skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a security professional by any means, but this has been my line of thinking on this whole debate for quite a while. It's pretty silly considering what has been made public about the clandestine operations of alphabet agencies,(if you were paying attention to the right channels[1] their was good reason to believe that the 4th amendment was a joke to the Feds long before Snowden's leaks) especially combined with the existences and complete opaqueness of secret FISA Court. Its kinda crazy to me that all these technologists, and especially those on *hacker*news really believe that you have any sort of privacy from the US government, who has demonstrated it can act with complete impunity in most parts of the world for decades. I say especially people here because they should know how just a handful of rogue actors in any given organization could subvert any sort of veil of privacy. I'm not an expert by any means, but it makes complete sense to me that privacy in any large organization is a very delicate thing to maintain when your adversary is as sophisticated and belligerent as the US security and intelligence apparatus appears to be. Maybe I'm just not privy to something, but it seems like if the US national security apparatus want to do something on our or allies soil, they'll find a way.

[1]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/homefront/ - aired 15-5-07 and covered the notorious ATT room 641a
Software must be open source by law. Apple has shown closed software is too dangerous.
I'm sure it's koans like "Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can’t hear, and not bothering", or "Well, what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. (Excerpted from https://medium.com/swlh/12-winnie-the-pooh-philosophies-to-h...)
> They could have already scanned our files because they already have full control over the entire ecosystem.

Apple barely submits any CSAM[0]:

> According to NCMEC, I submitted 608 reports to NCMEC in 2019, and 523 reports in 2020. In those same years, Apple submitted 205 and 265 reports (respectively). It isn't that Apple doesn't receive more picture than my service, or that they don't have more CP than I receive. Rather, it's that they don't seem to notice and therefore, don't report.

0: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...
If you think you can master software engineering (a huge almost infinite field) then you are less experienced and understand things less than you think.
this is very odd.

generally large companies have a 90-day review: and that's for fine tuning / improve alignment stuff.

perhaps you are not added to some mailer groups hence not receiving those meeting invites ?

>not completing enough points per sprint

over-promised ?
Drat, apparently tr (GNU tr anyway) only supports single-byte characters.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/554901/how-to-chang...
it seems there's a little issue in math, in that the concept and notation often assume enough intuition and imagination from the reader

-3 looks odd if you interpret it as material existence

but as you say, read in bookkeeping context, it's totally natural (npi).

it's a bit like numbers 10 is actually 10 (base 10) but we elude it
Totally incorrect. The most cursory research (e.g. a Google for “US government”, a search on the nytimes, lookup in the AP style guide) will refute this.

Anyway, regardless of your personal definition of the term, the intent of communication of the person you are replying to is crystal clear and in obvious contradiction to your analysis. (That person expressly uses the word “federal.”)
While I agree in principle, in practice it can be very helpful for short-term positions like postdocs. Of course, you might argue that the very position of a postdoc and the whole carrot-on-a-string tenure apparatus is exploitative and immoral and… well I wouldn’t disagree :)
They bought a house. It came with a deed. The deed delineates exactly what rights are conferred. Zoning is not one of them.

Why do we have to bribe people to rescind rights that they never had in the first place?
No, that's fine, it's probably true, but that's not a bad thing that we're condemning.

You are evidently very unwilling to accept the claim, so I don't think anything said here will convince you otherwise, but perhaps it is meaningful that so many people are convinced of it.
>As a result, when you end your cycle, your body needs to restart its natural test production. There can be a delay while this happens and it leads to unpleasant, though temporary, side effects, like weight gain and a loss of sexual appetite.

Why not just slowly taper it off?
We’ll, for one it’d ruin sports. If it’s legal and up to the athlete to decide — then in order to remain competitive all athletes would need to take steroids. You’d basically be telling athletes that they’d need to subject their bodies to the side effects of steroids if they wanted to remain competitive in their sport. That seems like an unfair obligation to place on athletes.
Show HN: I've introduced recreational coding challenges in corporate
I think you're stuck on the word "previously" infected. If the government says you must be vaccinated or pass an antibody test by Sept 15 to keep your job, what are people going to do?
I didn't have any trouble with the legibility of the text on Debian Buster using Gnome. There are the occasional screen glitches with things like the tree view but mostly the experience on Windows and Linux is identical, which is the same as it was 25 years ago on Sun workstations.
in Aus we don't have enough vaccines to give to the people that want them. bad luck on vaccine betting and incompetent government are the main reasons.
Swimming is not a good analogy to software engineering.
If you aren’t aware of it already, you might be interested to read about Russell’s paradox [1] which shows a problem with allowing sets to be defined into existence without restriction (making Frege’s life’s work the Grundgesetze stillborn). It involves using the “set” of all things that are not a member of themselves.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_paradox
Pretty much. There's probably also an "in crowd" aspect to it as well. Everyone I know makes $100k+ as a dev here at least after a few years, but I've had Uber rides with older Indian dev drivers complaining that they can't find a job. I imagine anyone lumped into the whole "dodgy lebo/bogan/asian tradies" stereotype might struggle in a similar way.
I have this setup for our clients on FB.

The reported ROAS is all over the place on FB right now. It goes from previously 1 = 100% return on investment. Now it sometimes says 10X numbers like 70, which I assume is of the data they could measure 70% roi.

It seems to 'automagically' combine the offline conversion data with standard FBQ but I have no idea the match rates for the server-server data I send in and also importantly if it de-dupes.

I've tried to experiment with voting data in the past, I want to try that more this election. Run get out the vote ads and optimize for actual early votes.
I explain it that way to people all the time and they almost all say that.
Bad luck on vaccine betting and incompetent government are the main reasons. Others have elaborated in this thread.
Or BPC 157.
There is an expectation that where I live won't just be rezoned industrial to make way for more Amazon warehouses.
This is obviously a joke but the property owners should remember that California wouldn't be the first place something like that happened.
>No, Johnson is almost certainly referring to the fission primary in a fusion weapon.

1) If so, then that's an even more glaring gap of the author's knowledge.

2) In a technical sense, and in the context of how it affects a secondary material, it's basically the same thing. One scenario sets off a secondary explosion in some primary-adjacent-material, and the other scenario intentionally sets off a fizzle which "disables" a proximate/nearby core (inducing enough fizzle that it can no longer go supercritical).

The development of fusion technology focused too much on fizzles (and avoiding them) to not realize they could be used al I'm that method to purposefully "disable" a bomb. The strategic desire for any type of defense from an incoming nuclear weapon would have ensured the idea was thoroughly explored.

>When he spoke on radio, no one was seriously talking about ICBMs, and even the early Navy SLCMs were a decade away, so any and all defense against nuclear weapons was AA and fighters against incoming bomber fleets, Battle of Britain-style.

1) ICBMs and other missiles were only secondary thoughts because they thought manned rockets and space stations were a more feasible goal than figuring out how to navigate and target unmanned missiles. (Alan Shepard riding a modified redstone army rocket was proof of concept of more than just putting an American into suborbital space.) Advances in navigation, geodesy, and computing power, combined with smaller/lighter warheads and MRVs, solved the targeting problem much faster than anticipated.

2) I said missiles bc that's what got built, but the origins of the idea predate them. The most likely implementation (at the time) would have been, as you said, against aerial bombers, and actually based on a Battle of Britain style/ Nazi-derived rocket drone, but manually remote controlled via joystick and analog TV, and air launched from a hybrid interceptor/bomber. It could similarly be used in a bombing role with drones hitting ground targets.

The drone remote control technology had already been developed and used near the end of the war for getting full sized planes and the sensors they carried close enough to collect data from the early nuclear donations.
Absolutely, it sucks, but that is the system they've decided to use, for what is likely a long-long term net gain compared to not coming in.

They should spend years 6 and 7 looking for better prospects, and move to greener pastures as soon as they possibly can.

I personally immigrated to a new country and was locked in for 4 years at a job that demanded more and more of my time and life energy. Leaving was one of the most long-term positive things I've ever done, and the 4 years was worth it.

Again, it's going to take years, and be hard work. And it's going to be worth it.
Both paths are valid and they are often intertwined. But be clear Learning happens under 3 conditions

1. A good environment - low/no distraction

2. Mentors - people who know more AND know how to teach

3. Repetition. The brain has 200 billion neurons with a trillion connections. Nothing is static about that network. The connnections are constantly changing depending on what gets fed in. So if you want to understand something its all about Repeating the same input again and again until connections solidify
Would there even be a way to verify the victim's claims? If I got a random letter in the mail saying my kid stole $XX and I should pay it back voluntarily to not get the courts involved, I'd just toss it in the trash.
>I think ad targeting has to achieve a delicate balance of serving potentially helpful ads, while not alerting the target that they are part of the Matrix.

It is a great ideal but this narrative is pretty much anti HN sentiment on Ads.
To play devil's advocate, what if you trusted the ad platform (ha! bear with me. it's a hypothetical) to use that data point to block alcohol advertisers from showing ads to a recovering alcoholic.

In a world with personalized advertising, you can avoid those ads forever. In mediums without personalized advertising, you can't watch a sporting event without seeing a beer ad.

Then again, personalized exclusion opens the door to many types of discrimination - like not showing job or housing ads to people with certain traits.

All that to say, the tech can be used for both good and evil. It needs to be managed by regulation, and not by technical feasibility.
> over-promised ?

No this was a flat expected # of points.
We're talking about collective action by the users of multiple subreddits[0] demanding Reddit do something on a sitewide scale because they find this content is harming society as a whole. Let's not pretend this is a top-down issue, this is something part of the community seems to want.

And nevertheless, subreddits aren't separate platforms. It's all still one big platform owned by one company. Subreddits are more like separate aisles in a supermarket - you can find frozen food in one aisle and bread in another, but the management still decides what does and doesn't go on the shelves.

[0]https://old.reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened/comments/pbe8nj/we_cal...
The latter. Code signing relies on a timestamping service to certify that the signature was made within the certificate's lifetime.
What exactly is the source of trouble for this building? Was it to code and just bad luck, or did they screw up along the way?
I think hardware quality is overall good with Apple, but sometimes there are rough patches over years where widespread problems are neither acknowledged nor solved. One such patch, which I fortunately managed to avoid, was from 2016 or so till now. It remains to be seen how good the Apple Silicon Macs work over the next several years.
I think Apple (i) genuinely believes scanning on device is better for privacy because it lets users (theoretically) confirm the behavior of the system and (ii) is learning from others’ mistakes of deploying scanning server side and having that become a blocker to moving to end to end encryption (e.g. Facebook Messenger). My guess is they announce expansions to end to end iCloud behavior soon. Features like this are building blocks to controlling who escrows your iCloud private keys: https://gadgettendency.com/apple-allowed-to-bequeath-and-inh...
Agree; it's the same with most bands and one or two albums.
So, you mean like all pro sports already right now?
Let me add that I strongly encourage our competitors to have lots of meetings. With a bit of luck our competitors will have so many meetings that they will be even easier to compete with. And I also highly recommend that our competitors add more layers of middle management. For the same reason.
You are right. I’m confusing to something else, or just fake news.

Edir: it was speculation by court, plan B https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/11/fbi-could...
There's also an expectation that aliens don't invade, and chickens won't mutate into tyrannosaurus rexes with all the 5g going up.

Luckily, none of that will ever happen. You'll get apartments, not warehouses.
OK, wait. The original claim was that the inflation-adjusted SP500 has never recovered to its level in 2000. I said that M3 wasn't actually a measure of inflation. You responded that 1) yes it was (upthread a ways), and 2) "The inflation adjusted index price is one piece of evidence that the US economy may be due for a severe correction, possibly worse than 2008."

But if the SP500 (measured by M3) is below where it was in 2000 by a factor of 3 or so (eyeballing the chart in the article), and if M3 is a valid measure of inflation, then how is the inflation-adjusted index price saying that we're due for a severe correction?

Your arguments contradict themselves.
I would not expect that

- every distro maintainer is reviewing every upstream change

- every distro maintainer is qualified to review every upstream change if the threat model is malicious / underhanded code (either a malicious upstream, or a malicious contributor that managed to convince upstream to take a patch) and not just well-commented bad ideas

Especially if they're not updating packages on a regular basis, there are plenty of major free software projects that just frankly have a lot of code, and I have also definitely seen (though perhaps more in the olden days) distro maintainers say that they didn't know the language of the code that they were packaging, that upstream's job was writing code and their job was writing packaging. (And, honestly, because upstreams can choose to change languages, this isn't a particularly unreasonable situation to be in.)

And for distros like Debian, packagers are volunteers, and there is no real ability to enforce that people are doing the work in any specific way beyond looking at their diffs. The Debian new maintainer's guide suggests that you diff the old and new versions for "anything suspicious," but has no particular recommendations on how to do so and also tells you to ignore various generated files: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/update.en.htm...
'Profound abuse': Judge disciplines pro-Trump lawyers over election lawsuit
We can use our understanding of how the world usually is and plausibly might be to get us out of local minima.
The hard thing to emulate is that people quickly become aware that they are looking at an illusion. Even though you can't turn your perception off, Escher's infinite staircase doesn't actually trick you into thinking a set of stairs can go in a closed loop.
What is their site?
> Software platform services will be provided by Shilling through its patent pending mobile and web software application configured to assist its clients in automatic investing / purchases of securities.

my guess is they buy stocks of the companies that run the apps you spend your time on (e.g., buy facebook stock if you spend a bunch of time on instagram).
Dr. John Campbell had a video on this last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20DxL8KhvgA.
I would add Windows kernel to that list. Overall seems pretty solid. DirectX 12 too. Visual Studio.
The judge's order (PDF): https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.35...
Stumbling block for looters as Samsung disables TVs stolen during unrest
It would be nice if Alan Kay actually backup up his bold claims by building software demonstrating it. Lost of talk, not much walking.
Housing can't be both affordable and a good investment.
So that picture of my driver's license I took for an ID check or that sensitive work document I scanned with my phone are just as likely to be sent? Great.
I'd add HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) to the list. I was burned by that one.
> There is evidence that deplatforming works.

'Works' in what sense? Does it make the sort of people who believe this stuff less credulous? Or does it just make them less likely to listen to the specific blowhard being deplatformed, and less likely to believe the specific conspiracy theory being peddled? It's not like there's a shortage; both conspiracy theories and con-men are fungible.

(And it goes without saying, that any deplatforming/censorship argument sounds strongest against something patently ridiculous like Sandy Hook not having happened, weaker against something controversial, and positively diabolical against something you personally believe to be true. If you assume the person in charge of the deplatforming is someone you politically disagree with, are you still as big a fan?)
Personally, I think the web/browsers has churned far too much, and if that stopped happening, perhaps we would get more accessible sites and browser diversity as people "stop looking for new dogs and start teaching new tricks to the old ones." Of course, Google would try its hardest to never let that happen, since change is its weapon of monopoly.

Related: Stop Pushing the Web Forward (2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961613
Test is injected into muscles, usually once every 2-4 weeks. It can't be taken orally. This makes dosage control difficult. The long half-life also means that your body's control systems are slow to act (if they reacted quickly then you'd risk ending up with too much, and be unable to get rid of it).
I described a good set of similar practices for text/article-centric websites: https://seirdy.one/2020/11/23/website-best-practices.html

I don't expect anyone to follow it 100%, but the gist is that the page layout shouldn't look too different from browser defaults or use advanced features.
This did happen on US soil: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/move-1985-bo...

Police brutality is our domestic version of drone strikes. No chance to defend yourself and zero recourse.

Do we care an adequate amount about it? Maybe, although it seems to not be the culture's cup of tea right now as much as it was in 2020.
Idk but this doesn’t sound like a good idea
This week, the FDA approval required Pfizer to perform multi-year studies to assess risks of adverse events, https://www.fda.gov/media/151710/download

> ... to evaluate the occurrence of myocarditis and pericarditis following administration of COMIRNATY ... substudy to describe the natural history of myocarditis and pericarditis following administration of COMIRNATY ... prospective cohort study with at least 5 years of follow-up for potential long-term sequelae of myocarditis after vaccination

Vaccine injuries are rare but nonzero. A German pathologist has been performing autopsies, https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

> The doctor now wants to get to the bottom of rare, serious side effects of the vaccination - such as cerebral vein thrombosis or autoimmune diseases. The problem from his point of view: Vaccinated people usually do not die under clinical observation ... More than 40 people have already been autopsied who died within two weeks of being vaccinated. Schirmacher estimates that 30 to 40 percent of them died from the vaccination. In his opinion, the frequency of fatal consequences of vaccinations is underestimated

Self-reported VAERS lists 5,000+ US deaths after [does not imply causality] Covid vaccination, but such reports are much less informative than tissue samples from an expensive autopsy. Note that if someone develops Covid or dies within two weeks of being vaccinated, CDC statistics categorize that person as unvaccinated. It would be more accurate to create a new U.S. reporting category for those who are partly vaccinated.
wait wait wait, its only a matter of time before delta variant mRNA vaccines come out though

this is comparing two different things, which is a facepalm

but just like the last 18 months it is not possible to compare the things you actually want because the data and materials dont even exist yet and wont for another year

leaving us at square one: react

but your reaction cant be based on things merely tangentially related like natural immunity to this years virus versus vaccine immunity to last years virus

here, finally an actually flu analogy can be used: “natural immunity to this years flu works better than vaccine immunity to last years flu” wooowww stop the presses, uhm except not really its not news
You use JS Promises? That’s a monad
Web developers should be angry that their craft has so much churn and leads to works that end up being ephemeral in nature. That people in the field exalt this state is upsetting because this state is bad for both users and developers.
Previous threads (all from 2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12206158 ("Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12574107 ("In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Dispute")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036377 ("Satellites Confirm Sinking of San Francisco's Millennium Tower")
Wow, it is shocking to me that `substr` was depreciated. Searching for it, the function was not part of the standard in the first place.
Los Angeles was zoned for, and plumbed for, ten million people, but down-zoned to only 4 million currently.

https://abundanthousingla.org/downzoning-in-los-angeles/
existing thread on same topic : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289642
I'd say people in the state being disadvantaged by the housing crisis vastly outnumber those profiting from it. It's just that people in power (richer, older folks, those sitting on local councils, state legislatures, celebrities, corporations, pastors, power brokers, other influential figures) all fall into the latter category.