skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way you get bitten is that there's an opportunity to trade off security versus functionality.

Imagine you've got the alleged bomber's computer, it has hundreds of thousands of images with long hexadecimal names like 384d38b0c32aaf03.jpg and you're under pressure to figure out where the missing fifth bomb is before everybody finds out the hard way.

Now, on one hand you've got a simple image viewer built with WUFFS: https://github.com/google/wuffs which you are completely sure is safe for viewing the images, you could perhaps glance at a hundred images per hour, although if there's anything subtle you'd miss it.

On the other hand, you've got a fancy AI-assisted tool that processes over 1000 images per minute and cross-matches them with over a hundred law enforcement databases and other sources to understand what it sees. It might be able to pick out anomalous images in time to make a difference. Still, it was written in C++ and the last time you used it the program crashed three times with mysterious errors.

Which do you choose? If the bomb blows up and kills sixty elementary school kids while you're glancing at image #406 having not noticed that school is in the background of images #284, #301, #305, #313, and #326 and never guessing that the unknown interiors in images #192-198 and #350-400 are from that same school - you're going to feel like an idiot for choosing the slow path.

But if the bomb blows up when your AI assisted image processor is exploited by a C++ JPEG library zero day inside image #4861 and that sends the "explode now" code to a custom web site the bomber set up for exactly this eventuality, you're going to feel like an idiot for not using WUFFS.

This sort of trade-off is how Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep" begins. Humans (roughly) are poking around in an apparently forgotten archive in deep space. They could be slow and careful, but it's too tempting to choose quicker methods, smarter methods, letting the archive direct how to improve their AI to better understand it. By the time the humans realise their AI is doing what the archive wanted it to do, not what they wanted it to do, it's far too late for them.
> This said, European police generally gets away with a degree of prevarication that North Americans would find unconceivable.

Not to be inflammatory, but North American police generally gets away with a degree of murder that Europeans find inconceivable.
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- Trading Evolved, Andreas F. Clenow

- Systematic Trading, Robert Carver

- Developing & Backtesting Systematic Trading Strategies, Brian Peterson

- Algorithmic Trading, Ernest P. Chan

- Algorithmic Trading and DMA, Barry Johnson

- Trading Systems, Emilio Tomasini & Urban Jaekle

- Evidence-Based Technical Analysis, David R. Aronson

- Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading, Stefan Jansen
Oceana is a well known, established institution, if you care about the cause at all you can certainly do research on them.
As the article points out, the previous Einstein’s papers were not peer reviewed.

Peer review is not what the pubic and journalists think it is.

An example:

The Physical Review journals publish experimental high energy physics papers from large collaborations without review, because there is no point to it. Anyone competent to review these papers is already on the list of 400 authors.

Science is strongly specialized. Results are largely disseminated by preprint. You know if a preprint makes sense if you’re working in the field. You probably know better than whomever the editor can get to agree to review the thing.

By the time something gets published, a year has gone by and research is already building on work reported in the preprint.
My city removed a few low head dams near the center of the city over the last decade. We are still in the process of a major reworking of the sewer system (to the tune of a few billion dollars) to separate wastewater from storm water due to EPA regulations. Because untreated wastewater is no longer flowing into the rivers, one thing we found is that we didn't need so many low head dams to keep incision from occurring as much.

This improved our downtown as it allowed us to also alter the river channel and opening up some land to build new parks on. Paddle boaters can travel much further, and the river ecology is improving drastically.
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I'm curious (and quite possibly way off base) - how much of the current trends on corporate culture have trickled down to low skill jobs? What I mean is, when I worked at a grocery store 20 years ago, we came and did our work, effectively labor work, and that was it. Do such jobs now involve constant meetings and trainings about whatever hot topic HR is working on, and reading and having to agree to forms, etc? If nothing else, covid must have definitely introduced all sorts of new rituals and instructions that are not related to the job.

From personal experience, the hardest part of an office job is putting up with all the conformity and bureaucracy and politics. For a lot of people in lower skill jobs, they may just not be interested in that stuff (also a reason people didn't go to more education). And so if front line service jobs are getting dominated by all the corporate stuff we have to put up with, I can imagine that pushing more people out of the system. Even things as trivial as having to email or fill out a job application online probably exclude many people. Not to mention having to be monitored by an app, etc.

Anyway, just a theory, I'm really just curious to know if this could be a factor based on what people's experience is in these kind of jobs.
Btw, I'm also a polyglot dev. I've never used rust professionally (unlike say Ada), but I do really appreciate cargo.

And for the record, despite my love for functional programming, I also have a strong appreciation for Java (not as much as Ada, but it's a great language when used by competent devs).
> B) Love not learning or doing other fun things because a career trumps all things in life

I think that this dismisses the joy of learning things that are unrelated to your day job or any hustle. I enjoy woodworking, turning it into a side hustle where I need to justify expenses would suck the joy out of it. I do something that is not work, recharge, and it is intellectually stimulating even if it is nothing like my day job in software.
Are you saying the US is selflessly funding these projects for other countries?
"Incision"?
The design purpose of the Bill of Rights was to protect the people from government impositions. Do you think that people who wrote it, with that purpose in their minds, were worried that the State would ban their own State Police from carrying firearms, and that's what they should prevent? How would that even look like - the Government will issue an edict that no Government employee is allowed to carry firearms, even in law enforcement, but the Courts would come in and say - no-no-no, your police has the right to bear arms! So you must have the armed police, whether you want it or not!

This sounds completely contrary to what in practice every government on Earth does. Of course the State can arm their agents, if they want to - you don't need to specially mention it as a fundamental right, as you don't need to specially mention they are allowed to breathe or eat - that's how it always happens. What doesn't always happen and needs special protection - is the right of the citizens which are not government agents, and thus the government - which always has a lot of armed people in their employ - can easily walk all over them. To mitigate it somewhat was the exact purpose of the Bill of Rights.
Don't conflate knowing the term with (really) knowing the concept. Some people might know what you're talking about even without having ever heard the term.
The ACLU still has free speech lawyers, and I supported the ACLU to the tune of 1k last year. But logically it follows that supporting the right of African Americans to survive encounters with police, or for Transgender people to have healthcare, increases the amount of free speech in the world by ensuring their voices can speak in it. A decrease in the survival of people is necessarily a decrease in free speech.
Wow, considering how that trial ended up, with the women involved lying, colluding together on testimony, interacting with him after events, on and on...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Jian_Ghomeshi

Well, it is an prime example of why we have trials.... instead of public opinion lynch mobs with a noose and tree.

Frankly, those law students not wanting someone to have a fair day in court, should have been disbarred. Absurd! Court is how you determine guilt!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_incision
I don't understand it much, but it did occur to me when I was reading it that if equipment can detect the light emerging the tunnel earlier, then it has a physical effect on the world. And perhaps that physical effect could be used to make a novel ion thruster or solar sail that is 300x more efficient. E=mc2 thus c=sqrt(E/m) and m for photon is constant -- proportionally higher c is balanced by a more efficient E?
Prolegomena is the introduction to his Critique of Pure Reason, published after that work because he realized he needed a something more accessible to introduce his concepts. Condensed, it stands as a summary, and thus still his response to Hume. That response in fact is a critical part of the opening pages of Prolegomena. My statement was correct.
> It does strike me as weird that there is seemingly no POSIX-compliant way to get your public Internet address, from my readings.

There is no singular thing called a "public Internet address". Imagine you're writing paper letters to someone. You write a letter, you put your own From address, you drop it in the slot. When the mailperson comes to collect the letter, they replace your mailing address with a special other codeword. And when they receive mail, they replace that codeword back with your original address. You would never know it was intercepted unless you asked around. There's no official protocol to ask for your codeword, it's just a trick the mail service does on your behalf.

Your home router does exactly this; it's known as "Network Address Translation", or NAT. It's not an official part of IPv4, and there's no protocol to ask what it is. Your computer thinks its local IP address (typically some variety of 192.168.0.1) is its real, public address, and your router does the swap behind your back.
> Do such jobs now involve constant meetings and trainings about whatever hot topic HR is working on...

If you have a manual labor job, the opportunity to be paid to sit down while someone yammers on about something or other and maybe shows a movie is quite welcome.
I disagree: I m not sure what's making you say it's not working but from a Chinese point of view, this was also an experiment, to try and open up a little.

Are you sure you're doing your part of the bilateral exchange? It cant just be China changing, the US must learn too to adapt and accept a larger, more powerful country, with a widely different model.

Living in China, I can tell you the american model is known, and not particularly impressive to them. They care a lot less about freedom of speech, maybe because they never had it, than they care qbout order, unity and crime rate for instance. And what I always hear is that throwing themselves at the communists in revolt to get the same shitty system as the US is not so seductive.

Maybe become a role model and people will beg to ressemble you ? I have a hard time convincing them voting for their government is gonna work better because "if even idiots can vote, look at who they elect" :s
Great write up. I would have wanted to say much the same, when I cut from NetBSD to FreeBSD back when the IBM X30 laptop was my daily drive.

I ran pkg on OSX for a while, and would still do if homebrew hadn't solved other problems for me. the /opt vs /usr/local thing is quite interesting, on systems which think "they" own /usr/local

Doing things in kernel vs doing things in userspace is a subject worthy of more discussion. We now have TCP in userspace models, browsers which have internalised a huge amount of the network dependency stack and QUIC, which I do not believe is kernel supported normally.
You've missed the point entirely and the irony of your comment makes me believe little can be done to explain why.
I'm not sure, it's a WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX? How does it compare with Scientific Works? Does it save the results as LaTeX files? Which packages does it support?

PS: Here in Argentina is usual to write

$\sin^2 x + \cos^2 x = 1$

instead of

$\sin x^2+ \cos x^2 = 1$
They were fine with the court part. They just didn't think he should have representation as "he already had the power."
Web page can be seen as a client to Paxos/Raft - a non-voting participant. It is a way to structure application for resilience, scalability and/or availability.
It's not even "maybe."

His supposition is incredibly clueless. He ignores FICA / Medicare payments, for one. That $100 in his ideal scenario?

He never accounted for it. Just like he doesn't understand that most big box hourly workers don't get to defer taxes til the end of the year.
> The press freedom index places Burkina Faso, a country that bans journalists from visiting displacement camps, higher than the US

The places the US does not let journalists access are countless. A prominent example are most of the US' border facilities, the detention-like migrant "housing" facilities among them.[1]

So what you brought up can clearly not be a differentiator between those countries in terms of such an index.

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/22/politics/biden-administra...

Edit:

To be fair to Burkina Faso I should point out that their 'displacement camps' are a case of taking care of people in need: refugees of war. Meanwhile the US facilities are just locking people up before sending them home.
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Your comment is being downvoted, but IME working at a few startups where the owner went from making 2M to 10M, then 50 and 100M+ a year I rarely saw founders who had a good work/life balance. Sure, they could afford to pay people to take care of all their domestic needs, their life consisted mostly of working 24/7. Even their vacations were often working vacations.

I think your characterization is accurate.
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Ironic, since Argentina fought a war with England.
Maybe a better explanation of this here: http://www.wa1mba.org/10grain.htm
Firefox has really turned a corner with version 89. The UI looks great out of the box for the first time in a long while. Native context menus on macOS. Performance is absolutely on par with Chrome. Dev tools are fantastic. Even the Android build is totally competitive now.

Never been a better time to make the jump!
Yes, so difficult to read that he wrote the much more accessible Prolegomena a few years later to summarize his ideas. Critique if Pure Reason is a classic, but what bootstrapped his ideas into the public academic society if the time was Prolegomena.
"in remembrance of what really happened in Tiananmen Square."

That event is still remembered across the world. Recently the Register noted that "Tank man" vanished for a while from certain search engines but has made some re-appearances again. It may also surprise you to learn that "Cicero sic in omnibus, et Brutus aderat" (Big C puked in the bus and Brutus had a rat)

I understand where you are coming from and I think the notion of:

"power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely"

is a very, very old notion.
Related, Drowning doesn’t look like drowning, https://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/
No US government research project aims to be under budget. Money is viewed as a finite expiring resource and there's every incentive to avoid your contractors from returning ceiling to the government.

I would not consider DARPA work to be low budget. DARPA programs are very typically in the $50 million range and program resources are split up between multiple performers. Sometimes larger program bets are made, especially in hot areas of research or programs where there are large integration costs.
I've eaten fried crickets, and the taste reminded me of the smell of the cricket enclosure in a pet store. They're not too bad, but not really good either. A little like crunchy mushroom. I'd think you could flavor them thru their food, by feeding them garlic and rosemary for example.

Honey tastes like bees, another insect. It mostly tastes sweet of course, but the flavor underneath is bees.

Do people with shellfish allergies also tend to have trouble with honey?
I use kiosks, but they are slow and have dark patterns, so I can understand why people don't want to use them.
> then I remembered the largest scam in recent history was by Bernie Madoff.

I don't get it?
CSIRO is (generally speaking) basic research.

DARPA will fund that too, but almost always only as part of a larger applied research project. DARPA project deliver working systems.

DARPA projects are also always limited term, without renewals. That gives a deadline, which is different to most research agencies.

(ex-PM for a research agency that worked with *ARPA here. Most of the non-DARPA US *ARPA agencies aren't as effective as DARPA itself though).
Taylor was killed because her boyfriend exercised his second amendment rights. There are no charges to contest, because the police on the scene acted as judge, jury, and executioner. That there aren't charges against the extrajudicial killers ("murderers") to be litigated is exactly the problem.

The NRA does plenty of activism that doesn't involve defending people against charges, but for this incident they've been silent. For comparison, here is a statement that was put out by Gun Owners of America: https://www.gunowners.org/goa-speaks-out-after-no-knock-raid... . IMO it doesn't go far enough, condemning the general practice but failing to condemn the specific murderers, but at least they've said something.
> On the other hand, those who approach civil liberties as a matter of principle face no such dilemma.

...until they remember that there are that there is more than one civil liberty, and more than one person who has civil liberties, and that sometimes one person exercising a particular civil liberty can prevent or conflict with another person exercising a different civil liberty.

Once you are dealing with a society bigger and more complicated than Gilligan's Island, you cannot escape these dilemmas.
My problem with this list is that a lot of these things are not really “skills” but rather seem to be a prelude to some new responsibility outside the job of engineering. Which is fine if you’re going to be compensated as such, but IMO the bump of 10-20% more salary for all this extra work and stress is not worth the hassle.
I’ve used it since before it existed, in that I used Posterous, and then migrated to Posthaven.

I’ve been and remain very impressed with the reliability and deliberately thoughtful feature progression on Posthaven, all while remaining no muss no fuss subscription.

For the feature progression, I recommend going back to the beginning of their blog, and reading the consecutive updates.
Could you elaborate on this? Like a link to a concrete project/discussion?
I am visually impaired too and I did my own research on this topic a while ago. It appears that in the past decade or two there have been a few attempts to improve accessibility of Latex generated PDFs, but none of them seems to have accomplished the goal and pretty much all of them are dead projects now.
I would be happy if there's an ongoing project.
I think you need to give your definition of moderation vs censorship. To me, they are synonyms.
Honestly, I've never heard a term for it. Just talked about in the abstract:

"That operation is O(n log n)"

"Sure, but that operation doesn't happen on every loop, the entire algorithm is still O(n)".
I don't think the Bitwarden extension uses content scripts—at least, it doesn't insert any elements into the webpage, which seemed to be the main issue that the article was bringing up.

Just to be clear, when I say autofill I'm not suggesting that it fills in passwords with zero interaction, but when you're on a website that Bitwarden has a password for, it shows a little flag on the extension icon, and you can click on it to fill the password.
But if June 4 for you is only about Victoria Park, then you're starting to enter religion.

What matters is we've discussed it all week in every newspaper, certainly a lot more than we would have done before. The crowds were around the park too, the police had to understand why this was necessary, etc. There s not one hong kong resident last Friday who didn't know what had happened on June 4, so maybe let the covid restrictions play out, and make sure we dont start talking more abt HK problems than tiananmen ?
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> What keeps a malicious program from replicating the exact changes that Firefox makes when installing an extension? What about just replacing the whole profile folder with one that has a malicious extension installed?

I obviously haven't spent time trying to break this, but I would assume the config file is hashed. You probably could replace the whole profile, but that would be very noticeable to the user.
America is a weird outlier in lifting worship of freedom of speech far far beyond where other rich, free countries do, so that’s not all that surprising.
Freedom - yes. A job - well, that's complicated.
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From my understanding, this is part of why reader mode is not standardized or well documented. Its heuristics are definitely revised, likely in part to address this.
Being a US citizen, you can choose between El Salvador or a number of tax-free American states, because you're still obligated to file your federal taxes even if you reside outside of the USA.
The Chinese government will be worse than the German government of WW2 and far more difficult to beat since they are far smarter.

The CCP does not care about human rights. It does not care about territorial sovereignty. It does not even possess any true allies. The only thing that matters to them is the Power Equation - do you have the power and will to oppose them. If you do not, you will be rolled over and exploited.
"Why wouldn't you just" is a good one too
Yes badgering developers to do such onerous things like… use a <button> element for buttons.

Rather than ask "why should I support screen readers" maybe ask "why would I actively break them and make my website unusable?"
> They might flee from a trip to prison but few people run from a paid vacation offer.

They may still run if accepting the paid vacation offer would be followed by imprisonment at home.

So offer them permanent residency instead. And then prepare for the logistics issue of managing a great fleet of boats racing straight to your ports.
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Eh, I think that depends on whether that manual job is self employed or working for someone else.