skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not common for these to have Gmail-level hardening

Translation for those not in the business: They are custom J2EE applications made by the combined forces of over-expensive consultants and CEOs nephew, running on unpatched Windows 2003 servers with plain HTTP login form (obviously vulnerable to SQL injection) and DB listening on 0.0.0.0 with default admin credentials. But it's in the internal network, so don't worry, no hacker can get there.
OK great. So can you link the offer?
> the targeted group used a very simple hack to frustrate the government’s idiotic tactics

It's just a tracking pixel - what gives me pause here is that the government either doesn't know or doesn't care that "any IPs that every talked to our list of bad IPs" is a really inaccurate way to conclude that people are criminals - this should be obvious to anyone who claims knowledge in digital forensics. So the story is that "technology" can be used to magically create evidence against someone, as long as the court is ignorant about the quality of the evidence. This is very scary.

The fact that this is even being presented as a "trap" seems sketchy to me, and seems like an after the fact excuse. Of course we should catch bad people, but not at the expense of due process.
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Two reminders, for anyone reading this and wondering about the implications for cryptography:

1. Grover's algorithm is applicable to symmetric cryptosystems, like AES. It searches for secret keys in a quantum-optimal manner. Shor's algorithm is the much more serious threat which endangers asymmetric (public-key) cryptosystems like RSA. It uses the quantum Fourier transform to attack integer factorization and discrete logarithm problems.

2. This 3-qubit implementation corresponds to 2^3 items; it is still extremely far off from being practically usable against AES-128. Moreover, Grover's algorithm can't be credibly used to break AES-256, as it improves the search time by approximately halving the number of items to be searched (i.e. AES-256 is reduced to 128 bits of security, AES-128 is reduced to 64, etc).
> it's not aimed at users of the language.

Is it not? It doesnt contain recipes, no, but it fully documents the fundanental units of the language youll express your solution in.
> And if you somehow do, Samsung caps your battery at 80% or so.

That sounds suspiciously like "we don't want you running firmware that causes that battery to explode on a device that features a Samsung logo prominently on it." Given their recent history, I'm not sure I blame them for that specific bit.
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Some of the companies were based in SF, but I was interviewing remotely.
because then people will accuse the fact checkers of being biased and carrying out agendas and conspiracies.

if there's no particular overlord that people can point to then they can't be as outraged at it.
The "Voom" in the Cat in The Hat Comes Back is thought to be a metaphor for the bomb.
Yeah, but the volatility is still a nonstarter. A quick glance at the price chart shows the price has dropped 50% in the past month. A longer view shows something like a 1,700% difference between the six month low and high. Meanwhile first-world fiat currencies consider it a bad year if they can't maintain a constant inflation rate between 2% and 3%.

There's always going to be niche markets for people who can't use fiat currencies for one reason or another (international commerce, failed states, black markets, etc.), and there's probably going to be some number of hobbyists who want to transact in crypto as a political or technical end in itself.

But why would the median consumer possibly want to migrate to a world where their real net worth could halve or double literally overnight, repeatedly, at any time, for reasons they can neither predict nor control?
I accepted an offer to join a top cryptocurrency project recently.
I worked for many companies in different industries as a software engineer in the past and this job
feels more meaningful than all of them.

Cryptocurrency is like banking, venture capital, social networking and religion all rolled into one.

Before, startups used to get traction by joining popular accelerators like YCombinator, from now on, startups will get traction by affiliating themselves with popular cryptocurrency projects. It's funding by the people, for the people; nobody is locked out, everyone can participate.
What are the technological implications of this?

Is there hope that this could be the future of semiconductors as a replacement for NMOS?
> say that the OP never had a job offer for a "blockchain implementation"

I get at least two blockchain related job messages a week on LinkedIn right now. Started around a month or two ago. Looks to me like a gold-rush, and I totally believe anyone with remotely relevant experience could have got an offer.
This was a key part of the mockumentary web series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Pwnage 's schtick.
The Evolution of Urban Planning
https://slavischestudies.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/gulags-and...
They attach "blockchain" to the name of their company :)
What I find amazing is how that it was so hard for people to just say no to nuclear weapons. So we have literature that aludes to the topic rather than speak about things directly. It is cowardly to write some allegorical tale about how wicked the rulers are, setting everything in a fanciful animal kingdom. Authors should write up rather than down for children, most ten year olds may not have adult reading ability but plenty do. They can be told the truth about the world.
XMR/ETH use GPU
PoW is not the only algorithm option in blockchain technology.. you have PoS, PoC/PoA, ...
>Ironically, Sun might have not had to sell themselves to Oracle, and the world's server's might be running on SPARC chips that are immune to these issues.

Solaris, with the exceptions of a few bright stars like DTrace and ZFS, always seemed like a POS to me, compared to linux. Especially as a work-station. Sun went full retard with Java everywhere right before they went under and I have a feeling the Solaris Desktop experience, and by extension the UNIX desktop experience, would be something from my worst nightmares, something to make wish for Windows Vista.
What version of Powershell are you using?

Just typing "notepad" is enough to launch it. The problems with powershell and executables only really come in to play when argument passing, where some escaping is necessary.
Orrrrrrrrr they'll find power without externalities priced in.
So Rust has a lot of that, both in turning off some checks and in ability to write whole blocks of unsafe code.
Thanks for the info. Love your youtube videos by the way :)
I've migrated some of bash scripts I use, so the same script can be used for Windows and Linux.

Bash ports on Windows can be messy especially if it involves non-Latin codepages, especially when it involves language like Japanese, which frontend is still not migrated fully into UTF-8. (Also WSL handles it more gracefully.)

I am program in C# a lot, so extensibility via CmdLet is also interesting. (Although, I haven't explored this much, yet...)
Using electric car batteries to smooth out load on the grid is a good idea, but there’s no need for the car to be physically proximate to electricity sources. We already have a much more efficient way of transporting power through space - the grid.
I grew up collecting these from the Milwaukee County Zoo. I never realized they were a somewhat regional thing. Neato!
Did you have a "front row seat" to the civil rights movement, or were you exposed to it by a university professor? I ask because from your use of words and barely restrained anger it appears that you deem that era as some sort of holy crusade against evil. It may be that (i wasn't there) but as i study it more it feels as if the the disenfranchisement of black folks was used as a political motivation to exert state control over lifestyle choices. I know that that sentence is blasphemy at my university, but the truth has a delicious way of ignoring sentiment.
What is the best way to find out the accepted pronunciation of various tech project names? Is there any type of resource to make this easy (for podcasts hosts, etc.)?

This winds up being a minefield for audio content creators!
Try flipping it; they could be trying to make their people enjoy things that their product does.
I'd be absolutely terrified to submit a patch, ever.

"What the fuck is this? This came from Satan's butt-hole. Kill whoever did this - kill them immediately, here, I'll go and find this asshole who submitted this patch, and do it for you, you lazy ingrates, why do I have to do everything around here?"
My favourite Microsoft 'ship the org chart' example is their app store.

Microsoft has an app store built into every Windows 10 computer worldwide. And of course, you can not download Microsoft Office from it. However, it does helpfully tell you to get Office by heading to 'MicrosoftStore.com'.

It's all sort of head scratching. A normal person might ask a lot of totally reasonable questions about this, like:

- Why does Microsoft's App Store not have Microsoft's own Apps in it? Office isn't the only missing app, Visual Studio is missing too (even the free 'Code' electron editor).

- Why does the phrase 'Microsoft Store' refer to something 100% different (in products and functions) than 'MicrosoftStore.com'?

- Why does the Office team have their own app updating utility, when there's already supposed to be one 'blessed' place for App Updates inside the Store? (Same question for Visual Studio Code).

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Anyway, I know a lot of the above is org chart related, or enterprise needs / backwards compatibility related. But they are all reasonable questions despite that.

And stuff like this is part of the reason why reasonable people still fall for phishing schemes. The above sounded to me like some weird popup advertisement trick, until I saw it first hand.
If anything the "roll your own crypto" culture might be something being implanted in our brain to spare the NSA money - and provide them with more attack vectors. Crypto astroturfing anyone?

I studied crypto in college on the mathematical side. RSA and ECC are based on very sound maths
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I haven't used the Windows Subsystem for Linux much, but shouldn't it be possible to have a bash script that runs on all of them? (though it might take some testing against the environment, for things like osx's /Volumes etc.)
Researchers Patent Glasses to Prevent Motion Sickness in Self-Driving Cars
The crypto community is the organized religion of tech https://twitter.com/jakefuentes/status/955151552984920064
No, that's not what I said.

I said a survey done that early is not indicative of people's true opinion.

Do another survey in a month, and that data should be correct.
I happened to read this to my 4 year olds a few weeks ago after finding it at my Mother-in-law's house. I can tell you that at least for 4 year olds, it's just a book about buttered bread.

My son asked for butter side down bread at lunch and my daughter asked for butter side up.
> amateurs can easily arrive at a finished job (of painting, in this case) that they would never be able to convince themselves to pay market rate for.

If you're looking at it from a economic standpoint, to be considered irrational, the tradeoff between the value of time vs the cost of hiring a professional would have to assume that the value of the time is greater than the value of the professional.

I always hear this compared to "what is your hourly rate in your job" or "my time is worth more than that", but I think for most people this just isn't a fair comparison. Just because I can spend 10 hours painting my room and I make $x/hour and it would cost <$x to pay a professional, does not mean I would be able to actually generate an _incremental_ $x per hour by not painting and hiring the professional.

For most people on a salary (where your pay is fixed no matter how much time you put in), their time outside of the job is, in a very real sense from an economic standpoint, valueless, and it would be perfectly rational to spend that time yourself, no matter how cheaply a professional could do it.
Build SaaS for change. . .not perfection
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No, the inflation this will cause domestically is going to disrupt the government even more than currently. There is a cost to maintain the infrastructure that allows commerce, and that is not going to get the appropriate funding to support this influx of cash.

Now up: consumers will be subsidizing the megacorps even more. Buy, or else.
I don't follow your analogy.

IMHO, a better one:

Your friend (used loosely in this case) is doing criminal acts. Would you tell him to stop doing criminal acts while you treat him?

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Sometimes journalist take this "ALLWAYS two sides to every story" and "each side is equal" crap too far.

See the success of Wolf's book on Trump.
I'm not really convinced we will see oil go away. We've been saying peak oil since the 70s. The US military as a whole still relies heavily on oil. Burning oil is still the only reliable propulsion for space programs.

But more importantly the whole global warming, anti-oil movement has been to minimize the impact of OPEC on US, and put pressure on oil producing nations, largely Russia.

OPEC remains the only organization to outwit the US by exploiting their reliance on it. Take a look at the oil shock during Carter's administration.

With fracking the US does not need OPEC/Saudi as they used to and they are freaking out. The main countries whose economy largely depends on oil have already suffered the economic consequences: Venezuela, Russia, etc. They also happen to have earned the ire of US by not submitting to their rule.

Electric cars will still be well out of reach from the rest of the population (Tesla shareholders/shills will say not for long) and combustion engine will still be in demand.

It was one thing to confront the US as USSR or when US oil production was low, it's a whole new ball game now.

It's no coincidence with fracking on US soil, we started to see a decline in crude oil prices, and oil producing countries panicking.
It's not quite removing the walls, think of it more as a ton of tiny castles dotting the landscape with equally good walls instead of one giant wall around the kingdom and some unprotected wooden huts inside.

By doing this they want to force those managing internal apps to put up protection on the level they would for any other external service. Overall it's leading to better security (at least that's what they argue).
Well I guess when I get done with Dostoevsky, I should loop back around to my 1st grade reading material.
why not? if the majority of the people approves oppression of a part of the society, you're kidding yourself by blaming few on top or catalysts, etc. It's a much more difficult problem when the society does not support the fundamental principles required for the modern society.
The Origins and Motivations of Univalent Foundations
Except that it took 1 bill to create the 1.5 trillion in debt and decades to create the 29bn in profits. This kind of "big windfall" is only happening this tax cycle, and won't happen ever again.

It's almost like people really focus on whatever positive input they get and cling to it no matter what.
Don't forget about AIX, Solaris, and IRIX :-)
You could have just said J.P. Morgan
I guess the question really is can you download code from the repos to your own desktop or laptop and do anything with it?
Also, there is a nice place between microservices and a monolith
Bringing Forward Collision Warnings to our open source self-driving car
The weird, 'magic' thing about this is that the capacity to be unreasonably angry about something means that you take it very seriously. You won't detect that someone else isn't taking it half as seriously unless you were also only deploying anger as a technique. The anger itself blinds you. And if you weren't really that angry, well you just got caught out.
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> Using electric car batteries to smooth out load on the grid is a good idea, but there’s no need for the car to be physically proximate to electricity sources

transmission losses are non-zero. so there is at least _some_ value in having the power for the air conditioner 20 feet away.
I really dislike how decentralized cryptocurrencies are. I'd be ok with how it is currently implemented as long as there was some level of central governance to guarantee the currency could continue forever. What's the point of mining bitcoin once all coins are allocated? Just for transaction fees? Or would people push to generate more coins? A central governing authority would be great in a situation like this. Right now it is all open and built on consensus which is open to attack.
Isn't that sort of rational then?
Author here. Happy to answer any questions you might have about the post or openpilot in general.
He has no relevant experience, and claims that everything about the job was dreamy ("significantly higher salary", remote, etc), but they rejected it for some absurdly vague, hand-wavy, message-board type rhetoric that sounds like the standard sort of from-the-sidelines, self-validating fiction. It is absolutely transparent, and if there weren't so many on HN looking to feel less threatened by the whole blockchain thing, or less jealous about this idea that a bunch of people are getting rich (and quick! This is facetious, obviously), this would be sitting in the basement of HN, but instead it's validated as if it has the slightest wiff of truth. It clearly doesn't.

I'm not trying to be overly cynical, but when posts like this top HN I worry that it's less a "hacker" site, and more about a group trying to conjure a reality.
Okay, so they still make money through traditional centralized things. They do blockchain just like they are doing open source software, where they can't earn cash flow.
Totally wild speculation! And $1,000 comes me mentally mapping Chromebook to Pixelbook.
but the grid does use natural gas for peaker plants to respond to demand changes.

Natural gas comes from oil wells. If demand for oil reduces, and wells close, natural gas production will decline too.
> which are pretty much all processors produced in this millenium.

Is there a simple table of every mainstream purchasable CPU out-there and whether it was affected?
It makes me wonder if there are ways to structure an organization in a way that once it has found its purpose and voice, it becomes rigid in its trajectory.

Consider an organization that would rather cease to exist or be relevant, than to allow itself all the freedoms to pivot and mutate significantly.
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Object detection is an interesting failure for deep learning. Systems such as these perform well but whenever you have something like non max suppression at the end you are bound to get hard to fix errors. I'm more optimistic about deep mask and similar pixel wise approaches as well as using RNNs to generate a list of objects from an image.
You can point a laser at a keyboard and log the keystrokes, probably can do the same by pointing one at a headphone.
I generally disregard bitcoin speculation and opinion articles. Not just because it seems bitcoin market prices are hard to predict, but also due to the fact that bitcoin, being an unregulated market(for better or worse), means that otherwise illegal practices for the stock market(e.g. pump and dump) are legal.
But more importantly the whole global warming, anti-oil movement has been to minimize the impact of OPEC on US, and put pressure on oil producing nations, largely Russia

I don't think so.
Of course those bans are just words on paper if actual fighting breaks out. Unless they are actually enforced somehow they don't mean anything.
Yes and no.

Yes, Stepanov's first attempt at writing something like the STL was done in Ada. But no, it wasn't "the STL" - it was neither Standard nor Template.

And Stepanov abandoned Ada for C++, because Ada wasn't expressive enough for what Stepanov was trying to write.
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However that does sound like a tautology. Too much pain is too much and not enough pain is not enough.
The whole point of cryptocurrencies is that they're decentralized, and can't be controlled by governments. That would defeat the whole point of blockchain surely?
What's best for consumers is having a variety of competitive choices: in the short term a monopolist can offer the 'one true best option', but over time they (like all companies) will stop acting competitively and then consumers will be harmed by the lack of other options.

That's why it is bad for consumers when monopolists emerge: during the emergence they likely do benefit, but it can take decades for a market to recover once the monopolist stops being competitive.
That's actually a pretty good link. It's pretty easy to read that document and come to the complete opposite conclusion. All it takes is a little more confidence that we could weather a spike in oil prices while tar sands production ramps up to meet demand.
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>Many business failures i've witnessed happened ultimately because nobody had the energy to cut down the bullshit forest that constantly regrows around a company.

I've worked at a company that had 20 people and a company that's had 5000 and some ones in between.

Going from 2-3 people to 20 is pretty manageable. Everyone knows each other, work gets done, you can call people out on their bullshit, stuff is fixed, because everyone feels responsible and accountable.

Then you go to 100 people and a few of the original 20 leave and the whole culture changes. 1000's of people? Totally different ball game. Incompetence will slip through, no single person has a full grasp on everything, meetings and more meetings and more managers playing broken telephone all day and you got people in different cities and time zones and countries who've never seen each other face-to-face and it's just a nightmare to manage that.

It can be done, but that's when you really need competent managers, and those are extremely hard to come by.

I'm sure there are teams and divisions within Intel that are extremely competent, people at the top of their game who are looking at this debacle and just shaking their heads just as much as Linus.