skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on your social circle and what area of infosec you're in. I've socially been in the 'hacker community' for most of my life and virtually nobody that I associate with from there has an actual CS degree.

A few folks got Physics degrees, but the vast majority of people I know left school to work and have not finished. Myself included.

The other very common backgrounds that I encounter is people who served in the military and people who backdoored their way into it from being sysadmins.
Also things like pain, hunger and pleasure also are for the most part generated outside of the "learning" parts of the brain, so similar to a pre-defined utility function/oracle.
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they aren't saying "no infosec people have degree in CS", they are saying they don't know any. I don't know that I do either. I know very few people with CS degrees.
I don't know what you're talking about, man. The resources are there for people to call an Uber every time they want to go somewhere, but that isn't what most people do.
It has indeed been entirely disabled in the mobile site, and is nearly unusable if you request the desktop site (which of course can only be done through the browser settings, they don't provide a link for it). So I stopped using it!
Welcome to a larger world. The bulk of patents in the US seem ridiculous.
Are any of them the Chief Security Officer of a $17.5B company?
the trend seemed to be that enough people tolerated it to make advertisers and sites double down on it

I don't think that's what they're saying.

“As people watch more video on phones, they’ve come to expect sound when the volume on their device is turned on.”

Sure, when you watch a video you expect sound. That has nothing to do with autoplay, or expectations about websites in general. They're only answering the question they wished was asked, and consequently, people get played when they have the same interpretation as you did.
Indeed, my background was in administering Internet services (Web, mail, DNS, netnews, etc.) This was my first time troubleshooting a printing issue professionally. I was the only UNIX sysadmin in the shop and I was hired in as a "Network consultant" because they didn't have a slot for a Unix sysadmin -- didn't know what one was, even. But the (new) Director of Engineering specifically hired a sysadmin.
Good thing Alice doesn't say that, then. The headline strongly implies that having a music degree means that you can't be a good engineer.
> MIT recently sold off half of its class A to Amazon:

And garbage like this is why I cannot wait for the IPv6-only future, CIDR let us stall IPv4 address exhaustion but it has caused severe bloating in routing tables. Considering an IPv6 route at the internet level is capped at 64-bits (the max length of a proper network prefix, you can technically do smaller ones but WHY, and nobody will take your BGP advertisement for it either) I expect even with a 2X increase in size occupied by each individual route the size of a full BGP table is going to be dramatically smaller.
Cool! Thanks for the answer
What do you think the ETA is on a good, LTE-enabled Android watch? I feel like nothing out now is as good as the original Apple Watch, and it took them 2 more years to get the LTE stuff worked in there (and even then, the battery life isn't as good as Series 2).

And to be clear, I'm not a fanboy who sees the Apple Watch as the gold standard — I don't have one and probably won't purchase the Series 3.
This is the wrong thing to focus on. The situation we're in isn't a result of where this person was educated. The fact that they had a lack of professional experience required to demand a standard of security that would prevent this type of problem is the only thing I think worth discussing here.

I dropped out of school as soon as I realized I could make 50k/year doing IT work vs paying 50k a year to a school whose curriculum was from the stone age. I fully endorse education of all forms but our current model for educating the next generation of workforce is broken but I digress.
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> "no infosec people have degree in CS"

You stretched that tweet pretty far. It's clearly nothing more than an anecdotal counterexample. I'm not sure how your paraphrasing quote ended up becoming such a sweeping generalization.
I know.. blows my mind sometimes.
Thanks for the tip! I downloaded the trial and it seems really nice.
It's a good question, and I think the answer is - up to a point.

We're biased towards individualism and the illusion of personal intelligence making clever decisions using its own resources, but in fact our real intelligence is collective.

Individually, most humans are a little bit smarter than other animals, but not much.

Humans are also excellent mimics. We learn by copying, and a lot of what we consider intelligence is copied behaviour and copied beliefs - often applied unconsciously.

So we've created systems - spoken language, writing, science, technology - that can externalise, collect, and preserve the best of our learning, so the species as a whole, including average humans, can get the benefit of it.

This works fine as far as it does, but our political and economic systems are still founded on animal logic (i.e. personal advantage no matter the cumulative long-term cost) instead of conscious collective intelligence amplification and species optimisation.

Based on this, AI won't get far unless someone invents an analogous way to externalise and abstract learning, so different AI projects can bootstrap each other, and there are common systems for abstraction and generalisation.

Unsupervised learning isn't going to be all that interesting unless it can do that. It'll be a fun toy for certain classes of problems, but it won't be anywhere close to an AGI.
You've been led a little bit astray here. Mastodon as an entity is apolitical and solves the politics problem by allowing administrators to create 'federations' that can choose to be part of the same network as other federations or not. This means that the network is home to the left, the right, Japanese fetish communities, and whatever else an enterprising admin may have chosen to create. It's more analogous to a mix of twitter and old school BBS's with a bit more connectivity. It's completely up to the admins of each federation how their federation interacts (they get a file permissions like specification) with the rest of the network.
Google provided these:
https://www.citylab.com/life/2012/06/cities-might-not-exist-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/keepi...

https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/024/
Indeed. The only thing a degree in anything proves is that the holder of those degrees paid someone money to say they were taught something, probably.
Modern Chinese IME's use the pinyin-based predictive input methods (#1) as the primary method, together with a wubi-style method (#2) as a secondary input method. E.g. in the Sogou IME, if you type the 'u' (which can never begin any pinyin syllable), you can then type letters to denote strokes or common components, such as h for heng 一 , s for shu 丨 , p for pie 丿 , k for kou 口 , s for shui 水氺 or 氵 , etc. Can be useful to distinguish between characters for commonly used syllables such as 'yi', 'ji', etc.

Regarding #5, I found it's difficult to switch from normal pinyin to shuangpin (double pinyin) in one go, and none of the shuangpin methods or software provide staged switching. E.g. a shuangpin IME could allow me to use 'i', 'u' and 'v' to type 'ch', 'sh' and 'zh', but continue to use the existing vowel combinations (e.g. 'ue', 'ao') for stage 1 pinyin/shuangpin typing, and then offer at stage 2 shortcuts for some of the vowel combos only when I had gotten into the habit of the stage 1 shortcuts. Of course the choice of shortcuts available would then be constrained by the staged learning path, but because there's so many different shuangpin IME's available, each with differing key assignments and none of them standard, there's probably still room in the market for a new key assignment that caters to such staged learning.
Be careful with the "top" speeds of military jets. The F-16 claims mach 2+ but it cannot do this with any realistic combat load or mission profile. The vast majority of its time will be spent subsonic, with mere seconds at mach 1.6 to release weapons.
So that seems broken as well, when you click "Launch profile in new browser" it doesn't actually appear to be creating a browser tied to that profile, as I just setup my personal sync account it caused all the open browsers (across 3 profiles I setup) to all sign into that account.
I think I'm more scared of creating an intelligent life form that isn't modeled after us. Maybe an irrational fear, but one I have regardless.
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> Sure, it depends on what the word "modeling" means. The way I've always used it, it applies to lots of existing systems, including robots. Are they conscious? Maybe. I don't know. It seems easy to build a very simple system that trivially "models" itself. Does that mean it's conscious?

No, it would not be. I think everyone agrees what humans can do is fairly distinct (and many animals, to a much lesser degree). If it wasn't clear, I'm arguing it can be understood as an incredibly sophisticated form of modeling. A toy system can have a model of itself, but it will be a very weak and limited model with essentially no broader context. The models that the human brain constructs are immensely richer, with many orders of magnitude more complexity. I would argue that significant awareness requires this depth and richness.

> Take a perception like sound. Instead of discovering a self that hears it, it's more like the sound itself is made of the sheer fact of subjectivity; i.e., "made of" consciousness.

We are now getting into territory that feels more difficult to address. I don't know how to meaningfully interpret this claim that sound itself is made of consciousness. Do you mean to say that the phenomenon going on in the human brain is the actually same thing that is occurring in a wave of air molecules? I'd be curious to see what evidence you believe there is for this idea, beyond your personal meditation sessions.
perhaps the Trump administration's interest in rolling back Obama's effort to improve relations with Cuba made this news too valuable as a propaganda item to keep it classified. Provided valuable example of their bad intentions. Now that the culprit has become less clear they're already stuck with it out in the news.
Look, you are right that Saudi Arabia flooded the market, but there are many much more plausible and, perhaps more meaningfully, publically stated reason why they did this.

- they were trying to starve out oil sands and other alternative oil sources to ensure they don't continue to come online in the near term, this has had some success as anyone in Calgary or Edmonton will tell you.

This is far and away the biggest threat to Saudia Arabia's oil business and probalby the first thing you should look into.

- they need money, they essentially buy peace in their own country by showering it with money. As oil prices fall due to more oil being available, they have to sell even more to make their budgets balance. Russia is also doing the same.

I'm sure ISIS is in their minds but its much more of a happy conincidence.

I mean oil isn't bitcoin, you can't just send it over the internet. ISIS was selling to Syria, If you want to stop ISIS from selling oil to Syria, then wouldn't you just ask Syria to cut it out and if they didn't listen then wouldn't you start bombing them..... hmm sounds familiar

Always look for the simplest answer first, just shouting ISIS doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you consider how much the depressed price of oil has hurt Saudia Arabia int he past few years.
If you are a C-level exec, I would say it should be pretty accurate...
Its fun to dream about the future. But, a dream is all it'll ever be. how does anyone expect to build this stuff, when we can't even build regular housing, anywhere near the amount that is required to match demand.

The only way, I can see this being built, is if new cities are created. These cities need to be populated by employers first: once that's there, most people that works there will find housing there too.

I wish these articles would stop pretending like everyone has a plethora of housing choices available - talking about what millenials "want" ~ our so called housing preferences. Our housing preference, first and foremost is to have a roof over our head without it costing more than 60% of our paycheck.

People go where the jobs go, there's no choice - this will always be the case as long as people need money, at least until remote work becomes possible
I suggest looking into 'inner' suburbs or pre WW2 housing built around a town. At least that allows you to walk to stores, schools, and usually closer to a city. The trade-off is an older house and possibly a higher cost.
If you enjoy that, come and chat with us on the LOPSA mailing lists or on IRC. :) (LOPSA is the League of Professional System Administrators, Mr. Harris and I are both members, though my little story is nowhere near as awesome.) https://lopsa.org/Chat-maillists-and-more Plus we always welcome new members.
>This is Hacker News, though. Is it news that the CSO has a degree in Music? No, not without further investigation, which didn't occur prior to the bait-titled link to her LinkedIn profile.

First off, the title was literally a fact. There was no opinion or "click bait" added to the title.

Second, yes this is absolutely news. The Chief Security Officer of a company who has very private details of tens of millions of US citizens received two degrees in a music field. Some might find it news because it's, in my opinion, quite interesting she was able to go from studying music to becoming the CSO of a major and very important company. Some people might find it to be news because it most certainly could cause questions of her ability when looking at this fact and other Equifax security related facts.

I'm quite confused as to why you are so offended by this submission. It's not uncommon from C level executives of major businesses to have received degrees in the area they are working. The fact that computer/network security is an extremely focused field and the CSO of an extremely important company has two degrees in music instead of CS or a related field is quite interesting.
all of the broken systems these CSO's are trying to cover were designed by people with CS degrees...
Yes I knew I should not pull the "serious engineering" card going in... But there I go, giving a mostly clueless answer to a high-profile HN user :-)

I don't know elasticsearch, but if this is something like a database where millions of objects are tracked (like in an RDBMS, or in a 3D Game if coded by an unexperienced coder who likes to isolate everything down to the Vertex or scalar level into "objects"), then I would assume at least one of the following applies

- The objects in the datastore are not represented as individual runtime object after all
- The GC for objects in the datastore is highly tuned (GC only done manually, at certain points),
and the memory space overhead of having individual DB objects represented by runtime objects
is just accepted.

I mean, I did finish said Java application, but I got good performance from it only after transforming it into an unreadable mess based on SOA's of int[] (which means unboxed integers, not objects) and lots of boilerplate code. Would have been easier to do in C, hands down (language was not my own choice).

> Huh? This is the representation of a slice: https://golang.org/pkg/reflect/#SliceHeader --- It's pretty standard for a dynamically growable region of memory.

and object/GC overhead? It's GC tracked objects after all, right? (again, I admit to knowing next to nothing about Go's runtime)
I'm kinda amazed this is now such a big story. It was picked up on Reddit 4 days ago.

The story is more complicated than this http://greyenlightenment.com/equifax-hack-analysis/

1. she was hired in 2013. Butting against equifax stock on this knowledge would have resulted in a large loss.

2. The odds of Equifax (or any company) being hacked are high if hackers are determined enough. It Bitcoin exchanges, ICOs, and online wallets, which are run by STEM people, find it very hard to stop hackers, what does that say about most websites in general.
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This is the experience I had with CenturyLink, they support IPv6 via 6rd and it sucks. It's annoying I don't have native IPv6 support with CableOne either (and they're too cheap to bother upgrading anything beyond the DOCSIS head-ends to charge you more money), but I'd rather use a Hurricane Electric tunnel if my ISP can't give me native v6 in the first place.
The search engine equivalent of inter-modulation interference.
A week from now it no longer be summer, and hence the title might remain accurate. Or, the way Bitcoin goes, a week from a week from now it'll be right back to making the title accurate again.

Which means the gist of the article will remain true regardless.
If what you are saying was true, then why all these skills require time to develop? If they are pre-programmed in the DNA, why are they not enabled on the day of birth? Clearly from evolutionary point of view an infant that is already able to walk and perceive depth would have vastly superior chances of survival? Why all the brain development, and much enhanced plasticity in the early stage of development? Why do neural receptive fields change rapidly in the first months of life and do depend a lot on the stimulus received?

Clearly there is stuff pre-programmed in the DNA and some animals e.g. are able to hold balance right after birth. But apparently most of this stuff in case of humans is instructions how to build a learning system, rather then encoding the complexity of the world in a strand of DNA. I grant you, the evolution did not have the time to encode ways to handle lego bricks and yet 2yr olds spontaneously acquire ability to manipulate these objects way beyond what any contemporary robot can do.
Amazing mission.

But I expect some of us (probably not me) will get to see it close-up for ourselves.
Roads, sewers, and mortgages aren't subsidized in my suburb. We pay for all of it.
What's weird is what you're seeing doesn't just apply to IPv6 adoption

https://xkcd.com/1865/
The browser could just cut off the network for the site until you click "approve".
I feel like I should get a writer credit for this episode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11724174
Erase erase erase
AT&T has deployed 6RD instead of native dual-stack. I can get close to gigabit on IPv4, but max out at 80mbps if I use their 6RD gateway.
You mean she might have had to memorize a simple formula? Such "rock solid" mathematical chops.
Because the vehicle is electric, there is no need to “heat up” the brakes when descending. This is because the enormous electric engine acts as a generator and recharges the battery pack. That same energy is then used to help the vehicle travel back up the hill. Phys reports, “If all goes as planned, the electric dumper truck will even harvest more electricity while traveling downhill than it needs for the ascent. Instead of consuming fossil fuels, it would then feed surplus electricity into the grid.”

Clever. It can do this because it travels uphill empty and comes downhill full.
The fact that these voice response devices don't lock into a particular set of users' voices is a major problem. In fact, multiple times I've had a Google ad cause the phone it was playing on go do a web search triggered by that ad. Totally insane.
But why is it adding their patent grant which only protects facebook to non facebook projects like atom? Should every company add their own company patent grant? Why not simply add a general patent grant that protects all users and companies?

Facebook only cares about facebook in the license. We can't say that facebook is doing it for the benefit of the project itself. The more projects that have the license the more protected facebook is while everyone else is left out.

If we were to believe that it is an altruistic endeavor that will result into a "world without patents" then in fact it would be a world without patents... but only for facebook.

I have nothing against patent grants with the condition of not suing for patent infringement but they shouldn't only apply to one specific company. The apache software license and many others have already solved this problem. There is no need for a facebook only solution.

My issue is with people pretending that facebook is doing everything right when they are doing everything wrong.
When you read contract language, you don't get to ignore words that you don't like. In this case, the key word is 'sufficient'. Google's position doesn't need to be that twitter is free from hate, but rather that it does enough to curtail it.

If Gab.ai is built upon the premise that it does exactly ZERO curtailing, then it isn't going to get very far by trying to throw twitter under the bus in order to claim it is being treated inequitably.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
tl;dr ECT was used as an extreme form of treatment for major depression that had short term benefits, but ultimately resulted in a renewed version the same depressed person with damaged long-term memories, who ultimately relapsed into a depression with no obvious emotional or intellectual cause.

The subject's eventual death was natural, although arguably early, so from a ceratin point of view, maybe the treatment was at least clinically successful in warding off suicide proper.
It might not just be gmail that assigns you a bad reputation, but other mail domains: directly or via stubborn anti-spam databases.

I'd just forget it and move my mail (or the sending side thereof) to a different network, if at all possible.

Working with numerous parties to resolve some reputation issue is going to be time consuming and the whole time, you have disrupted e-mail.
Lacking from all reporting so far: What is the purpose of these purported attacks? Who benefits from such attacks and how?
This is bad news for my personal homepage, the autoplay music is an important part of the experience.
OP knows it's an anecdote. They are questioning the value of an anecdote from someone in a small company when the anecdote is about claiming to know enough people belonging to a certain category.
Totally ignoring the fact that she was magna cum laude for her BA and summa cum laude for her MFA. And 15 years of experience working in tech.

She could have her degrees for computer music for all we know, which at the time she got them probably would have required some serious programming chops.
She certainly works in that world for a number of hours every day.
is there some resource one can figure out what category of problem need what storage solution?

What storage solutions would you use for product recommendations or trending topics?
I discretely removed my comment about it.

But, yes, still my favorite one ^^.
What do you think programming languages are standing upon if not math?

Many do, especially in academia, but quite a few seem to be standing on a combination of "this looks like it'll do what I want" and "this interpreter is the spec."
> How can you be sure?

Don't go down this route.

Which "route"? The "asking questions" route?
Sure, but you could buy something that isn't a detached, single family house.

When I moved from my apartment I bought a house (no mortgage). When I add up extra utilities costs, taxes, insurance, and maintenance it comes up to about 75% of what I was paying for rent.
They should add a character named alexa, and have everyone address her by name and order her around.
I am as mad as anyone about the Equifax breach but this story is bs. A degree or lack thereof has nothing to do with ones technical competence. The best programmer I've ever met was self taught. The worst had a masters degree.