skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tikTok collects data like a great many other companies, unfortunately they aren't just doing it sell more ads.

With a few days of interactions, you can very precisely logically profile a person enough to figure out how to socially engineer them. You also have enough interest and behavioral data to be able setup a blackmail scheme.

It is not hard to imagine how the close integration with the government allows the law enforcement to conduct very skilled operations using the psychological map that can be built about a person.

The CCP is way past knowing if you vote dem/rep or are a 21yr old female.
I think there is a case for a mandatory warning label, like on the app store and 5 sec interstitial that says:

“ Warning: this application sends your behavior to a foreign party. It may be stored indefinitely and used for personal retribution, social scoring, and manipulation of your political views. Proceed with caution”.

If that seems extreme, an outright ban of the app is worse. The US and others have had a good history of getting results this way, but it still respects individual and corporate liberties. Thoughts?
The Zakat is an interesting concept, but I don't see much functional difference from inflating the currency by 2.5% and then giving the newly created currency to the poor. Presumably some system is needed to enforce Zakat, that same mechanism of force could be used to inflate currency.

Since inflation is a centralized operation and Zakat is decentralized, I would wage enforcement of inflation is much easier than enforcement of Zakat.
THIS!!

Having a full set of spares requires zero re-engineering of the existing grid, and will turn a multi-year grid failure catastrophe into a few days to restore critical components and some weeks of restoring full function.

Since our solid solar observation capabilities now give several days notice before arrival of such storms, some could even be pre-positioned at critical substations.

And you are absolutely correct that the DOD would have very good reason to do this - losing the grid nationwide would be an insane level national security risk.
It's perfectly ok to reject job for any reason.
The New York Times is the only legacy media company to successfully pivot into digital, and pivot properly at that. In 2014, an internal innovation report [1] laid out the challenges the Times faced and what it needed to do to be successful. To the Times’ immense credit, it succeeded and then some. I worked at a digital publication that was cutting edge on the types of digital and audience engagement work the the Times was trying to chase and used to say that “we are trying to become the New York Times before the Times becomes us.” And in 2016, we had layoffs and the company “pivoted to video,” and as I said to some colleagues the night of the layoffs (I was spared but many other were not), the Times won. (The pivot didn’t work and the company would sell for 1/5 of its valuation 18 months later. But at this point I’d just left media for tech.)

The Times is the exception. It’s the Apple amidst a sea of Commodores and Ataris and DECs. The Times is the exception and is exceptional as a business reinvention story, but it is the outlier, not the norm.

(The Journal has always had a paywall (even in the mid 1990s when it sold digital editions over dial-up), tho its porousness has ebbed and flowed, and as such, has never had the same degree of challenges that faced local papers or the national papers like the New York Times, WaPo, and the LA Times)

[1]: https://www.scribd.com/doc/224608514/The-Full-New-York-Times...
So back in the 1940's there was a proposal to use impolsions in the deep acoustic channel as an SOS system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofar_bomb
Write your feature announcement before you write code
Do your audience engage among themselves to build a better community?
There's been a deep freeze every year for two years now. It might be worth considering there's going to be another one next year.
To be totally honest - I think in this day and age, for right now anyhow there is a desire for less Citizen Kane, and more Music Man.
I had a similar reaction when I read the grandparent post. Could we not say the same about most retail shops and people who work at them? "Bah, why bother? In the long run, you will all be replaced with robot pickers in an Amazon warehouse." And yet, the retail "experience" continues to innovate / find / create experiences that people cannot have with pure online shopping.
The OP stated this was a test of the resilience of Starlink launches, not the system itself. In either case, surely there are better ways of testing this than letting 40 brand new spacecraft burn up.
The touchscreen is still there on my 2020 model. but I always use the roulette to navigate. It's a bit akward at times but it's much better than taking my eyes off the road to try and line up my finger on the touchpad. It's disabled in Android Auto mode, and probably in CarPlay but I never used it.

I too had problems with Android Auto when using my old phone, it constantly crashed. When I switched to a Pixel 4a in 2020 I no longer had any issues. It works like a charm.

So I suspect it could be your phone, or something related (the cable, the type of USB plug, etc.).
See also cLEMENCy 9-bit middle-endian (sic) arch from DEF CON CTF 2017

https://2017.notmalware.ru/89dc90a0ffc5dd90ea68a7aece686544/... (link from https://blog.legitbs.net/2017/07/the-clemency-architecture.h...)
I personally despise travel, almost every aspect of it. Planning, making reservations, trying to figure out airline tickets, packing, parking, waiting, being groped by the pre-flight fondlers, cramming myself into a seat, sitting there for hours, the mystifyingly slow process of disembarking, getting to the hotel, registration, lugging luggage, the cautious exploration of the room, the scan for bedbugs, arraying the hopefully adequate creature comforts imported to the destination on some tatty drawer, all of it is terrible. But then people say, "Oh, but the thing you came for!" And whatever it is leaves me unmoved. I could have been shown a photo of it for all that it matters. Or conferences were nothing was conveyed. Then you get to do all of it in reverse, perhaps with a careful notebook of receipts tucked away.

Even hearing about it. And what is beyond the pale is that if word gets out you don't like travel, the Travel People simply won't have it. They're like a cult.

In my black little heart, I wonder if people would on the whole travel less if they weren't permitted to speak about it, because lord knows some bore bringing up their time in Nepal yet again at the merest whiff of conversational relevance makes my cortical folds smooth out.
hi, author here. i set out to find the ideal configuration for performant and reliable RAID configuration for a new home lab server build and documented/automated as much of the testing process as possible in this repository. i'm happy to answer any questions.
Could you imagine if Disney decided to open source one of their 3D films? How much fun would that be to play with?

It would be like when Doom was open sourced (I pick Doom because it's one of the first major video games that I can remember being open sourced, and the creative results have been vast)

I'd like to see Toy Story 1 re-rendered using the Toy Story 4 models (assuming Disney also made those available). Imagine all the technical challenges you'd face to do that: Write code to convert the models, sets, skeletons, animations. Upscale/create new textures, etc.
Meh. A lot of the low-wage journos discussed in the blogpost are less "wordcel" and more like "word salad".
Crazy idea for viable fusion: make tiny nuclear bombs, drop them underground, then use geothermal plants to extract the energy. There, just beat your world record.
I had the exact opposite experience. I also live in a foreign country (The Netherlands) and even after explicitly watching content from my native country I still only got videos in Dutch (should mention that I don't even speak Dutch).
Was that meant to be a joke? You do not need a "beach front paradise" to be "in the open air", the point is in the novel and healthy environment; it's hard to find a Country without open air - even Singapore can provide, and in Monaco you can see body-mind education classes in the flower garden; "questionability", I can hardly find times in which the "kings" wore less revealing garments - and how is such political address relevant; the core administration of these territory "may be" "outstandingly" "questionable", yet I am in the open air operating some emergent miracle of engineering...

«It's all the rage», but mind you: not here. There's no human presence to bring it.
Free flow thoughts and questions jotted down as they occur to me. I jot them down and then forget about them so I can concentrate and what is being said. If the query/question/thought is dealt with later on I draw a line through it and then circle back to anything that is still outstanding during the (typical) Q&A section that tends to occur towards the wind-down part of the meeting.
Yes, that is exactly the problem. If they are ever going to be commercially viable they need to become typical. 59MJ per cycle isn't going to do you a lot of good if a cycle time is measured in months as is currently the case. You have to get that cycle time down to fractions of a second at this energy level before you even have a chance at commercial viability. 59 MJ is a tiny amount of energy by the standards of commercial power generation.
> I made no statement about New Republic...which is in fact a hard left publication.

What are the actual ends of the spectrum on which you identify the NR's position as "hard left" ?
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That's kind of her thing. She is usually right, but also overly pessimistic in a way opposite from the popular press over-optimism.

I get frustrated because it paints science in an undeserved negative light. It is at least truthful, in a way that most anti science writing is not. Mostly I find it unhelpful in that it points out problems without either explaining why they were reasonable or giving a real alternative.
Is this slated for 2022?
Based off my shelf of old books, the price of a good, new, textbook has stayed roughly the same. The quality of the text and layout is much better now, but the paper is pretty much worse.

Some really boring old radar books I own, have the most beautiful silky paper that the equations practically glow, whereas now you get stuck with the toilet paper edition for not much less than what that old one would've cost.
That doesn't make any sense. To a lotus, mud isn't adversity, it's its preferred growing environment. A bed of marble would be it's adversity, and as you pointed out there, it doesn't build character in a bed of marble.
I guess there's some value to a listing of salary/equity figures without the associated company, but it would be far more valuable if the company were included. One thing I really like about levels.fyi is that their comp data streamlines my job search process. E.g., get pinged by a recruiter from a company where comp is 75% of my current comp -- hard pass. Get pinged by a recruiter from a company where comp is 150%+ of my current comp -- perhaps we'll chat. Without that data, it's awfully time-consuming to go through the process only to find that the comp numbers are a non-starter.
I read a lot of people in these sorts of threads mention how they hate their car infotainment systems, and how they just wish it were Android Auto or CarPlay. I wanted to offer a little insight into it. I worked for an Auto Manufacturer for 7 years.

Infotainment systems are developed as a partnership (usually) between a vendor and the auto company. The hardware is often developed by a different company, I like to think of them as old-school stereo manufacturers: Bosch, Pioneer, etc.
The development cycle is somewhere between 12-36 months, and that's still quite a bit before the vehicle actually rolls off the assembly line.

Many customers like CarPlay or Android Auto. Both represent a cost to the manufacturer, and require ceding the design space to another company which is very visible to the customer. Brand is a big deal for car makers, and giving that space up is hard.
One more...

> We use &mutex as the first argument
Really cool!

BTW just out of curiosity, any other metrics you can share about how accurate it ends up being? Like RMSE/MAE?

And I would guess that there's a significant problem with outliers. Accidents for new cars, replacing an engine+gear for old cars, etc. Is this the case?
Facebook market cap below $600B – could help it dodge antitrust scrutiny
> These kinds of steps are obvious to an adult but as a little kid it really helped me understand that movies like that are made through more or less obvious steps (want to draw a lion well? go look at a lion!) vs. magically coming into being.

I think I know what you mean. As a kid I sometimes felt really intimidated and dispirited by things that appeared to be overwhelmingly hard or seemed to require rare talent to accomplish. Kind adults breaking down how it's done and how many people or what level of preparation it takes made a huge difference then. Understanding how an average person in the normal range of abilities can do it, and that an accomplished professional has worked hard but is only "cooking with water", too.

An example: As a young kid I took guitar lessons. I was struggling with keeping time, I was very frustrated and I concluded I'm just no good at this and gave up. Later on I told this story to a professional orchestra musician and he told me that keeping time is simply hard for humans, and he still has to practice it every day and will practice for the rest of his career. It's just something he accepts as a part of what he likes to do. This completely reset my expectations of what playing music should be like, and allowed me to work on the skill and progress further.

Unfortunately I think a lot of professionals try to shroud what they do in a certain level of mystery instead, because they enjoy being looked up to and consider it the reward for their toils and hardships. Programmers are frequently guilty of this - when non-IT people naively assume every programmer is a math wizard and programmers do nothing to correct this idea, for example. I tell people that if you wake up in the morning and sketch out the steps of an algorithm for how you get from there to your cup of morning coffee, you're essentially doing what programmers do. You could do it too if you choose to dedicate the time. It's fun to see how this sometimes makes people's level of genuine interest bloom.
To Popularize a Movement, There Needs to Be a Movement in the First Place
There is no guarantee of this. Very possible the satellites can break up and cause junk/collisions. They are too bright and block astronomers already:

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/imag...

https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/22175/spacex-starlin...
I've found the level of connection between people is stronger on Mastodon. YMMV
> Take something that works on Chrome. Does it work on Safari? If not, fix it.

Why is Safari responsible for slavishly copying what Google developers dream up and shove in production? Does Safari not having FLOC indicate they are missing a vital feature?
Disney's Space Mountain
Undead EARN IT Act poses newly urgent threat to press freedom
No, I mean fusion. The parent comment claims "[Fusion can] provide steady energy without going down for years". I want a single example of this.

Meanwhile, we have massive grids of solar and battery being installed _today_, and existing installations replacing coal plants.

I'm tired of people talking about fusion (or even nuclear, as it's so mired in public FUD) as if it's some panacea. We have a solution right now: Solar and batteries. It works in places with cloudcover. It works in cold and hot climates. It works at night. It's getting cheaper every year.
Jan 6 was a group fighting for temporary political power, meanwhile BLM/black people are still fighting for equal rights after 400 years of unimpeded criminality from the dominant society. These two things are nowhere close to being equal.
Sure, that's an approach that has led to the success of Silicon Valley and the employment of most of the people on HN (as well as the fortunes of Y combinator).
We've edited the title to match the article now. Not sure if the submitted title ("Oxford's JET lab smashes nuclear fusion energy output record") was the BBC's and they've corrected it, or was editorializing by the submitter (which isn't allowed on HN - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
China structures things overwhelmingly in favor of its domestic companies to the point of ridiculousness. It's well past simple tariffs when you need joint ventures, a license to operate a website, source code disclosure, key escrow, government censors, Taiwan/Tibet/Hong Kong/Uiyghur tiptoeing, and who knows what else.

A US company operating in China under its own international brand is a sucker who fell for a pretty blatant con.
I’d rather have a generally applicable law in place. If we think massive data collection shouldn’t be allowed then ban that.
> What a silly strawman

No, it was a criticism of whataboutism of the first part of your comment, which didn't address the problem, but rather compared its magnitude to a different problem.

I think it was your comment, actually, which was the straw man of the person you were responding to. The original commenter was talking specifically about pornography, and your comment straw-manned this as somehow a wish to "wind back the clock"; involving returning to social norms where casual sexism was the norm.

In fact, we can still go forward, whilst still addressing the problem the original commenter was highlighting.
bah! you kids and your oversized 280 character tweets! I'm old enough to remember when tweets were 140 characters and we had to push them uphill both ways, but we liked it like that. This generation has it too easy.
Hackers Don’t Bother Trying to Guess Strong Passwords, Research Shows (2021)
It does make me sad Safari is no longer on Windows. It used to be trivial to get people to test on Safari/IE/FF/Chrome
Good for them, I was hoping for something more akin to the guy that build an iphone from parts he bought in Shenzhen.
I got to meet with some guys who worked on that system at my last job. At the time, they were called OpenCar, and the system was recognizable as what ended up in the Mazda. I do recall that in spite of the name, nothing they were doing was open source.
Nuclear fusion bombs are old tech, fission research is about getting fusion without requiring detonating a fission bomb first.

Even if that wasn’t the case, why would they? Once you can kill the whole planet, there’s no extra points for killing it multiple times over.
That's how "new money" turns into "old money". Low time preference on a generational scale is all it takes.
On a general note, I think it's time to call things "text" instead of "ascii".

Every time someone utters the word "ascii", they just mean text. Saying “I'm using ASCII” doesn't mean anything anymore, because nobody uses EBCDIC anymore – you are, no matter what, effectively using a superset of ASCII, by default UTF-8. The real question is which one.
Great work. Why not wear gloves? Fiberglass gets in your skin and if epoxy is used, you might get sensitized to it. They might have used some other glue. At least they were wearing masks.
59 megajoules (MJ) = 16.4 kWh. For comparison: Tesla Model 3 (Standard Range) has 60 kWh battery. So they made about 1/4 of the full Tesla Model 3 battery.
You're asking for a simplification when there is no way to do it without lying. The fact is you do need to know more than a layman to appreciate how impractical ICF really is or how useless looking at Q is in nearly every context that matters. No MCF machine has even attempted to get a higher Q in the past 25 years. Look at lawson criterion and scaling laws for progress.
> My networking course recently changed from CCNA to CompTIA network plus content.

Wow, did the school just decide that they didn't want anyone taking the networking course?
Go read this section of the transcript[0]

[0]: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-roman-mars-mazda-....
Agreed, the underlying was more interested than the summary. And also seems to be a case of measuring what's conveniently measurable.

The fact that {product} has only 1 connection to {product first party domain} doesn't say a lot about anything, given they could be internally proxying to and from who knows how many partners?

It'd be more helpful to at least see total traffic per domain.

It made me curious that the highest "first-party ratio" companies tended to be tech companies capable of realizing their own architectures (Amazon/Google/Apple).
Just imagining the mathematics SWAT team coming through the door and swatting the marker out of one of my physics profs' hands when they went from ydy/dx=x -> ydy=xdx as if they were simply re-arranging a fraction, made me chuckle.
> I didn't know we were this rare, but it's nice to hear.

I don't think you're drawing the right conclusion.

It isn't that enough people arn't wildy smart enough/don't have the mental capacity to be a full-stack developer AND a penetration tester simultaneously.

It's that it just don't make sense to enough of these wildy smart people to take on what's essentially three jobs, that when done well, individually consume 30+ hours a week each.

Businesses that hire these frankenstien's monster as employees instead of contractors just don't have a clue.

It's also extremely likely these frankenstien's monsters will burn themselves out as employees essentially juggling three jobs as a salaried flat rate employee.

The only scenario in which being this frankenstien's monster make sense is to bootstrap a consultancy as a founder or a contractor, sign up enough clients and scale out by hiring specialist employees.

The only reason why these frankenstien's monsters happen (outside being a founder or a contractor and I am talking exclusively about employees here) is that employee started off as one type (full-stack developer OR a penetration tester), failed to find employment and cross trained into the other, where they found employment.

For example, without knowing any details, it's likely the full-stack developer AND a penetration tester started off as a penetration tester, failed to find employment and cross trained into full-stack developer. Of course, devil lies in the details, so if the full-stack developer failed to find employment as one but noticed significant demand for penetration testing, they could very well have become a penetration tester.

Empirically a penetration tester doesn't have either time or energy to be an effective full-stack developer or vice versa, especially outside a founder or a contractor role in a bootstrap stage.
The index is larger than you think.
The article ignores useful treatments like Dexamethasone and monoclonal antibodies.

The correct skeptic was pro dexamethasone anti Hydroxychloroquine.

Seeing things from only an anti-htdroxychloroquine perspective is 100% misleading. There were working drugs that saved many lives during the stupid Hydroxychloroquine hype.

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What timeframe are we talking about here? What else was known and tested? There is a political group who kept pushing HCQ for months, and then mislead the public again with Ivermectin a few months later.

Ivermectin was entirely a 2021 phenomenon as well. Not only did we know that Dexamethasone + Monoclonal antibodies worked, we also had 3 competing vaccines and the "Pfizer anti-viral pill". Why the hell were people talking about the snake-oil Ivermectin?
This is interesting data. A “failure over time and cohort” could be an interesting visualization. Similar to the cohort retention tables here: https://amplitude.com/blog/cohorts-to-improve-your-retention

It makes it easy to see based on when a product was featured whether it’s becoming more or less likely to fail after a given time period.