skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine there's some way to, because the kernel is able to apply ASLR to the dynamic linker itself.
IIRC, Zoox was out fundraising. From the employee perspective, a guaranteed gig at Amazon is better than being laid off. Equity value was probably a sunk cost at this point.
On the other hand, money earned from streaming vs money earned from CD sales (especially a few decades ago) is completely incomparable.

If selling CDs through a store could earn you (using simple but realistic numbers here) $100k per year, and Spotify streams to the same audience size earn $1k per year, it’s not unreasonable to expect that Spotify should add a hell of a lot more value on its end, perhaps in the form of driving listeners to artists — especially if Spotify possesses the means to.
The coffee house WiFi is logging your MAC for the oppressive regime you live under. One night you get disappeared for being disruptive.
Emoji Domain: .ws
Reality is constructed by your brain: optical illusions and fMRI imaging
I did look at magic-wormhole, but it's difficult for non-tech people to use since, IIUC, you need to use the command line.
Note that this article is from 2015, which predates the Gawker redesign. That's almost certainly a broken link.
I think we need to make it a lot cheaper to run cables like this: I don't understand why we have to dig up roads to lay cables. Why can't there be a shared conduit for cables underneath or beside a road? It can be included in the initial construction of the road, for example.
In academia, it's often so hard to get a job you'll take that place that offers you one, no matter where it is, so you can get started. The thing that bugs me is that article is just laid out in a painful way. It's like a fluff article that has just a few things to say but shreds the short version and fills out a much longer space.
You also have felony disenfranchisement in the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_t...
Uber's Arbitration Clause Ruled Invalid by Canada's High Court
>>who I thought were exceptionally intelligent

what made you think that?
Indeed. And worse they can then become an excuse to hide racist policy inside. Racist governor, buys racist software, to drive racist policing, loved by favored racist constituents, "It's not my administration, it's the software, algorithms are objective, black people are the problem...".

Maybe systemic racism is a feature of these systems, not a bug?
I had a similar experience a couple years ago with a $2k MacBook Pro, except they did the whole spiel.

“No, please! I want to give you money. Can I please give you money now?”
Windows Server does do these things[1] - but don't worry, it's all for our own good: "Windows and Windows Server diagnostic data gives every user a voice in the operating system’s development ... For our enterprise customers, representation in the dataset ... is a real benefit."

(.NET, which you might run on a Windows server, also has telemetry enabled by default unless you set DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT to 1.)

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/configure-w...
Absolutely, it is quite likely bogus. I would love to know if the website really meant to connect this to climate change, and if so what the mechanism is.
I've been wondering how I can get a feed of some of the memes and similar posts that many other users on FB are seeing and sharing.

I had a couple of 'friends' on FB that shared many doctored/half truth kind of things and I would ask questions about the validity of these things and if they believed them to be true or fake / funny and if they believed the people on their friend's list would think they were true or false..

well we are no longer 'friends' on the fbk, and now I want to see what these other folks are seeing / believing / sharing kind of things.. not sure the best way to get this info that other places seem to have no trouble finding.

how do I get a list of 'hate speech' things and other fake news / hihgly shared stuff that fbook people are sharing at volume?
Err... I think you're taking an extremely narrow job market view of a PhD... ie., one which is actually useful for a job market.

Sure, in some research-driven and high-complexity industrial areas there's a very severe shortage of talent in general. You don't get programmers being paid 200k without a real-terms shortage, let alone programmers with PhDs in, eg., algorithmic research.

My point was about the university system, as a closed system. That is what the OP comment is talking about.

The only use of a cultural criticsm PhD is a job teaching that subject. There aren't any.

Last time I checked there were TWO job openings in the entirety of the united kingdom for a postdoc job requiring a philosophy PhD.

The university is, at this point, just a scam. For almost all students. The 1-5% who get some use out of it, and who always got some use out of it, should continue to go.
This is a cultural clash. In some culture it's a no no to tell you donate or how much you donate.
less than $200 and more than 24 hours if they're outsourcing it to any of the many sequencing providers out there. Still, less than a week total
If Apple was going to bother with backwards compatibility, they would have it done before shutting down the old version.
Exactly. My questions were and are a polite way of expressing skepticism.
Am I weird for not wanting fiber run into my apartment?

Sure it makes sense for ISPs to use it for infrastructure but the link from their switch to my equipment should be made of copper. It’s so easy to mess those cables up and having a contracted fish around in your walls just so you can have your <1Gig connection back is stupid.

When I first got a connection here it took the guy an extra few hours to deal with exactly this kind of problem.
With 5G, I think there's even less motivation for ISPs to provide fiber to those out of range. To the point where they'll just jack up the installation prices until no-one bothers them anymore.

At least that's the feeling I'm getting now. A friend of mine recently moved into a new building, which isn't too far from a fiber central. It's also out in the suburbs, so no extensive infrastructure like you'd find in the middle of a city...well, he requested a quote, and the company said - "hey, it'll cost you around $20k for [short stretch], but we're also offering wireless broadband for only [2-3 times the price of fiber, and 1/5th the speed)"
Well years ago the joke was Amazon sold at a very small loss but made it up in volume, and we can see how that turned out... Maybe they're going to blow up this business model as well!
The hyped services that you mention, probably not.

However, investing into an Office 365, FastMail or even G-Suite subscription and a domain is absolutely worth it.
Don't you just shift things down the road, now you need to buy BTC, in UK I think you need a bank account (to setup PayPal, say) or phone number (to buy a disposable payment card).
I'm not trying to pick fights with experts or claim there there is some hidden agenda to inflate death counts, I just want frank discussion of the data. Now, from the CDC methodology you linked,

"For COVIDView, the percentage of total deaths occurring in a given week that had pneumonia, influenza and/or COVID-19 (PIC) listed as a cause of death is calculated. PIC deaths are identified based on ICD-10 multiple cause of death codes J09-J18.9 or U07.1. PIC is being monitored in order to provide a more accurate representation of COVID-19 related mortality than would monitoring COVID-19 alone. Deaths due to COVID-19 may be classified as pneumonia deaths or influenza deaths (deaths due to “flu” or “flu-like illness”) in the absence of positive SARS-CoV-2 test results. The combined PIC categorization also prevents double counting of deaths"

The death rate from Covid-19 includes deaths from other causes that have similar symptoms. The reasons for this are good, it's very difficult to identify between these diseases and lumping them together probably gives a more accurate result than relying on confirmed cases. There's no malice here, it's just a very difficult problem to work on, but it's also a methodology that should be likely to give a high side estimate. Then from there, they calculate excess deaths [1], which I was able to find through your link (thank you). Outside of New York/New Jersey and Massachusetts, I don't find a high disparity in the excess death ratio that supports the idea that there is significant under reporting of deaths.

You can find cause of death vs year on their charts at [2] and most of the excess deaths are from cardiac arrest or dementia. Now, that could be caused by Covid, except if we go to New York where Covid has been by far the worst in the US, you see a huge jump in respiratory deaths directly lining up with the peaks in the reported Covid cases. So are more people having heart attacks? Is Covid causing heart attacks? Are people unwilling to get treated at hospitals for heart attacks because they are afraid of Covid? These are unanswered questions and it could go any which way from what I understand. The data appears to be out, and I think it will be out for a while which is why I don't feel comfortable pushing the idea that we are under-reporting deaths or over-reporting deaths because I think that we don't actually know.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm...
Psalm is great, it's my favourite with phpstan a reasonably close second.
About PyTest
Went in to a MS store just once ever. Before I go in, I always ask myself what have I not seen in windows already? Touch screen with a windows, not very hard to predict how it is same as using a pointer. That VR demo? I’m not gonna wait and look stupid. Maybe they failed to sell intrigue compared to Apple stores. Their products has mystique to it when they first come out and you always want to try it.
The query language here looks eerily similar to what we use for our ORM in Node.js. It's called Sequelize (https://sequelize.org/) -- how does this project compare / what are the main differences?
Blazor&Dragons How to consume gRPC-web from Blazor – part 2: the server
There are a few cities in Idaho that have municipal broadband. Might not be locations you're looking at, but worth noting. I believe Ammon and Idaho Falls are two of them.
Tiny pendulum may reveal gravity’s secrets
Lawmakers propose indefinite nationwide ban on police use of facial recognition
The system is truly evil. There are so many non crimes that are enforced, then in the process of enforcement, the police escalate situations. Drinking a cold beer in public on a hot day? That's illegal. So, they're going to reach out and grab your arm, you reflexively pull away. Okay, now you just assaulted a police officer. That's your 3rd felony charge, life's over for you.

Using software to find easy targets like this, it's despicable.
Drug use is consistently found to be about equal between White and Black Americans, or higher among White Americans. Yet arrests and sentences for drug use are far more frequent for Black Americans than for White Americans, presumably because higher policing.

Wherever you drive in America you will find drug abuse. But if you focus on any one area that leads to more arrests there, increasing their crime stats, leading to more policing, leading to more drug arrests, ...

https://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/rates_of_drug_use_and...
I have no idea, I don't have experience with Babel. As mentioned in the release notes, this change makes TS conform more closely to ECMAScript, so I don't think it's a bad decision. But it would've been nice to get some warning or error when trying to stub an ES import, rather than the silent failures
It would be nice if you cared about things beyond $$$ and worked on code for the sake of code.

Try listening to only amateur musicians for a month while you work. You might come back with an appreciation for just how much effort and money is required to produce the art you personally care about.
CNBC has more details: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/26/unilever-pauses-facebook-and...

> In a recent memo to advertisers obtained by CNBC, Facebook’s VP of global marketing solutions, Carolyn Everson, said “boycotting in general is not the way for us to make progress together.”

Well, yeah, that’s the point.

> “I also really hope by now you know that we do not make policy changes tied to revenue pressure,” she said in the memo. “We set our policies based on principles rather than business interests.”

What an absurd statement. This is like Google saying “Privacy is at the heart of everything we do.” It comes off as disingenuous, desperate and embarrassing.
Increased thunderstorms is a fairly straight forward consequence of more heat in the atmosphere. Thunderstorm formation is basically enormous thermals/dust devils that keep growing. More heat == more vigorous thermals == more thunderstorms if the atmosphere is primed to create thunderstorms. Yes there is more to it, cumulus clouds form, convection sets up, etc, but the basic mechanism of a heat source triggering a convective storm is pretty well developed.

Obviously there are a lot of variables at play so it wouldn't surprise me if there are not well conducted studies at this point.
Totally agree here. I live in a building that only has Time Warner (ya, didn't think about the ISP before renting my apartment.....). Every week I lose internet for a day or two. Internet is a public good and should be treated as such...
The writer forgot to mention the most important barrier - Basic economics.

Last mile infrastructure is always a winner takes all market.

Even if all the barriers to entry are removed, you won't have 20 different providers competing in a single city. Only 1 or 2 providers will survive. This is because operational costs for running your own lines will be constant, but you will always have only a fraction of the customers if you are competing with 20 other providers.

I've commented on this topic in a previous HN thread. But I believe the solution to the problem is a bidding system. Companies bid to build infrastructure. And companies bid to maintain it for short period of time (3 years).
If we have to give that up to save 1.35 million people's lives a year in car crashes then it's worth it.
I use VS Code remote development via SSH to a $5 a month digital ocean server, and it’s so incredibly smooth and easy. You would never know it wasn’t local. I’ve been using Windows for decades so I’m very productive running windows on the desktop, but I prefer to use Linux on the server. VS Code remote over SSH is the perfect combination for me. For someone who loves macOS the situation should be exactly the same, regardless of whether they are on ARM or x86. If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend giving it a try!
I don't have a link handy but it's around 15% of the total prison population who are in for drug offences.
It almost likely will be remote-friendly due to covid, no?

Also, with -$25k/deal they can fund 6 startup where they could found 5 before.

So remote-friendly = less cost, +20% batch size at the same cost. It makes sense to me.
A better way to do this analysis would be to build a Linux distribution with everything statically linked and compare to the normal version with dynamic linking, looking at disk space used, startup time, memory used, and time to launch specific applications both cold and hot.
What is the claim when data is said to include systemic racism and bias? Is it that race data does indeed predict higher crime but that biased policing causes the crime rate to be misreported as higher because police only focus their attention on certain areas? Is it that police actually cause crime due to racist beliefs so that they must in some way entice crimes to be committed? Is it that crimes are equal between races but they go under-reported in some areas and over-reported in others due to systemic racism? Some or all of the above? What would controlling for racism involve doing?
The not wearing masks things was terrible, because it seems like they probably recognized there was some benefit but they wanted to reserve them for health workers. That what I always thought and I'm not alone. The WHO seems to have a series of flawed statements (like the one recently where they made a misleading comment about asymptomatic people). It's like the who needs to hire a competent pr agency. If only they had said "there's some protective affect by wearing masks but we want to prioritize health workers getting ppe while we ramp up manufacturing".
Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
I have mid 2012 MacBook Pro and I am about to change my workstation. I stopped looking at MacBooks - in my opinion nothing justifies such high price. In mid July new Thinkpads with Ryzens 4000 will be available, I'm going to get one.
In Germany, Confronting Shameful Legacy Is Essential Part of Police Training
That's why I said:

>> TBH we probably shouldn't be importing PhD students in the humanities or over-saturated STEM fields (looking at you, Pure Math).

But, tbh, this isn't even about fields, it's about spending 5 years developing hard-to-find research skills vs. spending 5 years indulging one's curiosity/taste.

CS has its own version of "useless phd in Great Books/crit theory", and I've worked with philosophy PhDs who wrote more code for their dissertation than the average CS phd student.
I think the solution is what the developing countries have done: the national government just install the cables, then rent out the infrastructure to private companies to compete/service.
> Last year we were installing conduit for our fiber optic network. There were countless instances where people would literally stop their cars, roll down their windows, and yell profanities at us. In what world is that acceptable behavior for an adult?

People hate infrastructure. That’s the only explanation.
I like to start typing whatever I'm looking for, in the browser bar. There a list will be populated with "suggestions" which I like to use (arrow down) to extent my search query and add some more words.

Safari expects me to "arrow right" or my (more or less) carefully crafted search will be auto removed (since the text will be "selected"). I fall for this x times per day (probably says more about me then about safari). Chrome will allow me to move to one of the suggestions and happily append my text without the need to "deselect" the text.

But there are more "usability" issues with Safari:

Why is the "x" to close a tab, on the left instead of right?
Why do I need to press the ALT key to get the option to open a link in private mode (after a right click on the link)?
Why can I not drag a URL to a bookmark folder directly?
Why can I not re-attach a browser window as a tab in an open window?
I might be missing something, but couldn't you do this already without relying on DNS prefetching by just attempting a CORS request to an arbitrary subdomain (the subdomain being the data you wish to exfiltrate)? I would expect the browser to do an OPTIONS request to the URL, thus resolve the subdomain.
My impression is that Spotify only pays royalties to songs that get streamed for over 30 seconds. Presumably if you skip a song early this is a feature used in its recommendation algorithms. Not as strong as an explicit dislike but I would guess if you keep skipping songs you don't like they'll get penalized.
Not an administrator, but an onlooker during that period.

Before Wikipedia had any explicit policy re. Tor exit nodes, their IPs would typically be blocked anyway -- either under longstanding policy regarding open proxies, or as a result of spam/vandalism edits originating from the IP. Automatically blocking all Tor exit nodes wasn't a huge change in practice; it just meant that the process was automatic (so new exit nodes would be blocked more quickly, and old exit node IPs would be unblocked automatically), and that the block messages for users on those IPs became more informative.
Rust vs. Crystal with Redis
That sounds awesome. Do we know of any photos or videos of this event?
I certainly am skeptical of the idea of victimless crimes, for the reasons you say. But theft isn't a victimless crime, even if you're stealing from a large corporation and not a mom-and-pop store. I think it's hard to seriously engage with the idea that theft might not be a bad thing.
As unjust as the results/motivation of this are, the law itself does not vary based on the person committing it.
Of course if the law is bad, the solution isn't to dismantle law enforcement, it's to fix the law.
Crime rates nationally dropped also during the same time - and not all areas had the same analytics. It's really not clear if the reductions were from the NYC stats or in particular "agressive" law enforcement.
Their assets are their name and the landing slots, plus a running airline. Landing slots have some intrinsic value. I expect to see a lot of airlines go bankrupt. We have too many for next year or two.
Safari 14 will support WebP
It has nothing to do with a lack of capability of the older machine. They just decided it wasn't worth the effort to support the model of wifi chipset present in the older models, effectively killing them off.
I've been using Gmail for 14 years but I switched to Fastmail earlier this year. My suggestion would be to start using your new email whenever signing up for anything, and any time you get an email to your Gmail account, go and update that account with the new email. It's a slow process but its working for me. I also ended up going through my password manager and just manually updating my email on certain sites. Eventually the emails you get to your Gmail will slow down.

At this point most of my email in Gmail is just promotions which I don't really care to carry over.
I think a lot of people would use and enjoy level 3, but some people would have a real bad time.
You don't even need an air freshener in the car. On a Friday night you could very well get pulled over because "your tail-lights weren't on" e.g. the cop is fishing for a DUI even though you were driving fine. When you turn out not to be drunk, the cop writes you a ticket but don't worry, all you have to do is show up at traffic court to get it cleared! Never mind that the car's light switch was set to "auto" the whole time and if the headlights were on, the taillights were also on...
Huh?

Insurers in the US haven’t been able to deny coverage for preexisting conditions for some time.
> “What this study shows aligns with what many people across social sciences find, which is — in a world characterized by structural racism — market mechanisms are often going to reflect and reinforce structural racism,” she said.

Exactly.

> “It’s important not to equate correlation for causation, ..." an Uber statement said.

It doesn't matter. No one is claiming that Uber or Lyft are intentionally factoring race into pricing. It's an artifact of structural racism. Still, it re-enforces the existing system. We know that it's expensive to be poor. And we know that Blacks are disproportionately poor due to centuries of racism.

So what could Uber and Lyft do about this? They'd could for example use a progressive pricing model where wealthy riders subsidize poor riders. I have no idea how you'd go about doing that. It's hard to piecemeal address systemic problems. Or they could just use taxi pricing.
I don't know your particular situation, but there are places you can buy bitcoin in cash. At least in the US, this doesn't need a bank account or phone number.

Googling suggests you could try https://coinatmradar.com/
I think your sentiment is probably in the right place, but the last thing we need are "aggressive law enforcement" officers.
First we claim that dynamic linking does not provide any memory savings because the libc we used is small, and later on we use our lack of dynamic linking to justify having a small libc. Smart, very smart.