skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty onboard, but uneasy, with the framing that private entities should have broad discretion to decide how to govern the use of their spaces.

But Facebook (and Google, Apple, and many other "platforms") are such an indispensable part of our lives that we should have difficult conversations about what individual rights look like in these quasi-public private spaces. (It's worth noting that the explicit business model of many of these companies is to create gigantic platforms/walled gardens.)

I personally do not believe that many of the norms and common law relating to physical public/private spaces should be transferred to the modern age of digital oligopoly.
There's not a single person that doesn't understand the "why" of this, especially on HN. There's just no "how" there. It's pretty clear so far that GDPR/CCPA have been complete failures. Companies just design around them and consumers are in no position to jump through the hoops those companies have set up to defend themselves. The game is already over and we've lost and articles like these are just hope porn wishing for a better world that we will never see.
water absorbs 2.4GHz readily. this is why microwaves use that frequency to heat your food. microwaves are why that frequency band is unlicensed, too.

so that's Bluetooth and wi-fi ruled out.

GPS is a lower frequency, ~1.5GHz I think, and GPS is already an extremely low power signal.

I don't know about 4g or 5g though.
"Did not work well" is 100% true. It is not the same as "impossible".
The answer is that sometimes progress comes with a cost.

Whether or not you consider cryptocurrencies "progress" is irrelevant, because it's an emerging technology that exists whether you (or I) like it or not.

The cold, hard, unavoidable truth is this: Ransomware may be a Bitcoin problem, and it may not be. Either way, tough shit.
I'm sure we're going to "burn it all down" any day now.
It was given to them to keep on their employees for the duration of the aid. The aid covered up to 90% of salaries, the percentage dependent on the revenue drop during that period.
These frequent posts about Elixir are tempting me to give it another shot...

But the last time I tried (weeks ago), it was a total pain. I could barely find documentation for the authentication packages I was trying for Phoenix and the docs I did find were usually outdated. Packages were unmaintained left and right and there's no official libraries for things like Stripe.

It was a real shame because I seriously align with the ideology behind it. It just slows me downvand for that reason I can't use it.
You ban it at the point of interaction with the existing financial system. You don't have to ban or block the technology.

A gov't can (has) made it illegal to mine or hold them as well. Most people won't and the value will evaporate if there is no market
I also used BeOS back in the mid nineties, first on an actual BeBox-133 and later on a dual PIII-450 PC. I still have bouts of nostalgia for that setup. The GUI and UX were extraordinary.
I don't think aliens being here implies FTL travel. If we're assuming that there's such a huge thing we don't know, it seems equally likely (or even more likely) to be a surprising surprise. We're assuming that they got here in a way we didn't anticipate, so why assume that it's via FTL travel?
"If invasive tracking is outlawed then only outlaws will use invasive tracking." The problem is that symmetry is impossible.
I believe this list was compiled by Andrej Karpathy (director of AI at Tesla).

I thought it would be useful to the HN community given its high signal-to-noise ratio:

1) You can get a quick birds-eye view of the general trends / topics that are currently being taught at the Stanford CS department.

and

2) You're one click away from learning more about each topic if you wish to do so, considering all of the courses listed have publicly accesible websites.
Ha, well played.
While I mostly agree with you about cryptocurrencies, the idea that companies don't invest in security is a lazy argument. It's not that simple. Companies can't secure themselves against bugs in software that no one knows about (zero days) no matter how much they invest.
I can understand that but I was responding to someone who claimed "You mean corporate lobbyists wanting federal enforcement of contract terms and corporate interests".
> something happened that nobody of us would have imagined... this was the missing iPhone

What a strange phrase, considering that was the goal.
you can get them as a sticker pack. "the blobs live on"

https://9to5google.com/2018/07/17/google-blob-emoji-gboard-s...
This doesn't make sense. You don't work 24h a day. I highly doubt they went a day without pay to get the phone back. Even then it would still be more than a full day's worth of pay at €200,000 per year.
Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++
Fun fact: one of the top 5 digital advertising platforms "anonymizes" user identifiers with a simple hash algorithm and "salts" all of the hashes with the same "salt". Can you guess the "salt"? Hint: it is commonly found on a dinner table and is used to season food.
Or they go over the horizon. It would look like going into ocean
That seems like pretty bad luck! In the early months of the pandemic I washed my iPhone 11 daily with no ill effects.
Good luck. All those so-called hearings with social media companies? Excuses to get those CEO's into the back rooms, where the REAL discussions -- and graft -- sorry, campaign donations -- happened. Our government is completely captured by the organizations that are most-hostile to our long-term well-being.
"both"? Sportingbet, betonsports...
You can make it illegal to transact crypto. That would devastate the price and ruin it as a currency. The network would still exist, but it'd be useless as a medium for criminal payments due to the low value.
"Except for Eldakdoky, all the AWS hires named in this article either declined to comment or didn’t respond to inquiries."

I'll check Hazem Eldakdoky's profile in 6 months but I'll be shocked if they're still at AWS after making a statement to the press.
Soon those who have motor control issues or other problems would be able to just feed the script and get their virtual self on video with all the movements which isn't possible in reality.

Which might be necessary, Considering even a LinkedIn profile requires some TikToking now in the name of 'Introduce yourself in a 30 second video'.
Cash enables muggings so we must ban cash?
The National Wildlife Federation says that a native plant "...has occurred naturally in a particular region, ecosystem, or habitat without human introduction."

Given that, the article may have problems because some of that stuff is not native. For my region (my property abuts a wildlife refuge, a national forest, and an Indian reservation), many 'native' plant species are illegal or are disallowed by insurance policies within 5m to 50m of a building.

Climates have changed and appear to be rapidly changing. So the affected ecosystems will change. And does the re-introduction of a plant species that is no longer found at large, constitute a non-native species introduction? Is the synthetic preservation and cultivation of a native plant species that is no longer suitable for a changing ecosystem constitute an unnatural and thus non-native species?

And what about plants that pop up from germinated seed (probably transported by birds and wind) that are not native to this area but thrive because I have altered the habitat? [additions and changes from pond and drainage control and fencing projects]
No, marginal rates don't even go that high.

Once you include sales taxes (which are 12% in a jurisdiction not far from my home) and property taxes (which aren't taken against income but are still taxes), it's not hard to get to a 50-60% total tax burden (across all tax authorities).
> pilots in the tic tac video visually confirmed the physical objects, even talked about shape and color

Visual confirmation is helpful. It doesn't rule out atmospheric effects. Radar is the missing piece. If we have a radar hit, something interesting is going on.
I'm not impressed with this article, which is long on appeals to authority and short on actual analysis and facts.

I recommend this one: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...

And this one: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...
Not true. You don't have to consent to set a cookie. It depends on what the cookie does. Gdpr actually doesn't care about technicalities like cookies, but about privacy. So if you achieve the same tracking using other techniques (like Etag) that needs consent as well.
Just use TreeStyleTab and have all your tabs on the left, and style them any way you want if needed (my main reason for using Firefox has always been TST).
I suspect the vast majority of people on HN are in the top 1% globally. People don't realise how high incomes in the US are relative to the rest of the world.
Henry Ford's trip in his first vehicle 125 yrs ago changed our lives forever
I would imagine if they live at the deepest depths of the ocean it wouldn't even phase them. I feel like the analogy of us and space is pretty accurate. Satellites and space trash don't bother us much as they are so far above.
1. No.

2. It wouldn't.
You can still have many windows, nobody stops you from doing that.
This post is on the front page right now (edit: and now also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27396783) - that's the opposite of "disappearing". I'd have to see links to the other ones.

Here's one tip for you guys, from years-long, world-weary experience: if you're coming up with sensational explanations in breathless excitement, it's almost certainly untrue.

Edit: ok, here's what happened. Users flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925. When you see [flagged] on a submission, you should assume users flagged it because with rare exceptions, that's always why.

A moderator saw that, but didn't look very closely and thought "yeah that's probably garden-variety controversy/drama" and left the flags on. No moderator saw any of the other posts until I woke up, turned on HN, and—surprise!—saw the latest $outrage.

Software marked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395028 a dupe for the rather esoteric reasons explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397622. After that, the current post got upvoted to the front page, where it remains.

In other words, nothing was co-ordinated and the dots weren't connected. This was just the usual stochastic churn that generates HN. Most days it generates the HN you're used to and some days (quite a few days actually) it generates the next outlier, but that's how stochastics work, yes? If you're a boat on a choppy sea, sometimes some waves slosh into the boat. If you're a wiggly graph, sometimes the graph goes above a line.

If I put myself in suspicious shoes, I can come up with objections to the above, but I can also answer them pretty simply: this entire thing was a combo of two data points, one borderline human error [1] and one software false positive. We don't know how to make software that doesn't do false positives and we don't know how to make humans that don't do errors. And we don't know how to make those things not happen at the same time sometimes. This is what imperfect systems do, so it's not clear to me what needs changing. If you think something needs changing, I'm happy to hear it, but please make it obvious how you're not asking for a perfect system, because I'm afraid that's not an option.

[1] I will stick up for my teammate and say that this point is arguable; I might well have made the same call and it's far from obvious that it was the wrong call at the time. But we don't need that for this particular answer, so I'll let that bit go.
What’s the minimum radius?
Author here. No, it doesn't mean that. If the election is held to determine who wins, then the outcome is who wins, and everyone has opinions about that same outcome.

Contrast this to the matching problem, where the outcome is where ALL the candidates are assigned. You're allowed to have an opinion about where you are assigned. I'm allowed to have an opinion about where I am assigned. These opinions might conflict indirectly because of limited spots, but they don't conflict directly. This is very different from the election case, where if you and I have different opinions about who we want to win, those opinions are always contradictory.
Ask someone younger than 20 if they have more than 10$ cash on them.
https://github.com/Izheil/Quantum-Nox-Firefox-Dark-Full-Them...

It's a little more work, but it's doable. It's been stable and surviving updates without needing maintenance for many months now.
Imagine if there was some sort of exotic mechanism to "hack" radar.
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Anyone know anything about that Horizon 2020 project REP-791727-1?

I can't find anything about it anywhere. There is a Horizon 2020 project with the ID 791727. But it is marked as closed, and is about funding of ProtonSuite and not disseminating information about GDPR.

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/791727
We don't have a huge mugging problem. We have muggings (I've been mugged), but they occur infrequently enough that society isn't disrupted. You can't say that about ransomware. Not only that, but we have done things to defang muggings; for instance, it's been made less lucrative (and more dangerous for the mugger) to steal a modern phone.
I'm not a cryptocurrency advocate but as arberx points out in another comment this is avoiding the real problem. The problem isn't cryptocurrency or ransomware. The root cause is what needs to be fixed: Software publishers and software owners are to blame for insecure systems. Software development is like the wild west with absolutely no accountability. This need to change.
>Note: Microsoft owns this page!

Microsoft does not have a stake in MSNBC anymore.
You'd expect this to AT LEAST return that goofy pick of Dukakis sticking his head out of a tank.
Because they fulfilled the criteria required to receive the money.
Unless they are taking the photo from near or in the bore, the camera isn't seeing anything like 3T (or, for that matter 1T).

Most such photos are taken from outside the 5G line which is a very different kettle of fish.

You are right that lots of electronics will be safe in the sense that it will not function in the field but be ok afterwards outside the room - so long as you don't move it around too fast.

On the other hand, most consumer electronics would likely fly out of your hand and smash into the bore well before you get anywhere close to the peak strength.
How does this compare to banning ICE vehicles?

They are widely adopted and useful, yet their secondary harms warrant laws to be written.
i'd be happy to be hung from the gallows than live in such a world
Does not much of the "content moderation" on HN get done via HN users flagging posts?
I remembered I enjoyed reading it, and also that you get as much from the historical examples as anything else. Yes, worth it.

Is it the best in current corporate world? shrug define best. Not the most recent, definitely. Take Gervais Principle for example.

But you can't learn something big from just one book, and yes, I think it still has a place.
Looks like even the "official" definitions vary.

Definitions vary, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture says anything that changes the fundamental nature of an agricultural product – heating, freezing, dicing, juicing – is a processed food.

"Those little baby carrots that you get in a supermarket – that's a processed food," said Penny Kris-Etherton, registered dietitian and distinguished professor of nutrition at Pennsylvania State University's Department of Nutritional Sciences. So are frozen vegetables, or even broccoli that's been cut into florets.

Ultra-processed food takes things further. Nutritionists started using the term about 10 years ago, and again, definitions vary. One diet classification system called NOVA sums it up as "snacks, drinks, ready meals and many other products created mostly or entirely from substances extracted from foods or derived from food constituents with little if any intact food."

From here: https://www.heart.org/en/news/2020/01/29/processed-vs-ultra-...
I expect the observation has been made many times, but one particular example of note is https://danluu.com/testing/
Bitcoin was wildly popular on darknet markets even when it was worth less than $10. It's still tied to a dollar value, so it can be used for payments without issue.
America runs on Dunkin' and Microsoft.
Thanks for finally admitting your intentions. I don't see a similar suggestion anywhere ITT or TFA, but it all did seem a bit too coy. Physically, it would be possible to shut down e.g. Coinbase. Legally, that seems a stretch. Politically, with the particular investors they now have, you're trying to shut the barn door after the horse has joined the circus.

Shutting down Coinbase, however, will have no effect on bitcoin or the people who use it. That's the point of bitcoin, and it has been since the protocol was published.
You can't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. Perhaps you don't owe the other commenter better, but you most certainly owe this community better if you're posting to it. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’d expect it to bring up something though, given that search engines can pull a ton of irrelevant content farm crap at the least for some of the most specific searches I’ve done.
I thought you can easily wash the money by converting it through an anonymous cryptocurrency and then out again anyways.
you say this in jest but in reality plenty of people have stopped using cash by themselves for this exact reason.
Before cryptocurrency it was iTunes giftcards or money transfer services to a 3rd world country. Cryptocurrency is not the only way to transfer money that’s relatively hard to trace.
The mass is the fact that every single person is subject to being abused, any time anyone else wants to.

They can't do it to everyone because of simple logistics, but they can do it to anyone.

If you didn't get thrown in prison today, it's not because the problem doesn't apply to you and you are safe. It's only because no one decided it would be super convenient for them if you went away.
users flag posts in almost all circumstances. too many users flagged it.

HN isn't policed by its admins except in extremely rare cases.
I found a load of clay pipe stems on the bank of the Thames. My father found a 16th century corkscrew there too.

It makes a very distant past feel much closer.
Google search being free is an absolute enormous amount of value. How much would you pay for a subscription to Google if it weren't free?
That may be what they are doing.

And let us be clear - it is bad enough when the major tech companies gladly apply CCP or RUS filtering within those territories.

The CCP is the friend of no one but themselves, and they are global expansionists. The RUS govt is an international criminal syndicate masquerading as a govt.

If the tech companies start applying those same CCP/RUS standards globally, then the response should be to shut off those countries from the internet.
What if it's a Pacific Rim situation where the transidmensional rift just happens to be located in the deep sea
Right, the DMV has a monopoly on a service most adults require. There are competitors for simple services like registration renewal @ AAA, but that's less available in smaller communities. So when you go to a DMV somewhere there's only one DMV serving the region, it's a pretty good cross-section of local society.

Another interesting window in this vein is the local courthouse. The smaller towns don't separate out traffic violations from everything else, it's all on display handled in one room. You can get a sense of what's going on and the type of people in a given small town rather quickly this way.

When there's just one grocer serving a given area, it's effectively the same situation. But when competition eventually arrives, I think they tend to quickly divide along class boundaries.

Around here there's only one grocery store in my local town, and as a result it's actually pretty decent. The exact same chain has a very similar store in a significantly larger town ~25 miles away, where there's a competing upper-class grocer in the adjacent lot. The effect is devastating on the mediocre chain. Customers are treated poorly, the place is a filthy mess, cashiers aren't even trusted enough to manually enter prices when a barcode won't scan. The contrast is shocking, just next door in the higher end grocer none of these problems are experienced, but the prices are slightly higher.
When Bitcoin was worth less than $10 how difficult was it to change your bitcoin into cash?
> although everyone knows what it means to be a dog or a honeybee, no one really knows what it means to be a human being.

We can finally let Thomas Nagel know what it is like to be a bat.
Not all the observations are explainable. However, if you take away one observation -- the claims about high-g acceleration and supersonic flight -- the following seems to fit: battery powered drones with regular (possibly quad) rotors, sea-launched (possibly from vessels disguised as merchant vessels) by a foreign power to observe US military.

This would explain: FLIR footage and close range radar, but no contact on long range radar. Would also explain why primarily Navy pilots have observed these objects while commercial pilots don't, and why they seem to be seldom seen over land. Also explains why all the sightings seem to be around the continental US. Also explains the lack of exhaust plumes. Also explains the lack of sonic booms (I know of no way a solid object could cross the sound barrier without a boom). Multiple such drones might also explain why they appear to travel faster than the fighters -- perhaps they are observing two identical craft.

All one has to do is discount the high-g claims as embellishment by pilots. I could be wrong, but I know of no way to account for all the observations.
This is essentially the approach taken by

https://www.dpdk.org/ (network)
and
https://spdk.io/ (storage)

Anything trying to squeeze perf doing IO intensive work should switch to this model (context permitting of course).
There is no evidence at all that computer science and information technology actually knows how to solve the underlying security problems without forcing untenable compromises on the economy. We can produce secure software, but only at a level of expense and time that would preclude most commercial software development.