skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's intuitively clear that your rebuttal is a poor one made in bad faith, but we might as well get into why:

I could use an "oil-refinery" to run over someone. I have equal access to cars and gas stations to the police.

However, I couldn't use Accurint as part of a chain of tools to extract explicit photos of someone. Access to Accurint is a privilege of the police.

Without this person's abuse of the elevated societal privilege that police get, he wouldn't have been able to extort his victims. He'd still be a shitty person, with all the same motives and lack of morals, but without the power his police network gave him, he would have been impotent to achieve his goals.
I asked for links. I've never bought something like a drill or battery operated saw that didn't come with a battery. Did they come with drill bits or a blade? Not always, but I think a customer can expect a battery and a way to charge it.
I'm not sure why you feel the need to make negative assumptions about what I will/won't do. Doesn't seen like a character judgement is relevant to the discussion. I even said "maybe I'm missing something".

For some reason, I had thought that there were certain lawsuits that wouldn't even be entertained by the court, regardless of whether the defendant chose to actually defend themselves. If that is the case, I think this should have been one of those. If that's not the case, I still don't see how a fine of $1b, or even $100k, could ever be considered reasonable in this situation.

On the defamation part, someone else responded similar so I'll copy and paste my response here:

> I'm not a lawyer so I could be wrong, but aren't those cases only held up and prosecuted when the victim(s) suffered real financial damages? E.g. lost their job, company went under, etc.
I have yet to see what tangible damages Alex Jones caused the parents of the Sandy Hook incident. Emotional damages to be sure, but I don't believe fining someone because they hurt another's feelings is a good precedent to set.
A. Created trillions of dollars of wealth doing what? Because it seems like Silicon Valley is well on its way to being the new "big tobacco" with the level of surveillance and advertising that has been normalized.

B. There's no way to know whether a more diverse Silicon Valley would have created $trillions + X dollars. Saying something was successful doesn't tell you anything about whether the alternative would have been more successful or not.

C. Wealth creation is a shitty metric. Ideally, all economic activity serves some purpose that makes actual people's lives better. This is why breaking windows to stimulate economic activity is considered a fallacy[1]. This is somewhat related to A, but saying "wealth was created so everything must be ok" is not very convincing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Did I say that? Or am I responding to a extremely bizarre comment about the US being a “failed state” when parties found a solution without even exhausting the most obvious answer (given the US is a lawsuit-happy nation)
>I seem to remember

My memory does not deceive the judgment of my natural neural network.
If there is a difference between them at all.

NEURAL NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION OF BINARY TREES
by Dr.Ismail A. Farag and Dr.Fawzy Ibrahim

https://journals.ekb.eg/article_25572.html
I've never travelled before (other than the usual British holidays to france and spain, in which you make an immediate detour to the first red lion you see and kind of just sit around that for a week), but have recently been feeling like I should at least try it. The problem is, I have no idea where to start, where to go or what to do. I don't really have any opinions on where I'd want to go because its never been something I've considered doing.

Ideally, it'd be really nice to find a group of people who also want to go travelling and who are also more into it that I can join along with. Not like a tour guide, I'm not a huge fan of strict activites and basically just want to go foreign pubs, but a few people who I can socialise with and who know what they're doing, that'd be great, but so far Google hasn't turned up a lot.

Anyone have any advice for somone like me? For some reason I know the more granular advice like "travel light", but don't really have a clue about the much broader stuff like "go to x"
Of course, it's meant to show the problem in that argument. It's all part of the chain.

A more accurate headline could be "Ex cop paid hacker to hack women", but that doesn't sound quite as good. If there's a complete list of passwords for every citizen at Accurint and the hacker was just a middle man because the "ex cop" doesn't want to touch a computer but he gives them the username + password, then yes, he "used law enforcement tech to hack them". But it doesn't sound like that's what happened.
So your suggestion is we ground all flights for 6-12 months while they retrofit new altimeters so you can have your phone battery die faster?
This is just not true. I've been using my banking apps succesfully since last year across 3 rooted cheap phones with 4 distinct custom LineageOS ROMs with just some Magisk modules.
Search “tool only” and you’ll find tons of power tools with no batteries. You have to own their batteries already. For example, I own about 20 dewalt tools and only 3 batteries. When I buy a new tool, it’s usually cheaper for me to buy dewalt because I have the batteries. Most manufacturers do this, or the common ones you’ll find in big box retail. I’m not sure if it’s US only thing though.

I don’t buy the wealth/income factor. A company prices their products and if you can’t afford it, you shouldn’t buy it. That’s a pretty universal concept.
that is okay, i notice i left context out of my post as i hastily wrote it.

thank you for your kind words, i think it is definitely best to look at this situation from the angle of "learning opportunity".
The Barcelona team is in danger, and the conditions in the Barcelona team do not bode well at all, and the future of the former coach and player is in danger because of this!!
Hey Chris, just wanted to say I love Dignity, and enjoy listening to you on various podcasts. The Econtalk episode and the recent Lamp Magazine ones were great!
Broad full text search is incredibly hard to do well. I've had to build, maintain, and improve multiple search systems. The difficulty is largely dependent on the context of the type of search problem you are solving. A lot of complexity depends on your answer to some of these questions:

- Does the searcher already know the result they are looking for? (If yes, much easier)
- Are there subjective and objective qualities of the results which should alter the search score, sometimes separate from the text being indexed? (If yes, much harder)
- What is the quality of the text being indexed? (If end-user provided, this will vary widely)

Ultimately, building good search is often a struggle against providing the best possible results between searcher intent and incomplete document evaluation criteria. People never really think about when a search is working really well, but they definitely know and complain when it's working poorly.
Some things are obvious - people have talked about "self-driving cars" for almost as long as there have been cars. Pirates and porn-lovers were watching entire movies on their computers, via broadband internet, 5+ years before Netflix launched their first streaming service. Electric cars - around since the 1880s.

Other things are completely non-obvious. Politicians and journalists falling in love with a platform that only allows 140-character messages? Very much unexpected.
> it'd get stuck behind all the ox carts already on the road.

Lol, that's pretty much the case today, as anyone who's driven a sports car in traffic, on public streets can attest!

In my public education the steam engine received zero coverage which is a pity because it's development and application spurred so much science and understanding. I've often thought a science curriculum based on the study of steam and work would be particularly enlightening.
Postgres comes with a trigram module. Supports indexing and its much more stable in its result than relying on stemming especially if you're interested in misspellings, the similarity comes with variants with specialized behavior for total similarity, word similarity etc.

You might want to give that a chance.
I believe metallurgy played a big part in it too. It may actually be the improvement in canon during the age of the great european land laws that brought our steelworking to the place needed.

It's amazing how many details needed culminate into what now seems a relatively obvious technology.
The cop was trained to use this tool, and likely would not have had the technical know how to achieve this on his own.

The existence of similar tools doesn't reduce the abuse the officer committed.
I'd rather the opposite: when luggage is checked in, a smart tag is attached. Then, it's retrieved right before leaving the luggage area, such that you know that the person who got the luggage is the right person.

That said, that brings a lot of logistical complication and cost, and won't happen anytime soon.
No, you have control over dpkg.

It was snap that updated firefox regardless of whether you wanted it or not.
StraightDope is a forum which covers a little bit of almost everything.

https://boards.straightdope.com/
Is it? Would you rather be dead or a zombie?
>How were those carriers threatening Taiwan exactly? I understand how those carriers might have threatened China, but not Taiwan.

If it triggered the war, do you think it would be waged mostly on territory of continental China, or Taiwan?

To put it differently - nobody is claiming USA wants to _invade_ Taiwan. They "merely" wish there was a war _in_ Taiwan. Contrast it with Taiwanese, who generally prefer the "leave it as it is" option.

>I already have mentioned the Anti-Secession Law multiple times

Ah, indeed. Except you failed to mention it's from 2005, which in this context was ages ago. And then you quoted the part which clearly states that an invasion is pretty much out of the question - China could only do it to "protect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity", which is a higher bar than most superpowers have (cf Hague Invasion Act).
[nsfw]
Why not redirect the user to GitHub.com?
Invitro Braincells Play Pong
I find this idea somewhat compelling. Anecdotally, my favorite boss was someone who did not want the job. He just looked around and realized the alternatives were worse. Meanwhile, everyone else seems to have arrived at the position by wanting the power/wealth of continuing to climb the ladder.
I am fairly optimistic about Chinese semiconductor even in the face of a full western blockade. The internal Chinese market is simply too big to not be served.

Also it is not correct that the value the Chinese semiconductor industry has been "reduced to zero overnight". If anything, judging by the stock market price of the China's largest contract fab SMIC relative to TSMC, the Chinese have been hurt less.
Thanks so much. Really appreciate that.
In general, if you are a machine learning person and you are using a regression system that "explains" itself somehow, I highly recommend frequently looking at those explanations. Once you're excited that you've built a 90%+ model, crack open the hood of that model before you deploy it and do a sanity check on it. While ML algorithms can occasionally pluck some interesting insights out of the data, in my admittedly-limited experience I've also seen some models put together out of what is clearly just garbage, meaningless weights placed on attributes that can't possibly be that relevant carving out a hyperplane through hyperspace that can't possibly represent reality, despite all the efforts of ML models to hold out validation data and rotate their validation data and everything else to avoid overfitting.
Also: once your data leaves your own custody assume it is public.
At a certain level, you can't fix stupid

This, and laziness in the name of avoiding friction and remaining competitive. In every size organization I have been in the customer code will be audited by third parties. I have never seen internal automation audited by third parties. Not in banks or financial institutions. I've worked for both big banks and small financial institutions that grew into big ones. People get spread thin and fight to maintain control of the systems and code they are responsible for and this is only getting worse with time in my experience. With time more command and control systems are spread out and inter-connected with on-prem and cloud solutions that delegate root privs to third parties running entirely closed source code with very little consequences for damages. Infosec and security orgs apply very outdated logic that would not even stop an amateur attacker.

If you were able to do that, someone (probably multiple people) weren't doing their jobs.

By design these jobs do not exist at least not in a meaningful manor. People validate change tickets. People validate that code does what it says it does but that's where they usually stop. Security organizations these days are being moved under the same orgs that manage code to reduce friction. This stops Security Theater which is indeed a real problem but it also curtails people going down rabbit holes. Close ticket, move onto other issues, don't block a team from getting work done. Don't like what someone is trying to implement? No problem, design a better solution. For 8000+ developers? Yeah nobody scales like that.

People review individual code snippets. People stopped looking at big pictures of implementations. Disasters like Solar Winds don't happen because of one piece of nefarious code. They happen because a broken framework of thousands of pieces of poorly thought out code are glued together. There comes a point where the junk-yard of automation gets so big and ugly that even if leaders wanted to overhaul it they could not and if something nefarious was occurring nobody would see it, probably not even for a long time after damages were done. It's next to impossible to reverse engineer junk-yard automation which is what most automation becomes with time.
Someone mentioned the idea of a TUI VS Code the other day and I thought it was a great idea. Also, how about a text-only reboot of the web?
Reduce or eliminate entirely? I'd advocate for the latter.
Lufthansa deserves it. Worst airline I've ever flown (and that's saying something being from Canada).
To add to this clarification, the reason is that the power tools from one company typically have interchangeable battery packs, therefore if you have purchased a few full sets with battery and charger, often you do not need more, therefore tools can be purchased "body only".

Here is an example: https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-ONE-HP-18V-Brushless-Cordl...

Edit: GP asked for link to tool that costs similar to an iPhone that is body only, here's one priced at $2500:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Makita-18V-LXT-Lithium-Ion-Cordl...
> You could do something similar in tech

Honestly... why bother though? Whatever process you put in place to ensure diversity will be scrapped as a failure if it doesn't produce a very specific outcome (say, 50% men and 50% women). The only process that will be considered a success is one that leads to a particular outcome, so why not stop with the whole song and dance and just mandate the outcome and stop playing games with the process to get there?
You can buy most cordless power tools “bare”, without battery+charger. Because those are a significant portion of the cost and if you already have several tools in that family, you probably don’t want to pay for another battery. (Or charger…. I admit to having a couple duplicate chargers, which bugs me.)
What about being a parent? From what I hear it's like having a second job or even more work than that.
Death threats are illegal. Calls for censorship are not.
I had discovered the author through his series on Istanbul, which I thought was interesting and insightful: https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/walking-istanbul-part...
You would be better of to switch provider. ISP should have one purpose, provide internet access, not control what you do with it. Here they don't even block SMB, let alone other services. If one couldn't open services to the outside ISP would be out of business, in an era of IoT, almost everyone I know has at least one webcam exposed. Is it secure? well, depends on the person who set up the thing. Blocking common ports it's a router feature, but you can turn it off. Just stay away from those shady ISPs. I've been running my own HTTPS server, SSH bastion host and VPN without any issue for years.
I make a living telling people where I went.

This article is based on lots of request of those people asking me for an article like this.
Would I rather be dead or use TikTok? Come on now, you know the answer to that.
Ok TIL. But still makes no sense to me if they informed you about what was in the box. I’m just stuck in that mental model I suppose.

Also doesn’t quite make sense why charging cables is different than any other power source. Batteries for toys, fuel for cars, etc. Seems kind of arbitrary.
I just want to say, document everything, all the process, nothing must ti be left in the air, ask, ask and ask again, be clear and honest with the company, nothing must be left in the air (I told you that..) and relax.

I want to read an update of this upgrade and share a beer or whatever after all.

Enjoy the rollercoaster ride and good luck!
Sure if we’re talking about the idea, I was more so referencing the realization of that idea.
I have to say this is one area that I actually support the defund the police narrative. Privacy and security should be a sort of digital human right, and rather than have a perverse incentive to not disclose holes (even if it's simply weak handling of an indviduals own data), police should "Serve and protect" by suggesting or even helping secure an individual's privacy and security.

What might that look like? Perhaps every time Accurint is used against a target they should be emailed/mailed/delivered a report that details all the findings? That would help someone be better protected from malicious actors.
They were giving it away as a benefit to OnePlus customers a week before they shut it down. Here's a free benefit for your membership... psych.
The industry at large has agreed that what is bad is inheritance of implementation, even hip languages like Rust support inheritance of interfaces, so Java isn't wrong there.

And naturally the whole COM like OO ABIs also support it.
Denver also https://kdvr.com/news/local/study-denvers-star-program-reduc...
This would be very useful in a post-apocalipse scenario. Simple to use, simple to run, very powerful on what can be created with it :)
For me, at least, It's just nice to see a perfectly useful, quirky "thing" on the internet that isn't monetized or having some ulterior motives.

Hearkens back to that feeling of all of us being internet citizens and laughing that I'm not the only one that makes this mistake.

Maybe I'm looking into it too much, though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ah, so you think the only thing I do with a computer is use the browser? That's weird, I was just making an example of something that is so slow that is literally unworkable in the modern day already.

Impacting networking affects the entire machine, especially in so far as a computer is increasingly just a dumb terminal to something else.

Look, If you make network requests potentially 20% slower then the browser performance will be impacted too, it's so obvious that I'm not sure how I can explain it simpler.

By how much? I am not sure, but you can't say it won't be slower at all unless we're talking about magic.

Pretending that it's trivial amounts of performance drop without evidence is the wrong approach. Show me how you can have similar performance with 20% increase in latency and I will change my stance here.

As it stands there are two things I know to be true:

Browsers rely on networking (as do many things, btw) and software is increasingly slow to provide similar value these days.
Depends on the country and sector. Where I work it’s pretty much impossible to fire people. Worst case, positions with older employees are phased out (which still sucks for the teams). That means employees get offered nice retirement packages which they don’t have to accept (but usually do).
i think an important part of my job that i overlooked when i first started was my availability. i do not have all the answers, half the time i don't even know what i am doing but i know that i am available to try. and i think that is really important. i will be the guy that is there to try.

thanks for sharing your friend's story, it has helped put a lot into perspective for me
Tiktok/bytedance already have large ML infrastructure in place (GPU clusters), and since quantum chemistry simulation is moving towards ML based simulation, they have an edge there. Open source ML simulation software such as DeePMD-kit is already seeing contributions from Tiktok employees.
No different from any other social media site that needs to track logged-in users to show them ads.

Reddit is great, the business model around it is trash.
I would too, but I'd consider the former a win to a lesser degree.
What are you talking about? The secularist moderates and liberals suppressed the Muslim majority for nearly a century. They repeatedly banned Islamist political parties. This is a Muslim majority country where headscarves were banned for decades.
The problem with Twitter, for a certain and specific segment of its users, is that it bans too many users and removes too many posts.

The other problem with Twitter, for a different but specific segment of its users, is that it doesn't ban enough users and remove enough posts.

If Musk changes Twitters content moderation policy, Users from column A will be happier, and users from column B will be less happy.

I believe there are a lot more people in Column B than A.
Are you arguing against the entire legal concept of libel/defamation?
Yes, that’s part of the intention of the law in fact, so that a company can’t advertise a lower price than the consumer would actually pay.
For the record, the police are a civilian organization, the fact that they like to gear up in military equipment and pretend they're in a war is part of the problem
16 billion mobile phones owned worldwide, 5.3 billion will become waste in 2022
Yeah I love the idea of trainhopping but seeing The Vagrant's trainhopping video pretty much robbed any residual romance from it for me.

It's a dirty, dangerous and cold way to travel. A bit like the guy that packed himself up in a crate to get back home; not something I'd ever really want to experience myself.
Or moves to China...

I was working with an IoT company who proudly showed us, their biggest customer, how the signing keys to particular actions that could impact many, many people were held on a rather trick little Spyrus USB stick. Which they displayed. In the pocket of a person that had the requisite passphrases to access it all on her own.

I asked what would prevent the person from hopping a plane out of nearby SFO and having a pleasant CCP-funded retirement and they turned all sorts of colors. They invested in a proper storage mechanism (and key management processes) after that.
I hadn't considered it until now, but it could be a nice change.

Kind of like a mini bunker in your own home.
If you were using an iPhone with a dock connector, hats off for stretching one from 2012 (at best) to 2020, but that's hardly a large enough segment to count. Those things did not even have 4G, so the idea that a significant number of people were using one until 2020 and also decided to upgrade to an iPhone 12 is ridiculous.

Also, if you were using an older Android etc. you are still not required to use the USB-C to lightning cable. You can get a USB-A to lightning cable for cheap, and those aren't as liable to burn down your house as a cheap charge brick.