skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if the analogy had been "master-apprentice" instead there probably wouldnt be as much pushback everywhere else

Except, you know, apprentices eventually become masters themselves. And the space isn't zero-sum; "Master Verrochio taught Master Leonardo" is semantically valid. It doesn't illustrate the semantics of, say, data replication where there is only one master at a time and the slaves are not supposed to be promoted. "Master-slave" captures the relationship succinctly.

True, it hearkens back to a dark time in US history but if that is the only criteria for censoring usage of this term, are we not also censoring discussions about this period? I agree with the sentiment to be ashamed of it but to the point where you can't even derive metaphors from it? Reeks of cowardly denial.
I agree that China is not a totalitarian state (yet), in that it is currently not uniformising thoughts, words and behaviour (cf. Gleichschaltung), even though civic freedom is gradually disassembled.
But the tagline of the article, "China is governed by a totalitarian regime", is correct. The regime is both capable of establishing totalitarian rule and based on a totalitarian ideology.
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More of a criticism of the Harvard Innovation Lab photo than the article, but the "1980's" desktop computer pictured is a rough facsimile of the Macintosh Classic released October 15, 1990. This machine represented the one of the first products produced by the Apple Industrial Design Group which had replaced the iconic '80s Snow White design from Frog Design.
The example on that site of the gradient button with "Preview" text is broken. The text isn't centered because the container is set to display: flex but no flex-grow set to expand the content box to fill the parent. It has text-center set, but because the box is collapsing that's not working as expected. Really, it needs Tailwind's justify-items-center applied to it.

I'd worry about using a framework whose primary example is wrong.
How would October 1st be written down at your place?
I wonder if there's some way to make a "thief monkey". Some program that searches your code for vulnerability patterns and rips you off if it can. (Obvs, a tame monkey will then give you the money back).

Humans might be motivated to sit on a bug until they can reach the cybercafe. Bots, not so much.
Why not release 2.x after a month, breaking the API again? Heck, why not next day when you find out that all APIs suck.
I've just been using the video camera and mic on my Macbook Pro laptop the whole pandemic and I think a lot of my coworkers are the same way. I've certainly interviewed plenty of people on not-high-quality gear and it's no problem, so long as they can clearly hear the questions I ask.

Make sure the background of your space is neat, neutral, and not distracting, or use a zoom background.

Do you have any friends who can run a mock interview over Zoom for you and provide feedback?
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> It is an interesting attack but is the above goal ever achievable? To protect against adversaries from the inside.

Yes. To expand: to a function on the CPU an administrator is just another user. The Operating System is responsible for managing those designations.

These trusted computing pieces across all kinds of CPUs are specifically aimed at protecting against people with host-root, so it would seem like it's a goal they've set for themselves and should be reasonably achievable.
> To drive the point home, even further down the stack, HashiCorp's Terraform also complies with ZeroVer's cutting-edge versioning scheme. With Vault and Terraform, HashiCorp demonstrates industry recognition of the importance of ZeroVer in infrastructure.

Both of these have seen 1.x releases.
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I used to be a big fan of Dropbox, but my problem is that they don't have a lower paid tier like Google, Microsoft and Apple have for $2-$3. I need a little more than the free plan offers, but I don't need terabytes of space.
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Sarcasm?
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> they can change

This is incorrect. You can create a new commit with a different hash, but the commit hash being a checksum of the commit contents will never change for the same commit.
I agree. There are already some insurance protocols in place - see Cover Protocol or Unslashed Finance. Its still very early in this space, but things are definitely developing!
> I'm interested in web application security

After taking a look, please remove the shadowban on my account for saying "What science?" because of the year-long b.s. about masks and vaccine side effects.
In most of the cases that I've done vector similarity search the number of vectors was a million or less (say the 300,000 public domain images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art I am looking at now) and in that case in-memory search with naive algorithms works very well and more complex algorithms are more trouble than they are worth.

I've also done similarity search over spiky vectors (have most of the weight in a few dimensions even if they aren't really sparse) with a conventional database (MySQL) in which case I could search a small fraction of the database and have a "proof" that there aren't going to be any more documents that will make it into the top N.

Generally though the hyperdimensional indexes just aren't as good as 1-d indexes, just as the 1-d indexes are a bit better than 2-d and 3-d indexes. (E.g. consider the problem of deciding which lines to draw if you're drawing a map of a small piece of the New Mexico-Arizona border, where the border is a long straight line that has both vertexes far away.)
From my last bill (Finland):

Electricity: 0.053 €/kWh
Transfer fee: 0.043 €/kWh
Electricity tax: 0.028 €/kWh
VAT: 0.023 €/kWh

So, about 0.146€ per kWh. The transfer fee is to the local utility company, and we can't avoid that, nor the taxes.

We're paying extra for having power generated by solar/wind only, but the cost of the electricity is only about 1/3 of the actual price.
You are assuming testing before vaccination, your parent is assuming no testing before vaccination.
With the exception of a few (very important) services (e.g. college tuition, healthcare, childcare), increases in income have actually outpaced inflation for most other goods and services over the last 20 years [0]. This is something I almost never see discussed; almost everyone seems to believe that real incomes have totally stagnated.

That said, given current inflationary trends, it will be interesting to see if this still holds up in a decade or two.

[0] https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cpi2020.png?x...
I would probably take a 10 year version of that bet.

I would probably also take a more broad version of that bet, if we agreed upon a good definition of "abuse".

10 years is tricky though, because this topic has a political angle about it.

I look at this stuff as a political move by Apple as much as anything else. There's a lot of political pressure around encryption, and the "think of the children" angle is very compelling for a lot of people. This CSAM voucher system is cleverly designed to handle that concern without compromising privacy or security for anyone who isn't uploading multiple previously-known CSAM images to their iCloud Photo Library.

How this political situation will unfold over the next 10 years is hard to say. I hope for the best. But it's important for threats to privacy and security to be challenged.

I have wished for more legitimate and valid criticism of this system. Almost every criticism that I've seen is based on plain misunderstandings of how the system works, which isn't helpful.
> Exhibit 1: Instagram, which is now imitating TikTok, poorly, with it's video feed. Literally all content I see there is TikTok reposts.

Anecdata?

> YouTube's... whatever. Dead in the water.

Lol what? YT is still growing and has 2.3B users...

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/

> Did I make my point clear?

You did.

> Facebook and Google don't get it. HackerNews doesn't get it.

We do. You're just not understanding OUR point. People are not disagreeing that there is somehow a better/unique experience on TikTok - in fact the opposite, most people here believe that to be true. We're saying that there is a very CLEAR trend when it comes to social media apps. In fact you said it yourself "YouTube and Instagram are crap now". The parent's original premise was that we are in a honeymoon phase with TikTok and all of the ills associated with the other social media platforms will very likely plague TikTok eventually. Worse, TikTok is heavily influenced by a regime well known for abuse that pales in comparison to civil liberties to that of the US/Facebook. In essence, this is a recipe for disaster.

> I hope I made my comment negative enough for your preference, but I'll be glad to elaborate.

Your insistent deflection and "poor me" attitude doesn't help your argument...worse, it makes me think you're a shill.
I use the simple https://www.passwordstore.org.
I feel like this is meant to be satire, but I wonder if there's some truth to it

Yes and yes. But isn’t that kind of the point of good satire?
I always assumed that someone had lost the source for the iOS app and that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing.
Yes. From my perspective one benefit of 0 major version in 1-person OSS projects is it gives a clear signal that "yes this code is available for you, but no I'm not an enterprise support solution, I'll do what seems useful/relevant to me when I have time and when it feels relevant".

That doesn't mean intentionally breaking backwards compatibility but also this isn't my paid day job so I might do it and I'm not going to spend my evenings compiling release notes / migration guides for free.

In this way it's an effective anti-big-corp shield since a lot of enterprises have dumb rules about using beta/alpha versions. I think it's a strong signal where people can't just use a beta or pre-release version of some code that they're a) not auditing their dependencies and b) probably work somewhere that has the money to pay for that level of service but just want you to do it for free.
The notion that language is "what the learned have built out of competence and reflection" is abjectly risible. The evolution of language consists of corruption, confusion, coinages of demotic provenance, and general chaos. The contributions of learned classicists to the modern language are subject to exactly the same inexorable flux.

There is no party that refuses to accept "bastard" semantics; in no language does there exist a fraction of a syllable of legitimate descent. The only recourse open to the pedant and misanthrope is to forgo the use of language altogether, which would in your case constitute a marked improvement in the discourse.
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Thanks for the comments. I'm also interested in the infrastructure. Does HN run on dedicated hardware, shared VPS, AWS, Azure, etc.
Just watch as employees everywhere start using bots to keep their engagement stats up. Boards will start to have GPT generated fluff that drowns out any residual use those tools had.
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Reminder about "Give to Thunderbird":

* https://give.thunderbird.net/

* Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28084907
They meet at the Mole in Rouge, blowing off the tension of secrecy by mansplaining each other Das Kapital.
same here this is when i switched to bitwarden and haven't looked back!
The problem isn't the attributes. I WISH there was a dynamic language that would statically type your attributes, that would be the perfect hybrid for me.

The problem is typing the agregates. So for all projections from a single table, that's 2^9 types. For all projections for a join on two 10 attribute relations, 2^19. This is in the realm of yes you can do this in a static type system, but why?
That makes more sense. I'll have to look into Kats as an alternative to darts :)
If I were a tyrannical gov and my country thought I was incompetent I would run with it for as long as I could, implementing things like surveillance laws, removing guns, all the while the citizens think I’m incompetent. Until they look around one day and realize Ive build a cage around them.
I did Facebook Fridays for a while (before gradually losing interest in Facebook).

It was a helpful structure for me: as much Facebook as I wanted on Friday, none the rest of the week. (I use the Messenger app for FB messages so didn't put any limits there. There's even a separate Messenger website!)

I'd end up naturally spending only 20 minutes or so on Fridays; enough to check notifications and realize nothing really interesting or important was actually on there.

I found Facebook Fridays to be more sustainable than going totally cold turkey. Now I just go on Facebook every once in a while if I have a specific purpose.

Hmm, maybe I need to try Twitter Tuesdays or HN Thursdays...
similar to how in 2020, the asymptomatic persons were more risky (they wouldn't know they have the virus, and so spread more compared to symptomatic people who would take precautions); next the vaccinated people might be in the same category. once again comes to the spot: more vaccine coverage is needed.
Also the nonlinearity only needs to be differentiable because ANNs are trained with gradient descent. With other more biologically plausible learning mechanisms, this might matter even less (or have other constraints / requirements)
That is the first positive comment I've ever had about m8.fyi - thank you, really!

I'm British - "mate" is used often but it doesn't sound as friendly as when Aussies use it!
Average hourly wages have, but what about the median?
I like how the EU is listed under technology.
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Irreversibility is one of its best features. Imagine a scenario in 50 years when 80% of token holders are dead... This could result in a non-trivial % of tokens being lost forever; this greatly reduces the remaining circulating supply of tokens and thus makes everyone else who still remembers their keys wealthier (less supply, same demand translates to higher price).

On the other hand, stocks are more susceptible to demographic collapse; for example, if a lot of shareholders die and all their relatives inherit their stocks, you can expect a selloff to occur which could crash the stock price. With stocks, shares are never lost forever; they just get passed down to an increasing number of increasingly lazy and incompetent heirs. That's not to say that cryptocurrencies cannot be passed down (they can) but the fact that they are tied to a secret passphrase (instead of the legal system) makes it more likely that they can get lost. The negative economic effects of wealth inheritance are not as strong in crypto space.

The idea that negligent people may lose their tokens is highly meritocratic as it transfers wealth from negligent people to careful people.
“ Notably, it appears that the safe withdrawal rate does not decline further as the time horizon extends beyond 40-45 years (given the limited research available); the 3.5% effectively forms a safe withdrawal rate floor, at least given the (US) data we have available.”

https://www.kitces.com/blog/adjusting-safe-withdrawal-rates-...
>The image profiles are part of the OS so there's no mechanism to deliver image profiles separately for different countries

Haven't Apple already said it WILL be country specific?

>Apple’s new feature for detection of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) content in iCloud Photos will launch first in the United States, as 9to5Mac reported yesterday. Apple confirmed today, however, that any expansion outside of the United States will occur on a country-by-country basis depending on local laws and regulations.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/06/apple-says-any-expansion-of-c...

I think they'd need to be country-aware at least, otherwise the FBI or whoever will get reports for all people on earth when they presumably don't need them for anyone outside the US?
It could also have been that an end user filed a bug report or feature request and made a convincing case. Then someone just reads over the commit logs to write the version announcement. It does just seem to be an outgrowth of the whole "master" branch thing in git and low-hanging fruit for a contributor to tackle. Overall who cares, really. "Primary password" is better than "Main password" IMHO.

I'm also not sure "Master password", "Primary password" or "Main password" are particularly intuitive. Probably better to name the resource like "Thunderbird account database password". Or just prompt to "Unlock password database".
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Let's be real: what helps the virus is politicians (actually commercial landlords, the politicians are just the mouthpiece) wanting to go back to normal. Proper public messaging would insist on continued social distancing instead of going back to schools and offices in the fall.
You are right, it's not mentioned, but they do in fact spend hundreds of thousands every few months for audits. You'll find more info here: https://gov.pooltogether.com/
no, nonmilitary actions. think ferry operators, they pilot within friendly airspace in a non-military mode.
It is wasteful, it is often pitched as solutions to problems that it is poorly suited to solve, it is often defended by people with a vested financial interest in seeing it go up, it is often defended by people who seem pretty darn paranoid and insane by common standards in regards to anarchist beliefs or some variant, it's often poorly defined or vaporware on top of a non crypto solution, it's increasingly reinventing existing systems but worse, it's often debated by people who don't understand it, and in general its constantly showing weaknesses like this article where you get splits of "Working as intended as that's bad", "Working as intended and that's good", "Not working as intended and unsolveable", and "Not working as intended but solveable with x framework."
Aren't those deaths after vaccine, rather than deaths caused by vaccine?
There are plenty of countries outside the US that don't use '.' as a date separator.
> I often read on HN that it's a norm for US employers to install spying software on developers computers.

I haven't heard of this happening at all.

Whereas it is commonplace for people to use time-tracking software (like Toggl, RescueTime, etc) - and it is also not-uncommon for companies to require employees to use such software (software-eng or otherwise) for the purposes of reporting their time/hours/what-they're-doing, they all have web-based UIs for doing data-entry: which is definitely not the same thing as installing monitoring software on an employees' own personal hardware with or without their informed consent and it being a condition of employment.

I think people are getting terms-conflated and using overloaded terms with negative connotations: "time tracking software" which does active-software-application-window-tracking for the benefit of the direct user can easily be mischaracterized as "monitoring software".
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I do not understand why averages are so often used rather than deciles or even quintiles.
I am not sure if I will be able to convey the point as well as I wish, but:

don't you think this way the enemy wins a battle?

Terrorists attempt bending politics through terrorizing: if one is terrorized, is that one not playing their game?

We greet in some sensible way, say, and somebody comes and promotes the greeting as now meaning "short people should stick to accounting": that somebody should not be nobilitated and their """cultural proposal""" accepted as norm: it should be discarded as noise. If the greeting were affected and linked to some unworthy agenda, that would mean empowering said agenda: it should have been impotent, but with your attention, and attributing it legitimacy in the creation of constraints, you made it powerful.

«Languages live», but uprooted they go astray. A rubberband, like that vetting attitude you (yes really you) have been trained to develop, should always there to check validity, vis-a-vis what terms mean, coremost to how they are used. One is supposed not to forget that core.

"Congratulations for having defaced our public square by defecating in the middle: you now get the privilege to do similarly with our sacred vocabulary".

So should not we speak language, as an attempt, instead of «USA [determined] English language» or «natural language»?

And more to the point, should not we avoid acting as resonance chambers amplifying deeds? Some culturally inferior party is not supposed to bend culture with the "strength of inferiority" - that is absurd. It is not a "de facto" bending, it is the "de facto" response to it that gives it power.
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> It is amusing we glorify words like Pirate

Pirates were referred to as the "enemy of all mankind":

* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545158/enemy-of-all...

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52783845-enemy-of-all-ma...
Wouldn't a proper TBC eradicate Macrovision? At least one that reconstructs the timing signals, anyway.
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I own fullofcr.app and flab.by. No idea what to do with them.
Pay is honestly decent in my experience. I’ve noticed that Aussies stay at the same company for much longer, compared to U.S. engineers. I’m on my third role in 3 years and will be taking $160K+, total compensation. Not nearly as much as some U.S. roles, but I know people who have worked the same role for 10 years and haven’t hit $100K.

Being a dual national (Schengen/Europe) there’s honestly not that many places in Europe where software pays all that well. Vienna surprised me with how many salaries sit between 40-50K euros for senior positions.
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This is incorrect. I do think that section 3(b) is unnecessary and should probably be removed, but preventing app stores from interfering in communications between developers and users is obviously not the same thing as requiring app stores to give user contact information to developers.
Gosling comes by his preferences or biases in a pretty honest way, by having put thousands of hours of work into Netbeans.
That's up to the individual. The whole point is to go hands off but to provide the necessary information to aid people's thinking. The entire problem we face right now is due to meddling in the truth. Leave people alone, let them figure it (or not), and be done with it. Nature will take care of the rest.