skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who will interpret what is meant by "service provider"? If it is just a data seller who buys it without receiving it in the course of providing a service to the first company, is it covered? Will it require a ruling to know for sure?
> The only frustrating thing is how clearly it's been highlighted that the rich and powerful countries get all the vaccines and we'll only get them here once everyone in the west has been vaccinated three times over.

Shouldn't countries that developed vaccines should take care of their citizens first?
> That's not to say that Wikipedia doesn't have it's issues, it has them, but jumping from there to something that could very well be described as a conspiracy theory, is reaching a bit much.

You jumped to conspiracy theory. You said all. I did not. The editors simply have a bias that affects how they accept and offer contributions. These biases show especially in politically charged topics and you have to identify and check them, often they are factually wrong or misleading. I did not say all articles have this bias, but it is prevalent and makes Wikipedia unusable for any political research, unless you scrutinize all sources and do additional source finding that Wikipedia omitted on purpose because it didn't align with it's viewpoints.

There are niche wikis, but Conservapedia exists to counter Wikipedia's bias on certain topics. They have a page I linked to which lists a lot of these biases, but it's barely an exhaustive list. You can find instances like these on nearly every political page.

This is not some unfounded conspiracy theory as you suggest, Harvard has done a study on this as well as other institutions.

Studies:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Coverage-bias-on-Wikip...

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/17-028_e7788722-...

http://wikipediocracy.com/2018/08/26/wikipedia-sources-metho...

http://archive.is/dDr7X

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/

Another example:

https://medium.com/@MainstreamWatc2/blatant-liberal-bias-on-...
I agree, and what I've been chalking up ideas for is a set of 'bouncer-bots' - that people can employ - maybe a browser extension may part of the platform if that platform choosing to add 'filter by bouncer bots - list saved in account' or something.

This way you can have different filtering for different people - and the bots would be open and forkable - public discussion about them open - like the adblock lists maybe?

people would likely make easy choices - take the popular pg-13 bot - but you could clone it and remove keywords or top level urls from it to open up certain subjects that others might want buried.

More on this idea - open to other's thoughts to hone it - need to blog it instead of commenting about it when these things come up I guess, to be more thorough and collate comments for ideas to enhance.
No one mines specifically to make heat, they get heat as a bonus from computing in cold climates, which was always true. If we're going to do that, I propose we heat our houses with seti@home or folding@home. It would be more useful.
Neither can the government, there are laws against that. If you argue that they can ignore the law since they are politicians, then what use are laws stating that the government can't keep your private information?
Also, aren't IRBs normally mostly focused on the ethical implications for immediate subjects? Like, obviously if you have human test subjects, the ethics for those participants are considered. But the ethical issue in this research is not about the project maintainers that are directly involved, but about the downstream users who are impacted. It's more difficult to have a process to review/approve impacts of this sort, because they're typically not observable.
> We have a number of folks who are absolutely freaking out over how folks are being killed because of this

I can totally see that happening:

Person X suspects their partner is cheating on them with Person Y. So they start logging every time their partner is online and every time Person Y is online. Person X becomes obsessed with this theory of cheating and discovers a correlation between their online times, concluding that they're being cheated on, so they explode in rage and go kill their partner.
:-) I think the cats need the lecture more than I do. Seriously though, the scientific community seems to be split on the subject. Cats clearly prefer outside for approx. half of the time, the other half eating and sleeping at home. I own a house with huge garden, doors are open, cats are where they want to be.
If the university was doing research then they should publish their findings on this most recent follow up experiment.

Suggested title:

“Linux Kernel developers found to reject nonsense patches from known bad actors”
Culture Building Lessons from Lambda School and InVision's Chief People Officer
Masks aren't draconian though, and they're cheap and easy to use. They also cause little issues for the vast majority of adults. They could be the #1 life saver out there, if people only used them.
yeah, but what about two helmets?
We need radically more light on the activities of legislators. Sunlight cleanses all.

I think this is necessary to get us out of the quagmire that we find ourselves in, but any additional transparency will inevitably lead to witch hunts which -- even if deserved -- will lead to instability. We need to give ourselves and our representatives a path to transition to the light without letting cynical people bomb out the foundations of our society with emotion-fueled rage mobs.

Perhaps another post on the front page right now is relevant here:

On the bare necessity of psychological safety - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860743
> This seems insane that a unit of account can just grow 25% in one year with no signs of stopping with no consequences

The equation of exchange is MV=PQ, not M=PQ. The velocity of money (V) is falling right now as the money supply (M) is growing, that’s why increasing the money supply hasn’t had consequences (yet).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_exchange
You make a fair point. I'm just saying that, while it might ultimately be interesting and useful to someone or even lots of someones, it remains a crappy thing to do and the consequences that UMN is facing as a result is predictable and makes perfect sense to me, a guy who has had to rebuild a few servers and databases over the years because of intrusions and a couple of those have come with messages about how we should consult with the intruder who had less-than-helpfully found some security issue for us.
> Obviously, it is a wrong step but your preconceived biases are so strong

using absolute language to accuse people of lack of benefit of doubt
Reverse Engineering Your Test Data: It’s Not as Safe as You Think It Is
Correct, but if I tell police I took a call from you while relaxing at home, and it turns out I did take the call, but was actually at the crime scene, then my alibi falls apart.

Note this is not an endorsement of the grandparent's policy view, just an explanation of how it can be applied.
Specializing entirely in one area is a bit overrated. It's good to be competent in one or more things for sure, but there are surprising synergies / crossovers between seemingly unrelated domains.

The most successful people (CEOs, billionaires, political leaders, senior managers) are usually somewhat competent in many areas, rather than an expert in one thing to the exclusion of all others.
The "parallel construction" of the civilian world.
Yeah I don't get it. People want to buy a home so that they have more space and privacy, including outdoor space. Sure, some condos have roof decks, balconies, or shared yards, but so do rentals.
ITER is planning to do its flagship D+T runs in 2035, not 2050.

While inertial confinement fusion facilities like NIF are also used for weapons work, the physics of magnetic confinement fusion plasmas are quite different from the physics needed for bombs. There's no chain reaction, and the 'hot neutron physics' is actually a very small part of the overall system. The neutrons essentially go in a straight line until they hit the wall; they don't interact with the plasma itself.

Most people in magnetic confinement fusion are studying magnetized plasma waves, instabilities, turbulence, and other collective behavior that are in a very different regime from bomb physics.
Reverse causation not ruled out. Typically useless study within this field where no real progress has been made in years.
I'm biased here since I know Ray, but I thought this post was super informative & helpful! I love how short & sweet it is yet so chock full of meaningful points. Thanks Ray!
AMA (Ask me anything) with Nathan Latka
"But sure you still have the inflationary block generation as rewards."
To be more precise: You are still penalized by dilution/inflation if you dont stake.
We need to swing back from Cloud Storage and Services hosting our Data as hostage. ( Time Capsule for iOS )

Or may be we could go back to the simplest form. Physical Media. I think there is something to be learn from the Japanese on how they value something physical.
I'm personally very excited for this. Also, the fact that Linux apps will show up in the Start Menu is a nice touch and will be much more enjoyable than starting GUI apps from the terminal.
It's all about priorities, time management, efficiency, and sharing the load.

If you want to have both parents working, stay late at the office, have both parents involved with kids for every activity, and also work on side projects late at night, you're going to struggle until the kids are more self sufficient.

Even without kids, waking up at 6AM, hustling through morning routines and to the office, working to 6PM and then getting home at 6:30PM (assuming commute) leaves about 3.5 hours of free time and 8 hours for sleep. If you're trying to shoe-horn involved hobbies and side projects into those weekdays, something has to give regardless of whether or not you have kids.

The standard parent learning curve usually involves: Becoming more efficient with your routines, becoming more efficient with time management at the office, learning to say no to unnecessary requests, pushing back on jobs that demand long hours (or changing jobs to a more reasonable 8-hour workday company), becoming more efficient with meals and grocery shopping, doing more tradeoff load sharing with partner instead of both people being involved in everything, and letting kids have more independent play time as they age.

That said, you simply won't have as much alone time with kids in the equation. If you're trying to do too much, you have to sacrifice somewhere. It's better to do a few things well than to try to do everything at 75% commitment or being 75% awake.
Elon looked 50 when he was 30. It's definitely the money.
Not when you factor in whiplash. You aren’t buckled in to motorcycles
Indeed. The threat is real and will continue to be real for as long as governments exist. Maybe the threat is centralized authorities in general.

My country experienced runaway inflation in the 1990s. In a desperate attempt to stop it, the president just froze everyone's bank accounts. The government took away everyone's money out of nowhere. So I don't really care how much energy cryptocurrency consumes. If it puts an end to government stupidity it's worth it. The more they hate cryptocurrency the better -- it means they can't control it.
How Reduct Was Born
This is not the interpretation given by enforcement agencies, it seems:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/mapping-w...

Maybe what you say was the origina intent, but we know how the enforcement agencies love to reinterpret the laws to their advantage.
Or he's using the machine as a personal VPN. Point is, all assumptions are useless.

The fundamental problem here is that IP addresses are limited, but spam and bad behavior originates from concentrated sources. Hosts are forced to defend against that behavior, and when the sources overlap minimally with their customers, they beat the perceived offenders with a cudgel of CAPTCHAs (and federated IP reputation databases, which you might call "eventually inconsistent").

Possible solutions:

- Convince the Internet to diffuse its spam across the 0.0.0.0/8. This is pretty much impossible without some kind of decentralized mesh overlay network becoming mainstream and the primary method of consumer Internet access

- Switch to IPv6 (I'm joking, but actually many filters are much less equipped to deal with IPv6 blocking than IPv4)

- Ban IP reputation databases / threat sharing, or regulate it to be transparently verifiable that a new owner of an IP will not inherit its reputation. Considering the no-fly list continues to exist, which is inhibitive to rights more fundamental than web access, I wouldn’t expect this to happen any time soon.

- Ban CAPTCHAs
Haha yes you can! We've even had some fun running QEMU things with this too.
I guess a sample size of 3 is better than a sample size of 1, but how did this paper even get past peer review?
I think we can be relatively confident that the connected machine was airgapped and perhaps run in a VM.

Perhaps even in a faraday cage..
Bitcoin Still at $55k
The media, HN, punfits, for the past month ahs bene talking about a crpyto and NFT bubble and how prices are going up and 'everyone is getting rich', yet bitcoin for the past 2 months now has been in a $45-65k range. Does anyone think the coinbase IPO was the peak and it's back to $10k or something. It seems as if Bitcoin has fallen and cannot get up.
What is a TAM, in this context ? It's clear this is some administrative person, but not whether this is law enforcement or a representative.
TB2 on sale has no satellite link.

TB2 Video is line of sight gigahertz link. Control, and telemetry UHF which can get to 100km.

TB2 can launch from improvised strips with substantial payloads.

A mobile catapult launch adapter was once advertised
They did not secretly introduce exploitable bugs:

Once any maintainer of the community responds to the email,indicating “looks good”,we immediately point out the introduced bug and request them to not go ahead to apply the patch. At the same time, we point out the correct fixing of the bug and provide our proper patch. In all the three cases, maintainers explicitly acknowledged and confirmed to not move forward with the incorrect patches. This way, we ensure that the incorrect patches will not be adopted or committed into the Git tree of Linux.

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....

> If it quacks like a duck and waddles like a duck, then it is a duck.

A lot of horrible things have happened on the Internet by following that philosophy. I think it's imperative to learn the rigorous facts and different interpretations of them, or we will continue to great harm and be easily manipulated.
not a good example, knowing how things work is not a reason not to use debugger or similar tools
Coffee causing dementia is a pretty shocking claim that I haven't heard previously. Do you have more reading on this?
>The target is only Apple itself, the random group does not accept third-party payment

Because they're so ethical? If a third party wanted to pay them $50M or even remotely close to that, they'd accept in 0 seconds.
Wearing a mask is method of reducing the risk of transmission. No one ever claimed it prevented transmission. Wearing a mask but still getting infected is not an abnormal or unexpected outcome.
Yeah he comments on it in the small print ;)
BitSwap: Solving BitClout's Liquidity Problem
here is my experiment I would like to see

1. Hire someone.

2. Pay them at top of scale

3. Give them 1 years salary upfront, cannot be claimed back. (Effectively one year rolling tenure)

4. Repeat for all employees

5. Loudly and clearly state the problems facing the business.

6. Stand back
It's irritating how these articles always position stuff as if us insomniacs have a choice. I'd chew my own arm off to get a solid 8 hours a night but it just doesn't happen.
Precedent isn't necessary when that is one of the federal government's few enumerated powers.
Usually I am very skeptical of "soft" subjects like the humanities; but clearly this is unethical research.

In addition to wasting people's time, you are potentially messing with software that runs the world.
We improved the file system performance overall when we introduced WSL 2 by about 3-6x in general, and 20x for specific disk heavy operations. This still does bring its own challenges (You'll need to move your files to the Linux file system, and Cross OS file perf is slower in WSL 2) but we are working on these as well! :)
What's your threat model? That new phone's serial number has records of being shipped to the store you bought it at. The store has cameras and sales receipts.
> and much of society at large ignored the nonsense from The Daily Mail.

Isn't it one of the most sold newspapers in the UK? I like how elitist folks are. In Romania everyone I know would also go "no one buys Libertatea" (one of our trashy newspapers) but it is the most sold newspaper in Romania.

High brow people badly underestimate how much influence these tabloids have. There's a reason their readers made folks like Kim Kardashian a billionaire.
In a follow-up [1], the author suggests:
OSS projects would be suggested to update the code of conduct, something like “By submitting
the patch, I agree to not intend to introduce bugs”

How can one be so short-sighted?...

[1] https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....
I have seen this happen, first hand, in the public sector. I used to work with two guys in a company that shall remain nameless. After a while, they started taking some of the team to lunch every Friday. Not a quick, frugal lunch, but lunch at some nice restaurant downtown, with lots of food and drinks, taking a couple of hours. And they would sign for those lunches all the time, as company-approved expenses.

After a while, having become a bit closer with them, they confessed to how they did it: they had found a bug in the company's control system, where each of them could approve the other guy's expenses. So they would take turns signing off their lunches; after a while, they felt confident enough to invite other people to them.

I stopped working with them soon after that, but I heard they kept up this act for quite a while.
Now ask how many unique x86 instructions do standard compilers emit...
Why? Theres literally no good reason to do this except for the developer/ops market and its not clear its a major benefit over the current approach which works well for most users.
I think you are letting your personal experience with "low value" jobs cloud your vision in this situation. Its great that you worked your way out and I am sure you deserve whatever position you are in now. However, I think there is some survivorship bias at play here.

> I understood exactly where I stood and why I was being paid.

I am sure that the people in the article know this as well, but that doesn't mean they are treated fairly. The way society is structured and businesses treat people is not just by default. If this was the case, there should be no worker protections and we should simply pay people "what they are worth", which, in the past, resulted in factory towns and child labor.

Nobody in the article is demanding more money by arguing it is the compassionate thing to do, they want pay _parity_ with their coworkers who do the same job, which is pretty different in my opinion. They also want to keep their jobs after 2 years instead of getting fired for basically no reason other than it saves Google money through a regulation loophole.

> I don’t think they need to make more money “just because.” It’s whatever the market bears.

We do not live in a free market economy by any means. The reason why these people are being treated so badly is because of a poorly thought out regulation. Acting as though the system is a "free market" is just an indirect way of justify oppression of workers under the current mixed market system
Percentage or percentiles?
Can you expand on the shady part a bit more? I’m curious to hear about it.
> Assuming your Monopoly house rules allow arbitrary contracts

IIRC, you don’t need house rules for that, so long as “arbitrary contracts” covers future commitments for things otherwise legal to exchange (you do need house rules for such contracts to be self-enforcing, though.)
On the point about IPOs, this would seem to back up the idea that, a boom in IPOs has correlated with recessions and crashes soon after, in the past ~20 years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/270290/number-of-ipos-in...

A drop in IPOs seems like a lagging indicator (they will drop off after the economy has cooled off), but it's not clear to me if a boom in IPOs is a leading indicator or not.
Interesting. Investors parking money in real estate because returns are so low everywhere else, and thereby 1) reducing the stock available for people to live in, which 2) makes everyone bid up the price of the stock available, which 3) makes it have been a really good investment.

But I quibble a bit with your source [2]. That shows the amount of vacant units up sharply since 2020, but still lower than any point from 2005 to 2019. That doesn't seem to support your point, because this price run-up has been more than just the last year.
On what premise? This kind of talk presumes economies and governments don't serve the will of the people.

I mean, lets be real, if they don't serve the will of the people then the economy and government is short term and lockdowns were never the problem, but a symptom...
They had already done it once without asking for consent. At least in my eye, that makes them—everyone in the team—lose their credibility. Notifying the kernel maintainers afterwards is irrelevant.

It is not the job of the kernel maintainers to justify the teams new nonsense patches. If the team has stopped being bullshit, they should defend the merit of their own patches. They have failed to do so, and instead tried to deflect with recriminations, and now they are banned.
WSL2 has its own filesystem (ext4 and everything). Accessing it is fast, accessing windows filesystem from wsl and vice versa is still slow.

This is a big deal because, say you wanted to use intellij idea on wsl, using it on windows side and accessing the wsl filesystem does not really work. It is too slow. Now you can run it in linux, access the native fs. I imagine it would perform pretty good.
I completely agree with you and every point. I will also admit that I was being intentionally pessimistic but to get a point across. It’s funny you mention my cutthroat teams as a negative, because those are the teams that made me realize what it actually means to be committed to a goal. The teams that made me come to this conclusion were subsequent “bullshit” teams in places where will-to-power was punished instead of cultivated.

My main point in writing the diatribe above was to deter the type of pleasant but dull middle manager who thinks that all they have to do to solve their teams’ problems is psychologize them. I’ve actually noticed this as a larger cultural trend: people blaming their own minds or the minds of others for what is an actual real problem in the world. If I can help clear the wool from a few low-level programmers eyes to help them see that they aren’t so different from an accountant or the fry cook at their favorite bar (and that this is not a bad thing!) I feel like my job is done.
I found regexes pretty baffling (i.e., took me a long time to understand at all) when I first encountered them. And, even now, complicated regular expressions can be difficult to work on.

The main challenge is that you can't see which part of some huge pattern isn't matching, or insert a breakpoint / printf in the middle, it's just an opaque black box that either works or doesn't... and if it doesn't you need to break it all the way down to something that does, then work back up again from there.