skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds similar to the problem of someone with access to a file cabinet, where they aren't allowed to use some of the files in the cabinet, but are allowed to access other files in the same cabinet.
In a world of renewable energy, the battery technology that wins will not be based on charge time, density, or longevity but on cost and the ability to be efficiently recycled.
I think one way to look at the inability/unwillingness for FAANG companies to have any reasonable parental leave policy, is that it's the kind of thing that needs to be regulated by (federal) law.

Looking from Norway, it's rediculus to see companies not managing to give a year of parental leave, or something simple like on-campus child care.
Sorry, I was sick yesterday.

It is mostly a tools problem. It should be way easier than it is to see the metadata for a given file in your shell command, browser or whatever. Dired for example has a pretty darn good visual model for this, that could really be taken much further I think. The reason we don't see more metadata like extended attributes and such, is that they are still not standardized across different file systems. So we get left with the lowest common denominator. But a reasonably designed system could just show it if it's there.

I've just always thought a tree is a very elegant way to represent categorical data. Now that I think of it, placing files in the tree is a way to preindex a search for all objects in a given category, basically the ls command. It really affects how we reason about our data. Huh.

Soft links honestly seem like a hack to me, to get around our shitty distributed file system model. And then, because oh no, what if my file is on another server, I guess everyone should just use soft links for absolutely everything. Like, why not just concatenate the host string to the file ID, and have the OS figure out how to handle it? Sorta like tramp.
Would you know if your phone was hacked?
Tesla would then also profit from increased property values over time, similar to the long term business strategies of mom-and-pop McDonald’s franchises.
Because essentially all networked IT systems are extremely easy to attack. These attacks probably cost ~$10k to pull off. If you can get $4M, like in the pipeline attack, by paying $10k and have no moral compunctions about it, why would you not be exploiting it as ruthlessly as you can and expanding your operations as quickly as you can to exploit the entire market? So, really there is nothing surprising about the current rash of attacks if you know the actual level of security we can expect. The real question is why it took so long for people to turn $10k into $4M and reinvest that $4M into 400 more $10k attacks with $4M payouts.

Now, somebody will say something like: "Everybody knows these companies don't care about security. If they just focused on security and adopted best practices or (insert basic practice here) they would not be having these problems." Sure, these attacks are utterly trivial to implement and the target companies are massively behind the curve on "best practices" by orders of magnitude. But, even the best systems are completely and utterly ridiculously inadequate. You can completely and utterly compromise essentially any currently deployed commercial IT system for less than $10M with the median for total compromise of a Fortune 500 company being ~$100k. And frankly, $10M is just me sandbagging the upper bound. I have never had any person in any security organization from an engineer to a regional cybersecurity director to a CISO at a Fortune 500 company ever give a number over $1M when asked over lunch.

For third party evidence, you can just look at Zerodium where they pay for exclusive rights to zero days in the most "secure" products currently available for only slightly more than $1M. You can literally burn multiple remote zero-click full-chain RCE zero days per attack and you would still be spending less than $10M per attack. If you can leverage a single remote zero-click full-chain RCE zero day even 10 times the cost per attack drops to the $100k-500k range.

So sure, they could improve their security by a factor of 100x, bringing it from $10k to $1M. That might stop some criminals for a time. They might attack cheaper targets for a time. But if they can pay $1M to get $4M from you, then once they eat all the other fish in the barrel they are going to eat you.
This is the illusion of democracy. There is no available democratic option in the USA that will bring about the end of US imperialistic war.

The people in the voting booths in the USA can no more be blamed for the USA's warmongering than the Americans who stayed home, abstaining, or people in the next country over. The US military is going to do what the US military is going to do, and to believe anything else is to be either ignorant of history or hopelessly naive.
It's actually worse. Since there's an income cap of something like 140k, it's worse to have 1 person make 280k than 2 people making 140k.
I'd like to try this, but the "Try Now for Free!" button wants me to create an account - I don't want to create an account just to have a quick look. I'd much rather have a quick look, then maybe create an account later if I wanted to try it more meaningfully.

If you're an HN regular, I guess you were expecting a comment like this - is there an open URL we can use just to get a feel for it?
No way! /s

I mean, who didn't see that coming. NFTs, IMHO, have been money grabbing jokes, dumping on those naively looking for the next hot thing. Or rich people with money to blow...and since it's money to blow, who cares if it's now worthless?
You can tumble coins so they can't be associated with the dirty wallet they're from, but that doesn't explain how you ended up with the coins. "someone sent me a million dollars of crypto for no reason" isn't very believable. "someone bought my NFT" is less unreasoable.
People keep shitting on JavaScript in this thread. To be clear, this is a JavaScript game that SpaceX made, and somebody wrote an autopilot... yes, in JavaScript... because that's what browsers run.

It's a cool algorithm running in the only language browsers natively know to play a browser-native game. Relax. It's cool. It's impressive.
Visa workers pay into social security but get no benefits and I believe those are on an upward trend.

So, as usual, we just turn it into an externality for Mexico and India to deal with.
Given his original point was that voices countering the radical left wouldn't be tolerated, and they proved him right, it's not obvious what he could back down from?
I don't think the barrier to entry is higher. You're just asking for them to send something physical, you don't have to do any extra work. I'm making an assumption that a lot of the current problems with ransomware originate from criminal gangs in countries that already look the other way. Maybe that is a poor assumption. A company could be less likely to mail cash instead of clicking a button though.
I wonder what the result would be of using pulsejets offset in timing by 50% of eachother.
Refusing to pay taxes is not a viable strategy for ending the war, as it results in your arrest and incarceration.
Ask HN: What skills are required to pursue information security/ cyber security
I’m genuinely curious how do you learn info sec skills as a programmer
Titles are physical objects and backed by laws and the state and a centralized database available to all of government.

Many of the NFTs are not distributed even though they claim to be, so while they have the same kind of centralization, they have no such authority. If we were to grant them such authority, we'd want it to be a normal centralized database and the benefits of decentralization would not be needed. There would be no need for non-cooperative consensus either.
It's downright embarrassing how hard people are pushing blockchain technology onto every damn thing they can, even when it makes zero sense. NFTs? Just a massive unnecessary overhead to a concept of ownership well grounded in every country's laws. Cryptocurrency? Outside of very niche applications (including and mostly for the black market), it's dramatically slower, more expensive, and higher risk than a slew of existing payment options. Now this bullshit about a blockchain tower to provide free wireless access for blockchain networks? All marketing nonsense, since every company in these skyscrapers already has access to high speed internet, and every person in the area already has access to high speed mobile data. It's all bullshit.
OK, pretend I said eating then.
The term is impregmating in this context and process :)
It's horrifying that Jenkins is still the industry standard. The whole thing is poorly documented and full of cruft and vulnerabilities. But there is nothing out there as flexible to my knowledge.
I'd say he'd be proud of his comments and really surprised what is this sudden noise all about.
> In my experience, epsilon delta understanding was pretty much unrelated to passing calculus, where tests consisted of formula/substitution crunching

That's a shame. There are so many exciting things to learn in calculus that you can skip the epsilon delta stuff and still do so much more than formula/substitution crunching. Calculus is the gateway to differential geometry, topology, mathematical physics, differential equations, taylor series which are useful for numerical approximations and so many other things, analytic number theory, complex analysis, many forms of statistics. So many wonderful things you can do with it.

Imagine using your new found calculus knowledge to show that the orbit of the planets about the sun is an ellipse -- which is what Newton used calculus to do -- OR learning all about epsilons and deltas. Which would be more fun as a student learning calculus. Make the math exciting enough and people will put up with the drudgery of calculations.
You're right about that for the most part, but my point is that NFTs are still being bought and sold on a daily basis. Just because there's not an over-hyped multi-million dollar sale every day, doesn't mean "the bubble has popped".
H.R.2316 – Fire Fauci Act
Keep censoring - we'll increase the posting. :)
I commute at least 2 hours each day I go to the office. If the MTA is running smoothly. I would estimate I spend closer to 20 days commuting each year. Plus $1,800, which pales in comparison to the TVM of hundreds of hours commuting.

I will not be happy to return to the office.
> Because of my white skin, I "continue to materially benefit" from "systemic racism," and yet, where are these benefits?

Less likely to be arrested or incarcerated, less likely to be stopped or harassed by police, less likely to be denied a job or mortgage. Those are some of the major systemic privileges White people have that Black people don't in the U.S. The statistics are pretty stark.
If you couldn't guess by the headline

> Walmart said the primary use of the phone is for its new employee app called Me@Walmart, which the company explained in a release is meant to "simplify daily tasks, serve our customers and plan for life outside of work."

Not quite the same thing as "free". This is going to remove "I don't have a smartphone" as an argument against being monitored in various ways by your employer.
I don't entirely disagree with you. But by the same token, trying to treat everyone as an individual without acknowledging disadvantages due to race, gender, etc isn't a good idea either.

For instance, I'm trans. I'm not openly out when searching for jobs / at work, because I fear I will be discriminated for it. If I saw a company already had several trans people, and they were seeking trans people out and asking them to apply, I would maybe change my mind.

Should companies treat everyone as individuals, and say "if trans people wanted to work here, they need to apply"? Because that's how you get no trans people applying, and that perpetuates the cycle of "I can't come out, no one else in the world is trans". Sure, it would be better if companies didn't have to advocate for diversity, but until society doesn't have stigmitism, real or imagined, against minorities, then I don't think it's wrong to help them on the basis of their identity.
That’s a lot of extra steps instead of just using a format with DRM.
I really liked that infographic when I first saw it on twitter a while ago. I found it again at https://accessibility.asu.edu/wa-helps-everyone-large-versio..., which specifies Microsoft's Inclusive Toolkit Manual as the source.
World Personal Remittances Tracking
Now that is so inside baseball I'm struggling to imagine how you'd ever get anyone to care about it. First you'd have to spend an hour explaining what userboxes are, by which point everyone would already be bored to tears.
1. 3D is definitely a differentiator, but we consider it more of an implementation detail. It does come with some really cool stuff like the ability to have a first-person view (really neat to be able to give a presentation in FP). A 3D interface affords a lot of really fun ways to interact with emotes and things and we have beta support for things like wearables.

2. We are investing a lot in asynchronous modes of communication. Our chat system is already pretty robust (easily drag drop files, reactions, etc.) but we also have some big plans here.

3. Customizable and programmability are first-class citizens. Everything is totally customizable in real-time within the same experience. We also envision this as a completely programmable world. Slack is really powerful because of its integrations, but we think having a spatial interface like this actually unlocks some super interesting things. (e.g. imagine updating having your CI build change the color of a light on a desk somewhere).
That interpretation leads to such a massive broadening of felony criminal liability. It doesn't gut-check for me

I agree with you, it totally fails the gut check, but it is because the law is poorly written. The Supreme Court bailed out the lawmakers by winging it here. The minority opinion is the worse, but more accurate plain reading of the law.
It's not a competition to get to the bottom of the oppression ladder, i can imagine nothing more dystopian then a chart ranking minorities with an "opression" score or something.
I'm genuinely surprised to see that someone hasn't taken this idea and run with it already.

In the southeast US there's chain called Waffle House that seems to have a restaurant on every exit of the highway, in some cases they have a restaurant on either side of the highway so you don't have to cross over.

They're open 24/7 and they're a sit down style restaurant for quick meal so you can get back on the road. You're typically there for an hour or less. Their business seems like the ideal location to drop DC Fast Chargers.
The Thousand Autumns of Naomi Osaka
Syria’s exam-related Internet shutdowns
Talk about the exception that proves the rule, though!
I think there are a few noteworthy components to this:

* Kamau's post conflates Jews with Israel, which is simultaneously a common, innocent mistake and a rhetorical strategy used by Zionists and the far right. Having read the actual post[1], I'm inclined to believe that Kamau falls for the aforementioned strategy.

* One of the Twitter accounts linked in the article, "StopAntisemitism," is a Zionist organization. They've been outspoken in their attempts to conflate Israel (and Israel's Jews) with Judaism as a whole, and to generally delegitimize the faith and politics of the millions of diaspora Jews who reject Zionism and do not support Israel.

I am a Jew, and I thought that Kamau's blog post was tone-deaf. But it's also over a decade old, and its chief fault is that it falls for a rhetorical conflation that countless organizations have dedicated extraordinary resources too (that Jews are fundamentally foreigners, that we all belong in Israel, that to be an anti-Zionist is to be an anti-Semite). I don't think he deserves blame for falling for that dirty trick.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210601160519/https://www.kamau...
Fascinating work. Does your personal interest in this some from the perspective of (mid/long-term future) WBE?
http://buildbot.net/
One explanation is that your friend's collective financial situation is so dire that only the most irresponsible couple would have children.
Yep, and it's clearly echoing the second sentence of the piece, "the insatiable appetite for vengeful violence that Israel, my homeland, has now acquired."

Perhaps it's a deliberate conflation of Jews and Israel, or perhaps it's thoughtless writing when trying to echo & rephrase the opening/title.
I did not say it was a viable strategy for ending the war I said it was a viable strategy for minimizing and hopefully removing completely culpability for the actions of one's society.

on edit: as an example we can say with some surety that the one white man in 1800s American that should not be charged with culpability for slavery would be John Brown (although he probably would not feel the same way) - there are undoubtedly others but we can point with some justification at John Brown and say that guy pretty much not to blame for any of that shit.

I'm certainly not recommending that people have to do these things either, just to being clear eyed about things - you can't benefit from your society's actions and then say you don't share any blame from what it does without some extreme dropping out of the system.
> My opinion is that it's unlike NFTs enough in the average human mind that the analogy falls over.

Absolutely, that remains to be seen, and I think we're very clearly in an NFT craze at the moment that is going to result in a lot of people putting money in and losing it. My argument is simply that it is not absurd to use an NFT to represent originality for a digital work and for collectors to value that originality more than digital copies, and in fact it's extremely similar to how the determination and valuation of originality already works for physical paintings. I do think that a lot of the actual financial activity going on with NFTs right now is absurd, but not fundamentally more absurd than much of the financial activity going on with most assets in the world!

> But the fact that that provenance is embodied in a non-copyable physical piece of art, versus a ledger in the literal ether that is just a piece of text that says "Yep, this person bought it", is a critical difference that I think is unbridgeable.

My prediction is that it won't be any less bridgeable than the notion that the amount of money you have in your bank account is actually just a tiny amount of digital information stored on a computer somewhere in your bank's computer closet. The bank isn't actually storing the physical cash that you deposited, and moreover, that physical cash doesn't even represent anything physical!
I don't think they're saying this isn't true. The primary takeaway from this study, for me, is that when a species gains the necessary "hardware" to create and propogate culture, it hits a tipping point, and then the culture becomes the primary force for adaption.

I think certain birds and cetaceans are near this cusp, but their "culture" may be very difficult to understand or study especially as it pertains to adaptibility, with perhaps the exception of crows.
Just the thought of LHR makes me want to go to bed, though admittedly, I always fly with the plebs.
Were they not a brand before?
Haha, you're fine! It's pretty much just me behind the curtain.

(And honestly, sometimes I worry the UI is too slick -- that it will give people expectations the tool won't live up to.

But I have too much fun making fancy buttons, I can't bear to get rid of 'em :) )
Hi Jeremy! Thanks for responding, yes that is exactly what I was referring to (I must have mistyped the coordinates).

I didn't copy the URL initially because it is rather long... I should have used tinyurl like you did.
Until the GC kicks in and steals a full 200usec + a bunch of your throughput...

(Holy shit, who is downvoting this? It's literally the whole article!)
As a votary of a non-Abrahamic religion I like this but I also can’t help but wonder is it really the case that Abrahamic religions are more violent or you (we?) are less familiar with the history of non-Abrahamic religions?
That already exists with physical money. There are a lot of printers and scanners and software that will not copy 20 dollar bills.

In theory you could add all of NFT Images into the software but what happens when someone creates an NFT of a basket ball. Are you going to stop people from printing any picture with a basketball in it?
Ask HN: Treadmill Whilst Working from Home
I will now be working on (mostly) at home, even after the pandemic. Now may be a good time to invest in a walking treadmill ?

Similar ask HN have been raised a few times before, but with much more people working/walking home many may have tried a treadmill whilst working.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5140019 [2013]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9174746 [2015 - Neal Stephenson]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18663873 [2018]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23738023 [11 months]
Efficiency is very inefficient
I grew up in a remote part of northern California, and I can assure you that every so often a military jet would would fly right over our house at super sonic speeds(and very low altitude, barely above the tree tops).

It was mind numbingly loud and obnoxious-the entire house would shake and rattle and you couldn't hear anything but the rumbling.
I just created a name for my next business
Anti-racism doesn't say that people cannot grow.
In fact they might underinflate it a bit to help him out ; )
IIRC Nasa put out a bunch of RFPs last year for studying, identifying, and alleviating that exact problem.
What's weirder is that this sort of implies DRM while not even providing it, even though we all know DRM doesn't work.

The scarcity is having a spot in a ledger between other entries in one lineage by a (supposed, but rarely purely) distributed non-cooperative consensus of ledger entries.

Anything other than that is imagined and probably done through other means just as well. I'm not sure why someone couldn't just periodically tweet pictures of note cards with a list of who owns what because that'd be just as effective.
I'm a big proponent of blockchain. But technically blockchain is overkill for this application. At least for non-exclusive perpetual licenses, like the stock photo example.

Blockchain gives you three things. 1) Censorship resistance (no one can "lose" or forget about the license). 2) Protections against mis-spend (no one without the private keys can grant the license). And 3) Protection against double-spend (in the case of two grants, we have a universally agreed upon history of which came first).

A non-exclusive license only requires the first two. You can satisfy the problem with digital signatures and a censorship-resistant P2P file share like IPFS. Comparatively putting data on the blockchain is fairly expensive. Even with sharding O(log(n)) nodes have to store the data, whereas with IPFS only O(1) do. On Ethereum, every kB of storage costs around $5. If you don't need canonical sequencing of history, then blockchain is probably overkill.
Every single recipe site.
And if do access the files that they aren't allowed to, we don't charge them with safecracking. They did something, but safecracking doesn't fit.
C'mon, if we go back 20 years, I'm sure A LOT of Americans wrote and said unspeakable things about middle eastern people. Same goes for a lot of Iraqi and Afghani people, after the invasion.

Point is - war and conflicts brings out emotions, and people say things they necessarily don't mean under normal circumstances.

What's more, people mature and change. The person you were 10-20-30-xx years ago, isn't necessarily the person you are today.
What makes you think that Boom won't have a long time to go fixing their software after they have a flying prototype?