skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a generic definition for someone closely associated with the company to out them out something that they would like to keep secret because it would embarrass them or lead to legal redress.
It seems like your "real problem" is that you want to tell 80% of humanity that they will never be permitted to achieve the same quality of life we enjoy in Western society today.

Good luck with that.
XR includes AR and VR
> Apple's CSAM scanning system continues to draw criticism over its existence, largely at a misinterpretation as to what the system does and is capable of doing [emphasis mine].

Is that sloppy journalism blindly parroting Apple PR or an Apple shill?
Yes, it's crazy good that one of the few places in the world that has established protocols that have prevented the spread of and death from COVID-19 has not gone off of the idealogical deep end. They continue to follow policy that has prevented countless deaths.
Authentication or authorization?

If you let in any user from the company, what difference does it make that it required authentication beforehand? (As the article points out, it could make a difference in incident response if the service is conscientious about logging and log retention, but that's a whole different feature that "authentication" doesn't get you for free!)

If you let in a restricted set of users from the company, that's now a business-logic change, not just a technical toggle. How do you determine which users are allowed to use and which ones aren't?
> I don't really see the problem for this website, the languages supported are all European, named after the country they're originally from, (with perhaps US English as the odd one out).

As a non-American native speaker of English (Australian), I always feel a little bit excluded when I see an American flag used to represent my native language.

I'm not bothered by the UK flag to quite the same extent – can't deny the language originated in England (although maybe one should really use the English flag not the UK one)

But I think the ideal is to drop the flags and just call them by their native names – English, Français, Deutsch, etc. Or use ISO 639 codes – EN(G), FR(A), DE(U), etc. (Non-technical audiences might find the codes unfamiliar, but for a programming language website that shouldn't be a concern.) Nobody is going to feel excluded, even in the slightest, by either of those approaches.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/10/china-xi-jinping-totali...
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Gentrification is the problem? Not real estate investment trusts buying up single family homes? Turn off your TV.
I think I built a Liberal Arts college on the internet
tl;dr they are saying global optimization works, but all the actors need to get a globally optimal plan.

Retaining choice for menial task (driving from a-b) wasting millions of person years on driving locally optimal but globally optimal (you pick the horizon).

This statement is true for much of human condition. False choice wastes our attention from other areas that should get more focus.
The culture at your company must be really awful to have driven you to this. Why can't you just tell these VPs to go pound sand, since data takes some time to collect and can't simply be willed into existence by working long hours? Are you afraid they'll badmouth you to your boss or something?
I don’t agree completely.

If the site is localized into de_DE and fr_FR then it makes perfect sense to use the country flags. In more general terms: When the site is localized into the locale of specific country/nation and that country/nation has that language as its only official language.

The official language of Great Britain is English. The various other languages spoken in the countries that are part of UK are regional/local. So using GB flag for locale en_GB is appropriate.

US flag for en_US.

Brazilian flag for pt_BR.

Portuguese flag for pt_PT.

Whereas for example Canada has both French and English as official languages right. So if you are writing for fr_CA or en_CA locales then it would be inappropriate indeed to use Canadian flag (since in that case it doesn’t say which language), and equally wrong to use French or USA flag because those flags imply fr_FR and en_US. So if either fr_CA or en_CA is among your target locales, either use text for everything instead of flags, or use flags for the locales that have them and text for fr_CA and en_CA. Likewise for other countries with multiple official languages.

Australia apparently has no official language at the federal level. So the Australian flag should not be used for en_AU locale. Instead text should be used for en_AU locale.
I wonder if "annoying the user into submission" is "social engineering".

We had a similar issue with a library that wouldn't install unless root so one of the developers just put his username/password into the box in a plaintext file so the script could basically assume it from the command line when needed... told noone about it.
> some of the most capable scientists don’t want to work on weapons, so they can kid themselves that they are working on “energy”.

This should be highlighted.

Anecdotally, I have a friend who worked at Macdonald-Detweiller on algorithms for handling the controlled descent of autonomously-guided aircraft when lacking propulsion and relying solely on gliding. She was horrified when I told her she was working on smart bomb guidance systems.
double down on this

just go for what youre interested in :)
Every case of covid in an unvaccinated community is significant.
I wonder what would happen every citizen had the weapons as well as the taliban.
The paragraph leaves out an important constraint: it’s only for functions that map some compact convex set to itself. So, the theory doesn’t apply to the sibling commenter’s example of f(x) = x + 1 because it doesn’t map a compact set to itself.

One example of a compact convex set is a circle. Imagine some continuous function that maps a circle to a circle. An easy example is rotation. For rotation, the center stays in the same place. Now imagine some more complicated function that might do rotation, stretching, spiral distortions, whatever you can imagine. But it has to be continuous, meaning you can’t go off one edge and come back on the other side (among other things). Try to draw, or even just imagine a transformation like this and you’ll find that there’s always some point that stays in the same place.

For a 3D object like a glass it’s hard to see the same thing intuitively, but Brouwer’s theorem says that it holds (and it also holds for higher-dimensional sets).
Carbon offset forests are burning
The TSA also has to enforce things like liquid bans, and making sure there are no explosive assembly components built into the heel of your shoe and yes those are still important.

A reinforced cockpit door is not going to help you when you sneak on individual components for plastic explosives and assemble them in the lavatory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bojinka_plot
Your example function doesn't map any compact set back to itself.
Turns out schooling is mostly about government-subsidized childcare after all.
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I bought a Lenovo ThinkBook from NewEgg, preconfigured with LinuxMint, because I didn't want to risk driver issues, it had to "just work." So far so good. My physical and computing demands are not that heavy.

They sell higher end preconfigured also.
I'll just say it. They blender it and then filter out the bone bits.

It looks unpleasant. But the description of the process is no problem at all.
Interesting project by an interesting game technology developer!
Unsterile needles are included on this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS#Emergence
I have a Thinkpad P1, which I bought for Linux compatibility. I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on it and have had no issues. However I use the machine semi-strictly for development, and I have a Macbook where I keep my 100-tab browsing, video calls, and document authoring.

I previously had an XPS-13 and I ran into a lot of (minor) stuff where the computer would lock up and CPU would max out when having too many tabs open, or e.g. being on a zoom call and trying to alt-tab into g-suite in the browser.
As others have said: do what interests you.

This helps because interest can help you focus. Most people with an issue like ADHD have trouble getting started. If they can get started, they can perform just fine.

Interest helps them get over the hump of getting started.
I am speaking as someone who lives in Minneapolis, near the second precinct. I assure you nothing dangerous was happening anywhere near the second precinct building (which they had fortified heavily with multiple concrete walls, barbed wire, etc).

If you don't trust my word - you can go look up a map of damage from the riots yourself.
Jobs have been an identity for as long as civilization has existed. Hence last names like "Miller", "Smith", "Cooper", etc.
Yeah, 20 years ago he was saying "invest in hospital beds", that not only helps you be resilient against a ton of different potential terrorist threats, but also against natural disasters. Looks even more sensible today.
That’s specific to the education SKU and is to prevent zoom-bombing… and an admin can disable it.
timthumb?
It also plays your user-name (when configured by the meeting owner) in the background at a non-audible frequency, so that companies can find out who leaked their meetings by analysing the audio from the leak.

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/18/leak-zoom-meeting/
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The Taliban have nearly 900K Twitter followers as they 'fish for legitimacy'
No shit. I am flabbergasted. Who would have thought. There are no words.

He said he left to prevent bloodshed. Most likely his own.
Didn't they scan carry on bags before the TSA? It would be the same thing, just with the newer scanners.
Hasn't work always sucked . The difference now is ppl have more ways of making money that does not involve traditional employment. Also, there is more wealth than ever flowing around., so pplcan live off inheritances or with relatives or friends who have money. Wealth is growing at 20 percent per year since 2010 in terms of stock market gains but population growth just 1 percent. Even if the gains are dispropprante to the top, that is still a lot of wealth sloshing around.
Its definitely something we've been exploring when putting our product roadmap together. I'm curious though, if we had a private cloud instance vs self hosted? I'd love to understand why self hosted would be the option you'd go for.
Not hard at all. This is a different (to me) type of clickbait.
TSA aside you're right, compared to most of the developed world the US does have an awful lot more jobs of greeters, wait staff, doormen, security and other people standing around helping. Its marginally better service but feels like a waste of people.
My question is: if Twitter is so crazy about curbing hate and violence on their platform, how can the Taliban have an active Twitter account?

From the piece:

"As far as it's possible to tell, Twitter doesn't appear to have a policy against allowing members of the Taliban to use its platform. The company is no stranger to navigating arguments about whether high-profile, divisive figures should be allowed a voice on Twitter, but it's facing questions over why it's giving Taliban representatives a mouthpiece -- especially after it banned US president Donald Trump late last year.

"Twitter didn't respond to a request for comment about its policy on allowing the Taliban on its platform."
Nope... a small almost mom'n'pop web hosting company.
I don't think interest rates mean what you think it does.

One can't simply raise interest rates on a whim.
extracting ores from the crust

The Earth has an insane amount of material. It's the greatest tragedy that life occupies only the thinnest film on the thinnest edge of the Earth. The more we can make use of the full potential of the Earth, the more life there can be. It's a waste to just leave all that matter buried, doing nothing more than providing gravity.

We need to solve the energy usage problem, not its production.

More energy means more solutions. Think carbon sequestration, vertical farming, building megastructures to combat sea level rise, climate engineering, or even just pumping heat into space as infrared.

We are indeed in a climate crisis, but 85% of the crisis is that people have given up on the future and just want to panic.
> First of all, not all the changes have to be implemented immediately.

I'll comment on future features when they exist, or at least are documented as a goal.

> Secondly, why do you expect that this OS is ready to show to any non-technical user?

I don't. I am commenting on what exists, and what exists is an FAQ entry specifically stating that the project does not cater to non-technical users.

Even so, I think you underestimate non-technical users. Another modern trend I despise.
>gratify the ego of the author

I'm sorry that you're not mathematically literate but that is no reason to cast aspersions on expositors that have

1) zero obligation to cater to your needs

2) receive zero compensation for producing such expository pieces (since they don't count towards publication records)

>the generally accepted genre?

Indeed "gentle introduction" does not mean spoon food, it means exposition that includes niceties like motivation, examples, and diagrams. It is gentle relative to a research monograph (at which I'm sure your indignation would be astronomical).

Here's my recommendation to you on how to learn mathematics if you're serious about it but don't have the patience to struggle through "gentle introductions" like absolutely every single other practicing mathematician did: head down to your local university math department and ask about grad students willing to tutor. The going rate is ~$100/hr for the kind of spoon feeding you seem to be looking for. Quite steep I know but it's highly skilled labor after all (I'm sure you make about that as a software dev for whom this is above their skillset). But you'll be interested to that it's an inversely sliding scale for just how much spoon feeding is necessary (I personally go as low as $25 for very highly motivated students).
It's based on the AP style guide used in US print journalism.
The attractive person probably thought you were an AI too once you started repeating the messages
Somehow I get the feeling you’re familiar with the jelly donut analogy WRT inertial confinement fusion.
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Wow, what did she think it was for?
I was poor.
I learned to code.
Now I am rich.
Smoking is a good example. My country has quite bad COVID numbers both in number of cases and deaths. Yet: in one and a half years of pandemic fewer than 4500 people died from COVID.
About 6000 die each year from smoking-related diseases. You all probably know how different government takes on these issues are.
I really liked Bluejeans (I find its audio/video quality to be far superior to the alternates) but it really didn't do well over jittery/slow connections. Zoom swept in and through people's refusal to use anything but what they're familiar with it chased out Bluejeans and we got rid of it.
Saw CalxyOs recently, it is build on top of Android but is unbundled from Google. And fakes Google play services so you can actually use apps.

Haven't tried it personally and it only works on pixel devices but looks cool

More info in the video below
https://youtu.be/qTtgzNGRAfA
Congrats on the launch! Worked on something similar, so rooting for ya. Using Hollywood accent coaches is a great approach, but I'd also look into identifying speech therapists that specialize with helping adults in target regions to 1) get more information for your models and 2) point out which problems can't be corrected in older adults, so you focus on those that can.
Trump tried to lift the Russia sanctions in 2016. Trump said he'd partner with Putin on cybersecurity while they were preparing a major hack on the federal government, which succeeded. Stop gaslighting us.
Now we're getting closer to the truth - although your hyperbole doesn't help, you're definitely on the right track.
The devil lies in the details here. Brouwer's fixed point theorem says that for a continuous function f that maps a _compact, convex_ set to itself, there must exist a point x₀ such that f(x₀) = x₀. This theorem is only valid for sets that are compact (i.e., closed and bounded) and homeomorphic to convex.

I think the 3-dimensional analogy (similar to the stirring of coffee and sugar Brouwer observed) is rather unintuitive. I think some of the proofs are quite beautiful, but I like this analogy from Wikipedia:

> Take an ordinary map of a country, and suppose that that map is laid out on a table inside that country. There will always be a "You are Here" point on the map which represents that same point in the country.
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I read that as "request authentication", i.e. some way to sign or HMAC the content of the request, with keys given only to the things that need to interact with the service.

If users are involved, then yeah you also need some kind of RBAC for it to make any sense.
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The last major cyberattack came from Russia. Russian hacker group ransomware hit US companies. It may not be "The Cold War", but it's definitely US vs Russian nationalism.
Yeah I probably should’ve looked up the citations myself. People quickly swooped in with them at least.
you should also get checked out for thyroid issues if you have hormonal problems. They can cause some/all of the symptoms you're describing.
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It would depend on the measure. Some job numbers are based on payrolls, so no. If using unemployment, yes.
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It only applies to functions on bounded sets. The reals are not bounded. There are other restrictions, but that is one of them.
Just raise wages. We seem to always get this "worker shortage" marketing campaign every few years from our fat cat leaders. There is no shortage. If I want a wagyu steak but only want to spend $5.00, does that mean there's a food shortage? Labor, goods and services are all subject to supply and demand. Let it work itself out. No special government subsides for people whining about shortages.

I want a trip on one of these orbital space ships. Is there a space ship shortage?
So much fiery passion about these random tools, haha
As someone with a dog, I can say it is not easy to avoid ticks. Even with canine medication they pick one or two up every time we go for a hike, ON the trail.
I’ve long wondered this too. Intuitively, it just seems like the losses from all those energy transfers would be unacceptably great.
> Serfs were not only expected to provide labour to their “employers”, but to fight for them

That was never expected. It was never going to be expected. Fighting was much too prestigious for serfs to be doing it.

> believe what they believe

This changed over time. Mostly serfs were too unimportant for their non-Christian beliefs to matter. But it was always a formal expectation, and as the centuries went by it did develop into an actual expectation.

> and pledge their fealty.

Indeed. This is the difference between a W2 worker and a contractor; it escapes me why so much public rhetoric focuses on W2 status as if getting it were a victory for the employee.
Clearly, delivering cuddles and cookies to the destitute.

In a sense, we programmers who work on ML are just as guilty. It seems to be used primarily for for surveillance and reliably scalable automation of centralised control of industry and society.
^ This is the correct answer.

I installed the Zoom client just to have a look for myself. The syscalls in question emanate from freshly forked processes that immediately execvp() the command `pidof` (on my system it finds it under /usr/bin, so it's the system command, not anything fishy shipped by Zoom). Actually, the command-line argument to the command is, in succession:

gnome-session

gnome-panel

gnome-shell

gnome-session-binary

ksmserver

cinnamon

cinnamon-session

mate-panel

mate-session

xfce-mcs-manage

xfce4-panel

xfce4-session

I suppose Zoom goes through the whole list on my system because it finds none of them. The fact that it stops on parent's system suggests that Zoom stops when it finds one. This hints at a very crude way to determine the desktop environment!
I actually think the chat bubble option alone will remove a huge hurdle for people joining Matrix and using it as a real chat platform.

Anecdotally, most non-gamers, non-programmers prefer the bubbles. And it's a strong enough preference that I basically hear that people can't use an app for normal communication unless it has the bubbles.

There's a reason WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, etc are all designed that way. They're meant for interpersonal communication more than giant chat rooms, and it seems like people generally prefer bubbles for that use case.
yes the ... one-time $3400 checks and a major economic contraction. That definitely caused 10+% price increases on $500k+ homes.

Beyond everything else, this is just mathematically absurd.
Yep. I notice mention of this additional constraint from another comment. As far as I can tell the article is just incorrect since it misses this constraint up to that point, unless I'm just a clown and somehow not seeing it.

The upside here is that it seems perhaps I wasn't missing the premise, and it was just mis-stated :)
> mRNA vaccines being "only" 90-95% effective

Against alpha...
Also, an example of Brouwer's fixed point theorem is the Y Combinator in the lambda calculus. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Y_combi...
I'm not saying Excel is without its benefits or a bad tool, just perhaps shouldn't be the only one.

And I was wondering if people like in the non-engineering but scientific fields, as the ones discussed in post, are exposed to the alternatives during their formation years.

If one chooses to use Excel because its the best tool great, but if its because its the perceived only option that's probably counterproductive.
I use a System 76 machine. I've had it for a couple of months now. So far I've been exceptionally happy with it. The only real criticism I have is that there's one aspect of the keyboard layout that I don't like, compared to the Dell I use at my $DAYJOB. But that's a minor nit in the grand scheme of things.
Accurate. I used to have about 20 neighbors on the adjoining two lots, until the previous owner pushed them all out and then sold to some investors who wanted to convert the properties into condos. They gathered dust for 2 years then there's been 18 months of half-assed construction. Why rush? They're accruing value by the day.They didn't even get proper permits, but the fine is nominal.
Speaking of other disinformation sources means you're part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, tho. Probably directly employed by the Koch foundation under the direction of Putin.