skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that study is that "people who take a CT scan" is not exactly an unbiased sample of the general population.

Now compare this to

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477708/

> only a single one in your life

"A single dose" as in "a discrete event". Another single dose the next month is (probably) harmless again. Cells react to radiation with repair mechanisms, and once that activity subsides, the event is over.

Radiation exposure isn't linearly cumulative. The argument that it is was made before we even knew the structure of DNA! Today, we know better.
>Communist parties have nationalized entire economies in the past, and to suggest they won't do the same again is ignoring many of the actions that Xi Jinping has taken to bring back Marxist thought into the country.

Yes, he could do that, but the problem is that state-capitalist economies do poorly in the modern world. That's why Dung Xiaoping abandoned Maoism and turned to the free market in the first place.
> instead, folks treat it as a stop sign.

That's what you're supposed to do. In some cases, the traffic lights fail to a mode where one direction is blinking red, which is treated like a stop sign, and the other is blinking yellow, which is treated sort of like a yield sign (i.e., proceed, but with caution).

I believe the law (and common sense) states that if the traffic light it out, you treat it like a 4-way stop sign intersection.
Dang nammit! I would have got away (to work) if it weren't for you meddling kids!
Depends on how you define "active driver." 3 million "active drivers" who drive 100 hours a year on average (instead of 2000) would come out to $750K per full-time driver.
> By restricting the users' right to resell or redistribute the source code of your software, you are effectively making it not open source.

Then the discussion Open Source ecosystem needs to have is whether "protecting users' right to resell" is net positive or net negative for the ecosystem. And answer could go either ways but that dialogue needs to happen.

Last major update amongst any of the popular OSS license was in 2007 to AGPL. It's been 11 years and SaaS/Cloud world has changed a lot in this time. Maybe, just maybe, it's time to review and see if we need an additional license that's net positive for the ecosystem.

Just accepting current textbook definitions of Open Source and abiding by it all our life seems too pedantic.
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RFID Hacking with the Proxmark 3
MagSafe wires insulation always breaks at both ends and the connector is too wide to fix that with a heat-shrinked tube easily.

SD Card slot is an essential thing, I can't believe they've removed it.

Lack of HDMI is not a problem IMHO, I've bought a great Thunderbolt-HDMI converter for about $10 on AliExpress, out it on my HDMI cable and forgotten about the problem.

Lack of some keys has always been a pain, removing even function keys and an ESC key looks like they really hate people that use terminal.

Removing classic USB ports was too ahead-of-time, they should have waited at least some years before doing this (BTW I actually am not sure USB-C is going to become the standard, there are a lot of problems with it).
وحش” الدارالبيضاء، الذي أرعب ساكنة المدينة تم التعرف عليه
Last time I was in Beijing I was told not to flush toilet paper. Is that still the case?
Yes, but what's the deficit?
Engineers are supposed to simplify complexity, taking something complex and making it simple.

There are many engineers though that like to over-complicate and add complexity because it makes them look smart or they think they are expected to create complexity.

Complexity through simple parts is ok, but overall the job of an engineer is to take complexity and break it down to simplicity and simple parts.

In the game dev world for instance, Unreal used to be needlessly complex, still is a bit, then Unity came along and made things simple, so Unreal then looked to make things simple.

Or in the web dev world, a framework might abstract away the underlying standards and add complexity on top to seem simple, but actually make the domain more complex with more to learn and push for developer lock in to the framework over basic standards and simplicity. The first version of .NET with WebForms was an example of this, other web frameworks can be seen as this as well.

Lots of engineering people like to look smart by managing complexity but it doesn't always need to be so complex. Sometimes time pressure can create complexity and thus technical debt due to the complexity. Some simplification is misguided, a one liner that isn't understood 6 months later is not simplifying.

An engineer that takes something simple and makes it more complex for no reason other than job security or to look smart is the worst kind of engineer.
Any word about when they'll be catching up to Apple?

Crickets about AMD K12 successor (TBA?). Qualcomm's given up custom design. Nvidia's Transmeta-based project Denver was a bit of a bust (no recent work?).

That leaves Samsung, Apple, and ARM with ARM making up the vast majority of designs. They really need a design that's way faster than A76.
My mistake. I don't think I've read that book.
> and the actual public assassination of a reporter by the Saudis in the last week

Is this another journalist in the last week, or is this a reference to Jamal Kashoggi (who was apparently killed two weeks ago today, the same day he disappeared into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, right?)
After all, if you've got nothing to hide, why wouldn't you let the police watch a video feed from inside your house?

You don't have anything to hide, do you, citizen?

/s
What the hell?! Isn't this what we pay the CIA for? I mean seriously, what are my black-ops tax dollars funding these days?
Wages are not keeping pace with housing.
You know, it's possible for there to be two simultaneous wrongs. We can be outraged by both of them at the same time.
Blocking an up-or-down confirmation vote strips away the only actual oversight we have under the Constitution, namely the prospect of uncomfortable publicizing of a senator's voting record during his or her next reelection bid — or when s/he runs for president. (I read once that whenever any senator looks in the mirror, s/he sees a future president.)
https://factorcode.org/
None of this makes any sense. This reads like an argument from a parallel universe where the only sane option for end-users is Linux on the Desktop.

In fact: a huge portion of commercial vulnerability research and assessment work is done on binaries of closed-source products, and it has never been easier to do that kind of work (we're coming up on a decade into the era of IR lifters). Meanwhile, the types of vulnerabilities we're discussing here --- cryptographic exfiltration --- are difficult to identify in source, and source inspection has a terrible track record of finding them.

There's no expertise evident in the strident arguments you've made all over this thread (network security work is not the same as shrink-wrap software security work, which is in turn not the same as cryptographic security work --- these are all well-defined specialties) and it concerns me that people might be taking these arguments seriously. No. This isn't how things actually work; it's just how advocates on message boards want them to.
Do you have any tips on how to do that or to grow the ability to talk to C-level in their own language? I feel that that's what's holding me back at the moment.
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Iranian propaganda would be keeping a big, bright, spotlight squarely on Khashoggi. They don't want anyone in the MidEast thinking about anything else right now.

That's part of the reason it's so critical for us to get out in front of this thing. The Saudis need to understand that they have gone too far this time. (We probably should have drawn the line when they kidnapped the prime minister of another nation. We should've never let them get away with that.)
Living in China can be massively different, that's crazy.
Mercenaries may always exist, but American ones don't have to. Participation in them should be made illegal, and all these private military companies should forbidden to operate until they find another line of business or liquidate themselves. If some former soldier or former general wants to become a mercenary, let him renounce his citizenship and go find a new home.

The only military forces in the US should be explicit parts of official US military.
I got a Xiaomi scooter for $305 directly from them as part of a 10 scooter order (including shipping costs). Bird and Lyft both use these exact scooters. I'm sure they are getting a better deal than I did, but the tariffs have since kicked in so $300 is probably right on the money.
but there’s a huge amount of the developer community I’ve seen that mostly just looks down on emoji as a frankly immature way to communicate

You know, I was willing to just scroll to the bottom of the comments, then go find something else to read between builds. But if it pisses off those Grumpy Gus's, well, I guess I'll scroll baaaaack to the top and click the up arrow just to help make sure it stays at #3.
> […] if people want to test their exploits for free first […]

This sounds like a bad idea, since it would allow other people to extract the script and put it inside a transaction that’s published on the real network, thus unfairly claiming the bounty.
Midwest housing is much more affordable than a coastal megapolis and still provide a good standard of living.
IIRC MySQL had a bit similar troubles with GPL license. They disliked the fact that some companies shipped closed source software which in practice required MySQL, but instead of getting the paid license, they relied on the open source version.

Google revealed one relevant article:

According to C|net their vice president of marketing said in 2002:
"There were people misusing the GPL, using our server tightly coupled with their applications, claiming the GPL didn't apply because the client libraries weren't under the GPL, they were under the LGPL,"
[1]

According to the article, MySQL decided to sort out this issue by changing the license of the client libraries from LGPL to GPL.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/mysql-addresses-open-source-licens...
There is "complex", and then there is "complicated", I believe the author refers to the latter. A complex solution involves a lot of moving parts, but each of these parts serves a specific purpose, such that it is possible to break down the solution into relatively simple, understandable blocks. On the other hand a complicated solution will have inefficiencies, some of its building blocks may be too big or convoluted to be broken down further, causing implementations that are hard to understand and/or may be redundant, feeding back into the complications. I think Rube Goldberg's Inventions are an excellent example of the difference I'm trying to make.

Social posturing is certainly largely to blame for over-complications, but I think more deeply, a lot of people hate to let go, to be told that the very thing they were responsible for, that they worked hours/days/... on isn't necessary any more, or perhaps never was. And then in the other direction, there are what I refer to as "exponential requirements", for lack of a better term. You buy a large bag of coffee that you could simply use as you go and store in the fridge. Or, you could have a jar with some of the coffee in it, and the rest of the bag still in the fridge. Then a plate to put the jar on. Then a new shelf to put those plates and those jars. By the time you've followed this track long enough, you're looking at buying a new house, even though your essential requirements haven't changed from the beginning.
Word gets around. As soon as anyone catches wind of this, there will be headlines in every newspaper, and any company with something to hide will prevent employees from using it.
It's the uncanny bagel hole.

I agree. Almost seems lazy to take a photo and call it an emoji. It might not actually be a photo, but the effect is the same. No style, no interpretation.

Imagine if the face emojis were just head shots of various stock photo models.
Timely discussion in light of today's news from Mongo and recent news from Redis. More restrictive licensing isn't the only answer.
They are too inept, they already make crappier versions of the basic Android apps and put them on their devices.
PrinTracker tech could match sketchy objects to 3D printers that made them
He was against the privatization of certain US military and intelligence functions, but I'm not aware of him being against foreign states hiring US military or intelligence contractors for similar functions.
It doesn't make note of any specific pesticides or actual amounts of pesticides applied, source material only references 'hectacres subject to pesticide application' with no direct reference to the data source (only a link to a USGOV site where the data allegedly was derived).

The report also makes the claim:
"Most pesticides have half-lives measured in days, not decades (60)"

Reference 60 links to [1].

Nowhere on that page does it make any claims about 'most' pesticides, nor does the study attempt to link any type of pesticide to that the ones reported there.

Clearly, the impact of pesticides was dismissed without any real effort to verify the impact of pesticides.

[1]: http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/half-life.html
At least 10 years ago, i thought google had a lot of custom linux kernel patches that weren't public.
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Everyone is
permitted
to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but
changing it is not allowed.

Can someone enlighten me on the significance of this piece of text? Does it mean you're not allowed to edit the license and publish it under the same name, or does it effectively copyright the entire license text? I'm gravitating towards the former since this is a case where the text was edited but renamed, but I'd still like some clarity.

As an aside, is it even possible to copyright a license? There's a copyright notice so isn't this technically plagiarism?
Is this really a materially relevant argument? Does anyone have any illusions on where any of the 2016 GOP Senators stood on Garland? They all effectively cast a "no" vote. There's nobody in the country who thinks otherwise. Even The Daily Caller wouldn't put that argument forward. So what's the harm to the Constitution?

Bills have been not-getting-out-of-committee for a very long time prior to the McConnell blockade, and you can easily make an argument that killing things in committee is actually more harmful to transparency than what McConnell did --- whatever else you might say about the blockade, it was pretty transparent!
Republicans only care because it’s a wedge issue to get elected. But you are correct, they are the party of hypocrisy. The real problem is that nobody cares and that not enough people who do actually vote.
but... "git checkout master" and you are all done!
why would you re-clone for that?
show this stats next time the junior dev will say that she/he will develop own WYSIWYG editor in like 1-2 weeks for the project needs ;)
Bump. Exchanging contact information by bumping phones was fun and frictionless.
You can flush it in most higher residences as long as the toilet paper is soluable. I think the reason binning developed was that the Chinese didn't produce soluable toilet paper in the past, and now the habit carried on (my grandma told my mom, my mom told me) even though the tech has caught up. I'm not really sure about squat toilets, though.

Never drink the water though. Even boiling isn't that safe anymore, just use bottled.
This isn't to be confused with openssh. It's a separate package in Ubuntu [1] and only four formulae in homebrew [2] use it.

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libssh-4 - I'm surprised I don't see reverse dependencies listed here.

[2] http://brewformulas.org/Libssh
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This is one of the reasons I refused to become a merc after the Corps. I knew guys that were getting payed 160k tax free for this type of stuff, but there was always something deep inside that told me it would not be worth it and that it conflicted with my dedication to the principles of the constitution. I'm glad I stayed away. Eventually the merc business was saturated and the pay dropped dramatically anyway.
The ones that have tried have failed miserably. Unless I see a decently popular phone that doesn't get discontinued shortly after release due to low sales, I kinda have to stick by my original statement.
Its a curious job - murder for hire? I don't think it actually is legal in the US.
Possible that the central government is more exposed to this than anyone thinks due to creative accounting practices? Result might be central government is unable to conduct its policies at the same level of robustness as before? Doomsday here being that social programs, belt and road, etc might suffer. Potential downstream impacts would include dissatisfaction with leadership and a change there? Or, you know, just straight up war as a distraction of we’re talking real downsides.
And when Google implemented Java for Android, how, pray tell, should they have implemented Collections.shuffle?
Another maker of excellent wooden models is Wooden City (https://wooden.city/).

We built their Ferris Wheel model. It was very well designed, a lot of fun to build and the end result was much better than we anticipated!

The 4x4 looks amazing - will be building that next.
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What password manager tools do you use or recommend?
I really want to know how the non-mechanical engineer, non plumbers who designed this thing intend to solve tricky problems like rotating municipal water feed and sewer connections.

From a purely photovoltaic perspective, something that I think am qualified to comment on... Moving/tilting/rotating photovoltaics haven't been economical for a long time. As an example, the ground mount required to put six or nine 300W panels on a sun-tracking mount costs about $1900 in hardware and requires a 4.50" or 6" pipe set into a concrete pier. Figure at least $2400 once built. Nine 60-cell panels is a lot of wind load, it needs to be strong and robust, and there's just no way to do that cheaply.

If you spend that $2400 on additional fixed-mount, fixed tilt PV panels part of a big array, at $0.48/watt, you will produce far more kWh in a month than with an expensive mechanical tilting/swiveling apparatus.
I mean the article pretty explicitly lumps this together with the Saudis and even goes so far as to call it part of a proxy war against Iran.

"The UAE and Saudi Arabia lead an alliance of nine countries in Yemen, fighting what is largely a proxy war against Iran. The US is helping the Saudi-UAE side by providing weapons, intelligence, and other support."

Seems its in their interest to pile on against the Saudis with even more evidence of wrongdoing. (Not that I'm a staunch supporter of the Saudi regime by any means. Just interesting timing is all.)
what's 'Bus factor 1' ?
These type of "tools" are used by low-lives to control people so that they feel that they have some sense of control over people. In terms of getting good hard-working motivated people to work for you, this sort of technology does exactly the opposite.
Some of them have Dockerfiles but some don't. For the ones without Dockerfiles, exactly what environment are the commands run in?
https://choosetoencrypt.com

https://motherboard.vice.com
I meant them to be the indicators listed immediately preceding that statement.

You can't deny that most people are saying the economy is doing very well. Unemployment is low, wage growth is happening, large business profits and revenues are up, manufacturing activity is high, retail sales are the highest they've been.

Just about every economic indicator captured by the US Census Bureau is very strong. But people are still pissed the fuck off.
>We can be outraged by both of them at the same time...

They don't care if we, the people of the US, are outraged.

Their goal is to get the government of the US to back off.

And they are probably trying to do that by firing this shot across the bow of the government of the US. They likely have proof that ties the government of the US to many such actions across the MidEast region.
The article specifically mentions being concerned by and studying air near roadways compared to that which isn’t, as well as controlling for factors such as smoking in study participants. It doesn’t sound like this has much to do with smoking as air pollution.
This is why I'd love to see a quantitative model, there are too many players and too many variables for good intuition.

What matters for each scenario is (a) how much it costs, (b) who bears the cost, and (c) how long it takes.

If Chinese creditors, investors and citizens bear 100% of the cost in scenarios 1 and 3, but they only bear 30% of the cost in scenario 2, then scenario 2 is preferable isn't it?

But what if Chinese citizens don't have a vote, and the damage to well connected elites is lower under scenario 1? Maybe that winds up the preferred course even if total cost is greater.

Who knows without the ability to even roughly quantify the primary, secondary and tertiary effects?
Interestingly HR people don’t refer to themselves as “resources”, they call themselves “professionals” or “business partners”. But at least they’re honest about how they view real workers.
That's always a problem with comparison charts when used to survey they field. The flip side is if they compare a bunch of features you don't care about at all, there's a bunch of red on some which makes no difference to you in real life, but now you either need to know what each esoteric feature means so you can ignore it, or just accept that the one with more red is probably worse and avoid it, even if overall it's a better fit for your needs. The extreme ends of this are simple charts where someone just tells you "good" or "bad" on one end, or pointlessly complex ones where someone adds bullshit fields like "experienced developers" or something like it.

I'm not sure what the solution is, besides much more interactive and thorough presentation of features in a way that allows classification of how advanced they are or likely you are to need them, but that's a lot of work. Until then, a comparison like this will always suffer from rarely matching exactly what the reader is looking for. They do work well as quick references though.
When cultures go through radical changes, it is inevitable that some percentage of people will continue to operate under "the old rules" long after that has become problematic. If it isn't a problem for them in specific, they may honestly not realize it is A Problem.

Operating under the old rules is frequently not (apparently) problematic for well established people who belong to a privileged class. For purposes of this discussion, that would be men who make good money and see themselves as "catches" because of it -- edit: which describes a large number of HN commenters -- sometimes while being quite bitter about all the gold digging whores in the world and failing to see that if you bait your hook with money, you shouldn't be surprised if that is the type of fish you attract.

Additionally, some blind spots are genuinely rooted in personal disability. Lack of social savvy can be due to Autism Spectrum Disorder.

I have two sons who likely qualify as ASD. I find it very effective to give them helpful tools for navigating the social landscape and avoiding the worst errors they could make due to their personal handicaps. I find it quite counterproductive to blame them as if they are being troublesome on purpose.

I try to keep that in mind when framing comments of mine. I'm human and I don't always get it right by any stretch of the imagination. But that's where I'm generally coming from.