skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are no doubt right that the Russian elite was already corrupted to the core, when the USSR collapsed. I can not confirm/deny whether you are more or less familiar with the situation. Still, and this is in no way unique to Russia, when a country goes through a chaotic "restructuring" (like the collapse of the USSR), assistance from "instruments" provided by (more stable) foreign institutions/individuals will open opportunities to criminals that would otherwise be far out of their reach.

I do not claim that it was not the Russian elite that did this to their own country (I believe they did). But without the foreign support/facilitation, it may never have gone as far and "successful" as it did.

In general, because Russia is definitely not the only country that suffers from this phenomenon, the success and perseverance of this kind of kleptocracy usually leans a lot on cross-border assistance/facilitation. Without it, people would actually have a change to do something about it. But in reality, they often do not (as in Russia).
Whats the worst case though?
I cant see any event based on climate change that would wipe out all humans.
Climate Change may be fast for earth but is still slow for humans.
Cant really see a scenaria where a significant part of humanity couldnt adapt to the new circumstances.
The harsh conditions would probably even advance technology in general.

Still best Case would be to stop climate Change because that would be hard and scary times.
I'm currently about half-way through "The Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace-Wells [1] and it comes to similar conclusions: its too late to stop this thing, it's going to be very bad, and it's going to happen sooner than you think. Its a very hard thing to honestly face, and I'm not entirely sure I have yet.

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabi...
The length (i.e magnitude) of the sum of two algebraic vectors is also not the length of the two original vectors.

Would you not use + to represent vector sum?
> Valuation of jobs is based partially on the view of the value of the work

This is false on multiple levels. Functional water treatment have a much bigger effect on health then functional health care, but water treatment employees are paid far less than doctors. We can likely make a similar argument for sewer treatment, garbage collection and mortuaries. We can see similar disconnect between teachers and veterinarians, where those that work with our children are paid less than those working with our pets.

A large part of Marxism is the disconnection between pay and value. There is no easy answers and bias is a poor explanation in order to understand the issue.
The internet and eBay have ruined watch collecting... Especially if you're trying to get things on a budget. One article or blog post and it's over...
ida can use hexrays to decompile, which is working great. but ofcourse you need some employer to pay for it which is aa pain, no one will pay some 10k for a tool personally. however, free version is very adequate for most things.

i would say these both tools ,as well as r2 have their own merits and weak points, and it would be good not to exclude one and take the other as better, but to have them compliment eachother in your arsenal.

in the end if you want quality, then manual work is always better than these opinionated tools, and sometimes that is required, so really the tools offer different perspectives / opinions of the same thing, and that is valuable in any case. when you run into the limit of 1 tool ,another might just fill that gap.
This guy is amazing. I love his Boston accent and his total DGAF attitude. A true hacker.
Recently Andrew Yang's UBI proposal is got a lot of support, so I decided to try and collect some arguments both in favor and against his proposal.

I hope this starts more discussions around this topic!
No I don't. I can either:

- Do the build, then hash the result

- Download and hash a pre-built binary, but I have to trust whoever I get the file from

- Ask someone for the hash, but I have to trust them

If the build is reproducibile then I don't need to trust the second two options, since I can check them against the first. But in that case there's no point using the second two options, since I'm building it myself anyway.

If you take that quote in context, you'll see I'm talking about a (hypothetical) cache which uses the binaries' hashes as their IDs, i.e. to fetch a binary from the cache I need to know its hash.

In this scenario the first option is useless, since there's no point using a cache if we've already built the binaries ourselves.

The second two options in this scenario have another problem: how do we identify which binary we're talking about (either to download it, or to ask for its hash)? We need some alternative way of identifying binaries, for example Nix uses a hash of their source, Debian uses a package name + version number.

Yet if we're going to use some alternative method of identification, then we might as well cut out the middle man and have the cache use that method instead of the binaries' hashes!

The important point is that the parent was claiming that reproducible builds improve performance over non-reproducible builds because of caching. Yet nothing about such a cache requires that anything be reproducible! We can make a cache like this for non-reproducible builds too. Here are the three scenarios again:

- We're doing the build ourselves. Since we're not using the cache, it doesn't matter (from a performance perspective) whether our binary's hash matches the cached binary or not.

- We're downloading a pre-built binary. Since we must identify the desired binary using something other than its hash (e.g. the hash of its source), it doesn't matter what the binary's hash is, so it doesn't need to be reproducible. Pretty much all package managers work this way, it doesn't require reproducibility.

- We're asking someone for the hash, then fetching that from the cache. Again, we must identify what we're after using something other than the hash. The only thing we need for this scenario to work is that the hash we're given matches the one in the cache. That doesn't require reproducibility, it only requires knowing the hashes of whatever files happen to be in the cache. This is what we're doing whenever we download a Linux ISO and compare its hash to one given on the distro's Web site; no reproducibility needed.
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You see, the sun is part of the problem here ;)
I did not insult nor verbally attack anyone. I expressed my mood. I'm sure people here have a thick skin... or not.
The original title is "Fast-Acting Depression Drug, Newly Approved, Could Help Millions". Not everyone reading HN lives in the US nor knows what the FDA stands for.

The article reports the experiment, the results, and not only FDA approval.
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A piece of software with users who can't support themselves when issues crop up (and sustain their longterm usage) has effectively the same issue.
I think that it is ok to talk openly about difficulties and challenges one faces. Talking and analyzing helps with dealing with shit. It is uncomfortable to hear about difficulties of other people, but imo, adults should be able to cope what that.

Blaming moms for autistic kids is how it used to be done. It did not helped kids nor moms. Kids and moms being silent and accepting blame did nothing to solve their problems.

Why would someone "raising victim flag" bothered you?
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> How about no meat at the workplace because it could bother vegans?

That's already the case if your office is a WeWork.
Currently, yeah.
Well, that is what I said: non-locality is just an artifact "of certain interpretations / modifications of QM". Bell's theorem doesn't prove non-locality; what it proves is that no (alternative) theory (of mechanics) that's both classical, aka naively realist, and local could reproduce QM's successful predictions (of those experimental results).
Found this tool, and wanted to share.

When you open any website with a so-called ‘text area’ where you can type, you should see a blue roll-in indicator letting you know that TextlyAI is currently checking your writing. If there are any errors, you will see a red circle on the bottom right with the number of detected issues. In addition, TextlyAI will highlight all mistakes in your text. Just hover a cursor over the word and click on the suggested fix to apply it.
"very rude locals that refuse to speak in english" ... say that again, but slowly.

They are Spanish. They live in Spain. They speak either Spanish or Catalan and have no obligation to speak English to you. It's "very rude" of you to not try learn some basic Spanish.

I'm native English and live in Poland. My interactions with Poles (who mostly speak English and are happy to do try) are vastly different if they can see I am trying also: starting the conversation in Polish before transitioning to English is a much warmer experience than just starting with English from the beginning.

It's the same in Spain as well. Start with "hola" or "buenos dias" and then something like "podemos hablar Ingles?" or "perdon, no hablo Espanol" and suddenly 99% of these "very rude locals" will be incredibly friendly to you.

You don't need to, and most don't expect, that you can fluently speak to them in the local language. But they do expect that you respect them enough to try.
thats for commercial purposes, and it's misleading to suggest otherwise.
I would also be interested in the technical side of it. What kind of domain model, system design would you use? What tech stack would be suitable? etc.
you're on to something, but are missing an important part of the equation

instagram influencing is now a business. it's advertising without the clear disclaimers or statements for who is paying for that advertising and why

a lot of this advertising requires traveling to cool/famous/chic/rugged locations and taking photos or videos there, so that followers feel they are also there, and get to see a cool place through the eyes of their "friends"

it's more than just social points gamification, it's a business, it's advertising with real money involved, and these natural settings are becoming the new ad studios that it's cool to shoot in (besides places like venice beach and rue cremieux)

and when businesses/money get involved, the natural respect for the environment/others using the space disintegrates in the face of profit and time maximization
The Germany thing, it’s odd... I’m of German descent too (my Italian father had a German father himself, so I’m a quarter German, a quarter Italian, and half English).

There’s something truly amazing of the enormity of what was done, and the knowledge that one oneself is somehow tethered or rooted in it, that just causes one to instantly condemn. The more nuanced view... it feels like weaselling out and making excuses, like apologists do.
that always of course :D
First instinct was to say no. Because you would only be able displace a color you can’t see to overlap with a color you can see, meaning you’re just shifting the color blindness around.

But the two eye solution is interesting.

I bet you could also do palette swaps for everything
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I've always found latency to be quite poor for Azure's blob storage (all relative tho - it's faster than AWS), so I'm very interested in this. Or at least, I was until I saw the pricing - 5x more than standard blob storage!
This is so painful to read.

From the Bishop who oversaw the destruction:

"We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction."

I can barely imagine the anguish those people must have felt. Imagine witnessing the destruction of your entire recorded history. Virtually all of the knowledge and art produced by the civilization wiped out in a single act.
> Readily fixed for < $20: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D1NNGM6/

My friend had one like this. It was barely accurate enough for all the funny RCs we had.
> My advice to anyone in this situation is to, as much as your circumstances permit, expose yourself to a wider range of culture and find value and human dignity in ways other than your potential for capital generation.

Ties into the other article on the front page about mitigating climate change.
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There is a relative recent (<10 years) government study in Sweden that looked at gender segregation of the teaching profession, and one suggestion they made to make the profession more gender equal and bring more men into the profession was to focus the program to include more academic studies.
If you ignore technical debt for 50 years there’s a good chance the problem will resolve itself! Because no one will be using the software.
Academia has had their chance. No one believes "studies" about personal life choices any more if the results conflict with each other every 5 years.

It's just publication pressure (or worse, as other commenters have hinted at).
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x86/x64 only, by the way. I couldn't get it to build VS Code on a Raspberry Pi and the binary releases are only for x86/x64.
I use cutter with r2 and consider it a better UI than IDA; but then again I don't do a lot of work in it, just CTFs and crackmes.
I know it’s not garden-variety depression because I’ve been treated for that. There’s several people around me that are subject to the same influence that are in remarkably similar emotional states, including my sister and some senior executives in the firm. Unfortunately, no, I am not in a “better place”. But I really appreciate the effort to be understanding.

Turing to your comparison between 1918 and now, I daresay global climate change will be a great deal more severe than the cumulative effects of both the First World War and the Spanish Influenza combined. The magnitude of geopolitical strife we have set ourselves up for is of an almost unimaginable scale.
Except there is federal law on this that affects their decisions. [0]

I wish we would at least call it "summer time" instead of the lie "daylight savings time." There's no daylight "saved."

[0] http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/usc.html
I don't think you can dismiss a scientific article without arguments. Please prove your points.
This seems to contradict a recent study that I came across [1]:

The mortality rate among participants with short sleep during weekdays, but long sleep during weekends, did not differ from the rate of the reference group. Among individuals ≥65 years old, no association between weekend sleep or weekday/weekend sleep durations and mortality was observed. In conclusion, short, but not long, weekend sleep was associated with an increased mortality in subjects <65 years. In the same age group, short sleep (or long sleep) on both weekdays and weekend showed increased mortality. Possibly, long week- end sleep may compensate for short weekday sleep.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jsr.12712
You cannot compare a locally restricted war with the global disruption of the ecological, economical and social environment, which lies in front of us.
I don't think any kind of consumer driven environmental activism is even close to enough to stem the tide.

To really drive home the severity of the situation, understand that if we ceased all greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, the global mean temperature would continue to rise for another century before hitting equilibrium. We are past the point of no return.

The only way civilisation continues existing as we know it, is if over the next decade we roll out a heap of nuclear power and dedicate a significant portion of it to carbon sequestration. Fusion would be great but even fission is sufficient. Anything less, including geoengineering projects like space based mirrors or albedo boosting aerosols, are at best a 50/50 gamble on the outcome.

Feel-good activism like using less plastic straws or rolling out renewable power at meaningless scales is a distraction from the real and only course we have left.

I am really worried that a large number of people still believe that renewables can unfuck this situation and so put their guard down after watching some feel-good news segment about Germany hitting an arbitrary target. It's not Europe or USA you need to worry about, it's China India and Afrtica. Renewables would have helped 20-30 years ago. Today we are so far gone that we need to greatly exceed our total energy demand and channel the excess into sequestration.

I strongly suggest that everyone read the 2018 IPCC report. It should be mandatory reading material at all schools universities and workplaces. https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
Unexpected/undefined behavior?
Its not clear what you're saying here.

The comparison was to say, "this decision is difficult everywhere" -- which lang seems beside the point.
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He was an activist in the 'investor activist' sense when he was running the fund.
Latest discovery on my part, after the burnout, a heavy magnesium supplement helps a lot. Especially with the foggy brain, and the physical contact with others.
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https://github.com/kousun12/tf_hyperbolic

I still think hyperbolic geometry hasn't been appreciated enough in the ML world, following some related papers by facebook research over the last year (importantly this one: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/7213-poincare-embeddings-for-le...).

Here's an implementation of some basic functions to support the Poincare model for word embeddings in TF. Lorentz model coming eventually...
Oh wow, I had no idea failory did success interviews.. I've been assuming anything that's appeared there has shut down
It is VS Code. The build script grabs a copy of VSC, patches it, and builds it.
It is so strange to me the effort people will go to with things like guns to protect themselves from the highly unlikely.

Yet we're having these debates about what to do about climate change which is looking very likely.

We should be working on it, if we end up being wrong then the very worst case is we've gotten ourselves off our dwindling fossil fuel supply a bit early.
> So you're excluding deploying/maintaining Open Source Software as a service. That basically excludes how Open Source is supposed to get monetized.

Is it? This means that incentives would be wrong, because then developers would be incentivized to produce difficult to use (but useful!) software - with various poorly documented features, multiple ways to solve the same problems, poor and inconsistent UX... Oh wait... 


I am sorry Redis labs got the heat for their license change and I really hope some solution crops up. I appreciate opensource, but I am getting tired of poorly implemented systems, just because there is no incentive to do it differently.

I think the solution lies in "free-to-use (but not free-to-sell), source available" licenses. I haven't seen one that would convince me yet, but I am certain that with big-tech companies behaving like they do, more and more developers will think twice before giving away their work for free just so others can make billions off it (and take away income from the very companies providing bread and butter to FOSS developers - coughAWScough).
> Additionally, campaigners want the curriculum reformed to address climate change as an educational priority, alongside a request to include youth voices in policy-making and lower the voting age to 16.

This is one way to make a difference. And a few days won't really hurt them in any meaningful way.
As Beppo the street sweeper said in "Momo" (the one by Michael Ende), if you look down the street, it feels endless and exhausting. But if look at the broom, and concentrate on doing each sweep well, you will both do a better job of it as well as feel much better.

Personally, I think it's crucial to become part of the solution to problems we become aware of, otherwise, we basically practice being aware and helpless. But that can be anything IMO, and it doesn't have to be a great contribution or the solution to all our problems. You (or I) didn't cause the situation billions of us are in, and we cannot foretell or influence or even withstand our collective mass movements, or the results of our current blind spots, etc. So it's also super essential to let it go in a real way. "Saving the world" makes sense because of the people (and animals and plants) in it, and you're also a peep, so it must not come at the cost of breaking you.

The sweet spot is probably where still can sleep well, just not at the cost of cynicism of apathy. I think some sadness is simply the inevitable result of awareness that also brings joy, so keeping the awareness, and trying to transform the sadness into productivity and empathy where we can, is the best we can do really.

Speaking of all that, here's an article I just read again: https://www.salon.com/2012/06/17/when_chomsky_wept/
Everything you said was incorrect. There isn't a single trait ever examined in which the impact of shared environment is larger than the genetic impact. In other words, the heritability of every trait ever examined is vastly larger than the effect of the shared environment (nurture). It's literally the second law of behavioral genetics: The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of the genes.

And about evolution, also wrong. We have evolved 100x faster in the past 5000 years than in the Pleistocene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_10,000_Year_Explosion

People like to believe in falsities like yours because they don't want to admit than ability is mostly innate and there's nothing we can do about it.
Depends on what you mean by wings. The word wings here has multiple meanings, with commonality that they both are involved in flying. However, they differ in their operation, i.e. one thing flaps the other doesn't.
No. 1 'Happy Days', June 25th 2015

Obama legalizes gay marriage in the US,

but also,

Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
So you are saying UI is not involved in the most important measure of quality of a retail site - that is the point, and the answer to your "so?" (though, personally, I would not make the distinction as stark as you have, here.)