skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a line of feasibility—if John Smith has my face, my fingerprints and all of the passwords, John Smith is not me yet an ordinary institution can reasonably claim that beyond their sophistication to detect—but we are far from approaching that line when we speak of modern identity theft. Today it often sounds more like “someone stole from us by fooling our staff so we will just go ahead and reimburse ourselves from your account, thanks!”

Also, I am not a lawyer (are you?), but I don’t think there is a legal concept of “identity” that is somehow different from the metaphysical I of a person. I could be wrong though.

(I hate to make this argument because in a non-ideal world with malicious actors it appears to advocate for zero-trust dystopia with pervasive biometric checks, which is not my intention.)
A mature forest not only hosts diverse ecosystems, it also produces a beneficial local climate.

It's also a gross oversimplification to look at CO² balance by absorption by trees only. Floodplain forests, forested swampland and broad-leafed trees also store massive amounts of CO² even when the forest is mature.

But more importantly, mature and healthy forests offer a broad range of benefits beyond binding CO². Reducing the value of forests and the associated ecosystems to CO² is a flawed approach. There's many more factors involved, including preservation of fresh water.
The same note can be found on different strings. Sheet music doesn’t tell you which one to play. That just one example that makes it hard
This is such a weird article.

As others mentioned here, Apple already entered advertising. It failed, because it does not want to sell users’ data like others do.

Why would they enter into the same waters again?

I’m fairly sure they also won’t restart Ping, music based social network.
Yeah, grinding leetcode is still effective below the staff engineer level. Above that we start looking at what you’ve done that’s not code (conference talks, open source leadership, whitepapers, managing consultants, etc).
> The future ... is in statistical analysis with properly controlled experiments.

The future? No, statistical analysis was always at the core of advertising, from the moment statistics was invented.

It's only recently in the last few years that people forgot this, and only because techies and programmers without statistics knowledge successfully "disrupted" the advertising industry.

But internet advertising sucks balls compared to classical advertising forms, especially from the point of view of ROI to the client.

So we will eventually "undisrupt" this mess and make internet advertising more like the classical forms.

t. working in ad tech for the last 17 years.
TLDR: "The plan was very simple. We would put a small banner above the video player that would only show up for IE6 users. It would read “We will be phasing out support for your browser soon. Please upgrade to one of these more modern browsers.” Next to the text would be links to the current versions of the major browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, IE8 and eventually, Opera. The text was intentionally vague and the timeline left completely undefined. We hoped that it was threatening enough to motivate end users to upgrade without forcing us to commit to any actual deprecation plan. Users would have the ability to close out this warning if they wanted to ignore it or deal with it later. The code was designed to be as subtle as possible so that it would not catch the attention of anyone monitoring our checkins. Nobody except the web development team used IE6 with any real regularity, so we knew it was unlikely anyone would notice our banner appear in the staging environment. We even delayed having the text translated for international users so that a translator asking for additional context could not inadvertently surface what we were doing. Next, we just needed a way to slip the code into production without anyone catching on."
What’s the startup peak draw of those severs? Have you measured it? Remember everything turns on at once after an outage.

In any case, even at your optimistic 250W per rack unit, a full rack of servers with two switches is more than 10kW!
I wonder if any data exists that would indicate how much money the Healthcare industry would lose if the obesity rate dropped by X percent. Would be an interesting thing to look at.
>KNO3 and nitrites are still used to cure meats, in salami etc.

What? That's absurd. Food processors would never do such a thing. They only use the finest cultured celery powder (filled with "all natural" sodium nitrite).
The abstracting concept of "protected group" is not commonly understood. I had never heard of it before this thread.
Anti discrimination of course is, but not this specific term.

Neither in the German Wikipedia nor in the Duden (German dictionary) or on the website of the "Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung" (Federal Agency for Civic Education) can I find any reference to "geschützte Gruppe".

The German constitution, explicitly states: "No person shall be favoured or disfavoured because of sex, parentage, race, language, homeland and origin, faith or religious or political opinions. No person shall be disfavoured because of disability.".

This is often emphasized in things like job postings, but never in abbreviated/conceptualized form.
I learned to read and write Hungarian in a matter of weeks. It is spelled phonetically, with only a handful of special cases. It's hilariously easy.

English is a random mish-mash of at least four languages, making it seem very random and ad-hoc. However, it mercifully uses the latin alphabet. Chinese is just a nightmare, with students spending most of their schooling just to become literate...
Perhaps you missed the news about the US Senate hearing on Thursday? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/technology/facebook-senat...

(archive links: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/... / https://archive.is/newest/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30...)
I dunno, my attitude is that capitalism is all a grift anyway so I do the best I can when I’m at work, then immediately forget all about it come 5 o’clock. The grift is that “fake it till you make it” legitimately works. Lie a bit in your interviews to make it look like you have experience, then you have at least 6 months to figure it out once on the job. Rinse and repeat every few years; if you don’t stay anywhere long enough then nobody will catch on. Just make some friends along the way you can call when things get out of your league and you’ll be fine. In my experience, good relationships will cover for poor execution every time, and the reverse is not true.
Oh wow that’s bad.

Mine was their screwed up identification process - I had completed it but their app wouldn’t let me view their tiny videos for the rewards. I was stuck in a support loop for months of “you need to identify yourself”, “I have”, “oh yeah you have, try the videos again” - repeat
That's one Skillshare course we're not going to see...
They mention they were training in utrecht. Last year, I saw a couple of guys at 3.00am at my street (twijnstraat) drive in a moped blow up a door of a graphics studio and steal all the digital equipments, Macs, etc. One of the guys had a industrial hammer with him. It was like a clockwork, came at dot at 3.00am in and out in 5 minutes.

I still think this city is quite safe. But incidents like these happen quite often city center.

I hope it is one of those guys.
Nice and I just tried it with the amount 0,003.

But first and third line disappeared :(
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x3c4ba696cc0996a9fa2bc12d3c4b04cebf...

It was supposed to be:

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No pay-to-win game - all cards included!

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Can it be fixed please? I am using Firefox with uBlock Origin.
Do you know how this current event compares in terms of percentage of population deaths? Would be hard because I think you'd have to control for health as well since it wouldn't be fair to compare current obesity rates with the past.
It might just be shifting degrees of intellectual challenge.

St Augustine came to shine as part as a response to the threat of competing movements such as pelagianism and arianism.

(As a side-note, reading the Confessions I came off thinking St Augustine felt really anti-intellectual; especially in contrast to someone like Boethius)

Then the church went largely intellectually unchallenged for a thousand years, and that's never great for bringing out the best and the brightest. A lot of what made for example the philosophers of antiquity so sharp was the fierce competition between rival schools.

Later when the church came under real pressure from the reformation, you had counter-reformation groups like the Jesuits form as a response which was a huge step up intellectually.

I also think we sort of tend to unfairly view the church through the writings of its critics; both reformists and later the enlightenment had a lot to say that we just seem to take as true without consideration of the source. A lot of stuff, even bad stuff like the inquisition, wasn't as bad as we tend to think. Against the background of what legal systems in general looked in the period, the inquisition was almost gentle.
That would ruin the "government incompetence caused hyperinflation" narrative because people want to laugh, be smug and feel superior. If people knew that e.g. the Weimar Republik hyperinflation was caused by external factors like war reparations then they would have to understand that hyperinflation is more than just "printing money".
I think Covid19 demonstrates how resistant people are to change

Really? I think Covid-19 showed just how readily people are willing to subject themselves to humiliation and medical experimentation because of a disease whose headline kill rate is low, and whose practical kill rate is abysmal (ie, for the non-nursing home set). Shrug. When the establishment actually decides on the pastoralization of the Western world, they will get it the next day.
Probably somewhere in the darknet, there is a skillshare replica for crimes.
I remember when the transaction fee was $800 ... I had to wait for next day when it was back to around $120.
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Protestant priests have married since the reformation (Luther married). So in the mostly protestant Northern and Western Europe, and in the mostly protestant US, there was no celibacy requirements for 4-500 centuries.
So, the million dollars home page, crypto edition?

I really should fire up archive.org to dig those old projects that worked in the 2000. Sticking a blockchain on them seems to be a nice way to make some bucks.
considering my experience with their product, it's probably the best they could do in a realistic timeframe.
This is a non intuitive result, and people is confused often by that, but adult mature [1] trees grow much faster than young trees. Faster here does not mean taller, means bigger.

[1] I'm not talking about dying trees, mature does not mean dying necessarily.
Is there evidence that monastic orders selected kids for intelligence? This effect should have then stopped with the protestant reformation in parts of europe. Maybe it is part of the reason why protestant heritage countries are more successful than catholic ones.
I agree that ML-style function signature is probably the best and most readable. `name: type` is a lot better than `type name`. I would argue that `match x with` would be better than `case x of`, to highlight that pattern matching is different than your usual switch. Calling out explicitely the contructors with `contructors` is a good idea, I think it can make things easier for new people.

Edit: I wonder if it would help to also have a record type. Enum allows you to have full ADTs, but named tuples are often more useful than regular tuples.
> You know who can? Anyone in El Salvador.

With an internet-connected smartphone with the app installed and whose neighbourhood stores are following the law. Which isn’t that many people.
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> During the construction boom

Nice one! :)
I run a small online shop in Switzerland and from my POV it's only the US. We have lost more than 50% of shippings to the US about a year ago. Typical arrival time was way over a month even thought its quotet at 10 days for light letters.

As we mostly ship letters we just sent to every place, even if they are currently not 'open'. ~95% arrived within 1-2 months or so in those critical places.

No idea what's going on over there. The rest of our shipping just got a few cents more expensive but on average just got faster the last 2 years.
My phone is an appliance and I'm perfectly fine with that. I dread owning another computer I have the responsibility of maintaining. We are drowning in "computers" these days.
It's Saturday... What day do you think it is?
This is simply not true.

If a car is barreling towards you, taking a small step towards safety is wasting the time you could have spent jumping out of the way.

Not only do you end up just as dead as you would be if you had done nothing at all, but you've wasted the effort of making a decision and moving; effort you could have spent on more pleasant thoughts if you had just decided to die from the outset.

Even worse, a moderate decision is harder to make than a firm one. Instead of just doing what could be effective, you have to figure out what could be effective, and cut it in half. By the time you've finished your calculations, you won't even have time to make the useless step.
That’s a good point. When I look at US humanities departments, I definitely don’t see any white people. (/s, obviously)
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If you had an incredibly slow random number generator, I think you actually would care.
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Seems like there's a 50 character limit, it may have truncated your message to fit.
Even more tragic is that after the bird flew away the scientist played back the recording and the endling returned, thinking it another from its own species.
> We just need to let the land do its thing and literally do nothing to much of the world.

We need to do a very simple thing to most of the world: leave.

Regions that supported <10k people in the past are now populated by millions. Next thing they wonder why their agricultural practices and water use has become unsustainable and the land becomes unfit for human habitation...

A massive reduction in population growth helps more than doing nothing. That, however, to many people is unacceptable for religious and ideological reasons.
The people are similar, yes. The underlying socioeconomic and sociopolitical systems are likely different tho'. We (i.e., the USA) too often talk a good game, but the actions are disconnected.

Just one example, the Paris Climate Agreement isn't what most believe it is. The targets aren't tight enough, and there's nothing binding. Compliance is voluntary. Yet it has been and continues to be heralded as essential. An essential paper tiger?

Per Naomi Klein

https://www.wnyc.org/story/coveringclimatenow-naomi-klein-gr...

Of course there are other examples.
I found a few articles that suggest the PSP [0] can be disabled in the BIOS. [1][2] Can anyone here verify this?

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[1] - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-PSP-...

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/852s99/q_is_there_any_...
> It may be less obvious why the state cares who runs pet shops, inseminates cattle, or performs zoological taxidermy, but if you read the applicable laws, you'll learn that animal welfare and protection of endangered species have many and obscure corner cases.

But how did many those laws come to be?

Is it because the state cares about these professions a-priori, or because established players in those industries lobbied to restrict who can enter the profession in order to protect their market position and comparative advantage?

And yes, the latter can be true while also it leading to an outcome that produces higher quality than if thise laws were not there - but quality may not have been the reason the laws were proposed in the firt place.
They developed a system to do that. The Feds stepped in.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075033/apple-icloud-end...

Of course, you've always been able to do encrypted backups to your local computer.
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So stop living basically. Why don't we just make plastics that are safe and dissolve in our bodies? Probably not that hard to do.
> "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."

Except that isn’t what software engineers largely do, we aren’t building the nth copy of the same building with a slightly different skin. Those kind of largely canned projects are straightforward and mostly offshored to low cost countries.

The other type of project is complex and unpredictable because no one knows the full scope of the project, the specifications and interactions. Most of the complexity and time in software engineering is getting that sorted, not the coding. Not to say coding something complex and non-trivial is easy, but the main challenges aren’t the code IMHO
Well, the website says: "Each line has a limit of 50 bytes (50 standard characters). "
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>we urgently need liability for for-profit software in order to stop software's race to the bottom.

If we're going to do that, there's no good reason to give a special exclusion for not-for-profit software.
Pandoc markdown had footnotes in 2008 when I was blogging with it.
I'm not sure how true this is but I have read that Venezuela (or Zimbabwe, can't remember) not only had hyperinflation, they also have price controls to pretend that hyperinflation doesn't exist.
In fact, the government blames the businesses for causing the hyperinflation through price gouging.

What happens is that first, the shelves are emptied very quickly because the price is too low, second the shelves aren't refilled because there is no profit to be made, finally businesses shut down because fixed expenses can't be paid.

It's clear that the government should have instated a very very high VAT or sales tax to counteract the inflation. Maybe a VAT as high as 50%.
> weird world where blowing up money containers…will only net you a meager $2mio…while getting people to click on your scam crypto IPO link can easily net you $20mio

Why is that weird? Local versus global distribution; plentiful versus scarce skill requirements; and experienced versus naïve adversaries.
So that would mean I could f.e. Sue Microsoft if they push an update that breaks my whole network?

... I like this idea
> For example, IE had a completely different interpretation of the CSS box model to everyone else (specifically, how padding, margin and width should interoperate).

One interesting outcome of this is we now have the `box-sizing` CSS rule to choose between the original, default box model (content-box) and the IE box model (border-box). Basically every project I've looked into opts into the IE box model.
Hence the “where I lived qualification”, which was btw 90’s in Eastern Europe. People around usually had two working parents and no need to have jobs themselves. Of course nobody except a fiend who regularly “borrowed” their parents’ car had one (since you can drive only at 18 here).

I can definitely see that if you hoist adult responsibilities on kids it’s super stressful, but that is not normal everywhere.
Yes but this same argument works the other way, dynamically typed languages can do a half-assed impression of static languages as well. So its a tradeoff depending on your domain.
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It's not about petulance, it's about motivation. I'm in a similar position to the author but acting more like you would want; I care about being good at my job and want to deliver because that is how I was raised, but there is a constant tension in me that this is the "wrong" approach since no company actually rewards loyalty or expertise, at least not nearly as much as self-promotion and being a corporate mouthpiece.

Regarding promotion and being indispensable, that cuts both ways - in some roles being impossible to replace also means you are impossible to promote, since the next step up the rigidly defined corporate ladder may not have sufficient overlap with your current role.
>Grammerly

Well, you should look into it...
That's... oppressive. If you don't want to say the country, what continent is it?
That last bit isn't really an issue. I only use one a few times a year and I can still reliably find an ATM and if not, can always ask at a gas station. It isn't like banks have cash anyways - at least not here.
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Quasi-religious fixation on CO² is unhelpful.

What about biodiversity? What about fresh water preservation, preserving topsoil and preventing mudslides, regional climate, local and global precipitation patterns, etc.?

Forests aren't just about CO² and looking only at this one aspect is detrimental to the cause.
Imagine typing this comment and being proud of yourself for saying a good thing.