skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No effect? My own experience differs.

I had an iOS product that was doing well, and it had some DRM to prevent jailbreakers.

I had a legitimate buyer complain and after soul-searching I removed the DRM.

Sales immediately dropped to near zero and never recovered.

So at least in my experience, piracy affected sales.
With the caveats that I can’t make a good judgment about a foreign country just from the news, that I have no training in political science or law, and that linguistic treadmills make it easy to lose track of how strong a word is from one year to the next…

One can have greater and lesser forms of a thing, and “totalitarianism” does not need to be a boolean — worse forms of it don’t need to be rendered termless by lesser forms.
> no ads are pushed into it

Believe it or not, I receive more spam than non-spam email each month.
Approaches aiming at increasing ocean bio activity, thus carbon capture by providing "ocean desert zones" with nutrients by whirling up ocean floor in those regions seems interesting for that purpose. Still a huge inception into the bio system thus risky.
So all laws bad, or just this one?
On gmail and fastmail and maybe some other providers, you can put a plus sign before the at sign, and the plus and anything in between are stripped out so you can effectively have infinite email addresses.

Not all providers do this, but it's easy enough to check if yours does, just send an email to yourself.
This tactic is used by trolls to distract from the real issue. It puts people on the defensive rather than discussing the actual topic. “Whataboutism” at its best.
This attitude is why I don’t share much software anymore, even if I spent a lot of time developing it and someone else might find it useful. All it takes is someone claiming I’m being “deliberately misleading” (even though the license explicitly says “this software is provided as is without warranty of any kind, express or implied”) and for that someone to hire a lawyer. At that point I’ve lost. It doesn’t matter that the claim is baseless.

This only saddens me a bit because there are so many people out there sharing software that nowadays my meager contributions won’t be missed. However I do wonder how much truly useful software does not get shared due to these liability concerns. A corporation has to weigh the goodwill they get from sharing software versus the potential ire of angry self-entitled people who think they are entitled to free support and extra disclaimers beyond those in the license. Why bother?
Nah it's about control. They want to kill piracy, mark my words what do you think Steam, denvuo, and other forms if account based drm are? They are going to build denuvo into the OS with future exe's so they can disable them like they got on consoles, aka if you mod or hack your Wii or xbox, new games force update the bios and communicate out over the wire to brick your machine if they detect modded console. They want to bring similar tech to the PC, windows 10 and window 11 is the beginning of trusted computing (you no longer own you pc) and honest plaintext binaries. They are changing how exe's function. UWP was a trial run. When you crack a UWP they only work on certain versions of windows.

https://www.theregister.com/2001/12/13/the_microsoft_secure_...
And what Military Industrial Complex Demons do we know about harking from Wyoming... hm..

Gee There are a lot of shell company shenanigans coming from there...

Cheney's reign never ended. He is a blight on American history.
Sadly, I can't argue with that.

But I stayed at a company for 27 years, and never regretted it. This was because of the company, and what I got from the job (and also, what I didn't get).

What I don't like, however, is people treating me with scorn, because of my loyalty, and personal ethics.

I have lived a lifetime of the very highest Personal Integrity and Honor. It's not been easy, and I have definitely made many personal sacrifices, in order to stay true to my Principles. Anyone that has worked with me, is very much aware of my principles, and also my strong backbone. Being principled should, in no way, be mistaken for weakness, or lack of character.

Just because the management are a bunch of dishonorable bastards, is no excuse -whatsoever- for becoming one, ourselves.
Because what evidence do you You have that the majority of Chechnyans supported the non-Russian government?

When they briefly broke away from Russia, they were dominated by warlords. Not exactly a clear indication that there was a popularly supported free government (unlike Ukrainian which has formal elections with broad turnout).

Maybe apply a critical thinking lens?
Do you know where Stranger in a Strange Land sits in this spectrum?
Personally I don't care about titles.It isn't about title the article or my remark is about though, it's about career progression.
I'm with you smaller size companies tend to provide a better environment where politics is kept very low.
The article talks about how to get past a certain point by being more visible. I stick to that context and point out this is more about playing politics. If the article suggested that to get past senior level one option is to join a smaller company, sure, i would have added that job titles are anyway irrelevant and what's important is growth along with well being.
Because what evidence do you You have that the majority of Chechnyans supported the non-Russian government?
When they briefly broke away from Russia, they were dominated by warlords. Not exactly a clear indication that there was a popularly supported free government (unlike Ukrainian which has formal elections with broad turnout).
Maybe apply a critical thinking lens?
I’m impressed safari is at the table. If I understand correctly, they only fix bugs once every six months, and don’t give any indication of timelines as matter of policy. For example, hasn’t locaStorage been broken in safari for ages? Or am I a bit behind the times? (Would have hoped to see that on the list if so)
it is on fire in Germany also. you cannot get good devs locally, so you have to hire remote. problem is the salary. either you work shit jobs for 80k or good jobs for 35k.

in the US you get good jobs for 120k easily, but it's a high risk. I rather have fun, learn a lot, and have proper management, than earning high numbers. I don't need a Porsche, a Toyota is enough.
Depending on the change and my understanding of it, I will: (a) review the changes, (b) browse the version of the files on GitHub, (c) checkout the version locally and browse in IDE, (d) run stuff (app, tests, console).
I've worked mostly on back-end stuff and "works for me/this" is asking for trouble. Making sure it builds is literally the minimum review you can do. You learn whether it actually compiles and whether it requires changes to the development environment.
Every time I skipped that part and the change wasn't trivial, I missed something important, so yes.

I'm a big proponent of "trial by fire" reviews. The idea is to setup a dumpster environment, deploy the change there and give it for a spin to someone who's keenly interested in seeing some progress - sometimes it's the PM, other times the sales guy - anyone who has some time in between meetings and would appreciate a little bit of variety in their work life.

Such people are amazingly talented at finding catastrophic edge cases.
This is one of the higher order corrections I was referring to. Note how the article describes that this is not a dominant factor under normal conditions and actually gets lower the faster the plane flies. So if you can keep parasitic drag down by designing your aircraft nicely, you can get pretty far to the right in the plot at the end of the page.
That would mean that it was only used by jailbroken iDevices?
It's not under his name so it's all ok.
Some spammish senders will strip the + because they know people use it to segregate their mail into different buckets and they don't want this.
HN is mostly trolls, shills, libertarians and far right types, and weird bubble millennial who seem to aggressively hate everything and just want to get rich. greed and fear rule this forum and the result is very anti-intellectual.

you will notice politics and actually real world concerns mostly by the absence, or the completely predictable what-about responses so the greedy people can try to get back to work.

I dont care about being banned my conscience is clear.
Modern morality is just exhibitionism (2016)
Yes this is a pixel to track audiences and retarget them when they are browsing tik tok, same goes for google, facebook and any other ads exchange.
The really simple proof I'd use is:

1. A function can be approximately implemented as a lookup table.

2. It's trivial to make a neural network act like a lookup table.

Which seems to resemble the article but it's much simpler.

Point 2 assumes the neurons are normal non-linear ones. I'm not saying that's cheating, but I do agree with it being pretty obvious, at least from the right angle.
Be careful how much of the compensation is Stocks/Shares as that is likely to collapse. For anybody based in Europe most tax laws are right down hostile to any granted stock options.

In the US in 2020: "Software Developers made a median salary of $110,140 in 2020. The best-paid 25 percent made $140,470 that year, while the lowest-paid 25 percent made $84,020."

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope....

Keep in mind the completely different situation of medical insurance in the US.
Remote is an option but then companies claim to pay according to where you are based.

Bay Area/San Francisco based 250k compensation does not impress, after you apply taxes, and you realize you will have to share a flat with four other colleagues...
I just can't get over the fact that it's somehow legal in the US to advertise young children for adoption on the (public) web, complete with portrait photos and descriptions of their personalities and backgrounds.
I don't consider myself super smart, but i read a lot of news on the non government controlled websites (vc.ru, tjournal.ru, exler.ru for instance), that usually have an audience that is more intelligent than the average population. The common motif from those who worked for the Russian authorities that this is indeed the case in various parts of the government, total corruption and incompetence and talented people usually don't stay long.
It also comes together with what we see about Russian army progress in Ukraine, looks like quite a failure considering how much armed forces they have.
I think I first encountered the idea of essentially using passwords as commands for a variety of custom actions in a Larry Niven book from the 60s? Earlier?

It must be as old as passwords, meaning as old as language, relatively straightforward to implement in any kind of software, yet I've never seen it actually implemented in all this time. Closest has been the single triggered action to wipe everything after n failures.
Agreed, perhaps the point is the market is not "on fire" for mediocre devs. Perhaps as more people are attracted the industry the market is worse.
You'd have to be an NSA-level target for them to take a Yubikey out of the mail stream and modify it. And at that point you're going to have all sorts of worse things to worry about.
No, #1 priority is always doing core business - the job that gets money in, satisfies users and keeps the company running. Everything else comes after - without core business, infosec is pointless and can't sustain itself.

InfoSec is critically important, but it's important just like IT people, janitors and server maintainers - business breaks without them, but they aren't actually earning money and prioritizing them over core business is the tail wagging the dog.

(And yes, I've seen way too much entitled "InfoSec" experts explicitly undermining their own company because they forgot that. Read The Phoenix Project or similar for concrete examples.)
Determined attacker will have your disk physically copied before attempting anything, so "delete all my files" won't work.

For such scenarios plausible deniability is what you want. Ideally, you need a whole parallel system which plausibly appears to attackers as if it is legitimately authorized/decrypted. StegFS is an example building block for such systems.

If they know you work on breeding war rabbits, you better have some fake files with records of failed attempts to breed war rabbits and your real files hidden in deeper layers.
The use of “war” to describe the situation in Ukraine is not a straw man. Words mean things. How we discuss things informs our overall thoughts on the matter, this guiding our action or inaction.
As much as it's tumbled, it would have been more like $150 a few months ago. We're not talking Bolivars, here.
> AFAICS non-circumventable ephemeral messages is incompatible with user-controlled system.

Unless the ephemeral part refers to the user's own side of the conversation, i.e., delete messages from my history some time after I read them. Together with a secure storage that prevents messages from being easily recovered from memory dumps, this protects the user in scenarios of devices being captured by the adversary, exactly like this one.

AFAIK is what Signal advertises for it's timed messages; Telegram, OTOH, advertises its self-destructing messages as something magical that works even for the other side.
My job isn't to make your code work, it is to find those little things that don't seem to be bad that are. I have tools for obvious things.

Which is to say 'it doesn't work' is nitpicking that reviewers shouldn't be wasting their time checking.
> how someone can read an article like this one, support the death penalty

I don't understand how someone can consider the death penalty monstrous, but forgetting someone for decades in a brutal, hopeless prison environment is perfectly fine.

The death penalty is an interesting motivator. Death row inmates get much more publicity, support, and investigative resources than those with life sentences.
(total noob) I like looking at the components adadruit builds in-house. For most of them they have open-sourced the schematics, and you can then look up the building blocks on sites like DigiKey.
In a complete different tangent. In Bangalore and Hyderbad, two metros in India. Traffic police stop people on bikes, pedestrians, cars and harass the people to unlock their phone and see their whatsapp chat and search in weed, ganja so that anything related to it shows up and they can impose a hefty fine. Acab.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about iron-seeding - I was thinking entirely in terms of industrial solutions.
Sometimes it's not even a troll distracting, sometimes it's a stupid American who can't not talk about his unique experience - you see this often on Reddit, someone from a country will complain about something specific there, and an American will show up to say "that's nothing, here at Whatever, TX, it's even worse/better/bigger/cooler/etc."
> You cannot compare these two levels of violence. Or if you compare them you should add a [fractal] distance between them.

> There are a lot of issues in USA

Why can't you compare? A number of people in minority communities are concerned that US stop-and-frisk stops are used to incarcerate them, kill them, or rob from them. What is the difference?

https://www.africanamerica.org/topic/civil-asset-forfeiture-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-11-12/stop-a...
Yes I use mine on FreeBSD in OpenPGP mode. Fido mode I didn't test because Firefox doesn't do password less Fido (still....) And I never use Chrome
All that freed, formerly captured carbon comes from trees and plankton. How could burning it all lead to life-destroying conditions when life must have been able to exist under those conditions?
It was discussed before, AFAIR. But it's one of those things people better be reminded about.
>[sum of family's last 3 years income] + 10,000 rubles > [sum of family's account balances].

Wowow that is crazy. Anyone who was disciplined about saving/investing and has been doing so for > 5 years will easily meet that criteria!
Alamo Drafthouse is showing this film (new score composed by Bob Lanzetti) in theatres (and on demand) in collaboration with GroundUp Music.

https://drafthouse.com/nyc/event/the-press-room-presents-nos...

I believe Zach Brock will be featured on violin, but don't quote me on that.
Attackers can force Amazon Echos to hack themselves with self-issued commands
I'm confident we'll get about 50 years warning when/if the current stops. It's currently weakening, and weather is a chaotic system.

I'm also confident that the root cause of the crunching noise and vibrations from the front end of my car will eventually lead to a breakdown, but I don't have any idea if it'll happen tomorrow or in a year.
What price was it sold for?
One man can not rule a nation by himself. When his followers are scared or worried enough, they might attempt mutiny.
I think that’s a major thing - piracy of Disney or Adobe may be minor, but piracy of a small app could entirely destroy it. Especially one in a targeted niche.
The even more wild concept is that the atmosphere’s composition was already changing before human involvement, we just sped up the process by like 1000x.

We don’t normatively need the atmosphere to be “natural,” we just need it to be in a state that doesn’t destroy the thousands of years of infrastructure we’ve built.
This just reminds me of all the very cool and clever things we could be doing, but arent. I imagine a world in which your phone is actually a general purpose computer, that can be meaningfully backed up by you, solely under your control.

So when you're travelling somewhere heavy, you backup your whole phone to a trusted server (I hate even saying 'cloud' here) and wipe it (or better yet, "duressify" it, e.g. you put in grandma's number and a little porn and thats it) and be on your merry way. Restore your backup at your destination.
Is that compensation pre-tax, if you don't mind me asking?
The form in the image hints that this is for a school in North Carolina.

“list any addresses outside of NC in the past 7 years”

Why does the title say Washington State?
And some clueless bigcorps just choke on email addresses with +
This is called out deep into the article, but shouldn't it be "neural nets can approximate any function"?

Also, how does this relate to the traditional notation of computability of functions?
This is referred to elsewhere as the beauty of capitalism and free markets /s
Thank you for sharing your experience. Studies like this may produce some general truth at large for a segment of a market, but they're hardly representative of reality.

I've also released software which was good enough that people wanted to pirate it. I think it's a lesson you don't have to learn once on your own: it's enough to hear other people's accounts.
Theoretically ES can scale that big, but isn't easy and takes a large team to manage. Just like at Google.

ES is a toolbox not something you can just use off the shelf. I think Elastic likes to make people think it is a off the shelf solution, but the defaults aren't great for many use cases. However ES can include pagerank, ML, BM25, etc in the ranking calculation but it requires search relevance expertise to make it all work together for any particular use case. And different use cases will need different ranking equations.
They are generally posited as in opposition, though there is some research in trying to combine them.
I’ve been doing this for nearly 15 years and haven’t died.
I never do, you have to trust people.
So this is basically a blank check for the government to take funds from any civil servant it wants?
Are you claiming companies cannot use open source software unless they contribute? If so, that's preposterous. If the author of the product has released it under a license that doesn't make that stipulation, then where does this strange constraint come from?

Don't moralize. If you want something, put it in the license.
Is that a feature you really want in a bank though?
In order:

* Tests

* The engineer making the PR

* Before they're allowed to merge
>wonder if the media malfeasance is more than mere laziness

Of course it is. The modern media is absurdly woke and out of touch with reality and pretty much without principle either.

The trucker convoy was a perfect example of a modern working-class struggle and the media lined up to portray them as anything but.

I remember literally reading in some op-ed words along the lines of 'the truckers are not the working class, they are the modern bourgeoise; they do not work with their hands but merely direct from padded comfort the toil of their mechanical slave.'

It would be funny if it didn't actually affect things.
Don't waste a click/tap if you are intrigued by the quote: it's not explained at all.
DietPi OS v8.1 has been released
If it doesn't hurt sales what is the purpose to burying this?
Talk about a "no good choices" situation.
It doesn't work that well. Why ask a computer to guess what I want when I could just tell it?
The bigger red flag there is leaving their extended family for a secluded life imo. This has a wide range of possible interpretations.
I’ve personally only read Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, that said Stranger in a Strange Land came really early in his career.

My understanding in my comment comes almost entirely from the discussion in this episode of Alienating the Audience

https://alienating.libsyn.com/episode-5
Keeping it simple, love to see it
Ok, that’s just weird and comes completely out of left field. I just saw ML and assumed it was a reference to the language since Haskell couldn’t possibly be useful in machine learning. Alas, it’s in the second sentence.
Patriotism is an irregular adjective in English, which takes the conjugation of the pronoun.

For example, I am patriotic, while you are nationalistic, but they are jingoistic and probably fascist to boot.

I hope this helps.
> Do you not see the difference here?

Are you claiming that when the Russian cop asks if he can see your phone, he says "Excuse me, this is to reduce dissent over an invasion of a foreign country?"

The difference I see is that for the US case you accept the stated purpose ('reduce gun crime') and ignore the outcome as felt by the person on the receiving end, and for Russia, you reverse these.
With many email services, you can set up unlimited aliases for your own domain. I do this with Fastmail. No need for the +
If you are talking about super experienced ( 10 to 15 years) C++ developers working in speed trading probably. Anything else I am very skeptical.