skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So there is an issue with the lending system, that allows the bloated admin to continue to exist.

Colleges are investing in amenities instead of quality, affordable education, because the bloated admin is useless and corrupt, so they spend on big ticket sports facilities and buildings (where does the money go?) to justify the administrative excesses (if you build a $100 million stadium it's easier to justify a few million to renovate the presidents office).

The root of the problem is the terrible leadership, that is enabled by the broken funding model. Fixing the funding model won't resolve the leadership problems.
If we look at ~100 years of history with cars, I think it's fairly safe to say that no one's lives are especially valued. Leaded gasoline was introduced even though the dangers were already well understood, it had to take a massive public outcry campaign to get car manufacturers to do anything about driver safety ("Unsafe at any speed" and such), pedestrian and cyclist safety is still under-prioritized in designs, etc.
Soros is an American citizen. Thanks to a conservative SCOTUS decision, he apparently has every right to exercise political free speech via cold hard cash. Are you going to say anything similarly conspiratorial about Robert Mercer? Robert Uihlein? The Koch brothers?
Ah, thanks for clarifying. I did indeed misunderstand.

grep -o $pattern $filename | wc -l

would work in that case, I think.

I did have to think for a minute to come up with that version. It was definitely still much faster for me than writing my own matching logic would have been, but that may well be different for other people.
Ya. Unironically, if you were trying to destabilize the US, taking advantage of things like the fact that 30% of the country kinda has fundamentalist views on women's rights is super smart. It basically tears the nation in half with super little effort, of course they would leverage it.

It's a perfect game to play because dividing a country along the contractions in it's own ideology is unresolvable, beautiful political maneuvering. To have countered something like this, the US would've needed to probably triple it's investing in universal education 20 years ago.
CSS is also interpreted. CSS is faster because it's not a general purpose language and so its expressions have many optimization opportunities for reusing partial computations and parallelization.
People keep using email as the prime example of federation, but email is pretty terrible!

I can't communicate with anyone whose address I don't already know. There's no real "discoverability." Many people have multiple email addresses, and I don't know whether I'm communicating with the correct one, or even whether more exist that I don't know about. If an email address stops working, it just... stops working. Emails bounce back (if I'm lucky!) with no easy or standard way to say why, or what address to use instead. I could go on.

Email is great for point-to-point communication, modulo some of the issues listed above, but that's a very limited use case, not at all comparable to most social media. It's a poor replacement for Twitter, for example.
ditching C doesn't solve memory leaks but it does solve use after free. A memory leak is a performance problem that isn't generally exploitable. A use after free is almost always a security vulnerability.
Who Needs CMMC Certification? Any business and/or organization within the US Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain
https://hub.fosstodon.org/why-is-fosstodon-down/

Seems like a lot of tech savvy folks are checking it out.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/UFS-File-Based-Optimization
I'm not sure why everyone assumes this. It seems like he'd have much more ability to shape the future of Russia and protect those close to him if he chooses a successor and oversees the succession. He could also ensure better conditions for himself (i.e. not being executed) in case he ends up being unable to continue ruling due to sickness/old age.
Hell no.

SAS/C was already dead in the 90s.

GCC and VBCC are the options today.
But those that do use Gmail are well aware that they can use their Gmail account to write to @anywhere.com, not just other @gmail.com addresses. They already have that mental image in their head.

This is "just" extending that concept to @username@twitter.com, @username@facebook.com, whatever. This user on this site, same as this email address on this domain.
Even with record profits, Apple can't buy our trust
No it hasn't I'm still paying quadruple compared to last year.

Sixty euro for 19m3. Do the math.

Thank god this country is rich enough to write a 22 billion cheque I have no idea how the less fortunate countries will pull through.
The soda machine in my dorm at college had separate mechanisms for “I released a soda” and “you actually got a soda” and if you knew this, you could trigger the “I released a soda” mechanism and delay the “you actually got a soda” event until after you got your money back. You just had to stick your arm up the machine and not let the released soda fall while you hit the cancel button. Then you got your money back and then a soda. Atomicity fail.
I guess a back door does qualify as “Open”.
Antonio Damasio is a neuroscientist who's done work in the area, and has decent popsci books about this idea. I read the older ones, "Descartes' Error" and "The Feeling of What Happens", and they're fun, good reads. Apparently he's written more on the subject as well.
How about fish?
This is a bad title on the HN submission. I suspect the title is intentionally designed to capture people's attention and mislead them. The article title is much better: Does OpenSea Shared Storefront have a backdoor?

The submission title does not specify who can take anybody's tokens. Anyone who reads the article can see that the author claims that Open Sea administrators can seize anybody's tokens, and questions whether it is legal for them to retain this ability. This is much more of a nuanced situation than "omg open sea has a backdoor all your nfts are belong to us". The author also says that they will write more about this in a follow-up post.

I believe the author is correct. This is behaviour pertinent to Open Sea's ERC1155 contract (called the Open Sea Shared Storefront), and not their marketplace as a whole.
For the average developer, Unity still has the best balance between simplicity and resources (learning, assets, community) but looking forward, if I was starting out today, I'd go with Godot for indy games. When to go with Unreal is a whole different matter, but for the beginning, Unity is losing its luster.
As someone 4 inches taller and uh... let's go with significantly heavier than 171 pounds I feel like I'm losing. I certainly wonder what would happen in a crash when I'm riding with my knees jammed against the dashboard. And weight is obviously important and it's rather concerning that I'm stressing the safety system past what it was tested against.
I'm not sure what answer I expected but extinguishing all humanity was definitely not it.
> So you have no examples or explanations for what “traditions”

I have plenty. Now, I do not wish to be rude Abduhl, but I find your
"question" a little disingenuous, and your expectation that I act as
your personal tutor on well documented matters a tad entitled. This
isn't my full-time job, and I come here mainly to look for interesting
and unusual viewpoints. Have you done even the most cursory research
into the history of patents as I indicated? Do you need some reference
material or links to get started?

How about reading some lecture notes and essays (some of the finest on
the formation of copyright, patent and trademarks) on the site of
Havard law professor Lawrence Lessig [1]

[1] https://www.lessig.org/
There has always been a mechanism that allows academics to freely pursue research: tenure. Faculty are ostensibly supposed to be the highest authority at universities, but that authority has been steadily eroded by administrators by effectively eliminating tenure-tracked positions.

Tenure had long been under attack, and the key perpetrator is administrative creep. People from the business world have taken over university governance, and the corporate culture they promote is incompatible with the mission of universities.

Machine shops are being converted from resources for staff and students into "cost centers," for example. As someone on the ground doing research in an academic environment, THIS is the kind of change that kills research productivity.

I have worked on projects funded in part by grants designed to create opportunities for students at HBCUs. The same research would have been persued regardless of funding source, but the grant brought in excellent and enthusiastic talent, and the science was better for it ultimately. We eagerly go after these funding opportunities in addition to other sources because they are truly a win for everone. I strongly disagree with the premise of the article, and find the characterizations in it to be quite disingenuous and counterproductive to promoting fruitful dialog.
I imagine it's a similar story to why the industrial revolution did not occur in ancient times, despite elaborate steam powered machinery being known technology: insufficient demand to promote scaling the technology into affordability / practicality. Roughly speaking I imagine it took a master craftsman on the order of a year to make the Antikythera mechanism, and all it did was automate a fairly niche task that could be done relatively easily by hand anyway. It is fascinating to consider that there must have been many similar devices that we've never found, and tantalizing to wonder if there are other classes of ancient mechanical computer we're not aware of. But fundamentally, they're very very expensive toys, not ubiquitous household items like coins. Even if a thousand were made, which would take generations to do by hand, we are still lucky to have found even just one.

Nearly 2000 Albatros D.III fighter aircraft were built to fight in WW1. Today, only tiny fragments survive in museums around the world. What will be left in two thousand years?
I find using objects mapped as switchKeyToFunction to be more idiomatic and readable. e.g. shapeToDrawFn[shape] But to each their own
Cool I had no idea about that. I like FreeBSD though but still, good to know.

When I use Linux now (usually for docker stuff on servers) I tend to use alpine which has a similar focus on simplicity.
So am I… but he is threatening to break the favorite toy of the chattering classes, so he gets to be the new media punching bag that replaces Trump.
The web itself has a proxy/cache layer, what more is needed? I don’t think it’s inherently unavailable as it is, no more than RSS readers were.
Yeah, the StackExchange spam was one of the things that made me think, “hey, there could be something to this...”

I think I’m way ahead of you on the paranoia: both the router and the Ethernet switch you see are actually behind the NAT (the router is just serving as a WiFi AP), so you’d have to already be on the LAN to get at them. (Also, my devices all treat the network as an untrusted public one anyway, so even if someone did decide to target me specifically there’s not much extra they could do even if they did get access.)
The US would never!

https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.htm...
This question is hard to answer as the time given varies depending on the patent classification and seniority. For the application which I'll post an office action for this afternoon, I will be credited 22.6 hours. (I can't claim this is representative of what I'm working on as a whole. Looks to be a bit high for my current docket, but I don't know if my current docket is representative either.) I'm a new examiner and that's the most time anyone will get for one of these applications. A more senior "primary examiner" would only get about 11.6 hours according to my estimate. In that amount of time, try searching for and writing a 10-30+ page report on any non-trivial technology that you have only some familiarity with...

For the same application, the next action I take will get significantly less hours. I get about 4 hours to reply to an amendment (if it's rejected and it usually is). That includes searching and writing it up. I think examiners typically exceed that time and have to go under time for other tasks in order to reply to amendments.

(Again, like my other comments here, this is just my opinion, not that of the USPTO or US government.)
> There is a lot of denial about this interference happening out there

I would argue there’s a lot of creative interpretation of how much “interference” actually happens. Democrats are pretty much starting from the position that, due to demographics, the only way Republicans can gain the upper hand in national elections (or particular state/local elections) is through trickery and the assistance of foreign government meddling. Hence why before and after every election we’re warned repeatedly about foreign interference in our elections. And you would be lying if you said that if the expected red wave materializes that there won’t be large amounts of ink spilled over how Russia pulled it off yet again.

Yet if Democrats were to unexpectedly come out on top in a few days, do you think the same people going on about foreign interference would insist that we have to see what role it played in helping certain Democrats win their respective races? Somehow I doubt it. Which is why I think “interference” is a very useful political tool. It’s vague in nature, if we’re being honest it’s impossible to measure its impact, and it serves a very useful purpose — to cast doubt on the victories of political opponents.
Vietnam, country that was engaged in deathly war with US is happy to maintain decent relationship with USA.

Meanwhile, nearly every country occupied by soviet union is doing everything to help Ukraine who is fighting this way more deathly war.
It's interesting compare it to a real speech. Nixon has weird mannerisms but the deep fake feels like a disconnect between the speech and the words. It's tough to describe how my brain differentiates weird mannerisms and looking odd in a more fundamental way. In the deep fake when he reads off the names of the astronauts his shakes in this weird way that mind immediately screams that's not human, but nothing feels like that in the checkers speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk
C isn't a programming language anymore
Do you make the same differentiation when it comes to what Chinese companies may collect from the computers of American companies? Especially this part:

> there's a difference between the data being nigh-impossible for internal employees to access (perhaps only used as input for other automated systems), and data with few controls.
> Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage make E2EE the norm

E2E. yes; explicit key management, no.

So basically you are getting encryption on your device, but do not know, who can decrypt.

About the only messaging app that makes some effort on key verification and keys cannot be changed randomly is Threema.
This is not default behavior, it lets you choose to enable this feature the first time you open the Design tab.
I don't find twitter to be seamless nor easy. They have reduced my choices to the point where I can't actually see what I want to see without doing a bunch of research into how to 'game' the system.

Looking at my home page right now, Elon is at the top saying that "Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world. That’s our mission." Followed by an advert from a company I didn't subscribe to, and then a bunch of meaningless personal tweets from people I don't know and I didn't subscribe to. One news item on the whole page.

I get regular email notifications updating me on the latest paranoid rants from various right wing 'rebel' groups (that I definitely didn't subscribe to), and I cannot find any way to stop them because they only show up in my emails, not in my feed. There's no way I can see to block them. That's not seamless nor easy.

The email notifications I do want cut off important headlines half way through the sentence, forcing me to log into the platform just to read what might have happened. No way to configure that either. Certainly not seamless nor easy.
I sense a trap...
I use a Kobo and have been very happy with it. Works well with Calibre but you can also just drag and drop files to the device. Not amazing with PDFs but that’s to be expected for most e-readers in my experience.
How is that new though? Feels like just going back to forums, or heck even Discord or reddit. But personally I always felt that Mastodon is a Discord/Reddit "clone" rather than something to replace Twitter
I'd too be interested in further analysis (eg: ruling out false alarms, such as some update check) so that I can say to others with more certainty that something is of potential concern, rather than it being shot down later if someone does a more rigorous analysis.

Just because one could say a company has done controversial things before doesn't mean there's no benefit in verifying claims.
When the dotcom crash happened, I was working as a software contractor - I was able to keep finding contracts but: 1) My rate went down to half what it was before the crash, and I was pretty sure the employees who stayed were doing better than me (w/ benefits, et al), 2) The work got a lot less interesting, and 3) I was constantly stressed out about contracts being renewed.

Not super surprising - contracting is a feast or famine business, but after a few years into the early 2000's doldrums I ended taking W2 jobs and never looked back.
Talk by DeviantOllam about risk preparedness. I believe this is an important watch, and can be a wake up call.

From Description:

Question: When is the best time to acquire a lawyer, a passport, a locksmith, or a gun?

Answer: Before you need that lawyer, that passport, that locksmith, or that gun.

This is a presentation about risk, preparedness, and how to do make your best attempt to build defenses against some of the worst threats and potential problems that might ever arise in your life. Keeping your loved ones as well as your community safe is something to always keep in mind and this presentation walks through some of the most critical steps that it is possible to take... before your world explodes in a disaster.
There's a significant segment of the population who don't care about the manipulation, so long as it helps their "team".

There isn't really any way to compensate for it. All that does it encourage voter apathy at best, or at worst, people start to think "both sides do it, so it evens out."
> In one corporate biography type book the author asserted Zuckerberg would institute “lockdown” when he thought they were behind features.

Can you explain what this means? I don't know what a lockdown is. Thanks!
> A corollary to this idea is that consciousness is (most likely) spread throughout the brain so there is no 'one place' where things come back 'together'. That also means there is no one instant in time where we become 'conscious' of things.

People can start acting with seemingly-conscious intent before they consciously become aware of the action. This delay can be quite a few seconds. Under ideal conditions with brain imaging, it's possible to guess some time what a person will do before they announce their own awareness of their intent (e.g. press one of two buttons).

I've had hints of this experience subjectively, from time to time. Action, then thought, in that order. I'd like a sip of water; with particularly careful awareness of relative sequencing, I'm fairly sure that, sometimes, when this thought percolates to the surface of my mind, my hand is already moving towards the glass.

Sometimes I wonder if the conscious self is mostly just a passive observer, constantly coming up with post-hoc rationalizations to explain why the body just acted the way it did. Decidedly unnerving, but that seems to be the nature of our being.

Multiple loci of consciousness is, IMO, fairly strongly supported by what happens with brain damage. Very rarely, people with damage to the corpus callosum linking the hemispheres of the brain, develop something like alien hand syndrome, where half of their body adopts complex and seemingly-intentional behaviour, that the person is quite unaware of consciously. This manifestation is sometimes described as having a personality and desires, which are often similar, but not identical, to the conscious part of that person.
Plenty of people have that kind of pull. I don't see anyone ignoring a directive from Sundar, for example. Vision is a different story..
Run the gas through generators and generate Bitcoin with the extra electricity, then spend it on gas futures?
Even if a C program is sandboxed, lots of programs handle sensitive data that memory errors can leak. For a simple example, even in a sandbox, a memory error could pretty easily lead to being able to grab another user's password out of memory.
> There's really no reason not to use email addresses for this use case.

As elegant as that would be, confusion could arise.

Email and federated identities might be intersecting sets, but not are not guaranteed to be either subsets or supersets of one another.

The ambiguity of this seems problematic.
if mastodon continues with the growth and hits some kind of critical mass, im sure eventually most people will end up on a few concentrated servers. that just makes sense for people who aren't interested in minutia and want details abstracted away. tons of people use gmail and an awful lot of people don't, they make their own choices.

the people who do care about otehr things can go to the more specialized servers. everyone wins.

getting back to a norm where people have choice seems ideal from my perspective.
Writing the revolution: Wikipedia and the online battle over facts
Whataboutism? No, I'm just sticking with Soros for now. The rest are an exercise for others to complete. Color within the lines, please.
My Thoughts about Paperspace
Do people really forget that they once did not have an ability they currently have. It is strange to be unable to associate your past ignorance with other peoples current ones.

A lot of online communities have pretty inclusive rulesets also, even posting on some reddit forums you will quickly get treated like a pariah for violating some obscure syntax rule.
CapDec: SOTA Zero Shot Image Captioning Using Clip and GPT2
It seems iPhone is the majority in the US... which countries in Europe do not have a high number of iPhone users?
I am surprised you believe the vast majority of power point users would be handling information that could even breach export laws, or that even the majority of users are making power points to present to people of other nations...

I bet that is less than .01% of all power points created in the world
Almost like the details released don't match up with reality.
I assume the numbers are even worse for very obese people and exceptionally tall people. Are obese dummies in use?
As an Albertson's customer due to location and convenience, I have zero desire to use apps, loyality programs, or otherwise have a "relationship" with the place I buy bread from.

This marketing spend would be better placed keeping stores clean and having friendly cashiers and stockers. If I wanted a race to the bottom on prices I'd go to Costco or Aldi.
I'm not sure if it's intentional, but the title is written in such as way that it is very easy to misparse as something like "Backdoor in OpenSea allows anybody to take tokens..."

That actually is how I first read it. Not saying that doesn't make this a bad thing, but the HN title should really be reverted to the article title.