skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For its first 50 years or so NSA had a dual mission: protect the US from spying while spying on others. But these last 20 years they've undermined that first mission. They've now attacked and weakened American technology so many times that you'd be crazy to trust anything the NSA offers to make you more secure. It doesn't help when they lose control of their own hacking tools igniting a major expansion in ransomware.

I don't think America can ever recover from this breach of trust. Maybe NSA just needs to be shut down entirely. Or at least redefined explicitly as an adversarial agency to everyone.
Hiya,

Well, I definitely agree with your sentiment in a normative sense that scientific papers should be free and readily accessible to all -- in part because a lot of it is funded through tax dollars!

But given the current state of affairs, we're looking at making that information accessible to people without having to pay exorbitant fees to access individual research. We also offer steep discounts for students or anyone in academia.

With that in mind I would push back a little that we're just a scientific paper search engine -- our system does a lot of work in extracting and classifying those citation statements, which makes it more powerful than traditional scientific search engines.

And besides just using our search, a huge time-saving value of our service is the report pages which helps you quickly build a qualitative understanding of how something was cited.

Even if all scientific papers were freely accessible, our report pages allow you to see the direct, relevant snippets from citing papers without having to manually read each and every single one. I think that is quite valuable!

I know I've gone on a little tangent from the original discussion about scihub, and having free and open access to papers, but I did just want to throw that in because I think it's an important distinction. And as much as we all want that free and open world to exist, I think it's also interesting to think about how we can open up that information for people in the interim.

Best,

Ashish
Ordering automation is there with order-and-pickup apps like doordash and instacart, it's just they charge a fee that costs more than doing answering the phone typically, which is why restaurant owners tend not to like them.

Also those kind of seat yourself / serve yourself places exist, they're called fast food typically. Look at mcdonalds, chipotle or subway for example. That setup is actually very old, from the time before computers.

Places that serve alcohol like waiters although, because they are essentially alcohol salesmen that boost sales, and alcohol are big profit drivers for restaurants.
An interesting bit of history! I will have to pick up Smith’s book soon.
It's definitely a welcome development, but it still costs more than cooking your own meals and cleaning up by a whole lot, so something is amiss. (As I wrote before, I don't mean to say it is all the restaurant's fault, it could be rents are simply too high.)
I replaced one. Simple idea: The spring is only dangerous when wound, so why not just have it just mildly tensioned and hook the lift wires up to the garage door when it's in the "up" position?

It worked too, after about 50 tries per side! With the confined space, and only two hands, getting those wires to stay in the spiral groove of the pulley while also hooking them up to the door is... error prone. Can't even ask for help because the raised garage door blocks access.

However I got it done in the end, and the spring was never tighter than you can wind it with one bare hand. The garage door works fine.

I did watch someone do it the proper way (wind it to full tension with the door down) and agree, you could hurt yourself that way.
How many Trekkies were clickbaited here?
I haven't talked about this before, but I found a pretty severe vulnerability in the Central API (the thing that backs the web UI) back in 2018. The users endpoint for a network was returning everyone's API tokens, including the network's administrator's one. Obviously that lets you do a lot. I reported it and they fixed it very quickly, within about 24 hours. Nothing to fault in the response, but I have been a bit skittish since.

These days I use Tailscale for my home setup, which is similarly awesome. Both obviously have closed source components. I was convinced because (1) you can operate a Tailscale network entirely on OAuth2 with an external identity provider, no long-lived API tokens and less for them to mess up; (2) it runs over Wireguard and I like not having to trust more people on the crypto. I had been trying to basically build a mini-Tailscale when I discovered it already existed. Others in this thread have mentioned being able to operate your own control plane nodes for it, I'll have to look into that.

The primary difference between them is that ZeroTier is layer 2-ish whereas Tailscale is layer 3-ish. Ironically enough, ZT's design is more oriented towards scalability, whereas Tailscale is more of a fully connected graph with independent encryption on each edge. ZT rules are like configuring `pf` on your whole network at once. I miss that, especially the capabilities system. With Tailscale, if I were doing more than my own machines, I would probably rely on actual firewalls rather than their miniature JSON one. But the DNS features on tailscale are unmatched. You get `ssh myothermachine` with zero configuration. That's hard to beat at home.

I cannot recommend highly enough giving one of these a go. They make the internet fun again.
I hate to whatabout this, but sure, Rolling Stone publishes a garbage piece and the conservative outrage machine cranks up.

Fox News does worse, 24 hours a day, every day.
Interesting, thanks, I hadn't seen this one before! So many of us inventing the same wheel! The docs on yours are kind of limited, I don't really understand how it maps to your postgres tables, what schema it's expecting. But I plan to find time to check it out just to compare and contrast with mine! Thanks!
>Piles under everything from skyscrapers to personal homes penetrates the organic layers, so buildings don't subside even if the ground does.

The sinking building in SF would like to differ with this. If a building is not built correctly, all bets are off.
It's true a better query planner is what I want, i.e. one that always does what I want it to do. That not being the case, I will settle for being in control, footguns and all.

I agree the config is hard to wrangle though, you effectively find yourself doing grid search with a bunch of common workloads, it does feel like something the machine should be doing for me (the most common config variable we end up tweaking is "how much money we give Amazon").
> There are people who dine out 3, 4, 5 times a week, who don't really know how to cook anything beyond microwaved meals... that's completely insane!

I am not sure we have to be judgemental about other people's cooking skills to decide that restaurant workers deserve better pay. Everyone has some expertise, and some people choose to not learn how to cook, and that is ok.
In Russia, you don't own a phone; the phone owns you
The article tells us "the Pentagon tied some future contracts for Juniper specifically to the use of Dual Elliptic Curve". That's not outright coercion but it's a significant incentive. Hell, RSA allowed itself to be corrupted for a measly $10M. https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5231006/nsa-paid-10-mill...
Foreign buyers isn’t generally a problem on a national level but on a city or neighborhood level where specific areas are targets.
This seems like one of the more innocuous ones that’s automatically caught by compiler warnings. Admittedly projects have to turn that on and fix warnings (or build with errors) and not all do. The standard should really mandate that certain kind of warnings today should just be unconditional compiler errors.
That is okay because you can use the phrase “deeply terrifying”. Languages change in general. I’m fine with that.

This specific change literally has had me pacing back and forth in distress before.
I don't know why anyone would use say mongodb when postgresjson exists.
Yeah, it's not really that simple.

A business owner is the last one on the payroll, so they get the extra, if things go well, but they also assume pretty substantial risk. If things go badly, the buck stops at their front door; possibly on an eviction notice.

I have also watched many of these same SMB owners, hit the skids, and they fall hard. Many wreck their credit for decades, destroy any retirement savings, and, worst of all, suffer terrible self-respect damage.

I'm not being snarky, there. That demolished self-confidence can be bad. I have known folks that have become suicidal, after losing a business.

Makes being smug, kinda hard. They may have been jerks, when they were doing well, but it's quite sobering, to see what happens, when things go pear-shaped. Doubly so, if they have a family.
How well does it work with old OCR'd PDFs? :)
This is the exact opposite etiquette I've heard from everyone that isn't me.

I sit in the back and attempt conversation.
I mean, that it doesn't matter how many axons are there, because no one is going to lay them one-by-one.
It sat at +3 with no comments for a couple hours and still doesn't appear on https://hckrnews.com/, so it may have been partially hidden somehow. Zerohedge articles certainly deserve independent verification, but as this story shows, that should be the default position for all media not the exception.
Facts Don't Matter When You're 'Morally Right' the words of aoc that defined better the past 2 years. when you think that , the logical next step is « why would i spend money fact checking something that looks like what a pro trumper would take as a medicine it,is,obviously risky and can give overdoses »
Bloomberg at the frontline of "having no idea how anything works at all".

When the NSA designed DEC, they primed it with constants, that you'd need to know to break the encryption with low effort.

Somebody discovered that and made it known publicly.

So now before the rumors evolve into actual security engineers looking into it, the NSA creates a scapegoat APT, that "altered" some "code" at Juniper.

Of course nobody finds out, who those APT are, because attribution is 1% more accurate than astrology.
As someone who regularly works on a lot of projects at once or regularly context switching, I think this is missing the larger point here. Returns are not magically nothing for someone 50/50 on two projects, but there is of course a cost, and that cost increases with the number of projects, the complexity of the projects, and the pressure for delivery of the projects. It also varies person to person.

Going back to your original post:

> Yes but doesn't work that way, with context switching cost and all of the rest people who are 50% in one projects are not really that effective.

Again, person dependent but missing the point. Would have it been more accurate to say they have 1.4327 engineers on the project? Probably. Is that helpful when everyone understands what 1.5 actually means? Not really. And two projects is not so unreasonable depending on the situation.

> If anything, shows that they were not that committed to even put a resource dedicated to that project

100% yes to that. And as we have learned since this comment thread, it was not a 50% time situation but actually someone wearing two hats (PM and engineer): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28426523
There was a sigbovik paper a few years back by the inimitable Tom Murphy that found this.

http://tom7.org/chess/longest.pdf
Second this. Youtube works very well as my music discovery medium. The 'long tail' on there is just so rich of nice music. And indeed, I can keep clicking that scarce house song in my recommended videos, but the algo still gives me mostly melancholic Romanian deeptechno or something. Although that seems to got a little better after getting rid of all the ads - and meanwhile other tracking shit - by using uBlock.
The article mentions the Clipper Chip briefly but doesn't touch on what was widely believed at the time -- that the NSA and their political counterparts went completely silent on using legislation to backdoor encryption algorithms not because they lost the fight but because they had found a better way.
George Saunders' A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life[1] is highly recommended. I thought I had a good idea of how to read a short story before reading this book. I was wrong. Saunders (with the help of Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol) show how it's done - and in so doing also show how to write a short story.

[1] https://www.georgesaundersbooks.com/books/a-swim-in-a-pond-i...
Cities across the country will die much sooner from economic and political reasons than New Orleans will die from subsidence. (Although New Orleans is likely included in that first set as well, based on current leadership.)

But we don't discourage economic development in those places. My amortization comment was perhaps not explicit enough, but as long as people think the city will last beyond amortization periods, future abandonment/inundation/end-of-days predictions are not a rational reason to preclude investment.

Most businesses shoot for a payback period of 10 years or less.

I expect you're right about slow death, but it won't be for climatic or geologic or hydraulic reasons.

Fear of those reasons might contribute, but then we've gone full circle back to "alarmist BS".
There is a surprising amount of homophobia in Friends - possibly one of the most famous TV shows of all time.

Like the extensive racism in Fresh Prince, the homophobia in Friends is brushed aside because "it was the 90s"
The real future of this is everyone using an app on their phone that they are familiar with, like uber eats or doordash, with a few loaner tablets.

Although in the end the waiter might be necessary from a customer support and questions perspective tbh. I did an ordering app thing in a restaurant and we still talked to the 'bus boy' to ask questions in the end.
Does Insurance Cover Electric Scooter Rentals?
I believe majority of businesses are just waiting for extended unemployment benefits to end and eviction moratorium to be lifted.

I think that unemployment benefits ends today. The eviction moratorium ends in Oct.

So we will see… if they still cannot hire they will try to increase wages + increase prices.
YT is migrating more and more low-level infra to Google wide support now. But many core “middleware” infra is still maintained in-house.
> http://tom7.org/chess/longest.pdf

This paper concludes 17,697 moves. 50-move rule is not automatically applied per FIDE rules.
All the Biggest Environmental Risks Facing the World’s Biggest Cities
Personally I see the b/s scaremongering, the likes of the Farage bus and the hateful rhetoric of the Daily Heil as the "plain sight manipulation" in creating a manufactured problem with the EU which simply never existed, but each to their own.
OK, well we've already derailed it so let's continue :)

> I don't think the proportion itself is undesirable, what's undesirable for me is discrimination. If tech becomes a perfect environment in regards to discrimination and there is still a low proportion of women in it, it's totally fine for me.

I think I can make you see that you don't actually hold that position.

Consider the following hypothetical world:

(1) From the age of 8, all girls are encouraged (by schools, family, and the rest of the cultural environment) to view their role in life as to have children and to eschew all intellectual activities. Girls who want to pursue academic interests are unhappy but nevertheless follow the societal pressure.

(2) From the age of 8, all boys are encouraged that their role in life is to study academic subjects with a view to making the world a better place.

Now fast forwards to considering technical roles in the adult workplace in this hypothetical world.

There will clearly be a huge disparity in representation of the sexes, and this remains true if we posit zero discrimination.

And yet, despite the absence of discrimination, the state of this world is clearly "undesirable": young women are being treated awfully and their ambitions are being utterly thwarted by what's happening when they are young.

So in fact, many possible versions of our universe exist in which a highly skewed numerical proportion itself is undesirable, because it indicates that something is wrong. Since we do not know a priori which version of the universe we are in (we are not omniscient; this is an inference problem), we acknowledge that, having eliminated discrimination, numerical proportions far from the biological 50:50 are undesirable in that they are statistically associated with regions of parameter space that describe undesirable societal/cultural processes.
Doesn't this basically require buy-in across the entire crate tree? Eg even if I disable all the default features I don't need, all it takes is a single crate anywhere in the dep tree that uses the same crate with the default features to turn them on again?
ANN's aren't, but the human brain in vivo certainly is
Scheduled an immediate week off with no regard for current work in progress, and during that week forbade myself from any thoughts of work. Each day I felt a little bit better, and by the time I got back I was in the right frame of mind to continue working.

Few disclaimers though:

- My company puts high emphasis on mental health, so I recognize that I have the "luxury" of being able to immediately take vacation time without warning, something not practical for everyone.

- The last two jobs I had quit was due to burnout, and I didn't want to make that mistake again. So my vacation was a bit preemptive, in that I was noticing signs of burnout and decided to take action before I hit the point of no return.
Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)
> Rust was targeted to replace some C++ components, following C++ syntax was seen as a good idea.

And that was a good decision. If it were too far from the C++ syntax, I would not have learned it, because as a mostly C++ guy at the time, some similarities with C++ helped me keep interest in Rust. Also, I was unable to parse Haskell's "type parameters as function applications" syntax, which was purely confusing. The Rust syntax is an abomination, that's true, but it is a necessary evil.
Hasura evaluated Postgres' listen/notify feature to power their subscriptions, but chose polling instead:

https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite...

> Listen/Notify: Requires instrumenting all tables with triggers, events consumed by consumer (the web-server) might be dropped in case of the consumer restarting or a network disruption.

It was substantially non-trivial for them to implement subscriptions that were both robust and efficient using this approach.

Many applications need the extra step on top of listen/notify of relaying subscriptions to an untrusted client (e.g., a browser). I'd like to see more DBs bake that feature in, like RethinkDB did.
Water, stretching the legs, and understanding that you are asking your body to transform. But more importantly, I always remember that when I went 1k to 12k at age 15, it took me six months, running twice a week, pushing like hell through a wall of courage, and I didn’t think it was even possible to run one hour in a row. You may be underestimating what an achievement it is, and be disappointed that it is actually hard. So, keep repeating your best score until you power through it.

Also, some people are more made for swimming, others for running.
Question- wouldn’t the change made by APT5 have been eventually obvious to whoever was originally using the back door? It would stop working for whoever expected the original value to be used, right? How did that go undetected for years?
... And the war on drugs. And the Senate Launch System. And the tanks we buy for direct to mothball. Etc.

We have plenty of resources but not the will to direct them.

https://posey.house.gov/wasteful-spending
Trimmers replaced scissors for simple cuts.

Horses and barns still exist as a luxury, and that could be the fate of fancy cuts too.
"Russell Group School of Informatics" was literally a copy-paste from the article.

My reading comprehension is just fine. So is my clipboard.

It is, in fact, possible to be anti-wokescold and also care about criticising one's opponents precisely.

I wish more people on the same side of the argument as me would remember that.
It is mostly Java now. Backend ones are migrated to C++
This is the "you were born a slave, and maybe slavery is unethical, but for you thats the way it is, therefore it's unethical for you not to do anything but serve the master".

I guess thats something of a stance.
Especially mysteries need to be coherent and consistent, otherwise the audience will just feel cheated. In a mystery every detail matter.

> Reality is full of false promises. So why not in fiction as well, Mr. Chekhov?

Well, as Mark Twain said: It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Of course a false promise is fine, as long as you subvert the expectations with something more interesting. But just adding details with no purpose is bad writing.
We don't know whether the game is already a forced win for white before a single move is made. It could be. So this system is not workable because we don't know what positions are not forced wins.
Exactly. Just like the financial crisis.

All those big CEOs getting caught on the hook.
my interest in animals has waned as I've aged.

I believe this is because I didn't know how to win another thing's affection. A dog just gives it to you. Unconditionally.
Clojure is also a much higher-level language than Rust (and arguably Go too)
This all strikes me as overwhelmingly reasonable, and in fact I think security patches ought to be mandated for at least ten years.

Such a law would likely affect Android phone manufacturers much more than Apple, however.
Now that anyone can rent a moped by the minute in many cities (see GoRevel, Lime apps), this comes up pretty often. Per this article and https://www.nationwide.com/lc/resources/powersports/articles..., standard car insurance liability policies don't cover mopeds.
It's free in terms of dollars.

It's very non-free in terms of time investment and spoons ([0]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory
It's just running very slowly! There have been a lot of signups and it maxed out what mailgun will send. If you don't get an email you can contact the instance admin directly
I am vaccinated and am not planning to get ivermectin. Your aggressive response seems to assume I have a stake in this. My only stake is that one side seems to think only their favored authorities are allowed to exercise free will, ultimately. These are the same authorities that have been MASSIVELY wrong throughout the pandemic on multiple fronts. I favor decentralization and competing ideas/choices as a way to run a free and just society. From my perspective, the only reason people are against ivermectin is because any deviation from a one size fits all approach undermines the broad lurch towards collectivist control that has been taking place, particularly in American politics. You could say that it is political for both sides of this issue, and I would say that’s fair. But only one solution let’s people live freely, which is individuals making their own choices and voluntarily interacting with others to support those choices.