skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a recurring theme there. A bunch of employees find something utterly disturbing, sound the alarm bells, and then nothing. Changing the platform in ways that affects the bottom line is a no-go. These problems won't even be surfaced to Zuckerberg and Sandberg - and will be promptly ignored if they are.

Facebook can be a better place. They changed the feed algo right after the 2020 U.S. election, and for a month even the insiders called it the "nice feed" (or something like that). But that didn't last long because calm users don't rage-click.

When these problems get out of control, you get the standard line of "we are giving people new ways to connect". The concern that some people "connect" to gather at the Capitol to hang the Vice President is rather secondary.
For this edge case I suggest handling JavaScript like Webcam-Access, if a website wants to use it they can and need to convince the users. So we have an agreement between both sides :)

I foster myself some weird JavaSript to allow hardware-access. But I think business itself should not be the driving force for the technical development and society.
Single-sequence protein structure prediction using language models
> Most security errors are the kind that that the tools catches

There's plenty of common logic errors that static analysis can't catch.

They may not be readily exploitable by automated scanners, but it doesn't take a nation state.
Not GP but...

>99% of the population will delegate the decision of what code is allowed to run to someone, be it the manufacturer, the government, some guy on the Internet or whatever. For that 99% of the population, by the way, it's actually more beneficial to have restrictions on what software can be installed to avoid malware

I do not agree with this. You are saying people are too stupid to make decisions and that is amoral in my opinion.

>"Impossible to leave" is not a matter of closed or open, but it's a matter of social networks in general. You could make Facebook free software and its problems wouldn't disappear.

Data portability is a thing. This was the original problem with FB and thats how we got 'takeout'.

>Yes, it's been years since I talked someone face to face or on the phone and I cannot send letters anymore.

>Is this Mr. Robot talking now?

Using the extreme in arguments is dishonest. We are talking on HN where it is a selective group of like minded people(bubble). How does your delivery driver communicate with their social circles? Or anyone that services you? You will find different technical solutions are used as you move up and down the social hierarchy.

>The main problem with privacy and computer control is a collective one that must be solved through laws.

Technology moves faster than what any law maker can create. We do not need more laws as technology advances but rather an enforcement of personal rights and protections enabling users to be aware of what is happening. It appears you are stating "people aren't smart enough to control their devices" and "We need laws to govern people" vs my argument that "people should be given the freedom to chose" and "existing laws should be enforced and policy makers should protect citizens with informed consent".
VR for Statistics
I suppose that the selling point may be that your custom DOS software from 30 years ago will still work. If said software is careful enough to only do video output via BIOS, it will even work without a video card, with the dot-matrix LED screen.

The thing can be retrofitted to various machines that were originally controlled by a PC board, but you can't get a replacement 80386 board any more. Control via the parallel port was pretty common.
The entire point is removing humans from the loop.
How do you know that? When is the last time such a virulent novel disease was discovered amid a pandemic situation? There's literally nothing to compare it to. Mutations happen at a greater rate with a greater total number of infections. Each infection is virus reproduction and when the virus reproduces it has a chance to mutate. This goes up exponentially with the number of cases, and such a large number of cases in such a small time frame can make it look like it isn't "natural".
OMG OMG!

The US is probably near the top in naturally acquired immunity,

In all likelihood close to 50% of US adults have no need to get vaccinated. In India 2/3 of adults have Wuhan Virus antibodies.
The state of you, BBC. It's like as if they hired Buzzfeed journalists and started running it to the ground with clickbait garbage and tons of nonsense all from third-party sources from random social media accounts.

It should be rebranded to BuzzFeeds British Circus.
I wouldnt worry, they seem to have a highly paid ceo

$1mil in 2015 https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2015/11/30/mozilla...

$2.5mil in 2018, and over $3mil in 2020. Someone compensated this well surely knows what they are doing!!
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I'd argue that this update is spyware and malware. Policy-makers are counting on normies being accepting of law-enforcement malware if the crimes targeted are serious enough.
How do they determine if an image is child porn? My wife has an iPhone and we take pictures of our baby daughter on it, sometimes in diapers and sometimes naked. Our intentions are not pornographic but now I am worried about apple's algorithm flagging them as such.

Has apple published its training data somewhere?
When I talked about enter going to the next result I was comparing it to the Ctrl+F search bar.

Sorry if that wasn't clear. (English is not my first language)
I am done buying apple products. This is the final straw.
I agree, there is very little difference between these. The invasion on Afghanistan was one of the most senseless, impulsive actions on the part of the USA: Bush desperately wanted tho show a strong reaction to 9/11 but was too stupid to do something that would have some actual positive impact and in the end made the situation worse. Also, he hasn't managed to kill Bin Laden, Obama did.

Iraq seems even worse. They admitted they invaded it on false grounds and the supposed WMDs haven't been found to this day. And it was just the beginning, because the invasion created an even greater evil, ISIS.

As for Libya, it's true that many people hated Kadafi and he was a cruel man (just like Hussein, Bin Laden and the rest of the crew), but the final result for ordinary people was a disaster. So whenever someone proposes "let's kill a dictator and al problems will disappear" for me such a person is a lunatic.
When evaluating trading systems looking at returns over time is meaningless because of the large fat tailed variance of financial price series. Instead if you want to quantify anything in a rigorous way you need to think about units of information and tests of null hypotheses...
It has been a while since I switched away from Firefox but my experience was being fed up with UI changes.

I used Firefox from version 1.5 to version 30~32 alongside Opera (with the Presto engine), after that I switched to Palemoon since it had a pretty stable UI. A few versions later, before Quantum release, Palemoon felt really slow and webpages broke way too much for my taste. So I switched back to Firefox.

I got used to addons like Classic Theme Restorer only to be broken a few months later with the Quantum release and the addon apocalypse. I tried to stick with it for quite a while but it was quite tiresome to update CSS files every new release of the browser to keep the looks consistent.

Also, things like Google Docs/Spreadsheets, Office 365, JIRA really felt slow in Firefox... So I discovered Vivaldi, which has a lot of customization settings available and after giving it a few months trial I switched to it. And I've been quite happy with it, personally it's the best browser I ever used since good old Opera Presto, it's fast enough, clean and easy to customize. Heck, it even has CSS support and they manage to not break it with every new release.
In my experience they understand a lot more than we expect of them. However most of the time they do not care and that makes them seem dumb.
Yeah I'm thinking the relative phasing of the group delay is essentially having a comb filter effect on the audio, and the difference is perceived qualitatively rather than anything approximating a time delay.

For anyone not familiar, here's an example of comb filtering, where reflections interfere and you get wobbles in your frequency response (shown in an fft mid video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amj4UevyRfU
Totally agree they are way more intelligent than we give them credit for. My cat story, apologies for the length...

The setup:

Friend has a small bungalow with two rescue cats that never go outdoors. One was from animal cops, rescued from a house with dozens of cats. I've watched the show, cats running everywhere. Cat was totally skittish around people. Usually kept to herself. Never let me pet her.

Anyhow one day a large mattress gets delivered and two really big guys take it up to the attic. Lots of commotion in the small cramped house.

About a half an hour after they leave we notice that the cat is missing. My friend thinks she must have freaked out, commotion probably reminded her of the rescue operation. We think the cat bolted outside as the front door was held open for a while. Anyhow my friend is in a panic, searching everywhere, outside, around the house, under the porch, neighbors yards, etc.

About half an hour later I give up and tell her that if the cat wants to come home she will in her own time.

Now the story...

I go inside and sit back down on the couch in the living room.

After a few minutes I notice her other cat (the friendly one) is standing in the arch between the rooms and meowing. Staring at me and just meowing, pretty verbal for a cat. Not sure what she wants. Try to get her to come to me but she won't.

Finally I go to get up but as I move towards the cat she moves away into the next room. sigh I sit back down.

The cat soon comes back into the archway and starts meowing again. I get up again. She moves away again. :/ I sit back down.

She comes back a third time, meowing. At this point I know something is up.

This time I get up and walk to where she was and stand there. The cat moved into the dining room, standing in the archway to the kitchen, stares at me and continues to meow.

I move towards her into the kitchen and stand there, she moves to the top of the basement stairs, stares at me and meows.

I move to the top of the stairs, she goes down the stairs, sits at the bottom, stares at me and meows.

I go down the stairs, she moves into the utility room, stares, meows.

I move into the utility room, she moves to the wash tub and stares at the washing machine, meowing

I look behind the washing machine, and I'll be damned the missing cat is huddled up in a ball hiding there.

Mind blown... that cat knew we were in a panic looking for the other cat, knew where it was, and was determined to communicate her location to us.

Judging from the results I'd say she was pretty effective in her communications. How frustrating it must have been for her not to be able to communicate in any other way!

I have a whole new respect for cats now.
Obstacles are only one of the ways you can calm traffic.

Planting trees near the streets, narrower lanes, speed humps, roundabouts are all measures with a proven record that they improve safety.

Crossings should also be one lane at a time.

> In all my experience with high-visibility roads, even though you'd expect people to be better able to pay attention to everything on road with good visibility and clear markings, they actually seem much worse in those conditions

This is nothing new. You shouldn't design a street like a road. You will end up with something called a stroad, that is bad at both beeing a street(a place where you can live, shop and whatever) and a road(something that connects two places)

Stroads are ugly, inefficient and dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM
Address space is unlimited but pages are still 4K.
Wouldn't the M1's power efficiency be applicable on Linux as well?
> The only difference in this is who you trust.

Not really. There is a huge difference between trusting a single for-profit entity (who provides backdoor to iCloud in China) or huge number of independent people (each would like to get famous/rich for finding bugs).
> forest myths of germany and Robin Hood

There are dense forests in that region, including some that are primeval.

I had the good fortune to grow up next to a national park, and can speak un-ironically about tree-hugging.

Battle of Hürtgen Forest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_H%C3%BCrtgen_Forest
Okay, both * and # do have meanings in certain areas (and still are), but outside of US military (and this is actually already historical, nowadays priority is linked to the specific handset and some lines are always reserved) Priority A (Flash Override (FO), for Presidential use), Priority B (Flash (F), for breaking events), Priority C (Immediate (I), for urgent but non-life and security-threatening events), and Priority D (Priority (P), officers versus ordinary soldiers) are never used because a) due to the possibility of confusion with numbers like 1-800-ALPHABET and b) AT&T have invented Priority signals specifically for US military's use (although standardised now internationally for some reason: https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-Q.955.3-199303-I/e).
These days you can trump on anyone's (right to) privacy, freedom or general rights for that matter with just 2 keywords:

- terrorism
- child pornography

Try to protest it and you will be prompted with a nice "do you have anything to hide?" question by the masses.

The advertised intention of these tools could not be farther from the truth and people happily fills their pockets at each new launch.
Fair point: getting 2 is the best case scenario!
> You are in some way already retired by the time you hit 40

Wish somebody had told me this before I came into work this morning. I didn't realise I was already retired.
Fair point. I just meant that the falsehoods list is written from the point of user-friendliness, accessibility and inclusivity, rather than possible legal requirements.
Nobody is forcing you to make ios apps
Congrats! it looks great!!
Few questions if you have the time:

- How long it took?

- Was your first project in Swift UI?

- Was enough with Apple documentation?

- What other educational resources did you use to find how to solve the problems?

- What versions of Swift / Swift UI did you use?
WhatsApp is testing end-to-end encryption for local Backup
Another one to read before the series… but if you don’t, the series does quite well.
Dark pattern would probably a better naming. Infinite scroll works, you're right. For example every file-browser or mail-program, which show you the visible portion on screen and at same time scrolling through all items.
On the web infinite-scroll is often used to load and reload stuff and you often cannot link to an item directly.
I'm still very confused by your argument. Maybe I'm missing some pieces. If this is an appeal based on a verdic related to X, then the appeal is also related to X. It seems disingenuous to imply otherwise.

"a decision that is being made regardless of what the charges are". Is the extradition not based on the charges? And is the appeal of the extradition then not also based on the charges?

If the charge was based on a staged witness, and the extradition was based on these charges. Is then not the appeal of extradition related to the staged witness?
Stuff like gocryptfs seem to push FUSE to quite high performance. There is still some latency but streaming read/write seem to go fast.
KHTML is LGPL, as is much of WebKit. If it was GPL, Safari would have to be too, instead of proprietary.
84-year-old fined for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement
Do we have another source for this that's slightly less political than the NY post? Possibly a primary one for the AG report in question?
- No jank at all. The most comfortable-to-use laptop I’ve ever had, desktop latency wise.

- The ability to use nix-darwin for configuration management. It may be incomplete, but there’s no Windows equivalent.

- Higher single thread performance than any other device.
I'm not really sure why this project exists separately from Hello, and loath the idea that something like that is already fragmenting, Linux distro style. That said, having more things out there demonstrating that application management need not be any more complex than file management is good. It seems like people who never experienced AppDirs, Application Bundles, or the original Mac Applications simply can't conceive of a universe in which applications don't need an installer or a specialized complicated management tool.
I don't think it's a licencing issue. It's implementation as both kernels uses different syscalls and have different architecture.
Can someone explain to me why the vaccine is safe even though it’s “experimental”. I got it, but I have family members that I’m trying to convince and their biggest fear is that it’s going to hurt them long term.
> If you have interoperability between different networks, you can leave

If all your friends are in a Mastodon instance and you think that instance is scanning your messages, you'll find it hard to leave because leaving the instance for another that doesn't share messages with that one means stopping communication with your friends.

> You just switch to any other instance, because Mastodon doesn't prevent you from doing that.

Controlled by another third party. Not to mention that, with enough users, there will be feature divergence so "switching" won't be that easy.

Want a real world example? See email. Open protocol with multiple client-server implementations. However, most people use one of the major providers (Google, Microsoft...), there are incompatibilities between clients and even if you "can switch", it's not that easy nor gets done often. Yes, you can switch to ProtonMail or something more secure if you want, but that won't solve the problems of the 99% of people that will use general providers and won't even know they can't switch.

> We need both. You cannot force Facebook to allow interoperability when there is no other social network.

Right now you could force Facebook to be interoperable and be open source and still 99% of the people would be on the original Facebook instance. Again, it's not a technical issue.
Working second link: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_...> (it has a "." at the end)

That decision only applies in the USA. I think it will be undetermined in many jurisdictions.
Summary of Trust Zones (and ISP KYC) by MIT's David Clark and UC's Kc Claffy
You would have thought the author of this article had pissed in everyone's cereal.

There's no way you should be able to click enough buttons in a car to be automatically billed $14k without seeing at least one prompt that says something like:

"You're requesting 'feature X' to be installed. Do you understand that we're immediately going to charge you $14k?"

...and then requiring some sort of PIN or password to confirm. It doesn't matter that they reversed the charges.

Also, they can call it "Full Self Driving," but that doesn't mean the car actually drives itself or that it's a good idea to use it or that it's safe. I'm honestly shocked that they haven't been charged with fraud.
My application is long-lived (at least hours) and uses gigabytes of memory.

It works for me because I have distinct moments in time when the whole stack is no longer needed. I’m working on a CAM/CAE app where work is organized as a sequence of optimization passes. I only need to keep the data within 1 iteration. At the end of every optimization pass I simply reset the stack pointer to the very bottom, and on the next iteration the stack starts growing again from zero reusing these physical memory pages.

BTW I’m using multiple of these stacks, one per thread. Helps with performance because no locks are needed, also L1 and L2 caches are inside cores, only the L3 is shared across the whole CPU.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/08/ring-police-warrants-neigh...
This looks a lot like evolution in real time.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Arottentomatoes.com+sci+fi+f...
Pdf warning please?
In 2039 $10.5mil and only %0.01 of all web browsers.
US forest fires threaten carbon offsets as company-linked trees burn
Somehow, I don't think Al Capone analogy works for me here.
Radio wasn't overhyped, it was overlegislated. We aren't allowed to use a lot of the spectrum, and what little we as citizens are allowed we are unable to secure. Radio was legislated into uselessness. We could have had a lot more a lot faster if we were able to make use of it.
I did not realize DR-DOS was still a product; the last time I used a DR DOS derivative, it has been renamed Caldera OpenDOS.
Glassdoor Review: Could talking smack about your ex-job cost you millions?
Why Is Cuomo still able to keep Office despite being the incarnation of corrupt politician? Who are his supporters/backers ?
I don't have kids and I'm in my mid-30s but your comment definitely resonates with me.

I have plenty of money but what I do miss the most is hanging out with my friends all day like we did in our teens. Unfortunately that routine is almost impossible to recapture until we're... 70? If we're lucky not to have drifted apart by then.

Like the tide it's unsurprising but can still take you by surprise - your happiness is so tied to other people's choices. For instance, I don't know how old your children are but it's almost guaranteed that as they get older, they'll spend less and less time with you.

To me that suggests a playbook of sorts: Enjoy this present moment but invest a bit of your energy in preparing for the next phase. Cultivate a few relationships that are independent of your kids and your spouse. Make sure you can fill the voids as people fade out of your day to day.
It just gathers hashes without judging or interpreting. This is the first phase. When a child porn picture is discovered and inquired about, they just compare the hash of it with what they have on database and see who had that picture on their phone as well, allowing them to build a nicely timelined trace of it and even discover the first source.
Lack of federal power didn't cause the Great Depression, it showed that there were peacetime problems that states operating economically independently could not address.
I think GP thinks it is more polite than saying “I’m so rich, I don’t even know if I get paid.” But I don’t think so and seems pretty cringy.
Show HN: Godly Website (yet another inspiration site)
In theory, sure. It’ll need a lot more work than simply getting Linux working, and we’re not even there yet.
Frankly it's rather amusing.
From an objective perspective everything is pointless. From a subjective perspective nothing is.

The only thing I have to say is, enjoy not enjoying something someone else enjoys. i.e. the freedom to have differing preferences.
Whereas actually getting covid won't hurt them long term (assuming it doesn't kill them)...? What a ridiculous argument. Not sure what you should tell them, honestly.