skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
George Carlin made som great observations around this.

"Here’s an example. There’s a condition in combat that occurs when a soldier is completely stressed out and is on the verge of a nervous collapse. In World War I it was called 'shell shock.' Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables. Shell shock. It almost sounds like the guns themselves. That was more than eighty years ago.

"Then a generation passed, and in World War II the same combat condition was called 'battle fatigue.' Four syllables now; takes a little longer to say. Doesn’t seem to hurt as much. 'Fatigue' is a nicer word than 'shock.' Shell shock! Battle fatigue.

"By the early 1950s, the Korean War had come along, and the very same condition was being called 'operational exhaustion.' The phrase was up to eight syllables now, and any last traces of humanity had been completely squeezed out of it. It was absolutely sterile: operational exhaustion. Like something that might happen to your car.

"Then, barely fifteen years later, we got into Vietnam, and, thanks to the deceptions surrounding that war, it’s no surprise that the very same condition was referred to as 'post-traumatic stress disorder.' Still eight syllables, but we’ve added a hyphen, and the pain is completely buried under jargon: post-traumatic stress disorder. I’ll bet if they had still been calling it 'shell shock,' some of those Vietnam veterans might have received the attention they needed."

He called it softening of language. You can read more here: https://www.thoughtco.com/soft-language-euphemism-1692111
They were posted here on HN - search for them!
I have tried xpra, and it was my go-to option until I tried NoMachine. I did try just forwarding windows, Firefox it was too, but there was some(times) frustrating delays.

I may re-visit, however, as the delays could have been network/environment issues rather than the technology.
> try to build a pond high up on the hill

This, or tanks (to cut down on evaporation).

Pretty common here on the BC coast for people to plumb the gutters of their house and outbuildings to tanks and then use that stored water in the summer for the garden or topping off wells.

If you have 9 months of rain/live in a temperate rainforest it's not likely conjuring water out of the air is worth the effort :)
The immune system is complicated, but now, it’s on a chip
Why would you care how energy intensive it is when it’s solar powered?
I believe this is an act of subversion, if this kind of thing is annoying anyone.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/128082387/...
Furthermore, Russ Cox (author of Go’s regexp library and significant contributor to re2) mentioned this interesting tradeoff.

> Second, Go is using a different algorithm for regexp matching than the C implementations in those other languages. The algorithm Go uses guarantees to complete in time that is linear in the length of the input. The algorithm that Ruby/Python/etc are using can take time exponential in the length of the input, although on trivial cases it typically runs quite fast. In order to guarantee the linear time bound, Go’s algorithm’s best case speed a little slower than the optimistic Ruby/Python/etc algorithm. On the other hand, there are inputs for which Go will return quickly and Ruby/Python/etc need more time than is left before the heat death of the universe. It’s a decent tradeoff.

1. https://awmanoj.github.io/tech/2016/09/08/on-slow-regular-ex...
WebAuthn is quite capable of doing two factors.

At the cheapest end, something like a Yubico Security Key 2 does two factors with one being the physical key you have and the other being a PIN (such as "180479" or indeed "FkR0Mpg"). An adversary who steals the physical device needs to guess the PIN correctly before it locks out after a few wrong guesses.

Something like a decent Android phone uses a fingerprint as its second factor, Yubico make a physical device that does this if you've got cash burning a hole in your pocket.

In WebAuthn terms the remote site ("relying party") just asks for User Verification and checks that the UV bit is set on the signed message from the authenticator (all WebAuthn signatures will have UP (User Present) set, but UV is a separate bit)
I'm seriously considering switching from Firefox. I put a lot of effort into avoiding advertisements on all my devices and then Firefox goes and hijacks my system to show me an advertisement for some Disney+ movie and now this.

I was able to disable the ads with an about:config modification and I always get my installers from ftp.mozilla.org so this didn't even personally effect me, but still I feel betrayed.
Which is what 95% of users would do though.. the average user will use Windows or Mac and has never heard of Chocolatey. Firefox is not in the Mac app store and I guess not on Windows either.
Digital health system for veterans plagued by patient safety risks
you may have missed the Xilinx merger
> But only a misanthrope or someone with acute mental illness would think risking the lives of strangers is worth a very mild thrill of driving kind of fast.

Or an American. My point which I mistakenly thought was self apparent is that this attitude is pretty ingrained as a core premise of American pop culture.
The privacy of others was the original use I came up with when I made this same app for my final project in Intro to iOS class in grad school way back in 2017. From my initial project proposal

>Governments and tech companies such as Facebook are now continuously scanning
all photos uploaded to the internet for faces, locations, and objects, effectively
removing anonymity for anybody that is in any picture. A user might want to share a
picture from a protest, but other users in the background might not want it known
they were there.

>I would like to make a privacy focused camera application. The application will
allow the user to take a picture and then it will find the faces in the picture. The user
then will have to tap on the individuals in the photo they would like to be included
in the final picture. By default all the faces in the picture will be marked as discard.
After the user has finished selecting the faces the final picture will be produced. The
faces not selected will have an effect applied to them to obscure that person identity.
The user will then have the ability to share the photo to other applications, such as
Twitter.

There is a lot of code in the standard library that includes face detection, didn't even have to add any libraries and was able to do the project in the last 2 weeks of class. I ended up putting a heavy mosaic over the faces, but emojis would have been just as easy. Still preferred Android dev over iOS after it, but was impressed with the included camera features.

To me the use case seems weird that she is trying to hide her kids so she can constantly post them on Instagram, when she has full control over taking pictures of her kids and what she puts on her page.
There has been too much dilution with the Xilinx acquisition which was an all-stock deal (they didn’t pay anything)
Then why is Apple doing so well with its M1 chips with more than 10X the buy backs of Intel?
> Vertical integration is still anti-competitive in the general sense of making a market less efficient and reducing consumer agency (which is two ways of saying the same thing).

Okay, sure. But how does this relate to antitrust laws? The purpose was never to ban everything that might be even vaguely anticompetitive.
Agreed. I either never got it or did and am presumably asymptomatic (fully vaccinated). I wonder how (un)common this case is?
Is Zotero 6 Mac client still supporting WebDAV? Don't find WebDAV option in settings.
This Twitter thread explains that Russians actually did not expect any serious resistance https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499377671855292423.html

They expected immediate collapse of Ukrainian army because this was what happened in 2014. Well, it did not happen this time because Ukraine had 8 years to prepare and prepare they did.

I was actually slightly surprised that they actually went for Kyiv instead of trying to just take Donbas with all they got there. All the military experts who commented the situation before the invasion told that it would be not realistic to take Ukraine with forces this small.

They thought that they will just go to beat up some women and children without any resistance but they were wrong. Corruption, hubris and stupidity kills in war.
yeah dude. loads all the pages dynamically with SSR off: https://github.com/mlynch/nextjs-tailwind-ionic-capacitor-st...
I wonder what PRNGs there are that are reasonably easy enough to do in your head but can give better randomness than a person trying to be random normally.
I think it's understandable that big platforms face problems of scale with moderating ads & content, but one thing I've noticed is that Meta are extremely sensitive in rejecting ads due to images being imperfect or other minor things, yet Facebook & Instagram seem filled with crypto & fake IPO scams. I think they've misallocated moderation resources.

On the other hand, whilst I think the ACCC is right to pursue them over this, does it have anything to do with their previous showdown?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-18/facebook-blocked-aust...
Mediocre human translation can be catastrophically wrong as well. Mediocrity just isn't good enough when a mistake can cost someone's life. The worse the translator (machine or human), the more catastrophic mistakes it makes per 1000 lines of text. If a professional human translator isn't available, it makes sense to use the best alternative available. Deepl has a free web interface.
HN comments don't scale by design. They are limited to the thread they're posted and to the effort it takes to manually post (most of the time - I am aware automation can briefly exceed this), and there is still moderation and banning not to mention some hidden anti-abuse mechanisms that could very well be culling a lot of spam we don't even realize was being posted.

Both HN itself and our interaction with it takes into account the fact that the damage by a malicious user will be limited. We'd most likely reconsider our use of HN if everyone got a button "reply to all threads" that would auto-spam their reply to every thread and make the website unusable.

Facebook "organic" content is the same. In most cases, organic content is limited in reach so that the potential damage caused by a malicious user is acceptable, although misaligned incentives sometimes prompt Facebook's algorithms to artificially boost the reach of organic content to increase engagement.

Facebook paid ads are different - it's basically an officially-endorsed spam machine; you pay money and you are able to bypass the normal reach limits that organic content would get. This can cause a lot of damage and harm if used to spread malicious content, even more so when you can control targeting parameters to only show it to the most vulnerable and fly under everyone else's radar.

> How could a human review an ad with a name, without having contact details for that named individual?

If you're advertising a financial investment scheme it's reasonable to expect the company to have a real address, business registration, potentially some kind of license if the local laws require it, etc. If a financial investment company doesn't want to provide contact details, it's not an investment company, it's a scam.

> Or with a photo if they didn't recognise that person? Or if it was an ad about a person such as a news item?

Having a verified audit trail behind the ad would at least leave a paper trail for the copyright holder to go after who originally posted it.

The idea isn't to be bulletproof, it's to make it both harder and riskier (legally) for malicious actors to operate. I believe it should be considered the "right thing" to do for a platform that allows ads to be pushed to potentially vulnerable people, but since it's Facebook and they have no concept of "the right thing", regulatory action is necessary.
If it's public domain then it is open source as per the OSI definition.
I stumbled across one of these sponsored posts, it looked like a blatant scam but was well enough crafted that unsuspecting folk could easily fall for it.

Surprisingly, some comments were >6 weeks old (meaning it had been up for at least that long), and it had hundreds of 'reactions' (hinting it had been displayed to a lot of people).
Pretty easy to just proxy the password through to the real service, and see if it fails or not before adding it to your pwn DB.
I also tried an empty date in attempt to denote "never" and experienced the same.
Where is this from? Some sort of skin? I don't have a square at all on my Android phone, a Google Pixel (which I assume is "base" Android). You see recent apps by sliding up.

Also the triangle is only an arrow on my phone and the circle is an oval.
> 80% of people received a counteroffer from their employer when they resigned but still decided to leave.

Whether this is from the whole pool or from those who gave notice, that's pretty staggering. 80% of employees were paid less than they were worth, even considering the businesses who don't give counter offers by principle.
> All the people resigning from their jobs and starting their companies are going to be ending up "toxic" eventually.

At least they'll be doing it on their terms.
I meant, you cannot safely, as everything else, due to market forces, has fent in it.

The only products on the market that have a near 0 chance of being fent are Tramadol and BTH.
This happens a lot in the Media SDKs, dsound, ddraw, dplay etc. Not that they're really used nowadays.
comprecated?
Right which is why the Tor FAQ says using a browser besides Tor Browser is dangerous and not recommended: https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-9/

It's like how when you're baking a cake, the easiest way to do it is to buy a cake mix and follow the directions on the back. Yes, maybe you can make a tastier cake by changing the directions or using better ingredients, but you also introduced the possibility of the cake exploding. Particularly with anonymity, the trick is to do what everyone else who wants to be anonymous is doing.
For few first days I had a feeling that this has to be some kind of trap. It is not. It is result of corruption, stupidity and hubris.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499377671855292423.html
You’re evading every rebuttal to your points in attempts to take more potshots. Get out of here with that nonsense.
its always a bit helpful to have this sort of second brain especially public, its like being able to pick a strangers brain when you have a problem they might know about, it also helps you remember without remembering.

Ive done something like this semi private for a while and have recently migrated to doing it with a program called logseq. Maybes this will give me the courage to publish it some.
It's not on the radar of politics. We have some parties in Europe that care about it, but they are all under the flag of pirate parties which is self-defeating IMO. By associating themselves with piracy they always add a negative association to any debate about privacy. Which allows opponents to easily dismiss them with the "people only want privacy because they have something to hide" fallacy.

If they want to be taken seriously they have to grow up and call themselves the privacy party.

Of course there's also a lot all of us could do to make our interests know to mainstream politicians. Because don't forget, our adversaries are spending millions on lobbyists preaching the holy book of big data.
> And even the medications are probably iffy

The very foundational idea of "the advertising of medication" is worse than iffy, without getting into the entire cesspool-chain of companies behind the companies behind the advertising.

Let's round it up to 100% and write to our local representatives, yeah?
That's not how things work, at all. Ballistic missile defense is meant to reduce the number of nuclear warheads that make it through, not eliminate the threat entirely. Extant ballistic missile defense doesn't even come close to eliminating the threat, and that's without considering Status-6.

Consider, for instance, that there is no way in hell you could touch North Dakota with Status-6. If Russia wanted to attack missile silos in North Dakota, they would need to use their own ballistic missiles for it. Ballistic missile defense reduces the chance that they could succeed in any sort of decapitating preemptive strike. That it can't also stop a nuclear-powered torpedo is irrelevant; that's simply not what it's meant for. Other threats are/will be countered by other systems.
Hmmm, good luck with that.
> I don't see how the government benefits from having the money in escrow

How do you think the government would deal with a pile of cash?

> unless they fear the user is a flight risk, in which case they should have jailed him too.

It’s possible that the government has cause to seize the money without anyone having committed a crime worthy of a custodial sentence.

Perhaps he’s only a credible flight risk while in possession of 1M+ USD worth of cryptocurrency?

Arresting someone when you could instead just take possession of their money seems downright cruel.
It would seem that reading the actual article is toxic to the OP.
You could. In my experience, you'd also be quite mistaken, but you certainly could make the assertion.

Heck, you might even try the gish gallop and pull a ton of rightwing propaganda links -- certainly nothing if not time-tested!

Or, we could recognize that people vote with their feet and if the business environment doesn't conform to what they want they leave, and if it does they stay.

But calling non-pharmaceutical measures fascism? That some of the initial COVID-19 guidance had mistakes as policy makers and public health authorities looked to nail down a workable model? IMHO that's pretty dumb. Better return to be had hunting down policy cheaters, businesses that took PPP loans w/o actually qualifying.
> "- This is with software rendering. Seriously, these CPUs are good. Better than some other ARM laptop GPUs.

Exactly. I can only guess it will be even better if the graphics was accelerated, even faster if it was on the Mac Studio. It is still fine. We'll see.

As soon as they have a user friendly macOS installer or live USB-C installer then that will be an easy install path or try it out for many.

Overall, great progress!
I don't disagree - this mononlith was running on three to four year old dependencies, and on the rare occasion that someone did make any big updates it was a case of hoping that the tests passed and then hoping that nothing broke in production.

But it wasn't broken up because it was too hard to update dependencies, it was broken up because it was a complicated mess. They just traded it off for another complicated mess.
How expensive are we talking? Most of my ebay purchases are in the < $100.00 range, but I've bought some test equipment that was a couple of thousand dollars. My one Keysight logic analyzer was about $4K IIRC, but keep in mind, I bought it from the Official Keysight Used Equipment Store on Ebay, not from some random seller. The other bits of test gear though, were from more or less random individuals, and so far I've never had any issues.
People don't choose their native languages and everyone should expect adequate care at a hospital when they need it.
> But I also think that a big standard library is A Good Thing, especially in a universe where some random micro-package will just lose its maintainer and cause 100 knock-on effects.

Standard libraries have the same problems; in fact, part of the reason these are being removed from Python's stdlib is...they don't have maintainers.
Aren't those groups disjoint? The 25% who quit without notice didn't technically "resign". They just disappeared.
The 75% that gave notice were the group of 80% receiving counter offers.
Pre-internet, there weren't infinite scammers hammering magazines and newspapers from overseas with questionable ads. There was still some junk, but no where near as relentless. And most products were physical, so even if you were advertising miracle skin repair, you were manufacturing and shipping a physical product so it was harder to appear and disappear.

Ease of money transfer hasn't helped prevent scams either.

The issue with locking down by country is, say you have an upstanding SaaS startup and you want to advertise to the world. Can you realistically justify registering your business in 100+ countries? Even something like Stripe Atlas is arguably too heavy-handed for side-project stage.

I could see there being a verification engine whereby an advertiser posted a bond before that verification service endorsed them to publishers. But this would require countries to require publishers to use something like this, because they won't do it off their own back.
What they were worth changed quite quickly and businesses failed to keep up. Counter offers do seem a little pointless though since by the time you hand in your notice you are usually completely mentally checked out of the company and have often already signed the next contract.
I read that, but it doesn't specifically say that definition was on the survey. That reads more like their interpretation of the term.

If they provided the full text of the questions and answers in the charts (which is good form when reporting survey results), they didn't provide that definition to respondents. If they didn't provide the full text in the charts, then there's not a lot that we can do with this data because we don't know what questions they were asking.
>discrimination, sexual harassment, verbal abuse, and poor work-life boundaries

Let's play SAT. Which one of these doesn't belong with the others?

Ding! Expecting someone to work after hours isn't anywhere in the ballpark of discrimination, sexual harassment or verbal abuse. This is a common manipulation tactic. It's like saying most drug arrests today are for heroin, crack, meth and pot. (Pot being about 80%). It's trying to make something look worse than it is. The more you know.
There’s a revolving door of language where people who should have better things to do insist that terms referring to sensitive groups be renamed every few decades because the old term became immoral.

Occasionally there’s good reason for it but usually it’s a strong signal that the people talking about it have a weak sense of solving the problem and a strong one of projecting the image of solving it.
When Knuth came up with the term/idea of "literate programming" and the idea of programs as works of literature, in the paper (http://literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf) he joked (I think?) that he hoped that, just as there are Pulitzer prizes for literature, there may one
day be Pulitzer prizes awarded to computer programs.

Well, reality is even stranger than imagination: no computer program has won a Pulitzer prize, but this computer program won an Oscar! Here's a video of the awards ceremony, where Kristen Bell and Michael B. Jordan introduce the recipients, and at 2:12 Matt Pharr comes up and says "needless to say, when we started writing a book we never expected an Academy Award would be the end result of that effort" and thanks Donald Knuth for literate programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9juPsv1QU

Knuth has repeated the joke/remark (https://www.pbr-book.org):

> “This book has deservedly won an Academy Award. I believe it should also be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.”
Drivers are one of the top killers of young people and a very significant cause of lost years of life, and speed is a factor in IIRC 73% of collisions. People do not generally drive at a safe speed in the US, rather they drive at a speed that seems safe because they've done it a bunch of times - the same kind of normalization of deviance as launching your space shuttle because it never burned through both O-rings the last 20 times.