skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't solely the purview of governments, there are other institutions involved, including many corporations, and the specific individuals behind them. Arguably the financial world, various inter-national rivalries, media, public opinion, religions, and more.

On the one hand, if it succeeds in offing some element of, take your pick: modernity, liberal democracy, advanced civilisation, humanity, life on earth, terrifying as all get out. On the other, a maddeningly fascinating systems dysfunction at work.

Though on the whole, I'd prefer the tuition bill for this course were lower.
> Apparently, the minimum wage laws squeezed them out of the job market...

Actually the disconnect between productivity and pay [1] probably squeezed them out of the job marker. When workers are producing more, but not making more money, there's no one to buy all the extra goods and services they produce. Companies and investors end up banking all the excess instead of investing in additional production.

> ...and the unregulated online job is their only hope.

So supply-side economics has failed (as predicted), but the solution is to revert to industrial revolution era labor laws? That doesn't really follow.

> Wait, I know, your solution is to force ME to subsidize their low-value low-skill job, am I right?

Well why not? Everybody else is already subsidizing your "high-value, high-skill" job through limits on skilled immigration and stringent IP laws. Share and share alike, right?

[1] http://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
No. There's a pretty clear path: rising temperatures->food supply disruption->regional war->nuclear war->there are maybe a few people left in bunkers.
Scientists have cloned monkeys and it could help treat cancer
I don't think Facebook is the real problem when it comes to splitting the world. The users are the problem. People are so divided because they are getting information in silos. They end up seeing the world they want to see. And if it is not Facebook, it's going to be someone else.

If facebook wants to be a part of fixing this, which is questionable as the article points out, they need to start exposing people to alternate opinions, rather than enforcing the ones people already have. Facebook is actually in a position to do this. They should of course start slowly with more moderate opinions. But they shouldn't move away from news. They should double down, with more, diverse news.
DLR/NASA research flights over northern Germany
Thanks for this high-level overview. I'm evaluating Front vs similar apps in the space. I think the big value add for Front is that it augments service related email, whereas the others like Zendesk replaces it.
Make a habit of meeting people in the morning for coffee. So if you come in a little late, it's normal.

Attend evening meet-ups and industry events, happy hours-- great for networking with insiders.

Finally, keep ALL communication / surfing on your personal device.
> nobody, with the appropriate training, should be opening them in the first place

How many users do you administer again?
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.htm...

Not all signals are blocked by init, if init wants to be signaled :)
I see turmeric root in grocery store. How would this compare to say a powdered turmeric?
What’s your opinion of this study’s statistical power?
100X developers can straightforwardly - sometimes - find solutions to problems that are simple, elegant and fast. This often means that the things that they do are not only cleaner than the solutions produced by weak(er) engineers, but also require less complexity to implement them whether at the organizational level (e.g. because the task is being done by 1 person in 2 hours, rather than 4 people in 200+ person hours, there isn't any time spent on meetings) or at the technical level (e.g. because the task now runs better on a single computer, rather than a cluster or threaded machine, it no longer requires parallelization and a distributed system).

Sometimes this also comes about by a deep knowledge of available algorithms and systems, so while a naive programmer might start flailing around like a dog with their head stuck in a bucket, an experienced person might recognize the problem as an Integer Linear Programming case, etc.

There are plenty of cases where no-one is 100x, of course.
Mark E Smith, lead singer with the Fall, dies aged 60
I may, in the meantime you can access it via my backend service. It's a mongodb store
https://cryptoserver.now.sh/threads
Rust `#[repr(C)]` is about representation in memory and function call ABI for the type. C rules about casting through union are not relevant to Rust code.
New Changes to Wassenaar Arrangement Export Controls Will Benefit Cybersecurity
I have been waiting for a post like this for a while. Thanks for sharing.
Exactly!

This is essentially wild-west sweatshop extortion that is exploiting desperate people. It is totally unethical and unjust.

These companies should be offering a reasonable wage for a reasonable amount of work. Not 0.80$ for an hour of work (that is totally unjust).
10 books every web developer should read to increase their software IQ
99.9% of all creatures to exist on earth are now extinct. [1] We're not special.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction
Steve Yegge is a widely respected programmer who is also a bit known for making big predictions about the future of tech and generally being (directionally) correct about them.
Clearly this person has minimal experience in fraud, this is a horribly set up ponzi scheme. The investors can make a profit purely with their own actions, and remove any ETH that is currently in there. I thought about doing it, but don't feel like getting into cryptocurrencies and putting up $30K to get a positive return.

The way you can rip this off is buy a bunch of coins at once, push up the value, and then sell them all. You have to buy a maximum of 400 PonziCoins before you can start making a profit, but then the more you buy, then cash out, the more profit you make.

This is if the current price is .02 ETH per PC, which I've heard it's not anymore.

+----------+------+----------------+
| numCoins | cost | return if sold |
+----------+------+----------------+
| 100 | 2 | -1 |
| 200 | 6 | -2 |
| 300 | 14 | -2 |
| 400 | 30 | 2 |
| 500 | 62 | 18 |
| 600 | 126 | 66 |
| 700 | 254 | 194 |
| 800 | 510 | 514 |
| 900 | 1022 | 1282 |
| 1000 | 2046 | 3074 |
+----------+------+----------------+

Worst case scenario is the price has just gone up, and you need to buy 100 PC to make the price double. But immediately you can sell for half your cost, instead of 1/4 because you made the price double. Do this again, but now you have twice the number of coins to sell, you are already breaking even on your first batch. Next round you make money on your first batch, break even with the second, lose with the third. But the fourth round you are making so much from the first and second rounds, breaking even with the third, and only losing half of your fourth, that you come out ahead.

You can't make money forever, you will just take all ETH that has been put in before, which will be a small amount. Then nothing is left and it will be bankrupt until someone else puts money in. But it's a guaranteed way to get your own money back, if you can afford to go at least 4 rounds, if it works exactly as the site says, and if no one cashes out coins before you do. The risk is that someone waits and cashes out after you put your money in and before you have cashed out, you have to do your transactions all at once to be successful.

I don't know how this works behind the scenes, I don't advocate for any of this, and I won't be trying it myself. I also am a little disappointed to realize I may have provided the best argument yet to make this thing go. So don't put your money in there, you are probably going to lose it.
For my quick example, you'd have to change the key in the regex appropriately, and there may be other various metadata involved that has to be handled (i.e. whether the steps are from running or from walking). Again, there are 3rd party tools, but I do not want to use them.

The actual data filtering/aggregation/visualization is a different story, and beyond the scope of getting the data. (here's why I was getting the heart rate data in the first place: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/949306256874913792)
THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY
OP is a Mac user - Nvidia Shadowplay and AMD ReLive only work on Windows.
Science isn't perfectly absolved after all many of us including computer "scientists" work closely with industry that affects global warming.
the only way to look for causal connections is to brood force the probability space of correlations with the besy heuristics we can find. You present a false ditochomy, instead the parent used a syllogysm.
> Are there credible models that suggest Earth will turn into Venus or something?

Yes, the model is called Venus.

> (which is what I thought the stakes were).

You were misinformed. The stakes are significantly higher than that.
Something the author doesn't bring up, but that we started doing about 9 months ago at my company, is synchronous reviews. Meaning the committer is on the phone or in person with the reviewer. It's great. We don't do it for all PR's, but anything medium sized or above, or even small one's if they involve critical logic.
The way we usually do it is the committer walks through the changes with the reviewer. Often the committer will realize their own ways of improving the code. And with the added context, the reviewer can often provide better feedback. Plus the X factor of just two people talking who come up with ideas, improvements, etc.
And half our team is remote, so this wasn't a natural outgrowth. We make it happen, but I think it's worth it.
There is definitely no shortage of doomsday climate models. CREDIBLE models is a different story.

Look back at ones from 20+ years ago to see what they predicted would be happening by now. It's pretty funny actually.
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I agree but I think the chain can shorten to

nuclear war->there are maybe a few people left in bunkers.

If we were to get rid of the nuclear option then both your chain and my chain would not be viable.

Nukes before greenhouses?
Such events are necessary to keep human population under a manageable number. Throughout human history there have been outbreaks that claimed many lives and stunted population growth for some time. We will likely see such an event in our time.
I have - filling by hand (set up opened capsule halves, pick up larger half, scoop and pack powder into it, close it with other half, repeat) for something you take daily gets really old really fast.

If you know a better way I'm all ears, as I'd love to keep filling my own piracetam capsules (commercial caps are 800mg, way too strong for me) but hate actually doing it.
I'm sure this is staged, but it's a pretty funny comparison nonetheless.
I agree. Thanks for putting it so well.
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Venus is a shit model for Earth. Try again.
There is something we can do. We can enjoy what we have here and now, for as long as it lasts, for as long as we can.
How effective were the preventative measures on that?

Do we have a cure / vaccine?
Google did leave, but then they went back

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/why-g...
CHOAM are into blockchain?
QuickAuth [0] is one of the primary reasons I use a Pebble, though Android Wear and Apple Watch are good devices you can use T/HOTP generators on too.

0. https://github.com/JumpMaster/QuickAuth
Or just take one Curcumin tablet from Biotest that has 500mg curcumin and 5mg piperine. Easy and no harsh aftertaste that would come with teaspoons of it raw.
> I know some people who had participated in a distributed Ponzi scheme consciously

Unless they were running the scheme, it can't have been a Ponzi if they, as participants, were aware of its structure. Presumably, you mean a pyramid scheme.
I guess this is the new fad now, “Apply ML models to data you already have”?
> cleaner than coal

It's also cleaner and less carbon intensive (12 gCO2/kWh) than pretty much everything else out there. Wind beats it as the least carbon intensive (11 gCO2/kWh).

Original reference: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg3/ipcc_wg3_a...

Writeup with plots: https://partofthething.com/thoughts/a-medium-length-primer-o...
I don’t disagree. Healthcare insurance in the US is a fiction (especially now that catastrophic-only coverage is not an option). But other countries don’t even have this fiction of lives being saved by healthcare “insurance” because the one saving your life is the NHS, etc.

When mschuster91 said that insurance is the only ethical model it was not clear to me if he meant “insurance as in the US which is insurance in name only” or insurance as in “the model used in other countries which is not even called insurance”, hence me question.
There was a recent Icelandic (I think) TV show with a premise along these lines
The email was invented in 72. There you go!
> 50MW of power is powering roughly 50K homes for a year.

This may seem pedantic, but the relevant measure is power when speaking of generators, like this reactor, and energy (in addition to power) when talking about storage, like say, the Tesla battery in Australia. So "...powering roughly 50K homes for a year" could just as well be for a second, a week, or a decade. Indicating a time interval is not meaningful in this context.

Power is the rate of energy consumption/generation (think water flow rate at the faucet), while energy is the total amount stored or consumed (how much you have in the bathtub). Mixing up power (W) with energy (Wh) is unfortunately a pervasive mistake in the media, too; we should strive to avoid it, lest we contribute to the confusion.

(Also, 1kW per house is probably too little; somewhere around 3kW is probably closer to reality.)
Check out algorithmic information theory:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0210035.pdf
Newton`s theory of relativity.
That’s not how evolution works. That’s like saying that a dog could easily kill a velociraptor because dogs are 65 million years “more evolved”.
>And we can easily prevent the explosion by simply not making the planet too hot.

Great, you should call up the U.N., they'll be excited to hear about this.
>Huh, maybe the dark fibre of Bitcoin will be cheap silicon and subsidized fab research.

If you think that the world needs ever more efficient ASICs for computing sha256 hashes, then sure.
Ask for examples of good reviews to emulate. Look at the PR without comments first, and give your own review. Then compare with the original review, and see what areas you emphasized more, and emphasized less than the original review. Talk with the original reviewer, and ask about mindset behind why they asked for the changes they did.

Also, read a lot of code reviews. Just like reading a lot of code is helpful for becoming a better developer, reading a lot of reviews is helpful for becoming a better reviewer.
> Unfortunately most commentaries are not public domain, so you may have to shell out some money for a good one. But they were invaluable when reading Shakespeare and Dante, as it made the difference for me between reading Dante and understanding Dante.

Any recommendations for commentaries on any of these?
I’m sorry, but it has long been shown Earth cannot simply turn into Venus given the current climate models.
> Such events are necessary to keep human population under a manageable number.

Is there any evidence for this assertion?
I define weak spots in terms of things I'm trying to accomplish. If I'm weak in areas I'll never need, then who cares? When trying to accomplish something you'll find out pretty quickly the things you need to improve and be dragged towards improving them fairly naturally.
And in late breaking news, sales of bleach and clothes whitener are up worldwide as turmeric is discovered to be a potent yellow dye for clothes...
If your interested in 'food as medicine', Watercress is very interesting, "This is the first study to report an effect of vegetable consumption on metabolism of a lung carcinogen in humans."

http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/4/8/877.short

Seems it inhibits CYP2E1, here's a long list of the interactions between drugs and the genes CYP2D6 and CYP3A4 https://liferaftgroup.org/long-list-of-inhibitors-and-induce...

[edit] Pharma-Nutrition is the buzzword for this, one only needs to look at the acquisitions of nutritional science assets by big pharma. The book is a bit expensive but there is some previews;

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/331906150X/ref=oh_aui_se...
There's not only a pedagogical task here, but the Rust community must learn how to write code safely. The major difficulty here is that in general, unsafe pieces of code cannot be safely composed, even if the unsafe pieces of code are individually safe. This allows you to bypass runtime safety checks without unsafe code just by composing "safe" modules that internally use unsafe code in their implementation.

This kind of problem comes up a lot. Composed atomic operations are not atomic. Composed correct threaded code is not always correct. Mixing Scheme control structures made with call/cc don't work as desired. Enabling different Haskell language extensions gets you off the deep end quickly, and some unsafe combinations are surprising (see GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving, which is considered unsafe even though it used to be safe).
I’m Mathilde, CEO and co-founder of Front. To give more context about our shared inbox, we started by trying to solve the pain points around responding together to group emails like contact@ info@. Email isn’t collaborative; it’s unclear who is supposed to respond to a group email, forwarding/reply all/CCs are messy, and you can’t even internally discussion an email in the inbox. But, it’s still the main communication tool for businesses, so that’s why we’re tackling the team email inbox problem first.

We expanded Front for multi-channel use (live chat, SMS, Facebook, Twitter) because even more teams (customer support, success, operations, marketing, etc) need a centralized communication tool that brings all their emails, channels, apps, messages into one place. It’s been interesting to see the many new use cases that we now support as a result of this change.

Ultimately, our longer term vision for Front is to create a platform that helps to break down the silos between teams that are using various specialized tools/apps and make collaboration easier within an entire company. And I think we can use the inbox to be that central platform. But, we’ve got a long way to get there and things to consider over time (like our pricing). You can see our public roadmap on Trello (http://frontapp.com/roadmap) and submit your ideas to help us get there.

I wrote some thoughts on my vision on Medium if you’re interested: https://medium.com/@collinmathilde/to-new-beginnings-announc...
US emissions have plateaued two decades ago [0]. Emissions are growing unchecked elsewhere, a combination of population explosion and rapid industrialization.

[0] http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/03/31/chinese-co2-emis...
In a socialized system you'd have the same thing, except perpetuated by bureaucrats instead of businessmen.

If anything, capitalism has an advantage in that it's at least theoretically possible to mitigate the effect of greed on politics. Throwing all your eggs into the government basket gives you no such recourse.
I was expecting this to be mentioned somewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Mix it in a glass of warm milk with honey.
I wasn't achieving my weight goals like I hoped so I threw my arms up and said "FUCK IT chicken and sweet potatoes for lunch from now on."

I've been eating curry-powdered baked chicken for maybe 3 months straight for lunch nearly every day and somehow it's fine. Mostly I'm craving the massive amount of protein it gives me so maybe my body is overriding any "boredom" of the food?
More it more I'm learning that inflammation is a huge problem in modern health. I'd be very interested in a list of anti-inflammatory foods, supplements and behaviors.
The models from 20 years ago overshot by several confidence intervals because they underestimated mixing the deep ocean. "The barrel is bigger than we expected" doesn't make the rising water in the barrel any less concerning, but it's not the triumph of foresight that you seem to imply.
I'd definitely be interested in a longer cut. Thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortitude_(TV_series)

Filmed in Iceland, set in Norway. Slow paced but quite excellent.

(S2 was not as good as S1, however)
That says X11. Not going to work on macOS's Quartz.
No, the Earth has been a lot warmer and colder in the past. We've had massive volcanoes going off for thousands of years, we've had iceball earth, we've had crocodiles and palm trees in the arctic.

The Earth's systems always balance out over the long run. We don't stay trapped in ice ages or hot phases.
For every turmeric study claiming health benefits, I can also find a study finding none. It's one of the most controversial subject. Read several papers at least before deciding anything. It's even less clear when you try to evaluate curcumin vs turmeric.
Glad you cleared that up. I feel better now.
If you are looking to advance your career, you might want to consider focusing on understanding large scale distributed systems architecture rather than programming.
40? so nothing relevant? :(
I thought it fit the character. I'm not really fond of shallans parts of the story, although I do think they are getting better, but dialogue like that was not out of place. If I recall correctly she has quite a bit of internal worrying and external commentary about how she constantly talks like that, and views it as a negative near the beginning of the books
No, it's pretty specifically not about the Skylake issue - The retpoline not working on Skylake is fixed by IBRS, and is due to ret calls falling back to indirect prediction in deep stacks.

vmexits and context switches are a very different thing than the deep stack ret calls.
One thing that is very valuable is human feedback from coworkers. However, like most communication, there is a skill to getting and receiving feedback. The book Thanks for the Feedback from the authors of Getting to Yes is a well-written and presents some solid implementable ways to improve how you handle soliciting, interpreting, and healthily responding to feedback.

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Business/Thanks-for-the-Feedbac...
Vanillin Affects Amyloid Aggregation and Non-Enzymatic Glycation in Insulin
I agree: start at the top and burn down through the executives and the board until the people that are left (and the ones that fill the gaps) don't want to risk doing shady/anti-competitive/etc stuff.

We will nothing, and we will fix nothing by slapping these companies on the wrist and then letting them go back to what they're doing.
And yet capitalism gives us the greatest hope we have: companies like Tesla, and products like solar panels and wind turbines. None of that would exist without capitalism.
In all probability, that ship sailed ten years ago. "So doing bad stuff" is no longer a viable strategy by itself. Sure we should do that, but at this point, without adaptation and mitigation strategies, we're fucked.
Anomaly Detection – Protect yourself from malicious spend attacks on clouds
Construction is a two step process. The space for something is allocated and then the constructor is called so there isn’t anything magical in that example.

It does however also remove half the guarantees about uninitiated object visibility in the java memory model because your leaking the reference inside the constructor.
Not everything has to look "sexy". If it will reduce time to detect computer infections from months to days, like they're implying, it may be a big thing.