skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nice slide for an executive briefing. However, to get anything useful out of threat modeling you really need a full architecture view to start with. This would include both the technology and the business processes. Few organizations are willing to put effort and resources into developing these and there are few, if any, tools to help.
Maybe people understand and just aren't buying what you're selling. Bitcoin is more than 10 years old.

Bitcoin advocates are fond of comparing BTC to WWW, but at the equivalent point in the web's development we had Yahoo, eBay, Paypal, Google, Facebook, Amazon...

The only "killer app" of bitcoin is HODL speculation.
Again, you don't want to deal with the "huge complexity" of making sure you keep your users personal data secure, don't store any of your users personal data, just like what Daho0n said.

GDPR is something you have to follow if you meet the requirements (like collecting personal information about your users and more), not something you have to follow as soon as you publish a HTML file on the internet.

I understand that businesses don't have the time (or maybe care?) to fully understand GDPR before jumping to solutions, but I would think the crowd here on HN to do better than that. Read through GDPR and you'll see it's much easier to follow than you think, it is surprisingly small and easy to approach: https://gdpr.eu/tag/gdpr/
What did your company to do share those findings with the doctors worldwide? Did your company reduce mortality?

Otherwise it's kind of like, I have invented SkyNet in my garage but I am only using it to become richer through the stock market.

It's admirable that you are working on saving human lives. But are human lives actually saved?
I would argue that it isn't even good for most UK elites. Whatever benefits they're getting out of it are likely to be swamped by the overall downturn of the British economy in the future, an economy that they are presumably heavily invested in.
The 1947 Smallpox Vaccination Campaign in New York City, Revisited
> It's net revenue, not "revenue",

Check the financial statements again. The $26.5b figure you cite is gross revenue, of which $24.4b is operating revenue. From that revenue you deduct the $19b cost of goods sold (including salaries) to find $7.5b of operating profit, and from that you deduct depreciation and administration expenses.

New investment does not show up as an expense on a financial statement, since it builds capital -- at the accounting level it's a transformation of one asset (cash) to another (land/equipment/etc).
The OP mentioned going to one football game “at A&M,” which I assume to be Texas A&M, which is what I was responding to. I happen to be familiar with that stadium and it’s environs.

I can’t speak to the issues in Detroit or Baltimore, as I don’t know much about them. However I would guess by your implication that the crowds do not reflect the local population. I said in my comment that reflecting the local population is healthy, so if those places do not reflect the local population I would say that’s a sign of unhealth.

Edit: you make a fair point, and to be clear I’ve edited my post to be more specific about this.
The entire statement is in fact a falsehood, as Amazon does not embody that idea, regardless of its veracity. Amazon has never paid a dividend, and is guided as much or more by the pursuit of growth (and also "customer value" although unevenly) that simply maximising shareholder value.
>The thing with covid is the younger/healthier you are, the less likely you are to die from it, but you are also less likely to die from anything. So the relative risk does not change much.

Exactly my point. Covid is a negligible risk to young healthy people compared to elderly, sick, obese people. This will have an effect on their risk calculations determining if they should take a vaccine which was rushed through safety trials or to take on a virus naturally which their immune systems can easily defeat, according to the data.

>In rich Asian countries like Japan, I haven't heard of a significant difference in infection fatality rate compared to western countries.

If you look at the data, you'll see the significant difference.

The US has 139.30 deaths per 100,000 people from covid.

Japan has 4.88 deaths per 100,000.[1]

>As for obesity, it is actually worse in northern Africa than in Europe, and closer to the US. And southeast Asia is getting close to Europe as these countries develop.

Indeed, if you look at the obesity map and the covid map of the world, you'll see the same correlation of obesity and larger relative covid risk in northern Africa.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rate...
Title should read: ‘Smallest known reptile on earth’ discovered in Madagascar.
Show HN: A Twitter bot to help you learn about the stock tickers in a tweet
Demystifying the Volatile Keyword
Nice job. Cool idea.
I think the single biggest thing that OpenOffice achieved was the ODT file format.

Showing that an open file format could do everything was a big part of forcing Microsoft to switch from .doc to .docx, which is much more open
On that note, I'm a bit surprised that RFC 2100 [1] hasn't seen any mention. It's quite relevant to the topic at hand.

[1] The Naming of Servers https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2100
The naming scheme I settled on for my devices was using ship names from World War 2.

- Device size and computing power maps roughly to the ship size: my desktop is named after a battleship, while my Kindle is named after a destroyer.

- Servers are always named after carriers. It just made sense to me somehow.

- Like the warships, the names can eventually get reused as the devices are replaced.
People forget that innovation also costs a lot of money.

Rebuilding the old system in a new framework is not innovative, it’s a political power grab even if unintentional.

In order to rebuild the old system what you would actually need to do is to prototype with a few approaches and see which sticks. Unfortunately most of the time what happens is that a new “expert” was hired to move everything to Hadoop, because this is what they know better and they don’t want to learn about the current system.
The “Bitcoin Economy” Is Just an Illegal Casino Run by the Mob
> People change

...and they're particularly likely to change under stress, like perhaps the stress of major lifestyle changes associated with raising kids. Child-related constraints on schedules, travel, and finances often stress relationships that were fine for years before. When those kids become more independent and able to advocate for themselves - which is a good and healthy thing - you have the additional stress of a decision process that used to involve two people involving three or more instead. It's just a different world compared to the couple-without-children state. For some it's a breaking point.
I suspect under the current model, Northern Ireland, and perhaps also Scotland, are untenable as parts of the Union. Northern Ireland is a political chimera that only existed in peace because you could pretend there is one Ireland under EU membership.

I think as soon as Brexit pinches for good, NI and Scotland, both of which voted to remain in the EU, are out. Let’s just hope there isn’t another civil war in it.
Human reasoning is always contextualised by the humans assets - wealth, beauty, status, ideology, character, temperament, location, affiliations.
Immunization expert accuses CDC of stealing Covid-19 tracking idea
BC is a bit of a quiet haven for Cantonese culture. Check UBC, I know they do language preservation projects related to Cantonese.
It's not so black and white. People consider all the issues and what parties propose and vote on balance. The way the system works they also vote based on who has got a chance.

The divisions on Brexit also run through both major parties, and Labour had quite a bad offering and spooked many people by being so much on the left (they had they worst defeat in 40 years in the last election, which is telling) and in any case they went for Brexit so people had no actual alternative on that issue as the Lib Dems were not seen has credible and as having any chance.

All in all I think it is difficult to draw clear conclusions based on the last general elections. Personally I think positions did not change much since the referendum (i.e. small majority for Brexit overall).
You are a cencorship nazi authoritarian.
Why cheap meat isn't healthy? Are cheap vegetables healthy?
This is a bit of a chicken and egg. Why should it be that seniors are the only ones keeping stuff rolling and the juniors are adding extra features? I’ve also seen the reverse happen. Senior engineers only wanting to do new stuff and juniors being tasked to do all the “boring” maintenance part.

The problem is that when you consider maintenance to be the keeping running of every individual component as it is currently doing then it will be boring. If you consider maintenance the art of keeping the whole foundation geared towards being able to run smoothly and accommodating new features, now that is a challenge. :-)
https://aeon.co/essays/what-do-we-know-about-the-lives-of-ne...

This quote is from way down in the article but I think the most significant one:

> Most intriguingly, something of the dynamics is visible. In some earlier instances, Neanderthal women had the children of H sapiens men, but the later interbreeding after 60,000 years ago tells a different story. Nobody today has mitochondrial DNA like that in Neanderthals and, since it’s passed only maternally, this implies that interbreeding was more often between their men and our women.

Some other interesting ones:

> unlike other primates, Neanderthal body size doesn’t seem to have differed much between the sexes. It’s much more similar to most H sapiens populations, which suggests that violent male competition was not the dominant social structure. Instead, more likely something akin to the bonobos, whose adult lives are based around long-term female friendships, might have been possible.

> Somewhere around 40,000 years ago, the many generations of Neanderthal women become invisible, at least in skeletal terms. The processes underlying this must have come in many guises, in many places, but one thing we know is that women of another kind – H sapiens – played some part, because Neanderthals were not entirely extinguished. Just 10 years ago, the first nuclear genome was meticulously reconstructed from three genetically identified females at Vindija; it revealed that, rather than ousting Neanderthals from Eurasia, we had in fact interbred with them.
Labour had a Brexiteer as it's leader (Corbyn). I know he said otherwise but it was an obvious lie, he had been campaining against the EU for his whole political life. There really wasn't a good chocie.
I Just Want to Win
You can phrase it the other way: if you can make restitution, you get a lighter sentence. You can also make recovering the funds without making restitution a separate crime - and that can be extended to any windfall profits on your 'investment', as legally they were not your investments.
Aside from helping mitigate MiTM, https has other benefits

- Faster due to that fact HTTP/2 can be used.

- Makes censorship harder as individual pages cannot be censored but rather the entire site which is more noticeable

- Stops ISPs injecting content/tracking

- Stops transparent proxies injecting content/tracking

- Helps with page ranking as search engines prefer sites which load faster and offer improved security

- Mixed content is a bit of a headache, with external resources such as JavaScript being loaded and leading to browser warnings.
It's clear the winner here is not the citizens of Great Britain, but of those who use London as a secret store of their unusual wealth, which now escapes EU oversight.
Except for the New Variant mishap, import/export was surprisingly smooth under pandemic Europe.
Is there any open data that clearly demonstrates those companies have made a practical difference? Have their NNs been used at scale already?
I'd like to see a comparison with Brave.
> referencing a prayer in response to hearing that someone was infected with a dangerous disease isn't "far over the line of good taste."

I don't know if you deliberately misconstrued my words or not. I specifically said this:

> It doesn't bother me if a person says they'll pray for someone's recovery, for example.

What I found "over the line of good taste at the workplace" was this sort of statement:

> "The Lord blah blah and He will save with His grace yadda yadda."

"I'll pray," is non-specific. Getting into the details of one's religion ("God is male, in fact He's Jesus") bothers me. Maybe God is female. Maybe God has another name. Getting specific invalidates the beliefs of others.

And, once again, I am atheist. I don't believe in a supernatural creator. I just don't appreciate the assumption that one's superstitions are more correct than others.
Ask HN: Is it time to let go of FOSS as an ideal?
I think - as someone new to the tech space and not yet indoctrinated with it's cultural norms & lingo - that FOSS products will not become mainstream because they don't have the funds to create a polished product that will become trusted among users that have the ability and desire to pay.

Yes, there are philosophically devoted people who will support a FOSS project. But the vast majority of people outside of the tech community do not care. They want a functional product that looks good and is easy to use. FOSS products often fall short of at least one of these three metrics. Most who use these products are not paying for them so the stable revenue to hire people to maintain, beautify, and market a product is not there.

As a person newly making his way in this space, am I off the mark? Am I saying things people have already debated into the ground?
> a chameleon subspecies that is the size of a seed

"seed" is needlessly vague term here... mustard seed or coconut?
Look at the opinion polling on the issue leading up to the 2019 election.
On a machine that has been nearly universally met with high praise for its speed and battery life in comparison to Intel based systems, it really suggests that these benchmarks are cherry-picking.

There's some realistic stuff here, like exporting a Powerpoint presentation to PDF, but it seems likely that these examples were chosen from many more that favoured the M1.

I also wonder if part of this is use of the Intel optimising compiler (which I've heard very good things about). Maybe the PDF code in Office is just compiled for Intel x86? Does that make the Intel processor better than the M1? Arguably yes, but is software an easier gap to close than hardware?

As Apple expand their range it will be interesting to see where the M1 lands in their line-up. Is it the i7 rival, or is it the i3/i5 rival? I'd expect it to end up as the latter.
It makes sense because the UK gov can now blame Covid for the ill effects of Brexit.
Neural nets can solve some problems though like image classification, and looking for more applications like that is useful. Its just very doubtful that they can ever lead to something looking like human or even ant level intelligence.
Exactly, such kind of thinking is unfortunately very much prevalent outside the big cities, even in developed nations like US and UK.

I guess it is because the folks outside big cities never had a chance to interact with the immigrants and see the value they add to the society, rather than seeing them as a threat. It is quite sad :(
These little creatures would be a good candidate for pets. Small, cute, could use a boost to their numbers.
Yea and was why May who was pro-EU refused to agree to freedom of movement because she considered the Brexit vote to be a vote primarily againist freedom of movement. Johnson agreed.
It seems that those who are championing the freedom for humanity in EU and and USA cannot seems to champion for freedom of economy. How can you have freedom for humanity if they cannot openly trade with each others without unnecessary restrictions?

It seems that what EU (federation of participating countries) and USA (federation of participating states) practices of major trade blocs are not unlike the old empires, but the age of empires namely Imperial China, Byzantine, Mughal and Ottoman probably fare much better with their openness to trades.

The trade blocs as we know today was started by the Hanseatic League of the Holy Roman Empire that is neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire [1].

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_bloc
Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz
Cool stuff, thanks for sharing :)

More of a question about the technology rather than the product itself: Considering that you're a single developer and the codebase is very small (~1000 LoC of source code), why did you go with TypeScript here rather than just JavaScript?
Ask HN: Does the broken windows theory apply to online discussions/comments?
I have observed (empirically) that independent of the platform or specific type of content, all it takes for an discussion to get ugly/ irrelevant is a handful of comments that are beside the point or funny. I realize that the extent of disarray depends on factors such as moderation, vote/rank systems, etc. But I was wondering if there is an analogue of the broken windows theory for this phenomenon?
I have two suggestions:

1. You have this grid with a few big company names on the right. When you click, it shows you a number and some other information. I feel like, when you click again, it should take you back to that grid, or you could have an "X" in the top-right corner to close that information and get back to the grid (home page). Right now you have to use the back browser button, which feels awkward.

2. To maximize the FOMO, you should show a graph of the stock price over time, which of course would look exponential. You can download that information in CSV format from yahoo finance. You probably don't need it to be updated everyday. You will need to adjust for stock splits.
Yeah, and we should try (eg. the correct incentives) to reduce driving that has no purpose or value.

Just because it exists doesn't make it a good thing in the current circumstances.
Agreed. I didn’t say they were useless, just that they were not going to become Lt. Cmdr Data.

They’re really just freaking enormous regression models that can in theory fit any function or set of them with enough parameters. Think of them as a kind of lossy compression but for the “meta” or function itself rather than the output.

The finding that some cognitive tasks like assembling language are easier than we would intuitively think is also an interesting finding in and of itself. It shows that our brains probably don’t have to actually work that hard to assemble text, which makes some sense because we developed our language. Why would we develop a language that had crazy high overhead to synthesize?
Personally — since we're all chiming in — I use elements. My fallback DNS is a periodic table.
That's implicit. One could add "as far as it is known" to any headline, but to what purpose?
when buying an ebook, it sounds like hive is donating 8% to a bookstore?
The pandemic is not a black swan! There have been many pandemics in the history of mankind, so the pandemic was predictable.

Nicholas Taleb himself is “irritated” whenever the coronavirus pandemic is referred to as a "black swan" (https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-is...).
Google still has it documented on https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 and there is a none of these words option on
https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Make sure you aren't putting the minus symbol in quotes. The quotes are what I see people get wrong. Many people still try to use the + symbol to indicate required but Google disabled that when working on Google+ and switched to quotes to indicate required words or phrases.
Until they have to really show that it's working in day-to-day practice. Where it most likely won't, unfortunately.
I don't know, if you ever look at a flowchart of biochemical processes, realizing that what we've mapped out is only a tiny sliver of what actually occurs, you'd be more pessimistic about simulation in the near term. We can simulate things all we want but the hard part is rooting the simulation in hard evidence, something which requires massive capital and time investment. Epigenetics complicate even further.
Have a look here: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/gbr/

It shows November 2020 car exports as £2.4B (= $3.3B).

In 2018 total car exports was $43.4B = ~$3.6B/month.

Judging from this I'd say Brexit had a huge impact, but it's admittedly a limited dataset.
The article provides a length of 13.5mm which is only 10mm shorter than the distance between the seed comparison and the reported length of the species.
I see. I think this will always be a potential problem indeed. And there is no simple solution to it.

I used to have a friend who turned out to be very different from what I had thought. And she started interpreting stuff that I had posted to my Facebook in all sorts of... well frankly crazy ways. And she turned really unpleasant, and I ended up blocking her across all channels where she was contacting me.

So I know first hand what it is like to be treated in a very hostile manner by someone.

I still think about that sometimes. And I think of people who have not just one person turn against them but whole groups of people turn against them. And I don’t have an answer for what to do about it.

But my current thinking is that we should live our lives as we see fit and not be deterred by anyone who has the wrong picture and who insists on holding on to that picture.

And to instead focus as much as possible on the people that you have healthy interactions with.

What that means is, to be open for new things and new ideas still, and engaging in discussion, but if you encounter someone who is too antagonistic, stop interacting with them.

So in the example of having associated with a project or organization or group or something, that is taken over and changes into something bad, disassociate from them when you are made aware of it, and to anyone that asks about it say as it is that they weren’t like that before and that you have left them.

Anyone that continues to insist that you have ties to something you don’t, cut off contact. Don’t try to defend against them or anything.

But like I said, for people that have a whole group of people turn on them I don’t know what they should do.
My example of the content tsunami is the explosion of copied blogs: someone finds an authentic blog, hires someone in a developing country on a freelancing platform to rewrite each blog post so that no copyright violation is detected, and then loads the new forged blog with advertising and SEO. Iterations happen where no longer are authentic blogs being copied, new forgeries are based on earlier forgeries.

This started with recipe blogs, but is now slowly spreading through all kinds of other hobbies and interests. Someone looking for information about the hobby can't find the straightforward content among all the advertising-laden copies.

With regard to science-fiction predicting the info tsunami, Roger MacBride Allen’s The Ring of Charon from 1990 uses it as a plot point (but this is not otherwise a very good book).
And one theory/perspective is that May (with the background of a home secretary) was focused too much on that and drew lines in other sectors without enough consideration for the consequences she then had to try and walk back, which put her always on the defensive against the hardliners, which made a positive framing of a closer-aligned deal impossible. It's fascinating how that shift from "Brexit means a wide range of options and people voted for something of it" to a pile of red lines blocking out a large range of the solution space happened - apparently even to the surprise of members of the government.
GPT-3 is not very open.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3

Related - https://liamp.substack.com/p/my-gpt-3-blog-got-26-thousand-v...