skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like it's called a "lock gun", that's what I found them called when I went looking for one on Ali Express. Just a little plastic pistol-grip handled tool that he selected a metal blade on and stuck in in the keyway and pulled the trigger as he wriggled it around and twisted it. The first lock took him 2 tries at the right blade and took him a minute or so, then second lock he got the right blade first try and was in in under 30 secs...

I kinda knew "ordinary domestic locks" weren't very secure agains skilled lockpickers, and I don't know if there's some hidden technique required to use those things - but I was astounded and dismayed at how quickly my two different locks fell to such an easily available tool...
> I haven't tested but I don't think that will happen on the default settings for postgres. I know for a fact that it won't on higher isolation levels.

Unfortunately you're wrong. I've now tested it, but I was also pretty confident before - I'm a postgres developer, and I worked on/comitted the PG upsert implementation ;)

postgres[10287][1]=# CREATE TABLE data(key text unique);
CREATE TABLE

postgres[10287][1]=# BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE ;
BEGIN

postgres[10284][1]=# BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE ;
BEGIN

postgres[10287][1]*=# INSERT INTO data VALUES('alice');
INSERT 0 1

postgres[10284][1]*=# INSERT INTO data SELECT 'alice' WHERE NOT EXISTS(SELECT * FROM data WHERE key = 'alice');

postgres[10287][1]*=# COMMIT;
COMMIT

postgres[10284][1]*=#
ERROR: 23505: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "data_key_key"
DETAIL: Key (key)=(alice) already exists.
SCHEMA NAME: public
TABLE NAME: data
CONSTRAINT NAME: data_key_key
LOCATION: _bt_check_unique, nbtinsert.c:535

(the number in brackets in the prompt is the backend pid, allowing to differentiate the two sessions).

> > If the first updater commits, the second updater will ignore the row if the first updater deleted it, otherwise it will attempt to apply its operation to the updated version of the row.

> My understanding is that the update from S2 would be rerun applied.

> Specifically postgres calls out:

> > The search condition of the command (the WHERE clause) is re-evaluated to see if the updated version of the row still matches the search condition.

Those comments are about row-level locks - they're not the problem here. What you get is a constraint violation due to the unique constraint.
Wow, you really think I’m speaking in bad faith. I assure you I am not. I am certainly not making any of the indirect claims you accuse me of.

Certainly it’s true that a poorly architected solar panel system can be bad for your roof. If you know you have to design the roof for solar panels, that’s much less expensive to do in advance than to try to mitigate bad roofing materials after the fact.

For reference, I just installed solar panels on my roof. The raw cost of the panels was 25% of the full installation cost. The architect study was another 5%. Hardware to fasten the panels to my theoretically solar ready roof was another 8% of the cost.

The rest was labor.

I am shocked you think it’s controversial that dramatically less labor is required to do something at construction time than as a retrofit.

This doesn’t require any economies of scale (although I think those will also appear with this bill). It just requires that coordination costs that are already being paid at construction time not increase dramatically when adding solar panels to the list of things planned for.

Shading and cooling dark roofs is, in fact, a good way to reduce the weathering of a roof. They don’t do much for metal roofs, and they are signally inappropriate on several types of shingle roofs, but torch down roofs, which are very common in California, are in fact likely to be improved by panels, not degraded.

The contention that talking about market failures implies someone trying to sell you something doesn’t seem like it lines up well with the economists I’m familiar with, but you know, at the end of the day, we’re going to have to see how much actual builders in California charge once this bill is in full effect.

I’m perfectly willing to admit I was wrong if, in fact, the TCO of solar panels ends up being enough to make this other than an extremely good bit of legislation.
So essentially what we need is an "academic CSEE" degree, where you replace courses on industrial topics like application design and databases / circuits and electromagnetics with these theory-based classes from both departments.

I'd also suggest adding some systems neuroscience courses in there too.
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> Peterson's book sales are skyrocketing, and not among convinced rightists.

That's because Peterson is a leftist. He has contrarian viewpoints on exactly two topics: pronouns and communism. Other than that, he's as left wing as they come. He's a great example of how bad the political discourse has gotten. The left won't even allow dissenting opinions among their own people.
A different outlet reported her sentence:

> A U.S. Navy officer pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty Tuesday in the collision of a U.S. Navy destroyer that killed seven sailors last year. Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock was sentenced to receive half-pay for three months and a letter of reprimand.

(Source - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lt-jg-sarah-coppock-pleads-guil...)
If your 401k isn’t earning enough returns to let you retire, neither is your employer’s pension fund, and it will become insolvent. The difference between pension and 401k is unlikely to be make-or-break, and when it is, it’s more likely to break the pensioner (corporate bankruptcy, taxpayer sticker-shock, etc).
A matter of differences between intent and actions I guess, you suggested the concern should be redirected to habitat.

How fine is 'pretty much?' How not-fine should we let it get before we show concern?

This seems to be general sentiment in that we are not overly concerned about the impact to wildlife until it becomes 'endangered,' at which point we need to act...
Taurine burns fat!
I love the contacts integration. I wish there was also some way to send SMSes directly from your computer to your device without sending to a 3rd party (outside of your service provider and receiver).
Google says controversial AI voice calling system will identify itself to humans
Long story short, it's because of abuse of tribalism by the two parties. I'll give you a good example: the 92 presidential debate. Ross Perot, a third party candidate got almost 19 percent of the vote! So what did the two parties do? They worked together to takeover the debates so they could keep third parties from ever getting that close again!

Then couple that with carefully crafted lies, usually based on identity politics, that encourage and foment tribalism and division, add in the corrupt primary system, among other spices like blackmail and three letter surveillance of Congress, and you get what we have.

This is why it angers me so much every time someone says "both parties are just as corrupt" and is met with a thousand "ways $theotherone is actually the bad one but $ourparty is the only one looking out for the people" and derision for even stating it out loud.

After years of pondering this issue I have come to the conclusion we need to, over multiple election cycles, focus on getting third parties and independents who are fully transparent about funding into office, and enough to take away the majority from both parties, hopefully under a coalition of some sort, which would force both parties to come to the table in a more adult like manner.

Make no mistake, all three branches of government have suffered similar corruption, but the legislative is supposed to be the closest to the people, so I think it is the place to start (well really the state congresses are)

So many of the unconstitutional things which our gov does that goes unchecked is due to both sides of Congress violating their oaths. If we had a congress worth a damn we could use them to self correct...
I've read enough literature about the carcinogenicity to assure myself that it is very probably not a carcinogen. And to my chemist's eye it looks fast to degrade, pretty benign overall. But biology is surprisingly complicated. That's why I think that the "it targets" argument means little. That's the only part I took issue with.
Have a link to anything supporting the NASA comment? I believe you, I'm just curious to read an article on it.
But this logic is so circular.

1. build a policy set around people who voted last time.

2. only people who voted last time end up voting this time.

3. goto 1
Equifax Filing Reveals Hack Was Somehow Even Worse Than Previous Estimates
What’s the Difference Between Deep Learning Training and Inference?
Not surprised, what goes around comes around, sigh. This might change evolution gradually, in a bad sense.
Here you go: https://croadsworldclimate.climateinteractive.org/

Honestly dude, rise above the cynicism (if that's how you meant to come across). You're a goddamn adult, and a well-educated engineer at that. Your current standard of living is at risk because of climate change (also millions of lives in poorer countries, but whatever). Spend 10 seconds on a Google search. "Activists" don't owe you any answers.

Never forget, despite what the sensationalists will tell you, climate change is very much fixable. Clean energy and better land management can and will get us there – and eventually, maybe in 200 years, we'll sequester enough carbon to get back to 350ppm. The question is about what happens in the meantime: if we act fast, we'll only get decades of food insecurity, war, and displacement, mostly in poorer countries [2]. If we delay further, we'll simply see much worse, and at home as well. But the "point of no return" rhetoric is nonsense and does nothing but paralyze people.

By the way, one of the easiest and fastest ways to catalyze at-scale solutions would be a revenue-neutral carbon tax at the source, effectively internalizing the social costs of climate change and letting the free market do its thing. (Look up "fee and dividend"; lots of folks are working on this already.)

[1] unless we hit some really unlucky runaway feedback loop, which is possible.
[2] plus the disease epidemics and terrorism that come along with it – we don't live on an island.
> This month, some of those Berkeley researchers published a research paper that went further

Pet peeve, I really wish that this was a link.

Was I just blind? Is the actual paper linked anywhere in the article?
I think I agree with you that the degree might be more aptly named "data science", but that's a relatively minor detail in the scheme of things.

I don't think I would claim most AI work is research, but regardless, I think there is a still quite a lot of work that is quite applied nowadays. For example, there are a huge number of special-use-case neural networks you can think of to make very specific decisions based on image data. Or, nearly every online retailer would love someone to be able to come up with a good recommendation engine for products on their site. While a PhD might build a slightly-better one, I'm fairly confident that an undergrad trained properly (no pun intended) could pull off something usable.
don't think people born after 90's have any idea of those, or 99% of them have no idea whatsoever, so yes, history can be revised at will, at least in the short term.
I hope this was in exchange for severance pay, or some other benefit? If not, then the best option is usually to take the contract, promise to review it carefully, and do nothing.
>Most undergrad engineering worth its salt will require an ethics course and humanities classes broaching the topic.

Someone I knew in college made bank writing papers for engineers' in those ethics courses.
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Optimization: Your worst enemy
Referring to "price of pollination services" means the natural ecosystem has failed.
They had an obituary on file but never knew he died. So the article was in fact published in 2018 - I don't think it deserves the date tag.
I've fallen in to a hole on his website. Not sure if I'll ever emerge
I disagree

The major sounds similar in intent to the Data Science major we introduced into our Bachelor of Computer Science at UNE (in Australia) last year. These days there is something of a branch in computing routes -- to express it in a very muddy way, designing and building the systems themselves (Software Development) versus applying machine learning algorithms, AI, and statistics across the data systems produce (Data Science). And of course there's other branches and specialisms too, but for our particular market those are what we have at the moment.

The level is still clear -- it's an undergraduate degree, and they are coming out with a good undergraduate's knowledge of the area. So that's entirely appropriate. There's no need to shy away from stating what they've been focusing on (offering a named major). And we do find they are useful and in demand.
Use the correct tool for the job: hook an analytics DB up to the Kafka pipe and store the data for future queries. Kafka was never intended to support your use case.

If your inbound data that you'd like to put to Kafka isn't large, by the way, just write straight to the DB. It's irritating to see Kafka used where it's not necessary. It adds complexity to an infrastructure and the cost for doing so has to be justifiable.
As a note: the throwing out of samples might not necessarily be sinister (on the FDA's end) so much as a result of the FDA's general hamstrungedness.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/bug-system

Key quote in there is that before the FDA is even allowed to ask for a recall they have to prove a DNA match between whatever caused food poisoning and the specific bag of whatever.

If the FDA has extremely rigid chain of custody rules for what samples/test they're allowed to talk about in public and you had a billion dollars riding in them only reporting the best samples it might not be that hard to fuck with that chain of custody and disqualify anything you knew about.
You're misrepresenting the chain of the conversation:

A: The jury is out on [topic].

B: Whenever a jury is out, with one side having massive funding you know what the outcome will be [implying the massively funded camp is wrong and trying to hide it].

C: Here is a counter-example where the side with funding was correct. So maybe your over-generalisation is wrong.

You: You're throwing out a to-quoque fallacy, blind opposition is bad.

GP was opposing blind opposition, and you're arguing that they are blindly opposing skepticism. I'm not sure you read the conversation completely before you replied.
One of the things I've realized is that you basically need to design your technology to do exactly what the customer does. Once you've done that, you can start cutting unneccesary stuff out and making stuff easier.

If you want to introduce a step that lets someone skip 2 steps, it's going to be a hard sell. Unless it's a critical part of your product, you should probably make it skippable. Otherwise people are liable to avoid it, falling back onto pen and paper, then run into trouble down the line when it prevents them from doing what they want.
It could be varoa mites, for example, that's causing the die off. It could be the result of artificial insemination of queens by distributors, creating a cheap stock and poorly survivable colonies. Just a some alternative ideas to consider...
Considering the Librem5 is essentially Just Another Linux System, this would be fairly straight forward to implement... The most basic implementation would be something like a script that you run on your computer, that connects over SSH to the phone, and uses ofono's dbus interface to send a SMS.

I haven't been as excited for a device as I am now since the N900.
The thing I hate is that once they got skype they killed windows messenger, which I thought worked really well. Then they nerfed skype itself.

Now I just don't use skype at all. However our PABX does go through skype services to make calls, but you don't use the skype client for that.

The need to call landline / mobile numbers seems gone because 1. its a lot cheaper / flat fee on many telcos 2. who uses landlines? ( 800 / call center numbers perhaps ) 3. mobiles can run voip apps
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> they'd just fall apart

Agree.
I had Meccano sets as a kid - best toy/kit ever!
Wish I still had them.
If the assumption has been that it is not getting into food, when in fact it has, it is reasonable to ask whether studies have been based on valid models of exposure. Furthermore, the article you link to is almost entirely preoccupied with the cancer risk, which is far from the only danger of environmental toxins. this seems to be a case where the burden of evidence belongs on those calling it harmless.
In the Days Of Yore, before 3G, every cellular network operated an SMSC into which you could dial, with a standard modem, and send whatever texts you wanted to whoever you wanted.

I assume this stopped being open because they figured out that they could charge to send an SMS.
Draw.io is a gem, with gdrive integration, it is easy to collaborate, embed and cross reference diagrams. We tried creatly before locking on draw.io

It is free btw
>Come on, this guy is a genius

I don't it takes a genius to recognize the fragile parts of a seemingly secure system we live in. I'm sure there are people in every industry that know things that can be easily exploited for profit.
They also have a pretty incredible TV show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21G3vCXOIAc
"I'll have thousands of letters delivered to my own house, I'm sure no one will notice" - Genius Guy, apparently
DrMeister for President!! (of the Land of Lisp -- est. 1959)
So, seeing inside a cell was always possible with TEM. I guess these are better curated models?
Seems like backpedalling based on the outcry, would have been a very obvious thing to disclose during the presentation
If you are interested in the context analysis in Crime and Punishment then you can read just those few pages. He goes over just the first couple sentences of the book if I recall correctly. It's not an explanation of the context for the entire book by any means but an example of how much context could be needed to read a simple sentence.
That's not how the law on this works. It wasn't changed until around 2015, which is why so many companies started doing funNgames with employee wages and hours around then in anticipation of the change.
No problem! My only qualm is it messes with the browser history— but that's no worse than linking to the full-sized image.

It shouldn't affect screen readers or Lynx users too much.

I also highly recommend Spectre CSS! I've been toying with it, and it seems like great work. I suggest checking out the "experimental" features.

https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/index.html
>> Blind opposition to industrial progress -- which is what you are suggesting -- carried by the rising tide of public opinion will cause a ton of damage in the century to come, and the damage will never be repaid.

What damage will be caused by people using their phones less for fear of getting cancer?

What about GMOs? What is the harm in not using them? The EU has mostly banned them and it doesn't look to be suffering any damage.
It's obliquely linked at "More recently, Mr. Carlini and his colleagues at Berkeley have [LINK: incorporated commands] into audio recognized by Mozilla’s DeepSpeech voice-to-text translation software, an open-source platform."
https://nicholas.carlini.com/code/audio_adversarial_examples...

It's probably this paper: https://nicholas.carlini.com/papers/2018_dls_audioadvex.pdf

discussed in January when it went up on Arxiv:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16220376
I disagree. If there is a human element to a process then a human element to cracking it seems legit to me.
If he gets a reduced sentence he should be a prime prospect for security analysis/social engineering consulting when he gets out.
or "exploit"
Here's a link to WaPo article that bees are doing just fine https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/10/belie...
Google YOLO clickjacking
Ugh, again with the title change, I don't think HN should be editorializing like this.
Jail time for CEOs and board members of violators.
https://assistant.google.com/explore
Let's be realistic here, in terms of surveillance and privacy we already have a national ID system for everyone who is an American citizen. People already use SSNs for an ID, your credit card transactions, bank records, and phone calls are already linked to you. If it's opt-in only then it'll never see significant adoption. You can't require e.g. banks to use some secure identification system without also requiring citizens to use that secure identification system.
Link to the blog detailing the attack:
https://breakdev.org/evilginx-advanced-phishing-with-two-fac...

Looks more like an extended spoofing attack rather than an exploit.
>what I'm saying is that the bees are pretty much fine, and not an issue at all.

You have stated this opinion many times, I think we are all clear on that.

Do we have more than your authority to go on in evaluating your claim?

I think HN would become a very uninteresting place to debate if every discussion devolved into unsupported arguments from authority, which seems to be the logical fallacy you are relying on in your 'argument.'
I’m very familiar with Netflix’s tooling and orchestration stack, and have had discussions with several of their engineers.
Complex minimalistic calming and not engaging my brain’s language centers.

Lots of African and lots of tabla music.
Fake news nyt!!!I don't trust nyt even if they package the news in nice little golden wraps!!!!!!