skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some examples that come to mind are paying low level employees such that they need government assistance

In many cases the alternative to paying that amount is outsourcing or automating the job. If the job can be automated for $8/hour then you can't pay $10, or your competitors will automate for $8 and put you out of business. But you can pay $7.25.

And where does this leave the employee? If they were willing to take a $7.25/hour job then presumably a higher paying job isn't available or they'd have taken it to begin with, so their alternative is unemployment, which is even more of a drain on public resources. (Recall that minimum wage was originally instituted as a racist policy to keep minorities unemployed.)

Meanwhile even for the subset of employers who can just pay more without reducing their domestic labor force, wage controls are still being paid for by other citizens in one way or another, e.g. through higher prices. So then the question is not whether other citizens are to subsidize the wages of workers who can't command a living wage in the market on their own, but rather which citizens pay for it. Do you want to put the cost on low income retail customers who then have to pay more for necessities through a minimum wage, or on wealthy taxpayers through a UBI or raising the EITC?

> or situations where a corporation can break a law and profit more than whatever fine they might receive.

This too is sometimes a reasonable outcome. Sometimes a fine exists because it costs society some amount if you do something.

Suppose there is a noise ordinance which imposes a $500 fine if you make too much noise and disturb your neighbors. A company has some equipment which doesn't make that much noise when it's operating but makes a loud racket which violates the ordinance if you hit the emergency stop. Then some idiot drops a bag of screws into the machine and the only way to stop it from destroying a million dollars in equipment is to hit the emergency stop and suffer the fine.

Then they should do it and pay the fine. The neighbors might be annoyed for a minute, but not so annoyed that it isn't overcome by them having to pay $500 less in taxes on net, which is the whole idea.

On the other hand, if the fine was only $5/day and as a result the company was operating a machine that continuously violated the noise ordinance 24/7, that would be a problem -- but the real problem then is that the fine is smaller than the harm, which is a failing of the government rather than the business.
He was no executive. According to his wiki page he "was a technical lead until 2016".
As it should?

You're on a call. You lock the phone. You expect the call to continue right?

This bug is in their new browser. Its in a very early stage. So these bugs are expected
Neither sorting nor notifications require any JavaScript whatsoever. As an example, old Reddit has sorting and notifications and handles them all server-side with no JavaScript required. “A better way to read multi-page discussions” is too vague for me to comment on.
> This is the best youtube client, bar none. It keeps local history and "subscriptions" without requiring you to log in to google.

Isn't it funny how one man's feature is another man's bug?

Not supporting logging in with a Google account to keep subscriptions and history synchronized across devices is exactly what disqualifies it from consideration for me, and I suspect I'm not alone here.

For those like me there's YouTube Vanced, which is almost an exact clone of YouTube except without the ads, allows you to disable a bunch of distracting "features" like info cards and watermarks, and with the ability to use MicroG in place of Play Services for the actual logging in with Google feature: https://vanced.app/

Isn't it great that we both have the ability to choose the YouTube replacement app that works best for us despite Google technically "owning" the platform though? This is why I love Android. (EDIT: Re-read this and realized this could be seen as inflammatory. Really did not mean to start a platform war. Just glad that Android is a choice that's available to those who value this kind of thing.)
> Yeah, and it's their problem up until the point at which the situation is unrecoverable without you, and even then it's still mostly theirs, but I would have a lot of hangups about acting in a situation like that.

It's business, things fail. The problem is that people have come to accept that things shouldn't fail has made it so that it has built up to the point where it is today. Id call this environment Dirac-delta solvency.
Gandhi Was a Racist When Young. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma (2016)
That won't happen soon, as there are too many people in the US government whose salary depends on this not happening.
It's Mullvad with a different UI.
That's it.
> Nobody wants to try to turn around a bankrupt company at their old salary

I'll take it a step further. Even in Chapter 7, you want to retain certain key people so debt holders can get the best return. Sale of assets and negotiating debt won't go as smoothly without those people, and the process could be tied up in bankruptcy court for years.

It's a job only specific people would do well it, and it's a job no one wants, hence the high pay.
An example of dogfooding your own product is actually a bad idea?
Stolen access token after 2fa had been entered.
If you are interested in this subject, look into samaritans.

They are a closely related group to jews, but probably had less Babylonian & Persian influence. Their version of the Torah ends with Solomon. To this day, they maintain a religion similar to old temple judaism. High priest, sacrifice, etc. Their Torah is written in the native hebrew script. Jews switched to an assyrian script at some point.

Nehemiah (book in the bible) was the first pacha, persian governor of jerusalem. Religious & conservative fanatic, persecuting samaritans and annulling mixed marriages.

In any case, the samaritan torah has the same account of abraham as the jewish bible. It's still possible that Persian or Babylonian beliefs & characters were adopted, especially abraham. But, that would have had to happen long before cyrus. Samaritans also have abraham and the divine land grant.

I assume you mean the "nile to euphrates" boundary. It's actually very hard to tell what those parts are about. First, it's not actually clear those are the rivers... especially the nile. Second, there are no other passages that relate to this territory. Nehemia doesn't mention or pursue them.
It’s funny, because HK protestors have engaged in “violence”

(It’s also funny that it’s only called violence when normal ppl do it, and not when the state does it)
Unless I missed your sarcasm, this post is an excellent example of how economists and pooiticians can set the rules for how many people think in decades to come. They'll really start to behave in the ways prescribed by theories of toy models if you don't tell them anything else!
That is exactly my worry the moment I saw they were not verified. Nation state could drop a grand per account and get data on 8 activists no problem.
He's known politically for ending racial segregation.
This isn't entirely true, though. SARS-CoV-2 is much less virulent than SARS or MERS.

For a virus that recently crossed the zoonotic barrier, and even moreso for one crossing from bats, it's virulence is actually astonishingly low.

Therefore, the hypothesis of a two-stage crossing to humans, from bats to a larger land based mammal and then to humans is much much more likely, because this would explain high transmissibility due to the necessity to infect despite small lung volumes, as well as much lower virulence.

Therefore, the pre-existing hypothesis seems to match reality more closely than an accidental release. A virus being engineered to be an order of magnitude less virulent seems unlikely to say the least.
Can you name one large service/platform provider where this hasn't happened? We know the likes of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, et al have had similarly idiotic causes to go down. I'd either give them all of my business or start betting against them as their day is due.
Also, in case you haven’t noticed, we are not even remotely “locked down”. If you go downtown where I live (and in countless other cities in the USA) you will find people out horsing around, ignoring stay-at-home, eating at their restaurants, shopping for their khakis, and basically pretending the virus doesn’t exist. Traffic has not changed. People aren’t wearing masks (despite a statewide order). And where is enforcement? Nonexistent. I’m not convinced we can do a national lockdown because no state has even managed to implement a statewide or even citywide lockdown.

We have powerless leadership, proclaiming half-assed and unenforced orders, more worried about saying the right things than doing the right things.

If we were actually serious about beating the virus, downtown would be totally empty and I wouldn’t hear constant traffic and human activity from my backyard.
Some of us are seeing effective contact tracing. The most effective step here, I believe, was requiring at-the-door call-backs to verify numbers given by people going clubbing.

(We're currently running 11/million new cases per day @ 3,2% unemployment. At one point our per capita case rate was much worse than that in the States.)

https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2020/03/27/coro...
Assuming, of course, that Netflix lasts 83 more years.
The issue is that even if you use a yubikey, there has to be a way to recover the account if the yubikey is lost damaged. This means that someone has to have the ability to reset the 2fa of an account, meaning that if someone can convince the support person that has that ability, they can change the 2fa.
I mean, some things shouldn't fail. I would have less qualms about all of this stuff with a strong social safety net, but we don't have that in the US.
The issue is that SARS-CoV-2 is much, much less powerful. So that doesn't really follow.
Never be a starting assistant professor then.
> The coronavirus is so useless when viewed as a bioweapon

Considering the how it's playing out in the US, it looks like a great bioweapon for an civilian attack. A big chunk of the population is old enough to be at risk of death. Another non-negligable portion of young people develops long-term disabilities (which is even more crippling to the economy than short-term deaths). And as a nice side-effect of how bad job security is, millions are now unemployed.

If you were to construct a civilian bioweapon you want to target against the US, it almost looks like you would have new playbook now. I very much agree though, that it's extremely unlikely that it was developed and planned in that way.
All games have loops within loops within loops! :)

The best games have a layering of loops of different frequencies, which complement each other. That's what gives games that "one more turn" feeling, if at every turn you're confronted with multiple decision points with different result horizons. So at every point in time, some decisions ripen and are ready to collect, while others require attention but will have payoffs at very different times in the future.

Edit: for roguelites like STS I would count a single run as the core loop. Especially in the presence of metagame, the benefits gathered during any single run add up, and make the player that much more interested in coming back and giving it another try.
I wonder how long this is going to stay up ?

Google can't be too happy that people access their service without paying either with eyeball time for advertisers or money for Youtube Red or whatever it is called today
...Of 2009.
Being tech lead of something as big as self driving effort at google is being an executive.

It’s not reviewing pull requests and being nit picky about code quality. It’s running a huge org.
Two Minute Papers: Can an AI Learn Lip Reading?
The thing I just don't understand is why gain research would take the effort of making the virus much less deadly. This virus is around ten times less deadly that SARS, wouldn't gain research at least maintain virulence?
Apple to remove, replace non-inclusive language in code base
oh wow, I need to go look at how this works.

The people that created pocketcast implemented the same feature and as I remember it it is pretty wild implementation wise.
Do you have a link to the studies on ibs being caused by hypersensitive nerves? Just going through onboarding in the app and was curious about that.
What industry sector are you in?
> You are getting downvoted for your political statement.

Technically, I'm being downvoted for asking two questions that challenge someone else's political statement (that aligns quite nicely with the general politics of HN).

> I really wish the parent comment kept out the last bit because the conversation then devolves to red/blue, left/right, white/black.

Me too, I completely agreed with the first part. I have this thing about about people dropping dimensions of reality and pretending they are irrelevant, or predicting the outcome of events on parallel dimensions of our universe, and stating those predictions as if they are facts. I consider this sort of rhetoric as part of the problem, but most people seem to overwhelmingly prefer it nowadays, provided the proper claims are made of course.

> How do we fix it?

This seems like the important question to me as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be a very popular topic of discussion.
> I mean, some things shouldn't fail.

This is just asking for rude awakenings. History is full of these kinds of events of where people thought things shouldn't fail, never prepared for them, and they did.

> I would have less qualms about all of this stuff with a strong social safety net, but we don't have that in the US.

No one lives in an environment where one can miss-allocate resources indefinitely or under assumptions that somethings can never change.
Yeah but actually building the proteins is the non-trivial and most difficult step. It is not sufficient to merely say that it could be done.
Levandowski & Ron behaved like common crooks.
Federal Agents Unleash Militarized Crackdown on Portland
Ignore what people say and just write everything yourself.

https://jsfiddle.net/4qkpLw3c/

ghee, that was hard????
Honestly? I'd rather see more ads that are irrelevant. Ads are already an attempt at manipulation. I would feel better knowing that everyone else is seeing the same shit I'm seeing. That I'm not being pandered to. That there are things that are valuable to others that I have no personal value in.

That's part of living in a diverse world.

I don't know about you, but I don't want a myopic world for myself. The perfect ad targeting system removes my agency; decides what I want and can afford on my behalf; makes my world significantly smaller.
Here's the Krebs link, who claims to have identified the exact hacker behind it:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-e...

Vice Motherboard interviewed the hacker, who claims the Twitter employee was paid to hack the accounts for them:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-ac...
One line of code completes a website:AOK.js
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Thanks!

There hasn't been any research that I've found around increasing adherance to diets but it makes logical sense. If hypnosis amplifies CBT and increases the ability to learn then it make sense that it would help changing the attitudes and perceptions around behavior.

For IBS specifically, it's thought to work on the gut-brain axis by improving motility (i.e. the speed of transit of food through the digestive tract) and reducing gut sensitivity (a large portion of IBS patients have visceral hypnersensitivity). It has also been shown to improve psychological functioning by reducing levels of stress, anxiety and depression which often act as IBS triggers and worsen symptoms.
Co-CEO, like a boat with two captains. Full four-bars right away would have been too obvious.
Look, when most virologists/epidemiogists look at this "evidence" and consider it too flimsy and flawed, then I wonder why people here are so eager to jump on it as "I'm not a biologist, covid19 is so unusual, it's obviously man-made". HN is embarrassing right now.
so they were being actually very nice caring for his wellbeing instead of money
Not yet, sorry - I'm still running 32 bit Raspbian.
Unsurprisingly one of those is in a city of 19 million people next to a reservoir of coronaviruses that already caused epidemics.
UK plans millions of coronavirus antibody tests after trial success
He actually planned to create a church of AI named "Way Of The Future" following the model of Scientology, and have all AI professionals potential members benefit from certain american church tax exemptions - "The documents state that WOTF’s activities will focus on “the realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed through computer hardware and software.” That includes funding research to help create the divine AI itself. The religion will seek to build working relationships with AI industry leaders and create a membership through community outreach, initially targeting AI professionals and “laypersons who are interested in the worship of a Godhead based on AI.” The filings also say that the church “plans to conduct workshops and educational programs throughout the San Francisco/Bay Area beginning this year.” - https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-i...

Also from the same article - "Just as important to Levandowski is shaping the public dialogue around an AI god. In its filing, Way of the Future says it hopes an active, committed, dedicated membership will promote the use of divine AI for the “betterment of society” and “decrease fear of the unknown.” “We’d like to make sure this is not seen as silly or scary. I want to remove the stigma about having an open conversation about AI, then iterate ideas and change people’s minds,” says Levandowski. “In Silicon Valley we use evangelism as a word for [promoting a business], but here it’s literally a church. If you believe in it, you should tell your friends, then get them to join and tell their friends.”

But WOTF differs in one key way to established churches, says Levandowski: “There are many ways people think of God, and thousands of flavors of Christianity, Judaism, Islam...but they’re always looking at something that’s not measurable or you can’t really see or control. This time it’s different. This time you will be able to talk to God, literally, and know that it’s listening.”

Levandowski says that like other religions, WOTF will eventually have a gospel (called The Manual), a liturgy, and probably a physical place of worship. None of these has yet been developed. Though the church was founded in 2015, as Backchannel first reported in September, the IRS documents show that WOTF remained dormant throughout 2015 and 2016, with no activities, assets, revenue, or expenses.

The religion’s 2017 budget, as supplied to the IRS, details $20,000 in gifts, $1,500 in membership fees, and $20,000 in other revenue. That last figure is the amount WOTF expects to earn from fees charged for lectures and speaking engagements, as well as the sale of publications. Levandowski, who earned at least $120 million from his time at Google and many millions more selling the self-driving truck firm Otto to Uber, will initially support WOTF personally. However, the church will solicit other donations by direct mail and email, seek personal donations from individuals, and try to win grants from private foundations.
It is a false claim that the Covid-19 outbreak started from Wuhan. Scientists from Spain, Italy and Brazil have independently reported the detection of the coronavirus in their city waste water samples dating back to early 2019.

China was the first country to detect the existence of the coronavirus, but it does not mean the virus started in China. If a country announces the finding of a new virus, it makes that country a whistle-blower for the mankind, not the scapegoat.
Downloading files faster by tweaking headers
> People will always kill and humanity has always had murderers. Embrace this with compassion, not intolerance.

See how that "always been like this" logic doesn't make any sense? I have yet to hear a coherent reason why drugs should be decriminalized or legalized.
Piggybacking on my own comment, I'd love to hear if anyone has ideas on how to block Ads on a Chromecast...
I would've thought that HN of all places would understand that oss isn't the right solution for every project and that downvotes like this for someone just saying they might not make their work open source is ridiculous.
A "typical dose" is 40-60 mg, lasts 45 minutes, and leaves you wanting more. A coke addict will need at least a gram no matter what they're doing, hence why a gram is a benchmark for coke use.

Nobody is going to drink 10 cups of coca tea every 45 minutes. They're going to pop adderall and hit the bottle.
Yeah, no worries you can read a study about the role of visceral hypersensitivity in IBS here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056566/
Adding Mithril.js to the list :thumbsup:

Thanks for reporting the issues we will look into it. How to you install a Chrome v68?
Of the five salient points they make here, I would argue that they are a lot less strong than the authors believe them to be.

Point 1 can also likely be made for the original Sars-CoV, and probably is irrelevant. If they show CoV-2 is more human like than the earlier, then they can begin to make the point.

Point 2 is a gigantic leap of faith - I don’t understand how they connect amino acid inserts into the sequence to gain of function experiments. It makes no sense!

Points 3 & 4 are related: The extra charge on the RBD. If you look at the previous virus, it has a much smaller positively charged patch, and this expands in CoV-2, which makes an evolutionary drift in this direction entirely reasonable. It’s not a wholesale integration of a brand new feature. This charged patch is actually important for binding to heparan sulfate, which gets involved with a bunch of viral entry events (eg AAV, Chinkunguya virus, some other coronaviruses I think). There’s a few recent preprints that discuss the HS relationship with Cov-2, and can go a long way to explain the tropism of the virus. The HS can overcome lower expression of ACE2, by possibly supporting the attachment.

Finally, point 5 is where they throw out DC-SIGN as a receptor. While there are high mannose glycans on the virus particle, I don’t know of anyone proposing this as a receptor for the virus. There is no biochemical/experimental evidence that they show to support this idea.
MIT researchers warn that deep learning is approaching computational limits
Yes, probability at work in nature is capable of such a thing, as improbable as we may find it.

Also there are probably trillions upon trillions of copies of the virus by now, one in a billion isnt hard to imagine.
I'm from grumpy part of Europe, I would say with specific disappointed expression "it was OK" meaning it was definitely not OK
No, I haven't misunderstood the conversation; I'm not interested in it at all, just in one specific point about what Pinker specifically wrote.

I guess that's not what you want to talk about, but I wish you wouldn't reply to me if you don't want to engage.
Not $8k right? $1k per hacked account - which would thousands + the narrow targets?
They say the attackers reset passwords on the accounts. Any competent engineering team would have a complete list of those events in logs
Glad to hear it was useful!
In an interview with the hacker by Vice Motherboard, they claimed they had an employee on the inside doing all the work, and they just paid the employee to do it:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-ac...
I hoped to see an old, twisted olive tree (something like https://i0.wp.com/www.fondazioneterradotranto.it/wp-content/...)
DHS Official on Reports of Federal Officers Detaining Protesters in Portland, OR