skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it tells us something about nature of "art", what it is and what it used to be. Just not sure what.

It's funny how easily can "unsavoury botting and spamming" become an "art installation". Also makes you wonder what exactly is difference between "art" project linked above and like/follower vending machine (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xw8yv3/russian-vending-ma...).
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The Palestinian's that I have talked to say it's because of retaliation from israel and the threats of violence.
But the hedge fund is owed that exact amount of money from Revlon. It is an accidental pre-payment by Citibank, it isn't just a clerical error where the recipient has no claim on the funds. And it is likely that Revlon is going to default on their loan in the future, which probably factored into the the hedge fund's decision-making.
Have you tried becoming a hedge fund?
I’ve rented many an Airbnb where that long password is scratched out and it looks like a previous guest has written in “torpedo” or something much easier to type.

I guess the upside of default router passwords is that it allows friendly “hackers” to help.
Because trains take a long distance to brake, distance between trains needs to be pretty high on high-speed lines, which imposes a limit on this. (Not sure why you'd need any luggage handling, you can just bring all your luggage onto the train yourself.)
i dont understand how Brigade can so brazenly make off with the money here. why would people want to work with them given this behavior?
To be fair to them, the hedge fund decided they wanted to keep money that they think _is_ theirs, which they had loaned to Revlon.

Imagine a world where debtors can choose to repay lenders, and then change their minds and take the loan back again. It would make being a lender impossible. So it's sort of understandable if Brigade genuinely believe that, at one point, there was a conscious decision on the part of someone to repay the loan. Given that the sum they received was equal to the exact amount of the loan, it's not completely unreasonable.
Maybe not, if the bank owed you $3 million, but wasn't due until next year.
Denmark didn't go all out on masks initially but curbed the pandemic by socially distancing and shutting down early.

Masks are currently not required in public transport across the country, but that changes this Saturday. Up until last week I can count on one hand how many people I have seen wearing masks.

Now that people seem to have forgotten what social distancing means, masks are a useful tool. But if everyone just keeps their distance, they're not a must have.
At face value, the corrosion makes no sense whatsoever.

This is central California, there is no way an un-grouted steel cable can develop such a serious corrosion issue and in such a short time.

If it was some place with acid rains, exposed to the sea, etc, that would take tens of years, AND it would have needed traffic on the bridge, possibly above the theoretical allowance.

Disclaimer:
I have been site manager in the construction of several pre- and post- tensioned reinforced concrete bridges, I have dealt with this stuff for years, but of course I know nothing of the specific project and/or exact type of cables used in it.
I'm reminded of the Zen koan where the students cannot tell whether the flag is moving in the wind or the wind is moving around the flag. The master tells them that the mind, neither the flag nor the wind, is what is moving.

Both sides of the interpretative coin are needed. We must simultaneously understand that QM is epistemic and also that QM is contextual. The author asks,

> How do probabilities get into QM?

Because knowledge of physical systems is always limited and QM is epistemic, all quantities we manipulate in QM are probabilistic. Further, the Kochen-Specker Theorem requires that some measurements be not fully determined by past history, as a matter of living in at least three dimensions of space. Finally, basic linear logic allows us to replicate most of QM's effects with macrostates.

While Schrödinger hated this and used his famous cat thought-experiment to try to refute it, children learn about linear logic and probabilities in macrostates when they are given random toys or packs of trading cards, and today we recognize that it really is possible to condition relatively large differences in macrostate observations on single entangled or otherwise-prepared microstates.

> In the [Everett] realist approach the history of the world is endlessly splitting;

Eh, kind of? But it's also endlessly joining. We wouldn't just be in a "cosmic history" which is "sufficiently benign" for us, but also we're likely to be in a likely history. In fact, we're exactly as likely to be on our current path as our current path is to be randomly picked from amongst the possible paths. So it turns out that Everett's many-worlds analysis is a little tautological.

> But how can something so nonlocal represent reality?

Finally, a good deep question. There are two parts to the answer, and each are deep enough to warrant a series of lectures. First, the Kochen-Specker Theorem, combined with general relativity, leads to the Free Will Theorem: When we measure particles, we are sending them a query, and they choose how to respond to the query from among the possible replies. Second, reality isn't one single fabric, but interlocking systems of geometry and topology. With apologies to Wheeler, geometry tells reality how to interact, and topology tells reality how to propagate information. This insight leads to the co-hygiene principle [0].

The author sketches some possible directions for experimental work; it would be interesting to read about turning them into proper experiments and seeing the results.

[0] https://fexpr.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-co-hygiene-principle....
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In which case I'll make an account!

Thanks for putting me right.

So there's no point (is there?) letting any old people send in corrections, and waiting years...?
> For example, it fetched rpassword, a tool that hides password characters as you type them into a terminal, much like Python's getpass function.

I want to note that you can call actual C functions from D without much extra effort.

Here’s a program that calls getpass: https://glot.io/snippets/fqf04b6wg2
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> what happens when AI is wrong but used as proof of something?

False positives everywhere. There was an article on HN a few weeks back about cops picking up the wrong guy, flagged by facerec. Even though the system's printout had a huge warning, "This document is not a positive identification", the detective still had the density to say, "So I guess the computer got it wrong, too."

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882683463/the-computer-got-it...
It's because (according to them) it's their money. It's not some random sum coming from some stranger, it's the exact amount they were owed.
I do prefer a vendor who gets rid of obvious fake reviews. As always, I can only hope they leave the legitimate ones alone. But in general, a vendor should at least read and handle reviews, leading immediately to a better product and service. Reviews are the simplest way for a customer to provide feedback. And some review hygiene, removing the fake ones, is also part of customer service, enabling the customer to get an objective impression.
I was pondering if certain people will start marking cause of deaths as coronavirus.

Apparently coronavirus pays well for hospitals, also some people want the death due to cornoviruis to be as high as possible.
C sent B money that B wasn't expecting and immediately asked for it back... Nothing more clear-cut. Thankfully the tax payers will get to fund the next riveting installment of "was this obvious mistake actually legally a mistake?"
Oh yeah, we realized that as well. What do you think about putting services for multiple languages into a separate group and exclude them from the votings for the individual languages?
They have a good point for it being theirs: they're owed that exact amount by Revlon. From their point of view, somebody at Revlon figured "let's just pay them in full" and a few days later somebody else thought "that wasn't a good idea, let's get the money back".

If it was e.g. the expected amount with one or two additional zeros, that might point to a typo. But the exact amount of $176.2mn instead of $1.5mn? That may still be a mistake, but it's not that obvious.
On a prediction/betting market I'd go with it was not a poison at this stage.

Evidence at the moment is he wasn't poisoned as far as I can see. It seems natural.

Has anyone got anything other than his PR saw him drinking tea? Even this seems silly, how do you get it into his tea? What if he didn't get a drink.
If by knowing intricacies of law and being lucky they're making their clients richer, I want to be one of their clients...
Didn't feudal societies typically have kings who were the ultimate central power and who, in theory at least, only answered to God?
What if the bank owed you $3 million to begin with?
Heh, already done. https://endler.dev/2017/obsolete/ :)
An American friend of mine living here had a decent chunk of money transferred to his account by an American company.

Next three (or so) days he try to give it back and they wouldn't listen.

Next day after that they contact him to say he needs to give the money back immediately "or else".
Ah, so you mean a scoped stylesheet included in the same file as the rest of your component markup. Agreed this is a useful pattern in the right circumstances! Depending on your build process (and how you're using components), in the old days this method just saw a global stylesheet deployed as usual, except with automated / custom scoping applied via data attributes. Do web components use shadow-dom style scoping now?
Yes, but the "supplying 100% of global generation" doesn't have any bearing on current reality.

Anyway, this argument for thorium isn't something customers would care much about. It's basically "thorium would not suck as much as uranium-fueled burner reactors do if uranium gets much more expensive" rather than "nuclear power is more attractive now if we use thorium". The customer response to "nuclear as currently implemented fails badly if uranium runs out" is going to be "use something other than nuclear".
Dozens of reasons. Biology rarely ever is so simple.

- Mutation/Infectiousness changes
- Behavioral changes
- Testing changes (more/less/precision)
- Reporting Changes (like changing all reporting from CDC)
- Political interference/ Wishful thinking
- Non-linearity (the virus has tagged the easier victims and is now moving slower into the more distanced population)
- Seasonal patterns
- Any combination of the above.

Frankly, its insanity to assume herd immunity at this point in time, especially with uncertainty about length of immune protection from primary and t-cell response.

Its a virus, it writes the rules and we barely have managed to decipher some of them, this article reads like a perverted Mission Accomplished on an aircraft carrier.
If I understand the article correctly, the equivalent here would be that the bank owed you $3 million to be paid over the next 10 years but paid it all to you today in one lump sum.

Now if they had paid you $5 million, that might leave you open to a fraud charge if you spent it because you were never expecting that much. But if they paid you the $3 million they were going to pay you but just 10 years early…is it different?

That said, I reckon it’s clearly an error. ;)
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I wonder whether those consultants and outside "experts" are American (and hence have never been involved in HSR construction) or Japanese/French/Chinese/German/Italian.
Congratulations on the launch Uday and team!!
The fact that most of us use DEFLATE without ever realizing that it's optimized for hardware specs from many decades ago, and especially this 32KB window part, is is pretty much the "grandma's cooking secret"[0] of compression, isn't it?

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/grandmas-cooking-secret/
Interesting. I held F5 down for less than a minute and I got an "Unusual usage - account temporarily locked down" message. Disappeared after a few seconds pause though...
Thanks for the feedback. Glad you liked it. If you (or anyone else) find the time, please vote on a few tools and perhaps also add a comment for a tool? That would help us a lot as we basically have zero comments on the page right now and it's hard to crowdsource them.
But the money they were paid with wasn’t Revlons... it was Citibank’s. This is theft from Citibank shareholders.
So you have flexible hours and on top of that, even if you go to sleep immediately at 11 and wake up exactly at 6, you don't get the average amount of sleep people need.

You may be an outlier who can do this, but the average human will break down with that schedule over the long term
Understand your point, but if I was a customer there is zero chance I am investing a cent with them.

My thinking is if they do this with Citibank and a hundred million, I have no confidence in being able to recover my own money in case of a dispute.
Was Revlon in arrears on their payments? Wasn't Revlon going to pay before Citi fat-fingered the operation?

Because what you're saying goes both ways. The bank doesn't have the right to take money out of my account to pay a loan except for what was arranged as a payment plan.
Mostly its not needed for ping but the config is not yet great in all distros, I talked about this in https://docker.events.cube365.net/docker/dockercon/content/V...
Before the law sits a Gatekeeper
Brigade's opinion of the situation does not make it a mistake. The question is more the process at Citibank and Revlon. And prepayment isn't really a mistake in the sense that Brigade received an unjustified windfall. I think Brigade will win, and Citibank will have to take the loss.
Thanks for the correction.

Yes I see now what you mean and with that background Xenadu02's reply does make a lot more sense.

Don't have access to a Apple Developer Transition Kit, so was not aware of the new requirements.
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It would be useful to list which tools support the SARIF standardized format (https://sarifweb.azurewebsites.net/).
Links for the lazy:
https://zlib.net/pigz/

Made by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Adler
Currently my TV is hooked up to a computer but it's hard to use the interface as a TV.

I want to use the TV as a TV, not just as a remote desktop. I've tried using KDE connect with mouse pad + keyboard remote control but the experience isn't great.
> why would they have paid back the entry thing, with interest, early?

This isn't all that rare - it just means they were able to convince someone else to invest in the business, and pay off the whole loan for them.

Kinda like when you're in loads of debt and you transfer the debt from one credit card to another because it has slightly better terms.
> it’s very difficult to maintain this lifestyle

Serious question, why bother? Any normal job would have you working less (assuming it’s true that you never get a free weekend or holiday, which I kind of doubt). What do you get out of this? The ultimate satisfaction of helping a stranger receive email instead of being with your family on Christmas?
I dream of owning land one day. KY has some cheap stuff. I might be able to afford 50-100 acres there.
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Because tar gz works on any unix and 7z requires installing additional software. Whether you want that or not depends on your use-case. It's a good example of "good enough" software which is hard to phase out.

That said, recently I've found that CentOS 8 minimal did not have tar installed. So may be it's worth to start using something modern like zip or even 7z.
It was not this week, sorry!
A simple pdf based on some of the most interesting psychology principles that can be embedded in your product for choice-hacking.
Also in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24221907
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There's no theft, it is ineptitude at Citibank. The economic loss for ineptitude should rightly fall on Citibank's shareholders.
Disclosure: I work in another part of the organization. Not sure which of the pre-merger parts was working on this, but I thought the technical aspect was interesting and the function suitable for ethical discussion.
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It was a fresh install
Interesting. Never heard of it, but I created a ticket on Github to investigate. You can watch it to track updates: https://github.com/analysis-tools-dev/static-analysis/issues...
Thanks for the feedback!
If you were a customer of Brigade capital you’d be buying them champagne right now. They they just saved $170 million of your money that you would have had to accept as a loss should Revlon go bankrupt (which it probably will).
Wait, so you mean places like the Museum of Ice Cream and the likes, with installations somewhat obviously targeted at people who want to photograph and post them, want to have this available on-site? I wonder if the people don't realize the irony or if they are beyond the point of seeing anything "wrong" or strange about paying to inflate their like counts.
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> If Revlon is in such financial trouble they Brigade believes they won't be able to pay back the loan, why would they have paid back the entry thing, with interest, early?

From what I understand, they paid the interest accrued until the moment of the payment, not the amount they would have paid under the terms of the loan. So from the POV of the lender, maybe they were able to refinance the loan under better terms with some other lender (perhaps Citibank).
Ah, I remember the olden days of HN well. When the front page rang with shouts of "HERE YE, HERE YE, THINGS YE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT EQUITY DILUTION!"
While your point is arguable what is not arguable is that the weight in a Tesla is very much evenly distributed across the chassis and has a very low center of mass which leads to excellent handling. Whereas an ICE typically has a big heavy engine up high and at the front of the vehicle which puts the vehicle's center of mass way out of whack.
I see that they haven’t improved their QC. Why can they test their computer before shipping them to us, consumer? By the end before i switched to Mac, i was simply ordering 2 and keeping the one with the less issues.
> Why is human insight needed

Idk, but proof is certainly needed. If the code reduces by symmetry, that part of the code should be proven correct (too).
Why operating systems don't provide a sandbox for running unsigned apps by default?

Is your app signed and secured? it runs in the current environment. Otherwise it runs in a copy of the current environment, with restrictions as to what it can send/receive from the world.
No, it’s likely the GKE incident is caused by a dependency that Gmail also has.
Exactly, it's a hedge fund, the customer base is extremely wealthy investors or pension funds.

These customers won't think that the fund is in the wrong for holding money it is owed, from a company that might go bankrupt any minute and default on the debt.
Giving you the freedom to run arbitrarily code on your device means giving your government the freedom to run arbitrarily code on your device, and it means giving every hacker on the planet who finds a remote exploit the freedom to run arbitrarily code on your device.

I don’t mind that freedom being limited to desktops and specialist hardware like Raspberry Pi and Arduino, and taken away from everything else like a phone or an MP3 player or a printer.

What’s the saying? The ‘S’ in IoT stands for ‘security’?
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California did that during the 2014 wild fires too... and paid them $2/day.

I still can't understand how people tolerate this or how it's not a top political issue.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/11/20/prisoner-labor
The simplicity of the tar format has certain advantages, such as ensuring an implementation in a variety of languages and platforms.

The seperation of "group files into an archive" and "compress these bytes" can also be very useful. For example, it means I can play around with the latest and greatest compression formats without needing to wait for a version of tar that has that format built-in.

Overall, I think it appeals to the "unix philosophy" - composing two independent tools (tar and gzip) instead of having one integrated solution.

The "tape drive" part is legacy cruft, certainly, but in practice its removal doesn't improve things enough that people find it worth the compatability break.

I'm not going to claim this is better than the more modern feature-rich archive formats, but hopefully this helps you understand the other side of the argument a little better.
I think it would be more like: Someone owns you $3 million, and then someone else erroneously sends you $3 million.
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Fortunately (for me) I'm back working in the office, albeit on my own most of the time.

The main thing I hated about working from, apart from not having the space to have a proper desk setup, was just feeling constant anxiety about not feeling productive or maybe more so not being seen to be working. And I don't really know why I experienced this, because we don't have that sort of culture at all. However this lead to poor sleep and stress.

I know a lot of people much prefer working from home, and most of if not all of my coworkers do, but I do feel like a lot of the conversations around WFH, especially from software engineers, is WFH is brilliant with no downsides, and the conversation completely negates the people that dislike it for whatever reason
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Good luck finding equipment at those prices. I was looking to pick up some extra equipment a little while back and everywhere was either sold out or crazy marked up because everyone is trying to build a home gym now. Just rechecked dick sporting goods and "Due to exceptional demand, Weight Sets are unavailable in your area".
I'm a developer and I switched teams/stacks about a month or two before we started WFH. I noticed that I'm learning much more slowly than when I was in the office.
That's right, hedge funds have a fiduciary duty to their investors.
How conceptual designing will rule the world of business in 2020?
They just tatooed "Dear Banks please don't do business with us ever again" on their foreheads though.

Edit: That is if it is a legitimate error-error not citibank try to pull a takesy-backsy.
I know! This was the main thing I noticed about this article. I was like really -.-
Eh, I read it differently. It’s not just one line, it’s three sentences followed by a reference to the political climate. I think it’s a bit much and it threw me off while I was reading it. I’ve seen those kinds of jesting comments in other blogs, but this one is more awkwardly phrased. When they write “Sorry Dr.Hume” I do actually feel sorry for his professor!
Looks interesting. I jsut downloaded. nice examples
Under conditions like these, a thriving black market is inevitable.
Should the economic loss of a fat finger be a billion dollars? Is that a just amount?
The problem is that we didn't buy into a walled garden. Mac OS X was an open platform from 2000 until 2012, when Gatekeeper was added, ostensibly for security. It's very difficult if you've invested in a platform for many years, and then the platform slowly transforms into something different.
I have Yahoo as my mobile homepage. It has news from a variety of sources. Yahoo finance is also very useful.
Take a look at pulumi; it provides a programmatic interface and related tooling on top of terraform.