skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing to indicate he was anything but a lonely old guy: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/27/antho...

He was a shut-in. He was nearing the end of his life. He transferred his house to a woman for $0. He had no obvious political ideology. He loved his pets dearly – all of whom had died. And at the end of it, no one was hurt but himself and some infrastructure.

The idea that this could have been prevented by police is simply mistaken. There was nothing to be done. Fertilizer and whatever else goes into a bomb is readily acquirable, and he did lots of yard work so it probably didn't even seem suspicious for him to purchase the ingredients (possibly over a period of years).
Reading through this whole discussion thread it looks like the pattern is that Google Maps data is super sketch for anywhere that's not the continental US.
> Cancer shows us just how bad we are at statistics and risk management.

> Most lung cancer is a result from smoking. That is true. However, it is also true that most smokers don't get lung cancer.

> So while drinking alcohol will increase your risk of cancer by a substantial amount comparatively, we're still comparing really small numbers. An increase of 0.1% to 0.2% is a 100% increase in risk, but you're still not likely to get it.

The problem with this sort of thinking is that risk factors are, roughly speaking, multiplicative. So if you have other risk factors such as a family history of lung cancer, smoking may bump your personal risk from 12% to 24%. Still an increase of 100%.

And of course, that's just a combination of two specific risk factors, many of which are implicated in multiple conditions (for example smoking also increases the risk for other lung conditions such as emphysema, heart problems, etc., meanwhile alcohol consumption also increases risks for diabetes, cirrhosis, heart problems, stroke, etc.), and many risk factors aren't as obvious (or as well marketed).

The flip side of the multiplicativity of risk factors is that if you have several that are at least nominally under your control just eliminating one or two factors is probably going to be worth the effort (but if you are an overweight, snoring, sedentary, smoker and drinker, who consumes way too much sugary and salty snacks, etc. etc., choosing to take the stairs instead of the elevator is probably not the place to start).

Anyway, sidestepping those risk factors you can both identify and do something about is probably worth it, because no individual is really representative of the population as a whole (ie. there are no people who are average in every way), and you don't really know how large your personal base level of risk is that the one isolated factor is multiplying.
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The Oklahoma City bombing was 25 years ago and a much larger bomb. I don’t really see the problems of bombs has gotten any worse, in the intermediate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throckmorton_baronets
and what do you think will happen to prices on the new locations ? see what happened to Dublin in Europe...
I build indie side projects all the time and having an email automation is always an afterthought. Plus MailChimp automation is too expensive and to clunky.

So I decided to spend my Christmas holidays building an open source package called Candymail.

Candymail makes it easy to trigger and send multi-step email sequences in Node.js using a single JSON file.

Looking for some feedback, does it sound useful? Thank you And happy holidays :)
That's the CIA, not the FBI.

The FBI is doing dirty stuff at home, the CIA does the dirty stuff abroad.
The takeaway point at the end resonates strongly: Identity at scale can weaken trust.

The US had proposed a National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) Alex Howard, May 4, 2011:

The NSTIC proposes the creation of an “identity ecosystem” online, “where individuals and organizations will be able to trust each other because they follow agreed upon standards to obtain and authenticate their digital identities.” The strategy puts government in the role of a convener, verifying and certifying identity providers in a trust framework.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/nstic-analysis-identity-pri...

The strategy itself:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110415230954/http://www.whiteh...

Kristine Schachinger, in an obituary for Google+, tied that service directly to the NTIS initiative:

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-plus-history-deat...

And some previous thoughts of mine:

https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/aa6pmi/a_manhatta...

I'd also had the idea that communications advances undermine social trust dynamics:

Cultures evolve systems (usually religious) to create and foster a sufficiently-reliable trust network.

As communications improve, reliance on that trust diminishes. You no longer need to be able to rely on a person working in your interest for days, or weeks, or months, or years. You can check on them at a moment's notice. You can monitor them continuously, across a wide range of metrics, without their conscious awareness.

A domain built on Trust becomes instead Panopticon.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6jqakv/communi...
You're very, very, very unlikely to be killed by terrorism in the US. Since 1995, fewer than 3,500 people have died from terrorist attacks. More people than that died from COVID19 yesterday alone.
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~12% raise?
Wages are correlated with inflation, in fact wages push inflation, given that they're the largest cost for most businesses. It's relatively hard to imagine how you'd have widespread increase in price without increase in cost of labour.

As to your case study of a low wage worker, if he doesn't have any assets, inflation doesn't mean much. If he has debt, which he likely has, student debt say in the US, inflation is a good thing. The (correct) conventional wisdom is that debtors benefit from inflation and creditors don't.

And if you've got money in a pension fund like many Americans, or you have index funds, or you have anything else that broadly represents the economy, cash flowing into the economy rises prices but it also appreciates assets.

There really isn't any point to fear moderate inflation from the standpoint of a worker. If anything the opposite is true.

I agree with the fact that gig work is terrible and lots is wrong with economic insecurity, but steady inflation isn't an issue.
Stripe. Everything is registered under an LLC, and Stripe provides the necessary tax forms and such.
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I think you overestimate the effort needed to buy the building blocks for your own ransomware.
>that arguably won the election

[This claim about election fraud is disputed.]
Reminds me of "(t,i,x,y) => creative code golfing" https://tixy.land/ ; "Minimal 16x16 Dots Coding Environment" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24974534 .
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I noticed the same thing - taking the narrow roads which are very hard to navigate instead of a slightly longer but much more comfortable main road. Is there a comfort toggle?
Why is a correctly summarized answer, from a link to the CDC that directly states and answers the grandparents question, with source, being downvoted so heavily? Is there something I’m missing?

Edit: And this honest question asking why is too?
Wow they seem to be a super deal for features (e.g. multiple domains, multiple aliases, decent storage) for <1 EUR/ month.

I guess some folks group this into "big corp" email perhaps compared to the smaller providers, but I think if one just wants to not give google the ability to end your online life at its whim Zoho could be a good option.
Microsoft didn't develop it, they just published 1 and 2 until they bought the development studio.
> One thing's for sure: Individual Westerner guilt over whether to buy the next iPhone will add zero value.

What, specifically, do you mean by this?
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>>>> Democratic ownership can counter act the tendency to grow and absorb competitors, because each new worker who gets a vote waters down the votes and control of their fellows. Plus the bigger the organization gets, the slower and less responsive it will get. And a democratic organization run by its workers will have a myriad of motivating factors to balance, other than chasing infinite profit or return for the investors.

> It's like saying no one will want to buy shares of a large conglomerate or vote to have it merge with another one because the shareholder's votes will be watered down. Empirically false, happens regularly in practice. Especially when the larger company with less competition could pay higher dividends/wages.

No it isn't. Shareholder capitalism is one-share-one-vote, but those shares can and usually are concentrated under the control of a small number of people. The GGGP seems to be talking about a system of one-worker-one-vote, which would prevent that kind of concentration and therefore have a different dynamic. Also, shareholders tend to monomanically pursue maximization of dividends + capital gains over some time horizon, while I'd imagine a worker would care a more diverse range of things.
Your response is unnecessarily aggressive. His questions are innocent.
Yes, a couple of times, Intel failed spectacularly at it for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432

Although some others had better luck and managed to survive for a while,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlisp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto

https://www.digibarn.com/collections/papers/dick-sweet/xdepa...

Among a couple of other ones.
Providing “jobs” and enriching executives basically.
Making a crisis bigger so more people will react to it doesn't sound like a good strategy for fixing the crisis.
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>I was making a list, but if you really need a list, then you’ve not been following the news

Wouldn't Ahmed Mohamed be a counterexample, not an example? He has a "foreign sounding" name and there were no deaths or nighttime SWAT raids as a result of the bogus bomb threat his teacher called in.

>Ever hear of a woman called Breonna?

If you're referring to Breonna Taylor, I don't think she was accused of building bombs and no-knock warrants are an entirely different issue IMO from warrantless searches resulting from bomb threats.

From perusing the wikipedia list of unsuccessful terrorist attacks [1], I didn't notice a single alleged bombmaker who was killed by police. Including many who were foreign-born and who were of African-American or Middle Eastern descent.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrorist...
Body slamming and paralyzing a person incapable of being a threat is not a "damned if you do, damned if you didn't" scenario.

Edit: Here's the video for those who are curious. A 58 year old skinny man in handcuffs versus 2 young policemen.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/police-chief-guil...
As usual, one cannot post anything money related on a startup oriented forum apparently.
I'm interested in this as well. I'm sure there's more to it than this, but I know there are multiple implementations of malloc out there:

- https://github.com/google/tcmalloc

- https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc
I dunno, how ominously can one drink a glass of milk? How does it inconvenience people selectively based on race?

The answer is it cannot, not without people doing absolute backflips of contorted reasoning, and that's what it highlights. Drinking milk isn't racism, the worst it can do is emphasize the absolute paranoia of people who cannot stop looking for the devil under every bed.
> We don’t want to live in a country where that would be enough evidence to invade and search his property without consent.

It might make sense to switch this to "should be", as innocent people's privacy gets invaded by unlawful search and seizure all the time. Between civil forfeiture, DUI checkpoints, stop and frisk, etc, America is a country in which invasion of privacy under the guise of searching for nonexistent malicious intent happens very frequently.

It's all the more interesting that it happens so frequently without any evidence at all, and yet was not acted upon with actual evidence. Almost as if there was a bias modifying police behavior. You'll note, Anthony Warner was white.
I know nothing about this but maybe different applications may benefit of writing their own memory allocation routines for their particular memory use pattern.
>Nobody likes taxes, and Norquist just makes it more painful. Ideologues are jerks.

Not nobody. I'm one of the ones who agrees with (purportedly) Oliver Wendell Holmes[0].

[0] "I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization."
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/13/taxes-civilize/
The real problem is that we are millenarians with memories like fish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
Firs the Lunar Starship is not currently being built and has no buyers lined up. Second in-orbit cargo transfer and refueling is not a solved problem. Third Starship is not currently flying and it remains to be seen if it holds up to a fraction of Musk's claims about it. Fourth space construction is far from a solved problem and remote (Lunar far side) construction isn't even a thing, we don't even have large scale remote construction on Earth.

Building something like a radio telescope on the Moon is not impossible and doesn't require any unobtanium. It is however pretty far out in terms practicality. Just about zero of the engineering capability required has been demonstrated.

Even if my estimates for a Lunar radio telescope were off by an order of magnitude and it would only cost a billion dollars, that's still several FASTs or Arecibos you could build on Earth. The Lunar environment is harsh. Micrometeorites, cosmic rays, and solar flares would wreak havoc on sensitive components of a telescope (radio or otherwise). They're much more of a hazard on the Moon than on Earth because the atmosphere and magnetic field protect the surface. A repair or replacement of a component on a terrestrial instrument might be thousands or millions of dollars. For a Lunar instrument would be at least in the millions.

There's a very weird meme going around that because SpaceX exists doing things in space is suddenly simple and cheap. Space is hard. SpaceX et al are making it less expensive but not by huge divisors. A Falcon 9 reusable is only a little cheaper than a Proton-M for similar capability. It's cheaper than ULA rockets by about half. It's a feat for sure but it's not like LEO is suddenly as affordable as air freight.
I said most states don’t allow direct propositions. Not 49. I said 49 states don’t have an equivalent to prop 13.
Even Apple makes opting out of sharing data with advertisers (IDFA) confusing[0]

> Allow apps to ask permission to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies.

[0] https://blog.gingerlime.com/2020/does-ios-14-protect-your-pr...
nOPV2 is significant in that it should decrease the risk of vaccine-derived polioviruses — one of the lingering challenges as we get closer and closer to fully eradicating the disease.
I like NameSilo.

Cheap prices, simple non bloated interface, free privacy, and 2FA.
So what’s the best alternative to GD? I use moniker for some domains and I am happy.
I'm still dirty on goggle for announcing retirement of cloud print a few weeks after I got it all set up.
> Eventually, the only way to solve this problem will be mass surveillance.

We already have that, didn't seem to work in this case.
That's what set Steve Jobs apart. Your typical executive could take months between rejecting your idea and proposing it as their own. But Jobs could compress this down to a week.
That would require you to create some association between your personal and work account right? I don't remember doing that. I guess they could match on first name and last name equality, but that sounds like a bad idea due to name collisions and impersonation.
As some was who was recently #canceled I gotta say stuff like this does nothing. Rallying against "cancel culture" is as pointless as waging a war on drugs. There is no such thing as a "culture" of cancelling; it's just a reaction people have, justified or not. People who rally against "cancel culture" seem to just be rallying against vaguely progressive beliefs they disagree with.

From the comments in this thread it seems the context is that the ACM started requiring an ethics section on papers. Hardly has anything to do with cancelling itself if you ask me.
I use toggl (https://toggl.com/). Can't recommend them highly enough and their free tier is amazing for a solo-person.

For forming a habit 1) live tracking is essential and 2) make it as easy on yourself as possible. What I learned after many years is that the level of granularity I actually care about is at the project basis and not the task basis, so just logging stuff to big buckets, not sweating if it's off by 5-10 minutes, and trying as hard as possible to always be logging. I almost exclusively only log time when I'm on my laptop which makes it easier to not forget.
One thing that cost of living calculators don’t account for: “living” isn’t the only thing you’re doing. You’re also saving and investing. Companies should probably adjust your pay by a fixed amount, rather then by a percentage.
You wouldn't go to jail for 1 submission. But if courts could prove that you created a bot that tried many combinations, in my opinion you should.

It's like lockpicking a door lock. Even if you don't get in, I'm sure it's still a crime.
I mean, they could have at least asked him, “we heard you’re making a bomb, is that true?” Sure, he may have said “of course not”, but they didn’t even talk to him so we don’t know.
I've found it easier to use NextDNS rather than maintaining a Pi-hole and routing everything through my home connection.
I've been wondering the same thing. How big of a computer would you need to accurately simulate an immune system? Or at least accurate enough to cut down on some of the tedious and time consuming work? Could something like this be built today with enough effort? I know nothing about immunology BTW.
>What was the reasonable course of action here?

Return the next day and knock again.
In a lot of my experience, tech people first hear about a new domain when someone in marketing says "we're launching a new x. I've already done a lot of work by going to GoDaddy and buying the domain. You should be able to finish the web and services from here now that all the hard works done".
You can't transfer a domain within 60 days of purchase so I usually end up going live with services there.
no one was hurt but himself

Actually:

The blast injured at least eight people

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/28/us/nashville-bomb-christmas-m...
Indeed - which is why regulators are much more likely to push in that direction - make self-custody a regulatory minefield, denormalizing managing your own keys. And effectively reaching the same goal (complete oversight and control over funds and transactions).

I'm concerned if it continues in this direction, holding your own keys will be viewed as suspicious and seen as attempt to money laundering, further raising the barrier for people not to have their funds controlled and transactions monitored bu the incumbents.
Scale and redundancy.

let's say if webserver crashes, or the jitsi conference server needs to scale - it needs to have fine tuned configuration.
Not many people are willing to spend time on it.

Ubuntu as a standalone operating system is application friendly but not it-admin friendly. My idea is to create free alternates to the Gmail,zoom infra that a startup can create on their own without a it-admin.
It happens in the cities as well - recommending narrow streets instead of main roads which are much easier and possibly faster.
I use it all the time and it works very well. I got my own tts api token so that I don’t run into overquota errors from the shared default token.

It’s also very satisfying to know I’m not an unpaid mechanical Turk for google anymore and that it’s a machine solving another machine’s challenge.
Love it. We’re downvoting being outraged about racism now, huh? Is that it?
Here in Reno, NV we've got the Peppermill, which is notable for being the only resort in the US (last I checked) that gets all its heating (both HVAC and water) from an on-site geothermal well.

Nevada in general is basically a giant blob of hot springs when looking at a hot spring map, which makes me strongly suspect that it could be a major geothermal energy hub for the Western US. Plus, pretty much all of it's desert, which is perfect for solar, too.
Devices like the Pi and ESP32 are great starting points for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw9cLeh3I_Y

Or any of the ic0nstrux (nee XGamesStation) offerings, of real console dev experience.

http://www.ic0nstrux.com/products/gaming-systems

I advise the HYDRA, if one can still get their hands on it.
I feel confused about this whole issue. People are acting like "cancelling" someone is a new thing, but this is something I saw happen all the time in academia. It just used to be the purview of small cliques of powerful professors who had chokeholds on particular fields. Immunology is particularly bad. Say something bad about professor X's proposal? You're never getting a grant funded again. Professor Y harassed you when you were a grad student and you're upset? Best get out of the field and don't make a fuss.

What's different now other than larger groups with nontraditional forms of power are trying to impose consequences in return?
It’s a notebook computer, duh
I'm looking at the jump at 2:09, and all I'm seeing is a super wobbly robot trying very hard to keep its balance?

Look at the pelvis movements at 1:15 to 1:25! You can clearly see it jerking around so the robot keeps its balance.

None of those movements are smooth or fluid, it's all jerky jittery and unnatural, which is exactly what you'd expect from actual robots. If it was motion-capture, you wouldn't get those movements, you'd get smooth human movements instead?

I'm so fascinated by how this video triggers people's "it's fake!" senses, when it's clearly real.
They could also say many other things that aren't true if they wanted to.
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The grandparent did not say that inflation is dishonest. He said that the political class is dishonest, because they do take money out of the taxpayer's pocket via inflation.

Presumably the grandparent sees this conduct as more dishonest than what was discussed earlier, because it does not require a accompanying public statement, which states explicitly that money is taken out of taxpayer's pockets.
I do as well, it is a standard reference in graphics programming at university level.

First edition used Pascal, then C and the third uses a mix of C++ and C#.
Unfortunately it showed signs of being the perfect substance to use for a galactic highway, perhaps having fallen off a transport of such material. #bring_a_towel
I'm amazed how absolutely every character flaw Jobs had gets turned into a positive. If I had a nickel for how many times I've seen this happen on the internet, I'd be rich.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201215001433/https://twitter.c...

Edit: it's a very long thread of screenshots of blocked users, followed by "In that case use it as a #cancel list".

I haven't used Twitter since 2011 or so, and I didn't realize how deep the rabbit hole goes.