skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the article touched on, there are regenerative practices that do not require pesticides. Frankly, pesticides are a human convenience. Utterly unnecessary for survival. If we weren't focusing on mass producing food, largely unused to directly feed people, we wouldn't need to spray everything with poison to keep things easy and profitable.

Trying to find a "smarter" way to poison things is exactly the status quo and it will lead nowhere good.
The Walton and Mars family net worths exceed $250 billion. If you add in Aldi and Ikea you're over $340 billion, Bezos gives you another $100 billion.
Their press release about prime numbers suggests that they are trying to convince doctors to invest. From https://strathspeycrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/SC_Pr...:

> "The firm's subsidiaries and investors include board certified physician specialists across key medical specialties, including plastic surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology, dentistry and orthopedics. Strathspey Crown is focused on working with physician investors to bring to market innovative technologies and services in the self-pay sector of the lifestyle healthcare market."
AITA? If you need validation from strangers by posting your problems online then yes!
Who cares, because eventually the buck stops somewhere. In other words, it doesn't matter how many layers of simulations there are, because at the top presumably there's a "reality". It's easiest to just assume that's where we're at, but if not, all the questions we ask about the nature of reality/life/being are still just as valid (even if we're operating at some remove from it).
Another common one is posting a story where they clearly aren't the asshole to get positive reinforcement from the comments and votes.
Huawei Unveils HarmonyOS
This is a huge pet peeve of mine specifically with Organic Strawberries. Somehow this company called "Driscoll's" has started showing up nationwide for berries. Straw, Blue, Black, Rasp, etc... It must be a conglomerate at this point. But some people at various Whole Foods corporate and other outlets have just started bowing down to them. The offer the most tasteless organic strawberries in the world.
It's interesting for a while but got boring and repetitive real quick. The stories are similar. The comments are predictable.
US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers
Both of these subreddits make me cringe so hard. Okay, maybe some RA posts are okay because they are legitimately about very complicated relationship issues, but the vast majority of the posts in both AITA and RA are just downright pathetic.

Who are these "adults" that constantly need validation and advice from strangers on the internet? How can they seriously expect to get any useful answers? Grow the fuck up, shut down your computer and talk to your fucking partner.

Similarly, if a bunch of people in real life are calling you an asshole for something you did, you were most likely an asshole. Posting some edited version of what happened to have a bunch of internet strangers soothe your feelings isn't going to change that.
highly unlikely, so unlikely, that it’s
not worth discussing IMHO.

OTH, Elon ...
maybe believing that you can game the system helps sometimes ... (significantly)
They might even use the 'Secrets that Black Hat does not want you to know' angle to their advantage.
there are good TEDx talks though and also several pretty low quality TED talks.
It's not really fringe to be homophobic in the US though.

There's lots of people that are blatant about it, and then lots of people who know they are supposed to think something other than what they do think.
Simulation of a complicated environment which evolves intelligence also seems necessary to create AI in general. Part of the problem with current ML is that the AI will only be trained to be as intelligent as necessary. Image recognition, board games, StarCraft. These are all not as complicated as our world

Let's say we can simulate a Newtonian physics universe faster than our universe operates at. Kind of like HashLife simulates Life faster, except we're fine shaving off some details if the macroscopic result is the same. The result would be a) that universe would be incapable of creating quantum computers, but b) we could leverage their higher clockrate existence

So unclear how this is a "lead up to our own creation" when we're already created
> unshakably confident that its values, its culture, are superior to the everyone else's. Now... not so much?

I feel the same way about American values that Churchill felt about democracy.
This is why I love Reddit.

People like to fixate on the toxic, and that's often because, drams.

Every so often, a bunch of them get together and start some non-toxic. And that's great. More please.
Coincidentally this video just popped up in my Youtube feed: "Before Amiga: The Story of the 16-bit Commodore 900" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OpI87v6OqA

It asserts that the 900 was an initiative by the German wing of the company, and that the Zilog CPU was considered a strange choice, in the circumstances.
Officially? How could such a thing be accepted officially? What kind of question is that? There is no Ministry of Relationship Creepiness Estimation.
Exactly... it's all done so that the accounts get enough karma so that those account can be used to "vote up" actual content they want to get to the frontpage of reddit itself or to other subreddits. Go follow the accounts that post there and you'll see what I mean.

Reddit at face value is a fun place to find things, but like any place, you have people that game the system for nefarious reasons.
Some fun facts to get your head wrapped around:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Williams_Company

That's Aaron's dad.
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It's probably insane, but this sort of 'rich seem to get an advantage in legal situations because of resources' issue makes me wonder how the world might work if we actively restricted rights based on wealth. What if people and companies couldn't sue anyone poorer than themselves? How would that affect the legal system? Or if the richer party always had to pay the legal fees?

Then again, on a more controversial level, what if actual human rights started vanishing as you crossed wealth thresholds? Would people and companies still want to be billionaires if that meant losing the right to vote?
Does anyone else view this as good news? I had heard speculation that the large insect die offs were due to climate change, but this seems much more treatable.
Resizing the window does not change anything, it makes things worse as the messages now will not be displayed properly. Try it. Resize the window, you will notice the parts whose size does not change at all.

Why is that in a 80x24 terminal I have everything on screen while typical Electron applications require one workspace per application otherwise the crucial data becomes ugly? Just let us resize bits or make them collapsible or something.
The best thing we could do if we knew we were in a child's school project would be to cease computing immediately and never, ever run our own simulation.

We can expect that energy is not free in the non-simulated universe. Through various algorithms, there may be great energy-savings. For instance, until the simulated advent of photometry, there was no need to simulate the relatively minor movement of the stars relative to each other; a simple static jpeg of the night sky would suffice.

When it comes to computing, as simulated beings improve their own efficiencies, the savings from improved algorithms reduces for the simulators. Eventually, any computing we do, the simulators will also have to do 1:1; because our algorithm and their own will be identical. We get expensive fast.

Now imagine what happens when we run our own simulations. That's the same as them running those simulations. Now if our simulations also run simulations, and so on, you 'very quickly' have a huge energy requirement that, if you're lucky, converges to a finite amount, but might not.

Now imagine you're the parents of this simulator child. :)
Have a deadline, say, 3 months. Choose one language (no framework). Have one project (a bookstore system, for example).

Read official documentation/tutorials as you develop.

You may not like the language. You may not like the project. But finish the job with the tools you chose.
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Comparing absolute numbers to nothing isn't very meaningful. You compare your $340 billion to the almost a hundred trillion dollars in US total net worth and the amount that went somewhere else is above 99%.

To get to the numbers like "1% of people own 40% of the wealth" you have to go the 1%, which is to say about three million people, and then you're including a bunch of doctors and software engineers who are clearly not in the same box as the Walton and Mars families.
The article is about neonictinoid pesticides. Lots of comments here about roundup and other herbicides, which is almost completely unrelated. The connection between insect death and a pesticide designed to kill insects is pretty clear. The connection with a widely tested herbicide designed to kill broad leaf plants is pretty tenuous.
Yes, the ASICs require highly specialised setup and it's the main issue with creating firmware from a reverse-engineering perspective. Most firmwares are either created from reverse-engineering projects which due to the time consuming nature often target older switching chips like Broadcom chips from around 2009.

Setting them up is a PITA and almost an order of magnitude harder than DDR memory training or x86 bootstrapping without an FSP/BSP. But it's possible and has been shown to work.

Other projects like Open Compute and ONIE give a lot of insight for reverse engineering of newer fabric and data plane components which significantly shortens the process of reversing and re-using existing hardware.

The control plane side of things is much easier in that regard as they are commonly generic ARM or POWER architecture SoCs with generic Flash/PROM components running a more generic RTOS (i.e. one that is used across an entire line of products and supping many data planes) or even a Linux based OS. That, combined with easy to extract firmwares and JTAG + Serial makes the control plane a lot less complex than the data plane. This is also why control planes are usually left alone because you can drop in any control plane software we already have and focus on interfacing with the ASICs instead.
A full list:

* Wear warm clothes that cover your wrists.

* Start going to the gym, and focus especially on free weight exercises. They make your arms and hands stronger, and the growth hormones released after working out promotes healing of any wrist injuries.

* Mouse sensitivity. Which is better, low or high DPI varies on a person-to-person basis but for me what worked was low as it forced me to use my hand to do large movements rather than my wrist.

* Mouse hardware. Again varies on a person-to-person basis, a mouse that is too large or too small for your hand can cause wrist pain.

* Sleep position. Sleeping on your back is probably the safest way, be sure to keep your arms relaxed on the sides. Having a pillow to hug might help as this feels somehow a natural position

* Don't play video games with a mouse. Yes this sucks as some of the best competitive multiplayer games are on the PC, but LoL, CSGO, Overwatch etc are known to cause RSI issues and lots of professional players have ruined their wrists permanently.
Switching to a console will stop any wrist problems from gaming
The argument here is Amazon being bad for authors and the above with Apple was about consumers.
I've peeed in places that are not the toilet before. Guess Ancient Aliens is a documentary

The boyfriend one also seems a common case of someone who wants their boyfriend to be realistic
start building something simple e.g. website ripper
choose any stack. it doesnt matter.

important thing to understand is - webapp are becoming more complex these days. so getting whole picture will take some time.

you can try below simple project too.

1. build library project using python. take name of books as input and add/delete/update/list in database like mysql.

2. now build new database to add/delete/update/list name of students

3. then add relationships to manage books borrowed by students

4. do same thing using web. take input from webforms and store in mysql. retrieve them again. for backend you can try flask framework.
From the article:

“This is the second Silent Spring. Neonics are like a new DDT, except they are a thousand times more toxic to bees than DDT was,” Klein says in an interview."

Rachel Carson's conclusions in "Silent Spring" were never proven to be correct - nonetheless DDT was restricted by EPA (by bureaucratic mandate rather than by reference to convincing scientific proof).

DDT should be brought back in the USA.
The title of the submission was the same as the one of the article when posting ("China successfully launches largest reusable rocket"), therefore the explanation btw.
depends on how it's done. i could randomize the password in such a way that i don't know what it is. better yet, since the password should be stored in hashed form, just changing that string would change the password to one that is unknown or even impossible. that's how i lock unix accounts.
Selling discord nitro and selling games I think. Not sure if that's already profitable to them.
Gleam 0.3 (ML dialect for Erlang VM) released
Why that province specifically?
That doesn't scale. A 40 year old person can date a 44 year old person.

The most common rule of thumb you hear is age/2 + 7. So for a 20 year old it indeed 3 "school grades" (more commonly known as years) but for a 30 year old it's 22
Reddit in a nutshell.

All subs with more than 100 subscribers are either (1) karma farms (2) egoposting no different than r/gonewild without the (explicit) nudity or (3) sports.
Which contain narrative stories, not specific falsifiable evidence, which is why no one, including you, is ever able to link to anything specific. It's like the cafe scene in Inception.
A new congressional bill could limit facial recognition technology
The python binary itself will take some memory. Although maybe it can be shared with other running python processes.
If you compare 340 billion to the net worth of the median person the mind boggles.
Well, that worked for exactly 0 Sims and TES characters in my simulations, they're all deleted now :D

On a side not, it's simply incredible what modders still do with Skyrim and it's old engine.
Those switching ASICs are very complex and setup and bootstrapping is complicated on its own, but it's been done for (now legacy) switching and fabric ASICs and it's still being done for more current devices.

A lot of effort is going to the 10G and 100G top of rack models because that's usually where you can backport to 1G/10G access switches. The core switches and more complex models have not seem much success.
From observing this interaction, it seems to me that your quickness to assert superiority is a likely explanation for your criticism being taken badly.

Constructive criticism makes the other person better. Do you want them to be better? Or do you want to be better than them?
It's both and neither. The protection is usually not really implemented in the switching ASICs or any part of the data plane but only in the control plane as you can't influence the data plan anyway.
A first look inside Google's top-secret design lab
2. Debug, reset NPCs
“Cult members worshiped certain unspecified Americans having the name "John Frum" or "Tom Navy" who they claimed had brought cargo to their island during World War II and who they identified as being the spiritual entity who would provide cargo to them in the future.[14]”
Except most of Amazon's money is made off AWS, and not retail. Amazon today would be very different if AWS didn't exist.
A monthly subscription that offers mostly cosmetic perks (animated avatars and emoji, a profile badge, larger file uploads, etc)
Caffeine can cramp creativity – Maria Konnikova (2013)
Thomas Pornin and JP Aumasson were at the talk, Thomas because he's crypto review board (along with a bunch of other cryptography people, many also in attendance) and JP because he spoke at the conference this year.

We have a pretty strong cryptography program going on at Black Hat. I think we might be the best industry offensive crypto conference at this point.
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It is new development environment framework for Etheruem smart contract. check it out here https://github.com/cobraframework/cobra . Feel free to open an issue if you find a problem, or a pull request if you've solved an issue. Thanks!
> Maybe it's circular.

Sure, if not directly circular then consider that our simulations today are used to explore choices/behavior before doing something, so it stands to reason that as each universe sim gets to some interesting data, the sim operators learn something, then change their behavior accordingly and tweak the sim and re-run, learning something new in turn, followed by more sim tweaks, ... etc.

We today learn new insights from AI and then change our behavior, pour $billions and dev time into designing better AI, etc...so there's definitely a symbiosis relationship.

And I expect that we will eventually want to design AI that designs better AI than we can ourselves, which will teach us how to design better AI-designing-AI...etc. :)
I don't agree with Bostrom's argument and wrote an undergrad paper arguing against it. I argued it from a physical point of view and I don't think we are in a Bostrom-style simulation.

That said, if you accept that a Bostrom-style simulation is physically possible, I think Bostrom is still right, and we would most likely be the center of the simulation.

His basic argument is that if there is an original universe with humans, they might like to simulate their ancestors. And they are likely to run many such simulations, in at least some of which, humans survive. Those survivors, in turn, are also likely to run many such simulations, etc. on down the line. This means that such a high percentage of humans are simulated, that you'd have nearly infinitely better odds of winning the lottery than being a non-simulated human. To me, this means we should conclude we are the center of the simulation, since the fact that we exist implies we are probably in an ancestor-simulation.

> Why simulate the whole universe just to simulate us?

> Maybe this is about simulate the universe expansion/contraction.

Why simulate the whole universe just to simulate the expansion/contraction? There seems to be little need for conscious beings (or life at all), unless life and/or conscious beings is required in some way to explain expansion/contraction. (But if so, wouldn't that mean we ARE in fact the 'center of the simulation'?
> Please try to use actual logic, data, and science, not trivially disprovable claims.

Take your own advice, Monsanto
In the early 90's I used to run Coherent on a 386SX. It was my first exposure to a "Unix clones." It had one of the better Unix manuals for the time... very comprehensive. I later moved to Linux probably 1993-ish.
Google's War on Publisher Paywalls
You know, I think touchscreens are not preferable unless you need/want to be able to have controls for many different systems in the same space (e.g. a smartphone with multiple apps). If you are needing a dedicated control for a high-stakes system, the fact that it's a more modern-looking interface should not matter. Touchscreens are inherently inferior to a mechanical interface, if it's a single-system (i.e. doesn't need to morph into a different and back again).
If I have to pay money to use something, it's not open. It's a total cooption
Ramanujan–Petersson Conjecture
>However, doing so defeats the purpose of two-factor authentication (2FA).

There are still some 2FA benefits from this. The biggest one is for people who reuse passwords. Some websites might put you into a higher security tier if you have 2FA. Also if you have to choose between SMS vs this, this has some benefits, for example it can't be hijacked by social engineering your phone provider.

Also it says regular TOTP protects you from keyloggers. That's not fully true, because the keylogger could steal your TOTP code as you enter it into the website. If the keylogger is realtime, it could log into your account before you're able to. Or if you assume there's malware on your computer, it could steal your cookies, or perform whatever account actions it wants directly on your computer.
There's a great variant of this if you work remote.

I send my manager a list of all the things I worked on each day, usually 5-10 items with no expectation of reply or action. Usually takes me no more than 3-4 minutes to write.

This gives him visibility into my day and keeps him in the loop without the overhead of scheduling a daily sync or 1:1. You can also use them as input into a brag doc or the like as well.
>they should be destroyed

Are you real? Is this a real person?
How is amazon able to control prices or exclude competition? If you don't like their terms, just list your book on one of the other 3 sites and tell your fans to buy it there and if they really want to read it on their kindle, send them a guide on how to upload it to kindle which is very easy to do.
Simple Law Could Have Saved USA $126B in Broadband Deployment Costs
They're different events. For a lot of offensive security subjects, the bar to get a talk accepted at Black Hat is significantly higher than at Defcon. Black Hat has a clear professional focus; Defcon tacks more towards culture and enthusiasts.

If you don't want to pay for Black Hat, you don't have to; one of the things Black Hat's registration price covers is professional recording, and the talks are published on Youtube in a few months.
I agree with your sentiment except for its defeatist facet. Let's not act like we are defeated and helpless. We can help shape the web and the internet into the shape we want and we are not helpless.
It’s interesting that most AI models focus on learning, but in biology the heavy lifting was all done in the developmental evolution and neurogenesis. You’re not going to teach your dog relativity with back propagation—-yet we treat BP like it was going to solve all the problems in AI. Until we start focusing more on neural architecture I have no worries about AI taking over the world.
Duh. Especially if an EMP hit.
My experience with Gartner is similar to yours - much longer on slippery snake oil salespeople than content experts. They are supposedly a research org but what they produce looks copy and pasted from a 90s website.
Please don’t cite snopes, it’s the worst possible citation you can give.

Here’s a better citation: IARC (the World Health Organization’s cancer research division) conducted a review with 20 international experts of all the publicly available research on glyphosate and found that it does indeed likely cause cancer: https://www.iarc.fr/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-gly...
Animated Parody How Alita: Battle Angel Should Have Ended
This seems like a symptom of the rules involved; when courts enable endless litigation, whoever can afford it comes out on top. If, on the other hand, legal machinations rewarded concise litigation (and public defenders were far more easily available and of high quality), I think the problem would be solved.

On that note, what if our best lawyers became public defenders? What if we petitioned our government to make that job extremely high-paying and extremely competitive? It seems like a small edit to the system, that would create an immense amount of good.
Don’t forget that blackhat pays its speakers.
Hepatitis A is breaking out across the country in wake of opioid crisis
Pretty sure NordVPN have recently started applying a similar tactic. The apps (on all platforms) have all seemingly started logging you out between use (after a small period of time has elapsed). Presumably the hassle of logging back in decreases usage, but customers keep paying.