skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noted! As you surmise, that's a MUCH bigger lift, but it's worth considering.
A flaw in the system to be sure. As a former INTC owner, I dumped my stake a while ago.

I think there should be far more shareholder involvement in general. We are far too acquiescent as a group.

If you polled every direct and indirect INTC holder (you may be one, unknowingly) about slavery and concentration camps, you’d walk away with a near 100% mandate for taking all measures against it.
It's like car accident deaths. They happen all the time to random people but it's not like that stops people from driving.
I usually very much agree with you. But this is a case where I'll "beg to differ".

At least we agree on the baseline of not charging for 2FA.

The fact is, it's very difficult to fight "shadow IT". SaaS companies penalizing early adopters for access to acceptable security only incentivizes employees, at large and small companies, to bypass IT vendor management and security policies. And once you've had to make an exception for "the CROs favorite SaaS tool", it's going to be fair game and an uphill battle to taken seriously.

As an industry, as a society, we need to make some of these security features easier to implement, easier to adopt, and not a penalty.

As I noted in a sibling comment, I also think that running a protection racket is lazy product management and marketing.

Frankly, if you are telling me that I have to pay extra for protection, that tells me that you don't take security seriously, since you are basically operating an insecure environment as your default practice.
Your average budget and timeline in daily cloud software is certainly multiple orders of magnitude less.
It’s funny when I read the Foundation novels, it seemed silly to me that people could lose track of technology and fall backwards.

Then you read something like this and realize Asimov had a point!
I'm fairly certain it actually is classifying image contents since at least a year or two ago (or maybe a little bit even longer – I can't remember when exactly I first noticed this), because I've noticed getting image search results that can't be explained otherwise (the keyword I've been searching for most certainly doesn't appear anywhere on the page containing the image in question).
It can be turned off by doing a verbatim search (i.e. surrounding the search term with quotes), but otherwise it definitively happens, and it's occasionally been quite useful actually.

Likewise, since at least around the same time (if not somewhat earlier), Google has also been running OCR on all images it indexes.
Is it? That's the URL for morning-edition-2022-01-11 which is also what their share buttons injecting into the share popups. Are they pruning those often?
Who charges for security features?
Those traits would be selected because being able to swim increases survival. The purpose is survival via swimming.

To put it another way, the fact that the inputs (mutations) are random does not mean the outputs have no purpose.

If I said “the purpose of eyes is to see”, would you really disagree with that?

Also, it is entirely possible for body parts to have multiple purposes, that is quite common.
But not Tokamak fusion. That is a dead end.

ITER steals the funding that might otherwise have got aneutronic FRC fusion working by now.
And if moving schedule by a decade is not an object...
No - it's a pretty bad use of language here. You have a better grasp of english than a lot of english speakers!

Traditionally if it's a prison the term is prison labor.

In a concentration camp you'd have forced labor. That is probably the language that would be used by groups actually working in this space.
Yes, obviously, the sso.tax wouldn't be super annoying if that weren't the case.
And this years Nobel prize goes to ... for securing the funding to do the research
If Lex Fridman has a PhD in CS from MIT, MIT must be a joke
I just listened to several CS heavy interviews with Lex and several guests. Knowing nothing about the host I would have assumed that he has no higher education at all, let alone a Ph.D. in CS from MIT. Am I wrong?

As far as I am concerned he lucked out because someone got him into MIT and he lucked out the second time because he got on the Joe Rogan podcast. The rest is history. But I was just amazed how dumb the man sounds on his own podcast and the quality of guests he gets.

I'll be honest, I am probably jealous, but damn, I almost think like his podcast has negative value. Every time his guests speaks I get smarter, every time he speaks I just get angry that someone this dumb got this lucky.

Edit: Typo + It turns out that Lex actually has a PhD from Drexel University, not MIT, as pointed out by slater.
You can work around that by using javascript (checking for tab losing focus) and checking how quickly the links are being clicked. If you middle-click a bunch of links, then don't click any more links, then it can be inferred that one of the links that you clicked was "good".
> Google optimizing for the "average user" comes at the expense of the whole world, because the "power users" who are optimized against literally build the internet for the normies. Cater to the normies for too long, and we see the status quo.

If I were feeling cynical, I would point out that catering to us was a great idea for early Google, but not so much now. The problem with power users is that the more control you give them, the more they learn about how your product works and what decisions you're making. Power users can pick out dark UI and other user-hostile patterns more easily.

Early Google needed the power users, because we were an essential component of building Google's early dominance: It was us gesturing the normies over and saying "as the computer person (TM) in your life, you should be using Google. They're cleaner and their results are better." We were needed to both scale their user base and plug gaps since at the time there weren't dozens of engineers working on issues and search + web indexing was still in its infancy.

Now, though? There's no benefit to Google in engaging with power users. They have the numbers of normies they need for profit, and all engaging power users would do now is lead to more conversations like this in the real world, which is not what they want.

"Oh, you're still using Google? They suck now. Use X, Y, and Z." = conversations Google doesn't want.
For a counterpoint:

"How coronavirus survives for hours in aerosols"
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0059908
Is that why US also sanctions John Deer from selling tractors to XJ when XJ wanted to automate cotton harvesting because paying "slave" labours high wages was unprofitable. Almost like US wants to XJ to rely on manual labour to perpetuate coerced labour myth. Cause. Effect.
Do not do this to the CTO about their own code is a lesson I learnt painfully many years ago. And today as a technical lead there's far too much wince-worthy code I come across that I was personally responsible for a few years back. Onwards and upwards.
That's an insightful article. Thanks for sharing. I still prefer the whole (logical) approach of having VM/Container/Unikernel per execution. FaaS isolates misbehaved calls/payloads from other calls. It also makes rolling out new versions easier, as it will handle ANY new call to your function. AWS has reduced Lambda's cold start a lot in the last years, but Cloud functions still have a long cold start-up time and not the best performance. I think it's a matter of time for FaaS to become the first choice for computing for most enterprise projects.
Is it likely that in 20 years we will be able to send a resupply mission or it will be easier to send a new observatory with better instruments?
Thanks for subscribing should be shifted in Colour
I'm pretty sure (dueling IANALs!) you can't. This is why patent licenses are such a key piece of OSS packages that you want companies to be able to use.
Different requirements, different engineering.

Nobody needs space-mission-ready CRUD that takes $10 billion and 15 years of development.
It's funny how Google Talk and MSN were so much popular but weren't able to successfully transition to mobile and capture that market. WhatsApp is number one messaging app in the world right now and probably will stay for some time.
> The thing about iMessage is that you don’t need a separate app.

Given iMessage basically has no base outside of the US because everyone uses Whatsapp or Line I'm not convinced this is terribly neccessary.
If spinning up a new microservice would be as complicated and expensive, as yeeting fragile scientific equipment to a Lagrange point, you'd see better engineering in the cloud software world.
This sounds true at face but do we have any evidence that violence per capita is lower here now than it is in a tighter but less organized clan society of yesteryear where any violence you would perpetrate would either be against your own extended family or outside aggressors (and modern society or at least US is already very brutal to outside nations).
You also create strange perverse incentives to keep as many people in prison as possible.

And those people in prison working for pennies per day ,as you've alluded, take jobs from free people. If you want to see peak absurdity, California has legions of prisoner firefighters.

But you can be a firefighter with a felony on your record, so while the state of California is fine with paying them peanuts for risking their lives, it won't make them full-fledged firefighters once they're released.

If any other country was doing this, our various propaganda agencies would be crying foul.
"hire" education, ey? /scnr

edit: also, according to Wikipedia, he does not hold a PhD in CS from MIT.

"Fridman was born in Moscow, and after moving to the United States he studied at Drexel University, where he received a B.S. (Bachelor of Science), M.S. (Master of Science), and a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)."

shrug

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Fridman#Early_life_and_edu...
Yes, but the same concerns are applicable to Firefox given that Google is their major sponsor.
I loaded up my Firefox 95 in macOS and did the command-clicking link, it opens it as new tab just fine. Not sure why this fix is needed for this new version? Perhaps edge cases that are reporting this issue?
> I wish that Mozilla adopted the chromium core. We really need a well funded non-profit managed release of the reference browser.

At that point you may as well just cede the w3c to Google itself unless you've magically disentangled it from Google's business interests.
I didn't realize the JWT will need to burn fuel in its steady state. Its pretty disappointing that this took 20 years to build and we will only get 20 years of use out of it.
> Make using plain git more difficult

The change in question does not. It only requires that you clone over SSH or HTTPS, not over git://. I don't see why anyone would want to use the latter today.

Given how trivial it is to self-host your own Git repositories on any random Unix box, I am not worried about GitHub attempting lock-in even if they tried.
Many are good enough for their purposes (https in general), NFT is not good enough for its stated purposes.
This change doesn't force you to have a GitHub account. https:// access to public repos doesn't require authentication.
I would argue that 'shareholders' aren't able to influence these decisions at multi-national mega corporations, because many don't even know they are shareholders. Think about Joe Blow from the US. He has a managed 401k or some such investment. He has no idea the 'low-risk' fund offered through Edward Jones invests in Intel or Google or whoever. He has no idea he plays a part in this.
Then the value is negative, because money spent on ITER is diverted from actually potentially useful work.
>And I believe that more or less the only thing that sets us apart from animals is that we can reflect on our own actions. We choose. And that also comes with responsibility for our choices.

Many Animals can choose too.

>To argue that something is OK just because it "is in our nature" doesn't cut it for creatures with the ability to discuss this on HN. Is my personal belief.

I'm not arguing for anything to be OK. I'm saying the argument in itself is pointless. You should note that your "morality" is not a choice. It is a behavioral trait evolved through millions of years of evolution and is trait shared to varying degrees among all humans across all cultures.

Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not kill, Thou shall not lie... etc. Your moral framework is a biological module hardwired into your mind to make you think in a certain way that aids with survival. But it was made for a more prehistoric time where humans had little understanding of the physical world and lived in limited tribal bands of hunters and gatherers.

The complexity of the world today exposes the archaic aspects of the moral module in our brain. We were not designed to feel sorry for the pig as it poses no evolutionary benefit yet we do as a side effect because pig experimentation simply didn't exist in ancient times so there was no selection pressure to make our moral module evolve in a way that will logically account for the pig.

This discussion does not exist because you are "above" your base evolutionary nature. It exists for two reasons: Your moral brain is designed for a more harsher simpler environment; and resources in our society are plentiful.

Once resources become stretched and limited, your brain will begin overriding your moral module. Almost starving to death? You will kill a pig without hesitation with your bare hands if that was the case. Survival is the name of the game in the end.
If the executives are bad they will be removed, and their reputation will suffer.
Taken alone it's pretty reasonable, but it does seem like part of a larger trend. Removing the ability to authenticate with a password using standard git seems to me like a pretty obvious attempt to force people to use the `gh` cli tool.
Why is that surprising? Recovering from a natural infection is more durable immunity than that of the vaccines. Even more so if you have both.
Huge cheese lover, but I honestly didn't make it past that low res, unappetizing hero image - made me queasy. Might wanna replace that. Unsplash will prolly have a free cheese stock photo
> Not an english speaker, so is Is "slave" correctly used here or is more like a "metaphor"?

"Slave labor" is a phrase used in English to express morally unacceptable working conditions where the workers have little to no power, as if they were slaves. It's commonly understood that those workers are not slaves in the legal sense.
I don't believe there is one. Optimize for yourself.
Jeff Dean can optimize a piece of hardware by dropping it on the floor
>In America and elsewhere companies do not dictate policy.

Huh? In the US large corporations commonly write the laws that get passed. They literally do dictate policy.
I once had to recover data from a dead 1st generation Surface Pro. That required a heat gun, a new torx set and about three hours of time prying the thing apart, completely destroying it in the process. I'm glad to see things swinging back in the other direction.
As long as wordpress still holds 40% of the sites PHP will be a major language.

In my opinion, all the modern 'script' languages are now adding static-typing one way or another, to make they much robust(python's mypy, typescript,PHP, etc).

I will pick PHP for backend website development, I just want to avoid the async-node-js as much as I can as it's much worse than other options I feel.
I'll take Rails over Laravel any day. Verbose, doc-block-riddled, pseudo-Java PHP is the polar opposite of elegant, composable Ruby.
The title was taken from the Guardian article which linked to the paper [1]. I thought the paper more interesting and the Guardian title, although a little sensationalist, was a better jump point than The Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity with Changes in Aerosol Microenvironment.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/11/covid-loses-90...
The companies listed on the sso.tax site include many that self-evidently take security extremely seriously, far more so than most of their customers, so I don't know where that leaves your argument.

It sounds like you're just not happy that SSO gets used for market seg. I'm not "happy" about it either. That doesn't make it a dark pattern or an indicator that companies "don't take security seriously".
Modern:

Elon Musk builds the best rockets, and cool cars.

Linus Torvalds created GNU/Linux. (Well he corrected on several occasions that he did not built Linux, he only started it).

Higgs discovered Higgs boson. Einstein created Theory of Relativity.

Putin attacked Ukraine.
Propaganda (however it's delivered) and self-interest serve that role just fine.
Why are you making this about race?

Even if that account doesn't have perfect coverage of all crimes committed, the incidents that are being report by that account DID actually happen, right?

As an aside, I've been very happy to see the strategy of calling everything you don't like "racism" lose its effectiveness over the past year.
> The tendency to link the 'addiction' tag to every undesirable human behavior is a common trend, but it's worth remembering what actual physical addiction to a substance is: a biochemical response to the introduction of a foreign substance into the body, that results in withdrawal symptoms when said foreign substance is removed. If there are no withdrawal symptoms, there is really no addiction involved.

"addiction" is not equivalent to "dependence", nor does one imply the other. pain management patients are typically dependent on opioids; they would have severe withdrawal if they abruptly stopped their regimen. but they don't necessarily have the compulsive/obsessive behavior of addicts. there are also drugs people get addicted to that don't have much or any associated withdrawal symptoms. people don't get withdrawal from gambling, but they can surely be as addicted as opioid users.

I've seen several comments like this recently. addiction seems an odd thing to gatekeep. the only "requirements" for addiction are impairment of control related to particular behaviors/substances, preoccupation with said behavior/substance, and continued use/behavior despite consequences.
Intel is chopped up into tens of millions of tiny slices, and everyone with any form of retirement savings has a handful through some sort of fund.

Generally these people barely know they're shareholders, they receive none of the paperwork needed to vote at the AGM, they have a slice several orders of magnitude too small to exert any influence, and they have no way of identifying or contacting other shareholders to take any sort of coordinated action.

Anyone who expects X to be done by shareholders is going to be disappointed.
They are common place enough now that I think they are fine. That wasn't always true but these days torx is widely available even at generic hardware stores (hell in Thailand I bought a set of torx drivers at a 7-11).
A better example would be that the Home version of Windows doesn’t include BitLocker disk encryption.
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In fairness, some executives are there just to fill a seat and not rock the boat when a company needs a face.
How does one not self-report symptoms? Some will be externally obvious but how does someone know someone else has chest pain, or a sore throat?
…or simply connecting via screen sharing to your own screen.
In my first job in the late 1980s I had a colleague who tailgated someone through the security gates at Torness and had real difficulties getting out again as he hadn't officially entered... He had been through security and issued a pass so there probably wasn't a security risk.

Took him a few hours to get out.
There is an active SubReddit https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/ .
> Yeah, curiously, I think Laravel is just getting started in a way.

That would be amazing. I agree, I think Taylor has good vision. His overriding principle seems to be "make people's lives easier," which makes for a pretty good ecosystem.
Isn't simplicity the definition of a good UI? And even if it looks easy, it can be very hard to make something that is simple.
I worked on a project in the mid 90s where our customer (an electric utility) wanted to issue rugged laptops to field engineers. The relevant comment from a manger at the utility was "you have to realize, these are guys who can break a hammer"
As was mentioned in the public sector I feel like it was the norm. People liked having their every other Friday off (or other day they chose). When we were always in the office I chose to come in because fridays were quiet and I could work uninterrupted. Now almost all of my employees work a flexible schedule. They send me their schedule prior to the pay period starting. They have the ability to flex and violate the “core hours” one every two weeks (working less than 6 hours and can be outside the 10-2pm period). So for instance my one employee works about 2-4 hours every other Friday and has the other one off, just picks up the slack on some other day. And if they want to adjust their schedule more they just need supervisor approval (haven’t had a time yet where I had to deny a request). I personally stick to a mostly 8-4:30p schedule but if I have a big project coming up I shorten a day and put in extra time another day.
Here is a little info on the protocol:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco...
I'm working on adding this to brew cask right now.

Edit: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/117242 My first cask, help appreciated.
>More than 10,000 novel variant sequences are currently discovered every week and human experts simply cannot cope with complex data at this scale

I suspected something like this, given the frequency of viral mutation. Officials announce a dominant global strain but what proportion of positive cases are actually sequenced and evaluated for confirmation? How many undiscovered strains are actually in circulation at any given time, in geographically isolated areas? Could that explain variability in severity and/or long covid?
> Property rights themselves are a basic form of regulation.

In a general sense, perhaps, but not in the sense that people mean when they say that they're opposed to regulation. Context matters. In this conversation, "regulation" means a deviation from natural property rights, whether that involves directly infringing them, e.g. by attaching extra rules or penalties beyond simply respecting the equal rights of others, or granting artificial "property rights" which will necessarily infringe on others' natural ones.

> Expanding property rights to more areas is regulation.

"Expanding" the concept of property rights to areas where they don't naturally apply (like copyrights and patents) is definitely regulation, in the negative sense. But at that point you're not really talking about property rights any more.
That solves password hashes, yes. But the end users face the scenario "this is one of those apps that's missing from my company's SSO portal, how do I get into it again?", which nobody likes. And does nothing for stickiness.
That's true, but besides the point I was trying to emphasize. We all have inherently different values, what they are and how we label then isn't as important. My point might have been clearer if I hadn't used myself as an example.

It's important though to be aware of your own values, as they might lead to biased thinking and problems you so we'll illustrated. While O myself have a tendency to just want to do a "major rewrite" of everything, I ineluctably know that that rarely works and that I want it due to my values but that that won't get me where I want.