skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The aspect of victimization that comes with sex work is really embedded into capitalist society. If people were not compelled to work (basics like housing, food and medical taken care of) then sex work would truly become a choice and not an expression of oppression.

Not to say it's never a choice, but we have to acknowledge the underlying struggle that often comes with it (homelessness, drug abuse, broken homes, no viable source of income).
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My startup has a spark card and being able to get the amazon gift cards as the 2% bonus was great, but unfortunately for some reason amazon gift cards are no longer available as one of the gift card options. Had to start getting home depot and target cards instead :/.
You're right, my initial comment was too vague.
There's "small modular reactors" [0], which could solve this problem. Renewables are where they are from years of research and investment, we should offer the same to nuclear.

I don't follow the whole landscape, but I remember reading about Toshiba 4S getting a contract in Alaska, but having to abandon it because the cost of just certifying was cost prohibitive (because the regulations around giant nuclear don't apply to it). And that sucks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
I'm not sure why you call it a dirty secret. It's not dirty or a secret.
Files that close for no reason is caused by preview mode, which can easily be turned off in the settings.
Otherwise you need to double click or edit the file for it to remain open.
This seems potentially exploitative, making it difficult to withdraw consent for sex, and would seem to fail to establish rights as a renter, at least here in the US, meaning they could potentially be kicked out at any time they refuse sex.
> Following the logic here, you seem to be implying that no-one except the irresponsible should use C.

This seems highly likely, yes.

C was a good language at the time. It's still probably a very good teaching language for systems programming. But it's a bad language for anyone who wants to write software that needs to be used responsibly. It predates the entire idea that some people on the network might be hostile. It predates the knowledge that buffer overflows might be used for malice. It predates about 40 years of programming language research and security research, some of which has even shown results.

C also predates computers of modern speed; it was written at a time when interpreted languages were mostly unthinkable for serious software. There's no reason that, say, the manpage rendering tools (the most recent thing I had half a mind of exposing to the network) would be written in C today, but it was presumably the best tool for the job at the time.

It is no criticism of C to say that it has served us well but it is a bad choice for new software for clear and objective reasons.
Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are completely different conversations, but regardless everyone should try to take lifestyle approaches to improving their health (in addition to whatever is medically necessary).
Unfortunately I can't get into too much detail because I had to sign an NDA (to prevent cheating). But the process was similar to when I have found them in the wild: identify the app, install it locally, fuzz various parameters (it was a real application, albeit an old one), find the crash, figure out stack space, figure out bad characters, find the right JMP ESP or equivalent instructions in a loaded library, write shell-code, encode shell-code, slap it all together, hope your hex math doesn't suck, run the exploit. No DEP, ASLR bypass, SEH manipulation, use after free, or heap related work - I learned that on my own.

Their web app challenges were fun too. LFI to code execution, SQL injection, things like that. They have a bunch of network related recon, standard red-teaming stuff.

The OSCE involves ASLR bypass, AV bypass, and using egg hunters.

The big thing about the OSCP, OSCE, OSEE certs is that you actually have to _do_ all of the stuff they teach you. Not a multiple choice or written question in sight. For the test they drop you in a network with vulnerable machines and you have 24, 48, and 72 hours (depending on the cert) to get code execution on each through various techniques. It was challenging, interesting, and satisfying.

Edit - it's worth mentioning that I still find vanilla buffer overflows on projects. These days most thick-client applications that I see are old as hell and are still vulnerable to exploitation techniques from decades ago. So while the skills that the cert makes you prove are cursory and introductory, they are still useful. In any case it's a good starting place for those that want to learn stuff on their own but do better when they are given the push to prove it.
Less inequality does not mean the landlords will be poor.

And wealth has been increasing at an accelerating pace, yet inequality continues to rise. The very poorest of the world may be lifted by capitalism, but not far and now those who were solidly middle class in the more successful economies are falling behind.

Increasing income does nothing if it is funneled into the hands of the few while the many are forced into prostitution.
I'm in the same boat. You might want to check these out:

http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/

https://github.com/JonathanLink/PDFLayoutTextStripper

http://tabula.technology/

https://docparser.com
In how many "safe" languages can you write a complete shipping application without calling into libraries and/or kernels written in C?
I enjoy using computers because they make fewer mistakes than humans.

I would like to apply the same principle to the language I program computers in. Make it the computer's job to minimize mistakes - it might not be perfect, but it's definitely better than I am!
How is this legal? It's just one step away from prostitution. The payment here is not $ but a penny saved is a penny earned. Maybe this is technically legal but it seems against the spirit of the law.
You could try Paperspace (YCW15, https://www.paperspace.com) for hosted Windows or Linux desktops. We run our own hardware to keep costs low, all instances have a GPU, and we built a streaming algorithm that works extremely well. We also have native apps for all desktop platforms and a killer web receiver as well :)

[disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders]
It absolutely is! I love micro-controller development. It's you and the bare metal, not dozens of layers of abstraction that often feel like they're fighting you at every turn.

On the other hand, it's hard to impress with blinkenlights and basic motor driving.

I'm currently going through a phase of thinking on how I could apply functional programming theory and techniques to the next iteration of this embedded system...
Yes, let's be consistent in our celebration of capitalism -- trading work for money and the wisdom of the markets.
+1 on Capital One Spark. 2% back on all transactions with no limit and $500 bonus when you spend $4,500 within first three months.
In similar vein, you know those "happy rats don't become addicts" experiments?

I wouldn't be surprised if future generations look back on our current drug-problems as an issue with how our socioeconomic system provides (or removes) a sense of agency, security, and belonging among different groups of humans.
Prostitution is legal in the UK.
Of course... certain lines you cross pass into the not funny.
... but we have to acknowledge the underlying struggle that often comes with it (homelessness, drug abuse, broken homes, no viable source of income).

Being a woman.

(I wasn't actually joking. Men typically make vastly more than women and housing is crazy expensive...etc. Anyone care to explain the downvote? Poverty has been well documented as being an overwhelmingly female issue.)
The point is apparently to return "type_t::num_types" if the key doesn't exist in the map. Using at() throws an exception if the key doesn't exist.
A Look at Facebook’s Interactive Neural Network Visualization System
From the right, it should be legal because we don't need laws restricting what two consenting adults are doing. From the left, it should be legal because this can be interpreted as a kind of sex work, and making it illegal only sends it underground and creates more dangerous situations for sex workers.
You should do a cat + bus drawing and get neural CATBUS!
Put a single finger up a foot in front of your face and focus on it. Bring it slowly right up to your nose and keep focus on it, and your eyes will cross.

I think practicing this is how I learned to do it on demand as a kid.
I don't know if I agree that it does. There's a difference between being in control of sex work, and entering into a situation that is potentially exploitative, difficult to exit, and might become unwilling in time. The article has one case, and I have personal familiarity of helping with another.

Like I said though, I don't know. The legal response from the article is a gray area to me.
Hmm... I think that the left is split on legalizing prostitution. But most sex positive liberals believe that prostitution and sex work should be legalized in ways that prevents coercion, and this seems to reinforce it.

I mean, if you have a live in maid or nanny or cook, you may feed and house her, but you still have to pay her at least minimum wage, right? I think that's the difference between human slavery and a live in employee.
This is a pretty interesting perspective. I'm someone who was 'diagnosed' with severe depression not that long ago. Treatment in the USA is drugs and talk therapy, but this is an interesting perspective. Maybe depression is a call from a higher being to wake up in your life and make big changes on your path, to adopt a different mindshift. That could be evolutionary adaptive, and it's more inspiring than the medical communities approaches.
The GitHub repo[0] says that the server takes about 20 minutes to load the data and requires about 30 GB of memory to run. It would be interesting to play around with this, but I don't think a lot of people have a spare 30 GB of RAM in their box. Would it be feasible to modify the program so that it just reads from the filesystem instead? Or would that slow it down to the point of the server being unusable?

0. https://github.com/andrewreed/codaspy2017
Capitalism is a game of extracting as much labour surplus value as possible. By definition an article praising Bezos' success must have employees not realising anywhere near their value add.

Bezos does not do the actual work, he facilitates the labour of others. And if he can do that and underpay them more than someone else would then we have a winner.

This is the system.
Better to break your legs than your skull.
The Reconstruction of Ulysses S. Grant
What sort of bugs did you find? Were you able create replicate the regression from a user endpoint?
Oh, oops. Missed that.
Agreed. Just upgraded myself and it looks great. C# syntax highlighting is also looking much better.
I totally agree that most web pentesters don't generally need to know how buffer overflow and binary exploitation techniques work but I think an understanding of how low level systems function and how they can be exploited is useful across all security sub-fields.

I don't think Offensive Security is trying to pump out exploitation experts from their entry level cert program. Maybe the higher levels OSCE and OSEE. The intro cert emphasizes breadth over depth. It felt a lot like a cert built around the Exploitation Hackers Handbook.

I think you're thinking of the certs in the wrong light. They are meant to validate baseline knowledge and proficiency, not mastery. If you want to validate mastery you need to look at the persons personal record and work product.
My point is that it's the low income of those who can't afford housing that is the problem, not the fact that others have higher income than them (not the fact that there's income inequality).

If a causal relationship could be shown between reducing income inequality by way of redistribution by the government, and the lower income subset of the population seeing their income grow faster than it otherwise would, then such programs would be a viable solution to the problems the young people are facing, but only because of the effect it has on their income.

I would argue that the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that all that things being held equal, the institution of socialist programs to redistribute income slows wage growth for all segments of society.
pdffonts, part of poppler-utils, will dump a list of font names.
> It's still debatable whether any humans anywhere in the world would survive

Is it?
do your smoldering bones care about whoever wins ?
If your friend bought it, maybe they don't consider is a "poorly-designed voice assistant"? Maybe they think you're just trying to misuse their device, and being a bit silly?

It's the equivalent of going to somebody's unlocked laptop and typing in "XXX bum photos" or "how to kill the president. Or yelling "Fire! Fire!" to scare somebody.

Yes, it's probably quite funny when you're young (and you shouldn't leave unlocked laptops around) - but come on, really?

Look, we're obviously talking at different levels here - so I think I'm going to withdraw from this fight. There's little I have to gain here.

BTW - To nepthar, unethical_ban, and rl3 - if any of you actually are under the age of 16 - then I'm sorry, I apologise and withdraw my earlier comments - have fun, buddy - try to squeeze in all the pranks/stupidity you can before you have to be an adult =).
I don't know that the article pulls in the opposite direction of decriminalization; you could see it as pulling in the direction of legalization and protective regulation (which is usually seen as beyond decriminalization), rather than the opposite direction. (Yes, I think the implication in the article is that certain politicians are pulling for criminalization based on examples like this, but that doesn't mean that the example inherently justifies that.)

(UK is already decriminalized, and actually AFAIK legalized but with minimal specific regulation.)
The expressions that you used ("deathly ill", no sleep tonight) make me think that you may be lacking some perspective and/or are identifying too closely with your body.

Sometimes, it pays to take a step back and contemplate on the fact that you will eventually die. If you vividly visualize that projected moment of your death and make it real in your mind, you will realize that possible problems you may be having in your everyday, mundane life now appear insignificant. You may also be filled with anxiety and dread. Alternatively, you may dissociate.

It is that dissociation that will allow you to identify with something other than your body (nothingness) and thus be free of such (unexamined) reactions.
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Today? Zero, probably.

Five years from now? Probably a number of them. You've been able to write in Go with no standard library for years. There's a project to avoid it in Rust. There are lots of active kernel development projects. Do you want your software to continue to be written in C with a kernel and standard library in safe languages?

And why does it matter to you to avoid improving your code until it's possible to run on an all-safe stack? It is as if it is 1990, and you are asking, why should I license my code as free software? How much can I run on a free C library and a free kernel?
Heh well I'm sure some fiction authors do, but point taken! I meant, however, things that might have seemed absurd to readers and critics at the time, many of whom would dismiss the possibility of a state regressing in the way the book imagines, or in 1984 people voluntarily submitting to intrusive surveillance, or in BNW eugenics becoming an everyday practice.
An Open Letter to YouTube About Censoring Its Transgender Creators
Show HN: The Daily Populous – an automatic socially generated newspaper
> The storage facility is normally chilled to –37°C. But the equipment failure allowed temperatures to rise to 40°C,

https://www.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2017/ap...

There's more details about the causes of the failure at that URL:

> the refrigeration chillers shut down due to “high head pressure” conditions. Essentially, the chillers were not able to reject their heat through the condenser water system—heat instead of cold circulated through the freezer.

> Compounding matters, the system monitoring the freezer temperatures failed due to a database corruption. The freezer’s computer system was actually sending out alarm signals that the temperature was rising, but those signals never made it to the university’s service provider or the on-campus control centre.
Rat Park (the "happy rats don't become addicts" experiment) doesn't replicate.
For those interested, here is a video of latent-space interpolation of the RNN-generated vector drawings (rendering a bunch of .svg files frame-by-frame) using this method.

https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/852312400481079296
In all seriousness, a much, much bigger problem is the lack of actual affordable housing. In the 60s and 70s, something like 80% of SROs in the US were torn down. This is probably a side effect of the Baby Boom generation growing up awash in relative wealth. There is a global shortage of genuinely affordable, basic housing.

With housing prices so insane, even a full time job can be inadequate to support a person. If we do not solve this, no amount of additional income will ever be enough. You can always just build bigger, more insane McMansions etc. until only billionaires can afford housing. The rest of us will be precariously housed at best unless and until we can reverse that trend.
This is great if the headless mode supports the web extension API because it means that we can run our security tools almost as command line tools.
Amazing how they use WeChat for everything and how someone's word has value in the negotiations. They hardly use paper, receipts.
I couldn't struggle through this tripe. There's too much science fiction that's actually interesting to waste time on the Handmaid's Tale and it's bizarrely nonsensical kinky society.
Interesting read. Reminds me a lot of my youth. I started in the DOS 2.x days. Didnt know how to type, made a mistake and the computer did something different. Took the time to bake up and understand what i did and how the comouter responded (largely how I learned vim nearly 20 years ago).

Did my first substantial programming using the Zilog Z80 assembly. I didn't kno2 about the stack, let alone how to use it, so the code was bad and bloated. But i kept working on it until it worked. It was probably 1000x larger than it needed to be because I didnt understand functions, but it worked. When i first played w Linux was in the late 90s. I knew it was dangerous to dual boot, so i spent the money to buy a 2nd 4GB HD. Probably coat me a couple hundred bucks at the time. Still managed to trash the main drive's partition table. Dont know how, dont recall why, dont recall how I "fixed" it, but restored the Windows 95 drive to working order, but it would report different drive sizes for C: depending on where in the OS you looked (i did have to manually edit a partition table as part of the fix)
Ask HN: What is hire.withGoogle.com?
I can't tell if it's a job board product offered by Google, or their in-house job board.

Example post:
https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/medisas/view/P_AAAAAACAAADCtXddDrnY6h
for https://www.medisas.com/ (possible Alphabet subsidiary?)
> (using malloc()) would provide safer, clearer, and more robust interfaces. E.g. strdup() instead of strcpy().

malloc() ... Lutz
More of this kind of thing please. A+ for concept, execution, and presentation.
In practice, the suggestion would be to use taxes on better off to fund programs to help homeless get back on their feet, fund mental health hospitals, support education programs. However, cultural change and general public education also has to be part of the big-picture solution... otherwise legislation will be repealed next time around.
The creator/rider of that bike recently went to Cuba with a suitcase full of bike part parts to help out.
Yeah, I've been saying for years now we've cured most modern diseases, including diabetes: follow a strict low carb variant of the Paleo diet.

No grains, no refined sugars (that means no fruit juices as well), no legumes, no garbage oils (canola, corn, soy, etc); moderate protein, high (quality) fat (meat itself, olive oil and coconut oil), low carbs (and only healthy sources from whole actual foods).

Every diabetic, no matter how severe, who has successfully adopted this diet has gone on to not only managing their diabetes, but frequently moving on to no longer needing any medicine, and sometimes even healing at least some of the damage (something modern medicine claims is impossible).

Don't believe the hype that a cure is coming soon: it already came, and it isn't something you can shove into a pill, market, and sell for high prices.
They do bring it up every so often, but any politician that is interviewed about it is generally interviewed on the BBC. Also, the public love the BBC and don't mind paying.

The BBC is really good online for us in the UK. I know a few people who work there and they are using cutting edge tech on a shoe string budget. They really do a brilliant job.

Personally I don't mind paying for the Beeb and some other people in the world get it for free.
One way is to copy a word from that part of the PDF document, and paste it into Word or another rich text editor. Then click in the middle of the pasted word. The editor's font display will show you the name of the font.

There is a Lin/Win/Mac font tool here http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
You well illustrated his point.
WebGPU is designed to support use of the GPU for graphics as well as computation in a way that aligns with modern GPU APIs such as Metal, Vulkan and DirectX 12. It will provide more efficient graphics as well as GPU compute.
Deep learning: An easy implement of AlexNet with tensorflow
When someone shows you their new computer, do you Google these things?
Is this really all that different from when women would select partners largely based on whether they were "good providers"?

Humans have been trading sex for food and shelter for thousands of years. It might be slightly more explicit now, but I don't see that any fundamental change has occurred.
Medtronic released the first closed loop pump this year.
Yes I can definitely see a lot problems that can emerge from it, but making it illegal I think will cause more problems than it solves, and fundamentally goes against the principles of a free society. I do think desperate people are capable of providing informed consent. We shouldn't take their agency away from them (and if we do, we should do it officially, through the state becoming their ward).

Also, it's often the case that making it illegal just pushes it further underground, where people have fewer protections.
Appreciate you sharing your perspective on this. Interesting to listen to the debate re: the merits of various technical approaches, but ultimately what matters is whether people will actually USE the product and derive health benefits.
Would you want to break the record like that? No one would respect you or the record. Sometimes these things come down to how you want to feel about yourself.
Whoa, I think OP is talking about which corporate credit card to use.

Using a personal credit card of an employee sounds like an absolute nightmare. I know startups are strapped for cash, but damn.
The former. I was actually just sent a link to use it to apply to a non-Google job.
> The only time avoiding the certificate entirely is when the signal it provides is negative.

It is possible for the same action send a positive signal when done by some people and a negative signal when done by others. Specifically there can be 'contersignaling' [0], which is basically signaling that you don't need to signal.

[0]: https://kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/cs-randfinal.pdf