skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> protect myself digitally as much as possible

From whom? Understanding the threat model is incredibly important to understanding how and what to defend against. It sounds like you're just chucking "security ideas" over the fence in the hopes that one might protect you.

Protection against cyber criminals and other net denizens? You're probably overkill and also not helpful in some circumstances. Tor is generally for anonymizing internet traffic, but using a financial institution is the exact opposite of anonymity.

ISP? Maybe? Depends on what you're doing and why. With DPI and other tools it's not clear cut.

Nation state? Not much you can do. Very little can protect you if Russia decides you're a person of interest.
The fab in China is 20 year old tech. Primarily chipsets.
The user quotes sound almost too good to be true. When I think of the average YouTuber discussing video editing software, the words "best productization of machine learning I've ever seen" do not come to mind.
> It's just very strange to me that the US and UK explicitly agreed to arrange for extradition on certain terms, but that those terms are now deemed by this judge not to apply in the UK.

The Treaty does not limit extradition permitted under other law, it creates an obligation. If another law requires extradition, the terms of the treaty are immaterial.

> In the US, treaties are law.

They are a kind of law, but unless they are “self-executing” treaties, they aren't law with much practical force until and except to the extent that implementing legislation is adopted.

Now, IIRC, extradition treaties have generally been held to be self-executing in US law, but it's simply not generally the case that treaties are automatically judicially-enforceable laws in the US without separate legislative action.

> The political offense exception absolutely applies when extraditing people from the US to the UK.

The US statute law governing extradition also allows extradition outside of any extradition treaties, but in far more limited circumstances (mostly,for non-US citizens/nationals who are alleged to have committed crimes against US citizens or nationals) than UK law does. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here except that the domestic law of the United States is not identical to that of the United Kingdom, which is unsurprising.
It actually a pretty normal feature of modern society to trust institutions or businesses not to take advantage of particular powers they have.

The problem here is that Apple disallows user override, as the article explains. It's like asking that you trust your government but also allow yourself to be physically constrained from rising up and rebelling against it. And you're not only trusting Apple you're trusting whatever goverment Apple is accountable to where you live.

I'm ok with trusting Apple or Google for vetting most of the apps I have on my phone but I'm absolutely not ok with them restraining me from overriding their decisions when necessary.
People are voting for it by doing it. The work is absolutely exploding. Shipt cannot hire fast enough. They are handing out thousand dollar bonuses left and right. And I am in Metro Detroit, not a big area by any means.
hey get out of my head
By voting for it, I mean codifying into law labor policies that strongly disadvantage workers (Prop 22).

We’re supposedly a first world country; we should act like it with regards to labor regulation.
In addition to tarpitting, a variety of transient issues can impact mail delivery. Email is all about queues and you can run into issues where servers crash or get bogged down by large email traffic.

On business systems, sometimes DLP rules impact delivery times.
If the proximity to China's only BSL-4 lab wasn't a tip-off, and the Chinese gov't coverup wasn't a tip-off, then maybe at the very least this kind of desperate ad hominem you're peddling will tip people off?

If the zoonotic hypothesis were true, I'd expect to see (1) a transparent international investigation of the Wuhan lab, and (2) a fundamental recognition that journalists are allowed to ask questions, no matter their credentials prior to undertaking an inquiry. Given that we've apparently had neither, the zoonotic explanation is severely weakened.
Unlike commodities, there is no upper bound on the utility of health: people would pay as much as they can afford to have their health. Hence there's no rational (as we define the term in economic theories) reason to aim for lower prices, regardless of costs.
Your alternative is YouTube science channels like scishow
To me, an impartial jury is one that would make the same decision when given the same evidence and accusations, regardless of who the defendant is.

In that sense, jury nullification can be impartial.
How does being pretty make me a better, or even more marketable programmer or sysadmin? I'm not user-facing, and interaction is mostly done by textual messages.
What does that have to do with it? If other search engines were more popular, would that change this situation? Maybe there'd be a handful of algorithms to arbitrarily rank him instead of just one, but the dynamic would still be the same. He'd still only be in business as long as their algorithms happened to think his website was slightly more relevant for "cheap portable generators" than other websites.
For pharma specifically, trade secrets could be a decent alternative. Coke comes to mind as a success story in that regard - if it was protected by a patent, we’d be awash in cokes made by someone other than Coca-Cola company because patents expire. Instead, it’s a trade secret that can be kept indefinitely.

You of course get a lot of imitation cokes and that’s great! More consumer choice. With Pharma, the idea is that you get generics after the patent expires. However, an interesting “what if” to ponder - what if the resources that go into generics went instead into the coke-wannabes of the pharma and actually resulted in more innovation? We’ll never know.
The author has a lot more info here:

https://medium.com/@bigattichouse/an-experimental-open-sourc...
This is a great, well-balanced summary that covers a lot of the complexity and nuance.

I'm also somewhat skeptical of the ethical aspects of bitcoin but I can easily see it going much higher.

The aggregate value of all BTC is currently around 5% of that of all gold holdings (~$10 trillion). If the "digital gold" narrative is partially true, perhaps it could reach 20% to 30% (or more?) of that number in next few years.
Publishing what he did is not a crime (under ruling on the Pentagon Papers) however everyone here seems to miss the point that he did so without the normal process a journalist would apply, redacting the names of people that would be put at risk of harm in doing so. That was irresponsible and could be considered criminal. If you read the ruling the judge makes it clear that his actions would be considered a crime in the UK.
> has refused to turn over user data

You don't need to turn over any data if you transmit which programs people start in the clear, unencrypted, easily observable, to one of your servers.

And they do turn it over. They tried to make icloud end to end encrypted but then didn't do it at the behest of the US government. They employ the same tactics as zoom by claiming that icloud is encrypted, trying to make people believe that it's end to end encrypted. The encryption key still sits with them though.

Yes, there are some high profile cases where they very publicly refused the feds. Got a lot of publicity. That was their main goal, to paint an image of them not turning over user data.

Maybe apple indeed collects less user data than Google. But they still collect many things, and it's way harder to escape apple's collection than to escape Google's collection as their OSs are so locked down.
> The 96% figure comes from Google

No it doesn't. You're assuming an even distribution of errors, which is very much not the case.

Google found that the average number of errors is around that range, but they also found that only one third of their servers had any errors in a year.
Sexual Predator and Child Molester Spotted on YouTube
I was currently on my state/town's prison website and found this guy who lives near a school is on YouTube with over 900+ subscribers. He is not safe around children or minors in general I have children that go by his house to school. Take down his channel to prevent kids going to the channel and him calling them over!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3n_-qXbAfVXYOzmujedayQ
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3D augmented reality in real time without a computer (2018)
When three of the biggest names in America’s economy try to combine forces to upend another sector of the economy, that’s definitely news. When it fails, it’s even more so.
It hasn't happened on the Mac app store either. If anything it's put pressure on Apple to make the Mac app store a better experience for developers and users. It's only where users have no option as on iOS that Apple has been able to really abuse its power.
The right to bear arms has a history of severe abuse as well, but I'm not one to throw the baby out with the bathwater. A jury that acquits a white murderer, then convicts a black murderer of the same caliber, is the textbook definition of an impartial jury (which is unconstitutional).
Yeah, I'm a fan of anyting to replace LinkedIn, but if your site requires a picture that I'm not going to sign up. I don't particularly mind if you make it available for people who want to do that, but it's a hard pass for me.
> mingling jumphoppers racking up impressive paper stats

What does this mean?
Clean design, but the contrast could be a lot better (light gray on white).
Company logos would be cool too!
After the full text of the cables were released, it proved they'd been heavily (and misleadingly) edited. IT Wire attributed that to political actors trying to create a specific story line.

https://www.itwire.com/health/us-leaked-parts-of-cables-to-p...
On some level it make sense. Microsoft is not thinking in terms of a Windows-centric workplace anymore, but a Microsoft 365 workplace.

Outlook is probably a pilot. If successful, then I could see the rest of the Office apps going in the same direction eventually.
Apparently you're being downvoted for pointing out that scientists are human. I am so sorry this is happening to you.
wow a telegraph? i had to shout one or zero to another guy half a block down.
>>That's not true. Businesses sell things at a loss all the time because that price still generates the most revenue

This is completely ignorant of basic business operations.

Revenue that is less than expenses means the company runs out of money. Companies need profit. Revenue only helps insofar as it contributes to profit.

>>Also, free market forces are useful tools, not scripture. They are not 'good' in themselves; like you and me, they are good when they do good.

Free market forces maximize investment, with it, productivity/wage growth, so they are in fact good.

I recommend you study some Economics because there is very good evidence for all of this.
Let's suppose you're right, Uber and Lyft and DD all knew this and despite this knowledge thought, you know what, yeah it's uncertain but let's set CA as our HQ and concentrate our efforts there anyway...

Vons and Pavilions are not the same as Uber, Lyft, etc. I think they did it because they thought it was time to change their delivery logistics and were not waiting for concretization of the law around this.

Put another way, Vons' business model isn't centered around this law. It's incidental.
I use the excellent imageworsener compiled to WASM to dither the images in my label printer electron app, https://label.live

Read more at http://entropymine.com/imageworsener/
1. The catcher’s mitt can suspend the rocket far higher above the ground than the landing legs can, reducing backpressure. Even if this is already “solved”, this could make that solution cheaper and easier.

2. Right now, the legs need to be capable of absorbing the shock of the landing. With a dedicated platform, not only can the weight of the shock absorbers be added to the platform rather than the rocket but you can also potentially absorb over a dramatically greater distance and time (increasing the proportion of successful recoveries).
Love it. I see you're not running ads. What's your plan for monetization?
Show HN: Discord for Businesses Vicegamers
> You don't want higher pay?

What I don't want is union contracts, which have many very significant drawbacks, in the real world, that have nothing to do with pay.

There are many real world examples of union contracts that have very serious issues, regarding many things not related to pay at all.

And yes, I get to point to the problems that I see in real world examples of union contracts, because anything else about some hypothetical that does not exist, is just a story that someone made up in their head.
I would implore those who are skeptical of a lab leak hypothesis to listen to the evolutionary biologist Bret Weinsteins Darkhorse Podcast with Yuri Deigin on the subject:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bret-weinstein-and-yur...

Related article by Deigin:

https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...

The podcast is a much easier listen then the deep dive that is in the article. All in all, the facts do not rule out lab leak, and there are definitely mysteries to explain.
I wouldn't say I made a consequentialist statement at all, besides the obvious truism that actions have consequences. In the presence of force majeure, natural rights inevitably take a back seat. Ergo if we care about natural rights, then we should be interested in heading off catastrophes that diminish them, ideally by making responsible individual choices.

Public figureheads preaching harmful nonsense that leads herds of people to harming themselves and their communities is about as far from the enlightened-individual libertarian ideal as possible.
Is google really encrypting each individuals email based on a password they have no knowledge of? I know privacy oriented email hosts have tried to achieve this, but google?

I'd hope the phone tech support understand the goal was to regain access to the account, through a reset or whatever mechanism, and not to just know the password. But maybe if my dad worded it like I did the same confusion could've happened.
Its simple and beautiful :) Can we make profile images optional?
Imagine if the FBI did any investigating prior to avoid the easy and obvious authoritarian parallels while questioning a free citizen working for an elected representative.

I want the FBI to do their job; I just don't want them to look like and/or be the bad guys. In this situation, they smell like the bad guys.
I only have anecdotal answers, but a few of the South Korean and Chinese video-game related deaths were caused by cardiac arrest and dehydration. I always assumed the unspoken part was that the gamers were using some mild stimulants (at least large doses of caffeine), combined with long bouts of inactivity.

This became a somewhat related issue in Japan a few years back, sometimes tied to karoshi incidents, and led to very strict regulation of stimulants, including how energy drinks and caffeine pills can be packaged / sold.

There are many other examples of cardiac arrest after several days of low activity and sleep deprivation though, so the medical reasoning may be simpler.
yeah I can't imagine 8 hrs of coding from a bed. i have bad posture and even I know that would be bad news.
> Clinton spent nearly 2 times what Trump did and still lost.

That election is a bad example since:

- Trump was already a TV and Twitter celebrity brand.

- Hillary Clinton was an unlikeable candidate who was ill, financially corrupt (received large Saudi contributions to her foundation) and avoided reporters for 2 months during the campaign (similar to Biden in 2020)

I've seen estimates that Trump added $2 billion in value to Twitter, so Trump also got some advantage out of that relationship.

What's interesting is that SV ad companies denied knowing that Trump was underspending until their end of quarter, then blamed their poor results on that saying, "Who knew?"

In fact, anybody who read a newspaper knew, so it was odd hearing that nonsense from people paid millions to know that.
Lumping all the FAANG companies, or even parts of these large companies together like this is just lazy. Netflix is unreliable and has no customer support? Are iPhones unreliable? Should business not rely on AWS?

HN deserves better than sweeping generalisations and shallow black and white polemics.
I don't see why this would happen. what problems are you envisioning? moves should leave the original object in a valid but unspecified state. that is, a move should not break a reference to the original object itself, but there are no guarantees as to what data it contains afterwards. in the case of a dynamically allocated string, the moved-from object would probably be empty. with SSO, a move is necessarily a copy, so the moved-from string could either be empty or just contain stale data.

are you maybe thinking of iterators? you have to assume iterators are invalid after a move.
Milton Friedman covers this in detail in “Capitalism and Freedom” if you want the full Libertarin justification, but the short answer is

1) voluntary certification, or

2) market reputation, or

3) threat of enforcement of anti-fraud laws that are less specific than licensure requirements.

The general idea being that it is seldom a good thing to remove cheap options (eg forcing poor people to go bankrupt instead of letting them choose worse care), and licensure both sets a quality floor, and also artificially restricts supply.

I think for life-and-death things like medicine this idea breaks down a bit, but that’s the end of the spectrum and how it’s argued as far as I’ve seen.
it's usually a percentage of your income, so indirectly yes
Your comment is merely an ad hominem against the author, not the content.
How do you intend, or not intend, to monetize this data? In other words, what are you going to do with my information?

I think it looks great and I'm really inclined to create a profile. However, I already get a ton of spam, and thanks to Linkedin, sales people now call me on my personal phone - something that isn't even exposed to anyone not in my network.

I worry about something like this needing to make money and getting bought by someone that needs the data. That said, I could just shut up and use it, since my data is already out there. :D
TLDR use floyd-steinberg dithering with gamma correction.
Aside from this recent fiasco with their verification server shutting down local apps I'm pretty happy with macOS. It's fairly secure by default and treats me like an adult when I want to make my own decisions and install software outside of their distribution channels.

I'm very much not ok with the iOS model where Apple and my government have veto-proof power over what software I can run on my hardware.
The Mac Malware of 2020
Perhaps we could decouple benefits from employment so that 8 hours of gig work per day would actually add up to roughly the same thing as 8 hours per day of employment.
That's even more dystopian than I imagined.
Lately I felt depressed because things didn't line up as I hoped, but compared to those poor souls I can see how blessed I actually am to live in peace.
Poe's law strikes again. Looking at their comment history, I think they were serious.
Minimum wage is not based on a fair market, within reasonable bounds. I remember when minimum wage went from $5.15 to $6.25 in Louisiana in 2008, it's now $7.25 in Louisiana. You could get a lot more in 2000 for $5.15, than you can in 2020 for $7.25, and Louisiana is one of the cheapest places in the US to live.
The crazy thing is...I've seen a high altitude weather balloon above my house. Very easy to identify. Now, the other thing I saw above my house at a different time...that is the thing I cannot explain. The little puffy clouds were moving with the wind against a deep blue sky, the single perfectly round silver sphere above them was not. I watched it as it was motionless as the clouds passed for several minutes. Then after one larger cloud...it was gone.
Hi,

In the view of replies posted, I think profile pics (hereafter avatars) in colleague section are fine to have but dIefinitely not a necessity.

IMHO, here is an optimal solution:

Couldn't there be a two way option: whether i want to share my avatar in the circle, and if i want to look at other avatars?

It would be pretty effective.Lets say, I'm not interested in avatar of your colleagues, so i can turn them off or they would be in a drop down list. And say if I don't want you to see my avatar in colleagues section/list, I can turn it off from my side. So, you would only see a default avatar associated with my profile.
As a data point, I've had 30+ years of working on projects where I wrote the whole product or I was responsible for a big portion.

I did it by working for tiny companies or a tiny teams and later as a consultant.

For example; the last company I worked for as an employee had the boss, me and another developer. At another place, I consulted for a company that just couldn't get out of its own way. I was the software guy, my friend was the hardware guy and the 3rd guy did the mechanical engineering stuff. We were a small team but we could move fast.
i think you will find this thesis gaining credibility in the near future: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...
It's a "bad thing" because there are benefits to being employed with a company that treats you like an employee, which you are not going to get when you're fired and told to go work for Instacart as a contractor if you want to keep getting paid. This is a bad thing for the employee who no longer has their job.
It’s a good first step but not enough. I was scammed a while back on Telegram and wish I had been able to also see the persons real identity to recover my money. Location is not enough to go on.

Perhaps TG should publish an API to allow people to see any users government ID if they are scammed.
Yes but the jumps typically flame out. This virus has an extremely well adapted human furin site well outside of typical Bat Corona virus. This is more in line with gain of function research.
The optimist in me wonders if it was simply easier to make an Electron alternative run well on Windows, instead of rebuilding their native apps to meet arbitrary internal goals.
> It is what we aspire to, though

It's obviously not what some of “us” in positions of power aspire to.

I'm sure there are people whose decisions aren't reflected in the outcomes in China who prefer the CCP not repress dissent, too.

Unrealized aspirations aren't the measure of freedom of a regime.

(Sure, the US is better than the PRC when it comes to tolerating dissent. But it is not free of political repression.)
>With respect to accent, Aidan Gillen is not great. It’s not quite “Littlefinger on the Chesapeake Bay”, but he never sounds comfortable in the accent.

To be honest, his accent/affectation in Game of Thrones also always sounded kind of forced and uncomfortable to me. Still love his performance in both shows, though.