skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you think they need to make a compelling argument that actual evidence exists and is being denied to them before we all install backdoors?
Though probably a base with a couple convenient small factors is useful. Especially 2, since parity (even/odd) is so useful.

Past cultures thought even more factors were good, e.g. sexagesimal with 2, 2, 3, and 5. It means that e.g. the expansion of 1/3rd and 1/6th don't form a repeating fraction in sexagesimal notation.
Very sad news. Took one of his graduate courses, he was great.
Another attack by the old guard trying to use the AI bogeyman to transform the internet into a place they can control.
I wonder what the number are like if the data is filtered to person of colour only.
$10 for everything that was already produced in history? Sure.

$10 to fund equivalent production of new movies and TV shows? Impossible. Profits in the media industry aren’t that high, so reducing the amount of incoming monthly money to less than a single movie ticket or 1/6 of a cable subscription means that they can’t afford to produce nearly as much content as they do right now.
$437K for Sneakers? Hollywood's Obsession with Kicks: “People Are Going Crazy”
That particular pattern looks like it came out of the Hyperface project.[1]

Also here's an actual purchaseable link at RedBubble [2]. No affiliation with the seller (nor does it look like they're connected to the original project).

[1] https://ahprojects.com/hyperface/

[2] https://www.redbubble.com/people/naamiko/works/24714049-anti...
I am pessimistic but still a little hopeful that we will develop good policy for moving into the future. Getting some form of fare distribution of the technology/ productivity boon will be difficult. I like the article’s mention of Soshana Zuboff’s “Surveillance Capitalism” which I recommend but if you are short of reading time you can get her message in digest form on YouTube.

Even though the documentary “Living in the Future’s Past” is about the environment, it hits great points on how our society is in need of a reset, that we need to all decide what we can do to help society and have a net positive effect on the world. Jeff Bridges and his friends did a fantastic job producing this documentary, I strongly recommend it.
The article seems to really gloss over the fact that the "escape the room" concept was a media trope or even subgenre before this industry exploded. The history discussion skips the years that the concept really started becoming popular in media. The best-known examples are probably in the Saw franchise, but it's also a popular genre in casual gaming. As far as I remember, it really took off ~15 years ago with Toshimitsu Takagi's Flash games (Crimson Room, Viridian Room, White Chamber; the latter should not be confused with the sci-fi horror game the white chamber). There are other semi-popular franchises that use the concept within a larger framework, as with some of the Saw sequels (Zero Escape, Danganronpa).

This, in turn, probably has a less direct relationship to films and TV episodes that focus on a single room to save budget or create psychological tension (as with the original Saw), without escape necessarily being a major theme.
That would only really work for the distributor of these shirts, as it would add enough random/inaccurate data to make the real data meaningless. If you made your own with your plate on it, it'd just help the cops identify where you were even when not in your car.

It's very unlikely, unless you mass distributed a shirt with your plate, that you could inject enough junk data for your plate to make distinguishing the real data impossible. And while junk plates may add a tiny bit of additional data storage, it's unlikely to actually disadvantage the cops in any way pulling up the data they want on real cars.

They have no real reason to blacklist a plate just because someone put it on a shirt.
There needs to be some sort of PSA that VPNs != Privacy. Having a VPN won't do jack if the protocol includes identifying information.
Encryption is no longer generally classified as munitions in the US.

Here's a link to start with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Lies: https://graykey.grayshift.com/
It’s official, Chrome is moving the EV indicator in Chrome 77
I'm betting many flavors of Linux running on many flavors of laptop.
They kept telling me I could not leave. If I knew how long it would take I would have called my lawyer to confirm, but it was always, “Just 20 more minutes and the doctor will be here”

It was especially frustrating because I’d been asked to show up to the morning appointment fasted, and of course there was no food in the ER, but I guess it was more important to run up the tab.

I’d prefer a Mexican hospital any day.
Do you have direct experience or knowledge of this? Cause this doesn't square with my anecdotal knowledge or my sense of the bay area labor market. For instance levels.fyi quotes total comp for mid level engineers in the 250 range, which tails much closer to Google, Facebook, etc.
I don't really observed some dominant hardware anymore. From the software side, Linux of course is very much dominant now. Otherwise you see a bit MacOSX, and also OpenBSD, FreeBSD, or more exotic things. Windows is rare, and people even feel ashamed to show that they use Windows. But that was more extreme earlier, and slowly becomes more accepted. Maybe more now with Windows Subsystem for Linux.
This is absolutely absurd. We're talking about the US here, so it would be murder-acres, and that just sounds like a country club you really shouldn't join.
I would have loved to go to camp again this time but they only distributed tickets through hacker spaces, none of which I am affiliated with. Sad.
Nextcloud is top notch. The kanban board is adequate, the file synced is fantastic and the tasks, calendar, contacts syncs are essential.
P++ FAQ
Kinda a crazy ratio, but not -really-.

If you have modelmaking tools measured in mm, and a bunch of legacy dimensions of trains and buildings that are often round numbers of feet, it becomes tempting to use a scale like this. After all, you tend to get round numbers of mm to make things...

It might be convenient to make a starmap where e.g. 10 light years is 1 cm. Yes, the actual dilation factor is strange, but it's pretty easy to plot a set of cartesian coordinates measured in light years on a 1 cm grid.
Can, and has. [^1]

These are the documented instances, but it can be difficult to determine when such systems are being used in the first place:

Muckrock and Rutgers have been asking governing bodies (via FOIA) whether they're using automated decision-making systems and, if so, how. Many reject their request. [^2]

The practice of "parallel construction" could further conceal their use.

[1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2166207-discriminating-...
[2]: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?projects=84
It’s fascinating to see that we’re _already_ at a point where the AI alignment problem («what morality do we want our automated systems to have») is becoming a practical reality, long before AGI or self-improving AI appears to be imminent.

I think this is a clear, contempirary demonstration that philosophizing around the use of AI (even today) has practical benefits beyond the practice of philosophy as an inherently worthwhile species-wide intellectual pursuit.
Actually the general consensus in the US government would be that everything kills people and must be regulated by people who don't understand it and who have conflicts of interest. That way people will stop dying.
Should gun rights advocates promote relating privacy rights to gun rights, I suppose that could spoil the perception of privacy rights among large numbers of US voters.

Maybe, in that scenario, gun-rights voters end up carrying privacy-rights US policy influence, but then we might also have a lot of other US people thinking privacy is not for them, in their own day-to-day lives.

Politics and perceptions are way outside my expertise, but things like this sometimes come to mind when working on technical stuff with privacy&security implications.
The anticlickbait filter probably ate the 51. (It's a false positive.) I'm not sure about the capital "B".

The guidelines recommend to use the original title, but some minor variations are tolerated. I'd recommend "51 Pegasi b – extrasolar planet Bellerophon". In this cases you can send an email to the mods and they sometimes agree and fix the title hn@ycombinator.com
That was kind of true, until the existence of the communist USSR, and the great depression and it's results(among them WW2), made the ruling class in Europe/US pay more attention to workers.

Do we need to pass through that kind of trouble in order to pay attention ?
Jeffrey Epstein dead in apparent suicide
It takes an incredible skill set to create a short story and hold a reader's attention, all the more so when science-fiction is involved. Given the relative paucity of his output, he clearly approaches his work like a master craftsman - slowly building and removing all the excess.
So....literally the same as in Poland then. That's heavy enforcement?
It's only a handful of questions. We tell people it will take 15 minutes and no one has said no yet.
Jeffrey Epstein 'found dead in cell'
Ah, I meant to mention that. Thanks for adding.
i was thinking a blend of physical and virtual but that may increase the cost of building the escape room significantly.
It's all about 6 for me:

5 mi * 0.6 + 5 = 8 km

8 km * 0.6 = 4.8 mi

Or just use Frink [1]!

[1] https://frinklang.org/
or 355 / 113.
I memorized 113355. good enough for a lot.
initially got it from
https://colorforth.github.io/pi.htm
Mathematicians' way:

Let a = distance in km;
b = distance in mi; and
φ = the conversion factor from mi to km.

Then, a = φb.
To be fair, hardly anyone uses openbsd compared to kubernetes. And last I checked, most openbsd services are disabled by default, so it makes it hard to break in, but unusable in its default state.
5G review: I tried 5G. It will change your life – if you can find it
I don't have a custom decrapification script because my reinstall frequency isn't high enough to warrant the effort of maintaining one, especially when you consider the rate at which Windows 10 behavior is changing these days. A Group Policy rule that works one day will be ignored the next.

So, I just spend a week or so resenting the fact my time has to be wasted because Microsoft has a veritable runtime monopoly in the form of DirectX, and it uses that to shove its anti-consumer, anti-power user, anti-customization singular vision down my throat.

Once that week is up, I've by then made all the usual registry hacks to Explorer, disabled all the invasive privacy crap, and otherwise made it a reasonably habitable experience.
> the tedious boomer philosophy that time off of any kind is something to be avoided at all costs

Not just that, you're stealing from the company. I've seriously met people with this mentality.
Truepic Awarded for Its Truth Tech Capability Combatting Deepfakes at In-Q-Tel
Yes, me too. It's getting too famous, and too much people want to go, and the space they rented just did not allow for more people. Not sure how to resolve this. They should maybe get some bigger space, but maybe that it not so simple. There are some smaller events (also organized by CCC) which can maybe be an alternative. Maybe the next Dutch camp (next after https://sha2017.org/) does not have this problem (I hope).
Storable liquid propellants are very toxic (Dinitrogen tetroxide, hydrazine derivatives.)
Same weekend as Ann Nelson, a physicist at the University of Washington. Both died in outdoor accidents; Ann stepped on a loose rock while downclimbing a gulley and that was the ball game.

I am a voracious reader of climbing accident reports and hope his family or climbing partners decide to publish what happened. All I've read is that his "rope snapped" which isn't really something that ever happens; cut yes, snapped no.
Personally I've never encountered such a thing though I'm sure it happens. Under most circumstances, I expect my reaction would be "Sorry but I booked a trip." I would be surprised to see a company reimburse significant personal expenses if that happened.
They are _only_ used for security, and now that it's "memorable name", it's not false information anyway. If the bank were using it for any other purpose, such as a credit check, that would be a different matter, and quite well might not be legal.
"Memory-safe languages include Go, Rust, Python, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, and Swift"

An interesting list. They left out C# and PHP if it's supposed to be the most popular languages.
dingoegret: your sibling comment here is dead.

Anyway, “Persia” (Persis) comes from the Greek version of “Pars”. Persians call their language “Farsi”, from the Arabic version, “Fars”. These all have the same origin, and date back millennia.
I’m used to 0 and [] being falsy. Upsides and downsides to Clojure’s choice here?
> Just enjoy being alive! :)

Telling this is like telling "Just believe in God". Both would be solutions, if it was that simple to format human minds.

Nowadays, the highest rate of suicides is no longer among the young men. In Western countries, the maximum rate is for elder people (65+). Another (correlated) change of demography is that women are much more prone to suicide then a century ago. To these old people that feel that their life is behind them, that they have seen enough of the world so they don't expect anything really new, that their joys have dulled with repetition, is there a universal way to enchant their lives again? I doubt it. Some people will feel dampened at 80, some at 40, and others never will. This can certainly be mitigated, but probably not much.
It would likely be more expensive, but it seems plausible that it would be possible to manufacture shirts that each have a random license plate number. That would at least make it so that they would have to make the blacklisting local to the area where a given shirt owner regularly travels.
I’ve always wondered why no one is researching motors that use electric fields instead of magnetic?
Last weekend was a terrible weekend for physics. Ann Nelson, an outstanding physicist at UW, also died in a mountaineering accident.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.2019080...
was that the thing that really stressed her out? or was every decision second-guessed once he got back? "handle things while I'm away" isn't as easy as it sounds if you're not supported in the decisions you make.
Just to clarify, are you saying the Huawei claim is (potentially) FUD?
TANSTAAFL. What is the catch of using Google Flights? What would Google do with this data?
That’s what the Juggalo makeup is for
I was excited about ESPN+ when it launched, since I was hoping to watch Monday night football, and ACC college basketball. However, neither of those seems to be present. Reading reviews, they say things like: "The list of ESPN+ live content reads like a group of castoffs: programming not valuable enough to appear on one of ESPN’s eight cable networks.... There will be no Monday Night Football, and neither of ESPN’s two weekly NBA games will appear on the platform. Plus, no live event that is on one of ESPN’s eight cable networks will be on ESPN+." (from https://www.theringer.com/sports/2018/4/2/17190026/espn-plus...)

Honestly, account sharing seems to be wave of the future. Eg, my buddy keeps his cable, I give him my Netflix and Amazon logins, and I get his HBO and ESPN logins.
Hulu has ads in this package. And of course ESPN+, but that’s because of live sports. So 2/3 have ads.
Hmm. I'm curious why TSA went through a thorough screening. Also, that strip search sounds illegal. Then again. You have no rights if you're in ICE/Border Patrol's custody.
> in the US, if you're sick you have to burn leave, the concept of "you're sick, stay home" doesn't really exist

As always this depends where you work. There's reasons for removing "sick days", that aren't in the employees interest. I take 2-5 per year. For some people, if they have 10, they'd use 10. Kinda like how "unlimited vacation", can mean less vacation, as people don't want to be that guy, or hurt their career.
I went on this tour and can’t recommend it enough. Absolutely fantastic and extremely interesting. Pass on my congratulations to your friend!
That would likely run into problems with anti-mask laws. However, it might be possible to either skirt around it with socially acceptable masks (e.g. smog masks) or to get away with it if one is a member of a more privileged group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_laws
To me, it sounds like the kind of phrase an author would use - the sort of playfulness you see sometimes to mix things up.
>Why is it important that the FBI can access that person’s phone?

To establish legal precedent.
PSA: here in the SF bay, auto parts stores all have oil recycling receptacles. Check with them before you go and put it down the drain, surfactant or not. For other substances, there are also hazmat acceptance sites around, although they seem to keep annoying hours.
Google tracking phones even when they are disconnected? (2018) [video]
With a digital license plate it should be possible to display a random number or no number while in those locations(work or mall parking lots, your driveway, etc.,) where there is no legal requirement to show the plate number. Alternatively the digital plate could be configured to flash the plate number at an interval longer than the typical plate reader vehicle takes to pass your parked vehicle. That would at least cut down on the capture rate of government and auto loan companies that cruise parking lots which is a good portion of all scanning activity. Unless the digital plate is reporting it's location via cell network.
They’ve also added a lot of content. Netflix of 2010 or 2011 didn’t have a ton of streaming available.
Is there any real reason to believe there were any?
Because as of 2019 the same errors as in early 1980's keep being repeated, regardless how many tools have been developed to tame C and it's derivatives.

It is so unrealistic that Android is following up Solaris footsteps.

Google has announced that ARM memory tagging extensions will be required in future Android versions.
You can remain a backend developer and still have a good career & money, especially considering mobile apps need APIs which are purely a backend thing.

But if you want to make a clone of HN, you don't need much frontend experience. Any backend framework and basic HTML & CSS skill is all you need. Don't waste your time with client-side Javascript frameworks and the (IMO insane) toolchains for such a simple project.

Speaking of IDEs, JetBrains' products are good. If you use multiple languages I suggest you buy the "Ultimate" edition which is IntelliJ IDEA which can support all the other languages with (official) plugins as opposed to language-specific versions like PyCharm which are cheaper but only focus on one language.
I think Disney themselves have said they want to incur heavy losses for 2-4 years on streaming. Key word “heavy”.
Image is broken.
Names are what people call things. If enough people call it the Emperor Norton Bridge then that is its name. So do so.

In 1769 London opened a bridge which it had named after an important political figure, William Pitt the Elder. But almost nobody called it "William Pitt Bridge". It was in a district people called "Blackfriars" because there had once been a monastery there, so they called it "Blackfriars Bridge". For the modern replacement they didn't even bother, it mentions Pitt on a plaque somewhere, but from the outset everyone has called it Blackfriars Bridge and so that's its name.

It is rude to do this to people, although it will work. But for inanimate objects this is how you change their name.
0 and [] are real and meaningful values that have different meanings than nil/null (in what I assume you're referring to as Python) or (in JavaScript) undefined. They should be treated as such.

(That JS coerces the empty string to false is also bad.)
Is the dragon book worth reading? Most compilers nowadays are completely different from what's discussed there.

Like, SSA form is barely covered in that book.
"If you can be sure that the input comes from a trustworthy source"

Perl's "taint"[1] capability is pretty interesting in this space. Do other languages have something similar?

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Taint-mode

"You may not use data derived from outside your program to affect something else outside your program--at least, not by accident. All command line arguments, environment variables, locale information (see perllocale), results of certain system calls (readdir(), readlink(), the variable of shmread(), the messages returned by msgrcv(), the password, gcos and shell fields returned by the getpwxxx() calls), and all file input are marked as "tainted"."

Unrelated rant: Sometime recently mobile chrome omits any part of a url after a # when you copy/share the url. Grrr.
Why these praying mantises are wearing itty-bitty 3D glasses
Or so they know it's still a long way.
Wait, so then is Mike Pence going to run in 2020?
You put up an argument which you haven't acknowledged was vacuous, and from that extrapolated that I somehow must want backdoors even when I clearly said "Fuck, No" to them in an earlier post[1] which you must have read because you replied to it[2]

Honest question, what am I supposed to make of this?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20661590

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20661645
Honestly after this last reply I discredit everything you say in future as well.
The trouble is that `if(value)` or `value && ..` ends up getting used as an idiomatic shorthand for "if value is present" even in languages (such as javascript and python) where 0 is falsey. Because most of the time it works, so people do it. And then inevitably get bugs when the value happens to be 0.

This can get increasingly hard to reason about the more datatypes you add which interpret 0-ish values as falsey -- as there's always the temptation to do, for 'consistency' with integer truthiness, e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/590299/ about the python behaviour of dates being falsey in the first second after midnight.

If `null` and `false` are the only falsey values (ala clojure, ruby, elixir etc), that's a rule that's really easy to internalise and reason about, so you never have to worry about things like whether your data type might be falsey in the first second after midnight (and also `if(values)` is actually a correct idiom).
Video game crunch in western companies sounds comparably bad TBH. Search for all the drama around unending crunch hell of Fortnight development. If anything 997 seems to formalize and provide and at least provides upper limit on exploitation.
Cultural schmultural. They're in a place where it makes sense to do it, they're pragmatic, they do it.

The US industrial revolution was kick-started by IP theft as well: https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur...

Would you do any different if you were in charge of a country and your people need to eat? "Sorry starving peasants, we must respect international IP law"?
May I ask, how much time have you spent I'm China?
I'm also used to 0 being false. A possible upside to this is that you can use multiplication and addition as boolean AND and OR, which might not seem that useful, but I remember that BASIC on a ti99/4a had neither AND nor OR, but boolean expressions evaluated to 0 or 1, so you could use this trick.

Instead of

if x = 5 and y = 7 then goto 10

use

if (x = 5) * (y = 7) then goto 10

Good to know when you're 11 years old typing in some program from a magazine meant for another computer that had AND and OR.