skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the currently available options intended to fix a particular problem don't actually fix the problem

Sounds like your expectation is too high. Either something stops climate change in its tracks, or it's not worth doing. Small incremental improvements? Nah, it won't solve the problem so let's not bother.

>doing nothing is clearly a better option in the short term.

But what about the long term?
Cephalopods are quite intelligent too, there's plenty of intelligence in non-mammals.
Standard "think of the children" logic. Plenty of countries will put up hashes of LGBT content, "incorrect" religious content, etc
People can understand that without knowing about bit-shift operators in a given language.

I know about them because I had to. My first computer had 4K of RAM. When I hit the limits of Applesoft BASIC, which didn't take long, I had to learn 6502 assembler. Later, I've done things like writing protocol decoders, so I've also learned them in Python.

But I think it's perfectly reasonable to have a solid career and never use these. To forget that they ever existed, because one is solving problems where they're just not relevant anymore. Our field is too big to know everything, so I think it's fine that people focus on different aspects of the work.
It seems we've been talking past each other, so as a last ditch effort to reconcile our perspectives - we are in agreement that there is no definitive evidence that vaccines are the sole origin of the current variants. In fact it's likely that neutral genetic drift was the origin.

What I provided evidence for, and what we also seem to agree on, is that "They provide a plausible mechanism by which future variants may be caused (or enhanced) by vaccines".

> But simply none have done so by now.

Time will tell - we just don't have the scientific evidence to support a conclusion either way on this yet.
What makes you think I care what the author meant to say? I'm discussing how people read it.
> It's fuzzy hash, not ""AI"", based. Cloudflare uses it too, and last time i checked the web is still functional.

If they're using fuzzy matching with perceptual hashes, then the space that false positives can exist in for each perceptual hash is huge.
What law prompted this new feature we are discussing here?
94% of English adults have Covid antibodies, ONS data shows
> By funding and participating in the system, we give the system legitimacy and only make the system stronger and the problems worse. Exiting is the high leverage and most effective option.

Very interesting indeed.
There's also a higher percentage of whites vs Asians in prison, and of men vs women. I guess that proves the justice system is biased against white men.
Under that definition, almost all income would be considered capital gains.
its clear how your situation could be abused. i am not suggesting that you have done this, but that it creates an interesting loophole for the wealthy by harboring investements into other countries capital.

Lets say you are a 0.1%er who happens to live in canada. Invest everything on canadas terms, then move to the USA. receive foodstamps, welfare checks and the likes for XX years. Go back to canadian citizenship and cash out. Darn, looks like tax payers supported the ultra wealthy while they just got richer eh?
A completely new way of swating someone
The last line in this article is the most insane one of them all.

> ... Bento, who did not respond to a request for comment, said officials in that office had instructed him not to hand over any documents related to Castleberry’s 2006 drug case, including all records filed after May 2017 that actually pertained to Spriestersbach.

> Spriestersbach was not entitled to the documents, officials said.

> The reason: He was not the defendant in that case. He was not Thomas Castleberry.

They are saying he is not allowed to get the documents for the case which he was the main suspect and subsequently hospitalized for since the documents for the case is for the other person. Even though it happened to him and not the other person. I'm dumbfounded.
That makes no sense to me because for every child a daughter has, someone's son had a child. It has to balance out unless someone invents monkey mitosis.
Thoughts on crypto as viable currencies aside, I have always been impressed by the engineering.
At least given today's political environment, I can very well see a simple argument consisting of:

* "The only reason to use a mixer is to hide money"

* "You joined a pool of millions of individuals, all of whom had the explicit goal of hiding money from the traditional financial system".

* "You (probably) knew that the money you get in your output wallet comes from a random individual in the pool".

As such, the implicit assumption in a reasonable person's mind is: this money you got is absolutely from someone else who was trying to hide their money. The law also states that aiding and abetting them is illegal in of itself.

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> If it works so that any "dirty money" is purged out within the next few transactions, then they might have to prove that you sent or received funds close to those distribution windows and had specific knowledge that some specific illegal act was likely occurring at that time.

Well, the issue with "faster moving" mixers is that it more closely connects the dirty money with the source. "Slow moving" mixers with larger pools are more entangled, harder to know where the money came from.

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I dunno. The RAII has been mildly successful in court over IP addresses used in Bittorrent peers, right? That seems to be roughly the same level of involvement as we're seeing here. I'm not necessarily saying you're going to get jailtime, but you probably will be roped into the court case if someone in your pool was doing something sketchy.
I first heard about the idea of letting some fires burn in The West Wing, which is „pop culture“ if anything is.
Yep, Google can break SHA1, so what hash are they using? Proprietary information I assume.
Amazon postpones return to office until January 2022
I don't think there is a great prescriptive process here to follow, and we've kind of backed ourselves into a corner (but again I am not a forestry expert).

The current practice is not a good equilibrium, but neither is going back to allowing most fires to burn out naturally. Going back to what worked before sounds appealing (minus the smoke), but really it's not likely to work again the second time around because of everything else that has changed. So an ideal solution is probably going to need to be more complicated.
No, it's more the reverse, and it has validity. "Look, even medical professionals have concerns" is a soundbite that loses a lot of its weight when you realize that in some cases, you are looking at MAs with 20 weeks of schooling, LPNs, or even CNAs (who could have had as few as 85 hours of schooling) as "medical professionals" - they can have opinions, validity, concerns - but holding them up as medical professionals worthy of higher merit to their concern has varying degrees of flimsiness.

This isn't to knock those concerns. But while neither an MD, an LPN, or a layperson is an epidemiologist, we should be exalting the opinions of them by virtue of their authority. Not because you _need_ to be an epidemiologist to have a valid opinion, but because the above buys you no more merit, in and of itself.
…and crows are one of the smartest of all, yet have relatively tiny brains.
> And now they will evolve by developing a simple system to modify pixels in images when they copy and transmit that will easily defeat this hashing system

They don't use simple file hashes to match images, but perceptual hashes. That way they can find modified derivatives of a source image. The problem with this approach, though, is that this is ripe for false positives. Two completely unrelated images can have similar hashes.
My understanding is that octopus limbs are semi-autonomous, whereas giraffe legs aren't doing any more decision-making than they are for people or cats.

Which is not to say that I disagree that most people underestimate animal intelligence.
I've used Affinity products a lot over the last few years - Photo and Designer specifically (moreso Designer). Sorry in advance for what will be a negative comment.

For those unaware, these are $50 USD one-time payment alternatives for Adobe products; Photoshop -> Photo, Illustrator -> Designer.

I think Photo is the more developed product, but Designer is what I really need on a day to day basis and it lacks a LOT of the basic features that Illustrator has.

The rendering engine is pretty poorly implemented. Rotating an object oftentimes fills the entire AABB of the rotated shape with black, which also persists into the layer previews as well. Rotating around causes this black box to flicker. It's been reported before and they do little about it.

Exports are rough too. Exporting to raster formats causes insane amounts of blur that are not present in other editors. The developers tell you to increase resolution, as if I don't know what I'm doing. Increasing the resolution is not the solution to everything, and it seems like crisp edges are not well handled in either product when dealing with vector objects.

The constraint system is entirely bugged out and doesn't work for more than a few trivial (and thus useless) cases.

Some of the panes (e.g. the guide pane) cause crashes when opened. Reproducible every time, reported more than a year ago, to my knowledge hasn't been fixed.

People posting bugs or feature requests on the forums are met with "come on guys stop being so mean"-type comments when we're all paying customers too and are a bit miffed about simple things causing our projects to crash, cause rendering issues, or waste time in other ways.

Further, some of the devs' responses have been lackluster, vaporous promises or, in some cases, outright rude and dismissive.

Looking at the glassdoor and some other review sites, it seems the company has a real problem with project management and directional focus, which seems to all fall in line with how the product is perceived after doing some pretty extensive work with it.

Overall, sure, you'll get your money's worth, but I would have happily paid more if it meant getting a more stable product, honestly.

Use if you're in a pinch, but don't think it'll be a cheaper, more grassroots drop-in replacement to CS (even if you don't need e.g. content-aware capabilities and the like, which of course Affinity doesn't have). Even basic usage can be a real PITA.

Beats GIMP and Inkscape any day of the week, though.
"Cannabis is a good proxy, states can keep it illegal and not make tax revenue or they can legalize it, control it and tax it."

That should be a great proxy, but regulators have so overburdened legal dispensaries that they need to be bailed out. Illegal sources could have been easily been made extinct or at least sidelined, but are still able to thrive because the overhead to get a license and stay licensed is so immense.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-14/californ...
Blue Origin’s powerful BE-4 engine is more than four years late–here’s why
This is also peculiar because they could have rubbed his nose in it after hearing him saying he was the wrong guy for the hundredth time with, “See this photo, this is you!” “Oh, wait. Shit!”

I’m guessing this did occur at some point behind the scenes and it caused them to cover it up even more.
Not sure about Latin America, but bring someone from each of China/Japan/Korea and they'll talk to each other in English.
It makes sense for website owners to scan what's being uploaded to their servers, but that is totally different from scanning what's stored locally on people's devices.
Cool, unreal 5 is shaping up great.
AmigaOS/Workbench relied pretty heavily on custom parts of the Amiga hardware, which is how it performed so well compared to other architectures with similar specs.

That can be overcome with enough brute force; although emulators like FS-UAE can still struggle to keep realtime with some workloads.

There are FPGA reimplementations of Amiga hardware, if you wanted something more 'realistic'.
24?

Try being in EMS.

24... 36... 48. The private ambulance company I used to work for allowed you to work 60 hours straight, and then required an 8-12 hour break, if you wanted to work up to another 60.
Calling this entire argument out as non-factual. Oregon, Washington and Hawaii all are leading the nation in vaccination rate per capita. The idea of natural immunity is unfounded. You might have immunity BECAUSE you already had COVID.

The idea that "infections per capita" trumps vaccination rate when determining future infections rates is just ridiculous.

And claiming this is a hit job on a red state is just as foolish. Arkansas is one of the laggards in vaccinations, and the Delta variant is showing why they're paying the price.
Googling, just the first one that comes up, suggests that median income for "software developer" in USA is $86,523. Meaning half make less, half make more. $100K is the 75th percentile, meaning 75% make less. (https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Software-Developer-Sal...)

Some people that work in especially high-paid sub-industries have a mistaken idea of what typical "technical enough to frequent this web site" (?!) people make.

And even if most software developers did make over $100K, it could still be a lot of money? The median income in USA as a whole looks to be about $52K, with $100K being about 83rd percentile (83% of USA makes less than $100K).
Did something similar some time ago: http://quantifiedcode.github.io/code-is-beautiful/
Except the middle man can actually serve a purpose here. I would actually like someone to distill highly academic articles full of technical jargon into layman's terms that I can skim in a few minutes. The fact they don't link the original paper is just bad journalism.

It's also bad journalism when newspapers frequently misunderstand the original source completely or sensationalize one piece of the source completely out of context for extra clicks. But, there's not much we can do about that.

I hope we get more alternative media sources like Two Minute Papers (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg), who actually understand the subject matter, summarizing the latest research in various fields.
I'm as against this as anyone,but to be blunt:

This is digital biowarfare material of the worst kind and should be handled as such.

Any researcher downloading this material to anything but lab machines should probably receive a visit from the relevant authorities to make sure they understand the seriousness of it.
My takeaway is that nobody should speak English, but instead people should compose their sentences in a different language and then translate them to English at the point of speaking (with small pauses in the conversation for you to collect your thoughts on this garbage).
Regarding practical applications, shift operators are only useful to slice and align masks and bitfields: something meaningful, simple and basic, but usually done only in specific domains (e.g. handling a certain style of compact file formats) that it is perfectly normal to avoid for a whole lifetime.

On the other hand, in theory bit shift operators are more important: if you don't know what they do and why you would want to do it, and if you don't know that they are fast and cheap to implement in a microprocessor and why, you cannot possibly have a good grasp of how computers work, and you shouldn't be allowed to use any remotely "low-level" programming language.
Many people earn a lot more than that. I agree. Where I disagree is that I don't see what's unjust about asking them to pay tax for a system they benefit from.
In the past I would use “Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions”. The last question is on bit twiddling. A sample question might be “count how many bits in this byte are 1”.

I don’t know if it is fair to assume that all developers know this stuff. When interviewing engineers who claimed experience with anything embedded (MCU programming or field busses like CAN or modbus), I don’t know how it would be possible to program anything at the lowest layers without but shifting. But even in an embedded world you spend most of your time writing application logic.

Outside of the embedded world you can get away with repenting things without worrying about bits. Particularly in higher level languages it might be more natural to have a strict with several named bools or an array of bools.

One language that makes working with bitfields much more pleasant is C#. You can apply a Flags attribute to an enum type. At runtime it represented by an int, so it’s fast. But it also has handy methods for converting to and from a string form that gives names to all the bits that are set. So it’s fairly friendly for logging and debugging.

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-pho...
Kept all what benefits? People who fled the US are now living under some other country's benefits, and pay taxes there instead.

Don't citizens of (almost) every other country in the world have the ability to go live abroad and keep all their benefits, whatever they are? I'm not following where Americans can actually get away with anything special.
The guys weren't cutting it any more. They were not delivering on the expectations of the group (growing it). Life became too harsh and stressful for them, they are not even mating any more, since the offspring couldn't be fed, so they stop breading with the females. Still: Everyone is disappointed and the males know it, too... affecting their behavior which gets less dominant/aggressive. The females are now in focus, since they procreated more reliably (on average, the old alpha, that had a lot of offspring, is likely dead by now). The shift to a female leader means the population is in trouble and in decline. A crisis manager(female) gets installed.

Note that typically older males mate with (much) younger females: It's no coincidence, that she is that much younger than her male counter parts: She is angry about her mating partners that they have stopped mating (with her). Older females have offspring. The old alpha male, which is dead, has a lot of offspring. The external life conditions just became too harsh, this is not a happy setup. There are 2 strategies, but one is to react on external circumstances (stop procreating), instead of blindly going ahead and having to stem the bill later (starving babies). Apes are intelligent enough for the first, but there are furious women now (including "her").
> alert was never a W3C standard. It was a non-standard browser feature that happened to be widely implemented in the early days of the web. It was never part of any planned/agreed addition of well-thought-out features to the web.

That's the case for flatten too, it was just a widely used library, but the point is not to respect the standards but to not break the web.
Could it be because you're eligible for social security even if you don't reside in the US? I'm not sure about medicare or unemployment benefits.
>Have you actually monitored the bus using probes

Isn't this the definition of FUD?

>Did you check that the TPM is only connected to LPC?

Dunno, you tell me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TPM_Asus.jpg
>At current levels, bitcoin uses very roughly 0.1% of global electricity but electricity only represents 25% of fossil fuels emissions so current PoW contribution to global emissions = 0.025%, ie a rounding error.

How does this argument make sense? Let's split up the world's energy consumption into 0.025% emission sized chunks in some arbitrary way we choose. Does nothing then make any difference, since everything is just a rounding error? The question is, does bitcoin provide value for the emissions it generates? For what it's worth, estimates seem to put the current usage at around 0.6% of total worldwide energy consumption.
Some years are fine, just subtract the earned income exemption and move on. Others are nightmares.

Unlike in America, where there are accountants lurking around every corner, the tax code here is very "simple" (the vast majority of people probably never fill out a tax return in their lives). This means accountants charge like you're some sort of multi-millionaire business owner (since that's who their clients typically are). My last quote to get US & domestic taxes filed here when I was a grad student was $6,000 on a total income of <$50k. My situation wasn't that complicated - I had 2 part time jobs, won a competition prize for $20,000 and sold some stock.

I just did my best to file on my own. I probably got something wrong since it's crazy confusing. Prizes are tax-free here, but taxable in the US and not typically "earned income" but are maybe covered by the foreign income exemption or a dual taxation agreement (since I did have to report it to the taxman here, the tax rate was just zero). I literally couldn't afford to figure out how much tax I owed and to who - nevermind the taxes themselves!

Hopefully the IRS doesn't care enough to seize me the next time I visit my family. I tried my best, but that doesn't necessarily mean much in court. I think a lot of the problem is with the American tax code in general, but American accountants know nothing about the tax code here so I can't just ring up H&R Block and ask them to file over zoom (I've tried). Meanwhile, the only accountants who know about American taxes over here are specialist catering to the millionaire expat market. An hour of their time costs more than I earn in a week.
so the current distribution of wealth in america is ok and not anyones fault?
Is this where the huge building in SimCity 2000 came from?
By their art, their technology, the environments they could live in, their slow rate of adaptation to change. On and on.
Heh, no, I'm happy to say I've worked in a wide range of industries, countries, programming languages, datastores, team compositions, roles, front & backend, side projects and own products. I'm just saying non of them required shifting bits.
Article in Nature (which is indirectly mentioned) saying cats kill 1.3 to 4.0 billion birds a year:

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
Well, wehther it's alright or not, whether it is accurately characterized as 'getting screwed' or not, at least it's only the ones who can most afford it.
By changing the definition of centralized and fuding about energy costs.
Except 100 miles from the border apparently

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
‘Toast of London’ to Leave Netflix in September 2021
But not any related to intelligence? Its got do to with depression, addiction, stuff like that?

You'd think we'd have their 'brain genes' if they were any better.
Pretty cool that the guys the US government bends over to service and on whose behalf the army fights to open new markets basically see themselves as above the other Americans.
Any reliable source on this? I for one doubt that the population density could allow an exhaustive conversion of all wilderness into “a garden” with a complete absence of megafires. Sounds a bit like a “noble savage” romanticism.
At launch, GitGuardian ranks all-time #2 third-party app on GitHub Marketplace
Hardening the DevOps pipeline with automated secrets detection just got easier. You can now connect your GitHub repos to GitGuardian in a few clicks and avoid credentials leaks.
And to get cleared you’re going to have to let law enforcement clone and inspect the content of your phone.
I've had the honor of knowing someone - someone rather extraordinary - once dubiously confined to Marcy State Hospital. The stories I've heard influenced a bit of feeble research on my part which chanced upon James Bailey Silkman, a prisoner of the closely related Utica Asylum. Depending on one's perception (or fetish) of one's domination over another, the story is a rare victory over such a terrible nightmare. Silkman went on, after his liberation from that hive of arbitrary illness, to apply his legal talents toward freeing others wrongfully held captive there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bailey_Silkman