skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though one could argue that it does stop congressional insider trading, or at least reduce it: https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/migration/case_do...

Though this article makes some good points:
- There's always an excuse: someone else made the trade, or it was just really lucky, or it was smart use of public information.
- There are ways for members of congress to influence the markets that disclosures under the STOCK act won't prevent; e.g. many members of congress trade tech stocks and hold hearings about big tech companies, which can move the markets.
- Trading related to one's congressional duties could be insider trading...or it could be trading on the basis of subject matter expertise. It's not always easy to tell them apart.
- Compliance to the STOCK act isn't great, so the data are incomplete.
- The data are presented in difficult-to-use form. If not for https://senatestockwatcher.com/, we'd be looking at a hard-to-navigate site full of scanned PDFs. Converting those to usable data is probably something the government should be doing!
My first job was a small e-commerce shop that had a one person on customer support. We couldn’t keep them and the owner would say your typical stuff like everyone’s lazy etc. Well one month we had trouble finding someone so I picked up the phones when I can and…

It’s not just the company and it’s owners who think so little of CS. Almost every caller was obviously someone with an issue and they had no problem venting their frustration at the person on the phone. I began to dread every phone call and would do all of the things I hate when calling a place. I put people on indefinite holds, I let the phones ring a little more than I should hoping they would give up and hang up etc. Worst part was a felt for these people, a lot of their complaints were valid and a lot of the times they deserved a refund etc but there was nothing I could do to help.

I’m an extrovert who loves talking with people and In my younger days I worked everything from a nasty bug ranch to construction, hard jobs that didn’t pay enough with unnecessarily mean bosses, and that month of answering phones was the worst working experience of my life. I know not every place is that level of bad but I’m not sure a number you could pay me that would be worth the stress.
I used to think that 15,000 years from now Scientologists would be fighting with Mormons to break into Yucca Mountain and extract plutonium for nuclear weapons.

(The undesirable for weapons Pu240 isotope has a half life of about 6,000 years in contrast to the 24,000 year half life of the desirable Pu239 isotope.)

Now I don’t think the Scientologists will be around that long.
Firefox provides, by far, fewer options for customizing the UX than the same browser a few years ago. Don't act like that loss of control is irrelevant just because you don't use it.
It seems like the person you're responding to is raising a legitimate criticism of NFTs, or at least, criticism of the touted benefits of them: an NFT provides absolutely no value to its owner unless there's some kind of enforcement of the "property" rights it suggests. If I own an NFT of a JPEG, there's nothing to stop anyone else from simply right-click-downloading that JPEG and hosting it somewhere else. At that point, my NFT is just me shouting "dibs!" to a room full of people who don't care.
This seems very sketchy and the CEO’s responses are more defensive than reflective and remorseful.

I was initially considering using wasmer for a project but will go with wasmtime (still open to suggestions though!)
Assuming this is credible, I'm glad my opsec intuition is not too far off. This is approximately what I expected.
Are there more examples, perhaps with a smaller font?
Wow. This looks like something definitely worth investigating. TeaVM seems to be the secret weapon here (HN discussion from 2021 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25978053)

What limitations have frustrated you the most in working on this?
Hi there,
I've been working on scanning about 5000 (estimated) printed photos, using xsane and some flatbed scanners. My question for you is: how do you find scanning to 16bit?

Currently I'm scanning 8bit TIFF, 1200DPI, full colour.

When scanning 16bit TIFF, I found it completely wrecked the general ambiance, colour and lighting of the printed image. The resulting scan looks nothing like how it was printed.
The impression I get online is that 16bit TIFF should be the scan target for proper archival of the material, but I can't in good faith use this given the results look, I would say, worse than 8bit.

I have some examples here.

Image captured to TIFF at 1200dpi, with default flat settings for levels. The capture was compressed to 100% quality JPEG, and to 50% of original sizing.

8bit: https://i.postimg.cc/0218kvYL/1200dpi-8bit-defaultlevels-tif...

16bit: https://i.postimg.cc/przRfcHG/1200dpi-16bit-defaultlevels-ti...

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Image captured to TIFF at 1200dpi, with colour, brightness, contrast levels set automatically by xsane based on "Acquire Preview". The capture was compressed to 100% quality JPEG, and to 50% of original sizing.

8bit: https://i.postimg.cc/xdpfnb5R/1200dpi-8bit-autolevels-tiff.j...

16bit: https://i.postimg.cc/05wk1jwY/1200dpi-16bit-autolevels-tiff....
No bs but 22gb of ram is like equivalent to 11~15 in MacOs.

Yes you'd need the 16gb ram build but you wouldn't really need a 32gb one.
A single point of failure for what? If you lose your physical ID you don’t have a failover; same with your credit cards.

Having copies of your cards in your phone actually makes the whole system not a single point of failure.
Ask HN: Does anyone else question USB-C as an “improvement”?
I know it's been discussed ad nauseam over the years but USB-C has been driving me crazy:

- Not knowing the capabilities of any port or device. Reminds me of the Plug and Play days: "well let's plug it in and see what happens".

- Power delivery? Passthrough? Good luck finding the magical combination of supported devices, wattage, etc. Even when I thought I found the right one my laptop would occasionally end up in some weird state between discharging and charging - taking power but not acknowledging it in software and slowly discharging but not as much without power...

- Display Port alt-mode. Where do I even start... Some cables mostly work but running two 4k displays reliably at 60Hz seems to be near impossible. Occasionally a display drops completely and there's some sort of strange reboot/shut down/kill power to everything combination I haven't quite figured out yet. They randomly drop from 60Hz to 30Hz or don't initialize at 60Hz. Then some cables don't support DPMS, DDC, who knows what else.

It seems that with high speed (10gbit or so from what I recall) via USB A, extremely capable HDMI, and dedicated charging ports prior to USB-C that was the epitome of connectivity, function, and reliability.

Initially I attributed all of this to the inevitable quirks of any new technology but after several years it seems as though these issues (and more) may never get sorted out.

What am I missing?
Stuff like this is really cool. But the problem is that certain clients (as in clients that pay your bills) can't even get public keys to work and we end up allowing password logins. So I don't know how I could make this work in the real world.

That's where security ends, when 'it just has to work' because 'they're the ones paying/in charge'.
I think its important to recognise that quite a lot of modern web based companies are running their business on the 0 cents model. That is they take the marginal cost of a customer and push it down to zero and rely on scale to make a profit from it. They can't add anything to their business that would scale with the number of their customers that has any real cost, computing resources even are heavily optimised for let alone having an actual human to speak to.

What this means is that as a 0 cents customer (even if you pay them) you are completely disposable, no customer matters to them at all. This culture comes along with a cold disdain for customers and a desire to run everything off algorithms and if some people get caught up in error they just don't care. As a customer its annoying and you can loose a lot of data, but for the companies its their business model. The only way as a customer to not be in that situation is to avoid the businesses based on this model. If they were somehow forced to provide human customer support they may very well be substantially less profitable or not viable as a business anymore.
From the man himself:

There has been a huge debate about the real pronunciation of GIF over the years and many users have continued to offer their own arguments.

But in 2013, Steve settled the debate once and for all during his acceptance speech of his lifetime achievement Webby Award, revealing that GIF is pronounced with a soft “g”.

“It’s pronounced JIF, not GIF,” the beloved creator revealed to the crowd.
Article states an interesting conclusion which is that belief in having had COVID does not correlate with evidence of actually having had it, yet belief does seem to correlate with Long Covid. Therefore some signal sent that long COVID is overlabeled.
Yeah, my wife an I had the conversation and decided that she was going to go off of birth control in a few weeks. Two weeks later, she missed her period.

I promised to get a vasectomy on the spot.

A few weeks later she learned that her sister also had an oops. They both gave birth within a few days of each other.
What's interesting to me is, anecdotally, there should be a mini-baby-boom based around the start of COVID lockdowns. At least local to me (DC metro), just about every young couple in my neighborhood had a baby sometime between early 2021 and early 2022.
Coulda just had a simple demo on the landing page. I spent the requisite 2 minutes trying to figure out what you do and didn't figure it out.
Completely overlooks the obvious: those with symptomatic infections likely had more severe infections and did more lasting damage than those who were asymptomatic.
That was my reaction as well but it seems they (obviously, in retrospect) controlled for actually having had covid by serology testing.
> They have honed their craft enough that they only need one practice

And how many (unpaid) hours, across how many years, did it take to "hone their craft" to such a degree?
The company profit, the executives, and the shareholders will take a share of paying for it as well.
extinction is indeed the risk. Population collapse is slow decline, steep fall, then exponential decrease. Agree with you on danger to the carrying capacity of the earth, but moderating population size seems instead to set an irreversible trend
This week we had a disgruntled employee leave a 1-star Google review of our shop. They have never been a customer...

I reported it as a Conflict of Interest PER GOOGLE'S OWN STATED POLICY and it was rejected almost immediately. Google could find nothing wrong with the review.

We have no recourse to escalate. No way to even interact with a human about it. It's absolutely ridiculous. I have plenty of documentation and am happy to provide evidence that this is a former employee but I have no one to give it to or even a dropbox to submit documentation to.

Sundar and Google should be ashamed.
Firefox market share: 3%

How far the mighty has fallen. Firefox was once the best browser.

We could go into Mozilla's political activism that led up to this utter collapse. That's unnecessary. Mozilla's political activism was clearly toxic to their organization and they didn't have the vision of the damage they were doing to themselves.

So what value does this vision for the web have? Mozilla clearly needs to fix their own house before telling the entire world what we should do.

>The experience of using the Web must not subject individuals to harm.

I read through this vision and it's all things that are already true today. It's difficult to find things they truly wish to change or improve upon.

My take is that this is really what this entire vision is about the "harm" they perceive. This is what they want to change. They don't want to harm people on the internet. Which in a high level virtually everyone agrees. Everyone already agrees Scams, Fraud, phishing, malware, etc should not be allowed on the internet. No vision needs to be written on this. Mozilla wants to go further than this.

>This can lead to situations in which users have very negative experiences (including misinformation, .... in the past platforms have actively cooperated in abusive behavior, for instance via providing extremely fine-grained targeting for advertisements designed to manipulate users' political behavior.

So they are worried about misinformation and manipulating user's political behaviour?

Mozilla and firefox is more than welcome to keep going down this road. I won't try to stop them. That 3% can go lower and lower.

>Every company is influenced by its own agenda, business needs, and politics. Left unchecked, those pressures can easily result in the inclusion of ill-conceived features that everyone comes to regret.

The irony is that Mozilla clearly proved in this document they haven't fixed anything internally. They clearly have not given up their political activism.

>The Web’s multi-stakeholder development process is far from perfect, but nonetheless serves as a powerful bulwark against a corporate agenda-du-jour pushing bad ideas into the Web.

"corporate agenda pushing bad ideas"

That's what this is really about isn't it. Bad ideas. Misinformation. Mozilla wants to do "more than deplatform" their political opponents. Who gets to decide what is misinformation? Mozilla? Some single government who gets to unilaterally censor the internet for all other countries?

No. This is just Mozilla still derailed and crashing.

Mozilla might be irreparably damaged by their political activism.
There are a lot of these types of tools already in the reverse engineering community (in order of lowest chance of breaking when you throw really weird stuff at it, in my experience):

GEF: https://gef.readthedocs.io/en/master/

PWNDBG: https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg

PEDA: https://github.com/longld/peda

They also come with a slew of different features to aid in RE/exploit dev, but many of them are also useful for debugging really weird issues.

Also if you don't need all the info these provide or just want to augment them, the tool you are looking for is "hook-stop" which allows you to execute a string of commands every time GDB pauses program execution.
Coprinus comatus mushroom has a similar effect. Just thought others would find that interesting as I do.
“The app says to tell you those are nice sunglasses.”

“The app says to tell you thanks and tell you my name is Steve.”

“The app says to tell you you’re welcome and that I was thinking about a pair like that myself and also my name is Bill.”
It's the reverse at Meta: they reward you with more money more quickly than a promotion. This happens when you quickly have very high impact, but it's unclear if you can sustain it.

This similarly happens to more junior who seem to be on a steep upwards trajectory: the company tries to retain them with money (stock) before they actually get good enough to get promoted, because there's high confidence they'll grow fast.

Someone who earns into the next pay band is pretty likely to be promoted in the near future, once they've shown they can sustain it.
Yeah, you should re-educate yourself. Like i said, i used SSH certificates managed exclusively with ssh-keygen, i don't have any connection between the OpenSSL and SSH cryptosystems, nor do i see a point in that. My advice: Disregard any blog posts mucking SSH certs with OpenSSL and take the same time to read the ssh-keygen manpage.
Reminds me of Evan Ratliff's The Mastermind [0] about Paul Le Roux building an illegal online pharmacy and how eventually he was caught.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41181600-the-mastermind
This doesn't seem to be a very popular solution, but it's proven useful: limit contractual freedom for adhesion contracts.

That would mean forbidding some kinds of clauses that are often abused, but also forcing the inclusion of some other clauses and automatic procedures for certain actions like cancelations, or in this case, support.
You can hire a lot of people for a small portion of a CEO's salary
The authors are a professor of Ukrainian studies and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology at the University of Cambridge; both are members of the Disinformation and Media Literacy Working Group there.. This strikes me as having quite a bit of credibility with regard to the topic of the article.

Are you referring to specific examples of Politico being 'adept at propaganda' or is this another example of "tu quoue"?
Revealed: The dangerous chemicals in your food wrappers
I really appreciate this response and relate to this.

I think I was in a really similar mindset as OP, the last company I was at I was very naive and believed this pitch about the company. Come to find out the company had nothing. What I did gain is a great learning lesson on how I should approach work and more.

My current company I looked for specific things and listened during the interview. I know interviews can only give you so much, but when I decided on the last job I ignored so many red flags in hope that this will turn into something huge, I should have looked at it as a true red flag that this will be a rough experience.

Also having ADHD this is something that is tough at times
I'm skeptical of "non-dual self knowledge". Maybe the subject-object distinction "is an illusion" but it seems like a necessary one. Would morality exist without a subject-object (or subject-subject, meaning two invdividuals) distinction? What would human behavior look like? How could we distinguish between a violent crime and a kind act? How could we make judgements? By what standard would an enlightened person who has dissolved the subject-object distinction prefer to be enlightened than not?

See also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/16/is-enlightenment-compa...
Them leaving would be vastly preferred to them dying, but as it seems we cannot have that, this is a fine start.
Honestly, I agree. My ssh passwords aren't going to be brute-forced anytime this century. It's also pretty easy to put a fake sshd on port 22 and set the real one to some other port (preferably one low enough to still require root privileges though).

I don't have encrypted drives on all my devices. I don't want to have to worry about what could happen if one of those gets lost/stolen. I'd rather not leave keys or certificates lying around.

Also, things sometimes go wrong and I need to get access to a server from a device I've never been on. It's nice to be able to do that. Passwords do that.

To be fair, I usually have a single VPS which I keep as locked down as possible that has VPN access to the server I really need. The VPS doesn't even need to be running most of the time. So I can spin it up to get access to the VPN, then ssh into the server with a password. If the VPS gets compromised, the VPN alone won't give an attacker immediate access to the server like it would if I left keys / certificates on there. I have to trust the VPS, and if it gets compromised without me noticing, and I then log in to my server, yeah, I'm SOL, but certificates don't solve that problem.
As GP said, the exact numbers are configurable, therefore your simplification may not work. BTW, none of the examples (the first text and all the subsequent variants) on the web site follows exactly these 3 rules, it must be something more.
The mechanisms that maintain a stable pH are driving outcomes.
Your statement is accurate, just doesn't acknowledge the changes required for homeostasis. There is considerable effect merely in osmotic pressure relative to cellular function. To dismiss that carries as much error
> but they direct that anger at the person doing it instead of the laws that allow it.

The law that allows filming in public spaces clearly was not meant to allow this kind of creepy behaviour. People are rightfully directing their anger at the person abusing the law, rather than the law itself.
Child care 0-5 is like a second mortgage. I paid more for one kid than I did for mortgage- in Seattle of all places. If you have 2 it’s like having 3 houses. That’s not affordable or sustainable in Major cities
Yes! TeaVM is an under appreciated absolute jewel!

The big challenge was having to write most of a UI kit to basically abstract Swing. But there is a surprising symmetry between basic Swing+Java2D and HTML 5.
Understanding the Dreamcast GD-ROM Layout
Isn’t this the process that Teleport streamlines?
The fact that I can successfully plug in a USB-C cable on the first try as opposed to the 3-7th time is a strict improvement.

Perhaps I've been lucky, but I've only had good experience with external monitors et al.
Client-side vs. Server-side, Front-end vs. Back-end?
The comment above was most likely sarcasm. Are you serious?
> So most algos let you personalize the feed. But without an algo…there’s just no hope.

but there's an algo which is simple to implement and has very little biases: just show the things in temporal order ? Anything else is inferior to me. I don't want to see what's best for others, I don't want to see what some algorithm thinks is best for me, I just want to see what's last, with zero additional "reflection" on this.
> Yeah, you should re-educate yourself.

Thanks! That sounds quite condescending. I'd educated myself by reading about ssh keys in ssh and wondering how to use them.

Perhaps you should make your own blog post describing how to do it all using only ssh-keygen then.
It also looks to be available as a Firefox extension, Stutter: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/stutter/
> Every word (except gin) that starts with G, then a vowel, then an F, is pronounced with a hard G.

No F in gin. Giraffe, no hard G. Closest word doesn't work for many reasons. It's an endless debate.

Thank you for this Stephen!
I'd like it if there was a GUI theme to make existing apps not look terrible.
Archived: https://archive.ph/Qgmwb
With written communication you have proof and don't have to repeat over and over. If tickets can't solve then speaking definitely won't.
I vaguely remember misinformation about birth control in Catholic school. They told us that IUDs kill fertilized eggs.

It was completely wrong.
You're missing the point. There are a myriad of reasons for the non-disclosure - some you agree with and some you don't. The point is that lawyers include it as a standard in nearly all kinds of agreements. ...it's not even limited to settlements. Regular contracts often have them. It's just normal business practice. It's done because, as you know, anything you say, no matter how innocent, can be used against you in a court of law - whether misconstrued or not.

Thus lawyers almost always include a non-disclosure clause. This, on its own, should not lead you to believe the company is covering anything up.

...and to answer your last question, no, non-disclosure agreements do not prevent you from speaking to regulatory authorities.
Therapy: Good or Bad?
For some reason we, as a society, have decided certain health problems are moral failures to be treated with shame and cured through willpower alone rather than modern medical intervention.
Props for the GDPR compliant Cookie decline button! :)
1.67 != 1 2/3

Equating these two is just an approximation ... and based on the example, one that was carried out without any obvious accuracy requirement.

So why not 1 65/97 which is more accurate or 1 67/100 which is perfectly accurate?

Messing around with fractions is still only an approximation at best so it's hard to see how this really buys you much of anything except lost efficiency. Why not just use floats and format as a fraction for display/output if this is what "floats" your boat?