skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the explanation.

Agree it's more "say in my head" than "speak out loud". But I still need to know what to say - internally or externally. Without knowing that ~ denotes "drawn from", all I can say is "X tilde p of x". That has no semantics; no intuition. Whereas knowing that $\in$ means "is a member of", I can read "x \in X" as "x is a member of X".

> but I rarely verbalize it mentally

Neither do I when I know something well. For example, I don't explicitly verbalise "is a member of" now, even internally. There's a shortcut hard-wired in that understands it without needing to pronounce it explicitly. In fact that short cut goes beyond the syntax: it goes straight to the intuition of "x represents any member of the set X". But I had to go through the process of saying it on the way to the shortcut.
it doesn't matter. The main point is the apparent security [mis]architecture at Twitter such that those posted credentials is enough to get access. It means no 2FA, the bare minimum for prod access. It probably also means no role based access control (or such an ugly one that instead of roles assigning/modifying/etc. people resort to posting/sharing credentials of critical prod accounts).
>> Unlike powder cocaine, coca leaf has a long history of relatively safe use in the northern Andes. Widespread coca tea use is not considered a public health crisis of any particular concern in Peru and southern Colombia:

> The decriminalization of coca tea in Western countries may lead to less gang activity as illegal cocaine manufacture economics shift from large-scale to small-scale extraction.

Who would substitute coca tea for cocaine? Decriminalized marijuana has same sought-after effects of criminalized marijuana, so can reduce the crime associated with it. I don't think you'd get the same reduction in cocaine trafficking crime unless you decriminalized refined cocaine.
They could have also refrained from protesting and rioting over a demonstrably false narrative of death-by-police.
Just because the military is big, It doesn't mean It's efficient and Its easily controllable centrally. Probably there are many groups within the military and many of the higher ups have their own connections with different local organizations etc.
Unless they can prove control of the bitcoin wallet used for the attack, or show a portion of the DMs, no one will take them seriously.
That instance type is missing the RTX 2080 Ti-equivalent GPU, though...

The closest in performance to that GPU would be the V100 found in P3-instances.
Smart companies optimize something more like "percent of calls resolved on first contact" (or "1 - percent of calls requiring the customer to call back").
I think in your idea, the exploit is real and known by LE and Bloomberg. However, Apple was not able to find this out, even though it was real. Is that the case? If so, it would suggest the FBI is allowing Apple to unknowingly use compromised systems?
It's possible they kill the power before mounting their equipment. They don't seem like they'd have any qualms with cutting a lock or disrupting someone else's service.
You've been downvoted quite a bit but I think your post is a good example of the problem at hand.

Yes, we have to make choices about costs and we can't save everyone. Yes, the data is super noisy and its hard to tell what is happening. Yes, the media loves bashing Trump.

But none of that is important because then you go right into downplaying things and saying that "if you compare per capital rates ours were actually on par with most other first world nations until the recent protests". The tone-deafness of this sentence is astounding to me.
People are scared, telling them that actually we only failed as badly as other countries, is, wow.
I don't really understand your point, F-Droid is definitely an app store.

I think you must mainly mean the Google Play Store, where the situation seems really bad... As for Apple, they manually review every application. I remember iOS apps for jailbreaking getting removed incredibly quickly.
Later in the article.

>Cartels have kidnapped technicians doing maintenance on cellular towers to make them fix their networks, people working in the sector said. The technicians usually are released after a few days, if not sooner. Still, those who spoke with Reuters said they live in fear of being forced by traffickers to do such work, lest they be killed for knowing too much, or become targets of authorities or rival criminal groups for being complicit. Whenever possible, they said, they downplay their expertise.
How many times has a single scientist been chastised by the broader scientific community at first and then their original idea finally rejected as false?
Their results on lasertag are very poor. Looks like their network was incapable of solving it. Which probably means for apple-to-apples comparison to IMPALA they need a better network, which might require them to forego their throughput advantage.
You can also upload IPA files to your iPhone using older versions of iTunes that supports sideloading saved (but purchased) IPA files. Apple now offers downloads for these older versions of iTunes, see here: https://support.apple.com/downloads/itunes

Apple also makes iTunes 12.6.x available for download, but it's hidden on this page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208079 - this is the last Windows version with IPA management, but there are also other ways to sideload IPA files without needing XCode and a developer signing certificate, e.g. https://codeburst.io/latest-itunes-12-7-removed-the-apps-opt...

The question is - how are we supposed to save and archive those IPA files today?
If you’re an expert in this field and can elaborate, I would love to read more. I’ve read the paper, but as a layman it’s difficult to discern why something is a “smoking gun” vs nature at work.
Of course you can't prove that, any more than you can't prove that YCombinator or FastMail aren't similar NSA operatives.
Likely Mormon, they do that. Source: grew up across the street from a Mormon family. No value judgement, it's just the only pattern I see that matches.
HTML is more "legible" than text.

Is this a widely-held opinion?
How would they know where I am?
Are you arguing that? If not, why are you posting that specific hypothetical argument?

I ask because I find "[y]ou could argue" to be a form of 'weasel-wording'.
I don't get this comment, what does page serving performance have to do with "the modern web"? It's not as if serving up a js payload would make it more difficult to host millions of requests on a single machine, html and js are both just text.
I highly recommend using invidio.us (or another invidious instance) instead.

Also, as an ad free and non tracking twitter alternative there is nitter.net (other nitter instances exist as well).
> ...the accuracy of "The Big Hack" (3rd citation) has been widely called into question.

Certainly, but we don't need that one story, as we have plenty others...

https://www.cnet.com/news/us-finds-huawei-has-backdoor-acces...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-pentagon-analyst-china-...
That's an interesting philosophical question.[1][2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#P...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence
JavaScript frameworks don’t exist to provide user demanded features but to provide developer demanded capabilities. Since frameworks exist solely to supplement the developer no site really needs a framework and sites benefit universally from not having one.
> It blow my mind that there are multiple organizations that are so large and well armed that even the Mexican government won't touch them. Keep in mind that the Mexican military has the 17th most active duty personnel in the world and spent $7 billion last year, and still isn't willing to take on drug cartels stomping on their own sovereign territory.

But if the real problem is your army is corrupt, no quantity of guns and personnel will fix that.

As far as I know, the cartels are closer to an asymmetric military adversary, and have subverted the Mexican state rather than defeating it directly.
ExpressVPN also had the same situation and had no logs available.
Is that right? I think inflation makes the effective interest rate lower than the nominal rate.

You could imagine that inflation pays ~1% of your mortgage for you because each dollar that you owe is becoming less and less valuable.
If you don't shoot for top end, you can get get a rocking machine for under $1600: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/DGhwBZ

12c/24t, 64G with a high end video card.
My hope is that as PWA's get better, I will have less need for apps on my phone all around.
i think you are not mentioning meth and heroin, despite them being on the RAND report from 2012 (one may suspect that order/rank may have morphed significantly since then), because the conversation around legalization around them would be an immensely unpopular sell in the US.

i don't see why cartels wouldn't switch overnight to meth or heroin (or both) the moment that cocaine and marijuana become legalized. what then? we know that the illegality creates the massive black market/financial incentives for these regional drug powers to exist, so it seems important to get all cards out on the table, lest we "fix" two problematic drugs only to have at least two left over.
The problem in many countries is that the military are themselves involved with drug trafficking. So the fact that they have a relatively large army is not necessarily an advantage, the cartels are most probably infiltrated there.
AWS only auto scales if you configure it to...
How could a sane, clear spec be made, under these circumstances?

Serious answer: By respecting and supporting the organisation that had for a long time codified realistic web standards reasonably well. When the Web was younger, you could (and many of us did) learn all you needed to know about things like HTML and CSS by reading the documentation produced by the W3C. In many cases, the official recommendations themselves (the documents that were informally called "web standards") were very readable and short enough for normal developers to go through the whole thing.
Ever heard of small modular reactors?

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

As I understand it at least some of them are "walk-away-safe" in case of meltdown, which is conceptually unlikely, and don't need the big cooling towers you speak of.

I know they are not there yet because of materials science, regulation, but they are not science-fiction either.

Anyways, I don't see any reason to not bury them in mars ground, instead of doing so here on earth.

Getting them there would be difficult, but some big effing rockets in their freight configuration should do...

Edit: or some Sea Dragons
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)
A 1920s alcohol prohibition that banned only hard liquor while allowing beer and wine might well have lasted until the present day. I think there really is a willingness to substitute legal "soft" versions of drugs (or other contraband) for "hard" ones.
Thank you for giving an answer. But you know, the original idea of Marxism was that the revolution would take place in the advanced industrial states, which have the greatest military power and so would not face this sort of threat.

But when that failed to happen Lenin switched to the idea of revolution in preindustrial nations, which would lack that military strength. He predicted this would be safe for Russia because imperialism had run out of options and would collapse in the great war, and then revolution in the advanced nations would take place and protect Russia. And then when that failed to happen he was stuck with socialism in one country, but decided to go ahead anyway, with the predictable result that it came under military threat first from the fascists and then the capitalist countries.

In the case of China and Cambodia, military threat was predictable from the beginning.

So what is your scenario? Is it to wait around for the revolution to finally takes place in the advanced nations? And what about Trotsky's argument that Democratic centralism inevitably leads to dictatorship?

Also, since you defended Chomsky, does he ever directly discuss Marxism-Leninism? My impression is that he is not one, and if that is the case why did he think that M-L regimes might turn out good?
The people you need to retain are the good ones who left because working conditions, pay, or management style were not worth it. The good people will be leaving when things start going bad, the people you are left with at the end are the ones who couldn’t find work elsewhere in the meantime.

Paying executives large bonuses is the last ditch effort of stripping value out of the company before the administrators roll in and start by clamping spending.
They also may ‘pay’ more if you refuse to do the work.
Why do you believe keeping schools closed is better than reopening? Have you looked into the research? Most of my findings indicate that the benefits of opening safely outweigh the the risks and the adverse effects of school closure (to the children, families and society) outweigh the benefits.

Just one quote out of many:

> Weighing the health risks of reopening K-12 schools in fall 2020 against the educational risks of providing no in-person instruction, school districts should prioritize reopening schools full time, especially for grades K-5 and students with special needs, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2020/07/schools-shoul...

https://www.mathematica.org/commentary/reopening-schools-whi...

https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-forum/fullarticle/27...

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/07/18/the-risks-of-ke...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

https://globalhealth.washington.edu/sites/default/files/COVI...

Edit: I realize this is a contentious topic. I'm definitely not trying to stir up political wars here. I'm submitting my question and research findings here because I trust this place for civil and intellectual discourse.
Okay, if this is true, you are saying they are making billions by running a simple algorithm? Why do they exist?
You have no evidence for this insinuation.

1) For one thing, he was not the only running a well funded motorcycle transportation business in Nigeria.

2) He had already pivoted into last-mile delivery and again he was not the only one running a well funded one

3) Let's even assume his motorcycle transportation was disrupting a dangerous market, it is basically the same market that Uber and those before Uber disrupted in Nigeria and nothing like this happened
CEO's are notorious liars. I just had a discussion with John McAfee who said that all good CEO's are feeding misinformation to the press as standard business practice.

You can see it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_QWrzjKC9I&lc=UgyXzVtjVLbEs...

The willingness that you believe a CEO who has every incentive to lie to the press, and the preposterous narrative that this was a simple "router issue" - as if half the USA internet system is dependent on a router not failing and there is not redundancy, is simply baffling.

I don't care how many downvotes I get. I'm not buying this flimsy narrative. And neither should you.

This was a coordinated attack.
Why wouldn't there be, might be the better question...
In many aspects we rely on multiple and competing opinions from various experts. It's not unheard of to go see half a dozen or more experts for treatment recommendations from various experts on a disease. Covid is a novel virus, so nobody has any more than 6 months or so of experience with this particular virus. So first of all, the rush to consensus is a mistake for a novel virus. Secondly, ascertaining the origin of a virus is not something that you garner from consensus. It takes serious investigative work that may take years.

So, again, consensus is just a way to cast complex, nuanced topics as flat, solved for things. That's not the case in most scientific subjects.

#2 is not what remains. You can engage with the arguments and the logic. Even as a layperson.
The other side is also true, the US has the largest army in the world, along with the most sophisticated intelligence apparatus, but it cannot (or doesn't want) to stop the traffic coming from outside its borders.
Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
(1) You misunderstand my use of the term excess death. I was using it in the same sense of the comment I was replying to.

I wasn’t talking about “excess deaths” ie the extra deaths not explainable by known covid deaths. Sorry for the confusion. (Although I think more of those deaths are non-covid, likely cardiac disease etc due to fear of hospital)

(2) I talk about sars-1 because covid is caused by sars-2. You understand that right?

We don’t have herd immunity to sars-1 because it burned itself out. Sars-2 will not do that because it is not nearly as lethal and exhibits presymptomatic spread. It is here to stay.

Also by pointing out we don’t have a vaccine for sars-1 that only strengthens my argument that banking on a vaccine for sars-2 is foolish
> Eight companies, including J.C. Penney Co Inc and Hertz Global Holdings Inc, approved bonuses as few as five days before seeking bankruptcy protection
This is definitely the answer I needed.
I think this would be a good book in a year or two. For now, if I can introduce basic concepts like slopes, derivatives, limits, and similar, simply and intuitively, that would be ideal.

Thus far, my favorite is Cartoon Guide to Calculus.
I think its just marketing hype. Although some approaches do lend themselves to better performance of course.

I once read a quote related to React. Paraphrasing: Speed is an implementation detail, if it wasn't fast we wouldn't do it/use it.
As if the military doesn't work for the drug cartels. The truth is that Mexico is a Narcostate.
While sleeping? This is one of the signs of sleep apnea.
I guess the theory would be that - if the body was never discovered, the police wouldn't be able to prove a crime occurred. They would simply have questioned a couple of people and if none of them 'broke', they would have been let go
Watch "Wolf of Wall Street" with Leonardo Di Caprio. That will answer all your questions why Mexico is such a paradise for cartels.
Mollath wasn’t killed: he was falsely imprisoned and received EUR 670k compensation for that. Mölleman‘s death was suicide (the accomplished parachuter jumped out of a plane less than half an hour after his parliamentary immunity was revoked, opened the main chute, cut it, and didn’t open the reserve, (and the automatic reserve deployment was disabled)).

Seriously, it’s not Russia.
I agree with what you are saying, but this is a technical document. So the perspective of "good news" or "still bad news" is in our interpretation. We are providing said context. While I'm being optimistic here it is because I'm responding to a comment which I view as too pessimistic and encouraging hopelessness. I would (and do) go after a similar comment if it was trying to claim victory over the crisis.

The thing is that if we think about climate change as a war then this is an important battle we've won. We've STOPPED the invading army. We did not push them back, we did not defeat the entire army, but for the first time we've been able to stop the invading army from gaining ground. By all accounts, before it looked hopeless. But if that kind of battle doesn't instill hope, I don't know what does. We haven't won the war, but for the first time we haven't been slaughtered in a major battle.

We need to stop believing that anything that isn't complete victory is bad news. All that does is create a hopeless future, which turns people apathetic. Just because you haven't won the war doesn't mean you shouldn't celebrate your small victories and improve moral. That is the issue, moral.

> and only during a pandemic-induced economic slowdown.

The data is 2019.
Have a look at Google Scholar results from a “batch reinforcement learning” query since 2020 for the latest.
The context of what I mean by saying that I am giving up is that institutions, government, and corporations are unreliable. I can't make decisions based on conditions as they are today because as soon as I do the rug will be pulled out from under me and leave me on my butt. This means that if I had a great idea for a business I will decide not to start that business. That vacation that I was planning won't happen anymore. Certain cities I may have been inclined to visit I won't enter anymore. Heck I even have to self-censor myself now for any thoughts I have because who knows who is going to get offended and try to prevent me from having a job, credit card, or even an opinion.

That is mostly what I mean.
From the opening paragraph of the Wikipedia article on Los Zetas:[1]

The origins of Los Zetas date back to the late 1990s, when commandos of the Mexican Army deserted their ranks and began working as the enforcement arm of the Gulf Cartel. In February 2010, Los Zetas broke away and formed their own criminal organization, rivalling the Gulf Cartel.

Needless to say, going after some gang is likely to be different than going after a gang of ex-commando military personnel, and that's before you factor in that there's probably a steady stream of military that still leave to join Los Zetas and that they probably still have active military contacts...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Zetas
Bankruptcy fraud?

https://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/debt-manage...

Edit: specifically fraudulent conveyance, such as discussed here: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/publications...
While it looks immoral if you don't understand the mechanics, people are simply responding to incentives around bankruptcy laws. Nobody wants to try to turn around a bankrupt company at their old salary (with their old RSU's and options now worthless). The real question is, should Chapter 11's even be allowed for corporations (as opposed to Chapter 7)? Shareholders vote for these because they know that in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, their shares will likely be worthless because the creditors are owed more than the company's assets. So it's the creditors who are getting screwed.

If you try to research companies that successfully turned around after a Chapter 11, you will be hard pressed to find major success stories, and I tend to think the world would be better off with more creative destruction. Even the ones listed here [0] did not have a pure Chapter 11 process -- some were bailed out by the government, Apple got private investment, and in the case of Marvel, the end result might have been the same if their assets were liquidated in Chapter 7 and Disney ended up picking them up.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05111...
Pay is not set by value created, it's set to outbid other companies to retain, and at a time when many executive jobs are about to go, I'd suggest the bidding is far from fierce.

This is the board voting the board gets a pay rise.
>SEO hacking isn't an easy problem

It isnt and it is. With how many employees they have, it wouldnt be that hard to come up with a "preferlist" that always outranks other content, and have that list constantly maintained, verified, and checked. Googler runs across a high quality site, it gets nominated for the preferlist. Preferred site descends into clickbait, they get removed.

The problem both Google and Facebook have is because of their attempt to maintain the illusion of impartiality, that they refuse to just say "we decided these sites are just better" like they should. The whole reason I go to google is because they are supposed to return better results.
The argument is identical to arguments supporting intelligent design, that because it evolved in an unlikely or complex way, it must have been intentionally created.

There's a reason we haven't seen a virus like this in a century - because it's so unlikely that a new virus will appear in any given year with both a high rate of transmission and a high fatality rate.