skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some platforms like Discord allow individual communities to set screening options for media like photos/videos. If someone posts e.g. nudity the platform is supposed to reject the message from sending. However, if the nudity filter fails, that doesn't give you legal authority to sue Discord; once again it's a good faith effort and I think any court would agree that Discord tried its best to prevent said content from being posted, it just failed in this one case. Deciding to pre-screen content doesn't make you responsible for it, especially if the malware tries to hide itself. If someone brought an American flag to a football game and then unfurled it to reveal a swastika, I don't think anyone would blame the security guards at the entry checkpoint for not catching it.
> You are creating a false dichotomy: security is an integral component of bitcoin transactions, and if security costs, transactions cost as well

that would be true if only on-chain settlements would count as transactions in BTC ecosystem. there are more ways to exchange BTC with security landing anywhere between very low and on-chain settlement.

thing is, that it's not even transactions that have security, it's blocks. energy is spent to make sure that it's expensive to override/rollback blocks. and it's true that blocks exist to assert ordering of on-chain settlements, but it's not true to claim that there is 1-1 correspondence between on-chain settlements and transactions.

each on-chain settlement can embed trillions of bitcoin transactions (in colloquial sense, exchanges of an asset). what does that do to your "energy per tx" metric?
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> That's what people call a de facto capital.

It’s also what people just call a capital.

> It's in no way irrelevant nor a cover. It's the reason Strasbourg was selected as the seat of the parliement in the 50s.

In the 1950s.

First: the given justification for any policy decision particularly in democratic societies is always rhetorical. Rhetoric is intended to persuade. Factual accuracy is not mutually exclusive with rhetoric.

Second: It was in 1992 that the decision was made to keep the European Parliament in Strasbourg per the decision of Edinburgh European Council of 11 and 12 December 1992.[1]

Prior to this it was already located in Strasbourg, which for a time did make sense. However when the European Union chose to revisit this issue, it chose not to consolidate its institutions into one location, but to keep them spread apart and thus the European Parliament now splits its time between what are effectively two capital cities with all the additional overhead costs this incurs in the time and money of the taxpayers and the productivity of the MEPs and staff.

[1] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/media/20492/1992_december_-_... [page 47] [pdf]
Or Hyper Hyper Space:

https://www.hyperhyperspace.org
>Nobody has the knowledge base to make a real informed decision on the efficacy of a drug.

Informed decisions are not risk-free decisions. If you're saying that literally no one can provide informed consent to take a drug until years and years of trials have been performed, and their inability to provide informed consent invariably subjects them to functional degradation or death, then this is a perverse system, to say the least.

Note that many people made the same arguments against fast-tracking COVID vaccines for public distribution, which undoubtedly saved thousands if not millions of lives.
Is there any way to build Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 projects in Linux?
I also can't compete with Blackrock and other professionally managed funds buying up swaths of homes tens of thousands of dollars over asking price because they want to rent them out later.
I mean we're sharing things, after all. It only seems fair.
That linked post is fundamentally wrong because it rests on an assumption that has essentially zero human evidence: amyloid causes Alzheimer’s. There have been several drugs that very efficiently reduce amyloid, strictly zero (including this one) have ever shown any benefit patient health even when running long trials (the Biogen trials started in 2015 and were halted for futility). There’s reason to believe the amyloid hypothesis is flawed, meaning that approving a drug that reduce amyloid is not going to help anyone, and will likely hurt people (through side effects).

If competing experts are the question, note that 3 actual experts have resigned from what are coveted positions in protest. Nearly every part of the pharma industry (including the press, investors, other companies) who doesn’t stand to profit (I.e. not Biogen) has been up in arms saying this is an awful decision using words such as “horrifying”. There is no expert disagreement.

People can try to ret-con this by saying it’s like HIV, but note that viral load is a pretty good marker for disease morbidity in most viral infections. Amyloid is nothing like that as a validated marker for disease burden.

Useful sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5797629/#s3titl...

https://endpts.com/what-does-a-clear-majority-of-the-biophar...
These people have been convinced by the same yacht-owners that they hate that fractional banking and inflation (and definitely not proper regulation, taxation and redistribution) are the keys to a more equal society.
>I'm curious what "exist" means here and am very surprised at the "merely".

In a natural state you have all the rights - your rights are theoretically unlimited. Society is what limits them. Society cannot create or remove rights, but it can limit your ability to express or use them.
Why should they? What incentive do they have to join an agreement against their wishes? Surely it's not the politicians jobs to lose jobs and income to other countries for nothing in return.
Do Angola and Singapore not have police that enforce that their residents pay their tax bills?
Say a breakfast of steak and eggs was classified as a drug, and it wasn't shown in a clinical setting to be effective in treating Alzheimer's. A doctor wants to prescribe it to a patient, even though the patient and doctor both know about the trials and evidence. Why should the FDA prevent the doctor from prescribing steak and eggs for breakfast?

Edit: I ask this because my understanding is that the FDA is supposed to make sure drugs are safe and also to oversee drugs of abuse. If a drug is deemed safe and isn't one that's likely to be abused, I don't understand why it's within the FDA's domain to tell a doctor whether they can prescribe it.
Surely it has nothing to do with the fact that the drug costs over $50,000 per year? Amirite?
So a competitor is trying to lobby against it's own doom/inefficiency?
Maybe the simulation isn’t optimized, but how do the unnecessarily expensive bits negate the theory that it all is in fact a simulation?
The Drug That Could Break American Health Care
That's insane money for just about any region in the US, outside of maybe the bay area. I'm not trying to offend you, but the fact that you're making that much as a mid-level engineer with what I'm assuming not a lot of experience and still think you're under-compensated tells me you're not connected well with reality outside of Amazon and FANG in general. In fact, you'd be lucky to be making 6 figures outside of the FANG bubble at mid-level.
> just _stop_caring_

I agree with this. Worrying about the quality of my sleep caused me more sleep problems than it solved. I quit tracking my sleep, I go to bed when I'm tired and get out of bed when I wake up. E.g. I don't try to keep sleeping just because it's 4AM. My sleep quality has steadily improved as a result. Just roll with it.
Bumble has its own issues. It turns out "making the first move" is anxiety inducing in everyone. What women have done on Bumble is to basically treat the "first move" as an "invitation to treat", a second shot at selecting a guy. Most of those "first moves" are exactly what they say they don't want from guys: simple "Hey"s and "Hello"s. And then they say in their profile that once they say "Hey", you're supposed to respond back with something substantial and entertaining.

I don't think dating apps/sites favor either sex more so than dating in general does. Women, in general, don't really have to try to get solicitations. Their issue is in trying to weed through all of the solicitations to find those worth responding to. It's basically the hiring problem. But there's no Hackerrank for compatibility.

And then there's the issue that even those that feel the system is tilted against them in general don't understand that it's just them. They're not successful because they aren't as kind, nice, or desirable as they think they are. Or they keep making the same bad choices in romantic pursuits and wonder why they keep getting the same outcome.

The problem with all of these apps and gimmicks and what not and certain segments of tech in general is that it assumes that deep down, people are making rational choices. We aren't.
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what do you think money is? some bytes in a centralized database.

asset of dubious value? unless you can literally eat it, wear it of use it, all assets are of dubious value. It’s an asset of dubious value that you don’t like. Big difference.

The value of crypto comes from the decentralized trust. People don’t seem to grasp this at all, but this is a groundbreaking invention being dragged though the mud because it doesn’t serve the interests of out overlords.
Ironically this is exactly why it has value to begin with.
I don't cook, I don't clean

but let me tell you how I got this app running
Google announces the Firmina subsea cable between the US and Argentina
Brilliant. Race will likely always remain an important cultural concept (for many important reasons) - but this is a compelling demonstration of its fragile foundations.
This wouldn't be a problem if Apple wasn't the only company allowed to sign iPhone apps.
Your original comment claimed that El Salvador spends 22% of its GDP on transfer fees. You've since corrected it to say that the 22% estimate is for the remittances themselves. So why are you acting as if "higher transfer fees" is an accepted premise?
They aren't. No one can play TF1 because the hacker is applying a denial of service attack on the servers.

Worst part is that the denial doesn't appear to be bandwidth-intensive, just a persistent trickle of bad requests. The hacker may even have forgotten they left the script running, somewhere.
I'm no fan of London but saying its entire existence depends on that is a bit of a stretch. That's like saying Ireland's entire reason for existing hinges on its low (zero?) corporation tax. Both are important and I'm sure they'd both suffer if they lost their respective tax advantages, but a death spiral? Maybe not.
McDonald's in South Korea, Taiwan hit by data breach
I don't even get enough grasp of what it does to decide whether I want to spend more time to figure out if it's useful to me. It can't be that hard to explain the thing your project solves/makes possible for me in 5 to 10 lines right?
Women are paying a high price in the online dating world. It’s preying on their weakness the same way porn does for men.

Most women don’t want to sleep around and have a large number of partners. But tinder leads them to believe that they can find an unrealistic partner. And they get hurt by the small percentage of men that play the online dating game well.

Women need a lot more data and time to evaluate a potential partner before initiating contact.
Laughing gas relieves symptoms in people with treatment-resistant depression
‘An0m’ Encrypted-Chat Sting Leads to Arrest of 800
> handing over health information is a relatively small price to pay if it means halting the spread of a virus that has ravaged the nation.

It doesn't mean that.

> “When you consider the hundreds of thousands of people who have died in this pandemic, is it too much to ask to share your heart rate or temperature?” he asks.

Monitored all the time? Hell yeah it's too much. But then, so is the monitoring of smartphones and the search histories stored by Google and the NSA going through people's GMail and Yahoo mail. etc.
Real life currency also has the backing of the economy they represent. That's why USD is "strong" and Zimbabwean dollars were "weak."

Crypto has nothing. It's just environmental destruction and/or pump and dump schemes.
Probably doesn't. Probably just makes it easier to automatically flag.
Well, all these people commenting know both. I have a feeling a majority of people who know about Wapp know WAP, just because of the latter’s overall popularity.
I'm really not sure I understand your argument here. the FDA is quite far from some libertarian ideal of minimal regulation. on the contrary, this news story makes a great example of the dangers of regulatory capture when a government institution literally decides on a case-by-case basis what products are allowed to compete in the market. I personally wouldn't go that far; I think it's worth having some oversight regarding food and drug safety.

since you agree that the FDA does have the necessary legal authority, I'm curious what you think the fix is here. if we give it even more money and legal powers, would that be enough for it to do its job? I somehow doubt that.
We only don't use Itanium nowadays thanks to AMD being allowed to design x86 chips.
India investigates Binance unit's crypto transactions
Slacking has nothing to do with your whereabouts. A person can slack while they are sitting next to you. What you need instead is a way to evaluate performance and take action based on that performance.
Toxin has a real meaning and its not the meaning you are using. mRNA as such isn't toxic, its how your cellular machinery functions. Its removed from your body because that's the mechanism your body uses to produce the effect size it wants and not more, as mRNA production is used as a communication mechanism by your cells. A real toxin disrupts your normal cellular fucntion and / or causes direct damage in some way.

> It's very unclear to me, as a layman, how this artificial "self amplifying RNA" that incorporates elements from a virus is so very different from an actual virus, given that the SARS-CoV-2 is itself basically RNA surrounded by a coating in a form that can self-replicate.

For one, we can implement protocols to ensure the mrna we are generating contains the instructions we want, at the effect size we want. We could go the non mrna route and grow it as a virus, but that is going to be less accurate, more costly, and take longer. We could also just let people develop natural immunity, which will also work. People will get varying effect sizes, and vary from barely immune to dead. Obviously no vaccine and no virus would be the best outcome. But we don't get that choice.
Yes, why on earth would someone use a tool designed to work directly with text to manage a text-based document definition protocol, when so many more complicated options are available?
> We should stop trying to pay for good work, and instead, try to hire people who like doing good work and damn the pay. This is in line with the traditional folk wisdom of Cambridge: “hire good people and let them get on with it”.

> Lastly, to make the economists less greedy, they should be paid less.

Ha, I needed a good chuckle in the morning. I'll be damned if I accept a job where they except high-quality work for pennies. From my conversations, my colleagues share this sentiment. Also, comparing a (severely underpaid for the work they do) post-doc's salary to global income and saying they're doing fine is a bit disingenuous.
-phd candidate in applied econ.
Apple should fix this privacy issue, not try to keep it quiet
yes, through the centuries. where was bitcoin during the French Revolution? Nobody killed anybody for bitcoin during the French Revolution!
That's true, but I don't really see why the drug companies shouldn't pay those costs.
It's too bad that we don't have research positions similar to parish priest postings.

We could assign enthusiastic researchers to underserved primary/secondary school teaching positions relevant to their field. In exchange, the researchers could get an extra stipend and a classroom to use as off-hours lab space.

I guess the hard part would be setting up a good network of remote advisors to help everyone stay on track, without enabling the usual toxic power dynamics of academia.
Some of these results are indeed very surprising. The "correct" result of (double(0.3) - double(0.2) - double(0.1)) is -1 * 2^-54 = -5.5511151231257827e-17, and dividing by three comes out to -1.8503717077085942e-17.

Hence, as far as those functions are concerned, the naive mean yielded the worst error in both tests, but stable_mean coincidentally happens to be the best in the first test. I'm slightly surprised that none of them got the correct result.
Exactly. Tell me what problems it solves, not what features it has.
The fact that so much of it is funded by defence contractors isn't a clue? Google ["Xinjiang" "ASPI"] for examples.

Or maybe the massive buildup of missiles and warplanes around China could be a clues? We are now at a stage where geopolitical hostility with China has a good chance of turning kinetic if exacerbated, and there is funding from exactly the parties that would stand to benefit from that, so I don't see how this lacks evidence.
It’s also a form of perfectionism. I deal with exactly what you are describing with a family member of mine. A part of his problem is that, I shit you not, I sincerely believe he thinks he is too good for a labor/service job, or community college, or coursera, or the gym, dating someone not perfect, etc. It didn’t go his way for so long, but the ego is still there. And what is the ego exactly if not an intense defense mechanism. They have lost all ability to slowly chip away at a problem.

No, you probably won’t get an office job in the next 5 years. Maybe in the next 10. No, you won’t have enough money to move out the next 5 years, but maybe in 10. Nope, you aren’t get laid anytime soon. Few people can accept the timeline and the sheer effort it will take, and the sheer time. That’s the crux of the problem, that they are truly behind and cannot deal with the time investment required.

Enough with the lies, and start from zero. The effort it takes to be just mediocre in this world is understated.
Which is why I say the toughest battles are ahead. Once US decides to use every tool in the toolbox to undermine Bitcoin, Elon's tweets are going to look like a joke.

They can ban on/off-ramps, they can crater it's value by making it illegal, but they can't stop the network itself, in the same way that torrents are still very much alive today.
It's not zero: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/top-10-companies...

To be fair though, the old approach was only to pay tax on irish revenue, which was almost zero, given how small Ireland is.
It also has a bs annual "support" cost of $180 so short of robbing one of them, you're better off waiting for the root method for the Quest 2 becoming publicly available or if you like to live a little dangerously, just use the workaround for the login that I did (search it on Youtube, I'd rather not detail it on this site).

Every time you violate the tos of a company like Facebook, you're making the world a better place and I'm only half joking.
> Cyroptocoin fundamentals don't offer much (any?) value over digitized fiat systems once externalities are considered.

If I'm not mistaken, Bitcoin whitepaper was originally about easy P2P payments. Bitcoin has not full-filled this vision yet, but the cryptosphere as a whole is working on this (if you ignore the hype and speculation).

Visa/Mastercard, PayPal, banks can block or prohibit any kind of transactions if they wish so.

Look up stories of sex workers, OnlyFans creators etc about being banned from using these traditional payments systems.

Also look up fees that some banks charge for remittances - those range from 1.5 to 12% of the amount [1], depending where you're sending it. This does not include the cost of getting a bank account and a debit/credit card in those countries. Receiving a SWIFT transfer may be an issue if you don't have the necessary documents that explain why you have received the money.

PayPal actually does not even support most of the worlds countries. If you're writing a book you want to sell online, but Paypal doesn't support your country - you will NOT be able to get the money out of the publishing platform (gumroad [2], if you need an example). People are excluded from the creator economy.

Banks in developing countries use legal workarounds to get more fees from merchants using their systems or pay terminals. Merchants often have no choice but to raise prices, accept cash only or use some other kinds of P2P solutions.

And don't get me started on the absolutely insane inheritance taxes in some countries - the state is effectively robbing people (and their descendants) after their death.

[1] https://remittanceprices.worldbank.org/en

[2] https://help.gumroad.com/article/223-payoneer-and-gumroad
CDs suck. You are much better off buying the lossless digital version or paying more for vinyl. I say this as someone who cultivated a handsome CD collection years ago when Amazon used to sell classics for $5-8 brand new.

-- The jewel cases are flimsy, and just opening one too quickly can cause the hinge to snap.

-- Scratches and skipping. This has been a problem forever, and there's no solution.

-- Liner notes: I miss the times when bands would stuff in thick liner notes full of pictures, notes, trivia and lyrics. A lot of acts don't bother putting anything substantive in the notes. This is unfortunately true of vinyl as well, but at least vinyl artwork is large (12" x 12") and can be used as a decorative element in your home.
Aside from the environmental issue, I think Bitcoin is a poorly designed currency that ignores economic history/principles.

I have a really low expectation of it being able to provide price stability.
Just search for that model laptop battery on Amazon. You'll likely find a slew of Chinese replacement batteries.

See if there is a YouTube or iFixit tear down guide, take the bottom cover off, replace battery, put the cover back on.
No, it's absolutely part of the equation. The internet has been an absolute game changer for how the human libido is satisfied. Pornography went from something rarely seen and socially awkward to acquire to something that is now ubiquitous, instant access, and even individualized. In fact, you have to go out of your way to avoid seeing sexual content on the internet.
Network security firm COO charged with medical center cyberattack
I’m finding it really hard to understand how this met approval to ‘give patients an option’ when the government just recently passed laws to expand access for unapproved drugs. We even have expanded access programs that have been possible for years, with rapid turnaround when requested.

Maybe it’s easy to understand and it’s about money? Or is this a policy shift in the FDA to just approve ‘safe’ medications and not necessarily hold marketing approval for futility.
I love the new tendency to use Polish (and other languages') names for programs!
Common sense reforms like voter ID laws and paper ballots don't discourage people from voting. They are commonly used in most functioning democracies around the world.
> Growth of crypto-assets threatens financial stability and could increase risks faced by banks, they warn

> Crypto-assets have given rise to a range of concerns including consumer protection, money laundering and terrorist financing, and their carbon footprint

Sounds to me, it's little more than just limiting borrowing.