skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same cryptography that protects us also protects criminals. The whole point is to make total government surveillance impossible. That's what this KYC/AML business is all about: surveillance.

People should be able to transact freely without some government demanding explanations. If there's more crime as a result then so be it.
It is possible to reproduce this without the machine? Like maybe go for a run?
> Crash reports contain memory dumps, and private information.

No, they don't. You're ascribing characteristics to them that they do not have. Maybe your crash reports have memory dumps and private information in them, but that means that they're poorly-engineered - there's nothing about a crash report that requires it to have that information in it. This should be clear to you, because you're a programmer.

> Additionally, they disclose client IP when submitting, which is city-level geolocation of a user of a particular piece of software.

Most people, including me, do not care about city-level geolocation information - and for those that do, Tor or a pastebin service are options. Again, you're ascribing certain characteristics to crash reports that they do not have, and you should know better, because you're a programmer, and being a privacy...enthusiast, you're certainly familiar with Tor.

> They're fine if you get advance consent from the user before transmitting.

...which leads to far less crash report data, insecure systems due to disabled auto-update, and selection bias in your telemetry data.

> Sending the contents of memory (especially after a crash, where it contains by definition unexpected things) is a serious security issue/data leak, if done automatically.

More assumptions that are false. Who said that a crash report has to contain a memory dump? A stack trace, complete with annotations that allow private data to be redacted, is both a useful crash report and will not leak any personal information.

> My position is the opposite of authoritarian

I was referring to an earlier comment you made:

> That is another website on my to-do list: one that names and shames spyware developers who create these commits.

This is authoritarian. Or tyrannical, if you like. The syntax doesn't matter - what matters is that you're attempting to use your power as an individual to try to impose your own beliefs on the majority. Beliefs which, by the way, are not held by the majority.

> Authoritarian is a good way to describe devs who feel completely entitled to all information about their software running on computers which they do not own or have any rights to.

This is blatantly false. You're perfectly free to not run any of this software - there's no "authoritarian" going on. You are free to rewrite whatever software you want, or, because most of the interesting stuff is open-source, fork it and remove the telemetry bits. Let me state it again: developers building some functionality into a tool is not authoritarian, as long as the user isn't compelled to use the software in the first place (which is true the overwhelming majority of the time).

You, meanwhile, are trying to force other people to change the software that they have been writing, according to your own whims. That's authoritarian.
At first I thought the same as you, but for some chronic illnesses as rheumatoid arthritis where there is a lot of pain but no cure, the ability to turn pain on/off as needed (and under proper guidance) is probably something good.
To make the argument that, because in the past the transmission from animal to human happened in nature, that in the present it could only happen there, implies that your assumptions stay constant.

Things have changed since Ebola 50 years ago and Sars1 20 years ago. For one thing, millions of dollars have been invested in gain-of-function research. There are many more labs, many times more investigators and projects running. These scientists are working to create the characteristics in viruses that make them more deadly and more infectious.

Also, today powerful new bio-engineering tools are available, in the past 10 years especially. Today the situation is different, since there are now new pathways for a deadly virus to come into being.

I don't think anyone can argue that the number of dangerous viruses being studied in laboratories around the world is the same now as it was 20 years ago.

If you want to argue against a lab-leak today, you really need to argue that the BSL-rated laboratories are perfectly leak-proof.
If someone at starlink wanted your address I don't think lack of GPS would stop them.
Movies aren't made for single individuals, so I'm not sure why you think explicit communication from a single individual is the important kind of communication here.

Who gets to decide that the consumers are uninformed and irrational? I presume that's you judging people for their tastes? In my view people are in fact pretty good at picking the kind of entertainment they want.

A lot of critics complaining about mass tastes seem to have not thought through what is economically viable in mass media. The complaint is effectively, "I, a discerning person who had studied this medium, want different things out of it than casual consumers." Which is almost tautological. What restaurant critic goes to McDonald's and complains that the food's not amazing? Its job isn't to amaze the kind of person who becomes a restaurant critic.

But there is a mechanism for coordination. You're using it. Fans use it all the time to push entertainment industries in directions the like. In my view, that this isn't happening with film is not because of lack of communication. It's that the number of movie tickets sold peaked in 2007: https://www.the-numbers.com/market/

Innovation has moved away from the dying medium because the economic incentives for film have shifted.
You mistake everyone using javascript to do those things as the only way it's possible to do those things. That's certainly not true.

You can use HTML, Canvas, and CSS to do just about everything you mentioned.

Video is easy. In pure HTML: <video autoplay loop muted playsinline src="..."></video>. No Javascript (or even CSS) required. You can certainly expand on that as well.

Google Maps does not require Javascript to provide it's core and common functionality either: https://appelsiini.net/2008/google-maps-without-javascript/ You would have to make some changes, but core functionality still exists.

Github does not require Javascript to function. You can toggle JS off and still use it pretty much as is, and the features that do break are trivial to implement without it.

Interactive realtime chat does not require javascript. https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat , and the same principals can be applied to online docs and editors as well.

Javascript is the norm because it has inertia behind it - largely due to circumstance more than any inherent natural benefit, not because it has some secret sauce that the internet needs that couldn't be easily replaced should it be Thanos-meets-Tron-Crossover Snapped out of existence.

A much stronger argument in favor of Javascript would not be pointing to all the good things you can do with it, but rather, with how well and optimized and streamlined doing those things with Javascript is these days. Just to clarify, I'm not saying Javascript is the problem, but rather, the abuse of it, and that abuse would still be an issue if other technologies replaced it one day.

I use the internet with JS toggled off by default as a result of the rampant abuse of dark patterns (for example, the Google Search Suggested Alternatives box that is served below the sponsored result(s) that always "conveniently" expands after a short delay to push the first actual result down the page and replaces it with yet more sponsored content), 3rd party/cross site abuses (Malware), as well as the overabundance and omnipresent ad-spam. Sites that break as a result of my opt-in JS browsing is usually a sign it's not worth my time. Sometimes I'm proven wrong, but sites that can fallback gracefully and display some basic info without JS are usually the worst offenders..

TL;DR: Yes, in a way, I do prefer "the web from 1995", where Javascript isn't everywhere, and only present in places that I specifically whitelist, because it's all too often abused to negatively impact my experience instead of enriching it.
It's obviously better to have a, say, 1% oversupply than a 1% undersupply, but that's not an interesting question to answer, really. The better question would be: is it better to have a 1% undersupply than a 15% oversupply? (Or some other larger and less obvious mismatch) It would be clearly bad to paperclip-optimize doctors -- everyone must go through all 10 years of post-secondary education to be a doctor and then after they have done so, we will be pick the best 3% of them to be practicing doctors while telling everyone else to find another career is incredibly wasteful, as is anything significantly in that vein.
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While I doubt my experience is even remotely unique, a variety of experiences (and perhaps genetics) from my childhood, teens, etc. left me in my 20s as an outgoing but (very) insecure person. I was constantly seeking but failing at relationships. I had dropped out of college, and was flighty and inconsistent with my career.

Maybe I'd come out of all that just by time passing / aging... but I decided to read about the things I was failing to accomplish. Having a self-identity and the integrity to maintain my identity when faced with challenges. Understanding boundaries in relationships. Learning how to accomplish tasks at work and succeed in projects.

I suspect a combination of the bad experiences, surviving them, learning from mistakes and the things I learned from books all contributed to an overall more capable person. I gained confidence, stability in relationships, greater diligence and sense of responsibility at work. Not everything is sunshine and roses. There's still a long list of projects I dreamed of or started, but failed or abandoned. But the list of people that seem to trust me and seek me out for "adult" advice has grown.

In many ways, I am not the picture of American success, but I am happy with what I've done with myself, with the potential I've tapped, the relationships I've built, and so on. I think of myself as leaning towards the side of being discontent with unpleasant circumstances that I'm capable of changing. There's plenty that's bigger that I might not be happy about, but by having a clear picture of your locus of control, the gist of the Serenity Prayer applies. And improving your self is top of the list of things you can change.
That's been a major source of unrest in some of the Arab countries, notably Egypt. They overproduced university grads without an economy that could use them.

This is not a new observation. Eric Hoffer made it in "Working and Thinking on the Waterfront" (1959).
Hey bloniac, sorry you had a negative experience. We only "reject" candidates if they're using the platform for something other than finding a co-founder (eg. selling their consulting services), or if the profile is incomplete to the point that someone reading it couldn't evaluate the fit. If you email me with your YC username, I'd be happy to take a look and give advice on how to improve your profile. We definitely allow and encourage users to ping us post-rejection if they've improved their profile so we can give it a second look.
This translation looks good from a quick scan. Reasonably faithful to the text of Aquinas without being unduly contorted to track the Latin structure. A nice effort!
This is a very steamed and unfair rant; it really seems like you don’t understand how little FOSS work makes, and how little money is ever donated to most or any projects.

I don’t know who hurt you in FOSS, but you sound really mean.
Have you used `wrangler dev`[1], their CLI-based workflow? I don’t need to use the web editor at all - I use my preferred editor and use wrangler to trigger builds + `wrangler tail` to get a stream of logs.

The linked project (miniflare) is effectively an local emulator, but Cloudflare does provide a solid “hybrid” local-remote workflow, even if not perfect.

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-wrangler-dev-the-edge...
Having reread the article, it seems like the concept of suicide doesn't weigh into the cultural reaction at all. It's just giving up on the chase.
It's worked for me for the past 10 years, part-time in engineering at Google, Makani, and Elemeno Health. Not wanting or being able to work a lot of hours doesn't necessarily mean not being flexible on hours. I've known a number of other part-time people at e.g. Google, and they were generally people I'd trust to get stuff done. Often they're time-management masters, due to necessity.

Sure, there's more overhead per working hour. But there's also more mulling-things-over-in-the-shower time per working hour, so for creative work, one can be a lot more effective than you'd think. I also get more sleep and do all my appointments and errands in non-working hours, which improves my duty cycle and performance.
Not in 5 minutes’ time.
Just by controlling pain you can control a person. If you implant a chip into a person that can remotely cause pain, you now have an electronic torture device, a torture device that does not leave marks.
What avenues would they have to determine precise location if the dish reported its location 1km off, the delivery of CPE went to a different name/address, the service is paid for with a prepaid card, and 100% of the traffic to/from the device is encrypted at L4 to prevent usefulness of sniffing?
Yes, if you use wishy washy terms like "mother earth" then everything can treated as abstract and distant.

I care about humans and want them to survive and prosper. I care about wildlife and don't want species to be killed. And as humans we can use culture to go beyond our in-built programming. Ideas can spread. That does make us different to other species. That is not arrogant, it is just the truth.
Everything about ASOIAF can be explained by George RR Martin's long career as a military science fiction author.

How else could one be free to build a medieval fantasy world so unburdened by historical realism?
Sure

- Mature CLI tool, easy to build into CI and/or API with JSON responses
- Docker based, so I can easily test my apps locally
- Well designed secrets management
- Well designed private networking if I need to log into running apps in any region

There are probably more, but those are the big ones I see from using Fly regularly
As a Texan, who has spent a good chuck of their life in the Panhandle and west Texas:

So far I have only made it through half of this, but it is clear this person has not ever spent any amount of time on a farm or a ranch or in any part of Texas (west or not).

Food production is smelly and dirty. You don't want to live upwind of a gin or feed lot. In west Texas you don't build high because of wind. For such an arid place they sure are banking on having access to a shit ton of water.

There is a huge aquifer that most of the places out on the High Plains of Texas pump from. It's use is contentious, but your not going to be surviving off of a 3 acre playa lake.
How to Harness Agency – Wisdom from Monty Hall
Same. I went poking around the documentation area and found only YouTube videos in the examples area and noped right out. The API refs seem extremely terse as well. Just a handful of prototypes with no explanation as to what the parameters are or how to use them.

For example: https://o3de.org/docs/api/frameworks/azgameframework/class_a...
Because it is. It's relatively easy to consume 2000 calories in one sitting in McD, while few people have the stomach to stomach the same amount of calories in salad, without sugary drinks.
I've done this. The problem will be missed communication that folks will assume you know. It will be critical to adopt and enforce or otherwise encourage good written down communication habits. Meeting summaries in emails, agendas on meetings, water cooler summaries noted in team slack channel, and having effective daily stand ups. Having your manager champion the habits is really, really helpful and I liked when mine would add to the slack channel "@seth for visibility" or adding summaries of in-office updates. COVID and remote work has really helped because all our comms are now mostly written down, and going forward, I'd expect most people to have a good appreciation of keeping communication up.
I think the thief does deserve leniency. He had nothing to gain by turning himself in other than guilt relief, and a lot to lose. Much respect. Prison time still seems appropriate, but a lot less than otherwise.
Several reasons:

1. The site of the US capital was a major point of North-South compromise in the early Republic. There was enough tension until 1860 about incorporating new territories, moving the capital would have been even more inciting

2. Until west coast cities grew further, the population mass of the US has for a long time been the east coast and the North East in particular.

3. Major investments in DC as a capital city from an infrastructure POV

4. The fact it was a “district” not part of any state made relocating harder.

5. The US Civil War massively expanded the Federal governments footprint in DC, making relocation harder. Subsequent wars, most importantly WW2 also spurned govt expansion is DC. Not just DC but all over MD and VA a lot of facilities are strategically located near DC.

6. Post civil war, republicans controlled the federal govt. Republicans changed from anti slavery party to pro NE business. Proximity to financial capital (NYC) mattered given (often corrupt) links between govt and expanding big businesses.
Your comment is the exact plot of "The Want Machine", a story by Exurb1a.
It is so depressing that we need this thing in the first place. What next, CONFIG_DO_NOT_TRACK so that kernel modules don't send telemetry to hardware vendors?
Adtech "ethics" (lack of thereof) has become a huge problem for the community.
Have you run across anything similar for Augustine? He is one of my favorite authors.
So then name it something else than Markdown? Gruber invented and published it, its fair that he gets to protect the name.
Everyone bar AWS is focusing on multicloud. And VMware's offerings are utter shite and very poor features wise ( where it matters), so I doubt they'll be impacted.

( Their offerings were so bad they were forced to sell their vSphere as a service arm to a low cost hosting provider. Even with the popularity of that dumpster fire in DCs and most companies moving away from DCs they still couldn't capture any market share)
Reminds me of the Sibyl System in Psycho Pass.

https://youtu.be/LyQpY6UWs2E
http://cdn26.us1.fansshare.com/photo/psychopass/sybil-system...
> That question is kind of a diversion from the current discussion, though.

It's really not. Cryptocurrencies have no real impact on the environment so discussing that is not really productive. Better to redirect discussion towards real problems which are actually destroying the planet. Problems which will never be properly solved because powerful people depend on their existence. The petrodollar, trade with China, etc.
> it does not mean “we collect data we can hand over to law enforcement.”

That's exactly what it says. The part of the privacy policy in discussion is about what they collect, not what they do with data they collect for other reasons.

That's very different from the standard boilerplate, specially for a locally running program.
That's one ingredient, sure. But speaking as a millennial, there was plenty of propaganda in American schools that made it seem like if you weren't working in an office, you failed at life. Now we have people who worked in offices throughout their 20s, running and screaming from those office jobs to discover that there is fulfillment in real work.

Problem is, lots of people still believe having callouses on your hands make you a second class citizen or sub-human since your opinion no longer matters.

And labourous jobs dont need community to be fulfilling. Lots of folks enjoy work working, house renovation and their own property maintenance for their own benefit. That and it's a free workout a lot of times.
Ask HN: Would any SWE folks be willing to fix the HackerNew Chrome Plugin?
Since YC added the "winter batch" banner to the bottom of the website, it's impossible to get to the "more" button when you're running the HackerNew plugin. The code is on GitHub under "tommoor/HackerNew" but I'm not a software engineer so I have no clue how to fix it. Thank you. :)
An article like this where the author described her own doubts seems more likely to convince other doubters than a dry article about statistics.
Given that Autostore's patent on the idea is from 1997 [1] and has expired, it's difficult to see how they could have another, non-expired patent on the same thing.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/DE69818303T2/en
It's true that it's legal geographic size is ~1.5 square miles. However if you look at Google Maps a good 30% of it is just empty/undeveloped land previously (still?) owned by the military.

So yes, it's still bigger geographically, but it still only takes 15-20 minutes to walk from one end to the other; I've visited a few times. I'm not very familiar with either location you mentioned, but I would say for Marfa to be 3 hours away from the next-largest town (El Paso), have no commercial airport or passenger train line, and still be a self-sustaining walkable town is impressive.

I'm possibly mistaken, but the first example you pointed out looks to be an apartment complex next to a train station within a larger city and Hercules, CA is a 20 square mile (maybe I'm looking at the wrong city?) suburb of SF; I don't think those are examples of what this article is saying?
It's great to see some competition for source-available Unreal. Now there is finally real AAA open source game middleware.
That's a very interesting idea. I've always breathed through my mouth while running due to not getting "enough" air through my nose, and also fight with abdominal pains whilst running as well. I'll give this a shot tonight actually, in theory it seems very similar to any other kind of resistance training.
here is a story heard recently on irc:

this gentleman was working at SBG a media conglomerate in America. during a troubleshooting process while they were using the system internal tools specifically TCP View(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/tcpv...). they noticed that a certain address/domain kept showing up regularly even though no code was set to talk to that address. this responsible engineer promptly told his manager only to never hear it mentioned again. 1-2 months later that was one of the addresses listed as part of the solarwinds fiasco.

another episode was when this same engineer noticed that a fellow engineer was irresponsibly and probably due to inexperience unknowingly inserting a backdoor in a process via eval on unfiltered input coming in via a command line param, a no no. this engineer was notified by the other and provided with a simple exploit only to receive yelling and gaslighting in return and statements such as "we don't care about these things at this company." eventually the manager was notified and his response was: "i have told them so many times about this" yet that also never went anywhere

security is a layered process but with stories such as these it's no wonder attacks are common, someone somewhere will behave like the characters in the stories and that is all it takes, amplify that across all the companies in business and the other side has a pretty easy time finding open doors

as long as management creates an environment where disclosure is considered "rocking the boat" managers and employees will never do the right thing.
If was running a business I would insist on it. I would be okay with paying for services but I would never allow any one service to be able to shut my business down if I could at all help it.
Article specifically says they use optogenetics.