skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine showing vacant apartments to prospective renters since 1993 -- for 23 years. Lots of units, lots of prospective tenants.

In 1993 I had no pool of 'before move-in/after move-in' experience with tenants. 23 years on, I have a large number of 'before move-in/after move-in' tenant experiences.

So when a tenancy went bad, over time I started making a mental note of

1) the social cues the tenant made when I first met them

2) what their behavior was after move-in

I started seeing patterns. After 23 years of "before move-in/after move-in" experiences, I developed predictors.

In my mind, I suspect that Judges, teachers, cops, hiring managers, any profession where you have a lot of "before/after" experience with lots of people -- have developed similar wisdom, similar predictors.

It's probably a survival skill humans have -- if you get burned over and over, you start connecting "is there any way I could have used this person's before behavior to protect myself from their after behavior?"

Here are some of the screening-out cues I use:

1) during the initial showing of the unit and meeting, does the person forget something I just told them ("It's a one year lease")? Did they exhibit more than one memory lapse like that?

2) was the person inarticulate in writing (on the application), or in their speech?

3) on the continuum of demeanor (behavior and body language) from "street people behavior" to "my professional peers" -- was the prospective tenant closer to "street person" demeanor or closer to "professional peer"?

4) does the person smoke cigarettes? Over 23 years most of my pot-smoking tenants smoked cigarettes. It makes sense I guess, smoking cigarettes for nicotine, smoking pot for thc.

The list of 'cues' I have is not perfect; people are still moving in and smoking pot inside my properties in violation of the lease.
No more dangerous than existing UB in C, just that we're not used to it. And it's easy to disable for your types.

Like Steve said, the exact nature of this UB isn't completely specified yet (as in, when it actually is UB), so it is dangerous right now, but that's just temporary.
Thanks for linking this! I just bought a couple of bottles, going to have my sister bring them up to me when she comes home. Always on the hunt for good olive oil.
In the Opium Wars, opium was illegal. It wasn't much of a risk to smokers, but it drove the cost up and drove the trade underground. Social cohesion is lost when addicts can't go through socially acceptable avennues to get the next fix they're dependent on.

If you can just pick up your fix from the corner store like alcoholics can, then you won't expect social cohesion to be affected any more than it is by alcoholics, especially since many of the people who might become addicts after legalization were likely to become alcoholics anyway.
Magnetic Rag, his last piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BweSQtoc8D0
Just fast on rest days, or don't climb those days. Go for a a short/easy hike or something. I do a lot of cardio. Some days I will burn 5000+ cal. I am absolutely unable to lose weight or restrict calories on those days because I always feel insatiable hunger.
Well, the key is to not take thousands of years about it. Honestly, I doubt we will ever have thousand year missions, unless our lifespans commensurately grow, as humans don't have a great track record when it comes to long term projects.

There are ways, but they are expensive and not without risk. Nuclear pulse propulsion (orion) can yield vast acceleration, and fusion rockets, while unproven, are feasible. You then have less exotic options such as laser driven light-sails and nuclear powered ion drives.

If we were prepared to throw half a trillion bucks at the problem we could see a flyby in our lifetimes - but without a damn good reason, it won't happen.
I recommend people read The Politics of Heroin and A Legacy of Ashes. Both great books.

Basically, The US makes drugs illegal and then enforces embargoes against other countries so they comply. Drugs have a very inelastic demand so this doesn't actually stop people from using them, but it DOES make drugs an extremely profitable enterprise.

Keeping drugs illegal has at least one massive 'benefit' -- if law enforcement grants anyone immunity and gives them permission to deal in drugs, they are essentially immediately granted billions of dollars. It's really not hard to grow poppies or cook meth or truck packages between cities. Nothing about that is intellectually difficult.

Consider the following: If the head of the CIA told you that you had total immunity and could deal in drugs all you wanted, how much money could you make? The answer, for any idiot in the world, is literally billions of dollars per year within just a few years.

This becomes enormously useful when we want to implement regime change around the world or otherwise provide funding to certain elements without directly giving them money.

Someone comes to the CIA and says they want to overthrow the government of Nicaragua but don't have enough money? Just let them deal drugs. [Contras]

Someone comes to the CIA and says they want to help fight against the soviets in Afghanistan but don't have enough money? Just let them deal drugs. [Osama bin Laden, Hekmatyar, various other Afghan groups, and Pakistan's ISI]

Someone comes to the CIA and says they want to fight against communist-backed forces in Laos but don't have enough money? Just let them deal drugs. They run out of adult soldiers and have to start using children? That's fine, give them the go-ahead. [Vang Pao]

The illegality of drugs is integral to our foreign policy strategy.

To my understanding, until about a hundred years ago, we didn't mess with other countries. Remember our policy of "isolationism"? It's hard to, these days, but that was once a core part of our national identity.

But since the end of WWII, the US has overthrown a sovereign foreign government, attempted to overthrow them, or attempted to overthrow them through support to a third-party, almost once per year. Literally about 50 times since then. Our intervention with some countries is absolutely brutal. We installed the Iraqi governments both immediately before and after Saddam's. You think Iran hates us because of our freedom? I think they hate us because we refuse to respect theirs.

Understand that the OSS/CIA was created because we had no idea what was going on during WWII. Prior to WII, we did not have a foreign intelligence agency. During WWII, we did, but it was an Intelligence agency, not a paramilitary or interventionist organization. Then everything went to crap and now we are the most hated country in the entire world.

Drugs let us weaken and overthrow regimes without doing anything. Suddenly, _inaction_ is sufficient. Just don't arrest that guy or any of his friends, and don't investigate their activities.
sure, its a time game. but I remember a 60GF (maybe it was 30?) result on the CM-2 in the early nineties. I think that machine was $40M, give or take. Lets also pretend that it was 10 years before we could have done the same runs on a commodity machine. You can imagine that for things of sufficient importance, there is an arguable cost utility. Of course that one machine ran quite a number of codes 24/7

But there is a second order effect, maybe a lot of that cultural history was lost before SIMD really caught on, but in general I think we gain quite a bit of collective experience by pushing the state of the art.

OTOH, maybe since games ended up driving the development, and HPC ended up trying to adapt their workloads to those platforms, you could argue that it was wasted effort.

But to echo my earlier comment, programming models to easily exploit substantial concurrencies is where the real sugar is.
That list of "cues" is hilarious. Guaranteed you know professional people who hide it from you because, well, you know why. And to reiterate, you need to unwind. Holy crap.
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I only played the vanilla version of Pandemic, but I found it extremely vulnerable to "quarterbacking" (a board game term for a cooperative game where the optimal strategy is to let the best player tell everyone else what to do). Do any of the expansions alleviate this?

Also, if anyone is curious how this can be mitigated, Hanabi is an excellent example.
Am i naive to think we're better off in Europe?
I don't think that can be the same attack: Matthew Green was one of the discoverers of this attack, which was just disclosed in a USENIX Security paper and was not public until then. The post you linked to is from March.
Thanks for this. We use a lot of olive oil in our family and I've read plenty on these abuses, but the articles never call out brands. 69% of all EVOO off the shelf in the US doesn't pass muster? Tell me which 31% did! And for crying out loud, shame the shit out of the ones that failed.

In any case, gonna buy some of this now. Cheers!
Thank you!! In an earlier comment on another thread I bemoaned not publishing the brands that passed (or shaming the ones that didn't). This is what I was looking for.
Diamonds are a representation of money. No one can tell the difference between a legitimate $100 bill and one printed using identical equipment and processes by some organization other than the Federal Reserve. Still, a sufficiently large counterfeiting operation would diminish the value of all USD.
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That's ~1000 times the velocity of our fastest probe so far when you exclude gravity assist. Stopping at the other end doubles travel time.
I think the confusion here is whether the existing US shareholders would own shares in the Cayman company or the US company. Some are talking about the former, and some are talking about the latter.

Why would the existing shareholders want to move their shares to the Cayman company?
I have a todo list. I write down what I have to do, then I do it. Anything more complex will just be a means to delay action.
Does it freeze solid or just become very viscous?
Girard will be looked back on as a Father of the Church:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzF2OG2ejI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkSBy5wWDk
This links to a a summary of a report on a blog. Direct link to the report: http://offers.indeed.com/rs/699-SXJ-715/images/Tech%20Salary...

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> It's the only color not in the rainbow.

Wrong.

I hate this argument about pink/fuchsia being "special".

most colors are not in the rainbow. most colors are what our brain comes up with when it gets contradictory signals. However, most colors are "close enough" to a color that's in the rainbow. Pink isn't. But this is very subjective and depends on the culture you originate from -- for example, in Japan green and blue are often regarded to be shades of the same color. I'm sure that similar things can happen with pink and red. If you've grown up with the same word for pink and red, thought of them as the same color, and only later learned names for the individuals shades, you'd probably say that pink is in the rainbow (and perhaps some subdivision of blue is not)
Not the American auto industry. You're thinking about Toyota not Ford.
It took 9.5 years for New Horizons to reach Pluto (just 32 astronomical units distant). At that rate, it would take a probe more than 80,000 years to cross the 271,000 AUs separating Earth from this exoplanet.
Olive oil cut with soybean oil can have serious effects for people with allergies to soy.

http://www.paleohacks.com/oil/reason-for-adverse-reaction-to...

Likewise people with allergies to nut oils can have extreme adverse reactions and die. It's not just fraud, it's dangerous for the people eating it.
Galaxy could use the same.
Yup. Additionally, Opium Wars 1 and 2...
Would it be possible to drop off a much lighter package at the destination and use a solar sail to slow it down? We don't need to slow down a big interstellar engine when we get there; let it keep falling into space, while the instrument package slows down.

It could even have a smaller engine of its own; it'll take a lot less time to slow down something that's 10-1% the weight of the entire package.
As a serious hobbyist, ardour is on the way to compete with pro tools. I decided to use ardour, musescore and ableton live for different purposes 3 years ago and I m happy. Reaper, logic pro, garage band etc don't give anything extra to Ardour after 6 months of trials I can say that.
I read this explanation a few times, and am afraid I still don't understand why Tor is not vulnerable to this attack. Let's say I'm an attacker that provides enough bandwidth to compromise N% of client circuts, and I can disrupt non-compromised circuits at will. Casuing clients to repeatedly renegotiate non-compromised circuits lets me compromise >>N% of circuits, right? For small N, the chance of getting a compromised circuit is roughly linear in the number of circuit disruptions, right?

Unless I'm missing something, this vulnerability provides a significant multiplier to existing Sybil attacks against Tor. A quick search suggests there have been Sybil attacks in the past.

Am I missing something obvious here?
Mislabeling - other than the obvious false advertising aspects - could be a problem for people with strict diets due to allergies or other health issues.
Those MySQL utilities definitely have a lot of interesting stuff in them and will be good for further research, so thanks. After digging up the xtrabackup command used in there I don't see anything obvious that we were missing (we no longer perform xtrabackup commands since we're all RDS now), but will continue to research. It actually looks like some instances may have been as simple as using the wrong slave coords file; apparently xtrabackup_slave_info contains the master coords, not xtrabackup_binlog_info, which records where the slave is in its own binlog. That's a bit counterintuitive.

We've had other problems with innobackupex, though. We were working with Percona support on a case where a backup lock blocked writes to the DB for 40 minutes and never really resolved it. We had to use minimalist locking parameters in several other cases, which may have also contributed to incorrect binlog coordinates. We experienced a variety of other bugs and issues as well, including corrupted database files, and normally had to invoke our Percona Gold contract to get workarounds or patches.

I'll just note that this class of errors doesn't seem possible in any non-MySQL replication system; there is no slave_skip_errors setting in PgSQL. Your slave either has integrity or it doesn't. That's the way slaves should be. A sane database system won't allow a user to write to a slave or to skip replication rows. I'll also note that the band-aids that make MySQL semi-usable are only there because of Percona's efforts. This stuff doesn't make MySQL seem promising, even if there are workarounds for some of the problems.

Uber's problems as described in that video had nothing to do with PgSQL replication. The carnage was caused by running out of disk space. MySQL doesn't behave well when it gets to 0 free space either; I know from experience. It's as much AWS's fault as PgSQL's, because the reason their disk filled up was a change to IAM requirements. He mentions briefly an attempt to hack Pg replication so it would try to resync from a file with a corrupted header, but probably good for him that that didn't work.

Can't speak to complications associated with vacuum as I've never had to deal with super-large PgSQL databases and pgbouncer is indeed annoying.
Related to freezing, I have a very good heuristic to detect fake oils.

Since olive oil contains quite a lot of monounsaturated fats, and these become solid with a bit of cold, putting olive oil in the fridge for 12 hours should make solid.

I imagine it yields some false positives and negatives, but my own olive oil never fails to become solid, even at room temperature during cold winter days. Nor my neighbour's, or some niche brands I trust. Whereas commercial ones tend to fail...
It wasn't really an open market since the US Gov was the only customer. They liked to spread money around to keep some kind of competition going. There were a lot of fans of the CM architecture. It did take substantial work to get a code running, but once you did the price performance scaling and stability was pretty nice. Enough people had gone through that process that there were plenty of codes that would have like to have continued running.

The generally accepted narrative is that TMC upper management really screwed up. More tactically the CM-5 really stumbled, with a host of hardware, system software, compiler and environment problems. Right before they folded it was starting to be a really nice platform to use. But very expensive, and the 2-3 years from the CM-2 to that point were quite dark.

If you look at the Cray machines from the last 5-10 years they are pretty similar to the CM-5
- fat tree-like guaranteed delivery message network with credits
- commodity processors and the primary node type
- attached vector processors
- front end nodes running commodity OS

of course there are lots of subtle differences, but if you squint...of course the language environments aren't the same (except of course for parallel fortran :/)
It feels like it's essentially a one player game but with multiple people theoretically playing.
> literally the most habitable and human-friendly planet in the Universe

Well, we don't know that it's the most habitable; it's just the most habitable we know of. And huge sections of it are completely unsuited for human life. 2/3rds of it will kill a human being in a matter of hours. Anything above or below, let's call it 50 degrees latitude is inhospitable without technology, and the equator isn't a great place to live, either.
We buy that Tunisian olive oil too, it's definitely pretty good.

Someone above recommended a California brand that I'm going to try.

Personally, I'd like to have two types of olive oil in my house:

1) Cooking olive oil. Usually use "cheap" EVOO for this, but technically, it doesn't have to be that high-grade since it's being heated.
2) Good quality EVOO for salads, or eating on its own. That way, you actually maintain the flavour and health benefits.
>HN karma is worthless, so there's really no point worrying about getting upvotes

HN karma might be 'meaningless internet points', but as long as some functionality, like the downvoting the GP complains of, is gated by karma levels, it's definitely not worthless.
This is a similar issue we had in the protein powder industry with amino acid spiking.[1]

TL;DR is that companies were putting cheap filler aminos like taurine and glycine into protein powders, which would pass as nitrogen on a "protein" test, but they were far cheaper and less effective than actual whey protein.

A lot of times the companies would think they were getting legit raw materials, but if they didn't test their incoming raws (illegal per cGMP), they could easily get screwed by the cheap crap coming in from China.

It's expensive to test for ($2000 for a full amino panel), but once the bad guys started getting discovered, the class action lawsuits hit hard. One multi-million dollar settlement's already been public.

Olive oil companies are wise not to get caught doing this, especially the bigger ones with deep pockets (a class-action lawyer's dream). Always test your incoming and outgoing product. If you blindly trust that overseas manufacturer's lab tests, get ready to get destroyed.

[1] https://blog.priceplow.com/protein-scam-amino-acid-spiking
Probably not. There's still fraud, mind you, e.g.:

http://www.laprovence.com/article/papier/4052849/des-olives-...

But we've stricter controls in place (because of Appellation-related laws) and offenders get fined or jailed.
like this post, not new ideas, but generally ppl don't talk alot about it, so its nice to read someone's views on this and their experiences with trying to battle it. Thanks!
I think the latest version of iTerm2 (3+) supports this actually.
> Stopping at the other end doubles travel time.

Wow, I knew the physics but never realized the implication: where on earth hitting the brakes is easy and costs next to zero energy, in space breaking takes just as much energy as accelerating.
lol, okay. you should try that.
Yes you can, but that's beside the point. For a complicated application like this there obviously is value in both the source code and the pre-built binaries. I think people would be a little less annoyed if this didn't seem to be copping sales techniques from sketchy outdated proprietary business models (Prices not posted up front? Free version has time limitations??) and instead did something that was more sustainable. What this would be, I'm not quite sure of. Part of the problem probably is that desktop applications are not really a big market anymore. Maybe they should run a proper marketplace for free (as in freedom) audio plugins?
Ah, from their github repo:

Specifically, Solid is:

A tech stack -- a set of complementary standards and data formats/vocabularies that together provide capabilities that are currently available only through centralized social media services (think Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/many others), such as identity, authentication and login, authorization and permission lists, contact management, messaging and notifications, feed aggregation and subscription, comments and discussions, and more.

A Specifications document that describes a REST API that extends those existing standards, contains design notes on the individual components used, and is intended as a guide for developers who plan to build servers or applications.

A set of servers that implement this specification.

A test suite for testing and validating Solid implementations.

An ecosystem of social apps, identity providers and helper libraries (such as solid.js) that run on the Solid platform.

A community providing documentation, discussion (see the solid gitter channel), tutorials and talks/presentations.

-- https://github.com/solid/solid
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You might check out the latest version of iTerm2. I think it supports saving sessions (including tmux?) over a reboot.
The study is totally irrelevant. Accutane and Thalidomide will do a lot worse to your fetus too... still not schedule 1.
In Europe Olive oil is also one of the most faked type of food.
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Actually performance is exponential without memoization, so usually some amount of memoization is essential, but memoizing more rules usually does not help.
The mystery of the quantum world
“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and who turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.”

But how do these others desire in the first place? Have the first desires begun with imitating animals?
Maybe not genetics, however there is something to be said for blaming the parents. With an alcoholic father you may have developed a slight bit of 'co-dependency' growing up, leading to things like wanting to find comfort in weed and going the extra mile to make your employers happy. As a society we are not well educated about personality disorders (which exist on a scale) and how these develop in childhood with resulting addiction related issues. The general debate on drugs is naive because we do not understand these underlying causes.
A nurse assistant at the mental hospital told me how none of their patients have a normal temperature - they're all 96 or 97 degrees. That's quite a clue to one of the causes of mental problems.

I'm curious about the intervention this link reports on. I wonder if it's an amino acid supplement. My bottle of L-Tyrosine says it's used for the production of neurotransmitters...
That site kills my scroll wheel.
But perhaps per dollar...