skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The disconnect isn't that we require people to have state of the art impenetrable locks, we are requiring them merely to lock the door when they are out.

These standards that are out there aren't difficult to implement or put in place. For example if we look at PCI-DSS standards some of them include

1 - Changing default passwords

2 - Having a firewall

3 - Encrypting PCI information at rest

4 - Using encrypted communication channels for PCI (https).

This is just some of the standards and none of them are very hard, all of them are trivial to implement.

So sure it's a bad thing if you get robbed while out on errands, but you're going to get a whole lot less sympathy if it turns out you left the front door open with a sign that said, "I'm not home right now."

EDIT:

To be clear I am not talking about SMB mom and pop shops necessarily in this comment, I am talking about the massive Fortune 1000 companies that are getting hit with this over and over again.
>a limited set of niches in the upper strata of society

Otherwise known as "owning a house" and not being buried in student debt.
I can understand Google employees' passion to curb the power of military. I myself strongly support keeping government's power in check too. But the hatred towards the military, to the point of actively sabotaging military's effort to improve itself? That I don't understand. I really wish those employees travel back in time to experience the European people's life under Mongolian's reign, or the Aztec's life when Spaniards attacked, or the life of people in Manchurian when Nurgaci's tribe was rising in the early 17th century, or the life of Chinese people merely a hundred years ago when Japanese invaded. Shouldn't it mean something when millions of innocent people were slaughtered in a matter of years, or when a civilization (especially a more advanced one) got destroyed, or when a nation's human rights were stepped on?

P.S., it's worth mentioning that it was the Manchurian who restored slavery in Qing Dynasty. The word Nucai in Chinese or 명사 in Korean, meaning Your Slave, was such an honorary title that for more than 300 years until early 20th century only those who were trusted by the royals could use. Yeah, don't wanna be a slave? Build a good army.
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I read the whole article looking for some indication as to the mechanism by which the power plant or mining operation are warming the lake. If there is one, it's not in the article. I assume offloading waste heat from the power plant and/or mining operation? That would have to be one hell of an operation to noticeably change the surface temperature of a lake that big. I wonder if anyone has anything more granular than "feels like a hot tub."
Sure, people don't, or at least the kind of people I associate with don't: companies do though.

This was a company hiring a security firm.
I have not been able to find anything about final legislation either, though I did find some references [0] to the chat control legislation from June: [1].

I haven't read through it all, but the notable paragraph seemed to be:

This Regulation therefore provides for a temporary derogation from Article 5(1) and Article 6 of Directive 2002/58/EC, which protect the confidentiality of communications and traffic data.

'derogation' being a partial repeal of a law.

[0]:https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/European-chat-control...

[1]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_instituti...

Edit: It does seem that the intention here was to allow tech companies that were previously scanning for child abuse to continue to do so after December 2020, see politico.eu article
You have it the other way around. Brexit was FOR a hard border. One that would keep the EU out.

But the central British government, which does not seem to care much about their Northern Irish citizens, either forgot or just didn't care at all, about the fact that Northern Ireland is in limbo, stuck between Ireland and the UK. So any kind of EU - UK split would have reopened old wounds.

Wounds which actually the EU helped heal, back in 1998.
Signal didn't publish the source for their server-side from 20 April 2020 to 6 April 2021 while they secretly added a cryptocurrency payment system. Open source is only open if the source is available (and yes -- if their end-to-end encryption system is working properly than even a notional malicious server would not be able to intercept message contents, but could of course provide metadata, and also you have no way of verifying that the app you install via whichever app store you install Signal from was built from any given source).
> Blockchain is not truly peer to peer.

"Blockchain" isnt a single thing. Bitcoin is definitely peer to peer. Most cryptocurrencies are operated in a peer to peer way.

> It relies on blockchain nodes, which you can run yourself, but mostly people don't do that

Most people not doing it is irrelevant. They can if they want. They can get rid of more middle men if they want. Even using custodial cryptocurrency services get rid of some layers of middlemen and so is still a win.

> and it isn't free to do

Yes it is. There is no substantial cost in running a bitcoin node for example.

> The reason users of the blockchain

There is no such thing as "the blockchain"

> the reason.. users .. don't currently have to pay anything to use ["the blockchain"] is that owners of blockchain nodes earn money by holding coins that appreciate relative to their local legal currency at a sufficiently fast rate that they don't need to charge their users.

You're wrong on many many levels, as I told you in my other comment to you. Please stop trying to explain things that you clearly don't understand.
Jesus Christ, this is like trying to convince the blind men that the elephant exists. What, do you think it takes a lifetime of practice to operate specialized equipment? They send a crew of high school dropouts and semi-fluent immigrants to do the potholes in my street and the potholes are fixed just fine.

You can walk on to a pothole crew and be considered a functional crew member inside a single season. Sure, I don't want you fixing my potholes because you don't know how to do it, but if I happened to live next to those pothole guys, I'd be happy with my neighbors fixing my potholes. Now, let's assess the difference between them and you: they have at least a few hundred hours of pothole repair practice, and you don't. It's too bad that you're incapable of learning how to do that.

I bet you think that good grades are important, don't you? Without grades, you never know what kind of unqualified whack job might start Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, Whole Foods, Uber, Dell, Dropbox... that's why we need those pothole guys to only ever work on potholes- you never know what kind of whack job might start jackhammering your street and "making the situation worse for everyone else".
Missed that, sorry.
It's becoming scary how dangerous legislation is passed under the guise of protecting against "child exploitation". It's basically political suicide for politicians to vote against it (since the public cannot understand the nuance).
> What would you expect should happen, that UK should be allowed to use Nothern Ireland as backdoor to send unchecked goods to the EU, imported from say the USA and Australia and re-exported into the whole EU market with no border checks anywhere?

Of course not. That's exactly GGP's point I was trying to prove.

> The EU already has unprecedented control over commerce.

And I agree with it.
Sure, but what you are listing are a far cry from what actually menial jobs are. Fruit picking, burger flipping, telemarketing.. Those jobs are menial on a whole other level than, say, construction work.
The situation even after this, is worse in the US, correct?
>[1] https://www.chime.com/policies/chime/chime-user-agreement/#t...

>You may terminate acceptance of this Agreement at any time by permanently deleting the Application in its entirety from the Authorized Device

Who wrote this agreement? Clearly they have no idea how apps or online accounts work.
But if any bank could freeze these assets, where do you suggest the 3 months be stored? Bitcoin? Under your mattress?
Regular checkups can catch developing problems while its still possible to do something constructive about them.

If you aren't receiving an annual check up AND don't have a problem more complicated than you can google indeed you shouldn't waste your money and both of your time. What is within the individuals ability to understand is going to vary widely.

Your health insurance wont pay for expensive tests or treatments based on your say so because if they did people less intelligent and more paranoid than yourselves would order the moon based on what they found on webmd.
As a former DoD contractor, you have my deepest sympathies.
With newer systems this can be often handled at the os level. Both xfs and btrfs support copy-on-write, so you can have the same effect just by doing "cp --reflink".
And wood smoke is toxic! Wood is a terrible fuel, its only benefit is nostalgia and the appeal to pastoralists.
This is the misunderstood part of democracies as we have them now. The only democratic parts are the process of electing your representatives, and the decisions taken between the representatives. Of course that's still a (small) win, and there's the reasonable assumption that a representative will at least partially represent the interests of their voters. But in reality there's a massive disconnect between the principles of democracy and the implementation.

We now get probably the narrowest interpretation that could still be considered a democratic process. The people have the power for the fraction of a second it takes to cast a vote, followed by years of absolutely no real power of any kind, beyond the vague "consultation", and no real obligation from their representatives to represent the people.
Brexit is now the EU's fault, right.
Thanks. I will be definitely contacting MEP I voted for, why he voted for this bullshit. Especially when he is from party which is supposedly all about personal freedoms.
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Sure, but why should someone who goes to university and studies, say, literature for 4 years feel more entitled to owning a house than someone who, say, did not go to university and instead read and studied literature on his own for 4 years?
Just an attempt to explain downvoting. Unbiased critical thinking requires one to only look at the validity of the message. The author should not matter at all. The only exception to that I am aware of is when an extraordinary claim is made that is previously considered unlikely, when disproving it is very hard. In that case it might be easier for the sake of saving time of readers to point out that author lied or misled in similar statements before.

An example of that would be somebody coming up with a energy out of thin air idea (extremely unlikely, hard to check in-house), and pointing out that same person made such claims for 10+ years, perhaps with different apparatus and it never worked when reviewed, etc allows quick dismissal for many people until more trusted source checks and speaks on the matter.

"Extremist" material plaque on Facebook however is factual information, there's nothing to quickly dismiss based on credentials of the author here. Therefore bringing up their identity only introduces previously missing bias in otherwise unbiased conversation, thus damaging clear thought process.
The page at https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching doesn't work for me - whatever I enter in "Location" field fails the check at saving.

Can you look into it?
What I've read from KU Leuven is that they hack all kinds of cars, but Tesla's the only one that actually responds with fixes instead of lawsuits. [1]

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2020/11/22/onderzoekers-ku-leuv...
And IBM Cloud.
Calling synthentic assets - something otherwise fully embraced by traditional finance - 'fake stocks' repeatedly lets me think they might have had some sort of an agenda on this one..

Disclosure: I have personally invested small sums in the mentioned SNX and MIR.
People keep repeating this trope about metadata being worth more than content. Where does this come from?

I can understand that metadata is valuable -- of course it is. You can learn a lot from metadata. But more valuable than the actual content? Give me a break.

Something can be bad without being literally the worst thing ever. Pointless exaggeration like this does nothing for the cause of privacy.
I don't know I can use Reddit if oldreddit dies.
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Neither is designed for a CAD engine. CAD uses generally NURBS and a scene graph based around constraints. Game engines are not constraint based but rather about independent behaviour agents interacting using triangle meshes. Quite different.
Well, while it may appear gatekeeping, maybe those dilettante developers should be using something else instead, like BASIC?
Reflinks on CoW filesystems are also good for that (along with native features like snapshotting, which are sort of a reflinks of a directory).
For the purposes of an eu law requiring facebook to scan messages, facebook can’t scan icloud backups.
Well I would like to point your attention to one little fact.

Jeff Bezos is not buying crap on Amazon and he is not demanding lowest prices or free delivery.

Amazon needs people to do menial work at starvation wages so that bunch of other people with money to spend on crap from overseas could do it for cheap.

Seems that having cheap crap from Asia is a societal need.

Not defending anyone, just taking a different point of view into consideration.
They're talking about an event such as being put on the terrorism no banking list, or being abused with lawsuits that you can't win and having your money stolen via those lawsuits.

It'd take having physical, inconfiscable assets to protect from that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=acko.net
> from masters CS grads towards more talented coders with no degree

A CS masters isn't necessarily signaling the right things [0] [1]. Especially if it's a "terminal" master (and not someone dropping out of a PhD).

> I've also seen this get pretty ugly in the ML/deep learning community between the credentialed academics and the practitioners.

Lots of institutions embarked on the ML bandwagon, but unless the credentialed academics have connections/worked at a serious lab, I much prefer practitioners.

[0] https://blog.alinelerner.com/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-compu...

[1] https://ozwrites.com/masters/
Maybe it sounds lame or hokey or whatever but the point of working for the government is not to make money it's to provide your services for a significant discount for the betterment of the population.

Is that how people approach it? Yes some do, and there are fantastic people who are working the government in service to the nation. Certainly not all and almost never for government contractors.

That's the spirit at least. I don't think it's actually working unfortunately because trust in government is so low. There was a time though...
I don't feel bad for Mark Cuban - a sucker who should have known better - but clearly if his team fell for it than its good evidence the entire system needs much heavier regulation.

I don't want to have to deal with the societal problems/have my taxes go to a bailout when there's billion dollar scams affecting average workers, a pension fund, or minority first-time investors.
The point is really that European technology industry needs some differentiating characteristic to succeed. It is quite far behind both the American and Chinese side of things. The EU has promoted privacy and human rights first which was a very good differentiator but has instantly shot that entire concept down.

So the question on the table now is if there is no differentiating factor, do we go with the established US company or the new EU company when a product has to be selected?

It's not going to be the EU company.
Uh, that still doesn't paint Tesla in a good light, so this guy bought a car running special experimental firmware by mistake? What if there was a bug and he crashed?
This would also include any non EU citizens communications with an EU citizen. Also you might be an EU citizen without realising (by descent)
Looks like you're moving.
I consider it the “western frontier” type person, and it goes thru Texas, Utah, Nevada and up to Idaho the Dakotas and Montana, with smatterings of eastern Washington, Oregon and California. Which makes some sense just from a hereditary standpoint since much of it’s only been started to get settled (by non natives) for a hundred years. Nomadland as a movie does a good job of getting the mood right.
Thousands of years of history, local legends unaffected by foreign religions, carefully maintained genealogy trees, archives of state decisions from eons ago etc...

To be fair with the US, they have formed a pretty neat legend around the founding fathers and the constitution. I would consider that cultural infrastructure.
Damn CCP! Oh, wait…
why couldn't a blockchain have built in identity (through verifiers) to ensure 1 account per identity, and a voting system? Is there something about voting that wouldn't allow vote records to be public? System could automatically just ban anyone who gets below a 2 from 3 separate drivers, or something else ... there's ways... it's not a hard problem to solve...
0.5 baths???
Hiring an attorney is a good way to not have any money since you used it to pay the attorney. (And you have to find one - for some reason there's a phrase "my lawyer" but what kind of person "has a lawyer" and why would that lawyer know how to do everything?)

Just file a CFPB complaint: https://www.consumerfinance.gov
"others' files, but not anything important" reminded me of https://xkcd.com/1200/ - user files are pretty much the only important thing in many scenarios.
He didn't win, but George Lucas actually did try to sue over that: https://www.leagle.com/decision/19851553622fsupp93111385
This is absolutely asinine. Find lawyers who will take these cases. Let’s make them feel the pain!
It already has gotten out of control, hundreds of thousands of people crossed the borders without any checks. There was also this bizarre case of a man now pre-crime style accused of terrorism, although the charges seem very questionable when you look into it:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210525-german-soldie...
Isn't this what Solid.js does, aside from semantics strictly equal to react?
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So I 100% agree with everything you said, but don't see how it connects to the points you raise above.

As you say, people should think long and hard about their life goals, and in my opinion, would probably be happier with a different work life balance where they can afford it.

However, I don't see a world in which I would work part time at a job less enjoyable with worse pay than my current one. I would rather optimize to work the minimum hours at the best compensated job I can find. (e.g. why work 50-50% at white collar job and terrible job, when I can just work 51% at the white collar job).

Sure, there are major challenges to most people doing this, but removing those barriers is a lot more realistic that introducing job swapping that people don't even want. The simple place to fix the problem is uncouple health and other benefits from employers. The current system discourages part time work because employers have fixed costs per employee. Once you break this link, more people will work part time.
It does read extremely one-sided, as you’d expect from the pp.
It's not like the EU so far has been home to a significant tech industry anyway.

With GDPR, a notoriously convoluted set of rules and regulations that fails to achieve what it set out to, yet at the same time pesters SMEs while allowing large corporations with legal departments to continue to do as they please in terms of privacy, the EU has made sure it stays that way.

Laws like this one are just the icing on the cake that is the fundamental misunderstanding by most MEPs of how technology and the technology business works, not to mention the very real downsides such laws have regarding privacy.
I wouldn't totally rule out any doomsday scenario really, as long as humanity continues to put the greediest and power-hungriest humans in charge.
No. There's a big difference.

When Webvan went bankrupt, they truly bought all of those warehouses / refrigerated vans. They were honest about their business idea.

When "Africrypt" (a recent Crypto group) stole $3.6 Billion from its customers, that's straight up fraud and would not stand even back in the dot-com boom in the 90s. That's the sort of thing US Regulators are trying to protect investors from.

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You still might invest into a bad idea (ex: Webvan or Theranos), but those CEOs are truly spending money on vans / warehouses / poorly designed blood tests and not just actively stealing it from their investors.

Even when companies criminally lie (ex: Enron or Worldcom), its a far lesser crime than what the Africrypt brothers did just a few weeks ago. The size and scope of the scams currently going on in the Blockchain world is far worse than what happens in US regulated markets.
I'm not sure why you would take my comment (which was simply expanding on someone else's comment) as being directed at you or implying that you agree with the redefinition.

I'm just pointing out the obvious logical mistake being made by generally rational academics and textbook authors. Obviously we don't often see reason triumph over political advantage among politicians and the press, but without the support of educators that redefinition would have far less support.
> But a 4.0 is no more predictive of being a good hire than, say, a 3.3

Ironically I graduated with a 3.4, and I did feel guilty for not passing on resumes with GPAs as low as mine. But as I said, when I had many other tasks to do for work, and then had to stop them all to sort resumes (we all took turns), it was hard to justify excursions when there were so many 4.0s. It is a sad truth that new college grads almost all look the same on paper...
I'm looking as well, so far have only found https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sed/doc/votingList/(A9-0258_2... which doesn't say much.
If you care about it, switch to Librem 5 or Pinephone.
If you had been aware of this before opening your Chime account would you still have done so? I would not. Losing my money, and then having it tied up in a frustrating and incompetent process is just not worth the risk. I will be closing my Chime account immediately. This needs more attention.
I quite agree that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a "new world order" event, but I'm sceptical that a loss of Taiwanese Fabs would be the same.
This is a much better source of information than the headline link. It describes how this came about, what its limitations are and just gives a whole lot more context.

Of course it fails to advocate - which itself may have become a vice.
And I haven't seen server work done in C++ since 2006, we keep replacing those systems with Java and .NET ones.

To each its own.
I sometimes wonder why there's not more people and growth in Northern Australia. It seems like there's a lot of space and resources up there but not many people...
I can envision all sorts of workarounds to this constitutional issue. And, Congress does this sort of thing all the time.
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