skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Actual exercisable power tends to come only with office, or something equivalently public."

Even if true, and I don't think it always is (as there's often a "power behind the throne", and many such powers prefer to run things from behind the scenes rather be in the public eye, partially for the reasons mentioned earlier in the thread), elected officials rarely run campaigns on their own -- they need a staff and lots of feet on the ground, and they also need competent advisors during the campaign and after they get elected. Though the ultimate deciding power may lie in the elected official (for those officials who aren't puppets), the smart ones listen to their advisors, so the advisors wield great power in how and what they advise. This doesn't even mention the power of various gatekeepers that can prevent or facilitate access to the official or are delegated power themselves, or are appointed by the elected official. In all of these ways one can affect change without holding elected office.

Even when you can't directly influence an elected official you still have power in selecting which official to support.
Grace and Alienation [pdf]
What features of Microsoft Office do you think are missing on mobile that a typical student would be required to use in school?
For an increasing number of devices the answer to your first question is no.

We've already normalized the idea that a significant market percentage of small-form-factor battery-operated general purpose computers don't actually belong to the people who bought them.

We're a hair's breadth away from normalizing that idea with personal computers.
http://archive.is/zEYxO
Start small and go with people who are more experienced--inexperienced people should not be in the backcountry alone! For complete novices I would suggest looking on Meetup for hiking groups, start out with the shortest stuff they offer.

The short stuff also has the advantage that your costs are minimal. You likely have most everything you would need except possibly a pack and pretty much anything will do for a short hike. The people doing the trails on that list will generally have basically everything they're carrying (other than consumables) being high-end stuff specifically for hikers/backpackers. Consider the highest mountain locally--at the trailheads you see plenty of people in anything, even a decent number simply carrying a water bottle and that's it. On the summit (a long hike, no mountaineering) I would say 90% of the gear I see is the good stuff.

Or consider an experience from last year--we got a last-minute message from the leader, she had car trouble and couldn't get there. We were supposed to be six, but one new person failed to find us at the trailhead so four of us set off. It was dusk when we left, soon turning to night, and without our leader we definitely had some pathfinding problems. We were all glad the new woman didn't find us--we were all experienced, the fact that we were out at night in the desert and didn't know where the trail was was of no concern to us (we could see civilization and there wasn't any substantial obstacle to simply heading for it) we were thinking about how she would have reacted to the situation.
why that date
They are all there: https://www.utf8icons.com/subsets/mathematical-operators

if your font support it, you could write any equation you want
Abstinence as the primary tool for birth control/STD prevention is stupid because we have better alternatives. If we didn't, abstience would be a lot more popular.

We don't have good alternatives to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Edit: this isn't entirely true though, and there is a lot of grey area. For example, correctly masking & social distancing is a good alternative, but only in spaces where people can/are willing to do it properly.
Because the requirement to make replacing the LGPL code possible means that there is no possible way of preventing cheaters in online play.

Because like everyone else, I am using 20 different pieces of proprietary middleware which have licenses that are incompatible with GPL. (Not just that I can't GPL them, but which cannot be shipped as part of a distribution where some of the code is GPL.)
I self-published (through Amazon) a book of hexadecimal sudoku puzzles. I think I coined the term 'hexadoku'... there are other similar books now, but I think I was the first. It's made me maybe $100 a year for many years. I did have the forethought to label it 'volume 1', but haven't followed up on that.

I just realized a week ago that I should have made an app out of it. I checked and somebody's grabbed the name already.
It will be really exciting to see how Intel will respond to this in the coming months. In the consumer laptop space Dell, HP, and Lenovo seem to be committed to Intel.

As for the gaming/hobbyist market, AMD seems to be winning given that Intel doesn't seem to want to play. Comparing the marketing materials for Ryzen Threadripper and the i9 really highlights the difference in marketing approaches.
>You can't prove a negative though.

You definitely can prove a negative.
They do publish evidence. Seems to increase the "closure" rate by 5-10%. It's not perfect data, because they are only flying during the day, so crime committed at night may just be harder to solve.

https://www.baltimorepolice.org/sites/default/files/General%...
Entertaining the question is dangerous (I don’t believe it, but for the sake of argument)...

My next question would be “why”? What would be the CCP’s motives to study and modify the virus?

Is it to test whether different changes would make the virus more/less communicable?

Is it to prevent another MERS SARS?

Is it to tailor disease for certain ethnicities? CCP doesn’t appear to have qualms about getting rid of troublesome minority populations, as long as they have some amount of deniability to rely on.

Is it to stress test global medical science and institutions?

I’ll keep an open mind in that if (and it’s a large if) there are respected scientists who present evidence of it being a lab modified virus, then the motive must be understood and fast.

Edit: I will say that China isn’t helping its case by impeding research and publishing of any studies simply trying to establish whether COVID even crossed from local (wild) bat populations; and promoting only theories that claim COVID came from elsewhere.
When you ran basic code you were effectively root, you could peek or poke any memory address or hardware register.
Once upon a time, someone affiliated with Thunderbird project maintenance/governance posted a detailed reply to HN describing how hard it was to get Mozilla to release funds that it had been been collecting from Thunderbird donors. That comment is obviously not lost to the sands of time, but it has proven quite difficult to relocate.
one is science so ration thoughts and the other is lies and bs so it’s politics
You don't own the software. You didn't even purchase the Flash player. Adobe has zero obligations to you. You could turn around and claim their behavior is a CFAA violation but good luck winning.
Does that mean I shouldn't trust the credit union I go to because my favorite branch is in a shopping center?
Well, overnight after years of warnings, anyway.
Banned by who? Looking at the relative impact of the virus it seems the US is harder hit. Although the virus appears to be a tragic accident, a weakened US allows other nations to make advances.

That being said, I tend to agree with your assertion.
Atrazine isn't intentionally put into water, it ending up in water reservoirs is a second order effect of its primary use as an herbicide. Its subsequent tertiary effects on the ecosystem are far removed from the people who applied it, who were just looking for an easy way to kill weeds.
There is the pretext and then there is the real reason.

Which is the same reason that Apple allows only their browser engine used by every browser on iOS, has blocked JIT (again, only allowed for their Javascript interpreter), has a neutered implementation of progressive web apps, does not allow alternate app stores or side loading apps.

Control. Money.
This is why we're building a news platform that sets up a different incentive structure than the current status quo. If publishers aren't desperate for clicks, there is no reason to stoop to outrage porn.

https://blog.nillium.com/news-was-never-meant-for-social-pla...
That is a misquote. He implied human social engineering potentially as a side effect.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alex_Jones
Buying more green energy creates demand for more green energy, which in turn creates more supply (wind, solar farms ...)

Meanwhile, the aforementioned transatlantic flight cannot get greener, whether Bert is trained or not.
One glaring flaw I note: The pages for the various trails should link to websites about the trail. I hadn't heard of the one in Israel and it really surprised me, I can't imagine how it fits--but I would have to resort to Google to learn more about it.
A very calm response to this

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/47/29246

> Why do these distinctions matter? If we find more concrete evidence of a “spill-over” event with SARS-CoV-2 passing directly from bat to human, then efforts to understand and manage the bat–human interface need to be significantly strengthened. But if SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab to cause the pandemic, it will become critical to understand the chain of events and prevent this from happening again.
For what it's worth China is seen as a threat by many people in Western countries irrespective of political allegiance... the nationalist/right wing doesn't like Chinese price dumping and espionage, the left wing is pissed about China's atrocious human rights and environmental track record.
the law (or a more employee-friendly change to the law) came to pass last year (2019). The law gives employees much better chances to follow through, because it's now up to the employer to prove that part time is economically unfeasible for the employer. Before, if you wanted to go from full-time to part-time it was much more about hoping that your boss was understanding and having to argue etc. (although women with children usually had very good chances and usually in Tarif-Verträgen it is included that they can do part-time, so in big industries/companies it was easy for women already, at least those with children). I think in the Netherlands part-time is even more common; I've read somewhere that 50% of the people do part time - and most of them (unlike in the US) do it because they want to (80% of women there work part-time; 20% of men work part-time, so as a whole 50% do).
I bought a plant growing light a few days ago on amazon. It was the #1 seller in the category, and had nearly 15,000 reviews and sat at 4.5 stars. It was cheap. Mine didn't work. The box said it was 80 watts, but the included adaptor could only do 40 watts.

In the box was an offer for a $15 amazon gift card to give them a 5 star rating. I wrote a review on amazon, stating this. I got an email from amazon that my review had not been accepted this morning. I called amazon the previous night and the first person told me to "contact the seller". It took a second person to tell me that blatantly bribing customers for reviews was against their policy. Clearly nothing will happen.

All I can think of is that the end user is no longer the customer for Amazon. They're a platform for sellers, so the sellers are the new customers. Shame they never told the end users.
I have corrected the quote.
Built a modern comparison engine for tech products (https://picked.arnaud.at)

Feedback and conversion were amazing but SEO was lacking since Google hates search engines.
I needed written content (or advertising) to compete with classical review websites.

Bittersweet, but I learned a lot and it got me my first job in the bay so I don't regret it!
Sometimes a manager/report relationship is not about leading or developing or teaching the report. Sometimes the best thing you can do is to be the shit umbrella. Maybe they are perfectly capable of doing your job and decided they’d rather not.
The chemicals are not being intentionally put in the water at all. They are sprayed onto plants and then run off into the water. Atrazine is a herbicide.
The problem I have with Penrose’ views on AI are that he makes assertions about computation and intelligence that I don’t think are warranted. Fir example he shows that some forms of induction are not possible in consistent formal logical systems. Well fine, so build an AI that isn’t a formal logical system. We can build computer programs that meet this criterion right now quite trivially.

It’s difficult to go up against someone like Penrose as he’s evidently a genuine genius, I’ve huge respect for the guy, but nobody on Earth knows how to build a strong general AI. That means nobody really knows the details and trade offs of its function, genius or not. So really it comes down to whether you’re a materialist or a dualist, whether you think Intelligence and/or consciousness are physical processes or not. Even if quantum mechanics is a necessary element, it’s still a physical process and quantum computers are a real thing.
100% agree. I’d also add that people love to trash brands that produce substandard producers. Negative word of mouth spreads easier for more recognizable brands, and the company’s need to protect their reputation provides a level of assurance that doesn’t exist for anonymous producers.
I love an animated webgl globe as much as the next person but did no-one check scrolling on mobile? Maybe it's just me but it captures vertical scrolling preventing moving down the page.

It's a common gotcha when embedding Google maps on mobile.

Here's a mobile capture for reference https://files.catbox.moe/e965m9.mp4
I'd love to see what that leads to on an evolutionary timescale. Water departments of the future just go from clam bed to clam bed delivering treats and collecting water quality reports.
Obviously the car manufacturer will be liable when a fault in their product kills people.

And that is as it should be. The costs will be baked into the price of the vehicle. This aligns incentives. The manufacturer wants to pay as little as possible, and the owner will want to be safe.

With the car recording video and other data, determining what actually happened should be simple and reliable.

Note that the car owner no longer pays any insurance in this system.
The one I haven't launched.
No idea is it is state of the art but I just tested PimEyes(the reverse image search service mentioned) with an old photo of me, it returned a bunch of photos of random people but also two of me within the first 30-40 results. One is older, 7-8 years maybe, and one is more recent, 2 years perhaps.

I have different facial expressions and the pose/angle is different than the one I submitted.
I get that. I understand that software is licensed.

I agreed to a license. If that license doesn't say that the "manufacturer" can arbitrarily remove features at a later date then I'm not sure how they get a pass for that.

Edit (to your edit): Yeah. It sounds criminal to me. They'd be exceeding their access granted to my system. Definitely sounds like CFAA territory in the US. Fat chance that anything would be done about it, but it can still piss me off (and make me try to gin-up pissed-off feelings in other people).
it's not an extraordinary claim at all. Digital computers and biological brains are not the same thing. Just like you can't build the Golden Gate Bridge out of jell-O, it's perfectly possible that you cannot replicate human intelligence in a completely different substrate. Physical properties matter is what he is saying.

He's not denying that humans are intelligent, he's saying that biological intelligence is (likely) unique because of its configuration.

The extraordinary claim is actually the almost dualistic view taken by AI people. That intelligence exists in some sort of cloud, distinct from matter or physical properties. It's almost a Descartes like, religious fantasy.

Searle isn't denying that you can build AI, but that you can build any AI out of anything. He's saying that if you want to build human like intelligence, it is very likely that you need human like material. Just like when you build a house it actually matters what the house is structurally made of, it matters to an AI what it is made of. You can't make a house just out of some platonic mathematical idea of a house.
In California, the DMV is becoming increasingly automated, and efficient. I haven't had to wait in line except for the time it was completely ad-hoc, then I waited like 30m. Most things you can renew and request replacement online.

Obviously passing a driving test etc requires an in-person appointment.
there is also ruffle, but it does not have as3 support :-(
A bioweapon like coronavirus is a terrible idea in ordinary war, but a massive asset in a last-effort or scorched-earth scenario. I would not be surprised if despite all bans any nuclear (super)power does not have at least three different agents under development.
Leadership is about getting people from point a to point b. Generally to do that you need trust, a good idea of where point a,b are, and what the path between them looks like.

Age is a component of trust, but only a small one and very dependent on the situation.

If you want to be leading someone who has more experience than you, best be sure you have trust and a rock solid understanding of the path you need to be on.
it isn't any more dangerous if it came from a lab, nor does knowing the origin really help dealing with this crisis at all.

Viruses used for gain of function research are selected for high rates of mutation and adaption. If we had known this from day one we would likely have made several changes to how to protect against it in the long term, especially with regards to cross-species transmission.
The major browsers do run Flash in a separate, sandboxed process. There have also been several efforts to re-implement the Flash plugin scratch, but none of them have managed able to fully support the long tail of existing Flash content.
Ticketmaster will pay $10M for hacking rival ticket seller
> you do not really own your computer anymore.

Wish people would stop using this phrase with regards to PCs. If you buy a laptop, it's yours. Load linux on it and you will never have to deal with this. Even the new M1 Macs will offer this option (though there are some hoops to jump through).

What you don't own is the commercial software which runs atop it. In some cases the hardware makes it difficult to change what software you run (most smartphones), but we're talking about Windows PCs here. You can install what you want on them.

If you don't like what Microsoft and Adobe are doing, don't use their software.
>It won't

Well, looks like it did.
I wish more people would watch this [0], might not be true but damn does it seem convincing. Seems pretty obvious that it was lab originated, even if it isn't manufactured.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU
70k is according to my anecdotes low for Stockholm, and not something that I’d expect a senior to accept. Senior front end developers go for about 90k.
Becoming a contractor is the way to go if you want decent pay (175k+).
ok, but if the machine was working offline you'd still be able to play one of those flash games right?

I really couldn't care less about the agreements, they are something nobody can afford to read and many times something that can be changed without notice anyways.
It really boils down to trust. My manager trusts I will make up lost time after my doctor's appointment, as they generally know if I've been falling behind work or not. We also give daily standup status updates so its obvious if work isn't progressing after some time.

This also works in reverse. If I work on Sat/Sun for some system maintenance then my manager tells me to swap time off during the week. But in my experience, What usually happens is I work my full week anyway because something important arose and I push that "time off" to the next week until I forget I had it.
Ah yes, you’re right. Started thinking that we’re talking about different aspect. I’ve been thinking about models as they’re used in end-user systems. Particularly how it’d fit in with Ruby and Rails, or similar. Actors without a good framework like OTP are indeed a pain. The fork-join model is great for parallelism and computation. Problem is that it’s harder to use for general purpose concurrency where your inputs aren’t immutable or fit into the model. Not that I’ve seen fork-join model really used other than map reduce or some MPI constructs.
Interesting. I’ve never gotten the FluMist.

Those side effects are apparently listed as normal, though it’s interesting to learn they can come on that quickly! I would have thought the immune system would take some hours to respond.
Pure mass hysteria on any matter these days is all thanks to the Like and Follower counter based reward system.

Over energetic, mindlessly ambitious, attention craving lunatics on the Left and Right get propped up and
dominate all discussion these days thanks to the counts.

Everyone else has to enter into Count accumulating arms race to even be allowed into the room to speak.

The counts enable the best panderers in society and validate everything they do and say.
Weird, I have some saved copies of sites that ceased to exist years ago. The backups are still where I left them and I can open without issues. Apparently Microsoft failed to wipe my backups.
To be very precise, I use the Fennec build off of F-droid, so it may be trailing FF from the Play-store a bit. Sounds like an incident, not deteriorating quality in any case. I'm happy as a clam with FF/Fennec.
The fact that it is primarily renewable is actually the reason why BTC's energy costs are exorbitant. That energy could be directed toward replacing fossil fuels, thus reducing carbon emissions.

Is that "educated" enough for you?
Strong opposition in the west may because it was a western lab originally?
You don't have those sorts of systems for regular human drivers, either. If a human driver passes out (diabetic episode, heart attack, drunkeness), you are just as SOL. With a self driving system there's various levels of redundancy you can put in, up to some sort of dead man's switch on an embedded controller that slams the brakes (or maybe just a gentle stop in combination with existing ADAS) if all of the "higher level" systems stop responding.
There have been countless examples of police organizations using surveillance in ways beyond their initial use -- so certain people like the mayor or judges might think "the police would be too dumb to try to use this against somebody like me", but if the system is essentially a dragnet where they store all the data, then they do actually track the judges and public officials in reality since the data would be stored -- just because they aren't accessing it today doesn't mean they can't in the future -- a FOIA request might be used to request all of the mayor's movements over the past year. Just the request itself may cause the mayor or other officials to want the program to be disbanded because they realize it can be used to mine information about where public officials are moving. What if the mayor threatened to cut funding to the police, so they decide to mine the dataset to see if they can find something in the database that would make the mayor look bad that they can leak to the press, etc. So it should force the issue of saying what data gets stored and the legality of collecting it in the first place on literally everybody vs. particular people of interest. Its only a matter of time before you have something happen like, "hmm, the mayor seems to be spending a lot of time at a random apartment in one part of town... oh look who is this random woman that lives there that is most definitely not his wife... hmmmmm what should we do with this information"..
SARS was proven to come from wetmarkets back in 2003. They were banned by China, then unbanned later.