skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except Sweden is in the top 5 in anti-depressant use. I think the problem here is that we can dismiss religion wholesome, perhaps even all spirituality, but there's nothing to cushion the fall.

Perhaps its a little arrogant to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I think its clear that reality is far from explained and selling people on the idea of a nihilistic existence that is meaningless may not be good for humanity, nor actually be accurate. Are we certain science has solved all major mysteries and our cosmology is pretty much close to perfect? How do we know we're not Newton, unable to see Einstein coming, for example? Maybe we can't ever know.

I'm not exactly sure where religion or spirituality fits in with the modern lifestyle, but I suspect it has a place still. As much as I like visiting nordic regions, the lack of smiles and cold attitudes really reflects something I consider wrong and off-putting especially as the son of European immigrants from a 'family' centered society and a liberal US citizen who certainly sees value in the collective, even if the electorate does not. I don't think evolution made us to be asocial, anti-family, anti-spiritual, anti-collective, etc and expect us to be satisfied with the end result (everyone in therapy and on pills for mood issues and complaining about lonliness and lack of meaning constantly).

From a personal perspective, adding a touch of meditation and some lightweight Buddhism and Eastern thought has really upped the quality of my life. Perhaps I'm engaging in an evangelical folly here but the facts do remain that the more atheistic a society the more you see depression and suicide appear, once we correct for depression caused by economic issues or warfare or political instability. Maybe this is an issue that'll solve itself somehow, but I do wonder if we ran too hard towards atheism/materialism, when we should have jogged more towards more liberal and 'lighter' religion, personal spiritual practice, or just plain-jane agnosticism.
I think that a succession of British Home Secretaries have read 1984, then have subsequently been disappointed at its lack of vision, and dived straight into dastardly evil ways in which they could improve upon Orwell's shortsightedness.

Theresa May appears to have excelled in her endeavours and would get an A+ for effort and implementation.

/s
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I think it's usually due to limitations/default settings of blog software, which is usually not tightly integrated with the corporate site.
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I think it's more likely that he runs for CA governor. I think he knows that the electoral map for someone like him is limited.
Yes - Altavista

It took a year to build an index from a new crawl, and they were only doing incremental "freshness" updates in between where they updated certain pages. It was a fiasco.
We're an enterprise software shop, which necessarily means we do a lot of custom work, but we're careful to consider what we'll do. My mentor is an old hand that been through multiple exits, and in every meeting we have, he hammers this point. You're either a product shop, or a professional services shop, and if you don't know which one you are (or you believe wrongly) you die. Simple as that. The deeper you get into the consequences of knowing (or even forcing) which you are, the more implications it has for everything from product design to business strategy, and it's extraordinary how such a simple seeming thing effects such a vast amount of the company.
From the old times exist the idea that is necessary to let the terrain to "rest" and let it to the nature mercy (in the bible was for a year each 7-years for example). Is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_rotation

So I wonder why not mix both?
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Well, you can look at the numbers here: http://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/styles/report_371px/...

Medicare, Medicaid, etc: 25%
Social Security: 24%
Military: 16%
Safety Net Programs: 10%
Federal / Veteran Benefits: 8%

Looks like some people get services, just not everyone.

At the state level, California: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/California_state_spendin...

Health Care 35%
Pensions 18%
Education 16%
Welfare 9%
Protection (?) 7%

The US does not seem to get a great return on healthcare spending.
I despise not being able to see the real url, I actively avoid amp
I've also changed to VS Code, IntelliSense is something that Sublime 3 lacks.
I had the opportunity to work with this tool for 6 months on a previous project. This tool enabled me to have quick stand-ups and identify any roadblocks before they became issues. I highly recommend this product.
> So _IF_ this binary blob is up to no good, we should expect one of its tasks to jot down AES keys (remember, intel has had specialized AES instructions for a while now) and hide them somewhere for later retrieval.

It would have to be Intel doing this. A lot of hackers have tried to write their own modules for the ME, but to my knowledge no one has been able to run one successfully. [0]

> _IF_ the ME is jotting down keys, and _IF_ there is only a finite amount of space for it to store them, such a daemon might be able to flush out real keys and overwrite them with junk to hamper any retrieval efforts.

There is. The ME on consumer systems has to fit within 1.5MB, and on corporate systems (e.g. servers) within 5MB. The only persistent storage the ME has accessible is the SPI flash (which has the above size constraints) or the TPM (if there's one installed). To my knowledge, the TPM can only be used to authenticate a secret once stored, you can't ever read it back from the TPM.

Otherwise, you'd have to have malware which runs inside the OS to receive the data from the ME and write or sends it somewhere else.

But really, why bother going for the ME? It has a root of trust burned into the PCH silicon, and it's obviously in Intel's interest to keep the signing keys very secret.

There's much lower hanging fruit if someone wanted to steal AES keys. Just install malware into UEFI or another controller (e.g. SSD, hard drive). This has already been documented in the wild, the source is speculated to be state-level actors (e.g. US, Israel). UEFI is handled by the OEM, which means they put the least amount of time/money into it as they possibly could.

Just search online for BIOS/UEFI password bypassing tools if you want a sample of how terrible OEM implementations are.

[0] http://www.slideshare.net/codeblue_jp/igor-skochinsky-enpub
I don't think they meant editing to complain about downvotes, but rather editing to disavow or delete a comment you wish you hadn't made (usually days or weeks later). I have lots of old comments that I find embarrassing now.
No need to imagine. It's not just during disasters like the Pixar case. Creative collaborative ventures like films and animation are filled with months of effort being deleted with a few quick keystrokes.

Back when I was still in the film/video industry, it happened often, you kinda get accustomed to the ephemeral nature and you try not to get too attached to your work. Not always successfully but you try.
They increased the basic price 'unit' from £0.79 to £0.99. Although at higher price points they use a 'unit' of £1.49 that's now changed to £1.99.

Apple uses prices aligned to multiples of these units, with some rounding. So when Apple realigns UK prices to take into account currency fluctuations, they do so based on a combination of how much and how long the exchange rate has changed, and what their target price units and price points are. Also I'm sure they factor in holiday season timing to e.g. avoid negative publicity running up to Christmas.
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Emacs + Evil. If it's not Java/C#/Scala, I do it here. A lot of note-taking using org-mode.

IntelliJ/Eclipse/Visual Studio.
I love how Intel got caught on the TDP lie. I know for a fact many Intel processors run just as hot as AMDs, despite Intel blatantly lying about it.
Very helpful visual metrics. Well done Scott.
The Balkans were not in the EU. The EU gives economic incentives to its members not to go to war. It does not magically prevent wars all around the world.
Sure.

If you mean 'science the world view' which means the philosophical stance that Consciousness (Spirit) is an emergent property of matter (amongst other things), then yes there's a spectrum and they're opposed.

On the other hand if you mean 'science the approach' — then there are many spiritual paths that follow the approach of the presentation of results and a method by which those results may be verified or refuted by a practitioner.
Very good point. Aviation is awesome in that sense - accident investigations are focused on understanding what happened, and preventing re-occurence. Allocating blame or punishment are not part of it, at least in enlightened jurisdictions.

Furthermore, a lot of individual error's are seen in an institutionalised "systems" framework - given that people invariably will make mistakes, how can we set up the environment/institutions/systems so that errors are not catastrophic.

Not sure how that applies to movie animation, to be honest, but not primarily looking for whom to blame was certainly a very good move.
There are other mail clients that use tracking pixels, like Polymail and Canary.
Do you think the same thing could happen with cloud vendors like AWS?
I thought this said 'Sublime Tour'
and started to get excited the band was coming back and then I remembered. :(
Sorry, I was thinking under the premise of a hypothetical version of WhatsApp where this behaviour was changed, since that's what OP was referring to. In that scenario, I don't see where the gaping hole is.
I would think 40 nodes in a rack is realistic if your battery is located elsewhere and you use side mount PDUs. Keep in mind in many places (NYC is a great example here) that real estate space for racks is the killer and not cooling or power.
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It's a medium blog. They don't allow you to add external links anywhere outside of a post. I suppose you could create a new post, add links in that post, and then add that link to the nav of the blog.
>we'd have neither Brexit nor Trump today

That's just it, though. Was that ever realistically avoidable? Or was the momentum of arrogant politics such that that was inevitable?
Out of curiosity, is there any outline of the prior script available publicly? I'm curious where they were taking the franchise before the rewrite.
great, another lesswrong/rationalist asshat dumping on a humanities subject with brazen ignorance. blogposts like this should be used as toilet paper
That's private cloud in marketing speak. :)
> "And then, some months later, Pixar rewrote the film from almost the ground up, and we made ToyStory2 again"

Reminds me of Fred Brooks quote. "Plan to throw one away. You will anyhow".
This tool does a great job of aggregating content in TFS. It makes it easier to keep tabs on your project status, and I recommend trying it out.
While people discuss about a possible state-actor stronghanding WhatsApp and the semantics of backdoor, the "design feature" of not showing the key changes are making real victims, at least in Brasil:

The attacker first try to duplicate the mobile phone number of the first victim, probably by social engineering their phone company. This part may look difficult to do, but it is not hard if you realize you do not need to target anyone special - everyone uses WhatsApp, so any number gives a high probability of success.

After getting the first victim number, the attacker install WhatsApp, which gladly verifies the user via SMS - WA has no login, no password, so anyone receiving the SMS can impersonate anyone else.

As Whatsapp does not send any alert of key change by default, the attacker is free to impersonate to person - in this case, he simply asks for some borrowed money to be transferred to a bank account, which will be paid soon. The recipient has no reason to distrust the message - it is being sent by his friend in the same chat window as they always talked to, even the logs are there. There is no message to warn about the potential issue, by design!

This is no hypothesis - this is actually happening for some time, now.[1] This design feature surely has some loyal users.

[1]http://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/cidades/201...
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Ah well any discussion of morals and politics (as practiced in most countries) is unlikely to go well ;o)

The problem I see with reverting to a general election is that unless all parties campaign purely on an exact list of what they will and won't do with regards to the EU, the mandate provided would be no clearer than the one derived from the referendum.

A general election would mess the EU issue in with things like labour's infighting and legacy issues with the lib dems (a lot of their traditional vote don't seem to trust them after their deal with the previous tory government)

The reality is that a general election campaign would involve more campaign rhetoric and politicians would be just as tied as they usually are to keeping promises after the fact (i.e. not at all)

For me, whilst the precision of what was being voted for is unclear, the idea that a result after a win for the leave campaign wouldn't involve some kind of change to immigration policy is just unbelievable and because of the binary nature of the decision, todays outcome was inevitable.
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I personally vastly prefer that kind of aesthetic to the "modern", flat, web-inspired UIs that waste too much space.
GTK is the Gimp Tool Kit. I expect GIMP to use the defaults: historically they created to toolkit for their needs, and so they should choose the right defaults for them.

Note that the above is historical. GNOME selected GTK long ago and has somewhat strong armed GTK development away from GNOME. I don't follow either project closely enough to suggest how much.
Didn't even noticed that change since using zeerka.com.
At work I have to test the same bunch of web sites in a variety of browsers, so using each browser's bookmark manager would be really painful.
Nylas privacy policy ( https://nylas.com/privacy-policy/ ) is the single reason why I don't use it.

(puts Stallman's hat on) This is not free as in freedom.
In exchange for this "problem" however the French get the French countryside, which is fucking awesome. When people discuss this issue without at least somewhat acknowledging that motivation it seems hard to take the argument seriously.
Good to know. Thanks for posting!
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too bad he is focused on real issues.
For U.S. science policy, big shift ahead
I think the reality is that some blocks will be lazily erased. I believe modern flash firmware periodically GCs in the background to prevent write amplification. If this is triggered you may overwrite data.

NAND requires an erase before write so I wouldn't be surprised if some controllers are lazily erasing blocks to get better long term write speeds and prevent GC hiccups.
Unfortunately, we have to use an intermediate server to use Google OAuth.
The US was not a fully federal project at its outset either, and has had to repeatedly renegotiate the terms of its union towards increased federal authority in order to avoid collapse and takeover by outside powers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Articles_of_Confe...

States, despite all this fanciful nostalgia, do not exist in a vacuum and their continued sovereignty today is dependent on belonging to a larger unions. It's the only way to protect themselves from the imperialism of powerful federal unions like the US, Russia, and China. If any European state thinks that it can exist independently of a federal (or worse) arrangement, it has misunderstood 20th century history.

And I would also argue the election of Trump demonstrates that you actually can't allow Detroit and similar regions to wither without significant political repercussions. The Democrats tried that and it cost them the election.
The new docs have an upgrade guide: https://webpack.js.org/guides/migrating/
No didn't know about that thanks!
The reason for marking it as erased is so the firmware can physically erase the flash sector. It could happen immediately, a minute later or next week. But a well-written SSD firmware will try to erase blocks any time it's not busy doing something else, as erasing blocks takes way longer than writing them.

You might be able to recover something from the physical flash, but there's definitely no guarantees.
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Until you said "vending machine" I thought you worked at my employer, as we've got one of those tar baby projects going on right now.
>brown people at the streets

You mean those of Indian descent that have been there 5 generations?
I'm really enjoying spark (https://sparkmailapp.com). I would try Nylas, but snooze is an absolute deal breaker for me. I'd highly recommend making that a free feature.
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Yes, only when client delays my payment, which is happening now.

Seriously, I am a frontend coder, I am all happy about coding HTML/CSS & getting paid for it. If that one element is taken away from me then I have nothing to look forward to.
I submitted that edit before the post had any replies.

Also, I did try to make clear that the given code was created 'for a specific use case in which I knew' that the format of the input files was tightly defined.
"Accountant as a service. Free. Works worldwide. Select in which country you want to create your company: ..." would be a great value proposition for AWS startups ;) "We don't sell your data", it says, "we... only... use it internally."
I've spent quite a bit of time working in both locations and find them far inferior to many other US cities (SF, LA, NYC, Austin, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, etc.) in terms of general quality of life for people under the age of 40. You're the first person I've met who really seems to think otherwise.

It's not really a tautology when we could take a simple poll of our target population and find out which cities they would and would not want to move to. I'd be willing to bet that neither LV nor Tampa would be very far up that list. I wish there was better data on median rent prices over time per city so we could do a comparative analysis with real price info.
My 486/DX 33MHz didn't have a heat sink, and while it ran hot, it wasn't too hot to touch.
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An anecdote, that I at least find kind of funny in my own life:

I deal with diagnosed anxiety and OCD, and thus have read dozens of self-help books on working with these issues. A funny thing happened when I started reading the genre, in that I found myself somewhat addicted to it after the first 3-4 books.

I brought this up to my therapist after about the 10th book in two months, and he joked but also seriously said, ok, time to take a break, pick a few unrelated and fun fiction books and go to town on those instead.

Not offering medical advice here as everyone is different, but I've noticed a gradual decline in symptoms when I'm able to focus less on the issues themselves.
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Atom for JS/HTML/CSS.
Programmer's Notepad for everything else.
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> but also the cost of maintaining such seeds (seems to be higher than for regular seeds).

You get what you pay for. Virtual anyone in the world can produce an identical product, so competition is fierce. I dare even say that farming is the most competitive industry in the world. There is no room at all to overspend on something, so the hybrids have to show a benefit to even consider the cost. They exist where they have proven to be worth it.

> If Bayer controls our seeds the way Alphabet controls our data, this isn't going to be fun when start using that control for something we didn't expect. I mean, it's food. We need it, and they know it.

I cannot speak for all farmers, but all the seed I grow, except for corn, is produced by local companies, one of which is owned as a co-operative by the local farmers. I don't really share in your control concerns. Corn is the exception on my farm as the technology that the major players have developed has far and away exceeded anything else being produced.

But, to be clear, corn is not the sweetcorn that you find down at your local grocer. Corn is primarily animal feed, with some use in production of HFCS and ethanol. So, maybe hypothetically, they can attack your meat consumption (and your sugary drinks, and your gasoline). Many people I have had discussions with would argue that is a good thing! But I also don't understand what the incentive would be. People will, as begrudgingly as it may be, start eating other foods and the value of their seed would drop to zero. Not a great play, in my opinion.

Besides, what control they can have over the market is entirely limited to the laws made by the people. While hybrids have been commonplace for nearly a century and GMOs for several decades without any trouble, if something magically changed in the future, the populace could force a change in the laws to save the food supply.

> I don't trust them. ... I believe the "oops it requires too much water" has happened before.

Sure. We had a hybrid variety fail a few years back. We were compensated by the seed vendor for their failure to deliver. I don't know about this situation in India, but they seem to understand the value of not pissing off farmers in my experience.
"This contains a lot more draw than just the CPU, itself."

Not really. Modern RAM uses a couple watts. Fans use at typical 2.5w each. Hard Drives only a few watts (SSD variety.) The PSU in servers tends to be fairly efficient, maybe losing 50-ish watts due to heat, and they run more efficiently at lower draws than higher draws. So using a Kill-A-Watt gives you a better idea of how much power the CPU is truly sucking down (especially when a GPU isn't installed.)

This is how I catch LED lighting companies lying about their actual power usage on their lights.
...well this is an interesting attitude for a mail client vendor. I need buy a new laptop every four years to continue working with my email, huh?
What are the feature differences between this and Apple's Mail.app? They look the same, on the surface.
I had forgotten about that part. Thanks for the clip; it's awesome!

Call me old-fashioned, but I still think words matter. IANAL so I don't know whether any laws are broken or not by such claims as "worlds greatest coffee", but there are truth in advertising laws on the books in the U.S. https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/adv... Even if there weren't, it erodes your integrity if you're not being truthful and the faces of the staff in the video clip are a nice balance between disbelief over Buddy's credulity and shame (particularly on the guy in the foreground). But I may be reading too much into this...

(Repeating here that I'm not claiming that Nylas' claim is false; I don't know if it is or isn't).
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