skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the example. I also asked how someone can protect against this effect, but you did not answer that portion of my question. By "someone" I meant, in this case the boss - how can bosses counter this effect?

For instance, to continue with your example, suppose the boss certainly would like to save $xxx with a different schedule they hadn't considered, but isn't even aware that the engineer is competent enough to propose it and knows how to do so: so in this case what could the boss have said or done differently that would have caused the engineer to propose it?

I assume ending each meeting with "We must now talk about anything that would improve the proposal just made; even if it makes me look like an idiot. Zhang Wei, do you know of any improvements?" and then going around pointing to each person and making them tell you whether they do, does not sound like it would "work". In this case Zhang Wei would say "no", as would the rest of the engineers... so how can the manager learn that an alternative schedule which Zhang Wei can propose could save them $xxx? (And maybe even complete production sooner, etc.) Any concrete suggestions here?
This was a thing about 10 years ago, maybe longer. Lots of stores started up that would list your stuff on eBay for a percentage of the price. That lasted for a year or so and all those stores closed up shop.

It's too bad because that seemed like a reasonable system: people would get to be proficient at pricing, describing and listing items on eBay and the sales price at a public auction seemed like a pretty accurate value for what something was "really worth".

My wife used to take things that our kids outgrew to resale shops. She still is able to take some things that we no longer use but was easier with kid stuff.
Great post, one of the best this year.

It feels like there's really a role for a phone that does mapping and secure simple communications really welland limits resources to other tasks.
Today at lunch with a friend in Palo Alto, we measured 106°F at our table in the shade. We ate outdoors because the cafe had no A/C and was intolerable.
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I was just telling people the same thing. Davis in the summer is just like being in hell, but with far fewer people.
Of course they don't bother trying to, you know, lift the giant subsidies on water for agriculture when farmers are still using 10000 year old irrigation practices that result in most of the water evaporating into the air ....
saw same thing on reddit...
Hegel saw the prussian absolutist state as the epitome of perfection. How could he be so wrong?

My problem with philosophy is that all this thinking is most often turned to its proper use - the justification of some power structure
These things tend to sort themselves out in sharing economies by word-of-mouth. If someone doesn't handle the things trusted to them carefully, no one will share with them anymore.
I don't see this in terms of whether tech co's should "ban hate speech". I see it in terms of whether they should decide to turn themselves and their employees into political targets, especially in the context of escalating political violence and willingness by political actors to go after oppositional infrastructure (cf, hostility towards left wing journalists).

Con Ed doesn't have this problem and manages to make tons of money, despite providing power to I assume some number of literal nazis.
The difference between A/C and antibiotics is that there are plenty of alternatives to A/C like drinking enough water and staying in the shade. There really aren't any alternatives to antibiotics. The Internet is totally frivolous to human survival on a basic needs level.
from what I recall customers where unaware of any difference in taste, so I'd say: success.

And yes, customers were angry when informed it was pre-prepared food (specially being upscale restaurants).

Heck, sounds like the bag could be tossed into a microwave for all I know.
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How many hands do you have?
Rust JSON parser which picks up values directly without performing tokenization
Here's the full interview that you are referring to with Lee Atwater. Since it's becoming referenced more and more, it really deserves a full listen. I believe it is mostly misinterpreted, and I was guilty of that myself.

https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-inf...

Atwater was referring to the GOP Southern Strategy and how it evolved from 1954 to 1968. He wasn't referring to his strategies during the Reagan election in 1980. I believe he's gotten a bad rap for that. He graduated college in 1973 after that period.

Atwater: But Reagan did not have to do a southern strategy for two reasons. Number one, race was not a dominant issue. And number two, the mainstream issues in this campaign had been, quote, southern issues since way back in the sixties. So Reagan goes out and campaigns on the issues of economics and of national defense. The whole campaign was devoid of any kind of racism, any kind of reference. And I'll tell you another thing you all need to think about, that even surprised me, is the lack of interest, really, the lack of knowledge right now in the South among white voters about the Voting Rights Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater

The South voted primary Democrat (southern democrat, there were northern democrats that were a different flavor) for 100 years, since 1860 because Lincoln was a Republican and Lincoln burned the South. I mean the South constantly voted majority Democrat up until about the civil rights era in the 1960s when they turned majority Republican. I'm sure you are aware, the South almost always votes majority Republican (in 2008 Obama won 3 southern states though). This shift was due to the Southern Strategy that Atwater was referring to, but did not implement himself. It's absolutely fascinating how much slavery and it's affects are part of this nation. I consider it our "original sin."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
There's a difference between some students going that way for whatever reason -vs- copying work being absolutely normal and generally expecting that this is the way to go. There are many articles talking about it if you google. Some connect it to "you advance to a university or stay rural with your family forever" situation, some with other factors.
I on the other hand, try to convince my employer to take on the new stacks, so I can play with it while getting paid
I have often read this, but I don't understand it.

Why would `cypherA(cypherB(plaintext))` reveal more than `cypherA(plaintext)` or `cypherB(plaintext)` ?

If it did, an attacker might just perform the second encryption and obtain the same result.

The only example I've seen is "if you rot13 twice you get back to the start", but that seems a trivially flawed analogy.
He's a grifter.
If there was a split it would be inside Google, not splitting Google from other bets.
These dark patterns are the result of successful A/B tests. They don't do it because they enjoy it. They do it because the data says the platform performs better. And I know this because I met dozens of Perl developers at conferences and I asked them explicitly about the FOMO spreading.

The question is: how can one measure the long term impact these dark patterns have on future sales?

I do my best to avoid using booking.com precisely because of these dark patterns. I love Perl, there are just a few big companies that are still using Perl as their main backend technology and whenever I can I try to give them money. Especially when they're getting involved in the community and are trying to grow the ecosystem like booking does. But when their web site tries to apply the cheapest manipulation tricks on me, I avoid them.
I would be surprised. Christians don't enjoy the same social protections as Muslims (for better or worse) at least in the US.
> The lack of scrolling to the top by tapping the scroll bar is another. Is that fixed too?

Nope. (I forgot to test that.)
The issue is that there isn't necessarily a representative code base available for analysis for some likely suspects, i.e. Nick Szabo.
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Those orange juice squeezers are pretty common in Brussels. Every Carrefour and Delhaize mini markets have them.
What is the compilation speed? Tex and its derivatives are really slow. (Whereas e.g. Web browsers typeset documents in milliseconds)
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Thanks for the clarification - I'll have to check it out.
Realistically other implementations of Python aren't relevant. Saying you shouldn't write code assuming dict preserves order is like saying you shouldn't write code that uses numpy or other CPython-only libraries, isn't it?
Come on folks, that's not particularly charitable. Of course the numbers on the pie chart are arbitrary, the whole article is clearly presented as the author's opinion. I still found it more useful than just saying "everything is important".
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The husband and wife go out to dinner
to have quality time alone;
as they sit across from each other,
both of them on their phone.

And what shall we do with our cell phone next?
Should we start a photo stream or send out a text?
Our day is just not complete, it seems
without sending or receiving the latest memes.
"Speaking as a former college professor, I can say that most curricula have absolutely no effect on most students."
You still can add it, it's pretty much a separate add-on to the furnace.
"Observe, this is the beginning of philosophy, a perception of the disagreement of men with one another, and an inquiry into the cause of disagreement, and a condemnation and distrust of that which only `seems', and a certain investigation of that which `seems' whether it `seems' rightly..."
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I'm not a math pro but I don't think those are good evidence to refute that claim. I have no idea whether the claim is valid or not, though I vaguely recall this discussion from school.

From your examples -- one's a ratio and the other is irrational. Almost as if you suggest "The set of real numbers exists, ergo 0.999999... exists"?
In nightly builds of Rust (on 64-bit x86 platforms; no idea about support elsewhere), `(a as u128) * (b as u128)` where `a` and `b` are 64-bit integers will compile to a single `mul` instruction: see https://godbolt.org/g/Be7ncs
I think you need to be careful with those comparisons. Comparing Rust programmes that are modern and take advantage of not just Rust but all the knowledge we have about safety and security and writing fast code for modern platforms with projects that are ancient and full of cruft? That's not really fair.

New modern C++ programmes don't have any memory safety bugs either.
> did you notice that there wasn't a middleman taking a cut when you sent the money? I mean, do you have any fucking idea how much money businesses pay to the credit card companies

This guy noticed https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-you-wont-be-buying-a-coffee...

"High fees make it impractical to use bitcoin as a day-to-day currency. Paying a $5 fee to send $10,000 bitcoin isn’t a big deal, but it’s hard to justify buying a cup of coffee with bitcoin if the transaction costs more than the coffee."

Realistically, though, from the consumer standpoint Bitcoin is an electronic payments network analogous to credit cards that

1) Takes longer time to confirm (great news when you're standing in a checkout line).

2) Does not have a third party to resolve conflicts and disputes between the consumer and unscrupulous merchant or a straight out scammer.

3) Does not have a rollback mechanism in case of an unauthorized or fraudulent transaction.

4) Does not offer consumer-side rewards - cashback, airline miles, points - for usage.

Where do I sign up?
That might be the way that economists describe shortages, but it is not the way that normal people describe shortages.

Personally, my definition of a shortage is "There is not enough of X, and it would be a very good thing to increase X".

Using my bread example, if bread cost 100$ a loaf, and people were literally starving to death because they couldn't buy bread or other food, then there IS a shortage of food.

It does not matter if "supply is equaling demand", because it is a very bad thing for food to cost 100$ a meal.
The public will get to see police license plate data
One peculiar irony is that the American left is sort of going through their own red scare, wherein half of the US is paranoid that everyone around them is a Nazi.
This is very silly. FFLs are already prohibited from selling to abusive spouses (if there is any sort of domestic violence conviction or restraining order) and the mentally ill. They also reserve full rights to decline any sale, which they do regularly with people who seem unbalanced or give indication they're intending on misusing the weapon. Seriously, try to buy a rifle with a swastika sharpie'd on your forehead and see how many gun shops you get ejected from.
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I am a bit surprised by this in some ways, but not in others. Half.com was a decent place for textbooks, but they've gone down hill in recent years. Ebay never seemed to do much development though; logging into my old seller dashboard I found it looked nearly the same as it did a decade ago- and it seemed old back then.

I imagine the half.com domain is worth quite a bit. I wonder what their plans for it are?
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Take a look at either Ruby or Python - both have huge userbases in general, but are also used regularly within the business.

A lot of quick scripts are written in Python - you may have noticed this in Kali.

Ruby is what metaspoilt in built upon, meaning a lot of the modules are also ruby.

Both are great languages. In regards to where to start with learning them, take a look at https://www.codecademy.com, both are featured there and give you a nice gentle introduction to their syntax and ways of workings.

Also for Python there's https://learnpythonthehardway.org which is awesome, and https://automatetheboringstuff.com which is a little more practical to begin with.

Once you feel comfortable with the language(s), go read the source code for those scripts or modules in Kali and see what else you can pick up.
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Thank you for reminding me to go watch Pi again.
You can prove it, but you can also prove that a C++ programme has no memory safety bugs. And there are a lot of languages where you don't have to, where it's simply impossible to get memory safety bugs (assuming the runtime is safe).

For nontrivial libraries that use a lot of unsafe, it really is very difficult to know that all the uses of unsafe don't interact in some way to create unsafety. The scoped lock that had a problem in Rust 1.0 (or just before it?) is an example.

You can force callers to maintain your invariants in C++ too, simply by using some basic safety. Yes people can still do things that are obviously visually unsafe in code and undefined, but that's not a serious issue.

I still think Rust is better here. Don't get me wrong. But it's very hyped as 'safe and fast' when it just isn't safe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program
When the drama unfolded over the James Damore manifesto I recognized immediately what would unfold next in our cold civil war.

The folks who work at Google may have been appeased but it served as a lighting rod to gather those who oppose the culture in urban areas like Silicon Valley.

I think it's very likely we will now see an accelerated push from the Trump administration and conservatives to break up the big firms in Silicon Valley.

I hope I'm wrong.
Does any of the subsidiaries except for Google turn a profit though?
I feel like it is difficult to get hired right out of college into a pentesting/netsec role without a bunch of certs and CTFs (which you do mention in your career guide). Even then it just looks like just another qualifying tick in the checklist. Right now I'm thinking a dev job for a couple years, then move into security (which looks like what some recommend).
What do you suggest one can do to show that they have the chops to take up the a good role short of getting a couple high profile CVEs? Write a blog? Write PoCs for past CVEs?

What will get the attention of someone who hires (like you) to think that they will be a good fit?
The confusion before tranquility ?
I speak a bit of Chinese and have Chinese friends who were studying in Germany and one time I got to sit in on their copying session. I was quite surprised when a lot of Chinese showed up whom I'd never seen before.

Turns out some of them were seniors who had brought their homework from previous years. It wasn't like everyone just copied the work either, there was plenty of discussion about the points they had trouble understanding. (But my Chinese wasn't quite good enough to pick up on most of it.)

So if I may generalize from my anecdote, I'd say that Chinese students colluding is special in that they form a tightly knit community abroad, helping each other out.
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You're sending integers. To do anything useful you'd need to convert those integers to actual fiat money, and to do that you either go through a government-licensed conversion channel such as an exchange, or a third party willing to assume the conversion risk that usually comes wih high fees or highly unfavorable exchange rate.
Doesn't "kill the dissenters" seem to be the flavor of most communist countries? China, N Korea, Cuba, Cambodia, Romania, Vietnam, etc.
Owning a better built house and having sealed it up and all, it turns out it doesn't seem like that would help terribly much. With good design, heat gain or loss is very limited in the first place. We get most of our heat from a few south windows, and body heat. Once I shade the windows, it will be just bodies, which heat the house the same no matter the room.

Plus the building is usually designed as a unit- the envelope is sealed and insulated, room-to-room is not at all.

So the heat or cool just one room strategy I think is only compelling in a poorly designed building.
Why is it not capital based already? Most people who sign up I am guessing do it because they have no other great options available. I don't know the stats but I wouldn't be surprised if most militaries of the world are filled with people from rural areas.
It's not that the numbers are arbitrary, it's that the chart flagrantly implements the 3 biggest "don't ever do this" items taught in data visualization courses, books, and articles. In an article aimed at novice data scientists, no less!

It would be like reading an article about what an aspiring engineer needs to know about lower-level systems programming, and then coming across a snippet of bubble sort written in the ugliest Perl you can imagine.
About half the food I buy is not in a package. I wouldn't want every carrot and every loaf of bread to come with an RFID sticker.
Agreed. Will there ever come a day that we can lay the "isms" aside and focus on what can unite us rather than jumping on that which divides us?
Ask HN: What C/C++ logging library do you use and why?
There are quite a few options out there, but I wanted to understand what works where. There are a couple of blog posts about this topic without much information about how they performed in the long term.
>Good thing our society doesn't optimize for maximum absolute wealth growth in a vacuum, else we'd have 1 person with all of the country's wealth.

The person must be trading with others somehow to be gaining those 4% returns; they could only end up with all the wealth if literally nobody else saved any money. And if nobody else saved any money, there'd be no economic growth at all if not for the person with all the wealth.

>Have you considered second order effects here? What if additional wealth allows "Jo" to increase their per annum return because they invest it in a business or education?

Jo started with the same amount of wealth as Jane; he had no less opportunity to invest it in a business/education, invest it in something to increase in something that increased his investment returns, than she did.

>In this case, the condition assumes that the rate of wealth creation is fixed and unalterable on a scale of 50 years. It also falsely assumes (just world fallacy) that wealth is already allocated in such a way as to belong to people with high (unalterable) wealth creation potential.

It doesn't assume the latter, it assumes Jane and Jo started with the same amount of wealth, and shows that given this condition it will result in more wealth being allocated to the people with more wealth creation potential. Starting from the same point, Jane and Jo have equal chance to increase their ability to create wealth.
And in a society adopting capitalism the Bourgeoisie must violently suppress the proletariat otherwise you're not going to be able to create that perfect society.
Right, and capitalism is completely bloodless and clean /s
The war on "hate speech", just like the war on "terror" is just a cover to take away and restrict rights.

Why did the media collectively declare war on "hate speech" the past few years - culminating in the absurd hit piece on pewdiepie?

Isn't it strange that all the establishment news organizations WSJ, NYTimes, WaPo, etc all went on a industry-wide campaign?

It had nothing to do with "hate speech". Neo-nazis, kkk, etc have always existed. It's about corralling social media and pressuring them to consolidate "news" around the established media.

It's easier to justify taking away your rights/free speech if you can say it is part of the war on "hate speech". Just like it is easier to get people to accept intrusive TSA if you tell them it's part of the war on "terror".

Just like war on "reds/communism/etc" allowed for rights of many to be abrogated by mccarthy. Or the war on drugs allowed for wholesale incarceration of minorities and the toppling of latin american governments.
If it's Internet-connected, it might not squeeze without an approved API call from the vendor.
I'm guessing this doesn't apply to the many companies who take groundwater practically for free and then bottle and sell it.

Regular consumers shouldn't be punished for the misuse of water by companies and farmers.
Honestly why? We have one of the highest tax burdens in the entire USA. We already pay more for water and more for electricity than almost anywhere else.
Currently IoT delivers the experience of having a grumpy butler that regularly tells you to go fuck yourself and sells your personal information to the highest bidder.