skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not countries introducing drugs, but companies. And companies are driven primarily by a profit motive. This is not a bad thing in and of itself since it creates a private incentive for the research and development of drugs. However, when the money starts to become prioritized more heavily than the product being made, it creates a severe conflict of interest. The recent issue with opioids being an obvious example of this. Quoting this [1] great article from the Houston Chronicle:

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"The trigger of the opioid crisis was a misrepresentation of a 1980 letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine, reporting on 11,000 hospitalized patients receiving opioids. It concluded that “despite widespread use of narcotic drugs in hospitals… addiction is rare in medical patients with no history of addiction.” This became a landmark study, cited more than 600 times, particularly after Purdue Pharma introduced OxyContin (extended-release oxycodone) in 1995.

Large opioids manufacturers began funding nonprofit groups such as the American Pain Society; and pain experts advocated for pain to become an important “fifth vital sign” to be queried in every doctor’s visit when checking blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and temperature.

Caught in the trend, the Federation of American Medical Boards encouraged punishing physicians for under-treating pain. This policy was drafted by individuals with ties to opioids manufacturers. Some were members of industry speakers’ bureaus, and later became company executives.

Purdue funded more than 20,000 educational programs between 1996 and 2002 to influence physician prescription habits nationwide, and developed a misleading advertising campaign that claimed that the risk of addiction from prescription opioids was “much less than 1%.” OxyContin sales grew from $48 million in 1996, to over $1.5 billion in 2002. With increased sales came increased abuse and addiction. By 2004, OxyContin was the leading drug of abuse in the United States.

In 2007, Purdue (and three executives) pleaded guilty to misrepresenting the risks of OxyContin addiction and paid $634 million in penalties, a fraction of the $35 billion in sales in two decades."

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It's pretty sick stuff, but extremely clear evidence that these comes have come to see profit as the sole point of their existence. And these companies have extensive reach. And opioids are obviously not the only example here. This is a typical pattern, even if a rather extreme case. For instance the nonprofit industry tool used to push medicating and diagnosing of ADD is CHADD - Children and Adults with ADD.

[1] - https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Opi...
Any computer program is going to have data in RAM. It's up to something else to protect that. (This is why ARM machines have that encrypted RAM, this is why real security software runs in some sort of tamper-proof area, etc. This paper shows the general "whatever" attitude that general-purpose computers adopt towards attacks where someone has physical or root access.)
Any trait could also be an unhelpful one that is on its way towards extinction.
All true, thanks for the elaboration. The only minor thing I'll add is that while its default mode of operation is to munge its internal state when detecting such colliding data and returning a hash that's not the same as what stock SHA-1 would return, it can also be made to just return an error. That's the mode Git uses it in:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.21.0-rc2/sha1dc_git.c#L10...
It's interesting you've found the WireGuard experience to be "seamless".

I have a WireGuard VPN at home and experimented with always-on, on my Android phone. Unfortunately, my provider (EE, UK) throttles UDP traffic something rotten, and my normally great experience with 50/50Mb+ is severly limited to between 0 and 10 Mb making my phone almost unusable by normal standards.

Does your LTE provider not throttle this way, or have you found a way around this?
Yeah, the problem with this kind of study is that workplace politics are highly contextual to the individuals you are dealing with. And I can think of no situation where citing a study about “toxic” individuals is going to change the mind of any executive. At this level of abstraction senior leaders already have beliefs about the human dynamics in their org and how they should be managed; the way to influence them is with specifics in the context they know rather than broad proclamations based on a raft of dubious assumptions.
Not really, but it probably comes down to how you define terms. If you are considering ARPANET to be "the internet" then you are correct. However, one can argue that ARPANET was just a single isolated network and not really "the internet" until multiple networks were joined via a common protocol. This started happening in 1973[0], the same year the first protobbs, Community Memory[1] came online.

Many would consider the deployment of TCP/IP as the birth of the internet. These protocols were not standardized until 1982[0]. This was well after the first true BBS in 1978[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBBS

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FTI: "Pet Sematary"[sic] is the name of a book by Stephen King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Sematary
Agreed. I bet there's quite a bit of money out there waiting for whomever starts making paid, tracking-free alternatives to popular free apps.
You might like some of Rick Mather's projects:

http://www.rickmather.com/practice
Successful businesses are all alike; every failed business is a failure in its own way.
Modern society doesn't' change the fundamentals of human behavior and needs. Per your example we still need a community with strong bonds, a diet of lean proteins and greens, and a dusk till dawn sleeping pattern to function optimally.
I'm sure there were some people who could foresee the lack of foresight before the collapse of Rome too. It didn't help them.
I don't think so? I skipped only the questions, maybe there? I didn't hear him mention those other systems, might have missed that.

You can argue that he does that indirectly: He likes that systemd provides something like a service layer, which the tools I mentioned don't really do. Maybe you mean that. That would work, I just happen to think he is wrong there. That's not the job of init, making it a plus point of an init system is some kind of mental gymnastics I don't agree with (though I liked that talk).
Correct. Also if a malware is running it can do better then just steal your manager's password. So I'd say you're OK with only that "bug".
Shawshank Redemption joins Office Space, Fight Club, and It's A Wonderful Life in the ranks of films saved by being shown on TV (whether via cable, DVD, or obsessive rebroadcasts over the holiday season before It's A Wonderful Life got snatched out of the public domain) after having bombed in theaters. They eventually found an audience even if the vagaries of the theater world kept them from making much in box office sensu stricto.
Looks like it's down
What's the value of an IPv6 only site?
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Yeah, i personally thought this post would be about actually designing algorithms that determine where the HTML elements are rendered on the screen.
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This is a good point. There is some sentiment in this thread, and among the public in general, that Hollywood has lost its touch and is unoriginal with the deluge of remakes and superhero movies. I don’t work in the industry, but I think Hollywood knows precisely what they’re doing.

A primary concern is how you differentiate your product in the age of Netflix. If you want to make an original and complex character driven work, you’re better suited with a Netflix series. Movie studios therefore gravitate to producing works uniquely suited to highlight the things that can’t be done on the small screen and simply must be experienced at a theater. Thus, they continue to churn out special-effects laden blockbusters based on familiar IP because it makes sense for their business.
The Nest is not a personal assistant like the Google Home. It's a thermostat.
>I’ll agree that secure paper is best for security, but not many people understand what “secure” is. A notebook on your desk isn’t, in a safe is. If I need to log in to AWS at the supermarket, that notebook does me no good.

I agree, what is "good enough" security depends on your threat model. For example, for an older adult who previously used one dictionary word on every site, a small notebook with a list of PWs in a locked desk drawer is a big step forward.

I like to tell people to treat passwords they have written down like they would a hundred dollar bill. (You keep it on your person, or lock it up when not in use).
I don't believe this applies to any 3rd party products. Those manufacturers have to make their own design decisions.
This behavior is completely routine in every American city today. You're tilting at windmills.
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It's called auftragstaktik or mission command.
I experienced it during my conscription (not German, but we apply it in my country as well), and it worked really good. Before the end of the service I'm certain my division could have retained most of its effectiveness, should you have removed all the ncos and the division commander.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission-type_tactics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_command
I hope for the same, but only after solving inequality and other "human condition" issues. I do not look forward to an Elysium-like dystopia with an immortal (ruling) overclass; undead corporations are already problematic enough.
There are certainly cybercrimes that could be much better enforced. Running DDoS botnets of insecure network cameras, distributing ransomware, making robocalls, revenge porn, and so on.

But there's another set of cybercrimes where I don't really care about enforcement. Running Sci-Hub, bypassing DRM to refill inkjet printer cartridges, violating superinjunctions, and suchlike.

Sadly, the latter set tends to have much better lobbyists than the former, so I'm always nervous about the outcome of legislators attempting to improve the law.
I think some people are upset as to how font rendering engines render fonts, so they decided "get rid of that and I will manually place every pixel where I want it".
A Nix/Rust project with started out with similar aims: https://github.com/fractalide/fractalide
I have some concerns with this article's advisement. It essentially boils down to stay humble, proactive, and aware. But certain kinds of advice are entirely unnuanced, for example, "dead time" vs "alive time" may mean that someone really needs the rest! Similarly, focusing on effort and not the end goal is not always amenable to reality- it doesn't matter how much you worked at a startup if your stocks ultimately end up shitty.

Of course, this article aims to kill ego, not actually enrich the person's life. Killing one's ego can also ruin one's life just as easily as an ego too alive.
That’s a different project.
Certainly from my point of view, but that's the point of my comment, and the parent comment. Who gets to label the toxic people and the criteria that must be met for someone to get that label is a very important aspect that the article does not address. I'm not sure if the study its reporting on goes into that detail or not. Since they are specifically using the term 'toxic worker' and not employee, I'm left believing its purely from the viewpoints of the managers
clipboard sniffing?
I remember years ago, there's some tools that you install and it will automatically encrypt all the clipboard content to prevent sniffing.

Nowadays, a password manager can't even do that?

* might not be straightforward as it install some DLL inject stuff
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I have a quick tip: there's an issue with the Github pages SSL certificate. Apparently it's an easy fix: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42177720/359774
> Depends on your horizon

Box office returns dominate the return for a film, set the license price for long term post-theatrical deals, and decay with a very fast exponential from the opening weekend take. It is extremely rare in modern times for a film to turn a poor opening weekend into a high long term return. The film market simply doesn't work that way however nice it would be if it did.
On the "don't collect data", I can recommend "exodus privacy" which shows permissions and trackers that are present in your installed apps.

You can search them online [0] or show the analysis of the apps you already have installed [1]

[0] https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/search/

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.eu.exodus_...

Fosdem talk that explains all of this in more detail:
https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/analysis_of_the_behav...
It’s not as if someone is going to experience a false alarm in their own system, accidentally access your system via a giant security failure and random account mangling, while your system is experiencing a real alarm at the same moment, and then unintentionally silence your alarm. The level of coincidence here is absurd.

The alternative concern that Nest is so incompetent that they somehow issue an automatic silence command (either to all alarms or just yours) seems no more plausible than First Alert being so incompetent that your alarm simply doesn’t work. Especially in combination with the fact that this incompetence must either be undetected permanently (i.e. they always silence your alarm and never notice the horrendous bug) or coincidentally tied to an actual fire in your home, this is probably roughly as likely as a meteorite flattening your house.

The only “viable” concern here is to that an attacker might silence your alarm maliciously, which implies a lot of dedication from an enemy, because they are literally trying to murder you. Presumably this enemy is also an arsonist because otherwise there’s likely no alarm to silence and if there is, it’s likely a false alarm.
Author may want to implement a labelling method for users for a days to maybe train the discriminator a little bit better. Would be a cool human-in-the-loop exercise.
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I especially like this bit, mentioned in the FAQ (https://pendulum.eustace.io/faq/):

It also removes the notion of naive datetimes: each DateTime instance is timezone-aware and by default in UTC for ease of use.
> It's more like the article defines a toxic worker by the result, not the symptom.

What does this mean? Symptom and result are the same thing.
A Non-Toxic Thermoelectric Generator for Wearable Tech
This site made my morning. Wow such incredible technology! Machines are learning too much
You were on a glorified sidewalk. This is why separated facilities with grade crossings are dangerous because you exist outside the cone of attention of cagers who aren't expecting a 20MPH+ vehicle on the sidewalk.
Because I like having my personal car, where I hop in and the seats, temperature and music are set to what I like, there's no weird smells and I have privacy and comfort. Besides, I think that about 60% of taxi drivers should never be in charge of any motor vehicle and are completely incompetent at driving, I don't feel safe at all. But that's beside the point and will be fixed by autonomous cars. But being in a vehicle shared by others will not, and I have no interest in doing that, just like I have no interest in taking a bus.

But yes, I have just done the calculation and it would in fact be cheaper for me to uber to work than to own my car. Yet I still prefer to have my own car that yes, does absolutely nothing for 95% of the month.
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wow - a rare breed - the donut cat!
this is pretty much how you learn to operate when you have a motorcycle. you are not seen unless you make eye contact and even then don't trust them. works to make a safer drive in a car.

now not to go full mean mode on cage drivers, we have our issues among riders too. I would say about every fifth new cyclist that wants to ride with us or friends; I admit to being a slacker; has to be schooled in not being a dick. No need to make the people who don't like bicycles like them less. Obey the rules, forgive, and ride.
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Been using https://blokada.org/
Which works the same way with good results. Helps a lot to save on mobile data.
Security in Your OpenAPI Specification
The only way I can realistically operate without a password manager while keeping a unique password per account would be to reset my password every single time I use an account. Which would be... very tedious.
Then they will go work for someone else. If the quality of work goes up, then the price should go up, too.
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Most of the ones with humans don’t turn out so good.
Good is not the enemy of perfect. There are cases where disposable plates are more or less required. Food trucks/carts for example. One I frequent recently moved to using compostable plates.
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Absolutely! Basically everyone can propose new ideas to the team. If multiple people are interested and we see a benefit for the company (e.g. learning a new technology) we will run it.

These experiments range from little internal dev tools, to scripted spreadsheets, to open source libraries to even hardware projects. Sometimes an experiment is also just trying out a new way of running the company. For example MJ Talks and MJ University were initially experiments. Or our trip to Thailand in 2014 was an experiment. Now we do 5-6 company trips per year (workations, skiing, hiking, kitesurfing). Our bonus/profit-share program was an experiment that we started 11 months ago.

Also some of those experiments turn into products. At least we try. Some are successful and spawn their own company from it, e.g. Bugfender. Most experiments however failed to gain traction as a product. Maybe not because the idea/product itself was bad, but because we're a tech company and suck at sales and marketing.
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I'd go further and say that you should always keep track of cyclists and pedestrians you see before the intersection. If you don't know where they went, assume they're in your path. Case in point: I was coming up to an intersection, right-turn indicator on, cyclist comes blasting through in the right as the the light turns. He's lucky I was the first in line and had noted his position two blocks before, because I guarantee that with any other driver in front he would have earned himself a Darwin Award.
The “Anti-LGBT” Emoji
Crimes against god often involve offending god by trying to be godlike.
Yeah, that should be an app store foul.
Because I use highp everywhere, the only sources of rounding error I can think of are blending and quantization to 8-bit unorm. D3D requires that these round in a certain way: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/direct3d10/...

So I suspect that implementations behave the same way. It'll have to be tested, of course.
Since Android Pie uses DNS-over-TLS it is very easy to setup DNS-based ad-blocking yourself. It requires only dnscrypt-proxy and nginx.

[1] - https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Connecting-t...
Select the pistol, and then, select your cat.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/05/26/the-unhorse
For the love of God, can the titles remain consistent with the posts?
On the 2 SIM cards I have (Vodafone NL and KPN NL) they don't throttle, as that's illegal, but the plans have data limits (after the limit they just disable 4G for you) and perhaps they do some QoS though. Public WiFi I mainly use Dutch railways (NS) in trains which uses T-Mobile NL. You (or well, anyone, AFAIK) cannot use that to watch on-demand movies though. But I just have that kind of material synced up locally. Same with audio (albeit through Spotify Premium). So with most of my video and audio synced up locally (and the same's true with regards to recent Nextcloud pictures) I end up with mainly traditional websites or apps or an OS/application update or so.

That being said, have you attempted to discuss the issue with them? Have you considered a non-default UDP port? Also, did you compare the usage with OpenVPN? I ran OpenVPN before, the roaming, network speed, and latency is quite terrible.
The quality of life and length of life for people under Roman rule was significantly better than during the dark ages of serfdom. The Romans had working plumbing and specialization of labor; all that went away during the dark ages. They also had learning, and working legal system, written history, etc. The dark ages didn't; that's why it's called the "dark ages": no one bothered to write anything down because they were all uneducated and didn't keep records. It's really weird how modern people are now trying to whitewash the dark ages; I simply fail to see how it's an improvement to abandon education and specialized labor and technology and go work in fields as a serf.
not optimizing for hn.
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This is true but its more stopping scammers / snake oil salespersons selling placebo's to desperate people.

I few years ago I reported (to Matt Cuts) people using ppc selling snake oil pills to people with chronic organ failure by buying ppc on the medication keywords that people like me where using.
Lifetime of experience. If you have other observations, feel free to make them.
Google home uses the same approach with a physical mute button.

How is that in contrast?
I’m half Russian, so yeah I have.
If I were a math teacher, it's stories just like this that I would use during a lesson. It has the added bonus it's true and very compelling.

The kids would be riveted! I know I was.
That makes no sense in this context. Typo or dictation error (stick -> schtick) makes far more sense.
Financial resources... not physical resources.
"Obeying the law" is irrelevant. It's not illegal to use a phone while walking, like it is while driving. The statement in the OP could be 100% correct and still not address the issue of whether distracted pedestrians are contributing to their own injury statistics.
Also, the leaders during the feudal times were certainly not interested in the wellbeing of people. Where on earth did you get that idea? Feudal lords only cared about their own power and wealth.
Thanks!

I'm glad to hear your company is also incorporated in Estonia. How well has it been working for you?
Yes, any speaker can become a mic, but only if you plug it into an amp's input channel. Unfortunately for the CIA, they're all plugged into output channels.
how one can see Donut Cat and suggest the algorithm be changed to snuff out his non-existence-existence, is beyond me
Didn't go there. Just encouraging people to ride defensively. Righteous indignation doesn't pay any hospital bills.
Definitely 37signals inspired us in many of the things we do. I'd say half of our team have read their books and regularly read their blog!

Recruitment and marketing are definitely a good side effect, but as @znq mentioned earlier, we built the guide in the first place for onboarding our own team members, then we thought sharing it publicly would benefit the community.
Yes it's available on F-Droid (see comment# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19208623), but currently I have a slight preference for Blokada.