skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was early in the pandemic and very little was known, so issuing a statement that says “…no clear evidence of human to human transmission” was irresponsible. There was no clear evidence against human to human transmission either.

Simply saying nothing about it or we don’t know yet would have been better than that statement which guides a non pedantic reader, which are common outside of HN, to believing that human to human transmission was unlikely.
Become an Uncertainty Killer
The Senate is allowing the use of calculators on the Senate floor
Maybe I am misinformed, the investing part makes sense, but not paying taxes on capital gains while willingly "unemployed" in your productive years to "enjoy life" and "freedom" sounds the same as the crypto miners trying to avoid taxes.

Contrary to popular belief, taxes are supposed to benefit society (at least that is the intent & purpose). I agree this is not the case for corrupt countries, but if everyone just retired early or sat at home mining coins, where will society end up?

https://beunsettled.co/blog/is-the-fire-movement-really-the-...
Palo Alto is nice but not everyone wants to live their whole life there.
As someone who used Parsec for ages to game at 1440p 60hz via AWS on my old-as-sin MacBook: thank you for the amazing work you and your team mates did, and I'm stoked to see the company have such success!
Excitement is a fleeting moment, not a steady state
Are they still mad tesla bought $1.5 billion in bitcoin.
That's too simple and efficient and too easy to debug. Need more layers.
It's just a matter of opinion. Actually, he is Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, as well as Obama.
And, if he actually has some good insides, why not just consider these?
> don't build things at the edge of the pit where the handrail is a pinky promise not to let others push you.

People are afraid, that the use of these tools are expanded in secret (hidden) for more than they should. From that point of view, legislation motives and discussion does not matter, because capability is valid for many tools at any moment, hence same speculation has applied before.

However, if you want to apply surveillance publicly, then we indeed need legal base for pushing specified tools as mandatory. To expand it for more than CSAM, it will be quite slow process, and implementing something like that publicly before legal base is path for descruction for any company, because people can change for other company.

Is Apple now making that legal process faster?

While it feels like Apple is now closer to the edge of the pit, from techical perpective there is no difference yet. Tools have existed and system is closed source.
Question is still the same; ”would you spy for us”? I don’t think that answer has changed from Apple because they changed the location of the image scan.

So, the question is, will legislation change towards more surveillance. Whatever the result is, I think it would have happened whether Apple added this feature or not, as it is not morale excuse. People find the way. In China, it is simply illegal to not install some app by muslims.
For those of us who are entirely unfamiliar could you give a source?
2) These routers were deliberately placed on the internet by people that knew enough about them to do so.

If "placing it on the internet" was proof of excellent security knowledge & practices, then nothing on the internet would be insecure.

Just because they knew enough to know how to place it on the internet doesn't mean they understood the implications of that decision.
I see that ourmandave already submitted this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28119447
Yes, you could move somewhere else, and maybe it isn't even fair or necessary or proportional to make life difficult for you specifically. But it could turn out to be quite lucky.

Big career changes get more difficult with every year you get older. Plus: if it involves moving into any adjacent subject area, doing it now and not in three to thirty months when it all blows up, you won't be competing with thousands of guys wearing the same exact Jack Wolfskin jacket and trying to move from fantasy finance to the real thing.

And if you don't share my pessimism: if I'm wrong and cryptocurrencies go mainstream, you also be out of luck because it'll become interesting to those teams of hundreds of Harvard & MIT quants.

And, of course, you might get to do something useful. At least in comparison to ending up being blamed for bonfires of both money and forests.
It is utterly bizarre to read positive comments here then try to look at Daybreak on Google Maps. I see about 5 restaurants in a tiny town center, no convenience stores or grocery, just several square miles of small lot suburbs with dotted pools and tennis courts. Looks like the opposite of walkable to me. No biking infrastructure leading to that light rail station or evidence that anyone would walk anywhere for anything. Human-scale urban planning must truly be a foreign concept to Americans.
NASA can't find the Mars rock sample that the Perseverance rover drilled
Yeah vin is a problem should be optional
Static linking does not bundle the entire library into a binary. It only bundles what's necessary. When you load a shared library, you load an entire copy of the library into memory; when you load a statically linked binary, you load only the relevant bits.

Static linking also enables much better link-time optimization as well as several additional hardening measures; Clang's CFI sanitizer in particular works much better with access to the whole program.

Furthermore, the shared global state between all programs on a traditional *nix box is a limitation, not an ideal. Compartmentalizing through sandboxing is the way forward. Namespace isolation, separate users, and cgroups are already widespread. Static linking makes this much easier as it avoids having duplicate copies of a full library loaded into memory.

Dependency updates should be managed by a package manager. When a library updates, the package manager will handle dependency resolution.

This only leaves two concerns: disk space and network bandwidth of software updates. Depending on your situation, these may or may not be worthwhile tradeoffs. In the face of the benefits to security, portability, and simplicity that come with static linking, I'd argue that it should be our default preference.
Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post which is known for being the mouthpiece of the national security establishment.
Their interests are perfectly aligned.
> I wouldn't trust any of his advice on geopolitics

Numerous choices of his as Secretary of State were nearly indefensible, sure, but often as a product of his involvement and meticulous work in every foreign affairs matter, where everything had to be exact, and to fit into the grander strategy that he envisioned for the United States.

As one small example: while H.W. Bush was able to show his goodness and his morality by fighting for Taiwan's role in his role as Ambassador to the UN, Kissinger's controversial pro-PRC stance, however much I despise the PRC government today and then, was what was necessary for the time.

His administration's decision in using the rift that already existed between the PRC and the USSR to further pull them away from one another and open up diplomatic relations with the West instead is a major reason that China has become as powerful as it is today, which is an understandable cause of criticism. At the same time, we can't know what would've happened otherwise, but it's easy to imagine that the USSR could have kept up their Iron Curtain much longer, and the Cold War could've gone in a very different direction.

We can look at other controversial decisions like Allende, the Yom Kippur War, and Vietnam in the same light.

These are the hard decisions one grapples with as Secretary of State. Kissinger's own history as a Jewish immigrant who witnessed Nazism led to this rationalistic pessimism, and this idea that the best state we can hope for is teetering on the edge, slowly relieving tension a la detente, and that true utopia is unachievable.

You can disagree with most of his decisions, but to not even consider his advice after all he's experienced seems unwise.

Edit: Questionably cited Taiwan as democratic at the time — it was a military dictatorship as another commenter mentioned. H.W. Bush's decision of supporting the 'true' government of China was the moral, easily swallowed one, that was much more popular with the American public. Taiwan was heralded to the American people as a potential democratic alternative to the PRC, though it was not a democracy at the time, and so citing the decision as supporting democracy is questionable.
I've found the Desktop client lower latency and more stable, but not by a huge amount
I'd like this visualization on Audacity.
Because the people we elect are incapable of doing simple math? Maybe it's time for electing people who actually know shit?
> The only vulnerability here is the possibility of a 0-Day.

You do realize that the last security update for these routers was in 2019, right? So by zero day, you mean something more like 700 day? Yeah, no way anyone could've discovered a system takeover in the last 2 years, when up against the security prowess of... TPLink?

I think it might be a good idea to edit your original comment, you'll save some face.
Thank you for the clarification, you are absolutely correct that its positive or negative rather than having a direction.
Search for vulnerable PC's, install ransomware, extract $$ from the victim.

Or just generally cause havoc "for the fun of it", which seems to be a not uncommon motive for some people.
You can do this with Node.js as well using: https://github.com/vercel/pkg
Yeah, looks amateur. Typically you expect to see mixed white/Black couples, Muslim women (never men), a shortage of east-Asian people (usually women, presented as casual but desexualized professionals), rarely Indians (and never the Indian Family, marking a stark contrast to actual Desi ads), and everybody between 27 and 35 (the absence of children you're not supposed to think about, and old people might hold bad opinions).

Departures from this pattern are indeed noticeable.
It isn't like malware at all. They tell you exactly what data they collect, you need to opt in, and their code is opensource https://adobserver.org/

I have the right to do anything I want with the data facebook sends to my computer - including sending it to NYU researchers.
Obama winning the Peace Prize while bombing people was the moment I realized Nobel Prizes are a joke. Politicized Orwellian doublespeak.

It was given to him less than eight months after he became president, mostly based on his campaign rhetoric. Really just massively embarrassing for the Nobel committee in hindsight.

The Nobel Secretary regrets that award.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34277960
Or there is no password at all, like say a lot of HP printers.
Congrats. Can you explain what the confidentiality rules are for participants in your platform? Will everything that is shared be held in confidence? Is there an agreement that you ask people to sign?
>Or are these environments just too different?

the most important factor in public perception of those events - domestic politics (and thus resulting media propaganda spin in particular) - are very different.

The main real factor is the same in both cases though - it is climate change, and whether too much or too little of logging, whether active fire suppression is practiced or not is just a noise compare to the ground-shifting effects of the climate change.

In either case giving current climate there should be different type forest than what is there now - the forest just hasn't been able to adjust naturally that fast. Thus the various ways of catastrophic adjustment including by fires and die-offs.
While photos aren’t end to end encrypted (at least today), the fact that they show up on a new phone isn’t proof that if non-encryption. E.g. keychain passwords and iMessage messages are end to end encrypted (except in iCloud backups) but show up when you buy a new phone.
I'm not sure how this is terribly relevant. Content would be segregated based on country, geography and language alone.
One argument made in the episode was that since only white people could get mortgage loans the wealth generated from owning property, was exclusive to them. Which is more or less the wealth that defines the middle class today?
I found politics to be too pervasive to escape on Reddit, which is why I eventually deleted my account. I tried to stick to non-political subreddits, but when I found myself reading comments about police brutality in r/dogswithjobs, I knew I no longer wanted to use the site.

What's sad is the political discussions aren't even good. Comments are written to appeal to the lowest common denominator of reader, and a lot of subreddit comment sections move at breakneck speed, so what you end up with is a bunch of politically like-minded people dogpiling on top of each other to write something like "Being a republican at this point is basically saying you agree with killing the planet" (an actual current top comment on r/news right now). A few comments down in the chain will be a Futurama reference.
> Second, the Genesis story is Jewish, and predates Christianity by at least five if not ten centuries.

The Genesis story is much older than that and rooted in Babylonian creation myths.

We don't know that much about the early Christians. But we do know that there was a lot of competing branches of Christianity and cross-pollination between Jewish traditions, Hellenistic traditions, and pagan traditions. The branch that Constantine favored was the one that won out and suppressed all other branches. It's not beyond the pale to speculate about early Christians mixing "standard" Christianity and rites from fertility cults and using psychedelics. Although there is zero evidence.
good cause.

i need one that kills 'jumpy' pages due to 'wacky header metamorphosis while scrolling' pages.
Ask HN: Did You Take the Vaccine?
Vaccine passports are rolling out. I am conflated whether to take vaccine or not. Number of reports said it’s harmful for women of childbearing age, so I am concerned for my wife. Many people reported blood clots. I have high cholesterol so impact is unknown.
As someone educated,I find it’s unnecessary rushed. Quarantine of high risk group would have worked better. Many in 30s with kids planned are doing same things.

As non-citizen of the US, this has additional impact for us if foreign travellers are required to have vaccine as mandatory requirement.

Did you take the vaccine? Why or why not?
I don't neccesarily agree with what I'm about to comment, I'm just adding some clarity:

...rent-seeking in a system based on massive electrical waste.

With that as the core assumption, the exploitation would be anyone who relies on the environment (everyone, then), I'd think.
Does the router have the ability to install software onto connected devices?
> I want the ORM to handle the trivial stuff like SELECT * FROM table WHERE id=? and UPDATE table SET thing=? WHERE id=?.

Why are list(Table.objects.filter(id=?)) and Table.objects.filter(id=?).update(thing=?) better?

That's what I mean by the trivial, it's 'handled', sure, with some pointless (IMO) thin wrapper that's Django-specific to learn. (Sure it's not loads to learn, but it has its quirks. I always have to check the meaning of the 'defaults' kwarg to update it create for example.)

> On the other hand, for complex stuff, I'd rather write the raw SQL, since it's in a real language and not some half-baked, under-documented DSL that everyone onboarding onto the project will be unfamiliar with.

Yes, I agree! I just think the trivial wrapper stuff isn't valuable, and especially if I'm using raw SQL for less trivial stuff, I may as well always do so.

I think my comment above might've sounded ambiguously like maybe I wanted DSL for more complex stuff. That's not what I meant - I meant that it tends to be more complex in the DSL than in SQL, up to the point where it's just impossible in the DSL, and you either use SQL or don't do it.
hirundo:

What's My Car Worth? Sans VIN... now live:

https://driverbase.com/sell

Thank you for your feedback.
My original comment pertained to a general pattern of communication from public health agencies-- I believe you were the first to bring up that tweet.

But if you want to explore the topic, by 14 January 2020 the virus had been sequenced for over a week, and its status as a beta-coronavirus with substantial sequence similarity to SARS established. Even if the sentence "preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission" was true, rather than merely asserted by Chinese authorities (as now seems more likely) it's just not a terribly pertinent thing to report if you're trying to be Gricean about it. It was one instance of a pattern of minimization from public health agencies that persisted even after it was clear that SARS-CoV-2 had global reach: https://lessonsfromthecrisis.substack.com/p/things-can-get-r...
An election is coming soon, incumbent has no credible opposition and this is both a useful distraction from actual issues and something conservatives will engage with, effectively playing into the hands of liberals who will call them x-ist and act like they are conspiracy nuts for opposing it. Plus create a few choice public service positions to reward patronage.
Better cars and bus lanes aside, I've never seen an Uber driver do anything besides follow whatever route Google Maps, Waze, or Apple Maps suggested. Most of the drivers don't even really know the streets of the city they are driving in.

My complaint would be the exact opposite of yours: taxi drivers often have a few tricks up their sleeve while Uber drivers will follow Google Maps straight into a traffic jam.
Pistachios wallop walnuts as the toughest nut to crack
You should spend more time here. I'm fairly certain that, if HN is representative, nobody likes ORMs. (Also: advertisement works on nobody)

Personally, I love solving fancy puzzles with SQL but honestly prefer Rails' ActiveRecord ORM because it drastically cuts down on typing.
thank you we just made this change: https://driverbase.com/sell
I kept reading this as "cat-free neighbourhood", multiple times too. Looked at the website but couldn't figure out what part of all the nice features was thanks to the community being cat-free. Were the BBQs and hammocks better if there is no cats anywhere?

There is a cat in one of the images near the top. I thought maybe they were being sarcastic or something.

Geez! :)
I’d suggest more math as a personal advise, but I have no power outside of relatives and friends.
So I can only observe what’s happening on the national level. And that observation is that math is taught in a way that does little to promote reasoning skills and most people won’t use it. And smart people will find a way to learn, it’s easier than ever.
So orderly.
> That's possible using backlinks, or in real life, by saying "thank you".

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations open with a list of lessons learned and an attribution.

Just remembered this when I read your nice note about the "thank you" -- for which, and for the ensuing recollection, thank you!
Patching iOS in that manner sounds hard.
Apple call center workers fear AI-powered surveillance cameras in their homes
That is such an easy fix. I can't believe this is not the default on all devices with an HTTP server. Of course this wouldn't stop attacks or even entire-internet scans (does Shodan respect that?) but would make discovery way harder.

Brb going through all software I ever wrote looking whether they could benefit from this too.
> (4) Breaking the law. A significant number of cab meters are illegally altered to charge more money than allowed by law.

Do you have evidence of this claim, at least insofar as U.S. taxis are concerned?
Tiktok is a crowdsourced video ad creation platform. The stream is a lab that tests videos for their effectiveness before they are later reused as ads for publishers. The end goal is for TikTok to sell well optimized crowdsourced content about your brand as an ad.

The users are literally competing to make better ads while they believe they are making content.
I'm not saying you should reflexively believe the opposite of what any given source reports, just bear in mind the track records.
Maybe most people aren't interested in queer content, so it doesn't get viral. It may be there, but most people immediately scroll it up.
May Culdesac rub off on insanely-car-centric-for-a-university-town-with-a-gajillion-walking/biking/scooting-students town (Tempe)

in Their name,

amen.
"Anything that flies on anything that moves" -Henry Kissingers policy for attacking the Vietnamese
Not exactly, FEC basically means you add in redundant data to your transmission so that if some of the data is lost, you can “rebuild” the missing data from the packets that did arrive. The cost of this is extra bandwidth spent on the redundancy, as well as a little latency.

Rollback is as you say, if the game loses connection with your opponent, rollback 1) uses your opponent’s past actions to predict what they will do next and then presents that to you as if they did it then 2) when the connection is restored, reconcile (if necessary) the difference between what your opponent actually did with what it predicted, rolling back if needed.
I don't remember either :)
Two regs, less than 30 min old, both trying to launder the bullshit Kissinger did. Odd.

> hese are the hard decisions one grapples with as Secretary of State.

SoS of an imperialist country. During a time of America's greatest atrocities. And during a time where no one could challenge US hegemony. There is no statecraft to be learned here. There is nothing to learn from him other than what a piece of shit he is.
Mafia doesn't have long term mentality. It's rip off everything now, let it be dead desert tomorrow approach. They'll have enough to fill their pockets at present, even with fires raging.
Dydx. It's a zkrollup (non-custodial) based perpetuals exchange, no kyc. Only an ip check for Americans on the interface.
Liquidity for eth and btc perps is good now, volume picked up.

https://dydx.exchange/blog/public
What's any of this experience got to do with AI or tech?
I'm not entirely sure what you are expecting me to say. I didn't say every adult will be a bully. But not every teenager in high school is a bully either. The existence of "well adjusted adult" doesn't have anything to do with this. You can have "well adjusted adults" and still have rampant bullying. The point I'm making is that a traditional hierarchy tries to put the "wall adjusted adults" with good leadership skills in leadership positions. In contrast to a flat hierarchy where it's essentially just a popularity contest.
Saying harsh but true things makes him a war criminal?
I was working on a proposal for a client who wanted to build a marketplace, but most of the vendors had low-end tech equipment, and he went with someone who had a lower quote. My biggest caution was that a limited number of developers actually understood what to do with slow internet connections and old tech. Marketplace failed... ignorance sometimes is the worst thing in people who believe that it works on my machine and will work on everyone else's.
No docs? Don't see any, other than the readme.
How many people actually like walking around in Arizona heat? I thought everybody just jumped from their car's AC to a building's AC.
That Stephen Malinowski link was great. I don’t know that song by name, but I could unmistakably tell what song it was just by looking at the visualization (even though I left the video muted)!
>TikTok content comes across as completely vapid.

I think that's exactly the point.

Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and (to a lesser extent) YouTube are weapons of psychological warfare that have been optimised to spread political misinformation and outrage.

TikTok, on the other hand, is just hot chicks dancing, stupid memes and Shrugging Black Italian Man. It reminds me a lot of old YouTube in that regard.