skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But even after being publicly traded, doing a secondary share offering and dumping it right into the public market is best done when people are FOMOing shares for no reason. You can make a few billion dollars with no effort, owe nobody, and completely mitigate dilution because people were already clamoring for shares, selling into liquidity. Of course if you were issuing dividends those would be diluted until earnings caught up, but, lol dividends. Buybacks all the way.
There's a much bigger debate brewing around what the purpose of a company really should be.

Turns out that focusing only on the cost to the customer means the majority of people work shitty jobs just so they can buy slightly cheaper stuff from other people working shitty jobs. You have to wonder, maybe what's best for people is to pay slightly more for everything and get better jobs all around instead. Even if purchasing power goes down as a result, a slightly more enjoyable 8 hours could well be worth the tradeoff because we spend most of our waking hours working.

If the decreased efficiency anx higher costs were born by the company (i. e mgmt and shareholders) instead of consumers, costs wouldn't necessarily need to go up either.
Violation of privacy policies alone does not give rise to a cause of action. However such violations could be useful as evidence in the context of suing on some other basis. Of course, there is no satisfactory basis to sue tech companies for violations of privacy. That is why privacy is being decimated by tech companies. There are no adequate laws to protect it. Privacy policies seem to be an effective way to placate the public. Users seem to take tech companies on their word.
What is it going to take for the US to do something about the threat from Russia?
> Am I wrong or is the very first sentence of this article factually incorrect?

You are wrong in the simplest sense, a little bit more wrong somewhat more deeply, and possibly even more wrong even more deeply.

> I understand that Google accepted her resignation in the letter

First, you cannot resign with an completely unspecific effective date; a conditional statement that in should particular circumstances you would work with someone to set a final date is not a resignation. So there was no resignation to accept.

Second, even though characterizing it initially as accepting her resignation, Google in the termination notice then immediately turned around and identified that she was being terminated immediately for conduct separate from the resignation.

Thirdly, the fundamental dispute leading up to the whole “resignation/firing” end game was conduct that, from the descriptions throughout Google AI that have come out in response to the management story, is quite arguably the kind of targeted campaign of hostile treatment that defines constructive termination, which would make even an explicit resignation at the end still a firing for many legal purposes.
They're a government contractor. In all probability they give to both parties, and have lobbyists in D.C. taking congressional aides on both sides of the aisle out for cocktails on a regular basis.

What it comes down to is that incompetence is very much bipartisan, if not outright apolitical.
Did you read the article? Airbus A319 is the headliner.
Having the police put a lock on your front door that you don't have the key to will technically make your home "more secure", but not in any way that's useful.

Locking down devices is actually just giving up on security. Trusted code and centralized review don't scale. Real security implies effectively mediating between many different interacting parties, not simply reducing the number of them.
I think his point is that if an attacker wants to give you bad data, there is already zero barrier to editing an XML file inside a zip.
I think the Snowden leaks have showed that privacy is dead and has been for sometime. I’m not sure why you all seem to care? The only choice is do you want the government to have a monopoly over data or have private corporations profit while providing services. Genuinely curious why people are against anonymized tracking.
Fair enough on the frequency argument. But you could easily substitute a different, more apt comparison. Even making the case that sugar laden coffee deserves an equal tax even though it would probably apply to the middle class. It does come across as condescending that since they are likely to benefit, it necessitates the government telling a particular group what personal choices they should make, almost as if they aren’t capable without regulation.

It’s not about “virtue points.” Its about understanding the true nature of the problem. Poorer people don’t disproportionately eat that food just because they’re too dumb to know better or somehow lack willpower. They often lack the time or access to higher quality affordable food. So by taxing it, you’ve just made a hard lifestyle even harder. To a large extent, the food consumption is the symptom of much larger problems. It’s not like just taxing soda will fix the US’s obesity epidemic. (The percentage of calories coming from soda doesn’t actually amount to enough - the numbers I’ve heard are around 6%). If anything, this type of taxation is the feel-good regulation that ignores the root problem. IMO that’s anything but pragmatic and tends to be be a shortfall of technocrats who sometimes fail to see the larger picture that spans multiple domains.

Now if we’re talking about using those taxes to address the deeper problems, I can get on board with that. I’ve yet to have anybody reply to that effect though, almost as if they think banning soda would magically fix our health crises.
I'm not a fan of Windows in the slightest, but it should be noted that the Linux kernel has been moving in that direction for the better part of 2 decades now. The amount of privileged code running in the kernel now is absolutely mind boggling.

I'm really hoping to see an industrial-scale push to develop a solid headless unix-y userland for SeL4.
> I found the ~6 min video embedded in the article worth watching.

This is very good advice. They also have an hour long presentation as well. I haven't watched it yet but I plan to. That 6 min clip was fantastic.

> If I'm understanding it correctly, this technology could ultimately provide a means to generate very realistic holograms (after many iterations and lots of capital investment).

Well, they first used this to disrupt kidney stones but there will be numerous applications to this. Being able to model and control light in ways that we never have before opens up many fields.
US has been on the right side of many things in history, not all of course,

For example, beating the nazis, USA did not invent slavery or the international slave trade, leading the world in charitable donations, etc.

Take a chill pill
The existence of a mutli-trillion dollar advertising industry means you shouldn't be puzzled. The grandparent comment is talking about pushed consumption, i.e. that our economies are based on constantly pushing up consumption, not having it simply be based upon natural, unforced demand. Not to mention things like built-in obsolescence, designed to be thrown away, etc, etc.
It does seem unconditional to hold someone for 5 years without sentencing him. Seems fishy
>big grain of salt

Isn’t the point of the “grain of Salt” to indicate that it is trivial? If so, then by saying “big grain of salt” aren’t you undermining the point of the original statement?

I see this regularly and wonder if I am missing something.
When you have the President firing people (Director of DHS Cybersecurity ring any bells?) for not playing his insane games, does the apple fall far from the tree?

If you think the president needs to actually "understand" anything subtle like (even physical) security, you are being deliberately obtuse or naive.
TikTok Bans MLMs from Platform
Maybe google could roll back the search design just a bit - to the time when the top 5+ results were not ads designed to look as much as possible as regular search results and deceive me into clicking onto an advertisement before I even see the organic results?

There was even a time when all ads used to be in the sidebar and clearly indicated as ads.

How would improving the signal to ad ratio diminish my experience exactly?
That's for data exfiltration. Wouldn't be useful for sending launch and scheduling commands.
Thats a well-poisoning non sequitur.
I think I mentioned in a previous thread that CompatTelRunner/Appraiser is so bad that even MS employees like Billy O"Neal complain about it because of the CPU and HDD/SSD time it consumes.
> but a rising regional power.

It's not rising in any sense.
> Google Search is designed to provide you with the most relevant results. We know that if you don’t like the results we’re giving you, you have numerous alternatives—including Amazon, Expedia, Tripadvisor and many others just a click away.

Christ, whatever committee wrote this blog post really drunk the Alphabet kool-aid.

They can't even bring themselves to name actual search engine competitors.
Search YouTube for a tableau vivant of a lady who opened up her charms directly below the painting. Many gallery goers applauded while the security ladies were very much put off.
It’s a bit like porn or automatic guns, hard to define perfectly but easy to see and discuss.

Not one person thinks of egg yolks or honey when talking about “ultra processed additives”.

I don’t think you’re making any point here about confusion you’re just ranting. If I were to try and extract some coherent positive thought out of this, I’d say a website that tracks and allows discussion of ingredients and products that are good/bad would be interesting so we could stop bikeshedding on naming when obviously there exist many levels of better/worse foods and ingredients.
You have my apologies and my thanks for posting a better link :)
Another bonus with magic links. In my experience people pay waaaay more attention to their email accounts than they do to almost any other authentication system they interact with. So chances are higher that they'll have a secure password, rotate their password, maybe even have MFA. (I said higher, but I didn't say likely ;) .)

Anyway, I think for certain kinds of applications this is a fantastic auth solution.

The only possible downside is that you've introduced a dependency on mail deliverability into a core piece of your application. But email deliverability may be a big enough issue that you want it solved anyway.
Zoomers not liking capitalism is just young people being young.
Going from a lie to the truth would be a start

"Toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes" -> Toxic fumes can seep into the air you breathe on planes"

The original title is also not as bad, I think HN automatically removes the "how"

"How toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes"

We are still at clickbait territory, but it would now be within HN rules with either of those titles.
> Trump fired Christopher Krebs, who served as the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa), in a tweet on Tuesday, saying Krebs “has been terminated” and that his recent statement defending the security of the election was “highly inaccurate”.

Absolutely damning. Sadly even on HN some cybersecurity experts that will trash companies for breaches will turn a blind eye to this because of their politics.
A cold comfort. That is still incredibly embarassing.
Meanwhile the President salutes Kim Jong-Un
Actually industry is what made it possible to outlaw child labor by increasing the productivity of the individual worker so they could afford to live without putting their children to work. You can see this where non-industrialized countries still have subsistence level families that have as many children as possible in order that they may work to support the family. It's not because they are backwards, its because they have no other option because of the lack of capital.
> China deserves it more than us.

That's mental
I'm not qualified to continue this discussion. I have no idea what in heck furins are. I'm just a former homemaker with the rude habit of failing to keel over dead from my condition. I don't speak medicalese.
Selectively removing negative reviews is so sleazy, one wonders if it is actually even legal. Surely there's some truth-in-advertising legislation this falls under?
> Isn’t the point of the “grain of Salt” to indicate that it is trivial?

No, it's from an ancient adage about food being mmore easily swallowed when accompanied by salt. The “grain of salt” you take with a dubious statement with is to make it easier to swallow.

A “big grain of salt” is a suggestion that it needs more assistance to be swallowable than a typical target of the saying.
This is one one hand incredibly satisfying to watch - seeing two multi billion companies decking it out in public.

On the other hand, it is crystal clear that a non-million-pound-gorilla entity simply has no chance in protecting consumers from advanced surveillance capitalism.
Eh, yes. Thank you. =)
I still think that GPL was instrumental at getting linux everywhere, while *BSD, technically superior in 1990s, never attracted as many contributions, especially corporation-backed. GPL serves as a sort of mutual-assured-destruction setup that prevents making proprietary forks and thus incentivizing big players to contribute to the common, free cause.

I think that making the very forces of copyright and profit-seeking work successfully for the benefit of free, universally available software is a feat of rare ingenuity and understanding how humans think and act.
The underwriting of business ventures goes back at least three centuries, and the market process aligns incentives pretty well. But if you think you can price over/under-preparedness better, that sounds like a profit opportunity for you.
Have you considered why there is inflation which always drives down real wages?
Ask HN: Plain Search Engine?
I'm frustrated with search engines second guessing (and failing) me. I wonder if there's an old school simple one, maybe supporting boolean expressions. Or an existing one like DDG could create a simpler hardcore version?
France is 1/3rd higher, and it's centered in relatively fewer big cities - Paris alone is one quarter of the total population of France - no area in the US comes close.

In the US it's worse than the density alone would suggest... because 80% of the country right in the middle geographically has a density that is for all intents and purposes zero.
He was paid 12.7 million from investors....to find gold coins worth 2 - 4 million? How does that make sense? Do all investors get their money back plus proceeds from gold sales, minus costs and a stipend or something?

Also the dude actually does look like a pirate
Good to know the buck doesn't stop at the presidency anymore. Guess it's just a free for all.
Sure, but Olaf? He sneezed his nose off! That's original. That will keep the US at the bargaining table on any geopolitical issue. Heck, China won't even allow the words "Winnie the Pooh" to be spoken on Chinese soil, so that crazy honey addict is in our pocket forever.
Microsoft president sounds alarm on ‘ongoing’ SolarWinds hack
Alas, poor aphantasiacs.
Moz: //Gfx Newsletter #54
> even on HN

The delusions of grandeur HN has about it's own culture is why is still has these biases. There is no politics on HN, ipso facto it cannot be biased.

What the "no politics" really means is no vaguely left-wing shibboleths allowed.
That doesn't answer the point raised by the parent comment. If I need programmers, and I'm only willing to pay minimum wage, then only one or two show up, is there a programmer shortage? There's plenty of programmers available, just not at minimum wage. The same applies to the school district example. The shortage is because they're not willing to raise wages.
> Thompson hasn't just refused to answer questions, the court ruled: He's also violated the requirement that he "assist" the parties by refusing to execute a limited power of attorney to allow that Belizean trust [which Thompsons says owns the coins] to be examined, as required under his plea deal.

It's pretty clear this isn't a case of forgetting. Courts are not as stupid and gullible as tech people sometimes like to pretend.
Everyone hates on Chinese repression and human rights violations until they get the check in the mail. What do you reckon the career prospects are of an Epic employee who criticizes China's treatment of Hong Kong? If precedents are followed, the entire company would be forced to make an embarrassing apology.
True retail is mostly on CEX's. Folks on DEX's are mainly power users.

Also there are two reasons why DEX's have high volume:
- Long tail of assets are only on DEX's. Average retail isn't buying these
- DEFI protocols utilize DEXs. I would argue most of the volume isn't people trading, rather automatic trading to support protocols like Yearn.finance
What's a fancy bus?

Is that like the sawed-off schoolbus?
> consent is simple to gain, who reads the entire ToS and privacy policy?

That's not how informed consent works, you can't just mention the collection of personal data in a privacy policy. Consent must be explicitly requested for this type of tracking, and you must be able to reject it, and continue using the service.

> the bottom line is, do you place more trust in your local lawmakers and the website you are visiting than you do in yourself

The request can be blocked with uBlock Origin, but it's still important to draw attention to tracking that may be illegal, since not everyone has a content blocker installed.
Clickbait nonsense.
Like Intel ones? hint: they are defective and all die. Its like buying used tires for your daily driver.
If it's not self hosted, it doesn't matter if you have the source or not
> many things

orly? name 3.
Congratulations on the launch. Diving in and this looks really great! I'll give more feedback after giving it a go with my coworkers. I love how you documented the journey of building this via livestreaming. Your videos are also quite informative and much appreciated.
I think it’s the “under the hood” that’s the important part here. The salient difference is that calling it a key-value store eliminates the business reason for using it.
If you want to find something you should let that person go and then follow them closely. Clearly this person either really doesn't remember or doesn't want to tell. You can't really coerce it out of them at this point.
I think China has been playing us for years, and doing so masterfully. There's no _good_ reason for the US, with our economy and standing, to be ripping itself apart from within -- but, indeed we are.

Not only is China growing in power and influence, as you point out, it has been investing in American media and other industries. They're famous for playing their strategic game over a long span of time (the long game).

My pet theory is that Hollywood, Silicon Valley and the Left are thoroughly (and probably unwittingly) influenced by the infiltration, and are the medium for memes and messaging that divides us so much. It's as though we're about to re-fight the Civil War. China, the master that it is at cultural revolution and re-education, is playing a shrewd game.

I think they're about to beat us cold by causing us to implode from within. If so, it's beyond sad -- but in terms of military strategy, a brilliantly played hand by President Xi and the CCP.
There are a variety of lubricants, but it is believed that the primary contributor to the problem is the organophosphate (Tricresyl phosphates - TCP / e.g. Durad 125[1]) added as an anti-wear additive.

TCP is a known neurotoxin:

"It is a toxic substance that causes neuropathy, paralysis in the hands and feet, and/or death for humans and animals alike. It can be ingested, inhaled, or even absorbed through the skin." [2]

Below is a presentation based on a PHD thesis on the subject with a lot of detail:

https://www.fzt.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Scholz/dglr/hh/text_2012...

[1] https://petrico.com/products/durad-125/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricresyl_phosphate#Health_cal...
See also the interactive Gyllenhaal Experiment where you can try spelling different last names and see how you compare to others: https://pudding.cool/2019/02/gyllenhaal/
Responding to this might be Bidens first major international crisis. Would not want that job.
Valve contribute directly to Mesa. It's pretty high quality. Less buggy than Windows graphics drivers I'd say.
Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue.
Great initiative! As someone who has worked on Auth systems multiple times, I can so much relate to it. In fact, at one of the jobs I created something quite generic (SSO by SSO, multiple token types, multiple interfaces (including OAuth), multiple password backends, email domain specific verification methods, etc. Wanted to open source it, but then given it was related to security and we were not really a security company, we let go of that plan.

All the best to you and your team!
> ECS

Please to expand the acronyms?
I have always wondered, if I were at the helm of a government asserting MAD capabilities, I would probably just not hold up my end of the bargain. Threatening MAD makes total sense, but once your enemy has assured your own destruction, is there much sense in actually following through? All you are doing is assuring millions of innocent people die for the actions of some generals.

All this to say, that it is unthinkably inhuman to have MAD be an automated response.
How is that slightly more money people are paying for goods going to do anything if people are just paying more for goods? There's one consumer at the end, there are thousands of laborers contributing between extraction of raw materials and delivery of finished product. It seems that in order for appreciably more to be paid for labor, the cost of goods would skyrocket and people would have to learn to have less stuff.

> If the decreased efficiency anx higher costs were born by the company (i. e mgmt and shareholders) instead of consumers, costs wouldn't necessarily need to go up either.

Doubtful. There's not much juice to squeeze from mgmt and labor. Have you looked at returns relative to investment recently?
Monetary policy in an economy addicted to debt and the “need” for growth. Easier to steal value from the working class with inflation (ask your average citizen about the impact of expansionary monetary policy on their personal net worth, the result is likely deer in headlights) than appropriately tax the wealthiest and their wealth/assets.

Thread topic for another day.
Full length video:
https://youtu.be/9hVEJvfWjRQ
+1. An ESP32 can fetch the image, display it, and go to deep-sleep with a much lower power output. The battery will last longer, but getting it much further is harder because electronics will degrade as well.
XML has its own problems but 'has a single canonical implementation in a big hairball of C' is not among them.
I think he even has a trigger on that which sometimes leads to funny situations.
> As a counterpoint to the amyloid hypothesis, we also see amyloid build ups in patients suffering from sleep apnea, and yet they don't show the hallmark signs of dementia or Alzheimers [1].

I feel like the article doesn’t imply that the amyloid buildup causes the dementia/altzheimers. Just that it makes the effects worse.
Neat site. I've been looking for more static site inspiration and this one has a wholesome approach.
A counter-counterpoint: classic for loops are hard to read and unpleasant to work with. They are so annoying, that the language designers extended the language/standard libraries to make them tolerable - array.map in ECMAScript 5, for (x : y) in Java 5 and C++11, foreach in PHP 4, LINQ extensions in C# 3.

A plain old functor/monad has so much to recommend it. You get a uniform way to iterate/transform all kinds of collections, even those which don't support indexing. They can also be used without mutation and are easy to typecheck. In languages with higher-kinded types they can be abstracted over without knowing anything about how the underlying data is structured.