skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original claim was: Internet speeds are low in Germany (and other countries) because of the high age of the people living there. Countries with a younger population place higher importance on the internet and therefore have higher internet speeds.

The various data sources on "internet speeds" are not good, age is better docummented and probably less questionable (I never worked with humans to really establish any of that). I was under the impression that good data on internet speeds is hard to get, so I went for worse data to get a first impression.

If the skew is not created by bad data (e.g., variable selection bias in different populations) but by other causal relationships, I believe it discredits the factor of population age as the main contributor.

I was and am willing to discuss those weaknesses of the data in a discussion. I think I stated with those graphs that I stayed unconvinced of the claim, not that they are conclusive proof. I think of them as a form of exploration to see if a claim is worth further investigation (especially considering the amount of work needed for that).
While I agree most of the comments are garbage, this is just one thread and you can leave with the back button. There are hundreds of other non political posts a day
How about a little contrition? Something like 'Yeah, we know we've screwed up our delivery over and over again. And we've never really delivered anything as promised. And our model has been repeatedly shown to be a failure. And we know you told us for years this would be the case if nothing changed, and we ignored you anyway. So we are sorry to ALL of you. Here's how we're going to change everything or here's how we're going to refund you.' Pretending there is one marginal, disgruntled group is a cynical, face-saying decoy designed to ignore the fact that virtually everyone is disgruntled. Pure arrogance.
Did people in countries that did not do a lockdown fail to get immediate care for their heart attacks because the hospitals were overwhelmed?

Thankfully we have control groups in Sweden and Florida, so you can prove your point in a very simple way by showing me the increased heart attack deaths in both those places.
A few things to note because this can be confusing. Old u2f tokens are still supported by webauthn. The change here is specifically about what javascript APIs are available to websites.

If you are wondering if a site is using the webauthn or u2f api: the webauthn flow involves the browser showing a modal dialog. The u2f flow allowed for javascript to interact with your token without the browser itself showing a dialog.

You can see what the webauthn flow is with one of the many test sites, like https://webauthn.io/
Title probably needs a tweak - "policial"?
Honesty just paying for stuff would make so much of the internet better.
That's a misunderstanding of what the transition is - the transition is on how the gender is presented, not the underlying gender.

That's not to say immutability is a great method to determine rights. Mind you, I don't think political affiliation needs such protections. Freedom of expression and association already handle interactions with political affiliation. The government guarantees your ability to have a political opinion, but not for other people respect it or to help you promote it. What people do with their business is still part of their view points - the real solution is to decentralize power more, so that even if you get thrown out for your political opinion, you can always work somewhere else that likes your politics
> It's got bipartisan support, so clearly there are legitimate arguments

That doesn't follow. The worst laws passed (e.g. the Patriot Act) tend to have bipartisan support.
I'm so glad you liked it! Best of luck with the project and with telling people about it!
> While this bill is strongly opposed by the Internet Society, ACLU, CDT, and EFF,

It's worth noting that the companies destroying democracy that this bill regulates (Google, Facebook, etc.) are major donors to all of these organizations.
Another keyword or two and we've got ourselves ISO50001!
> catcher in the rye

Why do people keep trying to censor that one? It seemed completely uncontroversial to me.
With $8M seed, Onehouse builds open source data lakehouse, eyes managed service
Interestingly, this is on NPR, a publicly funded source. I think that would go a long way towards alleviating this problem (perhaps through taxes on those giant corporations that have locked down local and national media), though of course needing strict separation from the source. I don't think that would be the hard part so much as the will to do it, or more likely the will to overcome the lobbying and big money in this arena.
Adam Langley's blog about webauthn is still the best resource that explains how everything fits together: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/03/27/webauthn.html
You're surprised GFM refused to fund an occupation of the nation's capitol?

The charities were being selected by the organizers.
And they obviously didn't work in Germany, France, USA, Canada, England, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, Austria, Spain, Brazil, Mexico and so on.

Edit: 1.1 Argentina
1.2 Australia
1.3 Austria
1.4 Bangladesh
1.5 Cambodia
1.6 Canada
1.8 Denmark
1.9 Fiji
1.10 France
1.11 Ghana
1.12 India
1.13 Indonesia
1.13.1 Large-scale social restrictions
1.13.2 Community Activities Restrictions Enforcement
1.14 Iran
1.15 Ireland
1.16 Italy
1.17 Malaysia
1.18 Myanmar
1.19 Namibia
1.20 Nepal
1.21 Netherlands
1.23 Nigeria
1.24 Pakistan
1.25 Philippines
1.26 Russia
1.27 Singapore
1.28 South Africa
1.29 Thailand
1.30 United Kingdom
1.31 United States
1.32 Vietnam
Andrea Asperti's only mistake was thinking he was wrong.
Insane probably, but there is always going to be some friction and gap between policy and implementation. It is good to inquire and understand where the gaps are.
You are doing the right thing but shining the sun light and trying to recruit people to make your case is good.

Let's see how Apple reacts.
"See, we donate to these organizations, we're not that bad, promise!"
To be fair, Monero is a fungible privacy coin and a valid answer to all of those concerns.
In-Q-Tel built an open source software 'nutrition label'
These days?

Meat counter, extensive selection of frozen food. Good amount of space for non-food items, like over the counter medicine, schools supplies, cleaning supplies, personal care items.

Maybe a pharmacy, maybe not, depending on the store.

In Northern California, it seems Safeway and Lucky are the top ones, and of course Costco. Also 99 Ranch, often called Ranch 99, which is aimed at Asian food customers. There are other smaller chains and individual stores.

Whole Foods, or TJ's. Can I buy a mop, a bottle of Tylenol, and two quarts of motor oil? Not a chance.
Yes, we always heard people tell us that Ireland was an amazing place for hiking, but being Irish ourselves, we didn't quite see it that way - until we walked it. It's really spectacular landscape, although some access issues can mar the experience a little bit. It's certainly a lovely place to go regardless!
What does fastmail offer over say gmail?

The privacy laws are worse in Australia. Google is far ahead in every respect, it seems to me: security, AI-based spam prevention, etc.
I had mine banned after years of revenue; I still do not know why; I just got an email saying ‘suspicious activity’. I emailed with a polite text asking why this was and I received, of course a nice ‘this is final’ email. This ended that startup attempt. People can say ‘do not depend on Google’ but no one pays anywhere close to the same amounts; the income allowed us to grow and build towards a paid SaaS offering while others were paying just enough to maybe buy a coffee every few days. The difference was that big. So we closed that company and moved on.

Still no idea why though. At the time people online kept going for all kinds of conspiracy theories. Like there were over 20 people I spoke with who got their account banned for ‘suspicious activity’ when they reached 15k$/mo. Mine was exactly cut off at that point as well. I don’t know; it did teach however me I will never do anything ad based; it was a long time ago and ads weren’t considered evil, although after this I definitely considered them as such.
Read and Write compressed image sequences in QOI format
Draper was definitely not first hacker ever arrested, but perhaps "first hacker sentenced to prison." (Ralph Barclay, inventor of the blue box used for phone phreaking, was arrested in 1961 or so, almost a decade before Draper came on scene. When I interviewed him I said, "You were the first!" He laughed and responded, "Well, first to get caught, maybe.") http://explodingthephone.com/docs/dbx0575.pdf or more generally http://explodingthephone.com/search.php?q=barclay&sort=relev...
I don't know if that's true. I think the participation of many white nationalists in the trucker movement was a disaster waiting to happen for GFM. Ultimately the police were the ones who told them to take it down and they agreed the threat of violence violated their TOS

They followed their standard protocol to offer refunds and then donate any unrefunded money to charities of the choosing of the main organizers. And they've even changed their policy to issue direct refunds instead. I think they're clearly still in the business of trying to maintain their trust
> It's got bipartisan support, so clearly there are legitimate arguments in favor of these changes

I don't see how the conclusion follows from the premise.

It doesn't seem appropriate to assume that politicians are acting in good faith dialectical fashion, based on literally every observation we've ever made of their actions vs their rhetoric.
There's a book called Nightwork from MIT Press that sort of covers the history of hacks and related. (I think I have a couple photos in the original edition and I was involved in a fairly minor one.)
Europe’s dependence on the US was all part of the plan
No. Webauthn is backwards compatible with old u2f tokens, so reguardless of how old your YubiKey is, it will continue to work.
> The next thing you can do, instead of paying for whitelisting, ist to contact the mailserver-admin at system you are trying to deliver mail to. This can be a bit of a hassle - seeing that your mailserver just got blocked - but it usually works. The same way systems don't want to receive SPAM they also don't want to overblock, after all they want their users to receive emails as well. If you are the mail admin of a sending system and you're reaching out to the receiving system this is usually a pretty good indicator that you don't want to spam them.

That's nice in theory. In practice, UCEPROTECT level 3 is used by, for example, all Microsoft properties (including hotmail, etc). And UCEPROTECT level 3 lists a lot of netblocks.

So, if you want to send e-mail from, say, Digital Ocean, to any Microsoft managed e-mail domain, you can just forget about it. DO doesn't care, Microsoft very much doesn't care. Good luck trying to contact a postmaster there!
wikipedia is the wiki encyclopedia hosted and managed by the wikimedia foundation.

this article appears to be about a different and completely distinct wiki project.
BlockPaper – Centralized, paper-backed blockchain in my home office
Apple already figured out that what the author is trying to do has absolutely no merit, none whatsoever. So the author finds it wasteful losing 100mAh by wiping his screen, so he'd rather contemplate how to split the atom in order to placate OCD. I think this says a lot about our modern society of educated intellectuals and technical minds. Would be pretty great if no one ever wasted their time like this and instead were able to find worthy challenges that might actually make a difference in people's lives, iow that it would benefit them rather than distract them and themselves with absolute nonsense.
Well, no. As a property owner you don't get to own the bay or the ocean as well.
Wait 'til I tell you that the original article was also basically just marketing. It's conceptually recursive
Worlds aren't game engines

(a reference to the title of the paper "the world is not a theorem" https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00284)
Very sorry about your pregnancy.

But I can assure you that your pregnancy was not revealed to a marketing organization by your doctor or insurance company. HIPAA prohibits that kind of information transfer, and the consequences of violating the law are severe enough that physicians and insurers are highly unlikely to risk it, for the little bit of dough they'd get by selling the fact of a pregnancy.

However, HIPAA only protects information about you gathered by your doctor or insurance company in the course of providing medical care. It does not protect you against data aggregators inferring your condition based on non-medical activities. In the case of pregnancy, it's not unlikely that your condition was inferred from credit card activity or online retail activity. (There is a well known case of a retailer - Target - building a model that inferred a pregnancy in a household based on retail activity; they started sending flyers/adverts to households they had identified as pregnant, and in the process revealed pregnancies of wives or daughters in the household to others who had not been in read in to the news; it did not end well for Target).
Exchanges are already prejudiced against "unhosted" wallets. I think they'll eventually stop accepting deposits from any source other than other well known exchanges.
jo -- -s a=123 -s b=00123 -s c="$(date)"
{"a":"123","b":"00123","c":"Sat 5 Feb 21:29:08 GMT 2022"}

What's the issue?
What about the "entitlement" of the web developer who tries to dictate what client (user-agent) may use to retrieve public information. Some users like me have very low requirements for websites. All I need is the text. It takes minimal effort to satisfy those users, much less than using a Javascipt app framework.
Thanks for your interest in BlockPaper. Imagine a world where all transactions can be tracked on a single, linear chain of paper links. Centrally managed in a corner in my home office, each link in this chain represents a step forward into our collective future - a future that you can use your money to own a small part of. Adding a new link to the chain is easy and affordable - based on how I'm feeling and your personal defintion of affordable. The starting price for a new link in the chain is $1.00 USD. This price is variable and based on a mathematical function. Essentially, the price is inversely correlated with how much I want to get off my chair and add a new link to the chain. Once the new link is added, I'll send you a picture of it via email.

I wrote BlockPaper last night using ASP.NET Core, Azure (SQL, storage, webapps), Twilio, SendGrid, and Cloudflare.

You can follow the project on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BuyBlockPaper
> Even though Python isn't the fastest language out there, it's likely still faster than the shell command above.

Taking these two command lines:

jo -p name=JP object=$(jo fruit=Orange point=$(jo x=10 y=20) number=17) sunday=false >/dev/null

python -c 'import json;print(json.dumps({"name": "JP", "object": {"fruit": "Orange", "point": {"x": 10, "y": 20}, "number": 17}, "sunday": False}))' >/dev/null

For jo (x86_64, Rosetta2), python2 (x86_64, Rosetta2), jo (arm64), and python3 (arm64), running 1000 iterations, with `tai64n` doing the timing.

2022-02-05 21:25:38.357228500 start-jo-x86
2022-02-05 21:25:45.319337500 stop-jo
2022-02-05 21:25:45.319338500 start-python2-x86
2022-02-05 21:26:18.876235500 stop-python2-x86
2022-02-05 21:26:18.876235500 start-jo-arm
2022-02-05 21:26:22.316063500 stop-jo-arm
2022-02-05 21:26:22.316064500 start-python3-arm
2022-02-05 21:26:40.379063500 stop-python3-arm

I make it: 7s for jo-x86, 33.5s for python2-x86, 3.5s for jo-arm, 18s for python3-arm.

Test script is at https://pastebin.com/4tTVrDia
There's ARC headers on the emails I get forwarded, so looks like it. I don't know about SRS.
Please omit personal swipes from your comments here. Your post would be fine without the first sentence.
Could be specific address or name, we would not know since the match in the list is not disclosed.

It can also be false positive, the compliance departments use specialized software do a non-exact match since it’s not a straightforward process because countries use different alphabets, address systems, naming conventions etc. So they identify potential risky clients and someone does an assessment and if they think that it could be a real match they pull the trigger.

Sometimes your names is Ahmad, other times it’s Yuri and and the life is not easy for you.
Any idea presented here is lost in their biased world view: Only the "rich" who are "left-leaning" can afford "accurate information". While the poor conservatives, who once were able to use their "pocket change" to buy tabloids, are now relegated to free "disinformation".
I do disagree with SPJ here, though. On HVM, you can have complete control over how the resources (both space and time) are used in your programs and algorithms. That is why it outputs the memory (space) and rewrites (time) cost of each program you run, and it is so precise you can even make formulas of how much memory and how many rewrites your functions will demand. You can absolutely have tight memory control in HVM, just like in C. Being lazy, high-level, etc. is NOT incompatible with that, I'd argue.
Public civil penalties are subject to constitutional rights in the legal system and due process, and are also determined by legal statute. I don't have a problem with that.

Perhaps I should have said "1) broken the law", as there are criminal laws & penalties along with civil ones. Whatever the penalty levelled against someone by the government it should stem from legal statute and constitutional due process. If I can go to court and state my case before a judge regarding a speeding ticket and minor fine, I should certainly be afforded that opportunity before I am banned from a major form of transportation all together.
Source: Spotify took down episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience at Rogans request
> Yes vaccines are being forced - how else a threat to loose your job can be called. And yes I live in Canada.

I call that a choice. Parent's have a choice to vaccinate or homeschool. Military members have a choice to non-covid vaccine or not be a service member. No one was losing their minds over that.

There are many jobs available that don't require a vaccine.

> Do we have a clue about what's really going on in the rest of the world?

We can just listen to people who live in Ottawa. Among others, the mayor has been pretty clear what's going on.
Haven't been to Kroger, or as we used to say, Krogers, for quite a while, but I assume what this means is that much of their floor space is taken up by low-quality prepared food and over-the-counter medicines. But that's true of every large grocery in the US.
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Please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar hell. A comment like this stands out even in a thread as intense as this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I also had to ask you this just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29969188 - and before that as well. We ban accounts that don't heed these warnings. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30226201 for a gloss on what is intended.
When my collaborators and I published our LQCD computation of the nucleon axial coupling I wrote this http://evanberkowitz.com/2018/05/30/gA.html though I did not get into the technical details of gauge invariance.

We can use neural networks in some steps but not in others. The main use seems to be in the generation of gauge configurations (states of the Markov chains we use). We can use neural networks there because we alway do our Metropolis-Hastings accept/reject step according to the ‘true’ action, which corrects any numerical errors introduced by the ML approximation.

There are different approaches for this. I’ve been working on incorporating ML into HMC; see eg. https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11221. For an approach based on normalizing flows, search for Shanahan eg al.

Happy to answer questions, but it’s late and I’m about to go to sleep. Feel free to ask away and I will do my best in the morning. Or email me.
Prague, Czech Republic. SO is Czech so we're moving mainly for the lifestyle, culture, plus now with a kid on the way we're concerned about access to education, healthcare, etc... Where we live in Canada it's literally $1 million to purchase any kind of housing whatsoever... We could make it work but I have no family here anyway and for the same money we can live much better there, plus be close to her family...
Very unrelated: why does the favourite stock photo for "Google Chrome" is a 2014-era Firefox on a Windows 7 computer displaying the Chrome download webpage? I'm not just talking about this particular post, but rather it seems that there's no incentive for stock photo companies to commission an update.
The question is not about "art" as in τέχνη, then you might consider it an art.

The question was about "the arts", and that means something else, it's the same "art" as in "artistic". Painting, writing etc.
Agreed, a simple disclosure "I own Monero" is needed. The lack of this* hurt the credibility. On the about page the author says they run two Monero nodes.

That said, the article is pretty much a list of links so not as much credibility is needed.

*this: edit - this being a disclosure that they do or don't own Monero

Disclosure: I own crypto but not Monero
Whatever set of standard filters I've configured with uBlock Origin already seems to do that. I've never had to add a special filter to block Twitter's logon (and I've never had a Twitter account).
> Your social media presence ranks among some of the worse I’ve seen for a company like yours, never used gumroad, never going to.

> Gumroad: According to your bio’s email address, you already have

Ok, not denying gumroad’s abuse of private info and bad PR, in fact this tweet does both.

But also, don’t make up stuff just to insult someone. You kind of baited Gumroad with the statement you “never used gumroad”
> there are times when you might want to clean the screen or keyboard without it starting up.

I don't understand this. Why does it matter if it's on while you clean the screen/kb. Did this all the time when I used a Mac, just don't login
> I run my own email server, and don’t use any blacklist. Yes, I got some amount of SPAMs. However, the vast majority of trashy emails I receive each day are advertisements (I signed up for random stuff quite liberally).

You don't run a mail server for other people who are not so careful with their e-mail addresses, let alone for a large organization. You don't run a mail server which hosts public mailing lists.
> How about targeted sanctions against actually responsible people with ties to the government?

Funny thing is that local population usually does not like higher-ups and will welcome those sanctions.
there's a youtube video of a guy riding a freight train through that tunnel, with a gopro strapped to his head...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOBCGmZppaA
The "unmitigated filth and obscenity" is a wife lying in bed next to her husband, thinking back to when she first met and fell in love with him.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance stated that most of the participants in the protest had no connection to trucking
Neat can you talk more about what makes it fully private? How does it work?
The 3 Techdirt links in the article are especially helpful for catching up.

EARN IT is another skirmish in the 30+ year old Crypto Wars. For those who care about defending privacy and encryption, exhaustion is not an option.

Power-hungry governments must be viewed similarly to an APT in this context. They are following their very nature, and they will never stop inventing new approaches.

There is no other option except to stay organized and always ready to engage.