skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking escrow services make them a central bank means you're misunderstanding a lot of things. "Central banks" control currency printing, which silk road never did. The entire point of BTC is that being algorithmically controlled. I suspect you just mean traditional banks where people have their checking and savings accounts. But you're still mistaken. Having an arbiter for the money involved in one transaction does not mean you can have all of your funds frozen. At worst you can have a bad arbiter that awards the money from one transaction unfairly. They also absolutely can not "reverse transactions" if you are paying with a transfer on chain. I think you're mixing up "escrow" where a website requires you send them your BTC and they transfer your BTC to someone else for you by moving numbers in a SQL table with actual on chain transactions. With on chain escrow the arbiter can never get the funds, only forward them or send them back.
the whataboutism is strong in this thread.. people talking about sugar and marijuana. Really?
>> But the risk in 50 years of people saying "we should have known better" seems really high.

Well, we are just about 100 years after alcohol was legalized. We have lots of data on how horrible it is for out bodies, how many accidents and premature deaths it causes. But I hear absolutely nobody in North America talking about curtailing alcohol in any way. (The UK medical bodies have spoken out against alcohol use in recent years.) In fact I see advertisements for alcohol virtually everywhere. So no, I do not believe we will have a reckoning in 50 years about pot.
You’re probably right, but it’s possible that the environment is such in Russia right now that this could be impactful. From what I’ve been reading and seeing, the Russian people are more willing now than ever to protest and question their government. Those who are on the fence may actually be swayed by a random call like this, but only if they are already suspicious of the information the Russian government is showing them.
This is like saying that Walmart cashiers have a higher bill rate than M&A attorneys, because there are so many more of them --- they're higher "by volume".
It does work really well and makes it really nice to walk or cycle inside your "zone" so to speak. The downside is that they concede the large avenues entirely to automobile centered design resulting in 10-13 way intersections that you have to navigate in order to get from one zone to another.

The most egregions example is probably the exit from Chapultepec leading into Condesa which drops you off next to a highway with no way of crossing without a 1KM detour:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/La+Condesa,+Mexico+City,+C...
If they don't pick up then you can just dial their number repeatedly until they do. Simple.
I've seen different definitions of "on-call".
In my company, if you are "on-call", you work your regular hours, and after that you are "on-call" for emergency prod stuff.
You get a 30% bonus on that day's salary for each day you are on-call.
So if you're on-call 15 days, you get a 15% bonus for that month, if you're on call a week it's 7.5%, and of course, full month is 30%.
There's no difference if you get called every day or don't get called at all.
Yup, this is basically the only realistic way to avoid it, switch to types of food that cannot by their very nature have sugar added.
When saying things like this, I think you should intuitively consider the corollary of your sentence. If people are using drugs to "escape from reality" presumably because have insufficient money to do nicer things, then the implication is that people who have lots of money would use drugs at a substantially lower rate.

And so this is pretty easy to test. I did a quick search for 'marijuana use by rate by income' and the first paper that I came upon [1] showed there is indeed quite a strong correlation between substance use and socioeconomic status - in other words, the richer or more privileged individuals were (in terms of coming from wealthy family backgrounds), the more likely they were to use drugs.

So unless there is some confounding variable that we may not be considering, it seems fairly easy to reject the hypothesis that people are using drugs because of a lack of money.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410945/
>but I don't think they're not truly fundamental concepts that you need to learn to understand linear algebra

I'd argue that without a deep understanding of rank and nullity you do not understand linear algebra. Sure, you can lean to move symbols and compute simple things, but that is not much of an understanding.

I'd guess you have not moved into deeper things - then you'll realize you're missing fundamental understanding of linear algebra needed to move on.

It's like claiming one has a fundamental understanding of calculus by being able to solve high school level integrals, but really doesn't understand deep relations between the main ideas of calculus. Sure you can write things down, but there is a major difference between that level of knowledge and what I'd call a fundamental understanding of calculus.

>span of the coefficients

????

Care to link to the thing you're misnaming? I have no idea what you're talking about, and I even googled the phrase.

This is what I mean by using a proper book to learn from.

>Aren't we discussing one?

Nope - the book in question is not offered as a beginner course stats anywhere I am aware of. Care to show one? Calling it one then claiming it is evidence of one is simply circular logic.

>Is that what the book does?

So you have not looked at the book yet are arguing what kind of book it is? That about sums this up.
Chief of Staff of the 41st Army is not the same thing as Chief of Staff of the Army; the position is more equivalent to corps-level staff position in the US Army.
It's the time of the year again where browser vendors remove features, great. Apparently in this version Firefox removes the prompt when starting a download, with the reasoning that downloads are "usually" intentional. Thanks for removing yet another safeguard against drive-by downloads. Thanks for nothing.

At least you can still make Firefox ask where to download files to on every download. This will be my last resort against drive-by downloads now.
It is not my experience that IR people bill $3k days --- though Mandiant definitely has billed out projects that high.
Swedish PM rejects opposition calls to consider joining NATO
CNN, MSNBC and NYT are definitely not left-wing news sources. At best, if we're being extremely charitable, they are centrist. There is no left wing media in the US.
It's : "Mr. Mackey Hacks NORAD"

https://youtu.be/ppQQG56CIQU

Mr. Mackey:

- Mom, I think World War 3 is about to start

- I am gonna do what I can to protect our country!

Mom:

- Oh, uh, ok honey,
I'll make you a snack.
Yeah. The "deal" being offered gives me this "The Mouth of Sauron at the Black Gate" vibe.
Yes, but it's nice to live in a small town that just happens to be embedded in a great world city and all the amenities and concentration of interesting people that comes with it.
In a tech world with dozens of "amazing leaders", is it possible that some of them just got lucky? They took some shots in the dark, some got lucky, some got unlucky: can it be that simple?

If Steve Jobs was coming up today, could he have owned leetcode and tech interviews, would he have gotten a CS degree, could he have succeeded in a start-up today? Could many of us here in tech now have done what he did?

My point is: Maybe we don't have to fetishize individual people so much. Maybe the conditions around them, the timing of their career, the timing of their personal viewpoint, was simply a set of lucky circumstances. Maybe there exist a few hundred individuals in any given time with the potential, and it takes that last bit of random chance to make them the famous one over the others.
In my experience, therapy wasn't venting, it structured approaches to deal with the reasons that led to the need for venting.
Actively still has a dream, or had a dream when they were in higher education?
Ace Combat: the Ukraine war

First mission: ghost of Kyiv.
The local digital currency – Encointer
Are you okay with getting individuals possibly arrested in the name of a purported common good? You are no better than the FSB itself then.
Reading through this story, I'd say that if her side of things is true, that she seems to have dealt with a somewhat disorganized workplace and possibly difficult-to-deal-with manager, but it's tough to see obvious discrimination based on gender here. My 2 cents. Sorry about her grandma.
I think there's a difference between mindlessly venting and mindfully stepping through thought processes.
I have no special knowledge, but ya I think that coincidence without obvious causation might be the basis of magic (spirit, consciousness, meaning, etc). It's also the basis of quantum mechanics. Pauli and Jung noticed the uncanny similarities a century ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

Basically, science can only puts bounds on this stuff, it can't predict the outcomes of stochastic/emergent processes. Which is where I believe free will resides.

Which might sound like hand-waving, except that it's fundamental:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_indeterminacy

People have tried to explain away stuff like quantum entanglement and failed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden-variable_theory

Basically it comes down to: either the quantum decision was made before the experiment started and stored in hidden variables, or there's a nonlocal connection over a 4th space dimension which we don't understand, or the quantum way of talking about these things is the only description that works. Which unfortunately (fortunately?) seems to be the case. Maybe someone who groks this can explain it with better words. My gut feeling is that this is the physical manifestation of incompleteness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_incompleteness_theor...

Anyway, I'm starting to believe that macro-scale effects like social interactions follow the same rules as quantum mechanics. Probably what we'll find is that it's waves and energy all the way down. Like if every person is an antenna, and our interactions play off one another in a vast multidimensional space we aren't aware of, like ripples on a pond. I suspect that this is what's going on inside atoms, and a real-world effect of this is that quantum computers will be limited by noise, and building a simulation of the Hamiltonian and running it would give the same result as flipping coins a bazillion times. This might be yet another hidden variables interpretation though so I'm almost certainly wrong. Probably.

In my own life, I mostly journal any synchronicities, which tend to happen about every 5 days for me, then weeks or months of nothing. I have about 50 written down, but feel that I've only caught maybe 10% of them.

In the last entry, I wore a bowtie to an event to try getting outside my comfort zone, then we came home and the TV was showing the scene where he makes the guy with the goldfish and bowtie leave the office in Wolf of Wall Street. Now what are the odds of that, since I've never worn a bowtie before and may never again?

I've had more intense happenings like that, but unfortunately a lot of them are negative around tragedies so I don't want to get anyone down. Mostly bad feelings before bad things happen. I think that has a lot to do with my disposition, so I've started watching more for angel numbers, and more love-based synchronicities, which seems to help. I believe that our sensitivity to the quantum chaos foam or whatever it is gets more attuned the more we tune out, dissociate, meditate, etc and turn the volume down on our egos. So anyone can do this stuff at any time, it's just that western culture doesn't really have a place for it yet.
What do you use your rice for? In my experience, you almost never need to salt rice while boiling.
Stop using small sample sized studies done on college campuses (n = 600, 178, 60) to push clickbait headline articles.

Sounds like saying, "Don't cry when you're sad it Doesn't Work"

How about let people do what they want? People vent because they want to know they aren't crazy or at fault. Not because they're trying to be calm or forget grievances.
So I just went through this process and I have to slightly disagree. I'm coming from literally no knowledge of low-level graphics programming. My most relevant experience is writing against Canvas2D, which is not relevant at all.

I first tried WebGPU, and was so overwhelmed with detail that it was nearly impossible to connect the dots. So I went back and decided to learn WebGL first. I know that it's very different, but the whole state machine thing makes it so much easier to understand, at a conceptual level, what you're trying to do.

It didn't even take that long, just a couple of weekends and I was already familiar with the basics. I'm not going to waste time trying to become super proficient, but it gives me enough context to go back and try WebGPU again.
Should we also tell them about all of the WMDs we found in Iraq that those same news organizations told us existed for sure? How many other false narratives do those "trusted" organizations need to tell before you stop trusting them?
Shipping is the most efficient mode of transport though?
Cities are investing billions in new sewage systems. They’re already obsolete
Except Clinton was wildly popular before the trolls amplified attacks against her with crazy conspiracy theories about her emails, having by far the highest approval rating among the field in July 2015. https://news.gallup.com/poll/185324/hillary-clinton-favorabl...
It seems I really have to get my hands on good Jobs biographie it seems.
Few people vote, especially locally, but everyone spends money. America's most expensive neighborhoods per sqft, except for some suburbs in California, are all in mixed-use NYC neighborhoods next to transit.
Survival was also just an example of a type of need. I'll be honest, I don't know how to answer this without rambling about virtue vs consequential ethics. It's not about what you are doing, it's about why you are doing it. It seems like you feel like you life a life where you are happy with the choices you make. Not everyone gets this.

I try to live my life so that when my last day comes, I won't want to suddenly have been doing everything different, and try to correct at the end. That's what it means. Some people have a harder time finding that path, and need to remember to check in with themselves more often.
Am I understanding this right, that websites can now run a crypto miner in the background when I visit them?
Lead exposure is kind of insidious. My cousins lived in a house with lead paint which was discovered when doctors tested them and they had HUGE blood lead levels in their bloodstream. Turns out, as paint gets older it makes leaded paint dust which is inhaled and absorbed. They pretty much tore that house down to the studs afterwards to get rid of it all.

The effects of lead poisoning are extremely well understood including mechanism of injury. There is a reason it is such a big deal. In adults it's not a huge problem at lower levels, but child development is significantly impaired by small amounts. There are even studies showing that exposure under 10 micrograms/dL can cause impairment.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4046839/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1257652/
It sounds like the aggressive behavior was measured pretty soon after hitting the punching bag. It would be interesting to run the test again after the adrenaline has worn off.

I don't think proponents of catharsis are claiming that screaming at a tree if going to instantly make you calmer, it's that later that day you might feel better.

Also, participants were instructed to focus their anger on the perpetrator of the criticism, whereas it's probably healthier and more effective to simply focus on releasing your aggression.

Or, a combo study would be interesting where participants are instructed to hit a punching bag and then try to empathize with themselves or others, vs. only trying to empathize.

Anyway, it's an interesting study, but I'm not sure I'd rule out catharsis just yet.
My link does refute that point because it considers corporate profits as a percentage of GDP. That factors in costs, not just revenue, because paying employees (or buying supplies) is part of GDP.

Here's a link that also shows profit margins going up a lot: https://www.bea.gov/data/income-saving/corporate-profits
You say that as if Nokia didn't produce some world class products but they did. There was a era when Nokia handsets were the one everyone wanted. And they were instrumental in building GSM, of which without no mobile phones would exist, let alone iPhones. I'm not going to deny that Nokia lost their way with Symbian handsets but my point is I don't see Apple as being uniquely brilliant. You often see this tide where one decade company X will be on top and the follow decade another trend will follow. This is also true of Apple: they haven't always enjoyed the success they have now. They've been close to failing a few times. Microsoft even bailed them out once just to avoid ending up in a highly regulated monopoly.
Just because something is cheap doesn't mean I'm fine with buying it for a one-shot use.

Buying an extra disk for just the conversion is wasteful, and then you need space to keep it stashed forever when you never use it. Not at all sustainable, I'd rather leave the hardware on the market for people who _actually_ need it.
That's focused on crime, not IQ/cognition. Crime is not a purely mental phenomenon, so it would likely have a weaker correlation with lead even if the effect is real. The blog post does try to dissemble on the IQ question, but the only evidence presented shows a significant effect of lead (contra the blogger's thesis).
I’m not sure why. “Venting” doesn’t seem to have much overlap with CBT other than words being involved.
You can change that on Firefox desktop: View menu -> Zoom -> untick Zoom Text Only.

related, Firefox Android has: Settings -> Accessibility -> [allow] Zoom on all web sites
I doubt that FSB will intercept random calls from the USA.

First, there's got to be a lot of calls since a few million Russians live in the USA.
Second, everybody is using Skype/WhatsApp anyway so whatever they manage to capture is mostly pure noise ("granny, can you repeat your Skype login letter by letter").
Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and Belarus
The West has become an incompetent, incomprehensibly stupid bully with a gigantic hammer it calls "market theory". It doesn't so much identify and nullify threats so much as it generates market opinion to blindly hate and blacklist anything not considered "good".

I'm scared of not having a Ukraine flag in my Twitter handle - despite being Polish and supporting Ukranians in the actual conflict - because I'm scared of the zealot Westerners who might try to pillory me for holding unsavory opinions that go against the current marketable beliefs.

I understand how the West is responding and it's not productive, nor is it a "let's wait and see" kind of strategy. This is the same weapon they've been using on everyone else for the past decade. Race, sex, belief, now nationality. It's about turning everything into a market that they control, and we know how people targeted by it react to it. They go cold, MAGA, embrace the antithetical - maybe they even start dropping nukes.

When the current round of Western propaganda fades away, who will Russians blame? Only the ones swallowing it on Twitter will blame Putin. So once that's gone this becomes a huge problem for us.

The plan is to have the propaganda never end. More people now live their lives through the lens of the internet (or internet-first mentality), who have swallowed enough of the insanity that it's no longer a set of sponsored opinions but "reality". It's clear now that the West completely dominates all propaganda on the internet - I barely see any of the Russian stuff. The Russians can't even get a word out, and I'm wondering who the censors are trying to protect. I highly doubt it's us.

What I'm seeing here is the new Western approach to politics in the 21st century. Reality manufacturing and blacklisting, supported by relentless propaganda. The market does the state's dirty work now, and it's constantly hungry for its master's approval, like a big dumb ogre.

The only way to stop the Russian aggression is to negotiate with their government. Not put Russians into camps, metaphorical or otherwise.

EDIT: If you think I'm wrong, then consider the possible influences. Does doing this push Russia to end the invasion, or does it push them to continue it? Does this help us align ourselves with reality and face it, or does it blind us? Is this likely to make the Russians more willing to become allies, or less willing? etc. etc.
Using Mystery in Marketing
Technical and legal issues that cause issues for customers at small ccTLDs are not uncommon. It all depends on who is running the registry. Try "cctld hijacked" and "cctld downtime" in your favorite search engine for a dozen or so examples.

Registries range in resources from "highly experienced billion-dollar organizations", to literally "we have a guy who updates the zone file in notepad", and they range in legal environment from, "functional democratic state with well-established judiciary" to "our government was violently overthrown this week".

Whether or not the problem is negligible depends on your particular use-case. For some, it might be a good choice, for others, it might not be.
450-550 is great, especially since ambient levels outside are about 420. I live in an old house and with windows closed and no hvac fan running, rooms only take about 30 minutes to get up to 800ppm with one person in them. After an hour or two they get up to about 1050ppm. With two people, they get > 1000 pretty quickly.

Looking at metrics from the sensor is pretty interesting too. You can see, to the minute, when a room went from unoccupied to occupied.
War in Ukraine: US, EU and UK target Russia oil and gas sector
I really only think calculus notation is an issue. Calc 1 books absolutely demand that you view d/dx as an operator and not a ratio, likewise with the dummy variable and integration symbol. Then later the book teaches about unit normals and it’s implicitly acceptable and treat dx/dz and dy/dz as ratios.

i.e.
|u X v| = (1 + (dx/dz)^2 + (dy/dz)^2)^(1/2) = (dz^2 + dx^2 + dy^2)^(1/2).

This was extremely frustrating to me for a while until I accepted that this was how Leibniz did it, so if it’s good enough for him it’s good enough for me.
Tails – 4.28 Release 2022-03-08
We deal with that too, but only for network/file format compatibility. We don't ship libraries used by an external group.
Well, both Putin and Bush started their terms roughly at the same time. I see only one of them ruling today. America is by no means perfect, but Russia is entirely different thing.
and others will just retire (early). Senior openings appearing, so there will be some movement upward for everybody. Hope the transition doesn’t destabilize important applications.
> They put pack more than 10 000 troops and took control of Iraqi airspace.

Could you provide any reference on this?

> Russia annexed Crimea. They aren't occupying it.

Looks like rest of the world is in disagreement with this statement.
I thought translation took a leap forward when Google or someone figured out to use UN documents which are carefully translated from one language to another?
There's a saying "the squeeky wheel get's the grease".

People usually do what works for them. thats exactly why we still see fist fights, disinformation, yelling, racisim, war, complaining, etc. It does what it was intended to do. Otherwise, people would do something else.