skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other examples...

C++ template programming necessarily followed a very different style than it does since variadic template were introduced with C++11. There were books written before C++11 wherein much of them was obsoleted by variadic templates. You do not want to let students get hold of those books and think the old way was the way things have to be done. Compare how boost::python was (is? I haven't dug into it recently) written compared to pybind11 - night and day differences in readability thanks to variadic templates. That's not a dig at boost::python - it was written with the C++ they had back then and it had to use Lisp-like list comprehension with tedious replicated boilerplate code to unpack argument lists.

Then there are raw pointers in C++ - we aren't supposed to use raw pointers anymore. We are supposed to use references and std::unique_ptr<x> and std::shared_ptr<y> and this thing called "move semantics". That stuff sucks for directed graphs and so I switched to compacting, tracing garbage collection for Cando.

C++ is being developed in a way that it retains backward compatibility with existing code - thank goodness for that! But there are styles of programming even for something as staid and venerable as C++ that, while supported, should pass silently into the long, dark night.

Then you have a language like Python that made sensible but breaking changes between versions 2.x and 3.x. Wow - look at the problems that is still causing. I love Python but I won't do anything with it that I can't rip out root and branch with more than a few weeks work. I say that even though Clasp's build system is completely implemented using the very excellent Python based build system 'waf'.

Then you have Javascript - it seems to change every time I blink.
That doesn't mean I will stop using it for our web based Jupyter notebook user interface. Javascript is the only game in that town. I just close my eyes and hold on tight and try not to scream.

Common Lisp isn't like any of those, it grew out of a lot of very careful thinking and was specified around 1984 darn near perfect. There are some warts (logical pathnames - I'm looking at you) but even its warts are better thought out than some other languages features. Better implementations and more and better libraries come along - but the language has the same expressiveness, power and permanence it has always had.
It's not like the system he was cracking was very secure. It has to be regularly openable with just a piece of metal, with tolerances so that when your key teeth wear down over the years it still works.
I feet Rust was getting pretty boring... and that's amazing! As a hobbyist I'm pretty happy to see the language maturing. I remember release 1.0 and thinking it was maybe too rushed. How wrong I was!

Is there anywhere I can get a quick recap of major features Rust is planning to eventually maybe implement, and their state? I mean major features like NLL, impl trait, etc.

IIRC: NLL are nightly already, const generics in planning stage, and what happened to CTFE? For us not in the know, a sneak peek on what's coming/being discussed is very exciting, but browsing the issue/RFC tracker is sometimes a PITA and it's hard to keep up to date, especially after getting used to the workarounds.
(disclaimer: I used to build set top boxes doing satellite/cable protocol stuff ...)

they start by uploading new firmware to the decoder and changing it to only accept signed images (I bet they already do this, up to date firmware typically runs on a slow carousel on each satellite transponder)

Once you have your code in control on all your valid boxes you can switch the crypto - either the hacked box falls off the crypto and stops working or it does your watermarking - you can send EMMs to all the boxes telling them to identify themselves - blink out their box id in a random pixel somewhere (or do the binary thing mentioned above) - once you have that you send them an EMM to shut off their crypto
Fake news nyt!!!
As a person who has run multi-tenant storage for ten years, I'd like to say that users can be pathological use cases for fun.
No expert here, but I lived through times when calculus was deemed beyond the capabilities of high school students. This was clearly incorrect.

As I said, no expert in AI & ML, but I don't see anything that differentiates them from other domains earlier (and wrongly) regarded as beyond undergraduate work.
A radioactive source could be distributed to the pockets of every living person, and while tons of people would get cancer there would still be some people who didn't. Carcinogens raise your risk of cancer.
That would definitely get you close, but the range that the "beats" are not audible is a wide range and in my experience hearing loss had affected my ability to detect their absence.
Craftsmanship (2016)
I can kind of see how it happened though. People want their data protected so they pass laws that you have to check who it is and not someone else in the building who happened to pick up the phone.
Thanks for the corrections, R.
> it would be a little bit surprising it if was, since it targets a metabolic pathway not present in animals

Maybe I'm misreading your comment, but for instance the following study (and some of its references) seems to contradict your assertion:

Glyphosate exposure in pregnancy and shortened gestational length: a prospective Indiana birth cohort study

https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-...
Not to mention emails don't require killing trees and burning fossil fuels to get there.
That's why I was pleasantly surprised recently when my bank called me about some fraudulent transactions, and the entirety of the conversation was: "Do you recognise this transaction?" "No" "OK, your card has been blocked and a new one is on its way".

Even if it had been a fraudulent call, they weren't asking for anything (so I didn't have to bother verifying it was legitimate), and even if they got the wrong person there is limited damage they could do.
Oh, good, I thought you were trading a bit of janky scrolling for an ad infested web :) I've never noticed the scrolling issue specific to Firefox but I feel like everything on Android has a few hiccups like that. I've always chalked it up to JVM garbage collection. I'd be surprised if Brave didn't have a few UI quirks too.

Edit: Just read your other reply, I thought you meant frame skips or something. I don't hit many long pages on mobile so I've never realized it did what you were describing. I wonder if they even know about it.
Jeff Bezos on why work-life balance is ‘a debilitating phrase’
Check out Hacker's Delight (2ed) by Henry S. Warren for more of this kind of stuff.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical...

"We evaluate these attacks under two different threat models. In the black-box model, an attacker uses the speech recognition system as an opaque oracle. We show that the adversary can produce difficult to understand commands that are effective against existing systems in the black-box model.

Under the white-box model, the attacker has full knowledge of the internals of the speech recognition system and uses it to create attack commands that we demonstrate through user testing are not understandable by humans."
To request a new social security card online, it takes your credit report information.

Thanks, Equifax data breach.

Good news: the SSA will only send your new card to your current address as reported in your credit report.

Thanks, USPS.

So, in summary, sounds like getting someone else’s social security card is pretty easy. Admittedly there’ll be a nifty paper trail, but I’m sure that’s solvable too.
Only white asbestos (also known as Chrysotile) --- and the great number of people who have been exposed to large amounts of it and lived long healthy lives certainly makes one wonder; AFAIK it's only the other types, particularly blue asbestos, which are unanimously carcinogenic and the industry stopped using them a long time ago, but the effects from that (and contamination of white asbestos with the other types) have continued and led the majority of fears.

This article is worth reading: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581056/
He filled out the paperwork AND CASHED CHECKS.
>The rebuke here is aimed at the left's hostility to dissenting political opinions, not against the left's political opinions as such.

And yet that rebuke being aimed only at "the left" seems to imply that hostility is endemic to leftist political opinion, intended or not. Otherwise why mention the left at all? There is plenty of hostility and intransigence among the right as well... and among "anti-establishment" thinkers.

Rejection of the mainstream as an ideology just leads to the acceptance of an alternative mainstream and alternative orthodoxy. There is no true "free" thought, everyone is bound to some framework of prejudice and bias.
> You can't define a procedure to recognize a happy face in logic programming, at least not with any degree of efficiency

This cannot be the test to differentiate between AI and "AI"?
I would argue that her advanced degrees put her far above average in her ability to read technical literature on the subject. She’s not doing original research in the field, merely sharing what she has learned from reading existing research. Knowledge she would like to spread when our own FDA puts its head in the sand.
"The unix programming environment"

I read this in like a week at one of my first jobs. I learned so much that in a few days my status in the team radically changed and became the go to person when people's scripts didn't work; word spread and soon I had people from other teams seeking help with their scripts too. No one else read the book though AFIK ...

What I really liked about this book at the time:

- it explains the few key concepts extremelly well

- the exercises were truly outstanding, really testing your understanding of subtleties of above concepts

One for the ages.
Now that’s some tenacity!
How would this possibly increase the already-complete surveillance of everything you do? They already know who you are, where you live, every cent you spend and where, every site you visit, every email/call/sms you do, and it's all tied back to you.

I'm genuinely curious how Americans think a national ID number would practically increase any surveillance?

To me it sounds like a win for consumers. You no longer give your home address out to every single website that requires an address, or every time you buy something online. You can update your address in 1 place when you move, and don't have to fuss around with redirects and missed mail/packages.

I'm very open to being shown what I'm missing though, as it's a hot debate lately and I just don't get it.
I think you're giving him too much credit here... I have a feeling it has a lot more to do with luck, chutzpah, and USPS incompetence.
From the article:

> The Navy has acknowledged that its forward-deployed 7th Fleet in Japan was stretched too thin – undermanned, overworked and exhausted under an intense operational schedule. To meet the high operational demand, training and ship maintenance were deferred, according to a Navy review.
> Leave it in my mailbox?

I tried this with a twist, I wrote "return to sender" on it. Mail(wo)man also said "you cannot do this."
Kinney Friedman told a story about a famous Texas lawyer who got his clients charge of sodomy reduced to “following too close”.
That's less clickbaity than "This Hidden Command" and "You can't." that are specifically designed to hack your psychology and make you feel uncomfortable and threatened by not knowing what they are referring to.
Because it's a Linux machine like the one you have at home, because it's cheaper to use off the shelf everything, including the OS configuration.
I never said it was new. I don't see why this makes it matter more or less anyway? It's sort of irrelevant whether we have seen this social phenomenon before. What is relevant is the impact it is having on society now.
> What happens if you don't sign? Termination? That probably makes the contract signed under duress and invalid.

It's complicated and varies by state; but if you're an employee at will, then your continued employment is often sufficient consideration to make the new contract enforceable.
In at-will employment conditions, continued employment is considered to be sufficient "consideration" for any employment contract changes.

i.e. no, "duress" will probably not invalidate the contract.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer either.
And
".... hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant."

And then "digital assistants like Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri are set to outnumber people by 2021".

Why is Google mentioned in one context but not other?
Facebook was opened to the public in 2006. Instagram was only a year old though.
"Crack" is both misleading and not found in the title or body of the linked article.
With the pi3 b+ I use the pi with emacs for all my web development, if I need a beefy amd64 machine I just provision it off the cloud. I can even use remote x to run remote desktops with beefy systems from the pi as a thin client. But mostly I do everything on the console.
I am not an expert in the field or anything, but it's not necessarily the case that, because pollination services have gone up slightly, the problem is solved. It could be that they've been able to work through this problem so far but will not be able to do so indefinitely.
With react context in place now starting from 16.3, I guess we can start using them for app level storage rather going to tools like redux.
If all the bees keep dying perhaps you'll eventually run out of bees to import.
You're the one writing phrases like "we don't have decades to fix this". How is one supposed to interpret that as anything but "point of no return" rhetoric, especially in light of that rhetoric actually being used with some frequency for the last few decades? I agree it's not helpful rhetoric, so maybe I should have aimed my comment at alarmists who use the rhetoric but who haven't fully embraced that it's too late, instead of the more general activists.

I'm fully on-board with planetary engineering projects. Those require engineering work and capital more than activism, though.

Do you want to make a prediction on the accuracy of whatever climate model you like (we can use the one you linked if you prefer) for what the temperature increase will be in 2 years, 7 years, and 12 years? We can record it at https://predictionbook.com/
Don't forget leaded gasoline: https://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead/
Yeah. I'm not seeing anything novel about this. It's just straight up phishing/spoofing.

From the TechCrunch article:

> He estimates that hackers will begin trying this technique in the next few weeks and urges users and IT managers to harden their security protocols.

Why the next few weeks? The blog post is from last year. Again, there's nothing new about it. The TechCrunch article seems to basically be a press release for the "KnowBe4" company.
After earlier denial, Equifax now admits passport info was stolen in breach
> I don't want to see your social media sharing buttons...

I don't want to see them, and I don't want them to see (track) me either.
I bet whitelisting only instructions that can change SP/ESP would not break the majority of x86 code. All other instructions would behave as if MOV SS had not been executed.
The other market alternative is eating organic.
With regards to GMOs, the green revolution (as I understand it[1], partly using GMOs to increase food production, especially in developing countries) is often described as saving a billion lives. On a brief glance, I can't find a detailed estimate of the Humanitarian effects, but Borlaug received a Nobel peace prize for it and that scale of impact does seem plausible.

[1] See discussion below about relative importance of engineering disease resistant varieties vs fertilizers and pesticides. I only have a vague familiarity with the green revolution and could be mistaken.
Can’t Get a Cab? NTT DOCOMO Helps Taxis Get You
Their are unseen cost
FCC Hits Robocaller with $120M Fine but Calls Won't Stop Anytime Soon
I’m pretty sure Facebook didn’t allow minors until quite a bit later.
AI is a broad field. Much of it is applied these days.

Even setting a very high bar for what constitutes "AI", I would concede that Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa, and Cortana are AI systems. How many jobs are there supporting those products today? How many will there be 5 years from now when these kids graduate?

But there are many other AI products out there, and moreso, machine learning is now widespread as a supporting tool in very many places. The data science field of today/tomorrow is ML and AI, and we definitely will need more practitioners.
I have no intention to disparage any past employer in public for the exact reasons that you mentioned. The whole putting it in the contract forever though is what rubs me the wrong way
You mentioned problems scaling in the article. Can you elaborate on that? Will you update that later on?
We encourage it back towards systemsy-ness. ;). (in other words - nothing's perfect, and we accept some occasional compromises in service of providing a diverse menu. Compilers has other value. If it got too PL-centric, we would just move it to the PL cluster, but it's generally stayed systems for the last decade.)
When I was a kid, every once in awhile we'd be invited for a drink with the owner of the biggest employer in my town, which happened to be a Pepsi bottling plant. We were always told in fairly strong terms to make sure not to ask for Coca-Cola products when offered a drink. I always thought that was very silly and weak. It seems to me that if you want kids who come over to your house to ask for your product instead of your competitor's, the way to do that is to have a better product, such that they don't want your competitor's. If they do ask for your competitor's product, you should politely give it to them and then ask them why they prefer it.

All of this is to say: I'm sure the reason those employees weren't using PayPal was because it was a pain in the ass to use. Maybe if, instead of suggesting their employees find other jobs they had focused on making their product work better, we would have had a better digital payments processor before competitors like Square came along and ate their lunch.
That one will take trace exceptions though.
This is a job for .... <insert fanfare> .... blockchain!
Thank you very much, I think this is the most sound approach forward.

Based on conversations today, they seemed unwilling to revise the contract, so either forgetfulness or possible termination seems close in my future!
Haskell's Missing Concurrency Basics (2016)
Excellent news that they are finally including this. I was using SQLite3 heavily a few years ago, and one of the only complaints I had was the lack of this feature.
The thing about Robinhood is that it doesn't feel like a financial services company.

Their advantage is an ineffable quality.

The closest I can come to describing that feeling of using the service is it's like someone in your family made it for you.

This may sound strange, but there's a lot of love there. That level of attention to detail and quality is rare and apple-like.
First, wild honeybees were not eradicated by Varroa. There are many papers written and researchers who have studied substantial wild honeybee populations for decades, and chronicled their decline and resurgence to pre-Varroa numbers. What has happened over the last few decades is that wild North American bees have adapted and are thriving, while 'babied' commercial bees are struggling.

Second, the number of commercial bee colonies for pollination services is not declining because beekeepers can choose to focus on making more when they need to. A reliably-consistent number of colonies can exist whether 5% die out every year or 50% (although at different cost). Having said that, what IS declining is the annual survival rate of colonies, which is linked to many factors, of which pesticides likely play a part. This is a not-so-subtle difference. Just because it doesn't immediately threaten commercial pollination doesn't mean there is no issue.
Not essential but keyword arguments / named parameters / default arguments. I love those in Python and OCaml/ReasonML.
And what are those specific "terms and conditions"?

It's funny hoe Google is somehow perceived as evil while Apple or Amazon not.

If I have to trust someone with mt data (and we all do), I will choose Google over anyone else.
Tesla Crashes into Starbucks Store in Los Gatos
This wouldn’t fool a browser autofill or password manager, but I can see some still falling for this. This is still essentially a phishing attack.
Happy to hear they're going with a decent size battery over the thinnest possible form factor.
You can court martial people who have neglected their clearly delineated responsibilities. It's much more difficult to court martial someone for bad command that caused the neglect. Those people are forced out, blacklisted or moved somewhere where they can't damage anything.
> What happens if you don't sign? Termination?

Yes, I am employed in an at will state. They seemed unwilling to negotiate the language with me, so I think that I will be terminated if I refuse to sign.
> project creating an app in Excel using VBA

Oh yeah, this is generally where I'd say things start to fall over. A development platform, it ain't. Generally my advice around VBA is that if you're at the stage you need anything but the simplest VBA, you probably want something else (Access for DB style work or Python/R for data munging).

Outlook has got much better - most of the previous issues around lockups and poor performance have improved if not gone away entirely. Can't speak for Exchange.
Since sqlite uses fossil for its scm, I thought that fossil drove the web site. It does for fossil.

https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wi...
Computer Science courses omit essential electrical engineering and transistor physics.

The issue is whether a field can be understood at a higher level, atop blackboxes. All abstractions leak, but some are good enough.

DL NNs are no where near being a science yet - it's empirical let's try this architecture. But... you could have a trade-school technician degree in present techniques that can be applied. Like an electrician.

You could also have a degree aimed at preparing you for graduate AI - which would include a lot of mathematics.
Oh it's conspiracy mongering to question the science behind a popular weedkiller? Wow, didn't realize! My apologies. I know HN is anti science sometimes but this is taking it to another level.
And the community does (organically) pick defacto winners. Like chrono, serde and rust csv (well, I'm not sure about rust csv).

It might be nice to have autogenerated docs about the most used soltuions, but I guess the rust cook book sort of fills that niche.
There's a big difference between being able to calculate the gradient of an activation function you just invented and apply it to a backpropagation algorithm or analyze it for convergence, and simply understanding what a gradient is and how it is used when training the model.

I find that the understanding and ability to visualize the mathematical concepts is the important part, for everyday practitioners. It is not necessary to be able to derive a gradient in order to understand the differences between sigmoid and hyperbolic tangent. Being able to do the calculation on paper is not a prerequisite for understanding the process.

The rigorous mathematics come into play if you wish to advance the field as a whole, but is not necessary to successfully design and train efficient models.
Deception is key to profitable ads and news as well. We just keep diving deeper into the murk and find ourselves more and more confused about what's going on around us, who and what to trust. It's sad and technology has continued to accelerate it.
Uncle Sam may decide what brand of smartphone you buy next
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