skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a centralized token is added, then this central authority has incentives in increasing the amount of tokens for staking because ultimately the amount collected will be going into their pockets. Checkout what upwork is doing with paid tokens/connects.

Additionally this can also favor certain thoughts/groups by the central authority. ( The jury itself will be selected/hired by the central authority. ). Large number of posts get removed from social networks, because they pertain to certain thought or are against some govt.
In all likelihood, Gabbard and her campaign managers are perfectly aware that:

1. Google's automatic account suspension systems were doing exactly what they would do for any other account.

2. There was no intentional discrimination/meddling.

A sudden spike of search traffic corresponding with a sudden influx of advertising spending is likely to trigger red flags for the system. 6 hours of downtime for these google ads did damage her campaign, but Gabbard, or anybody, is not entitled to 100% uptime for a service provided by a corporation, except to the degree that it violates a contract/ TOS.

“Google’s discriminatory actions against my campaign are reflective of how dangerous their complete dominance over internet search is, and how the increasing dominance of big tech companies over our public discourse threatens our core American values,” Gabbard said in a statement. “This is a threat to free speech, fair elections and to our democracy, and I intend to fight back on behalf of all Americans.”

Her statement quoted above make me like her less, and I don't feel like I'm a particularly pro-google guy.
Yeah, because those who didn't like joining Russia are arrested and/or killed. Russians have their unofficial name "katsaps" (butchers) for reason.

Nobody asked population of Crimea anything. Nobody asks a sheep is it agree to be shaved.
Study finds that guns automatically prime aggressive thoughts
What you said should be blindingly obvious to everybody, and yet some people feel the need to prove how enlightened they are by saying things like "the baldness doesn't define you". Sure, it does not define you, but it can definitely be a huge kick in the groin for your self-esteem.

And all the people saying that those resources could have been used somewhere else are technically right, but likely hypocritical or, at the very least, cognitively dissonant. A large portion of the people on HN are working in IT, and a lot of them are working on either CRUD apps or, maybe worse, on figuring out ways to squeeze more revenue from private user data via ads because, like it or not, that's where the big money is. To other industries, we are also resources being wasted because we could all use our brains to computationally tackle medicine, climate change etc., but we go for the well paid hedge fund 0-sum game.
This is really interesting in terms of such an acute chemical change causing such a systemic alteration in connectivity. I can imagine if you are under stressful conditions constantly you can't truly function as these changes are constantly occurring. You could see how this would lead to ptsd, depression, other neurological conditions.
While there is more detail that can be simualted, there is a vast very successful literature using compartmental models.
Markram's work was the simulation of a cortical column with compartmental models anyway.
Mesmer was a technologist, as well. He used Ben Franklin's Glass Armonica to deepen trances -- and had groups of people hold on to iron bars while submerged in water baths to fantastic effect (it put people into transformational states).

The mechanism of mesmerism was disproven by the Ben Franklin committee -- there is no "vital force", akin to a magnetic force, that a mesmerist taps into. Nevertheless, the Franklin committee didn't dispute the effects of mesmerism. As a placebo effect, it is a particularly strong one. Placebo effects often comprise the greater part of accepted medical psychotherapies. While the esoteric/ magical qualities of mesmerism may make rationalists shudder, if it worked well (it did) we might still learn from it.
'Taking a vacation' is, to me, something of an outdated concept. It usually boils down to a lot of stress and expense for a string of experiences-on-rails which don't meaningfully connect you to anyone or provide you with anything of lasting value. You're better off staying closer to home and making the most of your time off to bolster your relationships and living situation. I see zero problem with including some more relaxed interactions with your workplace in this.

If you need to 'get away', for real, what you really need is a sabbatical, and to hand off all your work responsibilities to other people. Then you can unplug more fully and might actually stand a chance at finding true value and connections with other people in a more extended trip to a part of the world you've never visited.
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> UK made illegal copies of classified personal information from a database reserved for members of the passport-free Schengen travel zone.

The UK is not in the Schengen travel zone and had no right to be accessing the data or sharing it with other foreign powers.

The problem is that too much power is collected in one place that encourages bad actors to weaken security so that they can later do a grab and dash with "Plausible deniability".

When people raise this warning it is dismissed as fear mongering, when the fears turn out to be justified people side step the issue and argue that the title should be millions instead of all.

Some people have argued that the EU do not have a database of EU citizens fingerprints, but they have been building that database since 2004 [2].

These massive databases of personal information represent too much of a risk and should not exist. The only way to protect power from corruption is to distribute the power rather than consolidate it.

[1] https://euobserver.com/justice/145530
[2] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-fingerprints/fingerprin...
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Researchers suggest that empathy should be a factor in medical school admissions
The pop-sci wisdom is that what you get from the hypothalamus is a generalized primal desire. It may be triggered by thirst, but you experience it as a longing for food, sex, or sleep instead. Sometimes all of the above.

When you feel like this, you can recognize that thirst is also a likely explanation, and reach for water quickly and cheaply as a debugging step. At least rule it out before making tradeoffs to placate more expensive needs.
The advantage that Rust's GTK bindings have over Rust's Qt bindings is great enough to counteract any advantage that Qt has over GTK. That's because GTK has an (XML?) schema that allows bindings and documentation to be autogenerated to a large extent. Binding to Qt from Rust is in comparison very difficult (not to mention the fact that Qt's idiosyncratic programming model naturally conflicts with Rust's militant ownership concepts).

Edit: To be clear, I'm not comparing the relative merits of different GUI options, I'm saying that GTK is the only option that you really have in Rust today.
On my first RO1, it was returned unscored (basically not even reviewed). It was a clever idea that was ahead of its time. the next year I noticed that the same section had several proposals which were effectively copies of mine written by more experienced PIs and at least one of them was funded even though they had no expertise in the area.

I left academia shortly after that (no interest in that competition) for FAANG and got more and better research done in my 20% time than I ever did in academia. I've spoken to many program managers who would love to fdund clever new ideas from creative young PIs, but are under strain to produce a reliable stream of papers from more experienced PIs who train postdocs.
> Many people voted leave as a protest against the state of the country, not the EU, and have said so.

This is true in my experience, almost all arguments I have ever heard in person are of this form... I don't know where this came from but suspect the concept of "Leave == Change" was likely seeded on social media.

> The referendum was about many things, and most of them weren't our membership of the EU.

Yes, this is the source of the problem, even though manipulation is more of a problem than it used to be, this vote is particularly vulnerable to it because it's so poorly defined - it's basically impossible to have a sane and comprehensive debate about the topic so instead people naturally cling onto something that fits their values, and it's extremely easy to just fabricate those things in this case.
They should follow Marc Cuban's example; take some money out of their share holding and diversify their investments.

Quoting from https://www.fool.com/slideshow/7-things-you-can-learn-mark-c...

5. Diversification is extremely important

It’s important to maintain a diverse investment portfolio, whether you’ve just come into billions of dollars as Mark Cuban did in 1999 or you’re starting with a few hundred dollars.

When Cuban and his partners sold Broadcast.com in 1999, they didn’t get billions in cash -- it was all in the form of Yahoo stock. Instead of holding virtually all of his wealth in one company’s stock, he did a great job of diversifying his investments. Cuban spent $20 million hedging his Yahoo stock with synthetic indexes, and shortly thereafter acquired assets such as the Dallas Mavericks and Landmark Theatres.

It’s a good thing Cuban did all of that. Yahoo’s stock price dropped by more than 96% from January 2000 through September 2011. To put this in perspective, $1 billion in Yahoo stock would have fallen in value to just over $34 million.
Yes. The tools source code is here:

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference?files...
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20528366
It's also because there is a "cure" for baldness, but it's not magical. A ton of actors and media personalities in general use hairpieces or get hair transplants.
Do you mean "Third country"? I have not come across the EU using "Third world country" officially.
I don’t disagree with the imbalance or odds. Impact required to be that highly paid an IC usually boils down to “create the thing the company earns a large portion of its revenue selling” which is tough to do, especially more than once.
I was at a company previously that had a liquidity event, and many of my colleagues (not me unfortunately) had very meaningful stock awards.

A lot of people discussed what they should do openly, and recognized the potential for the stock to go up later on- many defaulted to selling half of their holdings as soon as they could to put some cash in their pocket, and holding on to half for potential gains. Not super sophisticated, but it seemed like it made good sense to me.
I had a good experience right after college. Went to Germany for 21 days. Stayed with an exchange student I had become friends with senior year in high school and we kept in contact.

She had my girlfriend and I stay at her home in a little town Nagold. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagold

We stayed with their family for a week, experiencing the smaller town life, hiking in the black forest and going to the market for fresh bread every morning.

We then rented a vehicle and traveled around the Autobahn visiting many major cities and either staying at a hostel ($20 a night per person plus an amazing breakfast included!), or with a mutual friend of her's whom she had met in college.

There are only a few Universities in Germany so she knew someone is almost all the major cities we stayed at and it was nice to converse with them in their home, trade stories and experience the night life as a local would.

We did go to a few tourist areas which were neat to experience, however most of the fun did come from 'off the beaten path' where you got to interact with locals and see more of the slower, simple life.

One thing that I found astonishing is the amount you can converse/communicate with someone even if you don't speak their language. Granted most people in Germany can understand English well, but with the few broken phrases I learned before going I was able to do quite well when our translator (my friend from high school) would not be with us sometimes.

I much would rather do this, go to one specific country rather than go to 14 countries in 10 days.

Haven't traveled since as work/school/family is now my priority but doing at least one travel to get out of your comfort zone is a good experience I think everyone should get to experience once (if they want to).
Yeah, existing GUI libraries tend to make heavy use of inheritance, which Rust doesn't support very well. I have high hopes for a Rust-native GUI library being the goto cross-platform UI library at some point. But that's probably still 2-5 years off at this point.
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I did not say it is an issue. Saying it is “the point of open source” is completely misguided.
More or less. It wasn't intended to be malicious. I made it known I was there to support him in his Herculean task of moving the needle with his department with this wholly intransigent political environment. But I'd already spent some 2 1/2 years building up goodwill and clout in the company and there wasn't going to be any bowing and scraping.

Any ideas he had were welcomed but at the end of the day, they were going to throw it all out anyway. I was hoping they'd let me build the new platform, but they picked a consulting company to build them a Magento solution. To recognize my efforts, I got like a year and a half of half-salary to get on the phone if they ever needed me.

My next role paid 33% more.
In my country is not as simple/cheap as in other countries. Thanks
The EU uses the term "third country" which means a country that is not part of the union.

https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/eurwork/indust...
Well, maybe. The future of the EU isn't safe beyond all doubt, so there's a risk this'll turn into a self-fulfilling prophesy of EU doom.

i.e. Despite the shock of brexit causing EU support to rise pretty much everywhere (IIRC including in the UK, but I'm not sure on that one), most italians are still decidedly negative (which is relevant because post-brexit Italy would be the #3 EU economy).

If Brexit were to be followed by an It-exit or even merely systematic subversion, that could seriously undermine the EU. Note also that some of the former soviet-block countries have governments currently that are much more euro-hostile that their populace, and they might well try a to undermine the EU as much as possible as long as they can do so without being voted out.

And furthermore, if some other countries were doubting their options, I'm not sure they'd compare themselves too much to the UK. There's simply been so much incompetence on the UK government's part that it's hard to believe any other country would need to follow their example. A little more strategically played exit might have been a lot less painful.

Well- assuming Brexit happens at all anyhow, which is pretty much anyone's guess at this point.
Two economists – one young and one old – are walking down the street together:

The young economist looks down and sees a $20 bill on the street and says, “Hey, look a twenty-dollar bill!”

Without even looking, his older and wiser colleague replies, “Nonsense. If there had been a twenty-dollar lying on the street, someone would have already picked it up by now.”

(99% joke and snark. Of course this isn't going to work on the stock market, but that kind of efficiency argument isn't perfect.)
Everybody is thinking it, but no one is saying it: "too many people".

I feel like that's why the apocalypse, post-apoc, and zombie movies are so popular. They catch that subconscious zeitgeist of loathing their neighbors and feeling like they're surrounded by the "NPC" meme.
My coworkers described Unreal vs. Unity in this way and I tend to agree:

Unity is easy to pick up but difficult to master, and looks terrible out of the box.

Unreal is difficult to pick up and difficult to master, but looks great out of the box.
You just need Toppik or similar with a matching color and nobody could tell... Used by stylists for movie stars all the time, including females. I bought a bunch of colors for my photoshoots as many models have their hair destroyed from all the stuff they are using and fixing it in Photoshop is unnecessarily time consuming (OK, GANs are coming, so it might be instant soon...). It looks pretty natural in studio lights unless you zoom in significantly.
Another (small) correction: There aren't hundred of millions persons registered in the SIS. The "hundred of millions" comes from the number of EU citizens. Of course, one person's data leaked is too many, but anyway, that's how it is. Also, most of the person alerts do not have binaries (photos or fingerprints); usually only the persons that have an European Arrest Warrant do have these.

I see this as more of a security issue than a privacy issue. The data in the SIS is mostly about law enforcement, meaning that a leak would expose that a person is wanted (some of the person searches are undercover, and the data also covers a person's aliases - so if a "bad" person has access to the data it can react) and also, the SIS data is a "living" organism - using a copy (snapshot) of the data in a law enforcement activity is actually unlawful - if the snapshot is old it means that you cannot find a person that was added yesterday and also that you will find a person that was "cleared" yesterday.
Do consider beginning the process of finding a new job.
WhatsApp reaches 400M users in India, its biggest market
\o Happy to answer questions anyone has. I mostly wrote this to scratch my own itch.
Yet one of the most successful politicians and arguably the most powerful individual in the world- Vladimir Putin- is heavily balding.
What garbage. Trust isn't a dependent variable. You can't measure it. You can't produce it in a factory. The reason why people don't trust X business is because they are untrustworthy. They will be unable to win trust back because being untrustworthy is, often, a fundamental part of their culture.

Also, a minor point in the grand scheme of things but I wouldn't take advice on trust from someone who had a fictional job title at Fidelity. From someone who worked in the industry, the business model of an asset manager is: do a shitty job, tell everyone you how smart you are (preferably with the aid of functionally useless qualifications), and hope no-one calls you on your bullshit. If you perceive yourself to be an expert on trust, don't work for organisations that have made untrustworthiness their business model. Doing so, suggests that you don't know what you are doing (which is likely the case here).
Seems like a use-case for just wrapping regular SFTP in a virtualized userland with definable hooks for things like PAM’s user data lookups. I believe that gVisor does this?
> Considering modules are a major feature in C++20, I doubt the standards committee considers this language gap a "nit".

C++20. __Twenty__, man! In the third decade of the language existing.

But I agree that it helps OS package managers.
Agreed. Though I think it's worth noting that a not-insignificant number of users loath the butterfly keyboard for other reasons, including: key feel, ease of orientation, general comfort. I am among those users and know a lot of others who feel similarly: typing on the butterfly keyboard feels akin to typing on concrete, with next to no real feedback and usually eventually causes pain in my fingertips. I also tend to make a lot of typos because I can never feel where my hands are on this keyboard, which is something I've never experienced on any other keyboard. I understand that there are things I'm doing personally (like typing too hard, most likely) that exacerbate these issues, but I've never had an issue with any other keyboard. The fact that Apple has managed to trigger these issues for an otherwise-fine keyboard user is concerning.
yeah, but it wouldn't be in the same style.
>Women also can cover it more due to longer hair.

Spoken like someone whose never had thinning hair. Long hair makes it look worse, not better.

For many women, a hair is her identity. A man is still valued more by his means of providing and status in competence hiearchies than his appearance. This is not the same with female mammals.
No? Most all of my friends are graphics pros, and they largely prefer working on their laptop when possible.

My little hobby circle is audio, and the touchbar is almost universally loved there too.
Couldn't they make everyone happy by keeping both a physical ESC key and the touch bar?
Yeah it would have been cool if they were buttons but with LCD or E-ink programmable functions and displays. Kind of like a stream deck. Personally though I would have been happy with the touch bar AND a row of function keys. If you look at the Macbook there is a ton of space above the keyboard for this...
Say you can pay $10k and get (50/50) either $0 or $22k. The expected gain is $1k.

A second game also costs $10k to enter, but the (50/50) payouts are $9k and $13k.

Do you find then equally attractive? Most people wouldn’t.

If you do, what if you could instead “play” a game where you pay $10,000 and get $10,999 straight away? It’s a worse proposition if you’re risk-neutral, isn’t it?
My advice would be to use your brain for this stimulating work as much as you like, and manage any stress response separately, that is, get plenty of exercise, sunlight , nutrition, and as a bonus look into some kind of mindfulness routine particularly where you practice being aware of where stressful physical responses can be perceived and mental patterns that can release them, after all anything you practice doing with your mind will affect its physical formation in one way or another. Plenty of brilliant 90 year olds out there who never stopped their minds from working.
I believe that stress does cause a tremendous amount of damage to the brain. I'm glad to see others share the same ideas. It may not be proven whether damage is permanent or not. But it's not something that can be left alone.