skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Private companies are allowed to participate in repossession as long as they don’t break any other laws.

Why do they do this? Did the bank pay Tesla to do so? (I'm sure there must be some incentive system here).
a) This has less features than mitmproxy, burp suite or owasp zap.

b) Export request is a very essential feature that's available for free in either of these alternatives and its pay-walled here.

c) Intercept request in a terminal very badly broken. It broke (go get) and probably breaks others. I expect it adds an environment variable (which can be ignored by an application) or uses LD_PRELOAD (which doesn't work in statically linked applications).

Other than that, it functions like you would expect it to. Worked out of the box for Firefox and curl.
Well there are many mainlanders who disagree with that. To many people, being Chinese is being 中国人, which doesn't mean belonging to the Chinese state (whether that's PRC or ROC), but belonging to Chinese civilization, which is a bigger concept than merely speaking Chinese (中文).
I'd say that the big milestones would be photosynthesis, eukaryotic life, and then multi-cellularity. I trust the first and last are obvious but I think people don't appreciate mitochondria enough, for all the memes about "the powerhouse of the cell". Bacteria respirate over their membranes which, through the square-cube law, limits how big they can be. Our cells have many mitochondria scattered though them and can get pretty big. And with size comes the possibility of much larger genomes. Plus in life on Earth at least mitochondria are responsible for apoptosis and its hard to image multi-cellar life without that.
I almost didn't go to the article because light beam communication was a perennial project in electronics magazines - like this one:
https://antiqueradio.org/pe0655.htm

The DDR took the concept to a really nice level of execution, though! Interesting that they used an infrared LED as their light source, given that the device is contemperaneous with the commercialization of infrared laser diodes.

Also there are hyperlinks in the article to pages about earlier devices of this kind that are worth checking out.
Yeah you're right, that was the original context, but then in this thread people also changed the context and were talking about the word crypto in general. It's not super controversial, and as was mentioned somewhere above no one really gets confused when we're talking about cryptography or when we're talking about cryptocurrency - or for that matter when we're talking about the golang crypto package.

So, let me just say, I'm not trying to weirdly argue with by saying you're right, and still the word can be overloaded. Idk language is weird.

Haha in 20 years maybe crypto will be abject failure and it'll become synonymous with pumping and dumping, like "pyramid" scheme, or maybe it'll be a huge success the likes of which no one has ever seen and will be used in that way in certain contexts.
> Some are so bad I give up and leave the site

That's fine if you ask me. If you can't understand that popup, the site is user hostile and you shouldn't give them your business.
So, they find bugs and security vulnerabilities, help spot performance problems and keep the code maintainable -- as a service.

Still sounds like a pretty valuable service.
Same for me. I had J&J and now moderna booster. Other than mild body pain and tiredness, booster was pretty smooth. Maybe because it's a half dosage
Ahhhhh. This does make a lot more sense.
No, not installed on an Android device.
This would be great but it doesn't have the only features I truly need: intercepting HTTPS connections from iOS apps.

I understand that intercepting HTTPS might be a bit complicated for iOS and still think this is a great project though!
This is blasphemy against the Holy Saint Musk. I hope they burn in hell.
Something could detect oxygen at longer distances, but that isn’t a sign of intelligent life.
I'm the creator of HTTP Toolkit - you don't need to share your email to use it.

It is a desktop app though, so you can't download it usefully on mobile. If you visit the landing page on mobile, it just offers to take your email address and send download links to your computer to get you started (and as an easy "bookmark this for later" option).

That sends one follow up "Did you try it? Let me know what you think" email a week later, then it deletes your email, that's it. It's never shared elsewhere, it doesn't sign you up to the mailing list, there are no "great new offers", nada.

Meanwhile, if you're on desktop it just shows a download button directly. After that starts it asks if you want to join the mailing list for updates, but you don't need to - the download starts immediately.
What you describe is "quantum contextuality". What Sabine is saying is that so-called superdeterminism/giving up statistical independence implies the contextuality that is needed to explain quantum mechanics using hidden variables, and it does so in a simple way if we accept future input dependence.
Where the letter of the law is more important than the intent, there's always more wiggle room to screw over the consumer. But where intent and interpretation is given more weight, things tend to be less predictable for businesses.

There was a story yesterday about someone getting terribly upset about researchers probing the GDPR compliance of the website of a blogger. Some froth developed around people's mouths as the site in question was called a "victim" and any shrugs seen as "victim-blaming". (And I was thoroughly downvoted for pointing out that calling website owners "victims" was a bit more drama than was called for)

GDPR and similar legislation has, as you correctly pointed out, had disappointing results. There is no doubt that stronger regulation is needed to stop companies essentially spying on users for financial gain - just as there is no doubt that regulating this in a way that both helps, and doesn't just become an expensive waste of time, is hard.
That's correct.

I'm her techie father.

She is distraught and beside herself about this and I was hopeful that someone with influence might see it and help her as I have so often seen people regaining various accounts after appealing to the hive mind of HN :-)
I would check out https://julialang.org, the closest thing to the pure math I have seen.
This is most concrete example of "if it's stupid but works, it's not stupid"
You sound kind of bitter.

Just because we can't help everybody doesn't mean we shouldn't help anybody. This person posted, it gained traction which means the community here is interested.
Ya’ll are overlooking the reasoning behind this for Tesla: this would make a bank more willing to give out a loan to nearly anyone, even with questionable credit, if the car assisted with its own repo. It’s a play to get more Teslas on the road.
I often found the reviews to be related to shipping and whatnot, and not the product itself.
The lack of transparency since day one of the pandemic is, in my opinion, the main reason for so many people to be against all measures, including vaccination mandates. From making assertions about the virus before the science was out (science rarely ever speaks in certainty), to straight out lies. From science, to pharma, to state medical officers, to government, to media, we're stuck in a terrible game of phone.
R0 < 1 should be measured globally unless you're planning on isolating forever.
Neither had humans until very recently.
South Africa has extremely low vaccination rates, correct?

Edit: Yes, your premise seems to be quite wrong. South Africa has only 26% vaccination rate.
Why Derw: an Elm-like language that compiles to TypeScript?
I too fall into the trap of listening to things on sped up. But is it 2x speed and YouTube. Anything that I’m actually trying to learn ilI will slow down and rewatch. But there is so many crappy videos on YouTube I feel compelled to watch most of it on 2x speed to find the good ones.

And unfortunately this habit gets strengthened, because plenty of people thing you are knowledgeable when you can pull out random bits of trivia you learned in YouTube videos, or are grateful when you can reference a YouTube video to them on a topic they are interested in.
It is correct, note the qualification for under 40:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0/figures/2
I am using Android and building from source there is not complicated at all [1]. I was under wrong impression that using own build under iOS is not much harder :(

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/wiki/How-to-buil...
Agree. The big platforms make it all way too comfortable for everybody.

And I get it completely. Over the course of years, Google and the likes probably have more phone numbers of my contacts than I have. Only three weeks ago I made a text file with every name and number in it, so I have a safe copy for myself.
> But when you own it, then no one else should retain any sort of control over it, period.

Right. But there is another issue especially with vehicles... You need insurance to operate them on public road. And insurers like to monitor things now that the tech is available/becomes available...

And the current US government wants your car to monitor your "impairness" as well[0] and brick itself if it considers you impaired.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29427068
From 2014: Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car

https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1

I too wish that there would be an easy way to disconnect my car (it is of zero use to me).
> Proponents of hidden variables, in their desire to explain QM effects, arrived at the idea that there is something that permeates the Universe since the Big Bang and participates in every physical interaction.

Actually that's not correct. In Bohmian mechanics the wave function is not actually real, it merely describes a law of motion. You're doing what many MWIers do, and applying the ontology of MWI to other ontologies and concluding they assume redundancies. That's just not how it works.
So what do you do when variants are still ravaging in Africa for example? Isolate the continent?
My second screen (an LG) turns the backlight off whenever it's all black. My Dell monitors don't do the same, and it's a shame. It's always on but effectively off all the time as it usually is all-black, and thus there's no backlight.
I try to read 20 min a day. With kids it becomes a challenge to dedicate any more time than that.
But the problem lies with the companies, not with the law. Companies could trivially comply with the law.
My Dad (who uses HN) recommended it :)
> It makes a mockery of the idea of trying to do science at all - the experiments you take are already determined

The laws of physics were there before people started studying physics. Didn't make it less interesting for those who were interested.

Everything we do is a mockery - life expectation is 75 if you are lucky and universe doesn't care about your achievements

>you can't learn anything about what causes have what effects because you can't ever change a causal variable.

[shrugs]If you don't have free will, then how can you change smth? What part of a computer "learns" during gradient descent?
This is nice. Clear and straight to the point. There's one thing that could be improved from the user's engagement perspective: when I created a goal and later created an user account, the goal has been cleared.
But almost any good SA can catch all of those issues, a person doesn't need to look through the code for that.
Not sure if that classifies as a memory leak,but it can happen with mutable types (lists for example) attached to some global variable or as a default in a class definition / function input.

For example:

class A
a = []
def __init__(self):
self.a.append(1)

Or

def foo(a=[]):
# code that adds to a...
Its also not a guarantee you get Covid. Current stats are that 50 / 330 million of the USA population have had Covid. So comparing the risk factors of the vaccine to covid directly is a bit misleading, IMO.
The best thing I’ve done for the family is set expectations that I’ll only be working for 15 minutes to an hour. I call it “plodding”. Then I really try to get something done in that time. Ever since I started plodding, and stuck to the promise, my wife has been supportive. She’s even supportive of late nights and weekends if I will avoid locking myself in a room for hours at a time.
That is a much smaller slice of the world than the opposite.

Even the poor in the U.S. are still better off than most people in the rest of the world. The U.S. can certainly do better addressing income inequality, but there still needs to be some perspective as to the relative opportunity available to people in the U.S. compared to most other places.
> And I’m guessing their reviewers work for free, like on Code Review Stack Exchange?

No need to guess, it takes 20 seconds to check: https://app.pullrequest.com/signups/reviewer
The quijada is absolutely mesmerizing — I’m surprised there isn’t a link to the sound! Here you go: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yNNASyshhnQ
Indeed, there is simply no excuse for the lockdowns to extend beyond mom and grandma.

Restrictions focused at me, a healthy vaccinated under-30 yo male aren’t helping anyone.
The article in the Atlantic specifically mentions "people carry less of the virus, and seem less likely to pass it on to others."

As for overwhelming hospitals, I don't understand why it wouldn't be sufficient to vaccinate the at risk population (old and obese people, for example).
My Dad recommended I use HN (he uses it) so I created an account at the end of last week. And then I created a post today after working out what to say!
Biden’s H-1B Conundrum
I did say "for most people". Obviously there are people not comfortable with certain things in international trade.
Agreed, but with DMCA (and probably other laws) our concept of ownership is gone. Any music one buys that has DMCA, isn’t owned it’s just rented, and yet most people don’t realize that. So there’s a precedence for thinking we own something when in practice we just rent it. I can see that happening with cars. For example the law that was just passed that new cars will have to come with alcohol detectors https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/10/16/bil.... Whether we think this would be good or not, it’s eroding our concept of ownership.
When Aldous Huxley Opened the Doors of Perception
As an interviewer, you're not looking for a solution; it's supposed to be an ice-breaker, to get a technical conversation going.

Doesn't always work, but good enough.

(OTOH, if the interviewer has no idea why they're asking this, and they're just blindly checking off boxes from "The Greatest Checkbox List For Interviewers (tm)", it will fail like any other tool wielded by a clueless user. A very specific failure mode here is "THE BOOK has The One True Solution, and I'm expecting you to read my mind and choose this.")
its stupid you have to take the circuitous route at all, which is what people mean by saying its stupid
I read to sleep, so it depends on how tired I am. Usually it's in the 1h±30m range.
Given COVID’s risk/age relationship and already lower life spans in that time period plus higher vitamin D exposure rates it’s quite likely rate of death would have been lower in that population.
It would be cool if something like this would be possible with standard Linux tools on the command line.

How hard would it be to implement a network rule "if http://abc.com/def is requested reply with this data: ..."?

Or is it possible to inject something like this on the fly into Apache?

Would be very nice to mock end-2-end tests.
Variable naming is a really obvious example of "you can't write programs" to assess this. Because it needs some general intelligence.

Are very short names OK? Generally not, but x is a perfectly good name for an x coordinate in a graphing application for example.

On the other hand methods named colour (to get the shade) and shade (to get the colour) need some serious documentary explanation of what the hell you're up to even though in themselves they're acceptable names.

Language idioms, and (if this service is expensive enough) per-project idioms are not usually or reliably machine checkable.

Also beginners make lots of confusing mistakes, a program may end up missing the woods (e.g. this should just be an iterator, 90% of the code is mechanics that are doing what the language's built-in iterators do) for the trees (the variable names used for all the counters being tracked are bad)
These laws are new enough, and clear enough that flouting them routinely isn't going to go down well in court and 'your honor, we've been doing this for years' might get you some extra sanctions. The best way to deal with it is to simply become compliant, it isn't all that hard, 100's of thousands of businesses have adapted and the remainder really has no excuse other than that they are trying to extend their bottom line as long as the legal fees and fines do not exceed their income. The sooner that changes, the better.
> And, of course, the Berlin government forces people to register their address

Meldepflicht is in all of Germany, it's not a Berlin thing.

> and allows everyone to query it, because why wouldn't they:

This is highly controversial, for exactly the reasons you might think.

However, this is an "Einzelauskunft", so you get one address per query, and you are not allowed to trade in those addresses or use them for advertising. Also, if you want more detailed info, you have to provide a valid reason for wanting them.
Maybe you need something like Charles Proxy or Proxyman?
A lot of Canada cohabitates with bears.

Naturally our existence stresses and displaces them. But they’re there and you see them in the news quite regularly. Except for places like cottage country where their presence in your garbage isn’t news worthy.
Gross. Most programmers will work as independent contractors and pay 5% in taxes. But keep in mind, 0 goes to your saving programs / pension and you have 0 employment protection, as you are not an employee, but private entrepreneur. You need to do plan for your retirement / unemployment entirely by yourself.
The rent in Kyiv is $500 for a shoebox and $1000 for something adequate. Starting salary is $600-800 per month. So, you can afford a shoebox and to eat shit as junior dev :). Which is still better than a lot of industries here.

As high skilled engineer with 10 years of experience I make an $96 000 yearly, but I work directly for UK fintech company.

All things included SE still make a lot of money here, but nothing crazy. And trust me, living in California beats living anywhere in Ukraine at any day.
>Wouldn't this mean more deaths or am I missing something? Are COVID deaths in AIDS patients attributed to AIDS not COVID?

I don't know about SA but many countries count any dead person who was infected with COVID as a COVID death, which is a convenient way of padding the numbers.
'Lot' is just a large number of something. It's where 'lots' comes from if you recognise that?
I'm not sure this is a good idea for enterprise startups building closed-sourced software. As a software architect, some things you just don't delegate. Code Reiews are some of the most important things I do. But (and please don't downvote me for this, I know there's an instant reaction to downvote anything blockchain related) for DAO's this would be amazing.

A DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) might be running a software as a service. But it might not have any full time employees. It might not have any employees at all. A lot of updates to the software might come from random people (or bots). The DAO will need to evaluate and pay for any of those updates before it decides to merge the pull request. A code review as a service would be an absolutely invaluable tool for a DAO with a software product that doesn't have any full time architects to perform the service.
> They integrate well and know how to climb the system. They send their children in as doctors later in generations. They don't always start rich, they work for it.

And from this article, we can see Ecuadorians follow a similar path. The integrate well, and climb the system by sending their sons and daughters to college where they can build a better life for themselves than their parents had.
> VAERS data isn’t reliable and should not be used to determine adverse reactions.

FDA and CDC do use VAERS as their source for estimating risk of adverse events:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...

https://www.fda.gov/media/151733/download (page 23)
It's just a term of art:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...
This is exactly what should be noted. You’ll probably get more signups if people know how it’s going to be used.
Is there really a law that makes it illegal to display an antique phone that isn’t connected to a phone line? Is a box of old cell phones now to be considered a weapon of mass destruction?
It could be we're not distinguishing lease vs. finance in these threads. In my experience in Massachusetts, lease titles were in a holding company's name, while financed vehicles were in my own.

P.S. Looking around a bit there is a lot of variation on how this works depending on locale. So I guess lease vs. finance is just another way things can differ out there.
What will actually happen, is people will use these kinds of "context-free code review" services, then say a code review has been done. Technically correct in a narrow way, but not what most people would expect.
Ants and termites build megastructures..
Price point on the personal account is too high over time. Would expect this to be a one time payment rather than a monthly fee for this type of software.
This number is unfortunately fairly meaningless. Neutralizing antibody-titer is of course somewhat related to ability to resist infection, but how much is unclear.

Also there is no reason to expect the antibody-titer to stay high and it will probably go down quite a lot within the next 3-6 months, just like antibody-titers did after first round of vaccinations and seems to do after Covid-infection.

At this point it almost seems a bit disingenuous for Moderna to not study and publish numbers on expected antibody-titer half-life.
James Webb launch: Make-or-break moment for anxious astronomers
Should I delay having children to take advantage of polygenic screening?
This is very close to saying Halting problem is not, in fact, a problem: https://brilliant.org/wiki/halting-problem/
Ra – The drive to idealize vagueness and despise clarity (2016)
Any random apps promising "vouchers" or "coupon codes" installed on your phone? Do you have an Android device?

https://blog.zimperium.com/flytrap-android-malware-compromis...

EDIT: I hope you get your account back. Maybe if you're able to pinpoint that some malware took over your account, facebook support would be more sympathetic? I sure hope they have some process in place for accounts that fall prey to these malicious apps.
I think Charles proxy can do that, by installing itself as a VPN on iOS devices and also as a device configuration profile (so it can use a custom CA to MITM the traffic).
I try to always read a chapter of my book before bed every night. Most of the time I enjoy it, sometimes it feels like a chore, very occasionally I'm just too tired and it doesn't happen.

I used to read more. The most obvious culprit is devices; I watch too much tv, play too many games. Work also has an impact, after a day of hard concentration it's just easier to watch mindless tv.
You will vote the party or else.
Interesting - is there a link that could be quoted? I think it would be interesting to many people. As I say, the belief is very widespread. For example this article shared by another commentator also says vaccinated people "seem less likely to pass it on to others": https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/steriliz...
The infection fatality rate was never as high as 3%. The CDC estimated it at 0.6% back when almost no one was vaccinated.