skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent points. Platforms obviously need to have some power of moderation for spam and off-topic remarks.

One idea for a type of system for adjudicating disputes would be something similar ot the jury system used in common law countries. When a conflict arises (some moderator deletes a post whose poster feels is within the rules), a set of users could be chosen randomly and asked to deliberate whether that is the case or not. This would be similar to a court proceeding, with the accuser and accused allowed to argue their case, but much less formal. Participation in such juries would just be a cost of using the platform. This would not apply to posts that are removed for legal reasons, where the regular legal system would have to be used instead.

Note that spam is generally already illegal, and advertising products with specific health claims that you do not have proof for is definitely illegal in many jurisdictions (fraud / false advertising).

I would also expect that any such moderation should only apply to broadcast messages. Direct, private communication between two or more people must not be moderated in any way (though users should be given certain tools to help them, such as optional spam filters, the ability to block specific people from sending them messages, etc).
Yeah testing is its intended usage, but on the initial phases of the product we did use it as the finished product clients were paying for.

It can be slightly hacked around to add user authentication & analytics, so if you are handling a small amount of users its a really efficient way to iterate fast.
This group of not-for-profit mutual insurers is behind $3.1 billion in liability coverage available to the Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd., the owner of Ever Given. WSJ describes some details of the arrangement: “One feature of the $3.1 billion in liability coverage in place for Ever Given is a pooling arrangement across the 13 Protection & Indemnity Clubs to cover claims from an incident of up to $100 million. Above that, reinsurance kicks in to bring the available coverage to $3.1 billion. An additional $1 billion is available for oil and pollution events. More than 20 of the world’s 25 largest reinsurance companies back the coverage available to Ever Given.” [1]

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/suez-canal-insurance-claims-loo...
Excellent, thank you. I don't understand why a website would disable this!
I'm not sure who started showing images with the Integrate Heat Spreader removed, I feel it must have been AMD with the chiplet design, but those shiny chips do look shiny :)
A high price tag will keep users away.
Why paying for something without knowing if it fits to your daily workflow?
Asking for money after some period of usage is the right way.
In the past I compared downtime between github pages, firebase and gitlab using pingdome. Firebase had the most downtime, then github. Gitlab had zero downtime for months. Not sure it's the simplest but it was simple enough. Included Let's encrypt TLS out of the box and free support of custom domain name. Plus I configured auto deploy after each master commit with gitlab ci.
Success predicts success. Maybe it works out: you get funding, you're regarded as a smart scientist etc, so your work is judged with that in mind.

Especially in those parts of social sciences that are very essay-heavy and don't deal with disprovable claims and experiments, the difference between "that's total nonsense" and "another intelligent contribution by a fellow scholar" might be mostly knowing the author.

They could transition into postmodern studies and use the Postmodern Generator [1] to get their new stuff.

[1]: https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
As a Spaniard I agree with your observations. In Spanish most variations of pronunciation come from local variants, so even there there is consistency. In english is quite hard to grasp how to say new words. That's not a problem in Spanish.

For me the most difficult is pronunciation, and having so many exceptions.
Update to your edit:

> Which countries?

Which countries would you pick yourself as counter-evidence?

> If ever you've lived in a country with low per capita GDP, and seen how ordinary people have to struggle so much more to afford to meet basic needs, you'd see why.

Alright, that just an anecdote with some added feigned care of the poor. It's already clear that this won't go anywhere.

> But it's a very very good measure

It's not, and that was acknowledged by even the "inventor" himself.

A GDP growth of 2-3% per year is also deeply unsustainable, doubling the economy every few decades can't continue.

Update 2:

> Norway

> But anecdotes are not as important as large datasets, and large datasets show a strong correlation between small government (relative to GDP) and high economic growth rates.

Hmm? A statement saying that a large government (and likely high taxes) inherently causes a bad outcome doesn't need a long-term graph to be falsified. Scandinavia is sufficient, even much of western Europe on top of that.

>>>feigned care of the poor

>> It's always good to assume that the person you're interacting with might be debating in good faith, and know things you don't.

Just saying that The Free Market believers aren't famous for their concern for the poor or inequality, so it sounds pretty false given both your link to "Institute for Market Economics" and your comment history:

> "the alliance between rent-seeking labor unions and the Democratic Party"

> "when the US was still a free market where people had a sacred right to freely contract."

> "How is the freedom to engage in profit-motived activity exploitation? The whole principle behind the free market is that all interactions have to be mutually voluntary in order to be legal."

The latter is the most obvious example of not caring for the outcomes of the Free Market on the poor.
I did read the article, but I figured this comment section would be a good place to put a question about metadata.
This looks really useful.

Paradoxically, I find that the terminal is the place where I end up using the mouse the most.
That makes sense. I myself would prefer to have to do something to get the camera to add a timestamp to a photo but I can understand that probably so many people want it to be the default that there's little reason for manufacturers to not make it the default.
Pretty slick. A mc on steroid for a GUI world.
Interesting that it was built in .Net and appears to be using WPF with a few improvements[1].

It also refers to Vanara[2] which looks interesting as a safe utility wrapper to the Windows API.

[1]:https://github.com/Kinnara/ModernWpf

[2]:https://github.com/dahall/Vanara
It's sad how "We aim to be Earth’s most customer centric company." turns into "not conflicting too much" real quickly when there's money on the table.
In iterm2, with shell integration enabled, hitting Command-Shift-A selects all the output since the last prompt.
To be fair, once upon a time, England was full of English people. The educated would know Latin as that was the language of the church and of international correspondence. Then, the Normans arrived and the upper classes rapidly became somewhat French. So, the difference in speech between upper class and commoner as well as between educated and less educated (England had remarkably high literacy rates even among the commoners) has a strong historical basis. I also haven't even mentioned the influence of Danish (Viking) on the language. I would guess that part of the richness of the vocabulary is down to the fact that English is an amalgamation of several languages.
How temporary? I can't find a timeline on their website.
Well, you might think that. Did you consider that you might be wrong and maybe Amazon actually has lot of data that you don't and they know it better?

Just a couple of examples.

I might have bought a hard disk drive a couple of days ago and realize that I actually want more so I can do backups (or I want to build a cute HDD tower with a Raspberry Pi).

I might have bought ear plugs for home, and decide a week later that it would be nice to have those at work, too.

I could have bought zip ties, only to realize that I actually want more in different sizes and colors.

I bought a pijama, it was delivered and I want to buy 3 more of those, so I can throw out my old ugly pijamas and not worry about buying new pijamas for the next 5 years.

I got headphones but they aren't quite perfect. I didn't issue a refund yet, but I know I'd eventually send them back and want to buy a similar headphone asap.
The idea of these tools is to allow teams to test a wide array of hypothesis to then have data-backed flows that make sense to code efficiently. The size is an unfortunate trade-off for testing speed.

Of course the initial users will experience a slow product, but the idea is to discover faster what a useful product looks like without investing development resources.
No? Britain didn't have slavery, it didn't have it before that 1833 Act, and it still didn't have it afterward. The Act's title begins: "An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies" because it's about abolishing slavery in the colonies. By this time of course Americans - who still want slavery - have successfully rebelled and are independent and so this law does not affect the millions of slaves in the United States of America.

The Colonies weren't Britain. Their people weren't (on the whole) British citizens, if you knew a bit more history that year might stand out more. 1833 is just after Great Reform, the country has become more small-D democratic, expanding the franchise (the right to vote) to more men and eliminating "Rotten boroughs" which were often in practice controlled by rich people, including slaveowner colonists abroad.
IIRC, Facebook has a patent where photos taken with the same camera can be detected, which I think is similar to "photo response non-uniformity". They use it for recommending friends. I think there was a case where Facebook was recommending to friend request other people who all had their weddings taken by the same wedding photographer!
Contrary to the article ("hidden information", "parasitically burrows itself into every photo", "not the only thing hidden in your photos") which tries hard to make it sound somewhat shady, EXIF metadata is neither hidden nor hard to remove. In fact, it is hidden so badly, that even Windows Explorer can view and edit it. Virtually every photo/image editing tool shows it and can remove it as well.
It’s a poor use of time to give every conspiracy theory “due diligence”, as you put it.

For instance: what if it’s aliens? What if it’s the mice-people? What if it’s mind control by giant squid? What if it’s a conspiracy being lead by the silica gel industry?

Do you want to do your due diligence on those, or would you discard them out of hand as patently ridiculous?
"As a Homeland Security official told congressional investigators, “common sense” behavioral indicators are worth including in a “rational and defensible security program” even if they don’t meet academic standards of scientific evidence."

What does that even mean? ... like there is a separate standard of evidence and there is a "we can get by without evidence" standard of evidence?
You can do this with tmux too.

~/.tmux.conf:

# export to clipboard.
bind-key > run-shell -b 'tmux save-buffer - | xclip'
# paste from clipboard.
bind-key < run-shell -b '( xclip -o | tmux load-buffer - ) && tmux paste-buffer'

(edit: my actual setup is slightly different. It interacts with a Windows clipboard via ssh where the terminal is running. cf. https://github.com/euske/pyrexecd/blob/master/tools/tmux.con... )
To clarify the headline and possibly save someone a click: the mechanism used to implant a memory in this experiment was “talking to the subject”. (Not that it necessarily makes the paper less interesting.)
The army are taking down the Internet every night. Apparently they expect business as usual in the day, and maximum censorship of their mass murder. Disgusting
More like a mix of Lego Mindstorms and the macro software you get from gaming mice
On Mac OS, a much less powerful but built in tool is `pbcopy`.
Build Login with Google, GitHub, Facebook on ReactJS [without coding a backend]
>vote with your wallet as that is your power, use it, don't loose it.

When you tell people to "vote with your wallet", you are implicitly admitting that people with bigger wallets have more votes. Literally millions of times more, in many cases.

Don't vote with your wallet. involve yourself in local government, because legislation is the only way to solve problems like this.
I built some of those kinds of cursors features into my terminal. http://extraterm.org/features.html

It is never too late to steal features that the Commodore 64 could do in the early 80s (!!!).

oh, Extraterm can help you reuse previous output after the fact and without having to be clairvoyant.
git-autofixup can also be installed by simply downloading the script[1], giving it execute permissions, and putting it somewhere in your PATH. It needs perl 5.8.4+, which is very old, and only depends on the standard library. Git ships with a Perl interpreter on Windows.

If there are any staged changes, git-autofixup only fixes those up and ignores any unstaged ones; otherwise it tries to autofixup all unstaged changes.

[1]: https://github.com/torbiak/git-autofixup/blob/master/git-aut...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
LOL, I don't understand what they were thinking when writing this part. AI may be used, probably, in order to remove the watermark even right now, not one day, but recognizing the non uniform part, subtracting it and adding a different one. To create the training set of same-image taken with differnt-sensor is not hard.
Hey guys!

I built 1Feed because I feel like RSS, a way to own our feeds rather than consume ones built to addict us, is more important than ever in 2021. It's definitely helped me spend less time browsing online!

Let me know if you have any feedback :)
The effect is real, but cameras actively try to suppress it. Cameras have a map of particularly bad pixels which are ignored (much like a bad sector map in a hard drive), and when doing long exposures most cameras will/can do two exposures, where the second one is made with the shutter closed.

I'm skeptical this works after boiling 24...50 megapixels down into a tiny web-sized image with 1-3 MP.
In the article there is no mention that EXIF tags are stripped away by all the major social networks / messaging systems.
> What industry?

There are many examples in the manufacturing industry, though unions aren't the only factor.

> Maybe we need to open a gigantic can of worms that “runs counter to globalization” if we’re talking about sending
those jobs to countries with unethical working conditions.

I couldn't agree more, the problem is there are powerful interests that will keep trying to sweep this issue under the rug.
Then there’s the cousin of lying. Bullshitting. It is outright practiced at work and job interviews. Elon Musk at one time was interviewed on how he spots it.
You are inferring. I am saying precisely what I am saying. Nothing more.

Dictators and right wing populists are bad at solving humanitarian crises and pandemics which require care, because it is not possible for these leaders to project the strong man image they cling to.

Just look at Bolsonaro and Trump's absymal performances in keeping the covid virus at bay, thus allowing the pandemic to flourish.

This is by the way factual, objective truths not my point of view.
There’s a bit of Amdahls law here: If I’m “10x engineer” but just 10% of the day, that means I’m really a 1.1x engineer. And it doesn’t matter (much) whether I’m a 50x or 100x engineer in that 10% the max speedup is limited by the “1x” part.
Event Horizon Telescope captures new view of black hole in polarized light
"The problem here isn’t our privacy laws, but that the government is failing cybersecurity 101." -- Ron Wyden
Last year there was a leak at Ledger that exposed the name and address of everyone who bought a Ledger wallet direct from Ledger (not distributors). I assume a local criminal or group has broken on and taken a copy of the keywords unknown to you. (They do know where you live). Obviously they would look for petty cash boxes, in the fridge and in the back of the toilet cistern. Take a photo of the keywords and get out silently with nothing else. You would never know they had been there.
How to use free will to be successful in life?
How to use free will in life? Well, you are a tiny little fraction from the universe; a pitch of energy, successfully graduated to be a human. Your aim is to be evolved faster. And the entire Universe is made for your evolution. You are on a journey to be God. It's pretty difficult to be God as you have to have the experience from all forms of life and you need to have zero karma, practicing love. The final stage of your evolution is your liberation and free will plays a dominant role in determining the course of your life. https://www.youtheuniverse379.com/2021/03/how-to-use-free-will-in-your-life.html?m=1
Are you talking about the introduction of backdoors or just exploiting vulnerabilities that are there? Because the latter sounds analogous to the creation of a tank bomb which might theoretically used against your tanks also.

The parent poster said the NSA "can" do attacks that don't reduce the security US assets. They didn't claim that all possible attacks fit this description. For example they can try to guess at bad passwords used on that foreign computer system.
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Yeah, I'm surprised that that didn't get a mention in the article. Here's a link to the patent:

"Associating cameras with users and objects in a social networking system"
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150124107A1/en
Owner and Insurers of Ever Given Face Millions in Claims
Cool, I'm glad it's working out for you. Due to my workflow at my current job I haven't actually had much occasion to use it since writing it, so I'm not that confident about how good the hueristics are.

Do you generally use the default --strict setting?
You can kind of do the same thing in English:

Those fuckers fucked everything up and then promptly fucked off to fuck knows where.
A 'Unix like' Linux kernel runs the most popular graphical UI (desktop?) in the world, Android. It's not GNU/Linux but it's a Unix kernel running in there.
Root comment:

>>> how about the NSA used its powers to defend Americans instead of hoarding zero days and spying on them?

>> why does this have to be XOR?

Because these are opposed goals. Defending Americans means invalidating zero-days. You could restrict yourself solely to attacks that don't rely on flaws in the software. In that case, you would have no reason to hoard zero-days, because you are ideologically committed to never use them.

That would be weird in a few different ways. But most relevant here, it answers "Why can't we do both?" with "We can, as long as we never do the second one!"

This is not really a compelling response.
> In English why do you need to say “exacerbate” when you can say “make worse”? Or “defenestrate” when you mean “toss out the window”?

This is the thing about English. Everyone can learn intermediate English, but there's a long tail of vocabulary that comes from other languages. Often you find there's an English word, a French work, and a Latin word for something. You'll then discover that there's some subtlety of meaning between them. For instance, if someone has only figuratively been booted out of a position (politics), they've been defenestrated. You'd never say they've been tossed out the window.

Part of me suspects the French and Latin imports are to do with the elite who wanted to check if someone had been educated at the right places.
Preprocessing is the easiest part unless you are working on IDE functionality and need to map it back to exact position in original source code at character instead of line level. Then it gets confusing because single expression can have position in the place calling macro, inside the macro definition and inside the preprocessed buffer.

It does mean that you have to know exact compiler invocation before you can start parsing. You can even invoke the original compiler to preprocess the file and treat it as completely separate phase that can be mostly ignored after it's done.
There is plenty of complexity making extracting AST difficult after preprocessing. You could argue of how much of analysis belongs to syntax and what's already semantic analysis. But in practice and possibly at least partially due nature of C++ language the parsers making AST also do a lot of type analysis. Due to features like constexpr it they even execute the logic of code.
More likely a handful of adults a couple of hundred billion.
A “Switch Pro” leak may point to Nvidia’s megaton mobile-gaming plans
Buildix – declarative query builder for sqlx in rust (work in progress)
I had an idea of declarative query builder (with executor) for sqlx. I started to implement it and things are going pretty good. I already have query generation of select and delete queries. There is still a lot of work but I wanted to show my idea. Repository is still private for at least next week but I have setup webpage for it so you can explore the api. It uses derive macros and generates code directly for given structs. I will make repo public in next week or so and will be working on it in my free time. It is great to be used in places where you need to filter by multiple parameters, and that already works pretty well. Please let me know if you like the idea, any feedback would be great.
Its also important to know that just because they strip it for the public facing file, there is no reason they don't store it privately to comply with legal requests.
> Bronze Age copper mining sites are thought to have been specialized communities of craftspeople and miners that would not have produced their own food, instead requiring food to be provided by outside sources.

This is not a huge surprise, since the mines for copper (and especially tin) were owned and controlled as strategic assets of empires, not "wildcatters." So mining staff were given a food ration, similar to employee cafes today.

What is unsettling is that in 1100 BC, empires could run a mine, and in 2021 the most powerful country in history can't mine or process today's equivalent, rare earths.

Let that sink in for a minute - 3,000 years later, the navel-gazing US is behind pre-Classical empires who worshipped the Sun god.

Another point is that Bronze Age empires typically specialized in one or two of metals (copper and/or tin), gold, trading, food or slaves, etc. so that copper/tin miners would trade for most of their food.

So some of the food for miners actually came from distant trading partners. This resulted in inter-empire brittleness, and ultimately contributed to the Bronze Age collapse, where all of the empires of the time declined, with most disappearing. The art of reading was lost for 500 years.

(For those unaware, bronze is an alloy of 7/8 or more copper and 1/8 or less of tin. These metals have low melting points, so you can make weapons without a high-temperature blast furnace as needed for iron, but whereas iron is commonplace, copper is rare and tin is as rare as uranium.

So if your empire didn't have copper or tin, you were forced to trade for it or lose any battles, similar to China and American microchips under Trump. After humans figured out how to melt iron, there was a great democratizing effect since any village could find enough iron to make cheap weapons.)
Completely agree. I was actually griped. You could make a movie out of this column !
Had never heard of it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
The premise of the XKCD strip is that whatever was being tested isn't necessarily safe for humans. This however we already know is safe for humans because it's available in over-the-counter supplements, and the herb it comes from is used in cooking.