skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least dd-wrt was like that. No clue whether they are even still around and busy jerking each other off, but as a student I tried to get into porting it to another device that had a SoC that was already well supported. Made a very detailed post about what I discovered, researched, things I tried etc. Immediately got very snarky "rtfm"-like replies by regulars.

A couple more (less intense) experiences like this and bullshit reasons for refusing patches and nowadays whenever I improve or extend some open source stuff I just quietly do so in a fork on github and that's it. Maybe the original maintainers discover it one day. Also saves me the hassle of trying to adhere to any coding guidelines etc. for no reason.
Should restaurants donate excess food? The answer is not so simple
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I've been on high-dose statins since 1995. I still feed birds and squirrels in my yard, and most of my so-called neighbors are still alive and seemingly well. I must be doing something wrong :-)
> > One of their most longtime, loyal leaders is directly saying they have the power to sway national elections. It is their decision, and their decision alone, to resist the temptation to "change the outcome"!

> Oh, he better be careful. That’s pretty close to pushing a right-wing talking point /s

> Facebook, etc.. Is no different in its power to influence elections than traditional news papers ever have been. The only difference is a matter of scale and homogeny.

That's an empty argument. Everything is about the scale, by that argument each individual has the same power as e.g Facebook to influence elections, it's just a matter of scale. However, scale is the difference between effectively no power and a lot of power.

> Today, instead of thousands of media publications, each pushing their own biases and perspectives (which they always have), you have a very small group of tech giants that get to decide what you see (and even more frighteningly), what you’re allowed to say about it. Sure there’s more media outlets today than there’s ever been, but a small handful of companies get to control their reach, and (again more frighteningly) their ability to collect revenue.

> Then you have the issue that traditional media has always represented a diverse set of opinions and world views. You have conservative and liberal outlets, outlets the promote free market ideas and those that promote socialist ideas, outlets that promote regulation and those that promote small government. The small number of organisations that control access to ideas and speech today all represent an incredibly homogeneous political world view.

> The problem isn’t that those organisations have done a poor job of controlling the flow of information, it’s that they have the ability to do it in the first place. Those companies should not have the ability to act as gatekeepers who determine the credibility of information, or the moral implications of speech. In a free society, that responsibility falls of on the shoulders of every individual, and to have an authority doing that on their behalf denies them the opportunity to do so themselves.

> This is also a matter of values, not constitutional law (as people often like to derail such conversations by claiming regulation would violate 1A). The law that empowers these companies to to moderate content is the Communications Decency Act, not the 1st amendment.
Did they cite age specific death rates?

Population is up 20-30%, and the population of people likely to die of alcohol poisoning much more so due to changing age structure.

Additionally, we lost a generation that had memories of prohibition and an active temperance movement, and we've had a dramatic increase in women's labor force and higher education participation, enabling them to drink as often as men.

So the "doubled" comment seems overly dramatic
That's awesome. What was it like growing up? Did you have to go to a particular temple? I myself was raised Hindu, so I would often go to a Vaishnava temple. Did you have to observe any specific rituals?
Iran plane crash: Ukrainian jet was 'unintentionally' shot down
Thoughts on this one [0]? :-)

[0]: https://github.com/encode/httpx/issues/752
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gymgx7/tylenol-can-have-s...
arXiv:1805.10478 (and most non-Shor records on the wiki page) are hacks. They essentially reduce factoring to SAT, pick numbers so that the SAT instance is easy, and then solve that SAT instance. Which is a bad non-scalable way to factor numbers.

The scalable way to factor is using Shor, but Shor only becomes practical once we have thousands of qubits, and it breaks RSA2048 with about 20 million qubits. (For clarification, a "qubit" here is a noisy qubit.)
Part of the problem is ratings are arbitrary on both sides. I take Uber every day for work, and I'm an Uber Diamond user, but I have a 4.50 rating, which my friend tells me is incredibly low. So I'm not taking drunk trips, and my trips are usually within SF, to SFO, or Mountain View.

However, I'm a minority and an introvert so I can't help but feel like I'm being dinged for not being an ideal passenger even though all that matters is going from A to B . So it sucks to read that ontop of my other perks going away there are drivers who will decide to not pick me up despite the fact I spend almost a grand every month on Uber.

I'm happy AB5 seems to be a win for driver, but its looking like a loss for riders and just pushing Uber into a taxi service with an app.
Your comment does make sense

"It has to make profits because market forces"

Article is about California passing law that effectively restricts supply

Which is it??? Is the free market mandating the price hike, or are price hikes due to regulation?
Other than the mill, does anyone here know of any particularly weird and innovative chips being developed in 2020?
Sometimes all functions are continuous (2006)
All of this happens because we've outsourced digital identity to the telecom companies. Telecom companies are not competent at establishing identity. It's not their job. There is only one entity that is the real root provider of identity and that is the government.

We are never going to get the benefits of digital identity until the government wakes up and brings its services into the digital age.
For better or worse, Target and Walmart have both been able to keep a much higher level of quality control over the merchandise and who is selling it. Amazon charges a fee to sell on their marketplace each month: $39.99, in addition to transaction fees. Their incentives are this: maximize the number of sellers to increase fee revenue and give users the largest selection. That is in stark contrast with how retailers work with suppliers, whereas both Walmart and Target have rigorous human screening and management of every supplier and marketplace seller.

https://corporate.target.com/about/products-services/supplie...

It really makes Amazon look and feel like the world's flea market.
Your risk-taking realist needs at least one more quality -- a high pain tolerance. There are two pains you need to deal with, the pain of fearing failure, and the pain of failure itself.

Failure, as in "that machine is halted, and it's not going to move ever again" kind of failure. (Of course, I guess you can always clear out some entropy and start feeding it input again..)
I think the number is possibly arbitrary. I am not making any argument about it. I am just at present trying to understand why temperamentally and instinctively I am against it.

I am also seeking to understand if others feel as I do on this subject.
Or they could cross reference the voter file and exclude anyone who donated to her campaign.
I'm not aware of the details, but I imagine something very similar to EMV payments.

The only difference is that you need to register your SIM with the service beforehand, using a reasonably secure process. Banks make you use their own MFA before you can enable Mobile ID (and no, it's never over SMS).
We don’t need to. The point is that these elaborate theories are unnecessary. The government likely knew they were at fault, tried to avoid blame, and eventually fessed up. End of story.
They were already doing that! Last year, I needed a ride to get home and was quoted $11.88 in their app, but we got stuck in an unusually bad traffic jam for an hour and they billed me $28.26 instead -- that's more than double what they quoted me!
You don't find it a bit dystopian that someone has to pay more for a ride only because they live in a poor neighborhood?
Look at what people do, not what they say.

Who should we trust to make the calculation on whether it is a fair price for a "human" ?
- 1 blogger with potentially an axe to grind
- miilions of people who vokuntarily drive their cars and make money in the process

Which is it?

Hint: actions speak louder than words
No. In fact I suspect my feeling is that control is exactly what is not good for humans to have too much of.
The runway at Tegel was built on military orders in 90 days in order to serve the Berlin Airlift - more of a life and death situation for the city than opening Brandenburg!
Meteorite crash flung debris across three continents 800k years ago
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Ok so now I’ve been running around looking at charts.

To clarify: I think alcohol can be a pernicious social and mental health problem.

But there’s also something weird with 1999. Suicides seemed lowest that year and I think that might relate to the drinking deaths as well.

Which makes comparing to that year a little dicey, because I think it creates a false sense of a trend that might not exist.
People who don't opt into San Francisco's and Los Angeles dearth of public transit do it because they are squeamish about it?
All major German and Dutch beer brands have alcohol free versions. I'd estimate that about 1/4th of the shelf space in the beer department in my local supermarket (Albert Heijn) is dedicated to alcohol free or low ABV beer.

I'm pretty confident to say that just about every bar and restaurant in the Netherlands serves alcohol free beer.
We have Neven's law: https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-nevens-law-describe-quan... which states that quantum computers are getting doubly-exponentially better relative to classical computers. First, they are exponentially better than classical computers. Second, they are getting exponentially better. Hence, Neven's law. One needs to define "better" formally (with number of qubits, gate fidelities, coherence times,...) to graph progress, but the idea is that they can do more.
women v machines
Well, I mean these findings describe the overall probability or impact of alcohol, which includes injuries and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is not exactly an issue for most readers of this website and injuries can be avoided if you don’t drink and drive. For example, I drink moderately but never ever drink and drive. So, statistics on alcohol harm that include injures from drinking and driving are completely irrelevant to my personal decision to drink or not.
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I think the problem goes at least as far back as Plato and the allegory of the cave. Plato spread this concept that there was a difference between the body and mind or soul, and Western culture has never really recovered from the stupidity of that idea.

There's really no evidence or justification for it. Your mind and your body are the same thing.
Although their hardware is good I find their software to be a bug filled mess. The EdgeOS 2 series in particular has been disappointing. Impactful bugs that have been extremely slow to address and loss of functionally on some devices which was promised to be resolved but still hasn't. I still can't get IPv6 to work on my Verizon FiOS connection because EdgeOS doesn't support the required options despite years of customers requesting the options being supported.

At the same time as this they have attempted to slip a call home function in unnoticed and stopped living up to their obligation to provide source code under the GPL.

Edit: I checked after posting this comment and Ubiquity is once again making the GPL source archive available. It had disappeared for quite a while and there was a bit of an outcry regarding it.
I really wish somebody would produce a single-board system with a Qualcomm 865 or 8cx processor, NVM support, and PCIe.
If you change the SSH port be sure to tell fail2ban about that. ;)
I believe on this forum PR means pull request.
This research doesn't seem complete; particularly the use of a phone number for authentication, that isn't SMS.

Facebook Messenger uses a phone number either tied to your Facebook Account, or identified as the phone number on your mobile device, to immediately log you into a Messenger account, with zero authentication. They literally ask you "Is this your account?" and you just click "Yes" and you are in that account. Even if it's not yours.

If you use prepaid phone numbers, or link one to your account, you can often get into Facebook Messenger accounts that aren't yours.
Yeah, if you trust our "institutions" - still - you are in need of a serious, unsettling wake up. The 60's slogan of "Question authority" is needed more than ever. Our "institutions" are predators and we are all its prey. Your mindset is the most valued, because one they have that they can feed you anything: any foods, any drugs, any laws and any shitty orange politician they want.

I go out of my way to not take any medications, as well as maintain my body with healthy foods and regular exercise. This is a responsibility we need to respect to maintain clear heads in this psychological war period we live.
Scientific progress may not continue indefinitely. We don't really know what will happen.
Thanks.

We were talking cross-purposes. I was thinking about partially initialized arrays in the context of a Rust-like type-checker. I don't think the analysis you ran in 1981 in a prover is possible in 2020 in a type-checker, at least without putting most of the bits dealing with partial initialization into unsafe-boxes.

It would be great if Rust-style type-based lifetime analysis could cope with partial initialization.
I don't see urgency from the teams working on the next crypto protocols
Only if you're being metaphorical in what you meant by "checking the wrong boxes". Kogan had a research position in psychology at a world renowned university. He leveraged this position to claim that his work was for academic research on psychology, and then turned around and used this data for commercial purposes. This isn't some random app developer checking a box when they publish their app. And when Facebook learned that these restrictions were being breached, they revoked Cambridge analytica's access and demanded that the data be destroyed.
Life Cycle of a Bug
It’s pretty simple.

There are a bunch of Matrix clients from various sources, with a wide spread of features and maturity. All the commonly used ones are pretty much feature complete and support E2E. The fact others exist is because they are WIP or experiments. This is a feature not a bug.

We’re declaring that private chats (or at least DMs) must default to being E2E at end of Jan. This could screw over these WIP and experimental or venerable clients, so we provided pantalaimon as a shim daemon to help them out.

To me, this says that we can successfully evolve Matrix with massive breaking changes by providing migration paths and decent layering abstractions, despite being decentralised.

So “Do all the Matrix clients implement the E2E functionality that exists today” is not a very revealing question.
I was pretty sure that the kids + sugar behavior change was debunked and all up to expectations from the parents.

Now, this is not a study but covers what I thought was the case since years back:

>The sugar-hyperactivity myth is based on a single study from the mid 1970's in which a doctor removed the sugar from one child's diet and that child's behavior improved. Since then, over a dozen larger studies have been conducted and not one of them has found that sugar causes hyperactivity. Interestingly enough, researchers have found that parents are more likely to say that their kids are overly active when they think they've consumed sugar.

https://www.eatright.org/food/nutrition/dietary-guidelines-a...
We use jsonnet at my workplace for all sorts of generated configs. Not just k8s configs. I cannot recommend jsonnet enough. simple and powerful tool.

Jsonnet is a godsend. Don’t use a string templating language for structured data like yaml/json. Use an object templating language like jsonnet. You’ll start to love life again.

We had used mustache templates before and it was a PITA.
True, and the rest of the body (particularly the gut and genitals) produces chemicals that function within your brain.

The brain and body inform eachother.
Which operation?
> Compared to that, feminine hobbies are few bucks once in a while.

Hahah. Sorry, but there's just no way. The entire McMansion industry, the furnishing industry, IKEA, fast fashion brands and high fashion are all driven by women's business.
Definitely 100% true, first hand experience here.

I had mild medication prescribed for regulating blood pressure. Supposedly without psychological side effects.
I found out a year later that it dramatically affected my personality. More or less like in the article, but in the opposite way.

The frightening thing is, I didn't know !!!

I found out a year later when temporarily stopping the medication,
my kids started to make remarks, alluding on my changed behaviour. Only that moment I started to realize what happened.

Also affected my profesional live: I heard years later that people / collegues had noticed (but never mentioned it). I'm pretty sure it
impacted my career. All without me knowing. For medication without any known psychological effects.

I took this medication for a year without realizing anything was wrong, that will probably also be the case for other people,
and I'm pretty sure in many cases psychological side effects won't show up in clinical trials.

I'm pretty sure if you take anything like anti anxiety / depressants, psycho-pharmaceuticals, or just anything with known side effects,
the impact must be dramatic.

When I found out, discussed it with (several) docters : one said "impossible", another "interesting, tell me more".
It assume most doctors are clueless here. When you break a leg, they can set it and it heals. When you have a headache,
they look in their book to see if there is a pill. But anything out of the ordinary, it may be hard to find good medical help.
> This prompted me to first draw the analogy with taking and withdrawing from a substance

The substance has no goals.

The flu specifically wants you to be social.
You're very optimistic to think that by destroying the notion of "gatekeepers of truth", people will simply think critically for themselves.

I think most people either don't know how, don't care enough, or have enough time to think long and hard about every subject. I'd wager most people rather are OK with outsourcing critical thinking on most matters to authority figures of some kind. So when people are no longer capable of recognizing legitimate sources of truth, they likely gravitate towards whatever figure aligns with their biases & beliefs.

Yes there are problems with having gatekeepers of any kind, but I'd rather have that then a world where some random moron spouting conspiracy theories is taken seriously by too many people.
> But there’s also something weird with 1999

Are you looking at the year the death happened, or the year it was registered?

We think there's a "cohort effect" with suicide deaths. So, all people born in decade X have a higher rate of death by suicide, and we see this as they get older. Here's an example from England.

https://twitter.com/ProfLAppleby/status/1161940914308300801?...

Here's CDC suggesting that may be a factor: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6217a1.htm?s_cid...

> Possible contributing factors for the rise in suicide rates among middle-aged adults include the recent economic downturn (historically, suicide rates tend to correlate with business cycles, with higher rates observed during times of economic hardship) (6,7); a cohort effect, based on evidence that the "baby boomer" generation had unusually high suicide rates during their adolescent years (8); and a rise in intentional overdoses associated with the increase in availability of prescription opioids (1,2). Additional research is needed to understand the cause of the increase in age-adjusted suicide rates and why the extent of the increase varies across racial/ethnic populations.
How Software development has changed in the last 10 years
For the same reason that you can spend from tens to thousands of dollars on many kitchen appliances, clothes, etc.: branding, appearance, and perceived (although sometimes real) correlation between price and quality. There are additional factors as such a list is bound to be non-exhaustive, but I feel that covers a number of main factors.
Yes! And when no uber is nearby i have to take a taxi: But the estimated price of the taxi is all the time a lot higher than uber pricing, and the real price is again a lot higher than the estimated price. This is the exact reason uber got big, you feel tricked when getting a taxi.
Chronic pain will chip away even the kindest person's ability to care about anything else.
Take a look at research like this "Macroeconomic conditions and alcohol consumption: When the economy is down, alcohol consumption goes up".
Thanks for the correction. On my mind AS/400 keeps being a mainframe, I keep forgetting it had another hardware class.
My experience with Terraform was suboptimal. At least with GCS, it would do weird things and mess up permissions.

I found the documentation and it’s special syntax a pain. Just give me json with json schemas defines somewhere so vscode can give me great code completion and I can templatize as necessary
I am considering doing the same. What kind of performance are you seeing running OpenWRT? I know with EdgeOS performance is lackluster without using the NAT offloading module.
That’s pretty interesting, why do you think Europeans have different preferences. I guess I (maybe naively) assumed that the distribution of preference would be the same for all countries.
no. see above
The problem's been solved. Every supernatural claim that can be tested has been tested, and every conceivable experiment done, the data collected, and the results are in... ghosts and other paranormal phenomena aren't real.
“Why can’t I buy?” ≠ •Why doesn’t anyone sell?” ≠ “Why isn’t there a market for?”, not even close.

Why can’t I buy talent (in the sense of myself being talented at something)?

Because nobody sells it? There’s no market for it? Nah.

I’m an economist but the notion of everything being tradable on a market needs to be curtailed because it simply isn’t true.
#1 is speaking from a position of hindsight. As I said, we can claim that Facebook should have been more skeptical of the intentions of university researchers, but this far from being negligent in their enforcement of their data use policies.

#2 Demonstrates persistent misunderstandings of what events transpired. Facebook was not breached in any way. Again, Camridge Analytica did not hack into Facebook's systems. This was Cambridge Analytica's subsequent misuse of the data that they had collected with Facbook's consent, but under stricter terms than the purposed for which Cambridge Analytica subsequently used the data. Facebook ordered Cambridge Analytica to delete the data.
Surely a spammer would just strip out the plus part?

It’d be more useful if Gmail could generate entirely random aliases, so the real address is not revealed.