skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's bullshit is your suggestion that Facebook is not subject to Australian law!

For example see News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code - it requires platforms such as FB to enter into commercial arrangements with news media (https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislat...)
> Those failures are all very reasonable

Except for the whole part about non-treaded tires. That should have been obvious to anyone who gave it even a half second's thought.
Plus the limits of gel simulants to estimate potential hazards.
Why are some words bolded?
The thing is that to be actual currency BTC can not be limited forever. Think about it for a moment. Every year BTC gets stolen and will continue to be stolen and it will only increase if it was "the world currency" thus limiting the supply ever more. Then people hoarding it will die and passwords to their wallets will be regularly forgotten again limiting the supply sooner or later we will be at a point where even 1 satoshi is so valuable you can not use it for daily purchases.

This scheme also effectively fucks over the future generations since older generations had the opportunity to hoard wealth while they were earning couple BTCs each month, but then future generations will be only earning couple hundred satoshis. If you think property prices are now out of hand just think what happens when about half the population has effectively millions of dollars in inheritance. If your parents fucked up and didn't leave you any of the family fortune you are just screwed with no way to recover. Or if they died in an accident and their bitcoin wallets were now locked forever.
Probably because it had no way to fit in operation highjump (which was a military expedition).
A co-worker of mine went to Pakistan and unexpectedly couldn't get readmitted to the US for years. At least the company kept him on, working remotely.
When lightning strikes: managing impacts on wind turbines
I lost interest at "The most common algorithms used for PRNGs are linear congruential generators."
Well you did say:

> The defendant's standard tactic is usually to file for IPR, or PTAB reexamination of the patent, which is like a trial without a courtroom.

For it to be the standard tactic, that implies a worldview in which defendants have that tactic as an option, and that's where the impression you think most defendants have access to that level of assets comes from.

But once you've explained the fees, it becomes clear that the typical defendant's standard tactic isn't to "file for IPR, or PTAB reexamination".

I'm not sure what the standard tactic is, but it isn't the one they can't afford.

When I've spoken with other patent lawyers, they've been skeptical that working engineers/devs regularly "reinvent" things covered in patents by accident. They have said they don't believe such people exist. Yet in my line of work, it's a near daily occurrence; it wouldn't even be possible to write them all down some days, and often it's things that were figured out years or decades prior. I know this with confidence because occasionally I look up techniques I've developed before that I want to use in some project that warrants it, and then I'm dismayed to find them recently patented, sometimes more recently than when I first developed the techniques.

So hopefully you can understand why I might have the impression patent lawyers (some at least) imagine that most "defendants" (people pursued for infringement or under threat of such) are the type of people they have as paying clients, and that other defendants (who I think are the majority) don't exist.

> So don't just say "someone should do something".

But I haven't said that. You came close, though, thus asking what you had in mind.

My argument here is not that someone should do something. It's that most defendants won't pursue IPR/PTAB reexamination because it's not an option for them, and companies with sufficient assets to pursue the reexamination are better off paying licence fees, so who is it that's both motivated and capable to pursue the IPR/PTAB reexamination? If there isn't anyone, it's not going to be overturned, is it, and most infringers (accidental or not) are just stuck with it even it would be overturned on reexamination, aren't they?

The answer to that is a missing piece in your explanation of the system, which without it seems to say that it's "standard" to end up reexamining these sorts of patents and overturning them if appropriate. I would be very surprised if that really is what happens, but also genuinely interested if that's the typical outcome.
Well, yes, you've cleverly deduced there is no real shortage.

There aren't any significant number of people wringing their hands over it for 30 years either.
Can you provide some context why do you think this is a big deal? I'm not an expert, but I'm really interested.
Not so great experience interviewing at Twitter
I had an interview yesterday with Twitter for a senior software engineer role. I applied for the position about three months ago and after multiple rounds of screening, yesterday was the final round of technical questions. There were three parts with two person asking me questions in each part:

1) system design question

2) coding exercise

3) behavioral questions

I got a call today saying that I have been rejected. But I was also surprised that HR person gave me a feedback which usually never happens. I was told the first round and third round went great and they were really "impressed" with my answers. However, the second round I "didn't listen to interviewer's feedbacks" and I am "not proficient" in selected language and lastly said I should "apply to other teams". I thanked the HR person for their time and said goodbye.

After a few hours I started to think about the HR's feedback. It really hit me hard.

Throughout the interview, one of the interviewers used "hands up" feature of Google meet but I didn't hear the sound that he raised his hands. The other interviewer asks me question directly without using "hands up" feature to gain my attention. I tell this interviewer that I do not hear the sound and I do not get a notification that someone raised their hand as I am working on the code so please just ask your question instead of doing that. But it causes a misunderstanding.

Also, during the second half of the coding part, other interviewer said: "oh, he will be working in your team". Suddenly, I see a major change of attitude of that interviewer who is also senior engineer. He has been quiet before this point but now he starts nitpicking on my coding style, asking me explain the code even though I explained my code multiple times already, asks hypothetical questions all after my code has passed all the tests. This is at 40 minutes mark. Then he leaves for 7-10 minutes and comes back. During that time, I work on improving the code with the other interviewer who was polite and understanding. When he comes back he starts asking me questions about edge cases.

The second item HR said was I am not proficient in the selected language (Java). But I have been teaching (and TA) Data Structures with Java during my PhD studies for 2 years so I am very sure that's a made up complaint.

I may be wrong but I feel he thought I am going to replace him or work closely with him and doesn't like my attitude. Overall, I heard a lot of good things about work culture at Twitter but I feel disappointed.

Sorry for talking too much, I wanted to share my experience.
I don't see why this should come as a surprise. The government poisoned liquor during prohibition, injected plutonium into unwitting pregnant women, gave innocent people syphilis while giving them fake treatments to see how it killed them (and just for the heck of it because the victims were black), and on and on.
But we don't, do we? We wouldn't even know if we would have anything like today's world. So basing the possible scenario based on a hypothetical situation won't lead us anywhere. It is the same like "If I was the emperor of the world from the start, I would do this and this". My point is, how would you know what you would do when you haven't experienced it yourself? You're basing what you would do on your model of the world which was formed this way (present way) and not the "already emperor" way. So, you wouldn't know anything about how things would be in that hypothetical scenario.

I don't know what category I fall into right now, but I do understand that there might be potentially huge (bad) changes because of this that can stagnate the whole species rather than pushing forward. These possible scenarios are based on the real world, so they must be taken into account.
I got into C64 6502 coding last year - had a pretty decent game prototype working (before had to relocate and life got in the way!). If anyone wants to go down that rabbit hole, I recommend the Twitch streamer "Shallan" (https://www.twitch.tv/shallan50k). All his old videos are on YouTube too, and tonnes of great info to get started and motivated.
(2011)

Anyway, I like this sentence a lot:

> One useful point from that discussion is that the static vsyscall page is not, in fact, a security vulnerability; it's simply a resource which can make it easier for an attacker to exploit a vulnerability elsewhere in the system.

One thing that's always irritated me is that dubious "hardening" changes like this one get lumped together with fixes for actual vulnerabilities, and then both get labeled as "security".
It's weird that the actual index card[1] seems to contradict that paragraph. There aren't separate fields for social media info and email addresses. They're just both listed as examples of what to put in the "Additional Info" field.

TBH I think the Guardian article is a bit alarmist. Basically they're combining the implications of a pair of memos:

1. A memo from 2015 basically saying "We're updating the description of the additional info field to suggest that you collect someone's email address or social media names"

2. A memo from a different chief 5 years later, basically saying "please don't get lazy and put incomplete or inaccurate info down when you fill out these forms". My perception of the July 2020 memo is that the Chief encouraging cops to CYA when talking to witness about what happened at last summer's protests. Anyone who has worked in a documentation-heavy bureaucracy has probably seen similar memos.

Sure, it's technically true that the second memo is encouraging LAPD to be more thorough when filling out the forms. But it's not like there's an expectation for everything on the card to be filled out (for example, if you're just walking down the street they're not going to arrest you because they're afraid to leave the "booking number" field blank[2]).

FWIW I've had multiple interactions with LAPD and they've never asked for my social media, email, gang affiliation, booking number, or anything on this form other than "Name".

[1]: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d765cbdb15097d091421dc9e0e5cf...

[2]: However LAPD did get caught fabricating gang affiliations that didn't exist, which IMO is a much more outcry-worthy problem than a cop trying to see if you posted evidence of lawbreaking on your public Instagram
"That's how you influence willingness. People are willing to do much dirtier jobs given enough money."

Sort of. I dealt with a large smalltalk system with it's own datastore. Finding smalltalk devs was painful. Training new ones? It was a mess. The dev environments didn't seem to port correctly to modern linux systems - mac? forget it, we could never work out contracts with Cincom Systems to get proper licenses - they would demand us pay a portion of revenue with audit rights (wtf), staging environments were layers of hacks, smalltalk could work on port 80 but making it work with apache/nginx/load balancers was always a mess, smalltalk itself was covered in bugs and would crash for no apparent reason. All new devs knew learning smalltalk was a waste of their future job prospects - they also had no good mentors. Good luck finding things on stackoverflow. The smalltalk contractors that could help would just raise their price so high it turned into extortion (one of them even wanted a portion of gross revenue). These contractors would delete histories, use hand written journals, hide documentation, refused to train anyone, not use version control, quit in the middle of meetings -- and they all were friends - it was a total shakedown. "Just pay them more" never really worked out for us.
Did she even break any Canadian laws? Or is it equivalent to blocking Navalny from entry on the grounds that he was convicted and imprisoned (on phony charges).
Maybe they didn’t have the tech for good ridging on such massive tyres yet? LeTourneau’s overland trains from 15 years (and a world war) later have pretty simple ridging still.
Theoretically? Pure brute force. Fusion just generates that much electricity that it has the potential to be insanely profitable. There's a lot of ifs, but there's a good reason to bet big on it.
I was a test subject for someone's PHD on this. AFAIR it was about identifying the part of the brain that is responsible for aborting actions. Like if you decide to pickup a pan, and then notice the handle is hot, some people can't help but pickup the pan anyways because they lack this abort function.

They took an MRI of my brain.
They found where one part of my brain resided in the MRI images.
I performed reaction tests -- press this button for green circle, press that button for blue circle, abort pressing button if the icon gets crossed out (the crossing out was delayed)
Then they strapped the magnet to my head (not touching but very close AFAIR)
Then do all the tests again

AFAIR they showed that part of the brain did affect your ability to abort an action. I think they knew this anyway because of behavior of people with brain injuries. So I guessed they learned the magnet scrambled that part of the brain?

It was extremely boring doing these tests. I don't remember much about it except that the magnet made unreasonably loud popping sounds.
wait till you check indian rates.

if you open this link, give a random name, phone, email, and set place to delhi, property value to lets say 2 Crore and home contents value at 10 Lacs, which is around us $ 284,000 and that is a big big home in india. 95% cant even afford it. anyways, for this huge property value, the monthly premium comes at a mere USD $ 11/month. yeah.
https://www.policybazaar.com/home-insurance-calculator/
A. This is simply a rebuttal to the too easy dismissal that is comparing levels of man-made radiation to sunlight.

B. I am not a researcher, but you can read the paper and see for yourself. It was published in Nature in case you haven't noticed, this is not some kooky youtuber
Inverse square law. You would have no reasons to worry even if the closest neighbors would put a 5G tower on each of their houses. Your body would be exposed to a lot more power from your cellphone rather than any tower. That would mean if there is a real danger, we should be already counting several millions of deaths among all those people carrying a cellphone in their pocket every day. It is something that simply cannot go undetected.

Those technologies would either need extremely high power, and/or use much much higher frequencies (beyond visible light) then fall into ionizing radiations (which are dangerous indeed) to have any health effects.
That’s about the same infrastructure than a nuclear fission reactor. And nuclear electricity is already pretty cheap.

I don’t know how it costs in US, but in France, fully charging a Model 3 costs about ~5€ at night. That’s not 10x cheaper than gas but that’s a lot cheaper.
Articles:

* https://www.techexplorist.com/surprising-arrangement-dna-cel...

* https://phys.org/news/2021-09-imaging-method-reveals-dna-cel...
You're welcome, glad I could clear that up for you.
In theory, theory and practice are the same.

If you are interested in this and want to further your studies in this field try looking up this thing called "Prospect theory", it's like game theory+.
> One thing I do know, is that the data sharing arrangement between the US and Canada, shares criminal records.

Apparently they share way more than criminal records.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-woman-refuse...
> progressive movement, with aims for positive change and progress.

The word progressive is code for Marxist.

Marxism is not about "positive change and progress" - it's about naked power grabs and violence that have resulted in the deaths of around 100 million people in the past century.

Ironically it's the activists that are lined up against the wall first, since they know what the real agenda is.

(A current example is the downstream BLM organizations asking where the money is after the parent BLM organization started handing out real estate to the board members.)
Amazing work. Being greedy, are there any observatories or collaborations planned that will increase the angular resolution?

I may be wrong but i thought Sgr A was occluded by too much material to be as plainly visible, would we expect similar imagery there?

TIA!
How big is a beer in Australia and what is the alcohol content ?
How is that reasoning specific to fusion?

Unless fusion power is dramatically more efficient than other thermal plants, like 99.9%, your bigger plant will still need massive heat removal structures and systems, which means siting them near water. All the good spots are already taken.

Alternatively you can use truly massive air heat transfer structures, driving up your construction costs again.

I neglected to mention finance costs also. With an untried technology the rate of return demanded is going to be very high, further driving up project costs.
Sounds like you missed a golden opportunity to perfect your prison hooch game. That's pruno/moonshine made & stored in a toilet for those playing at home.
This time all the experts from the government and pharmaceutical corporations have only our best interests at heart though.
The paper did a great job raising concerns about the limits of gel simulants to study potential health hazards. The '5G bad' is pointless. More studies are needed, specifically about the environment impact. Electromagnetic pollution is already causing insect population collapse at an alarming pace.
Reminds me of this passage from The Sea-Wolf by Jack London.

[Wolf Larsen] “Do you know, I sometimes catch myself wishing that I, too, were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They’re wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in the face of them my reason tells me, wrong and most wrong, that to dream and live illusions gives greater delight. And after all, delight is the wage for living. Without delight, living is a worthless act. To labour at living and be unpaid is worse than to be dead. He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me.”

He shook his head slowly, pondering.

“I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason. Dreams must be more substantial and satisfying. Emotional delight is more filling and lasting than intellectual delight; and, besides, you pay for your moments of intellectual delight by having the blues. Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate. I envy you, I envy you.”

He stopped abruptly, and then on his lips formed one of his strange quizzical smiles, as he added:

“It’s from my brain I envy you, take notice, and not from my heart. My reason dictates it. The envy is an intellectual product. I am like a sober man looking upon drunken men, and, greatly weary, wishing he, too, were drunk.”

“Or like a wise man looking upon fools and wishing he, too, were a fool,” I laughed.

“Quite so,” he said. “You are a blessed, bankrupt pair of fools. You have no facts in your pocketbook.”

“Yet we spend as freely as you,” was Maud Brewster’s contribution.

“More freely, because it costs you nothing.”

“And because we draw upon eternity,” she retorted.

“Whether you do or think you do, it’s the same thing. You spend what you haven’t got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven’t got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.”
> I just don't get why it would be this post

Likely because it does not add any extra info or points and is just "I agree"
> By default, we encode this snippet so that an attacker eyeballing a plundered MySQL dump file doesn’t spot it immediately.

But if you're looking at the dump file, isn't their encoded version itself super suspicious looking?
Christians are more generous than the general population, so your tripe makes no sense.

https://www.hoover.org/research/religious-faith-and-charitab...

> The differences in charity between secular and religious people are dramatic. Religious people are 25 percentage points more likely than secularists to donate money (91 percent to 66 percent) and 23 points more likely to volunteer time (67 percent to 44 percent).

https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/philanthropy-magazine...

> In study after study, religious practice is the behavioral variable with the strongest and most consistent association with generous giving. And people with religious motivations don’t give just to faith-based causes—they are also much likelier to give to secular causes than the nonreligious.

https://givingusa.org/just-released-giving-usa-special-repor...

> People who are religiously affiliated are more likely to make a charitable donation of any kind, whether to a religious congregation or to another type of charitable organization.

> Religiously affiliated households give as much or more to other types of charities as non-religiously affiliated households do.
During my decade or so as a consultant, I did a project with one of the oldest insurance companies in my country of residence (they've been around for well over 200 years). They made sure I was aware of their history, in order to understand their business.

They started out insuring farms against calamities. If a farm burned down, it was a proper disaster: for the farmer, for everyone who worked there, and for the surrounding area relying on the farm for food. So the farmers got together and started the insurance company on the premise that it's better for all of them, together, to take a continuous economic hit than to live under a constant existential threat, individually.

It's not only that they continuously pay to be insured before the disaster happens, it's also the fact that if they are helped during a disaster, they can continue to contribute afterwards, for as long as the farm exists. Whereas, if disaster hits and they are permanently gone, that's a permanent end to their contributions, as well as a hit to the community in countless other ways.

This particular insurance company was non-profit from the start, and still is.

For device insurance, I agree that you pay mostly for peace of mind. But like parent, I'm not sure I'm willing to write off all insurance as a racket.
That's very important information (and disgusting)
Working on https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor. Web development was fun for first few years and started building my own tool.
There's a cult around thinkpads, but even those have gone to the wayside in recent years.
Primarily so soldiers and pilots can take it.
Anecdotally I can say that I ran into issues with fairly simple files (2 years ago). I’m going to try out the alternatives before coming back to this.
Fusion is a distraction we can not afford, it creates the same low level waste as fission and we have plenty of fissionable material available.

Massive international expansion of fission energy is needed for humanity to prosper.
Interviewing is very much a crapshoot.

A dev I knew used whether somebody knew string intern() as his main indicator that someone was proficient with Java. This one trivia fact determined whether or not you were considered proficient.
"Simply put, Poulter didn’t know better because no one knew better." I highly doubt that. Also full winter climes for testing were readily available just hours north.