skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your concern for CSAM would be more meaningful to me if I wasn't aware that one FBI whistleblower said he was pulled off his very successful sex trafficking cases because January 6 witch hunting was a higher priority to the FBI: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/child-sex-abuse-cases-no...

Instead it feels like vapid virtue signaling, especially as Musk is doing far more to fight CSAM than the previous owners. Also, all the FBI censorship in the Twitter files dump had nothing to do with CSAM.

Anyways, no, your CSIS link doesn't even support the notion of super linear growth. And, if the FBI is inflating domestic terrorism numbers, what other agencies are doing the same?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-fbi-agents-pushed-to-f...

"The FBI leadership’s “demand for [w]hite supremacy … vastly outstrips the supply of [w]hite supremacy,” one agent told the Times. “We have more people assigned to investigate [w]hite supremacists than we can actually find.”

The FBI brass has directed the bureau’s investigative efforts primarily toward domestic extremism cases, especially those with racial components, the agent said. The agent suggested that the push is so forceful that otherwise legal activities are sometimes swept up in the FBI’s scrutiny of certain actions for a potential extremist link.

“We are sort of the lapdogs as the actual agents doing these sorts of investigations, trying to find a crime to fit otherwise First Amendment-protected activities,” he said. “If they have a Gadsden flag and they own guns and they are mean at school board meetings, that’s probably a domestic terrorist.”"

These reports really should disturb you and other readers, that law enforcement agents are being incentivized to act deceitfully on behalf of Partisan politics and as an excuse to broaden their power and influence.
Britain is still deeply racist to this day.
Didn't know about Amazon MapsAPI... jesus, they're adding new stuff to AWS every few days or what. How can anyone keep up with that is a mystery to me, and I'm managing a couple thousand AWS resources in Terraform at work.
Grievously Adultered Prosperity Pilfered
there is such a thing as measuring too much, but looking at just "revenue" and watching it go up without understanding why and without looking at peripheral metrics isn't true understanding and leads to suboptimal results. Also, a product manager isn't going to be as data savvy as a data scientist
LineageOS build guides are a great resource to get started: https://wiki.lineageos.org/build_guides
Like in the US, democracy in the United Kingdom is faltering. Our first past the post electoral system means the Tories can retain power with a third of the (active) electorate voting for them. Labour believes first past the post serves them well, but it doesn’t, because they would have been leading a coalition government in the last several elections under Proportional Representation. Instead it requires Labour to be a very broad house, meaning Starmer struggles to take strong positions on anything because he doesn’t want to lose votes from different groups (mainly from the centre right based on his recent statements). In a proportional voting system each party can be more focussed on having a distinct set of policies and beliefs, which can be debated openly with other parties without fear of alienating a large proportion of their base. It is clear that this is the core problem in the UK, Brexit was a symptom of this issue because people felt their vote actually counted and they wanted to protest against the neoliberal establishment. Now that the implications are becoming clear, a majority want to return to the EU. If Labour win the next election their position will be very fragile, and I’m unsure they will get more than one term.
Successful Aging Among Immigrant and Canadian-Born Older Adults
picoSYNTH
You're thinking Haskell. Rust has mutability all over the place, but it has safeguards against accidentally sharing across threads without synchronization or iterator invalidation.
You use very uncommon (or I'd say, left-leaning) definition of "extremism". Basically, expressing opinion you disagree with, is extremism.
How big are its coffers though?

- Mit: $26.4B

- Yale: $42.3B

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University_endowment
https://news.mit.edu/2022/endowment-2022-1007
> George Carlin put it best I think. He said the definition of real terror is waking up in mid-life and realising that all those pricks you went to school with are now running the country.

Not too worried about that; didn't attend Eton. :D
The end of the fossil fuel era is going to hit everybody. Making sure you are ready for that seems like a good start.
Not at all. They even wrote it in their manifesto.

What do you call nationalising companies and handing control to the workers? (It's in the 2019 manifesto)

That's my point: people, especially the young, don't even recognise it when described under a microscopically thin veneer. That's very worrying.

They didn't hide it, either. McDonnell did say clearly that he was a Marxist [1] and Corbyn is a socialist in the very Soviet sense.

[1] https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2018/05/how-john-mcdon...
Yes.

There's plenty of other variables at play.

e.g.

Jim built two huge public companies, while Alice reached "the goal" of selling them early and fast.

Jim's on food while Alice's on real estate, and the new bet has to do with food.

Jim's bootstrapped while Alice is not.

Jim's on hard tech while Alice does web3 stuff.

There's a reason why "past performance is no guarantee of future results".
The 2017 Corbyn manifesto was praised by Polly Toynbee of all people for goodness sake!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/11/leaked...
wow, I totally forgot about infiltration.org.

Thanks for that blast from the past man.
Aw come on. I get the HN thirst to knock Apple about absolutely everything, but the page turn animation is utter bullshit.

When I’m reading a real book I don’t see some absurd ‘scrolling over page turn’ - I just turn the page. It’s over in the blink of an eye, and isn’t some “joyful” imaginative experience, at all.
Oxford. Another town announced they were looking at this. I would also point out, this is one measure in a long string of similar measures: LEZs, that wasn't enough so now they are doing ULEZs, banning cars from some cities (York)...near me the council put a traffic calming measure near a school, this was so effective that the school was unable to receive food deliveries...all this stuff came in during Covid (my local council went into an "emergency session" during Covid, passed all these measures without votes or public enquiries...funnily enough, these were all measures that they had proposed before Covid but which failed public consultations).
Often only parts of text are pixelated.
Cool they resurrected vanced - I must have missed this
Very irrelevant as water rights use on the Colorado isn't a commons, and has been governed under the Colorado River Compact for the last century.

Note also the paper's historical inaccuracy of attributing commons failure to users of the commons, rather than owners enclosing and appropriating land from common use.
You could probably do the same for Guassian blur too, right? At least if you could get a reasonable guess for the parameters of the blur. Any case of obfuscation where plaintext and ciphertext characters have a 1:1 relationship should be trivial to undo.

If you need redaction, black it out completely.
> because pension and insurance rules (that were largely adopted from Europe) mean that they have to own large amounts of govt bonds

Let me help you with the brevity - you mean Solvency II. So you're fine with governments bailing out the financial system with our money, but not happy if they put (admittedly heavy-handed) measures in place to stop the casino mentality.
YMMV but this was based on dozens of conversations with companies where they spent hours each week reviewing those dozens of dashboards. I was specifically talking about the metrics used by any given team, as you are right that different teams might use different metrics.

"The key is that any given person shouldn’t be using any more metrics than absolutely necessary to do their job well."
They claimed to have passed:

2021-07-21 "Yesterday, FTX became the first (?) crypto derivatives exchange to complete a GAAP audit!" -- https://mobile.twitter.com/sbf_ftx/status/142135472191111577...

2021-08 -26: "Both @FTX_Official and @ftx_us have passed US GAAP audits and plan to continue getting audits going forward." --https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1431087427154849795
Ask HN: Debugging: When depth-first vs. breadth-first?
Hello -

[ I'm interested in general advice here, yet wish to give an example to set it up. ]

You have a complex software package that runs on Linux, macOS and Windows. Let's say it also interfaces with a complex piece of hardware via PCIe.

When you test the software on Linux, you get output about, say, an I/O page fault. There are some details, but you're not an experienced kernel hacker, so progress is slow if you try to dig in on it.

Some of your colleagues suggest that you stay focused on debugging the problem on Linux. Others suggest running the same test case on macOS and Windows, to see what happens, and if that sheds any light on the problem.

I'm interested in your thoughts on which approach you would take, with whatever qualifiers you wish to add, and why.

The more general question here is when you have a bug roughly like the one described above, is your preference to stay with one particular set-up and dig for all the details you can (call this "depth-first" debugging, maybe) or do you prefer to go breadth-first (when you can) to try to narrow things down?
Just a reminder, if you haven't seen it yet be sure to check out the documentary "We Live in Public"!
Thanks!

For reading an arbitrarily sized sequence, you could use the "decode_all" function (Sorry, this one is not documented yet).

Besides that, the library only supports parsing data with a statically known layout. If your data contains any self-describing sections, you would have to parse in multiple steps.

Not including these features natively was a deliberate decision, as my personal preference in those cases is to write the outer glue code myself.
I'm a student at Johns Hopkins, and we have a fairly extensive steam/maintenance tunnel network. I've been down about 15 times this semester (although more focused on climbing buildings as of late), and hauled quite a few other students with. Burnt my arm pretty bad once, and got caught once but just played stupid and they let me walk. Plenty of evidence from past generations; seems to me like they were pretty popular in the 70s... who could've guessed.

You can find some of the pics here: https://www.instagram.com/jhu_liminal_spaces/?hl=en
That would be true if you didn't assign a cost to each metric that you add. It was when the cost of tracking metrics plummeted that this started to become a problem, as there was no external friction in collecting more. If you assign a cost, and respect that cost, you shouldn't continuously add more.
The threads are right next to each other, might you have meant to reply here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34031568 "Unredacter: Never use pixelation [for] redaction"
Isn't that kind of what a 501(c)(6) trade association is--which is what LF is?
Why pick on those 'oligarchs'?

How about the Media moguls? A pretty good argument can be made that media oligarchs produce less value, but they dominate financial and political circles.
I agree, having read most Heinlein ever published (even including his unfortunate right wing and conservative and unscientific ramblings that wasted my time), I never came across "If it is not one thing, it is two things."
Isn't "schema" sort of meaningless if you don't specify the metaschema? Assuming this post is referring to the ever popular JSON Schema, there is no shortage of fields devoted to documenting the schema objects. So yes, a schema most certainly is documentation - as long as you actually write the documentation.

https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/...
As far as I understand it, the recent Portal with RTX is the first fully path-trace rendered game to market, (re)built with Nvidia’s RTX Remix. Is that correct? Does anyone know of any other examples?
ATS has it [1], you can safely implement lock-free queues and ring buffers in it.

[1] https://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML...
I've been hearing sketchy things about tether for years now. At least now Coinbase has USDC and I do trust Coinbase.

But yea I think he really hit home when he pointed out how the CEO was saying "trust us, the money is there." If he really wanted to be taken seriously on that claim he'd find some way of demonstrating that beyond taking his word for it.
For me, it never does: https://honeypot.net/post/digital-notes-are-better-than-pape...

Paper is worse for my workflow in almost every way. I keep trying paper-based systems because of articles like this and I keep coming back to digital. I bring this up to say that it’s OK not to like using a pen and paper. Find a system that works for you and not the mode person.
YMMV but this is based on my experience building some of the largest analytics platforms like Flurry and Outlier.ai which were used by hundreds of thousands of companies. The only dysfunctional company I worked at was Verizon and they... don't really use metrics.
I worry this often leads to a sort of observation bias, where people assign their expectation to the situation. If a video is blurry, it’s not hard to convince an audience that the face in the video is a particular person. Human brains are really great at filling in details, whether they’re accurate or not.
It's not fair to say that rust is 'designed around immutable variables' - rust has move semantics, but move semantics just mean that if you have a variable, 'a' and you assign it to variable 'b', the variable 'a' is now dead and can no longer be referenced. This exists at the lexical level, it's a no-op in generated code.

Is that maybe what you were referring to?

For certain scalar types, flexibility is increased by allowing 'copy' semantics where assigning 'a' into 'b' makes 'b' a copy of 'a', and both are alive. Then it ends up mattering how heavy the type is - although you can only implement 'copy' for things you can trivially memcpy, so nothing on the heap.

Generally anything that would be expensive to duplicate doesn't get 'copy' semantics, but instead requires you to move it into a new variable, or explicitly clone it.

Rust also has immutable-by-default semantics, but it's by default. You can mutate the contents of structs, but there can only be one mutable reference XOR an arbitrary quantity of read-only references and aliasing is not permitted. This forms the basis for many of the safety guarantees.

Did that help? I was guessing at what you meant, so if that wasn't it I can always try again.

[edit] within the context of microcontrollers Rust requires you to be very explicit about what is and isn't permitted, and how things should work. You can disallow in your construction pretty much anything expensive or non-trivial.
I don't really see modified clients as having any impact on the security aspects. From a security perspective, once you have sent something, it is sent. There is no un-sending. A recipient running a completely unmodified client might have simply been on their phone at the time and seen the message notification come up, or the notification might not have disappeared when the message was deleted (this seems to happen with Telegram IME, notifications for deleted messages sometimes linger), or the recipient might have set up a computer to screenshot every incoming message with an unmodified client.

I don't understand what "low trust" means. It makes sense to talk about removing trust for individual employees in the organization, but when we're using a client distributed as a binary with no way to verify the source code used to compile it, we're forced to place 100% of our trust in Signal as an organization. Is that "low trust"?
> Oh, please. These issues were not about child exploitation.

Your original statement conveys the FBI should never ask Twitter to take down accounts. My response was such that there _are_ good reasons for the FBI to ask Twitter to take down accounts.

If we now agree on that, the issue is no longer requesting to ban accounts vs not requesting to ban accounts, but instead where the line on account bans exist. This is a much more gray debate, wouldn’t you agree?

> It was the heavy hand of governent coming down on citizens over jokes. Parody and satire have always been given wide interpretations in the courts.

I agree these were intended as jokes, and parody and satire are given wide interpretations in court. But they do have limits. Presumably you wouldn’t want someone to lose their right to vote because someone else intentionally misinformed them, even if its intention was satire. I do think instead of an account ban it could be resolved with a misinformation notice, but we might be presuming the FBI official has more knowledge of online platforms than they do. It did seem from the emails Twitter was ultimately the one to decide the correct handling, so I don’t blame the FBI for just alerting Twitter of potential violations.

> The fact that you point to the FBI website as proof they were acting in good faith shows a remarkable faith in the government you have.

Having worked for the federal government, I can inform you it is a huge hassle to get anything published. If they publish it, every line would be analyzed for compliance and in this case probably put in front of lawyers. They can still make mistakes, but it’s overly paranoid to believe a government website would advertise unconstitutional violations of rights for years.

> It is not the governments job to protect people's rights.

Objectively false.

> The gov't violates rights all the time.

True! But these violations are failures in the government for doing its job properly. Violations often lead to punishment or scandal. It wouldn’t be a scandal if people held the belief the government wasn’t supposed to protect your rights.

> It's the job of the third party institutions like the media to expose and for the courts to render judgment.

…the courts are part of the government…
Just to clarify, the price is only this high if you’re on time-of-use pricing and it’s peak hours, or you’re on regular pricing and you’ve used 400% of the baseline allocation.

Neither of these events is rare, but it’s worth noting that we NorCal suckers aren’t paying this much for all of our electricity.
I would recommend focusing on DB2 and Oracle rather than MSSQL if you are trying to learn about that. MSSQL is not particularly expensive in comparison and doesn't really try to compete in the big enterprise league. It's much more similar to FOSS solutions.
That's right. The "Skoltech" program was one such initiative, basically taking hundreds of millions from the Skolkovo Foundation (run by Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, a member of Putin’s inner circle) in 2010 in return for setting up the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology near Moscow. Despite getting a lot of heat for this, MIT kept it going:

The university in 2019 signed a five-year extension of its lucrative partnership with the Russian technology research institute, which has long raised espionage fears among foreign policy experts and the FBI. The extension came just three months after the federal government announced it was investigating MIT’s compliance with reporting requirements for the Russian money it had received in connection with the project.

The article notes MIT only ended the cooperation after the invasion of Ukraine.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/02/25/mit-abandons...
> One thing [intellectuals] hadn’t done, however, was treat the Jewish and Christian scriptures as the height of human intellectual and moral achievement.

It would be easier to entertain this hypothesis if those who most fervently espoused Jewish and Christian[0] scriptures had shown any more-than-expected-by-time-and-chance signs of scaling the heights of intellectual[1] and moral[2] achievements themselves.

(a/ I am willing to admit GKC's line to the effect that Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult, and left untried — but then we'd be in No True Scotsmen territory.

b/ I'm not in favour of McWorld either; I just strenuously doubt an Atwoodean Gilead would improve upon it. Or even upon the Brave New World, for that matter.)

[0] and if we admit the Christian, why not also the Muslim, for an Abrahamic trifecta?

[1] it is a long way from MML&J to Spinoza.

[2] Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
How did you get the apk file to reverse without having already installed it?
I am beginning to understand the origins on the current trend in India of being independent from Western policies and wanting to determine its own destiny. Initially, I was quite surprised to see that, given the enormous pressure to conform, but I guess things like this may explain Indian government's reluctance to go along. Also, perhaps the long-standing support for its not so friendly neighbor.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-to-market_accounting
Nowadays people would probably just use GPT prompts and rephrase to obscure identity. Good luck reversing the output to deduce the style of the author's original input.
I don't think they do? They have large endowments, but they have to preserve those mostly, and the number of things they have to pay for is huge. They're still run like an organization that has to be accountable to its budget.

Also, MIT isn't Ivy League, technically.
I'm speaking in the present tense. Even if "apps" would be able to solve all our current problems in a hundred or a thousand years [1][2], I really don't have anything to say about that. I have no idea.

[1]: Which imo would be delusionally optimistic to believe in

[2]: And which would surely create new types of problems in the process

> Can you (or others) list a few examples?

For starters, the posted article illustrates one example.
You'd be surprised about how much wiggle room there is there. Particularly given that the first few presidents weren't US citizens at birth either.
Depends on where you're at, and where you want to be. I'm also an incrementalist, however there are some people who are stuck in a rut and would benefit from "taking the leap", whatever that leap may be.
To be clear, you're joking right now, right? I think you must be, but given your previous comment I'm not sure. Dry sarcasm in text is hard...
It absolutely is, though.