skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software that can bypass the firewall for certain, and a possible local privesc (I don't want to promise the LPE yet, I've only looked for 10min). Some skepticism is understandable. I've followed up on a few of the replies here outside of HN (such as the Guix project, I found a root LPE they will be releasing a fix for in the coming weeks). For 10 years or so I've not disclosed any vulnerabilities I found. Publicly unverifiable claims are necessary in security, if I were to release the POC before Guix (for instance) can patch it it'll affect their users.
Pareto Distribution. Most of the developers did very little.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors
Very generally, salaried jobs tend to pay better, and include better benefits, flexibility, paid time off, etc.

It's not a direct connection that salaried must be better pay and benefits, but it is how it works out most of the time.

Also I really question the premise of this article so this 'scam' thing should be taken with a grain of salt, a lot of them.
If you're seeing trains of satellites, those have not yet reached their parking orbits and have not oriented themselves or deployed their sunshades. Once they've gotten to where they're intended to be, they'll become far more dim and for the most part should only be visible during a brief period around dusk.
This one works for me:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-foudil-securityt...
Israel's definition of dual-use is extremely broad.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-gaza-homes/a...

> Israel tightly limits the flow of concrete, cement, iron bars and other materials into Gaza, as “dual use” items that could have a military purpose if they were seized by Hamas to rebuild tunnels used to launch attacks.

> That means few homes have been rebuilt despite international pledges of billions for reconstruction. Rather than wait to rebuild permanent homes, some relief agencies have decided to build temporary structures with materials they can get.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2019/04/17/w...

> The adverse effect of dual-use restrictions is mostly felt in manufacturing, ICT and agriculture. The agriculture sector contributes significantly to Palestinian food security; however, the dual use restrictions have lowered the concentration of active chemicals in fertilizers making them less effective and lowering land productivity to half of that in Jordan and only 43 percent of the yield in Israel.

> For example, the restriction on ‘communications equipment, communications supporting equipment, equipment containing communication functions’, limits access to modern manufacturing production lines, spare parts, medical equipment and home appliances. It has also stood in the way of developing the Palestinian ICT sector and created a large technological gap with neighboring countries.

It looks a lot like collective punishment.
Science, as colloquially understood, seeks to empirically validate truth - true things can cause “harm.” So which is it? Are you looking for censorship of untrue ideas as discovered through open scientific inquiry, or, are you looking to censor ideas which cause harm. You can’t have both.

Put that aside, first principles, how can you hold a robust scientific debate on a topic that’s
censored? The historical and common sense evidence strongly indicates it’s not possible.
I’m not an electrical engineer, but (both) family members who got electronics qualifications have told me RF phase matching circuits are a PITA to build right, and this antenna is a many-element phased array.

They told me this about 20 years ago and I don’t know what’s changed since then. Presumably someone here knows if it’s still hard or if it became easy since 2001?
> To be exempt, you must earn a salary of at least $35,568 and perform relatively high-level work as your primary duties.

Just to clarify, this means this is an article about someone making less than $35,568/yr plus overtime that doesn't know how to get an exempt salary that is like 2 - 8 times greater than that?

I don't think this debate really applies to any of the American residents, or anybody working for the American companies on this forum. The inflection points where it makes a difference is so low.
I haven't finished the paper the the abstract reads as if the authors used mobility data, not official policy, to measure stay at home.

> In this ecological study, data from www.google.com/covid19/mobility/, ourworldindata.org and covid.saude.gov.br were combined. Countries with > 100 deaths and with a Healthcare Access and Quality Index of ≥ 67 were included. Data were preprocessed and analyzed using the difference between number of deaths/million between 2 regions and the difference between the percentage of staying at home.
Most people on HN are (rightly so) calling bullshit on the technology. I think it's worth noting though that there does seem to be a legit market for it, so it's probably worth considering what it would take to make the technology not bullshit.
These satellites have marred the night sky. There is more to life than broadband availability.
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Don’t work overtime for free. It’s that simple.

Sure, the occasional late night or weekend is sometimes an unfortunate necessity, but even then your manager should recognise that and let you take some time in lieu.

If you are regularly working 45+ hours a week, your position is under-resourced for what is expected. Talk to your manager. Either the work load needs to reduce, or you need additional people and/or skills/training to get the job done in a reasonable amount of time.

If nothing is done, leave.
FFS. Which do you want?

You want the $ figure and job security of the salaried employee, but not the duties. You don't want to be classified like a contract worker, subject to termination at any time, but you want the flexibility to work when and as you please. You want the freedom to not have your hours monitored, your steps and productivity measured, but not the responsibilities that come with such autonomy.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could create some parallel lalaland universe where normal constraints no longer worked as they do. While we're at it, I want an airplane that's cheap, fast, doesn't use liquid fuel, and doesn't hurt the environment. I think we can all be billionaires.
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You can substitute "outsourcing" with "employees" and everything you wrote would still apply.

In fact, I'm not sure if even the basic premise is correct - sure, you need a partner to handle the technical side but as you've surmised yourself - there is a place for outsourcing teams to build the MVP.

And obviously, even unicorns eventually end up hiring people.
Know what happened earlier?

Congress lost secret voting,

https://www.congressionalresearch.org/Jumbotrons.html

I'm more of the opinion that our problem is hyper targeted lobbyist money...
So they haven't solved the reflectivity issue? Solving it would mean they aren't visible at all with the naked eye. Since there are thousands of them, this is a problem for land based observation no?

edit: looks like it's still a problem according to experts. https://physicsworld.com/a/dark-coated-starlink-satellites-a...
There was a separate blog post about acquiring the parts:
https://ezcontents.org/atari-800xl-bill-materials-bom
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20201122190319/https://ezcontent...

It looks like they pulled a few components from other systems, like a Atari 2600 Junior.
But Bob has -1 gold coin in his bank account, so there is still only 1 gold coin. If Alice deposits her "new" gold coin into her account, the bank still has only one coin. If Alice demands to withdraw her 2 coins, the gold bank won't be able to comply, whereas the fiat bank would just print another coin.
Creating liquidity where there is not a demand for liquidity is economically distortionary and has long term economic effects analogous to people who abuse stimulants or steroids. Yeah liquidity may make your economy feel on top of the world today but over time it will need to pay the piper. There is no such thing as a free lunch and this time is not different.

If the economy needed more liquidity you would see high or rising real interest rates and stationary or falling asset prices. Instead we see very low interest rates and sky-rocketing asset prices. Sure adding liquidity will continue to inflate assets prices for a while but as the other commenter said it does not actually produce anything real and actually leads to malinvestment or underinvestment. Thanks to excessive liquidity in the economy we have BS companies like Uber sticking around while real innovation is stagnating.

Eventually excess liquidity combined with high savings and low interest rates can even paradoxically lead deflation. See Japan for example. We may, also reach a point, where no matter how much liquidity we add we do not stimulate real economic growth.

Regardless the commenter is right, liquidity on its own produces nothing and low interest rates signal that it is not demanded.

Instead of worrying about inflation or deflation we should be worrying about what we can do to make the most people better off at time t+1. Traditionally that has been through economic growth. Liquidity does not promote economic growth if the economy is drowning in liquidity.
Yes, but usually only once followed by a carbon monoxide death.
"at our expense"? You clearly don't have to deal with rural internet if you think this is a net loss for society.
That sounds like it belongs in the top 10% of the worst (programming-related) things I could wish upon another programmer: Having to maintain projects where you have to read the build system's configuration and keep it in mental context just to figure out if an array access is mathematically correct or not.

I would imagine this support to be stomachable if it was active at all times but using a visually different syntax for 0-based and 1-based indexing, maybe using something like the guillemet for the latter (like this: «1») that is wild enough to draw the user's attention when reading the code, and not common/prominent enough across keyboard layouts to make most users think twice before using it when writing code unless it makes sense for the domain.
Misinformation and lies are rarely punishable by either criminal or civil statutes, unless they are defamatory about an individual, and even then the bar is very high, especially if they are a public figure.

Repealing 230 would not have any measurable benefit when it comes to controlling fake news or conspiracy theories.
When the satellites are transitioning to their service orbits they are not in the low reflectivity orientation.
The author nails it in that inflation alarmists really hate the state. Inflation is really the cost of MMT and our modern state power. Central banks, whether intended to be separate or not, are the backbone that every state is built and funded on.

They also have issues with taxation. Taxes are largely used today to take money out of the economy and control the purchasing power of currency.

Most people having any awareness of the underpinnings and reason that our money is the way it is. Like the fish asking, "what is water?"

Money is still evolving. If these central bankers and tax collectors push people too hard, something else may emerge as money.
>> Low inflation is a catastrophe. I'm surprised you don't know that much.

I am surprised that you did not bother to explain what you mean by this.
> It's meant to highlight the idea that there are targets _today_ that would make the world a better place if we could kill them.

We think it would. We thought that about knocking off Saddam Hussein, but the resulting power vacuum killed a lot more than he ever did and gave rise to ISIS.

It turns out predicting "if we kill this guy, it's good" can be far more difficult than you're making it out to be. Hell, we don't even know if killing Hitler would've been good; it might've given rise to someone far more competent.
I don't disagree that this is a possible hypothesis, but I have a problem with weasel words like "typically". Is this the case in Toronto? And is it the case that it is in large enough quantity and that they have the money to put the kind of pressure to single handily raise the prices of housing to the levels we have today?

That this contributes slightly to the the high prices of some specific neighborhoods in Toronto sounds reasonable to me. But that it is the single cause of prices in the entire Toronto metro, or that without it the prices would halve themselves accross the board, I just don't feel convinced of. The data doesn't add up. There's clearly a lot more at play here.
Fiat currency is backed by the existence of an economy that exchanges fiat currency for goods and services. If that economy disappears you get hyperinflation. See Zimbabwe and Argentina as examples of countries that destroyed their economies and suffer from hyperinflation as a result of massively reducing the ability to exchange money for food.

Think about it this way. You play a video game with micro transactions. You receive 1000 units of premium currency. Why is that currency valuable? It's valuable because you can exchange it for cash shop items. Imagine if the cash shop shuts down but the game keeps running. Your currency would be worthless because you lost the ability to exchange it.
If it's in a bank account, it's not being hoarded. It's being loaned out and the people who get the loans are spending it on houses, businesses, automobiles, etc...
philosophy's questions and proposed answers can not be easily formalized, as such they appear as art to lesser minds
I did not read this in detail (I did read it, but I didn't work out the math, etc, which is what a proper commentary would require), but it's worth pointing out that it's extremely easy to set up an analysis in a way that makes it highly unlikely that you'll achieve statistical significance, whether accidentally or on purpose or some combination of the two. Typically there's zero incentive for a researcher to do so, since nobody publishes "we failed to reject the null hypothesis" as a breakthrough result, but it's a really common mistake. Smooth out one too many variables, bucket broadly, do too many pointless comparisons and let the Bonferroni correction push your significance threshold to the moon, etc. It's arguably easier to slip into accidental insignificance than to p-hack or any of the other well known stats shenanigans that make most observational studies worthless.

This is the kind of result where I do worry a lot about that, since it is one of a very few topics where a null result might still be newsworthy, and where the result grossly defies common sense (if people are really staying home, pretty much any model of disease spread would predict less spread).
This just seems like a wholly childish comment. White and straight seem like good descriptions for teeth.

Why do you feel outraged by the conversation around improving technology to be more inclusive?
The entire category of "is X associated with COVID" research is a recipe for p-hacking, because you're looking at relationships between slowly changing variables, with all sorts of confounds, and there are so many ways to do multiple regression/synthetic controls/and so on. It ends up telling you as much about the priors of the researchers as anything else. My favorite example of this is the research group that found that the Sturgis motorcycle rally increased COVID:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/soej.12475

But the same research group found that BLM protests did not:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w27408

It's possible that both are true, but it's a bit suspicious that these findings are so well-aligned with the probable political associations of the authors.
Yes, even NYC didn't force people to stay inside, but drastically expanded outdoor dining, closed down streets in neighborhoods without parks so people can walk outside, and has kept playgrounds open since June 22nd.
Haha! Happy PIDE!
Why do you carry it then? To hammer nails if you see a nail in need of hammering? There're only three kinds of civilians who carry: those that carry out of fear, those that carry to spread fear and those that think it makes them cool.
They only adjust to an orientation in which reflectivity is reduced once they have reached their proper orbits. You most likely observed them while they were still boosting themselves to these orbits. The statement that you saw a "bright line" makes it sounds like they were launched recently as they spread out after a while. The boosting process takes a few weeks.
It could have been a non-profit operation no? I would expect rural internet to be cheaper than what SpaceX is charging. $100 per month is very expensive, especially for people in rural areas which generally are poorer.

Example, I believe over 90% of rural china has high speed internet and they pay less than $10 a month.

Edit. Anyone have a good argument why we can't get $10 per month high speed internet in rural areas in the USA? If spacex can get there costs down to $10 per month, then I will be impressed. Otherwise it isn't cheaper than laying fiber.
While watching today’s launch, occurred to me the ratio of paying-client launches to Starlink launches is [whatever it is]. Profit margins on paid launches must be high, maybe amazing, to support so many Starlink launches.
>Being salaried is often a scam.

>Not always. It depends on how a company implements it. But often.

I'd really like to see something that backs up this "often" and how many people really work more hours because they're 'expected to' or ... choose to.

I'm reminded of OSHA rules that dictate workplace safety. Sometimes it's argued that they're there to keep employers from creating unsafe conditions, but when you read accident reports you find folks willing to take personal risks to the benefit of no one ... all on their own.

There are employers who will pressure folks, but IMO a lot of folks who misinterpret / don't deal with what they think are pressures to work more ... and folks who just do it on their own...

I think this is all a lot more nuanced and 'often' is presented here without much reason to think that's accurate.
> On my early morning walk I can see the satellites as very bright (much brighter than the stars) line across the sky.

No you do not. Satellites, when visible by the naked eye, are seen as point sources of light. Dots, not lines. One of two things has happened here: Either you saw meteor showers and mistook them for satellites (meteors move fast enough to be seen as lines, not points of light) or you saw long-exposure photographs of satellites online, assumed that is what it would look like through your eyeballs as well, and BSed your story about seeing them yourself.

> Edit. Already downvoted for stating a fact.

More likely you were downvoted for either being mistaken or for lying.
Do you know that the talibans had and still have bases in Pakistan that allowed them to lead the gorilla war that they did?

Yes I'll concede that fighting a guerrilla war without external support is difficult but it was always thus. Another example would be the Cuban revolution. However civil wars are often fought without any external backing being the decisive factor.
He says renewables. Fusion isn't mentioned. America isn't mentioned. What are you talking about?
Bezos is in it only because he too has a rocket company. If he wanted to be in the business of feeding on the scraps of others he'd release his own terrestrial internet service.
I work 31 hours over four days, which I guess is somewhere between part time and full time. For comparison, the standard, full-time working week here (Scotland) for private- and public-sector office-based jobs is 35 or 37.5 hours. (I choose to work less so I can spend more time on side-projects that make no money.)
The question is asked to owners. Renters are asked how much they actually paid in rent. The main reason why owners are asked for their estimate is because owner-occupied houses can be systematically different (probably more expensive/higher class) than renter-occpied houses, so estimating owner-occupoed rents with actual rents can be biased.
Furthermore: It is also well known for anyone who wants to know that

- Hamas deliberately launch rockets from densely populated areas and from hospitals. This is a war crime as big as anything Israel has done in recent years.

- Israel goes out of their way to avoid harming civilians: often calling affected areas on phone, dropping leaflets, "firecracker" bombs that go off over rooftops and after that do they bomb the area.
I think being salaried is a scam, so I run my own business. It really is that simple. The choice is there if people are upset about being salaried. Those who are salaried and work 60 hour weeks + commute need to wake up and smell the coffee - if they are moderately good they would make bank self employed.
Frivolous lawsuits are a literal denial of service attack. It costs money to defend yourself in a lawsuit. In the US there's no default loser pays system.

If I sue you and lose, you're out the cost of your defense. You'd have to sue me for your expenses. While an attorney might take the suit on contingency you're guaranteed to win and unlikely to recoup all of your original expenses even if you do.

Frivolous lawsuits are not in any was a boogeyman. One need look no further than bullshit DMCA takedowns and bullshit patent suits filed in East Texas to see the model for frivolous lawsuits with a Section 230 repeal.
At the cost of being extremely annoying, what does "a truth we can't empirically prove" look like?

> Art is more concerned with human experience and seems like a different thing.

Isn't the same true for philosophy? Part of the reason why philosophy is a meaningful field of study as opposed to complete charlatanry is that it "points" towards parts of human experience that aren't quite captured by math/science/models. Philosophers trying to be natural scientists would make terrible philosophy and terrible science.

Minor nitpick:

> science and math

Science and math are very different beasts. Math is a meaningless game you play with symbols. I'm not serious, but I'm not joking either. There are zero assumptions of any kind mathematics makes (except primitive concepts and axioms, which are themselves mathematical objects), as the old joke goes: science talks about the universe, math talks about a universe. Math is kind of unique in this respect, no other discipline is quite like it.