skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I agree with that, especially certain classes of texts that assume you understand the background knowledge and what it was written for. The Bible is a good example of this. So much of the context in which the books were written is lost, and not really gleaned by a lay-person reading it. Reading academic commentaries and introductions to the various books has very much widened my view and made me understand the author's point more, rather than interpreting it through my 21st-century lens. I think there's definitely more of that needed, across all ancient philosophical texts.
As silly as it sounds? Marx wrote very little about government.

The most promising moves towards collective autonomy in the 21st Century are about abolishing politics as we know it, and engaging directly. From Chiapas Mexico, the EZLN is expanding. Rojava is convalescing into a functioning federation of semi-autonomous collectives coordinating defense against ISIL. And any economist who bothers to actually examine the subject sees that worker co-ops make unimaginable things possible.

Worker Ownership of the means of production - thats the game. Having Government as a MiddleMan didnt work out well - there's plenty of other options on the deep Left. It did produce shorter work weeks than we have in the US today, but freedom overall suffered.

But compared to what we have now? Freedom is a lie when you cant afford it under Capitalism. Even the freedom to achieve gainful employment is just another pipe dream to too many. You're gonna wanna let us in before we burn it down just to survive. It isnt up to me - Im not the one with power here. And that's another off topic discussion - the conflation of power with Freedom...

You think your Market System works so well? If you think Marxism is some kind of disease, rehabilitate us Lefties with paychecks capable of raising Families and paying down debt. Train me, and I'll earn it. Remember that poverty sets trainees back weeks at a time - the deeper the poverty, the worse it gets. But if you want the most loyal employees ever, you'll invest that time anyway.

That's the only way you can stop the wave thats coming. The American Dream was a Deal - and Ive put blood, sweat, tears, even smiles while missing funerals into holding up my end of the bargain. Meanwhile, I've never worked anywhere in the US that wasnt the proverbial Russian Nail Factory, and still been repeatedly homeless with a full time job.

You know nothing of how we live. Quit pretending you do to our faces, and then pretending we're all useless, lazy junkies when you're among your "friends".
VOIP numbers are much more anon-accessible. You can buy a ready to go google account with voice enabled if you know where to look.
So Telegram will break China's laws.

Can't these tech companies be charged for aiding law breakers?
Not great for lidar on autonomous cars. Wonder what it's radar properties are like too.
Per your links:

- The coal gas phaseout's associated decrease in suicide rates principally affected men; women more readily jumped to other alternatives (as indicated on the graphs). It also principally affected England and Wales (Scotland showed far more modest decreases in suicide among men, and effectively no change among women), which prompted the authors of that paper to exclude Scotland from their conclusions due to the anomalous data; it's possible that Scotland didn't phase out coal gas as quickly, but the drop in suicide-by-CO-suffocation seems to support the idea that Scotland and England/Wales were under the same conditions.

- Per the chart in the Sri Lanka article that breaks down poisoning v. "other specified methods" v. "other means", poisoning actually increased (even ignoring the spike in 1983), and most of the reductions were in the "other means" category (which was completely eliminated by 2005). The "Data for risk factors in suicide" section also details various other factors that are more probable than banning a specific kind of poison (namely: the civil war that was raging in Sri Lanka during almost all of time period when suicide rates fell, consistent with the article's remark that suicide rates do typically fall significantly during times of war).

- The Montreal article only concludes that suicide specifically by jumping did not displace to other jumping sites. It makes no conclusion around other means of suicide (and while suicide rates did fall in general, the article states that this trend began 5 years before the installation of the nets on the studied bridge).

EDIT: in general, I don't feel like any of those sources do an adequate job of isolating these potential causes from other factors; they do demonstrate at least some correlation, but - as the saying famously goes - correlation != causation, and there are numerous other factors that tend to drive suicide rates, especially socioeconomic and cultural.
You can check out https://blog.acolyer.org/

It's run by a guy called Adrian Colyer, he picks up a good research paper every weekday and summarises it on the blog. He's very regular and covers about 200 papers per year. Topics covered mainly revolve around data science (ML, AI, etc) and data engineering (DBMS, distributed systems, etc), and to a lesser extent general software engineering and systems stuff.
My issue as a Quality Assurance practitioner, is that this excuse (coordination issues) quite literally pops up everywhere, and one of the first skills you need to master to get anywhere with a business is to nip that attitude in the bud. No one will let you have the license to test what needs to be tested unless you are willing to hold up the entire project until you get your results/questions answered.

It is not sufficient to get an unproven platform out there to build up "track record" to prove it is safe. That's ludicrous. That's how you get things blowing up, catching on fire, losing power, throwing turbine blades, what have you.

You have to have your your fundamental analysis done, and if you are integrating with a major system from someone else, you need to bloody coordinate with them, and ideally talk with their Quality department. If your plane is going to be spending a lot of time in Asia, testing how your turbine should up to the atmosphere there is not an unreasonable experiment to run. Expensive? Yes. Difficult to prepare? Yes. Unreasonable? Goodness, no.

The thing that scares the bajeezus out of me, is that I've not once come across anywhere that makes that kind of contact between organizational Quality departments feasible or efficient. In my pursuits, I basically end up having to do end runs around obstacles and become such a subject matter expert, I start asking questions that make other service providers nervous, because they don't know whether they're saying too much. I've spent so much time tearing stuff apart it's just natural to me to do so; but as I'm frequently reminded, I'm apparently not a typical specimen in my craft.
you can say essentially the same thing and re-word it in such a way that it is less trite:

"my biggest weakness is that i prioritise code quality, completeness and long-term maintainability above all other concerns, without understanding the broader engineering or business context where sometimes an ugly short-term hack or ignoring edge cases may be necessary to get a release out the door on schedule for a marketing campaign, or temporarily mitigate a production issue, or allow a project to be delivered on budget"

note: this is clearly still a weakness in an engineer, ideally you also need to talk through how you recognised this issue, what resources you used to change your behaviour and improve your performance in time or budget constrained situations, and what the result was...
"Books aren't free" isn't a coherent criticism of an idea. Nobody is claiming exclusivity or special authority over the concept of diets which trigger human ketogenesis.

Your level of unqualified certainty about keto diets is amusing. I personally know a number of people who are sticking to that diet and they've all had their health objectively improve as a result. (Weight, body tone, lipoprotein subfractions.)

In one case, he had chronic fatigue that his GP (family doctor) couldn't resolve, nor two expert referrals who tried medications and special diets. The keto diet led to an effective cure (the key factor was narrowed to the consumption of sugar, even relatively small amounts) and when combined with other health marker improvements, now considers his keto diet as necessary for a tolerable existence.

So yeah, dangerous and unhealthy.

(And for the record I've no idea what "this hydration thing" is. When I cited hydration I wasn't talking about some special diet, only to the basic concept of not being dehydrated.)
In europe it's mixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/9ziqfi/european_cou...
If the company leaders and employees have any integrity left, they should quit their jobs and do something that's actually worth doing for humanity and mankind.
Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account
Already discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823339
If you have iCloud on and you use a MacBook, you’re fucked. iCloud Drive on? Definitely fucked. It’s syncing all the time. Firefox, chrome, and definitely safari has had so many WebKit and kernel vulns over the last few years it’s sickening. All it takes is one fucked up website to silently compromise your browser and it’s over.

Don’t forget mostly everyone who has a Mac runs the machine with the admin user account.

Gatekeeper is so trash and by default it is set to allow Apple signed apps and third party apps. THIRD PARTY.

Let me ask everyone this:

How many of you open keychain access on your Mac? Open spotlight and type keychain and open it. I guarantee you will see a shit ton of unknown self signed certs from who knows where buried in your system. The self signed root certificates are the problem. If your iPhone and Mac are on the same Wi-Fi network, they are communicating no matter if iCloud is on or not.

Oh and one more thing...

Flashback Trojan is out and spreading in the wild again and no one has any clue. I just found it on a patched up to date Mojave on two MacBook pros.

Download the F-Secure flashback removal tool and see for yourself. You are going to want to throw your piece of shit out the window. Apple has no fcking clue what they’re doing.

I feel so bad for the old people who are getting their info robbed all day long. The ones who still use aol email addresses. Smh

Download Patrick Wardle’s Mac security tools and you’ll cry when you see how bad your fcked. He just released Netiquitte which monitors network traffic going in and out down to the process.

Another tool everyone should download for iOS is Guardian Firewall. Fairly new, but it blocks trackers and attempted browser/page hijacking.

Oh and PS

Everyone go into iOS settings, go to safari-> advanced-> website data

Look how many persistent cookies are there. Try to clear them all see what happens. Lmfao we as a race are all about to shit the bed so bad. Say your prayers
Knowing the founder, find it hard to believe. The guy who fled Russia to avoid persecution has little tolerance for any government trying to mess with people's privacy. Culturally, Russia itself has a lot more in common with the west. China is completely separated, from, I would say, the rest of the world, in terms of mentality. It's even different from most Asian countries and Hong Kong. Find it hard to imagine why would anyone cooperate with China on doing things the western world considers immoral and unacceptable.
We've seen this movie before. We've seen numerous stories like this over the last 5 years. The phone number get ported to another phone by hackers. And then they start resetting all the person's accounts. SMS is no longer a safe 2FA. We need to get cell phone providers to secure phone numbers better. at the very least they should allow all their users to provide a PIN before porting!
Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL
Line is the default messaging app in Taiwan, so one would assume that the Chinese government would be interested in targeting it.
Hypocrisy is what you're preaching right here. People downvoting me for expressing (what "they" consider a first amendment right) by voicing my opinion that Canada has it better for not restricting healthcare based on religious ideology. That's hypocrisy against my USA and Canadian right.

People are scum when they use religion as an excuse to allow someone's health to be worse than if religion didn't exist to result in the maltreatment compared to a person with an illness they find tolerable by their beliefs for following treatment protocol accepted in the medical community.

I can voice that opinion in Canada or in the USA. Canada has it better for trans people. I'm sure "scum" in USA will not care about that because they're a bunch of narcissists.
Then don't use so called 'secure' services that rely on phone numbers. There exist plenty of secure chat apps that don't have this flaw. LINE is probably my favorite.
Choosing between European internet laws and having a tech sector, I'd pick having a tech sector any day. It's all totally unnecessary strangling of innovation. The entire idea that you own data pertaining to you is absurd.
Sure they can, but they'll still try for a DOC file because that makes their lives easier.

The answer isn't to try to "beat" the recruiter with PDFs and JPEGs; the answer is to run away and find a more direct path to the employer.
> That is, natural selection promoting genes for intelligence has probably been far more ruthless in New Guinea than in more densely populated, politically complex societies, where natural selection for body chemistry was instead more potent.

> ....

> That is, in mental ability New Guineans are probably genetically superior to Westerners....

It's hard to pinpoint anything as boldly suspect as what he wrote early in the book, but in searching what stood out to me was his casual use of words like "evolved" and "evolution". In various parts it's ambiguous whether he perceives a genetic component to the evolution of various political societies.

I thought I remembered a part where he says some seafaring peoples score higher on spatial reasoning tests, from which he infers an evolutionary genetic adaption. But I couldn't find it.

FWIW, here's the full text: https://archive.org/stream/fp_Jared_Diamond-Guns_Germs_and_S...
And even though they support security keys, they only allow one to be added to your account. Very poor
Just because something is not determined by genes does not automatically mean it is not innate. Some traits are determined by hormones and there might be many other mechanisms that determine our physical and behavioral traits.
regular link: https://www.cultofmac.com/646838/american-psycho-apple-card-...
Feross? No, he's a serious OS dev, behind WebTorrent and other projects.
That’s hardly a fair comparison when 1/3 of the population of NZ lives in Auckland.
Wow! That's a really comprehensive list. Thanks for compiling it.
Great going Fort Collins Municipal broadband! way to put the smack down on Comcast. I'm cheering for you, and every other broadband provider that kicks the snot out Comcast and At&t.
Roblox game almost got hacked
Today a user known as Squeaky128931 tried too hack Squeaky Builders Computer Core 3 the anti hack system said "HACKER FOUND" we have no idea why this happened yet ~Squeaky Builders administers
Yep I've been rambling about 23 months now. Savings went from - balance to 5 digits not blowing it on rent. No problems, whatsoever. The key ia to not loiter in one place too long, don't leave a mess(cleaning up helps, alot) & be courteous to randoms & LEOs. It would be a reduced SoL to rent again, IMO.

*I do have a job that requires travel(paid), so I drive across multiple states or fly out of the closest airport qhen required. When I'm not working, I want to be out hiking/paddling/skiing, anyway.
One way to mitigate the situation is to pay for OpenDNS and install their DNS vpn app that will track every query. This can also be done with AdGuard Pro. If it was all being done via HTTP, you can pinpoint the suspect traffic going to a suspect server. Just check the ip’s using threatcrowd.org and see if they hit. Or virus total or both. Or urlscan.io or securitytrails whatever
https://www.roblox.com/users/1213223468/profile
That seems to have been an official promotional tie-in for the launch of Windows 95. I doubt they could have used "Microsoft" otherwise. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/611227/windows-95-...
I actually like the apple tv remote, why is it form over function?
Current Transformer models are looking pretty good at complex end-to-end tasks (at least, better than the shallow regression with hand-picked features that ETS probably uses). In a few years, complete end-to-end evaluation may not be so impossible, especially with so much data.
CRISPR biologist here, albeit in far more interested in CRISPR as a microbial immune system, and the bulk of my work has been examining CRISPR-associated Rossman fold proteins, not Type 2/Cas9 that is used for genetic engineering. However, I still have a fairly large working knowledge of the field and I guess I could be considered something of a tangential expert, at least compared to journalists and lay people.

In short, there are huge limitations.

The first issue is how to edit people reliably. Cas9 simply isn't accurate nearly enough of the time. It's not a system that could be employed in a living human being without risking mistarget effects. How severe those would be is something that still isn't known, and would be difficult to model because where you miss would likely depend on the target gene.

There's a few thought processes on how to do it more safely. One is to make the edits in lab, verify the changes, propagate them. This is by far the safest route, but leaves other issues. How do you propagate the changes? We don't know how to propagate the changes to an adult human whatsoever. Stem cells get floated but that's still an underexplored field so it's difficult to say what's going to happen, or if it's even possible.

Regarding that to put in, that's the easy part. We've been designing sequences for artificial proteins for decades. Researchers at CalTech just published a paper last November where they designed a system of viral proteases (proteins that chop up other proteins) in such a way that they could perform logic circuits in a living cell, and do things like kill the cell if it developed cancer.

The first things to come will be targeted drug delivery, biomarkers, and cancer prevention.

However we are still a long way from propagating changes throughout an adult human, if it's even even possible with CRISPR.
Redditor works out which generation of satellite took surveillance image of Iran
Genes determine expression though.
Use “man pages” in Ubuntu docker containers
> Getting enough pills to do yourself in without a prescription is super hard and not very reliable.

It's actually ridiculously easy in the US, especially when combined with alcohol (probably easier than illicitly obtaining a gun, given that far more Americans have pills laying around than guns). Reliability is another story (but - again - increases with alcohol). This also assumes that even kids (let alone adults) don't have access to prescriptions (which would be a poor assumption, given the ongoing opiate addiction crisis and American doctors' tendencies to write morphine et. al. prescriptions up the wazoo, as well as the fact that sometimes kids get sick, too).

And that ain't even mentioning illegal drugs; heroin and methamphetamines are pretty commonplace in the US, as are accidental overdoses (and given that suicides do tend to be spur of the moment, it's possible - probable, even - that suicide by illegal narcotics - be they illegally-obtained prescription drugs or hard recreational drugs - goes substantially unreported and instead lumped in with accidental overdoses).
Also every American who dies of cancer or other major medical condition will have his or her lifetime savings wiped out by medical bills. So measure average net income minus expenses at time of death and I’d be surprised if we beat Bangladesh. They probably have a higher gross national happiness in life as well.
> Suddenly, you find yourself making zero effort for opposite sex and your expectations from them go down.

Here’s a white pill for you. Make an effort for the opposite sex, because they’re people, but still maintain no expectation that you’ll get anything in return. This is the next layer of the onion for you to peel back.
One more GEM before I go:

Mojave has a weird process that is persistently Installing self-signed certificates in the keychain. This allows teachers to remote into a students laptop. Why the mother fuck is this shit on my computer after I keep deleting it? I delete the cert and the public and private keys. Next day the shit is back with a new set. Brand new cert with key pairs. WHAT??? And the self-signed cert is not verified.

I try to make the cert untrusted thinking that will work. NOPE.

Created a little snitch rule to block all in and outbound traffic for the studentd process. Still didn’t matter the fucking thing gets remotely installed back into the keychain. Can anyone from Apple please explain to me why this bullshit keeps happening???

I remember when backtomymac was being exploited because it was something no one even knew about. They finally got rid of that but now they got a replacement!
Secure until the government asks.

https://linecorp.com/en/security/article/35
That was from The Simpsons way before Mad Men:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO0JaecRWy0
The harder the tech, the older the founder.
> What's the downside except having a "update dependency" commit from time to time.

This isn't a downside, it's a chance to vet and code review your dependencies which you should be doing anyways (but nobody does).
It reminds me of a real world Scheme. Not identical, but similar.
Once a machine is compromised at the kernel level, all further patches mean nothing. It’s a joke.
Yes, absolutely!

In particular there's evidence for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_male...
You reckon this facespace thing will ever catch on?
I am not sure how open sourcing the code would help? If they have a bad intent, they could publish a "clean" source code and deploy something else.
Ridiculous History covered this recently: https://player.fm/series/series-2148552/the-portuguese-bank-...

Crazy how much he got away with, for so long, effectively just on confidence and skill.
He did, which kinda underscores the argument that entrepreneurs with prior experience and connections have a higher chance of success.
Allow me to also add: Josh Jones (19, DreamHost)!

But also: Bob Parsons (46, GoDaddy)... founded the same time and currently worth about 200x DreamHost.
Can 'progress studies' contribute to knowledge? History suggests caution
Not to mention that I used to be able to get my own metrics (eg. by tailing access logs on the vanity import path server, or checking stats on my version control service or server, etc.) now only Google has that information and module owners are left in the dark about how many times their code is being hit.

They also aren't being very forward thinking. The Go team keeps saying "we promise no Google exec is doing anything nefarious with that" but we don't know who will be the execs next year, or 10 years from now or what they'll do with the power the Go team just gave them by being so short sighted.
Nope.

JSC is even better in that regard - it’s API and ABI stable so you can just link to the[1] system install and use it [2].

[1] on Linux there are multiple (although technically it could be made to have a single lib for qt,gtk,wx...

[2] ok, actually using the C API is very very clunky :-/
China Recruits Thousands of Spies Using LinkedIn