skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's more, the people involved in the application process know the reputation of schools as well, both in respect to what kind and how much bias they have in terms predicted grades and in terms of how much the school tends to 'teach the test' or otherwise be good at grooming their students to get good grades or perform well at the interview, so a student who does well in grades or interview from an underfunded state school is more likely to get an offer than a pupil with equivilent results from a high-performing public school

There's still a substantial bias in offers towards public schools, but a lot of that is because such schools are selective like the universities, actual student ability does still matter and better schools still improve student ability more, and there's a strong self-selection of candidates for top universities (a lot of people who might get accepted for oxbridge don't apply because they don't think they have a chance) as opposed to old-school elitism in the application process. (Not that all of the above factors are actually fair from a grand socioeconomic viewpoint, but they are reasonably fair in as much as the university judging the merits of the applicants it gets).
Someone brought that up the last time this came up on HN. In the explanatory materials, they clarified that (ii) is indeed meant to restrict this to posts on their own Facebook page:

> 1.89 In the case of a social media service such as Facebook, this rule deals with the situation where the news business has posted its covered news content on the news business’ own social media page. Comments on the news business’ articles posted by somebody else on another Facebook page are not covered by this law.

https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Exposure%20Draft%20EM%2...
These posts are job ads by YC companies, AFAIK there are no other official ads on HN.
Yeah, I know about that one. Wondered if anything new had come to light.

This was 10 years ago and involved 8 companies.

Concluding from one crime that they all do it, and that's just what those people are like, you can't trust them etc, is an impulse we all do well to resist.

Of course, concluding that nothing like this will ever happen again is also naive. The incentive to cooperate is certainly still there.

My impression is that since the 2010 case, wages have gone up dramatically in that class of companies. There are also more big companies with owners who aren't pals from before. I think. Just guessing, relly.
> 1 or 2

This is already the case in most of the world, including many developing countries.
I don't think (hope!) the OP isn't claiming spontaneous combustion.

I'm in Australia (Adelaide) too and the bushfire threat is real, but it's because when it's super hot any spark in dry eucalyptus leaves takes off extremely quickly.
Yes if your cash rich now would be the time to think about buying especially if your landlord is over stretched
During, I think MS Build, Microsoft said, vcpkg, it's their C++ package manager, will support this this year. I read it on their roadmap file in the repo too. VCPKG seems to be the path of least resistance, works accross platforms too
Anyone feeling blue today, how are you managing it?
If you have a single source file with no dependencies you can just include it into whatever compilation units you want. That is very easy and elegant. When there are complex dependencies it becomes more problematic.
> "if this law passes, we will stop serving these results" seems to be a reasonable reaction.

If that's Google's reaction then they should say so outright, not this weasel wordy letter.
> I just want to have a place where I can tick, "Google, please never ever collect any of my data".

You are asking for a paradox.
Also you can build for ppc64le if you are, or become, a developer for a GNU/Linux distribution. Unfortunately getting ppc64le back online for Fedora copr has no ETA, but you can develop and build for Fedora/EPEL. I can't remember whether SuSE's OBS has it.

You can also run under qemu, but I don't know how solid that is, and there is at least one simulator.
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For sure. The way it's delivered doesn't excuse the content in the slightest, but it still plays off the tone the show is going for.
The fact that masks provide protection is evidence that aerosols are not significant transmission route.

Surgical and cloth masks are not relevant to aerosol question. They work trough gravity sedimentation and inertial impaction.

For smaller particles you need diffusion, and electrostatic attraction. In other words N95 mask that fits well.
To get a rough idea of how warm it is in Fahrenheit just remember that 100 degrees Fahrenheit is the body temperature.
Rock Creek Park is a National Park.

https://www.nps.gov/rocr/index.htm
Modern particulate filters are pleated: you take a thin filter material that is effective at blocking particles but hard to get air through, and then fold a bunch of it up in a small space to increase the surface area and decrease the pressure drop required for air to flow through it. If you don't have a suitably thin material or don't have this technique, increasing the surface area by, say, making it into a big cone would probably also work.

The miasma theory isn't quite right, but it could conceivably have provided a half decent rubric for designing a working particle filter: at least some unpleasant smells are carried by particles. (Burning incense inside the mask is an example of where this theory might lead you off course.)
Off topic, but the tufas at Mono are incredible. But please stay on the trail if you go!
Extraterrestrials could be using light instead of radio to communicate
There’s https://sqwarq.com/detectx/ which would fit your needs nicely. They also recently tweeted about detecting this specific malware in question.
This is always said but it's just not true. Unless you kill the animal yourself you shouldn't eat it. Doing so makes you a coward.
Is anybody buying non-ARM/non-x86 systems nowadays? Seems like a dying market.
Thanks for taking a look! It's why I had wanted to create this gem.
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The miracle of the price discovery process is that efficiency (such as electric planes) can often be found if there is market pressure.

The reason we do nothing about climate change is that subconsciously we believe it's hopeless.
There was no pulling up. And there was no ground beneath my feet. Just an endless ocean with no points of reference by which to orient oneself.

So the only course of action was not to search for rocks to cling to, but of learning how to swim, and dive in. As backwards as it may read, I only felt secure after having let go of myself.

As odd as this description may sound to someone who has not experienced this, it is instantly recognizable to those who have -- which helped discover others who traversed this before. It so happens that Buddhists have a rich tradition for navigating these waters, which helped satisfy my intellectual curiosity of what was happening. To know that I was not 'defective' but merely in an initial stage of 'unlearning' was a big jolt of positively to my psychology.
Are they NOT supposed to report credible threats of violence or terrorism? I believe we all agree that Islamic terrorist groups such as ISIS should not be allowed to use the platforms to propagate violence. Why are violent members of the Far Right any different?

From the article:

> On a now-deleted video on the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton by Canadian white nationalist, Stefan Molyneux (whose channel YouTube has now banned), the user wrote: “Hi guys, i need your help, i cant help but look at those shooters and think, that could be me. I watch Stefan, and black pilled and many others on the right. I think i should do the same thing they are doing.”

> The user then went on to discuss methods of making explosive devices.

> But the same user also discussed making explosives in other comments which were still visible on YouTube at the time of reporting, along with the user’s account.

> On a video alleging acts of brutality by local police, the user appended comments urging others to “kill them, when you go to trial i wouldn’t find you guilty for shooting these criminals. Kill them all”.

> According to Google’s reports, the same user appended racial slurs to videos reporting crimes which Google has since removed.

These are public comments -- any user could report them to law enforcement. This seems like EXACTLY the sort of thing that SHOULD be reported to law enforcement for investigation. Law enforcement takes the tip and decides where to go from there.
Yes. but I plan to implement the css selector feature without any dependencies and native extension in the future.
Exactly how it works for me. I tried meditation and my anxiety became much worse. Somehow the meditation itself unlocks many more things to worry about.

Conversely, I found out that doing things that are exactly the opposite (of mindfulness) do great for me to not worry that much: Play computer games, go to "pointless" parties, "waste" some money... and of course, physical activity.

Meditation centers my mind squarely at the things that I worry about the most (and I don't have great influence on): politics, diseases (like getting cancer), what people think of me, etc.
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No, I really hoped to be amazed by some weird phenomenon that can cause 130 degrees. Didn't even think about Fahrenheit.
Libraries are closer to raw (but still refined) materials than frameworks. Frameworks impose structure on users, libraries ask users to plug them in where appropriate.

> It is not really relevant to efficient, performant software, it is more like an art for the sake of it.

This statement sort of presumes frameworks are a necessary prerequisite to software, which isn't the case.
Sorry, had to manually url-encode the exclamation marks. Try now.
Why would you go to bat for an anti-encryption mass surveillance party despite it being against your morals?

They deserve everything they get for not representing a viable alternative. In 2020, it's not enough to be 98% the same as the other party with a few differences in policy minutiae.

If they get dragged by the media, good. They deserve worse after betraying the entire tech industry repeatedly.
Ive used this as a feature before to add some unique data into the end of an executable after it had been signed.
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Is the number of people the problem or is extreme consumption and waste, particular at the top, the issue?
Sorry for the inconvenience. But as I wrote below, I'm going to implement it in the future.
This was Chinese government policy for decades. It caused immense human suffering.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/120114/under...

Personally, I think people are an asset, not a burden, and the greatest things in the world! That's right, I mean you, dear reader. Straighten that back!
This statement can be used to describe so many countries, it’s odd you’re just saying it about the Chinese govt.
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Any chance Apple will return to POWER CPUs and be a real "supercomputer" again?

https://jeffhendricks.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Powerma...
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So the bar wont lose its licence - I recall seeing JWZ's posts about how many loops they went through with dna lounge
>For $10 you can get Dropbox (2 TB) data, so I dunno if saving that $5 is worth it in this case. You get the Linux client, and far more reliability in every aspect.

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
"An announcement is expected in England later and Northern Ireland has already said it will use predictions for GCSEs."

If UKGOV is good at nothing else when it comes to technology, they've still got backtracking nailed down (assuming they follow suit which seems likely.)
Overfishing aside I believe cephalopods (such as squid) are expected to thrive relative to other marine creatures - they seem to be well poised to adapt in response to rising ocean acidification/CO2 and decreasing fish stocks

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-squid-climate.html
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/23/octopuse...
No. Purely digital goods & services (apps, video, games, etc.) are not "retail".

Retail means "physical stuff".
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You should re-evaluate your life. You sound like a psychopath.
> Is there an overview somewhere which allows comparison with fig. 4 of your ACM 2019 publication?

We have set up a benchmarking infrastructure for performance tracking, but it is unfortunately not public (yet). Also, we have switched from GraalVM EE/JDK8 to GraalVM CE/JDK11 a couple of months ago, which makes it hard to compare recent with older results. But what I can say it that performance on GraalVM CE/JDK11 is currently better than on GraalVM EE/JDK8 a year ago. I expect it to be faster on EE as well, but I'd need to measure by how much.

> Anyway in that publication SOMns using the same technology - as far as I understand - showed a completely different performance pattern; does this still apply, and what is/was the reason for this?

Correct. First, SOMns does not support a real Smalltalk system and does not support some crucial mechanisms (e.g. changing the class of an object). So TruffleSqueak must check the class of an object in quite some cases, which is a slight, unavoidable overhead. More importantly, SOMns has some primitives that Squeak does not, for example for comparing strings. That's for example another reason why SOMns is so much faster in the JSON benchmark. For your curiosity, here's a screenshot of the benchmark results for a current TruffleSqueak and SOMns (note that they ran on different versions of GraalVM, I think you can somewhat compare the TruffleSqueak numbers to "GraalSqueak-CE" in fig. 4 of the paper):

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2368856/90402527-d...
Kodak has their own dedicated waste treatment plant. You would face similar obstacles.
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> Whether you like it or not, Science stole your privacy the day you were born

I don't follow.

I think you have 3 paragraphs describing that the problem comes from irresponsible government agencies, entrenched private companies, and existing public infrastructure. But then you conclude that the reason GP can't have privacy is because science is in the way. I don't see how you got from point A to B.

> your best bet for some privacy is to limit your contact with other entities whilst also trying to change the laws for the better but as this requires interaction with other entities, it seems like you want a paradoxical situation to exist.

This is a somewhat strange way to think about privacy. Privacy isn't binary, and personal information isn't fungible. It's possible to reveal some information about yourself in some contexts, and then hide other information in other contexts.

Of course, lobbying is harder if you're trying to be private (heck, voting in the US is harder if you're trying to be private). But engaging with the system doesn't immediately mean you lose all of your privacy across the board. Yes, we do sometimes talk about privacy in bits -- but the full scope of privacy ultimately can't be represented by a single number in a math equation.
I think presentation got one thing wrong. npf (NetBSD's pf) is not coded on based on OpenBSD's pf.
Lowering rank of a sleazy news organization that was previously gaming the ranking... is exactly what they should do if they are keeping the end user in mind.

I buy that AMP is bad and they should share revenue.

It is not entirely Google’s fault that their survival requires click-bait articles instead of having original content
In my BMW 3 Series (F30), it's placed under the car between the right front wheel and the bumper. It can be clearly seen when you look under the car. I do notice some temperature difference between being parked and driving.
That doesn't seem to apply in this case. The vulnerability isn't masking the existence of the malware, it's only allowing its installer to run undetected (in some cases). Once the installer has done its job, they're golden. The vulnerability can be patched, but since the malware was already installed, it doesn't help the victim.
This is a great 17 minute high-level overview of the science. The breakthrough is the tool/technique used to access the embryo without physically damaging the egg. The glass-like embryo is a unique characteristic of this species, not the knockout gene. This work is a proof of concept; this species does not (yet) reproduce in captivity. Both scientists demonstrate a deep love for cephalopods and for science. They also discuss the ethics surrounding cephalopod research.
Why doesn't my browser compile and store my viewing habits, then construct searches for me? Searches which Google then executes?

Centralized services have built personalization systems in which they operate the personalization algorithms.

I don't have a problem with that, per se, except in that their interests (profit) and user interests (effectiveness) are only partially aligned.

The biggest reason, as near as I can tell, these system architectures were built is that control of personalization algorithms means (1) a means and reason to collect and retain data on users (that can be used for targeted advertisement) & (2) a means to execute targeted advertisement (via insertion into "recommended" content).

It's likely the only way these services are possible at the "free" price point. But it's disingenuous to suggest that they're the only model by which personalization could be realized.
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At least include the full quote, which is far more reasonable in-context:

"I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong."
Already replied to another comment with this but you could try https://sqwarq.com/detectx/ which has command line usage included. (Not affiliated with them)
Ah yes. The birthplace of several religions that that introduced the moral worthiness of animals centuries (if not longer) before the West and the origin of all mock meats up until a few decades ago has no interest in animal well-being. Absolutely.
Not every zip-based format behaves like this, Microsoft's zip based container formats tend to require a proper beginning too. For example if you add docx (which is a zip file) to the end of something else and open it in Microsoft Word, it will complain that the file is corrupted, and will suggest to repair it.
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There are not any diners/cafes that do that in SF - one rule of thumb in the uk is if the beat PC's eat there its good.
> The current system is simple, and that means it can be seen to be fair. If studying X at university Y needs grades AAB that's easy to understand and you know it's not biased.

If only it were that simple. Universities often also take in to account the outcome of in-person interviews which are inherantly biased.
If you’ve already disclosed it to the vendor, a leak of the information shortly thereafter would likely not be so anonymous.
In this case the defect is with how Microsoft handles MSI files. It is Microsoft's problem to fix.

Now, I can guarantee you 100%, based on its track record, that a code execution and sandbox vulnerability exists right now in Adobe PDF readers. Should Windows be required warn users before opening a PDF file that it could be dangerous? What would be different for any other non-trivial software that consumes a non-trivial file format?

No, they only should only have to make a public release about their own, known defects. They shouldn't even have to notify users directly, just make it publicly known. Though it would be nice if they kept track of other vendor's defects and alerted users.
There is so much room left to consume less or in a more sustainable way. We can produce more than enough food for everyone and drastically cut down on meat consumption and stop fishing from the ocean. That would make a huge difference for sustainability and carbon footprint.

However, non of this will happen. We are still in a world where countries fight over getting more resources to consume. That needs to shift to fighting to protect resources. We need sanctions on countries that fish too much and have too high emissions. Otherwise we will be caught in the tragedy of the commons till the planet is uninhabitable.

Meanwhile we cannot even properly coordinate a response to a pandemic.
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The Tory line has always been "Work hard and get ahead." It's an outright lie, because the reality has always been "Go to the right school and have the right parents and get ahead."

But much middle class [1] and some working class Tory support still believes in the social status dream, and this fiasco has directly undermined that narrative.

The party is getting huge heat from its base over this, not just because of their future prospects, but because some of them are now wondering if "Work hard and get ahead" has ever been true for them.

[1] Note for the US - in the UK "middle class" specifically means "Highly educated professionals with significant cultural and political capital" not just "People with a degree making decent money."
It's easier to game because it has minimal verification procedures and much less traffic, and the tech being used is way less advanced (and mods are less active).
The free 10 day vipassana retreats are really quite dangerous IMO. They're often attended by complete beginners with no prior knowledge, since they're free and sort of marketed as a boot camp. The actual instruction is given on decades old tapes and videos. The "instructors" there are given explicit instruction not to advise anyone and just get them to listen to the tapes (which are very much steeped in religious Buddhism). So anyone who's struggling, in a weird mindstate, and unsure what's happening to them, and goes to a course leader for advice, won't get any advice other than to buckle down and listen to the tapes, and that often results in misapplying the technique, buckling down too hard, and not relaxing enough, which can cause the mind to... snap, I guess.

Goenka's method is very inflexible and quite divergent from his lineage and peers. The method of insight meditation outlined by Ledi Sayadaw, Mahasi Sayadaw, etc, is really quite simple, but there's a lot of misinformation, marketing, and fraudsters out there trying to convince people it's more than it is.

> In a mindfulness course, meditation refers to the formal practice of catching your inner auto-pilot. This is usually complemented by applying mindfulness to every-day situations as well as some form of psycho-education.

This is true and about as far as most people will get or want to get with it, and it really does have that benefit. You're right, these longer retreats are designed to essentially deconstruct your self-world boundary, and that isn't usually disclosed to people, there isn't much informed consent. The people who are seeking that usually know what they're getting into.
There are many western slaughter houses that don’t give a damn about animal wellbeing.

Videos have come out, a few wrists get slapped, and the abuse continues. The western masses continuing to consume their product is tacit approval.

This isn’t a western vs eastern thing. It’s a human thing.
> And we're not some magical creature free from biological needs.

Am I? I became 100% vegetarian a year ago. No one around me was vegetarian. I saved money. I never ate so well and I'm in my best physical form ever. What is magical?
And that won’t go very far if they started to offer free mental health care and housing because they will start to get people shipped in from everywhere else.