skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Famously explored by Piketty (agree or disagree with the book, it's a treasure trove in terms of empirical data, and all data is online).

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/pdf/F6.3.pdf

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/pdf/F10.9.pdf

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/pdf/F10.10.pdf
Or the origin of the salute [0] - raising one's visor to show that you're friendly.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salute
Whenever a standing armed force is built up, you should be worried.
Some simple regressions, which is also ML, may be possible to understand completely by human beings. You can even calculate their results manually. This doesn't mean their models are always a good fit. Or that the world never changes, especially when impacted by feedback-loops of ML.

Nobody can claim to fully understand models with millions and billions of parameters. We know they are "overfit", but they may work in certain scenarios, much better than manually crafting rules by hand. So we end up with "it depends", then someone starts profiting, with real-world implications.
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Sounds like the EU has its own ICE now?
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It will be interesting to watch the English monarchy (and other monarchies) over the next decade and see if governments can expropriate the sovereign’s wealth.
Try that in a country where there is no real goverment anymore or you are on the wrong side of history or you just have the wrong religion or you don't have enough money to buy a visa because you need to first bribe a lot of people or your country is a warzone and there is no gov anymore.

Yes you can apply for a visa but try that without any papers...

Or if someone gangs have taken away your passport and other ID documents...

Or someone comes to your home and threatens you that if you don't fight for them they will kill your family...

yeah apply for a visa... which can take years...
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Kind of a tangent but Michael Pollan's books always open my eyes about these topics. In particular for this subject https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omnivore%27s_Dilemma gives a good overview of why fast food (and all highly processed food) are so much cheaper than eating whole food. In the process you start to understand the role corn has on it and why it's the biggest crop of grain in the world.
All of the new thin supertall residential towers in NYC are reinforced concrete. It is incredibly stupid to allow such construction methods.
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Especially when it loses money. See https://onethousand.in/GRPN
It seems to me that this is an example of the article’s point: NRA had money but it didn’t reach places like Montana because NRA executives were spending lavishly on things other than its core mission.
At least uBlock Origin and probably most of the other adblockers on this list meet this standard. It's illustrated by the network requests / page weight figure here: https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2020-chrome-extension-perform... .
Yet here's a drawback: you can't handle cases where the domain doubles both a service that you depend on and as a source of advertising and tracking that you wish to block. Facebook and Google are the two that come most readily to mind, but there are countless others.

EDIT: my apologies, I misread your comment and assumed you meant host-based blocking. You seem to be advocating for the proxy to parse the page contents and do the ad-blocking there, before serving it on to you. It's an interesting idea. At scale it would have some significant hurdles to overcome WRT TLS, but I am nonetheless intrigued.
Came here to say this. Asimov’s Multivac was the epitome of ML.

I specifically remember a short story by him where one member of the population would be selected to be interviewed by Multivac and Multivac would then extrapolate out his answers to the whole population and be able to accurately pick who the population wanted to be president, removing the need for an expensive election. If that isn’t ML, I don’t know what is.
Midgley was the only one on the list that I could name off the top of my head without opening the article.
"But how would the royal family hide any conflicts of interest from the public?" - The queen, probably
It’s a bit of a tangent, but I got a kick out of hearing Paul Krugman make a glowing endorsement of your work last week:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/podcasts/ezra-klein-podca...
I’ve always wondered if there is a way to remove the wax coating before eating an apple. It always seemed to me the wax would just seal in whatever nastiness was in the Apple when it was coated and it would be nice to remove it before eating. Anyone know how to do that without baking it or peeling off the skin?
Good advice.

Security is a vertical that tends to attract really really smart people and people looking for a landing zone, functioning as unaccredited auditors or folks performing monk-like transcription of NIST or compliance guide. There’s no middle.

The only really technical person I know who is really happy in the space transitioned into a security-focused solution architect type role with a VAR. But he is one of those rare people who is very deep in a few tech disciplines AND loves engaging with people.
Braeburns are great when in peak season — juicy, crisp, not at all pappy — but in the UK at least they’re highly desirable (edit: I mean they’re a staple, not that people really crave them) and therefore grown or imported year round, despite the fact that for 10 months of the year they’re mealy, bland spheres of disappointment.
You could include other major events, such as stock splits or even product launches, that were followed by explosive growth.
Don't leave me out - Benjamin Franklin
Yes I believe they are pretty annoyed by all of them and yeah they live in bad conditions.

But that enough for having an company that kills? people?

Maybe we should try to solve the problem in another way...
The NSA has failed America as a long term policy.

The fundamental goal, especially in light of the "Russia Hacks" and the pervasive nature of modern hacker warfare, of the NSA should be securing the homeland and the free world.

Why is Anti-Virus a (shudder) Microsoft concern? Or a private concern? It is a NATIONAL and MILITARY concern.

Of course the NSA has only contributed to undermining this with its manipulation of cryptography standards and its unstated goal of total domestic and international data visibility, regardless of civil liberties.

There should be some way to construct a "third party" information security program that isn't owned by say, Intel or Apple, or have direct manipulation for backdoors by, say, the NSA, that is vigorously funded.

I could argue this is an international priority, that international business and non-major powers should have high concern with. It should be receiving a billion(s) dollars a year in funding, chartering multiple groups in competition.

But we can't even get OpenSSH funded, so.... I won't hold my breath.
I've never thought Apple was a saint - they've always been a for-profit company.

But I've always thought they'd want to do the right thing with regards to this issue, because to do so is a win-win situation: they protect customers, and long-term generate more profit through increased consumer trust & spending on their brand.

This case, however, demonstrates to me that their policing system is so full of inexplicably large holes, that we have to go back to ask what it means to "want" to solve this problem.

It just doesn't seem they want to solve it that bad.
Basketball teams play 82 games over about 180 days, so it's a game roughly every 2.5 days not including practice - compared to 38 games over 10 months for the English Premier League which is a game every 7-8 days. I don't know how often racing teams compete but I'm assuming it isn't as frequent. Even a few days makes a large difference for rest and recovery.

Playing at 100% every game would very quickly lead to burnout and injuries, or at least that's the common wisdom. Not sure if it's accurate [1]

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/232596711772979...
The Poisoner's Handbook on PBS is a great documentary it mentions lead in gas but also showed police forensic science was developed.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoners/
My wife entered me into a contest to get cosmic Crisp merchandise. They sent me a shirt, dish towel, and a few apples. I was already a rabid fan of the apple. It is tart, sweet, juicy, doesn't brown even after 24 hours of being cut, and is firm enough for baking without being too hard. It is like the Honey Crisp, but stores better and has more flavor IMO. All hail the Cosmic Crisp.

Seriously though. The Red Delicious is disgusting. When I bought my apple trees I asked the nursery employee if anyone ever buys the red delicious trees. Apparently some do, so perhaps those of us that hate the red delicious do so with a passion, while most are just indifferent.
This still begs the question. Risk is about unexpected loss of investment, which means at its core it's about the moral and physical consequences of losing money. If the consequences of risk are not actually felt, materially, by financiers, but are felt, materially, by people who partake in the deal, why aren't those ordinary people hedged accordingly? If you want to argue economics, it's clear all this does is allow banks to take on riskier and riskier deals at no consequence. The student loan crisis is an example of that.
> That isn't to say no criticism of the NRA is warranted. The accusations from the NYS AG that the organization has unfairly enriched its executives and their families seem spot on, even if the proposed remedy (dissolution) is unwarranted. And as a gun owner, I've been dismayed to see the NRA lean into guns as a partisan issue. I wish they'd stay out of politics if it was unrelated to guns. In what world should they be honoring FCC Chairman Ajit Pai?

From my read of the situation, this is exactly right. It sounds like the NRA leadership is corrupt and should be removed, but the attempt to dissolve the organization really seems like abusing the legal system to achieve a partisan aim. If anyone has been harmed by the NRA leadership, it's its members and donors, and I don't see how dissolution helps them.

Also, partisanship just seems totally damaging and unstrategic to any single-issue group: once the party you tied your fortune to goes out of power, there goes all your clout. It sounds like the unions made the same mistake: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/opinion/labor-unions-repu....

Full disclosure: I'm not a gun owner, but am thinking of getting in to shooting after binging on Forgotten Weapons (https://www.youtube.com/c/ForgottenWeapons).
The article tries hard to paint the picture that Queen pressurized in a uncouth manner the government to change the (proposed) legislation, but to me it seems the legislators were perfectly happy to accommodate the Queen without any significant pressurization. From my point of view just voicing opinion or preference (which I think happened here) should alone not be considered pressurization. If there was any threat, coercion, or bribery going on then the situation of course would be very different, but I cannot see it being the case here.
I can't see this post as anything but a strawman. Yeah, let's presume that they insulted them and even slapped them before they made that question, why not.
It’s a shame really. They don’t represent the gun owner as much as the manufacturers today. They were once a reputable civil rights org and now are more of a lobby.

I hope a new civil rights organization begins to lead and is able not be as fundamentalist as the NRA has become and lead the conversation towards a few common sense reforms.

It’s an important civil right and one we should cherish. It deserves a group committed to defending the bill of rights while also working to limit access to criminals.
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I try to use it all the time. I've done crude things like written browser plugins to sift through results and remove things because the search engines just ignore it.

The worst thing is when I'm trying to remove garbage results so things like "free account" or "need to signup" for a bunch of spam sites. Those things are always ignored.

It's stupid that I need to essentially groom my results with my own code.
You can direct list or merge with a SPAC, but neither bypasses Wall Street entirely.
"Invested" is the correct past tense of invest. Its also the correct future tense! English is fun.
got any fun Red Flag stories?
This article is both interesting and frustrating. On one hand, it makes a good job justifying the existence of financial instruments. On the other hand, it seems to have a huge blind spot about how the actors (mis)use them, the consequences it carries and _who should pay for them_.
From an executive management point of view, security incident insurance is often seen as cheaper and safer than investing in actual security. That often leaves compliance as the only real security emphasis.
Thanks for sharing. Do u think reverse engineering in a certain field (e.g. Hardware or Windows applications) could be a better path?
Wouldn’t the NRAs biggest recent failings need to include the fraud and personal enrichment of their execs? Regardless of what you think about 2A, the NRA is a corrupt org.
Minneapolis police tapped Google to identify George Floyd protesters
The back button went down the memory hole along with their integrity.
What mental image? It's not like you're naked under there.
Application Security Engineer here.
For a developer I would recommend the OSWE certification which takes a more code-centric approach and resources such as https://portswigger.net/web-security and The Art of Software Security Assessment book. You can also leverage your DevOps experience for learning about server, app and cloud misconfigurations and their impact on security.

The demand for network security is not as high as for appsec people and I personally don't see network security as very rewarding (intellectually and financially).

For the Pentesting route I recommend trying some HackTheBox and watching Ippsec's channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa6eh7gCkpPo5XXUDfygQQA).
OSCP is fine, but it is a beginner certification and definitely not enough for getting a Pentest job.
That isn’t very much money per person and could be recouped in a few years with slightly elevated tax rates, primarily on extremely wealthy corporations and people.
I seem to disagree with the categorization of accreditation and background inquiry as a personal attack or name-calling.

the threshold seems highly subjective
Yup, Kiwi is great (+ ublock origin)

https://kiwibrowser.com/
This is not helpful. Wikipedia is a community project, and managing that community takes a lot of the resources, obviously.

The Internet Archive has proved itself so many times over, and is so underfunded, that it deserves all the money it can possibly raise - which will allow them to solve more of the problems they face.
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> hes talking about absolute risk rather than relative risk

could you explain the difference?
Pandas has really great ingesting / exporting helpers, is easy to chart, and lots of tutorials reach for it first.

Those might be more excuses than reasons, but it’s my experience.
If central banks would allow deflation to happen, we would probably need to work less. In the way it is now they just absorb the underlying deflation inherent to technological progress to allow more government debt and more zombie companies to survive. Technological progress is not the reason we still have to work so much
The NRA's financial disclosures and their public statements indicate they are not experiencing financial difficulties. Their stated purpose in filing bankruptcy is to dissolve the New York corporation and reincorporate in Texas to escape an ideologically hostile regulatory environment. It sounds insane to use bankruptcy in this way. Every bankruptcy expert I've read looking at this thinks the approach is nuts and will fail.
why isnt TDF hiring actual programmers? why are you looking for outside volunteer help when you can do programming in house? its not like TDF is cash strapped or anything?

or does leadership at TDF have that mozilla ceo style BS mindset (paying herself millions of dollars salary while laying off actual developers because of cash issues)
As a Columbia professor, he could survey undergraduates about their drug use and then track their educational, career, and personal outcomes. I doubt that the drug users will do well compared to the abstainers, but I could be proven wrong.

There have been several links to positive articles on Hart at HN. Here are some skeptical articles:

https://www.city-journal.org/review-of-drug-use-for-grown-up...

Drug Fiends and Fools: A trendy new book recycles the same old case for normalizing drug use.

by Charles Fain Lehman

City Journal

January 27, 2021

'Hart offers thin evidence for his case that fear of drugs is mostly moral panic. Meth mouth is “probably more fiction than fact,” he says (it’s not). Crack is the “epidemic that wasn’t” (it was). Crack had no effect on violence, he claims, as is proved by the higher murder rate in 1980 versus 1985 (the murder rate fell, then rose following crack’s emergence). “Most heroin users do not become addicted to the drug” (the study Hart himself cites finds that 20 percent to 40 percent of first-time users become addicted).

It does not require deep research to rebut Hart’s denialism. One needs only look at recent CDC data, which indicate that a record 83,000 people died from drug overdoses in the year preceding June 2020, most from synthetic opioids and Hart’s beloved methamphetamine. Drug overdose is the leading non-medical cause of death in the United States and has been for years. It is preposterous to act like this is not a problem.'

https://www.wsj.com/articles/drug-use-for-grown-ups-review-a...
ungated: https://archive.is/yRAiu

‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ Review: A Dose of Dissent

by Sally Satel

Wall Street Journal
Assuming that this tool is not adjusting for inflation, the value of the initial investments vary considerably in spite of being anchored to $1,000.

For example, comparing investing $1,000 in Apple's IPO in 1980 to investing $1000 in Facebook's IPO in 2012, the investment in Apple is almost triple the investment in Facebook: $1,000 in 1980 is $2,786 in 2012.
Big fan of the Cosmic Crisp, it really does live up to the hype! Although, I have a sweet tooth and I might even find it too sweet.
If you have to appeal to Platonism to make the "realness" of a concept less controversial, your claim will not be strong, as Platonism itself is controversial, and by definition supposes the existence of things which cannot be perceived. This makes it more difficult to argue for the realness of a concept, not less, since any means of "observing" the existence of that concept must be indirect to a Platonist.

It is also inconsistent to claim that mathematics is a social construction, while agreeing with these Platonic mathematicians enough to use their view as evidence.
> "Franz Reichelt (1879–1912), a tailor, fell to his death from the first deck of the Eiffel Tower while testing his invention, the coat parachute. It was his first attempt with the parachute, and he had told the authorities he would first test it with a dummy.[8]"

And to this day many argue that he kept his word.
Maybe there should be a way to see what the current value would be if you'd invested $1000, divided equally among all IPOs in a given year (or other time period). Anyone care to build it?
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Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix
Four years ago, the (shell) company was closed down. Precisely what happened to the shares it held on behalf of others is not clear. As a dormant company, it never filed public accounts itemising its activities.

We mean it, man.
When you rate an app, leaving a comment is optional - and most people only bother to rate rather than also write a review.

For scammers to hide their tracks, they need to make sure they also leave a comment in some fraction of their submitted fake ratings. Apparently these scammers were too lazy, or too cheap (it costs more money to buy fake reviews, because coming up with the text requires extra effort). They just bought an insane number of positive ratings, and since the average displayed on the App Store is from all ratings & reviews, they can manipulate it to their liking using just fake ratings.

Most other scammers are more sophisticated and definitely include fake reviews to make things look more realistic.
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Google doesn't want to make the web and the world searchable any longer like their original set values set, now they just want to put up just good enough service to get all your private information and then aim ads at you. Gone are those heady days of some streak of altruism in their mission as a corporation.
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Intel made their own bed by slacking on 14nm for 7 years.
Now there marketing is firing on all full fronts to BS customers.

Just take the L and give customers a break from your over priced bs.

Their dignity is super negative and I'll be avoiding them in the personal and professional sphere.
It would be more interessting what is more energy consuming on smartphones, the ads or the blocker? My hypothesis is that ads are more energy consuming...
Now on YouTube: AWS re:Invent 2020 42 Security Compliance and Identity videos
It does need propaganda.
I swapped my iPhone for an Apple Watch to live in an audio-first future
Some good points in this thread though a touch overly pessimistic. For reference, I'm a security engineer.

The part of my job I enjoy the most is building things, mostly by writing code or working in AWS. If you aren't interested in writing code, I might suggest a cloud security role though if you're doing it right, that will also involve writing terraform or cloud formation or something code-like.

Pentesting is the cool field everyone wants to go into, but it also pays less than security engineering and is most often employed by consulting groups who have you repetitively testing web applications and writing reports.

All this to say, if you find cloud interesting then a cloud security role could be fun for you, and it's in high demand at the moment.
> In opposition, the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund spent $208,357.84

IIRC, Everytown for Gun Safety is basically a front group for Michael Bloomberg. That's the guy who also spent nearly a billion dollars on his vanity presidential campaign: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/us/politics/bloomberg-cam....

Your example might be more of an example of the corrosive effect of politically active billionaires, who have the ability to outspend actual citizens' groups. IIRC, the billionaire Koch bothers were able to similarly wield outsized influence by spending heavily in down-ballot state races.
And what happens when another dev can’t think of a name for their clone? What do they do then? Name it Neoneomc? The dev should have gone down the less-more-most route. Midnight commander, Twilight commander, Dusk commander, Midnight Admiral, Twilight Mutiny... I may give ‘mc’ a try again. Never bothered before.
Disabling it on mobile is sensible. In fact, I’m also currently using FF on iOS and will also do this (thanks to you I now know it’s an option). That being said, I still think 0.0000000001% of users won’t disable favicons (especially on desktop).
BC has a variety called Ambrosia that has an absolutely delicious bite. My second fav is Honey Crisp and they share some qualities albeit Ambrosia does not have a Honey flavour.

Edit: Apparently, Ambrosia are referred to online as having honey flavour so my taste beds are failing on that metric :)