skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know, I guess my brain has been trained to think of it as an endorsement even though I can infer that it likely isn't.
> Pictures are the a natural resource for social networking, and nature is full of them, ripe for exploitation.

> [..] it is an economic function of photography to supply the masses, by modish processing, with matter which previously eluded mass consumption.

-- Walter Benjamin, 1934

It's like people shifted from even that, to needing to have a photo with themselves front and center. Trample nature, then mess up the photo, too, and of course, burn a whole lot of kerosene.

To be less bitter about it, if people had more imagination and confidence, they wouldn't need to see everything first-hand, and wouldn't need to collect external proof that they're "someone". That seems achievable and worthwhile.
Wouldn't that require physical intervention?
Even a bowl of Icelandic lamb soup can go up to $20 now. Wasn't like this a few years ago though.
If that link has browser 0day, it can. If that link takes you to a page you expect to demand login creds (google groups, youtube, google docs), it can.
Do be fair, they did say "east asia" and China does make up the majority of east asia by population and land mass.
I once read a theory that poor grammar, particularly with 419 scams, acts as a sort of gullibility filter where only the most susceptible targets will respond.
We need to become more vocal about tourist etiquette so that it becomes part of the social consciousness I think. Back then, we were making fun of people we considered unwashed for not having passports and being untravelled, and now we are surprised that unwashed people are ruining nature in other countries.
Right, and even if they completely root an employee's laptop and phone they still can't get into the hardware key. Sure, they can "boop hijack" the key by popping up a convincing fake login prompt, but they have to synchronize their schedule to the employee they want to hijack and pull off a convincing fake login prompt each and every time they want to login, so the logistics are still much more challenging than copying a OTP seed.
This reminds me of the noise around the "European Google" project from a few years back. It seems that waiting until a startup has major success, then trying to copy it, doesn't work well.
https://xkcd.com/1314/

I'd stay on the topic at hand. Most people are nobodies at instagram and they just want to share with their friends. I do not have instagram nor post pictures elsewhere, but I also don't feel entitled to tell others how to live their life. The real problem here is breaking the law (e.g driving off-road), influencer or not, tourist or not.
I agree, I just disagree with the generalization based off of those news. Tor is a tool and as such can be used for both good and bad.

It bothers me when people draw badly considered conclusions from them, such as claiming that "most" or a "big part" of Tor is dedicated to illegal activities. The percentage is probably greater than on the "normal" web, but I object to the stronger claims than that.
> It's hard to keep up with what's legitimate when seemingly everything you do involves a different domain with a different design language and account management process.

Seriously, right!

https://microsoftazuresponsorships.com
https://getlicensingready.com/
https://sysinternals.com (fairly popular and well-known!)
https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/
https://azureedge.net

etc
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Can confirm—and ah that sounds familiar. My own dad was a pipefitter-wleder in an oil refinery.

I can still smell that and the feel of the work denim he'd come home in.
This seems to fit the classic definition of spearphishing; the atack vector is an impersonated/fake version of a legit email and its sender. No matter if the payload is in the form of an attachment or web link or a request for some physical action (e.g. please scan and send a copy of your ID) that would fit the phishing title.
> For a while now I've wanted to save some sperm and get snipped. Seems like the best of both worlds - save your young HQ code while not worrying about accidental pregnancy!

If you get it all snipped, you won't have to worry about those nasty STD's, either.
It's certainly a generalization, but I'm not sure how to talk "societies" (per the post I was responding to) without generalizing. So it's definitely a stereotype, but I don't think it is an unearned stereotype. And like all generalizations, it not accurate on a person by person basis.

Just look at what China did to its own environment to get a sense of how much that society values the environment.
Plausible deniability is the best defense
I understand playing up the strengths of a product and minimizing the weaknesses, but I don't know how baldfaced lies like "2 rooms left!" were ever acceptable. That's just the business jumping up and waving a flag that they can't be trusted. Sometimes I'll still buy something but only if I can tell myself that the person who made the website is probably not the person I'm actually doing business with.
Food there has gotten really expensive the last few years. Getting there can be really cheap though. I've now spent two Thanksgivings there where we paid less than $1k/person for flights from US west coast and a very good hotel for 3 nights.
True, but we don't know the next stage of their attack. Perhaps after compromising the target's machine the attackers would have to then engage in some social engineering.
How do you maintain "Principle 1" while being a publicly traded company?

The way the stock market is designed (and the fact that stockholders often get to appoint the board who gets to appoint the CEO) means they're going to put short term profits over long term viability. Many companies have been ruined and continue to be ruined by this short-term-ism chase for quarterly and yearly profits.

For example look at the field of Customer Retentions. It used to be focused on satisfaction & delight which are both long term success strategies (both to grow and to retain), but in the last twenty years Customer Switching (i.e. making it harder/more costly/more time consuming/more stressful/etc to switch) has become the norm, this is a short term strategy since it improves short term retention metrics at the cost of long term returning customers and poor word of mouth (i.e. nobody returns or joins after they leave, if you made the switching process hellish). It is a great way to keep your quarterly and yearly churn low, but a poor way to run a business.

It used to only be businesses with artificial monopolies that would do this (e.g. Verizon, Comcast, etc). But recently we've seen companies in fairly competitive spaces adopted a similar short term "suicide strategy" like LogMeIn (Remote Support Software), The New York Times (News Publication), SiriusXM (streaming audio), etc. All of which are likely chasing quarterly performance metrics tied to executive compensation.
The article describes a Firefox exploit that lets a malicious page break out of the browser sandbox when viewed.
On the other hand, there's also a cost to taking security measures. The time needed to maintain/switch to that separate system has a cost. There's a study[1] on this, but it's done with simple security measures with an unrealistically high probability of getting hacked.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06542
In this case though, since the zero day runs without consuming the attacker's time, what is to be gained by filtering out less-gullible people? If it's automated, why not cast as wide a net as possible?
I think about squares often, well rectangles really. Practically everything I see is a rectangle. I go to a rectangular building and poke little rectangles to fill my rectangular screen with glyphs bounded by rectangles and tesselating on the screen like rectangles would--and I see it all through my rectangular glasses. Why?

Well, recycles tesselate--so that's one property that rules out pentagons, say, as our shape of choice, but why not triangles? Or hexagons?

This question, I think, is similar to another one: why was euclidean geometry developed more than a thousand years earlier than the non-euclidean ones? Is there something more human about right angles than some other one? (look up the playfair's axiom, you'll see the angles I'm taking about)

It's everywhere. Prime numbers are those special ones that can't be expressed as a rectangle of dots on the page. Why do we define multiplication this way?

Is there something perhaps arbitrary and anthropocentric in our preference for right angles? If so it would explain why the distribution of the primes is so unpredictable.

I think it is because we live at the bottom of a gravity well and have an adaptation (building things) which makes that matter.

I also think that if we could rid our mathematics of that bias, it would sort of trickle up into other domains and allow our constructs to take on more richness, like you see in the fractal side of the fractal vs rectangle images presented in the article.
School also never had navigability of past questions / answers as its explicit objective.
>> The absolute worst things are these https://www.ehanddryers.com/hand-dryers/tap-hand-dryers, my kids just plain refuse to wash their hands out of fear of accidentally triggering the dryer

Wow, I was recently in an airport bathroom where a young boy absolutely refused to wash his hands. His father was extremely patient and said that he needed to wash his hands. The boy was near tears saying that they would miss their plane. It was all a really strange and illogical situation. Until I read your sentence. I don't know if this is why the boy wouldn't wash his hands, but it makes me realize that sometimes kids have reasons for what they say or do, even if they can't explain it. Reminds me of the hand licking incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18842009

I thought I had read all about the hand licking incident and learned not to make presumptions about kids. Today, I realize that the lesson hasn't really been ingrained into me yet.
Since it gated, here are the diet+sperm quality results:

From the responses to a dietary questionnaire, four types of diet were identified: a “Western” diet characterised by red meat, processed meat, fatty and sugary food and drink; a “prudent” diet comprising mainly chicken, fish, vegetables and fruit; a “Smørrebrød” diet cold processed meats, whole grains, mayonnaise, cold fish, condiments, and dairy; and a traditional vegetarian diet, involving lots of vegetables, soya milk and eggs.

Sperm health, as measured by concentration, volume and motility, was best in those following the prudent diet, followed by the vegetarian and then Smørrebrød diets, with those adhering to a western diet yielding the worse readings.
Unfortunately, you also don't have a recognized right to not be sick, nor one to guarantee comfort. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be regulated. But the situation is a little more complex than the absolute of "ban everything that makes me feel funny."
"scarcity and social proof messages so overused in travel websites that the average person does not believe them"

The example given, hotel bookings, it wasn't the use of these behavioral interventions, it was that the consumer realized the website repeatedly lies about it. There aren't really only 2 rooms left and 17 people have viewed it, it is purely the website being dishonest so often that it is assumed to always be dishonest

There is such a going as honest advertising, but these companies chose to misrepresent information.

That the authors take away seems to be it is the overuse of the lie means he'll probably come across the solution that they need to lie better or find a different lie.

Them consumers will get used to that lie and companies will come pay him for a third lie...
This is just a rewritten version of the AtlasObscura story from Jan 2018

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-union-pepsi-shi...

It's rewritten paragraph-by-paragraph, probably automatically using "rewriting tools" that blog spammers use to plagiarize articles. You can tell because the story follows the same threads from paragraph to paragraph.
The smarts living on-device is not necessarily the same as the smarts executing on-device.

We already have the means to execute arbitrary code (JS) or specific database queries (SQL) on remote hosts. It's not inconceivable, to me, that my device "knowing me" could consist of building up a local database of the types of things that I want to see, and when I ask it to do a new search, it can assemble a small program which it sends to a distributed system (which hosts the actual index), runs a sophisticated and customized query program there, securely and anonymously (I hope), and then sends back the results.

Google's index isn't architected to be used that way, but I would love it if someone did build such a system.
Yes. It works in Singapore. In places like japan and Taiwan though, they have much more respect for their country. Even Thailand. In Phuket I’ve seen the locals who live off tourism on the beaches picking up rubbish the tourists leave behind. Never see that sort of thing in the west. Malaysia and Myanmar however they just throw it out the window as they drive.
In 2d electromagnetism splits light waves into TE and TM modes that don't couple to each others (until you add a dielectric). That is unusual to our 3d picture, but doesn't break electromagnetics.

And the generalization of the cross product, the wedge product works just fine in 2d. If you take the wedge of two 1-forms (vectors) in 2d you get a 2-form. In 3d that is equivalent to a (3-2)-form or in other words a (pseudo-)vector. In 2d you get a (2-2)-form or in other words a pseudo-scalar 0-form. That is of course nothing but the z component of the resulting pseudo-vector if you had done it in 3d. So EM in 2d might get flat landers started on weird group theory a bit early, but it is not fundamentally incompatible with life.
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Canada's a big country :-) As far as I understand, local transit authorities in every city have the autonomy to decide how they spend their budgets. A digital sign is useful, but is it worth having one at every single stop, considering the cost to buy them, the necessary infrastructure (electricity, internet access), the support costs to repair/replace them, etc.?

Also, paper schedules have been part of all stops here for a long time. Considering that the buses are pretty reliable, the paper schedule typically does the job. And you can always use the transit authority's website or one of the many mobile apps to see if there's an unexpected delay.
The Planiverse by A. K. Dewdney is also a great read on this subject - its less of an allegory than Flatland and focuses more on what the physiology and society of 2D life might look like. Worth a look.
You seem to be confusing the nature of the doctor-patient relationship (i.e., whether the patient contracts with the doctor or contracts with the hospital who employs a doctor) with the use of surgical assistants (generally a type of physician's assistant). Private practices routinely use PAs in the US to do less demanding procedures, just like the UK. Obviously, the nature of the doctor-patient relationship will influence the degree to which PAs are used -- patients generally want full surgeons, while 3rd party payers like the government want to save costs -- but that doesn't undermine zomg's correction of WalterBright's comment.
That's addressed in section 2, "Relativistic Gravity in Three Dimensions":

> As is well known, general relativity in 2 + 1 dimensions does not have any local degrees of freedom; as a result of this, the spacetime outside of, e.g., a star is locally flat, and the presence of the object is only discernible globally, though the presence of a deficit angle. Clearly solar systems could not exist in such a world, and so this is commonly used as an argument against the possibility of life in two spatial dimensions. ...

> ... it seems not unreasonable to also modify the theory of gravity so as to include local degrees of freedom. The simplest way to do this is to include a gravitational scalar field, and for completeness and concreteness I will give an example of such a theory.

> ... In the previous subsections I have presented a purely scalar theory of gravity which may allow lifein 2 + 1 dimensions; this is not intended as a complete theory, but more as a proof-of-principle,and now I will briefly discuss a few other alternatives.
Geneva convention seems to be working very well in the Middle East and Russia.

Russian used a nerve agent in London and not much happened. They’ve also annexed part of a sovereign nation in Europe. The last time that happened WWII started. They likely provided chemical agents or technical know how to Syria. The Saudis do whatever they please.
Second paragraph defines it:

> Mountain lions as a species are not threatened in California, but a petition submitted Tuesday to the state Fish and Game Commission argues that six isolated and genetically distinct cougar clans from Santa Cruz to the U.S.-Mexico border comprise a subpopulation that is threatened by extinction.

I understand it lacks the 'We define extinction vortex as...' preamble, but you can easily infer it.
Do you have evidence to share with us about the source and/or target of the attacks? Otherwise I will have to possibly consider your comment part of a possible misinformation campaign.
> where leisure time is used no longer for self-perfection or acquisition of more social status

My understanding of these instagram folk is that it's definitely about social status and very often about making money. "Influencer" is a career. Maybe if Iceland offered to promote these influencers' work in exchange for good behavior, some concept of mutual benefit could be worked out.
as a counterpoint "going out of business" sales are common in the brick and mortar world, especially in sectors like furniture.
Can any Californian say something about the relative frequency of the various names for this species?

I'd never heard the term "mountain lion" until recently (I think I first encountered it in a story by Annie Proulx) though I've known the word "puma" since the 1970s. Apparently they're also known as "cougar" or "catamount". I probably came across the term "cougar" some time this century, and the term "catamount" a few minutes ago.
I've frequented China quite a lot the past year. They usually have people that clean the streets regularly as part of their job. They often hall two wheel carts around to carry their equipment and large brush that has fallen from trees.

However, I don't think Chinese do a great job of separating their trash that well despite having recycle bins and trash bins clearly labeled on the streets.
https://placekitten.com/ is a genuinely useful page for generating placeholder cat images on the fly. Invaluable when prototyping an interface.
So, instead of platforms, other option would be a client software for different forums. Like Tapatalk. Is there anything like that but libre and/or desktop?
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We could also recognize that businesses have an incentive to exploit human psychological impulses, and attempt to counteract that by providing the public with information about these methods so they can make more informed choices next time.
this resonates. I interviewed a front end enginner last week who had a few years of experience, so not completely junior. He had been working with React most of the time.

we did a simple live coding challenge that didnt require React. Only some javascript to output some html in the document. They were confused because they couldn't do `return <div>hello world</div>` and couldn't figure out how to instead simply do `return "<div>hello world</div>"` (jsx vs a string of pure html).

It was pretty painful to see but also made me realise how Vue and React can make life easier but seems to get people to know even less how underlying things are working.

I guess it's the fate of all technologies.
We should replace DNS with DHT, then we can have content addressable (or otherwise verified) apps sideloaded or loaded in chunks from anywhere like in BitTorrent or Dat.

To me, the Browser is the most widely distributed sandbox runtime ever! It’s just missing a few crucial things we plan to add soon :-)
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There is a dead reply to this which I think asks a fair question.

> Where do you have legal authority to do a vigilante culling of your neighbor’s herd, because you decided something about them merited it?

I am not making the argument that this is legally defensible. You can by definition not have legal authority to engage in vigilantism. It's from an ethical and practical perspective that I draw the analogy.

On the matter of legality, the difference you point out applies, but also goes both ways. There is no legal framework around "culling" insecure devices, and very little regulation.
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>and there's a huge Chinese population in Siberia which might be used as an excuse to incite unrest

Russia is also quite good at making 're-education' camps, and can be quite prickly when prodded.
It also went through an enlightenment within the same window as the rest of Europe.

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

I wouldnt argue it in isolation, but among other things, having experienced a transformative enlightenment, is largely what we use to label a country as Western. Russia Westernized under Catherine the Great.
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That's not how scarcity works.
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Wow. Looks like I'm a pretty big noob, I thought HN supported markdown
To be fair, isn't this functionally equivalent to the NSA attacks on Huawei and Chinese aircraft manufacturers over the past decade?
It is described in the page's About section (https://sunlight.live/about.html). It is called a terminator.
By first-party tracker I mean a tracker that sets a cookie on the domain that it was loaded from (e.g. website.com). A third-party tracker sets a cookie on its own domain (e.g. sketchytracker.com), thus allowing for cross-website tracking.
I can get by without protection, and it's not as though it particularly hurts; but I prefer things quieter, and it improves my mood. I often also wear it when I am working in an office environment with loud HVAC, also improves my mood.

I don't really know what would qualify as high sensitivity.
I find it's fairly common, especially with things like uBlock Origin that block privacy impacting stuff as well as advertisements.

Doubly so if you tend to use stuff like "Login with Facebook".
If all of this seems too complicated and you want an easy way to take cookies from fine / good to great, stick with your standard Tollhouse recipe, but let the dough sit in the fridge for a day or two (the linked article talks about this). Its a super easy way to give them a deep, toffee-like flavor.

Brown butter cookies are really good, but the nuttiness can be intense. Often I prefer regular creamed-butter recipes. Also, the #1 way people screw up browned-butter cookies is not letting the butter cool enough.

Also not a huge fan of the chopped chocolate. I prefer the pockets of chocolate that chips give rather than chocolate everywhere.
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I'm a complete noob when it comes to RPI, but does it emulate these games well despite not having a strong (or any?) GPU?
The information could also proliferate among the public, so they they won't succumb to these tricks as often.
It's very relevant for a discussion related to the impacts of travel and tourism.

A person's pictures showing how and where they travel is a very good indicator of their socioeconomic status since it's hard to fake, and so is a valuable part of signaling status, which many people may find useful for dating and otherwise going about their social lives.
Fear of retribution/consequences?