skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Machine Learning the Future of Cybersecurity?
Amazing! Love the feeling of rediscovery and reawakening of some long dormant neural pathways brought about by hearing a forgotten piece of music
I’d hate to have unlimited PTO because it can mean people try to make a point of taking less than the person at the next desk.

This has a simple fix: have a reasonably high minimum PTO of say 20 or 25 days. That must be a hard minimum as in every employee must take at least that.

Then there is a decent lowest level so if your manager is suddenly the kind of guy that would see PTO as poor performance, then at least no one has to do zero PTO out of fear. When the environment is healthier people can take more PTO, that’s great.
that’s the point :-)
Age 49 here. I'm seriously considering that my next job should be 3 or 4 days per week, even if that means a somewhat proportionately reduced paycheck. Would fight for 4+ weeks vacation too.

I need quality of life more than I need cash right now.
I've held a short position on USDT through AAVE for a couple months now. USDT would have to go to ~2 to liquidate me.
I guess you don't care that your use of a free thing causes harm to balance out your free use of it?
If you're in charge why would you pay yourself a salary only to donate some portion of it back?
What is it about then? What possible dark scheme lies behind a system where citizens can instantly swap between USD or BTC at no charge?

Remittances aren't about easy, it's about bypassing fees in traditional banking that may be as high as 30%. As well making remittances possibly to people that are unbanked, yet do have a smartphone.
Awk has many interpreters and some compilers. awka is an awk compiler. lawk is an awk-JIT.
I take the article as an advert to say 'use us to fingerprint people, we are always thinking of different ways to reliably finger people'
Sorry, I gave up thinking I knew what people would or wouldn't bother doing a long time ago.
So unless you burn cash in a fire or counterfeit money, the only entity that can create and destroy money is the Federal Reserve.

Everyone else can only create "value". So I can combine two widgets together to make a third widget and sell it for less than you could do it. That's "value" in a nutshell.

So on an exchange balance sheet (stockmarket, coinbase, etc), dollars aren't created or destroyed, just transferred for something of perceived value. So I trade one dollar for a fraction of AMD Stock, e.g. But the dollar goes to whoever sold me AMD. The price of AMD stock can go up and down ("value") but the total dollars created or destroyed is always zero. Same is true with BTC.

Right, makes sense? Good.

So every transaction in BTC has a "cost" associated with it, where some "value" of BTC is transferred to miners. The miners spend money burning energy which removes "value" from the economy as a whole. Basically that means we had "X" many tons of fossil fuels left on Earth, but now we have slightly less because energy was "burned" for the transaction.

If I give you a ton of coal you can burn that for heat. But that removes the coal permanently from the world. OTOH, if I want to make a cryptocurrency with 10^86 coins and if I do that a billion times over, well, I have a limitless supply of cryptocurrency.

If you look at the situation as a flow of dollars you see an equation that looks like this:

BTC bought in dollars = BTC Sold in dollars + Mining Costs in dollars.

So while dollars flow back and forth, some have to go to the miners to burn physical energy. That incurs real world costs. So "value" has to be extracted and transferred to the energy companies to "burn" energy. Even if dollars aren't exchanged in the transaction, "value" has to be extracted regardless for confirmation. That value is "burned" by consuming non-renewable energy.

You might say that's exactly what credit card transactions are, (which is not incorrect) but the burn rate of Visa per transaction is much less than BTC.

This shows the cost of 1 BTC transaction vs 100K Visa transactions.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co...

What this means is that if you reduce the "burning" cost per transaction in BTC, you can keep the value in BTC, and I'll be less cranky about it, since you're not hurting the environment.
Yep. I often listen to audiobooks while cooking - ideal for shutting down after work.
4x24?
I was hoping from the title that the lasers would somehow directly contribute to the extraction of the cider, but it turns out that they're just used as optical sensors. :-)

That doesn't take anything away from this awesome project, though.
Wal-Mart most certainly does not lose money on every sale. Its gross margins have been very stable at around 24-25% every quarter for the past 10 years, including the pandemic. The interest it makes on the float, while significant to you or I, is mostly a rounding error in the interest-rate environment we're currently in.

https://ycharts.com/companies/WMT/gross_profit_margin
It's unfortunately a rare case for someone to be both a master at something and a master at teaching. Those are the best people to learn from.

As for MasterClass, most people agree that it's more IntroClass.
Yep. Some companies plan this way from the start, but almost all do it once they get mature enough where these type of financial engineering optimizations can really make sense to spend time and expertise on.

I have read that something like 5% of Starbucks' accounting liabilities are gift cards that have not yet been redeemed. So again in a simplified financial view, that is a loan at 0% interest, and some percentage of that "loan" will never get called in.

I guarantee you they have models about what percent and at what rate over time that "loan" actually gets "called in" (redeemed for coffee and store employees' time).
"I added exceptions into the mix. Now I got the same 'Progam aborted' [...] When using m68k-amigaos-g++ rather than m68k-amigaos-gcc, it would suddenly work."

Sounds like he didn't use the -fexception flag?
> Well, for the really established religions, all the supernatural things happened 1400+ years ago.

For many branches of Christianity, miracles continue to happen! Of course, most Christians likely don't _literally_ believe in miracles.
I think the cooking classes are very good. I don't know what a "Master Class" is per se, but getting Thomas Keller walking me one on one through a bunch of his recipes has to be pretty close! The article is right on, the classes totally inspired me and now I cook every day, without fear.
> to a much higher standard than banks

I strongly suggest you look into the sort of compliance banks have to do.
Doctors Are Injecting Bleach to Treat Covid in Bolivia
DeFi exchanges operate algorithmically with published smartcontracts, so they can't be deliberately manipulated like that[1] -- can you link the example of the DeFi where USDT traded at $1000?

Or were you just equivocating between DeFi and centralized exchanges in response to a comment that specifically suggested DeFi?

[1] Which is not to say they can't be manipulated at all, but you'd have to go after the entire market or exploit some existing bug; it's different from the ones where centralized exchanges pull arbitrary shenanigans on their own platforms.
Aren‘t preemptible/spot instances a way of dramatically reducing the public cloud cost if the training jobs are designed to be resumable/resilient to interruptions? Most providers offer also GPUs with this pricing model.
Weirdly, I myself have apparently learned not to forgive. (Want to be humiliated? Wait until someone you've forgiven does whatever it is again.)

But I have learned to forget. Which is likewise useful.
> then Mazda could have successfully sued BMW over the confusion between MX-2 and M3

Assuming you mean the MX-3 (I can't find any reference to such a thing as a Mazda MX-2), it would hopefully have been the other way around -- BMW suing Mazda, since the M3 predates the MX-3 by half a decade:

> M3 models have been produced for every generation of 3 Series since the E30 M3 was introduced in 1986. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M3

> The Mazda MX-3[4] is a four-seat coupé manufactured and marketed by Mazda, introduced at the Geneva Auto Show in March 1991[5] and marketed for model years 1992–1998. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_MX-3
It's just fun to watch. I liked the Disney guy's one

Also anything even tangentially involving Gordon Ramsay is immediately at the top of my list
Modern cars are way more reliable than maybe 30 years ago. When I started driving a car with 100000km usually started falling apart. Now you can easily get 200000 and more they also rust way less.

Repairability of modern tech like phones and computers has gone the same way that cars have gone. It used to be pretty easy to open a laptop and even phones but now everything is often glued together.

And I don’t think it’s because they are more complex. I think they are making manufacturing cheaper at the expense of making repair more complex.
Sci-fi anthology 'AI 2041' presents hopeful realities of artificial intelligence
AOL had lots of well-liked properties, too. The same shifts that knocked AOL down also took those down.
I'm in my mid 20s and I'll never go back to 5 days workweek, definitely go for it, it's a life changing move, no amount of money makes up for time lost
New images from Mars will guide search for evidence of ancient life, says study
You're right about that, there will never be an end to trivialities, but I think that if movements focus on material issues (some of which are cultural) we can find ways to knit together a stronger coalition. I struggle with this too, what's the right emphasis to focus on?

Right now the US is so divided and there's no strong left coalition to make demands. I feel we are in a nascent rebuilding phase where we have to knit together groups and build groups from unorganized elements. My current thinking is that these are issues people care about, so we should help them and explicitly link them into economic class struggle so that the nascent coalitions build towards something.

People that engage in the movements in any capacity AND talk with class conscious activists become more radical over time. Participation in solely liberal movements can do it too, but mostly to the point where the people participate feel something is missing as the liberal demands always undershoot the problem. They need to read and talk to socialists, and socialists need to listen more than they talk in those conversations.
Someone posted some basic analysis with mild QC on elo vs age for FIDE rated players as of 2014: https://www.chess.com/blog/LionChessLtd/age-vs-elo---your-ba...

I think there are a lot of confounders to consider. Though GMs like Anand show a drop in standard rating (https://ratings.fide.com/profile/5000017/chart), his blitz rating is near his all-time-high (ie. is his standard rating drop due to decreased mental performance or a shift in interest/focus to blitz?). Similarly, I suspect a lot of strong players who fall in the `2000<FIDE rating<2300` realize they may not be the next magnus and shift focus when/if they make the decision to pursue a career outside of professional chess.
If I understand multipart/x-mixed-replace right, this could be used with other image formats as well? Really cool use of an almost forgotten technology.
This is old - you can now set the app to use smile. And when you share product links it will use the smile link.
As with all mergers, it depends on to whom / for what.

For AOL shareholders, by 2002, between the merger and the dotcom bubble bursting, 2002$200 B (so about 2021$5.5 T?) had been wiped from AOL's market cap.

So that was, presumably, not good.
Not sure that everyone realizes this is just pop-science and not proper courses. Their homepage says:

> Whether it be in business and leadership, photography, cooking, writing, acting, music, sports and more, MasterClass delivers a world class online learning experience.
There's little fun to be had. The store owner holds up a QR code, you scan it and hit OK. Done. Money wired.
A version of PROLOG in awk is here - https://github.com/prolog8/awkprolog - but it would be interesting to see those problems for students in AI which are done with awk.
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regarding (1), the route table growth is actually not slowing. as we run out of IPv4 addresses there is more fragmentation as bigger blocks are split up and sold.
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Absolutely do not do this. Do not bet against the house inside casino walls.

If you have enough capital to weather potential dislocations, the only real way to play this is to be long off shore (perps, probably) and short CME. This position is long BTC/USDT vs short BTC/USD, the net of which is short USDT/USD. The reason for doing it this way is if it doesn’t play out, or goes to 100k first, you’re just wearing a bit of spread and funding risk, but let’s call it delta neutral. OTOH, if Tether nukes, crypto will explode in Tether terms (since it’s worthless) and implode in USD terms. Now, you won’t actually get paid on your offshore long because the house is bust, so you’ll have a paper cut there (keep as little margin as possible). But your CME short will pay you nice, hard, centrally cleared greenbacks.
I understand that vegetarians have a moral code that says not to eat meat, which is fine. I'm not saying that's bad or they should change what they believe. But as a historical question of human diet, there is no controversy.

We have cave paintings all over the world of men chasing large animals. That wasn't a game of tag, they are going to eat them. We know the development of cattle culture, fishing societies, etc, all over the world. Even in India, the one traditional society in which a sizable minority (%25) doesn't eat meat, there is widespread evidence of meat-eating prior to the introduction of vegetarianism by the Jains in ~500 BC. But ancient Hindu civilization is much older than that, and prior to this ate meat (and sacrificed animals). All other ancient civilizations: Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Central American societies -- all ate meat, just as their predecessors, the hunter gatherers ate meat.

It is of course not the only thing people ate -- meat in the ancient world was much harder to come by than today and diets varied greatly. But we humans are omnivores, and if people think this is controversial, then they are refusing to face facts about our history.
Facebook can show 1 ad campaign per day to the user base instead of 30 ads getting 1/30th of the target market each day over a month.

To the individual user, they can’t tell anything different between these two types of campaigns. It just makes the advertiser feel better that their money is lasting longer.
> No, it's because no matter what the cost of school is, universities know their "customers" will just take out a loan to match whatever the price is. And one way to "disrupt" this is to make public universities free for in state students

It's not just the ability to borrow that's driving this, but the perception that you must absolutely have the product (college degree) - so you don't feel like you have a choice not to borrow to pay the exorbitant fee.

University is hard to "disrupt" but the fact that the cost comes out of your pocket, student debt and all, is one motivating factor for others to try.

If you entrench the university as something that's "free" (meaning, you still pay the exorbitant fee, just in the form of taxes) then you've basically established a monopoly because nothing can compete with something that's "free"

My take on the university is simple - the university originally existed because you needed a single physical location for books and smart people. Access to people and information was finite and location really mattered.

This is the opposite of the world we live in now - ability to access people and knowledge today is only hurt by the physical colocation aspect. So the university, which is still operating under the "books and smart people are scarce so you need to pay us to be near them" principle just no longer makes sense as the default way to educate the masses.
Quill.js is simple and highly extensible. It has a nice clean look too. The best part is it's, plugin architecture
When content gets deleted or hidden, it inhibits the ability to transmit that thought, so I fail to see your distinction.

Censorship is censorship. "Good censorship" and "bad censorship" is a slippery slope.

The only type of content that should be censored in a given jurisdiction is content that is against the law.

What should be against the law is an entirely different discussion to be had amongst inhabitants of that sovereign jurisdiction.

When multinational corporations impose censorship that doesn't align with the laws of a given jurisdiction, it is tantamount to imperialism.
It's not as settled as you seem to think.

Leading vaccine developer Nikolai Petrovsky (who's working on a traditional, protein-based vaccine) recently mentioned in an interview that if he had a pregnant wife he'd advise her to avoid both the virus and the vaccine (something only the privileged could attempt, so not a one-size-fits-all recommendation) [1]

(In a more technical interview aimed at a scientific audience, he outlines a number of issues he has with the current options. [2])

One of Petrovsky's key issues is that on pregnancy and children, the sensitivity is so high and risks so great that there is usually a much, much higher bar before vaccines are authorised for use: that's been the history of traditional, protein-based vaccines where it can take decades before they're authorised for use in pregnant women, babies, children.

Pfizer only began their pregnancy and safety trials in February this year - so only a little over 7 months ago. It is designed to observe pregnancy through to newborns reaching 6 months of age, and will complete in a year.

So we currently have no safety data in pregnancies from pre-conception via all-important and sensitive first trimester, through to full term + 6 months.

Keep in mind the WHO changed position on safety and aligned with the CDC on recommending the vaccine 3 weeks before Pfizer even started its safety trials.

None of this is to say that getting Covid isn't currently provably worse than getting a current vaccine.

It's just to say the safety data is incomplete, there are still unknowns which could change the calculation significantly considering the nature of the technology used, and we just won't fully understand the issues for some time to come.

(Also keep in mind that with mandates, the proposal is for all to receive the current options, but the alternative is not for all pregnant women to become infected. The risk calculation generally assumes wrongly here.)

[1] https://www.doctorlewis.com.au/podcast-1/2021/7/19/episode-2...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_2Rq1zoRg&t=3063s
I would not stop paying for internet access if calls were free and I didn't need what's app. I don't think anyone would
Not sure what a google search for "2021 High School America" is supposed to prove. Its just a collection of photo's of beauty pagent winners and athletes...
Apparently, subjecting pomace to a high voltage pulsed electrical field (30kV, 40us and 1kHz duration and frequency) will crack open intact cell walls and improve yields (archive) for both the tannin compounds in the juice, and also juice quantity in general. If anyone has ideas on how to home-build such a system, please reach out.

I think I'll stick to the old-fashioned way....
What Is the Role of AI and ML in the Music Industry?
Well that's a chicken/egg problem right? Coke and Pepsi wouldn't have so much to spend on advertising if they weren't already very popular.
If you want to cut sugar, but want something sweet, stay away from sucralose, splenda, aspartame.

Some good alternatives are stevia, monkfruit, and the sugar alcohols (xylitol, erythritol, etc). I don't especially like the taste of stevia, but stevia + monkfruit blends aren't so bad.
I suppose the way I'd put it is that the author might as well have solemnly said that the Chinese word for "crisis" is composed of the characters "danger" plus "opportunity", therefore China is inherently better suited to meet the Evergrande crisis than America was for their financial crisis.

The fact that this was expected to be taken seriously, and then seemingly was by being upvoted to the front of Hacker News is what's funny.
Then you swap it instantly to USD, which is part of the implementation.

So citizens can chose. Conservative ones pick USD for its stability, others may pick BTC. Which has appreciated by 200% for 12 years straight, but hey, who's counting.

Or, mix it up. 75% USD, 25% BTC. So...what is the problem again?
If I owned a telephone company and people complained about telephones I would do... nothing. Because it is none of my fucking business I guess.
The Computer Science god does not actually require this kind of works righteousness for salvation.
No it's not... In-app purchases also require hosting, download, and update services. The apps themselves do but the purchases do also. The $99/yr only covers the license to develop an app.
Aspartame is not without issues: https://www.mentalfoodchain.com/aspartame/

Allulose looks promising and tastes like real sugar (I‘ve tried it), hope it will be used more widely.
Witness housing.
People act like tooling that promotes useless busywork is "free security advice". It's actively harmful.

Prioritising security activities that aren't useful (fixing "regex dos" in dev deps) takes time and effort that could have been spent on real bugs or product improvement.
Dwindling Alaska salmon leave Yukon River tribes in crisis
To me, this is what makes Twitter (and Instagram and anything else aimed at talking to the public) mostly useless. I don't want to hear about the day-to-day lives of Twitter randos at all or follow celebrity gossip. On Facebook, I talk to and organize events with my friends and family. My conversations are continuous across devices, and they are not mobile-first like texting or whatsapp or snapchat or some of the new privacy-oriented platforms. I'm not a huge user of the newsfeed but I just unfollow anyone who posts irritating content. Back when they had auto-playing videos I unfollowed anyone who posted a video. Some of my friends apparently unfollowed me when I had a scary profile picture lol. But for the core usecase it still worked fine, we were still able to talk and organize events.
USDC is backed by Coinbase (USDC are issued by Centre, a joint venture of Coinbase and Circle if I'm not mistaken). And Coinbase is an HN unicorn.

Everybody at Coinbase is known, it's operated from the US.

Coinbase ain't anywhere, not even remotely, like tether/bitfinex. There totally exists a world in which USDT goes to 0 while USDC is still worth 1 USD.
I don’t have any disdain for Excel or VBA. It’s clearly hugely useful, successful, and valuable.

I’ve written some VBA; the DX is terrible, but I have massive respect for what they’ve accomplished and I readily reach for it when it’s the right tool. I wrote some powershell for a manufacturing site a few weeks ago. Didn’t enjoy doing it, but it was the right horse for that course.