skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They clearly don't give a shit about this problem. Similar issues with Giphy & friends. If they cared they'd de-list sites that present different data to a real user than they do to the Google bot, so that all image search results are directly accessible.

Like other bad Google behavior related to controlling web spam, I reckon this drives more people to see Google ads on these sorts of sites, so they've taken an anti-user position. Same reason much of the "legitimate" web turned up in Google results now looks like a low effort click farm—if the clicks are making Google money, who cares if it's coming from garbage content?
The French term is as bad as the English one -- "biologique" literally means "biological" and for example, biological weapons are "armes biologiques". But maybe the anthrax was made without pesticides? It's unfortunate that both languages decided to adopt scientific terms with defined meanings to mean "grown without the use of pesticides".
Rent seeking? For antivirus software? No way...
You can use github that way - you could also use mailing lists that way. But you'd need to find a repo with the critical mass for a real social media style discussion to happen. I expect this does happen occasionally, but certainly it wouldn't be the experience of most github users.
A lot of times people are afraid of wasting money by giving research grants where it isn't clearly specified what they are to be used for. What is missed, is that there is a huge amount of waste, when researchers are forced to work on a dead end ideas, they know wont work out, just because that's what they have promised to do, while it was still looking promising. Scientists should be penalized for piloting to something new. unfettered research doesn't just let people work on what ever the want, it also lets they drop anything they don't believe in.
Being online for decades, I think I can differentiate when a comment disagrees or just low-effort derails.
I think it's an over-correction around the introversion/extroversion divide.

It's true that sometimes I just don't want to be bothered while I'm running errands, but I wouldn't consider someone making small talk, cracking a joke in the elevator, etc. to be some sort of social transgression. As an introvert, chatting or small talk isn't really a chore, and I waste enough of my own time on my own time, so what's a few words with a stranger?

That said, it should be considered perfectly acceptable to signal that you don't want to stay engaged in a conversation if it's someone trying to explain their theory on building a perpetual motion machine. That actually happened. I did not want to stay in that conversation. But even extroverts don't like dealing with crazy.

It only becomes a chore when the talking itself is the work, such as dealing with Comcast charging you for a modem you totally did return, or dealing with the hospital when they incorrectly billed your health insurance and now they're trying to make you pay for the difference.
> Molotov != Protest

Molotov is not only a protest, it is a peaceful protest without weapon which is a human right.

> Hamas takeover of Gaza

You do know, that Hamas is an ally of Israel in Gaza, don't you?
> If you read anything about Evangelical Christian culture the single worst sin you can ever commit is demanding your autonomy. This grievous violation of our bodies is used to induce us into servitude

Circumcision is explicitly not a Christian practice, though. It's done by many Americans (who happen to be evangelical) for cultural reasons, but the Christian Bible literally is explicitly against circumcision being done by Christians for spiritual or religious reasons.
>but the only thing stopping us from keeping them in check is our government.

Lots and lots and lots of people in the "us" group find using Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon convenient (and cheap). Otherwise, there is zero friction for people to type in a different address in the browser and use Libreoffice or Pinephone or Mastodon or whatever competing alternative with open standards there is.
> Nobody's come up with a circuit board material that's electrically insulating but thermally conductive so we could sink an appreciable amount of heat out of the back side?

In applications like high-power LED lights, you'll often get 'Insulated Metal Substrate' PCBs where the printed circuit is on an aluminium or copper board, separated by a very thin electrically insulating layer. [1]

However, this has a few downsides: The electrically insulating layers aren't perfectly thermally conductive, meaning a directly attached heatsink will usually perform better; if you make a complex board with 8+ layers of copper (like a modern motherboard) you end up with 8+ layers of insulation; and it's nigh-impossible to use through-hole components.

For LED lighting those are non-issues and, a top-mounted heatsink wasn't an option anyway.

[1] https://dm.henkel-dam.com/is/content/henkel/Bergquist%20Comp...
I feel like every 2-3 months a blog post rockets to the top of HN where a hacker discloses a vuln and says “I reported this to $company 10 months ago and it is still present in the most recent version of $OS”. If it’s AppAmaGooSoft they can take the hit (especially if it turns out to not be that bad) but I imagine for a smaller company (like one of the more indie cloud hosts) that could be damaging to their reputation among the folks who hang out here (many of whom purchase cloud hosting and other tech stuff).
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I’m guessing serendipitously.
Then you may find this article interesting:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/01/13/false-flag/
This assumes that companies do not make unwise investments, when counterexamples are legion.
Yup, agreed with all your points
>I forget the exact context, I think the conversation that stood out to me was about someone in a gas station or something, trying to make friendly conversation with another shopper next to them, along the lines of "oh that's a cool hat". And the consensus of the thread was "yeah that's awful, why would you do that, why are you subjecting them to the labor of talking to you" or such.

This is kind of an American way of thinking. Small talk with strangers is weird in many places.

If you're a woman spurning it can get ugly fast (you are not obligated to a reply from a stranger). It's not at all unusual for a woman to ignore small talk from a male stranger and instantly be met with vitriol. I've been in situations where an ignored comment like "smile honey" is instantly met with "bitch". If this is the cost of small talk, it isn't worth it.

There's also the newfound respect for mental health, some people are extremely anxious or agoraphobic, and attempting small talk with strangers in places where people are required to be (grocery, fuel, etc) seems unnecessary. Is complementing someone's hat really worth the potential anxiety? not remotely.

If you're lonely and want to meet people, don't try to do it via small talk with strangers. Join a club, take a class, volunteer. Go to places where interaction is expected, do not foist it upon strangers just trying to go about their daily lives.

If you must small talk, please do not take it personally if someone ignores you.
The trick I do is to use one of the returned images in a reverse Google photo search, and include a "-pinterest.com" tag. But that takes extra steps.
> it also has advantages: keeping in touch with friends, socializing, a way to stay up to date with your community, new recipe ideas, exercise ideas, time management ideas, maybe even the occasional envy that someone's success triggers more ambition in you to succeed etc.

In what way are these advantages over not using social media?

They're all things you can do — provably — without social media. In fact, the problem we've identified that leads us to questioning our use of it is that social media is actually a less effective way to stay in touch with friends and socialize.
Security software company McAfee acquired for $14B
I guess my point is that it's only a risk if they're finding real vulnerabilities, and if that's what they're doing, our sympathies should be recalibrated. (Obviously, I think it's most likely that they're not finding real bugs).
Thanks for the assurance. The concern with "mail order co-lo" is of course that the customers themselves don't travel to the DC to install and power up the server.
> 10A doesn't address health issues

You're right. It doesn't address them in particular, so they get treated under it the same as everything else does.
Fixed now. Sorry. Thanks all!
How do you even get this number? Even if I only count actual EU member (exclude Norway) that have numbers for 2020 Portugal ends up 15th, when Ireland and Italy publish their data it will be 17th.

Also is this purchasing power adjusted? If not probably it’s even lower since East European countries tend to have lower cost of living.
Why this “falling rocks” sign is more important than most
There are many limitations of finite discrete sequential processes; and no evidence whatsoever that reality is best-described by these.
Bit of a dupe: "Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards"[0] (405 comments, 348 pts, 4 days ago)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29100704
Executive Orders are exercises of existing laws.
> In my experience over the last decade there are fewer and fewer ways to find a community and any success as a creator of any kind without getting corralled into social media and furthermore getting corralled into being a daily active user / consumer as to not get shadow banned by any given app.

I spent a good chunk of my career in platform engineering. I generally worked on internal hosting platforms, but there's enough correlation between those and large online platforms. These platforms must knock out competition, this delivers some benefits to the end user but as an intended byproduct it eliminates choice. If you are anything but someone who wants a boilerplate to build on, say you want to do something custom or special, that will always be out of the question -- because deviation introduces risk of various types.

It's a tradeoff, and for now it's a sufficiently good tradeoff for the public until they become aware of what they bought.
I sort of agree, but not fully. I think if deep technology details don't really matter, then the person should be more of a technical project manager or an architect, not a senior developer.
Hmm that's a new one. Anyone know how to figure out which canonical URL should be used?
I don't have much hope for driverless trucks at least not here in Canada during the winter. A 50 ton 30m long driverless truck fishtailing on ice would be dangerous.
Zuckerberg will be remembered in the annals of history. Swartz won't even be in a footnote.

One of the things about having ridiculous amounts of wealth is that it affords you to make a ridiculous number of bets. You only have to hit on a few to be remembered as a genius.

Just ask Tommy Edison.
Re 2), it wasn’t in the US, but yikes.
The doomsday cult of the supermind-AI tends to think the "intelligence" is the solution to infinite power, so once the computer starts improving itself, humanity is at its mercy — as if better software alone could deliver the singularity, unchecked by material constraints.

I suspect some of this comes from software-oriented nerds who think a slightly too much of the powers intelligence grants them.
No, it never fully dropped.

> Updated Date: 2021-11-08T14:45:58Z

> Creation Date: 2014-09-24T14:45:19Z

> Registry Expiry Date: 2022-09-24T14:45:19Z
Yes but it does allow people to track the private jets flown by the Chinese government.
If they are constitutional, yes.
Thank you for your courage to say that.

It is also funny how often people forget why the riots start in the first place. So often it seems to be that the riots are precipitated by egregious abuse by settlers/army/police/Israeli policy. Abuse the people long enough and they will rage.
Master Foo and the Recruiter

A technical recruiter, having discovered that that the ways of Unix hackers were strange to him, sought an audience with Master Foo to learn more about the Way. Master Foo met the recruiter in the HR offices of a large firm.

The recruiter said, “I have observed that Unix hackers scowl or become annoyed when I ask them how many years of experience they have in a new programming language. Why is this so?”

Master Foo stood, and began to pace across the office floor. The recruiter was puzzled, and asked “What are you doing?”

“I am learning to walk,” replied Master Foo.

“I saw you walk through that door” the recruiter exclaimed, “and you are not stumbling over your own feet. Obviously you already know how to walk.”

“Yes, but this floor is new to me.” replied Master Foo.

Upon hearing this, the recruiter was enlightened.

Source: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/recruiter.html
It's unlikely that hiring is easier than I think it is, because I think it's pretty easy. The people who think it's hard are the HN consensus and the large corporations we keep reading about coming up with these convoluted interview standards/metrics.
It does, but I unlock it with FaceID rather than a password. Cameras recording me typing my bitwarden master password are a bigger security concern for my password security already.
At least I can still see flightradar still in china.
I deleted FB 2 years ago, Twitter 2.5 years ago and Instagram 1 year ago.

Most close friends found zero problems connecting with me. That’s cause they call, text or we just meet. It’s almost like I started to live in the ‘real’ life rather than a made up one. It felt weird and underwhelming at times but it is horrifying how much we can get sucked into social media without even knowing most of the times. The withdrawal symptoms can be real too.

Seriously just go and click the delete button right now after seeing this post. Don’t think just do it.
I can't really relate to these feelings. To me the worst aspect of social media is you can easily lose track of time scrolling, but I find the time limit options on my phone are pretty effective at letting me use it enough to get what I want out of it without accidentally letting a bunch of time go by.
The closest parallel to Samdish would be Jordan Klepper. Samdish would interview folks at BJP events while Klepper interviews MAGA people at Trump or antivax rallies. But it’s a stretch to call what they do investigative journalism. For most part it’s selectively edited footage that makes the interviewee look like an idiot. It’s funny for some, but not illuminating.

There are exceptions of course. Klepper’s reporting on Jan 6th and Samdish’s video asking people if untouchability exists in India both spring to mind.
> I think the biggest risk of being oversold right now are the "polygenic risk scores" being used for various quantitative traits, which fail to generalize very well.

How do the hits from large scale GWAS fail to generalize within a population? Why would you get worse models with more advanced techniques, presumably the more advanced techniques would only be used instead of the simple ones if they are proven to work.
It’s ironic that the AI’s passing the Turing Test are exceptional liars. If a superintelligence wanted to get out, it could con its way out easily.
I don't quite accept the argument. You can demonstrate a system to be isolated. For example, if you put a computer in a metallic box with a battery inside, you can compute the maximum electric field generated inside, and choosing the appropriate radius you can guarantee no significant influence would be had outside. Of course, you can't guarantee no one will breach your containment from the outside, essentially freeing whatever intelligence to influence the world. But this goes beyond the danger of the intelligence itself, more the general infeasibility of predicting the future without having much greater computational power than the entire world.

Likewise, the alignment problem isn't necessarily unsolvable. Since we can design simple systems that follow expectations exactly, why couldn't we design complex systems that also follow expectations? Of course, the design of expectations itself gets fuzzy, making this a failure point, but to the extent that we can define good and evil I see no impediment to align an intelligence to them.

(In fact, I believe 'control' or 'containment' is a severely misguided proposition. We want to really assure the core motivation of such machines similar to ours; not create conflicting motivations and secure it via containment. This is indeed extremely dangerous, and potentially unethical: if machines approach consciousness, wouldn't such 'containment' be similar to slavery?)
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Let me put it this way: I've never seen one of these beg-bounty people publicly shame a company for not fixing their SPF records. I think the reason for that is that it wouldn't work, but either way: it's not a real threat.

I don't even see evidence of the threat being made!
It depends on how specific we're talking. If I need to hire a senior-plus to work on a web application, I probably won't care if they don't have any experience with the exact frameworks I'm using. But if they have no experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript at all, then I'm probably skipping over them.
I mean I'd rather not arbitrarily cut off friends for frivolous reasons like what means they like to use to contact me.
> a hit would just result in minor damage that could be repaired at nearby bases.

They don’t have a good track record of late:

USS Cole - c4 bomb - 2 years

USS Fitzgerald - collision - 3 years

USS Bonhomme Richard - fire - scrapped
It's crazy to me that amongst the many things I need to create legal blankets over when hiring developers, I now need to worry about what IDE they are using because Copilot ostensibly has access to their (our) source code, files, and other proprietary information.
The "general dislike of DRM" is a non issue because it's only shared by a minuscule portion of game players. And most of those who have a dislike for DRM still won't let that get in the way of them playing a game they really want to play at release time.

Denuvo seems to be extremely effective at delaying piracy for a few months, during which the publishers of the game make most of their sales.
Flow Club (YC S21) is hiring a founding front-end engineer
I threw in the towel and am now back in corporate life.
This was pretty stupid straw-man. I doubt anyone who has used Prophet is under any illusions as to what it is doing under the hood (after all, the only input is a single time series dataframe...). Companies use it to do quarterly/yearly goal setting and anomaly detection, not deploying it to production to power product features. This whole thing has the tone and substance of a giant "i am very smart" faff.

The author also seems annoyed that people get paid 200k for such little "technical" skill, to which I would ask why he cares?
>But if you do that, NSA becomes involved, much easier to get discovered.

I think you're overestimating how much the NSA saying "no no, the NSO Group didn't spy on the US, it was planted by those tricksy Iranians" would diminish the story.

I also disagree that Israel is particularly vulnerable to negative PR right now. I somewhat wonder if you're just noticing more stories critical of them because the latest event is tech related.
I read through the report a bit but stopped when they said there is not enough Coal to meet demand, they showed a graph of Coal supply in China but didn't acknowledge anything about why it is low.

They say "environmental regulation in China" but that's pure BS. China are having a Trade war with Australia and have therefore stopped importing Coal. So if China wanted to they could stop shooting themselves in the foot and import Coal from Australia again.

The other graphs appear reasonably on track with seasonal usage and demand.

TLDR: Would not recommend reading.
That was Israel financing attacks against Iranian officials.

I was using it in the modern usage, as in:

> The term today extends to include countries that organize attacks on themselves and make the attacks appear to be by enemy nations or terrorists, thus giving the nation that was supposedly attacked a pretext for domestic repression and foreign military aggression.

This article is clearly using false flag to mean proxy conflicts, which I don't think is the colloquial understanding of the term.
Wasn't it the other way around?

Nature philosophy tried to find out how the world works by theorizing in their armchairs and then science came along, did real experiments, and won.
Google fixes Android zero-day exploited in the wild in targeted attacks
As phrased, that's a weak argument. Whoever is calling the shots will have some bias and weigh different conceivable outcomes in a subjective manner that an outside observer may consider unsound. I mean, "publishers and developers of AAA titles" also somehow brought us the disastrous releases of No Man's Sky or Cyberpunk 2077. Or any of the PR disasters of $random_AAA_game.

I agree that it's overwhelmingly likely that someone ran the numbers about using DRM at these companies. But it's not unlikely that they over- or under-estimated certain factors. They will have more information than we do, but certainly not perfect information (see also above).
My admittedly brief experience of working with Portuguese is that they ask a lot of you but that you have the real option of saying no.

If you fold, they'll skin you alive. If you stand your ground, you can have a nice life.
Reddit has a culture that normalizes the symptoms of social anxiety. They call it introversion, but the way its described is 100% social anxiety.

I am sympathetic, I have it too. Hell, ever male in my dad's family line seems to have it.

But its a problem that needs to be treated and not a character trait that needs to be respected. The WORST thing you can do for social anxiety (or any anxiety) is to avoid trigger it. You'll become a depressed shut in.
Another company doing this is https://www.einride.tech/press

Does anyone know more companies in this space? Some of the legacy truck companies probably do experiments like these as well but their business doesn't depend on it. So mostly looking for startup answers.
Coming out of Uni with a PhD in the UK in 2003, I went looking for some "curiosity driven" research and didn't find any. The dotcom bust had sucked budgets dry and no-one was hiring. I've dipped my toe back into the market a few times and not found any. I'd have to move to the States and even then there was no guarantee of doing unfettered research. I carried on in my spare time but it's not the same as being surrounded in a melting pot of like minded (yet different subject) people.
In most cases, people shouldn't die for causes (or if not die, devote most of their lives to them). Activism is also usually not the only way to change things.
How far would you take this? Would you hire a senior Android developer to lead your app development who has never written an Android app before? If you do, you’re going to have a very bad time. With experience comes lessons learned and best practices. Hiring someone who can apply best practices across a team lifts everyone else on the team up and has a multiplier effect on productivity.