skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup.

Regarding the differences it's important to both compare and contrast.

The US likes to try to color Russian propaganda as "evil" or "illegitimate" or "propaganda based on lies" or some such other nonsense. There are a great many ways to contrast the propaganda programmes, but doing it moralistically is counterproductive and ineffective.
What's impressive is how much office work, from my experience, could easily be automated away. Not even with anything fancy - very simple scripts would be enough for a lot of stuff.

It's not uncommon to find people in offices doing things like manually generating the stock reports and graphs each year, collating dozens of Excel spreadsheets by hand, or even doing data cleaning by hand. For all the excitement in the news about machine learning and robots, a huge chunk of work could be automated away with relatively simple tools.
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>2. Converse not interview

This is good advice but it applies to both sides.

The best way to learn about a person's technical background is to start from a common base and go over their experience. I like to start talking backwards from their resume, and say "OK, Job A. What were you focused on there? Your description mentions technologies B,C,D. How did you apply them?"

You then just take it from there, pick up on the things they discuss to get into the technicalities. Ask them hypotheticals. Ask them how that technology could apply to a different problem set. Ask them about things that annoyed you specifically about those technologies in the past and how they addressed/resolved them. etc.

This is the best way to interview in my experience. It keeps the pressure low, it doesn't waste time on rehearsed answers, it doesn't waste time on whiteboarding unless it comes up (a very basic takehome project (30 minutes) should be given pre-interview), it lets the person discuss their experience and provide real feedback about the things they've learned. It gives them the opportunity to discuss their technical habits, values, and interests. It reveals the most about the candidate in the minimal amount of time.

So many of my colleagues would lock up when they'd go in to interview people and not know what to do. They'd sit there and just expect the candidate to know what they wanted to see and carry the whole thing. They'd print off a list of questions that they found from a site about how to interview people, or they'd give them a code trivia quiz that is a massive waste of time for everyone.

All of that is very silly and misses the point. Everyone just needs to relax and hold an unscripted technical discussion. You can go in with an outline to make sure you hit the topics intended in the course of the discussion, but shouldn't need more than that.
That's a good suggestion. Unfortunately I don't live on the ground floor...
Good to see I'm not crazy! I think this can be easier than maintain, and with tools like Datagrip now, seems to make a lot of sense. Coming from the data science side, I observed many talented people spending time on projects like https://github.com/cloudera/ibis to abstract SQL into something that I often thought was more verbose, less literal and less portible in reality.
You can't generalize all agencies or all departments within an agency either. I'd be surprised if anyone working with Comey would give a damn based on what he tried to do to Apple, but I doubt everyone in our three letter agencies is going to violate the current system and read data without authorization and a warrant.
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As another comment mentioned the NSA definition of collect seems to be (or was) only when they "look" at it, whatever that means exactly.

An interesting thing that I like to imagine happens with 1 (though I have no evidence) is that often Jane Doe does blow up a building, but then you see in the news over the next few weeks reports of rounding up terrorist cells related to Jane Doe. If they had to start fresh every time I don't think they could do that, they must have prior information, so I like to think it's the powers involved paying the Palantir tax. It's very reactive, which sucks for the people killed by Jane, but perhaps it's indicative that things haven't yet gone full Minority Report.
What do you mean by "resource permissioning"? There doesn't seem to be anything in the article about that.
I think the quickest way to stifle innovation in software (or drive it out of the country) would be to implement a professional organization.
That is incorrect. Conversion from traditional to Roth IRA has no limit. Contribution limit is $5500 per year regardless backdoor or not.
These brains are a lot smaller than a human brain---only about 2-5 mm across. While it's almost certainly a mistake to conflate size with complexity naively (songbirds are capable of pretty complex behaviors), I think it's much safer to assume that if human brains were capable of being much smaller while still allowing complex behaviors, they would be. Otherwise, we would probably gestate longer---compared to lots of other primates, humans are born "premature" in terms of developmental completeness.

Also, as other comments have pointed out, these organoids don't really have any neural inputs, so it's unlikely that they're wired in a way that is at all analogous to real human brains.
Fascinating analysis!
The section "Building devices that approach physical limits" reminds me of a rock Kurzweil mentions in "The Singularity is Near" [1]. Although it's not as a cosmic scale, it's a similarly interesting exploration of the limits of computation!

>“How Smart Is a Rock? To appreciate the feasibility of computing with no energy and no heat, consider the computation that takes place in an ordinary rock. Although it may appear that nothing much is going on inside a rock, the approximately 1025 (ten trillion trillion) atoms in a kilogram of matter are actually extremely active. Despite the apparent solidity of the object, the atoms are all in motion, sharing electrons back and forth, changing particle spins, and generating rapidly moving electromagnetic fields. All of this activity represents computation, even if not very meaningfully organized. We’ve already shown that atoms can store information at a density of greater than one bit per atom, such as in computing systems built from nuclear magnetic-resonance devices. University of Oklahoma researchers stored 1,024 bits in the magnetic interactions of the protons of a single molecule containing nineteen hydrogen atoms.51 Thus, the state of the rock at any one moment represents at least 1027 bits of memory.”

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1284270-how-smart-is-a-rock...
Great points. The first article only lightly touches on those topics, in part 2 I'll talk more about the challenges and constraints that lead us to the srcset widths we use at Webflow and our image processing / compression stack.

Hopefully talking about the 'why' will help others make the right choices for their project.

The reference page will see improvements in the future as we enhance our process, but certainly resizing and optimizing variants by hand can yield even better results if you have the time.

What is worth noting from part 1 is that using pixel width variants in `srcset` will let the browser factor in dpi of your monitor as part of the calculation. So it wouldn't serve a 2x image where it only needed 1x.

It's not recommended to use high dpi images, 72dpi is the way to go for web content, with a larger (dimensions) version serving as the 2x variant.
>Guns are dangerous. People should be afraid of them.

What a stupid conclusion. Jet engines are dangerous as well, but we don't perpetuate fear of them. We just train people to be safe around them.
Google won't collapse because:

Mobile search is likely to be replaced by agents, and google controls one of the best AI agents and the world's most popular operating system.

Users hate ads but they don't necessarily hate paid responses to search queries, if they are appropriate. That business is not going away soon.

Also, just because YouTube isn't yet profitable doesn't mean it could be made profitable. The Author talks about how Amazon has surpassed google for product searches. Amazon was not profitable for a long time to prioritize growth. I think you can see the same thing with YouTube.

And, oh yeah, they get a cut of a store that is projected to have $42B in revenue in 2021. (https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/29/app-store-android-app-market-...)
I think the parent is wrong in "easily replaceable" but I think it will be replaced soon. For $5 I would pay for a private customizable search engine, someone will build it
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Eureka! We make a class-action lawsuit, charging the government $X billion for violating our copyrights because of NSA surveillance!
> Also, it is in past tense.

It's written as a report from "the near future", so both current and speculated future events are written in the past tense.

It's a piece of not particularly insightful or entertaining speculative fiction.
How much is the boat though? What you just described is something I wouldn't mind doing myself.
Yes, I use the SQLite driver, and use & regularly pull the latest version from the git, 7.1 right now.

I haven't dug into why it uses that CPU in any detail. Looking at its output / tcpdump of what it's doing it goes to >100% CPU for 10-30 seconds when it's finished fetching the status from the remote & is presumably in some tight inner loop comparing it with local data to decide what to do before it starts downloading messages, and then briefly spends a few more seconds at >100% after the messages are downloaded, presumably updating its local state.

When it's just issuing IMAP commands or downloading messages from the remote it sits at 1-5% CPU.

As I pointed out OfflineIMAP works just fine for me, but in retrospect I'd be happier if I had stayed with mbsync. I don't need any feature from OfflineIMAP that it doesn't have, and it both uses less CPU/Memory & it finishes deciding what to download & downloading it in way less time.
In China KVM is probably more common than Xen; Aliyun and Tencent use it, and Huawei is transitioning from Xen to KVM (with QEMU). KVM is probably more common among whoever uses OpenStack.

Xen also requires a hardware emulator to run HVM guests (including, but not limited to, Windows VMs).
I don't know about now, but it definitely used to be QEMU for AWS.

QEMU can do emulation, but with KVM you use the hypervisor to run code at full speed until it has to interact with the emulated hardware.
The post is written as if it was written in the future talking about things happening currently. See the line just below the title. Reporting from the very near post Google future.
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Simple tool to plan a bachelor party (or any weekend trip to be exact)
My first thought was "older? really?" - but hosted at SourceForge, I guess it could be.

I started using offlineimap in 2008, which feels like a long time ago but of course is a lot more recent than the first appearance of imap.
> The ShadowStats Alternate US Unemployment Rate for March 2017 is 22.5%.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...
Yeah, they might open their first restaurant soon. How long will it take until this tech arrives in my city? You don't even need modern software or hardware for it. Basically it's finite automaton. It could have been developed 10 years ago, or even 15? And it will take another 15 years until I can eat reproducible burgers :)
OK this one takes the cake. WOW.
Just wanted to say that building a site around this info would draw a lot of traffic - perhaps much of it coming from the spammers! A solid amount of legit info in one place would probably lead the big webmail providers to have to change their tactics, so it owuld be a commitment to keep it updated.
Speaking of Japanese, I previously wrote some pretty basic code for translating arabic to/from Japanese numerals:

https://github.com/navarr/JapaneseNumerals/blob/master/Japan...
> the skills to build good systems are not related to working effectively with others

Yes they are if you're talking about the types of systems that large companies have. It is in fact so difficult that I believe it's a considerable advantage to have scopes small enough to be manageable by a single engineer, but inherent complexity is often well beyond that, especially for very profitable business engines.
I expect he's referring to the post from yesterday:

https://www.troyhunt.com/reckon-youve-seen-some-stupid-secur...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14218270
Any proof of what you are saying, or is it just FUD?

Most QEMU CVEs are related to devices that should never be used in cloud provider scenarios (you'll often find that they are disabled in RHEL for this exact reason). If anything, prompt handling of vulnerabilities in those devices is a sign of taking security seriously...
I wish they'd catch up with not using company name as a wake-up word
Why not backup the pictures and video off site as well so the entire house is disposable?
I merely referenced a meme to convey my opinion, which is repeated in the comment itself. We have to be careful not to turn hn into an ivory tower.

I do get you, but take it witha grain of sault. The real danger to our discourse is opinion Manipulation and echo chambers.
> So far, it's an ad agency with hobbies.

Hobbies that account for billions of dollars of quarterly revenue.
Those write-ups are very neat! Thanks!
Original purchasers sell their tickets at a loss back to the airline all the time (for credit). It's called canceling your flight because your plans change for some reason.

As you point out, Southwest lets you do this for free. And JetBlue is something pretty reasonable as I recall. Unfortunately most of the fee-addicted airlines have really ratcheted up their cancellation fee however.
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Yeah, the effectiveness of that idea mad me a little sad when I worked on google maps. I spent all this time studying computational geometry in college and it went out the window. Use space filling curves and then standard text indexing techniques and you don't need to deal with any fancy geometric algorithms.
As an intern at Google back 7 years ago, a fairly senior developer that I liked working with told me something that really stuck with me: "Google found a hose that money pours out of, and it's called Online Advertising. All that we do now is try to make that hose work better, and try to find another hose."

I think the premise of this article is that Google's money hose is drying up and it seems they may not have found another hose.
"People in companies". Is that better?
Because users are more likely to lose a certificate or have it stolen than a website. What happens then?
Eric Hunsader commented on the $9000/month fee for Non-Display (algorithmic) usage of price data. Eric claims that the current proposal removes two exemptions that have existed since 2014, for GUI software and derived data, https://twitter.com/nanexllc

Oct 2014 rule: https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nms/2014/34-73278.pdf

March 2017 proposal: https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nms/2017/34-80300.pdf
If you are using images from a vector source, SVG is supported by all modern browsers and naturally provides all this for free. However for smaller resolutions, PNG may result in a lower file size.
I wonder why SF/Peninsula SV knowledge workers have an expectation to live large at salary $X when many of their colleagues/friends are making just as much, whereas Manhattan New Yorkers do not have an expectation to live large making great money in absolute terms but still making relatively "average money" wrt relative income.

I suppose one hypothesis is that the region has yet to come to terms with how widespread high earning power in absolute terms (but not on relative terms) have become.
Guns kept in proper gun safes are pretty much useless against intruders though.

(To be clear, I agree everyone should keep their guns properly stored in gun safes at all times, and I also think guns for self defence are a bad solution in first world countries.)
The important aspect for the NSA's interpretation is that algorithms can look at and process the data and create metadata or synopsis information from it.

Having an intelligence system ingest this metadata and synopsis is not considered "collection".

Essentially, if it can be automated, it isn't collection. If a human gets pulled into the loop to look at data, that's when it's collected. However, a human could be shown a synopsis or an inference about an American target and this could still not be collection, as the summary information being viewed isn't considered the person's private records.

Basically a loophole in a loophole. I'll be happy to keep databases of, and run software over, our national security records. I won't collect any of it, though. I won't even look at it. I'll just get summaries of the information contained in it from my algorithms - and if I want to look at a specific document I'll punch a rubber stamp on it first.
I actually appreciate the opinion, that for some people it is difficult to read such kind of text. I also acknowledge, that some words are too fukt to be read properly :) However, the fact that this algo was written in one night and most people say it works, I feel a potential. It is all about polishing the lib of replacements, which is a part of the algo.
That analogy doesn't make sense. Jet engines weren't invented to kill things quickly with as little proximity and mass as possible. People can avoid jet engines and people who operate them without any difficulty.

Furthermore, jet engines aren't marketed as devices to make people safer in their homes, nor are they stored in homes, nor are they considered to be useful to a layperson.
In the case of preloading. The performance you're shaving off is all the time it takes to download all the images on your page. Which can be significant.

If you're on a slow connection, it can make a page load like it was loading from cache. Which can be quite significant compared to the css approach.

The question of whether the time spent implementing the feature is worth the benefits for a particular project / audience will vary on your use case.
The idea of protecting your most productive asset so that it can continue to be your most productive asset instead of burning out solving problems its poorly suited for is "batshit insane logic" that prevails Uber? No, no its not.

Just because I label development an assembly line doesn't mean treat your developers like machines. They are machines, human machines. Meaning they have feelings and a whole host of things that must be managed in addition to keeping them well oiled.
I spent some time post-college working as a baker; our primary output was bread (with some cookies, cakes, and brownies etc as well), but the vast majority of our bread was sold to local restaurants. If you're running a bakery that's selling direct to consumers, I can imagine that it would be pretty hard to make ends meet on bread alone.

This had the curious result that when I was in Carmel-By-The-Sea a few weeks ago, I went in to what was ostensibly called a "bakery" and tried to buy a baguette, only to be told that they only sold pastries and cookies and didn't make bread at all. I was extraordinarily put out by this.
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Deal! Hopefully I won't eat my words. It just screams 'prank' to me but we'll see : )
If you look at cars as a capsule with 'out-of-network' capabilities, it is pretty interesting. You can whether bring local transportation on both side (start or end) of the railway-like network, where walking would not be possible (long distance, no other alternatives...).

In the video you have both experiences, public shared capsule (glassed bus) and private capsule (cars) and in that way, you can address both needs without providing too much stations/lifs and still able to bring access to big cities for people living in peripheral areas.

It's one solution that can make it, not the only one though, but it's a good point of view of future cities.
Try any search for a phone accessory like "mobile phone vr headset" or "usb battery pack".
Fair point: I taught my daughter never to threaten at about 6 years old.

The way I see it, even at Google, small M&A deals are just staffed by a bunch of aggro nerds who have a lot more "egoistic hot shot" than "civilized decorum" about them. It seems possible they were bluffing — getting organizational buy-in and staffing a small project at Google has relatively enormous overhead. So for tiny projects (<$1M), buying is nearly always cheaper.

Best response, I imagine, would be "ok, why don't you guys figure out how much that'll cost you and we'll circle back to talk numbers again. looking forward to it!"
On a slight tangent, but I wish there were more acceptance of this in general. My memory isn't brilliant so if asked a question I often won't have the answer off the cuff, but I can generally find the resources I need and once I have these put together solutions with speed and creativity, making me good at resolving certain types of problems - and terrible at others - but knowing my flaws I think I am able to target myself where I am useful. Sadly, in the competitive work environment today it seems like people would often rather bullshit than admit ignorance. I wish it weren't like this.
I'm guessing that it would not be feasible to manage a CA of that size.
That could be really interesting. Grabbing system configuration from lshw should be relatively simple - what could be more interesting is the backend that would tell you your machine is an interesting one or is already covered.
I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Deep Learning is great at making recommendations or classifications, given petabytes of data, but not even close to automatically solving general-purpose computing problems.

For example, I can type an error message into Google, and get sent to the solution, since thousands of others before me have provided the training data. But can I just describe my task to Google and have it produce the solution? Not even close.
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My saving will be at (or near) FU money level, so I'll either work less or work on stuff that pays less but is more interesting (robotics maybe?).
I meant that they'll choose the easiest houses, even if they spend effort casing them. I'm sure those Polish burglars were avoiding the riskiest homes.
> Objecting to the redistribution of wealth isn't the same as trying to do away with the rule of law.

The rule of law depends on the redistribution of wealth. Courts, public defenders, police, regulators, juries don't magically appear out of nowhere.

Therefore, it seems obvious that if you are absolutely opposed to the redistribution of wealth, you are therefore absolutely opposed to what most people would consider civilization: rule of law, education, public services, etc.

Do you agree that being part of a functional modern western civilization is impossible without the redistribution of wealth (paying taxes, serving on juries)?
I am not sure I understand, do you mean Cmabridge method is easier to read? If yes - I agree with you. Spellfucker is just too young and needs a lot of polishing.
General Hayden was recently on Sam Harris' podcast and he briefly explained the 'retroactive collection' concept-

https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/privacy-and-security

I'd say his arguments appear clear and convincing, even to a skeptic like myself. I wonder what can be done to counter his seemingly perfect narrative so Americans can be rightfully concerned about what's happening.

To be clear, I don't believe Hayden, he is likely lying about aspects of it, these systems will inevitably be used in the future for regular law enforcement purposes and the previous abuses by NSA staff is understated. Plus, it is unequivocally illegal and a violation of natural rights. And just a bad idea which will lead to a dangerous future.