skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bellingcat sure does seem like a front for the UK intelligence services. A way for intelligence to release information to the media without having to be named as a source.

UK/US are known to have fabricated pretexts for war in Iraq.

If you put the two together then you get Murray's position. Bellingcat are the intelligence services. The intelligence services are warmongers. And so the Russia publications are warmongering.

I don't personally accept it as logical, I think Russia was probably responsible for the attacks, but maybe the world does need people who put reputation above fact.
You're saying it's okay for a journalistic outfit to be biased and write hit pieces that can have real impacts on the markets because Elon Musk also has an army of fans that defend him?
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The inclusion of 'pre-fab', as a description is stunning. I never got to use the ones at my school (UK, 1970's) , as they were prefects only.
On the two occasions I was allowed in, I detested them.
And I also detested the particular acoustics - which I didn't realise at the time, but several years in pro-audio, many years later, thankfully taught me much.
Of course it matters. The UK and Australia are perceived as countries with fair immigration systems.

Why would the US be held to a different standard than other Western countries?
Yeah, the headline seems to imply it’s some new ‘big bad’ where the article just slowly exposes that it’s a non-explosive missile. Killing fewer people by not combusting the surrounding area sounds like an improvement.
> traits are extremely heritable (not so much the case with children!)

This has been conclusively debunked.

https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/2016-plomin.pdf

> All psychological traits show significant and substantial genetic influence

> Most measures of the “environment” show significant genetic influence

> These are “big” findings, both in terms of effect size and potential impact on psychological science
> So how did we end up here?

Not losing the WWII, that's why. During the WWII, all participants committed the war crimes. Only the losers were prosecuted. US got away with it.
People would do this for each other, but there's really nothing to keep them focused. Magic is the art of maintaining people's focus long after they would have otherwise moved on. Making magic happen requires a magician that understands how it works. You can't cast a spell that will stick around after you bounce. Once you bounce, the people that succeed you won't understand how the magic works quite as well. They'll argue with each other over how best to keep it going.

It's a dynamic I've come to know intimately over the years. Once the magician leaves, the magic goes soon after. If you want magic in your life, go where the magician is, or better yet, learn how to work magic yourself.
I would disagree.

XP is certainly not the proper OS to be running today, it's been passed by especially in a security sense.

But when it was released, it was the first really truly stable and consumer focused operating system MS had released. The NT series prior had been stable (to a point), and was good for business uses, but try gaming or doing much that a home desktop user wanted to do and it really fell down there. XP picked up the mantle of being the successor to both Windows 98 and Windows 2000, and it really did a great job of it.

Was it perfect? Of course not. But it did a job and did it better than anything else in its time for its specific uses.
Taking a cynical view (and how can you not these days), the inclusion of the anti Bill Gates videos could be actual goal here. The source code leak as the headline makes a lot of people interested to download it, and then maybe they watch those videos as well. This could be part of a misinformation campaign aimed at spreading discord around COVID-19. Given the timing and with the upcoming US election, everything needs to be looked at with a critical eye.
Belarus to Latvia
Well the likelyhood of someone who come across Sam Altman's blog and don't know who is PG and Jessica is very low.

You can't write a blog post for everyone in the world. Then you would have to explain what is YC, what is a founder, what is a VC etc. Would be pretty boring blog post to be honest.

Oh wait, and let me introduce you to Google.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pg+and+jessica&oq=pg+and+jes...
WIPO is about intellectual property. That has nothing to do with human knowledge and everything to do with legal structures to enable government granted monopolies over ideas (patents), expression (copyright), and identification (trademarks).

If anything the "human knowledge" on Wikipedia is the remit of UNESCO, which is "United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization".

Wikimedia wanted oberver status at WIPO to be "inside the halls" when WIPO is making decisions that might affect Wikimedia's purpose, which it states as "We help everyone share in the sum of all knowledge."
I meant not getting the vaccine on the basis of someone not believing in the virus and/or vaccines in the first place.

Of course, I will also cautiously approach the first vaccine arrivals due to the nature of them being rushed.
Emergent University launches to create radical education accessibility
Imperialism and extrajudicial killing is only bad when other people do it, obviously. /s
There are also https://baike.so.com/ , https://www.baike.com/ and probably some others I don't know about. I don't think the authorities care which one people use so long as it complies with "relevant laws and regulations" (i.e. censors content). There doesn't seem to be much user loyalty either; people use whatever their search engine puts first, so baike.baidu.com if you search with Baidu and baike.so.com if you search with so.com.
I have not had covid yet. With regards to fear, I am the opposite. Knowing what could be coming is more comforting. I find that reading stories about how people caught it, is good tips on how to avoid it. I take the inputs without emotion and it has been extremely helpful for my own stress levels.
The view on the right is obfuscated: you're looking at the Javascript names of the variables, not the original. If you want to use them on the console, you need to write Javascript, not Java.

Better is to use a native Java debugger[1], but there are still a lot of pitfalls.

[1] https://gist.github.com/hpehl/bd00b22586d0c75d37d5fe7f0cfcd8...
One thing I’ve always wondered is: how many drugs have we rejected like this, which were actually bimodal in their safety profile, the way many drugs are bimodal (or polymodal) in their effect profile.

I.e., that there’s some inherent difference between the people the drug harms, and the people it doesn’t; and if you can identify that difference, and test for it, then you can safely give the drug to only the people it doesn’t harm.

The way we currently investigate drug safety in clinical trials doesn’t really allow for this approach. We only seem to do it when a drug is initially declared as safe; introduced into the market; and then we find that it has side-effects that clearly correspond to some subpopulation.
This is really fascinating to me as the article at least mischaracterizes chess. It is fascinating that it is also mischaracterizing poker and poker is much more robotic than stories have told me.

That chess is less robotic, is perhaps not obvious. A postmodern skepticism of “even in principle” thinking is part of it: who cares what’s possible in principle, when in practice that is inaccessible to me? The actual narrative is me versus this player, my blunders versus her blunders, and whoever blunders less wins. There is a Platonic Form of perfect play that has no blunders? It is discovered by computers? See, this is something I had to acclimate to in learning chess, because chess engines are available, they will rank your games and tell you that this opening is slightly better than that opening by a tenth of a pawn, and you have to like just throw them in the trash. It's like a standard of beauty that demands you have half a percent body fat and rippling abs and bench 300 easy. And instead you have the desire to be Interesting, rather than to be True.

I play some openings because they are silly, you chase my knight in a massive circle around the board and then I am totally undeveloped but you are questionably developed and it is not clear you are doing better. Gone are the days of memorized 20-deep trees of Sicilian openings where I got a careful half-pawn advantage in my theory and then turned out to blunder my queen and erase it all. That was, if you like, a half-life.
> So it's great that this source will not be forever lost.

What a WARPed perspective. (hehe)

It's great that this was stolen and distributed? There's nothing great about that. This source was not lost and has essentially zero risk of being lost. It would have been held for all time immemorial within the vault of its owner.

> Windows XP is probably the greatest operating system if you factor usability and how many people it has reached.

Sorry, but that honor must certainly go to Linux? The OS itself perhaps doesn't have usability, but it has flexibility and everything in modern life depends on it. Every single person in the world, everyone, today depends somehow on Linux.

I'm not poo-pooing XP in anyway -- it was and is a great OS. Both for its time and still today. But I think it is far in Linux' shadow.
Technology sucks because it works.

Otherwise it would be in the junkyard and nobody would be complaining about constant annoyances.

All the annoyance cited come from having a pocket computer that is reliable enough that we use day in day out, charge it every night, and do important enough tasks on it to be annoyed when it doesn’t work.

Nobody complained that a mainframe’s batteries were depleting during the night.

In all seriousness, I think it’s important to acknowledge stuff that doesn’t work, and make efforts to improve them. But this need to come from the perspective that the app/device has a purpose, and understand how much of that is working.

Dealing with annoyances from something that fulfills 90% of its purpose is completely different from dealing with an app or device that is mostly polished but doesn’t help much. That perspective seems mostly missing from the rant.
Depends, I've had a game where I was not the imposter but had 3 crewmates voted out on reports I made, yet I was not voted out myself. I would have been really suspicious of someone by that point myself.
This https://quackwatch.org/research-projects/stemcell/ isn't encouraging.

The fact that they've been running for 30 years proves nothing. See e.g. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/quackery/hoxsey-hoax for another example.

Anything's possible. But without much better evidence than these guys seem to be offering, I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.

Your "even better" suggestion seems pretty ridiculous to me, by the way. "Want to know whether this thing that seems like a ghoulish fraud preying on people desperate for a cure is real or not? All you have to do is find someone with the disease they claim to be able to cure, persuade them to go and do this costly, risky, probably fraudulent thing, and see what they say about their quality of life is afterwards!" And even if they do manage to persuade someone to do that -- all they get is an n=1 single sample, which is pretty hopeless evidence for anything, especially for a disease like multiple sclerosis which commonly comes and goes in mysterious ways.
So you'll trade the lasagna for a bag of Doritos and some Slim Jims? If you think there is something "authentic" about people like Alex Jones, you're delusional. They are media creations, just as surely as Dan Rather. Just less coherent.
It's the fact that the world is waking up to the realization that terror doesn't affect us in the Western world and only is used as a tool by certain other countries.
FWIW, I'm too lazy to weigh my beans every morning as well. I basically measured exactly only long enough until I could get to the point where I can eyeball where it needs to be. 39.43 g of coffee beans that I need for my morning FP is about five rounded scoops from my scooping tool, so I've just used that. We tested a few pots over a couple days and found that we couldn't discern much of a difference between the coffee that was made with 40g of coffee exactly and the pot that was made with 5 scoops.

I have the 20oz line marked on my Pyrex measuring container as well. Like I said, the end-goal is to be as lazy as possible while still remaining within acceptable levels to make a great cup of coffee.
this list uses the golden rule: short and sweet concepts, precisely worded.
The last thing I want in my browser is a JVM.
There was no behavior uncovered by the emails that were unfair or destabilizing. However, reporting of the emails frame them as such. It was the false or out-of-context reporting that was destabilizing. But this was the intent from the start. It turns out information without context is just as bad as outright fabrications.
This hatchet-job pretty-much secures her seat in the house of Lords.
US phone verified facebook accounts cost less than $1 each.

There's no need to use twilio, the ecrime marketplace has this covered.
I didn't know about the glycerin (the same substance used in e-cigs). This makes me think even more that the e-cigarette industry did a huge marketing fail in not calling them e-hookahs.
Can you expand more on the significance of the lung style?
>Server Side Technologies PHP: 256 Java: 163 ASP.NET 190

It is surprising to see Microsoft stack popular than Java. Always thought Java was way more popular than .Net.
Would you leave a $600k job, like a E6 at FB, if it didn't offer free coffee
What happens if you are fine with those parameters, you build a business on iOS, and then apple decides that it wants to be in your business, so it makes their own competing app default and non removable? Then it adds hardware functionality to help its own software, but locks the hardware from you, so your business suffers? This is exactly the Tile example on the linked page.

If that happened to your business, would you say "well we always knew they are a closed system, time to pack up and go home"?
Collection of GANs Written in Pytorch
I mean, I don't know if this would be the tech leap that does it. This is spending millions of dollars to stab someone from a chair a continent away. I think we were probably at the "this is going to backfire" moment with the first round of drones. I doubt that this ability to now ostensibly limit civilian casualties weighs heavily on those who would perform an attack such as you're imaging.
Haha, of course someone's thought of this. Did you enjoy the movie?
Check the URL of this website.

Y Combinator is a VC firm that specializes in investing in early stage/new tech companies and one of the first to do it on such a public scale. Their most significant successful investment is likely Stripe. Dropbox and Airbnb are other companies which had a lot of initial funding from YC
> Alcohol is however generally not defined as a hard drug

> Scientists could/do define the risk profiles for different drugs

The scientific risk profiles I've read have alcohol right up there on the top of the ranking for hardest, most damaging drugs. Sometimes it's at #1, but it's always right there in the big 4 with cocaine, heroin, and meth.

"Not defined as a hard drug" is a policy choice, almost entirely because of cultural/historic reasons, as you point out. Prohibition didn't work for alcohol, and it's not working for other drugs.

DUIs, on the other hand... harsh prosecution of DUIs is fine because they're crimes with victims, where other people are put into serious and immediate danger. That's a better approach than the overly broad, costly, and ineffective policy of simply incarcerating everyone for drug use.
This is a straw man argument.

Cars vary widely in their product quality. Houses vary widely in their product quality. Some things in life are inevitable facts of nature, but product quality is not. Quality is to a large extent determined by the time and care taken by the manufacturer.
I am a life long Linux user and programmer well accustomed to searching for support and fixing issues with software.

Recently I got an RSI from programming and could not use a keyboard for 10 months. I could only use my Android phone. There were so many problems and I had so little insight. I _did_ search for answers and found contradictory or incorrect instructions. Often I had to resort to uninstalling apps and taking my chances on their competitors. This strategy had a very low rate of success. Many things I just gave up on. I essentially lost 10 months of productivity and became despondent.

One specific problem I had was that I was unable to control which PDF viewer would open automatically when I downloaded a PDF. For not particularly interesting reasons regarding my workflow, it was important to me that Adobe open instead of the viewer built in to the file navigation app. I followed the instructions online to rectify this. However when I navigated the menu to the appropriate place, the option simply didn't exist. I don't fully understand, I'm not and will never be an Android dev, but I believe it had something to do with the built in viewer not being a first class app but some sort of "applet".

Deep in this frustration it clicked with me; this is how most people see computers. Black boxes that work against you. Unfathomable and unserviceable.

PSA: Stretch your hands. Take care with the ergonomics of your keyboard, mouse, and desk. If typing hurts - stop.
It's useful to read between the lines, because maybe YC-like things are not good for the world. In that case, it's worth studying PG and Jessica only in order to understand how to avoid being like them.
I don't know the details of Google's networks, but I assume something like their Maglev load balancers: https://research.google/pubs/pub44824/
H.264 in each case.
I am not knowledgeable with WASM, can it enable threading in FFmpeg?
That’s where FFmpeg shine...
Tesla's music player is pretty bad - the bug where it duplicates artist names for each album when you browse by artist has been there for years, if you try to switch between specific albums and back it frustratingly scrolls you back to the top each time. these are just my pet peeves see google for laundry lists and angry users.
What the heck where do you live? $140k gets you a beat up garage everywhere I’ve ever checked.

The 2.25 advice is interesting. By that logic me and my girl can afford $750k which juuuust about starts to get you in the starter fixerupper homes here in SF. But we can’t afford the downpayment. And to make it worth buying, we’d have to stay there for 10+ years and then suddenly a starter 1.5bedroom becomes a little small when you consider what usually happens to couples in our age group on a 10 year timeline.
Also the blog post is explicitly targeted at people wanting to replicate YC's model. I think it's fair to expect that audience to know what YC is, who PG and Jessica are
Look at the URL.
Now look at the footer of this webpage.
> While outrage culture exists I don't think it is possible to have high-trust institutions that are run by human. Period.

I would say that before forming such conclusions, we should actually try to do it first.

> And I don't know if it's possible to get rid of outrage culture, any suggestions are welcome.

I suggest treating it like an engineering problem, something humans are quite good at. Analyze it as a behavior exhibited by systems, in this case, roughly:

- People (the human mind)

- Society (a set of networked human minds, networked via a variety of flawed communication mediums, some of which have human minds filtering and transforming what passes through them).

This is an extremely high level perspective, there is obviously a ton of important complexity (of varying importance) here and there within the system, but a high level perspective like this seems like where an engineer would start when analyzing a misbehaving system.
>If only they could merge with V8 progress would actually reach everyone

Having two competing implementations forces both into a performance competition, and encourages work on standards to ensure compatibility. Firefox switching to V8 might help in the short term, but long term it would likely be to the detriment of everyone
European Commission to challenge Apple tax bill verdict
it all pretty much follows the same Windows standards

This is why I don't use Linux on the desktop. (About half of my servers are Linux.)

Every couple of years I'll bring out my old HP laptop and spend most of a week installing all the newest desktop environments to see how they've progressed. I'm always disappointed.

I've been counting on Linux to be the big disruptor for two decades now. But more and more it's just becoming the poor man's Windows, by aping Windows conventions.

If I want Windows, I'll run Windows. If I want macOS, I'll run macOS. What I want is something different, not something that tries to be a watered-down version of both.
And spending your valuable resources on developing such weapons shows that you're the good guy.
I'd strongly discount anecdotal reports or even large-scale studies without adequate control groups.

I spend a lot of time on hemochromatosis forums. And a constant theme are people convinced that their non-specific symptoms are caused by iron overload, when their blood work or genetic results indicate that this almost certainly isn't the case. Most of the complaints are the same type of vague symptoms that you find with Covid long-haulers: fatigue, joint pain, shortness of breath, brain fog. It's not a coincidence that those are also the same problems that occur with generalized unhealthiness.

Unfortunately a shockingly high number of Americans feel like shit all the time. Most of them are desperately seeking a silver bullet to explain their suffering. The sad reality is that the vast majority of cases come from getting older and unhealthy lifestyles. People are obese, they lead sedentary lives, they don't get enough sleep, their diets are all junk food, they smoke, they drink too much, they live with chronic stress.

The impact isn't so bad when you're young, but it wears you down fast when you start hitting middle age. So not only, do they feel crappy, but they're not accustomed to feeling this way. It's quite natural for anyone in that position to convince themselves that their ailments must be attributable to a specific disease.
PG is the founder of HN and was the mod for the first ¿10? years, until he "retired" and gave the position to dang. He is in the 3rd position in the karma list. He is not very active here in the last few years. (But I guess he is still lurking. Hi!) https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

The original community here was the readers of the pg articles, so the oldtimers know who pg is.

Jessica is the wife of pg, she comes here from time to time, but no too much. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jl

Both of them are part of the four founders of YC. She was the less technical of the cofounders but from a pg article: http://www.paulgraham.com/jessica.html

> [...] One of the things she's best at is judging people. She's one of those rare individuals with x-ray vision for character. She can see through any kind of faker almost immediately. Her nickname within YC was the Social Radar, and this special power of hers was critical in making YC what it is. [...]

> During interviews, Robert and Trevor and I would pepper the applicants with technical questions. Jessica would mostly watch. A lot of the applicants probably read her as some kind of secretary, especially early on, because she was the one who'd go out and get each new group and she didn't ask many questions. She was ok with that. It was easier for her to watch people if they didn't notice her. But after the interview, the three of us would turn to Jessica and ask "What does the Social Radar say?"
Sounds more like an application load balancer issue ("routing requests" seems to imply L7) than network routing, but I might be misunderstanding.