skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this is absolutely true. We had a lot of white cockatoos years ago, including a Moluccan, a medium sulphur-crested, an umbrella and (this species is now critically endangered) a Philippine red-vented. The Moluccan was one in a million: he housebroke himself, put himself to bed at night, didn't squawk, didn't bite, didn't destroy things. He sat with my sister on the couch and watched TV. We never closed the cage door. He was caught wild as an adult, tamed within weeks and of course eventually died of PBFD a couple years later. PBFD also killed the other red-vented we had, but this one (even though he'd eat pretty much anyone) he never bit me ever. He went to the zoo, where I hope he is repopulating the species.

But the sulphur-crested and the umbrella were more typical. The sulphur-crested was trouble from the beginning and he bit everyone at least once. He had an obnoxious habit of eating peppers and then asking for a kiss because he enjoyed the reaction. We found a home for him. As for the umbrella, he was a gorgeous and delightful bird as a baby and unmanageable as an adult. I still remember the day I had to catch him because he escaped onto the porch. The towel didn't stop him from severely gnawing my hand. He, too, found a new home.

And I'd consider us fairly experienced as a family with parrots; my folks still have a charming little caique. We also had macaws and an Amazon and even a red fan parrot, a beautiful and absolutely intractable wretched thing who only obeyed my father and yet nailed everyone including him. But I loved the cockatoos most, even though everything in this article is dead on. I think it was Robert Blake remarking on his trademark cockatoo in Baretta that if you work with parrots, expect to get bitten.

If you're new to aviculture, try a cockatiel or a budgie first. They're easy to care for, are much less likely to be difficult to handle, can be extremely good pets and may be all the bird you need. Bigger birds really require devotion to the cause.
If it means we don't have to deal with calls like this [1], it's worth it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YQtVmpX-OM
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It’s a prep course. The point is that it’s within the reach even of quite poor Chinese immigrants.
I said this at the time, the things Signal was saying it might do were so clearly illegal that it was more for the naive star-struck blog reader than anything else. It got a lot of play here and Reddit bec they eat this nonsense up. But any lawyer will tell you that by disclosing this vuln in the way they did Signal only opened themselves up to lawsuits.

If they do hire in house counsel the first that guy would tell this is “call Cellbrite and tell them exactly what the vuln is and how to mitigate it.”
From my experience, most _independently_ owned cell phone retail stores (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, etc) have several Cellebrite devices no site which are used daily to aid in device migration from old to new.

As I understand it, Cellebrite devices are not exactly hard to acquire.
What's amusing is that multiplying integers with periodic digits is much faster using this method
There is an interesting use case, web monetization API.

https://webmonetization.org

It is a proposed standard (not accepted) that allows you to use micro-payments in crypto to pay for access to sites as you browse the web. While it isn't perfect, a web free of paywalls and ads is something I would pay for, if it was easy to use, secure, and integrated into the browser. I'm not sure it will have enough momentum to become a thing, but it is an interesting idea.

And, to your point, the only legit use case for crypto I have seen.
A great talk and good slides. Just join good development software to low cost FPGA matrix hardware and you won't need CPU in many cases.
It's going to have to pick between less bad situations because humans in fact have to do so.

Example running over an animal to avoid an accident, getting rear ended to avoid hitting a pedestrian, taking a calculated risk of being hit by oncoming traffic on a 2 lane situation when coming across a stalled car without optimal view on the road ahead.

It's going to make a decision between different risk factors and between different known costs.

Imagine on a 2 lane there is a pedestrian and oncoming traffic and insufficient time to stop. Do you kill the pedestrian or risk ending up in the ditch.

If you are going 60 and ending up in the ditch would likely be fatal is it ok to just smear the pedestrian?

What if you can slow to 20 and then ditch?

These situations won't hopefully be prevalent because a massive portion of our current issues are down to inattention or stupidity and we believe ai will eventually be much better at avoiding such problems but they are still important and interesting.
That was not clear enough on my side, let me find source:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/thai-die/

So, some type of ultra cheap method to get high (but quite dangerous) is to get pump air with bicycle pump into the bottom. Article above.
Yes, that is what they are, but a generalization of a thing is not the same as the specific thing, and in this case the generalization already had other names (since it has been around for many decades in many other languages). It would have been preferable to use one of the existing names instead of adding a new one and thereby complicating the story.
The important question is: How good is the "free" health care ? And is it fully free or is one charged beyond a point ?
Wow! Why would this get flagged? I think that people ought to know what’s happening.
That's incentive for someone living in silicon valley to not do it, but outside of the hubs most of the United States has miniscule demand for tech workers (using that term very loosely), and the majority of the world would average out to something like "30k, but the job only exists if you live in the capital".
I wonder if anyone would open source all their data after their death. I definitely won't.
Because mobile Safari still sucks and they take forever to support new web standards.
Well, I guess it’s simply because the Palestinian lives, unfortunately, don’t matter to this audience.
> So what information is the SAT actually providing to universities? In my opinion, little to nothing.

I feel like the same could be argued about _all_ methods that are used. Hence the combination of various methods like SATs, grades, letters of recommendation, essays, etc. Why exactly are the SATs being singled out?
The Russians can't even make their own fleet move.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tug-sailing-with-russian-shi...
I’m not a fan of AuthaGraph at all. It has horrible distortion look at Brazil or Alaska - and it’s proprietary (creator never released the actual map details, so you can’t make your own...) The worst thing, in my eyes, is that the distortion is unpredictable. Looking at a map where Canada is too big, you can mentally imagine Canada as smaller. But you can’t mentally undo the multi-direction transformation of Alaska into not-Alaska. The distortion is so bad that real world things like a road trip through South America would end up looking completely different from this map to another. You better hope you never get on a boat or a plane using this map - try tracing a straight line if you want a laugh. (The unfortunate distortion-hacking done by its creator effectively dumped the distortion in the oceans, so good luck if you ever go there.)

Design features like “you can do nifty origami with it” shouldn’t factor into if a map is used or not.

In my opinion, if you want something modern and cool, and you really care about pure accuracy, go with Waterman Butterfly. If you want something four sided and traditional, and relative sizes are slightly less important (but still important), go with Peirce Quincuncial - which, I might add, has far better looking Tissot’s indicatrices.
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I'm not sure if this is enough for you to change your mind, but I remembered his claims from last year, and they were virtually as exaggerated

"U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla is “very close” to achieving level 5 autonomous driving technology, CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday, referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input.

“I’m extremely confident that level 5, or essentially complete autonomy, will happen, and I think will happen very quickly,” Musk said in remarks made via a video message at the opening of Shanghai’s annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC).

“I remain confident that we will have the basic functionality for level 5 autonomy complete this year.”

Obviously not exactly the same as making a definite statement about the capacity of current cars, but we all know what part of the message sticks with the public.

https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/09/elon-musk-says-tesla-is-v...
What you described happened with Prop 16 too. Asian activists with unrepresentative views writing checks on the joint account is a thing in many areas. Matt Yglesias, Zaid Jilani, and Wesley Yang have noted this recently in the context of policing: https://www.slowboring.com/p/yang-gang.

https://mobile.twitter.com/anilaali/status/13858431187219783... (“Was working on an essay about how ‘Asian American’ is pure politicized astroturf manufactured by the activist class and non-profit industrial complex speaking to no actual ethnic constituency and she just...tweeted it out”).

Asian activists stand in solidarity with other progressives on opposing policing even as a response to growing anti-Asian hate crime. Meanwhile, most Asians in the neighborhoods where they’re getting attacked support the police: https://slate.com/business/2021/04/chinatown-block-watch-kar...

> I’m curious how people in the block watch talk about things like defunding the police. I’ve noticed that some activists are pretty bullish on the idea of taking money away from the police and saying this really isn’t working for our community, while others very much want the protection of the police. What are those conversations like when you’re having them?

> Well, actually, there are no members on the Chinatown Block Watch calling for defunding the police.

> None?

> We don’t get into partisan politics. We actually don’t talk about politics at all. I support community policing here. I would love to see a beat cop come back onto the job. Decades ago, there used to be a beat cop, these officers that walk around the neighborhood on foot, and they get to know all the business owners, they get to know the residents.
i thought so too but snopes says no

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tobacco-enema-blow-smoke/
I am a little confused on why the author makes a distinction between Cellebrite using zero-days to hack a phone to read data and Signal's hack. While the US government might have the framework to not be considered violating CFAA, what about when other governments use Cellebrite? From this point of view, Cellebrite isn't a valve that's stopping back door decryption in systems, it is the back door. Signal including these files is in a sense covering a back door.

Also, is leaving a file that breaks the admissibility of previously gathered evidence considered active hacking? Am I misunderstanding something about the function of the files in Signal? I thought the only way Cellebrite's software is interacted with is if it tries to access Signal on the device. Signal isn't actively searching to hack back. It's triggered by Cellebrite's software, not Signal's.

The straightforward workaround would be to delete Signal before using the Cellebrite software which I think is the real point. Signal isn't trying to protect the end user actively and can't do anything if it's not installed on a phone.
Private universities already have quotas for Jews, Asians, Whites, and other groups they claim are over represented. They won’t call it that, but policies like affirmative action, holistic admissions, and so on are all euphemisms for quotas by ethnicity or other demographic trait. No one stops to consider that maybe there are cultural and behavioral practices that lead to these merit gap. Now the UC system will do the same by simply banning the measurement of aptitude. It lets them regress student demographics towards a desired distribution without controversy.
In case anyone is curious. ColdFusion did a video on her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64xcgvEJ3Ys
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This is false, there are laws about booby traps (they’re generally illegal in all jurisdictions). If you plant mines on your property and a thief walks onto your lawn and loses a leg, he can sue you and will likely win with a competent lawyer.

You don’t get to say “well you shouldn’t have been there”
This is hilarious.

If government and central bank-driven UBI/MMT stops, 54% of employees in most companies can probably be let go without any impact.

Yea, now you get post-pandemic flexibility only because nothing any longer matters, for as long as it stays that way.
>My guess is that it’s pretty rare that the Cellebrite evidence is the dispositive crux of a case, meaning, but for evidence pulled from a phone using a Cellebrite device, the jury would not have voted to convict.

Let's also consider cases that could have warrants that would not have been approved if the integrity of the data from a Cellebrite extraction was questionable. I could see some defense lawyers challenge the validity of warrants from this.
The standard in U.S. criminal courts is "beyond a reasonable doubt."

All I understood Moxie's original article to be doing was sowing that seed of "reasonable doubt." Is it now reasonable, based on Moxie's article, to doubt that information obtained by a Cellebrite device from a device running Signal is reliable? If I were a juror, I would probably think so.

That doesn't at all mean someone couldn't be convicted on the strength of other evidence, but if the primary evidence the prosecution relied on was Cellebrited off a phone running Signal, I'd have some trouble trusting it enough to render a guilty verdict.
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If that were the case, why doesn’t the same principle apply to Cellebrite? After all, they exploit vulnerabilities in lots of software to deliver their own services and there’s no indication they share their work with the vendors.
ES5 syntax itself has nothing particularly strange. It’s bog standard C/Java syntax. If there’s any complaints to be had, they would be the semantics of using the syntax (though maybe that’s actually what you mean). The worst feature (type coercion) was an intentional addition because many developers asked for it and Eich (to his later regret) went along.

The only other truly weird features came from twisting prototypal inheritance into something vaguely Java-ish. These actually became more convoluted with a whole extra layer of weirdness while once again trying to force traditional classes on top. Unfortunately, devs from other languages think they’re the same and they mostly work as expected right up into things fall apart (usually when the hole they’ve dug is massive).

In truth, the biggest mistake was not going with scheme. If they had, the rest would be easy from language extension to adding lower level abstractions to compiling various languages to it would all be easier.
At the end of the day, most web servers are about serving requests. A short lived function model fits that more closely.
“Sunday is meat day” is harder to screw up than the complex diets that healthy vegans need to plan out.
>I think part of the resistance to accepting this possibility was that it was strongly associated with Trump supporters. I'm glad people won't be able to use the "that's a Trump supporter theory" bludgeon and we can start hearing experts talk about this in good faith.

I still don't understand how they're ready to blame China so viciously for something that they tell us is just a flu and not even worth using face coverings or risking taking a vaccine. Not to mention magic cures like HCQ. All these efforts were just to deflect from the last government's failure to contain the virus. And they're not even internally consistent with each other. "The virus is not dangerous, the left is just hyping and faking it. But the not-dangerous virus is completely China and Fauci's dangerous fault and they must be raked over the coals for it so Trump doesn't have to take any responsibility".

The whole thing is an insult to intelligence for anyone that doesn't just believe what they're told to.

Regardless of where the virus came from, it'll keep happening like it did in history when there no labs, either naturally, a lab escape or a bio weapon. The right way is to be prepared for it, and take collective action to stop global pandemics.
any reason in particular that people think that's hard?
Because they don’t plant boobytraps in their wake.

Signal isn’t saying “we’re just hacking into property we have a legal right to access” (which is what LE is doing in the US) they’re essentially saying “we’re gonna hack and damage government property and police evidence”
> If I put a fake USB port on my phone that was a USB zapper to kill the device it's connected to, it would not be illegal and it would be on the people seizing my phone to take responsibility for it.

‘If I put a bunch of laxatives on my sandwich to give the office sandwich thief violent diarrhea, it would not be illegal and it would be on the people stealing my food to take responsibility for it.’

This is the analogy that comes to mind which I’ve always heard to be illegal.
Astronomy and agriculture are celebrated because their advances make the world better in some broader sense. That broader sense, good as such, is the scope of morality.
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If what signal is doing illegal then how do tv satellite provides get away pushing malicious updates on their feeds? Before you claim that cellebrite is only used by law enforcement, signal got their hands on a device and cellebrite sells to other governments besides the US. I should legally allowed to protect my device from foreign adversary from stealing my company’s trade secrets.
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They don't really seem to.

In my past organization, I never got any non-peer feedback whatsoever, even though they were expected every three months.

In my current organization, you get a little bit in biweekly 1 on 1s, but otherwise I have little idea how the org rates me overall.
Aside: this was meant to be a reply to this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27168589

Not at top level.
In California in the early 80's, I couldn't go to an elementary school a block from my house because there were "too many" whites and Asians there already. So instead, I was bussed 90 minutes each way (3 hours per day) Hilbert curve-style all throughout San Jose in order to fulfill the whims of wishful-thinking, social engineering academics imposing their "great ideas" on public schooling. I had to wake up at 4:45 am because the nearest bus stop was also over a mile away, despite it passing within a block of my house, and the drivers refusing to let me on or off there.

That was what also happened with the move to whole language reading away from phonics, which is a tried-and-true system of grapheme-phoneme mapping (and typically followed by word decoding with prefixes, suffixes, and root words), that ruined reading comprehension for several generations; this was also the impetus for the formation of the Challenger private school system. Apparently, the California Department of Education returned to phonics many years later because it was such an utter failure. The problem is these arbitrary experiments are committed-to and continued due to image and political concerns and sunk costs bias, but without any fair and complete validation that they work.

What the heck was the goal of shipping talented kids around to inferior schools where more students had emotional problems, broken homes problems, anger issues, and lower performance? It's not like gifted kids are going to do better in a shittier environment. It seems more like punishment or padding metrics at the expense of students.
Thank you!!! I use plotly to generate one-off graphs regularly and love the idea of offline-first + SQL.
And the American who said it stole that phrase from a Spaniard (Steve Jobs popularized it but he was quoting Pablo Picasso).
Those poor smut-peddlers. Won't someone please think of the pornographers.
Go watch WWE. Let sport be fair.
They owned the devices they were hacking with their feeds. That’s why the hack worked to begin with: they controlled the code on the cards.
I am a senior web developer with 12 years of experience, also perplexed by that statement.

Edit: The React repo is 3 million+ lines of code, written in its own niche language...
Elastic didn't renege on the open source license.

Both SSPL and the Elastic License are open source licenses.
Because you would hire a professional plumber with insurance and if it leaks you use your home insurance to cover and damage and then they go after the plumbers insurance to recoup their cost so your premiums don’t go up.
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Section 2.3 and Dr. Duehr's whole post has a major issue: it assumes intentionality. We have to step away from the intentionality lens being projected onto the lab leak hypothesis. It is possible and even likely that, if it leaked from a lab, it was not malicious in intent.

In the lab leak scenario, the viruses infection optimality is only relevant insofar as its able to infect at all. The only reason optimality would be brought into question is if it the virus were intentionally designed to hurt millions of people. That's more my question. Why haven't we found the progenitor of the furin cleavage site in one of the mentioned animal populations?
Anytime I see similar language, I know I do not have to look very hard to understand why someone felt it worth producing.

They might as well say it:

Will be slow, we feel that does not impact the value proposition.

Our license revenue is super necessary and this is not a race.

Ya, slow now because we need users and features now, go faster later.

If you need it to be more performant, pay us more and make the hardware investments we tell you to...

I personally would respect those more than a blanket gag attempt.
Thank you.

It's on a very early stage, but I'm happy with how things are going.
Traps that harm people are illegal. Traps that harm animals are legal under some circumstances (mousetraps are legal basically everywhere afaik.) But traps that harm devices rather than people or animals? Are you sure that is generally illegal?
Laws on booby traps specify that the trap be used to cause harm to a living thing. It's not a booby trap if it wasn't meant to harm someone. So the digital booby trap isn't governed by the same laws.
In the US, Cellebrite extractions are done under color of law; for the same reason, the police don’t get in trouble for forcing open locked doors while executing search warrants.
I live in the U.S.

Even if I leave, if I stop using any of its infrastructure for the rest of my life, I'm expected to pay U.S. income taxes on my income. (Some, but not all, can be excluded.)

I genuinely can't get away from it.

And even if I could, you say that like there's some other place to go that doesn't impose its own taxes.

Just because every government has agreed they should ALL have the rights to take money from people who happened to be born there, it doesn't make it somehow not force.

Even if there is not a single thing I think government is uniquely qualified to do that could not be done better by private industry, government is still going to take money from me to do it its way rather than letting me come up with other ways to meet my needs, again, all based on the accident of where I was born.

It seems disingenuous to me to look at that reality and call it anything other than force.