skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is 5% a reasonable cut for a middle-man when selling shares privately?
I have fully-vested options in a private company which expire in Dec 2023. A company has reached out to me saying they have a buyer for the shares. The shares are worth > $300k.

I'd like to sell because they expire in Dec 2023 and I don't know if there will be a liquidity event before then, however they want to take a 5% cut.

Is this a normal cut for a middleman in this type of transaction? Is there a way I can connect with a buyer directly to avoid giving a % to a middleman like this?
It would be arguably cheaper and more powerful to just buy an M1 Mini and shove it under your desk, then SSH onto it or whatever.

With a Hackintosh, ask yourself if you really value your time. Couple hundred bucks for an M1 Mini feels very cheap in comparison.
According to this comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/p0ul6b/when_zero_cost... , `rustc`/`llvm` is indeed able to optimize the wrapped example to a big `memset`. Sure in this specific case, it is different from the first one which delayed the zeroing, but that is not unintelligently `clone` many times as claimed in the article.
Actually the scanning apps like Microsoft Lens are quite good.

During the WFH situation, I've used it extensively to scan kids homework almost on an everyday basis, to send it to teachers.

I've used it for documents too. And it works just fine.
It's not necessarily that a developer won't attempt it, not all specialities of computing require it. I am in my field because it interests me, not because I can't or wont try other things.
Probably just a very small hole and beefing up the vacuum equipment near it. From what I recall the LHC beam is on the scale of a couple micrometres.
With a single photo, SpaceX sent a not-so-subtle message to FAA regulators
What are the security downsides to using this for, for example, 2FA SMS?

The cost of cloud providers in this space is neglible, but I'd still like to think about this as an exercise.
The US does not have a special high clearance rate. It's not better than typical for the OECD.

Its general crime rates are also roughly typical - median - for the OECD (including for most types of violent crime), except for murder of course as everyone knows.
> Edit to add:
> (Leisure air travel/Safari is my own pipe dream. The article suggests cargo)

Please, people who write tl;drs, read the whole article so you don't miss the punch line. The last 6 paragraphs (25%) of the article is devoted to cargo being the best value proposition
Not if that application data is already part of Google services. That appears to application data for non-Google services.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/us-national-...

But I do stand corrected on non-Google application data.

How do you restore from a different device? Oh, you only need the passcode.
Thanks for linking this article! I loved reading it. I'm curious to hear any counterpoints from experts to the main ideas presented here.
Apple will reject gov demands to use child sex abuse image detection for spying
Which errors?
Thanks, this is good to know. Most likely will start with Wordpress.

Still wonder if there are any free solutions. If not, Maybe I can engineer one in the near future.
That story doesn't really check out. Brown coal and black coal come from different coal fields, and those power stations in NSW are powered by nearby coal fields. Brown coal in particular is so energy-poor it's not really worth transporting it anywhere. Brown coal needs a different furnace design, too, to account for the high moisture content.

Seems more likely that there's some random efficiency differences between the units due to differences in build/maintenance history and the monitoring is done on the unit that's known to be the best-performing one, and that's been exaggerated as it goes through the rumour mill.
I'm sure things are gamed, at least within what the letter of what regulations allow if not further.

But NSW does not mine brown coal or have brown coal power plants, and buying brown coal from other mines would obviously attract attention. But the design differences between brown and black coal plants at all stages from fuel processing, injection, burning, and waste extraction are so different between brown and black fuel that you couldn't just flip between them even if you had the fuel on hand. So I doubt the accuracy of this rumor too.
So you think if Apple announced a new algorithm that would be used for mass surveillance of the Chinese, there'd be some kind of mass outrage. And to avoid that mass outrage, they're starting with mass surveillance against Americans instead.

None of that makes sense. Why would using the system only to target child abuse in the US make people change their mind about using it against political dissidents?
Artificial Intelligence may diagnose dementia in a day
> but you will never understand why they dance!

You can't understand why without considering the environment, the problem is that it's too expensive to train AI agents in reality and simulated environments are too simplistic.

But if such a simulated environment is available, agents can learn general skills.

> Deep mind: Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/generally-capable-agents-e...
> The opposition to carbon capture thing isn't even in the wikipedia article about the plant, looks like your source isn't the most trustworthy.

That is a very strange inference to make.

Here's an abstract that claims environmental risks for ccs, and lack of political support (which I understand tends to come in the form of funding?) as a result: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062...

This PDF says it was cancelled due to delays in "transposing" (implementing at country level I think?) the necessary regulations to allow funding: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/154669777.pdf

The Wikipedia article about the plant references this politico article, which does mention environmentalist opposition to ccs (that's not what they referenced it for, of course): https://www.politico.eu/article/paperthe-eus-failed-ccs-ambi...
Hint: K is the name of the central character in Franz Kafka's The Castle, as well as that of The Trial.

> "The term "Kafkaesque" is used to describe concepts and situations reminiscent of Kafka's work, particularly Der Process (The Trial) and Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis). Examples include instances in which bureaucracies overpower people, often in a surreal, nightmarish milieu that evokes feelings of senselessness, disorientation, and helplessness. Characters in a Kafkaesque setting often lack a clear course of action to escape a labyrinthine situation. Kafkaesque elements often appear in existential works, but the term has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical."

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#%22Kafkaesque%22
Thanks, will give a try. Currently not seeing why it should not work. Worst-case scenario, I will need a proxy.
Feels a bit “no true Scotsman” - have you considered the possibility that the process you describe is actually a structural consequence of capitalism?

Seems to me that capital accumulation and inheritance is a pretty obvious mechanism to drive that process.
> but you will never understand why they dance!

You can't understand why without considering the environment, the problem is that it's too expensive to train AI agents in reality and simulated environments are too simplistic.

But if such a simulated environment is available, agents can learn general skills.

> Deep mind: Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play

https://deepmind.com/blog/article/generally-capable-agents-e...

In this kind of setup the agents know why they act like they do.
I recently started using rust-analyzer with vscode.

One common sight is this:

thing

.stuff()

.other()

.whatevs()

Each of the calls returns a different type. Rust-analyzer displays the return type of each call to the right of it.

I imagine something similar could reconcile the benefits of terseness with readability and discoverabilty.

The blog post already has the prototype:

+ / ! 100

plus reduce range 100

Imagine the second line being added in by your ide in a light gray.
And there’s a reason your response is ignorant.

You can make a straw man of my argument but don’t try to act like you are some high and mighty smart guy who knows better than those dumb dumbs down there.

I know your type, you try to pretend that you’ve arrived at all your conclusions through thorough scientific processes coupled with your supreme intellect.

Yet you prove to be more ignorant than most.

Let me guess now you’ll say look at my degrees I am smart.

There may come a time where you will have to choose to hide a non-vaxxer in your basement, or rat out the dangerously healthy individual to the authorities.
I’d choose hiding them in my basement with my conscience wondering if I should, and you can choose ratting out your neighbor with the approval of your conscience.
> with a 1-in-a-trillion chance of a false collision

I don't think that's exactly where the "one in a trillion" claim comes from. Rather, it's that a single matching hash isn't enough to trigger the reporting; there needs to be multiple matches, and when there are enough of them to cross an unspecified threshold, then the reporting is triggered. There's theoretically only a one in a trillion chance of that threshold being crossed without having actual CSAM matches.

If I understand the white paper correctly, this even goes a step farther than that; they can't decrypt the signatures of the images corresponding to the matched hashes until the threshold is passed, because those images form a kind of decryption key together.

On a technical level, I'm actually pretty impressed. They absolutely could set up E2E encryption and still implement this system, and it largely assuages my worries about false matches of innocent photos (with the extremely big caveat that a false match has a very high potential of ruining someone's life). As the linked article points out, though, the real privacy concern here comes from having this matching capability on-device at all, because once it's there, limiting the data set to just this one provided by NCMEC becomes a matter of company policy. If an agency of any government demands Apple add their data set, they can no longer say, "we can't do that without drastically compromising the way our devices and services work," because it will be public knowledge that this in fact how their devices and services work already.
I'm not an expert but I believe that the particles are traveling so fast and with so much energy that they just blast through the walls of the vacuum chamber
Brain implant turns thoughts into words to help paralyzed man 'speak' again
Places like India are building out significantly less wire infrastructure because LTE is pretty good on its own.
In Belarus, it wouldn't be a revolution - it would be civil war. Lukashenko is certainly a dictator, but he still commands support of a significant part of the population. And Russia would be all too happy to assist them. Think the Donbass conflict in Ukraine, but larger scale.
I'm not sure it would be easy to replace them. We are building nuclear in the UK and it is far from easy. Neither is it particularly affordable.
If you ask me today What's the greatest invention of mankind, I wouldn't say a wheel or toilet U-bend or antibiotics but these Ear Hooks[1] for spectacles which keep my loose spectacles from falling every time I bend down.

A truly tiny purchase of disproportionately high value!

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/p0zvbQU
This is a category of cursed knowledge which causes psychic damage to the reader.

When you go down certain rabbit holes you develop a fascination with obscure forms of programming and start to realize it has some powerful benefits of which you can never take advantage because it isn't widely adopted.

To free yourself from this curse write ten regular for-loops in C and say a prayer to K&R while tighly holding your copy of The C Programming Language.
https://twitter.com/decodebytes/status/1404540227474046980
What do people use this for? I mean beside creating another pirate bay (CIMMW, that's the only thing comes to mind when I see "torrent search engine").
That looks really great!

We've also built something similar but not quite the same for use with the Auron SMS Server: http://www.auronsoftware.com/products/auron-sms-agent-for-an...

In our case we chose to built a custom IMAP-like protocol for integrating with the Android app so 2 way communication would work without any extra steps.

But this project is definitely something that I'll look into supporting as well. The point of our software is to make integration as easy as possible by supporting as many protocols and devices as possible.
we are one of those parents (in Bay Area) who send our kid to RSM (Russian School of Math). We are very happy with it so far (6yo completed her first year) and, most importantly, our daughter is very happy with it too. It is not simple rule memorization and counting, even for 6yo the problems they come up with are interesting enough so that the kid wants to solve them.
GPT-3 was trained on a massive text collection so it can even ask for clarifying questions if the prompt context allows for it. Why? Because there are plenty of such examples in the training data.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN
> Bugorski survived, completed his PhD, and continued working as a particle physicist.[4] There was virtually no damage to his intellectual capacity, but the fatigue of mental work increased markedly.[2] Bugorski completely lost hearing in the left ear, replaced by a form of tinnitus.[5] The left half of his face was paralyzed due to the destruction of nerves.[1] He was able to function well, except for occasional complex partial seizures and rare tonic-clonic seizures.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
> If you lose all your iDevices _and_ your password at the same time ...

I don't know how this is with iPhones (I don't own one), but with Android these events are almost 100% correlated for many people. That's because you never get prompted for your Google account password on your phone. If you don't use the same Google account on your phone as on your desktop, or don't really use your Google account on the desktop that much to begin with (both apply to me and plenty of others I'm sure) then you might never need to know your password. I've seen people not even realise that they have a Google account, despite using one every day on their phone. Is there anything significantly different with Apple accounts?

In case it seems unlikely that someone would not use their phone account on their desktop, remember that plenty of young people today don't even have a non-phone device.
To add on this: Nothing else is to expect form a country that—under protection of its legal system!—tortures mentally ill and disabled children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Rotenberg_Educational_Ce...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/massachuse...
Is it a coincidence that the Nintendo 3DS' GPU is called the "PICA200" (i.e.: 'Pikachu-hundred')?
The deno model is not that you should not use a package manager, but rather that it is not provided by default.

Many project are going to use some kind of central import/export system to keep track of external dependencies and that could perfectly well be the result of a package manager compiling the equivalent of a package.json to a .ts file.

Only-URL imports does not mean that no structure is available
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yep, you got it.

And further to this, anyone could stand up their own sigstore service. In fact we expect some of the bigger oss projects to do just that.
> if you have one device (as many users do) and you lose that device you would lose all your data

On the other hand: Apple loves giving people reasons to have more Apple devices
This is where Western and Japanese linguistics show their biggest difference. The former has a tendency to try making heavy generalizations (finding the universal properties of language/s) and prove it by crafting a few examples fitted for the task (peak armchair linguistics). In the latter, a huge amount of data is collected. I've seen at library a book with hundred maps, relatively precise, about the fine variation in Japanese dialect. It's however sometimes lacking explanation. So both approaches have their strengths and weaknesses and I think that more ground breaking word can be done if relying on works from the two traditions.
Tile Pro
What lines?

EDIT: Fuel lines?
Are these things which one simply modifies for fun and profit?
Good question, cosign is a client that works with containers OCI / registries. We are also develop clients to work with pypi, rust cargo and cases such as helping to protect against curl | bash attacks
It basically piggybacks off the location pings your phone already makes for Find My iPhone and can be disabled by the user.
What does the curriculum look like that differs significantly from standard school? Also, is your child bored in school at all? I got ahead in math early on and remember being very bored in math classes until AP classes came around.
This website has a few companies which use K: https://github.com/interregna/arraylanguage-companies
> I doubt the German or UK police would be bothered to care much either.

I have as close as it gets to a perfect comparison. My now-wife was working on a summer school in the UK, shepherding American teenagers around. A few had their iPhones stolen, but with exact location information via “find my phone”. Police did nothing.

It’s a bit sad when mostly they just had to turn up.
The problem with rummaging through someone’s drawers is that this is done by people who in that process will inevitably find out much more about your life than binary “has CSAM / does not have CSAM in their possession”. There’s no viable way of limiting scope of such rummaging and there is no way to make individual officers forget what they’ve seen.

Apple’s system on the other hand provides such guarantees, so I don’t see how it can be compared to these hypothetical rummaging operations.
Quite the contrary, at least with austrian police. My pedelec (e-bike, worth around 4.000 €) got stolen at 3am a while ago and it had a GPS tracker.

I called the equivalent of 911 and briefly explained. The said: "wait, we pick you up", and in the same moment I hear sirens a few streets later heading in my direction. What followed was out of a movie. We raced with emergency lights to the current location, constantly updading other units on the current position. We must have missed the thief only by seconds and found construction containers where the signal was coming from. The police said they would call the construction companys 24h contact and open the containers with them, but I could go home for now.

One hour later the GPS tracker said the bike was moving again. I called again and the operator of emergency services said "didn't you call before?" and they picked me up again. When we arrived at the - now outdoor - location of the bike, there were 5 police cars and 15 police around it, but no thief, it was locked to a regular bike stand. They called in the equivalent of SWAT to open the lock and I got my bike back. They took fingerprints of the lock and luckily the thief stopped at an residential address for a minute or two, so we figured that might be the home address. Investigation is ongoing.

I could more or less prove that I was the owner by having the dealers invoice, serial number and pictures on my phone btw.
I use it just fine on remotes and Tile Pro on valuables and things that go outdoors. No issues.
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That sounds like you're assuming you're standing still beforehand. Sure, the effect afterwards might look like you're going around the sun faster/slower than Earth but you started deep in Earth's gravitational well.
> Belarusian hackers

I think this is a very naive assumption
Post your home address and phone number.
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It supports GPG if you really want to use it (no idea why someone would want to in this day and age).
Passion. We don’t know how much time we have. Enjoy your life.
Haven't looked into this in a long time, but every cell carrier used to have a gateway address where you could send an email, using the destination phone number as part of the address, and the gateway would dispatch an SMS with pretty much arbitrary envelope information. You just needed a list of active gateways. I think I even have some old php code lying around that I used to spoof my friends' phone numbers to each other and generate a text thread where one came out and said he'd left his wife because he was secretly in love with the other dude. I know, real mature use of technology.
Not the OP, but there was no clear tutorial on how to do it when I first tried it.

I've got actual work to do, I don't have time to spend a day or two figuring out how to do yarn2 on our dev machines + CI env + prod. So we just stuck with yarn1.

Now when Yarn 3 is out, it's either back to npm, which is supposedly on par with yarn1 in speed or I'll try a yarn 1 ->3 transition.
Ouch. Google will visit the url and exec the js code. I did not know it sounds insane.
By about 1/4th of the way through I wanted to just know what 'russian math' looked like. By Halfway it was pretty clear they weren't going to tell me. I skimmed the last half, nothing stood out.

What does "Russian Math" look like?
> It seems really unlikely to me that Apple will enable E2EE backups.

And even if they did, how would we verify that the code they instruct our hardware to run does e2ee correctly, without bugs or backdoors? Apple doesn't seem to be in the habit of opening much of their code or (on mobile) allowing users to install unapproved builds. Unless that changed, I would be skeptical, just as I am of all "e2ee" software that cannot be independently audited by anyone at any time.
Ask HN: Is remote onboarding worse than in-person?
Depends on the airplane. An electric touring motorglider would be extremely efficient and could give zeppelins a run for the money.
Is there any icloud alternative backup, that doesn't involve connecting to a computer?
It seems that it's possible for third party apps to backup certain data, like photos and contacts, but to do a full device backup you either need to use icloud, or connect via USB to a computer.
Pretty ballsy, involving the police. That could have gone sideways, glad it worked out this time.
The 1-in-a-trillion claim was debunked, https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...:

> Facebook is one of the biggest social media services. Back in 2013, they were receiving 350 million pictures per day. However, Facebook hasn't released any more recent numbers, so I can only try to estimate. In 2020, FotoForensics received 931,466 pictures and submitted 523 reports to NCMEC; that's 0.056%. During the same year, Facebook submitted 20,307,216 reports to NCMEC. If we assume that Facebook is reporting at the same rate as me, then that means Facebook received about 36 billion pictures in 2020. At that rate, it would take them about 30 years to receive 1 trillion pictures.
Paper planning system to help remember things on the go and long-term
Most of the time I seem to have very poor short term memory (possible inattentive ADD). I already use an app for doing weekly plans and pointers. But I can't keep going to my phone to type things out. Also my phone types out its own wrong spellings on the apps, so that makes things slower.

What inexpensive pen-paper system do you use on-the-go, to jot things down and remember and LOOKUP as you go? (That last part was super important, I need the paper to tell me things that happened 5 minutes ago, so I can organize my thoughts and plan around them.)

Thank you