skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if they sees him as the guest, it would be shocked to see he is asking to pay. The host of dinner won't be happy if they allow guests to pay. Part of culture. I won't read too much into it, especially in Beijing. Of course, in rural areas, the chief could be king. Still, many times they have to pay for the meals, the only difference is that they are allowed to have a tab. The corruption is not taking free meals from restaurants, it is actually using government funds to pay for these meals. He will go to jail if the restaurant owner reports him if he does not pay for many times.
It should be news only when Google doesn't shutdown some products or service. /s
> When they showed up HR started with "But that isn't how we use it, we would never access your personal data."

So, what, was HR lying?

More to the point, Google shouldn't be putting critical business information on personal devices, that's a security risk. If they're that worried about it, they should be issuing every employee a separate phone.

"We don't trust you enough to have your own device without a rootkit, but we somehow still think it's a good idea to send sensitive company emails to somebody's random custom-ROM 3rd-party Android phone or Macbook, which might have who-knows-what 3rd-party malware installed on it."

Why would you want to put company secrets on the same device that somebody is using to play Pokemon Go, Among Us, and to connect to whatever IoT disaster that they've just been gifted for Christmas?
Not just ARC, https://www.cbc.ca/archives/topic/canadas-tainted-blood-disa...
>We're just willing to no longer investigate the cause of this sudden jump in suicides, because we can simply write it off as "normal" loneliness?

That's quite a leap there. I understand there are many societal problems plaguing Japan, and other comments have eluded to Japan's very low birthrates which are also indicative of these factors. It's not an insidious assumption that this year's isolation may have contributed to that phenomenon, especially for women, who generally require more socialisation than men.

There may not be much common ground here though. I don't personally know anybody who uses terms like "micro-pressures" or "problematic", all of the women of my mother's age (including my parents) have been happily married for decades (and my mum's main source of joy through this time has been getting out to see her many children and grandchildren as often as permitted), and I think most people in my family would be at least a little troubled if a young relative was proud of her increases in "productivity" in isolation.

We're from different worlds!
I think the takeaway is that the hard line for Google is being able to rootkit your phone
Web Monetization in VuePress
Whether or not one has the right to computing freedom is irrelevant. The federal government has the unquestioned authority to set the rules for interstate and international commerce. Breaking them up is not a takeover, by definition, since the government will not end up as the owners of those businesses. It is a restructuring of the market in furtherance of our goal of a free market economy based on fair rules and equality before the law.

Further, pushing responsibility onto individual consumers to (somehow) shape the market "with their wallet" is absurd. The highest purpose of a public government is that it can serve to protect the common folk from the abuses of concentrated wealth. Asking regulators to do their job isn't coercive, it's corrective.
This comes to prove the basic and probably only lottery strategy.

If you choose (which you shouldn't) to play the lottery, then avoid common sequences like 5,6,7,8,9,10 or dates. In very unlikely case that you win, you'll most probably have to share the prize
It's a wash. It broke some and restored others, often by following variant characters already in use, e.g. 闆, which has no pronunciation similarity to 品, became 板 (following cues of e.g. 版).

Chinese hasn't had consistent phonetic components for a long long long time.
Airbus older planes have their own problem of fume events causing all sorts of serious sicknesses http://avherald.com/h?search_term=Fume+event&opt=0&dosearch=...
It's certainly a better name to have than John Smith, Joe Bloggs, or Karen.
Ah I’ve never seen home edition!
A coworker recently showed me that they have a non commercial power plan/contract where they get hourly prices based on market rate. In South Australia where the sun is pretty intense, his power prices literally go negative for a few hours.

Now if you had variable loads or a battery you could schedule them to buy and sell power based on the market rate. Since very few people have the ability to do this, you can constantly beat the market on an almost daily basis. Tesla in fact already does this. Not only do they profit from this buying and selling, the grid becomes stabilized because the high and low demand periods become smoothed.
In the very first stage of embryonic development, during cleavage, all cells of the clump are totipotent, meaning that if you took out a single cell, you could create a human from it. The article doesn't say at which stage the embryo implanted was, but likely it was in that early stage.
Maybe a drained crab makes poor bait?
People who think there’s more than a trillion dollars left in that market?
Any details on what happened?

Trying to get context, I see big names professors from Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, Cornell all commenting/retweeting on how bad this is, so it's a big deal for sure
You don't even need to compare Apple to other OEMs. Compare Apple to itself. On macOS, despite increasingly more stringent security policies, you are free to install apps and software outside of the App Store. Why should iOS be different? Why the inconsistency across Apple's own platforms? Is iOS somehow less secure than desktop and must only go through the App Store?
The run up is driven by the mining reward halvening in May and we've barely scraped the ATH. In the past, the year after a halvening saw approx. 10fold increase in price. I would expect at minimum a price of 40k before this one pops down to ~15k. The last local minimum was 3k.
And it worked perfectly fine for 30 years until they decided to replace it with the slow, bug-ridden, ad-infested piece of crap that comes with Windows 10. (The original .exe does not work without crashing in Windows 10, in a bizarre and uncharacteristic display of non-backwards-compatibility by MS.)

Any suggestions of a free/open-source replacement equal in stability and playability (e.g. generation of winnable games) as the original?
Why should any of those be web browser APIs? I don't want those anywhere near my browser. They all sound horrible.

Edit: Sorry, I wrote this too fast and didn't finish my thought. To clarity, I meant they sound horrible from a privacy perspective, and I don't think some random website should even have to option to access those APIs. The web has enough tracking and malicious sites as it is.
It can't help our industry.
> Standard Oil

Sounds like the government should and did step in at the "until they couldn't" part, which is not where we're at. Hard to imagine someone unable to stop using Facebook or Instagram or whatever, there's a lot of social media out there.

> Railroads

Considering the US returned control of the railways to their original owners in 1920 and most rail today is privatized, I'm not really sure what you're getting at.
They’re not weirdly indifferent, they’re busy shovelling cash into their vaults from their advertising oriented businesses
That's fascinating!

Doesn't that mean it's 青 that's the phonetic part? It means blue. blue day certainly is a fitting compound meaning regardless of its origin. On the other hand, no idea why moon and that radical (life?) = blue so that part is phontic?
I wonder how the economics on this work. Does it make more sense to wait or does it make more sense to buy at any point since you always win?
> We have used \n to find 23 bugs in the LLVM toolchain

For a second here I thought they had called their tool "\n". That would be pretty baller...
> humans' physical evolution is vastly dominated by their cultural/technological/societal evolution

Statements like these only make sense in a narrow context. Unless you're suggesting a dog raised like a human would act more like a human than a dog.
UK court: Under-16s 'unlikely' to be capable of consent to puberty blockers
It is one of the biggest problems in modern biology. The news that Deepmind’s A.I has shown extremely high accuracy results on the protein folding problem will accelerate Bioinformatics and biology research. The implications for drug discovery are enormous.
I'm not familiar with Poly. Is this what backs online storage for Google Blocks?
Very nice tool. I could find a really great use for it, if it supported sftp sinks. Is that in the plan?
Cheaper to buy a powerbank for laptop then invest in a crippled yet costly Apple product just for battery.
737 max should be permanently decertified, boeing should take all associated losses. FAA officials should be charged with manslaughter.
> I've done the math on my local lotteries and I only buy tickets when the EV of the return is greater than the cost of a single ticket.

If you want to get really technical, you also need to consider the number of people playing. When the jackpot gets extra high more people tend to play, so the likelihood of having to split a jackpot (which happens all the time) becomes higher. Without doing the math I would guess EV of the return is rarely ever greater than the cost of a single ticket.
Well shit. I was considering investing in bitcoin eventually, but this tells me that crypto is too legally unstable to put any money into.

I don't have issues with centralized exchanges, but if they're going this far, they could end up outright banning crypto, or banning everything but the government approved (tm) currencies. So, yeah, in reality, the value of BTC should drop like a lead bowling ball.
Spotify does provide an API. I've used it with various command-line clients on a headless linux box. For example, https://mopidy.com/

There is even a foobar2000 spotify component, though I haven't used foobar2000 in a long time, so cannot vouch for its quality.
> That hasn't been the experience for me. I have much fewer questions now than I had when I started to program 30 years ago.

I would guess poster above doesn't yet have 30 years experience. Perhaps 10 or less.

My experience echoes both yours and the above poster's - following a sort of bell curve - after initial ramp up, there was a significant period where every question led to several more. At some point that peaked, and by the time I'd been writing code for 20 years the rate of questions was dropping quickly.

Also the character of problems changed a lot. There's a point where QA sites like StackOverflow become largely useless for your problems, as they're too broad, complex, and dependent on specifics to fit the QA format. Even relevant blogs and academic papers become thin after 20 years.
Exactly!

There are some absolutely brilliant scientists in China working on vaccine development right now! Let's stop hand-wringing, this is a global public health issue, not a political issue, and China is working on it too.

"If China’s COVID-19 vaccines work, manufacturers say they could turn out 1.5 billion doses in total next year. And countries that cannot access vaccines bankrolled by Warp Speed—especially those that hosted China’s efficacy trials—might have a more secure vaccine supply."

"Yanzhong Huang, a global health specialist at both Seton Hall University and the Council on Foreign Relations, says the country is “actually using the vaccine to promote the diplomacy of foreign policy objectives.” This “vaccine diplomacy” he says, contrasts starkly with Warp Speed’s “vaccine nationalism” and aims to “fill in the void left by the United States.”

“It is a very carefully executed and carefully thought out strategy,” says Stephen Morrison, who directs the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. “A strategic goal of the Chinese government is to achieve hegemonic influence in the bioeconomy within the next decade.”

"At home, too, attitudes toward vaccines contrast with those in the United States and Europe, where mistrust is high, Morrison says. To the consternation of vaccine experts overseas, hundreds of thousands of people in China have already lined up to receive the experimental vaccines—even before their value and safety have been proved. “There has not been a collapse of faith and trust in science and in the state,” Morrison says. “There’s less fear about where this is all going.”

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/global-push-covid-19...

I'm not a huge fan of a lot of what the Chinese government does, but the U.S. is in the throes of some seriously crazy shit right now, and could take a lesson.
I don't know, but one thing occurs to me: those ponds the opium growers make are essentially batteries.
Such stupid PR. What was the point? Prove that NOT EVERY SINGLE 737MAX FLIGHT ends in death?

I mean come on. Of course it won't. It didn't before the long recertification process started either.

What about every 10 or 100,000th flight though? They gonna do PR stunts for that long?
Because I don't have the $50 million laying around to do it. The EV is only in my favour when I factor in the small prizes PLUS odds of main jackpot / value of main jackpot.
This specific paper won't. This detects incorrect debug information and it considers debug information loss to be correct.
African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
Rad, thanks!

Video Game history is just amazing at times.
This is probably the most overlooked comment here. I'm guessing that Google just DGAF about any individual employee. They're not short of candidates, so why waste even a tiny amount of time customizing their contract terms when they can just revoke it and move to the next in line.
I have yet to this day to find a music player I like more than old school winamp with a good skin and visualizations.

Curious to see if there are any recommendations in this thread.
Weaponizing Windows Sandbox to Bypass Defender
> there will be a smaller subset of people able to pay for renovations by 2030 because their jobs will have been automated

That's assuming new jobs are not going to replace the old ones. Human society has a tendency to use up all the available capacity by scaling up its goals. Do you think we'll stop inflating our expectations?

Even if our expectations don't drive up demand for new jobs, the government can. The transition to full automation, not to mention the global warming crisis, are hard work and require lots of jobs.

The premise of the article supports this idea - the decline in jobs happens mostly in companies that avoid automation because they lose out on quality, price or are less innovative.

In the extreme case that companies automate almost all jobs, then we're left with billions of people with no ability to earn an income. But they have lots of free time and unfulfilled needs. So they will use that sweet automation to solve most of their needs by working for themselves and being less reliant on external help.

There's always work to do when there are people, especially when they are forced to be self reliant. Of course I don't wish self reliance to look like North Korea, hopefully we can do this in a humane way.
One of her tweets says:

> I was fired by @JeffDean for my email to Brain women and Allies.

In a later tweet, says she would repost the email publicly but she no longer has access to it. I'm guessing it will leak soon.
If a male billionaire froze his sperm, or a female billionaire froze her eggs, and offered $1 million for anyone who birthed a baby with it after 100 years, $5 million after 200 years, $25 million after 300 years, etc., I am positive people would accept this offer. A form of legacy desired by humans since Ramesses.
Yes, sorry you are right!

My error was confusing the "7% total capacity" and "15% existing capacity" not being off the same baseline.
I believe the paper discussed is here [0]. I've skimmed it and am somewhat underwhelmed by both the methods and theory:

* All of their regressions are in levels.

* Look at Table 1, Column 1.

* Robotics investment is positively correlated with overall employment.

* What this tells me is that, "Large companies, by dint of their being large, make large investments. Some of those investments are in robotics. Likewise for small companies."

* To me, it has nothing to do with the claim "More robots => more employment."

* Running regressions in first differences would be better (but not enough).

* Then you could begin to work towards an interpretation like, "companies that _increased_ their investment in robotics in year X tended to increase/decrease employment/management/turnover by X." You can account for lags and the like via your specification.

* Fixed effects _are not_ equivelant to first differences in this setup!

* Separate out the long-, medium- and short-term consequences:
* Investment in new technology may require hiring new "talent" that is knowledgeable of the tech.

* In cases where there is a tech shock and firms are all buying the same machine, demand for a certain skillset will grow quickly. So you'd likely see:

* An uptick in turnover among affected workers

* A move to a "flatter" organizational structure (various reasons). So maybe fewer people who are managers per se.

* Possibly short-term productvity decreases arising from implementation issues. (e.g. have to hire people to check the work of machine in staging manually while still running previous process.)

* Over time, though:

* Implementation issues/bugs are smoothed out

* Rare skills are commidified. The need to hire "superstars" ends.

* It is important to ask, "what might have caused investment by a given firm over a given time frame?"

* Common industry technological shocks might spur investment.

* (And the simplest way to account for technological shocks in this sort of regression you'd want `[industry] x [year]` fixed effects.)

* "We went on a manager hiring spree in year 1. Those managers, in turn, bought a lot of robots in year 2. In year 2 we hired fewer managers because we'd just hired a bunch in year 1."

* Reverse causation issues are pervasive.

* Finally, I think it is important to notice their notion of "robot adoption":

* They are talking about physical hardware _only_.

* Their measure of investment is coming only from import data. The set of firms that are going to go through the rigammarole of importing physical hardware is probably raher special: Probably:

* Larger

* Have a high expected ROI from investment

At the very least, this paper needs first-difference regressions and a good instrument that can help to disentangle what might be going on. For the instrument, it might make sense to look into changes in tariff duties over time [1].

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[0] https://content.tcmediasaffaires.com/LAF/lacom2019/robots.pd...

[1] https://cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2020/htm...
The context used within a single species seems like a reasonable application
Straight flush, but I guess it's slightly better than getting 1-2-3-4. I'm curious if their TRNG-reading code broke and no error condition prevented aborting the draw.
All this says is, she sent a mail to Brain Women and Allies that resulted in her immediate termination.

Does anyone else remember when she picked a fight with Yann LeCunn by deliberately misinterpreting his remarks to cast him as a racist?

Seems reasonable to assume she picked another fight. Reading the Twitter threat, it reads like she made demands in a way visible to a large number of employees (something about authorship on a paper, to skim the Twitter thread) and perhaps attacked Google while being a manager there (the emphasis on talking to non-management employees sounds like this). I assume the email will leak, this being Google we are talking about.
I think the very existence of such a person would be giant trouble maker red flag.

Wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to get rid of him as soon as they noticed it.
And I say they do, they don't just don't value it as highly as you do. It's awfully convenient to blindly assert that people can't be trusted to make their own choices, especially when the proposed solution is take away their choice with government regulation.
I factored that in when I did that calculations. How often are their multiple winners and when there are multiple, how many. A surprising amount of the return comes from the non-jackpot prizes, 58% or something. You'll see crowds lining up to buy tickets and yet no winner for a few weeks.
There have some rare extreme been cases where children lived with wild animals in forests and indeed they resembled their social behaviours. (Don't recall sources to include :( )
Imagine if apps as they exist today were actually running on a web platform. Apps indistinguishable to the ones you use today.

They're downloaded over www.

They call device APIs

But they're written in Rust or WASM or something.

Visit Netflix.com and suddenly you have the native Netflix app instantaneously on your device. And it works just the same as the one you use today.

That's what I want to see.

The web isn't just HTML and JavaScript. It's not just documents or web apps. It can be native too.

It's a protected runtime.

And it'll be fast.
My apology for the late response; my "source" is the vivid trip I experienced taking a 4g seeds syrian rue tea (and nothing else; the trip was also accompanied by strong nausea, though there are ways to mitigate that). That included vivid open-eyes visuals. Beyond that, I'm struggling to find reports on erowid that do not include other substances but I can tell you there are tens of similar reports on the DMT nexus.

Also, you talk about naturally occuring DMT, but be aware that there is absolutely no scientific proof that DMT is contained in any amount sufficient to provoke a trip in the human body, even with a MAOI; it's there, yes, but in minute amounts and almost certainly as a byproduct of the synthesis of something else. Maybe you're right on the other hormones, but if that's the case it's not due to the MAOI properties of harmals either, since we're not seeing people using pharmaceutical MAOIs tripping.
Oh, I misunderstood the question. I think if the government can afford to pay about $58,000 p.a. to each citizen based on sovereign fund interest alone, we'll get to witness the biggest UBI experiment the world has ever seen.
It's funny, there was a goofy toy computer called the "DevTerm" that popped up on the top of HN a couple times recently. It was more expensive than this, had a terrible non-hinged design, and was about $50 more than this, likely with comparable or worse performance.

IMO for $199 with a full clamshell and ARM Linux... this is the real deal if you want to learn to code on the cheap or just have an inexpensive laptop for dev tasks.
How long can gametes before conception stay viable frozen? I thought those must be used within ~20 years.
> Because SMS is essentially free.

What a ridiculous argument trying to blame another corporate to hide Apple's folly. By that logic, the same argument applies to Apple too - Installing apps used to be free before Apple decided to charge developers for it, and make all apps costliers for all us.
We will evolve a lot more in the coming 500 years than we have in the past 500 years. There might not even be recognizable humans around anymore except for some backwards savages in a reservation.
It doesn't take into account splitting the jackpot. Maybe the expected value is positive if you're the sole winner, but not when 3 other people picked the same numbers as you.
Sounds like a win to me then.
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