skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard of etcd being described as a "leader election tool." I'm sure it works, just not sure that's why it was written or how that might even look.

Also, as pleased as I am that pijul exists and as grateful as I am for the tireless efforts of the author of the post in trying to bring it about, I am less than enthused that an i3 notification bar and a laptop is a major contributor in the supply chain of backups for a server that people are supposed to trust as the final resting place of their code. There are several free-ish tools out there that allow this type of automation to take place that are more reliable, e.g. CircleCI.
Again, and I don't mean to be patronizing but this really should not be confusing, it's the source of the data.

Is CNN irresponsible for presenting it as credible? I mean, I don't know, maybe, but the source isn't a quack from Twitter, it's congress and the military. What is CNN supposed to do, title their headline as "A bunch of bozos in the military think aliens are real LOLOLOL!!!!"?
> On the other hand, developer productivity in notebook environments is so high that iterating your way to correct code may be faster than trying to plan it all out in the beginning.

That's not a fair comparison though is it? Those of us who use git, the vast majority of the time we iterate our way to correct code; we don't plan it out at the beginning. It's just that we iterate over the course of a sequence of commits, pausing on each commit to study application behavior. Notebooks users also iterate over a sequence of code evolutions, except mostly without systematic checkpointing and without clearing in-memory state between code changes.
> Isn't that the whole crux of the debate and dilemma in the first place?

It's not like researchers are "engineering a virus to do exactly what they want it to do", what they do is observe the evolution of cultures of viruses, in an environment that's conductive to it, to see where that ultimately leads.

All of that also constantly happens in nature, but in a controlled lab environment we can accelerate and observe this process, like in a simulation, to see what viruses might be capable of evolving to be dangerous to us in the long term.

Sure, an argument can be made how that's one way of how we could end up creating and releasing such a virus ourselves, but even then: Wouldn't it be preferable for that to happen in a controlled research environment, instead of it just emerging in some remote obscure place? At least then are in a way better position to understand why and how it happens, giving us an edge in fighting it.
I suppose we can argue since sticking a laptop in a closet isn’t nefarious but just an efficient way to get on the network.

I’ve attended and visited quite a few universities and they all had liberal network access policies. So the idea of anyone caring about someone plugging a laptop into a lanport and downloading millions of text files is not remarkable and happens all the time, I expect.

There was no “denial of service” on jstor as it was still available during the whole time. And if jstor can’t handle a single laptop scraping every article, then that seems to be more of a problem with jstor.

Students scrape jstor and other journal sites frequently and seems like a pretty decent use case that I want to support at my university, if I had one.

Crypto miners are a different story as they consume resources and if Swartz had set up a hundred laptops or a bunch of gpus and used university resources, I’d have a different story.

But the idea that a single laptop running in a closet for a weekend had any material impact on MIT or jstor is so laughable that I don’t understand how anyone honestly presents it as an argument.
I'd argue that's a small part of the reason. Like a rounding error vs the inconvenience factor of dealing with stuff like coins, having to go to a physical location during restrictive hours/days to obtain more than a trivial amount of cash, etc.
> Sending money over the internet.

> If you don't understand why that's an critical utility for billions of people on this planet, then you're not worth arguing with.

Are you aware that there are other ways to send money over the internet than Bitcoin?
Which Vietnam war? You have several to choose from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indochina_Wars

The Cambodian–Vietnamese War ended in 1989, so the mines are possibly not that old.
Your instance can still be preempted by the hypervisor.
I've just started the same, it's definitely fun. One thing that surprised me about field resolution is that a class can have multiple fields with the same name (if they have different types).
Don’t let any of these comments take away from how great this is, _especially_ with the in-depth blog post.
The FAQs also say a mod can remove the flag if it's unfair...which it is. Yet it hasn't been removed.
The US government might be responding to weaponization of conspiracy theories in the Internet age by starting to increase transparency.

This may be more of a reaction to Qanon and troll farms.

(Or I guess conversely they might be trying to distract people)
None of those examples are democracies, just greater pursuit of communism which is what the protestors wanted
Yeah, it's in grandma's forgetful brain, and to be fair she probably (a) has usually learned the value of discretion, (b) will pass away in a few years and (c) can sometimes be dismissed as a fibber.

The computer on the other hand, is an eternal record and can be dumped into the open by any hacker or wannabe-hacker for ill intent or just for fun.

I guess, there's no appropriate reputation scale for what we see on the internet (it's either perfectly trustworthy or a total sham), there's no forgetfulness in terms of minor misdeeds, and there's no way to argue with the public consensus once they've made up their hivemind...

"No really, I've changed in the 10 years since I wrote that post!"
Really nice <a href="https://nanahow.com/how-to-make-brown/">how to make brown</a>
Arandom fact: most durum wheat used to make pasta in Italy is imported from Canada.
I'm happy for them. An FPV drone of mine bounced into a canal recently and the motors get attached to magnets relatively easily, but I couldn't ever find it again even while fishing for hours with a large magnet fishing magnet.
Yes, the "ultra-processed" claim seems way off. It's not the processing in this experiment, it's the choice of raw materials.
He shows up on Bing Image Search if you search for "Unknown Protester" instead.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Unknown+Protester+&form...
Not really, my experience is based on both in the Bay Area, and includes WalMart neighborhood stores.

I think it has to do with lot of older people shopping at Walmart so they feel comfortable around others. Don't know.
Isn't a textbook a non fiction book?
You need to know something about your person of interest, other than a name. Then you need access to multiple data sets.

Use a list like this as a starting point.

https://www.oag.ca.gov/data-brokers

Commuter data is good, so is foot traffic. Data sets centered around health and income or quality of life can be beneficial as well. The game is to use publicly available information about your person to tie them conclusively to set of entries in an 'anonymized' data set.

If you aren't at least investigative journalist tier or the resources you need cost too much/require a corporate presence, then hire someone to do it for you who already has the pipeline set up. PI's have been available to Joe Q. for years and they still are. This all just makes them even more efficient.
Not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack
Could be handled by having the CPU switch to a different process while the kernel CPU faults the data in.
Also it's quick. Converting an old factory to cubicles and dropping in some phones takes a few weeks.
Had a rat that loved packing peanuts. One night he found a stash and kept grabbing them. After taking away the fourth one, he ran up my arm and stared me straight in the eye for about 30 seconds. He then proceeded to grab one and move the further away.
I’m quite sure I got chewed out by a rat.
http://archive.is/pvH8o
Flagging amounts to anonymous moderation, which is why you see a lot of conspiratorial responses to it. Users have no way to know who is removing a post from acceptable discussion via flagging.

One possible way to address this is to make visible a list of users who flagged a post. The arguments against this are obvious. But without such information, in the end you have to accept one result of anonymous moderation is the generation of conspiracy theories.

It's a tradeoff, of course.
As I understand it, CCPA means any California resident could hypothetically write a data broker, get their own file, and determine how much actual tracking is going on.

All the hypothetical examples are realistic, but... what are the names of companies that are actually providing that level of data about me?
Discord uses Elixir too, I think?
My idea of "gross authoritarianism" is a government headed by a literal former military dictator who prior to his own military dictatorship had participated in state-sanctioned genocide. It's a government whose security forces terrorise and rob citizens on the daily, because the spirit of the military junta it was under for decades never actually went anywhere (and also because when protests against their actions get answered by the army opening fire on civilians). It's a government that straight up doesn't pay its civil servants their salaries and pensions because accountability does not exist, and that consistently implements policies designed to frustrate and starve its population. It's this and too many other things to name and very much also a government that bans a social media platform because said platform removed a tweet where it dog-whistle threatened genocide against the peoples it had already committed genocide against a half-century ago.

But I can understand how people who've been coddled all their lives could form an idea of "gross authoritarianism" as "the web has big social media platforms".
Quantum supremacy level.
You're talking a rounding error on the number of people that don't carry cash simply because it's not convenient to obtain and deal with it.
OK that's good to hear yes.

But I am confused by the implications here.

How is port scanning different legally from brute forcing passwords? Iterating integers is fine, iterating the dictionary is not? What if there's an integer ID in the URL but it's MD5 hash'd and I recognize for what it is and iterate integers and MD5 them?
Binary compatibility kept x86 dominant, coupled with competing platforms not offering enough of a performance or price benefit to make them worth the trouble.

That formula has completely changed. With the tremendous improvement in compilers, and the agility of development teams, the move has been long underway. People are firing up their Gravitron2 instances at a blistering pace, my Mac runs on Apple Silicon (already, just months in, with zero x86 apps -- I thought Rosetta2 would be the lifevest, but everyone transitioned so quickly I could do fine without it).

It's a very different world.
But it is (or was, originally, when it was named) a survey for directing military ordnance.
68 lines of code is pretty much arbitrary. It could have been far less, he just put it all to fit his poke ball pattern.
You don't have to; it's only valuable because you can legally change it for real currency.
If you are in America, you are not paying 60% of your incoming to taxes. No one pays that in America.

What bugs me about the discussion of taxes in this country are the vast swaths of Americans who think they pay 40%, 50% or 60% taxes. If you are paying 45% or more, you need a new CPA.
> I should be able to use a bot to access that data in the same ways a human could.

I don't think even this is something that follows naturally.

For example, a human can sit next to the highway and write down license plates. However, it is still a crime if you use a computer to do the same (and perhaps sell a huge database containing this information).
If you're counting deaths caused by unintended consequences of poor policy, one could argue that the west also is to blame for tragedies like the Great Famine because the policies that caused it were born from reactions to Western hegemony from the previous centuries.
Under that definition, there’s no mass prosecutions under any law, right. There aren’t a great number of prosecutions for federal laws. I can’t find any specific statistics for charges brought under CFAA.

I think the issue isn’t the total number but the potential total number. So if there’s mass violation and law enforcement picks and chooses who to prosecute that’s a problem. Although obviously it’s less a problem if they do that 1,000 times a year vs 1,000,000.
The kinds of mechanisms getting rid of Tank Man are being used just to hide this content here. It's fractal. It requires no complicity by the owners or maintainers of Bing or Hacker News, it just means that there are handles by which you can hide things.

Outsourcing moderation at scale inevitably results in the ability of one or more parties to vanish content they do not like.
I don't think the managers the article describes are making the distinction you're making. They're concerned about the loss/thinness of culture, not only company-wide but also at the individual office level. It's also reasonable to think that thin office cultures provide a poor foundation for a thick company culture.
I've stopped creating accounts on services like signal because I'm tired of them doing something stupid, everyone leaving, and then my data ending up owned by Facebook.

If you want to have a voice conversation how do you intend to do that? I haven't found something that effectively replaces my landline yet but I'm all ears (and could hear a lot better if I didn't have to deal with the ringing in the background.)
So you'd ban MS Access? Why do people use it as opposed to an "IT Sanctioned" tool? If you IT dept does not have time to provide the tools people need to do their jobs, and you take away one of their tools, what/who fills the productivity gap?
I'm only a former bioinformaticist (not a clinical practitioner), but people tend to anthropomorphize the blind idiot god of evolution a bit too much. "Selection" is just the end result of survivorship bias.

CGG-CGG is the most potent furin cleavage site because it works on the outer cell membranes and on the interior. Viruses that have it will outcompete all others -- but all this means is that SARS-Cov-2 with the CGG-CGG FCS has been well adapted to humans since the beginning of the pandemic and less potent mutations haven't been able to keep up. There's no "natural/unnatural" axis to consider. The most infectious virus "prefers" to be the most infectious, indeed. It's tautological. Evidence of efficacy doesn't disprove laboratory alteration.
How the Hell Are We OK with China?
Maybe it's a Great Filter kind of thing. Most civilizations probably continually decimate themselves in a never-ending series of self-inflicted cataclysms every time they build up their energy capability.

If you've mastered enough energy to arrive at another solar system in force, you already had to figure out how to live peacefully with many billions of individuals.
They'll also pay back the subsidies in all other countries
the decision is not about other laws for criminally misusing information, as in your example, it is about the fact that the CFAA is a bad law written by legislators who did not understand (and appeared to be afraid of) computers.
How did you like the different OS's you tried?
The bit you're disagreeing with is the good thought of their argument.
Writing something like that with an intent to put it in your resume will take you on a very different path compared to just making it for your own eyes only. This is a fun project, make sure you have fun before all else.
My favorite being : "Tank Man Meme" and you get more or less the expected search.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Tank+Man+Meme
Depends what part of Cambodia,

the last remaining strongholds of the Khmer rouge were heavily mined, or could be on the vietnam/cambodian border.
Show HN: Phasmophobia iOS tracker with optical whiteboard recognition
You don't need to do any of that. If you have enough neighbors who want to collude with you, you just take over the existing HOA and amend the rules (and/or take a lax enforcement attitude). The most benign way to do it is to make one tiny change to the HOA rules, an explicit provision that failure to enforce a known "violation" for more than 30 days renders the rule unenforceable forever more.
Only helps until the next release. Then all customization options where you can turn off Proton will be removed.
Good stuff here. Nice to see a community coalesce around these taps.
State Dept. staffers were warned against probing Covid origin
It’s as helpful as speculating on their nature in any other way. People get wide eyed and excited at the concept of intergalactic or ultra-dimensional “aliens” yet scoff at the simple idea that they’re just demons. Both require a mountain of unproven assumptions, why’s one worse than the other?

I happen to know, of course.
>Interesting, what if we had a union for the unemployed? They could collectively boycott Amazon.

I'm sure amazon would be terrified if a bunch of people with zero income stopped buying their goods.

/s
There about 10 issues logged with Bugzilla regarding this. All closed as "wontfix"
Money laundering is also illegal and it's still prolific. Buying weed is also illegal and it's still prolific.

Banning things like this just turns them into another laundering opportunity - where there's money to be made there's a way.
Number of nodes in the AST or number of machine instructions might be more meaningful.
OK, well, if we start dissecting our human acts the same way, we'd literally end society. Most people are coerced into their jobs, due to society taking away their means of alternate survival, and job availability.
If they were actually going to censor results wouldn't they censor the web results as well? What makes you think this isn't a technical issue.
"Note: why are folks downvoting an honest question?"

I suppose because of Friday.
Ask HN: Career Advice – Management Regrets and IC Life
Hi HN,

Since none of my social circle is in tech - I though I'd ask HN regarding my career situation.

I've two different pathway and I'm struggling to decide.

0) Director position (for AI) within company, ~700 employees (current)

This company is not an engineering or AI company. Tbh, I'm not simulated by the problem space my work is in. It's comfy - I like my colleague and my team. Too much bureaucracy coming from startup world. Quality of engineering is OK - I guess stack and team is a bit less mature. I also feel like I will not be technically up to date in AI world as I used to be as a lead. I feel like this would really tie me to data science specialty for later career, which I don't want to do.

What would be lateral path from this position? I can think of Engineering Manager or VP/Dir of Engineering - but I would always lose out to peers due to AI heavy work history.

1) Tech Lead/Sr. Software Eng within startup , <70 employees (startup is growing)

This company is an engineering company, where software engineering tools are sold as SaaS. It's all new technology stack - and problem space (language analyses) are challenging and very interesting. But my title would drop a quite a bit - all my non tech friends recommended not to take this position. This position is remote - but have to be in US. I feel like this would provide me lot more optionality and new learning opportunity. I'm really excited about this (maybe this is the novelty chasing brain of mine).

Both are in US - both are paying roughly the same in base, but startup significantly more in stocks. I don't have any dependents.

Any practical/Machiavellian advice? Any stories of regretting going further in mgmt position or getting tied into specialty?
Brute forcing passwords is attempting to access a computer without authorization, port scanning.. is not
The point I was aiming at was that the benefits of democracy outweigh the blights of communism over the long term. You can argue whether or not that is the case, but North Korea and the USSR aren't examples to the contrary.
Huh, and I've been pronouncing that ordinance. I guess those two words are pretty similar.
Even then, if the YAML files can only be interpreted by Power Apps, then they can't be portably deployed.
In addition to the potential for being vouched for - it's also important to remember that brigading on HN has a very limited effect on account karma overall. If you end up being on the sharp end of the stick at least you can take some comfort in only ever losing six points of karma... well unless your comment was atrocious enough to get you a ban from the mods.
Considering it was a scientific ethical live wire from 2011 to 2014, and banned in the US from 2014 to 2017, that's a bit of a tall order.

I would point out that the some primary points against GOF utility in the 2014 survey report weigh very differently now: (1) lack of viral genetic surveillance at national levels, (2) inability to quickly generate novel vaccines, (3) inability to distribute vaccines worldwide.
There's no way it was accidental. It could have been a rogue employee that pushed something globally that was supposed to be limited to China...but the idea that it was an accident on the anniversary sounds like a made up story.
Wow, I didn't know this. Is this well known??
To admit guilt instead of actually defending himself in court. There is something implicitly wrong about getting a different sentence as punishment for actually having your day in court.
Yeah, well, it's not 100 % his fault. Browsers should default to "Ask every time" for download file location, in stead of just bunging everything into a default "Downloads" folder.

But that's really fucking easy to change, so still 90 % his fault. (Or 95, 99...?)
Lots of dietary science seems to study "processed food", but none seems to break down the effects they find to the specific food ingredients or processing steps.

For example, a hot dog is ultra processed by most definitions. But if you feed mice the raw ingredients that go into a hot dog, but not yet ground up into a hot dog, do they have the same health effects?

How about when you start adding and removing ingredients?

I suspect a specific processing step or ingredient causes many of these developmental issues, yet no study seems to attempt to find it
I used to browse with FF and Google Chrome. But now FF is so similar to Chrome that I hate to Alt + Tab and be unable to tell them apart.
Not sure, I think it should! Would be really cool if someone tried it out. I'm a little worried I didn't implement some necessary instructions/hardware features so the game isn't actually winnable :-}
What the sibling comment said, I meant 3.8% different
The Russian site also appears wide open. Example:

https://yandex.ru/video/search?text=navalny%20putin%27s%20pa...
When things get to the point where AMD is considering making nonmaskable interrupts maskable (as the article states), maybe it's time to invoke "force majeure".