skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a huge difference between refugees, which is what you'd be if your country is indeed a war zone. The EU doesn't deal well with refugees, but let's face it, many refugees also don't want to be granted asylum in Romania, they want to do to France or Germany.

Part of the problem is that refugees and migrants mixes at the borders. EU is also terrible at managing refugees, mostly due to not being able to agree to distribute the refuges equally across the member states. Of cause that would provoke some people, because apparently Slovakia or Bulgaria isn't better than living in a war zone, but Sweden and Germany is.
That's kind of what this article is about..... but to answer your question: it's a market "success", and it's taste.

People do not buy fruit & veg because it tastes very good, they buy it because it exists in a supermarket and looks pretty. Flavor is not a major component in choice. If you have 3 apples, and all 3 taste bland, people will still buy the "best" of the 3 bland apples rather than no apple at all.

Fruit/veg found at a supermarket are also bred for industrial purpose. They are selected to store well, grow quickly, produce in large numbers, resist disease/drought, and be visually pleasing. Flavor is a minor consideration, because 99.99999% of people will not go out of their way to find a better tasting version of the same veg.

If you want tastier fruit/veg, go out of your way to find a local varietal, or a local grower of more varieties. There are thousands of small farms all over the country that grow a wide variety of fruit & veg.

Also, tastes change. The fruit/veg that you prefer may have gone out of fashion, so the new stuff doesn't taste as good to you.
I suspect Monero is too privacy oriented to become a mainstream investment product like BTC. Tbh, I believe that, although it doesn't hurt you to hold it, any crypto currency only has actual fiat equivalence in a darknet market (elsewhere there is a nice substitute called cash/credit), which is the sole market that demands privacy by nature. All other markets solely use BTC as an investment class and explicitly require that you forgo your privacy in some form or the other. Monero's focus on the former might make it bitter-tasting for the regulators of the latter.
I prefer a local spreadsheet over a browser spreadsheet, because the browser spreadsheets don't always update all the dependent cells consistently. Sometimes, they need to send something back and forth to a server and that's slow and irritating. Resizing columns seems better in a local app than in a browser too, but I'm not totally sure about that.

I don't really use a word processor or other parts of an office suite very often.
Only a fraction of total income is accounted for by all of the incomes equal to the average and below.
Isn't it with LEDs also that getting a spectrum that has blue you could filter is about as hard as getting just blue? (e.g. white LEDs are some form of blue/UV with an extra fluorescent layer, and from a (simple) red LED you can't get blue by filtering?)
The two options are: girls are bad at suicide or girls are not as serious about suicide (compared to boys).

Either way, clearly the boys need more intervention, in whatever form that takes.
SpaceX filing reveals Starlink internet service has over 10k users
I know this is going to be a bit off topic but this is the site that I open most often: https://www.xcamsclub.com/teens
The average person thinks of a mustard seed or some other small seed. I also think you know this and are being pedantic.
I believe that it is helpful because if I knew about that a few years back I would never bother donating nor contributing to them.

> and managing that community takes a lot of the resources, obviously

I do not think that parties in Accra using donation funds is an integral part of "managing that community".

The Internet Archive has proved that they are not to be trusted multiple times. Such as when they decided to not be transparent, to retroactively remove content if asked by the site owner or if robots.txt started banning crawlers, when they started "lending" e-books with DRM, or when they decided to do the whole "National Emergency Library" thing and publishers sue it over it (the lawers and possibly said publishers if they win the ruling - which is likely - will be paid via the donation money).
Second Hong Kong radio host arrested for sedition
A second issue is that, at lower levels, taxonomy isn’t a very well defined thing. (Perhaps one way to think of it is that phylogeny maps onto taxonomy and this mapping isn’t injective.) So if two groups of animals are reclassified as two species, it is hard to say whether or not a new species was discovered. Especially if the two variants were known before—should one backdate the species discovery to the time the variants were identified? Similarly, a species doesn’t really go extinct if the taxonomy changes so two species are merged into one.

The vernacular names for some group of animals (or plants) needn’t correspond to some clade that gets a taxonomical name. Eg broccoli and cabbage are considered the same species, whereas ‘crab’ may refer to all sorts of largely unrelated animals.
We get a LOT of salt. We're in the northeast US. I think it'll rust out before the engine and transmission die.
yes certainly would suck to pay, because in the end VMWare isn't issue free either.
Thank you for this, I feel so lonely with my similar opinion in my circle.

Your comment made me less feel less crazy.
> The UK success will be dependent on its capacity to attract capital

And not on it's ability to trade with neighbours, both in goods such as fish and produce, and in services such and finance?
Show HN: VS Code extension to help learn JavaScript syntax
I’m not commenting on the practice generally, but the second quoted paragraph really makes it seem much broader than it may be. Later in the article, they show the geofence - which is literally the AutoZone walls plus 50 feet to the north and east - and clarify that the time period was 20 minutes, not a whole day.
> Imagine in Minority Report where Tom Cruise is instantly caught because his whereabouts can easily be tracked and triangulated, by his gait, infrared heart signature, smell, and a number of other things. Movie takes 2 minutes. The end.

Agh, I can't find it now, but there's a short film half based on this: A time traveler from the future is identified instantly because she's in two places at once. The short has both of them in adjacent interrogation rooms, with two onlookers - a rookie and an experienced investigator - talking about how to identify time travelers. It ends with the experienced one commenting that they've been showing up more and more often.

Minority Report might not be possible with such technology, but it does open different possibilities.
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You should check out the OSWE it’s harder for “security” people but for devs it’s a lot easier. Do that and then get the OSCP. You could also pick up a forensics course or two and network forensics course.

Experience wise I would suggest starting with incident handling in a large companies in-house blue team. Ask them about scope and duties. Try get a job where it’s a mix of the tasks within DFIR and the teams scope is wide protecting many different environments from IT to cloud etc. The more variety the more incidents the more experience you’ll get faster.

Given your previous work you’ll likely get asked to work on an app sec team. It’s not for everyone and quite close to testing for some folks. I prefer operations as it has a higher pace.

Like any tech job try to automate things people do manually from forensic analysis to security solutions.

Whatever type of team you are on don’t be a snob and look down on other teams be they security or non security. This is particularly common quite hilariously for red teams who should epitomise hacker culture. Having been on these teams I can tell you they get particularly huffy about elitism.

Also don’t look down on the role of security analyst. Mind you not all analyst roles are created equal. I’ve found though that bar a few large companies if you work for an MSSP (managed security service provider) you probably won’t get the same quality of experience unless you are on a few of their consulting teams. The issue I’ve seen is they have no remit to actually remediate the incidents they find so miss the full journey.

Most of all like anything in life enjoy it. You are choosing this.
made me laugh out loud
Yikes, they also copied GPLv3 code from ublock (into their Apache licensed repo):

https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension/c...
Hey,

GrokJS is a VS Code extension I built at a hackathon with some friends. It makes learning JavaScript Syntax easier by explaining it directly within the editor.

I was inspired to build this plugin because despite having programmed for years I still get hung up on odd syntax — especially when working with an unfamiliar language. To make matters worse it is really hard to Google for help with confusing syntax. Search results will think you want help with the semantics of the code rather than the syntax. With GrokJS you can highlight a confusing piece of syntax and it will explain it and link to further documentation.

It was a lot of fun to build and I hope you check it out. If you want to learn more about how we built it I wrote a blog post here https://calebschoepp.com/blog/2021/building-grokjs-at-hacked.... I'll also be around to answer questions.
From what I could tell in that article the process is more like

MP: "hey would you like the public to look at all your finances"

Queen: "ah, hm, no I'm good"

Queen's barrister/friend who happens to be in the room for tea: "shrug, also the people would FOMO into everything you invest, have you seen how they fawn over you, horrible idea with this lot"

Reporters 50 years later "The Queen devised a scheme using obscure legislative process to lobby for an exemption...."
Really, why do we keep rewriting our code?
Nick the magic man

Risked a tragic ban

By polluting hacker news

With yet more clerihews
To business leaders, security neither drives revenue nor decreases costs; it's just something you've gotta meet the minimum bar on as cheaply as you can. That's not the team you want to be on.
Abstract of a paywalled article.
It's a rare case when a neural net will give you materially different results than a random forest or an svm. ie, if an svm is 80% accurate, a well tuned neural net might be 83% accurate. sometimes that's a huge difference. in a domain like medical image classification, maybe not so much

also you can just "throw all the data" at an svm or random forest, or any number of similar models. Automated parameter tuning can be convenient, but it's prone to overfitting and doesn't eliminate a lot of the actual work
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> I can't think of ways it's seriously impacted my life

It’s there in a thousand little prosaic things, like trackpads, camera autofocus, credit applications, news feeds, movie recommendations, Amazon logistics optimization. You don’t feel it but it’s there, and the effects accumulate.

It’s like robots: dishwashers and laundry washers are commonplace computer- and feedback-controlled mechatronics, ie. simple special-purpose robots. And almost everything you own was made partially with robots. But it doesn’t feel like the world’s full of robots.
I’d say they are the German version of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”
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How would you do it differently? Would you adjust for inflation or look for a different indicator like a rate of return over time or compare to an index fund over the same time?
While maybe not really actionable advice, I've been making a slow transition in this direction over the last few years, so I'm just sharing what happened for me incase it's of use.

The networking side came from that being my background, I used to work in cellular telecom, and my role was to solve complex network problems.

The security side has been a more natural transition, and it really came for working for companies that had security problems but weren't really equipped or able to solve them. But the bit of its that luck or I don't really understand, is somehow I had developed better mental models of technical security that allowed me to break apart other proposed solutions and develop my own, which was probably just religious reading of HN security content.

This better understanding put me into a position to solve organization objectives where the skills were otherwise missing, and then the organization started asking to solve other security problems, and without really trying I've been a security SME in my previous and current role.

From a tips perspective, I think the most important tip is approaching almost any problem with the statement "I don't know what I don't know". A lot of devs can get away with brute forcing their way through tech and applying similar solutions they know to solve new problems. Such as a personal pet peeve, the number of devs who think a crypto or password hash will anonymize data. But starting with know our mental model is incomplete, and trying to figure out why, I think helps me out alot.

So the second tip is, reach out to someone who does security and get free advice for particular problems. Write a design doc and get them to review it, or just converse with them at a high level what's around to solve a particular problem. I've done complete 180's on particular choices based on just a conversation about what exists and then go and do a bunch of research.
Open secrets is an obviously biased source that believes there should be more gun control. Their compiled numbers could easily exclude anti-gun spending, and I'm inclined to believe their do.

For instance, they say that in 2020, there was $1,540,000 spent on gun control[1]. The Montana ballot initiative referenced above had $1,629,596.12 spent in opposition to in in 2020 alone[2].

[1] Committees in opposition to LR-130 https://ballotpedia.org/Montana_LR-130,_Limit_Local_Governme...

[2]TABLE: Gun rights vs. gun control lobbying, 1998-2020 https://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/guns
It's more worrying that there is concentrated effort to further Frontex's power.
Most sci-fi stories prepare us to imagine AGI. ML is to AGI is like a wood stick to a spaceship. It's just not even worth mentioning in the big picture of the future.
You've never attended an office party, or a company-hosted partner event, or any sort of enjoyable relationship building event?

Parties serve a purpose. We are social mammals.
okay. whatever particular wealthy that you are thinking about is not all or likely not most.

I would also like to point out that everyone's anecdotes about "their wealthy friends not tipping or dropping change to beggars" are not the same people you are thinking about.
That was my impression too. For those with the medieval-peasant view that moving money around is "fake work", it's an interesting basic description of the value of finance.

But the rest of the article isn't just useless, it's wrong-headed. There's never been any question in my mind that finance creates value. My best friend (and one of the smartest people I know) is a quant at Goldman. My complaint about the government-finance nexus is that it causes all kinds of screwed incentives (a problem any government system needs to contend with), and is constantly and transparently abused by actors within the financial system. It's incredibly weird to see the author seemingly lose 20 IQ points the minute he attempts to rebut common criticisms of finance.

The author has a much worse problem with the blind spot he's describing than the hypothetical people he sneers at throughout the article.
Michael Bloomberg, who ran (and lost) the most expensive campaign for candidacy in history is a major anti-gun donor.
I don't know about current models, but in the past a trace was cut and a resistor placed in order to _disable_ FM.
Multiple SIM support is also simply sabotaged due to carrier pressure and a price to pay per registered IMEI.
No, the author is not talking about Red Delicious in that sentence. The sentence before talks about Red delicious, and the sentence you quoted talks about later cultivars.
You left out Hindus massacred in 1947. And over the centuries, turning a Hindu majority region into a Hindu minority one.

You made my point.

India’s democratically elected govt has the legal right to block the internet to prevent such massacres in the future.
a black hole is entirely a product of physical processes. how long until we can make one? or even fully understand them
"There is really just one glaring problem with government regulation of banks – it’s too nice to the government. The US government decreed that US treasuries have a risk-weight of 0%, that they’re considered a highly liquid asset on par with cash, that the government is exempt from single-counterparty limits, and so on and so forth."

This gets to the heart of the network effects of the 2008 housing price crash. People were modeling mortgage risk as lower because of the implicit guarantee of the government sponsored enterprises which went into conservatorship. If we think about financial institutions trying to hold this kind of debt to meet their risk ratios, there is a lot of incentive to create and hold more of this "low risk" money. This ends up creating counterparty risk, when a sizable chunk of everyone's "low risk" assets drop in market value.

It seems like there would be benefit in running the models with a number other than 0 in there for US Treasury risk.
If you haven't read "What the fly’s nose tells the fly’s brain" [0] take a look. It helps explain why the olfactory sensors might actually be selected to have wide spectrum sensitivity (it's a feature not a bug).

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4522789/
I'm pretty new to heavy console-based Linux adminning - I just have a raspbian pi4 I'm using for a bunch of local services around my house, but I've gotten pretty comfy editing files and tweaking services and chmodding/chowning.

However, I refuse to climb the learning cliff of Vi, but nano is... Okay at best?

Is mcedit a good option? I'm still just doing everything from shell and nano.
>They "loan" out money that THEY DO NOT OWN! When issuing a loan, they credit themselves with assets, create a liability at the central bank, then when they get paid back they pocket the interest.

I'm not super familiar with banking or accounting, but this doesn't sound remotely accurate. The whole point of a bank is that they're loaning customers with other customers' money. Fractional reserve banking just makes this easier, but the concept is still the same. If one bank's reserve is too low, they generally will just loan the money from another bank. The Fed will only loan out money to banks when all of them are running out of reserve.
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Did no one else notice the gem in here that BBC failed to mention, that this lizard has one of if not the largest dicks relative to body size of any vertebrate? Due to gender size dysmorphism and internal fertilization.
i have an idea.
1. there will be a crippled QT style LTS version only "community edition" or onlyoffice style "community edition" which is just to appease the "foss" gods while in reality it is crippled and there to force people to "pay up".

2. if not the first part, second one would be kinda like how "enterprise" users get updates and "features" first and the "community" edition would get those as afterthought. This one is what collabora at least for what i know is doing for a long time with their customers but once the "business" version goes popular and the companies get more into serving these users, the "freeloaders" would be given less and less preference.

3. once companies like Collabora or others get "big enough", i see no problem for microsoft or other company to do "embrace, extend and extinguish" because that is essentially what collabora has done to libreoffice.

i think the second one or a combination of both would be the future of libroffice in my opinion from the stuff TDF is putting out.

Question: why is TDF a marketing machine for collabora and other companies?
Was doing some test to test the premium feature of my iOS app, then after the test, I forgot to put a paywall and buy button on the app UI, then submitted to the App Store.

Users been using the app for free for one week before I realized what is going on lol, probably lost just $50 in revenue but it did taught me a lesson
I've never seen that before, looks really neat, I'll have to try it out. Thanks.
The hydrogen peroxide is used for bleaching the wood. Sunlight speeds it up. You don't want any leftover H2O2.
Bro. It's an office suite. If I can't self serve, then I'm not going to use it.

Request Demo. Yeah, no. I'm not going to request a demo of a fucking office suite. I know how they work. Jesus.
I’ve worked in computer security for over 15 years as an engineer. In my case I often work closely with threat researches building infrastructure or things to make their lives easier (eg automate or detect the “easier” attacks so they can focus on the novel). I’ve had the same Internal career debate recently, in my case going back to roots. I enjoy CTFs and working with our threat researchers. With this skill set I figure out how to scale them. If I know more, can I help more? Probably.

Beyond general security it sounds more like you’re interested in the blue team side (defense). To that I’d look into things like https://cyberdefenders.org/ hack the box and other CTF work first. OSCP is nice and maybe even mandatory for pen testing (Hr) but hands on is key. From there you can figure out if certain are worth it to you. The ejpt is a cheaper starter as well.

In practice you need both technical skills and report writing skills. You have to tell a security story to technical and non technical people. The better you are at both, the further you can go. As a counterpoint, we still have a hard time finding solid security minded engineers. You can be a triple threat :)
I dont see how that solves the energy problem. Presumably, if allocating X space gets you Y rewards, allocating 2X space gives you 2Y rewards. So, if the rewards are worth anything, there will be a race to install and run as much storage capacity as possible, which has an energy cost.
This sounds like utter nonsense.

I've lived in several high rises here in NYC and 99% of the difference in the quiet ones is not stuff that you'd see from street view.

Things like sound deadening underlayment and wall insulation, floorplans designed so that quieter rooms like a bedroom aren't next to louder ones like a living room.

I know HN is full of experts and their field but this is a stretch past stretches. No idea what kind if Rain Man engineer could tell you how quiet an apartment will be from street views.

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The way you tell if a place is quiet is the reviews mostly. People like privacy, one of the easiest complaints to find is "feel like I hear everything my neighbors do"
> I do not think that parties in Accra using donation funds is an integral part of "managing that community".

Well, that's why the opinion is unhelpful.

Wikipedia runs the largest decentralised and communal knowledge curation project in history. Making it and keeping it great takes a lot of free labour, all over the world. They have to organise communities at many many different levels, and often that involves getting a bunch of people in a room together - people who aren't getting paid - for a few days to make a ton of decisions and design and implement things. It involves recruiting new people to help and teaching them the organisational processes and skills, and nurturing new people up through the organisation, and resolving comflicts. All of that is absolutely necessary to make something like wikipedia work and barely scratches the surface.

A party for the people who worked their asses off for free is really an incredibly cheap way to reward people.