skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A slowly dying company is still successfully serving some customers and employing people. So, early failure really is worse for both society and the companies workers. Further, leveraged buyouts are funded with loans, those lending money also lose out.
This attitude is so completely negligent I dont even know where to start. Its dangerously misinformed. ('i never caught a virus, why bother'). AV catches the low hanging fruit.
If you do not have it, you will forever be poisoned by that low hanging fruit.
OT, but your pluralisation of virus made me stumble upon the following article:

http://www.ofb.net/~jlm/virus.html
Web version uses a simple json-based API. Could you contact me via email so I can tell you more?
No claim was made. No need for a citation.
At worst, AV is an increase in attack surface, as detailed in the CIA wikileaks.
You just have to reduce the cost of electricity in the middle of the day and the market will find 1000 ways to make use of it. Another example is that large scale electric car charging stations already use batteries to trickle charge through the day, and then dump electricity when a car needs it. If there are big cost differences in electricity through the day, it strengthens their business model to do arbitrage, charging more at cheap times.
Citadel is not a pure play quant fund, they have a ton of PMs doing conventional fundamental equities
Just to extend on that: Learning to recognise a dream state is quite trivial with some regular practice, there's many methods, one example is reading a street sign multiple times a day, looking away, re-reading and confirming to yourself that it hasn't changed (Written words will not stay the same in a dream). It's an amazing feeling to repeat such a boring inane boolean task only for it to suddenly be true.

The common hurdle for practitioners seems to be remaining calm while maintaining the lucid state, which takes far more effort and skill overall. It essentially becomes a meditation finely balanced between waking up and falling back asleep.
They make an effort to design their products and services with privacy and security in mind, and are much more transparent about what data is collected and how it's used.

The iCloud-China situation is unfortunate. The situation is very different from Google, both in the opportunity costs, and the fact Apple's products are dependent on China to be manufactured.

Additionally, if you forego iCloud services (namely iCloud backup), then the data that the CCP can access is actually quite limited. All of their phones since the 5s in 2013 have been leaders in security, and if you use a passphrase or 10-digit pin as a passcode then not even the most recent iPhone cracking tools could brute-force your phone (within a dozen years, within a century for 11-digits).

I'm miffed about China, but I still believe Apple is the best option because I don't think there's much that can be done in their position and the impact is limited. For me that would change the instant an actual iOS backdoor is made for any gov't.
This is the problem - these blockchain ideologists only tend to see problems and solutions from the perspective of the actual cryptocurrency blockchains. Real world is sadly a little different...
Well I'll tell them what to do:

Throw billions of dollars at data science prizes to create open sourced ways of detecting deep fakes. Have western intelligence agencies keep some methods private too, so we can detect it when someone has a way of getting through the open sourced scanners. Figure out how then did it, then open source a third way of detecting what they did while keeping the private scanners private.

This is so obviously a problem to everything that we simply cannot allow this threat to be tolerated. Truth itself cannot be under attack. We simply must be able to trust video.
> Anyone can write an article and sign it "Barack Obama," and post it online somewhere. Not many folks will fall for it.

That's just stunningly naive. Imagine if Pizzagate or some other such nonsense was accompanied by a video of Podesta mumbling something about sex slaves. Fake News is a a real thing even without video corroboration.

> Naked video files, found at random places on the Internet,

You honestly think Breitbart of FOX wouldn't have run that in a heartbeat?
Solving problems with Postgres is wildly different than solving them with mssql informix or Oracle. So I would say "there is no SQL".
- the data that Facebook collected about you from various other sources, e.g., data brokers

Mr. Zuckerberg and other Facebook staff assert: "We do not sell data."

Does Facebook acquire/purchase data about people from other sources, e.g., data brokers, and then combine it with (a) the highly personal data people voluntarily submit to Facebook and (b) the highly personal behavioural data people consent to allow Facebook to collect from their use of the Facebook website, Facebook app, and websites hosting Facebook anchors.

Is Facebook allowing users to download all the data Facebook has on them?
I don't think anyone mentioned anything about GPS until now. We're talking about Google recording your location, which can be inferred from a number of sources, including GPS, WiPS/WFPS, IP, and others. WiPS/WFPS is the most commonly used by Google.
Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

Besides, censoring Nazis and other undesirable types (e.g. ISIS propaganda) is ineffective at shutting them up and endears potential recruits to them. It would likely be more effective to subtly mix their propaganda with counter-propaganda instead of playing whack-a-mole with their accounts.
Little Snitch is all you need.
Why not just use VLC, gPodder, or another open media player?
> I also take issue with the word “dumb” — “smart” people can be caught off guard as well.

Yeah, exactly my point. People aren't as dumb as you think they are because you and I are just about as dumb, we just think we're better than them because we understand some things they don't.

And more to the point, the thing about successful malware and phishing campaigns is that AV already does a shit job of stopping them. If you are inclined to believe something is legit, you're going to tell your AV or filter to shut the hell up and just do it anyway. The AV adds practically nothing and does it at a real cost.
There's still value in making it substantially easier and more practical.
Not being snarky but...It's not mentioned because it would belittled the "accomplishment." Publishing "We've Done What's Already Been Done" isn't a milestone for the CV.

It's not news if it's old is it? The press isn't going to investigate. Instant buzz...over (next to) nothing. Welcome to the modern world.
Facts? I mean we have.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...
Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud ...

Apple gave up their user data in China so they could make a buck and Google instead chose to leave China instead of giving up the data to make a buck.

Apple it is more data and more money made and therefore believe the largest selling data example we have had in my lifetime? Do you know any examples that are bigger?

This is also actually giving the data instead of targeting an ad.
Contrary to what the author says the story about the leveraged buyout wasn't a footnote or somehow buried. In fact most of the storied I read on the topic mentioned the debt situation as a major factor in the bankruptcy. It's trivial to find dozens and dozens of stories on the topic:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22toys+r+us%22+%22leveraged...
It is pretty huge, and as long as you're using it with people you actually trust, it should be safe.
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Why is the government encouraging this?
I don't read it as stating that the data is kept entirely separate. In fact it references the general privacy policy making it quite clear that whatever data is collected is governed by the same rules as everything else.
I think people also refer to a "terminal" as one of the virtual terminals (CTRL+ALT+F[1-9]) that Linux provides.

But yeah, people use the term to mean different things.
Unfortunately, mentioning this politically sensitive issue in such a manner would have been career suicide. (And I suspect that this is not rare for such black swans.)
arduino + bend sensor, really?
Huh. I should try that next time. I rarely realize I'm in a dream (that I can remember), and whenever I do ... I just try to make out with everyone. It's a lot harder than you'd think! At least for me, even when I realize I'm in a dream, it becomes incredibly difficult to direct anything that's happening.
I am sorry, but who is actually giving voice to these groups. Sure there are trolls that co-opt this stupidity, but it is a fact that the number of people involved in hate-groups are going down.
Competing against amazon with an animated Giraffe and a 3x markup was never going to work. If anything I'm surprised they made it this long.

That is not to say that Bain, TPG, etc aren't objectively evil.
The saddest part is how the younger generation turned college campuses, the place where radical & worldview-challenging ideas could thrive, into places wherein you're protected from any such challenging ideas.
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That's a really presumptuous position that employment at all cost is a positive for society and essentially is the fallacy of the seen and the unseen.
>That matters of complexity are too distant from any one individual to have direct exposure to

In the case of climate change it is actually possible to self-inform yourself about some of the key aspects of climate change. Raw data is freely available (noaa and others), and some simple scripts can answer questions like "are the claimed warming trends real or artifacts of bias due to adjustments or other factors".

This was part of my path into figuring out who to trust, and it did take a while. Not everyone is going to have the time or inclination, and this is only 1 of a few dozen important political issues to understand!

By the way my conclusion was that yes, global warming is absolutely a real thing, and absolutely caused by human activities.
Sensible adults have long been aware that censorship is something the government does, and that private individuals (and by extension, corporations) are perfectly fine restricting what speech they're willing to accept in their environment. The rule commonly known as "my house, my rules". The problem many people have with the open web is that many people don't step up and spell out house rules, which others interpret as "sure, we can pee on the carpet"

And you'll note that even the ACLU is perfectly fine with the government restricting speech in some well-defined circumstances[1].

[1] Visible if you see the full text of the blog post you linked: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/09/28/why-we-must-still...
That's picking a nit. GP or whatever said "GPS", but does it matter which technology is used to track your location? Clearly not. And many users say "GPS" to mean all location technologies too, so this doesn't seem like a useful nit to pick, honestly.
This cuts both ways though: the landlords will increase their profits when they can (when the market allows) to compensate for the risk they take on during "cold" times.

The rent being paid also includes other expenses that the landlord has, like marketing of the property, that the owners don't have.
Oh, Turbo Pascal had those Turbovision-powered ASCII shadowed floating editing windows in 1993 or so, and it flied on a 386 CPU... the P3 would be a screamer for that ;)
Are there any good low cost logic analyzers you know of?

I've never had a big enough, or time dependent enough project to require anything more than a multimeter and patience, so I've not put the cash forward for a logic analyzer, or oscilloscope, or whatever. Not entirely sure what the difference is anyways...
This is already happening, in a more sophisticated way:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/nissan-and-uk-go...

Consumers are offered reduced cost tariffs to simply request a charging level by a certain time tomorrow morning, and in the meantime let the grid take or receive electricity as it wishes.
You can, but I have not seen tools that actually do. My issue is that I develop a graphical node-based programming language and I'd like to be able to see diffs. I thought that I could convert our format into some other form and use a diff tool for that format.
It took a lawsuit for my employer (Honeywell) to allow moving (out of Honeywell stock) of matched contributions. I still keep about 20% in company stock. It has done very well and pays a good dividend. To think that we were almost bought by GE years ago.
The tank need not be that big. Water has a very high heat capacity compared to air.
look up the title in Duckduckgo and the link will open the story all the way
> what are some examples of a stack based CPU architecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems
limited downsides

It's worth noting that the PE firms involved in the deal lost over a billion dollars on their investment in this case.
> [Private equity] get almost all of the windfall and limited downsides. Most of the risk is borne on the company itself, creditors, and especially workers.

Private equity paid the original shareholders for Toys 'R' Us. The limited partners in this fund (and creditors) lost a lot. The managers extracted their management fee, but that's basically only salaries. Good salaries, but none of the 20% of the upside that makes people in PE rich.

I agree that workers are left out. Employees in private-equity acquired companies should get (a) stock (or better yet, an interest in the diversified fund) and/or (b) enhanced downside protection (e.g. longer or bigger unemployment benefits, paid for by the private equity fund). But in this specific case, employees didn't turn out that much more badly than they would have otherwise. (For those who might have lost their jobs in the next recession, their lot was arguably improved.)
I agree with what you're saying, but it's worth noting that the kinds of attacks you're talking about cannot be reliably stopped by anti-virus.

Instead, they're stopped by almost constant security training. And, I'd argue that if your security training is good enough to get people to recognize phishing, spearphishing and the ilk, it's good enough to get them to recognize the kinds of low hanging fruit that reactive anti-virus software protects against.
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Can someone who understands this tell us what is the catch here?
Or, at a minimum, at least don't get too greedy. I got (somewhat) lucky with the dot-com crash. My prior employer's stock (which I had been accumulating over a decade from a previous employer who got purchased) lost about 95% of its value. Fortunately, I had sold some and the stock did end up recovering a bit.
Which can also be used intentionally as a feature.

It's common from users to expect that when given an exact number for progress (35%) that percentages are themselves exact and evenly distributed. How many people hear bug reports that it took extra time to move from 36% to 37% than from 35% to 36%, or were worried that the system might have been stuck or crashed at 54% because it took so long, from someone trying to eagle eye your progress indicator?

Just because you can give a progress percentage doesn't mean that the user needs to know the exact value of that percentage or be able to visually compare progress indicators as strongly as possible.
> Most people aren't as dumb as your ego likes to imagine them to be. They may not know the details of how their computers work but they know sketchy looking crap when they see it.

Dumb isn't the word I'd use. If there were a less demeaning way of saying unaware, or ignorant, of black hat / scam trends, that's the wording I'd use.

Most people, including myself, are pretty bad a calculating risk when doing innocuous things like checking e-mail, logging in to websites or visiting a site with stealthy malicious content.
> Unfortunately, we don't have adults anymore. We have children that need to be protected

I absolutely agree and this is a problem of our own design. This issue goes beyond the web. We hear about how a neighbor called the police when a child was left unattended in their front yard. Or the countless posts on community forums starting out with "who do I contact to report XYZ?" and the most controversial response is always "did you talk to the person?"

Everyone today is so afraid that they're being exploited and taken advantage of by everyone who isn't. They don't want to speak out or stand up to anything, they'd rather just have someone come and take care of it for them.
And as being further perfected by FB, Cambridge Analytica, etc. The quest for "mind control" of the masses is nothing new.
Why would you have bothered encrypting the laptop if everything is in the cloud/elsewhere anyway?
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On Ivybridge and later the string instructions are actually faster than the equivalent unrolled instructions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12353455
I didn't know it was made in Russia! Up until now I've had a good experience, and trusted reviews.

But as an experiment I just tried removing the little snitch filter that lets adguard create all outgoing connections. it looks like adguard will request some or all requests that my web browser makes (like, it'll also request JS from slack or facebook). This might be because it detects and blocks crypto miner JS, or maybe some other heuristics. So far it hasn't tried to phone home but it's hard to look for that with little snitch when it's trying to connect to every site I browse to.
Bit naive, yes?

How is a call center employee any different than management who ignored concerns over fatigue on Southwest plains?

But it’s a call center employee that you’re focused on

Not the more obvious “humans are largely garbage to each other if they stand to gain or retain some power over other humans”

People want to be the prison guard, not the prisoner, then prison guard manager

So the indifference doesn’t just stay in the call center.
Pretty cool looking service. Since I've never heard of it, I wish the down voters would explain the problem with it (at the time of writing it's a dark gray, so only a little negative).

Is it simply that people don't seem library CDNs as a source of privacy piercing data?
> Further, leveraged buyouts are funded with loans, those lending money also lose out.

One of the reasons why they get loans so easily is because these are asset-heavy investments minimizing the downside risk for the banks. As there are usually plenty of real estate and inventory to get at least some of the money back during bankruptcy. Which is why we see it so often in the big-box retail space.

There are plenty of investors who would lose out as Toys-R-US dies a slow death as well. Instead they were bought out earlier in the process at a relatively decent rate and the risk is shifting from the public market to the banks and private equity firms.

I'm not a big fan of these financial-market gambles and obsession with high-growth industry as the only viable model, but there was voluntary sales by the original owners/investors, as they saw it as the best ROI at the time vs a fragile future.

And as this company fails, that still means there is a market not being tapped for retail toy sales and smaller firms can come in to provide that value/jobs, at a size and business model better suited for the nature of the current market. Or other firms can absorb it such as Walmart by expanding their own offerings.
For a long time now, I've been kinda self-experimenting on inducing these kinds of states in myself, without resorting to hardware or hard/scary drugs.

It all started with my realization that sleep brought me answers in general; i.e. a realization that my general pattern was to work on hard problems all day until I hit various brick walls, then step away and do Real Life and then later at night I'd Sleep, and then often if I'm lucky I wake up the next morning with important realizations that get me past the previous day's brick walls, and then the cycle repeats.

Once I realized this pattern, I started optimizing for more sleep cycles per day and a more-immediate transition from BrickWalls->Sleep, basically by injecting a daytime nap in the midst of my workday if/when I can (working from home has its privileges!), aiming for ~1.5h or ~3h nap increments when I can, since that seems to match well with my sleep cycles for reaching REM in the middle and then waking back out of it on a natural cycle boundary.

I'm also a heavy coffee drinker for the stimulant effects on my thinking, and at one point heard about the "Coffee Nap" idea (TL;DR - it takes ~30m for caffeine to really kick in, so when you get tired you chug a coffee and lay down, and let yourself wake later as it kicks in).

Somehow over time all my random experimentation on these various inter-related things settled into a new pattern that works well when I can achieve it: I try to hit the brick wall while still fairly amped on caffeine (have a last cup as I'm moving away from the laptop if I'm behind on my caffeine intake), then switch over to a nap state.

As I'm laying in bed falling asleep, I initially force my thoughts on whatever my Brick Walls are, and my body's still a bit uncomfortably caffeine amped/buzzed for laying down and trying to sleep, but between the coffee buzzing and the descent into sleep, I now usually end up having a very odd transitional but semi-conscious mental state for a solid 10-15 minutes (sometimes longer) on my way to sleep. During this time, free associations and strange dreamy unrelated things start springboarding out from my initial more-directed thoughts, and it's clear this is basically an open channel to get those lateral-thinking associations going while still barely conscious. It's like a psychedelic-drug-free version of a short acid trip or useful lucid dreaming state. Eventually I succumb to sleep, but I have had a very good success rate (relatively - it's still not necessarily high in the absolute!) at getting good intuitive answers to my problems on waking.

Over time I've gotten better and better at achieving these states with practice, but it still requires a lot of these triggering conditions/patterns above. I think/hope eventually I may reach a point where I can induce these mental states at will without actually going to sleep afterwards or relying on caffeine buzz to kick it off.
> networked Turing machines

Brainfuck over UDP...?
Mind giving a pointer? Would love to default to the mobile view, but haven't been able to find the setting you're referring to. Google hasn't helped.
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