skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not convinced it is just sweat. But it may be a contributing factor.

My father grew up on a farm in a part of the world with a lot of mosquitos. He says he would work in the fields all summer shirtless and never even notice any mosquitos.

I hate going there in the summer because of the little bastards. (And the horseflies, I really hate them).

Wind forward 50 years of mostly city living in other parts of the world, and whenever he flies back to his childhood home for a few weeks holiday he gets eaten alive.

His blood type has not changed. He may be more sweaty as he is a little chubbier, but he was probably quite sweaty working in the fields as a kid as well.

I suspect it has to do with lifestyle. For him (and me) mostly working in office environments for most of the year for many years, makes your skin/odour/heat different than if you were an outdoorsy person that has a more hardened skin that is less attractive to mossies. Perhaps.

That said I don't really hear of anyone that lives in the mosquito heavy area that is susceptible to them whether they are office or farm people. Only outsiders. That may be self-selecting as they would move away though.
> 2. Such people usually include residential ip subnets by default, for no technical reason whatsoever.

Are you talking about residential or about dynamic? Because there kinda is a reason for this for dynamic addresses (PC malware sending spam, and the impossibility to list the particular affected PC because it's constantly changing addreses, so you only can block all the addresses those PCs could be using).

If you do have static addresses, whether residential or not, those should not be listed in dialup block lists.

If your home internet connection has dynamic addresses, you still can run your mail server at home by renting some tiny VPS and tunneling its addresses to your home server ...
I’m from US and live in Japan. I know first hand about the lack of availability of mental health services and even the basic acknowledgment of depression as an issue that requires treatment. I would wager a large majority of these recluses are suffering from treatable depression.
It's incredibly naive to believe that nothing similar would fill that void.
It was rather obvious even back then (or at least when Bezos first published his piece) that it was the Saudis that hacked his phone, I'm not entirely sure the significant of this message by De Becker.

Furthermore, at least the way I see it, the more important party at fault here is AMI. I mean we can't really be surprised that a dictatorship is using their powers against powerful and influential people (especially those that have publicly opposed and blamed them of crimes). But we should be outraged when an American corporation cooperates with them, and we should do what we can to stop and punish them, both the Saudis (in whatever way we can), and more easily, the entire AMI group, it's executives and everyone involved.
But isn’t balance here mostly about a balance of power? And isn’t a balance of power in terms of surveillance more than just a balance of information?

In a transparent society the most powerful will still find their ways to be less transparent than everyone else, while leveraging this difference in transparency to the maximum extent possible.

Information alone is not power. It is also about the ability to act on it, to use or abuse it.
"...Facebook is a spamming website pretending to be a social network..."

This.

The claim to offer you tools for controlling what you see and your privacy. I spent quite a bit of time trying to limit idiotic, banal, and click-baity crap out of my feed. What did I learn? That more and more of it keeps coming.

At some point, I realized what it reminded me of: the early days of email, when nobody had invented spam filters yet. You could easily spend 5, 10, 15 minutes a day clicking and deleting junk ... only to see just as much in your inbox the next day.

Facebook uses your friends against you. That lonely lady that lives down the street? Turns out she loves horses -- and wants to share things from a 100 different horse sites with everybody all day long. The teenage kid that your uncle is raising? He loves funny memes, and there are a 100 of them too. Repeat and rinse for anybody, anywhere that you might consider some version of "friend" who wants attention.

And they keep finding more sources. As quickly as you block one, 15 more show up.

I tried finding the people who don't value my time and preventing them from sharing anything except things they wrote themselves. Nope. Not an option. Wonder why, Facebook?

It's a captive-audience, self-generating spam machine. Anybody that knows anything about regulatory capture saw this politicized pitch for more regulation coming a mile away. We were always headed here.
I know a guy that has a small DNA mutation.

Musquittos died when bit him ( his parents have it to). I haven't seen it in real life, but he was an honest it guy. So I give him the benefit of the doubt
Exactly. As if they aren’t capable of stratifying your risk the second you buy the ticket.
I guess the feeling that you are being payed, even if a little bit, helps considerably to raise the mood.
New technology with no proven benefit in the airport security context, which is going to be applied to every passenger's luggage for no extra charge, and will retain it's tremendous cost in the truly life-saving medical environment.
Agree, a website would be a lot more accessible.
I wrote this originally in reStructuredText (Sphinx) and then Markdown but was not satisfied with how the output (HTML, PDF) looked, so went this route.
I do include a text file with all the commands and sample content used.
Hello! Academic mathematician here. Some thoughts --

- I definitely second the advice to seek the advice of a mental health professional, as well as people in the academic program in which you're thinking about enrolling.

- There are indeed mental health issues in academia. However, in mathematics at least, most of the students I knew seemed to enjoy their experience. Certainly I did.

If you don't want to work in academia, that might help with the mental health issues. A major source of stress is that there are fewer academic jobs available than people who want them. This is something you wouldn't have to worry about.

- The finish line will probably be wherever you find yourself in three years. It is typical, and healthy, for PhD students to have tons of goals and to accomplish only a few of them. A good advisor can help you set realistic goals, and help you figure out a timeline for achieving them.

- In my opinion, dropping out is okay if that's what you decide to do later.

- If you enroll, I'd recommend keeping reasonable hours in the lab (don't work for anyone who expects you to keep insane hours in the lab). Also, the standard advice: eat healthy, get exercise, get outside your university periodically, keep up a hobby or two.

Good luck!
I suggest you look at Andrew Yang’s 2020 platform of Freedom Dividend and explanation of how to pay for it.

Yang would offer each person an annual choice between existing benefits or an unconditional transfer payments (UBI). This allows for an easier transition to more UBI while preventing lapses in important benefits for those who need it.

As for the pay-fors: You do NOT need a policy proposal to be revenue neutral (ie 100% paid for by spending reductions and/or tax increases) if it grows the economy or if it saves costs elsewhere in the system. This is true of any policy. We have never paid for our spending during and after WW2, but that doesn’t matter because we grew our economy as to make that debt trivial to the size of the economy.

In UBIs case, we have strong evidence from studies that it tends to improve health (especially child health), reduces crime, and increases business creation (a stable albeit small income is a fantastic platform for entrepreneurship), among other benefits. How much does it cost society to fail to eradicate below-poverty incomes? How about failing to end involuntary homelessness? UBI is the cheapest way to get those things.

Back to Andrew Yang’s plan:
1) Institute a 10% VAT.
2) Save on reductions in social services (to the degree Freedom Dividend is chosen)
3) Remaining balance paid with deficit spending, growing the economy and reducing upstream costs.
The problem with that is that if you set the standards to 'can cause someone to commit bad things' that can apply to literally everything.

Plenty of reactionary assholes have been triggered to violence by disparaged groups having the gall to think of themselves as equals or transgress their taboos against things like interracial marriages. Heck, under that standard we should ban irrational numbers because they caused Pythagorean to drown their discoverer!
It's because they use completely different camera stacks. Stock has DRM-protected enhancements but minimal Camera2 support and no raw while AOSP has no enhancements but full API and raw support.
Gaining confidence in our automated checks
1/–∞ == –0 seems like obviously the correct behavior in context of IEEE floats.

I think if someone is careful it should be possible to make an implementation of complex square root on top of IEEE floats such that √(–a² + 0i) == ai, whereas √(–a² – 0i) == –ai, representing the two sides of a branch cut.

Yes, √–0 should be 0. File a bug against whatever implementation returned –0 for that one.
No question. They captured two billion users, they're starting to see usage signs of developed market erosion (where all of their money comes from), now they want to use government powers to permanently enshrine their place (ensure that those two billion users have nowhere else to go). At this point Facebook has everything to lose from competition and nothing to gain from it. The regulatory capture approach pivot is a key indication they feel like they've fully fleshed out their social monopoly using traditional means. They can no longer purchase major competitors, due to anti-trust issues. They will never be allowed to buy/own the next Instagram or YouTube type companies, so from their perspective they only have to gain from using the government to pre-emptively destroy those companies from being birthed in the first place (or at a minimum severely hamper them).

Regulate the hell out of me please, just guarantee me that you'll restrict competition in the process with tall enough barriers. It's a deal that governments go for every time and without exception. The power to control speech, news, expression on the world's largest media platform will prove irresistible and Facebook knows it. It aligns the always persistent desire by governments for censorship and control with Facebook's desire to never compete again.
Refeeding is the dangerous bit, I recall reading. Needs medical supervision, at any rate.
> If you do have static addresses, whether residential or not, those should not be listed in dialup block lists.

Indeed my residential internet connection has a static address but it still gets flagged for spam because it’s inside a residential subnet.
Amazon definitely sells straight up counterfeits as well. It's also a huge problem in the designer clothes and shoe space.
You don't really have any other options other than a satellite internet/cellphone provider who will sell to you.
I absolutely hated homework and did everything possible to avoid it. It felt like a huge injustice that teachers could control what you did even outside school, when you were supposed to be free. My usual strategy was to do the homework in school. I don't recall any teacher noticing that I wasn't really taking notes, and was instead working on something unrelated. I did some homework at home but always spent as little time on it as possible.

As well as distracting from lessons, this also meant the homework had to be rushed. This probably did teach me useful skills, e.g. I learned about error modeling from faking believable results in science classes (no time to take all the measurements), and my writing improved by writing final drafts first and then going back and adding errors to fake a first draft. My BASIC programming improved writing tools to automate math homework on a TI-86 calculator or on QBASIC at home.

I saw all this as resistance against tyranny, and never considered that there might be some benefit to homework. Most of it was pointless busywork anyway, so the actual benefit if I'd taken it seriously would have been minimal. I support a healthy school/life balance, which means the abolition of homework.
AI trash can is designed to stop you wasting food
I have to say I'm happy for this, I don't see much bad that can come of this, and I also agree that a lot of his suggestions are correct.

But I also agree that because of how powerful Facebook is, they can just do many of those things without fear of losing business to competition (like adopting the GDPR worldwide, or just not fighting certain governments when they do press them for privacy issues).

I think for him to blame the governments is a bit (or a lot) an escape from responsibility.
The only thing I want regulated is the Like count next to every human thought being expressed.

This number influences human behavior and thinking.

Talking about privacy, free speech, harm, manipulation, polarization/echo chambers etc etc cannot be done, without talking about the FEEDBACK architecture that Facebook has slipped under society.

People have blindly taken this architecture based on likes/view/click/upvote/follower counts as an unchangable base layer on top of which everything gets built.

Whatever position anyone takes on any subject cannot be reduced to a game of maximizing these arbit numbers.

These numbers cannot be blindly accepted as the fundamental building blocks of society. It's just too arbitrary and thoughtless.
Homework and spanking are both things that exist for reasons other than efficacy. They're cultural shibboleths seen as separating out the moral from the immoral.
We had homework when I was in school.
They could do that now with the current x ray images if they wanted to. Also by classification I'm just referring to classifying in broad categories such as benign, weapon, drugs, bomb, etc. Right now when you go through security the images aren't tied directly to the owner, just a location and a time. Unless the scanner gets tied to e.g. scanning your boarding pass when putting a bin through that doesn't give you a way to tie that information to an individual. Additional cameras with some AI to track people from the boarding pass scan through the checkpoint would allow for what you're talking about but all of that is orthogonal to what specific type of scanner is being used.
There was an amazing couple of papers recently on polygenic risk scores (now trendy in human genetics in place of GWAS, since PRS can include tiny effects from genetic variants that GWAS ignores)

Editorial on both papers here:
https://elifesciences.org/articles/45380

In summary, when you run a GWAS, you control for population structure by using the first two or three principal components as covariates. In PRS, the model built is so complex that controlling using PCs doesn't fix all influence by population structure - which is now why some famous large-scale human genetic studies fail to replicate.

(This has large implications on a societal level - Twitter is full of 'race realists' ,i.e., racists, who are using spurious PRS to prop up their foregone conclusions)
Here the apps were "fake" random ones that users had to download from Google Play.

But... the Official Carrier Apps (those signed with a key stored in the SIM card [0]) are also definitely being used to push government malware.

There's an official price list set by the government for "services towards authority" in the same country this eSurv is based in. [1]

That list includes mandatory things carriers must do when asked (hopefully with a valid court order, but not always...), such as auto-installing backdoored apps via provisioning text messages (handled by the Carrier App); or increasing the data bundle allowance in order to avoid that a data-hungry malware could be detected by the user...

Always try to avoid unnecessary apps; the Carrier App can usually be avoided by using the carriers mobile website in the phone browser, or by using USSD/SMS codes to get line info such as bundle counters, prepaid credit amount, and so on.

Unfortunately sometimes a ROM change is needed; some phones in some conditions (eg. official ROM with carrier branding) will have the Official Carrier App pre-installed as system app...

Sometimes in other official ROMs (even unbranded ones) there's a pre-loaded "Carrier Updater" that will auto-install the Official Carrier App for the inserted SIM card (again, as system app)...

[0] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/config/uicc

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/it/article/9k89j3/ecco-il-listi...
> Performance? Due to DNS caching at the resolver level,

Not sure about the validity these arguments. Yes, Google is likely to have more cached data than you, but they can also be a half a country or two away.

In my experience caches matter less than one might think, since more popular data is usually the one that's low latency anyway.

> Privacy? With DNS over TLS/DNS over HTTPS, your ISPs can't see

Let's agree on one thing: That surf data is a lot more valuable to Google than most other actors, including your ISP, because they're the ones in a position to monetize it.

Your ISP has more data than they know what to do with anyway. Should they try to monetize it despite the murky legal waters (they really wouldn't want to knowingly help copyright infringement, for example), the realistic option would be for them to sell it to someone very much like Google. It should not come as a surprise that the latter is happy to shortcut the process.
Harmful content itself is a notion so dangerously vague and exploitable that you should treat anyone who proposes censoring it as a wannabe dictator.

There has been a lot of evil committed in the name of 'stopping harmful content'. Civil War veterans, maimed from the war were made to not appear in public from 'ugly laws' because of bullshit religious pseudoscience about maternal impression would cause birth defects. Women wearing pants is 'harmful content' because it 'corrupts the morals'. Dissent against corrupt powers is 'harmful content' to 'public order'.

Given the myriad abuses I would recommend inverting Hanlon's razor and assume they know exactly what they are doing until proven that they really are that stupid.
When outside observers say something, they are the guardians of the people. When zuckerberg says the same thing (or even a stronger pro-regulation stance) he's the devil.
That gum you like is going to come back in style.
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/Amazon/ doesn't sell them, but sellers using the Amazon marketplace do.
Exactly, it's called regulatory capture.

It's a huge problem in America.

In Arizona, a man was jailed for giving haircuts to the homeless.

A license to provide a service needs to be the exception, not the rule.
True. But for most users the difference is meaningless and Amazon isn't doing much to help make the distinction clear.
Where is the "legal right"? Distracting someone for gain isnt illegal.

Also, I dont appreciate the tone of your post, eg "as a community service"
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Yep! If a politician were proposing such regulations, we'd welcome her as a guardian of the people. But fuckin A man, this is mark zuckerberg proposing these things. He's a damn snake.
Hi skilled, author here.

I'm not sure what you mean exactly. I don't think I'm advocating for a "meat and dairy" diet -- actually those were on the very lowest quantity end of my recommended food groups, and that's if you'd personally like to include it at all (plant-based whole food diet is fine too, IMO).

Regarding organic food, I left it in the bonus section with a couple of high quality references so that people can make up their own mind. I gave my personal decision but don't advocate for it for others -- there's not a strong medical consensus on the subject and I think it comes down to some personal views.
> it needs less centralization

That's a nice sounding platitude. It'd be fucking terrible for privacy and data protection, though.
So he's calling for a regulatory barrier-to-entry of the social networking space, along with asking governments to shoulder the responsibility for policing the industry.

But presumably not the responsibility to collect profits
Wow, many thanks. I actually do a lot of greps regularly, partly on OS X. Will replace now.

If anyone knows other tools where the gnu/home brew alternative is much better, please chime in (already saw tr on another comment).
80% less, I don't believe that. 1) apps will have promotions, vouchers can be used for discounts, from app, not restaurants; 2) delivery doesn't occupy tables in your restaurant, it is the 'extra' money you can make; 3) sometimes restaurant will sell for a small loss or no profit to promote their names.
That's probably only half of the story. Facebook is already a monopoly and with their endless resources they don't need government's help to marginalise their competition. I suspect the real reason is preemptive strike, Zuckerberg calls for something that was already coming whether he likes it or not, this way he controls the narrative and puts Facebook in a positive light.
Not that it doesn't have it's benefits, though. It's just that anytime someone proposes it as a panacea, I feel they must be being either disingenuous or they just completely don't understand what they're talking about.
But aren't these... the people you accept into your network? Facebook injects ads and applies their own capricious weighing to the visibility of posts, but doesn't the content ultimately originate from the people you accept?
What's wrong with opkg install unbound? It's robust, doesn't require maintenance, and already available an an optional install in OpenWRT.

The reason people don't use it is probably just that it isn't default. Some captive portals mess with DNS resolution and it's probably easier for OpenWRT to just let them.
+1 for MXE. Loved that shit
I believe people in the earlier cohort were more likely to die as children as child mortality was higher in the past. If so, that could apply a selection bias to the age 66 and up subset of this cohort, since those who survive their childhood could tend to have a natural proclivity to be healthier into old-age than those who don't.

Moreover, people became more educated over that 20 year timespan, so comparing people of equal absolute educational attainment across the two periods could be a case of comparing a higher socioeconomic group to a lower one.
Oh please, what could he possibly say or do that would satisfy you.
$100 for five years of Global Entry is:

1) A fucking racket.

2) Totally worth it!
Thanks a lot for the clarification!
Did they start counting with 1000000, or do we really have a million bugs security bugs in 2019 already?
> Jeff Bezos would be storing such photos on his phone

Its not about being wealthy and famous its about knowing how information can be easily shared and never get deleted on the internet.

Bezos being the founder of Amazon, a company which exists just because of the internet should not have made that mistake.
KDE still supports fractional scaling. I don't know what would be required for Gnome to do the same.