skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone bothers to backdoor a shell in that way. Why not just target libc via LD? That tricks bash, sh, python, etc; but you can use setuid to check for the existence of malware that is evading through LD_PRELOAD.
Is it possible to lose records written between the start of the deploy/DB download and the switchover to the new image?
> Even better, vote for more qualified congresspeople and senators

The problem with this comment (and others like it) is the presupposition that the problem is that people are not voting "correctly", because if only they did, all the problems would be solved.

But that glosses over a very large number of problems, some of which are deeply systematic, at which point questions like "whose job is it really to fix these issues anyways" may in fact deserve answers that are more out-of-the-box than "the republican democratic system works as intended, so the problem must be elsewhere".
I didn't say (and nobody in this thread except for your straw man said) that the definition is too hard to create and therefore we should just throw our hands up and walk away. Literally nobody is saying that.

What I am arguing against is your baseless assertion that defining "decent housing" is easy, and that everyone who thinks it's hard is simply being obstructionist/anti-poor/whatever.

The closest thing we might have today to an across-the-board definition of "decent housing" might be HUD's FHA standards which -- to your shock and amazement, I assume -- is much more complex than "must be decent"
I’ve made vegan Mac-N-Cheese before and I’ll tell you it was really good!
Flu causes fever, which is one of the signs of covid, causing people to isolate. Whereas colds like the rhinovirus have different symptoms and are less likely to cause fever and so they 'fly under the radar' as it were.
Well eating at home can also have failures. Few months ago I accidentally ate some hot sauce that should have been refrigerated but was stored on a room temp. shelf.

Looked fine when i ate it but was violently sick for 3 days and thought i had covid :(
My layman understanding is that it doesn‘t work that way.
Less spread = less chance of mutation = less chance of uber infectious new flu strain.
I see rust as following the evergreen model - along with nodejs, chrome, Firefox and others. In this software model the authors make strong stability and backwards compatibility guarantees.

For example, as I understand it the rust compiler team literally compiles every public crate with each version of the rust compiler to make sure they haven’t broken anything. The platform generally expects users to mostly keep up to date - as a web developer I can now use new features in chrome and FF within a month or so of the feature being released. Gone are the days of leaving behind large swathes of users because they’re still using FF 4.0 or IE 6. Nodejs has its own support table. I don’t care what version of nodejs Debian LTS has; when version 8 of nodejs stopped being officially supported and maintained, I immediately dropped support for it in my npm packages.

The “minimum supported rust version” flag in cargo will help with this going forward. But more generally I think this model of software development makes sense and we’ll see it more and more going forward. There was a kernel bug a few months ago caused by a bug in an old version of gcc. The gcc bug was fixed years ago but the patch was never backported to ancient gcc versions. Some distros were compiling Linux using ancient gcc versions, and then got upset when they ran into problems. The answer here is for gcc to say the same thing nodejs does - “these versions are supported and get bug fixes. These versions do not. Use old versions at your peril - they have known bugs.” Explicit support periods is better than vague, ambiguous expectations that software will work forever. Microsoft has the same policy with windows patches.

I think the era where it makes sense for apt to carry that burden by serving us ancient software packages is slowly coming to an end. As software packages take responsibility for evergreen stability, it also makes sense for users to get evergreen software. It would be nice if we could do that without needing app specific version managers like rustup and nvm.
Why can't it just be treated as a food in itself?

The producers of this stuff don't need to market to informed consumers like yourself. They need to go after the people who, while looking at items on a super market shelf, have no idea what to do with "cultured nut butter" but might have an idea about what "cashew cheese" is.
Many employees will be assigned inconvenient hours regardless. That is a key difference between employees and gig workers.

When there are more people who prefer convenient hours than shifts available, some will only have the option to take inconvenient ones. As hourly employees, Uber can't use dynamic pay to manage supply and demand imbalances.

I dealt this as a teenager working at McDonald's. Most of us didn't want closing shift, and occasionally at 25 cent/hour incentive would be added. But more often than not, the demand for any hours was sufficient. Labor supply simply exceeded demand.

Still think Uber and likes should be regulated away until we have true self driving cars. That may take a decade or more.
Aside from the beat rate, what you've described there could equally apply to all genres of dance music. Almost every track follows the same rules phrasing and has a 4/4 time signature (often with really accented four-to-the-floor kicks or percussion). The predictable buildups and breakdowns are a feature: most people can't dance to something they can't follow. Just look at how differently people dance to IDM (it's not uncommon to see a mosh pit at some gigs). That said, even IDM has a good few tracks with a predictable phrasings to them too.

Sure, some genres are more predictable than others (hardhouse, for example, is effectively the "painting by numbers" equivalent of EDM) but as a retired DJ who used to mix on 3+ decks and throw in the odd non 4/4 track too (typically 3/4 but I had some more esoteric records too), I can't think of many tracks from many genres that were particularly hard to DJ.

...well there was this one track that was difficult, not because of the phrasing nor time signature, but because the producer decided to fade in the start of the track. Very unhelpful that!

What I've written here also applies to a significant amount of rock and it's various sub-genres too.

As for the "FX friendly on the mixer", that's been technos style since the 90s. It's nothing new and certainly not anything specific to Drumcode. Richie Hawtin even released a compilation album called "Decks, EFX & 909" in 1999 and his style is very different to Adam Beyer's. In the early 00s Misstress Barbara wrote in a cover sleeve on one of her mixes about how her sets were about creating new compositions live using 3 decks, heavy EQing and effects. Her style also differed massively from Drumcode.

Source: retired DJ and producer. Not a household name but played a few gigs in and around London. Mostly techno but with house, electro, breaks, EBM, rock, metal, industrial and pretty much anything else thrown in that had the right vibe to it.
Learning BASIC back in 1980: for-loops drawing lines on the display was damned fascinating. Later trying to write a lunar-lander program cooler still.

The problem solved I suppose was developing an interest in programming.
In the USA: the government gets its cut no matter what.

Employees are taxed 6.2% by the government, and 6.2% to the Employer.

Gig workers are taxed 12.4% by the government ("self employed" tax). So in US-law, the government gets its money either way.

That's why a "gig-worker in name only" is such an advantage to companies in the USA. It allows companies to cut out 6.2% of its taxes and shove it to the gig-worker instead.
i’d rather be sick than live this pathetic life you are describing
Privacy and Invisibility Online: How They DifferRight or Privilege?
In the UK apparently there are 3 types. The Economist wrote on the Uber case in UK:

“Employees” gain access to the full gamut of employment-law protections; “workers” get some protections but can be dismissed at will; the self-employed are taxed more lightly but receive few legal rights.

The Surpreme court ruled that Uber drivers are workers and not self-employed.
Debian has a policy for a packaging Rust crates:

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/RustPackaging/Policy

If you restrict yourself to packages in the repo, won’t that resolve the issue? The idea of a distro is that all the packages in the distribution should play nicely together, but if you go outside that then version compatibility won’t be handled for you.
The Connection Between Language and Memory
...conveniently ignoring that beef is 10x as calorically dense as asparagus.
Does it pluck an Apple or an apple?
>, today (2020-2021) it has been clear the mobile efforts are failing and they refocused on the Switch as it ended up doing super well in the pandemic, but back in 2019, they were looking to pivot.

even today, Nintendo's relatively few mobile games are making a lot of money: https://sensortower.com/blog/nintendo-revenue-one-billion

I don't know how that compares to consoles, but $1B in ~4 years of mobile games (which btw does NOT count Pokemon Go, I'm sure they get some kickback there) certainly isn't something they will pull out of soon.

I don't think this is an either/or situation. Nintendo's Switch games make bank. their phone games make bank. Nintendo gets more money for more of both kinds of games.
> It seems backward that the government, instead of fixing government policy and laws that disadvantage independent workers, wants to force independent workers to become employees so that the government doesn't have to fix anything. It is abdication of responsibility for social outcomes.

There is a logical fallacy here, but I'm not sure if there is a name for it. In essence, the above argument is assuming "the government" is one actor who is able to choose between various options at the same time. In practice, "the government" is a collection of actors, with many competing interests, with different mechanisms of influence available at different times.

Aside: for anyone that thinks technology is hard, I would suggest running for office -- even a 'minor' role like being a school board member. This might shed some light on the difficulties of leading in a broader context. There is a reason it is called 'public service'.
Can someone explain exactly _how_ and _why_ developers/ML people can't know why a neural network did something? I keep reading that it is a black box, but it absolutely has code running. I don't understand why that code just can't be analyzed.
This actually exists: it's called "statutory employee". But according to current regulations, only a few specific types of workers can be classified this way.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
> "I strongly disagree that people want to be able to choose healthcare "

I absolutely want to choose my healthcare.
Small but important correction: nothing can make epidemiological spread non-exponential. Driving base reproduction below one additional infection per infected patient means the exponent is less than one, so the incidence of the disease rapidly decreases. This decrease is also exponential by definition: infection is simply an exponential process, and an exponential equation doesn't stop being what it is when the exponent is less than one.

The steady state is exactly 1, which is like balancing a pencil on its point.

It's plausible that two things happened here: the various local restrictions reduced the R0 of flu below 1, and the border closures kept mutations from traveling: and influenza is notoriously mutation-prone.

These can combine to practically extirpate influenza. Unfortunately, the effect is temporary, and the next flu season is likely to be a real doozy.

Which will be "fun" because our societies now have a hyperactive immune system, and there will be considerable political pressure to "do something" about the next flu wave. This must be resisted but I'm not optimistic.
Do you know if these robots are designed for use with existing orchards, or do they require planting and cultivating the orchards in a way to make it easier for the robots?

(I remember reading about cultivating trees in a way to make it easier for humans to pick, and something about making it easier for robots to pick. The downside is that it requires a lot more effort at pruning and maintaining the trees, when adjusting for wind, sun, and water).
Here's a great podcast on this question (regarding Uber and Lyft drivers specifically), from Julia Galef:

http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/episode-255-are-ub...

She interviews three experts on the subject. Here's the description of the episode:

>How much do Uber and Lyft drivers really earn, after expenses? Are they getting a raw deal by being classified as 'independent contractors' instead of employees? I explore the debate over these questions with three guests: Louis Hyman (Cornell), Veena Dubal (UC Hastings College of the Law), and Harry Campbell (The Rideshare Guy).
https://dqlite.io/ High-availability SQLite
Is our Technology Destroying us?
Significant figures are not a universal standard, they are an imperfect way to in-band information about confidence, by sacrificing precision.
No, the modern sense is literally just a euphemism for dissent.

(of course the modern sense of literal is literally figurative.)
> But the real question is whether it is a _useful_ modeling language for everything.

Category theory is definitely not useful for modeling everything. However, it's useful for modeling a whole lot. Categories have few axoims, and those they do have align well with how humans break down complex problems, so a lot of systems can be modeled neatly with categories. And category models are useful for proving existence, uniqueness, and notions of "maximum" and "minimum" for their "arrows", which are often useful things people try to prove about systems.
You are dodging parent's point:

> I have seen no credible evidence that typical (non-pandemic) influenza has an R0 greater than that of SARS-CoV-2. If you have a citation handy to the contrary, I'd be interested in seeing it.

Even if the difference in R of influenza and SARS-Cov-2 was only 0.1 (and there is no evidence suggesting the average difference is that small) and assuming both pathogens spread in a similar fashion [1], then over time SARS-Cov-2 will fluctuate around the meta-stable point of 1.0 and as a result influenza will decrease exponentially.

[1] https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-42...
In Colorado, there is a local company making small batches of vegan cheese that they also mail out for large enough orders. It's not going to melt like normal cheese, but it does a much better job than the other ones I have tried. Their cheddar is really good. It seems like a hard recipe to crack and this company is the closest to it so far in my opinion. https://www.peacefulrebelvegancheese.com/
Flu has significant fomite transmission, both direct and from emissions, where CoV-2 basically has none. Aerosol transmission is present in flu, but nowhere near as strong as CoV-2. There are definitely some overlaps, like direct large droplet transmission (which make measures like masks work for both.)

Sanitation and "social distancing" work for flu, but coronavirus is mainly about ventilation.
Megastudy of Text-Based Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated
I was thinking about the impact on the economy when an Apple is getting plucked every 7 seconds
generally among low-wage jobs, if you accept employer-provided healthcare you must pay for the plan from your wages. so kinda
Which is weird to me, coconut milk has been "milk" for over 300 years.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coconut%20milk
What happens when you make a Crusader Kings 3 ruler with every stat set to max?
It’s a perfectly legit use of the word. Words are not defined by God; they get their meaning though use, and Merriam-Webster records one such use is “to slaughter wantonly”.
Welcome to the applied category theory community :-)
> Milk has quite a bit of sugar

Sugar content without regard to glycemic index [0] is meaningless. Cow milk contains lactose, which has a very low glycemic index. Most milk replacements use maltose, which has almost double the glycemic load, making them significantly less healthy than actual milk (since they are all basically sugar and canola oil [1]).

[0]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mnfr.201901082

[1]: https://every.to/almanack/oatly-the-new-coke-821556
Good point - I was thinking about persistence but I saw the argv trick in the wild in the early 2000s when someone hit a PHP script in one of our undergrad’s home directory and dropped something fun onto the system.

I think I used lsof back then but it’s been a while.
Link to the demo at the end of the presentation: https://youtu.be/krSj81thN0w?t=2172
Ok, but again: The primary reason for this is the significant spread of SARS-CoV-2 which has overwhelmed hospitals. This in turn could have been prevented with lockdown(s). Right?
lol. ive never washed my hands before eating in my life and ive never gotten sick from it. I wish I could post more than 2 comments every couple hours to make fun of the germ freaks on here, but this one wins too. all that extra work you are doing is worth nothing but our amusement now.
No, the government gets stuck picking up the slack when employers evade the law.

Gig workers should be able to organize and effectively negotiate reasonable contracts instead of getting the shaft. My brothers union contract for musical performance crates a more free market environment than the whims of companies like Doordash.
In the US it's the same, the FDA has regulations and all the (not real cheese) items have either a funny name ("cheeze") or have something like "imitation cheese product" or "cheese food product" (I've seen a number of different labels over my life) to indicate it's not real (milk) cheese.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...
Yeah veganism is 100% a first world privilege.
> However, vegetarian burgers are ready for prime time.

Agreed. I eat meat but love veggie burgers.
Not everyone who works does it for the goal of "living on" that one job. Some people work for supplemental income. Some people (teens) work for spending money and to gain experience. Some people (retirees) work for something to do other than sit at home.

If all jobs had to pay enough to "live on" then most of the people above would be able to work at all, because the jobs simply would not exist.
I would expect any safety-critical application to be have a higher bar for explainability.

As an extreme example, if image recognition is used for anti-aircraft defense, I think it would be nice to understand how it differentiates between an enemy plane vs. a domestic air carrier. Knowing it's accuracy is probably not enough.
Not sure they qualify as full-self-driving?
Actually plotting in parallel across multiple SSDs is likely to have the highest TiB/day of plots created. And then you’d be better off using the ram to enable more parallelism.

It’s a matrix of processor cores, threads per core, temp drive bandwidth, memory, and temp drive speed. Oh and cost per TiB of plots per day.

Also plotting happens in several stages, and each has a different set of requirements. So timing the running of plots in parallel and staggering starts also comes into it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-enforcement-chief-alex-oh...

"Before joining the SEC, Oh was a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where her corporate clients included Exxon Mobil Corp. In that role she was defending the oil company against two-decade-old allegations that it supported killings and tortures in Indonesia, court documents show."
You are free to disagree. Obviously, not every scenario can be navigated using an arbitrary policy for conduct, which was what clearly happened here. 'Informed consent' in the context of cybersecurity research is described in the Menlo Report [1].

And fyi, not all white hat stories are clean in their approaches, that in itself remains a controversial topic for another discussion. Furthermore, employees in an organization are under a different set of contractual obligations, full of caveats, to their employers. In some ways, they've already "consented" to specific bare minimums(white-hat can be framed as security awareness training required in your job role).

Open source contributors and reviewers are individual third party actors. No one has established any tolerance limits. So "enough" people doesn't really apply here because no one was made the arbiter source to decide that.

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CSD-Men...
Amazon Q1 2021 Quarterly Results [pdf]
VP9 has hardware decode support on newer Macs.
What about ARM platforms? Something like STM32? https://github.com/stm32-rs/stm32-rs
Ask HN: Does buying an NFT grant you any copyright rights?
I've recently seen some NFTs sold containing popular memes or internet artwork. Does buying an NFT grant you any copyright over the image or does it still lie with the original artist?

If no copyright is transferred what is the purpose of owning an 'original' meme which is most likely also a copy?
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26761100

More past threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26763071
holy... this is going to have huge implications for importing cheap foreign labour into the farming industry.
Where I live in Canada schools never really closed and we are seeing the same thing.
I read the Reuters fact-check article. In fact, there are no facts. It says that the publication has been retracted, but from what I can see, that's not true. CDC's current response on masks is positive, however their initial response was negative. Same for WHO. All in all, Reuters rely on a single source – Nature. Nature.com is indeed a legitimate source, however the article is massive, so I can't say for sure if relying on that single source is good enough to make a conclusion.

Edit: also, _nobody_ gives a crap about masks in Florida. However, death rates are the same as in California: https://apnews.com/article/public-health-health-florida-coro...
> People just desperately want to find evidence that the stuff we did this year made a huge difference.

I don't think that's true at all. People have been receptive to the increased evidence that transmission on surfaces is pretty unlikely, for example, despite all the efforts we've put into sanitizing surfaces.

I think most people can appreciate that all the shit we threw at the wall throughout the pandemic eventually comes down to how much effort it is vs how much benefit we get from it. And our understanding of each measure has changed over time. We now know, generally:

Masks indoors are low-effort, medium reward. Masks outdoors are low-effort, low reward.

Cleaning surfaces is medium-effort, low reward.

Staying home is (economically, societally) high-effort, high reward.
> no attacks are possible

I think this just shifts the responsibility and point of attack onto the owner (which is true for all decentralized crypto). An attack is still possible and worse yet, it is completely irreversible.

That said, the option of taking personal custody and responsibility is important and I think it should always be an option.
> I want no health insurance middleman

That is literally impossible. Even if insurance companies are made illegal tomorrow, that role of market maker between providers (doctors and hospitals, drug companies) and customers (patients, employers) will always exist. This is because such a role is needed.

Patients do not have the capacity nor the knowledge to find the best doctor, the best hospital, or the best drug maker for them.