skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I agree. That's fair. I've thought about this before - I worked at a bank a couple of years ago, and our CCO (Chief Credit Officer in this instance) wanted to implement a rule, in our credit decisioning models, to decline people whose surnames had 5 or more vowels. It was a naked (and admitted) proxy for Africans, and probably some other 'ethnic' people too[0].

And it made me think: I suspect lots of our ML/NN models function like that. They pick race, or they pick a proxy for race. In situations where the 'ground truth' metric genuinely is racially skewed, it can be hard to tell, and it's just not realistic to demand that people make their models inaccurate for the sake of racial equity.

But it highlights, for me, the unavoidable danger of black-box models. I don't mean some logistic regression or decision tree, because those - while not literally explaining themselves - can be figured out if you have some domain knowledge of the parameters. But the overfitting machines that we call neural nets, well, I suspect this is happening everywhere, at a cost in both equity and also accuracy/reliability. (The probably-apocryphal story of the computer vision model for estimating density of people in a train station, but which ended up just looking at the clock on the wall, comes to mind.)

[0] I remember it exactly because it also would have captured me, incidentally, with my plummy double-barrelled surname - though that's beside the point here.
I don't think such a coating has been developed, but I could be wrong but I do know that by default just touching it can really damage vantablack.
Monkeys can sense their own heartbeats
Ah I see, thank you for clarifying. And thank you for bringing Enzyme to my attention - I've never seen it before!
Google Meet at least it's very obvious to tell they do this because if you talk while muted, they will show a pop-up saying that you're talking but you're muted.

Whether this functionality is justification for more nefarious data usage remains to be seen.
I used this few times, when I was a kid in one of our local PC computer clubs. It was magic to me. There were some alternatives, and friend of mine was using something "kermit"-based (protocol?). That was years before internet really came to my city for real.
Mods: Better link: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/united-states-citizen-p...

Better title: "United States Citizen Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Assist North Korea In Evading Sanctions"
I think that the first picture listed, which should illustrate that close elements are perceived as a group, doesn’t really obtain its intended result: (to me at least) the pink elements are the ones that stand out and tend to form a group. Tint/saturation is stronger than shape and/or proximity in this case.
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the stock is on a rally today - just goes to show - the market is full of surprise
In theory, they could be seen as equivalent. In practice, they're not. Your "2,154" speaks to that.
relevant lowtechmag article: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/05/thermoelectric-sto...

tldr: thermoelectric generators don't have great efficiencies, but by cogenerating heat and electricity they can get viable (if you need heat and electricity, make a bit more heat than you need and put a thermoelectric generator, the non-converted heat will just end up as useful heat). This would be adapted to households, which typically need a lot of heating.
I suspect - pure speculation - that they can't restore the backups, because if they could then they could easily do this in a way that accounts affected could be restored selectively. In other words: test your backups, if you don't they won't be there for you when you need them.
I can't speak to all videoconferencing software, but Zoom does this to throw up a "Hey nobody can hear you, did you mean to unmute?" banner
It's factually correct though you need to replace "can" with "will", especially in states like CA. Make no mistake, the discrimination is systemic. So it's not just you who is unlucky and you won't find a loophole just because you're clever.

And it's all fun and games until you're about 40. At which point a man needs a family to take care of. So it's the most existential catch 22 situation in your life. You cannot win but you have to play.
Ask HN: Is there a book about how a technological advantage wins wars?
I'm fascinated by the role a technological advantage plays in military victories.

In other words, I could defeat the best strategists in history (Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander) and their armies if I have a big technological advantage (e.g. atom bomb).

There are thousands of strategy books out there, but I haven't found a single book that talks about how important (and decisive) a technological advantage is.

The closest I've seen is Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Accessory to War" (which I loved!), but it was primarily about the relationship between the astrophysics community and the military community.

Is there a book that talks exclusively about technology being the decisive factor in victories throughout history? (and ideally gives several examples)
This can go all the way back to bronze weapons losing to iron weapons, to more recently WWII being won by the first country who developed nuclear weapons.
I've never trusted cloud provider snapshots because it's just paying more for something that might fail outside of your responsibility.

I have a local backup box and a remote one and they both sync stuff in from rsync on a cron job from multiple servers. Works great. In case of catastrophic failure (Which has happened a few times), putting my eggs in more than one basket has been extremely successful.
As someone who has never had to perform this kind of recovery: why is it so hard?
Am I the only one who actually likes this feature?

Zoom prints out a huge full screen notification of "you are muted press X+Y to unmute". Very rarely people speak on Zoom while they are muted.

Now if someone would add the reverse of "your mic seems to be sending nonsense crap and everyone can hear it, maybe you should mute yourself?"
“It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out — it’s the grain of sand in the shoes”
It shouldn’t go stale in a day if you keep it somewhere somewhat airtight.
Unfortunately, a lot of people can't afford therapy... and insurance doesn't tend to cover psychedelic therapy.

Hopefully one day it will, but we're not there yet.

This will, at least in the short-term, unfortunately lead to widening inequality, where relatively wealthy people will be able to afford therapeutic treatment, while the poor will be left to their own devices.
>The founders of this country are rolling in their graves. Every part of this story.

Some of them were put in their graves, for similar reasons - treason is treason.

> All he did was go to another country and spread truthful information.

This is nearly a non-sequitur. Analogous to, "All he did was goto another country to take advantage of the lower age of consent," which is objectively true, but blatantly illegal.

>This is conspiracy? Is telling someone that a gun can kill now considered conspiracy to murder, too?

Yes, telling someone the whereabouts and function of a lethal weapon in the known context of a premeditated murder is obviously conspiracy.

>Is it really the stance of the US government that North Korea knew enough about cryptocurrency to hold a cryptocurrency conference, but that they wouldn’t have been capable of evading sanctions if not for this man speaking this sentence?

If the argument here is "how can the mouse be charged for moving the mountain," then that is excusing, trivializing, and absolving actions unduly. How little treason is too much? Just a couple national security secrets okay?

>And while I’m at it, free citizens should not have to ask permission from the government for where they are allowed to go. In free societies, if the other country lets you in you can go.

You actually do not need a passport to leave, or come back, from and to, the United States. You may find it isn't frictionless, however.

>We are not a free country. Half of a decade! Over 5% of his life, gone. Unbelievable.

I agree, he shouldn't be locked up. He should had been sentenced to hanging, from the neck.
Personally, given the multi-day outage, I think I would just restore everything to a separate system, and then only point the affected customers to this new system. Take the hit of having two fully separated system initially, and work on reconciling them after without having to worry about the on-going outage.

I wonder if they're not doing this due to some tech limitations, to avoid taking the financial cost of running two systems, or to avoid having to reconcile the systems.
That's not a general observation about all, or even most, "crypto fans" as the earlier comment implied but rather just part of the Ethereum community. And it was still decentralized, as a majority of the users of Ethereum had to agree to the fork before it could take place. The DAO fork was a bad decision and set a poor precedent but it's unlikely to be repeated—a fork in the chain at this point would have too much impact on too many other tokens to be a viable solution to a single buggy smart contract.
my Iphone 13 Pro has very (very) impressive low light performance.
that's an interesting question, i've given a little thought to this multi tenant saas stuff...

not sure if the right way forward is some sort of innovation in operating system and software design where people write and run apps that feel like single tenant apps attached to dedicated per tenant datastores where os and framework magic handle per tenant encryption and segmentation (tenant id as an os level concept)

or... if it makes more sense to encrypt at the record level with keys that only the customers hold using (assuming it's up to the task) homomorphic encryption for things like searches and other backend functions.

either way, for now, soft deleting and following up with an automatic daily hard delete of things soft deleted more than x days ago is a totally reasonable approach.

ops scripts should require typing "yes i know what i'm doing" if someone attempts to hard delete things that have not yet been soft deleted.
> why does compressibility matter in terms of password security?

It does not. The amount to which it can be compressed is a proxy for internal redundancy. And a 'password' with a lot of internal redundancy is easier to generate and test against the real password.

I.e., code to generate all possible 25 character and less passwords consisting of only a single repeating letter would be trivial to write, and it would not need to generate that many candidates compared to the full possible password character space. Which means password cracking tools would already try all these possibilities to score "quick wins".
Did you continue as their customer after that?
Looks like a break in a graph axis
As a person who found myself grafted awkwardly into a friend's novel, it shrieks of callowness on the part of the author - a detour from propriety.
I have the book open on my desk right now. I really wish I could have read it sooner in my marriage, like before my marriage. Would have made for a lot less bumpy road. But we are in a better place now, almost 20 years later! :)
The Pebble was a lot of fun to develop for -- I've subsequently tried developing for other smart watches but it was too much (like) work to be enjoyable.
> What if he did the exact same presentation in youtube, and in NK they saw that presentation?

If it was general information about how Blockchain can be used to evade sanctions, it would probably be fine as long as he was reporting how it could be done and not encouraging it.

> What if someone in NK downloaded the open source implementation of that blockchain, participated on it, or even mined quite a few coins?

Almost certainly not a problem. His tool is legal and he can't control other people taking it and using it to commit crimes.

> What was the problem?

His intention was the problem. The point of his talk was to help the North Koreans use crypto to evade sanctions. In law, intentions matter. There's a massive legal difference between hitting a pedestrian with your car and running down a pedestrian with your car, even if the outcome is exactly the same. The first is an accident, the second is assault.

> Judge Castel read a series of text messages and emails from Griffith in which the defendant admits to sharing information with North Korea for the express purpose of helping the repressive Kim regime evade sanctions.

> What the judge found most damning, perhaps, was a photo of Griffith presenting at the conference, wearing a traditional North Korean suit and standing in front of a blackboard on which it read “No sanctions!” with a smiley face.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/12/former-ethereum...

> I don't care about crypto, but I do care about what this precedent implies.

That the intentions of the defendant matter? I have bad news for you, you find this Hammurabi's code and the Old Testament
About 10 years ago, I had a internship at Newell Rubbermaid. As part of the experience, the entire group of interns across all the brands got to have lunch with the CEO and basically ask him anything we wanted.

At some point, someone asked about his biggest regret. We all expected some business blunder, but he said that he was offered an executive position by Kraft to lead their Asian segment, and that his wife really did not want him to take the job because it would require them to move to that region. He regretted not listening to her, because it ended up being the catalyst that dissolved their marriage.

We were all stunned silent, and you could tell that he was genuinely remorseful and so vulnerable in that moment. There are only a handful of moments in that internship that I vividly remember, but that was by far the most impactful one.
My main issue with banking is that I cannot use it to its full extent, I am not from a Western country.

Also because how bad banking is, clients find all excuses to not buy you sometimes. I lost one month of income because a European startup was claiming all kind of problems with wiring me my salary (3 different ones), with waiting weeks between every "try" and gaslighting me into asking my bank to do some paper work that will easify the process, something that simply not in my power to do.

With crypto you either have the money and you pay me or you don't.
Here's Hessian-Free Newton-Krylov on neural ODEs with Julia: https://diffeqflux.sciml.ai/dev/examples/second_order_adjoin... . It's just standard tutorial stuff at this point.
I have to cough a lot, so I have a headset with a flip-to-mute mic.

As a result, I don't generally use in-software mute effects. :/
What about those cases where you wish you'd been muted?

"Hey everyone can hear you, did you want me to erase the last 5 seconds from their memory?" would be a nice feature.

Facepalm.
Ngrok has always been fantastic, and I'm excited to try this out!

At a previous job, we were using them to provide remote access to embedded linux devices, deployed to flaky internet connections all over the place, and it worked flawlessly.

On top of that, they were incredibly responsive and helpful to all manner of questions despite us being a small customer.

Unfortunately we went out of business before we could really start leveraging ngrok at scale :(.
The glass is a metaphor, he was treating everything in their relationship like the glass.
Define ‘intimacy’.
Haha I needed this, thank you.
Have a mute button on your microphone and cover for your camera. Something you can see is engaged (e.g. a light goes on/off).

Some laptops now have switches that disconnect them from USB... which can be a different kind of pain, if there are other devices that may be connected to.
Tell me you don't understand how things work without telling me don't understand how things work. /s

All the apps tell you that you are muted when you are trying to talk while muted. How do they think they do that?
World's top oil trader will stop buying Russian crude
Why can't we use this quadratic convergence in deep learning?
If I could pick one hardware feature that I'd love on all my i-devices and laptops, it'd be physical shut-off switches for the mic and camera(s). Or, in the camera's case, maybe a cover, since that way you're less likely to have the camera "turned on" without realizing it.

[EDIT] and by "physical" I mean "actually breaks a circuit when off"
His mind behind bars is a total waste but I don't see anything magical about what he did. Replace "unit of cryptocurrency" above with "duffel bag of diamonds" or any other store of value and it's transparently illegal.
As though the thoughts and feelings of another person are as predictable and consequential as the laws of physics. I wish.
finally! i love ngrok. makes it so quick and easy to share my localhost with anyone in the world
On economic issues Europe is much more left wing than the US, but on social issues there is a split—Americans are more extreme than Europeans, in either direction.
You could encase it in glass under a vacuum or in some inert gas.
I dunno, call me simple minded. There’s the realm of ideas and there’s the realm of “I’ve got a bridge for sale in Brooklyn”.

Stalin was a czar like the czar before him who deposed the czar before him.

“Oh but I’m a {king | leader | servant } of THE PEOPLE”
Of course you are, comrade! Er, your highness…

All of politics can be reduced to whether we will still be stuck worshiping kings or whether we will organize ourselves.

Monarchism is certainly rather authoritarian, isn’t it.
Giving people and parties absolute power is a bad idea whatever your notion of right left etc.

Of course, as someone who collapses the four pole axes to two: utopian and dickish, I blame the right wing spirit in humanity for all that socially ails us. The right will never have creative answers to emerging problems as their fundament lies in denial of reality and the insistence of sticking with bad dumb cultural ideas, which is what the majority of culture is: collections of bad ideas and lousy systems imposed upon new humans.

“Here ya go kid, welcome to debt and climate change, thanks for the subsidies, future”
Yet, with the easy solution, they got right to the principle -- "I hear you. You matter to me".
There are many different sources of information about what goes on in NK, including people who have escaped from there.
Marshall Rosenberg said ' Anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.'
It is, but between 'hard' and 'impossible' there is the nagging question of whether you actually really still have that data.
It's likely a mixture of all these factors, the brain drain could absolutely be responsible.

At least it would not be the first time in history that a company has lost the engineering spirit. And instead the business people have taken over, so that details like disaster plans become less of a priority.

A business person and an engineer will always view risk differently, better disaster plans is a kind of insurance that is a lot harder to sell when too many business people run the company.
I feel like they're trying to make an insidious suggestion about the usage of these. IMO, there's likely a good reason - user experience.

At a hardware level, grabbing the microphone can take time. Even worse that timing is inconsistent across devices, workloads, etc. That leads to a bad experience when unmuting and needing to delay your commentary. The solution to this is to keep the microphone on, but mute at a software level. This way the mic is always hot and ready to relay audio as fast as the software can switch.

I'd be somewhat willing to bet continue to stream audio is also a quality assurance mechanism. Some networks will shape traffic according to load. A quick jump in bandwidth can introduce unexpected jitter and latency. By continuing to stream audio (but not necessarily process or re-transmit), video conferencing can better ensure an un-interupted experience.

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With that being said, if you really care about privacy, consider getting a hardware mute microphone.
> I want society to be like a machine and less like an organism.

Unfortunately, this desire is at odds with the fundamental nature of a group of organisms, but you are welcome to fashion your own personal life/community into a machine if you so choose.

> Seems like your personal belief system does not align with Le Corbusier.

It does not, but that’s okay, we’re discussing the pros and cons of architectural philosophies here! Unfortunately, Le Corbusier put no value on the expressed desires and needs of the communities who had to live in his projects, whose buildings were torn down to make way for Le Corbusier’s machines.

Humans and communities are not machines and cannot be engineered.

> I am not a fan of crowded hectic life, $2M houses, having to ration electricity, live in a cardboard box sized apartment in a highly dense but "walkable" city.

The issues with car-centricity go far beyond dense urban areas. The most easily-recognized example is probably the stroad [1], which also discretizes and alienates formerly human-oriented areas. I grew up in rural Maine and have lived in two of America’s largest cities, and I’ve seen our mechanization throughout.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad?wprov=sfti1.
It was a long time ago individual stocks represented anything grounded in reality. People talk about "fundamentals" and so on, but that's not what the price is based on. I don't think anyone know why the prices move as they do anymore, as there are so many algorithms involved today, both manual and automatic ones.
Get a dishwasher
Indeed, there was a study in IEEE pointing out the absurdity of cosmic rays as causes -- one point cited was that the vast majority of bitflip happen at specific points in the address space, page boundaries between chips essentially
> “With a camera, you can turn it off or even put your hand over it, and no matter what you do, no one can see you,” says Fawaz. “I don’t think that exists for microphones.”

Maybe it doesn't exist on whatever sleek glassy slabs they're working with, but the old Thinkpad, Elitebook, and Precision workstation laptops I have around me at the moment all have dedicated microphone mute buttons (the Precision has a Fn key combo, the others have physical buttons that do nothing but mute the microphone) that I reach for before trying to mouse over to a different mute button for a particular videoconferencing app.
Use a Mute Me device. https://muteme.com/
No, I'm not missing anything. It's a ridiculous and childish thing to get upset over. Of all the other possible things that they could have disagreements about, THIS is something that SHE should have let be, because it does no harm to her and he has a rational explanation for it.

It is literally picking shit to be upset over for the sake of having something to hold over your partner's head, and an indication that one or both of them was too emotionally immature to be married in the first place.
Because it is very difficult to maintain relational integrity during a restore like that.
well to be fair, i did the same exercise before buying a system76 a few years back and the difference was a bit more even with oem consideration so thats good to know. the build quality is very cheapish feeling and it fell apart pretty quickly and i regretted not just getting a lenovo or xps or something but it was nice to support their efforts
Isn't it common knowledge by now that cameras and microphones are still "on" even if you disable it at the software level?

Zuckerburg has been taping webcam/microphones/etc for a while now. Though being the CEO of a major corporation requires you take privacy more seriously.

https://www.macworld.com/article/228326/mic-drop-how-to-keep...
No news sources are entirely unbiased, even when they make an effort to be.

Regardless, we know a lot from NK from multiple sources. The main reason we don't know more is because of how closed that dictatorship is.
I went on TV to explain Just Stop Oil – and it became a parody of Don’t Look Up