skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I said, "You got that right" I was not just being snarky. I really do think you got it right, and that it doesn't make sense to continue this discussion. The reason I think this is not because I'm angry at you. I have productive exchanges with people that I'm angry with all the time. The reason I think that it doesn't make sense is because I think your thought processes are so deeply and fundamentally broken that it would take vastly more time and effort to fix them than I'm willing to put into this.

Case in point: the very first sentence you wrote to me was:

"This is such a patriarchal/capitalist/libertarian/white supremacist take."

Either you intended this to be pejorative or you did not. If you did not, then you need some basic remedial training in the use of the English language and the subtleties of human communication, and if you did then it is disingenuous of you to get on your high horse and mainsplain to me why I should not be angry.

Another example: yes, it is true that "white supremacy" has two definitions. But you did not use the phrase "white supremacy", you used the phrase "white supremacist", which has only one definition [1]: a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.

Even if I give you the benefit of the doubt and infer a different meaning of "white supremacist" based on the second definition of "white supremacy" that merely renders your statement non-sensical (rather than mistaken and offensive). What could it possibly mean for a "take" to be "white supremacist" on the second definition? Yes, there are social, economic, and political systems that collectively enable white people to maintain power over people of other races. That is just a fact. That I acknowledge this fact does not mean that I'm happy about it or that I endorse it or that I don't think something should be done about it. You might as well have said "This is such a Newtonian/thermodynamic/Darwinian/round-earth take" for all that either statement could contribute to a constructive discussion. The quality of your argument is on par with flat-earthers and lunar-landing denialists. (Actually, yours is worse, because at least with the flat-earthers and LLDs I don't have to wonder what their thesis is.)

One final word of advice: I have no idea what you are hoping to accomplish here, but I suggest you try to achieve clarity on that, because whatever your goal is I'm pretty sure you are not achieving it.

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[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20supremaci...
They're saying they don't trust that the constants defining the curve were chosen non-maliciously. The NSA has, in the past, standardized protocols that contained intentional backdoors embedded into the constants used in the definition [1]. Because of things like that, it's desirable for cryptographic protocols to use constants chosen in some way that makes backdooring intractable [2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing-up-my-sleeve_number
not encouraging delusions of mentally ill is not about “opposing their existence”, these people need help.

“Gender Dysphoria” is still considered a psychiatric disorder and (arguably) should be treated as such.

I think Chappelle’ jokes oppose the “celebration” of mental illness that somehow became the new normal recently, that one is not allowed to speak against.
I’ve never heard a cryptographer use “glow-in-the-dark” when talking about potentially fishy schemes.

Source: am cryptographer
That’s not what the video says. It says (and quotes the relevant standard) that they’re optional, and used for manufacturing purposes.
Had the same thought when Rent the Runway's IPO was on the front page. They're not even a tech company.
no, keccak is keccak, sha3 is keccak with NIST's mystery padding added in.
PHP & Perl come to mind. You write your program, scp it and it's dependencies to your www/cgi-bin folder on your server, and then navigate to the URL.
Don't think it's quite that bad. Just a scene from one of the games, but you can't tell what the game is.
Hours, or years ^^ ?
Also worth mentioning that MCI, an AT&T competitor and thorn in their side, also had a microwave relay network. The M in MCI is for microwave. There's some great info on MCI here:

https://telephoneworld.org/long-distance-companies/the-histo...

For those not familiar MCI was a real innovator and an important part of internet history. Vincent Cerf, an internet giant, worked for MCI[1]. Sadly MCI was relegated to the dustbin of history as a result of the WorldCom scandal[2]. They are sadly just a part of Verizon Business today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldCom_scandal
How we deal with technical incidents
Here's a 1984 vintage PDF for passive microwave repeater engineering:

https://az276019.vo.msecnd.net/valmontstaging/vsna-resources...

For the most part these are almost obsolete, the typical data link that many of them carried was one DS3, or at most, three DS3... The path loss is extreme. Usual setup was to go from a small town central office (CO), 3-5 km up to a nearby mountain, then bounce it off there, and 25-30 km to another nearby mountain. With big old power hungry PTP microwave gear that occupied a full 42U rack, took 1200W of power, and carried a whole lot of DS0.

Nowadays a modern PTP microwave radio that can carry 1400Mbps full duplex in the 6 or 11 GHz bands is as little as 35W of power, so many hilltop tower sites either have built electrical grid connections, off grid solar, or whatever.

Building some of those passive repeater billboards in places with no road access was very costly. Big helicopter bills and very labor intensive.

You can still see a number of them on hillsides in eastern Oregon.
When the first people where trying to invent the airplane, they where not deterred by pessimists saying “why bother? There ain’t any airports around anyway”
I noticed a media disk drive grinding away the other day, nothing made sense to be causing it. Turns out Chrome now scans all your drives and sends executables back to Google by default or something (software_reporter_tool.exe), even if you are a software developer in competition with them (practically all software developers since Google are essentially all-encompassing at this point).

Is it intuitive to anyone that a third party web browser would be doing this by default?
Thanks for understanding
If Hollywood is to be believed, then about 50% of those young men will be gay and not so unhappy about their situation...
Let's assume the author wrote the biggest fluff piece about Facebook imaginable. how much do you think it would affect the stock? a penny? Focusing on conflict of interest is just another lifehack to dismiss someone's argument without having to actually argue against its merits.
Perhaps I was overly categorical. Certainly satellites could be used for telephone calls, but my impression is that this was never a dominant use, except maybe for overseas calling (given the expense of undersea telephone cables).

e.g. I found this government report report from 1983 stating that "microwave is the chief means of transmitting long-distance telephone calls..." in the U.S., this is well after the advent of satellites: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Five_year_plan/NbGS1A...
I wonder if anyone ported it to a TI calculator yet.
Unless there's a way to make a case for it to add shareholder value, I'd wager that the American Bumblebee is fucked.
I'm glad you found a positive outcome
When the newspaper says "unable to buy essential food items", they just mean that there was some items out of stock, not that there was no food in the shop.

If there's no beef today, you can still buy something else.
PTP microwave is very much in use by many carriers, it's absolutely essential for a lot of modern cellular network builds. But the actual microwave horn antennas in the 6 GHz band, that typified the inter-city AT&T long lines network, are 98% decommed in place these days. You would be very hard pressed to find a site that still has the waveguide, waveguide pressurization system, and a live FCC part 101 licensed 6 GHz radio running on a horn-to-horn path.
To clarify: first engineer.
This was a disappointingly shallow rah-rah piece by someone who sells remote working supplies. No real lessons here.
Surely I can postpone my next commit to check this out.. spare a link?
From what I know as an outsider:

Tesla, TSMC, Netflix, Adobe, Toyota.
The Telus CO downtown at Robson and Seymour used to have a large tower on the roof with 6GHz horns, linked to that site, and towards the site on Bowen Island which still has horns. Bowen Island was a link to the sunshine coast, across to Nanaimo, and many other places.

There is also a big site out in the fraser valley on a hilltop that was part of the long lines network with shots going east towards Hope (trans canada microwave) and down into Whatco County.
Yes. There is a huge difference between normal population and party or military members. The elites have access to education.
Hypothesis: the amount of new "live" internet is the same as it has been for decades, but the amount of fake internet generated has grown exponentially, making the percentage of fake internet ever-higher. Live internet is (by definition) much more labor-intensive than fake internet, so the ever-accelerating pace of computing makes this virtually guaranteed, even without advances in software for generating fake internet (which we certainly have also had).

Not sure if I believe this hypothesis yet, just putting it out there.
A decentralized messenger without blockchain
Since World War 2, China has invaded Tibet, Korea, Vietnam, and India (twice). The US has invaded Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq (twice), and Afghanistan in that same timeframe.

While China has been less militarily aggressive than the US in recent history, that should not be understood as not militarily aggressive at all. Especially as three of the US invasions were in direct response to others' aggression and not naked aggression, as all of China's invasions have been.
None.

Personal emails and/or video/phone calls (VOIP if necessary).
AT&T sold most of them off in the early 2000s. American Tower owns a lot of them. Some others went to individual private owners. There's a company in western MT that owns about five of the mountain top sites for instance. Very few of the rural/suburban sites are still owned by AT&T. The sites where AT&T still happens to be the ILEC in an area may have horns on a central office roof just because they're very expensive and a huge hassle to decommission.
I heard of (and even understood) Roko's Basilisk and I don't feel the least bit in danger.

You need some pretty niche AI / futurology beliefs to even have a chance of considering it dangerous. For most people it's no more convincing than Pascal's Wager.
This kind of amoral sexual behavior among charismatic celebrities is commonplace.
You mean raised? If they remove it then it means everbody has to pay it
Microsoft: dishonest by default™
No, but I am insanely brilliant. Ha!
The 'A' is short for Juche
Big discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28791642
I am pretty sure that WSL was implemented to avoid the gradual loss of users, most of them being developers, to Linux. There is very little reason for existing Linux users to adopt Windows due to WSL.
https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert is useful for re-flashing some widely available smartplugs without opening them up. Then you can use MQTT or HTTP.

Unfortunately some newer plugs are incompatible with the hack (different chipset - https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert/issues/484 ).
Feels like there should be some good open source tools by now to plot optimal orbital paths and speed and slowing down.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwhlnjc_XIsuAquW0SIgUQ/vid...

I suddenly remembered all those Norko tourists I seen in Vladivostok. These were very shy ones https://ibb.co/6BvNdFw . There used to be years when the city was squirming with them, then they suddenly all disappeared almost overnight.

Funny moments I remember. Two Korean tourists stood in line for an icecream stall, started chitchat. Then one in better dress turns to another, suddenly suspicious, sees Kim's pin on another guy's tshirt, and then he freezes, turning pale, and speechless.
Do you have any references for these statements? I have never even heard that things were apparently so dire in the 60s.

Does your sentiment that we apparently couldn’t feed ourselves take into account population growth? What if the population had simply not grown as it did?

My current understanding is that the U.S. overproduces what it needs, exports the excess at dirt cheap prices, killing off developing countries’ farmer livelihoods. So in the U.S., there’s multiple birds killed with one stone.
Instagram certainly has an ethical obligation to act on this and improve the situation.

At the time that I left Instagram in early 2020, there were more people working on improving wellbeing, particularly for teens, than working on trying to improve engagement. I wasn't specifically tasked to work on well-being, but like all engineers working on recommendations I was required to work with wellbeing and completely address all well-being concerns before shipping anything.
More details: https://stockoptioncounsel.com/blog/standards-ownership-cant...
Debate Flowing [pdf]
Yeah this is one of my big frustrations with many address systems.

Street address
Apartment number

Is an (i think) and American convention. Here in the UK you would have

Flat Number, Building Name
Street Name (or possibly Street Number Street Name)

Having addresses printed with the lines in the opposite order looks wrong to me. Additionally the American convention seems to assume all addresses are pretty simple, with there being an XOR relationship between street number and building name.
I think that people should ask whatever they want to ask. If the interviewer doesn't like it, then it's not a good fit.

For example, I would never agree to an interview if I don't know the pay range. I'm not going to sit through 5 interviews to make $30,000-ish when I am expecting $90,000-ish.

I don't want to go to an interview if the company has less than gold level insurance.

No way am I going to wait until the last interview to broach the topic, I don't care what is standard.

If I apply to a job, I call up the department and say that I am considering applying for the job, but I want to know about x,y, and z first, because I don't want to waste either of our time.

If they push back and say that we don't give out that information, then I just say, "I understand. I also don't give away my time, in order to find out after 15 hours of interviewing for your company that you want to pay $40K and I expect $80K. All the travel time, parking, preparation - why do it if there is a complete mismatch of the most basic things? Maybe you can bring this up to management, that your policies are not realistic. Good luck, hope you find a candidate." And then just hang up.

Now, I know this wouldn't work in a huge Fortune 1000 company. I work in small- and mid-sized companies where pretty much I can reach decision makers. I don't know what I'd do in a large enterprise company. I guess that is why I would never apply to one in the first place.
Any example sites? Having a hard time seeing how everything comes together.
Perhaps you are looking for script / scriptreplay ?

There are others..
I think Roko's Basilisk is secretly a warning against over-reliance on rationalization.
I think of the Shazam app. When I first encountered it, I thought "must be using Fourier Analysis". Of course, that turned out to be true.

But if I'd never gone to college, I would not know that FA existed, or if I did, I wouldn't know what it was good for. I'd probably invent some sort of ad-hoc ineffective algorithm for it. I've certainly seen a lot of ad-hoc kludge algorithms from smart people who simply didn't know there were excellent mathematical methods to solve it.
OP’s replies to comments were dead but did not appear to violate site guidelines, so I vouched for them to further the conversation and help them find the answers they’re looking for.
I don't understand why they're not fining the developers/manufacturers/sellers of products that harm the insects. Isn't it easiest to stop this at the source? How likely is it that individual farmers will make their own? I guess there's such thing as moonshine but I don't know how similar this case is...

Regardless, this seems like another instance of putting the responsibility on consumers/individuals, and not on companies that introduce these products with no regard to the potential downstream side effects. Guess it maybe ties into to "regulation" and "individual rights", like how instead of regulating fast food companies, it's been decided that it's the consumer's choice whether to eat fast food. I'm getting off on tangents that maybe aren't related, and I'd be interested to hear other perspectives.
Why do people worry about deficits?
I don't necessarily think this author is wrong. But I think the 4chan terminology is a little bit tryhard.
If he was careful, probably he would have used Tor for his searches.

But I think that NSA-level organization knows who Satoshi is. It's hard to imagine how one would be able to work on such a project, without any background that could be tracked.
agreed. I've been using this and similar tools for several years and the cognitive load for every single setting is infuriating. especially given the very obvious underlying reason everyone is launching this tool.
It's tracking. All tracking should be blocked on principle. I don't want them to have any data about me at all. Failing that, I want them to have as little data as possible. And I want whatever little data they have to be useless to them.

> I generally assume that whatever website I am on would have a good sense of what I am up to just based on server side logs.

True. We can't stop the site from logging HTTP requests.

Maybe we can find a way to poison that data set though. What if we had a custom reddit client that generated random traffic to random subreddits in the background? Maybe that would pollute their logs enough that they can no longer build an accurate profile out of it.

> if I block 1p logging they might not have a down to the second understanding of how long I am impressing on something

Good. I don't want them to know. They should remain in perpetual uncertainty about whether their mindhacking methods are working.
I use Firefox Mobile and have to turn on "Desktop site" to browse Reddit. Is there a way to view the mobile Reddit site?
It will probably lead to inflation, however, a careful central bank should be able to keep it in check. In our modern economies having too little inflation is often a bigger problem than having too much. If there is too much inflation then there are lots of growth opportunities that are untapped. The problem that a lot of developing nations face is that they are unable to do the necessary investments on their own that let them grow over the long term so inflation just stays high forever.
Additionally, it seems the production of industrial ammonia is a major CO2 emitter.

https://cen.acs.org/environment/green-chemistry/Industrial-a...
Honestly, I think you’ve misunderstood the previous post.
And since when do teens care about the disapproval of adults?

This is kind of argument by stereotype. Of course teens are impact by media.
I'd need to double check, but I was under the impression that it affects a validation check, but that it didn't actually prevent the input of these characters.
Were you able to watch Waldek's talk that this links to? It's only 20min so not that long but in it he shows doing precisely this by booting 1800 instances a second.
Of the four, I've only ever heard of SeaMonkey before. I'll definitely check them out though.
Seems like its most likely Hal Finney
> Hospitals have turned to portable air filters as an attractive solution when their isolation facilities are full.

Woah! I knew that isolation rooms where full-on filtered and with positive pressure. But I genuinely believed that all hospital HVAC units and major circulation ducts had HEPA filter stages.

Is this true? Is it not mandatory for hospitals to add these filtering stages on all HVAC units or circulation ducts?

Do they really just keep rotating the same contaminated air throughout the whole hospital?
Sadly, I'd flunk that test. Although I was taught ME, and understood them, and still remember what they are and do, I don't recall the exact form of them anymore.

But if I did need them, I know enough to know just were to look to refresh my memory :-)
Didn't EU just drop a ruling regarding decompilation?
Wow. I have lived, worked and paid taxes in Europe, the US and Australia. And the US ranks 3rd on my list of places where I would choose to live. I turned down a highly paid job in California and instead moved to Australia. They wanted to pay for my relocation, green card, everything. But I still said no. Best decision ever. Also, a friend of mine recently regretted moving to the US and happily returned to Australia. If Europe is such a terrible place for you to live why haven’t you moved to the US?
> Moving to an another country isn't for everyone. If you move to a richer country, foreigners are usually automatically treated differently.

I'm sorry this was your experience. It sounds however like a very broad generalization. It is not my experience at all for me and other friends that have moved to richer and/or more developed countries.
I'm not really onboard with everything you say, but:

> Male virginity is toxic (incel)

This is the one that gets to me the most.

Being involutary celibate, or even just having a dry run for a long time, is kind of like hell for a man. I'm not sure if women are capable of just appreciating how painful it is (judging by comments I read on line, they think it's a joke). Even men who have regular sex don't understand it, or quickly forget what it was like.

> Male feminity is a weakness (soy boy), and a Male's duty is to protect females.

These are not bad things. Male's duty is to protect. Not females as a class: the females and children in your family (wife, sister, mother).

In fact, this is the thing that gives meaning to your life. If you're not capable of protecting your family, what are you good for? I'm not saying this as an attack. I'm saying that this is the internal voice in every man's head.
I'm slowly, after a few "painful" experiences on either end of the pendulum, coming to see the wisdom in that position.

Would you mind sharing how you, currently, find programming work at around 20hrs/wk?
Germany at least has a parallel system of industrial apprenticeships and guilds which is a global success story.
glancing over /r/lebanon, looks like many people learned about it from international news sites, as having no power (and been hooked up to local generator) is somewhat a default state
Religious exemption is not widely supported. Many locations do not have religious exemption. And supporting documentation of covid antibodies is creating a massive moral hazard for anti-vaxxers.

Delta is infectious enough that we must assume that every unvaccinated person will get it. Telling people that they will be able to rejoin society after they're vaccinated or they get covid will result in people avoiding vaccination, which means saturating ICUs as those people get covid by happenstance or by deliberate action.

There are people awaiting critical surgeries who cannot get it because of the lack of ICU space.

Triage is a crisis right now in many infected regions
Remember, if R is greater than one, and you can expect to get covid as an unvaccinated person, then that means that by staying unvaccinated you are de facto planning on giving somebody covid.
Free crack is a basic human right.
It costs almost nothing to get reviews planted in upwork. Have a confederate (or your alter-ego) post a project, pay you, and leave a glowing review. You’re out only upwork’s commission.