skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From seeing this work and not work at different companies, I've decided at root it's a company culture issue.

Specifically, "How does my company deal with failure?"

Which is another way of saying "Are people disincentivized from telling the truth at my company?"

You can never have a process that requires truth-to-power as a regular occurrence that's successful in an environment where there are career penalties to speaking uncomfortable truths.

That's why legacy providers & government have engineered a system that accepts +50% wasted time, in exchange for not requiring truth because almost everything is checked and verified.

Good culture: We failed. I succeeded.

Bad culture: You failed. I succeeded.
I'd love to be an "expert witness" and decode a small snippet of base64 on a whiteboard for the jury. Just to show that the lock analogy is bullshit.
I have family members who work in a hospital in the US and they said that their hospital is overwhelmed with asymptomatic individuals saying "I think I might have COVID!" and panicking. The correct response to that is to refer these people to their primary care physician. But yeah ICUs have never been close to being overwhelmed by COVID at this hospital.
Half the reason to go with a contractor is you know they'll do sketchy things, but you get to plead ignorance.
Is there a reason an all-Apple user would want to use a password manager like this?
The biggest problem is that the snapshot mechanism would need to traverse multiple data centers. The current arch uses the disk for storage in several ways which aren't easy to fix, and because of the way several of the plugins were built (with lots of the nastiest custom code I've ever seen) each time I start experimenting I run into weird breakage and debugging hell. Enough so that I decided it's not worth it for HA at this point. Will be rebuilding much of it in Elixir/Phoenix though, and that will be 12 factor/HA[1] from the start.

[1]: Me explaining 12 factor for anyone not familiar already (and I've actually had people who were well experienced with 12 factor tell me they got a lot out of this video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REbM4BDeua0
Swartz was a rare breed of what I think of as real activism. Self-proclaimed activists these days have no skin in the game and don't go further than signal boosting. To really make a difference you have to get burned; most people don't have the guts.
The last time they were in the news that I recall it was because workers were killing themselves in such large numbers that they decided installing “suicide nets” was the solution.

Apple 1000% are capable of making sure that nothing like that ever happened again and yet here we are not long after.

Apple has a very sketchy history in general when it comes to China and there is no reason at this point to assume this is some innocent mistake.
Castled – Reverse ETL
I agree, other companies should be getting flak for this. Apple does not deserve less attention. Apple has the power and financial standing to make a difference here. With great power comes great responsibility and all that.

Just because others are using this facility isn't an excuse by any means. Like I said, Apple could build another factory. They choose not to, because they profit from the human rights abuses.
I'm even more optimistic; the Sumerian language is now 5000 years old we can read that. I used to love stone runes but after reading Snow Crash clay tablets that the sumerians used seems to be the best path, it's so much faster and practical. A bit like the internet vs. floppies.
On one hand Ford does very deep fleet discounts. There's no way to tell how much it actually cost them.

But on the other hand, being given 11.5m to buy 160ish cars and spending every penny of it is exactly how government "use it or lose it" budgeting works so I wouldn't give NYPD any credit either.
> but is underage porn still illegal when it's not technically depicting a real person?

If we look at existing laws, it should be. Depicting an underage person even when the actor is an adult is illegal, I think, in every country. So adult actress portraying a minor is illegal. So why not pixels depicting young girls should be illegal?

The pixels are just the conduit, just as the the adult actress depicting a minor in a sexual act.

So it should be.

But whether it is moral- I don't know. I don't know enough psychology, public policy, etc. to express an informed opinion.

But my personal choice? Yes. It should be illegal. Hypothetically, if it ever comes to a vote, I would vote against child porn even when there is no real human involved.

That's why child porn in animations is banned as well.
Perhaps you could address your reminder about guidelines to the person who replied to a tactful comment with 'What on earth is happening at American universities [...]'. The only original point of that comment was to generate an emotional reaction.

I replied by pointing out that said trope doesn't apply to me and citing my preference for a data driven approach, a polite rejoinder which was rudely rebuffed.
Interesting contrast to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29734021
> Boosters for last year’s virus

You're announcing confidently to the world that you don't know anything about immunology, and haven't seen the studies that show that boosters produce broad neutralization against Omicron even though they haven't been updated (and you probably lack the ability to theorize as to how that could be possible).

> the fairly predictable solution of stacking them every 6 months

Outside of Israel nobody is suggesting boosters every 6 months. We'll see how that goes for them. Lots of experts are actually very suspicious of the idea that we'll be boosting constantly (outside of the 3% of the vulnerable population that is immunosuppressed).
A police force without transparency is as good as a politician who doesn't want equal opportunity voting. These are not people that represent my best interests. It is being irritating that the bodies of our country that are intended to support, represent and carry us are the same ones that try to tear us down and hold us back from prospering.
Turning petabytes of raw video data into a high-quality ML dataset
... and I have had 3.5" floppies that have lost data by taking them for a five minute walk a block away.

40 years indicates you're probably using 5¼" (or larger!) media which is slightly better at media decay due to lower densities.
Why assume that "hacker culture", whatever exactly that is, is immune to racism?
A very curious effect of ruDALL-E is that the finetuning works on small datasets with unexpectedly good results. The Sneakers example they note in this article is on about ~10k images.

As an experiment, I finetuned ruDALL-E on about 1000 images of Pokemon and generated from that, which yielded incredible results that went viral: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1470913487085785089

I then tried finetuning ruDALL-E on 1 Pokemon, yet still good/horrifying results: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1474913997807755268

Unfortunately it's still a convoluted process to finetune ruDALL-E; I hope they end up releasing a smaller model to make it possible to do on a smaller/free GPU. (if they do, I'll release a streamined Colab notebook + blog post on how to do it)
Yes, ordinary consumers are starting to use TOTP more but still may not be aware of what you pointed out.

To mitigate the risk of losing my 2FA credentials I use the FOSS app andOTP (Aegis is similar, but better UI, from what I hear). It can export your data as both cleartext and encrypted JSON so you can import into a new phone as desired.
Actually the opposite is true here; if you talk about certain data which is considered "bad", like crime statistics, your post will be shadowbanned because it's considered wrongthink (or as you might put it, "straight up racism"), just like Twitter.
Very curious. Is there anything that smells the same, or is absolutely everything different? Also, how much of a difference is it - slightly off, or completely new?
The original Israeli study made this clear: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34706170/

To be more specific, vaccination does help reduce transmission, partially, for a short period of time, but it's reduction in transmission is low compared to it's significant reduction in severity.

To be clear, it's totally fine that the vaccine doesn't really do much for transmission. That's not the goal. Covid is certainly here to stay and it's probably going to be a seasonal illness much like the flu - and we might even see seasonal covid shots like we do with the flu. We only care that the severity and hospitalizations are kept low. The vaccines do accomplish that and with basically no side effects.
I would argue that our reality today is even dumber and more hostile in some ways, so I suppose this is a matter of outlook. I was surprised that they didn't have a literal war break out, for example.
Maybe this
https://mastodon.social/about
I used to use floppies for my Yamaha synth from the early 2000s, but I recently finally did the USB mod and I completely recommend it!
Fascinating honesty in a lot of comments in this thread. HN trends liberal and the sentiment here feels growing frustration with how gov, corps, schools are handling things. I sense the general population is turning a corner, where despite what your politics are on the vaccine, everyone is over it and will demand life prior to covid.
The civilizations and societies rise and decline all the time. There is no reason to believe that this time will be different. Thinking otherwise is only wishful thinking, comparable to the idea that the price of house/stock/bitcoin can only rise. What we might disagree though is if we have already entered into decline or not. People overestimate education. The majority of population who play the biggest role in how society evolves don't get any wiser because of the school. One can even argue that today's education is dumber than say 30-40 years ago.
It's certainly a topic with a lot of nuance, but in this particular case, there's no valid argument made and EIKE is known for deliberate misinformation. There is unanimous scientific consensus (a rare thing!) about climate change being real and anthropogenic. Anyone trying to argue this point in 2021 has no place in a factual debate.
The #1 reason to use a mouse for me is to do input you can't easily do any other way. The first is hover info for things that are't anywhere near the cursor. I don't want to move the cursor in order to hover an identifier 20 lines and 40 columns away. Because once I have hovered it for info, I still have the cursor in the right spot.

BUT, that I can also do with a trackpoint/ball/roller/whatever. The most important mouse thing is for freehand input like drawing. It's just not ergonomical to do that kind of thing with a trackball.

Using any kind of pointer to move a cursor in text or navigating to a different window or a different textbox isn't really a good idea. That's done better with a keyboard. But the thing most keyboard purists overlook is the thing they don't do at all (draw, hover), so they don't miss it.
> Bunch of people report their unique password gets this message and they investigate credential stuffing? Makes no sense.

You never worked in IT if you believe what your customers tell you, especially the ones that don't pay you.
Huawei, Which Beat Apple at Making a Car, Announces New Range-Extended EV
The articles take is the on point one IMO. The quotes are about the action being wrong not the law being right, as were the vast majority of the other negative comments in the post. The post can be found here for reference https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484 of particular note is the number of hackers that feel the action was noble but still wrong (even if being over prosecuted).
That is another attack on general computing. Until now an "encryption" has been required to limit your legal ability to handle information legally residing on your computer. Now even the "encryption" isn't needed, just a post-factum statement from the information sender that you used unapproved (according to post-factum given definition of approved) viewer for that information. One can see how MS may for example decide that using an old version of Word or accessing MS site by Firefox instead of Bing or from a Linux computer may be qualified as such a hacking.
Yes, IMHO, this is very much about governor Mike Parson using the court system as a "weapon" against the reporter (or more likely the newspaper).

It actually doesn't matter that there's no way the prosecution will "win" nor does this have anything to do with caring about information security.

Folks are wasting their breath if they explain why "view source" isn't hacking. The prosecution DOESN'T EVEN CARE.

Hopefully the Post-Dispatch has the resources to aggressively retaliate and take a pound of flesh in return. The charges were likely brought simply because the newspaper is stretched thin and they're either being told to "shut-up" or the governor is trying to pull "a Peter Thiel style" maneuver for some past grievance.
I quite enjoy some of the limitations it brings. You have to get creative for some things.

There really is something distinctive from the golden age of hip hop where you were limited sample size and really had to flip and combine many different samples to produce a beat. J Dilla came a little later, but he was certainly influenced by the sound and I think it should be no surprise that his Akai Sampler (MPC3000, which also had a 3.5" disk drive) would be included in the Smithsonian collection [0].

0 - https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.139.1?destination=/...
> Let me take a couple of specific examples. Upon being told that an asteroid large enough to destroy human civilization was on course to hit the earth in 6 months, the President decided that it would make strategic sense to delay announcing or acting on the threat until after the midterms - a month or so later. This was conspicuous for the fact no reason was given, which had to be the case as it makes no sense.

Counter example: Trump new about the severity of covid and downplayed it for quite some time instead of trying to rally the country.

> Meaning its only effect would be to crater the President's support when it became clear they hid the truth. Even an amaetuer political observer would understand all this, let alone a Whitehouse team that won a Presidential election.

In light of the above, this has been shown to be false. There absolutely can be some fanatical base that will construct shared delusional propaganda to avoid the realization that they've been conned.

> Or how about the manner in which the astronomers announced their discovery? They went to the NYT, who inexplicably decided that they would forego running the biggest story in human history. Instead, they helped arrange for the astronomers to announce their discovery in a 2-minute segment on an infotainment news show. Neither the NYT, nor the astronomers, nor anyone would think that was a good idea. It would never, ever happen.

This I'm more inclined to believe. I'm not sure if it would impact the outcome though. I can't imagine there's a huge overlap in people that read the NYT versus watch morning infotainment. I've also lost all faith in humanity, so I can't rule out that it's quite possible that people would make such bad decisions.

> During the interview, one of the astronomers got upset because the talk show hosts were nonchalant about the news of the possible end of civilization (!?). Returning to the NYT offices, they're told that the journalists were able to confirm their findings with well-respected third party scientists, but that because one of the astronomers got upset in air, they weren't going to run the story - again, easily the biggest story in human history, which anyone could appreciate at such.

I think this pretty firmly falls into satirical license as a commentary on meme culture, and how people care more about the messenger than the message.
Not sure why my comment got downvoted, but it very much feels like HN is defending this kind of behavior. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Any reason why you omitted the other recent years in which it nearly or more than doubled?
Yet people who are vaccinated can still transmit the disease. So how do you quantify the excess risk? Particularly for those who are young and healthy and unlikely to develop severe viral loads or complications? Are there any studies that show transmission rate for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated by age range?
That sounds like saying that the ongoing US war crimes at Guantanamo are important for understanding Google app engine service contracts. Just because Japan is far away doesn't mean that everything that happened there happened in the same place at the same time.
I think Wikipedia should add NSFW in their links.
I think this article it's a good summary of what I think. https://babinec.com/2020/10/the-problem-with-public-money-go...
My old floppies are great. The newer ones, starting around 2000 or so, are mostly junk.
USB sticks also require an open USB port which can be used for all kinds of attack vectors that you just don't have to remember hardening against with a floppy.
> The tie between intelligent design and Christianity isn't a necessary one.

I suppose so. As far as I’m aware, it grew out of a need for Christians to present a scientific-seeming theory to explain the evidence supporting evolution, without supporting evolution. I imagine other religious groups might have a similar need, but Intelligent Design is one that Christians came up with.

> Furthermore, not all Christians would subscribe to "free will"

This I don’t understand at all. You may be correct, but I don’t see how it makes any sense. Without free will how could there be sin, and without sin what did Christ die to save us from?
"As an example, the topic of immigration will bring out the nastiest takes and opinions (and straight up racism)."

Well, I would argue, that hackers can also be nasty racists.

I mean sure, by my definition the hacker spirit is open minded by definition. But people with a open mind, are also open for some very weird to disgusting ideas.
> it's at first glance hard to understand why MIT - one of America's leading federally-financed research institues - chose to persecute Aaron Swartz for downloading the jstor archive

It didn't. Read the Abelson report (which has been discussed ad nauseam in past HN threads). MIT did not want Swartz prosecuted, and told the prosecutor that. The prosecutor chose to go after Swartz anyway. MIT's error was that they didn't push back harder on the prosecutor (for example, by making a clearer public statement along the lines of the one JSTOR made, that since the stolen data was returned, no further action was necessary or desired).

> Clearly the MIT administration wanted to make an example of Swartz

No, it didn't. It just made an error of judgment (described above). It had nothing against Swartz and was not trying to make an example of him. The Federal prosecutor was the one trying to do that.
I'm not dismissing the issues with the waste. Co2 however is a much larger issue in the short term.
1.Got a job at a FANG company after 4 tries.

2.Got married.

3.I paused a master in CS.

4.I failed my weight loss goals
Thank you! I thought the word Alloc was in there but couldn't remember the right combination of Alias/Alloc/etc.
Elon Musk (Lex Fridman Podcast #252)
How to facilitate challenging brainstorming situations
Persecution? He broke the law and was likely to get a slap on the wrist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31083Hp7OVw&t=120s
All of these limited currencies would exist on a centralized government platform; no physical currency.

There would be no third-party ability to create/transform these currencies. So all swaps/trades would have to be done on the official platform or via its APIs, which you could of course integrate into third-party websites. The govt could even run markets (with tariffs to discourage volatility) to swap between different currencies.

Frankly, >90% of the tech infrastructure is already here in America between corps like Amazon and Stripe. We just need to go the extra mile to "nationalize" these corps and integrate them into one huge economic system. A monumental task, to be sure. But the road is already being paved by less liberal nations.
I think it's not really the ability to type fast, or that you need to be typing all the time, but that when you're in a state of flow, where you have what you want to accomplish and put down on paper/screen clearly in mind, a context switch, even as one as small as from keyboard to mouse, might be slightly hurtful to that state.

When I'm in this state, I'm probably writing pseudo-code fairly close to the real language I'm working in, and not worrying too much about errors I'm not seeing, and just trying to quickly correct the errors I do see, such that I can express my intent on screen. Finding missed typos and other errors is for a second pass and with the help of a compiler/interpreter, for code I write in that manner. It may require some additional passes to tweak things that just don't work, as well, but that's fine. The point was to get what was very clearly in my mind transferred to another medium before something caused a corruption of my mental state.

That's not to say that's the only way I write. I also often devote time to carefully pondering what's on the screen and how to best interact with it to change it in the way I want, or whether there is a better way to do it entirely and that code should be rewritten. But when I'm trying to get what's in my mind onto the screen, little things like auto-indent and being able to accomplish something while keeping my hands doing what they've been doing all add up to help in small ways.
It’s because people cheat on their spouses a lot more than people think and a baby getting hepatitis B during vagina birth is just awful. Basically everything in standard of care assumes the worst about the individual.
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has lost two floppy disks containing personal information on 38 people

Amateurs. In the USA we can do that kind of thing for 38 million people. with the advances in private sector we're on track to do so for 3.8 billion any day now.
Jack Dorsey Ignites Battle over Competing Visions for ‘Web3’
I'm curious how that balances with everyone sharing random IP's from attempted account access. Where did those addresses come from? Why are users seeing them? Did the bug they're talking about cause bad data to be pushed to users dashboards?
Does Google Fi support eSIM?
I would love to also somehow see Parson penalized for egregious waste of government resources and monies on this charade that will go nowhere immediately at trial.

Also the fact that the prosecutors didn’t laugh in his face immediately is rather disappointing. I can I guess understand the Highway Patrol being forced into investigating, but there’s no excuse for the prosecutor not immediately slapping this down.
Where do you host it? I was thinking I’d host it on my NAS and only sync when i’m on my local network. Not sure if that’ll work with the clients? My nas is also it’s too old to have a supported docker package, so that’s a bit of a hurdle there. Pretty uncomfortable with the idea of hosting it on digitalocean or similar… wondering what others do?
Isn't religion supposed to be a deeply personal thing, not necessarily tied to some earthly institution or organization? What if I sincerely believe that complete and total bodily autonomy is a God-given right but I'm not a member of a church who shares my views, are my beliefs invalid?
With your redacting example, we don't even need to decide if looking at the paper with a light is illegal. The reporters discovered the poor redaction, and immediately informed the State that it was poorly implemented. They did not disclose this was a problem until the problem was fixed, and new papers were handed out without this flaw. How can you argue someone did something illegal in this case!
I like this a lot. It makes thing cleaner and more like explicit.