skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A sprawling network of more than 350 fake social media profiles
...
>resembles pro-China networks previously taken down by Twitter and Facebook.

Looking past customary BBC state media framing, the TLDR is pro-China influence networks STILL basically doesn't exist on a substantial scale. 2021 RAND report on PRC disinformation earlier this month reaffirmed that apart from Taiwan, China has not carried out substantial disinformation attacks on other U.S. allies or partners. It’s a bit surprising how little the CCP has expanded online influence operations in the last few years.

~350 accounts is script kiddie tier effort and comports with other analysis of PRC influence campaigns on western social media - usually a few hundred accounts, primarily targets Chinese diaspora on subjects CCP cares about, i.e. this one is targeting Guo again. Content / messaging is short, mostly targeting susceptible Chinese diaspora. Note this pattern, PRC isn't wasting time on high-effort messaging on predominantly english spaces. Accusations of 50c influence on places like reddit or HN is not grounded in reality - CCP seems to have barely invested resources into influencing western platforms / audiences. We're still in environment where vast majority of online influence campaigns are anti-CCP, i.e. FLG affiliate campaigns targeting PRC nationals who hop over the firewall. That said, it feels like more Chinese diasphora and PRC nationalists with VPNs have been activating out of own volition to counter western narrative/propaganda over last few years.
>But people are just wandering around spreading the plague like that's their constitutional right. Your unvaccinated fist is right in my face.

This kind of thinking is the root of the problem: so many people nowadays are so completely devoid of values that they have no problem infringing on other people's fundamental rights just to minimise risk to themselves. In decades past Americans were willing to die to protect the freedoms of their fellow countrymen, now they're so spineless they'd rather destroy other people's freedoms just to prevent a risk that's incredibly miniscule considering they're already vaccinated.
I feel like there must be a nonzero number of people who went to Clubhouse.io looking for the social media app, then thought “wrong site! But hmm, my team could use a better project management tool…”

Perhaps a smart idea would be to ride the wave of extra traffic and leads, then change after Clubhouse the social app tanks in 6 months (if that happens). Even if Clubhouse tanks in the next 6 months, people will still be talking about it in the past tense for ages, so clearly they had to change at some point. But hey, they know their numbers better than I do, and I imagine they considered this carefully.
Are you trying to make the claim that the vaccine makes you more susceptible to catching Covid than being unvaccinated?
@rachelruizbres I tried contacting you on LinkedIn when you posted the same in June too. Is there a way I can you send you my resume? Thanks!
Arcology: The city in the image of man (1969)
I repeat how does that keep anyone safe?
Provided your request and response payload is guaranteed to be <6MiB (for synchronous invocation) or <256KiB (for asynchronous invocation).

These are AWS Lambda's hard limits, and are too low for many webhook applications.
Yeah don't get me wrong, I'd prefer it if SQLite took care of it. But I don't know of any embedded DBs that do loads of type-checking. Apart from SQLite they all seem to be key value stores that operate on sequences of bytes.
My copy of Permutation City arrived a while ago. Just awaiting the right mood to strike before I get started with it
Covid: Pressured oxygen reduces ventilator need
Germans who keep refusing to quarantine could be put in detention centres
Refusing to quarantine if you are visibly sick could be a very justifiable reason to be put into forced quarantine, yet I get the feeling people will jump on this and say this is just like the Nazis.

Now if they start having neighbors call the police on neighbors for having friends over for dinner that they know are unvaccinated, when they show no signs of illness, all while doing so with their conscience applauding them? Then I’d be worried.

I’m not worried about that happening in Germany, though I might be worried for Canada.
If you understand transformers, you understand the basics behind any neural "graph network" method. They are exceedingly simple
grep for unsafe
Hey! I am very interested in applying for a position, but before that I'd like to ask a quick question:

You mentioned that, on average, 40 hours of work is expected every week. I currently live in a Nordic country where the norm is: 30 paid vacation days, unlimited paid sick days, and 37 working hours per week. Is this something that DDG will honour?

That aside, thank you so much for all the good work you are doing. The web is a better place because of you guys.
One thing to note is these are not typical cryptographic hashes because they have to be able to find recompressed/cropped/edited versions as well. Perhaps a hash is not an accurate way to describe it.

There have been a number of cases where people have found ways to trick CV programs in to seeing something that no human would ever see. If you were sufficiently malicious I imagine it would be possible to do with this system as well.
Plastic is the best against rust.
It’s funny because for me a smart watch is the perfect compromise - you still get a bunch of the useful features of a smartphone like navigation, timers, a calculator, music, Apple Pay, etc but with none of the really damaging web-based attention black holes.

I often go out with only my watch, and it feels so freeing to have only the good side of technology accessible.

I am very strict with the notification settings, otherwise the constant buzzing on the wrist would be worse than a phone.
Why cant you guys add some screenshots?
Exactly, just because two or more companies offer both game streaming and VMs doesn’t necessarily mean that those things are similar.

They may be, or may not be, but your logic to say that they are similar isn’t right (otherwise other product lines must be similar by extension).
> a free, readily available vaccine

Nothing is free. How much did pharma companies make from the vaccine? I don’t know the answer.
BBC talking about pushing propaganda, well that's rich
Sorry to say that, but stuff like this has to happen at some point when people don't own their devices. Currently, nearly no one owns their phone and at least EU legislation is underway to ensure that it stays this way. The next step will be to reduce popular services (public administration, banking, medicine) to access through such controlled devices. Then we are locked in.

And you know what? Most people deserve to be locked in and subject to automatic surveillance. They will wake up when their phone creates a China-Style social score automatically, but then it will be far too late. It's a shame for those people that fought this development for years, though. But the "I have nothing to hide" crowd deserves to wake up in a world of cyber fascism.
I know where you're going but this can easily turn upcoming players into second class, further reinforcing big tech monopoly.
Huh. I always took the cynical view and assumed that this was something every proprietary OS was already doing, and that this was part of why dark-web die-hards were so insistent on using TAILS. Guess "not yet."

On another note—OSes may only be starting to do this, but that same cynicism still leads me to presume that arbitrary closed-source third-party apps — or even closed-source binary distributions of open-source apps (e.g. the App Store versions of FOSS software) — could have been quietly scanning the files people are passing them for CSAM for years now, without telling users about it. It always seemed to me like the kind of thing it'd make sense to quietly slip into a media player like VLC.
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Everyone should mess with this painting app from the 80s
If a user writes own startup scripts or config files, that's even looser linkage than using open source libraries from proprietary apps.

How can you possibly compell them to open-source those?

That not only doesn't make sense, but also raises red flags and makes one think what other crazy rules will be introduced in the next license update. Any enterprise user should abandon such software as soon as possible.
By enforcing the copyright laws that exist already to protect content creators from being counterfeited and ripped off by illegal scammers and bootleggers. Are you saying you don't agree with the concept of copyrights?
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...which might be because their life focus is something other than being a computer scientist.

Sometimes it seems like we (technological adepts) expect people to be proficient in mechanical engineering because they own a car.
Funny if you think about how Chinese government crackdown anti-China content in China's intranet. They used similar technics and analysis, plus raiding people's home to in order to take them down.
How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine

"Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-in...
Yes totally agree with this. I renovated a house recently and got in all sorts of problems (plumbing electricity) i certainly didnt want the buyer to know about the details... Mostly because he can use the information against me!!
It's funny if you think that paid time off for the new parent is "holiday", usually you come back of it way more tired (but you develop lot of new skills)

Think of it as a way to preserve the species.
Or as a deep training session.
noise pollution laws already exist. why wouldn't drones be subject to them?
This is coming from BBC that uses differential click-bait headlines in different countries for the same article.
> That ship has sailed? Covid is not going away, ever.

Why not? We managed to eradicate smallpox. There was political will all over the world to vaccinate almost everyone, and it worked. What's so different about Covid?
To be clear, I was referring to the check-ride.
You've completely missed the point: A powerful static type system helps prevent many types of logic bugs.

No, it won't prevent every conceivable bug or error, but nobody claimed it does. Automatically ruling out a large class of bugs at compile-time is still very valuable. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
It's easy to imagine a collection with pictures from numerous sources. Including pictures of adults.
> 1-1 in the sense that there's 1 company and me. Not 1 company and all of the employees, that somehow have to agree, or accept what previous employees decided or whatever. On my end of the contract, I want only me.

That is a pretty arbitrary distinction. If you argue that it's 1 company, you might as well argue that it's 1 union, so that is a 1-1 relationship as well.

Sorry I don't want to be dismissive, but I'm really trying to understand your argument and to me saying you want 1-1 instead of 1-many is simply restating you don't want a union. There is no reasoning that I can understand.

>> To pick up the OP original question, why do you have an issue for with your employment being a 1 to many, but not the dealings after a car accident?

>I didn't give my opinion on my preferences on car accidents, of which I've had a few so you're just assuming I don't have a problem with that either. I don't see what car accidents have to do with employment contracts, and the parents point was about insurance and it was a terrible parallel. People are free to chose whichever insurance company they want and do not have to negotiate terms based on what others want, I can call them up and ask for a discount or shop around until I get one, regardless of what other customers pay, the same way I can negotiate my salary when there's no unions around.

I somewhat agree that the insurance example is not the greatest analogy (none typically are great), but from the rest you write I understand that you feel that if there is a union you can not negotiate pay? Most of the places I'm aware of still let you negotiate pay even if there are unions.
Another question, is this a matter of principle, or do you believe you can negotiate a better deal than the union? If so why?
The FB drones had you downvoted but you're right. Suggestions from people with power over what you see are advertisements. That is, if we're being generous

Edit: clearly there are many FB employees in this thread. Keep downvoting the truth, fellows. That'll teach us!
> You have to show your ID to go to a bar. Similarly to go to a stadium, or to fly. The latter is security theatre specifically done for the protection of others. The security theatre is nearly completely useless, but it's commonplace.

Well, first...I'm not sure why you think I support those other things? If your argument is that I'm a hypocrite, you might be disappointed to find out that I'm not. If your argument is that because we do those other things, we should do this thing...well, my goodness. That is a slippery slope, isn't it?

But perhaps more importantly, there's an obvious, bright-line difference between drinking alcohol in a bar or flying on a plane, and having to show papers to do 99% of the things I do on a daily basis.
What happened is wrong. But the reaction, including the failure by the media to properly contextualize the incident, implying that simple denials of an erroneous identity can cause people (and the state) to institutionalize you, also reflects a harmful cultural pathology. Despite all the hand-wringing, that pathology has resulted in making civil commitment and other coercive measures for mental health treatment historically difficult and exceptionally rare, with the direct consequence that I often see in various American cities mentally ill people literally, physically rotting on the street (e.g. someone living on the street, clearly suffering from severe mental illness, with gangrenous legs due to diabetes or other disease). (In rural areas it's more hidden because housing is cheaper.)

So, yeah, I think it's a serious and consequential issue. Again, the counterfactual here is the man living homeless on the street, which judging by the newspaper articles and the HN thread suggests most people were tacitly okay with--it's the status quo, afterall. That doesn't justify what happened to him; it's the reaction to the incident that is problematic--the pearl clutching, "OMG that could happen to me", "this is why we need to make it even more difficult to force treatment."

IOW, this man was victimized twice, not just once. Instead of nursing our paranoia about our own largely imagined vulnerability to state coercion, people should be asking how we can create a more proactive, more dynamic system. That may mean not only more checks & balances, but a greater allocation of power to the system, not less. (To make a technical analogy, look at CI/CD, where you get better at something by exercising it more often, not by avoiding it.)
This is an argument against tyranny, but it isn't an argument against vaccination.

From your comment:

> Because if I put something in my body only because my master tells me to, I am a slave.

So don't do it for that reason. Do it because it will save your (and other people's) life.

That's an entirely reasonable position to take.
Can we all allow us the freedom to fail after trying than not having tried at all?
That’s sort of the genius of Apple though, isn’t it? They make products that hold your hand tighter than any designer but their marketing department obscures that fact as much as possible with their “think different” campaigns.

It’s less “I trust Apple” and more “if I really cared, I’d have bought from another designer”.
Even when this reaches its final conclusion, policing copyrighted and political content, people will still be content to use their i-spy-devices. The future is grim; it's now.
Exactly!! It's also not like RSS died that day. People say it is, but um... it's still around.
Jodie Comer I reckon
Well, the site clearly states "All listed jobs are for a maximum of 32 hours per week" so I'm guessing you can spread that in a flexible manner at least for some of these companies.
I haven't used the Tor browser lately, but doesn't it automatically block some amount of JavaScript? Though it also wouldn't surprise me if the Tor associated IP addresses were so abused google did block them.
Same for Google Pixel
TikTok tests Snapchat style vanishing video stories feature
Feels more like a statement about make sure you read Dune before reading anything else, than about content.
How does showing Lion King at your kids birthday party qualify for any of that?

I know I know, Disneys inability to collect money for every pair of eyes watching their movies during VHS times literally made it one of the poorest companies on the world. /s
For fantasy, I recommend "A Master of Djinn" by P. Djèlí Clark [1], a fun steampunk alternate history story where Egypt is a world power due to the magical power of djinn and other supernatural forces. Features a fun female investigator from the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities.

If you're not sure about reading it, check out his prequel short story, “A Dead Djinn in Cairo” on Tor<dot>com. [2]

[1] https://pdjeliclark.com/a-master-djinn/

[2] https://www.tor.com/2020/06/08/read-p-djeli-clarks-a-dead-dj...
For one product I worked on, its core was a custom ORM. The product had to work with an unknown database schema - adapt to customer's database - and provide functionality similar to MS Access but specialized for pharma/chemical industry.

There was no ORM flexible enough for this use case. Then, jOOQ came out and it could be usable with a lot of extending for the chemistry stuff. But at that point, we already had the custom ORM.
Not for another few months atleast.
The model they currently use on c3 was built using c2 data, but it still does perform little better because of better lens/camera on c3
Once they start getting data for c3, then they can really take advantage of c3 hardware including the wide fisheye forward facing lens by building models using that data. At launch, the model only runs on narrow cam.

C3 only features in future includes navigation like you pointed out and possibly stopping at red lights and stop signs. They might try to get redlights/stop sings on c2 but its unclear if they would able either because of camera fov or processing power.

lane changes without user confirmation might be possible on certain cars with blind spot monitoring but definitely not on cars without it. For confident lane changes you not only need to know if there is car in blind spot, but also speed of oncoming cars. This isnt possible without side radars or cams. So even the navigation part when it comes out will require user confirmation
Facebook let fossil-fuel industry push climate misinformation, report finds
Yeah, no reason to instill a sense of fairness in students, eh? :P
Everyone in computing knows calendars and time are tricky concepts. In all honesty, there is no point to make API less terse: unaware will ignore it and use anyway. Educated will use it with thought, even if it is terse.

But general point holds: honesty in API is important
And does the typical person do that?
Do you have sources for this ?
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Ostriv (might scare the westerner for being set somewhere in ~Serbia)

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There are many of these games, with varying levels of quality.
Almost everything I do with sr.ht is via email.

Source control, issue tracking, CI, mailing lists, documentation, etc.
Not quite as productive for a farmer can be plenty productive for private use - he should release it!
The average age of death for those people was 78; if not for the media making such a fuss of it most people wouldn't even have noticed.
What a cool idea! It would be nice to have some quick filtering feature for places in Europe, though.
"Bug fixes and performance improvements." Why blame the poor guy when even big companies do this.
> Every 6 decibels sound aptitude doubles so 70-80db is a big difference.

It’s every 3db the sound intensity doubles. At 6db, the sound pressure level doubles. Loudness (aka the perceived volume to a human) however only doubles every 10db, so the difference in this context is 80db is 2x louder than 70db.

Not the best link, but skimming it it seems to do an ok job explaining the difference:

http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-levelchange.htm
I'm always stumped by geohotz legend, he jailbroke the iphone on his own, then took some vuln from another team and used it on a sony device. Am i missing something else ? He seems super brilliant and fast but I think there's a lot of imaginary genius .. and in that way I don't think hotz differs much from Musk (overselling his dreams because most humans do that)
The captcha loads. You just can't seem to get a sufficient score to prove that you are human.

Yes, I think that the associated IP addresses are banned for abuse.
Does this mean you don't support copyright?
Assuming "trusted websites" is a user preference, why should it matter?
I think macOS has too large of an API nowadays to try to copy. There are a whole smorgasbord of frameworks. This can only really help with the simplest of Cocoa applications.

This might be OK though, because I think what a hacker interested in this is really interested is the parts of macOS that are common with NextSTEP. Which are all the parts 20+ years old!
Yes, I am a dumb person obviously. Thanks for your invaluable input. Dude.
But my use case is not to hide or remove digital exhaust.
Creating habit of limited usage is more important and realistic. Funny part is that as a side-effect I don't cary my smartphone around so much. I have separate GPS system in my cars and dumb phone for emergency.
Last time I've heard of his streams he started on a grandiose project and bailed out when stuck after a few hours.
And with this, the fear politics are in effect. Just from reading the comments it seems one can no longer be 100% sure their phone is clean. So people will live in constant fear that on some random Tuesday the cops will come knocking, your reputation will be destroyed and in the end when you’re cleared, you will have incurred incredible financial and mental costs. This is just aside the fact that your phone should be your phone and no one should be allowed.
I hate to break this to you, but state terror is already perpetrated by western states against their own people and the world. Those drones are a good example. Then there is Guantanamo bay, the militarisation of police, disproportionate prison sentences.. the list goes on.
I dont why people feel cringy. His ability to higher level concepts into simple terms is really good.
The lawmakers say 'Creative content drives engagement on Twitter' but having been on the platform almost since it was set up, I have never watched a whole music video there. Most videos are either embeds of content from Youtube, or short clips of 10 or 20 seconds. Celebrities are big on Twitter because they interact directly with their fans.

I'm at a loss as to what piracy they're referring to. People uploading videos where they are pointing at something silly on their TV screen? Brief sport moments? All that seems to fall squarely within fair use.
Interesting, didnt know so many here are allergic to negative mentions of china, reacting with bbc flaming. Like cmon its just a dictatorship, accept it.