skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can confirm this anecdata. Single and dual 27" 4k is fine, but mixing with a 27" 1440p is messy (tried with GNOME and KDE on Manjaro during early Corona home office).
Bolton's might be to sell copies of a book. Democrats might be to avoid looking bad, to hopefully win the next election.

Somewhere in there, one side or the other (or even both) might care about the truth, or about doing what is good for America. Maybe.
I’m a germaphobe but it’s probably not worse than say reading a postcard, or putting your laptop in an airport bin, or your backpack under an airliner seat where people put their feet
Money, on its own, carries no persuasion whatsoever — unless you're bribing people to vote for someone (which is illegal[1]). In reality, money buys you a platform to sell your ideas, some people like those ideas, and THAT'S what results in votes.

If you don't believe me, I'll start with anecdotes, and then close with data.

Hillary Clinton outspent Donald Trump by 2x in the 2016 election, and still lost. In fact, she had far more corporate backing than Donald Trump, and still lost.

In the 2020 Democratic Primaries, Michael Bloomberg spent $1 billion (!!) on his campaign, and won just 9.4% of the popular vote (1.38% of pledged delegates).

Tom Steyer (a no-name billionaire), spent $343 million on his election, and won a humiliating 0.38% of the popular vote (0% of pledged delegates). Interestingly, you would think he would have at least 1/3 of Bloomberg's vote, which suggests that the vast majority of the variance in Bloomberg's vote share can be attributed to his existing name recognition as a famous businessman/politician. No amount of money was enough to make their core message resonate with ordinary voters.

Bernie Sanders spent $195 million on his election, having spent less than Bloomberg + Steyer and while having handily beaten both. Joe Biden spent $105 million on his campaign, less than Bernie, and still beat him by 3 million votes.

Elizabeth Warren spent $121.31 million on her campaign, and also handily beat Bloomberg + Steyer while having spent far less than them, while losing to Biden while having spent more than him.

Those are just the anecdotes (of which there are many more).

Decades of research[2] suggest that money probably isn’t the deciding factor in who wins a general election, and especially not for incumbents. Most of the research in the last century found[3] that spending didn’t affect wins for incumbents and that the impact for challengers was unclear[4]. Even the studies[5] that showed spending having the biggest effect, like one that found a more than 6 percent increase in vote share for incumbents, didn’t demonstrate that money actually causes wins. In fact, those gains from spending likely translate to less of an advantage today, in a time period where voters are more stridently partisan. There are probably fewer and fewer people who are going to change their vote because they liked your ad.

Yes, money helps you broadcast your message. If your message resonates, you can even win elections (what a concept). But money alone isn't persuasive.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2605401

[3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764203260415

[4] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2138764?seq=1#metadata_info_tab...

[5] http://www.sas.rochester.edu/psc/clarke/214/Gerber98.pdf
Show HN: Satellite is a forkable, P2P, publicly hosted social platform
In no particular order:
- The WWW - from a delightfully whimsical follow the rabbit-hole experience in the early 90s where discovery was hard, but content was king; to a centralised, AI-ranked, viral echo-chamber in the 00s and 10s where the discovery engines now control the whole experience and the content you see is presented based on who pays. The key problem here being the monetisation of discovery. We need solve search and discovery, but deliver it as an open Internet standard like DNS or HTTP.

- Smart devices - buying an appliance with a closed-source, embedded device that relies on Internet connectivity and the solvency of it's manufacturer in order to operate it, patch it, secure it, and maintain it is the antithesis of what this planet needs right now. When the CA Root certificate(s) installed in your no-name smart TV expires and the OEM doesn't exist/doesn't care to provide you a firmware update, these devices will become less than worthless and most likely landfill. We need industry to adopt an open framework for smart devices that helps prolong their lifespan eg: a public Linux repo for updates to the underlying OS - the OEMs can deploy their own user interface, but end-users should be able to pick and choose if they wish (and most wont').

- Trust - in particular X.509 certificates. A lot of progress has been made in making trust via digital certificates the default rather than a paranoid exception, with a large portion of the web being delivered over HTTPS, RPKI for BGP currently being deployed in large operators and DNSSEC showing some (admittedly slow) signs of adoption. What is still a major problem in this area is the complexity of certificate management and renewal. The work LetsEncrypt and the EFF (certbot) have done in automating this process is fantastic, but these are still a long way from mainstream usage.
While we're on it, make sure this is a low end laptop in terms of components too. Make sure your application is usable. No one needs a chat client that eats several gigs of RAM and a significant portion of your CPU.
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-ultrasharp-49-curv...

I like Retina DPI, but this is good enough. It’s not very curved, but it has some curvature. I don’t think it’s worth it. 1440p is good enough for me.
Doesn't Snapchat mainly rely upon the iOS or Android platform having some software that prevents screen shots if a 'no screen shots' flag is set? I always thought this was their core defense.
I've personally never seen it work that way - usually because RDP doesn't pass through direct USB devices, only their abstracted forms (e.g. smartcards don't get passed through, only the "Smart Card" device registered in the OS, and only if you enable that to be passed through in an mstsc session.

There are products like Silverfort (https://www.silverfort.com/) that can handle agentless auth, and might be able to do that kind of MFA inside an RDP session. But, products like this usually require some 3rd device (i.e. your phone) to perform the MFA action, which is kind of not really just a simple WebAuthn logon...
Yeah they didn't completely remove it, but they did a good job of hiding it by not making it an option to turn on in the GUI. Have to use a terminal command to enable it:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/337871

In general with a HiDPI screen I don't find any need for it. But on a low-res display like the typical 24" 1080P models it certainly helps.
How does the pendulum affect you?
They previously fraudulently advertised "end to end encryption" when it was not. I wouldn't be surprised that they continue to lie.
Though I recommend to my team to avoid mutation if at all possible, there are times which I have found immer absolutely invaluable. Try spreading out an object 15 levels deep to replace a single property value and you'll catch my drift.
Anybody watching this should also read As We May Think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think
That thread suddenly disappeared, and one which is claimed to be a "reconstructed" copy in another profile has disappeared too, it's so weird. It's not like the original PDF isn't online still.
I wouldn't call teslas ancient by any sort of term. Maybe a car from the mid early 90s now.
Around here it seems like some listings are seeing price cuts, not huge, but some. And this of course should be peak selling time normally.
Then your job has security staff so careless that they don't care about IP exfiltration to China.
Your argument is broadly sound, but not applicable in this particular case.

Currently people are paying a massive premium to utilize private courier to have their stuff privately couriered. People are literally going f that I don't care what it costs I don't trust the postal system.

A sane postal service would review this situation and try to understand why the people think "f you". SAPO has decided that the correct solution to this situation is to simply legally mandate that everyone has to use their useless service thus making couriers illegal for this category. Literally:

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/business/346729-online-stores...

I personally take a pretty dim view on "nobody wants this...fine...so we'll just force it by law" dynamics
Snapchat is notoriously difficult to automate/spam.

The goal is to get the X-Snapchat token. The most elegant solution is to find the secret in the binary and reverse the algorithm to generate tokens. Wouldn't it be easier to MITM the endpoint; set up a dummy server (which collects tokens) in front of a proxy that spoofs the DNS and TLS certs (may be easier on rooted Android than iOS).

In my last attempt I gave up and went for dumb UI automation, but it would be cool (and worth good money) to exploit the private API.
The more I read about this story, the more I doubt its veracity. Seriously, some phone app says -$700K and you off yourself? What's the worst that could've happened, RH trying to get blood from a stone?
When I was doing IT support one off the trickiest things was trying to get people to stop giving me their passwords. I am not interested in that sort of liability if something gets stolen!
Only an 18 year old could consider a Tesla ancient.
> The AMIs must be made from an instance launched from a CentOS or Ubuntu product in AWS Marketplace

I wonder what's special about these images.
I work in computer vision; "understanding" here is meant to mean there is a statistical understanding. The model better represents the distribution of things that look like real images. I must say these examples are incredibly good at generating coherent scenes compared to any similar attempts I've seen. I do think it represents an advance in the that kind of understanding.

I think your definition of "understanding" is more the realm of AI, and why so many people in my field sigh when the term "AI" is used when we're really just talking about ML. But then again, you could absolutely in the current day train an ML model to look at images and then produce a natural language "explanation" of the image. It might not be able to make leaps in deductive logic, but it would be able to explain more than just a list of what is in the image. Is this "understanding"? Maybe that question is philosophy.
There are remote islands with enough fiber to support a ground station. Not a lot, but they exist.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sex/ as starting point.
Software Engineering Daily: The world through the lens of software
A product developed almost entirely within China is beholden to the whims of the CCP. Especially a billion dollar company. There is literally no escaping this reality.

If the CCP wants the keys, they'll get them.
The cost of Coronavirus Covid-19 testing – Data from 2.6B medical claims
When COVID-19 began to spread in the United States, we knew there was a limited amount of tests available. However, the cost of getting tested remained a mystery. Earlier this year, Congress and state governments moved to mandate free testing for the public, but that didn't stop people from receiving surprise medical bills.
The hassle of linking your bank account is more of a hassle in countries where that isn't necessarily easy to do. (For example to link an internet banking account to your traditional bank in Canada, you usually need to send a personal check in snail mail.)

In China, where mobile payments are ubiquitous, the process of linking your bank account is just typing in your name and account number, and entering the one time pass code your bank just sent over SMS. Now you can pay for everything - not just individuals on your contact list, but literally anyone who also has the app installed - just by scanning QR code and entering your PIN. The recipient doesn't need to sign in or confirm anything, it's just done.

Don't underestimate the convenience of this setup. I do like that Interac eTransfer doesn't force people to install a proprietary app to transfer money, but can you really see it replacing cash in a grocery store or helping people split the bill at a bar?
A convolutional net learns kernels that most people would say display some understanding over the domain of images as well. At points they might even serve as explanations. I think taking "understanding" to be "able to explain rigorously" is the highest bar possible here. A lot of people understand concepts that they are unable to explain. Animals understand a lot but lack a way of explaining things as well.
It doesn't need CSS. CSS is something we can do without. I like it without the CSS. Lets the settings by the user to take precedence instead, please.
Not really. This is easier than "normal police work," because almost everybody carries a camera and a tracking device with them at all times now, and people can't resist posting things like that online.
Gentrification happens because a demand boom hits a supply shock. If the supply shocks don't happen, the price doesn't change and people don't have a reason to move out in the first place.

But another thing to keep in mind is that things change constantly. The reason why a cute cultural enclave is not anymore might of been because of a disaster back at the home country isn't happening anymore and the second generation kids are all now doctors and engineers now.

The opposite of gentrification can happen too (ex detroit), and TBH it's even worse. The only thing that you can guarantee is that the city and culture you grew up with will not be the same city 10 or 50 years later in many ways.
I didn’t try to negotiate down, but I did move up to a much nicer apartment for essentially the same price.
The coffee – Coffee and the 1 and 2 world war
Their "core defense" for an end user is to notify the sender of a message if their post was screenshotted by using native screenshot detection/notification libraries provided by the OS, combined with heuristics to try to prevent them from beeing hooked and bypassed.

However, the binary level protection is only tangentially anti-screenshot insofar as it also blocks third-party 'scraper' apps. Fundamentally, it's about requiring use of the Snapchat app to access the Snapchat APIs, and as we know from the ongoing saga with other social networks like Twitter, this is ultimately about business control over posts (preventing spam-bots, scheduled clients, and so on) and at the end of the day, ad revenue.
When you are desperate looking for your first job or internship you probably don’t have a great grasp of the hiring process because of conflicting voices on how to get a job. Even if technical forums say don’t bother, career counselors and hr folks seem to place importance on LinkedIn, leading to the “can’t risk” attitude, especially if you don’t have a foot in the door.
Violence and distracting behavior in schools are bad. But school scores, prestige, etc. don't matter as much as most people think. Your home environment matters more than the school. High achieving magnets and wealthy suburban schools are that way because of the selection profile for students, not because the school itself is transformative.
The difference is that Zoom is developed almost entirely within China, making them beholden to CCP influence and laws.

Can you name a single company in China that offers true E2EE? All the messaging apps are utterly compromised and running real-time surveillance and censoring, for example.
It's a reasonable lower bound - and they did specify "at least"
Why is there a perfect(kinda) circle of the satellites around Antarctica and the Arctic?

They orbit near them but somehow none go over the south or north poles?
There are numerous commercial compilers (for C and C++) that specialize in obfuscation. I suspect they are using one because to do that level of obfuscation manually would make the source code unreadable.
What I find is that my psyche is generally in one of two states: being short on energy and therefore needing to rest and recuperate (mentally, or emotionally, not necessarily physically), or having extra energy and therefore feeling motivated to spend it on things that are fun or interesting. If you're lacking motivation, it may just be that you need a break (including from the part of you that thinks you should feel more motivated). Motivation will present itself when it's ready.
Then we should see a larger drop in cities where AirBNB is unrestricted vs. those where it’s heavily regulated. Do we?
spent half the last decade in seoul, my impression is that it's both far easier and far harder to fully feel like part of the group in korea as a non-korean. the first hurdle, which most foreigners (including me) never fully make it past, is the language. after that, it is down to the specific people that make up the group around the foreigner, and i think this is true of any humans anywhere. my impression was that the most cruel forms of exclusion/discrimination in korean society were reserved for other east asians/asians who speak korean as a fluent L2. this will probably come to a head, hopefully with positive results, in the next 15-20 years given that there is a large (non-trivial) subgroup of children in korea now, mostly outside seoul, with a parent (usually the mother) from a south east asian country.

on the topic that kicked off this subthread (i think--about stubbornly non-adaptive western foreigners in very different cultures than their own), when i was doing ~25 hours a week of korean language classes and study in addition to a full time job, i used to tell that particular subtype of Complaining Expat that if they wanted to level up their complaining about the host culture, they should learn intermediate korean, if only for the sole purpose of unlocking a whole new ocean of complaining material. this was obviously bait/a joke, but there are no jokes: it's one thing to have someone make basic hand gestures like "eating" etc to you when they know you absolutely don't really know what you are saying; it's another thing to have someone do it when you have been conversing with them in their language for the last five to ten minutes.

i could do like fifty posts about race and foreignness in korea but i always think of the model who has appeared in a lot of korean shoe and clothing ads recently. his parents are nigerian and korean and he grew up in korea with korean as his first language, and in an interview he once expressed goodhumoured frustration about ethnic-korean people speaking English to him by default when his english is, by his own admission, not that great at all.
It seems to me that both parties, while not equivalent, are factions of elites seeking power more than anything else. Getting or keeping power means getting votes while enriching your donors and doing favors for your friends. To get voters, there is a lot of lip service and carefully choosing issues that will get certain people to vote. The thing is, you actually have to do something that helps the bulk of the population out once in a while, or at least keep them from being flushed down the toilet economically, or all the branding and marketing in the world won’t save you, even with TV news keeping the narratives going. I think the elites live in an echo chamber and are just totally out of touch at this point. They don’t even know what to say to voters to stay in power. Trump’s success is because he’s a master salesman and entertainer, and then you have Biden hanging on by a thread with the message “Trump bad,” having successfully crushed the economic progressives (including pretty much any Democrat born in the last few decades).

People are angry because they feel disempowered, across the board. Each party is just trying to deflect the anger and put it somewhere else. It’s a silly game.
Did it affect interstate commerce?
Same thing in SoCal. Same exact house model selling for $200,000 higher than a few months back, under contract in 1 day. Demand high, supply very very low.
Aimo Koivunen: The Finnish Soldier That Survived Everything
It is not a question of "Improve" but a question of dealing with tradeoffs. The Go parser is built so that at every stage it is totally unambiguous what the parser has to do.

This reduces the amount of state that the parser has to carry around and makes the error messages for syntax errors easier to generate.

Languages that use <>'s for generics have to look at a larger amount of the code when parsing to work out what to do.
Explained well... loved it
> mind-numbing pits

What's so bad about a nice suburb? By nice, I mean "with parks, and nearby mountains, and community centers", not just cookiecutter crap from horizon to horizon.

Sure, there's no live jazz around, but it's not like the city is so far away that I can't go and get some of that when I want it, and meanwhile I can leave my kid's bike on the lawn overnight and it'll be there in the morning.
For what it's worth from the Peanut Gallery™, I find the proposed syntax quite readable and am happy there are no angle brackets <> stabbing my eyes.

It seems powerful enough to cover most cases of generics. Architecture astronauts will never be happy, but tough.
Need to make a distinction between car-dependent postwar suburbs and suburbs with train connections to the city. The latter are older and often have walkable neighborhoods.
Define free speech in a way that allows a platform to ban offensive content, while requiring them to publish all content.

Also this is contextually a clear retaliation for speech that the government does not like, and their arguments are pretextual.

But also if a platform loses 230 protectIon if it restrict political opinions then sites would need to leave racist and homophobic comments up, personal attacks against the authors, etc. Because if they lose 230 protection they become directly liable for content on their site if the filter any of it.

That was the whole point of section 230 - sites have a legitimate reason to want to stop arbitrary content being hosted by them, but they only had the “i’m just a dumb pipe” defense as long as they left everything up. Preventing that is literally the reason section 230 exists.

But here we have a president who doesn’t like one platform’s content moderation policies, as has decided to rewrite the law in order to make that moderation illegal.

It is clearly retaliatory, and it is clearly with the intent of restricting the speech of those entities.
In the context of that statement, nothing.

I called out Clojure specifically because of the culture around this specific issue and because of the dispatch design of the multimethods that are present in the standard library and widely favored. Nothing stops you from making dispatch tables or simply switching on a key in JavaScript.
"action-packed" expense account, actually :-D
That was not my point and you understand it.
I went to a protest with goggles after reading about my friends in Philly getting gassed. You don't have to be doing anything illegal for police to gas you.
https://whyy.org/articles/eyes-blistering-crawling-on-highwa...
At a grocery store? No, that's what debit cards or Google Pay are for.

Splitting the bill at a restaurant? Absolutely. I use it for that all the time. That's mostly what I use it for, because it's so quick and easy.
Ask HN: Stats on People Leaving Software Engineering
I was reading https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/26/opinion/now-hiring-if-you-re-young.html which claims that:

According to a survey conducted by the National Science Foundation and the Census Bureau, six years after finishing college, 57 percent of computer science graduates are working as programmers; at 15 years the figure drops to 34 percent, and at 20 years -- when most are still only in their early 40's -- it is down to 19 percent.

I can't seem to find the original survey, does anybody have any idea where I could find it?

Also, since this story is from 1998, does anybody know of any more recent figures like these?