skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We’re always updating our rules based on how online behaviors change. Today we're expanding our policies to prohibit financial scams."

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1176190505757106177
I don't remember a math course I college anything but a ti89 or one of the other few capable of handling symbolic expressions would have even remotely helped with. The arithmetic was usually small or just non-existent.
Once it happens once, it's too late for everybody. Naturally, they evolve, and soon invent interstellar travel. So much for that galaxy.

(Cue Fed Saberhagen, *Berserkers".)
It's also the exact same playbook Google used against Facebook with Google+.
> SO (and publishers) have no real control over the ad payload that comes back.

That's not my problem, they could choose not to use those platforms. If they can't feasibly guarantee the integrity of the ads they serve, then my logical response as a user is to just block them all by default.
What law does using a bot to make a purchase against ToS violate?

The LinkedIn case shows that it's not illegal in some cases - would you classify the behavior of the defendant in that case as malicious?
An open question for me is how much employee pressure actually influences the decision making process at megacorps like this. Is Microsoft genuinely concerned about its employees leaving/striking over this? Are they worried about negative PR from the noise the employees are making? Are they not worried at all?

I imagine Bill Gates isn’t super happy about this perception of his creation. Would he speak out against this? Would that scare away the people making these contracts?
I absolutely agree, but those two collapse examples are extremely complicated. Historians generally conclude the collapse is due to political instability, barbarian invasions, disruptions to international trade, in-fighting, collapse of agriculture (likely due to climate change) and various other factors.

All of these various competing problems can be summarized into three categories: economic, defense, and political. By far the least critical of those three is defense. I am saying this as a military office who has studied history. If you are wealthy you can fund a better military and better defensive protections. If you are poor but you are politically united and guided by strong leadership you will still probably figure it out. If your economy or food supply fall apart you likely won't have the political unity necessary to mount a strong defense. Likewise if the people are disenfranchised or selfishly entitled there will be less political will to prop up the economy.
this?
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/rust-runtime-for-aws...

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime

https://crates.io/crates/lambda_runtime

you rock! That docker based build system makes building those MUSL based rust binaries a snap!
The end of the American empire is determined by the fact that the USA won't be able to pay for the expenses of maintaining its military force. The US is already wasting more than half of its discretionary spending on the military. These military expenses already account for 89% of the federal government deficit, which will be $1.101T in 2020 [1]. These expenses are going up faster than GDP growth, and are not expected to go down, since this administration refuses to close the 20-years old wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, and is now actively operating in other fronts of the general war on the Middle East. The US also has to maintain more than 800 military basis in 70 countries. It takes huge amounts of money to keep a military force of this kind, especially when the country is under severe deficits, which is the current situation of the US government. It seems that it will take a few years for the shoe finally drop, but all the bravado of the Trump era is moving the US into a situation in which it cannot afford to maintain its empire.

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305...
Cloudflare's specific methods are described in the article, it's likely some web crypto stuff or an extreme response that takes a long time to parse or handle.
Since you seem to know how this works -- I hope you won't mind if I ask you a slightly on-topic question about this...

I've been trying to find out if I can take the generated C code that nim produces and, for example, compile it on some exotic architecture (say an ancient solaris/sparc system or some aix/power thing, or some mips microcontroller with linux) however I can't find any examples of people doing this...

Is it possible? Or should I abandon hope and continue writing C for these platforms? :}
Not to belittle you but the level of WTF in this comment makes me check out. If you’re serious you could start by gaining some credibility here...

> This boycott and these comments are being orchestrated by [redacted].

Do you have _any_ evidence for this? The comments seem fairly normal HN to me.
I always think, "the two letter 'e's are discrete from each other, but the two letter 'e's hide away discreetly." Or something like that. It works, I swear!
Topology of disordered 3D graphenes: Rosalind Franklin's pre-DNA problem
But it’s not the norm in China. If you are to decide what is normal, do you do this based on geography or population? Either way, China is a pretty big place.
I’m not sure that I understand your argument. If the code from which the resulting machine code is compiled is C, then it’s objectively “as fast as C” … because, at the end of the day, it actually is C. Being “as fast as C” means that your resulting program will perform as fast as a C compiler [worth its salt] can get you.

Your comparison to machine code (or human readable assembly code) is less useful in that such a statement means very little until one knows how said machine code is being produced (e.g., manually, from a IR, etc.).
I agree. That's why people--especially young people--generally prefer texting over phone calls: without the spontaneity (synchronicity) required in spoken communication, it is a lot easier to hide everything on your part, from presence or attention to any kind of reaction. It is safer, so to speak; but less satisfying.
On a related note, Dash Cam Owners Australia[1] just put up their monthly video of collected accidents and near misses.

I watch these with my kids, who recently started driving, as it is a good lesson in why you drive defensively and not be too arrogant about your own abilities and reaction times - because you have to take into account the abilities, reaction times, and occasionally the boneheaded idiocy of any other driver in your immediate vicinity.

“If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable.”

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/DashCamOwnersAustral/videos
That is way I really think Svelte3 can shake webdev a bit. It generates small, plenty fast builds by default with easy syntax. Currently it is missing a bit in terms of tooling, but the results just bring you back to almost pure HTML and JS with much less to be worried about.
> For those saying publishers should do first party ads, that would lose them most of their income

Yes? Does that make it less likely? Less needed? No

If publishers can buy targeted ads with fraud detection, they will. But when they can’t (because the idea of the auctioned third party js blob finally dies) there will be money in dumber ads.

What might happen of course is that if someone wants to spend $X on ads that are dumb and untargeted they might as well buy a spot on the side of a bus. Do there would be a flow of ad money back from the web to traditional advertising.
Maybe because of this list of research papers collected by Gwern claiming that nicotine alone doesn't have strong addictive properties (not beyond caffeine level):

https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine#addictiveness.

Apparently in most popular, educational and health-related communication, nicotine is treated as synonym to tobacco, leading to confusion.
200 years ago, the behavoiur of the US was not consistant with the "norms" at the time. The UK had clear laws on this, and the US violated them. US leaders encouraged it.

How is this not the same as what China is doing now?
It's all win-win, for him. If we fail to discover anything, he's right. If we find something, "nobody could have ever predicted that!".
> it wasn’t until 1990, when Texas Instruments released the TI-81, that graphing calculators really began to hit the mainstream.

Casio FX-7000G was well established before TI came onto the scene.
The societal collapse at that point was a major motivation for the discovery of the iron age. Once the collapse started the supply of tin was instantly eliminated, and thus eliminated bronze. Had these people had iron tools a bit earlier they could have held out longer against some of the barbarian invasions.
I never thought of "also me:" as being a linguistic innovation, but it totally is! I'm now wondering how many of the current "memes" are going to translate into linguistic innovations decades from now.

Now that I think of it, mOcKiNg tExT is tied to a specific Spongebob image/meme--I wonder if that will affect how prevalent mocking text will be in the future, or if the meme will accompany mocking text and both will be part of linguistics.
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We need free medical school.
I'm sorry for what happened to you and it is horrible. There are no excuses for said behavior. Some of the events sound possibly criminal and should be reported to the authorities.

That said, and especially since you end your statement with "I do not have any direct evidence of wrongdoing by [name]", I think it is unfair to name and shame here without evidence. You should remove the name from the story.
I’d still consider the registrar service a “maturing product” at best, similar to how CF was in its early years. Enough time and it’ll be polished to where I can say it’s “production ready”.
Cases like this are why torture should be a legal sentence for the worst crimes where guilt is not in doubt.
Even then it fails to take the lesson from history. If you want to run things on human power, use a foot-pedal.
The thing about this age group is they grow up.
Hi, this Vai from Doqume. Francesco and I have been working on this for a while, and finally, we decided to bootstrap.

We could use some moral support. Thanks for any feedback.
Buy the international editions, buy used from graduating seniors who are trying to get rid of their stuff ASAP, or buy the ebook versions.

Oppenheim and Wilsky's Signals and Systems is $100+ in stores in the US, <$30 on eBay, $5 for Kindle.
Right, and you take it back and they will fix it for free (they have a specialist team at their factory that deals with this stuff...as you don't own Church's though, I doubt you knew that).

And yes, they are able to. UK consumers consume close to 100% of their income, per capita incomes in the UK are high by any measure, they have the budget. But, as I have said, they choose not to because they want to buy cheap tat. Instead of pearl clutching behind your copy of the Guardian, look at data from the ONS on income.
You could probably use Guided Access mode for the same effect. Locks you into one app until you enter the right four-digit PIN.
Why did he cancel the talk? What were the arguments?
EDIT: technically, you are breaking a law, as it is a misdemeanor. Have you found any instances where this was prosecuted, following a successful asylum application?

It is NOT false. You need to be either at a port of entry or in the US to apply. You have one year to do so.

https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum/qu...

> You may apply for asylum regardless of your immigration status and within one year of your arrival to the United States.

You may apply even if convicted of a crime (although it doesn't mean it will be granted)

> Yes, but you may be barred from being granted asylum depending on the crime
It's very unlikely that we can cause enough environmental damage to cause that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_points_in_the_climate_...
did they quit mining monero with javascript?
> I wonder if the weaker ash-based lye solution is safer overall than commercially available pure lye.

My understanding is that yes, it will be safer purely because it's a weaker lye solution. It'll be more likely to completely react, and even if it doesn't it will be more dilute and less likely to cause skin problems or burning. But it'll be slower, and less reliable to get the right concentrations to make the same soap over and over.
In regards to the rest of the posts stating its because of lack of functionality rather than functionality, why not design and write tests (math tests specifically) so that no calculator is required. Core Calculus, Stats, etc. concepts are testable without exact numerical precision. Substitute variables if needed, or have end results allowable in non reduced formats.
The US “progressives” think much more about the poor murderers and their horrible lives in prison instead of the people they murdered.
There's also all the stuff we think we know that isn't so.

That brought down Rumsfeld, not that he ever suffered for it. Millions of other people did, instead.
Detecting, Geolocating Jammers and Spoofers Using Integrated AOA and TDOA
https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1175522433643601920?s=...
My cat can behave as a cat would be expected to behave. And if we verify the measurements of her behaviour using a classical computing cluster - to make sure her behaviour really falls within the distribution of expected cat behaviour - thats a very complicated calculation that will take many processor-days. But my cat can just do that stuff in real time. Has my cat achieved Quantum Supremacy, and is there a trophy or something I can pick up somewhere for that?
What we really really need are more dentists who are scientists. Dental practice has changed a lot, but at the end of the day, we still drill holes in our teeth and fill them up.

Most dentists spend three years in school, where 2.25 of them are spend just learning the hand skills of dentistry. By the end of it, they are highly motivated to not want to advance dental science because it could put them out of a job.

If someone developed a drug that would remove cavities, or a device that made it so you didn't have to brush every day, these would be huge quality of life improvements for people, but the people who are most expert at discovering such things are the ones most motivated to keep the status quo.

I say this as someone who has multiple family members involved in dentistry. Every time I even mention a new possible treatment, their immediate response is "hmmm I'm not sure that's a good idea that's not how we usually do things". It's something that their training has engrained in them.
Except both companies had deep pockets in this scenario.
There are 268 million vehicles in the United States. If we assume that each vehicle makes two trips per day on average, and than the number of minutes of inconvenience taken up by pulling over to operate a phone is 5, that’d be 2.68 billion minutes of inconvenience per day alone!

We can be generous and put the intrinsic value of a human life at the average lifespan in the US of 78 years, or 41 million minutes. That means you’d be inconveniencing people at the rate of 65 human lives per day by implementing your law.

Why do you hate human life so much? Think of the children. Hail Satan, etc.
Phone calls are outdated, what do you think of extremely popular voice chat applications such as discord?
I just read the NSW legislation. Phones cannot be touched except for passing to a passenger. To be used to take calls they must be operated hands-free.

For GPS and speed apps, it IS legal to touch the device, as long as it is mounted.
ad networks don't offer targeting that is anywhere near that level of sophistication. demographic profiling is really coarse and not very accurate. they're probably just using a history of other requests they've gotten for that fingerprint, and trying a few coarse predictions based on that.

I also don't know about "sites" offering "PII" back to ad networks based on a fingerprint match. but I could be wrong about that or maybe people are using a more expansive definition of PII.
I set that up recently and found it refreshingly simple. Just load a packet driver (finding the right packet driver for your card is the biggest potential hurdle IMO), set up a system wide configuration file (to be fair, one for each network stack you'll be using; in my case mTCP and WATTCP), point to it with some environment variable in AUTOEXEC and run the network software.

It brings a smile though that I occasionally have to renew my DHCP lease manually.
Having served in the military, this rings extremely true to me. Most individual traits are eliminated with hair cut and uniform requirements, but anything left is seized upon with extra vigor.

This is demonstrated aptly against women. Men blame both failure and success of women on their gender. And the reality? Do women hide in their separated berthings and screen calls for each other? You bet. Do women get promoted because theyre more flirtatious and more easy to get along with? Duh. People that bitch about the above like to focus on those 6 problem women and forget theres 50 men you can barely count on to piss on a fire. Side story: I knew a salty submarine (100% male until ~5 years ago in US) male master chief that summed women in the navy perfectly: women are people; some good, some bad, some in the middle, and if you treat them like sailors, they act like sailors.

Point is, non-professional discussion rarely belong in the workplace. Letting those go basically guarantees conflict.
Its not, hit up dark fail for the onion link to dark fail and browse the latest onion links
Thomas Cook Travel Company Collapses, Stranding Thousands
This isn't meant for a highly secure organization. This is meant for a mom and pop shop with limited inventory and limited employees. Most of his target audience are very very small businesses, trying to save a buck on POS software. From his website:

26,000 ITEM LIMIT
You may have noticed that it requires almost zero time to find any item in the stock table by the stock number. This is because all of the stock numbers are indexed and held in memory by the program. Unfortunately there is limited memory in DOS software to do this. The theoretical maximum would be 32,000 items but since some memory must also be used for other purposes the program becomes unstable with more than 26,000 items.

The other consideration is that one of the reasons that this program is free is to help the small to medium business compete with the Wal-Marts of this world. With some exceptions once a retail business grows large enough to carry more than 26,000 different items then it is a Wal-Mart type large business and should be able to afford commercially produced POS software.
depends on the (source:target) pair. People immigrating from India->US are coming from a vastly different background/goals/needs than those going US->India. Money probably dramatically beats out culture wants until you reach a certain point; those coming from a first-world country likely have lower monetary wants, and so culture has greater relative value.

Those coming from third-world to first-world are likely much more interested in money than culture, and I can't say for certain but my intuition is that the kinds of ethnic segregation (eg in NY/Chicago, where there's a whole array of little microtowns) that you see in the US are mostly generated by those poorer populations seeking wealth, not cultural value.

I imagine the equivalent American/European expat towns don't exist nearly as strongly/commonly in india/china, as the inverse exists in the US. (of course, you'd also expect less americans/europeans migrating to india/china, since the monetary difference isn't as strong).
I wasn't criticizing you. I was pointing out that an equally likely and more charitable interpretation is that you posted as a fan of AWS before you started posting as an employee.

Turns out I was wrong in this case, but you've explained the situation and everything is hunky dory.
BS.. author prefers to use journals to capture memories, for later revisit. Other people prefer images, to invoke memories.

It's all subjective.
It is usually free for those who pursue a Phd. Just takes a bit longer...
Food is an economic data point, frequently a commodity. I know people want to think of as something more special or somehow different, but it isn't. When cheap industrial food goes away the population suffers and the remainder of people who shake out figure it out from other available options. I observed this in Afghanistan.
> her estranged husband doused her body with lye after beating her with a baseball bat

I'm periodically shocked when I'm reminded of how wide is the spectrum between good and bad.
There is obviously a current need for ICE. There are more than 10 million illegal aliens currently living in the US illegally, and this problem has been happening for decades. It's disingenuous to call this a misdemeanor when it's in regard to people who have no legal right to be in the United States.
Immigration law is a federal issue, and local law enforcement is not setup to deal with these situations.

I agree with you though that it would be great if local police were enabled to find and deport all of the illegal aliens currently residing in the US illegally.
Yes, this is true. I don't mean to say better software wouldn't have helped--I think OLPC was killed by a combination of factors. (Not least the early trajectory of its hype cycle.) But better software alone ... I don't think it would have materially changed the outcome in any way.
Quite simply you dont have a clue what you're talking about. It's like you're using a string of words to inflate away your total ignorance.
"Tonight? We make soap." Tyler, D. 1999
It’s called “Guided Access”. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202612. Works fine, AFAIK, but may be a bit of a hassle to set up for an entire class.
If GP meant what I think they meant, it's because scooter startups executed an Uber on cities.

It's not that we should outlaw everything. It's that there's a civilized way of introducing innovation which involves sorting out main issues before deployment, and then there's the Uber way which involves dumping externalities left and right on the unsuspecting populace, while showing the middle finger to local regulations because "we have venture capital money therefore we make the rules".

I propose the Uber way should be banned and punished with extreme prejudice.
Out of curiosity, what do you pay for it? At the moment I can get rough cut Aleppo soap for about €1.10 here in Germany. I've heard it's dirt cheap in Syria.
The documentation is one sentence. Obviously(?) my feedback would be to write more. Assume readers don't know what wasm_exec.js is.
Non THC vapes have at the very least put people in intensive care, if not killed people.

It's far premature to try and claim the lack of any health effects from any type of vapes, they just haven't existed long enough.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/vaping-london-1.5292161
Since we're looking at Scott Aaronson, you might want to check out "Quantum Computing Since Democritus". It gives a good explanation of the math behind qubits and how they can be used. Best intro I know of.
I think the point is the terminology, Nim doesn't transpile it compiles to C.