skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NetEase's success will depend on their willingness to understand and adapt to EU mentality. There are many big failures of marketplaces that tried to expand to different continents, look at Rakuten's failed EU expansion for example. Also one of the reasons why we don't do an expansion to Asia or the US (yet).

So NetEase is the least of our worries for the future, macro factors and the success of CS:GO including Valve's strategic decisions with the game play a much bigger role than any competition in my opinion.

Why do we take high fees? We could obviously outsource employees and other expensive tasks to lower the cost base significantly, but it would not be needed. The margin is very good with our current cost basis already.

Raising our fees from 10 to 15 % was a decision made after OPskins and BitSkins both played themselves and went offline / took a pause. We had more inflow of users than we could handle. Now we can handle the inflow, but don't see a reduction from 15 to 10 % as the right decision to drive user growth. Of course if the market adapts as a whole and everyone takes a lower commission, we would have to do the same in the end.
> Right now this area is not taken seriously enough as it should by the research community

Another reason is that basic material needed to conduct this research (child porn) is legally toxic to posses. Sure, there are ways around that for sufficiently motivated researchers. But if you are a CS researcher, you have a lot of research oppurtunities that do not involve any of that risk or overhead.
No. If I trust the vendor today, and my code is open source, then I can control if, when, and how it changes. With closed source, the vendor can introduce a backdoor with every update. They can also force me to update by making the current code stop working by changing their servers. The potential for compromise due to an untrustworthy vendor is not zero, but it's vastly lower with open source.
And that is my point: by tying oneself to the mast, denying oneself the access to navigate after the sweet sweet sound of user data, it becomes possible to sail straight past the sirens.

Today this is less about physically tying management and physically putting wax in the crews ears and more about technically and legally making oneself unable to touch the juicy juicy customer data.
WA's goal posts are "protect the host from the program, not the program from itself"; the program is assumed to be malicious in this context. If you want to turn around and eval the output of a potentially malicious program in the context of the host, that's on you. You haven't 'broken' the WA memory barrier and blaming WA is an attempt to move the goal posts. WA adds a specific (hitherto unbroken) security layer; intentionally poking a hole in it and prancing about like you've found something is just crying wolf.

Edit to add that I agree that whole-program security is obviously still important when a WA-sandbox is part of the whole program, but WA is not advertised to be a solution to the halting problem, it's still just a tool. Be aware of the capabilities of the tools you use, wishing that your tools are made of magic does not make them more capable than what they were designed for.
From what the article stated, it seems the longest term testing they did was firing a laser at the red widget for 6 months straight and it maintained constant current the entire time
Are you aware of what “water the tree of liberty” references?

It is a Thomas Jefferson quote:

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

In the context of January 6th it’s hard to make a leap to metaphorical server blood. Datacenters still have people inside them, no mention of servers was made. Only a quote from a man who waged a real war.

> tech workers are replaceable.

Speaking as a tech worker, no, my life is not replaceable.

> I did not find it very hard to assume a not-the-worst-possible reading of the comment.

The not-the-worst-possible reading being what? Mobs attacking data centers?

> What's with the comment police here lately that's labeling various comments? I hope this ain't becoming the new twitter

I feel the same way. So let's tone down the rhetoric. If this post was metaphorical hyperbole it is the kind that got a president impeached.
That experiment shows that whatever is stored on ProtonMail's servers plus your password is sufficient to decrypt your emails. This could be explained by the private key being derived from or encrypted with your password. ProtonMail's documentation says it's the latter (https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/how-is-the-pri...):

> Your ProtonMail private key is generated in your browser. Before sending the private key to the server for storage, we encrypt it with your password (or mailbox password if you use two-password mode). This ensures that you and only you can use your private key.

So the only remaining question is whether ProtonMail has access to your password. If they do, they can decrypt your private key and then decrypt your emails. Often, passwords are sent in plaintext to a server for authentication. But ProtonMail uses the Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol so they never see your password: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco.... (source: https://protonmail.com/blog/encrypted_email_authentication/)

Of course, there are other threats to worry about, such as ProtonMail changing their client-side JavaScript to exfiltrate your password. But the system as they've documented it does not appear to have any way to decrypt your email server-side short of guessing your password.
Automate Low Power Mode to go longer between iPhone charges
iOS has been running complex Neural Nets on all your images for years now. It powers all their social features and search.

Apple have always had the capability, and have been advertising it as central selling point of new versions of iOS for years. That ship sailed along time ago.
Than maybe if there are more teams in the competition we might count draws as looses of both teams to make draws completely unattractive.
Masks suck, but they are necessary, I get why people would complain about them. Vaccines, on the other hand, are super easy to get, just a couple of pricks. I really don't get the people who don't do that!
> Or a self-hosted option where the API could be deployed to the company's cloud of choice?

Can put it on Tor and give an ephemeral onion link (I wrote https://github.com/cretz/bine to help w/ just these use cases). So people could access via Tor browser or via the same CLI with a "client"/"get" command. Can even have the ephemeral server determine its been HTTP "GET"d and kill itself. Then you don't even need a public website.
(they'd also probably have the data to know whether or not those relationships last, now that I think about it)
> If you don't use iCloud Photo Library or sync photos to the iCloud, none of this will apply to you.

Not true. They will be scanning your messages also for inappropriate content - https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
> McDonald’s deserves to go bankrupt, and will probably do so at some point if they run their business this way.

McDonald's isn't directly involved in this legal action. McDonald's is the client/money two third party service providers are fighting over (Taylor Vs. Kytch).

I'd point you to the linked article for a better understanding of what is going on.
>Our measure of income inequality is the difference between the 50th and 99th percentiles of the income distribution. We used this as our measure of income inequality as opposed to the more standard Gini coefficient2 because the tax incidence on very low-income quantiles is typically small.

Or is it because if they don't restrict the data to 50th percentile and above, the data doesn't fit the story they want to tell?

It's also weird that they treat spending as intrinsically dependent on taxes when for all intents and purposes, it's independent.

Many of those variables are easily tweaked (e.g. government spending) and many of them vary enough that performing the experiment over a different time period could very well mean getting the exact opposite result.
> You can't fix stupid.

What if this is one of the ways we’re being stupid?

One of the other properties of stupid is that we don’t know when we are being stupid, because if we did we could have gotten ourselves out of it.
Tell HN: I got my first software development job
Hey all! I just got my first software development job and wanted to say thank you to the community!

I started lurking here about three years ago while doing some research on how to best get started with a career in software. A lot of the topics that get discussed here were/are over my head. It was very valuable to see these conversations and try to "translate" them. I've learned a lot here about development as well as what the industry is actually like. I'd like to think I'm going into this with realistic expectations.

For anyone who is curious about how I got here, this is roughly how I did it:

2015 - Graduated with BA in History.

2018 - Started self teaching how to program, got an office job and automated everything I could.

2019 - Took four semesters of night classes to meet the math per-requisites for my local CS program.

2020 - Took a butt load of CS classes while working.

2021 - Finally convinced my company to let me help the software team (part-time).

July 2021 - Partner gets job out of state, apply for dev jobs in that city even though I hadn't finished my degree.

August 2021 - After a long interview process, accepted an offer for my very first software development job!

I feel like Hacker News was a big part of guiding me down the right path and am very thankful it is exists.
The Information War and Vaccine-Passports
Anyone looking into it for the first time should be deeply skeptical. The notion of imputed value to a shared service sort of feels like a scam. However, you have to realize its a shared value you are buying into. No less real than what fiat currency without the "full faith and credit" of a government. The question is if that full faith can be put into a technological platform that is open sourced with as much confidence as a centralized government entity.
Anyone know how large this hash set is? Hopefully they only download it on WiFi…

The human review aspect is scary as well. Imagine some stranger reviewing your private photos after the system mistakes one of your photos as illegal content.
> Taxing the ultra-wealthy is possible

The ultra-wealthy's what? Their wealth is held offshore, their income is more than offset. You want to tax yachts? They'll buy jets. Taxing the symptom is playing tax law whack-a-mole (and the mole is rich and the hammer is limp, and the mole pays the hammer's mortgage). Tax the cause. Their rent-collecting mechanisms are much more immobile and difficult to hide.

> and they still get to be ultra-wealthy afterward.

Not a justification.

> We already do it

Doesn't mean it's right.

> the discussion is only “how much?”

It's not right to presume we can take from someone just because they can afford it. The only policy that makes sense to me is to reclaim the portion of the public good that is privatized via rent seeking. If someone got ultra wealthy by their blood, sweat, and tears, as long as they did so without collecting rent or causing negative externalities, I don't care if they can buy and sell Andromeda.

> and what to do with the money.

The reasonable thing to do with the money is to offset negative externalities (pollution, climate change, illiteracy, etc.) and equally redistribute the rest (citizen's dividend).

> (Incidentally - the rich have been winning this argument for a long time, as their effective taxes fall and fall and fall.)

The only way to reverse this trend without massive deadweight loss is a tax on land rent.

> On the other hand, proving that a specific piece of income is “economic rent” - I think that’s intractable and only produces loss on both sides. It’s a fight to the death for the accused, a hill they’ll die on. The idea is appealing at a surface level but I can’t see any way forward with it.

I disagree. The simplest form of economic rent is that on nature. A tax on the unimproved value of land, and a carbon tax are simple, straightforward examples anti-rent, anti-externality measures.
To be fair, they both agreed to make the whole bet public. They went on video, with "science celebrities" like Neil Degrasse Tyson and Bill Nye, and I believe they even signed something? It's kinda hard to backup from that. It also was a UCLA professor, so not quite some random person on Twitter.

EDIT: As an aside, I would also add that the original video did a poor job at explaining, and the demo had clear flaws which were the points the physics professor was making. More specifically, his 2 main points were

1. It's possible that when the picture of the flag was taken, the wind was slower than the car, but the car was still moving faster due to momentum

2. It's possible that the wind speed up at the propeller level is different from the ground level where the flag was

Those were both very valid criticisms, even though they didn't actually matter in the grander scheme of things.
The solution then, based on their final conclusion, would be to distribute ownership of the capital instead of having it be concentrated to a small number of people. Sounds a bit like both the stock market and communism.

Edit: Seems like some people think otherwise. Would love to hear your thoughts.
A pro-human stance includes concern for the environment that humans live in. So I do want a healthy planet to live on.

Making everything cost more for everyone...doesn't sound like much of a compromise
What you're talking about is inflation of the currency, and if you want people to continue using it as a currency you'll limit its inflation.

And taxes exist for a plethora of reasons, originally as a source of income for governments, and later as a social and economic tool of governments to control behavior and growth, amongst likely hundreds of other reasons.
I like how unfocused article feels. With the videos, comments and interesting facts, it manages to replicate the experience of reading an article at the same time you're randomly browsing the internet and talking about it with your friends in a group chat. I wonder if it's deliberate?
Sports in the Olympics are about Viewership and money. Falling records would probably contribute to that.
Will the next NSOGroup Pegasus malware feature a swatting-as-a-service plugin that makes the victim phones self-report?
Correct, but there's nothing stopping your from having a lambda function regenerating S3 content from Hugo periodically/by request.
Tokyo Olympics Medals Were Made with Tons of Recycled Smartphones, Laptops
Google gmail spam algo is heavily trained by users pressing the spam button. Do spammy things , get marked spam by joe average and do it enough and your emails are marked spam, no explicit action required. It also means that most political email is marked as spam.
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They could conceivably add screening to the javascript client downloaded to the user that does the end to end encryption. Don't know how practical that might be.

I think the more interesting question involves something like Mailvelope. It is a stand alone OpenPGP based encryption system based on the ProtonMail code that provides encryption for webmail. It can be hosted somewhere physically and politically far away from the EU and is an open source project. How will the EU approach the ancient PGP dilemma this time around?
Fecal transplants reverse signs of brain aging in mice
The biggest source of US emissions is driving. About a third. Transporting goods is a tiny tiny fraction of that, as overall transportation emissions account for only slightly more than that.

Driving really is the worst possible thing to do, and we have enshrined mandatory car use in the way that we have laid out our roads, where we allow housing and jobs to be placed, and by banning placement of daily needs next to homes.

EU emissions per capita are a fraction of US emissions, ans most of that comes from how we force people to live in the US.
The top 1% earned 21% of aggregate income, and paid 40% of income taxes. Clearly the rich are indeed being impacted by progressive taxes.

A flat tax would give them a huge tax break, which would either lead to higher taxes on everyone else, cutting of social services, or an increasingly large deficit
That's rich, coming from a site that NOT ONLY rejects all other possible causes for the recent rise in global temperatures, but ALSO believes that silly and wasteful government programs can actually change the entire planet without decimating the population or living standards.

They can't manage garbage collection, for Pete's sake!
I know about nothing on this topic, so my only comment is that every time I read something along "please think of the children!" it suddenly raises warning flags.
I think the ideal way to use TNT is place it in the center of a 3x3x3 block room, suspended on dirt or something with low blast resist. It'll expand the room to roughly 5x5x5. You can do this again to expand to 7x7x7
So basically you're getting ~250 blocks removed per 2 TNT.
A mob spawner/farm can produce 100 or more gunpowder in 10 minutes.
Rails are more easily found in mine shafts than crafted. Dump water instead of pickaxing them.

This is from personal experience, I'm not sure what the ideal strategies are in newer versions of the game.
To make it even worse they extended the functionality to Mac OSX. WTF???
I am going to destroy all my consumer devices, build firm/softwarez from source reproducibly, and never trust Apple again.
Do cash debits and checks lead to automatic sales of securities or does it roll into an automatic margin loan?

If so, how do you decide what securities to liquidate?

If not, what’s the margin rates and is there a spread atop Fidelity’s rack rates?

I’m in the skeptical camp as well as none of this seems that’s useful vs the potential fee structure and risk profile. Anybody that wants this now can setup a checking account alongside their brokerage and manually sweep cash as needed. That also has the advantage of being in explicit control of what monies get moved.
That’s an interesting point. Do you know I’d this is the case? That is, by putting this in the phone then Apple’s liability is lessened.
Yeah. Children are the perfect political weapon. You can use children to justify anything and destroy the reputation of anyone who opposes you. It's reasonable to assume anyone using children as argument is acting in bad faith.

I seriously doubt governments actually care about children. They probably care a great deal more about maintaining their own power and control over their subjects. We see countries like Russia and China using the tools of surveillance and law enforcement to silence political opposition and dissent.
Now all you need is to remember what Y is: it's pretty much the Russell's paradox in the shape of a function!

If you represent a set as indicator function, then the Russell's set R = \x. N (x x), where N is logical negation. Now let's ask it whether it's a member of itself, and you get (\x. N (x x)) (\x. N (x x)), which essentially tries to find a fix-point of logical negation (and tragically, diverges in the process). Now abstract N away, and you have the fully general Y you know and love: \f. (\x. f (x x)) (\x. f (x x))

I've seen this trick just this morning at [0], and I am absolutely enchanted with this observation.

[0] http://c9x.me/notes/2015-06-02.html
No, they do, we just decided to ignore that they do so parents could send their kids back to school
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/08/health/long-covid-kids.ht...
Downvoting facts is sad.
Show me where I have consumer choice about which transport company my goods are shipped on (as well as a shipping company that isn't a huge polluter), and I'll happily wield my influence.
You mean like growing forests, and store it for hundred years or more in the form of houses?

Or in a worst case, growing it and burying it in massive heaps so the already collected CO2 is stored and new threes are allowed to grow?
https://www.navidrome.org/ might help

(I'm unaffiliated, just sharing)
Climate engineering is obviously incredibly fraught for a variety of reasons (unintended consequences/etc) but at what point do we start to consider it ? start developing and evaluating technologies related to it ? it seems like it would be something we want in the toolbox since its a solution orthogonal to consumption of carbon
High specific impulse can actually reduce efficiency, though. Consider: a rocket is most efficient at converting jet kinetic energy into the kinetic energy of the vehicle if the exhaust velocity = - vehicle velocity (so the jet is left stationary in the chosen frame of reference). An ideal (and unrealizable) rocket would have Isp that increases during the launch. It should initially be very low, then increase with time. Efficiency can (ideally) approach 100%.

But I wonder what you mean by efficiency of conversion of fuel "to transportation". Do you mean the irreducible minimum energy needed to achieve a given transportation task? Because the latter can be ZERO here on Earth: the energy needed to go from one place to another at the same elevation and latitude is zero: there is no change in kinetic and potential energy before and after. By your criterion, a terrestrial transportation system has 0% efficiency in this case (and extremely low efficiency in many more cases.)

> SpaceX may have the absolute bee's knees in rocket engine, but that assumes that leaving the atmosphere

Yes, tell me about what can be done in space without leaving the atmosphere. You seem to have written a veiled screed against space travel itself. It's not about efficiency at all.
No serious reputable anything has ever found a flat tax to be anything but a huge giveaway to the rich as well.

Just fund the IRS and stop letting the foxes run the hun house, ie. get money out of politics and stop letting a few people and their rich friends make all the rules to favor that small cadre.
How to spot the real gems inside the sea of shitcoins
Do Children Contribute to the Flourishing of Their Parents?
From that section that you linked:

> Nevertheless, other classes of bugs are not obviated by the semantics of WebAssembly. Although attackers cannot perform direct code injection attacks, it is possible to hijack the control flow of a module using code reuse attacks against indirect calls. However, conventional return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks using short sequences of instructions (“gadgets”) are not possible in WebAssembly, because control-flow integrity ensures that call targets are valid functions declared at load time. ...

The paper is just a long-winded restatement of this paragraph.

And to be clear it doesn't. I said:

> ... Notably, they don't appear to even try to break the WA-host memory barrier ...

To which the paper's author themselves directly replied:

> ... I do agree with you, however, that our findings do not invalidate the overall design of WebAssembly. ... I also think "host security" (which we are not really looking into) is solid, with two qualifications: ...
Apple literally went 1984 at this point
Your question contains the implicit assumption that all employees would rather be remote, but that's not true. Many employees, myself included, actually want to work from an office. Why should the remote-only crowd get their preference at our expense? In an all-remote model, those of us with kids at home and no good place to work will become the "second-class" employees.

The blog post discusses at great lengths the challenges of a hybrid model and some things Cloudflare is doing to address them. For example:

> One of the few rules that we plan on starting with is that in meetings if any person is remote then everyone in the meeting is remote.