skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're looking at it the wrong way. You're saying that it's impractical to have perfect knowledge of everything the device is doing, but in fact that's not necessary. All it would take is to have laws that make it illegal to inspect data in a user's computer except by confiscating the device with a warrant. That would remove all incentive for LEO and companies acting on their behalf to pull stunts like these. It would also mean they would have to have very good tracking to prevent tainting of evidence (since it would otherwise be difficult to tell where a piece of data came from). Obviously this would not secure you from all attackers (e.g. imagine you want to keep some trade secrets, secret), but nothing other than good infosec would.

The problem is that a lot of people don't understand why privacy is important and why compromising it for what seems like good reasons is dangerous. Such people don't understand that some laws that make it easier to get away with crimes can still be good.
Major news outlets usually have a pre-prepared article for deaths of notable figures and celebrities. Then they can just fill in remaining blanks and publish quickly. On occasion one of these pre-prepared articles gets accidentally leaked, or sometimes a news outlet mistakenly thinks somebody died and runs with it.

There is an SNL segment with Dana Carvey where he plays Tom Brokaw pre-taping all sorts of variations of Gerald Ford dying. (Dying at 83, 84, shot dead, overdose on crack, chopped by plane propeller, eaten by wolves, mauled by lion in convenience store.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tX6jdoruH8
RISC OS Programmer's Reference Manual. It's very well laid out, clearly written and consistent. In fact, I even bought myself a copy all these years later to peruse for nostalgia.
This will be an unusual answer: the Inform documentation. It is some of the best, most compelling technical prose I've ever read. The stability of it is very calming when everything else in programming is in a perpetual state of simultaneous development and deprecation.

The two books are "Writing with Inform" and "The Inform Recipe Book":

https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_1_1.html

https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/RB_1_1.html

Inform is a weird beast: it is a domain-specific language for writing interactive fiction stories, with natural English language syntax. But underneath there's an object model and datatypes and you can use it as a general-purpose language: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/inform7/

Additionally, there's "The Inform Designer's Manual", which is for an earlier version using a more standard programming language syntax:

https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/html/index.html
I always use a VPN when on the hospital's wifi for the same reason. Everything works so much better.
For reference the single biggest decline in emissions in history coincides with the fall of the USSR. Perhaps it is best not resurrect such evil
Ask HN: As non-technical person, how can I tell if AI company is innovative?
I ask because I am looking at new job opportunities (non-technical role) and have come across a some AI companies that seem to be doing interesting things. But as a non-technical person, how can I tell if their technology/application is innovative versus trivial? Is it a red flag if they are just using OpenAI or Deepmind in the background? How can I even tell?

I ask because ideally I join a company doing something novel and harder to replicate. But some AI applications seem to have a ton of competitors in their space already (for example, "AI product description"). Thanks ahead of time.
It's certainly worth trying.

Eventually.
Although the Tailwind author hates @apply and says they shouldn't have put it in the tailwind in the first place (mainly because it's a hard feature to develop - i wouldn't be surprised it would be removed). I think going tailwind only is bad too because you loose many of the nice functions of CSS like theming/cascade.

So i think using utility classes/tailwind for base/layout and still using named classes where it makes sense (like common reusable components, hover hiearchies, transitions/animations) is most practical approach. And using BEM as convention for the named classes is not a bad idea - certainly better than no system.
I picked up an inreach mini a few years back for emergencies while backpacking. I’m gonna get rid of it and use Apple SOS instead. Family being able to track my location and being able to contact emergency services is good enough for me. I kinda like the idea of going back to not being able to contact or be contacted while hiking but retaining an option for emergency service if something extreme like a broken bone or snake bite occurs.
I would prefer my main feed on Twitter to be infinite scroll.

Pagination can be "weaponized" too -- note the awful publishers such as WebMD who break articles up into a billion pages, to increase pageviews and hence ad impressions.

Incidentally I prefer pagination for taxonomy pages and search-results pages, because it puts navigation more in my hands.
> If a map were to represent the territory with perfect fidelity, it would no longer be a reduction and thus would no longer be useful to us.

if a map perfectly represented the territory it would be very useful to everyone mentioned in this article. with a perfect representation of the territory, you can just simulate different strategies and deploy the best one. no need for risk management: your perfect map allows you to eliminate all risk.

a perfect map might not be possible if you’re an embedded actor, but that doesn’t mean one shouldn’t pursue the best possible map. the rest of the article is about recognizing flaws in your map. and guess what: when you identify a shortcoming in your map — which the author does and recommends others do — that’s identical in an information sense to just building a more detailed map.

> improbable and consequential events seem to happen far more often than they should based on naive statistics.

the author has quantified some thing (“consequential events”) and then stated that this thing occurs within some data set more frequently than would be consistent with that very dataset. i get what he’s trying to say, but when he phrases it this way it’s just a simple contradiction with an easy way out: build better maps.

so, yes: the map is not the territory. if you build a map without complete knowledge of the territory (which is the majority of maps), then it has unknowable error bars. but maps are unavoidable: you can either explicitly follow a map, or implicitly follow one. Warren Buffet uses a map when making sense of the world. is it good, or bad, that the map he follows is accessible to only a single mind and has not been digitized and shared more widely? the biggest case to be made for ditching digitized/formalized maps is because this allows you to retain more hidden information, which is the basis for gaining an edge in financial markets. but the author didn’t really argue the futility of maps based on embedded actors — it was mostly an argument that too many people are engaged in map-making without first understanding the boundaries of the territory. and that’s no argument that informal maps are intrinsically superior to explicit maps.
I don't understand.

I was asking you whether you meant that breeding more animals for slaughter would solve our high carbon footprint in the animal agriculture industry?

If yes - then it doesn't make sense, since the science community agrees we need to reduce meat and dairy consumption not increase it.

And a lot of people in India are vegetarian.
The Sweden Transit Cost Report Is Launched
What's Zoho like these days? My last company heavily relied on the entire Zoho suite for just about everything except email, spent half of my time putting out fires and migrating them to other products. The only thing that didn't cause too much trouble was their CRM product, but even then it had its issues.
Guns bought through credit cards in the US will now be trackable
Not needed. Oppa Ofac Style.
I love little things like this. It's fun to do something either by accident or with whimsy, thinking about the ridiculousness, and then find out something actually happens!
It seems like you’re missing the point of the demo. It is purposely not trying to hide the initial load. There’s more (a lot more) to application performance than page load speed. This obsession with page load speed is weird. How many times a day do you open Excel? How many time a day do you click on things in it?
I think you should check out google tv on the latest 4k version. Your review is almost like a sarcastic example of a lazy pro apple review. Some crap tv ui like that sony apparently is does not really say much about apple competitors. Apple is great at some things, but they aren't the only good thing.
The study is an independent report. The Royal Colleges are not part of the NHS.

> It shut Tavistock

All the anti-trans activists think this is some brilliant "gotcha" moment, but they don't appear to know that most trans people hated Tavistock and were calling for services to be removed from Tavi.

Cass isn't doing what anti-trans campaigners wanted, she's doing what trans people want remove services from Tavi, and create a bunch of new centres across England. Access is going to be greatly increased.

Keep spinning it how you like, this is an unambiguous win for trans people and their allies.
I've seen this too but not in a while. I'm hoping they can combine their bot detection token attestation feature with Warp to guarantee my real traffic is separated from bot traffic before it leaves their network.
Email; ProtonMail, Tutanota
>The God Delusion, it was one of the pivotal books that turned me from someone vaguely religious to an atheist.

I think this only sells it to other people who are vaguely religious and are looking to be atheist.
You not knowing how to use a search engine makes you unqualified to talk about the obsessive use of search engines by KF users.
> Google, in my humble opinion, is the single biggest evil in the digital world today.

Palantir? Facebook? Google abuse user data for profit, but at least:

a) their goal is only money

b) they don't leak that data left and right, and don't leave themselves way too easy to be used for inciting genocides

Facebook is by far worse.
Believe it or not, this is the back story of the Nobel Prize. A Parisian newspaper published Alfred Nobel's obituary and, as he wasn't dead, he read it. It wasn't very flattering, to say the least; I believe it began something like: The merchant of Death is dead.

This experience made him take a deep look at his life and legacy, and he decided to will his fortune to the development of science, peace and literature.
Isn't this sort of like saying not to trust a burglar's opinions on home security because he's broken into so many homes?
Really? Most of it seems to be machine generated from the code definitions - very little explanation, very little usage info. I find it terrible.
I dunno, seems that the “spirit” of these comments is correct. I’ve self-published half a dozen small books that have only low double digit sales. The comment that goes through the data is also really interesting.
Relevant tweet from Andrew Kelley, founder of Zig, several hours after this was posted:

>I see a lot of toxic Rust vs Zig discourse on Twitter right now. I want to clarify my stance:

>I'm happy Rust exists and I think it offers a compelling set of tradeoffs.

>If Rust people can afford Zig the same courtesy, then I see our relationship as collaborative.

>Let us exist.

https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1568679389113757698
Ask HN: Which of the mobile payment systems would you trust the most?
These mobile payment systems, like Apple Pay or Google Wallet or Samsung Wallet, can record significant parts of your financial activities?

Has anyone done a comparison of their TOS about how our data will be used? Any comments on security practices?
MODS WTF delete this thread. There is weird peod shit in the ads. I even clicked report on them and nothing happened. I think this is a fake Google Ads. Why are you downvoting me? Are you in on this?? Good thing I kept an image for proof (NSFW!!!!): https://postimg.cc/xXgyYgcc
I moved one family member onto Zoho.

It has been a very positive experience so far.

You get an office system as part of the package.

Some cases of the spam filter being too aggressive.

I'd move myself if I wasn't so addicted to FastMail's beautiful web+mobile apps.
I'm going to have to disagree.

They built an amazing product... for a world that had only teenagers on social media. This was the truth for quite a while, and was true of the world they created their product in. They just never really updated their product to account for the new reality. Sure, they changed the algorithm a ton and re-tweaked the UI, but the algorithm and the UI weren't the product. The experience people had on the site was the product.

They're sort of like IBM's mainframe division. Mainframes are kind of cool if you ever get to tinker around with their hardware, and they're impressive engineering marvels (so are facebooks systems). But the world has changed since IBM was on top, and they don't fit what most people need anymore.
Second-Order Systems
It is just a server in your home. Cloud hosts will all give access to your data to law enforcement without any warrant, so if you host a private message board with friends where you talk about smoking weed or getting an abortion it isn't so private and you can get arrested without them ever going through getting a warrant with any kind of probable cause legal procedures.

In your home you are protected (this is why Hillary's email server was self-hosted, to get the same rights against unreasonable search and seizure you get with US Mail), on the cloud the third-party doctrine rules and they can just give out your private data at any time.

(some providers have now said they won't give it out for requests about people seeking abortion, but that could end up in there when they search it based on a request about something else, and I don't know if any put the restriction on sharing abortion stuff with law enforcement in their actual legal agreements)
In a sense, this is background around his book "Transformer" [1] on the biochemistry of life and death.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58999183
Rest Is Necessary
Nobody would call it an "SDK" but I find the Emacs/Elisp documentation to be excellent both on the docstring level and the manuals. It has been refined over several decades, it is thorough, well written and very easy to use from the comfort of Emacs itself.
How the polarizing effect of social media is speeding up
Argentina has trade deficit problems. Black markets and cryptocurrencies don’t fix these problems just push the burdens of them onto other people who can’t as easily get around the legal currency framework.
ProtonMail is known for completely arbitrarily closing user accounts with 0 recourse.

> Tutanota

Never heard of them.
That actually is interesting to note. I hadn't thought of that.
The 36 hour also includes 1.5 hour app use, 1hour music streaming, 8 hour LTE and 28 hour Bluetooth, picking one segment as a whole is not a helpful comparison.

From the announcement: “
Apple Watch Ultra has enough battery life for most users to complete a long-course triathlon, consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and full marathon at 26.2 miles.”
Zoho's office package feels like the Libre Office of web office packages.

But honestly, for a lot of people myself included, that's all you need.
Yeah, I understand the privacy concerns with targeted advertising, and agree that it is a concern, but it’s once-removed from the type of data you can get from a dedicated data broker. At a data broker you can simply ask for the data you want and they’ll directly provide it.

If Google is a chartered fishing expedition, a data broker is a fish market.
> with a perfect representation of the territory, you can just simulate different strategies and deploy the best one. no need for risk management: your perfect map allows you to eliminate all risk

Such a perfect map is impossible because it would need to have infinite accuracy, and its consequences would not be computable.

> if you build a map without complete knowledge of the territory (which is the majority of maps)

Which is all maps. Complete knowledge of the territory is impossible.
Awesome explanation. Thank you.
Pretty long post for "I know that I know nothing".

However, there is gold in the comment section: Kristen McLean actually throws some numbers at us [1]. "66% of those books from the top 10 publishers sold less than 1,000 copies over 52 weeks". Well, uh, that's what I thought. Interesting nonetheless.

[1] https://countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-books-dont-sell-...
They didn't host the content, though. They were only providing DDoS protection
Well using DoH while using a VPN isn’t going hurt and VPN clients/OS’s have been known to leak DNS queries from time to time.

So think of it like other forms of protection where 2 is better than 1 just in case that one fails.
>>>0.4% or 163 books sold 100,000 copies or more

>>>0.7% or 320 books sold between 50,000-99,999 copies

>>>2.2% or 1,015 books sold between 20,000-49,999 copies

>>>3.4% or 1,572 books sold between 10,000-19,999 copies

>>>5.5% or 2,518 books sold between 5,000-9,999 copies

>>>21.6% or 9,863 books sold between 1,000-4,999 copies

>>>51.4% or 23,419 sold between 12-999 copies

>>>14.7% or 6,701 books sold under 12 copies

- Kristen McLean from NPD BookScan
For what it's worth, Patreon says it wasn't their entire security team. (The word "entire" just came from a LinkedIn post by one of the five recently-fired employees...)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/patreon-cuts-its-s...
> Is this something to do with spam filter?

Yes, that's my biggest problem with Zoho so far: Having a below-average quality spam filter sucks more than having a below-average quality anything else, since it makes the difference between receiving emails or not.

I'm not convinced there is any reason why it's bad. They could up their game here.
leopold has other models including the f980c, which has a numpad, though non standard layout. If you want a traditional layout with topre switches, there's the Realforce line.
> "They did something unforgivable! Eliminate them!"

They claimed it falsely and without evidence though. The same is not true for any action that would be taking against the college.

When someone claims that a random person committed a crime, kidnaps and imprisons them, we call that kidnapping and false imprisonment. But we won't shy away from taking the perpetrator off the street and in turn locking them up so they don't do it again.
That presumably depends on when the caching was put in place.

If the number was in the thousands in the late-90s, you could probably get through all of the sites.

If the caching was put in later, say, the early 2000s when google started getting really big, the number might just keep growing until it eventually looks ridiculous.

I've never worked at google, but I've seen a few systems that broke in weirder ways when nobody bothered to maintain them after they had outlived their usefulness.
I just went and glanced over the text by searching a pdf for a few key terms - no, it's really just sprinkled. The idea doesn't get much attention and is mostly mentioned in passing.
Trump's tax cuts correlated with prosperity and very low unemployment.
The number of those other people must be very small. Otherwise Tether would not have a market cap of $50 billion printed out of thin air
Hershey’s chocolate contains a chemical also found in sour milk, and it is intentionally induced by the confectioner: https://www.mashed.com/617307/the-tangy-taste-of-hersheys-ch.... It adds a distinct sour note.

Non-Hershey licensed chocolate does not have this.

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Japanese KitKat, specifically, have over 200 flavors, partially because the confection is targeted towards gift giving. Domestic tourism in Japan emphasizes regional specialties and bringing back souvenir gifts of said specialties, so there are regionally limited flavors of KitKat. They're also sometimes targeted as a premium product with premium limited-edition run flavors.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/24/magazine/cand...
„The Dream Machine“ by M. Mitchell Waldrop.

It had such a profound effect on me wrt my profession and passion — nearly as if I had grown up without a family, and then one day, the family knocks on my door, and I became whole.
> Install the Syncthing app on your Umbrel and pair it with the Syncthing app on your phone or computer for a self hosted peer-to-peer backup solution.

This text is identical word for word in the Syncthing app file at the Umbrel repo.

https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps/blob/master/syncthi...
The Open Source Rotary Cell Phone, Two Years Later
>Woman floating horizontally in space. Possible to render. Not possible to convey to the player

You could just have head and hand tracking with the rest of the body rigged and animated separate from the tracking. Player doesn't control the legs, they just dangle and animate.

The cards are technically possible. The trick is you just fake the physics. It doesn't need to be networked in a low latency way at all.

I would say the least realistic is the fine grained tracking and handling of things as thin as cards. Hand tracking isn't tight enough to manipulate a hand of cards naturally yet. That said, if you give some leeway to what the first person UX is vs how other avatars are displayed, its not so far off from whats possible especially if you would allow "reveal your hand and have it float away in zero G" to be pre-canned animations that the user triggers.
Do you mean innovative as in anchored in some novel machine learning technology, or innovative in product or business model?

You could look at four possibilities of: innovative business vs innovative AI - something with neither is probably what you want to avoid, as in yet-another-whatever, that claims to use "AI" for something that doesn't really change anything. If they business model is cool (which you should be able to have an opinion on as a layperson) then it could still be interesting even if AI is just a nice to have. And if they're doing cool AI stuff, as in research, like OpenAi or something, but the business model is not super clear, that could be cool too. In that case, expect leadership with phds and publication records, and a company track record of publishing or funding research, not just commercialization activities.

I'd also add, maybe controversially, that anyone using "AI" to make some kind of basic prediction (say for personalization, demand planning, medical decisions, really most tabular data) is not going to have a business that lives or dies based on AI. Not saying it's BS, but it's undifferentiated from standard models for those things, so saying they use AI is more marketing.

Look for computer vision, nlp, reinforcement learning, or similar if you want AI to be a differentiator. And be careful with anyone doing "smart search" type stuff, its BS without strong evidence to the contrary.
This article is pro-cryptocurrency but they fail to see that in some spans of time (recently) Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies lost more value than Argentine Peso.

Again, cryptocurrencies are not solving anything.
> it's not exactly rocket science to dereference the click to a particular individual

How?
Yes, I would second this. It's hard to rewrite, but needs it in many places that I've read (in particular, the code to detect BIP9 etc soft fork activation is horrible).

To be fair, the slow polishing of a thousand hands continues. libsecp256k1 is tested to a level few if any FOSS libraries achieve, for example.
Depends. Is the burglar still being primarily financed by fences when giving you advice on home security? Is the burglar still teaching at a school for aspiring burglars? Why is the burglar giving you advice about home security now? Is it to secure a reduced sentence plea deal?