skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The militaries' stewardship of nuclear weapons really puts the modern state surveillance panopticon into perspective. Collateral damage of tens of thousands of civilians accidentally dying in a fireball because these weapons "had" to be developed quickly so "the evil guys" didn't get ahead. And a similar dynamic where only civilian oversight can impart prudence, but the military works to escape any such oversight, so the only check is leaked anecdotes decades later.

Our trajectory seems bleak nowadays, but really we should be thankful the powermongers are just playing with data rather than inventing new weapons of mass destruction. With hope that topic will resolve itself with pervasive encryption.
There is really no such thing as 'instantaneous frequency response'. For any frequency to meaningfully exist, you need data for the corresponding period. e.g. If the audio contains content to 20hz, you need at least 1/40th to 1/20th of a second of data for that to materialize.

Put another way - what you are proposing it looping the buffer which is what some devices do, portable CD players were kinda notorious for it and it doesn't sound much better than cracks or pops. Computers also have a tendency to fall into buffer looping when the system hangs (which is likely the result of the failure mode of realtek codecs).
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Great. I also think that Houston will win the World Series again (sorry, LA).
> Aren't there also tax strategies/techniques that offer benefits from these investments when they fail as well? That both making and losing money in the VC/FinEng context each have their tax advantages (in the US)?

Nope. It is always better to have income and pay taxes on it than to have losses and not pay taxes on the losses when we are dealing with entities over certain ( rather small ) size.
If only 20% of men had no close friends the problem would be much smaller. My personal guess would be closer to 1/2.
Do you think that there is a point in having boarders between countries? If so how should they be enforced? If a 17 year "child" crosses the boarder should they be detained (ie. kept in prison until deportation) or should they be allowed to walk free in the US. If a child and parent both crossed the border should only the parents be detained leaving the child to fend for itself in America? Should they be detained in the same cell? ie keep children detained with adult.

I agree that keeping children in cages is not good, but there are solutions. If ice had a bigger budget maybe it could have more beds, larger cells, better food. I don't see how removing enforcement is a solution.
If forking a public github repo is unethical we are all screwed.
Doing it with discrete components is of limited use, but there are various companies working on doing it on-chip.

(Don't forget that analog systems have limited gain-bandwidth and noise immunity)
> Aren't there also tax strategies/techniques that offer benefits from these investments when they fail as well?

The Vision Fund will have a $10bn capital loss to write off against future capital gains taxes. But those losses are worth a hell of a lot less than $10bn in cash.

WeWork has no federal guarantees and basically no assets. Its downside scenario is grim for shareholders. The only one walking away with cash might be Adam, though I expect he'll burn a good amount of it defending against litigious shareholders and possibly prosecutors.
Any earlyish startup (smaller than a certain size) that's facing cash flow problems during a larger economic downturn would likely just move to a remote-only model, maybe with very short-term rentals for high-stakes meetings.

Do you know any companies that have made this kind of transition?
It seems too late for this to make much of a difference in IPO valuation for investors (really SoftBank) to get the exit they want. Neumann's actions may have been a catalyst, but now everyone is really questioning the "tech startup" valuation and unit economics.
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I know lots and lots of people in very similar situations to what Mediterraneo described.

I’m not sure if I’d describe it as common, but having a partner who either directly, or passively aggressively, undermines your ability to maintain external friendships is a very real phenomenon.

It’s certainly not a healthy pattern, but it’s also pretty understandable. Relationships of all sorts need care and feeding. Sometimes intimate partner priorities push out friendships.

Different people experience this as more or less of a tragedy.
Strangely praises Google for "defining responsible rules", while condemning Facebook for setting up a more formal process for deciding what's okay to take down.

Can't help but think that may relate to having worked on this while at Google (former associate general counsel to Google).
It's actually something to appreciate about Google: given the massive incentives to optimize for ad-clicks, they do an OK job at giving you the results you want. If they followed short-term incentives, they'd be like OutBrain.
Thanks for sharing that; I hadn't heard about it before, but I've been wondering what I can actively do. Browsing r/collapse has had me thinking about at least joining/creating a community and growing food.
Detaining and deporting people illegally crossing a border is far, far from comparable to the deliberate extermination an religious minority. There are good objections to make regarding treatment of migrants at the border, but this kind of extreme hyperbole seriously cuts away at the credibility of those arguments.
Love this guy - I don't think most people realize how extraordinarily rich the natural life is in the Bay Area. I went on a tour of a restored part of the marshes and it was incredible - Ospreys and Seals in the South Bay!
Tucker Carlson talking about this is a good outcome. This will only highlight the power that open source and open source contributors have. Lol, a political kerfuffle over an devops FOSS project.

Make working with ICE a toxic asset. Make people not proud of working for ICE contractors.
Rereading my comment now, it looks a bit confusing. I would think that it would be hard for the state to convict him. Generally a threat must pass a higher standard of scrutiny when directed at a public official. E.G. a judge.[1] Threading to dig up skeletons in the courts closet, while not very nice, doesn’t suggest that the guy intended to cause physical harm to the judge and is well within the realm of political banter. Even the case report didn’t find intent of physical harm to the judge. Also, there was a guy a couple years ago that made much more threading remarks on social media that the Supreme Court said were ok. [2]

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

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonis_v._United_States
Tinder and Mozilla have the same score of 33%. I don't agree with that.
Tinder willingly shares very, very personal data along with your contacts (assuming without said contact consent).
Or make the rank adjustable to some personal criteria that matches different privacy expectations.
“any of the mindfulness courses given by our group during the last 3 years”

This is exactly the kind of bias that makes a study questionable. Is there any good literature tracking such issues, or list of studies with such problems?
I'm not an expert but I wonder if this error comes up in the case of the HTTPS handshake not being able to agree on a protocol -- one side of the transaction is trying to insist on a crypto protocol that's out of date or a little too fashion-forward?

Just a thought.
> literally concentration camps

They're not death camps but they are literally concentration camps.
Sure, that can all be true, but is there really enough "startup" business to really justify the growth expectations, or even the current valuation?
Honestly - I find it difficult to take you seriously when the initial section of your comment is bashing his opinion. If you have a competing opinion or just don’t like their’s you can then make a rebuttal (as you did in section A). Your entire initial comment and then section B makes your argument no better than his. Let’s stop bashing and be constructive, regardless of whether you like/agree with someone’s comment or not
The release from 9 years ago was not even close to what MySQL was offering at the time.
It's a bit disappointing that community and belief system have to be intertwined. If one changes (you change beliefs, or your local community doesn't suit you), the other suffers (you lose your friends, or you have to pretend to believe something you don't).

I used to be devoutly religious through my mid twenties. In hindsight that was a mistake for me personally because the community surrounding that religion didn't suit me, and eventually discovered flaws in the belief system that led me to become an atheist. I missed many opportunities in life by trying to make that religion work for me for far too long.

So it's true that if you find a belief and community that work for you in the same place that it can be great, but I wish there were more options like that independent of belief.
What do you think ICE is doing with over $700 per person per night that they would do better with even more money?
Using children as a way to take advantage of existing policy is a well known strategy employed by the cartels to get across the border, which is what initially precipitated the separation policy under the Obama Administration. While, sure, ICE having more funding would be good it's still just treating a symptom of a much larger problem (growing strength of Cartel activity and human trafficking).
There is an interesting bit here about exporting the problem: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/DmZ6C9zSsR/road_to_clean_en...

Regarding China: "It’s the world’s biggest burner of coal, but it’s also the biggest global investor in renewables."

Keep in mind that China is the world's factory and a lot of services (IT etc.) are performed in India, so they are not just national emissions but emissions that we have offshored.
Should mom-and-pop computer shops just pirate Windows? After all, they are just promoting Microsoft's ecosystem.

If the license requires contribution (code for GPL, cash for Windows), abide by the license.

Of course, if some companies give away their code using non freedom-preserving licenses and get cannibalized by other larger companies, it's just the free market punishing the ignorant.
I went to the homepage and ctrl-clicked a company card (Mozilla) to open the details in a new tab. Instead, the site jacked my ctrl-click and instead tried to navigate to the link in the same tab. Middle-clicking does not work at all.

It then went to an error page instead of loading the details for Mozilla, but while it's an interesting idea I'm not sure how useful it is. I don't usually create an account on a website unless I have to do so, and the privacy policy is nonnegotiable. So why would I want to check what their privacy policy is?

I only give personal data to websites when I have to (e.g. to services that work or school use) or if I already trust the company to not do anything shady with it (Mozilla has done some sketchy stuff but I believe they won't leak my passwords).

And for websites where participation is more optional, like HN or Reddit, you don't usually need to give much personal data anyway.

Edit: the website is fully working now. Mozilla has had one security breach where emails and hashed passwords were leaked, in 2014. At the bottom the sentence breakdown is 2.5/12/22% concerning/mild/friendly. Meanwhile Reddit has no breaches, but keeps your messages forever and shares data with ad companies. Their sentence breakdown at the bottom is 3.3/23/9%. Overall, the AI rates Mozilla at 33% and Reddit at 41%. That doesn't really make sense to me.

I would really like to see more details about the privacy policy sentences on the website. If 2.5% of Mozilla's privacy policy is very concerning and 12% is mildly bad, I would like to see the actual sentences to know the risks. There is a button to view the full annotated policy, but clicking it says to send an email to you. Edit: this seems like a bug, it shows a few sentences in a WebKit-based browser [Falkon] but in Firefox it just shows the chain link icons.

Finally, I took the A/B test from Guard, and quite of a few A/B choices seemed to not really have anything to do with privacy. If the dataset is kept the same, then I think a different test format would be to rate each A and B snippet as:

- Not about privacy

- Good for privacy # only if the other one is not about privacy

- Bad for privacy # only if the other one is not about privacy

- Better than [A/B] # only if neither is not about privacy

Anyway, the data itself may be somewhat useful to me if I want to learn more about a company's privacy practices. But for normal people, I think it would be helpful for the website to also explain why privacy is important and why people should care.
For less Apple-centric guidelines : http://www.rossbencina.com/code/real-time-audio-programming-...
Assuming it's a viable strategy with regards to processing resources (hint: it's not for anything more than toys) you will have audible artifacts, especially around transients. Filtering and additional processing will only alter the signal even more.
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No questions, but thank you for making it marginally more difficult for tech companies to avoid responsibility for whom they work.
There's another wrinkle : sometimes people outsource problems. "This process/system/unit is a constant source of trouble, other people do this well, we can't.. let's outsource it". The pattern here is that the constant complaints go away (or at least the outsourced company is now the "sin eater" and you aren't on the hook). But of course, there is no incentive to actually fix what's gone wrong, in fact the opposite is true... and so these problems stay on the balance sheet for years and decades more than they should, soaking cash that could be used for investment and dragging business performance down. But there is no way out of this tarpit - all hope of actually dealing with the problem goes with the signature on the outsource contract.
That would be an insane precedent to send if breaking or removing a FOSS project becomes a crime simply because your project happens to be used in some mission-critical system.

Good way of making sure no one ever contributes to FOSS again.
Can you please stop posting these YouTube links to HN? It's gotten a bit excessive, and users have been complaining.
Sad he will be missed. May he rest in peace.
Out of curiosity I just googled it, and yes, there is, and it's actually more serious than lack of diversity in adtech. If there aren't enough underrepresented minority applicants at Google, they will just have to hire an overrepresented minority to spy on you instead. But if the dental schools aren't producing enough minority dentists, those communities may not have access to quality dental care.
> Earth doesn't care about "emission per capita" though, it just cares about the total sum of emissions...

True. How about reducing the extremely high per-capita emissions of developed countries? That will result in a huge drop in the total sum of emissions.

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

People in such countries are taking up too many resources and that is not sustainable for the planet. There needs to be a carbon tax.
E-scooter (dependent on good bikepaths), macbook, comfy office chair and big screen at home for WFH days.
The moral of this story seems to be "buy Airbus shares".

Maybe Lockheed Martin will buy up Boeing as distressed assets and do something with it?
You are living this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_You,_Man
Good luck, I'll probably never pick it up but I appreciate that you share the exp.
It was quite common among monarchs to use "we" instead of "I".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we
FWIW, there are yarn companies in the US that do recycled plastic yarns. http://www.patrickyarns.com/green-recycled/earthspun/ does it, they've been sold via companies like PuraKai for shirts.

This said, I'm not sure if this is a good idea in the first place if it just leaches out microplastics per Tharkun's comment.

If they wanted to be more open, Junk in your Trunks could consider showing their full supply chain, similar to what services like https://www.sourcemap.com do.
I think you are actually illustrating the point. Zuckerman's investment is too far upstream of WeWork's size to take the blame. And the fact that competing companies are able to rely on loans and mortgage easing is exactly why folks with a surplus of capital (Saud + Son) have to accept worse terms - they have more competition.
Also such licenses are not Free Software. And from a practical point of view (existing in the ecosystem) that matters a lot.
The original developer can dual license and force Amazon to contribute (either in cash, or in code).
Wow, this looks interesting, and most of all I'm excited to see something actionable instead of just "we're fscked"
The computer science behind TBM interception is a fascinating problem with very high stakes consequences, as occurred on February 25, 1991.

I was an active duty Patriot Technician and Systems Mechanic (24T) during that time; and even though we were rebooting our systems regularly to diminish the impact of this roundoff error, there were other critical timing issues during the intercept stage.

TBM interception involves the science and math behind a "bullet hitting a bullet". These are extremely high velocities converging on each other.

To Raytheon's credit, they were iterating rapidly and released patches almost daily as new data was collected.

Even when we managed to launch a Patriot to engage an oncoming Scud, success was dependent on the proximity fuzed warhead detonating at just the perfect predictive moment ahead of the projectile. This timing was perfected over a decade in White Sands NM using lower velocity drones. But Patriot's software was not optimized for TBM-scale velocity (it is now).

A "perfect" hit typically resulted in a shower of hot metal and undetonated debris raining down on civilian populations.

From a game theory perspective, this is basically a no-win situation. You're just trying to minimize collateral damage once a theater of operations escalates to using TBMs.
The word "hypnosis" does not appear anywhere in this document, that's a pretty glaring omission, IMO.
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Has there been any blowback from other clients/employers since taking the repo offline?
You mean other than Bin Laden being there, of course.

The Taliban provided shelter to a guy who committed a terrorist attack on the US, and refused to give him up. We would never have gone in otherwise.

No one in the US government wanted opium production in Afghanistan, we spent a great deal of time eradicating it when we were there.
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This is likely exacerbated by the trends towards single family homes. A few generations ago, when you lived together with aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, brothers, sisters, parents, grand parents, great grand parents, there's always someone to interact with. But nowadays, if your spouse is at work and your children are at school or some activity, there's nobody around. The situation is even worse when you are single. I think the trend of loneliness will increase due to technology unless the stigma in current society of living with your family goes away, but I'm not holding out much hope for that.
You actually think that Carlson is going to inform his viewers of the virtues, let alone technical details, of a FOSS project?

>Make working with ICE a toxic asset. Make people not proud of working for ICE contractors.

This kind of activism in tech leads no where good. It will lead to witch hunts, more "cancel culture" purity spirals, and generally shit software used for critical functions of our government.
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Do it.

https://codewithoutrules.com/2019/09/10/software-developers-...

> In the end power is social. Power comes from people showing up to meetings, people showing up for rallies, people going door-to-door convincing other people to vote for the right person or support the right initiative, people blocking roads and making a fuss.

> And that takes time and money.

If you work in tech you probably have a surplus of both.
It wasn’t a political statement. I have a few thoughts in general. These aren’t specific to this situation.

First, always minimize runtime dependencies. I personally prefer compiled things for this very reason.

Second, if you’re going to include a third party dependency, how are you auditing it? There’s an unexplored area around security here too. The Node.js ecosystem has had a series of incidents where popular packages have had cryptocurrency miners injected into otherwise helpful packages. If you’re depending on third party runtime dependencies: how are you auditing changes and contributions, how are you scanning for vulnerabilities, how are you patching those vulnerabilities if you don’t have an internal fork upon which you build?

Third, RubyGems is a volunteer-run organization. I believe other software ecosystems are similar. From my understanding of the situation, a RubyGems outage would have had similar effect.
Exactly. My wife and I have a grown son and a 17 year old. We won’t go over to couples houses with small kids or go out to dinner with couples that don’t have reliable babysitters where they bring their kids along.
Sears went bankrupt. In this context, for We, "getting away" with it doesn't really mean "Adam keeps the money." He got the money, there's no question there. Getting away with it has more to do with how the company fairs, so a bankrupt Sears isn't the best example.
The european or the african?
> SoftBank in particular gave $10+ billion

This is the fundamental conundrum. Softbank has invested a total of $10.65B for a 29% stake in a company that (if valued like the commercial real estate firm it actually is instead of the tech unicorn that it isn't) is probably worth $5-6B if we're being generous. Further complicating matters, We is posting losses and burning cash at an incredible rate and will need additional financing in the very near future. It only makes sense for Softbank to continue to prop We up if they believe they can dump it on a greater fool in the very near future, which is looking less and less likely by the day.
The we could refer to the customers. “We Work at WeWork”. It could refer to the staff as well.
Reposting because FT had it up: https://www.twitter.com/nickatfp/status/1171613239580516352
> Should mom-and-pop computer shops just pirate Windows? After all, they are just promoting Microsoft's ecosystem.

Of course not, but I'd argue Windows, Photoshop and the like are more popular because of pirates who went on to use the software professionally because, yes, they are promoting the ecosystem. Just think of the number of Windows app developers who developed upon a pirated copy.