skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hypothetical: if you modify the software in a Tesla, and your modification allows a hacker to remote control it, and this power is used to commit vehicular homicide, how much of the burden of responsibility do you have?

If you modified your keyless-start car to not need a nearby key, and left it unlocked in parking lot and someone got into it, started it, and ran over several pedestrians would you be at fault?

Why does being remote change things?
Why are you advocating for the lowest common denominator among humans? Are you sure you really want to be doing that?

If that's the case, take away all the knives, require people to get a license to have kids, don't let them drive cars, take away all of the dangerous things in life so that everybody can be secure. It's just a ridiculous argument to say that we must have only this one particular app store to keep everybody safe. There are a lot of solutions to this. I don't care if I have to sign a written agreement to allow me to sideload things, just give me a way to do it.

People who trade liberty for security are absolutely one of the biggest problems in this world. You should be advocating for people to smarten up instead. Otherwise you're going to wake up one day and you're not going to be able to make a move without asking for big brothers permission.

And, if you say that people have a choice to go on Android well, then they have a choice already don't they? Did the existence of that choice automatically screw the entirety of society? No it did not. So there's no problem with also giving them a choice to sideload.

You're acting like everybody will immediately flip the switch to sideload things. They already made a good choice by going on an iPhone, why are you discounting that people won't also make other good choices? You want people to throw out the baby with the bathwater. If I want to sideload one damn thing that doesn't mean I want to give up the comfort and security of the rest of my iPhone ecosystem.
Well, obviously there are always possible repercussions is you say the wrong thing to the wrong person. But if adults in a relatively free society are having a provate discussion and one says something that offends another, it just does not happen that the offended party "tattles" on the offender.
This would likely be in violation of several wiretapping laws though (Also, Clubhouse's own ToS).
Mistake A was made in the past, therefore we are adamant that we need to make mistake B today.
Based off of the content of the NYT article and the sources it linked, I don't think that was their issue with Clubhouse.
It’s too bad the N1 never lifted off successfully.
IRS says all $600 stimulus payments from December bill have been sent
I can't but help think that this is an incredibly patriarchal attitude. Men respond to their social environment and so do women. If things are regarded as permissible, they are more likely to do them. For example, you need food, but you don't steal food usually. There's a sex drive, but likewise you don't need to steal sex. People need to poop, but they hold it until they reach the toilet.

I don't see how these cases are biologically very different. In fact, the food and sanitary cases are more biologically urgent for immediate survival.
> When I look back, the happiest time of my career was when I was embedded among people who Really Care

I think people who Really Care are as much a product of the environment as they are responsible for creating the environment. I Really Care about what I work on, and I try very hard to make it the best option out there, giving it a huge portion of my creative energy and not just keeping my head down and turning a crank, but I also recognize that in the end, it's also just a job.
Thanks! We agree, there's upsides for both companies and employees to adopting hybrid and remote models. Remote is great for some, but we know it doesn't work for every company/culture or role. Transparency and being intentional about this shift absolutely needs to be a part of the conversation to avoid any downside.
Blitz is a huge time saver for our team's productivity!
There are several ways to do color, with wildly different implications.

But calling subpixels pixels would be borderline fraudulent.
You know what that VP probably has that your midlevel engineer doesn't? A comfortable severance agreement.

I don't think the point is that you shouldn't get rid of a role that isn't needed anymore, that absolutely should be done. If you are expecting a level of commitment from an employee far beyond what you are willing to commit to them, something is broken.
I understand how you feel. Playing musical desks is a big pet peeve of mine. Being shuffled around because it is "more optimal", or whatever usually makes me feel like the person doing the rearranging is on a power trip, exerting the minimal amount of power they do have. Divvying up seating arrangements based on worthiness is another level of this.

It reminds me of a teacher I had in high school. He went to Columbia Law and was an attorney for a few years before becoming a teacher. I asked him why he left law and he told me a story about one day a senior partner coming into his office to count the ceiling tiles. When my teach asked why he was counting the ceiling tiles the senior partner explained that they were going to reallocate offices so that those who worked the most hours got the biggest offices. My teacher said that was when he knew it was time to do something else.
That’s a pretty strange thing to say when basically more computing is done on mobile phones now than on computers.
Using it as a general computer should be a freedom without question.
I think you'd still want a parachute or something. That's probably more effective and potentially more compact. Maybe not as fun though
A college friend who had spent a year abroad in Germany joked that he was going to make his fortune importing them into the US.
2 is not diverse
If this is true, which it might not be, that's pretty damning. I don't see how he could argue his way out of this without basically saying he's only a medium reactionary/fascist.
I've noticed that if something is possible, your children or grandmother with do it, somehow. I hand out Chromebooks to relatives because of the low support requirements, and yet STILL every time I get one of those things back there are dozens of outright dangerous extensions installed. These are folks who know how to click on the icon for their email and that's it, and yet the garbage finds a way in. It's like trying to seal your basement against water in the everglades.
Hrm - I'll have a go at being less vague. By actions met by general criticism and can't be justified I meant actions that would both be met with criticism and, given enough surrounding information, wouldn't remove the majority of criticism. National security positions will need to execute actions that are pretty opaque and distasteful to the general public but, with that additional information in hand, would be reasonable to most people. So arresting some fellow who looks like a family man but was actually organizing an attack would be generally criticized but justifiable - on the other hand most forms of torture tend to be ineffective at information gathering and cause excessive pain and suffering and are less justifiable.

For politicians I'm going to guess that a lot of stuff they don't want on record is specifically related to their self-betterment by somehow (even minorly) compromising their duty.
Nice! Would be cool if you display a list of newsletters. "Recently added []"...
I uncovered 1,600 Coursera courses that are still completely free
> Had you considered the possibility that you asked a low-effort question?

As I said - condescending - and now we can see that your answer was in bad faith. That’s not encouraged on hacker news.

> "What kind of useful information [might malicious actors look for]?" is about as deep as "hey how long should my password be". You are on Hacker News. I honestly thought you were joking when you asked it.

Obviously not. You can’t claim to know much about the subject.

> is about as deep as "hey how long should my password be"

You don’t actually know what range of answers a good faith commenter might have.

You are simply confirming that your response was in bad faith, as it appeared.

> Do you really just want to talk about how the article makes China look bad?

What are you talking about?
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To be fair, we also have an epidemic of partial statements being taken out of context and used against their speaker. Often, when contextualized, the quote most likely means the opposite of what it's being used to claim. I can easily think of examples of this being done to politicians of both major US political parties, and a handful of foreign politicians as well.

A policy of staying off-record by default is not an unreasonable countermeasure to that problem.
The profit is in building the building, funneling money from investors to contractors. Once the building is up, walk away with your bags of cash leaving the investors with the building and their dreams.
This is no cell towers exactly, this is the measurements related to dedicated cellID(sector if BaseStation(tower)). So such kind if issues is possible especially at water(rf signal propagation feature) and gps mapping if present.
When engineering and art combine though, you get beautiful things like 1970s NASA documentation: https://standardsmanual.com/products/nasa-graphics-standards...
Still is in the K-pop industry.
68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump
I, as an equipment designer, would select an e-ink color display for my main feedback if:

- it was battery powered and needed a display with infrequent updates but super low power

- the display was otherwise a large part of the power (i.e. otherwise it was a LCD display)

- the color was useful in indicating an error or clarifying the menu items

If it did those things it would be worth upwards of $10 a unit to me if the resolution was over 720p for sure, and likely even for lower resolutions if it worked reliably with a slow microcontroller.
I mean it doesn't, but you have to look at this in the broader context. There are always more talented people than there are prizes/awards/jobs to be had. Just give the award to any of the dozens and dozens of just as qualified people instead and avoid the controversy. This is almost like holding a museum exhibit celebrating Hitler's art career——profoundly tone deaf at best, and normalizing that sort of behavior at worst.
"Generals are always prepared to fight the last war". For WWI machine guns forced unplanned trench-based war instead of planned (based on previous wars) cavalry/etc. attack based,. For WWII USSR and France had massive defense-in-depth systems of lines of trenches and fortifications following WWI experience - well, tanks and aircrafts reshaped the war again right in the first days of war. ... Several months ago Armenia having relative up-to-date Russian weapons including air defense systems designed to fight modern manned aircraft lost the war in matter of days to Turkish drones used by Azerbajan (the wars in Libya and Syria during 2019-2020 seems to be the first when drones were actively used against modern conventional weapon systems, and it was success, and that enabled the new approach for the Azerbajan in that 30 year old stalemate which they had tried to fight conventionally last time just in 2016 with no result).
> It's almost impossible to imagine the devastation that could have been averted if the vaccine was released in March 2020.

No, it is easy: statistically zero. We spent all of last year working and figuring out how to make the vaccine while covid spread.

Maybe if Oxford/AZ vaccine was approved this way we could make a difference. My understanding is it takes 3 months to make the vaccine (grow the cultures), but might be confused - in any case we have the ability to have vaccinate the world by about now with that one which means that only future devastation is lost. Note that the South Africa variant would still have evolved and would be spreading uncontrollably for a few more months since the AZ vaccine doesn't stop that one (the science is not clear here so I'm taking the worst case to make a point), so it isn't even clear if anything would be saved.
I think the minute you have hybrid, the water-cooler chats return. You can call them “secret” or you can call them “casual and opportunistic”, but they’re going to happen and they’re sometimes going to spawn a good idea.

Then you might force people to memorialize that idea in some form, but you can’t/shouldn’t/can’t stop people from chatting in the break areas and, especially at the start of hybrid, it’s going to be very fertile ground that your company should encourage and foster (and maybe channel) rather than taking steps to discourage. “Sorry Pat, you know the rules; we’re not allowed to speak except on slack.”
User-space code can definitely have effects on the hardware.

A program that phones home often with tracking data, thus keeping a data connection open and the processor from sleeping would absolutely have an impact on battery life and longevity. This would be code that Apple would normally block at the AppStore level.

And we saw how mad people were when Apple slowed down processing speeds to extend battery life. Can you imagine the outrage if Apple suddenly said that your battery is no longer under warranty because you installed the Facebook app directly from Facebook?
This analogy is a bit careless.

You can't just throw BLM around, or we'll end up with stuff like: "So yeah, this code is bad and I'm the only one who thinks so, but not caring about my opinion is like not caring about oppression of black people!".
That would be a pretty stupid thing to do, like will apple create an app for my bank?
Mobile phones are general purpose computers.
Facebook would finally be valuable again if all of the content farm news garbage was kicked off.

Unfortunately, the people who like that stuff also buy stuff from online ads. It’s the same reason why TLC and The History Channel now only show reality TV; because people who watch those shows buy the things they see advertised.
This is often part of compliance training in financial services. Don't communicate anything that even remotely seems sensitive or questionable over email or chat. It doesn't matter if it's totally innocent, all that matters is whether it can be taken out of context by the SEC or another body.
Pentile is more complicated, since for most of them the advertised number of pixels matches the number of green elements, but not the number of red or blue elements.
WFH Is Corroding Our Trust in Each Other
>it's almost never the case that some creative person has a brilliant story come out perfect in the first draft.

I've got a book i ended up getting in a free box of books. It's some fantasy novel.

It's probably the worst book i've ever seen in print. Everything from the description on the back to the font choices, sometimes four or five in different sizes on one page, to the actual writing reads like something a child would write.

Curious about how such a thing could exist, i looked into it more. Turns out it was a self published book edited by the author's wife.

Now this next part is speculation...

But you can almost picture his wife trying to edit this thing and the author just being like, nope we'll keep it my way.

Like, basic spelling and grammar mistakes, terribly worded sentences, a story that made absolutely no sense.

The thing is, getting past it all, there were some good ideas in there and likely, in the hands of a good editor and publisher, it could maybe have been turned into an alright, if still not that great of a book rather than, i'm not actually exaggerating here, literally the worst book i've ever seen.

Another example that just kind of popped into my head while writing this, the original drafts of star wars.

https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWarsCantina/comments/afvlzk/lin...

I've read some of them and honestly, they were pretty bad, like scyfy movie bad. Without the team of screenwriters and editors that worked through those drafts, we'd probably have no idea what 'Star Killers' was other than some weird cult scifi b-movie with a dedicated fan base of a few hundred people that get together once a year, get drunk, dress up as their favourite characters and complain about how nobody understands just how great George Lucas and Star Killers is.

And then Spaceballs would never have been made and that just woulda sucked a whole lot.
Just a slightly orthogonal point: don't discount the "internet for more social lubrication" issue.

The use of feedback and machine learning (even simple mechanisms) in social media to selectively show the most engaging content has, in my opinion, been a fundamental cause of cancel culture. Cancel culture requires "moral outrage", and enragement is engagement, so Twitter (esp) is a factory for moral outrage.

This is fundamentally different from boycotts in the sense that boycotts were "organised", "led", or "stirred up" (according to your pov) by people. For example, anti-Nestle campaigners collecting petition signatures. There's a real world cost, a responsibility to be taken, a time lapse.

In contrast, moral outrages are manufactured almost autonomously by curation algorithms that are constantly searching for engagement. Outrage happens to be one really good strategy for that. The barrier to participation is extremely low - just click here, type an optional tweet dunking further on the target if you wish - and the speed they can spread is fast.

Compounding this is the propensity to be outraged has increased, I think, partly because "engagement-rich" modes of thinking have been spread. I'll resist giving concrete examples to leave the discussion politically neutral.

I really think there's an awful lot of responsibility for this problem on the social media companies and their leaders.
This is due to Google's over-reliance on peer reviews during perf. As the result, programs avoid poor customer satisfaction at all costs. This also means that they are incredibly risk averse and are no longer innovative. Innovation means repeated failure and failure isn't treated well come perf time.
Scott Alexander's email shows staunch support for scientific-racism a.k.a. “HBD”
You know how positive feedback loops exist in social media (in terms of engagement) with negative outcomes (whether for the user, society, ..)?

Maybe that’s following a YouTube rabbit hole and now you’re unintentionally watching flat earth or politically radicalizing videos. Maybe you internalize that content which you otherwise wouldn’t have consciously decided to watch had you not been led there.

A sibling comment refers to cancel culture as democratic. That would be great if it were deliberate and rational. But I wonder how much canceling stems from a similar, for example Twitter-centric, pipeline to the YouTube flow above?

Informed, justified, and deliberate canceling as the voice of the people sounds great and I would very much be behind that. But I worry that an increasing portion of the mob is comprised of people led to outrage not by choice but by social media dark patterns.
My personal feeling is that the pendulum is very much swinging back towards ideology and the feeling that we need to "purify" society, often through state-sanctioned violence.
Sure but there are all kinds of reasons people couldn't make an 11am meeting, even being in other meetings. The only reason it bothered him is because the employee in question was doing something non work related.

Mostly don't you sit down with your team and figure out good meeting times and bad meeting times? Did employee say 11am is a great time for meetings then go get an 11am hobby? Then sure employee is a jackass.
Administering a vaccine that is only effective in young healthy people to young healthy people makes everyone safer.

And that's the bad outcome where the slower trials in more at risk people don't work out. In the good outcome, when you decide it is safe and effective in vulnerable people, production and administration have already been scaled out.

(could study viral load in a challenge trial where you don't have to test thousands of uninfected people to find asymptomatic cases…)
My mother uses this drug by perscription. 1mg pen is for four weekly 0,25 mg doses (1 month).2 mg pen is again for four weekly 0.5mg doses.

Realy good results and only one aplication per week, which is great.

We are from Slovenia. Drug is free of charge with normal insurance.
Interesting point. I never really thought of the laptop as something you have but it certainly is.

I will say that a security key is far easier to carry on you in more situations than say a laptop is and certainly a desktop. And the key, depending on how it is used to secure the device, may help mitigate brute force password attacks in the event that the device is stolen.

An argument could be made for defense in depth but for most people I would guess the amount of added security is probably not super beneficial and for those where it truly does matter then securing physical access to the device is probably more important any way.
You have a similar choice like not using apps on App Store 2
Wildfire Victims Don't Have Cell Service Thanks to Greedy Telecoms (2019)
Twitter actually supports picture descriptions. I think it embeds it in the alt-text on the page.

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/picture-descriptio...
Somewhat true, but the splitting of pixels / bayer filter work is something that gets corrected later in either post/RAW processing or otherwise.

When we apply that work to screens, our eyes can't really post-process and correct for these errors.
> Think of how much time and effort goes into testing, fuzzing, and improving C++ code from companies like Microsoft, Google, AWS, etc, and how they're still finding issues all the time.

I recently ran across your 2019 comment expanding on this point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19323616
> In short, I like the stock.
At greater expense than the original plan! And now we are shortly going to have to roll out fiber anyway. It makes me so angry.
>It's a law that's either written by media lobbyists or people unfamiliar with technology.

It's a law written mostly by the ACCC.
GCP Networking Outage in US-Central
Networking appears to be having issues connecting to SQL, Redis, and the DNS nameserver in us-central1. Anyone else having issues?
TikTok is not a social network
Twitter does.

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2016/accessible-im...
A bit late, but xdg-open might be the command you're looking for on Linux?
If you expand the definitions of text and pictures so they encompass all the same objects, of course you find that their expressiveness is equivalent. At that point, however, your logic is no longer connected to the team world. But since you asked, the special ingredient in text is syntax.
Most of the work done by some "journalists" in 2021 is regurgitating what they see on social media. They wouldn't want to be deprived of this low hanging fruit and go back to doing hard investigative work.
How is cancel culture circumventing the legal system supposed to make it more democratic?

There is no real majority of people involved in canceling someone. It’s just a mad Twitter mob with a Pareto distribution where most people are content with posting mean tweets to virtue signal, and only few who go as far as calling up people’s workplaces to get them fired. It does not involve anyone beyond the mob, and even within the mob most aren’t willing to go very far. Yet it is the actions of only a few extremists that produce most of the mob’s impact. To call that democratic shows that you don’t seem to realize a world outside of your bubble exists, or should be acknowledged.

Cancel culture is basically softcore terrorism, and fittingly, portions of your rhethoric are not unlike a justification for terrorism.
So would you expect a vaccine that is targeted at a viral protein to target something other than the viral protein?