skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Google were a solo schlub in their basement writing code because they didn't have time to do manual review, that would be understandable, even excusable.

But last I checked, they were the #5 largest company in the world.

You'd think that an issue that's obvious to literally everyone who uses the platform would also be obvious to even a handful of manual reviewers, and they could take the fight to the spammers a little more aggressively. Just a smidge. Like, one full-time reviewer, since it appears on my feed with devastating regularity, I'd even apply for the job myself, if it meant I could keep that scourge out of my own recommendations.

I'm left to conclude that maybe the #5 largest company in the world can't afford one full-time reviewer?
Pfffff you really asked the impossible question here. Best I can do is scan through the books on the shelves next to me:

* Beyond good and evil: Nietzsche

* The Temple of the Golden Pavilion: Yukio Mishima

* Steppenwolf: Hermann Hese

* Library of babel: Borges

* The Brain: David Eagleman

* The Magical Mountain: Thomas Mann

* The Dark Tower: Stephen King(actually tons of King books - I am a bit of a fanboy)

* Factfulness: Hans Rosling

* William Blake: selected poetry

* Dostoevsky: The idiot

* Captain Nemo: Jules Verne

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Adams
The Trump SPAC Did a Pipe
Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide
It kind of seems like your job as someone making the claim to come up with a reference?
> I feel like there must have been something else since 2016?

Funny, that was my feeling as well.

I'm 99% sure to have read a discussion on this here, but all submissions after 2016 (apart from today's) have no comments at all, hence also no comments linking to the older discussion.

Edit: Removed the remark on missing comments. The default search settings do not search for comments.
My OS does constantly have bugs. It would be pretty unreasonable to say that my OS should never have bugs because of the practical impossibility of delivering perfectly bug-free software. So if people, after 10 years of trying, only found 4 critical vulnerabilities in all of coreutils, then that seems pretty good to me.

Rust itself has had 9 CVEs relating to memory safety in 2021 alone[0], which you can justify because Rust's development is highly active.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1902...
wikipedia UI for browsing is already perfect and needs no further improvement.
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If we are going down that rabbit hole, I love the plan to create an artificial Martian magnetosphere by placing a magnetic field generating satellite between mars and the solar winds. Generating an atmosphere on mars is all well and good, but it will just blow away again without some protection. The generator would only require roughly 583.9 exajoules, or roughly the world's total energy consumption in 2020.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.06887.pdf
I keep thinking of modern as the 1930s-style minimalism. Following that, isn't/wasn't "modern" the default Wordpress theme?
Exactly. The article nods to this in a few places, but it's important to recognize that this is an accounting of "recognized" professions, something that left some kind of written account (most of the article is based on tax records it seems like). Which means at the end of the day this is mostly a list of what the men were doing.

Stuff done "at home" obviously involves work, but it wasn't a "profession" in a notional sense so it wasn't recorded. Certainly we should assume that there was trade within and between cities based on this kind of output too (i.e. "Is that one of Marie's sweaters?", "Here's a few coins, go to Sophie down the street and see if she has any more of that jam from last summer").
Should Linux on desktop be Windows instead? It's that kind of absurd question
I don't like Edge, but the comment suggests one may like the product and only "if you can live with the fact that it is from Microsoft" one could use it.

My suspicion is that this sort of comment is motivated by a 1990's view of Microsoft. They much different company now, for sure.

I'd say Apple did something worse than ads with the image scanning privacy invasion. Even retroactive in time. This is no go for me. But many are OK with this sort of disrespect by Apple while pointing fingers on others like MS? I don't think it's a good line of thought...
Thanks.

I think my timing was more down to the production readiness of Pyside2, which meant I had to hold onto using PySide and hence Qt4 before PySide2 was ready/mature enough to trust porting my existing app to.
Yeah, we went through better.com for our refinance because the rate and fees (no loan origination fee!) were the absolute best but I saw a bunch of reviews saying their contact with Better simply ceased and they couldn't get their loan finished. Luckily, we didn't have that issue and our reps were great.
I'm never sure what exactly Taleb's point is. He overlaps with the Lindy movement in a highly biased way.

I think everyone should read him, but nobody should just take his advice without thinking. I find myself disagreeing at almost every step with him, but he makes a very clear statement of what a recognizable group of people think but don't really articulate.

I don't buy books unless I 100% plan to read them. I don't buy paper books at all either, unless I am particularly excited about them. Physical objects are a hassle.

I think Taleb is best seen as like a martial arts trainer who throws you around so you can learn your weaknesses.

I wouldn't want to have an antilibrary, but in the process of reading about one, you do have to confront the question of "What information are we not getting from the internet"
However, without removing processes it will still be as slow as today, which I really hope browsers will do.
Endless4s: A new Scala library to describe event sourced entities
Through the lacings of the leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving the unwearied verdure. Oh, busy weaver! unseen weaver!--pause!--one word!--whither flows the fabric? what palace may it deck? wherefore all these ceaseless toilings? Speak, weaver!

Love Moby Dick
All the "responsive" auto-stretch stuff turned bicycle science into rocket science. Often I think it would be easier to create 2 diff apps rather than one with responsive UI because it would be quicker and wouldn't have to cater to the lowest common denominator of finger-vs-mouse.
thanks for responding here and reducing permissions.
I’ve noticed the same thing, and I think it comes down to this: the Internet is important now.

I started online in the early 90s. The Internet was not important back then. Not much depended on it, there weren’t many people on it, so the folks who were there could fuck around and not worry about it. Jokes are easy and safe when they are low-stakes.

Now, the Internet is extremely high stakes. A huge part of society depends on it. People are just naturally less willing to tolerate jokes in things they depend on. Powerful emotions involving fear and safety and security and power can get invoked, maybe accidentally.

Let’s say you’re driving with some friends and one falls asleep. So as a joke, the driver gives the car a swerve and everyone yells. The friend wakes up in a panic and everyone laughs, hopefully including them, eventually.

Now let’s say you’re flying across the Pacific. You fall asleep, but then wake up as the plane starts to drop and the pilot is yelling over the intercom. But then he straightens out and says, “just kidding folks! Ha ha ha, you should see the looks on your faces.” To many people, that’s not so funny.

Basically the Internet started as a car full of friends and now is a giant airliner with everyone in it. So the “pilots” are held to a higher standard.

Seems to me that there are still communities of jokers on the Internet to be found. They just tend to operate at “joke scale,” which is now a lot smaller than “entire Internet” scale.
I guess it depends on your definition of easter eggs. Some of our "easter eggs" are loading icons showing at specific events. So right now they are christmas themed.
Look at the comment I was responding to.
I suppose if you are very much into design this great.
But I also think an average user is struggling to figure out what does this little drawing actually mean?
The fine site we are on now has... zero?
There's no good way to fire 900 people effective immediately.
Wow, this was awesome. I remember these in Toys R Us when growing up and how amazing they looked.
Just... don't make the browser window 34 inches across?
Applaud you working to track this down! For others following this trail:

1. The linked Life360 privacy policy has two parts, the first part is non-EEA, the second part is EEA: https://support.life360.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043228154

2. Cuebiq is not mentioned in the Part 2/EEA section of the privacy policy. Instead, as parent points out and according to non-searchable Annex 2, "precise location" data may be disclosed to: Arity 875 LLC, Foursquare Labs UK Limited, Google Inc., Placer Labs Inc., AvantGuard Monitoring Centers LLC, OnCall International LLC, Sontiq Inc.

I have decoded many privacy policies in my life, but unfortunately don't have time to work on this one. :D
Yes this is one concern. Are you sure it was a result of using non ECC mem and how did you find out it was because of that?
> Don't run your own Kubernetes cluster

Note that there is one big Kubernetes consultancy (namely, Flant) that requires you to run your own Kubernetes (managed by them) and not the managed offer by the cloud provider. They do it because they know how to run Kubernetes and don't know quirks of a zillion managed Kubernetes providers.
IMHO there are several paths to take once you have brought a problem down to "I am not good at [skill X]":

* find One Weird Trick to work around your lack of X

* get advice/training from someone who is good at X and do X yourself

* find someone who is good at X and pay them to do X

* decide that even thinking about this problem is painful and go back to doing the stuff you're already good at

In general the first two are gonna cost less money than the third, but will probably cost orders of magnitude more time. The fourth path is obviously not going to change anything but to be quite honest it's mostly the one I take with regards to marketing my own art.
> I was weighed down by words and phrases that we no longer use and found myself losing the meaning.

I have the same problem. I found a used physical copy of "No Fear Shakespeare - Macbeth" to be very helpful. On the left page is the original text, on the right page is are notes and a translation. I was able to get through the book and understand it.

You can access online here: https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/

> what you think makes it outstanding?

I'm not the original commenter, so speaking for myself only. I would say the prose is very poetic and has a certain magical quality to it.
And likely an unnecessary sexist remark.
> CAS is a massive pain in the ass for complex changes.

Why is that?
I'm almost ashamed for having spent any time responding to the original submission, butb here I am. I agree, it is much ado about nothing.

Of all the data breaches, of all the zero days, of all the massive bugs found in open source software, how many have been caused by Easter eggs?
This works up to a point. Unless the problems are political and can't be fixed at the level at which the questioner is operating.

Then it becomes an exercise in "Because there are things I can do nothing about without leaving and/or starting a revolution."

This is not an answer most people want.
BIOGRAPHY: The Power Broker by Robert Caro - one of the greatest biographies you'll ever read. Long but absolutely first class. I've been meaning to read his trio of books on LBJ but for now they're on the later-base.

CLASSIC FICTION: The Master and Margarita Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov - a magical text of immense imagination. Had it not been released posthumously Bulgakov would no doubt have gotten shipped to a gulag or worse.

CHILDREN'S BOOK: The Little Price by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - I read this charming book at the age of 28 and found it to be one of the most enchanting books I've ever read. Full of life lessons.

NON FICTION: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Once every while you read a book that forces you to view the world in a whole new light, this is one such book.

COMEDY SCI-FI: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - delightful book with immense irony and is absolutely hilarious.
The only one still operating except Tesla's, which is listed 3 times on that page, is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Auto_Body_California

It has ~300 employees compared to Tesla's Fremont factory with ~10000 employees.
Town crier [1] is now news anchor.

[1]: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/79/2b/89/792b8997970b433b06b10721b...
Exploiting a memory corruption vulnerability depends on the exact details of the software version and platform. Attempting the wrong exploit risks crashing the process, which might be noticed and investigated.
What are assuming it’s not your other video “Tulips and water” the issue? :)
It's awesome, thank you.

Can I suggest a specific font for Persian language? At the moment there is a single font for all languages, but Wikipedia manages it very well, and it has a different font for different languages.

https://ibb.co/rpCm9zF
Thanks for your reply!

> If your code could benefit from slightly stale read-only snapshots on remote nodes [...]

How "slightly" stale are we talking?

Could you give an example scenario of where this would be a good approach?
"Two drops" of even pure methanol won't do anything to you. Not even close.
The King James Version of the Holy Bible. Regardless of your religious beliefs, it's of incomparable cultural importance in the Western world, in particular to English literature.
The dark tower series is one of his best IMO. Unfortunate he ended the series earlier than planned... Was supposed to be quite a few books longer but I remember reading (and I could be remembering wrong) in the foreward to one of his books that the weight of people sending him letters such as "I'm terminally ill, i was hoping you could tell me how it ends before I pass" and all the other contact he got led him to cut it a bit short. That said, I think it's his best work.
The worst I have heard was a VP coming down to the bullpen and had workers stand up , count off in ones and twos. Twos were instructed to grab a box and clear their desk in 15 minutes, while security guards loomed.
When it comes to side-channel attacks, process boundaries aren't adequate either. Rowhammer, Meltdown/Spectre, and friends show that handily, and the RSA key leakage attack using SDR shows that even machine isolation isn't going to be enough for some things.

I guess that the idea that trusted compilers are the way forward is predicated on the assumption that we've managed to mitigate most/all side-channel attacks, because there really isn't much you can do about those otherwise.
Must read?

1984 and Animal Farm.

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It.

Emma and Pride and Prejudice.

Iliad, Odyssey and first half of the Aeneid.

A Room With A View and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The Great Gatsby, Call of the Wild and Age of Innocence.

War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Don Quixote.
So I’ve read Hitchhiker’s but was always curious about the others he wrote, any thoughts? Thanks!
It's alarming how cavalier people are with spreading made-up explanations when something isn't working as expected. But we're always here and happy to chat about what's actually happening (provided there is indeed an issue, and we have it understood). Thank you for allowing us a moment to share more information; I hope the DST topic and aforementioned video on Time and Timezones wasn't too frightening, lol :)

Sampson (Brave Team)
>tracked using ambient Bluetooth signals from phones.

What does this mean? Are they just measuring radio power levels in the 2.4GHz spectrum, and using that to determine whether a car is there or not? Or are they actually somehow capturing bluetooth signals, decoding them, and extracting identifiers (eg. MAC) from them?
The meatspace art analogy would be prints: many artists make several prints of the same artwork. Originality isn't what's important, but provenance is. If the original author made the print from the plates, the work is "genuine", but if somebody else got the plates and made more copies those are considered less valuable. Copies made from copying the plates themselves would be considered forgeries.

NFTs are the same. You can have "geniune" NFTs minted by the original artist (any number can be minted) and "forged" NFTs minted by anyone else. Of course since NFTs don't actually contain the work they're more like certificates of provenance for prints, or forgeries thereof.

Personally I find the whole thing ridiculous. Even in the physical art world, why should it matter who made the print if the plates are the originals? NFTs are just like buying certificates of authenticity of prints without buying a copy of the print, which is utterly moronic!
Biggest issue - it does not auto update.

Updating one machine manually is okay, multiple machine - no.
I'd be fascinated to hear more about how your CAD idea wasn't going to contravene any US laws while giving the cannabis industry access to the banking industry.

If you're exclusively in Canada then the US Feds are nowhere near as much of a concern, but then that also doesn't get you any access to the US market, which seems to be the point. Let's say the legal pot industry on near the northern US border switched over to Canadian dollars to get this system to work, it still seems you'd need to get Canadian dollars to Canadian banks (because they can't be deposited at US bank accounts because the issue is that pot businesses can't make deposits to US bank accounts, not the nature of the cash being used.)

Buuuut... aren't there rules about moving more than $10k (USD) cash, or equivalent financial instruments (aka CAD) across the border?
Wikipedia itself is also working on a new UI:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme...

The English Wikipedia isn't one of the "early adopter wikis" but if you visit, say, the French-language Wikipedia you can see the changes (e.g., different width to improve readability).
Sorry friend, I was willing to engage with you in good natured debate but if you think that China's response will be cowering in fear then you are very much not versed in what's going on in the world, especially regarding China's capabilities and government. China is a military power very close to the US in capability. China commands and enforces absolute loyalty from its citizens, and is more than happy to turn to genocide to do so. They would have the advantage logistically as the conflict is taking place right outside their doorstep. The US appetite for war would probably fade very quickly once deaths start pouring in while the Chinese would just be forced to trudge on. A war with China does not stay in China, China is very capable of hitting the US mainland. China has a surplus of young men, the US does not. What you think would be China just cowering in fear would quickly devolve into WWIII.
> in the event of a school shooter.

The probability of this happening at any given school is so incredibly low it's really not worth factoring into any decision-making at all.
The Rise of the Geopolitical Hack
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Well some species have both sexual and asexual reproduction, many trees can self fertilize or fertilize with another trees pollen for instance.
+1 for Wallace. Basically everything in that collection and Consider the Lobster is worth reading.

Absolutely unrelated, but I'd recommend Vaclav Smil in general - Energy in Nature and Society and Energy and Civilization are two I've read and enjoyed. A bit dry as reading material, but well-worth for his energetic perspective on human and biological systems.
Agile, MBA for, "I would like it immediately regardless of consequences for others."
The Master of Hestviken (The Axe quadrilogy) by Sigrid Unset. Life-changing-ly good. (There's always Kristen Lavrandatter as well.)

The Soldier of a Great War by Mark Helprin. Amazing meditation on life & beauty.

The Cornerstone and The World is Not Enough by Zoe Oldenbourg. Even though they're translated from the French, you'll never read anything like it, in terms of conveying the life and struggles of a Crusade-era Norman knight. I finished it utterly exhausted and humbled, astounded at how great a man's life could be.
Google is Kafka at scale. All of the other characters in The Trial besides Josef K have been optimized away and replaced with silicon.

The key insight that made it possible? That responding to front-paged Hacker News complaints doesn't have to scale. This allows them to shaft users in the vast majority of cases which never become high profile.
Makes more sense. $150B is another magnitude vs $650M. I mean wow, you want to make sure that you can trust this.