skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be there were laws enforcing racial segregation, that was systemic racism. Those laws are gone yet the effects still persist. But when there is discrimination now it is caused by individual actions, there is no system behind it anymore. So is that still systemic racism?

Furthermore, how do we know housing discrimination is caused by racism instead of class? If a landlord doesn't want to rent to black Americans he's racist. If he doesn't want to rent to white Americans he's not. But what if in both cases he's worried about not getting rent because of perceived class, is one racism and the other not?
Sometimes https://entireweb.com (no affiliation) gets better results than Google.
> given the two land invasions

Both unsuccessful. But I note your observation that the Pripyat is not as large as my crap geography led me to think.
Well this sounds very creepy, but imagine for a moment that the landlord might only be checking if there's child pornography going on at his house, then I guess it would be ok. Also he pinky sweared not to share those images with anyone else. Now imagine the landlord is not a person but instead a fluffy cloud...
Just make sure to disable search suggestions, or Google gets a peek at your "corner clipboard" all the time.
Workers collectively dont get to value their own labor. There price is the market price, and remote work always paid a lot less than in-office work, for obvious economic reasons.
Did you mean to post this on the general Firefox 91 thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28128305
This doesn't sound right. Google gets millions of applicants per year. Surely some of those appliacants would be willing to work for less.
I think that literally the last thing the PRC needs to worry about is a land invasion. The US is their strongest rival, but it has 1/5 the population, and its technological edge is not what it once was. In some other thread, someone mentioned that US military doctrine is to not attack any defended position unless they have at least a 3 to 1 advantage. As long as the PRC stays militarily cohesive, any invading army is going to get annihilated. Plus the PRC has nukes, which is a further deterrent.

IMHO, the PRC's (really the CCP's) biggest strategic threat is domestic, and they're starting to transition into a more imperialistic/expansionist mode to make good on revanchist sentiment.
I’m such a cynical bastard. My mind says, what took so long to tackle cookies, FLoC?
> Hence the company should have one uniform rate for full time work at home employees, high enough so that they can get fill all their openings.

There’s a common misconception that engineers are paid for the value they provide or according to how expensive their cost of living is. It’s not true, though.

We’re paid market rate, which is a balance of supply and demand that determines whether or not someone is incentivized to take and keep a job relative to their other options. If someone lives somewhere where they have more local options, it makes sense to pay them more even if they’re working remotely.

If you try to push companies to having one WFH rate for everyone, the end result isn’t high salaries for all. The end result is a median salary for everyone that eliminates anyone living in a high cost of living area. The company starts scouring the country and eventually the world for bargain employees who will accept lower and lower salaries. The end result is a much lower fixed salary for everyone.

So no, you do not actually want a one-size-fits-all WFH compensation if you live basically anywhere in the US, unless you’re cool with salaries going down to match the much lower global median wages for developers.
At first I thought it was the only way that they could even represent such a fraction of Germany's gdp. It seems not.
A combination of ability to have profit from purely national resources and the miracle of intelectual property fees.

I guess this redefines the concept of unicorn, as this is not market valuation but actual profits.
4th person in US mysteriously stricken with deadly bacteria from South Asia
hmm, seems like the landlord was justified. the client literally lied about having a pet.
It's just a shame they didn't offer at cost like AstraZeneca have [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/28/astrazeneca...
Are they really selling vaccines for $19/dose?

Seems like bad business when plenty of countries would have paid $1000/dose if they could get the first deliveries and open their economy a few months earlier.

And those higher prices could have supported more factories being built to make more doses quicker.

Where there backdoor payments to decide who got which doses first?
Can you create a base class for all living things and derive from there? The base class owns a bunch of common components such as HP, Animation, Sound, etc, and each subclass has components that are specific for itself (for example, you cannot "Use" a player, but should be able to "Use" a wild animal, so here goes a component for that action).
I hate how Safari on iPad does not have proper Cookie handling…
The only solution is to permanently use Safari in “private mode”, but it has some limitations (you cannot remember your browsing history, and you can’t set a default Font size for example.)

Firefox on iOS can do this, but you can’t set a Font size at all. So many websites (like Hacker News) are nearly impossible to read on an iPad.
What is most interesting(read horrifying) to me is that people will argue that this is not a 4th amendment violation because private company. But will later then argue that it is not Apple's fault because the government pressured them.

If the government is pressuring Apple to violate someone's privacy and Apple does so, that makes Apple's actions in that case a state actor and makes the actions unconstitutional.
i made one and it supports mobile. it's also open source :)

https://github.com/conceptualspace/tablist
>ATGMs also may not be as useful in a mountainous country like Afghanistan.

They are amazingly useful because you can hit a truck or a group of people miles away way more effectively than with gunfire and way more accurately than with mortar fire. You do this when you have nation states giving you their old stuff. When you have to pay your own way you reserve the ATGMs for actual tanks and whatnot.

Look at the videos out of Syria. That's exactly how they're used.

>ATGMs also may not be as useful in a mountainous country like Afghanistan.

If nation states had serious interest in this conflict "local sources" would materialize like they did in Syria. All those TOWs those guys use didn't come from Iraq.
Good explanation of something that I've felt and discussed a few times before.

I've stopped using todo apps and just write the daily/weekly list of high-prio items in my paper notebooks. That way it doesn't accumulate a bunch of items that'll I'll likely never get too. The most important things will resurface anyway.

I feel much better not dragging along a list that keeps growing. Sure, that means I'll sometimes forget or be late or need reminding, but from my perspective, that's an acceptable trade-off.
The Fifth Force
Ok. And what did those programs actually achieve for Russia and China? Is that why they send their best to the US/UK to study? Interesting.
Having someone's dog be on a porch for a few hours really doesn't seem like much of a violation. Wild animals do the same all the time.
I also was a happy user for like 15 years, I used to actively recommend it to everyone, but they keep removing the features I like. They broke extensions, removed bookmark descriptions, RSS, a "smart" omnibox that made it harder to find what I use the most, the recent changes to tabs. I still keep it as default because I'm used to the dev tools, but they just keep making it worse, I'm not surprised they're still losing market share.
Apart from Google, which has a patent related to their 2004 paper, I don't know how much people are trying to "take credit" for map-reduce. I'm certainly not. But I do think the approach of running map-reduce continuously in realtime is interesting and worth sharing. And I hope that some folks will be interested enough to try it out, either with Flow or in a system of their own design, and report on how it goes for them.
I'm sure it varies by the house/apartment.

I don't really see a difference in electricity unless I'm traveling for an extended period but I have very limited AC which I don't use much. As for heat, the difference associated with dropping the temperature maybe 10 degrees F for 8 hours a day doesn't add up to a lot.
Again, they're not determining what's /in/ the photograph. They're determining that one photograph is a copy of another.
Building costs are relatively small vs productivity costs.

If the mass of employess is 30% less productive from home, it is way more expensive than the buildings.
Many (maybe 5) years ago Apple launched Neural Net to categorize your photos and this scans all of them, a lot whether they are in the cloud or not. Difference is, that we don’t know where this information is stored. Still nobody is worried about that. Feature, which allows more than this newly added CSAM functionality. If someone wants to misuse that in hidden, there is no difference of now or future. Because all we have is trust. Speculation suddenly raises, when common politic reasons are mentioned.

It does not really matter if the scanning happens on device or iCloud in this situation, because you have to always trust their closed source system.
Google has scanned your images since 2009 in the cloud unencrypted, but now when Apple makes situation better, it is suddenly bad. All tools have been out there already. There are no really other options to get more privacy than this, but people refuse to see that.

Well, there is voting. Vote people who puts privacy over everything. That would make everything easy.
Also, re: lifestyle. You can live the van life like it's portrayed in Nomadland, but if you do it the woodsie way, you need to be comfortable in the woods. It's a cavernous silence, and you're often all alone for days at a time. You do, however, sleep the sleep of the dead because it's so quiet.

If you're comfortable with solitude, if you actively seek it out, you can be a rubbertramp, woodsie, etc. If you need people around, you better bunk up or get a dog, because it can be mighty lonely.

And if you know how to search carefully, you can put your camp right on top of great beauty, freely and legally.

I once camped for a month only a mile up a gravel road from Dunton Hot Springs, where big money pays really big money for food and glamping, surrounded by scenery that almost defies believability. I saw bear, elk, marmots (awesome little animals) and ate fresh trout every day from the river next to my camp. Cost. $0. Next door they were paying $5000/day.
It's also a good reason to live below your means. The main reason why people can't take a pay cut is it would mean a lifestyle cut. If you require 100% of your pay for your expected lifestyle then your employer pretty much has you by the balls.
Yes, HTTPS Everywhere is more robust. The straightforward route taken here is closer to Smart HTTPS. But better just use HTTPS only mode and disable it whenever a problematic site appears.
The Vaccine Cards Are the Wrong Size
what is this a reference to?
This is based on a custom SIM application that does crypto. You cannot just reply to the flash SMS by your self.

It shouldn't cost you money abroad though, BankID Mobile is free on many networks but if you use a reseller like OneCall they are unable to differentiate SMS and BankID flash SMS so you will be charged for it.

You could use the BankID iOS app which does the authentication crypto in the iOS app instead of using the SIM app.
Yeah, not a native speaker. Used the word nudity while thinking of pornography.
Your entire diatribe here is not really responding to me, it's just more monologuing. Frankly, what you're pushing here is the next talking point after climate denial, which is sowing messages of futility. Anything to avoid doing something about the problem. Anything to protect the existing industries from change. Just sinking into comfortable fatalism. And you're using common denier-turned-fatalist talking points like talking about plant food, and little "appeal to the common man" bits like talking about high school math repeatedly. It sounds like PR talk. You obviously have not researched this thoroughly. Vertical farms are not cost effective compared to many, many other options. Plants are less nutritious under high CO2 conditions, becoming more empty carbohydrates by mass[1]. Plants also have an ideal range they're adapted to, and any CO2 fertilization effects tend to drop off rapidly past that threshold[2]. This is very easy information to find if you're actually tuned into the climate science, even casually. You are either reading bad sources and need to find better ones, or you're posting this kind of nonsense in bad faith.

1. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/vanishing-...

2. https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s128...
Don't bookmark tags solve this problem for you? firefox only though.
BioNTech has a lot of potentially groundbreaking mRNA therapies in its pipeline, some of them against various forms of cancer.

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...

https://biontech.de/science/individualized-cancer-medicine

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03072-8

I am really looking forward for such solutions, fuck cancer.

That said, the economic impact of such cures isn't clear to me. If your population gains, on average, say, a year or two of life, the pay-as-you go pension systems that are already under strain in greying Europe will come under even bigger strain.

So it seems that each discovery like that will be balanced by us working longer. Personally, I as a 42 y.o. in Czechia, do not expect to get any meaningful state pension ever. There will be just too many of us.
wait - does this mean that some super capable civilisation could link the various galaxies in their inter-galactic empire with a space-railway (i.e. using actual physical tracks between them in space) assuming they have the staggeringly vast amount of matter and/or energy needed, then this would gravitationally bind them together and space between them could not expand?
Correlation is not the same as causation
It's also pretty interesting how the vaccine development was funded, and the timeline:

- Dec 2019: €50 million loan from the European Commission/EIB

- Jun 2020: Additional €100 million loan from the EIB

- Jun 2020: €250 million from a Singaporean holding in a fairly regular investment activity

- March 2020: $135 million from the Chinese company Fosun in exchange for shares and a manufacturing license

- April 2020: $185 million from Pfizer as part of an equity partnership

- Sept 2020: €375 million of taxpayer money from the German gov in
Hopefully on the dusk terminator and not the dawn terminator? If a mechanical problem slows you down would we rather see it start getting colder, or hotter as we work on correcting it?
Scots is a dialect of English. So finding idiomatic Scots expressions for technical terms, instead of importing them verbatim, really is about "having fun" rather than achieving any extra clarity in communication.
Agreed.

The fundamental flaw of SIMD that _SHOULD_ be discussed, is branch divergence. Because of the way SIMD is designed, its probably hopeless for branch divergence to ever be solved.

The wider the SIMD, the more branch divergence messes up your performance. The narrower the SIMD, the less it matters.

CPUs have a form of branch-divergence slowdowns when branches are hard to predict (CPUs try to execute the future branch in parallel with the current code). So I guess branch divergence affects all code. But... GPUs are especially harmed by branch divergence, even more so than any CPU would be.

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This is different from the "fixed width" SIMD that is discussed in the blogpost. Any chosen width will have branch divergence.

GPUs don't really have a fixed width though. Through the magic of thread barrier commands, you can have anything from the native wavefront / warp width (32 on NVidia), all the way to 1024-wide thread groups.

But the advantages of very-wide groups is that 1024-at-a-time is sometimes easier to think about than 64-at-a-time. You really should just choose the width that makes most sense to your problem. Ex: 32x32 pixels is 1024-wide, while an 8x8 group of pixels is handled 64-wide.
Design your work, Storytelling resources, and the Twitter game
> They got used to an expensive lifestyle?

That, among other reasons, like wanting more or nicer things, across many possible dimensions of meaning for 'nice'. Same reasons at play for why when people get a raise, or take a job with higher pay, the surplus is rarely converted fully into savings. Another though also not the only reason left is a simple "keeping up with the Jones'" mentality, though this problem may affect Americans more.

It's useful to be aware that the median American household has $1000/mo in surplus funds after all 'ordinary expenses', which notably are greater than 'necessary expenses' the 'living wage' people tend to focus on. But that $12k/yr typically gets spent rather than saved or invested.

> That isn’t the fault of the employer.

Nope, nor is it really their business, so they shouldn't try, and people should fight, these underhanded "adjustment" tactics of "oh, you moved to an area where the average rent is $1000/mo less, these common foods are a bit cheaper, etc., so clearly you can get by on less now, and so we'll cut your salary by x%." (Typically being a percentage cut rather than global absolute amount cut is another indicator of its badness.) Even the hypothetical reverse case of moving back and getting an increase is false generosity; if moving back raises my cost floor, I'm not going to do it unless I can afford to, automatic adjustment or not, and it's very possible the divined adjusted increase might not be high enough.
You Can Make a 1000$ per Month, as a Graphic Designer
No you cannot. A collision requires the attacker to create both images.

What you are describing is a second preimage attack-- creating a second input with the same hash as a target.

There is no currently known tractable way to create second preimages for MD5.
No but it may be complement the extension. You may ask the question at https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/discu...
Those are really bizarre levels of trying to be counterintuitive. For lunch you can now walk to your refrigerator to get a sandwich. It burns much less carbon to just walk or drive to your nearest watering hole for a beer rather than driving to work in rush hour and then back in order to get a beer. Total transportation carbon emissions from the average household are also twice the total HVAC emissions, and carbon consumption due to appliances like refrigerators, washer/driers and hot water heaters should be relatively constant (could even go down if you just wear the same pair of sweatpants for a week).
Here is the thing: All of this money as a whole amount makes the choice seem silly.

What happens when you factor in cost of living is that the 10% starts growing incredibly fast.

If their current spend is 80% of their salary, then the 10% is actually a 50% post-expense difference. Suddenly that drive makes sense.
Not just unlikely but astronomically unlikely.
It's a tongue in cheek way of alleging the feds are funding them.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/glownigger-glowposting
Let's conveniently forget the 100 years of the Yuan dynasty ruled by Mongols and the 300 years of the Quing dynasty ruled by the Manchu and pretends that the history of China is the history of the Han. Why would anyone question that?

It's really hard to take the article seriously given how much it oversimplifies its premises.
For me it is not so much they change the ui, it is that they changed the ui like 2 or 3 times in the last like 5 years.
How is that any better than just spreading the cheaks before sitting and resting the elbows on the knees?

Serious question. I just think good toilet etiquette/hygiene is not being taught. For example, wipe any sweat and hairs off the seat before putting the lid down (or seat up if no lid) before flushing.
> Both of my kids earn “allowance” (extra screen time; robux; etc.) by doing Khan Academy courses

Highlighting this because I love the idea and can't wait to try it out :-)
It’s only superior from a privacy standpoint if you completely trust Apple and humans to get this right. I don’t.

At least with server side your images are being scanned when you are actively sharing photos with other users or to the internet. Thus making it more difficult to distribute CSAM material.

If iMessage was serious about preventing child abuse, they should be introducing mechanisms to prevent actual abuse from occurring on their platform.
rsync.net will pay USD $500 for about:tabs to exist in mainline firefox with no extension required.

It couldn't be simpler - you type about:tabs into the URL bar and you get a non-html plain text listing, one URL per line, of all the tabs you have open. Maybe a line break inbetween browser windows so you can tell tabs from one window apart from tabs in another ?

Just email info@rsync.net to claim this.
Can scientists count the number of far distant stars that are no longer visible due to space accelerating?
There's devices and ways to detect hidden cameras. There's a risk to being caught putting hidden cameras. I doubt they'll be everywhere but it is a problem.
>even FOSS ones like Gnome

Not sure what your argument is supposed to be but not everyone liked GNOME's new UI. That's why you've gotten forks such as MATE.
Politicians lie. What surveillance are they subjected to in order to prevent and correct their behaviour?
This critique comes from utilitarians like Harsanyi and misses Rawls's point. (He's not a utilitarian anyway.) You can be extremely risk prone and nevertheless come to the conclusion that society ought to help you in the unlikely event that you have to endure extreme hardships. There is a difference between personal risk taking behaviour and the more abstract, general considerations behind the veil of ignorance.
There's Irish/EU guidance on domestic CCTV [1], which allows it so long as it doesn't cover any public areas (i.e. the street).

I wonder if that domestic exemption still applies once the property is rented out to someone? I hope not.

And as will all laws, if a landlord feels they can't comply with the laws on data privacy, CCTV and so on – then they should close their business.

[1] https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/dpc-guidance/blogs/domestic...
Thanks for commenting! One thing worth clarifying before diving into specifics is that Evervault doesn't store user data. We do store encryption keys, but the model is that our customers store encrypted data but not keys; Evervault stores keys but not encrypted data.

The attacks you mention (correctly) base themselves on the security of the signing key used to sign the E3 binary. The security of this key is obviously extremely important, but is only one part of the attestation process. Nitro Enclaves exposes attestation documents with platform control registers (PCRs). PCR8 is a hash of the key used to sign the binary itself, but there are also 5 others which contain hashes of the specific binary that is being run as well as the in-memory state of the enclave. Combining these together, means that attestation focuses both on deployment integrity (and GitHub Actions is the weakest point here) as well as the code itself. This is why exposing the code that runs inside E3 is a major focus of ours.

Re: KMS policy integrity, having the enclave communicate with IAM with TLS certificate validation is one way of E3 proving to the end user providing keys/data that the enclave key has not been tampered with. It's a messy solution, but cryptographically robust assuming that the AWS Root CA has not been compromised.
What a horrible, horrible take.