skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok there is a lot to unpack here and it may need a few comments.

First, you seem to conflate being a billionaire with conspicuous spending or otherwise inefficient use of their capital. Once again this is a generalization and many billionaires don’t have these sports cars and estates that you describe.

Secondly, you state “I just think the idea of many humans spending their lives in order to satisfy a single human is absurd”. This seems extremely blind considering that your iPhone was probably made the same way, and the food you get at the restaurant and literally anything you pay for. Countless humans have toiled to sustain your life too.

You also state that “If the billionaire holds majority stakes within prominent industries we are delegating important decisions to opaque power with unknown agendas that we can not hope to influence in meaningful ways.”. Yea it’s a risk, but it’s absurd to say with complete certainty that all billionaires use their power to influence the world in nefarious ways. What if they use it in moral ways that benefit us all? Does that make the billionaire a better person than the rest?

There is nothing to be fixed here. Your sense of deep equity is a feeling that’s born out of some kind of primal sense of fairness. In reality, there is nothing inherently amoral about billionaires.

Try applying all the arguments you have above from the perspective of someone with lesser means than you, with your relatively wealthy position being that of the billionaire.

Do you benefit from the labor of others? Check.
Do you have more influence on the society than the other person? Probably, check.
Somehow these add up to you being an immoral person. It’s pretty absurd bro.
So because you don't know, it is impossible?
What do you mean with "the wrong horse"? AstraZeneca is an effective vaccine and it's available as much as the others.
> The evidence for this is the existence of very old trees.

Lots of tree species are able to survive a forest fire once they reach a certain size. There absolutely are very old trees in areas that burn frequently.
"Equivocate" does mean that a single speaker/writer/entity uses multiple meanings of a term, but the point is that use is to deceive or make a false argument.

Two people can't equivocate (unless they are working together). In this case sudosysgen and I are using the terms the same way and arguing a point.

And yes, I am arguing that even though I myself live the public/personal transport life being advocated in this thread, I am well aware of the institutional (car companies, traffic departments, etc), social (personal desires and habits) and structural (physical layout) barriers to transforming the transit system in that regard, even if we exclude the constraint "in the lifetime of anyone today". It's hard to make concrete, actionable decisions on the basis of utopianism.
> Perhaps a particular chimp or gorilla was having a really bad day and just went out looking for a fight.

Do chimps and gorillas do such things?
Have you heard of Champlain Towers South?
a colt is nominally for defence, hacking tools have no legitimate use.
I have never once — in a career as a professional programmer that is coming up on 30 years — needed to insert a literal tab character in a document I’m writing. Not once. I’ll check out the bindings control panel, but in the past (as of maybe v12) it has not been possible to always force the tab key to indent the current line.
I’m not upset that he isn’t paying taxes. I’m upset that he’s paying for leverage on other people’s taxes.

But Bezos did not create this system, he’s just using it to his advantage, exactly the way it was designed. At least he’s transparent about it.
It’s interesting to me that NSO spokesperson says “we don’t have any customer data”, but they also confidently assert they know how many times these hacks are used. I’ve seen the same pattern in other stories. Unfortunately the reporting never goes into how the tech works. I assume there have to be at least some SaaS aspects given what is known about its capabilities, which would mean they have access to a lot more information than they are letting on.
I really like being able to see Wii levels in high resolution. It's like they come to life in a way they didn't before.
Does that mean that Odysee itself thinks that its users are the product?
Only slightly related. 10 times more people died from the jab than the virus in Scotland:

https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/07/18/5522-people-have-died-w...
I have seen this software (well, not this software, a military equivalent) save a life in real time so it'd be very hard to convince me.

Quoting an earlier reply from last year:

> When I was in the Israeli army, I personally saw a phone being hacked, info being pulled and the info being used to stop a terrorist attack targeting civilians. I was not involved in the hack (I served in the navy).

> In that particular case (but not the majority of cases) the target of the hack was an Israeli citizen who was practicing terrorism (against the Arab minority). After their info was intercepted they were arrested and the situation was de-escalated.
>This has less to do with banks being greedy and more to do with current fiscal policy.

It has more to do with the state of the economy demanding low interest rates. When you bail out banks like in 2008 deposits are seen to be perfectly safe and thus depositors aren't deterred by increasingly shrinking or even negative interest rates, they still want that perfectly secure bank deposit because the government will bail it out.
You are or are not a stakeholder if you pay or don't pay.

If you believe you are a stakeholder by paying you should believe you are a stakeholder because they make money from you through ads.

You are not a stakeholder in either case.
I’m not planning to publish my comments in a newsletter and ask people to pay me for it. So I am really not sure what the point of your remark is - unless, of course, this is a childish attempt at an insult.
A very limited set of privileges. And AFAIK it's only a "designated library" in California. I'm not sure there is such a thing at the federal level other than the Library of Congress.

Basically, most people are fine with what the Wayback Machine does and they'll take down any mirror that the domain owner asks them to.
Thanks a lot for sharing these learnings. We will keep them on our radar. Sure, would be great to chat!
I mean it's kinda weird. The church conforms to social norms. I've met a lot of gay catholics and families who have a gay child and I've never seen some crazy nutjob bashing on any side. People in my state are very tolerant of it. The church has never once stated anything crazy like "gays go to hell" or "all gays are sinners." I feel like you're getting it warped that catholics publicly condemning it but not speaking for the actual church, are somehow speaking for the church. Every institution has ignorant members so you can't hold the Church accountable for it's fair share of stupid people.
Functional Programming vs. OOP
Note that I meant that BMR can vary between 1100 kcal/day to 2500 kcal/day (so a variance of 1400 kcal/day between individuals), not that it can vary by 2500 kcal/day.

Here are two studies that support slightly smaller numbers than I claimed, but still significantly larger than 300-400.

[0] studied the factors affecting BMR in 150 Scottish adults. It found a variance between ~1100 kcal/day to ~2100 kcal/day between its subjects (for the record, 60% of the variance was attributable to lean body mass).

[1] is a meta-study that looked at RMR (expressed as kcal/kg*h) for adults at various ages. The largest variance from Figure 1 is, assuming all subjects weighed 100kg, the highest RMR would be ~2500 kcal/day, while the lowest would be 1600 kcal/day. Given the varying weights, the actual variance recorded could be bigger or smaller.

In addition to this, even people with the same BMR/RMR eating the same food will not gain the same weight - they may differ in the amount of exercise, or in their calorie calorie consumption while exercising.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/82/5/941/4607670
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535334/
The district in India where my grandmother was from was the poorest in that state, and one of the poorest in India overall. In the span of the past 20 years (one generational transition), that district has transformed into one of the more affluent districts in the state, as well as the biggest car market in the country, especially for luxury cars such as BMW, Mercedes, Jeep and Range Rover.

And also 0.1% of Indians or Africans is still 1 million potential customers or 300k cars sold potentially. Or $15B each market. So yeah, it makes sense to pay attention to the third world too.
I realized this when Microsoft started reading the emails and attachments in my office 365 account, and having Cortana "helpfully" suggest various to-do items from them.

The degree to which this seems to be the case has me convinced that the only way I will actually have any control of my data is if it's on a hard drive in my physical possession. And frankly I don't have time to maintain my own IT infrastructure.
16-Year-Old HP Printer-Driver Bug Impacts Millions of Windows Machines
This is why guns and spyware should be illegal.
I've based my comment on observations from relatives living in Maharashtra. Getting estimates seems impossible to me, because India doesn't record cause of death very well (if deceased person itself is even recorded)
10 years since the Utoya massacre in Norway
Heckler&Koch has been fined large sums for illegally selling small arms, for example in 2019 3.7 Million EUR and suspended prison sentences for selling to Mexico: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/prozess-um-waffenherste... (sorry, German)
I'm very happy to see the inclusion of "Control Flow Analysis of Aliased Conditions." This has been something I have been wishing for for awhile now and a delight to see it come out in this release. TypeScript just keeps getting better and better.
I agree with you. You would have to find some accurate definition for "What is a democracy?", e.g. look at the freedom of press, freedom of election (E.g. are there any inconsistencies in the last elections), conflicts in a country. Based on a lot of factors you could probably say "This is a democracy" or "This is somewhere between".

But still no good solution.

And criminal would be too far, as such spyware should only be used against extremely serious crimes, e.g. warcrimes or terrorism
Putting aside whatever contracts governments have with gun manufacturers, the rest of the market is largely the average person that uses them for sporting or for self-defense. There's not that kind of benign market for Pegasus that the NSO Group can hide behind. The average person wouldn't be using Pegasus (if they could even afford it) to go after drug dealers/pedophiles/etc. Something like Pegasus can really only be used for nefarious purposes. I'm not buying their "People kill people!" argument.
Do you think US companies ought not sell guns to the Mexican government?
I did forget that. I'm pretty sure that was actually listed in the training because the company I was at made software that was translated into a lot of languages.
I don't think "horrible" is a general opinion, although it is in the end a matter of taste. But you do often hear people who think that the vector derivatives initially made (Knuth's originals were raster) are too light for comfortable reading on a monitor. There have been some recent uploads to CTAN with heavier versions of CM. I remember them as https://www.ctan.org/pkg/newcomputermodern (book weight) and https://www.ctan.org/pkg/mlmodern.
I agree and I think it's a regulatory problem. I think companies like NSO should be forced to go to a middleman and be regulated a lot more strictly.

This is exactly the point I was trying to make.

(BTW: Colt sell weapons to dictator armies too)
> am I doing a sexism?

Is it necessary to be so dismissive of a serious topic?
The reality has changed a lot about self hosting. Looking into it might surprise you.
Exactly, the risk is the first big difference. With Payflow, you can never spend more than you have already earned.

The second thing is most blue-collar workers in most countries can’t get credit cards at all.
Maybe it should, but since the government is not doing it, we're lucky that investors disagree with your assessment. CE, Tokamak Energy, Tri Alpha, General Fusion, and Helion have all gotten substantial private funding. Tri Alpha was over $700M last I checked. One of Helion's investors is YCombinator.
While I understand and generally agree with your points, I do find the idea of "holding a vendor accountable" to be more of a philosophy than something I've generally witnessed happen in real life. At some point that needs to stop being weighed on the scales when doing "build vs buy" math for any but the largest companies or most attentive vendors.
Seems pretty irrelevant to the underlying truths. A spate of even small bugs can cost you customers. Big bugs can cost you colossal fines from data protection regulatory agencies, especially if you operate under a "we'll fix it later" attitude.

If course there's a point of diminishing losses to aim for. Sweeping statements either way on software testing aren't helpful.
Another part of this story is that the company completely denies their connection to this "list".

The media thus far has presented very little evidence that this list is actually from NSO Group.

They have provided no information on how this list was obtained and 67 phones (out of 50k) seems like a very small amount of phones (with a 55 percent success rate) to use as a basis for an international story across many major media outlets. These stories only consist of that this or this person is on the "list" (no evidence at all of spyware on their phone).
My understanding is that the "unbearable thinness" is what happens when Computer Modern outlines designed to accommodate ink swell (associated with older printing methods) are used on modern display and raster printing surfaces without adjustment. If you check the typography in TAoCP, which Knuth fine tuned, it doesn't seem so unnaturally thin.
I was originally confused because I thought the debugger `ollydbg` was being referenced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OllyDbg
Are they? Compared to other forms (eg. trojans or browser/os 0days) they're not really common. I suspect you have a better chance of getting infected from a site asking you to download a "codec", than you have of the site serving you a malformed media file.
The common way to do this in on-prem deployments is to hard-limit the user to a small amount of hacks (let's say 10).

The more a tool like Pegasus is used the more it's exposed and the bigger the risk companies like Verint (or NSO in this case) of losing their 0-days take.
We still attach a lot of importance to the manipulation of sex hormones. We just do it in a better way now.

And in truth, being able to go through something like a "second puberty" could be good. We might today not like the exaggeration of sexual characteristics -- if anything we prefer childlike androgyny -- but some of the other things that happen during puberty -- brain development, increases to bone density -- could be useful.
I hope I can be forgiven for missing the point when this is the first time (as far as I can tell ... perhaps you said something in a different thread) you've mentioned cost. At first it was "this cannot be automated". Then it was "well it happened, but it's okay because it's written down on paper and not put in a computer".

Now we're talking about cost. Cost where (at least in the USA) going to the ER for a broken bone can cost thousands of dollars. Cost where (at least in the USA) a birth (something people from all walks of life go through) has a minimum of the patient spending $10K and regularly gets into the $50K and up range (not even talking about ultrasounds etc leading into the birth).

I cannot believe that we're really talking about data collection being too expensive for the medical industry. Maybe nobody wants to be the person to pick up the bill. But it's going to be a rounding error of a rounding error compared to all the other money that goes through that industry.
I agree in general. Although I still firmly believe it’s not the case with Apple. Haven’t been convinced otherwise yet.
If there is no NSO master list of numbers targeted and they have no possession of customer data, then how are they also aware of how many numbers their clients target a year?
That's an interesting observation and you may well be right that people in the past were more active in this way.

On the other hand, the contribution small levels of exercise (such as getting up from your desk and walking at a normal pace, even climbing a few flights of stairs a couple of times per day) to calorie consumption is likely to be almost nothing - a few dozens of kcal over the course of a day at best. I know that there have been studies for example of the additional kcal consumption from a standing desk compared to a normal desk, and the result is almost non-existent, less than 10 kcal over the course of a workday.
That's bad for Germany. They are gonna change [1]?

I've seen a few company has stock options already. One of my friends has.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/29/germany-to-reform-stock-opti...
FYI on modern LaTeX engines like LuaLaTeX (and also XeLaTeX) Latin Modern actually is the default.

But Latin Modern and the default Type 1 version of Computer Modern have exactly the same thickness, so if Computer Modern looks thinner for you then it must be some weird screen effect. (The hinting is a bit different, but I wouldn't have expected that to have a significant effect on current systems where hinting is often ignored anyway.)
Having inactive side projects (as in never started, or a tiny bit ages ago) interferes at least 'emotionally' for me. Sometimes I can't stop thinking about an idea I want to work on, excited to 'go home' (i.e. stop working) and work on it, but then by the end of the day I'm too tired, if not physically then of sitting or computers, and cook, eat, and sleep instead.

For a while indoor 'cycling home' as I did when I went into an office more worked well to delineate the day, shower, and get on with something of my own feeling refreshed. I still do it, but I suppose I'm used to the feeling or whatever, I don't really find the same benefit any more.
In all this I am thinking about scale, and how many political leaders are using same tool to spy their political opponents?
I am thinking about just a few countries in which governments have discretionary right not do disclose how and where they spending tax money to the public.

Does anyone know's technically how is this tool exactly deployed, in the sense what prevents Chinese intelligence using same tool to spy on US officials?
Consider if any of those dictators would want the US and Israeli governments to have access to whomever they're tapping.

That's why they don't buy from the US or Israeli government: they buy from NSO who are a bunch of crooks.
People lie. People who care more about getting their PhD and less about the actual research. Cause they don't have the integrity to not cheat. If you care about the actual research, why cheat.

And still if researchers would only care about getting funding, they'd all "prove" that them fucking democrats eat children cause man, would they get donations by them QAnon people.

And of course if you have a distinguished researcher in a field voicing a clear and educated guess/opinion, its worth much more then any random person commenting here ...
I think the author's point is that you will be tracked even if you do pay.

And indeed, I pay Google for gmail because some years I somehow slipped out of the free tier and had to start paying. At the same time, my email is unequivocally used by Google for tracking. I'm paying, and I'm still the product.
I want to hate it because it seems so old fashioned, and I constantly search for alternatives, but I keep coming back, because no other font allows me to read dense text for hours at a time.

I guess this Knuth dude knows his stuff.
100 years ago, people were paid just after they worked. There are two reasons why that stopped being the case. Firstly, it’s a lot of work for the company. Secondly, it’s worse for the company’s cash flow. As others have also replied, the first is most significant.
> Bullshit, what will make it harder for a fusion reactor outputting steam to just turn the same turbine as a fossil fuel power plant?

Nothing but economics means both are being replaced with cheap, distributed renewables. If your nuclear reactor produces steam then it's already basically useless in terms of power generation as it will cost more to run the steam turbine alone than to build renewables of the same capacity.

This idea is aiming to re-use the existing transmission lines of fossil generators, but not the steam generator itself, something that many renewable and battery projects already do to lower costs.
Is THAT what was going on in this book? Thank you! I loved Stephenson but was very, very confused.
Huh, the Thai ฝรั่ง ("farang", meaning Guava but also used to refer to white people) is also kinda similar. Looks like it has similar etymology and is not just based on the color of the fruit flesh. [0]

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9D%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B1%E...
> I do frequent (mostly as a lurker) some subreddits from time to time, such as r/math, r/learnjapanese, r/history etc. I don't remember running into any sort of heated political argument in any of these subreddits.

I haven't spent any time there, so I'm genuinely curious: how does r/history avoid political arguments? Some people say that everything is inherently political, but history seems especially adjacent to politics
My theory is that NSO is paying for this PR blitz since companies like NSO need physical sales and now that international travel is back they need a lot of articles that talk about how powerful/dangerous the NSO hacking tools are.

Basically "look at it from a Saudi prince's perspective".
I gave numbers and I gave context, and you have shown that you're not genuinely considering the idea that Baltimore might not be a great city for most people, you just have your opinion and aren't entertaining any alternatives. If you love Baltimore, great. But saying Baltimore is just another city when only 2 other cities in the entire country have more violence is like saying some country in the middle east some city in Pakistan isn't so bad because every city has bombings. Glad that comforts you, but it isn't true.

> There's no good reason to trash Baltimore or call any city "a hell-scape"

I will call Baltimore a hellscape 7 days of the week and I consider it 100% justified. I actively hope people don't move their for their own sake; I already left, it doesn't matter to me what happens there anymore.

I also encourage anybody who hasn't visited and doubts me to check for yourself and make your own opinion, not believe me or crispyambulance. Look up crime/violence statistics, reddit.com/r/baltimore, facebook groups, government corruption, illiteracy rates, crime maps, etc and decide for yourself whether what happens in Baltimore is "normal" for the US (let alone the entire world when there are many cities much bigger than Baltimore with a fraction of the crime).
If you are strict with this argument, there would also be no free internet sites to visit.

I don't need to use any of Googles services to be tracked by Google, although Facebook is probably the largest offender here.

In social networks, friends of mine have shared my contact information without me even knowing it. So other people might pay with your data.

And I believe the text is correct. You would pay and be tracked. Companies found out that the mass of users is pretty uncritical and if they are allowed to do it, they will do it.

Also, websites could be financed through advertising that doesn't rely on tracking. A simple policy change and you blow a lot of mostly useless ad company out of the water.

I think that would be good.