skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's not saying Trump is just a joke now, I think. But Trump really did start off as a mostly joke candidate- wouldn't it be funny? Can you imagine? Etc. And then he used his racism and psychopathic tendencies to win the race.

And Mr. Paul here has both.
How is this argument differ from the following one:

(setup - 1950 but we have facebook/twitter/youtube/instagram)

Most of the population thinks that people promoting same sex relationships are just hell bent on destroying the good and wholesome America and demand that the leaders of LGBT of the time be deplatformed from that twitter/facebook/youtube/etc.
google playing by apple's book to extract revenues, one more nail in "don't be evil" coffin
Are You Getting All of the Free Publicity You’re Entitled To?
It'd more like Ford trying to ban people from putting Hilary or Trump bumper stickers on their cars. In your scenario, an individual had their property vandalized. That is not comparable to platforms censoring certain views.
The story would not exist if not plausible. Even the many of the experts who dismiss the story say it is plausible.

I get that it is extrordinary, and requiring extrordinary proof as a result. However, extraordinary is not at all the same as implausible. There are examples of similar attacks in the wild, no matter how many orgs argue they are not affected.
alternatively https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html
Also graphed and discussed by diffuseprior some time ago, here: https://diffuseprior.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/kalkalash-pinp...
For the counter argument, see "Unikernels are unfit for production"
January 22, 2016 - by Bryan Cantrill

https://www.joyent.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-product...
+- 20 % error, insignificant for the accuracies used with either system.
We can't adapt to an ecological collapse. It's not the few degrees of extra warmth we worry about, it's how major extinction events will threaten nearly everything.
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If I had my life savings on a flash drive I think I could keep track of it pretty well. The nice thing about crypto wallets is you can replicate the secret key indefinitely. So, even if the drive is stolen you still have a password protected backup. If the cash is stolen, well, possession is 9/10s the law ;).
Micronaut 1.0 GA Released
Not all ingredients scale linearly. You would also need a scale exponent.
Engineering at Domio: My First Server
Layman's question: Does this have any implications for string theory, given the 10 spacial dimensions in which it operates (if including M-theory)?
It’s defintiely 2. But ads are priced on value to the advertiser. If someone reduced fraud to 0% they would just charge 20% more, and that money goes from fraudsters to advertisers, not more ads. This exists already, networks that filter out fraud better can charge higher rates.
After 10 years of using iphones android is hard to use for me.
Don't forget the JS library that senses your mouse position so that when you move your mouse up to the tab bar, it opens a final "Wait, don't go! Here's a free e-book, etc." modal on the page.
There are 2 reasons a show are cancelled:
#1, and the reason in the majority of cases: not enough people watch. It doesn't matter if you think the current season of The Simpsons is good, terrible, or whatever. It only matters that you watch. If few enough people watch, it WILL be cancelled. This is NOT public access or PBS.
#2, the artist's discretion. Rare, but occasionally an artist decides to "go out on top". Jackie Gleason and "The Honeymooners" comes to mind. Seinfeld too. I'm sure there are others you will point out.

Point is, keep watching and they'll keep pumping out crap.
Like a lot of the crypto currency space purse.io is shady and likely promoting thinly veiled money laundering.

Ask yourself if the discount is worth the risk of experiences like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4zczow/my_experien...
> I do agree that socioeconomic factors are most likely the biggest contributor, the movie Trading Places convinced me of that at a young age.

This is an interesting thing to admit. What is the evidentiary value of a fictional movie?
I think you're missing the forest for the tree. It's about instilling the priciples of the free market place of ideas - not just the specific medium involved.
Hey, let me play the devil's advocate here and say that these are nothing but knee jerk reactions.

Call me cynical or pessimistic, but the time has already passed. Maybe we should focus on saving as much as we can.

Funding a few companies may be the right thing to do, but shouldn't it have been ten years ago. Or were the smartest people on the planet were hoping that it would all just go away.

It's already too late. Sorry, but you have to invest in saving as many people as possible.

Unfortunately, the politicians would never understand that.

Its actually funny. After decades of dystopian future being manifested in the literature and movies, we have come to believe that's it's all just another science fiction movie or a conspiracy theory.

We are heading towards a earth altering event, and we can't stop it.

Save yourself.
Yeah I do agree. Road noise is really bad and leafblowers are even worse.

If there are hundreds of leafblowers buzzing around outside my house, I'm going to be really really angry because I signed a social contract that basically says I can't do anything crazy, but suddenly big corps can?
Can you please explain what you mean by "built on a more modern manufacturing node"?
> That first part starting with “telling the device…” is nonsensical. If you are in the industry or read our Basic BMC and IPMI Management Security Practices piece, you would know that this is false.

Based on my experience in the industry, I'd say this isn't quite accurate.

Yes, the author is correct in his assertion that BMCs are typically provisioned on private networks that are only accessible to outside users via a VPN. He is also correct that you cannot "tell" the BMC to do anything without access to that private network.

However, the author assumes that the operator has disabled egress connectivity on the private network setup for OOB BMC access. In reality, that happens less often than you'd think. Many firewalls by default do not block egress requests and without egress filtering, the BMC can still make outbound requests to the public world. A compromised BMC could easily "phone home" and receive instructions from a command and control server.
Also is this a suggestion that a company that did just this would be accepted and funded?

That's an interesting option, but I wonder how a company might sustain itself doing this.

Lease land to eco-friendly activities like zipline adventures or something?

Also sounds like a good reason for expansion of National Parks services.
Uber want to play it. That's what the entire article is about. Amazon also want to play it - they've done several public demos of the concept.
Or to lower emissions instead of building stuff that causes emissions? There are soo many possibilities to do it.
Besides CO2, Caron removal should also target other greenhouse gas with much higher potency like Methane/CH4 [1], which is the central point of why livestock is a big cause of global warming in Gate's Note about Climate Change Quiz.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane

[2]: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Climate-change-quiz
See [1]: "we can turn the knobs to get this business even on a full basis profitable, but you would sacrifice growth and sacrifice innovation" and "He said that it’s Uber’s commitment to 'developing' markets that are dragging things down, but he views that as an 'optional investment'". I'm not and have never been an Uber employee, but I've heard very similar things from people who are. Not great evidence, but hopefully that explains my opinion.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/14/uber-could-be-profitable-i...
checkout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdiZa0Y3F3c which explains the new features of the task scheduler in a simple fashion.

Basically Julia is employing a new algorithm to schedule tasks, where traditional methods would get stuck/blocked. Essentially, if you run a job with parallel tasks and one of the threads finishes, it's extremely difficult to schedulate the free thread, since the data may still be used by the other threads that are busy; thus you need to have clever way to determine how to allocate computational resources. Julia is implementing results of a new paper on how to optimally do this.
For a start, see the first graph here:

https://judithcurry.com/2016/04/05/comparing-models-with-obs...

Some other relevant posts from the same blog:

https://judithcurry.com/2017/09/26/are-climate-models-overst...

https://judithcurry.com/2018/09/17/a-test-of-the-tropical-20...
I've been using Makefiles for that, and a plenty of parameters like REGION=us-north-2 NODES=5 etc. This is run from a dedicated shell server.
> If you are having thoughts of suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources.
In for a penny, in for a pound.

If you make it illegal, for the sake of being able to throw certain demographics in prison (brown, black, hippies), then you incentivize further actions. If you're caught, you're already going away for a long time.

That's why decriminalization/legalization of drugs also stops other crime. Suddenly, $thing is no longer criminalized, so people doing it have no reason to commit crimes.
Ask HNN: Have you gotten YC interview yet?
I just can't do that. I typically only watch anime that has ended so I know that there will be resolution. I really appreciate well thought out series.

In short, I appreciate the story far more than the story telling. The longer the story is, the bigger the payoff needs to be.

Perhaps that's the difference between British and Japanese audiences?
Right, who has even heard of amphibious landing ships. Not like they need them in any case, since they happen to have the fastest amphibian armored vehicle in the world.

But you are either trolling here or way too deep into conspiracy theories to care for facts.
Basically all "spyware" traffic is encrypted, you can however see which IP's users of your network connects to (and some meta-data such as domain name, protocol and hand-shakes) using for example Wireshark or tcpdump. My guess is that the fraud is detected by monitoring the traffic on the ad server, see that a "impression" is registered from their test phone's IP, and by looking at the phone they affirm that no ad was displayed.
So, one common thing I see is I don't think left-leaning people right now realize how similar to the extreme fringes of the right they sound.

Your first two paragraphs would be a huge hit on /pol right up until you got to the point of resolving which adversaries and interests you're talking about.

I don't know where it takes us when an authoritarian, silencing approach is what both sides agree on, and they just haggle over where to point it.
How I cured (most of) my anxiety (2016)
Can you link some of those studies? Would love to read them
I've worked in 4 startups - depending on how one counts - and as you describe it was in a nutshell how it worked.

Needless to say this influenced my own work style a lot. Sometimes it's good, I guess I'm able to be very pragmatic even if everyone around me might be completely clueless, something of what I'm proud of. On the other hand I guess my ability to team play decreased a lot.

Not sure if you experienced that as well, but for me team play was pretended but the exact opposite happened. Same goes for rationality.
Aren't buses much cheaper to operate then ferries?
Publishers already stuff as many ads in the space they have as viewers will tolerate, so it's unlikely that a reduction in fraud will result in consumers seeing more ads. If anything they'll see fewer ads, since the existing ad space will become more valuable. The fact that ad space is primarily sold in the form of real-time auctions, and advertisers can track end-to-end results online (e.g. "we generated $10 in new sales per 1000 impressions last month") ensures that the price goes down when there's more fraud and up when there's less. Undetected impression fraud leads to publishers earning less for their legitimate impressions, not advertisers paying a premium.
What a lovely message. Thanks for that.
> A lot depends on the fraction of value non-producing population that the value producing population has to appease

True, the idle rich have demanded appeasement in the form of lower taxes at the expense of many things - including infrastructure maintenance.

A point well-made!
I'm gonna have to side with you here, I don't see the point of what they're doing. Except for distinction and marketing. Distinction, as in, if you have total control of how your car, it is easier to create functionality that competitors don't necessarily have. Marketing, as in, marketing.
> I don't think this is an either/or situation

It is if the alarmists have their way and we commit trillions of dollars in resources to CO2 mitigation. That's trillions of dollars that can't be spent to create wealth and bring people out of poverty. That's a lot of opportunity cost.

To be clear, YCombinator's money is theirs and they can invest it however they choose. I don't know what fraction of their total investment will end up being committed to this. My objection is to the "existential threat" language, which makes it seem as though they would be willing to drop everything else and commit all of their resources to this effort. (After all, if it really were an existential threat, why wouldn't they? How could they justify funding any other startups?)
Uber wants to play at anything that will make them profitable and give them an exit.
Yeah, this appears to be accomplishing the same purpose as the 'Terragrunt' wrapper which uses DynamoDB for locking state IIRC https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terragrunt
How is that different from PayPal?
I concur, sir.
Where did they live? I know multiple people who didn't have trouble buying houses or traveling with salaries around there
I wrote a series on carbon capture technologies: https://qz.com/re/the-race-to-zero-emissions/

What I took away most was that carbon removal is now firmly a part of mitigating climate change. It's part of "Plan A" but also there is so much from the previous "Plan A" that will still need to work on. There are a number of carbon-capture technologies on current emissions that need to be deployed from power plants to cement factories.
> Investors are wary of his recreational drug use.

Not some smart investors if that's their issue...
Has Russia stopped being a developed country, while I was away?
Have a look at firecalc.com, it simulates scenarios throughout history (including the Great Depression) and tells you if your resources would've been depleted.
Yes I think this is one of the bigger problems of these systems. So for example, let's say you've created a device that only accepts rice husk and your device pays itself off in 10 years. Now suddenly your neighboring country is subsidizing the gasification of rice husk. This means that the prices of rice husk increase and you're expected ROI is suddenly changed. This makes investing in these types of devices difficult and unattractive.
This post does not address the other reasons I have stated.
For a great in depth but still understandable look at the race to zero emissions, including carbon capture technologies, I highly recommend this series from Quartz: https://qz.com/on/race-to-zero-emissions/
A skirt around the laser.

There’s a few techniques. You can cut the meristem or you can heat the weed. If you can explode the physiology, they don’t grow back.
Lack of progress exposed by the Canary MacGuffin
The article is scant on details, but if the ancestor's only crime during Prohibition was bootlegging, then actually, it's possible Prohibition caused generations of other crimes that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
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The issues you raise aren't solved by limiting transmit power - they are only solved by actually using Qi standard chargers. If you are using a faulty transmitter it can catch fire at 5W or 10W.

The Qi standard as of 1.1 has the receiver communicate back to the transmitter the amount of power it has received. The transmitter then calculates transmit efficiency based on the amount of power it is outputting. If the efficiency is too low the transmitter will fault with the assumption that it could be heating up a foreign object.
Viewing the world in absolute terms IS one of the main causes of hate, in my opinion. The idea that a group of people can be convinced to view something as absolute makes them malleable to do things they wouldn't otherwise do.

For instance, you are absolutely against hate. Now all someone has to do is change your definition of hate. Even in a subtle way. Now you are absolutely against something else you may not have been before. And this absolute disgust for something can morph and become something completely different than it was before. And you will never question it because you have absolutely made up your mind and there is no other way.

The world is not black and white, in any way. There are only shades of gray. There is no such thing as absolute good, and there is no such thing as absolute bad. Please examine this in yourself before you become a tool for someone else's agenda.
I don't think this sort of analysis can measure the impact of deplatforming on people's opinions. While deplatforming may suppress the open dissemination of hateful ideas it's erroneous to assume these ideas become less prevalent as a consequence. This has happened in my workplace, for one. After the company made it clear it would not tolerate things like Damore's memo and Stuart Reges' article on women in computing, I and other people who agreed (or at least, aren't actively adverse to those views) shut up, and joined the chorous of people condemning them. But in private, it didn't change our views. If anything, it's made me even more skeptical of that sort of leftism.

Consider the fact that deplatforming (primarily of right wing speakers) in the US became significantly more prevalent around 2014, and 2015. It didn't help in the 2016 election.
My point is that there are other things you can do that don't involve modifying the stack (or at least, except via inlined code).
Do you have proof that societal pressure via shaming results in systematic changes the way you’re describing? From what I remember, there are studies regarding the shaming of women and bodily image that doesnt seem to correlate shaming for misbehavior with better behavior (Ie. Eating less).
> That is not comparable to platforms
> censoring certain views.

Historically, it has been. If someone had sent a letter to The Pennsylvania Chronicle, containing a recipe for baking a turd pie, I don't think Ben Franklin would have felt the need to print it.

Facebook, Twitter, Google... they're the ones footing the bill to host their users' content.
Yup. There are peaks for energy transfer into water around 1 and 2 microns. So mid-IR.
If Carbon Engineering can really scale (and they can reduce costs to below $100 / tonne of CO2) - why not just pour money into them?
There's no shortage of new frameworks to learn. To paraphrase Tony Soprano: "You could build a jetty with what's coming out."
There are reasons to think it may be effective. But I try to live by "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool." I want additional experiments to make findings robust. In particular, even if small fertilization inputs reliably lead to large biomass increases, we need to know how much of that added biomass sinks to the deep ocean before we know how effective it is at sequestration. That can mean trying to track carbon movement over complicated food webs.
The Bay Bridge happens to have twice as many lanes.
No, they neglected it because they originally wanted protections afforded to “common carriers”. Now they are trying to have their cake and eat it too.
The thing is that building in China is way cheaper than in the US, so for them it makes sense to just keep demolishing stuff and build new stuff. I saw it happening several times all over China. In Shanghai for instance, they are building a new Maglev station next to the old one, so there is no upgrading old stuff there.
Simple: just stop using MongoDB.
Will be fun to see the inevitable YouTube videos of these as clay pigeons.
> The general standard, Qi, only supports charging at 5W.

This is false. Only the low power Qi standard is 5W. Medium power is up to 120W and there is talk of a high power mode up to 1kW.
Hopefully the FAA holds Uber to a higher standard than the Arizona DOT did.

Uber's history and culture of skirting regulation is concerning when it comes to aviation.
The less someone posts on Twitter, the more interested I am in what they have to say.
Laws/legal procedures are complicated because the world and its actors are complicated. And not all actors are acting in good faith, with the same facts, or even rationally.

If you want to have rule of law relying on simple laws just doesn't cut it most of the time.

Now, legalese can and should be reduced, modern lawyers are working on that. But laws will always be used to enforce/define complex systems or relationships. This often requires complex rules.
The NPC meme went viral when the media gave it oxygen
Felon here. Like the article describes, my father was arrested and jailed, and his father before him. Many of my family have spent time in prison. When I turned 18, I also shared the same experience. Less than a year in min security prison.

Now I'm 35, moved away from my troubled youth, and have made millions of dollars building startups.

A few points:

- To this day, I am terrified to speak to police or any authority figures. I sweat every time I pass through passport control when my wife and I go to Europe every summer.

- I can't break my "guarded" way of thinking, that everyone is out to get me, that I need to take what I can when I have the chance because the chance won't come around again. I am never relaxed.

- I have a 4 year old and not a day goes by that I don't spend working with him to provide things I never had. The fact that I can afford to send him to piano lessons or that we can afford to live in the "rich" part of town makes me emotional.

- I lost every part of my childhood. My parents are ghosts and my friends from then are long sense forgotten. Some people go back to their home town to feel nostalgic, but all I do is feel anger. I am angry every day.

- Many people are afraid to take risks for their careers, but as an ex-convict who spent over a year as a homeless person, I feel no fear. Moving across the country when I have no money, sleeping at my desk to launch a product due the next day, giving a speech in front of 1000 people, or aggressively gunning for a better company is nothing compared to begging someone for their half eaten sandwich. That's true fear.

Even the ones who escape a criminal family never really escape.