skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm unsure if you posted the wrong links, or if you mistook those for science. None of those links reference any "actual studies" whatsoever, let alone peer-reviewed scholarly studies regarding the impact of trigger warnings.

Additionally, the first article linked is one of the worst long-form stories I may have ever read. It's scattered, making a claim and then jumping to another without justifying it in any way, shape, or form. This is the furthest thing from being scientific, and having looked at the authors, I see why. One is "president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education" and the other is "Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University Stern School of Business and the director of Heterodox Academy". The Heterodox Academy is a right-wing group trying to de-left college campuses via bullshit propaganda. They don't care about diversity of views, they just want college kids to take up their antiquated mantle.

Regardless, there may be something harmful that comes from the (over)abundance of trigger warnings, and there may have even been some science along those lines, but it certainly isn't present in or referenced from these links.
Do you get F keys on the touchbar (if it's a touchbar model)?
> He wasn't. He was just giving them an error message after they Tweeted what he wanted.

Did you read the entire post? His service is available to India right now. Their tweets helped make that possible. It’s strange to me that you hate someone who provides a valuable service to people.
If the URL is "on the wire" it had better be 7-bit ASCII. Actually even more restrictive than that. Because that's the spec. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986

In user interaction with a browser or wherever else it seems that anything goes.
The phrase “attract a mate” is used more for animals than people. When you use it to talk about yourself, it has a tone of referring to the person you’re looking for like an animal. (Same for “breed” and “female”).

If you said “find a partner”, “find a match”, “attract a partner”, “get a boyfriend/girlfriend”, it wouldn’t have the same meaning and would be less off-putting.
Why use a blockchain instead of a database? Because multiple organizations are involved and each wants to control the database.

If a thing moves across multiple organizations then you can make a case for a blockchain application, logistics is an obvious example, but there are others like asset (expensive paintings / vintage wine) provenance.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/ups-bets-on-blockchain-as-...
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However, it was likely the satellite itself that was responsible for separating from the stage.

So, it seems odd to place the blame on SpaceX given that—according to the only public statements we have—it was a failure of the satellite itself, not a failure of the launch vehicle.

You agree that blaming SpaceX is “sensationalist clickbait nonsense”. Would you also agree that a headline "SpaceX apparently lost the classified ..." is blaming SpaceX? https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/spacex-apparently-lost-the...?
Maybe the government could issue 100,000,000 ID Coins per person, and you would use each of them only once ... a bit like bitcoins, but for ID... You would spend 1 each time you need to prove your identity. They could be in a hardware wallet and could easily be replaced for free.
Brick means "to render a device permanently inoperable." There is no hard or soft involved. Bricked is bricked. If you can recover the device without replacing hardware or components, you didn't brick it, you just fucked it up.
> It's been speculated that advanced spy satellites carry thrusters and fuel to conduct frequent orbit changes.

That's not really surprising; I'd imagine most long-term satellites carry thrusters and at least some amount of fuel for stationkeeping, especially in geostationary orbit. It'd definitely make it much more difficult to track, unless you keep something pointed at it 24/7 so you notice the change in velocity.

And nice find with the SBIR competition! Does seem to point towards satellites being much more difficult to track than I thought if they're constantly moving.
Unbootable, they say. So I think they actually mean it!
Your incredulity perplexes me. I offered a simple premise (that Rogan is vocally more anti-SJW than in favor of an alternative path to social justice) and a simple conclusion from that premise (that Rogan can fairly be considered right-wing).

You seem to disagree with either the premise or the conclusion, but rather than making an argument to that effect you have made 3 (three!) meta-posts about it, all while waxing on about the virtues effective debate.

Maybe you disagree with my premise, or maybe you disagree with my conclusion, but your posts so far amount to a whole lot of grandstanding and a vanishingly small amount of argumentation. Your insistence on talking about me and your meta-view of my argument rather than the argument itself reveals a lot more about you than it does about me.

I still stand by the argument (both premise and conclusions) I made in my original post. I wish our conversation could have been about that, as I think it would have been much more interesting.
Mt. Finex and Mt. Coinbase are in a race to see who can claim the title from Mt. Gox. Unfortunately for cryptocurrency markets, the end result will be disaster regardless of who wins that race.
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I could never figure out why we generally focal plane shutters now. I suppose there must be some advantage to them.

Edit: Thanks a lot for the explanations
Part of it is also due to the lack of decent public transit opportunities. I would love drive less to work if a decent transit option is open.
> If someone murders another person, we don't immediately start to list out their virtues.

Tell that to the media.
There is a lot that can be done, depending on your background. I think the most important thing is really focusing on understanding the context in which the software will work. There are a ton of software-centric plays in biopharma with really great ideas, but most could really benefit from a deeper understanding of their end markets

To get a sense of the opportunities, you can read blogs or look at portfolio companies of some of the tech investors who have biopharma theses: Andreesen Horowitz, Canaan, Lux, 8vc, GV, founders fund immediately come to mind

Some specific ideas:

-AI-aided drug discovery (you don't really need AI in a lot of cases; other ML or just building computational models can be helpful: https://www.nature.com/news/the-drug-maker-s-guide-to-the-ga...

-blockchain for decentralized data management: https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-day-big-pharma-seeks-dlt...

-"digital therapies": FDA-approved software to treat disease (akili interactive and pear therapeutics are good examples)

-biostatistics / analytics

-patient recruitment tools

If you have an entrepreneurial bent, talking to scientists and people in the industry can get you up to speed very quickly and will probably lead to a lot of ideas. There is a large community of highly experienced independent consultants in biopharma who are easier to get in touch with than big pharma folks and they are often happy to share expertise
>These two bugs have been existent for 20 years and there is no known exploits of them.

They don't exactly leave behind a lot of telltale signs.

This is also the kind of bug that is so broad (read access to everything on almost any machine you can execute code on) that a large subset of those equipped to discover it would have kept their mouths shut.

> So you basically start with a broken system to exploit these bugs.

A lot of systems were broken in the time before KASLR came along
The OP says they're planning to use the Web Packaging standard. That standard prevents third parties (like Google) from injecting content into the packages by requiring the page to be signed by the original site's private key.

That's how they're able to display the original page's URL in the browser without that practice being extremely misleading.
People are trying to solve a lot of interesting problems with blockchain, but I fear it's become the ultimate shoehorn solution for the modern era. See also:
https://tonyarcieri.com/on-the-dangers-of-a-blockchain-monoc...

I've had meetings with prospective clients that opened with, "We have $problem, can we use blockchain to solve it?" where anything that doesn't qualify as a blockchain is cast to the wayside because it doesn't scratch that buzzword itch.

(Amusingly, I've witnessed one pitch where the person called it "bitchain" and it sounded like "ba-ching!" and I was waiting for the follow-up to what I thought was onomatopoeia for a cash register sound. I've since learned to not abbreviate cryptography as "crypto" lest I attract sketchy prospects.)

A lot of the problems that you might want to solve with a blockchain probably doesn't need a blockchain. A distributed, append-only cryptographic ledger will suffice. To wit: https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/07/chronicle-will-make-you-q...
> How is Google even remotely comparable to Amazon???

If you're already scared of Google and Facebook this is an easy one: Amazon's growth will increasingly depend on advertising, and they will continue to grow. Pretty much everything they have done in the last couple years moves in this direction: a search page riddled with sponsored results, Echo (https://gizmodo.com/yes-your-amazon-echo-is-an-ad-machine-18...), my new 30 dollar Fire tablet that always shows me ads, retargeting, etc. Amazon has Google-level information on its users, and will use it in ways that are simialrly invasive.

I see a lot of people writing off Amazon because it's not as ubiquitous as Google in their lives. This is a mistake: their dominance will continue to grow. They have the best product strategy I've ever seen, and everything they are doing will move them in the direction of being a central part of everyone's lives (even non-Americans - when I was in India recently and I saw an Amazon billboard or bus ad every 5 minutes, even in smaller towns).
Mate, like 'female', provides a hint of depersonalization -
it indicates that the person
you're seeking is sought after to fill a procreative role. This is also the reason for the de-emphasis on Mrs. in professional settings.

"Significant Other" and other terms are more readily accepted.
SpaceX is getting paid for a successful launch, meeting their contractual obligations. The booster landed perfectly. There's no damage to the launchpad delaying other rockets. There's no investigation into "what went wrong?" holding back further launches. No real customer is looking at this and going "Wait, maybe we'd better use ULA instead!" because they know SpaceX launched just fine.

This is an absolute win for SpaceX, despite however anyone wants to spin it. Dramatic headlines about the downfall of the successful sell newspapers, but they don't mean anything real.
Where I can see blockchain being more 'actually' useful is in simple things, like verifying the integrity of the app (or anything really), ala checksum hashes.

It makes a lot of sense for us to store them on the blockchain rather than hosting it on a webpage.
Is there evidence that a warm-up is beneficial or is it something we do because it "seems right?"

I don't know the answer to this.

Either way, I don't personally warm up, I don't notice a difference between warming up vs not warming up.
you're being downvoted but the first non-trivial program `./kaslr` fetches the physical map offset of the running kernel: https://github.com/IAIK/meltdown/#demo-2-breaking-kaslr-kasl...

Note they do say

> This demo uses Meltdown to leak the (secret) randomization of the direct physical map. This demo requires root privileges to speed up the process. The paper describes a variant which does not require root privileges.

but I don't know how much allowing it to sudo speeds up the process.
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I'm surprised by this because I know that Microsoft has a test lab with various hardware configurations and software to help verify that updates don't break existing software.

Doesn't Microsoft have the resources to run automated tests on enough hardware configurations to have caught this?
> "I'm big on snapchat as a messaging platform, not as a social platform."

As a user, I think this is why most people fail to understand it or use it. Even if one has friends on Snapchat, if you go in trying to use it as social media you're going to be confused. It's a personal messaging app that happens to have some small social aspects, a map that I occasionally use so I can see where people are, and publisher content when I'm looking to kill a few minutes here and there. But 90% of my time is spent messaging people with pictures / chats, and groups are amazing.
On smartphones, if you do the custom ROM installation badly, there's a chance you will wipe SPL, meaning no way to boot anymore, until you reprogram your flash in external programmer.

This is not a case on the PCs; updating or reinstalling operating system will not affect your BIOS or UEFI ability to boot anything in the future[1]

[1] with exceptions like Ubuntu 17.10 Intel SPI bug. But hey, exceptions confirm the rule ;).
We'll see how long this blame game continues. My guess is that it Spacex will continue launching rockets (as normal) and Northrop will keep getting Satellite contracts. The fuss will likely fade away if the satellite (or whatever it is) functioned as normal.

I tend to believe this is just misinformation until someone finds some hard evidence otherwise.
Attacks are not asteroids: attackers constantly improve them to bypass improved defenses, and the "improbability" of an attack is no defense. Bypassing KASLR with these attacks is easy and real attackers will do it.
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Conditional Conformance in the Swift Standard Library
It's not about some silly ads at all, it's about several companies collecting massive amounts of information about a very large numbers of individuals. There are essentially no controls imposed on that information and it will live pretty much forever.

Information is power, and such a database could be used for manipulation, blackmail, fraud, etc.

But if you think that's acceptable because it might help you remember to order tea towels, what can I say... thank goodness the EU GDPR is there to save your butt.
The original title has the much punchier "poop and pop"
That's the core use case I mentioned: currency and wire transfer. I've used it for that and the value is there.

I will add though-- the major reason cryptocurrency has so much value in that space is that the alternatives (bank wire, Western Union, etc.) are so terrible from a UX perspective. If those alternatives vastly streamlined their UX I think a lot of the value in cryptocurrency in the developed world might disappear. It might still have value in countries without good and reasonably stable banking systems.
When Facebook can graft Snap features onto every endpoint of their network, there's no oxygen left for Snap. They cannot get scale, and that's what you need in advertising.
Oracle app server hack let one attacker mine $226,000 worth of cryptocoins
I do agree with you, but at the same time, a non-booting OS does essentially mean a heavy-but-useless device for the vast majority of computer users. They'll have to spend their own money taking it in to get the OS reinstalled, and a lot more if they want to try to recover the data still on the file system.
> It's more like Damore's claim was that specific corporate policy were based on the assumption of the opposite

No, while that was a supporting claim, the conclusory claims everything in the manifesto are offered to support are that specific policy changes are justified.

> Also, he did not reject Google's core values, unless you take a biased and imputational reading.

As an example, empathy is a core publicly-stated internal value of Google which Damore explicitly called for de-emphasizing. There's nothing “biased and imputational” about reading Damore’s words to mean what they explicitly say.
Actually one of the books written about that incident, "Command and Control," has a lot of interesting detail about the different types of warhead fusing schemes that were implemented at various times.

I can't remember which fusing system was on that warhead (though the book describes it in detail) but I think it was one of the more sophisticated kinds than the simple "one point safety" fuses and that the warhead was basically never in danger of exploding.
> How is Microsoft more trustworthy than Google?

For one, their entire business/revenue doesn't revolve around selling advertising. While they (MS) have gotten into tracking more data with Windows 10 and so on, they are still nowhere close to where Google is when you look at what they do with Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Search, Google Analytics, Google Home, etc.

For me personally, Google is far and away the # 1 threat to my privacy followed by Facebook and Amazon then MS and Apple at the bottom of the list.
In practice and in principle, this is horrifying. I don't trust the people buying these systems, and I especially don't trust the engineers building them. Nor do they give me any reason to trust them.

Is this sort of thing what we became engineers for? To facilitate the end of privacy? Cmon, we're better than this.
>you can dial a phone from Hangouts, but not back

I use google voice and hangouts. I can both send and receive voice calls using my google voice number via hangouts. I can also send and receive sms message using my google voice number via hangouts. Both of these have been true for at least 4 years, maybe 5. They started trying to phase sms out of hangouts a few years back, but never removed it for google voice users.
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What do you mean by "reproduced on general population"? This is explicitly a study of SSC readers. Obviously in general population you won't find that oldest siblings outnumber younger siblings by 3:1.
Did you read the entire post?

> And they did! All these users started following Browserling and tweeting about it. But they still couldn't use Browserling or Whatsapp, it was just a new message in place of "fatal error".

> It’s strange to me that you hate someone who provides a valuable service to people.

I don't care enough about him to hate him. I just said I think he's an asshole.
How is paying for electricity with Ethereum better for me than paying with a card? I don't see the advantage.

When VisiCalc was demo'ed there were people lined up literally pulling out their checkbooks and offering to pay almost limitless amounts of money for the prototype. Spreadsheets had insane value to accountants.

Other than the core use case of currency that I mentioned, where are the "killer apps" for block chain? A lot of it looks like minor and dubious improvements or solutions in search of a problem. Neither of those comes close to justifying the insane amount of money and resources being poured into this area.
> So, in this specific case, if it was a failure of the payload to deploy properly, that would almost certainly be Northrup Grumman's "fault".

Many scenarios would point that way, yeah. But there are still things the launch vehicle (LV) could have done wrong. At the end of the day, this is a mechanical and electrical interface. Interfaces must be specified and that always leaves room for misinterpretation or incorrect specifications. There had to have been an electrical harness that signaled when it was time to deploy. A failure there could absolutely be on the LV side.
Oddly enough Facebook has the lowest quality of ads in my opinion. For the large amounts of data they have on me, they don't seem to utilize it effectively
> A distributed, append-only cryptographic ledger

Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t that what a blockchain is?
I don't know if it's the only reason, but historically focal plane shutters could be significantly faster than leaf shutters.
i use my signature a lot. it’s intentionally designed to provoke thought. but i don’t use it professionally.
Ok so it won't be perfect but it can be a very good approximate. They can benchmark the site from the user's city and use that value (hey if speedtest.net can have so many servers in every city I'm sure Google can arrange that too).

As far as CDN goes, nobody is stopping you from using it. If you want a site that rival's Google's AMP then you have to use a CDN. The only difference is now it's your choice what you use rather than being dictated to use their non standard tags and technology.
The other comments have done a good job of explaining what leaf-shutters are and the differences between leaf shutters and focal plane shutters.

Flash photography is a balancing act between the light that comes from the flash strobes and the light of the environment. It's very popular these days to take portraits where the background is blurred, often significantly, but the subject is still in sharp focus. Background blurring is a product of the physical aperture of the lens and the distance to the subject. Opening the lens up to create more blur in the out-of-focus areas requires that the shutter speed be increased to compensate for the additional light entering the camera. A typical sunny day outdoor exposure might be f/2.8 at 1/3200s. This is far beyond the typical sync speed of a focal plane camera.

One alternative method is to place neutral density filters (darkening filters) over the camera lens (limiting the light entering the lens, but not increasing the depth of focus). The disadvantage is this method requires more light be generated by the strobes, shortening battery life, and generating more heat, and possibly more discomfort for your subjects.

As an aside, leaf shutters used to be quite commonplace until SLRs became popular (Leaf shutter SLRs were complicated and hard to repair). Even some of the most rudimentary leaf-shutter cameras from the 1950s could sync at higher speeds than the latest high-end SLRs.
They do, but there’s a huge number of possible configurations of both hardware and software to choose from and they’re always going to miss some.
I have no idea what the (probably not Orwell, as others have pointed out) author meant if it wasn't what the words say; I assume, though, that they meant exactly what they said.
This is the closest thing to a javascript implementation I have seen: http://xlab.tencent.com/special/spectre/js/check.js

from: http://xlab.tencent.com/special/spectre/spectre_check.html
The secret program confirms what others have seen, it's not so much "read any physical memory" as "read memory in cache"