skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything the user can do (like adding a signing CA), malware can do too.

The only safe policy flags a browser can provide/respect for extensions, are ones the user can’t affect from their own computer—e.g. GPOs / MDM profile attributes set by a domain administrator. (And both Firefox and Chrome do have management-domain-level extension policies!) Everything else is just one “trick the user into an elevation” away, and then they’re unknowingly part of a browser-embedded botnet.
South west me too.
I looked closer into this IOCCC entry, and must say I am very deeply impressed. For those wondering, I would recommend the accompanying article [1] as a starting point.

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html
> As I've said, job retention is an even stronger political topic.
> nobody here wants to lose consent over cutting jobs.

I think there are a lot of misconceptions on workers protection in Italy. While older workers are protected, if they work in companies with more than 15 employees, this is not generally true anymore.

> Lack of innovation is just the consequence of a very conservative work force.

A huge number of people are hired with temporary contracts that are renewed yearly or even more often. Others are hired through body rental agencies, many others are effectively employed "at-will". Unpaid overtime is the norm.
To be clear: this is true for engineers as well as for cleaners. These people can't be expected to produce any innovation.

In the meanwhile, in political debates we pretend that Italian companies do not innovate and can't pay Western European salaries because they can't fire people.
Point 2 is very problematic though, you can write a browser extension that compares the checksum of app.js, but if it changes and it is just minified obfuscated code, how will you know it's safe to execute. You don't.

Same applies of course to chat apps that offer end to end encryption.

Maybe it's safe for messages to be intercepted, but can you trust the application decrypting messages and displaying to do just that?
Here’s a comprehensive overview, including both the full length movies that you saw in that YouTube video and a lot of shorter animations that were reused.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_recycled_animation_in...

Definitely something they did quite a bit more than just a couple of times.

Not saying there’s anything “wrong” with that per se btw. Just found it relevant to the discussion about comparing modern animation to factory output.
My cholesterol was at its lowest the year I ate low carb and did high intensity workouts, and I lost 40 pounds. I was eating bacon and 2-3 eggs every morning.
A process that is preventing gorhill from testing and updating uBlock Origin is a failed process.
I have an add-on that I submitted an update for on June 21, 2021. It’s still “Awaiting Review”.

It’s an add-on that only I use. It’s not published broadly. I basically only needed Mozilla to sign it so I can install it.

Very frustrating. After waiting for a long while, I gave up and switched to the Developer Edition so I can use my own add-on.
Pfft, there's other uses for it. Such as signing into accounts one time on other people's computers.
Documenting is like exercising or eating healthy: doing it an average of once per month isn't worth crap.

It's not a problem with documenting stuff, it's a problem with corporations. Somehow very few companies have technical writers whose main job is keeping their docs healthy.
> One the other hand, this is how science works. We do experiments, get the results of those experiments, and try to make the best use of the data we have.

That is not how science works. A scientific experiment has to have enough statistical power for the claim you are trying to make. If it doesn't, then you don't make the claim.

As you say, it's extremely hard to make good (I would say even decent) nutritional studies. The vast majority of nutritional studies are not even close. Why then do dieticians pretend to be medical doctors and give advice based on these studies? Why do they give advice to entire nations based on scientific-sounding gobbledygook?

When you don't know something, the scientific thing to do is to say you don't know. Physicists don't claim they know how gravity works at the quantum level just because they have some models that sorta kinda work sometimes. A linear model of a non-linear phenomenon is not in any way better than no model - it's obviously worse.
Do you, smart user, use Chrome which is developed by a Good and Responsible company?
Every one of our institutions is rotten to the core, none of it can be fixed as they all have evolved to protect themselves. Budgets are maxed to ensure more funding, education is terrible.

Truly, I'm down to get together with some people, buy an island, and start from scratch.

Putting bandaids on squirting arteries does nothing.
Not to criticize, but to clarify:

> encrypted backups of the e-mails which I store in the cloud, the encryption key never leaves my device.

Doesn't in mean that in (unlikely) case something happens to your device (like harddrive crash), you won't be able to access the backups?
The Most Controversial Tree in the World (2019)
I can recommend the podcast episode between Peter Thiel and Eric Weinstein if you want to find out more about him. Eric works for Peter so I guess he asked him for help in jumpststarting his podcast.
i think "the average user" understands that chrome is not a website. the incognito page warns you that "websites you visit" might still track you, and that's exactly what's happening.

there might be a few people who are confused, but i don't think you can make the argument that google has intentionally misled anybody here. the fact that some people might be confused is not really google's fault. a lot of people are confused about a lot of things every day, nobody needs to be liable for that other than the confused people.
Is this based on the assumption that the NSA’s collect_metadata.sh cronjob is on a longer than 3 month cycle?

As a privacy step i see how this protects you from hackers and thieves (and legitimate search warrants), but not anything snowden warned us about
Don't count on that in practice. Pulling offers seems to be unusual but not unheard of, and from all I've read, when it happens it's rare for the candidate to pursue it legally, and the company may have a sneaky clause in their offer to avoid liability.

In 2020 I had two offers pulled after I had accepted them. That's without me coming back to ask for more or anything else. We were well past that stage: An offer was agreed and accepted.

So far as I can tell, neither pulled offer was caused by pandemic issues. They were both from companies doing ok.

The second time, having been burned earlier in the year, my acceptance was as clear and formal (without being rude) as I could in writing (by email), CC'ing the recruiters to be sure everyone knew.

At the point of acceptance I declined other offers, terminated other interviews in progress and negotiated the end date to a current contract.

That offer was pulled about 2 weeks after the acceptance. A strange ghosting in the interim, when I was expecting a new-employee pack in the post, caused me a creeping feeling of paranoia. It felt off, but I also felt like it must be my imagination, as we had completed and I had an official start date. I was looking forward to starting, and I wanted to feel relaxed about it.

It worked out well for me in the end, as I ended up at a much better place with a much better job, a few months later. But it was stressful both times it happened, and caused significant hardship.

In the time between acceptance and "we're closing the role", the recruiters reassured me the company was just being slow. Then when the offer was pulled, the recruiters told me they didn't understand what had happened, and would talk to the company and "sort it" - and then did nothing and ghosted me. At the time I felt they were good recruiters, "would use again", but obviously I don't think that since they ghosted. I guess they had nothing to say and needed the ongoing business with that company. But an apology, commiseration, or just telling me how unusual it is would have been welcome. These are people who had reached out to me initially, kept in touch regularly throughout the process, and done a great job helping with the application. Nope: Blanked.

I was never given a reason other than "we don't have to give a reason if it's due to change of business circumstances". I suspect high levels of BS.

Something I found really striking: The HR person giving me the bad news told me it was "their standard practice" for an executive to review job offers after they had been accepted.

My view is legally I was entitled to the signup bonus and notice-period pay because we had formed a contract by exchanging offer and acceptance. I suspect I could have sued and won, but that would have been onerous, not an easy win. I worked through several legal theories to formulate a solid claim, but in the end I wasn't up to pursuing it, and needed to focus on the remainder of the contract I still had in the hand.
wish there was a modern day equivalent of medieval patronage (one rich patron you had to convince, rather than pleasing and amassing hundreds of small patrons with online astroturfing and self-aggrandizing spam marketing), I would love to spend my life creating virtual worlds you could travel through as beautiful as those fractals but with interesting things to do and discover inside.

was scratching my artistic itch and self-funding exploring such things but ran out of money and had to go back to the real world:
https://cmadams.itch.io/preydrivr
It's Google's fault for giving out a set of knives when you reach a thousand likes on one comment.
This article is mostly garbage. If anyone can show a connection between Protonmail and In-Q-Tel that would be interesting, but this article ain't it.
> I love mailbox but they do not offer Monero payments (not even Bitcoin) and so are not suitable as a privacy email.

When did the ability to send Monero payments (or perhaps payments in general) become a requirement for privacy email? Or are you specifically talking about a solution you would most prefer?
> Sagan also didn't invest time in baseless claims.

That shows a great degree of ignorance about Carl Sagan. He did this several times - and one of the people he did this with later became his wife.

> Sagan also didn't write in an age of massive disinformation and misinformation.

Sorry, but I was alive when he was, and I had to deal with a similar level of nonsensical beliefs as I do today. The main difference I see is that there is more awareness about this phenomenon today.

> it's important to do something about it, which includes pointing it out when it's happening.

Sorry, but this is mere post hoc justification for your behavior. I would recommend you read the book "The Righteous Mind" which goes into the psychology behind it.
I have noticed that people commonly referred to as SJW often consider everyone who is not them to be alt-right.

And yes, people sharing social justice values do obsess over it and it shows.

Anecdotal example: random article brought to me by sliding android home screen to the left about new Foundation series spent more than half of the volume addressing the diversity of the cast and lamenting that on-screen sex was showing only heterosexuals.

This can be said about almost any article about any piece of media directed to me by Google, from which I do conclude that SJWs, indeed, control the media.

(I have no personal experience with the US universities, so I can't say anything about them being controlled by the SJWs)
>Actually, Bayes statistics works great in poorly defined problem spaces where we can update our priors as new information becomes available. Just like in the issue under discussion.

Can you give me a few comparable scenarios where it worked great?
Bravo. Very cool leveraging services this way, I like your idea of architecting to optimize free tier svcs.
gorhill is unable to test and update uBlock Origin:

> This is unfortunate. Development of uBO for Firefox is completely stalled as a result -- the purpose of dev builds is to test code changes before publishing a stable release. It used to take less than five minutes to obtain a signed version of uBO. There are changes in 1.38.0 which the filter list authors are awaiting and this is also stalling proper filter list maintenance.

https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/pv15k2/_/he7qm5u/?cont...
they do get enough research, unfortunately they are some of the most complex physical systems and we still haven’t figured out why exactly they superconduct (i used to work on this).
You’re both right, some of the time.

There are two types of approaches to working out a problem. One is to get everyone in a meeting and talk it over until a solution is reached. The other is for a single person to carefully think through the problem and possible solutions, write down a solution, and pass it around for (usually asynchronous) comments.

People who think meetings are really useful thrive in the first approach. The more meetings they have the faster they can get things done. People who prefer the solitary focused approach tend to see meetings as obstructions to progress, because they prevent them from actually solving problems by pretending to solve the problem while not making headway.

Which approach is right is highly contextual, and you can’t really argue it either way without falling back on personal preferences.
I can understand that takeaway, but I think he's pointing out something more interesting:

There are side effects of the way that we conduct society today that can become huge problems when mixed with social media.

Solutions span the range from "prevent the mixing", "adjust society's side effects", to "eliminate social media" (with a reasonable or pragmatic option likely somewhere in-between).
Yeah, the plaintiffs really need to lose this case. "It doesn't do what I imagined it did based on my uneducated misinterpretation of a brand name and refusal to read what the product clearly states every time I use it" is such a horrible basis for potential litigation that it boggles the mind it was allowed to proceed. Next up they'll be suing AstroGlide because applying the lube doesn't turn them into roller-skating cosmonauts.
Azithromycin and Roxithromycin Derivtives as Senolytic Drugs
>The article starts with asserting multiple times that reasoning is a uniquely human trait, yet offers no evidence at the point of that claim.

Especialy when lack of reasoning is far too common and has never been completely overcome.

Which extreme of behavior might ultimately guide the future of humanity itself, or be responsible for the state of affairs so far?

Or which might be a foundation for building a society to begin with, and the other for tearing down?

That could be like people saying it's human nature when something barbaric (re)occurs.

When it's actually vestigial inhuman nature rearing it's ugly head, because when you think in terms of understood humanity, that's not it.
Can you please name a faster 4 door time? Still haven't seen one... and i believe you may have misread the times.

and my goalposts haven't move... my original comment said fastest 4 door time.
Thanks, I was looking for someone pointing out 1). I thought I miss something.
I don't hold Mozilla and Google to the same standards.

I used Firefox because Mozilla aligned with my sense of morals. For that reason only. Now that they don't I see no reason to keep using an inferior product.
I disagree this is the kindest earth, it's just hidden better now.

We kill/harm each other at record rates.

We are sinking into the muck, using wet naps to clean our eyes to pretend we are making things better.
I'm curious - for those who care about private email services - what do you do about the recipient? Or is the idea to only email those also using things like ProtonMail?
a previous book, Ryan Holaday’s “Conspiracy”, is also a really fascinating book about Peter Thiel and his take down of Gawker (a brilliantly executed multiyear plan).
"Tesla Autopilot"
I'm currently in the midst of this with a 5 month old. It helps to read your affirmation! I manage to sneak in about 20 mins of reading a day if I'm lucky right now.
No... the forces required to change a car's direction are friction forces on the tires reaching their limits.... your space calculations dont really mean much unless you are trying to build a rocketship.
you don't have to be a synced, full node to have a wallet that you alone have full control over

So to answer your question, yes I actually own the wallet and no it didn't take more than a minute at most for many different coins
There's a particular type of "login/signup to this site with your google account" popup that only happens in chrome. From the comment posted, that appeared to be what they meant.
Reading through the article and the comments here, the facts aren't clear to me. Does Google itself track the behavior of its users in incognito mode? Some comments here allege that it does while others suggest this complaint is overblown.
>Have you forgotten the original Tesla Roadster?

Not mass market, which is the main (only?) charm of the Miata I think.

They're all filled with road-hugging weight in any case. A Triumph Spitfire is 1000 lbs lighter. That's the equivalent of three Americans.
My guess:

Some bug caused a whole lot of extensions which normally need no manual review to now need a manual review overloading the manual review team.

And even through the bug has been fixed for some reason or another all the "fallout" still needs to be processed manually.

Maybe?
Malware can just replace or patch the Firefox binary if it wanted to, so enforcing add-on signing wouldn't protect against this.
Not OP , but I have seen type of behaviour , ISPs act like corporate firewalls and block everything by default just allow http on 80 and 443 in their consumer plan and try and sell enterprise/higher plans for literally anything else .

Not just that once a ISP was using a single CG-NATed IP for a ton of users, that the IP was constantly getting rate limited with captcha everywhere including Google Search and Cloudflare. They suggested I buy a plan with dedicated static IP instead of rotating a few more in their routers.
iPhone 13 Pro display refresh rates
Occams razor states "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity"

It doesn't seem neccesary for a chinese lab to be involved, and the only evidence so far (afaik) is that it exists and was studying something similar. Meanwhile there exists (albeit definitely not ironclad) evidence that china wasn't involved.

If there is no evidence beyond circumstantial evidence that china had a lab near by, and there is a pretty much equally reasonable explanation that the event happened by chance, than i think occam's razor favours the one with less entities involved.

I'm not saying that china isn't involved. I'm saying that we basically have no idea and the argument that china did it is no more strong than the alternative. On the balance i find the natural explanation more compelling, but ultimately we have no idea. I also think there may be some cognitive biases going on - covid 19 has hurt, and we want scapegoat to blame. If it was natural, than we have only ourselves to blame for being underprepared. If china did it, we convinently have someone to hate.
France lost lots of construction/industrial knowledge wrt nuclear plants. It's not very surprising that new models built by inexperienced companies end up being over budget and schedule.

I wouldn't surprised for Hinkley point C to also have such issues. What I would like to know is whether the amount of issues is significantly reduced compared to Flamanville and Olkiluoto. That would be a good indication about whether the design is faulty, or whether it's the industry having teething issues.
Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to suggest Intel is ahead, I was more suggesting that chips built on Intel 7 nm and TSMC 7 nm were not really directly comparable on the technology side. Of course for an end user it doesn’t really matter what causes the performance, but we were talking more about comparing the architectures.
Ask HN: What Are the Masterworks of Software?
https://twitter.com/adamthesherwood/status/1401308468263325698:

A fundamental component of classical art training was copying works by masters.

What are the masterworks of software engineering?
I can't weigh in on the rest of your experience but I think the blame for the time synchronization issue lies squarely at your ISP's feet. Requesting that the time be properly synchronized to digitally sign something doesn't seem to be an absurd requirement to me. Blocking NTP on the other hand is quite insane IMO.

If I were in your situation and couldn't change ISP I'd probably buy a cheap GPS USB dongle just to have proper time sync on my network.
> Leaked documents at Wikileaks show that the CIA requires emails to be stored as an EML filetype. There are several ways to store emails, and Protonmail has selected the format that the CIA requires.

Wait until they find out about other standard file formats; the possibilities for collusion are endless! The ACLU is colluding with the FBI, because both use PDF!
Oh, nice! Missed that. Thanks.
I'm wrong?

I said "Weight in corners hurts you in terms of acceleration out and by the turning force required to change the momentum direction."

You are twisting my words to say that i'm arguing weight is a benefit, which is an easier argument for you to attack....

My point is that a low center of gravity and higher downforces are positive influences on a car.

The increased weight can be OVERCOME in race duration by using this downforce and by the exceptional performance of motors over engines.

Oh look... I made my point without resorting to a reddit attack on your character.
"We change the way we track you"-mode?
I'd -really- like to know the answer to this.

When he joined Intel, he publicly implied it was where he belonged and his 'last job.'

Not long after, he left, for personal reasons. A lot of people speculated it was health related, for some reason. Then, he just goes elsewhere, making it clear he just didn't like Intel.

Part of me wonders if this had some hand in the CEO getting sacked. If your business is so toxic Keller won't touch it, that's a really bad sign.