skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think WW2 is just a passing episode in this development, as different countries fared differently in the war but this long-standing development has ended in rather similar outcomes. Overall, it's that the secular society picked up from the administration structures and practices built by (mostly Protestant) churches.

WW2 guilt did not stop Austria from applying this law for collecting church dues (for the Catholic church) after WW2, even if the practice was in fact brought to statute books by Adolf Hitler in 1939.
What made you think the Russians are not OK with their government?
Again the question is "How tied?"

I tried to get some info on their page and about the fifth sentence is:

> In the unlikely case of a black swan event, the system will employ Emergency Shutdown, a last resort to guarantee the stable price.

Hmm, I didn't wasted my time reading any further.
A neutron star is so dense that a matchbox sized portion of one would weigh 3 billion tons.

https://clearlyexplained.com/neutron-stars/index.html
Can you name one?

IBM

Cisco

Dell/EMC

HPe-Aruba

Arista

All phone home. Who is this magical enterprise company that has no phone-home?

This farcical: claiming there are issues with healthcare and finance is complete rubbish. They aren't phoning home patient data, they're phoning home telemetry and health status of the hardware. I can tell you with 100% certainty that both segments have literally hundreds of thousands of hardware devices phoning home to their respective manufacturers without ANY issue.
You can have an opinion, of course.

A mob opinion that our chief rival must be kneecapped in the name of freedom and justice is super suspect, is what I'm saying.

Americans want American hegemony, and that's fine, but please don't preach about values while you're doing it.
Looks to me like some kind of holder for magnifying lenses? The different diameters on the faces could be different focal strengths and the knobs raise it above the subject enough to put the subject in focus?
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The fact that you’re in one of these countries makes you easy to access by enemies on the global scale. Assuming the individuals are good, that doesn’t mean they’re not a security risk. The reality is, countries like Russia and China do not respect intellectual property, and are know to perform cyber espionage and attacks. This seems very reasonable to me.

Furthermore, the whole point of anti-discrimination laws are to prevent judgement based off traits that cannot be changed. Where you live is not the same thing as your skin color. Imagine if someone refused to change their password and only used 6 characters for it. It’s a security protocol to force a change there. I’m viewing thing more similar to that than similar to racial discrimination, given that gitlab is not saying they won’t hire Russians widely.
That wiping trick is brilliant! Thanks for sharing your experiences.
What about HTMLDOC?[0]

[0] https://michaelrsweet.github.io/htmldoc
I don't mind this, as long as they would offer a relocation from the country in question. I would even volunteer! It's not my fault I was born in this shithole.
> Surely trusting the government is a more reasonable policy?

Looks like you have not really read about what governments do to their people when it's convenient for them to do so. Current examples: check China. Of course the US is not China, but that should be an ample warning enough that trusting government with data + power is a bad combination.
> The fact that someone lives in China or Russia does not, by itself, make them an untrustworthy person, any more than someone living in the United States, Germany, Japan, or the UK.

It has nothing to do with "untrustworthy" and everything to do with "will be coerced without anyone even breaking the law".

I don't know if that will change your mind, but it's an important difference, it's not a judgement of the people but of the state they are living in.
It seems the brunt of the controversy around the author arose from non-scientific assertions he made during a guest lecture:

> During the presentation, he asserted that physics was built and invented by men, and stated on a slide that “Physics is not sexist against women.”

While the premise of the article is that the paper's publication is "a move likely to attract criticism", the person most critical of the paper, who is interviewed in the article, cites substantive non-political reasons why they dislike the paper:

> One member of the editorial board of QSS, which is published by MIT Press and the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), gives Strumia’s paper poor reviews. The study is “methodologically flawed” and “fails to meet the standards of the bibliometric community,” says Cassidy Sugimoto, an information scientist at Indiana University in Bloomington...

So how does the content of the article justify your snark and imaginary irrational response?
yes, and plasma neither - it has its own scaling method which does not use xft.dpi afaik
It isn't secure and I wasn't saying it was secure. What I was saying is that the law gives you no less technical protection than you had before the law.

Importantly, the law doesn't compel you to have any interception capabilities. If you publish open-source code with verified and reproducible builds, the government can't really ask you to do anything, as doing so would either alert the people they're targeting or compromise the security of people unrelated to the investigation.

And I don't think this is any different to anywhere else. The FBI for example has been able to gain access to encryption keys in the past so I see no reason why signing keys would be any different.
In case anyone remembers the incident at CERN (mentioned in the article) regarding the author of this paper, I have some n=1 information.
I used to work at CERN when this happened, and I remember the day because there was much chatter and unrest about it. The author claimed that a woman was hired for a position instead of him, while they were the only two candidates and he had much more papers published and citations.
While of course that does not mean that there is systemic sexism in CERN's hiring process because it could very well simply be that the guy is unbearable, I have heard a high-up HR employee at CERN say that women are favored when hiring.

I strongly disagree with equality of outcome, since this is basically fighting inequality with sexism.

I did not dare to speak my thoughts to anyone apart from very few colleague friends.
This reminds me a lot of Notion. I've been using it for a while now and love it. I may check this one out too.

https://notion.so
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China has a long history of war. The US doesn't even have a long history. Your historical view is zoomed in too far.

All large nation states are guilty of aggression, that's how you become a large nation state.
It’s funny how “best practices” get mirrored basically everywhere up and down the stack. Everything at some point will have some way of decoupling data-access and data-structure, you just choose the level you want to do it at (toolkit, ORM, network api, database, schema/view, tablespace, filesystem...) and the number and granularity of layers, picking what you are most comfortable with.

It’s like, no matter how low-level you go, at some point someone had a problem with components being tightly coupled and introduced an indirection layer “for next time”.
I would take strong exception your comment that teaching and nursing are "lower status" careers. My mother, grandmother, and grandfather all taught their entire lives and contributed greatly to society over the course of their lifetimes, and a college professor is a high status position by any objective measure. It's a position I would like to attain but never will because I simply don't have the time to put into it, and even though I have a good career in tech I wish I could follow in their footsteps at times.

Nursing also pays quite well -- perhaps not quite the level of FAANG salaries, but six figure salaries in nursing are not at all uncommon, and relative to the education required to get into that career it is a very good return on investment. Also, nursing is absolutely not a low status career by any metric I know of either.

You're trying to make a point, I get that -- and perhaps you could use other career fields to make it more legitimately, but the previous poster has a very good point as well. People gravitate towards careers that interest them -- my mother was never going to write software because she has no interest in that field, but she loved to teach and chose to do so her entire life. I love to teach as well, but I don't have the aptitude for dealing with an academic career.
The fact that the data is being sold to third-parties (e.g., Sift) by their collectors (e.g., Airbnb) is troubling. But what is even more troubling is that we don't know how scoring companies (e.g., Sift) are using the data and how they are generating scores.

Their models, if they are using ML, are opaque. Journalists haven't yet cracked this nut, instead just reporting on the fact that company A has bought personal data from company B. (That is likely to require anonymous leaks from the scoring companies.)

I think the hacker ethos could be applied to this problem by viscerally illustrating the threat. ('Hacker' used in the same way as the infosec community.)

Hackers could request their own data, hypothesize what could be gleaned from it, and use models (potentially academic ones trained on more general datasets) to produce derivative information.

Then hackers should make tools to make this process easier for the average journalist or consumer.
It's not clear from the Chromium Design Document[1] whether resources loaded via Subresource Integrity (SRI) will have a shared cache or not. It's not explicitly mentioned, so it's probably best to assume it's not until someone has tested it.

[edit]
The SRI spec github project has an issue for shared cache [2] that seems to be coming to the consensus that there will not be a shared cache for SRI:

> "it seems rather unlikely that we can ever consider a shared cache"

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XJMm89oyd4lJ-LDQuy0CudzB...

[2] https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-subresource-integrity/issue...
Uber doesn’t have a gigantic State apparatus with both a vested interest in and the ability to use violence to enforce it’s will on me.

By your logic, it would be more reasonable to require that Google be barred from all data sent over email, but require that copies get sent to the NSA. Similarly, AT&T should be required to not collect any phone records, but also be mandated to provide a copy of every single call to the FBI.
From what I have seen, there are also obstacles that stem from universities and funding bodies doing "affirmative action" that has not been thought through completely.

Think about it - whenever someone needs participants for a committee of some sort, a leader for a research centre, or similar, they always want to achieve a better gender balance than the actual average gender balance in their field. This means that female scientists are requested to do significantly more non-science work than male scientists. Of course this has drawbacks.
Because Bitcoin is great for ICOs?
The Ocean Cleanup unveils plan to address pollution in rivers
If all this data would be more or less random (which is kind of implied by "run on bots worldwide in millions") this would merely add some random noise to large datasets. For this to create any real problems the noise generated by those bots would have to be somehow biased, of course in an incorrect way. This implies then, that for such idea to be even remotely effective one would need at least a peak in aggregated data to know real trends and program bots to blur the image generating fake trends.
Rest-mass being a somewhat difficult concept if your particle only "exists" in bound systems, i.e. is confined.
But yeah, forget the Higgs, almost all the mass you see around you is generated dynamically by non-perturbative QCD.

Edit: More explanation: If you take the quark masses as unbound rest mass, it's not clear why the proton is bound -- it would have higher energy (=mass) than the unbound constituents. This is different from atoms, as a hydrogen atom has slightly less mass than the sum of a free proton and free electron (13.6eV in the ground state).
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Wild, right? I'll try to dig up the ref when I have a moment.

The WHO report, linked above, mentions that the bivalent vaccines also have limited effects on other strains, but they're mostly covered by the newer 4/9-valent ones. I'm pretty certain I saw another report suggesting it can hit other strains too, though again, not very effectively. This was the rationale for some of the ancedotes about people's warts disappearing and all that.
I thought fairly standard industry practice prohibits prod access ACLs to engineers inside China or Russia.
Any exchanges accepting and trading Tether should be considered fraudulent.
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That's a good point, but its going to take gigantic social transformations to be able to sequester all the remaining oil, there is about 800 Gtonn CO_2 in the ground and about 200 or 400 Gton CO_2 of total cumulative emissions if you aim for 1.5 or 2 degrees C.
I use mailbox.org but there's a list of others here: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/email-comparison/#simple-emai...

For me mailbox.org ended up being slightly cheaper.

In terms of features and UX I've found them comparable.
We can burn as many barrels of oil as we want as long as we pay $100 - $300 per barrel to sequester the resulting CO2.

There are places where that makes sense economically, but there aren't very many of those.

Of course there are countries that will try to avoid doing that, but they can be coerced to join via carbon tariffs.
> I did not dare to speak my thoughts to anyone apart from very few colleague friends.

I completely agree with your positions, and I am also “undercover”.

I wonder how many of us are there...
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> I have not concerned myself with cross-browser-compatibility, so the live preview will most likely look laughable in anything other than chrome.

Indeed it looks much worse on Firefox than on Chrome.
That doesn't verify any data though. At most, it implies a likelihood of having an account, but nothing about the specific data.
It's interesting that Bitcoin's price jumped rapidly since last week
Did you compare it with the rendering on Chrome? Colors are quite different.
Interesting to see that they're no longer only looking at oceans (which is a good thing I think - rivers seem much easier to clean up). Also a pretty elegant design. Looks very similar to Mr. Trash Wheel [0] though, I wonder to what extent this is really TOC's invention.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Trash_Wheel
Sure, they can’t definitely answer “being a woman is harder”. But they can probably give some insight into the obstacles they’ve encountered. In my experience, those obstacles are very different than the ones a guy like me has.
I am a big fan of remote work but your points are very valid. I think a remote company need to have a fundamentally different way of management. I think most important is for management to have a good grasp of the type of work people are doing. When I look at my company my managers just one or two levels up haven’t even the foggiest idea how one does the work my team does. When something goes wrong the only thing they can do is to see that people are at the office and working hard. They have no tools to judge work without seeing people at their desks.
The only thing that should matter when hiring: the skills.
I've seen a lot of suggestions for alternatives but nobody's mentioned station307.com yet
>Several countries in Africa are suffering from wars worsened by climate change driven migrations.

Why would migration lead to war?
(I'll be honest: this is a rhetorical question.)
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Sounds like a good research question for physicists :)
The "wave function" that we use to model a particle's state has indefinite extent, but when the particle actually interacts with something else, it does so in a single, small location (from our perspective.)

When they talk about the proton radius, they're talking about the radius of that interacting object, not its wave function. The wave function can be thought of as describing the probability of an interaction finding the particle in a particular location.
You are spreading fake news. There is far more oxygen in the atmosphere than can be burned by fossil fuels.

https://www.popsci.com/amy-geppert/article/2008-09/will-we-r...
It still sounds sketchy since it sounds like your data is maintained at a 3rd party for a purpose that is not intended (unrelated to your care) on the idea that you may one day opt-in to the unintended use.
It's much more easy to just buy some data than torture somebody. Or you think engineers from US, UK or any other country can't be bought? :)
Yeah, I would definitely spend money on a book or video series that goes through this process.

The authors How page is interested but it leaves me with a bit of a "Draw the rest of the fucking owl" feeling.
I downvoted you because this felt like an egregious strawman:

> I never understood the attitude of “trust us, it exists, but no one is allowed to question it”. I think Feynman said something like “I’d rather have questions I can’t answer than answers I can’t question”.

The researcher who reviewed his paper, and is quoted as being extremely critical of it, did not evince the irrational mindset that you imply:

> The study contains “several unsubstantiated claims,” she says, and doesn’t properly cite or discuss papers that come to conflicting conclusions. “Overall,” Sugimoto says, “the manuscript does not provide a convincing understanding of the literature or the methods, lessening the credibility of the results.”

Furthermore, this reviewer is on the board of the publication in question. And despite her critique, she affirms the authority and independence of the editor-in-chief to publish the paper:

> In an email, Sugimoto wrote that “To maintain the editorial integrity of our journal, the Board of ISSI does not interfere with individual decisions on manuscripts: the Editor-in-Chief assumes full responsibility for editorial decisions.”

Who do you attribute this "no one is allowed to question it" mindset to?
> Digging up and burning all fossil fuels would consume all oxygen in the atmosphere

No, it wouldn’t.

Not all biomass turns into fossil fuels. And a lot of carbon is stored in living and recently-deceased biomass.
Which is fine until you want someone to be able to inherit your money.
I think your issue isn’t with universities and certainly isn’t with me. Reading between the lines, I think your complaint is with the systemic over-valuing of university degrees by parents and industry. That pushes people into universities that don’t want or need the education provided.

If that’s your issue, I completely agree with you. That’s why, in my comment, I actively encouraged people to do vocational training (boot camps) or teach themselves. If you want to learn to program, those are much better ways than to do a CS degree.

That doesn’t make CS worthless. It’s just different. The CS education provided by a university isn’t meant to train you to be a programmer. It’s broader than that. And it’s also, in some ways, deeper because it dives into CS topics that you won’t ever need for work.

I think that’s totally fine. The vocational and university systems have coexisted for a long time and serve different purposes. Pushing people into the university system that are better served by vocational training is an issue. But throwing away the university or pressing it to become purely vocational training is, I think, both unnecessary and deeply harmful to society.
> must be kneecapped in the name of freedom and justice

I think we can talk without hyperbole, no?

>Americans want American hegemony,

Sorry if that's what you think.
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Please tell me more about your problem in OSX (OSX ver, GPU type?).
Unfortunately I got very trouble with (deprecated) OpenGL in OSX (mostly with GLSL subroutines) and the "pure rendering" operations result faster in WebGL versoin (I believe that Chrome/FireFox use Vulkan layers)
I coult test it only in 10.14.x with AMD GPU.

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> Do you honestly think making people choose between raising children and having gainful employment is normal and acceptable?

The argument I was making is that they are expecting privileges for being a parent. I know a number of women who see their career as more important than having children as plenty of others who see their children as more important than a career. Life is full of compromises, why should having children be seen otherwise.

The world is overpopulated and we should be looking for ways to bring the population down humanely before nature does it in a far harsher manner.
The impetus for a company like Sift was better fraud detection. I haven't evaluated the platform in some time, but if I remember correctly; it democratized the fraud decision process by feeding Sift data on successful orders. Clients would score their own orders based on whether or not it was returned, charged back or simply a successful no-friction order.

Something like 80% of customers have issued a chargeback, 86% of chargebacks are "friendly fraud", increasing at a rate of 41% every two years. The dollar figure I've heard is $20+ Billion in friendly fraud.

So, obviously there's an altruistic nature to why a company like Sift has this data. But, I'm of the opinion that they saw the dollar value in this type of scoring and collection system.
I immediately thought knitting/crochet - and that was then shown in the embedded video later.

(I have vague recollections of using a cardboard ring to make a pom-pom out of wool when I was an infant).
Yes, as in the author making baseless assertions about something they very obviously know nothing about.
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