing will make it turn immediately, but no one would argue about that the wind carry most of the energy.

It works this way because the electrons are stuck on the wire like a train is stuck on its rails. The Electro-Magnetic field on the other hand like the wind is free to permeate space. What is important to understand is that electrons and EM-field are two-distinct things that are coupled together.

Derek's video tried to explain transmission line theory, but didn't do the experiment while making grandiose claims about a fictional setup. Kudos to alpha phoenix for doing the experiment.

Given that Derek recently created multiple "debate" videos, and that he is more interested in the way to teach Science and how to reach a lot of people than by Science itself, it feels like he probably has engineered this controversy himself for views as a meta-experiment.

A lot of video responses from unknown youtubers show a better understanding than the original.
For example you can see a numerical simulation of the electro magnetic fields (with Ansys) https://youtu.be/aqBDFO1bEs8?t=364 that show how electricity move (the separation distance between the wire there is only a few centimeters).

The problem though is interesting if you try to understand how exactly the energy transfer is happening : Is it capacitive coupling, Is it inductive coupling, Is it EM radiation ? Which one exactly is the dominant term ? Where exactly are the electrons ? How are the electrons interacting with the field ? How can you shield it to isolate and show the various effects (magnetic shielding, electrical shielding) ?
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Given that “full self driving“ isn’t a formally defined term, your question is not one with a concrete answer. It’s just a name. It’s clear to anyone buying the product what it does. Nobody need to explain that Starburst candies don’t literally cause stars to burst.

(For what it’s worth, while I think criticism of the “autopilot” name is patently absurd, I do agree that FSD isn't a very good name and it would have been better if it were something else.)
> How could we possibly know?

They communicated about it. What else do you want?

> True but the nature of the project and the potential dangers of the project materials also matter.

What are you trying to say? They found a problem, used the protocols they had in place to stop the reactors and they'll take care of it. Looks like they knew the nature of the project and potential dangers and had an appropriate response.
I thought a friend Jim, a professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky, had a good take on this: https://twitter.com/ridolfoj/status/1471536878658719748
Cloudflare Is a DMCA Violator
Cloudflare protects all the sites that steal content from me and from many others by hiding the ip addresses and their host. Cloudflare takes dmca notices but then does nothing, there is 0 follow up; it’s a scam. These criminal sites are making money from my content and from the content of many others, and cloudflare is making money from these criminal sites. This makes cloudflare the biggest DMCA criminal on the planet. Cloudflare makes millions from the sale and distribution of stolen property! And cloudfare, again, protects the criminals so cloudflares income keeps coming in.
Unless cloudflare refuses to do business with sites that ignore legal dmca notices, cloudflare is knowingly profiting from dmca violations, from the theft of intellectual property.
“They say the smog is the reason we have such beautiful sunsets.”
If they were really objectively driven I'm pretty sure Harvard etc would accept the graduating class of the same handful of high schools every single year.

"Objective" entry is never coming back to college admissions.

Broaden your definition of admissions.
How is it different from Wealthsimple Cash and other similar charge cards?
It is worse than that. We are in a pandemic that has already caused millions of deaths, billions of hours of manpower spent, trillions of dollars wasted and an immeasureable amount of mental anguish. It's negative effects can be said to be worse than many a war by any significant measure you can find.

Yet even just bringing up the leading consensus in science as to the origins of Covid and its transmission to humans is all but taboo in "educated" circles. Same goes for discussing the role the WHO played and all evidence we have as to why it played that role. Any discussion of why this pandemic happened and that the nation where it originated has blocked all independent investigation to investigate this; bringing it up is not done.
An Insider Explains the Supply-Chain Crisis
a few years back i worked on an enterprisey project that used postgres as a database, along with rabbitmq and celery for job processing.

of _course_ the system architecture had to have a job queue and it had to be highly available (implemented with a rabbitmq cluster)

what we learned after a few months in production was the only time the rabbitmq cluster had outages was when it got confused* and thought (incorrectly) there was a network partition, and flipped into partition recovery mode, causing a partial outage until production support could manually recover the cluster

the funny thing about this is that our job throughput was incredibly low, and we would have had better availability if we had avoided adding the temperamental rabbitmq cluster and instead implemented the job queue in our non-HA postgres instance that was already in the design --- if our postgres server went down then the whole app was stuffed anyway!

* this was a rabbitmq defect when TLS encryption was enabled and very large messages were jammed through the queue -- rabbitmq would be so busy encrypting / decrypting large messages that it'd forget to heartbeat, then it'd timeout and panic that it hadn't got any heartbeats, then assume that no heartbeats implied a network partition, and cause an outage, needing manual recovery. i think rabbitmq fixed that a few years back
Some jurisdictions consider IP addresses to be personal identifying information, and so if you run a web site that logs the IP addresses of visitors you should generally try to be aware of the privacy laws in any jurisdiction that might think its laws apply to you.

These fall into three groups.

First, there are those jurisdictions in which you and/or your site are actually located. You almost always have to care about the laws in these jurisdictions.

Second, there are jurisdictions where the people who visit your site live. For these there are two questions. #1 does the jurisdiction think their law applies to you? #2 Does your jurisdiction, or someone else that you have to obey, agree?

The answer to #1 often depend on what your relationship is with the visitor. If you are selling (or trying to sell) them something it is more likely that the jurisdiction will think their law applies. If your website is not in any way targeted to them or encouraging them it is more likely that the jurisdiction won't think its law applies. (But some, like the EU with GDPR, do think it applies if you are tracking the behavior of EU users regardless of whether or not you are selling anything or trying to get EU visitors).

#2 is murkier. Say I've got a site in X specifically selling to people in Y. Y brings a civil case against me in Y. I ignore it thinking they can't touch me here in X, and Y gets a monetary judgement against me. I may be in for a surprise, because X may consider my sales to people in Y as taking place in Y, and so agree that Y has jurisdiction. If Y then brings the judgement to an X court to enforce, there is a decent change the X courts will enforce it. Oops.

Another thing you need to consider when thinking about #2 is entities that both you and the jurisdiction deal with. If you use a service provider (credit card processor, cloud service, hosting provider, etc) that operates in that jurisdiction, you may face pressure via that provider to obey the jurisdiction's law.

Finally, there are jurisdictions that you are not in, you aren't selling to or doing anything to attract visitors from, you are sure your jurisdiction won't cooperate with them on enforcing their laws, you don't use any services that operate there, and you aren't even going to visit there so even if you thoroughly annoy them no big deal.

You can probably mostly ignore these jurisdictions as far as privacy laws go.

If you are in the US I'd say that this currently means that you should be aware of GDPR and CCPA, and have some idea of how you will response to requests under them. For a lot of sites (like the OP's) a short form letter explaining that you are not covered should be fine.

As more states in the US pass their own CCPA-like laws, or we get Federal action on privacy, I'd expect those will generate large threads here. Keep an eye out for them and update your form letters appropriately.
I've always been curious, what kind of latency do you see between an insert, and when the notify goes out over the channel?
They are allowed to.

However, saying the phrase "a <n> debate" -usually- leads people to believe there exists a debate about <n> in the field of <n> between experts who study <n>.
> it is really a test of how wealthy you were growing up

Incredible educational resources are available online for free and just a click away on that supercomputer in everyone's pocket.

There's no reason to be restricted to your parents' vocabulary.
Has anyone successfully done this for GPL licensed software?
The docs you linked to are for class components (`this.setState`), not function components using hooks (`useState`).

From React's "Using the State Hook" docs:

> However, unlike this.setState in a class, updating a state variable always replaces it instead of merging it.

https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-state.html#tip-using-multiple...

The `extendState` method gives you the same convenience of `this.setState` but with hooks in function components instead of class components.
The wording is 'sincerely held religious belief' and that's a key phrase in the legislation, as I understand it.
Anyone that thought having a choice between 2 parties is really a choice at all is blind.
> Given that “full self driving“ isn’t a formally defined term, your question is not one with a concrete answer.

Don't make me laugh. Everyone knows what it's supposed to mean and Tesla hasn't delivered it. It's embarrassing to witness you even trying that on.
I don't, and that's not relevant. I'm not sure why my replies are trying to prop up a dichotomy like this.

Radio Free Asia is a naked propaganda outfit like RT or PressTV. This is well understood and not controversial. These bizarre and dehumanizing stories are never, ever rooted in concrete evidence. When lurid tales of citizens being banned from laughing or copying Kim Jong Un's coat or whatever are published, you'll never see any sort of primary document (a law, a public advisory, whatever) referenced. Our view of North Korea is shaped exclusively by "sources say." We're supposed to believe that this oppression is all-encompassing, but so perfectly obscured that it evades all objective documentation.
> What you are advocating is the opposite of being responsible

To be clear: what I was actually saying was not to ignore videos on youtube, but to be responsible about interpreting them. When data sets get large, you need to stop reasoning on the basis of anecdotes (because there will always be single data points to support any perspective) and start making your decisions on the basis of data.

Basically: is FSD beta as deployed any more dangerous than human drivers? I think it's clear to everyone that the answer is "no", for the simple reason that the roads are filled with bad drivers already. In fact the one actually documented accident involving a beta car of which I'm aware[1] was one where the car got T-boned by a red light runner.

Really, I'm being sincere: stop being angry on the internet about this and get yourself a ride. You'll see things differently, I all but guarantee it.

[1] Sort of. It was on twitter and I've lost the reference and might be misremembering.
I really don't understand why this is the hill everyone wants to die on about Congress. We want smart people in politics yet with the current zeitgeist I'd never in a million years recommend politics for a young person. And that's why we get only extremists and crazy folks running for office.
>Would there be an issue if they sent out letters to businesses asking how they comply with a California regulation?

I think this is where you may be overlooking the context.

People aren't mad they asked about compliance with a law, they are mad about the way it was asked: from fake personas implying legal threat, while cataloguing the replies for their study no one asked to be involved in.
It is a few hundred kilometers wide.
Instead of just negatives, do you have an answer for his question? What is a good hosting provider?
Maybe universities in general have this problem but Harvard most certainly does not.
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> Surely you understand that your preferences are not widely shared

"Not a widely shared preference" and "insult" are two different things, entirely.

"Anchorage has the most ethnically diverse schools in the United States, including the three most diverse high schools, the three most diverse middle schools, and the 19 most diverse elementary schools. Even the least diverse schools in Anchorage rank in the top 1% nationally."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska#Education

As for Ohio, over 11 million people like it well enough to live there. Again, it's not an "insult" to suggest that someone else might like it. Especially if their alternative is PRC.
the science doesnt indicate that:

1. immune response is longer lasting than vaccines

2. that omicron is more deadly than predecessors

3. that prior coronovirus infection makes you less prone to omicron

get vaccinated.
There was the French Revolution, the Reign of Terror, and the Revolutions of 1848. Not everyone who opposes socialism is a fascist. There are arguments against it:

- Bad people tend to use it as lip service to take over.

- Somethings you want people out of the way, like piloting an airplane or performing heart surgery.

- There will always be favoritism. "Your mom" is a lot different than "moms v. the council of moms"

- Often the best solution is stay out of it. Leave it alone. Otherwise you're just making things worse.

- My argument: it does nothing. The problems we face are not due to a lack of mutual cooperation. There are solutions but too far off. Xi, Putin, jihadis, drug lords are all going to die. An adolescent version of myself would respond to this by getting them to bully a psycho who wants their family dead, or set someone up who did nothing. Now I've grown up. My delusions are gone. Horrible pain and death awaits us all. I feel sympathy for others even the hateful.
I run a SaaS product solo, and I receive these message and other similar ones (GDPR requests) every week. Most are generic like this one, but some are out right offensive name calling.

I have no problem following these laws and extended the data/privacy rights to everyone (not just CA or EU residents). I must say though, when people threaten me or resort to name calling I make the process deliberately difficult.

edit

I just scanned my email and I got the same email, with CCPA swapped out for GDPR via a "Tom Harris".
Businesses are responsible for that. I'm not sure how you're making that leap.
Among EEs that I've seen there are only really three points of controversy: the "any current at all turns the bulb on" bit which he didn't mention in the initial pre-video quiz (but which is super important), that he missed the unit of meters in the `1/c seconds` answer (it should be `1m/c seconds`), and (for the pedants & puzzle solvers) that he ignored the interesting bits about steady state behavior.

Nothing (except forgetting the units of meters) he said is wrong. It's just a bit uncharacteristic that the video didn't match the initial quiz, and it ignores some of the most interesting bits of the behavior. But it wasn't targeted at EEs who are already familiar with the "simple" transmission line behavior, it was targeted at people who haven't ever learned or dealt with that. So the steady-state behavior would have distracted from the focus of the video IMO.
These people are incredibly smart, but also incredibly selfish. Smart != morality.
I'm more talking about big budget projects that require large and expensive teams, rather than indie projects or music. Say, The Lord of the Rings or the Pfizer vaccine. Achievements of this scale can't be done by small groups of the intrinsically motivated. Without some IP protection, private capital wouldn't pursue these projects.

You may think that sacrificing these things is worth it, but at least be up front about that trade off when making the argument.
The fact that Ross didn't mean to do this is all the more reason why someone - maybe an IRB, maybe not (your argument makes sense) - should be assisting 20-something researchers with having a well-informed perspective.

In the absence of an organization that's good at this (which doesn't seem to exist and should), this probably should be the supervising professors.
*Update* to their credit, they've followed up with me. The github login was routing to the wrong account (a rarely used account) and was caught in their automatic fraud process. They've verified the main account (5 year old) is still intact and given me instructions to get back in.

I am immensely relieved. They've done right by me.
I used to like Digital Ocean. But it seems as though ever since they went IPO all the engineers became rich and absconded to Hawaii. Or they're at least not working. It's Noam Bardin's Law in effect.

I'm looking for the next Digital Ocean. Something still bespoke, with higher cost but better customer support. So far oldschool VPS hosts are looking good.
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1m/cs is the correct value. Not 1/cs. The meters matters, hiding it makes it less obvious that the wire separation is what matters.
Don’t use Digital Ocean for anything, not just production. Your account may be locked up and customer service will keep sending boilerplate responses. There is no way I know of to contact a human and find out why the account is locked and what options exist. DO has been heavily understaffed for years, and the mass layoffs in early 2020 likely made things far worse.

I see value in supporting smaller companies (relative to large ones like Amazon, Microsoft or Google), but smaller companies usually tend to have better customer support when things go wrong, and are generally a lot more helpful. With DO, it has the kind of offerings by a smaller company with the kind of support by a large company.
We received the same email as well, also from “Anna Roland.”
What is c/2?

1/c was because the distance between the lightbulb and the battery was 1 meter. m / m/s = s

With c as the numerator, I don't even know what the units of that 2 would be? m/s²?
Curious that they don’t know what data they have, no?

Collectors of data should know what they have and who they have shared it with. Think of holding data as risky, as if the data is toxic. Think of the monetary and reputational risk of a data breach.

Incidentally, the data collected must be done so for a specific business purpose. And can even be kept if there are other requirements such as AML or KYC.

Just slapping a zero over the data is not a viable solution.
Why couldn't the code run from a GitHub Action or within a Lambda be type checked and in version control? All of mine are. As for uptime, it completely depends on where you host your pg instance. But I'd wager you know that already.
He doesn't quite have a million dollar income. He made a million dollars from selling a book, which is a one-off. His normal annual income is more like 250 000$, which is still a lot.
They are, but only because we don't have better language to express them. Similar to a lot of the problems with Chomsky's works the composability of language is only a subset of the whole breadth of what is expressable in a given language.

Or in other words, I believe the surface area of "edge cases" has a similar surface area as the rest of the language. The difference being they aren't invoked nearly as often because they require more effort and creativity.

Just look at the rise of words like "hangry". There are types of mashups that show up in creative uses of language that defy nearly any rule for any language you can come up with. In many languages, if you choose any of those supposed rules you can probably construct an algorithm to generate odd, but understandable words that defy that rule.
It's d/c, not 1/d.
That's why I included the word "bogus."
Good timing for Age of Empires IV!
Maybe more salmon will set off a chain reaction that cools the planet?
And my boss knows that, and it's okay for executives to make corporate decisions for personal reasons. It's not okay for executives to make corporate decisions for personal reasons without acknowledgement, and particularly not with explicit deception. The difference between "my product is better for intangible reasons" and "my product is better because of lies out of teeth is fraud.

Taking personal kickbacks from vendors can be legal, so long as it's reported to your employer (and the IRS). What's not legal is hiding it from your employer because they have policies against it, and every (large) employer does.

The sole owners of large private companies can and do occasionally get personal kickbacks for their business. It rarely makes sense for them, because as owners of large private corporations they have better way of extracting cash from those companies (like literally paying themselves a salary or bonus). Totally legal, though.
So the HN post did work and you’re going back to a platform that treated you badly? If I were you, I’d copy what needs to be copied from there and close all accounts. Encouraging “customer support only through social media outrage” is not a very good choice. If you continue, you wouldn’t be doing right by the other customers of this provider.