skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a key quote from the CBP agent is:

> “When a name comes across your desk you run it through every system you have access to, that's just status quo, that's what everyone does,” Rambo told investigators.

I suspect this to be generally true from the lowest local law enforcement officers to the highest levels of intelligence officers. And it is a major concern of having systems like PRISM available for use -- I generally don't see purely paperwork/purely legal process protections like "oh it requires a warrant" actually preventing LEO's from using these systems.

Something like Google's or Facebook's (current-day) systems which make it impossible for individual employees to search through private information might be more appropriate, but I generally wouldn't trust implementations of these in the government.
11 years ago, Google acquired Widevine
Most people are already getting a fully synthetic worldview provided to them by powerful media companies. GPT-3/etc further saturates that space but doesn't add anything radically new to the picture.
DFIR Madness Case 002: Tyler Hudak's Honeypot
That makes even less sense, the output is dictated by the purpose, it's not a choice.
Good to know, thanks for that!
Your only makes sense if you equate the opposite of life as always being death, but in this case it isn’t. In this case you’re not killing something by inaction.

The distinction is important because otherwise condoms would be murder. (Which, in fairness, some cultures do believe. But they also believe that chanting at wine turns it into literal blood. So as open minded as I am, I have a hard job taking their view points seriously.)
Another pattern I've seen is the software developer who is promoted to high level manager, but they remain focused on the work being done by the software developers. On this front they are very good: mentoring, teaching, removing obstacles. But part of their job is also to now form a better understanding of the other parts of the business: how does the work of the software developers overlap with that of the marketing team, the sales team, the operations team, the financial team, the inventory team, etc. These newly promoted managers don't seem to realize that their new authority means they must now focus on more than tech. I've known developers who get promoted to CTO, and they are loved by the software developers at the company, but they are hated by the CMO, CFO, CCO and eventually, after enough complaints, they are hated by the CEO, at which point they are fired.

I write about this in some detail here:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/should-top-managers-focus-o...

'This CTO is loved by the software developers but disliked by their peers. The CMO feels unheard, the CFO thinks the CTO doesn't show enough concern for the budget, the Chief Content Officer (CCO) feels that their team is crippled because the CTO doesn't understand their publishing needs. Such moments can undermine the career of a CTO. I'm aware of at least one case where, 10 years after the situation arose, the CMO and CFO and COO, who had all moved on to new jobs at new companies, were still whispering rumors about the CTO. When the CTO applied for a new job, and the company asked his former peers what they thought of him, they were told "He is uncooperative, he is not a team player." So clearly, in that case, it would have been better for the CTO if he'd spent less time with his tech team, and more time with his C-level peers. Or rather, there must have been some particular moment in the growing history of the company when it would have been best for the CTO to switch his focus away from tech and towards his peers, but the CTO missed that moment, much to the irritation of his peers."
You’d have a better point if transactions were fast AND cheap. Until crypto gets there, it won’t be viable as an actual currency yet. I’m not saying it’s impossible like this hit piece, but it’s not there yet.
I agree this is a pain point when using multiple profiles, and something Firefox should improve.

However it's not a huge issue. Mostly just copy-pasting links from mails etc instead of clicking, which gives the nice benefit of observing which site exactly you're about to visit.
Voyager 1 and Reed-Solomon
That thing needs some serious retrobrighting.
I use “Pilot Assist” in a 2018 Volvo V90CC, and on the one hand, it has all kinds of “issues” that require my active attention, including confusion about construction areas, or even just a general wandering when I’m in the RH lane of a highway passing an offramp, and it takes a moment to figure out how to keep going straight.

On the other hand, I have no expectation that it is doing anything autonomous, and this is backed up by the way it gets upset if I take my hands of the steering wheel. And unlike most other cars I hear about, it isn’t content to simply touch the wheel, it wants a hand on either “ten” or “two” specifically.

For my n=1 needs, it’s fantastic: When I commute during rush hour, it handles stop-and-go traffic for me, and lets me sit back and enjoy an audiobook. It does that so well that I’ve completely lost the anxiety/aggression that formerly would have had me trying to figure out which lane is moving faster and so on. Now I just relax. Yes, I am ‘still “driving,” my hands stay on the wheel and my eyes stay on the road.

But I’m more relaxed, and that is more important to me right now than whether I’m relaxed while driving or relaxed while being driven. Yes, for things like construction (and a few other cases I’ve learned to handle) I disengage it or simply override its choices with the steering wheel, accelerator, or brake.

But it’s a big win over old-fashioned cruise control. I never felt like cruise control lowered the stress of highway driving the way Pilot Assist does.

Mind you, none of my experience changes the fact that “Pilot Assist" is nowhere close to autonomous driving. I wouldn’t even look at it and say it’s something you can iterate on until it’s autonomous. It is what it says on the tin: Something that makes my drive easier, but doesn’t replace me as a driver.
Sometimes I think city council members should be required to play SimCity with high density residential turned off but have to provide full city services and avoid bankruptcy. IIRC, this was actually impossible in SC4 hard mode since low-density residential zones cannot financially support city services and city expansion (just like real life!)
For question 1:
Health economics - either sloane and hsieh OR bhattacharya, Hyde and tu are basic undergrad health Econ books.
Health policy - feldstein health policy issues is something I have used.

There is overlap in coverage there but health Econ and health policy are somewhat different classes.

David cutler also has two worthwhile and short books: the quality cure and your money or your life. Both are good.

Question 2:

- more medical schools
- more residency slots
- no restrictions on foreign doctors practicing medicine here
- price transparency
- proper incentives for consumers to care about what provider they choose
- no employer provided health insurance. This is a source of many many many problems.

Probably more but that’s off the top of my head right now
Shoppers buying lower-priced products at a giant retailer moving into a new market are also humans with free will. It's the rational choice.

Once the store drives local businesses out, prices go up.

That's why this kind of behavior is unlawful.
What if I'm not an US citizen and a company from US (threaten to) sues me over a .com domain registered through an non-US registrar? Should I hire an US lawyer? Where does the trial take place: in US or in my country?

Let's say I get an email like the one OP got but I don't understand english and I take no action... Will the non-US registrar give them my domain by default?
Technical leaders do exist and mentoring is a huge part of it, you need to figure out a way to be a multiplier, without being a manager.

If you want more money, you need to have more impact, but there are so many hours in a day, so you need to delegate, help others grow and look for large scale patterns that are easier to see with experience.

If you do code, you must choose wisely what's the best use of your time, sometimes you do what nobody else dares to (take calculated risks), small interventions to teach and speed up a project, or just plain do what needs to be done (even if it's boring as fuck) to let others grow and add value.

You also need to develop a good working relationship with other leaders (technical and otherwise). It's imperative that they trust you, so your integrity must be beyond reproach.
Understand their goals and objectives and help get the company to a better place.

In many cases, leading is a lot about emotions, people get scared/nervous when facing uncertain situations (think production incidents, external threats, etc.), it's in these situations that you need to be a reassuring presence, using your technical skills to break down a problem and give clear steps and criteria to attack whatever issue is at hand. Be calm and focus on the objective reality as much as possible. Give clear instructions and lean on more managerial roles to help track down tasks and deal with minutia.

In all, I think a technical career starts with focus on the technical stuff, the science and technology, but as the problems become larger and more challenging, you need to start to pay attention to the people side of it, software is a team sport after all.
This does use blockchain...
Yeah seems you may be right: https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/overview3.0/#item...
Minecraft is specifically one of the most vulnerable because the chat is written to the server log. So, all it takes is a chat message to run the exploit.
It’s very very very hard to get single payer right. That’s a fact.
It blocks requests based not merely on the full url, but just parts of it such as the the filename or path, or based on which tab or frame the load is for.
I was honestly under the impression that machine learning networks are already doing exactly that. But for sure they will continue to get better and better at it and become much more convincing.
Kasparov, to surprise of no one, comes up with a self-serving metric.
If anything it should be opposite. If you're so far ahead it usually means your opposition is quite weak. Being at the top for 10 years today is way more difficult than it was in Kasparov 's time for example and that was way more difficult than in Lasker's time. Especially taking into consideration that he enjoyed an enormous preparation advantage thanks to his team while today any idiot with a high end GPU or a CPU can see all the best opening moves in seconds.

There is still advantage in preparing the information in a way it's useful/easier to remember and that's what the teams of top GMs do but there are no purely chess secrets anymore. It's just much harder to be ahead of the field today.
I don't disagree with you, Bezo's flying to space is just really bad publicity, because it makes apparent how much the contemporary space race is a dick measuring contest between filthy-rich tech industrialists. To me, it is honestly one of the most telling signs of the times, that a contest that was originally "held" between the only two super-powers on the planet, is today led as much by capitalists as it is by nation states.

Space tourism is only a viable form of commercializing space exploration because we live in incredibly unequal times, and this is where most of the criticism of Bezos in particular comes from. Added on to that, in contrast to Musks companies, Amazon is also constantly in the news for viciously exploiting labor, so that adds to the criticism.
I'm being heavy-handed here because 20 years ago, before I was a lawyer, I was sued, failed to hire counsel in time, and unnecessarily lost my shirt as a result. I don't want the same thing to happen to OP.

Legal questions come up on HN from time to time and the usual response is a bunch of wannabe lawyers incorrecting one another, and if OP follows any of their advice, Bad Things could result. I spoke up early this time in what was perhaps a foolish attempt to short-circuit this.

No competent attorney is going to give legal advice here -- money aside -- because they would be violating their professional ethics code by doing so. Giving legal advice requires knowing facts at a very detailed level (the degree to which is rarely found in the post), knowing the laws in the jurisdiction(s), and having relationships and experience. Not to mention attorney-client confidentiality, and other reasons.
Oh ye thank you that is the one.

The general problem with Scrum like velocity tracking is that devs will start to lie to hit the estimates to keep the commissars of their backs. The best liar gets the straightest graph. And as devs learns to lie, you get the impression of improved estimation.

"Some developers (like Milton in this picture) may be causing problems because their ship dates are so uncertain: they need to work on learning to estimate better."

I mean ... why God. I don't know but maybe poor Milton has the hardest tasks, does not cut corners or what not. Brandon seems to "get it" and has silly narrow error range - I wonder how ...

(I am not bitter. Pinky swear)
There is no defense of BTC inherent to my point, quite the contrary. BTC is largely irrelevant. What's relevant is that this leader in a South American country has thumbed his nose at the empire and the empire will seek to undermine him through all means at its disposal, media hit pieces included.
How do you choose in which profile links from outside of the browser should open?
That's cool, but I was trying to find a company that publishes it's SDK. Ideally some app examples as well.

That said, given how cheap these watches are I'm open to trying anything. Were you able to write your own custom app too, or just consume existing data ?
You can't tell them to just play games. If they all did (at least the good ones) they would have any. We need people to work for better game companies or start their own.
False. C&D letters are sent via email all the time.
Many people will read it and hesitate, which is the purpose of the email.

Which still doesn't make it a threat. They're warning about something the piece of paper does, not something Blizzard might do (and employees actually signing up for the right reason - a belief that the CWA will negotiate much better terms than they've been able to negotiate themselves - should be able to dismiss that warning with the same eyeroll they dismiss all the fluff at the beginning about the things Blizzard does for its staff without a union).

It's "We think X wont help you in the way you think it might [although we're obviously biased here] but it's your decision and we couldn't stop you even if we wanted to" not "If X, the consequences will be punishment"
I don't think anyone here is claiming that musk's space Tesla was anything other than frivolous.
If all you want to do is separation of data on same site. I think the container is the better way to go.

Although the profile still serves different purpose from container (like you can have different Firefox account linked/ different extension installed)
Acquiring a trademark just sets a floor for when you acquired the trademark, it doesn't mean someone else hasn't already acquired it - that is a question that courts have to settle.
Can you please help me understand why you, and everyone else, are so passionate about the status page?

I get that it not being updated is an annoyance, but I cannot figure out why it is the single most discussed thing about this whole event. I mean, entire services were out for almost an entire day, and if you read HN threads it would seem that nobody even cares about lost revenue/productivity, downtime, etc. The vast majority of comments in all of the outage threads are screaming about how the SHD lied.

In my entire career of consulting across many companies and many different technology platforms, never once have I seen or heard of anyone even looking at a status page outside of HN. I'm not exaggerating. Even over the last 5 years when I've been doing cloud consulting, nobody I've worked with has cared at all about the cloud provider's status pages. The only time I see it brought up is on HN, and when it gets brought up on HN it's discussed with more fervor than most other topics, even the outage itself.

In my real life (non-HN) experience, when an outage happens, teams ask each other "hey, you seeing problems with this service?" "yea, I am too, heard maybe it's an outage" "weird, guess I'll try again later" and go get a coffee. In particularly bad situations, they might check the news or ask me if I'm aware of any outage. Either way, we just... go on with our lives? I've never needed, nor have I ever seen people need, a status page to inform them that things aren't working correctly, but if you read HN you would get the impression that entire companies of developers are completely paralyzed unless the status page flips from green to red. Why? I would even go as far to say that if you need a third party's SHD to tell you if things aren't working right, then you're probably doing something wrong.

Seriously, what gives? Is all this just because people love hating on Amazon and the SHD is an easy target? Because that's what it seems like.
> I'm not a constitutional scholar, but I suspect this argument wont fly. From what I can see the only arms that are prohibited are ones that don't have a legal use (ie sawnoff shotguns)

A couple things I could unpack there but to keep it simple…

The most recent take by SCOTUS was 2008 Heller and 2010 McDonald that set up the language for guns that may be regulated as “dangerous and unusual”. The AND is very important. Dangerous is not to the target, they’re all dangerous to the target, but rather I read it as in hard to control or wider effecting or camouflaged or potentially harmful to the user. Unusual is easier to understand. A gun that might be dangerous and unusual is a 50BMG handgun or a machine gun or something generally not effective for defense of self/state or a cane gun. It’s hard to seriously rationalize that if gun control exists at all that an M240B LMG should have the same exact regulations as a Glock. We clearly have more use for the latter as a society, although there is vigorous debate that of varying reason.

The other is that sawed off shotguns are not illegal. The DOJ at one point did want to ban guns, and tried to ban all guns with barrels less than 18” knowing full well this would be all handguns. They failed but did come away with a consolation prize of barrel length limits for rifles and shotguns. 18” for shotguns and 16” for rifles basically for no reasons that make sense. You can saw a shotgun barrel down all you like up until you get to 18”, where 17.9” is an SBS, short barreled shotgun, and still not illegal but does require a $200 tax to be paid. Funny though, this only applies to “shotguns” which is a smooth bore gun with a stock. A “shotgun handgun” is not a shotgun, and also not a handgun, but rather a “firearm”. But only if it was made that way. You can have or saw down any shotgun barrel to any length so long as it doesn’t have and wasn’t made with a stock. This gun http://primusdatabase.com/images/d/d3/Sawed-Off_Shotgun.jpg is legal if the tape is covering a grip that hasn’t been modified, but illegal if it’s covering that someone sawed the stock off as well. You can buy a version of this gun with no stock and saw it down if you like. There is a world of stupid ATF NFA that you do not wish to know. https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1db1617798849b0d0a7d7b...
Same.

It's great. Most game companies are very comfortable. Nice offices with free food, good pay, flexible hours, remote friendly, full benefits. Crunch is rare these days. This is all true of Blizzard, btw.

The vocal minority on twitter are trading in outrage; the currency of social media. And there's a distinct lack of perspective. Have they ever worked on a farm? A restaurant kitchen? A construction site? A warehouse? Or anywhere outside of an Aeron chair? Mostly no. This doesn't mean it's perfect or can't be improved, but it's really nice compared to most and this gets lost in the noise. I often visit poor neighborhoods and poor countries and read history and thank my lucky stars.

And yes, you can get even better pay in the financial services industry. If that's what you want, please, go work there. No one's stopping you.
I like that metaphor. I see where it falls short, but I see the spreadable aspect and like that.
Having some sort of repo config file (either account-wide or in the .github folder) would be very helpful.
Recently uncovered software flaw ‘most critical vulnerability of the last decade
I'm not sure if these have been posted before, but the progress notes from Yamaha are interesting - https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~aj/archives/docs/all/051.pdf
The "portable version" is not maintained pr built by Mozilla and breaks/disables the sandbox. Don’t use it.
In a more competitive and transparent market, doctors will be compensated closer to the marginal product of their labor (which is generally quite high!). I do not think doctors will get paid $35,000 per year. I am not trying to decide their salaries myself.
I don’t question your motives in this instance, but I always pay extra attention when someone’s advice is to hire them or someone like them.

Obviously, “hire a lawyer,” is sometimes right. But if I hired a lawyer every time I was told to, I would be out hundreds of hours of billing fees. Anecdotally, I’ve never fucked anything up royally. That doesn’t mean that I made the right decision, but is something I strive for.

Spending $300-1000 on a consult every time I might need one is like taking an antibiotic every time I might have encountered a bacteria. It’s important to qualify and spend money when I actually need to rather than every time.

It’s like those people who say “don’t criticize my book until you read it” (since that usually means that it makes them some money to have me buy their book). If I had to read every book to figure out if I should like it or not, that’s impossible. I need to develop effective evaluations and filters to prevent me from wasting my time and money.
You were 1st, you are all good

UDPR is your friend
We're well beyond your cognitive capabilities in this discussion if you're suggesting that a comparison between powerful ex-directors of the US intelligence apparatus landing post-gig jobs as political commentators at media organizations and "Marines" at McDonalds is apt (or even relevant).
Coinbase’s Use of Frost: Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures
For those unfamiliar with the US Midwest and Edwardsville... here is a map of where the tornado hit. Looks like 2 swaths of destruction:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/11/us/tornado-ma...

I know it's paywall'd, but I couldn't find any any other media outlet with a simple damage map like this.
As pointed in the answer above on a similar question there is 'about:profiles' internal page in Firefox, so one can manage all the profiles (add/remove/rename/etc) and then during normal start of Firefox select which one is needed to be started.
Sounds like Max Cohen at work, doesn't it?
This depends on what profile you make the the default startup profile in the profile manager