skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"One use case provided is that a customer service worker walks away from their computer and then a roommate grabs the machine to use its internal search tool and see what a celebrity has been buying on Amazon. But just four cases have actually been identified in which imposters accessed such data. And the result for workers of implementing the software is a constant feeling that someone is watching over them."

Not to backseat design (ok, to backseat design), but shouldn't it be the case that access would already be scoped to accounts relevant to active tasks, and not every one of the 300M+ active customer accounts, especially without some sort of escalation or break-glass? That rationale for this software is likely invented, right?

"It’d be one thing if these workers were well paid, but they’re not."

quick survey -- this would still be put on the "bad ways to treat your workers" list, correct?
Looks like EulerOS is the only one certified (which isn't the same as compliant).

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3622.htm
> The biggest thing the iPhone did was come up with a user interaction method that made using a mobile computer/phone intuitive.

What is that method you are referring to?
AmateurRadio.digital guy banned user from DMR radios for reporting security flaw
Dupe from 19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27952176
The Government acted reasonable well and was lucky (discounting Victoria) early in the pandemic which led to the government/public/business getting complacent.

Now that the circulating strain is more virulent and such a low percentage of the population is unvaccinated Australia is now in a more perilous position than it was than last year.
"Increased incidence of malignant tumors was seen even in animals exposed to relatively low doses of aspartame – exposures close to the current Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) levels of 40 mg/Kg body weight in the European Union and 50 mg/Kg body weight in the United States."

Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi has the most aspartame, at 188mg/can (12 oz). So, for someone weighing 50kg, the currently allowed dose is 2000 mg/day. Or 10 cans/day.

For a few years around 2015, Pepsi tried switching from aspartame to sucralose. But that was unpopular.

One comment is that aspartame is the most studied artificial sweetener. Others may be worse but less studied.
But that's pretty different, since normal code in that context uses immutable data structures and the channels, etc. are language features. You then don't have to tack something like Send(able) onto arbitrary types because they're immutable anyway. The whole point of Send(able) is thread safety in the face of generally mutable state in contrast to something like Concurrent Haskell.
> people are getting nervous about inflation when lower wages are rising

Our current wage growth of ~3% combined with inflation of ~5% means that real wages have been falling at about 2%.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/wages-are-rising-but-has-inf...

The WSJ added:

> Average weekly earnings since January are up $15.59, but with inflation surging to levels not seen since the early 1980s, real weekly wages are down $8.99, the largest real-dollar drop in wages since Bureau of Labor Statistics data were first collected in 2006. By comparison, real wages have fallen more in the past seven months than they rose in the final 27 months of the Obama presidency.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-government-spending-w...

Check out the BLS (bls.gov) for the latest data and hope it doesn't get worse.
The perception of this in the hn comments is funny cos in nsw I feel most people are mad that the lockdown didn't happen earlier and wasn't tougher. Because of this lapse, cases keep rising. We're a highly not vacced population.
I like the burn of carbonated soda so I bought a soda stream and I just carbonate water or homemade tea whenever I want a treat. It's definitely the way to go for your day to day if you have a bit of an addtiction!
The government cares far more about other things than CSAM, like terrorism, human and drug trafficking, organized crime, and fraud. Unless the CSAM detection system is going to start detecting those other things and report them to authorities, as well, it won't deflect any concerns over encryption or VPNs.
“Established” is a loaded word in something that can’t be tested with a controlled trial. It was once established that eating fat made you fat, eating eggs raised your cholesterol, etc.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap

I wonder if Gilstrap's shoulders ever hurt from singlehandedly holding up the entire world of patent trolling.
Is aspartame commonly used in products that aren't labeled as containing it, or that one might be surprised about? I never buy any food or drink labeled "sugar free" or "contains NutraSweet (or similar)". So I had assumed I wasn't consuming chemical sweeteners. Is it as common as you say because it is widely used in little-known places, or just because most people eat/drink sugar-free products?

Asking out of idle curiosity/surprise. I'm not afraid of aspartame, I just don't care for the taste much.
There are so many more serious and preventable diseases that kill many many more people than covid each and every year, year after year after year. We have bent ourselves over backwards for covid that will cause damage to societies worldwide for decades. It is a tragedy of modern stupidity when media can make money off of fear and there are no leaders with integrity and backbone who are willing to stand up to it.
"Salus populi suprema lex esto" -Cicero

Alex Tabarrok should maybe consider that in contrast to some other countries which have seen deaths comparable to the second world war Australia has largely been covid free.
There are various federal business assistance programs to help them with fixed costs. They're not expected to pay employees (who are largely 'casual', on an hourly basis only).

Those unpaid employees are able to receive government payment: In Melbourne, Victoria, this is $600/week if you have lost more than 20 hours of employment for that week. Unsure about Sydney, NSW, but I do know there are benefits available.
If you've been around Catholics on Ash Wednesday, you may have seen them wearing ashes, which were probably imposed by a priest reciting

"Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris."

(Remember, man, that you are dust, and to dust you will return.)

a liturgical adaptation of Genesis 3:19.
Meditation doesn't really promote the intellect. It needs direction. Something which karma yoga may provide for societal concerns, hatha yoga for physical, jnana for mind, etc.

There are over 100 meditations defined in Indian traditions. They're all useless without direction.
If they ever find out that carbonated water is carcinogenic I will probably keel over dead the next day. I measure my LaCroix habit in packs per day.
The things you are saying are just not true. Standard ML and OCaml are in fact single-threaded languages, and while Haskell has concurrency and parallelism support it does not have anything that looks particularly like a Send or Sendable trait.
When people do things one doesn't personally like, why is it always called "stealing"?
I have limited context here but I’m siding with Apple on this one. The ability to have grant and deny access to device data v.s. power is key. Especially in a world with growing number of 3rd party hardware extensions to devices, if helps to know that something is Apple certified. I’m not sure how this works on Android yet.

The relationship isn’t the same as a phone case for instance. Thorough I would be worried if it occupied the lightning port and forced me to use USB variant to charge the actual case. In some sense, I do see that as the strategy behind some of the recent mag based accessories.

That aside, I do see NFC as one area where this becomes a gray area. Do we advocate for less wasteful wires and accept the power throughput loss of -ductive (I forget which one :P) charging?

More important is the loss of autonomy in NFC where a singular input / output interface is now replaced with whatever is within the vicinity or range of the device (usually the top or back)

I’m not sure what direction consumer technology will take us but I do hope there are people actively keeping up with the standards and what they mean for security, privacy, and choice; seeing as how they’re essential to user autonomy.

Lastly: you obtain autonomy - gaining and losing implies a binary state; where obtaining implies a relinquishing gradient- loosening of what should start as an iron grip.
Does your company has network-based IDS? Or local antivirus/ endpoint protection? What happens if those detect something?

In a lot of places, in case of severe signal, like computer reaching out to know malware C&C servers, the computer is taken by IT and investigated - does it really have malware? How did it get on PC? Did it propagate?

This sometimes involves digging through browser cache and history.

So even if you not recorded all the time, you should be prepared that your computer will be taken away from you at any moment and browser history examined. Such is the life in a big company.
AFAIK it is already like that in the EU. It's only North America where everyone uses one standard and Tesla uses another one.
Brazil nuts are like that as well. The nuts themselves are ok but how they're grown causes them to contain too much selenium which can be toxic over time.

Mercury in fish is another doozy.
*should have
Australia is the size of the USA with 25million people scattered around the edges.

There isn't massive amounts on travel like the USA so locking down was pretty straight forward.
I strongly agree. Anyone interested in seeing the reactions of the (admittedly largely left-leaning) Sydney reddit population should check out this thread, which is the comments on the daily case numbers (466, which is a huge number for Australia):

https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/p3ycd9/nsw_recorded...

Largely it's complaints about the government not locking down harder & faster, and failing to take any further measures for lockdown.
Isn't this basically already the case (IEC type 2/CCS Combo 2)?
So does that mean they would have not done anything unless they got paid? They would have just let people die? This is one of the many factors that doesn't add up when telling people they have a civic duty, yet the large corporations can't be held accountable and also make a huge profit.
There's an interesting hypothesis that the pathway to cancer for aspartame (if it exists) might involve creating formaldehyde in the same way that's done when drinking ethanol, and so actually, drinking alcohol is _protective_ as it blocks the aspartame cancer effect -- in a similar way that ethanol is a treatment for methanol poisoning.

I don't really worry about aspartame cancer risk though, it doesn't seem like a big deal if it exists at all. I do buy the idea that diet sodas kill good gut bacteria and avoid them for that reason, but I don't remember a single thing about where I got that idea. It just "feels" right, and I don't mind the lack.
Some past threads - not very large - on his writings:

How to help someone use a computer. (1996) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22989658 - April 2020 (1 comment)

Find Your Voice: Writing for a Webzine (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18248836 - Oct 2018 (8 comments)

Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17939248 - Sept 2018 (29 comments)

Life After Cyberspace (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9300953 - April 2015 (2 comments)

How to help someone use a computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644200 - Aug 2010 (8 comments)

How to help someone use a computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=400048 - Dec 2008 (5 comments)

How to Be a Leader in Your Field - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52443 - Sept 2007 (2 comments)

Also related:

Making AI Philosophical Again: On Philip E. Agre’s Legacy (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21809610 - Dec 2019 (15 comments)

Missing Internet Pioneer Phil Agre Is Found Alive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1093773 - Feb 2010 (5 comments)

Phil Agre Missing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=962065 - Nov 2009 (4 comments)
Ah

I remember watching Hamilton’s Pharmacopoeia, or maybe just an interview with Hamilton Morris, anyway he usually studies psychedelics and barbiturates and all the weird fringe drugs, and someone asks his opinion on alcohol and he says it’s a really crappy drug because you have to consume massive quantities of it for the desired effect, like most drugs that change your brain up are measured in milli/micrograms, but if you want to get trashed your poisoning yourself with, like, a liter of straight alcohol, it’s a lot of work for your body to deal with compared to smaller dose drugs.

Poisoning aside I guess you need to suggest a mechanism where DNA gets interfered with, is our body just as good at error-free mitosis when we’re sleeping off a rough night?
Along those lines, you can also use hex https://0x7f.0.0.0x01:443/
Are you just saying that all batteries should be replaceable, or also that they should be standardized somehow? Because I agree with the former but not the latter.
low whistle I imagine they paid a pretty penny for those /12s.

A thought comes to me: If IPv6 adoption continues to drag along, and AWS/Azure/GCP continue to expand their IP blocks like this, how quickly are we in danger of the cloud providers effectively being the Internet?
There's also no reason to expect that an L/D improvement applicable to battery electric aircraft wouldn't also directly benefit aircraft using fossil fuels or hydrogen / ammonia. Unless you have batteries with triple the energy density to current technologies, hydrogen is still going to go further and have a faster refuel time.
>thinking that would surely slow them down and make them more careful about pursuing all promising research paths.

Huh? I've worked at multiple companies that all do very broad device monitoring (it's fairly standard at all large companies) and I don't think I've ever heard anyone express any concern like this. I've certainly never felt this way myself. What "promising research paths" are you talking about? Do your google searches at work frequently involve porn or something?
I love this idea, it made me wonder about the difference in efficiency between wired and Qi and apparently it’s not too far off: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/state-of-wireless-charg...
Apparently 70 million images have been reported by other providers (if I'm reading [1] correctly, which I'm not sure I am, since the paywall hides it before I can read closely).

Assuming that's correct, the answer is "a lot of people." I find that eminently plausible.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/online-child-sexual-ab...
Absolutely. The Marshall Plan had a vast amount of resources behind it and a very strong resolve. I’m not sure Afghanistan did.
Australia has made a number of their citizens stateless recently, cancelling their citizenships without trial in violation of UN conventions on statelessness.

Among the developed western nations of the world, USA is a bottom-rung country when it comes to human rights, what with assassinating their own citizens in the middle east, torturing prisoners and keeping them locked up for decades without trial, not to mention all the abuses on the domestic front. Australia is one rung above USA.
This might not be a hyperimportant distinction under current circumstances but interesting nevertheless. I remember that long form.
No, they were asked to sign a software update which would bypass the application processor enforced passcode retry limit on an iPhone 5C which had no secure element.
I'm not the parent but if the question is "who is meant by authoritarian regimes?" a great example on how to measure authoritarianism is the democracy index assembled by the Economist Intelligence Unit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

> The index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories, measuring pluralism, civil liberties and political culture.

The 2020 report classifies 57 countries as authoritarian regimes, 35 more as hybrids.
Why women lose the dating game (2012)
It's mostly just wealthy people going to second homes spreading it around to regional areas that are far less equipped to deal with an outbreak.

It was also mostly in reaction to some fuckwit going up the coast to view an open home.

His wife was in hospital with covid, and him and his two kids also had it while they travelled.

The excuse? "Don't believe in it".
You would likely earn double and have same/similar quality of life right across the border.
That is all absolutely plausible. If each generation, for centuries, could point to where their gradparents had lived, now under water, that could really cement a tradition.
The classic is the /scripts directory in your codebase (presumably in VCS). The key is also to trawl through occasionally and remove anything that hasn't been used in a while.
Why would you? The reviewers would just bounce your paper, perhaps as the other commenter alluded to, in part due to fair use concerns.
Does Aurora do anything for apps that are marked device-exclusive, for example Half Life 2?
Eh, strong disagree, I had to buy one of the fuckers pretty much every six months while all my usb-c cables hold
This article reminds me of another from 2006 about PTSD in elephants. In various parts of the world, culling events and poaching have killed elder elephants in elephant clans, and traumatized the mostly young survivors, who grow up without guidance in parenting among other crucial activities. This has resulted in a breakdown of the elephant family structure, so that these traumatized and directionless young and mostly male elephants roam the grasslands engaging in senseless acts of violence against other animals and humans (the latter being probably more justified).

One of the Ugandan researchers profiled draws parallels between what is happening to elephants and what has happened in the recent history of her country, with the civil war killing parents and grandparents, creating a generation of young traumatized and directionless men who similarly engage in senseless violence and bloodshed.

It's a really beautiful and really sad article

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html
>It's shocking to me how people here accept this as normal.

I believe that you are seeing the zeitgeist of the enormous proportion of the users here whom are wannabe capitalists with a dream of one day being the oppressive CEO abusing their workers.

This isn't the best forum if you want to discuss progressive social issues like labor rights and modernization thereof.
export EDITOR=ed

export VISUAL='dosbox C:\DOS\EDIT.COM'
lightning is the betamax of the 2020s
The majority of Java software I've seen is also in need of much refactoring, and tends to be overly complex, which makes the former more difficult to do.
> Do we advocate for less wasteful wires and accept the power throughput loss of -ductive (I forget which one :P) charging?

magnetic induction
Concurrent ML:

http://cml.cs.uchicago.edu/pages/sync-var.html

As for the rest I am on the go to type a proper example.
But that'll put The Guardian out of business!
I guess there's a large pool of IP addresses used by residential ISPs that could be recycled relatively easily.

When I lived in Ireland I only got a public IPv6, my IPv4 was behind CG-NAT. The nerd in me wasn't a fan of that on paper, but in reality I didn't have any issues with it.

I could see ISPs making a quick buck by switching to CG-NAT on IPv4 so they can sell off their IPv4 blocks.

Those IPs being recycled for servers/services doesn't seem too risky, given that they're not typically hosting anything.
Having just realized my internet provider, cox, does not actually support ipv6 for the 2 million plus subscribers in my state I think it is safe to say that ipv6 is dead and will never take the place of ipv4 in our lifetimes.

Don't get me wrong. They say they support it, they have lots of PR that says the support it but in fact as a subscriber they do not.
The biochemist I raised and who is sitting next to me drinking beers I paid for so that he would not drink all my expensive whiskey says that ethidium bromide doesn't even pass the Ames test except with liver homogenates, and its actual carcinogenicity is unproven. Your body produces similar carbon rings --- phenylalanines --- constantly. You can't simply derive carcinogencity axiomatically.

(I'm butchering this and mostly just having fun with it.)

Edit

He is correcting me and saying that at the moment he is technically working as a veterinary immunologist. But the point about 6-carbon thingies stands.
> Mobile computing was way more limited prior to iPhone and Android

How exactly was it limited? My only issue with older Windows Mobile devices was non-capacitive touch, and HTC HD2 (still on Windows Mobile 6.5) did not even have that problem.
> Australia has made a number of their citizens stateless recently

Who, specifically, did the Australian government revoke the citizenship of who wasn't also a citizen of another country?
Companies are never ever more important than human beings
Related threads:

Homemade IC (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21239145 - Oct 2019 (40 comments)

Home Chip Fab - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20657398 - Aug 2019 (131 comments)

A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955549 - April 2018 (116 comments)
So, Xeon will it be?
Just add this policy to the ever-growing list of reasons I'll never be interested in working at Amazon. Even if they're retracting it now, the fact that it was ever on the table tells me all I need to know about the company's culture.
The idea is already there, the rest are details.

It is like arguing Rust invented affine types while ignoring the ideas in Cyclone and linear typing, even if they don't map 1:1 to what Rust has.
Yeah it's like, social media has you thinking there are literally only two or three overarching positions you can hold but in real life things are more nuanced. I know a lot of EU immigrants and anti-fascists who voted for Brexit, racists who voted remain, sex workers who are against the current de-stigmitization of sex work, trade/student union types who are toxic in the workplace, trans people who don't like jk rowling but idenitfy with her because they have also been alienated from the online trans community, effective activists who will refuse to use their social media platform to share activist messages, former kids of the care system who as adults are very wary of people who say they want to adopt or foster, and so on. Social media has everyone thinking x therefore y (and therefore z) when it just is not the case. I can tell when someone is Very Online because they assume I hold a series of political positions based on very surface level observations about me, or vice versa, they assume because I hold a political position on something, I don't know about or haven't experienced something else (even though they also haven't)
Trusting Apple to not scan my device in the past was easy because as an engineer I know I would speak up if I saw that kind of thing secretly happening, and I know security researchers would speak up if they detected it.

Now Apple will scan the device and we must trust that 3rd parties will not abuse the technology by checking for other kinds of imagery such as memes critical of heads of state.

The proposed change is so much worse than the previous state of things.
Hissp: https://github.com/gilch/hissp
Yes, Concurrent ML exists. It also, however, does not have any feature analogous to Rust's Send trait or Swift's Sendable protocol.