skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy fuck that's anoying..

http://example.com/foobar.png <- if an url looks like that, I expect a direct link to the image... not some freaky redirect to a shitty webpage with floating popups, cookie prompts and "download the app"... why do I need an app to view a fucking image?! I already have one, it's called a browser!
Why would anyone reachout to a Google executive over a personal gmail address. Don't they have an official Google or youtube email? That alone must have raised eyebrows for GS folks who are described as the best in business. But hey all is good if no money is lost right.
Python and Firebase auth Sign in anonymously
It's not 'just the same as China' - that backdoors exist is true, but that's where the comparison ends.

The US generally doesn't use espionage to steal trade secrets, it might happen now and again, but it's not a strategic policy.

The US is also fairly open. TikTok is the #1 app in the US and it's literally Chinese owned!

The US is selective about where it gets protectionist / nationalist. Even the populist chest-thumping is not a reflection of what's actually going. That's just for Twitter politics.

For whatever reasons, China is very authoritarian/controlling and that has to be folded into the equation.

Aside from complicated moral issues with Taiwan/Tibet/Uyghurs - really all of that protectionist stuff is 'their choice'.

It's up to them how they want to play the game.

We have to just accept that reality and collectively respond to it rationally.

Dropping Huawei is a reasonable choice as is dropping any company known to be involved in shenanigans. Some data laws for where traffic can travel and under what terms would be reasonable as well (I'm looking at you Zoom!).

We can get along but we need good boundaries.
> It is also worth saying that many historic uses of marginalia (for example, commentary on the Tanakh) are also associated with particular parts of the text and could not be laid out as you are describing without losing intended meaning.

I don't understand this. What part of the intended meaning would be lost? I have a printing plate of part of a Chinese Buddhist text with traditional commentary attached, and it works almost identically to this modern HTML from Harvard Law Review ( https://harvardlawreview.org/2021/06/commonwealth-v-mccarthy... ) - there's an area on the page for the text, another area for the commentary, and symbols identify which comments apply to which parts of the text.

But the Harvard Law Review piece is exactly what I just described, except that the notes do not appear near the text to which they apply.
Sweet geometry. Messing with the 2 sliders tool there, it strongly reminds me of the geometry generated by Chaikin or Split Tweak curve smoothing.
Incidence rates (per 100 full-time worker equivalents) of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses by industry and case types, cases with days away from work, 2019 [0]

Fishing? 3.0 Bituminous coal underground mining? 3.0

Framing contractors? 4.5 Soft drink manufacturing? 4.8

Leather and hide tanning and finishing? 7.1

Computer systems design and related services? 0.1

Fatal injury rates fall along the same lines [1], and programmers commit suicide at less than 1/2 the rate of high risk occupations [2].

There's a difference between going home mentally exhausted, and being unable to go into work because your body is that injured.

Or to put it another way: if you were offered your equivalent salary, would you go fish Alaskan king crab or join a logging crew tomorrow?

[0] https://www.bls.gov/web/osh/summ1_00.htm (Table 1) https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/case/cd_r4_2019.htm (Table R4)

[1] https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cftb0332.htm (Table A-5, Fatal incident counts by occupation) https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-inju... (Occupations with the highest rates)

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6903a1-H.pdf (Suicide Rates by Industry and Occupation, 2016)
My understanding is that it’s not a technical issue, but rather a business and marketing one.
Comcast doesn’t want the home service to compete with their costlier Business service, so they artificially limit the upload speeds to prevent home/consumer users from serving a high volume of content using their less-expensive service.
I used to in college. Extremely bad habit, was easy to spend 4+ hours there just hitting the right arrow.
That's a very partisan definition of, "economic suicide."
It's articles like this that actually get me interested in learning computer graphics. When I took graphics in college, I spent half my time debugging weird C++ build problems and the other half of the time trying to get X windows to forward over SSH from the school shared Linux machines to my personal laptop.

It would have been *so cool* to have had a course that could focus on just the neat graphics algorithms like this by having WebGL sandboxes for both the lecture notes and maybe even the homeworks!
I think people greatly underestimate this. It was lots and lots of fun to make this, and to see people's reactions when they come across it. It was the most fun of everything I've made, and it made me realize what art is: To me, it's being able to say whatever you want, because that's how you like it, without caring whether others will like it. If they like it, good, if not, still good.

I'd definitely recommend making a silly thing like this to everyone, with their only compass being their personal aesthetic. It's very liberating.

Plus, if you can use the thing to store images, even better.
It is absolutely as pervasive as you say, I can confirm. It takes a LOT of discipline to not fall in the pit. The algorithms truly are that hard to resist especially at a young and impressionable age.
Similar situation: cashier at work (now my wife) gives me cash back when I buy something; turns out two new $20s got stuck together. I didn't notice until later that night. I texted her to tell her she may have given me an extra $20 and if her drawer is short, I'll bring it back. Well she doesn't text me and gets written up for being $20 short. I bring the $20 the next day and explain the situation. The closing manager writes her up for being $20 over.
This is just like any infrastructure project where the government can force you to _sell_ resources of national interest, for adequate compensation.

Just like land can be aquired this way to build a highway.

And just like whole towns have been expropriated for surface coal mines.

It feels like liberians only take offence in expropriation when it affects companies for the benefit of the people, but never vice versa (see https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/landespolitik/braunkohle-rwe...)

And please, spare us Godwin's law.
> There is no guarantee that socialized healthcare is the future for America

The private health insurance industry in the US is doomed. Whether or not the outcome is "socialized medicine" or some other form of universal healthcare coverage is beside the point.
Thanks ! I myself was an introvert / challenged in some spheres but I have gone through my share of hiring and demos and I am trying to use those skills (rehearsals) on him to prepare him ... but kids (even 23 year olds) learning from parents does not always happen :)
Why is it that our important institutions are no longer run by serious people? These aren't the same people who won WW2. I don't think the US has ever had a leadership class that was more corrupt, incompetent or arrogant.

Our experiment with government-by-hysterical-outrage-mob continues.
It's also telling that ISP's are fine with charging you per GB data you consume but apparently don't care about multi 10's GBS+ attacks that presumable consume tremendous amounts of bandwidth? I guess it says something about the true cost of data...
Interesting, I hadn't seen it reported on the new version before. I spend more time than I ought to browsing Reddit, and I literally haven't seen a single correctly-working gallery post on any subreddit in months.
Darknet Diaries episode on Kik messenger has some background on Medianet https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/
Notoriously, Apple did the opposite, ostensibly for SOX compliance reasons. I’m pretty sure I paid 12 euro or so at some point to enable 802.11n (or g?) at some point; the claim was that they couldn’t recognise revenue for something that didn’t exist yet, so had to charge separately after the standard was completed.

(Apparently it was n, and also cheaper than I remember : https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/apples-802-11n-accountin...
I did, the front page has exactly as many words as I needed.
Even tools have value; better to be a tool of the state than an obstacle of an adversary.

I'm not American, and I'm rather proud that my elected representatives voted against joining the USA in the Iraq invasion. Americans voted for the Iraq invasion. It was popular[0]. It still remains reasonably popular, with slightly more Americans opposing it than supporting it in 2018[1]. Despite two decades of expenditure, pain and suffering.

0: https://news.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-america...

1: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/19/iraq-war-co...
This is a good comment. #3 is important, as it can build trust if it seems genuine or plausible. If not, you have probably done a lot of damage to potential trust.
Have there been sovereign debt defaults that haven't been economically devastating?
Facebook lies continuously. Just not credible. They need to restore trust with trustworthy action (not PR or Zuck “taking responsibility” for X) and real transparency.
Conform to influence. OBEY.

I was going to upload a nice screencap from a 1988 movie They Live to IMGZ and link it here, but it turns out my trial expired so no link for you.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but DOCSIS over coax isn't full duplex. It's multiplexing send and receive over the same wire. Since download bandwidth is more important they provision their network design to maximize the amount of downstream bandwidth available. They also have an extreme level of oversubscription.
It's worth noting, you can only store up to 30 litres of petrol at home or at non-workplace premises without informing your local Petroleum Enforcement Authority (PEA). https://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/petrol-storage-club-...
Sounds like Marc found some loose change in his pockets.
>It's absolutely fair game to post customer chats/emails that contradict a false and damaging narrative.

Eh, not really. Most half-decent businesses have a privacy policy/TOS that explicitly makes this a no-go, and would be grounds for a lawsuit if a company posted a customer's conversations with said company. It doesn't look like Historious has such a policy, so legally it might be okay, but it's still scummy IMO.

Posting your side of the story is fine, but using communications that are expected to be private usually isn't, and you should be able to correct the story without posting private info (we don't even know if the transcript that Stavros posted is true.. he could have completely made it up for all we know).

With all that said, it made me curious to look at the TOS for IMGZ, and... yikes... https://imgz.org/help/terms/
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He threw it together in 2 days according to what's written on the website.

It literally has no semblance of trying to be a long term long running replacement to imgur. Just a dead simple image upload service that works from the CLI.
I have minions who want it to be every two weeks.
I have minions who are happier if it is weekly.
I have minions who do not want them regularly, but want the option on occasion.

These are all simultaneously fine. When I miss one with a weekly regular, nobody frets. When I miss one with a biweekly, I make sure to reschedule if it makes sense. And I always make time ASAP for someone who doesn't usually want that meeting, when they ask for it.
But how would your customers activate said stolen iPhones?
I feel like treating at face value that Facebook is building things in a "responsible" manner—in the headline, even—is the opposite of journalism.

If we showed our current state to people from 10 years ago, they would be too astonished to believe the a trail of desolation this company in particular has managed in just a short few years. The two biggest threats to population of the united states right now, by my reckoning, are the looming internal threat of civil war including the associated coup attempt, and inability to properly respond to the global pandemic.

I can't see any interpretation in which social media (but epecially facebook) isn't driving both of these. It is more than likely pursuing these on purpose; in each of these cases, a massive section of the population now actively rejects information about the world from almost any other source, and prioritises recruitment. Make no mistake, facebook knows this shift in zeitgeist essentially makes Facebook far more valuable, regardless of the harm and even death it is causing to Americans, let alone people in other (more often forgotten about) nations.
Change your payment to PayPal and then cancel through PP.
Originally they were manually typed.

See: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc20.pdf
15 person standup...speaks volumes
Well, let's put it like this: the wrong reason for a manager to cut a 1:1 to biweekly is because they don't have enough time in their calendar to support their directs. A better reason would be because there isn't enough time between 1:1s to fill out the weekly meetings.

But the manager isn't the person who can easily make that judgement call. IMO, the correct person to judge that is the direct -- they can't just show up at their managers desk and demand a 30 minute meeting when something important shows up, whereas a manager can (and often does!)
Rapid prototyping for Microarchitectural Attacks [pdf]
Canola oil linked to worsened memory and learning ability in Alzheimer's in mice
Was at HackMIT during the same time frame. Can confirm that the only person from RapGenius present (pretty sure he was the founder or at least claimed to be) was as arrogant as can be and spoke only about how amazing his company was.

Pretty much nothing about inspiring the young professionals attending, which is not really in the spirit of Hackathons. I will say that as arrogant as his speech was, his was pretty much the only one I still remember to this day, so I guess it was effective if nothing else.
Stackoverflow only exists because someone was upset with expertsexchange. The business model seemed to work for them.
I specifically called out age in a way that shows it’s unfair, and then one of your example of “fairer than actual driving monitoring” was age?!

And mr Wyoming in your example thinks it’s fair he’s higher for driving more miles than city man? (Assuming we aren’t pricing different based on location bc your comment made that assumption) and how does one verify miles driven? Best way is oem vehicle integration like you object to.

Home zip code is pretty discriminatory despite being allowed and also kinda unreliable.

Accident history is okay but not perfect because fault can be hard to attribute.

Some Speeding Tickets can be gotten out of or erased, and out of state ones are hard to locate

No, all those are very imperfect proxies for driving behavior that are often discriminatory against poor people and minorities. It’s better to monitor ACTUAL driving behavior than penalize minorities because cops target them for tickets. Or poor people who drive okay but don’t have 800 credit so they get charged more. If only there was some way to monitor actual driving instead of these problematic proxies…
It's a fair point that their input on the matter is more important than mine. I like to reiterate that 1-1s are for them, not me. But my feelings are not formed in a vacuum independent of theirs. Plus if it's about the relationship, both sides should have some input and opinion.
Check out the writings of Clarice Lispector, especially The Passion According to G.H.
Hm, I thought I read about that here[1] but I can't find it now, so my brain may have made it up. Nepal is 45 minutes off, though, apparently!

[1]: https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe...
Wow if you’re running your own servers that’s less than $5000
Well good news for you, he pretty much explicitly states all of that in IMGZ's terms of service!

https://imgz.org/help/terms/

>This is my project, and I make no promises at all, even though you're paying. I'm not even promising I'll host your images. I don't believe in stealing your money or compromising your privacy, but even those aren't promises either.
What makes you think it's a scam? Do you mean crypto in general or the oxen project itself?
s/Scrum/Kanban in most of these critical responses and it would still be pretty accurate of the state of most applications of it.

I can't help but feel that people say Kanban because Scrum is so uncool. You can see that from the roasting Scrum's getting here. With these visceral reactions, I can see why people are cautious about saying they do Scrum.

As for Kanban, most teams are no more doing Kanban than they are Scrum. That is, they're probably just following Jira's process. I've asked candidates in interviews what they mean by Kanban (e.g. if mentioned on their CV) and the common answer is, "the process we use in Jira".
> in mice

A helpful clarification.
Republicans themselves have characterized it as a potential disaster and then blamed Democrats for bringing us closer to it.

Also, why would this be a threat at all if it weren't a disastrous outcome?
Well, one (semi-)frequent use case for me would be creating some graphic (e.g. a chart or a UI suggestion) that I would share in some community (e.g. forum). Unlikely anyone looks at them again a decade later, but those embeds will still rot away...
I think a lot of people are just that stupid.
I don't get it (I really don't).
You're actually making a very good case for raising my prices again!
I got so much joy out of the FAQ I nearly paid just as a thank you for putting a smile on my face.
Network infrastructure is just a microcosm of the issues facing small countries. They need protection, access to markets and resources, investment, and access to technology just to name a few.
Not that it would change FB's mess of an algo, but you probably can achieve some results with uBlock's custom filters, which are mostly written in CSS selectors. Find out the classes that shared posts get and slap them in the filters. There are also the ‘:has()’ selector and the search-by-text ‘has-text()’ selector to filter parent nodes by child nodes' content.
Given the 30 year track record, is stunning to think the GOP would suddenly change their opinions on debt & have anything to cry about. That seems like the definition of partisanship, to me: protesting someone doing exactly what you have been doing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/gop-pre...

As for this being economic suicide, I don't know. But I feel like there's been enough malarkey & I'd like to avoid more senseless chaos if we can.
It's far worse than that. You take a toy, they're done for the day. Kids have been known to bring iPods, old phones, etc to sacrifice to teachers. Plus, laptops are mandatory to have in my district (though not mandatory to use), so it takes about five seconds to cheat or get distracted in class.
The current number of service nodes is more than enough to power Session, without the need to rely on a central server for message delivery.

The size of the network will grow with time and using it obviously contributes to its growth.
This is a recent development, and a questionably positive one. They don't get to be morally exonerated by recruiting other MITM like Cloudflare into their cartel.
People who attend that many meetings do so because they lack confidence (perhaps rightly) that they can be productive/creative themselves, and so they hide in group activities. The claim that work-weeks like that are necessary / desirable is one of the biggest lies of our industry.
Somehow I’d always end up doing this most right in the middle of finals.
Luckily I left him at the height of his career, so I always remember him as a legend to my 16-year-old self.
Everything I know about TikTok I've learned from ItsAGundam[1] and ReplicantPhish[2]. I steer clear of it, and don't see the appeal. Not to mention my general aversion to supporting a CCP mass social engineering / information operations platform.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EU_gdYAYDw
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCduKlmN88c
This is interesting.

Perhaps Facebook are partly encouraging the clickbait weirdness to give the continued impression to those that are still using it, that there is something to use.

Over the last 4 years I found Facebook an entirely useless vehicle for customer engagement, instagram was marginally better but after the change that got rid of the time based sorting, it became useless as well.

It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook has become a ghost town, inhabited only by those who have become addicted to the posts that feign engagement i.e. somebody is asking ME a question! I am important, I want to be heard. It might just be a complicated scheme to keep the share price high. It doesn't necessarily have to be something nefarious.
>It's treated as temporary as part of a justification for lower wages. This idea has been explicitly stated by those who oppose a $15 federal minimum wage, arguing that people making current minimum wage, or close to minimum wage, are not actually poor, or won't be in the long-term, because their current wage is temporary (the Cato Institute makes this exact argument and gives the example of "working students").

In particular, note you said that the Cato makes the argument that those making minimum wage are not "actually poor." In fact they make no such claim that there are not poor working a minimum wage job. Yours was a straw man.

>No, the article you linked is meaningless specifically because it tells you absolutely nothing about those individuals (and also because it's purely anecdotal). When discussing wage increases (or hazard pay in this case), we typically care about the outcomes for workers. Not to mention the fact, as I said, that QFC has a vested interest in blaming regulation.

Only if you're oblivious to the fact it tells you exactly what happened to the individuals, which is that they were forced to either lose their job or compete for hours with the established staff at other locations. Were you looking for a theoretical paper? I found a long one with all sorts of mathematical scribble about probalistic black markets and unemployment but I thought it would bore you and the lack of concrete examples wouldn't be terribly interesting nor convincing.

>Do you have any evidence that this occurs at any meaningful scale? This theory, while occasionally toted by conservative/libertarian think tanks, seems to rely on only 1 example (a New York city car wash that was already cutting jobs through automation), which was covered/written by a libertarian think tank.

One example of those who end up engaging in independent contractor / self employment for less than minimum wage is gig workers, who often earn less than minimum wage and yet voluntarily choose to do so anyway [1]. Presumably if jobs numerous enough for the number of people working these gig jobs existed that offered them employment protections, many would choose that over independent contractor status where they are on their own if anything goes wrong.

[1] https://illinoisepi.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/ilepi-pmcr-o...