skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Layered complexity induces logical contradictions. Specifically here, the modern world forces many people to fly, even though it technically remains a voluntary activity. Businesses are free to reject serving you for any reason, even making such decisions in lock step with the rest of the industry. Ergo, your right to travel gets constructively neutered through commercial law, even though your axiomatic/primitive rights have purportedly not been violated.

AFAICT the airlines wanted all of that bullshit legislation to indemnify themselves from the damages caused by terrorism. Technically you might be able to create your own airline (and airports) that rejected all of the groping theater, etc. And perhaps after decades of fighting in court you'd win the right for your companies to not have their freedom hampered in such a manner. But none of that is economically prudent, so we're stuck with the blatantly anticonstitutional regulations.
How does it make money? Can't see any pricing on the website. Ads?
Gargling Could Slow Covid-19 Spread [Mouthwash Makers Say]
It's surprising to me how most of those think-pieces about technology invariably oscillate between naive technological neutrality and extreme technological determinism.

Isn't it far more likely that technology is neither of those things?

Technology is a means to an end.

The trouble comes when that end isn't made explicit. For all the talk about SV people being "visionaries", very few of them seem to articulate what their ideal world looks like, and what part the technology they're building plays in it.

Talking about technology as being "neutral" is nothing more than lazy complacency in the face of the hardness of actually coming up with a compelling vision to sell people and reveal their preferences for possible worlds we could live in.

Instead of going through that step, technologists are happy enough to settle on vaguely defined "needs" and "problems" that society has, without considering what matters, which is which needs and problems you prioritize. Human needs are almost endless, but prioritizing different needs results in completely different global outcomes.

That's also perfectly fine, provided that you're explicit about what outcomes you're aiming for, and you've worked out n-th order effects of those outcomes.

Technological determinism is another cop out that allows technologists to never be held accountable for the world they've helped build with the products they've created.

It's technology itself that is determined by conflicting visions. There isn't one "Technium", there's a whole ecosystem of technological systems resulting from different cultures, visions, teleologies interacting in complex ways.

It seems like Kelly is confusing path dependence for determinism. Sure, some technological paths (plural) lead to logical sequences of technologies being developed. Doesn't mean there's only one path.

P.S. Kinda rambling, posting for discussion more than anything else.
It's a rather small field, but IIRC, I had a philosophy professor in college whose specialty was the Ethics, and he had a sideline consulting with hospitals as a medical ethicist. He was also brilliant-- In the course I took with him we covered scientific ethics, one of the more memorable of my academic experiences.
I'm a little bit disappointed, because from the title I expected a little bit of deep dive into the content of the admin panel.

Something like an insight into what kind of secret power or privacy abuse was available to the legal department without the users really realizing.
The new religion of devopers says that shell is obsolete...
The High-Tax End Run Around the Arizona Constitution
Sorry, I meant Shift-G. I can no longer edit that comment.
I believe that they manufactured the rna without access to the virus, just the genome.

I am not qualified to answer whether the spike protein is identical to the one in the virus, but from what I understand it is very close. The protein just doesn't have the virus attached. It's like having a factory manufacturing car door handles but no cars.

Things could go wrong, mostly because some folks may have allergic reactions, autoimmune flare ups, or the increased immune response can cause side effects like Bell's palsy. That said, mRNA breaks down quickly on its own, and the spike proteins will be cleaned up quickly. The odds of a serious complication are very, very, very, very low from the studies performed so far. (Expect some flu like symptoms, however, as your body fights the cells with the modified RNA.)

I'm a total layperson here, just synthesizing what I've read.
I think the Zodiac killer must have wanted this to be broken at some point, maybe they overestimated the difficulty though. It's not hard to make an unbreakable cipher (one time pad, or just doing a large number of transformations), seems like using a fairly simple method was an intentional choice. Or maybe they are just insane, but it doesn't make sense to me that you would actually try and securely encrypt something and then submit it to the public, if there is no target audience you might as well just send random characters.
I wrote this module long time ago
https://github.com/mraza007/terminal-text

This might help
Exploiting a vulnerability to learn and then reveal trade secrets is probably a crime. You have Facebook's tacit permission to look for vulnerabilities, but not to use them or pivot from them.
I have not. This space is fairly new to me, but I am curious. Could you point me to any resources?
> This sort of practice is very damaging to the authenticity of information on the internet.

If you ever inspect Wikipedia, you'll soon realize that most of the internet has already destroyed its own reputation, and worse still is people seem not to care. Wikipedia is full of misinformation, false or misleading sources, people's opinions and biases, broken links, etc.
> [in 1983] all the interesting things about cryptography have already been discovered and that I should work on something else.

Seems like that's a sign that a field is about to have a big discovery.

Zero knowledge proofs were invented in 1985. http://people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/Selected%20Scientific%20P...
No, more along the lines of street and highway incompatibilities. "Software equivalents" mostly aren't.
My big problem with Kevin Kelly and Techno-utopianism is that it squanders human agency. If technology "wants" and "has a will," who cares if a Tesla kills someone, or if lots of people lose jobs, or if our society sleep-walks into a surveillance state. It's all just pre-ordained. Are you a Luddite, man?

But this feels like a blunt debate. Whether to be an optimist or a pessimist doesn't feel like an interesting question. The interesting question is what to build, in a million different details. That's where the devil lies. Believing in technology doesn't absolve us from the consequences of the decisions we make in birthing it into the world.

So much energy has gone into both sides of this debate, and it's been utterly useless, and all the while our Ubers and our Airbnbs and our Waymos have continued locally optimizing the new world. I wish Kevin Kelly and Jaron Lanier and others like them would get more actionable about the big picture.
Not true at all, especially in modern CSS. Position relative is only needed for using absolute positioning. That should be extremely rare.

And overflow: hidden is an old workaround for float-based layouts that should never be used in 2020 unless you’re debugging a legacy project. And even in that case, you should be using a proper clearfix instead.
Nathan Hale America's first spy
Because the FBI accused him of being a hostile foreign intelligence agency and could skip a lot of restrictions in charging him. Assange argued he was a journalist and the USA law protects his actions in the US.
Glucose earring concept imagines blood sugar tracking via the earlobe
Airpods as a health monitoring ( this is Apple's big Vision for Airpods)
The comment I was replying to was doing exactly what you’re doing: responding to cited facts with pettiness. Any information that contradicts your opinions is met with mockery and moralizing judgment.
An egregious overreach all in reaction to the loss of a sum of souls we have since grown numb to.
You can demand whatever you want. You have no leverage.

You can't sell the bug to anyone else (there's no semi-anonymous liquid market for random serverside bugs in line-of-business software, so you're going to end up culpable for whatever the rando who buys it --- for much less than $7000 --- does with it†).

You can disclose to Twitter, but you can do that anyways; all you're doing is foregoing the bounty.

You can tell them "I found a vulnerability in sOmEtHiNg! But I'm not telling you what it is!" but Facebook is beset constantly by bogus bounty claims and they will blow you off.

You can give them a hint as to what it is, to vouch for the legitimacy of your finding, but Facebook has one of the better-resourced security teams in the industry, and they're just going to find it themselves and shut it down without paying you anything.

Part of being a good "agent" is understanding the market you're working in.

† Especially because to even try to put a valuation on the bug --- which, again, ~nobody wants to buy --- you'd have to actively exploit it to see what's on the target system, which is straightforwardly a felony.
Sure, they each have their own specific beliefs. But none of them are tapped into the objective “what a law is”. Because that doesn’t exist. It’s just a nice mythology we tell ourselves in an attempt to trick our brains into thinking a 3 branch form of government with checks and balances is well checked and well balanced (which it may be, but if we think of 1 branch as objective even when it can’t be, it makes us feel better about the whole system).
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This seems related to a post from earlier today that ended up flagged...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25400618

The second link is the same, and the first is linked from the second as well.
>Technology is a means to an end.

It's much more than that. It is a child life-form we've given birth to. And it follows similar patterns to those of our biological children.

a) Eventually, the child becomes stronger and more able than the parent, while the parent gradually becomes weaker and less fit to continue living.

b) The child's behavior into adolescence is largely determined by the parents. Then the child gradually becomes more independent in its thinking, though still largely guided by patterns instilled by the parents.

c) The child eventually becomes strong enough to provide for their parents -- or destroy them. How they approach this power is also strongly influenced by their childhood treatment.

My takeaway from this thinking: Stop cursing out your phone when it's slower than you'd like in fetching what you asked for. :)
You can also use the key on many keyboards labeled "End".
It's one thing to inject an antigen that your body makes antibodies for.

It's one thing to use a viral vector to reprogram some number of cells. Due to the Emergency Use Authorization, much of the safety testing has been skipped.
Facebook Kowtowed to Conservatives and Got Nothing in Return
Were you comparing two identical image? Could you try two different image?
Use neovim instead to solve this problem, :X has been removed (and you shouldn't use it in vim either anyway).
Preschoolers have traditionally been well aware of social politics, carefully choosing what aspects of their home life to reveal to their peers.
This looks really useful -- have you considered selling a print version?
I'm not jumping all over the place at all.

>> he behaved recklessly

Does that mean other people should be treated in front of him? And if that is the case should that apply in other cases where people behave recklessly?

People who shoot IV drugs behave recklessly. People who have unprotected sex behave recklessly.

Are people who do not engage in those behaviours more deserving of treatment than people who do engage in those behaviours?

I've been asking you this question about three different ways and you won't answer the question.
That's the most American comment I've read all day, and that's saying something!
I think it's less "squandering" and more "surrendering to a direction things are heading".

We are no longer the dominant intelligence on the planet. We have as much agency as primates under human rule.
...what? Fedora Linux nee Fedora Core has been doing fine - https://getfedora.org/
Thanks for sharing, that’s a great tool.
The base Polymer 80 frame, which is normally the serialized component, was approved by the ATF. The rest of the components sold in the “Buy Build Shoot Kits”, don’t require a background check. I don’t understand how selling the components together would be considered a violation.
And we (Australia) blackmail drug makers: sell your drugs to us at a certain price and the Government will heavily subside it and you’ll get big sales. Refuse and it will get zero subsidy and nobody will buy it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Benefits_Sche...
Funny how this can reinforce the idea that only incompetent people complain.

Imagine a situation where the company and/or the project have a few serious problems, but the company refuses to fix or even admit any of that. The developers who couldn't live with the problems have already quit. The developers who remained have stopped complaining, because they have given up.

A new developer comes, notices the problems, and starts complaining about them. People notice that the newbie makes a fuss, but nothing changes. Later the developer either quits, or gets used to it and stops complaining.

Here is how the management probably interprets the situation: "People with the least experience complain most. The correct approach is to ignore them, and wait for them to grow up. More experienced developers have realistic expectations and mature behavior."
*in the USA.

Radio receivers and scanners sold outside the USA, even if they are made inside the USA, have no restrictions. US manufacturers usually label these radios as "export" versions.

It reminds me of the early days of web browsers when "export" versions of Netscape and IE only supported a maximum of 56-bit encryption for SSL.
To listen well, get curious
>Conversely, in a browser without js, m.facebook.com redirects to mbasic

Yep, which means all the links I open in new tabs all take me to the homepage.

Worse yet, whatever is in those tabs will likely never be served to me again, so if I don't review them all now, that information is gone.

If I wanted to reliably stay on top of friends and groups updates, I'd have to check each page individually.
I am shocked as well. Thanks for bringing it up!
I don't believe that Scalia has ever been embarassed by his blatant intellectual dishonesty in efforts to justify a conclusion he'd like to reach.
Because the government said so. Really, I am not joking. That’s all it is. Will be interesting to see what the courts say if it makes it that far.
What’s the difference between a court opining that a law is unconstitutional and a court interpreting a law as unconstitutional?
>"But none of them are tapped into the objective “what a law is”. Because that doesn’t exist."

Well there are canons of interpretation, each of which describes how one can read and understand what legislation and law mean. You seem to be dismissing the canons as being incorrect, and I'm not exactly sure why.

Do you think it is possible to interpret a law faithfully? What about a contract?
I wish whatever you were doing had peaked. We need less of it.

In fact, this is a good question. As described in this thread (a transposition cipher layered over a substitution cypher) this is something easily crackable. And in fact, in the video we see an example of that easy automated cracking, once they'd figured out a roadblock issue.

They touch on the actual difficulty in the video, but it obviously bears repeating - errors. Zodiac apparently screwed up in a few places, dropping a characters, misspelling words (maybe intentional), and so on.

These days we tend to think of cyphers as mechanically perfects, and it's easy to not realize that this was created by an amateur with pen and paper.
Bay Area to Austin: A Breakdown of the Financial Savings
Not quite. Let's say I know you're cheating on your partner: I can tell the partner, and that's legally fine. But if I say "I'm going to tell the partner if you don't pay me $7500" then that is not fine, even though the first action is legitimate. Coercion really is quite a bit about the second part as well.

I'm not sure if this rule would cover all coercion/blackmail, but a rule like the following is probably a good guideline: If the first part negatively impacts the "victim" while the second part positively impacts the other person, it's might be getting close to coercion territory.

Let's take your cake example: The person with the cake isn't really negatively impacted. If they don't like the cake, they aren't materially harmed by someone else eating it. Although even there, context matters: Let's say you're a baker, and you sell cakes, even ones that you don't like yourself (maybe you hate buttercream icing). Taking your cake and eating it when you might otherwise have sold the cake and made money would be a problem.
NextMind ships its real-time brain computer interface Dev Kit
It is not trade secret.
It would be in the public interest. Just let me remember you that we are speaking about Facebook and user's privacy...

As we have discovered through recent scandals, a lot of people are not aware of the level of abuse on their privacy they expose themselves by using Facebook.

But just reusing the devil's argument, if they have nothing bad to hide, there is no issue to be transparent...
Speaking of things that are bad, the javascript that repeatedly tries to load profile images from twitter makes everything on the page jump up and down multiple times per second when the images are blocked by an adblocker.

But yes, installing Chrome is always a bad idea. Use Chromium if you must test your webapp, but use Firefox for your actual day-to-day browsing.
> Ms. Fan’s legitimate rights have been fully ensured

If she was able to find a lawyer, and hire that lawyer, and it was not a CCP plant, and if the lawyer won the case, neither of them would be allowed to leave the courtroom.

Then the CCP would go after the families of both her and her lawyer, and cancel any pensions and demolish their houses.
FB isn't pro-Republican, but forget about that - what bothers me these clowns are endorsing crony capitalism when they say private companies should kowtow to those who can give them something in return and now that's "anti-Conservatives", wink wink.

Why not kowtow to China or Russia, if they can give you more in return?
I don’t go out nearly as much as I should but if I lived in Texas (as I have for several years previously) I would never enjoy being outside other than in the winter. That’s just not healthy.
Right. The title is misleading. The original Japanese newspaper article (https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQODC037540T01C20A2000000) just states that the research prototype car is planed to be made in 2021.
The requirement that scanners not be a silly modifiable to restore the AMPS bands was loosely interpreted. On certain older RadioShack scanners, you could unsolder some diodes on the main logic board and full coverage would be restored.
Data Compression with Arithmetic Coding
Used to live in Texas for several years. 3M has little in common with Silicon Valley but those other companies are legit so I am willing to say I don’t know enough and I am eager to see how this turns out. I was trying to appeal to others experiences of Austin when mentioning conferences. I assume more people visit than live there on this site. For me, Austin would be pretty awful to live in year in and out by comparison to Silicon Valley even with having to wear N95 masks during fire season.

Also just wait for Analog Devices to buy Cirrus and relocate them back to SV. (Totally kidding)
That python client seems very lack of maintenance. It doesn't have proper color code for Windows at all.
There is no diminution of human agency because of technology, but there is a strange, almost heterarchical redistribution of it. There is no technology which dominates us both as individuals and collectively. There is technology which some humans use to dominate other humans, and technology which collectively we seem to be somewhat defenseless against, despite it having very little agency itself.

But neither of those two cases are caused by a "more" dominant intelligence.
That's not how that works at all. You absolutely do not have a right to hack into private companies "in the public interest".
> This would require filenames became valid utf-8.

No, it wouldn't; you'd just get EINVAL if you pass a filename containing "\x20" to open or other syscalls. If a application wants to use "\xC2\xA0" in a filename, it can do that, or it can not do that, same as currently. Same applies if it wants to use, say, "\xAA\xFF".
This blogpost is unfortunately barely readable on a small screen, because of the fixed line widths.
How come it's an unearned windfall and not return on investment of sorts?

Developing the technology that has become the standard takes a lot of resources; you have spent them.

Standard bodies usually compare several technologies and pick one; you have risked that your development effort would not make it into the standard, and would be a dead end.

It looks a bit like bidding for a military contract. Did General Dynamics receive unearned windfall when USAF accepted their bid for a fighter jet, and kept paying for each F-16 they ordered? Surely the price of each included a part of the R&D costs.
This is something I've thought about as well. Someone's going to eventually build a big business with a power delivery company. They bring their battery-laden van to your location and charge your vehicle, either for emergency assistance or for scheduled charging.

Or, you have some special trains (not in the US of course, since trains are an evil liberal vehicle) where your car is parked for some journey and charged at the same time; you take a nice break, get some food, visit the WC, and then take your car at a stop at the next major city.

Lastly there's the battery swap option, which is probably the best overall solution. Batteries get mass transported, and a smart logistics system ensures that everyone has power when and where they need it.
Rimac C Two
Re-Assessing Elite-Public Gaps in Political Behavior [pdf]
Back when analog cell phones were still a thing on the few scanners you couldn't make a trivial modification to enable receiving the cellular frequencies (e.g. switch them into export mode) you could often just tune into some harmonic.

I wonder if truckers still call a lot of phone sex?
Oracle already offers one, depending on your level of trust (or distrust) in future support from them

https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/
I take it that was related to the munitions classification for encryption?
> Financing development of Linux is a bad thing?

When they do it by screwing over their users, yes.

> Introducing Linuxisms in ... Linux?

Introducing non-portable ways of doing things that were previously portable to non-Linux OSs, yes. It's certainly a minor point since if anything some of those changes increased portability within the Linux ecosystem, but I can sorta see "introducing Linuxisms in areas that previously weren't Linux-specific" (ex. `service foo start` did the same thing on RHEL and FreeBSD; `systemctl start foo` isn't going to be a thing on any BSD).
Talking about ladies and tigers...

There was a young lady of Niger

Who smiled as she rode on a tiger.

They returned from the ride

With the lady inside,

And the smile on the face of the tiger.
We Need to Tackle the Carbon Emissions of the Wealthy