skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It doesn't matter. Even the theoretical possibility is bad.

So you're saying that we should get rid of reputation systems because they can theoretically be used to deny people services?

>If you're going to be denied medical care because of a score generated by a third-party you should be allowed to see the score, know how it is generated, and be allowed to fix errors.

You can already see your report and fix any errors. I'm not sure how "you should be allowed to see the score, know how it is generated" helps though. If your Experian Medical Score™ is 500, and all the details (eg. past medical bankruptcies are correct), what are you going to do? Argue that you merely warrant a score of 600? Or more realistically, since the scores map to a default probability, try to convince them that you merely have a 4% risk of default rather than 10%?

>What Experian is doing — controlling your ability to get a job, buy a house or even get medical care through their opaque and non-appealable scoring system — is worse than China's purported Social Credit System [1]. We look down on China's system, but our own system is just as bad if not worse.

The difference here is that the social credit system is used as a tool by the state to punish dissidents and other unwarranted behavior and participation is mandatory (ie. you don't get the choice between not serving a patron with a bad social credit score or not), whereas various credit rating agencies are providing information and businesses are choosing to make use of that information. The latter case is more acceptable because there's a legitimate interest by people/businesses that want to screen their counterparties (eg. employers who don't want flakey workers, and banks/hospitals who don't want deadbeat creditors).
Yes, it' definitely not a law of physics. It's an adage of value for a reason though too. It's about perserverance, if you can tolerate the previous steps indefinitely then there's a high probability you'll arrive at a later step.

I would say Occupy got at least to step 2 or 3 before they gave up.
I agree.

The only ones I cannot figure out in a single-pass compiler are functions, and only if they're mutually recursive. I'm wondering if that's a rare enough situation to be acceptable.
Related:

Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20369522 - July 2019 (39 comments)

Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14248419 - May 2017 (18 comments)
More data for the police state
I wouldn't know about the specific situation in the USA but here in Europe(EU or not), cash seizures happens at the borders all the time and the due process is that you need to be able to explain the origin of the money.

It is a popular theme for Turks working in Germany having their cash seized by Serbia on their way to a vacation in Turkey. This is because, the Turkish diaspora in Germany is predominantly blue collar due to the nature of their immigration(long story short, many years go Germany requested workers for their factories, many Turks took the opportunity) and they have a lot of opportunities to deal with cash and not pay tax on it.

Essentially, Turks who do "tax-free" business buy properties in Turkey and there's a common fraud to claim benefits because on the books they look very poor, so they definitely don't want that money to go into the books and the Serbian police apparently caught up with it.

Anyway, the fraud is about to be solved not by seizure of assets but by data-sharing agreement between EU and Turkey, the Turkish banks and the state will report the properties and assets to EU&UK for anti fraud purposes. There are many pissed off people about it.
It's not a wheel, it's a time machine, a carousel... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3n2sJ43Hg
Yubikeys can be stolen... I take it from the GP's description the access is sensitive enough to require more assurance than that.
Absolutely.

There were multiple daily standups, weekly standups, twice-monthly retros, monthly project updates, bimestrial project updates and quarterly workshops and offsites.

Which meant once a quarter you had at least 2 solid weeks of nothing but sync/update/standup/retro meetings to talk about the work you talked about planning to do, but failed to do because you spent all your time talking about planning to talk about planning to do it.
Machine Learning Needs a Langlands Programme (2020)
What if you buy ETH on coinbase and use tornado cash to simply stop coinbase from spying on your funds?
I believe the Dragon Fable's main point is that longevity is good, and that the belief that it isn't springs from the attempt by human cultures to concoct meaning in death in order to make it less frightening and heartbreaking.
I wonder if the Ethereum merge (moving away from mining) will cause a drop in that misuse? I know a lot of the abuse are hidden crypto miners. There's going to be so much computing power shifting to the other coins (dropping the ROI) that there won't be much worth mining that can be done in the browser.
> Tesla is sexy, sure. But I don't think they proved that people want electric cars.

I'm not sure if this is the right way to frame this. It would probably be better to say something like Tesla proved that EVs are practical and people will buy them.

> Tesla still sells very few cars (~3%). The giants sell a lot more cars

Sure, at the moment. But now you're conflating manufacturer market share with fuel type market share. A better way to think about this in the context of ICE vs EV is to look at the efforts underway by all manufacturers to ramp up EV production. It takes time to do. New companies (Lucid, Rivian, Tesa, etc.) take time to ramp up production. And then if you want to just compare manufacturers against each other with all fuel types combined, you can do that separately, to which I'd say this is not at all surprising given EV makers are new and take time to get market penetration.

> but nothing stopped the car giants from making them decades ago

All of the profit incentives in the world stopped them basically. Everyone was fat and happy with oil for cars, why bother changing anything or doing anything different?
As far as I know, the backup password is not needed for recovery using this method. When you have 'Multi-device' enabled in settings and install Authy on second device then the backup password is used/useful.

But for this method, your phone number linked to Authy Account, email Id linked to Authy Account are needed. The Process is Started by old-school SMS based OTP sent to the linked number. You then have to Cancel it via a email sent to you, if you think some is doing is maliciously without your consent.
The cloud environment right now offer so many things that you'd be wasting your time recreating everything in plain linux instances.

At the end of the day using cloud native managed resources offer real advantages from time to market to pricing that we believe people should leverage as much as they can. Unfortunately it's also how you end up being locked in, so we are trying to tackle that.
They're making $13b/yr from human trafficking alone due to sheer volume.

People already cannot pay the prices so they work it off once they get over to the US.

The higher the price the less people they can convince to exploit.

Make it more difficult for them, or is the strategy to just let them keep trafficking?
If you’re going to use that example, surely you’ve heard of “wealth barely lasts 3 generations”? Surely smart gene rich people could sustain it indefinitely?

More - https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-d...
Modern version do indeed map out your house. No cameras needed.

How do I know this? The app associated with our roomba shows the map it's created of our house. And its incredibly accurate, especially since it encourages us to tag spaces in order to set up intelligent vacuuming schedules (i.e. less in the laundry room, more in the kitchen/dining rooms).

It's even smart enough to identify temporary obstacles (like toys) and permanent obstacles.
I emailed with the “Wizard” last year or earlier this year about 5000 slides my father took of WW 1 forts and battlefields in the 80s (most not on maps or accessible). His attention to detail is insane, even by email.

I have not pulled the trigger yet because he tripped me up when he asked if the slides are cataloged in any way. They are, but the notes are scattered and it’s going to take me a significant effort to reconstruct which slides are of which location. Ultimately I’m not sure I’ll get to it and the slides will probably remain as slides until I die.
> My understanding is that their children don't even have the same capacity for empathy as children from other classes

I don't know. It seems like you are dehumanizing rich kids which I don't really think it's a great idea.
Sure, entitlement is a thing but it's not like rich kids don't have their own struggles
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Anything aiding privacy such as privacy coins, mixers, etc will be banned by the exchanges, authorities and other centralized entities which can detect that the coins have been through a mixer.

Given that many regulators have already banned and delisted some privacy coins from being exchanged, it is not a surprise to see Tornado.cash and other mixers also being banned by exchanges.
That is very cool and a clever use the technology. Any place where someone can follow your development efforts?
Are there any servers and firmware that I can use to replace the software on my Roomba?

I spent nearly $1k on my Roomba. As a single person with a dog, it helps me a lot. My allergies aren't nearly as bad, I don't have to vacuum by hand nearly as much. I liked that with the map the bot was a lot smarter and didn't bump into or damage my things.

I feel like by selling to a company like Amazon that the rug is being pulled out from beneath me. I am truly disappointed in this move and all the people involved.
Something that can help is "greasing the path" to the task so you make it easier to start. Say you want to go to the gym tomorrow. Instead of thinking "I'll see tomorrow when I can go", you can block time in your calendar, get your gym bag ready by the door, text a friend to go together at an agreed time, etc.
TC mixer is different though, it’s smart contract/zero proof based. Once it’s deployed, it just continues to work. Owners can’t steal funds. If you believe that smart contract is implemented correctly, you can continue to use it.

TC utility is diminished by other fact - TC is blocked on exchange level, exchanges do not accept funds coming from TC smart contract.
At a guess, there are a few things which "could" be working against you:

- Leadership at certain companies can include a lot of people management, and so being in a team of one possibly does make the case for progression in the eyes of HR.

- The company isn't big enough to facilitate career progression for everyone.

- The project may be seen as innovative, but possibly something that will be absorbed into the best practices of all teams over the coming years, and so there may be less of a case to promote anyone in the team because of this. (this is where you need to read between the lines a little, as PO's will omit plans like this for obvious reasons)

- Unknowns.. the people who briefly worked on the team may have raised concerns during 1-1's / exit interviews that you're unaware of.

The best advice i could give is to leave any frustration at the door during the next few months, and keep an eye open for you're dream role at another company.
I think it was a generic mips CPU.
Qdrant vector search engine v0.9.0 update went live
Qdrant has released the new version vector similarity search engine - v.0.9.0. It features the dynamic cluster scaling capabilities. Now Qdrant is more flexible with cluster deployment, allowing to move shards between nodes and remove nodes from the cluster.
I don't think there is any genetic basis for intelligence: if there was, then you would expect that the offspring of the geniuses we had in the past to have an higher chance at being extremely intelligent than other people. But this doesn't seem to be the case, as you usually never hear about the sons or daughters of such geniuses, as they seem to be like other "normal" people in most cases. I admit I'm not bringing any data to back my claim, but it seems to me that having a genius as a parent doesn't really change your chance at being more intelligent than average. You also have to consider that many breakthroughs in history weren't just the result of intelligence, but also being the right person at the right time in the right place played a big role.
Dry lightning has sparked California's most destructive fires
Yes, but the point of publishing is not to inform the public or media - the point is to communicate scientific results to others working in one's field.

Expecting it to be well explained to the general public is like asking all patches posted to LKML to include a lay-language explanation of exactly what the patch changes, without using specialized CS terms.
It might also be as simple as them seeing more cases where someone used a mixer at all that this is now on their radar.

It’s actually not easy to create a new mixer because the whole idea is that you need a fair volume of legitimate traffic. If you set one up and nobody uses it, you see no benefit. If only criminals use it, you’ve created a great lead generator for the authorities. If you’re sufficiently conspiratorial in mind, blocking the best known mixer would be a great way to drive traffic to new mixers which they secretly run.
> properly implemented MFA (FIDO/U2F tokens)

Is what you're responding to, and such an attack cannot work with them. The parent comment already clearly understands the flaws of Authy, you don't need to talk through it.

I'll try to explain the key difference between totp and webauthn style flows, as it relates to security here.

Conceptually, you can think of it as the hardware token (the yubikey or whatever) gets the site domain name the user is on from a trusted source (the browser), and then sends back a secret that is specific to that hardware device and domain. If they're on the real site, the token sends the right secret, but the attacker can't intercept it since it's sent directly between the local browser and usb device. If they're on a fake site, the secret will only work for that fake domain, not the real one, so the attacker can't forward it and have it work.

Many large tech companies use hardware tokens of this sort now, and for a company of twilio's size it's quite reasonable to expect that they provide such a token to employees and mandate using it when accessing customer data.
I promise you I'm closer to the $million a second category than the <1 category, and if the SLA is 5 minutes, it's okay to finish deboning the chicken.

That's what the company decided was acceptable, you aren't required to go above and beyond that. You won't be rewarded for it. There's no need to be a hero.

If they actually want a 1- or 2- minute response, then sure in with you, you're functionally chained to your computer. But we're taking about situations where that isn't a requirement.

Butt also, systems that cause your employer to lose millions per second don't really exist, at least in the steady-state sense. The highest gross profit companies in the world are on the order of $1 million per minute, across all revenue streams.
Ukrainian soldiers are turning consumer drones into formidable weapons of war
Love how there’s a gauge for airspeed in raw mach numbers, up to mach 4!
Yes, the container registry and build artifacts are now measured for Free users.
Treasury sanction of privacy tools places sweeping restrictions on all Americans
Last time I applied for a credit card online, they asked me to take a video of myself and turn my head from side to side.
As long as they could have taken the warheads apart, they could have built new weapons out of them. Or for that matter, just starting from already enriched fissile material would be plenty.
voip.ms have SMS support: https://wiki.voip.ms/article/SMS

It does say that short number support is not guaranteed, though.
Haha, I'm not even partway into picking a game engine. I was going to try out Unity but then the whole "bought by adtech" thing happened.
Nearly 500 US flights canceled and nearly 2k delayed on Monday
Artificial intelligence cracked biology's biggest problem
You have to be logged in to Slashdot to see it.

Slashdot had a feature where you could designate certain other Slashdot users as your friends -- and until you implemented it, there was just some default/placeholder text on your profile. That's also true in this case, but the intervening years have given it some irony.

"Mark Zuckerberg (667482) is all alone in the world."
By criminalizing privacy.
Yes, the container registry and build artifacts are now correctly displayed in the free plans.
The name Proteus must be a reference to Player Piano by Vonnegut. The main character, Paul Proteus, oversees a large industrial facility in a world where largely all work has been automated away.
I wish I could remember. It wasn't a secret sauce thing, so all I can think of is you get improved support and faster bugfixes.
Related:

Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10071252 - Aug 2015 (19 comments)

Also related:

The Myth of Self-Reliance: An encounter with Emerson’s essays - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22128651 - Jan 2020 (112 comments)

I feel like there have been other threads about this essay but I can't find them. Anyone?
This presupposes standups were for you (the manager) in the first place, but they were/are not.

They're for the developers to keep in sync. For tiny teams (1-2 developers) that's trivial and doesn't need a shared conversation. For 3+ people to try and keep in sync, it's easier if they all get together.

Sure, they can stay in sync other ways, but it's more likely that you lose productivity to people de-doing work, having trouble integrating, and losing out on developer experience when someone takes on a new problem.

The real red flag here is that your team doesn't want to talk to one another on a daily cadence. Sounds like a team that isn't really a team, to me, just a bunch of individual developers being managed by the same person.

Teams >>> individuals, every time.
I'm surprised a DAO hasn't been established to effectively "fork" mixer code into a new org every time an existing mixer is investigated or sanctioned. Ironically, I'd bet the creators of Tornado Cash will simply auction their codebase to the highest bidder - an NFT owning the source code of a mixer could be a really interesting passthrough entity if you were simply "licensing" access to the NFT...
Nukes. Nukes will say that.
The problem is that Rust developers don't just use unwrap() when it should panic. I've seen plenty of "production grade" crates basically just unwrap because the author didn't know how to handle it gracefully or just wanted to get the code compiling, then forgot about it.
Why was DirectX, the proprietary API, more successful in the first place? Because it did other things besides graphics as well? Was the graphics API better? OpenGL is reportedly buggy on Windows nowadays, but why?
Buying Down the Cost of Direct Air Capture
> The created team at the beginning was composed by: 1 developer ( myself ), 1 product owner, 1 scrum master and 1 manager.

Find a new job, that gives you the role you want.
Porn is sexy things for sexual gratification.

There, I said it. It's not a pretty mountain top sunset. It's not kittens playing. It's not useless self-help articles.
Looking for a cofounder that is interested in joining an up-and-coming digital health company. Revenite is a digital health platform that enables Physical Therapists to deliver remote care to clients anytime, anywhere. Right now, we are operating remotely with our official HQ in Durham, North Carolina. Interested in opening offices in NYC and SF this Fall.

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Please contact joe@revenite.ai if interested.
Shinylive is a WASM follow up to Shiny for Python
You've never seen a brushed motor on a woodworking tool? Brushed motors are standard, and until recently brushless motors were simply not available or were very expensive. Most of my tools are Makita (Japanese, excellent quality), and apart from a cordless track saw, all of them have brushes. Drill, electric planer, thickness planer, shop-vac, mitre saw, table saw (Dewalt), jig saw, orbital sander, corded Fein saw... all brushed.
> estimating and administering tasks

Not to mention said manager is (for some reason) laboring under the false assumption that most useful software development tasks can be accurately estimated.
I propose that it depends on why it's difficult to implement. If the behaviour is easy to explain in English but requires a complex technical solution to enable it then that's one matter.

However, if you struggle to even describe the behaviour in English then it is a good indicator that users may struggle to understand it too.

I am assuming this is the case here. It may be that the OP had a very clear idea of how the gravity and all its edge cases would hang together but just struggled to code it. I interpreted the article's wording differently.

I do think not being able to simply describe a key game mechanic in natural language is indicative that it may be hard for users to deduce too.
I was being glib.
I find myself occasionally silently belittling trigger warnings in social media and news stories, but the Tiny Holes thing really triggers me. I'm not going to Google the word right now to remember how to spell it correctly.
TornadoCash is not only for laundering. When you buy ETH on a centralized exchange, send to a self-custody wallet, they can then watch your funds and perform on-chain analytics on you, etcetc. Tornado Cash helps fix this.
This one says different.

https://www.volvocars.com/images/v/-/media/project/contentpl...

And Volvo is making EV cars.

Remember that renewables are only, what, 10-20% of our electric supply?

EVs are way heavier, and they require more energy, raw materials, and toxic chemicals to produce.

If the lawmakers where serious about this, then would solve the other problems first. We need a clean electric supply, first. Then we need a green supply chain, EV trucks, trains and ships and factories etc. THEN it might make sense to scrap perfectly good used cars in favour of brand new, shiny, must-have EVs.
The oem vendors have been adding weird surcharges for the bmcs to use features. For example hp used to charge(and I assume still does) for remote console. The author mention dell charged for using ntp, which was a little surprising. But, “enterprise” features like ntp and ldap are things vendors get excited to charge you for.
Oh, when you said securing the border I thought you meant against smuggling.
GitLab team member here. GitLab offers additional storage for $60/year for an additional 10GB of storage and 20GB of transfer/month.
> I wasn't a huge fan of iRobot's data collection, but now that it'll be going to Amazon, ugh.

Yup once data is out there, you should assume it will get into the hands of bad actors.

'Having nothing to hide' from the current data collector doesn't mean that there aren't things you'd want to hide from other parties.