skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statements about this being "unfixable" are utter nonsense. If someone claims to be from a particular law enforcement agency it is trivial to just call up said police department and ask to speak to that person. If no one answers or the person can't be reached you don't approve the request.

The only thing that's "unfixable" about this is that it's not something you can automate. You need an actual human being to perform the verification step(s).
A Potential New and Easy Way to Make Attosecond Laser Pulses
Ok I really gotta try this.
I’ll probably hire him just because of the tweet - it shows to me that he cares about doing the right thing and not just bottom line
Maybe, but you can't easily stop Google using you. Or FB, etc etc
How do you know someone didn't steal the master key?
$1,000 / 20 = $50
PostgreSQL High-Availability Cluster
If the goal is generally to invest, then be boring. Split it among several ETF's.

If the goal is to support a project which will improve the world, I'd support existing projects to either make clean water more accessible or help the world's poorest people become more self-sufficient (eg, Heifer International).
I think so, they don't need the bad publicity so let it die down and fire him in 3 to 6 months out for something else but really this.
Also, I don't think there's a lot of schools out there with some sort of abundance of empty rooms that the shooter can eliminate this way. Rooms tend to end up used.
Have you just not been watching the news for the last 15 years?
There were earthquake drills, shooting drills, "lock down" drills and bomb threat drills throughout school.

Basically all of them consisted of "Sit under your desk and play thumb wars quietly with classmates and listen to your teacher or the classroom speakers instructions"
> It's just a straight fact though that suburban design is not sustainable both economically and ecologically.

I've never disputed this fact. It's true, the American suburban model is not sustainable. However, the urban lifestyle common in North America or Europe is likewise not sustainable either. So it does become a class/political issue since neither lifestyle actually address the issue at hand. It's just a bunch of people judging each other for their unsustainable lifestyles.
Good sentiment. But when your being hurt emotionally and physically most days. Numbness becomes your only real defense.
So guy takes photos with a DLSR and pimps the colors so that everything becomes oversaturated blue and red and suddenly it's art? Color me unimpressed.
Usually Police officers come through with a school administrator or maintenance worker and unlock the doors and give the all clear classroom by classroom.
I don't understand your point. If a genius takes the class, then they'll get a good grade in any grading system. I'm talking about a student who starts off poorly and does badly on some early assignments, then improves dramatically during the course. Even if they get to the same level of knowledge as the genius, under the traditional grading system, the early poor grades will stand. That will influence their final average/GPA even though those early grades are no longer relevant.
You are still receiving feedback and more-so than a traditional grading system you have a reason to understand what went wrong since revisions to your work are reflected in the final grade.

I don't see any reason this system doesn't work in the face of objective criteria. The professor is still determining your level of understanding and aptitude, they are just doing it across the entire course rather than in a series of small and irreversible steps.
Telegram is fine if you just use it for 1on1 conversation with encryption enabled. The same goes for whatsapp (encryption is enabled by default). If you are looking for secure group chats signal would be my choice because it skips the server (WhatsApp sends all group messages to a server before distributing it). There are also more exotic providers like threema, matrix and many others but the onboarding for non technical users is harder, though they also have advantages like not needing a telephone number to sign up. For the general public I would use Signal mainly because it’s directly in the middle of security and ease of use.
Let's push it to the extreme. Let's say there are 100 students in a class, and one of them is an absolute ace due to knowing the material or having a very solid framework. Should the other 99 people in the class get relatively bad scores at the end of the term? Is that a working system?

The underlying problem here is that people of different skill levels are being graded on the same criteria. They're in the same class.

Classes should be far more granular and far shorter (e.g. two weeks) so that people of the same skill level can be so-grouped.
As a high school gym coach I noticed students with lots of experience running tended to get faster times. This is an example of fit privilege! So, I had to do away with my stopwatch...
Should've named that repo "phdiff".
Or they don’t vote because their preferred president has a 100% chance of winning, which is more often the case given their community is already deeply red or blue
> (It might've had a brand name beginning with "V" emblazoned across the frontload tape door, I don't really recall.)

Alpha Micro Videotrax?

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-08-fi-2691-s...

https://tidbits.com/1991/01/07/vcr-backups/

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1363995216013762565
So your country doesn't have NDAs with corporations? Good luck attracting companies there. Also this isn't really against the law, it's against an agreement with his company where he signed up for things like being fired or potentially even sued. It's not like anyone is going to toss him in jail.
any stories from California?

The article about Mexico city wildly conflates building settling with groundwater subsidence - Like old buildings where the entire first floor is below ground level.
I think the contributor graph is misleading, and that he's using git-subtree to vendor tree-sitter, which makes it look like others have contributed more to the project.
Is it batshit crazy though? Because if we all say it's batshit crazy and no one does anything about it, seems to me that's just a symptom of a sick society. It's not like we're all insane. Yes, some people are in fact batshit crazy with theories of "crisis actors" but no one really takes them seriously. At least not people in positions of real power. The batshit craziness is not the reason that nothing gets done year after year. As far as I can tell, the reason nothing gets done is because it's politically inconvenient and it will cost a lot of money, which leads to inaction -- because the people who could act would be working against their self interest (more money and power). That's just typical banal evil that thrives in sick societies, not insanity.
A viable solution would be to disperse h2s, which mitigates the greenhouse effect, but it can also cause acid rain.

I'm not sure how much acid rain it would cause, but so far, it's one of the best solution there is, since reducing CO2 emissions will probably not happen, and it's already too late to reduce emissions without causing too much trouble.
> Similarly, this sets students up for a false idea of their “good subjects”, when instead those are familiar subjects. A student who could be a polymath gets discouraged from pursuing multiple subjects

I had never considered it that way, interesting perspective. Not yet sure how this will work in the grander scheme, I'm thinking of the impact on the value of a diploma when it's based on learning ability or broader knowledge as compared to being specialized in one thing. Something I'll be thinking about in the future.
Grades give students a way to calibrate their performance relative to peers. For some this is demotivating, for others it's motivating. Competitiveness is not inherently bad, and many people can't thrive in an environment where only effort counts and everyone gets the same participation trophy.

Detailed feedback is a separate issue and is not an alternative to grading, but complementary to it. All writing can be improved in some way, and the teacher should give tips to each student in how to get to the next level. The best kid in class may saturate the grading scheme, but should still be told how to improve relative to themselves.

Maybe English as a subject is too subjective for numerical grading, but the problem with text-only evaluation is that it's not clear and can be misinterpreted by students and parents.

In Hungary, we had some years when the first few years in primary school were grade-free, with only free-text evaluation sent to parents, in order not to discourage low-achieving kids. Parents found it very difficult to interpret or conclude anything, though, like "okay, but what does that actually mean?" Eventually, most teachers converged on using certain turns of phrase which constituted a pseudo-grade-scale, and finally the thing was reversed and only the first school year is gradeless now (afaik).
So Java isn't on thin ice if it's used heavily.
I did a double take because I've been using pictures from unsplash found by searching "tokyo night"[0] and "night city"[1] for wallpapers and they're nearly identical in color, saturation, and mood. I just rechecked because I thought maybe someone was stealing his work. Nope, they're originals, but amazingly similar.

[0]: https://unsplash.com/s/photos/tokyo-night
[1]: https://unsplash.com/s/photos/night-city

Duncan Lewis's look especially similar, especially this one: https://unsplash.com/photos/_iS8zogaLcg

It's nearly identical to the left image from the fourth set from the top.
Exactly. They're one OMON or FSB visit away from 'having ties to the Russian government.' Refusing to acknowledge that is just downright disingenuous.
The problem is that it solves a problem that nobody actually has and provides tinder to make a problem that actually exists worse.

Political machines exploiting nursing homes, pushing absentee ballots on the elderly, etc are already problematic, and allowing field GOTV teams to collect this type of data in mass is would make expanding these operations in size and scope.

You’d also create the new problem of hyper-partisan people crying about voter fraud. You’ll have a bunch of lunatics running around with fake ballot receipts to push whatever narrative they are trying to push.

In my state, it’s illegal to take pictures of ballots at the poll, and there are bipartisan poll inspectors that will shut that down if it happens.
It isn't normal, I don't know anyone that has had such training, but it does exist as a thing (mostly in elementary schools). Frankly, I think "active shooter training" is neurotic and a waste of time, considering how extremely rare it actually is.
That's true, but it's also true that, separately, the responses and mitigation efforts often aren't rational and are preyed on by opportunistic business people with an interest in misleading folks, just like anything else.
Or... release the documents to journalists, anonymously. Then the public interest is served and you get to keep your job (if you still want it).
The method I posted above doesn't write anything to /usr/local. Root isn't required. Everything is written under ~.
Ok, fair enough, this provides useful context, and gives background to why the US, which otherwise sports major talent (and possibly similarly other countries), did not do as well in a world event as might have naively been expected by a casual observer.

So if the argument in question was "Americans claim to be the best but they suck", you'd be absolutely right and well justified in your rebuttal. But it's not, and I wouldn't make that claim anyway because I have nothing against the US or its baseball tradition.

Unfortunately the argument in question is "Can the World Series be classified as an international event, or does the name reflect nationalistic sentiment instead?"

With this in mind, if anything, this rebuttal seems to provide further evidence against the World Series being aptly named. The message seems to be that the World Series is so called because it considers itself world-class and leagues ahead of other nations (which may or may not be true), and need not attempt to prove this fact by competing in the international stage earnestly or indeed bothering to send competitive teams to world events.

So it indeed seems to be a national event which ascribes itself 'world' status out of nationalistic sentiment. Or at least, I think that's how most people (presumably including Americans) would perceive this name. I highly doubt there's a single American out there who honestly thinks that the World Series is a truly international event where teams from other countries somehow consistently fail to appear in televised finals.
I spent Sunday researching alternatives, then uninstalling KIS and trying to install BitDefender.

From this I conclude that the current state of AV/Security apps is dismal. Researching alternatives is difficult, it falls directly into the cesspool that is web product recommendation in 2022. Trying to weed out the garbage articles, I find a handful of apps that are consistently rated that the top.

I discarded the recommendation of McAfee. I'm forced to use that awful thing at work, and I won't deal with the performance penalty it exacts. I wound up deciding that BitDefender was the best choice.

But setting up the new software has been an awful out-of-box experience. Configuring the tool was a serious chore. The tools (like for the firewall) were clunky and difficult to use, and once I finished on one machine there's no way to export the settings to apply to other devices. Going to their website to make suggestions, I found another post indicating that their tool is unable to restore from quarantine, files that belong in protected parts of the filesystem. The support analyst had replied "thanks for the interesting suggestion" - for something that seems like a Severity 1 bug!

I'm not trying to advocate for Kaspersky - I can see that with security being its raison d'etre, they're a bridge too far. But come on, the rest of the industry really needs to get their act together. The KIS product is really head and shoulders above other products I've seen, and we should be competing on the merits, not just "the Russians are a*holes".
> I strongly believe in environmentalist issues, and I understand intellectually that we would be better off if we mostly resided in compact environments.

The issue is that classic democrat “I believe in climate change but a large house and a F-150 / giant SUV is a want I don’t want to compromise on” is why we’re not making progress on any of this. Those things will still consume a ton of electricity when they’re electric.

> My town isn't very dense right now, but there is definitely pressure to build more homes. When that happens, my interests will be harmed, and the interests of people who would like more density would be served

When you bought your house, you bought the land, not the right to decide what other people do with their property.

> Why is it fair that one group's preferences matter and another group's preferences do not

Because you preferences lead to my grand kids having a noticeably worse planet to live in?
Agree, im motivated by giving users the most accurate informations about the space
especially since it looks nothing like the real colors of Tokyo. But hey with Photoshop you can make everything look completely over the top.
This is by design. All those companies are in bed with the feds, and no matter what administration.
The State is not there to protect and serve you. Unless proven otherwise the State sees you as a potential enemy.
Maybe for your smart lock - but sandos has "GPS based automatic unlocking" so his lock vendor probably knows exactly where he lives.
I didn't start using a mac until iPhone development started, so the earliest version was 10.5 for me, but in that and later versions, the entire system could be crashed by corrupted fonts, not even system fonts.
> I’m surprised they even offered to let him stay if he removed them

Isn’t it just like with the police, they can legally lie in this context? “If you turn yourself in we’ll go east on you”. They can just turn around and fire him anyway because it is an at will work state
Software design is refinement, not abstraction
The argument is not that we need to neutralize a student's head start.

The argument is that students should be evaluated based on their mastery of the content at the end of the course.

Giving too much weight to early grades and tests results in disproportionately penalizing those students who enter the course with the least prior knowledge. Those students are already going to have to work harder than their classmates to catch up. Averaging in their initial low grades just serves to penalize them further.
I don't like to drag personal information in, but along this tangent it's critically important to note that he is still in college. There's every reason to believe that he made an honest mistake, and will hopefully be more responsible in the future now that he understands why "I've obtained a snippet from the internal investigation report" is so much more problematic than "I've obtained screenshots from LAPSUS".
I went to school when Irish bombers will blowing up my home town and killing kids. I remember having a fire drill once at school which might have doubled as a bomb-threat drill.

Far more danger from the car drivers outside the front gates.
I have some tips. If you are applying from a public middle school and have not been through the process before, you are at a big disadvantage. The number 1 tip is to start early, middle to end of 7th grade.
Portugal. 4% SWR (tolerating dips to 3.5% occasionally). Once you're old enough to collect Social Security (if US centric), you can tolerate a bit more drawdown or market vol (or lower your annual WR) with the additional monthly benefit. D7 visa requires only ~9k EUR/year in passive income for the lead applicant, a bit more for each additional adult or child on the application. Universal healthcare system buffers you against medical tail risk wiping out your assets. Non Habitual Resident tax status is favorable to this level of wealth.

(not investing advice, see https://www.reddit.com/r/ExpatFIRE/ for more info or other leanFIRE locations)
I grew up in the UK so never had anything other than fire drills, but I’m in the US now it’s pretty sad when your kindergartner tells you they had to pretend there was a lion in the corridor and the teacher locked the door and asked them to hide in the corner of the classroom.
Let’s see you do it, he’s available and actively looking [1]. And make sure you let the rest of the company and your prospective clients know you’re hiring this guy specifically for his track record of leaking privileged information.

Leaking information that “needs to be public” is one thing. Doing it under your own name is sheer stupidity and reflects the worst possible judgment.

[1] https://twitter.com/BillDemirkapi/status/1508820739968880640
I had such a situation when I first entered college. I came from a disadvantaged background, and was not a good writer. My freshman composition class was taught by a woman who had us write synopses of what I thought of at the time as boring, long-winded New Yorker articles. She ruthlessly hammered me on grammatical errors. I ended up withdrawing from the course.

Then next semester I had a the same class but a different professor. He was much different. He had us write about our life experiences and things that interested us. You would get the grammatical corrections as feedback but you would not get blasted for them. Over that one semester I used the literary handbook I was given, and got a lot better at it. It really helped me. In my future liberal arts classes I had to take, I got good grades on my papers and they were well received.
The leak is already widely available publicly. It's OSINT now, public domain. Pretending like it doesn't exist is going to do customers a lot more harm than good, so doing your part to make sure that people know that these materials are public is 100% in the interest of the public, and Zoom's customers.
Haha.

It’s also trivial to create a fake police department in some small town, set up google maps entry etc…

What then? What about when you operate internationally and have to accept requests from 100+ jurisdictions?
I’ve been doing a fair amount of subpoenaing phone records lately.

It does seem like AT&T, for example, just sends the records (late) without any sort of verification.
Not OP, but I'm guessing they're referring to this -

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
Yep, I'm not sure what happened, but things are much worse now.
That's likely a good metric on whether the page developer is exceeding reasonable bounds. If their content looks like an ad as detected by the best, hardened, most widely used protection software, it's reasonable that the developer should reconsider the implementation or feature altogether.
This is a non sequitur. the idea that you expect brain inflammation when you get a mild cold is just dishonest.

This paper in the OP is pretty much confirmation of many presumptions that Physicians have had about COVID for the last few years.

Coronaviruses are adapting rapidly and are getting more creative in how they debilitate who they infect.
Paper ballots requiring a lot of work is the whole point. This makes tampering at scale a lot more difficult and a lot easier to detect.
They are requesting feedback on the pricing model for the latest revision of the technology, maybe HN could change their minds:

https://www.gmaster.io/pricing
It’s a good question for the Windows ecosystem, because it was absolutely necessary for Windows 7 and earlier, but I haven’t used later versions.

I’ve been using Linux/Mac exclusively for the past 10 years and never even considered it.
> For example, students who come into a course with little prior knowledge earn lower grades at the start, which means they get a lower final average, even if they ultimately master the material.

One of my strategies in college was to really study on the first exam. The logic being is it's just introductory material and therefore the easiest exam to make an A on. Subsequent exams tended to get into the nitty gritty and require a lot more information to be understood / retained. This held true on any course. In my experience, this negates the quoted point that people who had little prior knowledge would do poorly early on. Granted I went to college a long time ago. Things may have changed.
Reminds me of me of mako's "Free Software Needs Free Tools" from 2010, both articles couldn't be more relevant today.

https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
> If one doesn't know if the company is a partner or not, they still can't divulge the information.

So if Okta partners with 90% of tech companies, then no one can research what they do and talk about it?

And more generally who isn't a "potential partner"? Can we say anything about any company at all?
I don't think that's true. The 2022-02-02 copy of the support page on archive.org shows the same answer:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220202033903/https://support.g...

(That's the first version of that page on archive.org, and also seems to be the day this was announced based on the previous HN discussion.)
"Google stopped scanning Gmail.com users' inboxes in 2017"

Actually, what the Guardian article says is that Google claims that:

"Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalisation after this change."

That doesn't mean they don't scan/read/use the contents of Gmail users' mailboxes completely. It just means they claim they don't do it for ads personalization.

So nothing in that announcement prevents them from doing this for other reasons.

There's also plenty of other juicy data that Google gets on you.. such as who you communicate with and know (gotten through Gmail and many other means), and things they can infer about you, which isn't affected by this announcement at all.