skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not making the case for Frankenstein's Monster being an angel, just comparing Softbank to Frankstein is a poor comparison. We can get into the weeds of the book if you want, but I don't think that's going to shed any light on Wework or Softbank.

When the reanimated corpse of Wework starts murdering Softbanks friends and relatives, I will of course stand corrected.
To illustrate your point, here is a twitter by a model trained on Donald Trump's tweets: https://twitter.com/botustrump
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As one concrete use case, you could use Dart FFI to call Win32 APIs that implement Flutter plugins that support Windows. You should have network access via wifi w/o any trouble today but we do have work to do to support Bluetooth better.

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PM, Flutter developer experience
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True, but I don't think ladder-related are growing or have a potential to grow significantly in the future. Vaping deaths are probably increasing and since people get addicted to them (and not to ladders) there's an incentive to get them under control now.
That was the trick: the "app" the GP describes already exists! It's called the deposit system on recyclables, and somehow, governments never consider promoting such full time redeemers into employees!

Do you think governments should turn away all such recyclables that the homeless bring in on the grounds that they're not making a living wage? If not, you see the legit problem the GP described.
Six people have died so far from what seems to be a vaping-related lung condition. This may be several orders of magnitude lower than the number killed by smoking cigarettes an equivalent amount of time, but it's not something to be ignored. Strangling a baby in its crib is easier than taking out the full-grown adult later.
> Without a doubt, those in the military are informed that Snowden absolutely did real damage to operations. I’ve heard this in person from multiple military officers. Casualties aren’t going to be discussed.

They said the same thing about Chelsea Manning, then in her trial the prosecution finally admitted that they couldn't actually point to any casualties.
Google has had a pretty sizable office (three offices, actually) in Austin since 2012 at least.
> It may be simpler to start our not thinking of particles as matter, but instead thinking of them as little energy fields.

I dunno about simpler, but it certainly helps explain many of the weird effects we’ve observed in the universe. I recently went down the Quantum Field Theory rabbit hole (thanks to PBS Space Time on YouTube) and it’s an absolutely fascinating topic (even if the maths is beyond me) and QFT especially both makes sense to me and explains a lot of the “problems” with particle physics as I learned it in school.
You can also enumerate users based on phone numbers, you don't need the database in that case, 10k numbers per account, probably also somehow resettable but I haven't spent that much time on it because LinkedIn didn't find it an issue.
He's using a traditional publisher which means he likely got a decent advance. Even if he didn't, he was likely able to negotiate a better deal than most authors because of his fame
Well, the A/AAAA record and the host you're contacting aren't necessarily the same information, right? You could connect to 10 wildly different sites all behind a CDN and get the same A record for all of them, but vastly different results. It's the host, not the A/AAAA record, that leaks the most information in such a case. DoH/DoT plugs the host being leaked in the DNS packet, then.

But of course, then the problem is punted to SNI, since your TLS Hello packet will probably send the host name with the setup packet, leaking the host then. So we're back to square one. To be fair, Firefox and Cloudflare are also working on ESNI, in which case, from what I understand, your DoH reply will include the A/AAAA record and the public key to encrypt SNI names with, which plugs that final major hole.

So I think the A/AAAA record being exposed doesn't necessarily tank everything, but it certainly isn't perfect, either. But realistically none of these solutions were 100% perfect and a unique A/AAAA record was always going to expose you to a significant amount of side analysis, I think. In general, it just raises the bar and lets us place more trust in the "last hop" between you and the resolvers, much like many other improvements over the past few years, and originally envisioned by e.g. DNSCrypt. In general I feel the actual host header is more important than the A/AAAA record (it is at least more accurate), but I could be super wrong about that.

(The more general discussion about a few major players being able to shape major internet changes for users like this, and general consolidation of the internet is, I think, extremely relevant. But also beyond just this particular exercise.)
To my knowledge nobody has ever died as a result of what they have reported. They do careful redaction.
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> payroll taxes don't fund those

It's kind of silly to make the distinction between which taxes fund which programs. It's completely arbitrary. Dollar bills are dollar bills
I should really stop reading these posts, but perhaps the worst part is people denying these people exist.

Once someone at my undergrad didn't believe my very average new grad TC... the information gap is insane.
pictures uploaded to facebook and google were only taken by 1 camera :P
There might be some confounding variables at play... Such as counties voting in favor of prohibition could be more conservative which in turn could be caused by them having an older population. Older people are, generally, both more conservative and less inventive than younger people.

That said, all the best music was made in the 60's and 70's so maybe he's onto something. :)
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Heh, I wonder if a more effective way to wage the War on Drugs would be to stop prosecuting street-level dealers for drugs, but simply enforce employee status on them :-p
Reframe what you consider a project. Learning to do trades is a project. Picking up hobbies is a project. Volunteering is a project. Diversify your projects
Case in point: Kiwis have just found out their leader of opposition loves the CCP:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/11/new-zealand-op...
I know it's really popular these days to shit on journalists, and I agree that the quality of some outlets can be less then desirable, but it is an incredibly difficult field that involves a lot of work, little pay, little thanks, and terrible job security.

Looking at this article, there is no Author by-line, but just the "Global Health" topic. Digging in, their Global Health topic is managed by their "Global development" team, which has a single writer assigned to it on their Contributors page [1]. I am sure free lancers contribute to this section as well, but I am trying to illustrate that this team/writer is probably on the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to resources and priority. If this story would never have been written if it had to pass HN's level of scientific article standards.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/index/contributors
Everyone is being told to put faith into "science" as somehow incorruptible, only to have articles like this written. We are supposed to be able to rely on the people writing papers being ethical, when it seems the reality is a race to the bottom like everywhere else in society.
That's probably just a poor implementation on those websites. I thought the ability to search across larger content using Ctrl-F is one of the major advantages of infinite scrolling over traditional pagination.
Dart does have it's own compiler that targets the native instruction set for supported platforms, e.g. 32-bit and 64-bit ARM for Android and iOS, x86 for Windows and macOS, etc. We're experimenting with bitcode in case Apple decides in the future that they're rather have iOS and/or macOS apps be submitted that way instead of ARM or x86, as they already have for tvOS and watchOS.

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PM, Flutter developer experience
Just from my experience, Amazon almost universally offers signing bonuses to new hires in order to make up for backloaded vesting.
So I don't have (or know) R, but I do have access to Mathematica, and this is most definitely not giving me a uniform distribution (how could it?!):

<< HypothesisTesting`
With[{n = 10000000, dist = NormalDistribution[]},
Histogram[Last[NormalPValue[RandomVariate[dist, n] - RandomVariate[dist, n]]], 500]]

Why is your x variable though? If H0 is true shouldn't your x be fixed?

I think if you remove the subtraction though then you do get a uniform distribution -- in which case I see what the claim is, yeah. Wasn't really clear to me earlier but indeed, getting p = 5% means you have a 5% chance of getting observations that extreme, so I guess it is uniformly distributed!
I don't understand why there hasn't been a class action lawsuit against the telco's complete disregard for this security flaw in porting SIM/phone numbers. Literally this morning I read about this engineer that lost 100k from a hacker using the same attack https://www.ccn.com/100000-bitcoin-loss-bitgo-engineer-sim-h...
It will also be a civilization-scale experiment on quantum immortality, where we can't get negative result.
Some doctors (many disagree) speculate that microwave weapons are the "prime suspect" in Cuba's [1] and China's [2] embassy attacks in the recent years.

What struck me in the article was Frey's: “Based on what I know, it will remain a mystery.”

I am skeptic on the fact that it was specifically microwaves (but also on the hypothesis it was crickets [3]), but who knows?

From what we know whole-nation influence trough electrical grid seems far-fetched, but if trough EM radiation you could trigger action potentials in the auditory system, maybe it would be possible to do that to the limbic system as well.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/more-americans-in-ch...
[3] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/canada-halves-diplom...
Will they consider an article titled "Stop using bright neon green in prominent design elements"? I think I figured that one out in 6th grade.
Overheating (and the subsequent throttling) seems to be a growing problem for Intel. Also, most of their mobile line is locked to the UHD 620 GPU.

As I understand it they are working off of an older fab than AMD and are hitting its EOL, all while commanding a price premium. AMD has room to expand their lead and appears to be beginning to, despite being a 10x smaller company.
> They published numerous details that a traditional journalistic outlet would never make public include the names of informants.

Valerie Plame would like to have a word with you.

If we keep going down this road we'd end up with No True Scotsman. The reality is "traditional" journalists have done this - Assange is not an outlier in this regard. If we tolerate the "worst" of the traditional (which US society clearly does), then we can't use this as an argument against Assange.
What I want is a name for the related effect:

You read an article on your topic of expertise, it’s bullshit, you read another article, a relevant expert on it pipes up that “that’s bullshit!”, and the prevailing response is, “no, you’re wrong, I’ve read a bunch of articles on this topic.”

That is, the Gell-Mann effect as a justification for over-ruling expert criticism.
Red Letter Media: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrTNhL_yO3tPTdQ5XgmmWjA

Lessons from the Screenplay: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCErSSa3CaP_GJxmFpdjG9Jw
Pax is positioned too high in the market to really win. And it’s still not as easy to clean as it could be
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Right - but how often/easily is that enforced?
... and then they 'll be after networks of ~~bots~~ reviewers , and then networks of networks of bots, and then state actors etc etc. Scientific publishing quickly catching up to twitter and blackhat SEO
My husband’s unvested shares were held by a transfer agent, where they remained once they vested, until we requested they be transferred to a broker. (Not that I’ve ever had a broker withhold taxes, but those would be capital gains anyway.)

Taxes incurred upon vesting are income taxes. Even if it’s not cash in your pocket, Uncle Sam wants his cut!
Is that why there's a law against having an ice cream in your back pocket?
https://slatestarcodex.com/

If you're into long intellectual essays on deeply investigated obscure topics you won't find a better place. I opened it once or twice. The community is surprisingly active.
"Let me address another issue with many-worlds. It is a deterministic theory, even a hyper-deterministic theory, i.e. determinism applies to everything in the entire universe. Indeed, since there can’t be any influences coming from outside and since the Schroedinger equation - the only dynamical equation of the theory - is deterministic, everything that happens today, e.g. what I am writing, the way each reader reacts, the details of all solar eruptions, etc, was all encoded in some “quantum fluctuations” of the initial state of the universe. Given the complexity of the (many-) worlds, it had to be encoded in some infinitesimal digits of some quantum state, possibly in the billionths of billionths decimal place. I am always astonished that some people seriously believe in that."

- Nicolas Gisin "Collapse. What else?" https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08300
milimeter?
> "the only protection is to not give them your phone number in the first place."

That has its own risks. If you don't provide it to google and your account gets hacked, it's extremely hard to get it back. (My wife lost her original gmail account that way about 2 years ago. And of course there was no way to get any live support to try & fix it)

Basically if you don't provide your number, you're more open to the more prevalent traditional hacking. If you do provide a number, you're more open to a slightly less prevalent type of hacking. It doesn't leave much to choose from.
I still wonder why C still does’t have lambas implemented by standard. I understand its a quite slow moving language but it would make programming in it mich nicer (see C++11)

Are there anh underlying ‘issues’ with lambdas, I wonder?
That reminded me of this video of NDT describing the size of the electron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6kjY6ppJRE&t=71
I don't know about you guys but in Turkey if you query wikipedia.org from 8.8.8.8 it doesn't return results.

However if you use DoH you can access Wikipedia.

Thank you whoever contributed to DoH!
Ignoring the last paragraph, you just seem to be describing a bubble, which the vision fund could well turn out to be.

Its just human nature, no political or economic system is immune.
If the demand was high enough I bet there would already be profitable companies pursuing it. I do see it as a potential market though. It’s no fun having a cold storage archive that needs constant hardware replacements.

I would imagine reading would be done in a similar way as it is today: amplification and sequencing. Data would have to be given a hefty amount of data correction. There are no apparent show stoppers that I’m aware of, just not enough interest.
Most people replace their phones within 3 years. That's why phone contracts (and now HUPs and EIPs) generally are for 2-3 years. 5 years already is a long time in the cell phone space.

To compare, 5 years ago the Nexus 6 was released, and had its EOL 3 years ago. The iPhone 6 did slightly better, with the last software release being 12.x which was released last year (and only just got superseded yesterday).

Expecting more than 5 years of support is pretty ridiculous, given industry trends and just the evolution of phones and technology in general in the span of 5 years.
Spotify also has a student discount which is what got me to bother paying for it.
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Thanks, I didn't realize that such a report exists. Although I remain skeptical about some things on both sides, I'm glad to understand the official position better.
I suspect when adjusting for the respective population you get a reverse effect as people graduating from top CS programs tend to have significant debt reducing their willingness to take risks. On top of that they have high opportunity costs.

In areas like AI that’s countered by the benefits of an elite education. But, game designers need to be generalists which is harder for schools to teach over short time frames.

PS: That’s not to say CS graduates from top schools are under represented, just that they had a gap and likely left the area.
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Your politics are showing. The point is that Monbiot pieces aren't NYT knockoffs, not that Monbiot pieces are "fair and balanced" (a marketing blurb created by Fox News.)
Ah, so you'd have to do something like get it cashed at Wal-Mart for $8 and then deposit the cash into your account. The extra trip and fees make that annoyingly impractical.
Orwell was not a Trotskyist. Aligned with them briefly due to circumstances but he was skeptical of whether Trotsky's strain of dictatorship would have been any better than that of Stalin.
Wanting any creature to suffer seems ... problematic.

That goes for wanting humans to suffer too: even the most "evil" among us are doing the best they know how, for some value of "best" that their brains arrive at as a result of the genetic lottery and the "programming" that they've had as a result of their lifetime of experiences. That certainly doesn't mean that we shouldn't vigorously oppose some of the things that such folks try to do. But at least an effort at compassion should be the default response. (As a certain Middle Eastern sage is reputed to have said circa 2,000 years ago: Love your enemies.)
This seems a positive move for science process, as well as for Elsevier's reputation and the value it can add as a publication venue.
yes and more. There are a large number of routers that are designed to revert to a backup copy of firmware and configuration.

An attack would involve making electrical service cycle its voltage 3 times in succession,
thus causing reversion to a default mode. The majority of routers would be in Out of the Box State, and highly pwnable.

It is very conveinient that 3phase power can provide 3 surges of ~60vac if the correct attack is used on a generation station, or inter-tie station.

if you are of the 3rd party firmware persuasion, you should flash your router configure, and then flash again, so your backup will be a secure firmware with a secure configuration.

Among the things router manufacturers should do is change this aforementioned behaviour to something like 5 failed reboot attempts in succession, rather than 3 reboot attempts.
All journalism to the sufficiently informed looks like pathos. All journalism to the sufficiently uninformed looks like logos.
I think you are right. Here is a quote from the author, who is obviously talking about a bacterium killing plasmodium, of which ivermectin is not.

“We have discovered [that the] bacterium is highly effective in killing plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria, but our research is more focused on pregnant women and children as they are more vulnerable. We are getting very motivating leads,” Kariuki said.

Perhaps the issue is that Kariuki is not a listed author on the Lancet paper, so perhaps he's just providing comment generally and not specifically?
That's a great example of the extra magic and complexity an infinitely scrolled view requires. As you scroll down a huge Discord thread, they are removing posts from the DOM for performance reasons.

You could use the browser's built-in search functionality by choosing Edit -> Find in This Page from your browser's toolbar, but in this case it would be pointless as the results would be inconsistent as most data you've come past is not present.

I'm curious how much worse the performance would be if they did not apply this specific optimization.

Here's a thread with 618 replies, for example: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/crate-of-the-week/2704
A self-employed person can also put more money away towards retirement and reduce taxable income this way. A W2 person cannot do as much.

I would love to see data regarding the small business rate in Europe. As an American, I’m really missing out on what other developed societies are doing.
I went to Wageningen University open day in ~1999, with school (4 VWO). After a speech by a professor, it was lunch-time. I didn't take lunch with me, assuming I could buy some there, but I barely had money with me as well. Well, they were serving two things for free as some kind of pilot or demo. It was grasshoppers with Italian spices and vegetables, and mealworms in white sauce. My co-students were laughing at me, but I tried both and actually liked both. After I went a second time, they no longer had grasshoppers, so I only got a portion of maelworms (I'm not a fan of white sauce). They had a good taste, kind of a nutty flavor. Only issue with the grasshoppers is that parts of them get stuck in your pockets.

Fast forward, in this decade I ate insect burgers by a Belgian company called Damhert. Again, nutty flavor, and tasted well. In Africa, insects already get eaten as they're a cheap and reliable source of protein. Unfortunately, it isn't quite clear if insects suffer from pain. At the very least they don't have a CNS, like mammals do. There is even a Dutch "insect cookbook" [1]

Maastricht University is also busy feeding 11 billion, with the in vitro burger (meat based on stem cells). Don't have a link at hand. While not strictly vegan (the stem cells are taken from a live animal), it is vegan in spirit as it reduces animal harm substantially.

[1] https://www.bol.com/nl/p/het-insectenkookboek/92000000397193...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin

Ivermeticin is commonly used in Veterinary medicine for cattle, horses, sheep, goats, dogs, etc. It is once in a while used to treat worms in people but is more common to use Pyrantel to treat human roundworm infections which are surprisingly common in developed countries.

Thus it is a common drug and will not be crazy expensive. It seems expensive to me when I have to buy it for an animal bigger than me at first world prices, but it is cheap in developing countries.
Inciting violence is unlawful, "hate speech" is not. What is "hate speech"? What are "assault weapons"?
The right to self-defense is non-negotiable, like someone already pointed out. You can use a car to ram into a sidewalk full of civilians. Should we ban cars?

Or maybe we can actually focus on why there are more people that are causing these mass shootings. If guns are the cause, why didn't we have mass shootings 50 years ago? Guns were even less regulated then.
No kidding. I got the same: https://imgur.com/a/jroD1Ji
I agree no one knows "the full extent", and I do not think we ever will. A lot of information is out there though - available as far back as the late 80s. A lot of this came out when Harold Blauer's [0] sued the U.S. government [1] for testing drugs on him without anyone's consent when he was institutionalized for depression. The drug tests were covered up for 22 years...

I'm happy to see some headlines to hopefully inform some more folks, but you really have to go digging for this stuff intentionally to get to juicy details. If you are interested in doing so, I recommend picking up Weiner's "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Blauer
[1] https://apnews.com/2e5220ecb195844edacfbffdb0a37a5a
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