skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd guess they simply sent this to anyone showing to have connected to on-campus wifi using their school credentials that wasn't supposed to be there.

The lax attitude surrounding privacy overreach like this is paving the way for a future surveillance state as described by this author. The "they're a private entity and they can do whatever they want" argument is getting old quickly. Needs to be nipped in the bud.
Almost every organization which produces a valuable products spends a great deal of resources convincing others to pay for continued production. This applies to researchers, software development companies, and integrated circuit manufacturers.
Using LinkedIn for social networking? It's basically Facebook in a suit, i.e. _filtered_ trash.

Using LinkedIn Jobs for finding a new opportunity? It's slightly better than Indeed et. al., at
least in my experience.

Using LinkedIn to network with interesting people and potentially engage in new opportunities with
them? It's amazing.

Using LinkedIn Recruiter? Nothing else compares.

That's basically how I see LinkedIn.
Well, there's Bing Maps and Apple Maps and OpenStreetMap. Also, paper maps are still a thing, believe it or not. There's always been map competitors, so your argument is already a little shaky. However, let's go with the spirit of your argument and say Google is now the only game in town when it comes to maps. What happens is that antitrust law kicks in. The FTC web site has great material explaining how it works. Attempted monopolization with the intent of controlling market price is arguably a black and white violation of the Sherman Act. This would not necessarily require there to be competitors, but would require Google to operate in good faith with the public, similar to public utility companies and even cable providers.
There has been something in place that can achieve this for a while. I had a MacBook Air stolen in 2014, and got it back a few months later with everything intact. I had a BIOS (or whatever the Mac equivalent is) password set, so without some serious work (more than the average thief) it was impossible to reset the machine. I also had the disk encrypted, so even if they managed to bypass that they wouldn't be able to access my data.
Oooh nice, I started playing a lot of Sudoku sometime during the pandemic after I got addicted to Cracking the Cryptic :)
Arm64 Hardware Intrinsics APIs in .NET – Part 5
I keep calling LinkedId "the saddest social network".

Create an account to list yourself in a CV catalog. Add connection with people you worked with to build credibility. Otherwise only ever open it when you're looking for a job. Otherwise you're risking getting cancer from looking at all that shameless self-promotion and posturing.
Much of the attack vector the author focuses on is pinpointing a user who is restoring their system by their IP address and sending down a poison payload.

One way to counteract that is to send this traffic through a Layer 3 proxy. That will obfuscate the true source of the system that is making these reset requests (at least it will mask the IP — not sure if there are other unique identifiers sent along the wire).
Imaginary speculation based on conspiracy theory type assumptions isn’t a strong reason to do anything. That is why I referenced the concerned logical fallacy, because fallacies aren’t worthy of supporting arguments.
My dude, if you review the literature (or just google it) you will find that there is common reference to 'subclinical' and 'asymptomatic' COVID-19. First-page google results for 'asymptomatic COVID-19' include an article in The BMJ from four days ago titled 'Covid-19: Asymptomatic cases may not be infectious, Wuhan study indicates.' I'm not saying I buy the findings in that study, but be conservative with what you claim to be 'common knowledge.'

Again, regarding CT values, continuity of positive nasal swab PCR results can be totally divorced from significantly decreased lower-respiratory-tract viral titers, as the Nature monkey paper you sent me pointed out.

I ask you again: What is the mechanism by which a vaccine takes a person who would normally be symptomatic, and magically makes them asymptomatic, while having zero impact on titers of virus in the body?

I'm not talking about behavior here. I'm talking about direct, biochemical mechanisms inside of the human body.

The vaccine is reducing viral titers. And by reducing viral titers, it is reducing shedding into the lower airway. And by reducing shedding into the lower airway, it is reducing the number of viral particles contained in respiratory droplets expelled from the airway. And by reducing the number of viral particles that exit that airway, it is reducing transmission as it is intended.

Behavior is a separate discussion entirely, but consider the mechanism I have described. It is not only reducing viral titers in those who would normally be symptomatic, it is also reducing viral titers in those who would normally be asymptomatic. Those silent carriers that are walking around among us, well, now they're walking around spreading a hell of a lot less virus. And that is a big deal, especially in places like Oklahoma, Idaho, Arizona, South Dakota, Wyoming, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, etc, which as I mentioned earlier, have zero state-level requirement for anyone to wear a mask at all.

You are claiming [or at least not refuting svrb's argument] that vaccines have no impact on titers of virus in the body, and yet somehow they magically render people asymptomatic by a mechanism as-yet unknown to biology.

That's just not how it works. And the fact that vaccines knock down the amount of virus being spread around is a big deal, especially in places where there are no mask requirements in place.

Earlier you accused me of spreading false information, and asked me to apologize for spreading beliefs that can put people in danger, but have you come to see that this discussion is not as clear-cut and binary as you originally made it seem?

I promise I'm not the enemy.
I'm a mid-level software engineer/SRE. I get tons of recruiters messaging me on LinkedIn, and it's how I landed my last 2 jobs ultimately. So while I'm not a huge plan of using the platform, I can't say it's not worth having a profile on.
Closed systems didn't stop Apple.
Similar to Dylan's experience, sadly Apple canned it and it never got that much uptake afterwards.

However there is OpenDylan for anyone that would like a go at it, including the old book describing the language.
Ugh. Has the author had to use Teams at all? Seriously, call drops multiple times a day, horribly sensitive to VPN use, illogical UI, and the worst of all, it’s notifications are inconsistent, if not bad UX. Slack has its faults, but it’s reliable and sensible. Teams is none of these things.
That’s the beauty of the evolution of C++. Metaprogramming has become increasingly maintainable, as making it a first-class capability of the language is a core focus of the people designing it. The learning curve is finally low enough that it is practical. I think it is fair to say that C++17 is the first version where that is true.

You can’t write a comparable database engine in Go, fundamentally. The language lacks features required for competitive performance. The code difference will be much more than 50% trying to get the most out of what Go is capable of in this domain.

The point of writing code this way isn’t to be clever or for a “thrill”, it objectively produces superior performance, reliability, and maintainability. Defects scale with the number of lines of code regardless of language. Type safe code gen is a powerful tool.
> And, like in art, the formulation matters, and more often than not the best formulation is the original (because its closer to their source, the thinker who came up with those ideas).

This is sometimes true, but I think it depends on who you're reading. The skill of philosophizing, and of carrying on a discourse with other philosophers, is very different from the skill of bringing a novice up to speed. Not everyone who's great at one is great at the other. There's also value in what the grandparent post mentioned about establishing historical and biographical context before jumping into primary sources. It helps you understand what you're reading and what the community thinks is important about it.

That said, I definitely agree that primary sources are valuable to read, and to appreciate as works of art in their own right. Yes Wikipedia can give you the big ideas, but it's just not the same. But hitting Wikipedia first can give you context to get more out of the primary.

> The concept of "state of the art" exists for engineering not art

I don't understand this. Yes philosophy is not a linear progression of ideas, but the iterative process of people building on one another's ideas is definitely present, as it is in music or mathematics or poetry. Philosophy responds to current events, to art, to science, and to itself.

To put it another way, it's totally valid to ask "what was up with philosophy in X decade". You can look at the ideas that were floating around, how they interacted with each other, how they built on the past and led to future ideas. As I see it, that's the "state of the art". It's more a question of "what were top minds in the field working on", or maybe "what ideas were most influential", than anything else, but that's true if you ask that question of technology too.

> Smartphones or cars change messaging methods and habbits, not philosophy.

Philosophy (or philosophers) respond to what's around them. The conversation around whether the brain is a computer, for example, is very different today (and probably more interesting to most people) than it would have been 200 years ago.
As a curious New Zealander, how does one volunteer with a government department? I had always assumed it would have to be strictly a contractor type relationship
How much has this tendency been researched, though? Could there be a confounder where Americans who are more likely to take LSD are more likely to be anti-war for reasons unrelated to the LSD itself?

I agree it's absurd that it's illegal (or that any drug is illegal, but it's especially absurd that LSD is considered more dangerous than amphetamine, as you say), but I'm skeptical both of the motive you state (that the US government banned it because they feared it'd make more people opposed to the war) and that it necessarily correlates much with generating anti-war sentiment in people who otherwise didn't have any.

I think the effects are highly dependent on the environment, the intentions, and existing predisposition of the user and the people around them. For example, it's been reported that viking berserkers used to take psychedelic mushrooms before entering battle, because the mushrooms would help induce the berserk state.
"those questions have proven intractable to philosophy"

There are plenty of philosophers (and non-philosophers) who've thought they did in fact answer such questions, so they would not agree with you that these questions have been intractable.

What philosophy lacks is the broad consensus that science has, there's also arguably no way to "objectively" tell who is right in philosophy, as what that even means or what standards we use is itself open to debate.

"it can offer you no sure answers and no means of mediating between potential answers"

If you agree with someone about the ground rules and assumptions, then you can judge and by some such standards there have been "objectively" provable answers and "progress".

But is philosophy's function to find answers?

Many would say that it's actually more about helping you to find questions.

I've heard that in science finding the right questions is often the harder and more important thing than finding the answers, which are often a pretty straightforward process after you know the questions to ask.

If philosophy can help to ask the right questions, then it can be useful even if it doesn't help you find answers that will convince everyone no matter what assumptions they have or are willing to grant.

People involved in the sciences (and believers in scientific ideals) often pride themselves as being open to questioning everything, and greatly value such openness.

First, this itself is a philosophical position, so if such a position is useful to science then philosophy is useful to science.

Second, while such openness is often claimed as an ideal, in practice it's common for people involved in the sciences (and their fans) not to be so open after all. Philosophical training can help them to be more questioning and see their own assumptions where they might be blind to them otherwise. So this too makes philosophy useful to science (or at least the ideals of science that so many aspire to).

Next, philosophy, like math, is useful for training the mind. You can become a more rigorous thinker by studying philosophy -- this I believe is one reason that people with a philosophy degree are the ones most commonly admitted to law school.

Philosophy could also expand your mind or your horizons, and let you see things from another perspective that you otherwise might have been blind to. That's been one of its most valuable uses for me.
Slack just isn't good enough. It's better than Teams, somewhat, but that's about it.

(Despite having both Teams and Slack the people at my workplace keep spontaneously switching to Telegram because it's cross-platform and very fast, despite being the worse chat app on every feature metric. Yes, it turns out performance and portability is a huge value proposition for endusers if you actually give them the choice.)
India definitely does this. It is usually porn and piracy etc related
The fix that no one seems to talk about is to abolish usury/interest. Islam, Judaism, and Christianity outlawed lending money with interest many centuries ago, and for good reason. Once the core is fixed, we will see benefits across the board almost by definition. Ban parasitic and immoral practices (interest/usury, stock shorting, selling debt for debt, short and long option positions [aka gambling], etc.) and things will get fixed very quickly. Don't forget to return to a properly backed currency, not today's fake currency that allows the government to print money at will.
Huffing Sterno and crying like a baby will save us!

Awesome ref - and an almost exact fit. Loved that book and movie as a kid. Michael Crichton had an interesting mind.
There are a few websites which aggregate VPS offers, for example https://lowendbox.com/ or https://lowendstock.com/

However, you usually get what you pay for, so be prepared for

- long and frequent server outages
- tech support which takes weeks to respond or no tech support at all
- IP changes without warning
- system images which have last been updated 5 years ago
- machines which simply fail to reboot
- retroactive contract changes, e.g. introduction of a "maintenance fee" for already paid services (cloudatcost)
- customer support logging in as root into your machine from Indian IP addresses and changing random system settings

But if you are not concerned about the privacy, integrity or availability of your services, you can often find offers for about $1 per month.
The question realistically is: Would you send your kids to work in a factory?
I mean, that's a pretty great redeeming quality!

I don't see how a high cost of entry is anti-competitive...at least in a way that's google's fault. Many industries have a high cost of entry, and there's entire businesses that crop up to lower it. Technology used to have a much higher cost of entry before cloud computing, for example. If you were doing anything at scale before 2005 or so, you had to own and maintain your own metal. Even Google Maps is one of those cost lowerers. A lot of companies were able to build their business on the back of google maps APIs.
We have been using Teams and the user experience is really bad. If anyone wants to point to Electron and blame it for high RAM usage (causing issues for other applications) and being sluggish, Teams would be the poster child that ticks all the boxes for such characterizations. Frequent disconnects on and before calls, frequent problems with connecting and maintaining the available/connected status, and a myriad other problems make it a big drain on time and productivity. Microsoft also seems to be pushing Teams as a replacement for Skype for Business (or that’s how it seems based on organization decisions).
Not to trout a cliche around since plenty of HN has heard of this already, but David Sinclair’s book Lifespan talks about caloric reduction. Nothing crazy, skipping a meal here and there.
Because lawsuits, and lawyers, are expensive and slow. It’s the same reason lawsuits of equal caliber and concern aren’t generally more common everywhere else. Releasing section 230 would raise the probability of a law suit from 0 to equal every other venue.
You would need it to support one-dimensional views (unless your data is just stored as one-dimensional to begin with). Certainly matlab and Julia do. Don't know of any new 1-based languages either way.
It supports other 2FA methods too (although it's possible your client has set it to force SMS, maybe that's possible)
These 2 worlds increasingly overlap. For example the collateral damage of the 2017 NotPetya cyberattack made tens of multinational companies disclose material impact to their P/L. The retaliatory DDoS attacks following the Iran sanctions in 2012 had a big impact on banks worldwide. Based on these cherry-picked examples you could even say that the real world increasingly needs protection from military-policical fall-out.
It was obvious to me in 1990 that the Intel 486 was the death knell of the minicomputer companies. My 486 PC could run UNIX, was 32-bits, was on par with with the MIPS-based DECstations (also faster than VAXstations) and yet was an order of magnitude cheaper. It did take a while though- a decade later people were still using SUN workstations because the high-end EDA tools were not yet ported to Windows (well 1990 was before even Windows 3.1).
New CRISPR-based Covid-19 test uses smartphone cameras to spot virus RNA
Vonnegut is tough to "comment" on. Good read.
In the ~3 months I've followed DeFi, the interest rates are anywhere from 6% to 50%. I'd guess the average is about 10%, but it's too new to say.
"A brief history of thought" by Luck Ferry is a great book to get started.
Can’t say this about too many other writers, but if you haven’t read Vonnegut no explanation of how insanely original, hilarious, and profound he is will suffice. If you have seen any of the movies they are simply not representative of his writing. I hate to recommend him because he is one of the greats and there’s no better way to get you to flee to Netflix, but I am happy to recommend him because his writing is just plain enjoyable.
1. I used to have a huge glass of Mountain Dew with most meals. I created a new habit, singing a little tune as I had the drink: "Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew, it's the drink that's bad for you." It also helped to think about ingredients, particularly the brominated vegetable oil. That did it.

2. I used to drive while tired. I crashed. This was effective for eliminating the bad habit, but I can't recommend it.
Others are not interested in your socialist/communist policies.
Rather than list all the classics like Plato, Aristotle, Hume, etc., I always suggest that those new to philosophy pick a book that will “shock” them, so to speak. Something that makes the reader go, “Wow, I had never considered the world from that perspective before.”

For this purpose, I recommend some of the following:

- Max Stirner. Sort of a proto-anarchist that critiqued everything and denied the authority of everyone.

- Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morality. The concepts in this book will radically shake up your understanding of modern ethics and values.

- A work about Zen Buddhism. Zen in particular is very focused on the everyday moment, in a way distinctly opposite from the common YOLO / carpe diem idea we’re all familiar with.

- Spinoza. HN’s especially will appreciate the complex, mathematical nature of his metaphysics.
I have Office 365 or something installed on my Mac to use Office tools. A few weeks ago, after a restart, Teams started at login. I’ve never consciously installed it and certainly never set it to self launch, but I wonder if I now count as one of those 115m users?
The Alpha team was lead by Daniel Dobberpuhl who started PA-Semi, later acquired by Apple. So this new M1 chip is a direct descendant of the Alpha..
I deleted my linkedin account. Still employed, no problem in finding new jobs. LinkedIn had negative value for me, took my time and attention and gave nothing back.
Very true. Some bureaucrat would have been clutching their pearls if they were following my undergrad habits for sure.

I think the point is excess. They are specifically working with students with the iq to succeed, but with bad circumstances that make failure likely. Some need to be taught 9th grade math for example. My understanding is they mentor them intensely and almost 80% graduate in 5 years.
Jesus Christ, having used VMS and SunOs back in the day... this is some serious delusion. From a user/programmer perspective, in my experience VMS just plain sucked compared to SunOS. Probably, this was down to the shell. The VMS shell just SUCKED.
> A trailer? For a book. That's new.

Well, actually... https://youtu.be/MyO2k-jApng

This is the first instance I ran into a decade ago.
Pure luck.

The commercial real estate agent that helped us get a couple warehouses does this on the side. He's also a former NFL linebacker, which added to his credibility to some degree (i.e. he wouldn't intentionally be running a scam, tarnishing his legacy etc.)
forgive the abbreviation, I was referring private repositories
Probably phd students excempted (isnt 3am peak productivity?)
Lots of people find LinkedIn to be silly.
> County sheriffs only have direct jurisdiction over unincorporated areas, which are typically rural and are unlikely to be a significant source of spread.

The counties discussed in the linked article are Orange County, Riverside, and other similar counties. These are not "the boonies".
> I would argue that the most important questions for most people are not scientific or mathematical questions, but philosophical ones -- such as:

> - "what should I do with my life?"

> - "what is the purpose of my life or of the world?"

> - "should I help someone in need or help myself?"

> - "what subject (including mathematical or scientific subject) should I study or work on?"

> - "who should live or die, be punished or rewarded?"

> - "how should we structure our society?"

> - "how should we as a society or as individuals spend our money?"

And yet philosophy offers no practical help to the student seeking answers to these questions today. Sure, a philosopher will happily produce a mountain of pages addressing any one of these questions, but you will be no wiser for having read them.
I think that I agree of you, and I'm obviously fond of clever DSL's cough mgmt config cough, but it's not clear what specifics you had in mind here. Share away if you're interested!
The ship part is easy.

What rails operate in that region, if any, that have openly available container tracking?
My point is that it's an inane observation that removing the addictive chemical from the equation will remove the incentives of addicts to purchase that product. This is "fire is hot" type stuff.
Almost the exact same story for me. Working from home for many years, with increasing sedentary discomfort. Daily walks have solved almost all aches and pains.
Meet-Up Video: All About In-App Purchases
Ask HN: Solving wild stego images vs. stego CTF images. What's the difference?
I've read and watched a dozen stego ctf writeups. I thought it would help me decode stego images in the wild. It didn't. Can anyone help?

I used strings, binwalk, exiftool, stegsolve, obscure steganalysis packages, and I've got nothing.

I have a couple images that I know have hidden data in them (did steganalysis on them with multiple packages).

Where am I going wrong?