skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While the math leads us to believe that intermodulation distortion is a likely culprit in the Cuban case, we haven’t ruled out other null hypotheses that may account for the discomfort that diplomats felt. For example, maybe the tones people heard didn’t cause their symptoms but were just another symptom, a clue to the real cause.

Unless what I read was just plain lies, I don't see how this is plausible. Just reading The Guardian's article [1] I see no room for other plausible explanations in every case... remember there were at least 21 US victims (!!):

The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed. Inexplicably, the agonizing sound hit him again. It was as if he’d walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room.

Soon came the hearing loss, and the speech problems, symptoms both similar and altogether different from others among at least 21 US victims in an astonishing international mystery still unfolding in Cuba. The top US diplomat has called them “health attacks”.

New details learned by the Associated Press indicate at least some of the incidents were confined to specific rooms or even parts of rooms with laser-like specificity, baffling US officials who say the facts and the physics don’t add up.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/14/mystery-of-son...
I don't think what you're asking for is too unrealistic if you're willing to adjust your price range a bit. This one looks like it would fit the bill:

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/d/only-1-studio-availab...

It's just across the train tracks from downtown, Safeway and a Mexican supermarket are close by.
If Europeans are more exposed than Americans to folks of different nationalities, wouldn't they be less inclined to broadly generalize them?

No one would accuse the author of meaning to judge "every single individual Slovakian person". It's ironic that you state your dislike of "weaselly or bland language", and then go on to describe the author as having a "perception of the traits of their culture as a whole". Most people would describe that as simply having stereotypes.
This is the last movement of Jean Sibelius Symphony No 1 in E minor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCIw_4oJ4Gg&t=27m20s

At about 36m you can hear the rumbling IMD effects.
The interview is far less sensational, and far more personal and insightful than the title implies.
> but since we know that in the past people have been send to prison, just because some app on their phone requested an URL from the wrong domain

Do you have a citation? When did that happen?
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The point is to create a transparent SSH or IPsec tunnel from your home network. The raspberry pi is one endpoint of that tunnel, the VPS is the other endpoint.
I’m talking about the experience where you are trying to learn but other kids are distracting you with hyperactive nonsense or disruptive behavior.
If you've never worked for a team responding to RFPs/RFIs for large projects then it's difficult to know what's mismanagement and what's "normal".

Generally you respond with a proposal that on the surface ticks ALL the boxes. Later you show the proposed product and state that all the missing parts will be implemented or altered during implementation.

You get a bunch of senior people or architects to estimate the work +/- 1000% (mostly for the time estimates). The difference between what is charged to the customer and the actual cost of the work is swallowed by the bidder with the idea that it will be gouged back during additional work that wasn't in the initial scope.

Then you present your proposal and if you win the bid you then try everything to make it profitable from that point on.

ps. None of this is compatible with agile.
Old and remember Altavista. Google is simply incredible and hard to figure out how they are able to do it and so quickly.
ME is short for BSME, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
How can they really know they "reverse engineered" the "weapon" unless they have sync with actual human symptoms. It's not the study (or university policies) I take issue with, it's the way they present their study as conclusive. It's not conclusive.
Not too late to do a chargeback if they still haven’t refunded you. And will send some sort of signal in walmart’s internal systems. Companies track chargebacks.
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When the title and the bulk of the article imply that they actually did reverse engineer whatever hurt the diplomats, a few weasel words don't make TFA true, they make it clickbait.
Isn't that _exactly_ how parallel construction works?

"No, your honour, we didn't use any of those grey-area or outright illegal surveillance technologies, we just got lucky in a random traffic stop. Again. Amazing how all these gang bosses drive around with tail lights out, isn't it?"
Couldn't they obtain a 7khz tone by mixing any two tones seperated by 7khz and applying a low-pass filter? I don't see how this proves anything.

And the 155dB number cited by the Canadian government would require considerable (hundreds of watts) of power to produce at close range.

This whole case defies logic. The early reports were of mysterious symptoms not associated with any obvious exposure. Once ultrasound/infrasound began being mentioned, people began reporting hearing mysterious sounds.

The recording makes even less sense: If the sound levels were really sufficient to cause physical trauma, surely they would overwhelm the phone's microphone?
I'd imagine they got the data they needed anyway
If anybody has any feedback please let me know. It's a fun game to try out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XnRF5zyIKE
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I'm not talking about a mirror, which has a different domain name. I'm talking about a transparent cache like squid. This will mean I don't have to change the OS images that I might not even control in order to get traffic savings, whereas under your model I would have to, which again, may not even be feasible.
I haven't had that experience - I've found VS Code to be much smoother than Atom, but obviously that may vary by platform and the particular set of plugins any one user has.
According to JETRO’s 2017 report, in terms of domestic e-commerce, Amazon had a 20.2% market share in 2016, compared to Rakuten’s 20.1%. [1] This is not a monopoly per se, but 20% of the market is too big for any business to ignore, giving Amazon (and Rakuten) significant leverage, particularly over smaller businesses.

[1] Summary in Japanese: https://netshop.impress.co.jp/node/4590 (link to the JETRO report is at the bottom)
Haven't read the docs, so I don't know what the contracts and proposals states, but regardless of how obvious some things are, putting that in writing is a bit of a CYA.

"We're estimating based on having access and participation from your senior/experiences payroll employees. Substantial changes in personnel will impact the viability of the project."
I agree that life is preferable to stupid wars, but in that case what were you trying to say by invoking the risible "sleeping giant" canard?
Hmm... I have to say the APIs and command line tooling is not where Perforce shines ;)

I found the APIs generally a disaster, and rapidly gave up on them. It was much easier to just run p4.exe and scrape the output. But... oh god. That's not saying much. The command line client was shit too. It eventually proved possible to get everything I wanted, but the data was never quite in the right format, the available queries were never quite suitable, and the results were never quite normalized enough. In the end I had to run p4.exe several times, discarding a lot of redundant data while doing this, and then cross-referencing the multiple sets of results afterwards to get what I wanted.

(One thing I had hopes for initially was p4's supposedly Python pickle-friendly output. But this was no good either! - since, from memory, p4 produces multiple pickles'-worth of data in one go, but Python will only read one pickle at a time, so you couldn't actually read it in from Python without a bit of work. Really made me wonder whether anybody actually tested any of this stuff. Really felt like the thing had been coded by a bunch of Martians, working from a description of the process made by people who'd never used Python and weren't even programmers in the first place.)
I greatly admire Niklaus Wirth (although not as a guru or role model as such).

Wirth created Pascal, then Modula-2 and then Oberon. He's 84 and has a career that stretches back to Algol in the 1960s. He has gained enormous insight into the design of programming languages and compilers.

He has always strived for simplicity in compiler and language design, but without sacrificing power and expressiveness. When he created Oberon, he created a language specification that was a mere 16 pages! That language was then used to build an entire operating system.

He lamented over 20 years ago that as hardware gets faster, software gets slower. A statement that still rings true today for many programs.

Anything Wirth writes or speaks about is worth reading (even if you find much to disagree). But is anyone listening to what he has to say?

"The wealth of features of many languages is indeed a problem rather than a solution. A multitude of features is another consequence of the programmers' belief that the value of a language is proportional to the quantity of its features and facilities, bells and whistles.

However, we know that it is better if each basic concept is represented by a single, designated language construct. Not only does this reduce the effort of learning, but it reduces the volume of the language's description and thereby the possibilities of inconsistency and of misunderstanding.

Keeping a language as simple and as regular as possible has always been a guideline in my work; the description of Pascal took some 50 pages, that of Modula 40, and Oberon's a mere 16 pages. This I still consider to have been genuine progress."

From a 1997 interview: http://www.eptacom.net/pubblicazioni/pub_eng/wirth.html
> If Europeans are more exposed than Americans to folks of different nationalities, wouldn't they be less inclined to broadly generalize them?

This is the exact opposite of what I would expect.
I don't see parallel construction here. There's no reason to think that any information in Palantir was inappropriately obtained without a warrant when one should have been required. Without that breach, then Palantir helped generate leads, it didn't result in parallel construction. That's not even what the defense contends in the criminal issue cited in the article: There, they simply maintain that a Brady violation occurred by not disclosing that Palantir was used, or that Palantir showed negative evidence that was favorable to the defendant. I really don't understand where any issue or suspicion of parallel construction arises from the use of Palantir. It's basically a mashup of a social network and CRM with predictive modeling on top.
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On the rendering, it seems to me that the part over the water is significantly shorter than the now collapsed part. It also doesn’t look heavier per meter to me, and the tower seems to be perfectly vertical. That would make it impossible to fully ‘hang’ the part over the road from the tower.

=> It is quite possible that the span over the road was designed to be self-supporting.

That would be a non-standard design, but we are so good at building such bridges that ‘being non-standard’ almost has become the standard.
The Expanse is SyFy, so new episodes go there (but really appreciate it on Amazon)

The HBO shows are gone sometime in 2018 I believe, at least the contract is up soon and HBO said they're keeping the shows to HBO Now instead AFAIK.
Ask HN: why medium is everywhere now?
Can anyone explain the rapid rise of medium to me? What made this semi social web service explode compared to other mechanisms?

Is it good domain name binding?

Is it markdown?

One clap? Twenty? Penecillin?
I didn't downvote this and this is a valid misunderstanding.

The whole point of having GPG is that you (as the distributor/debian repo/whatever) have already somehow distributed the public key to your clients (customers/debian installations/whatever). Having HTTPS is redundant as it is presumed that initial key distribution was done securely.
Just downvote (if that's an option you have)

To be fair, the same happens when discussing OSes, languages, and frameworks.
How PCI express devices talk
This is exactly my fear, that Intel and others will continue to go with the "working as designed" defense. The problem still exists. The design is bad, and users will pay the price with slower software, or less secure software, until the design is fixed.
The idea of being born into a caste chosen for you before birth and reinforced through biology absolutely horrifies me.

The point of BNW was that there could be effective “coercion” based on molding our desires instead of stamping them out with fear and force. The gunpoint wasn’t necessary; your prison walls were built in your head by chemistry and psychological conditioning.
They're all cities, barely any cities vote republican
Unusually well reseached and written. I'm sure pedants might find a few issues, but I feel like I learned something new, and significant from this.
It wasn't one big event that someone got arrested for using the app. It was, civil polices were arresting anyone who uses crypto-message apps like ByLock.

We've seen cases where people sent to prison because they are wearing certain T-short. Really.

edit links:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/11/turks-detained...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mahir-zeynalov/turkish-police...
Not all stock markets have the "consistent" growth the US has. I put the word in quotes because that exact notion of the past predicting the future it's what's inherently wrong with many of these companies.

It's super easy to create a model that could beat the market when run against historical data. It's a whole other thing to beat the market in real time.

Evidence of this would be that's it's possible to leverage stock positions by multiple factors. If anyone can accurately predict the future and profit from it, then it's easy to turn $5k into $5M with enough leverage and compounding profits. The problem is no one can do it consistently at that level of accuracy.
That state may not be, the one I worked for was, specifically setup to come to the aid of muni's in cases of emergency. But these plans and contingencies were obviously created out of previous tragedy/experiences.
For me it's a love hate thing. I love the way it stops me from doing dumb shit, and really makes you think hard about how to architect properly.

I hate annoying little nitpicky stuff like it won't auto-upcast a u8 to an i32, for example. There should at least be a compiler flag to allow that.

I mostly love it though. The stuff that bothers me is relatively minor and I think will go away as I get more fluent with the language.
His travel to the edge of the arctic ocean might not even be Alexander Mackenzie's most interesting journey (fascinating though it was)

He reached the Pacific ocean by land a full 12 years before Lewis and Clark. He also took far less time to complete the journey since the network of voyageurs in what would become western Canada meant he could start his journey in Alberta rather than much further east in St. Louis.

But if you want to do further reading on someone wandering about in crazy arctic conditions, check out John Rae. He explored much of the arctic coast on foot (!) and discovered the remains of the doomed Franklin expedition. Also managed the minor feat of proving the existence of the north west passage in the process. He would be remembered as one of the greatest explorers of all time if the passage proved remotely commercially navigable, instead he was relegated to the minor pages of 19th century history. It didn't help Lady Franklin was so insulted when he reported to the Admiralty her husband's expedition likely resorted to cannibalism based on reports from local Inuit.
Well, this particular article is about Amazon.
Damn, questioning the utility of pan-european institutions is dangerous around here.
https://boingboing.net/2018/01/28/30000-accused.html
So it's just bad naming. Everywhere to me implies everywhere, not just everywhere in the browser. Regardless, it looks like there are still people confused about it like me discussing in this thread, tho.
I am not sure what you describe is sensible reasons for the staleness of the technology.
> You write good RFPs and hold feet to the fire and they will deliver.

That's the key bit though. Its not easy to write good RFPs. Unless done to an excruciating level of precision (which they very seldom are), you leave wiggle room which the vendor will naturally take advantage of when things get tough.
Winning, on average, a few more bets than you lose works in the stock market. In policing it's completely unacceptable (or should be).
> If Europeans are more exposed than Americans to folks of different nationalities, wouldn't they be less inclined to broadly generalize them?

Why would it? It's just more data to pattern-match on, and that can mean confirming bias and prejudice as well. It might also shock you to find out that people who work in retail or food service also develop prejudices as well. It's not a good thing but it happens.

I'm not saying that stereotypes are good (or I suppose, that they are always bad), I'm just saying I don't need to clutch my pearls about it every time I see it. I can just read it and think "Okay, this guy is obviously using stereotypes about other countries here" and then keep reading without it necessarily immediately invalidating else that's been written. This is particularly so when Europeans talk about other European countries, as in this particular case. It is, I think, actually a form of comradery. (We might hate the Germans, but they're _our_ Germans, and we won't have any yanks slagging them off!)

I am sharing my perspective here as a European who immigrated to the United States who has observed the response to this in both cultures.
A Billionaire and a Nurse Shouldn't Pay the Same Fine for Speeding
Good points.

>> many bronze age values today

Most people have adopted the bronze age values of tribes other than their ancestors.

There are 4B Muslims and Christians, but only 15M Jews, so Abraham has over 250x as many carriers of his ideas as carriers of his genes.
Second, that term refers to the use of SIGINT (or, more likely, aggregates) collected by intelligence agencies to inform law enforcement but not add to evidence available to prosecutors

It's not this narrow. Stingrays have been used to create a map of behavior and stuff that is later executed upon.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180110/14482038982/repor...
not exactly, the idea is to have a normal cpu like arm or x86 but the kernel doesn't ever deal with native binaries, only web assembly, and the performance penalty of running stuff in a VM gets offset by disabling memory protection and its performance penalty, since memory protection is already guaranteed by the VM.
Having two independent system while destroying traffic savings from a transparent caching system seems like a bad trade off to me.

Consider you're a cloud provider running customer images. If everyone downloaded the same package via https over and over again, the incurred network utilization would be massive (to both you and the debian repository in general) compared to if everyone used http and verified via GPG, all from your transparent squid cache you setup on the local network.
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How many people are going to respond to me with this comment? There's firms that beat the market. See: Two Sigma, Renaissance, etc.
That’s an (impressive) implementation detail. By similar, I mean the result is a smaller GIF.
There's nothing wrong with self-promoting on HN. In fact it's not far from the sole point of HN.

Though it's amusing when people come out of the woodwork and call you a spammer. That happened to me once. It's like... Yeah, but that's what we're all doing here. What's the point otherwise? We all build stuff and we all talk about it.
The model isn't convicting people. It's helping police direct their efforts.
The model shows that a mix of luck and merit can lead to highly unequal outcomes in which success is only tenuously linked to merit. There are other models yielding similar results, as for example outlined in Robert Frank's enjoyable book Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy. I don't find the mechanism entirely implausible, but that's a longer discussion.

These models are an important counterpoint to naive "Economism" [1] models (where income = marginal product, thus just and justified and necessary for efficiency), and thus relevant for an informed policy discussion.

[1] See James Kwak's book of that title.
I might be able to agree with your argument if your most recent example, Teddy Roosevelt, was not alive 4-5 generations ago for me.

The magna Carta for instance was so far back that their language is extinct, they have the barest of influence on the modern world.

The anglosphere and the Dutch may have evolved institutions that kept a balance between the state and private industry but that balance only existed for a short time. It certainly didn't exist between the civil war and world war 2 in the US as we swiftly changed between robber barons and the new deal. It seemed like they more in between 1945 and the oil crisis of the 1970s, but since then the companies have taken more control every year
The definition of intelligence and how it should be interpreted is what’s being debated. There is a rich history of people making pseudo-scientific claims based on hereditary intelligence. It’s not clear how close this is from anti-vaxing and how close it is to anti-phrenology to me right now.
It’s pretty well known that when you say you have multiple top priorities, what you really mean to say is that marketing is your top priority.
Some supermarket chains have an ethics policy against shelving like that with mixed units and if you catch it, and report it to a manager they will apologize and correct it.

I recall Kroger used to have a big focus on it, but a quick skim of current ethics policies on their website doesn't show an explicit mention. However they still have "honesty" as a guiding goal, so supposedly it's still worth reporting.
No we don’t need to test drugs on multiple “races”. The variation in response for a drug is greater within a “race” than between “races”. We need to test on a wide variety of individuals.

Yes the frequency of response and the side effects will vary by an individual's genetic background, but there is to my knowledge no drug or side effect found only in one broad population grouping.
me neither, but i also don't use spreadsheets much
I think they have not been blocked, rather they had an outage.

https://twitter.com/ProtonMail/status/974167124892700673
Dialects are of limited uses, because they are dialects... New dialects are arguably of even more limited uses, because better languages now exist where the desirable characteristics are enforced not by using a dialect, but by the core languages, and safety checking is not optional. (Also, I'm somewhat curious about why the proposed dialect tells about think "similar to unique_ptr, and so over: just use the real think -- at least it would be less a dialect and more of modern standard C++). Dialects enforced by wishful thinking or at beast ad-hoc tools maintained by a too small community will perish in front of well architectured languages maintained by a real community.

They have even been used to ship some important code in big project made of tons of legacy code -- so I'm not even sure an interop argument could be made.