skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has been tip-toeing around the idea of responding to a cyber attack with a kinetic response.

Depending on the nature and impact of an attack, I believe it could provoke proportional kinetic response.
Also, you can checkout https://refined.blog
It's almost as if HN was made by and for one of the small corners of the US.
Thank you.

I would rather see maybe an annotation instructing the compiler and the runtime not to move allocated objects:

@UnmovableMemory
byte[] bytes = new byte[...];
Neither party supports open borders last I checked.

> the Republican party, despite any rhetoric to the contrary, continues the current record-high levels of legal immigration

What about those murderous caravans from South America Fox News keeps telling us about every time we have an election? GOPs paving the road for those?

> while the Democratic party doesn't want to enforce any immigration law, and is even giving non-citizens the vote

This is completely false. Democrats are enforcing immigration laws, for better or worse. They're just not doing it as inhumanely as Trump was. And New York City is not the Democratic Party.
> What's your view on how this proposal compares to Apple's PCM? Why is Apple building a similar way for 3rd parties to reliably track users if this is overall harmful for users?

It's always tricky to talk about Apple's positions on privacy. In some areas they are very good, but in some areas they are very good at appearing to be very good. I think that Apple itself wants to be able to do some level of attribution on the web. I think that Apple is under a lot more stress from regulators than Mozilla is. Obviously Apple has an inherent interest in making it look like that's not the case and that they're just solely on the side of privacy.

I also think your concern about Apple/Google privileging their own platforms is completely accurate. However, I don't think that the solution to that is to make privacy worse in other areas, I would rather see Apple/Google hold themselves to the same standards that they hold other companies.

In short, I'm not angry at Apple for the changes it's making because they hurt Facebook, I'm angry at Apple for either ignoring those changes itself or making sure that those changes don't apply to parts of iOS and the web that are important to Apple. This has come up a couple of times with iOS; it's good that 3rd-party apps have more restrictions on tracking, I wish the built-in apps were the same.
The moon is effectively a point source of light.

Of course it's neither a point nor a source, but in the night sky it acts like one.

In dark locations, the moon can be bright enough to cast shadows indoors.
> That is often given as an excuse for this common experience, but it is not really intended. Top schools are assessed on their graduation rates. It is part of the rankings they are obsessed with. It serves no one--students or schools--for students to be weeded out in these intro courses.

Unless I misunderstand what you're saying here, it really is intended. "Top schools are assessed on their graduation rates" so if they don't admit students that will not graduate from the major into the major in the first place, they improve their graduation rates. Therefore, it does serve the school. And it probably serves the student too, since they only spend a quarter or two getting weeded out, rather than a few years and then hit a dead end.
You can reassert this tautological statement all you want, but when AI-assisted programming tools start compiling pseudo-natural-language into C++, you'd better accept the fact that either:

1. The definition has no bearing to what's happening in the real world, or

2. "Computer programming" ceases to exist as a productive activity and you need to invent a new name for AI-assisted programming.
That's true for some kinds of PII data and not others. The social graph (who are your friends) is symmetrical. Shared-edit documents, dropbox-like file sharing, and wikis are often ownership-ambiguous.
Sure, here: https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2020-03/ag_prep_en.pdf

The main issue is differences between EU and US law.
Couple of days ago, even:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30150343&p=2#30151071
mozilla is continuing to burn up the last shreds of any good will they acquired a decade ago.
We have an open source cord blood banking library if you'd like to take a look (https://anjahealth.notion.site/Cord-Blood-Banking-Library-60...)
Highlights include real cases of cord blood being used to reverse type 1 diabetes (https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/240160#1), significantly improve symptoms of Chron's (https://www.dvcstem.com/post/stem-cell-crohns-case-study), promote CAR-T cell therapy (https://www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/home/cancer-topics/hema...), treating neuroblastoma on a 7-year-old (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1357627/), and more!

Most notably, I like to point out that banking over donating is what we advocate for because using a donor's hematopoietic stem cells risks rejection and even fatality, so using a genetically related (or your own) stem cells increases your chances of survival (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199708073370602)

As a startup, we have a legal obligation to ensure that the CRM is handed off in case anything happens to the company. Our lab has been around for over 40 years processing different kinds of blood products, so they are definitely not going anywhere (and the blood products our clients stored wouldn't either), and they would simply communicate with a new CRM.
> But there's a reasonable chance someone evil works for the printer company and every printer sold contains this backdoor.

If your threat model does legitimately consider this to be a "reasonable chance", then your facility will be printer-free.
I could drive to walmart (most large stores, really) and buy 20 sims from various prepaid providers. Most people may not do this, but it is certainly a viable option for such a device.
I'd like a greater focus on externalities, honestly.

Oxygen Not Included does that really well IMO. Almost every production process has inputs and outputs, and a lot of the outputs are waste that you need to figure out either how to utilize as input in another process, or to dispose of safely and in a scalable way so as to avoid negative repercussions. Waste isn't just in the form of products either. For example, one of the challenges that sneaks up on new players is that heat is also a type of waste, and if you don't take steps to manage it (for example, by insulating your power generators), it can wreck your colony.
> And yet he doesn't ask about how we destroyed all the cliffs and filled in the lakes, and chopped the trees.

I guess it's because he knows that it's just a game. And there's nothing in the game's rules that allows you to befriend the natives. There's simply no other choice that is rewarded other than expansion and domination, because the natives will always be hostile when you get close to them. Plus: The natives expand too. From time to time new biter bases spawn.
Is there not a double standard going on here? Why is that an individual is almost banned for "spammy" behavior yet it seems that it is OK for a company to aggressively post to HN? I will give you an example - Cloudflare. Their CTO has posted to HN 7 times in the last two weeks. And his submissions are always promotional[1]. This individual posts something about Cloudflare every few days and sometimes even submits more than one Cloudflare post in a single day. This has been going on for years. As far as I can see Jeff Geerling isn't even selling anything. Are there different rules for companies vs individuals?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jgrahamc
The easiest way to start is to change from employee to freelancer (contractor) with your current employer.

If you can start freelancing with projects lined up you won’t have to start out trying to get work, which will get demoralizing fast.

Don’t expect to get much from the popular platforms like Fiverr and Upwork. While it’s possible to get good contracts there, those sites are (a) full of low-paying short-term gig work, and (b) full of low-balling competition. Your need to aim higher because competition is always most fierce at the low end. Instead look to past employers, professional contacts, friends. Focus on building long-term relationships rather than churning through online piece-work boards.

Position yourself as a specialist in a niche that has business value (i.e. e-commerce security expert) rather than with a laundry list of languages, frameworks, stacks. Know your customer — no small business needs 2,000 more lines of Javascript by next month but lots of businesses need specific business problems solved.

I’ve been freelancing for over a decade. I wrote some opinionated advice on my web site (no ads, no paywall, no affiliate links).

https://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-start-freelancing-and-g...

There are some other possibly relevant articles there too. Good luck.
> They'll never moderate this place openly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=dang

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
No, it's quite fast.
We're expecting our second here in a few months, and from my research it's really expensive and most folks would be better off donating. I feel like banks feed too much off of peoples fears instead of the better good. What are the odds of someone needing their own cord blood vs. it being a publicly accessible thing? It feels like donating blood to a bank to store it for myself in case I ever need it.

Again, it's an exciting field with a lot of really good outcomes, but it kind of plays into the whole, "what if something happens to your kid fear" to sell it to people, instead of thinking about all the other kids that you could be saving.
take a course at product school. then get a job as a 'product analyst' -- effectively a junior product owner/manager.

owner/manager are etchnically two different roles, but most people don't know/care about any perceived differences, but you should know the difference.
No, sorry - that doesn't work. Results in "Parse Error: Expected HTTP/".
> Do you honestly think that's true?

Think? I know for a fact it's true. In fact, do you know a single company operating in China that doesn't silo away their China operations?
For reference, Saturn is about 9-10 AU from the Sun.
I've used this system for years, but never considered buying this overpriced product. I am quite sad to see this be so marked up as a designer / minimalist type of product to make productivity seem more sexy than it really is. I know people buy it, but it feels wasteful.

I buy dotted grid index cards and use an old smartphone stand to keep it upright. Total cost is maybe $20 total for a couple years of supply. I use my own notecard template I came up with and bullet journal syntax for each line item. I plan only individual days with notecards. Usually it's one highlight(i'd be happy with my day if done) and three things I want to get done that day.

The benefits of writing things down on paper are insane. It definitely sticks better than apps or websites that provide similar functionality and syncing. I usually use todoist in combination with my notecards. I see the notecard method as my daily "tactics" and a notebook or app as my longer term "strategy".
Someone else in another thread has a really good idea: tell people how often someone checks in on them (for location sharing info).

> I don’t claim that there are simple solutions here, but a starting point would be tech companies making it easier to see an audit of how this “innocent” tracking tech is being used on the trackee. For example, I bet my grandpa would think twice about checking in on my cousins location as often as he probably does if he knew that my cousin got a notification every time he checked in.

Doesn't solve the Tile problem, of course. A solution there might be counter-intuitive: make the battery worse. Its a lot harder to stalk someone if you need to re-seed a device every few days. Of course, i can barely remember to charge my phone, nevermind keys, so that might kill tile's utility all together.

Or, maybe you could have some sort of "did someone else's tile follow me home" sort of feature. You set your home location, and if any tile that isn't yours is at home, you get notified. (unless the owner is with it, or you white-list one for eg. partner's, children, etc). This tells you if someone planted you with it to stalk (you'd have to have tile app even if you don't have one i guess). Don't tiles support findmy? That means that any apple device will already warn people, so you just need to cover android users. Maybe the alexa/sidewalk partnership can impl similar features for when you come home? Maybe partner with google for built-in tracking warning standards? If they're open to it.

I think > half the use of tile is "ring my X at home" where x is probably mostly keys, or "did i leave X at Y place". Based on this, you might be able to not track tiles everywhere, but just at pre-set locations. Only if you set it to a "lost mode" can you track it everywhere outside of certain pre-set locations, but then it'll beep and have annoying antistalking features like airtags - where you notify people nearby. Maybe orphaned tiles could try to collect to random bluetooth devices after a period of time to make their presence known? It would help people who didnt set up an app to listen ahead of time. That could be annoying though if the balance isn't right. Can probs still be abused, but should make it a complex task, and you can never stop everyone anyways.

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aside, I'm surprised tile never tried to build any static infra in major urban areas to supplement their phone-based network (which seemed lacking when i used it compared to airtags). Do you see the use of Alexa/Sidewalk as a significant boost or advantage? Have you considered things like LoRaWAN based networks (thing network etc) as a supplement? A lot of that is built in major areas, and would just need a mapping step which may be able to be collected by existing users phones+tags in day to day use.

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Aside again: this seems like a fun problem to work on, are you hiring?
In the post I originally replied to you mentioned a bunch of classes. Each of them, with the possible exception of software engineering, is a small portion of computer science. You could spend your whole career as a programmer and never touch a database or networked code. Even though theoretical computer science might be a small part of CS, everyone needs to use it to some degree even if they don't realize it. Can I compute X? That's theoretical computer science. Is algorithm A faster than algorithm B? Theoretical computer science again.

You also compared CS to physics and chemistry which is a bad comparison. Physics and chemistry don't have an equivalent foundation to theoretical comp sci. I'd also argue that comp sci isn't a science at all. What I do on a daily basis as a programmer is closer to plumbing than it is to science.
People have wildly different personalities and creative abilities. why do people think the "math part of the brain" is exactly the same in everyone?
It's from high school algebra, it's a specific instance of "factoring" where the equation has the form: ax^2+bx+c=0 and you want (x+r_1)(x+r_2)=0. "factoring" is the general process of finding what things multiply together to produce a term. Which is where we, in software, get the notions of "factoring" (described well in the context of Forth with Thinking Forth or Starting Forth, can't remember which, maybe both) and "refactoring".

Code refactoring and factoring in algebra are related in the sense that they aren't meant to change the system (that is, its meaning or behavior), but instead are meant to change its appearance. In particular, in the above, if you can factor it out you end up with the two roots (what I termed r_1 and r_2) of the equation, which are useful for various other things.
The nuts and bolts of information theory, of course.
4-day work week? 32 hours?
Looks like H-1B abusers have touched a new nadir of chicanery and skullduggery. They prey on people who are not able to get interviews or jobs on their own, but have compelling reasons, such as crushing debt incurred to study in the U.S., to even consider debasing themselves in this way. There have been a couple of enforcement actions by the DoJ in Jersey and a few other places, but they have barely touched the tip of the iceberg.

Once a company sponsors an employee for a Green Card application, it has every incentive in the world to exploit and mistreat the employee. And many companies routinely act on the incentives.

It's unfortunate that a lot of the mass focus is on illegal immigrants, who have less of a legal standing and moral case than those who have followed the laws of their host country to the letter, but still find themselves treated like dirt. This is one of the unfortunate byproducts of electoral politics and representative democracy: sometimes, there are groups that are unlikely to matter electorally given their numbers, and their concerns are always given short shrift no matter how legitimate.

Of course, the H-1B system itself has done enormous damage to the industry by enabling companies such as IBM to mass fire entire cohorts of older people. As usual, efforts at reform have been fitful, uneven, and have been subject to the vagaries of the political winds.
Fascinating. It's even possible to pinpoint missile installation locations in the past because this uses existing satellite imagery.
You made your class educationally worse and blame the students because you didn't ask for a photo of their work?
Open borders are a right-wing preference too, since they directly support a laissez-faire economy with itinerant, casual, and seasonal workers. Both major US parties understand this, which is why once again you get the same policy in two different flavours. Neither would dream of suggesting any of these workers should control the means of production.
You realize lisp is based on the lambda calculus and prolog is based on formal logic, right?

The theory and practical realms are very tightly intertwined in programming/computer science/whatever you want to call it as long as it isn't "information technology".

On the other hand, the portion of "math" that is applicable computer science/software development/whatever is pretty distinct from much of the "math" in math departments.
How to Deal with an Inverse Conway Maneuver?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30295532
Yeah, reading the comments, I was surprised how personally some people seem to take it.

>> has to be a lie - they haven't died from lack of sleep

C'mon guys, you can't be serious?!
have been using librewolf. seems like a good balance of "not mozilla" and usable.
The science is settled, pharmaceuticals are the only way.
>anti-fingerprinting options that can be enabled through `about:config`

For reference: `privacy.resistFingerprinting`
Honest question: why didn't you use the GI bill to get free college? If you were in and have the "post-9/11" bill (most veterans do if they were in the military at any point in the past 20 years) then you could get a monthly allowance and free college at many good state universities. Most universities will accept any veteran who has a GED or HS diploma, regardless of grades, as long as they take the SAT or ACT (ACT is easier, IMO) and score above the absolute minimum. Universities love the guaranteed VA money!

I, for instance, paid my way through 3 years of college using the GI bill, and the monthly allowance I got paid for my apartment and food and etc. for the whole 3 years. I had to go during summers, too, to get the allowance, but I finished a whole math degree during that time. I also got medical coverage from the VA during that time, though that might have been because I'm a certain percentage disabled veteran (I am not sure if VA healthcare is included with the GI bill?).

Maybe now you're all set and don't need it, but I find it alarming how many veterans never use the benefits they earned in their service.
I think that's a bit of a weak point. When I play a violent video game I don't want to kill people in real life. He probably just knows it's a game.
I think at the very least championing that partnership is pretty tone-deaf.

The only people who are excited to see Mozilla partner with Facebook are advertisers. I disagree that Mozilla needs Facebook's particular input on this, but ignoring that, even if we say that they do, I'm still somewhat at a loss why they would expect normal readers to be excited about seeing Facebook's name pop up in an article title or why they would think that's something worth bragging about.

It reads like an article written for advertisers, with some fluff (maybe the standard is good, but they're not really going into detail) that basically amounts to "also don't worry, this isn't that bad for you."

I mentioned this further up above, but regardless of whether you like targeted advertising or not, this article still doesn't really make the case why I as a user should be excited about the idea that attribution should work across devices. I don't understand how any of this is good for me as a user outside of the broad idea of "ads pay for things, so you should care if advertisers are happy."
Wikipedia links have led to many interesting HN threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... The best thing about those threads is that the topics usually aren't correlated with other topics that appear here. This is good for curiosity. Generic Wikipedia links on popular topics are low-quality submissions, but those rarely make the front page.

We do prefer a high-quality third party link to Wikipedia submissions when one is available: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

p.s. If by "outage reports" you mean posts like "$FooCo is down", we routinely penalize those. People aren't going to stop posting them though.
"Historically, ML was conceived to develop proof tactics in the LCF theorem prover (whose language, pplambda, a combination of the first-order predicate calculus and the simply-typed polymorphic lambda calculus, had ML as its metalanguage)."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)