skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right person with the right access can do a tremendous amount of damage. 14 years ago some servers I was hired to maintain (marketing sites for a gambling site out of Costa Rica) were wiped out as part of an inside job: http://boston.conman.org/2004/09/19.1

Who watches the watcher indeed.
I find it ironic that the moral of the story is "Fact-check everything" but pretty much everyone in the USA has picked one side or the other of a massive conspiracy theory solely supported by unnamed sources, circumstantial evidence, and innuendo.
Yours is a stricter and not-commonly-used definition of "memory safe", which typically means "in the C sense" i.e. pointer arithmetic and bounds checking. Go is certainly memory safe by the typical definition.
If your income was zero, couldn't you have gone on Medicaid?
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Metal oxidizes, plastics weep plasticizers and become brittle, paper turns into mulch, we literally burn fossil fuels. We consume a lot more than just helium and free energy, and more if you remember that recycling costs yet more energy.
There has been an attempt by establishment Democrats and their sycophantic media outlets to discredit anybody left of Clinton as a Russian shill for some time now. See troll farm operators like David Brock, Peter Daou, and their wine mom loyalists.

I realize that is not the same thing as de-platforming somebody, but it's a deliberate sowing of FUD to bolster a reactionary agenda.
I was a bit of an outlier in that I generally appreciated Apple's walled garden approach because it severely limited the amount of crapware/malware in the app store.

Plus - certainly 5-6 years ago - because of that whole product attitude, when you used an iPhone it simply felt a lot more polished than contemporary Android devices: I haven't really used Android enough recently to comment on whether or not that's still the case.
Its not a matter of trading personal information for access to a social network, which is a reasonable thing to do.

Its a matter of letting a nefarious actor into your life to feed you addictive poison, torpedo your well being, and feed you propaganda. Each new revelation makes this increasingly clear.
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Just because free speech is not without consequence, does not mean it is illegal to do so. Every single person in the US who has spoken out has gone through some jail time. Most of them have been vindicated only in history or extremely long after the initial events.
Respectfully, what's your thinking for why hundreds seems like an exaggeration and is probably dozens instead?
The standard “luxury” high-rise studio is 500 square feet. A one bedroom is maybe 700-900. Is that really unreasonable?

Most “luxury” multi family buildings use that word because the historical norm is that apartments only exist to cheaply house the poor. It just means they’re comparable in quality to suburban middle class houses (or are pretending to be).
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Thanks for the advice. If all of my appeals are denied, I will follow it and try negotiate the price down. In any event, this won’t be a catastrophic financial event for me. But it sucks that it is happening to so many people under our current insurance regime, and not not all of them can handle it when their insurance decides not to pay.
Buy a home in the Bay Area four years ago and sell it today. You might even exceed the exclusion.
Yes, agreed. For startups, writing software should rarely fall in to the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" category; it should mostly be in "enduring competitive advantage", either seeking it or creating it.

For very early stage startups, I think outsourcing software development can sometimes have merit. If the main point of the software is answering the question, "Do we have a real business here?" then if there isn't a technical cofounder I think outsourcing can be worthwhile as long as you assume that all the outsourced code will be thrown away.

But as soon as the founders are sure it's a real business, I think at that point you have to toss out the oursourced stuff and start building the real code base. Then you're reasonably sure that some of the code you're writing is going to be delivering customer value over the long haul, so it's worth investing in sustainability.
The viewers were called various names Stereopticon, Stereoscope. But what you viewed, the cards with the two images were referred to as a stereotypes, after their printing process, I would suppose. The devices were extremely popular. Neither of your sources that address etymology address the etymology of the word in reference to prejudice. So they can hardly be held to contradict.
Doesn't look like it. U-boot is a boot loader for PowerPC/ARM/MIPS/<other CPUs> boards. A typical Linux-based embedded system would consist of U-Boot, the Linux Kernel and a filesystem. u-root would be one of the many ways to construct this filesystem.
I’m not a manager, but what I like about mine is:

1) He’s expecting from me directions on what to do. Take this statement with a grain of salt, of course the entire team still works together and with coherence, but what I want to say is that he’s empowering me to make real decisions.

2) He unblocks me, by connecting me with the right people, helping and escalating when necessary.

3) He’s a member of the team, we have lunch together, dm on slack, grab a beer... on a personal level it doesn’t feel he’s on a “higher” level.
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Nah. People outside our bubble don't care.
> In the past this strategy backfired for Intel (INTC) and the same may be the fate of Nvidia.

It sure as shit didn't backfire for Intel - they settled with AMD for $1,000,000,000.

For this price they completely hobbled AMD's ability to sell the Athlon 64, which hobbled profits (both directly and in terms of long-term branch image), which ultimately hobbled R&D.

AMD never fully recovered - and sold their foundries in order to survive.
Intel, on the other hand, got full control over the pricing of pretty much the entire x86 market for over a decade - it was well worth what they settled for.
Are you shitting me? It was a critical hit.
https://youtu.be/iIIemMC4hrk

Admittedly, I was aiming for humor at some points, but that was to help offset the gravity of the experiment.
Look at how much political heat Obama, and Clinton before him, got for attempting to fix things. The other political party was more than happy to tell their constituents that their health care would be ruined, and grandma would be denied care by a "death panel".

Even though I don't like the ACA, I give Obama a lot of credit for trying. There is no political benefit to doing so.
Were you eligible for Medicaid or CHIP?
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I don't really understand your point. I will note that since I could not afford housing for most of the year and struggled to get enough to eat, close to free is not cheap enough.
Yes, absolutely. Probably by far the optimization between being able to do anything you want while being dead simple to do it in. "Easier" engines like rpgmaker or LOVE severely limit what you can accomplish with the game, while more established engines like UE and Unity have a lot more front loaded scaffolding to do.
My personal take is that over all, `application specific` social platforms (SP) are working just fine like Github (SP for coding) and Yelp (SP for local listings). There's a general goal that people go to get the resources they desire.

However, Facebook as come to be a `SP for media`, which is why its generally known as social media. There's just no general purpose on FB other than to share media articles nowadays.
I’m not sure that GitHub uses CommonMark! Generally GitHub's format is referred to as GFM (GitHub-Flavored Markdown) and it has notable differences including preserving newlines.

Notably, GitHubbers and StackOverflow representatives joined to define CommonMark, but GitHub and StackOverflow do not have remotely similar fenced code block conventions.

Also, CommonMark currently says that they have not yet defined a version 1.0 of the spec.

I certainly applaud the effort, but CommonMark did not unify all the Markdowns.
A large portion of the recent widely exploited NAT box / IP camera vulnerabilities and malware are exploiting logic bugs, backdoors and default passwods - instead of memory safety bugs. I agree memory safe systems are needed, but nontechnical changes are also needed to fix the widespread IoT vendor negligence.
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My point is, to be blunt, I think you chose not to get either the medicare or Obamacare and/or are being dishonest to make a political point.
For what it's worth, the information you're looking for must be out there, because the author's central premise is that he gained access to the list and remembered one of the accounts. (Of course, that assumes both that the author of the article is not a professional message manipulator, AND that the author is telling the truth. Reasonable people can be forgiven for being skeptical about every post that is even remotely political these days.)

What's disappointing is how jaded I've become due to all the new information out there about what professional manipulation has done to the internet's forums and web sites. Even HN is not immune to it.

Unfortunately, I have an almost automatic skepticism towards every semi political post I read now.

I'm not even sure this problem can be solved while the internet persists in its current form. It's sad.
To be fair, this is exactly what happened, since CommonMark did not cause all Markdown users and implementors to converge.
The comments from different people who were allegedly involved in the project seem to contradict each other. So I did a bit of hunting to find out what injuries the bears suffered, if any, and what their fate was.

I've managed to find the "white paper" referenced by one of the commenters: Impact Acceleration Stress, 1961 [1]. There is also a feel-good propaganda movie that you can watch, detailing the program while missing out that they killed the bears [2], instead saying that they went under a "customary detailed examination".

One bear died while ejecting, as it was suffering from hydrocephalus (build up of spinal fluid in the brain) before flying, and with the added stress of the ejection must have caused terminal brain injuries. One bear suffered laceration to the liver, attributed to being over-sedated. At least one bear suffered whiplash and a fractured pelvis.

It doesn't specify exactly how many bears were used in testing, but I counted 7 from the tests they did (6 ejecting from the jet, one on a sled), plus one chimpanzee ejected form the jet. I highly doubt there were hundreds of bears, they cannot have been cheap to acquire or easy to keep.

All the animal test subjects were killed and autopsied afterwards.

Robert Sudderth, the Project Officer that commented, corroborates this paper, saying that the bears were not used a second time. John H Watson says that no bears were injured, but that could be just that he wasn't told.

[1] https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WTQrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92&dq...

[2] https://youtu.be/-KLnqorLgDM
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I also feel the moral imperative that you're describing. Nobody should have to tell their child that they're too expensive - to be honest, I can't imagine anything worse.

We were literally using lives as an economic mechanism, but now that we're not doing that we need to use something else in their place. The price of healthcare will continue to skyrocket unless we find something a little less horrifying than other people's lives to use as a balancing weight; although I won't claim to know whether it would be more possible to design a working market system or socialize it successfully.

Priority 1, stop making Soylent Green out of people. Priority 2, re-establish the food supply in a better way, because we need to eat.
How good is the automotive business for Nvidia? Now and in the long run.
May I suggest Taza: https://www.tazachocolate.com/ It is the closest mass-market brand I've found in the States to what one can make by hand from raw beans, and it is absolutely delicious, either in bar, or drinking chocolate form.
They don’t have a reciprocal export function, however. :(
It's never good to worry about factors you cannot change, and I cannot change the fact that there are more single men in San Jose than in the entire state of Alaska:

https://www.kqed.org/news/11231284/does-san-jose-deserve-the...

What I can change is not enter a situation in which I will be disadvantaged, have to compete with a large group of men over a tiny selection of very picky women:

> “I think it’s pretty good for the girls,” chimes Elizabeth Harris, a recent transplant from Los Angeles who finds San Jose’s legions of eager men “refreshing.” She was the only woman sitting at a bar lined with men at downtown’s Mission Ale House — aka the “Mission Male House.” “You can be more picky. They have to try harder. They all try to one up each other.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/02/10/tech-jobs-led-to-man-...

That article us from 2009, and the situation got a lot worse since then.

I appreciate the attempt to help, but you are advising to "not worry" about very bad statistics that I can also confirm from my own experience. There's no way to simply handwave away the fact that there's a ton more men than women in the Bay, and this scarcity of women combined with the fierce competition makes the dating scene in the area very favorable to women and disfavorable to men.

Just like the lady in the article said.
I'll show my age here, but back when I took AI, I wrote a (toy, homework-size) expert system as a Hypercard stack. There is actually a lot to be said for Hypercard as a framework for quick UIs.
There were only 7 tests done using bears, and one using a chimp.

It seems like it would be prohibitively difficult to source several hundred bears when you only plan on doing a few tests. You have to buy them and then you need to find somewhere to put them. Even if money wasn't an issue (and likely wouldn't be on those Cold War budgets), just the logistics of the problem would make it unlikely they'd source more bears than they needed.
> but consumers also lose the ability to shape the extent to which they manage their own devices.

Which is only useful for the consumers who have the skill, the depth of knowledge and who maintain that knowledge to keep it up-to-date. Maybe one percent of users. Probably fewer.

This is why most people outsource this stuff to third parties, just like we outsource the pasteurisation of milk and the maintenance of sewerage systems.

The typical analogy is the age-old argument about whether consumers should be expected to know how their car works. Maybe they should but that's beside the point—they don't. Insisting that they should is irrelevant. Most people don't know what brake fluid does and they won't care if you explain it to them.
I bet half the people inside the bubble don't care. I don't care, for example.
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Wait till there is a REAL data leak. Just your facebook profile data is 1% of the data they have about you. Using the cookies they have all over the internet as well as partnerships with offline pos transaction systems, they know almost anything you do online/offline. So all websites you have ever visited, things you buy online, the sandwich you buy with your credit card in a local store etc etc. Imagine all that being leaked.
Reminds me of an apocryphal story (can't find a reference but it appears to be reasonable): FCC was investigating the sale of illegal tv satellite descrambers when they confiscated a unit. Upon investigation, it was found to have been manufactured by IBM! Further investigation revealed it was manufactured at a secure IBM facility used for top-secret ("need-to-know", etc.) type projects. The manager responsible had split the work up such that no single employee there knew what they were building (because they didn't need to know---they just knew enough to do their bit).

I know it's not the same, but this reminds me of that story.
Another possible alternative is to promote privatized public transit and allow the transit companies to invest in dense developments and real estate at stations.

An example is in Japan where private train lines take people in from the outskirts of Tokyo into downtown where the line terminates at a transfer point with malls built by the transit company at the station.
There's a tool for that, and it's certainly the preferred way to debug. Along with all the telemetry you get, for the vast majority of cases you don't need to touch anyone's data.
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Maybe it's best to make people eat healthy and exercise while taking this pill.
1password to me looks by far the best choice today.

My wife uses Lastpass, it’s very user friendly but I don’t like how they market insecure features such as sharing passwords (specifically, there’s a “secure sharing” where they claim the recipient can’t see the password, which clearly can’t be true if you know anything on how html forms work).

Personally, I prefer deterministic algorithms, and I’m building one, exactly because I don’t think there’s a good user friendly solution. Unfortunately we just have the ios app for now, but if you’re interested in having a look at it, mempa.io. Feedback is more than welcome.
Ha, I live right in that highlighted area. Used to live on Miracle Mile where these new apartments have popped up. It really does change the vibe of the neighborhood. They’re modern and shiney and don’t fit in at all. If they made the apts look like spanish revival places I think they would get more buy in from the neighborhood.
The average age of first marriage for males in the US is 29, so I'm well within acceptable social bounds.

I'm not eager to get married next month, nor do I feign to be. I'm worried about making a decision to relocate to the Bay for several years and eventually running against this problem when I do want to get married.
And while FB is destroying democracy I just got an email from Pinterest with subject "St patricks day (sic) Pins picked just for you" 8 days after St. Patrick's Day.

I guess at least I don't have to worry about Pinterest interfering with elections.
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> Nope -- there are political and legal proceedings underway, and those things take time. In a year? Maybe.

Ugh, so we're going to have the front page of HN dominated with the exact same "discussions" for another year?
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They definitely do, even if you dismiss the ongoing media shitstorm (and you shouldn’t), people have been getting tired of Facebook for a while now. Young people think it’s for graybeards; as soon as nana got on the platform it stopped being cool. Everyone also has the very concrete event of Trump’s election to hold onto, which led to a lot of coverage and understanding of how social media really operates. This is something that’s been pressurized for a while, and now the lid is coming off. Zuckerberg’s non-apologies aren’t going over well either, and the scandals keep coming.

If you disagree, that’s ok, but please actually make an argument or don’t bother replying.
It's also 8 pages so they can show a different ad on each page. The content might be OK, but it's the same slimy tactic that Facebook listicle sites use to boost "page views" and ad views. To me, this massively devalues the content.
I have two questions:

1) If one had used bitcoin as a currency (bought pizza, bubblegum, etc.), are these new "treatments" of cryptocurrency implying one has to report each of these purchases and the tax implication there in?

2) Lets say you are a miner and mine a bitcoin a month (I know not realistic but helps simplify question). Now, lets say you buy pizza with bitcoins from your wallet every month. What is the cost basis to use? The price is pretty volatile .. so what the heck are you supposed to do?
Contemporary Manhattan and downtown Chicago, for one. These things exist, of course, but they aren’t in your face all the time on the major pedestrian corridors.
I have a Web Auth proposal about this, but no one cares.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7p5yha/proposa...

https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/820

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3337
To be fair, at least at FB (I can't speak to Google or Apple or Amazon):

1. Accessing someone's data when it's not mission critical to your work means you're fired on the spot. This is drilled into new engineers over and over.

2. Privacy-related issues are escalated to the highest severity immediately (on par with data centers being down, etc.). I think the question in this whole debate is where you draw the line for this kind of issue, and what's an issue and what's a feature.
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You don't care, doesn't mean you SHOULD not care. Public apathy from smart people was probably behind what happened in 1930s Germany.
Unfortunately these days we're forced to consider the possibility that even your post is part of a professional manipulation campaign. Or mine. Or every other post out here.

We just don't know.

That's the crux of the problem for me. Nowadays, I'm so jaded that I trust no one.

It's sad. I've lost trust, and I don't think I can get it back.
It was already a gasoline-soaked pile of wood scraps and leaves, piled up higher and higher for decades (if not centuries). The social network meddling is the lit cigarette flicked into it.
NVidia has been pretty crappy for a while now, they've made some exceptional products but they've also been complete dicks to gamers at the same time (see: GameWorks, along with their general history of implementing driver hacks to improve performance in games while reducing correctness).

I was really hoping AMD could be more competitive this generation too, I had only used AMD GPU's since 2011 when I built my first gaming system from scratch (as opposed to the cobbled up upgrades I had when I was still in middle/high-school). My R9 290 was looking long in the tooth, Vega failed to impress and the RX 580 was barely an upgrade (more VRAM, lower power, and due to cryptomining horrendously overpriced) - I ended up getting an ASUS Strix 1080Ti.

All of us should hope that AMD at least catches up with Navi, the current dominance of NVidia in the GPU market (both for gaming and the datacenter) is bad for everyone - even if you're loyal to them for some reason no real competition doesn't give them much reason to keep innovating.
If you're reclined (on your back) a bamboo chop stick (or light metal tube that's a bit bigger held with the tip a couple of inches above your forehead works. Make sure your thumb (and no fingers) are below the stick so it will fall.
> there are more single men in San Jose than in the entire state of Alaska:

There are a time and a half as many people in San Jose as in the entire state of Alaska, so there being more single men in San Jose than Alaska says nothing.
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that's right and instead you should outsource them to us
Once open enrollment rolled around, yes. But the point was I didn't want Medicaid, I wanted a plan that let me keep my previous doctor. And I was willing and able to pay (savings), but the ACA didn't allow me to take the subsidy in lieu of Medicare. And also, there was the matter of the nearly 4 months between when I returned to the US and when I was allowed to enroll during open enrollment. For a law that's designed to help people get healthcare, mandating that someone wait to get healthcare seems like an odd choice.