skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2) It is easier (last I checked) than with Firefox to leave some config tabs open so I can quickly turn on/off javascript, images, and/or cookies for those sites where I need them (by exception list or temporary exception, and easy to manage it without a mouse once the tab is open; separately, I do change the search engine also, and create search keywords), and

I wouldn't want to switch everything on/off manually. I use the uMatrix extension which allows you to enable disable cookies, images, Javascript, iframes, etc. for each domain separately, and configure the exceptions permanently or temporarily. I have JS disabled by default, and enable it only for trusted sites or temporarily. Even on the sites I trust, Google Analytics scripts, etc. are disabled.
> There was a study earlier this year, that revealed a Tesla charged by a power plant using coal generated more emissions than a standard unleaded gasoline car.

There is no where in the US electrical grid where that statement is true. It's a strawman.
The earliest Smalltalk versions used actor-like communication, but then Alan Kay learned about Simula and was seduced by the promise of straightforward low-overhead implementation.
No, I have no ability to understand the difference between the real world and Tamriel.
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I think the primary difference is that for Musk, his companies are actual means to a non-monetary end (electrification of transport, Mars colonization). This creates a tremendous levels of focus. Most companies exist to make money for their owners, and any actual useful work done is only a side effect.
Specifically, as society becomes increasingly destabilized by the impact of climate change, as startups, are our products built with the most vulnerable in mind or do we lean too heavily into the realm of luxury?
Health benefits of sex toys and side effects of sex toys – FitnessHealths
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There's a documentary called Meeting Gorbachev that's worth watching for anyone interested in learning more about the collapse of the USSR. Gorbachev was the leader of the USSR prior to its collapse.

While some saw the downfall of the USSR as the end of communism and a triumph for the west, others might say it was just another round of the revolving door of dictators and corrupt politicians that has plagued eastern Europe for decades (maybe centuries?).
I can imagine it would. My experience tells me it's not out of the question. With Google it's improbable at the moment, but it happened to me (someone got nasty under my ISP's CGNAT) with the other service which will remain unnamed.
Jaroslav Passed First Time
http://facebook.sucks

> Registrant Organization: Facebook, Inc.

https://whois.nic.sucks
Immersion cooling might not work since it depends on convection flow to move the heated liquid away from the plate. With a cold plate, pumps and pressure can be used to move the chilled water so that water in contact with the plate is always cool and heat is extracted and moved to the chiller more rapidly.
Automation could replace up to 800M jobs by 2035: Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Freecodecamp Is Exploiting Tutors on the Name of Charity
Hey, thanks for letting me know. I will fix it soon :) Looks like I forgot to add the action on the hamburger button.
Color is subjective. The physical properties contribute, of course, but color happens in the brain.

Image search "color illusion": https://duckduckgo.com/?q=optical+color+illusion&t=ffab&atb=...

Or see (literally) "Benham's top" where a black-and-white pattern on a spinning disk induces the perception of color. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benham%27s_top

I see slightly different colors out of each eye, with no way of knowing which eye is correct.

Neither eye is correct: color is subjective.

"Who is the master who makes the grass green?"

It's a deep question.
I don't know about the genetics part, but what I have noticed is that Jewish "leaf nodes" tend to be great mathematicians or otherwise intellectual. What I mean by this is a child/person of Jewish descent, that is no longer religious and also does not have children. They are thus a leaf node in the tree. A current example would be Grigory Perelman.

I don't like to conjecture about cleverness and intellegence and especially not genetics. But if there is one thing these Jewish leaf nodes have in common it is a really good education.
Governments might not be perfect, but they have a far, far better track record than for-profit corporations. The Library of Congress is one prominent example of archiving excellence. Many other public libraries and archives offer other examples.
First of all, there are more ways than just guns for a criminal adversary to kill someone, including knives, hammers, baseball bats, pounding a person's head into the sidewalk using bare hands only, etc. Secondly, a cursory glance at crime statistics ought to dispossess you of the notion that criminals are only armed every "one in a billion" cases. Thirdly, if you really think this only happens "one in a billion" cases, why would you bother standing up an armed response team at all?
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Civil war settled that question.
That doesn't really have anything to do with the tunneling of DNS. Authentication + ignoring the local resolver do.
That's an interesting question that I'd also love to know the answer to. I'm also curious whether there's a difference between music and podcasts/audiobooks since the latter seem to require a lot more focus than the former which might further inhibit background processing?
Being only five hundred lines doesn't disqualify it from being a library.

But being impossible to safely integrate into other projects because of illegal names and polluting the global namespace does.

This is at best a rough proof of concept which could at some point be turned into a library.
>It is privilege not because it requires time, but because it generally requires free time, outside of how you make your living.

That's the case for all kinds of things that are not jobs but people still want to have an opinion on.

Besides, your very distinction is based on the idea that a job someone happens to work is the same as the field they want to work or have an opinion on. Which is not always (even rarely) the case.

If I work at McDonalds but aspire to be a programmer, surfer, rapper, journalist, writer, director, whatever getting competence to criticize/have an opinion about that other field (or, even more so, land a programming gig) also requires that I have a free time from "how I make my living".

>As for snobbishness, you have it backwards: no one is saying that snobbishness is required to have good taste, but that the privilege required to develop good taste results in good taste being, or being labeled as, snobbish.

And my point is, there's no "privilege" or no more "privilege" than any other endeavour one needs to spend time to learn and understand. Everything takes time and effort to achieve, why would "good taste" be any different?

Is being a surgeon "snobbish" because you need to study to become one? Plus unlike learning about art, it takes not just free time, but decade of attending classes, plus lots of money.
Not a solution to your problem, but if you supply an email when creating a certificate, you will receive a notification plenty in advance (three or four weeks, I think)
Read a paper: Earliest analysis of covert/side channels
I've been mad at my parents plenty of times for cleaning up my room as a kid for the same reason - even though it might have looked like a mess, everything naturally ended up in the most obvious place for me; a kind of mind-environment feedback loop setting on an equilibrium.
Agreed that most people could reject the mugging on those grounds but I think that is more than is needed.

Even if someone being mugged had an unbounded utility function the finite resources argument forces them to rationally reject the deal. We've reintroduced infinities; so now our rationalist must accept that there are infinitely many situations with the same properties as the Mugging (positive expected value, Almost Sure to lose the stake). Their strategy would have to be to reject deals like the Mugging and seek out deals that have positive expected return and probably keep the stake/have a tiny stake compared to their reserves.

I'm basically saying a rationalist with finite wealth is probably using the Kelly criterion [0] and would reject the Mugging on that basis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
Nope, allowing some candidates to retry more because of their genes or straight up skip a failed phone screen is lowering the bar for them. The entire hiring process from recruitment to offer is part of the hiring bar.

Retries, easier judges, removing some earlier barriers, etc would all be obvious discrimination in any other process.

You yourself admit that the process has false negatives. If those are in any way probabilistic (which is obvious that people get in after multiple tries), allowing minorities to try more frequently is lowering the bar for minorities.

If you let someone throw extra darts at the dartboard to hit the bullseye, that doesn’t make them as good as the people that hit it in fewer attempts.

> So no, I never wonder why a coworker was hired.

Good for you, but not everyone was so willfully ignorant when I worked there.
Which organization has collapsed that focused only on technical skills?
Thanks for the kind words. Please see my response below.

> do you have a way to author FAQs

Right now, we don't support it. We have FAQs and a documentation website in the pipeline.

> is email an accepted channel?

Honestly speaking, it is not completely done yet. Emails from support desk mail can be seen in the dashboard, but you cannot respond to it now from our dashboard. Hopefully, we would be able to complete it sooner.
The markers in CODIS (law enforcement DNA database) don't cover the whole genome. The markers sold by commercial genetic genealogy databases also don't typically cover the whole genome.

The likelihood of the few in utero polymorphisms occurring at one of the covered markers is very low. That means a whole genome would need to be sequenced to determine which twin DNA evidence came from.
I'm from Romania, there was a lot of talk that Gorbachev asked Ceausescu to resign, and offered him asylum in Russia, but I can't find a source for that.

But look here, a soviet source says that Moscow would have intervened militarily to prevent Ceausescu's return:

> “This victory will be a hundred times more valuable if it is won by the Romanian people themselves,” a senior Soviet official said. “We would definitely act to prevent Ceausescu’s return--by now, that has been made clear to all--but the victory belongs to the Romanian people and must be protected and developed by them. In this, they can count on our firmest support, but let the actions be theirs.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-24-mn-2156-s...

> In reality, it may have been a carefully planned coup aided by the Soviet Union -- Mikhail Gorbachev's way of eliminating the troublesome despot Nicolae Ceausescu.

> Through our sources cultivated in Bucharest and access to highly classified Central Intelligence Agency reports, we have learned that Moscow had a much more direct hand than previously revealed in the creation of the ruling Romanian party to replace the Ceausescu government, the National Salvation Front.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/s...
I appreciate and agree with lots of your commentary, but just wanted to point out that Messages on the web is a thing now via https://messages.google.com/ and scanning a QR code in the Messages app. (It's one of the things I was looking for after leaving the iMessage ecosystem.)
Test Max Planck’s maxim that ‘science progresses one funeral at a time’
Through a process where things that are suboptimal die and change happens over tens of thousands of years
Sure you can, and what's the value added compared to any Linux? The joy of having to deal with CALs and licensing audits? If you just like writing cheques, RedHat is an option.
>I find tetrachromaticity fascinating -- particularly, I wish there were a way to scientifically prove whether tetrachromatics actually perceive colors as qualia that the rest of us don't, because that is absolutely not clear.

There is an African tribe that can see more greens and browns, due to their genetics and it has been proven for them.

Don't quote me on this, but I believe as a whole qualia has been proven. That is, we all do experience the world differently, but we can both point at the same thing and give it a same name. Words like 'red' are just pointers to the colors we see, and everyone sees it differently. This, ofc, doesn't guarentee we can see more or less levels of detail, just that we what we do see can be different.
Nope. Harry Reid is evidence that the majority is pretty much bog standard NIMBY establishment Democrats. He destroyed nuclear energy by reneging on Yucca mountain.
Extinction Rebellion floats a drowned house down the Thames
There is much that is strange, but nothing

that surpasses man in strangeness.

He sets sail on the frothing waters

amid the south winds of winter

tacking through the mountains

and furious chasms of the waves.

He wearies even the noblest

of the gods, the Earth,

indestructible and untiring,

overturning her from year to year,

driving the plows this way and that

with horses.

And man, pondering and plotting,

snares the light-gliding birds

and hunts the beasts of the wilderness

and the native creatures of the sea.

With guile he overpowers the beast

that roams the mountains by night as by day,

he yokes the hirsute neck of the stallion

and the undaunted bull.

And he has found his way

to the resonance of the word,

and to wind-swift all-understanding,

and to the courage of rule over cities.

He has considered also how to flee

from exposure to the arrows

of unpropitious weather and frost.

Everywhere journeying, inexperienced and without issue,

he comes to nothingness.

Through no flight can he resist

the one assault of death,

even if he has succeeded in cleverly evading

painful sickness.

Clever indeed, mastering

the ways of skill beyond all hope,

he sometimes achieves brave deeds.

He wends his way between the laws of the earth

and the adjured justice of the gods.

Rising high above his place,

he who for the sake of adventures takes

the nonessent for essent loses

his place in the end.

May such a man never frequent my hearth;

May my mind never share the presumption

of him who does this.

Antigone, Sophocles
I mean it’s not really the fact that it’s hard coded. On my network I redirect all DNS traffic to my local resolver. Doesn’t matter if an app tries to hit 8.8.8.8 or whatever.

The bit that will prevent me from pulling this trick in the future is the fact that it’s encrypted.
Am I doing your comment an injustice if I paraphrase it as follows?:

- Ads do not adversely affect customer satisfaction.

- The combined forces of Microsoft, Apple and others could not create a serviceable search engine (despite Microsoft alone having already made one).

If not, let’s just agree to disagree :)
China is still harvesting organs from prisoners and covering it up
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Gyrfalcon Unveils Fourth AI Accelerator Chip
Extensions. On my Android phone I run LineageOS without gapps. I don’t install 3rd party applications, simply because the majority (in my experience) try to abuse your device in spite of limitations put in place by Apple/Google.
Proper hacking.

That diagonally skewed image is familiar to me from old game writing days when sprites were written straight to screen memory - you soon learn that if it comes out skewed, you've probably got an off-by-one bug on the horizontals.
Microsoft Incorporates Graphcore AI Chips in Azure Cloud
Don't you mean "apt dist-upgrade"? Or are they the same thing
What's interesting is that there's no "destination" for these chemical signals, they're just emitted into the void. There's no sense of sender/receiver, which has some correspondence to the blackboard model[1,2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_system
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_(design_pattern)
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This is related to the discussion of Pascal's Mugging that made it to the front page yesterday. If we're interested in that it is probably time for a reminder about the Kelly Criterion.

Previously, eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18484631
America’s been responsible for the death of 500,000 innocent Iraqi civilians since the start of the war not to mention countless Afghan and other middle eastern citizens. We currently hold tens of thousands of border crossers in detention camps where they are held in squalid conditions. Most of us still live here.
It is not, moprotect (and mach_vm_protect) work just fine if you have the appropriate entitlements or have a way of getting around its checks.
Leaked documents reveal details of China's Xinjiang detentions
We've launched a search engine that raises money for charity partners involved in animal welfare, ocean conservation, reforestation, and climate action policy.

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Interestingly enough, this is a pretty valid use for blockchain: tracking ownership of digital goods and giving scarcity and authenticity to items for which the marginal cost to copy is essentially zero.

Another example: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/23/much-pepe-sce...

Shocking that a purely digital Pepe trading card sold for nearly $40k USD (bought in PepeCash, of course).

Here's the company mentioned in the article: https://www.rareart.io/
Yeah, people who don't have practical experience with them seem to think of algos as a kind of designed policy, like laws. Exceptions to the laws seem to be hypocrisy. In reality, algos are just a way to scale and automate some goal. Exceptions compensate for imperfection execution of that goal.
Samoa declares state of emergency over deadly measles epidemic
> the results can be almost impossible to diagnose

Humor me - concote a case with a standard header using __f name in a way that will make a conflict with this particular __f() macro "almost impossible to diagnose". I can't think of any.

Following overly broad rules that go against established practices without any due need is exactly that - pedantry.

Look at it this way - if a language spec was serious about reserving the __ name prefix, it's not hard to enforce it at the compiler level. But it's been a while since this made it into a spec and yet it's not enforced. So whatever the good reasons were behind this bit of spec, they were not a strong enough of concern to warrant any practical enforcement.
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Article talks about it, quoting the article:

> First it was a shopkeeper at the Great Wall who wouldn't take cash for a bottle of water.

> "Ten years ago it was cash for everything. Now it's WeChat for everything," Ms. Sjogren said. "I'm getting used to being a dinosaur in China."

> Foreigners aren't the only ones bewildered by China's fast transition to a cashless society. "I can't even eat!" said Gong Cheng, a 61-year-old retired Shenzhen auto mechanic, who has resorted to asking strangers to pay for his takeout noodles and then giving them money.

> A few weeks later, Mr. Copley, 25, was stranded outside a bar at 4 a.m. He finally begged a Chinese couple to call him a taxi on a local ride-hailing app and repaid them in cash for the fare.

See how difficult it is? Perhaps in rural areas, it is easier. But in the cities, everyone has a phone. And, everyone needs WeChat.
What kind of non-obvious damage could a car seat suffer in an accident? They're fairly simple devices.
They can't really offer you more than the amount of resources in the entire world, though. Money past some point in the trillions stops being money, because you can't exchange it for anything. So even for an illuminati member, the expected value can only go so high, and I don't know if that value is higher or lower than a dollar.
I can't imagine quitting because the code I work on sucks. It's not like I'm getting paid by the feature I ship. If it takes 20 hours to ship an 8-hour feature, it doesn't matter, I still get the same paycheque every two weeks. My job is to show up, and work with the situation that exists.

I can, however, imagine quitting if my manager is a shitty person.

People don't quit work - they quit managers.
I agree. I assume having a hosted version of tools like CRM or support desk would help in getting better at maintaining the privacy of the customers.
Reddit has some similar troll problems, and there are a bunch of bots people have written to manipulate subreddits to nuke trolls. It's a much easier problem for them, though, because Reddit itself is centralized. So a bot action takes place immediately instead of over many hours.

The first time I can recall anyone tried widespread cancels in Usenet was Clarinet, and it didn't work very well.
I wrote the following:

> Symmetry underlies almost everything in mathematics and nature.

> It's much more reasonable to assume that our computer programs are not yet good enough to recover that symmetry, than to take the output of current programs as some sort of evidence that asymmetry itself is some sort of ideal.

And then I looked out my window at a tree without leaves, between two buildings, and I'm looking at how unorganized the branches look, and I'm not so sure anymore. It's like the "spherical chickens" joke.

(Sidenote: it's incredible how angry and volatile this comment section is --- my original comment included. Seems this subject can really strike a personal nerve in many of us. Why?!)
Maybe not directly but I'm sure these organisms has knowledge of context which influence hormone release. I'd be surprised if it was totally or near totally blind.
Microsoft now believes I have a deranged crush on some 1800s Canadian named Ostman because it takes just long enough to eat the first character when I press the windows key and start typing in 'postman'.
Exactly. I remember being called into consult on an accounting system for microfinance; the target audience was small to medium-sized. The code had an absurd amount of layering; one path I traced copied the data 8 times from fetch to render, each time into a different set of objects that had basically the same fields, but that were conceptually different.

When I asked about this, I was told it was "best practice" and that if they ever needed to scale, there were now many places they could separate things. I pointed out that for the target audience, they probably wouldn't need to scale. But that if they did, it would be because they were doing 7x the work necessary.

The code was certainly "tidy" from the perspective of the guy who got paid a lot of money to produce architecture diagrams. But it was a nightmare from the perspective of an individual programmer trying to add a feature. They would have been way better off without a lot of quasi-religious design theory slowing them down.
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There is API to use JavaScriptCore in your apps: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/javascriptcore. No JIT, though, so it’s slow.
The Freakonomics guys are notorious for using shoddy research, jumping to bad conclusions, and generally publishing provocative conclusions just for the sake of provocativeness that don't hold up to even a whiff of debunking. I rolled my eyeballs through the entire book.

Good rebuttal of the car seat story here, with lots of links: https://thecarseatlady.com/freakonomics-fallacy-an-economist...