skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK is hard to emigrate to. There are better options than the UK, especially now that they left the EU. But, the Americans who go to the UK and eventually do become UK citizens often do over healthcare.

While being an American expat is not as common due to worldwide liability on taxes, many of those who emigrate to developed countries and eventually become citizens do so for guaranteed access to healthcare and other benefits of a social welfare state that the US does not have.

The problem with Canada/Australia/New Zealand, where many Americans go, as we are more culturally aligned with them compared to other developed countries, is that they have medical inadmissability clauses in their immigration laws. You generally have to be pretty healthy to get a even get an approved work visa there, and stay relatively healthy to become a citizen. So, you really cannot effectively emigrate for healthcare to these countries. This is why you do not hear about Americans emigrating over healthcare as much.
If they'd open up their platforms, they'd get praised. Instead, they make everything worse.

They have tremendous influence and it strongly affects the world. Through that influence, they ruined the openess of mp3 players, GUIs, and then cellphones. Now the writing is on the wall: personal computers are next.

Forgive me if I care about this stuff.
They are not arguing from moral consensus, but merely appearing to. It is useful for a company to appear to take the moral high ground in order to increase profits while also not actually doing so of course. See BLM, and others.
This one scratched that itch:

CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier
For me the name Mavis will always bring to mind a rather colorful character from the incomparable Illuminatus! Trilogy.
> Tough enough getting a 720p low latency feed, which is what stadia does.

Do you have source for this? This sounds incorrect. My impression is that the Stadia Pro is capable of sending 4K, assuming the game developer can optimize their game to run at a good framerate with 4K.
Yeah. The apps have been updated, and I believe there's even a remote play app for the PS4 to stream from a PS5.
1) Brexit has absolutely split the country

2) The queen has now reigned for 68 years
My brother did, and he used it daily until Sony took it away.
They meant profit via sell - buy price, ie personal profit, not company profits.
Reminds of glossolalia. The speaker believes they’re speaking a foreign language, but when you examine the “language” it’s just random phonemes from the speaker’s native language.
Linux and FreeBSD are different systems; closer than ex. porting NT drivers to Linux, but still some distance apart.
I wonder if this has something to do with the recently-released Atari VCS (which runs Linux).
> good strategy makes you ready for whatever luck happens

Yes, I agree that attempting to schedule things in this manner is better than not, should you find yourself able to do so. But, I don't agree with the parent comment that it is "the ultimate and most powerful interviewing technique". Scheduling by preference is moot if (1) you don't have a resume/background that lands interviews in the first place and (2) you don't have the chops to be successful in technical rounds.
I initially played through the tutorial levels (that you can get for free) before buying the full game, and I think that helped a lot; it's a very keyboard-centric interface that takes awhile to get used to and isn't likely to appeal to everyone. But the tutorials are pretty good.

Also, a lot of the stuff that's kind of tedious and awkward, like laying out complex belt systems, gets a lot easier when you get construction bots and can start building from blueprints. It's like a different game from that point.

A theme of the game seems to be to make the player do things that are hard or laborious but which can be accomplished in an easier way by using the the tools at hand more effectively, or eventually the problems can be worked around with new technology. It's not quite like a puzzle game where you have to solve each problem in front of you correctly before you can advance; rather you can keep advancing until the point where you're overwhelmed by technical debt (e.g. you end up spending most of your time running around fixing train deadlocks).

Not everything that's awkward or hard is a deliberate game mechanic, though. In the 1.1 release they've said they're planning to change some things that have been pain points for users.
Absolutely agree. Some will ask what your current salary is outright. None of their business, they just need to know what I want them to pay me.
I'd like to see how that average was calculated. I couldn't find in the paper how it was calculated.

I assume it must be only counting people who died. Not sure how they count people who lived longer than expected?

I'd also like to how it compares to other illnesses.
These are very broad generalizations, and not at all representative of anything like a truth. I concede that it may have been true in your experiences, but it's a fairly toxic pattern to make categorical statements about "what women want" or "what men are like" when the spread of human character is so broad.

Let's try not to limit what's possible by inflicting on the world what we expect.

Specifically, statements like these become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Not only are someone's perceptions influenced by social proof - if someone is treated as if you expect them to behave a certain way, they are more likely to behave that way (if I'm going to catch shit for being dishonest anyway, why not lie?).
It's weird to me that people build libraries on top of the ML stack to track provenance, when it's really the ML library's job to do that for its inputs. However it is a right pain building it into the ML library as it affects all the interfaces. We build data, model & evaluation provenance objects into our ML library, Tribuo (https://tribuo.org), as a first class part of the library. You can take a provenance and emit a configuration to rerun an experiment just by querying the model object. It is built in Java though, which makes it a little easier to enforce the immutability and type safety you need in a provenance system.

edit: I should add that I'm definitely in favour of having provenance in ML systems, and libraries layered on top are the way that people currently do that. It's just odd that people aren't working on adding that support directly into scikit-learn/TF/pytorch etc.
There is also union busting but of course a company can do that since it's legal to bust unions.
>if you want to make the argument that the vuln is worth not "being mean" to your employees, then make that argument, but don't pretend its more secure.

This is not a good scam. People fucking notice when they expect a 650 dollar bonus and it doesn't come. It's not some arbitrary "check out this cool link" style email that an employee might click and then forget they've ever engaged with.

Not to mention that it caught nearly 10% of the fucking company - That's an insanely high click through for any phishing test I've ever seen at a software company. And I don't even know if they sent it to all 7k employees (my guess is no). So either GoDaddy has incredibly incompetent employees, or this looked fairly real (and the email does actually look pretty damn good for a phishing email - custom image, no spelling mistakes, internal domain, aware of different geos the company operates in)

So you pissed of 10% of your company with an email that wouldn't ever be sent as a real scam (because a week later the employee is going to ask where the 650 bucks is and alarm bells will go off).

I don't have the context of a Godaddy employee, so maybe there's an obvious mistake in there, but general speaking - this was a dumb play by the security team. It's now also losing them goodwill in public.
Not how many times but how often. And the answer is, as often as is needed to ensure that lawmakers are aligned with the public on particular issue, before they do something costly and possibly irreversible.
It is sincerely bad enough and worthy of extreme derision if it remains only cell phones.
I think what' you're saying is that some people who claim to be ethical are not. That may often be so. Just because people say something, does not necessarily mean it is so. But I think "ethical" by definition means what is good for us all
Or they will learn not to trust any email they receive. Or they will learn that phishing email come from internal training, and therefor do not need to be reported.
Yeah not sure what the parent is saying, Amazon (software) employees at least have substantial equity packages.
I don’t have any strong opinions about this since I’m not from the UK (if anything I’d probably be mildly pro-remain), but the Conservatives scored a fairly convincing victory in the 2019 General Election.

I’d say that is strong evidence (Labour weakness aside) that the British public didn’t change their minds about Brexit.
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American farm policy would be very destructive for Canadian farmers if they were to join the USA. Farm income would get gutted for Canadian farmers and they would end up in the same crappy boat as American farmers.

GDP might increase for Canada overall by joining the USA, but portraying it as having no economic downsides for Canadians is disingenuous.
More to the point, two of the four countries in the union voted to stay, but are being dragged out anyway against their will.
> I see exponentially stronger algorithms every year

You do? I don't. My sense as somebody near (but not in) the ML research community is that, while there have been recent flashy new things like GPT3 or the new protein folding benchmark, these are more like "solid improvements to applications of things we mostly already know". Are you referring to something else?
> When I was a kid I carefully recorded the position of the sun for a year, and plotted the sun's "motion around the earth".

How did you measure how far away the Sun was? Without that information you can't reconstruct the Earth's orbit as you describe.
The 2019 election was less a vote for bojo and brexit and more not a vote for corbyn
I was a theoretical mathematician for a long time, and even there we had to talk about Broader Impacts for NSF grants, for instance. It wasn't really talking about applications for us, necessarily -- people touted the summer camps they'd present at or the undergrads they'd sponsor for research or the way they would give grant money to help undergrads attend conferences (always tied to the pure math in the grant).

These NeurIPS Broader Impact statements seem a bit different, in that they more explicitly call out ethical considerations.

It's funny though that you ask about hammers & nails. Pure math had a strong tradition of people ending up there because they did not want to do applied math, physics, or engineering that could be weaponized and used to kill people/support oppressive governments/infringe upon basic freedoms. Pure math is not particularly thoughtful about ethics, but many folks ended up there because of their ethical views. The Cold War, World War 2, Vietnam, and French occupation of Algeria had particular ripple effects in pure math because of that.

It would be a shame if ML also became a field people avoided because they didn't want to contribute to evil, in their own view.

Take the longer view: it's easy to think we're the first people ever to think about ethics and science/tech/math, but far from it. How are today's struggles the same or different than Grothendieck's, or Laurent Schwartz's, or Emmy Noether's, or Lagrange's or Kovalevskaya's or...? They all had significant reckonings to contend with.
IMO New York drivers are the least agreeable and a diverse sprawlscape like LA has all kinds, depending on the neighborhood (looking at you Glendale) so neither stereotype align with reality.

I suspect what the GP thinks of as rural is more exurban or even suburban, though IME they're often just as bad. Rural is when you see a handful of cars on an hour long drive so opinions will vary wildly
If it turned out that it will be horrible costly mess then sure, you'd want to ask again if they still want to do it.
The main take aways seem to be:

1. If the new strain is in the ballpark of being 70% more infectious (that is, it essentially raises r0 by 70%), then it would require an unrealistic degree of ultra lockdown / shutdown to even maintain stasis in terms of cases.

2. The media’s underplaying it and the public likely would be so outraged by the necessary level of shutdown that we shouldn’t count on that happening.

3. Vaccinations won’t amount to a large enough herd immunity for many months, probably not until May or June. And even then, if the strain is this much more infectious, it could overwhelm and essentially reach an escape velocity beyond the vaccine - saturating so many highly transmissible cases that it will eventually require everyone to be vaccinated or to survive getting the virus to actually get rid of it, not merely herd immunity from a large pool of vaccinated people.

All the same worries about economic crash, extended shut down, cascading layoffs, etc., could shoot back up very fast.

This of course might end up to be no worry if the new strain’s increase of infectiousness is low enough, but there is high probability the infectiousness increase is large.

Enough to be quite worried.
State enforced taxation will led to state dictated eugenics. That’s the best possible outcome. Worst case scenario: genocide. History informs us of this.

I prefer that we choose charity over taxation to prevent worse outcomes than having to say ‘thank you’.
I'm sure my brother missed this. He is red/green color blind. As kids, it was always a good bit of fun to buy him a random assortment of those colored socks. Tragically, his Bride put an end to our fun.

I like it. A simple tweak, but a fun one.
Let's Do More Email
Well, none now.
Evernote has a flat list of notes, usually ordered by time. I find related notes by searching. Craft lets me build a tree of nested documents. I imagine that the tree structure would encourage more thought upfront in placing new content into relevant context. It looks like Craft is probably less buggy than the latest Evernote apps.
Today I learned.

The 3rd declension, sure; But right around the second one you lost me.

Octopodes? That’s even cooler! this site is awesome. Your style of party poopin is why problems like me can’t stay away.
https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
As usual, the Germans were first, with the V-2 reaching Mach 5 in the 1940's, which was to an extent controllable (they landed in England.)

For an airplane to reach Mach 1, this mainly requires thin wings and enough power/dive. To control it, you need a flying tail, and swept wings and "waisting" the fuselage reduces the amount of power needed.

So almost all of the planes in WW2 were "too thick" and incapable of supersonic flight, though could have exceeded Mach 1 with modified wings, tail and in a dive.

The US P-80 (1945) and F-86 (1949) jets had underpowered engines, in the sense that all early jet engines had limited power.

However the F-86 had swept wings, and later versions of the F-86 had a flying tail, so if you pointed it at the ground, you could get a sonic boom without losing control.

Source: I study aerodynamics.
A perfect example: Xcode. Each major release is a nightmare and only after a year of bug fixes is it usable. And then another major release and it's broken again.
Are there realistically any cases on public roads where performance actually matters? All typical cars can reach maximum highway speed. At that point it's only a matter of how comfortable that experience is. Comfort and performance may be personal preference, but "actually matters" as in, makes a real difference? Don't think so.
> there's no better way we know of than to do training exercises

Are you sure about that? Is there any evidence that supports this claim?

It certainly fails the sniff test. Behavioral science does not hold setting you up for failure as an effective learning contingency. I mean try teaching your dog that way, see how far you’ll go. You will also teach your workers that phishing emails come from internal so there is no need to report it.

When I was working as a life guard we never went into training situations unknowingly. There is a reason for that, a) it is dangerous as workers might act irrationally creating a dangerous situation, b) it is stress invoking and not healthy for anyone, especially those that have underlying stress issues or conditions, and c) there is no evidence that live training is any more effective or teaches you anything more than traditional training does.
Unless I misread the article, these were from the company's domain:

> Sent by Happyholiday@Godaddy.com
This sounds so weird that I thought it would be a reference to something, but it doesn't seem to be. Can you...elaborate on this?
>Please stick around and help, because no one else will replace you.

That's a touch arrogant to say, isn't it? 7.5 billion people, I'd imagine that most are not only replaceable, but trivially so.
But how do you verify?
Did you actually go and read his tweets, or are you arguing on principle with no knowledge of what I am talking about?
When was this vaporware released.
Even if this was released it wouldn't have any bearing on Sony's decision not release a Linux driver?
> Your question is rather vague and some may see it as innocuous but given your reputation, I sense that it is a leading question meant to be followed up with bad intention.

I am more interested about you mentioning my ‘reputation’. Do I know you from elsewhere?
"Cars as a service" is called car sharing. It works quite well.
One other. Nice for the lonely tonight. Unsettling but still beautiful, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkICkf8e1GA
I don't have an Apple device, so I can not try Craft, but I suggest OrgPad (at https://orgpad.com) is more suited for note taking than Craft since there is also focus on the Big Picture? What do you think?
> I'm utterly dismayed that it comes across as being elitist.

I didn't read it as elitist, but that's because I share your interest in the topics being discussed. Many poeple don't. For someone who doesn't care whether the Earth goes around the Sun or the Sun around the Earth, or what the correct mathematical definition of "even" and "odd" is, your article absolutely could come across as elitist, because you're implying that they should care, and that your job is to explain to them why they should care.

But as a matter of simple pragmatic fact, there is no reason why they should care. As a matter of simple pragmatic fact, it is perfectly possible for someone to live an entire human life without ever having to know whether the Sun goes around the Earth or the Earth around the Sun, or what the definition of parity is. So people might not be interested for the simple pragmatic reason that they see no reason why they need to be interested.

One can make a case that there are benefits to be gained from being interested in such things even if they don't appear to have any pragmatic relevance; but making that case takes a lot longer than one blog post.
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Target of the article and target audience is Indian based but it isn't like they are the only country with varying degrees of this crap going on. I wonder how bad will it get before something more meaningful is done?

Equifax survived leaking all that data. That still amazes me. Roughly 1 in 3 Americans had their PII leaked and they suffered minimal fines. Minimal in the fact that they certainly haven't been impacted operationally. If the laws can't punish that level of breach, they aren't going to punish the small potato sized ones either.
>Set aside the details, it's clear that the definition of "ethics" is "things which are currently fashionable in US coastal universities"

I just read around 20 of the broader impact statements from NeurIPS 2020 papers (at random) and exactly 0 covered such topics. Most covered purely technical issues or concerns. One talked about datasets not representing all world populations. Another talked about the model being used to power weapons. One talked about advertising. One talked about essentially subliminal messaging. Two mentioned adversarial attacks leading to potential life threatening injuries (industrial equipment, traffic systems, etc.).

Look, if you're going to have an objection to something then at least look into it rather than blindly forcing your own preconceived views onto it irrespective of reality.
This does not look substantially different from the stuff I was making when it was 1985 and I had a brand new copy of Deluxe Paint on my Amiga.

Actually wait no I think I was actually trying to think about making something pleasant to look at instead of randomly spotting around the default colors with the airbrush. This is idle doodling, at best. Experiments with the tool being sold for a ludicrously high price, because she was in the gallery system and there were a bunch of rich idiots who might be willing to pay that.

Looking around her site she does appear to have some actual skills at composition, palettes, and painting, but they are not on display here in the least.
Banks, and health providers too. I love when my health insurer, say Mega Health Care for a fictitious example, decides to have a marketing page at megahealthcare.com, a patient portal at mymhc.com and a special page for covid stuff at mhccovidresponse.com . All of these have independent certs so it’s entirely possible it’s a phishing site. But it’s legit, and these companies are just encouraging bad behavior. This crap is why phishing happens.
Systems of democracy require legislators to vote often, frequently on the same issue several times. For instance, in the UK a bill has at least a first, second and third reading.

In a direct democracy, where voters take on the role of legislators, voters are certainly expected to vote on the same subject more than once.

Of course, the UK isn't a direct democracy. And that is exactly the problem. People in the UK generally don't understand how direct democracies work, and forgivably so since there's no constitutional law regulating direct democracy in the UK, only subjective feelings.
It's a bug with Microsoft Edge's integration with Windows Explorer: https://github.com/microsoft/WinDev/issues/40
I phrased the statement to exactly express equivalence not just implication.
I'm happy for you to care about this as much as you want. It doesn't make the basically ignoring all the OP wrote in their article for the sake of soapboxing any more tolerable.
Huh. Now wish young me had seen that video.
Even though it’s starting to show its age, it is still amazing. Pagers died such a quick death. The code/code cracking they use in the show seems almost quaint and innocent now. I would assume the level of sophistication has also exploded within criminal gangs. I also remember doing a double take when I first heard Dominic West and Idris Elba speak with their actual British accents. Stringer Bell is English!? He should have been Bond, I fear he’s aged out now.
There are some issues with vanilla USB around supporting large devices.

Unlikely to be an issue with a stick, but very possible with an external drive.

So searching for a device specfic driver is a very sane default here.
Reminds me of a song from 1972 by an Italian comedian. The song is called "Prisencolinensinainciusol" which means...well, nothing. It's gibberish. In fact, the entire song is nonsense lyrics made to sound like English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8&feature=emb_titl...