skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in a shared office space (a WeWork). For a few months at the end of last year and through this year, there was a wave of "crypto bros" who suddenly appeared and all claimed to be doing ICOs. Having to listen to them talk literally gave me headaches.

Every single one of them would talk about how crypto was "changing the world" and "saving Africa's banking system" and all kinds of nonsense. But when I'd ask them if they or anyone they knew had ever bought anything with crypto besides other crypto, almost all of them said "no". Somehow this technology was changing lives even though they did not know a single person who used it for it's intended, non-speculative purpose.

In other words, watching the the whole crypto fad pass is like watching the British version of "The Office" - just painfully awkward to live through. From the outside looking in, it seems so clearly overridden with scam ICOs and clueless investors.

For example, a friend tried to get me to invest in an ICO for a "Blockchain Bank." The idea was that by using blockchain, the startup could offer anyone in the world a completely legit, low fee UK bank account - all without personal identity verification (again, because "blockchain"). It would destroy traditional banks AND PayPal!

When I asked very basic questions like how they planned to get around Know Your Customer banking regulations, my friend said "Don't worry, it's all in the white paper!" But I read the white paper and it essentially just said "we'll figure it out!" There was absolutely no explanation of how it would ever work. But my friend was not interested in learning more - they just wanted enough of an appearance of legitimacy that they thought the ICO price would pop.

These are the kind of lame startup pitches that would normally get laughed out of an investors office for having huge conceptual holes. But because they said "blockchain", people are lining up to literally throw money at them. It's not because anyone actually believes (or even cares) the technology will eventually work. It's just because they are afraid that they will miss out on quick returns on the immediate speculation of the ICO.

This doesn't even touch on the widespread fraud, currency manipulation, pump and dump schemes, etc, that infest the crypto world in general.

The point is that even if you are doing something really amazing with blockchain, now you have to rise above the general stink of the cesspool of the wider crypto world. Lots of people already have a pretty bad taste in their mouth.
Nah, you just review what they submit like everyone else. If you block them, they'll do the
contest under an alias or use different names for contributions. Plus, they're really smart folks who might bring a lot of value to the project.
AT&T carries directly or peers with basically every other major internet carrier in the country.

This makes them defacto critical national security infrastructure and thus completely immune to the kind of recourse and accountability that all corporations should be subject to.

The technicality of being an independent and non-governmental entity allows them to collect and in turn share back[to the NSA] information about the traffic that crosses their fabric circumventing those pesky laws which purportedly prohibit the NSA from operating within our borders and inspecting local-only traffic.

AT&T is only going to be checked by legislation now as it has always been. The last time they were broken up they magically reassembled themselves because voters allowed it.

Until we as a country decide that communication infrastructure, like roads, can't be owned by quasi public/private abominations like AT&T but instead only held by us, the people and our government we will continue to get the worst from this present unholy union.
Gmail app developers have been reading your emails
Replace optimization with security, good design, or any other important facet of software engineering, and you have the same story.

Good software is a multifaceted effort, and great software takes care of the important parts with attention to detail where relevant: great games libraries don't add significant overhead to frame time, great filesystem libraries don't increase read time, great security libraries don't expose users to common usage pitfalls creating less secure environments than had you used nothing at all.

It happens to be that optimization gets deprioritized at the expense of other things, where "other things" in this context is some category I fail to pin down because PMs don't give a shit about what that other category could be, and instead just care that whatever you're working on is shipped to begin with.

Great software developers will respect the important parts, and still ship. And yes, it's always easier to do this from the start than it is to figure it out later. Many things in life are this way.

I have a soft spot for performance, though, so I care about this message. One day hardware will reach spacial, thermal, and economic limits and when that day comes, software engineers will have to give a shit, because too many sure as hell don't seem to give a shit now.
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Scientists Transform NFC Tags into Spoiled Meat Sensors
Yeah exactly.
I've written a few blog posts about using FaunaDB from FaaS functions, the steps should be the same for any FaaS provider:

1) Provision a (free) connection secret from fauna.com

2) Import the FaunaDB driver (npm install faunadb)

3) Create a client object using your connection secret.

After that you are using FaunaDB, which is purely pay-as-you go, with ACID transactions, joins, indexes, etc.

It would be simple to write a tutorial like this for Cloudflare. Hello world on Azure functions: https://blog.fauna.com/azure-functions-with-serverless-node-... and on Lambda: https://blog.fauna.com/serverless-cloud-database
In which the cost of labor is apparently excluded.

Also excluded: food wasted at home.
You jog for your own benefit, not for other people, so you can measure your jogging however you like.

Dog food, however, is for the benefit of dogs. At some point in the manufacturing process a dog has to taste the food, because they are supposed to eat it . Or at least a human has to make sure it smells nice, because they are supposed to buy it.

Same with essays. They are for humans to read, so humans have to test them.
Just saw a "Hey, Bixbi" ad yesterday and it was as cringy as Scott's Tots. The company just has such an air of desperation and jealousy.
Maybe its Google's answer to SnapChat, call it SnapRoulette :-)

But more seriously the messaging story on Android is abysmally broken. There are SMS messages, vendor wrapped SMS/MMS messaging, Google flavored chat apps that sometimes map to SMS/MMS and sometimes to some Google protocol.

Combine that with an insane permission model that basically wants you to hand over access to all your SMS/MMS rights for applications that deal with photos and I wouldn't put it past being a bit of malware in some photo client.
No no, you misunderstand me. I'm not saying it's FOR human safety...it's for profit. But the pushback on "losing jobs to machines" is less when the end-result is replacing human jobs that have a high degree of danger associated with them. Which is why, throughout history as well, we've seen larger adoption of automation via machines in those areas. The friction to do that replacement is lower, so we see it more often.
That would be great, please do!
Surviving as an ‘Old’ in the Tech World
Not open source. There's nothing wrong with that, except it's not what we're talking about here.
I find multi user capability a mixed bag. On one hand, I'm sick of typing my password(*nix)/allow(NT) for every trivial thing on modern systems. If I'm going to run as administrator, I might as well run on a single user system.

On the other hand, when I let someone else use my PC (wife/child/friend), I would like them to run in another environment. Also when trying random downloaded applications. In this scenario, multi user makes sense.

Multiuser is on the agenda for Haiku R2, and seeing how well they resolved the package management system, I expect multiuser R2 will be a thing of beauty.
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Gesh, the tagline above it "The sun is the source of all energy... The energy of sunshine is crystalized in Dextrose Sugar"
Brand that is absolutely killing it in this space is Salt Life.

https://twitter.com/RealSaltLife
Building out storage is my current focus. The challenge is that we want to build something that actually utilizes out network of 151 locations today, 1000's of locations in the future. If your application has users on Mars (or, New Zealand), you should be able to store their data at the Cloudflare location on Mars (or, New Zealand) so that they can get to it with minimal latency.

PS. If you're a storage expert and building a hyper-distributed storage system interests you, e-mail me at kenton at cloudflare. We're hiring.
Shortly after moving to the US in the late eighties, my mom signed up for a cooking class.

The first dish they taught was... savoury Jell-O salad.

She never went back.
I do understand what you are taking that quote to mean. It just seems like quite a stretch to me. Or at least, if you are correct, I would not trust myself to accurately interpret anything they say.
Yes. It was how I wouldve tried to claim these vulnabilities if I was a black hat. CompSci teams behind tools like Saturn often test them on FOSS code, both known-buggy and patched. The score is how many known bugs they catch vs false alarms. However, they often find new bugs with new tools even in well-trodden code.
The similarities are uncanny...
Fully agreed. I feel for teams working on something that requires all of this. Things are much easier when you do less. For many many reasons.
>LinkedIn has a large open source footprint: http://linkedin.github.io/

>More importantly, Azure has a ton of Open Source: https://azure.github.io/

Sure I get those examples of "bits and pieces" being open source. Likewise, Google open sources lots of things like Protobufs (BSD license), CityHash (MIT license), and Kubernetes (Apache license) -- but they don't open source their crown jewels of proprietary source code collaboration, the Google Cloud datacenter management stack, and of course, their latest iteration of PageRank. A lot of those Azure github repos I see are open source examples for client SDKs as opposed to building a full clone of Azure that's equivalent to RedHat's OpenStack.

Those limited examples didn't seem to be the spirit of Joel Handwell's wish. I think we can presume that he wants to download the entire Github source code, compile it, and self-host it like GitLab. I could definitely see MS open sourcing bits & pieces of Github but still not give away the entire stack.

To me, it looks like MS is taking Github in the direction of a hosted service for full Application Lifecycle Management. (For example, add more features to compete with Jira.) Github-Enterprise could possibly eventually overtake Microsoft's own Team Foundation Server as the preferred release management tool. It adds to MS portfolio of other cloud services like Office 365. Likewise, if we ask for MS to "please open source Microsoft Excel", it's probably not going to happen because it's not compatible with their strategy of selling Office 365 subscriptions.
You are welcome! Yes I have the same feeling when discovering these things or when I read some books on past architectures. It took me years to learn some parts of MS-DOS or x86 Assembly :)
"Notorious" does mean "famous", but it carries the added implication of being famous for being bad. I suspect the meaning has changed over time, just like "awful" used to mean "awe-inspiring".
It seems that altruism can be explained without resorting to group selection. Statistically speaking over history, your group is overwhelmingly likely to be your kin. So gene selection / kin selection seems sufficient explanation for the evolution of group-altruistic behavior.
I'm quite baffled by the recent trend that burning money (without a sustainable business model) is considered equivalent to "growth".
Did you put on one of the alternative Android OS? Can't afford a new phone just now, and I was wondering if rooting mine would help, think I will after what you've just said.

It's an S3 that is becoming slower and more frustrating to use every time there's an update. It can take anything from 20 seconds up to a minute to respond to a button press, and of course I'm never sure if I touched the button properly so I hit it again. It'll respond to the entire queue in a second or two, and then I need to start over.
I assumed that a website like “priceonomics” would factor time spent on shopping and prep. I’m a reasonably good cook, but “eating in” means losing about 90 minutes to shopping, prep, and cleanup, that could otherwise be spent on work, side projects, or reading (mix recreational and vocational).

I suppose it varies based on career and lifestyle, but I believe that most of the readers of this site, at least, feel more of a crunch on time than cash.
Thanks! We did write this article with distill in mind (and we used the distill template). Unfortunately it didn't make it through the selective reviewing process. The three reviews and my answers are accessible on the github repository if you're interested: https://github.com/thomas-tanay/post--L2-regularization/issu...
It's not something with which I have personal experience, but it seems to me you need to make a special effort to signal to the world that you've reformed and are an ethical and trustworthy person.

Perhaps start a blog and update it regularly, sharing your expertise and industry insights about security, along with your personal story about how you came to engage in criminal behaviour, what you've learned through the experience, and what you've done to rehabilitate yourself.

You might also want to re-think the kinds of companies you're applying to. If it's large, established, mainstream companies, they are likely to be risk-averse, and perhaps beholden to company policies to not hire people with convictions. But earlier-stage companies, that still have a strong hacker/rebel culture and where the hiring decisions are still made by the founders, may be more welcoming.
MySQL Performance: 8.0 GA on IO-Bound Sysbench OLTP with Optane -vs- SSD
Insurance companies also don’t ask about other perils like eating manufactured “foods” and all the things laced high fructose corn syrup, or not getting enough sleep on a regular basis, or being the type of person who is stressed out all the time, and so on.

If insurance companies ask about gun ownership as part of responsible risk quantification they also need to understand gun safety controls like gun safes, trigger locks, etc. Also does the owner of said firearm have training and experience like serving this fine country in the MIL?

What about looking at the risk reductions gun ownership can afford an owner in some cases such as mitigating a violent home invasion. I have a friend who prevented imminent harm to himself and family including children just by signaling a weapon draw in an outnumber and cornered situation on his property in broad day light. Problem is those situations are not captured in statistics so thus are difficult or impossible to qualify empirically, unlike dead or wounded who are very countable.

The tone of this professor’s article feels like a back door gun control by economic penalty (own a gun well you pay more because stats show guns kill people). Only downsides are discussed in any detail. Professor shouldn’t a competent risk analysis properly consider both increases and decreases in risk?

You know what insurance companies should also spend some money and effort on? Researching why far far too many vets commit suicide. Stats show 30 vets per 100,000 population commit suicide vs only 14 per 100,000 in the civilian population.
In the Netherlands this is solved by periodically tagging bikes locked up outside stations. Any bikes still with tags a week or two later are presumed abandoned and removed.
Google, Microsoft, Oracle Et Al. Gang Up on Amazon for $10Bn Pentagon Prize
Could you expand on your opinion of Lambda@Edge? For my company's needs, it has worked superbly.
In Q2 2018, Global VC Scales Tipped in Favor of Chinese Startups
And what exactly is the profile of a "tech bro?"

I've heard descriptions ranging all the way from stereotypical frat bro to any immigrant to the bay area that doesn't understand all the social conformity that's expected of them.

As far as I can tell, it's anyone on the wrong side of a culture that's very hostile to outsiders.
Last time I tried, ssh worked fine for interactive command line use but got throttled to death if I tried to proxy other traffic through it. It seems like they’re doing traffic analysis to see which connections are acting like VPNs.
I'm always amazed when I think of a big data center in Prineville. I'm currently reading a book on the history of the area: https://amzn.to/2KLxqyM , since I live down the road in Bend. Pretty much your basic small western town, with native americans, range wars, and a murderous group of vigilantes in its past and a popular rodeo in this day and age.

Nice place to visit if you ever get the chance, on the way to the Painted Hills for instance.
> cough-- I also very much like pizza: https://brynet.biz.tm/wallofpizza.html

But is it Pizza Pizza?
I was taking the quote to mean that not many people were researching causes/treatments of Alzheimer's that were not related to the "Amyloid hypothesis."

If I am misinterpreting that, then it is my poor reading. (I have some excuses right now, but they would be just that. :) )
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To me the big pro of cooking at home is truly knowing what I eat. No nasty oils, no food preheated in plastic trays, etc.

Admittedly, I'm quite lazy so I just have very easy to prepare stuff. Salads, stews and steamed or roasted fish or lamb (only twice per week).
Library comparison: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks
They require (I think -- maybe just strongly encourage) submissions to the iOS App Store to include LLVM bitcode. It’s easy to imagine them doing the same for the Mac. That would be a pretty clear signal that they plan to switch architectures.
I started working on this actually. https://github.com/ioquatix/relaxo is a document database built on top of git. I recently added support for using a specific branch, so it should be trivial to allow a web app doing the things you suggest to store/run within the same git repo.
Pretty sure MS didn't acquire GitHub for 7.5B so they can OSS it and encourage competing, fragmented solutions with a lower barrier to entry.
> I wonder if one could do things like compile with rustc and clang and somehow compare the LLVM IR for equivalence

The approach we've taken so far with C2Rust is to build compiler plugins that instrument C and Rust code so we can dynamically check their behavior when fed the same input.

https://github.com/immunant/c2rust/tree/master/cross-checks
That spot was the "aft field joint" according to wikipedia. According to the diagram linked[1] that is distinct from the case-to-nozzle joint.

[1] https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/...
> randomly rebooting refrigerator

Call me old-fashioned, but a refrigerator should never have to reboot. ;-) A microcontroller running drop-dead-simple firmware is OK, but if it ever has to reboot for any reason save power outages, they've failed.

I'll certainly agree on Samsung's software (at least the sort of things users directly interact with) being a vortex of suck, though. Back when I used a Galaxy S Relay "4G" (the "4G" in quotes because they were calling DC-HSPA+ "4G"), I found the phone to be much better after I installed CyanogenMod.

Too bad CyanogenMod imploded, and worse, there's no LineageOS for that old handset, which was one of the last good slider phones.

To be fair to Samsung, I have no complaints about their SSD firmware, but I'll stay away from their cell phones.
Unfortunately I have no qualifications to give an opinion on that question
If anyone gets confused, just convert the back of the postcard from its hex values to the ascii characters; next, it's trivial to see the pattern of the message.

And do see if you can find the 7z archive on the front!

P.S. Brush up on your security industry history =)
Not surprising. It became useless a while ago. It will be a shame the content will be lost when they go under which probably won't be very long.
UK: Women’s March in Sunderland against the increase in rapes
Samsung has its own SMS client, Samsung Messages. The fact Android allows custom SMS apps doesn't seem like a bad thing.

Apps can send photos via Android Intent without requiring SMS permissions. If an app requests that permission, the user can say no. I'm not sure how that qualifies as insane.
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Things surrounding VLSI design are a remarkable amount of tribal knowledge that isn't written down.

Things like: "Why don't you tie a pass transistor to a storage node directly to a long bus?" killed at least 3 microprocessor designs (that I know of).

There are a million things like this, and none of them are worth writing down since they are of zero use to anyone outside of the industry/company and often are specific to design techniques or fabrication lines.

Samsung moved almost 100 engineers to Boston in order to try to second source manufacturing for the Alpha, had DEC engineers who were happy to help them, and still was only marginally successful.

In VLSI, 6 nines means you still have 200 failing transistors on your 200 million transistor chip.
Nah, probably something out of H.P. Lovecraft.