skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is truth in this comment.

Parts of the Russian government have reverted to using mechanical typewriters in lieu of computers, which are too susceptible to malicious hacking.

Also, the US Navy started instructing enlisted seamen how to navigate at sea by the stars, in case GPS stops working.
I think part of the thing that makes this more difficult is that some people already have practically no risk of suffering health consequences from COVID-19, and possibly (but also possibly not) do risk suffering health consequences from the vaccination.
> ... is amazing.

Amazing because so far the big attacks have come from what the western powers consider the good guys. The day North Korean hackers leave Seoul without power or Iranian hackers fuck a reactor in France people will scream bloody murder.
Sure, maybe don't delay it in hotspots then. Or send my state's allocation of J&J to Michigan for the next couple weeks.
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> I’m not a beta tester, but cryptocurrency is the worst

100% this. I'm not a beta tester, but I am a signal user. I reeeally don't want to have to hedge my recommendation of signal because it's involved with some cryptocurrency BS. Please, just be a chat app.
I've consulted with quite a few companies on their interview process. Almost all of them had adopted Leetcode style interviews. My first question to the team always is: what exactly are you evaluating when you interview someone?

And I rarely get an answer that makes sense. Instead I get mostly rationalizations for Leetcode. The thing is I recognize those rationalizations because I was certainly guilty of it in the past ("We're evaluating intellectual curiosity" is one I cringe at now).

The real problem from my perspective is that most teams have never taken the time to really think about and identify the underlying principles about how they want to work. We go through a process of defining those principles and all of a sudden the interview gets a lot clearer. Do you value the highest quality code? Do you value getting things into the world quickly and then iterate towards the final solution? Is security always at the front of your mind?

Getting really specific about what exactly being "excellent" means to a team is really critical.

Because then you can design an interview process that actually selects for those things. I've never had a team define "the ability to solve leetcode problems under pressure quickly" as an endpoint they actually care about. Some teams continue to use leetcode, but only as a small part of the process with problems that ARE actually directed at what they care about. Having been through a bunch of interviews in my 25 year career I instantly know when a team has actually done the work to design a good interview process (which has been far too rare in my experience).
I'll not be using this cryptocurrency, but whether I continue to use Signal seems to be down to how much effort I have to put into trying to explain away the apparent conflicts of interest here. They certainly don't seem to be putting any effort in. "hey, relax, guy!" is not an explanation. They seem to be happily spending the Foundation's credibility on this though, so I guess the clock has started.
The youth unemployment rate in Iran is ~25%, overall rate is 10%. They issue their own fiat currency, and their GDP per capita is comparable to Thailand and Botswana.

So yes, they can probably afford to have a bunch of people tweak knobs in a factory all day.
People's insistence at bringing up Telegram as an alternative to Signal seems to be as incoherent as bringing up Go on a Rust thread. Their similarities end after the level-0 description as "recently-ish released messaging app / programming language". Telegram's requiring users to opt-in to encrypted messaging on a per-thread basis does not enable claiming feature parity with Signal's always-encrypted threads.
There are very few meaning of word diverse that HN conforms to. Education, profession, gender, hobbies, location, all tend to be from one cluster.
> no electron based client

The "Element" branded desktop apps are actually based on Electron, but since the underlying Matrix protocol is open, there are a plethora of fully native third party clients in varying stages of development.
Was considering Figma for a new project. But now that it doesn't have any version history, don't think will try it
We’ve given the mRNA vaccines to enough people to be highly confident that your fears are ungrounded. The mRNA doesn’t linger more than a few hours. People received the vaccine a year ago.
Does anyone have experience with their cheaper Alcantara fabric finish?
It's a common joke interview question. I don't think anyone has acutally asked it?

I find high end jobs tend to ask some form of problem that can be tackled using dynamic programming techniques. Maybe couple of easier ones in the first interview.

I agree with most people. I never use these skills in the job. I think they're a intelligence test in disguise.
I’m in the crypto field and no, it’s not laughable, it makes sense to me. Very few cryptocurrencies are good at targeting mobile users unfortunately. I think both Celo and Diem have good chances due to the fact that you can prove everything pretty easily to the client (and Celo does it with recursive zero knowledge proofs) but they are not privacy coins.
> "where's the money coming from"

I'm not sure if I understood it correctly, but isn't a major selling point of cryptocurrencies is the anonymity/untraceability?
Agreed, this is Taco Bell's crowning achievement of the last decade.
Most password managers support auth with touchid/face id these days, I believe.

The value prop if you're 100% on-Apple, and OK with this fact, is hard to challenge. If you have some non-apple devices that need passwords, that's where having a third-party password service makes sense.

FWIW, I use `pass`, as a mostly-Apple person who also owns a few linux devices and occasionally requires passwords while `ssh`'d into servers.
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Screaming off the mountain tops is not the act of a good solid person that is trying to make meaningful change. Not to mention they asked her to take her name off (bad) but if she was interested in change rather than her own personal interests it was not a huge sacrifice. She was already given a position at one of the largest companies in the world for AI to try to make meaningful change. Instead she chose to make a spectacle.

Gebru has not been forthcoming with information about what exactly she did in this situation behind the scenes. She has privacy and HR laws protecting her in ways Google does not. It is up to her to release the information and she has not.
How are they not?

It's technology innovations in food rather than electronics, but it's still technology innovations that are based around disrupting the existing industry.
Here is the chain of logic:

1. First assume independence, that CVST is unrelated to vaccination.

2. Take any two weeks, you can calculate the expected cases using population background rate because we assume independence.

3. The number is around 1 using Wikipedia data.

4. The observed case number 6 greatly exceeds the expected number based on independence assumption.

5. We conclude that with high probability that our independence assumption is wrong, i.e. there's correlation with high confidence.
> because of the better privacy stuff

I don't think Apple is meaningfully better than Google in terms of privacy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261.

If you want a private phone, you should consider something else.
Release notes: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/
LOL, Apple announces its event: windows launch team: "shit post the blog post now!"
My understanding is that Iran needs high performance centrifuges to enrich Uranium as they do not have an abundance of the stuff, unlike the Manhattan Project. They were able to pile up 50 tons of uranium and light up a lightbulb while other experiments were carried out in parallel to enrich uranium and synthesize plutonium.
This is a really, really well-written piece. Thank you for this.

We need MORE thoughtful pieces like this.

I am flabbergasted to see [flagged] on this post.
Why isn't this banned and wiped from the existence like Telegram's TON? How is MobileCoin different from TON?
Hey thanks for this. I have the sources next to each. Just click the link in the bottom left corner. Let me know if you don't think they're accurate after having a look.

I took the driving risk as being 250 miles of driving with an average 50mph speed (The risk of dying must be higher at high speed so wanted to take a high average to be fair).
Peanuts and beer is almost as good as pizza and beer.

In Texas, there was a bar with unshelled spicy peanuts in an oak barrel where the peanut shells were thrown on the floor. I believe there are still bars and BBQ restaurants that do this.
"but because we can learn a lot about a person's true personality when they are under pressure"

Do you have a source for this? I can't help but think about the person in this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlCEmPF4-V0. You think you can learn much about her from that interaction?
> At least Microsoft has courage.

I see what you did there: https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12838024/apple-iphone-7-pl...
A friend of mine did her page with Wix, and asked me to help her out because she was having some issues. Oh boy. I'm all for letting people build simple things without having to pay for developers, but they give the users a bunch of "blocks" that are turns out really difficult for them to use. She tried to build a bunch of carousels and lightboxes and the outcome was fairly comical. tl;dr Wix left a really poor impression on me.
>One nuke and Israel will just be gone, completely. Iran is probably capable of this, or close.

It's not clear that they could actually deliver a nuclear weapon, of course. And certainly not all the way to America.
The fiction-to-reality pipeline is getting scary fast!

I'm with you on all of the things except for flying cars. I don't want some drunk driver(pilot?) flying over my house, but I want to be able to land at home. There are twice as many regulatory issues as tech challenges in my book.
Amazon introduced the notion of a “bar raiser” who expects a candidate to be stronger than 50% of the staff. It’s sort of appealing, but if your attrition is unbiased (you lose equal numbers of strong and weak staff) the right edge of the bell curve seems too small to keep up with it.
Ok cool. But what's the advantage? I used to develop for WordPress using Docker for a while but eventually I got back to the good ol' local running web server, it's just way more dynamic and less mess.
If much of the world wants you dead (your words, not mine) then maybe it's time to look in a mirror.

Edit:
HN commenters are so thick. First of all GP says everyone hate Israel. So that must include you the reader of this comment. If you actually take that shit serious and then have a problem with my comment instead all I can say is that you should look in a mirror too. It's a fat lie. Not everyone hates Israel. Actually most on HN loves Israel and always heavily upvote pro-israel stories.
I think you are saying that if you uninstall/reinstall, you could lose your subscription since it's from a consumable IAP. I agree that is a bad flow and something that Apple could fix by still allowing non-renewing subscriptions, and then changing how the free trial works by not triggering a payment automatically after the free trial. Basically, you should only be charged as a result of a user action, and it would go through the same IAP flow that people do not just blindly tap through.
I wonder if, as a result, we will have as many thoughtful and interesting conversations with strangers on the internet as we do in real life.
Now I only read his part of the story, but I must say that I just can't stand SJWs. They're the ones suppressing people and being racist. For treating the supposedly suppressed as people who can't stand for themselves and need someone to stand up for them, they do it themselves.

He's got a point, the SJW movement must be stopped, if employers want top talent, fire the people who mob on twitter like this, they're inhibiting great people with flaws from existing, ruining peoples lives so that they can have their short adrenaline infused dopamine kicks.

Be gone SWJs, in all honesty noone wants you, people are just afraid to stand up against you in the same way Chinese and Russians don't stand up against their governments. We didn't elect you to be the moral police. You've got a monopoly on "Internet violence", if the cops acted like you are you would be protesting, but now you're on the side of power enjoying yourselves.

Kudos to this guy for standing up against them, I'm buying that book in support, the least I can do.
Wow, that's incredibly raciest.
The Wix documentation is pretty clear that you can't export your site.

https://support.wix.com/en/article/exporting-or-embedding-yo...

> Your Wix site and its technology is hosted on Wix's servers. You can connect a domain to your Wix site and host the domain with another provider, however, your Wix site must remain hosted on Wix's servers.

They then go on to say that the reason you can't export is due to the nature of SaaS, which is just hogwash. It's a lock-in decision they made, which many of their competitors (E.g Squarespace, Webflow) did not make.
cool but who asked?
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In a recent informal pointing session I suggested we attach a volatility score in addition to a point score to tickets related to an ongoing project.

The goal being, by including a point estimation AND volatility score, we are able to create much better signals for unknown unknowns.

A ticket pointed at a 3 with a volatility of 5 (volatility being 1-5) indicates that this should be an easy ticket but might require a much deeper amount of work for unknown unknowns.

I got this idea after learning about options where price is partly a factor of a security's volatility and thought it would also be an interesting way of modeling tickets.
Even outside the solar system there are still some particles about, most of which are moving at high velocities.

At a minimum, I would expect it to look quite thoroughly sandblasted after 16 million years.
In all of the previous discussions, josh2600 has very pointedly avoided answering the question of what financial interest Moxie has in the MobileCoin companies. He's only said that Moxie doesn't personally own any of the currency, without saying whether he has any financial interest in the company that owns most of the coins. This does not engender trust.
wat? Is this sarc? The guy just posted:

> "y u so mad?"

at some nonsense that his marketing team instigated.
IE6 was just a practice run
I did not see Mullenweg's resopnse but the letter reads like half motivation is to cast Mullenweg as the bad guy in the conversation because he got angry. I have no respect for that kind of behavior.
Very similar to the cost we would incur of avoiding driving due to how many it kills constantly. The benefits of accepting the risk outweigh the risk itself.

I believe I can stick to this well enough with the official numbers of deaths, but the truth is I am extremely skeptical of the legitimacy of those numbers considering how deaths get reported, in some cases with decapitations in motor accidents being included in the count because they had covid when it happened, as well as the funding incentives hospitals have to exaggerate their claims of patients dieing of covid. No I'm not claiming some conspiracy theory here, I mean, I think it is a conspiracy but not a deliberate one, its mostly everyone trying to do the right thing, it makes sense to divert more funds to hospitals dealing with a new deadly pandemic, but that also unfortunately creates an incentive to exaggerate to get more funds. Not some sinister plan, just the result of people behaving as people do.
Nobody. But that shouldn't be a reason to not do things because a lot of times people don't even know what to ask for.
How would the security model work with side loaded apps. How would they get access to OS resources, services and share data with other apps, e.g through the clipboard? Who would verify them against malware, or ensure they didn’t violate security constraints? It’s not like Apple could disavow all responsibility for any data leaked from the system, a lot of users simply wouldn’t see it that way.

There’s a lot wrong with the current state of apps in the App Store, but right now at least I know who’s job it is to get it fixed.
finally? imaging a silicon chip has never been a problem and home-build STMs are not needed.
What does "targeting mobile users" mean in the context of a currency? My bank doesn't "target mobile users" when it chose to offer interac payments.
Don’t use telegram, use whatsapp or signal
such an activity would also be a lot harder to hide today with eyes in space capturing everything in high-res
> it appears the facility’s main power distribution equipment was taken out with explosives

How do the Israelis keep managing to get explosives into Natanz? They blew up a hall last July. I would have thought everyone entering the premises goes through a body scanner like an airport to make sure you're not carrying bombs, spy cameras, etc.
Read ArXiv papers in dark mode
Just replace 'org.' with '.black' on the Arxiv URL and enjoy dark mode.
It's only under control, I think, because it's very specific in terms of content. The weakness many social networks have is that it's basically an open platform for any discussion, and that makes it harder to put boundaries around. It makes sense to heavily restrict subject matters on sites with specialized content but general social networks are still facing the issues mentioned in the article, IMHO.
Element/Matrix doesn't have this problem.
I knew someone with plans to protest traffic ticket cameras by aiming a directional photocell at the flash and wiring it to activate a laser aimed at the camera for a few seconds. I wonder if they ever got around to it.
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Biology doesn't work like that. Certainly not for replication-deficient adenoviruses used by AZ, Gamaleya and J&J.
I dont want to get racial but who cares what skin or gender you are if you're coding
I was alluding to the near-universal requirement of a college degree, and to the importance of social skills that most engineers frankly lack. Maybe not exactly what the parent comment was referring to.
Thanks for checking. Much appreciated.

Yeah I banked too much on Cloudflare... I've ramped up its dyno a bit now too. Hopefully that'll keep it up!
Let's be honest though, had Iran carried out such attack we would have called it a terrorist attack.
I know you're about to go on about how awful Iranian regime is and they SAY they want Israel gone. But remember, Israel actually DOES carry out associations.
Elaborate on what you think they should see in the mirror.
Trolling HN like this will get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I also like how he gets defensive about the GPL violation:

> its not even your code!

Talk about missing the fucking point...
That’s the normal way lexers work, given “tight” token definitions. They continue adding to the current token until an invalid (for the current token type) character is reached, and then begin parsing a new token starting with the “invalid” (but now valid for the next token) character (or the next non-whitespace character).

“1or2” is lexed into “1” (integer) followed by “or2” (identifier), which is valid on the lexer level but then fails on the grammar level.
The point is that these are third party tools. If Wix actually cared about their user experience, they would allow exporting of account content.
Say what you will, but being able to smuggle a bomb into a heavily fortified military installation is pro. I'd give a lot for a peek at that world: the planning, the logistics, the people. They probably have one of the most sophisticated spy networks in the world.
So who takes responsibility when one of these attacks results in a meltdown?

And why does Iran not have the right to build their own atomic bomb when the US, Russia or China have them and are building new ones?

We ALL should be reducing nuclear weapons including the US. But sadly the US has not been taking a leadership role recently

Edit: Nice to see that my global nuclear disarmament comment is getting downvoted. /s
Yeap. In the US, there's been commercial of natural kinds and grocery store PB peanut grinders for decades. Could grind it at home too.

My grandparents used to make their own beef hamburger from sirloin beef and trimmings because the junk in regular hamburger, even from an excellent Italian-American supermarket's butcher counter, was disgusting, to say the least.
But is it really "human nature"? Go back a few centuries, and everything belonged to a monarchy, and by everything, I mean even your life and your family. Were people unhappy "because of it"? For the vast majority of humans, I doubt it. They had just learned not to compare themselves with the king.

For something to be human nature, I think it needs more time. And if peasants knew that comparing themselves to the king just does not make sense, maybe we can learn to have the same attitude towards Jeff Bezos.
flash did
plugging envwarden[0] which is just a tiny open source wrapper around the Bitwarden CLI to let you manage your server secrets inside your password manager.

[0] https://github.com/envwarden/envwarden
> "it wasn't even yours in the first place!"
This forced integration is the worst decision Signal ever made (assuming they're sincere in their attempt to remove phone numbers as IDs).

If we really need a payment system, why not use GNU Taler? It's not a coin but just a distributed way to move real currencies around. Also, it does not run afoul or taxing and does not allow pump and dump or price speculation. (maybe this question just became rhetoric)
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Just to elaborate, it short circuits, so x need not be defined.

[sielicki@dogfruit ~]$ python3.10 -c 'print(0xf or some_undefined_variable in some_undefined_set)'
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Wouldn't this depend on how the ratio is achieved?

For example, with 16:9 → 16:10, you're often just gaining some vertical pixels (like 1920x1080 vs 1920x1200), so everything that was comfortable on 16:9 is equally workable on 16:10.
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Isn't that still a huge conflict of interest? As a key person of a foundation he should not be charging a private advisor fee from a company whose products the foundation plans to promote in the future. That seems like an excellent (and immoral) way to use a foundation enrich yourself.
I agree all systems should have better support for autocompletion so that users configure address only once for device, not for each service. Not only is this more private, it is also more convenient. Alas, until support is in place, remembering address is significantly more convenient for users.