skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A corporation can change the world around you to your massive detriment without your input. Poison your river, pollute your air, etc. They don't have to tell you to do anything to harm you without recourse.
> How were they denying it?

They ask the government to prove that it's all because of them, and nobody but them.

Then challenge and obstruct every step of that process.

We don't have magical Stark Trek tricorders, which beep when you stand next to the poisoned river, and beep louder when you point them at the PFAS factory. We have tests that take time to run, that can infer facts about the world - but we need to justify performing them, and then need to reason and argue that their results mean what they mean.
I am surprised Mozilla is pushing for DoH. I was expecting Google to lead the front since most of their revenue comes from ads and the DNS-level ad blockers are easily defeated by DoH.
You mean we can do it with Apple Watch? As someone mentioned earlier, I used wrong word, it should be "how often" instead of "frequency".
Edit -- I'm an idiot and misread OP. I read "inspired by nature", rather than specifically "biology". Keeping everything below here just for goofs. I think the only thing that applies is the Computational Beauty of Nature book recc.

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There's a bunch of methods that come out of casting an optimization or search problem into a thermal system with an artificial energy and corresponding conjugate (artificial) temperature.

Most people are familiar with (Gibbs-ish) Monte Carlo methods, for example. Then there's simulated annealing, tempering, parallel tempering, etc. Simulated annealing is universal optimizer with remarkable richness coming from the "energy landscape" perspective. Recent work by Riccardo zecchina has studied neural nets from this perspective, and the whole (largely) Italian gang of glassy landscape people have done really cool stuff with it including fundamental CS stuff like K-SAT.

Lots of optimization algos use tricks that exploit analogies to thermal systems, given a sufficiently clever "Hamiltonion".

I'm not up to date with the latest and greatest in NN training stuff, but I know a few of the preferred optimization algorithms used some form of gradient descent often with some artificial "momentum". Can't remember what it was called, maybe Adam or something? I know Michael Jordan at Berkeley does a lot cool stuff with along these lines.

Very rambly message I see now, so I'll stop and just give some references/recs and maybe polish up later.

A few recommendations--

Nature of computation - Cris Moore I think

Information and physics(?) - Mezard and montanari

Computational beauty of nature -Flack(?)

Newish book from SFI from a conference I was at a few years ago may interest you, The Energetics of Computing in Life and Machines https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947864076/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_JQXY...

And most emphatically, Information, inference, and learning - Mackay
Ask HN: WhatsApp and Chat Export Options
Seems like a support question, but it's more than that.

Currently, WhatsApp allows users to export chat history in a .txt file for the latest 40,000 messages only. This limitation is rather arbitrary and annoying. Regarding this, I have two questions:

1. Is there any way to export my entire WhatsApp chat history, without rooting my Android phone?

2. Is this limitation even legally allowed? In other words, is WhatsApp legally obligated to allow me to export my entire chat history, under GDPR/CCPA/etc.? I'm guessing maybe not since this data lives on my device in encrypted sqlite files, and not on their servers. Am I right here?
The rampant drug crisis isn’t helping, it is a mental health and drug crisis causing homelessness more than a lack of housing. They say they are following “The Portugal model” but they are not. Portugal does not tolerate open drug use or openly being high/aggressive.

There is also a housing crisis but I am not sympathetic. SF just refuses to build buildings, everything gets mired in “affordable housing” debates. Build houses and skyscrapers until the prices go down and then build a couple more. Simple supply and demand.

Additionally SFs budget has doubled in a decade. They do less with more than practically any other city.
You could say the same about individual cars (they don't use that much energy/hydrocarbons/electricity), but in aggregate, just like cars, compute is extremely expensive in terms of energy.

Edit: note that I'm not trying to compare an individual car to an individual computer, or even aggregate cars to aggregate computers... My point was merely that aggregate compute is very energy intensive. :)
You're probably off by an order of magnitude. But your point is valid nonetheless.

Average Tesla can do nearly 300 miles per charge. A gallon of gas can do about 30 miles per gallon in a similar sedan.
I’ve worked with some truly excellent people who came from Theranos.
Makes perfect sense. I don’t use Windows, so haven’t really been exposed to Notepad++ very much. Just hear about it from time to time. Thanks!
i wish people would stop falling over themselves to post any random factoid about trump they read on facebook 7 years ago, it's very often missing context or just flat out wrong and really diminishes the quality of conversation that can be had
>Nothing keeps bash from opening up a file of raw C structs and parsing out the objects to use them

... so you're parsing strings. In bash, all values are strings (with a half-exception for the the phantasms of integers and lists).
On the one hand, the evidence suggests that requiring IDs to vote is a solution in search of a problem in the US. That said, I strongly suspect that whatever reasonable scheme you concocted to get free photo IDs into the hands of people who don't have one would be broadly criticized as requiring too much time, too much documentation that some people don't have, too much of a privacy violation, etc.
Visibility is somewhat orthogonal. I mean yes, you can avoid coupling issues by preventing the dependency altogether, but really the interesting problems occur once you do have a dependency.

Once you have the dependency, the loosely coupled approach means that (when possible) you avoid making changes to your API contract that would break your clients. I see the appeal of approach #3 that you suggest, but here's the problem I see with that (and maybe you have an answer):

For any change that breaks the contract (outside of trivial things like renaming an identifier) you are necessarily either adding a requirement your clients may not be able to satisfy, or removing a capability they depend upon. Migrating your clients in that case is more than just a simple refactor; the client may need to re-architect so that it can adapt to the change in contract or even move to a new dependency altogether. If you're not the owner of that client, that means you are either interrupting the other team while they are forced to help you with the migration, or you are blocked waiting for them to have the time.

In general, I would say the best approach to making breaking changes to an API is to use a deprecation process. That allows clients to migrate at their own pace. You can of course do that in either a monorepo or a polyrepo approach, but my expectation would be that the monorepo doesn't really provide you with any advantages in that case.
Great article. By one of the Pattern Language Institute's core professors, carrying on Christopher Alexander's memory.

Pictures include the residual neural net motif for "fine grained control at every scale": https://www.planetizen.com/files/inline-images/Alexander-Cit...

And the 15 fundamental geometric traits of controllable design: https://www.planetizen.com/files/inline-images/Alexander-15-...
One of my favorite gaming moments was from the first Monkey Island. I won’t spoil the gag, but those of you who recall Guybrush calmly saying “Rubber tree” probably went through the same emotional roller coaster that I did.
I haven't, but I look forward to reading his response in Monday's column!
IANAL, but from my understanding the GDPR itself does not make this distinction. It's okay to store things to implement functionality, like login or shopping baskets. Tracking people is not okay.

Now, there was a different directive preceeding the GDPR that tried to address the rampant abuse of cookies for tracking by regulating cookies directly. The intention of that directive was good, but the implementation really bad. I think this is where this distinction comes from. I don't think I've seen a case where someone who was not doing blatantly shady things with cookies got into trouble with that directive, though.

It doesn't have to be obnoxious either - if you have a preferences page, you could add something like "we'll save these preferences in a cookie on your computer, okay?"
If we program the AI to want to serve us, is that moral? This path pretty quickly gets you to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe levels of discomfort[1]

1: https://remotestorage.blogspot.com/2010/07/douglas-adamss-co...
Why would you need someone's email? I could see it being optional if you want to recover an account or make it private secured with a login.

You could offer just a unique url option. One for updates and one for viewing. No login needed but with a correspondingly low level of security. Then it can also become anonymous as well.
> It's such an odd feeling to be outside these fads and seeing them so objectively.

I think we're just getting older.
Let's be clear about this: there may be a good reason for that. Most spam filters use some sort of Bayesian analysis to determine what's spam. Whenever someone marks an email as spam, it updates its probability mapping based on the email's content.

In other words, if gmail is filtering more conservative emails as spam, it's because gmail users are marking more conservative emails as spam and teaching it to do that. In other words, the bias is that gmail users don't want conservative emails more than they don't want liberal emails.

Which, means, hey, if you're a conservative who doesn't want your email filtered out as spam in gmail, maybe consider saying things in your message that aren't annoying to gmail users instead of blaming The Algorithm
Why not a third option of just enjoying life from any perspective you have, including sometimes being on the outside and sometimes on the inside?
If you don't know what the Greek letter sigma means, you aren't going to know what the phrase "standard deviation" means, either. The notation isn't the issue. The issue is you can't fit stats 101 into a headline, and there's no getting around that.
Dumb question, how does CashApp make so much money? Isn't it a free app with no fees? I have to imagine the free 1-3 business day deposit is highly preferred to the 1-3% transaction free instant-payment-deposit feature.
There are two aspects of the original Notepad that will never be duplicated. First, all the heavy lifting was done by built-in Windows components, it was just a simple wrapper. You could probably write your own replacement in an afternoon. Second, it was preinstalled on every single Windows machine, you could always count on it being there.
My council has been collecting and composting that for years. Once a year we can go and collect free compost.
The incentives are aligned. You only get paid for referring (presumably) _good_ candidates that get hired, and the company saves a huge amount of money and hassle on not having to deal with and pay an external recruiter (which can cost something like 25% of a new hires first year base salary).
French elections are decided on ~40 million total votes. Margins are much larger than a thousand votes.
Something something rediscovering XSLT.
Do users know that they can click on the labels?
The author may be correct.

However, if this is an existential problem that threatens all of mankind, why is her article locked behind a paywall?
Small talk enjoyers have the advantage that they can nonconsensually initiate small talk and it's rude for small talk dislikers to even express their dislike. I don't see how unilaterally engaging people in an activity that only you like is "friendly".
My next steps are to file a complaint with the NY State Attorney General's office.

This is a right approach. I wish more people know about this.
the biggest weakness of rsync is that it's single-threaded. Single-thread-copy with millions of small files is painfully slow, Rsync is as good as it can be but you just need more threads.

I think that's what a sibling is getting into with the "better to tar files and send them over ssh in some cases" thing. And yes, you can hack it in after-the-fact with xargs/etc but it's clunky compared to just having native multithreading like rclone/etc.
The fundraising market is losing some of its founder-friendly shine
IMO it's not about how much you use, it's about what you do with what you use. Efficiency is a virtue.
>Any theories to explain this linear increase in publication times?

The linked post shows that the articles are getting longer.
Money stuff becomes more and more relevant and publishes longer and longer articles, requiring linearly more time to read-through pre-publishing. Assuming that the authors workload scales linearly with the length of his publications, you can derive the respective posting-times scaling along.
Axiom Mission 1: Private Crew Mission to the International Space Station
It's actually easier than 15-colors (I didn't knew the name since I grow up in Mexico, thanks!) because the letters repeat so it's harder to get yourself in unsolvable positions. But I observed that many people stop playing once they guess the words, seems like solving the puzzle is way harder than guessing the words.

Like I said, a pretty niche game :)
I believe you're thinking about the wrong notepad, the linked project is inspired by Notepad++, not the Windows default Notepad
Bridge API: Launch NFT collections in 5 lines of code
> or that time when half the internet switched to ICQ and I'm still not sure how it was better than AIM but I was convinced it was.

Living in Europe, I never saw the AIM client in use anywhere. I've never heard of anyone locally who used it. It was all ICQ, or later MSN / Skype.
Nah, its half a handshake with each person, so only one total handshake per person :)
Similar experience, I mostly noticed that I could feel certain sources of radiation, like hot kitchen equipment and bright lights.

I also found myself bumping my head a lot when working in semi-cramped spaces which I was doing a lot at the time. Hair normally acts as a small proximity sensor around your dome in a way I was completely unaware of before that.
> I'd love to see native support everywhere for typescript

This (controversial) feature is currently at stage 1 in TC39.
Together trial: Impossible numbers and how “independent” monitoring failed us
I would be fine with Google dropping support, but they should at least let us run a mainline Linux kernel or something on them so that if people want to keep providing support after Google drops them we can.

That behavior is the only reason that 15+ year old machines can still run current Linux. There's at least someone out there interested in keeping them working.
I thought of this idea years ago, and I never sky dived naked.

My idea was to use the soles of the feet instead, since there are a lot of nerves there, enabling very high resolution information.

But ideas without execution are useless......
I feel like the easy way to solve this is to run an experiment (perhaps across a small group of people and IPs) that search for a pre-defined list of domains (maybe 10-50 domains), but don't complete checkout. Perhaps even spread this out over a few days.

Then, run a lookup to see which one of these domains have been taken. If none, then I'd argue this looks like a coincidence. If one or more domains were taken, it may be interesting to look into it further. If one would assume that the registrar is acting in bad faith, then I guess they're having some sort of "qualifier" algorithm that only takes the domain if they think there's a great chance of it paying off. They can't just buy any domain, that'd be way too obvious.

The sad thing is that raising domain prices would probably make the squatting less attractive ($1000 a domain). And only partly so, because they'd still continue to be a classic business expense (even on a larger scale) for squatters, but really hurt the individual or those starting out considerably (not sure about a side project, is it worth a $1000 domain?).

It's like the EU cookie thing, there is a problem that needs to be solved and everyone knows it. But the solution is not that simple apparently (or, as with the EU cookie banners, it looked simple but turned into a disaster).
I spent an hour searching the library, and found some good articles, though I bet none of them will appear on a "best of" list. But I don't care--this is infinite fun.
and of course ICE doesn't come close to efficiently converting the energy in burning fuel to kinetic motion.
Many of the people involved in the new fad don't have a memory of the previous 1000 iterations because they are different people. Many new people are joining the internet every day. Also be aware of the obvious-in-hindsight bias: anyone can point out fads after they've come and gone. It's not as easy confidently identifying the fads that are going on right now.
No, it's the average value taken from (naturally) slightly varying measurements of (hopefully) the exact same mass. In the standard model, all particles of a given type are assumed to share the same properties, including the same mass, and so far we have no reason to believe otherwise.
> you cannot put text where a phone number is expected […] You know, stuff that’s simple to implement

Just last week I was prevented from entering a phone number by one of these. Apparently it was whitelisting keystrokes? But my number keys aren’t where you think they are. It’s a mistake to think this is simple.
Do we even know for sure if the footprint was left by a homo sapien?
Turborepo has been a welcome addition to the JavaScript tooling sphere.

Funnily enough, at nearly the same time as the initial version of Turbo became available, I had just about finished building my own monorepo tool for similar reasons (contemporary tools' inadequacies, etc). Haven't had a reason to switch personally, but I'm glad there are finally fast, small tools with good defaults (and minimal required configuration if any).
The one constant of being human is change. There's design fads, architecture fads, media fads, music fads, internet fads...
This covers it. Trying to talk a normal person through vim is like doing a keyhole appendectomy through the urethra.

It's a handy thing to have on Windows for anything text-oriented. Having a dual-platform version would be a benefit as well, as probably 95% of Notepad++ users are comfortable on Linux as well, so it would be helpful to talk somebody through it over the phone without having to access the dusty recesses of their memory.
You don't have to use Windows to appreciate it, X Window and Mac use the same to similar keybindings.
I have a soft spot in my heart for Shadowrun 3E; the 4E system was terrible, but it had much needed updates to the fluff.
Also file a complaint with the CFPB.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/
Tesla to Partner with Block to Mine Bitcoin at Texas Site
You can filter it from food... But you can't filter PFAS from potatoes, orange juice, and other foodstuffs.

For most people, that makes filtering only marginally effective. There will always be parts of your diet from a farm within a few miles of a building where they tested a PFAS fire extinguisher.
Sutton Hoo lyre has Central Asian connection
Exactly. This is an absolute key point I find most people miss in these discussions.

GDPR fundamentally changes the default of whether tracking is allowed to occur or not. If a user browses the web automatically blocking (just deleting/blocking the element, not automatically clicking accept) every consent pop-up, the website is not allowed to track them nor is it allowed to block the user from using the website.

If you had such a browser extension, and if websites were actually conforming to the law, all EU users could browse the web without ever seeing any popup and without ever getting tracked.
First off given that we're in the middle of a pandemic and the vaccine was promoted to keep everyone safe - please stop spreading misinformation about vaccination.

Secondly, regardless of efficacy, most people thought it was necessary for their health and the health of others - so you're placing most level headed people in a position where they would need to chose between declining a completely beneficial treatment or else lose their livelihood.

Lastly, I don't know how it works where you live but up here in Canada I feel distinctly unowned by anyone.
I agree, really is the best to me. MI2 was the worst to me in terms of puzzle design.
It's just to emphasize that they may be lenient about some other tickets as long as they are way in the past, but they are not lenient about these ones.

These are reasonable conditions, but apparently they are not easy to pass.

I think the texting while driving is the more interesting one: a bunch of states don't care too much (Arizona, Montana, etc.), some others only impose a small $25 fine, so young people may not think about it as a huge obstacle to a high-paying job much later.
Please go into detail, if you can. As the Linux kernel champions backwards compatibility it should not break userspace. And updates to userspace I imagine to be similar to Linux distros, just needing to update system/userspace libs and apps.

The only time I see problems, is when the system-level software requires new hardware features that older models do not have.
Username + Password are a classic. Optional email if they want account recovery via email. No third party no tracking.
Hm that would attribute all accidents to orientation issues, which I guess is possible? It also state the cost as over 11.6B between 2013 and 2020, which would make the cost more like 1.5B per year?

Either way though, 224 deaths from accidents in 8ish years is way higher than I had expected. Hopefully with the withdrawal from Afghanistan we will see this number decline.
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Since the data used the emails as source, could it be caused by the increasing size of subscribers in the mailing list?
The feds don't like DJB, he sued them and won to allow us all to publish fun stuff like this.
Four Fundamental Innovations of Web3 That Will Upend Web2 Incumbents
I think Bitcoin does a lot more damage than your AV scan does. At least you are incentivized for profit reasons not to let your energy bill get too out of control, whereas Bitcoin flips those incentives and actively rewards energy wastage.

But if your company is serious about reducing emissions, they could consider solar/storage or carbon offsets. I think what hardware you buy and where the energy comes from is more important than how you actually use it.
For those who don’t get the joke: RSA-250 is named for the number of decimal digits (250 decimal digits, 829 bits), while RSA-2048 is named for the number of binary digits (617 decimal digits, 2048 bits), so we’re two-fifths of the way by length, not a tenth. On the other hand, given the complexity of current factorization algorithms, RSA-2048 is going to take something like 200 billion times more CPU power; of course, algorithmic and computational advances are likely to decrease that.

The implications for RSA-1024 are more pressing: that’s only going to take about 200 times more CPU power.
This would have evolved in our rodent ancestors. They would have nibbled a bit of anything they came across that seemed like it might possibly be food.

Oddly, I gather rats cannot barf, which is why coumarin works as rat killer.