skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is false. In many jurisdictions, blackmail does not require a financial transaction, merely obtaining something deemed valuable by the blackmailer in exchange for keeping the blackmailee's information private. See [1] for the US:

Whoever, under a threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the United States, demands or receives any money or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

In cases like this one, "bragging rights" are easy to prove as deemed valuable by the blackmailer: they can bring anything from job prospects to donations from activists to free beers at Blackhat.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/873
Back in the days of s100 computers, I had a poly 88. I wrote a game-of-life that used the video memory as the cell array. characters meant a dead cell that next gen would be live, dead -> dead, live -> dead, live->live - one pass replaced the current generation with one of those 4 chars. The second pass would resolve the chars back to Live "@" and dead "." cells. 8080 Machine code (hand assembled). It would do about 1 generation a second. The life array was 40x25..
I’m not sure to be honest. At least, I’m it sure what would work for me, but that wouldn’t sabotage their business sales. It might be nice to have a family plan that’s “up to 10” users. It could be used by small companies but anything over 10 would have to migrate to a business plan. I wouldn’t mind it starting at $10/m for 3 accounts and then maybe $2/m for each additional up to 10? That would cap at $24/m for 10 personal email accounts, about 50% off their current pricing.
I actually have yet to hear any reports of improvised ventilators being used outside of ventilating multiple patients from a single ventilator. A big reason is that doctors and nurses simply aren't trained to use improvised devices in a way they can trust to be safe.

First, do no harm.
A big shout out for "Good Economics for Hard Times", by two MIT profs who recently won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Why did two academic Economists who specialize in the developing world write a book for the general public? From the book's preface: "We got tired of watching at a distance while the public conversation about core economic issues - immigration, trade, growth, inequality, or the environment - goes more and more out of kilter. ... Also ... as we thought about it, we realized the problems facing the rich countries in the world were actually eerily familiar to those we are used to studying in the developing world - people left behind by development, ballooning inequality, lack of faith in government, fractured societies and polity, and so on."
>There’s no reason to increase state involvement with new laws.

Well, not unless you consider the significant disparity in negotiating power between the employer and prospective employee when forming that contract. Very few people are in a position to negotiate something like that, and the ones that are aren't likely to be explicitly fired for speaking their mind.
Hence you will try to keep the conduction losses low relative to switching losses.

Yea, 1kHz is nothing for modern transistors. FET, IGBT or bipolar. Not that it's not worth considering them, ofc.
Looks dicey to me too, but if you are going to die anyway, what's the harm? The choice is between definitely dying with no ventilator or possibly not dying with the aid of a hacked CPAP. No one would use this if they had access to a proper ventilator.
"The breath extension replaces the function at 0x80bb734"

It sounds what Naughty Dog did to get RAM on the PSX for Crash Bandicoot ... they grabbed memory already allocated by the Sony runtime libs and would use it if it not do anything bad.

A crashing game console is not a ventilator but a good hack nonetheless.
There are still so many things wrong in how he tells the story that it doesn't pass a basic smell test for me.

- He omits that this study was from 2000, so quite some time ago. Given that the paper about that has 200+ citations, I would say that it got the eyeballs it deserved. He doesn't offer any recent evidence that indicate that this is still the case today.

- The core claim he makes "all mice are broken" is a hyperbole that a lot of people will tell you is unsubstantiated. He makes it sound like all tests done on mice are flawed because of it.

- "I called them up and they were not able to produce any records that they changed their breeding protocols" doesn't mean that they didn't change them in the 20 years that passed. It just means that they didn't produce them to some random person contacting them.

I'm not as "surprised nobody is breaking this story" as he is.
% host -t a $'\015'.
1 \015:
19 bytes, 1+0+0+0 records, response, authoritative, nxdomain
query: 1 \015
%

It's not as straightforward or sensible as you think. It's case insensitive; it's case preserving; and C0 control characters, SPC, and DEL are allowed. The case differentiating bits for letters are nowadays sometimes used in an attempt to foil attackers. If you want things to look back on and say "I think that X was a mistake." then forget UTF of any stripe. The DNS is full of them.
"based on pointer providence"

I think you meant "provenance" (mentioning it for the sake of anyone who wants to search for it).
Pain is weakness leaving the body,
Feeling stupid is ignorance leaving the mind.

Embrace it. School is designed to give you set pieces that can be understood in isolation, the outside world rairly has that luxury. You won't truly improve without discomfort, though the particulars will be personal and multidimensional.

The end skill is solving problems in the wider world.
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One my of cases was that I just wanted to extend the workflow of my terraform declaration and add a couple of log statements here and there. I didn't want to write Go to write a plugin for that.

With Pulumi - i was able to just sprinkle in a couple of console.log statements and my "extension" was done.
[Disclaimer: also member of the Pulumi team.]

We've worked with a lot of end users to migrate from Terraform, and we honestly do see a lot of copy-and-paste. I agree that it's not as rampant as with YAML/JSON, however, in practice we find a lot of folks struggle to share and reuse their Terraform configs for a variety of reasons.

Even though HCL2 introduced some basic "programming" constructs, it's a far cry from the expressiveness of a language like Python. We frequently see not only better reuse but significant reduction in lines of code when migrating. Being able to create a function or class to capture a frequent pattern, easily loop over some data structure (e.g., for every AZ in this region, create a subnet), or even conditionals for specialization (e.g., maybe your production environment is slightly different than development, us-east-1 is different, etc). And linters, test tools, IDEs, etc just work.

For comparison, this Amazon VPC example may be worth checking out:

- Terraform: https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-vpc/b...

- Pulumi (Python): https://github.com/joeduffy/pulumi-architectures/blob/master...

- CloudFormation: https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-aws-vpc/blob/ma...

It's common to see a 10x reduction in LOCs going from CloudFormation to Terraform and a 10x reduction further going from Terraform to Pulumi.

A key importance in how Pulumi works is that everything centers around the declarative goal state. You are shown previews of this (graphically in the CLI, you can serialize that as a plan, you always have full diffs of what the tool is doing and has done. This helps to avoid some of the "danger" of having a turing-complete language. Plus, I prefer having a familiar language with familiar control constructs, rather than learning a proprietary language that the industry generally isn't supporting or aware of (schools teach Python -- they don't teach HCL).

In any case, we appreciate the feedback and discussion -- all great and valid points to be thinking about -- HTH.
While I actively use Linux as a desktop OS, I have to agree with this. I've spent hours upon hours tuning things, but there's always some small detail that's off — macOS and Windows have their share of problems, but they're much better in this regard.

For example, HiDPI scaling works great on GNOME, but KDE doesn't scale a lot of margins, which makes it look cramped. GNOME's window snapping stopped working for me in a recent update. It's made me contemplate running WSL on Windows many times, but at the end of the day I'm still on Linux because I prefer the overall experience.
I don't agree with the parent comment at all, but this is not an argument from authority. If anything, it's an instance of the is-ought fallacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
You also need to warm and humidify the air because ventilators are inserted past the part of your respiratory system that does that.
Amazon has nearly a million employees. The gist of your comment is valid, but firing two people (or even two hundred people) out of a million doesn't even come close to meaning that they have an antagonistic relationship with its workforce in general.
ActivityPub can be used in a P2P situation. The biggest problem for that right now is that we use DNS for finding other instances, so you will need something with a domain name.
Not a stupid question! The database is in memory but we journal all transactions to disk, so it is persistent. In fact it's so persistent that it never goes away. We have an append-only storage approach allowing you to do time-travel. You can query past versions, or look at differences, or even branch from a previous version of the database.
My comment was downvoted twice immediately after posting it, before others began to upvote it.
There is a reasonable chance that this will not be as useful as the team hopes:

1) They are increasing maximum pressure and pressure rate changes beyond the built-in design parameters. If these new parameters are outside what the engineering requirements document spec, these changes are a problem in seeking EUA.

2) In regulatory affairs, authorized, cleared, and approved have very specific (and enforceable) meanings. If someone is loose with how they use these words, it suggests they don’t have someone with regulatory experience involved (a negative sign). The earlier the team can engage with someone with regulatory experience, the better.
I've reread this comment a few times and I'm still not sure what to make of it. It's obviously true, but why post something with such a smug and gloating tone? Are you happy about how Amazon warehouse workers are treated and pleased to see people speaking out being fired in the midst of a pandemic?
One problem: You test positive in a nursing home, but you are a false positive (20% of the time). You are quarantined with COVID patients, and how contract COVID. This is almost a death sentence if you have a pre-existing condition.
Joke's on you:

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Eh? I thought that would only be "legal" if it was specified to be implementation-defined behavior. Which would, frankly, be perfectly good. But since it is specified as undefined behavior, programmers are forbidden to use it, and compilers assume it doesn't happen/doesn't exist.

The entire notion that "since this is undefined behavior it does not exist" is the biggest fallacy in modern compilers.
I guess it's time to unplug from these spyware devices...this has gone a bit too far!
Hand writing JSON/YAML/HCL beyond an initial POC or very, very simple tasks seems like a bad smell.

Using whatever language your project already uses to then dump to these formats is a way more sane pattern IMHO.
I saw it for sale in the shop for 70k bells
> External links don't open in a new tab.

> No navigational elements (navbar, breadcrumbs, etc) that allow a user to return to the main page (which is supposed to be the "master class of human-centered design). Every click is a dead-end.

This is the web, it works like people expect web pages to work. No custom behaviors, links work like links, the back button does what the back button should. That is absolutely human friendly. If external links were supposed to open on a new page then the browsers would default to that.

> Multiple SEO and accessibility issues

Whether a site has SEO issues is irrelevant to usability of the site. It's not like they are looking for organic traffic. If I'm looking for BRK's homepage, it's easy enough to find which is all that matters from a SEO perspective for a site like this.

The accessibility issues are a concern if they actually existed. This kind of site is ideal for screen readers and while it doesn't automatically adjust for mobile, it doesn't get in the way of zoom or reader view which makes the site just fine for people who struggle with small fonts.

> The page does not contain a heading, skip link, or landmark region

You don't seem to understand why the skip links are there. In this case, there is no heading full of links you need to skip over, if you open the page and start tabbing, you are already on the first bit of content. It is better from a usability perspective than a skip link.
As long as the tool for renaming files handles non-utf8 filenames you'd be fine.
I don't know that that's correct. That there exists a ligature character doesn't mean the ligature is a character of the language.

It could, mind, I don't know dutch. But in french "œ" (which has a ligatured character as you can see) is canonically equivalent to "oe". It is not a separate letter of the alphabet even though:

* many words should not be written with the ligatured form

* many words should be written with the ligatured form

* it has a different pronunciation than the base form
Try this. It's interactive so after you submit, you can choose your style.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Glynn_S....
Yours is currently the top comment, does that disprove your point? And downvoting your comment would prove your point - very well played!
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>but in US most of the employment is at will. In practical terms, they can fire you for any or no reason at all.

Yes, employment at-will allows both the employer and employee to terminate employment at anytime without cause.

However, it seems pretty clear Amazon did not terminate these employees without cause...you can argue the termination was for violation of a company policy all you want (Amazon certainly will), but the evidence seems to support Amazon fired these employees in retaliation for exercising their Constitutionally protected rights.

The employees will sue and Amazon will settle. This is a major win for Amazon because it will be far less costly to pay these employees off rather than make any meaningful change to work conditions.
Ok, let's find out.

> Things like the "5G causes coronavirus"

To what degree is that a comprehensively accurate representation of the ideas floating around in the conspiracy world?

And if you feel the urge to click on the downward pointing diamond to the left of my comment rather than replying, please pause for a moment and consider that action in the context of your comment, as well as the grandparent comment "But we're now faced with a rise in post-rationalism...".
I think it's irresponsible to not be donating our full talents as engineers to assisting those medical researchers in getting a head start on such developments. We have the ability to offload trivialities from those researchers like developing a firmware flashing process, so that they can focus on ensuring the reliable operation of such hacks.
Upwork also seems to be well aware of the huge number of fraudulent contractor accounts.
What you are saying makes no sense, why does android only accept the self signed certificate when it redirects from http and not for direct https connections. Can you provide a source, a stackoverflow link maybe where this problem is discussed ?
An anonymous secure messaging system
For some reason I have always seen academic websites like yours as a different concept. Most academic websites look like yours and I think that’s fine.

I was thinking more of something like a CMS control panel or some data-entry tool, or a consumer website like an e-commerce.
At least on Delta flights they’re not allowed to be used, I’m not sure if the same policy exists on other airlines.

Edit: I was wrong, see below
ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities.

Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control… everything is monitored and kept under control.

War… has changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUf_8jyxbiM
It's not explained until the third book, but hoarding the water was keeping it away from the things that are turning the planet into a desert.
Thanks - I didn't want to contribute to HN's hug of death, doing inference is probably very expensive for them.
It's really just another data point. Using absolute numbers of deaths, it is hard to differentiate between an epidemic where R0 is moderate (say, 2.5) and the IFR is fairly high, or another where the R0 is higher (e.g. 6) and the IFR is lower. Both get you a lot of hospital load and an increased number of deaths.

Some interesting studies coming out now supporting the iceberg theory. Depending on your perspective, that could be good news.
Perhaps this is aimed at non-American healthcare systems, but I have not seen a single report of American hospitals running out of ventilators, let alone BiPaP machines. In order for this to be a responsible hack — used under the guidance of medical professionals — we would need to have run out of both.

If anything, at least in the American context, I'm more worried about running out of the sedative necessary for ventilation.[1]

I have nothing against hardware hacking in non-pandemics. If you want to hack your own insulin pump or create epi-pens on your own (non-crisis) time, that's fine by me.

But I think the cost-benefit-risk analysis changes in pandemics, because people are too hungry for easy fixes and make ill-advised decisions under pressure. For example, even doctors (ostensibly medically-literate professionals) are prescribing themselves hydrochloroquine [2], which does not seem to be a miracle cure and sometimes, itself, dangerous (and also leaves lupus sufferers at risk of a disrupted supply chain).

[1] https://www.vox.com/2020/4/6/21209589/coronavirus-medicine-v...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/health/chloroquine-corona...
Oh wow, I was really wrong about that; I don't know why I thought they didn't generate much revenue. The parent's point stands I guess!
I didn't read the comment as having a smug and/or gloating tone, just as a piece of useful advice. It is true, even if in an ideal world it shouldn't.
The Economy, a free, open access textbook crowdsourced from Econ professors all over the world, along with the Core Covid-19 collection of teaching materials:

https://www.core-econ.org/
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You can throw your gloves away pretty easily.

I can't discard my hands several times a day when out and about.
> If something isn't in ports (yeah right)

Err, yeah yes. Not everything is in Ports. Software doesn't magically appear in Ports as soon as it is written. I would have thought that was blindingly obvious.
Wait. Where have I seen some threewheeler like the PEBL before? Right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8 ;-). Well, in reality it is not as bad, according to https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/entertainment/news/...
"AI Code Generation"

I see this mentioned in the product comparison chart, but no mention of what that actually means.
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This conversation has stuck with me for several days, and I'd like to recap my thoughts on it.

I think this highlights the difference between risk and uncertainty. Risk is something calculable. Uncertainty is either incalculable or the error bars are so wide that it is practically incalculable.

I, for example, am willing to take a calculated risk and ride a motorcycle. It's a fun, economical way of traveling. I am not willing to ride a motorcycle I am unfamiliar with without a close inspection. Maybe an unfamiliar bike is in complete operational order. Maybe it has a crack in a frame wield and the frame may snap during normal operations. The error bars for what can go wrong on an uninspected motorcycle are too wide and it introduces a level of uncertainty I am not comfortable with.

The downsides of a bad vaccine have been shown multiple times in multiple places. It's _very_ bad. I'm unwilling to accept uncertainty when the downside is so large.
We supported batch api calls in v0. But as those API calls increased a new instanced would get spun up but boot time was longer. To get around it, we would have to keep more instances running all the time which obviously costs more money.
If I had a newspaper delivered to my door I'm not paying a living wage for the delivery person either. How is this any different?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronav...

The Italians are using adapted CPAP machines as well.
Physics research being the way it is, everything is worth trying if somebody really believes in it, because everything is a moonshot. I'm personally working on one right now, so I'm too busy to work on Wolfram's, but more power to him if he wants to continue!

My personal intuition is that a new language is only useful if it has enough "meat" to constrain things. For example, most physicists know almost nothing about logic, because it seems so far upstream of everything else that changes in it have no effect. (Indeed, logic has changed a lot in the past 100 years, and nothing happened to us!) But almost everybody in physics agrees that the language of differential forms is awesome, because with some minimal assumptions, they say that there's essentially one way to write down the theory of electromagnetism -- and it turns out to be the right way. Similarly, it looks like there's little promise in applying computability theory to physics, because it is grounded in what happens "at infinity" (and hence does not lend itself to predicting anything in our inherently finite experiments), but real promise in applying information theory and computational complexity theory, which can tell us about asymptotics. So that was why my first reaction is that Wolfram's exceedingly general language wouldn't be very helpful.

However, attitudes can and have changed. If Wolfram and co. come up with a sharp success, where they derive something important without directly putting what they want to get into their starting assumptions, people would pay attention. That's precisely why, e.g. special and general relativity, quantum field theory and string theory are so important today. They all started this way.