skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also think the same.

Many things are possible with the AI technology that we have today, right at this very moment that can be used to do things are the most wild things. Some of it would be illegal, some of it would be unethical. Good things are possible, too.

There was a repo on GitHub that contained the JDK environment variables (IIRC) to identify and box Uighurs from CC camera footage. The news made the headlines.

The getting out part was not really intended, I guess. So, imagine- what other wild things are out there in non-public repos.

"AI" is a very bad name, and often seen as synonymous to AGI. And people are either afraid or excited about it. Because much of the public facing content is focused on beyond-human AI. I guess this is because it is easy to get fundings, and there are private propaganda Machines running?

But there are so much that can be done today. Right now. Good things, too. If there are people willing to do it, and people willing to fund it, things are getting done.

AI weaponry is among this. I believe many things are being done that are far away from the public information.

Let me give you an example.

If there is a drone, I guess, it is not hard for mechanical engineers to rig a machine gun to it. Or with $$$ of defence funding, maybe a drone designed to host a machine gun. Then all you need is basically a cheap webcam and a Raspberry Pi to detect any motion, store the coordinates and aim and trigger the gun. When you have an enemy line, you deploy it behind that, and get done with it.

I am sure multiple countries have this today. And this example is among the lowest-hanging fruits of AI weaponry.
> Counter example: Trump new about the severity of covid and downplayed it for quite some time instead of trying to rally the country.

The irony is that the pandemic was such a slam-dunk easy win politically. Handled with the minimum level of political savvy, this was a dead simple way to send his approval ratings into the van allen belt, just like Bush post-9/11. I think his personal financial stake in the hospitality industry clouded his judgment and prevented him from taking advantage of the biggest election campaign tailwind in a generation.
>I am totally mystified how a competent DA wouldn't have dropped this immediately.

Competence and morality aren't the most important factors here. Some people want to advance their career, even if it means screwing over someone like this. The governor probably wanted to shift blame away from himself and his administration, and is likely willing to make promises or exchange favors to further that goal.
Chemists do the same things they always have, just for much less money than the same people would make today in software engineering. Here are some types of applied chemistry:

- Deciding what ratio to mix things in for the countless liquid products that are combinations of already-discovered chemicals. Everything at the grocery store that comes in a jug or a bottle (cleaning products, hair conditioner, drain cleaner) falls in to this category.

- Doing industrial research to improve existing processes. This would include discovering new catalysts, and trying out the endless permutations of solvents and conditions in which existing reactions take place, to optimize them for whatever the biggest operating costs are.

- Figuring out how to recycle industrial chemicals and get the valuable stuff back out of sludge and effluent. This is a surprisingly big field with important consequences.

- Working on specialty materials, like plastics and synthetic rubbers, that are not completely dissimilar from existing products but require a chemist to design them for specific, demanding applications.

The fact that everything involving the physical world gets you paid way less for work that's way more difficult than programming will come back to bite us somehow, but it's hard to say when.
In this simple example yes, but there can be multiple columns in a join.

The syntax proposal i O(1) syntax wise compared to O(2n) for a JOIN ON where n is the number of columns.
> [...] and you can design your own format if you want to.

Is the Tokyo police going to "design" their own floppy format? Why!?

This is most likely the effect of some luddite in a leadership position that simply can't handle change but has been able to force everyone to comply for decades. Floppies in 2020? Really? Maybe this will be embarrassing enough that they'll upgrade.

It happens though, there was a story some years back about an HVAC filter company (Sparkle) that ran much of their business operations on late 1950's IBM hardware that used plug-boards. Plug-boards! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14121527
The same could be said about an encryption
New Linux Build Allows BIOS Updates Without a Reboot
Big Tech's $10T Bet on Politics as Usual
Why can’t be these extreme expensive devices be a positive example? Adding 2$ for manufacturing cost would be less than 0,2% of retail price, but give somebody meal without worms. Ok, poor shareholders earning less is an argument.

My friend is Burger King worker in Germany. He has some vacation days, low but stable wage and can go home after his shift and cook his special body building meals. Not much slavery.
I totally support this. It still amazes me that companies still do not delete/anonymize user accounts after periods of inactivity. Everything that is linked to your email address should be purged after 3-12 months of inactivity, including ecommerce like Amazon, game platforms like Steam, cloud storages like Dropbox, or even Hackernews. Good luck trying to find old accounts that you have used years ago, what if they were breached and now they are used by people with bad intentions. In my country (Romania), even barber shops that store user accounts for longer periods than necessary are fined the shit out of them for not closing accounts due to inactivity. Some years ago, I woke up with an inactive G2A account telling me that I have to pay a fee for inactivity. NO! I don't have to pay anything, purge it!
Then perhaps cheaters should be punished, and not parties not involved in the cheating?
That should be pretty much the same thing. The moment the illegal data retention law gets disabled the ISPs have no right to collect and retain that data anymore.
I've been quite happy having fully prefixed column names for a long time now. Makes joins easier, big views clearer, and random exports more readable out of the box. Also in my case it's also easier to line up unique column names with things like Clojure specs but I accept that's a niche concern.
I really love the article, but there is a bit of a mistake in this article. (Still reading, updating comment as I go)

> You have 10 cameras recording footage 24/7 at 30 FPS, 1920x1080 resolution. They’re all configured to send video clips back to the cloud in 10-minute intervals. A standard compression setup results in ~1 TB of video stored per day or 27 million individual frames .

Incorrect, I generate about 130MB files for 10 minutes segments on a camera of exactly those specs. Given that there are 1440 minutes in a day, that results in about 19 GB of data per day. The author assumes that there is always a unique frame but that's not true.

It depends on how much movement there is in the frame and the GOP interval.

H264 compression will not generate new frames if nothing has changed. There is an interval called the GOP interval which enforces that say every 2 seconds a keyframe is sent, meaning a complete raw frame is sent. This is to ensure that new viewers can catch on waiting max the GOP interval.
The article states that this is an issue because they are planning to destroy documents that are part of a request and haven’t released anything since 2019. So same thing in LA it seems.
I appreciate your sharing it but I'm not sure what I should be getting from that citation of the Israeli study, since I already knew that the vaccine wasn't 100% effective in preventing transmission and that the effect of the vaccine wanes over time. With official effectiveness numbers still above 90% I don't really think we should say "the vaccine doesn't really do much for transmission." (I realize the extent to which this might be an argument about verbiage and communication for me.) The immunity it provides demonstrably does an awful lot to prevent infection and transmission. And its effectiveness trends downward disappointingly fast, yes.

I don't think I disagree on the other points. I'm fairly certain you're right about seasonal COVID shots coming, and there's no doubt about the vaccine's importance in ameliorating symptoms. Communicating all this will be interesting. Something that's always been communicated poorly about influenza vaccines, for example, is that people who got a bad case of a strain they were immunized against would quite possibly have been a lot worse off without the vaccine. (Pet peeve: influenza A can be quite dangerous and that's not communicated well.)
I switched from LastPass to 1Password and the export/import worked flawlessly. I didn't switch because of this issue, rather I use 1Password for work and thought it was just better, so I made the jump for my personal stuff.
Says the judge when you admit to what you did and plead. He’s the same one that gave Lori Laughlin and Mossimo 6 months in minimum security “camp” and not the bazillion years the prosecutor originally threatened.
This is a good question I've been also trying to get an answer to, and I've never had a reason to ask before now: with the seasonal flu drive are we often reusing a prior season's flu vaccine? I always assumed they developed new ones all the time, is the answer "it depends"?
Some have support for this.

- BQ https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sq...

- CH https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/sele...
I would be more prone to say that the original API are something that came up by using buzzwords from growing languages or something else, for sure they're a thing, but like it's not that `new` makes an OOP approach if then you miss inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation and polymorphism, I'm not sure if I am being picky but like if there is just a keyword and nothing else more important to the paradigm then I think it might be confusing for some reader to see something like that statement
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Dec. 29, 2021, talks about possible charges against the Post-Dispatch from the Cole County prosecuting attorney after the paper in October alerted officials to a data vulnerability on a state website.

Whistleblowers getting punished is just a feature of an authoritarian regime. It has little to do with competency.
Agreed. Maybe something like this instead:

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM films f
JOIN distributors d ON FOREIGN f.films_did_fkey

and

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM distributors d
JOIN films f ON FOREIGN films_did_fkey
Tremendous, thank you!
I haven't bought a floppy since 2000, so I wouldn't know!
Counterpoint: Biff Tannen as president was explicitly an allegory for what it would be like if Donald Trump was president.
> “Dumpster diving” is a term used to describe studies using data from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System database by authors, almost always antivaxxers, who don’t understand its limitations.

Is it really productive to just label people who wrote the paper researching data of vaccine side effects as "antivaxxers"? Does it mean that nobody can question the safety of vaccines now, because the only data that is being captured about side effects, apparently can't be used in data analysis?
Aww New Yorker is one of the few outlets I still like. Do you have examples?
South African Flux Capacitor
Sorry to distract from your anti-China rant but TFA is about a factory in India.
I too was in college during a major flu outbreak. I got very sick. It actually changed a lot of operating procedures at my school and was the start of hand sanitizer being everywhere. It also kicked off the increased recommendation of the flu vaccine for everyone.

The CDC has guidance for colleges and universities on how to handle any number of outbreaks. Colleges are following guidance on how to handle Covid-19. Will that guidance change in the future? Probably. But it hasn’t changed yet.
Where did you get that idea from the article?

Altruism isn’t a fantasy like Robin Hood, there’s a way to do it correctly; it’s why Aaron was interested in policy. Dumb altruists are in a worst position, and giving out free information from the internet doesn’t affect libgen. Aaron was a dumb altruist in the way he didn’t just listen about how to download JSTOR articles.
That's a fairly week post-hoc claim that was oversold in the media. The actual clinical, controlled studies weren't checking for stopping transmission.
1. Completed my first real internship at a large "tech" company

2. Started my most advanced side project (a programming language). I've been working on it consistently since March.

3. Started reading books again.
They clearly said they modified careers.sega.co.uk and posted a screenshot of the careers site displaying vpnoverview's logo (https://vpnoverview.com/wp-content/uploads/screenshot-about-...)
My field is not all that specific, but experience is how you sell it.

In my case I have 5 years of experience working on ETL processes (SSIS) and 10 years of SQL either troubleshooting said ETL or writing aggregated reports.

Now I could be down on myself and say "I only use C# occasionally for troubleshooting or glue code", or I could sell my experience and point out that I designed and delivered reliable solves to complicated customer requests. Often those ran reliably for years. Usually they were "boring" SQL solutions, but hey, use the right tool for the job.
Women force change at Indian iPhone plant
I used a lever-type corkscrew to open about 40 bottles of wine at a large party last year. It was really easy, although I can't remember it well enough to consider someone with arthritis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=476wTEKDOVc (1 minute).
Alfred users can also configure it to look up words in Dictionary.app.

I use "define <word>" which IIRC is the default trigger.
They just replaced konqueror with dolphin for file management. Konqueror is still for web browsing
I do that but also allow sync when not on local network - via traefik and such as a reverse proxy. However ... I may still turn that off as I have wireguard on everything anyway, so it's super simple to turn wireguard on, sync "locally" and then turn wireguard off.
The article says they offered a 6 month jail time plea bargain though. It sounds like from his own writing that he was cognizant of the fact he broke the law, but didn’t agree the law should have been a law in the first place. It also sounds like he didn’t really expect there would be any consequences whatsoever.

Look at this from the prosecutors point of view. They have hard evidence of a crime. They have evidence of consciousness of guilt from the perpetrator. It’s a slam dunk at trial so why should it get to that point? It’s a waste of everyone’s time and money. That’s why the plea deal was so generous compared to the downside of taking it to court. You want to entice them to take a slap on the wrist plea deal so everyone can avoid the cost of forestalling the eventuality of the jury’s verdict.

It’s true that prosecutors can be overzealous in their prosecutions, but 6 months does not sound like the disproportionate punishment many make it out to be.
> It is very misleading to imply that only old people suffer from that as there are countless stories of “I have a 35 yold friend with no pre-existing conditions who’s fighting for their lives”

Those stories are breathlessly reported on because they are rare, 2.4% of Covid Deaths in the US are people under the age of 40[1] which is 50% of the US population, it's harder to find data but most of them had whom had other issues or were not direct covid deaths. Covid Risk goes up orders of magnitude by age [2].

[11 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
There are a lot of older (and otherwise susceptible) people on campus. Regardless, no they can’t do that because if something did happen, they’d get blasted.

It’s the same with anything safety-related, really. Driving a car is super unsafe, but rather than banning cars, you wear a seatbelt.
You can't have nice things because you aggressively criminalized the white hats, thus were never warned by them before a black hat took your nice things away.

> Why should I believe that you have not installed a rootkit or other tech that you did not subsequently disclose?

Because doing that and also disclosing your identity would be incredibly stupid?
I'd say it's like you left one piece of paper, from a pad, that was just under a handwritten "secret document" out on a table in a public park.

Then a reporter came along and rubbed a pencil on it, revealing the writing from the sheet above it.
For context, I was stuck indoors (thanks Omicron) and wanted to build something to help my friends who wanted to try active investing. I built a basic version of this app on the side a while ago but ended up dropping it due to "work". Given the relevance of investing these days I picked it back up and finished it. Hopefully Apple approves it quickly and it's on the App Store soon .

How it works is simple.

For those looking to find alpha:
- Search for investors you want to copy and follow them
- Get notified in real-time whenever they make a trade
- If they charge a monthly fee, we let you pay with your credit card through stripe and bill you automatically each month
- Memberships can be cancelled before the 15th of each month

For those looking to share alpha:
- Connect your brokerage with Plaid on our platform and set your monthly rate (if you choose to charge people)
- Link your bank account info and get paid out monthly
- We take a 10% cut to help with platform costs and processing fees

I tried to make this app as lean as possible to keep it clean & simple. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them! If you want to collaborate and improve this project, let me know!
The homeowner was ready to pay whatever at the time. It would seem to be just good business to offer right-now service at a price that reflects that this had moved from insurance to rescue, high enough to make anyone wish they'd paid for the insurance.

I wonder if the law would allow that, or if the contract would be void as entered into under duress. "My house is buring down" seems like a pretty clear duress scenario in the vernacular sense of the word. But searching around it seems that in contract law duress involves some action by the other party, like a threat.
Be that as it may, which I have my doubts about since they are quite definitive about the problem being solved, I don't want a PR filter from the company that I would trust with my passwords.

What I want to know is have I been compromised or not, the PR saves face at further expense of users (if they truly have been compromised).
See Amazon's delivery drivers...

"We never said they had to pee in bottles and run red lights to make the delivery schedules, that's on them! We just said deliver these packages..."
That was not my impression at all of the reception. An extremely small segment of the workforce left, despite generous exit packages. The impression I got from my coworkers and peers was mostly a sigh of relief and wishing their own companies would follow suit. The opinions of a vocal minority on Twitter are often not the opinions of the workforce.
Because "stop the spread" is a very nice goal, but not the actual one. "Slow the spread so hospitals can handle the load" is closer to the real goal. Without the vaccines, too many people get sick at once and more people start dying.

On top of that, it's not just the vaccinations. Those who get the disease are also helping to slow the spread as they build their own resistance.

There's been enough resistance to the vaccines that it's probably impossible to end this with the best possible result, so we're going for second-best now. And that still involves keeping as many people vaccinated as possible.
never used them but just went to their website and concluded it's some novice programmer who has no skill and wants to make a business around software so after going through a few ideas he came up with a password manager. no idea why people (on HN) use these things.
The precedent for vaccination is that they can require them.

https://vaden.stanford.edu/about/entrance-health-requirement...
From the lancet study:

"Vaccine effectiveness evaluated at least 7 days after receipt of the third dose, compared with receiving only two doses at least 5 months ago".

Literally no control for recency. Newer research (admittedly, not yet peer-reviewed) seems to show that efficacy of the vaccines dwindles over time. As little as 90 days. [1]

The results from the booster may have more to do with having received a vaccine more recently than they do with the overall efficacy of any of the vaccines.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.20.21267966v...
> Everything that is linked to your email address should be purged after 3-12 months of inactivity, including

That is such a horrible idea, I go on vacations longer than that. My Dropbox should be deleted if I don't log in for 4 months?
Fairly bold of you to assume I didn't read the article, but anyway:

I've given five minutes to the thought that being an anti-vaxxer in the middle of a pandemic when vaccines are provided to you for free and at the point that only very long term effects can be a concern is comparable to being a jew in nazi Germany, and I still think it is atrocious, sorry.

But I mean, there's only so much you can talk about when "faith-based scientism" is used for vaccines.
Or, given the world we live in, you have too much common sense.
It doesn't make sense to have a US centric approach to this topic, FDA recomendations are just some among many. All the independent comissions in Europe are coming to similar conclusions, too.

> [severity of illness] * [transmissibility] = [strength of response justified]

I think that's quite a fair metric, but slightly incomplete. The most important factor here is ICU capacity vs. ICU occupancy rate, because this also measures if you die from shit like appendicitis. Winter in general sees more ICU cases, so the strain the system can take is already lower. Switzerland for example is still doing quite well despite incidence rates of more than a thousand due to their extremely advanced healthcare sector. Death is actually secondary in this. If you live after having taken an ICU bed for 6 weeks, you might have killed 2 other people completely unrelated to your case due to your own negligence.

The fact of the matter is that the healthcare sector is getting flooded again, and lots of countries have a serious risk of overstraining their healthcare sector to the point of triage. Booster shots substantially reduce the risk of serious illenss, at least that is what we are believing to see in our hospitals. Unvaccinated are close to 90% of ICU cases, while boostered people make up less than 1%, although it is important to note that doubly-vaccinated still make up more than half of the local population (and roughly 20% unvaccinated).

Of course it takes time to do good studies on the actual impact of booster vaccinations, and I'm super annoyed by the lack of full transparency of research bodies tasked to make recommendations, but you can't just sit on your balls in times of crisis. The risk to ones own health due to boostering also seems to be negligible, it is just a minor annoyance.
> Single use plastic utensils ban? It isn’t the rich needing to eat on the go!

On the contrary, the truly poor people can't afford to eat on the go, but rather cook at home. If you can afford to pay someone else to cook for you on a regular basis, you're not doing that bad.