skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if [Tinder] *believes* that you have violated this Agreement

Belief and 'thinking' are funny things. They imply human judgement was involved in the process. Instead what most people seem to be complaining about are the egregious use of heuristics to do large scale account maintenance without retaining staff (humans) to make judgements on the particulars of each case.

Until AIs win person-hood, there is no 'thinking' involved in this process. But I wonder if there is any case history on challenging the terminology used to describe these situations.

I feel that these systems should be using something more akin to applitools, which flags discrepancies between real and expected, and then a human rejects or accepts the report on a line item basis. You can still screw up and click yes when you meant no, but at least you have a chance at getting a human involved before doing anything dire.
Cool, but the event is not unmannedly flying around in a circle for 1 minute but to transport up to 7 people over several hundred miles.
People don't know how to make butter? You just shake up milk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=couD2IawoGw
9/10 with one demerit for omitting the compulsory "wake up, sheeple".
Not sure if it's a thing of the past, but not too long ago you could use monitor mode to pickup iphones within range and see their AP connection history including, iirc, mac addresses. You could then use wigle to map out paths. Creepy shit.

It's also used for indoor positioning software and pretty sure it's enabled (or at least possible according to vendor patents) on MTA's subway routers/aps. Which again is very creepy if they're using it to track devices with wifi on but not connected.
Well, that was all good up until the point that CDS's exposed the Ratings Agencies as corrupt, and LIBOR imploded, again due to corruption.
As I've said elsewhere, I'm on that list and I'm nowhere near what I'd consider a "high-traffic website". The site in question is a zero-revenue personal project, is is several orders of magnitude too small by any metric to be subject to the CCPA (which is the law the letter I got referred to).

They absolutely did not survey only large websites.
...but physics isn't something that cares If you want to disrupt.
My name is Troels Henriksen and I work as assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen. That is a unique combination, so it identifies me as a person. I'm not averse to my income being connected to my identity.
Saying on the basis of which regulation you're asking for something just isn't considered a threat where I live, period. People who want to make threats actually make threats.

> In your view, what purpose does informing someone of a law related to their compliance serve?

Well, obviously, in this case, it was about the time period expected. If you have reasonable assumption that your request is not common (for example businesses may plausibly receive far fewer GDPR requests then they receive product warranty requests), then communicating the expectation seems like a prudent thing to do since the other party is less likely to be familiar with it.
What if I break a law somewhere else?

Who knows? I can imagine that an innocent picture of uncovered legs may be illegal in some religious states, but do you have to worry about it? Is that even a thing?

(I’m aware of the chances that you may visit that country some day and find out that you’re a wanted criminal, but not sure if that applies to non-felonies world-legal-wise)
FWIW, looking at bare official counts, the ratio of covid deaths vs infections is between 1 and 2 percent in most regions.
Mono. Thank me later.
I think that's not entirely fair. There are several viable reasons why an investment into something like this makes a lot of sense.

Firstly, Porsche is a manufacturer that caters to enthusiasts and many of those customers are very much wedded to ICE engines, manual gearboxes etc. Those customers will continue to buy new cars that utilise existing ICE engine designs, but more importantly Porsche has many customers who keep their cars for decades and this will allow them to continue to run them without changing the cars character.

Secondly, Porsche (or more accurately, VAG) are very much investing into EV's - arguably they could have done it faster and earlier, but the investment is very much there now. Having technology like this diversifies what they can offer and in the case of some sort of global component shortage for batteries for instance, they can continue to scale.

As a bit of an enthusiast myself, if I can continue to run the cars I already own at a similar environmental impact to a new EV, frankly I would be delighted, even if the cost of the fuel is significantly higher.
I agree the answer does not depend on the legitimacy, but that doesn't matter. The answer to where were you last Tuesday night does not depend on who asks it, but only some have the right to ask that question and demand an answer.
Congratulations to the whole Codecadamey team! Know lots of folks there who have worked very hard and I hope this exit is beneficial to them. I wish them nothing but success (and hope Skillsoft can retain and grow the talent)!
Some math to ground the discussion:

If you save 35k per year and have living expenses of 25k per year (60k - 35k = 25k), then you have a 58.3% savings rate (net of taxes). My math has you FI in 14 years assuming a 5% return net of inflation, or 13 years with a 7% return net of inflation.

If you can augment that 35k per year savings by working part time it can be even faster. Assuming the same implied hourly rate at 120k per year ($60/hr), and an extra 20 hr/wk of work, AND a 50% tax rate, that yields an extra 30k per year of savings.

That would bump the savings rate to 72.2%, which would drop the estimated time to retire to 9 at a 5% return net of inflation or 8 years at a 7% return net of inflation instead of 14 or 13 years. Thus saving 5 years.

At a 20% rate of return net of inflation, just for example, the 8 or 9 year time would drop to 6 years, so the yield on your investments probably isn't going to be a primary driver of the time until retirement. Savings rate is a much bigger driver.
I'm not ignoring it, you can not deduce an empirical phenomenon on the basis of logic. Whether racialized teachers disproportionately fail these math courses is an empirical finding that must be presented as evidence, not a logical conclusion that one can deduce.

You can deduce empirical phenomenon from common sense, but the idea that it would be remotely appropriate or responsible for a judge to rule on a matter involving the relationship between race, standardized testing, and the ability to teach on the basis of common sense is patently absurd. A judge is not some random commenter arguing on the Internet their personal biases with nothing at stake; a judge is a highly trained professional who is required by long standing ethical standards to be very careful about their decision making.
I was a core engineer in a different manned eVTOL project, so have spent a lot of time thinking about this technology and watching the space. Lilium raised some eyebrows recently with their SPAC IPO valuation of over $3B, without having released footage of a single manned flight. The prototype is unique and aesthetically appealing, but my engineering mind recoils at the complexity of the design. The variable pitch blades, the adjustable exhaust nozzles, the tilt-wing vectored thrust system, etc. With complexity comes cost, maintenance, and exponentially increasing failure modes. Safety is paramount in aviation, so all flight-critical failure modes require redundant backup systems, which further increase cost and complexity. It's a slippery slope.

The eVTOL space is currently seeing a Cambrian explosion of different design concepts, but the first to see economic viability I think will be the simpler ones.
IMHO mono-repo vs multi-repo should be decided based on the sources of change for each component in a product. For example, the cloud components of a product usually change at the same pace and for the same reasons, it makes sense to have them in a mono-repo. Even in a microservices approach. Even in the cloud certain components can change at a different pace and for different reasons. For example if you have grpc api that talks to your mobile app and a webapi exposed to your customers.

I believe that components that move at a different pace and change for different reason should not be in the same repo. It is difficult to setup CI/CD for different ways of deployment and specially if they not changing at the same time.

Now, regarding security, it is important to keep different components of a product in different repos, this will give you the flexibility to manage a more restricted set of credentials and reduce the number of people that have access to it.

In the end it involved 3 things: 1) Sources of Change, 2) CI/CD Processes and 3) Security. You can definitely mix and match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCHH5D74Fs&t=25s
> That "dumb" infrastructure still exists. You can host your own file server, either on your own hardware, or in the cloud.

Can you though? I would consider AWS "in the cloud" yet they will give you the boot if they disagree with you morally[0]. Same with Cloudflare[1].

So it seems even infrastructure-level cloud offerings are prone to moral arbitration. Hosting on your own hardware is the only option, but even then... I don't see any reason twitter mobs couldn't pressure Comcast or whoever is connecting your hardware to the internet to cut you off.

[0] https://telecoms.com/508138/aws-banning-of-parler-exposes-th...

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
I thought I was Multi AZ but something failed. I am mostly running EC2 + RDS both with 2 availability zones. I will have to dig into the problem but I think the issue is that my setup for RDS is one writer instance and one reader instance, each in a different AZ. However I guess there was nothing for it to fail over to since my other instance was the writer instance, so I guess I need to keep a 3rd instance available preferably in a 3rd AZ?
I tried to adopt matrix for our small business and here is summary of my experience.

- Synapse is very resource hungry even for a small server

- Synapse creates a gazillion of TCP connection and keep them open, it was a real problem for my ISP router (SOHO router for 1gbit/s) and it took a very long time to debug, be sure to limit the number of TCP connection on the server

- Synapse is hard to get a good idea of the health of the server, the federation can break without warning

- If the federation broke for some reason, when submitting messages, they will show as delivered, this was one of the major problem for us

- Encryption is very cumbersome to get right for non technical users, there should be a server wide option to make it "easier but less secure". Even for me, it was hard to get rid of a warning popup about some device error.

- Group VOIP is hard to setup, it should be as easy as discord to be viable.

- Webhook is really hard to setup too, I want to be able to right click a channel and "copy webhook URL" to be able to post to it with CURL (discord has that)

- Globally it is very slow when joining federated rooms, it can take days to sync 500+ people room

In the end we just use discord, it's free and do the job. Of course they can read our messages and this is a problem for me as I am for privacy and encryption, but it works for everybody, it is friendly and easy to use.

I will keep a close eye on matrix and try to adopt it again, but right now it is not usable for us.
In an ideal world I'd love our car (and everyone else's) to be pure EV;

in the current one, we opted for a plug-in hybrid with a decent EV range (~40+ miles) because it allows us to be 100% EV in local driving, but not worry about charging schedule/availability on longer trips. We're a single-car household in the US and we do a lot of camping and wilderness trips; for those there is currently no good EV option. Even if you stage a full charge at the bottom of a mountain, vertical climbs kill your range... and you end up in locations getting a drive-in emergency recharge may be entirely infeasible.

I am sad about the complexity of our car. Lift the hood and laugh out loud. But as long as it's reasonably reliable, I would happily pay a serious premium for carbon-neutral gas for the ICE part. 2-3x even. Because then I would sleep easier; and we have the luxury of only burning that in the 5% case.

All for the YES-AND.
> the failure of an ATS would be catastrophic

Because that would mean no power at all to the DC and no way to get it back? (I am completely ignorant on this topic)
Looks like these were the first two HN threads:

Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2901156 - Aug 2011 (232 comments)

Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2914854 - Aug 2011 (75 comments)
Atlantic solo crossing in a kite boat
I think the IRB should investigate how they reached that conclusion and probably issue their own apology. Hard to say without seeing the actual application and not being familiar with Princeton IRB rules.
Porsche literally already makes EVs... And a pretty good one.

It's more like battery advances aren't happening without a major breakthrough in chemistry.
> The claim was "provenance matters".

Here's the full claim: "Provenance is a thing, so no. You're just some rando and nobody would care about your NFT."

It turns out, that "some randos" have a jolly good time on NFT platforms selling stolen goods, and it's not an exception, considering how many of them are. NFTs provide exactly zero help with provenance that "matters".

> tolen art isn't the norm, it's the exception, IRL and on-chain, it's not honest to imply otherwise, and you know better than that.

OpenSea had so many complaints about stolen art that they decided to just remove the complaint form. Because stolen art is the norm on-chain, and NFTs provide exactly zero protection against that, no matter how much you claim that "provenance matters".

It's a norm to such a degree, that it's easy to watch this in near real-time (e.g. https://twitter.com/NFTtheft).
So GHZ is just a name for a specific arrangement that is maximally entangled.

John Preskill has some lectures on quantum computing for the University of Waterloo I believe, also a Hans Bethe lecture at Cornell. If you are just looking for an hour's commitment to understand a little better, I would go with one of those.

If you wanted an actual textbook, Nielsen and Chuang is very popular... The other place I would look would be OpenCourseWare, you might be able to find some good problems to work on there. Sometimes video lectures can be good if you can pause the video right after a problem was introduced and try to solve it yourself before you get the answer from the professor.

The difficulty in being an autodidact is, listening to stories around a campfire is deep in our bones, it makes us feel good. But it's not a very efficient way to learn. So there is a mismatch where watching a TED talk feels like you have just changed everything, but then if I come to you a month later probably nothing has changed.

Text is a lot faster, as a medium. Way slower to write but seekable, skimmable, can contain links to previous sections... I'm pretty sure we also retain more of it. But that's not the main problem with videos/TED talks. Like, the text form of TED talks is someone telling you how monads are burritos and that makes it all better.

It's too clean?

Good learning is messy. A good abstraction allows you to clean up a mess of confusion in your head. This confused mess can only exist if you have created it. So you have to do lots of examples, exercises, memorize strange times when you have been wrong about things and your expectations don't align with the problem domain... If you think about learning a language, there is that phase where you don't know which thing to use when and your words are all out of order in the sentence... Per Ira Glass the only way to improve is to do lots of work, put yourself on a schedule, grind through mediocrity. The TED talk/monad tutorial fallacy is that we can give our children an easier time than we had it. It's BS. We can't. “I made so many mistakes, I will help you so that you don't have to deal with that pain” blithely unaware that the pain was how you learned it, that learning is pain.

Sorry, didn't mean to rant and now it seems awkward to delete it.
You better believe it, because I got one of these emails about my personal site and I had never had to deal with it before.

I also received an email for a domain that I had absolutely nothing to do with. It seems their system identified my email's domain (i.e. not my email!) because it was in the last link on that domain's homepage – something that a human would have spotted easily.
Welp, I signed up with the service in January of 2012 but I'm done with Codecademy now. When Skillsoft bought Element K, it did not go well for the majority of us there. Not only that, but they were my biggest competitor in sales. So not only was I not impressed with how they treated a company after buying it, but it's almost out of principle that I wouldn't support a company that has been such a barrier to success for me.
What counts as hidpi?

I have 20/20 vision, and normally sit with my eyes approximately 3 feet away from my monitor (based on a rough measurement just now). My 27" 4K monitor has ~160 PPI, and I cannot discern individual pixels until my nose is around 1.25 feet away from the screen. My old 24" 1080p monitor has 92.5 PPI, and I remember being able to see individual pixels at the normal sitting distance.

Subjectively, my 4k monitor is a big upgrade; you won't hear me arguing that PPI doesn't matter. Based on my ballpark measurements, though, 138 PPI seems like plenty, as long as your monitor isn't right up in your face.
As of 10:15a, the page returns an error, so I assume that Glassdoor is auditing the reviews because I can still view reviews for other companies.
Ask HN: Is Google Mars broken?
Not sure where to ask or how to bring this to Google's attention, but it would appear Google Mars no longer works. Tried different browsers and the issue appears to be JS errors:
"This document requires 'TrustedHTML' assignment."
"Note that 'unsafe-inline' is ignored if either a hash or nonce value is present in the source list."

And so on. Is this a known issue? Apologies if this is not the right place to raise this issue but knowing google devs hang around I thought it might speed up a fix.
Aww, thank you for saying that. I'm really happy to hear! I was one of the original community directions when a few of us were trying to get dA off the ground. I'm pretty sure there are actually a number of the original dA staffers around HN.
The big difference between computers and living organisms is that computers are designed by humans and meant to be understood by humans. Those that design computers must understand them, and so do those that write code for them, those that write compilers, those that write operating systems, and so on. None of this applies to a living being or any of its parts.

I think your thought experiment makes the mistake that such an abstraction-less computer would still be designed and built by humans. That won't work, because no human can understand the whole of it all at once, hence the need for abstractions. A computer "designed" by an incredibly complex computer program could push that barrier but probably not break it. If you really want an analogy to actual life, such a computer would have to be the outcome of some evolution-like process. And no, not what people like to call "evolutionary process" or something like that today, but actual evolution that mirrors biology -- and quickly becomes too complex to understand by humans.
Has datacenter power redundancy undergone any sort of revolution with grid storage becoming industrial scale?

I wonder if a lot of AWS dc design in this area predates the battery grid storage revolution with (what my impression is) a far faster adaptation/switchover time than a generator spin up, and possibly software systems that work to detect and switch over quickly?

AWS can claim it will be best of breed, but they aren't going to throw out a DC power redundancy investment (or threaten downtime) that they can't wring more ROI on.
Not if they shadow ban you which seems to happen quite often. They'll happily accept your money in this instance - it sounds like in the article above this is what happened.
I do not consider acceptable to be threatened about California law that does not apply to me.

I do not appreciate learning about any law by being threatened with it in fake spam email.

And sending threatening email to humans and having chutzpah to comment "our study does not constitute human subjects research" is just insulting.

I received numerous spam from universities about "research" but never one that was blatantly lying, threatening me with inapplicable law and with legal documentation claiming that I am not a human.

I send a complaint to them, and will consider further complaining.

Does anybody have any idea why it "does not constitute human subjects research"?

Is threatening people online not counted because it is online? Or have they lied to review board?
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and why couldn't prospective teachers study for the Ontario Math Proficiency Test ahead of time by going to khan academy or something? is replacing that test with a 4 year degree really better?
When I told people I was studying physics, people would vomit in their mouth. Compared to that, telling people I'm a programmer might as well be telling them I'm a rock star.
FDA Authorizes First Oral Antiviral for Treatment of Covid-19
Tiktok.com got more traffic than Google.com.in 2021
Part of the problem here was the smug tone of his student initially going on Twitter to make the dubious claim that the response to this study had been "overwhelmingly positive", when it was already abundantly clear that it was anything but.
If I'm reading it correctly, they're claiming 60s of reserve at hover. That would translate to roughly 10m of reserve in level flight.
As someone with an enormous personal paid content library, I absolutely agree legislation is needed here.

Also randomized lootboxes should be subject to gambling laws, or at least regulated such that you can’t get duplicates or something reasonable like that.
There’s Sandboxie, which works decently, but does have some compatibility issues: https://sandboxie-plus.com/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/skillsoft-strikes-525-million-d...

https://archive.md/O0MLo
WHO says vaccine booster programs will prolong Covid crisis
> I use Firefox as my daily driver primarily for privacy concerns and control

I'd switch to Firefox in an instant if they would just make the multi-profile functionality a first class citizen instead of hiding it behind about:profiles.

It's a feature in Chrome that is hugely essential to my daily workflow and the current equivalent in Firefox has too many friction points to sway me at the moment.
I would hugely prefer that journalists and media organizations be incentivized by subscription revenue than by click revenue and other parasitic ventures.