skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Facebook account that I effectively just abandoned one day in 2014. One day last year someone tried to access it and Facebook sent me a security alert. Now I can't log in to it unless I send them a photocopy of my ID.
Fine for violating Congressional Stock Act is $200 [pdf]
I think the important point to note about that is it doesn't necessarily have to be a purpose-built "radio transmitter" to emit RF energy; everything which involves moving charges will radiate an EM field. This becomes especially apparent when you read the century-old books on early experiments with radio, and see the extremely crude circuitry they used to generate those waves.
buddypress is open source and free - not sure what it would take to make it 'federated' - I have not used the export data option in wordpress to know what may or may not include with buddypress - but there may already be ways to export from BP and to pull rss feeds from the various sections.
Come on man… you can run the whole thing off if a few Gb instance. Such a huge instance should be able to do about 100k a second!
Why could you be bothered to work hard on your tests but not your homework? I don't get the difference?
This is why you should use FOSS as much as possible. So what if digital ocean shuts you down? You have a backed up copy at least once a day of your data at least once a day on off premises backup, right? You just move to another provider and make sure to tweet and HN about how awful DO (or whoever is) so they lose customers and your company keeps moving alone with a 1 day outage.
Right? The OP is literally saying he slacks off then bullshits his way through meetings and that he regularly doesn't understand what's going on.

Everyone else appears to be talking about time spent directly thinking about a problem - which absolutely can look exactly like you're staring into space and this magic "subconscious processing" everyone claims to do.

That is far too seductive and idea, and far too ego flattering for me to trust it. "I'm so smart I solve problems in my sleep!"

Oh really?

But the phenomenon of solving problems quickly after a break/sleep/shower/whatever is one I recognise too.

Something else I recognise is that I also jump to solutions too quickly, often wrong ones, or by something that feels quit similar, jump to the idea that I don't understand things or that I don't know how to solve a problem.

Either the "wrong idea(s)" or the "no idea" are patterns of thinking that make it that much harder to see the problem a different way, or to think up new approaches. You can absolutely overcome it, but it takes a deliberate effort of will, and possibly explicit step by step techniques to do.

Much easier to just put it down and have a nap or a walk or whatever.

But that time isn't "subconsciously working on the problem", it's time spent letting go of you original ideas, letting those neuron interconnections to loosen up ( or whatever, not a neurologist, can you tell? ) so you can generate new ideas, obviously you haven't forgotten them.. but they have that softening distance to them now, and the no longer carry as much weight.

To take in one more, completely unsubstantiated step further, maybe that what a 10x coder is: someone who can more freely move between their ideas ( naturally or via learned technique ) meaning the the need to sleep on it far less often. Or maybe they give themselves a chance to let go of there currently working on the next and the next ( which I'm sure we all do some of, or every software company would be surrounded by a cloud of Devs, walking or staring off into spec! )
But maybe to 10x engineer does that more readily? Without the the exhausting drain I know I feel jumping from deep thinking on one think to deep thinking on another?

We shouldn't discount how many of the "other things" people list are either directly rejuvenation ( sleep! ) Or at least refreshing via increased bloodflow from some level of physical movement, even if it is just getting up to do the dishes.

Personally I think "well rested me" is of about average intelligence, "well rested and in the zone me" is perhaps a little higher but "tired me"? Wow can that be a big drop!

So.. rest, rejuvenation, letting go of mental models by directing your attention else where all seem like more likely causes than "my brain solves problems without even trying"

( Sorry tsike, kinda went of on a tangent there.. ! )
I'm confused how this is human experimentation. Were they not merely collecting information on how a site handles these requests? Is it because they erroneously sent emails to sites that do not fall under the umbrella of the law they were examining?

An email asking an organization for answers to questions is human experimentation?

I must be missing something.
My biggest problem with Telegram is the lack of a business model. People need to eat and pay the bills. We know the results of a model where the users aren't the ones paying for it (everything wrong with all mainstream social media platforms can be mitigated overnight by moving from an ads/engagement model to a paid account model) and Telegram looks like it won't be any different.
I am SUPER worried about this when it affects something really important, like getting the client/customer/merchant/cardholder their money. It seems like the world has moved on without me —- “ohh, three nines is enough”… “hrmmm maybe?…”
I guarantee you every big tech company "steals" GPL code without intending to steal. Most end up amending their mistake when they realize they misused a license.
You can never "end inequality". The best you can hope for is a level playing field, equal opportunity, as much as possible. There's a lot of things we could be doing to make that happen. It probably starts with more fair, universal access to education and trying to make sure that all children have their basic needs met, regardless of age or gender, but I think you are right that identity politics is a distraction for the working class.

The powers that be are trying to make the mob angry at straw men such as "capitalism", "colonialism" and "the patriarchy", but in the mean time, nobody is discussing real, evidence-based measures we could be taking to make the world a better place, there's only posturing and finger pointing.

IMO, we should be ensuring that the best, more positive aspects of capitalism are used to serve the best interests of humanity (i.e. stimulating investments in innovative technologies like electric cars). We should strive to have measures in place to prevent regulatory capture from fucking over startups in favor of inefficient zombie companies... And we should also have more scientists and engineers in the government, looking at evidence-based solutions to make sure we can comfortably provide housing, food, clothing, education and medical care to every child in the world, with a 5-year, 10-year and 25-year plan... Instead we have governments run by ex-lawyers and "activists" inventing new forms of victimhood.
Boeing suspends vaccine mandate for U.S. employees
Sounds like the reviewer realized he enjoys exercising power over others and feeling respected, and that metastatized into pedantry.
Do subjective truths exist?
To cherry pick two details of the post and insinuate something about it?

No.
Let's propose an experiment then.

You take the test twice, once with a blindfold on, and once without a blindfold. As an objective measure of your intelligence, I expect you to get the same results on both tests

You are considering whether it's objective only by that the reader at the end sees the final score, but there's many spots in between an empty sheet of paper and that score where somebody's subjective experience comes into play
They probably believe that their target market (i.e. donors) would consider it an advantage if their offspring would study together with people with "good lineage" (e.g. children of foreign leaders) - and I don't think that they're mistaken, I think that they likely know their market characteristics better than me or you.
Thanks, that's exactly what happened.
People are evil. Institutions cannot be evil, but since all institutions are perpetuated by humans they can seem that way. The real question is whether a particular institution brings out more evil or more good from the hearts of those who participate it in. I can understand how an individual might come to believe a broad class of such institutions are rotten to the core, based on personal experiences, but in the case of religion the weight of history seems to provide a compelling argument that we are better off for it.
I don't think so either. My uncle is about 75 so this was quite a while ago.
For reference, the maximum penalty US citizens face for violating insider trading laws is $5,000,000 and 20 years in jail.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25743/00013871311300...
Careful there, that's fash-adjacent talk
Anyone can behave like an evil profit-seeking private corporation, but some organizations deliberately choose not to do that, and enjoy the resulting respect, recognition, tax benefits, and public funding that comes with it.

Also, A/B testing only happens to people who choose to interact with the corporation for a related purpose. On the other hand, when corporations go out of line, e.g. scan your address book and send invites to your friends pretending to be you, they are also demonized for that. Imagine if Facebook sent you anonymous legal threats, you think they'd get a pass?
There's something even nicer than advisory locks, as of a few years ago. https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/what-is-select-skip-lock...
> Standardized test scores do very little to predict college success when controlling for other variables. And they're trivial to game.

needs sources, and unbiased ones.
Most dams do not have a fish ladder from what I have seen.

I have fished every dam on the river I live on (in IL) for about a 60 mile stretch. There is 1 fish ladder I can think of. Every dam removal project gets fought tooth and nail by locals who like how they look, or fishermen who like how fish bunch up under them.
Or ndb[0].

[0]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/ndb
Do you seriously think the Googles and Apples of the US have not used GPL code in commercial products, ever?

Yikes. All I see is a comment that teeters on the brink of racism and now you're trying to backtrack.
The Software Freedom Conservancy are trying to set that precedent right now in their lawsuit against Vizio for GPL violations in their televisions:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
There is such a thing as a vocal minority.

In fact it is a surprisingly common phenomenon.
I've met Ross during my time at Princeton and he is a really genuine person, he is not trying to ruin anyone's life. This incident is the result of an uncharacteristic blind spot in empathy: a mistake.

I also have experience with the Princeton IRB on similar topics. The reality is that Princeton's IRB, and IRBs in general, are not equipped to deal with this sort of online research. IRBs were created as a reaction to unethical medical research, in particular the Tuskegee Syphilis Study [1]. My experience has been that the IRB has a greater expertise on medical and sociological studies. This leads the IRB to having a very narrow view of its remit in other domains. Unless humans are in a very literal way "subjects" of the study, then the IRB doesn't see it as human subjects research. In this case the IRB likely saw "Free Radical" and other websites as the subject. In both my studies and those done by my peers, the responses on what is and isn't human subjects research is uneven and you will often get a generic "this study does not constitute human subjects research" response from the IRB. This can be the case even if there possible negative repercussions to the "not subjects" in your research.

For example, say your study involves testing the vulnerability disclosure policies. How well do websites respond to vuln reports? In your study you send out 100 vulnerability disclosures. After you report these vulnerabilities, a human may read your vulnerability report and make a decision based on it. This presents a risk that the individual security team employees involved in your study will be scapegoated and fired when you publish your (potentially damning) results. How do you balance the value this study provides the public against the risk to the individual employees' livelihoods? The IRB isn't going to help you do this balancing, they will just say "this isn't human subjects research".

IRBs quite simply aren't equipped to evaluate this sort of research at the moment. This can be frustrating for a young twenty-something researcher just out of college trying to do the right thing while generating impactful research. You come in thinking that the IRB will be a guiding hand of wisdom and prudence, but you are quickly disabused of that notion after most of your interactions feel like conversations with lawyers in a compliance department. Many researchers in "CS" don't even involve the IRB, because they don't always see the ethical dimension of their work, but the fact that Ross did shows that he was trying to do the right thing here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
Installed this in one of my advantage 2s about 9 months ago. Great mod. https://github.com/wizarddata/Blue-Wizard-Mod
> Even that occasional interaction - even passing - with a stranger on the street was something I didn't realize.

Yeah. It's not just being in the same room (or whatever) with people. It's interacting with them as persons. That moment when you genuinely connect, even if it's only briefly, is something you starve for if you don't have it.
I would say the entire world economy is based on people taking other people's ideas and running with them.

Steve Jobs was a Silicon Valley folk hero, no? Was he known for implementing his original ideas?
> In Stossel's case, one of his video's is being very closely taken to their implications

What?
First consumer charge card since Amex
Hopefully the SFC lawsuit against Vizio will set the precedent that any recipient of GPL binaries has standing to sue:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
You also need to account for the fact that oscilloscope wires would also be longer going to the light bulb. You can imagine this on the extreme case where light and battery are 1 km apart. Now, you need oscilloscope wires to go 1km far to connect to the light bulb and your timing is off.
I know this may be controversial, but I think injecting a carefully thought out sandboxing layer between application code and the rest of my system is something desktop operating systems been needing for a long time anyway.

Its crazy how vulnerable modern operating systems are in the face of malicious code. Literally any of the hundreds of programs running on my computer could steal credentials out of my browser, or read any of my files and send them out over the internet. Or, worse - encrypt all my stuff and ransom it back to me.

Why can my text editor read my browser's complete history and credential store? Why does crappy program from Corsair which maps the buttons on my mouse have access to the internet? Why does my operating system allow wacom's driver bundle to silently read, send and ultimately sell lists of what programs I'm running on my computer?

So yeah, I agree that the need for WASI is a bit unfortunate. And it'll be a lot of work to get everything working with wasi. And WASI programs will eventually, necessarily pierce WASM's beautiful hermetic shell. But I'm a big supporter of whatever roads lead us to having more control over what access to the rest of the system my applications have.

In the long run I can see WASI being part of a much more secure desktop computing environment. We need that - the current situation is ridiculous.
Homework was several hours per night of busy work. I learned nothing from it. I spent that time teaching myself programming and things that were actually useful.

For tests, simply paying attention and listening to what the teacher said was enough to do well.

For many people, homework is completely useless and many US schools absolutely love overwhelming students with it. There are also kids who need to work jobs after work to support their family--busy work assignments are just punishment for them, and countless people I know suffered because of that. The ACT/SAT was a way for them to elevate themselves.
There are basically two viable next-gen messengers: Telegram and Signal. One has an open encryption protocol and a founder who is much better connected in Silicon Valley.
I think this is correct link: https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/lib.html
One issue is that giving standing ovations for every performance ends up devaluing them. I am sure that the performers on stage know that undeserving performances receive disproportionate approbation, so they discount the reaction accordingly.

Many studies show that improvement requires operating at your limit, and sometimes failing. Never letting anyone fail is a disservice to them in the long term.
A coerced agent is still an agent. But my point is that those who don't participate in such activities, despite the demands of the CCP, are not agents of the CCP.
> Especially since the effects he's describing are probably (as mentioned in this video) because of capacitance, and are completely dependent on the 1m distance between the wires across the entire span, a constraint he mentions basically once and then never again, and never says explicitly that it's related to the effect.

YES. This is my biggest gripe with the video. A better shape of wires would be a pair of tangent circles, each one with a circumference of 1 light-second, and a 1-meter section removed at the tangent point. (Hope I'm describing it right. Basically but only the switch and the light bulb 1 meter apart, but get the wires as far apart from each other as possible)

Now would that eliminate capacitance? Or largely so? What amount of current would begin flowing across the bulb at t₀?

After seeing that video and all the reactions, I know more—but not from the original video. My mental model of electricity is still that it "flows along wires", but I now can somewhat separate the movement of charged particles from the energy flux those moving charges propagate. I think.
Sorry for that Mr. '); DROP TABLE...
Does anyone know of a similar VPS provider that a) is responsive in situations like the OP's, and b) is not on the UCEPROTECTL3 email blocklist?

I've been happy with DigitalOcean for a while now, but reports like this concern me, and I've also discovered after investigating that the reason MS-hosted email accounts (@hotmail.com, @live.com, etc) reject all emails from my VPS is because the entire provider is on the UCEPROTECT blocklist, and apparently has no interest in changing this.
are you suggesting any developer of autonomous driving systems can straight up ignore this law as long as they make sure the system requires the presence of a human?
Sounds like an idea for startup ;-) Serioualy, there's market for this, and people are gonna pay money for the service.
(cross posting from my comment on the other story)

It isn't human subjects research just to read what a website says about its compliance to a law (or lack thereof), but once you start reaching out to actual humans to discuss the matter, it definitely does become human subjects research (we would categorize this as an interview or survey).

At the very least, the emails should have come with a notice that they were being sent as part of an academic study - after all, misleading your participants wasn't a goal of this study!
I don't necessarily think it's a strategy specifically designed to divide the working class, but I do agree that it's largely about inequality. The thing is, when you have a large percentage of the population who is economically struggling and a small percentage of the population thriving, then this impoverished majority has nothing to lose with radical change. The middle class offers a huge check on stability in societies as middle classes tend to be less likely to support highly-disruptive revolutions leading to extreme social change. The impoverished have less to lose. When society is composed of the majority impoverished, they'll back revolution with gusto as they reason their lot can only go up from where they currently are.
This victimization is hardly exclusive to the right. You can make a good case it began on the left and is merely being mirrored in some quarters on the right. Probably because of the success it has brougth to trial lawyers as we've become an increasingly litigious society.
One of my favourite things is how hard the band Smashmouth tries to correct people that they aren't just "the Shrek song guys". They actually have a decent catalogue, but no one hears it outside of "SomeBODY once told me..."
IMO moonlander, ergodox, etc .. all just shitty Advantages. The only thing that comes close in the DIY/Enthusiast community is the Dactyl. Nothing beats the contour.
I've always followed Howard Johnson's rule of thumb to match them within 1/10 of the rise time, but it's not like it's a lot of work: the software does it automatically.
If you tap the timestamp you can favorite it (add it to the public list of favorite comments linked on your profile page).
Thanks! That's super helpful!
There is presumably some handling of 4:3 or "vertical videos" though, would be interesting to know what it is
Who needs meritocracy, hard work and hours dedicated to studying when you can just hop on one of the personal identity trains and build your brand around that instead?
Was expecting some research on what might be happening to our youth as a result of covid-19 not just a result of the pandemic.
So that the recipients of the code have the four freedoms defined by the FSF:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms: [1]

The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Also, no public records exist that track those who has violate the Stock Act.

If that was not enough congressional members are shielded from any questions that arise from congressional discussions per the Speech and Debate Privilege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_or_Debate_Clause
I think the plaintiffs would be people who spent money reacting to the emails, and I suspect Princeton may be quick to take care of those expenses to avoid further action.

I personally didn’t incur any monetary costs, just a lot of unnecessary stress.
There are still plenty of Christians who rue the transition to state church, although they tend to be in the minority. You'll usually find them in the fringes in things like the Catholic Workers or the New Monasticism (which is sort of a protestant Catholic Worker movement). I'd assume that many Quakers also fit the mold.
It certainly targets "asians" students who are deemed too successful at school, despite their diverse economic background, as they are already discriminated against in Ivy league colleges right now. It's just obfuscate discrimination. Yes, when you are told "you're too successful as a community" to get in, it's not only discrimination, it's straight out racism.

It will change absolutely nothing for actual rich kids, no matter their race, who can buy in admission through donations, unlike what some people are claiming here. For these kids, SAT scores already don't matter.
I agree with the OP, but I have to say that your keyboard navigation is second to none. Also, please keep Zulip fast, it's the biggest reason why it's so great to use.