skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"cyberwar" soften what may be a far worse situation. We may be witnessing the ignition -in slow-motion- of a generation defining global armed conflict. When it all finally goes hot nobody will remember how it started.
A related question looks something like this:

Can two particles, two points of space, be related; be in sympathy; be "entangled" -- regardless of the distance between them?

Well, Quantum Entanglement, AKA "Spooky Action At A Distance" -- says yes.

If so, if that's indeed possible -- then the next question looks like this:

Are these two particles, two different points in space, really somehow the same particle, the same point in space, but it's just that this particle exists in two simultaneous places in our dimension, but in only one "place" (for lack of a better term!) -- in a dimension of the Universe higher than ours?

If the answer there is "yes" (I don't know that it is; I don't know that it isn't) -- then some other really interesting questions come out of this, such as:

Is it possible to link two particles (two very small geometric areas of space) -- not just in a higher dimension, in space, but in TIME -- as well?

And then of course, if the answer is "yes" again, then the next question is how to do this with groups/multiples of points in space, and multiple points in time, etc., etc.

But the thing that starts all of this line of questioning off is the original one about two particles in space, and can they be linked, such that they be in sympathy, such that changes to one affect the other, and vice-versa...

Anyway, there are some very interesting questions related to the dimensionality of space, and how this dimensionality, if it exists, could or would apply to Physics...

If it indeed does exist... I vote that we call this future science:

"Dimensional Engineering"

Sort of like what Star Trek's "Scotty" character would do, if he were a real person...

Reminds me of his famous quote:

"Ye cannot change the laws of Physics!"

-Star Trek's Montgomery Scott ("Scotty")

PDS: Well, not without going up a dimension or two! <g>

(But all of that is highly speculative at this point in time; as of this writing!)

Keywords: Projection of 3D cubes into 2D spaces, Arthur Cayley, Analytical Geometry (of (n) dimensions), Pure Mathematics, Position (3 values) + Momentum (3 values) = 6D space, Phase Space, Gunnar Nordstrom, Albert Einstein, Theodor Kaluza, Oskar Klein, Kaluza-Klein Theory, Higher Harmonics, Small Radius -> Small Wavelength -> Higher Frequency -> (requires) High Energy, Sabine Hossenfelder (in video): "The second problem is that the radius of the extra dimension is not stable, if you perturb it, it can begin to increase", Ryszard Kerner, 11 Dimensions, Edward Witten, Excellent Video, Worth Re-Watching!
TL;DR:

"This study does not offer a clear answer to whether handwritten notes or typed notes lead to better performance"
The problem with a wealth tax is the definition of wealthy. The delta between the 1% and the 0.1% is astronomically larger than the difference between the 99% and the 1%.
> I think it would still poison the “Apple experience” to have many AppStores all competing with their own closed ecosystems.

I actually think Apple could find a way to navigate it. They already allow one prominent alternative choice on iOS: non-iMessage SMS. If Apple allowed third-party stores, I could see them using their product, UX, and branding mastery to create the equivalent of the blue-bubble and green-bubble dichotomy for App Store vs. 3rd party downloaded apps. Creating a social stigma without technical restrictions, so to speak. So allowing an alternative while at the same time encouraging users not to partake in it.
I think this point is too technical to be addressed in this blog post, and it's already addressed in technical documents / talks from MobileCoin. In short, and IIUC, no Intel SGX means a bit less privacy but is still ok. In particular, it's not a kill-switch. Happy to be corrected though, I still know little about MobileCoin.
I'm guessing an Iranian. From articles I've read, it sounds like Mossad has a huge network of ethnic Iranian agents carrying out the ground work in Iran. This stuff is fascinating indeed.

Here's a good read for you: https://archive.ph/uG9Lu

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/politics/iran-israel-m...

How Israel, in Dark of Night, Torched Its Way to Iran’s Nuclear Secrets

> The Mossad agents moving in on a warehouse in a drab commercial district of Tehran knew exactly how much time they had to disable the alarms, break through two doors, cut through dozens of giant safes and get out of the city with a half-ton of secret materials: six hours and 29 minutes.

> The morning shift of Iranian guards would arrive around 7 a.m., a year of surveillance of the warehouse by the Israeli spy agency had revealed, and the agents were under orders to leave before 5 a.m. to have enough time to escape. Once the Iranian custodians arrived, it would be instantly clear that someone had stolen much of the country’s clandestine nuclear archive, documenting years of work on atomic weapons, warhead designs and production plans.

> The agents arrived that night, Jan. 31, with torches that burned at least 3,600 degrees, hot enough, as they knew from intelligence collected during the planning of the operation, to cut through the 32 Iranian-made safes. But they left many untouched, going first for the ones containing the black binders, which contained the most critical designs. When time was up, they fled for the border, hauling some 50,000 pages and 163 compact discs of memos, videos and plans.

...

> In most Mossad operations, spies aim to penetrate a facility and photograph or copy material without traces. But in this case, the Mossad chief, Yossi Cohen, ordered that the material be stolen outright. That would drastically shorten the time that the agents — many, if not all, of them Iranians — spent inside the building.
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Terror attacks are against civilian targets - hence terrorizing civilians.

An attack like this is military - which could be carried out by terrorists or a govt.

The difference is important.
Honestly I'm okay with a super-tough theoretical interview when a very high and very comfortable compensation and benefits package is at stake. Every other job I can think of that pays nearly as much as tech requires years of education/apprenticeship, brutal exams, and less flexibility around things like location, work/life balance, and dress code.
I couldn't disagree more. Vix's behavior here is so bad that it's actually hard to believe anyone would genuinely hold the belief that they're "the adult in the room." I'm embarrassed for them.
Another reason for the local hosting is so that we (I work for 1Password) are never in a position to acquire secrets can be used to decrypt your data.
To be completely frank, to the layman Wix gets the job done.

In a perfect world they'd spend less money marketing and more on building good products, but they're aiming for non-technical people who will create a Wix page and then forget about it.

I don't like Wix ether, but their business model is definitely working.
> Much has changed since my college days, but there’s still a dearth of African-American women in science, technology, engineering and math professions, an absence that cannot be explained by, say, a lack of interest in these fields.

XD yeah, because racism is always the answer. Also there is no enough black people hiking because forests in US are racist as fuck.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/13/hiking-a...
Egypt seizes the Ever Given, demanding $1B for Suez Canal jam
This is a cooked-up piece to get people to believe that wix.com somehow competes with weirdpress.com, by stirring a controversy out of thin air. The absurd details and language don't matter as long as it gets clicks.

So while I'm absolutely no fan of WP at all, still you can self-host it, unlike Wix' builder. Don't fall for this kind of marketing.
Only there is no vaccine hesitancy. Only public health admins saving themselves headaches by just using moderna or Pfizer in the first place. Since using J&J would require them to use moderna or Pfizer anyway.
https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/fog#overview

This explains the issues fairly well. tl;dr most blockchains require a CPU and/or network expensive sync which is prohibitive on mobile. As a fix/hack many web and mobile apps have a SPOF gateway which the client must trust absolutely.
>started laser focusing on making sure that everybody gets exactly the same amount of everything all the time. It's ridiculous.

>It's unbelievably, unbelievably sad.

I largely agree with you, but in my opinion, the position you're expressing in the former quote (specifically the extremity of the position, rather than its quality) contributes to existence of the latter. There are way too many absolutes in your complaint - you're exaggerating out of emotion.
Random Paths to Frequency Hopping
>it seems like such a horrible idea

It probably is.

> To this day I don't understand why anyone would use Plaid.

It's more desirable to use a fin-tech company to handle all that than take on the liability yourself, as a company wanting to receive payments (or connect to transaction info, like a lot of the popular budgeting apps do).
Putting your money into ONGs that you control is not giving away anything. It's playing the meta-capitalist game, influencing markets at another level, markets in which you invest money while you pave the path for your investments by using your ONGs to work together with governments.

This is nothing new either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation
What do you think would happen if the US and all of Europe completely pulled out of the Middle East? Would Israel stay the size it is now? If not, can you really say it's "purely defensive"?
But you are having conflate for deaths from each of things. Rates in dying are not homogeneous in J&J vax versus corona. J&J vax maybe is received by many younglings who are not risking death so much from Corona for benefit of old. It is not yet being known for if J&J vax is having any greater risk for older people or younger people. So calculus is maybe not so simple. If I are healthy young person maybe it is not a beneficent risk for taking.
They also appear to cluster in young women and one young man (from the phase 3), do it’s quite probable that the “6 million” is not representative.
I wonder if you could try to address this by limiting who can flag a given post.

Even just doing it very naively and choosing, say, a fifth of your users for each post and only giving them the option to flag it might help significantly. It would probably make it more difficult to motivate the members of these problematic groups to actually coordinate if the average expected result was the inability to participate.

And you could do it in more sophisticated ways too, and form flag-capable subsets of users for each post based on estimates about their similarity, as well as any other metrics you come up with - such as selecting more "trustworthy" users more often. This would help gather a range of dissimilar opinions. If lots of dissimilar users are flagging some content, that seems like it should be a strong signal.
There is also a very deep dissatisfaction towards the government amongst people.
How else can I know that you know how to program though?

Fizz buzz is literally a couple IF statements and a loop.

As an interviewer, I need to know that you aren't just completely making everything up.

This is an actual problem. There are actually people who, for some reason or another, made up a bunch of stuff on their resume and literally do not know how to use a loop or IF statement, and there is no way to know this, unless you ask them to do it.

It is not an insult against you. It is just that an interviewer needs some small very easy check, just to make sure that you didn't completely make everything up.
Yep. GNU Taler should be enough for all needs of a decentralized payment system.

The whole need for cryptocurrencies is a dark area of tax evasion and illegality hiding (which it isn't even good at).

Oh, something it does very well is to waste energy [edit: actually it seems like MobileCoin is not that hungry, see children comments].
Apparently it went down like

Gebru: I have concerns that I'd like addressed that are important enough to me that I would quit over them, we can talk about it in more depth when I get back from my previously scheduled vacation.

Google: Don't bother coming back, you're no longer an employee.

Just like a threat to fire someone isn't actually firing someone, a threat to quit isn't actually quitting.
If its not someone you just played with and isn't on your friends list, I feel like most people don't really interact with the message. CSGO has had so many skin scammers through chats that it's basically expected that you're being hit up by someone trying to get into your account for skins or trade scam you.

This is much worse than those situations, but luckily (and unluckily) I think the CSGO culture is fairly prepared to avoid random invites to parties.
Holy F, I just watched Pretty in Pink on Saturday. Yep.
But not _young_ women. We may be seeing something legitimate.
I really hate these faux-grassroots programs. I've never seen these people host any events near me, and I live in a fairly large inner city area. If individual nerds can consistently have meetups every month there isn't any excuse especially with how much money they seem to be getting. The past events page is also...depressingly barren.

But they're getting that sweet sweet investor $$$ from Nike and AT&T!
I've been explicitly told not to do this, because it means my computer could be taken as evidence in a court case or (as a government employee) an open records request.
https://archive.is/EfERH
Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Sweden are EU members with their own currencies. The Eurozone does not encompass the entire EU.
> Anyone can find their tribe, ...but the internet is also a way for Nazis or jihadis to find each other.

I'm delighted that the net is a way for nazis and other jihadis to find each other. It's a global honeypot. Driving them underground doesn't make them go away, just harder to find. We saw this with the January 6th crowd.

We also saw this with the publicity-seeking attorneys general who got rid of craigslist hookups and back page: sex trafficking continues but is harder to find and prosecute.
Bunny – general purpose and dynamic programming language
Anyone using Vivaldi full-time? As a Firefox user, I find I have to install a number of third-party extensions to get some basic functionality that Vivaldi has out of the box (ad-blocking, note taking). Anyone made the switch, and, if so, can you share your experience?
That's all really cute but it doesn't address the issue.

People who are living in their homelands are more willing to fight and more entrenched than foreign invaders, especially when they've been at war long enough that you can't simply target a couple of places to bring them to their knees. The US military is not a credible threat. They're simply another invader who will get tired of the conflict and go away.

We're not going to war with Russia or China. We didn't do it when Russia annexed Crimea, or when they targeted US troops in Syria, and we aren't going to do it when China puts its boot on the neck of Taiwan. It's a stupid political game to pretend otherwise.

Like I said, the military is a money pit.
Huh? I don't know how an attack on a military base could be less of a terrorist attack.
It's not going to be suspicious if someones account is compromised, or gets a virus that sends an invite to all their friends. Official interfaces like 'invite' should never be need to be viewed with suspicion
And if pithy comments didn't exist... we'ed have to accept that no single thing, or small cohort of factors decided the overall trajectory of society.

Wealth, and power carry a social momentum. Antipodal to that is the high amount of frictional cost associated with change at scale. Those properties of our current economy effect what change is possible and when.

The modern economy exists in this unequal hodgepodge for the same reason some animal look alien to you, because it was not planned. Unfortunately for us, unlike animal evolution, the rate of change of the economy, tech progress, political winds, and all the social tendrils that stem from that unholy amalgam grow rapidly and defy organization.

You can call it the expected end result of human nature if it eases you. But. to me, it looks like a problem looking for some good engineering.
Your comment is interpreting as ES was naive by choosing open-source which allows AWS to fork the code. I read this argument all the time about OSS. Where does this conversation lead? I'll tell you: to end any meaningful attempt to create open-source code with a business model aka the end of OSS.
A threat to quit isn't actually quitting any more than a threat to fire someone is actually firing them.
Only 22.7% of US pop is fully vaccinated as of 0600 ET today.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations

When that reaches +80% the recommendations will ease more but as of now:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vac...
What does it even mean to “not be networked” and on a Galactic spaceship?

I can imagine all of those systems need to communicate within their domain somehow, so they need to be connected. You could make a point that they have “not been connected to the internet”, but then it only takes one node to become a bridge between WAN and LAN and you are Pwned.

It’s even worse now because there’s a tendency in software development to discount security this way: “we don’t need to think about security because we have a firewall”.

I don’t think this is a valid scenario.
It's not that I hate capitalism, but the more corrupt it is, the more likely it will lose the trust of people.
I assumed that the GP poster wasn't endorsing this...but perhaps they were?
...due directly to a lack of understanding of statistics. But that just proves it. It's a Catch-22 !?
Presumably splitting up the company would also involve restrictions about other large tech companies gobbling up the resulting Google-chunks. Anti-trust law is a thing that the US could enforce if they so chose.
Like them or not the Israeli Defense Force is arguably the most effective military in the world. From the Iron Dome, the Uzi, and the Arrow missile, the IDF has a track record of successful military projects. They seem lean and effective, unlike the US military. The US Military recently has had a track record of project failures from the F-35 to the Comanche helicopter and now they are spending $20B for Microsoft Hololens, which I bet is going to be another bust. The US Military could take some lessons from the IDF.
You suborn the whole chain. Instead of one guy, you bribe or threaten the guy at the front gate, the guy who runs the metal detector, the guy who monitors the video cameras. Afterwards you exfiltrate them from the country to some third nation. (Or you don't, and instead do something less nice.)
I think we're looking at the issue in a completely wrong way.

There's no objective definition of right or wrong in content moderation. Right and wrong is subjective, especially across cultures, and moderation should be subjective too.

I believe end users should have the choice to adopt blocklists, Adblock style. Those lists could contain single posts, accounts, or even specific words. A lot of content (like flashing images or spoilers) does not merit deleting, but there are users with good reasons not to see it. They should be given such an option.

There should be a few universal, built-in blocklists for obvious spam, phishing, child porn etc, but all the rest should be moderated subjectively.

A Clubhouse-stule invite system (with unlimited invites) would also be a good idea. It would make it much harder for spammers, cammers and troll farms to make new social media accounts.
My team uses 1Password to share account credentials, etc. When we need to deploy secrets into production, we use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.

The name is quite a mouthful, but we have found the service to be awesome. We have a small Python script that loads a script with environment variable definitions from the Parameter Store and we use that as an EnvFile for our systemd services.
Recent and related:

FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26755476 - April 2021 (33 comments)

FreeBSD 13.0 Beta1 Now Available - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26051254 - Feb 2021 (110 comments)
Yes it does depend on that, but usually there's some width lost for the gained height. You don't even need to measure it against another display to know that's the case. If you only add pixels to the top of a display, the diagonal size will increase. So if the display isn't any larger then it means that the horizontal size of the screen was reduced. That of course also means that each pixel is smaller. Depending on how much smaller, you might need to scale everything on the display up which has the same effect on fitting things in as having fewer pixels.
Thank you for the blog post, it resonates quite well with me.

I thought a bit about this, but that becomes a bit complicated without additional metadata on a file descriptor (is it really that additional interface, or just a random FD we inherited?). It might be possible to achieve in a robust way with mount namespaces and named pipes, but that's another can of worms...

That said, it would likely work 90% of the time that way.
There’s a big difference, though, between Finland Swedes from Uusimaa who are well on the way to total assimilation, and e.g. those from Nykarleby whose contact with the Finnish language is limited and who still look to Stockholm in certain ways.
"you are probably not Frida Kahlo" is not the same as "you will never be Frida Kahlo."

It's just a fact that most people are not one of the very best in their field: 50% of people can't be in the top 1%. That's not to say people shouldn't try - after all, many of the "very best" tried very hard to get where they are.
Yeah, the whole "there is no alternative to the App Store" argument completely falls apart in the face of the existence of the Mac, and how the Mac isn't constrained by the Mac App Store.
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Do you actually believe this? I have a hard time thinking that anyone believes "Apple has no such market position to abuse.". It's absurd.
One thing I really appreciate about this is the design! It feels so calm and friendly – like a lot of care went into it.

I love how everything snaps to the grid, and that it's achieved via CSS transforms.