skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, if they were a veterinarian they'd have easier access to treat their depression with the party drug and cat tranquilliser Ketamine, which also actually works[1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4243034/
I know it's not really socialist/communist anymore, I just wasn't sure about the extent. Thank you for your time!
But means more work, with web interfaces of varying quality
> This article is, ahem, not credible.

It isn't "credible" because you don't like that the Whistleblower reported it to their own agencies watchdog instead of another agency? I don't follow what that has to do with the article's credibility at all...
Interesting. I knew Gaza and the West Bank were geographically separate, but I didn't know conditions on the ground were so different. Thanks!
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Tokyo proper (23 wards) is much less dense than Paris, not more. The densest wards are around 20k / km2, while the least dense "arrondissement" in Paris is 17k / km2, with most of them quite above 50k / km2 and more.
What helped me get down to deep work was doing away with the nonessentials, i.e. a lot of physical material things, all forms of entertainment, the internet especially, inner clutter like comparing myself to others, etc. Seneca once noted in his Moral letters to Lucilius, “Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.” I found this was applicable to nearly everything: my digital life (think Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism), my physical life (think Henry David Thoreau's Walden), my inner life (think Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet), etc. In short: Getting down to my bare self, helped me get down to deep work.
Great to hear! I did some minor contributions to FreeRDP before, but it felt a bit too daunting to contribute to this.

However as mentioned the Wayland code posted looked quite nice, and so did FreeRDP as I remember it, so I'll at least have a look and see if I can help.
There was Mir the protocol and Mir the library/codebase implementing the protocol. Since the Mir protocol and Wayland weren't that different — after all both were intended as replacements for X — it didn't take much effort to adapt the Mir library to use the Wayland protocol.

(As for why Canonical thought that developing their own protocol was a good idea, I'm not sure, but based on what I remember reading about it from various sources — don't have links on hand, so take the following with a pinch of salt:

1. They, rightly or wrongly, thought that some bad decisions were made with Wayland

2. They preferred to have control over the protocol to be able to experiment / make quick adjustments based on their needs, and the experience they gained while using it in Unity8 (the main DE using the Mir library).

3. They were aware that porting the Mir library to use Wayland, if/once this was decided valuable, would not be difficult (as turned out to be the case).

From a technical point of view, IMO it wasn't a completely terrible decision, but from a PR one it was.)
We have plenty of research to show that method substitution is unusual.

This research comes from a few places: looking at people who've died by suicide and the methods they used, and any previous attempts. Looking at survivors of suicide attempts, and at what methods they've used in the past. And some natural experiments, such as the introduction of catalytic convertors to cars, or switching the UK gas supply from coal gas to natural gas.
Hahaha wow, that's awesome. Thanks for the pointer, I'll have to read more deeply before forming an opinion but I love the sentiment.
That has never been true.

(I say this as a fan of KDE, and a user of Konq back in the KDE2x/Mandriva days.)
> Have your own guy impersonate you and get your $24 million stolen

> Sue At&T for $224 million

> ???

> Profit
No, it was just a swipe at a particularly egregious and amusing typo. I don't generally see things wrong by six orders of magnitude like that. I suspect some sort of automated system that attempts to translate "(\d+).*yuan" into dollars automatically, so it translated 250...yuan into $36.

If indeed the yuan had collapsed by a factor of one million since I last checked the news last night, I don't think even the infinite canvas of online news would have a lot of room to be discussing browser plagiarism amidst the torrent of commentary about China's currency collapse and the imminent and/or occurring collapse of the international economy.

If there's anybody with some yuan on hand, I'm willing to offer you a heck of a deal. I'll happily give you $72 for your 250 million yuan. I'm taking a bath on this deal, but I like HN that much and I'm willing to cut you a favor.
There aren't explicit posters on the wall pushing young white men into studying comp sci, but there are historical and sociological reasons for why they're over-represented.

> When do men unfairly benefit from things in the tech industry?

There's a systemic problem which benefits men over women, regardless of which industry. For example, men have a more positive sentiment for the same resume than women do: https://www.aauw.org/2015/06/11/john-or-jennifer/

Moreover, this sentiment might extend to women, as well, as reportedly 69% of women ask for less than their male counterpart for the same role https://hired.com/wage-inequality-report

> investment funds that invest only in men

I'd be surprised if most investment funds didn't invest in women, but this is a very surface-level view. You're ignoring privileges that a man would have over a woman in getting investments, such as: connections made through school, fraternities, or other networking phenomena; and men have a greater perceived ability (see the resume discrimination above).

> efforts to encourage white boys to study computers

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...

> Can you show something specific, that isn't a strong assumption of invisible discrimination on the basis of statistically differing outcomes?

Statistically differing outcomes might make sense if we were talking about smaller differences, but--when 11% of executives are women, women are earning 1/4 of computer science degrees, and the declining rate of women working in tech has fallen--you notice a pattern of exclusion across the entire spectrum of experience levels.
Even though the JS ecosystem has high churn there are many many existing websites that were made years ago that continue to exist and that the browser makers don’t want to break for their users.
Even more analogously in my opinion: someone walked into the dealer, said "hey, transfer the keyless entry for my car to this fob right here" and they did.
No, it hasn't, and trying to say it has is a desperate attempt to paint the modern era as stupid, something which fools have been doing for every era throughout history.
I'm going to reframe those questions.

Why are there no "men in tech" events? Why are no efforts made to encourage white guys to study compsci?

After all, if there's a genuine need for them, I would strongly expect them to exist.
> That's why I'm calling such business models "abusive". You're intentionally ignoring your users' rights or you're intentionally neglecting to consider their rights.

GDPR is not just about preventing abusive behavior, though. If I sell someone my data, arguably the buyer should become its owner in full extent - GDPR makes that impossible even if both parties are fully informed and willing.
MDMA can be extremely dangerous to your long term mental health. I'm not saying it doesn't have valid medical benefits, it certainly seems to, but if you consumed MDMA at any where near the frequency it is safe to consume alcohol it would not go well.

Don't get me wrong, I think it should be legal, but lets not pretend it is comparable to alcohol.

Edit: TL;DR MDMA probably has incredible medical benefits, but this does not mean that it can be safely consumed at the same frequency as alcohol or tobacco.
in IBM? no way under the heavens
Hi Wallaroo developer here,

I'm curious, does Benthos manage state for the user/application like we do in Wallaroo or is it purely stateless computations at this point?
> so and so got kicked out of the high earnings club

... Usually to join another high earnings club
My understanding is that ptsd related depression responds differently to treatment than depression alone.
Alcohol in particular is notorious for making depression worse.

https://www.quitalcohol.com/alcohol-abuse/alcohol-and-suicid...
Joshua, I don't believe it's relevant what they wanted censored; the thing is that they forced them to remove some content or else they would kick them out.
Wasn't it like a year ago that famous YouTubers and such were getting their accounts stolen the exact same way and AT&T promised they would tighten up security measures?
Just like new Opera and Vivaldi browsers.
I’m not sure if he has any legal recourse against AT&T, but it’s another example why sms based 2FA is a bad security scheme, especially if you’re a high value target.
I would change the scale to profound vs. inconsequential or shallow.
Per the article the “whistleblower” reported nothing at all to the authorities.
What's really brilliant about your question is that if you took your time machine back about 30 years, it could be a quote about how India would never play a role in IT and China would never suffice for manufacturing. For that matter I've heard the same basic gist from American farmers regarding their competitors in South America. If someone else can do it cheaper, then the infrastructure and laws will more or less improve to meet the demand. And then when India becomes too expensive for IT, the work with go to <next place> and when China is no longer the cheap place for manufacturing then that will all go to <next place>.
Sunlight. People go crazy if they live in darkness everyday. I'm pretty sure this was discovered & studied in the history of American east coast cities.
> You can find the same bias in the pro-Nuclear crowd. It seems like the reasoning is that there is science in nuclear so it must be the best thing to use.

Everything is 'science' in that sense so that was not my argument.

My argument is that we can measure what nuclear power is and how it works. We can measure what its effect on people are.

> The biggest reason that nuclear didn't take over is of financial nature. Nuclear is simply too expensive in developed countries. This only gets worse as construction costs rise with the living standard of people.

No its not. Nuclear was by far the cheapest energy source. They were building lots of nuclear plants

Nuclear is like everything else, larger scale and a good workforce reduces cost. However you can't have that if you don't build new plants.

> Just look at the financial disasters Flamanville 3, Olkiluoto 3 and Hinkley Point C. Meanwhile renewables are getting cheaper and cheaper.

In science we don't look at examples but rather at overall data. Overall data is perfectly clear, anyplace that builds many nuclear power plants gets massively cheaper.

All these western 1ofs that were built as a political compromise are of course gone be overpriced.

Look at China or Korea and you will see that there is 0 reason why the west could not do the same.
Or to toot the horn of the project I work on:

* https://github.com/wallaroolabs/wallaroo - Wallaroo
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I'm not sure what "huge list of assumptions" you are referring to, merely the idea that she knows this can't pass today?

I think putting these ideas out there in concrete form is a fine approach. If she wanted to "pander to the media" she could have just come up with a slogan with nothing behind it. An actual proposal that can be debated is the opposite of pandering to the media. "Repeal and Replace" as the entirety of your proposal is pandering to the media.
The same can be said for any software that auto update (i.e. Chrome), no?
Deep Work is maybe the first book I wanted to through out of the window in a long time. The complete book can be resumed in a sentence: "Secure big chunks of time to reach and be in the flow state".

But of course you cannot write a full book out of one sentence, so it repeats itself until it achieves to contradict itself by telling you that if you are a writer/journalist you can achieve the state of flow in chunks of 10 minutes spread over the day and happily switch tasks.

So, no, really, you can save yourself this book.
Why statistical discrimination is higher than is optimal or rational
Do you mean MREs? Or an actual cabin full of million dollar medical equipment
Has anyone just made a bunch of poly-SMA and RISUG-ed themselves?

Given that bodybuilders/"neurohackers" arrange for group buys of pretty complex peptides and steroids this one should be relatively easy
No one said quickly. If the only effective way is slow and incremental, then so be it.
Could blockchain technology transform homebuying?
What kind of argument is that? Why should anybody be against fission based energy?
Unions seem like a good answer to increasing consolidation of businesses. Even in tech there has been wage/benefit reducing collusion/monopoly behavior.

Why are people so anti-union? Would opt-in collective bargaining work better?
An interesting comparison to condoms: "If you use condoms perfectly every single time you have sex, they’re 98% effective at preventing pregnancy. But people aren’t perfect, so in real life condoms are about 85% effective — that means about 15 out of 100 people who use condoms as their only birth control method will get pregnant each year."
It really shows how immature nations like Russia and China are when their government is more focused on being Internet Indepedent from the rest of the planet, instead of their never ending human rights abuses or their barely-functional economies.

Trying to inject Nationalism into the internet only shows a lack of understanding what the whole thing is about anyway.

The irony of course is that Russia and China have a much older and greater history than America. But the internet isn't about intra-planet competition, and neither is America for that matter. America is an experiment, utilizing all the world's best (and some of the worst) people, to build the most advanced nation based on current "best practices" in governance and society. The Internet is ours, like it or not, and we deserve it. These world super powers should stop trying to win the space race, and start learning the lesson about a global community that our internet has been trying to teach them for decades.
Electric cars could use another big battery breakthrough
It's probably also a mistake to use the set of communication systems for all your agents, even if you trust them. For something as high-risk as this, they should use bespoke systems for each agent or each sub-network. Doing otherwise is putting all their eggs in one basket.
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One answer is to accept that unions, like other human organizations, will always have power-structure problems but that on balance, we do better when workers have actual bargaining power.

Most of the problems with unions could be mitigated by enforced transparency - same as with corporations and governments.
I've seen this idea go around a bunch, and I think it makes sense for how a company thinks about product internally.

But it basically makes 0 sense for customers. "Brand" is the exact opposite of a pure function - there's side effects all over the place. Any bad thing that Facebook or Twitter do greatly overshadows the good. Same goes for any other company or flagship product.

This is challenging, because product branding is often championed internally at any company. So thinking about product as "functions" will likely fall apart quickly outside of any engineering org.
If alcohol was brand new, it likely would be a scheduled drug and very well controlled.

It’s only allowed because it’s very old and well integrated to some societies.
This (rightfully) comes up every time some browser-based encryption tool is posted. It seems like the desire for such tools isn’t going to go away. Is anyone working on solutions for making distribution of JavaScript applications more secure?

There’s a range of assurances you could try to provide, e.x. signatures from the author (or even 3rd parties), prompting for updates, etc. It would likely require support from browsers.

At one point I investigated using service workers to intercept subsequent app updates to check signatures but there was no way to prevent the service worker itself from being replaced (probably because it would be easy for a site to permanently “brick” itself in users browssr).
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Most newspapers cost and have costed money. So I think it would be fair to argue that newspapers gated non-paying users from read-accessing the platform. Even before that, for the numerical majority of human history most people did not have access to newspapers because they were gated by illiteracy. The idea of openness can't be a hollow ideal; more people have access to communication under the closed system you're decrying than under the open one you're championing.

The window of human history where newspapers might be considered moderately open, even in the West, is quite small. Probably from about the beginning of America's transformation into a car country -- around 1930 or so was the first time most people could a) read, b) afford, and c) conveniently get a paper delivered to home.

And they were only probably truly "open" in the sense of not requiring any transaction to access them for the period between about 1996 (around when online newspapers came around) and let's say around 2010-2011 when the NYT implemented the first major metered paywall.

So openness is good and I support it, but also am skeptical of a view of history that the world was open until Twitter closed it.

But we are where we are, now. Given that Twitter is absolutely not going to do your daily tweet torrent idea (the Library of Congress stopped archiving Twitter after concluding the value in doing so was nil, and clearly the mechanism for open preservation of the social web would be through large, official cultural institutions and not Twitter exposing private functionality to you at their own expense), I think ultimately there are two questions to ask: 1) Are you willing to engage in some kind of membership transaction to access a service? 2) Given that the cost of membership is personal information, if this bothers you, what measures can you take to limit it?
Great points. I think it's also important to consider the statistics when you combine multiple approaches to contraception. It may not be a good idea to solely rely on natural methods, but natural methods can be combined with other contraceptives to yield a much, much greater effectiveness than most contraceptives can provide by themselves.

Since failure rates are typically stated as odds of getting pregnant within an entire year of usage, combining two methods that each have only 90% effectiveness can potentially yield an extremely high level of effectiveness: it's already unlikely that both methods will fail in the same year, but when you consider that both have to fail at the same time in the same year then the odds start to look pretty good, despite neither method being that great on its own.
Spaghetti-breaking problem stumped Richard Feynman. MIT students have solved it
According to Russel Barkley (well known and central figure in the ADHD scientific community), you should definitely take short breaks every so many minutes.

He recommends 3 mins for every 10 minutes of work, but that's for children.

I think you'd want be interested in watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tpB-B8BXk0

Definitely check out his other work as well, listening to his talks is like reading my own diary... except translated to scientific language
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How hard is it to put on a condom? SMH.
Most parts of Chrome are open source under the name Chromium. Some DRM stuff in Chrome is not in Chromium and probably some other parts as well.
I'm sure the engineers are also being asked why they couldn't just do it from scratch, 'it can't be that hard', 'shouldn't take too long', 'should be possible' all by people who have not an ounce of knowledge about how any of this works.
While that is actually quite a hilarious image, I did indeed mean MREs.
Because federal employees cannot practically be fired it is very common to try to move them sideways to get rid of them. Eventually they just get promoted.
Please, that's not a verified claim[0], and you shouldn't trust any VPN service that isn't operated by you in the first place.

[0]: Plus, it was raised by a competitor, Private Internet Access, so it makes it even more difficult to get the facts straight.
Am very interested in hearing more about the methods you used.
Did you just take MDMA recreationally and your depression got better, or did you do it together with (or at the same time as?) therapy? How many times/over how long time?
Thank you
...not to mention the huge attack surface of browsers in general.

And also how the same application you are using to encrypt your mail is also running javascript from random sources when you browse websites.
It is straightforward to create a language where a user can specify any type of index (like Ada), if you need to import a library everywhere to have the correct behaviour then this library should be a part of the language instead.
No one said anyone should consume MDMA at the same frequency you could safely consume alcohol.
I love how you can say "free speech is an ideal" while simultaneous arguing to limit the free speech of platform holders. The reason free speech only lawfully bounds the government is because the ability to kick bad actors out of your business is an essential free speech to the populous. MS is free to moderate their platform in anyway that doesn't violate US law; that's their exercise of free speech. Groups that disagree can go elsewhere with their business. The "fine" folks over at gab can say what ever they want among themselves; on their own servers, hosted by them. Until then freedom to say what you want is not freedom from the consequences of public opinion.
Well, also the fact that you can make it in a bathtub.
Why not use WebCrypto instead? No library needed.
Maybe not on trees, but certainly around them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolbear%27s_law
We've been using logstash as our go-to stream processing glue, its large selection of input, output, and filter plugins lets it handle just about anything, reliably. My one complaint would be the use of the jvm, particularly the slow startup time it causes when doing development.
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Publicity and tens of millions in Bitcoin /Ethereum++ is a bad idea. Especially since once it's gone it's gone. Hacking your account means FU money and then some, with less chance of getting caught than other crimes. So they have all the incentive in the world to take heir sweet time...even if they lost 50% laundering, it's still more than enough.

I'm all for At&t to be held responsible if they broke security protocols. They charge an arm and a leg
I don't think it would make it much harder if people just do all of the 'gofmt' changes in a single commit. After all, it's not like your entire codebase consists of such edge-cases, and if you hit a 'git blame' where the commit is a format change you can always just do 'git blame $THE_FORMATTING_REVISION^ $file'.

I have to do this all the time when 'git blame -wM' doesn't give me what I want when looking at kernel changes.
My question would be: given that current Wayland implementation kills all my windows when an error happens, in contrast with X11 where the session is killed but the windows are kept; what is the behavior of this compositor regarding errors?