skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With big limitations that don't apply here. Things like mutually assured destruction work if/because an attack is quickly detectable, reasonably clearly attributable, and a symmetric tit-for-tat retaliation is plausible.

That's not the case for cyberattacks. Solarwinds was attacked many months before it was detected, Stuxnet was hidden for years. We have attributed some attacks but not most and attribution often succeeds only years after detection. And the attackers aren't as vulnerable to cyberattacks simply because their economy is "less connected" - for example, North Korea is at the extreme end of that scale and they really don't care much about what exploits you have; you have a digital economy that's wealthy but vulnerable to attacks by those who don't have it.
Yeah, surely there could be some dish made from day-old meat.
> With all due respect, the lab leak hypothesis does not change the fact Covid exists now

It would though, in Jan 2020. When it was almost equivalent to xenophobia. When everyone was told travel was no biggie. And everyone should hang in NYC because the preparedness is so high. What does it say about those experts who espoused these bs? I remember Anthony Fauci publicly saying in news conference there is no way this is a lab leak and it has to be a natural virus.
If a year later now it seems the were not being honest to public (intentionally or not), what makes you think a year from now they won't reverse course on vaccine?

> how a vaccine rollout better than Europe (so far) means they have blood on their hands.

You don't think US wouldn't have a better response if this was not an election year in 2020? I remember the tone around vaccine suddenly changing post election from "I will use it when Drs say it is safe" to "if you don't take vaccine you are a bigot".

> the safety profile of some vaccines (Pfizer/BioNTech) seems very good (compared to AZ, which is still not bad)

Sure "seems good", it is like saying safety profile of this code I am going to be using in production that will be tested on billions of people "seems fine" so let's go ahead and if anything happens we will be on the "same boat as millions of other people" as you said.

My hypothesis around this is this - countries that have been successful the most in controlling the virus i.e. China have the lowest vaccination number too. So what makes you think we are smarter than them when we did an awful job managing the virus?

> Shit does sometimes happen, and often it's out of our control.

This is the point though. Shit happened and it was within our control. There were multiple mis-steps from health officials and media from the get go with outright downplay to being completely wrong (about masks and other things) and politicizing. And there were no recourse. No introspection. No apologies. The NYC health commissioner who said their preparedness was very high is still there. No one had any accountability.

Hell there are still 700+ people dying in US everyday, do you hear those CNN panelists outraged about those deaths? No, we have moved on. It's all about channeling the narrative. The political war has been won and that''s all that mattered in an election year. People's lives were secondary.

And we still are supposed to trust blindly the same group of people?
My first work computer was a £20,0000 alphastation but the employer was a (10yo) "startup" so the desk was a cheap door on two sawhorses in a converted stables. The desk/door gave me wrist splinters. A good PC might have 16mb and be a 486DX.

We had one VAX machine left in the company and it was apparently the only thing that could talk to both the Unix machines and these "it'll-never-catch-on" Windows PCs. I don't remember "porting" anything but I do remember installing DECnet onto PCs and a 1.something version of samba on the alphas so we could switch that aging beast off. Next upgrade was to 10-base-2 networking so all the computers would be on the same network.
Police accidentally gave domestic violence victim's phone data to her attacker
This is one of the intractable problems of human society. There is no optimal solution:

Consolidation gives you consistency, network effects, and economies of scale. But it also gives you monocultures, stagnation, and overfitting.

Heterogeneity and competition gives you incentives to optimize, innovation, and robustness. But it also gives you redundancy, knowledge loss, and inefficiency.
Given the state of Intel macOS of recent past it is not entirely impossible that Apple put in hardware specific optimization work into m1 macOS but ignored Intel one for whatever reasons.

I mean he's compiling the Linux kernel inside of docker which runs on macOS Intel and M1. There's also hypervisor implementation involved - hardware and software.

If he booted ARM Linux on M1 and compared the kernel compile there with one on Linux on Intel MBP it would be more apt. But then again Linux isn't optimized for the Mac especially for IO workloads due to AHCI / NVME driver issues - see phoronix.

So yeah we will need a 8c Ryzen 5xxx mobile in Nuc form factor (PN50) vs Mac mini M1 benchmark when Linux is somewhat decent on that hardware.
Yeah, I guess it depends on the level of data sharing and how good AmEx is at identifying its users based on other data points. Either way they are explicitly stating they're gathering data and passing it on in a much more standardized and defined form than they're willing to share with the consumer. Entities buying the data are probably throwing a lot of capital into joining datasets on a macro level.

Another comment mentions privacy.com as a solution. I've actually thought of creating a little terminal program to leverage it because it's a neat product and super cool they're maintaining a well-defined API for it.

All this ultimately bums me out though. Jumping through so many hoops to avoid this intrusive (and increasingly default) behavior can't be good for mental health. Plus where do you draw the line? When it's so widespread and largely unaccountable while everyone is saying it's up to the individual to avoid it, it really starts to feel rather quixotic trying to take measures to protect yourself.
And I hate how you never escape work when WFH—it’s a double edged sword.
Interesting, could you elaborate on that?
Really one of my favorite examples of why public sector investment is a Good Thing.
Question: when calculating the CPI, what's the weight coefficient for gas prices? It isn't largely defined by the gas price, is it?
The problem is that the graph here is going down because inflation is going way up :/
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The 13” MBP line has been bifurcated for a couple of years, the M1 replaced the low-end of that line.

The split started when Apple first tried to replace the MacBook Air with the MacBook Pro sans-touchbar (aka the MacBook escape), and the low end Pro hung around even after they reversed course and brought out the new retina Air.
>Maybe it's time to accept that this industry is greedy, arrogant and negligent in a way that's unmatched by almost anyone, except maybe hedgefunds.

"This industry"? Which industry is that? I mean, it's a tempting narrative: a big greedy industry, etc. But, this is not isolated to any one industry or any one company. These are attacks by foreign actors on a variety of our companies, government agencies, infrastructure, etc. And they result in real harm to our economy, infrastructure, and people.

>allow companies to sell vulnerable routers, IP cameras, internet enables printers and phones with knows vulnerabilities at the time of release, and leave it without updates

Again, this sounds like a compelling narrative, and sure, there need to be improvements. But, the reality is that the attack surface is vast and includes zero-days in well-maintained software, social engineering, OSS, custom software, network configs, etc.

In general, it seems like there's a lot of anger in your post, but none of it directed at the actual criminals (or their national sponsors) who are actually responsible for the attacks. That's really puzzling to the point where it almost reads like defending the criminals.
> No amount of "listening" will change the fact that all three vaccines are untested

They've had significant testing, similar to other medications of a similar type.

Do you have an actual threshold you think would be a reasonable amount of "testing" and a reasonable argument as to why that is an appropriate amount as oposed to just picked at random? Or is this the sort of thing where someone could run a 100 year study, and you would still object, because what-if i live to a ripe ole' 150 and the long term effects only start 110 years later?
Public health workers have known for a long time that low health literacy is a huge problem. People will keep getting into preventable accidents and abusing drugs. All you can do is to make the facts and medical tools widely available to those who want to use them.
Researchers increase life expectancy of mice 30%, uncover key aging mechanism
In theory yes. But you have to be disciplined to do this yourself (it's so easy not to bother when we have a world of distractions and comfort at home). Ultimately though, I'm not suggesting people take up long commutes for the sake of meditation, I'm just saying long commutes aren't necessarily dead time.
Okay? Nobody suggested the study wasn't worth doing. But reporting on the non-surprising result as if it's surprising is weird.
With all due respect , Only people who have not seen how quickly a COVID case can turn dangerous , can be worried about the risks of COVID vaccine. Please take your COVID vaccines.
FINALLY. They should have done this since the start, for decades now much of the US military has gotten cyberwar completely backwards by misapplying real world strategies to the digital world (obviously they have not been alone). "The best defense is a good offense" is often true for physical warfare, where limited resources means force concentration can be far more effective then the same resources put into static defenses. But in the digital world where data can be replicated endlessly, advantage is probably better thought of in terms of information gradients, electronic utilization, and societal models.

For gradients, if a society maintains more information than another (the product of lots of resources sunk into R&D say) that translates into technological and effectiveness edge and thus real world advantage. Since information can be replicated perfectly, attacks tend to level the gradient, meaning the attackers gain the value without the same resource expenditure and can put more resources into putting the same stuff into production.

For electronic utilization, computers and networks in a lot of things can improve efficiency a great deal. But that then also opens up opportunities for digital attackers.

And the government digital security efforts should heavily take into account shoring up the weaknesses of the model society follows. For the West in general that has a lot of individualism, free market capitalism generating tons of data, heavy technological dependency to maximize productivity per person rather then throwing bulk cheap labor at a problem, etc. Government needs to help organizations and individuals stand up to state-level threats.

So for America, I'd argue that "the best offense is a good defense" when it comes to cyber war. Like, imagine a world where we had perfect bug free systems and nobody could hack anything, vs a world where there is zero possible security and all information is shared universally. I think in the former America would have a significant advantage over more authoritarian countries for the foreseeable future. I think an open society has an edge in producing valuable knew information. But in the latter scenario I think authoritarians would be ahead. They have more people and a more directed economy, if they could essentially outsource R&D completely they'd gain more than they'd lose from it.

Better late than never though. And it'll take years and years and years to prove that this is really serious and not a flash in the pan, that American defense agencies will actually choose patching over holding onto zero days (thus showing faith in the country) and so on. But I hope this does mark a permanent change where rather then mistrusting by default the likes of the NSA and other TLAs their security advice is appreciated and highly useful. One can hope.
I don't understand what this is supposed to be showing. They seem to be only adjusting by a gas-specific CPI component: "1978 Gas Price x (2020 CPI for Gas / 1978 CPI for Gas) = Adjusted Gas Price in 2020 Dollars". Which seems like a tautology... The "X Year Gas Price" and "X Year CPI for Gas" seem so linked - if you adjust this number by a number that's supposed to reflect it's rate of change, you get a flat line, but... of course?

For instance, the spike between 2003 and 2006 certainly didn't feel like a flat line compared to the cost of other things, so wouldn't this graph be much more interesting if it was based on "CPI for everything BUT gas"?
As a Brit I was pretty shocked to arrive in Australia and see that binge drinking there is next level. The Melbourne Cup horse races is like a national drinking day, my employer took everyone out to get wasted (this was in Sydney, didn't even watch the races) and then it was understood that you'd probably take the next day off.
Swift will have it as of version 5.5
I think the important distinction for us is that it isn't "work from the office one day a week". It's work from home unless your team needs you. Our ask is that team leaders work very hard to limit the days that people need to be in the office and that when they ask folks to come in there is a clearly articulated reason and objective. Basically the idea is that we want coming into the office to feel valuable and therefore worthwhile.

In reality most teams don't need people to come in that often... I'm concerned about some long term drift where some teams never come in and others find themselves schlepping into the office a lot, but I think it's something we can manage with good coaching for our team leads.
Perhaps, but does the same thing not apply to Apple iOS or Google Android devices? If an attacker finds a vulnerability in one of these common devices, they can compromise any of your users' devices and can then open file shares, exfiltrate data over their cellular link, etc.

We are now in year 7 of availability of Amazon Echo devices, and there are two recorded vulnerabilities (one required internal hardware access, the other required connecting the device to a malicious WiFi AP.) Given that track record, there may never be a broadly exploitable vulnerability in the devices; they are pretty locked down and they auto-update regularly, with no provision for delaying or blocking said updates.
Hi, Will. I noticed this:

>> Your program can be more efficient, you can have more expressive control but
if you are not careful, your program can be unsound. In other words: there may
be an answer to your query that you do not find. So an analogy would be in a
database lookup. If you are doing a database query, maybe there is actually
information in a table that you should find, but you do not find it.

To clarify, that's incompleteness. Unsoundness is when an inference rule returns
wrong results. Incompleteness is where it doesn't return all correct results. As
you say, unification without an occurs check is unsound and Prolog's depth-first
search is incomplete.

I wanted to ask, because you brought it up in the interview, how does minikanren
(or minikanrens?) handle the occurs check? You said that you are interested in
trying to push the relational aspect as far as possible, recognising that this
gives up efficiency - can you quantify to what extent minikanren gives up
efficiency and generally say a bit more about the trade-off between (if I
understand it correctly) efficiency and relational (declarative?) purity?
If their standard fuel load is enough for LEO, perhaps it's enough for two suborbital hops, especially if the return trip is without cargo?
> are we not encouraging interpersonal violence by refusing to enforce the property laws that separate us from the state of nature?

The tradeoff is that we definitely have to use violence to evict people from these spaces and force them back onto the streets or into other open spaces. And with fewer places to camp, they'll likely be exposed to more physical disputes than before. It's not as if the residents of these camps will go "well, time to buy a condo". They'll still need somewhere to live.

> Basically, we can spend all the money in the world and build all the housing that people need, but the personal liberty that this country espouses -- personal liberty I agree with! -- means that no one is obligated to take it.

The east bay has hundreds of people on a waiting list just for shelter space. There aren't enough beds for the night, let alone supportive housing, so we haven't even come close to trying the "build all the houses that these people need" (and make they available) strategy.

EDIT: FWIW I learned about the waitlist problem while listening to this podcast: https://99percentinvisible.org/need/
For reference, humans drank only water after weaning for several hundred thousand years. Today we act like only water is deprivation.
Somewhat hesitant people who are not anti-vaxxers are not the problem.
They're using a gasoline-specific CPI. So yes, it is.

This is an entirely pointless exercise.
GPs, not GPS!
My userChrome for tabs on bottom stopped with v89 - can I ask what you're using to get tabs on bottom now?
You'd be surprised... I know most higher-up people, even the ones in tech who should really know better, still make very questionable decisions around digital security. Often totally in breach of policy they themselves introduced. And get away with it due to their leverage. I worked in IT a long time and it's been so many times that I saw the 'please turn off the annoying security restrictions for us, we're the bosses so we know better' coming around. They often have a huge security awareness gap: themselves.

Though to be fair: Most of us have that gap. I know I do. But they have the clout to override policy.

Don't expect someone to be sensible just because they're at the top somewhere.
> from 1930

Good news: It's very likely that the copyright has expired. If you were to scan them, remember to upload them to archive.org for everyone else to see.

Bad news: It's only the case if the copyright hasn't been renewed by the owner. Usually most owners don't renew them, but to determine whether or not this is the case, you need to go through huge catalogs of registered entries from the U.S. copyright office.
If the cost of gas after inflation is as stable as that graph suggests, then most of the large increase in gas prices in the past year -- from ~$2 to ~$3 -- is the result of inflation.

https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts

A near 50% annual inflation rate? I sure hope not. Someone please tell me what's wrong with this graph or my interpretation.
You're right, that is a ridiculous example that misses the point of what I was saying.
OBS is of course more powerful, but if all you're looking for is "phone as computer webcam" then something simple like Iriun Webcam might work.
By publishing scientific research. How dare they.
> Actually, that's not true.

It was for me.

Most of my RSI was due to mouse usage. Moving to a thumb trackball did wonders.
You can export your entire scene collection to a json file and import it on another computer.

If you keep all of your media and such in the same folder, then the new Missing Files dialog on startup will also auto detect every source after you point one to the new location.
There didn't seem to be any seasonality effects last year during this time. What's different this year?
I think it all boils down to overfitting. “Efficiency is overfitting.”
The parent has a point. If the CCP is involved, they can't report anything negative without retaliation.
To be precise, most houses in Japan pull 3 power lines (-100V, 0V, 100V) so they also supports 1-phase 200V by using -100V, 100V pair.

Another problem is electric company offers only 6kVA max for normal family plan. If I need more capacity, monthly bill isn't getting much higher, but selectable plan is limited and I should pay replacement cost at once.
> Not to mention the famous toilet paper debacle.

This is the kind of false narrative that spreads like wildfire because it rests on a morality play we all love about how a small number of those people are ruining it for everyone else.

In reality, the toilet paper shortage was caused by people using their home toilets instead of office ones. Office toilets use different toilet paper (those giant rolls of pretty scratchy paper). Those rolls are manufactured on different lines, shipped through different supply chains, and sold in different stores. Paper companies have incredibly thin margins, and it took a while for them to retool and shift over to the new reality. The shortage was just the dip while that was happening.

Basically, sales of product A (residential TP) skyrocketed while product B tanked (office TP). No surprise that it became hard to find A in stores.

Hoarding didn't have a significant impact. (Think about it, how could it have? The shortage was a few weeks long. Think about how much toilet paper a small number of hoarders would have to have to cause a shortage of that scale. Did they literally fill their entire house with rolls?)
I think that's a little unfair. I've encountered people who are nervous about the vaccine, largely because its a black box they don't understand. They changed their mind once pointed at an appropriate level resource (e.g. something more ELI5 than a scientific paper, but not an actual eli5 explanation that glosses over all the important bits and leaves more questions than answers). Although perhaps hestient and antivax are separate groups.

In any argument, its always convinent to assume your opponent is just unreasonable. That makes your failure to convince their fault not yours. Maybe some people are, but its a dangerous slippery slope to operate under that assumption.
Isn't that the vast majority of people that are concerned?