skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was at Amazon we were forbidden from using any GPLv3/AGPL software, including recent versions of GCC and Emacs (there was a special exception for Linux).
Are the examples in the advisory statement slightly incorrect? The first example seems to have the user name and host reversed:

myhost alice = (ALL) /usr/bin/id

All the examples I've seen of sudoers files do it this way:

alice myhost = (ALL) /usr/bin/id

This is important because the host is rarely used; the host field is usually replaced with ALL, meaning the host name is not important for the rule:

alice ALL = (ALL) /usr/bin/id

I hope this isn't some new sudoers syntax.

As I consider whether this bug impacts my company, I see two types of rules in our sudoers files: (1) rules that let already-privileged users do privileged things and (2) rules that let processes with minimal privileges make an exception to normal security rules. This bug doesn't impact rules for highly privileged users because they already have many ways to do whatever they want. This bug doesn't impact the second type of rules either because those rules specify exactly which user to change to; I tested the '-u#-1' trick with one of those rules on an unpatched sudo and sudo didn't allow it.

The behavior I observed seems to match the advisory, which says the exploitable rules are those that don't specify a specific user to run as.

Now I wonder: what kind of well-written rule would be exploitable?
Isn't this obvious? :) My dad thankfully told me about this when I was a teenager: don't smoke, drink, trash your body. Men need to tell their children, sons in particular.
War of the Currents
Upcoming Movie about Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and DC vs AC: https://www.currentwarmovie.com
also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents
It surprises me that a multitude of separately developed systems acting in the same 'playground' don't give rise to more emergent behavior. I would expect accidental death spirals as systems unknowingly couple together and get caught in a loop of failing together, along with the polar opposite of just astronomical growth spurred by nothing but the systems bidding logic interlocking in unexpected ways.

Sure there have been catastrophic failures like Knight Capital, but those, at leas the ones I am aware of, all boil down to the system having flaws. I have yet to see a system which worked and followed the logic the designers intended, but which is accidentally (or purposely?) exploited by other automated systems doing the same. Shouldn't the complexity of these systems make such a thing almost inevitable and common?
Another poster linked to this, which is the clearest explanation I've seen to date: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender...

The most likely explanation is not that society values male work more than female work, but rather that men prioritize work that is socially valuable (i.e., prefer salary compensation) while women prefer to do work that affords them more flexibility. No one is punishing anyone or being punished by anyone; just different kinds of compensation.
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I saw your edit. Your summary of why `Relaxed` matches my reasoning. The code should probably be switched to `Relaxed`.
I don't think it takes more research to know you should be treating yourself well physically and mentally, eat well, sleep well, go outdoor and exercise, eliminate stress factors and don't consume drugs or alcohol.
That sounds horrible :(
Some of their vacuums are competitive if you have certain needs that they meet.

But most of their other products are obscenely expensive for what they do.
No they cant. The pharmacy benefit managers would drop the products and it is illegal for the manufactures to sell direct to hospitals
> which leads to their production becoming better and better, which leads to a better product, but less innovation.

"Better" in the sense that they are more polished and edited, but unfortunately that means more filtered, targeted and biased. There is an intrinsic, authentic value in raw productions that gets lost or doesn't exist in the former.
Awesome-webpack-perf: A curated list of webpack tools for web performance
Forced account creation prompts are, in fact, a huge source of traffic bounce on most web apps despite most of them being free of charge. So your statement is plain false. Many people do find them to be a significant source of annoyance.
I'm fascinated by memory, yet I've never been able to make any progress with any of these memory systems that involve artificial indirection.

I don't think in a spoken language, so if I have to memorize a word it ends up being the concept, and I pull it out as a cluster of synonyms, and then I also need an out-of-band way to memorize which of the synonyms it is. I really don't know how actors memorize lines.

I also can't visualize a complex artificial scene all at once. That's lots of extra things to memorize before I can get to the thing I want to memorize, and figuring out a way to remember these zany scenes is harder than just memorizing the numbers themselves! Numbers are easy. There's no possible synonyms for "8".

For phone numbers, 95% of my contact list has the same area code, so they're really only 7 digits. That's the same as a license plate, and I pick those up just by looking at them a few times without really trying. I'm not disparaging anyone who can make this system work -- I'm impressed! It just seems like a lot more work than necessary, if the goal is merely to memorize 10 or 20 phone numbers.
The Theranos investors were impatient to make it big. Would they have had Edison's persistence for 1000 attempts at making their innovation work?

Elizabeth Holmes's talent was to exploit the gullibility of greedy investors. History is replete with fraudsters using illusionary innovations to hoodwink investors. The Theranos management team are merely just a recent example.
https://www.currentwarmovie.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents
>Btw a bit of spin, presenting them as about the same as modern Homo Sapiens.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/02/neande... (and there is link in the article to the study itslef)

"After careful study of archaeological records, scientists in the Netherlands found evidence to suggest that Neanderthals were just as advanced in culture, weaponry and hunting as our human forebears. According to those scientists, the misunderstanding came about because people had been comparing Neanderthals to their successors, who had more advanced tools, rather than their contemporaries. Which is rather like assuming I am more advanced than my parents because I know how to work an iPhone. But this doesn't make my parents any less intelligent … just obsolete and unable to function in this modern, fast-paced world."
Interesting website to put your resume: https://jobcolab.com/

Geared towards people recently laid off.
I was hoping this was going to be a lighthearted piece on how it's funny how we don't remember phone numbers anymore.

It turned out to be very weird. Why would you need a system for remembering phone numbers? Before cell phones, I easily had dozens of phone numbers in my head: family, friends, even things like the local pizza shop. Everyone I knew had similar recall. We didn't try at this; it just came out of simple repetition.

If you want to memorize phone numbers, write them down on a small piece of paper and stick it in your wallet. When you need to call them, consult the list, and enter the numbers manually, not by rote, but while actually thinking about the numbers as you enter them. Assuming you call them enough, you'll have the numbers down within a few weeks, a month at the outside. If you don't, then perhaps you don't really need to memorize them in the first place?

These days I know two relevant phone numbers: my own and my sister's (and only because hers is similar to one of my prior phone numbers). I also remember the home phone number for where I lived until I was six years old, and a few other old ones. Oh, and I remember my (fixed, publicly-addressable) IP address from my freshman year of college (20 years ago). I kinda wish I could evict those old numbers and make room for something else.
Honest question: Why don't large scale acqui-hires happen in these situations? Often hiring is one of the top challenges for these companies. They go through 100s of resumes and interview dozens just for each role. Times that by 300+ people and it’s an incredible amount of effort and value here. So to fire 300+ people is years and years worth of human lives that went into hiring that many top tier tech employees.

I’m sure Google or someone would pay a TON of money to have them all sent down to Mountain View for the day to do a huge round of interviewing. The same way they do for smaller-scale startup acqui-hires.
Front-running is illegal and no more integral to automated trading than fraud is to accounting.

HFT is just rapid trading. Think of trading as communication. Just as better communication allows a group of people to arrive at a more accurate consensus, faster trading allows markets to arrive at better prices. Sure, there are criminals that also profit from better communication until they are caught, but that doesn't mean we should all go back to using the pony express.

Flash Boys presented a highly-skewed view of automated trading. For a balanced perspective, I think readers of the book should also read reviews by those who are in the business of trading.
You going to hold the icecream man responsible when the path has a pothole in it? He'll claim a flow of people made it and it's not his responsibility. The fairy tale is useful because it focuses on one broad idea in exclusion of the others.

Who is the man holding the smoking gun when algorithms collapse? The business owner is legally left with the responsibility, but finding who programmed the algo to make a mistake is useful & vital.
Hi all - Thank you for killing my baby!

In short, the thinking here is that instead of building a community with the intent to monetize the users and their data, we can become sustainable through patron contributions - half of which get redistributed to the users. My thinking is that this incentivizes us all to keep costs very low and also incentivizes members to impress one another, instead of exploiting one another with clickbait or "lead-generation" (advertising for-profit stuff is strictly disallowed).

RE "socialism": this isn't intended to be socialism as a religion ~ more like, "the model we're working with right now is having some painful side-effects and maybe it's worth trying a hypermodern coop / WSDE model that addresses some of the root causes of these symptoms (data abuses, CCP exerting control over our information flow / free speech, cambridge analytics stuff, LGBTQ+/small creators struggling on YouTube, etc)" which happens to align with some socialist principles, from what I gather.

Here's the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/karmafm

This is very young and experimental, and so far there's only been a single distribution (a whopping $4 (post-fees) sent to a member from a $10 patron contribution) but the Patron contributions have since quadrupled to $40!

Forgive my brevity as I attempt to keep this thing breathing and thank you for taking a look.
Elon’s ‘Masterplan’ was probably the better way for Dyson as well. Don’t start off mass producing the vehicle for everybody. Make a few for the very rich. Reinvest to make a slightly cheaper car for more people. Take that money and repeat. Would love to see more diverse players enter the arena. Competition in this particular field would be great to see unfold.
If I recall, originally it was supposed to be more drastic in its changes in an attempt to introduce more efficiencies into the system. But then they realized that they could create a lot of jobs in healthcare (remember, we were smack in the middle of the recession) so they opted to do that instead. That’s not any kind of commentary as to whether their decision was good or bad but it does appear to have resulted in making the system less efficient in many ways.
Bofa.
The one I find is missing is Multiply.com ( https://web.archive.org/web/20060615192232/http://multiply.c... ) . I used it around 2004 to share stuff with friends and family when I left my home country do to my PhD. I liked that it was more "content" based.
A lot of truly terrible ideas are also initially rejected.

Rejection is not an indicator for the merit of an idea.
> they also have to find some way they can be better with a public charging network that is 10 years behind what Tesla currently has.

Ionity's chargers are better than what Tesla has. Ionity's chargers can deliver 350kw and can charge any EV. Similarly for Electrify America's chargers. Repsol is delivering 400 kw chargers in Spain:

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1125436_the-most-powerf...

You need to get out of the mindset of a propriety charging network. Ionity, FastNed, Repsol, Allego, etc. are building chargers based on the CCS standard and any EV that can use CCS can charge at them. You can fuel your ICE car at any fuel station and you should be able to charge your EV at any charging station, regardless of the brand of the charger or the car.
Or install an addon that clobbers the Referrer field. I use Smart Referrer and it's generally pretty good.
Depends.

Maybe a guy takes caffeine because he's stressed about his financial security and can't sleep well, and the caffeine prevents him later from sleeping well at night propagating a vicious circle => worse babies.
> This is an extreme example of that, and should stand as a cautionary tale that data should be believed especially when it is in conflict with theory. Rather than being rejected and ignored.

This is a terrible sentiment and it needs to stop spreading with these articles about Nobel rejections.

Noticing that your data is in conflict with theory is the best way of realizing that you have made a mistake. Go back to your analysis and work through it until you realize what you did wrong. If you can't find the mistake, then share it with your colleagues/PI, and get them to tell you what you did wrong. If all of their ideas don't explain your result, then you may have found an interesting finding, but you should probably triple check your work and then try to reproduce the finding in new data.
This might be true in the US, but in Europe there are far less ties between industry and academia.
If you take a parenting class, this exercise is often used with both partners to learn how to deal with pain/discomfort naturally.

My wife could keep her hand in there for a few minutes. I was done after 30 seconds, if that.
>> The tools were passed around stegonographically in the instruction images

Whoa, really? I remember the coupons flying around 4chan of course. Had no idea the tools were in the images.
This sounds quite damning and makes me reconsider Stallman's character. Nevertheless it's an account of only one party, which has to be also considered.

Dunno why people who were against RMS didn't try to argument with this instead innocuous Epstein comments.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-spy-chief-passed-info-to-afd-re...
I agree with your first point. Having talked to a number of pharmacy directors at private insurers, there is a huge amount of pressure to cover all drugs, regardless of the price.

Insurers who say “no” (Aetna) is a good example, quickly lose customers to insurers who say “yes”.

He’ll, even Medicaid and Medicare at home flack for not having a drug on their formulary.

Very unlike other countries.
Austin to Dallas in 17 minutes? Virgin Hyperloop brings back the hype
Java is a decent enough programming language and, even if that wasn't true, this guy is not responsible for the "cubicle hells" you talk about. I don't know what kind of reasoning you applied here.
It is more complicated than that. Pharma companies dont get paid by insurance companies. They must go through federally mandated pharmacy benefit managers. The benefit managers keep the rebate, but charge list prices, so they have an incentive to drive up both
> You're right that I need to review more of the Bel spec (which as you point out does in fact implement numbers).

Can I ask why you claimed that it didn't have numbers or characters? It seems an odd thing to claim without actually having that knowledge in the first place.
Whenever I give that number to the cashier, I half expect them to say "hey, wait...."

I thought that number was drilled into everyone's brain, but I guess you have to be a certain age.

According to my last receipt, my YTD "savings" has been $959.68

So I am not the only Jenny out there!
Well, I have as part of my job duties scanned dependencies of source code to make sure it didn’t inadvertently include any GPL-licensed libraries.

The GPL does not control use, it controls distribution. So, using Emacs and GCC as one’s toolchain does not require a company’s code being made open source.

However, using a GPL licensed library “taints” any and all code which touches it. With the complex mazes of dependencies modern NPM/Node, Java/Maven, Python/Pip, and what not have, there’s a non-zero chance that some dependency of a dependency of a dependency is GPL code without the company knowing about it, which puts the company at risk of being sued if they make the code depend on that GPL library, no matter how indirectly.

Anything a GPL library touches in a bundled executable taints the entire code, forcing it all to be open source.

This is a serious problems for companies selling software (including hardware that uses embedded software). There are commercial products which exist to make sure code is not GPL-tainted.
Will smith is heavy on social media, but only in the last year or so, because it allows him to pull in more customers to his shows and get more on the backside of those shows. It just makes sense.
Insane amounts of automation with tools like puppeteer.
>If you look, all the pharmas in CH are basically co-owned by each other.

Sorry if I'm missing this, but what is CH?
Resources for Learning Measure Theory
I'd always thought that the Methuselah Tree in California was the oldest living tree. Apparently there's some disagreement, as Old Tjikko is a clonal tree, meaning the trunks come and go but the roots stay living underneath [1].

So if you're counting non-clone trees, Methuselah is the oldest. If you're counting clonal trees, some Quaking Aspens are believed to be between 80,000 and 1,000,000 years old [2].

[1] https://allthatsinteresting.com/old-tjikko

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
It's the web trying to take back share from native by integrating more hardware related APIs i.e. storage, authentication, etc. - driven by large corporations with disproportionate voices in these working groups.

I doubt it's even this particular feature, just an ethos of: let's add as much as possible because it'll increase our relevance.
I didn't change the title, but here's the non-hype gist of it:

> Virgin’s Hyperloop One is eyeing North Texas as a site for a certification facility, according to the Regional Transportation Council.
We don't ascribe collective guilt in the west. There is an individual who is more at fault than the others.
The root cause is that developing new drugs is horribly expensive. And we can't really make it cheaper without compromising ethics and safety. And it is always getting worse since every new drug has to be better than everything that came out before it, and provably so.

The early days of modern scientific medicine when we found miracle drug after miracle drug are gone. The low hanging fruits have been picked, what remains now is hard word.

So every solution that just involve paying less is not a good solution. Labs need the money. The real solution? Sorry, I don't have it. If it was so easy that a random guy like me could find it, it wouldn't be a problem.

There are certainly inefficiencies. Maybe something can be done to limit the tendency of the pharmaceutical industry to focus on producing marginally better drugs for the sole purpose of renewing patents. With well thought out reforms, we can make things better, but just like with the drugs themselves, it is hard work.
Finland has thousands of winter swimmers, just normal people, and Russia at least 10x more. The article makes it sound almost superhuman, whereas in real life it's something that thousands of old ladies do daily. No need to travel to the ends of the world and bring a film crew with you.
Here's a good 1 minute podcast about it - https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/2AA00080-...
I definitely stress-ate during puberty b/c of how shitty middle & high school were. I still have a 25.5 BMI which is just into the overweight category. (And I know BMI is not a perfect diagnostic tool, but let's just say I still have more bodyfat than I want.)

Just prescribing "don't do X vices" ignores the fact many people turn to vices to deal with shitty situations. I wish school had been better constructed so I wasn't stressed out at that time.
I'm sorry, but it isn't obvious at all to many people. Some people were taught that DNA is DNA and what you do doesn't change your genes.
This is a common evening snack thing in India as well. I grew up on this.
What you saw as a positive feature, I saw as the death of Friendster. My friend added "The Burning Man" as her friend, and I suddenly had thousands of friends neither of us had ever actually met. The activity of this pool completely swamped the output of any of the 'friends' I would actually meet up with. I had a HUGE network, but no friends on Friendster.

This wasn't entirely bad to meet up with people outside of your circles, but you needed some way to control the firehose. And, you know, I think that's still not a solved problem. I think I would be more keen on social networks filtering me feed if I had more control over those filters.
...for you. For me they always worked, maybe not around the time of the libinput transition.
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I'm very skeptical about any widespread deployment/use of flying tech whether delivery drones or personal aircraft.

You only need to look at the opposition to runway or operating hours expansion around airports. And this is even truer if there's a perception that it's all mostly for the benefit of "the rich."

Some will argue that most people already have to tolerate road traffic today to greater or lesser degrees. That may be true but I don't see a lot of people throwing their hands up and saying "Oh well, it's already pretty noisy. Who cares about a bunch of aircraft whizzing around my house."

And you probably shouldn't understate the safety aspect and the level of pushback after the first few accidents.
You can't afford the Lamborghini? Here, try this Fiat Panda. They're both Italian cars!

Hyperbole but not by far. Google's filter is trained on billions of messages a day, tuned by their own systems and by other users. It's the single best selling point for hosted email. Nothing compares when you've got that sort of volume.

I've had about three spam come through in the past year and they've all been personally addressed, non-bot but unsolicited marketing emails. I have three catch-all domains in this account.

We used to run our one domain through a passthrough service (at the cost of hundreds of pounds a year). Gmail was always right, easier to correct and by the point you're paying per-user (not per address), much much cheaper.
What is really compelling to me is that some of these epigenetic markers can last several generations, with implications on why group differences are not ameliorated immediately even with an effective policy intervention.