jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Preface: I totally agree with your argument that risks must be weighed against outcomes. I also believe that even if the scanning technology were totally safe, it would be objectionable on privacy grounds. I think we're going about the whole problem of security backwards. :)

An increase that is so minute that we don't mind the dentist or doctor X-raying us.

Actually, we do. There are good reasons we impose strict limits on your medical X-ray exposure annually, and why you wear a lead vest or use collars to protect other tissue. There's also a good reason the radiologist stands outside the other room to press the button. Two x-rays a year is not significantly mutagenic. Fifty? Then you start getting nervous.

Not WiFi or the low-energy spectrum of the sun. What energy is 'low' in this respect?. And how long is 'prolonged exposure'

UV exposure from solar radiation is one of the biggest melanoma risks. A few orders of magnitude up the frequency scale, X rays for far shorter durations also have mutagenic effects on skin tissue. It's possible that low-energy X rays, falling in the middle of that energy range, also cause cancer. We don't know for sure yet because we don't regularly expose people to them.

(I should mention that just because the X rays are low energy does not mean their effects scale linearly. Medical X rays are well above the Compton shoulder. IIRC (not enough time to check now) they're thermalizing slowly in heavy tissues as opposed to bouncing inelastically off the surface layers. Depending on the scattering cross-section for those energies, the backscattered X rays could be more ionizing. Total conjecture... I haven't done this for a while.)

Again, the problem is a slightly increased risk. But why is that increased risk a problem in the first place?

You're absolutely right. We have no good characterization of the risk. Radiation biometrics is fucking hard. I only want to argue that our current risk statement is inaccurate and poorly understood (for instance, we don't even know the angular flux of these machines), and offer some potential reasons why the risk might be higher than currently stated.
> Of the 100,000,000,000 or so US domestic air travelers of the past ten years, zero have smuggled a bomb on board, and zero have attempted to.

At least two have succeeded in smuggling a bomb on board, but failed to detonate them. Look up the "Christmas bomber" and the "shoe bomber".
My favorite is "Le Poison"

Wine can conceal a sordid room
In rich, miraculous disguise,
And make such porticoes arise
Out of its flushed and crimson fume
As makes the sunset in the skies.

Opium the infinite enlarges,
And lengthens all that is past measure.
It deepens time, and digs its treasure,
With sad, black raptures it o'ercharges
The soul, and surfeits it with pleasure.

Neither are worth the drug so strong
That you distil from your green eyes,
Lakes where I see my soul capsize
Head downwards: and where, in one throng,
I slake my dreams, and quench my sighs.

But to your spittle these seem naught —
It stings and burns. It steeps my thought
And spirit in oblivious gloom,
And, in its dizzy onrush caught,
Dashes it on the shores of doom.

Ωtranslated by Roy Campbell, Poems of Baudelaire
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1952)
I remember usenet becoming basically unreadable from the spam and abuse (both commercial and otherwise, everybody's favorite nazi weev did a lot to kill usenet back in the day)
I've done Bento twice now - happy both times.
Re: tip comment from @JSnake - it's a % setting when ordering - defaults to 15% if I remember correctly.
Facebook didn't even change user Ids. You can look up those people accounts to find even more information. It is crazy they got away with it.
it greys the comment out though and makes it less discoverable though.

For example, the issue is that it permits "tyranny by majority". Imagine, if you will a 1950s America where people are trying to post about civil rights and being downvoted into invisibility.

I just want to encourage the art of _not_ pressing either button. Its fine for things to exist that you don't agree with.
That excludes most everything, right?
I agree.

What I actually like is using the system package manager to install stuff. pacman -s or apt-get install

letting multiple packaging systems muck with your system is a recipe for hurt somewhere down the line.
The audio is available on youtube. It's pretty much what is written here, the kid just brought up very high quality questions
That was always my impression. But some thread on HN from yesterday a lot of people were saying COBOL salaries were very low, so which is it?
Which, like any jazzband project, you must not use for a commercial project, as stated by their CoC, the Contributor Covenant with a vague & bizarre modification about ethical use at the end. You are simply not allowed to contribute in any way on any kind of paid time, nor are you allowed to pay someone to contribute. This is of course not advertised for when they tell you to give them your OSS projects, for which you have already chosen a license and maybe even a CoC for. For this reason, despite the many non profit projects I maintain, I stay away from jazzband.
Well Fox News is a cable channel.
You are 100% incorrect. Not your keys, not your coins. Any meaningful amount of Bitcoin out to be stored on a hardware wallet.

If user can't be bothered to learn anything or read anything or accept months-pending Windows update, he should not touch cryptocurrency.

So, for the "average user", the answer is not storing on an online exchange, but to never touch cryptocurrency in the first place.
Likely a lot of old school politicking behind the scenes too. Especially as they’re a Kyoto company.
> So your point is of course true but irrelevant.

Not at all. Its fine if that money makes its way into assets because assets are not a necessity for life. CPI is a proxy for necessity for life. If it makes its way into stocks, that's just an ROI.

Further, if that money starts making its way back out, towards CPI, the fed will stop printing or even take the money back out of the system. That's why we have a Fed.
Ha! I can imagine that. We occasionally had that issue, but mostly my group of friends and coworkers shared some basic rules for using the push-to-talk. E.g. no pushing the button and then just saying something, unless you were already talking back and forth; the first chirp was always an empty chirp. If the other party was available, then they could respond. Stuff like that. I can see that with some raunchy high school friends it could get pretty awkward.
Does anybody remember when Bradley/Chelsea Manning released ~hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic cables? I seem to remember that most of the tech world at the time thought that was awesome. I wonder why this time they're clutching pearls about how scary and terrible this could be.
While less than ideal, even in that case Matrix has an advantage: bridges. Matrix servers can be setup with bridges to allow communication with other protocols, so matrix users can reach telegram or signal contacts without switching clients.
I somewhat doubt that medical analogy. Many of Trump's supporters are galvanized by the the conflict between Trump and the media, extending to the social media companies too. In my discussions I have not found many Trump supporters who think he is portrayed fairly in the media or treated fairly by Twitter and Facebook. Most also think important information is being suppressed.
I wonder if cloud clusters will get GPGPU, since that seems to be a factor these days. It's not much use for a general purpose web server though.
Excellent business opportunity is not material for HN?
opportunities like these exist, but they are usually network-driven. knowing someone high up at a large tech co is usually how something like this happens.

if you're looking for a landing spot for a technical team, i might be able to make some intros. can you describe the size and expertise of the team?
For me they're green or purple
Mersenne Twister is the MD5 of random number generators: it's neither secure nor fast (and unlikely md5 not space-efficient, or simple to implement either). You can have something that has better randomness, runs several times faster, uses less space and has a much more compact and simple implementation.

So given that Mersenne Twister sucks in pretty much every possible way other than having a catchy name, likely the sole source of its continued popularity, its probably not a good choice for replacing some "default" random number generator with something better.
There's also contained.af [0], Jessie Frazelle's educational container-based CTF.

[0] https://contained.af/
How is it any different than a tire? You pay to get a tire replaced when it’s worn out, and it is therefore considered a wear item. eMMC is the same, just on a longer timeline (and honestly, shouldn’t be expensive to replace. It really shouldn’t be more than $50, and if it is, the car should be able to use some kind of external storage for writing all the telemetry to that’s separate from the computer needed for the car to work)
uhm no.

Rust's "unsafe" is a pretty bad name and completely different reasoning behind using it. It doesn't mark something as "dangerously unsafe, don't use", to a consumer it indicates "exercise caution" and to a compiler it just allows 5 things:

Dereference a raw pointer
Call an unsafe function or method
Access or modify a mutable static variable
Implement an unsafe trait
Access fields of unions

The point of "unsafe" in rust is to highlight which area requires more human attention... not to discourage its usage.

`dangerouslySetInnerHTML` is literally dangerous and allows XSS if used with outside input.

It also is faster than the other variant. The same is true for `random()`. Both can be used when you know what are you doing to gain some performance.

Meanwhile, `unsafe` rust by itself is not different from safe rust in terms of speed. You have no choice, but to use it places it supposed to be used.
If this is where it stops, that's a pretty solid marketing boost for Pulse!
Exactly - or even on a larger scale, decrease the whole city square feet market value.
Some VPN companies have been tested in court. Some have failed. Some have not. The latter group lends evidence to the possibility that they are telling the truth.
I think you missed the point here - slavery over which the US fought a civil war was not in ancient times nor did it protect US from becoming enslaved.
How about zigbee products? A few years ago I worked on the development of a wireless product for use in the traffic control industry. Security was of great importance and we opted to use a more costly "low power mcu radio combination" using the TI MSP430 series processors and Anaren radios. At the time we were more concerned with hackers spoofing our radios signals but thinking about it now the physical hacking of our firmware would be just as big of threat.
Wow I'm a fulltime user of protonmail for the past 12 months, but hadn't heard about the beta version. Thanks for linking that.
Do you have a link to that comment? I really want to read it. That sounds like a HN classic.
Intent matters. I don't think they were intending to mislead people.

I've worked enough in politics and the marketing side of things to know that the conversation about this gimmick went something like:

"We can 'fact check' during the debates as a way to increase engagement on Twitter, etc."

not like

"We can change our Twitter handle to trick people into thinking our falsehoods are facts."

And if you believe their goal was nefarious, then congrats: you're playing the gross political game.
The reason why we built Line 1 is that snow storm would tie up buses, particularly when it goes through the downtown core. I've been stuck in the backups before, where the articulated 60ft buses fails to go up the hill from Lebreton (now Pimisi) into the downtown, and there's a long chain of buses just trying to mush through downtown.

If only the whole Line 1 wasn't penny wise and pound foolish, and it would have been a much better replacement than buses.
Co-mingeling is exactly right. I bought a Samsung product sold and fulfilled by Amazon and still got a counterfeit. I didn't discover it was counterfeit until after the standard return warranty and when I contacted Amazon, they couldn't have cared less, and basically acted like it was being counterfeit was just another aspect of a product that should be evaluated by a customer during the return period. Amazon can FO and die!
And some people pass through terrible phases just to find happiness and fulfillment later. If we had the "right" to give up in bad times, a lot more people would kill themselves before they discovered that there is different ways to be happy. And btw, if you are deadset on killing yourself, you can choose end your life, as you don't care about anything anymore. To ask it to be legally and assisted is just more weakness.
I found it humorous. The last thing I want to see is yet another startup website using artificially enthusiastic copy to sell their plans. All that tells me is that they're just waiting for their own Imgur moment.

That's not to say that this site may be headed there as well, but at least we can enjoy some irreverent copy in the meantime.
In the last decade, that's exactly what's happened in NYC. young college graduates have flooded the city, pushing poorer people to the outskirts, and unlike their parents have not chosen to retreat to the suburbs to raise kids.

One time inner city ghettos like Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Crown Heights are gradually being gentrified into middle class neighborhoods. Property values are even rising in what were once the most entrenched slums, like East New York.

Meanwhile, the inner suburbs are beginning to decay as middle class professionals no longer move there to raise families. Low income residents displaced from the inner city are being pushed into these areas where rent is low - but still not saving money because they have to buy a car and pay for gas just to get groceries, and if they take transit to work it's now the 3-10x more expensive commuter rail rather than the affordable subway.

The outer suburbs where McMansions dominate are still thriving, but a few years ago I drove around the middle ring suburb where my dad grew up. In his childhood and even in mine it had been a solidly middle class Levittown clone. Tidy homes and yards, well-kept strip malls, and all. Now it's a textbook example of suburban decay. Entire blocks of houses that desperately need paint jobs and repairs. Deserted parking lots in strip malls with half the storefronts empty and the pavement cracked so badly a small child could get lost in the gaps. Independent businesses boarded up. Old people pushing grocery carts along nearly deserted sidewalks -- probably two or three miles each way to the supermarket. Not a pretty sight.

You see the same in Detroit, among other places. A suburb populated by wealthy or even middle class taxpayers can afford to keep up the infrastructure and economic engine to make it a pleasant place to live. One populated by low income people can't -- it soon becomes unlivable. That's going to be a conundrum for us to solve in this century. I hope we address it by building upwards and expanding public transit to make city-style living affordable again for everyone (which would also be a more efficient use of taxpayer dollars than repaving thousands of miles of roads and keeping up sprawling electric and water/sewer lines in suburbs where people wouldn't live if they could afford the city), but fear we haven't the political will to do so.
as someone who worked in an hpux and solaris (and a little AIX) shop, writing code with a fair number of system calls on these systems, brings back memories and not good ones.

Subtle differences in the way everything was done. slight difference like: the max size of a udp packet was slightly smaller on hpux (or was it solaris) such that things would break in unexpected ways. The gzip or tar params where all slightly off... You got used to it but it was a pain.

This reminds me why linux was ascendant. I'm not sure its better but much more consistent.
Slightly off topic, but low-entropy during RSA key generation is a serious problem:

https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.extended.pdf
Hmm, that's weird. That button opens up a stripe payment overlay. Do you have javascript disabled?
This is indeed peoples lives. Should Manning be prosecuted aggressively and have his life ruined because he may have caused vague damages?
I wanted to start blogging and set up Octopress/Jekyll, and spent a few days choosing a theme and then playing with the colors. Granted, I was not entirely happy with how it ended up looking, and generally did not have much motivation to start writing. Looking back, there seems to be some nice themes I'd be happy with[1].

But since I do not yet have the habit of writing, any little thing that will take time from writing/publishing a blog post will interfere with a spur of inspiration.

This takes care of all my needs: no need to think about the design, no need to worry about deploying and maintaining, etc.

[1] https://github.com/imathis/octopress/wiki/3rd-Party-Octopres...
I'm not sure it's that simple. I had an interview where I got tripped up by a simple condition in a if statement. I don't remember exactly what it was, maybe it involved a quirky negation.

But either way I would've never had a problem with something that simple sitting here at my own computer. Did the interviewer understand that it was just an interview fluke? Probably not. After all, it was such a simple thing.

So I would warn against believing you can see past people's interview issues. Companies in general seem to have a misplaced level of confidence in their hiring processes, even assuming their proxies for intelligence weren't naive.
Humble Origin Bundle: $7.9M (still 7 of 14 days left)
Humble Indie Bundle 5: $5.1M (after 14 days)
Sorry, but a negative reinforcement cycle of tensing up in a medium stress situation is exactly the kind of characteristic that I'm trying to screen out in an interview.

Stressful situations happen a lot more than never in the real world (and sometimes they even involve talking to people, like customers) -- I don't want to have coworkers who can't handle that.
This is the way the company I work for currently does it.

They provide the candidate with a piece of terrible code, ask for a code review of as many issues as the candidate can find, and also for a refactored copy of the code. Both of which are completed remotely on the dev's own time.

This is before even meeting the candidate in person. Once we meet in person for the first time, another terrible piece of code is provided -- in this case a basic data structure -- and another code review is requested. The candidate is given 15 minutes to complete it.

It's interesting what comes back. Some people comment only stylistic issues, others only logical or architectural issues. One person got up and left during their alone time.

Other than these, no coding is required.

So far, it's worked out pretty well. And when I was going through it, I enjoyed it.
Please don't do this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Any matches are matched again server side to thwart this type of attack.

>Once Apple's iCloud Photos servers decrypt a set of positive match vouchers for an ac count that exceeded the match threshold, the visual derivatives of the positively match ing images are referred for review by Apple. First, as an additional safeguard, the visual derivatives themselves are matched to the known CSAM database by a second, inde pendent perceptual hash. This independent hash is chosen to reject the unlikely possi bility that the match threshold was exceeded due to non-CSAM images that were ad versarially perturbed to cause false NeuralHash matches against the on-device en crypted CSAM database. If the CSAM finding is confirmed by this independent hash, the visual derivatives are provided to Apple human reviewers for final confirmation.

They also fuzz this process by sending false positives I think?
I take the snapshots. I also have servers send backups to each other each night. I also have a nightly cron job run and rotate backups of the most critical databases to an external drive on my home network. A Tonido Plug does that job (Ubuntu on a tiny ARM server in a plug that costs virtually nothing to run).

Now, some of the databases are simply too large or under too much load to take a live backup while the sites are running. Those I run on Amazon RDS with the MultiAZ feature enabled.
There should be two copies of the database running at all times, both servers keeping a 3 day binlog for point-in-time backups, and making a nightly snapshot to S3. I have to rely on Amazon for that.

But I still take daily home backups of the most valuable individual tables off those servers, like user registrations and payment records. Even if I can't have off-site backups of the whole database, I'll have off-site copies of the part I'd need most in case of an Amazon-entirely-offline catastrophe.
Hey, I am also living in Vienna (or at least close to it) and I want to get self employed as well - any tips how to start? (already have a few years of programming experience under my belt and soon a master in mathematics)
Hi! :)

I'm working in Poland (Python / Django / Java (in previous job)). 3 years of experience.
My salary is ~ 10000$ / year. I've talk recently with friends who I've been studying with, and I earn quite nice comparing to them...
Hey, mootothemax, I wasn't knocking you! Sorry if it came across that way. I only added the time frame because our time frames were the same.

If we look at stories like ours PURELY as inspiration fodder (vs personal sagas), wouldn't you prefer to read about somebody who ended up with a hundred thousand instead of a hundred? :) That's not to downplay your success at all, because you've gotten what you've wanted in the way you wanted. That's what success is about, IMO.

Thanks for the tip about the specificity, I bet you're right & will try that approach next time.
Chrome translate would work great if only it could look at text within the graph. Though I can mostly workout the English translation from the German title anyway.
It's worth noting that Heroku's communication (status.heroku.com) has been terrific.
Developer in Paris here, 45K is about right. And this city is expensive, not as expensive as NYC, SF, or London, but definitely more than Barcelona.

Keep in mind the further south and east you go the lower the salaries.
Feedback: the text of the left hand-side panel (instruction area) is light-gray and too thin to be readable on my 14'' screen, I had to play with the console to fix this.

You may benefit from staying away of fashionable design trends and focus on usability.

Otherwise thanks for setting this source up, looks great (and very usable besides the problem noted above).
I randomly clicked on an URL Brendan Eich gave on twitter. Maybe this http://kripken.github.io/misc-js-benchmarks/banana/benchmark...

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