skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not arguing Facebook's goodness or evilness.

> It's the height of irony that a company that profits from selling information about you would ever try to defend itself with a right to privacy.

Everyone deserves a robust defense - even the guilty. It is not for their justice - it is to protect the integrity of the system.

Everyone also deserves the right to privacy because bad actors (competitors, disgruntled employees, political activists, etc...) are always happy to twist facts leaked to make a biased case. This happens all the time - there is no shortage of talking heads on spin alley.

You're right in that FB should have probably never tried to be more transparent - and doing so was naive and destined for failure. In the court of public opinion / social media (and eventually probably ACTUAL court someday), you simply cannot successfully voice your innocence. Even apologizing when you're wrong makes things worse.

My advice to clients is always...

#1. Shut up. Do not make public statements. Do not engage anyone publicly. Anything you say can and will be used against you - both in and out of court.

#2. See point above.

In my opinion, the correct strategy for a social media company these days is to be as ethical as possible, and to say as little as possible publicly about ethics or internal policies.
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nobody cares about individuals pirating software or subscriptions
Academic freedom in British universities is under threat
> no car, zero commute, no flight, etc

If you get a heart attack, where do you think the medical supplies come from?

By air from China!

Even if you personally manage to abstain from taking planes, you consume products and services by people who fly and drive cars.
Not one mention of the Suez incident, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction
Container shipments are up like 20% from pre covid levels. It isn’t that there is a shortage so much as people haven’t adapted to the increased demand for goods.
What you can do is expect to be in an environment where everyone is vaccinated to give you the best possible safety.

Of course there is always a risk, virtually nothing in this world is a guarantee, that doesn't mean all risks are equal. The vaccine works, but it isn't 100%. Acting like that means we shouldn't bother is weird.
'80s in Poland. Math professor at Warsaw university finds out he would earn more money if he worked in a shipyard, so he quits his job and find a job in the docks. And indeed he earns more money.

One day he overhears that there is an evening school and every worker who will attend will receive 10% bonus, so he signs up for it. First day in this evening school, very first class is math. But they have such a trivial topics that professor became bored and reads newspaper under the table. Teacher notices it and call him up to calculate the area of a circle.

Professor is so surprised that he suddenly can't remember the formula, so he converts it in his head to polar coordinates and uses integral to calculate the area, and then write the formula on the table:

S = -PI * r * r

Then he scratches his head and start thinking where the minus came from when suddenly someone shouts from the back row: "flip the interval of integration, colleague!".
Exactly... for them to "benefit", they would have to:

Apply for jobs at the other companies with better plans, proceed with interviews, offers and then finally accept one and quit their job at their current employer... To reap the rewards of their malicious hacking...
Stocks were never open source code. Anyone can research a crypto, online. We don't need a walled garden for them.
Hmmm, not sure I agree. They might just think this is how it is (in “their” industry). Like the elementary school teacher who thinks math is hard.

Often those devs have subpar development environments too and don't know to look for better or does not have the skills/time to up level themselves.
Gitlab is both actually
> your dollar bill?

Therein lies the problem: using dollars to conduct business with other economic entities.

If you can figure out way to escape that particular snare (and cryptos are such a hatch), the paradigm isn't the same anymore.
> In real life, if you do it under false pretenses, you are.

Sure, but how is that relevant? What material false representation was made which was relied on in deciding to provide the data?
this is a poor analogy because the IT department isn't doing something illegal, they are just doing something poorly, the proper analogy would be if you found out the mayor routinely left the special stamp that you can use to get anyone released from jail laying on the park bench he eats lunch at - do you then go around telling people hey the mayor does this or do you say hey mayor please stop taking that stamp with you to lunch because you always forget it at the park bench and someday somebody is going to use it to do bad stuff!

OR let us reverse the analogy

You find out Facebook is running an international slave trade by using their data to find vulnerable teenage girls sending them invites and then kidnapping them.
Do you A) approach Facebook and try to get them to stop their practice B) alert everyone immediately.

The answer is you alert everyone immediately because Facebook in this example is doing corrupt and illegal things. There is a difference in how you should react concerning security problems that others can take advantage of and willfully committing illegal and corrupt acts.
Well, yes. The current gen AR tech in the IPhone is direct enabler of AR once they get the glasses out (which have been rumored for years).
Units of measure is also very cool!
Why? Rich people don't want to shop during a burglary, and poor people who don't even have a credit card don't have influence.
I honestly don't know, my instinct is that in terms of danger to others (which was the topic at hand) it probably is, but either way, that wasn't really relevant to my point.
Right, my point isn't that most NFTs today grants you rights/ownership, just that it's not unfeasible for that to be a thing.
This is as old as the country itself, the constitution is stronger than these thugs.
That's just not how lenses work, fundamentally. Bokeh is determined by two things, and two things only - the diameter of the aperture and the distance to the object. That's it.

Also yes, the wide angle of the iPhone 13 is much smaller. Just stop down even further then.

Cheap macro lenses in 2021 are typically around 24mm. I'm talking about the Mitakons and the Laowas of the world.

Focus stacking is needed when you're trying to take very high detail pictures with 60, 70, 90mm lenses on high resolution sensors. You don't need anywhere near as much to take an image with the same magnification as a 13mm equiv. 2cm away.
Give it 10 years. A lot today is revolving around reactive, dataflows and dependency graphs .. it will probably diffuse everywhere.
> europeans started to like big cars too

I saw a documentary on this once where they interviewed some psych guy who was advising the car industry. He said that it took him some time to convince them to make everything ridiculously big. Not just the car, but the lights etc. It was based on his theory that when we first see something we evaluate it using the bit of our brain that has been there since we were lizards. And that bit is impressed by size. His theory was that it overrides everything. Most people will pick the bigger thing. He was right.
It depends on the country and the financial institution. I'm a permanent resident of another country and had no problem opening an account there(on vacation there the first time no less). Another user here reports a very easy experience opening an account with an institution in the Netherlands.
I can't disagree more. Crypto is a new market that should have a different set of rules, based on new technology, and what is happening now, not in 1933.

> Now it should be possible to invest in highly speculative, risky things - sure - that should be up to you

This is literally all I'm asking.
American components, Russian components, all made in Taiwan!
Thanks! We modeled collision boundaries with high resolution, and tried to use physically appropriate material settings. But this had to run on relatively slow machines, so the physics model itself was pretty basic. Except for the flippers. I really wanted them to feel like physical flippers - predictable, controllable, and without computational problems that let the ball pass through them sometimes. :( I put lots of time into the flippers, and had some trouble balancing those requirements with the available CPU - it wouldn't do to have the game slow down to figure out how the ball should move when you hit the flippers.
>which was more of an outlier than a pattern

If you are looking to invest in patterns what makes you special?

I thought the idea was to look for outliers.
But that's already factored into projected population growth. We still end up with a 1-2+ billion more people for the next century or so before the replacement rate is negative.
I don't believe everyone has the same ability. What I do believe is that performance is explainable and there's a practical upper limit to raw output.

I made a side project that I spent 1-2years building on and off and had people saying "wow I could never build that". That's bullshit. If they were of similar intelligence and put in a similar amount of time and effort I'm sure they'd be able to replicate what I did.

The luxury of being able to spend ample amounts of time on a project or idea is also massively overlooked.
Ask HN: What do you do socially that you learned from a book?
eg. Did you start acting differently after you read How to Win Friends & Influence People?
The jury is still out on natural immunity to COVID and how well it protects individuals. There’s lots of variability (same with vaccine immunity). The data are showing that if you had COVID and also got the vaccine you have robust protection. As to point two, the mandates aren’t about not spreading it, it’s about reducing severity and death. I guess because vaccinated or unvaccinated can spread it we throw up our arms? The mandates are that it makes us all safer (including mostly yourself). As to point three medical exemptions exist so not sure what you are going on about especially when you are talking about a very small number of adverse reactions.
Crypto falls under regulation when regulators believe it falls within the scope of their regulatory obligations. Whether the code is open source is immaterial.

This is the result of the "code is law" gang running into the "law is law" gang.
The US seems to be in 18th place worldwide along with France, Malta, Czech Republic, Greece, Poland, Hungary, United Kingdom, Canada.
Based on https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
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It's really, really tough to do that for news.

Journalism has a very short shelf life, and can be costly to produce. Remember, what you read as a consumer is only the end product, there were a lot of calls, interviews, etc -- and those can be costly. You could have a reporter sitting at a city council meeting, for example, for four hours - -and have nothing of value to publish. Or a ton. You don't know.

Beyond that, corporate contributors end up looking more like NPR than open source -- while a company might be based entirely around a DLang codebase, that doesnt really happen with news. So there are underwriters, but it looks more like either donations or advertisements.
I'm sure any further unauthorized access from random VPN IPs would have also been blamed on OP, unfortunately. "He found this out then an hour later random IPs exploited it. He must have initiated those VPNs".
What are the odds it will be going to someone he knows?
I feel a weird sense of loss for Google Glass. I feel like the controversies that set it back also set back the entire AR space.

I wonder what life would be like if I could wear a HUD that showed me an AR overlay. It might bubble up an alert to remind me to drink a glass of water to stay on track for the day. A to-do list might slide in from the side if I tap a button near my temple. A friend calls and their animated avatar hangs out in the corner of my sight while I continue doing what I was doing... It feels like these things are very close, but society is struggling to integrate the amassing tech innovations we're encountering.
I‘ve spent countless hours learning Blender over the past few months (being completely oblivious of other 3D software to that point), mostly through many excellent Youtube videos like from BlenderGuru, and I think it is the most wicket piece of software I have tried to learn in decades. It makes learning the fundamentals of vi a piece of cake. It has hundreds of features, dozens of property dialogs, and most of all it requires a very peculiar interaction style that is very different from 2D editors like the ones found in Office/Google docs. The difference is similar to switching from a notepad/Word paradigm of being in edit mode by default to switching to the command mode in vim.

The most important learnings so far have been:

- Instead of creating objects from scratch, the paradigm is to modify shapes, starting from a number of primitives. That’s why you get the “default cube” when you start it. An important operation is extrude, which copies the selected parts of a mesh and connects the copies to their original. So if you want to draw a curve, you place a default curve and then use an operation like extrude or subdivide to add new points.

- There is a heavy interaction between mouse and keyboard. Depending on the task, it is vital to learn the keyboard shortcuts by heart. Those are often single keystrokes - e.g. tab for switching between object and mesh edit mode, 1/2/3 for switching between vertex/edge/face selection mode, g for moving the selected item, x/y/z to lock to an axis, x for delete, f for filling edges or faces into the mesh, e for extrude etc. while all of this is also possible to do with the mouse, there is a 10x productivity boost from learning the 10, 20 keystrokes that are used all the time.

- It is highly extensible through plugins, mostly written in Python, though, unfortunately, lower layer operations are only exposed in C++. All of the youtube videos use one of the many screencasting plugins, which display the recent mouse buttons or key presses

- it is a good idea to use a numpad, mainly to switch between different views

The benefit: even with minimal manipulations in the lighting settings and the materials of the created objects, the renderer can already create raytraces that are absolutely jaw-dropping.

But: Even after several months I still often ask myself “how do I tell it the computer”. I feel like I have barely scratched the surface of what the tool can do. Rendering pipelines? Sculpting mode? Probably 2022.

Curious about the hottest tips from the HN users :-)
On the other hand, Buddhism has a rich tradition of interacting and fusing with local beliefs and creating totally new interpretaions, which then go on to fight with each other about who's right and who's got it backwards. I once saw a lecture by the Dalai Lama and where he spent an hour defending the purity of his lineage!

Take for example the Zen koan: "Why did Bodhidharma come to China?" "The cypress in the courtyard." (referring to the tree growing in the center of their monastery.)
Zen is a very Japanese version of Chen Buddhism, which was in turn a very Taoist free wheeling version of Buddhism from India, which used existing Indian mythology. Zen Buddhists is very formal and ritual focused, and their koans mostly being about a Chen Buddhist monk who spent his little money on alcohol in the nearby town rather than food.

The Tibetan monk Chögyam Trungpa famously said Buddhism would come to the West as psychology.
Who cares who's right and who's wrong, as long as it helps you see the cypress in the courtyard?
Shredded Banksy Painting Sells for Record-Setting $25.4M
I notice a "Suggest Corrections" button at the bottom, of that article. Perhaps a suggestion that the Governor's entire story is a load of crap?
Dear Facebook, remember when you said only criminals have something to hide?

But thanks for the argument! Now, whenever I have to explain why privacy matters to someone I will say that I don't want facts about me taken „out of context“ because my life is „complex“ and that „might decrease morale“.
Sorry for replying to self.

TIL: I have been spelling "innocuous" wrong since forever. It's apparently the negating prefix "in-", and the Latin word "nocere" (to harm).

So I should have quipped "that is very definitely nocuous". Or not quipped at all.
I think dboreham's objection was exactly the opposite!
Apache Software Foundation moves to CDN distribution for software
CentOS Stream is a perfectly fine option and the practical differences from classic CentOS are insignificant for most users, especially people who are just running a homelab.

But if it makes you uncomfortable there's always Rocky or Alma Linux.
House Democrats Decide to Hand FB the Internet by Taking SEC 230 Away from Algos
> After that the list of countries we have tax treaties with is pretty large

Would need to look at the tax treaties for the specific country.
> UBI is not fixing the underlying problem.

I disagree entirely. The practical and moral reason why it's difficult to fire workers is because it generally results in the worker losing his income and healthcare, leading to personal and familial hardship. If healthcare were de-coupled from employment, then the hardship experienced by a fired worker is reduced. If some amount of income is de-coupled from employment, then the hardship experienced by a fired worker is further reduced (unemployment insurance works fine enough as a temporary band-aid, but it's not the real deal).

If we can get enough social infrastructure in place so that fired workers experience minimal hardship, then it becomes morally acceptable to make our government and companies more efficient, by laying off inefficient or unnecessary workers. Society then gets to equitably reap the rewards of this increased efficiency.
I’m fairly sure he doesn’t understand. Language used makes it sounds he has no clue how html works.

Back in 90s, I was constantly being accused of hacking things just for knowing how to build a website.
This was also the era of when the news would run phone polls on whether the Internet should be allowed or not.

I learn to keep my mouth shut about what I could do unless I was sure it was a tech savvy crowd.

This dude brings back a lot of those memories
curious why you chose to have `end` with out `begin` it seems like that is a very well established pattern, so I am assuming you considered it.
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> The difference for software is extremely basic: if you publicize a vulnerability immediately, you give more opportunity for it to be exploited while it's being fixed.

if it’s live it’s already being exploited. simple principle, but very effective.
1. Click View in menu bar

2. Hover over developer menu item

3. Click View Source

Three-step process - even more nefarious!
That's why at my current client, DevTools in the browser is blocked through Group Policy...

/not sarcasm, I wish I was joking...
> given how surprisingly impulsive suicides are

Do you have a reason to imply most suicides are impulsive? I don’t think the media implies that (and my experience in New Zealand is they are not impulsive - usually following a long period of depression and maybe stated intent or attempts).
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I think that resources in stable system (for example peacetime) tend to be increasingly horded by successful competitors. When rent seeking from those at the top becomes too expensive there is sometimes a reset that is usually violent. Sometimes the reset (war or plague for example) can be from external sources, but is still violent.
If we stick around long enough, then colonizing and terraforming the solar system where possible would provide most of the growth. Luna, Mars, Venus, the Belt, and some moons around the gas giants would be candidates. Eventually, we might figure out ways to expand to other nearby star systems with good enough tech to support it.
They weren't supposed to be used as any kind of important, general ID number. It took various governments and institutions a long time to wake up to the reality that, because we really, really need such an ID and the government has displayed no intention of ever creating one, social security numbers had been forced into the role by necessity.
At the moment the shiny new thing appears, the 79% figure applies. As time goes on, reality ensues, and it becomes clear which ones are scams. But you don't know that up front. For an investment class marketed by Fear of Missing Out, you have to look at the early odds.
> The defect was found as the planemaker grapples with other problems in its 787 that have caused it to cut production and halt deliveries since May.

From Boeing management's long-term perspective, the upside to the current downturn is that it provides them an excuse to shift more production from their unionized Washington factory to their non-unionized South Carolina factory. (Anybody know if 787 production has now--or will be--moved entirely to South Carolina?)

Notably, most 787 quality problems have been with their South Carolina factory, which has less expertise and less ability to push back against the unreasonable management demands that result in shortcuts and defects. Some customers were even stipulating Washington built planes. But of course Boeing management couldn't care less about their quality problems. Presumably their gamble is that with Washington out of the equation, the defect rates will silently become status quo and then people won't complain as much.

It would be entirely unsurprising if this management culture bleeds through its suppliers, assuming it hasn't already. Major f'up? Terminate the contract to appease everybody, and sign a new contract with a virgin outfit. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Target does.
Every. Single. Time.

Hell, they've got their own forensics lab to help make cases against theft rings that span jurisdictions [0]. They have a commitment from the top down to put as much pressure as possible on this type of organized crime. Back when Reddit had a shoplifting sub, users would advise others to just never steal from Target — mission accomplished, I think.

0: https://corporate.target.com/article/2012/02/an-unexpected-c...
Perhaps, but there's an FDA EUA for an adenovirus-based vaccine (Johnson and Johnson) if one is simply scared of the mRNA technology.

An adenovirus-based vaccine was already submitted for approval in 2019 for Ebola, and approved midway through 2020 after years of trials, so we know the technology wasn't rushed because of COVID.
Sure, you could make the OS CLI "intuitive" (by which I am sure you mean discoverable) by supplying the 'help' command, but in the end wouldn't this still amount to reading a bunch of text?..
Ah, I see the misunderstanding. The behavior I'm seeing called "normal" is people being punished in response responsible disclosure, where the actual guilty party is illegally leaking private information. I'm comparing administrative abuse to domestic abuse.

If changing a few characters in a URL was a crime, I'd be gone for life.

edit: and, I'm using "normal" in the same sense as the comment I was originally responding to: to indicate an everyday occurrence
Apologies. I understand it is disconnected from AR, and I am not asking about AR content or tech.

I am really just looking for avenues for discovering novel visual effects, interesting showreels, advanced demos, etc.