skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The script for this scam hasn't changed in years! Here's Kitboga with the same scam over 2 years ago: https://twitter.com/kitboga/status/1009830578407997440 (it's almost always 22 pounds of cocaine)

Here's the same scam from his stream 3 days ago: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/668914814?t=5h4m20s Abandoned Toyota Corolla on the south border of Texas with blood, _exactly_ 22 pounds of cocaine, cash. Multiple bank accounts and addresses registered with your SSN, funds wired out of the US.
It's a nice thought, for sure. I think people would generally use it only to hang out and relax with their friends though. People, for the most part, don't want to sit down and get into an intense discussion/debate over controversial topics with someone from "the other side". They'd much rather be around people with whom they agree.

I could see it being useful as something of an intermediate between traditional online video games and offline gatherings involving food & boardgames. I don't see it being used as a primary mode of communication though, for the simple reason that it demands too much time and attention. Text messages and email occupy that space because it's so convenient to pick up and drop them at any time, even with a half-read message or a half-written reply. With VR that means putting on your gear every time, and resuming the "VR video" or whatever.

Heck, tons of people complain when video talks are posted without slides/transcripts. They want the information. They don't care about any other aspects of the presentation. VR in that case just seems to be more distracting stuff that gets in the way of the information.
> The action by the Federal Reserve has been lauded by investors for easing conditions in credit markets after they rapidly deteriorated in March, avoiding a potentially catastrophic corporate cash crunch that could have triggered a wave of bankruptcies.

I wonder why BKR is in the list, it does seem to have a strong balance sheet and no need for a credit lifeline like say PM that does have for example negative equity.
Of course, the point is that by bylaws the CAs themselves agreed to, in their own BRs, they're required to revoke the certificates within 7 days. It's a SHALL requirement.

The CAs can't have it both ways: a BR balloting process that they rely on for moral authority when disputing that the majority of deployed browsers have added new security requirements (like shorter-lived certificates), and BRs that they ignore when they screw up.
> Most software developers make far more than a living wage.

This is a strange way of thinking and an absurd baseline. Most software developers have also gone out of their way to study, keep up their skills, etc. Why would you think "making more than a live wage" is a good thing -- perhaps the comparison should be the value they are adding? If all those years studying for SATs, struggling thru tough CS courses, grad school, GREs, etc get compared to earning a living wage, why even bother?

Also, I grew up on a "living wage". Living wage means your kids dont get braces. They go to schools with gangs. It means wearing shoes with holes. It means you skip doctors appointments because your living wage does not cover the deductible or copay. It means you cant get a review book for your SAT and you need to chip in with friends to share a review book and allocate time among yourselves.

SWEs: If you've busted your arse to get where you are and add value, dont fall for the "remember you're making more than living wage" argument.
it's a critique on the discussions, not necessarily the book/author.

i'm saying i expect more than some shallow dismissal of flipping burgers being so obviously bullshit to people who bang on keyboards, which is a dismayingly large proportion of most of these discussions, as well as the shallow solution to UBI all the things to fix it.

if it's not obvious what the value of a job is, whether or not it could be solved another way, then you're losing your compassion and empathy for other human beings, their lives, and their livelihoods.
I read it as "instead of doing anything people will just have their burger while they can"
FYI, the layout is unreadable on mobile Firefox (on Android fwiw; looks fine in Chrome).
Imagine a market where there is one food delivery company rather than ten:

a) at a restaurant, rather than having ten different delivery people pickup, One person can pickup ten orders.

b) 10x more consumers means that the average distance between deliveries shortens.

It’s not going to be quite this efficient but directionally more scale means more efficiency.

In addition, less competition means that Uber can charge more for their services.
About the purchase of large amounts of gift cards; it’s not as uncommon as you’d think. I worked at a grocery store customer service office and it wasn’t uncommon to have people buy thousands of dollars in gift cards as giveaways or prizes for events. No questions asked, really. The store was very eager to pocket that money.

There should certainly be more checks and balances around that. Perhaps a personal limit, and requiring a registered business to be the purchaser above that. Or perhaps a redemption system.

But the incentive is not there for the stores. It’s of course better to sell gift cards than the equal amount of merchandise for them
> I admire Harvard's transparency, although having a multi-billion-dollar endowment does make this decision easier for them than it would be for struggling institutions.

I think a lot of this comes from their having waited until now to make a decision (which they feel comfortable doing because, as you say, they're sitting on a billion-dollar endowment). My university has been engaging in a lot of mixed messaging, but I think a lot of that came from feeling rushed to make a quick decision, not so much from an attempt to deceive people (although I'd be surprised if there weren't also some tacit understanding that it's easier to tell people what they want to hear now and change it later than it is to tell them to wait until later and then give bad news).
This is important to understand when moving through the early stages of a project.

Many projects go through a clear prototype stage (where a lot of disjoint things are written, like a set of utilities to print out information on a file based on the format spec, make files with hardcoded content, etc.), then a system starts coalescing, and finally it's released.

The problem I've encountered is when the prototype is too good. It's an 80% solution, it seems to do everything that's wanted, but the people who wrote it (contractors/consultants/too expensive older devs) aren't the ones who are tasked with finishing the last 20%. The original developers may have understood how to create that last portion with what they'd written, or they may have intended to throw it away [0].

The new developers don't know what's present (and so recreate a lot of existing capabilities), don't understand how to extend it properly (so a lot of copy/paste when the original devs laid out a nice extendable system with generics and or interfaces or whatever the language provides), and the whole thing turns into a mess. This communication between developers is critical, but usually absent.

[0] "This is more of a proof of concept, it does everything you want for converting two file formats between each other, but doesn't scale yet because it's all 1-to-1 mappings, we are working on the intermediate representation now that we have a firmer grasp of what's needed."

"Oh, that's fine, you guys can go work on the next project we've got a crack team that can wrap this up."

"...Ok, thanks for the money."

The crack team never makes that intermediate representation and just creates 1-to-n mappings between each format. The explosion in code size becomes unmaintainable, most of the mappings are the result of copy/paste, and bugs proliferate throughout because, while fixed in one section, they don't realize how many other places that same bug resides in.

EDIT: For the record, [0] started off short enough to be a footnote then grew to be too long for it, and I forgot to edit it properly when I came back from getting a glass of water.
The point is that if you have multiple ad slots you can cover a wider range of buyers. For example, the chances that someone would click on a 5th grill accessory ad is probably pretty low if they didn’t click on any of the previous 4. But if they’re thinking of returning the grill they already purchased, they might be interested in a different model. Averaged over all buyers, the best strategy might well be to show a mix of accessories and other models.

Or, depending on the numbers, all grills or all accessories could also make sense. My broader point is that it’s perfectly possible the best strategy doesn’t line up with people’s intuition, which is why we use ML for recommendations in the first place.
If Autodesk had not profited from sales to these types of people, would they be in a position--or even exist--to provide their helpful technology for more noble efforts?
Nice touch that deleting letters descends chromatically. Letters typed appear unrelated to notes generated, you can type the same letter and it will keep generating different notes.

Also, it seems it will never resolve to the root, no matter what you type :(
For example you can check if clipboard has an URL, and if exists you can use it. Checking part would not trigger privacy alert. Actually it is documented way of doing this.
That number isn't something the CDC have said.

The CDC report lists a number of planning scenarios.

> Are estimates intended to support public health preparedness and planning.

> Are not predictions of the expected effects of COVID-19.

> Do not reflect the impact of any behavioral changes, social distancing, or other interventions.

The number you're quoting is derived from (but not quoted in) one of the scenarios, which is described:

> Scenario 5 represents a current best estimate about viral transmission and disease severity in the United States, with the same caveat: that the parameter values will change as more data become available.
> We have about five deaths — less than five deaths — that we know of that are related to obvious other causes.

That's a strange phrasing. Less than five? Did they forget the word "four"? Or is it three, two, or one? Why beat around the bush if they have a number?

I get it for bigger numbers, if somebody refers to 997 of something as "about a thousand, less than a thousand", I get that. "nine hundred ninety seven" is a mouthful. But "about five, less than five"? Give me a break.
Fine as long as your parents aren't beginning to go senile when such instructions will just be confusing and/or completely forgotten.

There might be better protocols - make sure all their cash is in the bank, set a per store per week limit of £200 on their cards, require your/siblings authorisation to make larger purchases?

But then there are things like their pensions, who they move their phone/internet account or other utilities to, so much opportunity for malicious people to commit fraud and deception; companies aren't motivated to help as it often reduces the companies income.
You failed the test. The Gradient is not biased, the data is. This was of course LeCun's point... This is pure foolishness
You don't have to trust Sleevi (though: you always should); you can just read the BRs. The revocation requirement is in this case black-letter SHALL.

https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/CA-Browser-Forum-BR-...
Capitalisn’t: Should Luigi’s Pizza file for bankruptcy?
Most relevant part:

"Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status. If not, they may face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings."

I wonder if the Harvard decision today will be modified in response to this. I imagine their international students, especially in graduate studies, must be highly impacted.
Human Communication
Are there codecs that require high compute (Threadripper) for encode but can be easily decoded on a Snapdragon ?
user: you=
me: -txt
Asking for our real nick or handle or screenname whatever you wanna call it....
I'd like to see the Hello World and Fibonacci example in the top of the main page of any language.

Also, does the Fibonacci example in the docs work correctly with a negative number?
For this reason, I wonder if near-zero interest rates and corporate bond purchasing will ever end in the US. If it continues, isn't it kind of like the government supporting these large US corporations in the similar way? Encouraging them to take any contract or spend on any investment that returns more than 0% in interest?

I'm not saying this would be "good" or "bad". I imagine it would be bad for smaller companies, but good for larger ones, maybe good for American competitiveness in world commerce (for a while) but could be bad in the long run because we'd be committing to a race-to-the-bottom price war with a competitor who has a lower bottom price than we do.
A tiny portion of Python's total execution time.
All you have done is make the case that the data was biased. A mathematical function is not racist.
The brand must go on.
In fishing isn't it a question of volume? IIUC trolling is moving very slowly/wakeless with a small number of lines, and trawling is a big net that catches everything?
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You are very lucky to live in a country where you can't even imagine that's an option. In countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, ... doctors won't see you if you can't pay. In some places you even have to provide donor blood to be able to get an operation! Leading to nightmares like this:

https://www.wired.com/2011/06/red-market-excerpt/
Yea, some of those are hilarious to watch actually. I can't sit there for that long. But I would say on average I can easily waste 10 minutes of someone's time while still getting work done on my side.
Is OLED burn in worse or better than Plasma?
In Unix files are pointers to pointers so you can have multiple files pointing the the same thing (hardline).

You can’t do this in Windows and that’s also why you can’t delete in-use files or directories with files inside
I want to the script on how to convince a rational thinking person that paying the government in Target gift cards is a thing. That's nuts.
> As you mention, the article you link says that the majority of HKers want to be a part of China. That's where I'm getting that from.

There's certainly a contradiction there. I'd attribute HK public opinion against independence as recognition that they're geopolitically unable to exist as an independent country, and a desire for the perceived next best thing (which they really did have until recently), and not as any actual desire to be controlled by the PRC. How else do you explain public opposition to the national security law?

> I do believe China could do better in terms of securing individual liberty for their citizens, but if that comes at the cost of its sovereignty, then obviously some concessions have to be made.

And I'm not sure how Hong Kong's previous autonomy (or any other freedoms) would come at the cost of the PRC's sovereignty? If the CCP wanted to hold democratic elections tomorrow for all territory within their military control, then they could do it. Inertia being what it is, they'd probably even win! No outside force is preventing the PRC's government from responding to the will of the mainland's or HK's people; but instead, Beijing is transitioning from the pragmatic sort of technocracy that Deng Xiaoping introduced to plain dictatorship. The end of Hong Kong's autonomy is just another step down that path.

Finally, countries express opinions about the affairs of other countries all the time. The USA exists in part because of French meddling in a British colony. Everyone likes to do it, and no one likes it when others do it to them. As long as it's happening openly, I can't get too upset either way. America is certainly flawed in many important ways, but I can express those ways openly without fear for my personal safety, and that free expression has historically resulted in what I consider positive change. Something close to that used to be true in HK, and now it isn't. I suspect that became inevitable with the handover and with Xi's self-coronation, but I think it's a great loss.

ETA: And I'm not sure whether it's by coincidence, but your points closely track Beijing's usual talking points against the USA (sovereignty / "internal matter", incarceration rate, etc.). If you don't mind sharing, where did you develop these beliefs?
No, it isn't. The article specifically describes the robots packaging the final product.
As far as I can tell, nothing you wrote addressed the post you responded to.

The claim was that deaths having been going down. They have for 90 days. We know that deaths lag diagnosis by 7-14 days.

The out of control growth "side" has lost it's credibility.

>All the things we DO know tell us this is bad and it’s going to get worse before it gets better unless people start taking it seriously.

Deaths is the most accurate data we have and it shows us things have been continuously getting better for 90 days. Of course we are not out of the woods, and should continue to implement reasonable controls.
It’s a tax efficient way to return the money to shareholders
My biggest complaint is how apps have permissions to “pull” stuff from the device rather than the user getting to “push” only what they deem necessary. Simple example: why does an app need access to all my photos? When I want to share a photo, clicking the share button inside the app should open up a system dialog for me to pick which photos I want to share — and the app should only ever have access to those!
HDMI, VGA, 3 USBs, ethernet, and apparently 20 hours battery life! What's not to like?
Just wanna say I love this video. Thanks for posting this.
I think it may be more of a "blue sky" research type thing. Not practical now by all means - human eyeballs are better. But in the future, if the use case becomes such that automated CT detection has a market...someone who invested in this early would hold the patents, copyrights on the libraries, etc.
You ignored my question.

>Show me one field (that does rely on the person's ability not looks) where there are more women in the higher ranked positions and more men in the lower ranked positions.

Nursing
That's not quite how the grid works. Consider a case where you wire two AC motors together. You spin one, and the other one spins. That is kind of like how the grid works; many loads are AC motors that spin at the line frequency, and generators try to also spin at that frequency. If the load on the motors increases, the load on the generators increases. Eventually there won't be enough energy going into the generator to spin at the nominal line frequency, and the motors attached to the mains will spin more slowly (and correspondingly use less power, and output less work).

This all becomes more complex when the loads are switch-mode power supplies and the generators are solar panels. The flywheel project adds some smoothing to the grid, as spinning generators are replaced with DC devices. But the principles are the same; without any extra devices, electricity has to be generated at the exact instant that it is consumed, and the consumers have a large physical effect on the generators.

(Frequency is not proportional to voltage in general, only in this spinning-generator connected to a spinning load case. You can obviously switch DC on and off at whatever frequency you desire, and a perfect on/off cycle consists of infinitely many frequencies at various amplitudes.)
In a way, distance learning is a much more valuable skill though. Young people have this illusion that they go to college and in 4 years be "done" with learning. In STEM fields today that's simply not true. The learning doesn't end when you get a diploma, and college is just the beginning.

Self-paced, asynchronous learning is where things are going to go, IMO. MOOCs aren't quite it, but they are a move in the right direction.

Also from the page:

> Tuition will remain as announced for the 2020-21 academic year.

LOL. $50K/yr for a glorified MOOC.
Game console manufacturing definitely is low-mix compared to cars, but it's not like they're stamping out spoons: depending on how you count, there were something like 19 revisions to the PS3 motherboard, as Sony worked to reduce chip count and shrink PCB size: https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Motherboard_Revisions
Approaches, but very slowly. Jumping from 1000 zones to 10000 zones might seem impressive, but it is still pretty far cry from 8+ million pixels of a typical 4k screen.
That's a nice riff on the original:

"Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all." —Ecclesiastes 9:11

To understand where Ecclesiastes is coming from:

In the wisdom literature, books like Proverbs will typically state the common case and it's Ecclesiastes that will state the exception. This keeps the wisdom literature balanced as a set of principles, not rules.

The Hugh Keough quote is a great summary then of the main point, which I won't restate.
C9 is still pretty new, isn’t it? My C6 burn in is awful.
I'm a big fan of kitboga, he's got a twitch and youtube channel. The scammers constantly ask for gift cards. It's amazing to listen to, especially when you think about the vulnerable segments of our population who fall for these scams.

There's websites where you can buy "used" gift cards and I wonder how many of these are cards from scammers that are now turning them over for cash.
Imagine if San Francisco had not been lumped in with Oakland!
Preferring seniors to attend the campus and all you fees to stay at home and learn remote is illogical. Seniors can finalize their exams much easier from home than juniors who do need the campus and direct contact with many. Seniors only need their advisor.

But I never thought that Harvard can think logically.
Scammers do.
There are plenty of flying models of various airliners. Some of them are quite detailed, though none with the incredible interior detailing this 777 has.

You could put a lot of detail into a model that was intended to fly, but you wouldn't want start off with something intended to be a static model.
Ask HN: What do you think international travel will look like from now on?
I'm especially curious about predictions for this year. Do you think we will see another globe-wide travel ban around October 2020? Why?
Apple's claim, which seems reasonable, was that they were slowing down phones on older batteries to prevent surprise shutdowns which were otherwise becoming very common. They did totally botch communication.
The largest grift in US history is taking place while we're failing on the entire point of these programs: to prevent unnecessary deaths and suffering.

We're going to end up with a huge amount of debt, a financial crisis, and the most deaths of any industrialized country at the end of this.