skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's with the assumption here that there aren't humans involved in this decision? The linked post literally quotes Google saying:

"Hi Sun Knudsen, Our team has reviewed your content, and, unfortunately, we think it violates our harmful and dangerous policy."

Google has always had humans in the loop. Not for every decision but certainly the more impactful ones that affect user generated content. When I worked there, there were even humans reviewing requests for account un-suspensions (yes, really! they didn't do a great job though, needless to say).

Also, it's quite hard to understand what sort of algorithm could result in this sort of suspension. What training data would give it hundreds of thousands of examples of infosec discussions labelled as harmful? But it's very easy to see how a large army of low paid humans given vague advice like "don't allow harmful or dangerous content" could decide that linking to hacking information is harmful.

The problem here is not AI. The problem here is Google allowing vague and low quality thinking amongst the ranks of its management, who have decided to give in to political activists who are determined to describe anything they're ideologically opposed to as "harmful", "dangerous", "unsafe" etc. When management give in to those radicals and tell their human and AI moderators to suspend "harmful" content, they inevitably end up capturing all kinds of stuff that isn't political in nature, simply due to the doublespeak nature of the original rules.
Good. But at the same time it should be possible to buy through private channels. So we can circumvent and get rid of the terribly inefficient bureaucrats.
The UK mostly doesn't export its vaccines, because it makes much more sense for them to just set up other factories manufacturing them in other countries. Which is what AZ has done.
Hah, so they're using the remote backdoor to delete the remote backdoor?
Video may be cheap, too: h.264 or WebM are relatively low cost on even reasonably modern devices.
Love the feel of the site. Curious about the tech stack used and as others pointed out, images attribution. Nice work!
they'll say it's because of privacy though, because it makes Apple fans feel better about it.
I think WASM is also good at hiding the source code? which is the main reason why I don't like it...
I wouldn't say the west is in decline in absolute terms though maybe in relative power as the likes of China get richer. Against that the culture of 'the west' is I think spreading to more counties. Places like Japan have long been western allies and I think a lot of countries wouldn't be very taken with the Chinese system.
As far as I can tell nobody but you is using the phrase 'obviously good' for that particular claim and is simply the case of a specific study being touted and then turning out it has flaws which does happen all the time and isn't what we were talking about.
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Does anyone know if there's ever been a compiler which completely ignores the programmer's function boundaries and rediscovers sensible compilation units from scratch itself? Rather than starting with the user's function boundaries and inlining and outlining a bit around that?

I suppose tracing is a bit like this, but I've only seen that done dynamically.
Hilarious because that site has some sort of shitty scrolling mechanism which prevents me from reading it.
The outrage pieces are only a slice of things that engage people. People can be engaged by things that amuse and entertain, things that inform, as well and those kinds of things make their way to trending frequently.

Twitter feels more like a multi faceted vehicle, where cancel culture and outrage culture are well represented pieces of the bigger media machine.
My solution is tmux. I’m using white status line with C-z prefix on localhost, and green status line with prefix M-z on servers. This way I can reuse my finger memory, be equally productive on macOS, local Linux, remote Linux.
It's completely normal. Companies don't want to train. You can even see this in the discrepancy between how many senior level roles are posted vs the low number of junior/intermediate roles posted. They want experts, but there's no real source for creating them since nobody provides that growth/feeder environment.

"one year of experience five times over"

I sort of have this too. I did become the guy with 5 years experience at one point. They decided not to promote me (I'm intermediate and was acting tech lead) and violated some policies to my detriment. Then they outsourced me and my team. Two years later, they shipped that entire sub-org over to another company they are "partnering" with. So I guess I'm trying to say that the industry can screw you whether you have 5 years experience or 5 single years of experience.
Another case of a lie--or misunderstanding due to reposting clickbait without engaging critical thinking--circumnavigating the globe at internet speed while the truth is still putting on its pants.
> His decision to sue Leong was one that he had arrived at after consultation with his lawyer

That speaks volumes. "I am probably corrupt, but definitely too lazy to chase the original source, because a) it will cost more, and b) I'm corrupt probably corrupt and the article is speaks the truth". I believe that the "b)" is more likely (let's see if he will sue me!!)

On the other hand, this politician doesn't care if a random guy in the UK has a negative and correct opinion of him, he cares that his people sit down and shut up while he goes about his (corrupt) business.

Another point towards this direction is that.. politicians usually sue somebody that defamed them, and then DONATE the proceeds to charities. Not this one I guess..
Do I understand this right, DSM v7 intends to take away root access in some way? Ugh.

Another negative to add to the list. For me Synology has mostly been a disappointment, I'm sorry to say. Seems their software has been generally in decline for a while. DSMv7 was delayed over a year ago [1], and now they don't expect to ship until summer 2021. v7 doesn't seem to bring anything interesting to the table IMO, and now they want to take away root? Meanwhile the only thing I saw from v6 updates was a request for spying/telemetry [2]. Wanted to like Syno but it's too locked down, too expensive, too annoying.

My position [3] hasn't changed from last year - I don't see myself buying a Syno product again, nor recommending them to most of my technical friends.

[1] https://www.snbforums.com/threads/dsm-7-preview-delayed-unti...

[2] https://imgur.com/a/Yzgw7hq

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23738360
Federation is the answer at scale.

You need dictatorship for effective moderation. But you also want those dictatorships small, uniform, and interchangeable so that the "citizens" of those dictatorships can easily pick the one that suits them best. Those dictatorships link up (federate) with like-minded dictatorships to benefit from network effects of sharing their content among themselves.

If your content doesn't suit a certain dictatorship, it will suit another one.

PeerTube does federated video already. No, it's not as polished as YouTube. But it is the answer to human-level moderation at scale.
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I don’t think we can get much from this study as it is specific to the tweets about the controversial referendum (the negative tweets were mainstream) in Spain for Catalan independence:

Dr Esmeralda Bon, a research associate from the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research at the University of Manchester, said the study results should not be taken to mean that there was more value in being negative than positive on social media.

“The researchers suggest that positive tweets were shared less due to the negativity surrounding the referendum. Therefore, these tweets would have resonated more. In a sense, negative tweets about this topic were mainstream,” she said.
I can relate to this. Without medication I don't have any motivation to do ANYTHING, and that quickly leads to depression. My doctor recommended that I don't medicate on weekends, but what about my personal life? I have things I need to get done at home. My wife likes to with me and my executive functions, too.
You don’t have to work 80h’s though. Many employees waffle around so much that you can get the same work done in an hour or two of distraction-free, meeting-free, daydream-free grafting.

I agree with point 2.

Point 3 may be valid, but have you ever worked for a real idiot?

Point 4: remember that an IQ of 100 makes you smarter than roughly half the population. If you can string two formulae together in Excel, you’re probably ahead of the game. That may be a little cynical but my point stands.
wouldn't that be more reason for nation states to track monero?
If testing is frequent and widespread enough, eradication or near-eradication will result.

PrEP is a good thing because people who are on PrEP can be required to test frequently as a condition to obtain new medication (not sure if that happens in the US, but it does elsewhere).
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You probably already are, via location tracking. Two matches’ phones reading the same wifi access point all night suggests an extremely limited set of implications.
This is probably a net positive for national security... but I still don't like it. I don't want the FBI doing anything to my computer without my permission.
A good heuristic for how big/rare of a problem would be to try to find another instance of NIAID publicly scolding a company seeking approval. Doesn't happen.
On my own mailserver with spamassassin, I had my very first false positive in years just yesterday. It seemed that however the organisation emailing me does it, they're using mail hosts on blocklists.
But Tech also enjoys the benefits of this. You make a product once, sell it thousands of times. Or allow thousands/millions of people access without much overhead. I'm simplifying here of course, but compared to e.g. a machine which you have to produce new for each customer I think we are in a very good situation. And with that advantage comes a price tech should be forced to pay.
That will leak back information about whether someone has your number in their contact list.

But a spam folder should work.
Yeah, but which institutions would design such exams? CS degrees aren't ideal but at least they're designed by people who have CS training and are programmers. If a government decided to set such an exam it'd probably end up requiring some sort of certification in enterprise .NET development.
Do you people really like such music?

I admit these backgrounds require a bit of effort to make. But what's the point? To use it as a screensaver?
There’s plenty of room for idiotic behavior within the broad category of consensual sex.
As usual, advocating for personal freedom gets you downvoted. It's such a funny pattern.
The Yamauchi reminds me of Bruno Simon's personal site (https://bruno-simon.com/), who coincidentally has a (paid) Three.js course (https://threejs-journey.xyz/). Might interesting for people interested it learning how to make these kinds of things.
throwaway for obvious reasons...

meth seems to be the catalyst for the bad behavior done either recreationally (orgies) or while in bad situations arising from a cluster of root causes. I'm only going to address the latter:

the article mentions homeless women who trade sex for shelter. My sister is literally trying to be homeless right now. She has serious mental issues and can't live with anyone for long before she ruins their life and gets kicked out. this is a 20-year-long pattern. She even has access to therapy and shelter, but doesn't accept it. she has adhd and is probably somewhat spectral. she has a very narrow idea of how she wants to live her life: get an easy part-time job, live alone, and pay low rent. But this is not easy when she also freaks out on people, accusing them of abuse, physically assaulting them, etc. So she sometimes starts relationships with people to get access to shelter for short periods. Who knows what she's compromising on behind those closed doors. Could be unprotected sex and offers of drugs. I know for sure pot, alcohol, and cigarettes, but how much farther does it go? I know she's experiment with cocaine and psychedelics. Our family is devastated by all of this, has no idea what to do next, having taking advice from many caring friends, health professionals, etc.

So it's not just one root cause, there are numerous issues of economics, shelter, mental illness, biology, personal responsibility, modernity, inequality, alcoholic parents, realistic expectations and so on that all build on each other creating a "strange attractor," or quite a simply, a "drain."

When our species/culture was all outdoors anyway, I think crazy people like her used to fit in on the fringes. Raising a child had lots of beneficial influence from different types of people instead of just one alcoholic parent like in our case, or lots of phony impressions from self-filtered social media and brain-wave-engineered advertisements. Inequality in native tribes wasn't as extreme and we didn't have "rich kids" in class to compare ourselves to. Once daily living required keeping track of lots of things, like money, and sustaining professional relationships, the fringes of living got narrow and harsh. Then, when having an acceptable online life got added: passwords, service payments, visible resume, working phone, with charge locations, even more people fell through the cracks. They're the ones you seen in tents, in the woods, on the streets. And there is no easy solution... Fix half of the factors I listed above and the rest of the pattern will persist. This doesn't even address how many of these people end up in jail. If there's anything we can do, it's to find small ways to make "traditional life" a little easier for people who can't handle all of this.
> It's also about the level of tax they will have to pay going forward, which appears to be stupendously height (at least for freelancers). It appears on par with, or even higher than, what people with regular employment often pay,

That's not true either.

Proposed changes (not accepted by the protesters) are to consider 43% of income as non-taxable personal deductions (up from 20% in the existing law, though actual, receipt-backed deductions for performance of work are accepted), and then pay the regular tax percentages that employees pay, except that Serbian law splits the employer and employee obligations for employees, but charges the sum total of those tax rates in percentage points to freelancers (eg. see the numbers on https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/serbia/individual/other-taxes — so freelancers would pay 25.5% of the taxable income into the pension fund).

A total cost of a single employee for an employer is considered a gross contractual salary (out of which employee taxes are paid from the link above) + employer taxes on top. So because of the slightly lower "base" calculations are done on, actual percentages are slightly lower for employees, but it was basically negated with the 20% deduction. With a 43% deduction, freelancers get to pay fewer taxes than state gets for a single employee for the same net salary.

Eg. if a freelancer ends up with 100k RSD after all taxes, state gets 36k RSD in total taxes: 36k out of 136k gross is not "stupendous" at all! An employee receiving a net 100k RSD salary, state gets around 66k RSD in taxes.
If existing law was upheld, it would be around 60k RSD for freelancers (iow, much closer to what employees are paid for).
Yes. It's of course a perfectly valid (and widely-used) model to pay for hosting. But, by and large, only "serious" users who probably otherwise have a business model will do so. And there will inevitably be far less content on the platform.

On the one hand, I think it's sort of unfortunate that so much of the Web has come to be about "free" access (though paying for access with attention and time) but that does come from the perspective of someone who would be able and happy to pay with money instead.
That’s interesting. It may be the case that sexual activity is decreasing per capita but unprotected casual sex with distant strangers is increasing as a percentage of all sexual activity.

I wonder if the decrease in male sexual activity is associated with the observed decrease in male testosterone levels (and sperm counts): https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59fcc5fbe4b0d467d4c224b3
No, they are not. /s
Seems like it'd be dipping into HIPAA territory at that point.
This is actually compatible with what I was saying. The ie team was building a decent product. If it was being sold, it would have been a healthy competitor in the field. Instead, the company pushed it for free to basically burn the market.
> How do you distinguish between dishonesty and honesty? Who gets to determine that?

There are two types of communities, in my opinion. ...and most, like HN, fall somewhere in the middle.

There's the community that's open to all, doesn't censor anything, and is flooded with low-quality or manipulated content.

Then there are the communities that are private. They have groups of mature people who DO appreciate different opinions, and are able to engage in constructive discourse. Obviously dishonest content, as judged by older accounts or mods, are removed. Ideally older or high-reputation accounts have greater voting weight.

The danger in the latter is that the community loses the diversity of thought if those top accounts misuse their power to direct a narrative, but as these private communities are numerous - participants can simply leave. You could even make the argument that they could be paid communities, if the quality and analysis of the community is high. For example, I pay to belong to the Arms Control Wonk Discord channel because that community provides detailed analysis on international events on WMDs/conflicts that you cannot find elsewhere. It is low on advocacy, and high on analysis.

HN is in the middle. They ban poor quality accounts, but it's still a free and open forum. For now it works, but as it becomes more popular, I've noticed a decline in content quality and an increase in advocacy.
> Don't subsidize drugs/vaccines that don't work.

Why not? Funding vaccine research seems a worthy endeavor even if some of the research doesn’t pan out. The end result doesn’t need to be an immediately usable vaccine in order for the time & money spent to be worthwhile. Even a completely failed vaccine project could yield a piece of information that helps ensure the next project doesn’t fail.
> Look at the first GIF in the article, the one showing the room.

How do you know which of those two pictures is the FOVO one?
People star these lists because it's a way of bookmarking them for later reference. If I had only 5$ to spare I'd rather donate them to one of the authors of the actual projects.
I'll carry two BTC, you carry $120k USD, we'll see who gets to the finish line first!
In what maner are they "hunting" some person who is use only on ocasion in locations not fixed? I think these rule are wrong. Some person who is putting up jammer with a range extent only for his propertey should not be in criming.
Was too long ago to remember, but bind was one of my areas of focus back then so maybe?
> Why exactly? My set-up is working well

congratulations I am very happy for you!

The issue is not speed, its the USB disks. firstly you are reliant on the disks presenting themselves in the same order at the same time. (historically that was challenging) ZFS can cope with this quite well, MDADM, not so much.

You can use device IDs, which gives better results. Another issue I've bumped into is that mdadm has come up before the USB disk is initialised, causing all sorts of issues. in short raid over USB is just plain fragile.

> Raid isn't going to help you here, you need redundant nodes.

This setup will have four common failure modes:

o power issue leading to corrupt "/" or any other SD card failure

o usb disk breaking

o OS crash borking everything

o Accidental deletion

Raid might protect against a usbdisk breaking, assuming you spot it in time (most people don't have monitoring.) its not even going to give you a performance boost either, its USB3.

This is why n+1 is better. assuming you're not keeping each node next to each other then you are much less likely to experience a simultaneous outage.
The EU Commission has just started negotiations with BioNTech-Pfizer for 1.8 billion additional vaccine doses in 2021-2023: https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1382306561008230400

They're simply betting on mRNA only, so AstraZeneca and J&J won't be needed anymore.
Many people and groups offered to unlock the phone, even for free as a PR stunt. Even Mcafee:

https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-ill-decrypt-san-...
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Lots of interesting details in this article, including:

- Apple unwittingly tried to hire David Wang, the creator of the exploit

- Wang instead went on in 2017 to co-found Corellium, a company specializing in providing "virtual" iPhones for security testing.

- Apple sued Corellium in 2019 for copyright violation. The discovery process turned up Wang and his work on the San Bernadino exploit.

This is how the article describes the exploit:

> Azimuth specialized in finding significant vulnerabilities. Dowd, a former IBM X-Force researcher whom one peer called “the Mozart of exploit design,” had found one in open-source code from Mozilla that Apple used to permit accessories to be plugged into an iPhone’s lightning port, according to the person...

> Using the flaw Dowd found, Wang, based in Portland, created an exploit that enabled initial access to the phone — a foot in the door. Then he hitched it to another exploit that permitted greater maneuverability, according to the people. And then he linked that to a final exploit that another Azimuth researcher had already created for iPhones, giving him full control over the phone’s core processor — the brains of the device. From there, he wrote software that rapidly tried all combinations of the passcode, bypassing other features, such as the one that erased data after 10 incorrect tries.
Signal intends to use a cryptocurrency called Mobilecoin, not Bitcoin.
Do you mean Apps on your phone relying on SMS?
If Covid becomes a seasonal thing (very possible), we will need more efficient treatments, too. For everyone who cannot either get the vaccine at all or didn't manage to get the booster shot on time.

Fortunately it seems lately that some treatments do provide relief to people who are already sick:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00650-7

https://www.dw.com/en/asthma-drug-brings-hope-for-covid-19-t...
I recommend taking a look at 'Learn Datalog Today'[0] first. Although it's just Datalog (in S-expression form) which is a subset of Prolog but makes people get the gist of it very quickly.

For Prolog me too wondering if there's a great source. But I have read 'the Reasoned Schemer', it used a simple Scheme-based logical programming language for teaching purposes and it's very educative and entertaining.

[0] http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/
They also had to source parts, manufacture it, transport it via boat and train, then pay someone to show me through all the buttons, clean it and then offer service at least once every year.

Besides that they also provide 24 hour support for breakdowns and plenty of other services.

And at best, they made 10% (!!) gross margin on my car - which is of a range of 2500$. Meanwhile Google has 45-60% (!!) profit margins while not giving a crap.
Well it's not like I know a hundred lofi songs by heart or subscribe to lofi news but it serves as a nice background when I'm working alone in my apartment.
I think that was the point of ReptileMan. I found their post to contain sarcasm, but it might not have reached everyone.
What a bunch of retards you are :)