skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans are bad at figuring out the popularity of hats [0].

Couple this with the nasty trick of manufacturing the popularity of certain opinions [1] and I wager that it is pretty trivial to get most people to believe in anything and especially easy to make people think fringe opinions are actually widespread and commonplace. Coupled with the emotive fallacious reasoning of "If everyone believes/says it then it must be true" and you can make reality, at least how people see it, however you like.

I am 100% convinced that this has been abused to boost the bottom line of certain media companies because outrage gets clicks and figuring out how to induce outrage means you can farm clicks by outraging people who you've conditioned to become outraged. Increasingly often media-manufactured lynchmobs are formed over topics where you can tell by talking to the outraged people that most of them are misinformed about whatever it is they are all worked up over.

It's like the world's largest (and worst) game of Telephone.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonkblog/ma...

[1] Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2159/
One note, this type of data isn't traditionally considered "sequencing" data, as it's a much simpler form of point measurements. Yes, you get the base call at a place of common variation, but "sequencing" is generally reserved for those cases where one gets extended sequences of bases, rather that just data from here and there.
It does, for the untreatable mental illness situation, it's called Conservatorship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatorship
> Ellen Tara James-Penney, a 54-year-old lecturer at San Jose State University, parks her old Volvo at one of those safe-haven churches, Grace Baptist Church, and eats in its dining hall. She is paid $28,000 a year to teach four English classes and is carrying $143,000 in student debt after earning two degrees.

Can't imagine having a lecturer that sleeps in their car. A sorry state of affairs.
"...though CBP said its own systems had not been compromised."

That's one way of looking at it.
I would take a look at your employment agreement first. You might not have much of a choice but to talk to them for a number of reasons - IP assignment issues, conflict of interest policies, etc...This is the kind of thing where you want to tread carefully.
You most certainly can!

Microg is a (very welcome!) band-aid for the fact that the android ecosystem is critically dependent on a proprietary piece of software called play services.

PMO is a different, libre, OS and ecosystem that doesn't have that problem to begin with since it is truly a Linux (as opposed to AOSP) and truly free (as opposed to android's "can read most code but Google holds all the cards")
But this company would disrupt! Things like zoning laws aren’t cool, so we’ll move fast and break them!
Well, if you never put any transactions on the card, it's liable to get closed by the bank without notice - I had that happen with my oldest credit card after a few years of not using it, which hurt my credit score because you want your credit lines to be as old as possible.
This has to be the moment capitalism finally jumped the shark:

1. You give a business some of your money.

2. Business gives you some of it back.

3. Business charges you insanely high interest on the amount they gave you back, until you return your money back to them.

4. Profit. So much profit.
There is a podcast for the interview Guy Raz did for “How I built this” with Miguel McKelvey https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-... . Thought it was a pretty good startup story
Waze also seems to shape traffic as well.

There are also other times it seems to try to purposefully send me down the worse route. My assumption is that it's to get an analytic of the worse route.
How depressing.
The great advantage of these tracers is that they target actual structures over-expressed in cancers, which means they show far higher specificity than something like FDG. That means they can be used to find micrometastases, and with a different radio-label also be applied for highly targeted radiation therapy.

Source: I used to work in the Heidelberg lab that published this study.
Makes sense.

Somewhat related, I'm guessing from this that card usage limits are not common in US? Here almost(?) all debit/credit cards have daily limits that you can change via web/app/call, so there can be no arbitrarily sized holds.
Wow, that is a lot more than I expected!
goeval 'fmt.Println("Hello, World!")'
care to share how you come to that conclusion?
Erdos Renyi random graphs might be a good place to start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93R%C3%A9nyi_...

If you want to start from a real-world dataset, take a look at Stanford's SNAP large network dataset collection.

https://snap.stanford.edu/data/
As Uber and AirBnB have demonstrated, caring about laws is so last millennium. As long as you get big enough, fast enough, the cities will probably bend and change things to accommodate you.
They probably are doing some sort of critical service that can't be immediately stopped. That doesn't mean they will get contracts in the future or won't get legal action taken, but it takes time to review all that with the DOJ and decide how to proceed.
The main rumor these days (well, it's been a rumor for quite a few years) is that they'll be dropping Intel and switching to house-designed ARM chips across the board.
Have you read Philip Bobbitt? esp. "The Shield of Achilles"

His theme is something like this, but stressing the coupling between technology (what weapons, and economies, are possible) and law (what states, and what goals, are thought legitimate) and wars.

The 20th-C meat-grinder armies were unique, in that they were both possible to sustain, and useful. And in turn the countries which survived were ones that could support them (i.e. not the Ottomans, the Austrians, etc) for which he reserves the term nation-state -- they had, and needed, a much higher degree of cohesion than had been common before.

He lays out a number of distinct eras before this, with their own notions of what states were, and should do, and could do, and how this all interacted.

Highly recommended if you can stomach 1000-page tomes & skip a lot. I wish there was a great more-popular presentation but I don't know of one.
Unpopular opinion: Bashing google is the new cool and easy way to victimization.
with a sufficiently creative definition of unit economics aka "community-adjusted EBITDA", sure. In the actual world, not so much.
Does the bank pay interest on the collateral? I'm assuming not
Also "swing for low-hanging fruit, like vague I-told-you-so warnings whenever a security breach is disclosed".
In a nutshell, Elizabeth Hansen's Harvard research group got it right...

"Internet platform economics were going to swamp the majority of publishers no matter what—there is (almost) no market for their products any more; not because they couldn’t make one, but because that’s not how internet economics work."

https://twitter.com/ehansen02/status/1138077051934707714
> I've heard that Thoma Bravo specializes on re-selling assets.

This is true, because Thoma is a PE firm and is literally in the business of acquiring and selling companies.
The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells
There’s certainly a kernel of truth to what you’re saying, but as you point out, this situation adds lying, malfeasance, and dereliction of duty to the mix.
I appreciate the honest and personal answer. What I meant was... considering you had access to a programming language (albeit very limited) in your TI but you didn't use it, why do you think it could have been different with python?
> It supports the Google Pixel range of phones only so far.

See https://grapheneos.org/#early-stage-of-development and https://grapheneos.org/#device-support. There's barely any content on the site, since it's so new, but this is covered pretty well. It does support other devices already. There's a difference between that and deciding to do all the work to provide official releases with seamless over-the-air updates covering all firmware, etc. along with porting all device-specific hardening work.

> So in order to get that is more secure and more independent from Google I have to buy a Google phone?

The goal is primarily implementing privacy and security improvements. It doesn't include Google services for privacy reasons, but that's not the purpose of the project. A project aiming to project AOSP with the baseline privacy/security intact and work to fill in gaps left by not having Play Services would be useful, but that's a tiny subset of what GrapheneOS is about. It's primarily about the privacy/security research and development work.

You can see that the GrapheneOS Auditor project supports a large range of devices already:

https://attestation.app/about#device-support

That's because it's quite easy to add support for each device one-by-one once users submit attestation samples with the app. The main list is for devices with the stock OS. It also supports CalyxOS and GrapheneOS on all their supported devices and will happily include other operating systems with verified boot and the security model intact. There are now a bunch of devices supporting verified boot with alternate operating systems.
Nasa's Long-Term Climate Predictions Have Proven Accurate (1/20th a Degree)
Some of the most successful cults did effectively operate as "startups" bootstrapped by a counterpart religious service community, i.e. the Oneida Community and the Amana Colonies
Thank you for your work on Signal. Despite my griping, Signal is still my primary messaging app and I love it.

>there are times we are delivered an FCM message but network access will be invisibly restricted, further delaying our ability to retrieve the actual message content

This is new... If this is happening regularly, maybe you should display a generic "message available" notification? I assume actually opening the app un-restricts network access and everything works fine from there -- it'd be nice to know I have a message waiting in limbo.
I'm always left wondering what every person regardless of socio-economic standing can do to contribute.
"Political memes" is the new "political cartoon".

And now anyone can be a cartoonist.
Images of Travelers Stolen in Cyberattack on Border Agency
In defense, you have lower pay, but also better job security and less age discrimination. You'll never have to brush up on how to reverse a linked list. It's also a very 9 to 5 job, there's no oncall for systems that are largely offline, and rarely is there Agile. You put in your hours and clock out for the day.
See https://grapheneos.org/#device-support. The goal of the project is not to bring security to people's existing devices. It will have official releases with all the device-specific hardening for non-Pixel phones, but they'll be devices with solid security. They probably won't be quite on the same level as Pixels, but they'll still be ones with proper security support, verified boot support for alternate operating systems, etc.
> No one has a strong opinion about VR platforms, or quantum computing, or drones

Have you seen any (online or offline) discussion about those? Of course people have strong opinions on them.
When there was a shooting nearby and I was worried about my friend not responding to my message who lived on the same corner I was very disappointed that FB live map had been removed. Now FB has done more to only let me find products and public figures in search results.
> Comparing advertising and marketing to the ownership of human beings?

That's not exactly what happened here.

OP repeated the beginning of a truism: "ads fund the development of the web while at the same time causing a whole host of severe problems for its users (individually and as a whole)."

OP left a hole where the italized part of the truism should be.

OP asked HN to fill that hole.

On a side devoted to tech/software, it's either low effort or bad-faith to ask others to fill a hole in such a well-known truism.

In light of this I offer up a countervailing law, "Loki's Law:"

"If you leave a Hitler-sized hole in your argument, expect it to be filled accordingly."
What is the "SJW" position on Google?
At a minimum, if something is secure by design, there's way less to worry about.
Night owls can 'retrain' body clocks to improve mental well-being, performance
> rent an apartment we may be _required_ to have a credit score. Even if we offer to pay the full term's rent up front.

Well to be fair, offering the full term rent up front to avoid a credit check seems sketchy as hell. Did you still let him do a credit check? He could have use this to verify your identity. I know a virtual bank in Canada that use them for that (if you refuse, they simply ask you to go do an identity check in a Canada Post).
Perhaps.

To me though, if you go with that interpretation, the cartoon isn't anti Jewish (/Israel), its anti Trump, and a skull cap isn't inherently insulting, unless it's insulting to Jews that Trump is Jewish?
I'm not sure I see how Norway converting to EVs increases fossil-fuel use elsewhere in the world.

If anything, increased EV sales will help in tipping the trend against fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and have a positive impact everywhere.

Even if you consider oil money to be morally questionable, it can be employed as a soft power in a positive way.
Lindy effect. If it has survived that long it probably will survive in future too. Unless the quality of individuals working in non-tech goes significantly up in tech savvyness I find it hard that it will change.
It certainly can be used as you described, but it doesn't have to be. I sort of loosely define an SJW as someone who 1) believes that the law should be wielded to enforce their version of morality, 2) that the correctness of their morality justifies pretty much any means of attaining it, and 3) that doing anything to further their goal is always preferable to doing nothing to further their goal, even if a specific thing is likely to have adverse consequences.

That's a pretty broad definition that almost includes religious people on the right wing of the spectrum, and that's pretty much what I would say is the only difference between a Social Justice Warrior and a Religious Justice Warrior--the source of where they validate their brand of morality. Other than that, they are approximately identical in both their methods and the extent to which they are damaging to liberal democracy.

I recognize that this is probably not a very common definition, and your point about SJW being a meaningless insult is likely the correct one.
Well, there is the Uriah’s Heating and Cooling case in Ohio last year.

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20180729/theodore-decker-colum...
Not parent, but I can share my own experiences as to why you might not want to share business logic.

The short answer is you couple your microservices together and bring yourself one step closer to a distributed monolith with all its attendant pros and cons.

This is especially so if you're in an OO world where data and logic are coupled together so that sharing business libraries often entails sharing business data models.

This is also aggravated by the fact that the nature of business logic makes backwards-compatibility difficult to achieve (behavior often changes even if the programming API remains the same). This means changes to business logic libraries often require all downstream users to upgrade immediately or risk inconsistency (which negates the purpose of using a single library in the first place).

Shared libraries when using microservices really only work well if it's reasonable to have multiple versions of that library running across different services. In other words, to some degree the sharing is only coincidental in nature.

The conventional wisdom around microservices as far as I'm aware is to try to segregate services by business function (rather than e.g. segments of your domain model) to minimize sharing of business logic. Extensive sharing of business logic is a good indication your services are not split across proper lines.

Of course getting these divisions down is really hard and therein lies the heart of why getting microservices right is hard.
Amazon also uses WeWork in a few locations, including Seattle. I would imagine since they're renting out multiple floors, they're getting a better than market price.
Definitely a one-sided title designed to get clicks and drive outrage, but we are talking about buzzfeed news here.

Dismissing a valid (albeit sensationalized) point by saying "probably an article by some lobbyists" doesn't help. It just indicates you have your own agenda and are not willing to take an objective view.
No, it’s about splitting up web apps based on uris and loading different ui’s for different uri. Thus page refreshes.
I can take a few days off for no reason. Most people cannot. 40% of American households cannot afford a $400 expense. That means they're at the whim of their employer as to whether they ever get a break and if they do they're going to take the overtime instead. Most people aren't simply chasing the money either, they're just trying to live.

Leisure is a commodity that is out of the reach of many people now. It is no longer a part of life. This will not change through individual choice, it requires a coordinated reorganization of our society.

Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/othe...
>I am struggling to see the threat model being faced here.

We don't really know the full details of the breach, but if the facial recognition database contained names in a column associated with pictures, that data can absolutely be leveraged and cross-referenced against other "fullz" for fraud that even passes a lot of online verification procedures.
You are 4-6 years out of date.

1989/1991 to 9/11/01 was genuine aimlessness and downsizing, missing the boat on a bunch of important developments, etc.

9/11 to Iraq War was massive IC expansion and trying to assign "counter terrorism" to any budget line item.

Iraq from ~April 2004 to ~2011 was the massive retasking toward occupation and LIC. That sort of continued until 2014 in Afghanistan as well. This was also when CIA went from an intelligence agency to a global strike agency, and when JSOC became the second most powerful military in the world (after the US-except-JSOC).

2013/2014 was when they realized that they'd basically cannibalized/neglected the entire conventional military and couldn't fight real wars anymore and then did the "pivot to Asia" under Obama, which has continued under Trump. There are still some serious problems (like Pacific Fleet being...substandard, despite being critical).

They're now basically not planning to occupy anyone ever again, given how badly Iraq/Afghanistan have gone (and would love to get out of Afghanistan to the degree possible); the purpose of the military is now fighting near-peer adversaries (China, to some extent Russia) while continuing to make contractors rich and get congressmen re-elected.
The NYT recently hired someone to their editorial board who appears to be a brazen and open racist.

I don't mean some kind of innuendo racist, but someone with multiple tweets like this:

"Are <ethnic group> genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?"

The NYT excused this this as her way of "imitating the rhetoric" of those who were harassing her online.

I'm inclined to side with them because I think everyone ought to have the opportunity to address any of their past statements publicly before being condemned by "the paper of record".

However:

Anyone that's been paying attention to the news media knows that there is no way they would offer this opportunity or indulge this kind of a charitable interpretation. This article is likely proof of that, given that so many have not been offered the opportunity to comment on the way they/their videos have been represented.
This has come up a number of times and I semi-agree with you. It's definitely true that C-level positions do take a special kind of problem solving to navigate with a high emphasis on time management skills that other people (even upper management) can usually delegate up... That said, the only thing restricting new entrants into that market is the resistance of that market. The skills it takes to be a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company are certainly beyond me currently, but it's a skill I could train up to if I tried - especially if I had chosen to do so earlier in life. And these positions do come with a high amount of responsibility, buuut... they don't produce value for the company at all in line with their salaries and they're certainly not irreplaceable.

I don't hate management, I've worked for some great middle managers that have made my life easy - and for some terrible ones that constantly over-promised and pushed the weight down on us in the trenches. For upper management I've worked for three main veins of persons, the ones that micromanage and attempt to constantly invest themselves in every problem - leading to an inability to make good high level decisions... the sort that are removed from business by such an extent that they are unable to reason about direction decisions and fail to support a company's natural growth.. and those that are approachable but limited, who will voluntarily back out of any low level decision discussion but coordinate what decisions are being discussed and what those decisions mean for other portions of the company.

So mainly I'm rejecting your assumption that the pool is limited to begin with - people do come from famous families and waltz into the field with no prior experience, and those who try to work their way up tend to be stifled due to their lack of experience.
Ottawa announces plans to ban single-use plastics in 2021 at the earliest
WHo would you rather give a $250k loan to?

a) Person who makes $100k salary and never had a loan taken out in their name.

b) Person who makes $100k and has 10 year history of paying off over $50k in accumulated loans.
Also LtU has this at the moment which is supposed to be a very approachable introduction to applied category theory:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5571
Interesting.

My own mental model (sigh...) is that these are all roughly related to (if not literal types of) the crossover/cross-polination (sigh...) that manifests in synesthesia.

I think synesthesia is definitionally involuntary, but your statement did make me go search "voluntary synesthesia", though I'm not done reading results yet.

I would guess it's a lot harder to identify people who can electively conjure anything akin to what synesthetes experience. It probably feels less distressing or noteworthy, happens less often, and would be a lot harder to study...
The only way to prevent hackers from getting access to databases that contain our names, picture, and license plate number - is to never create such a database.
WeWork, of all of the overvalued unicorns that exist today, will likely be hit the hardest during a recession.

Just watch.
Does he have a way to pay for the Google advertising such that he has more control of the content?
The next Silicon Valley is already online
> You're not really getting a rebate, the extremely high merchant fees in the US are paid by the customers.

I don't know if it's the same in the US, but in Canada, the price can't be affected by the way you pay for it. That push some places to refuse cards.

That means that customers who doesn't use credit cards, pay for my rewards too.