jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Their "Security" section is a bit naive. The questions it poses go all the way back to the 1990s. If the Jericho Forum had started a VC fund, this page would be their investment thesis. The 2000s saw a wave of companies try to capitalize on "deperimiterization", some with huge capex requirements (one NAC startup had designed and contract fabbed their own MIPS core). They all flopped.

Maybe it's true that firewalls are less effective in 2015 than they were in 1998. The problem is: customers don't buy on effectiveness, they buy on cost-benefit. Firewall effectiveness can drop by 90% and they will still have a better cost-benefit than the alternatives. There's a reason for that: firewalls are the most straightforward network implementation of Saltzer & Schroeder's principles, and those principles are probably Right. Everywhere. In code. On the network. In identity and access management.

Why is 2015 different? "The cloud"? If "the cloud" is what's changed, that should be the thesis: we need security solutions for the cloud. Unfortunately, that is also a tired thesis.

Similarly: the shift from prevention to recovery seems like a manifestation of the narrative bias. Sure, there are lots of newsworthy cleanups, and one very successful consulting- to- product- to- consulting pivot company in that space. But customers don't derive the same value from recovery as from prevention. The dirty secret of "recovery" work --- forensics, attribution, &c --- is that it's driven largely by legal compliance concerns, and probably doesn't have a great intrinsic ROI.

Maybe there's an opportunity for a "full stack" vertically integrated insurer informed by a compliance and forensics practice.

There are markets that seem to work the way VCs want security to work. For instance, mobile happens, and all the sudden you can build and 10+x a company that just does for mobile apps what Google Analytics does for web pages. Security just doesn't get valued by customers that way.

Also: "if you fight fire with fire, you're just going to get burned"... what does that even mean? P(burn|fighting-with-fire) ≥ P(burn|fighting-without-fire).
No, it's definitely not. Thus why Prop 13 is referred to as the third rail of CA politics :)
Might be a browser difference (firefox here). Thanks for the update, it works better.
It is not Termux devs fault that many phone manufacturers fail to handle OS upgrades.

They are not obligated to support them, feel free to support all Android versions at once in your project.
And at that Bootcamp is a BIOS emulation layer. You don't need to go through the bootcamp process to run operating systems with native EFI support such as Linux, Windows 7+, etc.
I think that they're correct saying that GPT-3 isn't revolutionary, since it just demonstrates the power of scaling. However I would argue that the underlying architecture, the Transformer (GP(T)), is/was/will be revolutionary.
> "Service" is also a part of their mission

The point of the article under discussion is that "service", if it just means "doing stuff yourself" without regard to how productive you actually are--how much you actually help--is a morally incompetent goal. If you have a feeling of service after productively helping someone, that's great. But if you have a feeling of service while the actual impact of what you did was negligible (or even negative), that's bad. So "service" can't be a goal just by itself; it has to be something like "service that actually does help".
Fair point - I was thinking about Euro deposits.
This reads like a simple hit piece.

Chesa is right to eliminate cash bail. Whether or not someone should be released from jail should have nothing to do with money -- it should be based entirely on flight risk and the threat to society people present.

America has a full quarter of the world's prisoners (but only 4% of the overall population). Chesa should be commended for attacking the problem.
you can catch up very quickly.

great resource on transformers, which underpin the openai breakthroughs (the "T" in GPT-3 stands for transformer): http://peterbloem.nl/blog/transformers

great reddit sub for tracking ml research and trends: https://www.reddit.com/r/machinelearning

great email newsletter on ml from andrew ng: https://www.deeplearning.ai/thebatch/

also, someone must maintain old code or things break. thanks for your contributions.
It doesn't feel "right", there's resolution issues, and I never got real-time, low-latency sound running in any VM ... so, I'd say yes, by all means.
This isn't true. There are charities that do exactly what you claim they don't do. For example, https://www.againstmalaria.com/Default.aspx maps each donation to a specific bed net distribution, then gives you a status page (that you can share with others!), which tells you exactly what stage your distribution is at.

For example, I can see that one of my donations is currently in the manufacturing stage, one is on a boat travelling to the country, and one is being distributed to households right now.

After the distribution is complete, they'll post pictures from that distribution, as well as conduct follow up surveys in a few months, to ensure effective use. All this information is shared with the donor directly.
I'm not sure if you know this but you can get a second opinion from another reviewer or even request a group review (all the reviewers take a look and come to a group decision).
You're getting too much free karma for this...
Try http://historio.us/, we have a password confirmation field!

Aaand that is one sentence I thought I'd never get to utter. Seriously though, pinboard is great too, and closer to the functionality of delicious. It's mostly a matter of preference.
Oh, no need to worry!

http://cache.historious.net/cached/841175/
Try another 3 zeroes.
Its odd that you have to go back to the homepage to see the demo.
On the details page for each theme, clicking on the image should take you to the 'Demo' site. I clicked a few times before realising i had to go back to the home page. You could also add the 'View Demo' button...
WTF? Why the downvote!?
great idea. less illegal, plus more "eye for an eye". seems fair too
Are they? We have a modern unit (with the 2 stage filter), adn they send a notification when you have to buy a new one, for $99 CAD
You are correct; its USDC token is backed by audited USD$.
I think is time to revive the spirit of this family of languages.

I'm working solo towards it.

Today things get more complicated because is necessary to cover all major 6 platforms (web, windows, linux, osx, ios, android) to keep the "small bussiness/solo freelancer" friendly usage.

I work in a language that is inspired by fox and by other ideas at https://tablam.org. I will make my first attempt at UI building this year, with the full intention of work across all platform with native controls (plan to render <button..> tags in each, not creating a new UI kit!).

Then have sqlite as the default db, then connectors for others.

Wanna join? Is fun!
> A lot of this comes from the Reagan-era idea of "welfare queens"

Indeed. I also suspect "wrong people" is a slightly quieter dog whistle/code word for you know, "those people".

I also wonder how the welfare cheater statictic compares to the disability cheater statistic. I'd even wager disability is far more abused than welfare by ablebodied workers who make good money and have homes.

Now imagine if we used the same "wrong person" argument against disability and watch the same people who would vote against welfare vote in favor of disability because they might be affected.
So the merchant sets the price of a bag of chips at $2.00. I want to buy it. I could:

* Pay $2.00 with my credit card and get $.04 back = $1.96

* Pay $2.00 with cash and get $0 back = $2.00

* Pay $2.00 with btc and get $-x satoshis back because I have to pay transaction fees + fees to convert to fiat = $2.00 + some amount of fees that change daily

Hm.
> Long term, not engaging in meaningful work has many downsides (substance abuse, relationship, career growth, etc) and its not just about money.

Not working leads to... substance abuse? That sounds like some very puritanical " Idle hands are the devil's workshop" mentality.

What's more, what is so meaningful about being overworked, underappreciated, and paid less than a living wage? That soul crushing work is where you start to see people seeking escape and/or less-than-legal sources of income.

In fact, what you often seen is that, given enough breathing room to do so, people can achieve remarkably productive works. Linus Torvalds and J.K. Rowling are oft-cited examples of people who created magnum opuses while on benefits. Had their days been occupied working multiple minimum wage jobs, we might never have gotten Linux or Harry Potter.
Honest answer: medical imaging. If your data doesn't fit into ram, it's a right royal pain in the arse, and being able to do linear algebra on huge, 14-dimensional datasets and seeing if the final result actually looks like the inside of a person in real time as you fiddle with the code is a huge plus.

And yes, Gnome is still sometimes completely unresponsive...
I agree that price controls create shortages in the long term. The issue is that emergencies are about the short term.

I would be very surprised if more money would have helped produce more vaccines. Canada is burning a billion a day to keep everything in lockdown - money does not seem relevant to the current situation. Adding it in just makes everyone pay more for the same limited amount of vaccines.
Tell that to Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Cognitect and all enterprises that produce reliable and performant software with it everyday.
It was a little hard to find the link since it was buried at the bottom in "social" alongside twitter.

Again, this is truly awesome work. Can you comment on what inspired you to create pgcli?
Good strategy about money? maybe. Good strategy about life? really unclear.
lz77 is a little hard to explain, but I don't have any degree in CS nor math and I managed to understand it a little, not that I could really be able to reproduce it.

isn't lz77 the most efficient text compression algorithm ?
It would be a better question if you asked it fairly: "Have you already learned everything". I did not suggest or imply 'everything' should be learnt.
As someone who has been promised smart watches for many years, you'll pardon me for not holding my breath, that this new smart watch will be any more earth shattering than any of the other ones.

For a while at least, I'll be sticking to my Seiko 5.
TCP-based bittorrent, yes.

The uTP protocol (which has an IETF version called LEDBAT) was specifically designed to be used for background transmission, and it should slow itself down if there are competing TCP flows.
The way you have quoted this suggests it is being said by the author, whom you are disagreeing with. It's not: it's being said by someone else (in an issue filed against the repo), and the author also mostly disagrees.
> (75% full and the other 25% written heavily to with log files)

Does an eMMC even know how full it is? If it were designed for write once it could certainly track that, but I doubt they are designed for such little usage. After having every block written once they would need TRIM to know what is in use, but to my knowledge eMMCs don't support that. (Not an expert in the area, just a random software developer.)
Your guide was what everyone else recommended when I was stumbling around learning networking a couple years back (reversing and reimplementing an iOS framework that used the BSD sockets API–not really the best environment for someone who couldn't tell connect(2) from accept(2)). With your help I was able to get through that and the understanding carried me through college, in some networking classes that were decidably less educational or useful than your writing. Not bad for a document bearing a copyright from years before I was born!
Who says people shouldn't dream big? But singularity isn't a dream, it's a religious salvation story. There's nothing wrong with religion, either (well, no more than many other ideas that guide humanity), but the difference between this religion and other, older ones is that older religions focused on morality and human nature, while this one is not even about humans at all. The part about the guy weeping because previous generations didn't have Kahneman was clearly written to reflect Christian sorrow for the generations prior to the coming of Christ, but the latter group is sad about those who didn't hear Jesus's message about kindness and love, while the former was crying about those who couldn't tweak their minds to be more robot-like (not that he can, either, but at least he imagines he can).
Thanks for your work! There are thousands of happy public transit users thanks to apps (like OneBusAway) that make public transit more tolerable.
> an "autonomous zone" in the middle of the United States

Well, in the middle of Seattle. It's not clear whether chaz intended to secede from the US or merely Seattle policing; their demands were certainly very local so I suspect they really had no intention of leaving the US itself.
I support deplatforming. Private companies and such.

Twitter should never be a public forum unless the US government feels they need the existing user ecosystem when they turn it into a utility.
I don’t like having “one-off” apps on my phone for something that safari is more than capable of handling. I prefer to use the web versions of Twitter, FB, and Reddit since they all work fine as just standard modern web apps right in the native browser. (Although I’m rarely on Reddit anymore due to the app-first nag campaign...)
I disliked the Patriot Act too, and I'm strongly opposed to this new Domestic Terrorism Act. All I'm saying is that endorsements of terrorist attacks should be banned from reputable discussion forums and I won't participate in a forum that allows them.
you always start somewhere.

I’m personally involved in migration of 3 groups, two India-US, one US. Most had never installed Signal.

It’ll happen, it’ll just take some time.
In the real world it seems rather likely the presiding judge(s) would follow the spirit rather than the letter of the law.
Sounds like the Chrome bug in the latest iOS release. Tap the location bar and then hit cancel to correct the zoom. Hopefully it’s fixed in the next release.
> Funny you mention that -- one programming language that's been "protect[ed]" from "decay and dilution" a lot is Java, and look what a boring, unimaginative cesspool that's become.

Huh? Java "protected from decay and dilution"?

Witch the exception of SUN never liking native interface linking, Java was ANYTHING BUT protected from decay. Java went about adding and adopting stuff, from Swing to generics to annotations to functional stuff, to remoting, to various EE fads of the day, without ever thinking about whats best about the core language and how to keep it clean and agile.

I would have liked it if in place of Java we had a purer language, like, say, Smalltalk.
And he advocated for policies that would tangibly make the workplace better and more equal like allowing for flex days and for employees to go part time during maturity/paternity leave.
I'm not sure I follow. What twitter/google did is legal in the US. Free speech is covered by the First Amendment only as a protection against Government censorship. Private companies can do what they want.

It's basically a property issue. Here's how someone on Twitter explained it (this made sense to me):

"Trump can say what he wishes, and so can Jack Dorsey, each with their own property.

Trump has no right to shout from Dorsey's platform any more than Dorsey has the right to shout from the balcony of Trump tower."
Great question!

Signal is owned by a nonprofit organization that cannot legally be sold to a for-profit organization.
And yet if we look at it objectively, the right is clearly overrepresnted in our political system. Republicans lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. In the next presidential election there will be many eligible voters who weren't even born last time they won. The Senate gives a seven point advantage to Republicans. So please, explain to me where you get this idea that the right is "treated unfairly," because it's getting very hard to see how this argument is being made in good faith.
> Reality is hard. It's easier out here in europe, we've been lucky enough not to suffer too much from the awful american media diet.

I live in the U.S. and stay away from the media. I recommend it. I used to think it was important to stay abreast of all of the comings and goings, but that was B.S. It's a stressful waste of time for me. I don't really get into sports either.

> There's a lot of propaganda in your country. I sympathize with you, truly; it's difficult to tell what's real and what isn't when you've been gaslit for years.

What you say is true about it being difficult to tell what is real. But, the only people that I spoken with that know what it's like in America are those that have lived here recently for a year or more, and preferably those that have moved around some. It's a large country, with different cultures; I don't even know them all. A lot of it is annoying (the parts of the country where people act really fake and the parts where people seem nice but are passive aggressive isolating backstabbers), and a lot more of it is honest, loud, quiet, funny, and cool.

I sometimes act as if I understand the people of this or that country, because I work with people of different countries each day at work, so I know I act the same way; I don't really know what it's like either.
> Who do you consider the smartest Trump supporter?

Depends how you define supporter. He’s received support from some smart, cynical and extremely nasty people; he serves their agenda, one way or another. But they’re not fans; they’re probably privately pretty contemptuous of him. The Mercers would be an obvious example.

If by supporter you mean the people who believe him about the election being stolen and so on, there are no smart people in that category. There are smart sociopaths who don’t believe him but go along with the idea, of course.
I'd start by creating a llvm backend for printf. Should be fun.
Yep, Fred Hampton and MLK, Jr. being the most well-known, at least to myself.
FYI, Mike Rowe has been financially backed by the Koch brothers, and is a known right-wing commentator. Obviously this is ad hominem, but not necessarily a fallacious one: Context and financial incentives are important, after all.

https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-64-mike-rowes-koc...
It objectively is. I have a paper to prove.
> I get your point but raw milk is 3.5% fat it has to be processed to be ready for human consumption

I'm confused - are you suggesting that raw milk is unfit for consumption due to the fat content?

I ask because I (and probably lots of the other Indians on here) grew up drinking raw buffalo (Asian Water Buffalo) milk at home. That's about 7-8% fat. I knew plenty of people who got raw cow milk as well.

Of course, it was standard practice to "cook" the milk before consumption, which would cause cream to separate out. The cream would be skimmed off for other purposes, but usually the kids got the full cream milk.
That’s not booing for voting, that’s about making a divisive political statement on a freaking kid soccer game. When you bring your activism into non-political contexts, don’t get surprised when people don’t like it.
Jason - I think the data would beg to differ. Correlation of exact match domains and even of domains that simply include the keywords with high rankings on both Google and Bing are quite pronounced - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analys... - particularly for algorithms that supposedly contain 200+ ranking elements.

I agree with Aaron that a keyword-rich domain can be a great asset and benefit from an SEO perspective, but I find it hard to believe that you approved/initiated this strategy without some knowledge of the SEO benefits and intention to reap the rewards. Either way, glad to see you helping to spread the concepts and success SEO can bring rather than bash it - that's certainly a welcome change :-)

I don't have any type of legal background, so don't feel qualified to speak to the legalities of employing trademarks in domain names.
This dispute could be a matter of frequency range. Older ears can't hear high pitch. If the Dyson noise is mostly high pitch, older ears will perceive it as quieter.
If you want to get into the nitty gritty, consider that the 1% generally don't "own companies". That is a vague trope from the Occupy Wall Street types. A significant portion of the 1% are skilled professionals (programmers, doctors, lawyers, etc.) or rare talents (actors, musicians, athletes). Many are small business owners who are taking significant risks and typically work incredibly hard to be successful (and most fail). Many may be "owners" of companies in the sense that they are shareholders, but that fractional ownership is also available to you or I. Very few are in a position of outright ownership or even majority ownership of a company that is bigger than a small business. If your intention was to claim that the 1% get income passively, I think you may be drawing your percentiles at the wrong threshold.

But I still disagree with your framing of the definition of "taking" as an ideological question and not a factual one. People have choice on where they live, what work they do, what they spend their money on, how they manage their free time, and so forth. If one person saves up, takes a risk, starts a small business, and offers employment at a certain exchange of money for time, that's not "taking" because "taking" implies an involuntary action or theft. The employer is offering a trade, and the employee is accepting it voluntarily, giving their time and labor in exchange for pay. That simply doesn't fit the definition of "taking".
fear is the mind killer, the little death that brings total obliteration...

my personal opinion is that fear has exaggerated the lockdown argument and that something being unknown is insufficient to not consider it. When we count life-years lost many decades from now, rather than simply raw deaths, a very different picture will be painted. It's in the statistics
I'm not the one you responded to, but I vastly prefer a work environment where issues are transparent rather than hidden, and while coding is usually that way through processes like pull requests and code reviews it's like pulling teeth to get people's honest assessment of other characteristics.

I'm reading through Principles right now and while you bring up valid points that make people uncomfortable, I think given their continued success it's apparent that Bridgewater has been better off for it. I've unconsciously used some of the basics in my career, like being forward about criticism to my superiors and direct reports, and after a short period of discomfort I've always found the relationship better.
Well exactly. As a system for preventing sybil attacks this doesn't do anything.
Really cool stuff ! Looking forward to trying it out

my favorite commercial option so far is :
https://www.v7labs.com/

prodi.gy for running small augmentation UIs is worth checking out

The workflow of the Toronto univ annotation suite [1] is sweet for making polygons semi-automatically, but not widely available yet

[1] https://youtu.be/3kFQJQicHxA
Are you saying that every project written in C has suffered from a memory leak issue at some point? Most C/C++ code I've personally written doesn't even use the heap.

I work on avionics and we use C/C++ now and then. We have a ton of rules regarding memory management (pretty much everything stays on the stack) and I can't recall anything I've ever been involved with suffering from a memory leak.
Erlang/Elixir's iolists which are heavily utilized in Phoenix's templating engine are a rope and are extremely efficient (for a dynamic language). Phoenix's templating is very fast.