skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised New York doesn't get mentioned that often. It's a wonderful place to work for software developers. Sure, the housing is expensive, but nothing like Silicon Valley. And you're in the middle of one of the most amazing cultural centers in the world.
I don't see any remote exploits here (other than "attacker with remote admin access..."). Is that correct? Presumably an attacker with remote admin access is already all powerful? Or is the concern that they can backdoor the hardware in an undetectable way, remotely?
Regarding #2, try All Tabs Helper. From your description it might be acceptable solution. Found it a few months ago and has become invaluable to me.
Interesting! I'd love to know more about that..
In the US and most Canadian jurisdictions, friends-and-family can obtain an exemption from the accredited investor requirement. Same with employees.
Fair, I just checked and it looks like my number was already in the registry when they started getting worse a few years ago. (so adding it again probably did not cause the increase) You can use the site to see if you are already in, and when you were added. one of my numbers was added long before I had it.
There are so many great universities in the Midwest graduating tons of engineers, so they do have a foot in the door already. Most leave for the coasts, even if they do fall in love with the area (I did).
Speaking as someone who recently got hired in Ohio? The relative rate of pay vs cost of living is amazing compared to somewhere like California or Florida. My pocket income is so far better than anything I ever got in Florida.
2x speed often gives you better than 50% content retention. speed consumers are doing their own version of manual audio search, by unconsciously skipping over non-information and slowing down or repeating perceived relevant noise (or just toggling on/off focused attention).

a more aggressive version of this is actually skipping 15-20 minute chunks of audio at a time and trying to pick up contextual clues about the preceding chunks to verify if they are worth listening. the greedy approach often pays off here if you are just looking for one or two specific portions in a giant pile of noise. you might end up doing 10 skips and listening to 8-15 minutes of 90 minutes of content.

information addiction leads to a sensation of impending doom. the knowledge you would like to access and understand is spreading like a dark cloud and your global-time is counting down.

my solution was to read the ~15 core books and retain their surface sensation. the rest is now processing and categorizing "new" information, pattern matching categories and bias detection to remove false positives.
Would you mind sticking to civil and substantive comments, and also resist complaining about voting? The guidelines are pretty clear.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>The creation of websites is being automated by WordPress (and others) today.

I think whoever wrote this has never heard of JS ... good luck automating interactive websites.
As long as there is only one Secret region, you can have reliability or you can have classified data, but not both.
Seems to me the only answer is web decentralization plus improving peoples skills for critical thinking and problem-solving communication.
ICOs are hot because they haven't yet been through the full hype cycle. Some time in 2018, there will be an ICOpalypse, and investors will run for the hills. ICOs will then no longer be hot.
A lack of transparent government somewhere like Kansas is a much smaller problem for the governed than lack of transparency in a state with a larger government bureaucracy.

edit: It's still a problem, I'm just pointing out that the per-capita harm of a state like NY or CA playing by the same transparency rules as KS would be much greater. This may be why the people of KS are more willing to put up with it, the net harm to them is low because the government's involvement in their lives is low.
Is this part of Govcloud? Unfortunately Govcloud doesn't support a handful of AWS services, it would be nice if this was more complete
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First-known interstellar visitor is a bizarre, cigar-shaped asteroid
The foundation of Marxism is public ownership, not a centralized command economy. Other approaches exist, eg participatory economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics
Humor is a trick to help making information stick in your head. Not a new trick; advertising uses that trick all the time.

There's no way that with speed listening or reading everything sticks equally as listening or reading a 1.0x speed multiplier. It may feel like you got more done, but in reality you did not. You're essentially fooling yourself, feeling like you accomplished more than you did.

I do the same, but with movies/series. I "watch" them on a second screen without being all the time focused to it. Except if its a really good movie/serie. But if it isn't a good one, why watch it in the first place?
Here's what i did (nuclear option):

Ditch your sim card/mobile plan, get a voip number, phone only works on wifi like a home phone. When out and about you only have the media you pre-downloaded (podcasts, mp3s, audiobooks, offline maps) no more staring at the screen in public.

Move all personal communication to email/signal, check it in the morning after your routine (exercise, meditation etc). Ditch instagram/twitter/reddit(turned to shit anyway) etc, keep facebook just for contacts but a single post with your email and never log on. (We really need a different phonebook platform). Never look at news sites except this one and other neutral biased ones like economically focused news.

Take a note of everything you want to google, allow 1 hour a day internet/research time where you google the questions of the day. You find the phone is inferior to desktop when at home so you spend little time on your phone. Make a life plan and use your new 4 hours a day to achieve these goals. No screens 2 hours before bedtime.

The downside is you cant receive calls when out and about (for me an upside), there has been 2 times in the past 2 years I've had to stop at a coffee shop to send off a message, worth the $2000 savings.

Phone is still a great tool, camera, mp3 player, maps, guitar tuner etc etc. Knowing the latest tweet from your favorite celebrity while walking in the park isn't adding to your life. Unless there is a nuclear strike or a national draft then news wont effect you.

edit, should have read the replies, seems there's a bunch of similar responses
Yes, please tell us how we should never raise money on bad terms. Because it's far better to raise no money, and just go under. Jesus.
What's the state of x86 emulation on ARM? Using ARM before that might be a dealbreaker. If I remember correctly Microsoft was working on it
The statement about Perl came from an interview with him I read.
The cost of living is a lot lower too though. I'm in Saint Louis, I have a 15-minute commute to work from a neighborhood where 2x my salary gets a 3,000-sqft+ McMansion with a big yard in a good school district.
I don't have the source handy (one of Norman Cantor's less nutty books, perhaps), but IIRC, historians know considerably more about life and society in the late Roman empire than about early medieval life and society, in spite of the fact that the two are temporally and spatially contiguous and the latter is up to 500 years more recent.

When the USSR collapsed, people in the Eastern Bloc didn't stop writing stuff down.
This post has a lot of hyperbole. I'd suggest you visit a third world country for some perspective.

There are plenty of people having real problems. If a phone in your pocket is the biggest problem you're having - you're not doing enough with your life.
From what I've seen addicts both hate and love their drug.
Kinda of.

Adjusted for Cost of Living, you might make more in savings, even if you earn less. This isn't something I've looked into personally, but great school systems are easier and more affordable too.
Surely in that case it would say something like "attacker with access to the lan connected to the machine's NIC" ?
Does anyone actually use vanilla JavaScript string literals for all their backend rendering?
Only if proportional, which they aren't. Most software engineers at least coming out of school that I've seen and getting hired in Ohio for around $60,000-$70,000. I think equivalent cost of living is around ~$160,000/$170,000 base in San Francisco/Manhattan and you don't have to deal with a commute!

There are many pros and cons to btw, just picking on the commute part.
> I wonder if this will at all dissuade either Intel or AMD into continuing to make these super privileged processors

They clearly invested some serious money into this sort of thing and see it as a differentiator (or AMD wouldn't have followed suit). Chances that they'll throw it all away because of a few vulnerabilities are very, very thin.
Not adjusted to salary costs and taxes. There was an article a few months ago talking about how adjusted for living expenses and taxes, omaha had higher paid engineers than san francisco.
This is the best explanation of why I'm still hooked on these things I've ever seen.
English eventually lost Hundred's year war so this battle wasn't world changing. But not seeing Battle of Tours 732 or Vienna 1683 was certainly a surprise.
It times out for me. Here's an archived copy:

https://archive.is/4fep5
I think that modern media is something that needs to be carefully regulated.

The degree of civil liberty one enjoys should be not only be considered as freedom from rules and regulations that limit our unreasonable actions and speech, but also freedom from being mentally assaulted and manipulated by those seeking to influence and control our thoughts, spending, votes, and opinions.
I realize that the housing market isn't the only thing keeping startups and talented, ambitious people out of the Bay Area, but it's probably the biggest one.

If the Bay Area can't get its act together and start permitting new housing in proportion with its economic and population growth, it will go down in the books as one of the largest and most obviously foreseeable squandered opportunities in modern history.
I reject the idea that "civilization" is a bad word. I regard regard large-scale, organized, and literate societies as being obviously better than barbarism. Scientific progress exists and it improves the human condition.

These views would make me unemployable in academia.
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The article can find no instance where non-public DNA data was provided to police, and instead documents merely that 23andme has declined “every” request, that Ancestry has only permitted requests for billing info, and that the one search performed was against a public DB that was made private to prevent that use in the future.
In my opinion, the problem is less about the founders and early employees as it is about the scaling. It’s a lot easier to convince young college graduates (as older folks will want/need much more compensation when working for a risky startup) to join a company in hip, trendy metro areas than it is to convince them to work in, say, Wisconsin. I suspect that is why companies that intend to scale prefer to move to larger metro areas, even if that means going from a more rural part of a state to a bigger city like Madison.

That being said, I have noticed quite a few specialist technical/consulting firms popping up all over my native Upstate New York. Those firms don’t need the armies of employees the way a Google or an Uber does, so I think that they can offer a higher pay to cost of living ratio and attract strong talent, kind of like Tom Cruise in The Firm, accepting a lower salary to work in Memphis but taking home more net income than if he had gone to New York.
Trying to frame this as a security problem is a stretch, IMO.

My impression is that most public projects on GitHub are only of interest to the author, and maybe a small handful of people. I, for example, have over 100 non-forked public repos and, except for 3 or 4 projects, nobody even looks at most of them, much less clones them and uses them. Even the ~4 that do get attention, it's usually not because they're using the code itself - it's because they're doing something similar and want to see how I did it.

On the other hand, I only have anecdotal evidence to back up that claim, so who knows.
It's not, though it's related. Govcloud only supports up to "Controlled Unclassified Information." This can handle Secret and Top Secret. I'd expect it to be even further restricted in terms of supported services.
I would recommend Elements of Programming by Alexander Stepanov and Paul McJones.
You can't really take out defense spending, because defense and healthcare are pretty much the federal budget.

If you want to change things you gonna have to look at defense and healthcare.

I can't remember the last time I've heard the phrase "the defense budget has been reduced this year...".
I'm steadily in the Overcast 1.7x+ camp. The audio processing is nothing short of phenomenal (if a drain on battery on my iPhone 6), and over time, I've adjusted to the point where the speed seems natural and I can spare enough CPU cycles to steer me through my commute.

Other commenters' points that it is also a sort of focus enhancer also ring true to me--I have arrived at the office with nearly 100% retention of what a specific recording was about, especially since I tend to listen to technical podcasts like TWIML[1] (which focuses on stuff I do at work), and I get nothing but value from being able to listen to two podcasts during my one-hour commutes.

Softer stuff like Merlin Mann, Gruber, etc. I will either navigate with the chapter guide or making liberal use of the skip buttons. I seldom (if ever) listen to any kind of podcast at normal speed, except for some language courses.

Even then, I tend to slow down only for languages like Mandarin or Hebrew (which I'm less acquainted with). Spanish, French, etc. (which I know from childhood) tend to be drawn out enough that I can even speed up a little :)

[1]: https://twimlai.com/
I prefer the wording in Lenovo's security advisory [0]:

> "Potential Impact: An attacker could load and execute arbitrary code outside the visibility of the user, operating system, and hypervisor/virtualization platform; resulting in exfiltration of secrets, subtle manipulation of system operation, or denial of service."

[0]: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len-17297
I remember the agressiv commercial technics, the troll-like litigations and how easy it was to copy their software (no copy protection) compared to the concurrents.

Before microsoft, software was expensive. Many people were programming their own games or software with the language of their computer (a mix of proprietary basic and assembly).

After, everybody had pirated copies of Win3.1 and Office and were coding excel macros :-(

For me, there was an explosion of creativity between 1983 and 1992 where people were empowered to program. After, programming was for "specialists". I have hated a lot Microsoft at that time.
The main disincentive for me moving isn't the salary, but the alternative options if that job opportunity doesn't work out.
It's going to take a special kind of stupid to vandalize a car with a bunch of cameras, radars, and a few dozen "coworkers" along your escape route.
Remember the Clintons got away with it every time?
> The counter on my app says it's saved me 195 hours to date.

You think you saved 195 hours, but in reality you saved far less hours (I'm not saying you didn't save any hours).

Silences serve to aid your brain from getting tired, allowing you to catch up and process the information, or to get in diffused mode of thinking.

If silences were completely useless they wouldn't ever be used. You'd download an audiobook from the official vendor, and it wouldn't contain any silences.
> Has anyone considered the possibility that people won't want to trust their lives to self driving cars?

Has anyone considered that the average driver sucks? And that 50% of the drivers are worse than that?

Self-driving cars have a very low bar to clear (better than average human), and they will probably clear that fairly soon given just how bad normal drivers are.

Once self-driving cars are deployed, it's simply a matter of crunching the data on more and more unusual situations.
Could you please start commenting substantively? We ban accounts that won't follow the guidelines, and we've asked you this already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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The link is an eye opener. Xbox contributes to 11% of MS revenue, and Window 9%. The world of personal computing has truly changed and Microsoft has really diverse revenue streams.
I assure you that the main reason california doesnt get twice its population is because of the highly regulated real estate controls. You could build 500,000 units in one year and you would barely make a dent to the states rental rates, let alone bring them down to more reasonable levels.
Those are valid points. My intention was not to discuss the subject but to reframe the discussion. I can see advantages and disadvantages in considering some departments in the company to be providers of services to the rest of the business. But I guess an appropriate, but cynical, definition would be that cost centers are the departments where you can slash costs while hoping there will be no impact on the business...
They shoot that foot off though. Companies in those regions optimize for hiring cheap and replaceable, such processes will ward off real talent who realize they need to move elsewhere to have a upper middle-class lifestyle.

Don't get me wrong though I definitely see the QOL that can be had with smaller incomes in such places and intend to move out of the Bay Area etc. eventually.
Setting up your own NTP Stratum 1 time source server on a Raspberry Pi
We think Africa was excluded from Western thought because Augustine gets painted to look like an Italian. Who's Augustine? Oh yeah, just one of the most influential patristics of all time, revered in the entire western church, both Roman and Protestant.
eh, depends how much alimony and child support you pay after the divorce.
Does "attacker with local access to the system" mean "physical access to the system"?? Initially I thought it meant "attacker able to run an unprivileged process on the system" but then I see other wording that seems to imply that case, so does "local access" mean physical access? (e.g. connect a USB drive, boot the box off their own media?)
This article has been written many times in the last 30 years. Somehow Silicon Valley survives.
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What other cities not mentioned in this article should I consider moving to? I've heard Kansas City and Nashville. I want a city smaller and cheaper than Seattle.
Right, clearly the Bay Area has to accommodate every startup, and no one else should have any.
Throwing it away is unlikely but the fact that this affects Xeon processors means that pretty much every single data center across the world could be affected. And that means that a lot of companies with a lot of money will complain.
Don't forget about Chicago. There are many great universities near the Chicago Metro area with a lot of great tech companies to choose from for a job. Cost of living is less than the coasts and the salaries are on par or above for cost of living in the city if you work in technology.
So they'll add some sort of biometric - face / iris / thumb.

People have better places to do drug deals than a car that can lock the doors and speed to the local police precinct (with photographic/video evidence sent in advance, even!) when it detects misbehavior.
Selenium or [insert favorite tool here] is pretty good - the tough parts are:
1) architecting the app to be testable
2) realizing that test engineering is a rather tricky discipline
> it is a real stereo image

Until you look down. Or until you have a different eye distance than average. Or you try to move a bit and there are things close enough to make you dizzy.

Cardboard didn't need any of those fancy things, of course. It was bad enough with abysmal latency.
Isn't it a bit strange that what some these people are listening to is not particularly educational, but is rather entertainment? Speed listening a show which deconstructs movies frame by frame, that's kind of silly. For what reason? Definitely not for the entertainment value. (Or not completely.) FOMO, perhaps. A need to be able to keep up with the conversation at work and with friends, possibly. I'm just curious what's going on in the backs of these peoples minds, because it seems incredibly irrational. I'll admit that even I have had periods in my life when I have done this. Some flavour of addiction and a habit of getting things in a very short time-span is definitely part of it. But I'm not even sure I am fully aware of all the pieces of the psychological puzzle which would explain it.
Great article. I have a couple of thoughts.

One is that the reason humans can be so easily manipulated is our built-in neurological mechanisms for directing attention were designed by evolution for the very different environment of a hunter-gatherer existence.

The other thought has to do with what to do about the problem. A lot of people are talking about things that individuals can do, like limiting their time on their smart phone.

Well, that can work for them, but most people won't do that, so it doesn't solve the much larger problem of having a society that is becoming deeply dysfunctional in part because of media manipulation.

It seems to me that to solve this we need two things. One is web decentralization. The other is that people need to learn good critical thinking skills, and also skills for problem-solving discussion, as in Marshall Rosenberg's book Nonviolent Communication.
As long as they have multiple zones you can get the reliability ~ huge natural disaster that may affect other regions anyway.
I completely agree with the fluff in the sound effects and re-explaining. I used to be able to listen to NPR for hours but after listening to conversational podcasts I can't listen anymore to NPR. It's just too slow and the format bores me.
One thing you notice after speed-listening is how slow humans speak in real life
> And the end result isn't even the advertised low-tax state, at least for normal citizens.

That's the point. It's playing out again on the national stage. When they say "tax cuts" they don't mean tax cuts for you, silly. Tax cuts are for people who meet the minimum threshold for being able to take advantage of pass-through rates. Not for the mother of 5 working two jobs just to get her kids through a school that's only open 4 days a week.
Interesting. Do we know the cause of this inefficiency? (I'm looking more for a scientific, rather than an ideological cause)
I have to speed-listen, not to drift off when things are too slow. Podcasts, unlike good movies, often lack details to focus on when the plot is slow.

Any good android and windows player recommendations? I can recommend:

windows: windows media player (surprisingly good, once you found the playback speed menu)

android: antennapod (sadly you can only cycle through speeds one way, which is really annoying). But it has the benefit of supporting chapters, subscriptions, auto-downloading and removing files etc.
I still don't think your interpretation is warranted, but meh.

Microsoft made some contributions and they're working to get them accepted upstream. They're maintaining a fork basically.

GitHub is adopting their modifications, i.e. GitHub is running Microsoft's fork.

Microsoft's modifications are necessary for them, particularly so they can use Git with the giant Windows repo. Presumably, GitHub also has a need or desire for those same or similar modifications. IIRC, some of GitHub's largest customers need or want a version of Git that can also handle large repos, or repos with large files or large numbers of files.
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