skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like they're internally running Linux on these, which also seems like a pretty good sign?
There's a mouse shortcut for Duplicate Tab in Firefox: middle-click the Reload button! It blew my mind when I read about it in some random thread a couple of years ago.
There's too much money in this for him not to. This is absolutely in his wheelhouse and MO.
Amtrak can't even keep a schedule on track they own though.
He bought $20M in Tesla stock that went up 8x (or something) and that 420$ thing (not a joke, that was a very serious thing) so it actually made him a lot of money.
> but it is however discrimination based on race.

It is discrimination in your hypothetical where you've presupposed that discrimination played a causal role in the appraisal price.

There's no reason to suspect that discrimination played a role in this actual particular case, absent additional information.

Incompetence of the final appraiser or any number of explanations could fit.

You have to realize the layers of selection filters that are at work here:

- Someone is on the lookout for evidence of discrimination

- Someone reports a suspect case to a journalist

- Journalist decides to write an article

- HN user decides to post the article

- HN article gets upvoted and gets to front page

It's like a sales funnel. At each step, even if there isn't any discrimination, it's only the cases that are the most egregious (due to any number of causes, chance being a large one) that do not get pruned by the filters and therefore make it to the final step. Statistical variance can push through a large number of such articles.

That's why this isn't evidence, not even suggestive evidence. We're ignorant of all the filters that led to this last step. The only way to address cases like this where there isn't explicit evidence of discrimination (e.g. chat logs, recording, whatever), is to precommit to a methodology and then go from there. This is what's been done to good effect with things like policing.
Peer pressure, external distractions from colleagues, etc. You can get a break in-office, but the distance you can get pales in comparison to working from home. It's legitimately one of the best productivity and mental health decisions I've ever made.
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> I've swung around to the idea that colonizing asteroids

Metal asteroids can, with some luck, provide us with boundless supplies of pretty much all metals, as I understand it. This will be one of the great milestones in human civilization.

But I think it's a place you go to work. Mars is far more interesting as a place to live and build a society.
I saw this happen to my wife. She had stayed at home to raise our kids for a number of years and then built a part-time business.

When our youngest was 13, she decided to get a job but feared she was no longer qualified. Fast forward 4 months and she's a critical employee in a 30+ person software startup transitioning away from a design agency. The skills that come natural to her have opened doors she never felt would open... definitely not that fast!
Territory doesn't have "precedent." Perhaps the US has entered new, or uncharted territory.
I personally like Joplin[0] the best - it can sync via Dropbox or any other host of options.

[0] https://joplinapp.org
We seem near the top of an epic bull run. I'm not sure the ability for everyone to get rich by trading virtual things between each other will continue indefinitely.
It doesn’t refresh by itself. Once you finish writing your doc, you have to sign into hexopress once and click refresh blog once.
Because it's a zero-sum game with other customers. "Cheating" doesn't hurt the company at all, but it does lower everyone else's chances.
Microsoft and Google are trying to improve it via lifetime analysis, but after 3 years it is still pretty much WIP due to C++ semantics.
The price policy just created shortages, so yes the item was stamped with a price, but unless you knew someone who owed you a favor or slipped the clerk something extra under the table, it would be hard for you to purchase it for that price. This also led to endless queueing, where standing in line was a full time job. It would not be uncommon to wait in line for a few hours when rumors spread that a particular store got some bread in, or that a butcher finally had some meat. This job was then assigned to grandmothers and others who did not have to show up to work -- to basically spend all day standing in line in front of various stores, hoping to come back with some groceries.

That created an entire black market economy of side payments and private goods which were not stamped with a price, but the government tolerated this economy because they knew that without it, many household essentials could not be obtained. That normalization of bribes meant that if you had to go a doctor and wanted to be treated decently, a side payment was required. If your car broke down (although most people learned to fix most issues on their own) a side payment was required. If some apples became available and you wanted to get one, a little money or barter was needed. Maybe you had an uncle in the country who made some sausage, that could be exchanged for a dental visit in which anesthetic was provided. So the economy began to devolve to barter. If you were not good at politics and you had nothing to barter, life was pretty hard. I once traded a pack of sunflower seeds for private access to a UNESCO world heritage site. The friend of my uncle who was running the restoration (one of those eternal ongoing projects started in the 50s) unlocked the doors for me and let me crawl around the scaffolding. I was able to touch the frescos! But, you see, I had the desired sunflower seeds.

This is portrayed beautifully in many underground books and even some mainstream books like Master and Margarita, where the main objective of everyone in the novel was obtaining an apartment in Moscow. Yes, those apartments were cheap, but available only to insiders or members of the nomenklatura. Hence the endless jockeying, politicking, and finagling to get onto various secret waiting lists or catch the favor of a government official who might in their beneficence put you on the right list.
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Nearly every major union I've seen supports seniority-based promotions.

I imagine that this is not popular with many employees, and so it cannot be a part of their initial pitch — as you said, not the only approach unions use.

If established unions support seniority-based promotions but nascent ones don't publicly support them, it would follow that they must develop into supporting seniority-based promotions. This is possibly one of those issues where a union gets power and then takes overarching, unpopular measures that rid the company of anyone who wants to work harder and be promoted faster.

If you have evidence that unions don't support seniority-based promotions, I would love to see it! I haven't had a chance to gather data, so I'm only speaking anecdotally.
yeah we want to do an installer so that all the install stuff will be way easier- it will basically be a desktop app.
In terms of webapp - no because we don't want to ever risk processing (even temporarily) user PII.
then get a warrant since spying is probable cause. but no warrant, no surveillance. and the warrant should be reviewable/challengeable by more than a secret/military court. transparency and balance of power are crucial to maintaining a service (rather than a domineering) orientation.

also, foreign governments in general spy with non-cover agents not to undermine our (US) government secretly, but to get an edge for their own power and prestige. undermining activities usually happen either with government agents for high secrecy operations (like stuxnet) or relatively openly if obscurely (disinformation/propaganda campaigns).

the long-running encroachment against our liberties has been largely due to fundamental misgivings/misunderstandings like 'everyone is out to get us'. those are the same impulses that led us to performative responses to a pandemic rather than relatively minimal but targeted federal action (e.g., honest information dissemination and financial support for r&d and the at-risk/marginalized).
One reason not is: we're directly responsible for any suffering that then happens on that rock. A biosphere full of life means horror and suffering every day for so many living things it potentially eclipses all humanity's past crimes combined.
Yet another one :-)
The tether printer can print as much as they want.
Safari 14.1 for desktop looks to be getting closer. Same for 14.5 on mobile.

https://caniuse.com/?search=Date
I find it intriguing for exactly that reason. I agree there's no fundamental "there", but I suggest that you may find that ominous because it implies there's no fundamental understanding anywhere. Only stories that survive scrutiny.

GPT can write "about" something from a prompt. This is not much different than me interpreting data that I'm analyzing. I'm constantly generating stories and checking them, until one story survives it all. How do I generate stories!? Seriously. I'm sure I have a GPT module in my left frontal cortex. I use it all the time when I think about actions I take, and it's what I try to ignore when I meditate. Its ongoing narrative is what feeds back into how I feel about things, which affects how I interact with things and what things I interact with ... not necessarily as a goal-driven decision process, more as a feedback-driven randomized selection. Isn't this kind of the basis of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, meditation, etc. See [1,2]. If you stick GPT and sentiment analysis into a room, will they produce a rumination feedback like a depressed person?

Anyway, if you can tell a coherent story to justify a result (once presented with a result), one that is convincing enough for people to believe and internalize the result in their future studies, how is that different from understanding that result and teaching it to others? The act of teaching is itself story generation. Mental models are just story-driven hacks that allow people to generalize results in an insanely complex system.

1. Happiness Hypothesis Jonathan Haidt
2. Buddhism and modern psychology, coursera
My advice for anyone who believes tether will explode:

Take a loan in tether with another coin as security. Then sell the tether. Should tether really go south, repay cheaply.

Risks: tether will not explode and one has to repay everything plus interest. As tether can‘t exceed the value of one US dollar, there is no risk of increasing asset prices.

My guess: tether will not explode in the foreseeable future. No matter if it is sufficiently backed by US dollar or not. It had enough chances to crash and it never happened.

Edit: Current interest rates for tether ranges (https://defirate.com/lend/) between 9% and 13%. It won‘t be a cheap move to short sell.
Well if the company is already that messed up to not have backups and desperate that they paid criminals...

One would hope they'd just run the decryption program on each computer, not connected to the network. Or maybe hire some experts to extract the decryption key.
That is a rather unconvincing post. It makes the link to IQ without any actual evidence, claims Foer has an IQ of at least 130 again without anything backing it up, and trots out a memory athlete's opinions as if they were unbiased facts. Never mind that the said expert specifically pointed out that correlation is not equivalent to causation. Or that IQs as measure of intelligence is still pretty contested.

It's been a while, but I have a recollection of Foer going into the question of why more people don't do this in his book. It mostly has to do with the amount of time one needs to commit to practice, coupled with limited transferability of this skill.

To give another anecdote, I've worked with a very high-performing engineer who spent a bunch of his free time building memory palaces for new codebases to ensure retention. I'm sure he was above average IQ-wise, but his productivity likely benefited from his approach as much as from his innate abilities.
I think ransomware is the best thing that happened in computer security in a long time.

All these companies keeping lots of people data or even being relevant to national security having completely no incentive to stay secure. Now There is incentive to test their security.

A single person being able to compromise your company when paid a lot is a security issue that needs to be addressed.
Not a lot of physics in that one, as I recall.
As long as we can also stop claiming that a machine is automatically unusable because it has a slightly lower resolution, sure. People seem oddly convinced that only their preferred resolution / pixel density is valid in both directions.
You'd damn well hope so. In civilized countries, when you leave the key in the ignition the cops will go after the thieves. The next thing that'll happen is that they'll also go after you because you just made the roads unsafe.

And this isn't a car, this is infrastructure with national security implications. Someone needs to go and do time.
They did - https://fortune.com/2021/04/29/what-we-know-about-teslas-bit...
I can't believe I'm entertaining a reply, but how would a human-invented lifeform sent to the stars carry on human society if it is a) not human, and b) light years spatially distance and thousands of years temporally distant?

This reads like an ungrad astronomy major fever dream.
I find it interesting that it shows I have Skype installed... when I don't.
> I'm not sure why it would be so inaccurate, but I feel better...

I don't think you understood the core of the issue: it's not about identifying which applications you have installed, it's about always getting the same result for the same user. If all your browsers serve the same results, you are trackable, no matter if those results are good or not.
I don't think we would collapse all plant life.

While we have the theoretical capability to destroy all plant life, I think realistically we'd end up obliterating a few cities before war would cease, and a full-on nuclear winter is unlikely.
If the US were to be serious about corporate IT security, they'd empower and indemnify DoD, NSA, private industry red teams to pentest against everything with a US point of presence or customers, using commercial available / in the wild methods.

This would have the beneficial side effect of flushing all the incompetent paper-pushers / requirement-box-checkers out of the security industry.

If you're found vulnerable, that's a fine. If something gets accidentally broken in the exercise, that's the price of commitment.

Nothing is going to change until you increase the frequency / likelihood of breaches for these companies. If it's a yearly cost, it gets addressed. If it's a catastrophic possibility, it gets ignored.
I had a similar experience. The slowness of Notion to me. I now use Obsidian which has tons of nice shortcuts and is snappy, even as it's what I believe is an Electron app.
It makes most sense to me for rails to be built in the interstate medians. You see this in Chicago, and could be done elsewhere relatively easily as its already government owned land. As a bonus, car commuters could see how much faster HSR might be than their normal commute.
You do a search, it says millions of results, the first pages all have results without the quoted terms in the page at all. They don't show "we don't have any good results" if they can display a bunch of ads on a bunch of pages with useless results.
Where I live, which has a large African-American population, construction workers that I see are overwhelmingly white and many of the unions are notoriously racist (and I don't know about the others). Just notice the people working those jobs around you.

How much is that racism costing the US economically? Of course it costs the targets of racism the most: I don't have high-speed rail; they don't have jobs, health care, etc.
HSR was new in 1965. Most people reading this were not even born then. Congress wants to fund something new and exciting not the same old thing with just small upgrades. Of course the next congress will want to fund something different - so nothing will ever happen.
Perhaps that's the end-game for lord Musk's Boring Company
Doesn't mean that all of the peripherals work ideally, or that power management works ideally.
The Constitution is just a piece of paper. It is powerless if people ignore it.

It's the same with presidents, kings, and dictators. If people just stopped doing what they said, they become nothing.

There's an incident in Soviet history where Stalin was sure they were coming to arrest and execute him. He was shaking and completely powerless. But they were just coming to affirm his power.

The Arab Spring came about because people stopped following orders.

When Nixon was on his way out, the military decided to not follow his orders (so I've read).

The US will end when people just decide Constitution Shmonstitution.

Gun control is neither here nor there for me personally, but what greatly concerns me is if the Bill of Rights is ignored wrt the 2nd Amendment, then what about the rest of the Bill of Rights? Is that next?
You can get a lot of entropy just by fingerprinting things send over HTTP headers and things freely accessible by JS.

E.g. user agent, screen dimensions, language, web GL, audio api, etc.

Generally wrt. fingerprinting chrome is worse then Firefox as Firefox actively worked to reduce fingerprint-ability if possible, while chrome seems to not care much. Because of this ironically I have a less unique fingerprint on a customized Firefox browser then a "stock" Chrome browser even through much less people use Firefox...

The reason (I think) why they make this public is because this can be used for more then "just" fingerprinting. I.e. this can be used by cyber attacks to find a potential attack vector to then pull of either a direct attack or some social engineering attack.
I’m sure at some point they must have just asked if they’d give them the password for free on account of all the collateral damage.. but it looks like they were disinclined to acquiesce to the request.
Its three large areas we aren't putting effort into putting people and terraforming.

They've got the same challenges but are easier
The exploit was tested in Safari 14.0.3 and 14.1 on MacBook M1 and MacBook Pro. What version do you have?
It's a risky move regardless of the rationale, because a pump without a dump is arguably lawful.
Umm, orange man bad.
If you want to learn something NEW with new syntax:

- Modern COBOL. You can get free course from IBM with access to virtual Z/OS development platform. Real language - and totally fresh stuff to learn!

- Julia - it seems that it will dominate the "big data" hype in incoming years. Also its similar to ALGOL or PASCAL so you will be able to learn something new from typical C/Python/Go syntax.
Parallels with the golden age of piracy anyone?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but that first dimension seems far from obvious. To continue my Iron Dome example, isn't the system making decisions on its own when intercepting anything it classifies as an incoming ballistic threats?
Some board member resignations might be in order and being banned from being directors for 10-20 years
I don't see how 4-year stock grants that steadily vests are golden handcuffs at all, since if you switch to a similar company they'll just give you a new stock grant that also steadily vests.

The only part that's like golden handcuffs is the 1-year cliff that's standard, but 1 year ain't bad.
There are four tracks - that enables the combination of a slow local stop-at-every-station service along with a fast feeder service.

But then the bizarre/historic track geometry ruins the fast service...
Not according to the papers.
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson is a good starting point. Written by an author that knows how to write pop-thrillers with a very keen attention to the details in his books. It deals with the aftermath of the moon spontaneously breaking apart. No explanation is ever given to the reason. The first line of the book is:

> The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.

If you're looking for something even harder there's one author to stands out. Greg Egan. Most of his books are created by modifying some part of relativity and seeing what kind of world would be the logical conclusion from that modification. From the blurb for his book "Orthogonal".

> In Yalda’s universe, light has no universal speed and its creation generates energy.

> On Yalda’s world, plants make food by emitting their own light into the dark night sky.

Every one of his books are this weird, and he has books worth of education material and graphics to help explain the mechanics of each universe he creates. He has also done some novel discoveries when it comes to superpermutations.

If you don't want to go quite that deep into it all, you could take a look at "The Martian". The movie is a fine piece of work, but the book is really amazing. It goes into a lot more details. Andy Weir, the author, even made sure the phases of Earth and Mars matched up so closely that you can figure out when the book is happening by inferring the travel times and communication delays.

Generally, you won't find much of this genre. Writing space opera (Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.) doesn't require too much. You have to have good characters exploring an interesting scenario, and then write it competently. Proper hard Sci-Fi on the other hand is incredibly difficult. It requires intimate knowledge of things like orbital physics and being able to infer what is and isn't possible within the next ~20 years. This is where most hard Sci-Fi is set because it grounds it the most. An analogous issue is that hard Sci-Fi often "expires". Stories written 30 years ago suddenly start sounding silly because technology developed in a new and at-the-time unexpected direction.
Chromium results may be flaky on slow internet or because of less performant hardware (such as Virtual Machines).

I've updated the demo for Chromium and made it work slower, in order to increase accuracy.
AFAIK none of these currencies have anything resembling fundamentals. Is predicting swings done by watching chatter on reddit?
Interestingly, custom URL handlers seem to stick around even after the app associated with them has been uninstalled. For example, this detected Messenger's URL handler although I uninstalled it a year ago.
Ethereum creator donates meme coins worth $1B to help India fight Covid
This was quite a good way of visually demonstrating stuff. Side question: how did you hold onto/store this link? I am asking because id like to store and catalog interesting things that I read too.
>Did you use golang on a monorepo for example?

No. I have met monorepo on my path only once (not a golang one, it was mix of java and jruby) and I hope I will never see one again.