skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested in Apple & privacy, you should listen to Polymatter's videos on Apple, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjLHuhOTnaI - it really helped me understand their whole strategy around privacy and PR "stunts" like this. From that video:

"Google embraces gathering your data, arguing you shouldn't just tolerate them using your data, you should want it - first, because giving your phone more information makes it more useful. And second, because all this data [...] makes this services cheaper and more accessible to, say, people in poverty. [...] Apple, meanwhile, rejects the whole concept. Tim Cook argues that’s a fake trade-off designed to justify a business model where you are the product, not the customer.
Not only does your iPhone not need your data to be useful, it says, it doesn’t even want it. For Apple, storing your information is only a liability.
Now, whether you buy that logic or not, you have to stop and admire its genius.
Because, if Google says your data is what allows it to sell cheaper products, then Apple can argue it’s higher prices are a feature.
You should feel good paying more for an iPhone, because it’s proof Apple doesn’t need to sell you out to advertisers. On the other hand, this argument is also harder to explain. While Tim is busy waxing poetic about privacy, Google just points to the price tag - everyone wants to save money.
[...] Whenever there’s a big hack, Tim Cook will, predictably, do a few interviews about privacy, trying to convince you that Apple’s interests are most aligned with yours.
"
If you yourself read the links you posted, you'd know these two thins are just speculation

1) They do not explain way, Worobey just assumes that first patient was different person, with connection to wet market, while it is known that both WHO and China identified earlier patient without connection to the wet market. If you read long enough you will find that he is being criticized exactly for that assumptions without any proof.

2) Does not matter.
60yos dating 25yos is creepy to nearly everyone.
They will just try to turn crypto into the existing banking network by forcing citizen coin holders onto the exchanges, banning transactions from non custodial addresses and continuing to control the on-ramps and off-ramps. This way they can monitor transaction and if they don’t like something or are suspicious they can just seize the funds once they hit an on-ramp/off-ramp.

A CBDC will be introduced and all other USD stable coins will be banned and consider counterfeit currency. The US CBDC will replace stable coins and allow the US to continue exporting its currency abolishing other currencies in the process while gathering intelligence.
Signal has enabled MobileCoin payments worldwide
Don't forget fueling the ransomware explosion.
> Maybe the company was betting at the time on an integrations marketplace, or a lot of partnerships, so a robust integration platform was built. Then the company moved on to another bet after only writing one or two integrations on the new platform. Nobody over-engineered here. Everything was built to spec.

I would argue this is a case of over-engineering. Though, it extends beyond pure engineering.

This is poor resource management and business de-risking. An effective approach here would have been: "Let's build out a handful of integrations. Make sure they're going to deliver the value we want. Then abstract it into a repeatable pattern".
The allegation is of a corrupted spiritual experience, hence the Rasputin reference. It's one thing to go on a meditation retreat; its another to go on retreat and have the guru follow you home to advise you on policy when they learn you're powerful.

Money corrupts spirituality, and it always has.
You might find this TED talk (and the clips of experiments shown during the talk) interesting: https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_moral_behavior_in_an...
There’s no good defaults here. From AWS’s perspective the whole VM is in the same security context. It’s all untrusted customer code from the kernel on up. That’s the granularity on which policy can be applied. Either the whole VM can do something or it can’t. How you define your own security boundaries inside is your business. You can help AWS by doing your own access keys but most people would rather just also make their security boundary the VM and not have to think about it. Treat a compromised processes and a compromised host the same.
Exact reason why i stopped using digitalocean, motherfuckers keep hiding the sign in button especially on mobile LOL
So being a 'contractor' and 'not connected' is a problem.

But once they have the PM, designers, architect and devs. 'on staff' and all 'over there' - then you are the 'not connected' contractor.

Moreover 'they' are getting better across the board.

Japan made crap until they made the best cars in the world.

China made crap but now they have the top 5G gear and all of the patents, and would wipe out a big chunk of Western companies were it not for 'security' and other issues.

Americans are fairly instantly replaceable with Canadians, Aussies, Brits, and almost as easily replaceable with French, Italian and Germans etc.

'Remote Work' is like an 'unlimited, free H1B' program.

Many jobs are safe, but many are not.
I feel like I have a pretty good idea of Stephen Diehl's opinions on cryptocurrency markets, after reading a lot of his articles posted on HN. I'll read this one too, if there's a new argument in it. Is this one worth reading for someone who is beginning to find them a little samey?
The Arduino Uno Mini Limited Edition
Their God is defined by their translation though, right? So they’re at least acting self-consistently.
I wonder how long it will take for CDK to support this stuff. I'm not sure how they will back themselves out of the corner of subnets having a required ipv4 CIDR property.
> Consider that (mostly) the only ones promising to bring back jobs/protect local industry are on the right, while the left sees this as something nasty and nativist, that just shouldn't be done.

Is this true in most European countries? Because in Latin America, the Left wants to protect workers jobs and local industries.

I'm confused because in many parts of the world, the US in particular and I guess (some of) Europe, "the Left" seems to mean "liberal democrats". Over here, on the contrary, the Left is all about workers rights. We do have some social democrats masquerading as progressives, of course, but we understand that's not "the Left".
Perhaps inflation in the price of electricity, denominated in USD?

But when people say inflation in the context of cryptocurrency they usually mean "deflation".
This is just wrong.

The White House recently identified semiconductors as an essential product critical to US national security [1]. These actions by the US and allies to onshore fabs is part of the adjustment to defuse a supply chain risk caused by potential future actions by China.

During the Cold War, both sides used strategic release of classified information on capabilities to notify the war planners on the other side in order to prevent miscalculations that could lead to a nuclear exchange. This is common knowledge and a good tactic to tamper escalation. It would be extremely irresponsible to surprise a nuclear peer with new capabilities.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
Pedantry:

COVID or Covid?

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/brand-style-guide/writing/grammar...

https://ginsengenglish.com/blog/covid
> A little apples to oranges, but I get the feeling the same folks who are against being photographed in public are probably pro police bodycams

The reasoning is not contradictory as you imply at the end; it is indeed apples and oranges. The "pro police bodycam" position is for capturing the actions of the person wearing it, protecting the camera's subject by adding accountability. The point is for the recording to be available as a public record in case of a problem, not for the officer to be able to use it.

A random videographer on the street does not have anything like the same relationship with their captured subjects, and is probably not making a record that is positive for the recorded person (or the public).

And that's to say nothing of private surveillance cameras; the difference there should be obvious.
I was surprised the power outage affected Samsung because in DFW the outage only affected residential areas. I didn't see a single commercial/industrial space without power including fully lit empty parking lots.
Just a quick note that I am off to meet family flying in for Thanksgiving. I will continue to reply to this thread later this afternoon.
Setup a MetaMask wallet. That's it! You don't even have to fund it in order to authenticate on web3 applications. MetaMask will allow you to authenticate on all the different chains that have EVM-based dapps including Ethereum, Fantom, Avalanche, & Moonriver

Polkadot.js for Kusama and Polkadot apps. You can also check out Fearless wallet on mobile for Polkadot & Kusama where you can participate in the ongoing parachain auctiona. Use the Phantom extension to authenticate on Solana dapps.

Hope you have fun!
There are several Youtube channels where people gradually train cats and dogs to use boards full of buttons (20+ buttons in some cases) to communicate their wants. It definitely seems to work in general but doesn't make the animals any less themselves... one of the funnier examples being a video of a cat repeatedly pressing the "outside" button, staring at a yard full of snow, and then stalking back and pressing the "mad" button several times. Simple compound phrases (for example, "play friend" or "love grandma") are fairly common, but any kind of actual syntax is basically nonexistent.
No you built an affiliate links site where you say they are all "great".
Sure, but central banks do influence how much banks can borrow, and hence how fast the currency supply grows. Even someone whose understanding of monetary policy is limited to "The Fed has a big meeting each year to decide what the inflation rate will be" can understand why a deflating currency would be really bad.
That's what I'm talking about though.

foreach(datastructure){
datastructure.what-functions-are-legal() ??
}

Vector: Inserts are allowed as long as element fits in vector.capacity(). Erase (which "shifts" the elements down) are allowed at the end of the vector (specifically: all locations "after" the erase are invalidated. So pop_back() is always legal)

List: All operations allowed, except for reading from an erased element.

map: All operations allowed, except for reading from an erased element.

unordered_map: ??? Under debate right now.

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So even if you had assurances that unordered_map.insert would work (ex: Robinhood hash, you check size() and compare to capacity(), much like a vector), the movement of data means that your iterator is basically invalidated on any insert.

So unordered_map(Robin-hood): Nothing. No erases, no insertions allowed during the foreach loop at all.

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This comes up in practice. The minute you have 2 threads, and a 2nd thread _might_ insert while the 1st thread _might_ be in a foreach loop, you suddenly have to have assurances for what is or isn't legal from an iterator-invalidation perspective.

I guess you could just have the entire for-each loop inside of a lock, but that seems a bit inefficient?
Unfortunately that battle is lost :/
> Natural proclivities is a post hoc rationalization using the sociological process of reification.

Meaning:

Step 1: Create social incentives that maintain differences.

Step 2: Measure differences.

Step 3: Say those differences are real and natural, since you now have measured them.

> The process of gaining knowledge assuming a social construct will always suffer from a tautological fallacy.

Meaning:

If you want to know whether, say, men and women are different, and you try to collect measurements about those differences, those measurements will always be affected by the underlying assumption that men and women are different.

> Any attempt to break the cycle is a epistemological illusion.

Meaning: Your measurements of peoples' behavior will always be polluted by whatever beliefs are widespread, including those to do with whatever you're measuring.

That about right?

I disagree.

You can measure, for example, the behavior of male and female orangutans. It will not be affected by human society. The only assumption you are making is that orangutans and humans are similar -- that the former is a good model for the latter.

I also have a larger problem with the worldview you are advancing. While it raises useful awareness about certain mistakes that can be made, it is itself unfalsifiable when taken too far. It asserts that everything is socially constructed and that no measurement can demonstrate otherwise.
COM best practices should be to ship the libraries as registration free components.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/creatin...

Unfortunately, like in every best practices from Microsoft, some teams are in deep need of internal advocacy.
Braces by itself are very poor visual indicators of a block, so they are almost always (except in one liners) coupled with indentation of the code inside the block. So, in a raw text form (ignoring newline and space chars) it's two characters to start a block (brace and a tab).

Sure, a good IDE will automatically create indentation when you type '{', so you need to only type a single character to start the block. We could actually say '{' is a shortcut key to start a block. IDE creates an indentation and draws a vertical line to enhance visual presentation of the block. Visually, braces are more or less just a noise, so removing them would improve "signal to noise ratio" and enhance reading experience.

However, logically braces are better at defining blocks of code than tabs. With braces we have start '{' and end '}' characters, but with tabs each line needs to be indented by a correct number of chars (tabs/spaces).

I am wondering, if we can have best of both worlds.

In some cases we are trying to draw visual indications with text. Wouldn't be better, if we let the IDE do the drawing? Eg.: two vs four spaces of indentation? It doesn't matter, if you can configure visual indentation depth on the fly in the IDE.
Absolutely. It's surprising they're like that, but nobody who's been paying attention should still be surprised.
If the fire station is located on a busy road or near a blind curve, turning on the siren when exiting might be a good policy. Out on a county road with good sight lines and low traffic? They can wait until they're going at a hazardous speed or intersection.

My main concern would be all of the communications equipment they typically have. Being that close to high powered transmitters can cause annoying interference.
I can see how it scores poorly on the number of scrolls per paragraph of information, maximum words read per unit of time, etc, but clearly that is intended with the choice of spacing and font size which is different in the docs (typically optimized for providing information, similar to what your metrics seem to try to measure).

I think it is more usefully analyzed as a landing page, with a lot of emphasis on how it looks, at the deliberate tradeoff of the text being harder to access.

On the practical side, personally I'd expect to find docs, getting started, and source repo which I found immediately.

Some surprises though: I didn't notice the scroll until after looking at links (intended?). The way some elements disappeared if you scrolled just slightly past them entering the page. I didn't find the scroll jacking surprising after first seeing it, I read it as "not a normal text document" shortly after.

Of course you might in the end not care for the visual side, or not expect it to come at such a great expense in terms of scroll # or similar metrics. I think that's a risk they take with this kind of page.

edit: typo
3% sounds a surprisingly small and uninteresting percentage as well, given that "exposed to the automation shock" is basically "works in a list of mostly low paid occupations with less educated workforces we've highlighted as susceptible to automation". Right wing populist parties have always been more popular with low income, low education workers. So have populist left wing parties and the abstract indicates the authors' model is specified so it find no such correlation with left wing support, but this sounds suspiciously like p-hacking...
"If they don't have bread, let them eat cake."

Edit: I think in the kind of countries that GP mentions, access to stable foreign currencies will be very restricted, especially during times where the country's native currency is in crisis.
The general rule is you can go down to half your age plus seven years.

Where'd you dig that out of, a back issue of Cosmopolitan, right next to the "partner compatibility" quiz? Two grown, consenting adults don't need your approval to hook up, no matter the age difference. Calling it "creepy" is simply arrogant and self-righteous, with a sprinkling of tone-deaf on top.

There's plenty to not like about the other Scott Adams. His choice of partner is not one of them.
Here's a problem. You are a journalist. It's a bit quiet out there. Not much to report on. You see that someone wrote an article 3 years ago [1] about the Riemann hypothesis. They didn't prove it, of course, they just showed some linkage with some physical phenomena. How do you turn this into a nice title that can generate clicks? If you say "proven" or "solved", that's a straight lie, you can't do that. If you say "explored" or "investigated", nobody's going to pay any attention. How about "unveiled"? Yep, I think "unveil" is quite optimal for the situation. Can you find a better one?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10223
I wish I’d qualify the top post more. I’ve previously raised several rounds for a SaaS company. I can get the meetings. But this is Hard Tech, and something no one else is pursuing, and this results in a conversation where they come wholly unprepared and we spend the bulk aligning on what is this thing and why is it different, and if we try to gloss over that there’s no foundation to the claims we make.
What about gaming? A huge problem in gaming now is that once games are no longer profitable, the servers go offline and they become unplayable. In-game assets simply disappear, and DRM servers go offline on the whim of the publisher. With the right architecture, crypto could solve both of these problems.

Disclaimer: I don't like DRM or microtransactions, I think both of them make the gaming experience in 2021 pretty terrible.
To make it easier for people to pick a VPN, we plan to add lists for Top X vpns for absolute security, top ones for privacy, top ones for reliability.

About the reviews:

We collect the reviews per topic by doing a web search. Unfortunately, many VPN reviews are bought and paid for, so we need to improve the collection, filtering, and ranking of the reviews. We did this for other products, but VPNs seem to be a very tricky category.
Not your private keys, not your coins. You CHOSE to gamble with your property when you gave it to someone else. Whether you understood this before you lost your property or not, is irrelevant. I've not lost any of my coin UTXOs associated with my own private keys. Unregulated, foreign Magic The Gathering trading card exchange use was never a wise choice from the day Jed McCaleb started that garbage database.
More than once, that is VS still today since the 2010 rewrite.
You telling me everyone understands computerized voting machines? Because I don't think there's that much of a gap between people who know about those vs people who know about block chains
> It is not conscious like a mammal, bird, or octopus is conscious.

I do not see how you could know this, because consciousness and how it forms is exceptionally poorly understood. If in the past two years major breakthroughs have happened on this subject I would love to read about it. Perhaps you can point me in the right direction.
My home is my escape from tech. I use software and computer technology all day at work. Yes I have a PC at home but it's an isolated system. I don't want this stuff in every facet of my life. My light switches are all conventional mechanical ones. My thermostat is digital (I didn't choose it) but unprogrammed. It is set to hold whatever temperature I select, until I change it. My locks are all key-operated. Same with my cars, I buy older cars with minimal or no electronics. I will never buy an appliance the requires an app to operate it, and will never have any devices that listen or talk to me. Alexa, Echo, etc. seem utterly pointless and invasive.
> The one thing that might outweigh this general rule, is if something newsworthy happens, or something that would be deemed important for the public to see, such as a crime.

It actually sounds like that isn’t required in the US.

https://dinalitovsky.bulletin.com/590041038798261
Per the article:

> A long-held view was that birds were aided in their orientation by a cluster of iron neurons in their beaks, which interacted with the earth’s magnetic field. “But, in the past ten years, people have begun to ask if maybe it’s something else.” Gow posits that this something could well be olfaction. “If you have a colony of birds,” she says, “they can find their individual nest among thousands by smell.”
Completely different from VSCode? The code for vscode.dev is already open source as part of VSCode. Microsoft doesn't provide any instructions for it (yet?) but that hasn't stopped the community from tackling it. A quick search turned up a couple different options: https://fribbledom.com/posts/selfhosting-vscode/ and https://www.gitpod.io/blog/openvscode-server-launch
NASA Research Launches a New Generation of Indoor Farming
Wonder if CloudFlare’s post had anything to do with this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/
>Well then, again, would you want a flat-earther science manual in the school library?

I'd be fine with that so long as it's in the fiction section.
> outside of our comfy western countries most people have this problem.

Can you cite some evidence that there are people keeping long-term savings* in cash and has adequate internet access and computing resources to participate in cryptocurrencies? I'm still not buying this.

* (I believe people do hold short-term savings in cash, but those are not the type of savings that money-printing erodes significantly.)
The Oracle problem renders the trust component of the blockchain untrustworthy. The storage expense of using a blockchain (because of the validation required) imposes the requirement of using off chain DB for storage. So you end up with the most economically viable use for Blockchain being the validation of high value digital transactions..e.g
Crypto. Perhaps this is why crypto prices will continue to rise, since the validation component requires energy ($) to function and the more transactions that take place, the more validation is required - I believe it does not scale linearly even though it happens in parallel.

Since validation fees are paid in crypto, crypto prices must rise as more validation takes place. It is sort of circular.

I could be 100% wrong though.
Sure would be great for, uh, paying ransoms I guess.
Man Is Exonerated in Rape Case Described in Alice Sebold’s Memoir
I think that most IDEs (with exceptions) are junk that do nothing but occupy disk space, it is far better to use only a text editor and command line compiler.
> It might cause an OOB write though

No, because `RegQueryValueExW` will return ERROR_MORE_DATA and the code bails out on error (also leaking the memory).