skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I think the best outcome for everyone would be if Apple relaxed the restrictions on the App Store. Eg: not blocking an app update because they do not like the screenshots (I have personally suffered from this), letting third party browser engines (all iOS browsers use Safari web views), or even allowing apps that resemble their own apps (see what happened with Windmill recently because it competed with TestFlight).

That said, I would only agree (ideologically speaking) to Apple being as unreasonable as they are now if they allowed third party stores and let users chose which store they prefer. I really don't know how that would work but it would not be my first option.
They don't.

After the Volcker rule the big banks had to close their prop trading groups:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_trading

The idea that investment banks are filled with human "traders" is Hollywood nonsense.

Most trading activity (and even filling of retail order flow) is now done by quant-driven funds.
I think undoubtedly the reason for "investigating" this now is the optics for Elsevier. They are bad guys in the eyes of most people right now.

The main evidence I have for this claim, is that coercive citations are so common as to be a trope in PhD comics and the like. Moreover it is bleeping obvious to the editor, when they receive a review by M. Ister that suggests 10+ new references to M. Ister et al., that this is going on.
I was being facetious, just wanted to emphasize how little I care about the well-being of the mosquitoes given the horrific suffering and death they have caused.
Indeed. There is a vaccine being tested right now [0] and still a lot of potential for better coverage with insecticide treated bed nets [1][2] (which are pretty effective) and the number of Malaria cases is actually steadily decreasing [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTS,S

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_net#Insecticide-treat...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/malaria#bed-nets

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/malaria-deaths-by-age
That sounds like a great approach. I often wondered how to get Scheme code running in Unity.

Can you fire up a REPL while the game is running? That would be huge.

Many years ago I experimented with the idea of creating games for iOS in Chicken Scheme. Because I'm exceedingly lazy and did not want to bother with cross-compilation – unless it became a serious project – I just told Chicken's compiler to stop at the C code generation step. The Makefile would then copy the generated (and quite unreadable) C code to the XCode project, and then compile the whole thing together with any Objective-C code I had.

With very little setup code, you could embed arbitrarily large Chicken programs. And given Chicken's excellent C interop, the Objective-C code could easily call Scheme functions (the reverse is not as trivial, so I just wrote wrappers for the handful of Objective-C functions I needed – which weren't many in a game).

The only piece missing at the time was that Chicken did not have OpenGL-ES bindings. I solved that by copying code from Gambit Scheme, and using a couple of very trivial macros to make it compatible.

That worked beautifully. I could even start a remote REPL and instantly change running code over the network, no matter if it was running in a real device or the simulator. And I mean instantly: the next rendered frame would already have the changes.

Then I hit my roadblock: I had successfully solved the technical problem, so I lost interest in pursuing the game, which was ostensibly the reason why I had embarked on this detour to begin with. Oh well.
In those specific examples they meet (B), irrespective of the contractor's work habits. If you make a website for another web developer, the web developer who hired you might not meet (B), regardless of who else you've made websites for. I admit the analogy is a bit tortured, but the point is that (B) depends entirely on the contractee's business and what they're hiring the contractor to do.
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I think open peer-review system would be great. It would also keep reviewers much more careful and accountable for their work.

It is a bit different than design docs/code review in the sense that, there are N different authors competing to grab a place in conference or journal -- so they may try to game the system, while in case of design docs/codereview there is no such competition.
1. The living costs of NYC are not triple what they are in Dallas (obviously there is some choice to this), but triple is grossly exaggerating the difference.

2. Even if triple was correct, since the living expenses are not 100% of your pay in either case - you're still better off living in NYC in terms of savings - I hope you can do the math to see this.
...in fact, the default DoH provider in Firefox is CloudFlare.
AMD improves real-world boost and idle on Ryzen 3000
In addition to the things already mentioned, signing bonuses you receive immediately are great for people coming right out of school, or from low pay from academic research jobs or their own scrappy startup.

It helps with any incidental debt that was accruing (separate from student loans), as well as immediate expenses related to the lifestyle bump (e.g., move to an apartment that would pass inspection). Which also benefits the organization, by unburdening the hire of some of those distractions from work.

I suppose a requirement that the employee pay back the bonus if they leave within a certain period is additional incentive for the employee to be genuinely interested and committed, not intending to job-hop for the next slightly-better salary or more promising lottery ticket.
> in general, tech workers are wayyy overpaid

Supply and demand doesn't care about what you need to live or what you consider to be over or underpaid.
That's how domain registrars work. You set a "lock" so the domain can't be transferred away until you "unlock". Then you can tie this locking/unlocking procedure to 2FA, identify verification, whatever.
tbf whilst I completely agree the "tankie" label doesn't fit Corbyn and his average supporter particularly well, one of the more interesting properties of Corbyn is his ability to maintain very good relationships with both the "Stalinist" and "Trotskyist" factions of the British radical left (who tend to hate each other and have little more regard for the Labour Party)

I think the "tankie" description is pretty fair when applied to likes of Seamus Milne and Andrew Murray, though of course Milne stopped being the Guardian's comment editor to work for Corbyn and Murray hasn't written for them since 2013.
> I don't have a problem with the MBP being hard to fix, but I have a problem with most repairs require a 2-week ground shipment (both ways) to get the apple store to send it for repair.

I don't understand the distinction. The MBP is hard to fix because most repairs require a 2-week ground shipment both ways.
What’s Number 15, it’s been redacted.

I suppose one could work out what is missing from the list and deduce what Number 15 is about and why it’s so sensitive; or just look up the previously leaked document.
Are children who lose one eye at a very young age unable to see and identify 3D objects?
The reason I can accept superposition is that I have first-hand access to experimental evidence of it. I can see interference fringes with my own eyes. By way of contrast, not only do I not have any direct evidence of the existence of copies of me, I cannot possibly have such evidence. And this is not a technological limitation. This is a limit predicted by the theory itself.
There isn't a good way to do that. Electronic funds transfers are generally reversible, though. After informing your bank of an unauthorized electronic funds transfer, they are required to investigate and provide you at least a provisional credit for the amount within ten business days.
In Ann Arbor, this is definitely possible. I would be surprised if Senior Software Engineers at Duo were not making mid-100's.
I read the article. I also looked at the transaction. But the transaction was made up of maybe two dozen input addresses, and I didn't feel like walking backwards through each of those on my phone.

My question was, has nobody walked them all back to a known address? I find it hard to believe that one of those inputs wasn't downstream of some transactions from a known address.

It's not necessary for me to explain this here, and you were being helpful to me; I'm just clarifying what my intent was with that apparently misleading? statement was.
Isn't Intel XPoint/Optane is that? RAM-like speeds with persistence.
If you're happy that's great but you need to recognize you're very, very underpaid for NYC. Your opportunity cost is $50-100,000 a year.
Cloudflare has a better track record than most ISPs and governments.
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All of which appear to be related to black market pods. I don't think that empowering the black market by banning the pods people want to buy is going to fix that.
As a general case: academic lectures / lecturers on certain topics fill this bill for me. They're typically not episodic, as with channels, but if you're looking for deep dives into solid subjects, they're golden. This includes both current productions and old / archived materials republished on YouTube or other video distribution systems.
This reminds me of an interesting story. The host of The Portal podcast, Eric Weinstein went on the Joe Rogan show where he shared a story: he used to get very easily sun burnt. No chance of getting a tan. He'd just burn. Then, one day he took LSD and then stopped burning. Crazy story. No follow up study =).
> Also, if the position is highly sought-after - isn't it a bit weird that a signing bonus is offered?

In today's job market, in software engineering, it's the applicants that are highly sought after. So the signing bonus is used to make the offer more appealing in order to compete better for talent.

In a weaker market, signing bonuses could also be used as a consolation for a lower salary offer.
I truly miss this channel. Even the short video about chairs was great.
With a planet this large, visiting it would be a one way trip due to the "The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation" [0]. I'm looking forward to the day we start finding exo-planets that are closer to Earth in size and which could potentially have space-faring races (and which we could leave if we were ever to visit them).

[0] - https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/exped...
Not at all. I was very amused. Thanks for posting this, it really is a great piece.
It does make a difference for some unknown reason. :)

> However, using the Linux system for Windows 10, the same code would seg fault. In fact, if you didn’t set the gcc -O2 option, the other examples would seg fault, too.
Branding, marketing, sketchy corporate governance.
What is the new Apple U1 chip?
Something that's probably not mentioned in the article is that it's really easy to get into day trading in Brazil. I think I read somewhere that in the US you need a US$ 25k account to day trade; in Brazil with a US$ 50 account you're in the game. There are many zero-fee brokers (though those are a recent development, I don't remember those in 2013), and capital gain taxes are 20%.

In fact I'm surprised that day trading in Brazil is not more popular than it already is. It's basically legalized gambling. I do remote work as a software developer in Brazil and I've been playing a bit with options swing trading on the side (which is even cheaper than day trading); I don't plan to make a living out of it, but it can be fun (and a bit addictive).
https://eviltrout.com/2013/02/16/infinite-scrolling-that-wor...
They experimented with a wide array of drugs, including LSD, fish poison, and Scopolamine. At first, the CIA was predominantly concerned with (aerosol) weaponization and investigating if dosing an unwitting agent, diplomat, or soldier with LSD could be used to extract secrets. Later they became interested in the counter culture of the 60s (and making sure the Russians were not turning a new generation against its own society/military).

https://fightingmonarch.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/human-dr...

> Among the drugs illegally used by CIA against American citizens are (a) hypnotic sedatives such as amobarbital, aprobarbital, butabarbital sodium, chloral hydrate, methotrimeprazine hydrochloride, midazolam hydrochloride, paraldehyde, pentobarbital, pentobarbital sodium, quazepam, secobarbital sodium, sodium pentobarbital, temazepam, triazolam, and zolpidem tartrate, (b) hypnotics like demerol, desoxyn (combined with sodium pentothal), methyprylon, and pentothal acid, and (c) memory blockers such as acetylcholine, BZ, and scopolamine.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4858612A/en

> A method and apparatus for simulation of hearing in mammals by introduction of a plurality of microwaves into the region of the auditory cortex is shown and described. A microphone is used to transform sound signals into electrical signals which are in turn analyzed and processed to provide controls for generating a plurality of microwave signals at different frequencies. The multifrequency microwaves are then applied to the brain in the region of the auditory cortex. By this method sounds are perceived by the mammal which are representative of the original sound received by the microphone.

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

> Only a handful of cases in which scopolamine was used for police interrogation came to public notice, though there is evidence suggesting that some police forces may have used it extensively. 2, 16 One police writer claims that the threat of scopolamine interrogation has been effective in extracting confessions from criminal suspects, who are told they will first be rendered unconscious by chloral hydrate placed covertly in their coffee or drinking water.

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

> The United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) experimented with the use of mescaline, scopolamine, and marijuana as possible truth drugs during World War II. They concluded that the effects were not much different from those of alcohol: subjects became more talkative but that did not mean they were more truthful. Like hypnosis, there were also issues of suggestibility and interviewer influence. Cases involving scopolamine resulted in a mixture of testimonies both for and against those suspected, at times directly contradicting each other.
Yes, FaceID is another good example of technology that could be brought to the reality without long-term strategical commitments from other big (possibly competing) companies. I'm not saying that Apple is losing its edge on product technology "design". Apple will still remain to be the best here at least for several more years. But it's also still true that the technological bar for manufacturing components is rapidly going up and Apple doesn't have much controls in this area.
> Six people have died so far from what seems to be a vaping-related lung condition.

Vaping what, exactly?

This whole situation is like if the government allowed (and profited in the billions on sales of) heroin, and a small industry sprang up selling methadone pills. A few people who took some unknown kind of pill got sick or died, and the government then makes moves to shut down the methadone industry.
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> This is the most valid argument. We solved by being clever about History.pushstate(), triggering when the next article title hits 50% of screen. Bookmarking works fine.

As a user this bothers me the most. If I have no intention of reading the next article but scroll to the end it then takes two clicks to leave the site via back button - sometimes more.

IF you wanted to do it right, only set history when the title of the next article is at the top of the viewport. 50% just isn't enough and likely just messing up your kpis.
That's why you need better roommate matching: to find roommates who are cool with a cat + overnight guests.
From:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2019/sep/11/b...

"15. Facing EU tariffs makes petrol exports to the EU uncompetitive. Industry had plans to mitigate the impact on refinery margins and profitability but UK Government policy to set petrol import tariffs at 0% inadvertently undermines these plans." [More to come]
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I don't know why I ever bother reading things like this. On one hand, I'm not driven by money, so it doesn't motivate me. On the other, my perspective of having been in software for about 4-8 years depending on how you count, and struggling to get to net zero—an amount of only about 10k cad—is just sort of crushing when I realize someone fresh out of school can negotiate a 100k signing bonus and more yearly salary than I've ever been offered. It's just this sort of awful sinking feeling knowing that I'm sort of on the periphery of an industry in which most people are making more money than they know what to do with.

That said, I'm happy that people get paid well to do something they love, but that can often be very depressing. Not always certainly, but damn if you've never looked out from behind your screen at the sun shining and thought a little less of the React component or whatever saas thing you work on.

It's easy to forget that many of these articles, and particularly posts are Blind, are just just riddled with people posturing about the same thing.

Edit: I should add the emotional response I tend to have given my circumstance, I do think it's way better to have transparency than not.
Care to share some examples of your sites?
I'm not complaining about anything. I'm simply observing that Deutsch and other prominent advocates of the MWI do not consider multiple worlds to be metaphorical. They insist in no uncertain terms that they are real, and go to great lengths to justify this position. There is absolutely no ambiguity with respect to what they believe.
Think of a used car dealership. They buy cars and resell them later for (usually) a higher price. Are they not producing anything?

As the sibling comment pointed, participants in a market are producing and consuming liquidity.
> With a planet this large, visiting it would be a one way trip

Assuming chemical propulsion and no refuelling at the destination.
And if your living costs are 100% of your net income then you’re doing something wrong. For most people, this move will still result in 3x savings which means either earlier retirement or more money in retirement.
I honestly would like to see the military eliminated. It's not like Canada or Mexico are going to invade us. We could keep the missile defense to protect from anyone trying to attack us over the oceans. As for protecting commerce, let shipping companies weaponize their boats and pass on the cost to consumers. I'm sure the defense contractors not selling to the US military anymore would be happy to design systems for the shipping companies.
Yes! Riffing off that, I'd want to do a version where all the data in the game is pure randomness, but where your experimental configurations can influence the outcome. (e.g. you can clean the equipment, which alters the reading, or redo experiments that "went wrong")

You'd be given a prize/goal for publishable findings. Then you'd gradually introduce enough bias into the experiments to get something publishable, and then get hit with the reveal that "oh you were generating effects from random data, jerk".

(Okay, maybe that's overcomplicating it.)
> The way to protect workers is to shift the burden of health care and other costly benefits onto the government, supported by taxes.

Or just disconnect this stuff from the employer. It seems strange that employers are involved in something like health insurance. It creates friction changing jobs, and much of the population isn't employed.
I think your points are completely biased.

I'm going to rail against your attitude here, not you:

0. Appeal to authority.

1. Sounds like job security.

2. Footers are NOT useless. Menus are aggravating.

3. Analytics are 99% evil, 1% hot gas.

4. Stay out of my History.pushstate(). I don't need 50 things in my back stack just because your "page" couldn't fit on one screen.

5. Too many incorrect facts to address in one line.

6. It depends on what the definition of "is" is. No. Single cluttered pages are quantifiably easier to use than a dynamic page of unknown length. Is it ever going to stop?

7. It disorents me, and I'm a super-ultra-mega power user. Spinning a 3D model when the user scrolls down is downright unexpected behavior. It's a trick. A gimmick. A distraction. It's disorienting.

8. I don't want a choose-your-own-adventure. I want a damn single page with damn information on it.

9. I don't think that's a solution.

10. I don't care about "User Experience." I want "User Interface". "UX engineer" is just job title inflation for non-committal designers.
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This was rather insightful.

But seriously I cannot believe that this technology exists, has proven successful in lab test but the reason they're holding it back is because they are afraid of tampering with the eco-system. I'm glad they didn't feel that when eradicating polio and smallpox and other things.

Anyway after reading some more I feel that part of it may be because it is modification to the gene. People are just afraid of some words like "nuclear", "gene", etc.

It seems whenever such technology is part of the solution the progress takes a lot time to happen because we cannot be too catious using it.
It's 111 light years away. For all intents and purposes, that's a one way trip right there; irregardless of the rocket equation. Even at relativistic speeds, you can't come home anymore.
Why would we trust voluntary self-reported data to be representative? There’s got to be massive sampling bias here. Wouldn’t human nature to brag and overstate bias these averages on the high side?
No mention of a celebratory piss up in a brewery once it’s successfully finished...
I don't think they finished the NES version?
There are plenty of times in history when puritanical movements like prohibition are not driven by older, 'conservative' folks but by young radicals, so this correlation is probably pretty tenuous if it exists. Look at the Reformation in England in the 16th century for example or the rise of literal Puritanism in the following century.
Why not tech fuhrer?

(Godwin's law in action)
It's 1 FA authentication because all you need is the phone to access the account. The password is irrelevant since all you need is access to the reset code that is sent via SMS. However, since you don't really even need access to the phone and can easily social engineer access to messages sent to the phone, it's not really a full one factor.
The game felt like a grind from the 10th hour. Playing in public, people don't even play the game, they jump-dash through the entire level, kill a boss, and head to the end, over and over and over, every three minutes, all day. What's the point?
> OSS projects come to an end.

Depends on the project. With necessary projects to operate still-used technology, I don't know that OSS projects actually end (without drop-in replacements) very often.
if the cryptocurrency fails its dollar value will plummet. So do you really want no one to sign up?
>The way forward for us is developing and owning our own locations together with customers, neighbors, service providers etc, and that in unusual but really interesting locations (think Kigali, Bethlehem, Kathmandu), with a foundation on top developing a common infrastructure for procurement, payments, customer service etc.

Nice. I like the idea of cohousing in undiscovered interesting places.
I don't think we know enough to presume what was going on in the "initial state" of the universe, except perhaps that it was very low entropy.