skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's impossible. We lost. The incentives aren't there for interoperability and support for client-side customization to meaningfully improve - big names will resist, either because it makes it easier for users to sidestep ads and tracking, or because the kinds of features it would require aren't within reach of the minimum viable user (https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...).

Legally-enforced open APIs and client-agnosticity like you mention downthread sounds wonderful (maybe we could start by deprecating the User-Agent header) but for similar reasons, I can't see it ever taking off.

Pessimism notwithstanding, here's an idea: imagine a browser extension where you could implement privileged pages/tabs that had access to other tabs' script environments/DOM, and could inject elements from other pages into itself. So you could write a workflow like:

1. open a Wikipedia page in a background tab (`const wiki = new Tab(etc...);`)

2. run some JS to pick out values from a <table> in it

3. open a Google Docs spreadsheet in a background tab

4. fill out the spreadsheet using the previously obtained data

5. as a bonus, inject the table + spreadsheet elements into the extension page for side-by-side reference

Not sure what the emacs analogy would be - maybe something like org-mode and Babel being able to generate things using the contents of other buffers.
> Yup I did:

Seems rather circular then to suggest I familiarize myself with him more if you can't even be bothered to demonstrate how you've extrapolated what you reiterated using a source. Google yields no sources parroting that. Even the negative opinions suggest something completely different : "Ultimately, Peterson’s dismissal of happiness as the purpose of life is a problem because it aligns his argument too closely with an emphasis on an introspective attempt at self-sufficiency. Insisting that meaning can be forged out of effort emphasizes a kind of self-reliance which, while certainly useful and even admirable at times, misses the mark in telling most of the human story. Suffering for the sake of suffering in order to “tolerate the weight of our own self-consciousness” is, I suppose, the best we can aim for if the material world is all that exists." -- https://humanumreview.com/articles/why-we-need-jordan-peters...

> As a matter of fact I know at least 6 people who fit that description.

That can only be true if you don't appreciate the fact that outcomes which appear superficially as self-reliance don't materialize from a lifetime of not benefiting from social networks.

> I know at least 6 people for whom it is not (anymore) "absolutely inevitable".

Seems you drew your own ideas as to how this has anything to do with self-reliance.

How an individual leads their life has no bearing on whether there are hierarchical structures in the whole of society. You can go live in the woods, and humans will continue on without you with class structures.
Large job changes like that aren’t forced in my experience. If the person isn’t happy doing it the results are unlikely to be good, so they always try very hard for volunteers. It’s a volunteer service after all.
I wonder what Google will do with their Cloud Platform Google-managed SSL certificates that have used Let's Encrypt so far...

But I guess in the worst case I can just buy traditional certificates for a couple of years.
While Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python is a superb resource, probably the best out there, my recommendation for anyone new to the field would be to do Sebastian Thrun's free Artificial Intelligence for Robotics course [1] as an intro, then go through Labbe's work afterwards.

Thrun's course is more accessible and even more hands-on than Labbe's content. As a bonus he also covers Particle Filters,PID control, Search and SLAM (which cam out of Thrun's PhD thesis).

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/artificial-intelligence-for-r...
Me either.

The comments in this thread to the tune of "anything is better than being dead" actually kind of took me by surprise.

I can conceive of a point where technology and society has developed to a place where bodies are replaced after death with something that's worth "living" in again, but that's a long way from wanting to be a brain in a vat purely because it means I'm not technically dead.
Yes, that’s probably the reason because mistakes in health care is an absolutely massive killer. In the US alone it’s responsible for about as many deaths as if two jumbo jets collidee with each other every day. The number of people dying from the simple fact that health care practitioners are humans and humans get tired, drunk, angry, careless or just plain stupid for random reasons is mind boggling.

If we saw a midair collision of jumbo jets every day however the public would never accept it.

https://catalyst.nejm.org/medical-errors-preventable-deaths/
They can do something. sell.
Note that ghidra is not that useful.for analyzing things that are not well formed loadable object files, because (in comparison to IDA) it relies on autodetection too much.

See for example almost any screenshots of ghidra in mainstream-ish media which show completely nonsencial i386 disassembly interspersed with meaningfull looking autogenerated labels and comments. That is what reliably happens when you feed
.NET binary into the thing, as it sees embedded debug info and proceeds to disassemble the .NET bytecode as i386 code...
I mean, if we continue with that logic you're actually providing it to your ISP, who does what they think will profit the most. That is, delivering it to Amazon. Who will then deliver it to others looking to buy that product.
I do not see the date on this document you linked. But all the links point to 2016 articles or older. Are you sure that it is more updated?

I hope that they fixed the problem since this article came out but I am not so sure they are more open how they implement differential privacy.
I would suggest you to always put a `color` when you define a `background-*`.
Now that website can support darkmode,
it would be a shame to see a white text on this yellowish background...
Only if you are so closed minded that you cannot learn to enjoy something different. I know many such people, they wouldn't go to any college not close to home. I also know many people who have moved to different countries blindly and had the best time of their lives because they can enjoy something new.

Either way visiting campus isn't really required, either you are cut out for anything or you already are not cut out because it isn't close to home.
Very glad you're enjoying that! While we've explored some of the possibilities in this space in the essays here, it does feel early to standardize: lots we're still excited to explore in purpose-built contexts first. :)
For those commenting that shareholders should sell, it's possible that shareholders believe there's upside with Zuckerberg at the helm AND even more upside without him. So, selling doesn't make sense.
I can't help but feel like there's no actual narrative being formed throughout the article - the vignettes keep coming one after another until your eyes glaze over - the story can't keep its eye on one thing at a time - I'd recommend skipping to section VII.
EPO / HMO?
Excellent series, I highly recommend it!
Over time I saw a few examples of the attitude "We are Apple, these are our machines, there are our algorithms, we are smart, we do things right for you." but considering their track of records exposed by the problems routinely discovered by who reverse engineers their product, I wonder how useful that attitude really is.
To add to his accomplishments, Sage was a pioneer of the web-based client/server notebook model now popular in Jupyter. I'm not sure if Sage was THE first instance of this, but certainly one of the first.
May be that is why they are starting to incentivize families to have more than one child.
The human log – Building a log for your mind and body
Windows Zero-Day Emerges in Active Exploits
Sorry, Fig 1, page 15 is the data on drugs discovered per billion. Table 1, pg 18 shows some sample breakdowns of drug investments broken down between basic research and commercial development.

I don't necessarily subscribe to everything in that report, but I do think that modeling drug development in terms of a simple risk-reward model for the private drug industry needs further thought.
We've drawn inspirations from Google Wave with Taskade (https://taskade.com), would love to get your thoughts! You can reach me at john@taskade.com
Bad bots now make up 20 percent of web traffic
Sometimes I think I'm pretty hip to the jargon but every once in a while I learn a new one. IoC is an "Indicator of compromise."
Couldn't they monitor brain activity for common pain modalities?
For those wondering, TFR = total fertility rate and means "total number of children born or likely to be born to a woman in her life time if she were subject to the prevailing rate of age-specific fertility in the population". [1]

Essentially, how many children a woman will give birth to, on average. If it drops below 2, population will begin to shrink.

Edit: As the below comment thread points out, > 2 (~2.1) may be required to not drop. :)

[1] http://www.searo.who.int/entity/health_situation_trends/data...
They knew what they signed up for when they bought the stock. No sympathy for them whatsoever.
Swift can also auto vectorise these simple loops, but only with the right combination of compiler flags.

https://swift.godbolt.org/z/JmtOMx
In the future, all information will be public, and this will change many things.
Easy there Thanos.
This is only true if you ignore the average rank preference of the school among applicants. Better-ranked college won't see as much decline in acceptance percentage, while worse-ranked colleges will see more than the expected decline.

Some of the ways colleges can combat this on their own is by trying to jump the rest of the system through early admission (that creeps earlier and earlier over time), or by giving out exploding offers (I don't think this is nearly as common).

The solution is to go to a deferred-acceptance algorithm such as Gale-Shapley. It's a relatively minor change, adding a third party that matches students to colleges algorithmically. The students send in a rank-ordering of the colleges they wish to attend, and colleges send in a rank-ordering of which students they'd prefer to admit (along with quantity). The students get their most-preferred college that likes them enough to admit them over others, and the colleges run zero risk of sending out too many offers.
Their house has been broken into 3 times in the last 2 months.

This may be true, but it neither supports the assertion that crime is bad in that area, nor the assertion that it's due to an "invasion."

It's possible there's something peculiar to that home that is attracting problems.
On a similar note, MS is/will offer many of those features themselves tied to ms/live services.

Of course, I'd rather it this way as MS can at least have a browser that keeps pace with the rest of the world. Edge would be about on parity twice a year or so, and often the biggest of my headaches lately. Fortunately no longer having to support any IE currently (only browsers with async function support).
Making sure doctors are well informed about treatment options are one thing... egging patients on to request a possibly mismatched medication and taking doctors out to lunch to encourage the prescription of a possibly mismatched medication is entirely different.

The ideal case for drugs is that no one actually needs them so no one takes them - this is a large contributor as to why this market should be heavily nationalized.
> I'm also willing to pay for an ad-free

It has been tried multiple times, particularly in print media. Most people, regardless of what they claim, aren't willing to pay for ad free. Just the pure fact that it used to be free, often makes it even harder to convert them.

You say you're willing to pay for ad-free, but I'd ask why you aren't paying for ad free already. Many websites now offer it, and few pay it (e.g. almost all online news, Reddit, Google's ad network, YouTube, etc.
This article is so one sided. Either you have votes or don’t have votes.
Very cool stuff! Since you're using volumetric integration/fixed voxel size, one trick to get significantly improved visual texturing quality is to low-pass/smooth the mesh right before texturing.
Cars are not going away, large diesel engines used today won't be replaced by electric ones in decades (because if they could be, they'd already had been), and you can retrain to work on different type of machinery.
Given that airpods don't block outside noise, it's safe to interact with someone using them as if they weren't using them.

If "you" never take them out, they're a poor signal that "you" don't want to be interrupted - that's on the wearer, not everyone else.
There is no single cost. It depends entirely on who asks, which is why you cannot get an answer beforehand.
> A great alternative strategy is to structure your finances so that it's impossible for creditors to seize your assets

It is absolute insanity that this is even a thing to consider.

The funniest thing about it is that if you do this, you are effectively socializing your personal losses and letting everyone else insured through your provider bear the cost for your healthcare. If that's not an argument for actually socializing healthcare costs for everyone, I don't know what is.
I am a current employee of Wolfram Research and created an account just to say how very wrong this is. He literally yelled at an ex-employee so hard they went into labor. He is utterly convinced that everyone around him is an idiot, and that one day the world will realize how wrong they were about his ideology and dedicate museums to his honor, etc. He even compared himself to a Greek god in one of his meetings.

He's definitely the kind of person that wouldn't dare scream at someone in real life, but will gladly tell you how much of a PoS you are in the middle of a meeting with a dozen other people.

My fellow employees (except for the hard core brown-nosers) are the most kind and intelligent people I've had the pleasure of working with. They are the true geniuses being this release. SW is the tyrant that the rest of the company is trying to fight.
Detroit metro schools are funded multiple times that of other Michigan districts, with worse results. Money is not the main factor.
The coming election will be a measurement of American voters. Now they do have a choice. There is actually a candidate opposed to mass murder as our official policy. Now we've learned she's also the only major-party candidate wise enough to correctly judge the whole Assange situation, as well.
It was simply ULA trying to land one of their boosters like SpaceX does.
Why would they be getting this frustrated with him if they saw upside with him at the helm?
The problem is it is easy to look an item and say "we no longer need this, remove it". It is much harder to be sure you are fixed all possible ways the problem could have happened. Maybe the system auto-signs the release - but does it in all cases? Is there a rare special case where the automatic process doesn't happen? Do you really know what tricks they have to pull in that branch office in India?
Most things with screens come with some sort of plasticky covering that you're supposed to remove, though. I would absolutely assume that the peelable-looking film on my new phone is not a crucial component.
>Looking for contraband is not the TSA's job.

Its certainly part of their job. In states with legal Marijuana sales, there are frequently TSA drug sniffing dogs at checkpoints.
So I believe I'm correct in saying that this is what Microsoft effectively does with WSL and Joyent does with Triton, i.e. faking a Linux kernel syscall table on top of a Windows NT kernel and Illumos kernel respectively.
If this technology pans out, and there doesn't seem to be anything fundamental against it, the future will be very different from what I imagined. Medical treatment, space travel and exploration, even retirement may have gotten a lot more interesting.
Why can’t an internal gyroscope substitute for an external AoA sensor?
Agreed. But items can move to other checklists. In this case the list item should become a unit test for the signing code since a unit test is essentially a check list for automated systems.
I think society has actually gotten better at this. A strategically leaked sex tape is already an acceptable career move for celebrities, and I don’t think many people would necessary care about it in politics, either.
> Dude, look at the topline numbers. They are completely fucked.

Of course they are. Healthcare costs in the US are completely out of control. But if you want a better system you need to understand what causes it to be the way it is. Keeping every expensive thing about the existing system and just changing how the money is transferred is not going to fix it.

> Meanwhile, 10/10 developed nation socialist healthcare systems are comparatively cheaper and better.

They are cheaper because of specific flaws in the US system that cause costs to be high, which are real and need to be fixed but are independent of socialization. Low deductible insurance that encourages unnecessary tests and involves "insurance" in low cost routine transactions (currently caused by tax laws encouraging employer-provided insurance, but Medicare doesn't make it better), liability rules that encourage doctors to do the same unnecessary tests, certificate of need laws and other limits on the supply of doctors, the high cost of getting FDA approvals, lack of price transparency etc.

And the patient outcomes in the US system are better for anyone who has health insurance. The net outcomes are worse only because the outcomes for people without health insurance are very bad, because the independent flaws cause routine care to be prohibitively expensive and people without insurance often go untreated, which brings down the average dramatically.

That is completely broken and we need to fix it, but how about we do that without throwing away the part where the patient outcomes are better for the majority of people who are actually participating in the healthcare system?
Plus’s MKBHD accidentally broke his removing the ‘screen protector‘ that’s actually integral to the display.

https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1118580472576118787
> Do you trust google to treat non-AMP pages the same as AMP pages?

Google clearly doesn't treat AMP and non-AMP pages the same way: only AMP pages are eligible for the carousel in Google search, and there's a little icon.

Once there's a way for non-AMP pages be safely preloaded I would be very surprised if Google search didn't start doing that, though. (Speaking only for myself, not the company.)
Leadership of OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Transitions to Red Hat
Note that this is an argument for sending your child to college. It is not an argument for sending more children to college. A large portion of what makes a college degree valuable is that companies preferentially allocate white-collar jobs to college graduates. The marginal college graduation merely exacerbates this positional advantage, rather than generating more white-collar jobs to allocate.
For those commenting that shareholders should sell, FB is in the S&P 500. In standard 401K and other accounts, there is no way to own an S&P499 product that has no exposure to FB. Many of us are indirect shareholders and don't really have a compelling alternative
My previous employer had my insurance totally wrong. According to everything I signed at open enrollment, I had a $6k deductible and $6.6k Out-of-pocket max. This was for the family, no individual deductible.

When I go to the insurance site, it lists me with a $2k individual & $4k family deductible. It says my OOPM is $7.5k. Of course I hit my deductible this year, so I'm getting billed an extra thousand.

My employer and insurance company both swear it's the other one's fault and even filing a complaint with the state insurance commission doesn't seem to have helped. :(
That's my site.

I restored five Teletype machines, and they were at major steampunk conventions for almost a decade. Here's our telegraph office.[1]

I know about the guy at the Computer Museum, although I've never heard from him. He built one of my interface boards. I built an interface that drives one of the old teletypes from a USB port. It's entirely powered from the USB port, even though it has to deliver 120V at 60mA.[2] He's also using my "baudotrss" software.[3] He's much more into YouTube than I am. I never dreamed that anyone would want 12 hours of Teletype restoration videos.

These machines were designed to be maintainable, at three levels. First, the big components are hot-swappable. Remove two thumbscrews and the keyboard slides out. A switch closes when you do this to take it out of circuit. Remove three thumbscrews and the typing unit lifts out. Again, a switch closes so this doesn't break the current loop and interfere with other machines on the loop. Replacing the motor takes a screwdriver and about two minutes. That's everything except the cast iron base and some switches and wiring. So a quick swap in the field will get you going if you have the spares. It was routine to swap these big units and take them back to a shop for cleaning and oiling once a year or so.

At the next level of maintenance, there are removable subassemblies. The carriage and the selector assembly, the most complicated subunits, come off easily with tools. So they can be swapped by first-line maintenance if necessary.

Finally, every part can be unscrewed and replaced if necessary. That's why these machines still work. They are totally maintainable. However, they require considerable adjustment after maintenance. Measuring spring tensions and clearances is required, not just parts changing. Fortunately, the very detailed manuals have survived.[4]

The price of this maintainability was the need for too much infrastructure. Maintenance depots. Teletype mechanic schools. The military had two levels of school - one to do installation and maintenance down to sub-assembly replacement, and one for the shop techs who had to be able to totally disassemble and reassemble a machine. All specialized for one or two very specific machines. That's expensive.

[1] https://vimeo.com/124065314
[2] https://github.com/John-Nagle/ttyloopdriver
[3] https://github.com/John-Nagle/baudotrss
[4] http://www.aetherltd.com/manuals.html
Are you serious shifting the blame to the homeowner? The only thing attracting problems is that it's near the border. What else do you suggest that the house could be doing to ask for this. Should it put on a more conservative outfit?

Migrants come across seeking food/water/money so they break into homes.

We should secure the border with surveillance and a wall so migrants are forced to use official ports of entry. We then should take as many as possible and coordinate with Mexico to take the rest, if neither can, the two countries should deport them back to their country or origin.
Exactly: Google built a walled garden and now replaces the fence by glass, because people don't like the view from inside their cage. The worst thing is, that it'll get away with it.
If the CEO is tripping over a dollar to pick up a penny he's still picking up a penny but investors have a right to be irked that he's not picking up the dollar.
Also from that island and I'd like to mention that "Life of Brian" was banned by the film censor there. I only got to see it at a private screening by a college society. That ban was rescinded at some point, I think in the 1990s. It's hard to fathom now, because the film seems so innocuous -- I think it was just a taboo subject at the time.