skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just listed multiple of the most common pieces of software where Google and Apple make claims to wildly differing levels of privacy!

Wildly different? Apple claims E2EE, Google claims E2EE, _Facebook_ of all companies claims E2EE! Did it really change it your opinion of Whatsapp the fact that they claim E2EE? Everyone just laughed and forgot. Whatsapp is going to E2EE your chats right until they moment they don't, and without warning, and you have no way to check! Why take Apple's word differently? They also lied multiple times already! (e.g. Jabber federation)

> And if you think the number of updated devices is not one of, if not the most important aspect of securing a modern platform, then your opinion on security doesn't matter.

I am not sure why my "opinion on security" would be relevant but I for sure think that _ability to verify the security claims_ ranks much higher than anything that has been mentioned so far, including "software updates" of unknown content.

> You can control all the servers you want, if they're not secure your privacy is even worse off than it'd be with a 3rd party

The example is just to show the difference between security and privacy. Your analogy is creating a false association since I can just keep my data offline.

> Lol

And you have the incorrect "hunch" that Apple is not a services company. And that they design systems that "benefit your privacy". They only design systems that tie you to _their_ systems. Wake me up when they design something that doesn't, which would start to look like real privacy.
> I intended the word "underdeveloped" not as a value judgment, just a practical sense -- in the same way my own baseball skills are underdeveloped i.e. nonexistent. If you replace it with "less developed" that might be clearer. I meant it just in the context of the goal of someone trying to understand and relate to the article.

> My main point being that it's not something you're born with or not, but that you can choose to develop. That the potential is there. But you're under no obligation to, it absolutely is a choice/preference.

Yeah sorry, no, that doesn't fly. Just because someone doesn't feel the same way you do about something does not mean they are lacking some skill or another. Your response is just more dismissive condescension. Maybe keep working on that development of yours.
Leveraged ETFs tend to underperform what their beta would predict because they incur daily trading costs and because they buy when the market rises and sell when it falls, which is the wrong strategy when there is negative autocorrelation in returns (there is some). SPUU, a twice-leveraged S&P 500 fund, has had an annualized alpha of about -5% over its lifetime, according to Portfolio Visualizer: https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/factor-analysis?s=y&regr...
> I think the in the US slavery is associated with the virulent Slavery in the United States where slaves were literal property every bit as much as a horse and a wagon were property.

There was nothing especially virulent about slavery in the US compared to slavery in other places.

> Your slave doesn't have the right to marry and own property? WTF?

It's actually true that American slaves were generally legally forbidden from marrying. This didn't matter, though; marriage was not just not suppressed but actively encouraged by slaveholders.

It's not true that American slaves didn't have the right to own property. They did.
$150/month for 3 months for access to the common areas/shared workspaces (not a private room/office). After that it goes up to $300.

It’s about 3 miles from my apartment so I just jog there with my stuff (or bike). When I jog, I take a shower and change. So it’s a good way to make myself be more active than I was mid-pandemic.

I figure even at the full price, that’s like $15 per work day, and I usually have an espresso, a Stumptown cold brew, and a snack during the day (or meal if there’s something free/good). Plus on the days I don’t get free lunch, I’m more motivated to meal prep and take a healthy good lunch instead of just snacking while I work in my apartment.
"There is no evidence" means only that, it doesn't mean we shouldn't wear masks to prevent community transmission. You can still use logic.

It's a virus where transmission is heavily influenced by water droplets. Masks limit the reach of water droplets from the nose and mouth.

Also it is unlikely for there to be a large study for ethical reasons (if wearing a mask might help, you can't get a control group).

> it at a minimum establishes the very real risks of cloth mask wearing

That is a pretty gross misreading of a study which has no non-mask control group and looked very different conditions to the pandemic
A centralized database operating off a write-once-read-many drive would be append-only and not consensus-driven, and also not really what anyone means by crypto.

A whole lot more efficient though.
Interesting link. One issue I have with this is the binocular replacement system of PTZ camera system can only look in one direction at a time vs multiple people scanning in multiple places at once.

Otherwise, I like the idea. Hopefully, nobody with a backhoe starts digging into their dedicated fiber lines.
> Macro hell

I can hardly think of any language addon more innocent than Cpp (the preprocessor).

Imagine what madness would have emerged if it had proper variable assignment, goto:s or any loop construct?
Is there a fragment shader for this?
I dunno, geologists might. They can be real passionate about their rocks. Trust me, once you get one of them on the subject of glacial errata, good luck getting them to stop before the next glacier comes.
It is not a perfect comparison, but there are some related aspect to it. The company behind keystone pipe line is the energy company TC Energy, and I think a lot of the natural gas that they burn do comes from the oil refineries and oil fields.

Through the aspect I wanted to bring up is that an energy company spent tens of billions on just transporting fossil fuel from one point to an other. Since it is the customer that pays for it in the end, I suspect most would prefer that their money went somewhere which does not contribute to global warming. If I were a customer of TC Energy, I rather would have seen a failed nuclear plant than a failed pipeline for fossil fuels.
>>Most PHEV drivers that I know hate it when they have to switch to gasoline partially because of the added noise and cost and partially because it seems like a kind of failure.

Ha, that's literally me. It's like a game - you have to keep the needle in the EV range when driving normally, pushing it a bit too much and making the ICE start feels like losing. Obviously as long as there is any charge in the battery, if I'm driving long distance then it really doesn't matter, but it's cool to see the ICE shut down every time I lift my foot off the throttle.
Wouldn't be a DDoS. At least, I don't think it would.

It would just be simply people refusing to work on captchas more than a certain amount. Basically, if you make me hunt for bikes and there's more than 3 of them, then I'm not doing it. More akin to a deliberate labor slowdown than a DDoS, or even a strike.
Except that aircraft carriers are obsolete-- sitting ducks that will be sunk by long range guided missiles within hours of the next Great Power conflict. Submarine carriers with fleets of drones are the obvious replacement.
>The self-anointed who feign outrage over an inanimate object are just chasing power.

What power do you believe the Wisconsin Black Student Union, campus planning committee and Wisconsin Involvement Network (Wunk Sheek) are chasing, and why do you believe it was necessary for them to conspire to pretend to be upset about this inanimate object?

What do you believe this cabal's true end goal is, now that the rock has been moved and nothing stands in their way?
We've been hearing about surplus for several years now, and yet the price of weed is going up, not down. I regularly see $400 retail ounces in Oregon for top shelf.

Supply/demand should push the price to the floor with this Surplus gargantus, and yet prices continue to climb.

It's like ECON 101 doesn't apply to pot. What are they going to do? Dump it in ocean?

What I want to know is how retail is maintaining these obviously, artificially high prices in a crazy-lopsided buyer's market?

Collusion is the only explanation I have. They're all just colluding to prevent price collapse.
If you find this interesting, you’ll likely also find this book interesting https://www.bldgblog.com/topics/a-burglars-guide-to-the-city.... The book is really a taster for the other posts in the blog https://www.bldgblog.com/
Medieval warriors who could afford it wore plate armour, because it was (despite some drawbacks) incredibly effective protection. Many modern tropes (they had to be be winched on to horses, they couldn't get up if they fell over etc) are just plain wrong. The medieval warriors were less educated than us, but they weren't stupid.
Does anyone know of good resource guide to climb up the corporate ladder? Apart being absolutely good at what you do and learning to communicate, what hard "things you should be doing" takes a good software developer climb up the ladder?
But that's what lots of the legalization activists asked for. I heard "just make it legal and you can tax it all you want" for nearly half a century. Well, now they got what they asked for. IIRC, one of the few voices that said "legalize it and don't tax it at all" was Ron Paul. Everyone else was so enthralled with finding a way to get it legal that they really didn't give much thought to how the government could end up making legal weed a lot less desirable than illegal weed.
I don’t think it exists but should.

In practice the vendors won’t allow it - why would they make it easier for you to leave? In fact many make it very difficult currently.

Maybe they’d agree to an automated signup (only) via API but maybe they think their current on boarding flows work fine without going down that route
What are you basing that on? This is the worst in my experience in the games industry. So many people who strongly prefer to work indie instead of risk working with an endless cesspool of assholes.
I understood what you were saying and didn’t interpret it as condescending.
I didn't understand "stroad" so I looked it up:

> "Stroad" is a word we coined in 2013 to explain those dangerous, multi-laned thoroughfares you encounter in nearly every city, town, and suburb in America. They're what happens when a street (a place where people interact with businesses and residences, and where wealth is produced) gets combined with a road (a high-speed route between productive places). -- https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/1/whats-a-stroad-...

That's pretty confusing, since in NZ the words "street" and "road" have identical meaning and are totally interchangeable. Is this distinction real in the US, or another thing Strong Towns have invented?
Really makes me happy seeing skeuomorphic design
Submitted title was "Website to observe how space is curved the closer you get to the speed of light". We got complaints about that, so have reverted to the web page's own title.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As nice as that sounds in writing, it’s entirely not true. Many innovations were stumbled on by pure chance, or were logical conclusions from observation-based studies.

Not to mention, this man has innovated nothing. His career is entirely management.
"There hasn’t been a single paper I’ve looked for that wasn’t available on Scihub, even old ones."

Let's not exaggerate here. I hit gaps in SH all the time. And I have to wonder how you haven't noticed that SH halted its 2021 paper uploads entirely because of the Indian court case. That's quite a gap.
> Well, I write software. If you randomly ask me to write a brief history of Japanese factories, I’m going to be like wtf. You’re going to have to explain yourself.

honestly I see that more as evidence of employment mobility and financial security.

a friend of mine works as a fry-cook as a chain restaurant. He is paid a low wage, and has a dwindling savings account. He told me a story about having to re-caulk toilets at the restaurant during low-traffic hours, I replied with "I thought you were a fry-cook?, he replied with "I do whatever keeps the job."

(i'd have serious misgivings about the history essay, too.. I just tend to think that our willingness to question the duty is just evidence that we're confident we could go elsewhere and write code instead. That confidence isn't intrinsic in the workplace across all professions.)
Maybe you should reconsider your bias that all dealers are “lowlifes”
Prof Francois Balloux: 'The pandemic has created a market for doom and gloom'
The problem is a bit deeper than that, it doesn't just require infinite energy there simply is no isometry of space that can transform something faster than the speed of light into something slower than the speed of light and vice-versa. So really there's no way to map the laws of physics for something faster than light onto those for something moving slower than light. For similar reasons there are no known elementary particles that can maintain their existence in a superluminal trajectory.
> without doing a deep dive and learning the field itself.

My response would be to ask about the employer's continuing education program. I could see myself taking a Russian studies program and get that report back in 2-3 years if tuition and time was 100% covered by the employer.
What's wrong with his physical appearance? Would you write the same thing if he was a black man?
> Nothing in this world is free.

Apparently academic peer review is. I've been told they can't be paid for that work because of conflict of interest concerns.

The whole point of journals is peer review. That's what distinguishes them from random blog posts. So why can't reviewers just start working independently? Just boycott these copyright monopolists and it will be the end of them. There's really no reason for these paid journals to even exist anymore.
Hello author,

You wrote that your job has "a $1,000,000+ paycheck".

Why don't you use a fraction of your paycheck to hire a lawyer and see if it's worth taking to court?
"...but infrequent/involuntary screaming by a very senior exec does happen,..."

After about 30 years in the industry, I suggest you reconsider your experience. The only place I've worked that had any kind of executive screaming was IBM, which was completely disfunctional.

Someone who involuntarily screams at a coworker is someone who needs help.
I agree that is not "common place" in every industry. I've removed that bit. It does happen, and and it becomes "normalized" as "that manager is just being himself".

But, there is no mention that he frequently screamed. Screaming once or twice, out of stress perhaps, is not "abusive". Definitely, one should make amends / be regretful of that.
The new season of Big Brother sponsored by SpaceX.
>This is ridiculous. Jobs have pretty clear, if arbitrary at times, functions.

In large organisations, yes. If you work for yourself or for a startup, though, you're typically just doing whatever needs to be done.
The reason this happens is that captchas are not localized. Most countries don't have mail boxes, only US, Canada, Australia, NZ have them so people from outside those countries may not think to distinguish mailboxes from parking meters and will just click every square that matches their mental model of a parking meter (a pole with something on top or a big box)
i cloned the repo earlier to see what would happen. difference between .95c and .999c is unremarkable. equal to and above 1 results in all of the geometry disappearing, just shows black.
I'm a fan of Sci-Hub, but given multiple "clones" and the ever changing DNS names how does one verify this is the legitimate organization? It gives off a legitimate feel as most frauds don't tend to make new things.

The BTC addresses I've seen on HN are different than the one on the page. Does Alexandra have a public key that could be used to provide a sig-validation? P.S. the main sci-hub.do page gives the same BTC as previous commentators list as valid.
The issue with this is that you won’t have a scapegoat if people do continue to roll through credit cards. With ReCaptcha, you just say “all of these attempts had verified captchas” and the CC processor is unlikely to personally blame you/the company for the activity since ReCaptcha is widespread. With a custom solution or other captchas, they can just block you due to insufficient protections when they see you have higher fraud rates than merchants utilizing ReCaptcha.
> Looking at Provincetown, it's far from obvious that this is what happened. It seems more likely that a lot of vaccinated people got the virus in close proximity to unvaccinated people, but the chain of transmission mostly stopped there.

That doesn't seem to be the case in Gibraltar. There is a ~100% vaccination rate there and an increased number of infections recently.
Ask HN: For young people, are health checks worth it from a med sci perspective?
From a medical science perspective, would annual health screening* be a waste of money for people in their mid 20s who are considerably quite healthy? (maybe except for the occational insomnia and stress)

Considering how difficult it is to define what 'healthy' really is, can anything insightful be discovered in such a general none-targetting check-up? (other than some edge cases or a substantial deviation from the norm)

* e.g. a $1000 one that does
Haematology Profile,
Diabetic Profile,
Thyroid Profile,
Bone and Joint Profile,
Liver Profile,
Tumour Marker Studies,
Hepatitis Panel,
Anaemia / Nutrition Profile,
Stress Hormone Profile,
Sex Hormone Profile,
etc

[Edit: better phrasing]
Not In My Back Yard, eh?
Would you be comfortable writing a report on Russian political history? Remember, you can be fired for doing it badly, too.
The same amount of extractive and processing work releases more energy. It doesn't mean it has to be dangerous.

And by what logic? I never mentioned civilian use of anything, just that nuclear is more efficient.
You find a number of ships fleeing from a small space station. You hail them, asking what's wrong: "Help! We're being overrun by some sort of giant alien spiders!"
It's semi-common on PS4 to abuse the audio coprocessor to do things other than audio, just to eek out that little bit of extra processing power. After all, it's programmable, so why not? In fact Sony specifically made the PS5's audio processor non programmable to make sure developers don't do this and actually focus on its strengths and things that it can do very well with 3D audio and such, rather than make it crunch physics or whatever.

Also I'm aware of at least one game that uses an internal executable restart routine to reboot and reload data on PS4 and X1 since it's just easier than dynamically unloading all engine data and loading it again following an in-game update. While not forbidden by either 1st party, it's certainly somewhat unorthodox.

In general, I think that even with next(current) gen there is still a lot of the good old school hacker mentality going on, it's just that you can't hear about it because it's all NDAd. Wait 10-20 years and those stories will start to come out.
Wasted time is still >20 seconds every time you encounter a metal detector, unless you really don’t ever carry or wear metal. Bonus points if you regrettably have a bag that needs to be searched.
Steve Jobs on Privacy (2010) [video]
I do not have coax. Power line ethernet is an option, but I've heard mixed stories about latency/loss.
I think we can agree that the Democrats are in bed with China and the Republicans are in bed with Russia. Though there will always be nuanced negotiations, broadly categorizing each party’s allegiance is a useful oversimplification.
I'm against screaming. But doing someone once or twice in year, is not the same as doing something everyday. There's no mention, at all, about how frequent his outbursts / yelling / screaming was. This is precisely the issue.
If you want to see a lot of captchas, try browsing with Firefox mobile with ublock origin installed. It's sad how many people design for 100% chrome. To the point that being a stock Firefox user agent that doesn't receive all ads shows up as if you're a bot scraping the site.
> Most countries don't have mail boxes (only US, Canada, Australia, NZ)

They do, they just look different. At least that's how it is in France.
You're forced to prove your human to an algorithm that trains a robot. It is a very boring dystopia.

As an aside, I enjoyed the use of the word "anomie" in the article.

Now I'm going to put on some sovietwave...
The burden of proof is on the claimant. And if your gonna post a sensationalist article about it to the public, you better provide proof to the public. Don't just do character assassination on another fellow human.
Missing from title: 2006.
See also: the wool dogs of the coast Salish

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-dogs-that-grew-wo...
conversely, in europe, do you hit up your dealer for 10 micro tonnes of weed?
Yeah, I don't remember supermarkets here in Argentina being particularly empty in December 02019. On the other hand, it's hardly unusual for supermarkets here to have a noticeable amount of empty shelf space, especially Chinese supermarkets off main streets on Sundays; maybe in the UK that's what they looked like at the height of the pandemic?

I don't remember bars in Palermo being full of English-speakers at the time, either, just the occasional group.

Overall, though, I feel like the article is mostly accurate.
I wouldn't expect anything less from UW Madison. Overpriced school riding on the coattails of previous generations who actually gave a damn about science.
Do you have a source on that? Most of the money was used to pay the debt from Kirchner's government
The 747 is an odd choice because you cannot buy them anymore.
Splitting your thoughts using sentences and paragraphs are powerful techniques that I think you would benefit from learning.
Apparently 12 minutes of waiting is the critical point where you start to lose riders of public transit. If you want people to really use your system, you need to keep wait times consistently under that.
Yeah, like everyone is using the same bank. Wait a second...
That would probably involve breaking it into multiple sentences, and I just really didn't want to today :/. I have been having to explain the same thing over and over again now for over a decade, and you just have to have fun with it sometimes, you know? I highly recommend reading this one out loud, beginning to end: I carefully optimized the cadence of it over the course of numerous read-throughs, and I am quite proud of the result. If you want a more readable version of the same thought, I probably said the same thing in a different format somewhere every single day for the past few thousand days (and it doesn't seem to matter, lol).
Coincidentally I just made my first Twitter account. I can't remember the exact boxes you need to click but there is a way to sign up without giving out your phone number.

The issue is that it may flag your account as more suspicious. After three days I had my account flagged. I couldn't view tweets or use the account in any way. On log in it would redirect me and ask for my phone number for "verification". Funny how they can verify something they never received. It took about ten days for support to correct but my account is active again and they still don't know my phone number.
Because some of us are getting really tired of these witch hunts. Was he an ahole, possibly. Did Google value his contribution, probably. Did he commit any crime, doubtful.

Humans are all deeply flawed and if you were to pick enough sound bites about someone across a long enough period of time you could paint them as monsters. This current climate of holier than thou rhetoric is becoming increasingly poisonous.