skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, have you played MGSV?
Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks
Innovation has also decreased with increased government R&D spending. Everyone knows you don't do linear regression on one point. Everyone but ... economists.
Or, you know, vote in a government that will do single payer insurance.
Not shown: 12U quarter rack stuffed full of GPUs
Here is a list: https://github.com/nglgzz/awesome-clean-tech
People are considered disposable too, if the mission value is crucial enough to save the lives of more people - enough so that there is a term for it 'expendable'. When your unit is declared expendable the mission objective is deemed more valuable than the lives in your unit, a rare thing that is supposed to happen only when the unit giving up their lives can save many more. I learned about expendable units from my dad, a radio operator at the tail end of the Korean War. Airborne leadership expected the North Koreans to attack during the treaty talks. My dad's unit was placed where they'd likely attack and told to give early warning and attempt to slow them down, at all costs - that they were declared expendable.

Thankfully they didn't attack or I wouldn't likely be here. There's a good story linked below about an expendable unit in Burma named Merrill's Maruaders [1].

Other animals have been used in more questionable ways too, such as the Navy Marine Mammal Program's use of dolphins to find and mark mines [2]

[1] https://www.army.mil/article/173880/expendable_wwii_merrills...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_Marine_Mamm...
Amazon Prime Day Spurs Spike in Phishing, Fraud Attacks
The Us subsidizes European drug prices:

https://www.ibtimes.com/how-us-subsidizes-cheap-drugs-europe...

Though there are lots of other ways to frame this of course since most of that is eaten up by US marketing expenses:

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
The Islamic world has no exclusive monopoly on inept, corrupt, undemocratic overlords.

Notable examples of regions afflicted by the same problem are the entire Soviet bloc. And China. And yet these are typically at the vanguard of scientific and technological development.

The Soviets beat the Americans to space under exactly that class of autocratic ruling elite.
A quick survey gave me:

* tracing is only present for logging purposes. does curl need it? It should be configurable.

* itoa is only present for performance purposes, and only seems used by the server.

* It seems that a bunch of projects in the dependency tree use pin-project which is heavyweight and instead could use pin-project-lite. Some already do, which creates both being used, so you are worse off than just with pin-project alone...

* hyper contains code for both http servers and clients. Even if the dependencies are the same (and as seen above they are not), having to compile the server code for the client means an increase in compile time. It would be cleaner to provide separate server and client flags to make it possible to turn one off.
>, I would regulate the information dating apps collect to the same standards as patients' national healthcare information is handled(in the EU; I don't know about the US/UK but I heard it's not all rozy there).

In the case of Grindr they released user HIV status information which is literally medical data.

>Personally, I have no dog in this fight since I gave up on online dating and got good at IRL dating(pre-COVID) but I am aware of plenty of men willing to throw their cash and intimate data at these corporations for the hope of meeting someone.

Good for you, it's a giant scam( See FTC Sues Match). I also gave up on these apps and started meeting amazing people in real life. It's also much less stressful to disconnect from the social media matrix.

I put vastly less effort into meeting people now and I found myself actually getting approached last year. I've found greater peace. Social Media is a very bad thing for most people. You waste tons of time you could be spending on other things. Doesn't help people tend to be much meaner online. Again , why deal with that.

With Corona I've been trying to focus more on learning music , but I'm fairly optimistic next year things will be somewhat normal.
Taking the robotics out of human jobs
Cellmate chastity gadget hack thwarted by screwdriver trick
The Store of the Worlds (1958)
> For instance, there was an instance not too long ago at Facebook where one engineer publicly attacked another completely peaceful coworker on Twitter because the latter declined to put a BLM statement on the landing page of an open source project they maintained. The former employee was eventually fired. These kinds of antics are deeply divisive and destructive to the workplace.

It is unclear from your comment which employee was fired, unless "former" is intended in the ordinal sense (ie. "first") rather than temporal (ie. "prior"). Can you clarify?
Count me as well. It is horrifying how otherwise well intentioned people are busy pushing the society we were escaping to into the society we were running away from.
Microsoft Azure Flaws Open Admin Servers to Takeover
Common ancestors are in all humans IIRC. While say Neanderthal DNA is only in subset of populations.
I would like to also echo this sentiment. I took a job that lets me work with a much more flexible schedule. I changed from doing straight dev work to software dev support for an API SaaS company to facilitate that.

I like software development, but I don't think I'm cut out for it in a SV work hard/play hard sense because I like to tinker too much. That's just not a good fit for deadlines, production environments, etc.

It's given me a lot less stress professionally which has allowed me to work on personal projects (software and otherwise).

In the past few months
- Started learning about worm composting and I've been raising e. fetida worms to compost trash.
- Started reorganizing my homelab and messing with all my server equipment
- Learning about different machining techniques
- Working on my cars more, and I hope to take on an EV conversion of an old car soon.
Weird, I had no such issue (with and without an ad blocker)
That's pretty much a text-book straw-man argument. Two of them, actually.

We're not discussing the morals of human research, we're discussing IT security, and specifically in scenarios that are unlikely in the extreme to lead to any physical harm to people.

We're also not talking about trying to sabotage or attack a system.

Standard, well-formed web requests on standard HTTP sockets, made infrequently are very unlikely to cause problems on any system that's not outright deliberately misconfigured.
Most of these are maintained as sets of crates under the same project/maintainers. For example, everything starting with futures comes from one repo, everything starting with tokio plus mio (plus some others) are under the tokio-rs GitHub organization, all the windows bindings packages are from the same repo, etc.

Plus some of the dependencies are also dependencies of the standard library (hashbrown, cfg-if, libc).
> I would imagine Apple doing this with FaceTime soon.

And we'll notice it because somehow our and other people faces in facetime will start to subtly translate strangely aggravating emotions, as current memojis do.
No way. This probably runs on a single consumer graphics card.
Nitrous oxide emissions pose an increasing climate threat, study finds
I have experienced "remote not done right". I routinely felt and was in reality disadvantaged in that situation.

I am currently [back into the] same industry during COVID and am splitting time between WFH and the [pretty much] deserted office. I do not feel disadvantaged in this current situation.

I can tell you that the manager and the team makes an incredible difference.
And the Mongols destroyed the Islamic empire. All that's in the past, and it feels good to live in the imagined glory of the past - but what's the excuse today for us indians when our idiot Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims that ancient India had nuclear weapons, aeroplanes and spacecraft and did inter-species head transplant by citing religious mythology as the proof for it? Or when his government wants to promote Astrology as Science today??
New key player in long-term memory
Can't wait to see the bugs! GAN's are famous for some... interesting reconstructions. And better still, nvidia will have no way to debug it since the model is essentially a black box.
Static compilation works - see PackageCompiler.jl.
New research explores how super flares affect planets' habitability
You mean the ungoodlist?
Healthcare is actually a macro economic industry that Americans have been fooled in to believing that it is micro economic.

The USA spends 20% of GDP on healthcare. All other advanced economies spend about 10%.
As a huge Lisp fan (though more of Scheme than Common Lisp), I kind of agree.

If a Lisper had come up with Jupyter notebooks before Python did, they could have captured the interest of academia.

If they'd come out with a Ruby On Rails framework before Ruby did, they could have made inroads in to the web development community.

That is, of course, if you could somehow get developers to embrace all the parenthesis, which seem to be an albatross around Lisp's neck that it can never shake.

Lisp does have one killer app, though: Emacs.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020: CRISPR/Cas9 method for genome editing
I'm not even 30 and I was told in a reply to a comment where I suggested a research paper from the 70s, "This is what's wrong with you old people, you just want us to read all of this irrelevant stuff".

The irony is the replier was 10 years older than me. So the age discrimination bias is so prevalent even older people buy into it.
Julia code almost never has semicolons. Semicolons can be used at the REPL to suppress printing, but actual Julia code does not normally use semicolons.

I personally like the "end"s because I like the symmetry and they're prettier than curly braces. Also, there are some syntax color themes that color the "end"s in a darker color in order to de-emphasize the "end"s, which can be nice depending on your taste.
Nobelist Talks Crispr Uses
This is true today, will it remain true?
Matt's said before that he reached a certain point at GS where he was expected to get more involved in sales, as opposed to just the structuring side of his desk, and felt he was quite bad at it.

Probably quite a bit of self depreciation on Matt's part though given that when he decided to quit his boss essentially said, "Why don't you just, you know, take some time off to think about it?"

I'd say someone with Matt's background and general mannerisms - even at GS where eccentricity and raw intellect, for lack of better descriptors, are traditionally valued - would be a significant outlier.

I worked at GS and I think the only people that fit the Levine mold were in weird structuring desks, like Matt was. In particular, PFI had quite a few characters that remind me of Matt. Ali Meli, who left GS recently and was written up by Bloomberg, comes to mind. Clearly intellectually above others with weird, interesting perspectives on things. Also given leash to go dream up and do weird and interesting things.

I don't think people like Matt actually have much value add in most areas of a modern investment bank, unfortunately. As Matt says: banking is boring now. I don't see how someone like Matt would succeed is traditional banking - or a flow trading desk - over the "average" GS employee who studied finance at Wharton or whatever. Most areas of banking strike me as having become very commoditized or routinized and outliers are viewed as more apt to cause tail risk than anything.
Maybe this is overly simplistic, but won't this all work itself out over time? More companies refuse to pay inflated SV salaries (note: most companies in the world already do not employ people there anyway), so some of the concentrated SV talent leaves for other places like Chicago where they can still get a sufficient wage relative to the cost of living. This continues for a while and eventually the COL in SV will start to equalize with other places in the country like Chicago, won't it?

Perhaps the real message here is that SV companies are realizing this is a perfect way to get out of paying $300-500K salaries for jobs that are more like $150K anywhere else in the US. It's kind of like the outsourcing craze from 15 years ago, except instead of getting 3-5 developers for the price of 1 by going to Europe or Asia, SV companies can get 3-5 developers for the price of 1 that are still US-based and only a couple of timezones away.

As someone who doesn't live in California but still near a big city in an area that is still "expensive" (but nowhere near SV prices) relative to smaller towns and rural areas, I can't figure out if this remote shift is a good thing or bad thing for me yet. I fear that my suburban house will be worth less going forward because proximity to a major city may be way less valuable now if so many fewer people ever physically go into work anymore.
1) sounds like an argument looked for after the fact. Masks were recommended initially especially because they stop you from touching your face and would train you not to do so.

2) doesn't make sense to me: because masks aren't perfect and some people refusing to wear masks makes them less efficient they'd advise to not wear masks at all?

3) is a political stance, not a scientific one.

Would people have reacted differently to masks if they weren't intentionally mislead on so many levels about Covid-19 in general (the WHO losing a lot of credibility) and the efficacy of masks? When you have people who are skeptical of the government, and the government lies to them and gets caught, won't that make them even more skeptical of whatever the government says next?

I don't think there ever was a scientific consensus that masks aren't effective against airborne diseases. There was a political decision, and that can change any time, but it has nothing to do with data collection or the scientific method.
How do you unexpectedly find yourself in a situation like that?
Covid-19 Is Now the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.
I love this. I often come back, time and time again, to just re-read this when I have nothing else to do and just want to relax. It’s a very inspiring and educational read, I cannot get enough of it.
UK parliament committee says Huawei colludes with the Chinese state
that's a direct copy/paste from the first article on DDoS size I saw https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/ddos-statistics/ , I wasn't going for deep research, just making a point about massscan from one host not really representing a serious concern for someone like Apple.
It also has to do with translations in the Arab world being made into Modern Standard Arabic, a somewhat artificial language that is totally different from the local dialect people actually speak. Arabs don't want to read books in MSA just like younger generations of Greeks don't want to read books in katharevousa.

And in the Maghreb, French has become established as the language of literature and magazines, so those peoples are doubly aloof from MSA.
They won't, though, without HD maps. That's the irony.

Nobody working on (real) SDCs is worried about rain or snow. Yes it's a problem right now, but a clearly solvable one. It hasn't been solved yet because it isn't a high priority.
What is it?

Who is we?

What common path are you referring to? What are its attributes in terms of maximizing individual time economy?

IMO that’s what the sharing through social effort is. Maximizing each individuals time economy.

Instead we seem to be maximizing time economy for people who can pay to externalize effort.

We’re really not optimizing for self by taking on more hours for less pay to keep Wall Street up.

Which to me ties right in with creating low effort jobs. Rather than decrease the amount of real work by expanding access to that work.

Let’s just hand out mops and brooms. Heard there’s coal to shovel out east!

Who knows, having more time may make things like cleaning a toilet and picking up packages seem less onerous.

We’re optimizing for a minority to be coddled by the effort of the majority. And being paid off with a fraction of the real output given the math I see.

Based upon hand me down stories from people with a very different intuition for quantification and science.

Would someone explain to me how kowtowing to such a social reality makes any sense scientifically?

Westerners all on about “science!” could stand to take a long look at their actual beliefs and application of agency.
Then upon them discovering that it's open to the world, their first response shouldn't be to blame the people connecting, but themselves for leaving it open.

Huge numbers of people have done this, I've certainly done it in the past when I knew less.
Discovering that the webserver logfiles were rather larger than I expected, or that HTTP Traffic was through the roof... oh, right, I left something open, better close that and remember it for next time.
Show HN: I built an app that makes it easier to search videos
How about not sending html emails?
Staky Spotlight: Secret Network
Wormable Apple iCloud Bug Allows Automatic Photo Theft
Sifting through videos for a specific piece of information is a problem I've come across as a developer (and more generally, as someone who watches a lot of informational/instructional videos). Over the past few weeks, I've built Topica as a product that helps viewers search for the exact moments they're looking for in a video catalog/playlist. Along with that, I've built out a clickable “interactive transcript” that makes it easy to follow along and jump around in a given section of video.

I've used Sam Altman's "How To Build The Future" video playlist as a demo (but the MVP lets users build out and index an entire catalog/playlist). I’ve also put up a landing page here:

https://topica.io

Still in the early stages (and obviously still a bit rough around the edges), but I'd appreciate any feedback!
I may have to give Docker another try. I completely cut it out of my macOS development environment due to high CPU usage, bad performance compared to non-Docker envs, and in general just having a lot of issues with the file system not staying in sync especially when rebuilding dependencies.
In some ways, of course, I agree, but as some other commenters have pointed out, this is essentially a "deepfake" of yourself...in principle there's no restriction on what one could use as their "avatar." As much was demonstrated in the "Different Output Styles" slide.

So I'd have a hard time saying this is not dramatically less "real" than some lossy compression technique. Is there some way to formalize "realness?" Maybe it would be inversely proportional to the hardness of manipulating the medium as a user..?
Heh P2P Botnet Sports Dangerous Wiper Function
> “Alternate headline: "People With Access to More Information Less Likely to Trust Blindly"”

Alternate headline: “Higher meme transmission rates strengthen cultural immune systems”
What about paying for Google services? I do worry about my dependency on the GSuite, perhaps being a paid customer is the way to secure yourself a bit. Looks like the lowest paid tier is £15 a year, I should probably pay that!
Of course rulers can have a huge influence, but I think what differentiates the modern scientific enterprise from past models is that it's not dependent on the whims of individual rulers. It just has so much established momentum and support.

Modi may well promote nonsense, but the institutions of higher education and science in India still exist and have enough prestige and social and economic momentum that I believe they will continue to sustain themselves. Similarly Trump continues to talk utter nonsense about Coronavirus, and even knowingly misled his followers throughout the first 6 months of the outbreak, but still has Dr. Fauci leading the medical response because even Trump can't completely sideline the scientific community.
I thought about buying them at under $2 a few years ago but didnt... I probably would have cashed out half my share at $8 or $15 thinking the catchup to Intel was temporary. I'm glad they are doing well. There is no perfect crystal ball.
Part of this is just crates being broken up more in Rust. For example the `http` crate only contains trait (interface) definitions. They break down like so:

Platform integration: libc, winapi, winapi-build, winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu, winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu, ws2_32-sys, fuchsia-zircon, fuchsia-zircon-sys, kernel32-sys, redox_syscall

Primitive algorithms:
itoa, memchr, unicode-xid

Proc macro / pinning utilities: proc-macro2, autocfg, cfg-if, lazy_static, quote, syn, pin-project, pin-project-internal, pin-project-lite, pin-utils

Data structures: bitflags, bytes, fnv, hashbrown, indexmap, slab

Core Rust asyncio crates:
mio, miow, iovec, tokio, tokio-util, futures-channel, futures-core, futures-sink, futures-task, futures-util,

Logging: log, tracing, tracing-core

The following are effectively sub-crates of the project: http, http-body, httparse, httpdate, tower-service, h2

Not sure what these are for: net2, socket2, try-lock, want
I’ve entirely moved away from VMs at home to Docker. Their ecosystem is quiet robust (maybe not the arm one) and even if there isn’t a docker image for what I want I can usually use the Alpine or Arch one as a base and with a few lines of config get something stood up.
This is simply not true, as evidenced by Waymo driving on roads faster than 25 mph
Let's start with:

* name-to-address, times 2 because IPv4 and IPv6 are separated ("Many people think that the sole objective of the DNS was to go from names to addresses, but …")

* address-to-name, again times 2

* name-to-SMTP-Relay-server(s)

* name-to-content-DNS-server(s)

* name-and-service-and-transport-to-address (http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dns-srv-record-use-by-clients.html)

* name-to-SPF-information

* name-to-DMARC-information

* name-to-verification-token for Google/Bing webmaster tools et al.

* address-to-SMTP-Relay-client-allow/deny (http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/djbwares/guide/commands/rbldns.xm...)

* DNS-client's-address (e.g. o-o.myaddr.l.google.com.)

* address-to-opaque-name-to-same-address (http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/djbwares/guide/commands/walldns.x...)

Then we get into the more obscure uses such as AFS cell lookup, DHCP IDs, various kinds of keys including SSH public key fingerprints and OpenPGP keys, MAC address lookup, and "responsible person" mailbox names.

Be amused by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24681726 .
A 73bn-kg, skyscraper-size chocolate creme egg spinning fast enough to explode
I do like the the option of using unicode symbols in Julia, but this need not be thought of as only a language feature.

Emacs allows you to substitute any text for any other when viewing a document, so you can pretty much do the same in Emacs for any language.

I did this when editing LaTeX papers full of logic symbols, which Emacs would display as the symbols themselves rather than as the underlying LaTeX markup.

It could do the same for Lisp or any other language.
14,000 years of being domesticated to serve as companions for humans is the inherent reason that works for me. Cows or pigs don't have the same history of domestication to be companions. Dogs share a special bond with humans and a special place in our society. Rightly or wrongly, and admittedly cows and pigs suffer to certainly the same extent that any factory farmed animal suffers, dogs serve a different purpose.

Given this history and bond, to eat or put dogs in danger is in my mind almost as morally objectionable as putting a person in grievous danger against their will.
Maybe you are in your area of expertise. I admit I am not.

In computer science, such efficiency gains are rather common. In physics, and thermodynamics in particular, a single 5% energy efficiency gain is huge.
Medical school in Germany is also free.