skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe a group took a look at how viral topics and memes emerged on twitter and simply having something like 50-100 people participate in your hashtag or retweet some content was enough to land you on trending. Their conclusion was that twitter disproportionately represents reality. Wish I could recall where I read this but it definitely made its way through HN in the last year or two.

And anecdotally we see people de-platformed and/or removed from their work because some company’s hr department got wind of a twitter stink and the company made the calculation that the feelings of a few people on twitter are so meaningful that it warrants terminating some employee. Unless that employee was seriously not pulling their weight, there no way appeasing those people on twitter is more valuable than the work your employee is doing and the cost of hiring a new one. Take that boing guy retired military who was removed from his position because of a 15yr old post about how he disagreed with putting women in combat roles for biological reasons…

Point is people’s reality is shaped by what trends on the internet and what trends on the internet is at global scale when you run a global platform/community. This global context is good in some regards e.g. the proliferation of cultural exchange and appropriation but can also be somewhat of a nightmare to manage when trying to solve logistical problems like moderating content or writing laws. I am dubious we should be entertaining “local” politics on global platforms e.g. twitter. Seems like an impedance mismatch to me.
Thanks for your comment. I don't even know if I agree with myself politically. I don't claim any position on the spectrum and would rather transcend it than find a place to stay. In my professional training I was taught to watch how human psychology and control dynamics emerge from less-conscious zones of human perception and judgment. To me this paints a different picture of politics than I think most would acknowledge.
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/health-effects.htm

Take your pick. If exposed during childhood it results in essentially mental retardation and impulse issues. The thought is this led to more issues with crime.

This article discusses the study-

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/06/01/new-evide...
Squirrels are known to spy on each other and to steal each other's "investments." (Also, if one notices that another is watching, it will pretend like it's hiding the food here and then take it someplace else.)
This gives me the sads. I grew up around truck drivers. Back in the 80s, it was considered a good, middle-class job. I knew plenty of families that were supported by truckers.
Thanks for linking the original comment. Every container uses namespaces, this is (TL;DR attempt) about user namespaces, which is a not particularly well audited kernel feature, meaning you may open up potentially insecure kernel code to unprivileged users.

The way I understand it, with containers running under a root user, is that to break out of a container you‘d have to find a vulnerability in standard (rootful) namespaces, which is much less likely (since it’s the same thing everything including Docker uses).
> as a tax to use all of the free services you have access to.

The problem is that the current economics make it more profitable to operate an ad-supported product than a paid product.

Regulation that would make ads less profitable would allow paid products to actually compete on price.
Look at the video it’s definitely not an X-47 it also has a cockpit bulge (the model is upside down for RCS testing).
Had you not believed them before?
One of the issues stemming from this announcement is the precise location: it's in a region of approximately 1700 residents who have been vocal about how they aren't a fan of this choice because they LIKE being rural (doxxing myself with this source: local radio). The estimated job numbers that this would bring in is around 5000, which would significantly disrupt the local community if true.
Ok, that's reasonable, and I don't have any good answers. I just get rid of things and call it good, but the food is a big question, and it's not fair to the kids to completely forbid playgrounds.

Lead dust in houses is a well studied hazard. The folks at the county department tell me the things they address first are lead paint (interior and exterior house paint and soil around the house), lead in the tap water, and vinyl mini-blinds. Abating those sources almost always drops BLL in the kids. If that isn't enough, they go after toys and dishes. If I remember right, testing of food is not yet in their protocol.

For me the decision to get rid of the dishes was trivially simple. I'd be glad to find out that the food we ate off those dishes miraculously failed to pick up any of the lead that so easily rubbed off on my swabs. I don't think that's likely.

Same with the kids toys and art supplies. Sure, I can tell little kids not to lick their arylics, but why wouldn't I also make sure the yellows are cadmium-free, just in case they forget and eat a sandwich with paint on their fingers?
Is it? I guess in US with its vast land mass and relatively low population density wired is very important, but I can tell you in many parts of Europe LTE and up are slowly becoming the norm even for high-volume, high-bandwidth usage such as for video streaming (not at 4k though ofc).
Ok, let's very conservatively estimate that 20% of them are deeply committed to China's ideological Marxism. That's 20 million people united.

To downplay the importance of scale here is a bit misguided.
I've heard good things about Clerky: https://www.clerky.com/formation

They have streamlined onboarding flows for partner banks like Brex, Mercury, First Republic, etc if you incorporate through them.

Disclaimer: former Brex employee, still have equity.
Corporate inertia is hard to overcome.
Get nerds in now with cool cheaper stuff, later when they're enterprise level decision makers Cloudflare is burned into their brain as the go-to

Of course the other angle is that Cloudflare one day ends up like Google, who ended up like Microsoft, who ended up like IBM

As for right now though, cooooool
The lack of standard scaling of amount of activity breaks this chart. Rock climbing is given as roughly the same death rate as heroin addiction: 0.0145% vs 0.016% per year. But the chart counts 100 years of heroin addiction versus only one year of rock climbing and so misrepresents the risk by a factor of 100.

Also otherwise missing units of time for many of the activities.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait

Can't have that, bringing some Sheiks with a very special relationship to the U.S.A. back into to empire, tsk, tsk!

Building case for chase supported by fake

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

Slapping of hands follows:

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

Dust settles(mostly) until:

[4] http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,9985...

Uh Oh! Grave error! Threatening the

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar

That means terror! Have to be clever here, let's see and play some curve ball out of nowhere:

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)

The rest is history, as they say.

And they have the gall to call Russia a gas station with nukes run by mafia.

Yah, sure, whatever...

YOU ASS AYE! YOU ASS AYE! YOU ASS AYE!
The world's most useful model railway
> After that we started putting soup cans over the exhaust pipes

Thanks, good suggestion!
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I don't know. My manager (household of 3) just switched to using Verizon 5G for their home internet. She's getting like pretty good speeds compared to what Xfinity offers (which was the only alternative).
I don't think the price you pay has everything to do with the cost of the water, but the distribution, servicing, cleaning of human-consumable quality water. The one price I do know for DeSalinated (among the most expensive) was $0.45/m^3 or 1000 liters (Hyflux 10 year commit, industrial quantity). The problem, of course, being that you need to be near the ocean.
Huh, the blurry lowres pic hides the mathematical symbols...

Are death percentage risks additive when we combine activities?
There were capture cards going pretty far back. In some ways capturing desktop footage was easier because of no hdcp blacking out content.
Probably worth pointing out that docker has had a "userns-remap" option for quite a while, which causes all containers to run in a separate user namespace where UID 0 inside remaps to something else outside, so theoretically a user with access to the docker daemon isn't able to view the outside filesystem as root[0].

I have gone back and forth with podman. At some point it seemed to sometimes get into a funny state where I would simply delete everything[1] to fix it. On all systems where I run docker, I make sure to have "userns-remap": "default" in /etc/docker/daemon.json. Haven't looked into the rootless mode yet, but I was aware a few years ago that they were working on it.

[0] Without remapping root inside a different namespace, anyone with access to the docker daemon can access the outer root filesystem as root using a command such as `docker run --rm -it -v /:/oops alpine`

[1] Amusingly, the simplest way to do this was by using root to run `rm -rf` on my own ~/.local/share/containers/ directory, since the containers used UIDs other than my own (ones that are part of my subuid range)
Advocating for an increase in foreclosures (increase the homeless population) and an increase in “acquired immunity” (read: let COVID run rampant and employ whoever survives) is incredibly ghoulish.

It’s made even more shameful by its casual tone and tongue in cheek decades-old pop culture title. This article openly and unequivocally advocates for human misery and death in order to avoid upward pressure on wages.
One term used to describe this is homoglyph, as in homoglyph attacks for phishing.

Back in 2015 I did some work just using simple bitmap rendering plus OCR to find text that looked like a small selection of known words. It was actually reasonably effective.
In a related note, see the chart "Input prices are pushing up inflation":

* https://www.oecd.org/economic-outlook#GDP-growth-projections...

Using Feb 2020 as a baseline of ~100, Shipping is now 482.
I wonder if it also ends up blocking legit content?
reportedly yes[0]

https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/cloudflare-r2-storage-aw...
No semiconductor site has enough backup generators to run continuously and you can only have so much diesel onsite to run those generators (a few hours or maybe a full day if you are lucky). They are there for basic safety systems, air handling and lighting. For example Samsung was down for many weeks after the February storm that caused power outages and fuel delivery issues. They literally ran out of diesel to run the generators and their cleanroom air stopped circulating. It took weeks to get things back to normal and my understanding is getting the air quality back was the hardest part.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/samsung-reopens-austin-chip-pl...
Nice distinction. Based on what I’m reading lately, sounds like I need to chase down more of the latter.
Without any background info, that looks like a joke (or scam) site. It asks you to record yourself repeating “The best things in life will always be free”, like some demon is going to kill you in 7 days if you dont share this email lmao.

Idk what Governor Dao is, but using blockchain tech for identification sounds interesting. However, the tech is seemingly always associated with scammers and criminals, so idk how successful it would be as the backend for a system based on trust and sharing sensitive data.
Agriculture water != Water you consume in a home. Even Desalinated it's at most 1/10th that price. And there are usually brackish sources that are even cheaper to recycle into farms.

The issue isn't the cost of water, it's that "free" water drives everything else (or imported water - the United States major export often seems to be exporting it's water in the form of crops, food, etc...)
I am guessing someone is going to lose their clearance. ;-)
Could someone knowledgeable please explain how it is that we're having _worse_ infection rates than last year given that, by CDC estimates, 160M+ people already had covid [1] (and is therefore at least partially immune), and hundreds of millions of people had the vaccine? Nothing seems to make sense anymore, and nobody, as far as I can tell, is willing to offer a coherent explanation.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd... - note that the case numbers people typically refer to aren't the right numbers to be referring to - they do not take unreported cases into account. The CDC estimates there are 4.2x as many cases as the "confirmed" ones that everyone is hyperventilating about.
Interesting. My (small, n=3) list of supreme assholes who I never want to work with again also ended up at Facebook.
Steve Yegge had a lot of similar stories about Amazon here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiqYKF0WzjQ
left click, block element ... or not
That vehicle is a sub-orbital vehicle with a re-entry trajectory similar to a ballistic missile . It reaches it's highest speeds only at altitudes where the atmosphere is more individual particles than a continuous gas (it's apogee of 62 miles is well above the Karmen line). The definition of Mach number only makes sense within a fluid. A vehicle that travels 20,716 miles per hour is NOT travelling Mach 27. You can say it's travelling roughly 27 times the speed of sound at sea-level like conditions to get a sense of the scale of the speed, but it is not travelling Mach 27. Once it slams into the atmosphere on re-entry, you can say it is travelling at Mach 27, but by then it's not undergoing sustained flight. This specific vehicle is merely gliding.

This distinction is important, because all of the difficulties associated with flying at hypersonic speeds are due to the problems associated with flying through the fluid. It's comparatively easy to accelerate to the high speeds of sub-orbital vehicles once outside a meaningful atmosphere.

Militarily this is an important distinction as well. An intercontinental ballistic missile needs to go significantly above the earth's atmosphere. During this phase, it's easily detectable, since the horizon is much further away. A vehicle flying much lower well within the earth's atmosphere at very high speeds gives much less early warning.

This specific vehicle strikes a sort of middle ground between these concepts. It's half sub-orbital ballistic missile (it's still required to go above a meaningful atmosphere), half hypersonic cruise missile. Although very critically it is not undergoing sustained flight at hypersonic speeds
Mine too. Says I am blanked with Verizon coverage but I assure you I am not
For those of us who are thankfully not in a situation like this currently, it's still worth reading up on those benefits. Obviously the best time to deal with those things is before you need them.

Virtually all employer-provided long-term disability coverage terminates when you leave your job or shortly thereafter without the option to continue your coverage, so if you're pushed out or become unable to work before you formally meet the insurer's definition of "disabled" you're SOL. Also, most LTD plans (both group and individual) either exclude mental health conditions or place significant limits on the benefits you can claim for those conditions - e.g., they'll only pay out for one year, or up to a certain (low) dollar amount.

For those reasons, I recommend that most middle- to high-income people carry individual (i.e., not employer-sponsored) long-term disability insurance. For a very rough indication on price, I got my policy when I was 28, and I pay ~$100/month for coverage that would give me $72k/year in (tax-free) income through age 67.
Apparently the government doesn't test on Firefox
> I live in a city, and Apple/Google Pay definitely does not work anywhere near everywhere (even after more businesses went contactless due to COVID). I wouldn't think of leaving home without physical credit cards.

This isn't the case in some parts of the world.

In Australia, even before COVID, I could make 2-3 day interstate business trips with flight tickets, credit cards, public transport all my phone.

I rarely carry cash or even my physical credit cards, and haven't needed to for years now.
Tangent from yours: I have a very old pecan tree in my yard that'll easily fill a couple of 5-gallon buckets. More pecans than I could possibly want in a year. I thought this was great when I bought the place.

Instead what I get to do is fill a couple of 5-gallon buckets with green, unripened nuts that the fucking squirrels decided to remove from the tree 2 months before they're ready. Last year I found exactly 0 viable nuts. They were all stripped off the tree before their time.

I just convince myself that their happiness is my happiness. And the shade is still good.
Whole Foods is already known as whole paycheck… now they want more money along with prime? Hysterical.
Definitely not the Haiku I was thinking of.
Evidence scarce anyone in El Salvador is using Bitcoin to buy goods and services
Then again the US Space Shuttle was super expensive for what it did.

Maybe having the Soviets copy the Space Shuttle was enough to lead to the collapse of their economy.
Yep. Without regulations that restrict people from taking new jobs, any labour 'shortage' can be solved by offering better conditions and/or higher pay. Take it to a hypothetical extreme: if truckers were offered $500k/yr and had to work 20 hours a week there would be no shortage.
As someone who enjoys soup, I can find a couple flaws with that plan.

My biggest problem is that if that world comes out of the current one, it's going to be one heavily mediated by capitalism (just like everything on my iPhone). So, yes, the robot could scrub the dishes. But once I've accepted that relationship with my robot, version 2 comes out and it has a feature where it doesn't need to spend 8 hours doing dishes because it includes a free trail of the $20/month dish subscription and just throws them out and signs for the shipment of new ones that comes while I'm away at work.

Whatever the exact scenario, the environmental cost will be huge. The COST cost will be huge. And probably the robot will be reporting the details of what I ate and what stayed on my plate back to the company to sell on to the ad sales branch of the company
Very well said regarding politics - I have trouble having useful political discussions with almost anyone, right or left, because everything is now framed as "good" vs "evil" or "enlightened" vs "sheep" instead of actually taking stock of the forces of psychology, economics, and legitimately different values that are really driving the political environment we live in.
Worrying won't stop a missile attack, might as well sleep.
It would be great if you could point to a specific example of a published article where a named author does not have a PhD. I 100% believe you but just to shut down those who believe that a PhD is a necessity to do research.
I'm curious, why do you want to work in the gambling industry? It exploits addiction and ruins lives. The tactics used to entice and retain customers are reminiscent of those used by the tobacco industry: the product actively harms those that use it most so there's a continuous need to attract new users.

The apparent growth in the market may be real, but I suspect it will be short lived as governments and authorities stem the advertising, and investors turn towards opportunities that are less ethically unpleasant. Here in the UK every other ad on late night commercial TV is for gambling apps or services, while consumer-affairs radio programmes are exposing a rising tide of financial ruin fuelled by debt, low wages, under-employment, with gambling never far away.

If I understand your comment, gambling is explicitly disclaimed by AL's Stack. Surely that's another signal for you to consider. Many organisations are shifting away from unethical investments (for whatever definition of ethics they adopt). Gambling seems to have passed its peak some years ago, both in terms of opportunity and social acceptability.

So I'm genuinely curious. You're at angel/incorporation stage. Why aim for the gambling industry?
Reminds me of the story where emails couldn't be sent more than 500 miles away: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
That number seems really high, but the state website seems to be at least close to that number (146gal/day/person or ~600gal/day for a family of 4).

https://new.azwater.gov/conservation/public-resources
Ontarians are getting digital ID this fall: All you need to know
Why would the CCP run an online bookstore?
THe idea that Autonomous trucks could put all of the Truckers in the US out of business overnight is fantasy... but not an insane one, by economics standards. There is significant technological promise - We already have trucks that can line-follow for hundreds of miles without crashing. This represents an amazing amount of progress compared to the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge, where the farthest car made it 11KM[1]. We could see just as much progress in the next five years as in the last 15, or we could see none at all - And how much progress we've made is debatable too, because some estimates say 1 crash/1,000 miles, and others 1/1,000,000.

The promise of this technology being on the horizon has led to pressure from the trucking companies to keep their costs down, lest they be replaced. The question in logistics providers minds is not if, but when, autonomous driving will replace human drivers for a significant number of miles driven. This has led to a depression effect where new drivers are not competing, because they're being offered lower wages and they see the writing on the wall too.

There are also several massive propaganda thumbs on the scale, including Government and tech companies, pretending that these things are closer than they are. Nobody is making rational decisions here; The market is truly insane. The workers are bearing the cost, and are choosing to take their labor elsewhere.

Economics is always an equilibrium, but often one still experiencing shocks. The market can and will adjust wages back up - If self-driving does not pan out. But that threat is acting as a buffer to suppress correction from the shocks that the system has experienced.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2004_Gra...
Yeah, but as a certain former head of the FBI will tell you, they probably didn't have intent, so no need to investigate further.