skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
30in is the smallest seat pitch I can sit in, anything less is anatomically impossible for me. Removing bathrooms from planes is even more insane, what do passengers do, crap in the aisles? Open the door? I still imagine a future where people are stuffed into tubes at the top and dropped out the bottom.
I was born with my widow's peak. If you look at Leonardo Dicaprio, as he's aged, his "widow peak" has gotten more severe as mine has. You're the first person I've encountered who took issue with me describing my hair as a "widow's peak that slowly got more severe". I think it conjures the proper mental image. It is a form of MPB, yes, but that's a broad category.
When I compose small "do one thing well" shell scripts together, people call it "the unix philosophy". When I compose small "do one thing well" modules together in node.js, people call it "a dependency hell".
So you are in favor of several national IDs, but just don't want one? I must say I don't follow.

Forbidding to interconnect personal files is a different issue than having an individual UID

And I would be VERY surprised if the UK government was unable to connect passport IDs and criminal records.
> Female baldness on the other hand… I don’t know what to say other than my heart goes out to you.

Women have the option of buying a wig. It's frowned upon or ridiculed when men do.
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Bolton Strid: A Stream That Swallows People
Math won't change his mind (or other politicians). I think they already know what they can do with a backdoor and why it is bad. I don't think they care.
Ask your manager / HR for support and training on how to manage.

Read up on 1:1s and ways to manage people performance I.e make sure they are working in things they are engaged with.
"jai compiler – not released yet"
We should be so lucky to get an Idiocracy outcome in this country.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmZOZjHjT5E
A more detailed look will show that it uses Timsort:

https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/v8/third_party/v8/built...
Do it anyway, but worth mentioning that the maximum penalty is _not_ $700M, but $31M. If more than 250k(ish) people sign up, the payout per-person goes down. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/rufo/status/1154872589241802753
No, that’s not possible because of population growth.
You seem to be implying it is safer to send a recording from my phone to a huge corporation where it will be heard by any number of people I don't know than sending the recording to myself, the owner of that phone.

Surely not. Perhaps that's not what you meant?
> I always thought it was a bit crazy to let the client control the computational complexity of a query (to a certain degree) as it makes query optimization really difficult.

I like the arguments in favour of GraphQL. I think that what's missing is the ability to set resource limits on queries or users. That's relatively common in relational databases. I saw it used by Oracle DBAs on a regular basis, I've seen it done in Greenplum.

Makes me wonder if Hasura would run on Greenplum, actually. Then you would essentially put backpressure on the client to send less intensive queries.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, which sponsors and sells Greenplum.
Guns, Germs and Steel is pseudo-anthropology, and pretty much all anthropologists are extremely critical of it. Please be aware of this while you read it.
Don’t assume praise you hear for another engineer means their code looks a certain way. People form impressions of technology in very emotional and hard-to-predict ways, and it can sometimes only take one thing.

People will love one thing that screws up all the time and hate another thing because it messed up once. Or because they don’t like that it’s written in JavaScript. Or whatever.

But also, if the code looked crappy but the thing worked well enough... maybe that really was good enough.
In all likelihood if I had access to Google or FB data I could get reams of personal information on ex-s and make their life hell. I could find out secrets about local business owners. I could use the data to imply all kinds of untrue things about said person just for the sake of being a dick.

There's an interesting point Dan Geer made about identities for state-level spying activities. If he were to do something illegal (shall we say) in a place he shouldn't, with the level of information collected across the whole of the network, it would be far more feasible to borrow somebody else's identity for the work than it would be to create a plausible fake person from the ground up.

Our database identities are skins for spies now, you want to be caught in that game?
Question that doesn't seem to be answered: If I take this payout now and I find out later that my data has been used and I have to spend time later to fix it, can I come back for the second part of the payout?

Edit: Question 12 on their FAQ says I can come back for more if there's damages in the future:

https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/faq
It is better to have the resolver aggregate data, than to have multiple calls from the client to do it. The earliest uses of GraphQL was as a service aggregater. I'd be curious to know where you are seeing this "advice".
> I’d be cautious drawing that line. I realize you were talking in part about grid arrangements. But computers treat samples however we teach them to. It’s uncommon and unlikely you’re writing a lot of code that truly handles pixels as finite square geometry rather than a point sample.

I thought about it and came up with a counter-example. subpixel rendering in general and ClearType in particular. The algorithm works by considering the exact arrangement of RGB squares (rectangles actually) to improve the appearance of rendered text. Theoretically subpixel rendering could increase the horizontal resolution threefold which were very useful for DPI-starved screens. Font hinting were also used to fit the text into the confines of the limited pixel grid.
Audio has to be sent to do the recognition. The only question is whether the company then turns around and saves it and sends it for further analysis. You can't track that step.
It's great with my sometimes inadequate working memory. "Hey Siri, ..." is faster and more reliable than trying to get into an app and do a thing before I forget what I was trying to do.
Crowdsourcing is being used:

https://eyewire.org/explore

“Computers can perform segmentation faster than the human eye, which cuts down the time it takes to trace neurons to a matter of minutes or hours. But they aren’t as accurate: algorithms can miss out bits of neuron or incorrectly merge two neurons into one. People are therefore still needed to check the reconstruction. Seung is tackling this requirement through crowdsourcing and, specifically, an online game called Eyewire, in which players are challenged to correct mistakes in the rough draft of a connectome. ”
It doesn't work like that. They are their own people, not puppets as you try to imply. And it's not like oligarchs even have that much power to make someone into a puppet, they are not FSB.
so..their part is to just give ideas? Just tell them that you will only partner with someone willing to invest X amount of money in the idea/product.

In my younger years, I actually partnered with a few friends that told me this. Both times ended in disaster.

The main problem is that when someone has no skin in the game, you can work for a few months on the development side of an idea and they get bored and either aren't interested in the idea when you are finished (which happened the first time for me) or the person thinks that being a business owner means that they get to dictate ideas and you complete them..and try to become your manager/boss (happened the second time).

Ideas are the easiest part. I have tons of good ideas. If someone either can't provide the cash or the work involved in implementing these ideas, they shouldn't be part of the business.

Sean Parker is a good exception to this. He's the richest 'idea guy' I've heard of.
For my money it was just an ordinary cock up.
I can help you guys with that. I will send you an email
(Safely) Creating a reminder while driving is very handy.
Only if the electrolyte dries out, and even then it will be probably covered by salt crust.
Yea, with star fleet analysts keeping tabs on crews.
Is there a way to absolutely verify that this website is, in fact, the correct one and not a scam to collect personal info? Ironically, if they had used the Equifax domain instead of equifaxbreachsettlement.com I would have felt more comfortable filling out that form.
I’ve long had the idea for a waterless toilet — think a cat’s litter box but for people — that would be required for use in desert cities.

Think it could really be a game changer.
Exactly, if people can demand this of Google and Facebook it means they can demand this of every single company! People act like FAANG are the only companies with any influence and any user data.
It seems from this article, they are also the perpetrators. This seems to be a change of tune from all the articles I've seen over the years claiming men were the ones in the majority that are cyberbullying women.
That'd be like giving CPR to dead squirrels. It seems more promising to introduce a mechanism to gradually kill off cells that aren't producing nucleotides. Though there must be easier symptoms of senescence to key off of.

Once the squirrel starts to stink, bury it.
Same topic discussed a day ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20533576 (511 points/227 comments)
There are other means of backdooring rather than setting key size.

I'm not saying its a good idea, but there are means to make cryptosystems that are breakable by the NSA but not anyone else. Consider the concerns around the Dual_EC random number generator that was pushed by the NSA. People believe that the NSA has a backdoor into that random number generator due to how the constants were generated. There are similar concerns for various ECC curves.

So the government could mandate that industry uses their specific RNG or specific ECC curves. Effectively giving them a backdoor that nobody else has.

It's disingenuous to argue its a bad idea because its impossible to build. It's also a bad argument strategy, as once someone learns that it can be built they will assume that you're lying to push your agenda and not trust further arguments you put forward.
You have to look at the architecture. They are using a dedicated switching chip that has multiple gigabit lanes. While routing is a different path in software most home and SOHO implementations have very few routes to deal with. That being said the switching can offload the majority of those lookups. It's far more than powerful enough to handle what it states given its architecture.
Being on a language group that gets routinely ignored, in spite of being the 6th mostly spoken one, is what triggers this kind of remarks from me.

Actually I must admit that at least they did look beyond North America for the 2nd English and French variants, and not the usual American English and the rest comes when it comes, if ever.
> That, after all, is how we’ve ended up with anti vaxxers, a resurgence in largely cured infectious diseases, and many other medical and social ailments of our modern age (politics anyone?)

Medicine is great when it works, but sometimes it causes the diseases they supposedly treat.

Psychiatry is a case study in ideological capture resulting in iatrogenic illness. My girlfriend was misdiagnosed, but since they use the courts to force her to take the drugs that actually make people suicidal (common result of anti-psychotics) and die of liver failure (my aunt's friend), there's no way for her to escape.

The tragedy of Psychiatry is that the physiology of the conditions are largely understood, but this understanding didn't reach the practitioners working with patients.

People are drawn to "alternative medicine" when their mainstream medicine practitioners shrug their shoulders. In the United States, standard insurance-based medicine is a wealth-transfer operation: it's fantastically expensive approach to rendering needed services.
Yes, but... with the appropriate crates you can write a 50-line Rust version of the same program that runs, for all intents and purposes, as fast as the C version, and more correctly and safely, while requiring little more time than the shell version to test and debug.
Yeah you are probably right. I think the last version of Windows that runs well and has a proper floppy driver is XP-64 bit (basically Windows Server 2003 64bit).

OpenBSD will probably work well if I swap out the Geforce 8800 GPU with an AMD GPU of some sort, I am sure I could get a relatively decent one second hand.
RCE through open PHP-FPM ports
https://lobste.rs/s/pnwxuv/rce_through_open_php_fpm_ports
As an Australian, describing what the AFP did when raiding the ABC was intended as intimidation and nothing else. The report on the actions of the Australian military forces that may constitute war crimes. They know who leaked the information, he is already indicted for trial.

Similarly, and in the same week, raids by the AFP on a reporter from News Corporation, shows that your slur of ABC management as being "far left" is complete rubbish.

The management of the ABC has not changed. Ita Buttrose is the chair of the ABC board, which specifically does not involve itself in editorial decisions.

So Australians do not "trust" their own government, particularly after the various "anti terrorist" legislation that has creeped and allows ASIO etc to detain people for increasing periods of time without charge, or even notification that they are held (ie no habeas corpus).

The ACCC is one of the few Australian regulators that actually act on behalf of their stakeholders, ie the consumers of Australia.

Other regulators and law enforcement have either suffered extensive "regulatory capture" (particularly APRA and ASIC) or mission creep (AFP, "Border Force" etc).
Well that’s not good. Who is doing the bullying? Let’s see:

> Lauren Paul, founder of the Kind Campaign, said 90% of the stories she hears while working in schools are of girls bullied by other girls.

Hmmmm. “Bearing the brunt” feels like a bad way of putting it, if that’s the case. That phrase implies it’s coming from somewhere else.
For reading, maybe, but it's a lot harder to contribute something meaningful if you don't know the context to start with.
Trade secrets are often legislative creatures too, especially in the US where it is within the authority of state legislatures to regulate.

In Commonwealth countries it typically arose from equity (through the doctrine of confidence) but has also been subject to tinkering. In Australia it's a mix of confidence and corporations law, the former from equity and the later from §51(xx).

It's not clear to me if a trade secret would be considered property under the just terms clause. I'm sure various law firms will make a mint advising Google, Facebook et al on that question.
> Our database identities are skins for spies now, you want to be caught in that game?

If it means free video sharing (YouTube), photo hosting and messaging (Facebook), and career network (LinkedIn), yes, I'll gladly pay the small probability I'm collateral damage of a spy game.
I see the focus on practicality as a bit misguided. Even if it could be done, giving the government (and its friends) covert access to all information is dystopian.

Looking at the recent history of pretty much any country (including the US, let alone Russia or China, or North Korea) should show what a terrible idea this is.

Edit: It wouldn't even improve safety. Imagine how convenient it would be for the military-industrial-prison complex to know everything about every anti-war activist. The increased oppressive capacity would more than make up for any decrease in crime.

That's all assuming Americans have turned fully utilitarian, and discarded any pesky ideals such as 'freedom' that might further tilt this analysis.
Is anyone thinking about taking them to small claims court? I remembering reading people were getting around 8k just for showing up.
A lot of people here commenting on how Barr won't care/etc. I don't see that as the point for this discussion.

In my view; If "we"[1] are to win, these types of information sharing/etc posts are essential. As commenters have pointed out, Barr won't care about this logic. In fact, there is no logic that Barr and his ilk will care about. Yet there are hundreds of thousands of people who simply have no idea. They are not uncaring or malicious, crypto is a complex topic and they're not computer people. Barr and his group will (and have!) spin crypto to be something terrorists and pedophiles solely use to get away with evil. We need to have equal, if not greater, "counter spin" to at least combat the propaganda.

Call it educating the public or call it propaganda, it doesn't matter. We may not win if we publish articles like this, but we will certainly lose if "we" are the only ones that care about this topic. When the game is played on such a large scale we can't depend on people being informed, we need to bring people information.

I don't intend to discuss how effective information on this subject will be to the "common" person; but I think we need to try. Lest we lose crypto with thunderous applause.

[1]: People who care about crypto and privacy/etc.

edit: Many typos. Coffee, save me.
https://lobste.rs/s/q3ryag/goodbye_docker_purging_is_such_sw...
Vectors with different orientation but the same magnitude are the same vector (the zero vector.) Observe that if you add a zero magnitude vector and a unit vector, the result is just the same unit vector. It follows that the normalization scheme you described can't be a function on vectors (since you can "normalize" two equal vectors but get two different results.)
It also depends on whether there are funds left.
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Why play the victim before anybody has attacked you? I agree, that's my favorite thing he's done. He can be a bad orange man on the par too.
There’s a few: incinerating and composting.

And other very low water designs, like in jetliners.

Toilets aren’t too problematic: you can use treated sewage for irrigation or golf courses.

It’s the losses to evaporation (farming) that really consumes water from an area.
A year ago I was doing CrossFit 6 days a week. Then I started getting more and more tired. I developed ulcerative colitis and now I alternate between insomnia and sleeping 12 hours a day.

I think years of physical stress from crossfit triggered latent disease. I'm still trying to get my body working normally again.

Yoga and CBD are helping.
Yes, you can get to it from FTC.gov:

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/eq...
You can't claim the $125 unless you assert you currently have credit monitoring and will for >= 6 months. You can't just go and claim $125 without lying or giving your info to some additional org to enroll in credit monitoring.
Very nice photos!

How did you handle food, money etc?

But honestly, I would probably be too chicken shit to do a tour like that.
> The AFP raided the ABC to ensure accuracy of a report about military action that was released under the reign of a far left management.

A police raid for biased reporting is not a proportionate response. I don't care how biased and towards what wing.
Weird title- the story isn’t really about reduction in leg room (seat pitch) it’s reduction in seat width.

Cebu Pacific is getting A330 aircraft with a 3-3-3 configuration in economy, instead of the 2-4-2 configuration that most airlines use for that aircraft. The result is seats that are only 16.5” wide. I already find the 17.5” wide seats on the 787 to be very uncomfortable for long-haul flights, so I can’t imagine squeezing into 16.5” seats.
When you're a small business owner, and you have potential customers calling your cell, it's polite and professional to state who you are.
Computers Should Have Lap and Quiet Modes
Agreed. Possibly Equifax consciously chose a "scammy-sounding" domain to deter individuals from filing a claim.
A lot of credit cards offer credit monitoring now a days.
Mass, not really size. The smaller the object relative to earth, the more its course is changed by earths gravity.
They don't deliberately hide, but (as mentioned in the article) they can vary dramatically in how visible they are to us over time if, for example, they have a highly eccentric orbit.
Most banks offer some sort of credit monitoring service, so you could leverage that.
If you have a credit card (I can say for sure, any Amex card and any Capital One Card), and you plan to keep those cards for 6 months, then you satisfy the requirement
Interestingly Estonian might be nowadays an exception to the trend you mentioned and used the other names earlier. People call wolves and bears respectively "hunt" and "karu" instead of "susi" (the same as to what the Finns use primarily I think) and "mesikäpp" ("honey paw" which has strong connotations to "likes to eat honey") nowadays.
Is Credit Karma considered credit monitoring? They email me when any events take place.
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There are so many things wrong with this I don't know where to begin.

While I agree with the premise that we should make security breaches as painful and expensive as possible for negligent parties such as Equifax, the manner of this claim feels completely off.

For starters, I have to submit information to a 3rd party, and that in fact will start a process that I, as a victim (potentially, at least) of Equifax's negligence, must complete. Moreover, even the actual damages I will be entitled to is quite unknown. I realize a lot of this is due to class action law, but it's still woefully insufficient.

Furthermore, reading through the fine print, at least according to other analysis I've read about it, you also have to enroll or already be enrolled in some kind of identity protection program (such as what Equifax offers themselves). So, I would to have to opt-in to a system I am trying to stay out of in the first place.

And why do I even have to confirm my info? If Equifax has it already, then they should reach out to me, as a victim of their negligence.

There is more, but these are the most glaring issues. I realize there's not a lot that can be done, but these factors give me a strong distaste for this and I think we are deluded in thinking this will actually amount to anything more than a slap on this wrist or even cost them much of anything. It's going to cost them up to $31 million based on people's claims. It likely won't cost them more by me filling out the claims, but it will cost me as I'll have to become further entrenched in a monitoring system that got us into this mess in the first place.
lol why tho
Certification mostly looks at the behaviour, how you get there is your IP for the most part

For example, the regulator doesn't care (much) how you built your wing, but it does care that's able to withstand 150% of the maximum expected forces.

You can have parts done by different manufacturers (but to the same spec) and this is sometimes done on purpose in redundancy settings so that unknown bugs in one model are less likely to show up in a different model.
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