skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In about 2008 I started working for SAIC, on a contract to NASA's "Enterprise Applications Competency Center". While I was waiting for my computer and all the accounts and permissions to get set up, I was sent to do a code review for a minor application written in Flash/Flex/ActionScript + Java as was popular at the time, written by one guy. Everything looked pretty decent to me, except that he'd done all of the authentication/authorization in the Flash frontend. I pointed out that anyone who could connect to the app and fake the protocol could do anything the app could do, at a minimum. He said yeah, he'd have to do something about that. It went into production the next week. He's now part of the architecture/"engineering" group.

All of the things you mention are great, but they don't really address the problem. You need developers who know what the issues are and are willing to do the work to fix them even though they don't add anything to the feature list. In my experience, I don't have much reason to believe that today's developers are any better about that than yesterday's. There is a lot of security cargo-culting going on, which probably does improve the situation, but there's also a lot of "bootcamp" developers without the background to know that there are issues.
And just to bring it all full-circle in this thread, albeit a slightly different direction:

NBC's chime was developed when it was owned by GE in the 1930s (the notes are G-E-C – General Electric Company). When GE sold its interest, that chime continued to be used.

GE later regained control of NBC, and once again sold the last of its interest to Comcast a few years ago. But the G-E-C jingle remains unchanged, the first audio trademark granted in the US.
I didn't say that opt-out is consent... and no opt-out is opt-out, and forcing is forcing.

Can you imagine how silly it would sound to talk about all the "forcing" that MacOS and Windows do that you can change by going in to settings and changing it? Indeed, Apple has famously made tons of decisions for their users about what the reasonable defaults might be, and is praised for this; no one calls it forcing.

I get it. I don't like the defaults either. That doesn't mean you can just slap on whatever word has negative connotations and say that's what is happening.
Looks like it has now been updated and returns images of various tanks and male athletes, but still no images of what seems most relevant to the phrase - the iconic Tiananmen Square photograph that goes by that name.
> Reddit seems like an example of a successful acquisition.

In relation to money, or to users?

Reddit is awful now, forcing everyone to an app and privacy out the window
No, a month ago.
I’m in Uk (formerly EU) and it keeps nagging me too. I think we are still subject to GDPR
That's easier than writing a GET request, but the easiest would be never leaving your native application, which AFAIU, RPA lets you do in theory (though practice is a different story).
I, for one, am glad that this particular Microsoft censorship is global in nature for all to see.

A lot of people say China's internet censorship doesn't matter because it's mainly/just within their own borders, and anyone in China can and does just use a VPN to get outside. While the latter might be true, it misses the point - China is doing a great job of making self-censorship about a number of their sensitive topics a global phenomenon.
For six years after Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, Hollywood studios avoided making films that made the Nazis look bad, because they did not want to lose access to the German market. […]

Now history seems to be repeating itself, with the studios kowtowing to Communist China. […] John Cena, star of the new Fast and Furious movie, just issued an abject apology for casually referring to Taiwan as a “country.”
Nigeria suspends Twitter after Nigerian President account is frozen
Do you have money or time, or both?

If you have money, you could hire a network engineer on contract, and have them teach what they are doing while they set it up. Combined with some book learning, you could take over the job later. If the hire works out, make them an offer to stay.
I actually didn't know that. Maybe I should boot Haiku onto one of my secondary PCs and try playing with it.
Whenever I see his name I think of our collective failure to change the rules around research publishing.

...adding, its not just that we failed. It seems like we didn't even try. At least, nowhere near the level that would seem commensurate with outrage years ago.
They now would be tagged as [dupe] and still removed.
There are a lot of people in the US who buy iPhones (or comparable Android equivalents) on 2-year payment plans with carrier lock-in. Many can afford an extra $40 per month, but don't have the savings to drop $1000 in one go.

> In 2018, the median earnings for full-time, year-round cashiers were $22,109, compared with $35,301 for retail salespersons and $42,421 for first-line supervisors of retail salespersons.
> In contrast, the median earnings for all full-time, year-round workers was $48,565 in 2018.

I've spent ten years working retail here in California, and I'll offer my anecdata: a great number of even those cashiers own iPhones! Ten million people work retail in the US making no more than ~$40k, and that's a population that demonstrably owns iPhones but is hard-pressed to replace them on short notice.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/09/profile-of-th...
Pointing out of the one brilliant jewel in government spending is absurd compared to all the wasted endeavors.
I have lost faith in the governments ability to spend my money wisely.

We are talking about the same government who infected black men with syphilis just to see what would happen. Also dosed random POCs with LSD for the same reasoning.

Oh, but Bell Labs so it’s all good.
When refactoring, the typing tends to be the least of the work, and multiselect style changes tend to be less helpful once you are doing all the other things you should be doing during a proper refactor.
> Well, no one gets promoted/a raise by writing ‘and everything is actually fine’ right?

Well, that's actually not true. There are quite a few live coaches and the likes making their living on positive writing. And there a quite a few writers, like Scott Alexander, which, while not being all positive, definitely don't need to or want to paint an overly dark or dramatic picture.

In the more conventional news sector, on the other hand, this is probably true.
Why is my reply getting flagged? Nothing in my comment breaks any rule. This was my reply that got flagged:

I am not debating anyone. I just pointed out an invalid and unreasonably negative criticism for what is a feel-good news story.

Back to your point. Do we ask for consent from working dogs? Have you ever seen news about "heroic" rescue dogs? What is your point really? Is it that we need to stop employing animals? Do we need to stop using anthropomorphic terms? Do we need to establish a ministry of truth and speech to regulate that?
Believe me, not creepy is harder than it seems, especially in VR.
The only way to know if I will for sure is to give me a Tesla and see what I do...
Why is G regrettable? Would you prefer they use K? Or would M be better?

I personally find G for grand to make a lot of sense when talking about money. K doesn't make sense because no one says kilodollars. And M is too easily confused for million.
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.vn/vQC3Z
As noted on the blog post, it's also instantly mirrored to the cloud with Restic, in addition to being replicated multiple times live. The i3 notification is meant to keep a constant eye on the thing, to make sure it does happen every day.
I don’t think that’s accurate. The MIT report [0] says “ The Institute made no public statements regarding the merits of the case against Swartz or whether it should proceed, nor did it attempt to influence the prosecutor’s decisions on the case, other than to tell the prosecutor that the government should not proceed on the assumption that MIT wanted Aaron Swartz to go to jail.”

But I think that’s pretty weasily as having a neutral position while the government is prosecuting means endorsing the status quo. “Not proceeding with the assumption that MIT wanted Aaron Swartz to go to jail” is so BS. How about a statement of “We do not want AS to go to jail.” Or “We do not believe a crime has been committed” or “As the operator of the network, we do not consider this a violation of CFAA” or the million other useful things MIT could have said and done.

Many urged MIT to advocate to not prosecute and MIT chose not to.

Also MIT brought the charges of breaking and entering that led to Swartz’s arrest. And that’s pretty lame given MIT’s mission and what Swartz was doing.

If I was a student and my guest was arrested for B&E that would be bad.

MIT isn’t legally culpable, but they acted poorly and all they needed to do was say “hey don’t do that” instead it led to a large scale prosecution and a suicide.

Spinning this like MIT wasn’t responsible or JSTOR wasn’t responsible is so mealymouthed.

[0] https://news.mit.edu/2013/mit-releases-swartz-report-0730
Yes. Ask your average Lebanese or Venezuelan citizen. Outside of privileged western states crypto has been a massive societal benefit. Crypto will jeopardise the monopoly of statists however, which explains the coordinated establishment pushback.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210331005682/en/Glo...
Nah, it was a reaction to things like this at the beginning and far worse later on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh4uS4f78o
> He's been spreading mixed and misinformation for months and possibly lying to Congress. Many give him the benefit of the doubt by saying that he either did not know or he did it in the interests of the public as a whole (ex: We need the N95 masks so let's lie and say nobody else does). Neither is acceptable to some of us.

That very advice was offered here in Belgium as well and it smelled like BS. Obviously they had to make a hard choice: tell people they need masks, stocks get plundered and medical professionals have none. Or, say the opposite and grab every mask you can find for medical personnel. The second option was probably the best, hopefully you can understand that these kind of hard choices need to be made and this guy shouldn't lose his job over it.

Interestingly, in Jan / Fed before it really hit Europe and nobody was wearing masks in public they were already sold out in most places. At the time it was probably Chinese plundering EU stores and govt must have picked up on it.
Then you have to blame the countries themselves for allowing western hegemony. Poor policies are to blame for a small population of foreign actors being able to wield so much power over those regions.

I think we have to judge a thing on its actions, or the arguments get rather circular.
I said most. There's a huge difference in quality of information between something you study and something you can read on your commute.
Hello, I'm sure Mozilla folks will be here too (I no longer work on Hubs) but I am quoted a few times in this article and happy to answer any questions I can!
What an awesome list of examples!
Anything with "pox" in the name, should give a hint.
> I took it as some sort government control of industry collusion.

Why?

The more mundane explanation is that the military teaches you how to tolerate command chain bullshit on a daily basis.

Large companies are more about navigating political waters than they are about getting stuff done.
That metric is game-able, too: you just implement a VM, and only count the instructions to to VM. The rest is one big binary blob of "data", occupying a single node in the AST of the host language.

Now, of course, that's basically cooking the books, but there's a wide gulf between a full VM & smaller, domain specific ones that might not look like VMs. (All or most of data-driven programming, really.)
His F3 gets broken the day before the Big Photo and he was shooting with a manual back-up lens, according to the blog post.
I saw results (none of actual tank man) but I searched again a few times and still see no results found.
They should implement a system like Slashdot had in which you'd only get certain abilities if you had enough contribution points. That would prevent random accounts from flagging things when their account is only 5 points, etc. Also, the admins have the ability to remove the flag but haven't, which I find baffling/troubling. Everyone wants part of the Chinese cookie it seems.
You're probably right but we already have the example of Hatsune Miku. Sure she's an exception but the software isn't there yet. At someone point someone will make a truly hit movie or TV show with 1 or more main synthetic characters.

I'm sure when Tron came out lots people said "practical effects will never disappear". And yet with few exceptions they mostly have.
Considering the upvote count even the hot rising posts on front page have. I would assume the flag threshold to be quite small. I don't know if each flag vote counts the same or does it depend on karma/account age, but at least from upvotes I would assume you would need less than 50 flags to pull even a hot story. So, paid influence ops should easily succeed in HN; whether they have even bothered with HN because of small audience size, that I don't know.

In most cases it is the politics aspect or the unfair coverage aspect that leads users to flag a story, like say on lab leaks; but this story being flagged so easily was interesting. It is about a tech platform intentionally/mistakenly censoring things we will count as free speech.
If I take this claim literally it's never worth having any kind of law at all. I don't believe that. I also don't think crypto currency looks nearly as attractive if there are no legitimate channels to convert or spend it.
I noticed the same thing:

It looks like microsoft caught on and is now returning generic results of "tank" or "man":

https://imgur.com/sGEQRXe

https://imgur.com/DjtXltn
In this specific case we have a police interfering with a case about an undercover officer by informing the suspect about the under cover agents identity. However, the whole affair was actually a sting operation to test if the officer would interfere.

It is a bit of a special situation since the interfering was over a fake case, through the legal frame work of sting operations has always been a bit grey. It seems to me however that it flights clearly above that of first amendment rights. It seems simply that the prosecutor chose to go after CFAA because the case is about a sting case rather than a real one. Had the police officer interfered in a real case, where a criminal had been given information that obstructed police officers in their job, the case had been about that.

If that is true then the case has very little to do about internal policy decisions, exceeded permissions, unauthorized vs authorized users, employee contracts and so on. It is actually about sting operations and a prosecutor who attempts to bypass that discussion by using a law designed for a different purpose.
The problem is that they've been saying "eat less calories" for decades, and it hasn't fixed the problem.

Why? Lots of reasons, one if which is that calorie counting is hard. Totting up every calorie you eat is incredibly tedious. "Eat fewer calories" would be less onerous, but only if you're eating regular and consistent meals so that it's easy to identify what "less" means.

So they try to give easy-to-follow advice, like "eat fewer foods with a lot of calories". How do you identify those? Well, they're the ones that have been through a lot of industrial processes that take out not-fun stuff (water, fiber) and add in a lot of things that are purified to the calorie-rich parts (sugar, oil, butter).

They're looking for another way to say "Don't go to McDonald's and don't eat candy bars or drink soda" for a long time. If those are things that you do, and you stop it, you will almost certainly lose weight. But we can't even get people to do that, even though it's been the same advice for decades.

"Ultra processed foods" are convenience foods. If "convenience foods" were to be their next iteration of the advice, I'd be fine with that. It's not about the fundamental nutrition; they've been trying to get people to do the same thing for decades without any headway. It's about communication and persuasion, which are far harder jobs.
This has been fulfilled in full with YouTube and how creators fear demonetization.
WHICH messages, from which 'fellow scientists'. The mails are out there now, cite them. Not just parrot assumptions.
Ask HN: How do you cope with depression when feeling left out
Hello Guys,

I have been using LinkedIn for a while but sometimes it makes me depressed as I see people bragging about their achievements and that makes me feel like I’m loosing or left behind

Even though I might be doing a lot of things but not sharing those as achievements on social media but when I see others doing it Instantly end up comparing myself

My question is how do you deal with the feeling of being left out
So they introduced main branch to replace master branch because they are so humanity-full entity, but they are happy to censor history at the same time?
This is a fun optimization, but what is a use case where I would need to count the number of digits?
I agree with your sentiment that I'd like to see EVs made for normal people like me, but I'm grateful that people with lots of money fund R&D on stuff like Tesla's to help bring the price down to where I can get it one day. Kinda reminds me of smart phone evolution.
If you run into any issues, please drop by the forums or the IRC to get assistance.
>HAHAHAHAHA

Elucidate for fuck sake
Should not Bing have a separate/dedicated search engine in China? Does Bing has to censure US/World results from a well know fact to be allowed to operate in China? Because I have some difficulties to understand why Bing is censuring such fact outside the Great Firewall of China.
This is simply a rehashing of the Vanity Fair article already heavily discussed here, by a Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid rag.

The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins (vanityfair.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27388587

1301 points by camjohnson26 21 hours ago | 1058 comments
> How is port scanning different legally from brute forcing passwords?

Because humans are trivially able to recognize the difference between those two activities. A judge that has that case in front of them can _really_ easily see the difference between those activities.
Talk to the team of nurses in your local hospital.

Hell, if you're rural, it's pretty likely to have a nurse who doesn't really believe the current understanding of COVID
"this kind of rigidity is not part of our tech culture"

Yes and no. "No" because there are best practices and bits of midleware that although may still get improvement over time, receive nevertheless fewer and fewer changes (and have logarithmic looking dynamic of development). They mature. Advising strongly things that passed the test of time and broad use scrutiny just makes sense, regardless if that may look "rigid". (Not that many implement their own double linked lists nowadays.) Then "yes" because the our "tech culture" pool is big enough to also accommodate fashion, hype, and a whole lot of other psychosocial can of worms...
I agree that the study really doesn't support what the headline conveys nor does it support the opposite. Thanks for doing the work of downloading the supplemental data and pointing out the rather important details.

A few years ago I decided to get serious about my many years of chronic obesity and started deep-dive studying nutrition science. I was appalled by the pervasive lack of scientific rigor in most nutrition science. Even widely accepted parts of public health policy, like the "food pyramid" that was preached to kids in elementary school, were based on shockingly weak observational studies with many uncontrolled confounding variables. Most of the "Large N" studies are based on "diary data." Essentially, asking people via written surveys to estimate what they typically eat and extrapolating that over years. Yeah, not kidding.

In short, I used to assume "nutrition science" was a somewhat rigorous field akin to biology or chemistry but discovered, for the most part, it's not. My N=1 experience has been that cutting out most carbs was tremendously effective for my metabolism type and I lost 85 pounds in 7 months without increased exercise. Since then I've kept it off for four years by sticking to a rigorous low-carb diet. It was difficult for the first few months but my palette and preferences adapted and now I plan to never go back. Eating low carb has the side benefit of cutting out most processed foods which may have helped improve my health. However, I don't recommend what I did for everyone because I've learned that metabolisms vary enough that what worked great for me may not work great for you. Instead, my advice is to do your own reading, develop hypotheses and experiment on yourself until you find a combination that works for your body, lifestyle and goals. Ultimately, weight loss is obviously a function of calories in vs calories out but in practice there are different ways of achieving the necessary caloric deficit. For me, low carb worked because it altered my blood sugar-driven hunger cycle. In all my years of failed dieting I'd never tried cutting carbs before cutting calories. Turns out it's much easier to cut calories when you're not hungry!
DuckDuckGo has always been open about using the Bing Index https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Because word processor documents have often been the vectors for attacks. And once an attack is inside your systems, there is nothing preventing the attack attached to a document from infecting and encrypting your machine or infecting your PLC and destroying your industrial equipment.
Comparing to an existing, known-good emulator is probably the most convenient way. This can be printf debugging like you describe, or even trying to compare framebuffer contents etc.

However I feel like that "spoils" a bit of the fun. A more adventurous approach is to test with test ROMs [1] - they are simpler to follow by hand and discover why they don't work than real games.

Of course if some game ROM is relying on some more obscure hardware quirks this might not be enough. Just wanted to bring it to attention for anyone interested in writing and debugging their emulators.

[1]: https://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Test_ROMs
Seems of limited use considering Unreal Engine's source code is available, and UE is probably a better engine and also legal to use in your games (albeit only for a percent of royalties).
Entrapment is absurdly narrowly defined. You practically have to put a gun to someone's head.
"tank man Tiananmen" returns none. fishy
The good faith interpretation would probably be “YouTube [Creators]” which seems to be what was meant.
Do you think MIT doing something would've made a difference?
When the topic of discussion is censorship and disinformation online (that includes HN), no one is pulling out astroturfing as rhetoric to shutdown a conversation, it is literally part of the conversation. A moderator coming in here to tamp down on our discussion of disinformation is ironic and self-defeating. This conversation was interesting until you showed up telling us to stop.
I'm using LMDE4 and it's working well for me.
Did it ever occur to you there are devices without cameras/QR scanners? Just FYI.
by that same metric doing business with the US could likewise be problematic. Are you calling for that to stop, too?
> Open offices were not a good fit for me

Open offices are not a good fit for anybody.

IBM studied this back in the Dinosaur Age. Bell studied this back in the Dinosaur Age. Dedicated offices with a door are the most productive. Period.

What open offices are is "cheap".
Beautiful Soup Now a Token?
I mean, that's kinda what RAFT fundamentally is, right?