skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://80000hours.org/about/meet-the-team/

I count three doctorates, a medical doctor, a Yale Law dropout and a Master’s in Philosophy. More importantly, they actually do research.
It's hard to civilly sue for attempted fraud, because there are no damages. And when the fraud is successful, the victims are none the wiser. As why there's no criminal prosecution, it's because money generally buys immunity.
You want to be able to set the seed if only you want to be able to debug your program. Pseudo random is sufficient for these models and is independent of any hardware settings. You should not share your random source between concurrent threads, though, but that’s good practice anyway.
I just put it in desktop mode and it worked fine. What a ridiculous design choice to make, though.
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And here is my point exactly. How is this an invasion. And if this intervention is an invasion, why are not "interventions" in Syria for example called invasions also.

The language used in media is often like the newspeak from 1984.
What would you consider as a confirmation? Without someone coming out and saying "we're the ones who did it", it's very unlikely that it'll be ever be confirmed.

The best you can do is to make some educated guesses (by looking at the timestamps, coding patterns, comments in the code, who might be interested in hacking the target, political connotation to the attacks etc.). That's usually how state-sponsored attacks get attributed.

For example, "Guccifer" used GTM+3 settings and attacked DNC a few hours after Trump publicly "hoped" that Russians will find the emails. That doesn't confirm that it was sponsored by Russia, but it makes it an educated guess.
Of course it doesn't. My point is that even if you have knowledge about technology/science, that's completely irrelevant when you then go on to support and represent people who actively ignore science/expertise and have no concept of evidence based decision making.
This is just good old Tether FUD. I remember the Tether fud that dropped it to the 80cent range, which was pretty much a free 10%+ gain. This recent fud was also another great arb opportunity. Though this time it held a lot stronger, I was expecting it to go much lower than it did. I think the timing was good too cause it happened over the weekend when the other markets were'nt open so the impact was not so bad. I mean, look at that USDT/USD discount on Kraken.

Also, let's not forget Bitfinex makes a ton of money already off it's premium btc price.

But yeah, checkout the 'City Wok Bitcoin FUD' meme on a search bar, this time it's the Tether FUD format
Apple shouldn't have to suffer the horrible fate of being even implied in the same conversation as Tether/Bitfinix as far as reporting standards and corporate trust go.
Whoosh...

Nobody suggested what you are asking about.

But it seems you are suggesting that rather than generating electricity locally by sustainable means, it would be a better idea to create synthetic gasoline in the US, then ship that to China for them to burn?
On the contrary, decarbonizing fuels before you ship them to market is a way more serious solution. E.g. we already have big plants in the petrochemical industry that go natural gas -> hydrogen and CO2 -> separate out CO2 -> geological CO2 storage.

The benefit with capture at this level is that the partial pressure of CO2 is orders of magnitude larger, so you pay a lot less (both CAPEX and OPEX) for the same amount of capture.

When we really need negative emissions, this same cycle can be achieved by starting with bio-gas (known as BECCS).
I guess the idea here is that Uber is developing technologies that would put them ahead of a new entrant/competitor. Time will tell.
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Forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but we already have an existing supply of hydrocarbon based fuels which are relatively cheap compared to the proposed "quest."
This might not be the right place for this, but where should one get started with security research?
and/or the exact text of the message. A vague search is fine if there are few matches,but there's a lot of cruft out there.
schmidt happens
> he wrote lex

Wow, didn't expect that. I used it back in my uni days for a compiler project.
This is a very good point. Carbon capture at places like factories in plants is nearing viability. If we can burn oil, gas etc. and effectively capture CO2 ... well that's a much bigger win. Trying to capture/store from combustion engines in cars for example is a non-starter. And we have a lot of Oil and Coal, and it's energy dense ...
I understand where you coming from but I don't think that a politician's apparent knowledge about a subject is a good indicator of how good their decisions regarding this subject will be.
Vim: difficult to learn, difficult to master.

Most of it is "intemediate".
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> natural gas -> hydrogen and CO2 -> separate out CO2 -> geological CO2 storage.

Everything I've seen about H2 tells me that electric cars are just better. Luckily for your theory, it's still possible to do what you want with electric cars - just carbon capture at electric power plants.
"taking him from hospital for an experimental treatment in a different country had a strong chance of killing him"

...so they killed him. The excuse about "dying peacefully and not in pain" is junk. Clearly he can be sedated, and that isn't an argument for letting the state kill people without trial anyway.

Parents already overrule doctors on end of life care, try telling an American parent that you are going to lethally inject their child against their wishes (setting aside the obvious that murder is still illegal here).

You excuse it as an exception. How many exceptions would it take for you to have a problem with it?
Or turn it into plastics which is more useful.
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Ever since the recession most states have cut funding for public universities down to nothing, so they have to rely on rich international students paying exorbitant tuition in order to subsidize costs. It's pretty likely that it was those students and not taxpayers that were funding your education.
This is one of my favourite books! It's very readable with a bit of effort, and must have been riveting to see in person.

I most enjoy how thoroughly Faraday demonstrates how exactly they were able to know what they knew at the time - which gets into pretty advanced stuff. I doubt many today could so easily explain how we know certain scientific facts to be true, let alone demonstrate the chain of reasoning on their desktop.

At the time this would have been cutting edge science put into a lecture for children; his massive electromagnet would have been like having a cyclotron in a lecture hall today. At the same time, despite being something like 170 years ago, Faraday manages to stick pretty much to facts that we would still agree on today, despite all the scientific revolutions that have happened since then (like disproving the aether, understanding atoms and heat, electromagnetism, and such). Pretty much the only archaic aspects of it are the names of the chemicals he uses.

His explanation about the essence of what makes fire glow is also the best I have ever encountered.
$8/month is rather steep for some email and IM hosting. So there should be revenue left to share with you and the other upstream projects.

Personal side note: I’m not a fan of branding open source apps. It delays security updates and waters down the original brands; Riot and K9 have good reputations; Why not utilize those?
Why was the word "Massive" removed from the band's name in this title?

This is pretty fascinating though. Good luck controlling piracy when it can be this sophisticated.
To pick a bit, your *Breaking Bad" reference occurs well into the series, not at the start. It opens with his diagnosis, which sets everything else in motion.
No Linux support, so who cares?
You say as if 30% efficiency is an easy goal, but the most efficient fossil power plants reach ~60% (from what I've googled). That's the best efficiency we get for just burning fossil fuel, a technology perfected over a century. Here we're talking about a technology that might (or might not) have been proven in a lab.

Also, a likely outcome of lower energy price is that consumers will simply bypass fossil fuels. People won't buy gas-powered car if renewable electricity is much cheaper. So, basically, if renewables aren't cheap enough, you can't make profit. If they are cheap enough, they take away your customers.

I'm not convinced that anyone can make money out of this.
I think that's orthogonal to pleasantness. The tasks I have in mind revolve around coding, since that's my job. If the job extends beyond coding, to gathering requirements or coordinating a team, I'd be more inclined to agree. But they don't, for what I'm thinking about.
This sort of thing is IMO exactly why containers have merit. Let the software vendor decide what to distribute or others jump in and fill the gap. Powerusers can still read the dockerfiles and decide what do do or even build themselves. When it's built the image is well defined, i.e. not depending on host environment, including files stem except volume mounts. When will we get a whole desktop distro like this?
My dad had a 256bit memory module on his desk. Made out of sandwich of two pieces of glass and 16 vertical and 12 horizontal wires. Each intersection had a small ferrous ring.

Around that time he was programming and early computer and you could actually hear the memory bits changing. He was excited listening to it, figuring each click was a loop. Then her heard a different sound and realized he as hearing instructions and not loops.
Looking for Entropy in All the Wrong Places
>Electric motors are efficient, but current battery tech is not. Hydrocarbon fuels will probably always win for weight to energy efficiency.

You are misinformed, or focusing on the wrong metric. There's a detailed rundown of efficiency for different technologies here:

https://me222.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/twentyfirstcentury...
You can sell them before maturity, but their value will depend on current interest rates, of course. If rates are up, you will have to discount the price.
Hey all, I'm the author. Feedback is welcome! :)

The reason I wrote this is because I've been pair programming quite a bit lately and also mentoring some new vim users—so I wrote this little guide to help vim beginners level up their skills a bit.

What I noticed is that a lot of vim beginners find composing commands and text-objects to be kind of mind blowing.. and even more experienced vim users mentioned that these were the things that made them have that "aha" moment and convinced them to learn more.
While there is more supported devices using that spectrum I don’t personally have that many of them running at any point in time so I’m not convinced that’s the main cause of the problem. I suspect it’s more due to wireless keyboard / mice being lower powered than they used to be so they can support longer battery life and lower profile USB dongles.
Proof for this claim?
Have you considered crowdfunding further development of your recipe, like the infamous potato salad Kickstarter?
Here is a nice graphic of reduction curves for staying within 1.5° warming: https://mobile.twitter.com/rahmstorf/status/1070717050430070...
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“Its own internal scripting language, DScript, an experimental TypeScript based format used as an intermediate language by a small number of teams inside Microsoft”

Anyone else notice this?
I have reviewed the original paper which from which the "$94-$232" estimate is obtained. You can find it here: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30225-3

My comments are as follows:

1. Obviously, this is not the current cost, but an estimate for a hypothetical future plant.

2. You can get wildly differing estimates through a series of small discrepancies in the assumptions. Comparing the provided estimate (Table 2 in above link) to the estimates for other CO2 capture projects the following things stand out immediately: a) 7.5% CRF calculation should be ignored as unrealistic, 12.5% CRF is okay; b) O&M costs are low, for complex plant with caustic chemicals and high temperatures a fair assumption may be 6% of CAPEX per year rather than approx 3% c) 20% contingencies at the conceptual stage are too low, 40% would be perhaps defensible. Also, I don't see a basis for including Row D in the table, the commercial assumption is not justified.

Considering the above, if all goes well, plant number 100 might be able to capture CO2 for $200-300/tonne, better than the current claimed $600/tonne for a plant actually in operation, but nowhere near as good as other options.
Same deal. Strep test, $250 plus a $50 "outside of business hours" clinic charge.
I visited at 9am on a Monday morning. The billing dept claimed it was a standard charge they charged everyone.
I fought them for months about it. Only after it reached collections did I pay it. The extra fee was missing, but $250 for a strep test is a rip off regardless!
> When you were growing up, did you watch NASA's James Hansen saying in 2008 that we would have NO Arctic sea ice in summer by 2018? Was he correct? No?

Got a full quote in context? You "skeptics" have a tendency to miss things like "as soon as" and "if this trend continues".
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Thanks - ironically to say for someone who wrote M$ for a long time - I trust Microsoft more than Docker.
I think the US is good at the high end of the distribution, it's just that the average isn't very good. If you want and can afford the best care in the world, you'll find it in the US. But if you get basic care, not so much.

This kind of discrepancy makes these debates somewhat pointless as different sides talk past one another.
How do you put electricity in your tank?
This is typical for a basic unit in my experience. I don’t know if you’re in the military, but people don’t just sit around at home even if there isn’t a major operation on. Units are regularly well go to different environments deliberately to keep their skills up.
> inconveniencing [1][2] the very people you are attempting to persuade (the voting public) is not a strategy that is likely to work

Funny. Seems like it's working, remarkably quickly, to me:

Michael Gove, the current Environment Minister, met with the protesters and accepted the need for urgent action, and other points. Far more than might be expected from the rather extremist position of today's Tory party.

The opposition have acknowledged all their points, and pledged to make climate emergency policy. They are currently trying to force a vote on calling a climate emergency in the Commons.

The organisers have turned up for interview on most of the UK's serious news outlets, including, I think, twice on the Today programme. Even those who've studiously avoided the topic are now talking about it.

Oh, and public opinion of ER appears to have risen since the Easter protests. On that basis, I sincerely hope ER continue, and can step up their actions to more locations and companies too.
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Pretty reasonable to me. maybe that exposes how relatively junior I am (I'm not OP) but the codebase I use is sufficiently large that if I tried to handwrite the dep tree before I started working, I wouldn't have gotten any work done at all.
> Crowdsource your career decisions. I’ve done this for most of the last few decades, polling people I trust, and the advice seems generally good in hindsight.

I've been trying this recently and I can't get really good advice. Is the issue that I haven't built up a useful enough network? The advice tends to be in 1 of 3 categories

1) You're smart, you should just start your own thing and make (b/m)illions.

2) Come work with us, we have a role that kind of fits your skillset and pays you less.

3) You already make a lot of money and/or are successful in your career just chill\coast and collect a paycheck.
You've reached your one-post-per-year quota already and I think it's been well spent. This seems to be a perfect rationale when you put it in these terms
The funny thing though, it is so common for medical bills to get to collections that it doesn't effect your credit rating like other bills would.
2FA and login limits alone aren't likely to stand in the way of state-sponsored hackers.

Lots of companies still haven't upgraded to zero trust / BeyondCorp AuthN, and lots of companies don't have reproducible signed build artifacts from CI/CD with automatic policy enforcement regarding the properties that those build artifacts must have before they can be deployed.

High-profile companies that think VPNs and networking rules are a security solution have probably already been hacked and just don't know it yet.
A plant-based diet is beneficial for the environment due to livestock making up a 3rd of carbon emissions. That's what I've done for myself. Detrashing spaces is nice but I'm not sure how much it contributes to global warming. I also use a bike for most errands.
Really cool! Keep it up!
They would need access to a broker to invest in treasuries and pass KYC/AML. Which treasury broker would onboard them if they struggled to get a bank?
You shouldn’t need to do it every few days unless your surfaces were particularly grimy. And on those kind of surfaces the slip pads would still need cleaning even on optical mice plus the sensors on the early ones didn’t work too great unless you had clean smooth surfaces anyway. So like for like, ball mice should last 6 months before needing a clean.
Not a single comment here acknowledges the fact that false rape accusations have ruined people's lives. People's lives are more important than people's phones and, yes, even their privacy.

What would you do to solve this problem?
It seems in my experience people always provide example og how to do it right when critizing people who dislike agile because their organization is cargo-culting their efforts.
I don't use it myself, but as far as I understand it, the idea is to increase the noise you make so that any signal you make would get lost.

Ads can't be tailored to you if you click on every ad ever shown to you (in the background of course).
I have a similar concept: collections of fake band names, domain names, stand-up comedy pieces, and rap-suitable lyrics. The trick is extracting coherent routines that tell a story well.

Ages ago, in the age of Usenet, I had a huge collection of such bits (plus quotes of others) for use in .signature files.
You should read your link in greater detail. The NRLB recommended taking the employer to court in that case, but we'd have to see how that case plays out to know whether firing employees for skipping work to attend a protest is not legal. The NRLB is quasi-judicial, their word is not law.
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>The point of that is not to capture the carbon but to utilize it as fuel.
>If you are capturing carbon, you might as well do it in a form where you can actually utilize it for fuel.

Do you understand that the Prometheus proposes to first capture the carbon and then convert it to fuel?

I have no objection to the "convert it to fuel" part. Just to the capture from atmosphere, which is the most inefficient way.
Or "Otto's Collusion Repair"
1. Add MCAS system to artificially make airplane fly as if it were a different airplane.

2. Drive MCAS with only one AOA sensor.

3. Don't tell MCAS to look for (or even think about) bad AOA data or AOA disagreements.

4. Equip airplane with two AOA sensors as usual, but make the AOA disagree warning light a "value added option" that customers have to pay extra for.

5. Don't actually bother to tell pilots that they don't have AOA disagree warning lights.

6. Don't bother to tell pilots that MCAS exists at all.

7. Don't test MCAS subsystem to see what it actually does with bad AOA data.

8. Give MCAS a ridiculous amount of control authority, operating cumulatively over repeated applications to exceed what the pilot can manually override.

Now, exactly what items on this list are the responsibility of non-union labor in a South Carolina assembly plant, or whatever other mistuned horn you're tooting? Once again, in the absence of gross engineering malpractice, a broken AOA sensor is no big deal.
High salaries are justified by the absurd cost of medical school.
A solution would be to create new public medical schools where tiotion a fraction of the price.
Publicly trained doctors can work at cheaper public hospitals.

There is a lot of profit in medicine yet almost no competition
around prices.

The simplest fastest solution, for now, is to pass a law requiring transparent prices!
2FA only helps if it's a 2-way authentication mechanism like U2F.

TOPT codes are completely phish-able using ridiculously easy to setup kits out there like CredSniper[0]. Set up a MITM proxy authentication site, get the user to live authenticate through the proxy, steal the session cookie, game over.

Some of the feedback that has come out of internal campaigns has been things like "I thought the URL looked weird, but the email said it was a beta site, and I got the Duo push notification for the second factor so it seemed legitimate."

That's the real danger in 2FA mechanisms outside of U2F: people believe it protects against phishing, and it absolutely does not.

[0]https://github.com/ustayready/CredSniper
From the title, I assume that when NASA realised they couldn't meet the Apollo 15 launch schedule they simply farmed the problem off to the Postal Service, by covering the rocket with stamps?
> If Tether worked as it was advertised there would be no profit opportunity

Of cause there would. Even if the tokens are backed 1:1 by dollars it still has an exchange rate. So tether could issue at above 1 rates and buy at below 1 rates. That provides a very simple profit making scheme.

For users, they would often like to “cash out to tether” quickly, which means they’d undercut the exchange rate thus providing tether with a profit in exchange for swift processing.

> If we were in a fantasy land where Tether wasn’t fraudulent then the price variance of Tether on exchanges would be so minuscule that there would be no arbitrage opportunity for anyone to take advantage of.

I’m reminded of the joke where two wallstreet stock brokers are walking down the street, one says to the other “look a 50$ bill on the ground!” The other without looking down replies: “that’s impossible, if there was a 50$ bill on the ground someone would have picked it up.”
Tune in, turn on, drop the fuck out. Otherwise, find a way to stay in the world.
I'm against mass collection to narrow down on potential suspects and solve petty crimes, but if you're ready to ruin someone's life by accusing them of sexual assault or rape, you shouldn't be concerned with some data on your phone, actually, you should be happy the data is there to support your line of events. The fact that cases have been pushed through without such data is what concerns me. Not everyone is an expert communicator who can defend themselves (or avoid making mistakes) in an aggressive police questioning, the data is paramount to get to the truth. I had a friend who falsely accused someone and she was also very reluctant to hand over her phone to police because it would've proved she was out of town with me. Police dropped her case thankfully, so this isn't UK-specific, but I do wonder if the guy would've even got a fair chance given he had a criminal history.
> After the first time, I said never again. After the second time, I said I really need to come up with a system to avoid this

That's not how it works. You're meant to keep saying 'never again' and then go out the next week and repeat. It's the British way.