skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to be WILDLY unenforced then, no?

In the USA, it doesn't seem to be done. I was actually shocked -- and then realized how naive I was -- when i was talking to someone at a party who had a tiktok where she reviewed garden products, to find out that it wasn't just "free product", she was literally getting paid by the companies to give them good reviews, and from the tiktok you wouldn't know she wasn't just reviewing things she had bought on her own independently.

It did seem to me like this was probably a problem for the FTC, but I realized, oh, this is just how it's done now, nobody ever discloses.
I wonder if such comments were intended offensive jokes or they really thought they were superior.
I was using Qt recently and saw that example code did that English keying. It's good that they're promoting creating translatable UIs, but I don't know if it's the right thing to do if they're encouraging people to do it by using English text as the key.
While the PR campaign is pretty strongly against quotas, the underlying law doesn't attempt to prohibit quotas, only provide a straightforward avenue for employees to challenge quotas which are too strict to let them take breaks and such.
> New Libreboot release soon.

> The current Libreboot 20210522 testing release (from May 2021) is more or less complete, and the most major issue (the reset bug) is now fixed in libreboot Git.

That's really exciting news! Is there any documentation on how to upgrade libreboot?
But policing requires the trust of the public. How often, what percentage of interactions go not by the book, before people are worried that it will happen to them? Look at 9/11, so many people terrified of "terrorists" from a desert on the other side of the world while ignoring the local ones who had a pretty strong spree in the 90s.

Trust is earned, not given. Police and supporters can cry all they want about how rare it is for a police officer to shoot you with no reason or warning and get away with it, but the fact that it can happen more than once is enough to destroy any faith in policing for plenty of people
I like the idea of a hands-free camera a little less cumbersome than a GoPro.

But the use cases are pretty niche.

I guess for DIY videos? Like product repairs where it's convenient to have both hands free...
I disagree 100%. In this case everyone should still be calling it the china flu or some iteration to prevent exactly what China is doing now, turning around and blaming others. Not to mention the lying and deceit on all aspects of the virus and its spread in the beginning. It's China's fault that it (probably) escaped their lab. It's China's fault that they tried to cover it up. It's China's fault that they lied about how it spreads. It's China's fault that the bullied the WHO into downplaying it so the rest of the world couldn't close their borders in a reasonable time.

The only comment about a pro-China social media campaign is from someone defending China. That's not fishy at all.
This is every CI system on the planet

echo ${PASSWORD} > file; cat file

And your password is now in the log file unmasked.
The problem with all wearables is that clothing generally lasts longer than the tech. I’ve had the same pair of sunglasses for almost a decade. I have jackets and other articles of clothing that are quite a bit older than that. Throw a battery in any of those things and the lifespan of it immediately drops to a fraction of what it would be without.

I guess you could argue this is by design—clothing manufacturers want you to get a new set of their items every few years like you might with an Apple Watch. Still, the value add needs to be high enough to justify a much shorter lifespan. Apple pulled that off, but I doubt others can.
I liked Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard also have been reading Baudrillard again -- some people find him hard to understand but he gives me a feeling of Deja Vu. (e.g. what happened to me because I spent years playing video games, what is happening now because it changed me)
> could be doing more

... no matter how much time you spend in meetings.
Thanks!

We've been running on ECS for 6 years now (basically within a few months of GA). When EKS launched we talked about maybe migrating over but ECS just feels more first class wrt cloudformation and stuff. It makes sense that internal teams rely on it.
They're talking about monetary inflation, not price inflation.

El Salvador uses the USD, so if the federal reserve bank of the US prints money it devalues their currency as well. Not a good position to be in as a sovereign nation.
Sponge on a stick. Reusable. Shared. Sometimes deadly.
locale defines decimal formatting
The law is gutless. Spend like 30s on any Youtube channel.

I really wish they'd actually enforce this one.
And yet here we are reading their best jokes, many centuries later.

> One woman, observing her son coming towards her, inquired, "How fares our country?" And when he said, "All have perished," she took up a tile and, hurling it at him, killed him, saying, "And so they sent you to bear the bad news to us!"
You might want to re-read the wording in the post, which specifically said, "...political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time."

Depending on exactly how you interpret that phrase, there have been multiple country/regional collapses in recent history. As far as the USSR, it no longer exists. Sure, new countries replaced it, with some matching to countries that existed pre-USSR, but that country is gone. That seems like a collapse by any definition.
I've been making a conscious effort to take more videos of my kids doing normal everyday stuff. We have plenty of pictures, but I want to remember the silly things they said, the way they said "boo boo" after falling down, how they acted when you gave them a food they don't like. From my perspective, these seem great.
> Private capital is not "one organized entity", especially not in "its various forms".

In most cases it's at least as organized as unions. Also, a decentralized entity is still an entity.

But my point stands, there are very, very few people who actually feel "any organized entity with power is bad." If it seems that way, something's being left out of the analysis.
Thanks for the mention Dang, I monitor a few hundred sites of 'importance' and see stuff like this all the time, you are the first one however to thank me for an email saying 'you might want to look into this!'
"Just trust me"

https://9to5mac.com/2016/06/21/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tape...
When something has achieved some threshold of 'political-ness' online discussion defaults to being tribal crap.

There's sometimes still some interesting discussion buried in comments somewhere, but you can almost predict the entirety of threads on these kinds of topics without reading it. GPT-3 could probably generate HN comments for these topics and be pretty convincing.
With Google Glass the HUD was not as useful as it seemed it would be. I think smart watches are a much better idea. More pixels and nothing on your face all day.

Though, with that said, some people I know tried it on and the HUD was easier to use. A lot depended, I think, on the shape of your face. The way my nose and eye sockets and ears are I had to look up with my eyes at an uncomfortable angle to see the full HUD.

Maybe they fixed it since V1.
AI powered block chain nanites as a service.
The decentralized website of the week award
Is there a build of this for the HP Touchpad?
Mad Max Fury Road vehicle auction
Except that's not how the GI Bill works; it didn't work that way when I was using it.
That was the Apple Newton.
The scientific consensus is that recycling > burning with energy recovery > well managed landfill > badly managed landfill > open burning. Nations not under the control of fossil fuel groups have been putting this into action for decades.

Landfill seems to be the contrarian's choice but this appears to some anti-regulation propaganda after effect.

Headlines like "Thing you do to save the planet actually hurts the planet" is like catnip for some people, and they dont ask any awkward questions about who is claiming this and why.
Back in the early 2000s, there was a vector graphics application called Expression, created by Creature House, a small Hong Kong-based company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_House_Expression). They also had a beta of an animation version of Expression, called LivingCels. It had been battle-tested in various local animation studios, and was just getting ready to burst into the market... (dominated, at that time, by Adobe Illustrator and Flash)

Expression was based on the founders' PhD work too: 'skeletal strokes', a really cool feature that allowed painting with complex vector or bitmap strokes.

It reached version 3, then Microsoft acquired the company in 2003, re-wrote the software, got it wrong... and quietly killed it.

Expression had the BEST user interface, was packed with features, and the website was whimsical and unique.

Guess what? It's still available! A free download for Windows, that works perfectly in Wine. It's better than Affinity Designer, and most other vector drawing apps. I would place it alongside Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW - except it's more intuitive and easier to use. (Sure, it lacks features, because it's nearly 20 years gone!)

I love this new vector graphics technology. But they have a lot of catching up to do to make a full-featured application. If only their tech could be combined with Expression (a far-off fantasy!), the world would have another awesome vector graphics application.
No, it masks the output stream by searching for all secrets and censoring them.
In other words, they don't have a cartel/monopoly?
https://crt.sh/?q=news.ycombinator.com

(for the curious)
Youtube and instagram still place their own ads on sponsored content. I see it as youtube and instagram saving on labor costs since the sponsored posts are paying the influencer who ultimately drives engagement to the actual first party advertisements that make these platforms their real money. Just look at what gets posted as a sponsored post vs a first party advertisement and you can see its an entirely different ballgame being played and orders of magnitude different levels of ad spend. Sponsored posts might have some weird energy drink you've never heard of with vague promises of virility or other typical snakeoil features. The first party ad on the other hand will be from coca cola.
So is this still converting the Rust code to Web Assembly (just doing it in a more developer friendly way)?

Or is this allowing actual Rust code to run natively on the Cloudflare Workers environment?

I ask because there is a significant difference in performance between native Rust and Web ASM.

EDIT: I found this benchmark [0]. It appears you can run Rust 3 different ways. 1. Natively (fastest), 2. Node with Rust Bindings (2x slower than native), or 3. wasm (8x slower than native).

I wonder if this announcement is Cloudflare supporting the #2 configuration above (Node with Rust Bindings).

[0] https://github.com/PSeitz/wana_kana_rust/tree/master/bench_c...
A Helping Hand
However, those other companies that advertise neutered ME are shipping newer Intel platforms where actual x86 hardware initialization is handled by binary blobs (e.g. Intel FSP).

Sandybridge and Ivybridge platforms (e.g. X220/X230) in coreboot are all free software for the x86 part, and that's the majority of it. It's only the ME that isn't. With me_cleaner used, it's very close to Libreboot.

X230 used to be worse in coreboot; for instance, it previously had non-free raminit. Nowadays, it's all GPL code.
I hope you were allowed to use some sort of reference material. Unless your previous work involved intimate familiarity with PRNGs, I would never expect anybody to be able to implement one on the spot, off the top of their heads. Even with reference material, I don't think I'd expect anything more involved than a linear congruential generator.

Without reference material, probably the best I could do would be to read from one of the /dev/*random devices. I'm guessing that whatever the actual intention behind that question is that writing a function that essentially reads from a file doesn't match the expectation of the interviewer. :/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Thanks for link! In that case, fined the company, but not the influencers?

I mean, it makes sense, the influencers are small potatos in many cases just hustling to get by.

But... the company probably just takes the risk as a potential cost of doing business (especially when enforcement is so rare; in this case they were fined $1 million which isn't peanuts, but I wonder what % of their profits it was...), and the influencer has no incentive to worry about it at all unless the company paying them tells them to.
Assuming this is in your house primarily why not install indoor cameras instead?
Red Hat's OpenShift platform is now available on IBM Power Virtual Servers
How exactly do they go about enforcing this?

Two recent possibilities:

Steve Harvey randomly changing his twitter icon to an nft: https://twitter.com/IAmSteveHarvey

-Seems somewhat likely to me somebody paid him to do this in order to pump the NFT release

Steph Curry tweeting about crypto advice and then the next day announcing he's been hired as a 'brand ambassador' for FTX: https://twitter.com/StephenCurry30/status/143504771695066726...

- Obviously was all set up as a marketing reveal
> There are plenty of cultures and practices that did not seek dominance over any and all resources.

Maybe so (I'm skeptical of that claim), but anyway it only takes one culture that does to take over. At some level, a specific group of humans controls each resource, regardless of whether they're generous with it.

Agreed on your second point; it's not an alternative, it's the root cause. If we're able to improve our wiring, that's great. I'm not knowledgeable or optimistic about that prospect, hence the alternatives.
Right... Like how Google and Apple and Steam and Microsoft and Playstation compete on transaction fees for their stores?

If the platforms wanted to come after the money, they could. I suspect they're still in the growing phase. But I imagine in the near future, they'll start demanding all ads go through their platforms.
Why Yesh Atid Is on a 'Roll'
Which is probably for the best.

I'm sure there are more productive or fulfilling things for people to be doing than shuffling boxes around.
> Not that you might wake up tomorrow to a towed car, a summons nailed to your door and a jail term?

Both enforced through the implicit threat of violence... What happens if I ignore a court summons? Eventually the cops will find me and wrestle me into handcuffs. And if I try to resist the tow truck driver taking my car, guess what they'll do? They'll call the cops. Or they'll put a lien against my property, which if I refuse to pay, will eventually culminate in me being wrestled out of the building.

And how exactly do you think people are kept in jails? If there were no implicit threat of violence, I'd just walk out of a jail. In many jails this would be possible, but when you do they'll send men to wrestle you into handcuffs and bring you to a jail with stronger security. And of course, they'd never have gotten me into the first jail at all, if not for their threats of violence.
Nichomachean Ethics, by Aristotle. Plain and simple search for the meaning of “happiness” and “full life”.
In america you can be hauled in and convicted of nothing more than "resisting arrest", with no other prior crime or suspected crime. If a cop tries to arrest you and you do ANYTHING other than comply, that's a crime
Its Germany. They dont make assumptions about anything unless its in the rule book, as a rule.
Meanwhile Facebook is now refusing to put offers in writing without a verbal acceptance.
I think the other stats in here are more interesting. It seems obvious to me that IT teams are forced to trade security for operations regularly - that's just the constant tension between security and usability. It's the job of IT to advocate for security and the job of other folks to advocate for usability, and of course that will likely lead to some compromises on security (as well as usability).

That doesn't mean security's being thrown out the window - trading security for business operations could be as simple as a 2FA code being six characters where IT would have preferred ten.

But in the article they also say: "76% of respondents said that security had taken a backseat, and furthermore, 83% believe that working from home has created a "ticking time bomb" for corporate security incidents."

That seems much more serious - it's one thing for there to be compromises made, but it's another for security to take a backseat entirely. Personally, if I were writing the story I would've focused the headline on the concerns about WFH (though I recognize the article's author didn't necessarily write the headline) - that's more specific and relevant to the issues of today than the more general "IT has to compromise on security" angle.
If I'm in a store and the store has a camera that I know will probably never be looked at, it's different from me being in a store with a camera that will be fed into some facial recognition system sold to advertisers that decides to charge me more for airline tickets a year later, which is also different from sitting across the bar from twenty people with cameraphones pointed at me. It's not a binary 'cares about cameras or doesn't.'
Tuition reimbursement from my employer is how I was eventually able to get a degree, for which I am very grateful.

US societal questions aside for the moment, as a very pragmatic matter for individuals, this could be a great opportunity for many.
I'm afraid you are totally correct. Involving Mastercard and Visa will allow them to put in place a similar fees structure they use for card payments for cryptocurrencies so that they don't miss out on making money with a fee system.

Why do you think they 'embraced' cryptocurrencies all of a sudden and Visa making Coinbase and many others exchanges principle partners to allow them to convert crypto into fiat currency?
Youtube et al tolerate it because these influencers posts ultimately mean more eyes are fixed on the platform to watch the actual first party advertisements. Having these influencers rely on third party sponsored posts for their funding means that youtube doesn't have to pay them very much at all.
No need for an actual tax, just make the recycled plastics available on the market at cost. If recycling is actually useful, and the state isn't doing something stupid like subsidizing the production of non-recyclable plastics or penalizing the recyclable ones, then the "tax" will be the difference between the (presumed lower) price of recycled plastic and the price of new plastic.
Amusing, I embarrassed myself today as I forgot to renew a client's certificate. This kind of service is unfortunately too expensive for my needs (2 small websites to monitor), wouldn't that be possible to have a small software run on my laptop that checks a list of websites every day for upcoming expiration?
Thank you for the additional context, I didn't recall that it started even before Dr. Su's term.
Wow. Almost unbelievable. Any security engineer or literally any (authenticated or agent-based) enterprise scanner should have caught this. Wonder how this one slipped through - the 2019 runc bug was a HUGE deal if you work in container security and its presence should have set off Critical alerts automatically.

Knowing nothing else, my guess is this was certainly exploited, as you can grab off-the-shelf exploits for the runc exploit.
For a financial and work-life balance perspective:

Personally, I'd will never work for early stage startups again. The risk vs reward is extremely unfair, with co-founders and investors eating most of the pie.

Late-stage startups near IPO / exits (usually 6-10 years after founding) might be worth it, b/c equity will 2x quickly. But often those deals tend to still pay less than big tech after the 2x.

If you really want to work at an early stage, start your own.
If you made a copy of you down to the atomic level, and this copy appeared on a planet several kilometers away, is that new copy "you"?

Does that new copy become "you" if you simply incinerate the original?
Chicago Woman makes false ‘BOMB’ threat after missing flight
I hear these criticisms from the suckless crowd, especially on the Luke Smith[0] channel, and to a lesser extent, on the one for Mental Outlaw[1]. These are some of my favorite YouTubers and I really like their perspective on things, but I don't see why it's necessary to go the extra mile and denounce Matrix. Matrix is a great technology that provides a lot of features we can all benefit from. While it may not be perfect, I still believe it deserves support.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkwXtWtVj3w

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_EmQ8xdJw
This is what the gettext contexts and the pgettext macros are for: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Contex...
Knee or Hip 'Replacement' Without Surgery? It's on the Horizon
I used Post-911 and that was exactly how it worked in 2013.

Source: https://www.va.gov/education/about-gi-bill-benefits/post-9-1...

There were some specific changes two years ago, but it doesn't look like it covers the problems I mentioned: https://www.benefits.va.gov/GIBILL/FGIBSummaries.asp

Feel free to be specific beyond "That's not how the GI Bill works"
AIUI, Roe v Wade says that abortion rights flow fairly directly from the 14th amendment.
https://archive.ph/odCWn
if you decide to for example continually give blood to another person to keep them alive, you are allowed at any point to revoke your consent for this procedure even if it makes the other person die.

it doesnt matter that the women entered the pregnancy knowing the consequences, she is allowed to revoke the babies privilege to use her body whenever she wants.
As much as I personally think the efforts of mega tech companies to intrude into every aspect of every user's life and the lives of those around them are repugnant and dystopian, I do think these will eventually make it mainstream. Convenience and novelty always trump security and privacy among the majority, unfortunately.
Yeah, undetected metal can certainly be an issue.

I was with my wife in the MRI room, when it was done I handed her her shoes--and felt the magnet pulling on them. I have no idea how there was metal in there, she specifically picked them because they were soft at all points. The pull wasn't strong (had I let go they would have gone to the floor, not to the magnet) but it definitely was there.

From that second article it sounds like manufacturers should be required to put on the label whether a garment was MRI safe or not.
Congratulation: You just opened the Pandora box of locale vs language!

My understanding would be that locale should dictate numerical formatting. But one could argue the opposite and also be right.
The problem is in public, would you be ok with other people recording video and audio constantly and uploading to facebook?

Would you be ok with all your life being out in the public? (either sold by facebook, hacked account or mandated by someone)

How about used for law enforcement... auto fines when you go over the speed limit, police sent to your house when weed detected, etc
I have not, in fact, criticized the safety procedures of aviation. I have corrected your absurd claim that aviation emergencies are "not dangerous". It is an uncontroversial fact that people have died in aviation emergencies.
Had the same thought, performance is quite key for most uses I think. Still compiles to web assembly probably because they mention running it in V8.
I guess it's a test of a voting ring.