skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only makes what I wrote more pressing.

You can't fish someone out of the mob without them actively wanting to get out, and that requires the person start by relying on their own agency.

Look at the Nxivm cult-- a member was literally starving herself to death and even her own mom had to spend years patiently working with cult deprogrammers before she could convince her to leave (and on threat of FBI prosecution, at that).

Not only is it ineffectual to try to force that person back to sanity-- it's literally counterproductive. It plays into the mob's hand-- an outsider is trying to convince so-and-so to become a rat! You're not a rat, are you, so-and-so?

I'm sorry OP has to go through the heartache of coming to terms with this, if that is indeed anything like what they're going through. But I have to admit to being less concerned with your and OP's blanket warning about Indian families, and vastly more concerned that you and OP apparently think a broad statement like that could somehow justify tapping a loved one's phone. On HN of all places.

To be crystal clear-- if that mom of the Nxivm cult member had actually bugged her daughter's phone at any point in the saga, it would have shattered her trust with her mom and made it impossible for her to ever leave. You get that, right?
> Why Taiwan? China has had even fewer deaths per capita and much larger much more connected population.

China’s death rate is roughly _ten_ times that if Taiwan:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rate...

And that’s if you even believe China’s official statistics.
You can see this with the Dead Sea, which is drying up! They're having to engineer ways to move water in it to keep the resort business going for Jordan and Israel

https://www.deadsea.com/articles-tips/interesting-facts/dead...
New setup for 2020
> They are just consultants plus data management software. That’s it. They are no more “AI” than any company that can run Python pipelines.

And Dropbox is just FTP and rsync, right?
You need diff and transmission for EVs thought unless you have direct drive on two wheels.
KOReader eInk Device App: ePub, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML...
Eh, we have one of the biggest days for one of the biggest companies whos principle is it just works, and they have the biggest fail of an outage on their super bowl. I think the criticism is valid.
Ask HN: What are your New Year’s Resolutions?
The wikipedia article is fairly extensive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_re...
Knowing how the oximeter works - you could also say there’s a high error rate in people (not all are female) with fingernail polish.
I’m not sure about that. There are plenty of other companies and funds that will return more that don’t come with the ethical and moral baggage. When you wake up 10 years from now, will it be a world you want to live in?
If there's a experienced human teacher on the other end, you're good as far as my argument goes.

However, I think you'll run into all the general problems of doing business over a Zoom call. Dropouts, poor audio quality, lag, and all the weirdo problems of having a poor substitute for a physical presence.
Any change of state in a system with inertia should have hysteresis! In this case, a minimum duration before restarting would have done the trick.
I think they are referring to Peter Thiel. Thiel gave a speech at the 2016 RNC in support of their nominee, Donald Trump. At the time through the present, Thiel continues to have a net worth in excess of $1 billion.

Is it the adjective secretive that turned you away?
PG is The guide to Lisp as far as I'm concerned, the first one at least.

I'm a fairly competent Lisper these days, but man I struggled so hard in the beginning and would probably have given up if it wasn't for PG's essays.

He also wrote a pretty good book on more advanced topics that's free to download:

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
Tech Solution Gives Blind Runner Ability to Run Without a Guide
Is anyone else finding the method in Figure 1 difficult to reproduce successfully?
Show HN: Create Requirements Tracebility Through Tests
Thanks for sharing this!

I ran I to this while setting up a new MacBook for my in laws. The symptom was that it would say that their iCloud security code was wrong.

Terrible experience. It nearly resulted in us resetting the account, which would have wiped all of their encrypted files. Migration assistant would also silently hang.

Wish I had thought of checking this status page.
StackOverflow: Add dependency version numbers to posts/ answers
Cool idea! Thanks for sharing. Wish it weren't in PHP. Not looking a gift horse in the mouth, nor looking to start yet another PHP-bashing thread, nor criticizing your use of whatever lang or fw suits your personal needs -- I get it, this was a personal project and I appreciate your sharing it. But I have a personal aversion to PHP and for that reason I won't be adopting this for my own purposes. But if I ever build a similar system, I'm glad to have yours to reference for inspiration. Slainte!
Knuckleheads' Club
Like who?

I don't know why people get caught up in the "ethical and moral baggage". You have no real power to determine what the world in 10 years will look like. You do however have the ability to control what your world looks like, when you are sitting on bags of money. Sail in the direction of the wind, not against it.
Lawyers automate this, so why don't airlines?
> ... leptocephalus larvae ...

> ... glass eel ...

> ... yellow eel ...

> ... silver eel ...

Eels are nature's Pokemon!
This is so stupid. When will people learn to just have a typed language from the start? Everyone ends up coming around to the realization they need it eventually. It really blows my mind. I don't understand.
Retired EMT here. Standard practice is to remove fingernail polish on the finger used for the pulse ox. Alternatively, you can put the probe on so it reads sideways across the finger, though this isn't as reliable.

Can attest that pulse ox is not as reliable for black people.
In most orgs of a size, only a handful of people are adding tickets to the queue. And even then, that's only an "additive workflow" if you insist on ignoring the system the author is describing.

Whether you know all the work to be done or not, there is a quantity of work to be done after which there will be no more work to do. Some of that work might be learning what all the work is. Some of the work might be defining how to do some of the other work. Other work is just picking work off of the pile and doing it. All of these are subtracting from the total quantity of work that will have been done by completing the project.

Not knowing the quantity or boundaries does not change this nature.
I don't understand either. Somebody else made the same comment but typical electric cars still have diffs. Examples include Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf, and Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model S. Where are the electric cars with independent left/right drive motors? Even cheap toy electric R/C cars have differentials.
Given that one has plain C code, then it is possibly safer to run it when compiled to a memory safe runtime (with bounds checks, no pointers, etc.) than to use a C to machine code compiler and call the compiled code from Lisp via a Foreign Function Interface (FFI).
Opponent of the person, but not the policies. For those at either ends of the spectrum the difference is inconsequential.
What we have in this thread is also a bunch of apologists for what is literally the richest company on the planet, with untold riches stored in tax havens.
Looks like something in their post history got them the equivalent of shadowbanned on HN.
Hands-On: Kali Linux on the Raspberry Pi 4
Back in the days of Windows 98, the HP LaserJet caused no end of headaches for me. The problem that was introduced by the compiler they used to build the print driver. To compute the paper size, margins, etc., floating point operations were used... but by then the driver had allowed the libraries that emulated the floating point processor to be unloaded, to save memory. (Due to the optimizing compiler)

Any operation that involved computing the page size would crash, only if the floating point library had idled out of memory.

I ended up forcing the library to be loaded at boot on all machines, and then things were stable.
Residents near the area said the announcement was coming from the RV.
Looks like fraud to me. The webpages were made slow by Google and the reason given was different than the cause of the slowdown.
DHS warns against using Chinese hardware and digital services
The GDPR requires data controllers to ensure data processors respect GDPR rights, so the public could protest if they don’t think Palantir will do that. But there’s no GDPR provision requiring user consent to a controller’s choice of processors.
Is it that unreasonable for them to want people to use FIPS approved algorithms? I mean all you're showing them is how fast the current implementations of the algorithms are, and obviously being too fast isn't great for password hashing, but your benchmark doesn't in itself actually prove the security of bcrypt as a hash algorithm so I don't know why you would expect that to convince them.

Maybe the real problem is that the FIPS standards are too conservative?
I don't see how that's a valid comparison - unemployment benefits are barely enough to survive on, and those in receipt are both stigmatised by society and pressured by the government to find a job ASAP.

Basic income is about giving everyone a "no-catches" income that's enough to actually live on, rather than merely survive on.
Dropbox is a total solution. It takes about 5 clicks and 10 minutes and you are getting the core values out of the product.

Buying palantir is similar to buying IBM Watson. It is going to take months before anything is being installed. Most of what they are doing is consulting and database administration
Related, what is the end goal for Redox in your mind?

Do you plan to ship it on System76 laptops when it's eventually ready? Or do you see this more as a hobby / exploratory project?
Farmers get their own security advice as cyberattacks increase
I've had a similar experience a year or so ago when trying to resurrect an old apple account so I could listen to the DRMmed music I "bought" when I was young and stupid. I got inconsistent, confusing error messages when trying to sign in and authorize playback. None gave the correct answer, which was that I was trying to use the incorrect account for that track.

There are some parts of the Apple ecosystem which are so obviously unloved and completely un-QC'd. Same with the app store, it's like no employee has actually tried using it.
Like literally any other company that can run spark jobs. The other comment about palantir having no secret sauce is pretty spot on, from what I know.
If we're talking server class, then the average experience for me is a lot easier than what setting up that particular device was.

From the perspective of an individual, whether or not your experience is representative of most people's experience of a similar thing only has moderate relevance. Most people find serial killers to be normal, or even charming. This is of little comfort to victims.
Load testing for cyclical holiday traffic spikes is not a new or difficult concept. Most retail companies do it annually around September-October, IME.

But the cause of the outage is still speculation. I hope that something else caused it, because Apple's customers are right to expect Apple to undergo that kind of baseline preparation.
These drones were compliant

https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=12669

I can't find the link, but I recall that the video feeds were unencrypted because there was no approved encryption system for the use, so the contractor was not allowed to just use commercially available solutions and left the links unencrypted.
Mass die-off of birds in south-western US 'caused by starvation'
How a MacBook Pro keyboard looks like after years of intensive use
Amazon S3 Glacier is a S3 storage class.

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/

If you know it can be done with S3 then you already have your answer.
What do you think is really bad about it? I’m curious because I’ve regularly used it and it does exactly what I’ve needed without any friction.
In a Linux context? "fb and console games" = games that run on either the framebuffer or the text console
It's reassuring to know that printers have always been crap.
Same here, lately I go there just to look at watches and motorcycles.
There is a joke/saying/anecdote I heard a long time ago that may or may not be relevant

"Programmers are mathematicians that solve all their problems by Induction"

After being a software engineer for over half a decade now, that still rings strangely true to me
Stadia uses a web app to bypass Apple's policy on cloud gaming apps
as I understood it from the "universal table for mapping RNA codons to amino acids" one can encode the same information differently. So is it just possible define the information you want to encode and use a computer to calculate the correct encoding so that things don't get tangled up?
> but I think one needs to be a resident of (or business in) Germany for it.

Not quite, you just need somebody acting as a local point of contact, and a number of registrars will offer this as an additional service for a small fee.
You can still feel really stupid through the whole experience.
Ha this is par for course for the Mac ecosystem. And if you say that it doesn't work, the response will be gaslighting:
for example: you're holding it wrong, you're using it wrong, you're installing it wrong, you're not supposed to play games, old software are no longer runnable for your own good, etc
I also gave their news section a chance to compare to Google news and it seems vastly superior in content quantity. Simply search "Russia" for example and you will find a lot more stories than the main headlines in Google News. You will find out local things happening in that country, not just what Putin is up to.
I don’t understand this. Could you elaborate on it?
We can count things, because we use the concept of numbers. Numbers aren't a physical thing, they are all imagined. How I see it is that physics models can be described using number systems, but the numbers aren't part of what's being described. E.g. the numbers describing properties of particles are categorically different from the particles themselves, and only the particles can interact with other physical objects. An electron can never bang into a 7.
Anecdotally, the keys on my Macbook Pro from 2013 look fine, but multiple people on the replies exhibit the same problem. It seems this affects post-2015 keyboards.
Medic alert bracelets are probably effective, though over my entire career, I remembr seeing less than a dozen.
I believe Jetpack Aviation's current setup has a 20 min flight time. Their first jetpack was 10 min.
Heroic police officers lauded for preventing massacre during Nashville explosion
> I remember this as total pain to use compared to CodeBlocks 10 years ago

We have radically different memories then. Bloodshed dev-c++ was always the lightest and snappiest C++ IDE around.
Motorcycles were a much newer concept in 1937 than they are today. The first "modern" motorcycle was released in 1915, according to the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_motorcycle#The_...
Why ruin a lovely brand new macOS install by transferring an old one on to it? That's like pissing in virgin snow!
> Any change of state in a system with inertia should have hysteresis!

Or noise.
PNG could be modified into 16-bit executables on Windows. The extension is .con and could start with any header bytes.

You can even access some 32bit APIs I assume?
Not just email / text comms -- it's not hard to fake voice and video now either. Maybe PGP in its current form is too complex for your mother, but that is one of the reasons her generation needs it the most.

I agree that it's a no brainer in a professional context, however I can see there being a ton of value in having a simple / cross-platform / cross-medium personal signing mechanism as well. It's something that we could have used yesterday.
Even simpler example: you don't get paid for eating food. Does that imply food has no value?
While I don't approve, I suspect the auditors were in a difficult position: allow bcrypt, and if it blows up down the road, suffer consequences; or insist on that which will never get them in trouble, even if it is demonstrably inferior.
I believe Chevy contracted his production company for dealers' training material. Notably, he produced the "Hired!" films for dealership salesmen, one of which was riffed by MST3K in their "Manos: Hands of Fate" episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWIQuvbxu0E
Haven't looked into it enough...

https://keys.pub/

not sure if you can self-serve.
I read your link. Did you watch the videos? The criticisms in the paper you linked accurately state things like GDP != poverty and the best measures start in 1981. There are many ways to measure things. Yes, we are missing good data. But we have others and all the data aligns. People are doing better. In the videos, they are about life expectancy, child mortality, average income, and gdp. Things are looking better all the time.

Yes, bad things are happening. But the trends are in the right direction.
I suspect the clang issue is because it expects argv[0] to be a path to a real binary, and internally reruns itself as a subprocess. It might start working if instead of using /proc/self, you fetched your pid and used it explicitly in the path, so the subprocess could run it too.
Leader Election Best Practices
>I was once hacked, stalked and targeted by friends of a celebrity who I had just met.

Why? What was their motivation.
OOC if you don't intend on actually contributing to the project why would such an implementation detail impact your decision to use it?
This caught my eye as well. The quote is pulled from the final paragraph of this EFF blog post:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/googles-amp-canonical-...

That post also doesn't really explain, but justifies its position by linking to the AMP blog:

https://blog.amp.dev/2018/02/13/amps-new-horizons/

That page is basically trumpeting the massive adoption of AMP. So my read here is that the author is viewing this a bit like Flash: yes, we could kill it, but it would take years, because of the billions of pages that use it, as well as the custom markup it uses, along with the unique caching structure discussed in the EFF post.

I don't find that particularly compelling, but I can see the reasoning. It may be a case where it would be possible to just redirect all traffic away from AMP, but that would kill page speed, and therefore search ranking, for those using it. Theoretically possible? Sure. Practical? Possibly not.
This post from some weeks back was great if you like reading about blades: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25010280 It has a great write-up of how wootz steel was made. It also disputes the commonly seen claim (including in the submitted article) that the production process for damascus was lost.

> Nor did wootz production mysteriously vanish either – there is evidence for extensive production of crucible steel in Hyderabad in the 17th century; early 19th century accounts by British and Russian writers also describe the process It was never lost! D. Mushet patented what was, as Craddock notes, “clearly a copy of the Indian process” in 1800 (Craddock, op. cit. 283) in Britain. My impression, though none of my sources quite say this directly, is that the remaining Indian steelmaking industry subsequently withered away due to competition with British steel and (perhaps more decisively) a British desire to keep steel production (with its obvious implications for weapon production) in Britain and not in the (potentially rebellious) colonies.

It seems like the process was lost only relatively briefly, or simply unknown. maybe this is just a terminology question.
I've owned all 3 next-generation consoles for 2 months. Here's my review
https://archive.vn/dVf2u
I can confirm this. We had to install virus scanners on our self-driving car Linux boxes which are disconnected from any networks...
Fun part is that the AV scanner sometimes takes so much CPU time that the pedestrian detection algorithm fails and the car has an increased chances hitting them.
This seems like an eyebrow raising publication path. It appears that the study was not peer reviewed, but sent as a letter to the editor to NEJM.
> I don't know why people get caught up in the "ethical and moral baggage"... You do however have the ability to control what your world looks like, when you are sitting on bags of money. Sail in the direction of the wind, not against it.

Make money, if people get hurt, it was a likely outcome, so why not benefit financially?
Paypal i think.
Why I dislike? My biggest issue is that PayPal is enough like a bank that they have your money in an account, but not enough like a bank that they have to play by banking rules. They can arbitrarily freeze your funds and you have little recourse but to wait until they decide what they want to do.

Why not switch? I still can't decide.
I wouldn’t be sure about this. I have firstnet on a work phone (EMT) and it’s rarely any better than my regular ATT device. While it does have low latency (sometimes 1ms) speed is not any different. I’m actually kind of mad because my department had Verizon before like your link, and it was way faster and worked in more places.
> terrorist attack’s first objective is to cause terror

In the case of this bombing, then, I think calling the cuprits "terrorists" would be incorrect since they were attempting to take down infrastructure.
On the specific case of steel production, it's way more likely that people will settle on synthetic carbon based fuels.

Of course, producing those uses hydrogen too, so no big change.
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."
Sounds like “approved” might be synonymous with “NSA hackable.”
For some reason across many sites I go on it seems every Palantir deal warrants a post. It feels like astroturfing. Like there's some campaign of "hey this company sure is shady, but look at all these consistent gov contracts! gee whiz it's just gonna be a good investment though! Better get in!"
I know this is presented as a sort of ridiculous "government bureaucracy" story, but anecdotally, a non-trivial chunk of the security/compliance industry is built on compliance over security. Not all, of course, but enough that I think it's a big problem.

I've literally had auditors ask me whether I'm actually interested in security or whether I just need the sign-off ("collect dust in a corner").

Not that this is unique to security. Similar things definitely happen with accounting or any industry where you pay the people who audit you (and probably even ones where you don't but the auditors still have an interest in not pissing you off, eg a government entity where officials may want to work for your company some day).
https://www.okta.com/passwordless-authentication/