skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actualy not beyond you, you're zoomed in. If you zoom out, you can see that people straight up ignore or deny any link between human activity and climate change/CO2/ozone.
"Omnipotent", there, is palming a card.
I agree that it's a useful feature and not a privacy issue, but I will say that it's nigh-impossible to avoid clicking links like these. I already try my best to strip out tracking parameters in query strings, and avoid shortened URLs. But they're simply everywhere, and sites/email try their best to hide them.
Even reply guys gotta get paid I guess.
https://tnsr.org/2018/02/assessing-soviet-economic-performan...
Well, to me the answer is "yes of course" at least as long as these Mississippi officials were elected on a state level, or appointed by those elected on state level - not by Washington.
Of course I did. That's why there's a "most" in there. Which you then ignored, because you yourself are very eager to be "right" here.
The local police are telling people what I'm doing? I don't think I like it
Oh, that old chestnut. The believe that other countries are bound by what you promised local voters.

I'd quip that politicians making that argument could just as well legislate for good weather. But considering Greece, I'm now wondering if they may have already done that. In which case I owe them an apology.
The culture of corruption in the digital age
>>At work we do have some Win10 machines, and they are ALWAYS doing something completely off the wall bizarre and unexpected

Like linking Skype accounts to hotmail accounts without permission...

Once upon a time, not too long ago..it was Apple who did things without permission, but at least they had Steve Jobs.. now it’s everybody, without Steve Jobs.

It’s Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook...it’s the culture of companies from the valley.

But all this, is just another opportunity for a new software company.

Their arrogance and recklessness is someone else’s opportunity.
Just this month, the Department of Justice announced the largest-in-history FCPA case against Airbus, totaling 3.9 billion in fines[1]. The government's agenda is much larger than you're aware of, apparently.

Unfortunately, the media loves to scandalize things, throw out big names, and hype-up news. The problem is when people just take it, run with it, and parrot it back in the public square.

Anytime a company rises to the stature of Facebook, the probability that they will come into the government's cross hairs is much higher.

[1] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/airbus-to-pay-unprecede...
Yes, but I think that the majority of alcohol is consumed by addicts. I have a few 750mL bottles of liquor that I use to make a drink for myself once or twice a week. My alcoholic childhood friend has drunk an entire handle of liquor (1.75L) in a day and then walked to the liquor store in the snow to get more. I’m counted as an alcohol user, but my usage is a rounding error of his.
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How do you get a job as a product manager?
I agree. The context of your essay would make clear both whether you need that much precision and what format to use for the precision.

Three miles east of the center of South Carolina is almost accurate enough? Who knows, not accurate enough for NASA and accurate enough for giving coworkers the idea of where your farmland is located.
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> Imagine that the ex-date for a security is 2017-05-19. You sell one such security on 2017-05-18. Settlement clears on 2017-05-22. Because of the delay in settlement, you held the security on the ex-date (and on the day before the ex-date), but you're not entitled to the dividend because you sold the security before the ex-date.

That's right. The ex date is relevant to the day you trade (which in practice means entering into a contract to buy and sell securities at a certain price, not actually delivering those securities/money), whereas the record date is the equivalent for the day of ownership. The ex date will be X-1 business days before the record date with X and the definition of business day depending on the market settlement convention. In some markets X=1 hence the confusion between the two, I think.
My understanding of the situation is the following:

1. The car must connect to home via cellular to authenticate/receive updates over some regular cadence (days? hours?)
2. Once that is complete, the user can authenticate over phone to the service via any connection (ie airbnb wifi), then unlock the car with bluetooth
3. The situation here occurred after going beyond cell service range for the car. It tried to connect home, failed, and as a result, refused to honor the phone's unlock the car itself had connected to home over cellular
Or hundreds of billions of dollars on football, flying cars, or whatever captures peoples' attention.
How does this apply to second-hand smoke? I did not consent to have poisonous fumes near me. Second-hand smoke should be considered a form of battery, of which tobacco companies are accomplices and enablers.

How does this apply to the misinformation campaign waged by tobacco companies? Their customers were deceived, and therefore could not give informed consent.
> He wanted to replace Euros with a crypto-currency as IoU

I don't know where you get this piece of information, but in all his books he argues against Bitcoin and crypto-currency as a reserve currency, making a point of the impossibility of apolitical money.
When laziness is efficient: Make the most of your command line
I feel like this is missing the point of Vim a little bit. It's not about using hjkl instead of arrow keys. It's about progressively learning a vast and useful language specifically made for editing text efficiently. And then realizing you can use every single part of that language in a macro. And then realizing you can use that same language to orchestrate those macros.
Thing is, it's GDP exploded for now underlying economic reasons in the previous decade... and they all consumed the absolutely unearned wealth produced by nothing but cooking the books.

The real "fair" solution would be: to auction off their sovereign territory to the highest bidder, and paying off debt with that cash. If they try to object, confiscate their merchant fleet and block ports with aerial minelaying.
> Using the Riglol website, you can unlock all software options on it, including increasing the bandwidth to 100mHz and the memory to 24MP.

It's interesting how Rigol did the locking of those extra features. The unlock key for a feature set for your scope has to be signed by a Rigol private key using an elliptic curve signature system.

But they are only using a 56 bit private key. That was quickly brute forced, and key generators proliferated.

They used a good library for the cryptography stuff, and except for the short key seem to have used it well and knew what they were doing. This suggests that the choice of a weak key was deliberate.

Each family of scopes has its own private key. As few families came out with new private keys, Rigol continued to use 56 bits. When major firmware upgrades came out in existing families, where they could have easily changed to a longer private key, they kept the same 56 bit that was now widely circulated on the net.

It seems pretty clear that they are not interested in stopping people from free unlocking.
Do you like weird art? Blame your brain
I worked on a project in 2000 where I was using third-party simulation software to demo some of the capabilities of our product. It looked pretty cool. I couldn't figure out why Powerpoint slides wouldn't cut it, but whatever, it was fun work. I was green, and the entire business side was a mystery to me.

Then the Harvard MBA who initiated the project showed me what he had done. He had used a Windows binary editor to rebrand the third-party simulation software to make it look like ours. "If the product is successful we'll contact them and work out something." Product? He didn't outright tell me, but he said enough for me to realize he was going to present it as a GUI management tool for our software to a company they were trying to make a sale to.

I was already on my way out the door at that company, so I just kept my head down. I do know the demo never happened, so maybe somebody with better sense reigned him in.
A man can't go in space, can't fly, can't trick rocks into thinking, and can't do many things. But we do anways.

Your understanding of reality is flawed. XY chromosomes provide the instructions for the human organism to construct a male body -- they do nothing to prevent the altering of it later on.

Also, is this not 'hacker' news? Chromosomes are just the source code -- eventually we we will hack the souce or the binary all we want.
Better yet, a wire feed.
The issue is that no pharma company wants to make drugs that will be carefully stewarded as last lines of defense vs super bugs. You won't see 3M patients per year because every hospital system worth its salt has antimicrobial stewardship programs which will interrogate every case of antibiotic use. Doctors are trained and pushed into using these drugs as infrequently as possible because they all know Darwinian selective pressure will render antibiotics less useful the more they're used.

But it's a different story in developing nations with lower standards, where they will steal your IP and bombard the microbial population with every antibiotic they can.

Furthermore, agriculture will surely love to grab new compounds to blanket their herds with. They will not give pharma great profits either, and they'll increase resistance to your fancy new drug that you spent billions developing.

So overall, it's a grim financial picture for pharma and antibiotics. They would prefer to make cancer drugs, chronic disease drugs, biologics, and not these carefully stewarded and easily ripped off antibiotics. IMO, antibiotics will come from altruistic scientists working on their own, and not from the CFOs and bottom lines of pharma.
Have you tried the neovim integration setting? I find that almost everything works as I would expect it to nowadays.
When you calculate risk/reward to efficiently allocate resources, you have to effectively estimate probabilities of both.

Yes some predictions are dire but if they have a one in a million chance of happening (for example) then it doesn't make sense to divert funds that could be better spent on more certain problems.
This is a deep dive on frequency scaling and IPC throttling related to AVX512 instructions. The consequences are quite large, surprisingly complicated, and persist for an eternity, which is why you really have to coax the compiler if you want it to issue these instructions.
https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/01/17/avxfreq1.html
Saw extensive use of these type of devices across Tokyo a few months back. Hadn't yet seen them in the market at our local QT/Circle Ks.
This is like 99% off topic, but my understanding of the repo market is that the loans are:

Short term, often overnight, but some are 7 days

Fully collaterialized, with good collateral like treasury bills

Interest bearing

So it seems to me like risk free money is to be made here, and sure, there's a market failure if there aren't enough private lenders, but why is it a problem for the government to step in?
Nice for them use Tesla but I'm pretty sure you can do it with every sign reading auto throttle system. There are plenty of cruise control systems which employ similar technologies.
Maybe it wasn't very clear in my comment but "correctness issues" more-or-less literally mean the instruction's result is incorrect. Like you ask 2*2 and it gives you 0xfff1309f. So depending on how you rely on that result, you may crash. Extending on my examples, bad RSA multiplication means failed authentication. Bad AES construction means encrypting things to garbage, impossible to decrypted by the recipient. So, let's say if you rely on a result from such instruction to do memory references, you're definitely going to crash.
Why use VSCode at all then? I've found coc.nvim and language servers to be every bit as good as VSCode in terms of code completion and definitions.

I'm mostly writing Go, C, Javascript, and HTML/CSS. But, so far it's been working great. And, I'm a fairly recent convert to vim (neovim).
A bit of a clickbaity HN link. Full article headline: "Forcing us to get consent before selling browser histories violates our free speech, US ISPs claim". And subhead: "That ain't the way life should be, Maine responds".
Slowing down and producing the correct answers is clearly superior to crashing and/or incorrect answers.

I still don’t understand what it is about avx2 that results in these kinds of issues - is it really just a matter of increased number of execution units running at once causing weird power and heat issues?
See, here is the problem: This was not the topic of the meetings.

They did not convene there to fix the grand issue that was well known since the inception of the Euro. Not really a scientific discovery he made, a hot topic since ever.

Some professional economists argue that the current capitalist economy is not sustainable, how well do you think it will go if an economist brings this up in his meeting with his bank about the restructuring of his debt he/she racked up?

It's simply ridiculous. It's like those tech people over-obsessed with the technical aspect of an issue who get a managerial job and screwing up royally, get fired and keep bugging people about how company X is doomed because they did not implement his tech idea.

He simply did not understand what job he got and where he is. He thought that he had all the answers for all the problems of the world and he can fix them in those meetings with the eurocrats but they did not listen to him.

It's cringie.
I've long been supportive of a carbon tax, but why would that be a good thing in your hypothetical world where carbon emissions don't affect global climate? The public health costs of local air pollution are criminally underrated, but CO2 is far from the most relevant emission there.
Strang in general, and these videos in particular, are strongly recommended every time self-teaching linear algebra comes up here. In 13 years on hacker news I think this is the first negative thing about Strang I have read. Can you expand on your criticism?
In order for Congress to pass a law it needs to make it through the Senate. Mitch McConnell owns the Senate right now. Note the behavior of the President's supporters during the impeachment trial, they were all dutifully in line.

Compare that with a previous generation where the GOP leadership went to the President and told him they could not support him because he had gone too far, and Nixon therefore resigned.

Justices Roberts was a figurehead at the trial and his actions were supportive of the outcome.

This is not "normal"; this is not the democracy I learned back in the day.
Prolog is already a database, why bring in the mess of an external DB. I have used Prolog and ODBC to access a postgres DB. I found it better to just export the data and turn it into a Prolog DB then process my rules than have it run all those logic across the wire.
Tax rates dont pay for services

What are you replying to?
>Even though it is known for its robustness and its large standard library

I thought the ocaml stdlib was relatively small though?
It is difficult because there are a lot of minor details that has been added to Chez Scheme or to the patched version of Chez Scheme that is used by Racket.

For example ephemerons, that need some magic to cooperate with the garbage collector. https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/csug9.5/smgmt.html#./smgm...
For fun: http://cb.vu
LOL, appreciate the link :D
Not directly related to the article, but here's a bit of context regarding the industriousness of different populations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_annual_labor_h...

As can be seen, Greece is towards the top and Germany close to the bottom of the ranking.

This should not be taken as saying that the Greeks are better than the Germans. It's just that individuals in Greece, like those in many other places, spend their lives working hard and they don't deserve to suffer for the corrupt dealings, incompetence and prejudice of their or other countries ruling elite.
True the content of the stories fade in and out of relevance and greatness.

The structuring of essays improves and dips in transcendent quality over time depending on the behaviour of authors at large and human understanding of communication through essay. The virtue and successful execution of well structured essays is timeless. RD's work is well structured. It's possible to learn and execute on structures that are proven to work across time and speak for themselves in the results.
I am not a lawyer but the argument in the lawsuit does not look compelling, insofar as the Register describes it. This seems like a tactic to tie up enforcement while the plaintiffs lobby for more favorable laws in Maine and elsewhere.
I'd much prefer there be more detail in the article about AI research in drug discovery, how it still needs clinical trials in humans. I agree with the sub-comment as well. I think your last question doesn't make sense to me though as I haven't said anything similar to that.

But I think you raise an interesting point about non-technical summary articles: what do they do and who are they for? Does the non-technical public need to know about this research? Do they gain anything vs. reading the study's actual summary? I'm not sure. I do think there isn't much for non-technical people to get from this article that would be useful. I think the best reason would be for younger people to pique their interest in the field. Though, I honestly don't know the answer.
A business as a legal fiction != a union of all of its members.

People don't realize that. A corporation is a standalone entity. And yes, there is nothing inconsistent about a business being held to a more strict standard of disclosure than an individual. I.e. You can plead the Fifth. A Corporation cannot. When a search warrant is issued for all documents of/relating to/pertaining to X created or transacted between dates Y and Z, you don't get to withhold them because it might seem to incriminate the company. That's the price of the corporate superpower of the corporation being able to die/fold/be punished and everyone else being able to go home unharmed except for needing to find a new job; possibly at a new company already established, funded and poised to buy out the assets of the old corporation that's being liquidated.

Corporations are not people in the Constitutional sense. You can't take the HOV lane just because you are carrying the Articles of Incorporation for your company. Check with a lawyer by all means, I'm not one, but I've read enough case law and other stuff to feel confident I've at least got this part right.
Or a person who misreads the sign. Though the whole point is that a Tesla doesn't have the context to know that a residential zone with an 85mph speed limit sign is obviously some sort of error.
Probably not, but it does help with storytelling. You need things like exotic matter and time travel. Space magic seems to mostly be all the same thing: negative mass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10AP7tio408
Oh neat (I haven’t messed with over clocking in years) - is it just avx that you can tailor? (Beyond the old school bus multipliers)
Generally, I agree with what you are saying about essays and stating that "they should be useful."

But I was surprised by your comments about truth:

> There is no such thing as an absolute truth, after all. And pretending there is, and it's even attainable, is intellectually dishonest.

Could you expand on what you mean by "an absolute truth?"

I may be misunderstanding you, but I suspect you mean that we can never know anything with absolute certainty. For example, it may _seem_ that I typing on a keyboard, but in actual fact, I am dreaming.

In this example, there _is_ an absolute truth. I am typing on my keyboard, or I am not. But that truth is not knowable without any doubt.

If we use "truth" as high as knowing without any possible doubt, then nothing is "true." Thus, the word true is useless during everyday communication. For this reason I don't think it is appropriate to qualify everything we say with, "we don't know with absolute certainty this is true, but here is my best guess." Rather, we just say it is true.
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Is this comment satire?

>> I can feel the morning coffee and feigned interest

PG admits he rereads some of his sentences up to 100 times in his revision process in the very piece you criticize.

>>The author could put down his morning coffee and instead describe part of the story to his wife or secretary and see the reaction of someone outside the field responding to what could be an interesting topic.

His writing also addresses this in the same writing, advising people to specialize with a target audience... Did you read this piece?

This is either funny trolling (giving condescending essay advice to one of the most succesful essayists of our era, on the platform he created), or woefully lazy.
Ah, that's especially good. They just changed the 3 in "35 MPH" speed limit sign to look more like an 8, and the Teslas dutifully sped up. A mistake no human driver would make.

Rodney Brooks points out that if we ever get AGI [1], we'll have solved the autonomous vehicle problem. But it's far from clear to me that we'll truly solve the problem much before then, as cars and roadways are built with GI expectations in mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
Vim's power doesn't come from using single-letter commands to do things but, rather, in the language-like (action, verb, noun) expressions the whole ecosystem enables: "daw" to delete a word, "cit" to replace the "inner" part of a tag and start typing, numbered prefixes to execute an action that number of times, etc.

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos... aka "Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi."
So basically they modified a 35MHP street sign to make it look like a 85MPH.
I looked at it from a distance, and it was hard to tell between 35 and 85.

So if it is hard for a human, then it seems obvious that a tesla would also fail to recognize a 35.

Maybe the difference is that a human might not be certain and slow down just in case, whereas a deep neural network might be certain in its errors.
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Peru recovers priceless Inca manuscript stolen during occupation
Link poster here.

I understand that the name only as a title offers no context to those who don't know Maryam Mirzakhani. But HN rules seem to favor not editing the original titles of articles and make them click-baity.
I wonder how many sysadmins truly think about User Settings that way. They should, but I imagine when people are trying to apply a setting to a group of people, and they feel those permissions should follow them regardless of what PC they are on, they would just think to make it a user setting.
I'm honestly curious how Clojure + spec would fare in that comparison. Is that something you looked into?

The reason I'm asking is that while my background the typical webdev stuff, I loved TypeScript. And now while much of my work is backend, it's similarly dynamically typed by default because I'm using Elixir. I've dabbled in Elixir's 'spec' and quite enjoyed some of the benefits Dialyzer/Dialixir offered me, but not enough to be able to tell how beneficial it is in my projects.

More than once I've run into issues that I wouldn't have had if I had used specs, but the fact that it's not a default in the community gives me pause. It makes me wonder how much advantages 'gradual typing' actually give me over just being a more thoughtful developer.
Helium is a byproduct of natural gas extraction. Radon too.