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>These are serious allegations. Allegations of such seriousness should require proof of equally serious merit before conclusions are drawn

No, they don't. This isn't a court of law, _HN_ certainly isn't the cretin-pit that 4chan is, and it fits well within 4chan's broader reputation as a magnet for ill-adjusted harassers to do something as stupid as this.

No one here is going to try to stab a 4channer, or dox a poster, or move for legislation by making the valid assumption that assholes on the Internet stalked a guy for a really stupid reason.
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A great place to find old CB gear is at swap places, garage sale type stores. (Obviously on line now too.)
There used to be many designs of home "base stations", otherwise you would need to adapt an in car model.
Continue with frettchen's good comment; with a car CB, you would need a 12v transformer (power supply). Then find metal siding or roofing, to make a ground plane, but of course, there are base station antennas.
If you go to a truck stop on an interstate highway, they usually have cool selections of gear.
You could try a handheld, at a truck stop or radio shack, the limitation is the crappy antennas. Range is really poor on those, but at least it gets you going.(about 500 meters?)
CBs are a lot of fun on the highway for long road trips. By the way, some people in the off road, forestry, oil field industries say CB, but actually mean VHF/UHF radios.
There's a point though, where you are telegraphing perfectly good reasons someone would not want to work for you while they are desperate to fill positions even if it means tricking people into working there.
> the importance of cultural fluency in the formation of peer relationships

Fluency in the culture is crap. Are we really supposed to be glad our kids know all the Cardi B songs?
Is this stuff not possible with existing editing/compositing tools? Obviously the ease of use here is going to make it mainstream, but is ML changing the game in those other spaces yet?
Which was the point of the Golden Path and the Scattering. Cause the pot to boil over, give the reigns to evolution.
At this point I'm pretty convinced large organizations cannot build good proprietary software.
You should sell every month regardless. You already invested in your employer by betting your future on them. Diverse the rest.
Consumption just makes me think this person has tuberculosis.
Completely agreed that this is just unschooling.

I'd be interested to see the data on outcomes though. From the (fairly large) number of unschooling people I've met, the results seem to be much more extreme. People are either working upper-class white collar jobs or chronically unemployed.
(Intel maintains a database with passwords of all manufactured chips.)

I find this... somewhat hard to believe, both because Intel's volumes are huge and it would mean something like the original Pentium III Processor Serial Number came back to haunt us.

There was recently a leak of Intel internal information, but based on the contents of this article, it seems that was really mundane (schematics, etc. --- which any companies buying and using their chips would easily have access to) in relation to the true depth of the secrets that lie within these processors... part of me really wishes there was far more that got leaked, because besides the security aspect, and the despicable practice of companies hiding information on devices from their actual owners and locking them out, this stuff is just intensely curiosity-satiating.

however, the existence of such instructions poses a security threat since there is publicly available PoC code [9] that can activate the Red Unlock mode on one of the modern Intel platforms.

Security threat, or maybe path to freedom...?

As an aside, the VAX microcode (and hardware schematics) can be easily found, for those interested in this stuff and looking for something less secretive.
The current EUA covid vaccines have already been tested on real people in far, far higher numbers than any vaccine has ever gotten before a full authorization was issued from the FDA.

I suppose there could be some long term effect, but there isn't even a hypothesis as to how that mechanism would even work, nor is there any past history where a vaccine has had a bad reaction months later, so seems quite safe to me.
Yes, that is literally what I said - medical IDs, which are presented where and to whom it is relevant and necessary. Not on general purpose IDs that need to be presented to anybody including a random bartender or some web service that's asking for KYC docs.

I don't mean to insinuate but I do have to ask if you're actually reading what I'm saying in good faith or just reacting.
That's true, but the donations are so small (proportionately) that they wouldn't matter to Firefox. Firefox needs better strategy, not more money spent on the current failing strategy.
> Don't do that! The algorithm counts that as an engagement action.

Do you have a source for that? Though it does sound plausible in a world where "we want to keep people viewing our ads for as long as possible" is the _only_ goal of the developers, I find it hard to be _so_ cynical about Google that I believe that "let's show people more videos they have told us they dislike!" would get past the idea stage.
I hate what Facebook became and stopped using it years ago.
Other than paid software like Logos/Verbum bible software I don't know of anything like this, sadly.
"I declined an offer from a known and well funded startup because of a one year cliff on equity"

You might as well not bother interviewing at any startups if this is a deal-breaker for you. Whether you think it's fair or not this is an extremely standard term and no company is going to alter their employee stock grants on a one-off basis.
Security researchers will also happily sell their tools to law enforcement and other agencies. Companies like cellebrite specialize on that.

In short, if you are being targeted (and, granted, the chance of that is pretty low), your data and communication is not secure.
It's an economical question, not a technological question. (the FBI paid $1.3m in one case to get access to a phone).
Yeah, Hacker News is starting to become as allergic to nuance as it is to humor.
There is a long list of scientists that know exactly what research they are doing on JWST down to the minute [0]

For example, Dr Christine Chen et al will be using JWST for at least 34.9 hours to study the Icy Kuiper Belts in Exoplanetary Systems using near infrared spectroscopy [1]

[0] https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra...

[1] https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/1563.pdf
To be clear I’m not trying to construct anything; I’m just expressing a curiosity.
This. Mozilla has the power to make a bittorant client instantly available to tons of web users which would make self hosting video trivial and make YouTube's recommendation algorithm mostly irrelevant.
Yes. Oversimplified: Apple iOS is a closed system, Google Android is an open(-ish) system. These "abuses" mentioned in the article are not something Apple would need to do:

Google was accused in the complaint of paying Samsung Electronics Co., the largest Android manufacturer, to ensure that the Korean company didn’t develop its own competing app store. Additionally, after Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc. began distributing its app outside of Google’s store, Google “bought off” developers to dissuade them from doing the same, according to the complaint.
I wasn’t thinking on 50 year timescales, more like the last decade. But I may well be wrong even on that point.
> YouTube doesn’t give any useful way of controlling the content that children see beyond its default recommendation engine.

Youtube has Youtube Kids, with two different content sets for younger and older kids.

> You can’t as a user easily block a channel (just report it, or dislike, and hope the recommendation engine notices).

You can block videos and channels in Youtube Kids: https://support.google.com/youtubekids/answer/7178746?hl=en
i noticed that whole foods sells in multiples of 6 which kind of locks me into their hot dog brand, given than their brioche buns are pretty awesome. everyone else seems to sell in 8's.
Whatever you'd like to accomplish, if destroying a city of millions with a nuclear bomb would give you pause, extinguishing humanity should give you more pause.
Not really true. Have achieved multiple companies removing the 1 year cliff for me.
Unit21 raises $34m from Tiger Global at $300m valuation
yeah, it's cited in the paper:

[4] C. Domas. Breaking the x86 ISA.https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Domas-Bre..., Jul. 2017.
For Google to enable this on 3rd-party search providers without some kind of agreement they would be sending them a significant increase in traffic and load without warning.

That said, this should be configurable by the user at least.

Or perhaps Google should ask other providers if they want to opt in to this performance enhancing feature instead of "assuming" they don't.
To the folks saying this is fake or a "psy-op," this has been in the scientific literature for over a year. Go to pubmed and google "erectile dysfunction" and "sars-cov-2" (the name for the virus that causes Covid). While you're at it, also google "orchitis" (that means inflamed / swollen testicles) + "sars-cov-2."

I've been saying for a year that this side effect needs to be publicized more, since some folks seem to care more about their junk than they care about their lives.
> If a spouse wanted to sell their organs to improve the life of the remainder of their family, and made the choice with sound mind, then absolutely.

The thing is, nobody of sound mind who has a choice (and I mean a real choice, not "give us your organs or your family starves") would choose to do this.

Nobody wants to sell their organs. People that want to purchase organs would love your suggestion however, as it allows them to justify exploitation of the desperate under the guise of "it was their decision".

Freedom of destiny indeed.
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OTOH, if it's targeting (at least in part) the tiktok crowd or busy people throwing together a video slideshow for a wedding, you might be dealing with a situation where most of the source video is already in datacenters already, whether FB, GPhotos, etc.
I will give my benefit of doubt to the maintainers as well (as the author notes). Chromium is an open-source project - so there is a way for an interested browser vendor to make a change to this behaviour and enable support for their browser. So far there doesn't seem to be any indication of a malicious intent. If such requests were made and shot down consistently, _that_ would be concerning.
It’s not a false positive, as described. It’s “mitigated by environment”. The vulnerability is real. The severity is arguably too high.

People throw around “false positive” as a catch-all for “I don’t care about this”. But there are a number of distinct reasons one might not care:

- the scanner is wrong (e.g. there’s a code bug in the scanner like detecting “printed” instead of “sprintf”.

- the output is wrong because the vulnerability isn’t a vulnerability anytime, anywhere under any circumstances

- the scanner is correct, but environment or mitigation’s mean it doesn’t apply to me or the severity is wrong in my environment (this is the case here)

- the scanner is correct, but is giving me output I don’t care about (eg I want to filter for only high/critical but I can’t)

- there is so much output that I can’t pay attention to all of it; it’s so overwhelming that I can’t stand to look at it

Many security products have problems with output that is too verbose. This seems like a trivial problem to work around here; after you’ve triaged that a particular vulnerability doesn’t apply to a particular project, then filter it out with grep -v (our put a bunch of such lines in a bash script and always pipe npm audit output to the script.

Also, I sympathize with concerns that the vulnerability reporter perhaps scored the vulnerability too high. But there’s no perfect solution for that, and I’d rather be aware of a vuln and choose to ignore it, than not be aware at all.
That atom powered Eeebox was great. It worked in bright sunlight, super portable and light. I used it as a field mapping unit, with a GPS plugged into it, and off line maps. When in WiFi space I could download maps etc. ( I used Ozzie Explorer to digitise paper scanned maps and as GPS interface.)
It worked until 2018 when unfortunately... broke the screen.
South American countries are not doing well. The region is one of the places with more inequality "Of the 20 most economically unequal countries in the world, eight are in Latin America"[1]. So maybe the rich in latinamerica are doing well. Also is a political polarization scenario
between left and right extremism some countries close to a conflict or war.
[1] https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/inequality-and-s...
Wait, isn't Tristan Harris pseudo-famous for walking/running away from Google and starting a tech ethics company?

He's one of the stars of the Social Dilemma, right?
Exactly. The cloud is DRM. It’s really the only DRM that works; don’t give the user the code at all.

There’s also the data play of making the user keep data there and pay rent forever to keep it accessible. You can download your videos but you lose edit history etc.
There are multiple documented instances of life insurance fraud for exactly this purpose.
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yes, i agree.
If that's what their friends are talking about over the lunch table, then absolutely. Or, do you let your taste in music dictate your kids' social horizons?
Why would someone expect the recommendation algorithm to really know anything regarding whether videos violate their own policies? If the platform already knew the videos violated their policies, presumably they'd already be blocked/removed in the first place. It's not magic.
For me, Wikipedia was my first realization that RTL webpages exist. If you switch to an Arabic or Hebrew article you'll see what I mean. Even the Wikipedia globe graphic goes to the top right instead of the top left.

I don't know any of the languages so I don't know if the problems presented here apply to Wikipedia but it's a cool demonstration regardless.
But with the shifting and opaque definitions of hate this is turning out to be a terrible thing.
From the report: "Mozilla has intentionally steered away from strictly defining what counts as a YouTube Regret, in order to allow people to define the full spectrum of bad experiences that they have on YouTube." So seeing a recommendation for a video that disagrees with your poltics is a "regret" but it's unlikely to be harmful. Mozilla is really watering down their argument here.

Oh wait, "Our people-powered approach centres the lived experiences of people, and particularly the experiences of vulnerable and/or marginalized people and communities". It's just another front in the culture war.
Podcast: How can we use social media for social good?
That's a false dichotomy. Both of those worlds could exist simultaneously. I gave examples, thought experiments.
I don’t use Amazon but some of the services I use even minify the video and put up a next video countdown — before the episode has ended.

Probably the start of credits is automatically determined (guessed at) there based on percentage completed with a minimum absolute time.

In any case - pretty annoying.
I think that what's different about the Internet is scale. On the Internet, you can find a group of people to validate whatever fringe theory you want - and with social networks, you can do this _extremely_ easily. When you do find these people, you treat it as validation ("See, I'm not the only one who thinks this!").

For most of human history, if you had a fringe idea, your community would be extremely skeptical until you came up with something to convince them - or, more likely, concluded "huh, no-one else thinks this, I must be wrong" and veered back into the mainstream.

Even in the days _just before_ the internet, with pervasive newspapers and TV, your 'circle of validation' would've been _much_ smaller.
Microtubules are found in all eukaryotic cells. Even single celled organisms. If microtubules are responsible for cognition, what are brains for, and why aren’t amoeba intelligent?
THIS. IS. INCREDIBLE.
This is a good summary: https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/37091/how-do-unschoolers-turn...
This is just a manner of homeschooling.

My church has a homeschool group and they have an open house every year where people sign up for classes independently offered by various tutors.

The tutors hold classes for multiple students

Technically it's homeschool because all children are out of the public school system and responsibility for their education has not been given to a private school.

But in reality, many kids take classes together with various tutors the church group organizes.
Let me guess, it's because mass surveillance is in hardware/cpu level.
Things are dangerous until proven safe. If you’re on a hike, you don’t eat strange berries under the assumption they’re safe.
And the agreement probably says you will not open source your hardware.
Same. As a Facebook skeptic and EFF donor, I think this article is unhelpful because it tries to portray user choice as something bad just because Facebook is involved. It totally misses that most software platforms do not allow users to opt-out of massive UI/UX changes and the world could be better if they did.

When there are countless legitimate criticisms to make regarding Facebook, an institution as influential as EFF coming out with something this weak actually hurts the cause.
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27767223

The timelines on this kind of project are so long spares don't make sense vs trying again with a new and updated design.
GitHib confirmed they use (A)GPL code for Copilot
https://i.redd.it/kdndfeqlvv971.png

Source: https://cybre.space/@tindall/106539167944483388

From the same Mastodon thread:

> The model is known to reproduce some code, including GPL-licensed code, verbatim; therefore, it must contain verbatim copies of that code, however it is encoded.
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> [...]
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> the snippet in question is clearly, deeply original. it is a cursed coding crime that contains several "magic constants" with high entropy.

So it should be required to be open source now, right?
When I was 11 yrs old, me and my best friend who lived about a mile away would stay up late at night yaking on our CB walkie talkies with the lights off in our bedrooms late at night We thought it was the greatest thing ever, our parents could not, or, well, just didn't understand how, to listen in. I guess that was the internet of the say (1970's hehe).
PS If I recall correctly, it's also in the medical literature for the original SARS.
It’s hard to argue that a platform that’s algorithmically selecting the next video based on ML models is anything close to a “free market of ideas”, banned content or not.
There are many companies where I don't get past the resume screen as a new grad, meanwhile the companies I do get interviews with will come back with an offer >$200k.

But I have to apply to 20-30 companies to get 1 interview, so there is clearly a problem at the resume-screening stage for new grads.
While it sounds a bit wild when put as such (and if invoked widely, I suppose it would be), most countries have something like this. For example, where I am, Canada's federal Emergencies Act if invoked (it was not for COVID-19) has similar clauses permitting the Cabinet to expropriate any property and draft anyone fit for any necessary purpose, though it does mandate compensation (and would be subject to usual the constitutional limits):

> While a declaration of a public welfare emergency is in effect, the Governor in Council may make such orders [...] as the Governor in Council believes, on reasonable grounds, are necessary for dealing with the emergency:

> [...] (c) the requisition, use or disposition of property; (d) the authorization of or direction to any person, or any person of a class of persons, to render essential services of a type that that person, or a person of that class, is competent to provide and the provision of reasonable compensation in respect of services so rendered
The auto-rotoscoping feature seems very useful if it works well. Auto-rotoscoping in After Effects can be extremely finicky and usually requires frame-by-frame touch ups. This would be very useful for people without green screens.
I thought the same about the ordering but on the other hand this order matches what you would write in the imperative case i. e.

for xs in xss:
for x in xs:
...
To someone unfamiliar with anthropology, perhaps it would seem that there is only very basic data on the ancient societies that were touched upon by the book, but in reality the data is fairly robust and is almost certainly accurate.

Beyond that, I don't see how the Carl Menger quote you cited is proof that economists have a robust understanding of gift economies - and indeed it really doesn't.

Graeber is correct that mainstream economics pretty much only cares about market economies, and he is correct that modern economics is a highly ideological discipline where schools that did not align with imperialism.

Now, does Graeber overstate his claims? Perhaps. Is he wrong on the history of economics? Yes, though I can tell you I never heard of Carl Menger by name until I already had a pretty solid understanding of marginal utility theory.

Most importantly, is that a solid argument against the core thesis of the book? No. And yes, economics as a discipline is incredibly politically charged and has very poor predictive ability, assumes way too much, and is largely unaware of its issues.
First, because they increase their chance of being a burden on society (giving a kidney isn't without significant risks). Same could be said of smoking or overeating, but "not" giving an organ is much easier than stopping those things.

Second, because we know exactly how this would end up. Poor people would become de facto organ factories. Many would get coerced into it. Similar to prostitution. A lot of the same arguments (both for and against) would apply.

Maybe it should be legal, but there's certainly a lot of nuance to consider.
Net positive for awareness. Not sure I like the “force update with dependency that might break me”. NPM audit needs the ability to filter by severity and the ability for users to tune vuln severities per project.
Apparently this guy hasn’t heard of market making before. He’s complaining that Zillow buys and then sells homes. Yes, welcome to a market.

I repeatedly hear these ad hoc solutions to the egregious rise in housing costs. They’re just silly whack a mole bandaids. Address the supply issue in a supply and demand based market, and you don’t need all this other nonsense complaining about foreign buyers, Zillow, Blackrock, Californians, or whatever else.
Ask HN: Looking for site someone here made comparing vaccine vs. everyday risk
Awhile back - maybe 2-3 months - there was a comment thread that was somewhat focused on COVID vaccines. It might have been one of the threads about the pause in JJ or AZ vaccines.

In that thread, someone shared a link to a site they built. This site was a simple interface that compared the risk associated with getting a COVID vaccine against random everyday risky things.

For example: “You’re more likely to get struck by lightning 3 times than get injured by the vaccine”. (Or something similar).

I ask because I’ve encountered vaccine hesitant acquaintances who don’t believe the conspiracies, but still feel very worried about the risk, even if that risk is vanishingly small.

Humans seem pretty bad at assessing personal risk, and this site seemed like a clever way to bring things into context.

Only problem being…I apparently did not bookmark it.
Compiling Rust is NP-hard