skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Pinker apparently has said, and is a popular opinion these days that I see all over the place, which some people see as extremely racist and others don't, is that police killings being proportional to arrests is evidence against bias in using deadly violence, given there is an interaction in the first place.

It seems like a complete non sequitur to me, is the problem. Even with strict framing where you don't look at/think about bias in the arrests. One can imagine a world where anywhere from 0% to 100% of killings were justified, but regardless having the exact same number of deaths. The casualty number logically tells you nothing about whether any of the actions were appropriate or necessary.

So rightly or wrongly, it makes sense to me if a lot of people think nobody could be this obtuse and assume bad faith. Especially when, you know, it's someone widely believed to be smart.
full disclosure: I've met Amal at a couple conferences and talked to her a few times, but don't claim to know her extremely well.

I have no particular reason to doubt the factual claims she's made so far (NPM employees laid off / pushed out due to COLA salary drops).

Given that, I would say her resulting statements are pretty justified.

I've never been in a hiring position, so I can't speculate on how that would make me view things from that angle.
So the company is run by people who enjoy privacy? It seems weird to frame that alone as an argument against a company which deals in Virtual PRIVATE Networks.
This kind of definition naturally leads to this kind of result: https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/Life%20as%20we%20know%20...
Worth mentioning about another civil rights leader whom we had lost few months ago - Elijah Cummings.

Edit -

I was waiting for Obama's statement, and here it's - https://medium.com/@BarackObama/my-statement-on-the-passing-...
Big loss at one of the most pressing time in American history. Here he is advocating non-violence and peaceful protests and wishing well to the people of Hong Kong: https://twitter.com/RepTomSuozzi/status/1187375246204162053
Lots of people are forgiving of criminals and don't end up dead. Don't try to make an axiom out if a single, extreme data point.
Interesting perspective.

Note to author: it might be worth moving the "How are CEOs failing software engineers?" section to the beginning of the article. With a title like "Why are CEOs failing software engineers?", the first thing i want to know is how the CEOs are failing. Only afterwards do i care about the why. This felt a bit like i was thrown head-first into a new framework for classifying types of management before I could figure out whether or not I wanted to learn about it.

Aside from the structure, really interesting piece!
OK, so what's the problem?
I think this is a matter of semantics as the article does describe what you're saying.

> Part of that comes from the length of the higher-level game loop.

> If you recall Pico Tennis, the essential activity is hitting the ball back and forth. But the higher-level game loop is the rally.
I wonder why they didn't just create a Volt brand alongside Cadillac and all their others. Then to make the next Hummer an EV seems like a misguided recycle of the brand.
I ran a blast query against the cov2 glycoprotein that binds to human ACE2, and it just pops out of nowhere in 2020. There is a difference of like 30 amino acids from anything that came before, which is much too great to be explained by the coronavirus wild mutation rate of 1 nucleotide every thousand years. So, possibilities are it is a strain that has evaded researchers till now, some natural phenomenon vastly accelerated its mutation towards infecting humans, or it is genetically engineered.
The President's Hero
Plenty of them do. Graham is smart enough not to, because the net gain to his life would be negative.
This sounds a lot like Erlang
> not all bugs are security vulnerabilities

I think to make such a claim you need to specify attack model constraints. With an unconstrained model all bugs in a library are in fact security vulnerabilities.

This does depend on a very narrow reading of what constitutes a bug, for example I would not consider it a bug per se if a function does something that you wouldn't expect (and which perhaps the developers didn't intend) but does strictly match the documentation.

The problem is that the application software developer may depend upon documented features of your library in ways you didn't anticipate and if those documents are wrong (because of a bug) then you can't be sure it hasn't got security implications somewhere.
Blender Runs on (Linux) Pinephone
Feynman is making a joke which people who understand priors would get, but you’re using the punchline as if it means something.

If Feynman had guessed the plate number before seeing it (say, written a research paper identify the exact number ahead of time) then something miraculous indeed just occurred.
Who said there was a problem? We had certain priors on corruption and contested the .org sale on the grounds that these guys were corrupt. We pushed for the California AG to investigate ICANN and they did on the grounds that these guys were corrupt. Turns out they were corrupt.

This is just the loop being closed. Our posterior probability of corruption rises only a very little bit because most people observing and participating kinda expected this.
Also weird is Fauci both promoted this sort of research and oversaw the funding line that went to the Wuhan lab that funded a very similar research in 2019. My theory is this is an accidental lab outbreak, and Fauci is advising because he knows the cause and is trying to undo his mistake.
MSDN – Blast from the Past
Why would anyone care about the DM history of OG accounts? I believe that it is more likely to be politically motivated.
Finkel – Haskell Lisp
Quite interesting research. Wondering why Chainlink are not dicussing it or disproving the issues pointed out.
Eliminating duplicate JavaScript objects: Three approaches
The ideology is the common-causal variable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...
And they also have less incentive to stay because these are supposedly people who could provide the same work for other companies in similar situations at the same or higher prices. I find myself in this situation right now: ill stay on at higher prices if the company wants to renew its contract, or i'll leave for another place (I have more people emailing me for work than I have before the pandemic and I'm not on any social media and don't have a personal website).

In an environment where businesses have been operating on massive leverage for years, there's a fight brewing over who is going to get cash-flows and who will not, this obviously extends to workers who have outsized impact on whether any given business will stay open or file chapter 7/11.
Sounds dreadful. My best to you. What is the soap for?
> An illness that lasts two weeks and then goes away

Two big assumptions. This is true for many, but between this and death we also have people sick for months or with possibly permanent health damage. We also have completely asymptomatic cases. It's a spectrum, not few specific outcomes.
By the way, if you try making bioweapons this way, there are automated systems that will identify it and send the black helicopters instead of your package.
Wow - so real dollars!
Disgruntled employees aren't necessarily the least biased sources one can find
> Exfiltrating DMs seems like it's going to accomplish just about as much, if not more.

Nobody is communicating anything valuable over Twitter. This is such a ridiculous point that people bring up all the time. Scandalous relationships? Most of that will be on true messenger applications. Business deals? Business email. Many more mainstream prominent people don't even run their own account.

It's not that everyone is so security-minded, it's just that Twitter is an extremely inconvenient way to maintain personal relationships.

> I think the Bitcoin scam was also the perfect innocuous cover story

There is almost no value in DMs. Funny seeing HN speculate about these elite hackers selling them as if there's any market for them, let alone one that would pay $100k+.
Other guy said it but looks like the scientists figured that exact thing out...
This does not sound like an improvement over the status quo to me.
I'm keenly aware of the disparity. However...

- If we do not keep the highly paid senior sales rep, we're going to have no customers and thus... everyone gets canned.
- They are objectively better off leaving for another firm, where they don't need to worry about impending doom. So we need to provide an appropriate incentive to prevent them from breaking ranks and screwing everyone else left behind.
- The humble factory worker or customer service person doesn't have that same kind of impact on the whole....

Any moral conversation ultimately becomes a discussion about why someone with objectively better and safer options should continue to work for a company that is paying them less than market. Unless everyone else is willing to work for reduced salary / benefits and promise not to quit, that's not a morally tenable position....

Personally, I'd love it if people acted for the greater good. That's not going to happen here, unless you want to restrict people from changing employers and force them to show up to work...
> None of the eight were verified accounts.

So.... Lowerclass plebs we don't care about as much? It's funny they admit this.
You say that as if the reason the UN and the world have a mostly unified drug policy isn't because of US strong arming.
Diamonds coming out of a mine is of course no surprise. But let’s look closer at these “diamonds”.

It’s said that diamonds are like snowflakes as each one’s minute imperfections make it absolutely unique.

So in this case we have a diamond mine pumping out “natural” diamonds but turns out they all have a very specific structure which exactly matches a manual published a few years earlier on making lab created diamonds which are almost indistinguishable from natural ones.

It might lead you to suspect that the diamond mine in fact provides the perfect cover story to ship as many lab-made diamonds as you want and sell them with the natural diamond markup.

I have no way to gauge for myself how definitive these genetic abnormalities are, but if they’ve found published research painting a trail directly toward these specific unique and highly unusual sequences which are also specifically responsible for the extremely contagious nature of SARS-CoV-2, then I think at least we are beyond the simple fallacy of believing “mines make diamonds”.
Except that Nim doesn't allow double-underscores, which show up from time to time in C.

Compiling var my__thing = 10 yields:

Error: invalid token: trailing underscore

Which is actually my biggest complaint about Nim. The error messaging is terrible, as are some of the decisions around the standard library. There's a good amount of bad and Windows-centric language there, unfortunately. Functions in the standard library like "setCtrlCHook" https://nim-lang.org/docs/system.html#setControlCHook%2Cproc...

Overall still a fan of Nim. Unlike many of the people in this thread, "marketing" is not a concern to me. I don't expect to ever program with Nim at my day job because "marketing" programmers are too dogmatic these days. Day-job languages are always going to be hypelang_2020 + dogma_patterns_v3. I very much like that the Nim community feels underground, is small and active. I hope it never suffers from the influence of modern dayjob programmers, but this is because I've seen the fun sapped out of other communities. A selfish desire, if I may.
ROFL

The republicans are going out of their way to convince people that they can’t trust the medical system or doctors, and healthcare is unnecessary.
Comments like this really derail an otherwise civil and interesting discussion.
I worked with Alexey on this project. It’s pretty straightforward to filter out bots (either before send, or in analysis later). For our traffic, it was mostly commonly known bot user-agents.
I’m also pretty sure malicious bots get blocked by Cloudflare before hitting the Cloudflare workers.
Not everyone is equal in that analysis.

And in a financially constrained endgame, you have to make choices about who to keep and cut.

Cutting that senior sales executive will cost 20 other jobs due to lost business and downstream implications.

Cutting the factory worker costs zero other jobs.

The harsh reality is not everyone matters equally.

[and to be clear, I'm not talking about bullshit deals just because someone was "loyal" to the CEO. This is real talk, people who actually can deliver a path to group survival]
> More importantly, the current president didn't spend the first 3 years in office replenishing the stockpile and didn't take an offer from a former mask manufacturer very early in the outbreak to increase the production rate.

Obama behaved no differently.
It's rather amazing he listed his own name for EthosCapital.org. A poorly orchestrated attempt at a crime against knowledge.
You want to go back to 90's?
> It's possible to have an immoral result without any individual doing an egregiously immoral thing.

I disagree. Better terms might be structural failure or misallocation of resources. Is death by aging immoral? No, it's just the consequences of many moving parts.

We should still improve the system where possible, but calling something like this immoral implies that a witch-hunt is in order.
The convincing justification is only one part of the argument.

The other part is about freedom to challenge contemporary adtech and digital business models.. ie. Compute on my terms.

Content creators and YouTubers are welcome to not serve me their content if I don't accept their trackers.

It's not only about affording a modern smartphone: all these digital behemoths rely on us keeping up to date to their tech standards, chasing the latest phone, the latest firmware.

Software like newpipe lets us engage on our own terms.
It would be nice if you could sort subscriptions by date. Last time I used it, this wasn't possible, making the entire subscription functionality useless.
Intelligent design is kind of stupid because life is clearly not designed very intelligently.

The "evidence" that sars-cov-2 is designed with a guided purpose is kind of there in the paper, though. And that we as a species (and the bois in WIV) clearly had the capacity to do so.
Yeap, that's specifically what I also implicitly meant by "Spread your name servers" (besides having them distributed). To use this technique, you also must have a "Business" account with Cloudflare ($200/mo), so to leverage their ability to front your websites using CNAMEs : )
I think it's more people taking what a court calls 'evidence' and declaring it 'scientific evidence' - sure they both use that same word 'evidence' but they are quite different things and shouldn't be mixed
I'm sure any American Government support for electrics pales compared to what the Chinese government is doing but isn't government investment a great thing? That's what every sane country with a car industry should do :-)
I want to know how they social engineered an employee at a 2FA-enabled company into bypassing 2FA.

Was the employee able to disable 2FA for their own account?

Was the employee social engineered into adding someone else's 2FA key to their account?

Did the employee read a 2FA code to the attacker, and that somehow enabled all the evil things the attacker did, without any additional checks or 2FA codes?

Did the attacker hack the employee's system and MITM their 2FA code without their knowledge? It doesn't sound like it, because that wouldn't be social engineering.
BGP is a fitting name for such a distinct plane of computation. Indeed the border where any remaining physical concerns are cut loose and reality melts, receding behind a shroud of gateways, giving way to the vast expanse of cyberspace. Traffic whirls past. Raw elemental ether flows with abundance in this region. Any wizard who happens to experience even brief exposure to it normally considers themselves lucky. But to be enlisted to serve as a warden of the border, whether punishment or honor, is a a responsibility most high. BGP is either the final, or the primal, abstraction depending on which side of the gates you most intimately inhabit. And the task of maintaining it a meticulous and manual art.
Of course they’d have to. Regardless of all the cries about free speech, people will instantly turn against Twitter when, say, 4chan gets #paedophiles trending.
Kanye West and Elon Musk have absolutely nothing of value in their DMs. Anything you could do with access to Musk's DMs you could do better just by tweeting as Musk.

There is no value in Twitter DMs.
Btw., the biological inspiration is now in a way reversed and a huge networked cluster of ARM nodes is currently used to simulate the brain in the SpiNNaker Project [1]. This project is headed by Steve Furber at Manchester University, one of the inventors of the ARM processor (with Sophie Wilson).

With more than a million ARM9 cores and about 7 TB of distributed memory this is a bit of a different scale than a cluster of Raspberry Pis, though ;). SpiNNaker also reminds me of Dan Hillis' Connection Machine [2], but taking advantage of 40 years of progress with Moore's Law...

[1] http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/architectu...
[2] Hillis, William Daniel, The Connection Machine, Ph.D. Thesis, MIT Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1988 - https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14719
Instead of "pandemic virus appears down the street from a viral research lab", it might be more accurate to say "pandemic virus has first documented human outbreak in a province whose capital city is a metropolitan area of over 19 million people and also has a viral research lab." Wuhan is bigger than two New York Cities put together -- and it's not at all impossible that the earliest cases actually came from outside the city but were treated in Wuhan. (A report from the South China Morning Post in March, based on unpublished government data, was that "a 55-year-old from Hubei province could have been the first person to contract Covid-19," and the description of him as "from Hubei province" rather than "from Wuhan" is at least suggestive.)

If China's BSL-4 virus laboratory was set off in the countryside in a "little" town of 50,000 and the outbreak started there, the paper's argument would be way more compelling. If we could even reliably trace a "patient zero" to a neighborhood near the WIV, then, again, maybe. But we can't. All we can say for sure is that a dangerous global pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus started in a huge metro area (or its surrounding province) that's also the site of a BSL-4 lab specifically set up to study dangerous global pandemics caused by novel coronaviruses. The paper's conclusion is, well, pretty much the paper equivalent of archly intoning "that would sure be a weird, ironic coincidence" and staring meaningfully into the camera. I mean, yes, it would be, but that's a little short of a slam dunk.
Thank you for this synopsis! It's been several years since I've had the time to really dig into the (extensive) prior work in this area. You've given me some great links!

I have the smalltalk blue book on my shelf and have always, always wondered about the possibility of bringing back some of the radical ideas from the 60s/70s/80s in a language like Ruby (being popular). Live objects and snapshots are the two that I was most enamored with way back in the day, but I'm sure there are lots of others.

This isn't terribly old (2014) but would love thoughts on it (if you have any!). It's a prototype of a smalltalk-like "System Browser" implemented in Ruby and Qt on OS X:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xC5B5t5Rq8

The idea is that in the same way that Clojure is a sort of "improved" lisp on the JVM for performance reasons, syntax enhancements, and access to the standard library of Java, I see no reason why Ruby couldn't be the same thing for Smalltalk. Access to the ruby standard library, bringing an interactive live environment to a vibrant programming community and prioritizing interoperability with the modern world (as opposed to much of the smalltalk world which still sort of sits a "world" apart)
It's not "linux" it's "GNU/systemd"
Its more about trust. I trust them to try their best to be benevolent
I’m pretty sure Twitter is still (mostly) working from home like all the other tech companies in the area, so a physical proximity requirement is out. A VPN requirement could work; in theory there’s no reason a VPN login is any more inherently secure than the login to whatever admin panel they’re using, but in practice VPNs can help centralize security policies across many applications. (I have no idea what Twitter’s systems look like, though.)
Oops, good catch - thanks!
That was beautifully written.
So if I'm reading this right, there is still no such thing as a standard graphics API. There's OpenGL, there's Direct3D, there's other hardware-specific APIs (Metal and Vulkan are mentioned), and now Qt is inventing their own API to abstract over all these APIs.

How is having a standard API to draw 3D graphics not a solved problem at this point?
Open source e-Reader app for Android
What exactly does an investor get in exchange for their money when they purchase common stock? Generally not dividends. Generally not assets. Generally not liquidation. Book value is meaningless in these scenarios. Every business fails eventually.
99.9% of the email hacks was uninteresting. 0.1% was nothingburger. That wouldn’t stop it from dominating in the media, especially with a trickle feed strategy. Google the whole ‘Spirit Cooking’ thing as a good example. Completely nothing. 0% interesting. Stupid enough to be idle Twitter DM chat. Did it hit the media just before the election and blow up? Yup.
For sure. And how did the hackers access the Twitter backend from an unknown IP? Surely Twitter has that locked down. My guess is the hackers managed to gain access to laptops of remote support staff and controlled them with Teamviewer type software. Going remote for covid might have made this all possible.
Don't take this the wrong way kvark, but is Vulkan Portability really the long term answer here? Do we want everybody to be writing Vulkan code? It's unfortunate that due to the mess of tilers, Vulkan got way more complicated than it likely should have, a lot of stuff wasn't properly thought out (i.e. pipeline derivatives, framebuffers, push descriptors), and we're even walking back a lot of the "atomic draw" promises with e.g. VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state. Even D3D12 had its allocation APIs pretty badly neutered, leaving is in this pretty suboptimal place.

I love the promises that Vulkan in theory provides but in practice the gains haven't been as bold as we thought they would be. Explicit APIs have less lies than the older ones, but still are pretty far from zero.
That can't be possible, CF's website explicitly says that their DNS is "always available" with "unparalleled redundancy and 100% uptime"! ;)

In all seriousness, I wonder if they are going to have to change the marketing on the site now...

https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/
Twitter is not an average company. As one of the top 40 internet companies, they are in the position of setting industry standards. I think it's fair to expect more than what the average company does from Twitter.
> Saving lives should not be this grand political issue it's become in the US.

It is politicized whenever there is a strong disparity of benefits and costs... It's primarily the old who benefit and primarily the young who suffer by closing down the economy
Someone I knew claimed he used to be a C+ programmer.