skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But in that case, why not just use Gmail?

Well, just for starters, GMail is hosted in a different and more authoritarian jurisdiction where you don't even need a court order and due process of law to be compelled to share information with the authorities.

I think that sitting in the frying pan and whatabouting the fire is self-evidently a better course of action than jumping into it. But it's still not a good one, and risks inspiring others to jump into it.
Good luck proving that the last owner dropping the phone over and over caused the bootlooping and you would have to spend more than the cost of the device to take someone to court.

Poor people de-facto don't have those legal rights, only what the seller is willing to allow.
That's an important point. Not everyone who processes the tickets need to access the code, let alone change it.
Way way smaller set of names. Almost every Chinese person has one of a hundred surnames. Couple this with the fact that people often go by just their surname and things get confusing fast.

On the other hand Chinese given names are far more varied than those in English. I’ve never met two Chinese people with the same given name. Only about 300,000 people have the most common Chinese given name. In contrast, about 12 million people in the US are named John, but we’re a much smaller country than China.
I'm in the same boat. Fortunate to have worked at startups that exited succefully and now in cushy corporate job. If I went out and did interviews I would just make enemies.
It's unusual, you'd expect more names with more people. Maybe it's a cultural difference of how much we value individuality vs the collective?

Or maybe not. There are 38,000 James Smiths in the US, and 294,000 Zhang Weis in China, which is relatively close to parity as a percentage of population. Zhang Wei is about twice as common. I don't know if this is some statistical artifact, and if the US would trend in that direction with more people.
However they still use a rad-hardened FPGA to run some of the critical aspects. This paper discusses a lot of the internals.

https://rotorcraft.arc.nasa.gov/Publications/files/Balaram_A...
>Generating rocket fuels with renewables will only be carbon neutral when we have an excess of renewable energy

Absolutely wrong. It is not a zero sum game. In terms of raw money and capability, we could have gone carbon neutral in the developed world at least decades ago. We could be aiming for that universally right now, the US alone has dumped trillions and trillions into war and pandemic response over just the last 10 years. It hasn't happened because "we" collectively have not chosen to make it happen. SpaceX, or anyone else, making themselves carbon neutral when they are under no external compulsion too is pure gain. They don't need to solve all the problems on the fucking planet first. That has always been one of the most irritating fallacies in the whole AGW discussion.

>It's hard to argue that a method of transport so incredibly energy inefficient will be a good thing until we're swimming in so much excess energy that we've got nothing better to do with it.

No, it isn't. It's trivial to argue: if it's greenhouse neutral and all the externalities are built-in then if anyone wants to pay for it by definition it is a good thing. In fact at that point it'd be a BETTER thing than traditional "more efficient" methods of transport which aren't greenhouse neutral!

You're coming up with this silly subjective morality things when the only morality involved is externalized harm. If that is eliminated and people still consider the service worth it when they can see the true price then that's all that matters.
TIL the word phubbing!

P.S. It's missing the [pdf] tag.
Always interesting to see pirate sites having multiple ccTLDs in an attempt to stop shutdowns. It doesn't do anything, it's just OPSEC theater. Sci-Hub needs to burrow itself in the dark web, but it may be too late. The lady behind the show is well known...
Church in Wales votes to bless same-sex marriages
Agreed. Gen Z is to computers/internet the way millennials are to cars; while cars/computers are fundamental to their way of living they actually know less about them than the previous generation.

I think this is because once a technology has reached to point that everyone uses it, it also is at the point where it requires no skill or understanding to use. It's easier to have a mechanic fix your car and it's easier to buy a new phone/laptop when it performs poorly.
I am shy and use my phone to escape interactions with others. I hope I am not viewed as "snubbing" someone, or a room.
A black swan has landed directly in the center of Tiananmen Square
I see, we have to do a coding competition at some point ;)

But sure, routine helps. And probably also what you are building. I am mainly working on a big project with lots of legacy code involved, that is just not right. I cannot just fix anything I come across. I would never get the priority things of my list.
You obviously didn't read the article, where MS says clearly they investigated and found zero evidence of the flaw being exploited.
I understand that Proton failing the privacy expectations.

But curious about the other part of the story. The word "activist" is abused very often. I can not find the details, what exactly they are trying to dress up as "activism" is this case.

Also, "activist arrested" makes impression he was arrested for activism. But strictly speaking, the charge may be totally unrelated.
I doubt vendors will implement 2-stream updates. Mandating 7 years probably means we’ll all have to use the most recent version.
The main takeaway for me is RIP kaiOS i.e. Proprietary successor of Firefox OS because earlier JioPhones ran them which surprisingly led KaiOS to get the 3rd largest market share in mobile OS.

What ever reasons(App ecosystem majorly) led Jio (An investor in KaiOS) to ditch KaiOS is applicable to all other manufacturers too, Especially if Google(another investor) partnering with them(Android Go? Subsidizing HW?).
Just recently switched jobs. Starting week two today.

I applied for only one job at the insistence of my wife because it was with a renowned company. I had to actually write out a C.V. to apply, and as of Friday, a week into my new job, seven weeks later, my application is "still under review" according to the internal recruiter/manager.

I had a lot of technical recruiters reach out to me, almost all of them failed to garner my interest based on a few simple questions I asked right up front. Before interview I prequalified all of the positions to ensure that it involved remote work and that the pay was within a range I was willing to accept. "Is this position remote? Or on-site? What is the pay range for this position?" A large proportion of the people who reached out did not respond to the questions, and of those that did, several gave responses that were immediate red flags.

I interviewed with a FANG, on the recommendation of a friend, and I ultimately turned down the offer, but had it not been for my friend's insistence who works at the FANG, to "keep going" through the interview, I would have simply stopped the interview, and in fact thought about doing so several times. Whiteboarding and take-homes for people with decades of proven and verifiable experience and a couple of master's in computer subjects is still apparently a thing.

I had an interview lined up with another FANG, which was to be a full day of "first round interviews" and then two full days with different teams to figure out where I would go. I withdrew my application once I accepted the offer for my current (new) position. It was not a company I was interestd in, but they were doing interesting things in augmented reality.

I put in my two weeks notice, and the company I was working for made a counter-offer, almost two hours after my last day on the job.

In all I had five offers on the table, at base compensation of $100K (absolutely absurd interview with a low-ball offer even after pre-qualifying), $120K (reasonable interview, low-ball offer even after pre-qualifying), $150K (45 minute interview, knew the size of the offer going in, interesting work), $230K (a quick chat, then four hours of shooting the shit, exceptionally interesting work) and $260K (two full days, whiteboarding and take home (which I refused to do), career advancement).

My current position I didn't even apply for, and I don't think anyone even looked at the C.V. I got the job because of an old colleague who said "are you looking?"

Total search time was from late June to mid-August. Maybe eight weeks total. I was being extremely picky with regard which companies I talked too.
You do not need a per user warrant canary. You've got better. Under Swiss law they are obligated to warn you when your data was requested.
Right now, there's just not enough people to keep up with all the phones, but with a standard bootloader interface (let's call it EUFI :P), a lot of that work could be made easier and we could have universal images like on the PC.

Also, we can't expect the community to thrive when installing a custom OS on phones is relegated to die-hard enthusiasts by manufacturers who constantly make the experience worse.

EDIT: Many of those phones also lose capabilities users might care about by unlocking: playing DRM'd media, using banking apps... That all inhibits OS customisation.
Yup, Raptor Blackbird. I'd send along my notes if I didn't think they'd be more misleading than helpful. Left that one in a mess that'd be difficult to untangle, but I remember the trail basically ending in a file that was practically unchanged since the original source got released. Because of the code vintage I really wanted to be sure that I didn't introduce performance regressions, so that led to me turning my attention to live kernel debugging over serial, which led to uncovering an even more ancient tty bug (seriously, we're talking unix fountainhead old).

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly... I'm presently writing something to crack 8051 firmware xnor'd by a 64 byte key, I don't remember how - but the previously described ZFS edge case somehow got me to this point.
It was a joke about Tesla. Atmospheric carbon is fungible. You don't need to neutralize methalox emissions if you are doing anything statistically significant about automobile emissions, as the latter will be much, much larger.
>they overlap randomly to nonsensical effect.

Lots of the nonsensical stuff is not exactly random.

Still the finances could be balanced like this and you could end up with an equal number of recipients receiving the same average benefit. Perhaps some efficiency through consolidation.

There is serious consensus that this amount has not been enough for a while which is one of the things that sparks the discussion about UBI more often.

Walmart & McDonalds might presently be employing the most noticable share of present recipients, but that is far from universal. Yet.

Just like with health care, to get anywhere near universal you're going to have to tax something having deeper pockets than mere income no matter how many of the top wage-earners get high brackets and have loopholes closed.

You're going to have to tax commerce.

If that could be done plus phase out the income levies, that would be the best thing for a consumer economy in over 100 years.
Finding wordroots is fun and sometimes illuminating.
Damn, that is really nice seeing that OCI things are coming to BSD world. Outside of linux, illumos was probably the only os which was able to run OCI containers via lx-branded zones. Great stuff.
I think it is important not to extrapolate from a replication crisis in one field (e.g. psychology) to all the other sciences, because the picture painted by this (to my knowledge) doesn't accurately describe the underlying practises.
Telosa: Planned Charter Desert City
TLS standards are deprecated by vulnerabilities not new Features.
Most people I know get a phone case to limit damage to their phone. A case is an inexpensive investment that usually pays for itself many times over.

Someone who is really clumsy or in a situation where they are much more likely than average to drop their phone should purchase phone insurance.

And for uninsured people who happen to break their phone, it would still be cheaper to repair it than to get a new one. Repaired phones still benefit from longer support lifecycles, and the proposed legislation would ensure that spare parts are affordable and available.
Recent and related:

Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421477 - Sept 2021 (159 comments)
What's the relationship with depression and such (psych)? Does one phub more when psych is present, or does phubbing cause psych, and in which person?
You aren't forced to federate with Matrix. It's as self-contained as you want/require it to be.
it's speed is similar to c but syntax is similar to python
Yeah, that’s fine for developing the new landing page for the company website. Not so much for developing mission critical systems.
They already have a similar law in place for car parts. Manufacturers have to supply them for 10 years. And also 3rd party garages have to be able to buy them. And compatible parts from another manufacturer are mostly legal (can't be protected by copyright).

Extending something like this to software and security updates is a promising idea.
> Although studies have examined phubbing in many different relationships, little is known about friend phubbing (Fphubbing).

I understand that “language grows”, and that it often does so
chaotically and in a non-organised way, and all that stuff, but
as a non-native English speaker, I often find myself wondering
if English—and in particular modern English—is just trolling
us at this point.
How old is a '3% of GDP trade deficit'? Also far younger than taxation?

The nature of capital and it's relationship to political states is rapidly evolving due to technology and globalization. I'm not saying MMT is the whole cloth correct response to that evolution, but implying that the supply and demand for capital resembles the state of affairs even 25 years ago is myopic.
> I completely agree (and have said so, myself[0]), but the issue is that software folks (and engineers, in general), don't like "blurred lines." We need empirical data, measurable artifacts, concrete results, etc., so that "fuzzy logic," (what I consider) "true" Agile really needs, is difficult, in practice.

This is a good observation, but it's not just engineers: the fact is most people don't like ambiguity, and the more it cuts across org structure lines the less they like it. This is no big deal as long as the org structure lines are well drawn and business are covered adequately, however at scale it also limits the type of changes that can be done without massive pain, and creates a risk when new needs are identified that are not well served by the existing structure.
As a non american I don't feel the same way. Amazon, Google, etc just want to make money. TikTok is (like all companies in China) an extension of the Chinese state, a state that is currently engaging in genocide.
> It doesn't matter in the long run

It might matter to those out there that read this and then try ivermectin. And maybe they take a little too much. I think you could make a pretty compelling argument that these types of statements can be really harmful.
> It's not the recommended devops tool for any cloud provider.

The Deployment manager templates under CFT for GCP specifically state they recommend the Terraform modules.

It is also the first provider listed under Oracle cloud. Pretty much every cloud list it as the preferred DevOps tool.

> Random people writing code doesn't make that code valuable or of any sound quality. They have employees whose jobs it is to improve and add features to their software.

It doesn't mean that it isn't. You act like only employees can write valuable code with sound quality, when in fact the opposite could be true and often is.

> Clouds are and should be exactly as simple or complex as their customers request. Clouds should not be built around opinionated forum posts.

The concept of a cloud provider is not anything unique. Hence why there are so many of them implementing their own API. Cloud providers budgets are heavily skewed to marketing, because if everyone could get the rates available through OVH, Hetzner, etc while still getting the same features through their own 3+node zero-config cluster then no one would pay the outrageous prices of AWS, Azure, etc.
> Their homepage says "By default, we do not keep any IP logs"

To have a true zero knowledge email service it should not connect to the public facing Internet at all. It needs to reside in a darknet exclusively for IPs Not to be public knowledge.
unQLite or SQLite would be a great way to encourage self-hosting.
I always liked the doors in Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (https://youtu.be/ajlONBnhLkE?t=81), as they give you numerous ways to open them, including a sneaky way where you get full control to slowly open it in an analog fashion.
it's speed is similar to c but syntax is similar to python.
The ultimate aim of Sci-Hub is for Sci-Hub to not be a pirate site in as many jurisdictions as possible. I think it's possible to achieve that goal.
The browser add-on that comes closest is Signed Page[0], and in theory it could provide TOFU level security by requiring the user to opt in to new versions. For unclear reasons, though, the devs seem to be against implementing that.[1]

Any system for protecting against backdoors assumes that someone is auditing the code to check for user-specific code paths, so the only extra layer of security to add is some sort of Binary Transparency. A good example of that is Sigstore, which is being experimentally integrated with the Arch Linux package ecosystem.[2]

[0] https://github.com/tasn/webext-signed-pages

[1] https://github.com/tasn/webext-signed-pages/issues/13

[2] https://github.com/kpcyrd/pacman-bintrans
Perhaps offtopic, but why is it so common with new tools for the language it's written in, of all things, to be selected as the top selling point?
i don't know any carbon capture technology that can be scaled sufficiently, in the proper time scales, that can do that in a way that is quick enough to do any significant dent to global warming.
"I smelled marijuana".
> Like when LED lights were introduced, energy usage allegedly actually increased.

This is not true. More lights might be on, but the total energy usage for lights is currently falling with increased LED production. You can find lots of stated fears and speculation on the internet that it could happen - FUD - but not evidence. There is some indirect evidence not specific to LEDs that people sometimes do use more energy when the cost goes down. But LEDs are an order of magnitude more efficient than incandescents, and there has been no such 10x increase in lighting use. Per-capita electricity use in the US is currently falling slowly.
One amusing point is that much of Gelman's post has an error itself (that someone pointed out in the comments a couple weeks ago): the NPR interview was in 2017, so "Ariely, as a coauthor of this article, had to have known for at least half a year before the NPR story that this finding didn’t replicate." is incorrect. Maybe Gelman should retract that part :).

Annoyingly, the NPR transcript at [1] only has a small note "(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)" at the top with no indication of when (the audio doesn't seem to have a date either). The podcast show notes are apparently the only recordation of the date. [2]

[1] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/805808486

[2] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9UQv8LWEAkpoR0?format=jpg&name=...
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Can't hate you for being opinionated, and I appreciate that you drew a line somewhere.

However, saying that 'nobody actually wants it' is at the very least a little disingenuous. Transitioning to self-hosted and distributed systems is totally the way to go, but we're inevitably going to run into a systems problem. IRC struggled to reach the mainstream because of how fractured it was, and if you don't do anything to address that you're liable to run into the same issue again.
The NSA is staffed by non-target candidates that would never get a meeting in Silicon Valley, largely from DC area universities.

Although there is no real skills gap between target school graduates and non-targets, this observation also serves the dual purpose of undermining the NSA’s perceived omnipotence.
It really is the difference between channels and rooms, as in visiting rooms or tuning to a frequency to join a radio channel.

It feels very different? And the use-cases are different.
This might be very naive, but I hope people developing Fuscia at Google bring in some ecological sense, and might find a way to naturally support phones and chromebooks well beyond a five-year point.
Predictions for September 2031
I mean....I'm sorry, but if I'm trying to spend time with you and you're on your phone to "escape interacting with me"....yes, that's almost the definition of snubbing me, and yes, I'm definitely viewing it that way.
I don't read it that way. More like, "keep this extreme example in mind, and see if you still expect the guarantees to hold up".

If you don't, then they won't either for whatever activities you're doing, that aren't as reprehensible as CSAM, but some government may think otherwise.

It's kind of depressing reasoning maybe. But if a privacy-preserving system is actually that, then even the most technically-savvy terrorists and child abusers should have no qualms about using it as well.
Sure, but that's not the case for PCs. Almost every family I know has at least one guy who can update/reinstall Windows, and those who don't will know to take an old/broken PC to a repair shop.

That mentality isn't there with phones, because historically it hasn't been easy to do more than a factory reset. If right-to-repair initiatives make repairing phones a normal thing, that could very well extend to phones in the right environment.
The users. Who else?
Can anyone comment on what the value of this attack is to the attackers?
The language is not complete. those features are our goal
Wow, this is such an incredibly kind message! I had a really big smile on my face reading it. :)

I really appreciate it and hope I can live up to the standard I'm trying to set. Hope you have a really great day!
"I am not going up to that person to talk, that's needy and like not cool at all...but I can't stay here staring into the void either...what am I gonna do? Oh yes I am gonna look at my phone and pretend that my attention is captured by something/someone else, that would put pressure on him/her to come talk to me instead"
Yes, probably not. The point is that there are other ways to "force them to serve a modified, backdoored, client"
Agreed on all your points, especially the last -- only I'd include a shorter patent term as well. If the phone is going to have an artificially limited life of 3 years, the 3 year term for both copyright and patent on its constituent parts (software and hardware) is more than reasonable: especially given that the whole purpose of copyright and patent is to build up the public domain commons for society's benefit.
Easy to imagine the first received ETI signal being some world-ending infohazard.

An interesting variation on this theme: a future Elon Musk figure dons his black hat and launches a satellite capable of stationkeeping at a point in line with a nearby star. The satellite emulates such an ETI.
Suggestion: lift yourself up without tearing others down. Remove the comments at the end about Matrix leaving a sour taste in your mouth and being buggy: the reasons on this link are sound, engage your audience with all positive energy.
The "how it works" writeup is fun too: https://javascript.plainenglish.io/i-stuffed-tensorflow-js-i...