skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting sequence of mishaps there. I think the key takeaway is more like being very aware of how secure you consider a machine to be and consider what to log in to accordingly. I.E. never ever log into a high-priority account on a low-security remote device.

I consider my Google account to be very high priority in terms of keeping the login secure. Accordingly, I would never log into it on a remote machine like that. I keep APP on, and I'm not sure if I even could, what with the security key requirements. But such a remote machine is IMO always just too vulnerable to various types of compromise. One of the reasons I still have a Google account, for all of their faults, is that I think they're the best in the industry for blocking account takeover attempts.

Article OP didn't say why he felt the need to log into his Google account on a remote server meant for CI builds and with relatively low security. I think that would be the first point to address. There's just too many ways to compromise things once you make that mistake, and I wouldn't want to count on all of the other security bits being just right for an attacker not to be able to escalate that kind of access somehow.
Let’s take a step back and look at the quote in the article’s opening paragraph: “As a US business (and tech) community I think we should be significantly clearer about our horror at, and opposition to, the atrocities being committed by the Chinese government against its own people.”

Now let’s swap the words “US” and “Chinese” around. Maybe it’s not so absurd after all.
I don't buy it either. Some people are just inherently more rationally grounded, I suspect in large part due to their personalities. I doubt that if you were to take a student who doesn't possess these traits, that they would look any different at the end of four years.
Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences, by Alfred Tarski. One of my favorite math books, which convinced to pursue an undergrad in math. Being an intro logic book it's completeley self-contained and may not not even feel like a math book, but yet a great intro into foundational stuff.
It seems that saying things like "black is in trouble, white is always better in this scenario" might have triggered the algorithm.
I agree that upvotes only would make for a better dynamic with less mob abuse. And, if someone is mean or makes a dumb contribution, being completely ignored is a good lesson, much better than a shower of downvotes without any reason
There’s no contradiction between politics being how people make collective decisions and people having an agenda. The differing agendas are part of what make coordination difficult and conflict likely.

Even when goals are the same you can have disagreement over how to achieve them. When goals and values are in conflict, i.e. people have different agendas, we need a mechanism for deciding how to end these conflicts. That mechanism is politics, expressed as some combination of persuasion and violence, how we form, sustain and define communities.
The entire point of China pushing HK is that China thinks they don't need HK anymore.
These are 17/18 year olds you're talking about.
The idea is to stop the respiratory droplets that contain viruses. Droplets measure on the order of micrometers, which is the range that surgical masks are made to be effective.

A Google search result for droplet sizes: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/10/E2386

A Google search result for effectiveness of various masks related to particle size: https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2009/10/14/n95/
> I don’t think you’re right about that. Groceries, supplies, movie tickets, restaurants, fuel, transit, medical & dental resources, rent, and so on are all much more expensive in the city. The fraction of things you get on Amazon or through other means that allows paying a low competitive nationwide price is pretty tiny and doesn’t really offer any meaningful advantage to city dwellers.

It's primarily the discretionary, high-tech, and expensive items that are cheaper in a high-cost-of-living place. Want to buy an iPhone or a Tesla or an expensive camera or something like that? Those are all less expensive relative to your income in high-CoL places. Plus, interest rates from savings accounts and many retirement accounts are the same nationwide, meaning that having more total money is advantageous.
As a full-time resident of Boulder, CO (college town), this seems like an impossible situation. I can well imagine that the university here is under heavy pressure from local government to hold classes in the fall. This is because going a semester without all the students/faculty will be disastrous for the town's economy. On the other hand, the increase in coronavirus cases will also be disastrous. I don't have an answer. But, as a person who recently bought their first home in the area, I'm pretty bummed at the prospect of the local economy collapsing.
And how is a consumer supposed to know which models?
Assuming you mean WASPs (an offensive abbreviation of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) and not wasps (assholes with wings), you are probably being overly specific as well as using a needlessly offensive term.

“Speaking from a position of privilege by race, ethnicity, economic class, or some combination thereof” would probably be more accurate.
You make a lot of good points here. What is expected of students in University these days is a joke compared to historical standards. Ironic given the more demanding job market expectations.
Well, it's really a mixed system.

For examples, we do use parking meters!
Separation of land usage through zoning is a huge problem in my opinion. We'd all be better off if they just let people do whatever they wanted on their own land.
Would have been very handy back in the day when I had lots of baremetal servers to manage - seems a bit less useful in the day of virtual machines and auto scaling.

Still handy for many I am sure!
Downvotes (like "flagging") can be valuable signals that say more about the micro-communities downvoting than the content being voted upon. There are also downvoting brigades. It may be useful to have a "best of downvoted" HN content, like Slashdot meta-moderation.

e.g. threads involving specific companies or topics can have more polarized voters and commenters.
2017 - I remember when Trump had initiated the trade war, it was such a taboo to support it. I am not a fan of trump but the progressives in the Silicon Valley would abandon me in a mob mentality god forbid if I said something I like about Trump. I had pretty unpleasant pushbacks during lunch breaks and then I stopped discussing things all together.

Living here in the valley, I wonder what’s the difference between aggressively progressive places and aggressively conservative places like a small town in Arkansas? To me, they are both intolerant of opposing views, don't think for themselves and subscribe to extremely strong stances.

Being a centrist, I feel like I am exiled in this country by all sides. The stronger one's view, the more burden is on them to prove their view with data, successive chain of logic and reasoning. I am constantly wary of my own views because either circumstances change, my understanding improves or new data is available. This is the HN way.
If colleges are places of credentialing, rather than of education, then this trend makes perfect sense.
OK, so TFA is about racism, or rather about what's currently considered racism (which will undoubtedly keep changing).

But more generally, these are just object lessons in poor OPSEC. In particular, the failure to adequately compartmentalize casual social media activity and professional life.
I built Yoga (a language for real-time robot control) using LLVM as the code generator in ORCJIT (on request just in time) mode. I'm pretty happy with LLVM.

LLVM is well documented, and generates extremely fast code. Robot control used a lot of floating point ops, and LLVM turns it into a surprisingly small number of SSE4 instructions.

I found it easier to call the LLVM API than to generate the IR as text. But it's extremely convenient to be able to dump the result as IR. Like 80% of my debugging involved looking at IR dumps. And for really hard-core debug sessions you can hand-edit the IR, compile it, and call it from C programs.

I'm calling LLVM directly from C++, but LLVMSharp is probably the way to go if you want to work in C#.

If you use LLVM's JIT system, beware that orc::jit is about the 3rd different API and there are tutorials on the web for the previous APIs. You should probably start with LLVM 9.0.1 and ignore any tutorial not for orc::jit.
I agree, I was in Tokyo at the beginning of this and every one just put a mask on, the subway, everyone wearing a mask, no questions asked.

I believe people there know that it's for the benefit of others but they understands that if everyone does it, everyone benefits? Unusually, this can be hard for people to understand.
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The CDC best estimate is that US has 20M+ covid cases right now ( https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/cdc-says-covid-1...) . That number has beem reached with all the masks wearing and lockdowns.

So, what is the difference between the expectations in case of mask wearing vs. not wearing by the end of the year? Even with masks wearing and lockdowns we're probably talking about high tens of millions or even 100M for US. Can it be higher without masks and lockdowns? Spanish flu infected just under one third of total population. For covid, New York had probably reached about 2M cases (~20% of population) and the infection rate went down after that. Using that model of 20% (and NY has much higher population density) it means 70M infections for the whole US. Given how we've already reached 20M+, i think that number will be reached no matter what in a few months (give or take a bit depending on masks, lockdowns, etc.), well before wide availability of vaccine.

So, it is really not about whether masks work, it is about whether it makes any noticeable difference in the current situation. I personally was for total population mask wearing, temp checking, etc. back then in Dec/Jan/Feb because back then we had a chance to stop the spread. These days i just don't see any arithmetically consistent way to avoid the described above scenario and stop the current flooding/tsunami.
You seemed fine with anecdotes upthread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23728608
In the 90s, I worked in a little electronics shop where the owner had a "creative" scheme going. He would order all sorts of stock (cameras, computers, radios, etc) via cash-on-delivery (COD), but then he had a deal with the UPS man.

The UPS man would just keep all the goods in his truck for weeks and weeks. Then whenever we had a customer at the store who wanted to buy a given model of camera or whatever it was, I would be "dispatched to the stock room", aka, I would go out the back with cash in hand, get a money order from the post office next door, find the UPS truck (his turf was just a few city blocks), and then triumphantly come back with the item for the customer.

It usually worked well enough, but occasionally failed in unpredictable ways and sometimes spectacular ways. Like using a queue as a db -- that's not really how any of that was meant to work...
If the controller thought they were having an emergency (which I guess he did based on the strange approach and all the warning sounds he heard on the radios) it's not that uncommon to hold on to them. Happens because it reduces crew workload if he's not telling them a new frequency.

Tower and approach have a button to talk directly in each other's headsets, so it's easy for approach to give you a landing clearance on behalf of the tower. Or the other way around, tower could get you radar instructions from approach in case you have a problem right after take off and want to return immediately.

But in this case it was a very bad decision to do that.
Funny you should mention that. I just watched this last night:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified_Copy_(film)

British writer James Miller (Shimell) is in Tuscany to give a talk to a group about his new book, titled Certified Copy, which argues that, in art, issues of authenticity are irrelevant because every reproduction is itself an original, and even the original is a copy of another form.

(As to the film itself, it got a little too serious for me.)
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> It's easy for a casual observer to see the Trump administration saying something and dismiss it, especially as their credibility is so low

Sure, if you don't know any better.

But when you look at the actual facts, Trump often has a more rational and successful approach than his opponents:

- stopping travel from China on Jan. 31 due to corona

- stopping the absurd postal discount

- tariffs on Chinese imports to counter Chinese dumping

- stopping Huawei from undermining the world's communications networks

Trump doesn't seem so crazy now, does he?

Regarding corona, we have an agency that was supposed to be on top of that - the CDC. About all I hear from them is a press interview every 2 months. I hope the next one includes a firing squad for the top 10 CDC officials.
>if you wanted to try heroin and if you did it, it would automatically addict you

I have no idea. Lots of people experiment with things and it's no big deal and they insist that must be a universal experience. There's a selection effect. If you try something at 20 and don't survive, you're not around at 40 or 80 to tell people it's no big deal.

When I was young, I enjoyed alcohol a lot, but didn't really struggle giving it up when I had to. Nor did I ever drink until blackout or vomiting, which you know, whether or not it's pathological/alcoholism, is common. I am certain that the level of compulsion is very different for some people.

I have a sibling, who I believe smoked cigarettes off and on but it never became a permanent habit. But a lot of people find them extremely addictive. I never smoked my first one, just because there was never an anticipated reward that seemed worth it. I might have been wrong, or right. Some people seem to get substantial cognitive benefits from nicotine.

Occasionally having a negative reaction to a prescription drug makes me wary of recreational or unregulated stuff, too. Seeing homeopathic stuff in the drug store makes me fearful that a CBD product might be fake too. So when I had wisdom teeth pulled and I was given a bottle of big pink pills (I think it must have been oxycodone/paracetamol based on a quick google) I didn't use a single one.
> It used to work this way, but got changed to a less-than check for performance reasons.

I don't know who told you that, but they were weirdly confused.

It not unlikely the case that sometime early in development (long before publication) that it was bits-based, not only is this how the standard hashcash code works-- but the Bitcoin code calls the relevant field that encods the difficulty "bits".

But Bitcoin itself never worked that way, not from the first instant. Changing it would have been a consensus incompatible change, and Bitcoin is still more or less consensus compatible all the way back. (There are outright bugs that make the old software get stuck, but if you fix those, it follows along).
Oh, wow... I clicked on one of the topics on your site, a topic of great personal relevance, and I really like what I see so far.

I’m on a quick break, but later on I would like to join the discussion, because it seems like a healthy environment that is oriented around understanding, inclusivity, and mutual aid.

I’m sorry to be so vague with my feedback, but I figure it is still at least a little bit useful, and hopefully even a little encouraging as a small validation of the concept. Thank you!
This was precisely my experience
> human rights records of the countries you are buying products from

Good, idea.

I tried. I ended up with a Fairphone3. I like it, it's ok for me but unsuitable for probably many use cases.

It's hard to do so and still get performant tech. It's hard to even know where the parts came from. Not just for tech but anything you buy.

This is even worse in countries which have weak consumer protection laws and consumers can be duped into beliving it's e.g. from the US when only the last assembly step is done in the US but 90% of the work is done in e.g. China.

Lastly wouldn't that also mean that US products can't be bought. I mean the US not only never signed the human right charter they also never recognized the rights in it independent of the charter. Partially because they where committing human right violations all the times back then.
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After college I was working on my own venture but pandemic resulted in a loss of funding. Hoping to join a team where I can have an impact, learn + grow, and add value to people + product. Available on contract (project basis) or full-time.

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I suspect all appeals are rejected and only get reviewed if the channel has enough pull to smack Google on social media.
Insects preserved in amber are still glowing 99M years later
Bitcoin never worked that way. However the original hashcash proposal was specified as leading zeroes. I presume that’s what you are mixing up with.
I made a post on SO Meta[0], where I shared a bit of wisdom I learned from teachers:

"Encourage the person; discourage the behavior."

Seems to have received lukewarm response, but it may be an oversimplified approach to a complex issue.

"There's always an easy solution to every human problem; Neat, plausible and wrong." –H. L. Mencken

[0] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/398537/what-can-we-...
I've watched every one of his videos ... at least out of the corner of my eye. The length of these videos and the small amount of talking makes them somehow relaxing.
> And of course, Google Chrome synchronizes these passwords to their servers. So that if you log into Chrome from another device, you have access to all of these

Usually Chrome prompts me to enter my windows pin before showing me my password. The attacker also needs to know my Windows pin/pass to see those passwords.
The guy on the channel said he doesn't think this is the case, since he has loads of other videos still up and its "white vs black to the death" in every case. His other guess was that it was a casual mention of the "Covid situation". It's too bad that he is left guessing about what the problem really was, and that the review procedure is apparently fully automated.
There are. I went to a university straight out of high school and I don't regret it. But there are also people who learn elsewhere.
In my personal experience, the Reddit comment-hiding system only gets triggered for particularly horrible comments, not just controversial ones. It must take into account the upvote-to-downvote ratio.
There appears to be little to no self-reflection. There are no objective markers of quality compared to science or engineering. I suppose that's a duh. But experience and strong intuition should guide you and one's own consciousness and rationality should hold you to a standard of intellectual honesty. That's a lot of "shoulds" though. In the end, intellectual honest is always going to require voluntary participation.

If you weave a sophisticated enough tale with enough novelty to draw attention, you can convince people of anything. If enough people buy into it, you can create a framework from it, no matter how far off course it is from basic intuition about human behavior.
Some recipes require only egg whites or only egg yolks — or a combination of both.
Juvenile criminal records are expunged. Should juvenile speech be expunged?

https://criminal.findlaw.com/expungement/expungement-basics....
I went to St John's College. Loved every minute of it. It may be the exception that proves the rule, however.
Also concerning is the amount of resource allocation / decisions being made by companies rather than individual people. It has changed dramatically since the 1800s.
The impact the coronavirus has on the ~250 R1 and R2 research universities is going to be very different than the effect on the ~4000 other schools. Although the research universities dominate the conversation around academia, they only make up a small fraction of the total number of schools.
The hash is just a number regardless-- surely no one has any problem understanding any other number in the protocol as a number! :)
I have a hard time believing your air mixing argument is a big issue for most people. Tonnes of people go snorkelling and don't experience the type of problems you mentioned. When you inhale the air inside a snorkel is more likely to have just been exhaled since it doesn't have anywhere it can go. To me this suggests your issue is either psychological or you have something else compromising your respiratory system and should definitely be taking every precaution against covid that you can
I've noticed that other YouTubers, for example the Game Grumps, have stated that they cannot mention "Covid" in their videos for fear of being demonetized or taken down. To get around it, they refer to the situation as the "Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour" instead.
- you can buy extra lightning cables from anywhere at about the same price as usb c cables.

- most modern high end cell phones aren’t coming with headphone jacks anymore. All iPhones come with a headphones

- most high end laptops also don’t have internal expandability anymore.

-you also don’t have to buy AirPods. You can buy any Bluetooth headphones

- Google also charges the same 30% for apps.

- the default is allow signed apps. Not apps from the store.
Can you be specific as to what they are nice for?

It explicitly means that dividing by anything other than a power of 2 is hard. One third of a quart is... quick, how many cups? Okay, now what's that in ounces?

And that's just dividing by three, which is a pretty normal thing to want your measure system to handle.

Base 10 measures are directly compatible with the number system. Even though metric doesn't admit factors other than 2 and 5, because it's decimal I can still confidently and quickly tell you that 1/3 of a liter is 333ml. Or that 1/7 of a liter is 142ml - and if I want to check that I can just type 1000/7 into a calculator and read off the result. How many ounces in 1/7 of a quart?
Nothing wrong with that, but likewise, what is wrong with trying to make money off of Google making money off of your information? At some-point, if the asymmetry is so large, it does make sense to try and capitalize on that.
It could be shareholders, who could also be employees.
I heard a story about a famous stem researcher. In class, a brave student asked a question. After glaring at the student, he slowly responded "I came here to teach. I didn't come here to answer questions".

That department has been reformed thankfully.