skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm responding to this:

The authors blame the change in language towards feelings on the failure of “neo-liberalism” which seems dubious and without plausible mechanism. If anything, I would put the causality the other way. A more plausible explanation is more female writers and the closely related feminization of culture.

Another great outcome of the 70's that I've benefited from is the explosion in interest in the psychological theories of Carl Jung. It seems every therapist in California is a Jungian.

To say that there is a feminization of culture is an error in Jungian psychology because within each of us is an anima and animus (masculine/feminine) aspect. The masculine was dominant from WW2 through the 1950's (at least). Returning to a more balanced masculine/feminine culture shouldn't really be called "the feminization of culture" in my opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_and_animus
Me and pretty much everyone in this thread are in the same situation: we want to leave WhatsApp ASAP but can't because none of our friends use Signal. We should just be each other's friends already.
This is all completely irrelevant to the argument at hand. According to the Falun Gong themselves all interracial children are barred from Heaven, with their own special racism class system. I'm not quoting anyone but themselves.

Beyond that, cults are obviously more dangerous the larger they are. That goes by itself.
Freelance writing these days is not very lucrative. Personally I won't touch it for less than $1/word (so about $1K/article = ~ 1 day). Which, if you do the math and account for all the unpaid time needed to be in a position to write a $1K article still isn't a lot of money.
It depends on what I’m doing. If I’m doing a type intensive task I put it between the split and I use a track pad. Sometimes if I’m doing something mouse intensive I’ll shake it up, but that’s mostly how it stays.
Absolutely agree with this, doubly so if your target market is international
Your FB account data likely still exists and they'll likely still join the two
Maybe they block entire domains, not individual pages?

That wouldn't be affected by HTTPS at all.
The recent study about Omicrons severity is from South Africa where 80% were already infected, so mild symptoms could just be because it's the second infection.
The severity of Omicron as a first time infection is not researched enough.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. I thought difference of opinion was appreciated here, unlike Reddit.
You are aware that in the new world order in the making Europe is NOT shifting towards American geopolitical priorities, right? If anything Europe wants nothing to do with thorny issues that are bad for business (which Europe has plenty with China)
Democratic senators represent 40 million more people than Republican senators and their agenda can't be passed. The last time Republican senators represented more than half the population was 1996. Rural, low population states have far too much power in the present system. This is not sustainable.

I know Manchin is nominally a Democrat but it's not him that is blocking the legislation it is him and all 50 Republican senators (Sinema from Arizona).

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/gop-senators-havent-...
> Now that you can sell in a nanosecond your deal is bad, as in the moment you hear of the Volkswagen scandal all the trading algorithms are done with their work already.

You can only sell in a nanosecond because someone else is willing to buy in a nanosecond. And if your goal is to earn money trading in time horizons of minutes or hours or even days, you probably are not equipped to do that as a retail investor.

Why should you have the right to dump VW after the scandal and not someone else? What about an investor that did not read the news until the next day?

> The deal will be incrementally worse as these firms extract value, your price will be the one that all of these firms deemed "meh".

No one owes you arbitrage opportunity. If you think the banana is worth $1, then it is worth $1. Maybe a nanosecond ago you could have bought it at $.999999, but as long as you still think it is worth $1, then what is the problem with paying $1?
Shitty ad code barfing errors onto the console is typical, unfortunately. The JS is not written by Google, it's written by the individual advertiser, with very limited oversight.
Single point. The sensor averages the temperature of everything in a 10° FOV, which should be suitable to get an average pan temperature.

I think you could do something more clever with an IR camera like you suggest, by identifying the edge the pan, and giving more info like the temp gradient, perhaps displayed as 2 temps. Ie, "edge temp", and "center temp".
There are exploits that circumvent this, of course.
Socially-appropriate radical honesty.

There is value in not showing emotions when it would harm others. Little kids shouldn't have to deal with mommy or daddy's problems because it's traumatizing and damaging.

Life is suffering. Spreading suffering by inflicting baggage on others is emotional BS. One can learn to cope and deal with things themselves in constructive ways. This is one aspect of maturity.
10Mbit/s is actually bit high in my mind... 256kbit/s should be reasonable.
You're right. Google would never compromise anyone to make some money. Never
What do you consider large tech companies? I find that number for only 4-8 yrs experience to be much higher than most people see even with a total comp perspective. Just look around on the job boards or like SO - Not seeing numbers like that unless you're up there in mgmt levels.
yeah but statistically if you have lower sat score than 1450 (i found this number) you will have problems to perform and risk to lose years or drop out, but i believe a school could have a ethinc and net worth quotas relative to the country they operate. And go meritocratic (by scores) if they cant fill quotas
Obviously they would. If China was democratic they would probably elect a more repressive and economically left wing government. At least that's until the private sector buys enough political influence.

Democracy != Liberal democracy.
If you sell it to me as an NFT, how do I know it‘s not a fake NFT ticket or even a fake event?

All potential solutions to that question have one thing in common: An event has by definition a centralized entity, which is the organizer. Everything that a blockchain supposedly solves in event ticketing is after all a solution due to digitization, not decentralization.
It's part of their country, but I guess western powers still can't give up the ghost of trying to recolonize China.
Wow. This sounds brutal. No they haven’t. But the split keyboard has fixed. I think my pain is all self induced.
population density isn't how our legislature is set up. not sure why people always bring this incredibly irrelevant statistic up.
IMHO, fingerprinting would explain the enumeration attempt, but not the attempt to access these devices.
You're free! Enjoy your new life.
The quoted sentence makes sense if prefixed with “support for” which I will give the author the benefit of the doubt is what they intended.
> NFT platforms generally try to use IPFS to provide stable resource locators that anyone can seed, but even if that is not the case, and the URL goes down, as long as two (or more) parties can agree on what piece of art the token represents, they can recognise the ownership over it (not the copyright! - ownership over the digital edition.)

So are we talking about "ownership" like name a star catalogs? or the "adopt a zebra" at the local zoo?

What does that ownership mean and what can a person do with it (besides selling it to another person)?

Is there any rights or privileges that the NFT "ownership" is supposed to convey?

And if the hosted file somewhere that it purports to claim ownership of moves to another site/url/resolution (or even goes offline completely) what does that "two or more parties can agree on what piece of art the token represents" mean? Is it "that URL is offline so lets pretend that the image is over there is what this represents?" What if that other image has a different NFT that claims ownership?

Aside from all of these "what ifs" - what practical use do they have outside of an art experience? Without much difficulty I can point to people claiming that NFTs will be used for {practical situation} and then there appears others who point to this as art and can wave away the issues with practicality as buying an art experience that will never translate to anything in the real world or a legal framework that governs copyright. Even in the comments on this post you can see people claiming that it facilitates interoperability between skins on csgo and Roblox.

For example, if I sold a NFT for an image hosted on a server and then sold the art (and its copyright) to someone else who then removed its presence from the net and hung up a print in their own private gallery - is there anything that the NFT owner can do about it?

If the answer is "no", then it's as meaningful as names in a star catalog. If the answer given is "yes", then somewhere, someone believes that the NFT has meaning in the legal framework of the practical world.

People appear to be paying for these with the presumption that the answer is "yes" - and yet I've never seen anything with claims of how that would work or what that is founded on.

Personally, I'm waiting for it to be decided somewhere in court where either everyone who has fraudulently sold NFTs for works they don't hold the copyright on go "oh crap" or everyone else realizes that its digital performance art and has no other value.
272 days is very high. Full time work in the US with 0 vacation (typically is 10-20 days) and 0 company holidays (typically is 5-15 days) is 250 days. Perhaps you mistyped?
I found this article to be pretty enlightening about the nature of of the software engineering job market, which should help you figure out what companies can afford expensive developers.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...

If you're okay with a little risk, it's probably easier to join a remote series S-ish startup where you get a solid base salary (130k-180k based on your experience) and where the stock could be worth anything from 0k/yr to $100k+ per year. I would highly recommend only joining these types of companies if they have technical founders who have worked in BigTech and understand the value of high quality engineers and maintaining a good engineering culture (aka blameless post mortems, predictable deadlines, no-overworking, etc.)
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I'm pretty anti China (or rather anti the CCP). But this is the same everywhere: leaders keep foreign conflicts burning to distract from domestic issues and shore up domestic support.

The UK (my country) does it with 1001 places (Greece and the Elgin Marbles, Argentina and the Falklands, German and WW1 and WW2, France and, well, everything). The US does it with Iran and Cuba. China does it with all it's neighbors.

It's childish and short-termist and dangerous. But it works.

That's what this is. It's Winnie the Pooh rallying support, not an actual political position.
Wow, the first impression is really great.

Finally, a Wine frontend that feels polished and easy to use for beginners. Heck, the documentation alone is worth the project.

I love PlayOnLinux but their decision to go the Java route was a mistake and the rewrite seems to take ages.
Nonsense. The only reason why some Taiwanese do not want _formal_ independence now is because China is threating with war.

If China would allow a referendum in Taiwan (accepting any outcome peacefully), there would be 90%+ majority for independence.
The recent conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh proved that the future is here, and no large asset is safe from drones. Even if carriers could deny airspace to cheap tiny airborne loitering munitions (they can't), they have no hope against the submarine variety.
I guarantee they will never suffer by not having them
Cryptocurrencies, Accelerationism, and the Death of Money
Except it doesn't work. Pompidou and Lloyds need constant ruinously expensive maintenance.

Pompidou costs £15m a year and is being closed for four years for a complete renovation. Lloyds costs at least 50% more than comparable office space and - after years of high maintenance - is also being redesigned over the next few years.

It's literally style over substance. The look is everything. I don't hate the look, but it's unrealistic to ignore the way that the qualities that make a building usable - waterproofing, structural stability, reliability of fixtures and finish - weren't handled professionally.
... And its clear who Manchin represents
Lying is a reasonably fundamental part of research, but lying to humans can hurt them in various ways, and that's why we have human research ethics rules and standards that require an explicit process for obtaining consent to do something, even if we can't say what in advance, and debriefing and harm mitigation.

Which the IRB missed because they didn't understand that, to ask questions about a website's policy, you must get an answer from a human.
The issue is that Taiwan is military necessary. If the US is allowed an outpost there they will use the encirclement to threaten China's security.
This is a common belief that phones must be listening to us because ads are so targeted, but the scary truth is they aren’t[0] because they don’t need to. They have far more effective ways of targeting ads. For example, the reason you probably saw the lawnmower ad is because your friend searched for lawnmowers, and google knows they are friends with you, so they showed you targeted ads too because you might recommend that brand if you talk or you might subconsciously register that brand and reaffirm their decision to buy with something like “oh yeah I’ve heard of X, they’re supposed to be the best” without remembering where you saw that. It’s even possible you got the ad before your chat but didn’t notice because you had no reason to pay attention to a lawnmower ad.

This is why data privacy is so important even if you feel like you have nothing to hide.

0: as you note, they technically have the ability to do so and random apps could be but the amount of effort it would take to record, transcribe, and evaluate that much data just isn’t worth it when most users voluntarily give their info anyway. This is why I don’t use a phone, browser, or email service created by an ad tech company though and it boggles my mind how many people are ok with that.
If I can create a wildcard certificate for a domain by proving that I control DNS, why can't I use that cert as a "mini CA" to create valid certs that are a limited subset of the wildcard cert? Say I get a 90-day cert for *.example.com, and I want to use that to create a 30-day cert for a.example.com. I don't see how this would be abusable, and it would be nice for these scenarios where certs are used in a private network so you don't have to expose your internal hostnames to the world.
Totally agree. I think we have been warned more than enough. You afraid? Stay at home and lock down. (Didn’t stay home and) got sick? Your problem if no space is available. Split hospitals 50% covid and continue the rest as usual with limited capacity. We cannot control covid anymore and this was apparent just a few months in. Stop supporting authoritarianism and get real.
I suspect that a manager that suggested / insisted on such properly staffed teams, would get fired or no longer promoted, at most big companies. Since it'd cost a lot, and not show any results the nearest time / years. And also, they might hire the wrong people, and just burn money for nothing

> Simple, if brutal solution ... properly staffed teams

The recruitment part is not simple, maybe bordering to impossible? for some larger companies. I say, based on my past experiences in how clueless big companies can be concerning what technical people they hire.
I don't buy this. If the government would stop making "reunification" so prominent in official rhetoric, eventually there would be room to back down from the hardline view on Taiwan. Maybe not tomorrow, but certainly in 30 or 50 years. The government is feeding the flames of nationalism by making Taiwan such a prominent issue. The reason the CCP won't back down on Taiwan is not because they can't, but exactly because it's an issue which encourages nationalism and internal unity.
People shouldn't excessively bottle things up, but at the same time I believe personal boundaries are essential to a functioning society.
> That's not what the message said.

The message said:

> I look forward to your reply without undue delay and at most within 45 days of this email, as required by Section 1798.130 of the California Civil Code.

This is clearly a threat of legal action. Your experiences with CNIL might be misleading. There are few risks of getting bankrupt because of a frivolous lawsuit in Europe, but this is a very real risk in the US. Even if you are in the right and did nothing wrong.
Not sure I agree with you. It’sa minimal product. It’s still something you can carry forward, improve on, and enhance.

Seems wasteful to build something only to scrap it once people say they want it.

I’m right now testing out demand for a headless CMS @ https://moogle.cc/nirvaancms.html and I’m not planning to redo the entire tech stack if there seems to be demand for such a product.
Maybe it's just because I don't go one Facebook much at all, but my timeline is like... really really garbage. Unthinkably low quality posts. I've even started getting posts for Facebook marketplace listings from people I'm not even friends with.
Why the _hell_ should a Google ads customer be able to "slip" in a request for camera and mic? That that is even possible is a large problem.
The US is a republic, not a democracy. And for good reasons.
Otherwise, politicians will try to one-up each other with promises of freebies.
It's easy to win elections when you promise free healthcare, free education, free childcare,... The average person will vote in their immediate interest and not worry about the big picture. The big picture: nothing is free.
'incredibly irrelevant'? Wow...
Don’t talk to your computer. When you do talk, talk about stuff that you want them to look into.
The same author also made Emacs4CL - minimal configuration of stock/vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp development:

https://github.com/susam/emacs4cl
Roughly, I think that's what the optics are doing. The higher-FOV sensors are short, while variants that have smaller FOVs like this use a long tube.

Also of note, you can get directionality from microphones by using arrays configured in various ways, that take advantage of interference. For example, 2 microphones, with the front summed with the inverted rear delayed by the dist sound takes to travel between the 2. There are caveats to this, like non-uniform freq response. Radars do this for transmitting RF energy; I'm curious if this could be employed in a camera.
> the northern League wanting to break off from Italy and form another country

This isn't the 90's, that stuff died down when we all united against the africans. [1] There's no separatist movement in Italy other than in fringe groups on Facebook. Definitely much less than "Texas wanting to secede" anyway.

Supporting Taiwan is really not a question of opposing local separatist movements (at least in Italy) as much as just "losing China" and all that it'd entail.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2KTI_mZ0v4

This video is satire, racist POV
not related
>> Democratic senators represent 40 million more people than Republican senators and their agenda can't be passed. The last time Republican senators represented more than half the population was 1996. Rural, low population states have far too much power in the present system. This is not sustainable.

Spending insane amounts of money like that is not sustainable. We are already looking at greater than 10 percent annual inflation and trillions of federal debt. Guess who owes that debt back? We do. People need to stop seeing the government as some kind of external magical entity that can grant gifts to whomever it wants if only it had cooperation from [my]party.
This might have been true 10 or even 5 years ago but certainly isn't anymore.
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this is why we need hardware switches for microphones
Isn't Google supposed to vet whatever ads they send into the world?

I don't know if this looks any better if Google is negligent/incompetent instead of malicious.
I don't think that it's google's fault. Google sometimes trade ads on auctions, meaning they issue and HTTP request to partners asking "Hey, you want to show an ad here", and partner respond with price and HTML code, the highest bidder wins and HTTP code is inserted.

HTTP contains JavaScript, and theoretically anything can be executed within the browser (I've seen people mining bitcoins!).

Google can't monitor an execute every HTML snippet, but they doing pretty great job sampling responses and evaluating some of them. Fraudsters are smart, and trying to understand if the code is executed on Google's servers, but overall they are loosing.

It seems like a case where google's system didn't work.

By they way, all google partners are listed here: https://developers.google.com/third-party-ads/adx-vendors. Usually, it's possible to track down who's exactly responsible by looking at dev console
So what I find fascinating in the academic sense is that the law is being followed naturally here and so any costs incurred are incidental and arguably not the result of this experiment but rather actually the result of the law existing in the first place so ethically it’s not clear to me whether the experiment is creating this stress or in fact the law and modern society itself creates this new possibility of stress. If it’s a problem that lawyers can get involved in response to request for information about a possible CCPA request, then perhaps the law needs rework so that it cant be construed so easily as some threat requiring you to lawyer up.

In short, if lawyers asking people to follow laws are an ethical problem, then maybe we need to address that and not get enraged about a totally legal request for information about a website’s CCPA process.
Who is buying a $5000 bike from Mexico for a 10% discount. Seems like a lot of risk for a very minor discount on an very expensive item with no warranty. It makes me suspicious there is even more to the story than the author was able to dig into.
> "with very limited oversight"

I think I found the problem.
Got fed up clicking it away, deleted the app and moved my family to Signal.
I think this sounds more like some sort of fingerprinting attempt. It good to see that random access to these kind of resources fails due to new(er) browser controls. However, this does not mean that the fingerprinting actually failed.

There is probably some way to determine if the request was denied automatically by the browser or manually by the user (e.g., time to get "response"), which is definitely something which can be used for fingerprinting.

Which reminds me of fingerprinting by tiny differences in the audio API provided by browsers [0]. Super interesting, but also a bit depressing. Also works for things like canvases and WebGL.

EFF allows you to check how fingerprintable your browser is [1]. Do note that the results may not be very accurate.

[0]: https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/audio-fingerprinting/

[1]: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org
Memory safety bugs can be intimidating and sometimes challenging. Mostly they're not though.

Conscientious programmers aren't going to spend too long in the shooting themselves in the foot phase.

To me the awful compilation model and horrendous compile times are much bigger productivity bummers.

I enjoy helping folks debug memory safety bugs that stumped them. It takes the drudgery out of the day. And it's usually an opportunity to teach them something.