skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think about how loose medical science used to be (and for how long)! leeches, bloodletting, miasma, ridiculous enemas and all sorts of outright nonsense. We've got a lot more mistakes to make, but social sciences will improve too.
Coca-Cola, it's got what plants crave!

[1] https://youtu.be/ZMHfBobgLSI?t=70
Simple the law should be written in a technology agnostic way. Something along the lines o f"Services shall not track user behavior beyond what is necessary to render service, and user behavior shall not be sold to, shared with, or otherwise made useable by third parties without user consent" Then it doesn't matter what technology you come up with in the future it is covered.
It's like there's a pattern of behavior here that needs a more generic solution?
Actually, I think it is conventional neural networks which can only approximate finite state machines. RNNs are (in theory, not so much in practice) Turing complete.
Yes, that's what I had in mind. I can make an HTTP request and (usually) get a response, even with intermediate routing failures, repeated packets, dropped packets, out-of-order packets, etc.
Looks like they’re using feature detection and Firefox is missing that feature

https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/76550#issuecomm...
So would you say the times when "things were good" was before modern suburbanism, or in other words the 1940s and earlier?
She doesn't reside in US, read the text. She lives in Suriname and was just flying through (or temporarily to) the US.
I agree with you mostly, but it's worth noting that modern meta-science had its blossoming in psychology in the 1960s, with the development of meta-analysis (with educational psychology and clinical psychology). Technically the origins are much earlier, in the 30s(?) in statistics, but as a field I think it took off around that time, and spread.

Similarly, the replication crisis was being discussed in a lot of areas, especially in psychology, throughout this time, but was largely ignored until after the Bem ESP study. Registered replications aren't new, nor is concern about meta-science; it's just had renewed focus in recent years for various reasons.

It's not all that surprising to me that meta-science is associated with psychology. After all, not only is psychology often sort of fuzzy (by necessity of its subject matter), but it's the science of human behavior, which I think can lay claim to scientist behavior as well.

I think it's arguably the greatest contribution of psychology to the sciences in general.
> empires have exerted effective territorial control while communication one way took weeks.

That's because the effective territorial control was not exercised by the central government of the empire, but by territorial governments that were on the spot and that had pretty much complete authority to act on their own initiative without getting permission from the central government. They only had to meet very general policy goals. So the speed of communication with the central government was not relevant to the effectiveness of the territorial control.

The question is whether a territorial government on, say, Mars would have the same loyalty to the central government on Earth that, say, British territorial governors had to the British empire. Without that loyalty on the part of the territorial governments that are on the spot, there is in fact no way for the central government to effectively control territories.
Of course margin factors into it. It always does. Margin accounts for all of that profit.

Looks like their net margin was about 10%. Which isn't super low. But it's no 30% plus like many of the tech giants.
Yeah so it is not science but rather philosophy and it is called Epistemology and not metascience. Even though I suppose metascience would be an apt description in a way.
Who made your MVP?

What is the current technical stack?

Is this the landing page https://truckdesk.us/ ?
It is normal for someone so young to be put in a high position of power purely to address one issue? (Tech monopolies)

From what I understand, Ms. Khan wrote some influential papers against tech monopolies. Congress, wanting to address these monopolies, put her in charge of the FTC purely for this reason, as she has very little experience in anything I would assume to be necessary for running a massive government office.

It seems odd to me, but I don’t really follow the FTC. Am I just being cynical? I don’t get this move and it feels very one-dimensional to me.
>3) Hard lockouts (rather than more nuanced rate limiting etc) requiring password resets.

>4) Password reset options are weak and not protected.

These are pretty much impossible to both satisfy. At the end of the day you need to think of computer accounts as ephemeral or have some out of band access to the administrative staff.
You already answered your question.

1. You spent hours building a small Go tool, assuming your hour is worth at least a $100 (certainly more) and say you spent 5 hours, that's $500.
2. You deployed it on a VM, that's $5 a month
3. You need to keep it updated and manage it, so let's say you spend 1 hour a month. That's a $100 a month.

So right now you spent $500 upfront, and $105 a month to keep it going, and that's assuming 1 hour a month which is crazy low.

You can replace that entire cost with a static Y x 0.001 + what ever up front cost to convert the system to use Svix, which can be factored into the system cost. I have 50,000 users, each user has 1 webhook I need 50,000 x average number of messages a month. Just add that on top of the system monthly cost.

It's a lot easier to manage from a business/accounting point of view a SAAS then your own homebrew.
I have owned a reMarkable 2 since January of this year. While it isn't perfect, I am happy with my purchase. The software updates are stable, the build quality of the hardware is solid.

I love the distraction free writing and this is the main reason I bought it along with school. I put on some Brain.fm and I tend to get lost in my focus and I don't realize hours have gone by.

I have heard that their customer service isn't very good and that devices are hard to get repaired. I haven't had an issues yet and fingers crossed because this is my biggest worry. Something breaks and I am out $600.

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They seem to have caught up somewhat for the April report, but March was extremely delay. News article below.

I’m not an expert, but I think an attestation just examines if a statement makes sense. My accountant did one for my revenues and the percent that were in USD. I sent them a spreadsheet with my revenues from various sources and calculations showing total USD.

The accountant verified that my spreadsheet said what I said it said. However, they did not actually verify the info underying the spreadsheet beyond examining some screenshots of customer addresses I provided. They samples a handful at random.

In USDC’s case, I think the auditor would look at a bank statement and say “the bank statement on May 31st indeed says Circle has $X” and Circle says this money is theirs for backing USDC.

Stuff they wouldn’t verify:

* Was the money there before that specific minute of the day?

* Did it remain there after?

* Was the money from deposits, or was it from a loan or some other source? (Bitfinex did this with a prior attestation, mixing up Bitfinex’s money and reserve funds)

So most people would assume these attestations mean “At all times USDC had backing of basically all of their tokens by $ in a bank account, free and unencumberer” but the attestations don’t examine that claim at all. They examine a very specific moment in time, and don’t examine the source of the funds.

In an audit you might actually examine the accounts at a time not chosen by Circle.

https://news.bitcoin.com/usdc-attestations-run-late-raising-...
What matters more is recognizing the grand variance of human experience, and that while some may take a lifetime to accumulate even a little wisdom, others can possess unusual abilities and perspectives at any age. It's not like this is news, history is full of such young figures.
I think parents may tend to be afraid of the wrong things, but there's plenty of things to be scared of. My oldest walks herself around Brooklyn daily and my number one fear by a mile is her getting hit by a car. Also, I think every single woman I know who rode the subway regularly as a teenager was accosted or flashed by a crazy person at least once if not routinely. Certainly they grew up without permanent injury, but I don't think I'm depriving my kid of a valuable life lesson by protecting them from that.
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Its utility [1]. The social sciences study a lot of things that people in group A intuitively understand that group B can be completely ignorant of - say, for example, how to navigate a complex social structure like office politics in a modern workplace. Making any sort of predictions about intangible outcomes where the Hawthorne effect is in full effect is pretty much impossible since group A will respond to the new knowledge gained by group B, in effect changing the system we're trying to predict. Individual's psychologies respond to the changing psychology of the group in nondeterministic ways (at least, relative to our ability to collect data on input variables and internal state).

We can bikeshed what makes something a "science" till the cows come home but the philosophy of science and epistemology were not settled with Bacon and Popper - the end goal has always understanding in the broadest sense. Those studies have value as long as they help someone make sense of and adapt to the social systems they're in. It does mean though that those studies should be approached with extreme caution (see the decades wasted on string theory) and anyone basing their research off past results needs to carefully validate their assumptions.

[1] I think in this case "predictive" as a scientific term of art is too restricting. Social sciences often deal with very personal interactions that appear nondeterministic at the scale of a society but are relatively predictable when applied to a stereotypical office or school setting.
Since graduating she has worked as

Legal director at the Open Markets Institute, became Columbia Law School academic fellow, a Legal Fellow at the FTC, counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law (leading the congressional investigation) and published The Separation of Platforms and Commerce.
They're not really pyramids though. If you're a baseball player, you either make a lot of money by most people's standards, albeit for a possibly short career, or you basically don't make much at all, even if you can play in the minors.

Law isn't quite so stark. You don't have to be at a white shoe firm to do OK (corporate counsel, prosperous practice in a smaller city) but a lot of lawyers certainly make pretty modest salaries.
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I agree, it doesn't seem that extreme to me. Maybe something like letting your 9 year old get on a bus to another state, without a phone, and telling them "come back when you're done having fun!" would be extreme.
But if there is danger in a Twitter mob, that mob can savage you just as easily if you are not on the platform. It’ll just take you a little longer to find out about it.
Some more great probabilistic python libraries:

https://github.com/datamade/usaddress - "usaddress is a Python library for parsing unstructured address strings into address components, using advanced NLP methods."

https://github.com/datamade/probablepeople - "probablepeople is a python library for parsing unstructured romanized name or company strings into components, using advanced NLP methods."
$200k is an absolutely great salary, congrats ! :)
Big Tech is the only one that actually competes with Journalism's business model. Facebook and Google destroyed media outlets' hold on advertising and disseminating information.
I was looking at Kata containers a few days ago. I'm pretty new to trying to use VMs/containers for services; purely hobby level. Couldn't figure out how to use them, but that's not necessarily a knock on them as I also can't get OpenBSD wireguard to work either.
Yup, I commented before finishing the text based on where she was arrested.

The point still stands I think. Yes, it's not as flagrant as living in the US. But you'd think a person engaged in this kind of thing would feel reluctant to have a layover in a country that cooperates closely with US law enforcement let alone Miami.
I have a Stephen Mitchell translated Tao Te Ching which I read cover to cover whenever I feel stuck.

Will take a look at this as well, thanks.
Very interesting video. Seems pretty clear that Tether is a scam, as people have been saying for years at this point. However, I would be surprised if Tether's downfall really has much of a significant effect on bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. I mean, maybe for a week or two, but not for any significant length of time.
I love the moments when you can point back to an old post and say, "called that!"

(No snark, I really do love it.)

Enjoy the moment, future seer.
The first things ever happened in the digital world
Interestingly, this empowers people who hold beliefs so deviant that they're universally subject to sanction.

They've already paid the reputation tax, and are now free to use the technology to its maximum benefit, when in earlier times they'd have been outsiders in their community struggling to find like minded allies through creepy newsletters or pamphlets
Jaroop is hiring a Director of Engineering
> nobody outside of the design staff understood how the algorithm was weak

And, as I mention, pointing that out was a contribution of the paper.

> or (AFAIK) precisely what the criteria for "weak" actually were

I think this 40 bit limit is well documented for other encryption algorithms. I couldn't find it in any (old) US regulation text though after a cursory search.

The "U.S. edition" supported full size (typically 1024-bit or larger) RSA public keys in combination with full size symmetric keys (secret keys) (128-bit RC4 or 3DES in SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0). The "International Edition" had its effective key lengths reduced to 512 bits and 40 bits respectively (RSA_EXPORT with 40-bit RC2 or RC4 in SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
While I think there is some validity in your point. I also think there is value in sometimes bringing in someone young and without the years of baggage/relationships that morph their views and may also leave them with "favors" they need to return once in power. I can't see an industry veteran being willing to make such drastic changes without worrying about who they would offend.
For the third time now, being behind (some parts of) Europe doesn’t make a country “third world”. Also, I agree that GDP is imperfect—no one is claiming any indicator is perfect. However, the median US adult also has more wealth than the median European adult, and that figure isn’t skewed by billionaires. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_...
I had horrible physicals side effects with Adderall, I was switch to Desoxyn and I get no physical side effects from it. I just get clear headed with no speedy feel in the body or cramps. Adderall always made me clear headed, but also jittery in the body and gave me the worst cramps but the biggest one that I was not going to put up with is Adderall killed the marital bed performance, but funny enough not the desire, that was a deal breaker for me.
"Always"... is that a fact? Do you mind lending me that time-machine you're sitting on?

Sounds like a bit of faith is mixed in with your argument. Sounds a bit hypocritical to me.

You've placed your faith in the established system and are likely seeking to handicap the competition. How brave and noble.
I'm not sure what that means or how the second statement follows. You can't firewall the kernel from making network socket calls either, because the kernel is what implements the firewall. Of course the service manager is going to have higher privileges than every other process on the system, because it has to supervise all the other processes.
Yea, I would think if it was a peer state, they wouldn't risk compromising their technology just to get a closer look at a fleet of US ships that have lesser tech. The only thing I can think of for another state risking compromise is to prep the battlefield. Not really sure how deep the water is in these locations, but some nukes hiding underwater where US fleets navigate consistently could be useful if a conflict erupts. But even in that case, I can't think of a reason why they would do it during the day and not night and risk visual identification from pilots.
How is expecting man free to point to the stdlib function a bad argument? man malloc goes to the function so why shouldn't man free? How would anyone just know that the command free exists _without already being familiar with a linux environment_ ?
Ding ding ding. We have a winner.

In a democracy, the media has all the real power. That’s why we’re seeing endless op-eds against tech.
Yeah, that's a disturbing trend.

I once had to give a restaurant a bad review for requiring a phone number in their in-person, dine-in order workflow. I just told them that I don't ask for their wait staff's phone numbers and require it to be a customer. They shouldn't require mine, either. I have cash and credit cards and having money in hand should be enough to be a customer. Period.

I was able to use fake phone numbers for vaccine appointments and most other things.
For many of us, our biggest beef with systemd is that it has no planned limitations to its scope. (This has already been discussed to death so I will try to be brief.) Let's look at the actual current code size. I just cloned the systemd Github repo (git clone https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git) and this is what I got:

$ wc `find . \( -name \*.c -o -name \*.h \) -print`
[ ... ]
37 89 1100 ./src/xdg-autostart-generator/xdg-autostart-service.h
677446 2077830 23953433 total

(Simple wc includes blank lines and comment lines and we could be fancier but wc will do.) Now compare the same thing with OpenRC (git clone https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc):

$ wc `find . \( -name \*.c -o -name \*.h \) -print`
[ ... ]
56 242 2209 ./src/rc/_usage.h
17263 53243 419162 total

So 677,446 lines vs. 17,263 lines.

Lennart just keeps adding to systemd and refuses to say when he will finally stop adding to it. How many skilled humans on this planet are available to audit those 600k+ lines of systemd code and are actually auditing it? (And how many work for intelligence agencies?)
I have the beta and it currently doesn’t appear to work.
> getting hung for pickpocketing

When/where did this happen?
The issue is the harm being described in apocalyptic terms by the astro community is not being weighed properly against the benefits to

1) humanity

2) astronomy in longer run.

It's become clear that at least the folks making the news are not going to be innovating. The cost reduction in space access represented by starlink should be a wake up a call to someone somewhere to think about could be done by embracing the SpaceX approach.

I'm not an astronomer, but I am a photographer. The fact that astronomers shoot these ridiculous shots showing insane streaks across their photos makes no sense. I could eliminate those trivially with a multi-exposure process for the types of photos being shown. I get the some things with ultra long integration times may not be able to take that approach, but again, the apparent helplessness of astronomers to manage even basic steps is revealing.

And then - why not consider what could be gained by looking at things in a new way from space? The physics is almost always better up there for looking at other stars and space.
Yes, this is the exact storyline that was pushed by the mainstream media. Repeating it doesn't make it true but reinforces the counter argument.

There were a lot of clues that it might indeed have originated from a lab but these were selectively ignored, thus it "didn't amount to a theory".
And if one misses the short incomprehensible aliases, the common commandlets have those by default anyway. `cat` is `gc`, `grep` is `sls`, `ls` is `gci`, ...

Same for switches and parameters. You don't have to miss `rm -rf foo/`, it's just `ri -re -fo foo/`
A good start would be something like Probability Theory: the Logic of Science By E. T. Jaynes: http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussia...

Also, the difference between a bad method and a good method, is that the good method makes more accurate, better calibrated predictions (that is, using it makes us better gamblers).
I don't think it's obvious at all.

They gave one example of how she got hired, but not a comprehensive list of every feature she made.
American politics is a sequence of issues left to fester followed by severe overreactions.
32 doesn't seem "so young" to me, given that you only need to be 35 to be president.
100% agree.

Most other things I accept the risk, but cars around kids worry the hell out of me. Drivers don’t pay attention, kids don’t either. Even places with sidewalks, it doesn’t take a lot of things to go wrong before taller SUVs can easily have a tire hop onto the curb.
>I did read all of your answers. From them, I was at least able to understand that you've got a personal problem with docs. No shame in that, many people are the same. That must be part of a bias such as those that you talk about so often.

Could be true. I don't think it's personal though. I think doctors have a real problem. But then again that could be just my bias. Hard to determine it either way. You can't prove it's bias any more than I can prove it's not.

I will say my thoughts apply exclusively to US doctors as my experience has solely been with them. Additionally the exorbitant costs and comparative worse quality of care then their European counterparts could exacerbating my bias if bias is what's going on here.

>Now, you associated "I am a researcher in that field" with "docs think their patients are inferior beings". So, how about a reference supporting your statement? Or were those statements accidentally associated?

I didn't make this association at all. I stated I'm a researcher in the field to give more credibility to an example I made that was used to illustrate a point.

This association was accidentally invented by you.

I do think that subconsciously US docs think of their patients as less intelligent and they tend to dismiss the opinions of the patients and just solely rely on their training to arrive at a predetermined conclusion. This has nothing to do with my background at all.

Also can we get off of my background? My background should have nothing to do with what I'm talking about here.
It was probably an employee retention program. "Wait you really want to go work for that new NSA thing, when you could be here watching people try to have sex while tripping off acid? Suit yourself, man."
Why do they want that though? They can still remember you, right, since you’re logged in?
Mark Zuckerberg is 37. How are we deciding who has power? Is he the right person for that massive office?