skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. It also requires considerable levels of technical literacy to use, maintain, and properly secure blockchain tokens, and even with all that people regularly have their bitcoins stolen or irreparably lost.
I find it more reasonable to assume that you can only improve a very specific function so much before your "improvements" turn to "pointless sidegrades".
According to game theory, the easiest way to win a game of Chicken is to tear off your steering column and wave it out your window.

In other words, preparing for nuclear war instead of preventing a nuclear war is how you win small battles, like where to put an embassy or whether foreign countries will respect your patents.
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Can't they just help more directly to eradicate polio instead of paying a corrupt government to do it?

Payments like these can be interpreted as buying a state's benevolence (aka corruption), something that Soros is regularly accused of.

I'm sure there are quite a few NGOs that are more efficient in fighting polio than the Nigerian government.

Likewise, should we pay Kim Jong Un to feed hungry North Koreans if it were possible to send them food directly?
On the global survival of mafias
Yep. Where that gets strange is being granted moderator-style privileges despite no longer being an active user.

One can be big on rep from ancient Q/As and yet have no idea about the "culture" of the site. That's me.
Headers are fingerprints / unique hashes. If someone else has already derived account balances to a particular point, it may be enough to avoid duplicating the chain.
So I guess, one question this would raise, is, of modern infection, what is the vector found?

Not that they must be the same, but at least they might have an explanation as to why modern infections would be different from historical ones, if they are any different.
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On the upside, Black Death survivorship may explain Europeans' relative resilience to HIV (edit: smallpox) [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/2005/050307/full/news050307-15.h...
sigh maybe this just isn't the venue or even the right group to try to discuss this stuff (myself included). We like to pretend like everybody else has an 'easy' job but economics is hard stuff.

I think you're mostly right, except for a couple of problems that I know of.

One, when the system goes sideways those liabilities tend not to be paid off. Bankruptcies and such. And we assume that banks are managing these risks but that doesn't always turn out to be the case - which is how the reserve rate got instituted in the first place. The government says, we don't care how much you think you've got it sorted out, we insist that you be at least this tiny bit pessimistic. My original post was sort of pointing out that if you hear "Oh we have an 8% reserve so that means only 92% of assets are being used", the money moves around so many times that the effective rate is much lower and the risk is shared. But it still does put an upper bound on how much they can be leveraged. How much money is moving around (modulo fraud and 'monetary easing'). It's not the only one, and it might not even be the most important 'resistance' built into the financial policies, but it is part of it.

The second is that we for some reason measure the health of our economy by how much money is changing hands. We don't discount liabilities changing hands at all in that, which is a bit worrying, because in the early 2000's when they weren't lending money to anybody, everything tightened up, and when they're throwing money at anybody it looks like growth but feels like danger.
> Sigh...half a century later the Tet offensive is called "an enormous attack by North Vietnamese forces".

> How about an enormous attack by "South" Vietnamese forces, like the National Liberation Front?

In fairness, wasn't Tet both the NVA and VC? And Tet was organised and executed from the North, predominantly by Giap, right?
Most of my flights these days are on ANA 787's and I honestly can't feel any resulting difference in the humidity/pressurization even though I'm told it's there.
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"simply" is one of those words that makes people twitch... See, the packaging format is not the problem. The protocol is where it gets tricky.

I previously imagined Go support would arrive with a JSON on stdin/out/err protocol. Instead, your binary runs as a service with RPC endpoints. Unfortunately, it's a bit Go-oriented, so you'd have to implement some Go things (go/rpc, gobs) in your language/framework of choice to use it.

But, you get a (much) lower warm function startup cost because it's just an RPC call, all of which is neatly abstracted away for the Go programmer in the runtime library. Great for Go, bit of a bummer for those of us hoping for something more agnostic.

Yes, Lambda could support "Docker containers", but the more interesting problem to solve is the runtime model and protocol.
I feel like many people have strong opinions about Atlassian.
They are also a Java shop--which is something people also have strong opinions about.

At a previous job they switched from a hodgepodge of systems and centralized onto Jira and Confluence and I have longed for it at the places I've worked since. I do realize the cost and maintenance (configuring and customizing it to get the most out of it) requires a lot of upfront attention. My most recent job uses them and although I haven't used either heavily yet, I find the gui way more confusing and feel like the pages are almost comically slow and heavy.
That's wrong, please read this: https://dev.to/5chdn/the-ethereum-blockchain-size-will-not-e...

>Even BitGo, a commercial payment company, has trouble maintaining datacenter servers that can keep up with the io demands of running an Ethereum node.

That company lost 120k of Bitfinex's BTC to a hack, the exact scenario it was apparently created to prevent. Their struggles reflect their competence level: especially the part about _directly_ using network storage, apparently genuinely not realizing that the main point of local instance storage is to function as a last cache level exactly for situations like these.
So ... deriving balances?
No customer wanted to fly a payload on the rocket, so the payload is a joke. The most interesting part about the joke is the small number of people who criticize it as if it were a real problem.
Pipes aren't even something shell scripts have a monopoly on. They're just as easy to use in Perl. Perl may not be known for its readability, but it still ends up miles ahead of an equivalent script in bash.

I do wish there was a first class syntax for it in Python (but you can get most of the way there by using generator/coroutine pipelines).
> As part of my job currently, I am going to delete it.

Go away, or I will turn you into a very small shell script.

#!/bin/bash
find / -name \*.sh -size +10k -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
"Salvi said drugs prescribed to alleviate the side effects of chemotherapy, like Cisplatin...." Correction: Cisplatin is the chemotherapy drug that causes those side effects. It is indeed ototoxic.
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Smart contracts can have arbitrary state, but in general, yes. An archival node stores the state for each block which is only useful for block explorers and similar. That's indeed likely to take 1TB in 2018 - hardly a problem.
Thanks for mentioning the Phoenix Program, I had never learned about it, it's crazy that stuff like this is just glossed over.
> All the “gets longer” reasons you state here are solved by the “add more staff” and “use more exits” options.

No. Longer immigration queues could be solved by the government adding more staff, but they cannot be solved by the airline adding more staff, and the airline is the one buying or otherwise choosing to use the plane.
Those captchas are the worst. Google asks me to answer one whenever I make search queries in the middle of the night.
> I just checked every airline’s seating config for the 787 and all are either 3-3-3 or more rarely 2-4-2 in economy.

Is "economy" a more expensive tier? It doesn't seem to make sense that the cheaper tier would give more space per passenger.
In many places I've found both OSM and Here maps to provide higher quality data than Google Maps, actually. So it won't be that bad when (not if, considering it's Google) they stop Google Maps. And DeepL is starting to beat Google Translate on some language pairs, too.

The hardest to replace part is search today.
If you live under the London Heathrow flight path then the A380 makes a lot of sense. Despite many airlines operating point to point services rather than hub and spoke there are places like London Heathrow where a lot of people want to get to and there are not enough plane slots for everyone.

I do not believe that Heathrow is uniquely congested. These few airports, even if there are only five or so that have the same problems, are enough to necessitate some level of on-going A380 production. Simply put, without an A380 then you are not going to find it so easy to get the best Heathrow slots or enough of them for your passenger numbers. Ryanair won't be investing in A380s any time soon or planning to operate from Heathrow with other big planes but all of the former 'flag' airlines that go into Heathrow have the best plane for the job in the A380.

Incidentally I am amazed at how many more Airbus planes fly into Heathrow than Boeing. Particularly with the smaller jets, A320 size the equivalent Boeing planes seem relatively rare. Imaginably they are on a different flight path.

I also fully expect that there are public relations companies with vested interests in saying that the A380 is doomed. I am sure there were public relations companies telling the world the plane was going to sell 4x more than it did.

Despite the hubris of the market I am sure that there are some sensible people in Airbus that work to different market expectations than the salesmen and can appreciate the passenger perspective cited by yourself as well as the realities for folk who live in places close to the likes of London Heathrow. The demand is solid if not as big as first advertised and these big planes have a big future. Which is sad if you are green minded and consider the level of travel a bit silly.
They can't be Google. Google survived the bubble by staying a small private company that bigger companies didn't see as worth acquiring. It saved them from dying with those companies when the bubble popped.
the SEE materials are from 2007.
Judging from the statistics quoted in the article, the government has almost eradicated polio in Nigeria. Pretty effective, no?

(P.S. Cheque’s in the post, right, George?)
And it's guaranteed not to have postdictions?
> Most immediate US-based sends and receives are virtual, based on 2nd-layer systems like Venmo and PayPal, not actually moving money but updating the numbers in your account before funds land.

This is really only the case in the US. Most of the rest of the world can have bank transfers that are cleared in seconds, for free. The US is just way behind on this, it's a solved problem for Europeans.
This is to the degree of wild conspiracy theories; however, this whole Cuba incident defies all explanation. Sonic sounds plausbile for other reasons, such as the locality of the phenomenon (the victims didn't experience the effects if they moved). However, let's face it: sonic attacks are. just. impossible. There's E.T. It's never E.T. Furthermore, why would E.T. attack political officials in Cuba for, so far, no fallout effect? Poisoning? That doesn't explain the locality of the effect. Microwaves? Some people were in rooms, we can assume that they were shielded by concrete and microwaves aren't known to have these effects without other effects presenting more severely first. Gamma rays, or some beyond-gamma emission? Particle accelerators aren't that portable.

When I first heard about this I basically gave up on all explanations after things started becoming too crazy. The simplest explanation I have right now is a combination attack - you poison officials with "something" and activate it with some combination of other triggers (including sonic, as we have the recordings you linked). This explanation is full-blown Fringe and I don't like it for that reason, but this is really starting to defy all simpler explanations.

I really don't know what to think at this point: it is becoming science fiction.
> Self-driving doesn't solve the problem of traffic, congestion, pollution (from gas self-driving), etc etc.

Doesn't it? Looks to me it will (except pollution).
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you can turn off autocorrect
In regards to C# functions, there is no lock-in to AWS, it's a piece of code, you can run that function on AWS Lambda, or in ASP.NET Website, or Azure Function, or console app...

It's literally a method which has a single parameter class, and a single class returned...

Even if you're using node, java, golang, python. Other than the packaging. How is there any lock in?
If the crime rate is decreasing in the U.S. this is not being reflected within mexican borders. As Mexico has just been through its most violent year in history. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence/mexico-mu...
What more infuriating is it using synonyms of "verbatim" that actually don't mean the same thing as verbatim in a particular technical context but match an avalanche of noise. I've yet to find a way to turn on synonym matching.
Ironically those graphics are the whole point of the article. It is supposed to simulate what the year 1968 might have looked like if there had been a Twitter feed back then. There is very little original content in the article text itself.

Edit: On further inspection, I am coming to the conclusion that the article is really a thinly veiled advertisement for TimesMachine, a subscription newspaper archive.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com
I am always annoyed at claims in supervised learning that a machine predictor is better than humans. Humans obviously are the ones that scored the dataset to begin with. If you read the paper, it goes on to say, in regards to human evaluation:

> Mismatch occurs mostly due to inclusion/exclusion
of non-essential phrases (e.g., monsoon trough versus
movement of the monsoon trough) rather than
fundamental disagreements about the answer.

I don't think I would call that "error," rather than ambiguity. In other words, there's more than one possible answer to the questions under these criteria -- English isn't a formal grammar where there's always one and only one answer. For instance, here's one of the questions from the ABC Wikipedia page:

> What kind of network was ABC when it first began?

> Ground Truth Answers: radio network radio radio network

> Prediction: October 12, 1943

Because the second human said "radio" instead of "radio network," I believe this would count as a human miss. But the answer is factually correct. Meanwhile, the prediction from the Stanford logistic regression (not the more sophisticated Alibaba model in the article, where I don't think results are published at this detail) is completely wrong. No human could make that mistake. And yet these are treated as equally flawed answers by the EM metric.

And yet this gets headlined as "defeats humans," not "learns to mimic human responses well."
The strangest thing to me was how pro-US Ho Chi Minh was and how strongly we ignored that, largely for a policy of colonialism that everyone already knew was dead. France doesn't catch near enough crap for that.

We should have told France to stuff it.
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Who guaranteed gold before 68?

Does or did that make Gold a currency?
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It gets a bit ridiculous over longer time scales. Almost all of my SO activity was in early 2009, when I got up to about 12k reputation. I had another small burst in early 2010 that took me to 17k or so.

I've had basically zero activity since then, and am now at 56,725. So I've gained about 40k while doing absolutely nothing for 8 years, and am still ranked #1331 (top 0.34%) on the site overall.

Here's a screenshot of my reputation graph: https://i.imgur.com/qgkdTz1.png
Yes, when they are easy and they get the job done. Then you move on to the long-term solutions.
That's why I wrote 'efficient' while you answered 'effective' :)
> People hate layovers, they want more direct flights.

But the fact that people hate layovers is a tool that airlines use for price discrimination. I just searched priceline.com for one-way flights to PVG on February 20. SFO to PVG nonstop is $640 and up. LAX to PVG with a layover in SFO is $594.
While we're all grumbling about Google, my main gripe is the increasing indexing of Pinterest in web search. It was bad enough a few years ago when they statted clogging up image searches, but I've noticed a lot of links to Pinterest now in the first few web results of a search.
It's all the keyboards. Swype used to work great, but now when it actually gets words right, if I have sentence with a second word that could possibly have been two similar words on the path it will just straight up replace both rendering the sentence completely incomprehensible. Who are these people that don't correct their sentences until the second incorrect word?
That depends on who made the integration (matrix, jitsi, or other)
> the AI is probably incentivized to give a correct response to as many people

I'd bet it's probably trained to maximize clicks on ads...

Just like youtubes algorithm is trained to maximize viewing time (and thus ads you see), instead of showing you videos you'd actually enjoy more.
I wish they'd do the same for Ruby... hopefully Ruby is next!
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The problem in hyperinflationary situations isn't lack of access to hard currency, it is usually readily available on the black market. The problem is the lack of affordability of hard currency. How many US dollars do I get for this piece of hyperinflating funny money? Probably not many.

Bitcoin is really no different from transacting in US dollars or any other hard currency, in fact it's arguably worse in pretty much every way. And you won't be able to get Bitcoins at affordable funny-money prices any more than you can get dollars.

So when you hear things like "Zimbabwe should switch to Bitcoin", just mentally replace that advice with "Zimbabwe should switch to USD" and imagine how that would play out. Harsh austerity measures, deregulation, and privatization to get a few measly millions of World Bank loans that will be gone in no time. Any country that finds themselves in a position where they can't issue their own currency is going to have a real hard time of it.

So just think "shock doctrine, but with Bitcoin".
I think you've got cause and effect reversed—GamerGate worked because gamers were already prone to this sort of behavior. See "This is Phil Fish," [1] a video (by the same person who did the GamerGate video) about Phil Fish, the creator of the acclaimed indie game "Fez." He was driven off the Internet (or at least out of public participation) by similar toxic behavior.

Phil Fish is a white male.

I don't know how long this has been going on, and it does seem to be getting steadily worse, but I don't think GamerGate was a turning point. Just a particularly visible example of how bad things have gotten.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w
Yeah, you are right; https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

They even dropped tilde :(

But you might be able to achieve the same things with their advanced search; https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
Ah this is good to know. I current run on-prem Exchange, with a view to moving to Office365, my mailbox is a super-set of all the mail I've ever had and goes back 20+ years.
Yes, you're right, they did this a looong time ago... BUT, sometimes Google still insists on showing you results that don't contain the word or phrase that you've explicitly requested must be in the results - utterly infuriating!
The question is not if it is a video conferencing software. We have billions of these. The question is if it can deliver a solution on the old problem of sucking Voip connections, especially with multiple participants.
> Google, the search company

Google, the ads company

FTFY.
Could be the amount of ink required to print out the actual number.
You have a few options but it's first and foremost important to understand laws related to "hacking" in your country.

Your first option is simply to let it go. It might not be worth your time, energy and risk to pursue this. Certainly if the vulnerabilities are not high risk. You already did the right thing by notifying them. It's the company choice to accept the risk of not fixing the vulnerabilities.

You can file the finding with your local CERT, they might be able/helpful to coordinate.

You can go full disclosure with it, if you accept the risk the company might sue you. Even if you're in the right, it might cost you a lot of time, money and anxiety before the court says you are. See option 1.

Notification to the authority responsible for enforcing GDPR or local privacy authority might be worthwhile, it depends.

Also, what kind of PII are we talking about?
I'm going to guess it's not a physics-breaking, direct and conspicuous attack on foreign diplomats for observable reason.
mm is a less common abbreviation for "million," but it does appear often in the US in finance and accounting
> just like it's very easy to pick yesterday's lottery numbers

It can be harder than it appears. Never forget the poor Chinese guy who noticed that the winning lottery numbers were announced before the close of ticket sales, and got thrown in jail for his pains.
I've never understood this. What do you do when you need to defecate?
Lambda's execution model is language-specific runtimes being fed events off a queue through a single well-defined RPC or RPC-like entry point, with the process frozen or discarded upon queue exhaustion.

So the architecture of Lambda may indeed be a severe mismatch for running arbitrary containers.
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Yes, not all pedophiles act on their urges, yes, it may be stupid SEO tactics, yes, OP is a prude, but that whole page is just begging to be labeled as pedophilic in nature.
Draw AWS architecture diagrams
>> To be honest I'm quite impressed that NYTimes went this length to create these technical widgets ... Seems like a relatively high cost of production.

That's because the article is really just an advertisement for TimesMachine, a subscription newspaper archive. I didn't notice it at first, either.
It looks like the problem with the hub & spoke model right now is that the big hub airports are all slot-restricted. LCCs like to use smaller airports out of town that have cheaper open slots, and this makes it harder to implement hubs. But I predict as they build out intercontinental travel (like Norwegian are doing now), hubs will emerge for the intra-continental legs.