skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The United Nations Security Council has proven once again to be useless.

This line makes me significantly question the author's competence (as if knowing he was the author of The End of History before going into it didn't already negatively color my expectations). Russia has a permanent veto on the security council, of course it's going to be useless. Anything that goes against the interests of one of the veto members will always get vetoed and he's acting like this is some kind of surprising disappointment.

Also MiGs somehow wouldn't help stop artillery and rockets? Has the man never heard of bombs? Mind you I don't think NATO should get involved, but supplying more jets and missiles to bomb Russian artillery positions would absolutely help.
This would probably be the "rejected from art school" of this century
Can China just not let Evergrande fail? I'm assuming the debt is largely held in China, the buildings are in China, and debt holders who expected to be able to get their money back are going to be disappointed but in an authoritarian government can you just force people to take the loss without letting that loss transmit to the larger economy?
I'm not sure either, but so far they have proven to be incredibly resilient.
Shit you gotta do not because you want to but because you have to, you care even more that it works without hassle.

This is so obvious that not seeing it is weird, and claiming not to see it is weirdly defensive.
This is a good point. I have been wondering how does one do SEO for such online tools? If you only have the tool present, it will be definition not have much text content which Google uses to gain context for the site.
On of the more insidious types of errors are phantom writes, which are thankfully rarely seen in current storage hardware. This can cause data loss where everything otherwise looks correct -- I/O, integrity, and structure -- because what you read back may be a valid but old version of what was written to storage.

This type of error can be detected with sufficiently robust integrity checking e.g. some type of durable Merkle tree, but ensuring that integrity checking can reliably detect phantom writes has a relatively high performance cost so many storage systems just assume it will not happen, given the low prevalence and high cost. FWIW, I think this is the correct tradeoff for many storage systems, where it is not a highly probable source of data loss in practice and some types of replications architectures make it relatively straightforward to detect after it has occurred even if not immediately.
there are plenty of forums dedicated to this, here is a guide to do exactly what I described above: https://www.win-raid.com/t3061f16-Guide-How-to-extract-inser...

they don't need to be signed

or you can dig through the manufacturers official documentation (often accessible behind NDA)

don't blame me if you brick your hardware
> with Gmail, where you were so aggressive about mining receipt data from Amazon that when I get a receipt from Amazon now it doesn’t actually include what I bought

Anyone have a factual source that confirms that gmail is mining receipt data for advertising?

One refutation https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/google-gmail-purchases-priv... said in 2019 that Google’s Purchase’s page said “Google won't sell the [Purchases] information or use it to choose which ads you see”; however I did just log into Google and looked at https://myaccount.google.com/purchases and couldn’t find that text now, so who knows if that is still true.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20067714 refers to a second refutation from 2017 - “Google Will No Longer Scan Gmail for Ad Targeting”.

Edit: I did read an article talking about other companies scanning receipts to target advertising, so that could be a motivation of Amazon’s.
Could you elaborate? "You've missed the whole point" is completely non-helpful.
I'm saying that, all other factors being equal, that stuff with a long half-life is less dangerous than stuff with a short half-life.

To put it another way, "half-life of infinity" = "not radioactive at all".

Now, there are other factors involved (type of radiation emitted, what fission products appear further down the decay chain, etc.), but none of them are made worse by a long half-life per se.

It's a scare term, pure and simple.
The Short Canon
Unfortunately I know of one engineer right now who is basically completely impervious to getting fired, simply because they keep waving around some self diagnosis of being especially sensitive, not on the spectrum mind, just easily offended by trivial issues. Even going to the trouble of writing a blog about their challenges at work for being called out for doing no work, and then playing the victim. I think management have done the math and figured continued employment costs less that legal fees if they were fired.
Measuring ingredients by weight is so much easier, faster, and more precise than doing it by volume. All you need is a cheap electronic kitchen scale that's accurate to the gram. It's unfortunate that American recipes have standardized on expecting you to have measuring cups instead of a scale.
> If word gets out that you round 89 up to 90, then next you'll be dealing with all the people who got 88.5.

Why would word get out if you just grade that way? No one would know you were rounding up...

> As the article explains, cheating has negative effects on everyone else. Of course cheating can be good from the cheater's point of view – that's why people cheat!

I think you've completely missed my point. Cheating had no negative impact - on anyone, at all. Getting caught cheating would have huge negative impact.
It’s so subconscious for people to speak lauder in a noisy environment that you might not realize it, but it’s so necessary we have started to program devices to do the same thing: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22651304/amazon-alexa-ada...

I am not saying intense emotions universally result in yelling, but people very rarely whisper when say calling 9/11. Even just kids playing tag get lauder.
Much of the article and comments here can be explained the death of
good faith. People no longer believe in competent, benevolent power,
and a process of maturation that challenges power in acceptable ways.
Instead we build "systems". We pretend these systems are equitable.
They merely hide power and force it to become malevolent, incompetent
and terrified of challenge. We call this stagnation "progress"
I'd love to see a filmmaker also sign off on the engineering plans to a bridge since everyone is so enthralled by, essentially, an art major's opinion on a scientific, geopolitical, and sociological endeavour.
The Russian influence was to further divide Americans against each other, by propping up candidates that would win due to such strong support from the fringes. These people would be distasteful to the other side and stir the shit.

Without a coherent national response from the US, Russia would go in unopposed. This would have worked (see the early republicans response, and the democratic response to that which weakened US focus on the invasion), except the rest of the world stepped up.

Maybe the last 6 years of US shitshow woke up the rest of the word to the fact they cannot count on America in quite the same way.
Happy Saturday
Figured it would be nice if we all had one day to reflect on the good parts of our week, and what we're looking forward to next week!

This past week I continued on trying to keep a regular workout regimen, and started a CKA course on Udemy that's really good.

It's snowing outside all day today and tomorrow so I'm staying in to cook! Made myself a nice omlette this morning, next up is a Tagine stew for the week.

This coming week I'm planning my vacation, gonna spend 9 days checking out the national monuments in the Southwest. Also gonna start some seeds to plant after last frost!
Yeah, I always assumed it meant "post" as in "after", and it meant "after starting up" or something
Because everyone is too busy to actually be bothered to read all those laws. Isn't it obvious?
Yea, that was my first thought too.

Now I'm expecting him to write: "The End of the End of the End of History".
I’m not aware of any state where you would pay taxes without being a resident. Afaik it’s only complicated when you’re residence changes often or you technically qualify as a resident of multiple states because of travel.

edit:
I should have stated, assuming you are not physically working in that state.
How do you rationalize 'the West just loves peace' (paraphrasing) with our current policy of funneling huge amounts of weapons to back an Ukrainian insurgency, and the resolute opposition to Ukraine surrendering and saving thousands of lives on any terms?
No, he is literally correct. The fed interest rate has hovered around 0% for ages.
That's free money.
We thank You, Science. No idea how we got this far without You. We patiently and humbly await Your next breakthrough. Humanity is nothing without You. It is right to give You thanks and praise.
Good memes rarely come from good writing.
Would you care to name a specific lie and explain how you know it's a lie?
It's unlikely to happen because of how much of the work is contextual and that it's generally a constant demand.

Most gig work is context-free and on-demand. Pick up person at X spot and take them to Y spot. Pick up food from X and take to Y. You don't need to understand why, or how this fits into the rest of the person's evening/week/month.

Wages might go down, but I'd be surprised if something like Upwork overturned the software development market.
Evergrande (real estate in general) is undergoing intentional, controlled unwinding initiated by CCP kicked off by "three red lines". It was never going to collapse, the entire point of Evergrande was to avoid an Lehman moment by preempting it.
IMO the world really needs a gallery of images in which people are cheerfully going through dreadful life events, e.g. being fired, signing divorce papers, burying a beloved pet. People could look at these images when they are anxious, and it would make them feel better.
I feel like a lot of development happens between 14 and 18, so I don't understand why freshmen and senior years of high school are so similar from an academic philosophy perspective. Even in a private school where the teachers have a bit more freedom. I think a lot of kids get thrown into college with no idea how to manage themselves because they never had to before. There ought to be a better way to ease into that.

I agree it is very context dependent though. Not just academic year but also class content. Some courses need to lay a strong foundation, others would be most useful as a survey, still others are about synthesizing knowledge from across prior courses. Some classes contain students mostly forced to be there and others contain mostly students that are excited about that particular material. Different fields lend themselves to different assignment styles. And so on.
Open sourcing it hasn't been decided yet:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pockit/comments/plhugs/is_this_proj...
A way to see all the people on Twitter who live in your city (like a “search by location in bio” feature)
I think a comparison of the relative impact of Nobel Prize winners and Olympic gold medal winners would dispute your claim regarding moral worth. I can’t think of an athletic equivalent to the invention of vaccines, solar power, democracy, the internet, or even the concept of morality itself.
You stated videos aren't difficult. My experience with professionals presenting whatever across many disciplines really shows that to be false.

I know it can be done; I've seen it. I know it can be good; I've enjoyed it.

But to say "it's not difficult" is to be blind to reality.
The Matrix fell hard to this. Slow motion bullet time? So passé!
> I ran my class like a job... Deadlines are deadlines.

We were having a conversation at my college about deadlines at some training thing and someone pointed out that almost no job is like that. That movie scenario where the guy has a big presentation, but it's also his daughter's dressage recital or whatever, and if he misses the presentation he'll lose his job? That doesn't happen. In the real world, you just say "I can't do it that day, let's reschedule for next week." and that's fine. Most real world deadlines are soft.
The article seems to be under the impression that elite colleges makes elite graduates. They should expand Berkeley, another MIT, whatever. That seems backwards to me. I think that highly selective schools admit elite students and those students, over generations, build the reputations of their schools. If you doubled enrollment you would not double your Nobel output, and over overtime you might reduce it as the students who will go on to earn one preferentially select more elite institutions to study at.
What Is Zero Trust Network Access?
Have you done a proper AB blind test to verify that?

I studied sound engineering and we did that test. Most people failed and it was in a studio environment. I couldn't imagine regular people not interested in audio with consumer gear.

Edit:

If you do the AB test, you really need to get pretty close to 100% success to claim you can hear the difference. Anything closer to 50% is just random luck.
We have been able to reprocess nuclear fuel since the 40s or something. So if anything it's gen IV "propaganda/marketing". Gen IV is not just one reactor type so some of the advantages that one reactor type has are not valid for another type. They tend to be thrown onto one big pile of advantages so you have to be on your guard when reading about this.
The Discovery and Exploitation of CVE-2022-25636
It’s a very common question/misunderstanding coming up in /r/Germany (English subreddit about Germany), people thinking they can just move to Germany while working for a company in the US. Technically, not an issue. But you now need to be employed according to German law, including all the taxes and similar payments that includes for employees, but also for the employer.
Post-Installation Disabling. It's like John Deere for space parts...

"And a German astronomy team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, switched off a German-built instrument on the Russian astronomical observatory Spektr-RG halfway through its planned observations."

Does anyone else find this rather concerning, and in some ways quite petty? I realize people are taking hard lines on these events. So don't sell them any more, but switching off post-install? Perhaps they do some sort of processing for the data? I have no idea. The article is quite vague.
I don't remember if it was a formal study but somebody has asked students at the beginning of the course what grade they _think_ they'll get and at the end it fit very well. Basically all students try to make a particular grade with the least effort, since that's what they are incentivized to do.
This phenomena has plenty of analogues in the corporate & government worlds as well. A formal performance review system is instituted to keep people from spending all their time sucking up to their boss, and then is progressively refined to deter all the ways that it has been gamed, until it is very well adapted to preventing the historical forms of gaming the system but bears no relation at all to incentivizing good business results. A codebase gets a series of bugfixes, until it ends up slow and impossible to maintain, and then is thrown away when a competitor adapts to market conditions faster. A new government bureaucracy is formed to identify and prevent all the ways that terrorists could bring down airliners, and only serves to violate flyers' privacy and add millions of hours to accumulated travel time.

The root cause, I think, is that humans are really bad at considering both the specific and the general in their decision-making. A new procedure might perfectly solve the problem you're having right now, but the cumulative effect of all these new procedures is to make the overall system useless.

Long-lasting systems provide for ways to throw away whole parts of the system and replace them with something simpler, without throwing away the system itself. Whole industries get outcompeted by a nimble startup. Codebases get refactored, and gnarly subsystems deprecated and replaced with clean interfaces. Elected officials get thrown out of office.

Perhaps the right way to look at this is to embrace change, and position yourself as the destroyer and replacer of systems that have become overcomplicated and bloated. That's why the tech and finance industries have been so highly compensated over the last 20 years: together, they're throwing away whole parts of the 1980/90s institutions that had become bloated through 40-50 years of progressive micro-optimization.
> A character who is put down, becomes angry, then becomes powerful and carries that anger forward.

But... that's the opposite of what happens. It is addressing this exact concept and doing something different. He's literally asking to fight like a gentleman.

The dialogue in this scene is literally "can you keep your emotions in check long enough to take me on, or will it get the better of you?" And she rejects his cliche premise entirely as a false dichotomy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KK1Kv0IzUg

male centric story telling often uses combat ability as a metaphor for personal growth. Usually with literal dialogue or reflections on moral lessons used to emphasize this relationship with the tide of battle turning when the lesson is made clear.

I thought it was great to show that, while captain marvel's growth arc is not acquisition of strength but in deriving her self worth from herself rather than from her officer.

I agree it will be hard to make more captain marvel movies because there's very little that can challenge her, unless they're willing to make a movie without a significant violent conflict. Not easy.

Captain america is a great character concept too. I liked the falcon's series dissection of it. He's explicitly not a supremacist, while acknowledging the ease with which his circumstances could allow that- and do create that within other superheroes.
That looks cool, I put my work and personal emails on the waitlist! GitHub review is just… awful

Side-note: I took a look at the ‘About’ page thinking ‘Hey, they said ex-FB, extremely unlikely but maybe i know someone’. Looking at your username I’m guessing you’re jacob gold and worked on messaging infra in NY. I used to work on Iris! Small world.
This sounds exactly like my kids school district. They send an email telling you you have a "secure message" and you need to log in to see it. So you try to sign up to see the message, but can't because you don't have the password. So you try calling them and they say they will reply via email. What they mean is that they will send you a secure message about your inability to receive secure messages. So you call again and they transfer you to a number that is only open between 9am and 4pm on weekdays. So you call back on Monday and, because this is the start of term, can't get through, like, at all, ever. So eventually on Wednesday you get through and they transfer you again, only this time you manage to invoke XKCD 806 and get a real person who knows how to "reset" the password you never set in the first place. So you finally manage to log in to the secure messaging portal and look at the email. Oh, it's a PDF download. You download the PDF and see it's a physical letter that has been scanned in to the system manually (seriously!). The letter? The reason you went to all this trouble? It's a welcome letter to the new "secure messaging" platform, with instructions about how to reset your password...
There are idealism-heavy views of IR, but the most credited alternative to the narrow "Realist theory" that Mearsheimer falls back on would be "Liberal" theories. These share the basic Realist assumption about the importance of "facts on the ground" in terms of power and basic rationality, but they augment it with an understanding drawn from modern social science of how sustained cooperation among selfish actors can nonetheless arise even in such circumstances.
There are three kinds of waste:

1. Waste from extraction of uranium ores. This part is relatively insignifcant;

2. Enrichment waste. Most (all?) power-generating nuclear power plants use U235 as fuel. Mined uranium is primarily U238 with low amounts of U235. This metal needs to be enriched, which is to say the percentage of U235 needs to be made higher. This is really the only difference between reactor-grade Uranium and weapons-grade Uranium (ie the percentage of U235). These are isotopes so are chemically identical. So how do we do it? We convert it to a gas and put them through a series of centrifuges. These centrifuges will effectively increase the concentration of U235. How we do this is with Uranium Hexaflouride (UF6).

UF6 is a significant waste byproduct that requires storage. There are processes to make this less toxic (eg UF6 -> UF4) but they aren't really economic, at least not yet; and

3. The reactor fuel itself creates waste in the form of radioactive fissile products and fuel decay products. Every now and again the fuel rods need replacing. This is an expensive and highly-skilled process done by the NRC. Those byproducts need to be stored or disposed of. This article is talking about this form of waste, specifically.
> I’m not positive but I think you owe state income tax in the state that you are physically in even if it is only for a couple of weeks or a month or so. Think of all of the tax fraud that has happened in the last two years.

Just to clarify, the important "you" here is your employer. In many (if not all) states, having a full time employee work from a state establishes a tax nexus there, making the _employer_ liable for collecting sales taxes (if applicable) and requiring them to pay taxes on their business income to the state (again, if applicable).

It's the taxes on business income that can be quite painful for the employer. If the state has particularly high taxes, employing just a single person in that state may not be worth the additional cost in taxes.

This is all completely insane, of course. Doesn't the EU, made of actual separate countries, have a solution for this? So why can't the regions of _a single country_ do the same thing? Because we're a dysfunctional mess of a country, that's why!
> There are quite a lot of people who try to immigrate to China.

Do you have a source i can read about that? I'd be interested to know more about this.
I want to feel the way I felt when I was about 13 years old and got my first modem, calling my first BBS with my Commodore 64 in the dead of night and seeing those colorful characters slowly scroll across the screen…
Best practices to implement a comprehensive Zero Trust security approach
This is Nature…

But seriously, what science to fund is political, and I hardly think this topic is out of scope for an editorial in a venue where science policy matters so much to the audience
ZFS Scrub is like a fsck in a crontab...
> 5xx for internal errors (these should be avoided at all costs)

An anti pattern I’ve often seen has devs avoiding 5xx errors in bizarre ways. I would change the above to make to have monitoring in place to address 5xx errors. By all means, let your code throw a 500 if things go off the rails.
It is, indeed. BofA is only as big as it is because it was allowed to Kirby up dozens of regional banks in the late 90s/early 00s. It did nothing to earn its position and has done nothing but exploit it since. It is a poster child for anti-customer consolidation.
I agree, but I think the solution is that Uber should pay their drivers a liveable hourly wage.
Isn't the simple way to setup a company and issue invoices? Any thoughts on how common this is, and benefits/pitfalls/challenge?
If a billion dollars and all the followers/imitators were redirected from Kim Kardashian to the latest Nobel Prize winner, sure!

It would change science sure, but monogrammed Microscopes and signed stethoscopes are probably better than the equivalent in makeup and fast fashion.