skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m awaiting the public disclosure of evidence of Khoshoggi’s murder.

At the macro human level this is simply disgusting what the Saudis have done.

At the macro geopolitical level this is a truly cringeworthy embarrassment for the Saudis.

However, this is what happens when control of trillions of dollars of essential natural resources is at stake.

I would remind Hacker News readers that millions were slaughtered in the 70’s by the Khmer Rouge for control with none of the massive cashflow and geopolitical influence stemming from it.

In other words, the blood will flow to ensure continuity of control & flow of oil. Period.

Just look at Saudi actions in Yemen slaughtering everyone with reckless abandon(mostly via proxy) as it represents a possible beachhead at bringing down the Saudi regime.

Kind of like the Saudis in the role of the Germans at D-Day.

Military sales to Saudi serve 2 purposes:

1) Saudi/GCC military contracts are padded heavily to act as platforms for massive kickbacks to GCC royal families and connected insiders.

Military sales are cashflow for corrupt GCC royals and insiders.

2) Military sales to the GCC represent petro-dollar recycling to balance trade between GCC countries and their petro customers.

Check out the Al Yamamah arms deal between UK/Saudi that started in the 1980’s. Journalists found proof of corruption but further publication was halted as a matter of national security due to pressure from the Saudis that would have cancelled deals and led to the layoffs of tens of thousands of high paying jobs.

Realpolitik is not an easy issue.

Selling military equipment to Saudi/GCC is a bad idea, but may be a less bad idea as they do have options waiting in the wings(Russia/China).

Ultimately, I think Saudi Arabia will attempt to avoid becoming like the Shah/Iran post 1979 much as China has avoided becoming like Russia post 1991. Regardless of the volume of bloodletting,

The Mossad/Israel was publicly embarrassed with an assassination it conducted in Dubai in 2010.

I doubt the Saudis care as much about their international reputation as the Israelis.
Obviously, but that's not how it should be because it's ridiculously unfair.
This happens all the time here when it comes to physics. Other greatest hits are bickering endlessly about interpretations of QM deeming unacceptable the shut-up-and-calculate approach that 90% of physicists have no problem with and to a minor extent the failure of the LHC to make up new physics ex nihilo.

People should be able to recognize they haven't put the effort to learn the basics of what they're talking about and that maybe there are very good reasons for all this they can't be aware of because of it and should ask about... and start from there.
You can, but then you have 50MB of useless DLLs that static linking would eliminate. At that point you have the same disk footprint as an electron app. Memory use would still be order of a magnitude better though.
See the verge for more info: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/8/17661902/anki-vector-home-...
What Would Happen If Everyone Truly Believed Everything Is One?
A lot of truth to this, but such is the role of the media.

If Trump was threatening to cut off MBS's weapons supplies, the article would be written talking about all of the potential negative ramifications.
Just take a look at Wikipedia.
There are more people on there with parents who are university professors, doctors or succesfull entrepreneurs than parents who are farmers. Even though the amount of farmers vastly outnumber the others.

I don't think it is just the money. You also have someone (your parents) to mentor you everyday about how to be "succesfull". They probably have a network you can tap into, someone who knows someone. You wanna start your own business, great let us call X,Y,Z and set up a holding company. Also here is some bootstrap cash.

You most likely also live somewhere nice and have resourceful friends growing up. Hey let us start a business together. You are not going to settle for working at a supermarket because you would have no chance of keeping of the standard of living you had growing up. And those friends, they are dining at the Fat Duck again, while you go to McDonalds.

Almost all of my "succesfull" friends have "succesfull" parents. Even though I lot more friends with parents who have ordinary jobs.
It’s not just that say we find wimps in the lab we need to have some sort of a model that would explain how they are or were produced in the universe and more importantly that they were produced in the correct ratio to be the single explanation for dark matter.

It’s quite possible that we will find WIMPs in a particle accelerator but then be stuck with the fact that at best they’ll only account for 3% of the dark matter we observe and then it’s again back to the drawing board.
I think the future defense against this sort of thing is more situational awareness on the part of the phone. You won't just have to fool the biometrics, you'll have to do so without making the phone suspicious at any point. My guess is that phones already have enough sensory data to pretty reliably distinguish everyday usage from being stolen or confiscated, and it's "just" a matter of fitting a model. Nor does the phone have to ignore what happens to it after it's unlocked.

No one tries this sort of thing on people or animals, and it's because they don't shut their perceptions off at all times except for a half second when they are authenticating someone.
That’s interesting - I don’t experience any difference between unlocking with glasses on and with them off.

I actually thought I did at first, and was a bit annoyed. But it turned out I was just holding the phone far too close to my face when I didn’t have glasses on.
If you can code in Java, optionally using the Play Framework, ebeans, etc. I can hire you at $100k per year as a contractor. Email me at omid at colibrin dot com —- I don’t care about your age.
Here's an inspiring talk by Daniel Kish who has been blind since he was 13 months old and relies on echolocation.

> Daniel Kish: How I use sonar to navigate the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0aihGWB8U
There probably isn't enough research to come to conclusions yet, but see also this:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180530113126.h...
can a military easily switch from US-made weapons to Russian?
Control-escape is equivalent to the Windows key; alt-escape is the shortcut that cycles quickly between recently used applications without showing the small bar in the middle, like alt-tab does.

The mega combo is ctrl-alt-tab (or altgr-tab for the international keyboard aficionados) which gives you the application switcher bar, and lets you navigate with the arrow keys without holding down any other keys.
Standupmaths, from recent front page fame got sponsored to do a video on Vector, and it appears to be mostly a cross between a virtual assistant, like Alexis and a robot pet, like sony Aibo, with a form factor inspired by wall-e.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ahdOqe5qBk
Emporio Armani Connected 2018 review and price
JetBrains IDE's still unusably slow on many Macs with ext monitors after 3 years
On the other hand, since people don’t want to bother entering a long password every time they pick up their phone, they’ll be more likely to disable it entirely.

Security is a continuum.
Cold baryonic matter, MACHOs, primordial black holes etc were all candidates for dark matter at some point, yes they aren’t likely candidates at this point because we have much better telescopes and more complete surveys but the search for DM isn’t a process of elimination you can’t prove what is it by eliminating possible candidates you can only show where we might more likely to find a good candidate.
Why aren't Holmes and the other guy in jail. I mean there are people in jail for smoking pot and these guys did massive fraud and they are free.

I hope they don't just give them some fine. Makes the judicial system look bad.
PaqRap, or when senior VPs of Compaq did a rap video in 1990
Well, I'm not trying to make the case that recommendation algorithms are strictly unhelpful. It would be absurd to imply that there aren't many cases where they have provided a benefit to the end user. I just think that in many cases in my experience they have a bad signal to noise ratio to the point where it annoys me, because of the limitations of surreptitious data collection. Also, Youtube and Amazon don't allow you to turn recommendations off, which to me implies that in a choice between user preference and their business interests, it is clear which one is more important to them.

> That's exactly what these algorithms do. They try to find what YOU would find meaningful and fulfilling and they really do try to give it to you. When that means money will be exchanged they prefer one vendor (that has paid them) over another (which hasn't, or paid less), but does that really change anything ?

To me, this question is asking, "Is there a difference between a data collection algorithm whose primary goal is to help me, and a data collection algorithm whose primary goal is to profit off of me?" While there does exist a subset of transactions where the results would be the same, this whole article upon which we are commenting provides ten case studies of unintended harms or instances where the interests of the data collector and the interests of data collectee are not aligned. If you are looking for a more in-depth discussion illustrating some of the potential harms, I found Robert McChesney's Digital Disconnect to be a convincing first look at the problem, and there are some good documentaries on Thoughtmaybe that may be relevant as well, including Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse, Weapons of Mass Surveillance, and Adam Curtis's The Century of the Self.
I was a baby when this video was made and I discovered it for the first time today! I would never have believed such a video had been made, and cannot imagine one being made nowadays in big corporations. I guess it must have been fun to live the birth and grow of personal computers :-)
Rich parents also are more likely to show their kids how to handle money and get rich. See the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Kiyosaki.

Edit: Teaching kids how to manage money, the time value of money, the basics of running a business, how markets work, etc., is painfully neglected by the schools. Young adults often have little knowledge of this, and it definitely puts them at a serious disadvantage.
“Needed at home - USB Power Adapter 5V, 1A or greater”

It’s a $250 device that doesn’t include a plug for the charger. I don’t know if that’s an effort to save money or reduce waste, but either way it strikes me as a way to guarantee a subset of customers are annoyed in their first 30 minutes of using the product.

What am I missing here?
At 10 trillion frames per second, this camera captures light in slow motion
That's like saying they're capable of making an extremely complicated system work but not one that is only an epsilon slightly more complicated...
Totally agree. In fact since a lot of people prefer overhead vs checked, overhead should be more expensive.

At the very least, I should be guaranteed to have some overhead space without having to fight to get on the plane as early as possible.
Even though we do not pass the telemetry build flags (and go out of our way to cripple the baked-in telemetry), Microsoft will still track usage by default. After installing VSCodium, you must manually disable telemetry in your settings file to stop it from sending tracking data to Microsoft.

The instructions here and here help with disabling telemetry.
As rude as lying to save face?
I'd hesitate to "go solo" if what you'd like to do is Android + Spring Boot. Because it's a cold, cold world of a race to bottom out there. I have fiverrs doing apps for me for 5$/h and, contrary to what may be a common belief, they are not x10 worse than me. They are almost as good, and once they become fully on par they start asking 15-20$/h - which is insanely low. Only do that on top of some baseline employment that keeps you going.
Which would just leave thousands of verifiable examples of Saudi Arabia's horrible human rights.
Something something empowerment narrative
(Perfect pitch here) Hehe how is it "much more useful"? When I hear music, I simultaneously know what all the notes and chords are. That's what hearing music is for me. I can't imagine not having it, as an improvising musician. Hearing a note or chord without knowing exactly what is is?! People without it somehow manage, but it is like flying blind.
I+will+kickstart+your+sales,lists+for+your+business
If your car seat is electric is probably based on a worm gear which is more or less self locking.
One of the few things I remember from that one neuroscience class I took in high school was that the more physical senses you involve in something, the more likely you are to remember that thing. I think you’re totally right about writing something down, even if it’s just miming the act of writing.

It’s the same effect, I think, where writing down a reminder means I remember it even when I lose the reminder note.
This is subjective. I came to Lisp with a background in C, C++ and numerous other things, none of them like Lisp.

Lisp looked very good and highly readable; I liked it very much right away and was able to hit the ground running.
Actual title: Effects of High Fat Diet may Last for Generations
Very neat way to break down an API. Was not aware that I could focus on just one part of d3 as suggested here.
You are indeed lucky to find a partner who fees the exact same way as you about saving and having kids. Is the 150k joint savings or your individual savings per year?
Pretty obviously because a pot charge is typically simple to adjudicate (you were arrested, you had pot, that's illegal) and white-collar investor and product fraud cases are not. The criminal case against Balwani and Holmes is complicated, and it will take time to resolve.

(Relatively few people are at this point in jail for smoking pot, for whatever that's worth to you).
More Playthings
They were arrested and out on a $500k bail. The same happens for those now in jail for smoking pot or dealing or whatever. The trial is now going on and the prosecution thinks it has a potentially far bigger case that can net more on charges.

Holmes settled the civil case with the SEC I believe so she’s cleared there. She absolutely could be jailed for a long time, but the wheels of justice turn slowly.
I'd generally agree with you, except for one thing. I'm not sure our models could have killed it off, excepting finding precisely whatever is causing the apparent mass abnormalities throughout the universe. Have you seen those ancient astronomic models used to illustrate a geocentric Earth? The one with the numerous spinning 'petals' surrounding the Earth? It's interesting imagining the amount of work that went into creating such models, constantly adjusting them over and over each time yet another little problem came up. Happily accepting planets just randomly changing direction, with no analog whatsoever anywhere else in nature, and so on.

When hypotheses are not falsifiable, they just tend to grow ever more elaborate rather than die. Dark matter started off as literally that - a place holder for bodies that did not significantly radiate. It's slowly changed into becoming the vast majority of all matter in the universe, existing practically everywhere, it can't be baryonic, it interacts with nothing except itself and gravity, there must exist near entirely dark matter galaxies, and so forth. So we're left with this ever evolving hypothesis that can't ever really be falsified and which every test, increasingly clever and precise, we create to detect it -- says it's not there.

And it seems that the zeitgeist is starting to increasingly treat dark matter as a fact whose proof is little more than an unscheduled formality. This seems illogical given that we've done more than ever to try to show it exists, and every result is saying - nope. And again this does not mean it does not exist, but each failure makes it more likely that this is the case, and there is an alternative explanation.
This is probably the single worst sales pitch I've ever seen for a superfluous IOT product. Is this intended for public consumption?
Do loud noises or loud music interfere with it?
For me, I have always had a problem with how dark matter was portrayed in the media, even more scientific media. It is only fairly recently that scientists have been communicating dark matter as a problem with several possible solutions to laypeople. Before it went kinda like this: "we are unable to detect 80% (or whatever number) of the mass in the universe and we think it is non-baryonic matter". As someone trained in science, but not physics, that sounds like a huge discrepancy suggesting an incorrect theory. But I all hear until recently is that "our theories are right, our observations are wrong". But usually it is the opposite. I'm oversimplifying but that was the general impression. More recently the media and scientists have been doing a better job admitting that something may be wrong with general relativity but the leading hypothesis is non-baryonic matter.
I wonder when the app that wipes your phone if the GPS shows it to be at a police station or an evidence lockup will come out and what are the repercussions of having such an app will be.
Not following your first question, but isn't 2 the recently-observed gravitational waves?
On the spectrum of cow to lion we are very far from the lion

Do you seriously not understand that cows are ruminants?
That makes me wonder why they didn't just go all the way? Was there "advice" from MS to not do so?
Because then they don't get to hoover up as much of your data.
Why did you make this?
You could also just use a competent editor that isn't made by a company who 'needs' to collect 'telemetry' from all their users. Playing a game of cat and mouse is not going to convince MS to stop being evil.
> However others are only fluent and comfortable in that one legacy technology and are not really experienced in the fundamentals. A surprising number of those people exist. That’s who we want to avoid.

'The Prince' has a whole chapter about wheter employing mercenary soldiers can be considered a good thing. And he gets into the conclusion that mercenaries must be the last kind of resource you want to employ in an army, and that is better to avoid them.

To stitch this with what we are talking about here, in my experience, people that get stuck in a given technology are more conservative types, who do just enough to fit in a given position, and make it as solid as possible, so to garantee their paychecks by the end of the month, and to be perceived as a perfect fit for that position, and consolidate the job for years to come. Its on-pair with mercenary because, theres no cause or love for the tecnology, for what we can achieve with it, but those values get corrupted when they clash with a solid and continuous source of income.

More inovative people are more bold, and take more risks, but a lot of companies wont like them, and they wont be perceived as a good fit for the company (in their speech of course they do, but not in real life).

I guess the first, is more of the profile you are saying you are trying to avoid. And i think thats good, because this profile tend to have a more parasitic relationship with the company. If your company moves faster, maybe they wont make a good fit in that sort of environment.

Also its good to avoid people that have a tendency to game things. There a lot of people in this world, that dont care much about anything else and just do enough to understand the game of a given system and score enough to win in that sort of game consolidating its own position. (For instance, that puzzle based hiring interview iss being gamed right now, and companies are not hiring what they think they do right now.. humans will adapt to the games til they mean nothing anymore)

A good fit for a Astronaut for instance, is that kid that was dreaming about the space, and will do everything to make this dream come true. When theres a real problem, or something that requires real passion to be done, that 'kid' will make the difference.

Nothing can work as a suplementary replacement for real passion.

(From someone that has real passion, and cant understand how people can live without it)
The FAA requires that the demographics of the testers in terms of age and gender be comparable to that of the general population.
That's actually a great way out of this situation. Recruiters know that there are many gems among freelancers, so working on side projects or on short paid projects should put GP in a whole different category.
So in the bay area you can make 350k/y (saving, living, taxes) average for 20 years starting as a 25 year old?
Colleges are also likely to publicly insist they don't do legacy and donation based admissions, but do it anyway. For Rodney Dangerfield's hilarious lampoon of this, see the movie "Back to School".
Futurism isn't dead, it just smells retro.
As a customer, the late 90s were the absolutely most frustrating time to deal with computer customer support. In virtually every case, it was obvious that the customer support person was simply reading from a support database that the company hadn't bothered to put on the web yet, and yet to get these answers it was necessary to let the operator, who generally had no tech knowlege, walk you through a long script of repeating obvious steps until finally you would get to step 50 in their script that said "if you get error 87AB with an nvidia graphics driver, you must frazz the foo in the bios settings", which is all I wanted in the first place.

Gateway was one of the worst, since they generally had OEM versions of hardware that required special driver settings that were completely undocumented. Since this type of thing is generally online now, I honestly don't think I've called customer support for any personal product in over 15 years.
After seeing how few senior financial industry people went to prison for their work that directly caused the 2007-2009 economic crisis, I'm highly skeptical that justice will actually be served.
Emacs doesn't try to 'phone home' and it's the very definition of a 'not-tiny' app. Neither does (neo)vim.
Well, we can rest safe and assured that our human rights are assiduously guarded by Saudi Arabia as the chair of the UN human rights commission. You have the right to be beheaded - chop! chop!
In my college days we were brutally honest when we had forgotten someone’s name. It was such a large school that if you simply stepped outside every day you met someone new all the time, one way or another. Many people you would only meet once and then never see them again. So it was common to hear some version of “It’s good to see you again! Sorry I haven’t gotten your name down yet, I remember you but I’ve got to meet someone like 5 times before their name sticks” and it was no big deal because the other person would say the same thing back.

I like to think that in the real world being honest about forgetting someone’s name doesn’t hurt, but then again remembering someone’s name is way more impressive.
Windows key + tab too
maybe because of this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/9nt1db/telegram_i...
Just mine, we have completely separate finances (as far as lucky: yes, I am very lucky, but I had to do a lot of dating before finding her, most people, especially in the bay, are very materialistic and like to blow their RSUs on “luxury” rent, Mercedes and Teslas, which I absolutely respect but don't agree with).

It’s a high number but if you take advantage of all the tax deferred accounts available and are an average performer at a good company, it’s incredibly easy in the bay to get a $250-300k job, at which point the $150k becomes very achievable if you live frugally (in my case it’s a bit less than $150k, but I also don’t think I’ll need 5M to retire, that’s way too much considering my life style and the fact that I’ll probably just go back to my home country in rural Europe to retire close to my family).