skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A guy of whom we have only embellished apocryphal stories, and who I have the suspicion either never existed or wasn’t nothing as portrayed afterwards.

The various “legends” around him like meeting Alexander the Great and dying at the same time are also suspect as hell.

And for all of that, what we have is what exactly? A philosophical justification for being an asshole I guess? The world would have been pretty much the same if he had not existed.
Yeah I felt minor horror reading the abstract. Do we really need to reduce caloric density through indigestible plastics when we could just.. you know.. eat plants??
Oh sorry, I interpreted it differently. Tho it still doesn't change anything, they prolonged investigating this issue for months and only put mayor work behind it when they "pick[ed] up a scent on it". Although they knew about it from day one (one Signal staff replied on the same day the issue was posted).
My Sifu in kung fu would get asked about muggers frequently, by new students.

He always stressed the importance of having the laces on your shoes tied, and practicing your wind sprints.
> You can use propane for the refrigerant.

Used in medical/scientific freezers that go down to -80C:

* https://www.thermofisher.com/ca/en/home/life-science/lab-equ...

A combination of R290 (propane) and R170 (ethane) + R290 mix.
The others had no strategy because they didn't know she were upfront.
The extra year was also a year with less competition. That probably allowed some people to train up without being noticed.

Normally it would have been noticed how much they improved in the past year in competition. Without competition, you don't know how people progressed the last year.
I disagree. If that really is the choice, they should drop the secure moniker without further debate.

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If you produce a product that claims to be secure, the onus is on you to back up those claims.

Off the top my my head there are many ways to implement measures that can help to encourage security going forward.

One of the benefits of coding in the open, and ascribing to opens standards and protocols is transparency and the ability for all to interrogate the code.

Can that work? It's obviously partly also down to the culture of the product team. As another poster in this thread has highlighted, the commit messages are terse and not as helpful as they could be. Perhaps more openness re. intention would help.

Also, why are we finding out about this bug over 7 months after it was reported? Transparency regarding vulnerabilities needs to be at the forefront of the products communications if the team really are serious about security.

In terms of isolating bugs; what kind of testing is in place. TDD, functional testing, beta testing?

There are so many avenues which _could_ be discussed in relation to my initial question.

Your response, is unfortunately not providing anything helpful.
Nobody is going to be smoking 20+ joints per day, every day. Cigarettes also have more carcinogenic chemicals per unit of inhaled smoke, so it's not a 1 to 1 comparison. Smoking weed also has anti-inflammatory effects, and other chemistry that counters some of the negative effects of combustion.

It's not great for you, but its level of harm is closer to vaping than to smoking cigarettes.

If someone does persistently smoke comparable amounts of marijuana per day, they're also likely to have a substance abuse issue. I don't think even Snoop or Willie do it like that.
Pretty much. The best way to insert supply chain exploits is to embed them in a stack exchange answer to a beginner's question.

This isn't new, we've always had programmers who programmed by "recipe" rather than first principles, and DRY paints that as a feature, but it underlies a lot of pain and cost over the years.

To give some context, I inherited some kernel code when I worked in the Systems Group at Sun Microsystems in the 80's that was written by a mathematician who had become a programmer because the money was in programming, not applied math. They had cut and pasted code they didn't understand in order to achieve the result they wanted out of the code they were "writing." When I inherited it I read through it and found a couple of dozen ways the code would panic the kernel[1]. Once fixing those obvious issues, it became clear that the original owner of the code didn't really understand what computation did. They had an idea, and mathematically they could show that it was correct, but literally no ability to express that algorithmically.

This is not a "new" problem but it is an important one that managers of software engineers need to watch for.

[1] At the time the only difference between "kernel" programmers and "application" programmers was that kernel programmers recognized that unsafe code crashed the whole system, not just the application. So they tended to be cultivated from paranoid programmers.
This one did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamahere_coolstore_fire
I think for 2.2 that I eat veggie soups instead of salads when I want to eat primarily vegetables doesn’t have any correlation on my grit or lack thereof. I think this might be assuming a much more extreme position that was presented. No one is saying “only do things you enjoy”, only “if you’re going to take life choices to improve your health, work on improvements that don’t give you negative reinforcement against improving your health”.
It is a mistake to conflate the truth of my statements with the circumstances of the speaker.
It feels quite possible to me that, despite total comp tracking productivity, wages ceasing to track work productivity could still cause increased anxiety due to a lack of choice in how to spend that fraction of compensation.

Health Care as a job benefit ensures that that fraction of compensation is always spent on health services, at minimum. In many ways it is more of a subsidy to health insurance companies and health care providers.
Why offshoring to Latin America is different
Why would anyone think that re-use of ID was a good idea?
Sheriff’s Office letter targets residents for ‘increased accountability’
Digging a big hole by hand makes you very ripped if you do it a few hours everyday. I built a cistern and redid my footer drains by hand.
Does it change anything tho? They prolonged investigating this issue for months and only put mayor work behind it when they "pick[ed] up a scent on it". Although they knew about it from day one (one Signal staff replied on the same day the issue was posted).
Relative to TFA, _any_ consistent movement and activity is a net gain. In that perspective, it really does not matter what program you follow as long as it gets you moving.

This wasn't about optimal. If you ask me personally what I think optimal is, I think it's 5 sets of 5 with big weights, squats deads and bench. Mix in some other cardio activity 1-2 times a week, and you'll be a relative superhero.

But we're talking about people who have health problems and no history of exercise activity. For them, just starting to move is a huge step forward.

This lady probably wouldn't have reached 80 if she had continued on her current path. If we tell people like this, "you must lift weights", we will lost most of them. I have taught a few women to lift, even tiny ones, and of course they can learn and be very strong. But there's a serious stigma when it comes to weight lifting and women. They either think it's impossible, or they think they will end up looking like the woman in the article. Now I'm a fan of built women, but most women seem to really NOT want to look like that.
The older software probably spoke xmpp which meant people could just leave when it misbehaved. Signal has been against this from the beginning, it's against the ToS and the owner has asked devs of alternative clients to stop developing them.

No "apps" are ever good.
The paper addresses the use of fiber supplements (such as psyllium).

"Fiber is sometimes supplemented to the diet for this purpose, but the use of fiber causes soft bulky stools and is commercially limited because it alters the taste and texture of food."

In fact, that's generally why people take them, but there is too much of a good thing. PTFE doesn't do that.

That said, I'm not going to start grinding up Teflon in my food just yet.
We live in the middle of a city (San Francisco) and there are lots of butterflies around. There may be less, but I stand by my theory that the main difference is that killing bugs as a hobby is not seen the same way as it used to be.
> They own the entire TLD.

Ah, that's the piece I was missing. I get how DNS works but I hadn't fathomed that FreeNom was the root for those TLDs they handle.

Still curious how / if / when they tell you about the thresholds.

Fortunately none of the domains I have registered there are used for anything important but it does hurt if someone does use one they register for something important.
If you look up at the sky and say "oh its sunny today", you are overgeneralizing because you haven't seen the rest of the city. If you had worn masks or started being cautious before COVID was widely acknowledged, you were catastrophizing. If you ever talk or act based on a mental model you have of a friend, you are mindreading.

"Cognitive distortions" are the only tools we have to reason about anything in the presence of limited information (which is basically always). Its basically a toolbox to let you discredit any thought whatsoever, which is convenient when a patient writes down negative thoughts and the psychiatrist can just hand them a list. But it would work just as well on positive thoughts or any thought whatsoever.
I’m assuming your link was meant to be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27948008
> But I feel like it is just factually the case,

Aka truthiness. [1]

Or when this is asserted for safety, safyness. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

[2] https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/the-safyness-of-static-t...
Don't neglect the fact that aesthetic sense is evolved. To the degree that our perception has connection with reality we'll probably find spheres beautiful because they manifest an elemental mathematical relation that is ubiquitous in nature.
Try hiking sticks, it takes the pressure off the knees for the downhills.
Implies that the theoretical ability to simulate a universe (or even just a planet) exists somewhere, which absolutely might not be the case
Consider what happened in mens racing.

When there is someone ahead, you also get hesitation. No one wants to expend the effort to catch them. Everyone hopes that someone else will put in that effort.
It's a classic game theoretical 'tragedy of the commons'.

The same could have happened here. The dutch riders were all riding for themselves. The other riders would probably have looked to the favorites to close the gap.
You should have shut down the servers while this was happening - especially because you couldn't track it down. Shame on you for not caring about your users or their privacy when they were specifically using Signal for privacy.

Edit: Anyone downvoting this also simply doesn't understand how serious this privacy leak really is. Shame on you too.
Social media invented by US industry, that was mutated by Reaganomics.

Interesting.
I know the article is lengthy, but did you even try to search for refrigerant or freon in it?

The air-conditioning also used flammable gas, because Freon was in short supply
My understanding is that the database issue caused your client to send pictures A, B and C to person X, when you were trying to send picture C to person X (where A and B are pictures that were previously sent to someone else).
How we got our first paying user within a week of adding payments
Some of my favorite concepts from the Mill:

* Function calls as the primary built-in control flow mechanism. This is so obviously better its insane, this should be the base unit of control flow in an ISA. No inventing incompatible "conventions" for calls, no manually saving & restoring registers (or need to eke out optimizations by avoiding using registers), no accidentally trampling on external state. Called functions receive parameters in a consistent location and returned values are output in a consistent location, other incidental state not part of the parameters is inaccessible, upon return the caller's state is automatically restored as if it had just executed a 1-cycle cpu instruction. All for an overhead of 1 cycle.

* Instructions and functions can have multiple return values. No stupid out params just to return both an error and value or a value that is bigger than one word. CPU instructions use multiple return values for things that obviously need them instead of overloading stateful flags (eww) or interrupts (heave).

* Unified address space & address translation pushed down to the memory controller. This solves so many problems it's not even funny. Cached writes to memory can unblock as soon as it hits L1, reading from uninitialized memory gives you a pre-zeroed page -- instantly -- not in 300 cycles, the previous two means that it's possible to allocate + write + read + deallocate a memory page where it never actually touches main memory and is entirely served by cpu cache hierarchy, ejects expensive TLB address translation out of the hot path of memory accesses instructions, memory protection-based access control can be done in parallel with the fetch instead of the fetch being delayed until translation is calculated. (A process should not assume its the only thing that exists and that its starting address is always the same, ASLR should be on by default. Arguing that per-program virtual memory is a security feature is like arguing that NAT is a security feature. Access and addressing can be separated securely.)

* Machine code is basically a directly encoded form of Static Single Assignment (SSA) which is typically a compiler Intermediate Representation (IR) middle step in the compilation process, but the Mill consumes SSA directly which means that a lot of data flow information is preserved during the lowering to machine code and doesn't have to be inferred or guessed dynamically by the CPU during execution.
I would say that isn't the point. Bugs are perfectly fine to practice empathy with, as are dolls, stuffed animals, etc.

Recently my daughter befriended a tiny ant while at the blacktop at the local rec center. She was sort of taking a time out from interacting with her human friends for a bit.

Then one of her friends came over and squished the ant, thinking it was funny, saying "it's just an ant" when my daughter complained.

It really bothered me. Not the death of the ant, obviously. (so what, I step on them all the time)

I don't know if you have kids, but I think there was something a bit off about that girl and her choice to kill the ant. Maybe you would consider her "smart." I didn't.
N95 or P100 masks (the ones from the hardware store) actually reduce your risk almost 50%. So they obviously made the pandemic worse by pushing the useless face coverings instead.
But the first source you quoted, the Atlantic article [0], quotes Graeber describing economies which don't depend on money or barter:

> Communities of Iroquois Native Americans, for instance, stockpiled their goods in longhouses. Female councils then allocated the goods, explains Graeber. Other indigenous communities relied on “gift economies,” which went something like this: If you were a baker who needed meat, you didn’t offer your bagels for the butcher’s steaks. Instead, you got your wife to hint to the butcher’s wife that you two were low on iron, and she’d say something like “Oh really? Have a hamburger, we’ve got plenty!” Down the line, the butcher might want a birthday cake, or help moving to a new apartment, and you’d help him out.

> On paper, this sounds a bit like delayed barter, but it bears some significant differences. For one thing, it’s much more efficient than Smith’s idea of a barter system, since it doesn’t depend on each person simultaneously having what the other wants. It’s also not tit for tat: No one ever assigns a specific value to the meat or cake or house-building labor, meaning debts can’t be transferred.

> And, in a gift economy, exchange isn’t impersonal.

My original reply in this thread was to mention that there have been functioning societies that don't use money. I was replying to a post that couldn't imagine such things. Maybe I'm misunderstanding why you brought up barter economies?

I'll have to get back to your first Nick Szabo reference, it doesn't format readable in the browser I'm in front of at the moment (overlapping text). The second link, the blog post, seems to discuss the history of money as opposed to alternatives (like the Iroquois and gift economies mentioned above).

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-...
This isn't obvious at all.

The best advocates for healthy duck and deer populations are people who enjoy killing and eating them.

Butterfly populations are declining throughout the developed world, it seems like a safe bet to me that more amateur lepidopterists would serve as an advocacy group for arresting and reversing that decline.

Any individual butterfly is not long for this world, after all. Killing it and mounting it isn't a threat to its species; no one caring if they live or die is.
I'm not defending the practice of re-using a database ID, but it's absolutely something that can happen (or change) as an oversight rather than an active choice from the developer.
You can use CO2 as a refrigerant. Non flammable and enables heat pumps to be practical at lower temperatures. Lots of products on the market. See https://r744.com
> Go into the wild and grow/hunt food

It is easy to radically underestimate how much food a human needs every day and how hard it is to acquire, especially when living a non-sedentary life as a hunter/gatherer.

Trying to accumulate 2000+ calories per day growing food requires a rather significant farm and skill (and weather); doing so with meat requires daily hunting, or a permanent storage facility with refrigeration (unless you like salt and pickled meat).

Doing this while trying not to die from exposure or injury is even more challenging.

It is amazingly nontrivial.
If different factions in a party can put forward different people who can make it to the top two, the open primary makes the point moot as long as they disagree enough.

The religious and more recently nativist turns that the GOP has taken nationally have made them uncompetitive in California; it's notable that the last Republican governor of California was neither of those things while that transition was happening.
I saw one a couple of months ago from Pakuranga! No sound, so it must've been far away, but at first I thought it must be a firework (bright white though, ending in a flash not an explosion). Could've been space junk not a meteor.
I understand that NR-U is a full implementation of a 5G base station (and client handset/CPE if you can find one that actually implements NR-U!), and therefore you will require patent licenses for the full implemented stack.

In an ideal world, your radio manufacturer and software vendors would have appropriate patent licenses in place.

For this and other reasons (handset support being commercially problematic since carriers want to preserve their dominance), I don't see NR-U really replacing Wi-Fi. The friction to joining a device to a network is also far higher, and there's much more complexity in running the network and architecting a suitable core network and user plane functions and keeping it all running. WiFi really is a lot simpler in many ways.
It's my "contention" that alienation is a term, very abstract, not a discrete thing that can have consequences.

I contend that in the early 19th century, the term made for good rhetoric. IE, you could use it to describe the world and convey ideas. If it hadn't been coined then, but someone coined it now, it would be weak rhetoric. An uncompelling abstraction that doesn't describe anything, convince anyone or explain anything... like a joke that needs to be explained. No one would give it any attention. It's not even wrong, it's just irrelevant. Marx was wrong about lots of things, right about other things. He was rarely irrelevant though, at least until his later years.

I'd also point you to the fact that this kind of mumbo jumbo is why an amazon union vote failed a few weeks ago. The corporate culture BS that amazon (the point of this article) is teaching in schools now makes more sense and has more meaning to workers than the marxist theology that this article is written in. The present is not on your side.

I'll finally contend that a young Karl Marx himself would not be writing or talking like this, or reading Jacobin. He had new ideas, that made sense in his time. He got those ideas by observing the world, not arcane language written by some 15th century philosopher. That's what conservatives do. It ain't radical.

Workers don't want to hear about their alienation. They want a raise, dignity, childcare and a stake in the game. They don't want to be surveilled, or fired by an email generated by an NN.

>> The term remains easy to understand

The term is 100% unintelligible.
I think the larger problem is that everybody expects that they have to get better, and they have to get better quickly. That's why people injure themselves doing pretty much anything requiring physical exertion.

Recovery is important. Maybe it will be better if people see
exercise as a secondary tool for improving their health/recovery rate, rather than the primary tool for becoming more powerful.
It's effectively inert to anything except molten sodium, magnesium, or the like.

It will depolymerize at temperatures above 650-700C.

Neither of those conditions is likely to be found in your body.
Does this study consider the modern ease of getting a work to be publicly available? Publishing, in some form, is so much easier now than it was 20 years ago. Is it possible that publishers of the past just said, "no, we don't want so much depressing stuff."?
Hi everyone OP here,

I just wanted to share some lessons learned on how we managed to get our first paying user within a week of adding payments. There's more detail in the medium post but the major lessons learned are:

Set a goal to get a paying customer in 30 days. This will keep you focused on revenue and not on things that may distract you.

Start with a low effort billing mechanism, like Stripe payment links. Just add a link to a Premium plan in your header. You can manually track premium status using the email they enter in the Stripe payment link.

Start with a lifetime subscription. Keep lowering it until someone pays.
Yeah, the manufacturing biproducts (PFOA, PFOS etc) can certainly interfere with biological processes and endure in the environment for a long time, but PTFE is relatively benign as a solid... until it gets really hot and decomposes into carbonyls.
Have you considered a chore buddy? Where you both cheer each other on in doing chores, that way you’re doing your own chores “for someone else”.
Before radio you had a moto putting the latest gap to display in front of the peloton. This is very simple and would not cause trouble. Note that they do not have that for the Olympic games for some reason.
I would personally paid a subscription. I actually did for a few years, to livejournal.com before Russians bought the company.

Unfortunately, I don't believe it's possible in the current environment. I already have a web hosting, would only paid if the hypothetical service would integrate with mainstream ones like FB/twitter. Otherwise it's nothing to pay for, social networks are useless without being able to communicate with other people.