skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would be the bigger security risk? Uploads of ambivalent track data or the existence of a dataset of geofenced high importance areas shared with private companies?
Or Tether Untethers, if you dislike the passive voice.
No, but its a pretty good clue.
I think the idea is that when Tether turns up the printing press, they are using it to buy Bitcoin, which they can then use to buy USD, which can then be used to buy back some of the USDT on Kraken. The assumption is that there isn't enough USD cash in reserve to actually buy back the Tethers on Kraken (and anywhere else it may be flagging). Since they have no banks (as far as anyone can tell), and it's very difficult to imagine how hundreds of millions of USD is flowing into Tether from institutional investors, I can't figure out how they'd have $2+ billion USD just hanging around.

As with any great Ponzi scheme, you have to pay some of your early investors to keep the thing going. But, at some point, you risk eating into your profits, so you just stop and everything collapses while you disappear to the island you bought with your stolen money.

If they want to keep going, they have to buy some USDT on Kraken to prop up the price. But, if they're done with the con and want to cash out...now might be when they do it. A few hundred million worth of various crypto assets is not a bad take.
People who own planes generally report it being fun to fly; it is just also extremely expensive to do often and there is a massive element of risk if you don't know what you are doing or your luck with the weather runs out for you and your small plane that you are flying with your limited skills. I don't be know many people who report "going into the military was extremely fun and I would do it constantly if I just had access to enough sufficiently-evil enemies to kill".
Can we also assume that any country with global wiretapping systems - US, Germany, Russia, China, India could intercept this information?
Not as much as LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a fairytale-land for adults, and it's bizzare (to me) that anyone wants to participate. It's not even humblebragging anymore. It's "Look what I made, and what I achieved" packed into casual "Oh this thing? Yeah it's just my perfect life"-packages...
Irrespective of any other elements of this post, it’s factually incorrect in one important way: GHC does not have an O3 optimization level. On for any n>2 is treated as O2. Likewise not all O2 optimization’s are always a win vs O1 :)

Disclosure: I help out a teeny itsy bit with ghc on occasion.
I once bought a spool of string that had a prop65 warning on it. It's true the warnings are useless, because they don't list the harmful ingredient (lead contamination? outgassing of plastic additives?) and they don't say what activities are risky (can this spool of string cause problems if I don't touch it?)
Fitness tracking app gives away location of secret US army bases
> Vorweg ist anzumerken, dass die in Deutschland vorgenommene Trennung zwischen Steuern und Sozialabgaben in vielen Staaten nicht üblich ist. Daher verstehen internationale Organisationen unter dem Begriff „Steuern“ („Taxes“) in der Regel die Summe aus Steuern und Sozialabgaben und behandeln die Sozialabgaben („Social Security Contributions“) als Teilbetrag der Steuern.

http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Monatsberic...
There's something deeply concerning to me about claiming overall universal insights in pain management based on laparoscopic surgery.

Good for her that she was fine, but I've had the opposite experience with more serious stuff. Moaning in bed unable to sleep due to the pain being worse than anticipated is no fun, and that was in a hospital with the nurses aware but waiting on the proper overnight staff to have time to check in to decide if something stronger was justified.

Being uncomfortable is expected and fine, I don't want to be so numbed I hurt myself from overexertion, being unable to rest due to the pain is not.

But mainly, let's get rid of the stupid numbered pain scale. I don't know what the fuck a 5 vs a 10 is, but being told "you said it was at a 4, so we try to keep it under 5, so we didn't think you needed more at first" is annoying when I'm just basing my numbers off of some "I imagine getting shot in the knee could still hurt quite a bit worse" standard.
Authors of studies like this are well aware of this. I haven't read this paper, but these papers often go to great pains to explain how they controlled or screened-out other causes.
Is there a single platform where I can add a web app to the taskbar, dock or home screen and start in as a regular app?

I don't use Android, but I've never seen this work using any browser on MacOS, Windows or iOS.
I worked for \\\ - we were doing network support and deployment for the yellow cell carrier, I in particular worked on network gear made by a Korean company.

Surprisingly I'd love to work for a large telecom again, I enjoy the work, and surprisingly even the large corporate environment, plus, I'm in the PNW right now, and I'd like to relocate to 'not here' (Ideally DFW, but I'm not picky, just someplace warmer).
I think a big difference is social media causes people to constantly compare their lives to people's Facebook posts, which are usually people just sharing stuff that makes them look like their life is amazing. I know when I was in high school I compared myself to others and felt inadequate even without Facebook in my pocket. Now kids can just mindlessly scroll through a highlight reel of their peers and feel inadequate wherever they are.
OMG, he tell us to not store anything security-critical in Local Storage but advice to store encrypted session in Cookies instead!

He says that any JS code on the page can access Local Storage but he doesn't mention that Cookies can be accessed by JS as well as Local Storage. And also, Cookies will be sent with each request event if request target is an image or a CSS, when with Local Storage you can decide which data should be sent with each individual request.

He says that Local Storage can store strings only, but he doesn't tell that Cookies is even worse than this - it's JUST ONE string at all.

After that he tells about Cookie-related CSRF attacks prevention which not needed with Local Storage.

Doesn't he contradict himself?
10.0 was pretty bad - as in unusably bad. Like everyone I really miss snow leopard.
Writing: both learning how to write, and then practicing writing. Specifically, writing as a way of working through a problem and explaining it.

I talk about this in more detail, and suggest a book to read about writing, here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/06/15/writing-book/
You’re not paying for the OS; you’re paying for the hardware. If Macintosh hardware was buggy when running Linux or Windows, for reasons to do with, say, badly-written ACPI tables, then you’d have an argument.

As it is, it’s the opposite: Macs run both Windows and Linux “easily”, while other vendors’ buggy hardware has to be patched over with heuristics in these OSes because it has non-conforming device names, responses to introspection queries, etc. Apple hardware is uniquely well-engineered. If you’re writing your own hobbyist OS, it’s a breath of fresh air to run it on a Mac, compared to other kinds of PCs.

This is, coincidentally, also the reason it’s so hard to run macOS on other vendors’ machines. Windows and Linux paper over all the brokenness in hardware land, and so machines built for Windows/Linux rely on these heuristics with sloppy integration work. Apple, meanwhile, just does the integration to the standard in their hardware, and then relies on said standards-conformance in their OS. If everyone conformed to hardware ABI standards as well as Apple does, Hackintoshing would be a matter of just dropping a patched dont-steal-osx.kext into your install disc and calling it good. Everything else you have to do is the hardware vendors’ fault.
It's true, and a bit weird, that this happens even when one's sincere intention is just the opposite. It takes a bit of forethought to realize this in advance and avoid it. That's the skill we're most hoping to see become more widespread here.
The waves come from synchronicity of neurons "firing". When neurons fire there is a flow of ions that causes a potential difference. If a lot of this happens at the same time with some periodicity you can measure this. But it would be like looking at a CPU running some math operations and determining "there is periodic activity in the ALU" (which could be due to memory reads). Now this is a poor analogy because a single neuron doesn't do "one thing" it's massively distributed. My go to argumentation for "how the brain works" (and thus consciousness) has been that it's a massive coincidence detector that tries to encode these coincidences in spike train activity using spike train dependent plasticity. In doing so the brain echoes the coincidences of the neural (sensory) input, and since these encode for some "real" cause-effect you can predict the future: memory is "echoing" in a neural substrate, consciousness is exploiting those "echos" to try to predict the future. I wrote it up in 2011 https://www.dropbox.com/s/huol1vf4j1fs1ll/mind_matters.pdf?d... I've never seen anyone poke holes in this, and even hints at the details of this paper. Guess I chose the wrong career somewhere.
That is a fascinating quote which I don't think I've seen before. Although I appreciate the desire, on the part of the authors of the Bill of Rights, to boil each amendment down to its essence, in this case I wish they had kept more of the original context. The vision presented in this statement -- of "a well regulated Militia, composed of the Body of the People, trained to arms" -- is very different from what we've wound up with. There's nothing resembling a trained militia organized by the states, nor do most gun owners seem to feel any duty to engage in such organized training if it existed (of course, many do engage in individual training, but not all). The exceptions are private right-wing militias whose presence probably doesn't contribute to the overall security of the community, and, of course, organized crime, which is destructive to that security. And then on the other hand, we do have a standing army, indeed an entire military-industrial complex, which is evidently necessary, at least to some extent, in this modern world with its machines of war that were unimaginable to the Framers. The one part of this article that has worked out more-or-less as Mason envisioned is the last clause: the military has indeed remained under civilian control.

To me, all this adds to the difficulty faced by those who want to disregard the opening clause of the Second Amendment ("A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, ..."). It's all about collective self-defense; there's nothing here about individual self-defense. While I agree that individuals have a right to defend themselves when necessary, I believe that defending citizens from one another is primarily the responsibility of the State; only when the State is clearly failing in this duty do citizens have the right to take that defense upon themselves. Allowing individuals to arm themselves in the absence of such necessity — for sporting purposes, for example — is a choice a community might make, but is not a right.
You aren't wrong, but if you really are concerned about those sorts of things, you should probably drive a late-model Toyota, not a Delorian.

They stopped making this car in 1983; it is far beyond it's design lifetime already, and was never a particularly reliable car to begin with, from my understanding. Like most classic cars, you probably shouldn't drive it unless you enjoy maintaining it, and are okay with (and carry substantial liability insurance for) a car that is dramatically less reliable and less safe than a modern car. Like most classic cars, you probably shouldn't drive it places where you are likely to die or otherwise suffer dramatically bad consequences if it breaks down. This isn't a criticism of the Delorian specifically as much as it is a truth about early '80s automotive engineering and running vehicles beyond their service life.

Of course, as a society, we've decided that this (tradeof off cool car vs danger) is a reasonable choice to make; we don't force people to buy newer cars because they are safer. Within this context, the addition of a special instrument panel seems to me like it's not adding substantial additional danger to the system.
Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of Ikea and Creator of a Global Empire, Dies at 91
Yes, this USDTUSD market on kraken is an anomaly: it has very small volume, and nobody is really interested in trading that.

Poloniex has many USDT markets, as they use it to compensate for the fact they do not provide markets against fiat. As such, those markets have way more volume.

The market visualization and analysis tools website tradingview.com offers a computed charts of USDTUSD from poloniex (symbol: POLONIEX:USDTUSD). It tells a whole different story than kraken charts: https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=POLONIEX:USDTUSD . Basically, usdt is stable there.

There's still a problem here: tradingview does not tell (afaik) how they are computing this price. I would assume they do a mean or average of various BTCUSD markets on several exchanges, then check it against BTCUSDT on poloniex, or something like that. But I don't know any official explainer about it.
Not OP, but I'm tempted to switch. Because I had an issue with Pelican where I couldn't get year/month archives to work sanely (Pelican does year/month/day which is too fine for me). So I had to write my own generator anyway, and plumb that into Pelican. It wasn't that easy to do, although I do think Pelican is fairly hackable, if anything else was more easily hackable/extensible, I'd use it. Plus not having Python 2 legacy stuff in the codebase is a plus when I'm grokking it. I also find the Pelican config overburdened [0], but understand why it came to be that way.

I'm giving it a go this weekend, let you know if it worked out for me.

[0] http://docs.getpelican.com/en/stable/settings.html
>They've also just printed $600m in tether a few hours ago.

when? https://omniexplorer.info/default.aspx?filter=grant
First, the problem is maybe best explained as being a problem with biomedical sciences (where psychology generally lands in topic analyses). If anything, the problem is worse in some areas of medicine than psychology. Estimates of replication rate in psychology vary from 25-78%, and are often around 50%. In other areas of medicine such as cancer research and pharmacology, the estimates often have varied from 11-25%. Some estimates of areas of neuroscience are lower than psychology also.

Although I agree the problems probably vary across disciplines, it's also important to keep in mind this is in part because of where the flashlight is. Psychologists are studying this, and to a lesser extent, medical researchers, so they're kind of scrutinizing what they're familiar with. You allude to comp sci and AI, but as someone coming to that from statistics, there's a huge lack of awareness of generalizability of conclusions (tweak on large dataset, assume the size of the data protects against all), that manifests not so much as people raising the concern and it being dismissed as "if everyone is oblivious to it there's no problem." I think it's dangerous to assume that any area of science is immune.

I also don't think it's really about "math" as much as it is about the complexity of the domain. There's incredibly complex sophisticated math in many areas of psychology (many AI models are variants of things routinely done in psychology), but it doesn't get attention because it's inconsistent with the assumptions (stereotypes?) of those outside the areas, and those within the field often take for granted. Similar arguments can be made about various areas of biomedicine. Science can either cede complex topics to those prefer demon haunting, or recognize that complex topics will be more challenging than simpler topics.

I agree that more focus on sequential, adaptive model evaluation paradigms is needed; they are fascinating in their own right and have broad applicability.

Overall, I see this as reflecting fundamental problems with incentive structures in academics and research in the moment. I really feel like academics and research is very broken, and that it's not a statistical problem as much as it is a problem with culture and economics. I say this as someone in the field who wants to see it fixed, not as someone who wants to bring it down. I agree with you completely that there's too much focus on glamour, fame, and selfish attention than anything else.
This might have been on HN a while ago, but it talks about different social media sites and came to the conclusion that Instagram was the worst of them as far as this stuff goes.

https://www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/instagram-ranked-worst...

I'm not able to open the report itself from that page, but I found a copy and uploaded it to archive.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180128204404/http://www.infoco...
Is what they are doing even legal? Co-opting movie goers into their debit cards and then using that power to extort the movie theaters for money?

Imagine how much money your bank could make if they started doing this...
As a customer and not an OEM, what would they do with this information other than ask other parties to hurry with updates?

The mitigations required OEMs to send firmware, microcode, and software updates.
At least so far, int in C compilers on 32/64 bit architectures has always been 32 bits. It’s not good practice, but I’ve seen plenty of code assuming int/unsigned are 32 bits.
> no benefit to the student

No benefit? Maybe you mean that you prefer an Android tablet? I didn't have a computer until I was 18. The internet wasn't much of a thing until I got to college. Every day I think about how amazing it would have been to have access to so much free information when I was a kid.
Okay the speech issue aside because it's frankly been debated to death, what I find really crazy about the situation is how much this is being treated by Facebook as a 'mechanical turk' like task.

The author describes having only a few seconds for a pretty complex task and is exposed to disturbing material for essentially their entire workday, without any adequate psychological training at all.

This is not how content moderation should be done at all, and I'm not even sure that this should be treated like a routine job.
I would be very surprised if the NSA did not already know about these vulnerabilities. It's unfortunate that we can't count on the NSA doing the responsible thing for national security (which would be to notify Intel). But if these bugs were found by several independent researchers this year, it's hard for me to believe that the NSA didn't already find them. If they didn't, they are falling down on the job.
“Correlation does not imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’” (Thanks to XKCD)

It’s true that correlation does not imply causation. But it’s a stupid middlebrow dismissal to throw out there.
Why would anyone browse LinkedIn? This is actually a serious question. I'm pretty good about keeping mine updated, but the only viewers I'm planning on are recruiters, who would be getting the same information regardless.
better place cars were not very good and the range wasn't great either, apparently about 80 miles. Without a compelling car like a tesla, the ev 'revolution' wouldn't have gone as far as it has.
How the Kernel Manages Your Memory (2009)
Additionally, valgrind is incompatible with Maverick.

Which is a huge pain, because it means that if I ever need to use it, I have to debug on a server.
What does imply causation?
> the realities of student loans, an out of reach housing market, devalued college degrees, the gig economy, promises of no retirement, etc.

Have you ever met a teenager? Almost literally zero percent of them think (or need to think) about this stuff, with the possible exception of some of the very oldest teenagers (ie, people in their first or second year of college who are starting to think about the details of the start of their careers).
> I don't be know many people who report "going into the military was extremely fun and I would do it constantly if I just had access to enough sufficiently-evil enemies to kill".

That statement to me shows you even have difficulty conceptualizing what a non-gamified model even look like! (.e.g "sufficiently-evil enemies to kill").

Simulation has much more elements of tedium (no "pacing"), just like real life.

Or the learning curve is not constructed just so to be the perfect on-ramp, just like real life. The learning curve is simply what nature/environment demands.

e.g. "Enemies" are not "sufficiently evil", or even presented to you at proper game-enjoyment level times/pacing.

It is why simulations are not really "games", they are not "fun" (but the can be, but that isn't the "point"), but my point was that something draws people to them, and they engage with them. It's interesting to think about why.
It's the world's best unicorn factory.
there is no normal withdrawal mechanism.
i've never heard that j1772 has ip networking to the car, are you sure of that? it's at least optional, because you can have home j1772 chargers without needing an internet connection.
Well, his username might be relevant... :)
Currently a father of teens... That is a huge subject of discussion in high schools. Teens do talk a lot about the economy, ROI of different degrees (nursing being the best, law school and engineering giving less chance of jobs and being much harder, everything else being useless), that their passions don't matter, they have to get a degree that leads to jobs, number of years before they can afford living on their own etc...
I go back to my old macbook air from my new macbook pro – because it was better
They are not "thoughtlessly regurgitating" anything. Depression and suicide rates have risen significantly, and they are putting some effort into identifying the cause. This is stated explicitly in the introduction to the article.
lots of people get value out of ponzi schemes too (until they don't)
Notifying the government early would only serve towards helping the government temporarily exploit this vulnerability for intelligence purposes. It wouldn't make sense to notify them until progress was made with mitigations.
Deciding the focus of entrepreneurship course
Gray Failure: The Achilles' Heel of Cloud-Scale Systems [pdf]
Your hyperbole aside, being exposed to other people's lifestyles shouldn't result in any kind of depression for a healthy adult.

I can see this happening to immature people or those without a firm grip on reality.
Why would disregarding the Mickey Mouse Industrial Complex be immoral?
> we don't actually know the effects of long term exposure to so much radiation.

Don't you mean so little radiation? The sun puts out far more radiation than a phone, and now people are getting less sun, and thus less radiation.
>In fact, no one has ever redeemed a single tether and there is no process in place to actually do it.

It's called withdrawing at any of the exchanges that support tether.
I prefer to keep local time aligned with its historical roots, so that 12 is the hour closest to sun's highest point in the sky. What prevents society from adjusting to that?
I'm not sure that "sane" is the right term to use for a person who becomes suicidal from looking at pictures of rich people.

Obsessively materialiastic, maybe. Sane, no.