skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only because it is usually very hard to determine how the current projects will be affected if one gets rid of a particular manager. So the next level manager will always take the path of least resistance / least risk and move the person to a different role while having some smooth transition on projects. In reality, more often that not, this is completely unnecessary. But the person making the decision outweighs their project’s success more than the wastage of an unproductive employee. Basically a form of kicking that can down the road.
I don't know about annual checks. Maybe twice a decade for the major things.

I am 34 and just found out I have a Atrial Septal Defect. A birth defect in my heart where a hole in my atria cause already oxygenated
blood from my left atrium to flow into the right. It has now caused significant pulmonary hypertension which is causing me all kinds of weird symptoms over the last year. I found out through an echocardiogram ordered by a pulmonologist as I was having shortness of breath.

Normally this is something that is found in early childhood if parents bring their kids to get checked out. My mother did not evidently! When it's found and handled sooner it gets fixed and that's it. No further treatment required. If I had found this sooner I would not have the extra lung damage and heart chamber dilation that I have now.

So yes, I think a healthy person should get their vital organs checked every so often because a defect in early life may not present itself until a lot of damage has been done in later life.
The United States has the world's longest running presidential system, and is the only exception to the rule so far.
URIs have a generic grammar defined in RFC 3986.

However, this doesn't cover DNS name validation for the hostname:

"This specification does not mandate a particular registered name lookup technology and therefore does not restrict the syntax of reg-name beyond what is necessary for interoperability"

It also doesn't constrain the userinfo ("username:password") part described in this vulnerability.

So yeah, it's non-trivial.
> “We had absolutely no work in Russia”

Seems to imply a lack of business value, so you don’t have to be that astonished. No one reading this has enough information about whether the business value of that actually existed or not, but at that statement should explain to you why people are upset at this.

Secondly, the degree to which a task is close to the domain the employee was hired for also matters. For example, hiring a software engineer to do misc tasks like this clearly shows a lack of proper management. You either do it yourself as a manager or hire the headcount to get these kinds of misc tasks done. E.g. executive assistants/ secretary etc.

Asking someone for their opinion on UX design is very different from asking someone to prepare a brief on Russian history.
> moonlight is 1/345th the power of sunlight

I'm pretty sure you are off by several orders of magnitude here as all sources I find list the sun as ~400,000 times brighter than the moon.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/
Funny, I thought this was a tongue-in-cheek comment, but it‘s literally what happens in the video.
A Three-Pronged Attack by Chinese Military Actors Against Major Telcos
This is good, but it entirely omitted the contribution of Dan Bernstein, who was the one who actually fought the court battle (initially with the help of John Gilmore and the EFF).
Just to share the American perspective, it feels like this: Many people speak English, and thus it is difficult/impossible for people from outside the US to discern the difference between domestic and international services. (Not saying Google is a domestic service obviously.) Through historical chance, we don't have the luxury and benefits of a native language like many of you reading this right now.
Article selection itself is editing, as is setting up the processes for review and acceptance.

That said, I think academic publishing is a criminal industry and Alexandra Elbakyan a modern day superhero.
Ten countries with zero income tax in the world
That's not a distinction I've ever encountered (from Indiana, US). I'd have said they were interchangeable, but if you told me there was a difference, and asked me what it was, my best guess would have been that a street is urban and a road is rural, just based on experience with whether something tends to be named "XXX St" or "XXX Rd". Wiktionary tells me that a street is within a single city/town, while a road runs between cities/towns, which I guess seems about right to me?
I would rephrase your first part as: copyright and government protection of trade secrets is incompatible with a principled (n.b.: not "simplistic") view of freedom of expression.

As far as the other acts that rode along on the coattails of your comment: there's no reason the production of that material couldn't remain illegal in this hypothetical.
I was referring the second system mentioned by the parent. NOT the CSAM system. Conflating these systems has been huge issue with the random articles coming out. They are distinct.

From the GP
> The second, independent, system, is a machine learning model which runs on-device to detect sexually explicit photos being received on Messages.app. This system is designed to be run on children’s phones. The system will hide these explicit images by default, and can be configured to alert parents - that feature is designed for under-13s. This system doesn’t use the CSAM hash list.

> Apple is free to provide encryption and they are choosing to not do so.

Sort of. They cited the FBI a few years ago when they put the brakes on adding E2EE to everything. It would also create a huge target for legislation, 'Apple is helping CP people - think of the children!' The new method of CSAM will let Apple add E2EE, and fight off calls for legislation.
Privacy flaws in Telegram secret-chats
Your last paragraph, could you expand? Seems like each time I get close to “color” I get pulled back to “black and white.” It’s clear there is an emotional intelligence not possessed, but usually only _after_ the opportunity to learn has passed.
You won't ever be able to concentrate eartlight enough to start a fire... I doubt that you can get any real power generation from such a system.
https://xkcd.com/504/

Depends. Pieces of paper can be restricted and considered equivalent to a munition.
I went to bars there too, and yeah, there were lots of people, but the ones I saw were always mostly speaking Spanish. Or Portuguese. Maybe I didn't go at the right (wrong?) time.
The implication is that this is just bullshit fake work being sent down in an effort to assert control and dominance over someone.
Would totally make sense - when visiting .co.uk sites!
Seconding the recommendation for the Burglar's Guide book, it's very good, as is the blog.

The essay reminds me very much of how my perspective on urban space changed when I started bicycling around my city, and ow it changed my relationship with the space. The city got smaller, and I got into a relationship with the topography -- hills relate to cycling more profoundly than to walking or driving.
Google's been stymied by copyright.

The Internet Archive and Open Library ... to a much greater degree ... have not. And much of the material there is the result of Google scans.

I still prefer unencumbered sources (LibGen, ZLibrary, Sci-Hub), but at least having the option of access through the Archive is helpful.

Reading books on my own device with local optimsed software remains superior to Archive.org's Bookreader, though the latter is pretty darned good.
Is this really an issue?

Who cares if they have to install oracle or @oracle/client?
It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
TFA references a huge amount of already packaged bud and produced and packaged edibles included in that billion grams.

Unless you’re a cartel trying to price fix for long term gain, selling this stuff at >$0 is a win.
> The whole point of journals is peer review. That's what distinguishes them from random blog posts. So why can't reviewers just start working independently?

It's happening slowly in some fields. Well, not quite independently, but in loose professional associations. It requires pretty coordinated action and still has a chance of failing though. One early successful case is that almost the entire editorial board of the Springer journal Machine Learning resigned in 2001, and threw their weight behind a community-run, non-profit, open-access alternative, the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), which is now considered by most people to be at least as prestigious as the Springer journal.

Open letter with their rationale from the time: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/jmlr/statement.html
People want outdoor weed? I think most people prefer indoor as it's stronger and of higher quality.
License Round-Up
You're also totally in your rights to ask your bank teller to write you an essay about Russian political history and switch banks if they refuse. Being within your rights doesn't mean you're not acting totally insane.
And terrible interop. SMS may be trash, but it’s always there as a fallback. It would be great to see improvements to that fallback that didn’t fracture communications like imessage, whatsapp, signal, etc have all done
What I have heard anecdotally from people who grow is that regulations have stymied their ability to profit. In many places there are limits on how much you can grow, or how you can sell, or how much, or to whom. Illegal sales do not have any of those problems. It's like we've tied the legal producers' hands behind their backs and then wonder what all the struggling is about.
Interesting, what might be the reason for its success despite being a presidential system?
It's easy to make hardware or software virtual mics and cameras that can't be detected as such. Getting that pronunciation task right will be easier for a bot using TTS through a virtual mic than for many non-native English speakers.

A bigger problem is that once you've given some random site permission to access your mic or camera, it can use that access for anything it wants.
Have we proven that? SMS is still the only surefire messaging system, despite the flaws.
>>> Should Latin America, Far East, Middle East, or any other non-Anglo region ever enjoy a sufficiently long period unmolested by the Anglo-Empire, they too will pass through their period of contention among the ruling classes and arrive at a stable formula for exercising governance over a docile population.

That stable formula may in turn be imperialist. Colonialism is not the sole province of the Anglosphere. China has already reached this kind of stability and freedom from foreign molestation, to the detriment of its neighbors and conquered peoples.

It's also worth noting that countries subjected to Anglo colonialism and Common Law have fared better than those colonized by Spain or France, in large part because British colonies were not organized as plantations run by a few wealthy landlords (at least, not nearly to the same extent). Most of Latin America still hasn't even experienced land reform, keeping large swaths of the population at the level of subsistence. Moreover the lack of property rights and security driven by the occasional socialist/populist uprisings result in a lack of credit or investment that would help build a middle class. The middle class is the group you refer to derogatively as "subject classes [...] propagandized to accept their station in life." That class in China and in the Anglosphere lives a materially much more comfortable existence than the subject classes of LatAm, Africa or South Asia. The material comfort, more than the propaganda, is the key to preventing populist uprising.
Actually, the US numbers are already filtered to 4-year institutions.

"The overall 6-year graduation rate for first-time, full-time undergraduate students who began seeking a bachelor’s degree at 4-year degree-granting institutions in fall 2012 was 62 percent. That is, by 2018 some 62 percent of students had completed a bachelor’s degree at the same institution where they started in 2012."

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40

(There is some amount of skew based on this definition for students who transferred to a different institution and then completed on time, but it's hard to find numbers on students who transferred from one four-year institution to another, as opposed to all transfers who predominantly come from 2-year community colleges.)
There are few cases where there could be some advantages:

1. Whoever you're trying to message doesn't have Signal.

2. Signal takes a wrong turn and perhaps starts doing something you don't like as a user and now you gotta find a new app to trust (see "Whatsapp").
This is one of the things that makes me think Deno will ultimately win:

Deno Goals: Simplify the module system
- No attempt at compatibility with existing Node modules.
- Imports are relative or absolute URLs ONLY. (See Semantic Versioning)
- Imports must provide an extension.
- Remote URLs are fetched and cached indefinitely on the first load. Only if the --reload flag is provided will the resource be fetched again.
- Vendoring can be done by specifying a non-default cache dir.

https://tinyclouds.org/jsconf2018.pdf
This is a rather sinister interpretation. I think what Jobs means is that privacy is about asking for consent repeatedly. Whenever there is a new way to use user’s data, a permission should be requested.
I have thought about looking into a third shot, but wasn’t considering forging anything to get one.
That’s not at all what I suggested. It seems like you just want an argument.

Let me explain again slower: you implied that him being cofounder conferred some level of competence to him. I’m saying that he’s not really a cofounder in the traditional sense of the word, and so maybe that title doesn’t carry as much weight here.
One thing about the rejection of IP that I don’t think they have taken far enough is IP theft. Sure some places have cleaned up their act relative to when China was able to steal so much IP but based on the places that have been victims of ransomware, IP theft seems like it still is relatively easy.

Especially with the current heat on the ransomware groups, it seems a great time for them to be taken under the wing of the various countries they operate under and used for more economically useful tasks.
> With two-level naming you still have the squatting problem of the top-level names. It's just now a fight over who owns `oracle/*`.

The same way that Java packaging is nothing but a big fight over who owns "com.*"?
I saw the demise of RCS (branded as joyn) in South Korea [1] and back then I was hardly surprised. I don't think it will be different this time.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-korean-telcos-to-shutter...
South Korea was a fascist dictatorship until the 1980s and is now a global economic powerhouse.

China has been a literal dictatorship for decades and is now the world's largest economy.

It's probably not the dictatorship.
Oh for sure the storage problem is much much more difficult to solve wrt hydrogen than water, I was just being pedantic.
Monetization of Fear Of Missing Out has become an industry.
Did you miss the whole “I crush people” sociopath situation?
By today’s standards, apparently yes. Dialog fatigue (and dark patterns exploiting it) is an issue.

But thinking the other way: If we are constantly asked for privacy-related permission, then it’s probably because something is seriously wrong today.

Dialog fatigue is a symptom. Indiscriminate data hunger is the disease.
one word: money
The rate of progress is fast, but how are the wages and opportunities? Does this progress translate into progress for the people doing it or is it a rat race to nowhere? There are many ways to goose growth and progress that are bad for people.
For the moment believing that this proposed amendment isn't just some tactic related to getting (or not getting) infrastructure legislation done...

For many reasons this regulation would be unenforceable and/or impossible to comply with. How would a miner be able to fill out a 1099?
I don't agree in this context. The terms "misconduct" and "bullying" are far too close to allegations of crimes. Our society is trending toward disregard of the presumption of innocence, and that is far more of a societal problem than having an aggressive and ambitious team leader who cares more about results than coddling.

If he committed a crime, the evidence should be presented. If he did not, then tarring him with terms like "misconduct" and suggesting that Google should take retributive action against him are anathema to a fair society.

For those who disagree, let me pose a question: what, exactly, does bullying constitute if it doesn't also constitute an assault or criminal harassment? and with regard to whatever residual scope of the term remains, why does that justify denying a promotion to someone behind a project as ambitious and successful as DeepMind?
if they are going to ask for donations like this should at least detail out how much their expenses are. how much space does a clone of the content consume? what's the hosting situation look like? giving them crypto is pointless if they waste it.
> Now it’s about assimilating that information and actually making it available (to the chagrin of the content creator)

That's one of the few good things you can say about Google today.

To me, the whole point of contention here is just an artifact of a serious problem with the web as a whole, a problem to which Google contributed thanks to their role in Internet advertising. The problem is: "content creators" have too much control over the form of what they put out there. That Google is taking some of that control, by republishing the data in a different form, is just a different flavor of the issue; whether it's the "content creators" or Google that control the form, it's not the end users.

Right now, the fight is mostly between people peddling ad-infused, SEO-ridden garbage sites and Google rehosting the little real content their have in a half-assed, often wrong or improperly attributed, box on the results page. Both sides have strong, user-hostile reasons to be in this fight. Neither has "making knowledge accessible" in mind.

To truly make knowledge accessible, it needs to be published in a machine-readable format and accessible as if through a database. Just like when building a database-backed system, you don't put React components into your database rows, and you don't render your frontend from stored procedures, accessing the "information superhighway" shouldn't involve navigating countless of web pages that wrap the information you need in tons of garbage (nor it should involve hoping that the magic Google box will pick up the correct bit to show you). You should be able to make queries, get the data without all the formatting fluff, and browse it through whatever client software you want - and then issue further queries.

I mean, note how many successful startups out there exist only because publicly available information is not machine-readable, and all they do is scrapping, mixing, and republishing the data. E.g., in my country, there's a popular tool that tells you how to get from point A to point B using public transportation - but it only exists because the official time tables are published as web pages. It would not need to exist if you could just do an equivalent of arbitrary SQL query on the official data. But you can't, so you have to use that other tool whose vendor did the necessary scrapping work - and you can't get at the data itself in that tool either, because they have to lock it down to justify their existence.

Sorry for the rant. I could go on and on. I might write a long blog post about it eventually. But in this context the point is that both "content creators" and Google know they're not acting in the best interest of the people. They're just fighting over the money printing machine.
I don't really understand what you mean by this. Do you have any example? Is it something like not knowing if an online store is international or domestic? Because in that case we face the same issue, when I see a store in English I'm not sure it'll ship to Europe, and often doesn't.
Have to say the obvious thing: Shit like this is unacceptable.

Maybe the article is a hit piece with questionable factual credibility. So this isn’t a statement about the person itself but the behavior described by the article.

People in this thread seem to be confusing disagreeability and a relentless focus on achieving a goal vs being drunk with power.

Both of these things may manifest a similar kind of harshness but they are very different. The kind of behavior described in this article is of someone who uses their (probably undeserved) power to protect their own position. These kinds of people should be removed from an organization as they without exception harm the organization more than they contribute to it.
> Reducing emissions is the best thing we can do

Too little too late. The system is already moving out of its old equilibrium. Simply stopping emissions won't fix it now.
Does Android even have a full disk encryption option anymore? Last I heard they moved to file based encryption. I don't know enough to knowledgeably discuss the tradeoffs though.
Even if we stopped emitting all CO2 tomorrow, we're still likely to see another half degree of warming. Maybe more. I can't imagine what that would do my home in the western US. Or Greece, or Turkey, or any of the places around the world already experiencing catastrophic flooding.

There's no scenario where we reach net zero emissions in a decade. I'm not saying we should start geoengineering without further study. Only that at the present moment, from my perspective, it seems like the bigger risk is not to geoengineer.
jeez take your meds schizo
Very happy to see Alexandra's future plans, strongly encourage support.

For anyone still unclear of the benefit and value of Sci-Hub and similar literature distribution services:

What the academic publishing industry calls "theft" the world calls "research": Why Sci-Hub is so popular

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4p2rwk/what_th...
On the moon, Nuclear has basically the opposite problem of solar: Long, hot days mean that nuclear power generation is hard to cool during the lunar day.

This means that nuclear for the moon is basically directly competing with batteries and other storage solutions in terms of weight/risk/difficulty.
On reading this article, it must be so hard for parents to see a way forward for treating their child's condition, but be roadblocked by either funding, or study participation criteria. If I observed my child have such a profound change as Mateo did, I think I might be incentivised to continue seeking these drugs for their treatment.
I know that it would be absolutely a criminal act to purchase ketamine illegally and administer it to my child, or to find a shady doctor who prescribe it off-label. I wonder how often these scenarios come up? And how often parents go out of their way to seek unapproved medicines (much like the AIDS Buyer's Clubs of the 90s).
I definitely think we are in the first stages of decline.

Had the capital riots gone a little differently I could see a civil war starting that would destroy America.
> Whoever you're trying to message doesn't have Signal.
True, but the solution to this situation is quite easy (install Signal). What if Apple refuses to support RCS, you have Google's Messenger/RCS and your correspondent has an iPhone?

> Signal takes a wrong turn and perhaps starts doing something you don't like
That's a concern.
My favorite ancient fish trap is the Double-Heart Of Stacked Stones on the coast of Taiwan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-Heart_of_Stacked_Stones...
Elbakyan confirmed it here:

https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1424027276270837762
I'll second this seconding(third it?) I cannot for the life of me understand how these photos can invoke dread, perhaps something in their burgerpunk nature, but still i think the more saddening part is that people still use captchas from google!