skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time (I was enlisted in the USAF for 4 years) I had PC gamers using my Mac just to play Marathon. Probably one of the last times that's happened, lol. (And I just realized one of the guys who did that often, Paul Voss, was killed recently in a crash, sigh: https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/air-force-aviators-... He also liked Escape Velocity, which was another Mac-only game at the time)
> The advantage of $1000 unconditional is that they can move to a city with a lower cost of living.

Only if it’s still in California

If loving to LCOL is beneficial why can’t they do that now?
So it's what I'm thinking, it's the news hyping it up to get clicks, ad impressions, etc? Seems kind of irresponsible to get the public into a frenzy just to make money.
Germany comes from Germania which is Latin. Deutschland is deutsch + land, and deutsch can be traced to proto-germanic origins (common root with Dutch, I believe). So Germany is not actually one of these cases; it's an externally assigned name.
>Maybe because it would give women a more important role than we so far have been willing to accept?

I'm not so sure this isn't broadly accepted. As far as I understand it everyone knows why the peacock has ridiculous (or beautiful, depending on your sensibilities) feathers, or why male birds are beautiful, while female birds are plain.
A claim like this needs a source
I'm actually finishing M208 Pure Math this week. It's been great.
The blockchain months were rough.
Out of coronavirus cases that have actually fully resolved (so the patient has either recovered or died) 9% of the cases have ended in death. In 22% of ongoing cases the patient is in critical condition. How in the fuck is that a "highly virulent flu with the same risk factors"? LOL
You can better see approaching predators and empty parking spots.
Politics require social skills, being smart is detrimental because it lets you see thru all the bullshit.
Typically we refer to them as 'plows' or 'snowplows' in the US midwest regardless of what they're actually doing—they often (but not always) have a large plow on the front, and a salt/sand spreader on the back, or in some cases a sprayer that shoots out fine mist that gets your car all grimy and nasty for the next day or two.
Anyone who ever wondered why Excite Bike had that awesome track designer but no way to save tracks across restarts, it was intended to work with the FDS and on the Japanese version you could save them to a disk, if you had the peripheral. Learning that some years ago solved a minor mystery from my childhood.
I'm strongly skeptical. Current research suggest mean incubation time is 5 days and stddev is 2 days. That means most cases will be asymptomatic within a week. Clearly, there were cases in the countries I listed above ~10 days ago, except Israel and maybe Iran was still in its infancy. The >20 days incubation time we see in news seems sensational and there is no research to back it up, except one non-peer-review paper published a few weeks ago.
See that’s what I’m saying. There’s higher mortality than usual but the numbers don’t support a “funeral services will be overwhelmed, dead lying in the streets” levels of panic. It’s gonna be fine, more people still die every day from fatness, car crashes, and guns than they do from Covid-19.

And being a transplant I in fact don’t know any old people I’d come into contact with unless I explicitly went out of my way to see them.
That is extremely inspiring. Can you speak more to how you went from industry to a community college to getting into and completing a PhD program? Did you quit your job to return back to school? What area did you end up specializing in and what do you do now?
> I can look it out for myself but there won't be any point as they can simply run different code on their servers.

OK.

That's true for literally all services. Do you expect to be able to walk into the server rooms and dump the binaries to inspect them?

> Also what precautions? As far as I know their binaries are not reproducible.

The client builds are. Reproducible server builds don't tell you anything about what is running.
I'm not sure that you being convinced by someone who doesn't even understand that it was not hackerone that found the vulnerabilities says much about PCI-DSS
Yes, but the regulations are best explained using free as the example because for a significant amount of the work they are not legally allowed to charge or (e.g.) show adverts. The practical reality is that you can replace "free" with "below cost". Unless this was funded entirely from worldwide, it would be using a source of funding not available to others.

> Now sure the BBC may have had some advantage over nascent offerings at the time (2007), but let's face these realistically didn't exist in the UK

Yes, which is again kind of the point - there was a space for offerings to come in and compete against each other. The ruling was that Kangaroo would likely stop this competition, including stopping competition between the BBC/ITV/C4. There was still a fight to get YouView past the competition stage (canvas back when I worked on the apps, AS2 & constrained video memory was... interesting).
0.5% mortality vs 2-3.5% mortality, look the number of recovered cases is still small, so we can't actually count the in progress numbers just yet
The most extreme consequences of infection include acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and sepsis, which may require ICU-type treatment. See [0] for World Health Organisation guidance on critical management of severe acute respiratory infection when novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection is suspected. The majority of patients don't experience such severe consequences.

[0] https://www.who.int/publications-detail/clinical-management-...
Well so far 9% of fully resolved cases have ended in death. It's nearly all old people so I'll take some comfort in that though :D
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, has died at 101
Sunsets look how they look because of light scattering off small particles in the air. The volcano presumably added more particulates, so it modified this.
That was strangely recent! January 1st, even.
Hmmm.

> Other criticisms have pointed out that Security Analysts can first delay the reported vulnerability, report it themselves on a different bug bounty platform, collect the bounty (without disclosing it of course), and then closing the reported issue as Not Applicable, or perhaps Duplicate.

Time to response is tracked. Reports are timestamped. So delaying response to a report is a bad strategy -- reports are supposed to get precedence based on when they were filed, not based on when they were responded to, and the delay will be a black mark on your triaging record. This is the main objection to Cybernews' conclusion.

Similarly, I'd be a little surprised if one company had a presence on multiple bug bounty platforms. The standard flow is that you find a bug, look up the company, and report it to them using whatever they tell you is their standard. I've seen many reports including text like "Hello, I sent you this report by email, and I was told I should file it on HackerOne". (Including this text, if it's true, is a good idea for multiple reasons.) Centralizing reports makes many things more convenient -- including timestamp comparisons, but much more importantly it makes checking for earlier duplicate reports easier.

I'd also be a little surprised if HackerOne allowed their triagers to file reports for the same companies they do triage for. They hire triagers from the researcher pool, and they do allow triagers to hunt bounties on their own time, but it would be a common-sense protection to prohibit them from reporting to the same companies they triage for. I haven't worked directly for H1; I don't know whether they have such a policy or not.

In conclusion, there is some potential for abuse, but it's unlikely that a triager can abuse the system in the most obvious way, by personally stealing reports that come to them for triage. I'd worry more about a triager prioritizing their friend's report over a stranger's. I don't think triager abuse is a significant risk of reporting through H1. I don't know the details of what protections are in place.

later edit: on H1, each report has an ID number assigned in sequence -- if you dupe an earlier report to a later report, the researcher will definitely notice and complain.
CPAP is definitely a viable intervention for ARDS. Some percentage of patients will still end up needing intubation/ventilation, but CPAP is a good way to prevent that in some percentage of cases (esp if used pretty "aggressively" to support the patient while they're still able to breathe on their own, if they get to the point where they can't breathe for themselves effectively enough, then CPAP isn't going to do anything for them)
It's interesting that everyone hundreds of years ago understood that usury was bad but the most highly educated economists today don't understand this.
But couldn't the same thing apply to traffic deaths? In 2018, in the US, over 36,000 people died in car accidents. That's higher than coronavirus deaths, so logically shouldn't we all stay off the roads and quit going to work? Wouldn't that have the same impact?

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-autos-traffic-deaths-...
Their full "out of scope" list also includes MITM attacks, which would exclude most of what's in this article. I guess my confusion now is why PayPal even purports to offer bug bounties if they're going to craft an "out of scope" list that allows them to reject every submitted report.
It has to do with catastrophic risk and the fact that pandemics follow a power law distribution instead of a normal one. The deaths from things like smoking or auto accidents are normally distributed with very very small deviations around a known mean. Smoking may kill 480,000 Americans per year, but there's never a year where it will kill 10X 100X or 1000X that number.

Pandemics tend to follow a power-law distribution, like earthquakes, where you have small outbreaks here and there and then one comes along at 100X or 1000X the magnitude of anything ever seen before.

Even people who don't have a statistical understanding of power law vs. normal distribution usually have a good intuition of it, which is why most people worry about terrorism more than one would if they were just looking at just the total number of deaths vs. something car accidents or smoking.

What makes the coronavirus so terrifying is power-law component and the unknown unknowns. We still don't have a good handle on basic things like how exactly how contagious it is, how deadly it is, and how long it will take to run its course. Sure, it could end up being equivalent to a "bad flu", but it could also become a repeat of the 1918 Flu or worse.
Can the Librem 5 phone make calls yet?
I think tall people get more automatic respect. In a room where people don't know each other that well and are trying to figure out status/hierarchy, tall people are automatically advantaged.

That said, shorter people can cultivate presence and earn respect through competence, people-skills and the like. There are many leaders in history and today who are shorter than average who can command a room. But they've mostly had to earn respect the hard way. They start off with negative points and have to work hard to even get to zero. Tall people start off with positive points is all.
Success as defined by society isn't always what smart people aspire to.

``Thus is happened he became neither musician nor poet -
- if we use this latter term in its every-day
acceptation. Or it might have been that he neglected to
become either, merely in pursuance of his idea that, while a high order of genius is necessarily ambitious, the highest is above that which is termed ambition? And may it not thus happen that many far greater than Milton have contentedly remained `mute and inglorious'? I believe that the world has never seen -- and that, unless through some series of accidents goading the noblest order of mind into distasteful execution, the world will never see -- that full extent of triumphant execution, in the richer domains of art, of which the human nature is absolutely capable.''

-- Edgar Allan Poe (``The Domain of Arnheim'')
Protection from fraud. Fraud costs the credit card industry money. It makes people less likely to trust/use them, which then costs them business.

You said -

"avoid actually being regulated and are a way to shift liability"

This is like saying a store put razors in a locked case to avoid being regulated. Or they simply don't want their stuff stolen?

I was being facetious when I said if we want to be cynical, because of course everything any business does is in their own self-interest. Of course it is -- that goes without saying, unless one is just trying to be glum.
Yes. 100%.

I don't think anyone likes to admit that very few things in life are actually within our control, which makes it desirable to ascribe success to hard work, or intelligence, or whatever.

I started a consultancy that failed, was part of a small team with a moderately successful product, and now am part of a small team with a much more successful product.

All of that happened while former colleagues were working on much more successful products making a lot more money than I was.

In none of those cases was the outcome related to hard work, skill, or desire.

Sometimes you have the right people together in the right place at the right time. Sometimes you don't.

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None of which is to say that luck is the _only_ factor. Part of taking advantage of the luck is doing the best work you can, and honing your skills to the best of your ability, so that if the opportunity pops up you can grab it.

But just because you haven't had the success you've wanted doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you at all.
Didn't China changed how they were confirming cases to an MRI scan as people were still testing negative on tests 2-5 before testing positive.
How is that detrimental in politics?
You can still see this phenomenon. People from disadvantaged backgrounds in European cities (for example inner city communities) tend to be smaller than average.
> That's true for literally all services

The point is that your client should not send any information which you expect to keep private to their services. It is the exact reason that we use e2ee rather than just tls for chats.

> The client builds are

Not fully, see https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/

> Reproducible builds for Java are simple, but the Signal Android codebase includes some native shared libraries that we employ for voice calls (WebRTC, etc). At the time this native code was added, there was no Gradle NDK support yet, so the shared libraries aren’t compiled with the project build.

> Getting the Gradle NDK support set up and making its output reproducible will likely be more difficult.
By definition all new construction is "luxury" when the "non-luxury" competition is 80 year old apartments buildings. How do you expect an apartment building that has yet to break even to be cheaper than an old apartment that had 80 years to net the owner a hefty profit?

This reminds me of Berlin where rent control is being proposed. For reference the average rent prices there are 7€/m² and rent control will limit it to 5€ per m² for buildings that are older than 50 years (not an exact number).

How do you expect to ever profitably build something for 5€/m²? It's impossible and therefore won't happen. New buildings will probably start at 10-12€/m² and go down once they are 20 years old.
Well, then our media is wrong.
>significant part of the population comes from Balkans, those immigrants are actually "improving" the average.

Aren't Turks the biggest immigrant group?
If all the Dutch are so tall, then how do they decide who gets to be the CEO ?
It would make sense when battles were largely decided through melee combat -- tall swordfighters are obnoxious solo; a whole line of them is a devastating prospect. After the advent of the longbow, and then guns... not really sure what the appeal is.

OTOH... sexual selection isn't all about combat; it's really quite comforting to be the smol spoon.
I've been typing just about 4-16 hours a day going on 30 years now without RSI.

Fingers crossed.
You are correct. And to clarify further: I was talking about Lithuanian media, not the Italian one.
goroutines (and the go keyword) are the primitive, just like async is the primitive for python. Something like golang.org/x/sync/errgroup gives Go the same kind of "nursery" concept and can be leveraged almost identically (modulo Go not having the "with" concept, but defer can play the same role)
The Business Source License allows you to restrict use of the open source product based on thresholds of your choosing. Entities using it above the threshold need to pay for a license.

After a certain amount of time passes, the software reverts to an open source license of the author’s choosing:

https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/

Example: use restricted to non-production use, reverts to GPLv2 in four years:

https://mariadb.com/bsl11/

The clock protects users from lazy / out of business vendors. If few enough improvements have been made recently for it to make sense, the customers simply fork an old version of the project, and deploy that instead of paying for ongoing “development.”

(The business source license is not “open source”, but I think it is close enough to be a good compromise in practice)
I didn't expect the whole state to doom itself...
I’ve written a a few, all internal sadly. Deterministic formatting is important because you can manipulate the AST and then just call “print” and get a nice diff. Without that it would rewrite entire files.
You’re not taking into account panic buying / ordering.
If it gets bad where you are people are just going to order as much as they can and then there won’t be enough - this already happened with masks here in the UK and we only have a few cases. I had to send some to Hong Kong for a family member a few weeks back and paid £20 for packs of 20 for proper n95 respirators. They’re now sold out online and everywhere despite being £15 EACH.

Stock up now while no-one is panicking yet. Don’t waste money buying weird stuff - Just get stuff you’ll use anyway over the next few months.
Not sure how to respond to this, because they really did innovate in the beginning, in a way that’s not obvious to the “makers:” they created whole new business models. Or at least AirBnB did. It’s still unclear whether the Uber model is actually (financially) sustainable.

With that said they didn’t innovate in any other way, and haven’t shown that they’re able to continue innovating on business models. The world takes for granted their original business-model innovation, now that it’s so commonplace, so all the same, it’s easily understandable to be hearing this.
I have not used Paypal since I had to file a dispute over an item I bought on ebay via Paypal. As a response they snail-mailed me a bunch of screenshots of an internal web-app with a bunch of info for someone else, SSN, CC number, address, etc. Everything I would need to do something bad. I called them and they did not seem to care so I called the guy (I had his number of course) but he never answered or responded to my email.

A few months later I got a voicemail from paypal, apparently my original call bubbled up. They asked if I had destroyed the info and to let them know if I had not (I did). Then there was a long pause (I guess they assumed the voicemail was over), and it turned out there were 4-5 people on that call and they then discussed how the call went and whether or not it was sufficient to CYA.

I've not used it since, and I hoped they got their act together (sounds like maybe not).
J.Bridenstine/NASA: Katherine Johnson passed away this morning at 101 years old.
Edge case removed:

for i=0 to 10 {print(a[i])} vs for x in a {print(x)}

With functional programming it gets even better:

a.filter {}.map{print}

Pseudo code, of course. I list several “functional“ examples in Swift here:

https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook/blob/master/functio...

Functional programming is also a higher level language. map, reduce,filter, flatten, flapMap, drop, take, zip, ...

Learn the concepts in one language and they can be used in another functional language.
Vigilant about what? There is no action you should be taking besides maybe storing some water and food.
You're not accounting for the fact that in these types of situations, there is often a run on things like food. You can only get food delivered if the stores still have food.
You'd be surprised just how fast evolution can happen on traits that don't come with serious downsides. It's observable in couple generations.
Overcast has an all-new audio engine with professional-grade normalization
I'd also like to chime in with support for community college math classes. I was pretty good at math to the point that it was becoming a problem for my JR High, so they sent me to the community college to take the math series starting from the bottom up. Went all the way through Differential Equations at community college.

Maybe an even better way to start would be with trying to take a math class during the summer semester. 8 weeks of intense study to kick things off. I bet after doing some programming algebra would be a breeze.
I don't know if someone like that (the follower) is really capable of significantly contributing.
The Negative Side of Positive Tilt(keyboards)
Who cares? What matters is price performance. They need to deliver value. What's inside, I don't care.
Because the number of death from smoking or traffic accidents doesn't grow exponentially, as they're not caused by an infectious disease. You don't go from 100 lung cancer cases to 80,000 within a matter of weeks.

Also, consider second order effects. What happens to hospitals when you get 20k cases of something in a month, vs 20k over a year.
Sprint Anti-Patterns: From Gold-Plating to Hardening
This is totally incorrect about the licensing models of open source.
One thing I found quite surprising about Signal is that you lose your messages if you move to a new phone - there is no backup on iOS.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
Holy crap! I wonder if it's a rural vs. metro area thing. Our CC was definitely classroom work- again, decades ago.
The city is doing it. If they can mandate every house to have solar, they can use eminent domain to get the land. Which would also be more efficient.

This whole rooftop solar movement reminds me of 'solar roads', a snakeoil scheme a couple of years ago. It has no rational basis, and no compelling engineering support. Its just a 'roofs are flat; solar panels are flat; hey! lets put solar panels on rooftops!'

E.g. does the rooftop have an appropriate southern exposure? Is it in direct sunlight? Does it have the carrying capacity for tons of equipment? Is it a safe place to do construction? Will the roof's normal function be unaffected by solar installation?

The answer to all these things is, No.
>Dutch were really short because of malnutrition.

It's hard to be malnutritioned.
Can you link why only Dutch were malnutritioned and not other Europeans?

You don't really lose much height through lacking diet. My grandmother was born in poverty and there was famine and drought at her time which killed 3 of her family members, yet she was 6'2 tall.
An interesting parallel here to continuously refactoring a codebase versus doing a big rewrite.