skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you find a public health official that has been willing to, on the record, give an approximate % of disease spread the typical cloth mask is preventing? I've seen individual studies with varying numbers, but have never seen an actual high level public official make a concrete statement.

The people running the Fed are some of the best educated and most experienced people on the planet in this area. There is little doubt they know what they're doing. The bigger question is whether it's in your best interest.
It's not much fun when your risk model actually, realistically includes a nation state level hacking attempts to disrupt or pervert your services.
If you post from your main account rather than a one-time, perhaps I'll engage. Your attitude precludes the likelihood for civil discourse
An attacker gained administrator access to the forum in question. The admin changed passwords and continued to observe more password bruteforcing attempts from the attacker.

The attempts were made to the forum's mobile login endpoint using different IP addresses from a proxy pool. Strangely the attacker would rotate the username once or twice every hour but stick to the same password, x4ivygA51F. The admin later modified the forum software to hash the plaintext password locally before sending it to the server, and the attacks promptly stopped. First of all, I don't think the admin realized validating a hash from the client without hashing it twice would actually make security worse.

From what I can tell, this is largely Discuz's login flow:

- Server has `sitekey` and `authkey`; they are unique and permanent for each Discuz site

- Generate `formhash = md5(timestamp_days / 115, user_id, sitekey)` and embed in HTML

- Client POSTs username and password with `formhash`

- Server validates

- Server generates `discuz_auth_key = md5(authkey, user_agent)` which is used to encrypt user ID and password

- Server hands out `auth` cookie with the encrypted string

The cookie is used on subsequent visits to authenticate. My guess is the attacker created throwaway accounts on the forum to perform a known-plaintext attack on the forum's sitekey and authkey.
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The issue is that's not just Pfizer's trade secrets; the documents may also contain PII (e.g., medical history) of those 65,000 people.
XDA is owned and operated by a company with many established ties to the CCP, just see all the chinese phones and huawei stuff that they constantly advertise and answer up for.

don't fall for chinese propaganda.
I take it you've never been on a surf board or a rowboat when the wind was up.

Take a watercraft ==> add a sail

Take a routine task ==> on a computer

and all that other patent nonsense.
I'm not going to get into a debate about whether Cotton is an idiot with a completely ahistorical view of slavery, but I think it's intriguing that he was pushing for a federal ban on a particular bit of educational content. I got into this discussion because people were wheeling out the trope that "only lefties go after free speech", that's all.
I like that language. I'll have to try that.
I'm certain the FDA would welcome more staffing across the board, including to handle FOIA requests. Might be worth people contact their representatives and raising the issue.
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Personally, I still haven't really found a better tool for little one-off throwaway scripts than Ruby. Python's always been verbose for me and lacks the awk heritage that makes text processing tasks so easy. Node forces me to deal with async I/O. Shell has annoying quoting rules.

I don't feel strongly about any of this and if another language is your favorite for small one-offs, that's great. Ruby works well for me though, and I hope it sticks around.
Add debt(increase spending) and take away the pay(tax cuts). 1-1=0.
I don't understand what problem he's trying to solve.

When I need to call my overseas colleague, I'll either need to look up his timezone to see what time it is in localtime to know if he's sleeping or eating lunch, or I'll have to look up a chart to know that it's 19:00UTC so it's typical lunchtime for him.

But when I travel, it's nice to look at any clock and know that it's almost dinner time without consulting a chart to figure it out based on the UTC time. Or when I'm watching a movie and the actor is in bed and the clock turns 06:00, I know he's been laying awake for most of the night, I don't need other cues to tell me what his normal sleeping time is.

I can understand the utility of UTC for coordinating events across the globe (which I do regularly when I look at logfiles), but using one global time seems like it would make things more complicated for more people than those that have things simplified.
I disagree. We knew masks would help, and medical professionals were using them.

Basically I kept hearing only n95 I’d effective, or you’ll use them wrong. We know masks would help more with larger droplets, yet we persisted with the lie.
I switched jobs recently after 7 years at a company. It wasn’t the best job in the world, and I could’ve been making more money elsewhere, but I was finding the work interesting. I had one offer that was a substantial pay increase, but ultimately decided I wouldn’t be happy - it just wasn’t interesting work, and I was fortunate to be in a position where I had a choice.

It took more than a year, and quite a bit of rejection before I found a company I liked, with the benefit of more money.

I’m very happy I made the move. It took a long time and a lot of faith that I would find something better.

There are some programmers that love to program, and as long as they get to do that, they’re happy. Some are happy to do whatever so long as they’re making boatloads of cash and time to spend it. For me it’s engaging work in a space I’m interested in
What's the difference? Is Xiaomi not afforded the same control as Twitter? The same oft-repeated argument applies: if you don't like it, buy another phone.

To note: I think this is abhorrent, and really my point is I wish Twitter didn't censor or editorialize either.
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I've never had that happen in Rust because multiple versions of a crate effectively live in completely separate worlds: they have their own copies of globals, for example. Can you name an example of multiple versions conflicting at runtime in Rust?
I'm a prolific user of Duff's device for poor man's coroutines in C, but in non-toy applications I do try to isolate the behavior to discrete functional tasks and entirely behind a simple, conventional API. For example, implementing a single-function iterator using a generator pattern: https://github.com/wahern/lunix/blob/36c2107/src/unix-getopt... IOW, I avoid the urge to encapsulate the magic in a library abstraction so it can be reused (and abused) everywhere. There's no spooky action at a distance--you can figure out the behavior from the surrounding code, without having to pour through internal library code (even just hiding stuff in a header can be confusing). The details remain entirely irrelevant to callers. And I minimize opportunities for doing things I might regret (and have regretted), like implementing and relying upon a bespoke threading framework =)
Right, but that’s kind of the irony — the collection of atrocities that stain the tapestry of America’s history are readily accessible, actively acknowledged on repeat on social media (ad infinitum at times, even), and (mostly, depending on locale) even taught in public schools. Trying to even discuss the notion on WeChat could send you to reeducation camps. Here it’s a series of chapters in textbooks.
Is this satire? You don’t see a difference between secret police disappearing political dissidents, and Twitter telling you to sell your racism somewhere else?
Next we're going to be hearing about the Montauk Monster.
The US government has long outsourced legally questionable things to "private" companies (corporations are actually a government invention). But in the last year it has gotten extremely bold about it - holding press conferences where in they bragged about directing Facebook on which accounts to censor for "misinformation". Obviously government censorship, and obviously illegal - despite the chorus of "actually" from people rushing in with their index fingers raised.

The point shouldn't be "your bad behavior justifies my bad behavior", it should be this: folks in the valley ceded the moral high ground in the pursuit of short term political interests. There is a cost associated with that, which can be paid in many different ways. The right way would be acknowledging the mistake and a rededication to first principles... but obviously that isn't going to happen. Instead, hypocrites will be forced to perform mental gymnastics in order to preserve their working model of the world without admitting fault - it is exhausting, ineffective, and soul crushing... but they'll do it.
Should they delay the FOIA release until these 330,000 pages had all been reviewed and redacted? I don’t think the answer to either of these questions are “no”, though ofc the standard could vary.
are you trying to say you don’t enjoy overengineering?
Nice job! I am wondering if such plugin can automate across browser and desktop? Like the Imacro premium functions? You can even open docs, manipulate across multiple things.
Not the most scientific study, but their results on the usage of the most popular slang by generation, specifically "woke", was a feeling I had for a while now

https://preply.com/en/blog/most-popular-slang-in-america/#sc...
>I'm not sure you would find censorship of terms like “Democratic Movement” and “Long live Taiwan’s independence.” on Other platforms.

Yeah, on US tech platforms you can promote Taiwan's independence and criticize China's national interests, I'll give you that!

It's like the old joke, where the American says that he's free-er as he can go to Times Square with a bullhorn megaphone and openly criticize the US Predident.

To which the USSR guy counters that he's equally free, as he is also perfectly allowed to go to the Red Square and openly criticize the US Predident.

>not sure if you're intentionally comparing things like child porn to democracy as equally deserving of censorship but that's how i read it.

I wrote censoring based on "national interests" (not to mention petty political partisan censorship), but you took it that I was complaining about them censoring "child pornography". "Think of the children", much?

I don't think that censoring people from Snowden and wiki-leaks (banned on several instances, which corporations even disabling their way to accept donations), to people writing on the wrong side of the political and being banned for "fake news" (while the "legit" sources touted BS like the Steele Dossier, that now, years after it doesn't matter anymore, do a 180-turn on), amounts to "child porn".
It's bizarre that the car is out of warranty already at only four years. Have they driven it 100k miles or something?
Don't you think taxpayers are entitled to see the reasoning behind FDA's decisions? Especially such a high profile one where everything from the technology used to the timelines involved was novel? This sort of disclosure should be part of the FDA's job, if it isn't already. It is not a DDOS attack, it is just the job they were paid to do, on taxpayers' expense.
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emergency authorization != approval.

These shenanigans show that the approval can't have been based on all the information. They should have delayed the approval, at least until Phase III trial officially ended.
From the point of view of YC, they want to you think different even if it gets you killed. 100 startups think different, 99 get killed, the other one makes up for the rest.

Most founders would prefer better than 1% odds of course.
Ruby is dead. It’s the next Perl.
> it did not take decades for computer-structured clinical trial data to move across the corporation->government boundary

Do companies redact patient data before submitting it to the FDA? Are they even allowed to? That sounds like the sort of information that the FDA should have access to.
check out https://blitapp.com/blog/take-screenshots-of-multiple-pages-...
> Then they forget to update it, and then one day, all their servers, data and everything else is gone. Even if things are offline, they accrue costs, so the only thing to do when a limit is reached is destroy everything.

That's not the only thing you can do.

It takes quite a while from non-payment for OVH to take down their clients' services and delete their data, for example. They give customers a month long grace period before taking their service offline, and then there's another waiting period before they delete the data. At any point clients can resume service with payment.
These companies were also granted liability waivers for these vaccines (and are making record profits from them). They should not get to preserve any "trade secrets."
Xiaomi is a private company. They can censor whatever they like. If you don't like it you can create your own multi-billion dollar phone company and spend tens of billions on R&D to manufacture your own cutting-edge flagship phone.
This is, respectfully, horseshit. OpenSSL gained (deservedly) a reputation for insecurity around the time of Heartbleed, but its governance and maintenance changed radically in the years immediately following. I would trust OpenSSL more than I would trust LibreSSL at this point. Certainly, it's one of the most aggressively surveilled security codebases on the Internet.
This.

For trivial loop, Both GCC and clang optimize away the entire BasicLoop, but clang failed to optimize away the entire DuffDevice, while GCC did. Thus, the only thing doing the work is clang's Duff Device.

But even then, both GCC and clang optimize the BasicLoop function itself into just single add operation (data += loop_size) while it actually loops on the duff device function (though as mentioned, these functions weren't called from the benchmark)
The west is, to a large degree, institutionally captured.

Consumer boycott is the only solution.
Why would the FDA need the PII from the patient data?
I'm assuming whoever made the decision read the summary. The majority of those "pages" are probably just raw data. Most of it is probably each experimental patient's temperature and blood pressure, each time they got checked, one page at a time.
You’re an idiot or a spy if you think Facebook’s blocking is in anyway similar to China’s censorship.

Facebook does not block anything like “Winnie the Pooh” and you don’t risk disappearing by posting on Facebook.
I see what you are saying, yet I wonder about the logistics of this. I doubt these a minimum wage jobs. Surely it takes a knowledgeable person who is willing to do this kind of tedious work. How many people fit the requirements? Do they have to live in a particular geographic location? Everyone is having trouble hiring people. Is the government any different? I assume they have to go through background checks and get trained. How long does that take? How many other FOIA requests do they have in the backlog? Is there a risk of the current 10 people quitting if the work load becomes to onerous? Can they really ramp up to get it all done by March? Maybe if the government threw insane amounts of money at problem. I don’t like tedious exacting work, but I’d happily do it for 1 million dollars a day.
All these seem like mechanical or assembly issues other auto manufacturers have already figured out. Very rarely hear these days about control arms failing with traditional automakers vehicles.
This post got flagged and went dead. I vouched for it, as I hope others may see it, and I don't believe it broke any of the site's rules.
>They can censor whatever they like.

Only because the laws are too permissive in this particular regard.
You mean private companies that have government-enabled monopolies and work together to shut people out of interacting in society, all while getting ban-lists from NGOs funded by billionaires?

I'd rather have the oppressive government, which ostensibly creates rules to benefit the country as a whole, than be ruled by the whims of a network of billionaires.
Expired stock would have been thrown away every year from 2017 until March 2020 and most likely would have been legally required since it is medical equipment. That is a consequence of cutting funds for future disasters.
Omitting the Native American Genocide, you mean.
The article in the OP covers this directly. A thousand entries with normal advertisement-filter-sounding terms were added, and then everything removed.

I feel compelled to point out that you would know this had you read the article.
Destruction and confusion of western values, leading to a population more open to authoritarian and illiberal policies.

The goal is to confuse uneducated people (or rather, educate new people) about what being liberal means.

Before the propaganda, it used to come from liberty, freedom. Today being liberal means giving up personal freedoms like choosing whether to take medical treatments, and freedom to do whatever you want without government intervention.

Equality as a value used to mean to treat people equally without discrimination, but the value was distorted to mean you should intentionally discriminate in favor of the supposedly victimized and weak races and women.

Propaganda has successfully and silently distorted and redefined the entire ideological foundations of liberal democracy. There's people on the left that call themselves democratic and liberal very loudly but their versions of democracy and liberty are completely different words, only sharing the same letters.

With the current trajectory, I'll be surprised if anyone will even know their real meaning in 40 years.

Words are just letters, the semantics come from usage. They don't come from the dictionary. Just like AI is trained on input, so are humans. They can be trained to have different semantic meaning in their head for whatever word you want, as long as their inputs are flooded with that usage of the word.

You can continuously transform a liberal democracy into an authoritarian state, while in every point in the process people will still call it liberal democracy. It's all about the internal semantics in people's heads.
Now hearing about "data lake houses"....
Paranoia is a great survival mechanism until it isn't.
What happens if during the ceremony, someone is able to destroy all the cards at once (e.g. the building is attacked)?
Practically speaking, you're picking GMT or probably ES(D)T (NYC). And GMT is probably a slightly better choice for both historical reasons and because it's closer to more land timezones today.
That’s fascinating because I didn’t ask why I’m getting downvoted, thanks for the uh, friendly unrequested… help with… internet points?

It’s fascinating that you cannot actually respond to my original post at all, yet are compelled to post nonetheless. I admire your sense of civic duty, because it’s definitely not some silly nonsense meant to avoid discussing the subject matter that I’ve brought up in order to carry water for an apparently quite-popular race scientist.

Let’s try a fun experiment:

Can you respond to this question?:
“Considering the fact that the guy that’s whining about not being liked enough happens to write about race science, do you think maybe that that could contribute to people not liking him?”

To clarify, it’s a yes or no question as to whether or not you’re capable of answering that question in the negative or affirmative.

Also I didn’t call you a racist, I implied that you may (for a kaleidoscope’s worth of possible reasons) be going out of your way defending one. There are plenty of reasons that people carry water for racist kooks that don’t involve being in the club! I’m not sure what you’ve gotten from this interaction aside from maybe scoring points with some folks that don’t take issue with race science.

Not everybody is a full blown racist, there are also enthusiastic lackeys for those that are. There are people that will defend horrible shit because it makes them look cool in their social groups, hoping to gain points with folks that will literally never notice them, for example.
Hope you don't play tennis.

Could end badly for you.
I still hope they'll open source it one day. I never really got to use it in anger, and I bet that when you use PGO all the compilers end up pretty similar in the "real world" but it would be a shame for all the work to be lost
I'm not sure you would find censorship of terms like "Uighur are not in camps" on Twitter and Facebook. Because as per US foreign policy, "denying" those claims is not allowed
Is that the one where the urban legend has it soaking into the lab table over the years and then some poor unsuspecting soul bangs the lab table and...
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The difference is that Twitter isn't obligated to provide you a platform to spout Trump conspiracy theories, or whatever, but in most Western countries with the Rule of Law you have a right to not be extrajudicially disappeared by secret police.
What isn't? Every single stepping stone on that path uses someone else's infrastructure, who are able and willing to shut you down for any or no reason.

To activate your free speech rights, first buy a computer and build your own datacenter. Next, start your own ISP. Finally, tell others about your site, without piggybacking on any existing sites. In this way, all citizens can express their views without fear of censorship… and without fear of anyone ever noticing.
https://sealedabstract.com/rants/re-xkcd-1357-free-speech/in...
50 cent army.
I have this exact model. I can confirm that the censorship list is not active. I have tried to send SMS messages with censored words and there was no problem.

Recently I had a problem that the phone nagged me about "activating" the 2nd SIM card at boot if the "Find my device" Xiaomi functionality was enabled. It seems to be a part of the tracking functionality if my phone gets lost. The "activation" of the SIM card failed every time, but it sent a SMS to a UK number and billed me about 0,17€ for it. I only figured it out when I saw my phone bill.

I had an earlier Xiaomi phone and I recorded all my phone calls on it. The creepy thing is that I didn't know that Xiaomi was sycing all my files with Xiaomi Cloud.
Are those results useless?

The question posed early in the blog was whether Duff's Device is still relevant in 2021. The fact that the compiler can completely elide the loop without it but cannot with it is a pretty good indicator that it's likely to cause more harm than good.

It might prevent inlining of a function call in the loop body, which would make a loop much, much slower to execute. It will make the loop body larger (even without inlining) and likely cause an increase in cache misses. It will be unpredictable based on build: an unrelated change somewhere else might misalign it with a cache line. Different CPUs might have different cache behaviours and perform differently.

The right view on this sort of thing hasn't changed for decades: don't optimize prematurely. Trust your compiler, check it with profiling, look first for algorithmic improvements because you can gain FAR more converting an O(n^2) algorithm to an O(nlogn) than you can by unrolling a loop. Duff's Device is obsolete in all but a vanishingly tiny number of edge cases.
I’m Cherokee. I first learned about the Trail of Tears in public school before I heard about it from my family.
Sigh, no sooner you think you've escaped the helots of various annoying religious or political sects, Mao's Red Guards come around the corner for their purges.

Archimedes is probably still spinning in his grave.