skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this also taking out potential confounders out of the equation? I believe the currently available data (as opposed to the SAGE minutes, which has the conclusions) is not sufficient to rule that out.
Screen share, real-time messaging, SSH and VNC Over HTTP
“Apple will simply blame Wistron suspend them. ...
The problem is the big corps have zero accountability when operating in developing nations.”

Can you say what Apple should do instead? It seems like the proximate cause here is Wistron’s management.

What would you recommend Apple do other than hire someone else?

Also, if you are going to fine Apple, what would the fine be for?
Putin’s track record of poisonings say otherwise.
Totally the opposite.

Most startups are dynamic, most big corporations are not. They are 'big' because they are sitting on a value chain monopoly.

The same chocolate bars have been in my grocery aisle for 20 years. Variations on the same soap.

Some startups are very poorly run, but most are not led by 'unrestrained jerks'.
It is actually defined as "you get the same file contents and directory structure, regardless of the order in which you apply the changes", which is quite good.

> But, this seems to require semantic level understanding of the code

No: you may very well have two different orders yielding the same output, even though the output is incorrect.

> This method seems to rely inherently on the fact that git commits are ordered. How would this work with a pijul-based flow?

Good question. Our CI over at https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul/ci works in the same way. Patches are ordered in Pijul too, but the order is local. In your example, if Alice wins, Bob will pull her patch, fix his code, which will produce another patch. He will then send it to CI again (or directly to main if he's careless), and Alice will pull both Bob's original patch and the fix.

In the end, they will have different histories, but the exact same contents.
Very cool! Excited to give this a try and see what else you guys come out with. - Louis.
Poor, by definition, is the opposite of where the money is.
On a tangent are 'liquid lenses' anywhere near making an impact in consumer imaging products?
I'm waiting for this too. His mental somersaults on the Salisbury case were quite a thing to witness
I had the LinkedIn Premium trial. I expected the ads and dark patterns (such as the constant nags to add a picture, follow bullshit people or hashtags and resetting the feed to algorithmic instead of chronological) to cease but no. Needless to say I'm not paying a single penny to this terrible company.
If it is a way to make yourself ‘better’ - why not allow the loans to be used for other types of betterment, like physical and dietary health?

Or, is there a way to make oneself better without relying on tens of thousand of dollars of debt, which cannot even be waived via bankruptcy?
This is a site that someone else posted on another thread. Looks like they have historic data back to 2010-11, for both undergrad and grad.

https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/trends/virginia-polyte...
What happened to BTC and ETH? This is what to do now
There are so many nice little towns in northern California. Any of them would be a fine place to live.
You should link the website instead:

https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/

Awesome work!
This is amazing journalism. Bravo to them and Navalny. Heroic stuff.
With modern CPU-cores hitting 2x AES-instructions per clocktick, CBC-mode is going obsolete. CBC-mode cannot perform 2-AES iterations in parallel. You need to use CTR-mode.

CTR-mode however has been largely subsumed by GCM (Galois Counter Mode), and all of a sudden you need to learn Galois fields anyway (which AES is an excellent case-study in GF(2^8)).

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AVX512 performs 4x AES-instructions per clock tick by the way, to fill up the entire 512-bit register. You're only reaching that parallelism with CTR mode or GCM mode.
Palantir lands £23m NHS data deal
This is exactly why I use Red Hat software. Its the insurance provided by the fact RH engineers are massive contributors to the Linux ecosystem as a whole.
I remember Lytro. Being able to adjust focus in post was an exciting feature, but the cameras themselves were expensive and had lower quality sensors than the cameras of that time (ca 2012).

As you say, the implementation failed but it demonstrated that the technology was feasible. Now the IP is with Google. I'm just waiting for the day when someone perfects light-field technology for cell phone cameras.
That's really nice!

Looks like a labor of love.

Thanks for sharing it!
I learned this in my first board position with VC's on the board (early 2000's). Thankfully I was vital to the company's platform, so had some leverage. But everything was fluid, and able to be changed according to how the VC's needed to present it in terms of a consistently successful investment story.

In the end, I walked away with less than I hoped but more than I think I deserved (for being so naive). But it's been an abject lesson since: nothing in a private company is fixed, it can all be changed according to who pulls the strings. Options and equity are very vulnerable to this. Having equity is no guarantee of power or even a seat at the table (or of future wealth).
How exactly do they ‘have this level of power’?

Their only power in this situation is to choose who to do business with. They can’t fine the company or revoke business licenses, as a Minstry of labor could do.

Also, are you suggesting that the actual Indian government has no responsibility?
> they’re shipping not exactly state of the art technology at very high prices

I think that misses the point: when you buy Leica, you're not buying technology. It's not a technology company, it's a luxury brand. You buy Leica over Canon, Fuji or Panasonic for the same reason you buy Rolex over Casio, Swatch or Seiko.
That information is openly sold on the black market in Russia, and for a trivial amount of money. Check out their "How we did it" for the first investigation: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-...
Oh, of course, they are allowed mistakes and an occasional humourous aside. But it did say in the article that the NEJM refused to correct it or elaborate upon it for quite some time. Probably just an oversight, in my opinion, but was posed as a serious letter to the editor, and in order to get the humor, you had to be able to pick up on the subtle clues. What the motivations were for the New York Times Reporter were can only be guessed here. Probably just eagerly looking for some novel bit of news that would be interesting. Based on how these things generally go viral, I think it's unfair to blame any single person or entity.
Why not use the OS APIs when available and provide a hack/fallback for old Phones which don't have those APIs?
RHEL does use Fedora as an upstream but only to rebase major versions. And RHEL may also make different decisions about various components. For example, btfs is now the default file system for Fedora but not RHEL.

CentOS Stream is much closer to RHEL. It's basically the ongoing post-CI builds.
I think it's this principle in action https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
The distinction isn’t between overt and passive. The traditional definition of “racism” still includes “implicit bias.”

The recent distinction is between “prejudice” and “effect on racial equity.” Ibram Kendi distills the view quite clearly. He explains that the lower tax rate for capital gains is “racist.” He doesn’t say it’s motivated by racial prejudice (either overt or implicit), or deny that it’s nearly universal in the developed world, including in non-white countries. What he means is that the tax preference has the effect of delivering more benefits to white people because white people are more likely to own capital assets.

In the traditional view, by contrast, racism is a mental state—it’s an attitude that’s held by people, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Studies show that these attitudes, what’s now called “prejudice,” is probably overstated and isn’t the dominant driver of racial differences: https://www.chronicle.com/article/can-we-really-measure-impl....

The recent approach has been to reuse “racism” to refer to systems that create or perpetuate racial disparities whether or not they’re motivated by what’s now called prejudice.

An example of this usage is saying that “standardized testing is racist.” To people familiar with the traditional definition, this implies that test makers have racial prejudice and, consciously or unconsciously, designed tests to hinder minorities. Under the new definition, this just means that the practice of using standardized tests perpetuates racial disparities because it hurts students that have suffered disadvantages.

Of course we had words for this before. I studied what would now be called “environmental racism” in law school. We would say “minority communities suffer disproportionately negative effects from the siting of coal plants.” We don’t need to come up with a new term for this, as you speculate. That’s a concept I could easily explain to my Trump-voting in laws and they’d get it. But when you call that “racism” that implies (not only to my in laws, but to my Biden voting non-white dad) that people involved in the siting decisions were motivated by racial prejudice. They’d say, “no, they’re just putting the coal plant where the land is cheapest.” Under the traditional view, a decision like that based on purely objective, relevant, non-race factors can’t be “racist” because that concept refers to a state of mind (whether overt or implicit).

Now, there is a logic to academics and activists using the term “racism” for that. As you observe, the effect on the groups themselves is similar. Most important, by framing “racism” in terms of effects rather than mental state, it forces a consideration of racial equity impacts on otherwise race-neutral policies.
> What kills your options is dilution. You have no control over this AND as time progresses you get more and more diluted with new hires and rounds.

People are way too obsessed with dilution because it sounds so scary. "With the stroke of a pen they can create a billion more shares and your percentage goes from 5% to 0.01%"

The reality is that all common shareholders have the same incentive to not dilute the outstanding shares. That almost always includes the founders. Outside of a money raise most of the people involved in the company are aligned in the desire to not dilute each other.

The major source of dilution is new fundraising and while it will effect your percentage of ownership it typically doesn't affect the value of your stake because the dilution is part of post-money valuation. So you might own 1% of a $10m company before the dilution and 0.5% of a $20m company after the dilution but the value of your holding didn't change.

The things people should be worried about are all the shenanigans that happen around participating preferred multiples. Or, the worst, 30-day exercise windows along with the tax treatment of options exercise/AMT. But since those are much more opaque concepts it's way harder to get people riled up about it.

And if you have an unscrupulous CEO there's basically nothing you can do to protect yourself as a worker. But that's way different from the normal dilution you get as part of raising money.
interestingly, here in the US, toilet paper is often explicitly marked "unscented", but I've never seen scented tp, although, admittedly, I've never purposely searched for it.
This can be regulated at the state and local level; current state solutions had no ability to regulate air transit fees.

However even local
government is getting in on this revenue stream. The last ambulance bill I saw (for a relative) was from the city’s fire department, which is already funded by (fairly high) property taxes.
Ask HN: What habits have given you the best ROI?
I shoot manual with my X-T2 most of the time, especially during portrait shooting. But shooting manual on a DSLR is not the panacea. You only need manual mode in certain situations. Heck, I read pros like David Alan Harvey uses full auto setting on his camera sometimes (probably a lot of other pros too). On my iPhone 12, I have exposure compensation on the main camera app. And that is good enough as well.
If you sell more shares, there is dilution - there is no way around it, it's math.

Each stock is a slice, more stocks, then each slice is smaller.

Now - if the company is growing you get 'diluted' but those stocks are worth more.

But in the examples above where employees are getting 'less/not diluted' it must be at the expense of someone else: founders or older investors who won't like that.

Given that founders, old investors and staff all generally get diluted at the same rate, dilution is actually one of the more fair things that happens in companies at least superficially.
I'm pretty sure a pay cut is in direct violation of contracts with the company. If the shoe were on the other foot and you owed the company I doubt it would go over so well. We need to ensure that these companies hold up their end of the deal even if they go under, nothing should be too big to fail
They have a separate article on it: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-.... There is a huge black market of private data in Russia.
Employers also seem to tend not to value the notion that employees have different strengths. There are some coders I know who seem to savor working hard on what I would call the "boring stuff", and there are those who can intensely work on a new problem and come up with novel approaches, but they're not going to be as good at doing assembly-line work. Both have their place, but employers want the best of both across the board, which is impractical except when you have the occasional wizard.
https://archive.is/50VQv
this was my impression as well. how did they get passport photos and cell phone records? my suspicion for a while has been that bellingcat is basically a way of laundering US intelligence when it is thought to be beneficial to publicly release information or shape public discourse. that isn't to say that i think what they're publishing is necessarily untrue, or that everything they publish is fed to them.
Wonder Woman sequel falters at international box office
but gems in stdlib work fine even for that: if the next version of the gem breaks compatibility the next version of ruby is free to import it, and you can keep using the old interface with new ruby by locking the dependency to the old gem version.
N501Y is properly neutralized by vaccination (there's a paper in Science with these data, but I don't have a link handy right now).

The deletion seems to reduce antibody neutralization, but:

- In the preprint where this was shown, only 4 convalescent sera were tested;

- The same 4 sera had large variation in neutralization activity per se;

- There is no investigation on potential impaired T cell reactivity (cellular immunity): FTR, the "mink mutation", although it exhibited slightly lower antibody neutralization, did not change the reaction of T cells to it.
Oh I am fully aware of “Leica as jewelry”, I just didn’t want to immediately wallop that straw man.
I disagree, for the same reason that forums typically ban trolls rather than just let them be. It takes an order of magnitude more effort to defend against a claim than it does to make the claim.

I could hypothetically accuse you of being a rapist right now. I can just pick a random day I say it happened, let's say last February 23rd. Cool, it took me about 30 seconds to come up with that. Let's say I then blast that all over Twitter and Facebook. Are you okay with having no legal recourse? Are you okay with "jrockway is a rapist" being one of the top Google results for your name? Maybe it's better, maybe you did really well and your rebuttal is the first Google result. I would still be really uncomfortable that my first Google result is me attempting to say that I'm not a rapist.

That's assuming people will even read your defense. There are some classes of accusations where you will be tried in the court of public opinion before you are even aware, and your attempts at defense will only be interpreted as further evidence that you are guilty. The rise of Fake News accusations should tell you exactly how much telling the truth is going to help your case.

Rape is a particularly heinous thing to accuse someone of, but I chose it specifically because of the "believe the victim's narrative" messaging that surrounds it. Accusations of a crime fall under defamation laws, and so long as they don't file a police report about it, defamation is the only law I'm aware of that it would violate.
Interesting take away from article:

>“When you’re sending light into a solid fiber, it’s like you’re sending it through a window 50 miles thick,” said Dave Gustafson, a former head of wireless engineering at Jump. “With hollow-core, you’re sending it through 50 miles of air.”
As a former Nikon user, that writing has been on the wall for a long time now. At lease 3 years when they first reported "catastrophic losses" They didn't have enough diversity to weather the rise of the smartphone, whereas Canon, Fujifilm, Sony, all have other lines of business to keep them afloat.

Really sad since they made such a great camera line. Perhaps a buyout is still possible.
Google search for its own “Pixel 4” shows it has iOS as its operating system
You can also use the debugger on any system where the debugger can attach to a process and make it call system calls.

I have done something similar to recover data that was still available in a process but no longer in any file - an overwritten configuration file.

Be careful though - one mistake and you can crash the process, losing the file!
V-ray is a GPU (and CPU) renderer. https://www.chaosgroup.com/vray-gpu
DIY NES Controller – Full Build
That is some hilarious social engineering. I guess he won't believe the caller-id number in the future.
Ask HN: Employees who exersised stock options: how did it go?
I'm curious to hear about people who excersised their stock options at a startup and there was a liquidity event (i.e. acquisition, merger, IPO). How good was the RoI? Did you lose money?
This discussion crops up every so often: "Wouldn't it be nice if a camera had a full OS behind it".

Personally, I'm very pleased that my camera (a Nikon D850) boots instantly (approx 0.2 seconds) and has a shutter lag of 0.05 seconds (when pre-focused). It essentially never unexpectedly hangs when I need to take a shot. For my preferred subjects (wildlife) a consistently instant response is far more important than arbitrary functionality. If I want to share pictures or do other things, I can use the built-in wi-fi or Bluetooth to shunt pictures to my SmartPhone.
This isn't directly related, but some of the credit reporting agencies can have surprise medical bills written off due to covid related hardships. This is to say, if a surprise bill happens to hit collections, and you're affected by covid, it can be removed through the report process. I have no idea what this looks like in the long term, though.
I disagree. I think Samsung tried to do a "smart camera" with one of their mirrorless lines. It didn't really sell well. Besides, most pros will still want to use Photoshop, Capture One, Lightroom, or whatever to edit their photos, not apps. The utility of apps is to upload quick to your social media photo sharing sites.

Also, what you're asking for is already available in most flagship smartphone these days. Instead of moving apps to cameras, they moved a good enough camera to a phone where all your apps are available.
Addendum:

If anyone's curious about Galois Theory, this looks like a good place to start: https://www.gfuzz.de/AES_1.html
> On the other hand, I don't think it's a healthy situation if companies need to own the entire hardware platform to be safe from another company's whims.

What about users? What do I need to own to be safe from the whims of a company like Facebook?
Instead of having suspicions you could read.
Oh this is too bad. Can someone knowledgeble about comment on whether there may be a second-order impact on lens-making for e.g. astronomy?

(I got a tour of the Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona a couple years back; many large telescope mirrors are made here. Pretty cool. As I recall, one of the key steps involved getting raw material for glass from Japan.)
Depends on the neighborhood. The average open-air drug market in the Tenderloin is dangerous precisely because of how busy it is.

Crowds are a decent security by obscurity mechanism, but only if you blend in. If you code as an outsider (e.g. a Japanese tourist in West Philly), then bustle might be a bug not a feature. More potential predators' attention to catch.
Keep in mind this can also be used as hero theatre which happened in the orange revolution if I remember correctly, also an alleged poisoning and still, 15 years later, very murky. Both sides can lie.

As per John Le Carré's Moscow rules: 1. Assume nothing.
Peak dystopia
As you pointed out yourself [1], the iceberg is causing problems already by melting into the local ecosystem. A radioactive iceberg melting into the local ecosystem seems likely to be worse.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25495063
Here is the Dockerfile in case anyone is interested:

https://gist.github.com/bshep/c33d156fc8769e92ee652b3d82a1c1...

I tested what I could and I think it works. The hardest part was figuring out how to run the opencv install script as it was designed for a directory structure i coult not replicate.
> What are you supposed to do, interrogate every person that comes in the room?

I'm curious too. Some people must have tried filing a lawsuit... what do judges think people should be doing?
> but mysteriously compensation has not.

I think the damning thing is that it has. Just not for the workers. wages for high level executives for example not only kept up, it's gone so high that they can't even invest their money anymore. they're complaining about the lack of got investment opportunities instead, sitting on their billions which destroys their society even more by keeping the money from circulation.
>VPN with a tightly-integrated mitmproxy

Are you for real?! This is basically the polar opposite of what people should be looking for, no?
Except this has even nothing to do with getting API cut for them or actually losing a functionality. They can do exactly everything they did as before, but they have to ask the users' permission. All they have to bake into their service is a fallback for when a user doesn't give them permission, which should be technically trivial (if it's not, it would be another sign of their unacceptable hubris).
They are implicitly admitting that no user would ever accept what Facebook does as acceptable, if you properly inform them about how Facebook works.
What a morally bankrupt company.
The existing health insurance industry is far from free market. Try getting a price for a procedure or visit beforehand.

Compare that to dental insurance. I’m always shocked when I get a treatment plant after 5 minutes that outlines exactly what the dentist needs to do, how much insurance will pay, and how much I will need to pay. Of course the set of possible treatments for dental work is a lot smaller, but it seems so much more straightforward.
Last time I had to go to the emergency room, I was luckily enough to be in a state where I could just call an Uber.
What if self-help (or "personal development") is itself an echo chamber? Seems it's not helping to get our of this one.
A version to use within
VSCode would be very useful too.
No, lol. I don't think I'd want it either. But it's a moot point, currently.
It's just appalling to see a nation as smart, rich and well accomplished as the U.S. being straight up retarded when it comes to healthcare.
Some feedback: it fills my browser history with a lot of entries.
Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
Shopify is a waste of money. Use SendOwl with your own stack instead.
Seems like the changes discussed here are largely unimportant since most companies fail before they go public.