skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I authorize an agent to act on my behalf in a particular way wouldn't they be considered and authorized as me? If I make a contract with Bob to mow my lawn, it's not like Bob's workers or employees have to sign the contract too. TPG shouldn't need to be party to the contract to be an agent of one of the contracted parties.
> Imagine how more efficient things could be if this cancer was eradicated once and for all.

people dont like paying and they dont mind ads. they enable a lot of products and services that would otherwise not exist. ads might be a net negative, but they certainly have at least some positives.
What's an action that two people on different sides of a mirror can take in order to demonstrate a common commitment towards progress (despite mistakes)?
For me as a daily weed user, this "type" of munchies only persisted for so long. Curious to hear of others experiences, but after about a year of developing the habit, I became almost repulsed by very salty/greasy/sweet foods and started to crave simpler meals comprised of more fruits and vegetables.
Want to use modern syntax? Easy! just:

- switch to a new language

- add a new framework

- use a build tool / bundler and polyfills since all of those modern features aren't actually supported across your user's browsers / versions

- use web components... sorta, but not directly

- use a modern front-end shadow DOM-y framework with a dependency tree so deep that it could never be audited

- while you're here, take all of your CSS and abstract it to a meta language using template strings and jam it inside your JS / TS component files directly

- i know we are using all of this cool modern stuff, but... jQuery and Bootstrap still exist, so fallback if you feel like having fun and why not just add them to the mix too

- web app? no, no, no, this is a micro-frontend

- oh yeah, btw your SEO is going to suck with all of that client-side rendering in the single-page app, but not to worry, server-side rendering to the rescue

- so amazing how the future just works!™

[On a more serious note, I do actually appreciate some of the sane and simple modern frontend tools (we need more of those!) But going through all of this crap feels like overkill for an average run-of-the-mill CRUD web app. Just my 2¢.]
I am not sure it is 'corrupt', though that may be a question of semantics. I didn't mean to disagree with you, just point out how rampant the issue was.
If you're trying to hide a backdoor in a more subtle way than leaving a telnet port open, disguising it as a bug is not a bad way to go. Much less work than, say, finagling your own magic numbers into a new crypto standard.

Anyway, Telegram MTProto backdoored; this never was a surprise to anyone I guess.
Thanks for wasting 30mins of my day ... haha fun times!
I can tell you that I've been thinking about writing up this story for a couple of years, but I kept self-censoring because my blog is mostly about tech, and because I was still afraid of the judgment that comes with having a schizophrenic parent.

In the end, I decided that I do have a story to tell, and I don't care about the judgment. These things shouldn't be stigmatized, the stigma is what prevents people from getting help, and the only way to remove the stigma is to talk. So I wrote the story up one evening two weeks ago. Then I had a few friends proofread it by sharing with them on Google Doc. Then I finally decided to post it.

Because my blog is focused on tech, I focused more on the tech angle when telling the story. I knew that would appeal to my audience more, but I think it's only fair, because tech has been a huge part of my life. It's a huge part of what makes me get up in the morning.
The trolley problem is often misunderstood. The point of the problem is that two actions have the same consequence (pushing a lever and pushing a person off a bridge) but many peoples' moral intuition is that one action is moral and the other not. It is an argument against consequentialism, the belief that what makes an action moral or not is its consequences.
The consequential view of morality is that authorizing the use of a vaccine is moral if it saves more lives than it costs. One deontological view might be that the government has a responsibility to completely test all vaccines before it releases them. Thus the early release of a vaccine on the theory that it would save more lives would be correct from the consequentialist view, but not on this deontological view. This would be the reverse of what the trolley problem is arguing.
Isn’t a lot of securization necessary for two more seats? Adding floor reinforcements, seatbelts, and more importantly, passing the crash tests with two more seats?
Google can't replicate its IM strategy in the AR space if it build on its existing product. No, it has to create a number of separate AR products, each with a slightly different feature set, and release those all in different markets so that no one product ever reaches significant marketshare before they all get discontinued for lack of uptake.
Is a website considered a private space (maybe not, but you agree to a TOS when you fly AA)? If so, you should have the right to say how your space is used by others, regardless of if we believe marketing is ethical or not. If AA doesn't want their data being used anywhere else, sounds like they should have the right to do that, just like we have the right to remove people from our private spaces if they do things against our rules. You also have the choice not to fly AA.
(the best I have, so far, is: walk away)
>I think that the best weapon that the general public has against cancer is autophagy, triggered by keeping blood glucose very low at least some of the time. Metabolic changes that can awaken apoptosis might kill many of these mutation carriers.

Since fasting is the best way to induce autophagy, that could explain the apparent negative correlation between cancer rate and a country's food supply
[.] http://globalcancermap.com/
[.] https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply
That's a day old. And the market may not be very active. Besides, I don't think they are centrally cleared? (Or perhaps in the early days they weren't, it was certainly pre-digitization)

The market - interbank rates - is quite small in terms of participants. I think the problem is the number was incredibly useful even if it wasn't accurate.
I was confused by that too. It means the author used an editor that didn't have spell check?
It’s not that these words have no meaning. The problem is that the meaning is vague and changes depending on the speaker and context, so that to the reader/listener it is generally impossible to tell quite what meaning is intended. The word says more about the identity politics of the user than it does about the target.

If you want a more detailed analysis of current usage, https://ctrlzmag.com/series-what-is-woke-4-the-decline/
The semantics are very different, even if the syntactic results are superficially similar. In Rust you cannot retrieve the value on success without explicitly handling the error - that's forbidden by the type system. Additionally you can't have an unitialized error result, or force the callee to check the argument for null.

I think the example is pretty weak, because the difference isn't that meaningful in an isolated case. Consider something like parsing an HTTP request - it is difficult to even write the toy example without handling the major error cases. The result is a robust program by default.
I have one primary question that I'm trying to figure out during job interviews. "Will my boss understand what I produce and the difficulty involved in producing it?" if the answer is no, the job is going to suck.
That assumes the judiciary is less corrupt than the executive in that quaint little setting. I would not bet on that horse in this race.
This was a pretty interesting read. I had to stretch my Google-fu muscles, but I was able to find the original Spanish import tax law from 1985:

https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-1985-18847
(Google translation below)

From here: https://www.zonadepruebas.com/viewtopic.php?t=1830

It's funny that they explicitly set the number of RAM KB for machines. I wonder what was the logic?

---

BY ROYAL DECREE 1215/1985, OF JULY 17, A MODIFICATION HAS BEEN INTRODUCED IN THE TARIFF DUTY ASSIGNED TO SUBHEADING 84.53.B.II OF THE CUSTOMS TARIFF, CONSISTING OF SETTING A SPECIFIC MINIMUM DUTY OF 15,000 PESETAS PER UNIT.

THE BROAD CONTENT OF THE REFERENCE SUBHEADING, IN WHICH DIFFERENT ELECTRONIC COMPUTER PRODUCTS ARE CLASSIFIED AND TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THAT THE MENTIONED SPECIFIC MINIMUM SHOULD ONLY AFFECT A CERTAIN TYPE OF AUTOMATIC MACHINES FOR THE PROCESSING OF INFORMATION, KNOWN SECTORALLY UNDER THE THE NAME OF "MICROCOMPUTERS", MAKES IT ADVISABLE TO COMPLEMENT THE CITED MODIFICATION WITH THE TIMELY CLARIFICATION LIMITING ITS SCOPE.

BY VIRTUE OF IT, AND IN USE OF THE POWER RECOGNIZED TO THE GOVERNMENT BY ARTICLE 6 SECTION 4 OF THE CURRENT TARIFF LAW, AT THE PROPOSAL OF THE MINISTER OF ECONOMY AND FINANCE, AND PRIOR APPROVAL BY THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF AUGUST 28, 1985, I HAVE :

ARTICLE 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE APPLICATION OF THE SPECIFIC MINIMUM RIGHT OF 15,000 PESETAS PER UNIT INTRODUCED IN SUBHEADING 84.53.B.II OF THE CUSTOMS TARIFF BY ROYAL DECREE 1215/1985, OF JULY 17, IT SHALL BE UNDERSTOOD BY TAXABLE UNIT AFFECTED BY THE CITED RIGHT THOSE AUTOMATIC MACHINES FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION THAT CONSIST OF INTEGRATED OPERATIONAL UNITS, WHICH COMPRISE IN A SINGLE ENVELOPE AT LEAST ONE CENTRAL UNIT AND ONE INPUT UNIT, WHETHER OR NOT PROVIDED WITH AN OUTPUT UNIT, AND WHICH HAVE RAM MEMORY WITH CAPACITY NOT EXCEEDING 64 KB.

ART. 2. WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO ITS EFFECTIVENESS FROM JULY 25, DATE OF PUBLICATION OF ROYAL DECREE 1215/1985, THIS ROYAL DECREE WILL ENTER INTO FORCE THE SAME DAY OF ITS PUBLICATION IN THE "OFFICIAL STATE GAZETTE".

GIVEN IN PALMA DE MALLORCA ON AUGUST 28, 1985.-JUAN CARLOS R.-THE MINISTER OF ECONOMY AND TREASURY, CARLOS SOLCHAGA CATALAN.
Cost and power efficiency. If you want cheap portable electronics that have batteries that last forever, then you need to build SoCs that have exact features needed for a specific application and no more.

Maintaining software compatibility would mean sacrificing either price or power consumption. So a manufacturer can choose between spending money rewriting the software, or having to pay anywhere between 15¢ to $100 more per unit. If you’re making millions of units, then savings from using more limited SoCs will quickly pay for an army of software engineers.
Absolutely. Exactly my sentiments. Formatting JSON is a separate concern from what curl does.
One problem I've never seen mentioned regarding microservices is what happens when the organization that produced them has moved from growing to stagnation and finally into decline. If microservices ship the org-chart, what happens when that organization fails to attract engineers?

I worked for a company that microserviced themselves into a pit. We had a huge layoff which completely killed the morale of the remaining engineering staff. Over the next 3 years, more and more engineers left and the company refused to replace them. What started out as teams (~5 people) responsible for ~3 microservices ended up as teams of ~3 people responsible for ~6 microservices.

It was kind of cool to be responsible for more architecture and see how it all fit together, but the sad reality was that too many of the microservices that had been stood up were stitching together disparate data from other microservices to then perform what a single SQL query against a RDBMS was doing.
Expressions in Rust are eagerly evaluated, but you can write lazily evaluated things without issue.
RIP password managers then, I guess
Forgive me if this sounds ignorant, but who is using pure-functional approaches in industry?

Again, please correct me if I'm wrong since I've been industry for barely 2 years: back in school functional programming looked cool, but when I entered industry(and even in my exploration through personal/OSS projects), I have found it to be nothing more for the most part than a cool toy to play with. I can somewhat see the benefit when it comes to parallelizing Big Data, but that seems to be a very special case.

Again if I'm just being ignorant, please educate me :)
The courts tend to take a dim view of "clever hacks" to get around the law, where the intent is clearly to circumvent the law and the action has no other purpose. They don't always rule that way. But if you pull this kind of stunt, you risk the court saying, "Very clever. No."
Any hints on challenge #5? FromHex returns something that looks like it has the bz2 compression header. Trying to decompress w/ bz2 doesn't seem to work though.

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Yeah. Advertising ruins everything. Everything. They are directly and indirectly responsible for the poor state of consumer technology today. Privacy violations? Advertising. Borderline unusable websites? Advertising. Deliberately addictive social media? Advertising. Almost everything that's wrong with computing today is fueled by this industry's entitlement to our attention.

> Imagine how more efficient things could be if this cancer was eradicated once and for all.

Yes!! What I wouldn't give to see this entire industry banned from existence. It would solve so many problems it's ridiculous.
holy crap, i had the ‘missing a course’ nightmare roughly every 2 months for 2 years after graduating.
Last updated 274 days ago. What's new?

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22053998
How does that logic apply to people that sublet rental spaces ?
Linux works quite well on old macbooks.
Filtering and sunlight are opposites of each other.

Sunlight requires you to see the stuff you think is inaccurate, and for you to put work into criticising that content. Not only that, but you have to do it unpaid, and it feeds Facebook's bottom line.
Ah thanks, I didn't catch that aspect at first - threw off my interpretation.
It's sad that the MBA's have finally taken over at Google, and now they have to squeeze every last penny out of their customers (on top of all the ads they sell).

The worst part of all this, is most of us casual users just want to do email, nothing else. I personally don't have a high enough volume of email to even warrant paying out for most services.
No- the norm is for things to be imported, then combined or modified and sold as a new product, without paying the import tax based on the new product.

If import tax on a cpu is x, and motherboard is y, should you have to pay computer import tax z if you build and sell PCs? After all, what imported cpus and motherboards aren't destined to be assembled computers?
Why Sleep Deprivation Kills (2020)
How do protests against police violence lead to more crime? Not a single police budget was actually cut.
Some backend frameworks (of various languages) have way too much abstraction and configuration. This usually means coding a small non-standard feature takes lots of time. But coding only standard (e.g. CRUD) features is fairly quick if you don't have a big framework too.

Also, lots of developers never know what happens below that stuff. Don't get me started on how many people I've seen despairing over "configuration debugging".

Some really big projects can be exceptions to this line of thought. But most teams don't work on those really big projects.
I'm always kind of reminded of Louis C.K's old bit about how humans learned to literally fly, and it turns out the whole experience sucks.
There is a compatible open source alternative here, https://www.scylladb.com/alternator/
But it's only accessing your private data with your authorization (by providing them your credentials). There is no hacking involved and it's not accessing people's information without consent.
I would like to believe this, but legislative outcomes on things that you'd expect to be bipartisan (like dealing with the pandemic) have been fairly poor, right? If there really was this large moderate population, you'd expect us to elect moderate elected officials, who'd find each other and pass some moderate legislation, right?
Roblox October Outage Postmortem
Unix philosophy is dead. It's body was crucified on the systemd cross.
Since virtually no police departments were "defunded" in any sense to any significant extent, it's not clear to me at all how that slogan or those protests contributed to any rising violence.
This is for timekeeping, which doesn’t look to have its own mailing list (just points me to the vger linux-kernel mail list). I didn’t Cc that mailing list, although I could.
It seems like PG's twitter feed isn't part of the training data. I know nothing about ML or AI, but it seems like if you're trying to make a conversational AI bot, then the back-and-forth of twitter conversations could be even more useful than longform essays. But again, I know nothing about this stuff!
Unlike aluminium, plastic doesn't give you electric shocks if you're plugged into a poorly grounded socket: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/32417/how-can-i-av...

The link describes them as "minor shocks" but I once had a severe enough shock that I needed medical care.
Maybe that was the problem. He cited that there was seemingly not enough effort in making DynamoDB better as evidenced by the many orthogonally very close other DBs that AWS promotes. If Rick was ears to the ground listening to customers and sending back feedback but it was falling on deaf ears that's enough ground for someone as high up and as influential and productive as him to leave. It also speaks to inner AWS turmoil at least at DynamoDB.
But that’s exactly what they do. Provide excellent services at low tax rates for “us” by raising all the revenue from “them.”
What happens if you hire someone to be your agent at your job?
Q: How do I make a million dollars?
A: You don't.
I wonder if this is entwined with the shift in popular entertainment to the “Hollywood ending” and the bromides we share about “everything always works out in the end”, “good always prevails”, etc. Along with fairy tales now being pleasant.
> Why do you think alcohol does less harm then any of the others?

A simple test, give each to a baby/small child and see what happens... I lived in a time where babies were given tiny amounts of alcohol for pain relief and it did no harm that I ever heard. I doubt you can say the same for meth.
> whether due to official “depolicing” policies

My recollection is that there have been almost no depolicing policies actually made in effect. Not even the Minneapolis complete dissolution of the police by whatever whatever time. Several big cities even increased their police funding. The argument that homicides have surged because of depolicing first needs to prove that depolicing actually happened.

I would instead argue that an increase in homicides might be caused by an decrease in the general wellbeing of people when dealing with a pandemic. We're getting to the point where many people either know someone who has died or knows someone who knows someone who has died.
The two car insurance companies I see the most adverts from are State Farm and Geico - and yes, it looks like those two are the apex of their industry: https://www.valuepenguin.com/largest-auto-insurance-companie...
The correct answer here is takeout + rclone, right ?

We're actually writing a detailed HOWTO about this workflow, mostly centered on gmail since you can't interface with gmail (directly) using rclone.

Regardless, it is rclone that (in my opinion) makes this quite a bit less impactful.
I am surprised that mounting is now allowed inside containers. Doesn't this expose a load of new surface attack for the kernel? All these pesky academical filesystem code does not inspire a lot of confidence when parsing user data/disk images....
Ah yeah, that should be easier! I was mostly coming from the perspective of trying to get DSLR working in the demo :)
I also noticed that, and gave up reading at that point.
Maybe I'm cynical, but when people can't do the basic minimum to be understood... I don't feel any obligation to understand them.
Plaid and the like now have API agreements with many of the major US banks, and are cutting down on their scraping usage (because its obviously unsustainable).
Defense, advertising, finance, MLM, crypto, and gambling are the major ones that I can describe with a single word each. There are many many more, though.
At the very least, data obfuscation obfuscates the shenanigans of a constantly asymmetrically redefined value store.

TPG just highlights the shenanigans which puts pressure on airlines to change the value even more frequently. This in turn makes the shenanigans more apparent which might call for regulation.

This lawsuit is attempting to nip this process in the bud before stumbling on regulation. But, fundamentally, the relationship is asymmetric regardless of any data api access.
This may be controversial but:

Policing for profit is in theory a good thing. Every time they enforced a good law the society profits. Every time they enforce a bad law the society should change the law.

The alternative is having bad laws that are enforced just sometimes, at the discretion and personal biases of the not-for profit police.