skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
while i think this statement is flawed anyways, there is a difference in being the only one who can find these flaws easily or being part of a community were everybody could do this if qualified.
> Not taking a vaccine if you’re young and healthy is a purely selfish move. Not taking a vaccine should be reserved for only those people who cannot take a vaccine: those who are far too young, or who are immunocompromised. Everyone else should vaccinate to protect the truly vulnerable.

I fully agree! So be honest and make that argument! Don't say "taking this vaccine is good for you", be honest and say "taking this vaccine is not necessarily that good for you, but we all have a responsibility to do it, and then we all benefit from herd immunity".
Except missing it, I notice that you are not disagreeing with the point. Lots of contemporary indian culture features fair skinned people in the main role. For the same general reason.
Could you please name any other mRNA vaccine that was authorized for use in humans by FDA? I am not aware of any.

I agree that the vaccine is probably safer. However, propaganda that covid19 infection doesn't give you as good immune memory as the vaccine is outright false and should be considered as vaccine misinformation on major platforms.
Saudi women allowed to live alone without permission from male guardian
I was about to say that you can get recent EA games on Steam, but then I checked and realized they require Origin on top of Steam, which is BS (even if it kinda makes sense).
Yes and no. I would say it's less likely there's exploitable code in open source because it's so open.
well, I hadn't thought about it as accelerationism, and I'll have to think about it more. It's a good point.

My first reaction would be that it actually does help in steps beyond just strengthening existing structures, like I said, by banking the unbanked and freeing them from banking systems, by giving states ways out from under US sanctions, by whittling away at the hold corporatism has. Empirically, it's not the case that this is only adopted by the rich. Bitcoin use is massive in Africa, especially Nigeria and Ethiopia, among not so well-to-do people, in Central and South America, mostly for remittances and for peer to peer economies among people who have no bank accounts. And those are the first to really jump onto it, the corporate leeches are following, not leading. It's not just a toy for rich people. I'm far from rich by any metric.

But you're correct, the powers that be will absolutely try to capture it. Holders are not out of reach, though holding it can be dome quite clandestinely (as can supporting the network; you can run a bitcoin node, and nobody will know; and if you raid houses to take them, new ones will spring up.) The power of decentralization is rather persistent, as we have learned with filesharing over decades.

Bottom line, I wouldn't reject the idea that bitcoin can be reformist outright, but of course nobody can guarantee that.
Not sure if you're aware, the current way is to tap Update, which downloads the APKs for each installed app. Then, for each app, you need to tap Install, wait 0.1-2s, then tap Install again, then wait until the update is done. I currently have around 20 installed from the store.

This all is to show that Google is low-key hostile to apps installed from sources other than the Play store. Which was the point of the parent comments.
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the fact that clotting risk did not go up with biontech and moderna might throw a wrench into that hunch.

There's no agreement on what's really happening. For example, clotting risk from the mRNA vaccines is supposedly the same as for the AstraZeneca vaccines, but governments across Europe already suspended the AZ vaccine due to clotting risks (supposedly). Therefore by implication, they would also consider the mRNA vaccines dangerous if their standards were consistent. Either the standards aren't consistent and the AZ blocks were political, or the claims that mRNA vaccines have similar clotting risks to AZ are wrong, but given the contradictory nature of many of the claims surrounding this topic - and given that you admitted you only just discovered some of the scientific discussion of the effects of mRNA vaccines - it may be worth dialing down your confidence slightly.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/blood-clots-as-prevalent-w...
It’s really becoming ridiculous at this point. Romans were white even more than current Italians. There were more than historically accurate “diversity” in HBO Rome, but Roman aristocracy at this point in time was strictly preserving blood lines not only prohibiting racial diversity, but even mixing with low class. It’s one of the first Roman laws - noble cannot marry common. Leftist propaganda is conquering new heights…
You don't need to, you like to. You being a stand in for the general readership.

People sign up for email newsletters, people dont subscribe to RSS feeds. They do visit websites, which is how I read the couple substack authors that I do; but if you've already got the content why not email as well?
since EA doesn't seem to be in the business of selling their engine to other companies, they don't really need to make big announcements with dazzling preview videos
I take it you think pirating things is not stealing either?
Isn't it here? http://mathscheats.weebly.com/2019-downloads.html
Hmm I see. This of course gives Apple much more information about me than the individual newsletters could extract on their own (because all that information lands at Apple now). Not sure how this is supposed to improve privacy over simply not loading the images at all.
I disagree with your assessment regarding herd immunity. I expect Finland to reach herd immunity this year, with occasional outbreaks in following years. In this scenario, the risk of an individual contracting the disease is minuscule. That makes the risk/reward ratio of personal vaccination... not that good.
Haskell doesn't treat all lists as linked lists. It treats linked lists as linked lists. It also has Seq (finger trees), boxed and unboxed arrays and various streaming libraries.
No, he's being a bit stupid, security through obscurity is arguably no security at all however it makes identifying vulnerabilities _easier_.

The main issue for leaking source code of _games_, especially _multiplayer games_, is that people learn how to bypass the anti-cheat mechanisms which leads to a degraded online experience for everybody.

I worked on Tom Clancy's The Division and the mantra was always "write code like it will be public one day".

(in their case it meant don't get to persnickety about a library not working how you wanted or swearing about how Windows was batshit insane at times -- but it also applied to making sure you did't just assume the code wouldn't be read by malicious people)
Same for me. I need to start with the bulk of the info and start to compress it to be helpful to me.
> don't read their damn E-mail

I also never fully understood this problem, but the other day, someone shared their screen and I saw, I kid you not, 5000+ unread emails. Granted, these were both private and work emails, but still.

I think when something like that happens (and I don't think it's an isolated case), we've completely lost the ability to deal with email in any sort of non-random way. There's a couple of questions I would ask myself there:

- Why am I being CC'd on so many things? (unfortunately, this can often be outside of one's control)

- Why don't I use automatic filtering and tagging?

- Why don't I unsubscribe from marketing emails?

- etc.
What's the worst consequence of doing exactly the opposite the software wants you to do? Just flagging?

If so, I'd put up a mid-test dance party just to mess with the program in protest. Thankfully my university hasn't adopted proctoring software.
> Engineers spend so much time waiting on compile, build, and deployment time

Slowness in this processes can certainly frustrate and extend overall timeframes, but surely engineers must be capable of multi-tasking to some degree, and able to do something useful with those minutes between commit and deploy? ;)
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You can just fold the old interface with the old semantic into a special case of the new interface, and provide a wrapper function with the old signature. This avoids code duplication.

> I also think the library author has the right to change some function signatures when they change major behaviors too

When the the semantics change, it is already a backwards-incompatible change anyway, so it is cleaner to provide an extra function name for that new version.

There might be extreme cases where it is not possible or desirable to keep backwards compatibility, such as hardware bugs in Intel CPUs speculative execution, or APIs which turn out to be so thoroughly botched that they cannot be made safe. But these are exceptions.

One thing is to compose from backwards-compatible components makes it much much smother and easier to upgrade to new versions in a system which has many components. Paradoxically, it makes upgrading easier, and this is what library authors ultimately really want from users. While breaking compatibility does not only leads to a rat-tail of consequential breakage and forced upgrades which leads to more breakage, and makes everyone hesitant to do even small upgrades, ensuring backwards-compatibility leads to people upgrading without fear that they are interrupted for weeks and months.
This was something I attempted, but couldn't get it to work. At some point we just have to refuse.
It's not. And with more and more drm nowadays piracy is actually something of a must if you are to enjoy the product you paid for.
There are a few nice timelapses on youtube of borders of Europe changing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-2zaOhYlAM

Fascinating stuff. There were some attempts with e.g. Yahoo's Geoplanet to take historical context into account. I know some people who are still working on that data set (which Yahoo released under a creative commons license): https://spelunker.whosonfirst.org/concordances/woe/

I live near a building in Berlin that has a sign "this building used to be in a different country". Also, I live on the only street still intersected by the wall. It's Bergstrasse which is intersected by the wall memorial. I remember listening to the news announcements in the Netherlands when the wall fell when I was a teenager.

Another interesting thing is that borders are kind of imprecise. We've only had GPS for a few decades and most maps predate the existence of that. Land surveillance to modern standards pretty much developed only in the last 200 years (e.g. Ordnance Survey in the UK is one of the older examples of an institute specializing in that). Post colonial dividing up of territory in e.g. Africa was done with rulers without too much regard for history, culture, or ethnical divisions. The border between the US and Canada is similar in some places. Also internal borders for some federal states are funny like that.

Besides, stuff moves around on this planet by centimeters per year in some areas. The meridian does not actually run through the little monument they have in Greenwhich for that (by over 100m). It hasn't for a long time. Rivers, which are commonly used for borders, move as well. There are some minor border disputes all over Europe (and a few major ones) as well as occasional pragmatic agreements between e.g. Belgium and the Netherlands on how to administer certain regions. Baarle Nassau of cause being the most surreal example where we are talking exclaves, enclaves and enclaves containing enclaves, etc. Some houses cross borders and have entrances/exits in different countries. It's completely nuts.
in the same way that you can steal secrets
There is much simpler solution about cheaters. Local servers to play on lan. Many games came with them.
Well, 72 bytes is still far away from 16 characters. Also, nearly every website is able to allow passwords longer than 16 chars, so it is definitely possible somehow!? This limit is ridiculous
A typical combination of possibly honest confusion (for example between increasing prices, driving out less wealthy residents, and replacing buildings with worse gentrified ones); insulting and prejudiced attitude (aversion to high cost of living is a legitimate interest, not "anti-growth"); and obviously flawed arguments (remote working has hurt some renters, but it only affects the demand side of the real estate market).

It might be meant to support new construction, or just to lash out against "progressives" (maybe some specific political figures, there's a detailed list in the middle).

Is "The Atlantic" considered a conservative newspaper?
> Judging by the stats for how many men you find in early childhood education versus women, it's clear that society as a whole still shuttles women in that direction by some mechanism and men in another direction.

Or perhaps, women, in average, have a higher natural predisposition to take care of young children than men.

That would not be a surprise, since women get pregnant and, as far as I know, generally took care of children while men went out to hunt and fight.

Of course, nobody should be pressured to choose a profession based on a stereotype.
Considering that Intel had been an ARM licencee in the past, it would appear that they are attempting to leapfrog the ARM RISC space by going to RISC-V.

There are many who see RISC-V as being an attractive alternative to ARM. Especially when you consider the opportunities to extend the instruction set to support niche application domains.
No we don't, you little Hitler. You buy electricity and use it as you see fit; so do other people. You don't dictate what they can use it for, so long as their activity is peaceful. If you mean you want to limit pollution, take a number and get in line, we've been trying to do that for decades. We'd probably have it already if it weren't for anti-nuclear activists of the past. Please try to curb your authoritarian streak.
I would put anyone who thought that in that box.

The very odd belief that nuclear power does not rely on storage and peaking capacity to deliver electricity when people actually want it, at a price they can afford, and without carbon externalities is one of the key things that indicates to me that nuclear support is an irrational tribal thing.

You could easily think nuclear fans live in a parallel dimension where electricity demand is entirely flat and unchanging, so focused are they on the mythical "baseload" to the exclusion of everything else.
I didnt say it was illegitimate, only that its counter to innate consumer demand. The demand being maintaining excessive consumption and relying upon magical thinking that regulation and new technology will fix all. I’m trying to get fibre cable installed on my street which is proving to be difficult because the houses are old, theres a 17th century church nearby and the street is narrow and so on. Little snags like these make rolling charging infrastructure more challenging than simply passing laws decreeing what you want reality to look like
Cool! It's been pretty hard keeping track of the different MLOps tools lately, this should be really helpful.. :)
I don’t think it would be that useful to be honest. I don’t think it happens when the email is opened by the end user, but some point during the delivery process. And even then you’d only find out from some email providers - not everyone does it
> No, buf is not exported, so it's "static" in C terminology.

Yes, I know that is not exported. What I wanted to say is that in the C example, no one outside tmpstr(void) can access static char buf[16][1024].

In the Rust example I can access static ref BUF from fn main() function, for example.
Or can we sum more accurately by taking the stable_mean and multiplying by n?
Open source projects that have a high usage and high visibility have their flaws quickly fixed _because_ the code is open and for everyone to see. It's an iterative process that grows with the popularity of the project. Popular open source projects have been open for years and/or have lots of people that participate, review, report bugs, and fix them.

A closed source projects can have thousand of security bugs no-one will never know about. Since it's closed, it's hidden so no problem... until it's leaked.
Twitter and Instagram are both awful for mental health as are notifications.
we are smarter than humans of 200,000 years ago; symbolic. abstract thinking evolved 50000-60000 years ago (source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048993/ )
Turn people off? Feel free to be turned off, no-one is doing this for fun. The whole point is doing your duty to protect the vulnerable.

It's crazy to me that I see more insane opinions on HN about this than on reddit. Always considered HN a more rational crowd but I'm very disappointed by the users in this thread.
> I don’t load remote images by default, so this already doesn’t work for me. However, basically every mail platform creates tailored links to track click engagement. So you’re screwed anyway, just maybe a little later.

Right, but I don't mind if companies I'm actually doing business with track my engagement. For newsletters I've actually signed up for, clicking the "load remote images" and/or on personalized links helps them with their business model, so why not? If I don't trust them with the data, I probably wouldn't sign up for their list anyway.

I'm more worried about randomly being tracked by who knows what person or organization. With the "don't load remote content by default", I have control over when and how I get measured.
Perhaps they do, but if you think about it is it unreasonable?

You are taking an exam with an unknown active computer in front of you. You could have any sort of material displayed on screen and/or connectivity to a third party, or whatnot.

An alternative, which you mention, is to be given a trusted laptop for the duration of the exam. A potential issue there is that they may not have so many devices available to distribute.

There are always trade-offs.
Thanks for the first-hand insights.
"Stealing" a digital product implies that every stolen copy is a net loss for the distributor. It's definitely not.
Mine is “first name at last name dot dk, only last name is spelled with an ‘O’ instead of an ‘Ø’” ...

It’s quite common when giving my email over the phone that my full name has already been established so I really wished the “Ø”-version would work (I also own that domain) but most (many? Some? Too many) email clients refuse to send emails to servers that contains special characters.

I can receive emails at the ø-domain, but not send to it using Fastmail. They recommend I use puny codes but that’s way too difficult to communicate.
The rules of the major card networks will protect you against card-not-present fraud, so I don't understand the worry. Some countries might even have laws that strengthen these protections further, though it might only be limited to credit cards.
for me stealing implies change of possession. this does not apply here. what might have been taken is the possibility to monetize it the way they imagined or that they had been hurt by the PR afterwards and similar things. but nothing has been stolen everything is still in place were it was before and nothing is missing except for some of the confidence in their infrastructure security.
A manager once brought up "there are three levers - scope, time (deadline), money (people)", and while it's probably not revolutionary, it did stick with me.

Add more "must have" scope, and something else has to give.
When I copy your secrets, you no longer have secrets - just information that someone else also has. When I copy your code, you still have the code.
It certainly would be nice. I have an off-topic, but, nevertheless, important request in the question format: is there any chance that HN UI will be improved in the nearest future by allowing users to selectively expand & collapse individual discussion threads? The lack of this feature is IMO a very annoying issue and a glaring example of how simplicity taken to an extreme leads to a significant friction in UX (which arguably could be fixed relatively easily in this case).
> This might be a controvertial view, but I feel that having to self learn a topic is a good filter to see if you actually enjoy the topic. If you don't want to sit and self learn a dense topic (assuming lives dont depend on it), then you will likely hate working on it.

Maybe, but I’ve felt my ability to self teach myself anything steadily collapse over the years. Particularly, while I enjoy some topics, I do not enjoy having to understand their prerequisites independent of the original topic, and any prerequisites to those, at which point I’m just is abstracted and far away from the initial thing I was interested in in the first place. One common thing for me personally is math. There are many things I’m interested in, where a solid understanding of calculus is necessary. Now I could maybe manage to maintain interest if the calculus was all I needed, but I had a terrible math education and have no interest in spending all the relearning algebra and other calculus prerequisites, far displaced from what originally caught my interest.
Noice. EA can got fuck themself.
> Yagni originally is an acronym that stands for "You Aren't Gonna Need It"
60 degrees C is a lot above a really hot Mediterranean summer day. Average temp is 33 degrees in the hottest summer months, and in extremes it may be 40 degrees Celsius. 60 degrees would therefore be almost twice as hot as average or 50% hotter than even the hottest days.

Also 60 degrees Celsius would mean it made an appearance here:

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

Given that the highest recorded air temperature on earth is 56.7 degrees, you may wish to revise your last sentence.
I felt that this was well written. Do you have a better definition of source code that is:

- Accessible to the general public (it's a BBC article)

- One sentence long (you will lose readers if this becomes a cs101 lecture)

- Articulates why a source code leak matters
There's a presumption that open source code has been looked at by independent researchers. "Many eyes".

In contrast, source code of games is a trade secret. It is being worked at by famously overworked developers. And companies in the industry are known to sit on vulnerability reports for months or years.

Don't ever install games on a machine you use for work or identity.
Open your QWERTY keyboard on phone/tablet or look down at your keyboard to see the cleverness
Indeed. That seems to be what GoCardless are using now, and as mentioned above, they work out much cheaper than Stripe for international payments with currency conversion.
I have "first@la.st". It sometimes trips people up, because the "st" part is for a country very far away.
also in unicode? (4 byte * 19 chars)
Apparently there are some lunatics who go above 100C in saunas - sometimes they die.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10912578

But it seems like 175F (80C) would be a normal-ish range. temperature.