skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some group either got caught or proved you could exfiltrate data via the fans on the air gapped computer to the microphone on the connected one. It was obviously incredibly low speed but possible.

I honestly don't recall if this was just a trial or it was used in the field by a spy agency
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Often people one hear about a job because it’s advertised by a recruiter and they don’t tell you the company’s name until you agree not to apply there yourself.

A recruiter can control the process better than an applicant can, and they prepare you for every interview, and (try to) influence the process by selling in your advantages after the interview.

They’re also often in contact with the hiring manager instead of the HR person.

Those might be reasons to work with them, but there’s also a good amount of reasons why it’s not a great idea
How do people deal with present employers becoming aware that you may be looking for another position? Do people hide it (hold references back until a job offer, or give previous employment references) or allow their employer to know?
Click-bait. It's not "influencers". It's 1 guy. And most of you would've already guessed who that is...

The-Pump-and-Dump-King... high on PHP (the drug not the language)[1]

> crypto celebrity John McAfee has long been a promoter-for-hire, saying in March that he charged $105,000 per tweet.

[1] Source: The Obscure, Legal Drug That Fuels John McAfee => http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/the-obscure-leg...
what's the takeaway from this blog post? There's no such thing as a full stack engineer so don't bother learning about databasing and server concerns and devops; just focus on front-end? Are we just criticizing people for doing their jobs to the best of their ability?

A full-stack engineer is not always going to write the best front-end ever; there may be some kludgey stying and some non-semantic HTML (divs and spans!). As a non-DBA, queries may not have optimal execution paths. There may be questionable backend design decisions.

This is an obvious conclusion and does not really speak to the value that a developer brings to an organization. Development is a means to an end, and there are plenty of business cases that an experienced full stack developer can solve in a 'good enough' manner.

We run the risk of letting the perfect become the enemy of the good. Any mature developer should have one or two areas of deep expertise and have enough skill in other domains to get a job done.
It's even worse with me. I check the site a lot, skim the article (on an interesting headline) and go right to the comments on here because I often find the discussions fun to read.
It's amazing what you get if you just stay on the phone with the reference. People want to talk. They want to say something meaningful. Once the cliches are dispensed with they're forced to say something real and at that point you get to find out the real type of person you're looking at.
Phew! This looks like something I can replace MS Comfort Mouse 6000, which I love due to its shape.
Everything I think a CEO should know about AI
> The Southwest Chief is a notable cross-country service, but it's also the transportation backbone of southwest Kansas and southeast Colorado. In my opinion, KS and CO, together with Amtrak and BNSF, should...

Stop right there. Colorado and Kansas should, together, buy the 219 mile segment that BNSF no longer uses and no longer wants to maintain. They can then hand off management of the segment to Amtrak and leave BNSF completely out of it.

Back in 2012, the Republican-controlled, car-loving state of Michigan bought a 135 mile segment from Norfolk Southern. At this time, over 90% of the Chicago-Detroit Amtrak service in Michigan runs on publicly-owned rail (Amtrak owns another large segment). The Michigan Department of Transportation maintains the line for 110 mph service.

There is no reason that Kansas and Colorado can't do the same. It's just a lack of ambition.
You mean to say that we have stopped cutting down entire rainforests??? Do tell me when this miracle happened?

How about the fact that we are going to be 10 billion by the end of the century?

And the only reason that we have managed to avoid a food shortage has been the increase in the use of fertilizers which in turn is depleting the soil at a faster rate than ever before turning arable land into dust bowls and rivers becoming so polluted by the chemicals that there are massive extinction events in the population of fish all around the world?

Same for the oil crisis, the shale oil has stopped the crisis in its tracks but only for a short amount of time as the demand keeps on rising and inevitably the price per liter/gallon is going to be back to what it was before the GFC. Also, fracking is polluting the soil more than ever before.

In short most of the crises that you mentioned have not been solved, but simply delayed.

Eventually, they will catch up with us and somebody is going to have to pay? But who? Most likely taxpayers as always.

What I find baffling is what are you going to say to your kids/ grand-kids when they ask you where the forests went? Why is the air so polluted? Why are the rivers so toxic and completely empty?

Should I go on?
From https://www.wired.com/story/google-duplex-gets-a-second-debu...

> I asked Huffman and Fox whether Google regretted showing off a carefully-produced Duplex demo back in May that offered little in terms of transparency or exposition. Fox didn’t say directly whether he regretted it. "We thought of the demo at I/O as much more of a technology demo, whereas what you see here is much more of the product side of the technology," Fox said.

So it's still not clear how edited or set up that call was at I/O. You can hear in the released video the voice is not as polished as the example at I/O, and also from the Wired article, you can see how easily the AI is tripped up. I don't think he needs to eat his hat yet.
I've never had anyone call my references. The most anyone has ever wanted is a W-2 form to prove I worked there.

I think it would be kind of unusual. What's the incentive to give an unbiased reference for free? If I didn't like someone, I'd say "oh yeah, they're great", because it's not my problem and I don't want to be held accountable for the person not getting a job. If they are great, I'd say the same thing, of course. The truly calculating individual would get a request for a reference and think "wow, I could poach this person from the recruiter by giving them a poor reference and hiring them for less than their market value."

I just don't see how references are A Thing. Maybe I'm just cynical.
Perhaps only remote hacking where you are not physically in the same location as what you are hacking (or have not caused any physical alterations). This kind of "hacking" should be entirely stoppable and entirely non-violent. Since it is stoppable, companies can stop all hacking. It will incentivise hacking, and thus incentivise companies to actually take security seriously.

This is different to decriminalising robberies because you cannot actually stop all robberies unlike remote hacking. Or at least there is a real possibility of harm during the cause of a stopped robbery. Stopping a remote hacking attempt won't cause physical harm, though perhaps it could cause financial harm. I'm not including attacks like denial of service when I say "hacking".
By and large poor people ride buses or drive. Buses go a lot places trains do not and, in the Northeast, buses are far cheaper than trains. Get above about 500 miles or so and planes are often cheaper.
A simple tool to make locally-trusted development certificates
I think I get it. I would personally be more comfortable perhaps with a meet-up style arrangement - there will be 8 candidates and 2 or 3 "fintech insiders", and there is some speed dating style chats, and group style feedback.

Otherwise, and I can read you are earnest and have thought about this, otherwise I just feel it is the wrong side of a very grey and vague line. The paying for one on one advice seems ... odd.

But, and I suspect this is very important, I only have the perspective of a white well educated english speaking middle aged male with attendant confidence. If I was missing any of those I suspect that my perspective might chnage.

If the university alumni team for any university / boot camp called and asked me to do the group style approach I would probably clear my diary.

So I am not sure why the pay for advice part bothers me so much.
While it probably still loses to Safari in a Mac battery benchmark overall, Chrome is much better today in this regard than it was a few years ago - the gap isn't what it once was.
Are you legally allowed to mention that? I thought references could only verify if you worked for the company, or otherwise risk being sued. Maybe that's a myth? Regardless, it's pretty odd he would put your company down as a reference after only staying two weeks.
That 6 week deadline is always going to be 18-20 in reality
GitHub – teambit/bit: Easily share code between projects with your team
> Something has to be said for people who pour their hearts and lives to making a great OS project that's used under the hood almost everywhere.

I'm sure many of those developers have an email @google.com.
Why American healthcare is so expensive
I hope there are good recipes for dick.
It's possible you're talking about different things. When robbery was mentioned asenna, I was imagining an empty house being robbed.
I recently priced up tickets from San Franisco to Sydney, and it was more than double the cost of Sydney to San Francisco. In fact, I priced up dates that included my original itinerary, and it was cheaper to buy two tickets originating in Australia.
According to google, Geneva to marseille is only less than 4 hours with a transfer from one TGV to another.

https://www.google.com/maps?q=marseille+to+geneva&oe=UTF-8&h...

Considering airport transit/check-in time, that makes it pretty competitive with taking a short plane trip.

Looking at it now, there is a direct Lyria train that takes 3 and a half hours.
Can I install real Ubuntu on either? Then for that reason I am out on both.
There could be concerns over potential toxins arising from the breakdown of the inks and adhesives used in making the boxes entering the food stream?
I agree. I’m still not used to the new Google Maps and it’s been, what, six years?
We discussed the remarkable pattern that the Republicans follow...

Well said. I've been saying a form of this for years (probably not as articulately as you), but I've noticed recently that more and more people seem to be getting it. This is a good thing, because once enough people understand this is what they are about, then it will become less effective.
What Happened to the Winner of McDonald's $1M Flexi-Disc Contest?
I'm not sure that Intel ME fits into most peoples privacy threat model the same way that OS and application analytics do.
Wouldn't it be the team lead's responsibility to look out for possible conflicts in the team and to act as a mediator?
Introduction to the European Union Public License
Eh. He probably just didn't like the team/felt that they didn't know what they were doing/they wasted more time on meetings and discussion in general rather than him just not wanting to justify his approach.
Don't forget the Dunning-Kruger effect - sometimes the reader scoffs because they reversed cause and effect, or saw a correlation that doesn't exist ("vaccines cause autism!")

Additionally, quality on one subject by one author says little about overall quality. Maybe the author was forced to fill in for a sick subject matter expert, or rush re-writing the article after a hard drive failure, or just don't care because layoffs are coming... maybe the paper poorly interviewed their sports writer because sports is a filler for that paper. Maybe lots of things.

If you're trying to avoid Gell-Mann Amnesia, you need to trends of quality not single data-points.
As far as I know, It's hard to arbitrage this because the 21st-century tightening of airline "security" means you'll be rejected from a later leg of your flight if you weren't on an earlier leg. Have you tried actually booking the two trips out of Australia and only taking the last half (Sf -> Sydney) of the first one?
The thing is, it isn’t “public” money — it’s my money and your money. It doesn’t belong to the government; it belongs to the people that earn it. And, we should have a right to require better public stewardship of the funds we pay. As far as public universities going bankrupt, citations definitely needed. In conservative Texas, universities seem to be operating just fine. Perhaps a solution is to restrict usage of federal student loan funds to only public schools. Federal student loans currently are being used to subsidize the operation of immensely wealthy private institutions. Harvard has billions in endowment, yet the taxpayer still gets to subsidize loans for students that go there. How is that fair? Perhaps we should tax the endowments of private schools and get them to start paying their fair share? It’s more fair than taxing me more.

If we tax the rich to pay for the poor, should we tax the rich schools o pay for the poor schools? Why should I subsidize Harvard?
I agree with this but I think the price is a bit high (I bought it, because I like it).

I don't feel like I got a lot of value for the money because Tower 2 was so great, and I had to pay more to use Bitbucket Server. Hopefully, new features will change my mind on this.
A bit of nuance: The ones in Germany are seriously good, in my experience.
Agreed, bad choice of words. It's only somewhat similar. Maybe "lazy" would be a better term. Whatever, man! I hope it's clear what I meant.
A big part of the problem is consumer education, we're lazy by nature and marketing takes advantage of that, i've seen 3 peeled nectarines on a foil wrapped foam tray or tuna in metallized plastic pouches or srink-wrapped cucumbers or potatoes, my coworker bring his lunch on a foam tray everyday together with plastic fork and knife these are after discarded so he doesn't have to wash anything.
This makes it super easy to create a blog! So easy, I even managed to create the following blog without even registering. (Yes, it seems that empty-username:empty-password is a valid login on this service.)

https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/~/MyLiveDemo

Also it seems that the "new article" functionality is broken, which is pretty important for a blogging service without any content.
"but it's also the transportation backbone of southwest Kansas and southeast Colorado"

What exactly do you mean when you say this? How many people per day on average, use the train to travel this area vs. using cars?
References can say whatever they want.
Don’t ever let your employer know. If they know you’re not loyal, but don’t find a better job or decide to stay for some other reason, you’re always going to be the one who gets the least trust, the worst projects (you might be gone soon anyway, right?) or even be the one who gets fired if someone has to go.

Another reason why you shouldn’t give references that early.
> People barely realized it until "Heartbleed" CVE

at which point they proceeded to shit on those devs for being so awful at maintaining a critical project. It was nasty and unwarranted.
It's impossible to do, I was just making sure it wasn't a quirk for the dates I was looking at.
Troll language: their strategy is actually Feed the Beast all the way. Redirect public money to private profit.
I like them. I'm a naturally lazy person, and filling out redundant information on Taleo forms for each job I apply to, only to be ghosted or called 6 weeks later is worse than dealing with recruiters who actively gain from getting me hired. Most of the ones I've worked with were friendly and followed up with me immediately about my standing. The only proviso is that their interests aren't aligned with mine regarding salary and start date. So you have to be assertive. I don't even see the problem with giving them a couple leads.
I’ll second this for a different set of reasons.

Firstly, if you talk to your reference about the position you are applying for they will be in a better position to give meaningful feedback. I’ve been able to take somebody from a “maybe” to a hire because I knew how their interview went and their perceived weaknesses.

Secondly, you want to make sure that the person isn’t just going to be cold called—ideally they can set up a time over email so it’s at a good time. One time, while checking my reference the company called and somebody else picked up their phone as they weren’t in. They then proceeded to tell them that they’ve never heard of me and that I didn’t ever work there.
Or your references might be a manager from your previous position plus a co-worker from a previous position plus a manager from the position before that. The co-worker from the previous position might end up being recruited.

That said, if my reference applied for the same position as me and got it, whatever, more power to them, and I probably wasn't going to get it anyway. There are enough jobs out there for both of us, and I'd rather at least know that one went to someone I like.
Python 3.7 released
And it was productized before then. AOL being a huge one ("You've got mail"), and Hotmail also coming to mind.
As far as I'm aware, git isn't a standard. It's a single implementation.
I used to be one in Germany, and trust me: there’s stuff going on you don’t want to know. Calls being recorded without your knowledge, zero respect for data privacy, recruiters sending out your CV without your knowledge (if they’re incompetent even to your own employer) - I’ve seen it all.
I never, ever, ever provide my references to recruiters.

My references only ever go directly to the hiring company.
Isn't the difference that, empirically, the more socialist a country becomes, the more its living standards deteriorate, while the more liberal a country becomes, the more its living standards improve?
The author probably meant that they don't believe that full-stack engineering is beneficial compared to hiring primarily specialists.
I would appreciate this if more front-end specialists actually had all four of the skills that the author claims separates them from full-stack devs: elegant CSS, high-performance web engineering, accessible markup, and in-depth knowledge of React/Angular/etc. I've not observed this to be true. All too often a person only knows the JS framework and doesn't know/care about any other aspect of their platform.
Are they "just" people? I'm not sure.

I've worked with or been around some of these top people before and, with few exceptions, they seem to have some kind of aura or something. I can't explain it exactly but it's disquieting.
I hear you. I feel like the internet is kinda hostile nowadays. Most folks are only consuming, and its clear (here for example) that I should mostly not contribute, unless I have something really insightful to say.

Is there a place on the internet for personal relations? Not for politics, not for hooking up, not for seeing who has the most informed opinion about something. Just for talking to the same people every day, help them out and be helped. I see some of that on smaller Discord servers.

The really odd thing I've been noticing though: that outside (real life) its much easier to expose yourself to that kind of "random world" that the internet felt like in those times. Like, walking in the streets and seeing what people are talking about in bars I can expose myself to more interesting[1] (to me of course) opinions than the front page of the biggest subreddits.

But, if you are an introvert like many of us, you probably won't say hello and make new friends that easy. And its not about joining the chess/dance/coding club either, because I don't want to hang out with people just like me. I'd rather hang out with strangers actually.

[1] Also, the factor that it is in my city makes this relatable, local, etc. Now that I mention, BBSes were also a local thing.
Totally false. J/K. Thom Hartmann laments this every so often. It truly is a conflict-via-propaganda-without-any-constructive-policy gambit that is like crybullying meets victim-blaming, perhaps to appease the angst of the GOP base by expedience, since it’s always worked, instead of leading constructively.

The problem of populism without “informatism” (coining a term for pragmatic education on current issues, interests and policy) leads to the tyranny of mob rule by manufactured consent, demagoguery and fashionable memes; voting should be a privilege, not an automatic right, of those whom undertake continuous, thoughtful personal enrichment, development of good judgement and awareness. No voter id laws, no direct costs and no IQ tests, just tests focusing on substance and judgement, perhaps with a panel interview for those whom pass the written ones. It does take a shift in thinking about what a representative democracy (psephocracy) values, and that it’s not and never was a panacea for “perfect” governance, but it shouldn’t be worshipped as gospel, lionize unbridled power and corruption of mob tyranny, nor elitism of only those whom hold “approved” views. No republic has so far survived beyond an avg of ~10 generations (~250 years) due to the entropy of forgetting/misunderstanding/not applying the founders’ beliefs, unable lead/reform themselves, corruption by the elites insulating themselves in the halls of power and people tuning-out from the drama of mismanagement.
I think you’re right, but the importance of some history to the credibility is higher in certain areas. If I write an article and post it on HN, then yes, I don’t think people here care too much about my public history, procided that the article is interesting.

But if I decide to write and sell a book or produce a paid course, then having no history related to the field I’m trying to be an expert in feels pretty sketchy.

I can say for myself: when I’m considering buying a book or a course, I research the author.
>Even in Europe where trains are icons, try taking a train from Marseille to Geneva. It’s an 8 hour trip requiring two connections. It’s a 45 minute flight at a similar cost.

While I’m sure you could take that long and transfer that many times, I see a direct 3.5 hour trip for €65

You can’t really compare train travel in the US to that of Europe. The US is gigantic in comparison, Amtrak doesn’t own many of the rails they use and get delayed as a result, and airport security is atrocious to say the least.

If you’re looking at the total time to fly, getting to the airport early, going through the funhouse of “security” and then waiting for your luggage, I would imagine it’s not just 45 min.
Unfortunately that article reads like a press release from "Renewlogy" and doesn't seem to have a complete basis in reality. In reality at present the area is facing a $900,000 increase in recycling costs largely because china isn't taking it anymore.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2018/06/26/curbside-...
There's absolutely nothing that you can do indefinitely and not have it kill you.
Didn't know Github did that, pretty cool how they format the YAML metadata at the top of the blog post (off-topic)
Just being able to provide multiple people with meaningful positions (former manager at your company, etc.) who are willing to advocate for you is a signal. There are ways to fake that signal of course, but it's still something of a filter.
I'm this way, and I don't know why. I try to avoid frontend, until I'm more or less forced into it. I can make something functional, but inevitably get grilled about my way of going about it or why I didn't use 2018x style. The fact is, I don't care. I hate every minute of it, and only learn enough to knock it out. I find myself mentally complaining every step of the way. I just don't like how the web as it is is designed, written, or fits together. I wish there was an off switch, as I know i'd be more valuable with these skills, but I'm just mentally unable to accept it.