skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this too much different than the unremovable malware found preinstalled in high-end smartphones sold in the US? Even big brands like Samsung are riddled with insidious malware these days, all which you consent to when clicking through the registration screens.

We need regulation banning all this. Will never happen since malware benefits those who crave endemic surveillance.
maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Siberia_wildfires
Epstein's was the first suicide in MCC in 21 years:

https://nypost.com/2019/08/10/suicide-supposedly-nearly-impo...
Tesla is now the most valuable US automaker ever
I'm reading that last question as irony, experience suggests others will read it as an un-ironic rhetorical question.

So while recognising, what I believe is you're ironic phrasing, I'm addressing what I think will be the un-ironic reading others will take, you good with that.

Yes fire is a normal part of Australian ecosystems,
and it is unknown whether this spread with Eucalyptus trees or whether Eucalyptus trees spread with humans using fire.

But :

The Australian climate is getting hotter:

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/month/aus/summary.shtm...

'The national December mean temperature, 3.21 °C above average, surpassed the previous December record set in 2018 by more than a full degree.'

British conquest and subsequent settlement has ended traditional indigenous fire practices in most part of the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming

Which means that the fuel load are not reduced by smaller cooler burns below levels that would feed a catastrophic fires.

https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/bushfir...

Partisan politics has made it very difficult for many Australians to look directly at these topics. So while fire, is a terrifying but not unexpected feature of living in Australia, the scale of this year's fires are a unique horror that I believe will push enough Australians to engage with that difficulty.

I think we are going to see fast significant shifts in political discussion from this, that both the emotive calls to action, and populist denials or diminishment will we perceived as a distraction from direct sober engagement of an existential threat.

( As I first typed this I accidentally capitalised that as Australian Ecosystems, because I once worked for a company by that name that did environmental work, including controlled burning)
Holding up Epstein’s likely murder as evidence of progress is deeply fucked up. I hope you have values.
Hitler was horrible. Stalin was horrible. Stalin killed more people. But Stalin had more years in which to do it, and ruled a larger population. If you calculate (total body count) / (people-years ruled), I suspect Hitler was worse. (He might not be worse than Pol Pot, though...)
What surprises me is that said CCTV system/sever is not currently in the hands of a IT forensics specialist. It's hard enough to wipe data intentionally, it much be even harder to loose it irrevocably by accident. I would be quite surprised if the footage cannot be at least partially recovered given the right resources.
TL;DR "Hello, fellow kids!"

I'm sorry, if this works for you, more power to you. I agree that you have to make an effort to keep up with the field, but keeping up with the teen culture on top of that would take a significant toll in my sanity.
It really does need more screenshots and obvious 'in use' videos and photos
Classic Mistakes
I wish I could downvote this self-promoting post
Because they were involved in it??
Advancing the Web Framework Ecosystem
$86.5 billion

This achievement easily tops the previous record high of $76.1 billion for shares of Ford in 1999, according to data from the Center for Research in Security Prices.
The high watermark for GM stock was more recent, when it reached a market value of $67.7 billion in October 2017.

Today both of those stocks have lost a good chunk of their value. GM (GM), valued at $50.7 billion, and Ford (F), worth $36.9 billion, together are worth only about 1% more than Tesla alone.
Again, _any_ solid links about this discussion? The main tell tale sign of crackpots is that they'll tell you a big earful of conspiracy. If they had a solid case they'd just share a link to a solid case. A link with analysis filled with references all the way down to primary sources.

I'm always so dissatisfied when I ask for evidence for these things.
Holy privilege Batman!

> unless safeguards were put in place to ensure their malignant genes stopped with them at the end of their days.

As if it’s their genetics and not their disenfranchisement from society that makes them want to drop out. We allow cheap foreign labor to displace these people, if we had stricter immigration I can guarantee that there would be less people in poverty, business would have to pay more to incentivize people to work there.

And we hardly help men “pick themselves back up”.

>you get what you put in.

lol, that’s a good one, I’m sure the Koch brothers would agree.

Plenty of people put in a lot and don’t get much back. Just because life worked out great for you—you put in effort and saw a return—doesn’t mean it works that way for everyone. I personally worked my ass off for 5 years and then got screwed out of my work by people with more money.

>voter rights

Am I getting trolled? You seriously want to associate voting rights with employment? Here I thought we left those sorts of attitudes in the last century.
Not asking for pieces of evidence. I'm asking for a well-produced case linking lots of evidence.
I can't see any visible clues, but my sarcasm-O-meter just exploded.
Poor people move for Medicaid or housing. If you have a chronic condition in a state that doesn’t offer optional services, it may make sense to move to a state like NY that offers them. At one time, the county social services folks would offer you a bus ticket to help you on your way.

Housing is a similar issue, if circumstances call for subsidized housing, it’s often easier to move to a big city like NYC.

Schools are another big reason. If you have kids and live in place with poor governance like Kansas, you’ll likely benefit from moving.

There are also snowbirds who return to northern states for medical reasons, usually due to different policies.
Yep, same here. Had some pull-out posters from MD magazine of him hanging on my wall as a teenager.
Sure, why don't you buy these figure out how to do it then publish easy to understand instructions for the average purchaser to follow. Thanks!
The Most Beautiful Manor in Uppland, Sweden, Is Now for Sale
Sad news. RIP. I haven't listened to Rush for a few years, maybe time to pull some of the albums back out and do some air-drumming.
i personally do not see the value in downvotes affecting your karma either. i agree with having a system to prevent some fanatical minority opinion from dominating, but right now it's just encouraging bullying.
My jaw dropped when I read page 9 of the report, it says "Professor Minsky (who passed away in 2016) had worked with Epstein to organize an off-campus conference on artificial intelligence that same year."

That's quite a charitable characterization! The conference in question wasn't just any "off-campus conference" -- it was held on Epstein's island.

Minsky had also organized a two-day symposium on Epstein's island several years prior (in 2002), a fact also totally omitted from the report.
Oil so useful that modern society would collapse without it.

Facebook is not meeting a core need. It's peddling something entirely optional to society. At best it provides entertainment value, while being extremely addictive and dangerous.

Facebook is like crack.
I've been to Colombia pre and post and Uber and this doesn't line up at all with my experience. 90% of the cases of friends I know getting robbed in South America was from a taxi.
> then the burden of proof is on you to show that lying is in effect

Don't say on "me", I was just offering a plausible side. But I agree it is a difficult question. There is the point you make, but there is also the point made by asking "cui bono".
This will be interesting to see in the few next years. Either the way we do the burns will have to change, or we'll just have to accept unsafe burns as better than massive fires a few years down the line. So far I haven't heard any announced alternative ideas.
What does "ask for funding to support his upcoming sabbatical" even mean? Is that for research, or is it money for him to just go on vacation for a year?
Curious, are the downvotes on this comment for the comment which I assumed was sarcasm, or for the fact that a non-qualified sarcastic comment is of a type of discussion HN rules discourage?
I would assume there is extensive child support that would more then compensate? (Article is paywaled, so I don't know the details).
I don't own the rights to any of the content. The Code Geass game is a fan created board game by my friend from: https://brotherminggames.com
People are downvoting this, but it's just a matter of fact. Jack Dorsey has repeatedly said that the "newsworthiness" of Trump's tweets outweighs the ordinary standards of propriety that get applied to other people's tweets. Somebody asked Jack point blank whether Twitter would take action if Trump made a tweet explicitly asking his followers to murder a journalist, and Jack's response was, "We'd certainly talk about it." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/18/would-calli...)
And then the shareholders punish them:

https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/4/29/15471634/american-ai...

>American Airlines agreed this week to do something nice for its employees and arguably foresighted for its business by giving flight attendants and pilots a preemptive raise, in order to close a gap that had opened up between their compensation and the compensation paid by rival airlines Delta and United.

>Wall Street freaked out, sending American shares plummeting. After all, this is capitalism and the capital owners are supposed to reap the rewards of business success.

>“This is frustrating. Labor is being paid first again,” wrote Citi analyst Kevin Crissey in a widely circulated note. “Shareholders get leftovers.”
They aren't holding it up as evidence of progress...
Fiat were famous in the 70s and 80s for producing cars that would rust away before the tires needed changing. Obviously an exaggeration but they used cheap Soviet steel (sometimes called washing machine grade in the motoring press).

The 500 is fun (to look at, not to drive) but the Tipo, Punto, Panda etc are pretty dreadful.

As to how they got to their position, I’d say that being effectively a flag carrier manufacturer helped sustain them and Chrysler were pretty desperate for a partner after the Daimler split.
What a sad day. One of rock's best drummers from one of rock's best bands. So fortunate to have seen them on their farewell tour. RIP Mr. Peart.
Yes this is like a 2D web based Tabletop Simulator that you can play with friends without having everyone purchase and install a copy of TTS.
Bill Gates, George Soros, and Warren Buffet have explicitly come out for higher taxes, and you can't quite wo easily question their motives.
This is certainly an attention grabbing headline, but wouldn't 'years off life expectancy' be a better metric to report to help people make life decisions? I am sure there are studies out their collecting that data. How am I to make a moderation decision based purely on a count a people with a specific cause of death?

The vape lung disease is so concerning because it killed people in a few days or a week. Where as cigarettes would reliably shave X years off someone's life. I can easily make a decision to never use a vape at all or never from underground source.
> Retro computing is a hobby.

But of course, my bad. To be honest it never occurred to me that it could be. But the comparison with classic cars makes perfect sense.
> Very strange how WWI makes almost no sense from today's perspective. Every country was damaged either directly by the conflict, or indirectly through its protracted (and still ongoing) resolution.

We get to look back with hind sight and only remember negative consequences from positive actions. The US entered WW1 after Germany began unrestricted submarine ware fare for the second time, and coming on the heels of the Zimmerman telegram. France and Belgium were invaded by hostile power. Germany feared Russian modernization and fear of not being able to Compete with France and Russia. Russia sided with the Serbs. France Sided with Russia whose alliance it has sought to counteract the power of a newly unified Germany which had defeated France in 1871 taken territory and imposed a large reparation payment. Austria an absolute monarchy wanted to quite serb nationalism.
Ask HN: Would you use a modern pager?
There has been a trend recently with fancy “dumbphones” which offer cell connectivity but no distractions. Examples are the “Lightphone” and “Mudita Pure”.

If you have been considering a device like this, would you use a modern pager?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager
He was amazing.

This video is a favorite of his playing. He breaks a stick and replaces it without losing a beat. It's hard to notice!

Neil Peart Breaks a Stick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UweV2Av7RE
Disappearing is a lot harder than offing yourself.
Incredible loss for the music world. Perhaps the GOAT of rock drummers. RIP.
Yes, you still need an apex record with an actual IP address. And ideally something listening at that IP address that will redirect to the www address on both http and https.
> Men's fashion is truly horrible compared to women's fashion. Men basically have the choice of either a stuffy suit that look like it hasn't changed in a century and is completely impractical, or baggy pants and a baggy hoody. Women get all kinds of choices in clothes, including lots which show off their bodies, while men's clothes are basically designed to hide our bodies completely and look as boring as possible. I guess that's helpful if you're fat, but if you're athletic and toned, it's really not.

Strongly disagree—you may just not have been exposed to all the options in men's fashion. There are tons, without even deviating too far from traditional/normal.
Nix as a language is tiny. If you know functional programming at all you won't have any trouble with it and can "learn" it in days if you put in the effort. NixOS isn't complicated because of the language.
Mux is hiring a Product Designer to help improve video streaming for billions
FreeBSD does not really have a stable ABI; every major release breaks the ABI, so it's only stable for 2 years.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/VendorInformation
At the rates of return Alphabet experiences, along with such a large share percentage held by a ‘smallish’ group of founders/early supporters, many of whom are apparently credibly stated to have engaged in very similar behavior, I doubt there will much pressure from shareholders. It is doubtful, but if this was the straw that broke the regulation-impasse-camel’s back, Drummond makes a good scapegoat for current leadership.
Harvard Professor Mark Newman also has similar shading dealings with Epstein. His own book, SuperCooperators [1], has nearly 3 whole pages dedicated to describing his experiences on Jeffery Epstein's Island, thanking him for all his support and basically sucking up to him by describing his (Epstein's) incredible intelligence. Stephen Hawking even makes an appearance in these stories with a talk about how Epstein rented a submarine so Hawking could experience being underwater. Epstein occurs so frequently in Newman's own book that he even is listed in the index (you can view the index on amazon for free). The book was published in 2011 after Epstein's first convictions.

I find it very hard to believe all these scientist didn't know what was going on nor would I be surprised to find out they participated in it.

[1] (https://www.amazon.com/SuperCooperators-Altruism-Evolution-O...)
The Broken Entrepreneur 0: Quitting my full-time job for founding a Startup
Just a few days ago, I quit my full time job to embark in a new adventure as a founder.

"The Broken Entrepreneur" is a funny idea I had to share my experience into Entrepreneurship and the things I learn along the way.

Check the first part here: https://medium.com/@gabolecointere/the-broken-entrepreneur-0-quitting-my-full-time-job-for-founding-a-startup-ac2294647d24
I think a growing cohort of men will start to live their lives and express themselves in ways that are fulfilling to them and know it’s worthwhile despite society’s expectations. This might involve being more “feminine” in a lot of ways or place less importance on their careers or seeming successful by traditionally masculine traits. I think men will recognize this in each other and support one another when their peers or women won’t necessarily like the untraditional new lives they’re leading. This might be like women having careers in the 1960s or LGBT people being out in society. It can be untraditional, but ultimately a fine and healthy way to live your life. I think social media or online communities will help with this too.

In terms of what is causing it to change, I think is deindustrialization and the nature of a capitalist, individualist society. If your peers or culture are asking you to be “masculine” as a hunter gatherer, Breton-Woods-era American tradesman, or Jay Gatsby-type, you’re going to feel out of place if you don’t feel like that’s how you want to live your life.
I bought three of these for my 8 year old triplets from twigby.com. I was really upset with twigby, but I guess they weren't the ones that did it. These phones would continuously install weird apps no matter what I did. I even had them locked down with the google family app and they still did their thing. I upgraded to to Moto G7 Plays and they are not only faster, they don't continuously install malware.
My understanding is that control of your own body is through your mental model of your body, not directly asking individual muscles to contract. (This is why people get phantom limb issues after amputation.)

In that context, I think it makes sense to include body in the list of things not under your control (you can only control the actions you ask your body to do, not what your body actually does or the per-muscle detail of how it does it).
I got sucked back into Celeste recently; as of last night, the only golden berries left for me are 5B-8B, Farewell, and the dashless winged berry for 1A. (I also haven't gotten the moon berry yet, I kind of forgot about it when I was polishing off the red berries earlier). At the same time, it's easy to believe that this is as far as I'll ever make it; part of what makes going for golden berries so addictive to me is that each new level has seemed pretty much impossible before I start practicing it, so I guess we'll see.

The subreddit r/celestegame tries to keep track of everyone who's gotten the Farewell golden berry; the official list only has about 20 people on them. Of course, you have to record and post your gameplay to be eligible for this list, but there can't be many more people than that who've done it.

But from the other side of things, there's actually a speedrunning category for collecting all 202 berries, including the Farewell berry. TGH just set the world record on Christmas Day, I believe, completing that chapter's golden berry on his first attempt, along with the other hard golden berries. I think this really puts into perspective how skill curves work in games; not only are there very few people who ever approach the top level of skill, but the individuals at the very top are separated by wider skill gaps than you can imagine. This is why matchmaking at the top of a ranked ladder is so hard!
Oil Producers Are Setting Billions of Dollars on Fire
Heh. I was wondering if you were following (perhaps participating in) this thread. "Pernicious" was perhaps a meaner word than I meant. How about "ubiquitous"?
For some people weed might not be it, but for me it is. A combination of coffee and a strong sativa edible for an evening outing satisfies my escapist tendencies and is quite enjoyable for me.
there is a carousel of photos at the top.

what I want to see is what they look like now!
Erm... wasn't that South Park episode explicitly about San Francisco, not Hollywood?
Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that this is dependent on if you are in a community property state or not. In a community property state (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin) all income earned by either partner is automatically community property and owned equally by both parties. In a non-community property state you have the right to keep your earned income separate from your spouse.
In my case, I don't need most apps, but basic calling/texting/email is a must.

I think a lot of people already have a "pager" in the modern era, and it's a smartwatch. Samsung even sells a 4G smartwatch that doesn't need the phone nearby to operate, and that would give you the rough functionality of a "pager" in a better, modern form factor.
The "aggrieved party" doesn't have to be a party within the relationship. Anyone else in the org can make a case that their career opportunities were impeded by the existence of a superior/subordinate relationship within their reporting chain. People in a romantic relationship are assumed to not be impartial when it comes to things that may affect their romantic partners, which means that it's pretty easy to make a case that an executive's decisions were biased by the affair in a way that may harm your career. So if you were Rosenberg's teammate and she got placed on a hot project like Google Glass while you were passed over for the position, you could make the case that your career was harmed because she's sleeping with the head of Google X.
I called them and asked for money. See my use of the word "us".

So, yes, maybe they did it because they knew I'd be going around using them as an example of altruism in business, 12 years later.
I’m pretty sure money doesn’t compensate someone for growing up without a father.
You're being downvoted because the question looks like snark even if that isn't what you intended.

Other people have answered the direct superficial question: A lot of this stuff is used already to make stuff work. TLS (for HTTPS) has been mentioned, but if you have a work laptop it's probably using Full Disk Encryption, if you use git for revision control the content addressability that makes that possible is only safe with cryptographic hash functions, the reason a bored teenager can't listen in to all your mobile telephone calls is cryptography, the reason it's very hard (and ought to be impossible if they'd done a better job) to use a chip-and-PIN credit card without the PIN is cryptography and so on.

Now the more subtle question: Do you need any of this? Well no for a lot of jobs you don't, just as a car mechanic doesn't need a grasp of aerodynamics to do their job, but if they fancy designing jet aeroplanes that's going to be a problem. This course is about applying cryptography but it isn't an engineering bootstrap course, so it expects you to understand why rather than only learning how.
`using` is for resource management scopes (disposal), not garbage collection.

Some disposal actions will dereference objects (this.thing = null) and thus add garbage and therefore garbage pressure for a GC run to clean up, so it is an indirect influence, but it is very indirect, and not what `using` and `IDisposable` are meant to do.

You shouldn't rely on `using` for GC management, and making things that don't manage resources (such as file handles, sockets, etc) `IDisposable` isn't a good way to ensure they are short-lived (and doesn't add any additional signal to the GC that the objects are short-lived; some `IDisposable` objects are incredibly long-lived).

Better tips to managing short-lived objects are to keep them as small as possible, avoid unnecessary references to/from other objects, avoid accidental captures into lambda closures, and consider if stack allocation makes sense for your scenario.