skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that still doesn't solve any of those problems I mentioned?

Plus I can already do P2P currency exchange. I don't because it's inconvenient to find those to exchange with, so I happen to use a marketplace (TransferWise), and they take a cut because they're providing a useful service and now they're an exchange. Exactly the same will happen with DeFi currency exchange, so how is it better?
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I don't think people realize how much of things like the tax code are basically code patches to law to fix exploitable bugs.
The usual defense is to keep user writable spaces on separate mount points, where in theory they may be able to link with each others' files, but not anything important. And then be mindful about whatever dumb script you run that mucks with permissions.
Why not just reverse the direction of the "comparison wiring" instead of the bit order?
I'm probably amateur but until today I did not know `aws cli` sends telemetry data... It's probably one of those "terms and conditions" that are way too long to read them, so I'm only half pissed because I did not read it.

Indeed, sending such data should be opt-in, NOT opt-out

From today on I will ensure each and every CLI I use plays fair game.

But actually what did I expect, since for Firefox telemetry data is on by default :/
Sorry for the misunderstanding, then. It was not at all my purpose to disparage this article. It is a lovely article and very clearly written and illustrated.

I'll state my point following your json parser example. If you write an article about the implementation of several json parsers, you may still want to call JSON.parse at the end, as a sanity check that your implementation is working. The function is right there and you may as well say that!

In the present case, since the author has already set-up explicitly Poisson equation as a linear system of equations, it would make sense to call julia's built-in solver. (If only to marvel that it is much, much faster than the simple methods shown before, thus it must make some really fancy stuff inside!)
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> residue

Put a small piece of clean paper over the lens to protect it, then tape over that.
> Just because a government is elected through the process of voting, does not mean that it is accountable to the people

Isn't that true everywhere? in every democracy? Why do you think there are three equally powerful branches of govt., the legislation, the judiciary and the military?

Indian constitution has good measure of checks and balances.

If the ruling govt. passes a law, the opposition can always go to court and challenge the constitutionality of the law.

> robust democracy

Tell me what are the facets of a robust democracy and lets see if its applicable to Indian Constitution and political system.
This is pure anecdata, but I’m hearing nearly daily from a friend in Indonesia about someone he knows dying of Covid. They’ve all had their sinovac shots.
Not the longest running show... soap operas, and possibly some news programs, hold that title. For example, the soap 'Days of Our Lives' has been running since 1965.
Because we tried the whole centralized database thing and it just leads to trillion dollar monopolies built on value extraction of users and open source developers.
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> I think the real problem is consumer perception/treatment of cinemas as expensive rare treats comparable (in price) to going to a theatre.

My happiest relationship with film was when I was able to go to the movies every week (some weeks even twice!). I was going alone, during the week, to independent movie theaters that charge 4-5€. It's a great experience, even if you don't love the movie. It never feels like a ripoff.

The main problem IMO is that people don't want to get out of their comfort zone (and lack time/interest to find new stuff they might like). But of course when tickets are 15€ instead of 4€ people are much less willing to take the risk.
Silicon Valley software developers have a huge problem understanding consent. Look at most dialogs presented for things that companies want you to do:

Do you want to enable Feature X?

1. Yes

2. Ask me again later.

Somehow, "no" is just not in their vocabulary. Imagine if "Silicon Valley" was a guy asking a woman on a date, and the only options he understood were "yes" AND "ask again later".
Based on the initial reactions I have a feeling this move can backfire. I don't believe most people with obsoleted hardware will switch to Linux - they'll be using Windows 10 for as long as they can, but I think some portion of them will consider a switch, at least on private machines. There is a limit of abuse you can tolerate.
So you think that it's less than 51% probable that this virus jumped from nature (from animals) into people, like every other virus we know about?

There's a lot of good sources saying otherwise, not just this article.

EDIT: My primary sources in this matter have been this reddit post from a virologist [0] (available as a 30+ page pdf), and the strongest (but not the only) genetic evidence he references points to covid originating 600 miles south of wuhan [1], which was also discussed in this writeup by another virologist [2] who also got into detail on the genetic evidence that we do have. Here's another article on how common it is for humans to be infected by bat viruses [3], here's the infectious disease expert from Biden's treansition team saying covid likely jumped from animals to humans [4]. The original article detailed how it took 15 years to find the origin of SARS, and China was secretive with that, too.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...

[2] https://leelabvirus.host/covid19/origins-part3

[3] https://www.vox.com/2020/4/23/21226484/wuhan-lab-coronavirus...

[4] https://text.npr.org/1000780650
My personal anecdote is more proof than what BuyMyBitcoins provided for his assertion.
I'd probably add geographic filters to the front page if you can - I'm guessing a bulk of the positions are remote, but not everyone may have the ability to hire or manage intercontinentally even in that case.
>and it was merely kept

It was not merely kept, the scope of the sort of work allowed under that exemption was also reduced to non-hazardous work and that too was only allowed after school hours or during vacations.

>So I'd wager the reason there was backlash against the bill was that it did not close the exemption

I pretty much said the same thing in my original comment.

>>The only explanation I could think of is that perhaps the law didn't go as far enough or didn't include certain amendments as they wanted and this was their way of pressurizing the government to listen to them. But that still left a bad taste in my mouth. Perhaps this is something my brain, trained to value truth above everything else, isn't quite mature enough to understand.

>this quite thorough article [0] shows the similarity/difference

This article is definitely more thorough than most others I have read, and at least quotes you relevant passages from the laws and points out all the different ways in which the bill was an improvement. But in the end, even this article ultimately concludes by calling the bill "one step forward and two steps back", which is a lie. The introduction teases you with "Thirdly, the legislation actually reduces the scope and applicability of some of the earlier provisions on prohibition of child labour" but that claim is never substantiated within the article.
I've been using a camera cover for years. A piece of bent black cardboard first, a professional and almost invisible plastic slider now.

There are so many of them on Amazon, searching for laptop camera cover slide.

And I don't even use Windows. I run Ubuntu but I want to be sure that the camera doesn't see anything when it's supposed to be off.
I think that's a fixable endeavor.

My point is mostly that Microsoft probably isn't pushing a method to spy on people, so much as it's establishing that since most people need videoconferencing these days, they don't want any budget hardware vendors cutting out the front-facing camera to save $5 in parts. Most laptops already have them.
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It has a really bad habit of resetting the opt-outs on updates, so about every six months.
I wonder if he realizes how ironic it is to have "Passive Media Consumption is Fundamentally Bad" on a blog?
And with rollups it can do that at several thousand transactions per second. Some rollup implementations are in production today, and apps are gradually migrating to them.
No, the real reason is because it's trying to use an optional technical flag to enforce a social/political policy, and as such was doomed to failure from the start. If I recall correctly, the "tech community" was largely in favour of DNT, and anti-advertising in any case. The advertising industry, however, was not, so why bother implementing something that goes against their own interests?

The only workable solution to that problem in practice is legal/political: legislation and sufficient regulatory abilities to effect compliance (i.e. GDPR/PECR and the like). In the end, the US stuck with permit-all-by-default and largely don't care, the EU/UK went deny-tracking-by-default with penalties to back it up.

The reality is that this proposal will fail for much the same reasons: either you have an opt-in mindset from personal beliefs or legal requirements, in which case the global off-switch is worthless to you; or you're pro-tracking, in which case the incentives are to ignore the switch. Or you're Debian etc. and you remove the tracking code outright...
For those who missed it, this is a reference to Russ Hanneman from Silicon Valley. There are some good best-of clips on Youtube, but the summary is he's flashy with no substance. He's at least partially based on Mark Cuban.
Are you suggesting the consulting firm planted the planted evidence?

FTA, I gather the chain of custody goes: police seized the hard drive, made a copy, and provided the copy to the defense attorney who (correctly) engaged outside experts investigate.

State labs can (and do) make mistakes and miss evidence. State prosecutors can (and do) fail to turn over exculpatory evidence. The whole point of a trial is that we the people and the defendant don’t just have to take the state at their word. We can ship evidence off to a lab of our liking and, if the results differ from the state’s lab, ask them about it in open court.

That’s _exactly_ how the system works. The charges must be proven by the government, not merely asserted.
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https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/data-collection-windows

Goes into more detail as to what they collect.

Browsing data, devices connected to the system, what you type, or transcribe via text or ink (speech to text, handwriting to text etc), what applications you're running and for how long.

> The opt-in/out is part of the setup process (in the cases I've seen) so it's not hidden away.

It gets reset _literally_ every time they push out a larger update. They prompt you with a modal form that defaults to tracking turned on (even though I had it turned off to begin with). Guess someone at Microsoft figured out that the tech-literate among us were turning that setting off as soon as our non-tech-literate family/friends took their PCs out of the box around the Christmas tree.
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It is very unlikely to be W11 as an OS demanding that. It will be the OEM licensing agreement for pre-installing a cheap license on a laptop.

This kind of thing is absolutely mandatory in this day and age. If you don't let commodity OS makers set any limits on the hardware to ensure a consistent experience, it will be very hard for them to compete with integrated solutions.

If there was some kind of a suggestion of MS self-dealing here, then maybe the concerns would make sense. E.g. requiring the laptop to have a MS-manufactured camera. But there isn't. It is clearly just an attempt to set a consistent minimum bar on the UX.
We have self regulation available via NIST 800-53, NIST 800-30, SOC2, mandatory in some contexts like FISMA, etc. What is now guidance can become mandatory audits with the stroke of a congressional pen.

I sound like a broken record but it bears repeating: Most of these attacks are successful because companies neglect best practices. Whitelisting, security awareness training, UEBA, etc go a long way.

I would hope the free market would prune companies without proper cybersecurity but regulatory capture means it probably won’t. Equifax and its executives are doing just fine.
Kanopy gives you five movies a month for free with a library card and has a similar catalog.
> firmware level

is not secure. Must have physical switch, not software.
> 5 years later we are going to read about how to migrate existing Rust code to C, like what's happening to Scala projects these days.

Just the opposite. We're going to see C deprecated for new code and efforts to move the existing C codebase to Rust. C is pretty much unsafe at any speed; Rust allows even junior front end developers to fearlessly contribute bare-metal code once they've learned the language.
>I’m done arguing with a throwaway account if you’re going to be intentionally naive.

Don't interpret logical reality as naivete. I know it's in style on the left to do this in 2021, but stop.

>“It’s not racist because it doesn’t specifically talk about race” is logical cowardice.

It's logical fact. If it doesn't specifically discriminate against race, a characteristic of race, etc., the law is by definition logically not racist.

The existence of inequity does not prove the existence of inequality.

>The rest of your comment is similarly tortured.

Similarly factual and logical, yes.

>That some POC succeed despite racism does not mean racism doesn’t exist.

Similarly, that some POC don't succeed despite the laws not being racist does not mean racism exists.
Also, better perceived performance by humans.
Unfortunately, when places like the world's largest video site censor debates between different medical professionals on the topic, it's hard to be confident how rare those well-reasoned viewpoints actually are.
Asciidoc already supports that. You don’t even need to differentiate in the syntax, it knows when you are referring to a table, a figure, a section, code listing, etc.
Face ID won't be a requirement. It's impossible
So you don’t actually want to ban the exchange of crypto for fiat, you want to ban companies from being able to pay the ransom (with crypto)?

I don’t think yours is a simple solution or the right one (banning cryptocurrency). But I do think bans on payment of the ransom are interesting.
right. if the replier above had said "you have no evidence for that claim" I would reply by saying "you are correct, it is however a possibility, surely we can agree on that?" but instead the replier used the term "conspiracy theory nonsense" to characterize my words, which is, to say the very least, a highly loaded term with built-in connotations.

I personally believe that dismissing any sort of theorizing as being "conspiracy theory nonsense" is more harmful than any sort of benign theorizing itself. this line of thinking seems to assert that in reality, nothing ever happens with ulterior motives, people and groups in seats of power wouldn't do anything and everything to maintain said power under any circumstances, everything is just an isolated, random occurrence, geopolitics don't exist, and that looking for patterns and connections is something that only delusional people engage in.

many people have been programmed to react to anything not commonly-accepted in the mainstream "narrative" by immediately labeling it a "conspiracy theory" and then refusing to think any more critically about it. I believe the rapid spread of this way of thinking to be incredibly dangerous to society as a whole. I am not saying that theorizing should be taken as fact, merely that theories shouldn't be dismissed entirely out of hand using a stock phrase. in fact, when discussing such things, or anything really, any sort of kneejerk word/phrase association-type response should give one pause, because these word/phrase associations are learned behavior, and it may be enlightening to determine the source of this learned behavior.
why is this news worthy? This is all a function of the implementation.

Slap the term AI on anything and get automatic press coverage?
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Hmmm, this looks more like a minimal surface, i.e. a solution to the minimal-surface equation[0], than a solution to Poisson's equation. Then again, both equations are of elliptic type.

Some links for people who've never heard of minimal surfaces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_surface

https://minimalsurfaces.blog/ (lots of illustrations)

https://makmanx.github.io/math3435s18/talks/MSE.pdf (brief intro with historical remarks and illustrations)

[0]: More specifically, it's a solution to Plateau's problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau%27s_problem
Windows 10, which was forced on users machines (often without consent nor approval) meets the threshold for spyware.

Could the entire OS be considered spyware? Should Win 11, which is expected to have mandatory MSFT account, be considered something worse than spyware?
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I wonder if the xkcd comic about this is still accurate, being that it's generally safer to have longer passwords regardless of how it's formatted.

https://xkcd.com/936/

I recently signed up for a ticketing website to buy tickets for a concert and was appalled that the site wouldn't accept my 50+ character generated password... I had to enter something between 8 and 15 characters.

Still seems to me that "^Zh7*2wNfRG7ehj" would still be inherently less secure than "thisisasuperlongpasswordandithas12345alotofcharactersinitthatwouldtake12345rainbowtablesalongtimetocalculatefor"

15 vs 111 characters to find permutations for.

That is, of course, even assuming that the password db for the site is even hashed (AND salted) or not.
I could have used this 32(!) years ago when I was struggling in college. (This and 3b1b.)

It amazes me just how many key topics were so inaccessible to the majority of the class at engineering school. I base this on observations from group study sessions and the hyper-aggressive test curves.

I knew lots of people who never got the hang of div/grad/curl, or a Jacobians, or eignenvectors, or Z-transforms... These are key engineering concepts, you'd think colleges would bend over backwards to make sure these concepts are learned as succinctly as possible rather than add a curve to a test that makes a 23 out of 100 an "A" grade.

I'm digressing, and complaining, but the counter argument has always been: you're not supposed to learn everything in college, you're supposed to learn how to learn. Sure, right, but who has time to keep learning advanced calculus after college? (Well, I still study math & physics for fun, but over the course of decades, not years.) Not being able to see the world through these lenses I think means missing key engineering perspectives and relationships.

Anyway, very well written article.
Thanks, I read this expecting not to like it, but it resonated with me a lot. This past Oscars show, I'd seen only two of the Best Films nominees, and they were both streamed. I also tried Nomadland and I turned it off.

TV has indeed taken over. The creativity of Breaking Bad or Succession or Yellowstone is what we used to watch movies for. Real creativity is always there and it'll go where it's appreciated.

I don't want to make this tl;dr so just one more thing: I hosted A.O. Scott at Google [1] and I mentioned that I never look at Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic. I read him, and whoever's on the Roger Ebert site. An 80% "score" from a bunch of stupid people is still stupid.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kh3-DGU3l4
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I'm going to echo the sentiment that world cinema is better than American cinema at the current moment.
> It is a joke based on Aquinas' style of answering questions.

This wasn't particular to Aquinas, but fairly common among Scholastics:

* https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/41999/what-is-th...

In some ways you're trying to steel man (as opposed to straw man) the opposing arguments. It was a reflection of the oral debating style used in universities at the time.
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Not including that people who are vaccinated's guard is down more, will likely be gathering more with wider social networks, etc; what are the chances an escape mutant variant occurs that spreads wide, has long delay before causing deadly effects, etc?

And when does Ivermectin come into mainstream and every COVID discussion? Based on the evidence it looks like used as a preventative, give it to literally everyone for 2 weeks, and we could close to abolish COVID and variants. The suppression of conversation and scientific debate is the biggest problem out of all of this.

Edit to add: whomever downvoted this, you're part of the problem of suppression - good for you.
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I'm waiting for that, too, but I'm not holding my breath.
To really trust the LED we should open the screen and check if the LED is actually connected to the power line of the camera. Of course we should check the hardware switch too.
There are many loan providers who will pay out within a day, my bank will give me a loan via their app in 2 minutes and receive the money not long afterwards, and I don't need to understand what a wallet is or which ones are safe to use or how to use them safely, etc.

There's nothing about regular banking that prevents this, or anything about DeFi that is required to make it happen.

I think you're mistaking the fact that DeFi is a hub of great innovation for DeFi itself being the great innovation.
Wonderful post, thank you OP!
No, they do, that's why they're on the list.

Most of those entries are even explained with a link.