skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article, as to be expected by the New Yorker, is fairly underwhelming, lacks a point and is outright wrong in a few places. For one, trying to apply Nietzsche’s thought to modern politics is to completely misunderstand the man. His work has nothing to do with the supposedly ‘new’ phenomenon of news and media lying about the truth. It is far deeper and profound than the Trump-buzzword article of the day.

It’s probably fair to say that Nietzsche, if he were around today, would almost certainly have no interest in the petty squabbles of democratic politics. To assign him a political viewpoint is to misunderstand that he is fundamentally interested in the individual human being as a self-contained phenomenon. His philosophy is not accurately characterized as “individualism” but it is absolutely not political in nature.

In any case, the title refers to an interesting idea which oddly enough isn’t even mentioned in the article itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return#Friedrich_Nietz...
Why would a letter be genuine? That seems easier to spoof then phone or email?
From your remark you'd think these were two entirely different problems. I'll try to say it more clearly. There are people deliberately promoting fear of long-term problems as an excuse to not address these short-term problems.

I'm ok with people working on both. I just feel so much less attention is being placed on these more immediate problems. Tesla has deployed to production software for driving that is unable to detect pedestrians. So at least Tesla can't do both.
A Note to the Nobel Prize Selection Committee
Deep woods animals located in hunting areas during hunting season are absolutely skittish, including deer. If it’s hunting season and they get a whiff of you on the wind you will not see them. At the same time deer in parks you can walk right up to. It’s dependent on the environment, it’s not that deer don’t care and don’t see you.
> Now I’m burnt out, ready for one last try to get the process formalized ...

Ultimately, we teach people how to treat us. > https://psychcentral.com/blog/what-it-means-to-teach-people-...
A Safe Environment for Feedback
Because one of his main points is that it's impossible to be specific about some things and it's important to be suspicious about those who claim to have the truth.
Why You Should Use Package-Lock.json
To clarify: I believe that it can happen even with tiny projects, under certain circumstances.
On a practical level, for much of mathematics, the intuition and the process often involve complicated hand-drawn diagrams that would be really difficult to typeset (and completely ad hoc, too).
Call the number of the back of the card - "Press X if you have been given a code by us". Effectively, you're calling <number on the back of the code> + <reference to queue skip>.
I've often seen that a password reset completion will trigger an email notification, but not a second 2FA verification to confirm.
Here's a link to Washington state's Lidar project. They have much higher resolution data published, but only for a portion of the state.

https://www.dnr.wa.gov/lidar
Didn’t work for me. Caveat: I’m already at the limit.
The history behind inland shipping is quite interesting. When the first container barges started to appear in the 70s, the minimum distance to make it viable against trucking was predicted to be 200km+. Nowadays, distances are short as 50km are barged, or even shorter sometimes when doing in-port transshipment within bigger ports like Rotterdam or Antwerp. (Keep in mind that the Rotterdam port area is about 45km long, stretching from Maasvlakte to the city centre)

Classically the Rhine region has seen a lot of container transport, but over time other canals and rivers have seen container terminals pop up. In addition, smaller sea ports have essentially become inland ports with the rise of main ports like Rotterdam and Antwerp. The bigger ships (20 000+ containers) are received there, and then distributed onto smaller feeders or barges that will then hop to the various smaller ports in the region. If you look at a map of inland terminals in the Netherlands, you can get to virtually anywhere within a range of 50km over water. In Belgium they are trying to alleviate the heavy truck traffic in the Antwerp region by offloading this traffic onto trains and barges. Even in places where only narrow or shallow canals are available, smaller barges will take 12 to 24 trucks of the road at a time.

It's incredible how much potential there still is to take trucks off the road and use water transportation instead. It's much better in terms of CO2 emitted, and it's also a lot cheaper. It's just harder to plan, since there is inflexibility in destinations, you need last-mile trucking, and the total transport will usually be a lot slower. All in all difficult, but solvable problems. Most of these are information problems and that's what my employer is trying to solve in software :)
Why would cloud go away? If you’re a team of 3-4 people and have a startup idea what’s easier? Create an AWS account and smartly spin up required servers?

Or find a location (rent$), get fiber($$) to that location($$), find hardware($$), install said hardware. Now you’re back to where you were with AWS.

For larger already established businesses on prem is probably a setup you should explore but on day 0 of a new business, cloud will probably have a large cost and flexibility advantage as long as you smartly set it up.
Kinda, my family dog lives on a farm and has free reign (eg, no fenced backyard). He just goes in and out as he pleases, but he still gets super excited when you take him for a walk.
Now I'm having fun imagining all the various hypothetical conspiracies that are causing these correlations.
"Randy Buehler reported it took him about two weeks to start understanding things well enough to begin having fun."

When someone like him has such trouble understanding and enjoying the game, reaching and captivating a broad enough audience for profitability is a tall order.
Never played the beta I do think it's the best card game I've ever experienced.
I totally get the rationale, I'm just surprised it happened that way today. Where I live, someone with that kind of record would have a hard time getting cleared to be a janitor. I'm not sure if your story is horrifying or a breath of fresh air!

My uncle who I spent alot of time with was a big-city detective. He had more than one story about someone who did something similar (understandable anger/rage about a horrific event). Justice in the city is different -- premeditation and vigilante action outside of an immediate event is as serious as the original act, best case it gets a favorable plea deal, etc.
Long-time Linode user here. Stuff happens. Agree Linode responded appropriately. I use their automated daily backup service but also maintain off-server redundant copies of critical data.

Learn from the experience, review your backup and management policies, restore from last available backups.
How do we know you are the OP?
Also for many major figures like Sontag their impact is hard to measure just by reading their work. Their impact is measured more by influence on their peers and intellectual ancestors. So if you're not familiar with an entire canon of literature you might find her interesting but not necessarily special.
Yeah I imagine that's part of the calculus too that it would be easier to use the same rolls, machines and rules but getting them to reform the district drawing process would be somewhere our hypothetical Warren admin would probably have to incentivize with money.
It would be reasonably trivial to build a phone system that lets the agent generate a OTP of sorts.

"Hey, we need to talk about your account. Call our general enquiries number on our website, press 9 and enter 'XXXXXX' to be reconnected to me."
While I don't agree with everything Pinker says, I must say, Pinker's point on "Drop the Nietsche" in his book, Enlightenment Now, did influence me:

Keep some perspective. Not every problem is a Crisis, Plague, Epidemic, or Existential Threat, and not every change is the End of This, the Death of That, or the Dawn of a Post-Something Era. Don't confuse pessimism with profundity: problems are inevitable, but problems are solvable, and diagnosing every setback as a symptom of a sick society is a cheap grab for gravitas. Finally, drop the Nietzsche. His ideas may seem edgy, authentic, baad, while humanism seems sappy, unhip, uncool. But what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

Edit: "I agree" --> "influenced me". Maybe reading more of Nietsche might open up my mind more on his work. :-)
I really enjoyed this - are there any other places online that host “tech thriller” fiction similar to this?
Most probably not; Cows would eventually lick and ingest the painting. There are several types of white pigments, some are poisonous and permanent using several metallic salts, other non durable, calcium and chalk based, and would be washed with the first rain.

The idea of a blanket is better, but the problem is that the blanket would act as a tick sanctuary then.

Sometimes, it seems that everybody is trying to solve the wrong problems, in any case.
It seems strange to me that a class of customers who are quite obviously price insensitive are having trouble, when they're competing with an airline industry which quick frankly has a terrible history of profitability and therefore seem to be much more price sensitive.
Not that I know of, dev.to is much better for technical writing. I'll post this article on there as well.
To borrow the board game analogy from the article. If you've been led to believe you're getting an updated Settlers of Catan and instead get Advanced Civilization, you're going to have a negative opinion of the game, even if Advanced Civilization is actually a great game with lots of fans.
> we don't live in the 90's shareware world anymore.

We do more than any other time since the 1990s; the modern F2P + IAP model is pretty much exactly a resurrection of the 1990s shareware model taking full advantage of low-friction online payments.
Projell.com – Simple APIs for synthetic data generation
Hi, I'm Sumit Srivastava, founder of Projell.com . We made this after dealing with the data hell like low data availability, high data procuring cost, huge time sink for data collection, and privacy concerns over the user data.

This prompted me to build an easy way to generate synthetic data for machine learning models. This primarily uses GANs, but we use techniques which are most efficient for specific usecases.

Areas where we've found it useful are biomedical, drone imagery, satellite imagery, retail, and autonomous mobility.

As already prominent in the ImageNet challenge, the state of the art is using synthetic data to gain higher accuracy. [ https://paperswithcode.com/sota/image-classification-on-imagenet ]

Google, for their autonomous vehicles, used millions of miles of real driving data and billions of miles of synthetic data. It is clear where the world is moving towards.

I would be happy to share the tools with everyone since dealing with data is something we struggled with and don't want anyone to struggle anymore. This is probably only the first step towards building something robust that can reduce as much data hassles as possible, if not all.
If you're really lucky hand fit translates to "our QA department is stocked with measuring tools and they actually use them to confirm parts meet spec before being assembled, maybe if you're lucky they write down how over/under something is so that the assembly guys can pick combos that work well". (If you're paying big bucks this is hopefully the case.)

More likely it means someone cycled the thing to make sure it worked before slapping their "qa by <unintelligible scribble>" sticker on the product or packaging

It's mostly just marketing mumbo jumbo to make it seem like a fancy hand crafted product. Back in "the day" the marketing people would have advertised that things were made by precision machines. Today labor is expensive and machines are cheap so they're advertising that they put a lot of labor into it in part to justify the price (and the reverse would have been true in the early 1900s, they'd emphasize the machine contribution).

Firearms are tight like a retired hooker compared to the kind of tolerances any reasonably modern manufacturing operation of that sort (mostly machining and stamping/forming) is capable of working in (they need to be loose so all those steel on steel parts will move like they're supposed to). Loose fitment tolerances translate to less need for super precise parts to begin with. Say you have a slide that wants .010"+.002"/-0001" of clearance. Sure you can make that part to .0005 but insisting on that level of consistency just adds unnecessary cost to do so when you have an entire .0003" space to shoot for.

For ultra high precision stuff tighter tolerances and more consistency are used but that's mostly limited to the pressure bearing parts of the action that touch the case/bullet (the goal is to get that cartridge to fit in there the same way each and every time).

Some of the most reliable firearms out there use very loose tolerances. For a 1911 I feel very safe saying that the modern high end ones do it more because they can than because it improves performance in any measurable way. High end guns almost by definition will never see enough use to get to the point where manufacturing it more precisely could ever effect reliability.
On the other hand, look at the article's point 7: the economic model was fundamentally flawed through oppressive transaction fees plus a conception of cards as both valuable (resale) and free (via card rewards).

Players don't see a game's economic model in its ideal state, they see the economic model as implemented.
What reason? I've been making sourdough in the old european way for years. Am I missing something?
Perhaps it worked on Strowger exchanges when the call is local? I definitely remember this being "a thing" back in the 1970s but I don't remember ever succeeding in reproducing it. Obviously there must have been some time out because otherwise you could DoS anyone's phone by just calling them then not hanging up.
It is a pretty good idea, but only sufficient if you don't have much money. For large balances it might be worth someone's time to bribe your local telco worker or subvert your SS7/Diameter routing so that your calls route via an intermediary (i.e. make your phone a roaming number, route it's calls to an attacker controlled exchange in e.g. India). It is even simpler to listen in to your legitimate call and hear your phone banking password and secret Q&As.

Calling via a landline or via an operator assisted call would make such tricks much more difficult.

Some great papers on Diameter and telco security here: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/silke.holtmanns
Why memes?

They're talking about the memes from a few years ago when you had the same image always re-used with different text at the top and bottom (Socially awkward penguin, Business Cat etc). They are exploiting the fact that that the image is always the same to help OCR the text.
I used to live near a Goodnuff funeral home.
(Off-topic) That link is localized "nl", and I'm in the US, but for some reason it's trying to access google.cn. ಠ_ಠ

https://i.paste.pics/1d51475b28fe67095693ca871c7fdc5f.png
I was like, ya, I do that sometimes too... Wait wtf?
You initiated the call to what number? The number on your card? If so, that's ridiculous.

(Obviously, initiating a call to a number provided by a potential scammer offers no protection. If someone is intercepting and redirecting your outgoing calls via the phone network, I'd say you probably have a bigger problem than a declined transaction.)
At which point you remove the paint and instead paint zebras with cow-like patterns!
Vim >= 8.1 has a built-in debugger interface called termdebug: https://www.dannyadam.com/blog/2019/05/debugging-in-vim/

I haven't used it, but it might meet your needs.
>Which is so open ended that it's impossible to not break it if you have an opinion and are speaking to a global audience.

You are a professional player in a tournament, you should not use an official stream to spew political opinions... or opinions of any other kind.
If you have records of these conversations can you not sue them?
Catalyst deep dive: The future of Mac software
Much of that hydrofoil 6 hours is probably spent at the 5 locks in the Danube along that stretch. And not even in the locks, but waiting your turn for the lock.

So, unless you are looking for a tour of the steel-and-concrete locks of the Danube, the hydrofoil trip may not be for you.
Mapping the Deepfake Landscape
Pinker is perhaps the single most uninformed public “intellectual” in society today. His ideas are slightly above Gladwell yet somehow he commands respect. I really don’t understand it.
American Airlines to resume flying beleaguered Boeing 737 MAX jet in January
There's politics, and there's politics. There's a difference between discussing whatever the US President blurted out on Twitter today, discussing whatever gaffe some local politician made, discussing which party is better and why, whether a group is pushing it too far, and then "abuses of human rights and freedom". The difference has a bit of "you'll know it when you see it" flavor to it. I think that in this light, he sees the issue of Hong Kong not as "politics", but as the real deal, an issue of more fundamental values and freedoms.

I've recently noticed that some people don't see the difference between "types" of politics. I don't understand why. To me, the difference has always been obvious. Some politics are about really important issues. Most of it is bullshit, just something that makes people with nothing better to do to jump at each other's throats. People have been creating "safe spaces" shielded from the latter for ages. The concept of not talking about the bullshit politics and religion at the dinner table is quite old.
So the only trust anchor remaining are the kernel and the hardware. It seems an attacker has to build a kernel module that detects the bootstrapping process and injects the (self-replicating!) bad code while building the final gcc.

I like the work, but I still don't think the kind of attack mitigated here is practical. OTOH it's nice to have the option (if I was to build/publish my own distribution I would use this as my trust anchor, plus some ancient hardware and Linux 2.4 CDs to build my own bootstrap environment; though as a random guy on the internet I am probably less trustable than e.g. the Debian people).
All the ones I've seen have no security, either it's just a changing password (e.g. RSA key), or you input your card (optionally entering your PIN which you share with every POS terminal / shop) and get a password.

My phone requires a password (which I can set to be arbitrarily secure, not 4-digit PIN (LOL)) or a fingerprint (which is something noone can steal, unlike a credit card... or at least I'd notice it's missing much sooner!)
It could make alot of sense for alot of government, healthcare and financial use cases.
Interesting. What about the obvious follow-up question: Why do the external creditors that lend to a pizza company via accounts receivable deserve their money back? Didn't they see the scammy nature of the operation?

It’s not like suppliers of a chain this large aren’t big savvy corporations too.
Turkish Invasion of Kurdish Syria Has Begun
> But this is not how it works. Word from the App Store is sandboxed.

Yes, that is how it works. Sandboxed apps can absolutely request access to an entire folder. See here:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...

> An app-scoped bookmark provides your sandboxed app with persistent access to a user-specified file or folder.

But all of that isn't really relevant to what I was saying. You're bringing up technical details about how sandboxed apps work. I'm saying that sandboxes suck and I don't want them, particularly from Apple who will just use security as an excuse to take away more of my freedoms.

> I guess these extra permissions are to provide a certain level of protection against such apps, which is good.

I would rather not trade my freedom and liberty for even more annoying and absolutely useless security measures. You see the top comment on this thread now right? It's about how useless these dialogs are and how Apple has actually argued against them in the past.

> There are many well-known incidents of trusted applications being compromised and backdoored.

So? Don't update right away if your OS manufacturer can't be bothered to run a properly curated package management system that vets packages before anyone installs them.

> But now that applications are distributed over the web, allowing unfettered access is insanity.

I've been using desktop software for 30 years and for 25 of them, I've been downloading it from the Internet. My simple security measure are to verify sources, turn off automatic updates, don't update right away and read the news. Haven't had a problem yet.

> The Linux ecosystem is also moving towards immutable base systems (Fedora Silverblue, NixOS) and restricted, sandboxed applications (Flatpak).

Some Linux distributions are moving towards that. Anyway, I'm fine with immutable base systems. I'm even fine with sandboxed apps, as long as the permissions request infrastructure isn't annoying as it is in iOS and now macOS. And, as long as I can still install non-sandboxed apps without any further useless annoyance.

> This is getting tired and old.

No it's not. It's getting one tick closer with every release and if you want, we can certainly detail each time that macOS has changed to become more like an iPhone. Some part of you must realize that this is exactly what Apple would love to do as quickly as possible but they won't risk alienating users just yet. Do you really not see how Apple has been moving towards a less general purpose computer?

I mean, I wouldn't even call macOS "general purpose" to begin with because you can only really install it on Apple hardware. Right from the very start with Apple, their OS has always been more like "Apple purpose" - software that you can only use for Apples purposes.

> macOS is still an OS for 'general purpose computing'.

Yes, for now. Just a little bit less with each release.

> I wish Linux was as far as macOS with application sandboxing and system integrity protection.

No thanks. The world needs less security theater, more actual security and more freedom to use our own bodies and properties as we wish.
My bank does this. Two texts:

1: "We need you to verify some transactions. You will receive a text from <number> with the transaction details"

2: "Do you recognise these transactions? <date/store/amount x 3> Reply Y if yes, N if no"

Y -> "Thank you for verifying the transactions. If any transactions have been declined, you may been to repeat them"

N -> "Your card has been blocked and a new one ordered. Please contact us if you need any further advice"
I would say in general I agree with your point, but there are many pure skill games that have large audiences. Like most sports have incredibly low RNG compared to something like poker, but have giant audiences.
I am less pessimistic than you, I just think it will take more time. With the economic prosperity brought by capitalism, a large middle class is appearing in China. And I think ultimately this middle class is what will push for more democracy.

But it takes time for that middle class to form, to reach critical size, and for it to propagate through the senior ranks of the regime. It might happen in 15-20 years.
Perhaps I should have posted this article, where I learned about the report: https://qz.com/1723476/deepfake-videos-feature-mostly-porn-a...
I live near "Dick Witham's Used Cars"! So there are plenty of unusual surnames around.