skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That headline does not match the article contents. That is definitely the headline from the article, but it simply repeats the claim and doesn't even link to the complaint or provide ANY details.

> Spiers was fired after she created a pop-up for Google employees visiting the IRI Consultants website.

Didn't she inject code into an unrelated internal extension? That sounds like a legit security issue no matter how just her cause. Like it's awesome you're for unionization, but that doesn't mean you get to roll code across the org - what if it had been a bitcoin mining script?
fd (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) is the best command line search utility IMO. Its crazy fast and always found what I was looking for.
If you want a GUI alternative, check out Drill (https://github.com/yatima1460/Drill).
Although the development seems stalled, it works well for normal usecases.
I found the example of the automated email to the ship's captain a bit weak.

> The point is that we don’t know, the captain of the ship itself didn’t know, and that nobody may know

It all boils down to abstraction. Just like the captain doesn't need to know why a certain type of steel is used for the hull of his ship, or how the software works that monitors his engines. The captain doesn't need to understand the calculation that goes behind the optimal arrival time of his ship.

But I'm sure that, if he's curious enough, he can contact the right people at his employer to tell him why certain decisions are made.
Humans love patterns, meanwhile the RNG is just shrugging.
You are shifting the goal posts.

1. More than 5,000 people under 50 in a population of 66 million will have serious side effects from COVID.

2. In fact, nearly 3,000 people under 50 have already died from COVID in the UK.

3. This is despite only a small percentage of the population (3-10%) having been infected by COVID.

4. Even if you are under 50, and don't die to COVID, you are going to kill other people, by spreading it to them.
This article on organic food looks like a rather biased piece to me, more like a grab bag of one-sided arguments looking only at bad examples. The author indeed backtracks in the notes at the end:

Based on the responses, I just want to make this clear: this is NOT a comprehensive comparison of organic and conventional agriculture, nor is it intended to be. That post would be miles long and far more complex. My overall belief is that there shouldn't be a dichotomy in the first place - there are a variety of methods and practices that a farmer can use, each with its pros and cons. The main point here is that something "organic" isn't intrinsically better than something that isn't, and that you have to approach all kinds of agriculture critically to achieve optimum sustainability.

I thought so... I would be surprised if the main point (that organic food is not healthier pesticide-wise) applies to all organic labels.
And that is, literally, quite close to one in a million.
Interesting. We tend to feel the same way about those who disagree with that premise.
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I assume they mean minorities with respect to the country where the vaccine was developed.

However the main purpose of a vaccine is herd immunity.

If a large enough majority of the population become immune that we achieve herd immunity, that will still protect the minority of people for whom the vaccine didn't work.
It’s the same likelihood to draw the numbers, however more people are likely to buy that sequence of numbers as it is a very common sequence that people think of.
Why Spotify kept removing my show
> In "Benchmarks Game" you get…

You get what people choose to contribute — if you want to see Python or PHP programs that don't use GMP then please contribute those programs.

The benchmarks game shows up-to 10 programs for each language implementation: some will be all about performance, some will be about the language, some will be about program size.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

and

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Sort by gz and notice the Chapel programs seem to be written to show program size rather than performance:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Did any of my companies ever pull a product while it was still being used? No.
Tong: Exactly. They dug their own grave, JC. We're going to eliminate global communications altogether.

JC: I don't know... sounds like overkill.

Tong: As long as technology has a global reach, someone will have the world in the palm of his hand. If not Bob Page, then Everett, Dowd...

JC: Another Stone Age would hardly be an improvement.

Tong: Not so drastic. A dark age, an age of city-states, craftsmen, government on a scale comprehensible to its citizens.
From a random comment I read on reddit regarding this same issue, they made it seem like they are mostly just killed, ground down and used for bait. This bleed and release is more of a PR stunt. I have nothing to back up this claim however.
Don't look for a rationale. See this recent article "The Node Is Nonsense:

https://read.nxtbook.com/ieee/spectrum/spectrum_na_august_20...

It goes in depth into this topic.
Could've also been "C:\>del *.mp3" if they were trying to incorporate the prompt. Either way, who keeps mp3s on the root drive anyways?
Hi guys!

I was talking with a friend the other day [1] and he shared this idea, I think it comes from a Veritasium video [2], that if you took 1.000 random people and ranked them by their overall success, the top ones would almost always be extremely lucky (i.e.: you get to the top by being lucky, not by hard work alone)

Although the math behind it is extremely simple (just a weighted sum), as well as the code [3], I think the idea that hard work alone doesn't guarantee success is a powerful one. Plus, I think the app is fun to play with.

Hope this thought experiment helps reflect about the whole idea of randomness in life, and maybe help spark a few interesting conversations with friends! It'd be great to hear your feedback.

[1] https://twitter.com/rameerez/status/1334104302361702400
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LopI4YeC4I
[3] https://github.com/rameerez/luck
May as well just give it a try for yourself and see how you get on. I use Siri all the time to build shopping lists, set reminders (including reminders with alerts), etc. I have no problems with it. I also have no problem issuing the exact command parent poster is having trouble with.

Point is, YMMV; just try it for yourself.
Nobody said anything about WWI, not a fan of Wilson, not going to defend him nor any of his choices, and while I’m not FDR’s biggest fan either, there were major differences:

1. Our territory was actually attacked. All the other noise around what FDR did or didn’t want to do goes out the window; we were attacked by an equal or near equal contemporary power.

2. Up until Midway, it was a more or less even fight with the Japanese. Had we lost Midway, there’s a decent chance the Pacific war could have gone very differently.

3. Our technical superiority over our adversaries was not as obvious before the war as it is in hindsight looking back at the War. There probably wasn’t a scenario in which the Japanese, let alone the Germans landed on American beaches, but part of that was that we fought back. We didn’t take Pearl Harbor on the chin and just lie down and let the Japanese have the run of the Pacific.

Everything after that is a big what if. What if Germany won the Battle of Britain and consolidated control over Europe with virtually no opposition on the Western Front? I’m not going to waste my time or yours entertaining that question. If we faced an existential threat after the Revolutionary War or 1812, WWII was that threat.
Scott Adams is a seditious traitor supporting a coup. Let's not give him traffic.
If the probability distribution gives equal weight to all the numbers, then yes. But the fact that a sequence that is semantically meaningful to humans (in such a profound way) came up should raise some questions, because there may be some funny business going on. At the very least, it you want to audit the lottery just to give people confidence it isn't rigged.
>up to 70% logic density gain

The keyword here is logic density. Transistor density could refer to many things, in marketing speaks that normally means SRAM.
That $36B doesn't come from a single source. Google Cloud is their single largest non-ad revenue stream, at $3.4B in Q3 (or 7.4% of total revenue). The rest of their non-advertising revenue ($5.5B, or 11.8% of total revenue) is lumped into the "other" category, which implies that they have a lot of smaller revenue streams that add up to a larger figure—not a single hose. So I guess you could maybe call Google Cloud a "hose" at ~$14B per year, but it certainly doesn't print money like their advertising business, and is a relatively small source of revenue for such a large company.
This is a larger GIGO problem with the music industry these days. It's not a shortcoming of voice assistants in particular. Ever use Spotify? Sometimes it seems that 9 out of 10 albums returned by any given search are live versions, heavily-doctored remastered editions, or remix collections.
Earlier this year we saw articles published about the finding of an Earth-sized rogue planet in our galaxy. The way it was discovered is remarkable. A telescope was looking at a distant star, then the star seemingly brightened over a period of 42 minutes. And that was basically it.

When a massive object passes between a distant star and an Earth-based observer the light coming from the star gets deflected and focused by the gravity of the massive object. The star seemingly brightens as a result. This is called gravitational microlensing. The duration and how the brightening happens allowed scientists to determine that it was likely a Mars-sized planet and that it likely had no star within 8 astronomical units. It's likely a rogue planet of roughly Earth size.

Think about how little actual information these astronomers had. Yet they were able to make a very credible prediction on what happened. You see this all over in science, particularly in physics, where the truth is coaxed out of very little direct data. This makes me think that similar things can probably be done with data about people. This would mean that effectively anonymizing people's data is very hard or maybe even impossible.
On-premises AWS EKS infrastructure
Federal judge blocks Trump curbs on high-skilled worker visa program
It looks like this is the pre-print: https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/pdf/S2405-4712(20)30461-0....
A Plague of Ethical Cafeteria Consequentialism
the risks of covid are very low for ~99% of the population

IMO the risks of an rushed new vaccine are much higher
What is the objective bright line between reasonable observation of an employee and "workplace surveillance"?

Is it "workplace surveillance" when you can view the calendar appointments of your coworkers? Or see stats about the changelists submitted, bugs resolved, etc. of each person? Or see their dot when they are viewing a document?

Maybe these Microsoft features crossed a threshold of creepiness past which the world should not go. But to act like it's a settled conversation, where right and wrong are so obvious that the issue was agreed upon long ago, does not match with reality in my opinion.
This is an insane experiment on humanity. First, Big Pharma tried to sell us Remdesivir, an expensive drug that does not work and is potentially dangerous. Now, they're trying to sell us a rushed vaccine that has only been tested for a short time on a few tens of thousands people, and they have made deals so they're not liable for side-effects. All of this for a virus that has something like 0.05% mortality rate.
Some years ago I went to do something by voice and wanted to cancel "Ok Google ... nevermind" and then it played Nevermind by Nirvana. Thought that was goofy, I didn't ask to play music or anything.
You are one of the people I was talking about: you belive you can just add a few vitamins and minerals here and there and call it a day: that is not how it works!

Example: vitamin C in supplements is only ascorbic acid. But the real vitamin C is a "complex" and contains multiple other vitamins INSIDE of it+ stuff surrounding the complex.

You cannot break down meat into minerals and vitamins if they don't have them in the first place.
It's important to remember that SARS was a lot more deadly that COVID-19. I am not at all surprised such a high percentage of people suffered long term lung damage given how virulent it was. Case fatality was somewhere around 10%.
So there are a few people mentioning that the chances of this happening are equal to the chance of any other set of 6 numbers coming up, but something I like to think about is how to estimate the size of the set of winning combinations that would trigger this kind of reaction, and what the chances of one member of that set being the winning numbers would be.

So let say, a set of:

- sequential numbers.

- sequential primes.

- sequential even or odd.

- a commonly memorized multiplication table 3,6,9,12...

- squares 2,4,8,16,32...

- other famous sequences - eg fibonacci

- famous numbers - eg 4,8,15,16,23,42

- the same numbers being picked multiple days in a row

As a bonus, I like to think of the number of lotteries important enough to warrant making the news. Then you can calculate how frequently you can expect to see a 'crazy lottery winning combination' story.
I played around with Pakistani WhatsApp groups for a while. RE: vulgarity, that's already kinda banned (along with most pornography in Asia). I bet you could get banned if you are reported for hate speech, but I'm not sure what they will/can do about anti-state talk.
Handwashing became less important than mask wearing, but The Memory Palace did a fantastic episode of 20-second stories for hand washing:

https://thememorypalace.us/music-to-wash-hands-by/

He recently named it his Episode of the Year, despite it being only November, because there was nothing going to top it.
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"When I see these complaints I see people talking about how they want other people to use the Internet and computers. That smells like authoritarianism."

Complaining about social, political, or economic trends is not
authoritarianism.
Poe's law is at work here for me. I have no idea if you're sarcastic or joking around because there are a lot of crazy people that actually would believe something this ridiculous.
This is surprising for me, I thought LLVM abstracted away platform ABIs.
Do you mean the weakness of SS7? If so, the answer is, it would be easier to entirely build a new telco network and new cities than to overhaul the SS7 signalling network. I would have to write a book to explain the complexities (technical, bureaucratic, legal challenges). To sum up, SS7 will probably be with us in its current state long after our great great grand-children. It is best to just avoid using it if you can. POTS lines, SMS Text messages currently depend on it, but SMS could be changed to use data only if all the wireless carriers could agree to block SS7 for SMS or tear down their SMS gateways. There would need to be an agreed upon standard to re-route all the SMS messages. Landline calls and mobile to landline and mobile carrier to mobile carrier will still use SS7 for the foreseeable future and will always be vulnerable to interception. Mobile devices would have to solve this with some type of device validation, at least for mobile to mobile calls and home/business systems would need to implement that validation.
That's what I figured, re: transfer modeling. Thanks for chiming in.
> At least in the US, over 95% of fatalities are people over 55

I'll never understand people who say this, thinking it somehow proves their point or something. My parents are nearly 60, and easily have 20 more years of time with me and their grandkids. Why are we okay with that?
The 90's band Self has a similar issue.
AnyList is very good and I believe a fellow HN'er: https://www.anylist.com/
I for one rather like Lex as an interviewer. But he did sound drunk in his Chris Lattner interview!
if you're a completely logic person then yes. I guess the problem here is that a lot of people will always think this was a scam as they do not understand that 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 is as likely to happen as 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. And there's there's the other step... if we can make people have this kind of thinking then very easily this kinds of games would end as people would figure out it's just a waste of money.
Wait what's stopping you? We eat steak tartare at home all the time, just buying good new york strips and cutting them up. All you need is very good olive oil and a little vinegar, perhaps some shallots or capers if you have them, and an egg yolk. It's faster prep and cleanup than bothering to fry the steak!
Surveillance aside, how is this not a garbage metric? Or at least a woefully misnamed one.

"Adoption of key features" does not sound like it corresponds to productivity to me. (Maybe in very extreme cases?)

I could imagine using this metric to see if I'm getting my money's worth out of the software or whether some department is slow in adopting it.
My old car would always auto play `Aaron Burr, Sir` no matter how many times I tried to prevent it.
I have not used any MDM software in years, but I have used ones that can see your location, apps installed, and other basic information like that. They also generally have ways to control your phone such as the ability to lock down or completely wipe your phone. I have heard there are more advanced MDMs that can get more detailed information such as contacts and usage information about messages, but I think it is still impossible to get the messages themselves.

I have also had to install MDM software in the past at companies with BYOD policies in order to get access to company email or corporate networks so the "they own the device" answer isn't always valid.
Simulations open a new way to reverse cell aging
We have a unified notation already?

x^y = z

x = z^{1/y}

\log(x) y = \log(z)

Some of these generalize well to complex numbers/matrices/groups/flows/etc. some don't.
I have 200 tulip poplars on my property. I have a morel bonanza once a year!
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7#Protoc...
I think there are only 16 straights possible since you can't start with 17, 18, 19, or 20
That's too bad. I remember finding some really nice scans/reconstructions by CyArk of historical locations and objects there: https://poly.google.com/user/4U4FhbhDQdR

Used to be you could download low-res OBJs and they made for some nice quick test scenes for rendering. Sadly, that seems to be gone now as well.

I guess https://openheritage3d.org/ is the better place for that now.
In this context, the context is the US, not California. Latinos are a minority in the US, regardless of what they are in California or the world.

We're trying to talk about the vaccine's effectiveness. We're trying to talk about biology, and it's kind of urgent at the moment. Can we please give sociology issues a pass for a bit?
If it's a social construct, then it can't have a biological impact on the efficacy of a vaccine.

You see the paradox?
Massachusetts lawmakers pass state-wide police ban on facial recognition
One of the really weird benefits of having His Orangeness as president was that, due to his extremely toxic persona and policies, and the reciprocal hostility to him from the tech sector, he and his administration had no qualms about going after companies like Google.

Obviously, he had no integrity or principles about this, and if Google's CEO had "kissed the ring" he'd immediately sing the company's praises, which was emblematic of his culty version of corruption.

That being said, my big fear is that the latest incarnation of the Democratic Party establishment is extremely cozy with the SV goliaths. Similar to how the GOP's cozy relationship with fossil fuel industry drives a policy of inaction and denial for environmental regulation, I worry that the Biden administration and DNC apparatus will simply give a pass to these companies for violations of worker rights and individual privacy.

A good test would be to see if the Biden administration supports a US adoption of GDPR-like standards.
That's why they should fees and use the fees to pay the current soldiers.

It's more productive for both sides.

The current system is just bad.

Another bad example is: the whole football team will be exempted if they win a national cup like Asian game.

Imagine playing against a team where, if you win, the other side needs to go to a camp for 2 years.
You're saying you can't tell it's sarcasm that he can't tell it's sarcasm?
Nice conspiracy theory.
I don't think that will help a person who was born blind know what blue means to people with sight.
That's exactly what ripgrep-all uses to implement this. There's a lot of integration work required to make this nice. The --pre flag is just a small hook. More info on it here: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/GUIDE.md#p...
Zapata raises $38M for quantum machine learning
Thank you. This odd rash of race primacy in the zeitgeist is getting me down. "... by the content of their character.." people, come on.

If indeed the vaccine may be less effective for certain populations then name them and leave the vagaries of race baiting to the tabloids.
Too many people in these comments talking about chances of picking random sequences or randomly choosing runs of numbers.

Not enough people noticing the part where it says "The organisers say the sequence is often picked."

Often?
If she had injected a BitCoin miner, for personal profit, that would have been an entirely different situation, wouldn't it?
Uber sells its air taxi business
I’m in Scotland and get about 3/0.1 and it dies whenever it rains( very often), open reach don’t care. They send someone who measures something and says someone else will come and fix it and they never do. I guess the cost of fixing the line for our one house isn’t worth it. Scottish gov said we’d have fibre optic by now but it’s been pushed back another year. We should receive a £400 payout if it isn’t here by next summer, but again my guess is they’d rather pay the fine than pay the cost of installation.

Can’t wait for starlink to come in and destroy them. I’ll sign up the second it becomes available.
The lack of accountability and governance by investors is fascinating and confusing to me. If I was investing meaningful portions of my savings, I would read every single document and maintain careful diligence on how the firm & executive team was performing. It also seems, from reading HN, that quality investment firms do that as well.

So, I wonder if it was more of a con job setup where the investors were played for marks...
Remember back when Apple was running ads for Chance the Rapper's debut album (Apple Music exclusive) "Coloring Book?" Apple was also pushing a lot into Siri. I can't recall the specifics, but I thought the ad had Chance saying "hey siri play coloring book."

So, I asked Siri the above prompt. Siri took me to Apple Music and played an album with the name "Coloring Book" but by a different artist.
Ideally, we would treat e^x and ln(x) = log~e(x) as the default. We know that a^x = e^(x ln a), and log~a(x) = ln x / ln a. So if we introduced an operator ^(x) = e^x, and another v(x) = ln(x), we could write a^x = ^xva, a√x = ^(vx/a), log~a(x) = vx/va. Common identities would be written thus:

^xva * ^yva = ^(xva + yva) = ^(x + y)va

^yv(^xva) = ^yxva (note that this is just the identity v(^x) = x)

ln(a^x) = x ln a is just v(^xva) = xva

^yvx = z <=> yvx = vz <=> y = vz/vx

^yvx = z <=> yvx = vz <=> vx = vz/y <=> x = ^(vz/y)

(alternate derivation:)

^yvx = z <=> ^(v^yvx/y) = ^(vz/y) <=> x = ^(vz/y)

Differentials are thus:

D(^f) = Df^f

D(vf) = Df/f

d/dx(^xva) = va^xva

d/dx(^nvx) = d/dx(nvx)^nvx = n/x * ^nvx = n ^-1vx ^nvx = n^(n-1)vx

d/dx(vx/va) = 1/xva