skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just signed up with Vanta to do our SOC2. I have to say that the process is a lot of work but can give a +1 for any other SaaS to use Vanta, they make the process simpler and lore automated helping guide you through the complexity and you have regular calls with your Vanta account rep, who actually gets on zoom calls with you every couple of weeks to make sure you get through the process, which is amazing support.

Thanks Christina and the Vanta team for making the SOC2 compliance process… digestible :)
"Screen time use may have detrimental effects on children’s health and development [5–15]. Studies of young children report associations between screen time and cognitive development outcomes, such as short-term memory skills, academic achievement in reading and math, and language development [5, 11, 14]. High levels of screen time in early childhood also appear to negatively impact academic and social outcomes in the long-term [9]. Furthermore, while evidence for an association between screen time and BMI among preschool children was inconclusive [16], several studies have reported positive associations later in childhood [3, 6, 17, 18]. "

from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1479-5868-10-102

There is more research if one is willing to look. Obviously context matters and screen time of HN parent teaching kid how to code and explore is different than screen time of a child that is given an ipad and left alone.

But

You are probably familiar with how child brain develops. And screen provide tiny amount and much much less complex information than the real world no matter how complicated software you run.

Interacting with 3d objects, reacting to micro expressions and complex emotions of people gives much richer environment for brain to find patterns in and learn. You can give 6 year old kid who never had screen access a computer and it will figure it out faster than you think it could. But if the same 6-10 year old never played any sports or had interactions with other children - that's going to take a while, possibly even never fully getting there.

Of course balance is always the answer but it's worth noting that difference.
I live in the Netherlands. We bike rather than just walk everywhere, and generally people do more frequent small shops rather than big weekly shop. It takes some imagination and a lot of urban planning work, but quality of life improves dramatically, it’s life-changing.

Much Urban planning was involved in making it better for cycling though, and it wasn’t always great for it. Off-road cycle paths being a mainstay for the country with separate lights is the biggest differentiator, and took a lot work to get there, but now you can safely cycle the entire country!

Even Cambridge in England where I used to live (and is famous for thousands of cycling students and locals) Is laughably bad compared.

Northern Ireland where my family live has also transformed large parts with Greenways projects and it has been transformational, I ran along them, walked along them to shops and cycled a long way and it was amazing I thought.

https://nigreenways.com/
From your opinion, a social network should be able to determine whether something is a genocide and stop the genocide?

What next? Maybe chipotle should stop Taiwan invasion? Taco bell to stop a drug lord in Mexico?

US government refuses to stop genocide. Period.

If US wants to stop something, it can issue a court/executive order to do so. Or even just tell the company to do so without court order

For example, US government told twitter to not go down (which was a ridiculous request) during Iran election in 2008. https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...

But ordering Facebook to help stop genocide? That's a hard no for US government, yo.
Not to burst your Amsterdam bubble, but you basically have to be a millionaire to be able to buy a house there right now. House prices have been rising like crazy in the Netherlands and Amsterdam in particular. Amsterdam is now for the elite, basically the point the article is complaining about.
I've had pretty much the opposite experience. I tried to get better at chess and I managed to push to a rating of 1800 on lichess rapid. After that I felt like my natural ability had come to its limit and the only way left to improve was by memorising a lot of positions. And, of course, memorising an endgame table doesn't help you solve any other problems.
It's not every time, but when we need water I get two sixpacks (for balance) and those are 18kg alone.

Not that there's anything wrong with tap water, but eeeh.
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Many baleen whales are seasonal eaters - they migrate yearly between feeding in the (say) arctic and breeding in the (say) sub-tropics. Imagine that your 200lbs person needed to pack on enough weight in the winter to fast through the summer.

(Yes, obviously this wouldn't work so well for humans. Whales have adapted to it, have economies of scale, and the water supports their weight "for free".)
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This is a real dynamic seen times and times. The catch is, poor people's houses are not owned by poor people. "Rich" people don't need to live there to own the land and dictate prices up to a point. They'll flee away and rent the house basically, and they can afford to keep it at the highest price the market validates.
Mister Lai, I accuse you of being a sly fox who can tell lies with true words.

> China does have accountability for government officials

True, but is it the case that the laws are upheld every time? Is there an independent judiciary that sees violations persecuted through with due process?

I submit: no, this is not even possible due to the level of corruption. Officials accumulate influence, wealth and power so they can extract themselves out of sticky situations. Occasionally, officials are held accountable to much public fanfare, but they happen to be unwitting pawns, scapegoats taking the fall for someone else, or faction members that are opportunistically eliminated by their rivals.

> criticisms and protests are common

True, but do they effect change? I submit: rarely. The vast amount of forms of criticisms and protests are suppressed before collective action can occur.

Source: eyewitnesses (expats living in China)

> China is [not] a totalitarian/[…]dictatorial system.

Shill harder. I've seen you approve of CCP apologist Barrett.
You most definitely want to avoid PETG as it is pretty... flexible...

PLA is the way (the MPCNC, for example, is designed with PLA in mind) in this case, as with ABS you most likely need higher printing temps, bed temps, an enclosure to keep even the slightest drafts out...
In biology, things aren't always that clean. Does whale poo release the iron in a way which is more accessible to other life forms vs dead krill? Perhaps one of these floats better than the other, or diffuses more evenly, or through some other mechanism makes it easier for the phytoplankton to access the iron.

The shameful thing is that we have learned how to commercially harvest krill and sell it as animal feed. Which means we are strip-mining this resource also from the ocean. Which before too long will lead to starving the whales to death, followed by the collapse of the krill populations because we just take, we don't give back.

'animal feed' includes pet food.
Responding to the strawman version of your argument: the critical difference is that there are huge systems designed to extract your surplus money (addictive drugs/gambling at the immoral extreme, supply/demand dynamics for basic goods at the pedestrian extreme).

It is very important to remember that your energy is yours. Almost the essence of what you are. You will have the occasional good day, or just good hour, and that is the opportunity to build. Maybe with unhealthy amounts of coffee, to kickstart. Then two good hours the next day. Then four.

It will necessarily take many calendar weeks, but I implore any discouraged readers to understand that it is possible to bootstrap up to a better place.
This is exactly my experience. I also recently heard a story (from a close friend) of a rewrite to React where a good few months were spent on questions like which routing (or whatever) library to use, all things provided by Angular out of the box.

JSX mixing presentation and business logic also looks weird for someone who lived at a time when not doing MVC in PHP was a blasphemy and would not get you a respectable job.

Admittedly AngularJS was horrible but nowadays Angular offers me everything I need while I watch other people moving to Nextjs or whatever latest buzz frameworks for features Angular provides (like server side rendering).
Not directly useful to me.

In hind-site I guess obvious.

All the solutions you should do anyway.

Lung cancer, any cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease - Don't smoke, filter your air, don't drink (to much), lower stress, eat healthy, have good relationships with people.

My skin cancer was low, should I wear sunscreen less?

Maybe it breaks some peoples self denial or gives them a kick in the ass?

Definitely do it though a Chinese company if you can. Keep it out of the hands of governments that control you.

Probably you are screwed anyway on this - "How 1 Person Can Expose The Identities of 1000" - Veritasium - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT18KJouHWg

I think it's good to get control of your body. Maybe it's busy work. Maybe it's not.
I can confirm that, in a non-bank financial institution, date formats involved with Excel->CSV->XML->Certain (shit) magic application were considerable pain point :|
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I live in a walkable urban location and have never drove, in order to shop without having to worry about carrying heavy milk etc

I just use a trolley capable of going up steps it cost me £35 and allows me to carry a lot more comfortably

Before that I used deliveries a lot, I notice people with cars don't think very hard about alternatives like they can't even imagine a world without their car

Which means there's parts of the city that are just inaccessible to the rest of us and permanently degrades the experience of walking in most other places
Working with and for Americans is why I always use ISO year-month-day format.
What am I missing here? The key is that the boat was made from wood?
every time the external code gets updated

I do not keep my fork in sync afterwards.

dependencies that come with
their own dependencies

Depends on the dependencies. If you give me an example, I can tell you what I would do.
> 2 unnamed blue wizards

You mean Alatar [1] and Pallando [2], also known as Morinehtar and Romestamo.

When it comes to Tolkien, very few things are actually unnamed.

[1] https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Alatar

[2] https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Pallando
> the only reason I have a car is that it makes grocery shopping much, much easier

How large is your family?? We are five (2 adults and 3 kids) and we do most grocery shopping by bike.
It’s not just scarcity. People “need” a place to park three or four huge (subsidized) vehicles. Also, people like to brag. N-thousand square feet and an n-car garage provide an objective measure. It’s harder to one-up by saying you have a really nice trattoria three blocks over.
The main problem with this article is that all the points apply equally to other services, but the article frames it such that it implies the problems are unique to XMPP.

Half the article is dedicated to obsessing that the server can see your IP address. This is true of every internet service, and is how the internet works. Tools to solve this (e.g. Tor, VPNs) are well known and established solutions if you need to hide your IP from websites and services you use.

Common alternatives to XMPP that people may recommend include Signal and Matrix, but both certainly see your IP address just as easily.

XMPP uses passwords for authentication, rather than phone numbers. Since the server needs to use the password to verify you are you, there should be no surprise that it is sent to the server when you create your account or change your password. Just like any website or service that utilizes passwords for authentication.

Pretty much everything else listed is solved by verified end-to-end encryption, which is the primary solution to these problems regardless of any platform or protocol you use. Again, not a problem with XMPP specifically.

Instead of focusing on helping educate people sensibly about these things, the article seems to be a lot of biased scaremongering.

Full disclosure: I'm actively involved in various XMPP projects, including the XMPP Standards Foundation, Prosody and Snikket. Obviously I have a very keen interest in protocol design, secure online communication and the various available platforms/tools.
These points are good to know, but as others pointed out they apply to email, Matrix, ActivityPub and other federated protocols. I believe we have published a rather comprehensive security/privacy FAQ here: https://joinjabber.org/faqs/security/

Let me know if you find some information missing in there!

PS: I don't understand why the infosec-handbook.eu article appears posted on november 1 2021. It was published in August 2018, see also: https://web.archive.org/web/20201208132104/https://infosec-h...
var x = {a: 1, b: undefined};

x.b and x.c are both undefined, but `'b' in x` is true, while `'c' in x` is false.

You can check what keys have been provided, and... well, you could use that to determine things about your data.
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Hmm, I find it very hard to relate to this perspective.

Perhaps this is a cultural difference: I don't value efficiency in my life nearly as much as you seem to do. I don't go out of my way to waste time, but I'm perfectly happy to walk through the quiet roads while carrying groceries, thinking about what I've recently read, wondering about things I happen to see on my walk ---such as the Jugendstil reliefs on facades, a very inefficient type of decoration---, trying to identify trees and shrubs, etc.

I also really don't mind taking the time to write this comment, even though there's nothing efficient about communicating like this.

My work and art likewise are not efficient --- elegant perhaps, pretty even; but no artifact I leave behind is primarily efficient (unless it's code that was meant to be efficient only, the worst kind of code).

I used so many words to inefficiently say: I feel that efficiency is rather overrated. I won't ever give up being slow and being at ease with living slowly --- with plenty of opportunity for life to happen by accident.

PS: most of the public transportation stops are 10 mins away from where I live. Even the train. It's 10 mins away by bus ;)
If the interviewer addresses the points so poorly, isn’t the article basically then just a straw man argument in favor of the interviewee’s side?

If the subject is worth discussing, then it’s worth discussing a source with good arguments presented by each side.
> One of them is you don't own where your code runs anymore.

That's not new. The first money I earnt from computers was making websites. We didn't own the webservers; we rented webspace from some company. To deploy it, we literally just uploaded PHP files to a place using an FTP client. It was that simple and it worked.
You can buy a cheap vps + domain and setup the mail server on it or use it ro reroute traffic.

Worse case you can buy expensive dyndns.
The most common case is that I'm picking up about three days' worth of ingredients at a time, in which case I walk either five or eight minutes (depending on which shop has the better stuff for my list) and carry home one large grocery bag. Since I don't need to worry about parking or traffic, I can fit this into my schedule whenever and usually do so when I'm already on my way home from somewhere else.

The actual minority case is that I'm picking up something in bulk (replacing pantry stock, getting supplies for a party, etc), in which case I might switch to using my car, depending on how heavy or unwieldy it is for a half-mile walk.
Where is the data that shows that the replacements are also corrupt?
Yes but it's an incredibly strenuous and unnecessarily hard way of life, if that's what you want, fine, but society at large has as a core value to eliminate unnecessary, hard, repetitive tasks so that's not going to be a good way to structure neighborhoods.
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There's one smalltalk vendor whose main product is an object-oriented database that is also a smalltalk instance (and you use other smalltalks as IDEs to it).

GemStone/S
> Following the form does not make you “somewhat democratic,”

In practice, there have been elected presidents that the religious element did not really like. They did not last, and were sabotaged at every turn, but they existed. Iran is a big country and it contains a number of different power-centres, unlike, for example, North Korea.

> In addition, “the secular executive branch” comment is flat out wrong.

Uh, no it isn't:

>> the religious element can pre-emptively stop pesky candidates from running altogether

Whether this is achieved by claiming they are unbelievers or corrupt, is irrelevant. Candidates can (and do) get purged before they get a chance, but the latter part of the process is fairly democratic (which is why occasionally the "wrong" candidates do win). One of the reasons for the increasingly low turnout in recent years is precisely that purges are getting more and more indiscriminate; Iranians are not all stupid, and won't engage when they think the process is meaningless. The "secular" qualifier is there because, in practice, that's what it is - a government that cares about economy, army, police, and administration.

Demonising everything is a recipe for being ignored, you should try understanding other points of view when you're trying to persuade.
Correct. Cisco stock growth is not only limited by the hw business since 2000, but Huawei ate their lunch on growth, which is the kiss of death for a tech company. See Nortel.

(Zoom was started with 40 Webex (Cisco) engineers. lol.)

Also Cisco salaries are really low for SV, like 30% less - totally non-FAANG. I've pointed that out to Cisco recruiters, and they almost cried on the phone begging me to go to the next interview step anyway.
the most common case surely is groceries?
> 1. Let's assume carriages would have undergone the same evolution of safety. That means modern carriages would have a lower death rate than old ones. It also makes the possible cherry-picking matter a lot less because the increasing menace of transportation over the last 20 years would be the same either way.

That's like saying it's fine to compare the cost of houses in New York and San Francisco by comparing the cost of a house in New York in 1998 to the cost of a house in San Francisco in 2009, because house prices change at more or less the same rate everywhere in the country. It's true that house prices tend to go up or down at a similar rate everywhere, but it's still a problem if you cherry-pick the two years you're making a comparison with!
As I understand it from a legal point of view the user in this case is the bank, not individual employees running it on the bank's behalf, and the bank already has the code so it's a non-issue.

I know some people think this is contrary to the spirit of open source, but it isn't. One of the goals of open source is so that users can customise the code to their specific use case, with no obligation to share. That's all the banks are doing. They have the same rights as any other user.
20kg is quite on extreme side. Also, walking for 350m with 20kg of stuff is unlikely to be a problem unless you have massive health problems.

With something like https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wozek+na+zakupy&t=ffab&iar=images&... it is even simpler - my 80 years old grandmother is using it for shopping.

> your only sport ever is carrying groceries. What a poor life

Just how much stuff you buy? Maybe you live in awful city with shops more than 500m away from your home?
for what it's worth you can totally fake nominal typing in a hacky way through a sort of shiboleth key. You say "this type has `____type: 'foo'`, and on constructions of the object you just cast (or hell, just put the key in!), and you're off to the races.

This is far from perfect, but when you're working with very tricky code and want to be sure, you at least have the option
This plot is similar to Chinese "dog-blood romance" (that's what they call it, when its translated to English) novels which I've read, quite often.
rape is about power. unsurprising you'll find rapists at the top of power structures
Yes, in this case I would put something like this on top of the file:

# Fork by TekMol of https://github.com/feross/is-buffer
# Which is MIT licensed by Feross Aboukhadijeh

I am actually never completely sure how to properly do this. Would the next forker write the following then?

# Fork by Joe of https://github.com/tekmol/isBuffer
# Which is a fork by TekMol of https://github.com/feross/is-buffer
# Which is MIT licensed by Feross Aboukhadijeh
Thank you for friendly helpful advice :) Yeah I've misgivings too. Ha ha I've no idea whether I'm a lone genius or not. I've a hunch for an approach to an area of study which I believe other people have steadfastly ignored or not noticed. Now either (a) they're all informed and I'm not, and they're right not to waste time on such a fruitless approach or (b) I'm on to something worth pursuing. Only one way to find that out. ;) My plan was to try to produce something then demo that to a potential supervisor. There's a couple of professors from when I did my MSc, one in particular is a very nice person who'd probably be interested and at least give it a (healthily critical) hearing. Well, good people of HN you're welcome to reply and shoot down this approach or encourage it, whichever makes most sense. :)
The first thing you do is to play - and one day you play on a computer.

And here it is you learn it all.
How to operate a OS and what to expect of it.

How to install a program.

And how to program.

Which means in 15 years, lua like syntax will push aside java-script, because this generation learned it in another way. Might aswell embrace it ahead of time.

Learned Future Preference dominance is gaming market dominance.
I don't think we'll ever agree, because there seems to be a fundamental difference here. You speak as if I'm toiling in the mines all day, whereas I don't even think of it as particularly hard or annoying.
You can act innocent and make an insurance claim or do a chargeback or call EVGA that you are a third party to this crime, but that's kind of picking which big guys to fuck up microscopically. Everyone is kind of fucked once the theft had been committed. Value is destroyed, not merely moved.

This is preventable by the totalitarian combo of serial numbering + point of sales reporting + hardware root of trust + account registration + mandatory activation, though it is also an almost immediate danger against an free and open society.