skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're not talking wider gene pool, were higher generation crosses with a modified subspecies. This is somewhat different as original sterile flies were designed to produce low viability first crosses.

It remains to be seen if they're more or less robust. Any outcome is possible. They could also be more or less fecund.

They will be harder to kill off via an engineered program like a disease or maybe sooner insecticides.
One thing often not discussed with remote work is the legal aspects of it. It’s easy to say you want to work for a company on the other side of the world.

What if there’s a disagreement in the team and the employee goes rogue and puts the code out in public? You can’t do much unless there’s a legal entity in the country of employment.
Does anyone have more info on the specific kind(s) of drone used in the attack?
"it is not really a security feature, it is closer to what we would call a hardening feature. It might slow down an attacker, but in most situations it is not going to stop them."

Does his argument boil down to this? If so this seems like a silly argument over semantics. Is there anything in existence that can "stop" an attack?
Why are the people who object to Stallman's views "mobs" - a rabble mindlessly driven by rage and conformity - but "ignorant, rude and sexist" people who agree with him are not?

I have yet to see a mob mentality like that which forms to defend Richard Stallman at all costs.
None. Anything we have would have worked on the original problem if deployed.
.. why can't they only test those who do field work?
Sorry, what makes this different than all the other remote job boards that have been posted at HN over the past years?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=remote+job+board
I'm glad your mom is still alive though
So lets say that you were building a bandwidth heavy service, on the best providers each node is limited to around a 1gbps port per each 1GB 1vcpu node. If the goal is to maximize total data transferred my thought would be that it's better to have as many nodes as possible. Sending data at the rate cap shouldn't be that big a hit on the cpu with big enough chunks even when considering tls costs. But I'm not sure about this. It always seems that people are trying to maximize their compute capabilities and not their throughput when they talk about Kubernetes but I've never really had that focus.

What would you do if you were serving tons of data but didn't have to compute much?
the risk in making a mistake doing these trial runs could be huge though......they still don't know the impact this will have on the local ecosystem there across generations....Gene driving is a pandoras box that has the potential to decimate entire ecosystems by accident with irreversible consequences.

I keep thinking this is how the zombie apocalypse will happen lol
> I kind of feel sorry for them now

> Facebook and Zuckerberg deserves it though

Feels like those two feelings are at odds with each other. Either you feel like they deserve it, and not feeling sorry for them, or vice-versa.
They exist, in the form of sex toys.
>It only really works if you can keep it up, because once the curtain drops you could be looking at a level of deceit or betrayal that becomes incredibly difficult to reconcile as the lie becomes more complicated.

Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on the situation.

>I don't think you can call it a burden in that sense if the other person is totally oblivious to it. That's purely a burden of your own creation

So we can call it a 'burden' - why argue semantics if you agree?

>because they had no say in it, and you're basically deciding that you don't like the truth, so they won't either

Another cynical interpretation. No. That's not necessarily the consideration. That's not necessarily the right interpretation.

> where in reality it could be quite liberating.

Maybe. Maybe not.

>I don't feel that's quite as compassionate as giving someone the truth and then supporting them through that if they need it;

Maybe. Maybe not.
I really took advantage of this haha. A candle that burns twice as bright.

I stopped using it as soon as they started adding tons of gimmics and IFTTT qualifiers
At first I was wondering how people do this when surprise medical bills can easily bankrupt someone with 25x their yearly spending saved up, as mentioned in the article. Then I realized that this was The Guardian reporting non-US news.
It's hard to say if he is playing for the camera, but it doesn't sound like he is trying to sound stereotypically Arnold Schwarzenegger, but it is obvious that he is speaking with a German accent in this interview video with mens health, which appears to be the newest video of him, on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFk-L7Wcg0g
There are companies like Asgaard GSG providing basically that service (on a smaller scale and without public backing though).
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I won't miss them bidding up house prices by buying them over asking and then letting them sit or being absentee landlords.

Maybe "property speculators will miss China's money."
What if they do it locally? The information is already out there. Having someone in jail doesn't help you.
Yeah, I assume the author meant to write "kernel memory" there. I think what they were getting at is that root could theoretically mknod a /dev/mem device inside the chroot jail and then modify kernel data structures through it. Or root could issue an init_module(2) syscall to install a kernel module that breaks out of the jail.
Disagree. The idea that whatever you are asked to do has been vetted by others is an abdication of ethical responsibility. At present, a lot of what tech companies do is still legal, but that doesnt make it right. It's still legal because the maps of cyber law are largely still uncharted. An engineer working on a project that tracks user behavior without consent (for example) shouldn't be absolved or responsibility because their manager said it was okay.
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I saw sooooo many movies :) . Then it fell like the house of cards that it was.
Ask yourself why billions are spent on celebrity endorsements. To first
order, the opinion of a globally accomplished person matters more, if only
as a convenient point of reference. You can argue "non-expert" all day, but
the market doesn't care.
The national political season so far has surprised me because, AFAIK, none of the presidential politicians has made a direct attack on age discrimination at work. It seems like the perfect combination of issues: a highly motivated voter segment and a pain point widely felt.
The BigBank of the banking sector
I tried quickly to find a source that confirms this since you didn't provide one but I cant find anything. Where did you get "It's Russian / Iranian technology deployed by Russian / Iranian mercenaries" from?
Microsoft submits Chromium bug because “blacklist” is potentially offensive
The Western World, and the US in particular, needs to take a long hard look at why allergies are so prevalent there compared to the East. I am from India, and while allergies are not unheard of, they are also pretty rare. I went through 15 years of schooling without anyone in my class ever having anything like an anaphylactic shock. Compare that to the hysteria about peanuts in my kid's school in the US.

To be clear I am not blaming the school. If there are kids with deadly allergies towards everyday foods, yes, there will need to be strong precautionary measures, but it's insane that we consider this high prevalence of allergies as normal here in the US, despite strong evidence from other countries that this doesn't need to be the case.

With our son (born and raised in the US), we basically exposed him to common allergens from Day 1. We'd rub them against his lips or place a very small amount on his tongue, and so on. Occasionally put a small bit of peanut paste in his formula, a bit of shrimp once he was a bit older, and so on.

He's 7 now, and has so far exhibited no common allargies.
Something doesn't need to be different. Variety helps the ecosystem as a whole.
This is popular narrative, especially on message boards, but is there any evidence that drug researchers are somehow biased towards medications that manage rather than cure conditions? Or is it just that cures are harder to discover than mitigations?

If you look at a list of current blockbuster drugs, you'll find that they are not primarily lifetime scripts. For instance, the second best-selling drug of 2015, Gilead's Harvoni, cures Hep C in a couple months. Most anti-cancer agents, which dominate the blockbuster lists, are not taken permanently.

Humira, AbbVie's arthritis med, has topped the charts for years, and is taken long-term, but it seems unlikely to me that if AbbVie or some other pharma found a way to permanently cure arthritis that they wouldn't sell the hell out of that product.
Edit, pause, edit again. Test in a range of different media. Iterate.
Alan Kay said

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

That is no different from people who call themselves “software architects”. You can’t build great software architectures if you don’t know how to build and optimize the underlying architecture it runs on and how to build the pipelines that put the code on those systems.
Successfully discharging a weapon that was given to you by someone else doesn't make you an engineer.
An unusual (and worrying) part about this incident is how drones are being used, not with an explicit military goal in mind, but rather for the purpose of economic strangulation.

Like terrorist operatives, drones are relatively cheap and expendible.

But unlike terrorism, which seeks to grind away at the enemy's resolve, this kind of attack attempts to deprive an enemy of the money needed to fund its operations.

Like terrorism, even the threat of loss of key infrastructure can have consequences (e.g, the interest rate a country is forced to pay as risk premium). Also as ub terrorism, the targets are "soft" and therefore difficult to defend.

It looks like there's something new here that could serve as a model in other conflicts. The most vulnerable players are those who have put all their economic eggs in one basket.
They also had faulty tech and faulty promises and turned to regular labs to do the work they couldn't to try and cover up some of it.
Having people pay for your news is even better for advertisers, because it shows them how much the readers care about what you write.
That it is not a job board :-)

You create your profile once, and the companies contact you with remote work job offers.
Radio was rising up at that time. It made everybody nuts. Orson Welles demoed that quite clearly 1938 with his War of the World's fake emergency broadcast depicting a Marian invasion. It helped Hitler get his message across as well.
It should be noted, engineers being well represented in these sort of rebel/revolutionary/terrorist organizations isn't a new phenomenon. Here is an article from a decade ago: https://slate.com/technology/2009/12/why-do-so-many-terroris...

The notion of terrorists as uneducated goat farmers is more a manifestation of western biases than it is an accurate representation of the truth.
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Nothing. It's just very very hard.

One issue is that the mobile form factor doesn't lend itself to laptop or desktop class cooling. Some mobile chips can approach the performance of a desktop... until thermal throttling.

There is a reason there are different kinds of cars and trucks for different market segments. Try to build a car-truck and you get the El Camino. Computers are likely going to be subject to similar market forces.
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Thanks, Wolco :-) We thought the internet needs this, so we built it.
The Navy has drydocks and whatnot, they regularly commission and decommission boats. Why do they need relavitively so many more specialists?
Haha, yes, Trump and the Houthi rebels are real tight, the huge arms sales to KSA are just a diversion.
I'm guessing Stallman won't be a visiting scientist at MIT much longer. People like him irritate me because now people with associate his pedophilia with the other stuff he has done. IMO if people want to be an activist they need to keep their nose clean.
No, but they're presumably less likely to do it in the first place due to the deterrent
Lots of people think statutory rape shouldn’t count. In the British Virgin Islands the age of consent is 16, so the crime Minsky is accused of isn’t a crime a little while away. I don’t think it’s fair, or accurate, to characterize the entire population of the British VI as being “totally cool” with other forms of sexual assault and human trafficking.

I think the risk I run is in characterizing acts incorrectly. I’m not aware of anyone being charged with “actual rape” for having sex with human trafficked prostitutes in USVI. So it depends a lot on the facts of the case, etc etc.

We will have a tough time knowing what Minsky knew and didn’t know. I think it’s reasonable to know if a sex partner is legs age, but it’s much harder to know whether someone was exploiting someone against their will. But legally I’m not sure he would be charged with being “unwilling rape” or whatever crime you think he committed.

What I’m trying to point out is that someone can be against statutory rape, even against rape tricking, and not think it is “totally cool.”

Logically, it is not appropriate to make such leaps unless we have more info.
While I don't disagree, I was curious how sophisticated these are compared to, say, those American freedom dispensers. The embedded video is kind of interesting, the one showcased there towards the end looks like a slightly oversized model airplane painted in military gray.
That exact situation happened to me but it was because a roommate stole the rent money for 2 months which the apartment facilitated by only contacting him instead of the other people on the lease. It will only detrimentally impact your record if the police have to come remove you. If you leave voluntarilly then it shouldn't cause you problems in the future. They know stuff like that happens, they just don't want squatters.
Yemen is a really poor country, they don't have this capability. This is a proxy war, we had a lot of them in the past 100 years.
It is a sleeping giant of a problem. I share your issue. In college, friends would end my stories with "...and then you found 5 dollars?" because after a series of digressions, I had never arrived at the point.

I think practice with public speaking is the best way to improve. Look for meetups or toastmasters near you.

The core skill is guessing what your audience cares about. Once you master concision, you can play with dramatic structures that hint at the point, but hide it until the right moment, but first you need to figure out what people want to hear and get right to it.

One problem I can see in your statement is that you need to recognize the language people usually use when they are saying what you are trying to say. When you say "VR simulations for First Responders, focused on low-cost for high training value", you are missing that 'value' in marketing-speak already means low cost.

If patio11 were here, he would probably say not to market your product as low-cost in the first place. While it's true that nobody likes to spend money, in marketing, the goal is to provide something people do want rather than to tell them you can help them avoid something they don't want. Practice taking off your engineering hat and putting on your marketing hat. They are different roles with different languages and values. When you put down Powerpoint and marketing speak, it seems like you haven't spent enough time trying to understand sales people and what they do. Don't underestimate the value of marketing.

When you have your marketing hat on, your goal should be to figure out what your customers want and tell them that you have it.
Seperation of powers is necessary but not sufficient requirement for maintaining democracy. In classical Athens they didn't have that, so modern philosophers take pride that we do have it.

Of course any sufficiently big organization does have competing departments with conflicting agengas, but also there are nuances.
Are people really going to make big transactions using Facebook money?
I had it working as a print server, and it was wonderful.

Then I fucked it up, and it was not wonderful anymore.
I'm surprised people disagree with this statement since blitzscaling seemed pivotal to Uber's growth. However, FB is already in hot water. Maybe the pre-announcement was to prevent further damage to the brand.
Repeat this mantra every morning:

Never set cpu limits, always set mem request=limit unless you really have good reason not to.
It is an interesting idea, but we cannot look at it in vacuum. Does the value of an idea transcend the context in which it is born and where it is executed? Perhaps, but Facebook has shown time and time again that it cannot be trusted to do the right thing, it will systematically choose profit. Sometimes those two align, but this is not a foundation to build the future of our society on.
You are exactly right. Private currencies will be seen as the enemy, because they are a threat for exactly these reasons. Mall-level security is one thing, systemic monetary power quite another. A Europe which relies on private currency is a continent without controlled inflation, meaning you can just sit on your holdings and do nothing with your money (meaning actually doing nothing, not investing, not giving it to a bank for them to invest. nothing) and yet stay rich. the decrease in investment would mean it gets harder to fund any kind of business. Economic problems would be very hard to fix without the ability to pump money into the system. Also with competing currencies there is potential for chaos. One currency with a lot of savings might just fall over the next day. governments would be asked to convert tax money to prop them up. the euro is good enough for now. maybe it can in the future be modernized with blockchain like technology to get the benefits of currency technology without incurring systemic risk. i dont think there is much choice for europe but to ban these things eventually. especially since facebook is a foreigh company.
So... it looks like this is an RPC protocol, similar to JSON-RPC, but the word "RPC" doesn't appear anywhere on the homepage or the FAQ. And it has an interface description language, similar to Protobuf.

It seems like it might be a nice middle ground between Protobuf (strongly-typed, specified) and JSON-RPC (human-readable, doesn't need a special library). But requiring clients to use a new RPC format is still a tough sell. What are the main advantages of Varlink over more mainstream RPC formats?
>>> Stop pushing the blame upstairs. If you knowingly build software that hurts people, you share the blame. The job market for programmers has never been better. "My boss told me to do it" is not an excuse.

It is an excuse. If my livelihood depends on it, my children's health insurance depends on it (especially if you have kids that need continuous care), my kids university tuition depends on it, etc, etc... So, personally that's a very narrow view to take. Unless there is a support system that can maintain comparable quality of life for engineers who speak up and quit it's not going to happen. I know I wouldn't care unless someone really made it worth my while to do so.
Are there particular product categories which we should avoid mostly, or does it apply to anything and everything coming out of China?
And ... ? That doesn't mean he lost his marbles because of stress or long hours. More likely he lost his marbles for the same reason bodybuilders and professional strong men (two more classes of lazy over achievers) are more prone to shoulder injury than people who play the trombone.

Look, I clicked on your profile and know where you're coming from: you were in the military. I used to be a cop. People with this sort of background pride themselves on being able to deal with extreme stress which would paralyze most people. It's a useful superpower, but it is not useful to be this lit up all the time; you have to relax at some point.
Have you ever heard the description of how to carve a stone sculpture? Simply remove anything that isn't part of your final result.

So if we do that with what you said, it boils down to: "VR that teaches the critical thinking skills for Public Safety better than current tools."

Everything else you said is additional detail that can come later. For anything else where you need to be concise, do the same thing. Pick one point. Say nothing else.
>He's autistic and he probably has trouble with communication.

His job is communication. His eloquence, and the precision of his language have been praised more than once here.

And autism doesn't come with a "get out of social consequences" card. Certainly not for a sixty year old man.
"Drivers are barely able to make a living". In my unscientific polling of uber drivers the majority are either doing it to pick up some extra money or in between "real" jobs. Few plan on doing it for a living.
That's cool. I didn't know that (I've never used one before.) Maybe it would make more sense to do the original GBA then. The SP frontlight has a bit of a blueish tinge to it.
François Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI [video]
4 hours work week!

I quit my job, and started a company. It is going to be 1 year old next month.
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Can’t people get their own insurance or ACA in the US?

Surprise medical bills can hit anyone regardless of their financial situation
Inertial navigation of toy drones these days can outmatch mid-cold-war ballistic missiles without any effort.

I doubt that those existing Yemeni drones use any radionavigation or remote control to begin with, as it looks to be a certain overkill for the task.

All their targets so far were big stationary targets, and there are all signs that they all use simple time (and not position) programmed maneuvers.
Al Jazeera

>The attacks come as Saudi Arabia, the world's leading crude exporter, steps up preparations for a much-anticipated initial public offering of Aramco.

I wonder if this was timed by the rebels, or if there were outside influencers who had a vested interest in this.
Right, but on modern Linux, you're a seccomp call away from blocking those vectors. The inadequacy of chroot was a more coherent story to tell 10 years ago, but now, it seems silly to suggest that chroot isn't a security feature; it is, it's just part of an ensemble of related features that need to be deployed in concert.
That usually means that someone "vouched" for the specific comment using the vouch link on the individual comment page. This turns off the "dead" flag for that one comment.
??? How do you conflate their stance against Libra with support for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin has no Facebook-sized entity the French and German governments can control/admonish.

Neither did any entity related to Bitcoin go out and stake any ground like Facebook did.
Because it would be grossly unfair. Very likely illegal too.
> And in the US, the President oauth is on the Bible and "under God" if I remember clearly. So, in a way, it is still the case: how would a Jew or Muslim or Buddhist be able to do that?

Federal public officials in the US can swear on anything they want to, the Bible is not a requirement.
If Donald Trump can invite the Taliban to Camp David, I think MIT can have meetings with a donor who is a felon. As long as MIT doesn't engage in illegal activity, I don't see the problem. Public opinion of Epstein is the public's business, not MIT's.
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