skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a theory: Apple’s response here might have been slow because they misdirected the bug. This is a web stored XSS vulnerability. It has nothing to do with the AirTag, other than that the page is related to that device.

If during the triage they accidentally sent the bug to the team who developed the AirTag’s firmware then they might have got confused and didn’t handle the ticket appropriately.

Obviously this is not an excuse and a big company should know better, but can explain why the handling was sub-optimal. Just look at this very forum and the amount of confusion present in the comments. There are people questioning if a stored XSS is really that bad (yes it is), or asking why browsers don’t validate the inputs by default (wouldn’t help). There is nothing wrong with these questions! The problem and the solution is obvious to someone who worked on web security before, but if this is the first time you are wrapping your mind around the concept you might mess things up. Same way as if a web developer is asked to fix a kernel level buffer overflow, they won’t have the right mental toolset to understand the problem, let alone the ability to fix it.
Looks to me like they still have the right to say it, YouTube is just opting out of being their distribution system.
What's your point? "Infections happen in only a small proportion of people who are fully vaccinated, even with the Delta variant" does suggest the vaccine is effective. You can still spread the virus, nobody's pretending it's 100% effective, but that doesn't make it ineffective
Not exactly new.

The old BlackBerries allows you to "turn off" the device and have the alarm wake you up. It basically drops into a low power mode.

It was easy to make a phone dead. You yanked out the batteries.
They can say it, just not on YouTube.
These statements don’t claim that the vaccine is “ineffective”. “effective” does not mean 100% perfect.
But it doesn’t make economic sense. It’s like bitcoin miners have no incentive to ban clients that want to send them transaction fees.

I guess it makes sense only when the other side is also not acting in their self interest.
That's understandable, if that's the only thing. But that plus being blacklisted seems like the company isn't just concerned about employee privacy. Not to mention, even if the employee asks a manager for a letter of recommendation or reference, there would be no privacy concern and the company considers that a fireable offense for the manager if they give one.

Seems like anticompetitive behavior to me.
Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's not highly distasteful.
There are two things you should consider here, wall clock time, and cpu time. Making code faster using multiple threads will increase CPU time by some amount, but because that work is now distributed between several cores it should actually reduce wall clock time.

There are many CPU bound tasks which can be made multithreaded and faster, but it does depend on the task and how much extra coordination you’re adding to make it multithreaded.
Can anyone recommend a good book on the balance between free speech versus disallowing harmful ideas to propagate?

Or even one book from each side of the argument?

I don’t think I’ve even begun to comprehend a robust position on what might make sense, or the arguments involved.
That's the same way, just because you use "private media company" instead of "global conglomerate" doesnt change anything.

its just another example of "soft language"
https://youtu.be/-m-zHjZ011I
> But the front is so hideous.

Have you seen Tesla's Cyber Truck. It's much worse!
I think we have to ask if this won't have a chilling effect on open discussion by moderate voices. I'm subscribed to the channel of an M.D. on YouTube who discusses COVID-19, vaccines, etc. He is very careful to (repeatedly) point out that he is vaccinated, he has personally vaccinated hundreds of patients, he encourages everyone to speak to their doctor and follow their recommendations, believing that the vaccine is beneficial for the overwhelming majority of people. But, for all that, he has had videos taken down, and worries that it will happen again.

Months ago he was insisting that the people who had contracted COVID-19 and who had antibodies in their system may not need the vaccine. Now, we have a number of studies coming out to support that. But months ago that was "anti-vax" (employing the slanderous use of the term).

People are going to cheer that "wackos" will no longer have a platform. It's not the wackos we should be worrying about. It's the stifling of legitimate public debate, the stifling of legitimate voices who find themselves in the minority.
There is such a thing as anti-mandate pro-vaccine activists and their voice is being squashed as well. There is no nuance to the conversation.
Maybe YouTube isn’t the best place to discuss results of scientific inquiry?
Your argument is that censorship is good in certain situations. That is true, especially in the beginning. The reason why censorship is a four letter word is scope creep. There are little reasons to believe that Youtube is somehow immune to scope creep, once the mechanisms and the precedent are set.
Because of limited responsability mainly. Did anyone attack microsoft for the catastrophic 0day ~2 years ago?
Yes, for sandboxed apps distributed via the Mac app store that is true. For apps distributed externally, such as ours, it is optional. No additional permissions are required to access ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/* which is where most history databases live.

The exception is Safari, which lives at ~/Library/Safari and requires Full Disk Access, granted via System Preferences, in order to be read.
What situation are you going, "I don't want big tech to be tracking me right now"?
For context, Michael Osterholm runs the Center for Infectious Disease Reasearch and Policy at the University of Minnesota and was a member of Biden’s COVID advisory board during the presidential transition.
CNN Disables Facebook Page in Australia After High Court Defamation Decision
The article is pay-walled to me. But I am interested - do they mention where the line for being "anti-vaccine" currently is? For example - is someone who is making a video about why he/she will not be taking a 3rd booster shot anti-vaccine and therefore banned?
I saw this video the other day that posed the idea to explore what you already know to come up with new ideas. Don't try to come up with ideas about knowledge that is at the edge of what you know.
Well, if the author ever reads this post, thanks for making an extension that I used every single time I installed VS Code. Was a no-brainer every time. Glad to see it implemented by the core team.
Let me reframe, in spring 2020 the CDC says don't buy or use masks, they don't work. This was spread as the gospel, by the media and probably youtube.

How many people died because of increased infections? Is that Youtube's fault or anyone else who repeated the CDCs guidelines?
Russia and China might like to be greater threats to democracy, peace, or stability than the US, but they simply don't have enough influence or control enough foreign money (although China is ramping up). Iran and Pakistan are completely out of the running.
Is there a typo in your comment? Claiming that the vaccines are "ineffective" is not "truth". As you point out, infections happen in only a small portion of the fully vaccinated population. That is, by definition, "effective".
Sounds ideal for anyone who writes an extension to enhance their experience rather than because they find joy in writing and maintaining the extension.
What "fun surprises" does JSON have, aside from "the object could be arbitrarily big" ?
> I think France has a particularly bad record in this regard

Indeed, but this is true of any colonial empire, including USA, Russia, China, Turkey, and the list goes on.

> Then you get a whole load of people coming back home who started their professional career thinking of the population around them as the enemy, and have all the counter-insurgency methodologies as reflex and came of age in an enviroment where such things were normal.

That's the history of modern french policing and the BAC, the "anti-criminal brigades" units patrolling in plain cloths and unmarked cars, often beating first then asking questions and regularly involved in trafficking/criminal schemes. They directly descended from the "Brigade Nord-Africaines" who were involved in controlling the north-african populations, as outline in Mathieu Rigouste books (if you speak french).

Also worth noting that unlike some other countries, France mostly did not have a denazification process after WWII, and the police officials (préfets) orchestrating political/colonial repression under De Gaulle were the same officials collaborating with the nazis. This history and culture of police continues to this day, despite many police officers blowing the whistle on the corruption and abuse of the entire apparatus.

It looks like the only way forward is a complete dismantling of the prison/police/military industrial complex (alongside MANY other social reforms, otherwise it'd lead to the formation of private militias, not community justice/accountability). This argument was of course common discourse in the anarchist circles since the 19th century, but gained notoriety in the 1960s/70s when many scholars (such as Angela Davis or Michel Foucault) refined those ideas and developed proper studies/explorations of the questions.

Not that these reflections have died, if anything they've been revived by the Black Lives Matter movement in the USA (and equivalent anti-police-abuse movements elsewhere), but it's sad to see the current State of mainstream media where social critique is no longer welcome... unless it's from a fascist perspective (for example, notorious french fascist Eric Zemmour was for many years daily on public television spreading ideas of hatred, before moving to private channels after he was condemned repeatedly for hate speech).
One have to admit this is a major anti-vax move being performed by USA and EU.

If the government get to discriminate which vaccines are good and which are not, why their citizens won't do the same, even if they leave the 'good' bucket empty?

When I travelled to South America I had to do "the" vaccine shot (yellow fever I believe), but nobody would inquire me "which one" and whether it is on some white list.
"Misinformation" should not be combatted by anything other than better, more persuasive information.
Many people siding with "anti-vaxxers" are anti-mandate pro-vaccine activists. If they were given a voice in the current conversation then there would be a lot fewer disagreements.
It does play into the vaccine opponents’ belief they’re being victimized.

It’s also getting more and more difficult to look up their arguments, if only for the purpose of developing and reasoning about the counterarguments.

Finally, it can lead to banning legitimate questions, such as the ones about alternative origin theories.
I only recently learned that this was a myth. The core of S230 is:

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

As long as YouTube isn't creating the content they are protected.
wtf?! is this true of 5s as well?
So going forward (by your definition) anyone with any differing opinion needs to setup their own video sharing website and server infrastructure just to share their ideas.

What happens when something you care about is being censored, are you going to go through the effort of recreating YouTube just to share a video?
Is restricting content and banning content not a form of moderation?
Yes our freedoms are being eroded. It’s a slippery slope. All that bullshit.

Come on. A private company doesn’t want to contribute to people dying. Oh and by the way don’t they have the right to do what they want? You want what, regulation to prohibit this?
Pretty sure I've seen "RAT" end up being general term for some types of malware due to that.
You can still maintain a healthy relationship with your colleagues outside of work.
That project is mentioned in the article.
You are not getting the point and that you have such a naive mentality towards it is disconcerting because the consequences of your mindset breaking through as it seems to be has dire consequences for everyone, you included. You think dissidents have the ability to "post their videos anywhere else they want" but in reality the system that YouTube is deeply entrenched in and even essentially plays a leading role in actively attacks and sabotages and undermines those very alternatives you claim people can post things to.

This is not at all about the freedom of YouTube, it is about suppression of dissent and really the surreptitious persecution of dissidents.

What is really going on here is no different than when any other tyrannical regime disappears people in the real world, or even when the internet cries out in pain when, e.g., China silences people online. You may think they are being sent off to post and live on the internet somewhere else, but when they leave your sight form the bubble you live in, they are only then even more persecuted and attacked on a constant basis where you aren't even paying attention and are none the wiser to what is really going on.

In the end, "i told you so" will be utterly useless and worthless when the trap snaps shut and they come after you too once they have snuffed out and silenced everyone else they don't like, because this tyrannical authoritarian mindset is never satisfied and will always actively seek out new "dissidents" to persecute and one day you will find yourself on the wrong side too. It's just a matter of time, not whether it will happen.
Just hide every content farm I find, and my feed is my old school friends day to day lives, local marketplace ads, and DnD Mini-painting groups. The worst thing I see are ads that are irrelevant, or my uncles deranged rants about his local politics.

Took me about 2 weeks of hitting hide from content farms to train the algo to steer me away from that junk.
Essential Project Management Skills
Nice article, but I wish these would have a date on them!

Joel addressed the build vs. buy argument here (20 years ago).

If it’s a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...

I guess what's not obvious to many people is that maintaining and optimizing the kernel and JVM is a core business function for Twitter (but probably not writing a kernel!). Likewise CPU design is now a core business function for Apple. Anything "down" your dependency stack can be.

On the other hand, software for employees to file expense reports likely isn't, etc.
I would start with Plato. While the works are literary and not verbatim transcriptions of conversations, I think it gives a good view into the process of asking questions to dig into a point, then backtracking.

What you rapidly realize when applying this (as GP alludes to) is that most people simply aren't interested in the protracted examination of an idea. The challenge is to find people who are have interesting thoughts and the patience to work through it in depth.
> proven to get clicks and earn them money

Aren't they already 'demonetised' (as Youtube terms its withdrawal of adverts and hence money)?

I agree though, simply not recommending them (i.e. you can be linked to them, or get them from search results only) would be better.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, do they? Also this is one of the most misquoted incidents in this saga, you don’t seem to know exactly what happened there.
Youtube doesn't give two shits about people dying. They care about not drawing the ire of advertisers or legislators.
>• Infections happen in only a small proportion of people who are fully vaccinated, even with the Delta variant. When these infections occur among vaccinated people, they tend to be mild.

And this is the actual misinformation. Recent study done in the UK with 100k subjects randomly sampled from the population found that two vaccines only reduce the amount of infections by about 55%: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/english-study-finds-50-60-r...
> What I think is needed is people spending more time to figure out how it is possible to reconcile fight against misinformation with preserving basic human right which is ability to express your opinion.

Simple: The right to free speech doesn't mean people have to listen, or guarantee access to a publisher. You can self-publish all you want.
Without knowing against which benchmark these numbers were measured make them pretty much meaningless. YJIT achieve a 700%+ speedup on some micro-benchmarks [0] too (see `30k_ifelse` and `30k_methods`).

But that's nowhere near the gains on more macro benchmark or real world code. I wouldn't be surprised if that 170% was on a similar micro-benchmark.

[0] https://speed.yjit.org/benchmarks/bench-2021-09-28-070945
So if you have a video site like Youtube, you can take down whatever content you like, and that's cool. However, if you become very successful, and attract many viewers, than it's no longer like that. Now you can choose what you let on your site.
Is HN pro censorship? I mean, stuff HN doesn't want posted here can, and does get taken down by its moderators. You're just not complaining because HN isn't huge?
I watched that last night, it was a great talk. Enough technical details to understand the how without getting bogged down in the intricate details.

Although it did remind me that I've not touched assembler in about 20 years and now I feel oooold :)

I'm really quite optimistic that this will see some good improvements in the next few years as they work through some of the CRuby bottlenecks that he mentioned.
If I recall correctly, the internet was born from a DARPA project to enable resilient communications that would ensure a nuclear missile launch order would always get through.

If so, then it is indeed contrary to the spirit of the internet to block messages on the basis that they guide people to actions which cause harm to existing structures. The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

My question is: How wise is the spirit of the internet? Does it lead to human flourishing?
That was a special case. They messed up and retracted it. They thought the N95 mask shortage would harm healthcare workers and wanted to save the top masks for those most at risk. They realized they were wrong and changed their views.

Can as much be said for anti vaxxers? Did they make the mistake and recant it? Did they change their view with new evidence? No, they're misinformed and close-minded. They ignored millions upon millions of safe vaccine uses, pointing to unsubstantiated edge cases and ridiculous conspiracies. The CDC was not buying into such rubbish and I hope they never do.
Anonymity removes the difficult aspects of human social interaction and allows everyone to focus on the science.

Peer review itself is wonderful and is what enables science itself to work as well as it does.
How do you get books from Sci-hub?
That line is hidden and opaque by design.
> 1.2 billion followers alone.

How many of those Christians are promoters of human-rights violations? How many self-professed Christians went on to support leaders that used religion to justify wars?

Now tell me how many people still support Communist/Socialist revolutions, even after seeing all this historical bloodbaths that they brought. How many people still praise Che Guevara even after they are made aware of how many people he killed in the name of "justice"? How many people still would support Mao? Pol Pot?
The problem witch vaccines is that makes YOU more resistant to the virus, while other people around can still be infected

So as long as people are not getting vaccinated everyone should keep using masks and keep social distance. Following that idea anti vax movements are more dangerous than we initially think.
Or this way, let’s say that YouTube hosts earlier anti-mask content from Dr. Fauci/CDC and as a result some percentage of people are swayed by this content to not wear mask. Some percentage of them dies.

Do you think that YouTube did a good thing by allowing that content?
I kind of get it. Punching someone outside a boxing ring is pretty much always a bad move. A funny video where the funny part seems to be an unsuspecting person getting punched may "encourage violence". (I don't feel this way, but I could understand the reasoning.)

The cat is out of the bag on this one though. So much so, that I'd argue the video now has cultural and historical significance that justifies its wanton violence. That is to say, even a general purpose video platform that forbade violence should probably still allow war documentaries.
>I think you'll find if you spend time on universities today, they are essentially apolitical.

An interesting experiment would be to compare English Department reading lists in the 1970's vs. now.

My bet is that you'd see quite a difference.

It's not that the College Marxist Club had it's meetings in the basement at any particular time, but that politicization and social movements of the day have been normalized into daily life.

I will stick to my guns in saying that there were 0 (zero) demonstrations of a political nature during my stay. For all I know, it was a low point in such activities (which likely gives me a short temper on the modern world). Frank Zappa played there every year though.

...hah, now that's an interesting angle I hadn't thought of. I went hunting for reading lists for the graduate students. A course on the '19th century English novel' has, wait for it, 7 female authors and 2 male. And one of the two men wrote 'Portrait of a Lady'. That's a pretty interesting way to shift the conversation.
Would you please point me to the Clinical Trial Studies for coronavirus vaccines?
Is it not their right to pursue profits? Do you want someone to regulate them?
This guys lives in the future.

"If instead, we RESTify our GraphQL APIs, we can put any public CDN provider in front of our API. Just give each persisted Operation a MaxAge Cache Control Header, an ETag and optionally a StaleWhileRevalidate value and Cloudflare & Co. can do their thing. No additional proprietary tooling is required."

This is something that's very likely to happen. Good post
Jake Archibald (who is an amazing presenter and you should definitely seek out) has a great PWA-oriented offline-first presentation [1]. It uses service workers but the underlying strategies are universal. Highly recommended if you are just getting started with offline-first.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmGr0RszHc8
> The fact that Apple let such a stupid bug into their web site is worrying enough.

Those recent articles about large groups of employees pushing the company to take stands on anything but work-related matters makes me wonder if the sane, competent employees have either left or have "mentally checked out."

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/technology/apple-employee...
Has anyone tried PrimeFlex [1]? I was thinking on using it for a side project, in combination with PrimeVue[2]. Any experience with it?

[1] https://www.primefaces.org/primeflex/

[2] https://www.primefaces.org/primevue/
C++ doesn't fight the stack more than any good JIT. In fact, it may be less capable in noticing ways to inline functions given that it's a statically compiled language. It's only current advantage with the stack is tail call optimization which is coming to V8 very soon.

Funny that the C++ guy is talking about abstractions, where them V-Tables at?
> the finished product will automatically emerge

"Finished"? No. Somewhat usable and constantly being updated or rewritten? Probably.
Those are a list specific exemptions to at-will-employment; all of them follow at-will-employment other than those exemptions.