skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know what the legal status of forced labor in the U.S. prison system is, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of those situations are effectively slavery.

Don't ever forget that the part of the US constitution banning slavery has an explicit carve-out for this.
It'd be awesome if I could SSH in to the VMs and edit from Emacs on my desktop. I'd also like a pony.
Multiple planes were told to land immediately. I personally know two pilots who were told to do so.
amazing, who thought machine learning will help on finding variant is dangerous or not without going to lab !
A social contract takes place when everyone contributes. If one does the work and others do the demands... it's not a "collaboration", which is a pre-requisite for a social contract.

You could argue there is a social contract between the repo maintainer and various submitters. Not so much between the repo owner and users/consumers.
Feel free to sign up for an Ably account and we'll help support your project with a community package, we love what you're doing!
This is actually a pretty good economic analysis that you are projecting you own biases onto. I take it you are not a tipper and disagree with tipping in general?

The article plausibly establishes that tipping is a cultural norm, hence people wish to tip. It establishes a threshold beyond which the rider will manually enter a tip rather than use the menu from statistics from millions of rides. It derives the “arbitrary” $1 amount from the difference in tips once the manual methods are used.

I don’t see any methodology issues on the surface.
I like intodns. Does a complete domain/record health check:

https://intodns.com/
The US relies primarily on the Aegis system for ICBM defense, which uses the SM-3 capable of Mach 10+.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3
Very good News,
I hope this will save a lot of souls
If you're using GitHub, you've already centralized. git:// support is not being removed from Git or self-hosted repos of any kind.
I highly recommend genmaicha if you haven't had it yet. By far my favorite green tea.
All you need is a radium drill. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(1935_film)
People do divide things up. There are some stuff they don't care much about paying, and some they care a lot.
Businesses don't have to pressure employees into taking tips rather than wages. Employees almost never pay taxes on (cash) tips... it's a feature, to most service employees.

It doesn't make it good, at a system level.
Hmm. Honestly, I think neither of these is the right takeaway?

My takeaway is "if people want some degree of diversity, and take individual actions based on what seem like reasonable heuristics, say, a mild desire for diversity but a stronger desire against minority status, then this can lead to systemic outcomes where there is less diversity than individuals want or expect."

I'm not sure where the "system engineering" part comes in, that doesn't seem to be part of the simulation, and at no point is anyone's "preference" being violated -- could you elaborate?
I'm the same way, if there's only paid parking, or a parking shortage, I just don't go there unless forced.
You also just get used to the taste of whatever other material in your local water. I drink tap water all the time and it just tastes like water. My daughter, who only ever has filtered, asked me why tap water tasted weird when I gave her some from my glass.

The only place in Europe where I had good tasting tap water was an Alpine village in Austria. The owner of the AirBnB said I had to taste it--and he was right. Better than fancy bottled spring water.
These aren't typical SAMs. They're ABMs. Something like the SM-3[1] has a similar velocity as an incoming ballistic missile. ABM tech tends to rely on hit-to-kill instead of detonating a warhead.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3
Nations rattling their sabres is just background noise to busy people trying to live their private lives. Grounding my flight for 10 minutes, though? That makes it real and tangible.
Your claim is that revenue evidence is meaningless. The burden of proof is on you.

You are suggesting that the majority of low quality chips are manufactured outside of Taiwan. You have not defined your operational definitions for chip quality. You do not even have evidence on the quantity of chips.

In the absence of any data that would contradict this, we can reasonably assume revenue figures are a sensible proxy for quantity of chips.
The first plane hit the WTC at 08:46.

A Groundstop (for NY area) wasn't issued on 9/11 until 9:06, 20 minutes after this event and 3 minutes after the second plane hit.

Flight 93 took off at 08:42, four minutes before the first plane hit the towers. Additionally, it was known well before the groundstop order that Flight 77 had already deviated at 08:54 and turned off its transponder at 08:56.

A "better safe than sorry" groundstop may have saved lives impacted by Flight 77 (Pentagon attack), even more if Flight 93 (PA crash) had been delayed by several minutes more.

I'm sure this has something to do with the calculus.
I was halfway through your comment and getting ready to tell you about this great solution call PayByPhone that's used for parking all around my city. Thanks for that :)

However I would argue that charging sufficiently high prices for parking solves #1 too, the remaining difficulty would be finding cheap parking, not expensive parking.
Yes, infrared scopes on earth have challenges and are not equally viable for all wavelengths. But VISTA, UKIRT, IRTF, etc, cover a substantial amount of the near and intermediate infrared-- the latter two are high enough to reach into a reasonable amount of the far infrared.

Most of JWST's wavelength coverage is energies that terrestrial telescopes can do (just less well). It's not like Herschel which went into the far, far infrared (and had its life limited by liquid He as a result).

Re: Moon-- Why put a telescope down a gravity well?

Most of the discussion of telescopes on the moon I've heard has been about radio telescopes, where a huge hunk of rock between you and Earth can be a feature.
The web app itself is completely isolated from the Lambda function doing the work, so that part can have downtime while the service keeps checking and sending alerts.

On top of that, there's a bit of replication across regions (and soon across cloud vendors), so if an entire AWS region goes down (happened twice last month), the checks keep on checking.
Meh. It seems fairly clear that once you've got nukes, you're fairly safe from US intervention. Doubly so if close US allies are in range of your missiles.

The difference in how the US treats North Korea versus Iran is pretty clear.
Does this anecdote make the point the author makes?

It makes the opposite point to me: if a lot of smart people pour a lot of their energy into making an animated movie, it doesn't matter what the initial idea was.

Note: This does not apply to features or startups. Features are time limited because the cast has to move on so you have to capture what you capture, and can't just fix it in post. And startups you can't just rely on your intuition that you're making what the audience wants.
I’ve been building a passwordless auth service and the stack is just Javascript and Vuejs running on Cloudflare workers using their Kv store as DB.
iPads and phones are different beasts, though. I personally have much lower expectations of my ipad, and one of those fairly low expectations is that the browser should continue working (with the implied, "and be safe to use" that requires security updates) for as long as the device doesn't physically break.

I get that Apple can't be expected to keep developing software for these forever, but I'd be a lot happier if they would transition them to some kind of minimal support where they publish routine OS and security updates for them rather than just abandoning them. They also have this habit of ratcheting up the OS targeting requirements of the SDKs so app builders end up unwittingly building new versions of their apps that exclude old devices unnecessarily. I'm not sure my oldest ipad could install any of its apps again if I uninstalled them, even the ones from Apple.
I got interviewed for one of these man in the street things for a local newspaper. I had just completed jury duty and was about to grab an early lunch and head into work. The reporter paraphrased my words very slightly when it went to print but the intent and meaning was the same so no complaints from me.
> What's Juustoleipa

Glad you asked! Juustolepia is a Finnish bread cheese that you can fry or bake. Unlike other cheese, it doesn't melt when you fry it: it just browns instead. Instead of using live cultures, Juustoleipa is curdled with a chemical culture (basically calcium chloride) that does not break down all the sugars in the cheese; the resulting a cheese also has a really low pH. The high natural sugar content means the cheese browns beautifully instead of melting when you fry it, which is pretty cool.
The comments so far seem pretty negative, but for a pause of (what the article says) of 15 minutes I'd say that sounds like a pretty good call on the FAA's part for what reads like a moment of uncertainty with the risk of being wrong very great?

Personally I'd think 15 minutes of inconvenience would be pretty petty of me to prioritize over protection from a potential national security threat
For one of my company's products, we're already working with a security-sensitive customer on a deployment on their own AWS infrastructure (in their own VPC). This customer wouldn't be comfortable using our public cloud deployment unless we get a SOC2 certification or similar. For the product I'm developing now, some potential customers will definitely want to keep it physically located within their corporate network. That's all I can say publicly.

If there was a less scalable, but still mostly functioning open-source substitute for Ably, then I'd be way more comfortable using Ably in the main public cloud deployment.
Inflation driven by corporate profits, costing $2,126 per American
Many schools and school districts have technicians to repair hardware like projectors and computers. When I was in high-school (10 years ago), we were pretty early in the laptop-for-every-student transition, and there were 1-2 part-time technicians who would repair laptops all day long.
I read it.
They redefined herd immunity:
"We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00728-2

if you are right, fix the Wikipedia entry ;)

Did you check who co-signed it?
Mr Banana Rama, Dr Johnny Bananas, Dr Johnny Fartpants, Dr Person Fakename, Harold Shipman, Professor Notaf Uckingclue, and Prof Cominic Dummings.

Also the study your sit
you are in good company ...
An ICBM travels at Mach 10 to Mach 20, while your typical SAM travels at Mach 1 to Mach 5. The fact of the matter is: missile-defense is significantly harder than missile-offense. Especially at the ICBM levels.

There's almost no certainty that we can stop an ICBM. We have untested systems and untested warning systems that the Soviet Union never even bothered to test. But now there's a rogue nation trying to play tough guy sitting across the Pacific Ocean with nuclear weapons and an experimental ICBM platform.

If an ICBM gets launched, the USA is probably going to throw everything we got to try to stop the missile. Then we'll probably fail, and the city will get nuked anyway. But we gotta do everything within our power to make the probability of success as high as possible.

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San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc. etc. Any of those cities could be lost within a few minutes under these scenarios. If people are saying that this airplane stop-order was over a nuke, I think its actually 100% reasonable to have done these stop-flying orders.
Fwiw, most good password managers don’t necessarily let the business know your passwords, the passwords are encrypted before transport, and the business has no access to your data. All decryption can be client side only. You pay for storage and hosting of encrypted data, i.e., access from anywhere, and browser+mobile apps.

This means losing the master password is dangerous, so some people still choose to allow a host-side override where the business has some access, in order to enable account recovery in the case of a lost password.
Fallout worry is not a thing with modern ICBMs and warheads (not the way you're imagining it). By the time the ICBM enters the terminal phase nothing can (currently) stop it. It's just a deployed MIRVed/MARVed warhead, ie. a set of a dozen or more hypersonic glides tipped with nukes and you have barely minutes to do anything even if you could. No, the way you stop a modern ICBM is you shoot it down with a nucler tipped anti-ICBM missile mid flight during its mid flight/coast phase, way before it had a chance to deploy. This basically happens in space and no fallout is going to reach the ground.
I think the best way to do it is to make short term parking free (under 30 minutes or so), and to charge for long term parking.

This ensures that there are parking spaces available for people running errands or people who transport heavy things, while at the same time making it less attractive for commuters or residents to block parking spaces all day long.
> The timeline doesn't look good for him [..]

There are scientists who state we're at the point where "we need to target the vulnerable" (rather than giving boosters to all over-12s) and that "there [is] no point in trying to stop all infections, and that at some point, society has to open up".

Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, chairman of the [UK's] Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation is one of them.
If it were released as a major semver change then that would be borderline acceptable. Anything less is malicious.
Associated Press says those camps are closed and that was back in October.

It is entirely possible that the US Congress was just too late on their grandstanding, yet their addition to the US law requires companies to say in/accurate things anyway.

So which is true? A Congress operating on outdated information just because they have a laundry list of fairly inconsequential laws to pass for their constituents who also have outdated information, or the Associated Press reporting up to date things with their own limitations on gathering information in Xinjiang.

I don't think it matters, same for Intel who just is in a place to respond.

Apologizing is the way to maintain standing in China, whether the statement is accurate or inaccurate. The Chinese constitution is being leveraged in a clear way that explains the behavior of everyone that has to make a strange-to-us apology. Specifically, if you read it, is the part about treating China as inseparable and not doing anything that would undermine that idea. It allows for broad interpretations on every action on every facet of life. Think about it like a super-interstate commerce clause, but maintaining status in that society is not that confusing to me.

The corporation and the management have no actual opinion and I don't require they do. They're apathetic and respond to regulation. They responded, and then responded better. Everyone else now knows how to respond better, in order to avoid the PR issue.

If you think this fiasco requires them to make an opinion, for you, its not going to happen, and hopefully the above explains why.
> we need a lot of investment in transportation alternatives.

Some small changes can have a pretty minimal investment. The city of Austin lets motorcycles use street parking for free.
> we need to get drivers to shift to other transit modes

No thank you. I've tried them all, and driving is better than all of them.

> and part of the answer is to stop coddling them with free parking.

Yup, can't make the other options better, so instead the only alternative is to make driving worse. Great plan.
Text based requirement management with StrictDoc
The JWST cost nearly $10 Billion and 24 years to build on earth. This is not a launch cost problem.
It's a generic problem that there is something like AOL, ICQ, Paltalk, Skype, etc. that is pretty good. The company behind it lets it rot, and then there is WebEx or Facebook Messenger or Slack or Discord or Zoom which is good for a while but it will rot too...

Firms that make messaging products say they need to control the system for quality, innovation, spam control, etc. Yet, nobody questions that a Verizon customer can call a T-Mobile customer and vice versa. If all chat clients interoperated than there would be real competition to create the best client. As it is we have the pernicious pseudo-competition of two-sided markets where you install client X not because you want it or because it is good but because the person you want to talk to insists you install client X.

If the European Union wanted to make the internet better they should mandate that chat clients be interoperable the same way that telephone services are interoperable.
Just one kids mask passing for 95. Interesting.

Does anyone know if any passing good ones on the list are just a bit smaller for small faces? Not super tiny like for small kids.
Multicore OCaml has been merged
I went in without any security at all just a few years ago in Alaska through a commercial flight at a fairly big airport (anchorage). As far as I'm aware if your flight is in-state (as mine was) you can just walk right in still. I think carrying weapons is still prohibited, but there's no enforcement of that as long as you aren't out threatening someone.

Believe TSA screening was necessary for interstate flights.
That's the key bit here. Supervised learning is not applicable here and any sort of fitting to known labels is doomed to fail.
The system is not calibrated, tuned or parameterized. The ML part learns in a self-supervised manner what are the spike sequence features important for a successful (proliferating) coronavirus (or - more correctly - learns low-dimensional embeddings of multi-point interactions/co-occurrences of different amino acids in spike proteins). The rest is based on either frequentist statistics, or computational biochemistry.
At no point in training EWS any information about certain sequences belonging to High Risk Variant classes (Variant of Concern, Variant of Interest etc.) is fed to EWS.
On the housing density spectrum there's a lot of room between 'unit in midrise condo' and SFH. I really like where I live. Boston metro, 6-unit building where I know almost all the tenants. Most of the rest of my neighborhood is 2 or 3 unit multifamily, and it really is a very pleasant density.
That is an impressive list of cryptographers working on blockchains, but at major cryptography conferences there is less and less blockchain work being presented, to the point where CRYPTO'21 didn't have any blockchain sessions at all, while EUROCRYPT'21 had a single session where blockchain work was combined with work on privacy and law enforcement. To be fair, three sessions at CCS'21 were dedicated to blockchain research, but CCS is structured to allow more topics, it is not a conference specific to cryptography, and they had two sessions dedicated to MPC and a third on federated learning which touched on MPC. It is a small sample but representative of a larger trend of cryptographers becoming less interested in blockchain research.

I have not seen ZKP innovation outstrip MPC innovations at all. In the past decade I have seen a rapid expansion of research in MPC following both a strong push by DARPA and growing interest among large tech companies and banks. There has been a revival of interest in set-intersection protocols and related functionalities, a lot of impressive work in garbled circuits and other generic protocols that have greatly reduced their resource requirements, machine learning applications, and various other ongoing lines of work. At worst I would say that ZKP and MPC research have been roughly equal in terms of the pace of innovation, which should surprise no one as the two topics have strong connections.

Moreover, while there is certainly a lot of ZK research being published year after year, most of it has nothing to do with blockchains and is not coming from anything related to blockchains. There are plenty of academic researchers publishing ZK work, and I still see lots of industry ZK research that has nothing to do with blockchain. The same is true of all the other topics you mentioned -- some blockchain-inspired work here and there, but a lot more research from elsewhere.

Sorry to hear that your MPC work has not made it into production, but maybe that is because it is not as practical as you claim. Personally I like to say that the only test of "practicality" that matters is whether or not it is useful in a real-world application. Obviously your SNARK work cleared that bar, which is great but does not really say much about the pace of innovation. I can say that most of my published research at this point has been put into production -- an equally meaningless statement since I have been working for a big tech company for a long time, and the research I have published in that time has all been the result of work I did to address various privacy and security problems that company faces. My judgement of where the innovation is happening is based on the research I am seeing people present at various conferences. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places, and there is actually a whole world of cryptography conferences where people are excited about blockchain work?
>not having to calculate the amount is clearly a benefit.

Why? Calculating a tip isn't something that has a failure state because even if you give the wrong amount it won't matter. On top of that the exercise of calculating the tip is beneficial for your long term mental acuity.

I'm not sure why doing a simple calculation that doesn't benefit me and has no failure state is a benefit. It's a benefit for the tippee maybe, but not the tipper.
I’m not sure what possible risk there was to our aircraft. Specifically from a missile launch in NK.

I’m not saying there are no risks, but I can’t think of any.
Maybe sharing some research from GitHub will help? https://github.blog/2021-05-25-octoverse-spotlight-good-day-...

> In our study, going from two to three meetings per day lowered the chances of developers making progress toward their goals from 74% to just 14%. And developers who average just one meeting per day have a 99% chance of knocking out high quality work — it really is about getting focus time and connecting with our colleagues to brainstorm ideas.

> With minimal or no interruptions, developers had an 82% chance of having a good day, but when developers were interrupted the majority of the day, their chances of having a good day dropped to just 7%. By minimizing distractions and creating focus time, we not only get work done, we create better and less stressful days for ourselves.
Apparently for the cost of all the Shuttle trips to Hubble, they could have just put up another Hubble without its problems.

Same thing in this case: instead of visiting Webb, they could build a new Webb without all the origami, and assemble it by hand in orbit for a tiny fraction of the cost, and end up with two of them. Then, maybe put different instruments on the second one.
Do you have sources for them doing that on a routine basis?