skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He stole $100k and was fired from his highly paid job. Kid was probably totally broke.

And why would the kid steal the money to “provide a motive”? Paid killers aren’t pokinhv to establish motive. That’s crazy town territory.
It may be the case that a phenomenon is real but the extant field of inquiry into that phenomenon is pseudoscience. For an example, consider alchemy. Alchemists were observing real phenomena, but their methods and theories weren't sound.

api is right that memetics as a field is in disrepute, considered pseudoscience by many. That doesn't mean the premise of ideas propagating through the population, surviving or dying based on various criteria, is totally bunk. But you have to be willing to distinguish the concept of memes from 'memetics as a science.' I think it's a useful analogy, but it has limitations.

One hazard of memetics mirrors a common hazard in discussions about genetics. Anthropomorphizing genes by saying things like "the gene wants to replicate" or "the gene is selfish" is common for obvious reasons, but you have to be careful to not take it literally. When you make the analogy between genes and ideas, that habit of anthropomorphization comes along for the ride, and in the process ideas are given agency of their own. Saying that the idea has agency of it's own, that it self-replicates, is in some sense tantamount to questioning the agency of the humans participating in the spread of the idea. In brief, memetics steps on the third rail of free will.
What makes you say this is 80:20? The thing that got him out of the funk was fixing a minor UI issue:

> Once he asked me "Father, what is this thing in the list of things I can order?" ... "This is atomic bomb" .. "Oh, I want to order it" .. "No, we don't even have it researched" .. "But, why is it in the list then, it doesn't make sense" ... "Hmm, you are right, it doesn't, I might actually fix that." So I opened Factorio source code after a long time, and made the change, that the filter and logistic request selections didn't contain things yet to be researched (unless you force-unlock it in the settings). I made a change to Factorio, and it felt good, and I started to want more, this is how I got from the lowest point.

He didn't get back into it because the problem was particularly meaty or interesting to work on. It was a small piece of work that nonetheless allowed him to feel like he had impact. Because he was connecting with someone who was actually engaging with and getting joy from what he was building (and it might have helped that the person was his son).

I guess it's possible that what initially put him into the burnout was working on tedious things that felt like they had no substantial impact (though nothing in the post really indicates that IMO). But, that doesn't mean that this isn't burnout. Burnout is exactly caused by a felt loss of control and/or impact.
Stripe could earn money on the float, which would be a tiny interest but create a perverse negative incentive for them to keep a higher reserve. So there's a pro and a con. Edwin stated they don't earn interest on the float, which is a reasonable stance for the business to take on both an incentive and customer service basis, and may be a more profitable position for the company.
Maybe its not just so much about "allowing" these acts because they are happening to "the other side", but just like most people who talk a big game when push came to shove they found themselves shitting their pants and realizing their worst fears about the government came true and their worst fears about themselves that they are all talk and it was easy to scream give me freedom or give me death until the armed government came for their freedom.
They "research" for anything that will support their belief, while discounting or ignoring anything that disproves it.

This can be seen very clearly on that flat earther documentary. When experiment results don't show what they want, they ignore them or explain them away and are off to find the next experiment that will "prove" their theory. There is no result that can cause them to question their theory.
And all deliberations of the Federal Council are kept secret, partially to reduce partisanship. But with all parties in there, transparency is at at least adequate levels.
> Does it revert the firmware to whatever it was shipped with (bugs and all)? Some vendors do, but most vendors do not.

I think that's the only reasonable thing to do. Have the original firmware either as an actual rom, or only writable with an enable jumper flipped; use a power on key sequence to boot from the original firmware, copy to normal firmware and reboot into normal firmware (which is now the original firmware). Run through that process during manufacturing to confirm it works.

Regularly test that all released firmware images, especially those in the original firmware slot can successfully upgrade (or at least not crash). Preferably include current firmware version in all requests so you can give workaround responses as needed when you figure out you broke something -- in the hostname is ideal, as you can use that to work around version specific certificate issues.

The reason a Blu-Ray player (or a video game console) might not let you go back to original firmware is to prevent reverting to earlier firmwares that allowed copied media, etc. For those, you probably want to have a 'safe' firmware slot (or two, ideally) that drives the factory reset process, and only reflash those slots on some updates (to reduce testing needs)
Antifa was declared a terrorist organization. They were seen as co-opting a movement, instigating with violence throughout the country, especially in poor neighborhoods, and attempting to start a race-war. However you may feel about the designation, the means to stop them are deemed serious enough to warrant these measures.
Medical treatments, especially cancer treatments, are not always successful. You could suffer through the treatment and still not be cured. It seems reasonable to say "No thanks. I've had enough."
I have a feel we know where the rioters are being taken after being arrested. This has been going on for more than a month.
> And I'm here to say that phone companies should make smaller phones.

If people bought small phones, companies would make them.
To playfully tease, this is exactly what a Flatlander might say. But while you describe the behavior of consciousness, the article describes its other aspects: its shapes, how neurons collaboratively make it and how it is unmade. This not searching for a more feel-good answer, it is a search for deeper understanding which is what science is all about anyway.
> The only purpose of a business is to make money.

It's also the only reason workers show up.
I'll even add two more to your initial list as these are still somewhat the norm for some merchant processors:

4) Personal guarantee
5) Up-front reserve
You can definitely play with it, inferrd.com is free to use!
Be aware, most cloud companies consider a 'core' to be a hyperthread.

When ARM released on AWS, it was a double punch because it has no hyperthreading on the chips so you get a full core at a cheaper price.
>They never cared about preserving freedoms, American democracy or the values that this country stands for.

I disagree, they do care about personal liberty and safety. If you are infringing on their rights, you aren't an ally.

>They never believed it in the first place, or their interpretation is so skewed it's meaningless.

This argument is so backwards it's hard for me to grasp. You have people saying "Ban guns! Ban guns!". Then the moment there's government overreach they cry, "where are the people with guns to defend us???"

I can tell you one thing: if the secret police were snatching 2A advocates off the streets, there would be a shooting war. This is why they want their guns, and right now, I'm sure they're happy they have them.
Stripe has been a nightmare for one of the industries I support, primarily in the arbitrary way they cancel accounts, withold funds, and provide zero recourse or even reasonable explanation. We encourage our clients to choose a different pay processor than Stripe, it’s just not worth the hassle. I’ve spent many, many hours on behalf of clients trying to figure out what’s going on at Stripe. Their customer service might just be a notch above Comcast, but not by much.
I believe residents need to have an attending sign off on everything they do, so while they could increase premiums indirectly, I don't know by how much. If anyone is named in a lawsuit, I think it would be the attending since the buck stops with them, and they should carry their own malpractice insurance in addition to the hospital's.

Based on what I've read, I suspect residents are very profitable for hospitals, even if they use a significant portion of the grant.
this is from 2012 and some of the points haven't aged well (see blaze/bazel)
META: It seems to me there's many accounts here with unsuspecting (kinda generated looking) names, barely any karma and posts - and if you look through their comments, they are very monothematical.

It would be interesting to see some analysis of posters in this discussion compared to "normal topic".
The anti mask protesters were not trying to burn down federal buildings.
Cargo pants are fashion-as-pretend-occupation

Nobody tell him about tactical kilts†. He'll have an aneurysm.

†"Utilikilts" for those in Seattle.
Gain of function serial infection techniques do not constitute natural evolution: they constitute lab-directed evolution.

That is for all intents and purposes man-made, unless one is splitting hairs, which much of the politicized media is doing.
What medication are you able to fit in a coin pocket? Everything I've ever taken is either bottled, in a large blister pack, or I need more than I could reasonably fit inside that tiny pocket
This is such a terrible point that keeps getting brought up.

How much do programmers get paid in the usa compared to france? Lawyers? Genetic engineers? Police?

Literally all of them get paid a lot more. Our gdp/capita is like 45% higher.
Retaliatory. Nice. That’s always a great way to run a business.
And they don't feel bad about engineering ICE cars in 2020?
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-po...
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To determine where the US parties are through their manifestos seems flawed since they are so candidate-platform centric.

> Now she’s polling at 45% in a head-to-head with Macron.

This is still a bullshit cherry-picked figure. The village baker would likely get 45% h2h too. Macron is deeply unpopular due to his "reforms".

> The new leader of the CDU is significantly further right than Merkel: she opposes abortion and gay marriage,

The one that got so unpopular that she's already announced her resignation earlier this year?
I think these minivans is a rational and smart move (amoral, but that's another story). The protest is snowballing and there's not enough police-like forces that blindly support the current regime. The administration understands that victory loves preparation and starts preparing now: they normalize the minivans, so people get used to them and won't question this later when millions of such minivans show up on streets. Generic outfit and lack of ID allows to hire just about anyone to work as a police-like force. My bet is that "the minivans force" will get out of control once they realise that nobody is looking after them. On a side note, I know that many rich and wealthy people have expressed a sudden interest to spend an extended vacation in new Zealand a few month ago.
> What were the non-horse riders wearing prior to pants? Tunics?

I'm not an expert on clothing history, so I don't want to give bad info. I'm sure there are good resources out there if you're curious enough.

I'd assume, though, that it varied by latitude.
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Burning cars, so what? Parisians riot like this about every 18 months or so and the state doesn't call out the secret police and somehow the country still exists.
No, because Apple wants to sell us something else than a phone. They want to sell us a vending machine for entertainment. Probably it's the same for the other phone companies.
Lots of yoga pants actually have this pocket! It's good for not having a huge lump on your hips but still being able to hold things like your phone
What does exactly this post add to what have been already described in the official documentation[1]?

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/...
For more info on Operation Crush, I rec. John Doerr's Measure What Matters. The beginning of the book outlines the intense competition Intel had with Motorola, Intel's strategy, and Andy Grove's sales/business philosophies.
Two friends are lost in the woods. One is experienced in fieldcraft, the other is not. The experienced friend consults a map, a compass, the position of the sun and some known landmarks and says, "we must go this way." The inexperienced friend complies and walks for hours with the experienced friend.

Suddenly the experienced friend stops and takes their map and compass. "No reason to worry just double checking everything, we are getting closer." But the inexperienced friend sees no sign of progress. This cycle repeats several times over. They walk for hours. Stop to check. No sign of progress. Reassurances. Again and again. Finally the inexperienced friend says, "I recognize this place and I think I know the way back. Let's go this way."

The experienced friend knows this is the wrong way and insists they go a different direction. After half an hour of arguing they part ways. In a few more hours the experienced friend finds their way out of the forest while the inexperienced friend remains hopelessly lost. The experienced friend finds a ranger station. A ranger there asks, "were you alone?" The experienced replies that they were not alone but it does not matter as their companion did not want to be saved.
You can put the float into a money market fund. It is liquid and can earn maybe 1% interest. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but it is free money. And if you have millions of dollar in the reserves over a course of a year it can add up. $10 million at 1% is $100,000 in interest. I imagine they would have more than $10 million in reserves.
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This is a travesty - the US is turning into a fascist state

Please donate to ACLU today, hopefully non-violent resistance can stop this: https://www.aclu.org
It's not good enough for most users.
Your placing awfully big demands on people you seem to hate. Perhaps they just don't think shooting people is the best strategy right now? Are they allowed to have other ideas than yours when it comes to how to respond to various situations? Many people are outraged over this and there will be various legal actions as a result I am sure. Maybe people want to see if the system works before starting an insurrection and getting themselves killed?
For the people who want a ton of pockets on their pants, cargo pants are pretty much the only option. Do you earnestly believe that all of these people "just like military cosplay"?

Edit: Or maybe I'm wrong, and there are other kinds of pants with many pockets.
+1, I have them in shorts and pants, easily the most comfortable pair of shorts/pants I've ever worn. I literally never wear jeans any more not for style reasons, but because they are so uncomfortable.
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Pockets on dress pants are placed right below the waistband not because someone thought that's the most convenient place for pocket access, but because it conceals them (there, they are hidden under a jacket. Or were, since no one wears a jacket and tie anymore). They're actually there because, indirectly, it's a LESS convenient place to put them.

They're also sewn in line with the outside seam, again to help conceal them.

Pockets are not a feature to showcase on dress pants, and in most cases take away from the formality of the garment.
I’m looking forward to configurations where you can book a coffin to sleep in for 6 hours on your flight once at altitude.
An aside my feeling about Microsoft and their lack of C99 support is the community was inexplicably too nice to them. As well as compilers defaulting to C89 instead of the latest.

Also as someone that has a code base that targets a dozen different pieces of hardware ifdef madness is a strong indication that your program architexture is broken. Sometimes it's unavoidable but you should think of ifdef's as another name for FIXME.
Sure, but my point is that this doesn't answer my question. I wasn't asking which technology would the next company use. If Youtube used P2P, it still wouldn't solve many of the issue people have with Youtube.
> “I’m always arguing with bird people on the internet,” said Kory Evans, a fish biologist at Rice University who wasn’t involved in the study. “I say, ‘I bet these deep-sea fish are as dark as your birds of paradise.’ And then boom, they checked, and that was exactly the case.”

I'm sick of reading internet arguments about polymorphism and browser monoculture and borrow checking and static linking. Someone please tell me where I can go on the internet to read biologists arguing about their favorite animals.
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16kHz sample rate (= max frequency 8kHz) should be enough for speech only. Human voice is mostly <0.5kHz. You may hear some difference for hisses or for room sounds etc. but I’m sure you’re unable to hear any difference to higher sample rate in a voice chat setting
It would have been possible if it was done this way in the first place.
>slaves sometimes even got a little spending money

Wew lad, I didn't realize you were an olympic athlete but you picked up those goal posts and rocketed 'em down field. Nevertheless I'll bite.

Average american mortgage: 1100$/mo
Average food costs per month, with kids: ~350/mo. (Bit of wiggle room here, but I know plenty of stay at home moms that spend this or more on food.)
Utilities: 150-200/mo, depending (water, electricity, gas)
Internet: 40-80$/mo depending. maybe more
Entertainment: differs from family to family
so on, and so on.

What about future investments? A stay at home mother's work eases after a child hits their teens, because they can start helping out. Once they leave the house, things become even easier. Meanwhile their SO has been not only paying for everything this whole time, but also investing in their combined future via 401k, other retirement, etc.

Boy that sure is slavery!
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Also, fb likes/interactions/celebrity tend to reinforce the professed views. I'd say there were few people telling him to stop believing the snake oil and thousands saying 'you can beat this! <insert emoji>'.

Should alternative therapy posts and advertising have unlimited distribution on fb/instagram?
This is a great overview and history of a sadly under appreciated problem. Well, actually a huge number of people suffer so they appreciate the problem but it is poorly discussed.

My only objection is so something in the coda:

> Cargo pants aren’t office-wear

I have been in the workforce for almost 40 years and have never worked somewhere where anyone would bat an eye at cargo pants.
Absolutely. I'm LDS and myself, my family, and my friends that are LDS abhor MLMs. But I guess I self-select into a lot of that group.
Super annoying why ever have very specific way to merge multiple contexts. Google utils writes to this file one way, other tools another way. So weird and so not-transparent.
It's not like there will be any repercussions if a few twitter accs get their dms stolen. Most people won't care (they don't even with stolen credentials from hacked dbs), can there be legal ramifications? Maybe, but that probably costs less than shutting down Twitter. Responsibility seems to be the last thing any of these companies think about
Nah, I wouldn't want them to trust a "developer" who dumps half a gigabyte of GIFs on a webpage.
Generally we are asking for more information than a definition when we ask “what is something?” Humans knew that “the stars” were those little points of light in the night sky long before we knew much about their composition or evolution.
I like the idea of rethinking an everyday item to make it more usable, while also attending to aesthetics. A lot of technologies could be improved by just writing down a list of "What's this thing really supposed to do?" And then, iterating on that list as the design evolves.

In the case of this article, I have three more feature requests:

1. The pocket should be narrow enough so the phone can't rotate sideways while it's in there. That's my biggest complaint about cargo or hiking pants, which is what I typically wear.

2. Pay attention to how the phone behaves while riding a bike. I don't want pants that require me to find a special place for my phone while I'm out and active. But the author's designs look like they stand a real chance.

3. The pocket should be slightly "hooked" on the inside, so my phone doesn't slide out during my nap. I owe two broken phone screens to this phenomenon.
Altogether too much detail about host name resolution
He's well known for doxxing, providing kill lists to AtomWaffen. I don't think that behavior is exactly rewarded in the public square.
The key is that large corporations/labs achieve scale through many distributed machines. This paper explores optimizations that are particular to a single multi-core machine. These optimizations exploit low-latency shared memory between threads on one machine, and thus cannot be replicated on a distributed cluster.
They are, however, stabbing people that ask them to put on a mask [1], or shooting them [2] or assaulting them in general [3].

And let's be honest here. If you want to associate all protesters with the rioters, then I'll associate all anti-mask violence with the anti-mask protesters. Guilt by association should be treated equally, correct?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/14/michigan-fac...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-shoppers-pull-guns-h...
I would say that’s becoming increasingly plausible, but it’s not exactly what the authors show in this paper. In order to translate from Datalog queries, you would need to show how to encode arbitrary propositional formulae as a graph reachability problem. This appears to be possible following Reps et al. [1], but is still far away from becoming a push-button solution. Here, they are proposing a new architecture which is capable of inferring abstract relations between program states (e.g. variables), trained on a synthetic dataset of pairwise relations, and empirically showing its generalization performance on those specific tasks.

This is a promising early result, but does not show how to encode arbitrary static analyses at runtime. The authors have related work (Shrivastava et al. [2]) applying few-shot learning to source code, which (just speculating) might be amenable to a graph representation, by accepting as input (1) a graph program and (2) static analysis / reachability query, and returning the answer (a la NLP question-answering, but for code). It might also be possible to synthesize new static analyses from a dataset of labeled examples. Maybe you can reach out to the authors to discuss their broader goals for this work?

[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.61....

[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.11768v1.pdf