skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could easily jitter audio/video frame delay, or the codec noise in the video (main and delta frames, quantization, colour gamut) per receiver. If it is sharing a document view it could jitter the pixel colour (like a printer dither) or the position of characters.

It's basically impossible to be sure, though if you had multiple endpoint recordings you could probably identify likely deltas.

Examining the state of the zoom client might also be useful, because it is free to do this client side. Unless the IDs are cryptographically generated server side, you could tweak the client side to show someone else's client ID.
Many but not all :) - Some buddies of mine used to live in a student flat in Bristol that overlooked the TV Licensing Authority offices. My friends watched them go about their business over the top of their unlicensed TV for 2.5 years.
It's not a cryptographic key or a secret of any kind. In the case of React (or other JS libraries) export identifiers are chosen to expose private APIs for integration purposes with things like developer tooling and other functionality that isn't part of the publicly documented API.

Instead of choosing something like `__PRIVATE` the React library in particular chose something more eye catching: `__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED`, which is definitely sure to get people's attention when they look into it, but is essentially just a joke.
Dry ice is -78C and is routinely used for shipping. Amazon is good at shipping me my orders in one day, I doubt they'd have any problem shipping daily boxes of vaccines to every pharmacy in the country.

I seriously do not see why the wheel has to be reinvented here.
Core people in Go have enlightened me that the "thread worker" model in Go is non-idiomatic.

It breaks contexts (and all that implies, like credentials, tracing, timeouts) and stacks (making it harder to debug).

You should just start the goroutine instead of enqueueing it.

More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25831844
The closest thing to an expert system I've seen is clinical practice guidelines, which sometimes includes decision trees of indications/contraindications for administering certain medications for common and time-sensitive medical events, like cardiac arrest or exacerbation of breathing difficulty with COPD.
UK to give 70% of the Hong Kong population the right to come and live in the UK
There are scammers on Bitcoin no doubt. When you trade in the crypto space be under no illusion you are swimming with sharks and you don’t have the protections, hard won over many years, that you would have normally.

This is something you need to be aware of if you’re using Bitcoin or any other crypto for investment.

It’s mightily useful for making payment in a zero-trust environment though.
Sure, but I'd meant live in the modern world in the sense of living in tech-enabled society, rather than just living in the current day.
Medical devices using AI/ML are poorly regulated: study
No, you are even more wrong. Social democracy is not socialism. The state doing stuff is not socialism. A functional health care system is not socialism. The bare minimum of being socialist is to want to transition away from a capitalist system which no country in Europe has any ambitions.
If you have any evidence that Trump called for violence, come forward with it.

PS.: And also how Parler is responsible for any of this would be interesting.
> Weekly church attendance in the U.S. is far higher than in Western Europe

Yes, but we were talking about western Europe, like Poland and Hungary.

> The U.S. isn't a "secular nation" either. The "Establishment Clause" prohibits Congress from establishing a national church, just like Article 137 of the Weimar Constitution in Germany

Yes, but we were talking about Poland and Hungary, not Germany. Poland and Hungary's constitutions establish national religious law. I would consider Germany to be secular, like the US, as opposed to Poland or Hungary, which are not.

> Justice Story made clear in 1830 that the constitution was not understood to prohibit non-preferential government support of religion

However, throughout the later 1800s, a majority of states (and nearly the nation as a whole) passed Blaine amendments, banning the use of public funds for private religious schools. Now this might have been driven in part by anti-catholic sentiment, but no, I don't think you can claim that the court adopting an interpretation that most states already had adopted was a "dramatic departure". Perhaps legally, but not in terms of popular support/understanding.

> particularly due to the Supreme Court taking various decisions on social issues away from the electorate, the laws in the U.S. with respect to churches, abortion, etc.

Right, and this is unambiguously a good thing. Laws shouldn't be based on religious ethics.

> And does that give us any insight into the current situation in the US?

Honestly, I don't see how it does. Trump's brand of populism isn't particularly religious. His appeal to the religious right wasn't much beyond "I'll appoint conservative judges". It's much more nationalist than religious (and I'll grant you that those two things are often intertwined, but that seems to be more because conservatives are often the ones stoking nationalist sentiment, and also they're usually more religious, I don't think religion necessitates nationalism).
My plans to trickle out details of my conversation with the Google employee were put on hold due to a massive change in my life responsibilities due to the novel coronavirus, but it’s my intention to resume soon.

As I say on the website, this will culminate in my releasing the MBOX formatted file of the conversation, with full headers.
Unfortunately BBC news really isn't that good any more. It's been on a long slow decline since about 2005 or so, and now the majority of their news programming (with a few small but notable exceptions) are primarily cheering on the Tory government + ministers of the day.
Not at all is my guess. But it doesn't have a big flag in the server log saying "user gm turned on recording"
Every year (usually in January) you can ask for an exemption if you don't own a television.
Right off the bat the very first question is ambiguous. The very first sentence states that children must be there at 9am, but then later says that breakfast is at 7.30. I mean who would give such instructions? Half of the people wants breakfast and other half breakfasts at home.
I have no idea how you're going to accomplish this with centralized economic planning, but there's a much better shot at it with a free market approach.

Basically, taxing the externalities is the market based solution. Banning is a ham-fisted inefficient method.
I think they are all problems searching for solutions. Take smart contracts for instance, I am not sure if they are better than any BPM (Business Process Model) or cheaper.
That's true. Ideally then, as you say, there should be a Fisher-Yates shuffle of the papers after each pass through.
One of the alternate mechanisms for funding includes the proposal of a so-called "Broadband Levy" which would be included on all subscriptions in the country and would replace the license fee, given the nature of viewing habits have significantly changed in the past 10 years.
Hex Color Codes
AI prefers 1-color rectangle to anything else :)

Reminds me of the time I added neural networks to my asteroids-like game (with gravity and walls). I recorded myself playing the game, added sensors to detect walls, enemies, powrups around the player's ship and the output was any combination of "throttle, rotate left, rotate right, shoot".

The AI analyzed hours of my recorded games and decided the best strategy is to constantly hold the throttle and do nothing else :)
>I had literally nothing to say to that. It had been a bit of a working assumption of mine over the past few weeks that if you could improve the health of the patients then, you know, the doctors or the hospitals or whatever would pay for that. There was this giant thing called healthcare right, and its main purpose is improving health—trillions of dollars are spent trying to do this. So if I built a thing that improves health someone should pay me, right?

I think the author makes the wrong assumption that his product does improve health and that the current practices of GPs or other health professionals don't (as much as they could). He misses the most important thing of any professional and successful health care worker: experience.

If a doctor has a high success rate with drug A on their patients then even if some website tells them that drug B _could_ be slightly better why would they try it? There has to be more of an incentive than _just a website saying so_. The doctor has a high success rate with drug A, has seen it working many times and knows everything about side effects or maybe the lack of those. If nobody has complained and it works miracles then it would be foolish for the doctor to start prescribing a new drug simply based on a random website's recommendation. Also doctors do have to stay current and they get medical journals sent home, attend training courses and conferences and learn about new stuff when it's actually relevant and needed.
What are you talking about, this is a package for Emacs, which already is a web app: https://beepb00p.xyz/cloudmacs.html
Ask HN: What programming tutorials/courses/e-books do you wish existed?
Even though we are spoiled for choice with the amount of programming learning materials produced each year, I imagine there are still some important topics which do not get as much love as others.
It is not okay to continue to sow doubt. I require you taking eight minutes to download the language and validating/disproving the claims.
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That's not fair, no. Channel 4 is a commercial station and doesn't receive any licence fee funding. Yes it is publicly owned but aside from that it shares no relation to the BBC.

It's probably also worth noting that the BBC does also have a few subsidiaries like BBC America which are also commercial entities and operate independently to BBC Television. They are at least owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (albeit sometimes only in part), unlike Channel 4.
Isn't Sweden openly looking for special deals with data centers?
Bitcoin has basically no adoption among people who use cryptocurrency for non-speculative purposes. Privacy-focused coins (Monero, etc) or coins with faster/better ledgers (Ethereum) are much more popular.

There was a time when Bitcoin was a promising digital currency! I had some back then, around 2010. This is not that.
How (not) to measure progress in science
I missed there was a "Display options" in the Setup, maybe it's just me
But the value of putting them into the cv!
I didn't know you could click in htop until today; it even works through tmux in mosh without any special configuration.

I think there's a lot to learn in the design philosophy of giving the power to users by default, but if you don't give your users the tools to learn this power they're going to have to ask questions if they want to yield it
How do you like my selfbalancing bulldozer?

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Unfortunately not as pretty as a solid gray :)
Compilers are hard
IIRC in Germany Netflix €14, Disney+ €7, Amazon Prime Video €6. And all 3 I can watch whenever I travel. The TV/Radio Tax is about €18!!! and I can only "enjoy" it in Germany!!! Not only that, the quality of programming quite bad, and to make it even worse, I am forced to pay for it when I don't even watch it. When I moved to Germany it just blown my mind.
TG4 is class!

Problem is, BBC (and to a lesser extent RTE) are not these unbiased services simply presenting facts. Their staff have certain views on political issues and they present stories in a way that is biased to those views. They effectively tell their viewers the range of acceptable opinions they are supposed to have.

A lot of their entertainment shows are junk too and I do not see why they should be funded through a license fee - if there is a demand for them, they could be funded privately. The BBC website is full of tabloid-like news - that is unacceptable.

If we are to have publicly funded media, it should be boring, i.e. serious. Host 2-hour long in depth debates on highly controversial issues between the most prominent people that oppose each other, carefully moderated (arguably it would actually be better to do this in print rather than tv format). Do cultural shows that promote "high culture" that people otherwise might not have engaged with. Counter the natural tendencies to look up to sports and entertainment personalities with a focus on scientists and engineers.
The last "legal brothel" the US had was in Japan.

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

The French had them up until 2003 in Djibouti.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordel_militaire_de_campagne
Sweden is a lot larger than the average US municipality. Still, Ireland (population 6m) is so determined to continue collecting tiny amounts of tax from Amazon so long as it continues to base its EMEA HQ there, its government appealed an EU court ruling that Amazon owed it more tax...
Because if you're the US Government and you owe China a trillion dollars[0] you want those dollars to be worth as little as possible when it comes time to pay. This is why real treasury yields (yields adjusted for inflation) are negative[1].

The US runs a ~$300bn/year trade deficit with China, and historically the Chinese have been counteracting this by buying US debt and foreign assets.

[0] https://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt

[1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
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Wow, these look great! Does anyone know of any similar resources for mechanics, specifically the Hamiltonian & Lagrangian formulations? I've had a bit of trouble finding good resources online to supplement my mechanics modules at uni.
> Ah, the ad hominem attack that has nothing to do with the substance of the argument.

If you judge others based on what they read you better meet your
own standards, that's all I'm saying.

> Never mind that I'm not a native speaker

Me neither. Even though according to your statements in previous
comments I'm illiterate.
Yes you are right - I was convinced it was a TV show. Thanks.
It's worth noting that the goons are private contractors, and have absolutely no rights beyond what the average bloke down the street would have. They can't enter your house without permission, and they can't force you to sign documents.

In the UK, we have a legal theory called the implied invitation, which means that it is implied (because it would otherwise be ridiculous) that any member of the public is invited to walk on your property up to your front door. This allows the postal service to put letters through your letter box, and people to knock on your door to say hi. However, this right can be revoked. You can write to Capita and state that you are withdrawing the implied invitation to all its members and agents, and that they are not welcome on your property. Then, they are not allowed to enter your property and are trespassing if they do, and you can call the police straight away without even warning them (because you did warn them already by post). Capita (despite its many faults) does seem to obey this.

I did this for my property shortly after I moved in. A little while later, a group of people did wander down the road. Half of them came onto the property and knocked on the door, claimed to be from Sky, and asked if we wanted to get satellite TV. The other half were wearing a different uniform and stayed outside the property. I strongly suspect that half was Capita agents who asked some Sky employees to help them out. Unfortunately, it was my wife who answered. Although she told them to go away, I would have been angry at them, because they had made the Sky employees into Capita agents, and therefore they were trespassing.

The threatening letters are atrocious. They are scary for anyone who doesn't know what they are doing, as they almost imply that your door is going to be broken down and you'll be hauled off to prison. I called Capita out on this. I wrote to them declaring that any further threatening letters from them would be classed as harassment, and that the police would be involved. They stopped sending them.
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there are a pretty way of saying your country have less income / business benefits tax, but then you fund your tv with a dedicated fee, your roads with tolls, your medical system with copays or private insurance... at the expense of having more inefficiencies and costs for the people having to manage those payments.

Those payments are also less regressive, as usually you pay the same regardless your income opposed to the income tax, so the system is less fair for the low class.
Well, Bitcoin is a research project.

Bitcoin to finally become cash equivalent needs to be untraceable, the transactions shouldn't have known inputs and outputs and energy efficient.

AFAIK, a lot of people that worked on Bitcoin found solutions to most problems and some of those solutions were reused in other currencies.
- Proof of work is inherently wasteful.

- The ever expanding blockchain is wasteful (in storage, computation, network).

- Having every transaction recorded forever is the opposite
of anonymity ("pseudonymous" - come on!).

- The energy usage is insane.

- The throughput is way too slow.

While there may be an anonymous digital currency that doesn't use a lot of energy, it probably has to be based on something other than proof of work and blockchain.

The people that say this is a bit like a pyramid scheme may be onto something.

Bitcoins biggest threat may be the decriminalization of drugs, as that is the only use beyond hoarding "HODL"ing right now.
Stepper motors also have resonances that you can excite with typical step pulse trains, that can also lead to missed steps while technically not overstepping the torque budget.
"When the rights of the people denied, the people rightly resist. If the concerns are not acknowledged then peace and security are inevitably threatened." - The U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

All we did so far is just ignoring the problem really. Fire is still smoldering under the ashes, and I hope we don't ignore this for the next 4 years.
But we have moderate inflation in most countries so I do not see you point.
Pasting a comment I found intersting & funny from one of the commenters of that article:

"...It is a strange thing that the real quality audio is now reserved for the pirates. This industry really knows how to hit a target."

Listening to the samples (I got a nice BeO over-ears headset that has very good performance), I also realized that Spotify gives me some noise, I also thought it's a codec/digital thing.. little do I know..
Shades of Gray: A Research Story [2013]
I wondered that too. "Die" implies not just metabolic rate going to zero, but also cells "disassembling" too ("decomposing" feels a bit large-scale in this context).

It did say that there were microscopic amounts of oxygen in the sediment. Presumably, that was enough to maintain a minimally-small MR.
The only way out of this mess is really first to give proper and clear answer to those that are concerned instead of blocking them. And meanwhile, also hold those resourceful politicians that are making this mess with their populist tactics accountable for their false claims and their actions in the court.

Maybe we should start running government like a company. You can't survive as a bad manager for a long time. But, bad politicians can stay in politics for their entire life while their mistakes costs much more than a manager.
> yes, you can own property, start a business, not everyone is an alcoholic who fights bears etc there

Not American, but as the only Russians i met were "security detail" from Crimea and as my mother used to help Georgians exiles between 2005 and 2015, i would put asterisk everywhere in your sentence except at "who fight bears".
I can't speak to Germany, but I view the BBC as the voice of the Establishment. That's a subtly different thing from being the voice of the government of the day. That's why they look right-biased if you're looking at their news output, and left-biased if you're looking at their drama/comedy output: they're just reflecting the Established status quo.
This is fabulous work ... simply wonderful.
Why would Google employees be doing quant finance on company time?
> So why are you just "assuming" that the person entered other areas with the badge?

Because, as far as I know, it’s not illegal to spend as long as you want in arrivals or departures. So I find it hard to believe someone would arrest him over that.

I agree we don’t know for certain based on the article.
I wonder if they could similarly survive on, say, comets or asteroids.
"View options" are in Setup menu, which is mentioned in the article.

To be quite honest, I don't know any of the keys not mentioned in F-list at the bottom other than space and I think k, everything was always through Setup Menu.
At least with Visa, etc. I can complete a transaction within 3 hours...
It's a tech prototype that enabled large-scale gambling.

It was an idea for a monetary revolution that got sidetracked by those with large enough capital. You can barely buy bitcoin without an ID and a credit card these days except if you wanna do it insecurely via transacting with an unknown party that contains bitcoins via cash.

Why do people evangelize it that much?

1. They want the monetary gains.

2. They are deep into sunk cost fallacy.

3. It fuels their ego by letting them think they understand the topics of distributed computing, encryption and global monetary politics at the same time while.

4 and the rarest. They understand it and are still super delusional about its potential.
But transmitting is different from receiving. How do you detect a receiver?
If you dont know the story it sounds like they have left the boat because of their own mistakes.
Two founding members have left because of the paper's direction failing to protect sources out of carelessness
Or more likely, that it's wrongly sourced and misleadingly put.

25% is a lot. The number of prostitutes ranged from 10k to 30k in various estimates, 30k being the upper range. There is no way a country with a population of then 28 million people, saw a quarter of its GDP produced by 0.08% of the population who provided a sexual service.

I looked at the source and it doesn't say what it states here. Wikipedia sources it to: https://web.archive.org/web/20130430220310/http://koreajoong...

> Camptown prostitution and related businesses on the Korean Peninsula contributed to nearly 25 percent of the Korean GNP, according to Katharine Moon, a professor of political science at Wellesley College, in a 2002 study.

Katharine Moon references in her book Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations the following: 'One EUSA officer estimates that the troops contributed to 25% of South Korea's GNP in the 1960s'.

Then goes on to mention merely that in 1964 the EUSA inspector general notes that "at the local community level, the business of prostitution is recognised as a source of income large enough to have an impact on the economy."