skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine you are sitting in a bunker. You have no idea what people are out there and what are their intentions. You only receive some incoming messages from strangers that may contain anything. They can be just random garbage or deliberately crafted messages to confuse you or lie to you. [...] When two propositions arrive into your bunker, "X" and "Y", we have no trusted reference point to figure out which one is supported by the majority of other people. We only have "data in itself" to judge which one we should choose as the main one.

What if the true answer is "neither", and both have been forged by an attacker? If he's sitting in a bunker with no contact to the outside, and an attacker can intercept and manipulate his every communication, how can he "estimate how expensive it is to produce an alternative"? Was the difficulty too low because it's a forgery, or because everybody's abandoned that PoW chain?

IIRC, Bitcoin's answer to that situation is that somehow word of the correct chain will get to him (perhaps smuggled by a carrier pigeon), instantly invalidating all of the attacker's work. That makes sense in real life, but not in imagined scenarios where there are no alternative communication channels.
A more accessible discussion by the paper's authors is here at DeepMind:

https://deepmind.com/blog/prefrontal-cortex-meta-reinforceme...
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Same here. When I started my undergrad degree in 2006, my university had just built the first new residence hall in 20+ years. Since since I left in 2010, they've added two new academic buildings and two more 4+ story residence halls. Granted, enrollment continues to climb at the school, but they haven't stopped calling me multiple times a year looking for alumni donations...
Now with Google Duplex, you may never know if the Experts are "real".
That sounds pretty similar to the Wall-* robots from Wall-E.
1) JavaScript !== Java

2) Don't even try to talk about project management frameworks because you don't understand them

3) Don't ask me if I have experience in something that isn't on my resume

4) I don't want your 3 month .NET contract in Cleveland even if it "may have the opportunity to go full-time"

5) Get both my and the employer's salary requirements up front so I don't call out of work to spend the day interviewing, being told by the company that they absolutely wanted to move forward, and then find out that my salary was way out of their range.

6) If you name drop a renown company and then start talking about how I should instead interview at some startup for helping people put their mom in a nursing home, the conversation is over.

7) APIs isn't a skill

8) Save the corporate kool-aid for the product owner candidates

9) Just because you got my phone number because some job board sold my info to you doesn't mean you can call me

10) My resume, LinkedIn, and any other job board profiles have my location listed. Don't call me at 6am PST!!!

11) Stop hoping that I am well. I'd be much more well if I wasn't woken up at 6am by your ass.

12) Who do you honestly think is going to work for a company that requires .NET, Java, Python, Angular, React, and "bonus points for Rust experience"?
I wonder what proportion of the development efforts go into securing these things.

Imagine what would be happen, if these robots start getting hacked. A virus would no longer be just sitting inside a computer, it would manifest itself in a physical form.

Hardcore viruses/trojans/worms/whatever can create physical implications: disrupting power grids, sabotaging nuclear programs[0], etc.

But, even the basic forms of viruses which hackers will start out with, can cause serious consequences because of the physicality of these robots. And not just advanced robots like BostonDynamics', even basic autonomous robots have a high potential to do physical harm, if hacked.

I somehow feel, people should focus more on securing these things vs empowering them with increased intelligence, agility and sheer strength.

I would like to know, if security of these systems rely on the current state of computers, or do they have a different set of guidelines to abide by, considering that the attack vectors can be vastly different.

With the current computer systems, most attacks are done via the internet. But with these, physical access can exploit a whole different range of vulnerabilities, which can be difficult for the bot the detect. Like, how the old PS/2 hardware keyloggers turned out to be quite difficult to detect[1].
What if someone just sticks a different kind of lens in front of the camera(s)/sensor(s) these systems rely on, which can just break all the math it is doing around visuals.

Does the current state of the art of securing these systems, handle these cases ?

[0] Quora -> http://qr.ae/TUTPJK

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/79124/detecting...
> It may seem like common sense, but having a deep, enthusiastic, and genuine interest in some aspect of the company (whether it’s the company’s mission, product, technical challenges, or its work environment) is important.

This frustrates me so much. What if I can't find a company that offers any such thing? This seems like anti-common sense to me.

If you have skills at carpentry, and do a professional job, you can get a job at any construction site. Nobody cares if you have a "deep, enthusiastic, genuine interest" in the type of structure, or the challenges of woodworking, or the layout of the job site.

If you have skills at programming, though, you might not even get a job these days if you can't demonstrate that you're sufficiently passionate about what exactly the company does and how they do it.

This isn't a blue/white-collar distinction. I once talked to the industrial design lead at Fluke, and asked if he ended up there because he had a particular interest in test and measurement. He laughed at me and said no, not at all. He just liked industrial design, and didn't much care where he did it, or what he was designing.

If I didn't know any better, I'd say it sounds like you're searching for people with passion so you can get them to work unpaid overtime for you. I don't know why else it would matter.
He's using the "v" instructions, which requires AVX, and probably AVX2 (I haven't memorized all the instructions... but they're at least AVX). Even if he sticks with 16-bytes, the use of the "v" instructions basically requires a relatively recent processor.
To me this obviously looks like sticky notes you can add in books or on files to categorize content, a.k.a. quite literally tags.

They're supposed to be the old-school paper tags with a hole in the narrow end [0].

These tags, like floppy's and manila folders, will live on in our iconography even as someone born this decade is unlikely ever encounter the real thing. I was recently amused to explain to my kid what the dialer icon on the iPhone is: "well, a long, long time ago (it's getting close to 20 years now since the Nokia 3310 sold over a 100 million units and we got rid of our landline) we used to have stationary phones in our homes and you would talk into a wired handset that looked like this icon".

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Martha-Stewart-Crafts-Kraft-Tags/dp/B...
Maybe someone will write a metablogging platform that posts to WordPress, Facebook, Twitter (in multiple tweets!), Instagram, etc. all with one button. RAIC, redundant array of inexpensive content.

Actually, I'd be surprised if this didn't already exist.
Back in uni I emailed Andrew Tanenbaum asking some silly question about the Amoeba operating system.

This was around 97, and the Internet was still new to me. There was access in one lab 1 hour once a week or something like that, so the fact that he replied with some pointers to few ps files about the OS was really amazing.
There's a proposal to introduce a double wide mul which should make this much more ergonomical to solve.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2417
I like the blog on this site. I finally understand pivot tables.
The convenience and value of plastic bags and paper cups is huge. I try to remember to take a bag with me to the grocery store, especially here in the U.K. since a cost is levied now but I do often forget. I think rather than try to not use this stuff it’s better to create incentives to do more research into creating biodegradable versions. The incentives have never been there before.
How about taking the competing arguments at face value and evaluating them against each other? If qui bono is the only question you ask, you shut down a lot of your brain.
It's not a big deal, certainly not worth suicide. You might try to reframe your thinking: Amazon is not 2nd tier. In standalone voice assistants they are basically number 1 at this point. So you have a great opportunity here. Google is playing catch up and Apple has lost its momentum. That being said, if you want to work at Google or FB, identify what you need to improve on and then do it. Interviews are two way streets, it can be as much about them than it is about you. Also the money will come. Focus on learning, networking and doing good work.

The money will come eventually.
Show HN: Open-source hip URL shortener – all links deleted after 100000 seconds
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Until you learn what they mean, and then you get the advantage of more fits on the screen, and arguably, quicker mental processing (I'd say it takes less work to find an icon than to pick out the right text label).
Ask HN: Will the US suffer any consequences for its high Gini coefficient?
The US has the 4th highest Gini coefficient of OECD countries [1] although it's remained fairly stable since 1992, it does demonstrate a slight uptrend [2]. How might this affect life for most Americans, particularly the middle class?

[1] http://www.oecd.org/social/income-distribution-database.htm
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGINIUSA
Another thing is that once you _do_ discover what an icon means, it only takes a few repetitions before you start to remember.

I don't even use Gmail anymore (I've completely switched over to Inbox) but when I opened that article the first thing I did was "read" all the icons on the page. The only ones I had trouble with were "Mark as Read" and "Move to Folder", but even those only took a couple seconds of thought for me to comprehend.
First time I've heard of QGIS, so nope! But it looks like they support C++ plug-ins, so it wouldn't be hard to port it over. Don't know anything about their approval process, though.
Zero, since they didn't exist.
> If you strip the SHA-1 hash off a message, GPG will print a warning.

That's far from the whole story. If you strip off the authentication, GPG will fail with an error. Not a warning message.

(Over a socket, gpg will have started sending real data before failing, due to a bad and ancient design. OpenPGP can improve here, so let's point out the real problems instead of making up simpler ones for the sake of a good story.)

If your mail client supports encrypted email silently ignoring errors there's going to be more attacks possible than this one. And if you're parsing untrusted HTML with Outlook 2007, well, that might be problematic in itself.

I don't think anyone is dismissing the attack itself, but the communication around it could have been a little better. Most use of GPG takes place outside of MUAs.
Just focus on interview prep. Take 6 months and work on it every day for an hour or two. It's a learnable skill.
The Xbox One faced this problem too but on a smaller scale. An example of a product that failed in large part due to its ambiguous and confusing name was the WiiU. Is it a wii? Is it something else? Is it just the control? What is a U?
The hard part doesn’t scale. Takes boots on the ground geographically to assess what’s possible and implement what’s cost effective (copper or fixed wireless, maybe fiber if its greenfield and you have cheap trenching capabilities).
If I had a dollar for every time I've hit the MSDN documentation on .NET string formatting options, I wouldn't have to work anymore. It's one of those things that I can't keep in my head, and have to go read the docs, try it out a few times in LinqPad, swear at something, then read the docs again. Almost like regular expressions. Something to do with embedding a stringly-typed super-terse DSL breeds these problems.

I can't help but think this is another one of those holdovers from the bad old days of tiny main memory and 80-char wide displays that we're still beholden to out of inertia.
Yes, there is, but it's not worth my time. I'm invested in crypto, so if I win, I win.
I can't speak for the parent. But to me it's obvious at face value that the best choice ethically is not necessarily the choice with the most monetary gain as you seem to argue. Exploiting the incarcerated for personal gain falls into that category IMO.

In my experience, there are many opportunities to make a quick buck in life, but taking those opportunities doesn't necessarily lead to a better the world, and can very often make it worse.

If your only concern in life is getting mo' money, don't be surprised when you have plenty of money but a lack of meaningful relationships and personal fulfillment.
Ask HN: How many of you are using Telegram?
Hello everyone,

If you're using Telegram, then how often, and what else are you doing there besides sending messages (using bots, or reading channel posts)?

As for me, besides talking with my friends via group chat, I am using it to search for book reviews and airplane tickets
It would most likely be current in this case. 480V is available commercially, based on a quick search. Tesla batteries seem to provide around 400V.

To fully charge an 85 kWh battery in one hour, using a 480V supply, you would need to draw over 177A, assuming perfect efficiency. That is an absolutely ridiculous amount of current, and that would only charge one vehicle.
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Don't listen to what people say...watch what they do.

https://toshitimes.com/newly-appointed-goldman-sachs-vice-pr...
Why it's so hard to figure out whether health apps work
> databases in containers is something you need to think about

I think in a few cases it makes sense to move problems out of containers. A good amount of our customers would likely tell us what to do if we asked them to not worry about the SQL database in a container - they have their backup policies and so forth. This will change over time, but I'm pretty sure that there will always be scenarios where a VM or even metal is required.
He must have better access to the space time continuum than everyone else then - I tend to put manic tweeters into a low attention span, high hand waving for attention group who only have a few hours left in their day to actually do anything else...
>But most areas were war-free most of that time.

Can anyone verify that?

I imagine that the last 2,000 years have been filled with territorial disputes that were solved with the blood of males.

The survivors of the battle getting to keep the land and the women.

I dont think these were petty disputes either, I think these were rational decision making from leadership.

But I really dont know. Ive thought about this question, to propagate your genes, is it better to be Royal or peasant stock?
I was just giving back the "steve jobs" manga biography (yes..). I know 90% of it but ... I still read the 200 pages. He's such a special character for someone who grew up with nascent personal computer era.
It's not Google One for Google Drive. Its just Google One. (Yes, Google Drive is one of the other Google products that uses Google One storage but Google One is branding to detach the storsge space from the Drive brand, not connected to it.
Thanks for that, I was not aware of the draft.

It seems that they provide support for OCB and EAX. I would prefer support for chapoly to be honest.
> recruiters should actually start giving a shit about the lives of engineers

Well, in their defense, they're almost definitely recruiting for an organization that doesn't, so it would almost be dishonest if they themselves presented a facade of caring much one way or the other beyond their own quarterly sales commissions.
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Agreed, I don't find myself wanting to be around people like that outside of work. They're... kinda boring.

I always laugh when a recruiter reaches out looking for people and asking if I know of anyone. LOL! No, all the ones I know I currently work with, and I try not to know them past that.

> I don't want to join a cult when I join a job.

My feelings precisely.
No. OpenPGP is the standard.

PGP and GPG are implementations of this standard.
DDG is alright. I actually use Search Encrypt.
AuRevoir: find and delete Signal messages in your Mac notification database
You cannot say that with absolute confidence. Just as how people who believe in God cannot absolutely confirm what they believe to be the case either.

Also, seems like a pretty self-centered way to look at the world IMO and doesn't exactly lead me, as a fellow human, to think that you care at all about my well-being or anyone else's.

Point is - you're assuming that none of it will matter, when the facts are that 1) none of us have no clue what matters or doesn't matter after we're dead and 2) we can identify what matters to the rest of us about someone once that someone is dead, which is more concrete information than you can give me from assuming what you'll care about or not after you die.

TL;DR better safe than sorry. You're playing with fire - regardless of whether or not you believe in hell.

And by the way - I'm speaking from personal experience, as a twenty-something who makes more money than I know what to do with yet feels extremely unsatisfied and unhappy with life.
Steve Jobs sounds like an amazing asshole! I wonder if all celebrity CEOs (Bezos, Gates, Zuck, etc.) are like this in private interactions.
Yeah it's actually a pretty inconsistent mish-mash of ISA usage. I could go straight SSE4.x but I'd lose out on the vp* goodies you get with AVX and AVX2, even if I'm only using XMM registers.

The "length of 16, num elements is 16" parity is nice though and simplifies the logic of the algorithm.
I should have clarified that: a new one.
I posted a feature request to findbugs, which seems to have been renamed to spotbugs. At least Java shall suffer no more (if they implement this, at least)

https://github.com/spotbugs/spotbugs/issues/637
Can't recall who, but I remember a famous actress saying she got star truck meeting another not far above famous actor. Must be weird to go from star to fan.
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I don't think many people have heard of Android One. Also, the people who have heard of Android One can easily differentiate it from Google One.
Check RFC2634 before you abandon S/MIME. Triple wrapping solves surreptitious forwarding, which is how this attack works. Sadly AFAIK it's implemented only in Trustedbird.
The only "value add" for colleges is the signaling provided by getting the degree, i.e. going through the application process and committing to finishing a 4 year degree.

This is most easily measured in the income data for college-grads vs non-college-grads. This data is so easy to measure that you can measure the "value" of a college degree, currently something like $17K per year more for the graduates.
This is a pretty neat idea, I do worry about the 'one and done' problem where the spinning flywheel charges a car and then then needs an hour to get up to speed again (more if its just using solar power). That means you either need a lot of flywheels to service cars.

It is also an amazing amount of energy to be holding in the box next to the car (if you can believe the artist's conception in the article). I would be much happier if they put the flywheel horizontal in a vault under the charging station, that way if a bearing failed the wheel wouldn't go careening off into the next county mowing things down.

This problem needs to be solved for electric trucks as well.
I absolutely agree. Every single good programmer I know is also exceptionally adept at written communication (and, indeed, really nice). They tend to be good at oral communication, too, but it's a little hard to get an accurate reading of that in an interview.

The part I quoted is representative of the recruiting industry because it has a spelling mistake. It's "fared", not "faired", and unless "fared less" is some strange idiom that I'm not familiar with (I'm not a native English speaker, and I'm more familiar with British English than with American English), I could swear it's fared worse (or less well, if you must).

This is... very representative of the recruiting industry, in my experience.
This comment seriously makes me question what you think lower-class is or is like. The comment comes off as tone-deaf.

Neither of them are "self-made", they both had crazy access to electronics that hardly anyone else did at the time. They both did amazing things but, you're hand-waving away their real history for some "bootstrap-y" American success story.

Also, John Carmack WAS an asshole at id. Read Masters Of Doom sometime when you get a chance, loads of hubris and broken friendships in there.
What kind of residential density would you require? Is this only feasible for MDUs?
Sigh. You whooshed here. The point that "IP law[1] is really complicated and not well-served by blanket statements and umbrella categories" is exactly the point being made upthread, albeit via a metaphor.

You seem to be making a purely linguistic point, which surely everyone can concede. But it's not responsive to the discussion. At all.

[1] See? I even used the term right there and no one flipped out.
I'm afraid to click buttons in mobile apps and web pages now. At one point, there was a standardized method, known as "Undo", to assure the user that the changes they're making can be reverted, but at some point along the way we ditched that concept. It's especially worse on mobile where tooltips don't exist, and I have to just have to tap randomly on an icon that looks vaguely like what I want, and pray that I'm doing the right thing.

If I'm lucky, there will be a limited-time Undo button after doing the action (GMail has this on some actions but not others!), but if I hesitate too long or accidentally click on anything but it, it goes away permanently. I'm sure I've lost some important email to the depth of time because of a few fatfinger mistaps.
I've read all your comments in this thread and believe you. I know what you're describing is extremely painful, but help is available. Other users have mentioned some, and if you feel it might help you're welcome to email me at hn@ycombinator.com.

I'm sorry about the unhelpful replies some other commenters posted. I don't think people do that on purpose. It's because they can't imagine that level of pain, and perhaps don't want to, because it's scary. So it becomes easier to assume that it can't be true and the suffering person must just be trolling. But it certainly can be true, I believe you, and if the voting on comments is indicative, so do most readers.
This is exactly how I've felt for the past few years. Besides Facebook, I think a large part of it is not being quite as young and open to new things.

E.g. I'm under 30 but I never got into Youtube, I don't even know how to find good content on it.
Maybe because the context was different in the old days of the internet. Most sites were linked from index pages or link rings.

Now we have search engines and people might stumble upon your page.
I used to think this was a good idea, but I see so many resumes done in TeX that they cease to stand out.
GPG provides unauthenticated plaintext to callers. It needs to stop. There's not much more to discuss.
Do you know what the universally comprehensible icons are for every software function? If so, you could make great money (or other forms of wealth) by licensing them to software developers.