skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the liability of what would have been revealed by deposing Zuck is even higher than 50x.

Was thinking about this. Would be curious to know what information was worth $5bil.
Luckily they are not bombed like women and children in Afghanistan:

https://nypost.com/2021/09/17/pentagon-admits-its-killed-civ...
yeah, no shit

You guys can just move to South Korea or China if you want to live with that authoritarian BS
Thank you! Yes, I have plans for an iOS app, but want to add a few things to the Mac app before that. I have a block-based editor 70% ready and want to get that shipped before working on an iOS version. Syncing will work through iCloud Drive. Since the app already saves as plain files and folders there is not a lot of work needed there (mainly conflict handling).
It's an unwinnable arms race if your goal is zero cheating.

It can work well enough if your goal is 'ban/hellban cheaters relatively quickly'. If the time/money cost of creating a new account is non-trivial, this can very well get cheating down to some acceptable level.

Server-side statistics can be used in addition to this kind of client-side monitoring, but there's only so much that can be inferred from statistics. It may not be too difficult to determine if someone is using, say, an aimbot from statistics, but it's very difficult to determine if they are using a radar - because the cheater still has to make fuzzy, human decisions, based on the information that radar gives them - and because its difficult to tell radar apart from good gamesense.
Exactly. I'd vote to make abortion illegal for this purpose, and I'd bet many citizens of the state feel similarly.
https://twitter.com/anticheatpd/status/1412024189561851904?s...

There are cheats doing CV on video stream and they work on consoles. I guess they would also work on cloud gaming services.
Uh oh what would stop my ML-based auto-aim from cheating in FPS running on cloud? Cheats now might be fine with just video feed as input.
It doesn't work across multiple games but Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has a system where you enter your phone number to verify your account and then can queue only with other verified players.
I'm surprised to hear how bad a decline in shoe repair shops there's been. Shoes are one of the last consumer goods you can actually get repaired.

There's shoes, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, watches/clocks, firearms (if you consider them a consumer good) and ... what else?

Phone screens and batteries, I guess, if you don't just upgrade early instead of repairing it.

White goods, in theory, but the last 7 years I've had two landlords each replace a washer, dryer, and dishwasher that were beyond economical repair. I actually replaced the drum rollers and axles on the second dryer, but it was part of a stacked set, and when the washer died, the only option was to replace both.

Garments occasionally go to the tailor, but how many people truly get anything repaired vs altered to fit?

Am I missing anything here? I'm not including cars, as I don't know that I can call them a consumer good.

I suppose living in a city warps your perspective on the availability of shoe repair. I had work done at two separate shops in the Boston area and could probably find three or four more without much looking. That seems pretty prevalent to me, but I guess it probably isn't relative to the days before business casual was invented.
It's not that hard to hit something going Mach 5 or so at high altitude. That translates to speeds of just over 5000km/h.

The really hard thing is to hit targets that go close to orbital velocity (for example when trying to hit a hypersonic missile going 11 000km/h+ or a ballistic missile going 20 000km/h.
That would be nice. They explain why they don’t do that here: https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/faq

That being said, their support and product are absolutely excellent—might be worth it anyway
That's a counterfactual.
I don't think this would be a boycott, because Apple stores will always exist; it's, "should I signal to my employees that a location is healthy for people to move to and work from, when the location is reducing freedom and passing legislation to take away healthcare?"

Also, the economic opportunity in this case is zero sum; if Apple is intent on expanding, while reducing their presence in Texas, women in general would still have a net gain, just located in areas that are friendlier to women.
Can't get paid more than 1500 in cash in France. 2000 Pounds is "a lot of money" to exchange in the UK. The limits are suspiciously higher if you're well dressed and stepping out of an expensive car or moving millions. Tells you how pathetically poor the poor really are.
In the UK it's called Benefit in Kind. There are special rules for company cars, loans, and accommodation. But significant private use of phones and computers and such can be treated as taxable income. As can non-business travel and entertaining.

All of which are grey areas.

You invite some visitors from another company out for a meal after a meeting. Unsurprisingly, you spend some time talking about business - and some not.

Is that business entertaining, or not?

You're self employed, you spend a lot of time on social media, partly because every so often you find something that's useful for your business, even though most of it is just noise, and some of it is entertainment.

Business use of your computer, or not?

It's all debatable, and can cause real issues if the Inland Revenue expects business use to mean business hours in an office and nothing but.
Evidence of Humans in North America During the Last Glacial Maximum
This looks really great, I'm looking forward to trying it out with my bandmates! (Who live in another state.)
If we're being paranoid that separate device could also be compromised so that the messages could be decrypted with another key other than the main key(s) used by either party.
I thought the idea of this deep learning cheat detection was looking for subtle cueues?

Like how someone wall hacking would behave differently from someone who is not. Maybe by reacting before the player is actually seen.

Maybe I'm just thinking it's more impressive than what it actually is.
I used InSync with a mounted drive. I rebooted and it ran before the drive mounted and deleted my entire online google drive contents and then deleted the local files when the drive mounted.

The google UI is such garbage that you can't undelete 1000s of files so I had to write a script against it's API that ran for a few days restoring everything. Sucked.
Task timing notepad for the distracted mind
I have seen the exact opposite conspiracy theory proposed.

That the Democrats somehow goaded the Republicans into passing something so abhorrent that even a large number of republicans would switch vote come next election.
Or a desktop. Or my laptop on a table. This is tangential to the articles topic
Leipzig has a pretty sharp divide, for example. If you walk west, you hit platenbau, then it's a bunch of farms. I figured a lot of east cities are like this (Gera, for instance, Halle, etc). It could be a matter of perspective - in London, you can drive for about an hour through suburbs before you see a single building more than two stories.
Eh, people would care for about 5 minutes, just like everything else. Remember when basically every American adult with a credit history had their entire credit files stolen? How many people do you hear talking about that now?
In theory, employees could be remote. In practice, Apple has publicly said that they plan to move 5000 employees into the new campus they are currently building in Austin:

https://www.kxan.com/news/business/apples-1b-austin-campus-n...

Longer term, they've talked about making that 15,000 employees.
> And if neither of them really mean anything, then this guy is really "just" a developer right?

Probably yeah, he went to a coding boodcamp and was hired after that.
If you have the means to "waste" money on the price of the book, I'd recommend it. But by "waste", I mean that the book could have been a thick pamphlet, but publishers sell books and not pamphlets, so by golly that essay is going to get the shit fluffed out of it until it is book-length. So you're paying for a lot of marshmallow cream.

That said, the premise is good and you might glean some good practices that you'll put to use. It's just that it's not worth the $15, IMO. If you have disposable income, buy it. Otherwise, just go read the New Yorker article referenced elsewhere in this thread.
I agree, although I do not think civil asset forfeiture is specifically used to discourage the use of cash and incentivize people to go electronic, or at least it was not designed with that motive.

Civil asset forfeiture is a power trip by the government that neither political party wants to touch, and it does a great job at reducing trust in the US's governing bodies. When I was a kid, I thought that kind of low level brazen corruption only happened in poorer or less developed countries. Now I get to see my countrymen doing it and admitting to it on video, year after year.
To be honest I have completely given up on competitive fps games. The cheating situation has only gotten worse and I really don't see anti-cheat makers winning.
Using organic fuels as a battery(which this essentially proposes) with internal combustion engines is extremely inefficient.

This seems more like a device to capture subsidies.
I like to build my linux computers AMD only. No intel IME and nightmarish proprietary nvidia drivers. Smooth Sailing.
Works even better in the EU. 20K in cash on an economy flight? Criminal! No other way. No way you saved up all of that, you poor pos!
> How did he get and maintain full control?

It's his company. When you make the company and give out shares, just get the lawyers to agree to allow you to keep control. Its just legal documents. If you have a good startup VCs and angels may be willing to give you better terms.

> Is it possible, as a founder, to maintain complete control of the board and the company through Series A - E ?

Sure. I've noticed several company IPO announcements on HN lately included the founder-control shares in their IPO prospectus, so it can't be too unique.

The way they do this is by having share classes. Eg Class A shares each gets x% of company and y% of votes. Class B shares get X% of company and [Y/20]% (or 0 sometimes) of votes. The 1/20 is arbitraty btw, it can be any ratio. Sometimes i see A, B, C shares where A is founder/vc tier with extra votes, B is "regular" with smaller votes, and C is no-vote shares, and often C is sold through IPOs into the exchanges.

I have no data on how common these different schemes are, but they're things ive seen in HN-announced start-ups and IPOs in the last year, so take that as anecdotal.
According to the map, there are 'native lands' only in the Americas and Australia. Europe, Asia or Africa are largely devoid of 'native lands'.

The map could be interesting as a historical resource. Selectively framing it in terms of 'native land' sadly turns it into one giant irredentist manifesto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irredentism
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28461915 - Discussion from about 2 weeks back, 13 comments.
Always worked with people outside my timezone, and always worked well. During a time, most folk were Central Time, so we always talked CT when chatting on slack.

And when actually scheduling on google calendar, it shows you the actual working hours of each one, so you don't even have to know what time is it there. Just book it somewhere that's not greyed-out
The OSM tagging ( open data )

- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/American_I...

- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:bo...

- https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/boundary=aboriginal_l...
So subscribe and pay them directly. From all metrics I've seen direct payment is the most efficient vs merch, super chats, and views themselves. Pay for premium.
It's in the bylaws of the corporation typically. Feduce duty lawsuits are very common and it certainly isn't a "myth".
>I am pretty sure that to this day their mitigation strategy is "almost nobody is writing viruses for Mac anyway". :D

The very existence of SIP/Notarization/a bug bounty program/etc indicates their stance is otherwise. ;P
I'm a little skeptical that that's the case. When I cheated in CS:GO years ago (1856 days ago in 2016), I specifically remember being unable to see where people went at the beginning of the round, and sniping double-doors on dust2 showed people only when they were about to pass by the opening. This was on official competitive servers, so maybe you only mean self-hosted servers don't have FOW.
Distinguished Engineer is the top “level” for engineers at Amazon. It’s equivalent to a VP position for managers. So it’s a job title, similar to Sr Engineer.
I'm curious as to why should the Steam Deck be in its own category. To me, it runs a mainstream, open and not-locked-down Linux distro. I could see an argument for Chromebooks being in their own category, but the Steam Deck, in my eyes, is a legitimate "full" Linux device.
I used to write cheats for various source engine games (running vac), and later more interesting games like pubg which run battleeye. Those are two very different anticheats, and I think comparing them is interesting

An important thing to point out is that it requires a lot of reversing work and low level knowledge to make a cheat, and usually at the end of the day cheats all end up with the same core features anyways. This means that there’s a huge stigma amongst cheat developers around knowledge sharing, which makes a lot of that initial work all the more arduous. Anticheats further increase that initial work, and incur an ongoing maintenance cost since each update can break your cheat (especially of you specifically work to break the public methods that everyone is using).

Last time I looked at VAC, it was doing stuff like looking for stuff like modifications to the .text section to detect hooks implemented by writing e.g. jmps to some injected code, but never actually adapted when people started just modifying vtable entries (most source engine constructs are exposed to developers as pure virtual cpp classes). Since they stagnated, it got easier and easier to cheat over time as more and more people spread knowledge on how to hook in an undetected way. Hell, in gmod some lua anticheat developer (gmod is a sandbox game with a lua scripting interface) found a vuln in the clientside lua implementation that allowed arbitrary memory io and used that primitive to implement checks for injected dlls when people started cheating at that level in that game, which was far more effective than VAC ever was.

BE was another universe, it felt extremely prohibitive to touch the game in usermode & even in the kernel I started to feel cramped. You can still totally get past it, but it felt more like writing a very specific rootkit than actually making a cheat.

So, from the other side, anticheats raise the cost of initially developing and maintaining a cheat. If used effectively, they can also kill paysites. I think they have value, even if they aren’t achieving a 99.99999% success rate.
good thing we have employment at will then. apple employees will have little difficulty in finding employment elsewhere should they object strongly.
Soylentnews.org is a friendlier version of slashdot.
How would you apply that logic if a corporation took the bounty and reported an employee? A person didn’t do it?
I wish I could reply to this with a rallying cry for you to keep trying. But it's true, every 14 year old kid with a keyboard can cheat in competitive now.
Anyone with a retirement account can pick a different fund. They can be even buy individual stocks to collect their own portfolio. Or even buy anti-Facebook security.

But there's no demand for that as far as I see. So I guess shareholders are actually happy, and unhappy are the people here on HN who are not shareholders.
Is it homemade or something that can be bought OTC?
The people who control the backend servers have an obvious incentive to rip off the ad networks. Clients are more trustworthy in this context.
I think the most common reaction is going to be "this guy carried my mortgage worth in cash on his person to the airport, I don't think I'm going to have that problem".
When DST was abolished here in Tunisia circa 1999, software using deprecated timezone was not updated and we suffered from bugs and glitches for the next five years
Evernote has recently introduced checklists/tasks feature which is kind of nice though I have not tried sharing them.
Wait, I'm missing something. Wouldn't overpayments to a government entity have to be reported? Why are we just hearing about this now?

This isn't a loaded question, I'm genuinely curious if a lawyer or someone more educated than me could explain this.
Ahh, you had datacenter in quotation marks, I didn't catch that.
My dad had an outdoorsy distribution list that shoved all links through an ad domain, like straight up as if it was clicked on a site. He was able to copy and paste the text just fine...
No, the LUKS header includes only encryption metadata, not file system metadata.
So it's a "donation" to avoid legal trouble. I'm not a lawyer, but that certainly stinks like bribery (or perhaps extortion) to me.
It's surreal to me how little political or public support there is for ending these kinds of egregious government overreaches.
Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621412
Personally, I find it incredibly addictive. Despite trying many things to keep it under control, I still struggle with it.

The thing with mindless browsing is that it gives you an instant trickle of dopamine. Any other activity requires some ramp up time before it feels rewarding. It's a bit like snacking vs. cooking a meal.
Welcome to the genre of self-help books. I can't recall the last one I read that couldn't have just as easily been a long essay. "Here's a few good points and ideas, surrounded by a fuck-ton of anecdotes and proverbs, because you're not going to pay $20 for a magazine article."
Zuckerberg is worth vastly more than $5 billion to Facebook.
How fluent do you want to speak? I think you’ll manage to get by in German speaking places but learning the language isn’t easy. At least that’s what other people say, I grew up with it, for me things intuitively make sense somehow haha. As for me I’d go somewhere with better weather, a little closer to the equator I believe.
He's been on HN for ages

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=colmmacc
That article is terrible. Simple wrapping a string in Array() converting it to characters achieves what the author desired and makes the rest of the article pointless.
Id suggest reading a tutorial on the DFHack Workflow plugin.
It makes the game much easier as you can just automate jobs for the dwarfs so you don't forget to do things like brew alcohol.
I know this is nowadays seen as a naive or counter-productive, but I like Unix Philosophy ideal of do one thing, and do it well. I want a business to focus on their business, not on social change or influencing policy. I'm weary of how all these corporate giants are coming together and trying to influence state laws after they've been passed. For two main reasons, one, I would like these companies to focus on what they actually provide, rather than this modern progressive 'everything is political, all the time' mindset. Two, Apple isn't democratically elected and I don't know if any accountability structures exist for such activism. What gives Apple more of a right to counter what the duly elected representatives of a state government have enacted, than the voters of that state themselves?

For all it's horrible flaws, this was something passed by the Texas government. I can at least understand the structural justification for the law. People voted for a state representative, state senator, and a governor who signed the bill. The authority and responsibility is clear. The feedback mechanism is also clear - vote. And, I do hope a lot of them lose their seats as a result of the backlash. But again, I think the power to address this Texas-Sized problem should primarily be in the hands of Texans, rather than giant multinationals like Apple.
My recollection is that they don't - the content that includes your gmail data is served to you by Google, not by Newsweek.
Yes, a developer title basically. But very senior

Comp is $950K++++ per year range.
Sounds like the FBI sold the phones and the Aussies did the reading. It's the same trick that was revealed a decade ago, US agencies can't read American messages but foreign agencies can so they share info on anything interesting the other partners couldn't legally find out themselves.

> Every single message sent on the app since its launch in 2018 – 19.37m of them – had been collected, and many of them read by the Australian federal police (AFP) who, together with the FBI, had conceived, built, marketed and sold the devices
It's not about the keyboard. It's about the lack of a strength building regime. Humans are not built to sit behind a desk. A strength training regime like Starting Strength or Stronglifts 5x5 is what the average office worker needs to survive their career RSI free into old age
>> So you think google is

Yes

>> guiding you

Yes

>> based on your profile

Yes

>> based on all the data they have collected on you

Yes

>> in order to entice you to consume goods

Yes
I develop many ideas on my motorcycle, or on my bicycle, or while having breakfast. Once I have a computer, my brain is rarely idle enough for that.
tl;dr

> This process of reflecting on one’s self using parts of speech that are typically used to refer to other people – ie, second- or third-person pronouns, or even one’s own name – is distanced self-talk. A mounting body of research by psychologists suggests that engaging in distanced self-talk can help us to regulate our negative thoughts and emotions in a range of situations
He maintained full control by growing the value of Facebook so quickly and with so little capital that he could raise financing at astronomically low dilutions.
Modern SAM systems are made to launch in less than 15 seconds after detection. Their missiles go 2km/s+, and they are made to detect targets from 400km+ away. The SR-72 would not be the most difficult target they are built to engage.
> That's not to say salary should be secret (dear god, no), but how cool a company is IS an important metric in and of itself.

If only I had $1 for each time I saw a company showing off foosball tables, game consoles in the hallway, picnics, team get-togethers, people laughing and being cheerful.... And in the end it's the same cubic hellhole where people are no better than anonymous cogs in the machine.
where did I say I was advocating for forcing anyone to do anything? merely encouraging people to respond to massive corporate superficial moralizing with a "lmao ok bub you're a corporation not a person" instead of enthusiastic agreement would go a long ways.
You’re getting downvotes, which is unfortunate.

The only logical conclusion from this is that Apple has (correctly) decided to take a position on this. Unfortunately, by doing so, they’ve invalidated the typical justification for not speaking up on Chinese atrocities against their own marginalized citizens. Barring a more detailed explanation, the only conclusion that you can draw is that they (again, correctly) disagree with how the state of Texas treats it’s citizens, but agree with how China treats it’s citizens.
Er, yes. The topic of the linked article - the reason that this is coming to light in the news now - is indeed, that a shareholder lawsuit has been brought against them (Zuckerberg, Sandberg, etc are named defendants and the company is nominal defendant). Direct link, from the article: https://655e71e2-f98d-40e9-822b-081bc894b6af.filesusr.com/ug...