skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. My comment wasn't organized well and I can see that it linked the two statements, but I don't mean it like that.

I was referring to credit cards being a service that consumers value because they have fraud protection and other things. The parent was talking about arbitrary restrictions and freezing accounts. That typically happens when you have fraud on cash accounts (bank account, debit card, etc). And a credit card layer works extremely well.

I just had someone accidentally send me money on Venmo and I returned it to them right away. Cash or cash equivalent digital services are nice, but it limits "purchasing power" (great for consumers IMO, bad for merchants), has no rewards, and little to zero fraud protections.

Countries that use chip and pin on debit cards are definitely more secure. This should be in place in all countries. Fraud on a debit card is a nightmare. Fraud on a credit card is not usually a big deal for consumers.

Regardless of the various financial instruments, bitcoin cannot be a real currency when it's value is unstable.
I also wonder about this kind of stuff.

I think about things like this: What if all the wallstreet quants and sv adtech guys were all put on a nuclear fusion project?

It would be like an unstoppable force against an immovable project.
Huginn [0] is also very powerful, free, and open source. You can run it locally, in a VPS, or on Heroku for free.

I pay for IFTTT Pro, but I still use Huginn for things that IFTTT can't do, and I highly recommend it.

I've tried Node-Red and while it can definitely do the job, I couldn't get along with it.

0. https://github.com/huginn/huginn
> We're not.

And that's exactly the problem. No wonder they're still free today while Julian's not.
Not in the same boat as the author but in the past few weeks I've been getting into e-Ink displays and making gadgets and framed art with them, and most of the displays I can get a hold of are either 1-bit or 4-bit greyscale, so this is super relevant.

My "crude" dithering algorithm I wrote though seems not mentioned in the article. What I do is (in the case of 1-bit) just let the grey value (from 0.0=black to 1.0=white) determine the probability that the pixel is on or off, and render pseudorandom numbers according to those probabilities. In the case of 4-bit greyscale I do the same but within 16 bins.

I'm not sure how it compares to the methods in the article but maybe I can test this sometime.
(OP here) The suffering hasn't increased that much. It was all painful before.
One of the big issues for these kinds of things is that the United States has 51+ governments. The Federal Government has limited power and for a lot of stuff the 50 states can do their own thing. The Civil War did move more power to the Federal Gov, but the States are still very independent.
It's worth to note that from the perspective of the involved companies all this incident was much ado about nothing and no incentive to change anything.

Sure, some of their customers or customers' customers got exposed to attackers, and some government secrets may have been lost, and some of their tech employees had to do a bit of overtime and "reputation was harmed", but so what, why should they care? Is there any material impact on the company finances? Currently it does not seem that it's going to destroy their future sales and ongoing licencing revenue, and it does not seem that they are going to have any huge liabilities for negligence.

If anything, the consequences (or lack of them) to SolarWind and other historical breaches are a good illustration that in the current business environment intentionally cutting corners on security is a smart move as it saves you money but if you get used to harm many others then you just shrug, do some apologetic PR and move on, and the impact of reputation damage is small and fleeting.
I assumed the person just zoomed in a lot, which would explain both the low resolution and the increased shakiness.
You state that "the union seeks out what the membership wants" and I note ( to no argument) that this surely only happens sometimes. Other times they seek other things; perhaps not to the benefit of their workers.

I'm not sure all teachers like the fact that seniority is king, and I'm also not sure that it is in fact a Net Benefit to teachers as a whole.

This doesn't make unions not worth pursuing; it just means that we should be appropriately skeptical and not make blanket statements about how they surely operate.
Fraud kills more people and costs more every year than any terorrism ever could.

More people were rendered hungry and homeless in 2008 than by all terrorists combined in the last 50 years.
I share your love for Return of the Obra Dinn, truly a masterpiece and a game which shocked me out of my usual apathy towards recent videogames.

I have faith in Lucas Pope for whatever project he decides to tackle next. Two of his games are masterpieces, this one and Papers Please, and I also liked Helsing's Fire a lot. Whatever he does next, regardless of scope and theme, will surely please me.
That is absolutely true, but what are you implying in this context? Was Taiwan harsher with draconian lockdown policies early on?
A handful of states attempted to fork the US government 160 years ago. Didn't go well.
> But the fact of the matter is that there is no better alternative today, and the traditional governmental currencies don't count.

I can spend USD almost anywhere I want at maybe a 1.5% transaction fee depending on merchant, with 1%-2% cash back (I calculated a 1.67% rebate for 2019). Technically this is only nominally government currency since it's just bank credit denominated in USD.

Bitcoin's blockchain does around ~100K BTC in volume a day at ~100 BTC in fees and ~1000 BTC mined (since May) which both are effectively costs going to the miners' electricity. 1.1% vs 1.5% with cash back isn't a huge argument for bitcoin. If transaction fees stay around .1% until the block reward hits .05% then the efficiency argument eventually goes away because miners will be competing on transaction efficiency and not block rewards any more.

I like the technology; it's cool and the fact that it works at all is amazing. If overall costs were closer to .1% and speculators were not the primary users it would be revolutionary.
>When do you declare your values? Is it always a moving target? To be a conscientious objector in the United States, there needs to be a demonstrable history of your objection. You can't get drafted and then suddenly find religion. How do you stop the inevitable abuse of this exclusion?

Well, we're talking about working on software projects here. I work in defense and would have no qualms about the whole Project Maven thing. But if all they want is the freedom to decline to work on it, that seems pretty reasonable to me. They didn't sign up for that stuff, and Google isn't primarily a defense company.

The draft is (in theory) an emergency measure for the good of the nation. Just like the government can force you to pay taxes, they can force you to fight in the military. That's certainly not a power a private corporation should have.
It's always interesting to me when people react like this to an internet comment without sharing any research they did themselves.

I didn't do any particular research here, because it conflicts with the preexisting knowledge I have about the subject, and because my experience tells me that figures like these, which can be, and especially when they actually are used to further political narrative, are often misleading, and/or wrong. However, I didn't want to accuse the commenter of any bias or misconduct, hence I phrased my question to leave out my skepticism.

The truth of that part isn't important. It's the fact that it's a good faith hint.

You actually hit the spot: you can assume good faith when sitting around in uni and asking people to help you calculate Galois groups. You cannot assume good faith when talking to strangers online on politically charged topics: even if they are themselves operating in good faith, it is highly likely that they were fed, as you call them, "hints", by bad faith actors. Hence, I ask for sources.

I noticed that most people who really know their field don't cite their assertions. It makes sense. So now I'm not surprised when people don't provide a citation.

That's because they can rely on their authority and experience to establish trust, and they have reputation to protect in case their assertions are actually completely wrong. None of this is true when talking to random, anonymous people online.
The claims define the protected inventions. In this example, claim 1 recites a very specific way to implement a chat bot.

"A method for creating a conversational chat bot of a specific entity, the method comprising: receiving a request associated with a specific entity; accessing social data associated with the specific entity, the social data comprising at least one of: images of the specific entity, voice data for the specific entity, conversational data associated with the specific entity, and publicly available information about the specific entity; processing the social data using at least one of machine learning techniques and one or more rule sets, wherein processing the social data comprises: identifying conversation data collected for the specific entity; identifying conversation data collected for one or more entities similar to the specific entity; and determining similarities between the one or more entities and the specific entity using at least one of expression analysis techniques, approval indicators, and characteristics comparisons; using the social data to create a personality index, wherein the personality index comprises personality information for the specific entity; and using the personality index to train a chat bot to interact conversationally using the personality information of the specific entity"

Is this really common?
Social Media Dogpiles and the Manufacture of Active Impotence
I remember most SL players at least being near break even, often times bulk selling hair styles or furniture to pay for activities. Though then again I also remember sinking $60 in a single month to develop out an ingame research laboratory...
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You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.

What people say they will do for you after you've already said goodbye and what they'll do when you just ask for change are often very different things.

It's one of the reasons they say not to take the counter-offer. Because one day while you're brushing your teeth you realize that if they could cough up that much money or control when you tried to quit, why hadn't they factored that into your previous review, when half as much might have prevented the situation in the first place?
The article makes many jumps and some false claims.

Example: "Russia, we now know, used SolarWinds' hacked program to infiltrate at least 18,000 government and private networks. The data within these networks, user IDs, passwords, financial records, source code, you name it, can be presumed now to be in the hands of Russian intelligence agents."

Reality from the linked source: "The breach is far broader than first believed. Initial estimates were that Russia sent its probes only into a few dozen of the 18,000 government and private networks they gained access to when they inserted code into network management software made by a Texas company named SolarWinds. But as businesses like Amazon and Microsoft that provide cloud services dig deeper for evidence, it now appears Russia exploited multiple layers of the supply chain to gain access to as many as 250 networks."

There's a big difference between 250 and 18000.

Further it claims that the source code access is significant. As noted in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25599210 all major Governments have had read access to the source code for Microsoft products for years.

The hack is extremely serious and for that reason it merits accurate claims, response, and technical actions. Fearmongering like this article does to push an opinion piece is not it.
Are you really pretending that actors have the same sort of work schedules as developers?
What’s an example of a language with a good syntax?
It seems part of an ongoing effort to introduce censorship and restrict the flow of information on the internet. Apparently terrorists, pedos and drug dealers got a little old after a while.
In a deflationary economy, holding money becomes more valuable over time, so why would anyone spend it or invest it if you're guaranteed 5% - 20% more per year by leaving it in the bank?

One way to think of the economy is by money flowing between people and industries. The more the money flows the healthier the economy, as it becomes easier to create companies, get a job, etc.

When the money is stagnant, it becomes harder to convince people to spend it.
> The popular myth holds that psychoanalysis is a non-science trying to mimic science, but in reality it is the other direction. It was originally closer to biology and moved away from that.

At the time biology itself was not a very scientific discipline. Biology became a real science when chemistry caught up with biology and biochemistry was born. Before that biology was mostly like a psychology: a lot of vague words, theories telling us things about something that cannot be seen or measured, and so on.

Though I can agree, that with the time psychoanalysis moved even further from science than it's starting point.
Does it make sense to apply from Switzerland? i.e. Paris tech salaries are stuck in 50k-70k afaik.
Having a seperate office for work helps significantly in seperating your habits. I would imagine a bed office might do the same, though obviously having health repercussions.
When a certain thing is done in repl, it usually converts into a function or two in the source code. The ad-hoc testing code is converted into unit testing.

That should help with maintenance no?

One big theoretical advantage I see in repl driven development is, I can be sure that _all_ the code has been executed at one time atleast. (In a normal edit-compile-link-test language cycle, I can not be sure of that)
I'm sure that, as with most mental illnesses, susceptibility to conspiracy theory would be a scale (say, not-very-susceptible to highly-susceptible). And in that case, we're all on the scale somewhere.

As you mention such weaknesses being "actively exploited", it makes me think of advertisements / advertising agencies attempting to manipulate people (to buy stuff, etc.). Perhaps our location on the conspiracy-theory-susceptibility scale would correspond with our susceptibility to advertising tactics, such that those who are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories correlates with those who are more likely to buy something based on seeing an advertisement. Or perhaps there's even some element of training in there, whereby some people might be "trained" by advertisements into being more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.

Or maybe I'm just trying to pin negative behavioral consequences to the advertisement industry, a facet of our society that I find loathsome.
The article of clothing was not called into question. The language "fuck" in terms of public decency, was. That is I believe a misreading of the OPs comment.
The city of Helsinki owns about 17% of the residential building stock, not the majority. (https://www.asuminenhelsingissa.fi/fi/content/kaupungin-omis... - in Finnish)
Maybe, but it could also be about just not getting around to doing it.

Changes, especially in a large system with a large user base, require extensive testing, and even small changes may come with a lot of red tape. I don't know how things work at Microsoft, but I wouldn't be surprised if making changes to the UI for a technology that's being superseded anyway just didn't make anybody's list.
So, since we're on kernel 5.10, has this new Samsung exFAT driver been tested? Is it at least as reliable as btrfs?
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

There's no single institution or person holding us back. Real life isn't a movie with a villain who can be defeated and then we live happily ever after. There's no magic HealthBot 3000 technology that will deliver a breakthrough in curing disease and injury, and/or disrupt current business models.

Hospitals don't want to lose revenue. Physicians who don't want to lose revenue and turf. Drugmakers don't want to lose revenue. Health insurance. Patients refuse to opt into* any limits on care, demand nearly perfectly safe drugs, and say they only want the best care. We want to see our doctor over a cold and demand a pharmaceutical solution. We get annoyed when doc tells us to lose weight or quit smoking/drinking. We cannot accept death or taxes. "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly. The only deflationary force in the industry is have nots avoiding care at significant cost to life and limb.

*Even relatively comfortable employer plans and Medicare have significant gatekeeping: "out of network," deductibles, what procedures and drugs are not covered.
> 3. Asia is driving the leading edge of game monetization now, and that leading edge is gacha games (lootbox mechanics/disguised digital slot machines).

There's nothing leading edge about this. Both western and eastern video game companies have been doing this for more than a decade.

An infamous example is EA, who have been sucking the fun out of their games with this for ages. Bonus points to them for slapping these mechanics on paid games which they sell en-masse by exploiting franchises popular with mass-market consumers, then extracting additional money using the sunk cost fallacy.
See also ENCOM Globe, tribute to Tron:Legacy https://www.robscanlon.com/encom-globe/
>You're shaming people for feeling natural human instincts

There are many 'natural' human instincts that are harmful to society and are either strongly discouraged or outlawed (violence, drug abuse, overeating to name a few).
> Going from a larger diameter to a smaller diameter only results in a change in pressure if there's flow

There isn't a question of how much water can flow, the question was only if you need metal to have the high pressure needed for filtering.

> In fact, the pressure ends up lower in the smaller diameter section according to wikipedia.

You are probably seeing the pressure applied to surrounding pipe itself without taking into account the increase in velocity from the conservation of kinetic energy.

> Putting your thumb on the front of a garden hose increases pressure inside the entire hose because it reduces the flow rate, not just where your thumb is.

I think you are missing the point, if you want more focused you can reduce the flow rate since you still have the same kinetic energy of the water.

This is all irrelevant to the main topic though, apparently industrial PEX can go over 1400psi
Estimated that >1% of the UK population (769K) were concurrently on the site before GA topped out.
I'm reminded of a story I read about a dictator that took over a country, who while corrupt, actually funneled more money into infrastructure than anyone before him and became very popular with the people.

sort of deal with the devil though.
Interesting and thank you! Perhaps this is a model which can be expanded in the future indeed... It's sort of a logical extension of startups which pay ISOs. With the obvious difference that the employee equity would be immediately realized; and come with corresponding votes.
I know very little about this. Is it possible to get my sequence from one of the commercial groups doing this, and then "look it up" in a genome reference to verify my brown eyes, for example?

I acknowledge the lack of knowledge leading to the question. But it would be neat if possible.
If one's smart toaster depends on AWS one might very well do that.
DNS is actually pretty nice for ACL [1]. Just make sure you use it with DNSSEC.

Want to check if Tom has access to /web/mike? Just do a lookup on the user in question with the reversed path you want to check.

"Can Tom read /web/mike?" => tom.mike.web.server.net

Advantages:

- Replication to multiple machines is trivial (piggybacking of DNS, after all).

- Lookups are fast. Can also be easily cached.

- All sane programming languages have built-in DNS resolution in their stdlib out-of-the-box.

- Manual override using /etc/hosts for debugging/emergency.

1. https://itk.samfundet.no/dok/ITKACL2
I don't think a Masks Map would work in a country where the population believes COVID is fake, and masks are an Islamic plot.

Don't you have to address those fundamental issues first?
New Control Panel stuff is C++/XAML/WinUI, definitely not web controls.

The big trouble with Windows' embedded webviews in the past has been that they only updated once or twice a decade with Windows updates, so tied to very specific IE versions and often meaning applications that used them were stuck in specific versions of the web platform. The new "WebView2" from Microsoft is powered by Chromium Edge so it should be a lot closer to Electron in practice (though still, updated at user/system pace [just now on the much faster Chromium Edge cycle rather than the slower Windows cycle], not developer pace which is often the specific draw to Electron).
I stumbled at "Mindful", and then stopped fully at "He/him".
Yea, but you live here and so you should think about the implications of this for yourself and your countrymen and not through the lens of international competition. That is a distraction.

Essentially, the China case proved Zoom is willing to cooperate with a nation state. The US is the nation state we live in, Zoom is HQ'd here. Therefore, the risk to us is high.

As an aside, the organ harvesting idea comes from the Fulan Gong, who are similar to Chinese Scientologists. It is not clear to me that their claims are accurate.
Yes. Closed back over ears are definitely the most effective way to block external noise. And I've heard of people wearing over the ear protection over noise canceling that works even better. For me, basically the only time I really care (or want to be that isolated) is on planes though and I travel really light so over the ear headphones is a non-starter.
Happened to Ma.gnolia, which was the number 2 bookmarking site behind Del.icio.us in that era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnolia

HN comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=487497

The site relaunched a month later and shut down for good a year after that
Silicon Valley's Partisan Problem: People still think both parties look the same
Error Lookup tries to make cryptic Windows error codes meaningful
Why did it break?
We have a very high number of cases per capita, and while we do perform a lot of tests, it's not like we lead in tests per capita. [Here's a good graph to play around with](https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=ea...). We are middling to low in terms of tests per confirmed case (aka its not just that we're performing more tests than others), [here's that graph](https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=20...). And our case fatality rate is pretty good but not amazing (among first-world countries at least) [graph](https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=20...) ([Here's US vs World + regions CFR](https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?time=20...)).

Note, you have to play around w selecting different countries and dates on that website, I wish they had some kind "select by GDP quartile" or something.