skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha entire evolution has been all about "cashing on genetics". As a society our aim should be to let people of a wide variety of genetics, cash in on their respective "lottery" instead of arbitrarily drawing lines at intelligence or even steadfastness or whatever else.
There is RISC-V.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22463749
Apple needs to do a serious architecture of how its own apps work. Its clearly unacceptable that their own apps are not sandboxed to the same level as everything else. If its not possible to implement all of imessage with the public APIs then they need to find a way to expose those private APIs publicly in a safe way.

imessage and facetime have been a constant source of exploits.
I doubt there is lots of JS code in NPM which is independent of either Node or browser APIs when including transitive dependencies. But that is besides the point. I said no NPM as in no access to NPM. Not just no node APIs. Let's say you install a library from npm using either npm or yarn. Its downloaded into the node_modules directory. how would you require it as an es6 module?

Another poor design from the GNOME team. How is the JS code in the gnome extension distributed? It is embedded in .so files! so much for hackability. (I learned this when upon a fresh Ubuntu install I run into bug in my gnome shell version which was a one liner fix but I couldn't find the file in the backtrace.)
In the US, if you have local, small ISP(s) serving your address, you really should give them a try.

Here in San Jose, CA, I'm pretty happy with Sail. It actually took me around a year to bring them to me: Initially my address was not served by them, I have to say I "want business internet" on their website to make someone contact me, and eventually bring their residential service to me (they use some short range wireless technology, a dish but not pointing to satellites but their other relay dishes nearby, so the latency is much better than satellites).

Another thing is that I refuse to use any service that doesn't allow me to use my own router directly without any additional NAT. This is why I chose Sail over Sonic, a more popular local ISP in the Bay Area: In my area Sonic's only service is the one they resale from AT&T, which doesn't allow you to use your own router.
As someone who has played with writing trading bots but never traded them with real money, some advice: if your results seem too good to be true, they probably are. Your trading bot may be doing unrealistic things or its results may not be reliable if the following are true:

- You are trading in a market with low liquidity or one that is controlled by a small number of market participants. I'm not an expert but I think this would apply more to markets like penny stocks and less to big markets like forex for major currency pairs

- You are not taking transaction costs into account or not doing so properly

- Your bot makes a low number of trades, making the results close or equivalent to lucky coin flips

- Your bot is simply making trades that cannot be executed, or may be doing simulated trades of something that is not actually tradable. This applies to a large number of research papers that assume you can just buy and trade the S&P 500 itself. You can trade ETFs that are tied to an index but an index is not a tradable instrument in of itself. Once you realize this, a lot of papers seem very weird

- You are not modelling other aspects of the trading process realistically, such as assuming the bot has infinite funds to trade, allowing it to take unlimited losses and continue trading when in reality you'd be hit with a margin call and your trading would be stopped

- Your code is committing any number of data snooping errors where the bot is asked to trade at time A (say the open of a trading session) but has access to future data (say the closing price of that day, future data that would not actually exist in a live environment)

- Depending on what you believe about how market conditions change over time, your bot may have worked in the past but would not work if used today. I.e., the market may have adapted to whatever edge your bot may have discovered

There are probably lots more pitfalls I don't even know about since I'm not an actual trader.

I'm not discouraging anyone from playing around or trying things, of course. I think it's great fun, which is why I do it.

Here's the good news: if you realize you don't actually have an edge and avoid risking your hard-earned money, you come out ahead of almost all people who ever trade.
Okay, think about the person who goes into porn.

Have you seen Hot Girls Wanted? What was the average salary of female porn talent, annually, again? Less than $40,000 if I recall correctly? If even that much? It might have been $35,000.

That's $17.50 an hour. That's a line worker at an injection molding plant making car parts. And that's a job that gets you health, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability insurance, and a few other perks. That's in Arlington, TX. I know that because I have a family member who works there. She also gets every holiday that the corresponding GM assembly plant gets, because after all, why do they need to be at work if GM isn't making cars? And this is a job that is so "demanding", you don't even have to submit a resume. You literally just show up, take a drug test, get 2 hours of training in a classroom, get 4 hours of training on the factory floor, and you start the next day. She did.

If porn actors and actresses had the wherewithal to actually set up all the necessary shit to run their own studios... they wouldn't need to do porn.

You have to understand cameras, optics, lighting, video and sound editing, advertising, search engine optimization, website creation, front-end development, back-end development, etc. and so forth.

The "whole package" stack for a single person, or even a small group of people, wanting to get into porn, is significant. Anyone who has even a few of the skills I listed above, doesn't have to get fucked on camera for money.
Facebook tells business users that iOS 14 privacy features will impact marketing
I wouldn't say it has no purpose existing, but it is the path less trodden so you'll run into more issues.
I find it really exciting to be part of a generation that discovered the internet (which was mostly a synonym for the www and the irc) in the mid-late 90s, as opposed to the current ones who had always internet present in their lives.

Back then, at least in my country, internet connections were very scarce, nobody had internet at home and "connecting" to the internet was actually a thing... So you can perfectly remember the first time you got into the internet, which one was the first site you visited, from where, and how you discovered that world that today almost everybody is familiar with.
Yeah definitely. If programming genius had a unit it should be called the bellard.
Autism is a spectrum disorder, defined by just a list of traits, one of which you describe. So it is, by definition, autism.
How could a people with only sticks and clubs* for weapons possibly invent time travel?

* (Einstein)
In my case, that would be Mammon
The swiss right in the center of europe can very well imagine

https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/2500-franken-fuer-62-kilomet...
This may not be recent, or lesser known, but one thing I appreciate more and more, and I believe is becoming more prevalent is the ability to exit a modal by clicking anywhere in the dead space surrounding it. Saves a click, and since the target area to click is much bigger, it's faster/easier to me than zeroing in on a small 'X' button.
Encryption with a backdoor is never safe.
"In July 2020, KISMET was a zero-day against at least iOS 13.5.1 and could hack Apple’s then-latest iPhone 11."
That hardly seems out of the norm to be honest. Plenty of companies make comparably trivial mistakes from what I have seen. Plenty of companies accidentally leave things with their default password. They allow untrusted devices onto their networks. They allow employees unrestricted access to all of their documents on their personal computers. Looking at more specific cases, there was this case where a macOS update allowed anybody to log into root without a password [1]. How about this one where Intel AMT allowed anybody to log in with an empty password [2]. Obviously these are different since these are not internal systems, rather they are systems they shipped to all of their customers that can be trivially compromised, but it is still in the general vicinity of "dumb password" and, in my opinion, is even worse from a security design perspective on Apple and Intel's part. If they would add that to their products, how awful must their internal controls be.

In any event, I will concede that my analysis of SolarWinds is an educated guess on my part, but it is hardly relevant to my overall points in any event. Even if SolarWinds is the dumbest most incompetent organization ever it does not detract from my other point which is that even the "best" is abysmal, so even if they were doing the best that is practically achieved in a working environment it still would not result in a meaningful difference. So, the problem is not actually that SolarWinds was chosen, it is that nobody else would be able to solve it either which is a far bigger problem. It means you need to come up with a novel solution to an unsolved problem, not just use something already known.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/macos-high-sierra-hack-root/

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/the-h...
And ironically this article is published on medium.com, which expects you to sign in with an account to read the story.
I guess it's because not everybody can work at the top 5% of companies. Not only because the entry level is higher than on average companies... it's also a question of physics: the top 5% of companies cannot hire 100% of the pool of developers.

So, the vast majority of developers out there (including HN) will never work for a top 5% company.
> The Peter Principle is wrong for the simple reason that executives aren’t that stupid, and because there isn’t that much room in an upward-narrowing pyramid. They know what it takes for a promotion candidate to perform at the to level. So if they are promoting people beyond their competence anyway, under conditions of opportunity scarcity, there must be a good reason.

^ His argument assumes there is opportunity scarcity. IMO there is opportunity abundance. A well functioning company does not have an "upward-narrowing pyramid" practically speaking, because the pyramid is growing, ostensibly because each team is helping each other grow the company, increasing opportunity for all.

Arguably opportunity scarcity could exist in a Gervaisian sense if you are part of a company being disrupted (e.g. being a paper company in the digital age).
Autism diagnosis does not really focus on social interactions. Difficulties in social interaction are a side effect but it is not how they diagnose the condition.
I get the point the author is trying to make, but I think the environmental savings on not buying a laptop are miniscule comparing to all the other components of his carbon footprint.

That flight from Belgium to Spain alone, which he likely took, was around 1,000 megajoules.
Yes, I don't know either.

In Germany we are ruled by old people and conservatives, but they are nothing compared to the US.
Thanks, didn't know they had a transcript.

Too bad the linked article hasn't edited their story with this information. This will just create another myth and further spread false information.
I'm not familiar with those studies, but here are just a few ideas (made up now, on the spot).

1. MSG in a capsule is not how MSG in food is delivered. So perhaps the delivery mechanism has something to do with it. Perhaps the capsule allows the MSG to pass the tongue, or esophagous, or stomach, with far less reactivity than free MSG does. Maybe the interaction of MSG with other chemicals is necessary for the effects to manifest.

2. Maybe there exists a psycophysical element for some subjects? Such as the commonplace phenomenon of non-celiac "gluten intolerant" people. If those types of people self-select to take part in a study, no wonder no connection is found. And real sufferers would stay far away from a study that promises to expose them to a chemical that they know to be harmful to themselves.

3. There have been many studies which have found no connection between smoking and lung cancer. There have been many studies which have found no connection between fossil fuel usage and climate change. The existence of a study which finds no connection does not mean that such a connection does not exist. Especially when a huge industry depends upon no connection being found.
Another very useful add-on is Unpaywall which searches for free reprints of paywalled scholarly papers.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpaywall
They didn't build themselves a tiered walled garden to be on an equal footing with others, either capability or speed-wise.
You probably should look at more than just the start date for that act.

> Exclusion was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943, which allowed 105 Chinese to enter per year. Chinese immigration later increased [to 2000/year from the "Asiatic barred zone"] with the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which abolished direct racial barriers, and later by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which abolished the National Origins Formula.
Kivy is awesome considering what it,s trying to do. As ambitious as flutter but without corporate support. Unfortunately the project is quite under-resourced, can anyone help?

For example, stick to the basics and it works well. But do something off the beaten track like write a background service for Android and hit a bug and you're completely on your own, even if you offer to pay a core dev. I once hit another bug where Unicode couldn't be used in .kv files, was a one line fix but there were 70 unread pull requests and more even more issues untouched. Two or three heros try to help on the mailing list. I gave up but would like to try one more time with 2.0.
> Besides, if "racism" is the explanation behind it, how are you going to explain the immense popularity of Chinese food everywhere in America?

Probably in the same way that one could explain how the existence of Taco Bell does not preclude racism towards Mexicans.
> So you do accept that some studies have demonstrated MSG sensitivity

No, some studies have shown that high doses or unusual methods of introduction (e.g., IV) of MSG can cause symptoms; no properly controlled studies have shown sensitivity (i.e., a trait in which people are prone to symptoms at lower thresholds that are typical, such that they might experience symptoms with doses that might actual be encountered outside of deliberate mass ingestion.)

> Do you find it utterly impossible that some people could be sensitive at one-sixth the dose that "most people" become sensitive at?

“It’s not utterly impossible” is not the same thing as “clinical studies have provided evidence for it”.
Correct, because he is portraying one side of a story. I could point you to studies that show no connection between smoking and lung cancer. That doesn't mean that other studies, with different conclusions, do not exist.
Highly recommend the BBC 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' miniseries with Alec Guinness.

I always liked Alec Guinness (Obi-wan!) but seeing this made me understand just what an incredible actor he was. BBC just knocks it out of the park here, and, it's way better than the Gary Oldman film (no disrespect). IMHO one of the best television shows ever made. Would totally put it up against The Wire, although it's an apples-to-oranges comparison for a variety of reasons.

FYI said miniseries can often be found floating around on Youtbe.
> Given that in the west it was also dubbed "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" I would think some form of prejudice played a part.

Given that 60 years ago the only place anyone in the US would run into manufactured MAG was in a Chinese restaurant, calling it that doesn’t seem the least bit related to race.

And given that I’ve grown up in Canada and the US, eat Chinese food regularly, and have never heard this term before today, it seems incredibly overblown.
Being a good programmer helps though, technical challenging things tend to have much smaller and worse competition.

Like, you probably wont make a lot of money making another 2d platformer no matter how well you code, they are so easy to make that there are millions of them out there already. However if you make a performant and bug free factorio or minecraft clone you will at least get a few thousand people try it and from there it would grow if it is fun.
Your comment reminded me of the phrase 炒鱿鱼, which means to fire someone. I googled it to find a good explanation. This page[0] says the meaning is from:

to fry a squid --> fried squids curl up --> to roll up the bedclothes and leave --> to be fired

And of course, it can be used passively with 被: 我被炒鱿鱼了

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%82%92%E9%AD%B7%E9%AD%9A
> a toxic anti-brand associated with viruses, instability, bloat, and forced restarts

This is Android based on my eight years with them.

I won't argue with you on iPhone, it's a great "I just want it to work" option. And since there's no other alternative, it's what I carry today.

But Windows Mobile was a breath of competency in a market of basically all bad Google phones.
This is basically what the chain rule / backprop does. The only caveat is that it's pretty hard to make a network with only positive weights. And once you allow negative weights, you have to know whether your downstream neighbours should have had higher or lower output. The easiest way to do this is to propagate the gradient backwards from the output, hence backprop.
The author is also a journalist, which means he probably works primarily with words. For video editing and even some image editing, modern machines do make a difference.
> I think the moralistic argument makes much more sense.

I find it absurdly laughable that you think that there is any moralistic response from Silicon Valley VCs who have funded outright theft and lawbreaking--and who also funded YouTube when it was primarily a porn distribution system.

People have made lots of money from porn over the years. The porn tech conference used to occur at the same time as CES--and often it was more technical than CES--things like Laserdics, DVDs, the web, online credit card tech, etc. all were at the porn conference long before the mainstream ones. One could make an uncharitable comment about it being more profitable to sell shovels in the gold rush than to be a miner/performer ...

The big issue with porn sites is that they only scale so far, and then it's a race to the bottom, and when you hit the bottom the law starts knocking on your door. So, you have to switch off porn before the race to the bottom starts if you want to scale further. And if you make make that change at the wrong time or in the wrong way, your site dies.

OnlyFans is in the race to the bottom now. There is always another girl who looks just as good who will do whatever thing you want for 10% less than that other girl. Do you really think that people really care whether they're watching Porn Star A or Porn Star B--or whether they care that Porn Star B is $10 less per <whatever>?

Sure, there will be some exceptions where a bunch of people want to see some famous Disney tart's naughty bits. The rest of the performers, however, are in the swamp.

OnlyFans broke the monopoly. Great! But then it will become the monopoly. The wheel simply turns.
NSO Group will lose a lot of business when authoritarian countries wake up and realize they can simply force Apple to migrate user data into servers they own in exchange for market access.
Let me quote one old guy not this all new person https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photogr...

I do not think he will survive in the older days. Bit in the new economy and have a few hundreds Patreon he got enough to live by in USA. Not much just write an article a day or two and filter and react to fan comment.

Not sure he saved enough as USA has no health and he lived alone. When he stopped writing for 2 days without saying it, I really started to worry. ... USA is so harsh in this aspects. But guess that is a reality. Still read him everyday.

And he is sixty something.
Although now that I think about it, a clapperboard wouldn't help here because the audio was being generated on the Mac. There was no actual microphone involved capturing the sound a clapperboard would make. I need some other way to measure the latency being added by EpocCam. Hmmm....
Well if we're going to go this route, no one put a gun to the girl's head either.

She just didn't want to work night shift at 7/11 for $10-$15 an hour. In Fort Worth, I've seen night shift "supervisors" for the convenience store where I usually stop for gas being offered $18-$22, starting salary. With 1 year experience. Yes, that's a shitty job, on a shitty shift, and the pay is nothing to write home about at $36,000 - $44,000 a year, but for someone with nothing more than a high school degree, and clearly a tremendous lack of applicable skills, it isn't terrible.

If these women want to do porn instead of slaving away at Walmart, hey, more power to them. I don't begrudge you your choice, but don't act like there's no alternative. Entirely too many people make the claim that "there are no jobs for me!" when what they mean is, "There aren't any jobs that I want to do, I'm not supposed to be a janitor, I'm supposed to be a TikTok star!!"

That's the big fucking lie our society has told people for the past 40+ years. Most of us, even most of us in high positions in respected companies, are easily replaceable cogs.

A lot of people were very concerned about Apple's future when Steve Jobs died. Looking at the M1 chip, it seems like Tim Cook and Apple will be just fine.
Terence has been involved in AMP's advisory committee since the beginning. Suggesting he "doesn't even understand what it does" isn't really an even reasonable perspective.
It might be the taste of MSG-rich food, when a sensitive individual hasn't eaten recently, that triggers it. This could explain why it's so commonly reported with miso soup - it's served at the beginning of the meal. The association is known by folks who grew up eating MSG natively: https://twitter.com/kenjilopezalt/status/1291882403506475008...

If this were true, it'd explain why other glutamate-rich foods don't have the same reputation. It might suggest that we shouldn't buy doritos from a vending machine when we need a snack, though.

Studies where respondents can't taste the MSG don't show an effect, so maybe it's the taste, and not the chemical, that causes the problem. Also it seems unlikely that the MSG could actually get to the brain.

I'd love to see an experiment where self-identifying sensitive individuals either eat miso soup or gargle it without swallowing and see if there's a difference in reactions.

I'd also like to know more about common knowledge about MSG in Japan and China.

(I think the racist myth could cause a psychosomatic effect for people who aren't sensitive)
HR almost never knows, because they themselves have no idea what the options are or are worth, and indeed are a majority of the time, worthless anyway.
These look fun!
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