jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Abu Ghraib a crime against humanity? Yes, that's similar to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. That's nearly exactly the same thing as the genocide in Rwawanda. That's definitely on the same level as Pol Pot."

Right, then, so you're fine with me murdering you as long as I don't torture you first? Better than the worst is not good enough.

"Manning's releases however put dozens of people directly in the line of fire."

Everyone keeps saying this. Can you explain how it is that the Army and the Obama administration, who have unparalleled interest in seeing Manning discredited and have gone to great lengths to do so, have so far failed to uncover a single instance of Manning's releases actually harming a human being?
Same boat! Would love to pick up a 5950x for my build box!
Supervisord docs say explicitly that it is not meant be used as PID 1. Does it still perform all the necessary functions?
Which is easier: securing only 1 hardware wallet, or securing the HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of merchant systems that your credit card information flows through?
Very beautiful graphs, but i don't think it's going to make people understand anything.
I would start with the problem : easily compute sums of dependant values, then show a naive computation, then use matrices, vectors and eigenvalues to come to a solution, and only then, show a graphical representation of the steps performed.

I'm surprised that this post isn't following this method, because i've come to think it's the standard way of explaining scientific things in the US.
How would you show them if a) they are rare b) all known instances are in the hands of DoD/FBI c) DoD/FBI are not interested at all in publishing any information about it. Are you sure it's as simple as

> it was mass produced

I don't think Bloomberg claimed it (compromised MBs) were mass-produced to the tune that every random ebay board contained it. In the parallel case of NSA, compromised hardware was pretty rare and created on case-by-case basis. It could be produced based on shipment batch, knowing (e.g. by hacking a shipping system database) the specific batch goes to a specific sensitive client.

> otherwise could this be a market manipulation attempt?

Pretty elaborate attempt, especially given such thing as appearance of massive shorts on SMC stocks immediately preceding the publication would be very visible (and prosecutable). I'm sure one can insider-trade easier than spending 3 years on massive research involving interviews with dozens of people.
> The people who follow the recommended vaccine schedule don’t have any problems, according to scientific studies.

Can you please provide some of the studies? Primarily I want to actually do some research and I want to know what the evidence is that it is safe.

I no longer trust authority's scientific claims as this article and several other revelations seem to indicate I shouldn't.
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,, For individual use, the most popular hardware wallets are Ledger and Trezor. Both offer best-in-class products that help keep your Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies safe’’

Just go to Trezor’s home page and read. It’s the best wallet for most people, and they make money just like any other seller of wallets in a store.
> All that training, for nothing

All that training, for money that you pay to the university.

From the point of view of that companies, the more people failing, the more profitable is their activity, as long as the supply of new people wanting to try it does not dry. There is a reason for the words "inspire", "young" and lately "women" having a prominent place and being repeated again and again in every newspaper or report about scientists.
I was thinking of extending my shell (desh) so that stores the environment and history on a server so that a shell started on any host in a network could optionally stay in sync with the other instances. Eg. ENV={ssh host envstore} ; HIST={ssh host histstore}
Also recommend CMU's "shell lab": http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html

When I was new to systems programming, that lab — along with all the other labs part of "Computing Systems from a programmer's perspective, especially the binary bomb — helped me better understand lower level concepts such as debugging assembly, fork-exec, etc.
NNTP is a standard. I use eternal-september.
And the best part is that all this public money results in research papers that lie behind a private paywall. How have we allowed for this fraud to go on and on?
Why aren't they just using compressed sensing instead of PCA in the first place? PCA is good because it guarantees perfect recovery wen the set of examples is contained in an n dimentional subspace. Compressed sensing guarantees recovery whenever the set of examples is sparse in some basis - it sounds like a much better fit.

Not to mention random projections which are even faster (even proved by the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma) usually do well,
No, it wasn't. I guarantee you that the vast majority of drivers didn't give this a second thought.
Realtors not listing on the MLS and instead giving the listing to a friend is a real issue in real estate. In the industry this is called a pocket listing. The problem is that by not putting a home on the open market, the seller never finds out how much it's really worth.

It's not just Open Listings clients that won't see the listing but all potentially interested buyers who don't have an agent who is friends with the listing agent (most buyers). It's definitely in the agent's short-term best interest to cultivate these relationships but ultimately the consumer suffers.

Luckily, this type of listing is relatively uncommon and most good agents see the value of getting as many eyeballs on their listing as possible.
"Hacker School" has always been an actively bad name for us.

And so it became imperative to change it.
If you hit the paywall simply google "Why the SAT Isn’t a ‘Student Affluence Test’"
Also worth noting, for those who don't already know, that Apple has not participated in any of the W3C efforts to standardize Pointer Events or Touch Events.

In fact, Apple worked to hinder the standardization and implementation of Touch Events, by applying for patents on the API and refusing to license them under the W3C patent policy. So it's a bit rich for Apple to criticize other browsers for not implementing an API that Apple was trying to keep proprietary. (Or to chastise other vendors about compatibility when they won't even participate in the relevant standards groups.)
>The platform puts most of the financial risk on the labor side (drivers owning the cars if you're driving Uber, owning the house if you're Airbnb'ing it, etc.)

Actually people already owned the cars and already owned their houses. How is that a financial risk? These platforms allow people to use their existing resources to make money. That's efficiency gains.

If anyone decides to acquire new vehicles or properties to use on these platforms it's because it's profitable due to the large demand driven by these companies pouring billions into customer acquisition and customer relations/support for them.
Travelers hail a disproportionate amount of taxis. Living in a walkable European city with good public transport, approximately the only times I use taxis or Uber are when I'm going to/from the airport/train station and have luggage, or when it's a business trip and I can expense it (and even then I opt for trains when I can).
Backpack or cargo storage for the groceries. Kid seats or kiddie trailer for the kids.

I bicycled everywhere with a two year old in a kiddie seat until I was eight months pregnant. In Germany, which was almost as cold as Kansas at times.
In the early 90s the NY post published a similar article about how not to smuggle in cigarettes from the Native American reservations nearby - including which roads to not take and intersections to not be wary of because there were frequently “speed traps” in place to stop vehicles that might be smuggling tobacco - just an FYI which readers should not be interested in.

In the 2000s the NY state police started searching and seizing all UPS trucks exiting the reservations because the practice of shipping cigarettes had become so common that the state was losing significant tobacco tax revenue. They argued that UPS had to be aware of what they were carrying because the shippers were tobacco stores and the parcels were exactly cigarette box sized, thus they were willing accomplices. After several days the Native American governments backed down and agreed to not ship cigarettes anymore.
Exactly, thank you. I was starting to lose patience with all the esoteric non-arguments.

Racism is a dangerous toy to play with. Just because you’re a good person who didn’t become a racist after reading that doesn’t mean it’s a mistake to cry foul against racist caricature. The caricature is still wrong. It communicated nothing but the writer’s lazy prejudice.

The (general, de-stupidified) point being made by the caricaturist can be correct, and the racist caricature foul and despicable...all at the same time!
Firefox was written on top of the netscape codebase wasn't it? So technically it's taking a decent chunk of the market still.
The jury is still out, but the initial response has been pretty positive. To be clear, I'm certainly not working towards world domination on this one – really just scratching an itch, and maybe getting a(nother) fun side business in the process.

That said, I think there's actually a sizable latent market for software development tools and "aids" (trying to get out of the mindset that dev tools == IDEs here) that people will pay money for. No, people won't pay for yet another Eclipse plugin; slightly better code completion isn't going to move a needle anywhere. Part of that is due to the commoditization of such dev tooling, but part is also due to a lot of developers coming to realize that, in many ways and in many contexts, "dev tools" as we've known them really aren't the panacea of productivity that they were once thought to be.

On the other hand, produce development aids that really do move the needle – provide insight, accelerated deep understanding, better planning and estimation, etc – and you might have something that is actually valuable, and therefore a commercial interest.
Have a look at clojuredocs.org. I think it's one of the best documentation sites I've seen for any language or library. I especially like the inclusion of source code and links to other code that uses the thing being documented.

An example: http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/condp
I'm with you on the budget destroying business. It's just so easy to queue up material to read.
I'm sure you can find someone online with a working RL02 who'd be happy to create an image of your disk for you.
Ditto that.

I applied as well.
Something like this is already being done. Indiebio just launched in SF and they are doing great work at bringing in pot-doc chemists and biochemists and de-risking their academic work and turning them companies.

Disclaimer, my company Pembient is in the first class.
If we do learn new things constantly we risk burning out instead. Choose your poison :-)
I think this is pretty cool, thanks for posting it!
I can't believe how many words were used in this article to convey such little substance. Does the author know anything other than 50 cent words, or is this style supposed to mean it's an intellectual piece?

Not that I'm anti-vocabulary, I was recently reading Denial of Death (Becker) which was very dense, but every sentence was justified in understanding the message.

Speaking of message, what were the key takeaways? Best I could tell it was something vague about the best strategies for attacking people who think technology has something positive to offer society.
> The JLS doesn't use pass-by-value

Well, maybe not the exact letters "p-a-s-s-b-y-v-a-l-u-e" in a row like that, but sometimes you have to read and comprehend.

The JLS does define exactly what happens when parameters are passed...

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-15.html...
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-8.html#...

And that happens to match the definition of pass-by-value/call-by-value exactly (even Java is listed as an example language for pass-by-value)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_strategy#Call_by_val...

> people you enjoy insulting

I haven't insulted anyone, have I? At least, not intentionally. No name-calling, sticking to the facts... I'm sorry if that somehow offends you. Some of us appreciate correctness and don't attribute the chase of it as ad hominem when it isn't.
Question worth asking. I'd suspect this is a huge tactical error because it forces mainstream politicians to pick a side between fascists and non fascists. Presumably most of them are going to pick the non side. This marginalizes the fascists which seems like a forced error.
Except the little detail that people keep forgetting, Java also has toolchains that compile to native code for about two decades now.
If you truly believe the election was stolen then acquiescing to its results is sacrificing your democracy.
Where are you reading that the protestors are armed? The linked NPR article does not say so. The NYTimes coverage [1] mentions that people posted pictures of weapons on Facebook on Tuesday, but does not mention that the people in the Capitol are armed.

Breaching into government buildings in response to spurious allegations of electoral fraud is bad enough - there's no need to taint the message with embellishment, and doing so gives ammunition to people who want to claim that critics of these events are spreading falsehoods.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/electoral-vote
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroth_law
Received it. Thank you Trey.
I think it's interesting that they do this in the UK. The UK has a bit of a history when it comes to financial innovations. E.g. the first national bank was created there, it's still a major financial center, and it's a country that is very dependent on international trade and literally built the foundations of the modern financial system in the seventeenth century at the same time they took over management of their huge empire. It's no coincidence that those two things happened at the same time. Their new financial system funneled huge amounts of trade through London, which in turn allowed it to go out and conquer the world. Basically they scaled trade by de-risking it. Before banks, you had to move gold around which was slow and exposed you to robbers. After banks happened, you had messengers transferring bills to each other. The Spanish were still shipping (and occasionally losing) tons of silver across the Atlantic at the time and that was their whole premise for their empire.

The UK recently removed themselves from the EU so they are once more in a position where they can play host to new financial instruments and potentially benefit from that. Crypto currencies have the potential to be very disruptive to the modern financial system. Not the worst move for them to allow some experiments to happen in their jurisdiction. If something like this takes off, it has the potential to capture quite a bit of value. If it doesn't work out, it's easy enough to get rid of it.

It's also interesting that particular block chain is based in San Francisco. The SEC is allowing this to happen, apparently (probably for the same opportunistic reasons the British allow this). These MobileCoin guys are well funded apparently and not by means of an ICO but by good old VC cash. VCs are smelling money, that's why this stuff is happening and why the SEC is being a bit hands off here. There are quite a few block chain companies operating in the US actually. There already is quite a bit of VC money locked up in that.

It's also an interesting counter move to Facebook's Libra as well and kind of embarrassing for them that particularly Signal is doing this given that it is backed by one of their former Whatsapp founders. Libra in turn was a counter move to Telegram's plans (yet to materialize) and inspired by China's WeChat.
The only distinction is that personal savings usually do not grow at the same rate, thus the different qualification of risk.

Anyway, your story is enlightening and interesting regardless if it was "impurely" bootstrapped, so apologies if I made it seem as if that was the most important thing.
And politicians/powerful people doing and saying outrageous things predates the Internet by far. The fact that now we can be informed about it if we so choose is nothing but a blessing from my perspective.
One important question that's missing from the article is: "Why do the FBI think that the author would be a valuable informant?". Other people have commented in this thread with their own experiences of having been threatened and coerced by federal agencies. These people for the most part provided concrete reasons why they would be targeted for such a job, mostly being professionals involved in computer security research, or having valuable contacts who are. Does the FBI have reason to believe that this individual has proximity to individuals who are at risk of committing illegal acts? Playing devils advocate, there's an awful lot that the article wants us to take at face value.
Yes, this was one of the surprises early on that Covid risk matches background risk relatively closely [1].

Which is not a good thing, especially on a societal level, when you have this one thing killing people at the rate of all other things combined.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p087x9sf
What makes some of the scenes in Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" special is that they were shot indoors, at candle light, using special lenses that were made for NASA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_Planar_50mm_f/0.7
By now we should have some unequivocal evidence to support your conjecture. I think it would be nice if we did but we don't.
Finally. It's been orange for the past 8 years.
Oh, goodness, this makes me very happy.
I don't know Japanese, but does that string really translate to the equivalent of "from scratch"? I know that Google Translate has had issues.

Also, what does that phrase mean in the context of Japanese? Does "from scratch" in Japanese mean what it does in English?
If I could, I'd hire the guy based that blog post alone.
It says, "from zero", where zero is the transliterated word from english.

Yes, I think Google is claiming they built it from scratch.
Interesting. If you don't mind me asking, do you work for Khan Academy or are you just helping out on the side?

It makes sense that such an environment would increase motivation (and increase learning as a result). Our (I'm in the same field) goal with education technology is really the same goal I believe a teacher should have: to create and sustain the optimal learning environment to maximize student learning. Currently there's not much out there that does this well.

I'm interested in hearing more about this. Feel free to e-mail me if you want to bounce around some ideas!
Yes, the Japanese headline expression simply but strongly suggests Google made everything, including WebKit, SQLite etc.
Don't think I've heard someone phrase it this way, but I agree (in some cases) - API first is a good way to go, if only to enforce proper abstractions on the server side. We launched our product as an API only (and it still is) and then segmented some API calls as paid calls, and others as free. Our entire business so far is just very simple API calls. It's a remarkably efficient operational model since the payloads tend to be small therefore each response-request cycle is lighting fast.
Tangentially related, I'm still surprised how few low-end Android phones have NFC. Like, the Moto G line is everywhere and they still don't have that?
We would probably see some effect on the mice even if it was not a strong one. When we say that something worked on mice but not humans, it usually means that the effect on humans was insufficient to be worthwhile, but we can see it. It may be worthwhile exploring further. If we saw even a small effect in mice, it might suggest an area to do further research.
I mean, this is what I'm looking for. Sure it would be madness, but if you have 450 bodies represented by, say, 10 floats each (random number), that comes to about 4500 pixels of values- something a GPU is fine at.
I am a plumber too, and a good one, but I notice (if you forgo the time pressure: my fast solutions are always plumbing) that the language I use matters in my thinking and that is probably how I learnt them. When I have the time, I think solutions up (mostly in my head or on 'paper'(scratch buffer)) in lisp/scheme, haskell/idris or apl/k. The result, when I consider it elegant, is usually very nice after translating to another language.

For Scheme I think my thinking came from working through SICP many years ago while the other languages in the list force you basically to first think about a solution before you start typing.

I am not saying, obviously, people cannot think up these things straight in rust, python, c# etc, however, for me personally, it works much better if I first work it out in one of the others; it is way too tempting to grab for my plumbing wrench otherwise.
As context for non-Australians, dental care has only very limited funding in the Australian public healthcare system. I have read that the government of the day thought that opposition from dentists might jeopardise the battle for public health cover. It is the policy of at least one party (The Greens) to expand dental cover under Medicare in Australia.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2019-03-18/calls-for-medi...