skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a question of whether any spot assessment is worth $250k (though: Apple can get a sitewide pentest from experts for substantially less than that). It's a question of whether paying that continuously is worth it, or whether that many can be spent more productively on something else.

For what it's worth, "reputational damage" has always been a kind of rhetorical escape hatch from arguments that have become too mired in facts.
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It's not. The median appsec engagement is ~4 person-weeks.
I'm sorry for linking the two. I have had this wrong idea stuck in my head since 2011. I should have validated that fact.
"- Pay for ad time slots, not user impressions. Instead of selling by CPM, publishers should say "independent analyst X says we have traffic Y on an average Sunday. You can buy placement for next Sunday for $Z." "

This would end fraud. This would end mis-clicks. This would benefit the purchaser of ads AND would make the ad market more efficient. So, asking for "world peace" might be a easier route to go.
'Real and imminent' extinction risk to whales
> people would be getting censored and banned for disputing "the fact" that Iraq had WMD

Literally nobody was buying that Iraq had WMD. It was clear that the politicians were riling themselves up in a patriotic furvor.

The evidence was weak from day one and it was clear a propaganda machine was in play.

> Twitter doesn't have a monopoly on the truth,

I am so sick of statements like this that ultimately lead to inaction and apathy.

SOME THINGS ARE JUST TRUE AND SOME ARE NOT. There is no "two sides" to them. There is objective truth and objective lies.
Relational algebra notation is so much more concise and readable. We’ve mangled so many very simple concepts because someone decided that math is offensive or something, so any math notation is automatically “not fit for software.”

Computing is inherently tied to math. There’s no getting away from that.
>> Can we change the laws around it? Or why is that even still in place?

> Because it’s illegal in many places.

So... it's illegal because it's illegal?
Statements like "But zero was never a realistic expectation." might hold a bit more water if there weren't places like New Zealand.
Dennis is a real piece of human garbage

https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/nros-dennis-prage...
Did you read anything in my post? What about the widely held belief that Trump colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 Presidential election? The Meueller report was unable to prove collusion. What if big-tech suddenly banned any claims to the contrary on the grounds that it constituted 'misinformation'? Would you call that censorship then?
I wouldn't have anything against sane use of html in emails.

Like using p, a, b, ul/ol/li, h1-3, etc. All that is fairly readable even when looking at markup.
My best interview ever was just meeting for coffee with my future manager and having a conversation about software development.
Going through this right now! Applying for a new TN through change of employer (COE) while residing in the US. I was given the option to fly back and forth to apply at the border, but figured this would be the safest (and lowest friction) option.

However, it's been a slow process, especially with having received word of USCIS requesting additional evidence from my first application.
Tell me about Frak, please.
Megadosing B12 (if your diet isn't already sufficient in it, which is common amongst certain vegan diets) is still a good idea, no? I recognize this might be the only exception.
The name of this index is like clickbait gone awry... Couldn't they have gone for something more like the Perception of Integrity Index since being #1 means "least corrupt"?
Harlan Ellison has a good take on it from a writer's perspective. The creative business is always trying to get something for nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE
My experience (N=3) is startups "fail" mostly because the answers to "can this work" and "will people buy it" tend to be "yes", "maybe" and "no".
I like how the comment referenced in the article with the description "Rust itself can't even properly clean up its own memory" was answered today saying the restriction of unwinding on oom is going away; it's not a fundamental issue, just something that wasn't implemented that way the first time.
It looks fairly clean but the lowercase "r" character stuck out at me as I read the webpage. Mainly in the smaller paragraph size, not so much the titles. Something about it just looks "off" to me, sticks out like a sore thumb as I'm reading.
You’ve pretty much done what almost never happens on the Internet: genuinely changed my view.
The two beliefs are mutually exclusive. If you support social-networks removing what they decide is 'disinformation' by implication you think this is the bigger risk. This is the mechanism by which they become the gatekeepers of information.
Just the default iPad Notes app can search hand-written notes.
> Personally I'm in favor of modesty...

I'm a little confused. Didn't your first paragraph illustrate how "modesty" is basically subjective? If that's the case, what does it mean to be in favor of it? Are you in favor of the current notion of modesty as it is today in your country, and if so, why?
Yes.

And the way to fix ageing electrolytic capacitors is to use the machine regularly. If you use the machine before the capacitors age too far, the electrolyte will be 'rejuvenated' so to speak. If you let it go too long, the capacitors lose their dielectric and are more likely to leak very high currents, which will boil the electrolyte and explode the container.

Apparently, even if the dielectric is old and perished, you can use a variac to slowly increase the voltage and rejuvenate the dielectric without the leakage current ever getting to explosive 'boil the electrolyte' levels.
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I’ve had a genetic test done, after being told that I have significantly lower than average vitamin d levels it turned out I’m genetically predisposed to low vitamin d and b12 absorption. So I have to supplement significantly more than what is normal.

After doing so, my colds have been far less severe then in the past. What made me go to such lengths testing myself was that I thought I was doing everything right and yet got pneumonia two years in a row.

So aside from testing your blood serum levels you should consider a genetic test to see how well you absorb vitamin d. You may benefit from above average dosage (consult your dr. Ymmv)
At a facebook scale, humans are inevitably going to mistakes as well from misclicks.
Advertising manager here - The real problem is that not enough companies pay attention to the results they are getting from their ad campaigns. Most big companies just dump money into a lot of different campaigns without putting in place strict measurement procedures.
So this puts the ethical ad seller at a major disadvantage. Currently you have companies spending tens of millions of dollars on digital ads each quarter and only looking ad metrics like cost per click or cost per impression.
So they are judging the effectiveness of the ad campaign on metrics the ad seller provides. They are not putting in place effective checks and balances.

Why you ask? Because if the huge companies buying ads wanted to actually measure everything it would be extremely time consuming and expensive. It is a lot easier to pretend the problem doesn’t exist and just go with the flow.

So small companies with small budgets are actually a lot better at measuring results in most cases. Also online only businesses are a lot better at it. Measuring the offline impact of online ads is very hard.

But the bulk of ad dollars are spent by huge companies with huge bureaucracies. So game theory says you need to capture those dollars to win.

Source – I’ve been doing digital marketing for the last 12 years at a variety of companies.
Twilio to Acquire Segment for $3.2B
New Study Casts Doubt on the Climate Benefits of Natural Gas Power Plants
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I had not heard of sun poisoning, although I've suffered it. I've been told it was heatstroke (since no sunburn), but it felt different and indeed it is (due to medicines I take). Thanks for that tidbit.
I would argue Serbia is traditionally aligned with Russia/Soviets. That's the narrative for the last 25 years maybe, and I think it was just the path of least resistance. Boomers in Serbia were more westernized than you would expect. Some poor judgement of some Western powers tipped the balance and forced Serbia into Russian influence, IMHO.
the problem with this is it's not easy to pull data out from git. eg: i want to visualize teh changes over time.
Sorry I was unclear.

I meant that lately Apple has been buying companies that offer services to both Android and iOS and then shutting-down their Android businesses, even when they're very profitable and/or popular.

* Dark Sky

* Texture

* NextVR

* Chomp

* Beddit

* Color Labs

* Emagic (Windows, not Android)

Granted, Apple does keep some Android services running, such as Shazam and Beats, but Apple's decision not just to suspend development of Android clients for services like Dark Sky and Texture, but to actively prohibit Android users while still allowing iOS access to the exact same backend web-service is just mean-spirited.
It just has libva support for video decoding acceleration.

Whether that translates to actual video decoding acceleration on any platform depends on availability of libva backends. And performance (or power consumption) may still suck, if you can't use the frame buffers directly for output to some HW overlay.

Linux kernel APIs are fairly straightforward, and easy to use, if you use them directly from some simple app. But making it work across all the abstractions from browser, to compositor, to display server, via ffmpeg, via libva, etc. is not easy at all.
> My unpopular opinion is that H2 is an overall very poor solution to our current problems.

I think you opinion is based on dated ideas. The interest in hydrogen is not being driven by electric cars, or as a battery replacement. It's being driven by one thing: if the price of renewable energy keeps dropping, it will be cheaper to make hydrogen than frac gas or mine coal. Even better, one accepted way to deal with renewables intermittency is to over provision. Over provisioning means we produce lots of unwanted electricity that is effectively free. If you can bottle what get get for free and sell it: profit.

To put this another way, the hydrogen will be used to produce heat. While lights, cars, planes and other things get all the attention, plain simple heating things is the number one user of energy. We use it to cook food, warm our houses, take showers, wash our plates and pants, iron our clothes, melt silicon ingots, make steel and concrete. Just about everything we use need heat in its production.

As you say storing hydrogen is problematic. As possible solution of storing it as anhydrous ammonia has been thwarted by our inability to reverse the reaction and get the hydrogen back. That little sticking point aside, it's nearly ideal. We efficiently produce enormous quantities of it now for fertilizer, and have decades of experience in ensuring your average job farmer handles this rather obnoxious substance safely.

But, where there is a lot of money to be made, people have an incentive to go looking. And in Australia at least it dawned there was a _lot_ of money to be made. Australia is the 5th largest exporter of natural gas in the world. Like ammonia natural gas is also difficult to handle. To transport methane efficiently it has to be a liquid, which is done by cooling it to -26O F and compressing 4psi. While exports are great now, it's on the nose. China, Australia's biggest customer, plans to be carbon neutral by 2060. But looming disaster could be circumvented as Australia has huge reserves of sunshine at it is mostly desert, it is politically stable and is very good at things requiring large coordinated infrastructure investment like food production and mining. Hydrogen would be a natural fit for us, if we could solve the storage problem.

So, they did. Or more precisely the scientific arm of the Australian government, CSIRO, did. They came us with a metal membrane that converts the ammonia back to hydrogen. https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/EF/Areas/Renewable-and-low-... I guess the plan is instead of taking delivery of a tank of methane, you take delivery of a tank of ammonia, and you convert it back to hydrogen and burn it.

Burning hydrogen sounds so low tech, so inefficient. It is low tech, but burning it for heat production is 100% efficient. And remember the driving force behind this is it will be cheaper than other things we burn, like coal and gas. This isn't rocket science. Anyone could do it, which is why Europe is looking at it too.
People who don't change the default user agent are legitimate security researchers. People with actual malicious intent change it to whatever the current Chrome UA is.
no explanation is needed for joe founder failing to achieve a $1B outcome. Better to ask why the few succeed and the answer is usually one that could not have even been foreseen.
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“There is no such thing as an “epidemiologist”, is not a true statement at all. It’s a strange assertion. Surgeons often study many different things, they don’t specifically go to Surgery school. Epidemiology is another specialty of medicine focused on communicable disease.
It's officially called "expository critique" in the oldest document I'm familiar with (https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/elacontentstnds.pd...), but I don't know if it was there before 1997 or not. More recent standards e.g. (https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstanda...) don't appear to use a specific term for it, but they still include things like "Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text" and "identify false statements and fallacious reasoning".
Fortunately, there is a link at the top of the page, which leads to the very article that OP is talking about.
Going through my bank statements at tax time, I noticed a weird check for $80 that was unaccounted for. Getting the check image, it was:

1. Not my name for the payer

2. An out-of-state address

3. Check was not on my bank's paper, they did the logo wrong, etc.

4. Signature was someone else's

Essentially, everything was wrong but the account number. The bank cashed the check, and blamed me. I got very angry about that, and basically sat in the manager's office until he agreed to refund my money.

A couple months later, I ran out of blank checks, and went to the bank to order more. They gave me a song-and-dance about the advanced "security paper" for the expensive check blanks they wanted to sell me. I literally laughed, and told them you guys don't check the name, the address, the signature, and certainly not the paper, and walked out and bought more checks from an online company.
Thanks. Interesting, though I'm not exactly sure what problem it's solving or what improvement it's making to Usenet.
According to the paper she was indeed taking 325 times the recommended daily dose of Vitamin D for 20 months.

The paper is indeed pretty silly. "How much is too much? Somewhere between 1x and 325x RDA apparently."
I don't see it that way at all, I think it's becoming more and more clear that there are actually conservative voices in these organizations (if not fully conservative, but at least economically conservative).

As social media gets larger and larger, these companies need to (1) at least pretend to be impartial and (2) show they are doing something about the "problem", or else the loser will blame big tech and slap them with regulation. Trump hasn't even lost and he's already talking about repealing Section 230, and Facebook (I think rightfully) is getting a lot of attention that could lead them to get broken up.

No one wants a target on their back when some research firm uncovers that "bad guy X" spent a couple million dollars astroturfing and/or abusing the platform or skirting election advertising regulation. It doesn't matter if that bad guy is Russia or some American Super PAC
In retrospect it mostly didn't work. What I really learned from this is that help-wanted pages are a formality. I figure places that hire people who read HN pay recruiters, and applying directly with the company less often 'skips the line' and more often finds a direct line to the trashcan, since h1b hiring laws require employers try to find local talent work first.
Always by type in a tree-structure of directories. By the time you've selected down finer and finer details you'll probably find you've only got a dozen or so files left to search carefully through for your information.

But, mind you, belt-n-braces. It never hurts to have a key-word index too.
No, that is what people cannot wrap their head around. They always think there is a catch or a downside with Julia. But Julia is really to have a cake and it too.... ok you got to accept your first plot is slow ;-)
Twilio feels like a great fit for Segment, all the best to the team and the next steps.

Show HN: Analytics.js (2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912076

via @rauchg

https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1314709848030756864
Image censoring AI is certainly turning into a whole new world of boundless opportunity for the Scunthorpe problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
He did, but I don't think that it had time to come into effect. And that part was explicitly related to 5G technology, which is a relatively vague term. The cameras might or might not come into that.
I think it’s a really smart idea, and solves a real problem.
This seems cheap, segment was doing great especially with sass the way it is now.
If only that was possible but most companies won't bother trying in such a way cause they'd be losing out on a massively popular and profitable platform
I take a 60K softgel monthly, and I believe it has vitamin D in an oil carrier.
Are there any docs on this feature? I couldn't find anything in the readme other than the blanket statement that it existed.
> The policies across the board are to just hand over money.

Makes perfect sense. They lose a few bucks, vs the $$$$ they'd have to pay in the lawsuit. Let the cops deal with the crooks.
...the current official RDA of vit D is about 4-5x TOO LOW...

The person in the study was taking 162.5x the largest recommended daily allowance.
Thanks!

I am not good at Python at all and would not able to add Python specific support. However, SeaweedFS has gRPC APIs that you can use to do all file operations.
Wealth availability and spreading is a multidimensional problem. More wealth can be made available to the average person (median) in a variety of manners. Having more wealth producing centers like intact factories not destroyed by world war 2 bombing is one way to give a locality more average wealth and higher minimum wages. This increases the mean and total wealth.
Another manner of increasing the median wealth is through managing income distribution and inequality. Socialist policies, labor unions, etc etc, will raise the median amount of wealth even if the mean stays the same.
So, what, we're gonna decide what's "suitable" for normal people to see?

Half of mainstream society, respectable people with respectable jobs, just spent 4 years engaged in a conspiracy theory about Russians and Cambridge Analytica which has quietly fallen apart into "nevermind, we just biffed the election is all".

But if one had said that in, say, 2017, they'd be accused of being a Russian bot. Bias passes everywhere.
C'mon now.

You've never had a bowl of breakfast cereal at 10PM?

<grin>
Webflow the Best CMS of the Moment?
see https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/wiki/Erasure-Coding-f...
My favorite documentation/comments feature of Clojure is the ability to attach examples to the metadata, e.g:

(defn prime?
"Returns true if given number is prime."
{:example
'((prime? 97) "=> true"
(prime? 74) "=> false")}
[n]
,,,
;; implementation
)

(-> #'user/prime? meta :example)
;; => ((prime? 97) "=> true" (prime? 74) "=> false")

You can even incorporate assertions and have tests that would make sure the examples are correct, something like:

(defn prime?
"Returns true if given number is prime."
{:examples
'((-> (prime? 74) false? assert)
(-> (prime? 97) true? assert))}
[n]
,,,
;; implementation
)

(doseq [f (->> #'user/prime? meta :example)] (eval f))
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It is solving the problem of namespace collision when creating newsgroups that are not part of the main Usenet hierarchies.

If you are setting up your own discussion forums (or blog, or whatever) based on NNTP, this avoidance of namespace collision is useful. (They can still be federated to other servers if wanted; they keep the name where it originated. You can have Usenet and Unusenet on the same server with no collision.)
The doctor in this video is still promoting Hydroxychloroquine, is anti-masks and posts conspiracy theories about the CDC being funded by Bill Gates on his Twitter, implying that the CDC is upplaying the pandemic because of that. He also retweets people who say that the covid crisis is not an actual pandemic.

Pretty much exactly who I would expect to appear on a right-wing propaganda outlet.
Genius move for Twilio, honestly. Segment can supply the central hub to tie in all channel spokes Twilio already powers (especially after the SendGrid acquisition from a couple years ago).

I can't help thinking Segment had much more room to run though...everyone I know who uses them loves them, and they were still only just scratching the surface of the addressable market.
Sure people can work less hours, but right now people choose to want more things - better healthcare, larger houses, more entertainment and choose to work more hours.

Certain areas are clearly broken - education, medicine, and housing -- but that's largely due to government interference.
The environment. See many photos of tribal villages where women don't cover breasts.

Or on the other side the not that distant outrage about women wearing trousers which exposes leg shape.
Um, sure. Those "form factors" are very different...

https://www.apple.com/mac/compare/?afid=p238%7CsboPJ4L5G-dc_...

> it's much easier to make any case if you disregard the most basic facts within the first paragraph.

Using apple marketing as a source of truth does not justify your snark. These "products" are small variations of grift.
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Crime - no, but every social media platform that doesn't actively fight porn eventually turns into a porn site.

OnlyFans is an example of a service which embraced adult content, but most others would rather not go this route.
Wow, over 150x the recommended amount. Lucky the person survived it.
I don't see any issue with a site using their own data to provide targeted advertisement on that one site. As long as data isn't being aggregated between sites and users aren't being tracked between sites, the privacy risk seems minimal.
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