skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried that for a couple topics (Reinforcement Learning, Linear Algebra, Bayesian Stats) over the last six months and I found for myself it was much harder to retain information than spacing it out over several months and chipping away at it little by little (which I'm doing with Python, Algorithms, Control Theory). I personally prefer practicing interleaving, as I find that applying one subject to another make me remember a lot more of the concepts than block learning techniques.

Also in the grand scheme of things, three weeks isn't a lot of time. Granted, I'm not a fast learner!
This. It took me a while to learn to look at this and eventually focusing less on caching on some items that don't enough read in it to justify the caching or pre calculation.
It s sarcasm. I think we need new vocabularies, the terms have been commoditized to death
I'm not going to speak for @leftworks1. But looking at the links you provided it seems they were trying to add information relating to a court case at the high court, with a public claim number. You might want to see Neil Clark's tweet about the information Philip Cross is trying to hide from Kamm's Wikipedia page: https://twitter.com/neilclark66/status/991310986643730433

So we have an attempt to add information on to a Wikipedia page (to my mind information that should be on the page) by someone who is quickly banned indefinitely and their changes removed (thanks to Philip Cross monitoring the page in question). You are comparing this to a years-long campaign by a prominent Wikipedia editor to discredit, very unfairly (as I'm sure the edits show) a number of prominent anti-war voices. His changes are not reverted, he is not banned. I'm not sure how they're comparable at all.
A lot of these routers contain tons of oss libraries. Would it then depend on which component caused the bug? It‘s a rabbit hole.
> that “parameter counting” fails as a measure of model complexity when the class of models under consideration is only slightly broad.

This seems plainly false. They only show that for this one specific function with one parameter determined to several million digits. That would not by any means be “only slightly broad”.

They are essentially just restating that any dataset can be expressed as a single binary number therefore it can be “fitted” by a function that has a completely covering map between integers to integers. While I find it an interesting though not surprising element that they did it with the logistic map, their claimed purpose and conclusion are really far fetched.
> If only it were so easy to know what the mission is or what is in service of the mission.

This is how you get evaluated on a quarterly (or yearly) basis at a job. You had goals. Did you achieve them? Did you fall short? You were given tasks and a timeline (perhaps you even helped set the timeline). Did you complete the tasks? Were there excessive bugs? Were you on time?

These are all relatively simple things to measure, which is why they're used so often. If you tie merit to your performance in relation to stated goals (and I think that's reasonable), it's pretty straightforward to measure.
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> Well meritocracy means we will try to select and give influence/recognition based on merit. When someone tries to push an idea like "let's have more Asians" or "let's have more men" ...

Isn't the argument normal something more like: "I don't think we are living up to the description of meritocracy. Our demographics lean heavily one direct and we lack female/male/asian/<descriptor> for no merit based reason. Lets do something about that."

The core of such arguments are an attempt to support/bolster meritocracy.
I've been having problems connecting an external monitor to my MacBook for a long time.

I'm using a MiniDP to DP cable and sometimes the external monitor just wouldn't get any signal after sleeping the laptop with the cable plugged in. Unplugging the cable or power cycling the monitor doesn't help at all. I have to completely restart the laptop to get a monitor signal again. I wonder if that's due to the pin 20 issue.

The funny thing is that I actually bought 4 different cables already and all of them have the same problem.
>I design board games.

About that, I'd like to get in touch with you, I develop boardgames into their www version (well, in truth I've only done it for one Kuhhandel: https://github.com/AquiGorka/kuhhandel) let me know if it is something that might interest you.

Best,
GOrka
In Samsung's case, the defects could be directly responsible for damages to human lives. That's a far reach from software vulnerabilities. Not to mention that software bugs can be incredibly difficult to identify, and sometimes impossible until new exploitation methods are discovered, often times well after the creation of the software, and sometimes only due to new software and hardware tools that only later become available.

If you ever wanted an example of how to stifle innovation, read the comment I'm replying to.
Here's the press release:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/fm-wtd051718...
They do now with the GPDR. You talk like all other IP is something that is a physical fact and not something that the government decided to create
your arguments are hypberolic in some cases, as changing or clarifying a word or sentence even is not "remake(ing) a software project". and I think the word meritocracy is vague, a overarching word used to describe many things to many people, mozilla should instead simply be more clear about what that means. what is the "playing field", that itself is a metaphor for sports and physical ability I guess. How will the ability of those chosen for participation under this meritocracy be judged
The bookmarklet is neat, but this seems over-worked compared to just

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 youtube.com/watch?v=00000000

[1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Let's remember that their attackers include the most sophisticated in the world, such as state intelligence agencies, sophisticated criminal organizations, corporate intelligence, and others.

Just keep the air gap; anyone using this software can afford an extra computer. Put the two machines next to each other; duct tape them together if you want, or put two USB hubs on your desk - pull USB drive out of slot A, put it in slot B. And put the USB stick shredder directly beneath slot B. Not hard for the user: 1-2-3.

Even more importantly, it's critical that they communicate accurate information, in an unmistakable way, about the level of security they provide. Statements like these are troubling:

> Based on the threat model analysis, we will perform additional hardening of the prototype.

This implies they can actually protect their users against the attackers, which is not reasonable.

> Thanks to the work of developer Joshua Thayer

There is no way that one developer can possibly, in a lifetime, provide adequate security. You can't do it on the cheap. Joshua is facing multiple attackers with budgets in the millions and billions and with teams of hundreds or more specialists. He has my sympathies; will he get the blame when it fails?
but if you go this route, you have to share them with a third party (Mozilla or Google)?
Forums don't have anything definite yet, but you can check existing network connections (netstat/iftop) and block the known CC domains.

https://forum.lede-project.org/t/cert-advisory-vpnfilter-des...

A comment on another forum suggests OpenWRT/LEDE is not affected due to file system layout differences:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/05/23/vpnfilter-is-a-m...
Hard to say if it's worth the effort, but I've taught myself enough French to read classics (e.g. Hugo, Déscartes, Tocqueville), and it really is an immense pleasure. I imagine I'll get a kick out of it for the rest of my life.
I think this is a great idea. It's really saddened me watching the internet turn from a place where people deeply invested in a topic or passion share their work personally to a SEO-ranked shit show where millions of low-effort 'blogs' compile second hand knowledge for views and commissions.

While compiling great resources in one place is a good stop-gap I'd love to hear some ideas about how we can move towards a Web where people are rewarded for creating original content and putting effort into their work, rather than the current mess of clickbait and rehosted/paraphrased content. Doing a Google search for a technical topic is much less effective now than in the past, by my reckoning.
Philip Cross obvious is running an adgenda and is good at it. Leftworks is a poor editor and rather reactionary. They do not justify each other in any way. They are both problems that need to be addressed, not balanced against each other.

I find that the desire to balance is because one has picked a side and wants to absolve one side of consequences via showing the other side as more guilty. This is dangerous in and of itself.
Do you sell the product? If you don't, why is this a concern? I think the parent's arguments are for software that's being sold, not just random silly project that you don't care about (which is obvious if you don't sell it).
The law has been in effect for 2 years and the regulatora have given everyone that much time to implement their GPDR compliance. These large companies have not done so. We're people supposed to just ignore them forever because they didn't feel like getting around to following the law?
Yeah, just don't try building Kubernetes clusters in 2015 :)
> These kinds of articles are not helping.

It's a good thing for people to know how the Wikipedia sausage is made, even if it makes Wikipedia occasionally look bad.
It also adds language about debias.

So it doesn't simply remove meritocracy to appease the far-left activists.

It specifically inserts language to appear them, reaffirm their world view.

Is it really necessary to create a safe space for fringe political activists to create substantive diversity? No.

It's also promoted by high-level Mozilla employees in response to a recent anti-meritocracy movement.

After what happened to FreeBSD's CoC you can hardly claim this is happening in a vacuum, it's a cause now.
> Electric vehicles were supposed to be the car of the future because we were running out of oil — until we weren’t.

The thing is, we’ve always been running out of oil — the rate at which oil is being produced is near zero. Our rate of extraction may fluctuate, but it is a finite resource. Someday, the amount of economically extractable oil will go to zero. I’m not sure when that is, but it will happen.
Why MP3? You could download AAC files from YouTube and don't bother with (necessarily lossy) conversion.
The odd thing is that lots of companies are abusing forced consent, but Google isn't one of them from what I've seen. Instead it's mostly publications like the Washington Post, Forbes, and Fortune just to name the last three I encountered this on. Google seems quite happy to let you refuse to let them use your personal information for ad targetting or any kind of personalisation of results and continue using their services, whereas a lot of publications just plain won't let you view their site unless you agree to this.
Safety liability follows and ends with the chain of financial transactions.

No commerce, no liability.
Link to the original essay: https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
Excited for this. I have quite a few queries which would benefit. The work has been amazing over the past few years (and really even further back).
If the group does not have enough consensus on what mission is or what is in service of the mission, then group cannot advance anywhere and can only be disbanded.
In the Czech Republic, small companies and self employed people are commonly fined for breaking extremely complex and unclear laws, some of them set by the EU (e.g. VAT) - without any malicious intent, ready to pay whatever should've been paid. It's the big companies that get to make deals with the government and avoid punishment. They also consistently favour big companies over small ones with tax breaks, dotations etc. I don't trust the EU in the slightest.
Working for an e-commerce company in Europe.

We didn't have much trouble. Someone was assigned last year from our security team to teach and consult other teams within the company to keep their products compliance.

Even before going for GDPR everything about user data was very strict so don't remember if we (at least my team) did anything new.

We always had data anonymization pretty much everywhere, no production access even to our deployment team, no third party company is allowed to store information or even cookies from our users, a clear and short page for our users to tell them which companies have access to some of their data (ex. delivery company). We always have been obligated to report a data breach to the government and users if it happens.

It is a very long list, and goes down to stuff like even HR recruiter is not allowed to keep applicant information after X amount of time.

All of that also means sometimes we are unable to do something fancy with users data to improve our products. Or use some third party services because the third party company doesn't look reliable or they want to access user data.
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> still obtain native speeds on mobile

The irony is, Reddit on mobile is god-awful slow. It takes a good 5-10 seconds of displaying a spinner just to show me a kilobyte of text (self-post or linked comment). I no longer click Reddit links on mobile for this reason.

Reddit has got to have talented people working for it. But whatever they're doing that results in a 10-second spinner to display pure text is "Mongo DB is web-scale" levels of comedy.
Awesome post! Looking forward to teaching my daughter and (later) son programming too -- though it's going to have to be Pascal, which is what my dad initiated me with :)
I am definitely in the bucket of people thinking this is how antibiotics work. Do you have some links I could read talking about how this isn't true?
In my experience, JavaScript is (much) better suited for teaching kids programming than Python: it only takes a few minutes for them to go from nothing to being able to use plain HTML+JS and create a simple interactive application; after an hour or so of having fun, the shroud of mystery of coding disappears completely, and it's now all about creating something great, like a game. They usually find Python kinda boring by comparison, and more complicated.
One thing I cannot understand is why we have both:

(a) a long history of research proving to us that principles like "High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)" are accurate and highly related to extracting the most economically valuable outputs from knowledge workers.

(b) open plan offices.

Maybe the tech industry is daunting for newcomers because we cram people into a sardine can, give them a ping pong paddle and a craft beer, and say "don't go home tonight until you've Disrupted Everything."
I saved hardcore. I also made some ok stock decisions which helped me somewhat. Besides rent you won’t have too many expenses. But rent sucks.
Isn't using this sort of thing against YouTube tos?
I miss newsgroups so much. But different times.. i dont think it would work again, we need something new
You should be able to record the deletion request for the life of the backup and purge those records once the backups are deleted (all tied to the same rolling dates)
Intensive courses in the summer aren’t unusual, especially in the summer and especially for language classes.
They certainly have both over Alibaba and JD.com which have European offices. And that's just two off the top of my head.
This is the correct solution.
I'm just clearing up some confusion about definitions here, not making any comment on enforcing rights.
Seems to me that if you actually need this kind of things, maybe you should also have a cyber-security expert trusted friend and let him handle it.

There is no way a non-expert journalist would be able to use this securely, too many failure modes.
That's what the Web is like these days, unfortunately. Browsing with JS enabled on my Nokia N900 with 256MB RAM is mostly impossible, even though it should be much more than enough to display most of the content. We nerds with our heavily configured browsers often overlook that, but regular folks have to live with it.
I don't think this is true at all. Red Hat needed a web toolkit for their products and presumably decided that the available options weren't suitable for their purposes.

These are more common now because a few years ago a lot of folks drew the same conclusions at around the same time.

For example, PivotalUI[0] was developed in-house to provide a uniform toolkit and look-n-feel for Pivotal's various web interfaces (Pivotal Network, OpsMan, AppsMan, Healthcheck, Metrics etc). Other examples include JetBrains's RingUI[1] or Microsoft's ReactXP[2].

But by no means is PivotalUI intended to lock anyone into anything. To my knowledge our consulting division, Pivotal Labs, has undertaken approximately zero projects using Pivotal UI.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal. We compete with Red Hat.

[0] https://styleguide.pivotal.io/

[1] https://www.jetbrains.org/ring-ui/index.html

[2] https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/
Better yet, I'll only read people who take the opposite approach.
According to Google, their consumer routers get automatic security updates.[1] While I don't necessarily trust everything that Google says, I do believe in their ability to secure devices better than most other consumer router vendors.

[1] https://support.google.com/wifi/answer/6309220?hl=en
It comes down to one thing: Money.

The older internet was not a network of for-profit users trying to rent-seek on every digital interface & every page view. Standards were created by academics, internet committees, and concerned & involved users, trying to figure out what would work best as a resilient distributed system.

Now what goes on online is defined by the rent-seekers, the data pimps, and the predators. Their actions have real-world, legal consequences which ruin it for everybody, and their size & clout overwhelms the decisions of average people.
Unfortunately Wikipedia is based on self selection and thus you tend to only get partisans from both sides involved on charged subjects. And if you appeal to an opposing partisan, one who may even pretend to be impartial or simple authoritive, you will lose.
There is not a single 2 bedroom up for sale in Cap Hill for 600k or under. There are 5 1 beds with 600 square feet or less. That’s it. I got my number off of current postings
It's usually 802.11ac

EDIT: oops, thanks
I would sincerely hope that the small Yoga studio is not attempting to custom code their website in this case, in which case the economical solution is for the Yoga studio to use a GDPR compliant website and mailing list toolset, and simply migrate to a different set if they find that they aren't.

Now compliance is largely handled by the tool makers, and the Yoga studio can focus on their business case and any custom coded extensions to ensure they remain compliant. (For popular stuff like Apache, compliant configurations are probably already available or will be shortly, once we all figure out if we are allowed to keep logging IP addresses by default.)

I'm not sure I understand the email jab; obviously you can store data, you just must obtain consent first, and must allow the data to be deleted on request. That's an opt-in mailing list with an unsubscribe feature that actually works and properly deletes the relevant data. Why should that be difficult for a small business to do right?
A properly working market requires informed decisions. Internet privacy invasions are not something that people are well-informed about at a practical level. So GDPR is actually helping to restore the market.
and fluoridation doesn't affect dental health because you're drinking the water which means the fluoride doesn't get to the teeth but is absorbed elsewhere in the body. If you want fluoride you can get it through toothpaste. It should be a choice.
Does SO probably has a lot more cacheable content and their core content size is small < 2TB full DB size with DB memory hitting 768GB or so. Not that it doesn't require good engineering. I do love their stats.
I don't understand where people in the security industry find the motivation to learn about exploits. It seems to me that those exploits are something highly transient, and not of fundamental value.
Wow, that was a super interesting perspective. Thanks for the share.
AOL wasn't the only email provider back then and Gmail isn't now today either.
Somewhat doubt it. I periodically download my favorites and liked videos. Hate it when videos get deleted and you don't even know the name of it.
Maybe it's because I've gotten better over the last year, but since I swapped from Java/python/c++ to a Go project, I've reduced my "find the answer on Stack Overflow" time by at least 75%.
No matter which component caused the bug, the device vendor that made the final product should always be responsible, unless it has a contract outsourcing the responsibility for a specific component to another entity. If the vendor simply used open source libraries, then it needs to review and take responsibility for the code, or hire a contractor to do so. This might also incentivize them to provide timely security updates, in order to minimize damages.
If you want to go old school and use Turbo Pascal, TP 5 is free to use. Otherwise look into FreePascal
My admittedly ambiguous threshold is "significant impact to quality of life"

Battery fires can kill so even a handful is significant, but a security vulnerability that impacts thousands of routers has lower but wider impact. Some companies will be targeted for DDoS or using the routers to probe and infect the company infrastructure... some consumers will end up paying ransomware, or having their finances hacked, or personal info leakes, or bandwidth siphoned.
It's a heck of a lot cheaper than it was in decades past, and things like torrents and ipfs can help eliminate high-cost choke points.
Just on principle I like to see a tick that died badly.
There's a host of reasons why the dysfunction goes all the way down to the low efficacy of voting, but HN is notoriously unable to handle these kinds of discussions without several 500-post demon threads.

For example, people tend to get stuck in tribal thinking where one party or the other is to blame when the seeds of the problems go all the way back to the founding of the country. It's hard to shake people out of it so they can have a productive discussion even when everyone's trying to be fair and honest.
Try to make a game or draw a circle in IPython, see how simple it is.
Are you a European citizen? If not, then I don't think there's much more you can do.
If you can swing some kind of work-from-home heavy situation with your employer, it's also astounding the amount of stuff you can get done. At my best, I was going into the office on Monday, for status meetings and planning, then I'd work from home Tuesday through Friday. I got more done in those six months than I have in the two and a half years since, now that I'm back in the office most of the time again.

Unfortunately, people just love to see asses in seats.
what a completely weird criteria for a 'bullshit' job, and one that's also totally at odds with the stuff described in OP's article.