skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something along the lines barring the compilation of iOS apps with 3rd party tools or some such in TOS or blocking apps made with them from the App Store outright. Not saying the would, but if they had reason to fear they are losing control of something in their ecosystem, no telling what they would do. Just would not give a zero chance of something crazy as such happening.
Loneliness is interesting from the perspective of technology and privacy. The internet’s, especially the web’s, solution to social engagement is sharing, often completely at odds to privacy.

For most people there exists a healthy social balance of privacy and engagement by limiting sharing to a confined group, often close social contacts from the offline world. For many people that balance is absent resulting in behaviors that could be defined as exhibitionist. As an example years ago there numbers for Twitter suggestive of the 80/20 rule where a minority of the users create that vast majority of content while everyone else mostly lurks.

From a technology perspective, especially an ad driven platform, that creates all kinds of problems. Exhibitionists, the possibly unhealthy people, are an audience the platform wants to reward because they disproportionately drive revenue. In the offline world this is extremely bizarre behavior, but on online social platforms become something artificially enviable. These behaviors exchange social interaction for attention engagement often at cost to privacy.

As a technologist it is possible to create a software tool that is inherently private and creates a healthy social environment online. In order to accomplish that the technology has to promote the same sort of privacy and interpersonal balance that is more natural to the offline world. The biggest challenge isn’t designing the proper technology but rather promoting such a solution contrary to current platforms and their supposed incentives.
Strange omission, considering automatically updating Safari extensions asks you to exit Safari when it happens.
It seems that officially Wales is not a principality, but there also seems to be some disagreement: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/un-report-caus...
Reminds me of the (supposed?) etymology of “barbarian”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian

> The Greeks used the term barbarian for all non-Greek-speaking peoples, including the Egyptians, Persians, Medes and Phoenicians, emphasizing their otherness. According to Greek writers, this was because the language they spoke sounded to Greeks like gibberish represented by the sounds "bar..bar..;"
It's really amazing how a very slight majority is able to upend the country for generations. There should have been a series of referendums.
If you only predict that the stock is overvalued, it may indeed be difficult to exploit that information.

However, in this case, the author predicted the downfall of a huge company. If its business starts failing by any reasonable metric, its stock will fall very fast and very far.
Yeah, let’s blame the man for solving a divisive issue using democracy.
It is a critique from someone who works in the field: http://egypt.urnash.com
If you legislate that it's not X and it's not Y and it's not Z, pretty soon it's no-one. Legislating that it can't be X is de facto making it the taxpayers' responsibility (or else permitting it to not be done at all).
> To me, as an outside observer, it seems like the unseemly political shenanigans around appointments to the US Supreme Court are because the will of your Founders is too hard to override politically, and if the system of government was as great as it is made out to be, the philosophy and leanings of individual SCOTUS justices would not be such a huge deal.

You’ve got it precisely backward. Liberals make the “philosophy and leanings of individual SCOTUS justice” a “huge deal” because they rely on the courts to legislate policies they can’t get through Congress.

You talk about the difficulty of amending the constitution, but how does that relate to the controversy around judicial appointments? When France and Germany legalized abortion, same sex marriage, etc., they didn’t amend the constitution. They just passed a law. But liberals didn’t have the votes in Congress to pass those laws. So they got it done through the courts. And then they create a controversy around judicial appointments because conservative jurists foreclose that strategy.

With respect to hot-button judicial issues in the US, the courts in Europe is a lot more like the American conservatives than the American liberals. In 2016, the European Court of Human Rights found that there was no fundamental right to same-sex marriage in the European Convention of Human Rights: https://eclj.org/marriage/the-echr-unanimously-confirms-the-.... That was the year after the United States Supreme Court found exactly the opposite.

Around the same time as Roe v. Wade several courts in Europe considered the same issue. None concludes there was an expansive right to abortion: https://repository.law.uic.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2...

> These decisions seem to reflect several possible solutions. At one end of the spectrum is the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which held that the U.S. Constitution prohibits abortion legislation designed to protect the life of the unborn prior to viability. At the other end of the spectrum is the decision of the West German Constitutional Court which held that the State has an affirmative duty to protect the unborn life at all stages of pregnancy.

To this day Roe remains an aberration in the developed world. Under it, the government can’t ban abortion (even with exceptions for emergencies) prior to viability, at the end of the second trimester. Under Roe the abortion laws of nearly every European country would be unconstitutional. (Only the UK’s would pass muster. Most prohibit elective abortion after the first trimester.)

Difficulty of amending the constitution is irrelevant, because the controversy is caused by things that can’t get enough support nationwide for ordinary legislation.
I guess much as with housing, some like small homes and some prefer "McMansions".

If it works for you, then right on.
I was careful to say true positives rather than true positive rate. This is why without more information it is hard to know exactly what is going on.
They're the opposite. Factorio is an extreme about having control. Rimworld is an extreme about control being ripped from your hands.
The Lamer Exterminator Amiga Virus. Behavior and Encryption
I totally understand why the Tailscale folks do it this way, but I don't really want to link my Google or MS accounts to my private VPN. The product looks fantastic though!!
How do you verify that AWS isn’t introspecting everything on your instance and stealing your data?

At some point you can’t, you can only make a best judgement based on what they’re telling you and what you’ve found elsewhere.
> it already meets the requirement

I wonder whether that is actually true, isn't the state budget coming in significant part from the UK? I wonder how would that be stacked against Maastricht treaty parameters
I can vouch for every single word you just said. I know an Indian guy who was doing residency in the US. Got married in India, his wife got him arrested under 498a. He spent 10 months in jail! Ridiculous.

I'm lucky my turn came after the supreme Court ruling you mentioned. Me or my family was not arrested, but we still had to shell up about 30,000 USD to my in laws, which was money will spent to be honest (as they agreed to give me full custody of my daughter).

I could have prevented all this my bugging my ex's phone. Why? Because it all happened so suddenly. Everything came down raining without even a hint from my ex. If I had a little bit intelligence of what she was cooking up, I could have even saved the marriage.
Whatever they say explicitly is a mirage. It's brand marketing 101. You never trust what a company says or portrays itself as, because doing so is just another tool to get customer attention. Instead, only assume that they're a corporation whose sole incentive is increasing profits. Then, extrapolate their actions from that axiom.

Growth hacking does not damage their brand value and in fact might increase it, if they're successful. If more people use them, that's much more useful to their enduring brand value than whatever they'd have lost by spamming.
And in several countries, floor #13 literally does not exist. No button. They just skip the inauspicious floor entirely.
Original title is:

CrowdStrike Launches Free Tool to Identify and Help Mitigate Risks in Azure Active Directory
> However, for almost a decade, it was mainly used by urban and semi urban, educated women as a revenge tactic.

Citation needed for this claim.

There a 100,000 498A cases a year - 13% of cases ended in conviction [1]. It is hard to say how many of the remaining 87% were "false".

[1] https://factly.in/the-conviction-rate-of-sec-498a-cases-fall...
_The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World_ by Pema Chödrön

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1582074-the-wisdom-of-...
I’ve started DNS blacklisting companies like this, would be interesting to have a shared blacklist of “technically legitimate, but very scummy” companies. :)

(Ycombinator itself is getting very close, since their “optimize for income” strategy naturally leads to this if not reined in, and apparently they are not doing enough wrist-slapping.)
This was the kind of response I had hoped for. What influence do you think silicon valley has California government on this issue?
It's for this very reason I'm so enamored with the concept of organizational fragmenting - gore-tex does it, and it's the sort of de facto method of restructuring that goes on in online communities: the idea is that when you get so big you need to create new vertical controls, you split horizontally - control is never vested in a central authority (instead, teams are responsible for their zone, and communicate with each other when necessary).

This has the power to make it much more difficult to achieve economic capture. It's way harder to buy off key figures in 8 different hierarchies than it is to just dump a load of money on a single CEO.

(this)[https://www.managementexchange.com/story/innovation-democrac...] is one of the better write-ups on such a structure that I could find.
rangers aren’t above being delusional
Why does making a moral statement require adherence to that statement? Sounds like a pretty basic tu quoque and it follows that no one really has to question the moral argumentation at all. Why do you think people make up these sorts of conditions?
I think it would be rather simple to implement. Device A recognizes gesture to share info. Device A sends a local ping asking if there are other nearby devices that are willing to accept data. Device B is willing to accept data, so it answers with a location. Device A determines Device B is in a location where the user swiped to. Device A asks Device B, will you accept flight plan data? Device B says sure. Device A sends the flight plan data. Device B determines that it is already friends with Device A, so it shows the data, otherwise maybe it would have prompted its user first.
The implementation of referendums needs serious reform in many democracies. My home state of California is still dealing with the effects of several propositions from generations ago but at least we get to revote on them sometimes by petitions. The UK feels tyrannical in comparison.
What number counts as massive?

Initial results [0] on Moderna’s are on 95 participants in a trial with 30k [1] due to run to 10/22. I’ll be happy to monitor results and ADE rates before taking the plunge although I’m really excited about the promise of mRNA.

0. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/promising-inte...

1. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04470427
Yup. These people are probably thinking of copyright, which software fall under. Which current is 95 years from publication or author’s lifespan + 75 years, and should almost certainly be shortened closer to patent length.
More can’t hurt then, eh?
The IETF probably isn't a useful example because it's a fairly strange thing. You probably couldn't (and shouldn't try to) do very much else that way. It's doubtful whether for example it constitutes an "organisation".

It has no formal legal existence whatsoever, so it can't own anything, including money, nor enter into any sort of contract with anybody, it doesn't have members, and the staff who make things happen aren't working for the IETF per se.

Something like ISRG (the organisation that provides the Let's Encrypt service you mentioned) is much more conventional, there's a not-for-profit legal entity in a specific place with employees, equipment and so on. It would be reasonable to run a TLD that way, and in fact I assume some of them are indeed run that way.
> so liberals will sue to protect their property value

I see this repeated all the time. I’m sure there are hypocrites aplenty but I doubt San Francisco owners are anywhere near as liberal as the city population overall.
> What languages exist that are hard to write bad code in?

A language with a good type system (ex. Haskell, OCaml, Rust etc.) makes it hard to write bad code, because it eliminates a large class of potentially "bad" programs, and thus provides guarantees about the code that does type check.

If I have an arbitrary Haskell program, it might still be messy and hard to read, but I know I'll have certain guarantees about the code. For example, if a function isn't in IO, it won't have any effects, and a replacing it with a function that returns the same values for the same arguments will be safe.

Additionally, the language makes it easy for libraries to have well designed APIs, that ensure that the user doesn't forget to make the required checks. For example, removing null, and forcing Option/Maybe for functions that might fail forces the the caller to handle the failure case, instead of just forgetting to check for null, which is common.
The Elephant in the Brain is a similar book, it talks about the hidden incentives that everyone has. Once you read it and understand such incentives, you understand why things are the way they are.

For example, why is education so focused on work rather than learning? One answer is due to credentialism, specifically for employers to know whether you can sit for 8 hours and do work for them, just as in school.
Interesting. I'd say picking the right colors, textures and shapes to make a group of people feel nostalgic about video games that don't exist, that takes real skill.

It sounds like this art didn't do anything for you. But it did for others. This[1] didn't do anything for me either. But I sure as hell wouldn't be selfish enough to say it's not art.

[1] http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/chapter/01/
Hate to be the party pooper, but the proper diagnosis for "something like paranoid disease" is called "paranoid schizophrenia" and if you had any idea what that implied you might have sounded like less of a Jackass.

Your "problem" is colloquially called "teenage angst" and adequate treatment can be achieved by reading The Catcher In The Rye, listening to copious amounts of Grunge music and, if you have enough status among your peer group, fucking your brains out with someone equally confused as yourself but of the (usually) opposite sex, about whom only in hindsight when it is too late you'll realize that you actually cared about.
It's an insult, not a critique.
Libby is a good public library app. For reading and audiobooks as well.
I went from using a 34" ultrawide to just the laptop because I decided I would rather sit in a lounge chair than at a desk
What do you mean? Like Hacker News or YC itself? If the latter, where are you encountering YC doing scummy stuff like TripleByte? And wrist slapping for what?
A bitmap brush dragged over the screen, with Instagram-style caption: https://www.suzannetreister.net/Ampages/Amiga41.html

Art + technical prowess + the art values you mention: http://amiga.lychesis.net/artist/JimSachs/JimSachs_AmigaLago...

If the ‚art world‘ is unaware of the latter, then it what does it tell us about their artistic credentials?
Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
It’s interesting to single out Zuckerberg. As if he’s so much worse than many, most of the other tech billionaires.

Who defended him? HN is passionately, if not extremely anti FB and anti Zuckerberg.
My comment was focused on the phrase “artificial intelligence “ and not the tech itself. Obviously the techniques are awesome but the naming is unfortunate
But a CNN like that never sees any object in 3D, never a stereo pair, usually not even the same object from different aspects (marked as the same object). There is no information from which an idea of the 3D structure could arise.
I think the dark red is kind of of putting. A big red banner doesn't really scream "Christmas". Maybe green would make more sense.
If they can spend all that money lobbying for industry influence in D.C., couldn’t they spend some for advocating for pro-housing local measures? Their money definitely goes a ways at the national level, why not spend it closer.
No, I haven’t. Will have to look into it. Thanks!
I identify as a leftist. I believe the government, and more generally a nation, has a duty to ensure quality of life for its citizens.

That said, I think this article is grounded in a false dichotomy:
"As Silicon Valley has had one of its most profitable years in history, thousands of people who live in walking distance from the headquarters of the world's best-known tech giants are going hungry."

How does distance to the hungry matter? Companies are already donating. They have no duty to. The failure isn't on their end. I'd also extrapolate that the failure isn't on the system currently in place: if they're getting funded and people are still hungry: why are they hungry?

There isn't enough access to jobs, there is too much financial duress, and there isn't a layer of support to help these people. That's entirely on the government to sort. Blaming businesses for not sorting this problem is simply moving the goalposts.
I mean they post page after page of the before and afters on their websites, which I've always found kind of disturbing. I'm sure the women agreed to it but still kind of odd.
He wasn't trying to date her.
If one does not understand what they are being asked to consent to, they are incapable of giving informed consent.
I want to write an article about "test-driven EDA."

I used to do EDA in REPLs when I was more in a more research-focused scientist, but I've made a transition over to the engineering side the last few years.

What made the transition natural for me is that I never shirked on reproducibility when doing EDA. I've seen other scientists, once they have something, "toss it over" and get the entire thing rewritten-- this isn't really scientists owning their work.

Now-a-days, I do test-driven EDA, i.e. via using pytest. Write the test first that describes what you're "exploring for", and the code to document how you got it. As a bonus, an engineer can rewrite it since you've done them a favor and written tests they can validate.
I trade my (extra)money(after bills etc) for more free time where I can pursue my interests and hobbies. So I outsource a lot of work. This past year, I have been reading a lot. I also had to scale down farming this year due to covid. And for what needed to be done(because it’s never zero work in a farm), I hired someone else to do it. People needed jobs this year. So win-win.
This paragraph is really beautiful:

I went gradually from level to level, each time learning the next version of the thing, and in this there was nothing remarkable. Everyone knows it — everyone first learned the version of the stork and then the more realistic explanation of his own genesis. The point is that all the earlier versions, even those as patently false as the one with the stork, are not discarded completely. Something of them remains in us; they mesh with succeeding versions and somehow continue to exist — but that is not all. As far as the facts are concerned — say, in the case of my father’s diploma — it is not difficult to determine what the correct version is, the one that counts. It is otherwise with experience. Each experience has its weight, its authority, which does not admit of argument and depends only on itself. And herein lies the problem, for the sole guardian and guarantor of the authenticity of experience is memory.

Given it's Christmas Eve, I think our memories of Christmas and what it means is a good example of this. As children we explain gifts on Christmas as something Santa Claus provides overnight. The forward-motion of life eventually teaches us that it is, in fact, our parents giving gifts... Yet the original belief and magic stays with us, and the chronology of beliefs superceded by new beliefs and realities feeds the myth and power of Christmas.

Borges also discusses the subjective experiences we have when producing work in a number of his works[1], which is also magical in a way that Lem's paragraph is -- our lived experiences forever bias us in a ways that we might never expect.

Merry Christmas everyone.

[1] For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
The Matrix Holiday Special, 2020 Edition
It depends on what you put at stake, obviously.
Imagine using the phrase "acerbic vitriol" when simply saying "sarcasm" would suffice. I cannot take a discussion seriously who cannot communicate professionally and doesn't know when to use fluffy academic lexicon
The article has:

> Abrams said Crane came up with the first name, "Mavis," in honor of singer Mavis Staples. "Beacon," had something to do with a "beacon of light," Abrams said.
Phishing doesn't have to be a literal scam. The more insidious kind that companies are actually wary of are the ones intended to steal credentials and get into internal systems.

Phishers can easily get what internal company emails look like. Send an email that looks like "Hey, we're giving you a $900 bonus. Make sure to fill out these forms on workday", with a link that is a Phishing website that looks exactly like workday.

Fill in your credentials - hey, also need your 2factor code - and bam, hackers have an in to the system. It doesn't matter that the employee realizes 10 days later they were phished.
Sometimes worse is better.
Absolutely true. I still vouch for Mullvad though, it’s the one VPN provider I feel I can trust to reasonable extents.