skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If this principle were true in general, it would imply that evolution didn't exist.

But it's not true in general, and I gave a specific context: millions of years of human ancestors using their hands to survive in a wide variety of environments and occasionally being born with extra fingers (~0.2% in modern humans, so probably a huge number of opportunities). We have five fingers, so it is unlikely that our six-fingered ancestors had a significant net advantage in general.

I remember reading an article about a present day man with 12 fingers and 12 toes who believes he has an advantage climbing coconut palms. If needs like that had been providing consistent evolutionary pressure on our ancestors, things might be different. Edit: here's a version of it: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-with-12-fingers-12-toes-cal...
Oh come on. Every developed nation concentrates their power generation. They don't all run into the same kinds of issues that Puerto Rico did after a natural disaster. What Puerto Rico went through was institutional failure.
I believe all biomedical research conducted at the NIH is subject to the Freedom of Information Act, so I'm not sure confidential is the best term here.
Yes, if there was any "theft" it was the original brain drain, now what is the result? A great epidemiologist moved to China...
>I agree, nobody in their right mind would audit every such expense.

I'll bite. Our money counters aren't in their right minds, because I submitted a small breakfast tab (at most $10) from work travel for reimbursement, only to learn it was unacceptable to not include a receipt. My other meals had receipts, but I had forgotten to ask for one this time. The accountant then said I had to call the cafe for a receipt. Luckily, the place had a website with contact info, and there was a helpful employee who emailed me the receipt.

But I spent at least an hour talking with the accountant and getting the receipt. The accountant spent probably 30 minutes with this problem. It was a net loss.

Obviously, I work in the government.
That is the problem that devs are nice people who are doing it for free on weekends. This should end, and pointy haired bosses should deal with fallout at best from their own pockets.
For a specific definition of "handled".
Not for lack of trying.

https://youtu.be/kR5gefU87TY
Nice. It's always nice to see grass roots use cases for Cloud.
Didn’t realize the TLD for Iceland is .is
I have suspected for a long time that something like this would happen.

People in other countries would be hungrier for success than Americans, their kids would study harder in school, workers would be more motivated.

In the end, we in the US are struggling to hang on to our “exceptionalism” anyway we can. In my opinion it is too late to fix things because there are too many power and moneyed interests who want to ride our system down into the ground while in the short term maximizing their own benefits. Oh well, so it goes.
You know I bet there's a market for this --- because when you say "Submit VAR returns and pay government tax - takes 1/2 hour" I can tell you it doesn't take half an hour if you have no idea how to do it.

But if you made a video tutorial of each step and sold it as a pack, I'd buy it from you. I'd easily pay £100 GBP for that, and I bet others would too ...
Dismantling the poachers?
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I love seeing posts about level design show up here! I did a talk at GDC a few years ago about puzzle game level design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSUu_36SmlQ
This was about asking them to review the product. I was left smh after contacting a few of them.

I spent a bit of time ranking sites for Google. The training and process provided didn't allow much time to rank a site, so I get why those sites might have a high ranking.

After I'd talked to a few sales reps for those sites I went back and spent a bit more time with them and as I recall they all stated that the "rankings" were advertisements. It wasn't really "buried", but wasn't highlighted either.

FWIW, it was a invoicing app I was looking to have reviewed.
> But you can't actually drive either to its limit for more than a couple minutes? Lame.

Notice all of Tesla's marketing is about acceleration, not lap times. They beat any other car hands down on the drag strip. But cornering is just not their forte (too heavy) and driving fast for a long time is hard (too much power draw).
Found more surprising is that "A month after resigning, she left her husband and two kids in the U.S. and took a job as dean of a school of public health in Shanghai."
Why would one do that?
Between malicious or infected hosts inside the network (your own or guests') and the widespread prevalence of hacked routers you really shouldn't trust incoming traffic on the mere basis that it appears to originate from the local network. It's better to treat the intranet as nothing more than a more performant subset within the broader Internet, and all network services as Internet-facing services. Trust no one without authentication.

Assuming you're stuck with some insecure legacy protocol which relies on such rules, however, it's still quite simple to restrict incoming connections to a specific subnet on the host itself, either with local firewall rules or a few lines of code in the application. In a network with UPnP the host is the authority on which connections should be allowed, whether we're talking about Internet services or intranet-only ones, and the host can block incoming connections at least as well as the router. In the absence of NAT there is no need for the router to get involved.
Building a non-profit gambling site
That's not the problem that blockchain is designed to solve. It is, however, the problem that purveyors of centralized blockchains would like you think it solves.

The problem that blockchains solve is centralization. In other words - google cloud computing.

To revisit your example: let's say you are ordering 5 widgets.

* A lookup on the Widget Market Blockchain tells you that vendor X has completed a large number of 5-star transactions, with a verified number of clients that have all sufficient 5 star transactions with the rest of the network to be considered genuine accounts, while vendor Y has a history of shipments that are reported as not arriving. You can examine each transaction, though automated verification tools are already in place to make cheating unprofitable. You can examine the code of those tools, along with the blockchain contracts themselves, should you so choose.

Or:

* Amazon's Widget product page shows the Amazon Choice item (neither the cheapest, nor most appropriate product), followed by a list of sponsored products. Many of the reviews are clearly fake, or appear to refer to a different product, with no way to verify that an actual transaction between genuine widget trading parties took place.
Leno steam car video was thrilling. Even with the early century crippled controls it was tempting.
Assuming you're talking about a US state, I don't think a may-issue license to own a firearm that uses a magazine and keep it at home passes the test established by DC v. Heller and applied to the states by McDonald v. Chicago. Requiring a license is permissible under that standard, but it must be shall-issue.
Hi,
I am about to launch a new Texas Holdem site and need specific beta testers. I am the sole owner and want Safeclub to remain a non-profit.

Therefore, any profits that are made will go to improving life and health through: donations, direct family funding, and medical research & development. I will start by helping disabled USA Veterans.

With that mission in mind, I am looking for similar people who are willing to invest their time for a good cause. You will be using imperfect, buggy software, with a flow that may not be intuitive. You need to provide brutally honest, but helpful critiques that will make this a fun platform for everyone to use.

Additionally, besides contributing to a good cause, you might get extra game points, higher status, or bonus perks.

The most important qualification is you need to have experience with online Texas Holdem. If you hate my game, please tell me why you left. If there are vulnerabilities, please share how you uncovered them.

Please do NOT enter any of your banking info! Dummy bank account info is at the bottom of the screen when using the PLAID feature, so that you can fully test the game. It is in Sandbox mode, so DO NOT enter your personal bank login info.

You can login via FB or any other email address through the test button at the top of the site. (I will not sell or spam you either way)

Looking forward to your thoughts…

Cheers!

-M.B.
Perfectly preserved head of Ice Age wolf found in Siberia
Ok, that's pretty cool

Thank you for the insight!
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> Except the US is being the most overt
> a comprehensive media campaign verging on demonization.

I don't think either of these things are true. Firstly, the Japanese have been more "overt" than the US. So get over the fact you JUST NOTICED the media coverage, as if that has any bearing on the morality judgement you're trying to throw around. The media is picking up the latest scare story and running with it, because surprise China really is a bad actor in many sectors.
One of my favorite songs was produced with Fiverr:
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Google is ending the integration between Drive and Photos
I imagined the adult gorillas sitting around going "Kids these days, they're so tech-savvy."
No joke, my child loves Legos. We always grab 'em when they show up on freecycle or Facebook or where-ever.
>This is such a strange sentiment.

No it isn't. Quite common.

>Do you ever hear people talk about states this way. Is New York, West Virginia, or Washington ever "not responsible enough" to have control over their roads, electricity, or water supply?

Yes! All the time. For example, people complain all the time about the way California is run, or the way LA or SF is run.

>Can you elaborate on why you think the people of Puerto Rico are not to to be trusted taking care of their home?

He didn't say anything about the people of Puerto Rico - he was talking about the government and the power authority. No matter what happens, the people of Puerto Rico will continue to run their own affairs.
Yes, but little pieces end up inevitably lost. And for a company as big as Lego, it becomes a moral responsibility to look for solutions - even if each customer only loses one tiny block per year, that's millions of little indestructible plastic pieces. But it would be ideal if they would biodegrade in certain conditions like after 20 years under the sea.
Well, this one was street-legal
I have used fiver for finding developers to do small business Wordpress work, for telecom consultants, for windows server consultants, for an audio engineer to discuss soundproofing, for a tutor in a new programming language, and for a bit of graphic design.

There is no better market on the web for finding low cost talent if you ask me. I love this website.
A gorilla doesn't need a tool to kill a person - have you ever seen a gorilla?
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Agreements over an electronic messaging system are written agreements, and satisfy the statute of frauds, and are not automatically superseeded.

Even if you have a written contract that has boilerplate language saying all future modifications need to be in writing, courts have enforced verbal modifications. A contract can always be modified, what matters is if both parties agree.
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If you talk about joining the IS in the West using non-encrypted messaging services, you are more than likely to end up on a watchlist or receive a visit from law enforcement (depending on context and severity) as well. Expressing sentiments akin to Holocaust denial or any other mass tragedy also more than likely invites action from the platform you are on depending on their policy.

People are being persecuted by law enforcement because it is the very entity that mandated WeChat to do this in the first place. I don't see how placing the whole blame on WeChat itself is rational at all.
Why do you keep sidestepping logical arguments with irrelevant quotes? Correct programs don't contain UB (even the fast ones), so UB is not what makes C fast.

Not checking for UB (aka invalid configurations) at runtime is what makes C (and any other language) fast - or more precisely, it's what allows compilers to emit efficient code.

Some languages / compilers rule out UB statically through the type system or other means, but that comes with tradeoffs that might, or might not, be worth making in your domain.
And by the way, I can come up with a good number of (drastic, hypothetical) policy interventions that would break your inference about a market crash - an inference you only were able to make once you saw such a market crash at least once.

If this dependence is broken, your non-causal model will no longer work, because the relationship between yield curve and market crash is not a physical constant fact. What you did to make it a causal inference is implicitly assume a theory about how markets work (e.g. - as they do right now -) and that it will stay this way.
Actually, you did a lot more, but that's enough.

Now, you and me, we can both agree that your model with yield curves is good enough. We could even agree that you would have found it before the financial crashes, and are a billionaire.
But the commonality we agree upon is a context that defines a theory.

Some alien that has been analyzing financial systems all across the universe may disagree, saying that your statistical model is in fact highly sensitive to Earth's political, societal and natural context.

Such is the difficulty of causal analysis.
I know my doctor prefers the new-fangled “barely tested in rats and for the legal minimum in humans” interventions that a cutie with a BA just educated them on.
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Correlation vs. causation. Just because an inequality exists, doesn't mean it's caused by systemic oppression.
I am not here to take any position, I simply asked this because I suspect some country might have this trick in their playbook.

I am not suggesting that countries should do this but I am expressing that it might already be in someone's list of strategy to save their country from the deadly virus.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/bzuorb/cve2019915...
He is saying you can already do what you want to do. His plug-ins let you add custom styles. The place where the custom styles go is inside a text box that appears when you click on the plug-in's icon.

Just copy the style he provides above, paste it in the custom style field, and it will blur the "integer counts" just like you asked!
At the Dill restaurant they served it with a little home made mayo and what seemed like powdered, brown butter (made powdery with maltodextrin). It was incredible.
Whittling?
Sure there is, I have done quite a lot work in life sciences enterprises where VB.NET rules, not R nor Python as many HNers would like to talk about.

Heavy Office users that have outgrown VBA and turn to VB.NET to keep doing their little department apps for data analysis without additional help from IT other than getting Visual Studio on their systems.

Also VB.NET gets all the tooling that C++ and C# get, not like the black swan in .NET, F#.
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How can we talk about the probability of the data (D)?
We still don't know the full extent of the environmental impact of the Fukushima disaster. Can we afford more incidents of that nature? I'm not certain.
I get spam emails all the time with links to shady fiverr gigs. Usually goes something like:

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>Veterinarian Mike Cranfield, executive director of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, also said he wasn't shocked by the news.

>"Chimpanzees are always quoted as being the tool users, but I think, when the situation provides itself, gorillas are quite ingenious," he said.

>Cranfield speculated that the gorillas may have learned how to destroy traps by watching the Karisoke center's trackers.

Looks like they may have learned it from watching humans.
Technically we don't either. But we could still make poacher dismantling more efficient for them.
Lawyers prosecuting cases need proof.

The rest of us can, with some basic level of objectivity, just look at the preponderance of the evidence and come to a conclusion. I believe that any reasonable person that looks into the publicly available evidence would come to the same conclusion.

On the other hand, if you're one of the rubes that bought the Seth Rich story from Assange you can be 100% sure that you're terrible at objective analysis.
About 25 years ago I started making the snide comment that our leaders think they own all those factories in China making our stuff. Looks like recently they figured out that's not the case and are now panicking. Or more to the point China is starting to create it's own IP, patents, and trade secrets.
I agree and it’s actually the Universities who patent the work, not the NIH.. also it’s not like China would respect the intellectual property anyway... I mean that’s the other side of the argument. Maybe this is a scheme to get the China to start respecting IP.. unfortunately the side effect will be pushing research into China when their most talented won’t work in the USA.

It also is pretty clear in the article that the FBI doesn’t understand cancer research.
> China's system is so complicated and so far from a heavy-handed police state.

No. China is not free. I am sorry you are fed up. But I bet millions of victims of Chinese oppression are in much dire condition and wish they could be fed up and not dead or disappeared. Xi Jinping is a dope. The amount of articulation of control China has over the its citizens is chilling. Defending China, Fuck the Chinese govt.

I can say that and face zero repercussions, publically. You cannot say that in China and expect to be ok. I hope the Chinese people rise up one day and figure out a better form of governance for themselves.
The mood lighting is not the main problem, cutting back and forth between two completely different viewpoints (feet- and eye-level) is. Especially in a 360 video where you are trying to transport the feeling that the driver is basically sitting it truck, this seems very counter-productive to your point.
Its not about building a culture to grow stars but to grow a place stars want to be.

Its mostly money and clarity , no politics.

I look at valve and think thats a good place to be an engineer. But they dont let any one in. Stars arent born or created. They are willed by the individual.

You put george washington carver in a field of peanuts he becomes a chemist. You put 40% of college students in fundies 1 and they drop out by the third week.
None of which is relevant to the solution being implemented with "blockchain".

It's like blockchain enthusiasts are trying to convince everybody the world is simply chaos and nothing works when we've been handling trust and transactions for centuries now.
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I have strong doubts about both those claims. Depends on what you want your car for, of course, but how do batteries of the time stack up to ICE cars in terms of range and durability?

If memory serves, until very recently, most consumer rechargable batteries would basically stop holding charge after 2 or 3 years. Was that better for bigger batteries? I don't know ... but it would suck to have to buy a new car battery every 3 years since the lifespan of most [modern] cars is much longer than that.

As for racing being a harmful distraction: maybe. Depends on the type of racing. I like racing as a driver of what-can-this-technology-possibly-do. Bleeding edge engineering that trickles down to consumer devices. Racing is great for that.

As for the article's claim that electric cars even back then were better than ICE for city driving ... in the city nothing beats a bicycle, a brisk walk, or public transit. Cars were never a good fit for cities.
That's interesting, because I know that Lime's scooters have their front wheel locked when not in ride-mode. (though thieves can basically just lift up the front wheel and push it away on the back one) I had no idea kids were just pushing away Bird scooters! I guess it makes sense the Bird scooters don't lock because the Xiaomi scooters they use are cheaper than comparable ones made by Segway, which is what Lime uses. Bird probably just decided it wasn't worth deterring thieves, at least initially.

I don't have much sympathy for these scooter companies, though, since their MO is to illegally dump scooters in cities and beg for forgiveness later.

I've found no information at all on how the wrecked scooters get recycled. You can't necessarily just repair scooters infinitely, and I imagine a lot of them just go into a dumpster because it's cheaper just to buy more scooters from Xiaomi.
The other day I saw a truck carrying a blade of a wind turbine. It was gigantic, looked around half the length of a city block. Driving with one of those must be nearly impossible, I can't imagine how you would make a turn
>if you want to help less people but add more features, you should charge money

I would add one more thing. It would help less people in short-term, but in long-term, it might actually end up helping more people, as those features have the potential to attract way more people than you would have gotten without those features but for free.
It's perhaps a more limiting factor now than then.

As the article notes most EVs at the turn of the century had a range of 40-70 miles. The model T of around 1910, ten years later, had a range of about 90. Earlier ICE cars were down nearer EVs.

A century ago battery and ICE technology were not that far apart. i.e. both fairly primitive. If electrics had been chosen and had 100 years of continual minor incremental improvements...
>Unfortunately, this is false. The FDA will still intervene in situations where it doesn't like what you're doing even if you don't advertise your work as a drug, medical procedure, or as having any particular efficacy.

This is completely false. Proof: homeopathy and chiropractic are very popular and still on the market.
Yes, since two years now.
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And how exactly does that misdemeanor warrant extradition to the US?
”Apple has proven it can do emulation very successfully - it's already done it twice (M68K->PPC->x86)”

In both cases, from a situation where the platform being emulated was seriously behind, performance-wise.

I don’t think they can maneuver themselves in that position for a x86 ⇒ ARM migration (not even given that they can tweak their ARM variant)

Luckily, I don’t think they would need emulation. Many of their customers don’t run anything else than Apple’s software or popular open source apps that would be migrated within a few days on their Macs.

The others will have to wait until the likes of Adobe have ported their software.
It is, most of the new software I get is via the store.
... What are you basing that on? In Canada at least that would absolutely be a contract.
We must be very careful not to confuse "common sense" or "obvious" or "that's what it intuitively means to me" with "law". Lots of people do that and lots of them pay the price :-(