skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father lost his sense of taste from eating poison ivy as a dare as a child (his older brothers basically tricked him into it). Similarly, he LOVED spicy and extremely salty foods because those were the only things he could taste. I grew up loving over-salted food because that was the way my family cooked.

He even would put salt in his beers.
Yes,

bashquote() { printf '%q\n' "$(</dev/stdin)"; }

Bash treats the string "/dev/stdin" as magic, so that works even if /dev/stdin doesn't exist. However, bash (unlike ksh) spawns a subshell for $(</dev/stdin), so using cat is actually lighter. (Also, it's not clear to me why $(<&0) doesn't work in bash.)
Scientist made a Google Doc to educate about airborne Coronavirus transmission
I only watched the trailer, but don't your structures get attacked randomly during the game? Curious how they were able to build so much if there were random attacks.
Why is studying based on previous years questions cheating. Dont we do the same with white board interviews?
I have a sceptre. They're really good for the price and super reliable. I won't buy anything else. In fact I might go get a couple spares so I don't have to worry for a while.
This question, with respect, has nothing to do with the article. The piece about Buffet applies to all the people on here who have a zillion side projects. What Buffet means by saying no is- same thing Jobs meant- don't do those things. Have a strategy and use the slow brain (Thinking Fast And Slow) to make decisions that are about going deep, not broad. Similar in part to Deep Work.

For annoyances, or things imposed on you, as described above, various Zen practices come to mind. Life is full of suffering, and obligation, and the most at peace simply acknowledge and fulfill them. The koan of the novice experiencing anger after the master disrupted a practice with a seemingly trivial action- with the master pointing out that he left it behind, it was the novice who carried it around, etc. Practice not thinking/worrying about whether you will get your luggage back. Make the calls, wait on hold, but don't worry. It will either happen or it won't. Objects are so commodified now, if you truly need a lost object, you can just buy another. The psychic angst is not worth it.

Cheers.
Good info thx.
This is quite misleading. Much testing is done in drive-up situations; you really don't need to expose yourself to risk for most testing.

Source: spouse does COVID testing for part of job duties; works in COVID clinic.
Two things can be true at once
I just wanted to say that this is a really fantastic explanation of the current state of the art, particularly the way you state the high-level motivation for ultra high energy colliders. Of course, without a few orders of magnitude gain in acceleration gradient, the necessary collider size is impractically large, so these sorts of questions may not be investigated for a while.
> it was obligated to have recycled

>when it was supposed to take them apart and recycle the components

afaik Apple "Recycle" agreements stipulate grinding stuff down to dust. No taking apart, no recycling components, pure destruction.
Strip mines in the forest for sand?
Good point...

Would 'heavily subsidized by' work as well?
The only killer feature that's still missing for me would be alarm clock tracking sleep phases and waking me up when it's most appropriate. I'll buy Apple Watch instantly. I've used iPhone apps but they're rather limited, but I really liked what they did even with that limitation.
I find that VC investors tend to have more of a "we invest in bull and bear markets" mentality, especially because all investments are long term investments.

I think this creates a smoothing effect. For example, during the COVID flash crash, an investor sold their stake in a VC fund, to another investor at the NAV price.
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> As a heterosexual man I too wonder what it would be like to sleep with most women I meet that are in the fertile age range. This is less of an idiosyncratic personality trait than one built in by millions of generations of ancestors that all successfully bred. It does not imply that I consider those women to be less than human. In my own mind at least, it does not demean the women I speculate about. [...]

but what about online? often you wont get to know how these women look like. more often than not, imagination is better than reality. what makes women attractive online?
There's something sticky about mobile operating systems.

When I get on a Windows or Linux machine (assuming the latter isn't too... special), there are always a few things which trip me up. But a keyboard is a keyboard, same with mice and trackpads or whatever; I can get around, remind myself to hit control instead of command, use a few less shortcuts, get stuff done.

But when I use an Android device I'm just... lost. Nothing works the way I expect, I don't like it and I don't want to learn. I can't even type on the damn things.

None of that is Android's fault, it's because in the first case, the muscle memory is the input device, in the second case, the muscle memory is the operating system.
False in both cases
Taleb is a great writer, but not a great teacher.
> Do you really expect the last 100 years to be predictive of the next 100 years?

it's the best you can do. As the saying goes, past performance doesn't indicate future performance. However, it's the best guess you can make.
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I'm not sure what level of KYC the Chrome web store does, but said enterprising bounty hunter might find that it's not that hard to detect a pattern of "Guy reports a lot of suspiciously similar unpopular extensions. Let's get a warrant to find out who he is from his bank and see if Google knows anything about it."
The primary reason I'd reach for the Jamstack over WordPress is security. A static website (relying on a headless CMS or a build/deploy process for content) is much more shelf stable than WordPress if the project isn't updated on a monthly basis. A lot of people have built successful businesses and sites with WordPress and continue to do so (this is what I got my start in consulting ten years ago). That said, WordPress provides a bigger surface area for vulnerabilities with the 3rd party plugin ecosystem and database connection compared to static sites. If you're familiar with it, and prepared to keep it up to date, it may be a good option for you. Otherwise, I'd go with the Jamstack (assuming it can handle whatever your use case is).
When Epic tried to make the "30% is too much" argument in court last Monday before Judge Gonzalez Rogers, it didn't go well for them, according to an FT reporter who live tweeted at the hearing.

>“The 30% of what you complain seems to be the industry rate, right?

Steam charges 30%. Microsoft: 30% ... If you go to consoles: PlayStation, Xbox Nintendo all charged 30%.

Physical stores: game shop, Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart all charge 30%. Apple and Google charged 30%.”

“it's all 30%, and you just want to gloss over it. You don’t want to address it,” judge YGR says.

Oof, Epic doing poorly on Apple’s 30% fee being excessive.

“There doesn't seem to be evidence to support what you're saying,” Judge YGR says.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310618271675105282.html
You can turn enemies off entirely, set them to not expand their bases (so you only have to clear them out once), or simply build adequate defenses.

With this kind of weird experiment, you'd just go for the first option.
Yes, upvote this.

Practice "yes and."
It's possible to play with enemies disabled, or in peaceful mode.
> Oh yeah, the people that really build these companies in the first place were squeezed out it seems.

There seems to be a misunderstanding about the age of these companies. Both are a hundred years old - the founders died long ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz
You can turn off alien attacks when you start a new game.
The game is a sandbox and presents a menu where you can change a lot of parameters for your next game. You can turn off aliens, or make them peaceful and change their spawn rate. There is also a creative mode in console with unlimited everything.
Replies to human_person and pm90 are actively being censored. Check the dead comments.
Reminds of my Philosophy Tube's [1] discussion on what to do about this. On the other hand, what bothers me about the institution of philosophy is the complete absence of non-European philosophy. Many are starting to include medieval Islam (who had and preserved Aristotle before Europeans) and that's good but what about the complete skipping of India and others like the Aztecs. [2] There was serious philosophy going on in India at about the same time (and occasionally earlier than) in Europe and various other philosophical developments around the world are totally legitimate as well but we ignore them entirely. SEP and IEP have started to collect a few articles and that's great, but it's always secondary to the main course. I don't blame so many individuals in particular, not calling anyone racist, I think this is an organic development but now that we're aware of it can we not do better than this?

[1]. https://youtu.be/weiz9wbIcGQ

[2]. https://iep.utm.edu/aztec/
From the outside it does seem boring; a lot of rote learning and not a lot of flexibility once you're out, high risk of getting sick and or sued. 99.99% or more Doctors are not House.
>and patent free.

Royalty Free.

Purely from a Web Image usage perspective, Jpeg XL is very competitive in terms of features and performance. Also Royalty free.
it is useful sometimes, but a fashion statement most of the time. I feel like it is doing integration really well, but it is quickly going to get stuck with the sad segregation of ecosystems we have now. Battery life sucks, I've never used the sleep tracking and I doubt anyone can use it if you're supposed to charge the watch during the night.
For just a moment I was pleasantly surprised that I would be reading about an interesting propulsion technology. Seeing as that current propulsion approaches rely on ejecting Fermion composites at high relative velocities to the engine.

I am not pleasantly surprised anymore.
Just FYI, this is far more prevalent than is implied in this thread and not tied to a particular nationality/subgroup of people on college campuses. Established clubs, fraternities, sororities, arts/performing groups, and even niche majors/honors programs all tend to accumulate "academic resources" (i.e. past exams + homework) as members take courses over the years.
They're probably playing with a "peaceful" map. It's quite possible to turn all of that off without a game mod. I think there are also some infinite resource modes as well for just trying things out and making schematics and so on.

(So far I've just played some of the tutorials and the standard game scenario with minor settings tweaks.)
There is additional information in the post indicating that there was no adequate response to the original report even after 5 days:

The person who forwarded this vulnerability ... provided full details ... on September 24. ... after 5 days of waiting and not receiving a response, contacted me. He also shared a screenshot of his attempt to reach Grindr via Twitter DM
upvoting because this thread needs a convo on the design. I thought it was weird, but now I have one and I started to like it. I think Apple did right here in choosing one design and sticking to it through generations. My guess is that they will never deprecate this design, so that it becomes an accepted watch design, but instead will introduce a new competing design for the 10y birthday of the Apple watch.
Google, keeping it delusional in 2020.
What are you referring to when you reference "the full chemistry of life"? I'm not sure of your scope, or focus.
Not necessarily RSS feeds I'm subscribed to for personal reading but I created a Slack channel at work that is subscribed to different status pages RSS/Atom feeds. Whenever there's an outage Slack will pick it up and post it in the channel. It's a pretty convenient way of knowing when the services you use (GitHub, NPM, CircleCI, etc.) are having issues.
While I doubt it's an intentional backdoor, I wouldn't assume that backdoors would be obfuscated. You can't deny knowledge of an obfuscated backdoor, while an obvious one could plausibly be a simple mistake.
I guess this is a controversial question.
The 30% is overkill and who says it will stay at 30%? What if Apple tomorrow decides to increase it to 40%? What can any dev do?

Stop being this naive.
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WebRTC is hugely beneficial. Currently it is marketed as a sort of media collaboration channel, but it’s more important than that.

WebRTC allows mostly point to point communication. I say mostly because if IPv4 is the network protocol in use you need a third party identity provider to mitigate NAT. IPv6 does not have NAT. That is compelling from a privacy perspective because you cannot ultimately achieve privacy so long as there is a third party present (server) in the communications channel. Even with end to end encryption the third party server still has access to all conversation related data, just not the content of that conversation.
> Steam charges 30%. Microsoft: 30% ... If you go to consoles: PlayStation, Xbox Nintendo all charged 30%.

> Physical stores: game shop, Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart all charge 30%. Apple and Google charged 30%.

How on earth is this not price fixing and/or oligopoly behaviour?
Does Walmart make 30% off all app store sales made on iPhones that were sold in Wallmart? If not, they could be making a killing
Because most people don't know and/or understand. Look how many (often smart) people are bringing Alexa devices to their homes
What if they don't? What if they demand your first born child? That sort of hyperbole is not a good argument.
As of 1.35, the latest stable release requires 7.3: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requireme...

1.34 is the trailing legacy release and requires 7.2.9 or newer. 1.31 LTS, supported into 2021, requires 7.0 or later.

In releases since 1.27 introduced PHP 7 support, the backward version compatibility has been tightening up more aggressively. PHP 7 brought a ton of performance gains that MW had previously relied on HHVM for, which gave them a lot of reasons to shed PHP 5 and start turning more forward-looking.
Anyone have a sense of who is winning or losing here (besides the legal proceedings)?

Outside of Hacker News, this story seems dead.
>* Paying a ransom is literally facilitating a criminal enterprise which is already illegal in almost all other aspects in most of the world.

giving your wallet when you're being robbed at the gun point falls into that category too. And if the robbery proceeds are used for buying drugs, how about charging you with drug financing?
Don’t forget gron, which can turn JSON output into something grep-able.
It all depends on their budget.
You can sideload apps on android - im far less sympathetic to Epic here compared to their case against Apple. I remember looking into seeing what fortnight looked like on mobile a while back and for Android I dont recall there even being an option to get it through the play store - it had to be sideloaded - and that worked fine. They're standing on thin ice going against android (especially considering the entire country if China uses phones that essentially don't use Google services at all but still run android - Google does not have the same sort of control over android that Apple does over ios).
Since I am not too active, I find the the Pebble Time does exactly what I want - time, messages, alarms, timers and lasts three to four days. I am grateful to Rebel to making it still work on Android 10. If Android stops supporting it, I'll mournfully have to replace it. Until then, I have a backup ready.
physical sale =! digital sale

retail stores have more costs than digital ones.
How to Be Concise
1. It's possible for the advantages of restoring data to outweigh the societal cost of facilitating a criminal enterprise. For example, a patient has died in a hospital due to a ransomware attack. Would you prioritise saving human lives over sending some Bitcoin to some malware writer?

2. While there's no guarantee, it is exceedingly demonstrated that if you pay the ransom, you will get your data back. Ransomware writers have a collective reputation to uphold (strange, huh), and a typical negotiation involves requesting decryption of a few files to prove this capability exists.

3. Parties can legally comply with law enforcement AND pay a ransom (see #1 and #2). When paid with bitcoin, it leaves a strong and permanent evidence trail, especially with Bitcoin de-mixing techniques discovered all the time.

4. The solution to your problem is mandatory and visible disclosure of security breaches, you do not need to criminalise paying ransoms to get here; nor does it achieve as much as a broad "obligation to disclose".

5. By criminalising ransomware payments, the Justice Department has already made hundreds of corporations criminals. We know this Justice Department is known for selective prosecution: it is entirely plausible, if not likely, for companies against the current political party (e.g. donations to other candidates) to receive enhanced scrutiny and criminal charges.

Point 5 is not "conspiracy theory": we know the Qwest CEO was arrested on selectively enforced "insider trading" charges because he refused to spy on his customers for the NSA.
I was thinking it's more like pollution by oil companies. Profit from subsidized sugar, externalize the costs. We also put warning labels on cigarettes and make them inaccessible to minors. Classify sugary "bread" as dessert cake instead.

Additionally it's cultural: not all western countries have such rampant obesity. Smoking is no longer cool, and so on.
Not 50% of Americans, 50% of smart watch share.
Factually speaking yes but practically speaking gay/straight people tend to be doubly touchy about their partner "playing for the other team" so to speak. Which... I mean, cheating is cheating is cheating lol
While I agree with you, the notion that hackers are unemployed 16 year olds living in someones basement doesn't really correlate with reality, at least in the circles I'm in.
> Quick, Python programmers, how do you find the current version of Beautiful Soup? How do you import it? How about Scikit-Learn?

> Those are two of the most important packages on the ecosystem, and they make you guess as to what the actual name is. STUPID. STUPID. STUPID.

Well, my approach is to go to the project website and look for installation instructions, because searching pip is completely useless.
It will be real hard to argue to any judge that Epic has anything going for them when 1) they actively broke the TOS and were forward about it 2) they actively sneaked code past reviewers to push a feature that broke said TOS 3) They had an ad campaign and in-game-event ready-to-go from the moment they got pulled, which continues to demonstrate how premeditated this maneuver was.

It will be real hard for a judge to have to agree with them. They could have corrected it, got back into compliance and continued their legal case, but this was not the route they picked.

They gambled, and have (most likely) lost.
FWIW, Go’s module system (which was invented afterwards) explicitly encodes uppercase vs lowercase in a platform independent way internally to prevent that from happening again.
Was there really a paper on the topic ? I thought it was x264 mailing list from Jason Garrett-Glaser / Dark Shikari.
> burying five bits of useful information in an 8 minute video

Videos are often even ~10:10 minutes long for a while already now. I think it's a monetization thing on YouTube.

If you know keywords, you can search for them using your browser's search function in the time stamped transcript that might be available from the three-dot-menu below the video.

Increasing playback speed also helps.
because its an industry standard. Its not illegal to go "looks like everyone else is charging 30%, let's charge the same). And in general, you don't have an incentive to undercut on price in a situation like this since nobody wins a price war - you try to bring some other value to justify listing on your platform (like a captive audience). Its easiest to just go with whatever ends up being the industry standard- and these prices are all public, no secret information has to be shared to see what everyone else is doing.
Because that might actually represent the fair market value that these sorts of storefronts represent?
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Assuming concurrency is done correctly (which FPM handles, although not transparently/as transparently as some would like) any language can be super-performant - PHP's leg up is long-term compatibility (a php 5->7 upgrade is better/easier than say a python 2->3 upgrade, at least in my experience) and syntax being easy to pick up and become proficient in.
If it were a malicious backdoor, it wouldn't have been "hidden" in the response to the _actual_ password reset request form.
This is a really good example of both a prisoner's dilemma (more precisely a collective action problem), and a common way to try to overcome the suboptimal equilibrium that a prisoner's dilemma naturally ends up in.

Society as a whole will be better off if no one pays the ransom. If truly no one paid, ransom attacks would end. However, if you are attacked by a ransom attack, your best individual course of action is likely to pay; your paying or not (as an individual) isn't going to be the deciding factor in the ransom industry continuing, and the ransom is likely cheaper than the cost of not paying. The rational response as an individual is to pay.

You therefore end up with a suboptimal overall situation, even though everyone is making the rational choice.

One way to break out of the prisoner's dilemma is to place an outside cost on 'defecting' from the socially optimal choice; in this case, the government announces loudly that they will fine companies more than their losses if they pay. The idea is to shift the equilibrium to not paying a ransom being the logical choice, which will, in the long run, will put an end to ransoms.

Of course, it really sucks for the people caught by ransom attacks in the meantime, and requires consistent and predictable enforcement of the outside penalty.