skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who don't care about money should make sure to work for companies that also don't only care about money.

Most companies talk as if they have higher values but in reality they are only about money. I always find it condescending to tell people who aren't independently wealthy that money is not that important while at the same time the owners of a company try to squeeze out every bit of profit.
Could you elaborate on that?

EDIT: as in, you'd think a brighter person would be better at hiding 'abnormalities'.
Exactly. I quit Facebook about a month ago, not missing it one bit. Never used Instagram really, WhatsApp is soon to follow.
So many Apache projects, and with a lot of overlap, too. It would be nice if someone made some kind of infographic that gives a high level overview of them all.
Because it will work on any system that runs docker, no questions asked. If you need more control, you can always just copy the commands from the Dockerfile and adapt them to your own system.

Or gasp you could update the reader yourself and submit a pull request!
I seriously do NOT want pictures in titles. It's fine as-is.
God help us.

At this point the sane people are staying quiet. The madness is in full swing, a large number of fools are desperate to be parted from their money, and there is no point trying to stop them.

Even on Hacker News, there are no comments below saying "this is stupid". Just "how can I throw my money into this pit?" "I'm planning to build an AI algorithm to throw my money into this pit, can anyone advise?" and "if I throw my money in this pit, will it double or triple over the next week?" Good luck, guys.
We already have pre-requisites for some topics. Like for example in machine learning. But we do hope to add pre-requisites to all topics as that is really important indeed.

Coinhive does look interesting. Thank you for the suggestion.
I have the opposite, I never want to check my email.
Jobs expires after 1 week though..
So is Notepad.
The previous one in the audio(!) drivers was as bad as it could have been:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/keylogger-fou...

"writes all keystrokes to a local file at:

C:\users\public\MicTray.log"

Note: Public folder! All keystrokes. Discovered May 2017, preinstalled on 28 HP laptop models. Other hardware that uses this driver may also be affected.

Edit, to the other commenters in other threads: please don't mix them, there are two "keyloggers." The one in the audio(!) driver was always on, recording by default to the publicly accessible file, as seen here.

The one in the new news is a code in the keyboard driver that can be turned on (and here it's important to know if the switch is publicly accessible) but isn't on by default. Depending on how that one is turned on and where the result is logged, it can be not worthy to worry too much. But these details also matter.
Or as Raymond Chen is fond of saying (citing from the Hitchhikers Guide), "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway".
That would be amazing indeed. This is only a beginning of what can be possible, I am sure we can add something like this in the future.
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What are your thoughts on the developer tools and technologies you use?
First it has to be interesting to me, Second is it going to bring me money (job, side project) or just joy (hobbies):
Few examples:

1) my job systems/security and my side project: stock trading robots

2) fishing, sailing, Cuban cigars, old scotch, wine, reading, sports, etc...

And one in between: Art collecting....

You are living only one life and not very long at that (so far), so don't spend it on boring stuff...
Ask HN: How have you successfully simplified your life?
I’ve read that the likes of Barrack Obama, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg built daily uniforms for themselves. Others have moved into Tiny houses, or moved to all cash to limit spending, or eliminated political news consumption, etc. I’m curious what ways you’ve successfully reduced and simplified in your life.
Website payload is easily measurable (it is probably the most easily measurable factor), and optimizing it is attractive to developers. That doesn't mean it is the most important factor, much less the only important aspect of development.

Rather than "lazy" or "don't know", how about:

- it's fast enough

- have other priorities (security, stability, usability, functionality)

- optimize developer time

...
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Well obviously compiling a 10 page PDF, replete with references to 37 other sources, in order to establish the core 53 traits to identify the next great SWE is the simplest way to identify great engineers.

Just hand this doc over the HR and ask all hiring managers to memorize it.
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> “The candidates that I don't usually want to spend much time on are folks who are basically just looking for the next big check. Money is not a great motivation,” says Ajmal. “But it’s actually very common that this is driving the entire process for them.”

Ugh. No sh*t, Sherlock! And we're expected to believe money isn't driving the entire process for you? There are things I care about besides money, like not working for manipulative jerks, but at the end of a day it's a "job," preceded by a "salary negotiation" in which I trade my labor for payment, most of which will take the form of "money."

EDIT:
> Ask them what they are maximizing for in their job search and how they’re approaching that. People are not used to this question and may be more candid, saving you a longer time investment.

Wow, this is a horrible and cynical person.
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The really cool application of this, which they allude to at the end of the paper, is multi dimensional indexes. For example right now kNN for similarity search (think recommender systems) is usually done with some form of K-D tree or projection method. This has a bunch of downsides, including memory usage. If we can "learn" that index directly, that would be really fancy.
if you enjoy what you can do, only then you can master it. that would of been much simpler explenation ;D.... goes for all things too!
And to be honest, 9 to 5 would make you a nice engineer. a lot of people like code, all day and night, but really, 8 hours of productive learning and coding each day is plenty to become very good at it...

I always reccomend anyone to learn whatever is below their current interest in the 'stack'. for example if you like to learn java code, learn what assembly code and perhaps even C code is, learn to implement oop systems in C or assembly and you will have a much finer understanding of why certain decisions are made in your platform, and what motivates these decisions oposed to others. for a web developer, learning what your browser is doing is very important, and to understand why certain things work that way in the end, you might want to learn about cpus, network hardware, assembly code and all that jazz. dig deeper and deeper for greater understanding.
it might seem like a lot of work, but if you enjoy what you do, it's never to much and never to deep ;D
You need to find a way to get your FY money, maybe use the time between jobs...
The Device Memory API
> npm install hyperdrive

Nope nope nope
Yep, life is not fair...
sorry I have no idea about futures but where the $10000 figure coming from?
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> The US government, at least, basically doesn't enforce anti-trust regulations any more. And even if it did, the current administration's philosophy essentially doesn't include the enforcement of ANY regulations against businesses for the public good.

Yup.

2001: "Microsoft is abusing their power to ship their own Internet browser on PCs!"

2017: [Washington DC] "We'd like to place an order for 2,000 Chromebooks, please."
Far too many consumers are still craving the same old four major food groups:

Junk, Fast, Frozen, and Artificial :)
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Maybe, I guess? I feel like you'd almost need insider knowledge of the exchange to be able to tell what is anomalous.
What is the dollar value for which you are willing to sell the prime of your life? If someone offered you $500,000 over the course of three years to give up your mid- or late-twenties, would you take it?
> For example, don't overly fetishize friendships from decades ago. don't give personal details. Don't give overly idealistic presentations of ones' self, etc

Unfortunately these are the sorts of activities that social media sites encourage. The rush of dopamine from a flood of likes and comments is real and encouraged like a game.

As long as these sites operate as massive companies (selling ads), they'll keep encouraging the things that increase screen time.

> It's a really a form of media control a la the Chomsky model of "allowing lively debate, but only within certain range of discussion."

I do agree with your point about increasing the scope of the conversation, but I'm not convinced that the healthy habits you mentioned are actionable for most users.
Well we didn't know it was there at all not long ago. How sure can we be now that there is no hidden remote way to turn it on?
Nokia's COO quits after eight months in the job
I am using chrome on the ipad
I have to admit I don't like ARM. I remember seeing an interview with them after they introduced a new processor virtualization feature. The interviewer was excited because the technology would allow any operating system to be installed on an ARM processor. The spokesperson for ARM laughed and said of coursr but it would never be used that way. It was instead going to be used to allow licensees to lock away access to the physical processor ensuring all code could only be ran through the virtual processor giving vendors total control of anything ran on the processor. He then went on abou how ARM simply designs and licenses it's processors and it was up to the licensees if they wantes to sell a processor capable of running everything. He laughed again and said, but we all know that's never going to happen.
While undoubtedly true, I'm speculating this can in fact be translated to money. You've turned down 50k$/y, say. Would you have turned down an extra 100k? 200k? 500k? I bet at some point you would've said "fuck it, yes I'll take the job despite conditions".

But yes, eventually it's just cheaper to create the better working conditions than to pay everybody the extra money :)
You are forgetting the fact that bitcoin can also go to zero during which there's counter party risk.
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Most PCs come without Windows installation media and instead rely on a restore partition (keylogger included). If you try to install off random other media (e.g. MSDN), it will not recognize the OEM license that comes with the computer.

Because of this, there is no trivial way (edit: OK, without buying Windows again) to get a vanilla install including only the Microsoft keylogger, but not the HP one.
I remember a variation ending with "for you are crunchy and good with ketchup"
are you saying it would be better on a planet with an atmosphere to use as heat conduction medium?
I'm more curious about market makers. I'll be a lot more willing to accept this as a sign that BTC is maturing once that happens.
If you're considering Coq but haven't started I'd also consider Lean[0].

The documentation isn't as great but the main tutorial is decent. It also doubles as a practical programming language. And the community is active and helpful.

I've always found Coq to be a little impenetrable. I don't know what makes Lean more accessible to me but I've found it much easier to get into.

[0] https://leanprover.github.io/
Is this old news? I remember an audio driver (maybe?) causing a similar issue 6-9 months ago.

I worked for a HP reseller at the time and could replication the issue on almost every model in our labs
It's a good write up.

To me, Piper is a monolithic version control system which is geared towards good engineering practices.

As far as I know there are only two such systems in use today and the other one is very dated and older than a lot of things out there.

When people say they have worked in a monolithic repo, then they typically mean a 1 repo under one of the open source version control systems, but none of these actually do or support what is needed when working with a monolithic repo AND modern/good engineering practices.

For that specialised VCS is required and there is very few examples of that, none of which is in open source software.

Git probably could be made to do this kind of stuff, but it would require some extensions to the DAG as well as extend on it's already verbose command line set. But I think it is doable.

The question is who can do it? Most are probably under some strict NDAs.
But on deep space missions, aren't you aiming for 50+ years, or ideally potentially unlimited if you want to hit alpha centauri?

Voyager 1 is going for 50 years ...
Damn, is that all they are? I kept seeing PWA PWA PWA, and the language to describe them are "tech news" quality descriptions like 'Website uses.. ALGORITHMS to make the site work!'

I figured it wasn't talking about IPFS serverless apps, or paired with Ethereum. I didn't see the usual "Bitcoin/Ethereum/Blockchain" bait on these articles, so it couldn't have been that.

It's good to know it's just a catch-all for the new APIs for caching and service workers.
"Yet if you look at what the West has offshored it's manufacturing, customer service, IT support, etc. All areas that are amenable to automation"

No. All of those are areas are very unamenable to automation.

* The west hasn't offshored manufacturing that it could automate. It automated it and kept it at home. The manufacturing it couldn't automate went offshore, provided the QC / lead times didn't completely fuck the product (e.g. apparel / cheap plastic toys / electronics / etc.).

* Customer service is fundamentally unautomateable since it's mostly dealing with problems (have you automated fixing bugs in your code yet? if so, maybe there's hope) and people who just want to talk to a human when they buy things. Moreover, you suffer massive quality issues when offshoring it, which is why the companies that do offshore only survive the quality hit because they don't need to be competitive. Comcast outsources its call centers; Netflix keeps them at home.

* IT support is similar - most of the time you're dealing with IT issues, dealing with people and dealing with the broken way people deal with their IT issues. Again, generic, high level problem solving that involves a great deal of human interaction is just about the last thing that will ever be automated.
To me, this is one more reason to never use the default install of an operating system.

In this specific case, if the debugging "leftovers" were part of the official drivers, then I would say there is a good indication towards preferring a free OS.
Okay so reading the comments here makes me feel a bit more at ease, but honestly after reading the article I was literally like, "why the hell would the AUDIO driver need to monitor key strokes.." It really sounded like a deliberate installation of a hidden keylogger. I am glad to read that perhaps it is not, but damn sloppy.
Mid 30s here, and I left tech to go into financial services because the total comp is so much higher as the parent comment alludes to after spending several years doing what I thought was fulfilling work (but it was not).

If I can make X in tech, or 2X-3X in financial services dealing with more day to day pain, I’m taking more money every day of the week. I don’t care about the team, the mission, the working environment, just the total dollars.
Sugar, salt, fat and caffeine. Which sensibly makes Chocolate nature's perfect food!
blocked all social media(except HN) and news sites. It truly changed my life, I am not it continuos gloom and doom mood, my mind is in a clam exploration mode rather than some sort of media induced frenzy. I am unable to access some good links to medium from HN but I am willing to pay that price.

I've done this for over 8 months now, never going back to reading "news".Ignorance is bliss.
There's a trivial way, it's just not zero added cost if your PC was bundled with Windows: buy a retail version of Windows.
Indeed, that's the case. It's an important distinction, but one which may not matter as much as it used to.
>Not to mention that humans will still ultimately determine where the cars go

Incentives.

Right now the road network has no information on where you are going. Because of this it is near impossible to route or plan traffic beforehand other than using historical estimates. It is everyone for themselves. In a completely driverless world people could submit their driving route the day before a major event like Thanksgiving so the network has more information on what traffic will look like then. The people that plan ahead could then be given a 'queue credit' or 'queue boost' that routes their car in to the faster moving lanes, where those that did not get stuck in the slower lanes for longer.
Unlike this one, it even looks like the audio driver exploit is on by default. Much stranger. Guess HP developers aren't very clean with their release process.
Bitcoin Mining is still profitable
Most Investment Banks give a couple of days a year, some give a day a quarter (in the UK at least).

This is also unrelated to Xmas Parties though.
Wait, I’m sorry, are you claiming that Bitcoin HODL’ers gave us the ‘buy the dips’ strategy? :)
I started with Certified Programming with Dependent Types (http://adam.chlipala.net/cpdt/).

If you are more interested in programming, consider trying Idris (http://idris-lang.org/). Edwin Brady, the language designer, wrote a great book that I would recommend called Type-Driven Development with Idris (https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-i...).
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Zulip is still the gold standard for enterprise chat.
AI is now so complex its creators can’t trust why it makes decisions
AFAIK, their goal is to produce novel patents.
I've worked with a lot of Fortune 500 companies, and never have I heard a story of where they outsourced IT work and it actually went well

It only needs to save money for long enough for the executive who proposed it to get their next bonus or promotion. Then they swan off to greener pastures and leave the rest to pick up the pieces.
>Hopefully these futures will reduce its volatility and help stabilize the price

Only if you ignore the constant threat of bad actors, technical failures, and lack of regulation. We might even see previous financial/accounting scams and fraud replayed in the Bitcoin world.
Why does obvious bullshit like this get so much visibility?

Why not "Windows found to have hidden keylogger", it also ships with functionality that allows you to capture keystrokes if you so insist?
> Oh also there is a 'numeric comparison' authentication method but it requires your device to have a screen, which is not very common.

It doesn't have to be a screen, it can be any form of user facing output. If you have an audio output (ex: speaker or headphone jack) you can use text to speech to output the pin code.

I've seen VOIP devices with a similar setup using land line phones (i.e. the output is delivered over telephone wire on a RJ11 jack).
There was the Application Cache (which used a manifest), but it was removed and replaced by service workers.
The restart 'strategy' is a one line configuration change in the unit file. "Restart=always" vs "Restart=no". See:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.ser...
An interesting idea, which raises a lot of questions:

Along which lines could it be broken up? Datacenters? Subsets of the social graph? Would you liked to be grouped with your family, your school or your church?

It seems very plausible that one of them would grow and engulf everyone, while the others woulg go the way of MySpace. What then?
> That's pretty much what people use stock market for anyway

That's what I used to think until I began to understand (through Mr Money Mustache posts) that lots of people with large amounts of money invest (i.e. buy-and-hold) in the stock market because, despite the annual ups and downs, it has historical net annual gains of 7-10% over the last hundred years...
Another very interesting solution to the problem:

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

Its major, still undressed downsides are the requirement of expensive beta emitters, and synthetic diamond PV cells (everything else will die to beta particles)
You are mixing two separate things. If the bulk of Bitcoin owners were to try to sell all at once, most wouldn't have anyone to sell to, and the price would go way down. This has nothing to do with exchanges (although at increased load probably most of them would experience outages).

The second question is whether most exchanges would be capable to transfer out all bitcoins they are currently storing for customers (a "bank run"). As far as I know, exchanges aren't supposed to be running a fractional reserve system, so they theoretically shouldn't have a problem with this, given some time to get data out of cold storage. Indeed, like banks a while ago, if they did manage to lose (or spend/steal) a part of the amount they are storing, they would simply go bankrupt at this point.
My advanced algorithms professor at University has the prerequisite for doing research with him of solving Project Euler questions from 1-100. He had some sort of time table on it like 1-3 months, but also said if you solved them all in a shorter period like 1 week that you were too good to learn anything from doing research with him.

So, honestly you just doing 1-100 as a classical musician is really surprising and amazing to me. Great job!
So basically suitable for batch mode only? There's really no other situation in software where average is a useful measure.
Can NTIA figure out if social media breeds hate?
That’s dragons, not wizards.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. You're right.

Not entirely. One company I worked for had an office in India where workers had 2 screens on their desks and their job was to re-key from one app into another. It was cheaper to do this than to integrate those two apps. Tho' not really because of the re-work needed due to typos, but senior management will never have realized that.
At least traditional modern financial instruments still have some connection to an underlying real-world market, even if they are 10 layers of financial abstraction removed from reality. They can also always sort of justify it by saying that it provides liquidity and so on.

Harder to justify what the point of Bitcoin financial instruments is though, since it can't really be used for much at all in its current state. Maybe if it stabilized and became a proper store of value (whether the incentives to keep a cryptocurrency stable are even there remains another question), but now it's just so hype driven.

I guess ultimately 'the point' of it all it doesn't matter, people can trade in imaginary goods no problem. Still exposes the strangeness of modern financial markets.
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