skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a known prion, like CJD. It could still possibly be an unknown prion. Or any number of other things.
I have a philosophical (or merely definitional) question: if this is so, would it not be the case that the real theory of everything would be that which sets out the possible laws and the constraints on how they are explored?
That's a great point. This seems like something to handle at the font design level though. Once the Unicode Consortium defines the code points and their interpretation, each platform / font designer gets to choose what that symbol will actually look like on their platform. I'm sure we'll see a lot of variety on the new hand and handshake emoji.
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It's still unmatched in finding programming solutions. Compared to DDG, which is my daily driver search engine, Google is able to get into Github issues, Stack questions, etc much easier than DDG. I'm heavily using !g in most of my programming questions via DDG.
Another great example is Bohemian Rhapsody, which seems to bearly have any true content. Pitch Meetings [1] (not exactly a serious review but very enjoyable) describes the film as recreations of some Queen performances with lies sprinkled in between.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RajlWbY7uQ
I think this is a central problem with trying to tell a con man’s story. There’s nothing particularly bold left over when you consider they always leave victims behind. It seems predatory and cruel because it is!
You can draw finer lines by drawing a thick one and then erasing part of the line with the background color? On an android phone?

I'm extremely impressed.

When I try to do stuff like that on Android I'm lucky if the input drawing box stays still. I easily agree that they're possible to draw, just not at all easy to use multiple colors to precisely remove a fraction of a line width from an existing path.
AWS wouldn’t have to go digging through private buckets and servers to gain valuable information on a potential competitor. They can determine how fast a company is growing and what services they rely on based off billing data and bandwidth usage alone.
I hope the vendors are also charged or punished in some way. They're basically cheating the other vendors that competed for the work fairly out of potential contracts.
So items 1 and 4 are courses which you need to sign up for and get everything including instruction. That fails to qualify as "on their own".

Item 2 is documentation. This is good! But without access to the system to try it out, how self-teachable is it?

Item 3 is the one counter point. With a third party emulator though, how comprehensive/accurate is it? Would you hire someone to work on a mainframe who'd never used a real system before?

Compare that to e.g. Java. Sure there are plenty of college courses, some even Oracle affiliated, but I can also just download a Java compiler and start plugging away. .NET is there with Visual Studio Express. Oracle cloud, for everything else wrong with Oracle, has a free tier with no time limit. Microcontrollers for embedded development can be had for €20. You can install Linux or a Linux VM on your own computer. Even stuff that falls into the more enterprisey camp like MS SQL or Oracle DB has free personal licenses.
For you it was unclear, for me it was very clear. The world keeps turning.
Th color isn't neutral. A neutral color choice would be green like Android, that's an orthognat color to human melanin spectrum/range.
I've seen this happen with some folks. It's really sad, it reminds me my mother in law who died of Parkinson's. The person is there but they slowly fade away... what you remember as that relative vanishes. They're consumed by the premise of the content.

The fear and anger stoked by these videos and information is distributively good at creating these lines that even close friends, family and etc can't get across.
I am on the other side of this debate, and I have plenty of downvotes from my comments in this thread without counter arguments. That's HN in a nutshell. My advice to you is to get over it.
I think they can clarify best but maybe they mean that search suggestions are ending with the string reddit.

Eg if I type best linux distro the first suggestion often is "best linux distro reddit". It happens for me too.
Im talking about deceivers who do it to take advantage of other people’s goodwill and kindness. They are cheaters who abuse the system, why would I give them a green pass? And this type of people Im taking about would not stop short from absolutely anything at all from reaching their goals, including turning against their families and best friends. If you don’t think these people are monsters then I don’t know what to tell you..
What is opportunity cost?
Don’t buy the fearmongering: The Covid-19 threat is waning
Probably worth mentioning that we sometimes need a normalisation step. The most common example is comparing two lists for equality, when their order doesn't actually matter; this can produce false-positives if some later refactor changes the order of the elements. In this case we can normalise the values by sorting them before comparing.

One example I keep hitting is a widely used JSON library for Haskell, whose test suite checks a pair of values for equality, when they just-so-happen to be in the opposite order on 32bit x86. Since I do lots of dependency pinning, this same bug keeps cropping up in different contexts :(
A sensible company has internal audits and checks and balances.
>> After all, the AWS Free Tier has been broken for 10+ years. How urgent of a problem can it be?

What? I use AWS Free Tier a lot and it is the best thing for small businesses and startups.
Make sure to keep the deer out!
a couple weeks ago Janet Yellen warned that net-zero carbon would cost about 2.5 trillion

that's cheaper than the pandemic. no reason it couldn't have been done already.

i no longer consider climate change a hard problem, the only hard problem is building political momentum without getting shot
So, I should say "base VIII", "base X", "base XVI"?
I don't disagree with the triggering of your BS alarm, but don't write off the ability of frequencies in the 5-30MHz range to detect an aeroplane the size of a passenger jet. I used to be an engineer on the Jindalee Over-the-Horizon-Radar and it could detect things much smaller than this using these frequencies.

Points for and against WSPR detecting MH370:

- Jindalee uses huge power: a beamformed antenna transmitting many kW and a beamformed receiver array 3km long (yes, one of the techs who was an amateur did plug his kit into one of the arrays).

- Jindalee uses a very stable timebase, meaning it can detect small Doppler shifts.

+ WSPR has a lot of receivers and transmitters, meaning the target is illuminated from lots of different directions. With the right signal processing, these signals might be synthesised into a large aperture. Are WSPR receivers typically coherent (I/Q)?

+ According to one article, there are 5000+ WSPR transmitters [1]. If each of these is transmitting 5W (what's typical in your experience?), that's 25kW. A useable power for an OTHR radar.

- The WSPRS transmitters have a low duty cycle and are not active simultaneously?

+ By its nature WSPR will sometimes fluke excellent propagation conditions, meaning it will be able to do things that might otherwise require higher power. With a large number of stations giving N^2 propagation paths, what are the chances of some of them being useable?

+ An aeroplane the size of MH370 is quite a big target for an HF radar, with quite a big Dopper shift.

+ By its nature, a received signal will contain information about the channel though which it passed. Minus: chances are this information is filtered out by WSPR's receiver processing.

- Does the WSPR database actually store enough information to post process? Ideally it would need to store the sampled waveform from a coherent GPS locked receiver. It looks as if each record is only a received SNR and a drift (presumably a frequency offset) and a timestamp in minutes?

- Are WSPR receivers typically GPS locked, meaning they might have the ability to measure small Doppler shifts and be coherently combined with each other?

I'd put the possibility of WSPR being able to detect an aeroplane into the "intriguing" category if (huge if) it stored the necessary data in its database. It would be a computational tour-de-force, involving synthesising a large number of WSPR stations into a single aperture, then using that aperture to form bins in range, azimuth and Doppler/velocity, then tracking a target as it moves between bins. Sadly, my guess is that WSPR does not store the necessary data.

(Maybe "intriguing" is overstating it. More "wouldn't it be cool if...")

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-05/malaysia-airlines-mh3...
> I've worked on autonomous driving / ADAS, and have read a few university lectures on related software engineering subjects.

For clarity: this exploit isn't to the autonomy or vehicle control system, it's to the infotainment system. It can command auxilliary systems like wipers and doors, and in theory it could do somewhat nefarious stuff like present incorrect data to the user or provide faked waypoints to the navigation system. But it can't actually drive the car.

Really the security model here is fairly reasonable: car control over the motion and autonomy systems is handled by distinct hardware that talks only to one system over a specified protocol, with audited capabilities. And that system then runs the bluetooth and wifi and USB and user interface where the attack surfaces lie.
Dealing with color variations seems more of a user-interface problem than an emoji problem.
The forests of New Brunswick are routinely sprayed with large amounts of glyphosphate herbicide.

Is it possible that this is the cause, instead of prions?

[1] https://www.conservationcouncil.ca/where-our-forest-is-being...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/liberals-greens...

[3] https://nben.ca/en/component/tags/tag/glyphosate-ban

[4] http://www.stopsprayingnb.ca/?page_id=118
Popular movements almost never are the ones to actually institute policy, only influence it, so there's not really much advantage to finding compromise at the level of activism. It's not BLM or the Defund movements job to write legislation that actually achieves their goals, and there's almost no chance what they argue for won't be watered down anyway.

It's best to think of any popular movement as directional - for sure there are individual people in the Defund movement calling for 100% abolition, and others calling for demilitarization, or redirecting of some funding - as of right now, they want the same thing as far as first steps go. If they're successful in redirecting some funding away from police, the non-abolish crowd will move away from the movement and they'll become increasingly irrelevant when it's 10 anarchists arguing for no police instead of massive protests.
To those saying it's cultural, or China is pushing this to be normal, or China needs to be sanctioned. Do you respond the same when SpaceX drops space junk to earth?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2021/04/04/spacex-rock...
Similar to many famous "how to get rich" advisors.
A nothingburger that proves the nothingburger?
Ah well. Still no monsters IMHO.

Maybe they serve a purpose, just like people who speed a bit on the highway are beneficial to the traffic flow.
Yes, though your assets may end up on camera tampering with the car and their physical modifications may be found. If you can do it from a drone or from the internet all digital evidence may be destroyed in the fire if you did not remotely wipe it already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113264/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
I have heard “chabuduo” in both Taiwan and Malaysia.

You are definitely into something, though. Let me elaborate a little more: I think the thing that makes this more prevalent in China, besides the larger population, are the incentives put in place for the winds of exaggeration to blow. These failures occur when you mix that micro level idgaf with a macro level one.
It was surprising to see SumoLogic there... I used them in a previous company and the service was generally good. Sad to see they subscribed to such shady practices.
V2V and V2X serve as additional ways for a car to get data, to complement the car's own sensors. They're not command protocols. V2V shouldn't make your car do anything dangerous, as all the usual software logic still applies. E.g. your car may get info over V2V that an ambulance with sirens is coming up behind you, so your car slows down to make room, but that's an internal decision of the car, it's not a "slow down" command over V2V channels.

In that vein, rogue traffic signs or other objects designed to confuse a car's inputs are probably more of a threat.
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It's a generalisation that I'm not sure is helpful. There's an unhealthy lobbying from pharma reps - true. But the scale of the problem depends on the country on the clinic, and on the doctor.

"how physicians prescribe medicines" is in my opinion a bit shitty way to describe it to be honest, because there's also the whole scale from outright fraud and pushing addiction, all the way to offering a specific type of what would be prescribed anyway. (With pharmacies offering substitutes and generics)

There are also regions which try to counteract this with, for example, forcing prescriptions to list the active ingredient rather than a brand of medication. (with fun sideeffects like meningitis vaccine taking ~6 lines to describe)

"We have serious problems with pharma influence" - yes. "how physicians prescribe medicines" - unless you qualify that with more information - it's FUD.
That's really interesting! It's nice to know that the tones were chosen from an established dermatological scale that was created to help people keep their skin healthy. That's about as wholesome and rigorous as you could hope for, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Skin_color

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale
Huh? What if they just don’t think it’s something worth having in unicode? This does just seem like disdain for opinions you don’t hold.

I think it would also be unnecessary to add modifiers to unicode that let me, say, represent a glyph of a man in a dress, or a modifier that lets you use those family emojis while clarifying that one of the parents is an amputee. Just because you can find someone who can write a twitter thread on why those additions are absolutely necessary doesn’t mean I’m lazy or disdainful or, let’s say, transphobic/ableist.
They made a mistake.

I think they made more than one mistake. Overall, I think this situation really paints Jason in a bad light; I used to use Basecamp, but I actually know him more from all his interviews and writings about management and leadership.
Let me try and rephrase it. Is your command of French as good as your command of Dutch? If yes then you have reached the native level bar, if not then you haven't.
Maths has the same issue with the primes. Their definition is a recurrence with respect to themselves. If the universe is a "strange loop," like Hofstadter says, then we have very little hope of understanding a snake eating its own tail from our hierarchical models.
Sounds like a huge generalization. I worked in China for a few years and saw the full spectrum, from maximum half-assingness to autistic perfectionism. We have the same palette also here in Germany.

The big difference is the level of education and experience. While we Germans do stuff for 150 years with 0 disruption since the industrial revolution, the Chinese started at 0 somewhere in the 90s.

Ah, yes, and the corruption, this is another thing they have to improve in order to become true market leaders in the industries they want to lead in.
We're not talking about people who have no other choice here, we're talking about software engineers. We are the most in-demand, remote friendly profession on the planet right now. The choice isn't between Facebook and starvation for us, the choice is between netting $250,000/yr at a very questionable company or $100,000/yr anywhere else.
It's a shame we are dwelling on a not particularly skilled conman when there are movies like Chameleon Street about a better skilled conman who if anything is more impressive in what he got away with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chameleon_Street
Sumo in 2012 was two years after founding, a lot of things likely improved over the years.
Merely being on free tier is a signal that you do not want a $27,000 bill. There is no excuse for what AWS does here, and it is clear they use this clusterfuck as a revenue stream.
It was made as a comment on another comment about "media being put on as background", an activity which I believe my wife's friend buys into. If that wasn't clear then perhaps you could have enquired rather than being so fucking rude.
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This is descriptive vs prescriptive linguistics. It's up for debate whether or not using emojis as hieroglyphs is a problem.
Unfortunately AI has not yet advanced enough to remove the blocky gif artifacts when you zoom in on ET girl.
It is so people can express themselves with emojis that represent their own skin color. Seems important, no?
Those modes are calibration settings. "Sport" mode allows a stiffer feel to the steering wheel, "Chill" acceleration prevents access to the top end of motor power, etc... You cannot command the car to turn or accelerate with them, they just change how it responds to command input from the user.
There's probably a larger group of people that want to see portions of the police budget reallocated than the police disbanded and reformed. There's really not a great term that perfectly captures what everyone wants, but at least some common ground is "less funding", which "defund" is at least close to if you squint.
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In small ways them eclipsing the US technologically seems preferable to this macabre Dunning–Kruger situation we see now.

Falling rockets, sloppy & ill-considered eugenics programs, releasing worldwide pandemics from laboratories...

Just a thought, and China certainly isn't the only offender. Hell, the US was firmly in this catagory for much of the last 100 years.
Exactly the one I was thinking of :)
I find this attitude VERY disturbing. Cars are target comparable to industrial infrastructure, but with weak security. USA has many enemies, there is constantly some sort of hacking scandal.

Next time there is a mass scale hack: a few dozen people die, grid lock for couple of days, hardware worth of billions bricked.

And US government can bomb any country it marks as an attacker....
When I was learning Fortran I thought there were some ugly features about it especially its I/O - format statements etc., but what I thought was irrelevant (even to my lecturers). What people think of it doesn't matter much (most of its critics aren't regular users anyway).

It seems to me the only real issues with Fortran are whether the huge legacy of the nearly 70 years of engineering and scientific programs and well-tested subroutines will continue to be used or are declared out of date/useless — and whether the many engineers and scientists who now use supercomputers stop using it and change to something else.

I'd put a small wager on that it will likely be around for a while yet (it might even be the first working language to make it to 100).
They would be 'toasty-toast' foremost, because thousands of customers would sue them to pass the liability buck.

Second, because IT managers and executives would freak out everywhere, with legit cause. Nobody on the planet running an SaaS would want AWS to be using their data.

Third, it's probably illegal, so there's that.

Finally, the PR fallout would be huge.

If Blue Shield had a major client leak of HIPPA info, and it was because 'AWS staff were looking at it' it would be a big deal for AWS. They would have to prove to everyone that it was just a few bad apples etc..

Most of the other scandals have not dented tech because they are not really scandals. If FB has a breach and some consumer email addresses get leaked ... well that's not so bad. If AWS is looking at BestBuy AWS data, then BestBuy will sue and drop them, and others will follow suit.
No you really don't get it.

At my company that I was formally employed at before moving on to my current startup, we had a minority of employees very aggressively and vocally demanding that the CEO issue an anti-racism statement after the George Floyd murder. A statement was issue condemning what happened and racism. They were not satisfied with this and demanded that the exact words black lives matter be used and also that a donation to the BLM organization be made.

The company sold data analysis software targeted at Excel power users. It didn't have any offices in Minnesota. The idea that the company needed to make these statements was insane. They don't control police forces in Minneapolis they don't control police forces anywhere.

It is literally not their business to comment on these matters.

And something I have repeatedly stated and noticed is that the employees making these demands are mediocre at best. I rarely see talented developers doing this because they're too busy working.
That was the paper. I agree with you that for government reports, it is not too verbose, I was just wishing that someone else would do the work of training a model to summarize government reports.
Betteridge's law tells us the answer is no. But there is a real phenomenon - Google is becoming less useful.

It used to be that a challenger would get no traction because why would one bother when Google always popped out good answers to searches. Now... I'd at least try something new to skip all the makeuseof, wikihow, and similar dross without having to explicitly constrain it to reddit.

So no, it's not dying. But this is how it could die.
Because the owner of the other class of share believes themselves to own part of the company, but they don't. It's confusing. What you really own is some sort of bond from the company that guarantees they will pay you an amount equivalent to a dividend or something, not a share of the company.
On a general aviation aircraft this would be the power switch for the ECM. Super easy to add a kill switch, if the car manufacturer chose to do so. No idea what a self driving car would do if it lost its ECM and related controllers.
WebASM will be the new buzzword. In two years a lot of new developments will use it. Unlike crypto it solves client problems.
By your logic cryptocurrency should be the answer now.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain have not been a big thing the last ten years, in that no one has solved a business problem or built something useful with it. My phone uses ML every day to tag the pictures on my phone. Developers use containers for deploying projects. These are shipped solutions.

So if crypto is going to be big, this is just the ground floor. We don’t know who the winner will be and how it will look —- who will be Google and who will be Alta vista? So far crypto and blockchain are just for speculators.
If you learn why the tulip bubble happened, you may understand what is happening today.
The BBC were definitely covering it in late December 2019 - I distinctly remember the TV coverage on New Years Eve.
Because it's basically celebrity gossip.

I don't really think this impacts the Foundation, and even if it did, it is a relatively small organization.
Yes, I can totally see how a large organization can achieve its objectives in much simpler way - or without actually killing anyone.

But on the other hand, this was done only by two dudes (even if they did not yield drive control).
You dont want a return to normal you want the 1% to manage every aspect of our lives. What IS a Right?
Great: Now do the same for everyone. Let everyone sign up for an AWS educate account with limits they choose.
As always, there's a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/