skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since Scribd is not processing the data for a purpose other than what it was collected for

I disagree with that. Also, could you point out the bit in the email where it says so.

If I sign up for LinkedIn and provide PII for that, then the purpose for which the PII can be processed is in order to handle my interaction with LinkedIn. If I signed up to LinkedIn before 2012, and LinkedIn bought Slideshare in 2012, then LinkedIn could only claim that my PII is still being processed for its original purpose when used by Slideshare if Slideshare was made an integral part of LinkedIn. If Slideshare is then sold to a third party, then it definitely is not an integral part of LinkedIn, and applying my PII in its operation is not processing it for the purpose it was originally collected for.

LinkedIn does not have the legal right to bundle my PII in its sale of Slideshare to Scribd, and even if Scribd were to receive my PII, it would not legally be able to use it.
It's from a UK institution. I'd be surprised if the average member of that institution could distinguish US cities either. I assure you that people in coastal US cities are fully capable of distinguishing the mountainy place where there's legal weed from the flat place where there's corn. As a former midwesterner though, wouldn't feel confident about assuring you of anything more than that. Except during election season. For like 3 weeks everyone suddenly becomes an expert on Iowa and Ohio.

An old but relevant meme titled "how non-Americans see america":

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/051/807/26e...
Perhaps I missed it, but I did not see the study including K2 MK-7 and magnesium with D3. The 3 work together and can not support all of the metabolic functions on their own in a silo. There are also enzymes and co-enzymes that are part of the picture and I did not see any mention of them. Is there a more detailed version of the study? Again, could be me, I may have overlooked a link.
I'd like you to listen to this file, which is your first 'headline' read by `say`: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fanpqs8lv2d9nvl/say.m4a?dl=0 Now imagine yourself in the shoes of a vision-impaired person relying on a technology like VoiceOver. Do you understand how unbelievably frustrating that is?
Thanks. I already knew that. I'm familiar with the dev's extensions. Clear Browsing Data and Captcha Buster and very useful.
How about a tech company using data to accelerate the creation and approval of cancer fighting drugs: flatiron.com
(acquired a couple of years ago, but still independently operated)

Interested in improving the state of the art in detecting cancer - paigeai is building automated pathology tools.

A somewhat USA specific one, but goodrx is helping folks afford medications.

Quite a few of those "issues" in your link get you way past traditional Tech company turf, but all will need software engineers! There are a lot of cool biotech companies out there who would need software engineers!
Being a criminal, especially in times when many crimes were punishable by death, it also requires a risk-taking personality, so GP's point still stands.
I would 1000% agree with you had I not actually worn a Google Glass for a few weeks. Don't get me wrong -- there was so much wrong with it, but after a few days it was noticeable how freeing it was to not be looking down at my phone all the time (and I'm sure I've done that more and more since then). Even just a simple use-case where AR is used as a phone that you can wear on your head would be a significant leap forward. Again, if I hadn't tried it I would've sworn what I'm saying is nonsense, but ever since I gave it a go with the Glass I've just been yearning for the possibility of goggles-based phones, and good AR and a few other things are all that stand in the way of that
Is it just content or product. I have seen great results for cheap consumer products.
Exactly. Remember when the Indonesian dictatorship massacred at least 500,000 (maybe as much as 3 millions) people in the 60s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19...

But Soekarno was "our bastard", so who cares.
It's a catch 22 - in the UK at least, answering those questions is how you sign up for a credit report in the first place.
Maybe their ad targeting criteria is "people who don't want to hear about us".
Yes, in general the ones that left are more pro EU than russia (though the ones that left for Moscow are more pro Russia).

And I agree that EU should put more pressure on the whole subject. I see the eastern countries like Lithuania, Poland and Latvia trying to make waves/raise concerns, but central and western Europe not so much (ask a Portuguese where Belarus is, and he won't know) and are more invested in the BLM issues than what is happening at the EU borders (in Portugal, most don't event know what is going on there when I talk with them.

I wish all the best to the belarussian people, and they have shown to the world their desire but also their alues by their way of correctly and peacefully way to protest and demand change. I hope it is not for nothing.
I can sympathize. I always knew how to program since my teens. I'm 45 now, and didn't really start doing professional programming till I was in my late 30s. I worked hard for about 6 years to build up enough experience to feel confident doing this.

Now I'm at the point where my current job is pretty boring and we don't grow enough to bring in harder problems. But I also really don't want to move out to SV to work on Neuralink, sats, robots. Even though those problems are one that would be super interesting.
>because I see he's purposely riling up his base to commit terrorist attacks on his behalf

Both our positions are just presumptions. Only time will tell the facts.

> In a normal world, these would be things everyone agrees are bad.

I never said it was good or bad, but that I think he is aiming for jest.

IMO, which no one actually cares about, a president would be virtuous, rabbinic and self sacrificial... But that would require us to bring athens, israel and the new testament back into the class room.
The great tabs vs. spaces war of the 28th century devastated our solar system of origin...
The states are free to choose their way of allocating their House representatives so long as they are directly elected. I don’t know if Proportional Allocation would count as directly elected, and to force all states to go along with it you definitely need an amendment.
Also could be titled "Hidden costs of moving to microservices because the cool kids are."

Very glad (most of) the cool kids have re-evaluated their stance on microservices.
>>>And just to add to this, the IRS software could be significantly easier to use than the commercial offerings.

Someone has never worked in government contracting or developing Software from Government Committee

a IRS Tax Software would look more than the universally hated Unemployment Systems, or the government healthcare markets

Not a easy to use streamline system

If you want something to be inefficient, have the government do it
I think that protesters didn't think it through enough. Yes, Lukashenko is an awful guy, but what is the alternative?

Protesters say they are pro Russia - but in my opinion this is a grave mistake, and Belarus will soon find itself as a Russia-controlled state.
I would have loved to see some of her advice and information dis-aggregated by race.

Low Vitamin D levels of are not evenly distributed among different ethic groups. e.g. "53%–76% of non-Hispanic blacks [ had low vitamin D levels, in the Southern U.S.] compared with 8%–33% of non-Hispanic whites [0]".

Thus the risk-reward considerations of taking vitamin D are likely different for dark-skinned individuals than for light skinned individuals.

I have to assume her advice at the end is targeted at light-skinned people. As a dark-skinned person myself, I'm irritated that she couldn't bother to at least mention the above issues.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/136/4/1126/4664238
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Ah. I was off AIX and onto Solaris, and then Linux, by 2005.
A quick google search shows a pretty typical layered corporate structure.
There is something of an unpopular ideology in Computer Science that suggests that you shouldn't build architure to use cool tools, you should build the cheapest easiest architecture that meets the user's needs. This ideology is unpopular because using cheap and easy tools isn't exciting,and we developers often can't stand writing boring applications.

Quite a few projects are using P2P, machine learning, Kubernetes, No-Sql or block-chain not because the project actually requires scalability, decentralization, advanced data analysis or responsive big data, but because somebody got excited and refused to accept that it was a waste of time and money to do so.
The fact that I've never heard of Habitat or InSpec means either they're extremely niche and not as popular as I think Chef would've hoped, or I'm completely out of touch with both app packaging and sec tooling.

I'm hoping it's the former, but I wouldn't be too surprised if the latter since the 'enterprise' ecosystem of cloud tooling has grown exponentially in the past decade.
+1 for privacy.com

What you lose in credit card points, you 10X in savings on:

1. Unexpected "recurring" charges and

2. Time spent avoiding unintelligible unsubscribe UXs

Plus, I feel a lot more comfortable trying services that require a credit card for a free trial which has led me to some extra value that I wouldn't have found otherwise. Just set the budget on the card to $1.

Some people might feel bad for all the SaaS companies that are getting failed payment alerts, but I don't. It took a lot of dark patterns and group think to create a market for something like privacy.com.

I'm still waiting on my $600 from Dropbox, which they charged over five years for an inactive account without ever sending a receipt. Never again with privacy.com.

Edit: format/clarify
This man has done nothing wrong.

What I find problematic is that for the sake of racial sensitivity universities are willing to remove teachers even if the teacher hasn't done anything wrong. I agree that racism is a sore point in the current American social atmosphere, but we should not engage in an appeasement doctrine that sacrifices the innocent.
'A climate change-scale problem': how the internet is destroying us
Yeah the problem with that is all the rich people seem to have plenty of time on their hands to tell you how to live your life.
Attacking the Qualcomm Adreno GPU
To put it gently, highly reminiscent of:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/613141v2
GM Can Manage an EV's Batteries Wirelessly–and Remotely
>> the crowded cities of the east into the vast and dangerous interior of the continent must have been a special breed.

The cities were not what we would call safe. If you are living in total poverty inside a city without access to any real services, that empty field doesn't seem so bad. The "free land" thing was also a plus. Rather than risk-takers, they were more akin to desperate opportunists.
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I've been writing software pretty much my entire adult life.

But I was a manager for 25 years, which meant that I had to work on coding during nights and weekends. I got a lot done, but I really feel as if it stunted my development. Also, I was deliberately working on software that was designed to be taken over by folks with limited skillsets, so the tech edge was blunt. This turned out to be exactly the correct thing to do. That work has taken off in a big way, and is now being extended in new ways, by some talented and up-to-date engineers.

So, three years ago, I left the company I'd been working at for 27 years, dumped a bunch of my money into a couple of companies, and started to re-educate myself.

It's working out very, very well. Far better than I imagined it would. I may never get paid a dime for any of my work, ever again, but I am producing some of the finest software I've ever written. I've learned a ton, and I'm really just getting started. Over the weekend, I started work on a project that may or may not end up in open source, but will likely be one of the most ambitious projects that I've done. The last three years have helped me to get to the point where I have no issue diving in.

I'm pretty psyched.
The whole thing is propped up with CIA money. I saw an Onion exposé on this.
The UK has that system too, for the 'pay a contact system' which lets you make small bank transfers by knowing the recipient account holder's phone number. I assume my bank rates limits attempts.
The SF Bay Bridge added a similar feature during the expensive replacement of the Eastern span, and despite every precaution and a very gradual turn, drivers routinely crashed, and the area was covered with skid marks. One truck went completely over the rail. Apparently a large percentage of drivers go into a state of hypnosis on bridges.
Your last example is also the sort of thing that makes people really happy.

(And, unfortunately, a small number of folks will practically hate you for it, since you're taking away their "easy" work.)
You are misrepresenting Hobbes here to say that he was referring to the absence of a community... Sapiens have always lived in communities. He was referring specifically to humans in the condition in the absence of state power:

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.

The "nasty brutish, and short" bit follows in an elaboration of this condition in the next paragraph.

and THIS is contradicted, if not by the article, then by the book it is reviewing. In particular:

To date, some three thousand Homo sapiens skeletons unearthed at four hundred sites are old enough to tell us something about our 'natural state'. Scientists who have studied these sites see no convincing evidence for prehistoric warfare. In later periods, it's a different story. 'War does not go forever backwards in time,' says renowned anthropologist Brian Ferguson. 'It had a beginning'
Now I think I remember them. Weren't they an embedded database on Windows popular with PeachTree and such?
This is a PDF. You can zoom in it. I'm not wearing my glasses right now, so I just zoomed until the letters were several centimetres wide.

Unless you meant that there's not enough words per lines?
Uppercase %S for unescaped, e.g.:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/%S
Except as a product, the company (MSFT) is insulated from their crappy behavior, where if it were a stand alone company, there would be more accountability.

Maybe that's a new platform company strategy: build a bunch of low-volatility/low-margin enterprise products for long term revenue generation, then fund a bunch of shadey operations as products to be pools for off-the-books bonuses and incentives.
I think you'll find that nobody can provide a source for that scenario... because it never happened.

The closest thing you'll find is that Tesla sold a used trade-in that originally had Autopilot. The car was not advertised to have Autopilot in the used listing, which is kind of a key point that people "forget" when citing the case. Tesla apparently semi-frequently disable features in trade-ins and resell the trade-in as a lower-spec car (for less money).

Tesla made the mistake of not disabling autopilot before delivering the car to the second owner, who believed they hit the lottery and got free autopilot. Recall that the car was sold used as a non-autopilot car. Tesla later corrected the mistake, and it generated a shit-storm.

I agree it's creepy that they can turn off features of a car that has left the factory, but they don't routinely do it for features that people has paid for.
This seems like it might be a little selective.

What about these [1] [2] randomised controlled trials that show vitamin D supplementation has an effect on IBS symptoms?

Or this [3] double-blinded trial showing supplementation improved sleep quality in people with sleep disorders?

Or this [4] one showing improvements in depressive symptoms in overweight and obese subjects? The study cited in TFA is large but only uses participants aged 50 and above, with a relatively low dose of vitamin D.

Also, is it just me or is the line of argument used a little bit weak? You could use the same kind of argument to dismiss the need for dietary vitamin C, as follows: (a) vitamin C deficiency is associated with a bunch of other health conditions (as it's a marker of poor nutrition or socioeconomic status), so (b) let's look at the effects of supplementing vitamin C, which (c) naturally finds that supplementation does nothing for said conditions, and therefore (d) conclude that it is a pretty useless vitamin, while placing minimal focus on the things that it actually does fix, such as scurvy?

I am not an academic, so perhaps I am missing some context though.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27154424/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5900470/

[3] https://tumj.tums.ac.ir/article-1-8272-en.html

[4] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2796...
There would be no problem with TurboTax if it was a product that solved a real problem. If the complexity of the tax code and the process to file your taxes were 100% a problem created by the federal government and the states. It works pretty well, it's not too expensive, it has free options, not what's to like?

It isn't like that though. The IRS has nearly all the pieces it needs, if not all the pieces, to create a system like the UK, where they just send you your return and you sign it unless you think there's a mistake. But that system doesn't exist because of companies like Intuit who lobby hard to prevent it from existing.

In essence, Turbotax is solving a problem that Intuit is creating (or at least lobby to prevent anyone from fixing it).
I've assumed that rust is going to be killed by a "-enforce-no-mutate-single-owner" or similar flag to gcc (or some linter) that restricts C++ code to some subset/style that nails the majority of what rust brings to the table. IMHO, like many other language paradigms, once you understand the core tenents of rust you could write "rust code" in many other languages. The difference being that those other languages don't _yet_ have flags/etc to enforce a rust like style.
As someone who lives in this "Intermountain West", I've never heard of the "Intermountain West" term before your post

I'm not from the area, but once I started visiting and doing business in Utah, I found it was pretty common. Once I became familiar with it, I noticed it more and more.
There is a lot of excitement about this study, but the details in it matter. It was randomized - but when you look at the two groups (treatment vs. control), they had some key differences. The control group (who didn't receive Vitamin D) had more men (69% vs 54%), more people with hypertension (57% vs 24%) and diabetes (19% vs 6%). So the groups were not the same.
If you just compare the numbers of those who went into the ICU vs. not, then the results look amazing. But once you correct for hypertension and diabetes, it was not so impressive - it was not statistically significant in the study. (It is in the study but most people breeze right over that.)
Here’s the thing though: the IRS already has all the information they need for a majority of the population. Why does everyone need to fill out forms themselves only for the government a few years later to say you did it wrong?
You're much more likely to get "your" representative in this model.

In geography-based districting, you only have a chance to vote for someone who represents your interests if they run in your district. Gerrymandering is often perpetuated under claims that we need to draw districts to group like voters so they can have representation.

Example: Black majority districts were drawn to allow for Black representatives, but also are used to concentrate Black votes and remove them from other districts. With no districts Black voters instead could still support black candidates across a state and get representation that way. Even better, with multi-seat districts they can vote for multiple candidates for different reasons, including policy; effectiveness; honesty; faith or lack-of; gender, race, sexual-orientation representation; etc...

Proportional representation allows voters to support representatives regardless of proximity, so even smaller minority groups - including minority viewpoints and parties - can effectively pool votes to get representation. If ~10% of the population is socialist, they'll almost never get a socialist representative with districts, but you could expect ~10% representation with proportional representation.
I 100% agree, to bad all you will get in response to your comment is how it is evil companies that prevent the noble and universally good government from helping the people.

Unfortunately very few people seem to understand that government, intrinsically, is inefficient and bad at everything it does. This can not be avoided or changed it is the natural state of a monopoly.

They seem to be able to recognize that when a large corporation that has become monopoly that is bad for people, however they fail to recognize that government is the worst kind of monopoly as unlike a corporation, they have the legal authority to put you in a cage if you refuse them, and kill you if you resit the governments attempt to put you in that cage.
So woke they are unable to learn foreign languages.
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> If you want something to be inefficient, have the government do it

Would you rather have a system that’s inefficiently built by a government or one efficiently built by a private company that illegally extracts fees from users, as the FTC alleges Intuit has done? What’s the point of being obsessed with “efficiency” when the company screws end users anyway?
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50,000-120,000 might be small enough of a selection to be difficult to detect in a population of 2.5 million in 1776 when transportation ended.
Winthrop is very cute, but it's Old West vibe was entirely manufactured in the 60s. There's no real history there, just kitsch. It's the Mild West.
Many large sites do batched emails -- it's fully plausible that the email sat in a queue for 15 minutes before going out.
We implemented a customer support software, it was a game changer. It resolved most of the chaos.
I once discovered an information leak of German public broadcasting organization ARD which leaked real mobile numbers on their CI/CD page where they showed the business card designs (lol).

All records of this page on Archive.org were deleted after a couple of days, a twitter account posting the details with a screenshot and link was reported and my account temporarily suspended.

I assume it must be very easy to remove inconvenient content from archive.org.

(in German)
https://blog.rolandmoriz.de/2019/04/25/sind-die-leute-von-de...
This is wonderful scientific writing; approachable without being condescending or over simplifying, without a trace of sensationalism. Really beautiful.