skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
65k with summers off
The anonymous athlete adorned with the Chinese flag represents the Chinese state; this is a common visual cue in political cartoons.

The artist could have used a less subtle design choice like a panda in a tracksuit (similar to how the US can be represented by Uncle Sam), but it would make the posters comical and it would detract from the chosen art style and references to the historic style of poster design these hint at as well as the message behind the posters.
Back when signal was getting started, using the contact list to bootstrap buddy lists and reduce adoption friction was definitely the right decision. Now they are more established, they can offer the username only version for the %2 that will actually benefit from it. And now that %2 has the cover of a large established user base to blend in as noise.

You have to remember, signal is about E2EE security for EVERYONE, not just nerds. There will imperfect solutions along that path, which also means things like no federation. Signal is very much about being effective vs about being 'right' and ineffective, because when you are king, you can start being right and effective.
How could you silence Rogan? He’s exclusive to the Spotify platform, so is the worry that Spotify would stop publishing his shows?
Look at what a boondoggle it was! Not to mention, how many people were actually paying attention for the last 10 years other than politicians, the poor soldiers that had to fight, the poor Afghanis stuck in the middle, and the defense companies. Look at how many people are paying attention now that the "excitement" of the withdrawal is over and how many people are sick of "forever wars."

What western country has an appetite for any more kinetic conflicts? I think this is why Crimea was such a shock to people, because the seizing of territory just seemed so odd in this day and age. Plus, why put people's lives on the line in a war when you could hit their power grid with a cyberattack you can pin on a non-state actor since attribution is so hard or you can use the weight of your economic activity to force other countries to do what you want?
AbstractOps simplifies the back office so companies can focus on their product and customers.
Unmasking Insubordination
Royalties are not supported by the existing nft interface. They are instead done by services like opensea.
^^^^^^ yes!
I am pretty sure it's harder than you think, while keeping Signal's UX and privacy level: https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery
I agree. It's a mish-mash of melting shapes, nothing resembles anything.

I'm really confused why would someone call this "perfectly fake". Have those people seen the real covers? The covers were meant to catch your eye, to evoke some kind of emotion. Compared to them, most of the examples evokes only repulsion in me.
Exactly. Honeypot developed by spying entity.

Otherwise anonymous usernames + passwords would perfectly do.
I look for a 10-year old email every one or two months. The 15-year old ones practically don't ever cross the line.
Can you tell me about your personal morality here?

I.E, are you against all caricatures whereby a 'segment of the population' non-existent person was used, in which case you'd be equally appalled at say a caricature of a trump supporter? But you'd be OK of it was Xi Jinping throwing the virus?
I mean, I can understand most of the posters, but why the coronavirus one?
Not to mention his investments in Tesla and space x...
Oracle Linux 8.5 now available through the Microsoft Store
Apple cannot "pull out" of the Netherlands by just not selling in the country. Dutch people can order phones from Belgium or elsewhere in the EU, and Apple will still be legally on the hook.
With the supposed cardiovascular and brain dangers of COVID, I have still been working pretty hard to avoid infection, which is definitely getting to be old news. My apartment isn't that nice.

Glad to see some science putting numbers on what the odds we're all against in terms of long-term damage.
In the world of business acquisitions, to which I’m no expert but know a little, it’s not worth it for private equity firms to even look at businesses operating in less than probably 25 million in revenue, because it takes (near enough) the same amount of effort to acquire a business doing 25 million as a business doing 500k revenue.

However, for a player like me, it’s worth me operating in the 500k to 25mil range and buying businesses there because, first off I’m not a millionaire, and second, I can assemble a group of related small businesses which collectively would make 25 million which I can then sell to private equity for a larger multiple than I bought them for.

My point being, is there a way to create some kind of collective of rare disease causes and raise money as a group, collectively funding the labs and salaries of scientists to work on these diseases, ideally in an efficient way so that the work done on one disease can, at least partially, be effective for a number of the diseases in the group.

I don’t know the answer, I just wanted to offer an idea from my perspective.
Their offer matched my FAANG comp for a 63/64 position without hesitation. Maybe that's a recent change? I hear all the time on HN that Microsoft has lower salaries compared to other big corps, but it doesn't match my experience.
> During the height of the pandemic I got one wanting me to move to Ireland to work in an Amazon office there.

There's probably some engineer out there who's always wanted to live in Ireland. That said, I imagine if you're in the "hire to fire" bucket it would suck extra to be in anouther country with no job.
Hunting for Persistence in Linux (Part 5): Systemd Generators
Tibet declared its independence from China after the fall of the Qing dynasty, just as Mongolia did. The only difference is that Mongolia had the Soviet Union as an ally and Tibet had none. So when the Red Chinese army invaded in 1951 it was forced to negotiate a surrender under the 17 point agreement. It should be noted that the Qing was not a Chinese dynasty, it was Manchurian.
This podcast "The Peter Thiel Paradox" [1] explained a lot about the mystery of Peter Thiel to me. Turns out that there is less than meets the eye but he does have a specific talent for manipulating the political systems and government coffers to enrich himself, much like Richard Branson, or so the British podcast claims.

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-p...

One nitpick; Theil said "We were promised flying cars and call we got was 140 characters" not "We were promised bases on the moon and all we got was Facebook"

Link claims Buzz Aldrin said "You Promised Me Mars Colonies. Instead, I Got Facebook."

http://files.technologyreview.com/magazine-archive/2012/MIT-...
And indeed I have worked with many outstanding FTE engineers at 3 FAAMG companies who were born in India, and are very highly paid. I also worked with some good WITCH contractors at those same companies.
"The second way updates a single entry, allowing different notes to have different algorithms..."

So the chips allowed multitimbral operation, but the DX7 didn't support it?
I thought his roth ira was worth $5b alone? https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec...
There’s also the entire Lego Classic line which is just a box of multi coloured standard bricks.
Like Thiel's famous "$5B Roth IRA" loophole that was making the rounds here a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27616090
In the communist manifesto Marx advocates for the:

> Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

The state controlling communications doesn't sound very free speech to me.
Yes, even though such measures exist, I personally feel that strongly puts the social imperative on the person being tracked and that is wrong. If I hear the phrase, "but she could have scanned for AirTags", I fear my blood will boil at the implication that someone thought the person being tracked was in anyway culpable of the consequences.
How does it compare in terms of privacy? I mean Signal's private contact discovery, private groups, private profiles, sealed sender, etc?
Since the GPS signal is just disciplining a local oscillator, it would have to be a sustained outage before drift starts to really matter. But yeah there is a point where it would make a difference.

> Same day settlement

This one is outside our control for the moment - we partner with a 3rd party for clearing and settlement, and would depend on our subscribers also making the switch to same-day.

Once we get into other asset classes, fast settlement is definitely of interest. Some cool stuff we could do with incorporating settlement instructions and/or counterparty risk constraints as part of the expressive bidding language.
Oh it's definitely possible to have alternative theories but they get increasingly outlandish as you make small modifications. E.g. "how does a gyroscope know which star to point at? What happens if the gyroscope points at the middle between two stars? What happens if you point it at a star that has not yet been discovered (e.g. more powerful telescopes reveal it in the future)? Do different stars have different effects?"

Trying to answer these questions makes the stellar spheres theory require more and more ad-hoc additions to support.
A camera would be nice.
I have the same reaction. They're like an alien with only a description of human activities but no real knowledge of behavior or society, tried to create a painting. Everything is strangely squished, there's no clear dividing line between one thing and another, nothing is a functional symbol but just an impression of a symbol. "Humans like yellow; lets put a yellow shape in there!"
I like it. One possible bug (or maybe I misunderstand the UI): if the note that I pick at the top is C#, and then I select Aeolian in the Scale/Mode selector, shouldn't the label say "C# Minor"? Right now it just says "C Minor".
This says everything about what is wrong with the woke/anti-woke, in-group/out-group craziness playing out on in the world right now.
Yes! While it's technically true, this has evolved into an urban legend about southern hemisphere naval battles during WWI.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/44760
Come for the ragequit blog post, stay for the fang witch images.
I have before they knew better. Nevermind it might still be in effect but too cold for groups to go out anyhow.
Very good and deeply interesting work! As the owner of the later model, I have to ask: would you consider doing the same with a DX7II, if they are dissimilar enough at this level to warrant doing do?
No third party/private solution is appropriate here.

The government that oversees the issuing of these IDs and attests that they are sufficient for government use (Real ID) cannot themselves validate said ID?

Corruption or incompetence are the only paths that lead to outsourcing federal identity verification.
the cynical side of me says "that's okay, the generals and such can still get cushy jobs at companies that manufacture hardware used by the DoD"
KDE: A Nice Tiling Environment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE
not sure what this is insinuating, but the US is only a couple of hundred years old, so what exactly is so unbelievable here
To be fair, you can build it from sources, and I'm pretty sure they provide an apk (they used to, at least).
I presume that's for particular benchmarks where syscall overhead is significant. Which is certainly true for some real world applications but not for others.
Such a tendency is not on display here. This is like accepting a job at NASA and assuming you’re going into space.
The point is the vendor has stopped putting it in the email because they don’t want google to know what I bought or what I paid, but it also makes it really annoying for the user.

For some things, I’ve taken to copying the page of my purchase and replying to myself in the inevitable “thanks for your order” (and zero details of it in the email).

God help you if you have multiple people (spouse, kids) using your Amazon or whatever account.
If I ever end up doing security, you know I'm going to have them add all the optional contact outputs and log/alarm everything.
Neat, I just recovered last week and was planning on a trial run this afternoon. Do you happen to have any links to the discussion in the twitter group?
All net worth lists are just finance porn for plebs.

There is no way of knowing. There are only some public transactions, and they are fixed in time that assume it was never lost.

Additionally you would have no idea if he's holding a bunch of Dogecoin from the lows or an investor in extremely high performing PE/VC/Hedge funds.

People's balance sheets are all nuanced.

Those lists are not really worth anyone's time.
> Also, what good is secure encryption if i have to give out my phone number?

Actually how could you possibly deliver secure messaging if it doesn't work with simple identifiers you already have like your phone number? Everything should be secure, that's Signal's thesis.

This reminds me of the people who were convinced HTTPS should only be used for "important" stuff that "needs to be secure" like banking and so it's wrong to have HTTPS on your blog, or news site, or whatever.
I think this is a reasonable representation, though.

The idea behind voting is to say "I think this way is the best way", right?

So if Thiel is saying "that way was not the best way", then presumably if the issue came to a vote today, he would vote against.

It's true that he's not advocating for turning back the clock, but I think it's fair to say he wants to turn back the clock, in that he has expressed his opinion that he would prefer to live in a world where it were so.
At least one study (very small) seems to show that covid alone doesn't cause cardiovascular abnormalities 6 months after the disease. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936878X2...
I was trying to understand what buses might be available in my area, to explore what options were & where they might go. This is a general browsing that I use regularly. Required a subscription.
That's exactly what happen to my SO and I can see how this can be an issue to many people. The unexpected and unwanted convo with a particular person happen just because he had mobile number saved in phone's address book and despite of not giving Signal access to contacts, the presence of SO was announced.
You obviously don't include mathematics in this, but it is a form of deductive reasoning as far away from science as the arts are.

I disagree strongly with this. To reduce mathematics (and philosophy in your next sentence) to not-a-science, just because it's based on deductive reasoning is doing it a major disservice.

It is especially because of its deductiveness that mathematics is such a valuable tool for science. It answers the fundamental question "assuming A, what can we prove to be true about A' and A''?". Without that deductive proof, many inductive scientific theories could not even be formulated, let alone disproven.

And then you go on stating that engineering is applying validated knowledge to solve real world problems. Do you realize that much of that validation of said knowledge has been done through mathematical models? That the only reason we have certainty in engineering is because of the deductive rigour of mathematics?
I receive this kind of offers from linkedin nearly daily. I do not even bother to look.
What we need now is a second AI to generate book review blurbs to put on the back cover.

"Wondrous...thought-provoking...panda." - The NY Times
Fire in the sky: a history of meteoritics
What racist imagery was employed in those Olympic protest posters? They were depicting factual imagery and were in fact created by an Chinese Australian artist.
Let's say Amazon stock doubles in the first two years you work there. So maybe your TC was $250K your first two years, but if you stay that third year, you'll vest in $500K in stock, and if it keeps going up, that fourth year might be $800K in stock (which up until 18 months ago was pretty common).

So you'll get people who can't walk away because they can't get TC of $500K somewhere else.
"The capital is not in blockade, the nation is not in crisis."

Do you mean to say Ottawa has not declared a state of emergency over the convoy?
Isn't this completely at odds with all the usual anti-racism arguments?
No, but thanks for the link.
Whatever happened to facebook in the span of 1 month that is so different than what was happening the past ~10 years? devaluation in multiple dimensions
In underground waterways, an endangered ecosystem
Do you think most of the people who go to casinos think they're going to lose money? I think an unfortunate percentage do not realize at all that the odds are stacked against them. Their misunderstanding of statistics means they are quite literally getting scammed. And for the remainder that are doing it for entertainment, that's quite literally what I'm proposing be the standard for investing in companies.
I would be very surprised if that is the real "high" point there. Maybe, the country is very small or lacks tech universities & engineering/math "tradition". Tax systems are very different in the region, but with 6 years or experience and intermediate/advanced English even in Ukraine capital the median is $54K, while the third quartile is $66K. Those are NET numbers for contractor-type empoloyment, though. According to the very latest salary widget here: https://dou.ua/salary-widget-test/?period=2021-12&position=S...
SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gan
For my new year's resolution, I decided to swap out my daily cannabis use with swimming; and so far this year, I've actually pulled it off and swim about 1250 meters a day. It's only 25 laps and takes about 30 minutes of actual exercise. For me, it taps into a lot of the same mental benefits of relaxation and focused thought I experienced when under the influence of cannabis.

I decided to do this, in part, because I needed a tolerance break. I'm also looking forward to getting high and watching Dr. Strangelove again. One issue, I think, people struggle with is making things so binary. It may help you to stop now if you recognize you can start again in the future.
Running Slackware 15 on an old-ish Thinkpad. Everything just works. Life is good.
Two words: threat model.
Huh, I got sick a few weeks ago and PCR test was negative for covid, but I had this same thing with the tingling arms last night, I woke up and it was my whole body pretty much, but especially bad in the arms. And now I'm getting it a bit in my feet / ankle area awake today.
I wasn’t specifically talking about work. Where I live feels as close to pre-pandemic as it ever has.
> What is "a collectible"?

It's like a Bitcoin, but we say instead of saying it is digital gold, it represents a picture of a monkey instead.
> associate with China’s leadership

What does that mean?
Dendron New User Survey 2021 Results
Twitter avatar that changes depending on contents of TL
Did you try this? It should let you use Signal on two phones

https://signal.org/blog/ios-device-transfer/
What PayPal's Meltdown Means
Myself and another geeky friend tried to get out non-geeky friends away from messenger and whatsapp (well, at least get them to use Signal, talk to us via it and perhaps migrate, baby steps).

Despite a really good uptake, some didn't make the move and it's definitely fragmented some of our online groups (makes it more interesting when physically catching up though, silver linings!). I'm not sure throwing yet another messaging platform would help.
<find in page> rats <enter>

Mmmmhmmm.
What’s gonna be the South Park of 2022? Or I guess that show is still on too lol
So for anyone who's already used id.me, how hard will it be to purge the biometrics? (And same question for if you live in California)
Can you please post links to well-documented examples of each?

States use violence routinely, corporations may order a hit on someone maybe once in a blue moon. Usually any violence they do is by co-opting government mechanisms already in place.

And btw I am a left-libertarian who criticizes both states and corporations
Some of my favorites more Frontend leaning:

- https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

- https://jhey.dev/writing/

- https://varun.ca/writing

- https://ishadeed.com/articles/
exactly—like one of the other 49 states!
Remains to be tallied how many of her research assistants on those projects went on to have careers in the field... Careers which are now more or less tainted by the association.

Even harder to tally: How many of those deserve to be more tainted because they saw it for what it was but didn't speak up. (Yeah, I know, hard to do for a lowly assistant.)
Their pivot to Meta deeply reinforced the writing on the wall. And then their first ever report of a declining user count was the coup de grace.

Come to think of it I need to verify that the user count did decline. I only heard that anecdotally.
At least personally, the privacy violation is most clear if you are not part of a community that uses encrypted messaging by default (nearly everyone I know who uses SMS/FB messenger). The fact that someone I know has downloaded Signal then reveals that they now care about using encryption, which usually has the very obvious inference that they are involved in activism/have journalistic sources/other more nefarious activity that they care about encrypting. You can usually figure out which it is if you know anything else about that person. I would not know this if Signal didn't push the information to me, since I am not going to constantly search my entire contact list to find this info.
Nice read though..

I was surprised by the amount of CSS tricks used for fingerprinting all while having js disabled.

A few days ago, I came across this "GPU fingerprinting" called "DrawnApart" => https://blog.amiunique.org/an-explicative-article-on-drawnap...

and was thinking that this must be the most advanced fingerprinting approach so far but after reading your article, I have to reconsider!
Transit is a great app. The UI for discovering routes and multi-modal planning features beats all the competition.

I knew there was going to have to be monetization at some point, hopefully this can help sustain them. I don't know if they get a cut, but I typically buy my passes through the app.

Hoping more transit agencies will partner or license their app to enable the extra features. My local agency uses Moovit/Token Transit for payment and routing, which has a poor UI in comparison. Transit planning on Google Maps is pretty lackluster.

If anyone at Transit reads this, would love to see the options to extend the walking time or speed used for estimates. For example, check that I have a bike or e-bike, or walk fast and can get to a further stop faster. A lot of the time, I can walk a lot faster than the app estimates. Basically, the opposite of the "minimize walking" feature.
Likely you couldn't. Impossible to tell without knowing the details of the contract between Rogan and Spotify. But if Spotify killed JRE, he would likely then be free to take his show to any other platform that would have him, or self-host it himself. Removing Rogan from Spotify is pointless.
You should try asking on https://reddit.com/r/nonprofit or even reaching out to people at those foundations you mentioned for other diseases.

I'd start with a simple campaign page with your mission, your goals, some cute pics and some way to collect donations and capture emails. There's loads of fundraising CRMs out there. Givelively is a decent one and costs nothing but there's plenty of options. Even just a Facebook page could work.

As for how to acquire leads from scratch that's a tough one. Ads can work, you can also try reaching out to media orgs to try to get some airtime to talk about your campaign.
You and the commenter to whom you’re responding are referencing different “F” words. Two words which seem to have switched places in terms of power and acceptability over the last generation-and-a-half.