skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No big deal, just get out and get some sunshine.
Also, the vaccination only lasts about 6 months, you'll need another shot in the fall.
It's funny, I've heard "reverse a binary tree" as the canonical coding interview algorithm question for over a decade and I've never stopped to think about what it actually involves. But I just Googled it and it seems like you're right...and yeah I feel like if you know how recursion works and you know what a decision tree is, it seems like a pretty trivial question.
No, not at all. Read The Spirit Level and also a bunch of happiness psychology. Relative equality and perception of fairness matter quite a lot to humans.
Never heard of the person
Apple has just engineered the worst possible situation for themselves by being the only way to get apps on the store and by simultaneously incessantly marketing the store as "Safe and Secure". The former encourages them to maximize the number of apps on the store, while the latter encourages them to shoot first and ask questions later.

If side-loading or alternative ways of getting apps onto the iPhone existed, then they could implement far stricter controls knowing that, worst case scenario, you can still get an app onto the iPhone. This is how it works on the Mac. Tor isn't on the Mac App Store, but that of course doesn't mean Tor can't be used on the Mac.

This is one of the tricky parts about AppStore discussions, it's not about being for or against the AppStore. In fact, I wish the AppStore was MUCH pickier about the apps it let in, and I also wish there was an alternative to the AppStore to catch cases that didn't meet that strict bar. Then the AppStore could actually be about curation as opposed to fear-induced isolationism. Then Apple wouldn't have to inadvertently have political side-effects when it disallowed apps like HKMap.live.

Being on the AppStore could still be advantageous beyond just "either that or you don't get to be on the iPhone at all.” Apple payment processing, iCloud integrations, Family-sharing, etc. could all be tied to being ON the AppStore, so there'd still be a huge incentive to try to ship that way. And side-loading doesn't have to be easy or even on by default.
Nvidia, BMW Blend Reality, Virtual Worlds to Demonstrate Factory of the Future
Is the truck driver tracked, or the truck? If the driver leaves the truck, are they still tracked? I think there is a difference between a vehicle being tracked, and an individual person.
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You've got those numbers wrong.
Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea
You do align people all the time - what is culture, story telling, arguing over what's good and bad, law? Discussion and changing people's minds? Persuasion and sharing ideas?

> "All of these lesswrong posts sound so technical and philosophical and so on but in the end they all really ask 'How would you control superheroes and supervillains?'"

They explicitly don't ask that because if you get to that point and you don't have them aligned with human goals, you're fucked. The purpose is to understand how to align an AGI's goals to humanity before they reach that level.
I sincerely don’t understand this. According to the title he was “uneployable”, but he managed not only to be perfectly employable, he was able to be selective about which companies he wanted to work for. What am I missing here?
What do you mean by locked in? When I think of locked in, I imagine it being hard to cancel and move to another service. I switched to 1Password last year from LastPass and the first thing I checked was the process for exporting my data. It seemed on par with LassPass, which was very simple, so I made the switch.
My favorite quote from Linus in this talk:

"When somebody else wrote the code, you don't get that choice, right?"
lol as they turn off their nuclear plants and buy more natural gas from Russia.

The freaking communists couldn't have done a better job at destroying the west than the west is willingly doing to itself.

Our own version of The Great Event/Fermi Paradox :p
China semiconductor imports surge to all-time high in March
> But optimization is decidedly not intelligence.

I don't think anyone is making that claim. That's why the distinction is useful.
I think there is another relevant part to it. I’m probably on the cusp of risk between Covid and vaccine at 39. But getting the vaccine stops it spreading and protects other people and will generally help the would and country get back to normal. So I’ll get the vaccine as soon as it’s offered to me.
Just think about Uber and Lyft. the core of their business is to track your exact location, so they can route you to the closest pickup. On your personal device, since your a contractor, not an employee.
Indeed, it's a misuse of TLS session IDs for pervasive surveillance. The early web application firewalls also used TLS session IDs to better understand clients, for example correlating the observed values with HTTP session identifiers. I believe that many intrusion detection systems today support rich parsing of TLS traffic to enhance their operation.

Back on TLS, there's are several other ways in which it leaks information that could be used for surveillance. Say, a decade ago, back when revocation checking with OCSP used to be much more widely supported, you could track someone's browsing habits by observing which OCSP responders they talked to. OCSP responses are signed, but the traffic is otherwise not encrypted. Given that most certificates were (and still are) issued by a handful of CAs, you only needed to listen for global traffic at a small number of points. Of course, the fact that OCSP traffic is not encrypted further increases the amount of information available for fingerprinting.

Then there is client fingerprinting at TLS level, which is possible because TLS is actually a mix of protocols, cipher suites, extensions, and various other parameters. ClientHello messages (which are used to initiate TLS handshakes) leak a lot of information that can be converted to useful signals for fingerprinting.

Even at a single web site level, information is leaked via TLS record (i.e., packet) length. A careful observer can look at the record lengths and deduce which resources (e.g., pages, images) are downloaded.
>very year they have more equity

offset by property taxes? Maintenance? Inflation eroding the value of the equity. Time/cost of managing the property. Potentially depreciating property values, depending on area?

I've been a landlord. It's a money sink. Tenants brought in cats (against the lease) that peed all over, making the residence smell unbearable. Had to completely rip out carpet, reseal the floors to get the smell out. Ripped out stair case railings.

It's far from "little risk". It was a time and money sink.

The area itself did not appreciate in value. So after all said and done, definitely lost money.

I'm glad to be done.

I didn't "walk away" like the renters could. I fixed the house, the damage that the renters caused, I assumed the very liabilities that the renters get to punt on. Their leverage in the deal worked in their favor that time. They get to just move on.
You think 10% of a towns population will die from COVID in a couple weeks?

Has that percentage of people in any county in the USA actually died from COVID in over a year?

Florida who has been pretty laissez-faire about COVID has 5,980 deaths in Miami-Dade County (their highest amount of deaths in a county).
2.717M population in 2019.

0.22% of their population.
You haven't been to DeviantArt, have you.

There, "rageflagging" (flagging because you do not like what is being said, not because it violates some content policy) is fairly common. I don't know why it wouldn't be here on Hackernews, despite the latter's pretense to "quality discussion".

The difference is, at least on DeviantArt the staff intervene when there's a flag, and politely tell the flagger to block the person if they don't like what they have to say. Flagging on HN seems automated and algorithm-driven, which makes it abuse-prone.
“Tech has made startups both cheaper and easier but only for a small percentage of people”

I’d really like to see cold hard data on this. As best I can tell it is false- tech has made starting a business way easier and cheaper for more people from more walks of life than at any time in history. Sure, we should work to push that to more people.
M is for Mac/Macintosh. So it is only used in their laptops and desktops.
Given your tone (and the fact that all of the answers are readily available from this article and other sources online) I doubt your questions are sincere or that any attempt to answer them will be well-received, but here goes:

> Do the vaccines work or not

Yes [1]

> What is the reasoning we should avoid social gathering, indoor gathering, and using mask if we already got vaccinated?

Because we don't know how well COVID-19 vaccines keep people from spreading the disease. (from the article)

> Does this mean we will end up doing this until this empire's sunset?

No, what part of the article implies this?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effective...
I got to hear about these truck systems from the subject of it and from someone who used to implement it in the same thread once (don't have a link). Everyone eventually sees that it's rotten, and the implementer in this case got out of the business once they realized the harm they were enabling.
It's very easy to solve this. Give your dudes a Yubikey and get them to use that. It becomes their responsibility to secure the Yubikey.

Almost everything supports the new ones. And if they don't, use Okta for SSO and Okta supports that.
You're falling for his scheme hook line and sinker.

He spends a minor portion of his extreme wealth on good causes and charitywashes his bad reputation into being a "good guy."

We then don't talk about the fact that we could go remarkably further on the same course if we took a much larger bulk of his wealth and put it toward similar objectives of reducing poverty, disease etc.

This is of course nothing new. Robber barons did the same thing, which is why there's a Carnegie Library in my town etc.
Google isn't immune either I suspect. Before the app store, I discovered a google search scam for usps change of address. You can fill that out for free at usps.com or in the post office, but if you search for it, a bunch of scammy providers offered to do it for you for $20. They were buying google ads so that their links appeared before the usps. They would come from somewhat legit looking domains too. I think part of the issue is that usps.com is the official site vs usps.gov.
I disagree with you that socialism will become popular but we will see. I know dozens of people who have lived through socialism and they hate it so much they voted for trump, even though they hate trump. I’m not talking rednecks from the south. I’m talking about Vietnamese, Chinese, Russians, Cubans, etc. I don’t think it’s going to take a foothold in the US but we will see. That’s what voting is for.
>people being yelled at for not wearing masks in uncrowded, wide open spaces

How much does this actually happen? Around where I live, people mostly don't wear masks outside. At most they might pull something up when passing someone on a trail. I go out quite a bit and I've never seen anything like this first hand.
> we didn’t go far enough with equality

Given we have staggeringly high inherited inequality... No, aiming at equality demonstrably isn't going to deliver it.

But neither these ideas (or criticisms) are new. Unskilled white folks have been moaning about "diversity hires" since the 80s in the UK.

What might be changing is looking at things in terms of hereditary opportunity. But it's not easy to ask people to live with less, so others can live with some.
Qubes OS is my daily driver and it creates a great peace of mind in such cases. Cannot recommend it enough.
It's a very interesting dilemma indeed. Obviously, if it's 7 out of 7 millions, then pausing it for the duration of the investigation does way more harm than good, given how many infections happen these days.

On the other hand this extra cautiousness shows how robust the safety of the system is: even minor glitches get caught and examined which practically pretty much rules out that there are side effects of orders of magnitudes more likely that we don't realize. And that may indeed worth it overall. Though in practice it would still make more sense if they continued until it reached a higher threshold (if it is ever to reach it).

Unfortunately, while this should be seen as very reassuring WRT the safety and the level of trust we can have in the vaccines, fear is irrational and for some people it proves that the vaccines are not safe.

E.g. here in Hungary, we have the EMA licensed vaccines (same as the FDA licensed ones) and also a Chinese (Sinopharm) and a Russian (Sputnik-V), with a permission from the Hungarian authorities. Now when the blood clotting issue emerged with AstraZeneca, some started to say "see, that's how much the EMA license is worth. BUT the Sputnik-V is good because you never heard about such issues with it". Which is, needless to say, completely upside down. (Not suggesting that the Sputnik does have the same problem, though I wouldn't be surprised, since it's the same technology as the AZ and the J&J. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if all vaccines had the same issue as the virus itself causes clotting.)
Is content moderation a dead end?
That is actually the same model Sketch offers; they just promote the other (subscription-based) option.
One reason for Hamas' rise to popularity was the drug epidemic in Gaza in the late 1980s. The Israeli occupation looked the other way as gangs sold illicit drugs to the Palestinians. People dependent on drugs makes for good collaborators and informants. Hamas made short work of anyone suspected of being a collaborator and of people in "immoral industries", i.e drug dealers, prostitutes, pimps, and sellers of pornography, often via public and brutal executions. It wasn't pretty but it curbed the drug epidemic.

Drug abuse is a good breeding ground for religious extremism. It's not that hard to convince people that "Western influences" are bad if it means that more people become drug addicts. It's not that hard to convince someone that they should fight for God if they spent the last ten years as drug addicts.
You can get a hardware MIDI controller for super cheap: an array of button, knobs, and faders that you can map to whatever software functions you want: https://www.korg.com/us/products/computergear/nanokontrol2/

But of course those have their downsides too: a panel of identical, nondescript, unlabeled knobs can be confusing during a live performance; some software doesn't react well to changing synth parameters mid-note; and I have found that, for whatever reason, my MIDI controller tends to have just enough latency to be annoying.

> Your digital counterpart will never have a spurious noise

Well, I've definitely had spurious noises with digital equipment...but software malfunctions don't exactly tend to sound magical.
I would argue that git blame is prominent enough. And as long as you don't distribute sources in any other way than a git repo you are fine.
To be clear, 1Password has never really been "free." It has always been a paid product. Aside from the mobile apps being made free with limited features, it was previously a paid app, then with the massive push to 1Password's service they made it a lot less free and back to paid again.

If you really want to complain... complain about how they keep pushing for their subscription, making it harder and harder to find a one time purchase.

Or their massive issues with multiple browser extensions that are a complete mess for the average person.

Or how their usability has decreased substantially.

Or how they're less a consumer product and more a business product these days.
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You said vaccines haven't undergone preclinical testing; where is the evidence of that? All EUA vaccines have undergone animal tests.
Africa was never a major theater. Landing in the Normandy was in 44 (?). The war was lost in 42.

For starters: http://www.fallen.io/ww2/

Start at 4:45
> Thats just not true though -- it does go through a review but the quality of that review is not remotely consistent.

Still, it's way better than any competing app store for iOS apps in existence!

Well duh, of course I'm being sarcastic. I'm of the opinion that Apple should get all possible roasting for their review process, since they designate themselves as the only gatekeepers in the ecosystem. Even if you can do better... You can't. They won't let you.
Like the article mentioned, there may be long term effects we can't foresee.

Seeing the chaos in the economy and current real estate prices make me concerned that anyone without a home/mortgage in 2020 will be permanently lower class and renting due to inflation.

Free government money for a year is like eating candy. The stomach ache has yet to come.
That’s interesting - those are all sweet. Most peanut butters (except natural) are slightly sweetened, but are often used as the savory counterpart to jams, jellies, and/or honey. I’ve (an American) only ever had Nutella on whitebread or added into a dessert.
>The title is inexact at best, intentionally misleading at worst.

And why should anyone be surprised at this?

The press no longer exists to deliver "the news". They are telling a story. Not necessarily the story, but it is certainly a story. Least common denominator pablum designed for engagement and not edification.

Actually it's always been that way; they just really don't even bother trying to disguise it or pretend any more :p
Tonto is partly an old Moog modular, and partly other modulars, including ARP, etc.

So it's reasonable to guess the Moog bass is from Tonto.
It’s not a question of getting it right, really. I haven’t heard a single uneducated opinion say, “You should not get it because X”. I’ve seen several say, “I will not get it because X”

It’s a subtle, but IMO important distinction. If people wanna rationalize not getting the shot based on their own misunderstanding of the science, that’s fine. That’s okay.

We don’t need universal understanding here for the vaccine to do it’s thing. Let those who want to get it, get it. And those who don’t, to not get it.
I've also made the metaphor of having to learn a silly dance. I'd argue the dance might be superior as dance practice every day will get people physically fit fairly quickly. Healthier employees tend to perform better.
Interesting proposition regarding satellites. I have to wonder, though. What about:

Debris from satellites breaking up, causing a very slow Kessler-type syndrome—over these time scales there will certainly be millions of close encounters with random objects

Kinetic changes from similar gravity perturbations, leading to highly eccentric orbits which then decay into the atmosphere

Solar flares—I imagine in the next few hundred million years we'll get some doozies, with similar kinetic effects

Solar expansion—in about a billion years, the Sun will have expanded enough that liquid water can't exist on Earth's surface anymore. Won't that massively expand the atmosphere and drag satellites down a lot faster, even at geosynchronous orbits?

I can definitely see "millions," but "billions" feels hyperbolic.
"Restructuring" by getting $ from Nvidia for exclusive deal?

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/04/12/mozilla-partners-wi...

$1.5mil to shutdown open source initiative, almost half of CEO salary right there.
Yeah, that's one of the things that, sadly, feels almost surreal these days. Their products are packed with features, they let you keep your old versions, there are discounts for students and loyal customers and open-source projects and even without any discount the prices are very reasonable for such an important part of my workflow.

It's the only subscription where I'd happily attach a "Thank You" note to the money.

I'm just curious -- I don't recall any high-profile dev getting screwed over by JetBrains, was there ever a case like that?
Good call on the dice roll. Spent months prepping for the FB interview and got an engineer who seemed to be having a bad day or was just bored. I knew both problems but they derailed me on whether you can uniquely identify objects in JS with no additional id assigned. I told them you can’t as there’s no pointers or memory addresses in JS. They didn’t believe me and literally spent multiple minutes googling things to prove me wrong. And then rejected me after I still finished the second problem in the 7 minutes remaining. Nevermind they were looking at their phone multiple times during the interview lol

Demoralizing as all hell. Thankfully I had multiple mocks with FB engineers who told me I did great so I know it really was just bad luck that the real phone screen was a dud.
Cook rocks? With that sort of wording, I presume that you’re not aware of medicines or supplements or fortified foods...all of which are routinely consumed by many people around the world and most of which come from different sources, including synthetic sources or through bacterial synthesis.
I would continue with what you’re doing but that’s just my opinion. Try not to worry too much about traction as long as the people who are playing enjoy it and play it consistently.
Do you even understand the volume of apps they deal with? Apple claims 100k a week[0]. How do you propose to handle that?

People are complaining about a small number of bad apps getting through and at the same time we have quite a few stating that not allowing people to load up anything they want is bad. Can you imagine trying to sort through the mess if there was no gate keeper because there is an actual chance if people get their legislative wish list through.

Even if you could get an independent system up and running who is going to pay for it? The staffing is going to be very large and who determines what is a good app and what is not?

I am all for Apple having and managing their store by their rules. While I think it is dumber than all get out to allow for people to install any app they find I am certainly not going to stand in their way as long as the companies which make the phones and provide the software are fully protected from such a choice. After all if a rogue app does something bad who do you think the lawyers will come for?

[0]https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/09/24/app-store-rejecte...
I am not concerned with impossible to predict future events, but all effective vacines[0] will cause cancer in that they prevent people from dying early and so make it more likely they get cancer.

[0] that don't target cancer
As a consumer I prefer Grab over local taxi all day.

No haggling, no bad routes. No overcharging.

The reason uber and grab worked was because these taxi were so bad and rated so low for consumer experience.

Everyone keep talking about taxi people but there are far more consumer who are not getting fleeced everyday.
I did that when I was younger. Highly recommend it if anyone ever has a chance.
Established wealth leverages their outsize influence and power to ensure that new housing for the poors isn't built, so that they can maintain their lush and leafy, exclusive rich person neighbourhoods.

There's literal mansion districts in my major city, where not only is building an apartment illegal, but even building a small detached house is illegal. How on earth did that happen??
> If it is something that's a hundred plus years out then we'll probably need whatever tech develops in the mean time to help

Circular justification of technological development is the reason unfriendly AGI is a threat in the first place (and also the reason we are unlikely to see it realized, imo; the internal combustion engine for instance poses existential risks not only to people but to the possibility of machine intelligence).

Technology is not a monolith, forms can and do preclude other forms