skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who needs SWATing when you can send a CP pic (either real or with hash collision as per the thread few days ago) from a virtual overseas number/service and get FBI van to show up as well?

You are talking like collisions are trivial to make.
I bet they have had a deep conversations in this area.
At first, you would need a real hash to even try (which are hidden). Secondly, to get real material it means that it must be in their database to trigger anything. This tells a lot from sender already, and is worth to tell for police. It is quite easy to prove that someone just send it to you. And one photo is not triggering anything. Besides, sender must know that those photos must go automatically into the cloud to mean anything.

> What about injecting code into a public website to download same pic into local browser cache without user’s knowledge?

At least US legistlation is precise that user must willingly obtain/download CSAM material, and it must be proved. So this is not harmful for the user in the end.

A lot of speculation, but does not really lead for coencequences. Almost every system can be tried to be abused, but does it really mean something, is different story.
I was thinking more along the lines of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (Le Guin). One person tortured for their entire life, non-stop, to keep an entire city of people basically content? A behind-the-veil designer of systems might be OK with that. Maybe. Half of the city so-tortured, so the rest can live not just content lives, but like billionaires? The designer will almost certainly ask to tweak things to modify that deal. Half the city lives alright, but kinda poor, and the other half like billionaires? The designer might take that one.

It's about odds and exactly how bad the worst case is.
Their code isn’t available, no.
Yeah same. Our town had a "smart kids" school and a dozen of ordinary ones. I once won the town's informatics Olympiad in my age cohort, so to prepare for the regional stage they dispatched me over to that school's auspices for training. The teacher literally ignored my presence; so in the next competition I had to use both IBM PC and Pascal for the first time in my life. Scored something like 12th out of 40, but the teacher gloated on the way back.

I seriously think the "no child left behind" type education so derided here produces better general outcome. Holding up resources for a few select students is quite the opposite of meritocracy.
GPT-3 seems to refute these arguments. It is able to solve most understanding tasks reasonably well.
> You do point out one main driver, manager anxiety about justifying their existence (I am not saying they should not exist, only that it is a high anxiety position)

Like I said, I think that this period has starkly divided the good and bad managers, and really shown the value of someone who actually cares about what their team needs, what's stopping that, and how to support/cover them from wider company politics.

Unfortunately, I think in any oppressive company (which seems to be most of them once they get to medium-large) the selective pressure is against these managers staying, as they often don't get this reciprocity from their managers, or somewhere above that, and at some point it becomes too much, and you basically have to write off the whole team as the things that actually let them be productive are removed and they drift away.

> a bigger factor that is corporate finance and accounting driven

I mean, we are a national facility, so the space is to a certain point already "priced in" since the physical machine it's built around isn't going anywhere. But we were struggling to accommodate new people and even embarking of plans for an expensive new building on campus. WFH or hybrid working would completely solve that without big expensive investments.

All the people I know "IRL" working with small companies and startups dropped the rented office space as soon as they could last year (sensibly) and probably aren't going to go back at all.

It really will be interesting how this affects things long term, but I am afraid that you are probably right about things reverting towards the mean, and the momentum against change at large companies meaning that the average experience is only being slightly affected by this year's "experiment".
I send more than half of my SMS from the UNIX command line and don't touch a phone at all.

I have 'sms' shortcuts defined as shell aliases and those aliases call 'curl' commands that hit twilios endpoint and fire off the SMS from my "mobile number" which is, of course, a twilio number.

So I can SMS people while flying on a plane or abroad without a proper SIM card ... or at my house where I have no mobile coverage.
" more strategic your role -should- be. "

"The problem is too many upper managers think their role should be tactical. "

So this is a little bit mythologizing and there's a couple problems with this perception:

1) Everything is operational, and operations require material leadership at every level, there is no escaping it. Meaning, that there's a very material 'hands-on' component to even in higher level leadership.

The constancy of major decisions can have greater consequences and there are many more moving pieces, so it's hard.

Putting out fires and dealing with these grinding can easily overwhelm leaders but that's the reality of it, always.

Execs should usually have a much broader perspective that can help and guide decisions making.

Obviously, too much micro detail can be a problem, but that should be addressed by leadership that is willing to just listen and react accordingly.

I've been overridden by 'bad executive fiat' o occasion ... but also made forays where I shouldn't have because I didn't have the bigger picture.

2) Strategy is the most overused concept in all of business. While it's an important function it's usually a collective pursuit, involves input from various places - and most importantly, depends on details, i.e. downward facing.

Was Steve Jobs a relaxed, high level person setting strategy? Letting the details be worked out?

Musk?

Ford?

Bezos?

Not really.

There's a thoughtless comment floating here that points to 'Executives Asking Bad Questions To Seem Important' which is mostly wrong. They're asking questions to become informed. Some details matter, some don't but informing execs with a material understanding of the situation is a fundamental aspect of organizational communication.

The Tom Hanks film Greyhound is a neat study in that (He's the captain of a US ship leading a convoy in the Atlantic in WW2 getting hunted by German UBoats) - it's fully real time, you see a commander in the hot seat, and tons of activity around him. It's kind of interesting to see how information is propagated up and down and at what details. Obviously they're not building products.

Strategy, in the end, if it's done well should seem fairly obvious, even boring.

We have such lofty expectations of the term, that we expect 'enlightened divination' out of it, but more often than not, the result of good strategy should be a product roadmap that takes into rational consideration the aspects of market dynamics.

I think that having some creative analysts in a staff position to help the CEO maintain a broad perspective and take into consideration the more interesting market trends we often associate with the word 'strategy' is probably enough.

In my experience, I believe that in any company ... there is probably enough collective insight in the organization to set an appropriate strategy, it could only communications could work effectively.

That said, good execs are rare, and employees that are able to wrap their heads around the challenges that upper management faces are just as rare.

Finally ... the over/under managing issue is a really hard one, there are so many factors there.
The point wasnt to complain about anyones life, it was to show how OP's idea of "real world is better than virtual one" might not be as ubiquitous as he believes. For some, virtual worlds might be better than real ones.
Dropping MySQL, evaluating alternative DBs, picking the best for our use case
When I was 11 I used to click the big goofy button in Netscape Navigator that would view source and then I would hunt for passwords to logins. Hacking is for the low IQ smoothbrain thats why slavs do it all day ere day sorry not sorry get off my google analytics you scum and then you can earn my respect.
The solution then is proper end to end encryption, not the solution you masquerade.

Your data is not really encrypted if Amazon, Intel, or AMD can be compelled by a secret government order to decrypt it. All of these trusted execution environments... rely on a trusted party with master keys, i.e. Amazon, Intel, or AMD, who can reflash microcode and expose all plaintext trivially and silently.

It's. Not. Secure. Whatsoever. It's anti-encryption. It's just another version of the Clipper chip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
Economies of scale
Agreed, I was mostly complaining about using the phrase "the American Lifestyle" as if there was one lifestyle we all follow. There isn't, and the casual generalization of millions of people is inaccurate.
Upcoming Deprecation of JavaScript Dialogs
I'm still rocking that search bar, i love it as a little store for notes or if I need to copy/paste two things over and over
> This is still relativity, not quantum mechanics.

Oh hmm, I see.

> but can also lead to wrong ideas if taken too seriously.

Yeah, and it's hard to know how far to take the analogy unless you're already familiar with the concept it's trying to describe, unfortunately.
Also wrecks battery life on macOS. I want to see Firefox devs focus on improving power usage. Other browser vendors love to show that they're light on impact to battery life because it's an important metric to users.
The only thing mastery schooling taught me was empathy for people whose learning style doesn't fit the style used in a classroom.

It's hard to understand the the connections between and motivations for concepts when you are learning everything about a topic before moving on. I prefer the style described above, of learning the basics then moving on and circling back when more advanced aspects are needed.

Clearly different styles work better for different people.
If you are interested in hacking it, definitely a 3DS. It's simple to do in any model and it has a ton of homebrew software. It's doable in the switch but you'd want a unit manufactured before circa Jun 2018 for now, the process is more convoluted and less popular.
Pripyat Marshes are not a big stretch of the North European Plain. You can move massive armies through the northern route along the Baltic coast, or the southern route through Ukraine.

They're not really a big obstacle, given the two land invasions that came from the West in the 20th century.
In most cases yes but in Afghanistan it's pakiistan for sure
> Companies were never paying based on value provided. They pay market rate

Trying to negotiate salary based on value provided is one of the biggest misconceptions I see online and with in-person mentoring groups.

Compensation is not about value provided. It’s only about market rate and convincing the person to stay at the company.

I encounter a lot of people, especially juniors, who are disgruntled because they think their employers are getting more value out of their work than is being passed along in their paychecks. I usually ask them if their employer sends them a bill every time they fail to deliver a project or make a mistake that costs the company money. That usually makes the disconnect between value provided and compensation click.

I say this as someone who worked remote and managed remote teams before COVID: The reality is they WFH is a perk and WFH employees require some additional management overhead due to reduced communication efficiency and higher collaboration overhead. As much as I love remote work and my remote teams, it would be dishonest to say that we wouldn’t perform better or faster if we were in-person in the same building. It may not be a popular opinion or what people want to hear, but in my direct experience with mixed WFH/remote teams it’s always true. In-person is just too efficient to replace with Zoom and Slack and e-mail.

The second reality is that once you open the doors to full-time WFH, you’ve opened the doors to full-time remote, which means you’ve opened the doors to a much larger labor market. It becomes easy to replace your $200K Silicon Valley hires with someone a couple states away who is thrilled to do the same job for $180K or even $150K. Then you start expanding your search and find people who live in other countries who deliver the same results for $100K or even $80K.

It’s not surprising that companies don’t want to pay the highest salaries in the country for people who aren’t actually in those areas for work. Losing only 10% of their high salaries honestly seems like a bargain.
The article clearly states that Russian, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia governments are giving possibly up to 500 million a year and about half as much is given by private donors originating mostly with sympathizers from gulf states so the GP's arguments about no sugar daddy doesn't hold up.
The author is capable of identifying their emotional state and adjusting their behavior accordingly.
> On the whole, I'm not quite sure how the Apple plan will protect actual children from rape (except to somewhat reduce the secondary harm of distribution).

You bring up the distinction between "possession offenses" (i.e., a person who has CSAM content) and "hands-on offenses" (i.e., a person who abuses children and possibly, but not necessarily, produces CSAM). Detecting possession offenses (as Apple's sytem does) has the second-order effect of finding hands-on offenders because hands-on offenders tend to also collect CSAM and form large libraries of it. So finding a CSAM collection is the best way to find a hands-on offender and stop their abuse. Ideally, victims would always disclose their abuse so that the traditional investigatory process could handle it -- but child sexual abuse is special in that offenders are skilled in manipulating children and families in order to avoid detection.

I think that the case of USA v. Rosenchein [0] is a good example because it shows the ins and outs of how the company->NCMEC->law enforcement system tends to work and how it leads to hands-on offenders. It's higher profile than most, perhaps because the defendant (a surgeon), seems to have plenty of resources for fighting the conviction on constitutional grounds (as opposed to actually claiming innocence). But the mechanism leading to the prosecution is by no means exceptional.

Caveat: Not a lawyer.

[0] https://www.anylaw.com/case/usa-v-rosenchein/d-new-mexico/11...
Man, I had the same idea for a while, like bottles left in the sea for other life sailors to pick and seek. Congrats on the launch, it must feel satisfying.
Researchers devise new ways of visualizing data to understand brain networks
Part of the plot to HPMOR is exactly this: https://hpmor.fandom.com/wiki/Interdict_of_Merlin
tl;dr crappy tenant complains that he got caught
Zojirushi water boiler! No more waiting for the kettle. Instant boiling water.
I am, but that's beside the point.

Look, you're a huge sucker if you think that the boundaries of the tech and the stated policy today are 1) not fluid and 2) here's the bigger part -- aren't there primarily for the purpose of laying the groundwork for more intrusive spying. That's the "nerd" charge. If you follow the words they are saying and treat those as gospel and limiting, you're a nerd and a sucker.

And to take it further, if I seem paranoid or whatnot -- that's fine; it's better and smarter to be wrong in my direction than it is in the sucker direction, where you can't put the toothpaste back in the proverbial tube.
So basically: as a retail consumer, we can't trust you. You might as well as be a malicous honeypot. Scan and log for cryptocurrency keys and then "get hacked" and retire in Thailand.

Or maybe you're a government honeypot, like Crypto AG, or the numerous other cryptography companies that turned out to actually be mass decryption companies.

If you're building an encryption company, the onus is on you to prove it. BitWarden for example is fully open source, and you can self host the server.
It’s gearing. Albeit elaborate.

Intuitively what’s difficult to get the head around is sailing directly into the wind.

However the penny dropped when somebody says it’s like sailing into the wind and that basically the propellers act like triangular sails that are continuously reorienting.

The only tricky part bow is the “faster than wind” bit. Presumably this “dynamic sail” is better at harnessing any divergent energy coherently. Kind of like how a LASER coaxes her photons out in phase to produce a coherent beam. The balancing coefficient is the (variable) pitch of the blades.
Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for one week
> People complained that Steam was flooded with Shovelware. “It is the Indiepocalypse” developers shouted!

> Guess what? Valve was listening. And they acted. You got your wish. Shovelware isn’t a problem anymore. Really it isn’t.

I remember telling people at the time that this sort of thing would happen. It's the obvious result of store curation: some games are going to get excluded even if that are actually good. I cited GoG as an example because at the time it had rejected Opus Magnum[0]. Much like they get flak for not policing the forums better, or because there are 'porn' games, or 'hate' games, everyone seems to think this is an easy problem to solve and it really isn't if you care about allowing a wide range of expression.

And in this case it is a real shame, because I have a soft spot for short games. There are a lot of games out there that "don't really get good until after hour 6" or some such nonsense, and I value my time so I consider long games with "a lot of content" to generally be a negative. I want games that can be enjoyed in less time, not more[1]. And being that such games are usually a lot less work they are free to be much more experimental.

Fortunately Steam has a system of allowing individual players to curate collections of games. I am not aware of anyone curating Small Games, but I would imagine they exist. Perhaps life would be easier for small game devs if discoverability of curated collections related to your interests was better?

[0] Which I maintain is the best of the Zachtronics games.

[1] Yet I find that I like Stardew Valley, a game I would have assumed I'd hate. Go figure.
No.

JSX is not JavaScript. React builds an entire system hidden from you that isn't the way JavaScript runs.

What abstraction are you thinking in? With Svelte I'm thinking in JavaScript. With Vue and React I'm thinking in hooks-land or whatever, and trying to understand a completely different virtual machine. There are some really brilliant ideas they have come up with, but the whole cloth experience isn't for me.

Vue is worse. Create an item inside the data attribute. Somehow that becomes available to computed functions. Somehow you can have that data attribute rely on parent attributes. None of that is the way JavaScript works without Vue on top. I'm so glad I don't have to remember those rules anymore.

You are correct they just compile into render functions. But the one Svelte produces is readable and the ones produced by Vue and React are a lot less so.
Clarification: "Should they not try and spot-optimize common cases where they can, just for the sake of predictability? No, I don't think so."

I meant they "shouldn't not", as in I don't think it would make sense to do otherwise from what they're doing
Significant Digits is a quite good sequel (by a different author): http://www.anarchyishyperbole.com/p/significant-digits.html

The Martian and, recently, Project Hail Mary, are written in a completely different style but manage to hit many of the same buttons.
That or Wallabag, both of which I've read quite a bit about but not tried.

Self-hosted Wallabag is ... on my to-do list.
Updated GNOME User Interface Guidelines are now official
I'm not exactly pro-Taliban, but it's always funny to see articles discussing them go to extraordinary lengths to avoid describing them as a state while describing all of the things that a state normally does: taxation of people and goods, natural resource extraction, media and international relations, property management, &c.

Per TFA, the Taliban's GDP is already over 25% of Afghanistan's. At what point do we drop the normative pretense and recognize that they're more of a state than they were when we started bombing them 20 years ago?
so you say. if you were in a study done by researchers, they wouldnt care what you thought the cause was and would only report the correlation.
It's not about "belief" ... short termism is what will do for humanity.
I was talking about little/small children, not children in general. I believe the point is true for children in general as well (during vacation / lockdown specifically), but toddlers and babies require a lot of attention and maintenance.

Are you responsible for your children? If not, then with regards to work(load) its akin to having no children at all.

You say its arguably false, yet ~90% in my team have children (I'm one of the few with toddlers). And the one who doesn't have children split up recently (due to relationship stress, which now lead to more stress, the irony..). Everyone in my team's productivity suffers since they have to work from home.

And on top of that, there's another data point: mothers. They get structurally paid less than men and other women.
Smartphone addiction – is it real?
Addicted to your phone? Well. You're probably not "addicted". But you may have some issues. And here's how to cure them.
Yes, Ms teams it only works of debian or RHEL Based distros , and yes i have tried the aur it was broken . That's why i moved from Manjaro to Debian
This is basically an article funded by "friends of Pakistan". Most experts concur that Pakistan is the leading funder of taliban
John Rawls made a mind-blowing mistake of not considering people outside of one's society as worthy of consideration.

His "veil of ignorance" (original idea by John Harsanyi not by Rawls) is great - but it focuses on one's society, ignoring the plight of the worst-off in other countries. Shame.
These are not flaws, but tradeoffs made by deliberate choice.

I’ve worked on x64 and graphics compilers and this article should be skipped.
Engineers with a lot of resources tend to be my favorite villains. Anyone who genuinely, earnestly believes they're going to solve a big problem and has just become laser focused on that to the exclusion of all else: that's a touchpoint I can relate to for a sympathetic villain.
AGTM?
Our of curiosity, why don't you want to spend time around people who have camped, trekked, or had time off? That seems like a large group of people to exclude from your social circle.
> Doing this doesn't hurt. There's nothing stupid about it unless you coded everything in a way where it's NOT modular.

It does. If I open up an arbitrary Ruby on Rails app for example, it is going to be easier to navigate for example a super fat model file than it is to navigate one that has been divided up into 10s of helpers and companion modules. There are similar scenarios in every other language. Extracting code and moving it somewhere else can truly be a death by a thousand cuts. My rule of thumb is if there aren't at least two places in the code that need to call My Extracted Thing (tm), then it shouldn't be extracted in the first place. If you're being DRY, it's OK to have a long class/file/method/function/module, and it's probably preferable to obfuscating your codebase and making it more difficult to navigate.
For what is worth, I have disabled it in firefox 90 in about:config.