skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowadays the debate always tends to be drawn by dishonest actors towards if something "technically counts" as censorship or not. The idea of free speech is no longer upheld as something of an important idea, but rather something which should be circumvented by as much legal mumbo jumbo as possible.

The point was always, and should be, that we as members of a society should respect and uphold the ability of others to spread ideas, particularly those we ourselves disagree with. This should extend to all faculties of your life within all reasonable reason, not just in the context of government censorship.
80% of all stock market money is tied up in retirement fund managers like them, yes.
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Most of those believe in God, so they never did really trust it.
> do not blame shoddy security, blame the people who discovered it.

They didn't just discover it but went on to exploit it on a semi-industrial scale. It is very hard for me to sympathise with them.

> I am sure the people who did this will get hefty prison sentences and hefty fines.

As they should, yes.

> While the large companies that do all they can to avoid paying for expert security get a "I and disappointed in you" from the Government

Why would the government be disappointed in the company operating the pumps? The pump company is out of fuel and money. That should be enough incentive for them to step up their game.
ANSYS Inc (Apex/Cary/Morrisville/Durham/Raleigh NC) is looking for a frontend engineer. My team is hiring!

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That's a curious position to take, and I expect a rain of downvotes on your comment. What makes you say that? Are you just opposed to high-density living?
I agree. I don't relish the idea of certain other countries' services getting too large in the vacuum that breaking up Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet will do.

Just imagine TikTok, then have that applied to Search, Mail, etc.

Do you want this?
It's not the most convenient because of cars. It's more that the other options are less convenient because of cars.
> You don't really "upload" anything to IPFS, ever, that's not how the protocol works. You "provide" something and then if someone requests it, you upload it directly to them.

This model should be changed... I should be able to just send something to the network, having other users store it for me, and come fetch it back later.

The whole idea that I am constantly online 'pinning' files is a bad one. The whole idea that I must store the specific files I want to make available to others is also a bad one. The network protocol should mix file data beyond recognition, and the exact data on my hard drive should have little correlation to the data I specifically am sharing with others.
> The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, commonly known as the Hewlett Foundation, is a private foundation, established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Redington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1966. The Hewlett Foundation awards grants to a variety of liberal and progressive causes.

It seems you are correct. The institution self-identifies as promoting "liberal and progressive causes." To about half or more of Americans, colleges are in fact considered to be a form of institutionalized liberal/progressive indoctrination.
The fingerprint was collected and stored in 1999. I don't think this is "new"
The entire point of police was to socialize the costs of securing business properties and assets onto the taxpayer while calling it public safety. That's why just about the only thing cops are consistently decent at is intervening in property theft or vandalism and why the #1 type of theft is actually wage theft, by orders of magnitude, yet you never see cops raiding business owners' homes like they do for 2 ounces of meth.

I'm not even saying pro or against here, that's just the facts of it. Police aren't here to protect you, they've established in court, in fact, that they do not need to intervene in a situation where you're in danger. That they also occasionally do some good for the community (or kill people in cold blood for trivial offenses) is a knock on effect, not the purpose.
> I personally wouldn't keep my private photos on a public network, but everyone is different.

IPFS needs transparent encryption yesterday. I tried to start a discussion and even made a rough design but they don't seem interested.

They have added some basic protection where a node won't serve content to another node without knowing the CID but this isn't the same level of security as E2EE.

I think the encryption key should be transmitted with the CID but separable. So that you can pin data with just the raw CID but share data easily with CID+key.
They could be keeping logs of unique identifiers to sell to location data brokers.
My desired method of muting them might require a bit more clean up. It may also involve a trip to the ER ward for burn treatments. But I would at least look back and say I enjoyed myself.
Even more: as reading on a machine that has the Go toolchain installed, this is source code that is already available on the local filesystem.
For some reason, you seem to be assuming that the government only collects biometrics for "antisocial and dangerous behavior" and is only using them to protect others.
You're mostly right. I think several do give a shit about security but they both lack the knowledge of what it takes to reasonably secure something like this and are somewhat powerless/misled into believing they don't need to care.

The first problem is that companies that add wireless/IoT capabilities to devices have nothing to do with their implementation/security beyond writing a cheque. I used to work for a company that created IoT devices for huge brands[0]. They make a toothbrush, a lightbulb or a vacuum cleaner. They're good at that, but they bring in someone else to either "wholesale create an IoT product" or collaborate on its creation where the "IoT pieces" (and their security) were farmed out to us.

Of course, we didn't have much to do with the creation of the product, either. We (frequently) used a white-label Chinese product -- often, but not always, explicitly chosen by the manufacturer. In fact, the large brands often insist on a specific Chinese provider for long-term maintenance/cost savings[1].

We receive a "dev board" and device that consists of an ESP8266/ESP32 bolted onto whatever it's IoT-ing, and a cloud service (hosted in the country of origin; almost always China). The developers involved write a mobile app and some firmware that interacts with the cloud web service -- which we have no control over/cannot work around or suggest additional security layers -- and we integrate it. It creates an impenetrable SEP field[2].

Companies who care about security care about it up to some industry defined standard that has some form of acronym (the names of which escape me these days) which involve, basically, filling out a form or two attesting (truthfully) to the requirements but that serve only to shield those involved in the process from responsibility beyond whatever the acronym-defining organization thinks to ask. It involved passing a lot of those questions off to the third-party who runs the cloud service, who -- surprise, surprise -- know what boxes to check to receive payment.

[0] I love my former employer so I'm leaving the brands off, but at least one product involved was popular enough that my parents received one as a gift for Christmas ... it was fun explaining that some code I had written was running on their phone.

[1] The pattern (one that we didn't advocate) went "hire us to build the initial, user-friendly, polished version of the app" then pass it onto said OEM to maintain/update it between hardware versions. To the extent that the first version could be secured, it is (until it's not). They don't trust the OEM to write the initial version, but once it's out there, augmenting it costs 1/10th the price and that's about all their willing to pay after the initial product is created.

[2] Someone Else's Problem (Douglas Adams -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
Cool. In the UK that's used for powerful civil servants.
From personal experience, carrying around a portable E-Ink monitor, plugging in the cables, and the initial set-up gets tiring. Some tablets are a better choice, but they mainly use Android, which may or may not work for someone, depending on your workflow.

I see why people gravitate to a laptop, a portable form factor, or a secondary 'focus' machine; in the end, each option has certain advantages and drawbacks.

Yes, we are accounting for abuse and the daily wear and tear in our design.
> the difference is, a motor would not be able to provide means of doing a crime that you don't already have.

I posit that being able to only run away from a bank robbery would indeed prevent someone from successfully doing it.
I’ve said it a long time ago, a lot of people would pay for it, it’s a no brainer.
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Have you investigated a large pre-sale to organizations that don’t need FDA approval? One example that came to mind is retirement communities. Also, idk what your tech stack is but if it’s mostly an accelerometer could you make this an Apple Watch app?
Like most crimes, that seems like a lot of assumptions to risk a felony charge
How is having to move something a problem? Nobody is saying they never have a place. But is it reasonable for you to purchase, maintain, and store a large expensive object that pollutes just for some moving? No. It's better to have a system that helps you when needed but doesn't produce as much waste per person. The taxi isn't a problem.

What do you mean by crashproof car? Those words don't go together. Even a little.
how the heck are your kids going to manage in later life?
Have you tried watching youtube without a subscription lately?
Previous post did not say the unknown X doesn't exist.

They said there is no evidence for X.

Absence of evidence is not (usually) evidence of absence.

Seems like you agree. No children involved.
I have a problem with ads. They are a race to the bottom of psychological manipulation where the ultimate goal is to manufacture discontent in the general populace, thereby inducing artificial demand to drive consumption. In other words, invent a product that solves a problem that does not exist, then fool people into thinking they have that problem, then sell them the solution to their fake problem, thereby making them poorer for no actual benefit.

Viewing ads is atrocious mental hygiene, in the same way that eating a meal after dipping your hands in feces is poor physical hygiene.
Of course Chicago Media Action would take this position.

Trying to censor media that they don't like is exactly the type of activism that they get up to: https://www.fcc.gov/document/chicago-media-action-and-milwau...

But being overtly political _and_ self-promotion (submitter IS the author/CMA) this trips the guidelines line for me.
Hi, how useful was the result?
Seriously, it feels like all morality is situational now. People have no principles.

Something as straightforward as "stealing is wrong" doesn't apply. "Stealing from people I don't like is fine".
You can’t adblock on iphones :(
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When someone says "it's [current year] so [bad thing] should have stopped by now", I get confused.

It feels like it's implying that humans today are fundamentally different from humans in the past. In fact it feels dangerous to me that we often speak of ourselves as almost a different species from humans in history. From an evolutionary perspective humans from any moment in recorded history are basically indistinguishable. Our brain capacity hasn't changed. We're not kinder. We're not less selfish.

We do know more about many things (and less about some things). We have better tools. We've refined more matter into new forms. We have access to more useful energy. But those changes don't change who people are.

No human at any point in history should be content with the state of things, but I don't think that struggle is easier today than it ever has been. We're pushing the boulder up the hill and we'll never reach the top, but should never stop pushing.

Being in the industry, I'm glad you're not content with the state of things. It takes people like you, so thank you for your effort to make our world a better place. Even if we may disagree with nuances of the motivation.
I thought this was on purpose. I'm 62, I've had calculators since the early 1970s. There's no reason at all for the emphasis on memorizing basic arithmetic facts now that we all have supercomputers in our pockets. Other aspects should be emphasized, but aren't. Logic, combinatorics, analysis of tha algorithms used to do arithmetic, even numerical analysis would be a better use of time. But the emphasis on the US on traditional education and so called "basics" prevents pretty much any change in curriculum, except to water it down even further and emphasize team sports more.
> Is it weird that my first thought was about ransomware's ransom note and I wondered what kind of fingerprint was used (gpg key? ssh?).

If the headline wasn't changed here later I'd say so, pretty weird ;)
I love these kind of project.
Cool! Now generate 'upper-uppercase' and see what happens :^)
I used to know a family who ran a gas station in my city. I was surprised to learn they made almost nothing from the sale of fuel. The actual profit -- to them -- was in the convenience store goods they sold.

I'm not sure who eats the cost of the theft, but I'm guessing it's the same people that make almost no money from the sale of the fuel. These were not wealthy people; they were working obscene hours and barely scraping by.
Progress Software ‘disappointed’ researchers published PoC of newly-patched bug
They tried, but the dot was only visible for a fraction of a second ...
Experts call for Lucy Letby inquiry to cover statistical evidence used in trial
Yeah this is the problem, and paying for the exact same ad-free service does not seem a solution to me.
Please try to make substantive comments, not wild flames.
Android’s October 2023 Security Updates Patch Two Exploited Vulnerabilities
I tried to be a customer, but alas the family member who I bought it for was reluctant to revisit her childhood. Some traumatic memories she preferred to leave behind.

Storyworth was very understanding and refunded me promptly, which I appreciated. Definitely seems like a great company.
Fair enough.

Though this is a serious edge case. 2k people renounced American citizenship in 2019 some years it’s ~10k but only a fraction have any kind of meaningful capital gains liability. The general cases is Americans who get to defer liability not expats with a surprising bill.
Hmmm. The model is a ckpt instead of a safetensor.

Pondering on whether to keep proceeding trying this out or not...

EDIT: a scan with picklescan[0] found nothing.. exciting.

[0] https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan
Wow! Her hovercraft must be chock-full of eels.
> a good chunk of people don’t have a 1000 dollar saving.

This is kind of a myth. The Bankrate.com survey that this figure comes from indicated that 37% of Americans don't have $1,000 lying around to pay for an emergency.

What most people don't say is that of the remainder, 23% would pay for it by cutting back spending in other areas, and another 15% would simply put it on a credit card. Only 15% of respondents said they would borrow from friends and family.

That is to say: most Americans don't have $1,000 lying around because credit is easy to obtain in this country, and for most things there is no need to have it available in cash.
Super nice to see. I am so looking forward to living in a society that continues to devolve to the point that thievery is generally accepted. Oh btw, give me your wallet
As a lover of array languages, I remember being excited to read a futurist article on vector processors and programming languages. It was written right before Wes McKinney worked on Pandas (the J programming language influenced him), and I thought J/APL or another array language was going to explode. J has Jd, in which J is fully integrated. This did not come to pass (yet). No matter, I still enjoy array languages anyway. There's a new array language, uiua[1], that is a mix of array and stack concepts with a good standard library including audio and graphics.

[1] https://www.uiua.org/
Also, for example if you are implementing chess then you should have an enum of Black and White rather than using `bool white`.
Juice can contain pulp like salad can contain dirt.
This is the safest era we've ever been in. Stifling independence over incredibly rare hypothetical situations is not the way.
Whenever I show my mechanical watches to my colleagues, they ask what's the point. Well, my Rolex and my Hublot are NEVER going to be Obsolete.
Dozens of Malicious NPM Packages Steal User, System Data
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5 or 6 years ago when I was much more heavily using Facebook I would have loved for this to be a thing. I think it would have been a great addition and is something that should be encouraged. Hopefully transitioning more and more away from us being the product and what we are actually using being the product.

However there are 2 big issues with this.

I doubt that Facebook will stop mining us for data and continuing to view us as a product, just now with an additional revenue. For me that was always the bigger of the 2 issues, showing me ads was just the symptom.

The second is how else to they incentivize people to subscribe. Is enough ads enough? Probably not and that is the issue we are seeing with Twitter. Adding in extra features to incentivize subscribing that likely shouldn't be there.
Maybe it's a Georgia thing, but I always see the ports for filling the tanks in front near the pumps in clear view of people inside the store. I think an attendant would notice someone with a pump where the fuel trucks usually park.
"platform native sdk" is the collection of apis exposed on that platform exclusively (think win32 apis, android ndk).

The project is to build a stdlib, and by its nature is to be used by developers to build applications just like the official Go std.
Source for Google >50% market share on edge?
I've had to make this point far too many times. There is a cultural norm of free speech and then a legal protection embodying that norm.

Ever since the (IMO ludicrous) XKCD comic[0], too many have gotten the wires crossed and think free speech is exclusively legalistic rather than the bedrock of an open society.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1357/
Many of Go's core abstractions are such half-assed broken concepts (e.g. slices) that it's hard to see how one could replace them elegantly while remaining compatible.
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Many countries read your fingerprints when you enter the border. I wouldn't be surprised if the likelihood of showing up in databases of foreign governments is even higher than your local one.
Not GP here, but speaking for myself: I bought a house at low interest rates, using tech wages that aren't commensurate at all to the standard wages in my hometown where I bought the house.

What I'm doing now is renting out that house at less than my mortgage whilst living in a different country with higher taxes and which generally takes better care of its people (the blight that is the Tories notwithstanding).

That said, you can't expect people not to play the game if they're forced to play the game. Those of us in the western world pretty much all live in capitalist countries; the best we can do is ensure that we're doing well in our own lives whilst trying to fix the game for those who aren't doing so well. Taking out a HELOC and giving the money to friends is a substantial financial risk that jeopardises our own comfort without having a clear positive impact on those friends and without really fixing the underlying problem. It's like giving cash to a homeless person instead of giving them housing and support -- the cash will be gone soon, and the system that resulted in their homelessness won't be fixed, nor will you have prevented any future homelessness.

tl;dr, you can own a house and live comfortably whilst still lamenting the fact that your friends can't, and this isn't an inherently hypocritical stance. You're just lamenting the fact that the game you're playing necessarily has winners and losers, and wishing that would change.
Well, that's the crux of the problem though. The majority of the world can't just dismiss it like that.
No one can lower the true ceiling. Our nation is large enough that statistically, there will always be people who outperform.

What is happening is that everyone in the middle is being dragged down.
> Most of those believe in God, so they never did really trust it.

Belief in a god is not the same as belief in a religious text ("The Bible") or assimilation to a religious institution.

I imagine there's not a single legitimate scientist that would say that our current body of knowledge is sufficient to explain all of reality/human experience --e.g. things such as consciousness, subjective experience, origin of reality/existence itself, etc.

So who are we to judge those that speculate in such realms?
My small rural town has setup a 'affordable housing council' and recently approved a 'general assistance fund for low income town residents'. I was under the impression that town governments work for the taxpayers, the homeowners, not non-residents wanting to move here from other places, who'll require subsidized housing and likely, dip into the general assistance fund (its just welfare, which they can claim on top of federal and state benefits). There are almost no employers/jobs here, so there's no push from business to attract workers who'll require cheaper housing. Its just bleeding hearts who moved here from cities and want to engage in activism.
The gas station owners aren't the criminals. The people who built suburbs are.
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Not 100 percent a no brainer. Paying customers are the customers that advertisers would like to address, and having pay and free where most people have a free account can easily gain an unfair pay to win feeling.
This 1000%. It is crazy that they are spending billions on the metaverse but ignoring this huge opportunity to dogfood. Remote work is in its infancy and there is great potential here, and they have the resources and reasons to make it work. The only way to find it is to actually try all kinds of things. Explore all kinds of hardware, and let individual teams be creative. Find out what works! If they figure out a way to make remote work 2x better, they will get the massive growth %s they desperately want!

edit: it is also insane that Zoom is doing the same thing ... Zoom!
Owning fractional shares in property is also nothing like owning property. You’re not going anywhere profound with this line of argument.
I don't know what is used to render this post, but the table of content as a floating icon would work best being closer to bottom at left, on mobile, because there is a scrollbar floating on top of it at the right that makes hard to tap it, and also because the eyes on the screen look at top of the screen mostly.