skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these systems are just too complicated. We keep adding features on features to software without a second thought, because it's invisible and you can't immediately tell from looking at it how insane it is, in a way that you wouldn't be able to ignore if these were mechanical systems.

Also, not that it would have prevented this attack, but as a community we desperately need a fully open source FPGA-based ultra simple firewall appliance. The absolute minimum set of configuration options, the simplest possible hardware architecture; something you could actually trust with your life. Right now I have zero confidence that any of the commercially available security appliances are actually secure against nation-states.
I get you! This is something that impacted blind individuals. I didn't know. Thanks.
> It's strange for Americans to be on the business side of a propaganda weapon, as we're more used to using against our enemies.

Funny that no top replies pounced on that starting axiom. USA have been widely known as a propaganda massive producer firstly toward its own citizens, even today. From military cult, pledge at schools, commies witch hunting and globalisation hammering, and of course, all your religions and sub-religions, you all have been living and keep living inside daily propaganda.
> anyone with an allergy cannot have the vaccine

Or "anyone with a history of anaphylaxis to a medicine or food should not get"? Do you have a source for anyone with any allergy being denied the vaccine?
It's true. Half the value comes from the fact that you aren't doing it alone. The other half comes from the pressure to finish.
> That's a caricature of liberals you'd expect to find being pushed on people to elicit an endorphin response to confirmation bias.

Funny :D

>You can't spend more than 2 seconds researching modern liberalism without civil liberties coming up.

Civil liberties != individual freedom

They actually are more often than not antinomic.
> So yep I really like this Johnny.Decimal idea, simple and workable.

Seems to be no different than this:

>something that rings alarm bells is if the Project Manager has created sixty empty folders in Sharepoint arranged into a three level hierarchy

Except that it's a hundred empty folders in a two level hierarchy replicated by convention across different systems, including Sharepoint if your organization uses it.
The author might be a zealous sceptic of crypto in general and I lean more on the crypto-optimist side but Tether well-earned the scepticism. It honestly worries me to no end that people keep cashing out in USDT, because it is non-auditted, no proof of sufficient backing or collateralisation.

The last audit Tether had was in 2018 I believe, and then it was found they are only 70% backed by equivalent fiat [1]. God knows how much unbacked USDT they printed in between then and now. Other stablecoins are much safer: USDC is more than 100% backed by fiat USD [2] and is audited by several firms at set intervals. DAI v2.0 (MCD) is also over collateralized by a large margin. I personally prefer DAI for my stablecoin needs.

Tether has also been rife with scandal [3]. I hate to see so many DeFi projects relying on USDT. People need to start to exclude Tether because they resist transparency and accountability, completely antithetical to the cryptocurrency ethos.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/tether-sa...

[2] https://news.bitcoin.com/tethers-stablecoin-dominance-drops-...

[3] https://cryptopotato.com/the-downfall-of-a-stablecoin-tether...
The USA and Saudis already had a deep relationship by the end of WW2. Faisal was even here in the Bay Area in 1943 to see the shipyards building the fleet of tankers that carried Saudi oil and won us the war.
Then you shouldn't entrust your money to that business.

The problem is the false sense of safety implied by regulatory control.

Rather than inducing market incentives for transparency and increasing consumer intelligence over time, regulatory bodies want you to “just let us handle the tough stuff.”
Disabling swap files is smart especially if you edit files directly on a web server using vim. I've found index.php~ and .index.php.swp on a number of web servers over the years.
But it’s not actually syntactic sugar in java. There is a whole concept of type-signature which is part of method look up.

Without overloading lookup would just be via name.
His eyes' movement is bothering me. Is he reading a script on his screen?
I've been a cyclist in a major US city and I believe there needs to be a far more extreme approach for bike advocacy.

As a starting point: ban cars from city centers. That should be the opening point of negotiation from cyclists. From there, maybe we can negotiate down to fixed infrastructure with separate cycle lanes. But the Overton window needs to be shifted dramatically.
This story is about a systemic failure of policing leading to people being regularly victimized, which seems pretty political to me.
“These prisoners are sleeping in what looks like dozens of stacked bunks in a large open room, hardly college dormlike conditions”

Nope, more like the condition those who volunteered to serve their country by putting their actual physical lives on the line have to live in, along with the “hard labor” of boot camp and training. All for $1602 per month US dollars to start.
Preliminary results from a study in the United Kingdom, conducted by the University of Nottingham for the Department for Transport, show that filtering is responsible for around 5% of motorcycle Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI) accidents. Bicycle statistics are harder to come by.

But sure it’s “perfectly safe” and even occasionally legal. Frankly the number of people defending this practice is a significant sign it’s a real problem.
They aren’t slaves, they’re just people extremely happy to get a wage of $10k per year, which would be unobtainable for most of them any other way. The fact that this means they under cut US manufacturing wages by more than half isn’t really their fault.

As for bringing back manufacturing home, you need to find two things to make that work. First massive subsidies and tariffs to drive up the cost of foreign imports, imposing huge costs on tax payers and consumers; and tens of millions of people willing to work in factories. The US long term unemployment rate in 2019 was about a third of a percent. Where are you going to find the money, and where are you going to find the people?
The hack involved the creation of counterfeit tokens, essentially electronic indicators that provide an assurance to Microsoft or Google about the identity of the computer system its email systems are talking to. By using a flaw that is extraordinarily difficult to detect, the hackers were able to trick the system and gain access.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/us/politics/russian-hacke...
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I really don't get what you're saying here. You get paid for 100% of your time, you just get to work on something beyond your direct responsibilities that still benefits Google for 20% of it.

If you're alluding to "120% time", fair enough, but that's not what GP was referring to.
I didn't know six year olds could run over 20mph.
Shameless plug:

I created a tutorial on Linux Terminal Tools a while ago where I covered many topics but not in too much detail. Perhaps going down the rabbit holes on these slides might help: https://ketancmaheshwari.github.io/pdfs/LPT_LISA.pdf
Could you expand on that?

We're moving to 365 and I'd like to know what f*ckery to expect. =(
Lobbying and Campaign Contributions by Pharma and Healthcare, US, 1999-2018
Good to hear from you, and I really like what you were doing with numworks. Did you ever get past the license issue? To appeal to tinkerers and get a community of hackers enthused it would be preferable to have an open source license.

Also, have you seen the DM42? It's not a graphing calculator, but since similarities exist with numworks.
Crooks. Or fools.

It is Other People's Money. Definitely crooks
Sounds like “needing” to check speed is a great justification for building a surveillance system.
C is unusual though in that it's a minefield of undefined behaviour. It's very easy to think you truly understand the language but to have no real understanding of its many curious rules around undefined behaviour. You can't take a try it and see attitude, you need to be a language-lawyer.

Of course, even if you understand the rules you'll still accidentally write code that invokes undefined behaviour, which is much of the reason languages like Zig exist.
Turn and face away from the street to forcibly yield right of way.

Drivers blowing through crosswalks (especially unmarked crosswalks) are far more common, to the point that it's unsafe to make a mandatory stop on a two lane per side road, because that risks killing the pedestrian when a driver in the second (left) lane illegally zooms past the stopped car and hits the nearly invisible pedestrian.
They count on drivers being enticed by the apparently income without realizing the true net gain. Hidden expenses include: vehicle depreciation, repairs, gas, etc.

If those expenses aren’t taken into account, the jobs seem pretty decent. If you take those into account drivers would realize they’re making far less than they think.
> Eclipse does not play well with my window manager.

For sway, _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 solved most of my issues with java apps.
What's on your VS Code Homescreen?
Evidence that investors penalize female founders for lack of industry fit
Biker isn't an inherent attribute. I'm not going to abandon my family and job just for better bike paths.
You're assuming consumer intelligence is a static property.

You're also arguing a false dichotomy. (“Either taxpayers have to get smart, which they aren't, or we have to use regulators.”)

Getting screwed is part of any learning process, and lessons about individual cases can be encoded at large; I'm just arguing that regulatory bodies are one of the worst ways to do that.

I'd rather have 1,000 independent pen testers examine a bank[0] (and be compensated for it) than some operating manual–laden bureaucracy applying the same standard test every shark working at a bank knows how to side-step.

An infinite regress of regulation is a waste of human intellect and creativity.

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[0]: Imagine a bank in the style of an Open-Access Startup where the books and assets are laid bare, either to the public at large or their clients. This is no longer practically infeasible in the era of the crypto-ledgers but what engineer in their right mind would willingly enter the total regulation shitshow that is today's American banking industry? The best engineers have choice, so they go elsewhere.
To join prior to college is pretty hard and normally with great visibility if one made it. Otherwise it’s like a chore task for common students who cannot afford go abroad and wishes to join state owned enterprise
I have heard of eBlocker but haven't personality tried it.
For a detailed video describing the Aegis Ashore missile defense system that protects Ramstein go here: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/aegis-combat-s...

And some deployment history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defens...
Apparently some of the people on the list hold positions in Western companies. Which is probably of interest to those businesses and citizens of those countries.
Just generally they spent the last 10 years cramming so much crap into the outlook desktop client that it’s horrible to use. The web client is better than the desktop one now.

Rest of office is pretty good. Do not worry about this. It works well.
We didn't need Stalin to fight Hitler in 1936. Maybe not even in 1938. By 1941, we sure did. (If we had stood up to Hitler in 1936, the world would have been a lot better off.)

Back to the larger argument. Declaring "they're both corrupt" is appropriate if, in fact, they are both corrupt.

Are they both corrupt? As both mellosouls and throwaway9980 pointed out, the Democrats did their absolute best to cancel the results of the 2016 election. Can we say that both of those are bad? If not, why not?

And if you say that the Republicans are worse because, first, it's now, and second, because they're using more extreme methods, I would agree with you on both grounds. But are you against trying to overturn elections? Or are you against Republicans? Which is it?
Check out the wikipedia page on initial-stress derived nouns. [1] It's quite illuminating!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun
Moneybookers (Skrill) introduced a similar dormant account fee a few years ago. I hadn't used my account for a while, and then I needed to use it, so I first logged in to check if my account balance was negative, before I deposited money to it. It was $0, great, I can safely deposit. And what do ya know, as soon as my deposit hit that account, Moneybookers retroactively applied a dormant account fee to my account. They even forged the timestamp for the fee event in my account history to pretend like it was applied several months earlier, when in fact it was applied only after I deposited.
This seems to all hinge on an overly specific definition of 'overt'.... while it's definition is something done openly with no attempt to hide, sometimes it is used for effect, to say something unintended is actually so apparent that it almost seems like it must have been done intentionally.

You might want words to be narrowly defined and used, but that isn't how language works.
As someone who has been rear-ended by a cyclist that was riding way too fast downhill and didn’t notice me stopping at a stop sign... that sounds like a terrible policy.

Thankfully a “prove your innocence” approach would be unconstitutional in the US.
That pretty much looks like what I want. I use VimR on the Mac with its multiple windows as opposed to multiple terminal window and vim. But this is close and I'll see if it work with VimR.
First, we need to get to 100 years from now without a collapse in our technological abilities, which is not a given considering how bad our general understanding of science and technology is at the moment.

History shows that whatever our “purpose as a species” is, those with more power will want to take more from those without. This is incompatible with “maximis[ing] healthy and dignified earthly life” for most of the population. And there is nothing to be optimistic about; this won’t change in a century or a millenium.
So the updated values on the original page are now:

> Intel/M1 ratio 1.2 0.9

> As you can see, the older Intel processor is slightly superior to the Apple M1 in the minify test.

I'd consider it as bigger news that M1 in one of the two tests chosen by the author (utf8) 10% faster than Intel, and in another (minify) only 20% slower, which is for most purposes something that most users won't even be able to notice. It's quite remarkable result. I'd surely write:

"As you can also see, in the UTF-8 validate test M1 is superior to older Intel processor, and in the minify test only 20% slower, even if Intel uses more power to calculate the result!"

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(Additionally I use the opportunity to thank again to u/bacon_blood who verified the initial claims and u/messe who figured out what the remaining bug in the author sources was! Great work!)

(Edit: the ratio 1.16 is from older native measurement. So I've also made an error in the previous version of this comment! I've wrongly connected that with the Rosetta 2 produced code. I've deleted that part of this message. Still the difference between 1.07 and 0.9 measured on two different setups is interesting, when another test is close enough).
People prone to serious hatred should be trolled until they stop taking their hatred seriously. They themselves are who actually makes them unhappy.
I can't speak for the parent poster but here in Sweden it required a ruling by the Supreme Court to determine that dash cams should be legal. Until then the footage was inadmissible as evidence, as far as I'm aware, because it was effectively seen as illegal surveillance.
> If they are found to be below a certain ratio of the actual BTC denominated liability, they may run into quite a bit of trouble.

I highly doubt PayPal is playing that game. Bitcoin is highly volatile and can x10 its price easily. That could bankrupt PayPal overnight if people tried to sell in the short-squeeze.
Would you learn a framework right off the bat or are the jobs available with just vanilla JS?
> Regarding feed metrics from Brave, what information would we give over?

There should be none to give, which is perfectly aligned with your goal to have no knowledge.

Brave [the company] should consider interfering with RSS metrics as verboten has interfering with web page metrics. That means that clients/user-agents should grab feed updates from the original RSS, using ETags and Last-Modified to avoid unnecessary fetches of unchanged feeds. (Caching for temporary unavailability is normal and fine.)

> …I'm not sure I understand why a feed source needs to know if a viewer is accessing the content via Brave or Chrome.

You brought this up, but it isn't a concern I've expressed. Brave Today would ideally have a uniquely identifiable user agent for RSS metrics, but I don't know that it's necessary.

(That's all I have to say about this. Thanks for listening.)
This is one of those stay off my lawn moments but involving computer resources.
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> There's no excuse for bad testing demographics

There never is a "bad testing demographic". The testing demographic can only be "good" or "bad" in relation to the population the vaccine is going to be certified for.

> If only whites are tested then we'd only find out in the wild if it works on non-whites or has adverse effects on non-whites, which is obviously hideous.

That's absolutely correct, if a vaccine is tested on a specific demographic, it should only be certified for that demographic, and only be given to other people after additional tests. In this context, if the FDA notices that there are not enough non-white people in the testing group, the FDA should not certify the vaccine for non-white people. White people can already start being vaccinated, and additional tests need to be performed on non-white groups. The role of the FDA is precisely to notice these stuff, react accordingly, and keep phrama companies in check.

It's already what we are doing for people suffering for immunodeficiency. We develop a vaccine explicitly without including them in the trials - because it's harder to make a vaccine considering them. We certify the vaccine for the non immunodeficient people - as fast as possible. Then we will start looking for a vaccine for immunodeficient people at a later stage. First by testing the already developed vaccine - or by looking in another way if that does no work.

What Pfizer exec decided to do, is put speed above all. And they were absolutely right to do so. They published they trial sampling details and it's up to the FDA to certify the vaccine for the part of the population the FDA think the sample was good enough for. And require additional tests for the others.
Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out
My experience while working there was that like most things the experience varied hugely depending on your manager and your current rating. For me, it was also kind of irrelevant since I'm one of those "weird" people that write code to relax in my "spare" time. Google didn't care what time of day you worked, I would find myself during the weekend trying out different things with map/reduce to see how different algorithms would need to be adapted and what not. Was that 20% time or just using the company's assets to indulge my curiosity? A bit of both I guess.

As a manager I'm pretty cognizant of the risk of burnout, and one cause of burnout is being hammered by a problem day in and day out. To avoid that I always coached my team members to have "three" jobs, one was their main job, one was their time to work on things that were important but not urgent, and the third was to indulge their curiosity and learn something new or further their understanding of something. But I also respected people who wanted to just "do their job" and go home, so for them we'd keep it simple about what was expected and how it was measured.
Doesn't China also have the problem where helping the victim is considered an admission of guilt / attempt to over up, because an innocent person wouldn't give of themself to help?
I actually don't think that, I'm just pointing out there are options for those who do...
Would be more than happy to pay for early release similar to Mulan on Disney+ in order to maintain financial sustainability of the industry. Even before Covid I just didn't want to go to the theater anymore just like I don't want to go to the arcade to play video games.
Yes it's a weird feature but I found myself drawn to it. Just like with natural language, sometimes the 'unless' keyword feels like a better fit.

Both keywords work in postfix form, and this is how I usually use 'unless' so it reads more like a sentence.

do_thing() unless ($a == 1);
do_thing() if ($a != 1);
??? What does this have to do with 'minorities' (If you are referring to the FDA requirement, it's not about public trust so much as literally a medical requirement to include people of different ethnic groups to measure potential differing response, which is normal in such trials)

??? And what are you talking about 'rushed'. I'm not talking about changing the nature or timeline of the trial. I'm talking about ramping up production before the vaccine is proven to be safe and working, because the opportunity cost of 'COVID shutdowns' are 1000x greater than the lost opportunity cost of wasted spending on manufacturing vaccines that work.

Again: we should have been mass producing the potential 'good candidate' vaccines months ago. It doesn't matter if some of the failed to pass muster, it would have been well worth any potential wasted money on making vaccines that we can't use.
I'm not sure about you specifically, but these are financially motivated crimes, and generally reducing poverty dramatically reduces crime.
I provided two books as requested - an old favourite (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams) and a recent fantasy novel (The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin). My recommendations were... unhelpful? Lots of children’s books and comics (including Calvin & Hobbes), peppered with the occasional P. G. Wodehouse.

The latter is particularly strange to me, since Douglas Adams was a huge fan of Wodehouse, used very similar humour, and even wrote forewords for Wodehouse re-printings.
In practice it looks like this: here's stuff matching "payroll schedule" - "payroll schedule 2018", "payroll schedule template", "payroll schedule for contractors", "payroll to reschedule July 2017", etc.

It's a common issue with intranets. There's lots of content, but not enough traffic to figure out what you may be interested in. And even if there was, you may not be after the "most popular" item.
I'm with you on that apart from "will not." It's hard to predict the future.

Also at the Dec 2017 peak tethers market cap was about US$1bn and now $20bn for much the same bitcoin price suggesting they may have to print more to prop things up. Or not. Dunno - quite interesting to watch.
You don't need 100k accounts, you just need enough upvotes to get to the front of an individual subreddit, and content good enough for real people to take it from there.
Road cycling as a hobby starts in the middle class and goes all the way up. A lot of rich people ride bikes themselves.
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