skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a rephrased press release from the police. A lot of news is just rephrased press releases.
>>Apparently THE LAW can force companies to put up these annoying popups

Where do the law force companies to use annoying popups? I see the annoying popups as companies doing all they can do try to make users feel it is the laws fault and not the sites fault that a site require to get consent using an annoying popup. In most of the cases the popup do nothing except of annoy the users, is often no difference in what is loaded before or after users are tricked into giving consent.

To follow the law you could only handle data directly relevant to the functionality of the site/app or you could have a place where users could select reject all or see what to allow. Allow all or see more, like for instance google is using, is not following the law
In most cases there is a public API which is documented and a private API which is not.

In this specific case, users do not have the ability to use this instruction, so there is no reason to document it.
The City of London is an age-old construct by the financial and aristocratic elite to further their interests and evade a few taxes and regulations. The CoL police is more like the financial police, and therefore primarily enforces business interests and prosecutes mostly financial and business-relevant crime.

The name is definitely weird, just like Scotland Yard has little to do with Scotland or units of length.
There’s a phenomenon, the name of which escapes me, which describes this situation.

Essentially, whenever people see the media report an issue that they have a deep knowledge of, they see that the media get it wrong/lie/have no idea what they are talking about.

Yet when the media talk about other subjects, people still trust them...
I should have probably looked into that before buying the phone.

The issue that I have with safari being locked to a specific iOS version is that people on older model such as the iPhone 6 are being stuck with an outdated browser, even though the phone is still useable.

To be fair, Apple handles updating iOS a lot better than Android, but Chrome is not tied to the OS versions, this means I can update Chrome through the Play Store which means: 1) faster update cycle and 2) old android phones can still run the latest Chrome.
Does this headline sound confusing only to non-native speakers like me?
1. "to warn someone to avoid something" sounds like "to urge someone to do that something" to me.
2. Should sci-hub be referred to as a "science website" like nature.com, quantamagazine.com etc.
Agreed, that would be ideal. But it's also a little unrealistic in the short term - most languages don't have an interpreted and a compiled mode. I think there just isn't the dev manpower.

It's more useful to think of Julia's latency as a fundamental constraint of the compilation model. People don't complain that Python can't deliver static binaries, or that C++ is unsuitable for scripting. Julia's compiler can do both (although the "static binaries" haven't materialized, because noone seriously works on it), but the tradeoff is that you suffer from latency. That's fundamental. Future versions of Julia may cut the compilation time down further, but it will never be instant or even close to instant.

So, like other languages, it means you have to look at the strengths and weaknesses of the language for your use case. For myself, I can't imagine a situation where I want to plot something right now and not in 15 seconds. Whenever I plot something, it's always after minutes or (usually) hours of data analysis. Most of my Julia use is either long, interactive sessions where ten seconds of startup doesn't matter much, or long-running pipelines where it doesn't, either.
Facebook customizes augmented reality to the flick of a wrist
Demystify the dark forest on Ethereum – Sandwich Attacks
Odd warning. I get the impression the police have not tried using sci-hub. They should give it a go!

>If you're tricked into revealing your log-in credentials, whether it's through the use of fake emails or malware, we know that Sci-Hub will then use those details

I mean sci-hub doesn't do that. If they warn about anything it should maybe be that torrenting copyrighted stuff could make you liable for prosecution. Or that torrenting papers may be a gateway drug to torrenting MS Office which may well have malware.
It would be the same code running on two different backends, so there would not be a two-language problem. Just like how GCC and Clang don't give C a two-language problem.
> offering a feature and blatantly lying about it is

.. completely common in the industry, especially when it comes to explaining how things work internally.

You might have a case if the 60fps game was actually running at 30fps and just lied to the frame counter.
Which by the way should not be added to the hosts file to make it resolve on a censored connection this way:

sci-hub.se 186.2.163.219
libgen/scihub are of such monumental social/moral worth that their illegality delegitimizes the law as a whole https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/1220062740825415689
From the article:

> Once diagnosed, the condition should be treated with blood thinning medication and immunoglobulin, which targets the antibody that causes the problem. “We believe the most likely hypothesis is that this particular vaccine is causing a rare autoimmune reaction that triggers antibodies, which then interact with the platelets, but we don’t know why this is happening,” Dr. Klamroth said.

Immunoglobulin is hella expensive, at a cost of 40 Euro per gram, or in US dollars $47.63/gram, for countries with universal health coverage (public/private/national health insurance programs), excluding Switzerland, which has less stringent drug negotiation going on. Standard dosing in this case is 2.0 grams/kilogram. So, for a 75 kg adult, it would be 6,000 Euro or $7,140 USD, if it works the first time around and it is not a long-term kind of thing.

By the way, I currently happen to be self-infusing (subcutaneous) immunoglobulin at the moment. I will likely be on it for life. Also, I currently have food poisoning (legitimately not COVID-19), from takeaway/takeout food and it is definitely helping me recover from it faster, as it contains a ton of antibodies from blood donors. It boosts your immunity while suppressing your body's inappropriate autoimmune or inflammatory responses. Regardless, I still got tested for COVID-19, even though I am fully vaccinated, which came back negative.
Gell-Mann Amnesia.

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
I'm going to read through the guide linked in the post, but I don't have time (Or really the desire) to read through the guide aimed at people writing research papers.

Do you have TL;DR for the difference between aimed at undergraduates vs research papers in terms of writing?
If we were using slack we could indeed. Instead we are using teams, matter most, a custom product/docs/faq site, confluence, and stackoverflow enterprise. So we want a place to consolidate the search.
I understood what they meant and English is not my first language but it could be worded better.
I always wondered why it would make sense to let a single person work > 80h? Are these task they are doing soo sequential in nature, that its not possible to split them to two persons with 40h (and half the pay)?

Edit: Especially keeping in mind that half the pay probably nets the 40h person much more than half the salary due to tax progrssion
> The City of London police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit says using the Sci-Hub website could "pose a threat" to students' personal data.

That's a very thinly veiled threat
For meat breeds, the veals stay under the mother. If it's for veal meat, they can be bred very late without being weaned at all nor having a diversifying diet (and have iron deficiencies for it but they're slaughtered soon enough), to maximise the mass of veal meat. Basically, they're raised by the mother. Maybe formula if there's a problem with the mothers production but not otherwise. And these breeds are not milked for human consumption anyways so .. ?

For dairy breeds, considering a good holstein makes 50L of milk per day and a veal drinks 2-5L per meal (2x a day) depending on age, you've got a lot of milk left. And since most medications make milk improper for human use, this is the milk that's given to a calf, past the first milking (colostrum, which is too fat to be suited for consumption anyways), bc there will most probably be at least one cow under medication at any point of time. Otherwise they take classic milk.

For high value breeds, like for specific cheeses or so it's worth to buy formula. But for your basic milk pissing holstein, probably not. I mean, formula is not free.

Weaning is not 8 months anyways. I guess you could, just like some kids are breast fed until 4 yo... But a few months is enough. At 8 months they would not feed 100% on milk anyways, that would be an always shrinking part of the diet. So even in that scenario, the mother would still produce from 10-20L of milk and the calf would drink maybe 2L over a day.

The narrative of the calf deprived of its mothers milk to feed humans just shows a laughable lack of knowledge of the milking industry, yet that doesn't stop people from talking out of their asses. Breeds are now so proficient they far exceed the needs of their calf.
Also, the City of London is (I think) the only municipal body where businesses are allowed to vote alongside residents AND outnumber residents.

From the Wikipedia article:

> As it has not been affected by other municipal legislation over the period of time since then, its electoral practice has become increasingly anomalous.

Therefore, the non-residential vote (or business vote), abolished in the rest of the country in 1969, became an increasingly large part of the electorate. The non-residential vote system used disfavoured incorporated companies. The City of London (Ward Elections) Act 2002 greatly increased the business franchise, allowing many more businesses to be represented. In 2009, the business vote was about 24,000, greatly exceeding residential voters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation
> No idea what City of London police has to do with this

I don't know why City of London police even exists. Is there any good reason for them not to be absorbed by the Metropolitan Police Service?
Your example is valid for a user familiar with the installation process. OP mentioned is a new user.

Also, even if you toggle "everything off" there is stolen data going through which you don't even have an option to disable.
Yeah - it was open submission for anyone using a headset with 6DOF controllers. At the time that was Rift or Vive.
I'm sure it's possible to do analytics in a user friendly way - you can do basic analytics without storing IPs or using cookies.

The problem is that Google Analytics isn't _just_ collecting data for you, it's collecting a trove of other data that it's using to track and link users accross other websites.
A bit of a technical tangent, but I wonder if a peer to peer version of this website would increase its chances of survival. I can easily imagine something like a reference manager that puts copies of the PDFs you've read or written on IPFS. It would still require some central node that coordinates the sharing, but if some open source ActivityPub service would fill that role it could work I think. Provided there is of course enough personal incentive to share and keep sharing these works.
None. Well, yeah, I think SiFive has HDL sources for quite a lot of their stuff up on GitHub, but it's not like you can just compile them into production silicon at home, heck, you can't even verify that the silicon was actually compiled from that source. (Yes there's research into verifiable silicon, but it's not like everyone has ultra high end electron microscopes and whatnot at home lol)

And of course nothing about RISC-V implies that production implementations will be open source at all.
That interface already exists, even those elderly people will mostly understand a phone with physical buttons and a numerical pad.

But once you remove the physical buttons everything becomes much less intuitive and hinges way more on proper UI design in addition to making a lot of assumptions about a users knowledge on touch controls.
What do junior workers do at these banks that require them to work 80 hour weeks?

Also is the salary high? Or is it one of those jobs where juniors employees have low salaries with the carrot of promotion dangled in front of them?

These companies are also not cash strapped. If I was leading a team, I'd prefer two employees working a normal set of hours versus a single employee working themselves to the bone.
What exactly do they do? Study company financials?
40hours/week looks already excessive to me. Perhaps for Goldman Sachs 80hours/week looks fine.
Would they accept half the pay?
warn X to avoid Y sounds fine to me as a non native speaker.

Science website sounds off to me for speaking about sci-hub. The title felt a bit like police advised students to distrust science.
Is the nude selfie a new art form?
Great advice and thanks for sharing. However, the risk of these programs is that they don't last forever. Microsoft can disable what they do, find alternative ways of stealing data, etc.
Never put this in a bookmarklet, you may get addicted:

javascript:window.location='http:/'+'/sci-hub.se/'+window.location
What is service fabric?
Average internet speeds are up substantially since repeal. It is up over 300% in fact, and is now 12th globally according to Ookla. Even higher if you remove tiny dense countries like Liechtenstein.

That's innovation.
I was born in the USSR, and I have read a great deal about this period (and have read works of all writers mentioned), so i think i have a very clear pictire of how things were at that time... And that's why I'm very opposed to today's 'woke' culture, because it is so much alike the totalitarian USSR society that caused so much harm. Sure, some of the proclaimed values are different, but methods are almost the same.
Firmware is not protected by Secure Boot. It can be protected by things like Boot Guard, but at least that one (Intel's) requires pairing the board and the CPU, so it can only be done in laptops and other prebuilt OEM systems.
Volcanic eruption in Iceland: Geldingadalsgos
Also see:
https://vedur.is/um-vi/frettir/skjalfti-m57-a-reykjanesi

https://grapevine.is/news/2021/03/19/breaking-eruption-at-fa...

https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/18/helstu-tidindi-eldgos-ha...
2 language problem for the Julia developer. Also these two languages might drift apart over time
Why is it acceptable for companies to keep such information away from a consumer?
Are you talking about any particular individuals or organizations? Who are they? Is this just a general observation? In which case... what evidence do we have to support your statement? Are you suggesting 100% of individuals who support piracy also support privacy? Or is it more like 1%?
The current way work is done in Mergers & Acquisitions for instance is that you are expected to be on-site for a long time because you never know when a new project/opportunity must be answered. So you may effectively be at work for 80-100h but it doesn't mean you are consistently working.

The second reason is that work is siloed. If you and your team takes on an opportunity, for instance creating a buy-side valuation or a sell-side offer, you and your team only will work on it.

It has ties with how teams are split by specialities and know-hows, but also with how your end-of-year bonus is calculated.
There's probably some law on the books that says the City has their own police force and rewriting it opens up a whole can of worms nobody wants to deal with.
That's not unwarranted, but you'd have to have at least a cursory sense of what pdfs are capable of to know why. Like arbitrary javascript and file embedded files. I don't get the feeling that the police involved here necessarily do lol
Netflix is far from innocent. Remember when they totally ignored existing peering agreements and tried to force Verizon to pay for upgrades to pipes that were overloaded because of their traffic?

Netflix is a freeloader. Peering agreements, which by the way have been around for decades, state clearly that nobody pays as long as the pipe is used equally. Netflix's bandwidth providers sent way more than they received and refused to cough up for upgrades.

Aside from "Verizon bad because big ISP", they were in the right. You want a fat pipe because of your obnoxiously bandwidth heavy service, pay for it.
According to a website "efinancialcareers" or something, I think first could be getting £90k, and that before the bonus. And yes that is very IMO but in their career trajectory it seems to be small.
And not everyone has the resources to build a "simple app" just for iOS.
This is an advertorial for Sci-Hub, british dry humor style.
Scotland Yard is a place where the Met just happened to be based.
Israel seems to be selling chips to Chinese companies and weapons to Azerbaidjan unhindered by US pressure though.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/cheap-drones-china-tur...
scihub is blocked on my connection, see https://imgur.com/a/fesNpFK ...
Looks like virgin media are blocking the IP address.

If only there were some kind of private, virtual network I could use…
> if they wanted to steal your data, then they'd ask you about it?

Because if they don't meet a bare minimum of decency and regulatory requirements, they will be fined a substantial % of their revenue.

They ask questions because if they didn't they wouldn't have a defense in court.
The experience was a bit limited on mobile.
For someone in their early 20s in the UK, that is a massive salary
Blocked by my ISP https://imgur.com/a/fesNpFK
The BBC puts unverified claims in quotes, and they are liberally sprinkled through this article. They've also given it to the family and education correspondent instead of the technology correspondent, which I think implies an unusually high level of skepticism for an establishment press release.
> Tell people there is always price attached to services. If you don't pay for it explicitly it most likely means the company extracts it some other way -- ask yourselves how exactly.

I fully agree this is the right approach. Unfortunately, it's really REALLY hard to make a compelling case. It seems the only way people will open their eyes is if there's some kind of privacy catastrophe that's plain to see and which has clear consequences.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal is as close to an example of what a privacy catastrophe looks like as I can imagine right now. Many people separated themselves from Facebook as a result. I just wonder how many more incidents like that have to occur before people get wise to surveillance capitalism.

I'm not hopeful that the truth is ever going to be clear given the cacophony of non-stop disinformation campaigns (like the OP "news" article).
Funny to assume this has anything to do with squeezing productivity out of young graduates: it's rather a rite of passage institutionalized at the scale of the industry with more senior people abusing junior analysts because "they've been through that" and earned their pay/status raise.
I am unable to forgive the author for the following:

#include <cmath>
#include <stdio.h>

The code looks almost like pure C, but that little `c`...
These are typically junior bankers working on M&A/IPO deals. The ones working on the desks/trading will have much more moderate 45-60 hour weeks with little/no weekend work.

The salaries sound high - but bearing in mind that you will need to live within very close proximity to the financial centre of the city (London City, Canary Wharf, Wall Street etc) you do not end up with much spending money at the end of the month.

You may well have a comparable salary as a relatively junior FAANG developer with a lot less effort.
I guess out of business CPU companies are one easily accessible category.
They're police, they probably just followed some orders from up the chain.

If they did their home work, they will probably never

> concerned that users of the "Russia-based website" could have information taken and misused online.

I mean, so many wrongs in that one line.
This is another example of Apple anti competitive and anti consumer behaviour and regulators should start to look into it. Unfortunately Apple managed to amass so much wealth through various tricks and loopholes, they are now in position to buy any regulation they want and probably that's why they are allowed to continue with these practices.
I find it amazing that people are willing to sacrifice their health and relationships for more money. Even if I was offered a million dollar salary I wouldn't do it. Aren't these grads from top notch business schools supposed to be smart and see that it's not worth it?
Because it is not part of the public-accessible product and the company is free to change it at will from one version of the product to the other, or even between multiple batch of the same version.

You see it from an "they should inform us" POV, but there is also the "there is no guarantee it will be there" side.
For someone of any age, that is a massive salary. Average salary in UK is £36k
Beats me why an investment bank needs workers working at all?
Which is why, when asked by their university / police, such academics would likely claim they were hacked or otherwise had their credentials stolen.
40 hours is excessive? From a philosophical standpoint, yes, but from the way things are in the world that's totally normal lol
You should at least attempt to make some kind of argument that there's real causation here and not merely correlation.

Also, aren't most of Ookla's speed test results biased by testing against servers the ISP has given preferential placement to inside their network, rather than using a diverse set of servers on the public internet? (I'll admit, it's been years since I last cared to look at an Ookla speed test, so I'm not sure if their default server selection strategy has changed.)
This is an excessively well written article that tells the history as it was (I heard first hand accounts from people who had to emigrate from the Soviet Union).

People in apparatchik-driven open source projects anno 2021 should take note and draw the obvious parallels.
No, I think your confusion is completely reasonable. It was a garbage article.
Ask HN: How to Escape Professional Isolation?
This pandemic has taught us how to live with ourselves while our social circles shrunk. The impact is also felt in the professional relationships, even more for those of us who are freelancers or independents.

Creating new meaningful professional relationships has become hard. I'm a member of a few online communities, but they're more centered around specific questions and answers. I'm happy to chat and share my knowledge, but it has never translated to some kind of connection.

How do you deal with this issue?