skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OneWheel looks like a fun way to kill yourself. Looking at their commercials even simple routes are extreme.

I've rode inline skates to work, ride kick scooter and bicycle. But it was Heelys stop from 5 km/s to 0 face down on asphalt that was the worst. Quick change of direction - from forward to into the ground. Too quick for brain but hands took part of the momentum. Palms heart, it would be unfortunate to be programmer with broken palms, I was lucky. Stay safe.
Money does not equate to happiness. You met your fiduciary responsibilities in negotiating the best sales price possible for your investors, but you didn’t negotiate for the best life possible during your handcuffitude. Everything is renegotiable if the cost to the acquirer is less than the value of you staying.

Take three days off: call in sick if you have to. Drive a half day away to somewhere else. With a pad and pen, spend the time designing what you WANT to do during your servitude. Work four 10 hour days and enjoy a three day weekend? Get to spend a few days each month visiting the other divisions—-maybe they could use an interim division exec for awhile. Or?

When you return to the office, set up a meeting with the “decider” and show them your finalized list and ask this one question:

“What can you give me on this list to make me want to stay?”

Good luck!
Proposed bills almost never go anywhere [1], so barring something highly unusual, it's best to wait for a state change with more signal, a.k.a. significant new information (SNI) [2].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Oh don't worry folks, it only applies to "terrorists and other bad actors".

God how terrifying, luckily its just 3 arch republicans proposing it, Graham, Cotton, Blackburn.

God knows though during the next national security crises all democrats will be onboard.
Unless it says that credit card companies are not liable for fraud due to intercepted encryption, I would think they would be some of the strongest opponents of this.
"What's the difference between encryption and steganography? You don't know."

Plausible deniability.
The hilarious part is the widespread demand for encrypted communication happened because of privacy invasions by the government.

The Streisand Effect for communication.
"Favor Immutability" - Effective Java, circa 2001

Should not be controversial at this point.
The 1-1/R0 assumes a homogeneous and well-mixed population, and thus overestimates the fraction infected required for herd immunity. For real, people with lots of contacts will get infected and become immune first, with disproportionate benefit. That effect is hard to quantify, but it's near-certainly big, with many papers speculating that herd immunity may occur around 30% recovered:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.20021725v...

This is before considering overshoot, which can occur just as in the homogeneous case (and is a reason to slow the spread as much as reasonable, even if you expect/fear that the end result will be herd immunity from recovered patients).

Reported IFRs are now calculated from serostudies testing for IgG. The best studies are on the high end of your 0.5-1%, but there's reason to suspect they're significant overestimates. Sensitivity for the blood tests was established from cases severe enough to seek medical help, and may be much lower for mild cases. There's also evidence of mucosal immunity in patients who test negative for IgG, and recently of T cell response in such patients too:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.21.20132449v...

And the number of coronavirus deaths is greater than the actual number of excess deaths, since they're disproportionately elderly. All these second-order effects are uncertain, and difficult to incorporate into a final number; but they're real, and to ignore them completely risks a gross overestimate. Maybe people know that, and think of the overestimate as "conservative"; but considering the tremendous costs of both the coronavirus itself and society's response, I strongly disagree.

Finally, since you said "lockdowns"--if you credit lockdowns (which are always vaguely defined; but government-imposed restrictions on movement and assembly, broadly) with all of benefit to the USA, how do you explain Japan? They're sitting at 8 deaths per million, they never significantly locked down, and their contact tracers are missing ~80% of cases. Maybe it's the masks? Even in California, use is waning. No one seems to have the political appetite to enforce the order coercively; NYC just stopped enforcing theirs entirely after an incident.

Maybe it's the contact tracing anyways, since missing 80% of cases might be fine if you catch the 20% who are super-spreaders (which you will disproportionately, since each person they infect is a chance to find them tracing back)? I could imagine big public campaigns to explain the importance of cooperating with contact tracers, or websites to help people anonymously advise their contacts (which have been tried for STDs, which have at least as much stigma). But I've seen almost nothing.

To be clear, I agree that restrictions on movement and assembly were and are a good idea in some cases, and New York and Lombardy surely wish they'd locked down earlier. I just don't like seeing them discussed as if they're responsible for all the difference between our current situation and a first-order model that we know is significantly wrong.
Outrageous is your word. Have you seen the video? The cop full on decks a woman who gives his arm a light push. It's definitely out of line, he's not trying to defuse the situation, he's grappling another woman and is clearly out of control of the situation.

This continues a pattern of excessive force from the dept. From the Justice Department's findings on the SPD:

> Our investigation finds repeated uses of excessive force for charges related to minor offenses, including pedestrian interference, obstruction, open container violations, jaywalking, and shoplifting. In a number of incidents, failure to use tactics designed to de-escalate a situation, led to increased and unnecessary force.

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2011/...
> Flamewar detector I think.

I think the "flamewar" penalty only kicks in when there are more comments than upvotes, which isn't true for this article. Judging by the drops (http://hnrankings.info/23610416/) I wonder if the site might be penalized in some way, so that it decays faster than one would expect. Or perhaps an editorial penalty added specifically for this story, to kick it out of the top spot to make room for a more technical article.
(The referenced article on ACM's website has since been withdrawn from publication: https://medium.com/@CoalitionForCriticalTechnology/abolish-t...)
My electric cargo bike gets across town (with multiple passengers) as fast as driving, always gets the best parking, and can do the Home Depot run. You inspired me to post some photos: https://twitter.com/jchris/status/1275588731353722882?s=21

The bike is a Packster 80. The new ones since I bought mine have more power. https://www.splendidcycles.com/products/riese-and-muller/rie...
A nitpick.

"Positive" and "negative" in reinforcement don't mean "good, pleasant, desired" and "bad, unpleasant, not desired". They mean "something was added" and "something was taken away". Better names would be "additive" and "subtractive".

The term for "good, pleasant, desired" is "reinforcement", for "bad, unpleasant, not desired" is punishment.

So:

Positive reinforcement --> Behaviour leads to addition of pleasurable stimulus. Eg. Press button, receive food.

Negative reinforcement --> Behaviour leads to removal of unpleasant stimulus. Eg. Press button, persistent loud noise is muted.

Positive punishment --> Behaviour leads to addition of unpleasant stimulus. Eg. Press button, loud noise begins.

Negative punishment --> Behaviour leads to removal of pleasant stimulus. Eg. Press button, food is taken away.
Scott Alexander uses "hyper-rational critism" to push race science that borders on straight on bigotry. Even worse, he's allowed a community to build around him that views iq heritability as the main essentialist frame with which to view the world. This kind of mindset is unfortunately common in technology spaces, and the world will only be better as these kinds of people are pushed out of the overton window.
> Don't you think you perhaps have selection bias?

Well, since I literally said "in my experience," yes.

I'm afraid I don't have the energy to do a proper exhaustive study on this topic... Mercury is in retrograde after all.
Chrome does that. If you set a passphrase for sync, then your data is e2e encrypted.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139
He is definitely maximizing whatever damage could accrue to him through his outing, because he is fully into Streisand territory here. Just about the worst conceivable thing you could say, if in fear of being outed to nerds, is "I haven’t always done great" at hiding my identity.

I'm skeptical that there's really much damage to be done to him through disclosure at this point.
If it has to start from scratch, it took fungi about 50 million years to sort out lignin.

If it turns out that existing enzymes just need to be in the right place at the right time, then who knows. 100 years of trash could pile up pretty high.
Ask me that after I help take a dog to the dog hospital. Plenty of dogs, and people, are hit by ebikes. They are particular dangers at parks because, unlike pushbikes, ebikes are nearly silent.
> I don't understand why people are complaining like it's an absolute disaster.

Because like many developers I use Github dozens of times a day and it's a major regression.

It's the equivalent of giving a Chef a blunt knife and wondering why he's complaining about it.
> But this also kind of proves the point of the article that we are quick to stereotype folks who do astrology, when it’s likely a very diverse thinking group.

I don't think most people stereotype people who do astrology.

Some seem to think they display a dramatic lack of intelligence however but I personally am fine with them being a diverse group of idiots.
It's not Open Source, and if it's running in Safari it doesn't have access to any of the APIs I mention elsewhere[0].

I'm sure it's a great extension with a lot of work put into it, but there is no realistic way 1blocker can match the best ad blockers in Chrome/Firefox unless it's hacking Safari behind the scenes to inject new APIs.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23622206
Go

There is a poll HN feature if you are curious
Yeah like Burundi. They ran 300 test.

Only 1 death attributed to COVID, making Burundi the country with the fewest deaths per population.
As a counterpoint, I would say it is a conscious act... but on the part of those who enable and amplify the ideological friction as a for-profit business model.

Providing a public forum by itself isn't bad, of course. The algorithms driving that infinite-scrolling news feed and recommendations list definitely are, at this point.
We're becoming more Orwellian day by day.

And our children's children will wake up in a world that looks like communist China. Where every move we make is monitored, every interaction is scored, and every associate we have implicates us.

Computers are a fantastic gift, but they're being used to turn us into cattle.
No, it's straightforwardly evident from a search of his real name. And, again: one of his best-known standalone pieces was originally published under that name.
These days I'm kinda reluctant to rec reddit due to all the toxic nonsense, but the ebike subreddit has some really great resources, particularly for people who want to do a diy buildup.
My theory is that astrology is the religion for agnostics.

Humans have an innate desire to understand how the world works. If you're not a religious person (for whatever reason) but you still want to feel connected to a higher power, you're likely to turn to astrology.

Like religion, astrology offers a community of people who want to share their feelings and connect deeper with one another. Also like religion, if you take it too seriously you're liable to lose touch with reality.

I think this is why astrology baffles atheists the most. Atheists and agnostics are similar in many ways since they both reject mainstream religions generally speaking, so atheists are left wondering why agnostics have rejected 99% of religions but replaced it with another pseudo-religion.
Running an email server:

Rule #1: Don't do it.

Rule #2: if you must, the only solution I've found that I think is worth it… https://mailinabox.email
Another article blaming something on cis white men being sexist and racist. Men don't dislike astrology because women like it. Men dislike astrology because men like to solve problems and astrology just says "oh it's because of the moons alignment". When listening to someones problems, women will give emotional support while men will give practical support. Astrology is firmly in the emotional support realm and men don't understand it or why people would use it. So they think it's dumb.

Their app got rejected so they've decided to play identity politics to get the decision overturned.

NOTE: I've used stereotypes of men and women here. I realise there are outliers on both sides.
That would be too expensive, unless the emulation in general is ao high not to matter.

If store releases and load aquires were very cheap already why make them distinct from normal one anyway?

I suspect that either the CPU is already TSO in practice or has some TSO mode.
https://www.radpowerbikes.com

https://lunacycle.com/luna-fixed-stealth-ebike/
Yes or even just swap the compressed character order and it still results in interesting somewhat similar texts.
Wow. Monsanto and Bayer, probably? Is this where the attourneys have clients that actually got cancer and they were going to pocket the money and not give the cancer victim anything? I do hope they rot.
Ok, I've taken a crack at changing it.
We're not a pure blank slate.
The CPU booted by GPU is actually very similar to the way that the T2 boots the Intel CPU in existing Macs, providing signature assurance on the microcode, ME firmware, and boot image before the CPU even loads.
What methods and tools are available to the average “power user” to detect and mitigate mobile device malware?

Just reboot my phone every morning?
This reminds me, I should probably do a Segway tour on the National Mall before the last ones fail. Segway tours are a lot of fun.
This is a really interesting question. I know I - and most of us - seem to have a sensitivity to negative social responses, that it's own freestanding emotional response, it's not linked directly to any pragmatic connection to the consequences of that response. Which is why in a mass society, where that avoidance response is not well matched to consequences that sociopathy becomes a superpower.

I often find myself thinking that we either need to create a healthier mechanism for finer grained social consequences at a mass scale, or accept that the future belongs to sociopaths and cancel culture.
It's not in the bill system at "congress.gov" yet.
A new Trump appointee has put internet freedom projects in crisis mode
> First that you take some time to actually listen to the protestors and their complaints.

I have. Please examine your assumption that I haven't.

However, I'm not the one conflating the protesters with the people committing violent acts. The evidence I've seen appears to indicate that most of the violence has not been carried out by protesters, but rather from a variety of extremists who are trying to exploit their cause. I've seen groups of protesters forming perimeters to guard riot police who got separated from their formations, or seizing vandals and instigators and physically shoving them into the police lines so they can be removed from an otherwise peaceful protest.

Maybe you didn't know that. Maybe you thought the rioting and violence was all at the hands of BLM protesters. You definitely didn't seem to know the history of demonstrators openly carrying rifles. But that all leaves you in a very poor position to be misrepresenting my own statements to me directly and asking me to educate myself about things I'm better informed on than you seem to be.
I haven't read the bill, but these kinds of things generally get amended at some point with all kinds of exceptions of which I am sure defense contractors, finance, and maybe health care will be exempt.
To be fair, that means you are not the one paying their bills.
Yes I'm aware of that - good point. I could have included that in my post above to highlight that this word itself has gone through plenty of language change already, from meaning "a number of pieces of artillery used together" to "electrochemical energy storage" to "energy storage." While it keeps most of those original definitions as well - including "to strike" etc. The only definition I don't think has really survived to the current day that I see when looking at its etymology is "metal articles wrought by hammering." Wonderful word.
There is a rising problem in a growing section of society which is characterizing any disagreement with topics popular with the social-justice-protected groups of people as abject bigotry. I am honestly concerned about the sort of developing proto-fascist mindset in the far and not-so-far left wing of politics.

I don't have a problem with Apple banning or heavily scrutinizing astrology or other "fortune-telling" type of apps because it seems like the sort of thing which is ripe for spam and abuse (and lots of low effort low quality submissions). That doesn't mean there shouldn't be exceptions, but I don't feel like any app store owes you placement. It is a problem that there aren't (really) independent app stores, but that is a different problem.
Go for Go.
Looking forward to seeing launch of the beta release at #ApaxheSpark conference 2020!
yeah but in those states it is way too hot to be outside thus people spend even far more time inside than during the winter.

then Americans like their rooms numbingly cold so the AC goes full blast

so there, it actually makes perfect sense

these states got few cases in the winter because the weather was warm and sunny and they spent more time outside, now they are inside all the time in the cold, you get more cases
As far as I can tell, you can't buy Windows for ARM, you can only get a license by buying specific hardware.

Aside from that, most people who want Windows support on a Mac want support for x86 Windows, not the ARM version. So even if it does run, it's likely to be a hobbyist/ hacker thing, not a product.
I think new UI is eyes exhausting at nights...

I changed 2 things and that's the result:

https://i.imgur.com/RU0rsAO.png

Disable:

`border-top: 0 !important;`

from .border-top-0

Set this class to this value:

.color-blue-3
{
color: rgba(3,47,98,.5)
}
Hopefully they will be nerfed and not banned -- there is an effort to get ahead of things with reasonable legislation: https://www.bosch-ebike.com/us/everything-about-the-ebike/st...
Ya I noticed the file list no longer has borders between rows. This makes it harder to scan.
There’s a pretty big gradient between “in a national news article with his name” and “only posts on his blog using tor, from a coffee shop, on a burner device, under a pseudonym, with no personal details revealed” (or whatever constitutes a “firewall”).

At this point, casual observers do not know Scott’s identity. With a few hours of time most people on HN could probably figure it out, but in that same amount of time they’d also probably calm down if they were interested in sending death threats.
We've changed the URL from https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/virginia-attorneys-plead-guil... to an article with more background. Both are worth reading.
A way I could see it work is that you get a series of (randomly generated) statements about who you are. You then go through them, and either say "yes that's me" or "no that doesn't fit". This exercise helps you reflect on your identity.

Then you might communicate to someone else "I'm pretty <trait x> for a <sign a>". Then they know that you have <trait x> and <trait y> (because it is associated with your sign and you didn't reject it).
Welcome to the art of reframing.
At least in the current state of browsers, they all try https:// first. That may not have been the case when the attack in question that's shown in the article was performed but every major browser now checks https:// before http://.
I’m not the one you were originally responding to but it seemed pretty clear that that’s what they were getting at.
In the US, AFAICT "sole proprietorship" is just the label for a natural person doing business; the extent of the registration can just be DBA ("doing business as") so that you can cash checks in a name other than you own.
They've tried: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323539804578264...
It's possible this is why divination and oracles are common across cultures: https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-choose-wisely-choose-ran...
What's confusing about all this is that Scott Alexander [redacted, see 0] doesn't seem to be in any way "pseudonymous." A non-profiled Google search autocompletes this, and then links to numerous fan-driven Reddit threads including talk about podcasts and authors.[1]

Given that his name was already out there to the point where it's trivially discoverable, did he even have pseudonymous status to begin with? I still have to work to recover Dril's name, and I confess I never heard Infosec Taylor Swift's name. But I actually had this name in the back of my head for years now. If an NYT reported had asked me to name him, I probably could have in a heartbeat.

A lot is being said about the transgression of the press here, but if you've got a fan-run reddit where they're using your full name publicly, maybe it's somewhat futile to delete your blog and blame the NYT no matter how much your purported genius entitles you.

I am definitely one of those spooky antifa types that folks here label with derision as the "ctrl-left". If anyone wanted to somehow threaten his safety, they're a google search away. That places him closer to discoverability for most folks than any NYT article which will squat behind a paywall.

Far more likely is that few have bothered Scott or substantially transgressed his safety because he's actually a very small niche blogger with a loyal but admittedly small fan community.

I admit I'm a famously uncharitable audience for bloggers, but I'm much more inclined to think that this entire series of events is either a fit of pique that blew up in Scott's face, or a deliberate attempt to create a controversy to gain publicity.

[0]: I've been informed that as there is a central controversy over if this man is in fact anonymous, the mods are going to err on the side of caution, and so I've re-presented this post with the item redacted even though it turns out all it took to find the name was to let google autocomplete the name, populated from content 7 years old.

[1]: I've screenshotted what _I_ see when I use an incog to search for him on this tweet: [redacted], it turns out even THIS is too much of a concession to reality. My twitter account has the screenshot if you'd like to see it. But it consists of typing "scott alexander"
What were they expecting? That Monsanto (presumably "Company 1") would give then 200 million and hope that they'll call off the lawsuit? What's preventing them from suing anyways? If the legal threat is real, what's preventing others from suing?
It was google, a bad sample of programmers.
"...he's allowed a community to build around him that views iq heritability as the main essentialist frame with which to view the world"

This is complete nonsense. Anyone who has read SSC knows that both Scott Alexander's posts and the comments cover a very wide range of topics. Occasional mentions of scientific views of human biology that don't fit your ideological preconceptions are a dominant part of the blog/community only in your distorted perceptions.