skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also really hate how much people ignore the actions of other presidents and hyper focus on one mainly because of the massive amount of consent manufacturing by mainstream media. Hundreds of thousands of people are dead as a result of other presidents, and a lot of those were women and children.
$22.4bn bid for Entain underlines value of British online gambling expertise
> is safe and taken by a quarter billion people every year

When taken in dosages that have been determined based on extensive studies and research.

This doesn't apply to COVID so it is completely responsible for them not to supply it.
Perhaps there's a preexisting template for "dramatic spectre-related security announcement website" that has that part of the FAQ pre-populated.
Subway in America also has terrible bread and it makes no sense at all. Even the smell of Subway baking bread almost makes me sick.

There are plenty of American sandwich places that have similar prices, and they all have better bread.
Agreed. I'm confused as to why Telegram doesn't implement e2e by default. It seems to be the number 1 criticism of people who would otherwise most likely sign up.
Post-Snowden, the question around encryption seems to have shifted from "why are you doing it?" to "why aren't you doing it?".
It just seems like an odd feature not to have unless you have a strong reason for not wanting it.
Is it a technical hurdle?
you know those black helicopters the tinfoil crowd talks about? They show only if you try to securitize ARPA products ;)
I was just about to submit an equivalent comment, so I'll piggyback on yours. I feel just like you, plus, I also hate to see them promoting another crypto scam attempt at taking over a piece of global infrastructure to make a quick buck.

I like IPFS as protocol. I didn't mind their work on Filecoin, as it made sense in context. But every time I check, they seem to be getting more and more in bed with dubious cryptocurrency initiatives. At this point I'm no longer willing to advocate for IPFS itself.
Social media allows lobbyist groups and foreign powers (not to mention domestic intelligence agencies) to continually modulate public discussion, opinion, and perception. The Overton Window is completely influenceable by these groups.

What a truly terrible idea.
I'm going ot go out on a limb and say that for the majority of users, any dmg they have is a software installer they could easily redownload. so a waste to backup
Some of these claims... "can retrieve data from Chrome extensions (such as credential managers) if a user installs a malicous extension."

News flash, you can do pretty much anything you want if you can get the user to install a malicious extension. That is social engineering, not a side-channel attack.
FWIW, these sites are all setup on Brave Rewards to receive funds via Brave Rewards contributions. I got this list from my history by going to brave://rewards/ in Brave:

* Wikipedia.org

* SmithsonianMag.com

* ArsTechnica.com

* TheRegister.com

* Archive.org

* TheGuardian.com

* LaTimes.com

* DuckDuckGo.com

* NPR.org
I have to say, the fact that google disables the back button once you hit the link above is truly infuriating.
Hi Don, you shouldn't jump in here to harass me. BTW, I still have all those Facebook messages you sent years ago, some violent in tone and metaphor, to which I never responded (but I did report to Facebook). Should I publish them here?

I was not talking to you, for good and now obvious-to-everyone reasons. You are so unbalanced when it comes to me that you didn't even read the comment above to which you copy-pasted the same blob of text that you've spammed elsewhere on HN, about how I quit and I wasn't fired. The commenter above never said I was fired.

You're wrong on "destroy": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721891

The issue with Prop 8 was the definition of, not right to, state licensed marriage (it proscribed bigamy and polygamy too). Try not inserting your hostile conclusions as premises of your questions. I'm not going to reply further to you.
> The added grievance to this is that my drive also included my own personal family photos and my current book on the subject

I mean, how many times does this need to come up for people to learn the lesson? If you are storing your data with a third party, and you do not have an iron legal contract with this third party, then that third party can and will do whatever it wants with your data, including locking you out of it. We certainly don't like this state of affairs, but that is the world many of us have created.
What about net migration? It would be easy for a state that received a lot of retirees to grow every year despite more deaths than births.
Have you ever hung out with a cokehead?
Ah, I see, that's what you mean with reliability. Ok. I wear mine pretty much all the time so that's the reason I'd never have that problem. I thought you meant accuracy. Thanks for the clarification.
Manjaro is one of the only distro's I've used that has nuked itself during updates. I moved to Endeavor because I was sick of the Manjaro maintained repos.
You're saying re: vaccines? There's been several deaths believed to be caused by the vaccines and attributed as such by the FDA/CDC.

And, you know, a few hundred thousand lives saved.
Europe’s air quality status 2021
Apple gets unreasonable flak for this. They have used 2 proprietary connectors over their entire mobile range since the first iPhone in 2007 (or iPod when the dock connector was introduced in 2003). Each Samsung or Nokia phone I owned until getting my first iPhone in 2010 used a different connector. USB-C sure looks like the future but by the same logic the EU could have force micro USB which was inferior to lightning and would have sucked.
Except there have been too many mistakes and missteps for a while now, it's three stars at best. I can respect a system that does what I need it to do in one opinionated way, but when that system doesn't do what I need or does too many things poorly, why would I stay? If I need to fix the system anyway, I'll use one that makes it easiest.
Pharmacists are not there to blindly dispense drugs.

They have a legal and moral obligation to understand how those drugs are going to be used and whether the patient is at risk for taking them.
Quitting Facebook has been one of the most positive experiences of my life. I still use Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter, but the mildly anonymous aspects of those platforms mean that I use them for what I want to use them for, not as an extension of my life.

HN is social media too, lest you forget.
Aside from all the moral and ethical questions this raises from the usage of faceless AI, really this happens time and again, I suspect so Google can employ less human reviewers and so they can claim "not our fault". I think I've commented on a couple of these posts by now every time with the same advice.

But anyhow, people should be well aware cloud providers do use AI systems and they will make mistakes, so you should:

1: have multiple redundant backups, seriously this is a no-brainer, AI or no even Google can lose data if a storage device dies. Depending on how important the data is you might consider as many backups as you can manage.

2: encrypt, encrypt, encrypt. If you store even so much as a text file unencrypted you're making a mistake. Use archives, double compressed, use the myraid of tools out there to ensure your files can't be read by anyone but you and who you decide to give the key to.

Is this more work? Absolutely, but at the end of the day regulations mean Google need to scan content, and they will have a false positive match, and then it goes on HN and magically Google restore the data.

I hope they get the data back but sometimes being burnt is actually a lesson in remembering best practice, why oh why your only copy of family photos are on one user hostile data-mining platform is beyond me, but it's a terrible idea.
> This title seems a bit over-broad. The attack is based on using the built-in chrome credential manager

I'm reading the white paper[and from what I understand the password manager attack is just a sample.

The vulnerability exposes data from other tabs that get consolidated on the same process, so it doesn't matter if it came from the password manager or if you typed it, it's grabbing it either way.

They even managed to leak an image uploaded on a different tab. (page 13, figure 14 https://www.spookjs.com/files/spook-js.pdf)
I checked out after the first few paragraphs because his viewpoint is so b&w. I'm either using social media for validation or as an observer, because apparently I'm shallow and needy. This is such a broad generalization that I don't feel the need to read further, even though I generally agree that social media is a problem. Cynicism isn't how to start that conversation.
The point is that they have an investment banking arm that is absolutely doing prop trading.
I think the severity of this would very much depend on the permissions that would have to be granted to the extension in order for it to happen.
Valve are definitely not user-centred. They are profit centred. Valve provide no subsidised hardware (PC gamers still need to supply their own), and charge indie developers 30% commissions, a regressive 'tax' compared to the 20% they charge AAA.

Per-employee, Valve is the most profitable company in America, and Gabe Newell the 97th richest American. They got there with forced exclusives (Half Life 2 could only be activated on Steam) and simply being first to market. They are no longer even bothering to curate their storefront.
In regards to the panel being too restrictive or permissive, I think you have to look at the possible motivations for why. If you have a drug candidate that seems safe and effective, what possible motivation could the panel have for rejecting it? The pharma company gets their drug to market, patients get new and better drugs. The incentives are aligned so the issue with being too restrictive is a debate about how risky we should be approving new drugs.

On the other hand for a drug that’s safe but maybe not effective, there’s a lot of money to be made off of people willing to do anything to prolong their time with their loved ones who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Aside from that, the FDA can hurt it’s reputation by approving drugs that just don’t work too frequently and be accused of being in the pockets of the pharma companies. There’s a stronger possibility of corruption affecting the decision, and whether that corruption is real or perceived doesn’t matter much for public trust.
If employers really were desperate for workers, wages would rise. But wages haven’t risen. The only reasonable conclusion is that there isn’t really a shortage of workers.
Harassing can also be considered as opposing the "equality". It is a dangerous path to take part for some specific politics, when the target of those politics are working under the same company. If the employees feels that this brings inequality for them inside the company, it can be considered as harassment, if it is showing in some way.
As Mozilla, I referred multiple employees which came with above feelings at that time, and I can say only based on what I read.
I was thinking the exact same thing. The article falls into what may be the most immediate danger befalling discussion around meritocracy: an artificially narrow definition of "merit."

The essay bemoans private equity firms increasing death rates in retirement homes to increase profit, because of how "smart" and therefore allegedly "merited" they are. But any proper definition of "merit" would include them behaving ethically.
You have been respectful up until now, so I will reply, however it's apparent that neither one of us are going to change our minds.

If a drunk driver hits another person crossing the road and they both need reconstructive surgery. Who would you feel worse about? Who should get care first? How would your opinion change, if at all, if the drunk driver was posting pictures drinking behind the wheel and making fun of everyone else for not drinking and driving?

Yes, everyone is a living being, everyone deserves sympathy and compassion. However if you actively lack sympathy and compassion for others, why should I, as an individual give it to you?
I found a niche on eBay, I sell a few specific items and use eBay as a funnel for my own store. Sure, I have to make a few trips to the post office a week, but it's a steady $1k per month or so. If I knew anything about online marketing I could increase my volume, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Ideally I'd like to buy some rental real-estate, I'm just not too into the risk profile of that kind of thing for now.

My only advice here is to be careful of the brand / market you go for - DTC is great, however handling customer support is a huge drain.
I'm not saying there would be a 5x, or even 2x, salary. Only that if one cannot even negotiate for oneself, on the basis of some self-perceived productivity disparity, a higher salary (of literally any meaningful magnitude), then it seems quite dubious that such a productivity disparity even exists (especially at the perceived magnitude), given how flawed comparing "raw" productivity often is.
Imagine building federated tech with this. ActivityPub stuff like Mastodon, Peertube, etc. The performance on small servers would be incredible.
Well, judging by the extremely racist and most often dumb as hell /r/Europe, the racist and self-hating r/ukpolitics and the racist, smug and self-important r/germany, it's people who ruined social media. And the Internet, for that matter. Let in too many idiots and everything turns into Idiocracy.
Oh yeah. Wish you’d ditched them my way.
You should take at lest 1g/kg daily for a month to clear up the lung inflamation.
Ok, fine. They’re a bank holding company that includes an investment banking arm. That arm definitely does prop trading though, so my point stands.
> to establish causality when the effect size is large enough with a clear dose response curve.

And when there's some plausible underlying mechanism that can be studied by more rigorous means. Otherwise, observational studies can find correlation, not causation-- and they're not even very robust at that.
I didn't realize Fly hired Chris McCord. Wow!
Igor-Driven Development. I think the late Sir Terry Pratchett would be proud of the concept, indeed. :-)
Let's back up a bit here.

What specifically in this comment would you penalise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28620403

And how would you address the issue of people being good sams --- making calls on behalf of someone else when they ask, in good faith.

See for example RMS:

When I need to call someone, I ask someone nearby to let me make a call. If I use someone else's cell phone, that doesn't give Big Brother any information about me.

https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html
And to teach other users to stop critically relying on such a capricious service. I have less sympathy when it happens to someone techy, who should know better, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here.
Well you especially cannot trust google for anything. The only reason they let you host stuff is so they can datamine it.
I know this is avoidable, and I know it’s a semi-regular occurrence, and I can recognize Google’s moderation problem is non-trivial, but I really can’t shake the feeling that Orwell was off by a letter and the future will truly just be a bot stamping on a human face forever.
> Imagine if all Twitter users had 'verified' status and you could also find them across their other social apps without any risk of following fake or wrong accounts by mistake.

Without any risks? Ideas from self-sovereign identity are somewhat included in this promo. Does this service include hiring notaries to check state-issued IDs to verify identities? Risk-free IDs are unsolved I believe.
I Made a Game with Cocos2dx
brick breaker super is a puzzle game i devlopped it using cocos2dx with c++ go check it
What about using last year's phone for banking etc?
I appreciate that a user named 'coldturkey' posted an article that's bearish on lab-grown meat.
I don't follow. We wrote fax softwares that eliminated the need to buy a fax. We wrote accounting softwares that eliminated the need to have hundred of accountants to get to the office every day, using cars! We wrote softwares that eliminated the need to sell and buy physical encyclopedias, dictionaries, watches, photo albums, typewriters, books, compasses, maps, calculators, tickets, cameras, VHS, calendars, answering machines, telephones, flashlights, radios, newspapers, agendas, snail mail, sound systems, physical money. We wrote softwares that get anything delivered to your door without having you getting in your car and spending hours in 3 physical stores. We wrote softwares that make it possible to share your neighbor car for a little fee. We wrote softwares that can assess climate changes effects.

To me, softwares are the greenest inventions ever.
This is fair, or at least, if they do make those choices ahead of time they should be well publicised and configurable, or it should be a specialised, single purpose browser.

To that extent, I think if Brave is open and honest and says "we're a browser that reformats pages in this way" that is ok. It's sneaky shit, dark patterns, bundling things you want with things you might not, etc. that make me distrusting of them.
CoinTracker (YC W18) is hiring first PM to make cryptocurrency accessible
Show HN: Blade Programming Language v0.0.6 is here
Hi co-hackers,

Pleased to announce to you that version 0.0.6 of Blade previously announced here is out.

In this version, Blade has a clearer goal and strategy which can be followed via the Github projects session or our Gitters chat.

Blade now support native extensions written in C, a json module and an sqlite module and now comes with an auto installer for Linux and OSX.

Blade documentation has progressed tremendously and there is now a small but active community around it.

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I don't remember reading it was broken per say, just that there are some issues, and weak keys. The only work I know of analyzing Solitare is [0]. And they propose some fixes to make it more resilient. OTP is by far the easiest and most reliable pencil and paper crypto algorithm though.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06300
SEC chief: Crypto is not a viable long-term form of private money
Sure. I've met multiple cocaine users
Here is an awesome list of all such Liveview-like frameworks.

https://github.com/dbohdan/liveviews
Thanks for your feedback! The spreadsheet view works in combination with metadata fields.

Let's say you have a number of notes for your contacts. You tag each note with #contact and add a few fields like "Name", "Department", "Diet".

Type #contact into the location bar to find all contacts and switch from there to the spreadsheet view.

You'll get a list of your contacts and you can quickly tell who is a vegetarian, for example. Great for planning a party (once in person meetings are a thing again).

Another neat thing:

Add a new note and add the tag #contact. The right sidebar will now suggest fields and headings that you used in other contact notes. This way you can use the same fields to keep your notes consistent.
While that's true, the era of wildcatter fracking being relevant to production in the US are largely over. The majors now entirely dominate the fracking segment and fracking-based oil production. They've gone on an acquisition spree across the past decade and tower over the smaller operators. All you have to do is look at the acres owned by the majors in fracking areas like the Permian vs small operators now (compared to the beginning of the fracking era).

Like this $9.5 billion deal the other day between Shell and Conoco. Wildcatters can't compete at these prices for the most part. They can't afford the real-estate now (in the early days when the industry was asleep and or skeptical they could).

https://www.shell.com/media/news-and-media-releases/2021/she...

The majors bring a more traditional, disciplined approach to pursuing cut-throat production competition or not and have a more consistent, less volatile schedule for capital investment. They're not as sensitive to medium size moves in oil prices when it comes to changing plans.
I suppose it would be very different from Tibet: Tibet provides 2/3rd of the water resources of China, and China came and secured it. I don’t think Mongolia has such scarce resources… does it?
ok, a compromise. let's do ML on the power spectral density of the train audio. or just use lidar.
Foxconn is not Chinese, it's a Taiwanese contract manufacturer, that does have most factories in China (but it also has factories in other countries). The reason why Foxconn is so successful is because they do a good job in quality control and honoring contracts, which sets them apart. They are trying to blend Western-style rule of law with Chinese wages and infrastructure.

The successful stories about western companies outsourcing to China do tend to fall into the category of building and running your own factory there, rather than contracting with a Chinese owned and managed factory to produce to spec, which suffers from all the ethical problems discussed in the parent post. E.g. these are all decisions taken by management, not individual factory workers, so if you want to reduce risk, then install your own management.
Encrypt everything before uploading.
I'm sure there are reasons to quit social media but this essay seems hyperbolic. I use social media because I like to see photos and read updates about my friends and family. That strikes me as a pretty normal and healthy use for it. My wife's Instagram account is a collection of all the cookies and cakes she's baked. She follows other Instagramers who do they the same thing and they inspire each other to make different kinds of things or with different ingredients. Again, seems like a perfectly valid use of social media (though probably not healthy for me).

The author also seems to look down on people with "average lives" like that was a bad thing. Assuming life quality is a normal distribution, most people will lead average-ish lives. Many people will lead worse than average lives. There's nothing wrong with that.
It’s telling that every answer is “just deploy servers near your users.”

One of YouTube’s most pivotal moments was when they saw their latency skyrocketed. They couldn’t figure out why.

Until someone realized it was because their users, for the first time, were world wide. The Brazilians were causing their latency charts to go from a nice <300ms average to >1.5s average. Yet obviously that was a great thing, because of Brazilians want your product so badly they’re willing to wait 1.5s every click, you’re probably on to something.

Mark my words: if elixir takes off, someday someone is going to write the equivalent of how gamedevs solve this problem: client side logic to extrapolate instantaneous changes + server side rollback if the client gets out of sync.

Or they won’t, and everyone will just assume 50ms is all you need. :)
>Unfortunately what we actually have, between patents and other monopolies the government has instituted on drug manufacturing and distribution, is nothing like capitalism.

You could replace patents with trade secrets and have many of the same problems (along with some others).
Skynet doesn’t need Terminators. Software bots can keep us busy all on their own.
Real example, there are dev groups using Gradle 2.4.1, that came out in 2015, current version is 7.2

Is it absolutely necessary to update? I want to say yes.
These numbers do not seem to correspond to actual salaries. If I look up my company I can see multiple entries for job titles that I have specific knowledge of, and the quoted salary is much much lower than anyone's base salary has ever been.
Sounds like customers are in good hands!