skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the '70s and '80s when Japan was booming there was a popular meme that they were advantaged by having their cities destroyed in the war so were able to rebuild them along more modern lines. I don't know if it's true but it seems plausible.

In Stranger in a Strange Land, Michael Valentine Smith talks about the Martian habit of abandoning places when the memories became too intense to tolerate.

If we earthlings were repulsed by places with too much history such old places would have a limited lifespan. While we'd lose out on the context of history, we'd escape some of the deep ruts of blind tradition and be less buried by sedimentary layers of "that's how we've always done it."

War is a terrible evil, but at least it tends to breaks up such ossified remains. If we defeat war, we should look for other mechanisms to till the soil to promote new growth.
> One of these requirements is that you cannot have a signed binary load unsigned code into ring-0.

I think the requirement is slightly looser - MS won't sign binaries which in turn allow arbitrary unsigned binaries to be loaded/run at ring-0 without any user interaction/confirmation.

The shim and PreLoader loaders used by most Linux distributions allow you to boot arbitrary ring-0 code by requiring user interaction first, and both have been signed by Microsoft. The distribution-specific versions of shim/PreLoader also usually allow booting any code signed by the distribution's own key without needing to enroll that in the MOK.

The process you need to go through, as you describe, is to use shim/PreLoader to first enroll the hashes/keys you want into the MOK variable, then after that's been done once it will all happen without interaction.
Footnote 6 is great too:

> 6 Yes, gins and tonic, not gin and tonics. You want multiple gins, not more tonic.

Or the note on Table 1:

> Note: all coefficients assume a pressure of 1 bar, as one simply cannot be in more than one bar at any given time. Once you find a good bar, you should stay in it.
There's also some evidence to support crying-induced arousal, called "dacryphilia"

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-excess/201601/can...

https://www.google.com/search?q=crying+boner+site:www.reddit...
I agree with everything you're saying. It's a failure because it needs much more money added to it because it was so popular and is so desperately needed right now.

The narrative I've seen in all the press is that's it's a failure because it all went to Shake Shack and others who didn't deserve it which I think is a confusing distortion of what's actually going on here.
Are you talking about the US post office?

The post office in France already offer banking. It's mandated by law as a public service and they can't reject customers. It doesn't offer the more complex products or investments though, it ain't their purpose.

Not sure about the UK post office. Seem to offer a lot of banking services and cards, but it says it doesn't do current accounts anymore.
There is a lot of snark surrounding GCP. I'll just leave this here:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/infrastructure/new-goog...

This year alone GCP will launch new regions in Delhi (India), Doha (Qatar), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada).
I wouldn't be surprised if a high percentage of reddit users use something like uBlock. I think universal ad blockers are going to slowly become more ubiquitous over time, too.

People have been trying to find ways to skip TV commercials for decades. It's going to be the same with ads. When it comes to our own personal devices, advertisers can't really win in the end. They're going to have to stick to things like billboards and other things put up in cities, but even those are being protested and banned in many places.

In theory, what about reddit can't be decentralized? All it stores is text and URLs to other content. There isn't all that much actual processing or computation going on, as far as I know, besides some rank calculation stuff. Am I wrong about this?

In that case, it comes down to figuring out how to pay the developers and some kind of election process for admins. But with a site with hundreds of millions of monthly active users, surely they'd be able to figure something out. Like each user who donates $10 or more gets a little perk.

And even without decentralization, micropayments and premium perks are already a much more promising model. Lots of people are buying reddit's silver/gold/platinum/a bunch of others awards. Tinder is free by default and manages to make loads of money without showing any ads. I don't think ads are going to be a sustainable model in 10, 20, 50 years from now. I think service providers are just going to have to figure out ways to provide value to users in exchange for money, like most "meatspace" companies do.
These two articles are somewhat related and illuminating:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-20/there-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-17/giant-u-s...

Long story short, part of the issue is that big banks have large complex regulatory and compliance schemes as a result of 2008. They are then unable to process SBA apps because of the low amount of government guidance, so smaller banks with smaller compliance teams were able to process more. This would also mean that smaller businesses would probably have a hard time getting all of their paperwork right vs bigger companies with dedicated legal and accounting teams. Also, banks will then prioritize existing customers, especially ones with loans, because most of the KYC and due diligence has been done already.

Part of the answer is that as an unintended consequence of previous compliance corrections, larger banks are just more unwilling to make loans under unclear guide lines, which obviously there will be if the government rolls out a program in a 1-2 weeks.
Make your faraday enclosure the antenna (better have some heavy duty protection on the tx/rx circuitry though).
Yep, I've looked into the health effects of nicotine independent of smoking. It definitely raises blood pressure; we know exactly how this works; there's a long term mechanism (I think involving aldosterone)and the short term stimulant mechanism. There's also a small but significant increase in pancreatic cancer[1], one shared by most stimulants (I think including caffeine). Otherwise, it's not a terrible thing. The parkinsons thing might make nic gum worthwhile.[2]

If you look at long term effects of snusers and people who use nasal snuff; it's pretty difficult to find any measurable negative health outcomes.

FWIIW the nicotinic hypothesis may not prove to be correct with respect to C19; Sweden will be a great test case, as there are more snus users than smokers there.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/carcin/article/30/3/506/2476826

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430096/ -for example; too many papers to list
Socialism!

More seriously, compare the UK's former state-run consumer bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girobank

> The organisation chalked up notable firsts. It was the first bank designed with computerised operations in mind; the first bank in Europe to adopt OCR (optical character recognition) technology; the first bank to offer interest-bearing current accounts, and the first bank in Europe to offer telephone banking, operating several years prior to the start of Midland Bank's First Direct service. It is widely credited for shaking up the UK banking market, forcing competitors to innovate and respond to the needs of the mass market.

It was literally by the socialist government to give cheap and effective banking to the unbanked working class in the 1960s.

Another issue for the US: the EU has an explicit remit for a single market. The US does not, and in some areas it's much less harmonised. Banking is one of them. The US would benefit from a central organisation coordinating things like Faster Payments. Everybody should have the opportunity to do fast, secure, free interbank payments.
I'm glad that there are better controls in the extension being made to provide for mom&pop shops over big companies.
"Continuously" is a word that lets a lot of institutions claim to be the oldest or longest running thing. I feel like I've been to a dozen restaurants that make this claim.
You can turn it off under Screen Time -> Content and Privacy Restrictions -> Allowed Apps.
I generally couldn't agree more, but yet its the first tool in the toolbox for a lot of databases.
As soon as this thing hit this was one of my first thoughts, once things recover there are going to be a lot of companies looking for ways to automate things because robots don't get sick, they don't have to worry about social distancing they keep going until you tell them to stop or the power gets cut.

I do wonder however if this effect will be hampered by the number of unemployed. More unemployed people means a greater supply of laborers and that translates to lower costs.

Of course on the flip side it may be that many companies are starting to see what is actually necessary for their company to operate and will run with a leaner staff moving forward.

The future will be wild that's for sure.

EDIT: When I say "translates to lower costs" I mean lower costs for labor, realized what I said could be ambiguous.
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I'm an attorney and I assisted five companies with PPP applications.

Three of them were with Chase. Those three all applied immediately upon Chase opening up the application process. The loans were "processed" in descending order in terms of the amount asked for, NOT in the order in which they were submitted. None of the requests was over $200,000. All three were still "in process" when the money ran out, over a week after the applications were entered. Those three clients are stuck, hoping that their applications will be funded when the additional funding is approved.

The two that I assisted with that were not with chase were with a local credit union. Both were submitted only a day before the money ran out and both were approved and have been funded.

Something clearly went wrong at Chase.
I'm explicitly not making claims about the origin of the virus. The only "conspiracy" is that you're racist for demanding answers.

Neither of your articles provides a blanket denial that the lab was involved in research that included the virus. It only makes some very narrow denials in non-scientific language.
you can probably add them? it's wikipedia after all
>This kind of "magic" isn't always clear when programmers are mostly used to working with data structures and procedural code.

My problem is that it is like some sort of black magic to me. If I write a complex query I have no idea if what is spit back to me is actually what I want. The only way is seeding lots of records and then manually checking that each filter and calculation is doing what I want.

In code complex things can be broken down into more simple items. Then I can reason about and test those building blocks into something I understand and am confident that is working as intended.
A few of them:

- I got a job on a new city

- Some of my posts have been cited on thesis statements

- I got new contacts and new projects through it

- I've learned a few things that would not have been in my interest and that I looked it up just to write a blog post

- It somehow has become a relaxing activity
The answer is likely that your storage schema is incorrect. You have things stored in OLTP (i.e. app database) but trying to read it as OLAP (i.e. reporting database). Once you reimagine the data in the OLAP style then these kinds of queries are simplistic.

EDIT: specifically for your example, in an OLAP style you would generate a Times table and then foreign key the sales table to it based on the date. Then you can easily query against that Times table as the filter/bucket for your queries.
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So, they really aren't that easy to bolt on, if not considered from the beginning. Monoliths, for example, are a real PITA to make reliable and scalable.

Worse, once your company is successful, there will be an endless list of features to add to your product, meaning nobody has the time to "bolt those features on". How the product begins, is how the product often lives on well past it's expected lifespan.
Anti-intellectualism isn’t the same thing as anti-nerdism. People respect originality and innovation, but who really is going to respect those who shut themselves away to cram their heads with facts, to please their teachers and get good grades, when they could be out having fun and mixing with their peers. And for what? A higher salary band? Four star hotels during summer vacation rather than three star?
All ebikes on the market today already have the hardware for regen. You simply need to reflash the motor controller firmware to one which shifts the phase of the current by 180 degrees in the motor windings, and suddenly you're regen-ing. It can be as simple as a simple minus sign in the firmware source code, if only you had access to it!.

Some ebikes have firmware mods to do it - others not so much.

The main added difficulty is you can't recharge batteries too fast - and typical braking would produce too much power, and damage the batteries. If you didn't want to destroy your batteries, your regen would have to be pretty tame - more of a "gentle resistance" than "braking".
I think that this is a pretty fair rebuttal, but I'm not sure I personally am convinced. First of all, this entity is inviting the comparison and second, they are saying that $10 is all you need to have something stored in perpetuity.
This method, while effective, is likely to be a significant frustration for the woman in this situation, given that cyclical high fertility usually coincides with high sex drive.
Is that baseball or cricket innings? Because if it is ODI cricket, we are good.
Fair enough. With that said I think the funds will be replenished in the next day or three.

But I think "the bill has failed to help small businesses" is not accurate at all. It has failed to help enough small businesses.
Disabling the mail feature on all the accounts configured on the phone (some accounts have multiple features like contacts, calendars, etc - those can be left enabled).

Alternatively, disable push e-mail and set the refresh interval to manually and make sure to never open the Mail app (as it could cause a manual refresh).
> Because we don't trust the central bank enough

What does this actually mean? "Trust" isn't a one-dimensional version. What don't you trust them to do or not do? Do people really "trust" Wells Fargo, opener of fraudulent accounts, more than the Federal Reserve? Why?
A number of interesting points:

* This was abused in the wild in targeted attacks against individuals including corporate executives and journalists, and, based on the presence of suspicious 0x41s in the exploit, likely purchased and minimally modified.

* On iOS 13 the attacks are even more powerful, as moving the mail parsing out-of-process means it is “0-click” and can silently crash without alerting the user of a problem (and the process’s VM layout is much more consistent to boot). Humorously, the error message that appears (“This message has no content”) is a common bug anyways so users have been trained to ignore it.

* Memory mapping files is hard, and there’s some non-trivial error cases that need to be checked.

* A fix is in iOS 13.4.5 beta.

(By the way, MobileMail and maild from the title are process names and are spelled as such.)
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You’re describing “narrow” banks.

While they make sense for consumers, our banking system is tightly coupled with another: mortgages. The money that you deposit is loaned out. Could the federal government do the too? Sure, and the government (talking about the US here) does end up owning a large chunk of mortgages via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

But the expertise and the manpower around vetting the mortgages is a _lot_ of work. Work that the federal government couldn’t decide to take on tomorrow, might not even want to, and if they announced that they were going to try would shake the core of the stock markets. (And yes, stock markets matter for more than just making rich people richer.)

On the other hand you suggest de-coupling: “Find a lender.” If you take away the deposits, who has that much money to lend out without being dangerously leveraged?

If you were to design an economic system, this might be the one you’d design. Given the one we have, narrow banks are difficult to allow without some significant “turbulence”.
'Elegant'? Have you ... ever tried it?

My experience of it decades ago was anything other than 'elegant', unless having one's face scrunch up like a bulldog pissing on a nettle before exploding into a sneezing fit can be considered 'elegant'.
I don't mean this in a derogatory way but from your bio it sounds like you work in full-stack web development - maybe with some data processing. Sure, this stuff doesn't really come from academia. But there are other bits of tech where academia does play a large part and your viewpoint is just not correct. One example that contradicts your second paragraph away is I spent several years at a consultancy that helped academics commericalise their own research - mostly medical tech but some computer vision stuff too. There's loads of great work businesses coming out of academia - you might just not be in a position to see it.
I can't comment if his paper is accurate without investigation of all the citations. In general masks are meant to stop larger particulates than what viruses are, that includes the n95 masks. Also medical masks and shields are intended to protect the wearer more than they are too prevent the wearer from spreading their infection. Breathing out puts positive pressure behind the mask causing it to bypass any filtering effect of the mask.

Cloth masks are a complete joke as far as preventing spread unless you're someone who constantly sprays spittle when they talk. If you are that person then no one wants to be in spray range already . Cloth masks will barely filter dust out. The anecdotal story I share about the masks being more about a social construct than a medical one is this. My wife works in reception at a medical office. They started requiring all staff to wear makes but those in non-paitent facing roles (like her) only get cloth masks. They acknowledged that the cloth masks did nothing to prevent the spread but it was important to make masks socially acceptable.

The papers closing does seem to have the conspiracy angle to it which I can't comment on if this is the case or not but overall there does seem to be quite a bit of "virology theater" going on with policy making.
I think the problem really isn't as complicated as that list might make it seem. In my home country (EU), local shops offer basic banking services (withdraw, deposit money) in rural areas where banks have no incentive to have a branch. They're already integrated into the wider cash flow system, money is moved to and from the locations securely regularly, etc. Postal offices would tick all those boxes as well with the additional contextual benefit of being government-run.
I heard estimates it was near $2T to fund it properly.
There's no guarantee that restricting access to the UI of the Mail app would prevent it from refreshing accounts in the background.
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I noticed this when comparing American vs British degrees that the British ones seemed much much more focused on a topic.

American 4 year degrees require you getting a reasonably well rounded education.

I have a 4 year degree in comp sci but I was required to learn state history, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Art, Communications, and probably some other things off the top of my head that I've forgotten.

My issue with the US system is that the universities in general are pretty good, but before university the education is garbage. All of these "well rounded" things I just mentioned they could have easily taught me in high school instead of wasting so much time on random things or reteaching the same things over and over.

Essentially because of the cost of US uni they wasted my money making me have to pay for my well rounded education and now upon writing this I just realized that despite the downgrade so to speak I would prefer a British degree as I think theyre shorter and if I'm to pay I just want to get what I came for which is CS skills.

I believe British kids(non-Scottish ones) have to pay some amount for Uni right? Do you pay in Poland? This could be part of the reason for the difference.
In the 1960s they invented something called "the pill". Look it up.
> Art (and music) is not something for endless consumption

I strongly disagree, although I would say it is completely a matter of personal preference, so I'm really only disagreeing for myself. I'll admit I'm somewhere in the middle between the 2 ends of the spectrum you describe, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the endless crate diggers as "less deep" as other listeners. Sounds like a personal bias to me.
This is a preprint. This sentence could be modified and not change the core claim of the paper. What's interesting is studying the data on which this is based (some commenters yesterday said it made a few mistakes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935451 ; but without enough details to dismiss the paper entirely), and the other papers (this is not the first) which have similar claims.

The doctors are rushing to share their core (incomplete) data to have others study it. In normal times, this type of study would stay hidden for months (I've heard up to two years for some niche domains) so that everything could be checked, re-checked, and editors could fix the introduction mistakes. We aren't in normal times.
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Curious, what is the difference here?
The fact that the report mentions a daemon (maild) means that it may not be possible for an end user on a non-jailbroken device to stop activity. (For a non-Apple app, simply force-quitting by swiping up in the switcher would go 99% of the way.)

I'd guess that removing mail accounts from the device would do the job, though.
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This table is missing Norway, Denmark, and Finland which would be the most interesting to compare Sweden to.
With the world explored and mapped, it is hard to fathom new cities being built. Nevertheless, that will certainly happen in the future.

What will the catalyst be? Will it be nuclear war, which devastates and contaminates an area for decades? Will it be disease that makes existing urban areas less desirable to live in? Will it be economic opportunity, as we discover new uses for land or a new way to use land? Space Travel?

I see a small parallel to startups: it is easy but dangerous to say "there are no new ideas in that industry". Yet often some of the primary companies are those that survived the early "land grab" of customers.
What's your favorite? Big fan of Fribourg & Treyer brands here. Taking a sniff of something Lord Byron enjoyed hundreds of years ago can be a heady experience (I forget ... old paris or prince's)

I do feel like I should be wearing a powdered wig when I indulge in the stuff. Blowing my nose brings me down to earth; it's pretty gross!
Just like Enrique Iglesias or Shakira.
Do you have a city to propose? Feel free to add it to the list, especially as it shouldn't be too hard to check the age using the Wikipedia article on the city.