skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the characteristics you mention are actually related to cancer though. If we banned everything that caused dry throat or caused you to caught because “obviously they cause cancer”, where would we be today?

I mean we could ban 80% of all Indian food because first time westerners eat it they react much stronger to the spicy ness than they would to smoking.

Stating independent of the actual science that “It was always obvious that smoking caused cancer” isn’t any better than the people stating now that “obviously EM radiation causes cancer”.
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"drive the price of oil up for Russia and Iran so they can afford more foreign intervention"

please diversify your sources of propaganda
This wasn't that well received by sysadmin's on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/bvrlh6/i_created_...
Also allowing historical sessions to be decrypted.
It seems fairly obvious that wealth distribution would not perfectly mirror the underlying talent distribution. In a competitive environment small difference have large impacts on results.

Usain Bolt was only a tiny bit faster than other sprinters, but in this prime he won basically all the races he competed in.

It wasn't luck that had him winning them all despite such a small advantage. It was the nature of competition.
Titles are automatically titlecased when submitted but not when edited. The workaround is to submit and immediately edit afterwards.

Unfortunately many blogs have their titles all uppercase instead of using small caps. For me the use case where I copy an all uppercase title and want it to be titlecased on HN is much more common than the case where I actually want a string of caps. I'm quite ok with the current behavior.
I might try to live up to the Hacker Ethic, but I would not presume to call myself a hacker. That's a title that should be earned, not claimed.
>Google can track you fairly effectively even if you’re behind a VPN.

You don't know anything about my setup, so you have no basis for claiming this.

On the other hand, if you have an exclusive sticky IP, you will be tracked all the time. And even if they don't do extensive fingerprinting right now, they can always go back and look at basic HTTP logs.
If you are not sure, consider the same notions without mass murder attached to them.

They are socially (and legally) in different leagues.

>are there actually any studies on this, or even examples?

Yes, there specifically are[1][2][3][4][...].

I'd suggest [1] as a start, and then Google is your friend.

[1]https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/when-do-peo...

[2]https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-48477-001

[3]https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03050629.2018.15...

[4]https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/18/...
Blizzard is more vulnerable to financial boycotts than other companies:

1) Their product is only used for fun.
2) They have subscription products that aren't used all the time, and thus easy to cancel if someone is reminded they have it.

I would be surprised if their next quarters earnings projections didnt take a nose dive.
You can't have a "not-illegal" version for 3 - 20% more. The solution is to hold Bezos to the same laws as all other businesses so Amazon has appropriate due diligence instead of creating a quasi-criminal organization. Relentlessly apply the law until Bezos is working within it.
Except shale oil is light/sweet. Where we have excess refining capacity it heavy/sour, because of cutbacks with Venezuelan oil. Right now we're running out of capacity on light/sweet processing and may need to start exporting it.
Medieval moralists discovered that they could not express in too much detail proscribed sins for the obvious reasons.

The DRM industry has yet to learn this lesson. Thankfully.
So fire protestors?!

EDIT: reporters of protestors!?!
> 80% of the time DDG results are "good enough" and I'm contributing zero data to the Alphabet Empire.

You probably still are if you use chrome. By default DDG searches keep the query in the URL which means your chrome history contains history of all your searches.
If you know your traffic well, private cloud saves a lot of money. Few years back i bet hybrid clouds will take over and for some reason it did not happen. I still believe hybrid cloud is the solution for mid size and up companies. You definitely need cloud provides for handling traffic spikes.
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Re: Yang. I think he's a very interesting candidate! He's innovative and providing a fresh perspective. That doesn't have anything to do with the Russian "hacking" myth the media has been pushing full-blast though. $100k of Facebook ads is nothing. I'm 100% sure the media isn't pushing this to help Yang, but instead traditional mainstream politicians like Clinton.
Any of these worth diving into?
Amazon’s First Fully Automated Factory Is Anything But
I'd like something like systemd, but with all high-level internals written in a embedded scripting language.
Except in amazons case they take items from the tent sale and use it to augment their stocks in different warehouses so they can reduce shipping times. So in that instance it is the same thing regardless of “supplier middleman”.
Is this a story about virtualization? I fail to see the distinction between data center and private cloud in this context.
This worse web is literally Google bullying you unless you tell them everything about who you are.
I read this in high school and now I am working on my phd in computer architecture. This is definitely not a coincidence. I love how well it explains the low-level workings of computers.

Definitely would recommend!
On the other hand, more players means more bandwidth and more server usage for Blizzard, which means higher costs. If everyone plays and doesn't buy anything, then they'll lose money on server costs.
>No, that's a misnomer. Systematic discrimination implies the system itself codifies this behaviour

I hate to point this out when you've written a substantial comment like this, but the comment you're replying to said "systemic," not "systematic," and the difference between them isn't just a semantic quibble.
It's listed in the Operating Systems section, you'll find it if you scroll down a bit
Ask tptacek and idlewords?
SICP has been (and still is) studied outside of MIT.
Same boat. I’m 48 and could retire right this minute, but looming college expenses, and health insurance, are hanging by a chain on my ankle.
Yeah, I suspect that while the author could use a development image to do all of the compiling, given that all of the nginx files are not in a single directory it's my understanding that you'd need multiple COPY commands, and you'd still want to do all of the package manager operations in the prod build. It's really a tradeoff of development ease vs minimal packaged output.
Sure, I do understand that, and yes IP hiding does matter. I'm merely pointing out that disabling Javascript (and eventually enabling some set unique to you, to un-break a broken site) is just another way to leak some bits one might want to be aware of. Faking the common fingerprinting vectors known to expose you uniquely is possibly a better way... until the new ones are found. I don't know. The leaking bits need to be carefully accounted for, and you don't know the site userbase for sure to blend into the largest cluster possible. I don't think that fingerprinting is something that can be fought by the end user efficiently, besides the very obvious things like blocking the major vectors.
Competition. You hire a different police force to protect your property.

Of course, if one entity has a monopoly over the legitimate use of force in an area, you're in trouble.
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I just went with my wife to an anniversary event at her graduate school, which is fairly prestigious. We are older, and one of the things we were thinking about was how some people had really striking success in their twenties, some in their thirties and forties, and some later still. The point being that coming out of the first few years of school you may feel like your cohort is sorting for success, but actually early bloomers sometimes revert to the mean and late bloomers happen all the time.

I don't think people typically realize it as much because they don't benchmark themselves against their classmates when they get older.
> It is rarely only the "good" guys that get to censor in the end ...

It’s rarely only the good guys that start with censoring, either.
There was a switch away from SysV init for particular reasons, not change for the sake of change.
Pedantry is important here, because it's important to point out that the Blizzard that people loved is long gone. It's really Activision Blizzard who are acting like this.
For Americans, getting rich should be the top priority. There's not much of a safety net if you fall ill and can't work. You have to use your healthy/productive years to build up wealth so you won't be homeless later.
If I could completely conceal its presence from anyone else, maybe. If I was completely capable of keeping it from corroding my sensibility and connection to the world.

But honestly, even at my low-end Silicon Valley salary living in the midwest I sometimes end up a bit more detached and cavalier about some things than I'd like.
Every 15 points of IQ is 1 standard deviation from the mean. So 210 is 7.3 standard deviations away from 100.

Just 7 standard deviations away from the mean means that you would expect only 1 in 780 billion from a population.

Given that this is far more than the number of people on Earth: No, no one has an IQ of 210.
AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
You choose the business model to trust. VPN serve customers who to pay to be private. That seems like a high value target. ISPs serve connectivity, but apparently in the US, spying on their users is part of their core business and have strong local monopolies. Due to fierce competition and trust being pretty much one of the business requirements (I'd expect a lot more due diligence in b2b), hosting providers seem like the least big evil to me.
Thanks for mentioning this and calling him out.
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Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA
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Reason (FEE / Atlas Group / Mont Pelerin Society / Koch Network) are feeding their own interest here and are hardly indifferent.

Or correct.
Can you clarify which book do you mean when you mention "Russel"? I cannot pinpoint it, unlike the other two.
Offline SDK protection in .NET with software licensing
alright, I'm getting downvoted, so I'll put some important references here:

Generally, the research of Jackie Barton showing that DNA is a conductor and speculating about the role fo 4Fe4S cluster in the BER mechanism was emergent in the late 2000s back when I was a biochemist and not a programmer, but they're now (last 2 years) publishing papers that are fleshing out that hypothesis:

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jkbgrp/Research.htm

Specific papers:
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-bioche...

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscentsci.8b00566

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acschembio.8b00347

etc.
Maybe if I can learn to levitate, I can change the lightbulbs in my house.

No, get a ladder.

Because the no country, no flag idea makes people blind to finding practical solutions.
This is an interactive notebook of inverse kinematics, feedback is welcome!
Would it be possible to do something like this:

1. user Initially creates login and password for Nest device

2. Before Nest accepts your password, it checks HaveIBeenPwned.com to see if that password has already been used before for this email address. If so, the password is rejected.
How did their idiom go?

"We'll grind you up and crush your bones."

Sure, it is just an idiom, but it speaks to the thoroughness of their punishments.

EDIT: This is a direct, and recent, quote from Xí Jìnpíng when discussing (with foreign leaders) how the Chinese government will treat anyone who tries to split or sew dissent in China.
Same. I have mixed feelings about it. The tooling is great, but I'm not totally convinced the borrow checker is the be-all, end-all of memory management it's sometimes made out to be. Also some of the decisions around syntax are questionable to me, like lack of top-level-inference just feels like a step backward compared to languages which have it. Also while the trait system and macros are really powerful, a lot of times how they are used by libraries seems quite magical, and it takes a lot of digging through documentation and sometimes source to really understand how things work.

Still in spite of that, I think it's an awesome project with a lot of enthusiasm behind it, and I'm happy to see languages exploring new ideas getting so much attention.
Hint: They ain't. You can still create unflagged CNAMEs for many trackers and Ad Networks.
…is that a sarcastic question? How would typing 'YUM' NOT be faster than 'sudo yum'?

I can't deny that something feels terribly wrong about this sort of script, though.
This used to be the case with a lot of big lots and ollies stores. Not sure about it anymore, but you also see a lot of inner city / lower income area bodegas/ corner stores selling it too. One near me always has expired rap chips for sale. I eat them and they’re fine, but I knowingly take that risk.
A government is only legitimate when it truly represents the people who live there. The Beijing government is an illegitimate fascist mockery of a government. The only legitimate Chinese government is the democratic one in Taiwan.
Can we please retire "Just Works" - pretty much every time I have seen this phrase on HN there's been a response describing a "well it doesn't work for me, I am seeing <symptom>". "Just works" is as useful as the "works for me" cliche
I went to an elite engineering school. My colleagues are all really smart. After 20 years, some are wealthy, some are poor. There is no apparent link between how hard they worked and how rich they became. However you can definitely trace how a few good breaks led to one guy being rich and another not.

Did the guys who went to work for Google take any additional risk? Yet, they are now millionaires. How about the entrepreneurs? A few are super rich now. The guy who went to work at McKinsey is now a pubco COO making millions.

Yes, by my direct observation, it’s mostly chance.
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Diablo 4 was the only "maybe" and that was a long shot, it will probably suck balls like D3 because they will bend backwards to censor it. I don't get how they can justify censoring a game that depends on its dark content, it's quite obviously going to alienate the original player base that made it big. Why not just create a different IP just for china? So many questions, I really think they just lack technical innovation to solve this properly.
Tool that allows you to draw and then download a dataset
Yeah, whenever I read stuff like that I feel like I've been living in a parallel world. I've always grown up around people who played video games and they've never cared about anything other than the games themselves. They might passively agree or disagree with a company's stance on something but they'll still keep that entirely separate from the games being produced.
Before using SystemD for the first time, I also wondered if there is any grain of truth in what its opponents said about SystemD.

However, after trying SystemD for one week, I became convinced that the designers of SystemD are incompetent, so they cannot be trusted with a component of such importance for a computer.

I am normally a Gentoo user, but a few years ago I wanted to install Linux in a hurry on a small computer. With a slow CPU installing Gentoo can take several hours, unless you have a previously prepared image, so I decided to try ArchLinux.

The installation was indeed fast and without problems. However, SystemD behaved in an unexpected way. SystemD is advertised as booting quickly. It indeed booted quickly, but no faster than my optimized Gentoo systems.

On the other hand the shutdown with SystemD was very slow. This was a huge surprise, because never before and never after have I encountered any computer where the shutdown is annoyingly slow.

Moreover, sometimes the shutdown FAILED, which is also something that I have never encountered on any computer not using SystemD, and I have used thousands of computers, with many kinds of operating systems, including at least eight or nine UNIX flavors other than Linux.

The failure of shutdown was apparently due to some kind of race condition when some process was killed faster than some SystemD component expected and that SystemD component was still trying to communicate via DBUS with the defunct process and it blocked because its messages no longer reached the destination.

I suppose that this bug might have been corrected eventually, but this is a design error that I consider unforgivable, i.e. to conceive a shutdown sequence which depends on successful inter-process communication.

After seeing such a mistake I have lost any confidence in the abilities of the SystemD developers, so I have never tried it again.
Apparently not [1] (paywall) / [2] (Google referrer to avoid paywall). There's a scam where email invoices are modified:

> Somewhere along the line the email was intercepted and altered. I didn’t know then, but I know now, that I should have transferred a small amount first to see if it went through, or just phoned the builder to check his details

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/edc2061a-78b2-11e9-be7d-6d846537a...

[2] https://lmgtfy.com/?q=I+was+duped+out+of+%C2%A34%2C300+in+an...
Do yourself a favor and finish reading the chain
What breaks our systems: a taxonomy of black swans
They won't stop working on important things. What is their alternative? Sell everything they own and move to Canada? Just sit around and drink beer all day?
Oh please. Fuel? Fast Food? Its right next to the highway, so you can pass through without spending too much time in town. The statement was offensive, and they were called-out. Lets not nit-pick unnecessarily.
This is a feature in my eyes. Just stack a bunch of these hacked by different people who don't cooperate with each other. Now any user has plausible deniability over anything that happens on these networks. No?
They totally have that right, and we totally have our right to call them out on that. So they can ban political speech in their events, and according to the Streisand Effect, that is guaranteed to garner them a lot of negative attention, with plenty of people willing to cross their line to make a point.

At anyrate, Blizzard has done a lot for the HK movement since you can’t have civil disobedience without the disobedience. They’ve conveniently provided the context that such disobedience can exist in (and if it wasn’t them, it would be someone else).
We do this together, you're not the only one. I even disavowed Hearthstone, even though I've played since the open beta.

Cast them to the Chinese market, that's what they want the most. I guess that's fine, I just won't give them any more money.

It also seems we're not the only two people on NA that are doing this, so relish in the fact that there's many more of us out there, where this finally drew a line.
I favor the idea of free will but I don't buy this argument. Everything in the universe is bound by the same physics/quantum mechanics but you wouldn't say a rock has free will.
Definitely appreciate your concern here, but there's still a lot which is being confused.

Proton does not today, and has never, used contracted (outsourced) employees. As is common with startups, in the past we did not always do all our HR in house (it's all in house today), but employees were always working on Proton and for Proton.

There are no board members, directors, shareholders, or employees, related to Tesonet beyond the fact that a couple employees might have been employed there previously. This in itself is not strange, we also have some employees who previously worked at Google, the ultimate data mining company, but clearly decided they preferred to work for the other side. People can and do change jobs.

Proton has also always run our own infrastructure, and for ProtonVPN, this is publicly verifiable.

So, we don't have to "gut our company" to remove any "intermingling" because there was little to none to begin with, and certainly nothing today.

Indeed trust is super important, but it seems odd to trust anonymous internet accusers or those with a clearly vested interest in harming Proton, as opposed to reputable third parties like the EU or Mozilla who don't have a vested interest here and are independent.

Proton is still to this day, the only VPN company that has an address clearly published on our website, where you can show up, and find company management and board members, and that means something.
This is a great point. It's not (necessarily) that Americans are just inherently money-hungry; we just have to be because we live in a system that is really callous and unmerciful compared to other places in the world.
This article isnt referencing a "general assesment", its based on a computer model that tried to simulate human behavior.

Its clear that you need to be lucky to become a billionaire but i think a more interesting question is how much luck is involved in becoming a multi millionaire.
It's a monitor?
host your content on S3 as a website and front it with CloudFront. Use Lambda just for 'api' in your case.
Coffee and caffeine pills. If those don't work like they used to, then its probably a manifestation of a larger issue (not going outside, poor hygiene, etc). I don't have anything against people who use more advanced substances, but I've found roughly the same effect as caffeine pills.
That's a good point.

> Faking the common fingerprinting vectors known to expose you uniquely is possibly a better way...

I wish there was more research being done around this. I appreciate what Firefox is doing, and I assume there are good reasons for their fingerprinting strategies. They know more than me about this stuff. But... it still sets off some alarm bells in my head. It seems like it would be strictly better to spoof location/canvas/microphone data instead of only blocking it.
> Blizzard could have kicked him out of the tournament

The tournament was over tho?
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The tinfoil hat would argue maybe this was a leak that happened, but it was shared by design. It’s an HK company with questionable relationships and owners.
I'm a mathematician because that's what interests me. My richness is not measured in dollars. As I age, I grow more concerned for my future, but I still have no regrets.
> to the supervisory authority

Does this always/necessarily lead to customers/the public being informed? But yeah, better than nothing.
My last post was satirical about the stake, but it is exactly why I mentioned it.

I feel like we are in the dark era of Christianity burning witches and dissidents.

The More Things Change, The More They Remain The Same.
Looks like there's huge potential value with a tool like this.

Does it have a way to handle page content that's less relevant? For instance plenty of genuinely useful articles have footers full of clickbait ads & comments - whilst trying to avoid such content, sometimes the article you need is only available with that dross tacked on the end, and yet ideally users wouldn't want it polluting search results (unless they really were looking for "that amazing trick that only grandmothers know"!)
That comment says "class of games", and you've started writing about "class games" and then "class differences" in your interpretation of the comment. Not saying you did something bad here, but it sounds more like the telephone game than discussing what was written, all because of the omission of the preposition "of."