skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where classes that teach the HISTORY of science and how discoveries were made can be so valuable. I was recently reading Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and he does an excellent job of explaining how each discovery led into the next. He also describes how some discoveries just took a long time because either the apparatus to make that discovery didn't exist yet or the right person didn't have the right idea.

As a personal example, in a college "History of Economics" class, the professor described the "Diamond/Water Paradox". Prior to understanding how the intersection of supply and demand could lead to a market price, very smart people were perplexed how diamonds, which were rare but basically useless, were so expensive but water, a critical element to life, was so cheap.

In hindsight, it all seems so obvious but explaining this history of the concept helps add an intuitive understanding of "it's not just what an item does but how available it is that helps define the price".
With the amount of bureaucracy surrounding telecommunications networks in the US, its excessively hard to imagine how this problem just popped up all of a sudden.
Note that this data is pre-omicron.
There's also https://rekt.news/
I can't fathom how they come to exist. The linked
post may be correct; I think some people simply
have the innate urge to reject everything they've
been told and to look for a countercultural answer

I'm just conjecturing like everybody else, but I might tweak that explanation a bit. Surely, yes, some just reject everything reflexively - basically: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519712/table/ch3.t14/

Others take a look at the status quo of our society, and perhaps reasonably, decide that it sucks. Our society has a lot of shortcomings, and has let a lot of people down. So they reject the institutions they view as being responsible for what they consider this poor state of affairs. In other words they are not blindly opposed to the concept of authority; but they have come to the conclusion that the current set of authorities that govern us kind of suck.

I don't think their opinion of society and the institutions that shape it is necessarily wrong, though I most certainly believe that rejecting our accumulated scientific knowledge is most definitely mistake. A true "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" situation.

Also, aside from issues with authority, it's just kind of cool to feel like you have some sort of special and secret knowledge that (most) others lack. A very seductive prospect. Especially if you are lacking in intelligence and/or education and don't get a lot of opportunities to feel that way. After all, we tend to place such people on a pedestal -- folks who figured things out before others and were eventually proven correct. Adopting a fringe theory like Flat Earthism lets people feel they're part of the special/chosen few.
Interesting, I had no idea they were letting anyone register data, I had initially thought the idea was for registrars to provide nodes & data to eventually phase out the current DNS architecture, ensuring no single TLD org could wipe out a domain.

The Handshake design still seems like a step in the right direction, but even with sound data, it's probably years away (if ever) for DNS resolution to "flip the switch" to use this kind of architecture.
The Panasonic gm5 is that camera. I own it and love it. It’s great for travel and takes wonderful photos.
> How does that work? Is the submission farmed out to a 3rd party as part of the verification process, and proactively checked? Or is it reactive, similar to a bug bounty?

Bug Bounty. Person finds vuln in popular app. Person submits vuln to Google. Vuln gets reported to developer. Person gets paid.

> Are there people out there making their living running apks in desktop simulators looking for issues?

Most of them use tools, I think. I don't know stats on any individual who is making bank off this but given four figure payouts per issue I could definitely believe somebody living in eastern europe or whatever is making bank on this.

> I always wondered about the economics of checking huge quantities of arbitrary code (well, bytecode) for vulnerabilities, even for a 30% cut (which is probably 0 for 99% of apps, right? I would expect a power law distro). Kinda sounds like Google solved this by running the apks through something like a CI/CD gauntlet and then...hoping for the best.

I'm not sure it is just hope. I don't know how that team works specifically, but I know that they aren't just saying "hey we hope it works" in their reviews with leadership.

> Here's an idea: instead of charging 30%, you should waive that if the dev team agrees to vet 5 other apps for you, over time, especially the open source ones.

If you think that Google's policy enforcement and support is a kafkaesque nightmare now, could you imagine if your app was booted off Play because some other devs working at some company you've never heard of decided your app was bad? How would Google evaluate the quality of these investigations? With only five apps you don't have enough volume to develop a reputation so Google would either be forced to repeat all of the investigations or simply have zero oversight over the process.
On my Canon 60D my jpegs seem to come out looking noticeably blue while my raws look pretty normal. I save in both formats for each pic, so I see the side-by-side constantly.
I think it's possible it could be considered piracy in the US, but not all countries follow these same rules nor schools of thought.

The issue is that the jurisdiction bleeds into others' jurisdictions that might have different rules on these types of things, but the US doesn't really care since it has absolute power and exercises its authority over those outside of its jurisdiction.
> IIRC they don’t have to exist on modern Windows on NTFS (there’s a switch somewhere that turns them off), but they’re still on by default for compatibility reasons (Windows 10 can still run DOS and 16-bit Windows programs, after all).

You can disable it, but realistically it won't make a performance or efficiency difference (only reason go mess with it really), and lots of things still break if 8.3 compatibility is disabled or stripped. On occasion, this had included weird first-party errors, too.

In theory, there are tons of things that shouldn't matter any more either, like spaces in filenames, or variables like PATH being longer than 2047 characters, but it all still ends up somehow breaking various things over time.
For the flat earthers? How are they dangerous?
The only way an alternate TLD registrar will ever take off is if you get the people who own the current root servers on board. And the only way that will happen is if you figure out how they can make money from owning and operating the root servers.

My guess is that if you create a blockchain for registering DNS, and only the current registrars can issue coins on said blockchain, you might have a solution they would be willing to implement. You'd still have to pay them money to register a new domain or maintain it, but once you had the coin, you could register whatever you wanted and no government could stop you.
It's very well known among ppl who know the field. It's quite good, the lead has a nice blog too.
I agree with the first part, but not the second. Agreed it would rule out some early filters. But for the second part, the ratio doesn't go to 1 in 200. That's not how the anthropic principle works. You're already assuming that the Earth is extraordinary oh, so you can't just put it in the data set. Instead you would look at 199 out of 199 planets where sapient life capable of making an observation failed to develop.

Agreed that it provides no data on future filters ahead of us
This series on YouTube has some fairly easy arguments on the Earth being a sphere w/o using any math:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHqBy92iGM
What do you mean by "strongly seperate the renderer from the application"?
is there a vs's?

arent they protocols? implementations of a protocol should not change.

my big gripe, chromium seems to make more analytics calls than gecko. are they grouping calls? probably.

gecko/firefox doesnt seem to have this agenda.
Doh along with super-cookie controls seem to out-perform chromium in every way.

The end result seems to be privacy.

embedded?? are you using ChromiumOs?
British military aircraft rapidly supplying weapons to Ukraine
New Documents Shed Light on Trump-Era Crypto Policy
I'd add that most of us probably trust most governments a lot more than we think we do, especially in the US.
Not sure where you got that title from.

The actual title is: "US claims all .com and .net websites are in its jurisdiction" which is virtually the same as the title of the HN thread.

The literal first sentence is:

"THE US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) wants to take down web sites that use the .com and .net top level domains (TLD) regardless of whether their servers are based in the US."
> If your point is that by celebrating him today we're celebrating the entirety of his work, please consider a day like Presidents day.

It's genuinely really funny that you thought that this would be a rebuttal. Based on this entire conversation, what do you think my opinion about President's Day is? I'll give you two guesses, first doesn't count.

> We celebrate Washington's birthday despite him having been a slave owner. If you think that it's impossible to compartmentalize people, so be it.

I think Washington is an even easier case to argue here than MLK. This isn't a simple case of not agreeing with every aspect of someone's entire body of work. This is a case of a man waxing poetic about freedom and the rights of man while at the same time engaging in crimes against humanity by buying and selling human beings as property. This fact isn't merely inconvenient, it bathes his life's work in a hypocrisy that is impossible to ignore.

Personally I wish we didn't celebrate his birthday. I think in general it's a bad idea to put people on pedestals for a variety of reasons, including if they turn out to be monsters in some ways. For Washington this specifically puts us all in the invidious position of explaining why we're venerating a man who could look another human being in the eyes and then sell them off like property.

> If you think that the reason we venerate MLK is in part due to his contributions to socialism, and that's what he means to you, so be it.

I'm split on whether this is fantastically bad reading comprehension on your part, or a bad faith interpretation of what I've said. It's 50/50 for me. Because at no point did I indicate that MLK even made a contribution to socialism, or even that I thought he was a socialist. All of that is entirely a fabrication on your part, completely unsupported by what I said.

My entire point is that I find it a bit sus that after MLK's death people only ever seem to engage with one very specific aspect of MLK's work and legacy, and it's I think the part that is selected is politically convenient for those in power. That's it. That's my entire point.

> feel entitled to celebrate that without having to celebrate the entirety of his beliefs.

Again, I never said you had to agree with everything that he said. You've made that up to get angry at me about.
> "did we allow passionate, talented people to do work they are now proud of?".

That's what independent movie studios used to do like Miramax, It gave us Pulp Fiction, There Will Be Blood, No country for old men, and dozens of gems. Even Miramax failed in their quest.

Anyway, Netflix has produced solid movies regardless of what you think, well rated by critics and public. Not all or most of them, but no way worse than competitors studios.
https://launchandscalefaster.org/covid-19/vaccinemanufacturi...

But, we could, at 12 billion doses a year already realizable, getting to 14+ isn't far fetched -- distribution and convincing people to take them would be much more challenging. I'm not which of distribution and cooperation is the hardest, but, manufacturing is certainly not the blocker.
If you have sustained access to any lock (and have the skills/tooling) it's only a matter of time. It will only slow down a determined attacker. It's entirely plausible there is no lock that could defeat him.

That said, a good security system will have multiple (nested) zones and multiple controls to defeat in each zone - picking a lock by itself should not be enough to gain access, and you should not be able to get to the lock to begin with without being spotted or setting off alarms and triggering a police response.
As I see it, the problem is that there is no real way to record data on actual racially-correlated behavior, because doing so will be accused of being inherently racist.

Even if you did, nobody in their right mind would publish results that show minorities in a bad light, even if the data backing it up was impeccable, reproducible, and unequivocal.

Hell, I expect to be down-voted for suggesting the mere possibility that such could be the result of some studies. Race and science are a radioactive combination.
It's well known by now that that case specifically addresses a state, not the federal government, and that it was a matter of a fine, not a forced injection.
To be honest I'm commenting only part with "f.. it I'm not longer working on it", I have ambivalent feelings to "lets change code in such way that builds will go into infinite loop or fail", ambivalent because as it is not nice, but somebody who was a victim of such situation should learn not to add dependencies to newest version, because here was only some small "joke", but it might be something much worse like poisoning whole code with some malicious thing.

Problem is in this that default behavior is "we are not paying for tools", people are looking for free tools to avoid fighting with procurement and everyone seems happy.
Only really big companies are giving something back, most is simply leeching from OpenSource community.
You are mentioning several ways how this guy was able to collect money, yep, but again changing license would mean that somebody else will fork previous version and thats all.

I'm not saying that this action was super, but for me it is result of problem deep in whole idea of "free libraries" and "free tools", often this all base on some poor guy or gal spending weekends on some project, which at the start was cool and funny, but later becomes burden.
Sometimes you just have to go with the flow and admit that Mrs. Giraffe is indeed a very special giraffe.
A sad thing is the FDA dragged its feet on approving the covid vaccine for all age groups, taking 14 months. And vaccine makers/CDC had hard data vaccination would cut the 10,000 weekly death toll by 85%.

Here they approve a costly drug with almost no track record. FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Can someone explain me why ICE has the power to enforce intellectual property laws on the internet? What does this have to do with immigration enforcement? Can ICE enforce other seemingly irrelevant laws? E.g. can ICE bust e.g. drug users, prostitution etc?
Sounds like a cult :-)
"They don't care that they can't run Linux, ..."

This is why we need government intervention. If laws dictated that computing equipment etc. sold to the GP couldn't have 'locks' on them then these problems would instantly disappear.

Such laws can be easily be justified on grounds of (a) stopping monopolistic practices (anti-monopoly laws), and (b) minimizing e-waste.

This won't happen unless there's pressure on government like there has been over the right to repair from the Right to Repair movement. In fact such pressure could come from an extension of the group's current activities.
Privacy violations and ridiculous anti-encryption laws have been going on here in AU for a little over 4 years now I'd say.
I don't know why progressives waste time trying to destroy bro culture and masculinity.

If the company is known to be shit, all the straight men are known to be rapist bros, all the games are toxic masculinity bro games...

Why any to work there by the droves to immediately start complaining and filing lawsuits.

I've worked for a lot of shitbag fortune 500 enterprise companies in my days and if I didn't like the company or my boss, I found a new job. If the company was known to be shit, I avoided it.

Eventually I went on to never have to work for anyone again mostly due to me not wanting to working with people or on things or companies that I didn't like or stood for something different.

It's hard to believe this stuff never happens in construction or any labor type jobs known to have a lot of the harder, undereducated people who are often accused of this type of behavior. It only happens at companies where the product is aimed at a heavily male dominated demographic.

Things are getting wacky.
That said, compared to the visual clarity of most of the visualizations you share, the graphs that come out of Graphviz are pretty hard to read. If you zoom in and pan around you can easily get disoriented in some patch of nothing but spaghetti lines. This is definitely an area where some mbostock magic would be of huge benefit.
If the author was not the person who planted the device, they'd have a decent case. If person A throws person B's cellphone through your window, does that permit you to post person B's nudes online?
> Sounds to me like what you're saying is that the walled-garden approach of needing to approve every app that ever gets developed as a whole is what's infeasible without creating kafkaesque conditions dealing with their automation, and I fail to see how you've made a case for this automation being all that good in the first place, given that your main argument for it is that it's found "millions of vulns in apps over the years" but then later cite "millions of apps" as a reason you can't expand the support team.

People definitely make that claim. I don't think I fully agree. From the reviews of this particular system I've seen, they are able to actually hit virtually zero false positives. The challenge is that this comes at a high cost of missed issues, which also generates complaints.

> I would suggest that it might be worthwhile to use OS-level features to stop apps from behaving maliciously in more general ways, but a lot of what I would consider malicious behavior (e.g. sending user analytics to third parties, feeding them misleading ads, messing with other processes, etc) is part of google's business model or claims of added value in many cases, so that seems unlikely to happen.

Unfortunately, people also get pissed when platform behaviors are locked down to prevent abuse. Heck, people demand to have access to rootkits despite also wanting it to be impossible for a malicious app to harm them.
The diamond water paradox is one of the first concepts learned in an introductory Econ class; hopefully not until a “history” class.

I was an Econ professor in the past and this was quite literally the first thing I spoke about in introductory courses. This is the analogy used to describe what the science of economics is, the study of the allocation of scarce resources.
I think tedious may be wrong use of word to describe it.

My daughter who is almost 3 is definitely exhausting.

Non stop, hyperactive at night goes to bed at midnight lately.

We play/do activities for like 12 hours a day.
Plus work full-time.

She has a tablet with learning activities, very smart for her age and helped her advance (reads at "3rd grade" level).
We let her play 30-60 minutes a day if she wants to, or we need a quick distraction while I make dinner or something.

Everyone I know, including my grandmother whose tended to 30+ kids agrees she is simply exhausting.

She's very interested in alot of things. Technology one of them.
Most doctors don’t know any of that. They’re just gatekeepers between you and the recommended treatments given the symptoms that they feel like writing down for you.
The other reply mentioned that vsync can save battery--on top of vsync, Way of Rhea supports syncing to every other vblank, halving the FPS. This will presumably should save even more battery (though the intended use case is to prevent stuttering on computers that can't consistently hit the monitor's refresh rate.) Ultimately, though, no matter what I do I don't think you're gonna be able to play very long on battery power.

For #2--my glasses prescription is so strong that I spent $330 on fancy lenses today in the hopes that they'll distort less around the edges. Wish me luck. (:
It's part of the article this comment section is discussing.
US users may not be aware that we get local content too. Netflix has produced few decent italian movies and shows.

While we have abundance of platforms with fresh english content, that is not true for our own language.
I seem to recall that wiping your device is the current advice in some contexts. Restore from a backup after you arrive at your destination. Rinse and repeat on the way home.
I don’t think it’s as bad as it used to be. In the early 2000s I managed an email server (which was also running GNU mailman to provide mailing lists) and spam was a real problem. In 2015, I started self-hosting (Postfix, Dovecot) using my personal domain name and I was surprised at how little spam I was getting. All I had to do to stop the spam was to enable grey-listing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting_(email)
Considering Omicron is about to outcompete every single other variant I am not sure what 'general immunity' means in this context either.

If anyone one could assume that an Omicron specific booster would help better with future variants as those would likely spring up through changes of the current Omicron virus rather than wild type.
I mean, d) is sort of a bad reason. Consider this is probably what the USSR said to it's citizens when communism was killing millions of people.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17711930 (Aug '18, 77 comments)
The BioVYZR (2020)
Back in the 90s when I lived in Emacs, I had this running. I was genuinely surprised at the insights it would enable. For example, I would be composing and email or writing a document and it would surface relevant chunks from emails and documents that I had not considered or remembered.

I have been wanting the equivalent for macOS for years.