jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"* they could insert faked evidence of such crimes into the user's files, and then tip off the appropriate authorities.
"

No need to fake it even - they could insert files which are illegal to posses into your Dropbox account, wait for you to sync them to some/all of your devices, then tip off the relevant authorities.

Keep in mind too, you're running their closed source application on your machine with at least the same privileges as your user account - if you don't trust them, you're already hosed. I have no way of knowing the Dropbox app on my laptop or iPhone isn't rummaging around my filesystem looking for interesting stuff and uploading it to their servers. The very feature that makes Dropbox so much more useful than, say, tarsnap or Tahoe or any of the many S3 backed cloud storage options, the fabulous filesystem integration - fundamentally giver their app an enormous amount of access to my system. If you really think Dropbox are crooks, you need to uninstall their software from every machine you care about, and change every password, key-pair, credit card number, and any other credentials those systems might have ever stored in the file system in a way that's readable by the user accou t the Dropbox app was running with, or for the truly paranoid, any piece of data the system has ever stored or accessed...
All that verbiage and what was the point exactly.

Was this a polite and subtle way of calling modern China a Potemkin village, or is it simply what it appears to be: a specimen of pseudo-intellectualism. (There are other possibilities, but the date is not 1919, it is 2019, so a bit too late to the party, Bruno?)
> Unfortunately of 3 categories of information needed for an informed decision (lifetime, power usage, and light output) purchasers only had a good measure of how often they replaced bulbs.

I may be dating myself, but I have never in my entire life seen a light bulb sold without the wattage displayed front and center. It is by far a more accessible metric than when it dies, by which time I have long forgotten where in time immemorial I bought that particular bulb.
OK, but then you need to trust the VPS provider, and there's no way to verify that either.

Also, using your own VPN, you're likely the only one using it. There's zero anonymity. And so an adversary would figure that out, and then focus on the VPS provider.

The sad truth is that you can't trust anyone. So your best option is distributing trust. That way, compromise depends on collusion among providers. Or on their joint compromise by your adversaries.

That's how Tor is designed. User traffic gets routed through three relays. User clients pick the relays in advance, for each circuit. The first (guard) relay only knows the IPs of the user and the second (middle) relay. The middle relay only knows the IPs of the guard and the third (exit) relay. And the exit relay only knows the IPs of the middle relay and the internet resource.

And you can do the same thing with VPN services. That is, nested VPN chains. You can do it either using multiple pfSense VMs as VPN gateways.[0] Or less securely, just with routing and iptables.[1,2]

0) https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/advanced-privacy-and-ano...

1) https://github.com/TensorTom/VPN-Chain

2) https://github.com/mirimir/vpnchains
I don't remember any of the thousands of such moments I've had with my child (who is now a teen). Photos trigger such wonderful memories though.
Thanks for the heads up about Pokémon. Will start backing up my card more often (though I'm not if you can restore them by just copying the data to another card, didn't work the last time I tried it.)
What about copying data between databases? I couldnt get it right in pg, meanwhile works fine in SQL Server

Also pgAdmin has no(?) Intellisense.
Leopard was severely hamstrung by the fact that Scott Forstall abruptly "stole" all the leads from all of the various OS teams to work on the iPhone. Various projects went unfinished because they no longer had the bandwidth or knowledge to finish them. Likewise, Bertrand was super pissed about the failure in quality and Snow Leopard was the direct result of that.
Why can’t we have more than one u2f key??? The most important guarantee that u2f gives you is a significant reduction in phishing risk. I can still be phished with a totp code by a social engineering attack and something like Modlishka...
Another outcome is for Chrome to drop the feature. I think that's far cheaper than the alternatives considered.
Not OP, but: Kamala sent people knowingly or naively to potentially be sterilized. And given she is VP, I assume OP doesn't believe anything will change and is therefore related.
Did you check? poke-mode.el is part of their source repo:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/poke.git/tree/etc/poke-mod...
>by monitoring the DNS traffic, they gain enormous insight into what everybody is doing.

Both companies only collect anonymous analytics. Google does not use the data for personalizing ads. They both do this to improve speed and security of the Internet. For cloudflare it probably also serves as marketing to help get their name out there.
TI 84+. You really don't need a pocket computer. Plus, the TI 84+ is an absolute machine and can do way more than people use it for.
They might have checked them out from a public library.
There are no taxes for being paid in BTC, only when you sell.

Ideally you can use Blockfi.com and take out a loan using your BTC as collateral if you need fiat.
Because when you're talking to them directly you ask them about it. This is what I mean by all forms of feedback.

I'm getting the impression that people are just ignoring all advice about communicating with customers in their startups and just throwing stuff out there to see what sticks. Besides being wasteful in doing stuff no one wants anyway, what if that bad feature crippled your product and your paying customers have permanently switched to a competitor the instant your change frustrated them? And now you're bankrupt and can't afford analytics. Relying on analytics as a crutch to catch these things was the mistake in the first place.

Fun story I actually had forgotten about till now: I briefly worked at a tiny startup out of my school in the ending days of the internet bubble, trying to sell a "data mining" software product. Way too soon before it was cool, sadly. It was really hard to make the case that people needed to pay us $100k for the benefits we could get from their data. And companies certainly weren't going to go for a pitch like "if you launch a broken product we will catch that fact". They spend a lot of money to be sure that doesn't happen already. We even had one major customer figure out that they could just have an engineer perform a simple counter over incoming communications that would catch all they needed to know, and hence they didn't need our product anymore. That was kind of the end for us, in fact.
I use signs (not ASL) to communicate with my dog. When she was a puppy, she was having trouble learning verbal commands, so I started pairing them with unique gestures, which worked much better. Eventually, I mostly dropped the verbal part and now we just use gestures.

Her vocabulary is small (she's a dog), but we have gestures for e.g. "sit", "lie down", "stand back up", "stay", "come here", "go there", "be quiet", "show me what the problem is".

(She's a Siberian Husky)
Yea... worked at Adobe. It’s not smug hyperbole. That company doesn’t have any sort of culture of responsible coding.

Without question one of the worst companies to be put in charge of anything important anywhere.

That’s all I’ll say about Adobe. Dark times, glad I moved on.
yeah, how is it ensured that it gets turned off once turned on? how soon until "undesirables" meeting together for too long creates an alert to be investigated?
As handy as it could be in controlling the virus, what else will it eventually be able to control?
I made a mistake of overthinking my initial assessment about 6 months ago. I have since learned a lot and have grown as an engineer. Does that mistake prevent my application from being considered?
It not only could but it saves lives, I'm not disputing that. But the question is at what cost to the individual, the society, the economy and their future. What happens if the economy crashes? Is it reasonable and the price worth paying? We should be allowed to not only ask these questions but discuss them.
Old enough that we know:

> Chloroquine is very toxic in overdosage; overdosage is extremely hazardous and difficult to treat. Urgent advice from the National Poisons Information Service is essential. Life-threatening features include arrhythmias (which can have a very rapid onset) and convulsions (which can be intractable).

Self-medicating can easily lead to overdosing, especially when using a drug with a low therapeutic index like chloroquine.

https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/chloroquine.html
Great, then you must be the perfect person to alleviate the following additional concerns I still have:

- Isn't there a significant risk that immunity after infection might wear of too soon after infection for herd immunity to be practicable, at least without driving up the deaths yet further?

- Isn't there a significant risk that we end up with a lot of people who survive but have long term health problems?

- Wouldn't the fact that no one else seems to think herd immunity is such a hot idea any more mean the UK faces a high risk to be completely quarantined off by other countries? Brexit probably doesn't reduce the chances of that happening either. Could that not have a few bad economic and other effects?

- Isn't there a significant risk that isolating vulnerable people or the infected in ICUs may not work as well as intended? What if a lot of nurses and doctors get infected and pass it on to other people who have no chronic problems but are temporarily weakened? What if it turns out that seeing a lot of people die miserably without being able to do much about it for weeks on end takes its toll on the current crop of health care professionals or the UK's ability to recruit future generations?

- Wouldn't that most likely mean giving up on eradicating Covid-19 completely? Is it really desirable to permanently reduce life expectancy by keeping it around forever?

- What if the virus changes in an unanticipated direction? Would the herd immunisation strategy not put exactly the type of evolutionary pressure on the virus that you don't want? Namely to become more virulent? Is that not a bit risky?
EPIC filed a complaint. I don't see any info regarding FTC responding to it.
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Nassim Nicolas Taleb had a tongue in cheek remark in his book, 'the reason religion was popular in middle ages is because it kept people away from doctors'. this reminds me of that.. not that religion fares much better these days.
Those were NiMH batteries - I have the same model, got it back in high school with summer job money. Don't leave the "gumstick" battery in the unit; it will leak and swell, and taking the unit apart far enough to clean the contacts is an exceedingly fiddly job despite the excellent service manuals Sony used to put out. The things are the electromechanical equivalent of a Swiss watch.
This is really basic. Here is a harder task from 2015 in monkeys with only 96 implanted electrodes (Utah array): https://youtu.be/lVFWIv5lupo?t=1673

Here is a video from 2014 of someone controlling a quadcopter with their mind with zero implanted electrodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsraC04Mm8w
Except they did, and I for one wish traditional Unix shells would die. Composing software by having every single program and script include a half-assed parser and serializer is causing a lot of unnecessary waste and occasional security problems in computing. Moving structured data in pipes is just a better idea.
Buying an iPhone in Argentina is really complicated. First, because the many complications to import, second because you can't buy dollars making it more complicated and third because even if you use your credit card the government charges an extra huge percentage of the spent price in taxes. All these things are done to stop argentinians to buy foreign money.
some people said a lot of dumb stuff (like that) when they're 19.

other people can be trusted to lead a corporation that globally has access to individuals most private data and relationships.

I really don't think it's unreasonable that I prefer those two sets to be distinct. unrealistic, maybe. unreasonable, no.
This story is one the internet like to rediscover again and again, usually it's not far from "Experiments in the Revival of Organisms" [1] by a certain Doctor Brukhonenko at around the same period of time, which lead the way to open heart surgery in Russia.

[1]: http://archive.org/details/Experime1940
I haven't met Mark but I know people who knew Mark in his Harvard days. None of them have very nice things to say about him.

The age argument is not good enough. You're still trivializing his willingness to release private information about thousands of students at his university without their permission.
Until someone things it's ok to meddle with your infrastructure and codebase without a warrant...
...That's it? If you think that's an example of the world's most awful jokes, I have some news for you. You should probably spend some time in just about any other industry, or even in a high school.

It's unfair to stereotype bankers this way. You could find books that similarly portray politicians, lawyers, etc. I know a few bankers and they're not like that at all. It's a mixed bag.

I've also heard far worse jokes in the kitchen of a restaurant. You want to be offended? Thems' a good place to start.
> I'm not sure if my memory is playing tricks on my, but I've found quotes unreliable. Google will spit out "close" suggestions that have nothing to do with what I requested, despite using quotes.

I noticed the same a few months ago. If you want an exact match you have to click on "Search tools" >> "All results" >> "Verbatim".
What bugs me as an outsider is that the people who "survive" this and come out on the other side as powerful senior bankers are then also very likely to be powerful outside of the banking profession. It might be that they fund political activity or advise policymakers or maybe just socialize with them.

Can you imagine what damage such a person can do if they succumb to survivor bias? If they use all that is in their power to propagate their life choices as the right life choices for everybody?

No wonder the social contract is being ripped to shreds.
I'm sure it's true at the top end - if you are a $500k pa dev in the USA you are going to be massively better off.

But if you are in the <$300k range I think that you are pretty likely to be as well off in the UK even though your top line pay is 1/2 or 1/3 of the USA rate... especially if you have kids.

The reason is healthcare. In the USA you can (with bad luck) get royally screwed if you have a health incident - even with good insurance. And employers are very wise to this, and so ditch employees who have that liability (ie are not 25)

So - yeah, at the top... but further down the pecking order it's not so clear.
From my experience it's actually sold as a simpler alternative to other infra provisioning. So you end up with situations where a team deploys whatever with a helm chart, and it sets up the stuff like magic and they build on it. Then when something goes wrong they literally have no idea how to fix anything and it becomes a waking nightmare.
This is fantastic. It even shows something analogous to the change between nucleate boiling and film boiling.

EDIT: Could this be adapted to a heat transfer simulation of boiling?
While perhaps somewhat ironic, this is only because the person who wrote the text elected to self-post it to Reddit itself. If they had posted a link to a blog post or similar (which arguably is kind of what Reddit is for), this wouldn’t be an issue.
The only supported way to block GA without breaking pages is to use a plug-in
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

No doubt your use of the plug in is logged somewhere.
Looks like a bunch of people on this thread missed the point of containers being more lightweight than VMs, more compute efficient than VMs and physical machines.

Dedicated servers are heavily under utilized and over provisioned because once you allot a server to a team they don't want to give it back.

VM solved this problem and changed how servers were provisioned. Docker and K8s are the next progression of this. People who compare K8s to the 'next js framework' have to do some serious context alignment...
A hotel nearby replaced all their exterior lighting (several hundred CFLs) with omni-directional LED clusters ~ 6000K. They make the place look like a prison courtyard, and they are painful to walk near after dark (too bright, too harsh).

I would think, that as a species we'd all recognize the color temperature of a nice campfire to be comforting and likeable, but I'm honestly surprised some people like these 6000K+ LEDs.
I’d love to see some data on whether MSRP and average actual price paid have diverged over the years. It does feel like everything is perpetually “discounted” these days. If Price is Right is using the manufacturer’s list price, this would help explain why contestants undershoot more now — because the prices they tend to see advertised are in fact ~20% lower.
It may be in the guidelines somewhere, but if they actually cared at all, LinkedIn and Pinterest would have disappeared from all search results years ago.
The legend is that this explains the scene in Buckaroo Banzai that includes a watermelon in a hydraulic press. It was added to see if anyone at the studio was paying attention, nobody noticed it, and they left it in anyway.
As someone who's familiar with the API gateway pattern, is it fair to say this is just another API gateway for internal services? Seems like it is but its also described in an extremely convoluted way with 'control planes' and such.
A bootcamp person can learn most of these things. It just seems with some of our recent hires they don't seem to want to learn this stuff or maybe it doesn't really matter for react devs.

And these things do make a difference. L1 cache is faster than L2 cache which is faster than L3 which is faster than memory which is faster than hard disk etc. You want your code to keep things within those limits to make things faster.

Or for example if you start using virtual memory and paging to disk you might want to switch algorithms. For example you might want to use merge sort instead of quick sort if you don't have a lot of ram and you have to go to disk. However if you have 128GB of memory and mostly randomized data you want to use quicksort.

This is kind of trivial example, but I think this stuff is somewhat important.
Just add a share=1 to the link and it will work
> Privatization of government services is not the same thing as a free market, and hence free market forces are not applying to it.

The problem is that nothing is the “same thing as a free market”. Free market don't exist in the real world, and the market forces are way less powerful than what we would like. They are almost always dwarfed by other forces (transaction cost, network effect, economies of scale, and information asymmetry for instance).

Remember, the free market model comes from an era when chemistry was modeled with the 4 elements !
How else are they going to dupe these kids into undischargable loans? "Hey! Think the education system already fucked you over?! Well we've got more for you!"
The opposite would be really good for designers - augmented reality of what a colour blind person would see. Would be good to check if your design is going to make life difficult for the colour blind.
"Union avoidance consultants, often hired as independent contractors
which allows firms to circumvent federal reporting requirements, often
work with multiple clients at once, sometimes parachuting into a
worksite for just a few weeks or days to train managers and hold
"educational" meetings with workers.

Tracking the union avoidance firms behind anti-union campaigns is
intentionally made difficult by firms that subcontract out work to
other firms that hire independent contractors to avoid federal
reporting requirements laid out by the Department of Labor and shield
themselves from public scrutiny."

It really does seem that in this day and age, the "independent contractor" classification is just a legal car wash. At some point contractors have to become an auxiliary appendage to the corporation, but I don't know what point that is. I do know it's another symptom of a dysfunctional system where many things just don't 'feel' right.
You will not make more money because you learn Prolog. I'd approach it like a hobby. Some people like collecting stamps. Some like pondering esoteric programming languages. With things like Prolog, you are closer to Nature, so to speak. Or maybe more mathematical. Learning about a lot of "modern" technology is a lot like memorizing minutia about the semi-arbitrary choices that have been fossilized and accumulating cruft over time. YMMV.
Land, i.e. the classic example of rent-seeking.

The land doesn’t become “valuable on its own”, it’s just used to extract value from other things.

> In that original state of things, which precedes both the appropriation of land and the accumulation of stock, the whole produce of labour belongs to the labourer. He has neither landlord nor master to share with him.

> ...

> As soon as land becomes private property, the landlord demands a share of almost all the produce which the labourer can either raise, or collect from it. His rent makes the first deduction from the produce of the labour which is employed upon land.

Wealth of Nations
There is a mod that allows running Scratch on Minecraft server but it was not ported beyond 1.8 or something. I plan to see how it works and maybe port it or do something like that for recent Minecraft version.

I like the idea of Pneumaticcraft. He already knows absolutely everything about Minecraft (can tell the version the map was generated in by looking at it). One Christmas wish was for Santa to help Mojang release 1.17 faster... So I am pretty confident he would like to be able to have some new game mechanics to play with.
Prolog syntax will always be with us, due to its close relation with first-order predicate logic. This syntax will still be there after many now popular languages will long have been forgotten and replaced with other languages. In this respect, learning it is a safe investment.

Regarding opportunity cost of time investment, also take into account that, even though learning a lower-level language will first save you time in comparison to Prolog, most if not all tasks you solve with lower-level languages will take longer than solving them with Prolog would take.

So, investment in Prolog is like an investment with compound interest: It first takes time, and then you save more and more time, freeing you for other activities.
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>desktop search that works

Windows 10 search is the most hilariously broken search engine I think I have ever used!