skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not "corrupt but useful", it's "corrupt and useless".

> I think this sort of thing has to be contextual.

The context is that UK government gave £22 BILLION to private companies for Test and Trace, and they wasted most of it contributing to the very high death rate to covid in the UK.

https://committees.parliament.uk/work/906/covid19-test-track...

> At times, parts of the national tracing service have barely been used: in May, DHSC signed contracts for the provision of 3,000 health professionals and 18,000 call handlers. The call handler contracts were worth up to £720 million. By 17 June, the utilisation rate (the proportion of time that someone actively worked during their paid hours) was low for both health professional (4%) and call handler staff (1%), indicating that they had little work to do. This means substantial public resources have been spent on staff who provided minimal services in return.

> National and local government have tried to increase public engagement with tracing, but surveys suggest that the proportion of contacts fully complying with requests to self-isolate might range from 10% to 59%. NHST&T acknowledges that non-compliance poses a key risk to its success and has taken steps to increase levels of self-isolation, for example by making follow-up calls to people while they are self-isolating. For as long as compliance is low, the cost-effectiveness of NHST&T’s activities will inevitably be in doubt.

That's one example. There are dozens of other examples.

> Companies awarded pandemic-related contracts include Randox, which received £479m for Covid testing. The firm pays Conservative MP Owen Paterson £100,000 a year as a consultant.

> Meanwhile, Dominic Cummings’s father-in-law Sir Humphry Wakefield is an associate of the director of Admiral Public Relations, which received £670,000.

> Health minister Edward Argar is a former senior executive at Serco, which is in charge of much of the contact-tracing system. The company’s chief executive is Rupert Soames, brother of ex-Tory MP Sir Nicholas Soames.

> Public First, whose directors previously worked for Mr Cummings and Michael Gove, was also paid £840,000 for “focus group research”.

etc etc.
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Several Dutch, German and Luxembourg cities and states have been trying to shut down a Belgian nuclear reactor (Tihange) due to safety concerns, but I don't think it has come to drills yet.
"bugs would have been completely prevented by using a memory-safe language"

Relying on safe languages isn't going to work as the defect resides in the Memory Management Unit. You would think by now these 'integrated' 'innovators' could come up with a MMU that provides total process isolation.
Can someone explain the phyics of flying a helicopter in such low density atmosphere? It must be less efficient than on earth, but evidently efficiency isn't proportional to density or else it could not fly at all.
OTPs are great, until someone calls up your phone company and social engineers their underpaid support staff into giving them control of your phone number.

This is not speculative. I've literally had to help relatives with this exact security breach.

Using phone numbers for 2FA is insecure for that very reason. You are entrusting all your personal security with the phone company. Using a OTP by phone number as your only authentication factor is much less secure than a password + 2FA.

An authenticator app, such as Authy, faces none of those security issues.
Facebook takes cash from China to promote Uyghur disinformation to millions
Just like any other internal hackathon-type event
But you dont care abt losing money when your inflating currency backs a loan for your house. What we are supposed to want is a roof, a value producing asset, not cash.

So if you keep all in cash you re doing something wrong. The goal of fiat currency is to adapt to changing condition naturally.

But BTC isn't possibly going to work: it s cant adapt rationally, it cant pretend to pay you the same when the country goes bad by tweaking your fiat value so you calm down and the country continues.

Whoever said inflation was wrong was like a teenager moaning at his 200$ in a free bank account. The economy has to inflate and deflate transparently for you to some extend or you ll be stuck never lending anything and stashing stashing stashing.
Credit score? Europe?

What part of Europe has credit scores?

Also you can’t just send an collections agency with huge fees, there’s laws against that. At least in the Netherlands
On a similar note are "tech company inside a non-tech company". Sometimes referred to as "innovation labs".
You should check out:

- Skunkworks groups

- Corporate Venture

- Corporate Labs

- Spin outs
Those would be better kerned. This is probably using the default Comic Sans forced to fixed width. Which is predictably bad.
4 species over 80 acres?! I have at least a dozen over a few hundred square feet! Granted I don’t mow/maintain it like a traditional lawn
It's not "bad advice", it was the scientific consensus at the time. Things change as we understand the situation better.
> But everyone understands and has a mobile phone already ...

This is NOT true. I used to live in part of Cornwall (South East UK) which has no mobile tower coverage.

So, no mobile phone #. That became an extraordinary PITA once some idiotic major companies decided the "everyone has a mobile" meme was true.

Mandatory 2FA using mobile number only text messages -> worst idea ever. :( :( :(
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> Look at Germany in the 30's.

Except that the hyperinflation occurred in the 1920s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...
Because financial data generally means time-series, autocorrelations abound, and it becomes very easy to develop a model that underperforms naive baselines (e.g. LOCF, arima) or peeks into the future through improper cross validation or feature engineering.

If the customer gives you a column that peeks into the future (e.g. "quarterly sales" when each row is a sale in that quarter), you'll build a model that looks great on metrics and to the customer, and might take months for the customer to realize was practically useless. Are you able to reliably prevent these kinds of issues at a technical level, or do you lean towards customer education ("don't give us quarterly sales") instead?
These pie charts are awful: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HVdEnOjie4E/YC1KNXm4XgI/AAAAAAAAE...

There is no way to tell which colour is "active" without reading the number and mapping it back. Why not just skip the pie chart, it isn't like they draw much attention in the design anyways.
That's scary. Back on my old PowerBook, I saw it as an advantage that OpenFirmware could boot from external devices in the most straightforward way, and could act in target disk mode, and so did Apple. Hearing of all these troubles, I'm genuinely concerned with using MacOS today because of these unknown unknowns. What's the threat that this Apple bossing is supposed to shield against that couldn't be achieved by mere disk encryption?
Also with Fastmail on my own domain. I like the little extras they offer too, like calendar/contacts/file storage. You can even host static sites with them if you want.
Having worked for several startups I'll argue they're extra overrated. You're very likely to work much harder, what's a holiday when you're the only QA person or the only engineer.

And for what, on the off chance the IPO goes public and you make hundreds of thousands of dollars. Give me a big company job during the day, and I can work on my startup idea at night .
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The thing is, "text" and "pictures" are somewhat vague super-categories that aren't very well defined in a lot of comments on this thread. It's ironic that a discussion about the precision of text is noisy because of of the imprecision of text.

Are emojies text ? the blog post found a 4000-byte Twitter logo and cited this as evidence of the efficiency of text, but they forgot that there is a vast store of similary-sized photos that cost nothing more than 3 or 4 bytes and sometimes less, comparable to the very same letters they are using to write the post (and conveying much more than a single useless-on-its-own sound). By any definition that depend on the fact that text is stored as contiguous bytes, emojies ARE text.

Are 2D tables text ? they are not linear (not as we see them) yet one table with entries arranged appropriately could be much more percise and expressive than a truck-load of prose paragraphs. And an xy plot is much more expressive than both. 2D tables is not that much more expensive in storage than text though (a bunch of html tags surrounding the text is one representation), and an xy plot could be derived from a table by computation. So with a little bit of computation you gain the precision and expressiveness of a visual plot with the storage overhead of a bunch of numbers. This example (simplistically) mirrors current work in ML on compression of photos and videos. Imagine if computers are advanced enough that a picture is no more storage than an emojii, all arguments. about "efficiency" of text that appeal to its economic representation in computer memory become moot then.

The point I'm making is: "text" vs. "pictures" is not fine-grained enough of a distinction. The real distinction is [ "numbers" vs. "graphs" vs. "letters" vs. "tables" vs. ...), its a big multiway competition between various forms of symbols and symbol-organization schemas humans invented for a variety of purposes and arguments for or against any of them shouldn't appeal to how they are represented or communicated (text could be drawn on photos or arranged on powerpoint slides, images could be compressed and redrawn to a high degree of fidelity). And there is a lot of paradigms "in-between" that piggy-backs on one of the two representation but aren't either of them (plots, tables, emojies). Tools and technological limitations are also to blame for a lot of pictures' shortcomings, the ability to copy-paste being one of them.

A lot of discussions here would benefit alot if all parties state beforehand exactly what are their definition of text and what their argument appeals to in that definition.
Probably the nicest daycare/ boarding brick & mortar facility I've ever seen. Great people working there too. We only stopped going because we moved to the other side of town and it's too far, there is another place closer.
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There's a lot of legends like that in the Isles. For example, the first King of Britain is supposed to have been Brutus of Troy, descendant of Aeneas. The easiest explanation is that there is a great incentive on behalf of rulers to claim descendence to legitimize their own rule, but maybe there is some kernel of truth somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus_of_Troy
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MailChimp updates Privacy Policy to permit expanded third party tacking
Good luck writing Python code if you can't write `apt install code`.
Contract law in general does not prescribe that the contract is automatically terminated with no obligations if some payment doesn't arrive. The method of payment is pretty much orthogonal to any obligation to pay and the continuation of the contract.

The contract may stipulate that the merchant is free to cancel the subscription if you don't pay for whatever reason (the card expires, the card does not have money, you chose to pay in cash and didn't have a card, whatever). However, the contract can (and usually does) stipulate that the merchant is not required to cancel the subscription in case of non-payment, and in that case the contract is valid, they owe you service and you owe them the contractually agreed payment.

On the other hand, contract law generally would assume that the subscription is cancelled if you sent them an unambiguous request in writing even if their standard process flow (e.g. requiring a phone call with a sales rep convincing you not to quite) wasn't followed - if you've sent a letter than that and stopped paying, that should be appropriate in most circumstances.
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I don't think that’s what this is, but if it were diminishing botany as a hobby would kind of prove their point.
> Who do you imagine will buy it on a global scale?

About 3.5 billion people don't have reliable access to the internet[1]. That's a large market.

The satellites are orbiting anyway.

For household customers in OECD countries, Starlink will charge OECD retail prices.

Customers in developing countries represent extra revenue for negligible extra cost, so Starlink can practise geographic price discrimination to maximise net revenue.

Or Starlink could permit "village WISP" bandwidth reselling arrangements in specific geographic areas. A video call needs no more than 2 Mbps down and up, so you can probably serve up to 50 undemanding households plus a one-room school and a medical clinic on one connection (with appropriate rate limiting and local caching).

Starlink can also price-discriminate by latency tier for high-frequency traders and arbitrageurs. They can price-discriminate by QoS for organisations that demand a guaranteed minimum bandwith (e.g. militaries). And then there are shipping lines and air lines.

1. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus-covid-19-...

("weforum" is the World Economic Forum.)
I shared Iris in my last comment but perhaps this would have been better to share to explain the idea.

I think what you’re looking for is the solution to indexes. You’re right that indexes are really the big issue here. We were talking about two different use cases but I get you now.

https://www.hackernoon.com/what-is-wrong-with-the-internet-a...

Of course, something ENS domains is another solution (per my original comment up the chain). But that also is price prohibitive and sort of annoying in its own way. The cost upholds current power structures, but many don’t have an issue with that.
Satellite internet has already existed for a long time, and while it's not fantastic, it's not bad enough to be a show-stopper for a small self-sustaining community. My parents are on satellite internet, and for their uses (YouTube, Facebook, some FaceTime calls to family), it's fine.
Why wouldn't you choose the performance improvement plan?
> but we only hear about a singular event that some whack jobs on the far right pulled off.

Really?

I would invite you to foxnews.com. As an example for the last week the front page has been plasted with Cuomo.

And CHAZ? A complete disaster that was absolutely not a secret.

You say that the line is clear on the right, but I think it's just that it's clear to you. The fake news that the election was stolen is actually mainstream, on the right. Trump had some ordinary people injest bleach, you don't think many more believed the other lies?

Do you think most people on the left supported the 2020 summer riots? Or defund the police? Even polling of black people had a huge majority against that nonsense. Some do. But then some on the right think Biden's about to be arrested when trump returns with the military in two weeks.

My point is that "especially on the left" has no connection in reality. "Also on the left" does.
Postman, the 400mb electron based HTTP Client, nobody care anymore?
https://i.imgur.com/LjtGm97.png
The Economist is similar.

You can subscribe online but in order to cancel, you need to chat to a human.

It took several attempts by me to tell them I don’t want to change my subscription plan to a cheaper one - I wanted to cancel.

It’s a really bad process for a magazine that considers itself a reputable news source.

Won’t be signing up again.
If eInk is undervaluing their business, why hasn't anyone bought the company and run it better?
It's optional as long as your version of macOS is supported by the apps you're using, which is usually somewhere around five years. You can then still continue to use the old version, you just won't be able to update the apps / install new ones which require the new OS version from the App Store.
I'm surprised a person was needed to cancel, but with that in mind, this just seems very standard
I challenged that post. You can see my reply asking for any proof and they never replied. I work in the industry. I've attended SID and hung out both with competitors and partners of EInk and I've never ever heard of any of the things that person is claiming.

I'll repeat my request for evidence again.
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Wow, that is a very serious allegation. But I googled and googled and googled, and found not even one such lawsuit. I also see competing tech like Clearink. Could you show us proof that what you claimed about "buried by their lawyers" is actually occurring?
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From the data science side of things, this works if and only if upper management has the discipline to leave you alone, including letting you procure your own tooling & compute if needed.
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That's kinda the point. Most drugs are not bad/evil in themselves. They can be used irresponsibly.

Many classic drugs (as opposed to research chemicals which introduce small molecular changes to circumvent banns on another substance) are pretty safe or at least have a well known safety profile.
This is awesome! I love the use of emojis right in the source code - I did the same
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> I don't consider myself "on the left" but I really don't mind a publication being left of center or right of center.

As someone who is slightly left of center, it's kind of a painful place to be.

You tend to get attacked by both sides.

Personally I've just kind of checked out. I'm not sure there's actually anything relevant that gets said on these newspapers/media that you can't get from just being in online communities, and you'd have to sift through all the shit.

For example, sometimes I'll come across a Tucker Carlson video on youtube and about 80% of what he says is just biased bullshit, but he will make good points sometimes. It honestly makes me miss Jon Stewart. At least we had a means of laughing at them, now they take themselves so seriously.

And the hard on for Joe Biden makes no sense to me either, he's a sleezeball and how people can't be angry at the democratic party for putting up two horrible people in a row I'll never know.
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'declare bankruptcy' is optimistic. More likely is that they disappear completely/fake their own death in a weird jurisdiction/get killed by gangsters/go to prison for child porn, etc.
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The A stands for Agile if that gives you a clue ...
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Is this the earliest depiction of a dodo in art? (2020)
Performance plastic made from renewable oils is chemically recyclable by design
Disappointed that hacker news fans still support this scumbag company.
My understanding is that you can do both on Android.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire encompassed several other peoples who chafed under Austro-Hungarian rule, namely Serbs, Slovaks, Rusyns, and Transylvanian Romanians. You ought to have heard about this, because it was the spark that ignited World War I, after all. In the 19th and early 20th centuries there was grumbling from the peripheries about its riches going to a foreign people in the center, just as one heard from the colonies that other European powers set up overseas.
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Global debt soars to 356% of GDP
> probably more secure by allowing the network stack to be removed from the low-level boot infrastructure

That's up for debate due to certificate expiration issues, isn't it?
When I was young I lived in a semi-urban area (circa 1990-1996). From about second grade on, I was free to roam to neighborhood, and I did. I spent most of my time playing unsupervised with neighborhood kids, walking to the comic book shop, the book store, the convenience store, the hobby shop, the pool, the playgrounds, the parks, and so on. I never once had any kind of issue.

I wish I could give my kids the same experience, but sadly I live in a much less dense area these days, and there is nothing within a mile or so for them to really do, and no friends. It’s sad.
American life expectancy fell by 1 year in the first half of 2020
> It should not be possible to brick a device by pushing the wrong button

So you think all Apple devices should be shipped without root? Or that anything disk-related should only be allowed through CLI as root?
I recall the exact same scenario you're describing, and I'm usually meticulous when I use Disk Utility.
Equity is what builds wealth.

In exceptional circumstances, yes. In most circumstances equity in a startup ends up being worthless, even in the event of exit. Starting your own startup, or joining a startup as a very early employee can make you rich; anything else and you might as well be buying lottery tickets.

That's not to denigrate startups in any way. Working in a startup is amazing. It's just not how you get rich as an employee unless you are staggeringly lucky.
I love that it produces actual runnable binaries instead of emitting assembly or C, like so many tiny compilers do. I know it's technically the job of the assembler and the linker, but without these parts it kinda feels like cheating.
I’d love to use GNUnet and those projects. I’ve just not found anything that is usable for normal people yet. Fingers crossed that it comes to fruition at some point! (Or if there is a working app please share it with me)

In the meantime, you may be interested in Iris for a proof of concept that very much works today (though not greatly yet).

https://github.com/irislib/iris-messenger
Most I know had no choice because our chinese banks blocked withdrawals.
There was a poster a while ago that designed a series of mods that would automate the sprawl of his base. It would detect ore patches and set up mining and train loading.

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=41377
You can get 10-year fixed rates in Canada:

* https://www.ratespy.com/best-mortgage-rates/10-year/fixed

* https://www.ratehub.ca/best-mortgage-rates/10-year/fixed

For down payments <20% mortgage insurance is needed (usually from the federal government subsidiary, like Fannie/Freddie), but not for larger down payments: that's all free market.

Some institutions offer 18- and 25-year terms.
Because everyone else at Tumblr more or less young, male, single, caucasian, straight, European ancestry. The Office manager was female, one of the HR reps was African American, head of security had kids, PHP developers were always blowing through so occasionally someone diverse would slip in there, but in large LGBTQ was the only category where there was diversity and they hired a lot from that category. If you were LGBTQ and had a cat it was more or less impossible to not be hired. All this would come up occasionally in the Friday company meetings and David would always promise to do better but the demographics never shifted much.

One of the Unix admins was allergic to dogs if that counts towards diversity.
It's available in the U.S only. If it were available here in Germany, I would love to use it, but until that I have to use some burners which is getting harder every day since you are required by law to link your ID to a phone number to activate it (even prepaid).
So that's how you build a nuclear power plant in 6 years.

I wonder if the Chinese are just more efficient at this or do they cut corners as well?
it’s “scaled agile framework”.

Move on.
What's hilarious about this is that Thomas Sowell says basically the opposite. He became a conservative because the leftist ideals (which are socialist and marxist in nature) feel good but reality simply doesn't work that way.
You think you've seen videos and tweets. But you really haven't. There was one incident that came close: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-re...