skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in NYC - Cuomo is still somewhat popular here, particularly (and perhaps counterintuitively) among older women. At least among the older women I know, his transgressions are processed in the same way that Trump's were when the "grab 'em by the p-ssy" tape leaked.

Cuomo is skilled in playing "leader" on tv:

* the daily covid press briefings - these were especially powerful among Americans looking for some kind of steady leadership they could latch on to and feel safe and were especially amped up by the media (remember "Cuomo-sexual"?)

* in his response yesterday to AG's allegations, he showed multiple pics of him hugging and touching people he greeted, as a way of minimizing the pic that showed him touching one of his accuser's face

* multiple staged videos on tv of him assessing and riding the subways, cleaning the subways, attending gay pride parade, etc all to create a fake image of him as a "man of the people"

^^ that stuff still works on the over 55 demographics that watch CNN, so they still support him. IIRC, he had like ~50% approval rating like a couple weeks ago.
Re (1): That's technically true, but missing the point when viewed holistically. Those first feature phones were mostly just used to make quick calls to arrange an appointment or discuss one or two things. They were not a platform to mediate a majority chunk of our social lifes like today's phones are.
It's all too human an instinct to attempt to signal in-group membership by imitating and adopting the culture of said in-group (see shibboleth [1]). It's also common to go overboard in these attempts to the point of hypercorrection which, if turnover rate is high enough, may then become accepted usage for the next generation…

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
I've used to use them as an OAuth provider for a different service. Now it's not worth the effort.
They are also needed to use Android hardware with a functional store. Unfortunately those things are tied too much together.

I can't say I blame them for doing that, although I'd appreciate them having different measures against truly mass account creation compared to my very humble manual work.
No I really think I dont because it doesnt make any sense.
I miss Night Flight on USA Network. Probably ruined my GPA from staying up so late but it was worth it. It's kind of back in streaming form, now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Flight_%28TV_series%29

https://www.nightflightplus.com/
End Creative Monopolies
Well if quantum chance is better framed as quantum choice then we can test it: grab the same single electron and see whether it flips quantum states randomly or consistently.

You could identify single electrons.
Meanwhile the BBC pushes anti-China propaganda in plain sight.
No, but stock phones haven't always been spying on users client side.
I wonder if this change will make it much harder to exploit sandbox escape vulnerabilities, which IIUC are in the main browser process, not the renderer process. What is the impact of those vulnerabilities compared to ones in the renderer process?
Have you ever worked with a grad before though? Most of them are pretty useless - there will be exceptions though.
Absolutely YES. You can try out Kwayet and see for yourself.
He keeps the office until the next election regardless of what he does. Kind of a problem with elected positions. It used to be possible to shame people into resigning but that no longer works.
It's all about the things that scale to many people vs things that don't. A feature improvement in some app that makes extra $0.01 / year value for tens of millions of users is simply a larger effect than building a house for one family.
I'd love a basement that big!
> For a fact we know

Not sure about that. No source code. Also, Pegasus.
I have resorted to just using my own nitter install for all things twitter. Here's an example from a public instance [1]. Of course this is read-only but that's all I want, mostly to check in on @mntmn. I love the interface, it fixes everything I hate about twitter except the shitty dynamics and the fact that it is twitter.

It's dead simple to host as a docker instance by the way, and with privacy redirect [2] it's pretty seamless.

[1]: https://nitter.42l.fr/Foone/status/1423082372795305985

[2]: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
A downside to the cuomo allegations is that cuomo was the only sane voice left protecting nyc, from further mismanagement by diblasio and pals.

The city mayor is so unpopular that The only thing stopping a recall is that he's going to be leaving office soon.

Cuomo has got to go for sure, hes now too weak to keep diblasio & pals in check
Those ""longterm"" fears to me are just an excuse.

No vaccine (or please tell me one) ever showed any "long term" effects in that sense that bad things showed up > 3 months after the vaccination, actually almost all side-effects happen instantaneously.

The reason talking about "long term" side effects is that you usually need to reach very high numbers on your studies to e.g. correlate one in a million side effect to a medication, and thus need very "long term" studies.

However, for those vaccines we are now MUCH beyond these numbers already! That is also what people mostly don't get in general right now: (In the very beginning maybe yes, but now not anymore)

Those studies are NOT! pushed anymore with shortcuts and exceptions, the contrary, because due to the pandemic situation the necessary numbers (get x people of test persons infected) were so quickly passed now.. similar now for those side effects. It just doesn't make any sense to pull that argument anymore (though science vs belief is hard).

And if you are really like "Meh.. but these totally new mRNA vaccines will grow me horns" => Comparing mRNA vs old-school vector vaccines is maybe like comparing LDC TVs of today vs old tube TVs that even bombarded you with little xrays... it is just such a technology jump.. and if you are into the topic and really concerned about that this mRNA will inject something into your cells/genes.. then you actually should be much more afraid of vector vaccines or just some viruses out there like Corona doing the same but much more reliably..
Politics is by its very nature nasty and corrupt. New York politics is no different. In fact its kind of notorious for it. Cuomo is a powerful and politically connected family. The current governor's dad was once governor of NY as well. And his brother is a high profile news anchor.

It shouldn't be that way. Families shouldn't have that much power. But they do. And it takes a fair bit to bring them down.
Also while they've converged somewhat in the years since, when you were comparing MySQL 4 to whatever Postgres version was in the 00s, MySQL's tradeoff of performance over correctness vs Postgres tradeoff of correctness over performance would have been very appealing to shared providers looking to bundle the most customers on the least hardware
Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship
Height leader board, maximum 52.73 metres: http://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/toptrunks.htm

A fallen redwood sprouted into a whole row of trees: http://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/picturepages/leighton.htm
I think this is the problem with the discourse around vaccines. People are quick to dismiss others as "reckless, unreasonable, impossible to convince".

The people I know are far from unreasonable, but they might be applying the wrong reasoning strategy or fixating on bad / outdated data, or worst case outcome only.

Nobody in the general population has the obligation to convince others, to be clear. I just wish the public discourse and institutions did a better job at educating and catering to those points of view instead of branding people by their against-vaccine stance only.
Singapore:

https://fortune.com/2021/02/01/singapore-covid-data-tracetog...

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/police-can-a...

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/proposed-restrictions...

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/bill-limitin...

(Note that one mostly-united political party controls 89.2% of Singapore's legislature seats, and can pass any laws or amend its constitution to their liking.)
Have we resolved why a cohort of younger folks were getting myocarditis? That is not something you want to get as a teenager when your body is developing.

Have gotten the shot, but have heard this question from parents and it is completely reasonable IMO.
Pfizer-BioNTech has been approved in the EU since December 2020. Fully approved that is, not experimental, not emergency use.

That it's still on emergency use in the US is puzzling. But as anyone who's been through a formal approvals process knows, these things can drag out forever. Approving bodies are all about CYA, they just don't like to commit to anything being satisfactory.
If I want your account and you have SMS based password reset I can do some social engineering and get in in a couple hours (if multiple tries required).

If I want your account and there is no SMS password reset I'm done unless I have previously compromised your backup email.
Tips on making one?
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That's a plausible hypothesis, but from the information given I can't really conclude that (nor the converse). It's worth investigating her role further to find out.
I'm the person you're responding to, and I think so? My contract was on data that wasn't surveilled, it was willingly supplied in bad faith. Fake names, etc. And there was cause / outside evidence to look into it. I can't really go into more details than that, but it wasn't for an intelligence agency. It was for another party that wanted to hand something over to the police after they found out what was happening.
This year I set up 10Gbps networking in my home lab since I am lucky enough to have 10Gbps internet and it didn’t make sense to pay for that but not have it for all my machines.

Or at least I tried to set it up. 10G pcie cards are now cheap enough, but routers are not. Thunderbolt adapters are also expensive, bulky and use a ton of power[1]. I’m keeping my eye open for a surplus router and cheaper adapters but in the meantime I am only using a 2 port card in my main machine to serve at 10Gbps to one other machine. I wonder if I could also serve my m1 MacBook using thunderbolt 3.

[1] In my work life I also tried to use Ethernet in some embedded projects. It turns out Ethernet is just power hungry in general. Even 100Mbps Ethernet uses about 0.5W per port. There are standards for lower power but I’ve yet to see anyone use them.
> Also, the only companies who put intergenerational wealth building into their advertising material are the expensive watch manufacturers.

Of course, because companies have a vested interest in consumers spending more rather than less. But there are reasons to do something other than "some company advertised that I should do this". Every family that built up generational wealth has had (by definition) at least one generation who earned more than they spent.
'I run my business from my pimped-up camper van'
Everyone worried about Apple, but Apple is company and follows the laws of the countries it operates in.
If this is legal, or even more required by the goverment agencies: Apple will comply. And there is nothing wrong with it.
If you don't like the laws of your country, you need to work for that, not just go after Apple on social media.
But who will formulate these laws that are supposed to give people freedom when we already have malicious state actors pushing for the complete opposite? Who will put pressure on governments to formulate just laws if people are so hopelessly misinformed and cannot possibly take the time to understand the issue of being parted with their freedom?

The suggestion is not that people need to continually invest large amounts of time to manually verify their freedom is being upheld. It is that they should inform themselves once in order to understand the issue and be able to ensure their governments are not secretly becoming totalitarian states.
I don't know that they're much safer because I think the risks are just really low in general and likely the same - the "major" risk being an autoimmune response, which isn't really specific to vaccines.

My understanding was that the main benefit was that it's easier to produce in large amounts (and faster to go from sequence -> vaccine?), and the main downside is that it's harder to store (since it breaks down so easily).

But I'm not a doctor, and I generally try to not tell people what they should do, shouldn't do, or what the risks are - just give them the info and help them understand what's going on. Most people are just afraid of the unknown, and if no one's giving them an explanation they can understand they'll go with the simplistic, albeit incorrect ones that they can ("microchips are a thing I know about - they put those in animals to track them, maybe they're putting it in the vaccine").
It isn’t “experimental”, rather, it has “emergency use” authorization.

Frankly, these vaccines have tons of data behind them, with the exception of long-term results [0].

Here’s how I would frame it: would you rather take a chance on a vaccine or getting Covid? Remember, Covid has many worse short term effects than the vaccine, and long term effects from it are truly understood yet either. So the vaccine is the more rational choice, despite the unknowns.

Hope that helps.

[0] - https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...
This seems to nail it based on my experience.

At least anecdotally, the people I know that are vaccine-averse have the same fear of airplanes, etc.

It might just be the way they reason, fixating on worst-case outcome instead of a more balanced view.
On the topic of conspiracy theories and the NSA, read the novel "Digital Fortress"[0] by Dan Brown :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Fortress
"Radio? Like 5G but less bandwidth, like TV but just sound." It lives on in (almost) all the wireless communication technologies of today, and broadcast radio channels as a cultural and business phenomenon have just added a video stream, the signal may be digital and relayed by satellites or over the internet. If there was hype about either of the two, it was unrealism about how long it would take for some of the applications to become mainstream.
Imo, all this Cuomo stuff is a huge distraction from the much bigger elephant in the room which people in power don't want to address.

Back in March 2020, the American Health Care Association told Cuomo, Wolf, Murphy, Whitmer etc to stop ordering infected patients into nursing homes. The governors ignored the AHCA and removed their own family from nursing homes while forcing others:

https://archive.is/bP8hz

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1191811

After this, it turned out Cuomo was also fabricating and lying about the actual nursing home death numbers by 10000.

Remember the trans Health Secretary Rachel ­Levine from PA (now US Assistant Health Secretary) who took out her own mother from nursing home while pushing covid patients into them:

https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/pennsylvania-health-official-m...

Despite all this, nobody has been held accountable and last month, the DOJ dropped the investigation:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-04/cuomo-alo...
For me (and many out there) DPI is more important than slightly higher battery consumption which becomes less of an issue with other components such as SoC mitigate that with more optimized power usage.

Retina Display when it first arrived was literally THE reason I started switching to Apple ecosystem as it was exponentially better to look at that screen, and I'd even pay more for a 4K display on a MacBook if they brought it.
While the kernel interfaces aren't exactly wildly disparate, they are perhaps surprisingly diverse (and coupled to kernel implementation details) for something as boring as a filesystem. At least some of this is for performance reasons. Accessing offsets into kernel structures is usually going to be faster than copying the data to use on your own.

On top of that, since there is no single standard interface in the kernel, kernel maintainers are skeptical of adding shims to the mainline kernel. The Linux kernel developers are perhaps the most famous for being vocal about this, but they are not unique.

That being said, there are portable file system implementations that use FUSE. See e.g. NTFS-3g[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G
All of those headlines are either factual or opinions. NPR publishes a diversity of opinions - you can look at your website to see proof of that.
You also wouldn't be able to do the cocktail party trick. Your brain's ability to ignore everything that isn't of the desired ITD phase shift is what allows you to selectively ignore most of the noise in the room and focus on a single conversation.
Also Clozure Common Lisp.
Then you get into the problem of low latency directory sync between your box and that host. I’m still trying to crack that nut.
Um, I didn't believe any single of those.
> collective intelligence and shared mental models

Mine too. Informal exploration here <https://mega.nz/file/LFVWmIyb#ch1Rw0kMoL90hC8wpKfAifc948aoMM...> (standalone HTML doc)
> My point is that privacy and security is not something that will be solved by federation or open source.

I disagree. Here's why:

> For open source and federation to be useful in that regard, you need most people to actively research and check that the tools that they use are private and secure.

This is the key point. You do not need most people. You need some people. And you can always find some people who verify everything and self-host for you. This is how Signal and Matrix appeared and became (relatively) famous.
Yes, because the "huge number of independent people" have never missed any serious bugs or backdoor, and they also verify every piece of equipment you use.
It happens to me too sometimes. I try not to take it personally.

My impression is you got tilted a bit there.

I think it is the emotional tone that is controlled on HN, also the fast track to getting flagged is to complain about moderation, that you are being censored, or somebody else is being censored. I don’t think any topic is off limits but certain topics are an opportunity for people to trade in emotions such as outrage, resentment, etc.
Ah, the eternal 'small matter of implementation', I've heard that one before.
I think acting like you have any idea what is inside a therapeutic drug with the manufacturing processes redacted from public knowledge is an outrageous claim.

Perhaps you should look at Alberta Canada for more information.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/canada...

You know what would make me certain the vaccine is safe?
An unbiased livestream of celebrities and public figures taking the vaccine with no chance of them receiving placebos.
yeah i don't see why he should resign if Trump didn't.

playing devils advocate here but this is the new normal.
This should highlight why some companies have such strict policies about what you can do outside of work. Like it or not, every extracurricular activity is a potential PR risk, especially in the last few years where reputations and trust can be quickly destroyed based on circumstantial evidence.
No, almost all people who die unvaxxed are past reproductive age. For evolutionary fitness, it doesn't matter if you die a dumbass at 55 as long as you spawned loads of offspring beforehand.
The problem I have with this argument is Starbucks has become so ubiquitous they stand as a meeting place within a community.

What does that mean? Imagine the contrast of meeting inside a posh restaurant and not buying anything, versus meeting at, say a 7-11 convenience store. The first one is not imaginable, but the second seems possible. (Have you ever been in a 7-11? Those workers don’t give a hoot about much of anything. Day old hot dogs on rollers).

If you’re in a private business which has this ‘meeting place’ reputation I think they are more lax with the buy ‘something or leave’ norm. That’s were I find objection with this story.

Of course particular owners, employees, locations, and the behavior of the non-buying guests are what makes the difference between _no harm, no foul_ and nuisance disturbance of the actual paying customers. Devil is in the details.
Perhaps not my survival, or your survival, but a bunch of countries' health systems have collapsed as part of this pandemic, which has definitely lead to excess deaths.

Personally, I believe that the global excess deaths figures will be bigger this year than last, due to all the developing world where vaccines are not available.
Bias is not a binary value. There are sources which are more or less biased, and we should strive to reward and share the journalists that try to guard their less-biased reputations.
That it can do that with 2 ears and the latency between them signalling through the brain is amazing
He’s an old school political boss. Nobody loves the guy, but he usually has an air of competence backed by the combination of carrot and stick that governors wield.

New York is a pretty complex state. When you hear somebody blabbering about “dems” and “blue”, you know they are clueless. It’s a conservative democratic state with a bunch of internal tensions that drive a lot of different dynamics.

Another thing is that the competition is pretty lame. If he survives this scandal, he will win re-election.
This tool checks 30 things. One of those thirty is literally "G103: Audit the use of unsafe block"

Is it a coincidence? Nope, sure enough Go's "unsafe" is closely related to the unsafe concept in Rust, it allows you to defeat type safety promises in Go. Go's promises are much weaker than Rust's but it surely does make sense to audit the use of these features and the same goes for Rust's "unsafe" keyword.

OK. But the other 29 aren't related right? Not so fast. "G601: Implicit memory aliasing of items from a range statement" is in fact about memory aliasing. You can't introduce such aliases in Rust... from safe code. But your unsafe code can introduce an alias that shouldn't exist and thereby introduce incorrect behaviour.

Now, the Go lint for G601 has a lot of false positives. Practical experience tells us that this causes two problems, and in many cases they get out of control. One is, some people begin causing false positives without knowing it, their code is fine but is always flagged by this check, making it a nuisance. The second is, because it's a nuisance, it becomes trivial for developers to ignore it. "Just another false positive" and so it ceases to have practical value.

There are a whole bunch of things here that are orthogonal to "grep for unsafe" and should be in a security-focused linter for Rust, but in fact two of these thirty rules are just "grep for unsafe" in Rust.
Yes, I actually have ;) I am a founder of a browser company. Our team is building a browser from scracth, minus the rendering engine for which we have chosen WebKit. Many of our beta testers have already indicated that our browser (Orion) is same or better than Safari, Chrome or Firefox. Hence, I believe it can be done and we'd welcome more formidable competition from Firefox in order to take on Chrom(e/ium
) clones that took over the web.
Python Dictionaries for Beginners
She may have been doing cuomo work on the clock but i generally agreew with your statement

At first stance it looked rsther bad but having read the article its much more flimsy.

However the optics of this happening are bad for fb and i dont think its unreasonable for fb to act against her.
Soviet Apple sees you.
If you can recreate a file so it’s hash matches known CP then that file is CP my dude. The probability of just two hashes accidentally colliding is approximately: 4.3*10-60

Even if you do a content aware hash where you break the file into chunks and hash each chunk, you still wouldn’t be able to magically recreate the hash of a CP file without also producing part of the CP.
Please keep your cats inside. Most ecosystems aren’t supposed to have near-apex predators running around killing everything. Outdoor cats kill over 2 billion birds a year.