skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't see how that is possible without blocking countries from the advertising/participation pool.

"Nigerian price" scams were basically non-existent before Internet access became easy, cheap & widespread.

It isn't that something fundamentally changed with people becoming more gullible or suddenly having more money to spend, it's just that Internet access allowed people in foreign countries with law/corrupt law enforcement to suddenly be able to make big bucks while being out of reach from the target country's law enforcement.

Back in the day this would've been theoretically possible, but would've most likely required being on the ground (putting you in reach of LE) and having some initial credibility and funds to convince a media network to broadcast your scam.

Maybe some barriers to entry are a necessary evil?
Exactly. Many of your responses identify the ongoing ambiguity, to say nothing of the oversight required or the pat clarity an engineer mistakenly sees as a solution versus what a lawyer would tear apart using existing precedent, policy, and appeal to natural rights and precedent.

Responsibly implementing technology solutions in a human-centered system needs more precision than the holes a random internet commentator can poke and a random interrogator can gloss over. In many US states, red light cameras have been de-fanged with a variety of excuses, perhaps most importantly highlighting that the law doesn't work precisely.
You can use the BetterBibtex plugin to export the references to a bib or json file which can be ingested by Pandoc. There's an option to have it re-export the file every time you make a change to the library.

Citations work pretty well. You can customize the output with different CSL files [1].

[1] https://citationstyles.org/
I've never seen years in octal before :)
They don't show any details about the survey, as far as I can tell. So we can't tell either way. This is sloppy, since it invites interpretation based on preconceived notions rather than facts.
> The 25% who quit without notice didn't technically "resign".

resignation with immediate effect is quitting without notice.
I am interested in your use case as I worked on a similar tool, handling a number of file formats.

Do you mean mapping meaning from bit fields?
Another Covid Wave Is Looming
You want a job that pays you money. Mentoring is an overhyped word like agile.

A true mentor is someone who teaches you how to think. A mentor will want to help you succeed because he appreciates you.

Personally I avoid selfish people who gossip like the plague. For moral standup trustworthy people I go out of my to help them succeed even if that involves me poo pooing their work so I can show them a better way. For those Macchiavellian types, they usually piss so many people off. All I have to do is snack on popcorn while watching the drama they unleash. They are usually gone before I can remember their name.
What kind of opex costs are we looking at? How much would it cost, for example, to direct air capture the equivalent of the amount of CO2 produced from burning a barrel of oil? (Leaving sequestration costs aside for someone else to minimize of course)
I wish it would output to graphml or something I could slightly edit with yEd or some manual tool. Does anybody have recipes for that? Or having generate some tikz simple layout and then moving on without dot? I can't say I have good memories of inkscape + dot svg output...
We should pay more for translators. But translation is an area where people like to cut costs. The translation industry simply doesn't pay enough to attract the volume of people required, at the level of skill required. And with machine translation getting better, not worse, I don't see this trend reversing without regulation... even if machine translation is still nowhere near human level.
> The issue with locking down by country is, say you have an upstanding SaaS startup and you want to advertise to the world

It depends on what the ad is about. The verification requirements should be much more stringent for a financial or medical service than some random SaaS (the latter's customers can already be made whole by just disputing the transaction with their card issuer). I don't believe it's that far-fetched to require financial services to have a business presence in the local country and abide by local laws before being able to advertise.
They are asking for them, but it's important to contextualize that the entire chip industry is receiving boat loads of cash abroad. Case and point South Korea has announced $451Bn in chip subsidies [1]. Which dwarfs the measly $52bn American Chips Act subsidies [2]. America could sit it out and risk South Korea killing American fabs like it killed American Commercial Shipyards in the 80's or it can respond with subsidies of its own.

[1]: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/South-K...
[2]: https://www.semiconductors.org/chips/
These are not scary enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenic_number
The dropdown list for choosing the region is a huge mess. Sort it out please.
While you probably need to follow some links to grok all of it, in the introduction on Wikipedia they talk about the geometric interpretation which is probably one of the most easily graspable answers to the question "what does a complex number represent?":

> This standard basis makes the complex numbers a Cartesian plane, called the complex plane. This allows a geometric interpretation of the complex numbers and their operations, and conversely expressing in terms of complex numbers some geometric properties and constructions. For example, the real numbers form the real line which is identified to the horizontal axis of the complex plane. The complex numbers of absolute value one form the unit circle. The addition of a complex number is a translation in the complex plane, and the multiplication by a complex number is a similarity centered at the origin. The complex conjugation is the reflection symmetry with respect to the real axis. The complex absolute value is a Euclidean norm.

I went to a middling high school, and even our algebra teacher covered the geometric interpretation of complex numbers.
on the first sentence: as a trans woman i often find my own identity deployed in this way--"but think of the [slightly marginalized token minority]!"--and i have no patience for that sort of thing. there are obviously exceptions to what people believe, but when speaking about our beliefs in brief, we all fall back onto generalizations.

on your question: perhaps you misread, i didn't say it's fascistic to quit your job, i said "we live under a neoliberal order of punishment that's turning us into little fascists who need a bunch of rules to mediate all difference, discomfort, and suffering out of life", which is a pretty common view in the labor studies field as well as in antiauthoritarian labor communities. so i don't know what you're on about.
That’s a lot of effort being put into this website (not to speak of the scans themselves).

Does anyone know how they monetize this page? Or is it just a hobby project?
What're the alternatives to Firefox? The only ones that come to mind are Opera and Brave, and Brave had some controversy too.
This is purely anecdotal and goes against all data. A simple search for "Are speed limits effective" will show you tons of past experiments. Safe speed limits, when enforced, are highly effective in reducing accidents and fatalities.
The popups to give permissions are already being spoofed by pages. Fake Chrome permissions requests for notifications get around Chrome's detection of sites that request to send push notifications too aggressively. You can't stop this unless you physically take over the full screen for stuff like login, which is extremely disruptive.
Not entirely.

Some are searching for signs of ET or God in irrational numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenic_number
Neither this article nor the paper it reports on are particularly useful.
Heh heh.

It would probably be helpful to the community if we could add a layout plugin to allow users to specify layouts in some absolute or relative grid format, to avoid all the invisible edge and edge length hackery. We just need appropriate funding.

We have some amazing maintainers who work on gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz now, but the think is, there are far more bug reporters than bug fixers. The first gen of Graphviz authors are timing out, so we very few people are around now to fix relatively deep semantic or logical bugs, c.f. https://xkcd.com/2347/

Best regards,
Graphviz the Project
Yep, and that sloppiness in reporting has me suspicious that the survey itself was sloppy.
My sense is probably not directly.

Certainly there would be general political pressure to keep Big Tech in line.

Australia has a history of taking tech to task: remember a decade or more ago they pulled Adobe up over local pricing!

On another note, I do find it weird that Facebook Ads in AU mostly seem to be low quality brands and scams!

I work in marketing and have looked after 8 figure budgets so have some industry experience.

But yet I'm left wondering why I never see big brands on Facebook in AU!

FWIW I do advise my clients to critically consider FB or Google Ads due to the levels of click fraud.

You need serious budgets to be able to absorb the fraud and see positive ROI in AU!

YMMV :-)
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you took my comment on justice literally, as if quitting one's job was the hypothetical retributive act i was talking about. i figured it would be rude to try to correct your own words, so instead of responding to the letter of your comment i responded to its spirit with a quip about free association :)
My point is that to generally start a company, most people (NOT ALL) are toxic in nature.

It takes a certain personality to do the things that start up a big enterprise that actually supports the families and lives of "normal" non-toxic people. That's what we have to get.

We may not like it. And I certainly don't. But history has proven that is that it usually takes.
A cheaper version of this, my favorite swag I've gotten in years was little boxes of smarties (Canadian m&m's, essentially -- not the chalk pills, we call those Rockets)
`git checkout v3.6`

Mozilla needs to revert back to 3.6 (or older) and start the last 15 years of development over again.
>magnitude and phase

Can you go a bit further? Magnitude or strength is not just the value (+5 or -5) itself?
I too want my power back. I want my user agent back. I especially want total inalienable power over the websites I'm browsing. The kind of power I'd have if I were to write a custom client for each website: the power to freely script, copy, save, edit, block and delete, whether the site's owner wants it or not.
I'm sure these are negotiable - I don't expect Facebook to be held to the same standard as small businesses. They are big enough to become their own processor if they wanted to.

It doesn't even have to end up in chargebacks even - if the scam ads are profitable, it's in their best interest to keep paying for the ads legitimately and fly under the radar (yes - the account may be under a false identity, but nobody cares if the money is there; these things tend to come to light when someone looks closer, but if the account is in good standing there's no reason for anyone to do so).
Browsers via WASM doesn't gain you anything unless you're also shipping the matching OS via WASM which, even if that happens to be Windows 2000, isn't going to be fast enough to be believable. Without shipping the OS all you've got is a really weird looking browser window that still takes forever to load and run.
Not able to decode your references.

What does this refer to:

> 4. Files containing compressed or encrypted sections require a compression/encryption algorithm to be hardcoded into Kaitai struct libraries for each programming language it can output to.

Text mentions "Kaitai", but references

4. DFDL [7]

or

[4] https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/repository/templates/

is unrelated.
> "Nigerian price" scams were basically non-existent before Internet access became easy, cheap & widespread.

False; the model of scam (“advance-fee scam”) dates back to at least the 19th Century and became particularly popular in the 1980s, long before widespread internet access.
I pushed it to tens of thousands of endpoints in the past :P

Though we have long since moved it to optional. First we moved to Chrome as the "standard browser" due to user requests and eventually our management caved in to Microsoft's constant pushing to make Edge the standard browser. Not that I cared because both are bad for privacy obviously.

But the amount of lobbying for edge that they do makes me really sceptical. It's clearly not about having their pet project succeed, they must have some serious strategy hinging on this. Edge doesn't make them any money on its own as it's a free product so the revenue must come from side channels of its use instead.

Which, considering MS' past with IE and their recent ventures into tracking and advertising in the OS is probably bad news for the end user :(
>Toxic is perfectly meaningful.

You have about 15 and counting different people's opinions on what toxic means. It's pretty subjective, therefore not really meaningful outside an emotional way.
Yes! You are 100% right. The people who we label as toxic started their companies on their own terms.
> I'm going to bet that these problems can be largely overcome

Many could be improved as technical systems, but trust in red light cameras and similar automated solutions isn't high. Good luck reverting many US states that have all but outlawed them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_light_camera#Decrease_sinc...

Most organizations have three things: people, policy, and technology. Pissing off the people with technology gets a lot of backlash.
They're regulating commerce within their state.
What makes you so sure they were drunk or high? I’ve most often seen it during morning commutes, and the speed at which they were successfully pulling off multiple lane changes with very narrow margins leads me to believe they weren’t impaired.

You could remove every driving law and just replace it with a single sentence—use common sense and don’t endanger other people by being reckless.

But eventually after the 400th time someone does it, it starts to makes sense to add an optimization to the system that says “on this stretch of road driving faster than 100 mph is automatically reckless.”
You know what was funny about a couple of them-- instructed me to "talk to my patients about" a medication. Very bad targeting there.
> There are lots of entities in Russia that aren't even related to the government that have the ability to reach out and roughly touch the maintainer. Any crime syndicate that was impacted by this is a potential threat to him now.

This is some weird fanfic. Russia is dangerous, but you have to do A LOT for those dangers to follow you outside of the country (much less to the US!)

It’s hard enough for Russians to get visas to travel to the west, and in the west you actually go to prison.

FWIW my wife fled Russia after her driver was shot and killed by the mob in an effort to get at her father.
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Again, we live in a society. Titles are a way of communicating your role and seniority in an organization, using a roughly shared language. It's a bit naive to think that titles serve no purpose, as if everyone is just being dumb for the hell of it.
It was a making-a-U-turn-and-going-left arrow, not just a left arrow.
I'm willing to bet it reads fine for the 99.99998% of people who aren't using Brave Mobile
Doesn't seem to add much information as far as I can see
I don't have much sympathy for greedy people who are scammed. I do have sympathy for elderly people who are scammed. Mental acuity can diminish significantly with age.

My Dad used to be a very sharp corporate lawyer. He's now over 80 and was very lucky not to lose $10,000 to a phone scam a while ago. They were in the process of switching ISPs and a scammer called saying they were from his ISP and needed to check his computer. They managed to talk him into installing remote access software and logging into his bank account. A huge red flag for us is not necessarily so for people who are old and technically challenged.

Luckily the scam happenned on a weekend, my Dad was suspicious enough to call me and we managed to stop the $10k transfer just in time.

Although my Dad's scam was a phone call, online advertisers can do a much better job of screening for scam ads at trivial cost to their operations compared to the effect on vulnerable individuals.
Good look finding any original STM32 parts at the moment.
I’ll agree I wouldn’t describe that as extremely small. The misuse stat is pretty bad. The addiction though…essentially for every 10 people who are treated for chronic pain, 1 of them gets addicted? With 9/10 of those people getting to live a more pleasant life…Chronic pain is awful, and the good done by alleviating it might be worth that cost.
There's a difference between Facebook collecting data when I'm on their site and collecting data from embedded trackers. Draw the line wherever you want, just don't conflate different things just because they're both disagreeable to you.
So it is good that they fled what they considered to be toxic.
I’m constantly being asked to re-enter my password by Microsoft and Google. They’re training users to type their password into anything. The OneDrive prompts on Win10 might as well be a phishing simulator.

You could trick so many users just by randomly popping up one of these that pretends to be an MS365 login. Users are accustomed to the prompts and will blindly enter their credentials. Then the box will disappear and nothing will happen, just like OneDrive.
I find it weird to publish this as a repo. The idea is fairly obvious, and has been used in the wild for decades.

All this does is lower the effort an attacker needs to invest to replicate it. It's pointing out bike locks are callable and then handing out free bolt cutters to whoever walks by.
Presumably Forrest has limited recourse against the advertisers because they're behind shell companies (or similar) in countries with limited legal consequences. As a result, I can't see a solution that doesn't involve countries requiring publishers to filter advertising sources.

I'm guessing this sort of thing isn't politically urgent or important so the public is left dealing with the mess. Without an ad blocker, I can't see how you could even start to escape scams getting in your face.
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Looking forward to trying this in the not so distant future. Great work to the team
I like Datagrip for writing SQL for this purpose.
Yeah, I know what FOSS stands for. I really, really commend JetBrains for having an open source edition. I just prefer an editor that doesn't separate features into pricing categories like Community, Ultimate, etc. I understand they have to make money as a company somehow, and that's totally fine. I just personally don't like the idea. Emacs does all I need, and more, with a single edition, and a single small fee of: zero dollars.
It is so hard to provide a similar level of care when I'm taking care of a patient who does not speak the same language as me. So much of what we do in medicine depends on pre-test probability which in turn is hugely influenced by the history that we obtain from our patients. Good interpreters are wonderful assets but unforunately it's an area where some hospitals cut corners. We have only video translators at my hospital. Trying to communicate with a patient with dementia, hard of hearing, and WiFi connection/lag issues is all but impossible.
Guilt free, but getting risky, if your venison happens to be American.[1]

[1] https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/bad-news-venison-eater...
That DFS is in the network simplex algorithm that solves node coordinates.

Some nice clever person could probably code up that clever algorithm of Brandes and Köpf, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45848-4_3

Some nice clever person could probably replace our 1990s-style network simplex solver with something that takes advantage of multiple CPU cores, too.
SVT-AV1 has been both faster and higher quality than x265 for awhile now though? For ease of use, you can just use ffmpeg, or one of the many CLIs or GUIs that support AV1 (preferably either Av1an for CLI, or a gui that uses it under the hood eg. nmkoder).

https://i.imgur.com/hHs2qz9.png
I don't think GP meant it was fascism to quit. I think they were saying that nowadays people want the authority figures to make rules to keep others from doing things that they don't like. Kind of like home owners associations that make rules about the acceptable length of your blades of grass.

But it's also possible GP was being sarcastic and mocking that view, so take with a grain of salt!
> The general pattern I've encountered with graphviz is to start with it and hope you're done before it starts segfaulting on your data

I've generated diagrams from various sources of data in AWS (security groups, EC2 instances w/ their attached security groups, edges between, etc) and never run into this issue. I'm talking thousands to tens of thousands of nodes and tens of thousands of edges.

The utility of these diagrams was limited, given how dense they were. I'm curious what use case graphviz chokes on that would generate legible graphs..

edit: this reminds me that it would be useful for the AWS APIs to return a "modification epoch" number inside API responses, so that while you're enumerating/describing thousands upon thousands of resources, you could at least keep track of whether there have been any modifications between your first and your last Describe* call.
I think the question itself doesn’t make sense. It’s like asking if quantum mechanics “needs” linear algebra, or if general relativity “needs” differential geometry.

Like there’s probably some roundabout way to do the exact same thing but calling it something different (e.g. matrices or commutative algebra), but then this calls into question what exactly one means by “using complex numbers”.

I guess if you thought there was a simplification to be had, that would be a good reason to search for a fundamentally different way of framing things, but in my experience as a mathematician, the whole point of fancy theoretical frameworks is to arrive at conceptual simplicity. You prove something very general and then you can take it as a conceptual axiom.
You are drawing large graphs by hand?

ML approaches to graph layout are very exciting, since the constraints people need in real life diagrams are quite intricate, but it's still a research problem.
I'm building an EMR right now. Can I ask what sub-surgical field your partner works in?
I've used both professionally. I only have a mild preference for PG, MySQL has been perfectly serviceable for me.
So curious about how they achieve the visuals on this.
Believe it is marketing for the tech.
How do you propose to prevent a user from leaking their home IP address to Mozilla without undermining the ability to:
* Download the browser
* implement a safe browsing mechanism
* support automatic updates (which are a critical security feature)
toxic manager is 100% why I just quit
Yes, but typically legally untested, which is my premise.

To make a bit of a silly analogy, you could make a policy that every child born on 11/22 is to be sent to the salt mines upon age 8, but that doesn't mean it's going to work as an implemented policy. You could even try to solve for edge cases like children moving, children moving into the jurisdiction from other jurisdictions, children born during day or night, etc. etc. The minutia of the policy and their local implementations don't change the underlying legal or ethical questions.
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what? do you really not remember "flatten the curve"? https://www.nytimes.com/article/flatten-curve-coronavirus.ht...