skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure teens and twentysomethings can feel plenty lonely. But I imagine as an example a young adult girl won't have much trouble striking up a relationship with a 50-60+ man if they really wanted to. It might be awkward and they might have little in common but the younger party could have it anytime they wanted. Now reverse the situation for a 50-60 year old man seeking companionship among young adult girls and see how far you get.
I've worked in DNA forensics/DNA databasing/LEO IT for about 10 years. I have never heard of DNA evidence with a statistical likelihood of 1/100,000 being presented in court. It is true that all evidentiary DNA is presented in a statistical manner, but the statistical thresholds are far higher than 1/10x the amount of people on earth. A professional accredited DNA forensics laboratory would never publish or release a report with shoddy statistics like that. If attempted it would ruin careers and shut down a lab, today in 2019. We also work on OLD exoneration cases.

Maybe prior to the early 90's when the technology and chemistries were still kinda crude and not every lab could afford accreditation, but definitely not in the US in the past 10 years.

To be clear I am not arguing about the philosophy of if it's ethical to use DNA databases or facial recognition from driver's license databases. I'm saying comparing the use of DNA evidence to using facial recognition on a driver's license database doesn't make sense.
A teenager climbed London’s tallest skyscraper without ropes or pads
> The compiler can tell if something isn't referenced - but it can't tell if a provider that goes into a DI framework is never invoked.

It sort of can though. It depends on the circumstance. If there is an interface with one implementation or even multiple implementations and that interface isn't referenced anywhere nor are any of its references then you can reason that those dependencies might be provided to the DI container but will never be requested as they can't be. In that case - delete them.

In the case where you have one interface which has multiple implementations and the interface is referenced, I agree. Nothing will tell you if there is one implementation sitting there entirely unused forever.

If you wanted to solve that problem you probably could. In practice I don't find it a big issue.
I can answer a narrow part of your inquiry: Why do you need to sink the rod into the dirt, and merely touching it isn't good enough?

Dry dirt is a very poor conductor. Wet dirt is pretty good, thanks to the dissolved salts, but still not great compared to copper. Most dirt is somewhere in-between, so the amount by which you must sink your ground rod to be safe partially depends on your local climate.

Lets say you have a 3/16" grounding rod sunk three feet into the dirt. The cross section through the rod at the top of the rod is ~0.025 inch^2. But the total contact area on the local dirt is ~42 inch^2. That's an increase in area by a factor of over 1500x. The local dirt doesn't need to be particularly conductive to work as a reasonable conductor when you have that much contact area to work with.

The total cross sectional area of the dirt-conductor around your ground rod also gets larger quickly, proportional to r^2. That term gets large rapidly with distance, such that almost all of the resistance between the planet as a whole and your ground rod is concentrated at its interface to the dirt.
Even if you have the camera disabled (and I never gave camera permissions to zoom to begin with), it will still join a random stranger's meeting, which will leak your name (or whatever name you have configured). This may be important for some.
Not sure if ML is the answer given there are much more efficient machines that already do this at scale [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjAXX-PCwjI
Most of the additional costs associating with the banking system would still have to be paid if bitcoin were to provide the same services. But also, there's no reason that they should account for exactly 1000 times the cost of printing the money. I think you can expect you've gone down the wrong track when you believe numbers are exactly what is necessary to justify your argument for no particular external reason.

The only costs that are reasonable and appropriate to include, it seems to me, in an apples-to-apples comparison, are the costs of actually creating the money and regulating the supply.

So, ok, over and above the negligible amount to create money, it's plausible to include the cost of the Federal Reserve system, since that is what keeps the money supply stable, analogous to the mining algorithm.

The M2 money supply (a bit arbitrary, but for this comparison it's somewhat generous to the opposing view and anyway, I guess they don't publish M3 any more) is something like $14.5 trillion. The cost of the Federal Reserve is something like $5 billion[1] So the "maintenance" cost for a dollar is something like 3 cents every hundred years. To me, that seems de minimus and it also seems a person with some common sense would expect that without doing an analysis.

If you want to be obstinate about this, I suspect you will argue that bitcoin as it currently exists provides the facility to do transactions which I am not including the cost of with dollars, and my response is that the throughput of bitcoin is negligible and therefore not appropriate to equate with the capacity of the real financial system.

[1]https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2017-ar-federal-...
Huge kudos to the author for finding this security hole, reporting it responsibly, and then posting such a clear writeup.
Windows-as-a-Service is a terrible idea and it makes me sad to see people embracing one of the largest-scale thefts of control ever. We are so pathetically spoiled by convenience that all companies have to do is wave that around and they can do anything
She asked him how he was able to talk to nonscientists and communicate the implications of this work, which can be hard to understand. “I don’t talk to those people anymore,” she remembers him replying. “Fuck those people.”

If humans make it through whatever disaster will come, Anthropogenic Climate Change will be a case study in how to be ineffective in the face of something important.
The current extinction event would seem like a tremendous amount of evidence that many species have a hard limit on how fast they can adapt.

On a smaller scale there are many people that died in fire they themselves had started.

Culture (information stored in the brain) changes faster than DNA, but its ability to change is still limited, especially in older folks.

In order to survive, we need our environmental conditions to remain in a reasonable range (temperature, atmospheric composition, weather). According to some predictions, some parts of the world around the equator will be to hot for people to live at the turn of the 22th century. The ocean (50 to 80% of the photosynthesis) is already in a sorry state and we keep on pushing.

So far, so good... https://soundcloud.com/user-876103472/grow

The earth is like an Apple pie,
let's eat it and let's eat it and let's die!
Do you want some more? It's ...hmm... delicious!

To take on another of your initial points regarding the fitness of invasive species. Being too aggressive is not necessarily being fitter. A specie (not necessarily human) that's too dominant can crash the ecosystem that sustains it and cause it to collapse, bringing its own demise.
Submitted the first sentence as title instead of original, since it's so much more descriptive and less spammy.

Everyone has a hobby, I suppose, I'm just so curious how this one works - what goes in to 'planning' it for a year?
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f...

Later they re-released a version with an intel cpu with the same branding, so the machine is hard to google.
...as opposed to something much bigger that also eventually uses the same "library" of functionality.
Note that the server persists after the app is removed, so there’s that as well.

Follow on: What are they talking about regarding custom url handlers? That’s a standard OS X feature...
I agree that there is nuance and details that make it more useful in some cases than others. Conversely, unions can assist a companies survival. There are cases where even the teamsters(!) agreed to pay cuts to save businesses.
And of course it can occasionally go wrong and there can be incompetence just like everything else in this world. But there are some widely held beliefs that demonize unions more than should be.

For example[1], empirically the presence of a union does not correlates with a bad workplace or failing business because the bulk of last half of the twentieth century saw widespread union membership yet was dominated by enormous growth in both production and quality of life along side high job satisfaction. While the last 40 years with declining union membership has seen slower GDP growth and in some cases quality of life reversal. So unions can't be causing the problem.

And the Us vs Them attitude is certainly close to catastrophic. But people aren't going to go through the effort, stress and risk of forming a union unless there are already some never addressed grievances in the first place. The antagonism would have to precede the talk of unionizing not be caused by the appearance of the union. And after the fact, there is at least some small chance of discussing, explaining and solving the problems. But I too would bail long before it got that broken. But for tight labor markets, with few and poorly run industries, this choice doesn't exists.

[1]in western countries and Japan
Are you a libertarian?
That is not what I'm saying.
I mostly agree with you except that I fall back to macOS because, in addition to development, I do a lot of media production and hardware support for Linux still just isn't there. I have a VM running Ubuntu for a lot of things but I always just find myself falling back to macOS with the terminal and being satisfied with that 99% of the time. That being said, I still have my gaming machine as a Windows rig and, every time there's a Windows Update, it reinforces my decision to leave Windows for day-to-day use. The last straw was when a Windows update caused me to lose video for nearly a week unless I ran in Safe Mode or without the AMD/Nvidia drivers (yes, I tried 2 different video cards). Turns out that the update changed something with HDCP that prevented video out from working because, and I shit you not, my HDMI cable was too old. It worked 100% ok until that update and, despite no hardware issues, was killed by a software update. Never again.
Even if it isn't fully apparent, the people can vote out a president that controls the Fed. There is no such option to the "100 member companies". Also, the Fed is US only...so there's that.

The scary thing about Libra is that it truly has the potential for global-scale "boil the frog" ramifications.
macOS is gradually adopting that starting with Catalina, e.g. System Extensions (that will replace Kernel Extensions) and DriverKit drivers too I assume, are installed with app bundles and uninstalled when the app is trashed.
Java has a SecurityManager[1] which does exactly that. Is there anything similar in other mainstream languages?

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Security...
Then why aren't they written on paper, in English? Because that's how people used to read things when the A&S quote was from, in 1979. And natural language is still how people read things today, even if on screens. People don't code as if code was primarily for people to read.
Universal agreement on pretty much anything is non-existant.
I have no idea, but lots of things, like of course aluminum, are generally used in alloys and alloys can have very interesting properties.
I have the first gen, which is nowhere near as fast as LCD. But looking at their videos it looks like they got the framerate to work at a much faster speed than mine which was leagues of improvement over a kindle. However, I'm confident that there will still be some lag between input and what you see.

They wrote their own software so that the display isn't doing a hard refresh every time the display changes, the downside is there is some ghosting, which is what the hard refresh on kindles will remove.

I use keyboard shortcuts extensively to the point where I rarely use a mouse so I can work with the low framerate of the first gen. It even forced me to get better with using keyboard shortcuts and now I have little to no problems with it.
How do you recommend uninstalling this?
A custom URI wouldn't work as seamlessly as zoom's UX team would have liked. If you hadn't installed zoom, either a nasty message would tell you the protocol wasn't supported, or it would redirect you to a google search.

Their answer was to send people to a URL they controlled and brought you through the install process as easily as possible, but the issue they needed to solve was determining if you needed to have an install or just redirect to the app.

They broke so many security rules just to shave off a few inconvenient seconds, and those seconds rose them to the top.
Choosing an Electric Car
I tried it both ways and switched to the traditional scrolling. Changing the default once is a small and one time price to pay vs changing the decades of ingrained habits.

I don’t ever touch laptop screen even if it is touch enabled. To me mouse is strictly superior to touchpad which is superior to touchscreen and keyboard - outside of operations that require precise positioning on the surface of the screen - is superior to pretty much everything.

I thought about why I prefer things this way and decided that it is about travel time. With a touch screen if you want to love from a to b your finger has to travel all the way, whereas mouse can be tuned for maximal sensitivity. And for operations where you can use a keyboard shortcut the interaction time is even more immediate.
> but they are a far cry from what would have been there had the preexisting social orders not been intentionally decimated and if their resources had been spent on their own development rather than Europe’s.

That's a big if. Of course they would be much richer if they were organized and stable enough to manage mineral resources in way that the profits went to their own development. But the whole problem is they didn't have that organization, so they couldn't. How do you pay for public services when you don't have a strong enough government? How do you secure the money when everyone is a sell-out?
Very sad but he had a couple co-founders as well as some community of people interested in continuing development AFAIR.
Lots of games come out in early beta now and raise money through sales as they are developed. It is a better model than crowdfunding for games, because you start from a demonstration of competence in game development and you (usually) have direct view into the development process.
that's not a bug bounty, that's reputation management
Where are your citations that the Scandinavian style of relatively luxurious prisoner treatment is more effective? If we're going by correlations there's probably no more evidence for this than the correlation with homogeneous ordered societies. Probably less since you have like a couple datapoints exclusively in northern europe while the whole world tends to show a trend of imprisonment outcomes being better in nonbanana republics.
The fun doesn't stop at your phone, you're usually leaking location data to third party passive scanners too just by turning on bluetooth. It will broadcast a mac address that is usually poorly and/or infrequently randomized, if it's randomized at all. Some phones will somewhat mitigate this, but random bluetooth devices rarely will.

Ramble is a simple bluetooth scanner app on android, check how often your friends and coworkers mac addresses are updating.
I was expecting it to be about biogas lighting: https://permies.com/t/3314/biogas-light-heat
I have never heard of any leaks of private messages (by facebook, let's not count shoulder surfing or the counterparty telling) coming back to haunt the people who wrote them. So the risk you are mentioning seems more theoretical than the very real risk if a friend runs it.
Ham radio operators were also essential during 9/11.

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/WTC.pdf
Dangling domains happen all the time. As long as the main one that's actually used is still controlled by the org, others can quite easily slip through the cracks, not renewed while still present in the codebase.
Oh, I didn't see the second screenshot. Yeah that one is more like what I remember Motif looking like. The first one though is definitely going for the Windows 95 look.
On that note, I find the best thing about EDM is that that repetition is used as a foundation for musical themes, and that expression is done by subtly changing repetitions to make new themes, then mixing them all together in interesting ways.

There's definitely something meditative about it.
I've opened up Safari and it properly asks me if I want to open slack when using: slack://test
> So how is it funded?

Actually it's funded by the billions of dollars donated to his charitable trust.

> Just to show an "existence proof" of an alternate universe, there are two totally free hospitals in India. They have no billing desk because they do not bill.

That's not an alt universe, that's just free healthcare, just like in the UK, Fiji, New Zealand, and numerous other nations.
Your comment sort of implies that there are complicated solutions to the key finding problem that are better than the simple ones. But then it doesn't bother establishing that argument.

How to beat Laura Poitras publishing a public key all over the place?
>With Libra, anyone with a $40 smartphone and connectivity will have the ability to securely safeguard their assets, access the world economy, transact at a much lower cost, and over time access a whole range of financial services.

Bad actors will lift old exploitative models into Libra's ecosystem: payday loans with huge interest rates, wallet services that force a deposit and allow you to overspend and charge fees when you do, sign up people for accounts and services that they don't want and make commissions. Or maybe just wallet/business services that straight up scam people and disappear with no repercussions. The thing you set out to kill will just come back with a new flavor. Plus it's even easier now since you can do it all with a single click!

Then someone has to decide what to do with bad actors involved with Libra and allocate resources to actually enforce some actions against them (legislative, the cops, server bans, ISP bans, etc.). Now you've got those services paid by tax dollars dealing with a corporate currency and taking time away from other enforcement actions.

All of this is going to happen at the juicy, vulnerable threshold where the technical controls interface with the human element. I probably won't ever hack Libra/Move itself, but the human part is still there. If I can actually manage to get away with the crime and transact with a fake identity, it can't be reversed.

Bonus: that same $40 phone stops getting updated by a phone carrier and some drive-by malware swipes all of your LibraBucks with a corrupt text message and no one can reverse the transaction. Or maybe that Bloomberg supply-chain attack article will finally become a reality once there's enough economy behind Libra.

If this is widely adopted, it's going to have a pretty steep learning curve and plenty of real losses for everyone.
Can you share on dat via tor?
Company scrip has a long and nebulous history, its great for tethering your workers to the company town (and company store) while keeping them indebted and unable to leave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
This is true, but being appointed is important. Much like the Supreme Court, they are expected to be independent, not "accountable".
Those are using "fasthttp"[1], which one should be very cautious when using[2], as it is not standard and resorts to hacks to implement.

[1] https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp

[2] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTxoBN41dYFB...
Why do they do it? Is it a cost or convenience issue (or both)?
No, I’m not sure you can reduce wages 30-40-50% for many workers without moving the median down, unless a similar number of workers on the lower side had their wages increased 42-66-100% (that would effectively mean two workers swapping places, which would keep the median the same).

Worth mentioning that the 4th and 5th Quintiles have either not grown at all (in real terms) or even slightly fallen.

Of course compared the the 1st quintile and Top 5% everyone else has been totally screwed.

I think the narrowing of the middle class has more to do with the dramatic rise in housing, education, and health care costs than it does with wages.

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/10/1...
The basic problem is that you enter a meeting by loading a URL, and loading URLs is something any website can do. There probably needs to be a confirmation step before joining a meeting.
Unfortunately very few alternatives have been created which ticks the same boxes as bitcoin, but some with speed improvements. It's too bad that so many developers have stranglehold their innovations by premining, receiving development tax, keeping a percentage of all coins by themselves. Or lacking a good process for protocol innovation like BIP. Because there are some really shiny coins out there.

I thought that transaction cost and speed was a problem, but I am not so sure anymore. There are second layer solutions, like Lightning Network. And it is also possible to use current solutions like Visa, through pre-filled cards or debit cards. Of course not optimal.

It's not that long ago when we got to choose network protocols in games for example, IPX/SPX in favor of TCP/IP because of speed. Maybe it is a similar time, we'll see.
From the article:

> To shut down the web server, run lsof -i :19421 to get the PID of the process, then do kill -9 [process number]. Then you can delete the ~/.zoomus directory to remove the web server application files.

> To prevent this server from being restored after updates you can execute the following in your terminal:

rm -rf ~/.zoomus

touch ~/.zoomus
A. The time period you mention is post 2008 recession; you would expect the number to go up after such a catastrophic event.

B. Median simply means the middle of the frequency distribution, so you could have a glut of people earning significantly lower than the median, while the upper tail is more or less smooth out to the top end.

C. It's not as easy to find data going back to mid-century, but the trend since the eighties has been largely upward in real terms. Again though, we know that the top 1% has had outsize gains, and it's reasonable to assume that the distribution was more Gaussian in the preceding years.
Did you do anything in particular to break out of the cycle?
No harm being a laggot if you are on top. Mod parent up.
Yeah I get you, the human eye works logarithmically so we can see in very dark spaces, but that means the light necessary to see a computer screen is a fraction of what comes from daylight. People were not meant to breath hvac air inside an unaturally lit cubicle. Fresh air, natural light, and proper sleep cycles(up with the sun, down with the sun) I feel are my secret sources of power.
> 1. The US Mint creates the supply of currency in the US, which is literally governed by the government.

Congress long-since assigned that responsibility--with the exception of coinage--to the Federal Reserve. Note that our currency no longer says "United States Dollar" on it, only "Federal Reserve Note."
It should bother you that you are so upset about it. The color you add is indicative that you do not want me to form my own opinion. He's a guy saying stuff. You insist that it should "turn my stomach" but it doesn't. So now what? Should I be forced to acquiesce to your particular social tastes? If not, then what is your goal?
As someone who exists in the world - existing in the world is not a crime!