skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the early 1960s according to Daniel Ellsberg:

"The total death toll as calculated by the Joint
Chiefs, from a U.S. first strike aimed primarily
at the Soviet Union and China, would be
roughly 600 million dead. A hundred
Holocausts"

600 million was known at the time to be an underestimate and then add in what the Soviets would have done then over a billion is probably realistic. World population at the time was about 3 billion.

Edit: Worth noting that this US strike would have killed about 100 million in Western Europe.
If we're talking about skill acquisition, I like to learn through making up random projects to do. Usually I'll read until I get the gist, start going as far as I can go before hitting a wall, then read some more. I don't have the patience to sit through videos; in-depth technical writing with realistic examples works best for me.
There are NO good bot accounts. Bots are never good. Period.
Users shouldn't be punished by the negligence of manufacturers. Sure the majority of HN will know to ensure they run secure products or something, but you can't expected nana to know that. She just wants to talk to some device to help her a little.
Let me precise, I was audited because I forgot a 1099 form. It was a stupid mistake on my side. If you’re being audited just so they can root around and find a problems, then yeah be careful.
Unfortunately, you can't just erect 4 walls and a door, and call it a day. The problem you quickly run into are building codes.

You need to think about electrical codes, HVAC, accessibility, fire codes (sprinklers, flammability of materials, etc), evacuation planning, etc. In California, there's even a rule that at least half the outlets in an office area must be motion controlled.

Not saying I don't agree with you, just more things to consider about the complexity and, ofc, the cost of doing things like that.
Nobody tell them compilers have been writing their own computer code based on higher-level instructions for half a century ;)
PC DOS 1.1 from Scratch
Devil is in the details. There are great exercises in "Yoga". There are terrible exercises as well (for certain body types and fitness goals). There are ways to do poses right, and dozens of ways of doing them wrong. Subtleties matter a lot.

Decades of doing Yoga poses to help my restless legs and bad back left me in constant pain(except for some temporary relief from stretching).

I finally stopped all that, did the "McGill big 3"(*) a few times a week, and at 46 I'm feeling better than I have in years.

I have respect for Yoga. Friends have had great luck with it, but for me, my body and my goals it isn't a good fit.

I also did the Rippetoe thing, and have a copy of Starting Strength if anyone wants it. Deadlifts were absolutely amazing for my lower back, until they weren't. I guess I could try again post-McGill, but I think strength training for me just wore out my joints while leaving me tired and required a lot more time than what I can accomplish with basic equipment at home(kudos to anyone who has a power rack at home though).

* Along with biking, hiking and a light strength training program. I've done that for years as well though. The difference was stopping stretching beyond some brief, limited shoulder mobility work.*
Covid vaccine pioneer: Scientists’ egos key barrier to progress
How to Handle Cleaning at Your Commercial Place?
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Mostly, I read anecdotes.
Yes, watch or read The Road.
Outside Context Problem
Reality or spy fiction, 'Havana syndrome' hitting US diplomats, CIA officers
So what is the reason it would be offensive? Please explain.
This reminds me of Superbrain yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwhpF9iJSs

Which guess what? Is just a variation of a Yoga move from India that the teachers used to give to improve cognition in children who were not focussing in class

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

The idea is that squats or moving your head up and down rushes blood to your head. Further if you hold certain activation points like your ears whilst doing it, it activates certain parts of the brain that improve coordination and brain power.

All ripped from Hinduism, what I suggest to those who love Yoga and feel they benefit from Yoga is explore the other types of Yoga mentioned in the Gita. After all, if the Rishis/Sages were right about Yoga, Hinduism is clearly onto something in the Gita about the other types of Yoga.
Just out of curiosity, how many scripts have you actually read?
The CEO actually wants a FEW people to do that though. He wants feedback, the bigger isn't isn't the number of people is too much (though that could be a problem), the bigger issue it is that the few who do come to him skew his thinking to their biases instead of the real thing.

Thus open door for the CEO needs to be replaced with something that gets more general feedback. I'm not sure what that might be though.
The problem here is the conflation of "mathematical model" and "theory" in physics, which doesn't hold in general language. Physicists have gotten stuck on the idea that the math doesn't just predict reality, it "is" reality. In truth, a mathematical model can be perfectly correct and also nonsensical, just look at any neural network. A theory should really be an philosophical/ontological thing, and a model should be a mathematical thing.
Yes. But -

I’m skeptical that a probe will have any more teeth than the censorship testimony fist shaking we’ve seen at Zuckerberg and Dorsey.

Even if there is, the solution needs to be punitive. That if you ship shitty software and didn’t follow good practices that you’ll be investigated and fined. New frameworks for what constitutes software negligence.

The last thing I would want to see is software regulation, oversight of development, Government access. For about a dozen reasons each.
Michael Spindler, Apple CEO from 1993 to early 1996, doesn't seem to have been a CEO at any other company since he was fired from Apple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Spindler), although I don't know if this is because he couldn't find another position or because he wanted to do something different with his life; I know that he struggled with stress management during his career at Apple even before becoming CEO.

Michael Spindler presided over the successful PowerPC transition, but unfortunately he also presided over a catastrophic 1995 for Apple, where Apple had to contend with bad Performa x200/x300 models, faulty PowerBook 5300 models with many issues such as chipping and easily-breakable hinges (not to mention the exploding battery at the factory before release), and the release of Windows 95. Gil Amelio ended up taking over in 1996 to try to turn the company around; we all know what happened NeXT.
I didn’t quite grok what the offer is. Is it for people who already have a degree and want to have their loan paid off? Or is it for people who want to get a degree?
I am similar but I cannot for the life of me understand game engine workflows. Other libraries and frameworks I get after a while of reading docs etc, but the workflow for game engines is so different than what I normally do that I get thrown off course lol. Any tips for unreal?
I had happily forgotten about the age restriction check, and Youtube asking for CC info or an ID, until now.
Of course not, this is just the parent poster's opinion. The truth of the matter is that there exceptional individuals who decide to get into software development and software security. The problem with software is that often companies don't invest into securing their software, and that has to be a priority. Perhaps having the SEC force fines for not securing mission critical software is the first step?
Well, one side is contained in a limited number of cities…
One of the smartest people I know, who is so rational and skeptical against unknown information, will go on Twitter and see a 30 second clip that's totally out of context from some random person, but hits his confirmation bias, and he'll share it to the world.

So yeah I'm not optimistic about the future either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

>Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm, and his decision to disobey orders, against Soviet military protocol, is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in a large-scale nuclear war. An investigation later confirmed that the Soviet satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned.

>Had Petrov reported incoming American missiles, his superiors might have launched an assault against the United States, precipitating a corresponding nuclear response from the United States. Petrov declared the system's indication a false alarm. Later, it was apparent that he was right: no missiles were approaching and the computer detection system was malfunctioning. It was subsequently determined that the false alarm had been created by a rare alignment of sunlight on high-altitude clouds above North Dakota and the Molniya orbits of the satellites, an error later corrected by cross-referencing a geostationary satellite.

>Petrov later indicated that the influences on his decision included that he had been told a US strike would be all-out, so five missiles seemed an illogical start; that the launch detection system was new and, in his view, not yet wholly trustworthy; that the message passed through 30 layers of verification too quickly; and that ground radar failed to pick up corroborative evidence, even after minutes of delay. However, in a 2013 interview, Petrov said at the time he was never sure that the alarm was erroneous. He felt that his civilian training helped him make the right decision. He said that his colleagues were all professional soldiers with purely military training and, following instructions, would have reported a missile launch if they had been on his shift.

>But nuclear security expert Bruce G. Blair has said that at that time, the U.S.–Soviet relationship had deteriorated to the point where "the Soviet Union as a system—not just the Kremlin, not just Andropov, not just the KGB—but as a system, was geared to expect an attack and to retaliate very quickly to it. It was on hair-trigger alert. It was very nervous and prone to mistakes and accidents. The false alarm that happened on Petrov's watch could not have come at a more dangerous, intense phase in US–Soviet relations."[23] At that time, according to Oleg Kalugin, a former KGB chief of foreign counterintelligence, "The danger was in the Soviet leadership thinking, 'The Americans may attack, so we better attack first.'"
I think the incentives are lopsided. The developer does not personally bear the blow of their company's data breach (unless they're dedicated cybersec personnel) whereas the hacker reaps all the reward of getting access.
Thankfully we're slowly getting rid of that abomination and replacing it with something reasonable:

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

A classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pikrntjcbyw
Agreed, I found Yoga if done properly with guidance from a teacher (often trained in INdia) is much more useful than weight training and other gym exercises.
could you post those frequencies, please?

if you're trying to convince the vast majority of Americans who aren't opposed to vaccine mandates, that they should change their mind, you should probably be able to show that significant side effects occur a significant % of the time in another vaccine,

then explain how that side effect modality would transfer to this vaccine (IE what they have in common which indicates the COVID vaccine will probably have the same long-term side effects)

oh, also, you never answered OP's question: how long do you think is enough?
who says they're not noticing it? The article states in certain terms that people would hear "Buzzing", "grinding metal", "piercing squeals" - sounds, clearly audible.
Nature.com doesn't agree with you. At least in 2019 it wasn't controversial to say so:

"Because mRNA falls into the broad vaccine category of genetic immunogens, many of the guiding principles that have been defined for DNA vaccines (162) and gene therapy vectors (163,164) can likely be applied to mRNA with some adaptations to reflect the unique features of mRNA." [0]

And still in 2021, Nature.com felt they were gene therapies:

"However, these mRNA vaccines, which have been developed and approved within a few months, signify a breakthrough in the field of gene therapy, which has battled to achieve ordinary acknowledgement due to a large number of sceptical and conservative scientists and other claimed safety and translational concerns."[1]

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41435-021-00136-6
Unfortunately I don't really know what LC_TIME is :) But if I look through the calendar widget that drops down when I click the time in the top bar, is says e.g. that the previous month is called "augustus" and that today is "vrijdag". Looking into my "Region & Language" settings, my language is set to English (United Kingdom), and formats is set to Nederland (Nederlands), which is said to cover numbers, dates and currencies. Especially for currencies I'd prefer my local currency, but I'd prefer for numbers to use the UK system, and not quite sure what I'd like for dates as long as it's not the US system.
100% correct @rocknor
I think i saw a workin product that does exactly that but i can't remember the name
Because the SEC regulates publicly traded companies.
Interesting, it had frequent updates up until then. What happened?

https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/c/ch...
Well this reminds me of Superbrain yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwhpF9iJSs

Which guess what? Is just a variation of a Yoga move from India that the teachers used to give to improve cognition in children who were not focussing in class

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

The idea is that squats or moving your head up and down rushes blood to your head. Further if you hold certain activation points like your ears whilst doing it, it activates certain parts of the brain that improve coordination and brain power.

All ripped from Hinduism, what I suggest to those who love Yoga and feel they benefit from Yoga is explore the other types of Yoga mentioned in the Gita. After all, if the Rishis/Sages were right about Yoga, Hinduism is clearly onto something in the Gita about the other types of Yoga.
That is one way. Generally there are several vectors when it comes to exploits.

Like, is the git repo secure? Can we add code that allows a backdoor or reaches out to a command-and-control server? Or how are their packages secured? Can we upload a malicious one to their package repo? Is the distribution server secure? Are the devices exposed directly to a WAN? Can we sell knock-off devices or modify legit devices before we resell them? Can we design them from the beginning to be exploitable? Were the engineers lazy and implement zero security controls? etc, etc...

This is why defensive security is rather difficult. You have to get everything right, but attackers only have to be right one time. Then when you get consumers involved, it becomes significantly more complicated and difficult. Some of these devices can stay active for years, and the owners realize no difference as long as it still works as expected.
I run a couple everylot bots. They've been shut down a few times, but always reinstated after an email. This seems like a fairly silly measure, but I'll probably opt-in if it reduces the chances of that happening again.
> C-Levels spend a lot of their time in meetings discussing confidential information

“Confidential information” is presumably a concern because (a) at a certain point broad enough knowledge you’d rather keep internal leaks outside the organization and (b) some of it is about managing internal tensions and focus, so you keep information quiet that could disrupt the directed focus of employees on their roles and business goals

When it comes to (a), it’s easy to see how open office plans can become at least a marginal liability: anything discussed privately in C-levels that has external strategic value is absolutely going to get discussed “on the floor” as execution even appears on the horizon. And if (b) is a concern, why not other impacts on focus and productivity?

I’d guess, personally, that office setup costs are highly legible and therefore easy targets for someone looking for a marginal win. Productivity has more inputs and is less legible which makes it easy to imagine the org can make it up elsewhere (or make up stories about how it was made up elsewhere). Assuming orgs value margins of individual productivity in the first place, of course, and it’s not always clear that’s the case.
I don't see the hypocrisy. Get vaccinated or get tested for covid weekly. It's your choice.

We need to get back to normal, continuing with our previous approach wasn't working, so we have to do something. This seems like a healthy compromise on personal choice and doing what's right for society. What would be a better balance?
Quad-Bay Raspberry Pi NAS
>> The (proper) strategic idea was as a deterrent, not _wanting_ to use them in an offensive manner. The strategy was in making an attack on "us" carry the high probability of annihilation for the attacker, thereby discouraging it -- it wasn't about "hey, let's nuke that country, then we'll gain an advantage".

> That came later iirc - initially they were thinking of using them prior to running infantry in.

I think you have to differentiate strategic and battlefield usages. IIRC, some people considered using them strategically when the opponent couldn't retaliate in kind. However, the Soviets had them within five years and the Chinese had them by 1965, I think.

I think tactical battlefield uses were on the table for much longer, because NATO felt like it could not win a conventional war in Europe, but that may have taken the form a nuking a corn field on your border (maybe even in your territory) that the invading army is passing through. It sounds like Russia may still have similar plans ("escalate to de-escalate" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_nuclear_weapon).
I wonder if “coding/coder” will go the same way as “computing/computer” [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
>I couldn’t work for such a place. I work best when I nest, surrounded by comfort. Photos of my wife, plushies, etc. The general feeling that I have some control over my life however thin. I have thankfully always had a cube, even if my current cube is relatively tiny.

The ability to personalize your space makes work just a little bit easier. Otherwise I feel like a literal cog in a machine.
Your blood with antibodies also doesn't supply 100% immunity.
That’s it. The App Store is broken. Major win to Epic.

I’ll keep using apps and services that take funds via Apple Pay though. I trust Apple in this sense.
Spaced repetition works great for me. Especially because it binds well with a pragmatic approach of professional learning : if I encounter a problem multiple times it is worth it to learn the solution to have it quickly. If I only encounter it once I don't need to.

My process is usually this one :

- Understand learning space ontology. Once I am able to visualize the concepts associated with the field and their relationships, I stop digging the theory and go to practice.

- Start practice: try to solve a simple problem in this learning space. Maximally use all information sources available to solve problems as we go (articles, youtube, wikipedia, blogs, anything). If I get confused I recognize that I missed some theory and go back to square one.

- Solve real use case, go back to step 2 if I get confused or blocked.

I usually get where I need in less than 6 steps. I use this in Software Engineering, Physics and Mathematics.

When I encounter a problem in an Ontolongy space I already encountered, I go directly to step 3.
With a glossy screen you can shuffle around until the reflection suits you

Yes, because is so easy for everyone to do that...
I have recently got myself back into studying mathematics as a hobby. The last time I studied mathematics for a considerable length of time was 18 years ago! I picked analytic number theory as the topic for this new hobby. I did a Tell HN [1] too about it 6 months ago. Thanks to that post and the awesome HN community, we now have a book club around it that has been going consistently since then. In fact, incidentally I published a new blog post about it discussing the learning experience about half an hour ago. [2]

I talk about this book club here on HN often, so at the risk of repeating myself, I do want to mention on this thread that as a result of these ongoing book club meetings, I realized something interesting. I realized that studying and learning in a social setting like this ensures constant progress. The risk of discontinuing the learning activity due to other priorities of life becomes lower. No matter what, barring exceptional circumstances, I know that I need to sit with our book club for 40 minutes everyday and work through a few pages of the book together. I think that kind of consistency is very important while learning an abstract topic like this that we are learning purely for the joy of learning! Further, the insights that the book club members share with each other during the group study is a nice bonus!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26366464

[2] https://offbeat.cc/blog/our-trip-to-the-prime-number-theorem...
i like this comparison a lot
Kate – Language Lessons – Malignant – Lularich
If I seriously want to learn something, then only from books. Videos or the Internet distract me too much. I sort my notes into a Zettelkasten system and once a month I write an essay of min. 15 pages to deepen the knowledge. I turn off Internet, music and phone because I don't want to be distracted.
Keep reading material on the subject until intuition starts to gel.

Edit: The material, in this case, will often be a niche Internet forum.
More than avg vs above avg I would say it's building a cards castle vs making a cards castle fall. The latter is way easier.
Making mistakes is part of working
My best success has been when I read a book on a topic so that I have a general idea of the workspace, and then jumping into a project from there.

If I remember where in the book information I need during the project is I'll use that, if not, DDG.

I also enjoy reading/hearing anecdotes from others, though that's less to learn details generally, and more to learn what's out there to learn about.
Net GDP? Mississippi is a small state, why would you compare net?

And its economy per capita is somewhere between Israel's and Slovenia's, hardly bad economies. And this from a state where more than half the kids grow up in small rural schools.
Well, yes - if Apple or Samsung violate IP laws, there is recourse.

If China steals all the Arm Holdings IP and infrastructure in China, there is no recourse.

If I scam someone on EBay or Amazon almost anywhere in the Western world, they can take me to court given sufficient evidence and magnitude of the scam. If a Chinese seller on Alibaba or Amazon scams me, there is zero recourse.

The Western world has a surprising level of default trust and honesty in business. There are gross and obvious exceptions, but China is culturally and legally playing a vastly different and incompatible game.