skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parent commenter doesn't seem like he'd qualify for any of those since he has no math credentials.

To be honest, it's a tough question. He's clearly a successful senior IT professional (assuming everything he said is true), and so he's probably intelligent. Even if we assume he's mature enough to stay well focused for that period and work hard, it's sort of a toss-up as to whether it's worth us funding it over another candidate.

Then again, there is no other platform like this, so if I had the option between contributing $50 to this person vs doing nothing - I'd rather give $50 to him on the off-chance that he solves (or materially advances) the Collatz Conjecture.

...but also, this speaks to a dysfunction in the Math community, in general. There should be a more constructive online forum for people like him to participate in.
You are assuming people would wait until the mandate was in effect to change behavior rather than for example buying masks in preparation for a mandate.
There’s a lot of grey area and nobody can prove it either way. If you maintain good relationships with your clients and keep them happy, they don’t ask questions.

Consulting is a relationship business. You’ll make way more money focusing on the people rather than the work. You can cover up sloppy execution with a good relationship, but stellar execution won’t save a project where you fuck up the client relationship.
There's address-sanitizer, although for ABI compatibility the bound is stored in shadow memory, not alongside the pointer. It is very expensive though. A C implementation with fat pointer would probably have significantly lower overhead, but breaking compatibility is a non-starter. And you still need to deal with use-after-free.
So the CEO working at google previously many years ago is the key unlock? Not clear how this is helpful.
I googled gab and it was the first result. Did your machine get pwned?
Yes, there is always a threshold proportional to the inconvenience caused. If you are fine with any inconvenience, then the number one life saving thing is banning travelling.
There are also masks that come with additional foam gaskets or have a fully moldable outline, not just the nose piece.

I had a problem where the masks either leaked at the nose or right where the nose wire ended no matter what I did. Got some of them with foam gasket, no problem anymore
I wonder how many of us are going to end up cleaning our microwaves today after seeing this comment.
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I think there is a bit of a difference between taking artifacts and digging up corpses and taking parts of them.
I wish it had covered practical tests more thoroughly. As in: did the phone communication effectively drop dead once in the cages which measure well? Looks very likely based on those attenuation numbers, but still: 'question everything' is usually the way to go in test&measurement.
As someone who lives in one of the areas in this study that instituted a mask mandate, I think the clearest explanation of the lower case rates preceding the mandates is the general willingness of the population to mask prior to the dates noted on the graph. Yes, the most recent mask mandates weren't instituted until July 26th, but, for whatever my anecdata is worth, masking use in the more urban areas was already substantially higher than it was in the areas without the mandates. There's also the small matter of the more populous areas having higher vaccination rates than the state's more rural areas.

To me, the story here is not the data itself; it's another example of elected officials hiding data that doesn't agree with their position. Is the headline the best interpretation of the data? Not at all. But it's one more data set showing that the areas that are most closely following relevant recommendations are seeing better outcomes than areas that aren't.
It takes years to become acquianted with the library ecosystem of a given language. If you're going to write everything from scratch (especially in a language with an extremely bare-bones standard library), it takes maybe months to become proficient with any language in a paradigm you already know, save a few extremes (C++).
I work with geographic dataset regularly and have acquired dataset in the past. This product wouldn't be usable. It doesn't list license and attribution requirements. "Lifetime license" might work for icons or website templates an author created themselves. But it's unlikely the author drew those polygons. The data comes from somewhere and the license, be it public domain, CC-BY, ODbL, Royalmail/Crown needs to be made clear. With ODbL the question would be if produced or derived work clauses apply (redistribution).

The website has no contact link, no postal address, one is buying from ... well, whom exactly?

Extracting, transforming, repackiging public datasets to resell them is fine, price is more than reasonable. But if license and attribution requirements are not listed one purchases a dataset that might lead to legal trouble.
Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink
I don't know. I use Rust myself, but I've seen more people complaining about Rust evangelism than people actually doing that.

The RESF is a bad meme.
You can check out mine, Yet Another Speed Dial, on GitHub! It's a web extension in vanilla JS:

https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial
i am heartened to read your question...regardless of choice/outcome, at least you're thinking about the pros/cons of the topic...When it comes to lifeforms that threaten (Mosquitos, Ticks ) or damage possessions (Rodents-wrecking or Rhinos-charging your car ), instincts often kick in for good survival-reasons and yet our compassion is often the highlight of our species.

If we ever do meet extraterrestrial beings, i hope they treat us better than we do to our animals/ecosystems ( in general )...or at least, as the now-ancient Perry-Farrell song goes "we'll make great pets" ( give us Food, Drugs, Games & someone 'WRONG' on the internet and i doubt we'd even notice )

;)
I don't think I'm saying anything the criminals don't already know. This guy was the head of cloud operations, he knew what a VPN is, how TOR works and how crypto works.

If you're a criminal reading my comments and learning anything new from them, let me tell you this: if you needed this info, you're not smart enough to evade the FBI. Go find a real job or something.

I'm glad the ass got caught and I hope he'll get what he deserves. However, I believe that the common modus operandi for criminals shouldn't be a secret because it will get out anyway. The "solutions" I propose are obvious and basically handed to criminals by the FBI analysis.

Good opsec for crime is incredibly hard, which is great in cases like these. I don't think I've heard of some super smart hacker that's managed to stay away from the authorities unless they live outside the relevant jurisdiction. Even then the FBI will find ways to get you into a country where they can arrest you, legally or otherwise.

A lot of "crime" in some countries, like China or Russia, is just doing the right thing in my opinion. You might very well need this kind of opsec if your goal is to help teenagers learn about homosexuality in many of the more bigoted countries, for example, or get the truth out about COVID without suddenly finding yourself falling out of a window.

I don't think the "true crime" style comments help criminals in any way. Documentaries about how murdered got caught aren't very good manuals and the advice of random people who've been in contact with the police aren't either. If they're dumb enough to follow the advice of some random guy here on orange reddit, their criminal career won't last very long.
The CDC's best estimate of fatality rate was 0.6% (not 1.6%) back when we had a largely unvaccinated population. Now with vaccines and other improved treatments the fatality rate is significantly lower.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
The distinction I'm making is not between different types of atomic motions, but between properties of an algorithm (eg whether it meets a spec) and the physical instantiation of the algorithm running on some computer: ie software vs hardware. Hardware is subject to physics (cosmic rays etc), but software is not. There are lots of examples like this where the subject of interest occurs at different levels of emergence/analysis.

I wouldn't be going down this tangent if the author didn't make such strong, overbroad statements that amount to "everything affects everything," and instead said something like "small, distant phenomena can have surprisingly non-negligible effects" or something, but I get the impression the author would argue against this change on fundamental (vs pedantic) grounds.

For what it's worth, I like the story referenced in the blog's name https://eighteenthelephant.com/2013/08/02/167/
Rocketlab Neutron Update
>>I mean, zero moderation is some kind of internet libertarian ideal, but there's plenty of examples out there what that looks like - 4chan, 'old' reddit, parler & co (which ironically censor a lot of stuff), all of the dark web, etc.

There is a couple of problem with this, first I see no problems at all with 4chan, old reddit, or parler. So using them as an example of something bad that should be banned is ridiculous, parler in peculiar was gaslite into a false narrative around 1/6 protests when in reality most of the communication, as stated by the FBI, where done via Facebook and other larger platforms not parler. Parler was the scape goat. Parler should fail for any number of reasons but not because of censorship, it is a terrible platform technoligically, it is terrible security posture, and various other usablity issue.

Then there is the unintended blowback this type of censorships leads to. Such as increased levels of echo chambers and extremism. Take for example the fall out from Backpage removal. Did it end trafficking, and prostitution. No, not by a long shot, it just make the criminals harder to catch, the victims harder to find, and made things more dangerous for legal age sex workers.. Good Job Government.
IIRC Snowden said that this was the purpose of JTRIG.
Not easily.

Wisconsin defines a deadly weapon (actually they use the term 'dangerous weapon') as "any firearm, whether loaded or unloaded; any device designed as a weapon [...] or any other device or instrumentality which, in the manner it is used or intended to be used, is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm."

You might say that the skateboard was 'likely to produce great bodily harm in the manner it was used', which I think is plausible, although clearly Huber was not skilled in using his skateboard in this way.

I would point out though that it would be *completely wrong* to say that Huber was 'armed' because he was carrying a skateboard. Although he did hit Rittenhouse with it, it doesn't seem as he was carrying the skateboard as a weapon, it was just an opportunistic usage.
You’re in for a treat - https://youtu.be/qN8tm5RulFU
Python Common Anti Patterns
If you have a guard dog, you have it for deterrence. You don't hope that someone breaks in and gets hurt.

Same thing with guns, really. You have it as a deterrence and hope nobody is so stupid to attack you and force you to use it.
Yeah, I have never desired anything but about:blank.

But I seldom see even that, because instead of opening a tab and then typing in a URL or query, I’ll type in the URL or query and press Alt+Enter which opens that URL or query in a new tab.

And even in Firefox’s Private Browsing windows, I have this in my userContent.css so that I get a blank page there too (I started doing this when they put an ad for their VPN service, but then like Haman of old scorned to kill just .vpn-promo):

@-moz-document url("about:privatebrowsing") {
body {
display: none !important;
}
}
Both my kids had Amiga 500s by the time they were 2 years old. They had a lot of fun, but neither of them went on to do anything computer related. Smartphones killed their minds when they were in high school.
If this was HN front page bingo, we'd have a winner.
Show HN: Building Twitter for Audio at Shortcast
Hello, amazing people on HN,

Over the past few months since the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. I was stuck at home sucking at my day job and no real-world communications. Everything was in front of the 15-inch and 6-inch glass screens. That is when I felt the urge to connect with people and express myself. I was on the lookout for good platforms and I started with anchor FM.
Oh boy! My fascination for audio as a medium soon turned into a disappointment when I started creating content. Because after I recorded my first piece of 10 minutes, it took me crazy 2 hours to edit, host, distribute my audio as a podcast which made me hop on different platforms for each stage. Found it to be a real-world problem, when I dig deeper to realize that the long, complex, and fragmented process of creating a podcast makes audio the least-used medium for content creation globally.

Here is how Shortcast was born. A social podcasting platform that lets you express your thoughts, ideas, and more using voice as easily as sharing a tweet. In just two clicks you can create as well as engage with interesting people from around the world.

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Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and advice for what you think about Twitter for audio :D
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Pivot tables are the real tools of an excel wizard ;)
When I search for Gab on Google, it comes up as the first result.
A very legitimate use is if you have a public .eth address but want to keep your remaining private addresses private. Privacy is security.
100% this is the case. People are conflating the rights of those who have rhetorically violent speech to express those views with the supposed "right" of those violent speakers to use a given platform to spread that rhetorical violence. From the perspective of the social media outlets: I can't stop you from expressing your abhorrent views, if it's protected speech, but you do not have the right to use my platform or my loudspeaker or my venue or my publication or my social network to spread that rhetorical violence. The rhetoric might or might not be protected, but the platforms have no obligation to spread that rhetoric.

Long story short, your speech might or might not be a protected right, but your use of a given platform to spread that speech, and any obligations to spread that speech or provide visibility or virality to that speech is not a protected right. One cannot be arrested or detained or sued for simply expressing their opinions, and I agree that even that abhorrent speech is protected. However, a platform can opt to not publish hateful speech, pull the plug on the loudspeakers, prevent the use of their venues, and refuse to promote abhorrent speech. The most effective means for combating hate speech and rhetorical violence is not to suppress the speech, but rather to prevent its spread. In this way the rights are protected without increasing the harm.

You're right that not too long ago, those with rhetorically violent speech would have little access to mass media. They would have to literally stand on street corners with megaphones to shout their messages or print their own publications and then find ways to distribute those publications. Nowadays, everyone has instant and immediate access to mass media whose viewership, ease of spread, and total audience size rivals even the very largest of mass media publications 100 years ago. In the current age where a single viral Tiktok or Tweet can get millions of impressions, the power (and responsibility) of media companies is far greater than ever.
On ethereum, all tokens are actually custom computer programs. This token's program contained code to all pausing all the ability to have it transferred on behalf of an approved third-party.
It does get discussed freely in some circles.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-n...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/30/us-military-ac...

Snowden exposed/mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellig...
Plus you have Assange.

I can tell you the spooks have been operating online and monitoring people online since the internet started to get popular in the 80's & 90's, just like they have been using other technology like phone calls, postal services, financial transactions, medical records, school records, etc etc in the offline world and they will target you as a kid to manipulate you in a pre-emptive military fashion, but you and your parents will not always know this.

LINX was used to disrupt communication in the 90's, but you dont always know at the time what is going on, but the spooks have some patterns of their own which most wont pick up on and thats their give away, but its taken me decades to get close to spotting their tricks and you cant always say definitely that action was spook related at the time something goes on, so there is some truth in the saying Time always tells. Although if you look at what secrets get declassified and what doesnt, there is still alot that is not declassified because its still relevant today. The ol' honeypot is probably thousands of years old and still relevant today as a technique.

Spying & manipulation has been going on for hundreds if not thousands of years, its not a new phenomena, but it does evolve to keep up with or even lead technology.
After all do you think a DoD invention, aka the internet would not be used for spying and manipulation? LOL
How does one weaponize slack? Github maybe I can understand, but I don't understand how you can weaponize slack.
Having a lawyer doesn't mean you can just not answer questions when subpoenad. "Don't talk to cops" is complicated.
I keep repeating this to mask-skeptics (which in my country is nearly everyone): Asia had their Sars-scare early, and they've basically been wearing masks ever since. They're doing pretty OK, not just because some countries (e.g. China) can and will _really_ lock a city down. Masks, hygiene, sickness discipline... they work. But even now nearly nobody objects when a colleague is obviously ill and still bring their snotty nose to work, COVID-free or not. I wish people would regard this like we regard washing our hands. But no, somehow people seem to think we've always washed our hands, and we have never changed our ways, and we shan't right now either because of freedumb. Uggghhh.
Did you wrap your phone with something non conducting so that it doesn't touch the tin or microwave?

It works for me with a cookie tin, the phone is wrapped in a towel.
How do you use nsenter efficiently for running more than one program? You might need dozens of tools (and all their dependencies) to diagnose and fix issues.
They’ve worn masks since ages. They do it to protect others from getting ill. It’s this whole respect and care for others in society thing they have got going on there. It’s not something forced by the gov.
Unable or unwilling? If their network effects endow them with an impenetrable moat, why would they voluntarily spend lots of money to address a problem that harms only a minority of customers and isn't substantial enough to drive people off the platform?
Americans Are Hoarding Cash
No, I don't fence off metaphors for exclusivity. Good ones get reused.

And claiming Lorde was only talking about race is simply incorrect.
IMO the attackers value their own life less than the acts they tried to do.
WWV also transmits on 25 MHz. This is an experimental transmitter that's not mentioned in the broadcast at minute 0.

WWVH does not transmit on 20 MHz.
Even things like buying houses (and I have heard of people buying houses with ETH).

People generally like privacy when it comes to medium and large purchases, regardless of what it is that they are purchasing.
The logic is sound.

You can save essentially every single person who will die in a traffic accident by banning cars. That’s likely a hundred or two people a year just in Missouri.

There’s a cost and a benefit, and most people would say that - no, the benefit of 100-200 people per year is not worth the cost of banning cars. But if it was 200,000/year, they would likely say yes.

The costs of masks are small but not zero - there’s pollution, there’s bacterial infections (masks that aren’t replaced every few hours are Petri dishes), there’s cognitive delay for babies, there’s horrible experience for the hearing impaired lip readers.

You may believe the cost/benefit is worth it, someone else will disagree.

But it always comes down to just that - a cost benefit analysis.
This is why big corps are keen to 'solve' the pay gap. It's a secret (until you get married) that when women get money they spend it very quickly on questionable choices. And my guess is most of her followers are women.
Not every law is a restriction of freedom. My freedom ends where yours begins.

Sadly, some people are more than happy to force their worldview on others, "for their own sake".
While technically correct, amounts that have been stolen since the DAO hack have been 10x larger and no hard forks have occurred. I think the community consensus on this has evolved.
If there's a confirmation to "unblur" (e.g. "pick up") and your can't see people when you're "blurred" (e.g. "not on the call") then this works exactly like regular Zoom/Meet. It just has strictly less privacy because you show a blurred video instead of no video.

Why not use something like Discord, where you can hear people in the background, and toggle your mic/output with a single button?

The idea of a presence indicator is good I think, but people are going to forget to leave the call when they step out. You'll see a blurred view of their empty room and not know who's available. That is, if they don't have a physical camera cover that they slide in the whole time they're not in a call.
A faraday cage converts the energy in the radio waves it absorbs into heat.

Eventually it will radiate the same amount of energy as the transmitter inside it, but in infrared wavelengths and without whatever modulation was carrying the signal.