skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of those "other organizations" is the NCMEC, which was established by[1] and heavily funded by[2] the U.S. Congress.

NCMEC has consistently tried to impede the implementation of end-to-end encryption. Even before the Apple/iCloud debacle, the NCMEC pushed tech companies to prohibit users under 18 from using end-to-end encryption:[3]

> On February 20, 2020, NCMEC released an open letter to the technology industry outlining five Principles to Safeguard Children in End-to-End Encrypted Environments.

> - Do not implement end-to-end encrypted communications for accounts where a user has indicated they are under 18 years old.

Restricting children from secure communications is an especially user-hostile way to advocate against child abuse.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20121029010231/http://www.missin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_Children%27s_Assistanc...

[3] https://www.missingkids.org/e2ee
What’s the value of an advanced technical degree?
They're asking about how the scammer obtained a seemingly undeserved visa, not about how to scam people.
I thought I heard that in their stream. Must have been a million lbs of fuel+oxygen and not a million gallons of fuel. Sounds like close to ~125,000lbs of CO2 emissions per passenger then.

With Starship being methane based (higher H to C ratio) and at bigger scale hopefully it gets that number down a lot.

This lists it at 1.1 million lbs fuel+oxygen and shows it being used with Dragon (did they use this or similar?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_Full_Thrust#Block_3
I'm not a big fan of that either. I like my workflow of using git to version control integrations, dashboards, scripts, etc. Not sure how I would do that with dynamic configs.
What’s the alternative you’re suggesting? Just roll over to China’s demands?
I have personal experience with Backpage. They had a team of 70 analysts on staff to review all ads and were the #1 source of trafficking tips.

I believe the bp owner got into a pissing match with the AZ DA and eventually lost. Many people who hide behind the US government are scumbags.

Fuck FOSTA/SESTA too.
Campus Activity Status – Healthy Brown – Brown University
I've been saying to my friends for some time that social media is the new smoking.
HR is generally seen as being anti-employee, in the sense that the reason they exist is to protect the company (legally speaking) by managing its relationships, benefits, compensation, etc., with employees, and this often pits the company's interests against those of the employees.
I’m surprised they actually got the mistrial. Prosecutorial misconduct is one of the fundamental problems facing this country…it transcends many issues dear to the left and the right.
Depends what the definition of high rise is I guess. I live in a 30 level building that I consider pretty high and it sits on the entire space of the block it is on with only walk ways between it and the next building. I'm more talking about these 4 level apartment buildings which seem pointless to me.
A Falcon 9 launch can cost under $30 million, I'd be shocked if Mr. Isaacman paid more than $100 million, all told.
Well, not directed to you specifically, but for anyone who works for companies that are creating this shitty dystopia and don't like it: stop.

One of the reasons I left Silicon Valley was that over the years I came to see that people even among the people who were uncomfortable with or knew that the things they worked out were a net negative to society, fewer and fewer were willing to leave, usually because of money.

It's Upton Sinclair's "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
I assume you are responding to someone else, not sure how your statement is relevant to what I've wrote.
You’re wrong about is an incredible podcast. Spot on about information density and humor. I love it
Then I apologize for misunderstanding the point of the post, and it's probably better for me to leave the whole chain without edit after this realization.
> Also your Kafka+Java architecture is unlikely to still be supportable in 2 decades. Will have the same problems with Java and Kafka in the future as you have with Cobol today.

I doubt that. Java has shown a huge commitment to backward compatibility; you can take code from 20 years ago and run it unmodified today. Kafka is younger but it's also a project that takes compatibility seriously.
Last I checked, my mortgage does in fact have interest on it, and the company that services that loan does have employees.
The economic interdependency argument is fragile. It has been refuted at least once in history. In the 1909 book 'The Great Illusion', British lecturer, journalist, author and Member of Parliament and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Norman Angell argued along the same lines. Coming at the tail end of an unusually long and prosperous European Golden Age, the Belle Époque, it was very well received in its time. 5 years later, the trenches of WWI would put the lofty ideals to rest.

> According to Angell, the economic interdependence between industrial countries would be "the real guarantor of the good behavior of one state to another",[6] as it meant that war would be economically harmful to all the countries involved. Moreover, if a conquering power confiscated property in the territory it seized, "the incentive [of the local population] to produce would be sapped and the conquered area be rendered worthless. Thus, the conquering power had to leave property in the hands of the local population while incurring the costs of conquest and occupation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_%C3%89poque
The danger of “sole authority” on nuclear weapons
The fact this downvoted shows the level of discourse on HN.

Anyone paying even a little bit of attention to the situation in Asia Pacific knows this is accurate. Old enemies are finding common ground in opposition to China.
The way he got the citizenship doesn't disprove the idea that he wanted it "as a hedge against the looming apocalypse".
Krugman was right again.
Reputedly, that's what the very first space tourist Dennis Tito paid for his jaunt to the ISS.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/space-tourism-20-year-ann...

The math is a bit different though, since that sum was propping up Roscosmos, which is a government org with opaque accounting and already had everything in place. By contrast, at whatever price Isaacman paid, SpaceX made a clear commercial profit.
A group not being at high risk is not a good argument that it’s ok to increase their level of risk.
Bolting on to this comment with some other neat things, as a fellow HASS enthusiast:

* Every single light in my house moves from dim/orange -> bright/bluer -> very dim/orange throughout the day (basically like an whole-home f.lux or Night Shift). Sadly still third party, but it's easy to use: Circadian Lighting component will find it

* I have "night" modes in all my rooms. This is usually a single bulb in lowest-brightness full red. You can barely see it during the day, but at night it makes bathroom trips a non-blinding affair

* I have 6+ speaker zones, on Raspberry Pis mostly. Snapcast runs the audio stream, but turning on/off a room mutes the speakers in it (walking into a room turns on the lights via motion detectors and music continues to follow, which is neat)

* I pipe a lot of text-to-speech messages. Some rooms won't play them if the room is off (outer stuff like my garage), but others always do (so I hear them). This is more custom now, and I even duck the playing music stream for the TTS portion. It can take in text, so I do things like have my automation say a bunch of things every morning (my age in days, some web-scraped snippets, etc)

* $10 power sensor is enough to know when your washer is finished. Power for awhile -> running state, no power after awhile in running state -> finished. This goes right into the text to speech system

* Every room has a 10-button remote (the very, very cheap zap remote kind). Most of the layout is the same--room on, room off, start music (or skip track if playing), stop music, full-bright lights, night lights. This still leaves a few for custom-to-the-room buttons, which I use

* Contact sensors on all openings to the house. I let me cats into the backyard during the day. Cat access via any configuration is still open, and sun is below X degrees? Text to speech

* Most of my logic is Node-RED (another comment here about that), which gives me a lot of flexibility. I have a global "house" mode, which I can set to guests or party to suppress most of my assumptions that I'm home alone

* Example of one of those: My setup knows if I'm using one of my two desk computers. If I am, and house is in "home" (alone) mode, I turn off all the other rooms in the house

I could go on--I went pretty deep when I first set up Home Assistant, but that was years ago now. Every now and then I do a major update or add functionality to smooth over something that's been bugging me

Once you hit some tipping point of soooo many things available as sensors or services in HASS, adding completely new functionality is a very incremental change
I can’t imagine ASCAP doesn’t find cops who behave like this as kinfolk.
Good question. Is it an open source project that originated at Facebook?

On the topic of open source, would it be possible to construct a license that removes the ability of bad actors to use it? Of course, a bad actor could use it against the terms of the license, but the intent of the software project is made clear.
Uttar Pradesh, India: 23 districts are now Covid-19 free, recovery rate over 98%
I know you're looking for a comparison of the "new" syntax of zsh and oil but I think it's worth noting the biggest difference is probably going to be Zsh is an extended sh shell with a bash (well ksh) emulation mode capability whereas oil is a shell where the language is a superset of bash syntax.

Zsh tries to be similar to bash but it has no problem not aiming to be 100% bash in normal mode. Osh wants you to be able to replace #!/bin/bash with #!/bin/osh and run your script without setting the mode to something special. Then when you're ready to extend it you can write either bash or osh without toggling emulation mode or worrying about which syntax or behavior differences you'll run into not being in emulation mode.
Pixel 3 is EOL anyways as of October 2021. No more software updates and no security patch. Makes sense the hardware is EOL as well.

Meanwhile an iPhone SE from 2016 can upgrade to the latest iOS. It just works.
Strongly agree with the sentiment of your post. I'm curious how you came about the information that they were the #1 source of trafficking tips. That seems like the government killing a golden goose (not that that is surprising in any way).
Anyone have read Theodore Momsen's even larger history of Rome, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize?
Bitcoin protests in El Salvador against cryptocurrency as legal tender
Space Adventures is selling seats on their planned SpaceX mission next year for a cool $60M a pop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Adventures_Crew_Dragon_m...
Really good stuff. I saw this on reddit and it is very helpful for charting / news.
Get a court to rule against cops “innocently playing music” …good luck
What channels are best for advertising oneself for consulting opportunity?

For example, I am good at general software engineer (dev process, culture, management philosophy), and detailed technical work for distributed system (cloud/backend).

Where do I let people know that?
Disagree with this assessment. Tech companies are able to manipulate the audience for someone else's content "on a scale that would have been hard to really understand a half century ago." Films, books and magazines are not interactive media. Computers force their users to provide input, much more input than a channel to a TV tuner. As developers, it is definitely our problem because we can control that input. We can require input to suit our needs over the user's. We can monitor the user's interaction. We can easily redirect the user to locations he never intentionally specified he want to go. The TV tuning dial, the buttons on a TV remote or a TV's onscreen menu were more or less fixed. These could not be continually manipulated to optimise for the advertiser. No redirection. There was no software developer who was paid to manipulate, positioned between a film and a viewer in a theater, or between a reader and a physical book, or between a reader and a printed magazine.

Yes, people have more options thanks to computers, but theres now a middle layer of manipulation between people and the media they are consuming.
this is actually clutch for me! thanks
Yes, the home page says that it's for Python and JavaScript users that avoid shell: https://www.oilshell.org/

Also see The Simplest Explanation of Oil
https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/simplest-explanation.h...

In addition to being "decent" / familiar / learnable, it's also more powerful, as bash is showing its age and lacking features many users would like (recursive data structures, JSON, etc.)
What the fuck is this guy's problem?

Unsurprisingly, these dreams came to nothing.

One of the people he's shitting on in that sentence is Laura Deming, who's raised investment funds for companies working on stroke and biotech research as well as running a foundation that searches out disadvantaged people exhibiting special talent.

We get it dude, Peter Thiel is a jerk who doesn't vote like you and that really chafes your britches.
Taiwan is too closely situated to the Ryukyus (and American airforce/navy bases) for China to enforce an embargo on them. Unless China can block off Japan also, then they can't really cut the island off from anyone.

If you mean a direct economic embargo, then China loses a lot of its export potential (e.g. via FoxConn) driven by descendants of the mainlanders who fled to Taiwan in 1949. A lot of the factories are owned/managed by such Taiwanese, who are much more in line with a unified China than other Taiwanese, but are still unwilling to become PRC citizens.
In an ideal completely honest and devoid of mischief world, immigration policy would be everyone lives and works wherever they want. So yeah, the argument that immigration policy is bullshit stands on its own weight.

The investor visa is basically the ruling class telling you they will let you work in their companies if you also invest in the place where they park their generational wealth.
Spot on - we shouldn’t allow social media accounts for anyone under 21 years old.
networking events, conferences, previous colleagues. face to face encounters, most of which have been severely cut back the last year.
Some of the best more recent episodes not mentioned yet:

99 - The Spy

95 - Jon and Brian's Big Adventure

90 - Jenny

Jack knows how to tell a good physical pentest story, and these are all awesome.
Twitch already does this, even live in some cases.
The fact that you have parental responsibilities does not absolve anyone else of their responsibilities. That would be a non sequitur.

But anyway, it’s not reasonable to expect parents to know if this or that app is more likely to increase the risk of suicide. Fortunately I have a government that I pay for that can research this and help me with that.
If anyone is unfamiliar with the case, this is a textbook example of government overreach and lying to the public. There is little reason to believe any of the claims against backpage are true.

One of the main people responsible for this is Kamala Harris.

Source: https://reason.com/2019/08/26/secret-memos-show-the-governme...
Losing Covid-19 antibody immunity after six months after Pfizer vaccine
Interactive Brokers just announced they are going to start trading crypto. If they trade it like stocks, then they hold the crypto for you. This would make it as safe as them holding the stocks in your brokerage account.
Ponzi schemes require returns, and more specifically the source these returns being the newly invested funds rather than actual trading/investing activity that becomes the scam.

A crypto security on its own doesn't guarantee or promise returns, and gaining value because of other people buying in is no different than company stock also rising in price because of demand. That's just how trading works. The potential issue is if people bought in because of misleading or false details rather than public information.
> and he recently sold that "500 acre estate".

He just filed his plans for developing a massive compound in New Zealand.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/peter-thiel-files-plans-to-b...
I know. The abuse should have been caught earlier. But when leadership does stupid, the force of the market provides the last stop.
There's no difference, fundamentally, between displaying a popup to suggest looking at different material, and automatically showing different material. Both are equally creepy - actually, doing it automatically is more creepy. At least a popup let's the user know they're being spied on.
This message to epik customers about this "alleged security incident" ends with:

> You are in our prayers today. We are grateful for your support and prayer. When situations arise where individuals might not have honorable intentions, I pray for them. I believe that what the enemy intends for evil, God invariably transforms into good. Blessings to you all.
Did you get either problem fixed? Surely the first one at least should have been covered under the warranty.

On the USB-C, not saying this was your issue but really every USB-C phone I've had I've eventually needed to use a needle or pin and clear junk out of the bottom of the port to keep a good, solid connection. I don't know if that says more about the amount of lint in my pockets or the design of the USB-C port.
In my experience, going from 11 to any version above it is quite trivial. 8 to 11 can be tricky, but I believe even that is easier than it was two years ago (thanks to improved library support).
We don't. We extract the content and present it as a single document.

Page anchors can be used for navigating between sections. We present a table of contents that makes this easy. For instance:

https://papertohtml.org/paper?id=6f9fc51102cf49bff4f4e2b3367...
If you are too ugly, the CCP will hide you from other users on TikTok! [0]

[0] https://www.pcmag.com/news/tiktok-censored-ugly-poor-or-disa...
> Did The Romans leave England governable when they pulled out? I think yes.

Would knowing that pretty much all trace of Roman rule, down to the material cultures and currency, completely vanished within a generation change your mind? Of all of the the Roman Empire, England saw the most severe, and most abrupt, fall in living conditions. And this is centuries before the Vikings wreaked yet more havoc on the region.

And, for what it's worth, while we don't know that much about what the remnant Breton polities looked like, the Anglo-Saxon petty kingdoms that replaced them were a variety of small kingdoms that constantly jostled each other for power, until the Vikings destroyed several of them outright and the Wessex King Albert conquered the rest. That's pretty damn close to the notion of an array of warlords jostling for power that you seem to be categorizing as ungovernable.
I agree!

Maybe we'll work on vi bindings next...
Ad hominem right out of the gate... why should I care what this intellectual bully thinks about anything?

First rule I've learned about persuasion is to not behave this way, but of course it's okay when you have the "correct" politics.
Car manufacturers out of touch with how users use “infotainment”
Almost every media play in car, still for the past 10 years I've touched has been garbage. Car manufacturers all appear to just glue a tablet to the dashboard, and call it a day with no, or worse, poor integration. More of the same here, but really - does no one actually test these things that have actually used a mp3, flac, or even service like spotify under 70 years old these days?

Some 3rd party solutions exist to replace horrendous Nissan/Infinity units (as in mine) and others globally vilified, but why is this so hard for auto manufacturers to get?
It was a one-off I built for a water utility in Connecticut. I'm pretty sure it was an embedded XECOM 2,400bps modem, but I don't remember how I figured out it was faster to do that than to use a 56.6k modem which I would have expected to be faster.

Since at 28.8k and higher the modems are negotiating more than just frequencies (phase shifts and bit compression are also negotiated, IIRC), telling a 56k to run at 2.4k should have the same effect.
Yup, this is a known limitation:

> What are the limitations?
There are several known limitations. Tables are currently extracted from PDFs as images, which are not accessible. Mathematical content is either extracted with low fidelity or not being extracted at all from PDFs. Processing of LaTeX source and PubMed Central XML may lack some of the features implemented for PDF processing. We are working to improve these components, but please let us know if you would like some of these features prioritized over others.

But we intend to fix this!
Does it show you precisely what you want to see? Or just what you're most likely to engage with? I feel like there's an important distinction there.
This happens all the time. Throw a big charity fundraiser to raise your social profile and get a tax write off for it. Let someone else pay for the actual charity.
And just like that:
Lawmakers Ask Zuckerberg to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' After Report Says App Made Kids Suicidal

https://gizmodo.com/lawmakers-ask-zuckerberg-to-drop-instagr...
Their music playing is copyright infringement, since you need permission to play a song in public.

Sooner or later, they will be sued.
Fair enough. Arguably Cold War I wasn't much of a war either. Other than perhaps a short window after WW2, there was never a risk of a Soviet invasion in Western Europe. The Soviets could barely move 10 tons of potatoes from Ukraine to Moscow, and not before losing half to frostbite.
I mean no platitude necessary, by your logic if debt is bad then no debt is good. But last time that was the case it caused the longest depression in American history. How does that add up?
I have to say that I don't know any blockchain P2P-networks that have succesfully done this (Sia/Skynet maybe). I don't advocate for 'token for every app' or ICOs, which end up being ponzi schemes. Currently I'm more interested in what's being built on Bitcoin and Lightning Network, such as https://www.impervious.ai and the ecosystem on https://getumbrel.com
I worked at Instagram for over a year and snooped very heavily while I was there on all the data related to teen well being and even suicides.

The interesting thing about all this is that the #1 competitive advantage of Instagram in the US that prevented it from completely losing the teen demographic to Snapchat was that teens felt less bullied and more safe on IG. I read literally dozens of surveys and studies that specifically asked about wellbeing and choices to use one platform over the other. Because of an intense and intentional push from FB leadership, Instagram was comfortably the safest destination for US teens.

Also there's certainly no evidence that Instagram usage has affected teen suicides in a significant way. The total number of teen suicides in the US per year is far too small for any statistically significant measurement claim. Any extrapolation or anecdote-based claim has to explain why IG doesn't seem to cause any decrease in self-reported wellbeing.
(author here) I'd say it's better now for people who feel comfortable contributing (or just want to test it out and send feedback). Some parts of the project are mature (OSH language) but others are less mature (Oil language).

Long reply in this thread that gives details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28547185