skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it that Max Headroom, now 35 years old, has more realistic eyes than most video games today?

I'm looking at you, Madden 21.
No need to be black and white about this. It's not just a battle between the rabid authoritarians and hysterical Chicken Littles on one side, and the crackpot QAnons and categorical anti-vaxxers on the other. There's a range of reasonable positions in between. So let's stop framing things in the distorted and divisive way that the media has profited enormously from.

I, for one, do not think the COVID vaccine specifically should be mandatory, nor do I think coercive tactics should be used. I think freedom of conscience is important generally and people should not be compelled against their consciences to do things they do not think they should be doing. We should also avoid fixating on COVID as if it was the be-all and end-all of human existence. It is one consideration and also one that does not justifiably admit imposing a blanket burden on everyone. Perhaps this is the result of the law of instrument: some epidemiology-informed considerations could be so hyperfocused on COVID, everything else if forgotten.

A treatment of this topic is also available here which touches on these considerations: https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2021/10/covid-19-vaccinatio...
A pretty comprehensive overview that covers a lot of ground in the crypto/Web3 landscape.
Thanks. What would you want to us to write about next?
WristMac digital watch “talks to your Macintosh” – Ex Machina Inc. (1990)
Perhaps you may want to ask https://eff.org for help.
> If you can get 1-2 bitflips in the last two rounds, you can solve for the key.

What about the bit flips allows the key to be solved for? That is the part of this I don't understand
I'm not a medical expert, but my country (Czechia) recommends getting the third dose 6 months after the second.
Last year hammers cost $5, this year it's $4. Go to a jobsite and ask a guy what his hammer is worth and last year he would say $5, this year he says $4. He's not making a value judgment based on anything intrinsic about the hammer, it's just worth less due to the cost of replacement falling. He literally values it less.

Humans, unlike hammers can decide to train to become a screwdriver or change from Binford Tools to Craftsman, who
may value low turnover more than Binford and thus pay more to retain employees.

If the management or ultimate customers of your industry or firm don't support paying you a wage that keeps up with the CPI, I suggest working hard to find better managers and customers. You are fighting a losing battle otherwise. There is a ton of demand out there right now for almost everything.
In the US: 6 months after the 2nd mRNA dose or 2 months after J&J.
There's probably more than 300 today in the tenderloin alone if you call a tent a den
I'm not sure what your point was. My point is because these languages were invented in English and because English language has a concept UPPER and lower case, English programmers made up naming conventions using different case variations of the same id. The most common convention I've run into I listed above. So I type out some enum using kUPPER for 50 things, I then copy and paste that somewhere to generate 50 functions, but according to naming conventions, I now have to fix the case of all of those functions. That "fix the case" is wasted work. Then we also end up with kUPPER except if it's a compound word so kPASTEANDGO becomes kPASTE_AND_GO which then has to be translated to some `class PasteAndGo` because of naming conventions. Again, wasted work.

There are lots of cases where this conversion ends up causing all kinds of headaches, major and minor, just to keep everything matching the naming convention. Sure, you could choose to ignore the convention in this case but I've rarely seen a code base that does.

Whereas, if the languages had come from a culture with the language that doesn't have the concept of UPPER and lower case then these conventions might never have happened. You'd have maybe something like K_COPY_AND_GO, CLASS C_COPY_AND_GO, etc and copying and pasting ids around or code generating there'd be no hoops to jump through to match the case conventions for different uses of the same id.

> Capitalization only differs if the semantic meaning differs

Yes, and I'm positing that prefixes or suffixes would be better than case differences
That's a pretty massive thing to imply without any followup. As someone who understands how tech, business, governments and security services work, care to enlighten the rest of us?
Fine, referring to them as "stupiderati" was over the line. But generally, it is the people who hear "lab leak" and immediately jump to the conclusion that it was 100% deliberate that make it difficult to talk about.
The 70's were just such a great decade!
If you were so happy with a $30 Mr. Coffee...

Parent never said that, and they're obviously not happy with the Mr. Coffee if they're willing to spend $200 on a coffee maker...which, BTW, better do a better job than a $30 coffee maker.
Similar in appearance, drivetrain layout, and problems as the Dymaxion Car.
In practical, ordinary terms, there's nothing legally requiring you to give board seats to any investor.
Loads of companies are already offering this, with more switching almost every week

https://4dayweek.io/companies
Paywall, strike, declining trustworthiness... I see more and more negative comments about Wirecutter. Could that be an opportunity for a rising competitor?
> Edit: With that said, I'm not convinced this is the kind of the king that would actually hurt MS's reputation outside of geek circles.
I kind of disagree with this, if enough geeks denounce it, this spreads like a wild fire. Geeks have the (un)fortunate role of recommending everything from a router to PC to TV to their friends and family and if disgruntled enough, they might steer them away from things they dislike, it is just human nature (and justifiably so too).
If one non-techie thing I have learned at Microsoft very early on, is it the fact that never underestimate the _minority_ geek population who can have a disproportionately large impact on general populous with their opinions!
I am trying to establish whether indeed we are living in a two tier society, where laws mostly only apply to the poor.
Anything that contains affiliate, referral, or commission links I do not trust.
My favorite trick to finding file which I know some app is using but I don't know where it is is:

strace some_app 2>&1 | grep open

And it will tell me what files is it opening. You will also see files it tried but failed to open, i.e. missing files.
Once upon a time, I helped a group of friends start a company, and as we were going over the parts of the LLC agreement that outlined what would happen if the company dissolved as part of a fight, the entire group treated me like I was ridiculous for suggesting that they would get in a fight. I told them that if they were planning on staying friends forever, they didn't even need the LLC agreement, they could just promise to treat each other fairly.

The company imploded amidst a massive falling out something like a year later...
Yeah, and it sounds like the same will be true on iOS sometime in December. Not sure why they'd announce the discontinuation now instead of just waiting a few weeks until they have a drop-in replacement available, though I guess it is just for one platform.
that's like bash 101, not sure why it's in there
Cool website. How is this different from Plotly/Dash or Streamlit?
For bootstrapped (for lack of a better term) companies these "boards" are pure formalities; it's a running joke among bootstrappers that they flip a coin to figure out who the listed corporate officers are going to be.
None of this seems like 'sponsorship' to me, it seems more like 'restriction' or 'regulation'. 'Sponsorship' implies that someone is providing a level of funding beyond just being a paying customer. Is there any evidence that the government of Israel (or any of the other governments you mention) are actually providing loans or share capital to NSO Group?
Can’t you structure things like Zuckerberg or Palantir and just have the founder retain unilateral company control?
In PL we have/had alternative for every big Co. Even Apple alternative that got killed by Siemens. And it's 40M country. I would love some space and capital here.
CVS, Walgreens and Walmart Perpetuated Opioid Crisis, Jury Finds
> those inane licenses no one reads, do we really want them to legally binding?

What all would be possible if software EULAs weren't legally binding?

One thing that EULAs typically do is reduce liability for the company producing the software. Imagine if Google/Apple were liable for damages from all the miscommunications caused by autocorrect?
> The attack surface of software as complicated as a modern operating system (iOS or MacOS, etc.) is simply too large to lockdown without dramatically hurting the user experience (assuming you could actually achieve a lockdown in the first place!!).

https://qubes-os.org
For one, the parent alluded to pranks they did in the past, of which we know nothing about and I expect many of which were more asshole than they were awesome.

The Headroom prank interrupted TV people (presumably) wanted to watch, made broadcast engineers scramble, and may have even gotten a few woken up in the middle of the night. I won't even speculate as to what kind of pains-in-the-ass it almost certainly caused throughout the network and at the FCC going forward.

You really cannot see the asshole quotient here?

Pranks should be between friends, not unsuspecting strangers.
For example my friend landed a high 7 figure position initiated by a random executive recruiter. I’ve gotten a few great job offers from recruiters. Engineers on LinkedIn are like women on dating apps. Lots of spam but a few interesting leads.
This confused me as well -- it's not totally obvious with the way that the information is presented.

Per the "Sources" tab:

> Incidence rate estimates: Weekly age-specific incidence rates by vaccination status were calculated as the number of deaths divided by the number of people either fully vaccinated (cumulative) or unvaccinated (obtained by subtracting the cumulative number of fully vaccinated and current number of partially vaccinated people from the 2019 U.S. intercensal population estimates) and multiplied by 100,000. Overall incidence rates were age-standardized using the 2000 U.S. Census standard population. Rates are not adjusted for time since vaccination, underlying conditions, or other demographic factors besides age.

So I believe you're correct in that the data comparing deaths against the entire population, not against people who got covid.
Nice that Zuck is corrupting Governments also...

I read somewhere there was a "secretive" meeting in Ireland with FB recently whereby the gov mentioned that it was an off the record meeting (with public officials... )

Absolutely incredible. Facebook is a scourge to Humanity.
Some people even can conclude from this that being evil is better idea.

A fictional example: there is a character in Wheel of Time, that realized that for the good guys to win, they must win every time the bad guy attempts something, but the bad guy must win only once (since his goal is destruction of the universe), thus this character concludes that being evil is a better goal, since you can keep trying until you succeed, he imagines eventually he WILL succeed, as a matter of "when", not of "if".
If you are under 30, it appears your risk of death is low regardless of your status, but you will not forever be under 30, and perhaps you know some over-30 for whom the difference in death rate is important? Even if there's no one you care about who is over 30, to the extent that vaccination also reduces your risk of infecting others, it is polite to your society to be vaccinated. Perhaps you get no great benefit, but others do.
That's a pretty sensationalist article. Wirecutter doesn't hide the fact that they make money off of affiliate fees. Almost all content sites do.

Are there better review websites than the Wirecutter? I've found them to be solid and helpful.
Sigh.

How many times does this have to be explained before everyone gets it?

It is not all about you. There are other people in the world.

Masks and social distancing protect them, too. In addition, as others have noted in this thread, death is not the only bad result, here. Long covid is horrific, and even milder cases can have permanent health effects that are extremely undesirable.
India seeks to block most cryptocurrencies in new bill, government says
Seems like it's time to go back to Consumer Reports.
bang on, especially that last part

a bit focus of htmx, alpinejs (and htmx's sister project, https://hyperscript.org) is putting the logic on the element, so you can see exactly what a button, etc. does just by looking at it, and without trawling through ten files of indirection

i am trying to popularize the term Locality of Behavior to describe this design goal:

https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/
gassy
FTC Releases 2021 Do Not Call Registry Data Book
listening over to different versions[1] and it is amazing how different the game sounded on different systems (sometimes with completely different soundtrackks). The Apple II sounds like it uses two square waves only. While Amiga, DOS, PC-98, Sharp x68000 and Sega Genesis sound like FM synth, FM Towns and SNES sound like wavetable synth, Gameboy is two squares, NES is two squares and a triangle plus noise.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q_6tOpnquI
Ah, yes, Apple just neglected to flip the security switch on.
I thought the reason why Cloudflare Workers were great is that they utilize the many CDN points that Cloudflare owns. Or you can use Blueboat with say Fastly and achieve nearly the same thing?
US based? I understand if you can't divulge any specifics, but I'm always curious about the nature of these attacks, e.g. we know certain types of journalists/activists are often targeted.
Not knowing statistics is a form of protection against depression, sadness and anxiety.

Gotta thank god that the majority of people believe bad stuff doesn't apply to them.

It's a burden for few.

If you want to see society collapse just improve the literacy in statistics
I wish you were always 12 minutes in front of me in comment threads :)
Good pattern ! At least a library that makes sense. Thanks.

One point about production usage, you should adapt to a NoSQL backend as we want to query authorization logic against a caching layer for performance reason.
I believe that the proper response to this is to limit the percentage of hospital wards that can be devoted to COVID 19 cases, as the main effect of low vaccination rates is that the hospitals get too full.

And suddenly, I'm not worried anymore, unlike now where the regional hospitals are massively backed up or closed due to low vaccination rates.

My compassion is completely fatigued. All I can think about now is getting back to the gym when my youngest is fully vaccinated.
> I stopped heeding their recommendations after I discovered that they were aggressively persuing kickbacks and refusing to review products that do not pay.

Let me offer a counterexample - VPN services. They didn’t get a cent from Mullvad, which they declared the winner. Number two was IVPN, which also doesn’t have an affiliate program.

The review: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-vpn-service/
The whole affiliate marketing space is a dirty business. Saying affiliate relationship is just softer language for kickback IMO. The incentives are the same. I think all reviews with affiliate links should have to be labeled as paid promotion.

This [1] sleepopolis saga is an amazing read if you’ve never seen it.

1. https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...
This is amazing publicity for NSO.

Is NSO is able to crack Apple security you can bet the NSA, Chinese, Russians as well as Israel's Mossad is doing much the same.

With this lawsuit, Apple is basically admitting that they need lawyers and not engineers to combat the hacking.

But suing NSO would not stop the other agents from hacking Apple.

That is why it is best that Apple spend $100 million or more to cybersecurity harden their software.

In addition, Apple should offer $1 million awards for breaking their security.

One should also ask, how many lives were saved from terrorist attacks by NSO. That would be an interesting story.
>"If a lawyer makes an argument in court about the law governing a case (as opposed to the facts of the case), and the judge accepts the argument, and the judge's decision survives all its appeals, then the lawyer's argument is, by definition, true. "

This is a Kafkaesque and wrong understanding of the legal system. There are all sorts of errors of law and errors of fact that are non-appealable.
How the U.S. Lost Ground to China in the Contest for Clean Energy
Yeah this checks out, these people have a reputation for this behavior.
I co-sign this whole comment and answer the rhetorical question: $50MM for an exploit chain would not stop a state-level adversary. Their alternatives for these kinds of operations is human intelligence; they'd pay more just in health benefits to staff those operations.
Consumer Reports has a long history of subscriber-funded independent reviews. They refuse all advertising, free/discounted items, etc. to prevent conflicts of interest. They review everything from cars and lawnmowers to mattresses and electronics, but depending on what niche of electronics you're looking at they may or may not have the kind of reviews you're looking for.

https://www.consumerreports.org
The original Max Headroom was played by Matt Frewer in heavy makeup. So his eyes are Matt Frewer's eyes.
That’s really a shame. I’ve installed Lockwise for my parents on iOS because it was the simplest way to use their Firefox passwords on the computer and on iOS devices. They don’t need something as complicated as Bitwarden or Lastpass, just a simple password manager. Sure, I can install Firefox on their devices, but that’s an icon more they won’t understand.

Can’t say I didn’t see it coming. Lockwise was full of bugs and hadn’t been updated for quite some time.
I am a straight-up GPL coder and advocate, and I find this line of reasoning, difficult to support. Additionally, it is a habit of lying, thieving security people to use every inch of freedom that GPL-advocates give them.. really torn here
Why is BinaryFormatter insecure?

Edit: Never mind, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serializati...
*probably unique, but not possible to prove definitely unique.
> Debian can still compile Firefox from source and patch out trackers and update dependencies, even if at the end of the day it bundles the changes back into another Flatpak app.

Does that mean I'll download one copy of libThatWasUpdated for every app that uses it?

Seems like this is exactly like iOS and Android work. I see the appeal (they are definitely more secure against malicious apps than Linux with apt-get), but the waste of space still bothers me. Docker has the same issue, and didn't really solve it with its layered filesystem (you always need several dependencies, but you can't merge images, so you'll need to install a new copy of some of them).

These packages also make it hard to audit the versions of security-critical code installed on my system. It's good that they can be updated separately by the OS, but at least when apt-get was upgrading shared libraries, I could be sure that all programs had the fix. Now I'll need to go dive into each package to know if it should be allowed to run, or if I should wait for the upgrade.
Doesn't solve rich data though as neatly as IndexedDB does.

Because IndexedDB uses structured clone, it can store javascript data as is, which includes storing correctly a number of interesting/useful types, including ArrayBuffers, Files/Blobs, CryptoKey instances (useful to avoid needing export flag on them), the cost of this is the performance hit compared to JSON.parse on a string.

Also the cache is less persistent than IndexedDB when storage pressure increases.
> the mask made no difference In my case

How can you possibly know such a thing? The mask is more about reducing your spread to others, do you have reliable data on how many people you would have infected in lieu of masking? No, you don't.
You talk to a lot of people who use Qubes day to day? I do. What have you heard about how Qubes life is?
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration
NL is at ~85% vaccinated 12 yrs up. Infections are through the roof.
> In any case, it's still not cheaper than a box fan and a HEPA filter, which ought to be the baseline you'd test against if you were providing value to your readers.

Don't dismiss this as a cantankerous rant. This is an extremely good point. The advantages are not only there in terms of cost but in terms of environmental impact and waste as well. It's telling that this sort of DIY solution isn't highlighted as the goto, especially in a publication catering to a crowd that claims to care about not fucking up the planet and wrings it's hands about the harms of capitalism. Instead of an air purifier bungee a HEPA filter to a box fan and donate the difference to some group capitalism shits on, repeat this approach for all things. Problem solved. Welcome to the solarpunk revolution.

Disclaimer: I did in fact buy a Levoit air purifier off Amazon during the wildfires last year so you know, ain't nobody perfect.
I am gladly using Qubes myself as a daily driver. Can't recommend it enough.
Thanks for the SSO pointer. I'll keep that in mind in the future.

> Yes. std::unordered_map requires that pointers to stored values will always be valid (except if the value is erased).

Hmm, that requirement also prevents Cuckoo-hashing.

The general pattern here (and this is problematic in a lot of languages), is the idea of having a "shortcut" into an object in a data-structure. For example, C++ and Java's "iterator-invalidation" rules are absolutely arcane, even if we removed the pointer-requirements.

Many data-structures want to move things around (cuckoo-hashing, open-addressing, robin-hood hashing... look 3 different, high-performance strategies and we're still just talking about hash tables!!). But those moves "invalidate" the shortcuts (be it a pointer or an iterator).

Some data-structures can have those pointers just fine (Red-and-black trees), others cannot. Representing all these possibilities with a fixed, easily understood interface that generalizes among all of these data-structures / decisions seems impossible.

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Well, I guess that's why I keep rolling my own data-structures when I need performance guarantees... standard-library just has to make decisions that may or may not match my cases.
Pointing to a photorealistic image in response to a heavily nonphotorealistic and art directed show doesn't make much sense.

Arcane doesn't push the technology for graphics. You could get visuals like it in the PS3 or PS4 era .

What it does really well is art direction, a lot of which is cinematography. Games can do it already, it's just a matter of a studio wanting to commit to that style.
Family Dollar hasn't sold things at a dollar price point in years. They're basically big convenience stores with makeup, clothing, and toiletries sections.
At least for France, there is less to recommend doing a startup than in the US. The social security regime is worse (than for others eg employees, govt workers), the tax schemes are complex and penalizing at the low end, and the amount a company has to pay an employee is near double what the employee sees in the bank, because near half goes to support the social security net. I’ve been here a decade and wouldn’t start one, even after doing autoentrepreneur unless it was the only choice.
> they are fought for mostly by the French with French money and weapons

Lafayette sure helped the revolution a lot, but it's a stretch to claim that it was France who liberated the US.

You would need a lot of archeological findings to "find" all these extra french soldiers.