skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had a long term plan to destabilize a nation, and wanted to understand how best to do it, don't you think it would be useful to send seemingly innocent students to gather intelligence in political hotbeds like universities?

After all, these students are future leaders. Understanding how to manipulate them or weaken them and their futures, or how to sow divisiveness amongst them or other Americans...

Wouldn't such information make it easier to at least, say, pose plausibly as influential "trolls" with relevant cultural content on the internet?

Just as in software, one doesn't necessarily need to anticipate a specific threat to recognize attack surface.
Bitcoin Is a 'Noxious Poison,' Billionaire Charles Munger Says
A nice reminder that not all Turing-Complete things were created equal. Programming anything using these is a nightmare.

(Except maybe the template / type system examples - I hear that's a lot like programming in Haskell)
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To a large extent, hard wrapping is a combination of choices made by the sender (to hard wrap the text, because it doesn’t trust clients to soft-wrap properly) and receiver (to soft-wrap or not).

There was a standard to handle it nicely, format=flowed; sadly, it didn’t make it: https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/12/17/format-flowed/

But even without that, the quoted-printable content-transfer-encoding means that the hard wrapping isn’t actually necessary—you can have lines as long as you like. Some email clients do thereby send text/plain with arbitrarily long lines, which will cause overflow in some clients (typically where plain text is shown in a monospace font), and be wrapped in others (most, these days, I think; these are typically where plain text is shown in a proportional font).

Then too, some email clients ignore the 78 character limit (it is, after all, only a SHOULD [1]) and write longer lines in the MIME message. (Not sure what they do after 998, which the spec says they MUST not exceed [1].)

But the inability to specify the desired semantics of proportional-with-wrapping versus monospace is probably the part of text/plain email that makes me saddest.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-2.1.1
This comment reminded of this clip of Chris Hitchens about North Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8-Vr_r36Fg

(paraphrasing:) "Going in, I knew I wouldn't call them Orwellian. But eventually they make you do it"
That's what happens when you give kids a set of tools, a garage and permission to cut their own hair.
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Testing with Pytest at AHL (Systematic Hedge Fund)
ISSCC: Deep learning hardware boosts for AI
The paper where they build logic gates with BGP is fascinating. Thanks for posting this.

"In this paper, we answer computational complexity
questions by unveiling a fundamental mapping between
BGP configurations and logic circuits. Namely, we describe simple networks containing routers with elementary BGP configurations that simulate logic gates, clocks, and flip-flops, and we show how to interconnect them to simulate arbitrary logic circuits."
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I can only think of one of the greatest videos[0] on Youtube when I read about unusual Turing complete systems.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8
Gell-Mann Amnesia
Unless you count Bruce Schneier, who congress sometimes listens to. To be fair, I ridiculed him for exactly this in my original comment, so I agree with you.

The issue is not who we should listen to. It's who the politicians listen to, and who the media listens to. Those are the "experts" who, often unwillingly, set the narrative, driving public perception on the topic and ultimately influencing policy.
And U2F keys (including Yubikey U2F), which I have used since they introduced it.
Scalable two-dimensional materials advance future-gen electronics
Has there been any update since 2014? I'm not holding by breath.
Rebel with a CORS
I'm guessing they meant pink tax. They might not be a native English speaker so didn't pick up on the mistake.
I was in the hordes that moved to digg after a Slashdot redesign too.

For a while it was looking like Voat might be the new end destination after Reddit, but that was political rather than aesthetic.
No mention of the time delay between accepting funds and withdrawing the funds. How would a merchant refund the customer in fiat or crypto?
In my opinion Brexit/Trump go back way before Facebook. Facebook was just another tool to be exploited for those with the agenda.
Airbus shares rise as higher profits, cash flow offset impact of new A400 charge
It’s still possible on iOS but if you declined the official pop-up once you can’t show it again. But you can annoy the users with different and equally intrusive pop-ups asking you to go to settings to change it for example.
Spectre and KPTI Get More Fixes in Linux 4.16, Offsets Some KVM Performance Losses
Yep, that's it. I guess the idea comes from a quote attributed to him [0]:

> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

I swear I've seen this confirmed in some psychology studies but I can't find them right now.

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann
On one hand, the author takes a lot of effort (with a lot of references) to explain that stereotype threat, implicit bias, etc. may only be a small contributor to the unequal representation of women in STEM.

But, on the other hand, his counterargument for the existence of other potential factors seems to me to be quite weak and lacking the same rigor. The existence of "basic sex differences" is not discussed in detail, with only a couple of references. And a lot of his counterargument seems to be based on a few example countries with high gender equality rankings and low STEM participation.

Is there any validation that these gender equality rankings are a useful indicator of gender equality? What about factors that surface only after school/college in these countries? What about network effects in various fields?

Not that I'm saying such factors do exist. But the author makes a somewhat strong (IMO) argument against stereotype threat, implicit bias etc. and a very weak argument for the existence of other factors.
I headed to a semi-dark site not far from home (I live in Sunnyvale, California) for which I have a night permit - Montebello OSP.

You need a permit to take pictures of the sky?
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This just proves that you should only listen to Schneier when he is discussing the domain in which he is an expert, which is certainly not attribution.

It’s pretty obvious that he had not looked at Mirai at all when he attributed it to ‘state actors’.

Politicians and the media will always listen to whoever yells the loudest.
I've been pondering this for a while. The standard thinking is if everyone federated (e.g. XMPP in Facebook, Gmail) it would be good. But look at it from another perspective. Then your main account, your identity would be permanently tied to one provider (Facebook, Google) as your JID would end with @facebook.com.

The only true solution is to use your own domain and then, if possible, delegate to hosted server. If the provider does something that you don't like you just change provider or host your own. And one's @gmail.com address will always be hosted by Google.
Obviously this can only be solved with more medication! Remind me to buy extra Pfizer stock.

Edit: fair enough. I do realize people who are seriously affected benefit from these medications. I did not mean to trivialize their struggle. However, i do think the sheer number of people currently receiving these relatively heavy medications is alarming. I think overdiagnosis is a serious problem with adhd.
Enjoy it! I've had this book for years. It's one of my treasured possessions.
Germany is usually roughly 5 years behind US in social trends or tech, so it's coming soon.
Paytm Mall Takes Cues from Alibaba in Indian New Retail Experiment
That money is not gonna increase your quality of life. You, and only you, are the only capable of doing it. It is up to you alone to find something that fills your brain. To me is software engineering, I do see myself doing this when I'm 60. But your life is only yours and it is up to you to decide how to live it, not even 1M pounds can change that.
Ransomware: A Reminder for Healthcare Providers to Lock Down Their Environments
I find it highly unlikely Apple could design a market leading GPU compatible with their existing products in such a short time.

Nobody noticed, but apple started working back on their GPU all the way back on the iPhone 5s (with their A7 SoC)

It wasn't a complete custom design, but it wasn't an off the shelf powervr either. Until that point, apple always released the exact model of GPU they were using in their SoC, then suddenly their documentation starts referring to "the apple A7 GPU" and "the apple A8 GPU". Wikipeida does give a model number for the GPU, but if you trace it back you find a andandtech article going through the logic speculating it must be a powervr 6 series. And all roads lead back to that speculation.

For later SoCs, andandtech actually invent a new 6 core powervr variant, because powervr wasn't listing one yet die shots of the new iPad showed a 6 core GPU.

With the release of the iPhone 5s, apple also switched from the powervr supplied driver to their own one written in house.

It appears that apple incrementally swapped out parts of the powervr design until they arrived at the A11 SoC GPU which they declared as their own, with none of the original powervr parts remaining. Though the result appears to be very close to the original design. (I suspect powervr accidentally gave apple a perpetual patent license at some point before realizing what apple was up to)

They didn't redesign the GPU overnight, it was designed and released incrementally over many years under our very noses. Nobody noticed.
I think it is like that for the survival of the species..
Windows 10 testers can now try beta apps without updating the entire OS
Not even humans understand humans perfectly.
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Well, if you are into weird internet memes, there's also this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny34O_rWaRc
If you don't want to put your data in another silo, this is what mu [1] and notmuch [2] provide. I have been using mu/mu4e for a while and it is absolutely great for quickly finding e-mail, creating virtual search-based mailboxes, etc. Combined with isync and Fastmail's standard-conforming IMAP support, you have a really nice e-mail setup.

Of course, it's not for the general public, but this is Hackernews ;)

[1] https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/

[2] https://notmuchmail.org
CSS Specificity Fields. In addition to the standard algorithm for specificity of a rule, you will be able to define a function that gives the specificity at any point in N dimensions. Rule priority at any point will be determined by relative field strength of the competing rules at that point.
After reading that article, I now hate that guy and I don't even know him
Be careful with that spam button: it probably won’t do what you want, but will instead make your spam filter worse.

Eventually a sufficiently capable filter will be likely to figure out that the thing these emails have in common is a poor text/plain part and adjust its weighting appropriately, but I’d expect it to take somewhere between “quite some time” and “a long time” to figure that out; in the mean time, it’ll mostly just serve to confuse the poor filter.

(How customised spam filters work, in a nutshell: take your various signals—e.g. has HTML, has remote images, has no text, is sent from a known-spammy IP address, mentions large sums of money—and figure out which factors occur more often in spam than ham, and increase the importance assigned to them; if the email reaches a chosen threshold, it’s showing sufficient characteristics of a spam message to be considered probably spam.)

SpamAssassin is probably the most widely-used spam filtering platform; I’m not certain that its standard rules are capable of deciding to filter on this sort of thing directly. I believe it has something around detecting overly short or non-representative text/plain parts, which is probably the primary signal this would coalesce around.
> The real issues concern the magnitude of these effects on women’s STEM participation and the foregone opportunities of not focusing on other factors that might have an even stronger impact on their participation.

I am not sure that I agree with the entire article, but this part stood out to me. I never know how to express this in a way that sounds appropriate, but I feel that some of us might be better off if we focused more of our energy on actually developing in our chosen field and less on dwelling on how sexist everyone says the field is.

I understand that the above comes with a lot of caveats. "What if the sexism is the thing _preventing_ me from developing?", etc. And I do think there are legitimate problems, and that they need to be addressed. But sometimes it seems like the flood of media and popular opinion constantly shoved at us about how bad we have it only makes us more tuned to focus on things that may not even matter (and may not _all_ come from a place of gender bias, but are now prone to being categorized that way). This then results in us wasting our time being affected by/thinking about/dwelling on those things rather than a) actually growing in our chosen field and b) focusing on more _serious_ gender issues that may be a little bit more concrete than "This guy was rude to me, obviously it's because I'm woman and not because he's an asshole to everybody."

At the same time I'm not sure if the above is the right viewpoint to have. Is it better to potentially be blind to actual "microaggressions" or other "smaller" issues that might build up and keep trudging along in a state of ignorance, or is it better to not see those things and keep working in a field you enjoy?

I don't speak about this much because to be honest I don't have the energy, and prefer to spend my time on making things. This may be bad: one day I too may have a "MeToo"-esque story of working in tech, and maybe I will suddenly realize I've been blind this whole time.
Amazon passes Microsoft to become the 3rd-largest U.S. company
Can someone with vouching powers vouch for SidiousL? He appears to have been shadowbanned for no discernible reason.
How does something like this interact with the GDPR? Like Art 5, 1b, "collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes" - I'm not sure that "analysing VPN traffic to find out what apps people are using" qualifies.

Or even Art 5, 1c, "adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed".

Art 9, 1, "Processing of personal data revealing [anything uniquely personal] shall be prohibited." Knowing that someone is launching Grindr, for example, is a partial clue to their sexual identity. etc.etc.
This feels rather personal. I'm not saying I would or would not. I'm just doing a simple comparison. For many, they probably think they are doing the cafe a favour, and getting a change of scenery and a slice of cake.
Schengen Visa for India: A Tough Deal to Crack
Yeah, I get about 7Mb/s with a downhill moon, a following slope, and a full wind. About 100m away the street-side box is emblazoned with a declaration that "super-fast broadband is here", by which they mean ADSL2+, which is 24Mb/s (again, with a following moon, full slope, and downhill wind). But it somehow hasn't made it to this house.
How to Find You Company’s Storytelling Framework
I’d argue that VR has more potential. Once we get to OASIS level VR, it’ll kick the ass of having a HUD in your glasses.
I like separating the influencer stuff from my contacts, but I dislike how they combined snaps and stories. My main issues: 1) not being able to see which friends have stories without clicking on each of them individually; I know you get notifications about new stories, but if you want to re-watch a story later it's a huge pain. 2) sorting friends "algorithmically" instead of chronologically; the sort isn't stable which makes it harder to track mentally. If they must have a fancy algorithm somewhere, I'd much prefer if they used it for the recommended "send to" list for a standalone snap (the reverse of the behavior present in the new update).
That location is normally open between sunrise and sunset. I assume the permit allows access all night.
> starting from the assumption that men are disproportionately represented among the upper levels of spatial and mathematical abstraction skills, there'd be an uproar

I’ve mentioned it repeatedly on HN and have never so much as gotten a rise out of anyone. (I should also point out that the SAT folks publish a detailed report on SAT gender differences each year and nobody blinks an eye.) The problem is that it doesn’t explain the disparity in STEM—it cuts against it.

Men outrepresent women about 2:1 among perfect SAT Math scores. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that this represents a real difference in mathematical ability. Even if programming ability were 100% correlated with mathematical ability, you’d expect a much higher ratio than you see in practice. That is strong evidence that women are kept out of STEM for other reasons. Beyond that (1) the pool of programmers isn’t just people with perfect SAT scores—the representation gap rapidly disappears as you go from top 0.5% to top 5%; (2) professions leverage other competencies too. The same 2:1 difference shows up in the top percentile of the LSAT and MCAT, but those fields are more gender balanced because women applicants tend to have better college GPAs.

Anecdotally: I went to a competitive admissions STEM high school, where admissions is gender blind and based heavily on an SAT-like test. The ratio was about 60:40 boys, about what you’d expect from the required testing percentiles. CS was required for all students so it is gender balanced. But APCS was overwhelmingly boys, not because it was full of the best math minds, but I suspect because we’d play DOOM if we got our assignments done early.
Many girls decide at around age 12 that a better life strategy is for them to get a husband that will do all the heavy lifting. This obviously worked for thousands of years and is likely a result of evolution and specialization. I always admire when I meet an independent woman that rejected this conditioning but it's very rare :( Maybe there should be a better approach to early-teenage girls to help them to make a different choice that would not render them uncompetitive in STEM fields later? 10,000 hours to achieve mastery or childhood dedication seem to be increasingly more relevant in STEM, similarly to piano/violin virtuosos.
There's a war on right now, and it's increasingly vicious. Competitive victimhood is how you spot it - a relishing of both a sense of being aggrieved, and rejoicing in public humiliation and punishment of the perceived oppressor.

I stay well away from it too. In fact I fear simply writing this comment.

On Twitter, I've taken to unfollowing people who repeatedly retweet threads that have turned into piling-on contests built on a shaky foundation - the uncritical joining of a mob to throw stones at the perceived oppressor is especially worrying when a closer examination shows nuances that don't justify mob justice even in an emotional sense.
It's definitely not fact. Men and women in the same exact position are paid the same with differences really coming down to negotiation for the salary rather than some scale based on gender.
This is cool and fits well with the mindset that management is not only not part of software development, but it is an inferior category of work. But it is ultimately a useless answer. I am pretty sure the USA basketball Dream Team didn't need any management process too to win the Olympics. How does this help any other team ever?

I am myself for sure not a "scary-smart" person, so it means that I basically will never be on a successful team?

I prefer the answers to this question that apply to mortal developers.
I'm sure this seems exaggerated in startups —because everything in startups is taken to the nth extreme— but this is true across the board.

All professionals, regardless of gender, with a defined career track feel compelled to "get to that next phase". To raise funding, to become a manager, to sell the company, to pass the next set of exams, to become a consultant. It's what they've been working toward for years. It's all they know. They also think it'll somehow be easier after they've reached that goal, but it just loops into the next goal.

So it's that much harder for them to step back.

The difference is society expects women to stop and look after their kids. We need to start expecting the same from fathers and that'll only happen when a few brave sausages step up and regularly take some time off in the week to keep the house upright.

Speaking as a self-employed developer with needy clients, and father, I've probably found doing this easier than most, but it's also really rewarding to influence your child's development. Money isn't everything.
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Cool - but... some people do have too much time on their hands :)
> Then you take away the NO option. You replace it with 'i'll decide later'. And by doing so, you make it not a choice for the user. You make it a statistical guarantee that sooner or later, most users will cave in and hit yes, even if by accident.

Fucking YouTube and their "Would you like to merge your account with your Google Account and use your real name forever more? Yes / Soon."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit?wprov=sfla1
The problem is exactly reverse: From a security and anaysis point of view, you want languages that do the job with the least possible power. And those are surprisingly hard to find.

You start with simple and not too-powerful languages (rules systems, regexes, parsing stuff), note they are insufficient for some real-word use case, add one or two features, and bam!, that mess becomes turing complete.
I'm pretty sure this is deliberate. Remember when they said they could make projections opaque? And they said some waffle like even though it is impossible in theory, in practice you can do it.

It looks like their solution is to make the glasses dark, so that in comparison the display is very bright. If it is bright enough compared to the background you won't see what is behind it. Making the glasses dark is probably ok because your eyes will adjust (your eyes have an insane dynamic range).

Also, realistically even with AR you spend most of your time looking at the augmented part rather than reality (based on my experience with the hololens anyway).
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