skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
7-8% is not an arbitrary number and the reason why 1959-1989 is different is because the % of money printed was different in that period. Currently, we are doubling money supply every 10 years, therefore one should ok to expect 2x in stocks because there is no other significant place for money to go to.
Any entry level UX designer would tell you that you can’t pack more and more control into an opaque and confusing system and still lay all the responsibility on the user when something breaks down.

I really wonder, what does UX testing and iteration look like at Northrup-Grumman?
This. Fact-checking is more time consuming than making things up. So they can drown out the fact checkers easily. And the facts are often uncomfortably murky. Whereas the lies build loyalty and belonging, an ideal basis for a movement.
I'd give the fingerprint guy the B-Unit Android App, which only takes a static QR code as input. Others could send him a screenshot, and get the log-in approved remotely.
All Trump supporters Russian robots. No one support evil Trump. KEK KEK. No wait. Fake news fake news. Trump bad orange man. Algorithms prove it. Hillary was elected President. There was a coup. Nothing about this news is false flag. Definitely legit. KEK KEK comrades. Red blooded american speaking here for sure. No way evil Russian agent!
Most people have the means to cook for themselves without going anywhere and do so at least the vast majority of the time. Even if you do go to a restaurant, they almost always have menus rather than just making one dish for everyone since some people have styles of cooking that they prefer or don't like. People rarely design their own font but rather pick from professionally designed fonts. Additionally, at restaurants people pay for food so incentives are aligned while on the web people generally don't pay for content and any design professional involved is likely an advertiser. I rarely read stuff on the web for a design experience but for the content. I suspect most people would be unhappy with a newspaper that changed fonts for every story or a book that changed fonts every chapter.

Personally, I've been setting my browser to use only DejaVu fonts with a 16pt minimum for years (maybe a decade now) and every time I briefly use a default browser profile I notice the fonts and think not just "this is bad" but "how can people live like this?". Even with the usually minor issues that often appear, setting my own fonts is a way better experience than not doing so. My default experience is much closer to Firefox reader mode than it is to what the page specifies in most cases.

IMO, font speicification should be limited to serif, sans-serif, or monospace and let the user or browser set the actual font. Desingers should not rely on exact sizes of fonts or use custom icon fonts.
Except they practice gift-giving without any of the rest that comes along with - that's not Christmas, that's commercial exploitation. Big difference.
> What you are describing has only been my experience in suburbia. Major cities are a lot more walkable as far as getting to a grocery store or convenience shop or whatever.

The problem of course, is that almost all American cities outside of a small handful are effectively a tiny downtown core surrounded by what amounts to suburbs. Only a few cities such as NYC, Boston, Chicago, etc. really qualify as "city living" in the sense you write above - being able to quickly and easily take care of your day to day needs within the neighborhood and thus resulting in a wildly different lifestyle/culture than the suburbs.

I've lived in a number of places, Chicago is where I currently call home. The lifestyle of living 2 miles from downtown Chicago vs. the Chicago suburbs is a night and day difference. Living 2 miles from downtown in Minneapolis is effectively no different than living 30 miles out in the exurbs, even with sidewalks and grid layouts.

As I get older I see "suburbs" to be a lifestyle more than a description of urban density. While not perfect, my quick rule of thumb is that if the average person requires a car to effectively participate in society - it's a suburb, not a city.

The more time I spend living in European cities really drives this point home to me. Sprawl has totally, completely, and irreversibly changed American culture for better or worse in very deep and subtle ways.
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Yes, most don't use X.509 for SSH (note: public key authentication is not the same thing).
Which we recently have only managed by shrinking the wires, packing the transistors tighter, increasing the die size, changing transistor shape or doing anything but actually shrink the transistors.
R1C1? I haven't seen that actually used since Multiplan...
You’re assuming they didn’t see that. Given it’s now nearly 2020 and we’ve had years of reports of election meddling yet Facebook are only calming down on suggestive emoji - stating that they have no interest in policing “free speech” when it comes to political ads - I’m inclined to believe they’re not unaware their network is being games but rather don’t care because it’s still money in their pocket.
Will there be pre-impeached president, just to skip formalities?

Losing party will have free impeachment kit with choice to pick a country that interfered with elections.
Perhaps it's because "By default, the system is in a power efficient mode that keeps the CPU clocked down."
It's the extremes that caused this. Putting to jail, or calling for it, is just another one. They all acted poorly. That being called out is of itself the condemnation. Answers or responses don't have to be dialed to 10 to be valid.
These points look like the old (timeless) guidelines I remember for creating a web page ... solid, good, and as plain as a saltine cracker. I love it and it stores well but convincing the world while we romp through the hype of technological progress is like following a mob through the streets telling them to pick up their garbage.
Here are the assumptions I have about what's happening here.

But, the real question I have is: are these thoughts which have been influenced/crafted unbeknownst to me?

Pro tip where I attempt to bring awareness to my thoughts: look for the keyword "automatically" in my statements below.

1. These are pro-Trump sites. Perhaps the author filtered only these groups for their results? The takeaway is that I automatically think pro-Trump groups must be creating these fake accounts. Then, I automatically think "Russians!"

2. There is another article from the NYTimes on Hacker News right now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21847051). It mentions a pro Falun Gong group behind it. I automatically think this must be a Chinese state funded group doing it to discredit Falun Gong.

This is an amazing bit of research and write up. And, could it be that not everything is what it seems here?

I recently heard a discussion from Ben Freeman on Terry Gross' Fresh Air (https://www.npr.org/2019/11/21/781579229/ukrainian-oligarchs...). Mr. Freeman is the director of the "Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy." His point was that Russia is actually pretty bad at interference, which is why we know about it. Everyone does it, and the Saudi's and Israel and Japan do it with much more class and craft. It makes me wonder whether these fake accounts come from who we think they do.
If only the political bots were as obvious, though. When you spot one of those "make money easy", you know it's a bot right away, not even two words in. With a political troll, you can't tell unless you know what to look for or can spot a pattern in their behavior.
There's fair bit of compression already, but actually I haven't done that much industrial spying into time-series databases, good idea, thanks.

Also, I've tested dual machine debugging with BugJail, as part of spike towards CI/QA/SIT/UAT/Pre-Prod use. It works okey-ish but the (crappy 1GB) network became bottleneck and it was slower than single box.
Excellent. No one who isn't worthy of impeachment is qualified to be President.
I think they're actually feeding off one another. e.g. recent controversy:

> In December 2019, Newton Dunn wrote an article for The Sun titled "'HIJACKED LABOUR'", in which he reported that former British intelligence officers alleged that "Jeremy Corbyn is at the centre of an extraordinary network of hard-left extremists."[10] It was later found that the ultimate sources for the claim included the antisemitic, far-right websites the Millennium Report and Aryan Unity... The article was deleted on the day of publication, without comment from the paper or Newton Dunn.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Newton_Dunn ; I believe this has already been through the wikipedia controversy process)
Joel's blog about software is also amazing for those unfamiliar with it. Still worth reading posts that are more than a decade old.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/category/reading-lists/top-10...
Yes they are. Nominal median income in 1990 was under $30,000: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N

Here's probably a more interesting statistic. Women's labor force participation rate hit current levels around 1990-1995, when I was a kid. Since then, the median inflation-adjusted income for a married couple with two people working has increased more than 20%, from under $90,000 to over $110,000: https://fee.org/media/30584/census3.png?width=600&height=409....
Yeah, well you're also not the one keeping people locked up in cages.

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I can still lose if my fellow voters are making decisions based on nonsense, electing the Flat Earth Bridge Construction Party.
I too was reminded of "I, Pencil" but I prefer Read over Smith simply because, in today's world, a pencil is much more relatable than a pin. I still come into contact with a pencil almost daily, but a pin maybe once a year.
Too bad for people most don't subscribe to altruism.
Don't inspire the trolls. I can see it now:

Vscode GitHub issue next year: "X people died of heatstroke in Australia in 2020. Please remove snowflake icon out of respect for climate change and those that have died"
Much of the time I'm pretty sure it's not a person behind a tweet (or reaction to a tweet). Lots of bots out there now. And even when there is a person tweeting, many of them are trolls or paid provocateurs. The whole platform is a total joke. If you take it personally then you're missing the point.
CTRL-T creates the table against the selected data.
I always find myself thinking of articles like this when these collisions come up: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/future-...

It always seems to me that modern staffing modeling/logic just skips emergency situations especially for critical systems. When I read this idea that generalization and reduced staffing was to replace specialization for exactly this reason. It's hard to moonlight as an electrician during the worst moments, even if you can somehow skimp by at the best moments. The whole point of a navy vessel is to be as self sufficient in all conditions not to have to page a vendor halfway around the world just because the system blew up again, and that's just orthogonal to a business where you can put in a few extra hours to fix a problem or can wait until Monday for a vendor to call back. I'd be interested to know if some people have seen better operations research and modeling to cover these sorts of organizational systems compared to the apparent style of cut a labour force until you see blood and reap the profits from minimizing that expense against long term stability.
Aka the usual problem these social media services have; bad behaviour from bots and users likely looks great on the stats spreadsheet, even if it's at the expense of the quality of the site/community.
However, a great many of those live in tropical climes which do not conform to the four-season model, c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season.
I legitimately cannot tell: is this a joke?
You don't want to shrink the transistors because that increases static leakage, other things being equal. With dark silicon becoming more important, you actually want bigger devices that can minimize that, and use charge-recovery logic to conserve dynamic power as well. Only stuff that's very infrequently powered up can be built naïvely, the way it would be absent dark silicon constraints.
> As noted above, we have learned that the Administration may be preparing to step into the private marketplace and force the immediate free distribution of journal articles financed and published by organizations in the private sector, including many non-profits. This would effectively nationalize the valuable American intellectual property that we produce and force us to give it away to the rest of the world for free.

Breathtaking hubris at work here. If the intellectual property was produced with taxpayer money, it was already nationalized from the moment it was created. These rent-seekers aren't providing value, they're putting a fence around public property and charging admission.
I've got every known facebook domain blocked in my hosts file (basic common sense move for the non-dumb) and can't even verify that sort of thing.
Whoa, this is super exciting to me. I've been looking for something that would get some of these types of data into a web-based interface that I could package for Sandstorm. This looks like it would potentially work for that fairly easily.
It'll be fun to see the DNC and the democratic nominee's campaign employ armies of paid shills like they did last time (Correct The Record, Share Blue, etc), after they spent 3+ years railing against the practice. :-)
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That would explain why I wasn't able to find "CONFIG_RANDOM_BLOCK" in my kernel configs.

On a related note, I've been running jitterentropy-rngd on most of my machines for a long while now, including the ones that have internal and/or external HWRNGs (even though it's probably not really doing much of anything on most of them).

I'm far from an expert on any of this but jitterentropy-rngd seems much, much better than haveged (although, FWIW, I think pretty much anything is better than haveged). I was kinda surprised that Debian decided to use haveged in the installer, although (to their credit) they did say, in effect, "we need something now, this works for now, we can find something better later".
>in Latin America the family is given a much higher importance than in the States or Europe

I'm brazilian. I have a sister who is married to an american, and they live in the U.S. He always jokes how my sister talks to our mother in Brazil 10x more than he talks to his, yet his mother lives 15 minutes away.
We're including bogus accounts then?

Or are we saying that foreign users are more naive and less likely to value privacy? I doubt that that racist supposition is true, but respect your opinion and your forthcoming documentation proving it.
> "And while the terminal can be hard to learn — it’s not very intuitive — once they pick it up, a lot of people don’t want to learn a new tool and run the risk of making a mistake. ... The terminal is sticky."

So TLDR: it's vi for traders!
While I don't recall any specific article like this one published, I do remember people writing about similar worries in the mid '90s.
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DO NOT LET YOUR FRIENDS/FAMILY JOIN THE NAVY.

-ACTIVE DUTY SAILOR
All my friends us Messenger

You mean...Facebook Messenger?
According to the commit log, the kernel adds a timer loop to generate some entropy. So getrandom() still blocks, but kernel is adding jitter entropy to seed the pool so the wait time should be minimal.
On-premise CI/CD may still (and often does) use someone else's code, which can expose data and secrets in the same way as outlined. The only difference is that it's on your own infrastructure.

There's something to be said for on-premise solutions, but they won't save you from a malicious maintainer.
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Back in the day I didn't get verbal engine order instructions after the telegraph changed. I matched the telegraph pointer and that signaled to the bridge when they saw it move to match their order.
Struggles and hardship also breed empathy. If you are completely independent and self-sufficient it is hard to relate to people who need help. Breaking my leg with no family around, being broke and dropping out of college, working retail for 8 years, it all sucked, but there was no option but to commiserate with people around me. Now 5 years later I have a fancy tech job and keep to myself during my commutes.

Also a simpler example of your above point, Christmas gifts: they are helpful gestures of goodwill when you're broke and strapped for necessities, but sort of meaningless tokens of ritual when everyone has everything they need already.
In Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" he proposes a distant alternate-history future where a priest-like cult of technical experts set themselves up to do effective human-aided Google searches which were necessary because the Internet was full of machine-generated disinformation.

I genuinely thought this was an implausible, hokey premise when I read the book in 2008.

I felt similarly about Orson Scott Card's plot in "Ender's Game" where two teenagers influence global political trends by posting a lot on social media (and I'm not the only one who thought this was silly: https://xkcd.com/635/ ). Then a bunch of Macedonian teenagers proved it worked in 2016.

It is very difficult to predict the future.
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This is a fascinating exercise from an ethics point of view. Novartis has limited manufacturing capacity, but will allocate a percent as free drug.

How do you best choose who gets it?

A lottery does seem the most fair. Each patient has an equal chance of getting treatment. But it also leaves a bad test in people’s mouth - why should my life be dictated by a lottery.
At the current rate of climate change I would say that won't last for long.

But, I agree. Even though they adhere to the tropical model, don't they still know what "season" it is?
Just tried this, and I think this will be my number 1 recommended shortcut to every Excel user. Thanks
The Global Price Tag for 100 Percent Renewable Energy: $73T
Eh, Wikipedia learned to deal with it too (and sockpuppets and meatpuppets, and more).

I'm sure Facebook can work it out too. Though they have some very game-able elements.
The same group is on Twitter, and just got kicked off.[1] Fake Messenger accounts are a thing, too, and harder to report.[2]

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/475536-facebook-twitte...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-messenger-user-watch-...
It's not the bosses but their customers that are the problem.
A government shutdown is a basically surprise paid vacation, as long as you have enough cash to skip a couple paychecks.
For those interested in understanding the reference here, I found this useful: https://expressiveegg.org/2017/01/03/four-kinds-dystopia/
Trump never stopped campaigning as it is. He has been holding rallies this entire time.
I'm not sure it even matters if the tools are used at all -- the mere "boogeyman" factor that it's possible will likely cause people to start discounting video evidence as real. The same happens with altered photos already. Nobody believes a photo anymore.
God, imagine being this utterly boring.
I think the Army works significantly better. Obviously still wildly wasteful, but they've been under pressure to deliver results for a decade, and actually operate in a war theater, so they actually have processes to get things done, given sufficient money thrown into the hole.

The Air Force is a huge can of failure with the F35. At least they're standing by the goals of having a reasonable number of combat-worthy planes ready to fly, but the refusal to play ground-support roles and use light-combat airframes sets them up to be replaced by an army-run drone program within a few decades.

The Navy, though, hasn't had to do anything more useful than stop Somali pirates for two decades. It shows.
May be it is about time we practise the same MIT license mentality, Dont use it if you dont like it?

All these what ever religions, something -ism, politics is getting ridiculous.
The Bloomberg terminal is totally different from Electron apps. For a start, it's all rendered server side, as the parent comment explained.
When it comes to account creation, whatever method you come up with will be solved with hordes of call centre workers in a lesser affluent county.

The only solution is to police the content and that then brings up questions about whether Facebook are an “ISP”, how start ups then follow precedence, etc.
The original Latin text (1738) https://archive.org/details/SpecimenTheoriaeNovaeDeMensuraSo...
Would be nice with a list of "best of" youtube videos for various topics. This is probably best in class in the Excel category.
This is the article with the famous "Mossad" quotation.
We don't know about the original issue, but it did get some attention in chan circles.
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Great work!

One idea:

I would pay for a step by step book on this

Alternatively:

A blog post stepping a hacker through the main architecture, and a blog post going deep on one of the pieces would be great
Where I am, there is a largely effective level of oversight within politics i.e. all lobbying/gifts disclosed, decent media coverage, public funding of political parties, etc. But yes, definitely an area where stuff can go very wrong.

Obviously, the corporate world is another important omission...most places in the world have good laws around protecting shareholders but do the boards of public companies really put the hammer down...almost never. Probably lots of other areas I missed.
Forgive me if this is a poor/rude question, but I'm curious about the inclusion of infant Jesus you mentioned. Is there some significance the infant has that another aged representation would not?
Definitely not surprising that he is now being trolled in the same way. As the saying goes, "live by sword, die by the sword".
So what? - nobody has yet created an unassailable sandbox, and so these tools are needed.

Saying ‘it’s Apple’s responsibility to make the sandbox secure, is magical thinking’, which is why they need these tools.

As to the Zoom fiasco - who should have clicked on that option?
> If the controls only appeared "active" on the screen they were transferred too this could have made things much more simple.

But the system was designed so that control of steering or thrust could be taken over from any "inactive" side. If an interface appeared inactive, how would you easily take control from that side?
You then run the risk of excluding developing economies. Unless you adjust the payment to be region specific, in which case you’d just get foreign powers (be that corporations or state sponsored) using their wealth to fund hordes of new registrations from said developing economies; thus negating the benefit of a sign up fee.
It depends on what you mean by "rendered". The client side is a highly modified Chromium which runs a GTK like GUI implemented in JavaScript.

https://github.com/bloomberg/chromium.bb

So it is like Electron in that you are literally interacting with a web-browser, but one made too look like a desktop app.