skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Central banks have experience with past crisis, banks (should)have their true and tested criteria to hand out debt, people and corporations do not meet those criteria, hence the banks did not hand out more debt.

You can make the argument that banks used those central banks loans to finance/arbitrage dodgy financial schemes.

But the answer is to stop enabling banks to do those things, not to give money creation control to politicians who have absolutely no financial knowledge.

Politicians should just spend the tax money they have, or to take more debt themselves if public debt is serviceable, not to mess with the criteria banks have to hand out more debt.

We have strict Central Banks laws and autonomy precisely so politicians won't make disastrous financial decisions according to their ineptitude.

Politicians messing with money creation is a recipe for disaster since ancient times.
It really depends on the component under development but what I find is that devs that know the product can contribute to team discussions and planning far better than ones that don't.
The report itself was automatically generated by one of the popular scanning tools. It's 1 hour to run the automated scan and 1 day to format the PDF nicely for the customer.

The thing is half worthless, verifying that the CDN has TLS and raising warnings about obscure HTTP/CORS headers.

But occasionally it can find some really bad misconfiguration or library with a critical vulnerability in dire need of an upgrade. (Of course they would never publish a report finding issues like that).
Big companies are too slow, small companies are too fast.

Large = we're stable, most likely a monopoly or oligopoly, so there's no threat and no need to move fast while things work

Small = we need cash, we need customers, we need that product done yesterday!

Medium size is where it's at - there can be medium size companies within large companies. These are more stable but still need to innovate and move along. Either smaller companies are going to start nipping at their heels or big companies with decide to move into their neighborhood and guzzle up everything.

If countries wanted a bubbling, innovative and competitive economy, they'd limit the size of companies and preemptively break up big companies.
Strangely, it's not quite the first 10. Number 0 is abstract: https://1secondpainting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/0.png
Thank you for the nice explanation. Clears up the important point that article was not quite able to do so. Even though it feels unintuitive to apply a Fourier transform to numbers for multiplication purposes, it works nicely. Fascinating.
> and many of the DNA platforms don't allow them

I’m assuming that the stolen information doesn’t have this limitation.
This! Just sync your keepass file with your NextCloud (or Google Drive or whatever) and you're good to go. Has a mobile App and there are probably Browser Add-Ons available. Costs nothing and works like a charm.
Popular Chinese-Made Drone Is Found to Have Security Weakness
Except wrapping dumplings is a pain in the ass while sshd comes pre-installed on most VPSs and you can just point a git remote at that.
Thank You, that was a pretty entertaining story.
Hiring doesn’t show whether you’re capable of the work, it just answers whether you might be hired.

The reply here is entirely in line with the poster; they didn’t say anything about feeling like a fraud, they said candidates in tech minmax career choices with no thought as to their actual purpose.

And yeah anyone remotely self-aware would feel disgusting working on adtech. It’s just that most tech workers do not think about such things.
Mason Greenwood sets a new record beating Rooney and George Best
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This seems very odd. These sites add features over time when new patterns are discovered, so I'd doubt that they delete any parts not used today because they might be useful in the future...
Where is Pavarotti?
Unmasking China's Invisible Fleet
Teams has a browser app that works just like the desktop client, which is probably just a thin wrapper around a web app.

The only thing ive missed there is the ability to take control of someone else's pc.
More to the point, the government can just collect your DNA itself if it wants to.
As a digital abstract artist who also does generative art, I find making the tiny images sort of funny. How about making a 30x30 inch painting? If it takes 1 second to make a tiny 250 pixel image how long would it take your system to make a 9000x9000 image?
Thanks, appreciate it very much!
The crowd sourcing stuff that I've seen comes in two different formats usually. There is the one where you put your URLs/IPs up there a d say "this is in scope"and someone finds something wrong, you pay them (ie. Someone says this has xss, you pay them a few hundred dollars) which has relatively little risk in terms of you only pay for what you get. The other ones are where you'd be allocated a test which then gets shipped out to some consultant anywhere in the world. I agree these are more risky (as you pay a flat rate). These are the ones I was hinting at that my friends moonlight on,but you do need some proof of technical ability and have to take a fairly decent entrance exam to participate in which (from what I've heard) hasn't been subject to the rampant cheating/"preparation" that other UK based aptitude tests/things like OSCP have. I'd personally go to a reputable vendor and ask for a senior consultant, but it's definitely a viable alternative especially if money is tight. Disagree about the pricing though, 750 (excl VAT) a day for external testing is pretty reasonable these days even for big vendors. App testing though, yeah, the prices can easily push 1k+ depending on what it is.
But isn't collateral a tried an tested measure of knowing if you are actually able to repay your debt?

Who would know better than the bankers, politicians?
Ask HN: Do you use third party privacy tech?
There seems to be a lot of funding in the space right now and the following startups have raised big:
- OneTrust
- Ethyca
- Transcend
- Privitar
- Evervault

I'm curious if anyone has:
1) Used any of these.
2) What for?
3) How you found it?

We're looking into some solutions ourselves but I'm curious to know what value can be derived from these vs what we can just do ourselves.
I also recommend Kevin Powell videos:

https://www.youtube.com/kepowob/featured

I learned some obscure CSS features from him.
Tesla Is Awesome but Overvalued
T cells have a single target, like antibodies. The target is a peptide, a fragment of a protein 8-11 residues long. That peptide could show up in several target proteins, but usually (?) is unique to one protein.

This is a bit of an oversimplification. Firstly, the peptide is 8-11 residues for cytotoxic, aka killer, T cells which i think is what we're talking about here. It's 13-17 residues for for helper T cells. Secondly, there are varieties of T cells which don't have a single target, like invariant natural killer T cells, but those are pretty obscure, and not what people are talking about when they just say "T cells".
Have you ever tried giving parenting advice to a new mother? Giving advice to founders is the same thing. You are probably right, but this is their baby and figuring it out for themselves is part of the startup experience.
CSS clicked for me from the very start. It was always fun, I never had problems with it (aside from the browser bugs, of course).
Maybe problem others have with it is not because of the nature of the CSS, but because of people ignoring that nature and refusing to learn it and trying to carry over their experience with other technologies to CSS.
He said that about his company 2 months ago (not weeks).

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/01/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-says-sto...
I meant less complexity with the setup and more complexity in just "starting to write a blog". I have used both and I found the experience with Ghost much nicer.

WP will never be faster (and will use more resources) than a JAMStack website.

WP will never be more secure than a JAMStack website. It is literally impossible to deface my static Ghost blog without compromising my upstream provider. This is obviously not the case with any WP site.

WP definitely has its uses. I don't think a personal blog is a good one.
If it was fun, it would be a sole proprietorship.
You can do pretty much that by getting your DNA sequenced by Dante labs and then using Promethease on it.
Facebook employee has misused her power and privilege of working for Facebook
Mariam Sulakian, who has misused her power and privilege of working for Facebook.Briefly speaking, she has recently used her Twitter account to post the following statement (https://imgur.com/JjDCoKw):
Did not take long: https://mittr-frontend-prod.herokuapp.com/s/614642/dna-datab...
Record one with 200 columns now and scroll horizontally ;-)
That's still a single song scraping into the top five. Doesn’t seem like a notable result to be seen as a major omission?

I'm sure you listened to it, but doesn't seem to have made a dent at the time.

And the context of the article is the US.
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This. Nothing stops us from doing this. Creating an attenuated virus vaccine or stumbling across one in nature is just two different ways of getting the same thing.

Once you have it, you still need to do the long 3-phase approval that normally takes many years (and now takes perhaps 9-18 months because it’s an emergency). But it’s still a vaccine.

The question perhaps is could we stop people from having their own “parties” with people identified to have the less dangerous immunity-causing virus? Probably not. I wouldn’t go to one though.
It's good to see companies making reports public to provide some confidence that they're having reviews done, but in this case the scoping of this job seems a little odd, not sure if that's a bad reporting template or something else.

Last page of the PDF indicates that they just did an external VA and pentest, but looking at their product set , I'd have expected (at least) a review of the web, desktop and mobile apps and the browser plugins for it to be a "thorough security assessment and penetration test" (as quoted in the blog).

Not to say external reviews have no value, but they're only part of what's needed.
The best way I remember enhancing the graphics of my door games, was with those local versions of the game you could install that'd connect using its own protocol to the BBS. Versions of The Pit where you'd get local images and sound files. In a lot of ways that feels closer in step to the web, which focused more on protocols and structure of your data than on how to render your image. RIPscrip maybe intersects with the <form> element.

Flash seems like the more direct competitor that he touches on. It's easier to see in hindsight, but they really won by taking care of the content creators. I tried a few times to make RIP graphics back in the day but could never really figure it out. Flash, in contrast, had an experience for the designers and artists that is still remembered fondly today. It set the course for a whole new generation of animation.
Actual scientists i follow on Twitter are consistent in saying there is no sign of strains with different virulence. I believe this is a myth. I would be interested to see any actual research showing otherwise, if you can find it (not NYT articles!).
Holly... You're right. This will happen. To an over-arching state this is the ultimate modus.

INSERT INTO Citizen(dob,ssn)
VALUES 2030-10-28, sha(atgcaatgcatcgc..)
In this case he could use http-equiv meta-tags.
Whys this downvoted? I am seconding this information. Is it my self-deprecating comment about being an ASC?
I do the same, but for things that aren't yet discovered. I try to imagine what the solution might look like, how it would be presented, what the implications of it's creation will be, etc.

I really love for example the film 'Travelling Salesman' [1]. It explores some possible narrative for discovering the solution to P=NP.

One I like to think about is general human-like AI. How do I test it works correctly? How long did it take to create? What algorithms does it make use of? What are the implications in my social circles? What is the wider impact? What happens if you refuse to release the code?

One film I like that explores some ideas is 'Ex Machina' [2]. In my opinion the AI created in the film is intelligent, but lacks empathy - something I think we should seriously consider in our attempts to create AI.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_Salesman_(2012_film...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film)
Earlier post about SeL4 verification:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23464187

Also, my previous comment linking to how SeL4 performed the verification:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23475748

> seL4 hey used Haskell to create an model which was then their specification to help with the formal verification process [1][2].

> [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1159842.1159850

> [2] https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2009/papers/klein-....
Interesting how little pentest rates have moved on in the UK in the last 20 years. I was a customer of big UK testing companies back then and rates were around that already, so there's been effectively no increase there in that timeframe, if you're still getting work at the £750-£1000 range.
Lending stops when people run out of collateral. It's not the interest rate that determines what people can borrow. It's how much collateral they have.

The financial collapse was due to bankers failing to assess collateral with sufficient haircut.
> "Financial repression" is one of those heavily loaded political terms that annoys me, because of the implication that the investment class are owed a positive risk-free rate of return even if that's at the cost of the rest of society.

The investor class aren't owed anything and the jaw dropping foolish policy of bailing out losers needs to stop.

But two points; first just to be clear on terms there is no such thing as a return that is free from risk. The term 'risk free returns' means no risk of the contract counterparty welching on the terms of the contract. The other background risks still exist. Nobody knows what the return on bonds will be in real terms and investors get involved in them with the knowledge that the investment could well be worthless or worth-negative in real terms.

Second - if the rate of return is negative then that really just means nobody rational will be willingly to lend the money to the government. So while I may not be owed a positive rate of return (which makes sense, I can't force anyone to borrow from me) there is no fair situation where I accept a negative (or nil) expected rate of return for taking on real risk.
we should always try to minimize future catastrophes by enshrining rights and regulation around issues that could contribute to them.

We should not be tricked into ignoring these issues because catastrophes are rare, as this would logically make them less rare.
Great curation!
pardon my ignorance, but how is QEMU not virtualization? There have been MacOS builds of KVM/QEMU for a couple of years now and I distinctly remember seeing that it had either been added or was being added to the base OS (google-fu is failing me because of so many results about the reverse-- running MacOS under KVM/QEMU).
Yours maybe
Our "captain dumbass" governors really messed things up with their lockdowns. Time to replace them.
Scientists flock to mysterious 'blue hole' off Florida's Gulf Coast
IIRC the parent selector has big performance implications, so its spec has been postponed for years
I discovered the same thing. I, umm... don't think these were generated by the neural net?
I don't feel like the multiples of a toilet cleaner's wage should be a measurement system since it mostly shows income inequality.

For example in Sweden and most of Europe, most devs only make 2x-3x NET of what the toilet cleaner makes. Not only because we're underpaid(which I hate) but the toilet cleaners tend to be paid fairly(which I like).

In places with high inequality like South Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the USA, a SW dev is expected to make multiples of low-end blue collar wages.
This is very confused. The hybridoma process you describe is the only way to make monoclonal antibodies, not a more efficient way, and it was invented in the early 1970s. It has nothing to do with mRNA vaccines.
Why is that off? Falsetto is still singing. They include whistle register too.
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Evaluate the validity and reliability of mental models
Marx?
I wonder what that would mean for projects like Reactos or Wine?
Would they become obsolete or would they be some haven for Win32 applications?
I was hoping the piano keys at the bottom would play notes, but they don't.
Got to believe that it’s possible before you can find it.
The CPU? You'd have to buy a second notebook to get the 4800U first...

I'd pay money to see Louis Rossmann try though.
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Something may seem safe when you give to 20 people and less safe when you give it to 20’000 or 20’000’000 people. If it has 1% chance of severe complications that will probably by missed in the phase 1 study.
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Why don't you go ahead and do that, and then report back to us on your success.
I'd recommending digging through his website: http://bach.ai/

Depending on what interests you, maybe also look at the abstracts of his research papers?

http://bach.ai/publications/
I’m cackling at the idea of GDPR compliant data thieves. “This data is only to be used for the purposes of: anything. The data controller is: whoever.”
Let me explain. I was browsing Facebook on my phone at Philz one day and saw Mark Zuckerberg come in wearing a suit (it was a Friday). I asked him "are coding interviews good?". "No", he said, "they're very bad". I would have asked him to explain, but he seemed to be engrossed in the last level of some sort of Mario Bros game. I went back to my phone and clicked on an ad. Only I never click on ads: it was all a dream. I woke up. "Is this still dream?" I wondered. I spun my phone on my desk like the top from Inception. It fell off and the screen shattered instantly.
I'd argue that very little is actually known about the A12Z hardware implementation details because there are not many out there and they are largely in the hands of folks trying to build their commercial software as fast as they can. I'd wager the MacOS 11 build for these developer platforms is largely focused on just making sure Xcode runs and not extensibility in the system software
You can tell they didn't truly consider the full working remote scenario because their video/voice call and screen sharing functionality is below average.

Slack on its own isn't usable for remote work, it has to be Slack + Google Meet or Slack + Zoom. Slack's tech in that area just isn't up to industry standards.
Ah, sounds good. Do you mean the grid keeps front-end and back-end data synced? DGXL does not offer that at this moment. You could probably recreate something like it by using getData and setData methods and implement some kind of AJAX communication.
This is simply not true. My current Notebook is a 32GB Ram equipped 13" Toshiba Portegé X-30-D, comes in at nearly 1KG and is available with a quad-core i7-8550U.

I'd just like a Ryzen 4800U version of my current machine, even if it means sacrificing Thunderbolt 3.

I think i'll have to wait for 5800U to come around and have USB4 though to see that happen. :(
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Upvoted, but I remain skeptical. "You might have cancer but the probability is low and we should just watch it" is true for everyone who hasn't been screened, just the "might" is somewhat higher for those with a bad test result. Benign-looking moles on your arm could be cancer. Things you can't see or feel in your organs could be cancer. Also, plenty of other things could kill you practically without warning—heart attack, stroke, car crash, and the chance of the first two (and cancer) goes up over time. It seems to me that people have to come to terms with these things eventually, and "you have a low probability of having this type of cancer" just doesn't seem that different to me (perhaps it's best phrased as "you have an x% chance of being killed by this cancer"). If you've seen several people respond badly despite understanding probability, well, it's hard to argue with that, but I can't help wondering if it's fixable through slightly better communication or education.

Doing some reading about prostate cancer specifically, it seems like it actually is of the form "there is no appropriate action to take, regardless of the outcome of the screen"—or at least it's close enough that some experts think so. "In 2012 the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against prostate cancer screening using PSA.[39] As of 2018 a draft for new recommendations suggests that screening be individualized for those between the ages of 55 to 69. It notes a small potential decrease in the risk of dying from prostate cancer, but harm from overtreatment." And: "A study in Europe resulted in only a small decline in death rates and concluded that 48 men would need to be treated to save one life. But of the 47 men who were treated, most would be unable to ever again function sexually and would require more frequent trips to the bathroom." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer_screening#Guid...
"Ghost isn't easy to install" is an equally old meme which is trivial to disprove :) Self-hosting any CMS requires a degree of tech-savvy.

Here's a comparison of Ghost vs WP in terms of time to install:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMKNgV1gTHg
What workarounds insurance companies come up with to ... will be interesting

If there's enough money to be made, I'm sure the Usual People will be persuaded to bend the law until it gives way.
A lot of it comes down to familiarity. Most French companies know of Ivies, Stanford, and MIT. Most Americans couldn’t tell you of a French university beyond La Sorbonne (Paris IV).

In my time there I learned a lot about the difference between university and grand écoles.
Can anyone recommend Flash games I should try out? I feel like I completely missed out on this scene.
I'm struggling with the purpose of my job too.
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By the rules proposed by some writers of the NYT, most certainly yes. You could say he founded a lot of the fields of science known today, but he had of course "problematic" opinions. He should have known how to articulate himself ~2000 yeaers ago, give or take. No wonder Greece has monetary problems today with such a toxic marketplace culture.

If you ask me I would cancel Plato first though. I neither like his face, nor his opinions.

But fun aside, I do think that classical philosophy can be a discipline of self-reinforcing wankers.
> Is your DNA a secret? I think the fact that you leave it everywhere means no.

There is a complicated procedure to convert this skin scales to data. Not everybody is able to do it, so if is not a secret, neither is exactly open data.