skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would find it more surprising if journalists didn't share certain demographic regularities. As an exercise, I looked up the educational backgrounds of the current NYT masthead on wikipedia. Here are the results:

Columbia

Harvard, Harvard

UMich

N/A (the art design guy)

Notre Dame

Princeton

Yale

Columbia

Tufts

Stonyhurst, Oxford

UVA

Are those results out of line with what you were expecting? I can't say that they are for me. If anything, I consider it exceptionally broadminded of The Gray Lady to hire an ND grad.

Please recall that I never claimed this was a good or a bad thing. In some sense I regard domination by elites as inevitable, but I do think it's preferable to be explicit about it, and failing to recognize "the media" as a coherent social category tends to frustrate that recognition.

The political affiliation of journalists is a well-studied topic. Polls consistently find that Democrats outnumber Republicans and liberals outnumber conservatives by wide margins, ranging from 4-1 to 20-1 [!] depending on survey methodology (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3279453). A study which compared rates of citation of various think tanks by media outlets, vs. by Congress, found that every media outlet surveyed except Fox and the Washington Times stood to the left of the Congressional median (https://www.jstor.org/stable/25098770?seq=1).

Again, I'm not making any normative claims about any of this. I'm just surprised at the resistance to taking it for granted.
> I rbobby killed JFK and Hoffa and I did it all for the benjamins

Quotes are for referencing literal quotes of the parent post or at least quotes from the parent poster not to put words in others mouths.
PopcornTime was designed to stream videos over bittorrent, peer-to-peer.
That's an extraordinarily maximalist interpretation of what to me was a relatively nuanced take on a complicated subject. I mean, racial politics has absolutely been one critical driving factor in American history. Surely you'd agree with that part? So maybe grant that framing and re-read it? I think you'd be surprised.
Sounds like there is no intention to deliver the source on release, and once the release has been out for a couple of weeks, the benefit of public review of the source code drastically diminishes.

The source code should be released before the public release of the binaries, not after, and not doing so means they're trying to hide what the app does from timely public discourse.

Releasing a tarball (even if it lacks the tools to build it) isn't that hard, is it?
I'm guessing you have MagSafe2. I only had MagSafe1 laptops and thought they were great. I might be mistaken, but I thought I had heard of Apple tweaking the magnets on different models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe#MagSafe_2

I believe the Surface have their version of MagSafe and support charging via USB-C...I wish that was the direction Apple went with.
And as we all know, and history shows, those incentives ensure corporations never break the law.
I hope they are able to figure this out, I would be interested to know how long the sun could burn on oil or kerosene. /s

Legitimately though, assuming the sun is fake, how would one build an artificial sun? What could reasonably power it and give the impression to a planet within that it is real? Perhaps the problem could be even tougher if you're also trying to replicate the mass.

The plot could be some advanced civilization planning to steal a near-by star and replace it with a fake, possibly to build a Dyson sphere around it to cypher off the energy. Could you fool the less-advanced civilization into thinking they still have a real star? (Ignoring the logistics of the actual swap.)

A proposal for radiation: You could burn lots of fuel and radiate tonnes of energy out into space, but if you're only trying to fool a few planets, perhaps you could direct energy at them. I'm not entirely sure what you would have to do in order to make the light arrays appear correctly though.

A proposal for mass: It seems as though a sustainable black hole could at least be as small as 3.8 times the mass of our sun [1] and a valid star could be > 1000 times the mass of our sun [2]. There's more than enough wiggle room there that you could have a small black hole within an outer shell, so the orbits could continue as normal.

[1] https://www.space.com/5191-smallest-black-hole.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_known_stars
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Stop spreading misinformation, there were studies in South Korea that say you won't reinfect after you get it. That's why the strong and healthy can help by self-infecting.
15 Children Are Hospitalized with Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to Covid-19
Apple regularly thieve from their customers. Apps you own, move country. Apple just take them with no refund. ONE example.

Great you work "hard" but why the hell would anyone trust apple when Apple have repeatedly shown they are totally untrustworthy.

Beyond which, securing data, that's just keeping from competitors. Where is Apple's policy that they will not now, nor will they ever abuse customer's data without explicit consent for each and every use with some very real consequence for not doing it.

"You don't need that, we're acting in your interests, trust us." The only sane response is to say "no" and point out apple are dishonest. You work for a dishonest company and can't see it because your paycheck depends on not seeing it.

That is something /I/ find very, very frustrating.

Apple give the same commitments that Google and Facebook do and are judged accordingly.
You can use third-party software like iMazing or PhoneView to extract the message history
That's an outlier.
This seems like great advice if you're your own manager. The other 99% of us would be fired for following his advice unfortunately.
> Manufacturing will return to America, where robots will do the manufacturing.

I think this is a really interesting prediction. As opposed to the 20th century trend of industries centralizing to take advantage of economies of scale, the 21st century may see a trend of industries, enabled by robots capable of manufacturing many different products, decentralizing by manufacturing closer to the point-of-sale.

This would be particularly interesting for sectors like clothing, where a small variety of input materials can produce a huge array of output products. Instead of carrying a large stock of clothing in a variety of sizes, each piece could be custom-tailored.
Yeah, but you will have to state them at least. You need to state your goal. "Capitalism/socialism is immoral" is fuzzy and works for both. "Capitalism/socialism ensures maximum efficiency of exploitation of resources" can be checked and doesn't work for both.

"But why do we want to maximally exploit resources" is then a question we need to answer separately, and here your subjective things come into it.
Being Black in Russia
> particularly people of color, are deprived of the war-economy destabilizing right to vote.

how is anyone deprived the right to vote in 2020?
> Sports will be the only reason to leave the house.

What does this even mean?
But you "roll the dice" with every flu epidemic.
If someone was rude enough to bypass DHCP's suggested DNS is it reasonable to assume they were polite enough to use the standard port?

At this point every device on my network is hostile, default deny outbound is starting to feel like the reasonable starting point.
> It doesn't matter that the article is bollocks.

No, it isn't. It's correct in the basic claim of the title. Scientists in 1863 who believed that no known source of energy was capable of powering the Sun were right. The Sun is not powered by any source of energy that was known in 1863.

> I would prefer if there was some more working shown to back up the article

Scientific American wasn't the place to show the details then any more than it is today. But the calculations are simple to do, and plenty of physicists had done them at the time of the article.

A summary of the calculations:

Chemical reactions, which is what burning coal is an example of, produce an energy per unit mass of fuel on the order of 10^8 Joules per kilogram. (That's actually on the high end, but it's fine for a rough calculation.) The Sun's mass is about 2 x 10^30 kilograms today; if we assume that half of that is burned as fuel, we get a total energy of 10^38 Joules. The Sun's power output is about 4 x 10^26 Watts, so 10^38 Joules will supply the Sun's power output for about 2 x 10^11 seconds, which is pretty close to 5,000 years (a year is about 3 x 10^7 seconds).

Meteorite impacts essentially convert gravitational potential energy to heat, so the energy per unit mass available is the change in gravitational potential energy from the average distance of a meteorite from the Sun when it starts falling in, to the radius of the Sun. That difference is GM/R - GM/r, where R is the Sun's radius and r is the distance from which the meteorite starts falling in. If we take the maximum possible change, that will be for r -> infinity, in which case our potential energy gain is just GM/R. G is about 7 x 10^-11, M we have from above, and R is about 7 x 10^8 meters. This works out to 2 x 10^11 Joules per kilogram. At that rate, to supply the Sun's power output for 100 million years (about 3 x 10^15 seconds) would take about 6 x 10^30 kilograms, or 3 times the Sun's mass.

That tells me that the article greatly overestimated the potential mass of meteorites available, since the Sun is something like 99 percent of the mass of the solar system, and even counting in the Oort cloud doesn't change that number appreciably. An optimistic upper limit based on current knowledge would be something like 0.1 percent of the Sun's mass (since most of the 1 percent of mass that is not the Sun is the planets, not meteorites), and even that is probably much too large. But taking that value gives an time of 1e12 seconds, or about 30,000 years.

(Note that later in the 1800s, someone--I think it was Lord Kelvin--calculated how long the Sun could be kept shining by gravitational contraction--i.e, by just contracting its own mass to a smaller radius and converting gravitational potential energy into radiation. He came up with a figure of something like 10 million years, which is about what you get if you take the potential energy change formula I gave above and plug in an r--the distance from which "falling in" starts--of something like twice the Sun's radius, and then multiply by the entire mass of the Sun. That's basically what Kelvin's calculation did.)
Realistically fabricating comments/evidence is a much larger script. Once you start lying, you have to keep lying.
Except it doesn't, because there is no esc key. There's a portion of a touch sensitive monitor that may, or may not, have an active region that simulates an esc key, which you won't know without looking at it, rather than being able to rely on the fact that there's a key in the upper left that you can feel for without ever looking at your keyboard, in the knowledge that it always sends the one key code it has to.

If this has never been a problem for you: nice! But it's been so much of a problem for everyone else, and they've spoke up about this so much, that Apple undid that decision.
I was expecting bash scripts in the form of haikus.
> I can understand why the public is skeptical

Please spell it out, because the rest of your post doesn't reflect such an understanding. In fact, the content of your plaintive here uses all the usual tropes that are forced down our throats in corporate media. Btw, this is also my "opinion". Care to hear more?

So I hadn't really looked into the anti-vax stuff until the universally announced "future society" plans to "combat" this disease -- so carefully conceived it would elicit expression of admiration for its comprehensive scope, breathtaking scale, and unapologetic ambition from an un-interested I, but alas I and every other I is an interested party here.

One "celebrity" that I read up on making "anti-vax" noises -- son of another "celebrity" and with a celebrity uncle to boot (and they paid dearly for their 'lust for fame', as you may know) -- pointed out a few 'interesting' things about vaccines. For example, I had no idea that vaccine makers are shielded from liability. And that also prevents any sort of "discovery" to find evidence of wrong doing by these companies. And it turns out these companies have records of misdeeds.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/

So as to my claim that your "understanding" is lacking:

> working at Apple and knowing all the hard work that goes into this and making sure your data stays private

"Apple":

First, even though I am a fanboy of your employer's products, I have zero interest in a 'governance model' that requires the good graces and promises of a corporation, or a grouping of corporations. (Don't even get me started on Alphabets.) Secondly, push comes to shove, I much rather entrust my civil and human rights to an entity to which, at least on paper, I have some degree of input. I refer to the government of the United States here. (I think my constitutional rights trump a EULA, agreed?)

And since you are re-assuring us here -- are you not? -- can you care to reassure us of the following:

- Our systems do not depend on the good will and intent of its operators. Nor will future changes in Apple executive team and/or board of directors have any possibility of subverting our work.

"data", and "private":

We're no longer talking about pics of dirty bits being shared over networks. You work at Apple so you probably are smarter than me, so it's a bit embarrasing to have to point this out to a superior mind, but here it goes:

You and others are building the infrastructure of complete oversight and monitoring of people on this planet. This is fairly weighty matter, agreed?

Do we get a chance to have some input on this, or possibly say "No chance in hell that we'll have coroprations operating STASI International 2.0"? What's your "opinion" regarding that?

In fact, did anyone make a convincing case that we "must" take maximalist measures to "combat" this not quite the plague?

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Copy and paste the world with your phone using AR
I overlooked the ambiguity in saying "I recently read", where I meant in an article in the media, not according to some random gossip.
Based on my observations, too much vacation to take.

State employees with 25 years get 54 days of leave a year[1] and 10 federal holidays. Additionally many agencies work 9 hour days, adding every other friday off, for an extra 26 days. All told, that is 90 days off a year, or more than 1 in 3 work days.

https://www.calhr.ca.gov/employees/Pages/vacation-vs-annual-...
We're not talking about "most things". We're talking about safe working conditions. We can afford them. And people deserve them.
Google's form letter claimed it was a DMCA complaint, but it might have been confused.
The permission is within a XML comment so how sure are you that this would be caught as part of app store review?

Since apps now auto-update each night any one of your apps could theoretically add this code tonight couldn't they?
I don't doubt that the people doing this are competent, doing their best and are aiming for a privacy preserving solution.

But that is irrelevant.

1. Neither Google nor Apple deserve the trust this requires. Seriously!

2. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. You are arguably pushing tons of resources which will directly harm all current and future human societies. It is not what this precedent will do for us during this epidemic, but afterwards. Also, normalizing tracking is not self fulfilling for Google and Apple, not at all...

Thanks for all you hard work?
See: Ian Banks, the Culture series.
Meaning it's not a big deal in any real world way.
I think it’s more likely that smart people understand that speaking out or appearing to be in open dissent to the way amazon works is not a wise career move. Seems like a perfectly reasonable place to expect widespread preference falsification.
100%. Part of what made it so fun to generate the text was that all the usual data points I instinctively use to vet ML-generated text get thrown out the window with Goop. A Goop writer really may have used those seemingly unrelated nouns together and somehow connected them to medicine.
Learn from the countless of people who went before you.
Read the book, A Mind For Numbers by Dr. Barbara Oakley.
I've been there, and am still recovering from burn out and a nervous breakdown.

Corporates can be hell for me.

I used to just want to drive my car into a tree on the way to work.

I was so dead inside. Just nothing going on.

I'm working from home now. But i'm still burnt out and recovering. I have no creativity. Things that should be straightforward seem pointless and repetitive.

When I sit down at my computer I'm filled with a deep existential sadness and find it very hard to do any work at all.

I got nothing, man. Nothing - full burn out.

Chewed up by the system and spat out.
I have done some experiments and it's reasonably possible to cut the average overhead to about 20% or so with known techniques. That said, I'm surprised you'd consider this high. I know of no system, including commercial ones that can even get close to these kind of low overhead numbers. Heck, I don't even know of one (other than rr) that actually works on applications of this complexity. If you have one, you should advertise it significantly more heavily ;).
This is great and I'm glad it is working for you. I think you are about 6 months ahead of me as I now have two Firefox privacy addons and I'm shopping for hardware to build a firewall box.

As I read your comment all I could visualize was an IE6 browser with 8 toolbars. The network stack of the future.
If you read the notice, you'll see that absolutely nowhere did they claim that they owned the copyright to the code. They claimed that the code was being used to infringe on copyrighted works. There are no lies in the notice and no perjury. Nearly everything the notice is factual. The only claim that needs a little support is the claim that PopCornTime's predominant purpose and use is for copyright infringement, but that would take about five minutes to convince a reasonable person.
For me the simplest barometer is, if I'm gone tomorrow, how long they will remember me/talk about me. For people at work, I think it'll probably be an hour or so or maybe a day if I'm lucky (+ when they notice old commits). Helps keep the perspective clear.
To be fair, the cosmological constant is a fair stab at a guess for dark energy. Like, space has an intrinsic property N that's allowed in the equations. That's a decently shaped guess.
I feel you with the pain. It was horrifying.

RE: DDT, I didn't mean to imply it's the only way these days, just that there was a very good reason it was so popular in the former part of the 20th century. I love the tune to "Big Yellow Taxi" but it was never about "spots on my apples." It still is used in very rare and specific circumstances, but we have a lot better understanding of how to stop mosquito. Which is why they're really only a problem in poor countries, mitigation is unfortunately not cheap and convenient.
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Revealed: A man behind the first major computer virus pandemic
> Prison abolition movement will become stronger.

I really want this to happen. In the past decade, we saw the first mass pardons of people in the U.S. imprisoned for drug charges. This would have been unimaginable during the height of the "War on Drugs." This gives me hope that the imprisonment rate will continue to decline.
Heh. I did see it, but that's also the piece with the line "I think I heard Jason say that Dean gave up on the struggle," which sure seems suggestive.
How Druid Enables Analytics at Airbnb
Apple knows how entitlements work and scan every release you try to upload for distribution. The app bundle is signed with an Apple signing key when it goes live, so you can't just randomly change the file once it is on the device.
> All cost based optimisers rely on statistics being correct. And inevitably there will be a case where they aren't.

Every single time the SQL Server query optimiser did something obviously wrong, rebuilding statistics fixed it. The problem I had with SQL Server wasn't its reliance of statistics—it's not like they could work any other way—it's that it failed to maintain its statistics correctly. Any time that statistics stop being correct is a bug. It should be able to maintain them itself and trigger rebuilds whenever there's any doubt about them.
It's not D which us performing poorly here, it's vibed.
Rather look at the benchmark game if you want to compare numbers. Older versions, which did include the better languages
(A wild guess) Maybe he owned a small aircraft which he could pilot himself?
All self driving cars that communicate with each other would dramatically increase the throughput of our roads. In a perfect system, the number of cars that can travel the speed limit is limited only by the number of cars that can fit on a roadway. With humans, we got nowhere near full capacity before a ripple effect causes traffic behind to slow to a crawl. Self driving not only helps the traffic problem, drafting at distances which would be unsafe for humans would also increase efficiency.
They were the first to use nicotine salts instead of freebase nicotine (the standard nic used in e-cigarettes). Nicotine salts are less harsh on the throat, allowing them to basically double the concentration in the juice. This allowed them to mimic the sensation of a cigarette a lot more than other e-cigs.

Double-edged sword. On one hand, it makes it the first e-cig that was a no-brainer for most smokers to switch to, but it also (IMO) makes is as addictive as cigarettes. In my anecdotal opinion, the e-cigs prior to the Juul—due to their lower nicotine delivery, and longer lag time between inhale and absorption—are probably not as habit-forming.
Yes but it's still a significant risk, would you not say? The coronavirus outbreak itself could be described as an outlier event, should we discount it?
This quickly begins to sound like a 21st century “we were only following orders” argument, no?
That's not how that works.

It's also most likely still an undercount. Confirmed plus probable cases are thousands short of total excess deaths for that period for New York City.
That doesn't bear any relevance to application UI frameworks that don't build on top of the OS's UI framework.
if you enable iCloud sync you can just copy the database (SQLite) off your mac. ~/Library/Messages/
The exploit author's blog post on why the extra entitlements work (and how Apple fixed it) makes for a more interesting reading: https://siguza.github.io/psychicpaper/
For any author, I think the biggest joy we have is when a reader writes us and gives us some encouragement or helpful ideas/corrections/suggestions.

Sometimes, yes, it can be a little burdensome if someone dumps 20 different subjective grammar fixes, but even then, it shows someone cares enough about something I produced that they spent the time to give me some feedback about it.

Half the reason I keep updating Ansible for DevOps is because readers keep pushing new ideas or helping fix technical debt incurred by the passage of time in the book's GitHub repo!
I don't understand how convection can increase the time to cool down. It seems to me that the higher temperatures closer to the surface facilitated by convection would lead to faster cooling.