skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting into Science is about their editorial board’s wacky definition of notability. It has little to do with quality or even impact.
Social science often isn't science at all. It's often really bad.

Social experiments by their very nature tend to pollute the data. This is part of why I don't believe UBI would actually work: Historical real world examples of the idea consistently fail. I think the UBI experiments are all nonsense.
Also Chromium is open source.
Very nice catch -- I checked and they do use media queries during print-to-pdf.

Saving the webpage itself works fine though -- which again, is a browser feature your secretary probably knows about and is comfortable using.

I guess my objection to the idea that this is just removing deniability is that it really doesn't feel to me like it's being marketed that way. I wouldn't call a service like this "confidential mode", I would call it something like "auto-delete mode". Maybe I'm just arguing over semantics though.
You could at least use Chromium instead of Chrome.
The US was emphatically not willing to kill everyone in North Vietnam. Not even close.
I remember reading Evernote had a simple MySQL DB for every account, kind of a similar approach.
The examples like zippers and pianos are rather different from the social/political examples that are his real target.

The difference is that the complexity of a piano is an inevitable feature of it (at least until someone invents a simpler version). But it is far from obvious that the complexity of the tax code, or the EU, or how schools are funded is functional.

These political systems may be complex precisely in order to confuse the voters, in which case it is quite rational for the voters to try to push for simplicity - for example, avoiding the complexity of the EU by simply leaving it.
Can't talk about ethics, but I'd imagine a group of lawyers have put some thought into the legal aspects of their company.
From the link someone else already provided:

Most polar deserts are covered in ice sheets, ice fields, or ice caps.

(I'm getting a chuckle out of the multiple layers of pedantry here.)
I have the same problem with Firefox on Ubuntu.

First page load takes 10-30 seconds, and after that Firefox is fast and snappy.

However, my computer at work doesn't have this problem (and runs the same version of Ubuntu, i.e. 18.04.1)

Perhaps I should investigate this better, for instance by looking at system load, memory, and perhaps by monitoring system calls using strace.
Yes, it was; I wrote imprecisely, I'm referring to the perception of systems like Typescript being clunky for prototyping.
If I use Chromium, how would I get security updates in time?

If there is no good answer to that, then how would I get warned of a vulnerability so that I can switch temporarily to Chrome till the vulnerability is fixed in Chromium?
New from (2014)
So you agree there is a correlation and yet you somehow disagree with me. Let's agree to disagree
> But I would instead say “Cliff Stoll is a national treasure”.

Indeed. The man has more than earned a few eccentricities.
Are you suggesting the Chinese market is more competitive due to the government being big enough that companies in the market have to exist in an impartial regime? This isn't the impression I get from many other sources.
How many more users/how much more traffic does Slack have than Discord...?
Cloudflare wants to protect the internet from quantum computing
"Under The Dome" probably
best just think in terms of Bayesian update.
Dry cold air gets in during the winter, it expands and the RH goes down, warm humid air escapes, more dry cold air gets in, creating an extremely dry environment. Still you can get mold because of condensation when warm air meets cold rooftop.
<Researchers say the finding has several important consequences, and in particular, it goes to show that protons are stable against decaying into other elementary particles. And that magnetic monopoles exist.>
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Sorry but this misconception needs to die. You can still boot linux perfectly fine on a Mac with a T2. All that's needed is a setting change.
that's an insane comparison, by that sick "reasoning" drunk drivers and drunk rapist have just committed accidents.
Americans Have Always Worked Hard to Ignore Vacation
> We should continue to have frank discussions about what we’ve learned over the course of the replication crisis and what we could be doing about it (a conversation that is currently happening on Twitter).

What's this twitter conversation they reference?
> Why would it be insane to publish refutations?

It's not at all insane to publish refutations. A really good refutation of a long-accepted result is great science, and this kind of thing makes news and runs in major journals all the time.

It's insane to demand that Science publish a refutation of anything they happened to run in the past just because your results (or, let's be honest here, your personal politics) disagree. Most refutations, too, are bad science!
Accommodating pointless diversity of NDAs is enabling dysfunction. Have a look at https://waypointnda.com/.
This is just a legal maneuver that can at first seem confusing. After taking office the Attorney General's staff found a room full of Flint documents. The previous team had missed them because they weren't filed where they were supposed to be. According to a buddy in state government they very cleverly were hidden in plain site.

Later the AG made a big press release on how they had 'seized' the former Governor's phone and laptop. But it turns out they were in the room with the missing documents as he'd turned them over as is practice on his last day in office. Stay tuned, it's likely a few people will be going to jail.
Setting cookies is now Surveillance? Hyperbole seems to have become norm in "journalism" these days.
One of the great ironies of the modern tech world is that people who hate Google on tribal^H^H^H privacy grounds generally don't care at all about open source purity.
I applaud authors for doing a laborious attempt at replication. But, this comes across as sour grapes. They dont make a convincing case for imposing an obligation on Science to peer review their paper.
oh, the irony. clickbait w/ the reward being ad revenue.
What Facebook’s new currency means for the banking system
Arguably but arguably so is the business model of Chrome from a user perspective. So from that POV it’s not worse than Chrome but does benefit the user, whereas Chrome benefits Google, ad industry and sellers.
Hey we have that in the states!
Funnily enough I've been involved in this argument a number of times on this forum. Front Running is not illegal, order flow can be purchased, and even institutional investors are unable to buy portions of millions of stock in one go. You can theoretically front-run part of that order if your algorithms analysing orders think that a big order is following current ones. People will argue front running is illegal because the first few results on google have misconstrued the idea with insider trading but if you dive into some financial books you'll find as a concept it's legal, but there are illegal ways of doing it.

edit: found the article quoted last time I discussed this.

https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2013/04/24/what-to-d...

Larry Harris, Professor of Finance as USC;LA says

"A few high-frequency traders front-run buy-side traders who are working orders, thereby making the latter’s trades more expensive. Such activities are legal if the high-frequency traders do not improperly obtain information about the orders they front-run."
If you are wondering (like I was) what exactly are the claims against Chrome that the article makes (instead of having just a flashy title):

- Chrome doesn't, by default, block cookie based tracking, nowhere near as much as default Firefox install it seems

- Chrome auto-logs you in the "Chrome Sign in" feature when you happen to login on Gmail. Really? I don't seem to be logged in in my Chrome but then again, I always use incognito mode

- mobile Chrome sends your location on every search and if you disable location sharing sends less accurate positioning information. I'd like to get a confirmation of this is true since if I disable location on my phone then no app can get it, Chrome or otherwise, I think. Also again this needs to be tested in incognito mode. And when the article says it still sends data but "less accurate", is that more accurate than your IP address allows to find your location? Because your IP address is always sent, inherently, in a web request so if it's not more accurate than the IP address then it doesn't really matter

In general I find this whole new awareness to privacy in browsers to be both welcome and frustrating. It is welcome because I'm happy people are finally waking up to it. It is frustrating because I've been using "private" mode browsing (with extensions and whatever was available, even had extension to remove the special Flash cookies) for the past 15+ years, never performed any Google or Youtube search while logged in, never logged in to more than 2 sites at once in the same browser session, using Tor for almost all browsing and I've been laughed at for doing so. Glad to see I wasn't totally crazy then, although a bit too late for that.
Web Scraping Using Beautiful Soup
I checked, you can go to the menu at the top of your browser, and hit File->Save Page As. It took me about 15 seconds. You can also save the page as HTML only, which both prevents any weird clientside tricks that Google might like to try in the future and makes the file more portable.

Assuming you don't want to save the HTML page, you still might not even need to download a separate program to screenshot it. New installs of Firefox just have a button on the toolbar labeled, "Take a Screenshot". It'll grab the entire page without forcing you to do any scrolling, and doesn't require you to know anything about HTML. I tested, and it bypasses all of the security features on confidential emails.

People are arguing that this is designed to prevent accidental sharing, which is a really good point that I think I agree with overall. However, HN is a tech site and I'm seeing comments that say the only way you could beat this is to dig into your developer tools.

If a nontrivial portion of HN users think this service is more secure than it actually is, how much more uninformed are ordinary users? Saving a web page is not going to be a difficult problem for most people in your office to solve. So my objection here would be, Google isn't doing a good enough job of informing even tech-literate people of just how easy this is to circumvent.

A CEO is going to look at this and think, "well, I guess they're doing voodoo magic so most people in my office won't be able to share." The reality is, pretty much anyone in your office who wants to be able to beat this will be able to figure out how to do so.
I had the impression that pushers were typically less efficient than pullers.

A puller takes advantage of the volume behind the prop taken up by the body of the aircraft to offset the loss of air volume caused by accelerating the air (Bernoulli's theorem). A pusher can't do that.
The one option obviously missing is the "Production" build, which ships the 2.x API without any of the fancy new stuff that people don't want.
I can identify with the feeling. Thinking back on the period of my late teens and early 20s, I had a lot of strong opinions on things. And I'd read about them. I could call upon information on those topics. I could cite the source where I read it.

In my mid-30s, I'm much less confident about just about everything. I still have some medium to strong opinions, but I've been wrong enough times about things I was sure about that it's just hard to hold such strong views on things having only read it in a book or two.

There are a couple of differences between your experience and mine though, I think. The first is that I'm about to finish my PhD and have a great deal more expertise than I did in my early 20s. So as my expertise has grown, my certainty in many things, especially those outside my field has diminished. This is largely because I realize just how much more depth most fields of knowledge have and just how much is required to really hold an informed opinion.

I also deal with a fair number of young people, college students in my department and in other contexts. I recognize some of the same certainty and optimism I used to have at their age, and I hear some of the same opinions I used to hold on such things as vegetarianism, government systems, and economic policy. I remember having those beliefs, and talking to these young adults, it's striking just how little evidence their certainty rests on. It's worse inside my field, where students come in with their "great idea" having done no research and spent all of about 5 minutes really thinking through the ramifications of their idea, but that same certainty and optimism is there.

I often wish I was as idealistic and energetic as I was 15 years ago. But I wouldn't trade it for the naive surface-level thinking that went along with it. I like seeing the depth in the world too much, even when it shows just how shallow my thinking is in most areas, and even if it means that in most areas of life I'm forced to constantly face my uncertainty and lack of expertise.

Anyway, I hope that was at least a little bit helpful.
Used to be written in php right?
Open source or not, chromium is still fundamentally chrome and backed by Google, is it not? It can be used vanilla or built on top of (e.g., chromium and brave), but where Google goes so goes chromium. This is as much a privacy concern as it is a browser mono-culture concern, which has been a popular topic lately.

Further, just because something is open-source doesn't automatically free it of corporate encumbrance - something Google knows quite well [0][1].

[0] https://boingboing.net/2019/05/29/hoarding-software-freedom....
[1]https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/i-hate-being-right-2.html
The easy way is to make people who rent their houses out pay a business tax as if they were a retail store that the tenant is legislatively forbidden from being forced to pay as a line item. Being embedded in the rent it will acts to discourage the 'home as a rentable investment' to buyers because it will act like friction on a rotating wheel, removing momentum and things coast to a stop.
People who buy a house and live in it will not pay the tax. Those that rent part of their home as a BNB are hit by the full tax for each month of the year they rent out space, even if only 1 day = they pay a month's tax.
Sure, some will evade, but city/state access to BNB bookings and their books and payment methods will create a thicket of coercion that will make most comply. The BNB'ing of residences as well as the idea of a residence as an investment is indeed a cancer in our society, and it can easily be extended to multiple dwellings as that tax will reduce the investment potential of them.
You either do this or see the bulk of our society turned into tenants, as new home prices in Toronto are a million dollars or so and this is caused entirely by the investment and BNB potential run amock.
I feel like the majority of good movies came out before 2000. The Dark Knight is an exception.

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?groups=top_250&sort=user_...

There are very few good movies coming out anymore. When is the next Pulp Fiction or The Godfather going to come out? It is very hard to get excited for whatever is being released these days. It's just not even comparable/close.
So strange to see that channel recommended here. It's full of unusual and interesting things.
Completely agree. My point is only that there's no real argument here that this is "non-public information," which is what insider trading laws are about.
This is a "Chinese" chip only if you ignore 60 years of complicated geopolitics. It's a 16nm TSMC part.
Theoretically you could fake a bunch of cars moving around in the parking lots of a failing store. Wait for the hedge funds to bite and move the stock price up... then boom, dump your shares.
I wonder what America would look like without the disease holocaust? Would the two cultures have traded, warred, and also blended? Would Navajo and Iroquois keyboard layouts be a thing? Would there be a totem pole on the Moon?
Thanks! (The logical place, cough.)
The original paper was an n=46 study, and they have regression equations there with 5 coefficients. It has been known for a long time that you can't successfully adjust for confounding variables with such small data. The fact it didn't reproduce is easily predicted and hardly noteworthy. Everybody in the field is aware of this issue. This article is just a bunch of academics tooting their own horn. The Journal's response to their request was 'Who cares?', and this is the right answer.
Skype, skype for business, teams, yammer, outlook, kaizala, sharepoint and various integrations between them.

Banning slack makes sense, they shouldn't get to use it if they're going to force their mess on everyone else and pretend like it's just as good and easy to use.
Maybe you are right, but Science isn't an outlier here. All journals are loathe to publish direct refutations of previously published articles. Conference papers are even worse in that regard - zero room for refutations. "The field has moved on" is probably, second to "The article contains factual errors" the most common reason for article rejections. This problem is not limited to Psychology either. It is just as prevalent, if not more so, in Computer Science.
Is it though? As long the person running the browser understands the tradeoffs? I mean, the browser is supposed to be your user-agent after all.

To render and provide interactions as you deem fit...
Oh I’m full on space geek! I’ll start ASAP
Great reporting; claim the 3800X "glides past" the Intel chip, yet the scores shown in the screenshot in the article show the opposite!
failed to replicate != refutation. the latter is definitive, as in deductive logic, bit science is inductive. Retractions of articles that are no longer convincing in light of new data is the wrong way to go.
Yes. Acting upon material, non-public information, is the very definition of insider trading. It does not matter where the information originates.

It's only profitable if you dont get caught. SEC will make a very expensive and public example if they catch you.

Source: +15 years in the industry, a number of which have been spent working in/with compliance.
authoritarian regimes can start off very efficiently, but eventually collapse because of corruption. The corruption results in very inefficient allocation of capital. The chinese govt is very corrupt with an estimated million civil servants taking bribes.

If china is lucky xi jinping, who is now president for life, will be a great ruler for his whole life. If china is typical, he will make some bad decisions and the system will collapse.
Usually when people cite Dunning-Kruger, the results are explained by a corollary of reversion to the mean. Incompetents think they're more average than they are, prodigies think they're more average than they are, full stop.

If you look at the original measurements, they are mostly explainable on that basis. The usual claim that incompetents think they know better than experts doesn't show up in those results, and they don't report that.

That's not to say there aren't people who are really delusional -- Trump exists -- but it's not a rule.

It's not reversion to the mean, exactly, because there's no time series involved, but similar statistical laws operate.

If there's a real "effect", meriting a name, it's that incompetents are even bad at identifying the average, and miss, often thinking they are above average just because they don't really even understand what average means.

They cited this in their actual results.
You have reinvented inertial reference frame, but that doesn’t give you what you want either.
Fees and info get shared with non-lawyers all the time. As long as the right contracts are in place, there's nothing problematic about it. If Atrium LTS structures the decisionmaking so that Atrium LLP is giving the legal advice for the purposes of the law, then there's nothing shaky here. At some point this will all get hashed out in court a few dozen times, but there's nothing about this that looks insoluble.
They’ve tried a bunch of things and basically landed on “we’ll do process isolation for Spectre but for Meltdown/Fallout/ZombieLoad/Other MDS vulnerabilities we’re basically fucked, so it’s on lower levels”
They expected to replicate the findings. They fail to do so. Just because this contradicts your personal politics isn't a reason to ignore or suppress the information. They promoted it, they need to set the record straight.
Thanks, but I haven't really done much in jq before. Doing the above script involved looking a lot through the manual and experimenting. This exercise was a learning experience for me. I was only able to do this because the manpage is well written.
I think it shows the Neo-Liberal/Washington Consensus to be an abject failure. Under that the west decided to forgo government imposed industrial policy in favor of disorganized looting.

The Chinese on the other hand imposed hard nosed industrial policies. Western economists have been saying that Chinese industrial/financial/developmental policy was going to result in collapse 'in five to ten years' for the last 30 years. And now it becoming obvious, it's not happening.
What's missing here is the context. Maybe this is the appropriate tone to talk to this particular person, and he wouldn't get the message otherwise. Having spent years in management I've discovered that with some people a mere hint would be enough to course correct, and with others you need to use direct, unvarnished language to get them to understand things. I never used quite as direct language as this, but I can imagine people and situations which might call for it. Although even then, I'd do it strictly in private.

This is the kind of thing that people who have never managed other people find very hard to understand or appreciate.

I'm also thankful that Linus gets severely upset by things that may degrade Linux IO performance, rather than just kick back, relax, and allow it to be merged.
I don’t agree with respect to China - but perhaps the OP is suggesting that it’s like having an impartial referee.
The question is where the equilibrium is. You can tweak it with estate/income/property/other taxes.
Must have been heading downhill.
> An Indian equivalent to Huawei would be unlikely to face the same sort of concerns.

Learn history. When Japan's semiconductor industry did extremely well back in the 80s, it forced US to take actions under the name of national security [1]. Do you seriously believe that india's relationship with the west is better than the one enjoyed by Japan back in the 80s?

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3014531/le...
Host it where tho ? Wouldn't you need a 24/7 running server ?
But you can front-run using public information. Large orders are broken up and with sufficient analysis and prediction you can front-run a portion of them.
What does a $200/ton carbon removal stack look like?

There's solar powered fans blowing air over some kind of material that captures C02 out of the air. What exactly is that material, how much does it cost, do consumers have easy access to it?

Then, you need immense heat to react the C02 in the material out, yeah? That's part 2. I think if we focus on it one part at a time, we may get some answers!
FYI financial advisers having a fiduciary duty to their clients is standard in most of the western world EXCEPT America.