skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly there's technologies we might not be able to replicate if needed, as we've mined out the purest resources that we know of.

Particularly nuclear technology, since so much early experimentation was dependent on ores like from the Shinkolobwe mine in Congo with 65% uranium. These days finding ore with 1% uranium is considered a good find.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkolobwe

Maybe our nuclear waste will fill the same niche in a post apocalyptic reconstruction of society?
If you are vaccinated, why do you care if others are or not?

I mean sure, there is a small chance someone could infect you, and a much much smaller chance that than infection actually causes you a hospitalisation, but it’s not a big risk once you are vaccinated yourself.

If you think the vaccine works, which I assume you do, then why do you need to know others vaccine status?
Why not just use TransferWise? Wiring money can get expensive, I agree, but there are many P2P currency exchange platforms out there these days that cost next to nothing.
So the fast service shouldn't use that alignment. There must already be population centers that are skipped by the fast service - its tracks don't have to go through there either.
Trust me, calculus of variations is still used! It’s even more important now that we have lots of computing power. Actually, the major way we solve differential equations, the finite element method, is a variational technique!
One big difference is that governments usually set the real returns on their fiat to -2% which is low enough to prevent it from being hoarded too much and crowding out the private markets for productive investment.
tenor was purchased by google in 2018 (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/27/google-acquires-gif-platfo...)

(edit to add info and link)
> Zulip is one of the very few software tools that I really find a joy to use

I'd like to know what the others are.
As a dictum this is sound but its much better to frame this as a business case, eg. cost benefit analysis and risk analysis. This is what it is rooted in. When you have a limited resource (time/money) make sure they are being optimized for greatest return if you are a startup.
I initially hadn't realized these were meant to be abstracts (as the site doesn't say this). Knowing this makes hard mode much easier.

I'd been having trouble with ones which had a reasonable logical flow, but didn't communicate a complete idea.

Of course, pretty small N so YMMV
FWIW, the "parliamentary audit committee found that there was no legal grounding for the criminal complaint" against Crypto International (previously Crypto AG)]. https://web.archive.org/web/20201111022708/https://www.swiss...

The audit also found that the "collaboration was in principle in accordance with the law in force." https://web.archive.org/web/20201111085259/https://www.parla... And, notably, that the "fact that this collaboration could have been concealed from the Federal Council for so long also highlights shortcomings in the management and supervision exercised by the latter." "Therefore, the Federal Council bears part of the responsibility that the company Crypto AG has exported 'vulnerable' encryption devices for years."

Switzerland has a somewhat unique structure where the presidency rotates yearly among a seven member Federal Council. I can easily believe that some highly sensitive, long-term intelligence matters (particularly operational matters) were effectively and complicitly shared with the president (not to mention the entire council) only on a need-to-know basis.

The audit report also notes that the intelligence cooperation was, at least initially, to the benefit of Switzerland. IOW, that at inception it would have been not particularly contentious and thus (if my above hypothesis about complicit need-to-know status is correct), arguably something that the intelligence department would have thought within its license.

I would expect the President to always be aware of a close relationship with a foreign intelligence agency and the potential for a situation like Crypto AG, but wouldn't be surprised in this context if such specifics were left unstated. You can see a somewhat similar dynamic in the U.S., where for legitimate reasons the Attorney General is sometimes given license to keep many often explosive matters confidential. The reasons are different, but on the other hand the Swiss Federal Council has unique characteristics from an intelligence perspective. Certainly in both cases it would be typically be understood that the President still controls policy by their selection of and delegation to department officials. Which is what the audit report seems to be getting at--that the Federal Council may have been delegating too much, hypocritical in its astonishment.

In general, though, I agree that government agents are given too much benefit of a doubt. See, e.g., qualified immunity. We all live under the thumb of the law. Rightly so. Some amount of anxiety and fear are a natural consequence, and we don't normally consider that fact alone excessively burdensome--at least, not when we're talking about other people, especially people with whom we don't identify.
I don't see how it's false.

"when people trust public authorities to tell them these facts" - There was a lot of mixed messaging from authorities going on in the first half of 2020, so I can understand why citizens are mistrustful (even though I may disagree with a lot of their conclusions).
_I_ don't need to know it, but my friend who can't take the vaccine as she is pregnant might wish to use the information to make risk assessments.

Further: it is literally illegal not to wear a mask here in certain public areas - I'm specifically interested in how one would enforce that if you split between those who have to wear masks and those who now don't have to.
Nope, you aren’t. Zulip proxies all external images in messages through the server, including those from Giphy, to stop them from being used to track you. (Also, Giphy integration can be disabled per-organization by an organization administrator.)
You know what's way more effective at stopping gas hoarding so it's available for someone who really wants/needs it? Doubling the price per gallon. Anti-price gouging laws caused the shortage, just like with toilet paper and PPE last year.
Though as I understand, spacex doesn’t actually use GFOLD, but a related (and secret!) development
That's partly consequence rather than cause. All that space is being taken up by parking lots and wide streets for on-street parking.
They also have the option of firing you quickly if it turns out that you're not as good as the interview led them to believe. You'd still get paid for the time you work, but they get the signing bonus back and get to keep all their equity.
Berkeley 94707 zip code was already at 98% of eligible population with at least one shot on April 30th. [1] I would guess a number of cities will be overall in the 90% range pretty soon.

[1] https://abc7news.com/california-vaccination-rate-sf-vaccine-...
> So if I take your advice and imagine what I could accomplish... that just makes the feelings of discouragement worse.

That's a good point, and I didn't take a healthy perspective on it. Imagining what we can accomplish in a long span of time can be distressing. The road ahead always appears longer than the road behind; that's why it's so easy to look at the accomplishments of others with awe and then look towards our own intentions and feel anxiety.

A better approach is to not imagine what we could accomplish in three and a half years, and instead just dedicate the next three and a half years to doing the things that make us happy and pleased with what we're building. Projecting our intentions can be daunting, but taking one day to do a bit of code or design is not a big step. And doing it again the next day is no bigger a step. Taking it each day at a time, and taking care to enjoy each of those days at a time, is key to keeping our motivations high. And then some day we look back and realize just how long we've been crafting our craft, and how far it's come. But it all starts with one day's work.
sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_fuel
If AI/ML is real, why do so many obvious Russian hooker bots message me on IG?
How is it that freeway construction can be assumed to somehow be immune to all these problems?
It appeared that they informed the government that they are paying the ransom, Government's view was that it was a private sector matter so it is prerogative of Colonial to act.
Arduino's New DIY Kit Makes It Easy to Build Smart Home Gadgets
> If it works, why would I have to act like it doesn't?

This vaccine is -ridiculously- effective, which definitely changed things a bit (well, a lot). It looks like people who have it are pretty much immune, the chances of transmitting even if you DO get the virus is extremely low, etc. We're lucky.

It could have gone a very different way though. If we had a vaccine that's much less effective (eg: like the flu's), we'd have to rely on the power of statistics at scale to get rid of the pandemic. So yeah, that would have meant you'd have to get vaccine and still act like you haven't for a while until more people take it.

Thank <whatever deity> things turned out better though, since its pretty obvious that people wouldn't have been able to comprehend that scenario.
That's true, if by "late middle age" you mean 38 years old. Netflix pays very well.
I still don't think the environmental damage is the scariest part of cryptocurrencies since there are likely technological solutions. As even Douglas Adams tried to warn, it's the deflation that is worrisome: https://benoitessiambre.com/specter.html
I am doing exactly that on a personal level. I have an unencrypted BTC wallet and one that is encrypted, the unencrypted one contains not that much and will tell me if my device has been compromised.
The US population is around 30% fully vaccinated. Herd immunity requires about 90%* which we're never going to achieve because of vaccine resisters. Therefore COVID-19 is going to be endemic in the US for the rest of our lives. That means we'll see repeated temporal and geographic outbreaks forever, and people who are not vaccinated will continue to die. This is now our world.

*90% is based on the high R-value of this virus taken together with the known even-higher R-value of several of the variants. It's a realistic number, despite what some politicians would have you believe.
All aircraft produce wingtip vortices that create wake
turbulence in flight. The vortex strength increases
when the aircraft is heavier and when it flies slowly.
Thus, the term "heavy" (unlike light, medium and large)
is included by heavy-class aircraft in radio transmissions
around airports during take-off and landing, incorporated
into the call sign, to warn other aircraft that they
should leave additional separation to avoid this wake turbulence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_(aeronautics)
Now I want a fog machine.
If your only reference is Wikipedia, it's going to be hard to have a productive conversation.

The fact that these two things share words, doesn't make them related other than the fact the same English words are used. If I were to see an ORM-tied object in the business logic of a DDD-based application, something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
When I founded Zulip, one of my stated goals was to change how the world communicates to be more efficient, just as my goal in founding Ksplice was to make rebootless updates ubiquitous.

So if Slack and all of its clones copy Zulip's model, I'd call that a success for us having changed the way people work. That said, Zulip is 100% open source under the Apache license (very rare these days), and that will remain a differentiator, as you can't self-host Slack, nor can you audit its source code or fork it to solve a problem specific to your use case. (We also have a lot of other innovative features, like native LaTeX support, customizable linkifers, etc.).

That said, topics are not something one can just copy in an existing chat app -- there's a lot more to Zulip's topic-based threading model than "a feature".

* Being able improve organization by renaming and splitting topics, move topics between streams, etc., is critical to the reading and conversation experience. This requires lot of thought about subtle technical and user experience details. (E.g. if someone renames a topic, and you were in the process of composing a reply, your compose box updates to the the new topic).

* Tracking unread counts on a per-message basis, rather than a "pointer within a channel", which is required for splitting topics to do something sane. This, in turn, requires clever data structures so that the moment the browser loads, you can see where all 35000 unread messages are. (Folks routinely have that when they come back to a busy open community after months away).

* All sort of clever performance and client-side caching things to make it feel like the browser has all your data so that clicking around feels instant.

* Dozens more things along these lines.

And those are just the engineering details. The bigger part of topics that it requires an overhaul of the whole UI. At least for us, a huge fraction of features are different than they would otherwise be because of topics (E.g. Zulip's compose box supporting sending to a different place than what you're looking at, and fading messages that weren't sent to that place to help users avoid mistakes). This sort of overhaul is hard to do, and even harder to do with a large existing userbase.

As a result, if Zulip fails, I'd be very surprised if it's because other companies copied Zulip's model so well that there was no reason to prefer Zulip's topics implementation.

Far more likely is some combination of our competition having infinite marketing dollars, inertia in organizations that don't realize how much better their working experience could be, and Microsoft's campaign to make everyone unwilling use anything other than Teams, because "we already bought Teams with our Office 365 subscription".
Recently there was a an article about how everyone should just use e-mail. People would talk about slack/discord &ct. I find all of those to be strictly worse than e-mail for me.

Zulip is the only chat I've used that is better than e-mail for some purposes. It's got great export functionality and it's the only tool I've used that has better threading than e-mail. Every message has a thread, and therefore a subject, and you can dynamically re-thread sub-conversations.
I would like to see the mathematical analysis that concludes it is unsafe for a vaccinated person to fly on an airplane without a mask while it is safe for a masked unvaccinated person.
Well it was raining plutonium until now
Sounds like Nazi Germany
This is the one I ended up choosing to cite: https://hired.com/h/wage-inequality-report/

I chose it because it addresses several other factors besides gender (it addressed all of the disparities I wanted to discuss except disability, and I haven't been able to find any that do discuss it), because it also focuses on comp disparities besides pay like expectations, and because it has a historical record for comparison.
This never happens. Ever.
China census reveals the true scale of the Northeast’s decline
>>> This is a very old and well-known case

> Suspected

AFAIK in those circles "suspected" creates a "case", and this one was quite big given the suspect (the US) and the period (before the fall of the USSR).

> as early as 1986

AFAIK in those circles 1986 is, from now, "very old".
In some ways, Panorama Tab Groups in Firefox is similar
At a brisk pace, 2 miles (there and back) will take about 40 minutes...and then carrying bags of groceries on the way back too.

Easy I suppose if you've not had to do that too many times yourself.
Can I have sources to that claim? I would like to use it.
The problem is also the social pressure that this will add on other people by the anti-mask who are going to say "Why are you wearing a mask ? Nobody is going to check anyway, just say you are vaccinated, pfff..."
I hear online that the ransomware had no effect on the Colonials ability to physically pump the oil, it affected only its billing systems, but they stopped pumping anyway because it would have been difficult to reconcile the accounting/billing if they continue to operate without the billing system being live.

Is this true?
I agree with you entirely that there's an obesity problem. When it comes to covid deaths, though, the CDC report this week says that the vast majority--about 46%--are coinfections with flu.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm

https://i.ibb.co/zscjxb6/Screenshot-2021-05-13-23-04-11.png
ML is
- over-hyped
- very useful for some problems
- nets being blackboxes makes it dangerous
- hardware-hungry
- nowadays useful for narrow-AI, but not even close to general AI

I think unexplainable decisions affecting the lifes of of human beings (e.g. Googles Playstore App removal algorithm) are today's version of the "Terminator" movies.
Greyhound buses in Ontario and Quebec were like the Twin Otters in Alaska.

It's a huge loss for smaller and northern communities. Besides affordable, scheduled passenger service, Greyhound carried film reels for theaters, and likely other materials.

Really it was an essential service - I don't see how many rural towns will continue to be viable. Certainly young people will leave for the big city and never return.

Note that if Greyhound still owns their city-center terminals, those could be worth a billion dollars.
> If you are vaccinated, why do you care if others are or not?

I care -- in that, I'd prefer for their sake and for everyone else's that they were vaccinated. The vaccine's not perfect.

However, for the purposes of wearing masks or not: I don't care. Let's take them off and hope that the unvaccinated make the right choice of keeping the mask on. I imagine that very nearly zero will, but in the baseline case I didn't know who wasn't vaccinated against yet-more-serious infectious diseases. So this will be returning to the level of nonzero risk that we were before.

We engage in risky activities all the time without blinking, let's please all treat this risk with the appropriate relative weight.

If you have energy to fight the good fight, become a positive role model for vaccination. Don't mock or ridicule the antivaxxers or vaccine-hesitant. Just show them the right path.
So your argument is that he is just dumb and didn’t even know how dirty bitcoin is mined, even though all of us do.

Sorry but I buy more into the pump and dump hype machine together with his CONSTANT never ending tiring relentless need to be the centre of attention in the media. Like his political equivalent Donald T used to be.

Proof: open the media every day. I can’t forget how he needed to insert himself into the whole Thai boys in a cave rescue and then needed to be focus of the media again when he called the actual proper saviours pedophiles.
meat is pound for pound more efficient at energy storage for humans

Citation definitely needed here. Meat is an extremely inefficient vehicle for getting calories into humans.
> Beefing up security at each organization isn’t fixing the underlying problem. It’s just making the next entity the more likely target.

This reminds me of the old saying about locking your bicycle on the street. It won't 100% prevent yours from being stolen, but if the other bikes around yours has less secure means of locking, then the thief will likely take those bikes instead of yours.
Relax, I wasn't trying to make a moral argument. I was just saying that the suffering endured by those animals from a hyena seems much more than if they had been caught by many other similar-sized predators that tend to kill quickly.

It's also interesting that hyenas don't care to kill first, because another big reason to kill your prey as quickly as possible is that it stops fighting, and has less potential to injure you. If the hyena had gone for the neck first the animal would be down quickly and the hyena could eat in peace.
Amazing software, great development team. First I replaced Dropbox with resilio and a year ago replaced resilio with synchthing
New Relic Founder Lew Cirne Out as CEO
and make it past child mortality

That's the hard part in less developed countries. In 1960 Bangladesh had a child mortality rate of almost 30%. At that time the US was under 3%. Even today with antibiotics etc., Bangladesh is about 5x higher than the US.

I'm honestly not sure what you mean by America's fascination with health: I'm an American, so it of course would seem normal to me. But whatever we're doing, Bangladesh isn't a great comparison to cite as though they're on par with the US because life expectancy there is still about 6 years shorter.
Yeah, unfortunately the games that go into extortion mean that fighting back only makes sense (a) on such a long time scale that no one is considering it while being extorted, or (b) because it's the right thing to do.
> Something coming at the earth from the Moon, for instance, is moving at least 2.3 kps, plus another kps if you fire it forward.

What do you mean "fire it forward"? If you fire it forward, it will never fall on Earth. To get from Moon to Earth, you need to fire it backward in Moon orbit, to slow it down. Essentially, you need to slow it down a lot if you want it to get to Earth surface, as opposed to orbiting it alongside Moon.
Thank you! Sent a message on LinkedIn, wasn’t able to get my email to send, tried David @ Markforged. If you accept my connection request I’d gladly send my resume over.
Actually Amazon commonly beats Google comp, and matches FB. Senior employees at Amazon see the highest comp in the industry. Its less discussed, and really only at the lower levels that Amazon gets its reputation for being cheap and having lower talent. AWS Senior Engineers are top talent bar none.
"Consequently, a mailer’s right to communicate ceased at the mailbox of an unwilling addressee."

I would be very suprised if SCOTUS would agree this ruling supports any legislative attempt to preemptively block "communication".
Dropbox has the ability to ignore files/folders: https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/ignore...
It's not exactly the most user-friendly method, and you have to run a script to do that consistently for generated files/folders like those from npm
I thought that it was because the billing system wasn’t accessible and that the gas itself wasn’t affected (the actual infrastructure). Yes, still very bad, but it seems there should be contingency plans for this sort of thing.

1. One primary source of gas for the Eastern sea board? Wtf?

2. The TSA overseas pipelines (lower standards and poor oversight) whereas electricity is regulated by the Dept of Energy? What the actual fucK? Nothing against then TSA but shouldn’t they focus on transportation security?

3. They didn’t have a director of cyber security and are now recruiting? If you’re running critical infrastructure shouldn’t you be putting a few dollars into this sort of thing already?

What a cluster fuck.
The article makes it quite clear that this finding cannot be extrapolated to countries where the virus has not been brought under control. Furthermore it says "there is plenty of evidence elsewhere showing that people infected with covid-19 may be temporarily asymptomatic and infectious, before going on to develop symptoms."
How much your personal information is worth to cybercriminals
Also until literally today nobody under 16 could get vaccinated and we're still several months away from vaccines possibly being approved for children.

Studies show kids are less likely to catch and spread it, and when they do catch it they have less averse impacts than adults, but I'd still prefer if my kids don't catch it.
Walking back statements because they're untrue/unverified/exaggerated/unqualified shouldn't necessarily remove your credibility. But doubling down on falsehoods definitely should.

Science is the pursuit of knowledge and we can always conduct a new experiment that reveals inaccuracies or invalid conclusions from yesterday's experiment.