skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada likes to whitewash stuff like this because we have a weird superiority complex towards the US. We just treat people better, have less racism and everything is better just by the virtue of being Canadian and not American. It usually goes "Oh first Nations are getting forcefully sterilized? But what about x thing happening in the US?". Remember, Native men were literally kidnapped by the Saskatoon police department and some of them just "disappeared" and it barely made the headlines for a few days. I think that's what people here mean when they boast about living in a "consensus based society", not like those savages south that actually have gasp political opposition & aren't shy of societal debates.

But what else would you expect from a country that is so deep into performative show of virtue that it fully admitted to perpetrating a literal genocide not even 2 years ago just to then proceed to not do anything about it, punish anyone or even really following up on that pretty huge allegation it made against itself? Keep in mind that a lot of the people involved in the disappearence of indigenous women (aka the genocide) are still alive. Tons of those people working for the government who by the government's own logic were directly involved in enabling or ignoring a genocide are still working for the federal gov because firing people, that's a bit too much of to ask for, right? Admitting to genocide is just the path to least conflict, so they did it to avoid a public debate

(And whether you agree with it being a genocide or not, the moment the PM and the government say that it was you should at least expect them to actually do... something about it?)
> I find this very absurd to see.

This is absurd indeed. hCaptcha[0] is a better alternative though, and I wouldn't mind if they used that instead of reCaptcha. I never liked the carpal tunnel that reCaptcha introduces.

[0] https://www.hcaptcha.com/
At least in San Francisco, retail electricity is so expensive (~$0.25/kWh) that, even at current gas prices, it would be cheaper for us to run our plug-in hybrid entirely on gas, than to plug it in at home every day (as we do now).

I'd support higher gas prices if they were accompanied by (and used to fund) well-functioning and rapid public transport. But with many journeys within SF being 5x faster by car than by Muni/BART, I can understand why people just want cheap gas.
I’ve heard that insurance for Catholic Churches aren’t any higher than insurance for a different denomination —- the abuse is at the same level as other churches, it’s just that the Catholic Church is so much larger than any of the others.

I can say that the mandatory training programs and background checks that are required to work with children (now) far exceed anything I’ve seen from other churches.
Same here. The reason was that the weaker and less privileged (female) candidate would have more to gain from getting the job; the stronger candidate would have no problems getting a job elsewhere anyways.

How do you argue against this? At the end of the day the job was just CRUD-glue work, so strong or weak didn't matter so much.
It’s also not universally American. One of the adjustments I had to make in Boston is “how you doin’?” being the start of a leisurely conversation instead of a quick pleasantry.
> there's a special place in hell for those who put on loud aftermarket exhausts.

Living by a busy crossroads, I could not agree more!
> You must not write 32-bit wide characters in UTF-8.

You can't tell me what to do, dad. I'll encode 64 bits and you can't stop me! Bwahahahaa!

$ perl -MEncode=encode_utf8 -e'print encode_utf8 "\x{7fff_ffff_ffff_ffff}"' | hex
0000 ff 80 87 bf bf bf bf bf bf bf bf bf bf ÿ␀␇¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Shining Clouds on Mars
You were wrong about the memory latency¹ increasing, but the memory latency² has increased (substantially) for most systems, while the memory latency³ has indeed decreased. In general, the memory latency¹ has not improved much. Of course, the memory latency⁴ has greatly increased, due to the clock frequency being increased so much to enable the higher bandwidth, while the memory latency¹ stayed mostly the same.

[1] as in: access latency of the DRAM [2] as in: how long does a CPU memory read which is _not_ cached take [3] as in: how long does a CPU memory read on average take [4] as in: CL
There's a thread on Reddit where a guy flew to Singapore to open a bank account for his corp after they confirmed on a call that everything is good. They didn't open his account citing reporting requirements for US citizens.

If you're a US citizen you will have a hard time operating in Singapore without residency.
When I showed the designers at a company I worked at a few years ago how to enable screen zoom, they found it an imminently useful tool. Once enabled, ctrl-scroll zooms in/out on the display which is very useful for being able to check pixel-level details on, say, an HTML render.
Just great; adding another 50 years I have to wait for certain (corrupt, well-funded) people to stop obstructing improvement.
The threat of a meeting seemed to have worked as intended
I think that is part of it. You can catch glimmers of how Feynman thought process worked. How he sees the world. And that is really cool.
Tholian Network – The Web of Knowledge
IMHO interest in ruby (irrespective of implementation) itself is declining.

A lot of people have realised that dynamic typing hinders maintenance of long lived projects and the tooling and dev experience with type safe languages have also gotten much better over last few years.

Despite having worked with Ruby for multiple years, I pick Kotlin/C# for new projects.

I know ruby has recently introduced support for typing, but until the wider ecosystem embraces type-safety it is gonna be an uphill battle to write type-safe code in ruby.
"the income tax is also ~9.3%[4] compared to Sweden's average ~32%.[5]"

That's only California's state income tax. We also pay federal income tax.

I've used public transport in Stockholm. It's much more extensive, fast and reliable than that in San Francisco.
You dont need a blockchain its a misleading term. There are distributed ledgers that dont requires a chain of blocks.

Also majority in a decentral system is not that simple. It can be done with FBA (Federated Byzantine Agreement).
If that's the case, then yes, account balances are simply agreed on and they call it a day (or technically its called a closed ledger). Then they add the next.
Now ledger are blocks of data and the best way to order them is to chain them with hashes depending on the previous ledger (block). And we are back to "blockchain". Its still misleading the "magic" part isn't the chain of blocks. Its the fact that the double spending problem can be solves without an arbiter of truth.

>Just like WebMoney did circa 1998.

I dont know about the technical way this was implemented back then but most likely the system was operated by a single entity. There is some kind of master balance database and the all other sync with that. A double spending can be prevented by rules applies to the master DB. AKA a write-sync is denied if it violates the balance rules.
This is easy to do centralizes and obviously who ever controls it can circumvent the rules if he wants to.
We built a fairly large consulting company 6 years ago, 50% of the business secured through working LinkedIn hard and doing the whole thought leader/influencer thing.

Nowadays though it’s a complete parody of itself and spammed to death. I closed my account with 40k followers as it had become a complete waste of time over the years.
(2017)

Please include the year of publication if an article isn't current.
The average distance is somewhere in the 500m-700m range so taking the métro might not be necessary if your destination is one or two stops away.
It depends on your threat model. If you’re worried about big companies like Google harvesting your data, self-hosting is a great solution because you remove them from the equation entirely. On the other hand, if you’re worried about three-letter government agencies, you need to go through much more extreme measures. Most people aren’t as concerned with the latter, though.
The 1986 electronic privacy act consider emails older than 180 days old to be “abandoned” and do not require a warrant to access.

Self-hosting at least means that this should not apply, I think.
In German we got the word "kafkeask" to capture that sensation. That also says something about his impact as an author.
What's the scenario there? They lengthen the headway on the whole line until they catch you or they actually cancel some trains? Why? I'm curious what the operational response is from their side.
Thanks for the kind words !
I notice that, especially in some European countries, people conflate Hindu - Hindi - Indian.

I'm assuming it's some quirk of local language to English translations in addition to the conflating above.
Uber, Lyft, Air BnB, Paypal, etc etc, would beg to differ.
(I work for another password manager company). Your questions are fair but not specific to password managers. All software can be victim of this kind of attacks. People tend to think it's worse when their password manager is compromised rather than another software, but the truth is that a troyan in (say) your text editor can very well be used to compromise your device and steal all your passwords.

But you are right, securing the code base and the CI is a big part of making sure a software is secure.
> that's certainly an interesting choice to not pursue US permanent residency or citizenship,

Why this presumption? I have a gc and have for many years with no interest in changing passports. I have friends who have lived in the US for decades on investor visas.

The US has been good for me but I’ve definitely been good for it so it’s a fair exchange. It’s not the kind of place that encourages me to “join” though.
It is not just sharing I/O devices. Brain conjoined twins can also share their mental states. They do experience each other qualia [0].

> Though Krista and Tatiana Hogan share a brain, the two girls showed distinct personalities and behavior. One example was when Krista started drinking her juice Tatiana felt it physically going through her body. In any other set of twins the natural conclusion about the two events would be that Krista's drinking and Tatiana's reaction would be coincidental. But because Krista and Tatiana are connected at their heads, whatever the girls do they do it together.

I also recall examples where one girl does not like eating something and so the other girl can not eat it because the other can feel it.

Concept of an individual is not a fundamental property of the universe. It is an emergent, fluid and complex concept.

There are people with multiple personality disorders. There are brain conjoined twins. There are people with severed corpus callosum.

E.g. here is report about one person [1]:

> After the right and left brain are separated, each hemisphere will have its own separate perception, concepts, and impulses to act. Having two "brains" in one body can create some interesting dilemmas. When one split-brain patient dressed himself, he sometimes pulled his pants up with one hand (that side of his brain wanted to get dressed) and down with the other (this side did not). He also reported to have grabbed his wife with his left hand and shaken her violently, at which point his right hand came to her aid and grabbed the aggressive left hand. However, such conflicts are very rare. If a conflict arises, one hemisphere usually overrides the other.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniopagus_twins#Media
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
We could also just continue legislation and enforcement of distracted driving.

The touch interfaces in cars have really been a step backwards in this regard.
Thanks for that
Cute story, right?
Wouldn't you (the state, I mean) just need to offer different, more restrictive terms when putting spectrum up for auction, if we want more accountability and easier access to New players?
I think you're confusing your tenses?

But don't believe me, click the link I provided before your comment. It's all there in black and white. Or just Google "the paper that supported Hitler".

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+paper+that+supported+...
Stop buying their product - ie, advertising.
That’s the problem, almost all media that didn't immediately denounce the events was “canceled”. I can’t even find the original thread on HN about Chinese virologists whistleblowers (there have been multiple) being detained before things got political. Maybe someone else can. There is an almost fair report of the events surrounding specifically Dr Yan on CNN but you really have to read the whole piece because the attempt at an exploration of Yan’s claims that isn't obviously politically motivated is buried at the end.

Summary: whistleblower tries to flee China, is detained in Hong Kong, Bannon and Guo money help her out. She hastily publishes her “research” (evidence) without any peer review because of the urgency. The entire left media sphere jumps on her because of the Bannon link. Her Twitter is banned and FB and other “fact check” orgs brand her claims as indisputably false solely on political grounds. One such fact check has since been revoked.

She has just as much standing as anybody claiming natural origin of the virus but was de-platformed because she said the wrong thing which associated her with the wrong people.

NOW: other people are actually doing the research themselves and it appears that the only real explanation for how the virus evolved the features it has is via a gain of function process that would only ever really be used if you were trying to develop a bioweapon.

HN lefties are in denial and claim that we have “new evidence” when exactly zero facts have changed. Other people are just taking a more serious look at the data.. The media looks like fools. Twitter and FB yet again censored truth in pursuit of a narrative. It’s a huge mess.

At this point the best thing to do might just be to follow Yan’s twitter account. Her motives check out: why would somebody make an otherwise career-ending move (if they’re wrong) by coming forward with claims that covid was lab leaked if you weren’t absolutely sure of yourself? Of course that doesn't make her right, by virtue, but history seems to be taking care of that.
Ah, to be clear I’m not saying our users are a representative sample of Jupyterhub users. I am saying that there are a lot of people who use Jupyterhub for large datasets—it’s certainly not uncommon.
I found this video overview of the system to be pretty good: https://youtu.be/hm7NbBnEJqk
As if the only thing women want in life is to mother? Or that men never want to father given that women now can have a career that isn’t only low level?
> A sophisticated robot can keep track of its sensory inputs and adapt its behavior. But what would you add to turn that into colors and sounds and feels?

The common thinking along those lines is that you would add introspection and nothing more. That is, "red" is the brain's interpretation of the brain processes that happen when light of some wavelength is hitting the retina (or perhaps we need a few more layers - the brain's interpretation of the brain processing the information that the brain is processing the information that [...]).

Under this general idea, emotions would be similarly explained as analysis of other brain processes, ultimately reacting to even older (evolutionarily speaking) mechanisms for motivation and goal-seeking.
What Is SKAdNetwork?
Hard to remember them all :) but two were Australians who spent a few months backpacking in Brazil... one was a German girl who just blew my mind how well she could speak Portuguese. Another was a Swedish man who just casually started helping a group of Brazilians, in Portuguese, to order something in a restaurant... I think there were many other cases over the years but it's not like a keep track of them all, so I can't give more examples that I remember for sure... but enough, as I said, to convince me that it's not very rare.
I live in a nature area, on a curvy road (a dike). On sunny days, the amount of motorcycles passing is insane: several hundreds.

Of those, under 1% is like you: rediculously loud, shifting gears too late, etc.

Me and my neighbors are so fed up with those 20-something noise pollutors per week, that we're working with our regional govt to ban all motorcycles on these roads, or re-arrange our road so motorcycling is no longer fun, here. Apparently that is the only route left, now.

So congratulations: you've managed to spoil a hobby of hundreds of motorcyclists. (Besides being annoying as hell, obviuosly)
I (and my co-authors) published a paper that was highly-influenced by this work https://ecologylab.net/research/publications/mache_present.p... . It argues for more dynamic (Prezi) like presentations. I think Tufte is not as much of an academic as people tend to think, but he has fantastic intuition.
My guess is that Starlink is what made Loon throw in the towel. Who needs an emergency network made of balloons when there will be a 24/7 network spanning the globe made of satellites?
The latest example of Simpson's Paradox I've seen in the wild was regarding the risk of hospitalization after infection with the B1.1.7 variation of Covid-19 in Denmark. Crude analysis showed that the "old" variation imposed the higher risk. Including age in the model reversed that. B1.1.7 was predominantly spreading among younger people.
To be clear. Apple provides the designs, the build procedures, fixtures, and test stations. Foxconn provides the facilities and workers.
Albeit as a test case it exposed all the political issues. We have failed to address it promptly in half of the western world and quite a chunk of global south.

In short, were this virus slower and deadlier, we would be screwed as humanity. (Even on order of Black Death.)
Surprisingly accurate, but maybe not in the way he meant. The post-industrial jobs are restaurants and other service workers. The 4x7 shifts are for the employer to stay under the threshold for providing a health coverage plan. The weeks of vacation are unpaid and occur from frictional unemployment (time between jobs), business downturns, and pandemic closures.
Thanks, that's a shame I started a new project in python (Fastapi and mongodb) and was looking for something to fill that gap.

This still looks awesome.
This looks really cool and I can't wait for electric bikes to become more mainstream in North America. Although I can't see the weekend outlaw-cosplay Harley crowd warming up to them.
I have Spectrum gigabit service. They decided to deploy gigabit in the wonkiest way possible so a normal DOCSIS compatible modem was unable to provide service, so for the first time in over a decade I’m renting the modem instead of having my own. I also pay an outrageous sum for the service.

But none of that is what bothers me. What bothers me is that they don’t even deliver on their promise. Most of the time I am silently downgraded to the “standard” high speed service which is 300mbps.

I’m usually not a fan of government intervention, but in the case of ISPs in the US, there’s a desperate need for more oversight.
That is not a unit test anymore. No matter where you are writing your database. A unit test should test the unit and not rely on any dependency.
I used SaaS pass at work for a while, and it made my day a little bit worse every time I had to use its 2FA. The app's login on push notification thing was very slow, and would fail too often (maybe 5-10% of the time). I ended up using the QR code scanning for 2FA more often than not, but even that was slow, not even accounting for for the time it takes a human to unlock their phone and open the app. Doing thing multiple times throughout the workday was a real drag.

It's a shame, because I think the idea of it is nicer and no less secure than Google Auth, but I'd much rather enter 6 numbers than wait for the app.

Disclaimer: This was around a year ago, perhaps it's improved since.
The post is absolutely correct, but this is one of those "let 'em whirl" things for me (inside joke -it just means that if it's none of my business, I am under no obligation to make it my business).

I have a LinkedIn profile. It's minimally active. I post links to some of my GitHub repos, and dust off the mantlepiece, every now and then. I make sure it's up to date and accurate.

I can't even imagine using it like Facebook. The main reason I keep it, is so that I can direct people to a fairly bland place to find out about me, professionally. I'm not really looking for work, but it helps people to take me seriously.

If I want them to find out more about me personally, I'll give 'em my phone number, and we'll do lunch.

I seem to be in the minority, there. I have seen honest-to-God disinformation and rancor trolls on LinkedIn; just like on Facebook and Twitter. They are quite transparent, but they also generate thousands of "likes," and comments.

Um...no thanks. I don't think I want to go on record liking something like that.

The rather disturbing things, are people sharing about personal emotional traumas, and 12-step recovery anniversaries. Unless they work in the therapeutic/rehabilitation field, that's irrelevant (and probably quite harmful -not everyone is forgiving or understanding).

Those stories can be deeply motivating and helpful, but not on LinkedIn.

The past year has been interesting. The way we interact with each other IRL seems to have been affected.

I've noticed a huge uptick in people minding other peoples' business. Things like chiming into overheard conversations between strangers, offering advice or criticism; despite never being asked for it, etc.

This has always been an issue, but it has become exponentially worse, over this last year. I'm really noticing it, recently, with people emerging from their caves, like the final scene of Surrogates.

I suspect that one reason might be that the principal medium for personal interaction for many of us has been online communities, this last year, and the rules are quite different online, than IRL.

For example, I would not say what I am writing right now, in most IRL interactions.

I think we may have some adjusting to do over the next few months.
It gets weird as you age.

When I was younger, I wanted my vitals. I bought numerous BP machines. I even bought glucose meters. I wanted to know what my body was doing.

I wanted to know because I was young, and those numbers were always fine.

Now--I just don't want to know. You can call it denial, or life is too short to measure health stats all the time, especially on my wrist.

I'm also a Certified Hypochondriac. I've been one for ever. I don't anything on my wrist reminding me of my eventual death of cancer, or a heart attack.

Now--I get a physical every three to four years.

I don't want to know what my aging body is doing daily.

If I had diabetes though, the upcoming glucose monitor would be a no brainer. This will be huge.

I'm a Watchmaker, so my tastes might not be Apple's demographics? My perfect watch is something I can repair, and just tells time, and looks good on my wrist.

I will admit Apple square watches have grown on me. I didn't like them when introduced, but now they look fine.

Would I trade my '62 IWC with the 362 movement for any Apple watch; hell no.
" While their products leave much to be desired, Acme delivery service is second to none; Wile E. can merely drop an order into a mailbox (or enter an order on a website, as in the Looney Tunes: Back in Action movie), and have the product in his hands within seconds."

Seems a lot like Amazon
Ok, but Stockholm has about 1/10 of Sweden's population.

And you're right, the tax isn't much different if you factor in federal tax.
They're scarcely more tolerable in the woods.
WTH... how a person in a life, ends making a catalog from hybrid horrors...

author(s) must be tormented...

Don't worry the nightmare isn't eternal... my friend.

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