skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine is a nurse in Nova Scotia and was telling us how the staff felt so sad last summer when they were directed to put elderly/at-risk in isolation. If you work in that profession you don't need to see the research to know that you're starting a countdown to their passing. In this case it was just as true. They may as well have broken their hips.
> when their encryption didn't actually work.

what are referring to here? I vaguely know about delivery bugs and protocol patches
I think we're going too far to accomodate those who won't get vaccinated. If everyone gets it, this scanning wouldn't be necessary.

How do you force everyone to get it without the apparatus of the police state?
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> Far more invasive tracking

False. It's actually not worse than any other social media platform. [1] It doesn't even try to exploit your browser and device, like Reddit does. [2]

[1]: https://medium.com/@fs0c131y/tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e81626...

[2]: https://smitop.com/post/reddit-whiteops/
ugh -- reading related papers on filters like the above exposed another pre-req i am missing: an understanding of math high enough to understand the math in the articles :/
I'm not who you replied to, but I find it hard to believe that you went to an account with the username "systems_analyst", who posts videos on networking and cybersecurity in an informative manner, and decided it was "aspirational meme garbage".

On HN, I give people who I disagree with the benefit of the doubt and assume they're always intelligent. But that doesn't extend itself to believing they're always arguing in good faith. I find it unfathomable that a critically thinking person truly believes a social network with close to a billion users is devoid of any useful content. I "feel" like you're trying to be contrarian and edgy for the sake of being so.

I think my earlier Twitter analogy is apt here. Of course you can't expect TikTok to be on par with Coursera. Similarly, you don't go to Twitter for dissertations. These social networks are entertainment first, and their algorithms and restricted formats lend themselves to a certain type of content. But the natural evolution of social networks at scale is that people easily discover new content that is legitimately useful to them, or find a community based on their professional or side interests.

I went to the #softwareengineering hashtag on TikTok and very quickly found a few helpful accounts. You can do this with any hashtag. Frankly, software dev TikTok feels more friendly than HN at a cursory glance.

https://www.tiktok.com/@shanselman

https://www.tiktok.com/@coderintuition

https://www.tiktok.com/@dantechtok

TikTok's audience age skews younger. I'm not saying these profiles will be helpful to you personally, but if I were in high school with a passing interest in development and got exposed to TikTok-style entertainment/info content, I probably would've started coding a lot earlier.
I agree with the sentiment but if you read the statement that comes with the banner, you’ll find that it is mostly reasonable.

It’s just a problem that if you embed tweets on your website, or a YouTube video or something, your visitors will get the associated cookies.
Desktop as a Service seems to be taking off in a lot of areas. I suspect the cost of cloud vs giving employees laptops is the cause. It isn't that devs don't have access, it's that companies find footing the bill an increasing liability.
German police arrest Briton on suspicion of spying for Russia
"data scientist" is an conflated title created by business people in this industry. The word scientist has a specific meaning which is doing original research.

Also people in this thread seem to think a "computer science" undergrad degree is somehow related to computer scientist the working title. My understanding is that you start the pathway to a science career with a grad degree, like you start an engineering career with a job. Before the job or the grad degree you're no engineer/scientist
Not sure if it's possible to summon dang like this, but there is a dead sibling comment caught in the spam filter.
These laws aren't for Australia, they're simply implemented here because we're an easy target (no bill of rights)[1]. The Five Eyes simply want to use Australia to funnel access requests through.

> We, the Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Immigration Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, stand united in our commitment to protect our citizens from child predators, terrorists, violent extremists and other illicit actors. We are as determined to counter these threats online as we are to counter them in the physical world. We note with disappointment that senior digital industry leaders did not accept our invitation to engage on critical issues regarding the illicit use of online spaces at the 2018 Five Country Ministerial meeting. Nevertheless, we reiterate our determination to work together constructively to ensure our response is commensurate to the gravity of the threat. Our citizens expect online spaces to be safe, and are gravely concerned about illegal and illicit online content, particularly the online sexual exploitation of children. We stand united in affirming that the rule of law can and must prevail online. [2]

This was a joint statement made by the Department of Home Affairs around the time Assistance and Access Bill 2018 was being pushed through.

[1] https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australia-setting-itself-up-a...

[2] https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...
"fog computing" is an actual thing though, was discussed in one of my undergrad courses.
Very poetic, but there is also an actual viral pandemic that has actually killed somewhere just short of 10 million people, so... there's that.
In a world where browser fingerprinting doesn’t exist this is a great solution.
During this pandemic there was a brief realization of how messed up old age is being taken care of in my country - suddenly there was a huge amount of illegal care centers (which were "discovered" due to covid outbreaks).

But I don't think the problem were the illegal care centers, they exist because people can't afford regular care centers, or there aren't enough of them, and I'll even go through the length of saying that maybe most of those illegal places do their best with the conditions they have - of course, that's not enough.

I do blame social services though.

It's not like the existence of such facilities wasn't known, despite social services displaying a show of shock about the realization that there were HUNDREDS of illegal homes. They just never cared about it, it was a non-issue. Instead of proactively fix the problem, either by making those illegal homes compliant, or using them as a reference that there were gaps in the market... no they served it's purpose and they were fine with that.

Worst, apparently in a lot legal care centers there were a lot of messed up things going around (dehydration, old people under stress with, etc).

No standards, no regulators, it's old people after all - those were the cracks in our services and in our society. The cracks were already there, covid just brought them to the light.
The heavily encrypted refers to server side storage.

https://telegram.org/privacy#3-3-1-cloud-chats

> All data is stored heavily encrypted and the encryption keys in each case are stored in several other data centers in different jurisdictions. This way local engineers or physical intruders cannot get access to user data.
The initial release used a homegrown crypto protocol with serious weaknesses, and the developer at least initially doubled down and tried to defend it.
Glad to see the possibility of higher sea level rise mentioned. It is not a steady linear thing. We don't know how the glacier collapses will progress.
>How do you force everyone to get it without the apparatus of the police state?

Develop a more deadly virus?
"language input implement" = keyboard

"muscle directed navigational utensil" = mouse
TikTok content is precisely what you want it to be. Turns out when people are tired and looking for quick entertainment they aren't looking for deep philosophical questions, though you'll have no trouble finding plenty of that on TikTok if that's your thing.
> the base money of the internet

You can't. Be serious.

What percentage of internet transactions are performed in Bitcoin? 1%? 0.1%?
Related to the history ?
How will you know that the generated code doesn't have any bugs?

Codex in its current form is meant to be used as an assist for someone who can already code/debug, not as a replacement for a contractor.
Yeah - mostly agree.

> I guess I see this in the opposite way as intended: why should an adult who's been vaccinated be punished in trying to get tested, as a side effect of trying to punish someone who hasn't?

From my experience vaccinated people don't bother testing them selves - and I can totally relate as a fully vaccinated person.

The risk of spreading the virus as a FFP2 wearing vaccinated human seems to be so low that I personally tend to not care much.

What bothers me is that we as German citizens have the rare opportunity to get vaccinated and get back to a more normal life - but it seems like only ~60% are really interested in getting the shot. Right now we have too much vaccine doses and actually giving them to other countries (at least).

People just not going to their vaccination appointments, or cancelling due to a barber appointment, ..

This saddens me. I somehow thought the idiot ratio is lower. The pandemic was eye opening in that regard.

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Cool, now just wire that image directly to the brain, so that the effect isn't ruined by going through an actual second eye.

Call me a party pooper, but I believe the greatest achievement in optics is that lens type which crisply maps straight lines to straight lines. When you then view the resulting image from the proper distance, you see what the eye would have seen at the original scene. If there is any curvature apparent in the straight lines, it's coming from you in the same way; you're getting your "curved sensor industry shake-up fix" right there.
I mostly agree with you, an average dev does not know and do not care how things are done. But if platform team or any tooling is blocking you from delivering your features frequently, it becomes an issue. They are either under-staffed, or generalizing in favor of greater good comes at a cost of dropping your specific requirements.
Alternatively, it's positive because people genuinely like using it!
I think part of it was that the sort happened when we were ~10yo? People from A-class were the sort of straigh-A student that then coasted on the fact learning came to them ~naturally, so maybe that is why the perceived performance declined.

Even more anecdotal thing, in my class there were more people doing extra-curicural contests, like Math-Olympiad and the like. We were even encouraged by teahers, along the lines of "No, try it even if you don't have top grades, that is the sort of thing where you need to understand what you are doing, not just ave all the right answers on the test." :D

Last hypothesis of mine is, that because we had a mix of sudents, the smarter(?) of us spend some time explaining to others (mix of goodnes of heart, being bullied and even having like a pay-for-homework manufacture?) ... and as they say, you learn best, when you explain?

But I could be completely wrong, rose-tinted glasses and long forgotten traumas and all that :D
> A person tested negative should not be able to spread.

False-negative results exist.
You identified the problem, but confused the solution.

Simply don't have police state totalitarian mandates.
In Australia it is, when the horses race the nation stops
Right, but the point was only "that level" requires C.
> will say though, the US is poorly equipped for bicycle commuting. Even our neighborhood doesn't have many dedicated bike paths, opting instead to share the road with cars. Most diehard cyclists I know will tell you it's a matter of "when" not "if" you have a scary encounter with a driver.

My country is far from perfect, but the US simply culturally hates cyclists. I see outright dehumanisation - comparison to insects and the like - from US media on the regular.

It's extremely unattractive, and given the role of transport patterns in climate change - well.
New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy
> I'd imagine it is hard to convey much to be considered productive.

This is actually one of the most refreshing things about TikTok. Content density. What YouTubers take 10 minutes to do, a competent TikToker gets across in 30 seconds.

The platform itself encourages a maximization of information density.
One should not disclose that their comment is based on their personal experience when it is obvious this was the case.

My personal experience agrees 100% with what he has said :)
Karachi, and Sindh at large often goes through periods of +35 wet bulb.

People can jump into fountains, or other bodies of water, hide at home, airconned buildings.

In the end, people can try to brave it, and wait for the relatively cool evening.
Decentralisation doesn't help with inflation, it only makes everything more expensive due to the extravagant cost of the consensus mechanism. Banks are already decentralised (should be obvious since there are many banks, not just one) and competition among banks is what prevents them from charging high fees.
> and get a QR code scanned at every shop, every restaurant

How does this work for those who don't own a smartphone?
Well, you'd have to take it on a case-by-case basis. I suppose as long as the water is at least somewhat below hot-tub temperatures it might be a reasonable way to sort-of cool off.
I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have about Lightway vs Wireguard.

The reason we have a CLA is that we want to be upfront and transparent about what happens when someone contributes code to the project. It is important to note that the author maintains ownership of their contribution at all times and that we will immediately release the contribution under the GPL 2.0 license. This helps to protect the project by ensuring that any code in the repository can be released under the GPL 2.0 license both now and in the future. This is why the Apache Foundation requires a CLA for all contributions - the intent is to protect everyone's interests.

As part of any code contribution, we will list the author's name and what was contributed so that the author will get full recognition for their work.
Well the use case wasn't clear to me 'up there', I thought you were arguing against IAM in general, or for cases where others do use it.

Essentially I suppose I disagree that it's only good for human users with long-lived roles, but I'm not saying it's the right tool for per-request granular authn, and I'd be surprised to learn that anyone is saying or (trying to be) using it like that. IAM's not even for end human users, (as in of your application) nevermind breaking further down into different types of request from them or on their behalf.
Run a port scan on your public IP address.

Plenty of websites allow you to do it, although it's probably safer to grab a shell on any other host connected to the internet (could be even just your phone connected to its mobile network) and run a port scan (e.g. nmap) from there.
Reddit and YouTube are very hive-mindy. HN users tend to actually try things themselves instead of just consuming the trendy mass opinion (though they do this too to some degree), which is why we might be seeing this distinction.
> I have not biked in 50C weather but I have to say this: Going fast on a bike has a cooling effect.

Only if air temperature is less than your body temperature, which is not the case when it is 50C outside. Going fast in 50C would feel like blowing a hairdryer in your face.
A person tested negative has just not been proven positive, which is different from being proven negative. PCR test sensitivity can be as low as 70%. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.16.20066787

A vaccinated person may only spread if they are indeed infected, which is less common to begin with. Then, if they are indeed infected, the rate of transmission is much lower - as they usually don't develop heavy viral loads.
Whats with all these algo written pieces?
Here in the UK you do not need to scan, you can just write down your phone number and name. It's a legal requirement for the information to be accurate though, I think.
> The sort of sentiment you get from Europe when you mention Roma.

To me, a European, that generalization is quite insulting.
It looks like it just redirects to https://www.shodan.io/host/<IP>, so you should be able to just plug your server's IP in instead in your regular browser.
Ofc. To me the potential for issues is obvious.
These vaccination records are there already anyway, in Europe most countries have a national health system that knows exactly who has it and who doesn't.

But it's not as bad as a detailed step by step log of every person's activities every day.

Also, I think some level of noncompliance should be accepted. The vaccines don't work 100% anyway, these are just a few more percent. The number of people opposed to vaccination in Europe is very low compared to the US. The vaccination rate will be more than high enough for decent protection.

We're never going to reduce the risk of covid to zero for an individual. Just like we're never going to reduce the risk of dying from cancer to zero. Some risk just has to be accepted as a fact of life.
This is not something you can just look up and get a good explanation.
Sort-of. But programmers tend to create more work for programmers.
> For that same reasoning I support telegram more than signal. I simply do not see signal ever get to a widespread adoption, I do not see signal trying to get to a widespread adoption either; signal is not a messaging app it is a secure comunication app and for this they make a lot of tradeoffs.

But Telegram's whole selling point is privacy and security. If security is not your priority (which is totally reasonable!) there are plenty of other messaging apps that are much more established than Telegram, and much more honest about not being particularly privacy-oriented.

> An example is E2EE, it is a nice property but today it has significant UX implications that makes it bad default in my opinion for a popular personal messagin app

Doesn't seem to have been a problem for e.g. WhatsApp.

> Moreover the main threat model is not NSA hacking my device or the app's servers, it is app developer selling my data and governments making "lawful" requests to service providers. In both these metrics signal ranks better as far as I understand, but it is more of an individual choice.

> If we are worried about the NSA the best thing to do is to move out of SMS/phone calls as fast as possible on mediums that do not allow passive monitoring and are likely to resist government pressure.

Both these points seem like complete non sequiturs. If you want to avoid the app developer selling your data or providing it to governments, you need E2EE, there is no other way. Passive monitoring hasn't been a thing for about a decade, any non-joke messenger is at least using TLS, and it's not like people were using SMS/phone calls until Telegram came along with the revolutionary new idea of an internet messaging app.
Search for KVM switches.
They also build "Bevismaskinen", which was a website that could generate incriminating evidence of any ip illegal downloading any file, by virtue of a screenshot of a torrent or limewire download.

Such screenshots (presumably taken of an actual download) were used by RIAA as evidence that someone was illegal downloading music and used in million dollar court cases.
>I think a lot of sites are conflating cookie consent and GDPR consent.

They are doing that, however the the legal standard of consent under the ePrivacy Directive is the same as the GDPR.

The ePD initially referenced the definition in the Data Protection Directive, but that was replaced by the GDPR.
Meh. Sometimes if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's not the fault of the downvote button. Reddit had a core culture of openness in the beginning - god knows I had enough debates in the comments. But at some point one side decided that debating isn't enough, and it needs to control the medium.

It might just be an amazing coincidence, but after they succeeded reddit stopped being fun.

And it wasn't even remotely subtle, because it went down kicking, screaming and throwing the wildest tantrums I've ever seen.
Though not necessarily per hour.

(Ok, probably still per hour. But hours can be quite long.)
I just went over the CRA's rules for how it treats cryto and all I can say is oof.
Worse part to me seemed to be that you can't deduct expenses (hardware, fees, power, etc) from your capital gains lest it then be considered income and therefore have the full tax rate.
Wow, that's not at all clear from their marketing. That kind of misleading statement is definitely not what I'd want to see from a privacy/security-focused product - and yet Telegram's whole marketing is about privacy/security.
It wasn't the Delta variant, but the majority decision to live with this virus among us. Since March/April 2020 we know what to do to make the virus desapear, but that window was closed a long time ago.

Covid is here to stay.
Something else you can do as an individual is teach others about certain physics concepts that are massively misunderstood such as how air conditioning and heat pumps work.

Ask a layman and most of them will tel you a fridge just “creates cold” or something and don’t understand why leaving the fridge door open is not a way to cool your room.

Having people understand these concepts is critical so they can better reason about climate change, climate policies, make better and greener decisions etc.
I find it often useful to be able to go back and search through conversations. Even trivial things can become part of a richer back and forth if you can remember + reference them. It helps keep the oblivion of forgetting at bay, which is for me terrifying and really depressing.

People who turn on transient messaging, it's their right, and I get it, but it's also hobbling me from doing what I'm quite good at and basically exposing what's for me an upsetting functional disability, which bums me out a bit.

(If I really cared I could take notes elsewhere, yes, but jeeze that's a lot of work for daily chitchat)
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