skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit of a necro (raised from a dead thread) reply but worth adding a little more.

I gave up trying to pick up all the cues at all. Instead I focus mainly just on conversation. It take a lot of work but it is possible (for me at least) to focus entirely on the content and when to say something, when not to in an almost scripted way. Listen to conversation and interject at the right time. I am interested in almost everything and if you listen and probe well enough then you will find almost anyone has something interesting to say or an amusing story to tell. That said, I don't pick up on much of the group interaction at all but it doesn't matter. All this is quite mentally challenging but just focusing on one part, the conversation, and not all of the other meta communication is pretty much how I do it. It is still quite stressful and mentally draining but I think that I can mostly hold a discussion with random strangers now. People will either think I am an interesting person to talk to or not and we part ways.

How this ties back into dating is where it gets interesting. I've had remarkable luck in forming lasting relationships just by talking to people, I usually miss all of the early cues entirely and I don't even know whether someone is interested in me until their number is in my phone (the modern equivalent is adding you on facebook) or some similar forward sign. The important thing is just to start the conversation and to listen to people. Don't hold any preconceptions about people; be open and friendly and be unafraid to talk about yourself and your own experiences.
This is exactly why I hate electronic voting. When I argue about it, people always tell me that it's easier to commit vote fraud with paper ballots.

Sure, it's easier for a single person to temper with a single paper ballot or even poll box, but it is much harder on a large scale. Tampering with every physical boxes and tallies in a country requires much more effort and organisation than exploiting a single vulnerability that applies to an endless series of identical machines.
Oh wow. When did this change? I vaguely seem to remember that as recently as Windows 7 (or was it 8.0?) there was trouble with AVX2 or something, but I can't find the info anywhere at the moment.
I can't believe this one passed under my radar:

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...

> Our partnership with Google’s data centre team used AlphaGo-like techniques to discover creative new methods of managing cooling, leading to a remarkable 15% improvement in the buildings’ energy efficiency.

Which itself is an understatement of the achievement:

> Our machine learning system was able to consistently achieve a 40 percent reduction in the amount of energy used for cooling, which equates to a 15 percent reduction in overall PUE overhead after accounting for electrical losses and other non-cooling inefficiencies. It also produced the lowest PUE the site had ever seen.

Basically, they built an AI that was able to tune the "large industrial equipment such as pumps, chillers and cooling towers" to react to the dynamic, nonlinear interactions that vary within and between datacenters (weather, utilization, etc).

They also describe this AI as "General":

> Because the algorithm is a general-purpose framework to understand complex dynamics, we plan to apply this to other challenges in the data centre environment and beyond in the coming months.

They seem to imply that this technique could make almost any industrial process more efficient with minimal oversight/training/customization.
Yes, I did read the link. Do you understand the thread? The proposal is that this bug in Kaspersky's kernel code is a backdoor in Kaspersky's kernel code --- that is: an attacker that already owns your OS kernel is backdooring it to come up with an extremely convoluted and noisy way to get access to your TLS sessions --- by backdooring the part of their kernel code that already has access to every TLS session on the machine.
To be fair Jobs seemed to be a big fan of skeumorphism too - the leather stitching on the Calendar.app was supposedly modelled on Jobs's Learjet so it can't all be attributed to Forstall.
There's two problems with this statement:

- index checks aren't intrinsic for all cases where it is done, e.g. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/8f62c2920077eb5cb8132...

- being intrinsic is absolutely not required for the checks to be removed. Bounds checks are just a normal branch with a fairly straight-forward condition, and the always-true nature of those conditions is inferred in the same way for both the built-in indexing and non-built-in indexing. This is true in languages other than Rust.

An iterator is designed to just not do any indexing at all (neither using the built-in [] operator or one of the functions that implements manual bounds checks), because it instead just manually (unsafely) walks a pointer along the array.
As i read it the longterm water supply is the main problem? Is there a way to cheaply build synthetic cysterns, that can be fixed with existing such as clay?
I thought about freeze/heat fracturing?
How is it any new? We, SSH users, have been doing it for a dozen years.

What's interesting is how to use OpenSSH's ProxyCommand and netcat or socat on
a remote (jump/intermediate) machine to go through with the target machine's
name and address, not "localhost" and additional setup on a second terminal
that needs to be up the whole time.
Let's continue your exercise. Your backdoor gets detected by any security researcher. You're busted, your business is near destroyed, you cause diplomatic stress between nations and, you face criminal charges. The stakes are way too high.

So instead you consider ways to introduce vulnerabilities that leave plausible deniability.

Indeed, from that vantage point, you decide to...

... collide certificates.
I'm not saying you should use Kaspersky AV. Don't do that.
With all the comments here regarding "why doesn't another start-up come in and disrupt this market", I'm surprised nobody has mentioned SongKick which had an exclusive to sell Adele tickets in Europe in 2015. They're making inroads, but it is a long and challenging market.
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This story is about extreme storms. The example storm mentioned from 2014 occurred in the worst of the drought, caused all kinds of issues, but it didn't fix anything. Both future droughts and more extreme and frequent pineapple expresses can co-exist because of climate change. MIT et al. shouldn't have to explain that in every press release made involving the climate.
I had thought of doing something like this. I thought it would be great to have countdowns for popular patents such as the one Apple uses for MagSafe, as these would mark dates of "freedom" that would benefit the consumer.
> I think something that needs to happen (for a variety of reasons) is for the term "nurse" to be retired, and replaced with something like "medical associate".

Nursing has its own tradition and model of education , training, and care that is quite distinct from that of medicine. Nurses aren't medical associates. (And there already is a profession called, depending on jurisdiction, physician associate or physician assistant -- which follows the medical rather than nursing model -- which would be confusing if nurses were renamed medical associates.)

And, given the idea that nurses are increasingly the dominant point of contact, it would make more sense (were we to decide to erase the distinction) to rename physicians "nursing supervisors" rather than the other way around. Of course, confusion with names of existing roles would again be a problem.
Yes, I think we are mostly on the same page, sorry if I was not clear before.

> However, I am not sure there is no gain to be had from a change in digestive bacteria in terms of caloric intake, because chemical changes in the digestive process could conceivably alter the efficiency of energy extraction.

The reason I react negatively so strongly to stuff like this is that I fear it overcomplicates an issue that is relatively simple. It gives people an idea that there is probably something really out of their control that's causing them to gain weight. We can argue about the specifics, but at the end of the day for the vast majority of people it is within their control, and it certainly isn't within anyone else's control so...

> was placed on a medically supervised liquid diet and exercise program, and still kept gaining

> She had never been obese prior

> Also strange: her weight gain closely tracked the weight gain experienced over the same time by the fecal donor, despite dietary and exercise differences between the two

> It was enough of an effect that the researchers who presented the case study have since ensured they only use fecal donations from healthy-weight donors.

There is enough wacky shit going on in this study that it warrants taking it with a heavy grain of salt. I'd argue the results give compelling evidence that the fecal transplant was not in fact related to the weight gain at all, and it seems odd that the conclusion taken was to stop taking fecal transplants from obese people when a sample from a non-obese (at the time) person might've caused someone to become obese.

All of this stuff would be interesting to study more, but without further science really doesn't mean a lot.

> That all being said, I do think you're right that psychology of obesity is a very important aspect to consider, especially that of food addiction. I hope this is solved in our lifetimes, because it will be interesting to discover just how much gut influences brain and vice versa.

Definitely. Meditation (among other things) seems to have had a significant positive impact on my digestive system, so I am certainly super interested in this connection.
FWIW, with latest rustc:

$ rustc --print target-list | cut -d- -f1 | sort | uniq | wc -l
20
"Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster" -- Wirth's law.

So it seems you get to pick one. And of course, the observation is that we're mostly no longer getting faster hardware.
So you propose that they created a backdoor that regularly and sporadically breaks TLS for normal users because they are evil geniuses who needed a plausibly stupid backdoor in case they got caught.

Not only are there better plausibly deniable backdoors they could use from this vantage point, but there are NOBUS backdoors they could use from this vantage point. You propose an attacker so clever that they've carefully calibrated the sophistication of their backdoors, but not clever enough to know how to backdoor a TLS MITM (a TLS MITM installed by design) without leaving the absurd tracks this one does.

No. It's not a conspiracy. As usual: it's just a bug.
Tax them by their production. If one robot can do the labor of 40,000 surely it can pay for the people it displaced so they don't starve to death.
> Only lame old decrepit acts use Ticketmaster anyway

... and a few little sports leagues like the NFL, NBA, and NHL (for primary sales).
If anyone's looking for alternatives, check out https://dice.fm/

No booking fees, timers, insurance, etc. Browse gigs and in 2 presses on the screen you could have a ticket.

I don't work for em, just a satisfied customer.
Just 10 years to go before launch of maglev Shinkansen
Where "some" includes everyone who has ever had to use them.
librarians sure have read Fahrenheit 451

Luckily the movie is easily availabe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0bVqgBSZHk
Visual Age Smalltalk and Cobol professionally. Company I work for tried 3 times to port to Java, plain JavaScript and now Angular. None can approach the sheer productivity and power of VA Smalltalk.

Pharo/Dolphin Smalltalk, FreePascal, Racket/Chez/Guile/Gambit(via LambdaNative) Scheme, Ada, Erlang, Forth(8th) for speculative/personal projects.

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Regardless of how we end up building quantum computers, they will be useful. The theory behind computing with qbits is well established and many interesting quantum algorithms have already been developed.

Even a 32 qbit computer would be a very serious breakthrough.

edit: by a 32 qbit computer, I mean that the device should have 32 qbits of memory in total! I'm not talking about bus size.

That is one of the cool things about quantum computing. You don't need a big device to do interesting computations.
> Patenting something just means it's possible,

It means a bit more than that. You don't patent the laws of nature, you patent real inventions. I'm aware that patent offices have gotten very loose with their criteria, but as far as I know, a patent was originally supposed to mean that you developed the thing you patented. Maybe there are disadvantages to it, but it has to be more than just possible.
Rust (which I have thus far only tinkered with) looks pretty appealing to me, though. Do you suggest using C instead of Rust? If so, why?

I'd probably suggest a higher level language if you can get away with it (portability, performance, etc), but I am not really advocating for using one language over another here.. What I am advocating is writing a thin layer of abstraction to avoid buffer overflows in the already extant code base. I suspect it would be a better choice in terms of cost/benefit than re-writing the code.
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Ok I see that makes sense.

Austruism and kindness might be beneficial at a tribal level as you will likely meet the person again and they or their family may pay back the favour. Even if that isn't a conscious thought by the person being nice.

Nowadays this is less obviously beneficial in our big cities and jet set lifestyles.

And as you said kindness is part of a bigger set of factors and perhaps a lesser one.
You're not serious, are you? As a person who goes to dozens of concerts a year, not using Ticketmaster would be a huge hassle.

Let's take just one example: I'm going to see Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds in NYC. I have three options to get tickets directly:

-Ticketmaster

-In person

-Over the phone

Since I don't live in NYC, I don't want to give my CC number to some random theater employee over the phone, and I am not going to skip seeing my favorite band in the world, what do you suggest I do?
I have no complaints with these languages. I have only seen them used to program PLCs to control machines and processes, and the simplicity of the languages keeps programs simple and straightforward too.

What features are missing that you think belong in process control?
I think prior to season 6, the Klingons and Romulans tried to destroy the Dominion by taking out Odo's homeworld in a sneak attack. Odo's people turned out to be the rulers of a large empire that sought to conquer solids (non-shapeshifters).
I believe most modern implementations, including hybrid implementations of HashLife, take advantage of register and cache sizes. HashLife as I might implement it in JavaScript, is really a very naïve approach. I think Bill Gosper even had versions in the 1970s that did things with registers and assembly, not just doing everything in lists.

But the big issue with HashLife is not whether you can write a faster implementation, it's whether the particular pattern(s) you are exploring are amenable to HashLife. It wins for highly repetitive patterns, but is much slower for patterns with a very large amount of entropy in time and space, like methuselahs.

HashLife can be fabulous for exploring purpose-built machines that cycle though regular states.
No, my point is that it's not worth moving to NYC just to live in Queens. You can live purposeful life even in Aleppo, that isn't what the thread is about.
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I'm not sure what you're asking. Clicking through to the Huffington Post article, the title is "How The U.S. Marshals And Bureau Of Prisons Are Trying To Break My Hunger Strike", and the last portion of the URI is

how-the-us-marshalls-bureau-of-prisons-are-trying_us_586abd7be4b068764965c3af

This indicates that the Huffington Post article title hasn't changed, as generally URIs don't change even if article titles do.

As for the submission title original submission title "Aaron Swartz Redux -- The Man Carmen Ortiz Is Trying to Kill Next", that was submitted by the poster. See this comment from 'sctb when he updated the title:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13306320

Is this what you're asking? If not, can you clarify?
Are you reading the claims, or just the titles?
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I remember reading the blog post. Did they ever follow up with a research paper explaining what they actually did?
To be fair the [] syntax is an overridable operator and you could just point it to use the "at" method. Not sure why they've implemented it as an usafe function.
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> It's really difficult to consume just enough without your brain showing symptoms of deprivation

What? If you eat the amount of calories that you are expending every day, you'll operate just fine. That's the way your body was designed to work.
Ok - it's true that ioctl has a generic interface (hadn't remembered that). We can think of it as hundreds of functions, not just one. So wrapping ioctl "completely" is correspondingly a lot of work.

However the point was of course to make a safe-land layer which contains the needed functionality. The point was never to have a function "safeioctl" in the first place.
(FWIW, You could golf that to io::stdin().read_to_end(...), because the Read implementation for Stdin does the same locking internally: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/8f62c2920077eb5cb8132... .)
thank you, that's a very thoughtful answer

I'm curious: do you believe that if I use GMail, that the US (or other) government still today mass-collects it (incl content, not just metadata), and stores it for future analysis? I know there's a public narrative about it but I'm asking for your opinion since you seem well informed about the issues.

I know what I think (I think they absolutely 100% do whatever they can get away with)
This solar sail patent http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H... was educational to me (at some other site which showed the figures too) -- but it's literally the only time that's ever happened in my multi-decade career. It's written in a more helpful style than usual, and undoubtedly never saw commercial use in its lifetime. I would not have even looked if it were a patent in my own field.
I bought tickets to the San Diego show on the Vitalogy tour from ETM. They went out of business in 2000:
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jun/20/business/fi-42758
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Actually tankers are not cost-viable today (and probably never will be).

A friend of mine and I (both marine engineering professionals in commercial shipping) did a Cost Benefit Analysis on chartering a handy size tanker, cleaning the tanks and shipping water from Alaska to California during the droubt. I no longer have the email that broke the costs down, but cleaning costs aside, the operational costs alone yielded $0.25/gal. The cost of H20 in Ca is about $0.002/gal (cheaper for farmers).

If you're looking to start an H20 ptoduction venture, you need to account for demand factors that will inform the type of product that is needed. For example, if the demand is geographically fragmented and/or geopolitical isolated (e.g. to remote villages in relatively undeveloped or oppressive nations) then a small and very cheap personal H20 generation technology is probably more cost feasible than creating a supply infrastructure.

Just calculate the cost/galon at the end user then compare to today's cost and you'll have your answer.
Well it's a matter of degree. Facebook seems to be hundreds of times worse than the awful racist or left wing or fascist newspapers I remember from 15 years ago. I'm not saying that it's only Facebook but it is the world's biggest customised bullshit pipe. And it's both ends of the pipe. Facebook has enabled micro publishing that lets anyone make this stuff up and people just believe it.

Just to share an anecdote, yesterday I saw link bait content suggesting Obama's daughter was worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And if you google that you find comments from people who believe that and think it's proof that the Obama's have stolen money from the government.
That may be so, but it doesn't invalidate the point made by the parent comment. What Apple chooses to do with that improvement in power consumption may be up for discussion, but the fact that there is fair criticism about the fact that they didn't wait is not.
Indeed, there are also alternative methods to feeding cattle that can even reduce methane emissions such as seaweed https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990831132210.h...)
> 50 Billion for fission plants and we are done.

I think each one costs around $10 billion; I don't think 5 nuclear power plants will solve climate change.
Or just disallow platform headers.
I just ate tomatoes last night that grew wild out in my yard that are better than any I've ever bought at a grocery store. That includes "local" and "organic". Produce in US grocery stores is shit.
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That doesn't mean the CPU can't report the size necessary using another instruction though. There's no need for the OS code to change.
This was a bug in the posix standard that has since been fixed.
Surely the city could find a series of roads that could be made into one-way streets, and have segregated bike lanes on the other side?
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After some careful reading of the linked bug report, apparently saving the direction flag wasn't the issue. Rather, clearing it upon entering a signal handler was the issue.
If they touched the light bulb, they might think otherwise.
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JS Developers. The projects are short term. I only use Upwork for MVP type work. Afterwards we take everything in house. I've always strived to deal fairly on the site, but I generally find the terms rather unfair to the devs.

But this disturbed me. I think possibly since they put up the fees some freelancers are ditching it and some of them are getting paid in cash for their review history.
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There's no OS feature you can't say this about.
>Immutable peer-to-peer ledgers have numerous use-cases

And that's why we have git. The only good bit is the Merkle trees, which were invented in 1979.

("Why yes, Mr Buzzwordsusceptible Uppermgt, we've been using blockchain technologies for years! Even before Bitcoin was invented!" i.e. git has Merkle trees in)

Seriously, I've been looking into "business blockchain". There are zero use cases except for the Merkle trees. I commend to you this blog post from the R3 project:

https://www.r3cev.com/blog/2016/4/4/introducing-r3-corda-a-d...

It details why every aspect of Bitcoin and its clones was designed to do the opposite of what financial services want. The punchline is that R3 Corda, their "blockchain" product, does not in its default configuration ... contain a blockchain.
If people follow the advice of security practitioners, Microsoft will end up with the majority of the market, yes.