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A couple of maths professors I worked with had very poor spelling, grammar, etc. Good luck with your approach, if you are trying to hire a specialist in an area that is not middle management, HR or marketing. Let alone if you need people do something in the physical world such as building, cleaning or moving things.
Wow! Not using social media and avoiding your photos from being publicly shared is what distinguishes a North Korean hacker?
I see how ex-CIA guys would expect to get a profile on everyone and know what color toothbrush they use.
I am lucky that I can refer to media publications citing my name in a professional context. But it's a creepy world where the employers' expectation is that all your personal information is public.
There was a post on HN some time ago about a candidate for a senior IT role, who wrote code in MS Word.
I can't find it right now. Maybe I should try Bing search
I feel like Elon Musk is about to propose a tech-driven innovative solution to this centuries old problem.
Sorry to disappoint you, mate. Weizsäcker is much more likely to be an equivalent of Wheatbagger.
Weizen - wheat Sack - bag
There is a point in moving the FROM ahead of SELECT and getting sensible auto-complete suggestions from your IDE as you type.
LINQ, however, attempts to solve a much bigger problem: Use consistent code to process data and don't worry whether it is in a remote database or in a local array.
If you manage to do it in a way that
- integrates seamlessly with e.g. Python IDE and I don't have to pass and parse strings
- allows me to access graph, document and relational data
- allows me to pull and process the data from REST APIs, [O/J]DBC and straight from my RAM
- and maybe even includes deductive (PROLOG/DATALOG) features
I will be your most loyal client
Being able to pick the source (i.e. the FROM clause) first is useful in itself, as you then get the benefit of sensible auto-complete suggestions.
To skip TSA nonsense you just need to skip TSA nonsense. Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. You have to be on time, you have to handle the baggage, but you can walk through xray and security within minutes and only need to show the ticket on your phone.
An electric wing-in-ground-effect aircraft still looks like an airplane and might still fall under the same regulations as any other airplane.
In any case TSA objectively does not add much security[1] and does cause issues e.g. for people who have names with similar spellings to those on a no-fly-list [2].
But that aside, the technology is great for short distance travel. Climbing to 2-5 thousand foot to travel some 50 miles is clearly insane.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Admini...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives
Wikipedia is nothing but a superminority making the website their playground, though[0].
It's more like the minority of the minority does a lot of spellchecking and editing, but it seems, much more plausibly, that a group much larger than a minority does the bulk of writing.
Any discussion of Wikipidia on HN is incomplete without a reference to Aaron Swartz's analysis of how Wikipedia is written:
"[He] concluded that the bulk of its content came from tens of thousands of occasional contributors, or "outsiders," each of whom made few other contributions to the site, while a core group of 500 to 1,000 regular editors tended to correct spelling and other formatting errors.He said: "The formatters aid the contributors, not the other way around." [1]
Why not call your children John or Maria Smith at birth then? Wouldn't this guarantee almost full anonymity in most contexts?
The typical security precautions are very hard to maintain in real life. e.g. should your child win some spelling context or a regional crosscountry run or whatever, how would you explain to them that their name and photo are not appearing among all the other winners?
Came here to say the same: "wtf how are bananas and pineapples trees? Shall we get him to look up the pictures or ask some AI model to get the images of wikipedia and to classify them?"
There are fern trees (Tree Fern to be precise), but they only grow in tropical regions. Bananas and pineapples are clearly grass with huge leaves.
"there are objectively no advantages to having your privacy taken away..."
Your words, correct?
My claim is that whenever you do something of high consequence, it is safer for you and the society to have your privacy taken away. (or the link between whatever you do and your name be public knowledge)
*The vaccine produced by an anonymous scientist*
*The car crashtest and certification site operated by an anonymous owner*
*The airplane designed by an anonymous engineer*
Talking about airplanes. An air traffic controller in Switzerland is a largely anonymous job. But after causing an aviation accident (a rather high-consequence deed) it would have been safer for the controller, if he and the police assumed that the air traffic controller's name and location were public knowledge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev
The information that John Doe operates XYZ Pty Ltd does not affect their privacy too much, but if either John Doe or XYZ do or even consider doing something of high consequence, they better know that the link is public.
there are objectively no advantages to having the link between your name and your high-impact activity be hidden.
How nice you brought up the vaccine example.
So would you like to a live in a country where the government can mandate a vaccine and you have no way to find out who owns the VAXXPROD company, whose vaccines are mandated? What if the owner by pure coincidence is the nice of the Vax Minister?
On the other hand, how will John Doe's privacy be affected if it was public information that he owns Flush Pty Ltd, as long as Flush Pty Ltd is not doing anything of public interest?
Obviously, would get into the realm of public interest if John Doe also owned Flush-A, Flush-B, ... Flush-Z Pty Ltds, and these were purportedly competing for the tenders to install toilets in the City Council Building. Or would you rather keep this information private?
No, it's not! When you surf, you get used to punching through the surface and then holding your breath and dealing with the water movement. You have to consciously remind yourself to not do the equivalent of going head first through the face of the wave or stretching out your toes when bailing of the board.
you're all drawing a distinction that I don't see?
The distinction you are not seeing is between actual harm and a pretext for lawyers to sue.
Actual harm to the environment and real business profits result from manufacturers producing and selling proprietary charing devices (I bought at least 3 and disposed of at least 2 Apple magsafe2 chargers, while having perfectly working generic chargers around my home).
An indie developer hosting a free website is neither causing permanent and irreversible damage to the environment nor is he making any money as a result of his websites not being accessibility compliant.
The next step is to change your legal name to Zhang Wei or at least a John Smith.
Where is the Occam's razor?
If I am a dictator sitting on an oil well, exporting more and more oil and keeping 100% of profits to myself, the GDP will still grow in line with the amount and price of oil exported.
There is little correlation between what the population is doing and what the countries economic and social potential is. Isn't that in-part the definition of a dictator?
What? No one has shared this link yet?
I was sure the whole content of the article and of the discussion here would boil down to this:
Just realised that the point I've made in response to a comment probably should be a level higher:
Don't trust the radiation monitoring system, the actual monitoring system has been destroyed by a rocket impact three days ago.
The monitoring system has been shot down on 1 Sep.
Here is the statement from the Nuclear Agency in Ukraine:
On March 1, 2022 at 11:40 as a result of rocket impact, the communication network of Zaporizhzhya NPP was damaged. As a result, the Automated Radiation Monitoring System (ARMS) of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant lost its full functionality and stopped the transmission of data to the international radiation monitoring network IRMIS. IAEA has been informed about the incident.
The monitoring system has been shot down on 1 Sep.
Here is the statement from the Nuclear Agency in Ukraine:
On March 1, 2022 at 11:40 as a result of rocket impact, the communication network of Zaporizhzhya NPP was damaged. As a result, the Automated Radiation Monitoring System (ARMS) of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant lost its full functionality and stopped the transmission of data to the international radiation monitoring network IRMIS. IAEA has been informed about the incident.
Here are some details from Patreon. Though "we are investigating" during an evolving emergency situation is the least helpful of approaches.
https://twitter.com/patreonsupport/status/149700257340388557...
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30461038
edit: the tweet provides Patreon's comment re their decision
Here is a link to the Ukrainian National Bank's page with more payment options:
https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-sp...
The central bank accepts donations on behalf of the Ukrainian army:
https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-sp...
If you don't want to engage on the offensive side, there is plenty of work on the defensive side of things.
* Detect and notify the Ukrainian government about threats or upcoming attacks.
* Identify coordinated manipulative behaviour on social media.
* Last but not least contact Patreon's management to release the funds that have been donated to Ukrainian veterans (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30461038)
Feel free to add to the list, as there is going to be a lot of work in the upcoming days.
Patreon removed the page of the foundation savelife.in.ua. They support the veterans of the Ukrainian army and act as source of news from the frontlines.
Today their account on Patreon was removed and they lost access to the funds donated.
Full message in Ukrainian is in their facebook feed: https://www.facebook.com/backandalive/
I think JvN deserves at least some benefit of the doubt. As far as I am aware there is little unbiased impartial information about these meetings discussing the targets for nuclear strikes.
Most information was published well after JvN has died. He also had no chance to comment even in the last years of his life. (Apparently the military was near him in hospital to make sure he didn't reveal any secrets)
e.g. JvN's recommendation to bomb Kyoto is usually supported with a quote from a book that was written by the general who ran the Manhattan project and published his account of the events five years after von Neumann's death. I wouldn't be surprised if the general was doing at least some white washing in the early sixties as the peace movement was gaining momentum.
More recently, looking at how various US agencies and departments reacted to accusations of human rights abuses in say Iraq, it's very easy to imagine that JvN's comments on the topic where either ripped out of context or exaggerated.
So again, while it's very clear how someone with an extremely scientific mindset like von Neumann's would through outrageous comments around during a brainstorming session or during a heated argument. I'd really try to withhold any judgment on this until I see the full transcripts of these meetings.
It is desirable for any country to have laws that limit the ways how legal or government entities collect data.
Some of the strictest privacy laws existed in Germany for a reason, because the country new what an SS or a Stasi would do with the data once it gets its hands on it.
Some of the laxest privacy laws are in the US, the country whose businesses supplied the SS[1] and nowadays the CCP[2] with surveillance technology to facilitate genocide.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
[2]https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/us-tech-products-080...
Firefox has a number of security issues:
From here: https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps.
Worst of all, Firefox runs as a single process on mobile and has no sandbox beyond the OS sandbox. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux, where it can hardly be considered a sandbox at all) and lacks support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole.