skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you implying that the world is better off having global powers that have free speech and self-directed criticism which is why you look to endorse American exceptionalism?
> Only having 1.5kw to work with probably didn’t help.

Hand dryers get dedicated circuits. They aren't limited to residential outlet specs.
The camera is probably on some carriage that will roll only in a circle and latching in a pre-defined interval.
TLDR for those of us who have a job?
So, offline outrage culture ?
Paid for by Japanese tax dollars.
I agree, there is far too much ability to transfer liability in the modern world which lets this sort of stuff get abstract and easier to dismiss. Companies should be held accountable to the extent their growth has encouraged bad behavior, but individuals at that company committed the behavior and, if they were instructed to do so and blindly followed then...

1. "Just following orders" isn't now and has never been a valid excuse

2. Go after the coercers or modify our understanding of liability to allow those targeted to make the argument that their superiors deserve to repay them every bit of penalty they owed.

Really, in the modern world, just sue someone and tell them they're on the hook but they'll be allowed to sue whoever is responsible for their portion of the responsibility and watch this all work itself out quickly.
To play devil's advocate, why not take the money?

Of course it won't work out in the long run, but in the short term it might be fun and it'll employ some people for a few years. When the money runs out everybody can jump ship to other, equally nonviable, startups and do it over again.
Also by that count all matter in the universe interacts with all other matter in the universe (OK out to the limit of the CMB).

So I am hedging my bets by saying it's wrong, or that it's so obvious its redundant.
I think Chris Aljoudi

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin

> Through April and May 2015, the uBlock project was forked by Chris Aljoudi, while uBlock Origin reflected the continuing effort by the original developer Raymond Hill.
Since April 2015, uBlock Origin has been completely unrelated to the web site ublock.org.

> Shortly after the project division [between uBlock and uBlock Origin], Chris Aljoudi created ublock.org to host uBlock, promote the extension and request donations... In July 2018, uBlock was acquired by AdBlock.
Behavior matters but smart loads are IMO essential. E.g. we have a tanked water heater that shuts off during peak rates; no way we could accomplish that by hand every day. It's not hard to imagine from there, cars that monitor the 'net and strategize to reach X% state of charge by 9AM with the lowest total cost, or washing machines that wait for the price per kWh to hit some bar before they start running. (although frankly the direct power draw of a washing machine is almost nothing, it's all in the hot water)

We're already getting there a bit with smart thermostats for A/C. Refrigerators might be more difficult, although similar temporary demand response schemes could probably be made to work, e.g. every fridge is alerted to shut off in 30 minutes for 15 minutes, they all schedule cooling in advance, and then drop off the charts as a group for a short window of time. Perhaps you saw that a bank of clouds was about to roll over your panels.

Silent loads like your fridge make up a lot of the total power draw, and are also some of the most tied to the concept of permanent base load.
There’s gonna be a series on Apple’s video service.
> No information passes thru the event horizon of a black hole.

No information is lost. A copy of it can very well fall into the BH (and it does).
How can you take that seriously? It has UK above US.
yeah, something like https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61xosUOD7bL...
Unlock can block page elements while pi hole can only block dns. So if the ad is served from the same domain as the site you are visiting, pi hole cannot do anything about it, but ublock can.
Why everyone thinks they are middle class (even if they aren’t)
The analogy breaks down completely once you introduce the concept of "not worth the cost of professional repair". We don't apply that to humans, but it's more often the norm than the exception with electronics.
Thank you!

I automatically read "Association for Computing Machinery", which is totally irrelevant.
Doubt it, there are a lot of PCI Compliant businesses that get audited with open source software in their systems. I'm sure they have a node_modules somewhere on their build server.

When you have an attack that moves from your servers to your desktop computers, you have a network issue, which would be covered in an audit to verify you properly segment your network instead of having it in one large broadcast domain.
I think this is highly interesting, but while reading the comments here, I think one should be very careful about the actual content of the paper. It is deriving results about the (phenomenological) master equation. It has been some time since I have studied this, but we are not talking about some first principles theory here. It is possible to derive master equations in some limit from a fundamental theory, but the setting here is purely phenomenological. I.e. the hidden states would be anyway present in the fundamental theory and would be lost due to some integration and limit process in order to arrive at the master equation.
Safari's (Webkit's) content blockers are even better imo. Declarative rules that get compiled. Can't intercept arbitrary requests with Javascript logic but I don't think that's necessary. Though it makes something like uMatrix harder to implement.
There is a lot of ageism in this industry. I'd be curious if SWE at FAANG is equivalent to football players in the NFL.

Aka, Sure you might make more but what's the earnings over total career?
Interesting that that low, deep tones were the first the author heard. This is due to sound waves traveling through the ground arriving first. The higher frequencies are attenuated much more. I've always noticed this occurring with on-ground explosions as well.
That seems quite doable? You don't even need an inverter, assuming you don't use your laptop during the day, you could use that as the battery.

Worst case, enough 12v panels, 12v battery and cigarette lighter adaptors for phone and laptop.

Relevant:
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/05/how-to-go-off-grid-i...
overall, if a city can sustain taxi service, it should be able to sustain Uber/Lyft too

So if a city wants to kill Uber/Lyft, all they need to do is to attack the rideshare margins directly. (Not that they really should. Uber/Lyft is probably a civic good.)
Wait, fundamentally impossible? If you were to say it were technologically impossible or economically impossible I think I might be inclined to agree with you, we're a long way from a self-sustaining Mars colony being feasible. But what fundamental limits are there that couldn't be fixed with a proper application of technology? We know how to build centrifuges to simulate gravity and radiation shielding. We know all the elements necessary for life are present on Mars and I'm not seeing any fundamental problems with keeping people alive, though there are certainly a lot of things that need to be figured out.

I don't think colonizing other planets in the solar system is a good strategy for giving the human race a second chance because its only a very narrow range of disasters that could wipe out all humans on Earth but spare a colony on Mars.

But there's an incredible amount of science to be gained through more exploration of the solar system. Comparing the atmosphere of Earth to that of Mars and Venus has helped a lot in understanding the details of global warming and ozone depletion. We don't know exactly how fundamental science research is going to pay off but it has before and I'd argue that there is actually something of fundamental value in understanding the universe better.
This is why, as an employee, I am not willing to put my neck out for my employer - modern society and goings on are a pretty clear lesson that employees that take risks for a company end up eating them and nobody higher up cares (unless it's essentially free to care, which is more easily explained by self-interested behavior than any sort of altruism).
I don't think the OP is being genuine. Their point is an intensely cynical one. Basically implying that the American system which allows for cruelty abroad and then also allows revealing expsoses of that cruelty is well designed for maintaining international power.

They are noting America's exceptionalism at self manipulation. They are sardonically praising the Machiavelian nature of our society.
> how are insurers supposed to properly cost and be able to provide payouts

This is what insurance companies do..
Microsoft got far more than "a slap on the hand", at least in the EU.

They were fined a total of $1.3bn for anti-competitive behaviour, which would have escalated up to $7.4bn if they hadn't stopped.

The two fines were:

- in 2004, EUR 497m ($611m) for restricting music player access, server APIs, etc, with remedies allowing competitors access to build interoperating products. That was the EU's largest fine ever against a single company.

- in 2013, EUR 561m ($731m) for "inadvertently" removing a browser choice screen in 2011 that had been added in 2010 as a condition of the previous remedy following a complaint by Opera in 2007.

That last fine was a firm warning to Microsoft to take anti-competition provisions seriously. If they hadn't changed, EU laws allowed a fine of up to 10% of global revenue, which would have been $7.4bn based on their 2012 turnover.
Sounds like my home theater amplifier (Pioneer VSX-921). The audio DSP chip gets too hot during normal use and desolders itself ever so slightly, which gives the error UE22. Someone figured out that taking a hot air gun to the chip fixes it, but I had to re-apply the fix about every three months.

What angered me even more was that Pioneer USA acknowledged the problem and would either repair or give you a replacement model, but Pioneer EU pretends everything is fine and dandy, even when you point them to Pioneer USA its stance.
Right now I have a one button rebase operation in gitlab, and if that does work (due to conflicts) then I'm at a situation I want to be in: verifying that my changes integrate cleanly.
So we have a problem:

1. assume businesses cannot be ethical.
2. so, telling a business to be ethical is pointless
3. to encourage prosocial behavior amongst businesses, they must, therefore, be regulated
4. but, since businesses cannot be ethical, they can use their power to control regulation

how to stop this hellscape? is it possible that assuming businesses cannot possibly act ethically was a lie spread by said companies?

tldr; then what's the solution, assuming regulatory capture is a thing?
Ah! Thanks for the link.
A portion of flown engine #5 from the Apollo 11 mission on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. It was retrieved in 2013 put on display in 2015.
uBlock Origin is the one to use for the last few years.

(I've worked on filter lists since the Junkbuster and then Privoxy days, through Adblock Plus. Then Adblock Plus suddenly seemed like a bad place to be, and uBlock was similarly questionable, so I moved to uBlock Origin, even though adding new rules there was more work than in ABP. I've been very happy with uBlock Origin, and with its lead developer's apparent benevolent intentions.)
Seems a very odd strategy for cyber-insurance companies to take... If I were a large company insured by Zurich right now, I would definitely be reconsidering giving them my money.
This depends on what do you mean by 'inaccessible'.

Going there and back again, and telling your pals how things are 1000LY away is likely impossible.

Expanding your civilization to more and more habitable celestial bodies, slowly but relatively surely, is entirely possible. This is how e.g. plants colonize vast spaces, being limited by the speed of their growth often by inches per lifetime. (You should also consider the amount of resources the plats dedicate to it, and their success rate.)
Sigmund Freud was somewhere between a fraud (accessory to rape, in that he systematically defended rapists), to a serial rapist himself. That any of his theories are used at all in any psychological course is shameful.

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/24/science/freud-secret-docu...

(search for "real rape" in that article to read one account of Freud expending a lot of effort to hide obvious cases of rape)
I wonder if it's possible to catch horizontal touch events only. As it stands, the demo page is nearly impossible to scroll.
Is njalla down for everyone or just myself?
Even in the US, still a full third of fish is illegally caught. I'm really surprised in 2019 there is no crackdown on this.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140409-ille...
Because Twitter killed it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)#Discontinuation...
Most insurers require customers to limit their risk in all kinds of ways.

I’m curious if there are cyber mitigation’s that are out there, such as mandatory two factor authentication, requiring up to date software and OSes or other measures. It seems like any insurance company would Be highly Interested in forcing these best practices.
Well, no argument there, but I wrote more words in that sentence that you cut off.

My point is, that a "cyber attack" is poorly constrained, compared to something like a fire or a flood... a company only has so many assets, valued at $X that are liable to be burned to the ground or ruined by a flood, and these constraints can be modeled and adjusted for. Perhaps I am mistaken, I don't see a cyberattack as being analagous to anything else in the insurance industry.
Now this looks like an assortment of terrible hacks that I'd never want to use.

Good job though.
A custom, partially electronic, puzzle box [video]
While I generally agree with that underlying point, if our computers were as unreliable as the Saturn V, we’d never get anything done with them.
I believe you're right that the jury is still out about information loss.

However, I believe that the energy from Hawking Radiation comes from the black hole itself. In that case it doesn't matter if it's inside or outside the event horizon- it's still 'leaking' energy/mass.
I think the fair thing to realize, as a society, is that corporate profit taxes just make sense. If a company is operating in a high profit margin line of business it has more than enough money to invest in future growth, fairly compensate employers and owners _and_ provide a societal benefit for all those other community members that work in less high profit margin societies. Sure, you've got good healthcare and what not, why not make sure your barista has the same access before buying that third house.

I applaud anyone who decides to do this of their own volition, but I think we can agree this makes sense societally and it'd just be easier if a third party was responsible for shifting the money around as needed and made sure everyone was paying proportionate to their ability.
This hinges on the US assigning attribution, and to be fair, the US probably has a better idea than an insurance company.

If the FBI publicly arrests some teenager or former employee related to a company hack, and the insurance tries to use a cyberwarfare exception, then we can go grab the pitchforks.

Both sides of this are going to get tested though: does the US actually have a definition for cyberwarfare and is that the same as what's in the insurance contract? Do countries have to publicly declare cyberwar (but not necessarily regular war) on other countries for this clause to be valid? What due diligence do companies have to do to prove they weren't part of a cyberwarfare hack?

This headline is misleading though. Big Companies know what's in those contracts. Maybe this is a kick in the pants for more scrutiny of those contracts to strike things like cyberwarfare.
Another paper along these lines that I often refer too these days is:

Concurrent Tries with Efficient Non-Blocking Snapshots
http://aleksandar-prokopec.com/resources/docs/ctries-snapsho...

But it feels likes these papers are from two different universes.

A long time programmer (mostly for graphics), I'm new to the very large data set management applications that I'm working on these days. I find that I'm very interested in algorithms in this area, but come upon them in random ways (like these two).

I find many algorithms are developed in wildly different contexts so the language used in papers can be confusing. In one paper a word is a term-of-art, in another purely descriptive, or understanding of the scope of applicability is completely assumed. For example I completely ignored discussions of "bloom filters" (as applied to set membership) for ages because in graphics there is a completely different kind of bloom filter in which both the meaning of "bloom" and "filter" are completely different.

Are there any good blogs that highlight algorithms like this in an more casual style than the papers themselves (or academic proceedings) that can help give more context, and sense of how these tools fit in the landscape of algorithms?

The "two minute papers" YouTube channel comes to mind as an example: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg
It is pretty amazing how this story was memory-holed by so many in the industry.
Okay — and just to be clear, there’s nothing problematic to me about simplifying assumptions or effective theories.

Both are important tools for making predictions tractable.

But when we lose sight of what are conclusions, what are strongly justified assumptions, and what are simplifying assumptions we don’t have justification for (or even know to be untrue), we begin to create fundamentally inaccurate models or wrongly shut down others’ avenues of inquiry.

This happens in economics and business quite often, but simplifying assumptions become orthodox truth with surprising frequency in hard sciences like physics, as well.
Good god. This story is fucking terrifying.
All these hacks to get around what something like the JVM or .NET already expose as tunable parameters. Yet somehow the golang proponents still claim that the golang environment is somehow "better".
Swearconomy - economized dictionary of swear words and dirty language. Words and their meanings are auctioned. I expect to make a lot of money on Santorum.
Damn, the developer of uBlock Origin recognized the problem with it immediately, explained it, and shut it down.
Hopefully it prevents more users from getting caught up in that. As for the existing ones, that's an ongoing problem that people have been working on.
A new Twitter account is outing shoddy reporting in science stories
I actually managed to temporarily fix a laptop using a torch-like lighter directed at the GPU. This particular batch of laptops had faulty solder connecting the GPU to the board. The heat and cooling would eventually crack the solder and disconnect the GPU.

I had nothing to loose and saw a video about it on YouTube. So I cracked it open and ran the flame around the GPU for several minutes. I eventually got it boot up and it lasted for another 9 months and then I needed to do the process again. I did it a few more times and probably got another year and half out of the laptop.
Do You Compute?
I would agree with both.

But bringing charges against a company is important. Boards of directors are supposed to, well, direct the executives, not look the other way while they break the law and abuse their employees.

The way to encourage this is to hit the company, hard, right in the wallet.
The vast majority are explicitly not deterministic. Starting with random initialization, and not ending there (explicitly introducing noise, using different (and very low) levels of accuracy, random choices for updates, ...)

It is often explicitly mentioned in articles, currently mostly for reinforcement learning (or it might be that that's just the vast majority of papers I see these days), that, for example "this network converges about 3 times out of every 10 attempts". Often with graphs leaving a selection of the failed attempts.

This is very different from the explicit lying you find in psychology papers and theories.
You don't expect an application running with root privileges on Linux to be sandboxed, quite the opposite in fact.
You can brick your hardware in a million ways with root privileges by doing fun stuff like overwriting firmware/efi settings etc.

It's not comparable at all to an application on your phone downloaded from an app store, which you expect to be highly sandboxed and which you certainly not expect to be able to do irreversible damage to your hardware.
> with the iPhone destroying Windows Phone.

You don't think it was Android that destroyed Windows Phone?

I guess if you want to get technical, Microsoft did.
> Anyone know how to mimic ublock origins filter list in Pihole ?

You cannot. Pihole may be. Abetter solution for network-wode ad blocking, but some ads (such as push notification spam) use the same domain name as the original site, so pihole can't block them, being just a DNS blacklist.
Try eating only whole plant foods (vegan). It's better for you, for animals, and the planet.

Whole foods means unprocessed. Avoid concentrated or processed grains, sugar, and oil. So no flour, bread, or sugar. Just avoid grains entirely except for steel-cut unprocessed oats. Whole vegetables means potatoes, Japanese sweet potato, carrots, cauliflower, tomatoes, broccoli, etc. Whole fruits means bananas, oranges, avocados, etc. Eat some nuts but not too many. Drink soymilk (unsweetened) for calcium and protein. Take a vegan multivitamin. Eat from all these groups everyday, and don't snack. Don't eat after dinner. Don't eat out.

I've been doing this for years and have great digestion, feel amazing, and look great. It also feels good to know I'm not hurting and killing animals.
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OP here. That looks really interesting. Especially the V2G stuff. I've only just started with Bulb, but I'll certainly consider switching to you in future!
Microsoft doesn't care about losing against all these new things; they know their cash cows are Windows desktop and server, Office suite, and developer tools.

Nothing is as sticky as Windows desktop and office. Show me anything that competes with that combination? Even with the advent of the smartphone, the combination of those two is still unbeatable in corporate America.
I have a 2013 MacBook pro that just dies at random times. I could never get them to confirm that this specific year had issues.

But I have always suspected that it was something with the board and poor solder connections.
Remember this happened before FB / Netflix / Unicorns started an open war for talent and blew salaries up.
I appreciate the concern and am aware of the dangers that come with over-hydration. It's a 32oz bottle but I probably put about 16oz of ice in it, and the water is ice cold so most of the ice doesn't melt. I also don't necessarily do it every hour on the hour, it's just a habit that I've found helps me stay focused.
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thank you for ublock (origin). i was almost fooled into installing the wrong extension when the ublock fork happened. it's shameful that someone would try to take advantage of your hard work like that.
Yea, this is where things get really stupid. The contribution of shareholders is very close to nil - the CEO may be the most impactful employee (though I think they're honestly not nearly as important as modern society says, being a replaceable cog themselves) but they are not worth the equivalent of 20 or 5000 employees.
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