skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John McWhorter is a great read and watch generally. Even if you don’t agree with him it’s clear he’s a smart and well-read guy who you should respect.

His videos with Glenn Loury on The Glenn Show are great fun, smart and for me what the mainstream media is generally missing (Neil DeGrasse Tyson being the exception) in that these black academics are not solely defined by their race and whilst not completely ignoring it they show their expertise as being their thing and with that has come excellence in their field (and being interesting thinkers outside of it). The media seems to love the “Hey you’re black so you must want to talk about the black angle/aspect of this subject” even when there is none and the black person almost certainly wants to bring their own angle on the subject matter founded on years of study and experience.

Glenn also rips apart White Fragility and there’s a “soft racism of low expectations” angle about DiAngelo that you can tell really frustrates Loury and McWhorter. As an onlooker they are intellectual heavyweights in comparison to DiAngelo so can imagine that they feel patronised.
Someone in this thread said their tweets don't show up in their timeline because they usually promote their tweets.
Takeaway: The concept of 'polymers' -- encompasses a greater set of materials than that of merely plastics.

Muscles, amino acids, polypeptides, sugar, starch, cellulose, polyethylene, geopolymers, aluminum silicates (which most rock and clay is made of) are just a few of the non-plastic type of polymers that are out there...

A polymer is basically any substance made up of repeating units.
I too have to pay whatever taxes the state determines, so I think "we" is the right pronoun here.
From the article:

"Most of the [Covid-19] deaths are among the very elderly and nursing home residents, who no longer travel or dine out or contribute much to the economy, and who are a burden on the struggling Medicare and Social Security Trust Funds."

The depravity of this sentence is shocking and sad. This is as bad as the Tom Cotton opinion piece.
I do agree that some of the responses to people's actions become harassment, but this happens across the board. In much of the right wing media you can't criticise anything in America without being labelled un-American, a traitor, socialist, antifa or whatever the current label is they're using to bypass the cognitive functions of their audience.

The question is, given that perfection is impossible, what amount of injustice, such as harassment, is acceptable for a greater good. This question constantly manifests in the economic, legal and social systems we live in. Just like the legal system, there will be some injustices that can't be avoided any everyone has their personal perspective on how much and to whom is acceptable.

Your point above blames “leftists” but you would be greatly mistaken if you think this is a one way street. There are cases of people on the left losing jobs for critising the right. People
On both sides have received harassment and death threats from the other side.

In summary, you're complaining about the left doing something without realizing or acknowledging that this isn't restricted to just those on the left or right, everyone is doing this. But if you're one one side you'll ignore attacks by your own side, labeling them legitimate defense, and over-criticise the other side's same actions as unjustifable attacks. Everyone would be better off if we could all acknowledging our bias more.

I think it was Jefferson who thought that freedom of the press was essential even though press would become partisan and present opinions not news. He idealistically and, in hindsight, naively thought that people would be able to use reason & understanding to draw the true picture. But that's not what happens: people are baited, told what to think and react impulsively. Again, that's not just the left or the right, it's people. The problem is always people. To paraphrase Trump: there are awful people on both sides.
My first link is the official statistics compiled by the Japanese government itself (Statistics Bureau, MIC; Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Geospatial Information Authority of Japan) and their projections.

Even your link confirms that the population is in decline, just not as quicky as some reporters say.

"While the fertility rate declined from 4.32 in 1949 to a low of 1.26 in 2005, the total population was increasing >>until 2011<< "

"Japan’s Population Decline Not as Rapid as Media Portrays".

I just noticed I could replace 2017 with 2019 in the official statistics link and did so, resulting in http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/handbook/pdf/2019all.pdf

It is the same Table 2.2 That still shows a decline and projected decline.

I am not seeing anything that backs up your assertion that

> birthrate of Japan is considered low, but they are growing still

If you still want to assert this as fact then you are going to have to provide a reason that the Japanese government's own statistics and projections over at least the last 5 or so years are incorrect and what should be used as authoritative data instead.
For verification, the chip only needs the public key. The SW signature is produced using the private key in factory.
The Automated Unemployment Line
If you do find suitable software it's good to know that you could then install Ubuntu Touch on the OnePlus3 for a higher powered experience: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3253/oneplus-3-3t/542
It works as long as people actually care about the formatting of their code. I've seen far too many cases where people just don't care or care about the wrong things when it comes to formatting. Like they copy/cut & paste some code and now the indentation is off by a space or a tab, but they don't care. There's also the space vs tabs rabbit hole.
If you can change the owner of an account you don't need a special interface to post a tweet.
3D Printing of Transparent Glass (2012) [pdf]
GP is also defending a weapon. I've formerly been a gun enthusiast. I could link to specific articles showing their effectiveness in preventing home invasions. Similarly, this is a "social gun" – why is it effective? Who is it protecting?

I think the metaphor makes it comfortable to believe that it must be protecting someone, when in reality the green-eyed people might not exist.
Not really, the post office would actually do something if you said "this person is sending scams through your system". They'd do a lot more if 100 people walked in saying the same.

Google does nothing despite thousands of people reporting it.

It's bizarre how they ban completely innocuous stuff and allow the blatant scams to continue despite it being drawn to their attention though reports and twitter constantly?
> Firebase isn't that at all. It can be used to build such things, but so can PHP and CSV files.

You can use PHP and CSV for purposes unrelated to tracking. Firebase cannot be used without any tracking going on.
Definitely. The people who want to work in nursing homes are probably outnumbered by the people that have to, however, and once the others leave, others will too, simply because the job will become unbearable. Combine that with increased numbers of retirees and fewer potential employees, and things could turn ugly real fast.

Personally, I'm preparing for a future where a nursing home isn't an option. Just in case.
When Is Hacking Illegal and Legal?
The other orientation is much less stable; it’s a stationary point but if nudged will rotate away from droop-up.

Similar reason old pre-float-glass windows are mostly found thick side down; easier to fit that way because they’re more stable. The myth that they flowed over time is just that. :-)
that could be an interesting vector, don't the feds have shit load of BTC from various busts? could they dump a billion into the wallet to make it impossible to launder?
(From https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/hs5k36/benchmarking_g...) Looks like the source code is provided in each project as the helloworld greeting example.
>"Index Match

Glass grains become invisible -- that is, non-scattering –
when the solvent they are suspended in has the same
refractive index as the glass."
I was one of the people who didn't think that transformers would be powerful enough to automate software engineers out of a job.

I was wrong. It's coming for front-end engineers and it's coming soon.
You have the right ratio of technical knowledge and command of language to potentially make anything you write, believable. Do you have a blog of sorts?
UK scientists say Covid-19 vaccine could be ready by September
Agreed. "Happens to be owned by Google" makes it sound like they accidentally purchased it.

"I'm sorry mister judge, the the rootkit happened to be owned by my company and written by my devs, but there's mere chance."
Bendito Machine – commentary on mankind’s relationship with technology (videos)
I am struggling to think of any better system than BTC.

Almost anything else I can think of would require either (a) substansal amount of starting cash (for example trying to crash Tesla's stock price), or (b) be almost impossible to pull off without getting caught (blackmail, or again stock manipulation if you do it in a big enough way to make some decent money).

In terms of risk/reward, assuming someone found some easy trick and wanted to cash out ASAP, this feels like the best option.
The recent ban on sales of menthol cigarettes might also be a contributing factor.

Good news no matter what.
I considered this but it was still naive of the attacker to think he could avoid CCTV.
Perceived motive.

The resources needed to do this. Compromising and paying Twitter staff, the practical, technical know how (and it's cost), and that no real attempt to profit from this has been made?

I don't think that sounds like a financially motivated crime at all. As a crime it has more in common with the proverbial 'horse head on the bed', than a sophisticated heist. I think this was done to shake confidence in the perceived invincibility of Silicon Valley and FANG like companies particularly.

But then any number of well resourced 'political' actors would love to send that message to the large tech companies...
That's indeed often the case, how it works is that the machine itself has a client certificate it uses to authenticate with the VPN.

There's no reason that certificate can't be used directly for the HTTPS connection to the admin UI, providing the same security benefits without actually requiring a VPN.

Furthermore depending on how "deep" the social engineering attack goes, a local user with administrator privileges can typically export those certificates unless they are stored on a hardware module (either a smartcard or an internal TPM/secure element).
The studies are not being conducted in the US alone.
Somebody had to do this. Let's actively avoid the delusional masses
Since you are reading this you probably know what I’m getting at. People who are grounded in reality (according to my definition of course) are rare and may often be lost among the sea of the deluded masses. So this post of mine is an attempt to gather people who are like-minded.(people who I deem to be grounded in reality through my own colored lens of the world). The idea is to form mutually beneficial alliances in this insane world. Right now this process of forming alliances is somewhat unplanned and subject to chance events(you meet/know someone reasonable at school, work etc.). I'm hoping to cast the net wide by leveraging the internet. As to what exactly should the alliance be, or what it hopes to achieve is something to be discussed (though I have some concrete preliminary thoughts).

How to start: Email me your core beliefs ( though I personally prefer a voice chat with on Skype, google hangouts etc.), especially the beliefs where you think you differ fundamentally from the vast majority of people. I will quiz you on various subjects ( and so can you) to see if our beliefs align. Overall my beliefs can be loosely labeled as: generally anarchist (i.e a live and let live approach), generally anti-authoritarian ( meaning I believe govt/authorities do not protect your interests), largely capitalist( i.e vehemently opposed to coercive co-operation, put forth by typical socialism) etc. Perhaps at the bare minimum we have to share a meta belief that it is necessary to reach out and cooperate with other like minded individuals as it is virtually impossible to 'de-delude' the idiotic masses though arguments/dialogs etc. My email address can be found on my profile. In my profile you will also find a link to some webpages that outline my beliefs.

After this step, if we think our beliefs align, I will add you to an an online forum ( zero people as of now) , where you can interact with other people that I will be screening.

Caveats:

-It often takes a very long time ( months to years) to form mutually beneficial alliances. ( more so when individuals are geographically isolated from each other.) Perseverance and patience will be very important.

Somebody brought to my attention that a re-post was somewhat against the rules ( it's not entirely clear though). I did give a thought to it. As long as I'm not disrupting the forum, I should think I should be on the right side of being 'right'.

Moot point: to those flagging my posts - if the post is so objectionable that you have to flag it, it's time to examine yourself rather than play moral police.

For the critics - do not assume that I'm naive. While certain specifics can be commented/criticized, giving me moral/philosophical advice is not welcome. I'm _not_ looking for it.
The Twitter hack could be a global security crisis
European Union's top court's judgment on transfers of data to the United States [pdf]
Title seems clickbaity. Apparently she was on probation for "assault and theft", and attending school and doing homework was part of proving she was behaving better.

If you've been put away for committing crimes, and the conditions for staying free are doing your homework, you _better_ do you homework.
Or someone bragged about their super awesome access to Twitter on some IRC or Discord channel, posted proofs which unintentionally leaked the session tokens / exploit to others and the whole bunch of kids went crazy due to fear of missing out on the event of the century. Basically like all these seemingly normal people that suddenly turn into looters when all hell breaks loose.
It always puzzles me that the quantisation matrices don't have symmetry along the diagonal. I guess it suggests the distribution of vertical and horizontal lines in typical pictures differs.
I could easily survive and be happy on 12 BTC for the rest of my life and I live in one of the most expensive countries in the world.
I don't know him, so all i can is guess. All I know is what the News in Germany reported. According to them he just acquired the Data he published. The reasoning behind it is unknown to me, if there was any. In the Media Coverage he doesn't really appeared that smart. Maybe he did it just to brag about it, or he was hoping to extort the people and wanted to prove that he has the material, or it was political because the most victims of him were from the left.
The judgment is here: https://noyb.eu/files/CJEU/judgment.pdf

Start at page 28 if you want to skip the recap of EU law, or start at page 35 if you want to skip the details of US law and surveillance programs as recap by the Irish court who referred the ruling.
Intel Alder Lake S, P and M Configs Leaked – 10nm Big and Small Cores, 14nm GPU
Ethical Explorer: Tools to help navigate the future impact of today’s technology
Well, if I was Obama I'd cancel my Twitter account ASAP. Today the tweet is relatively harmless and obviously fake, but who's to say that tomorrow something really toxic to Obama's reputation won't be posted under Obama's name? (Say, something anti-feminist.)

Are there better options?
Possibly politically motivated?

Especially if the real motivation is not the BTC scam, but the access to who knows how many DMs for possibly blackmail/propaganda down the line. (And not necessarily just DMs from the known compromised accounts, either.)
It's not a game changer but it is an important component.

I view it in this way; all throughout the 90s and 2000s there were message boards. We used to be active on dozens of them, and each had their own account and avatar.

Each also had a little community and an admin. Each cost money to run and had to scale.

The only thing that's changed with AP is that now all those tiny communities can come together with federation. You can communicate between communities and users.

That's all! It doesn't have to be more complicated or dangerous than that.

You'll still have dedicated admins who pay for hosting with their time and money. You'll still have communities around these admins who contribute content and perhaps donations.

But to be able to communicate across communities and not have dozens of accounts is a big step forward to me.
marketersky.com
not with the hacker but with the cryptocurrency community
Quite true. Maybe some unscrupulous 19 year old with average understanding of tech, who happened to have access to the right tools at the right time.
Of course not. If instance A does not like instance B and blocks it, there is reason why there can't be an instance C that federates with both A and B.

If these three were the only instances in the world then, yes, A could be so strict it also blocks C because of it's communication with B. But since there are hundreds of these instances and since there is no limit on how many can be created this will not be a problem.

Admins can be dictators on their own instance, but there are a lot of admins to choose from. If a big instance goes sour, it is very easy to migrate to another one.
No no they aren't; there is an enormous political, academic and corporate movement to get and keep them and they certainly haven't dealt with anywhere near the general BS any nerd deals with growing up or being in tech; 90% of the time it's just complaints identical to yours;
- Complete fabrications to appear a victim.
- Complaints about things that everyone else deals with but due to equality feeling like oppression, suddenly the treatment equal to others feels oppressive.
- Complaints about consequence for doing shitty things.

Re your point about 4chan; provide the story or it's just another fabrication
charlie is a double agent who intentionally made the security weak so it could be hacked and opened. i salute you charlie, fight the power!
EU court invalidates EU-US Privacy Shield agreement due to US data gathering
Women in Tech: Shruti Kapoor
Looking Through the Jio Glass
Office-Based Exercise Could Reduce Heart Disease Risk by 15%
The big problem that I took away from the availability report was the one where they lost acknowledged writes. They might not need the scaling, but they do need the ability to lose the leader without losing writes. (It would be preferable to reject the writes and become unavailable rather than to acknowledge writes only to discard them minutes later. No external API user can handle the case where "Github acknowledged my writes, and I read them back, but now they're gone". But they can handle "Github returned 'service unavailable' when I made a write".)
This is a story after my own heart.

I have written a lot of ONVIF stuff, and have done pretty similar stuff with WireShark and Cocoa Packet Analyzer.

Video is still surprisingly proprietary, even after all this time.

I got the ONVIF stuff sorted, but the challenges I deal with, these days, is providing the video in a realtime streaming format that can be interpreted by as many clients as possible (especially Apple). RT[S]P doesn’t really cut it.
Europe’s top court strikes down flagship EU-US data transfer mechanism
> The NYT isn't following Twitter.

What is said here is that journalists are trying to appealing to their Twitter follower instead of doing their job. It's peer pressure, but on Twitter, not in the editing room of the NYT.
If you’re interested in the theory of phase transitions, Landau theory (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau_theory) is a good on-ramp.

We know the glass transition isn’t a true phase transition because we do not observe a discontinuity in (derivatives of) the free energy at Tg, the glass transition temperature. What results like this suggest is that in some sense the glass transition asymptotically approaches a true phase transition, which is fascinating.
https://www.marketersky.com/
Perhaps the article has been updated since you read it. It now includes this (with a link to the studies)

> smokers with a positive Covid-19 test were more than twice as likely as non-smokers with coronavirus to be hospitalised.

>This aligns with research from the US which found hospitalised smokers with coronavirus were 1.8 times more likely to die.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan_(film)

There are almost twenty pirate films from the 40s alone.
Even excluding extremely exotic targets, the list of platforms supported by Rust and Go is vastly larger than Swift. For instance, there's no official support on FreeBSD, and FreeBSD 1. uses LLVM for everything 2. has a userland really similar to Darwin, so there are very few excuses to not allocate even a small amount of man power to port it.

If you add third-party ports and implementations, the list of platforms supported by Go and Rust increases exponentially; see for instance Tiny Go and the ongoing port of Rust to the Xtensa-based ESP32.

> Anyone can chime in?

I work in embedded and as far as my experience goes nowadays unless you go on extremely limited environments, the embedded chips I mostly see or develop for are either ARM (v7, like stuff from Nordic or the STM), or ESP32 (Xtensa). Every once in a while I have to work on some older projects which were based on Atmel or PIC, or very very very rarely MIPS.

It's certainly not like it was before; nowadays you can buy chips like the ESP32-WROVER which have relatively lots of RAM and storage for an absurdly cheap price. They run pretty well even if you opt for using C++17 and complex libraries.
I appreciate the offer of an article but let's leave that until we are both clearer. In your example

> Some condition handler notices that this is a timesheet in an old format, computes an updated version of the timesheet that we will call TIMESHEET2, and invokes a restart named REVALIDATE with TIMESHEET2 passed as an argument.

So why not just say

if newformat(ts) do processItTheNewWay(ts)
else if oldformat(ts) do
newts = compute_updated-version-of-timesheet(ts)
processnewformatTS(newts)

(edit: fixed silly mistake)

you have the code for compute_updated-version-of-timesheet because you said "Some condition handler [..] computes an updated version of the timesheet that we will call TIMESHEET2" so the code must already exist.

So why expect exceptions when you can anticipate some inputs are reasonably going to cause exceptions and simply handle them upfront?

The only new thing I can think of now is that you can dynamically load a newly-written exception handler (compute_updated-version-of-timesheet, which you've rush-written because you only just found out about the old style timesheets) into a already running program to handle this unexpected condition.
My issue with ActivityPub is that it is yet another overengineered specification by w3c that somehow despite being a bloated mess manages to miss important features (such as end-to-end encryption for DMs or end-to-end authentication, now you can have admins forging posts in the names of their users and/or reading their DMs, which is not that big of a threat for the average person when you are in a big semi-serious platform like twitter but it is when your admin is some random dude online). In addition it depends on stuff that are universally despised, such as JSON-LD, and it forces federation down your throat (you can't use it in a distributed way like bittorrent for example, your user is binded to the domain name of your instance).
something like these?
https://bestjigsawguide.com/
Multicloud Technology for Successful Disaster Recovery Plan