skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relying on obfuscation as part of your security posture is a fantastic idea IMO. Just be prepared for what happens if a human figures out your specific puzzle box.

We like exposing our private B2B web services in such a way that an attacker would be led to think the web server is totally fucked up or otherwise mis-configured if they don't understand the proprietary protocol. It's not that they could never understand it, but it would take a significant, targeted effort to even begin attacking our system in a direct fashion. Even if they figure out the obfuscation, they are still going to have to fight through a moat of PBKDF2 & hardware tokens.

To me, obfuscation is all about minimizing the impact of automated, mass, 0-day assaults. Some person will always be able to walk back something another person built. You can mitigate legions of scripts by cleverly dropping TCP connections when a resource isn't requested in just the right way.

Another fun option is to build a honey pot around your web service which has the ability to ferret naughty TCP pipes off to the hacker matrix where you then simulate all manner of PII-rich data sources for them to worry about (instead of your actual business).
what is "cyncism"?
For low light portraiture get yourself an aps-c mirrorless with a modern 56 or 30/1.4 lens and get both image quality and portability, no need for full-frame now outside of pro sports or wildlife.
For giggles: A 3 square-foot pipe from here to Mars at Mars' closest point of approach would hold about 31.7 million metric tons of CO2 at atmospheric pressure [1], which looks to be about 2 day's worth of US emissions.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=38.6+million+miles+*+3+feet%...
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This is not enough civilian oversight for me. I don't want the governor controlling the entire state's police force like a personal army.
Do you have a source with more detail on the actual technique? They are a bit sparse on details.

It sounds like combining the spatial map with narrative stories, right?
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> Bottom line: the course of the virus IS NOT impacted by masks, lockdowns, NPIs, or even vaccination rates for that matter.

Every time there are major lockdowns, the daily new infections counts drop off a cliff. I didn’t crunch the numbers, but from looking at graphs over the last year, I’m pretty sceptical about this persons conclusion (at least, that specific claim)
You're right. See my other comment in this thread but it seems like Loyola changed the quote where it initially said 'military-style'. Personally the helmet reminded me of helmets worn in Vietnam but they definitely do not match the design used by Nazi's in WWII.
UK’s AI strategy is ‘ambitious’ but needs funding to match, says Faculty’s Marc
I've been using TypeScript and quite like it.
exactly! well said. it's what we're trying to achieve with our acceptance testing strategy. you can see more here how we leveraged clojure to be able to simulate E2E in memory in the JVM by bypassing IO and just having one services logic+data layer talk to the other: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfqo9_UMdHhah_gNPnawX...
As a YouTuber, this has happened to me multiple times. It's fans or people trolling, they always remove the points though.
Back in 2017 I found my old iPhone 3GS in a drawer. It booted up fine and held a charge for a couple of hours. Amazingly it even connected to the App Store and could still download apps I'd bought 8 years previously.

I gave it to my daughter who just started secondary school here in the UK. She had to have it switched off at school, and switched it on when she left so a few hours of charge was fine until she got home. I got her a new phone that Christmas, but for a few months she got good use out of it.
Or if you would rather do it on your own time I can recommand the CDR Primer: https://cdrprimer.org/read
> Phones from 10 years ago don't work any more because wireless companies are dropping 3G.

This is because of a phase mismatch - a phone bought 10 years ago would have been in the middle of the 3G lifetime. 3G started getting adopted in 2002-ish and had ~200M users in 2007 according to WP[1]. That's between a 13 and 20 year window for usage - which overlapped with 4G during the tail decade (or so), so, in fact, there's a good chance that a 10-year-old phone would work today because it could have been released with a 4G radio (and, if it was built to be a 10-year phone, it absolutely would have had one).

> If the goal is to make parts replaceable to reduce waste, what is the difference between keeping a phone for five years and throwing it away to buy a new one, then keeping that for five years, vs replacing all the parts in "one" phone over a ten year period? Two complete sets of parts are used.

Different parts have different Mean Times Between Failure (MTBF), so you don't end up replacing all parts at equal rates. CPUs tend to last far longer than batteries and screens - having a repairable phone means that you can replace the battery several times over a 10-year lifespan, whereas you're almost never going to replace the CPU.

That is, buying two five-year phones results in you paying for two CPUs, two batteries, two baseband modems, and two of everything, regardless of which component in the first actually failed. Buying one ten-year repairable phone results in you paying for one CPU, one baseband modem, one display driver, ..., ...and two batteries. Far less e-waste. Every time a non-repairable phone breaks, you have to throw the whole thing out. Most times a repairable phone breaks, you can fix what's broken.

Additionally, he MTBF of a composite, non-repairable device is lower than the MTBF of its least reliable component - meaning that (theoretically - I'm ignoring the durability costs of building dis-integrated devices) it's more expensive to build a single, non-repairable device that lasts five years than to build a device composed of components that will individually last five years each.

> What is the difference between ten people owning ten 10 year phones, and ten people each handing down a phone that one person bought new?

As it stands, most phones sold nowadays won't last 10 years, so the latter scenario doesn't really happen. Some manufacturers (Apple) make relatively reliable devices, but those come with severe freedom and privacy restrictions (the argument is that reparability should be a right, not a feature of a particular company), and their devices are infamously non-repairable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G#Adoption
>While we don’t yet enter cromulent into our dictionaries, it’s a perfectly cromulent candidate for future entry.

Although the dictionary editors surely were hypnotized by their own humorousness, they ought not to have published that sentence.
So he then proceeds to sue the fact-checkers. There is definitely liability here from which social media have been shielded so far
Is this just a visual version of the missing dollar riddle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_dollar_riddle

This was my grandpa's go to riddle for his grandkids (but with Francs). :-)
Yes, it seems pretty obvious they are free to fact check if they want to but they also become responsible of all these new fact check contents they push.
Yeah, mine lasts 4-6 weeks, but with the Logitech M570 trackball I was getting 6-12 months off of a single AA battery.

The M570 also has a red led that lights up when you need to replace the battery. The ergo doesn't have any such led, so the only sign that you need to recharge it is when it dies.

There are some "drivers" for it but I haven't had much luck with them. What I did find was someone had some scripts I was able to use to get things usable on a 4k monitor: https://gitlab.com/khaytsus/mxergo
that's a very good alternative way of thinking about E2E
Useful context for this story:

The original Facebook post with the video and fact check, which you can see without logging in: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015712197...

The fact check: https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/climate-change-fores...

The fact checkers response to Stossel's complaint: https://climatefeedback.org/responding-to-stossel-tv-video-o...
I think, quite obviously, it's called a spelling mistake.
" the paradoxes of intertwingling nebulosity and pattern are hilarious."

Perhaps I'm getting old but I don't think so.
> I'm not sure when level of detail methods came out really, I know in gaming they were around for a while and there was a terrain generator as well that made great terrain that had some level of detail stuff. Perhaps this was in fact novel?

Mipmaps were invented in 1983.

Keyhole/Earth used "Clipmaps", invented mid-90s. Clipmaps solved the problem of how to fit gigantic mipmapped textures into memory. Basically, you can keep the lowest LODs in memory always (the zoomed out views), and then Clipmaps show an efficient way for storing the higher resolution as needed.

As an aside, RIP the wonderful people behind both these techniques. Lance Williams passed a few years ago, and Michael Jones just a few months ago. Both were kind, humble, and generous geniuses.
My home-built PC will never stay asleep, so I have to shut it off. I don't get it.
You mean the approach using symbols or combining symbols with ml?
Which kind of economic model is that?
My phone camera is amazing. I can take photos of my town’s basic foliage on my basic phone which looks like a professional stock photo. The resolution, saturation, sharpness, color correction would’ve seemed unbelievable 10 years ago.

I have an iPhone 8. I don’t see much improvement in these iPhone 13 photos.
That's a good point.

Generally, I'd say that any group of Native Americans (or folks who profit from them either emotionally or financially) wants to be thought of as the 'first' people who ever lived on that piece of land. Perhaps they popped up from the earth like the skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts.

There's a legitimacy angle here that's become super important in the last decade or so. Then there's the argument about 'nobody lived here when my people moved in' that's allowed for some people, not for others.

It isn't like the Sioux or the Navajo have been in their current location all that long. It's all so tiresome.
100% !
I know it's not comparing apples to apples.. but do have a look at Hetzner Cloud UX. It's FANTASTIC ! Super minimal, functional and I can almost bet they didn't use a"UX Designer" I got the feeling they gave the programmer-already-on-staff that could name the most colours the UX-Design-Job.

IT's such a joy to spin up servers and work in that UX compared to GCP and AWS !! Scaleway had a good one a few year back, but now every page feels like a "marketing flyer" that screams BUY-ME all the time :/
There is cool program for people like you, it is called Bonzibuddy. Proprietary software is guaranteed to be ethical and respectful of your privacy. In part, because the opaqueness creates an incentive for people to write better, more secure software.

I would also much rather consume software made by people that spend 99% of their time waiting for the weekend, than from people that write software out of self-motivation and enjoyment.
> In fact, go back 15 years and no one had any tests whatsoever. The world didn't end.

You really need to stop repeating this, it's absurd and there was a great post here the other day explaining how in most companies, they had a large QA team that would need to approve any code, it's just that developers were not expected to write the tests themselves.

> If the costs of writing and maintaining E2E tests outweigh the benefits, then obviously it's not worth it.

Obviously, but the question is, what's the alternative? In the blog post, the alternative was to have contract-based acceptance tests... but that may not always be appropriate for every business. We have a huge E2E test suite where I work and I was one of the biggest contributors to creating it... as everywhere else, it's heavy, slow and hard to maintain, but replacing what we have with contract testing wouold be unfeasible because we're not a micro-service architecture, we are one big application as we're a product company.... I would love to find a better way of testing our product, but contract-based testing is definitely not the answer for us.
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By Jury. And at the time Google was a highly popular company. I still think a lot of large companies get away with stealing the candy from others.
I would recommend reading the fact check as well to get a full sense of what happened here.

https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/climate-change-fores...

https://climatefeedback.org/responding-to-stossel-tv-video-o...
I've used VPN over literally hundreds of public WiFi...
Covid-19 in Wales: A third of positive cases are unvaccinated
This sounds awesome! Makes me want to have a look at memory palaces again.

In your experience:

Do you ever "refactor" you maps to show updated understanding?
Or do you find that this happens naturally?

Do connections between different areas stand out or form?

Do you have examples of notices patterns or structure in knowledge because of it?

Thanks
I ended up configuring my machine to suspend to disk when the power button is hit. I would agree with the hibernation function being finicky under Linux except I ran across similar behavior under Windows, so it probably has something to do with how power management is handled on PC hardware.
I personally know a guy who was homeless for over 15 years. He would soundly agree with Stossel's take. His opinion is... if I can attempt to summarise in a few words, that homeless people nearly universally choose that lifestyle, and if you ever give them a 100% guaranteed way out of it, they will run the other direction as fast as they can. I suggest you re-think your opinion of Stossel based on that segment.
Had the same with Apple. An update made it quit sleeping correctly when using a microsd card to expand storage (it worked fine at first).
Maybe Bulkhead policy in Polly is a good match here?
In the renascence there was a standardized system of memorized hand symbols to recall music. For guitar you can memorize fingerings by creating a person action object system in a way that tells you the fingering, the string and the fret number in one image. You can then use this to memorize classical music. With music you are going from conscious to unconscious procedural memory. But you can "double encode" using memory palaces and systems for a "backup". (It can actually help you learn it faster because you can get rid of sheet music)
2017 and 2018 articles are actually consequent steps: 2017 - ban internal exchanges, 2018 - ban external exchanges from offering services in China.
Aren't android and desktop clients using Electron? So I assume at least Web+Android+Desktop (or maybe + iOS) should share lots of code?

Also, may I ask whether you considered Qt or why you dismissed it? As an example, I think Telegram's UX is so ahead of the competition...so if it were me, I'd have simply forked Telegram...
The tech crown is probably not the crowd that would shed a tear over this industry.
My understanding of the "Xinjiang issue" is that Xinjiang has a complex history of separatism & violent terrorism (see Urumqi attacks). Beijing implemented a counterterrorism program in the last decade or two, alongside other initiatives such as comprehensive anti-poverty campaigns. Broadly these programs have the same goal of stabilizing the region, its economy, its politics, its people, and overall they have been successful.

Recognizing China as a competitor on an unchecked rise, Washington "pivoted" its foreign policy on China towards antagonism at the beginning of the Obama admin. [1]

This resulted in a number of related attempts to internally destabilize China and loosen the dominance of the Communist Party, ideally leading to a Chinese regime that is submissive to Washington's demands (as occurred recently in India, Ukraine, Brazil and many other historical cases). Otherwise, China could very well surpass the USA as the most powerful nation on Earth.

Among those attempts is a fierce propaganda initiative, which takes any controversial issue related to China and warps it beyond recognition, with the goal of demonizing the Communist Party. Xinjiang, Hong Kong, COVID-19, Taiwan are among the extremely propagandized topics in circulation.

It is virtually impossible to get a fact-based perspective on these issues from mainstream Western media, because that is not their goal. If a mainstream Western outlet attempts to portray China in a neutral/positive, fact-based light, then they risk repercussions. For example, the illuminating PBS documentary entitled "China's War on Poverty" was removed from the airwaves in USA [2] citing "funding" concerns. Any attempt to deviate from official media policy on China could be labeled a "national security risk" and compromise major media corporation's access to funding and other opportunities. Simply not worth the risk (see Parenti's or Chomsky's "propaganda model").

Meanwhile, extremely dubious "reporting" that furthers this foreign policy agenda is amplified to incredible extents. This is how virtually all "China bad" stories end up tracing their origins from a relatively tiny inbred clique of Washington D.C.-based ideologues/think tanks/"human rights" groups, ETIM separatists, Falun Gong cultists, and weapons manufacturers who stand to profit enormously from the "China Threat" theory. Everyone else is directly or indirectly shut out.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_t...

[2] - https://current.org/2020/05/after-pbs-drops-film-pbs-socal-r...
A Fairphone is repairable and, using Lineage, has long term software support.

I have a Fairphone 2 as my main phone (released in 2015) and I am running Lineage based on Android 10.
> And they blame the CA gov for stopping controlled fires in the last couple of years

This is what is crazy to me. Growing up in the Midwest, we always had controlled burns on extended family's rural farmland near forests, to prevent future wildfires. It was a regular occurrence

Looking up how absolutely little CA does for controlled burns compared to the Midwest and Southeast was an insane eye opener to me.

Florida alone does like 50x the amount of controlled burns than CA.

Minnesota, which is tiny by comparison, does more controlled burns than CA (or at least used to within the last few years)
I can recommend the M1 air which has surprised me the other direction in hardly using any battery while sleeping. The prior Intel macbook used a lot more.
Ah, must be why I've never had any issues with my xps running Linux.
According to some historians, WW1 was deliberately extended in order to completely eliminate Germany (which pre-WW1 was scientifically and industrially superior to the UK) as a strategic competitor to the British Empire:

https://www.amazon.com/Prolonging-Agony-Anglo-American-Three...
I don't see how this could be true for an HTTP server. If we were discussing some custom protocol, sure. But with HTTP, you are far more likely to repeat well-known mistakes and vulnerabilities that have long-since been eliminated from the popular HTTP servers.
It's not all or nothing, and further more the electricity from solar and wind is fungible and can be used for either fuel generation or direct usage by electric cars, so it would serve us either way, no matter how long it took.

These things are not contradictory. We can build out more renewable electricity supply, replace with electric cars, and generate carbon neutral fuel all at the same time. You are underestimating how long and difficult the ICE replacement is going to take. It's not like a single organization can just wave a wand and all gas cars would be replaced over night.
Yeah, I don't understand why moving the two boys side-by-side is considered a trick. It's much harder to understand how to be misled than to discover the solution.
DEC, which Compaq bought. http://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/msr_tr_98_17_terrase...

DEC Alpha was the first readily available 64 bit architecture for micro/mini computer sizes. Terraserver was in part a demo of how powerful that was. So was Altavista, the first really successful Web search engine. It started as a DEC research demo program.
The circle of fifths can be studied (and often is) with the loci method. Visualising the circle of fifths, with the relative minors, as a real space that can be moved around in is very helpful.

Music theory is full of little mnemonics, and is itself a sort of system of mnemonics:

Instead of an infinite gradation of frequencies, they are reduced to 12 repeating notes within each doubling, so that a 440 Hz vibration is an A, as is a 220 and an 880 Hz vibration.

If instead of doubling a frequency, we add a half to it again for a 2:3 ratio, we get a perfect fifth. By repeating this process (with some fudges) we end up with twelve notes, the circle of fifths, and the vast majority of Western music.

Rather than simplistically giving these 12 notes 12 letters, they get 7, in a clever system that allows for all 24/30 major and minor scales to have one of each letter A to G.

The 7 notes in any particular major or minor scale can be combined with each other to form chords. Major and minor chords each share a root and a fifth; the third is different by a single semitone. The combinations of three notes that sound nice together are thus greatly simplified.

Once the circle of fifths is internalised, all 24 (or 30 - ask Wooten) major and minor chords can be constructed, transposed, and played with.

So, when an experienced musician hears a song they can put all of that background to work. Instead of remembering each indivudal note played, the notes are chunked into chords, hich are chunked into keys and progressions. Once contextualised with similar pieces the memorisation becomes easier and easier. By the time all of that contextual data is assimilated, with music that is _felt_, there isn't much need (I'd imagine) for good musicians to use memory palaces for fingerings or performance details. I'd say a lot of that knowledge is in the hands, the breath, and the whole body.

Disclaimer: I am not a very good musician (yet).
> To use that defense, Facebook would have to label their fact checks as opinions, something that AFAIK they do not.

Cause these "fact checks" ARE opinions and Facebook should start labelling their own "fact checks" as "Facebook opinion". The cowardice of that system as well... like Facebook can be an arbiter of truth at first place? They are trying to have their cake and eat it too, by still profiting from content they deem "falsehoods" while trying to get off the hook regarding mass media critical of Facebook.
To equate a concept with a symbol, not sure how you do that. For sure you use a symbol to represent an instance of a concept or a concept, like the words in this sentence when you convert them to the concepts in your mind you understand the model of the world I'm talking about. But that symbol just gives you a reference to something else. The something else they forgot about with Symbolic AI is the concept.
Thought the same thing, but it was brought to the FBI's attention by the stores who found the packages. Unless they're doing some heroic omissions in their press release, which is not out of the question.
Converting CO2 into fuell isn't the hard part. The hard part is getting the CO2 out of the atmosphere in the first place.

We've known how to convert CO2 into fuel since the end of the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
Restaurant drive-thrus are slower and less accurate in 2021
Apparently, this might actually happen this time. (https://twitter.com/mneunho/status/1435887122649686024).

If the Bundestag becomes as massive as predicted (800+), the CDU and AfD lists are too short.
I'm really sorry that didn't work for you.