skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once applied for an IT Security job at Citibank - as I’m walking to the conference room for the interview I notice that every single desk had a beat-up dog-eared copy of “Computer Security For Dummies” on it. It didn’t do them much good, a year later I read they had lost $60 million because you could go into their web banking system, and once authenticated you could access any retail bank account by changing the account number in the URL.

Years earlier I was at Chase Manhattan when they decided to hire at IT security role. The guy they selected was a tradesman who specialized in brickwork. Computer Security For Dummies was also his goto and it never left his hands. Most of our interaction with him was his trying to find “the NFS”. We told him several times that we didn’t use NFS but he was convinced we did and were hiding the NFS from him. He called all of us individually into meetings with him and our manager to try and get us to crack and admit where we had hidden the NFS but was unsuccessful - it was a conspiracy. He hired in a couple of consultants find where the NFS was but they couldn’t find it either. When I left he was having the network engineers trace all of the cables to see if we had hidden the NFS in a closet or under the floor.
Whenever this comes up I always find it interesting that nobody comments on the now 60-year ongoing program that eradicated the screwworm fly from the US by doing pretty much the same thing: releasing millions of genetically altered (sterilized by radiation!) screwworms that mate with the native population. I have no comment on the positive or negative outcomes of the environmental modifications that both programs cause, just that it's interesting that there's so much visible backlash against the mosquito program while nobody mentions the screwworm one.
From what I recall, previous experiment elsewhere (Brazil?) showed that modified mosquitoes in fact transfer genes to native population, counter to assumptions. Was that sorted out or deemed not that big of a deal?
This is awesome. I tried to do something similar a long time ago (back when the html5 video tracks/codecs API were released).

I'd love to see a FFmpeg compilation to WASI, so it can be run also standalone in server-side runtimes (such as Wasmer or WAVM).
I wonder if threads would made a WASI compilation more challenging?
Ha, my company is doing exactly that rn
Henry David Thoreau is probably one of the most well-known figures in history associated with tax resistance. I have a copy of his work on my bookshelf right now - I should reread it someday...
I don't think it's much less hazardous than cigarette smoke, it's just that people don't tend to smoke 20 joints a day.

Also, a bit of secondhand smoke outside isn't dangerous, it just smells bad.
Sounds like you want us to do your home work.
No. Google is not the law, and they do a lot more unethical things with their search results than anyone trying to promote themselves in them.

And for something like removing negative news, you could definitely argue you're doing the morally right thing.
> Human men can become aroused by looking at themselves in the mirror.

Is that statement actually true for a significant plurality of human men? I've never heard anyone say this before, and it has 0% resonance with me personally.
I am in favor of legalizing and regulating marijuana. But I’d also like to see tax dollars from it to be used on educating public on its danger, much like we do for tobacco.

A personal story - when I was a teenager, a friend of mine smoked weed, thought that he can fly and jumped from the roof of 9 story building. He was 15. Just a warning that this is not all just fun and games.
I went from Turbo Pascal at home to C++ in college, and it felt like a huge downgrade--especially on strings:

https://borlandpascal.fandom.com/wiki/String_operations

And I did a lot of low-level stuff in in too! It was a long time ago, but I don't recall it being any better or worse than C++ when it was pointer time.
One way or another, it does demonstrate a medium-is-the-message dynamic in politics. How democracy is structured is the deciding factor. Referendum, sortition, representative democracy, etc. will have wildly divergent vote counts on a lot of issues.
thanks for the clarification.

phrased another way: could the same process that spawns these legions of B cells also inadvertently spawn cancer cells?

related: healthy cells exhibit properties that allow them to go ignored by the immune system, similar to a VIP pass for bypassing security at a basketball game. is this right? if yes, what are the minimal properties that constitute this cellular VIP pass?

thanks for your help.
Another relevant Adams quip about modern interfaces from Restaurant at the End of The Universe:

> “It’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me,” said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, “Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?”
cannabis kicked down the door and psilocybes are about to stroll on through. clever fungi.
Suppose you have a village of 4 people. What are the odds that one guy employs one other guy in some capacity? That's 50% of the workforce.

Thus 50% is not a shockingly high number. Right?
None that I know of. Anything that makes such global changes would be a legal quagmire. Any move that makes one group happy, makes another unhappy. There are fundamental underlying societal, psychological, pathological and logistical issues that affect this.

I know how to make all the bird species happy in a confined area. Give them each their own feeder with an abundance of food they like, more than they could ever eat. Ensure that never ends. Ensure they have plenty of trees to nest in. That seems to change their behavior and they all get along after a few days of fighting. The fighting just simply stops.

Now, how to apply this logic to humans? How do we give everyone more money, land, food and freedom than they could ever dream to have? It can't be a program specific to one country or one continent. It has to apply to all humans, everywhere, because humans, unlike birds in a localized region, are all intertwined internationally, fiscally, economically. It can't conflict with their culture or beliefs.

Thought exercise: If you had the power of a supreme world-wide emperor, how would you make this happen?
Sadly being pro-legalization loses you older voters that were exposed to a lot more propaganda during the war on drugs - legalization is inevitable as we age out of those voters but it still is a semi-risky political stance.

Bear in mind that John Boehner (yea that one) is now hawking legal marijuana himself after years of publicly opposing it.
Having to manually find these things is always "very ugly" in my book. If I resolve a few of these problems, and the program seems to work, I will still have nagging doubts about "What did I miss?"
An introduction to the physics of speech, with notes about helium speech
It turns out alcoholic beverage companies and big pharma have deep pockets.

Whoops, forgot the link as an example.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/one-s...
An executive order can reschedule drugs too.
So, we can rule out african swallows as the cause....
a personal opinion -> your friend had other problems.
Portland, Maine has voted to ban facial recognition
I do not. I read it in my prevote research that the author was secretly working for Google and Facebook (and is a former Google employee) and put in loopholes for them so that it looked stronger but wasn't. I remember it was from what seemed like a reputable source.

But now I can't find it, and can only find the opposite. So I may very well have been duped by a very good disinformation campaign.
> we'll crash the planet's ecosystems

Species will evolve to thrive in the new ecosystem. Perhaps that will be a subset of humans evolving into something else, perhaps not. But life won’t disappear because we raise global temperatures.
Zombie apocalypse was predicted in the Bible
|0 is also a nice alternative to floor.
So parallelize your scripts and create 1 million accounts across many platforms.
And I think it's important to fight to make sure we don't get similarly entrenched weed cartels. We now have a new fight - against market consolidation of the weed producers.
I think it's pretty simple -- politicians think it's going to happen, but don't want to be personally linked to it because it can hurt their popularity with certain segments of voters they rely on. Nobody wants to claim credit for it.

So they put it up for referendum instead, so it happens but it doesn't harm anyone's careers.

It's not at all any kind of vindication of direct democracy. Rather, because it's broadly popular but also highly unpopular with significant segments of voters on both sides... a referendum works out for everyone.
Summary of methodological issues in epidemiology [pdf]
there is always two part to these ports:

- a webassembly blob

- a javascript wrapper to call the webassembly's functions from js in a practical way.
> that's a bit of a stretch

Nah people do this all the time when making comments designed to put people down. Yes they didn't explicitly say they think men are like dogs... they just gently popped those two things together next to each other and left them there for people to quietly pick up what they mean, but keeping themselves clean if anyone points it out.

It's called (ironically in this case) a dog whistle. Keep an eye out for them!
I see it as a quality of life issue and people forcing their smoke onto others. Smoking in public in large metropolitan areas should have laws around it. Especially in built up areas. Walk a mile in New York City these days and you will constantly be in range of Pot or Cigarette smoke. Either passing by people smoking or being stuck behind them walking. It's a civility issue but unfortunately by and large we can't trust people to be civil in our cities unlike large metropolitan areas like Tokyo for example, therefore we need some quality of life laws around this and more importantly the expectation that they will be consistently enforced. There are plenty of laws in big cities such as New York that are never enforced invalidating the existence of the law in the first place.
Something has to give.
IPv6 Is a Nightmare
Personally I find marijuana smoke way more irritating than cigarette smoke, at least second hand outside.

Maybe I'm reading too much in to your comment, but with cigarette smoking there is a lot of the "if you want to destroy your lungs" attitude that I hypothesize stems from the puritain "if you want to prioritize enjoying something over long term health, I'll be especially harsh towards you". I 100% understand the infringement (or at least encroachment) on your right to enjoy the outdoors and believe it is very rude to expose someone to obnoxious smoke. But judging the "destroying your lungs" aspect is nobody's business but the person doing it. You may not have meant it this way, but I have seen a lot of people who do.

Edit - also, marijuana smoke is hazardous, just like tobacco smoke. Why would it be more benign?
Police don’t support it. Difficult to enforce on some people (under 21) and not others.

Businesses don’t support it. People should not come to work drunk or on high.

Government doesn’t like it. Marijuana creates bad atmosphere of drugged people.

People who never face the problems associated with marijuana are ok with it. But they still need a reason to vote yes. And prison population and Black Lives Matter did just that
These anti-Gentically modified people are basically equivalent to anti-vaxxers. The scientific evidence is overwhelming that mosquito borne diseases are a huge public health problem and the studies are solid that using this technology to reduce mosquito populations is safe. Yet, there is always a catastrophe in the gaps type of paranoia.
USAA also offers checking, savings, and reimburses ATM fees up to something like $15 per month.
It will work, it's called "Privacy ICAO Address" (PIA) by the FAA, and it's already being phased in: https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/equipadsb/privacy/
Honestly, she should probably just get started with whatever popular free/cheap material there is out there already.

Go broad with the novice/surface level knowledge first in order to be able to map out your known unknowns. Then you can take some of those unknowns to more niche places like forums and subreddits where the paid resource suggestions will deliver far more value for money than committing money early to learn the basics.

However if she wants to optimise for resume stuffing (and because it’s fair to give you some sort of a answer), maybe some aws ML certs mightn’t be a bad idea.

Entirely depends on her motivation.
To combat drugs, huge sums of public funds flow to public-sector union jobs and private industries. Both contribute significantly to political campaigns, whereas victims of the drug war cannot.
I uploaded the entire GitHub back end source code to GitHub's own DMCA repo
I don’t think that’s as true anymore.

Someone who was 18 in the Summer of Love (1967) is 71 today.
That doesn’t seem like a satisfying explanation. Why then do legislators routinely support other legislation that is similarly or even less popular than marijuana legalization?
It’s heartening to know there are some issues that don’t become political footballs.
I should expand it for *philia other than humans.
> Human men can become aroused looking at flat images of nude women in black and white.

The author makes it sound like human women can't also get aroused by a black and white image of nude men.
An interesting aspect to this debate is: what kind of actions do we sort of instinctively judge to have very large tail risk, and should we trust those judgements? Of course, the argument here is about the precautionary principle. But the precautionary principle sort of assumes that we can correctly judge which actions have potentially disastrous (non-ergodic, to use Taleb's vocab) consequences. That in itself is an inexact science. Maybe these mosquitos are about to naturally cultivate some horrifying virus, and it's actually not genetically modifying them that would be catastrophic.

Taleb's ilk tend to respond with a kind of Chesterton's fence conservatism: things we haven't yet done, haven't wiped us out, so lets not do too much new stuff. But that's an anthropic argument, with weird Bayesian properties.
> "give her away" - representing a transfer of property from father to husband.

I doubt you're a father of a daughter you love dearly, or I think you'd see it differently. Have you ever heard a dad half-joking about how reluctant he felt to let his daughter go out on her first date? (Or jokes fathers sometimes tell about cleaning guns when first meeting her new boyfriend, etc.)

There is a "letting go" involved, and especially so when she gets married: someone else will be the first man in her life now. "Giving her away" in the wedding ceremony symbolizes that "letting go" that the dad does--hopefully willingly, joyfully, and knowing the man she's marrying will love her dearly.
To the geniuses protesting this: they're combating an invasive species. How's that for un-natural?
I wonder if Rich Benoit had anything to do with this.
Your link got mangled some how, it is meant to be https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11...
Restricted to active/retired military and immediate family still? Didn’t list it because of that restriction.
They probably want to check PoC into their repository and banks take a very dim view on unprofessional language in the DB. I would only be slightly surprised had the terms included: "All code must be written while wearing professional attire"
Some people voted yes despite never consuming because it was persecuting a certain race of individuals.

That’s not how laws should be formed in this country.
And what about the animals that depend on mosquito larvae for food?
I also think it's an older generational mindset, that being pro-pot will sink your career. They don't want to offend too many people so it's easier to stick their head in the sand and then "come around" when it's suddenly popular.

There's also people like my mother who believe marijuana is akin to meth. If you smoke it once you'll end up homeless, under a bridge down by the river
Voting on referendum allows voters to vote on policy divorced from the tribalism of party.

Florida voted for a $15/minimum wage, part of Biden's platform, but chose Trump over Biden.

What would we come up with if we voted by national referendum on gun control? Immigration? Climate change? Healthcare? Reproductive rights? I wonder...

Politicians in both parties are bribed (er, lobbied) by special interests. The average joe voter wouldn't care a rat's ass what Exxon thinks of climate change legislation (say).
Carcinogens: smoke, alcohol.

Not a carcinogen: sugar.

Sugar demonization is out of control. Many people eat an unhealthy amount of it, but any level of tobacco or alcohol consumption harms health.
People using throwaway accounts (maybe they have to) to comment, and then there is this 'depression' ICD, wonder if there is any connection.
> Also, a bit of secondhand smoke outside isn't dangerous, it just smells bad.

That's provably false. And besides, not only does it smell bad, but it sticks to your clothes and then you smell bad.
This thing is fun. I like. It was tense waiting to see live responses.
> I got a scary lawyer email asking me to submit all my computers for a search because I hacked their security to get the data.

Did you actually have to do that?
One reason for that global reporting req is to account for capital gains in domestic trading accounts, or other transfers of property. This is not unique to the US, but other countries don't necessarily piggy-back this in your standard income tax filing.

There are provisions to prevent double-taxing beyond the foreign income threshold because of treaties between the US and other countries. I'd speak to a professional at least the first time you file internationally.
They really are about the same health wise, they both contain the particulate matter which is the worst (health wise) part of smoke. The main difference is that you don't smoke as much MJ as you do tobacco, so it's easier to keep the amount in the healthy range.
True, but you would be surprised how little space each driver and feature take. The old and obscure ones are particularly tiny and efficiently implemented by modern standards.

For the latest 5.4.z kernel release, the full source tarball, xz-compressed, is 105 MB.

The fairly full-featured ubuntu build is smaller:

Package: linux-image-5.4.0-52-generic
Installed-Size: 11.7 MB
Download-Size: 8887 kB

Package: linux-modules-5.4.0-52-generic
Installed-Size: 73.3 MB
Download-Size: 14.5 MB

Now compare to, say, the smallest Windows container image you can find, or AMD or NVidia graphics driver installers ...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24962121
I don't think it's quite as surprising as you might expect.

The underlying logic of the tax protester arguments, to the degree that one exists, is that the law is a magic system where you can do what you want if you just find the precise words to invoke the legal magic. If you're a functionary whose job is to reject applications because line 17b was filled out incorrectly, your work isn't going to disabuse you of this notion.

Another parallel instance to think about: how many paid software developers are pro-open source and against paying for software? I can count at least one anecdotally, namely myself. :-)
It's simple math. People are against marijuana tend to hold that position more strongly to the point where they might refuse to vote for politicians who support marijuana. Pro-marijuana people on the other hand usually have that as a weaker preference.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict... is a good article discussing these types of effects.
I just keep making ugly apps!

https://ugliest.app/l/3887bf7c-a636-4ddf-9763-1364458380d6/d...
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I see an emerging consensus here on HN that automating retail is a hard thing to do. Somehow though, Amazon Go just works. No robots, just cameras and machine learning. It just seems to me Amazon is able to do this and Walmart isn't. For now. My bet is that 15 years from now it's going to be as common as an iPhone now (remember how common was an iPhone in 2005? not very...)
Yep. Sony has been on my 'do not buy anything Sony" for almost 20 years now.

I used to buy lots of music and video. I deliberately stopped buying anything in that line way back in the early 2000s. Roughly at the same time as my Sony boycott.
If you go to marinetraffic.com and look at a military port like San Diego you'll see plenty of military ships (for example https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:5892129/zoo...). Sometimes they spoof, but often they don't, and the trackers show them even when they're spoofing.
I want to know how republicans that take it feel.
One individual in the target group not being offended doesn't mean it's not sexist.

Many women are ok with deeply sexist things towards women. Doesn't make it right.
I'm not sure that is true in general.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/10/02/2020-19...
Not if you're touch typing with any standard fingering I've seen. C is first finger, and E is middle finger.
Peak alienation under Kapital
Again, it's clear you don't understand the scriptures you're referring to. I'll keybase you if you want to discuss further (I certainly enjoy discussing these topics!) but this isn't a good forum for that.
I'm quite sure breathing in any sort of hot soot does you no favors, but it's obviously absurdly false that the chemical composition of the smoke doesn't matter, or that all smoke is made equal. Some smokes are much worse than others.
Interesting to see people on social media with one breath talk about how mask wearing should be up to the individual, with another that legalizing weed is a terrible move that will lead to the breakdown on society. Personally I really do not like the smell so I would like a "freedom from skunk smell" bill passed too.
I wonder what the trade-offs are for genetic engineering vs radiation sterilization for the mosquito situation.
Has not been for about a decade. The Auto insurance still is, but not the banking.
i believe we’re running into cultural differences here.
they pumped 50 MILION dollars to fight it.

I can only imagine what fossil industry and other 'big guys' are paying to have it their way.

At least here people directly voted and not politicians. We all know what the results would be if our representatives were to decide.
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Not being a carcinogen doesn’t mean something isn’t bad for you. I’d even go so far as to say all added sugar is bad for you. Doctors even put fruit juice on the list of bad things since it’s just sugar, even for kids.

And sugar needs to be vilified more if anything. I would bet healthcare spending on issues related to excess sugar/carbohydrate consumption (aka being overweight) dwarf anything else.
They're already doing this, but there's no reason for it to be a random ID—It's an ephemeral ID assigned by the FAA. So you know your ephemeral ID & registration, the FAA knows your ephemeral ID & registration, and while everyone else can see your ephemeral ID they do not know the aircraft registration it's tied to.

https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/equipadsb/privacy/
and it makes it much easier in court to argue that we already have it for cars, why not computers, phones and washing machines.
Are you volunteering to be the one to work with bodily fluids and aerosol droplets carrying Covid-20?
I used to smell it all the time in my city, now I rarely do - at least here I think most people have switched to vaping which doesn't stink as much
Acting as though scale is irrelevant is being deliberately obtuse, and doubling down on that is inane.