skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As a result, it attracts people who should be out there curing cancer, developing new technologies, researching fundamental sciences, and so forth.

I'm in HFT, and I'm confident in speaking not only for myself when I say that if HFT didn't exist I'd be doing something else fun and profitable (e.g. investment banking, non-high-frequency trading), not something boring and/or poorly compensated like medical research. People on this site have no right to tell other people how to live their lives, especially when they themselves probably work on something like ad-tech which is arguably actively very harmful to democracy and society.
I'm heating my house with my mining equipment this year.
I'm sure it's also the case that your call is important to them. Isn't that what companies always say while making you wait on hold for 45 minutes?
Shout out to Hexo! I don't see it on here often and it's a great static blog generation tool.
Ultra-light carbon fibre wheelchair wins the Mobility Unlimited Challenge
The AT&T gateways do not have a true bridge mode. They still use NAT even if they look like they are just passing the connection on.
I know how close people say we are to an unrecoverable fall into fascism. A real attempt at fascism would have had much better armed and organized attackers. This was a self-directed mob, which was bad enough; real fascism would have had quasi-official orchestration instead of letting people freelance. That lack of the real power behind it makes me question your narrative.

But I see how quickly and how broadly conservative people are getting muzzled and vilified. I can to some degree see sense in taking away the microphone (and networking apparatus) between now and Jan 20. On the other hand, I can see it becoming the start of a witch hunt. How far are you going to go to shut down conservative voices, and for how long? The fact that it's hitting Ron Paul indicates to me that it is over-reaching reasonable bounds, even for the short term.
You might be thinking of the Taos Operating System?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607

http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html

It had an object oriented assembly language that everything compiled to and it JIT'd/on-fly-compiled code IIRC. Sounded very cool.
How does that apply?

Of course every OS is going to have vulnerabilities. No one claims otherwise.
Isn't that exactly what the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is supposed to prevent, by isolating vaccine makers from liability in exchange for a 75-cent tax that funds a no-fault compensation program?
> In order to undestand how these systems work I would recommend to know the language in which they are written. The biggest concern with Python is its poor performance hence the knowledge of a more efficient language will be a big plus to your skillset.

I think these two sentences are sort of orthogonal to one another. The first, I interpret as saying that it's useful to understand Scala if you're using Spark, essentially because of the law of leaky abstractions [1]. I think you're responding to the second sentence and in that case I agree.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
> politically neutral fashion statements (e.g. sports teams)

I am disappointed to note that sports teams association will lump people into certain political groups in some places.

Turns out separating fashion and politics is hard.
I agree. I would like to see (serious) sociological research on this topic.
Next time you're angry, try seeing things from another person's point of view. When you achieve that, immersively, what happens to your anger?
Symmetry ads beauty to any crappy stroke :)
> I don't think you can say that life is built on computational processes unless you use a definition of "computation" that is so vague and all-encompassing that it becomes effectively meaningless.

I mean, there's nothing physically stopping us from simulating a brain, right? It's a finite object with a finite amount of physical ingredients, and therefore with a finite amount of computing power we can simulate what it does. To me personally, that's a computational process. Maybe that's an overly broad definition of computation, but I think these debates tend to be about whether there is something fundamentally different about "life" (by which I assume you include consciousness). But maybe that's not what you're saying.

> He points out that "if we are to suppose that the brain is a digital computer, we are still faced with the question 'And who is the user?'"

What does that question even mean? I think it seems deep because we humans have a tendency to ascribe some sort of supernatural aura to our lived experience. Life is something incredible but that (at least to my knowledge) is not uncomputable...

> There is no computational process that will produce the sensations of colour or sound or touch.

Got one: the brain!

> At best you will have some representation that requires having actually experienced those sensations to understand it.

Why does a computer not "experience" something?
How has Elizabeth still not had her trial?!It keeps getting pushed back.. and more surprising, she got married in 2019 while awaiting trial?!

Does that expose her new husband to financial liability from the fraud lawsuit?
Well all this wouldn't have been possible if not for the precedent Big Tech set in handling opposing ideologies. Now why cry over balkanization of the internet when that is what was pushed for by the leftists in these Big Tech companies? What do you think would happen if Big Tech kept censoring something it did not like? You would obviously have a reaction to it. I view the Polish laws as a reaction to the ridiculous ideological censorship stance taken by the Big Tech. First polarize the population, then cry why opposing laws are being framed that shatters your idea of what internet should be. I won't be surprised if many other countries follow the same path. Those who experienced censorship know it first hand what it's like. Looking at you being shocked at this legislation just shows how wide the split is. That one bubble is completely oblivious to what the other bubble is experiencing.
There are probably a lot of people who are willing to take a one-time vaccine but not an expensive, daily series of pills which aren't completely free of side effects.
ubnt.com is another one of their domains.
Flat Belly Burn Review, Legit or a Scam?
I bought a UDM Pro so I could run Unifi Protect. I got three cameras deep and their SSO went down the other day. It was impossible to access from my phone, as their app only supports SSO login.

WHAT? I bought this stuff so I could self-host and _not_ rely on other services. I guess I didn't do enough research when investing in new hardware. I didn't see anything in their spec. sheets or descriptions about needing cloud for Protect access.
I like the brighter future. It does seem kind of weird to count increased income, lower debt, and higher savings as separate wins. Higher income makes sense, but the other two are caused by the first. People couldn’t really increase discretionary spending, so debt and savings would have to improve.

I’d expect all of these metrics to not improve post covid. No more help from the government to increase income, no extra money to decrease debt (lower income, higher ability to spend discretionary), and same for savings.
I often wonder if by trying to flatten the economic cycle we are sowing the seeds for a bigger downturn further down the line.
22 disasters, 262 dead,$95bn: US saw record year for climate-driven catastrophes
Flutter Job Openning
To sum up the article:

Some average (mean) economic indicators are up.

The bottom several deciles of income are doing very poorly, and unemployment is up.

I think the "visibility" problem actually mostly goes one way though. As one of the people WFH with simply reduced expenses, all I ever hear on the news are about the people who have been adversely affected, other than obvious winners like Zoom. Of course, "average savings rate is up" may not even be newsworthy, but I had no idea until recently this was the case.

Also having talked to a few people adversely affected by the pandemic, I think a lot of people don't understand how not everybody is hurting. Everybody lives in their own bubble.

Contrary to the author, I don't think the internet really demonstrates the vast swathes of white collar careers (nor blue collar, really) in a remotely representative way. So to a server, with lots of other young friends in the service industry, this is Armageddon itself, except for random ecelebs on instagram. To a tech worker, friends with mostly other techies or graduates of "good" colleges, this is a great opportunity to Work From Hawaii for everybody except the guy at the grocery store. Mai Tais anyone?
There was a thread about this with a fairly convincing rationale for misunderstandings about the effectiveness of Sinovac.

(I'm not the commentator, but it seems detailed enough to be plausible)

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/kt076p/butantan_va...
> An armed mob very nearly did succeed in overthrowing the government

No they didn't. Ransacking a building isn't overthrowing a government.

> We have the closest thing to a democracy that any country has.

Ha ha ha -- good joke, I could do with a laugh

> I'm not going to split hairs about what a "real" democracy is.

It's one where the government does what the people want.

> we, the people, (barely) stopped a fascist leader

Trump isn't a fascist. To be a fascist he would have to be more intelligent and have more coherent beliefs.

> despite his very sincere desire to hold on to that power

Nor does Trump want power. He wants attention -- narcissistic supply.

Trump's actually to lazy to exercise power (as well as being too stupid); that's why he refuses to read memos more than a page long.
from this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25742187 it might mean that it is not a unix/posix style OS, but exploring new ideas.
>You present an opinion piece from Matt Taibbi on substack (where anyone can publish anything) as evidence of what mainstream news was writing?

> You might as well cite any fringe blogger. Your proof is like some idiot writing Trump is an Alien Unicorn on a personal wordpress site then claiming mainstream news was calling Trump an Alien Unicorn.

> No wonder you're convinced of wild things.

> I'm done with this level of dishonesty.

woah.

setting Taibbi aside, can you not see how news cycles were dominated by a "Russian collusion" narrative the first 3 years of Trump's presidency? a narrative that largely proved to be exaggerated, false, and self-serving (it was great for business).

as recent as July of this year, the NYT published a story filled with anonymous sources and accusations of Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan. within days, the media went into their typical "blitz" with this story and Joe Biden even had an ad ready to air in response to it. this story, like many others not only could not be corroborated by any mentioned parties, but proved to be "less than conclusive" and was later significantly walked back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghan...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-offic...

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1282646230779285504
Article 137 of the Weimar constitution, which is part of the German Basic Law, says: “There shall be no state church.”

I think the best reading of the Establishment Clause is that it prohibits exactly that, plus Congress also can’t regulate state established churches (which existed at the time). See: https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi...

https://startingpointsjournal.com/what-is-the-original-meani...

> House’s final version: “Congress shall make no law establishing religion.”

> The Senate responded with: “Congress shall make no law establishing articles of faith or a mode of worship.”

> The Conference Committee came up with the final version, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The Committee’s addition of “respecting an” was not explained at the time but has been the subject of a great deal of recent commentary. In its own time, however, the clause generated none of the heated arguments that had accompanied church–state issues in the states.
I hate when I spent 5 minutes typing the comment and then HN tells me I'm blocked for unknown amount of time because I was downvoted. So replying with a different account to keep the comment. Sorry dang.

The original response:

Of course not. I'm just pointing to the flaw in this argument: if everybody ban you, then you are the problem. Sometimes there are other reasons for that than you, and I provided with an example.

> literally has their fingers in every company of importance there

However, now you said it, authoritarian states work differently. They don't tell every company what they should do. Each private company already knows what it should do, otherwise they will have certain consequences like change of ownership.

But again, putting the equal sign between PRC and the US is wrong at the moment.
If you don't mind me asking, which Chromebook do you have and how much coding do you get out of the 1 panel/2.5kg trips between charges?

I also use devtools and node. I would love to find a device that focuses on low power consumption. I wish I could find something like this, but with a larger screen, usb charging, and ideally a single unit.

http://blog.yarm.is/kindleberry-pi-zero-w.html
Then Kathy Griffin should have been booted faster than Trump, not slower. So the data doesn't fit your explanation.
Zerotier is great for this.
Interesting. What are the required timing of the six shots, the percentage effectiveness, and the duration of protection?
Stream ciphers can operate without adding any extra delay and are considered plenty strong.
Thank you very much, I use screen rarely and the thought that screen can be configured has never crossed my brain.
Delta for put options is typically below 0.
Seems completely against the rules. If there's anything the First Amendment applies to, it's the government limiting speech.
Salesforce says it has taken action against the RNC, but won’t say how
I feel like it’s too little too late
A fair exercise to prompt, but also fair to note the direct question was dodged. Intentional, or?
>- Shale is 1.5:1 (say you what you will about the shale revolution, but from an energy output point of view, it's literally scraping the bottom of the barrel)

>- Oil sands are 5:1

wtf? I thought oil sands were the least efficient but shale is even lower? Is there a source for this?
The HIV one is interesting, I wonder what strategy they will use with that?
ScholarPhi: An interactive tool for reading academic papers
Code is available on Github: https://github.com/allenai/scholarphi

This is a project by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. I have no affiliation.

The link above is to an active demo. I'm not sure how scalable the backend is so far, so it may crash if there is significant load.
The law isn't super clear here, but nobody has put up a serious legal challenge against this practice since Rosetta Stone sued Google over it back in 2012. Google was awarded summary judgement against Rosetta Stone for its practice of selling bids for searches for Rosetta Stone's trademarks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone_Ltd._v._Google,_....

There have been earlier legal challenges to this practice as well, but none has resulted in a clear opinion that it is unlawful.
GNU has done well.
Me too. I’ve always wondered how a NAT knows where to route traffic. I figured it would use a lookup table, but I never know what the “keys” were. For some reason, using different ports for each device behind the NAT never crossed my mind! I knew it couldn’t be done by adding routing data to the packets (which is what IPv6 ended up doing) because that isn’t sustainable over multiple NATs. A port based routing with a table makes so much sense! It also explains why idle sessions are dropped.
https://www.n2yo.com/?s=39444
Whoops, wrong link, I'll fix.
HN is not the real world.
‘It’s all fallen apart’: Newsom scrambles to save California – and his career
Nazi Germany took women backwards. Nice revisionism there.

> The policies contrasted starkly with the evolution of women's rights and gender equality under the Weimar Republic

> Women in Nazi Germany were subject to doctrines of Nazism by the Nazi Party (NSDAP), which promoted exclusion of women from the political life of Germany as well as its executive body and executive committees.

> the Nazi regime only permitted and encouraged women to fill the roles of mother and wife; women were excluded from all positions of responsibility, notably in the political and academic spheres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Nazi_Germany
> I'm blocked for unknown amount of time because I was downvoted

Is that really a thing on HN? Seems pretty unfair to block someone because of an unpopular view, isn't flagging used for that when a comment breaches the guidelines?
Ironically, Sonos wreaks absolute havoc on my Unifi network when I hardwire the Sonos speakers (I have 12). When I remove the ethernet cables, it comes so unreliable, it frequently loses connectivity while playing music or speakers straight up disappear.

I do have over 100 devices on the Dream machine + 4 AP-HDs network, but Unifi promised to make my network rock solid, and it's been anything but.
Not much configuration, and slightly annoying that the config file is at $HOME/.screenrc instead of being patched to use an XDG location, but it's "good enough" for my use cases.
How about "social authoritarian"? Or "non-government authoritarian"? They don't have the power of government behind them, but they manage to be pretty authoritarian without it...
> But if their problem is not being able to stomach the "just-because" explanations that every QM resigns to using to explain wtf complex conjugation has to do with reality

Having studied both engineering and physics, I can tell you that there is nothing observable in the universe that requires complex arithmetic/algebra/theory. We use it because it makes the math a lot more convenient.

BTW, the use of complex math for real world applications goes way beyond QM, and predates it significantly. Engineers use it all the time: AC Circuit theory is full of it. As is electromagnetics. As is power (motors, etc). As is anything involving Fourier or Laplace Transforms (i.e. almost all engineering). You can come up with purely real mathematics to describe all of the above, but it would be tedious.
Real link: https://s2-reader.apps.allenai.org/?file=https://arxiv.org/p...
I agree it would be better in the end after it’s approved. I’m thinking about getting the ethics board to allow a trial where you have to give half of the participants a control (and the other half a possibly-ineffective vaccine), when a known-good alternative exists.

The other reply has a solid point. Maybe you can find a country where it’s not possible to distribute daily PrEP, but is possible to vaccinate people and then test them for HIV monthly.
Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. Treat Them Accordingly
Sure but I wasn't questioning my existence. Only yours and everybody and everything else's. Descartes still would need to believe in God in order to believe in you. It doesn't seem like a particularly good argument.
They also don't have to allow foreign tech companies to operate in their country without following local laws.

US tech companies hold almost as much power in these smaller countries as the government does. Facebook could easily sway an election if it tries.
Part of the problem with options trading is that (to the unininformed retail investor) your position can sometimes look profitable/good until all of a sudden it isn’t.

One of the most common I’ve heard from regretful friends is a variation on your scenario #1 where they buy a deep OTM call a few weeks out right after a recent pop in the underlying. Maybe the rally continues a bit, underlying goes up in price, they’re clapping themselves on the back. A few weeks pass and the price has gone up a bit more, but the options position is already blown up.

“I don’t get it... the stock price went up and everything but I still lost all my money on options.”

Worse still, due to the leverage offered by options, the losses can sometimes be real bad.
Tldr; it is real.
Yes, but that relies on an implicit assumption that you will be able to do or create enough things in return for enough things from other people to sustain you.

This is no longer the case for an increasingly large swathe of the population. What are they to do once what they have to offer is no longer enough to get them to survive? For now, a lot of these people go homeless. But this trend is not sustainable, or conducive to societal stability.
You didn't know whether it was just the flu. You don't know what your results would be otherwise. Don't give advice based on n=1 where you don't even know the disease.

You can have flu you barely notice as well as common cold that keeps you semi-conscious for a couple of days. Unless you get swabbed, you just can't know.
I understand what you’re trying to say, but let’s remember, the position of many who want higher taxes is that a lot of things some of those conservatives “built” was actually built by someone else and they also heavily rely on a massive infrastructure that is built and maintained by all of us.

Those conservatives absolutely rely on other peoples stuff just as much as liberals.

It isn’t nearly as cut and dry as a couple small paragraphs in a forum may make it out to be.
FBI probes Russian-linked postcard sent to FireEye CEO
The Velop series, from my own inspection, seems to be based on a custom (neutered) version of OpenWRT
ymmv but I have found development on a high spec'd ubuntu machine vs macos to be a much less irksome experience. For most of my developers hardware is the biggest constraint, not the os.

I am excited to start evaluating the m* macs once they get docker sorted though.
Until you do and then you’ve forgotten how and what to do.
Yeah. Classic move. Basically she was implying I laid people off because I wanted to and this post was cover.

> "Let's be clear..."
Nice to see electronupdate here. For those who don’t know, he also has a YouTube channel[0] where he does teardowns of random ICs. It’s quite interesting seeing the die shots. I’m assuming this post is a continuation of his “part 1” post/video from a week and a half ago[1] about the Echo Flex.

His videos are definitely not scripted (and barely edited), which can be off putting to some (hearing “umm”s among other things), and he doesn’t go into the detail that Ken Shirriff (@kens) does, but they’re interesting nonetheless.

[0]: https://youtube.com/c/electronupdate

[1]: https://youtu.be/gYPLunFMIEI
This might hurt privacy a bit as now each device in the house is uniquely tracked (already possible through other fingerprinting, but with this much moreso).
There’s no good intention here: they’re protecting their own political party who uses the same deception and outright manipulation (read up on state propaganda TV) as Trump administration. They need the reach to continue to brain wash their constituents and so to avoid getting fact-checked and eventually banned by the social media like Trump was.
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In Indonesia, the trial result reported a 65.3% efficacy

https://jakartaglobe.id/news/indonesia-approves-sinovac-vacc...