skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Security reasons" doesn't pass the smell test -- US adversaries are going to see the report regardless of what time it's released, whereas significantly fewer of its own citizens will.

> That stuff even creeps into HN discussion in a way and to a degree that is not the norm here.

HN discussion isn't some sacred thing, and probably never was. This is an interesting topic (and depending on the true nature of it, arguably the most interesting topic) and there's plenty of information to sift through. If HN discussions were meant to be stifled around official, manicured government and corporate press releases, that sounds more like naïveté than a free thinking scientifically-minded forum. Some of us are interested in other things besides the most elegant possible Haskell one-liner.
What a joke. The fact that they pretend to be a "Gold Microsoft Partner" is just hilarious.
To be fair pick any commercial NAS device and it probably has vulnerabilities somewhere.

Just don't go and expose all your stuff to the internet.
"Keyhole".

Same as the codename for the CIA's Earth-oriented remote-sensing satellites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth
I can thoroughly recommend the movie Idiocracy.

Brawndo is the product the drone would be advertising.
Such are the perils of edit logs not being available and/or not quoting what you are responding to.
So does Peppa Pig. That is a poor metric and worse yet very selectively applied by the power hungry.
Was about to comment the same thing.
12 bit color is only really useful for HDR hinting tricks to make images pop next to non-HDR images/frames. When your image is full screen you don't need it.
Nand2Tetris, the book, and actually coding the entire project. It earned me a prestigious internship, from a no-name school, which subsequently lead to a FANG position.
I think it's on purpose for this article. They talk about "trash foundations".

In this case, I feel building on wetlands is the bigger problem.
It sounds like you are trying to be snarky, but yes - that is exactly the point. Startups are high-risk/high-reward for founders. They have equally high risk for employees, with lower rewards. For many people, that just isn't the right move, and maximizing their cash salary is a better choice.

Startups are not the right answer for everyone.
If everything works perfectly, if there are no bugs (like, y'know, the failed one in the pictures in TFA), if it correctly tracks inventory, and if the pictures that they use match what people are looking for... then it might work. In reality, it will not.
That's a fair question, and I guess my answer would be "ergonomics". I tend to work in Python not Scala, and there's a certain amount of boilerplate that is necessary to even get Spark functional. For instance, this is a code snippet to spin up local Spark (not Spark Shell) I have stored in a file which I have to look up because there's no way I can commit this to memory:

import findspark
findspark.init()
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

sqlContext = SparkSession.builder.master("local[*]").getOrCreate()
df = sqlContext.read.parquet('path-to-file/commentClusters.parquet')

Not to mention fussy things you have to do in Spark to alias a table:

df.createOrReplaceTempView("tableA")
sqlContext.sql("SELECT count(*) from tableA").show()

Compare this to these 2 (!) DuckDB commands in the Python REPL that I just ran moments ago:

>>> import duckdb
>>> duckdb.query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM '*.parquet'").fetchall()
[(2,)]
I'd prefer to just have it. Seems decently important for me privacy wise. I as a customer don't want others to be able to test whether I have signed up somewhere and also it is much better security wise and not leaking business data.

And most times, it is standard practice to hide sign ups, luckily.
Those places have payroll taxes in the realm of 30-70%, and high progressive income taxes.

The overall labour cost is similar.

American developers are just lucky that they live in a low-tax society.
If you assume (without much evidence) that these are Von Neumann probes I think it's likely that there would be multiple types from different sources.
> Edit: What bothers me the most about this, is that it will actually work. Any surface where eyes may fall on, will be replaced with an ad.

Until someone finds out every screen has the same default password. And a few supermarkets are forced to shut them down because what was displayed was way, way worse than ads...
Let me try to say that a little more clearly:

A. Maybe they keep it vague for security reasons knowing that other countries will read it, not just the American public.

B. Maybe they publish it on a Friday in hopes of getting the least amount of nuttiness out of the American public.

When you publish something for all the world to see, you have to take into account both of those dynamics, not just one or the other. They will both occur. Addressing only one or the other will go bad places.
I agree that using the phrase 'conspiracy theory' in the original Lancet letter was too much. And I'm totally fine with people taking issue with that. And, in hindsight, they really should've waited for more information before forming and strongly expressing such an opinion. They're definitely not free from blame.
But I still think people should be able to change their mind by any amount based on new information. Why would you possibly argue that people should have to stick with ideas they no longer believe in just because they previously argued against them?

So, should they be able to change their mind? Sure. Should they be less dismissive of opposing views? Also yes. There's no contradiction there.
So are we going on to put up a great firewall preventing you from using Tencent?

Seems very unlikely.
Ask HN: Words of encouragement for someone lost in life?
Hi HN community,
first off, I'm writing from a throwaway account and the following problems might sound superfluous or insignificant for people well past my age, so I'm sorry in advance. To set the contex, I'm someone who is turning 23 years old this year.

Having spent a good proportion of the last decade in programming and mathematics - a time which brought me many joyful moments - I've also spent a significant amount of time, maybe even reaching the zenith in the past months, being very depressed, lonely, socially anxious; all are obvious hindrances in life.

For some inexplicable reason, a short circuit in my brain lead me to believe that creating a Tinder account might be a countermeasure for not feeling lonely anymore.

Seeing in the profile pictures what "normal", "well-rounded" people in my age are doing on Tinder, such as traveling, spending time with friends, etc., made my pain even worse, let alone the fact that I received zero matches. Feeling like a social outcast, and having an even stronger urge now in taking my own life - a decision I contemplated many times - ... I just feel very lost in life. I know that I'm a complete failure in life.

Over the years I've gotten to know this community quite well. I know that I'm probably not alone in dealing with these problems.

My hope is that, as so often, you people might have an insight, an idea, words of wisdom, or anecdotal experience in trying to rationalize my current feelings and situation. Thank you.
The Great Gatsby taught me the folly of silent sentimentalism.

Awareness of your emotional state is like a super power, or a Cassandra complex. Awareness that you've arranged your fortunes around a one-sided attachment to an illusion is the last bulwark against self destruction, especially when the marketing department eggs you on. Being able to identify it in others can be useful and alienating.
This just in: The government is not able to identify what UFOs actually are.
Indeed, sampling bias is a large concern.

Nonetheless, much of psychology research conducted in the US has made do with ridiculous sampling bias - the US college student is anecdotally considered to be the most-studied population in the world.
Unless you actually have rogue employees I'm guessing you'll be able to do this once or twice before you get told to stop making people lose an afternoon or even entire days of productive work because of bullshit like that.
Maybe, I am doubtful cause none of the OEMs have a good track record of building good quality software, open (well documented) APIs /interfaces and making it available to their peers.

Anyone working in the embedded world will greatly appreciate how awsome this is in android world, all the OEMs are terrible at making documentation and getting access is super hard unless you are working at Big Co.

Microsoft / IBM did something similar with PC and windows software standardization earlier. Windows APIs had their problems sure, but one of reasons Windows became so big was a direct result of stuff worked between major versions, back in the 90's they were fanatically focused on backward compatibility and it really made the difference.

A large external push is always needed for OEMs to follow open / documented standards, they are traditionally/ culturally opaque , perhaps another player like Microsoft could have done it better/differently.

However I doubt without an large market maker(with their own agenda) involved I am doubtful we would gotten anything decent.
An end user of an SDK is a developer that uses the SDK
MSBuild is very poorly documented. MSBuild is really not that good compared to what you get in FOSS land. I favor CMake over it, and personally I very much dislike CMake. The main thing in favor of CMake is you get cross platform.
I've interviewed with several, worked at none yet, but hopefully that would change soon. Similarities I've noticed:

- They grow fast. Unlike larger companies, there's room for promotion. Unlike smaller companies, you're not stuck being the sole person responsible for a thing for the next two years.

- Lots of tech debt. All startups have them, but YC ones are on another level. Like the Collison validation method, where they'd give an API and there would be a human on the other end handling all payments that went through it. They often acknowledge and manage it better than most startups.

- Product oriented. They believe good product leads to profits, which leads to investors. You don't end up building as much crap that nobody uses.

- Hard work. Some are proud, some are defensive/hide it, some hint it (free dinners).

Other than that, culture is mixed. You have liberals and racists. High and low pay. Bureaucratic and flat. Sincere bosses and charlatans.
If it's been implemented, show the URL and where the code is.
Since they had to start competing with an ever growing demand by population for increasing social serivces like Unversal Healthcare, and UBI, combined with current social services and debt taking up over 50% of the federal budget.

They see the writting on the wall, America can no longer fund its war machine unless there is an enemy, Russia / Cold War is played out even though they are still trying to beat that dead horse, China is not viewed as threat by most citizens as we get all of our cheap shit from them...

Nope Aliens makes a perfect scare for the masses to accept increases in taxation and debt
Nothing is worse than looking at a menu and it rotates to an ad.
This is obviously a comically idiotic idea, but ... hmm ...

If someone had taken this and put it in a museum as an art installation, I would love it. Thinking about it like that ... it tickles something in my brain. Using those absolutely huge, gorgeous screens, using our most sophisticated technology ... just to display a flat, bland, skeuomorphic representation of a completely mundane part of the human experience: the convenience store fridge section. I dunno, I'm finding it hard to describe what I feel thinking about this as a piece of "art". It would definitely make quite the statement. The size and scale of it is what takes it to another level.

But yeah, instead this is reality...
I would love to read the write up, especially if it came with sample images.
The common law may no longer be “you have to read the fine print”.
Maybe not agencies as you mean, but it does have:

* Marine Corps Counterintelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Intelligence#Mari...

* United States Army Counterintelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Counterinte...

* Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Counterintelligence_an...

* National Counterintelligence and Security Center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Counterintelligence_a...

Found via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counterintelligence_or...

AFAICT the NCSC is independent from the CIA, though both do fall under the DNI. And the DCSA does have "agency" in its name. ;)

The hierarchy became more complex and confusing after the 9/11 reorganization, and apparently has continued to do so.
It is just focused on the code in git. It finds things like: Open Source Licensing issues, library versions with KNOWN vulnerabilities, XSS, and SQL injection. It is supposed to work with a variety of languages - but I've only seen it used with a couple.

For an open database to the internet, you will need completely different tools - I speculate network scanning. A bigger problem is running code that DELIBERATELY sends data to an outside source though your proxy.

OS level issues should be managed by a central team that approves the version of OS and EVERYONE installed that EXACT patched OS, and refreshes quickly after patches are released.
Over 50% Of Liberal, White Women Under 30 Have A Mental Health Issue. Are We Worried Yet?

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/over-50-percent-white-libe...
It also saves the customers money because they won't buy the product. Everybody wins!
A civil engineer told me "settlement isn't a problem, differential settlement is a problem."
> They are directly advertising the products literally inside the case.

Well, yeah, but glass would be just as effective and much cheaper. So they're doing something in addition to that.

If the requirement was "display the goods we have for sale" then glass beats this thing in virtually every way. Cheaper, minimal maintenance, no firmware updates, and most of all: familiar.

But these are going to be:

* Tracking consumer interest ("eNgAgEmEnT")

* Swapping between content display and billboard-style advertising

* Changing prices dynamically depending on weather, foot traffic, historical "engagement", national ad campaigns ("all Coke products 50% during the World Cup!"), etc.

* Pretending there's still Red Bulls in there when there aren't.

* Pretending those Red Bulls are on the 3rd shelf, right, when the stocker actually put them on the 4th shelf this time. (He forgot to read the updated Planogram email)

It's dystopian crap, I want nothing to do with it.
Not to mention there is no upgrade path from .Net Framework to Core. Major missing features like WCF are still an issue in .Net 6.
Migrating is a long and slow processes. Luckily we can use .Net Standard 2.0 as a bridge for libraries.
I'll explain it this way: I can build anything you can build in any other language. And I'll do it faster, easier, and with a more maintainable product. And with the latest releases, it'll also be one of the fastest, lightest, and most compatible applications too.

Everything from the fantastic IDE and tooling, to the massive and comprehensive standard library, to the wide range of outputs (CLIs, websites, APIs, mobile apps, games, native desktop apps), to the cutting-edge projects like Blazor (first component-based UI framework not in JS that can be run client or server-side) means you can build whatever you want without much overhead. Even language and framework features like LINQ are unmatched.

If you want a single word, I'd say it comes down to pure productivity.
There are 10s of voters, maybe low hundreds, to whom web policy is important enough to change their votes. There is never going to be any accountability for the policy on dark web patterns.

> The other fault in your model is that Congress actually delegates the vast amount of lawmaking to administrative agencies, who are equipped to deal with the less important issues.

Those bodies typically end up full of industry insiders who lock out new entrants and promote the status quo. They aren't going to stop dark patterns, it is more likely they'll want everyone to have a license before starting a website (which is the obvious enforcement method).
And the form clears every time you go back/forward
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/our-cells-are-filled...

It looks like even the portion of DNA that isn’t metadata could also be there so mutations and damage are less likely to occur in critical portions.
Gloss3D – an open source 3D Modeler for Linux and Windows
lucidchart!
I honestly don't know what you mean. If it's a plane, but not detected as such, then by definition they don't know it's a plane to put it into a "normal plane" category.

We know ever recorded flight path of every aircraft. If it is plane-like and isn't one if those planes and we don't know precisely what or whose plane it is, there are two categories in the list that are the most likely explanations.

-USG or Industry Developmental Programs

- Foreign Adversary Systems
Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Kropotkin Was No Crackpot: The English and Russians Viewed Evolution Diffrently
In my world, taking a dimensional modelling class from Ralph Kimball was almost instant enlightenment.
This. So much this :)
They probably want to advertise something else, something someone else would pay them for to advertise.

It can easily be made to detect if someone is near and making their choice, but otherwise they can be part of a larger ad.
These will be everywhere in a few years so not idiotic just downright evil.
I'll bet serious money the shop isn't paying a penny for this. They got sold on "cool, high-tech" display doors "at no cost to you". Or even, "WE'LL pay YOU to install these" (which would be some ad revenue split deal)

The ads pay for these.
The Millennium Tower in SF has been sinking[1] since it was erected. Tenants have sued and now there is a fix proposed.

It all happened because the builder didn't want to go 200' to hit bedrock and instead cheapened out.

[1]https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/SF-s-sinkin...
These types of articles strike me as downright ghoulish - shoving in their pet cause well before the facts have been established. It would be one thing to say make an article listing potential hypotheses but I find the blend of speculation and advocacy is deeply offputting.
Because advertisements.
Fraud alert.
Well actually
Well I don't think secure and high-quality applications like Signal fit in that spectrum :p
There was a free concert in a park of my city recently. I wouldn’t mind hearing it, but traffic and parking was too much of a pain in the ass so I stayed away.

How odd that I would let things that irritate me get in the way of hearing a free concert.
> It's dystopian crap, I want nothing to do with it.

This is what the future looks like though. Welcome.
> We want to complain about them; we just don't want to fix them.

This dismisses the actual problem, citizens of the USA are fighting against big corporation interests and systemic abuse. This is the kind of thing a movie bully tells the kid that he is punching with the kid's own fist: "Stop hitting yourself".

USA citizens are fighting, are organizing, are more conscious than ever of their lack of health-care, education, justice.

So, unless you refer to the billionaires, it is not true at all that "we just don't want to fix them.". All the rest are trying their best.

> we could have had that in March of last year and stopped this whole pandemic slideshow from the start. We chose not to do so.

Is his proposal to give a vaccine to millions without testing it properly first? Is this the the final "move fast; break things"? And that things are people's lives.

> And then as you saw, the stock market came back, like really fast, and the stock market intuited something that turned out to be really true,

The "market is always right", like communism, works in theory. But, in practice many have forgotten 2006.

> I think the biggest change in the past three centuries of human history was the decoupling of the movement of information from the movement of matter, of bits from atoms.

Industrial revolution maybe?

> By the way, every CEO I’ve talked to is saying

Every one of them. The best CEOs. All say the same.

> This idea that you can now make actually independent choices about how you live on the one hand, and how you work on the other hand, and you can actually decouple those things.

If you have the money, yes.

And the it ends with a rant on Twitter. The guy that wrote on Twitter: “Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?”. At least, he apologized.

It is very interesting to peek into the mind of someone so out of touch of day-to-day life for most people. His views on how, if he was let free to do as he pleases, he will solve all the problems, that easy. I guess that too much money gives people a "delusion of grandeur".
> I do think we should be very picky on the things we accept as wrong, in and of themselves.

An interesting point. Many of these assessments are arguably subconscious and/or inculcated.

Some philosophies aspire to as few fundamental guiding principles as possible. Such a structure tends to improve self-consistency.

Other philosophies allow a broader mix of principles, sometimes in tension, which require considerable subjective discussion to untangle. Perhaps one could say these philosophies value human discussion as a core principle from which meaning is constructed.
They're in alphabetical order, which helps a bit.
Microsoft says new breach discovered in probe of suspected SolarWinds hackers
The core of the article is that the Russians and English viewed evolution differently due to living in vastly different environments.

"An Englishman who had learned the ways of nature in the tropics [and industrial England] was almost bound to view evolution differently from a Russian nurtured on tales of the Siberian wasteland."

Written by Stephen Jay Gould who developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium with Niles Eldredge (among other things.)
As I noted above, I'm not seeing the unemployment. I believe restaurants are truthful when they say they can't find labor. But I don't think that's because the labor market is smaller.

It seems there are normal amounts of unemployed people and if anything, the size of the US "labor pool" has gone up by a few million people since the pandemic started.
Although possible, unless they have figured out how to hack your eye sight then it still leaves some seriously unanswered questions.
There are pictures in the tweet of completely black screens, presumably malfunctioning or otherwise “off” screens so pretty clearly (heh) not transparent.
I'd probably try to experiment with weird ideas like unsweetened beverages, carbonated coffee, carbonated tea, carbonated oat milk, and bitter flavours like orange peel.
From the article, the object "is currently around three billion kilometres from the Sun. It will reach its closest point, known as perihelion, in 2031. At that time, it will be positioned below the plane of the solar system, near the orbit of Saturn."

Given how far away it currently is, I'm wondering how accurately the trajectory can be modeled, and how the larger planets (like Saturn) may affect that path?

I would guess there are apps where I could test and adjust comet trajectories but I've yet to learn about whats out there.
Reminds me of the USPS vending machines in the post office, which helpfully obfuscate my email address, xyz@example.com, to xyz***@example.com