skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How strange that survival is something you have to convince people of the value of.

The mere fact that our collective behavior is what is causing this means that at some point there will be a fight for the steering wheel.

Humanity appears incapable of collective action. Any future historians, perhaps some kind of advanced insectoid races archeologists, will say that humanities Achilles heel was being incapable of collective action.

Piquing that uniquely human pride and arrogance is a deliberate strategy by some, but the consequences are dismissed by the same, as they are unable to grasp that this will lead to their own downfall too.
Even the most dystopian arms dealer must eventually eat.
Dark Matter (by Blake Crouch, not "A Dark Matter" by Peter Straub that GP mentioned) was really terrible. Not only is the "physics" complete nonsense, the plot doesn't make any sense even if you accept his version of how physics works. Even if you suspend your disbelief and accept how the device works, the last 30 or so pages just completely ignore that and the final goal makes no sense at all. The scientists have cringey dialogue that sounds like it's straight out of a campy Hollywood action flick. The whole thing is driven by the cliche that you can either be successful and completely lonely, or have a family and be boring and unsuccessful. It's really quite bad.
Thank you, it clearly shows that the German government cannot be trusted to do the right thing.

And the underlying desire for having this information will no doubt prolong the Corona restrictions longer than necessary, which is certainly not in the interest of German citizens.
When they say they need to remove alert completely because it blocks the main thread you can see how disconnected from reality they are.
>We don't have to "think" it, we can point to historic and present examples where like compulsory actions existed without devolving into totalitarianism...

If there are, that should be the exceptions, rather than the norm.

Also, the parent asked if there won't be "pushes". So the implication is that there will be an overwhelming push in that direction, and very weak countering "pull" in the opposite direction.

And it is clear what direction it will ultimately go. So that is the danger in setting a precedent. So that further pushes in a "bad" direction will require much less effort, and only matter of time it is accepted to be the "new normal"..
> It could be argued that distributed FOSS developers are easier to pressurise into adding back doors, unless we officially make EFF our HR/Legal department.

How could this be argued?
I'll complete jepsen test ASAP:)
Young people are frequently wrong too. Reddit communities are a good sample. They don't understand paradigms from 1998 or so.

You need a counter balanced perspective, young with experienced, optimistic with pessimistic.

But one advantage they have is that many are fresh from university and have more exposure to latest research. A new grad might have a better feel for the tech level of, say, optical routers or quantum computing.
Where would you go if HN becomes bad?
Right now, HN is my favorite source of new information and I really like it.

But I think places like these can have a tendency to become bad, which might happen too far into the future for the alternative to already exist, but given that I feel it's taken a long time in my life to find this website, I wouldn't mind having a list somewhere of websites to try if I ever feel like this one isn't fun anymore.

So the question is, if HN was suddenly down, where do you think we would all go? (and maybe, where do you think we should go?)
I find using the term “concentration camp” for something that resembles a youth correctional facility somewhat dishonest.
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The month itself is unnecessary complex because long ago, someone decided to break a perfectly good calendar.

Ever wondered why the variable-length month is second in the year, instead of a last? English names of months offer a hint: "September", "October", "November", "December" - sound similar to "hept-", "oct-", "non-", "dec-", i.e. 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th. So as it turns out, February used to come last, as reason would demand, but then the calendar got rotated right by two months.

If we imagine the calendar as it was, with February being the last, then at least the mapping between "day of year" and "month, day of that month" would be a function of just "day of year", instead of being a function of both "day of year" and "what year is it".
> One nice thing that sqlite being dynamicly typed allows for, is having a key-value table for storing singleton objects,

OK I can see how this can be convenient. But I would prefer a special-case "variant" column type for such cases and otherwise default to strongly typed columns.
> Or 2) you can take your chances with coronavirus, which you will get sooner or later, and spread it. Or 3) you can "take your chances" with the vaccine which, statistically and biologically, is safer than getting coronavirus and reduces spread.

Given recent data which appear to demonstrate even the vaccinated can and will still catch C19, although with milder symptoms and [much] lower risk of needing hospital treatment, isn't the evidence still pointing to us all getting it sooner or later?

"Covid-19 will now join other coronaviruses in being something we contract multiple times throughout our lives "[0]

In many countries so many of the vulnerable and elderly are already vaccinated that maybe encouraging populations to reach some [ever-rising] "herd immunity" vaccination rate has become a political endeavour, not a scientific one.

"Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge estimates that well over 60 per cent of 15-24 year olds [in the UK] have already had Covid anyway"[0]

If so many young people have apparently already had it, is it right to spend so much time, money and political capital worrying about the vaccination rates in healthy young people?

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/04/offering-vaccine...
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Now, imagine storing that on 3.5" floppy disks...
Foone is literally enough reason to use Twitter alone.
It's also an enormous task to replicate one. User interface design isn't just about rounded edges and aqua chrome, it's about all of the small details: spacing, scale, padding, margins, font rendering and hinting, colour, arrangement, target zones, interactive feedback, discoverability.

While I am delighted that there are people out there trying to build open source desktops that are more friendly and attractive, it isn't going to turn out well unless you have people on board who really know and grok user interface experience and design. For a good example of this, look at the vast quality difference between helloSystem and elementaryOS — the latter having significantly more attention poured into the smaller design details and it is immediately obvious how much of a difference that makes.

You can't just duplicate what you think you see. You have to also understand why it was designed that way in the first place.
Of course it makes sense. Researchers have found a positive correlation between code size and number of defects. Type declarations increases code size.

> By that logic we should all use the shortest variable/function names possible so that we can minimize the length/lines of code

Perhaps we should since there is no research to suggest that short names negatively affect software quality.
Trust. Intentions. Truth.

So many things that underlie society’s ability to function, and one damages them at our collective peril.

The boy who cried wolf is a story that teaches which moral lesson ?

You stop and ask for directions, what if the person deliberately lied to you and sent you to a dangerous place?

There is an implicit web of trust and kindness that comes from our ancient past and underlies all of society. Capitalism and political posturing are poisoning the well of all our drinking water.
I guess people would spy on those they know and the answer is curiosity.

Most people would think they won't get caught and there is probably a large number of unreported cases.
The best bet is probably a pixel phone with GrapheneOS. (Do note, that copperhead os is a scam and is not to be used)

Gnu/linux phones have nonexistent security, other than being niche (so security by obscurity at most). And also, they are not yet usable as a daily driver for me personally, at least.
Indeed, I'm guessing this must be some cultural shift that was successfully implanted in some cultures because I too find the idea completely bonkers.
This isn't cryptographic though. That would make the entire database absolutely trivial to bypass with tiny imperceptible random changes to the images.

It's a perceptual hash.
>you can claim that fascism won in Florida back in 2002..

That is right, if it is true.

> but that’s not going to persuade a lot of people.

That is the second step. The first step is talking about it.
If your javascript is no longer getting compiled down to bytecode any kind of speculative execution is going to be soooooooo much harder to do that I think disabling the JIT is probably the most effective spectre-like mitigation a browser could do.
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I'd argue that greenwashing is, indeed, misinformation. That is, it is misleading to categorize a company like Shell as an eco-friendly one.

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/transport-travel/what-greenw...

I'm not sure what we can do about it, exactly. Facebook's product is clearly one that facilitates the manipulation of targeted individuals with misinformation, as is also seen with anti-vaxxers and the "Trump won" crowd.

In my opinion, the missing ingredient is a trusted and wise editorial function. I agree with you: I doubt we want an AI to do that.
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Thresholds of temperature change for mass extinctions
It's either regional differences where people pretend that the exception is the rule [0] or rich people pretend to be "middle class" because that way the middle class will vote for the benefits of rich people.

[0] I can't afford a $2 million house, therefore I am not middle class if don't earn at least $200k.
I suspect it’s your use of ‘GPU’ that’s causing the confusion. I would expect a GPU to have some form of 3D acceleration or compute capability and I don’t think that’s really applicable to the EGA / VGA video chips of the 386 era.
I could be incorrect though, I’m not sure there is a settled definition of GPU.
> Projects like these will be always one step behind the thing they are trying to replicate (MacOS in this case).

No, they won't. MacOS and Windows are both going backwards in innovations (according to many HN commenters at least). At some point this project (and ReactOS) will get better than the originals.
This is totally laughable because it's such nonsense and yet keeps coming up on HN.

Can any of you geniuses tell me why would a company launch their product or service ~20% slower (or hire 20% more people) because their snowflake employees can't endure 5 day work weeks?

And why would they pay someone to work 4 days a week, when they can get someone to work 5 days a week for the same pay?
Just as being banned from one social media platform for bad behavior pushes people to a different social media platform, this might very well push the exactly wrong sort of people from iOS to Android.

If Android then implements something similar, they have the option to simply run different software, as Android lets you run whatever you want so long as you sign the wavier.

"You're using Android?! What do you have to hide?"
-- Apple ad in 2030, possibly
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This is what you get, when google has monopoly on the web platform. They will drop support for standards, because they want to and they can. And we won’t have any say in their decisions.

I mean, the gall they have to shove their burden onto us, the developers. Google is a trillion dollar company. If they think, that alerts are confusing, they have all the money in the world to make them not confusing.

But, I guess, dropping support is what google usually does.
I don't think you read your ancestor post carefully enough. I at least don't see any room for ambiguity.

The rule is that your (note the emphasis) device won't ever willingly betray you. There's nothing here that implicates the majority in any way. Simply, your own device should never work against you.

This actually sounds like a great rule to prevent this kind of authoritarian scope creep.
In cryptography creating a one-way function is not a problem. The only thing required for that is loosing information, which is trivial. For example taking the first n bytes of a file is a one-way hash function (for most files). So reversing the hashes is most definitely not a problem.

Creating collisions could be though, eg. brute forcing a normal picture by modifying random pixels by a bit into matching an illegal content’s hash is a possibility.
Homeomorphic encryption is going to be big in a few years. Be ready to hear more about it from all sorts of places.
Not looking for 100% consensus but it seems that we're barely just at majority consensus for the idea of anthropomorphic climate change and definitely not a majority consensus when it comes to potential solutions.

There is a parallel here with the paradox of tolerance, in that allowing equal free speech is definitely not an effective & consistent way of reaching the proper & correct consensus. Free speech is too often an academic argument used to justify our inhumanity.

For many people free speech seems to mean equal airtime & consideration for opposition minority & fringe ideas. But when the majority consensus of experts in a scientific field say one thing, providing equal public airtime to the fringe opposition is not accurate nor is it good education. Opposing ideas circulate within expert circles and it is there that they should be reviewed, not presented to the public as equal worth to the majority of other evidence.

I think the articles main position is that if facebook says that it is committed to climate action, then it needs to enforce its own policies around that, which means stopping misinformation & disinformation that does not align with the majority consensus of experts. To me that's an uncontroversial position.

However I have no expectation that facebook has the capabilities needed to ever fully & correctly enforce its policies and to expect it to do so is unrealistic wishful thinking. Unfortunately.
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In SV, most companies consider beer in the fridge to be a common office perk for the past decade. Beer is unusual in American office culture, and you do get sideways glances from people unfamiliar with it (possibly the reason Wired wrote about it.)

I think some COO or CFO magazine had an article on it being an affordable and hip perk, so here we are.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here.

At the end of the day laws are relative so to say. The thought behind such a system is noble indeed, but as we've seen, anything any government gets their hands on, they will abuse it. Classic example being PRISM et al. In theory it's great to be able to catch the bad guys, but it was clearly abused. This is from countries that are meant to be free, forward thinking etc, not any authoritarian regimes.

People in this thread are asking what Saudi Arabia, China etc will do with such power that Apple is adding, you bet your ass that they'll use it for their own gain.

I want to believe in such systems for the good. I want child abusers caught. But a system that equally can be abused by the wrong people (and I guarantee you that will be western countries too) ain't it.
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Slow path to deprecate and remove window.alert/confirm/prompt
Isn't it also likely that a lot of that "raw" data is comprised of JPEGs (which are already compressed)?
MIT introduces model to predict technical change
> It's quite easy to extrapolate this and in a few steps end up in a boring dystopia.

It's only boring until we get another Hitler or equivalent.
Hold up, you have to state your "race" (whatever that means) when you sign up for the vaccine in the US?
I don’t doubt this one bit.

Here in Thailand I use grab at least once every day. Sometimes up to 4 times a day.

Taxi to office, from office, meals, groceries, courier service. Grab would not work without the army of motor bikes.

Just logging GPS every few seconds on a delivery to your home must be the vast majority of the data.

Transactions are probably the smallest amounts. Another big one is probably all the inventory records from supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants in probably the number one foodie city in the world - Bangkok. Then there is taking photos to prove delivery pickups and drop offs. Damn…

Then travel to the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia - grab also just works. It’s actually quite an impressive operation and they’ve improved the app quite a bit in the last year alone.

Now with the lockdowns at the moment they are super busy more than usual - they probably up that amount of daily data by amount 50%
What wrong directions you're referring to?
Highly recommend running the whole golangci-lint suite on your Go projects. They're a bunch of great linters being run, and gosec is included.
Sorry you didn’t enjoy it . It sounds like you maybe wanted the book to be something it was never going to be.
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The twitter comments also mentioned scanning for political propaganda etc. This could work against Apple if normal folks don't want all their stuff scanned on behalf of unnamed agencies.
You have still not given a concrete example of what you mean.
I'm next door to them. They are really good at spinning stories to their people. However embarrassing.

Recent flood, one of the state media headlined an outright lie that US govt states that China earned respect from around the globe through its flood rescue effort. Lied about the amount of rainfall and the capabilities of their dams. Some TV news station just never show flood footage. Any challenge to the effort is branded as foreign influence.

For story like this if turned out to be vapor, the blame would be easily placed in thousands of places but themselves.
> It could be argued that distributed FOSS developers are easier to pressurise into adding back doors

All millions of them at the same time?
Would be good to know the background of this project, team etc.
Funny in Ireland I find tech salaries quite generous with 80k+ easily achievable for someone with 5+ years experience and 6 figures being the norm for a senior worth his salt.
I don’t think that’s what ad hominem means, you don’t have to trust my words on that, just open a Latin dictionary and look for the entry “homo, hominis”.

And by the way, yes I am attacking the entity not the argument, you are right about that.
Are you planning to add a self-hosted option? My one thing about all these finance SaaS is that I'm sure part of their business model is selling your data, even if anonymised. I'd be happy to pay a one-off fee and self-host it or something.
It does.

> To answer this, I contacted Tractive, manufacturers of GPS trackers for cats and dogs.
> Drag and drop app install and uninstall - no package manager, no installers

Awful
From a technical standpoint, a workable system might be to have an official "drone pad" of standard size and appearance, similar to a helipad. You might put one in your backyard if you have space, or if you live in a city block there's probably room for a shared one on the roof.

Of course, the social logistics of that would need a bit of work. It's one thing to make sure everyone's within walking distance of a drone pad, but it's another to make sure nobody gets their parcel stolen.
This is part of the core insight of 'Safety-II', a safety philosophy which aims to not just focus on the cases where everything has gone wrong and eliminate those, but also look at what people in the system do to keep things going right (and document and codify this so that it keeps going right, instead of suddenly stopping because either the person who did it moves on or some middle manager starts demanding the faulty rules get reinstated).
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Has anyone clicked the link to the so-called “leaked documents” [0]?

I clicked the first few links. Those with “freenet.space” domain return 404. And many others (though not all) are just self-references.

Even assuming its sources are correct, CDMD’s goal was to “weaken the Russian State’s influence on its near neighbours.” This is very different from “weakening Russia” sensationalized in the title of the GrayZone article.

How can an opinion piece with questionable sources like this get a few upvotes in an hour on HN?

[0] https://telegra.ph/OP-HMG-Trojan-Horse-Part-4-Undermining-Ru...
Saudis: We want a list of everyone who ever shared a photo of Khashoggi (no matter in which app).

Apple: Say no more, here they are. Hope you won't imprison all of them, as that would decrease our services revenue substantially, lol.

Also Apple: Privacy is a human right, buy more iphones.
That just sounds like somewhere you'd want clockless design. The brute force way to do it is to replace the clock with a "ready" signal from each subcomponent, so the next in the chain only does its thing when it knows all the inbound signals are good.
Yes my mistake because also now we call “GPU” some cores related to graphic processing inside a complete SoC, but is not really a GPU, only a “graphic core/s”.

What I wanted to say is that in order to “output something directly to a display like a contemporary SoC, this 386 system lacks only a graphic unit”. Maybe in this way is more correct.
query like 'number < 10' will result in weird results

Can you elaborate?
Absolutely. If you want cars to go 30kph in a residential zone, you cannot make a straight, four-lane street and plonk a round sign with a red border saying "30". You need to make a narrow street with bumps and/or curves to make it physically impossible for cars to drive at unsafe speeds (and in the process make most of that space walkable/cyclable and safe for people.

YT channel suggestion: "Not just bikes"
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It's a lot easier to get a small handful of delivery companies to comply with noise pollution regulations than it is to get a large number of motorcyclists to comply. It's also easier to write very strict noise pollution standards for new technology like drones than it is to write very strict standards for existing popular technology like cars and motorcycles.
Seeing how prevalent grab & foodpanda has become here in Singapore, I'd say much more than 50%.
This isn't about support, it is a sane security decision. Imagine finding that a door to your large shared office space is missing and people were coming in and stealing things. So you install a new door and suddenly people start saying... How dare you put a door there that people were using to steal things. The gall you must have to shove this burden onto us.
My personal guess is that they weren't sure they wanted to keep that feature, but it came for free-ish with their hardware providers. So they locked it out so they could keep games forward-compatible with future devices.

Obviously the homebrew crowd doesn't particularly care about that kind of thing :)