skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it probably would have killed far fewer //

Maybe if hedonists had curbed their desire for promiscuous sex too?

People went on screwing around even when they knew they were infected, people who were at high risk refused to modify their behaviour.

Is it "shameful" we didn't discover the full nature of the disease sooner? What exactly should we all be ashamed about, other people's actions?

Suppose we found out now that smoker's lung cancer was contagious, would it be shameful of us not to have found out sooner? Or is the real shame that people would still willingly take to smoking?
"We had a gap in our diligence process". This is the most bullshit line in the entire statement. Like, you didn't Google top executives of the company you decided to buy (CEO, CTO, CRO) and read the first articles that popped up?
> But the tax laws in the US punish that

In other words, as mruts said, the government steps in to mess everything up.

> You also have all kinds of problems with time frames.

> And in general there are just information problems.

Yes, but those problems can't be fixed by making the market less free. They can only be fixed by shareholders having a long time horizon and being willing to be involved in corporate governance. The biggest issue with that nowadays is that most "shareholders" are not individuals but mutual funds, which shortens the effective time horizon for everybody (even though funds are holding the retirement accounts of people who will be working for the next 30 years, they still compete on short-term returns) and means no effective shareholder governance (mutual funds don't care how individual companies compensate their management, they'll just trade to another stock if one company has problems).
Yep, this carries just as much credence as "No sir, not wittingly."
G! employees opposition to Dragonfly is nothing but veiled colonial white man's burden idea rebooted. For most westerners the notion that other countries might have different systems, different values and yet not be savages or evil is hard to digest.

The same individuals would happily bend over and grease up when EU comes with idiotic Quxotian regulations, or when Congress passes stupid bills but somehow the idea that Google should comply with Chinese laws is unfathomable to these silicon valley hippies.

There is no need for China to uphold any American values including free speech and yet be a happy prospering society. Chinese people will figure out how to maximize their happiness in due course of time. Meanwhile Google can either make profit from world's largest market or end up at the bottom of heap of virtue signaling companies.
A new Dr. Seuss book – 'Horse Museum' – is coming out this fall
These are awfully contested dates. Hun: 100? Vedic: 1000? Etc. These statistics obscure more than they explain, I think.
It looks like the U.S. has another 93 years to look forward to!
As I write this in Los Alamos, North Korea's head of state has returned home from a dead-end meeting on curtailing its nuclear-weapons development, and uniformed soldiers are fighting on the contested border between two nuclear-weapons-operating countries.

:-(

Ironically, the 'LA' in 'la review of books' is, of course, Los Angeles.
The US lasted 243 years. Is it the oldest modern nation? I wonder, how will the modern nations different from the ancient ones?
anybody can be a 'data scientist' or a programmer that deals with data wrangling, the barrier to basic competency is really low. There are qualifications you can earn but you don't really need them to call yourself a professional. There certainly isn't any formal body regulating these professions (like there are doctors and actual engineers).

Having them adhere to the Hippocratic Oath would be ridiculous and undermine the seriousness of the work actual oath-taking doctors do. Better systems and proofs of qualifications are required before you starting insisting on 'first, do no harm'.
Lua 5.1.4 Annotated Source
Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week
This is not a correct interpretation
(I worked on CCP and related optimizations for years :P)

It does in fact prove that it is zero, because it is the meet of lattice values (undefined, 0).

You can actually solve this particular case by interpreting phi nodes differently than CCP does. CCP does not generally care about what blocks things occur in - it doesn't have to, all definitions dominate all uses, so it is safe to evaluate things in any order. The only thing you stand to lose is optimality because things only go one direction on the lattice (to ensure that it reaches a fixed point).

However, in this particular case, you can see if that if you treated the phi nodes as the equivalent form (assignments occurring on the edge of the previous block), and then processed the loop blocks in dominance order, it is obvious the use is uninitialized.

It is only when looking at phi nodes as an unordered black box (as ccp does) that you get this particular variant of the issue.

This is, of course, just a very cheap form of flow sensitivity.

You can also get the same effect by using SSI form in a lot of cases.

Most compilers do not bother doing real expensive flow sensitive analysis to try to analyze stuff like this, because almost everything you can do comes with its own fun source of false positives and negatives.
What's their connection with Neutrino? Does it just so happen that some ex-members of HackingTeam worked there at that time? Was it founded by ex-HackingTeam people?
It sounds like the more complicated version of the aggressive bone marrow translpants for cancer back in the 80s, and like those, causes increased risk for cancer down the line due to the carcinogens used.

I've been looking into MS drugs recently for someone I know, and Rituximab definitely sounds like the better option.
You are defining equality of participation as evidence of reverse sexism and you appear happy to believe whatever random things cross your screen that don't disagree with your core beliefs. I hope someone else has the patience to talk to you more.
Google TPU Edge Now Available (As Coral)
REST interface is good, but could we add business valdation before mutating data? Because bulk of the work backend does is this business logic. How could we do this?
Just wondering, how or what was the fix for this exploit?
Typical western garbage. Applying vague nation state ideas to civilization. Hindus for example have seen thousands of years as their own unbroken history. Many mantras that I chant today are at least 1500 year old.
Suppose you wanted a per-computer license to run on Linux.

IDASTACL is $979, getting you a disassembler for 32-bit only. It is possible to add up to 3 decompilers (ppc, x86, arm) for $2629 each. Getting all of this would be $8866. You can't add the two decompilers for 64-bit architectures.

IDAPROCL is $1879, getting you a disassembler for everything. It is possible to add up to 5 decompilers (ppc, x86, arm, x86-64, arm64) for $2629 each. Getting all of this would be $15024.

For hobby use, Binary Ninja for $149 and Hopper Disassembler for $99 are more reasonable choices.

All of these have demo and/or freeware versions available, with IDA having both. Freeware versions are generally limited to x86 and ARM, without a decompiler. Demo versions are generally limited by being unable to save and by a forced quit after half an hour or so.
From https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/04/neutrino-employees-who-onc...:

> Before launching Neutrino, CEO Giancarlo Russo, CTO Alberto Ornaghi and chief research officer Marco Valleri, worked at Hacking Team, a security and surveillance tech company that has been criticized for selling products to governments with a history of human rights violations, including Egypt, Kazakhstan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Turkey. As The Intercept reported in 2015, Hacking Team’s malware has also been found on the computers of activists and journalists.

Coinbase bought Neutrino and were massively criticized for it.
Machines, Minds, and Morality: Ethics in a Changing Technological World
Kualitee – A Defect Tracking Tool You Were Looking For
I read the whole article and until I read your comment, still thought it was a missing letter of the alphabet in the address of the postal letter that never got to him. Lol
Did some more reading on this and she posted a link to a site that contained more or less the following:
for (;;) { window.alert("...") }
Blockchain: Stellar Lumens 2019 Roadmap Released
So you are saying that China doesn't use their surveillance apparatus to find and murder political disedents?
As a resident here, I know for a fact that Taiwan did not replace bopomofo with pinyin.

You see bopomofu is to denote pronunciation not to romanticize characters. If you are talking about how location/street names are spelled, some form of pinyin (literally means spelling) had always been used for romanticization.
A more parsimonious explanation is that people’s incomes are less than or equal to their expenses (rent, healthcare, food, taxes, etc) preventing them from accumulating wealth. Until we reverse the trend of stagnating wages and rising expenses and pay people more for their work and/or reduce the cost of living, people will not be wealthy.
You understand that an "average" means that many skew higher, often much higher, right?

If anything, this shows most ancient civilizations were measured in decades, not centuries. But some did go thousands.
> I really don't want my laptop's keyboard and trackpad to require clocks to drive my clicks and keystrokes at 40Gbps, that's just going to murder batteries and bank accounts for no reason whatsoever.

If it makes you feel better: you can make an ultra cheap type C cable that's basically the same as your old Type A cables and will act like your old fashioned cable except you can plug it in either way in any port.
React Native Installing Realm Mobile Database in Android or iOS
Just finished a 60 hour fast a few hours ago. 34/M/186cm/86kg. Last week was all keto, 4 weight training sessions and a 5km run on the first fasting day (Sunday, around 18 hours in). Run time was unaffected. First weights session post-fast will be tonight (i.e. after breaking the fast).

The first 24 hours breezed by, but it started getting tough around hour 42. Note this wasn't hunger - I actually wasn't hungry at all. The problem was overall lethargy and feeling foggy/light-headed. I did bounce back after a few hours though, and although I felt very weak around hour 58, mentally I felt fine. Constantly felt very cold, too.

I don't think the lethargy/weakness was due to dehydration (though drinking a lot of water on the second morning helped) or lack of sodium (was ingesting salt regularly). It could be lack of other minerals (potassium/magnesium).

The worst is that it really interferes with my sleep. It takes me hours to get to sleep and then I wake up every couple of hours.

I actually think I'm going to stop fasting for this very reason - it's not like I was doing this for weight loss, I was just experimenting to see how it felt. OMAD/IF will probably give me most of the health benefits of fasting without any of the drawbacks.
The full article is here: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190218-are-we-on-the-road-...

'Interestingly' the first two listed factors are ecology related, and the biggest thread to the European civilization is not explicitly stated.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/04/neutrino-employees-who-onc...

> Before launching Neutrino, CEO Giancarlo Russo, CTO Alberto Ornaghi and chief research officer Marco Valleri, worked at Hacking Team, a security and surveillance tech company that has been criticized for selling products to governments with a history of human rights violations, including Egypt, Kazakhstan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Turkey. As The Intercept reported in 2015, Hacking Team’s malware has also been found on the computers of activists and journalists.
Surprised they were able to push down all the Guardian articles.
That was due to non-compliance on Nintendo's part, hardly a USB Type C issue.
Ethics is an important topic in these days of outrageous conduct, massive surveillance, and fake news that is hard to distinguish from the truth (and the converse, as well). This symposium has a very interesting complement of speakers who seem willing to take on the hard questions.

The organizers say they will both video and stream the talks, but I see no information about how to access yet.
Have you used HP Quality Center or Rational ClearQuest or some other 'enterprise' bug tracker.

JIRA is much better than they are.
It had always been some form of romanticization for street names. Pronunciation has always been bopomofo.
It's shameful that people assumed HIV was exclusive to gay communities, likely due in large part to homophobic prejudice rather than facts.

This is not the only shameful thing that has ever happened in the world, but I'm not sure what your example of a shameful action has to do with the GP's.
Small corporations can't negotiate such deals because the value they could add is also significantly less, on other hand smaller corporations have the benefit of skirting most regulations that large corporations simply can not.
The Kingdom of Israel and Judah? While Wikipedia is not a credible source, it's a good summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(united_mona...

> In contemporary scholarship the united monarchy is generally held to be a literary construction and not a historical reality, pointing to the lack of archaeological evidence.

See The Bible Unearthed for a more authentic source. I am slightly biased because I have been to Tel Hazor after and because of reading that book. (No matter who ruled at the time but a 25 x 21 m citadel with two-meter thick walls built three thousand years ago is just jaw dropping.)

Also, Vedic Civilisation [1000]? What evidence do we have that calls for this period to be called a single civilisation...?
That seems like a post-hoc rationalization. Because in hindsight it turned out that — at least as they're understood today — embryonic stem cells were not the holy grail some thought they would be, it was therefore perfectly fine for Bush, for obviously religious (not secular political) reasons, to restrict use of federal funds in certain ways relating to embryonic stem cells?

The rationalization against embryonic stem-cell research, or against first-term abortion as commonly expressed, is in almost every case drawn from religious motivation. I don't know why you're claiming they're primarily political. They're political in that people of faith will export religious dogma into the political sphere, but that doesn't make it primarily a political issue like you suggest.

It's possible to make a (tenuous) secular argument against abortion (though it's pretty rough going and is easy to demolish), but... can you put forward any plausible secular argument against embryonic stem cell research, except by assuming the conclusion you want — which is that embryonic stem cells are largely problematic, and adult stem cells can be made to work pretty well, for most things?
> I don't know if that can transmit HIV or any other diseases

It's virtually impossible for HIV, you're time would be better spent planning how to spend your big lottery win. The reason anal sex is better at spreading HIV is because anal tearing allows it into the bloodstream, apart from that your anus is no different from your ass checks, you're arm or anywhere else.
Publicly Exposed Docker Hosts Running Monero Vulnerable to Cryptojacking
"We don’t have to live in a society where a fundamental structure organizing human activity ignores the well being of many of the core constituencies it interacts with; we write the rules. We could decide that corporations and their officers have to balance their effort maximize value for shareholders, employees, debt holders, their local community and the country. The social contract can be negotiated.
"

That's the thing. Economic rules are not natural laws but they are human created and have always been adjusted and will always be adjusted.
And specifically this time it did not need to nearly kill the patient.
I'm not sure I understand if this is trying to imply I'm being sexist against men, or against women.
Absolutely fantastic book:- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/d...
People say things like "what do you want, privacy or security?, you can't have both".

But something I always think about, we're talking about Facebook here. It's a social media platform with pretty pictures and comments. What's the big deal?

It's not like we're talking about your online backing or medical records. Why does the "security" of something as unimportant as Facebook really matter enough to require 2FA?

To boogy-man "Security" has escalated so much it's like everyone wants it everywhere, no matter the cost.
Have you characterized the anisotropy of the fibers yet? Mechanical, electrical, or otherwise?

Also thank you for the response!
Yes but they have given specific numbers like Harappan -> 800.
Could Qt run in Docker Container?
Mostly it's bad luck of your circumstance.
it is not, case in point: Great Britain
That would be proportionately more men, not disproportionately.
For those interested in compiler, this is pretty interesting discussion:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89501

This bug ultimately duped into the bug linked on the thread.

These lines that Linus wrote are pretty interesting:
"It's basically the compiler saying "I don't care what you meant, I can do anything I want, and that means I will screw the code up on purpose".

I will personally switch the kernel immediately to clang the moment we cannot turn off idiotic broken behavior like that."

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89501#c12
I currently work at a marketing agency, and there's an entire team of people that fit your background, although not usually nearly as heavily technical as your history.

They're pretty much all VP-level or above, and have titles related to Digital (Strategy|Innovation|Transformation). They primarily serve two roles:

1) Public speaking/Networking. A huge component of their role involves speaking engagements and demonstrating competency/thought leadership. Which interplays both their personal branding and splashes back on our agency's branding.

2) Thought leadership with clients, usually marketing teams, that want to integrate stuff like chatbots into their marketing efforts, machine learning, improving website experiences, etc. For traditional companies that don't sell direct to consumers, a lot of stuff that seems trivially easy to measure and optimize becomes incredibly difficult, because you're measuring through proxy metrics and indirect aggregate figures from retailers and fairly complex multi-party logistics.

These people rarely do much actual coding, but they'll essentially be the visionary/solutions architect for these projects, and own them from client pitch through to post-engagement follow up. As well as use them as case studies to pitch similar work to new clients.

Your experience running your own consultancy as well as your public speaking chops would be a significant advantage for these types of roles. And your active technical competency would be perfect for the subset of engagements which have aggressive and potentially antagonistic IT teams that you need to get on the good side of.

Pretty much every large marketing agency has these types of roles, but you generally only work your way into them via networking. It's a potential area to look at, though.
Catlassian was originally planned as a pet goods lifestyle business. A fat finger when registering the domain name sent them down a different path.
Federal funds are an enormous proportion of the money available for biomedical research. There was also a lot of uncertainty over how broadly this prohibition was going to be interpreted: could new lines be analyzed using equipment bought with federal money? Could you even keep them in a federally-funded fridge? I worked in a lab that was making all sorts of weird contingency plans in case we wanted to handle covered embryonic stem cells. Some of this is undoubtedly the university’s fault, but it was still annoying.
Probably similar age as you. I now find this ad mildly amusing
The Halo Drive: Fuel Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Mases [pdf]
Self Driving cars are racist
There's a film from 1955 of this guy kayaking down the Nile over 9 months in 1950 and 1951 here: [1]

He, along with his two French companions were the first to explore the entire Nile river.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFr4bTfm40c
You know I lately think that, ok, we're mostly past the age of empires physically conquering one another, we're in the age of economic ebbs and flows of established countries.

And in this kind of age, the thing that sinks a country is not aggression by others, but indifference and lethargy as a country "gets old".

"Getting old" means the political desired and inertia of a rich, settled population get to dominate the goals and priorities of a nation, and it loses its drive to be scrappy, make sacrifices, and do the innovative things when one does when young and poor. You have generations who want to extract the gains put in by past generations. Or it costs too much to change people's behavior.

That's what I think is happening to western Europe and the US. Too many rich, old, soft people who now have settled and moneyed lives, and don't want to make the same sacrifices that the generation previously were forced to, by unfortunate circumstance. Too happy with their 2nd homes and retirement plans.

Unless you have a really conscious and socially adept mechanism to force a people to renew themselves, this sets in. Sometimes, as sad as it is to imagine, I think you need a good war to refresh a country...
Video by the author on the Halo Drive at [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFqL9CkNxXw
I struggle to understand why these random ingredients put together are called meals... Not for me!
I had the opposite experience. Uber has customer support built into the App. I was also billed twice and just followed the instructions in App that created a ticket. Got my money back in 2 days.
I'm glad you mentioned this -- didn't show up on a "USB-C" search and I didn't think to search for thunderbolt. I'm switching!
And yet some of the brightest analytical minds are regularly drawn to the big dollar signs that comes with optimizing advertising tech at FAANG companies when they could be curing cancer.
>Most of the interesting stuff about how companies grow come down to a relative small period where some key decisions get made (in the tech world at least).

I really don't think so. Case in point - The article describes a 17-year growth path for Atlassian, including many reversals along the way.

What you're describing is the exception. E.g. Minecraft. Most successful tech businesses (like all businesses) are built on a combination of luck and sustained good decision-making and hard work.
What do you think is more likely:

1) I like public toilet water splashing up into my anus

2) I want to relay scientific facts about the transmissibility about a disease that has a lot of fear, stigma, and falsehoods spread about it, often in the service of an anti-gay agenda.

To answer what you don't know: no, splashback can't transfer HIV.
Credibility Score:
Gas Stations Sushi 0.24
NSA : 0.01
It is worth listening to the Dave Ramsey podcast just to understand how people spend their money foolishly. Yes, there is bad luck and lack of opportunity, and there is also boatloads of foolish spending and borrowing too.

There are plenty of people who could build wealth on the average salary in the US if they were on a budget, were reasonably frugal, and in general lived like our grandparents did say 1950-1970 or so.
command palettes are some of the most powerful new UI designs that I've seen in recent history. PyCharm + VS Code both are immediate go-to's for me because I know I'll be able to find a feature (and the keyboard shortcut!) super quickly when I need it.

Huge wins for discoverability and usability.