skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If bot operators are being forced to use botnets, I'd say the solution is working very well.

If ad-fraud goes from "We accidentally ran these 'indexing-bots' against some websites, causing some counters to be off. Sorry about that!" to "We deployed our code to run on stolen or hacked machines through botnets paid for in crypto on the dark web", you've moved from legally gray to clearly illegal.

I can see no down-sides with such a move.
Even when the main flu strains are predicted perfectly, the flu vaccines are far from a miracle magic bullet. There are vaccines which are super-ultra-effective (MMR is 97% effective against infection with measles, and it would _want_ to be because measles is incredibly infectious), but they're the exception.
I'm not really into Buddhism either. I call the techniques "concentration" and "vipassana" because that's the popular terminology.

Vipassana is basically the same as shikantaza. As I see it, we've got 2 techniques. Then a dozen or so twists, combinations and names, depending on the tradition.

Have you tried a seiza bench? It's easier on the knees. Really comfy actually. Here's some info on that.

http://fleen.org/sit (the top 2 pics)

http://fleen.org/bench
>There is a case to be made that given the distances and ridership involved, China would have been better off building airline capacity between cities connected by HSR (which seems to be the US solution).

That would be terrible for the climate no?
Also I think rail is very much undersold in most places. On one hand airtraffic is given an unfair advantage over other modes of transportation in that it's fuel is basically not taxed across the board by most countries.
On the other hand for road traffic the cost of infrastructure is socialised too and unfairly so. Industrial truck transport does lots lots more damage to roads than cars or the like yet they rarely pay the price for that. (where a special vignette does exist it generally doesn't match the cost)
Meanwhile the environmental cost of road and air traffic is appropriately applied.
$1.26m is still $1.26m. We don't punish people based on their net worth but on the impact that their actions had.

How much did she get from this crypto deal? 400k? Then her work lost her almost 3x the amount she made. Is she willing to keep paying to work? I don't think so.
Fractional reserve is already a thing and will only increase from here. Bitcoin's scarcity relates to the base money supply and obviously cannot coerce the higher economic layers.

That said bitcoiners are somewhat resistant to extreme fractional reserve because of the strong "not your keys, not your coins" ethos.
> First, attendance was sporadic with many of my students... Unlike in other courses, these students then had a permanent deficiency in that important topic.

Well that's easily fixable with low effort - at minimum make a web conference for each of the lectures, but better yet save the recordings onto a platform that students can refer back to later.
The time to yank out the Desiderata:

"If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."
No. Like asking if all animals are about like a dog.

All animals need calories and B-12. Other details vary.

Many animals have arranged to grow internal bacterial colonies for B-12. A very few get calories from sunlight.
> sherlock

Comparing the options described in their readme files, maigret adds --html, --pdf, --tags beyond what sherlock supports. And, it adds documentation beyond a README file.
The zoom option turned teachers into streamers :)

There is some meat in that concept and it's an interesting problem that doesn't have a solid solve yet.

I love remote work,learning,etc but for that free flowing of data in a group or one on one setting it lacks positional audio.

I can't whisper under my breath to the person beside me or break out with a small team and still have people near us hear the convo and maybe chime in.

Tip: stream the class and give them the YT link so they can ask questions. Not ideal but should work and you might find a new process in there.

Cheers
> Salaries are much higher and developers are a respected career that isn’t just “IT”.

I agree the compensation is higher. I don’t agree the respect is any higher. Software engineer is highly associated with terms like neckbeard, redditor, incel, autistic, etc.

I’m extremely hesitant to tell anyone I’m a software engineer. If anything - I’ll lie and say I do product management just to avoid the association. People treat me way better when I say I’m a PM instead of an eng.
That has been my perception too, but I wanted to avoid getting into a whole flamewar.

It does seem like the only explanation that makes sense is ideological fervor.

I'd prefer if our post-scarcity future didn't get messed up thanks to ideologues.
> Your spouse might not really like spending that much time with your parents. And you might not really like her or his parents.

Heck, you might not even like your parents. There are a ton of selfish people in the world and many have children. I know my fair share of individuals who were (or are) held back in their own life, happiness, and mental stability because of their emotionally manipulative parents.

More than once I’ve seen someone in this situation being temporarily forced away (due to studies or a job) and flourish in all areas of life, only to regress when they return close to home. It’s harrowing.

Parents aren’t universally good, yet our society is constantly trying to sell us on the idea of “family above all”. Screw that. You didn’t pick your family. You’re under no obligation to suffer your whole life if they’re shitty. Pick good friends instead.
Even people who have received 100x the lethal dose don't die instantly - it's an agonizing death either way. If you're concious and know you've going to die then yeah, I think killing yourself, or at least being put into an irreversible coma is the only way to handle this. Otherwise it's pure agony for hours/days/weeks.
It sounds like you're taking compassion to mean simply being nice or polite to someone? That's understandable as it is often used in that way. I could have made it clearer but I was using the more nuanced definition of empathising with and wanting to help someone [0]. In this sense it is not the same thing as enabling or refusing to criticise, since neither of those are helpful. It's more to do with the manner in which you deliver the feedback.

For example, suppose you catch yourself being tempted by a box of cookies. You could respond to this in a shame-based manner, or in a compassion-based manner:

Shame-based: you're already way too fat. You don't deserve those cookies so you shouldn't have them. It's no wonder you're not getting dates if this is how easily you're tempted.

Compassion-based: Wow, yes those cookies do look tasty, and it's no surprise you're tempted since you didn't sleep great last night and had a stressful morning to boot. It's natural and okay to have that desire for satiated fullness! But you don't have to let those feelings define your behaviour. Let's take a step back and think through the consequences of eating those cookies. Sure it will feel good at first. But the chances are that the good feelings will last less than an hour, after which you might feel regret about not sticking to your diet. Is it really worth the trade-off? Suddenly those cookies don't seem so tempting, do they?

The problem with shame-based feedback is that it simply adds to the negative feelings that a fat person is already likely to be having. Think of obesity and over-eating as an addiction to eating, on the same level as an addiction to gambling, drugs, or pornography. The behaviour is a crux, a way to get nice feeling in the short-term to avoid the work of dealing with difficult feelings. Over time, one's fear of those difficult feelings and dependence on the quick-fix grows. Adding another difficult feeling into the mix might help alleviate the behaviour in the short term, but won't reduce the emotional suffering or provide any basis for which to start learning to deal with the deeper cause.

[0] https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/compassion/definition
Yep, this is exactly why. Sony got too scared of having a fully user-facing browser this time around because of all the Webkit exploits slamming the PS4.

It actually leads to frustration as an ISP employee; we get reports of end user devices getting slow speeds and the built-in PSN speedtests can often give us bad results (eg, a customer might be rated for 100x100 and the PSN test yields 20x5) -- running a browser-based speedtest we might be getting full speed to the device indicating a PSN issue. Removing the browser takes that troubleshooting option away from us.
That's a subjective association, and doesn't work e.g. in German where it's "Grippeschutzimpfung" (flu protection vaccination).
> This is a quantified reduction in ability

How effectively is it controlling for factors?

> A lot of programs are admitting under prepared students.

Sure. But there remains the question of _what_ should the students be prepared for, and are educational institutions providing that substance? Meaning, are students under prepared because they don't know how to succeed in a college environment, or are students under prepared because colleges don't know how to teach in a modern environment?
Major websites are ad-funded, the internet isn't. Networking technology, IPV4/6, http, ssl and most website frameworks aren't funded by advertising ( and even if they are eg react, they won't disappear.)

Let FAANGs fail. Let them try to disguise ads into content, fail and go off the deep end. What is there to lose, really? Search? Someone will take their place. Instant gratification online ordering (not funded by ads but fuck it) orchestrating modern slavery? We'l be fine. Facebook products? Might be a bit of a panic as chat for 50% of the world population goes down, but we'll manage. RCS is good now, matrix is right there, we'll manage. TikTok? We'l be fine.

Pretty much any thing funded by advertising is not vital to society (otherwise they could make you pay for it) and like half of it is parasitic.
AUTHOR: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

QUOTATION: 97% of quotes on the Internet are complete fabrications.
How is a joke not a meme, in the original sense of the word ?
Cool, is it like VIM + drag and drop for major components?
Perhaps you should check out the Cantillion effect, and research fractional reserve banking. Both are clear financial systems that greatly benefit the extremely rich.
Most people won't use a system without buyer's protection for buying on the internet.
> It is an evolution of the extension platform that takes into consideration both the changing web landscape and the future of browser extensions.

These are such empty words that could mean anything. I wonder if the author is a politician.
> 1 dose of single-antigen varicella vaccine is: 82% effective at preventing any form of varicella. Almost 100% effective against severe varicella.

And that's actually one of the more effective childhood vaccines. People underestimate how much we rely on herd immunity for some of the big childhood illnesses.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
You're right. And the implicit thesis is not even clear. It also doesn't consider alternative decentralized currencies/networks to support why Bitcoin would be better. This reads like a lobby piece.
Stop using Twitter for these kind of essays..
Katalin Karikó was robbed, unless they are giving mRNA vaccines as chemistry.
> the number of people counting is proportional to the number of votes to be counted

Each new person is a new liability. Complexity and likelihood of mistakes do grow with number of votes.

People tick ambiguous boxes for executive functions (somehwere between 2 candidates). How do you count that?

People write numbers or names of legislative candidates. Sometimes it's illegible. Sometimes more than one candidate share the same first name or surname and the voter only wrote one. How do you count that?

The people counting the votes are members of the civil society. They're working for free in horrible conditions (hot and humid, hard chairs, pressure to finish and go back home). They're tired. They're hungry. They're thirsty. They've been many hours speaking only with a bunch of other people whom they've only met in the day and some of them are fervorously against their ideology. They make mistakes. A lot of times they miscount on purpose.

In certain regions, the "colonel" (like a local caudillo, usually a big farmer with a lot of properties and the entire town dependent on him) will not let people leave the counting place until his candidate has an acceptable count.

People leave boxes blank. The person counting ticks their favourite candidate and scores a new vote.

Fiscals from parties question decisions about all the above. Sometimes there's need to recount. The problems above compound.

Criteria for counting ambiguous votes may change during the course of the counting. Do you recount everything? Do you just pretend it's ok to change criteria depending on what results you have this far?

It also makes everything messier and take much longer. There's a reason we move away from paper-based ledgers. Those reasons also apply here but at much larger scale.

This is just a glimpse of the problems. They're much larger and deeper than I could convey in a forum post.
But official resources clearly call it a vaccine (and not just in the US either, same with e.g. NHS).

And in reverse, aren't any vaccinations called the "xxx shot"(US english)/"xxx jab"(UK english)? E.g. I'm fairly sure I've seen people from the US say they need to get their "shots" for traveling (e.g. yellow fever if you go to at-risk countries)
Sure in theory. In practice, the kinds of people attracted to Bitcoin strongly correlate with this message, and attempts to dilute BTC would likely result in a fork instead.

Besides, what's the point? Satoshis (sats) are 100 millionth of a bitcoin, stop just do business in sats if BTC is too large for your transaction...
Yeah, that's the most plausible explanation. It might store some thing that sticks after factory reset.
PS3.

Disabling Linux, as I remember it, basically instantly got it jailbroken.

Suddenly not just pirates out to save/make money, but hobbyists too, wanted to break it.
Really?

The tech sector has been completely annihilated this year.
Re-reading the article it seems you're right, sorry.

When I read "only 120k were shipped to local governments", I missed the fact that it's the federal government doing the distribution, not AZ. So that made me conclude AZ failed to manufacture and deliver them.

Good catch. TLDUASTM (Too long didn't understand and assumed too much).
Gazprom: Nord Stream leaks stop, gas supply could resume on single line
Yesterday I inserted a PS4 game disc in my PS5. First time for that particular title.

First thing it downloaded a 10 or 20 Gb patch...
To be fair, the ancient Greece did decline and "fall".

Probably, this what the Romans said towards the end of their run as well.
I think there are multiple things going on here that the professor doesn’t seem to grasp:

1) The pandemic response of schools completely disrupted the learning level and style of an entire generation of kids for two years, and we’re now seeing the downstream impact of that.

2) I’m pretty sure that compared to 20 years ago, the more capable students are using AP Econ to test out of the college intro course, so you would expect the average interest and effort level of the remaining students to naturally decline.

3) I’m having trouble parsing this statement: “As a result, the student experience increasingly diverges from that of other courses, in which students feel a higher level of comfort, receive greater affirmation of their opinions, and earn higher grades.” But on the surface it seems to match a trend I noticed in college where students are optimizing for easy grades instead of for actual learning.

4) It really seems like the academic field of macroeconomics stopped matching reality in 2008 and now an entire generation of kids have grown up mistrusting economists and policy makers for good reasons.
> Let’s all do whatever the student believe

At this point, I'll trust student sentiment over a professor's insistence any day of the week.

Professors throw out the word "office hours" like it's self-explanatory. It's not. And unless you're a certain type of person, you just won't know or learn how a professor's office hours could help you.

It's not immediately apparent to me (or particularly first generation college students) how swinging by a professor's office hours for 10 minutes on an alternating Thursday is going to help me understand 5-dimensional integrals.

If you're students don't make use of your office hours (and need to), it's a failing on the professor, not the students' culture.
Can confirm. I helped my dad switch from a Chromebook to an M1 MacBook Air. He made the comment that it was like going from a moped to a Cadillac. I thought he was talking about how good the Mac is. But he was in fact talking about the fact that I had installed a default browser with ad-blockers.
> Whther it's likely or not is beside the point. It's possible in theory, therefore (and this is my main point here) the digital scarcity of bitcoin is not some emergent mathematical property of the universe, it's a social phenomenon.

Correct.

> Was it? Did you get to vote on that? Or was it decided by a handful of pools and large players?

Yes, I got to vote on that with the economic full nodes I ran.
So, every piece of UI is a component here too?
>China is on a trajectory to become the #1 environmental polluter on a per capita basis. No, it’s not because America outsources industrial production to China.

Just a reminder that the average american still puts out about twice as much CO2 as the average EU citizen or Chinese and whilst China will or already did surpass the average European I'm not sure about them going up to the current average American output.

And no they won't take the 1# spot on a per capita basis. That spot will probably remain reserved for some among the petrostates for a good while still.
> Typically, professors announce office hours during which they will be available to answer questions, so this is not an issue.

True. Also true, students have other classes.

To students raised in an async on demand world the concept of static office hours is fairly foreign. Certainly not top of mind.
Respect from whom? And what kind of legacy? And why will that legacy matter exactly? These aren't questions to be taken for granted
I never had a professor who had time to geniunely help other than some quick advice or a bit of feedback. If you're really behind it takes hours of work to catch up (on top of studying).
SEC Charges Kim Kardashian $1.26M for Unlawfully Touting Crypto Security
Isn't it obvious just from reading one sentence about what it does? As it clearly says, it's based on username only, so multiple people's results may be mixed in the dossier if they share a username. We don't need a disclaimer for every thing that a moment's thought can reveal.
Put simply, systems now are designed for teams of people and automated testing. This adds complexity and verbosity not necessarily needed for small shop projects.

The reliance on Design Patterns (Gang of Four) went from nice to use, to mostly required.

So many developers now go right in to coding without learning other skills. The result is software to automate or help a system that the coders don't really know how to do manually and it shows. These coders know one language, one framework and maybe very good at that but they don't actually know how a computer works or why what they are doing work.
Lots of hobbies are essentially "useless". The focus on being constantly "productive" seems toxic to me.

If you enjoy a hobby then it's not useless, enjoying it is the point of a hobby! So enjoy playing video games, growing houseplants, playing golf or whatever hobbies you have without feeling guilty about not producing as much as you could.
Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served
Do they need some mass to throw around? I wonder if you could like embed one in an asteroid.
Colloquial understanding is crucial for trust in science. If the public perception is different for a word then whose fault is that?
Memfault Adds Linux Support
Leaving the thesis out makes it seem the writer is so unsure of their thesis that simply writing it would undermine the core of their message. Almost a rhetorical equivalent of a “comb over” just waiting for a strong gust of wind to betray the charade. Or outright arrogance, at worst.

The thesis of an essay or writing should be like a power chord or ballad-it should be directly addressed early, often, and the more clearly expressed the better.
I feel the same way, but to play devil's advocate - the vast majority of startups do fail, and leave you with no meaningful legacy.

You could grow as a person, you could be very passionate and driven, etc. - but you could also end up quite depressed when things die down (speaking from experience sadly).

I still think startups are awesome, but if you view work as a transaction, having a good corporate job can be a better transaction for many folks, especially if work is only a part of your life, not the defining feature. Time with your children when they are young is often the easiest to explain, but same goes for time with parents/grandparents, time to work on passion projects, etc.
The next step is when Google blocks your account based on the behavior of said similar alias, in other parts of the internet tubes....
While I applaud people being able to use their hardware the way they want to, I know that this inevitably leads to rampant cheating and will ultimately ruin games across consoles as most of the big games these days support cross play.
> The second thing is, couldn't it have anticipated that this was going to happen and give them away sooner? That seems like typical government incompetence.

AIUI, everyone who has surplus AZ has been trying, for a while. There's not all that much demand, as various countries are also trying to shift mRNA vaccines that are about to expire, and the mRNA ones are generally preferable, particularly post-Omicron. Covid vaccine access has become more a problem of distribution than supply.
Hopefully they read one sentence about what the tool does before using it. If they don't, their arguments will be weak due to their own sloppiness in research, which doesn't seem like a new problem.
The issue is not that you sold 60 widgets but Google tells you it was 130. The issue is that you sold 60 widgets with ads but you would have sold 59 widgets without ads: are you making sales because of ads or are you showing ads to your would-be customers.
I’m familiar with the sales literature, yes. Going on a decade and a half of those claims falling flat, however, I think it’s far more likely that Bitcoin’s future is El Salvador rather than the golden vision of the advertisements.
Your years are of “professional experience”, not of “learning complicated things in a bunch”. It is vastly different.

And, well, it is te students who are missing the opportunity…