skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "CS research will be guided by industry interests". This is good to most extent, save a few very remote situations.

You start out with a pretty strong statement there...

The point (for me) is not so much that a single company might try to push through some evil villainous plan. It's that all the companies that tend to sponsor such conferences (or more generally "guide" the research) have specific incentives.

Take as the most glaring example the way that machine learning and statistics have been developing over the last years. The industry has an interest in collecting and knowing as much about their customers as possible. Most prominently, facebook and google are both pretty openly based on surveilling every detail of their users' (and everyone else's) lives.

ML research has been co-developing with this. The big money (grants, hardware support, PhD funding, conferences, ...) has been overwhelmingly in domains that directly benefit these players. A lot of "cutting edge" research at the moment is of little benefit to anyone who is not a surveillance capitalist megacorp, simply because of the compute & datasets needed to power these methods.
"Causality" has been a big topic over the last years. And yes, it will benefit a lot of things. But where does the actual research start? With the question "why did the user click that search page ad, and what ad should we show them next?"

Sure, there is a little research into privacy preserving ML, into "small data" ML, into federated learning (i.e. user-centric ML, not "distributed training" as in spreading computation over a big corp's cluster) and you can always argue "yeah but in a few years this will be commodity."

That sounds like trickle down ML research to me. I'm not convinced. But you'd kinda have to make that case, because otherwise "this is good to most extent" doesn't seem so believable.
One big aspect of what industry-guided research has given people is all the burn-out, anxiety, sense of loss of agency, UI dark patterns, polarization, and dumbing down of the internet. Along some huge upsides, yes, but I wouldn't call that these are "a few very remote situations".
I think the difference is that the mentor might introduce them to the magical world, but its still up to the character what they want to do with it e.g. to quote the matrix "But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it." And the decision as to what to do with it has consequences and changes them.

Or to use another example - gandalf might mentor frodo, but yet it always seems like frodo's accomplishments are his own and gandalf didn't really do all that much for him when all is said and done. Frodo is a hero and an interesting character, but i wouldn't want to be him.

Anyways i don't think the problem is lack of life lessons (even if they are lacking) its static characters and lack of stakes. Characters that were born ready are boring to watch. We like watching characters that change and adapt to circumstances whose choices are meaningful and consequential. The protagonist who was basically born with super powers, does not face a challenge and doesn't have to adapt their personality, is a boring character.
Sitting in front of a computer all day is too but hey it pays well.
OP: Telegram - FAQ

<https://telegram.org/faq>

Edit: Telegram (software) From Wikipedia

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_app>
> It's like the HIG just doesn't exist anymore.

It really doesn't, and Apple's own apps are the first to break all the HIGs
Versuri, the Lyrics Package for Emacs
Samsung Confirms Galaxy Hack After 190GB Data Torrent Shared via Telegram
Also, a popular saying in Europe is that big truck owners compensate for their small penis.
Question: After how many administered doses does a procedure cease to be experimental?

If we are talking about MRNA vaccines we are talking about over 1.9 billion doses world wide. When these would have had any significant side effects we would have noticed these on a very, very big scale by now.

So if concern about immidiate side effects is irrational how about delayed effects? So the idea that "something" about MRNA vaccines would produce unforseen side effects long (years?) after the agent has left the body. I am not an expert by any strech, but what I read about how RNA (even our own natural one) is dealt with in our body it is extremely unlikely there would be any mechanism to execute this kind of delayed effect. Natural virus RNA enters our bodies since we exist as human beings – if foreign RNA would have dramatic delayed effects we would observe this constantly. If the spike protein RNA from the MRNA vaccine is supposed to give you delayed side effects on a grand scale, why would the same RNA from the actual virus not do it?

Are delayed side effects suddenly popping up something we observed in the history of medicine? So e.g. people getting a fever with 18 and then ten years later suddenly dying. If this would happen regularily, we would certainly have figured out that a big percentage of those who suddenly died had the fever in common etc. But such delayed effects are not something I ever heard of – if you have a long term effect of an infection (or vaccination) the "long term" doesn't mean the damage shows up after a long term. What it means is that you have the damage right away, but it will stay with you for a long term.

Of course the damage of such long term effects might be such, that it doesn't show any negative effects right away, only years later when your body gets weaker or some other conditions change. But we vaccinated over 1.9 billion people, the law of big numbers would mandate that there would have been many people where these hyptothetical long term effects would have shown negative consequences right away (e.g. if you are old and weak etc), but such negative consequences did not show up at a significant number (quite the opposite actually, traditional vaccines had and still have more of those).

The only thing left after that are vague feelings that you don't trust science or that you can never know what happens in the future etc. But if one makes that argument, it has to count for the actual virus as well, right? We don't know what happens to those infected by the virus in the long term as well. But for the actual virus there is at least evidence of negative long term effects (long covid).
Are the header rules discarded as well when the post payload is>8kb?
I created a UI/UX team in a SaaS startup without any background in design
>I don't think any of your suggested radio applications are safe either. And I don't really see why half of them are better than an internet connection in the first place.

The difference is that there aren't 25,000 (conservative estimate) people looking to hack/scam/destroy stuff on local radio channels.

Which means that someone would need to target me specificly, not run across the poor/no security on the internet link from my car while scanning the 'net.

Besides, the car proper (ICE/electric motor, steering, brakes, etc.) and the software that runs it shouldn't be accesible by anyone unless they have both physical access to the car and a reasonable amount of security (key fob, password, etc.) to be allowed to muck around with the car's operating software.

Infotainment systems, sure. But those need to be on separate, air-gapped hardware.
> Your average person driving a car in the US isn't "fetishizing" anything. They live in a big-ass country where a lot of things they care about are far away. Having a car allows them to get to their job, see their family, and so on.

Americans are mocked worldwide for their ridiculous cars. Oversized, gas guzzling, ostentatious, and yes - fetishized cars are associated with Americans worldwide.

> It's not some insidious plot to keep you from walking around your city.

OP didn't say it is. However car manufacturers did in fact plot - conspired, even - to attack trams, public transport, trains, and anything else that could threaten their dominance. That's just well known fact, and I don't know why you're defending any of this.

Have you ever actually traveled outside America and seen how much nicer it is to be able to walk around a city that isn't designed completely around cars? It's a far, far superior daily experience.
Research on Reddit moderation seems more like it may belong in sociology or psychology than CS to be fair.
Knew this was Critical Drinker before I clicked on it. Mate introduced me to it and he is absolutely spot on for the most part.

Modern movies (and TV for that matter) have become so commercialized and expensive that the series they are now rehashing (Star Wars for instance) wouldn't be possible to create today. George Lucas definitely didn't have the name or history necessary when Alan Ladd gave the go ahead to make Star Wars that you would need these days for a comparably ambitious film.

It's weird because I feel like some other forms of media, namely games and music have gone in the opposite direction because of the availability and power of tools for independent production. However movies just need so much more resources the same indie competition hasn't been able to come in and shake things up sadly.
One glass is generally NOT OK! It's usually a lesser charge, but blowing ANY measurable amount can land you in jail in many states.
so, who's today's von Neumann?
My (uneducated) guess: Some diseases might be "low hanging fruits" for mRNA vaccines (e.g. because they actually use RNA in their attack vector). Other diseases might not use RNA in their attack vector and might therefore not be suitable to be treated with mRNA vaccines.
"Smart people adjust plans as they discover new information."

The new information, that the world is globalized, with many countries not being able to afford vaccines and also many militant anti vaxxers around?

How was wiping out covid, a realistic goal in the first place?
I think the video doesn't go deep enough: the problem is not that movies teach the wrong lessons, but rather that the movies are so hyper-optimized for engagement and ROI that there's no room for nuance. He may not like the newest Star Wars trilogy, but it nonetheless made a lot of money.

That said, I think the author (and also me in the previous paragraph) uses the term "movies" to refer to "big budget movies", which are by no means the only movies out there. There are lots of good movies out there, but most people aren't watching them.

If you have the chance, I suggest everyone spend a couple weeks going to a "mystery movie night". Sure, sometimes you may end up watching "Blackhat" (or even worse, "Tracers"), but the good movies you'll end up also watching will make up for it.
As a resident of Melbourne, I have the same bad experience with GPS signals in the CBD. Something to do with the narrow laneways as well as the tall buildings obscuring the GPS signal
I used some API recently that returns URLs in the response body. It's really useful because they maintain those URLs and we don't have to rewrite our URL building code whenever the server side rules change. Actually we don't even have to write that code. It saves time, bugs, money.

I don't remember which API was that, I'll update the comment if I do.
> There has been much talk about companies trying to influence what products are being used in education, which for universities, is closely related to research.

I will speak for ML & Systems. I am not an expert on all domains. Most tools that researchers use in ML are open-sourced e.g. Pytorch TF Keras etc. Foundational papers like GFS, BigTable, Hadoop etc are publicly available now. There is a moratorium on how soon it appears, but it isn't behind walls forever. Academia tends to choose more open source over closed source. I'd have argued MATLAB to be more successful than Python in that case. It is not. In industry the practice may be more of 50-50 or even more towards closed source.

> They sound like things academics would research all on their own without corporate involvement. The thing is that basically these things can be researched if one just has a computer.

How can you emulate operation involving scale with just a computer or a bunch of computers. Hence, that is where industrial efforts come in play. A lot of things work well for a dozen, and then a completely different problem emerges when we talk about hundreds or thousands of users.

I am only alluding to the fact that CS, in contrast to many other disciplines, has a more symbiotic relationship with industry. Companies do have incentives of using copyright & trade secrets, but there is enough trickle-down effect that gives academia to pursue newer challenges. The cycle repeats over and over. Academia cannot replace industry and likewise. If there is any pressing problem of this symbiosis, it is more of labor attrition. More people are leaving academia for better pay. But that is not what the topic was about.
Problem is, given the circumstances, any violence against Russia would be a morally valid form of defense. Including whatever might happen within Russia.
They didn't use rey skywalker as their only example or even their primary example.

I would also say that people dismissing other people's arguments without even listening to them is a major problem with internet.
NeRFocus: Bringing Lightweight Focus Control to Neural Radiance Fields
And Windows pushed in this direction heavily back around 1999–2005, with things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application and IE being used quite extensively in Windows Explorer in Windows XP and a couple of versions around it. (In fact, if it weren’t for the whole antitrust situation around the inclusion of IE, I suspect they would have gone even further in on web content on the desktop rather than letting it lie fallow for something like fifteen years.)

There’s a reason you get system colours and fonts in CSS: they’ve been round since the ’90s. You certainly wouldn’t get such useful and flexible stuff being added now.

There are very strong parallels in a lot of the progress that’s been happening in the past few years with what happened twenty years before. Probably the most obvious example is dark mode: computers had that twenty years before, then it got lost somewhere along the way, then it gets reinvented in an only slightly different form (both more and less useful: it’s far more restricted, to just one alternative theme rather than many, but for the web you can actually design for it in CSS alone this time).

Cycles.
also worth noting that cooling stuff below ambient in space is much harder than on earth since you lose convection as a way to dissipate heat
This video is actually just one in a series of videos on the subject, you might want to watch the others if you want a more complete picture of his views.
> Independent

They're not state-owned but they are certainly not independent. All mainstream media is tightly bound to a political party or another. Fox and MSNBC are mirrors of misinformation.
The Sound of Sorting (2013)
"Independent" is a relative term
Ordinary Russians are either invaders, or an unavoidable collateral damage - sad, but justified.
No, I'm saying the modularity has limits that are defined by the use-cases this is designed for. Which seems to be smart-home applications and/or quick prototyping. A 25 dollar compute module seems like a perfectly sensible compromise to me in that context.

If you need the modularity and power of a desktop computer so you can install a boat-load of RAM or upgrade the video card, get a desktop computer.
What is the alternative. Black out drunk at 2am and no rideshares available doesn't seem like a better option.

Perhaps minimum loading after 10pm to help with driver availability and service providers providing a minimum of x vehicles per hour slot?
It's because they drink a lot (generally speaking). Speaking from personal experience...
Show HN: URL shortener, Bio profiles for social media and QR-code generator
That would be amazing if those fields would dive in but I don't think that's happened yet. Such researchers would need to pair with a coder. FWIW, this is the result of a google scholar search for "reddit moderation":

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=redd...
Any papers you can recommend that go into this in more detail?
> Whitehat security conferences are usually full blown on the offensive in showing how compromised some platforms could be.

Until recently it was common for sponsor companies to threaten conferences to pull talks that demonstrated security flaws in their products. They’ve realized that the PR hit from this usually outweighs any “benefits” now but it used to be a whole thing.
Today, plain text adoption often implies markdown for a richer experience. There are loads of markdown apps on the app stores, but the lesser-known org markup continues to fly under the radar. Quite possibly because of its Emacs origin (and many folks moving to other editors), but org is still plain text (and super powerful). We can all benefit from wider adoption beyond Emacs.

I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself:

https://plainorg.com

https://flathabits.com

There are other great ones out there:

https://beorg.app

https://braintool.org

https://logseq.com

https://organice.200ok.ch

https://orgro.org

http://orgzly.com

Shoutout to Karl Voit who's been driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs with Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also discussed org markup's strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only
You are correct. However, in EU rt.com doesn't seem to work.
I would love to see examples of anything on CNN or MSNBC that approaches QAnon-levels of derangement.
Cars are a fashion item though and that does allow car companies to push products that are not always ideal for how they are going to be used. I am not saying we should ban things neccesarily but some basic consumer protection is a good idea. And that should include sane emission levels in the same was as seatbelts.
Does your project and DX need to scale across multiple developers?
Because Google wants to put you in contact with localized businesses and their advertising.
Dengue is a disease that vaccination actually makes worse, at least with the ones we have now. I'm wondering how they sidestep those issues.
>I’ve driven scores of people, mostly middle-aged men, home at around 2:30 a.m. in and around Portland, Oregon

That surprised me. I would have thought most Uber/Lyft middle of the night drunk customers would be young adults.
>Good question!

Yes, it is, so let's stick with it:

Was the winning candidate a white supremacist?
If the IDs are monotonous, it doesn't matter.
They had to really struggle to make that code not clearly readable, and the complete lack of any error handling and dependence on some random framework somehow more desirable to the reader in the second example.
> Basically what this means is they are teaching people really sht lessons now, and if this sort of thing continues for too long, it's going to produce an entire generation of shtty people.

Out of curiosity, how much influence do movies/tv shows have in shaping society? Could it be that the seemingly casual link between movies and culture be opposite? Or, in other words:

B (bad movies) = "this sort of thing continues for too long"

S (shtty people) = "produce an entire generation of shtty people"

B -> S is claimed in the video, is !B || S always true? Could it be B <- S instead? B <-> S?
What if we had multivalent mRNA vaccines like the HPV vaccine? Gardasil first covered three different strains, then later was bumped to nine, hence Gardasil-9. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing.
More than 95% of what news sites/tv "report" on isn't remotely actionable or relevant for the average viewer.

It's basically something that scratches the itch of human curiosity, but with manipulative and lowest common denominator garbage. We'd all be better off if we scratched that curiosity itch by reading about things we're interested in, rather than current events.
BBC is state owned.
As is tradition, covid hit me at the absolute worst time, 2 weeks before the end of a project, so I was really stressed out while/after having it. At first I attributed the lingering symptoms like groggyness and irregular/loud heartbeat just to stress, but since it persisted now for 2+ weeks after the end of the most stressful time, I got a bit suspicious and contacted my GP.

I'm gonna do an electrocardiogram next week, and based on that the GP might do some other tests. So you should listen to your body and try to have little stress, no drinking, no hard sports for a few weeks, and contact your GP if you don't feel good.
> Why assume all men are some kind of violent threat?

Because many men are a violent threat to women (particular when drunk) and there's no way to be sure until it's too late.

Also the author appears to be male.
Interestingly, that's what the Brave Search team has proposed. They call it "Goggles". Customizable, plainly visible biases instead of living in a search bubble without even knowing why.
Price is the most fair way to prioritize rides. $120 is a big amount of money for a ride, but not big enough to make you go bankcrupt. Valuable lesson learned, drink less next time and leave earlier before surge pricing.
One other consideration is that Omicron is significantly milder than previous variants

Perhaps there's a fear that an Omicron targeted vaccine would allow a more deadly variant to take over again
in a way, Fox news is honest news.

They were created (and everyone knows) to report from a "point of view" of the right.

The "left wing" media pretend to be the only real/factual news/journalism, but can be just as biased and partisan, if not worse.
I lost my passport, my copy of lonely planet, my rail pass and about 400usd in yen.

For less than an hour.

I left it at a station. Boarded the train, realised I didn't have it when I got to the other end (and couldn't find the pass to exit). The station staff offered to give me some cash to help me get to my destination and it was no problem I didn't have the pass because I was "obviously respectable".

Then they came back to tell me my things had been found. I asked if I could take the train back to pick it up.

No need! The driver is bringing it to me on the next train, he'll be 30minutes. Please enjoy some free coffee in this cafe and wait.

What a country.
zfs as a filesystem and nfs, samba or iscsi are enough for that usecase.
any time i can't find a movie online i just buy the dvd, make a digital copy then throw it up on ebay. i have no use for the plastic bits either
We're querying dozens, if not into hundreds, of GraphQL APIs for a couple of years now. Terrible DX, terrible performance, terrible uptimes. Everyone on the team, with no exception, hates them. Even a lot of those who produce them cobble together a bad REST implementation for parts of their own products.

Agreed even at rate limits comment - frequently, probably in moments of desperation, they rate limit according to Host header to keep their own products up and working.
CNIL, the French regulator, did just (last month) fine Google and Facebook 150 and 60 million euros, so there is some level of enforcement, but I agree it's not enough.

There are some big ones here: https://www.tessian.com/blog/biggest-gdpr-fines-2020. Ironically, that site also has a cookie banner that attempts to trick you into thinking that the highlighted button will save the default preferences shown (it won't, it'll turn them all in, then save that). This is illegal too.
Well the problem is indeed that conservatives would definitely think of CNN as left, or liberal, even if CNN should not or is not thinking of itself that way. The behavior at CNN is reminiscent of Sean Hannity on Fox during the insurrection, i.e., both media's are trying to support their respective favorite politician. I'm not trying to justify it, but I think it's more driven by bi-partisan divide and loyalty to a particular politician, than it is by a hunger for ratings.
Drink more and leave later