skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically, Microsoft had an explicit strategy of infiltrating and subverting open standards in order to bring them under their control. I believe that Microsoft are now deeply committed to being a reliable and trustworthy open source contributor, but I understand why other people might be more sceptical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Graphene Enters the Stratosphere
The original crowdfunding page specified "We aim to support 3G and 4G for the most common international frequency bands and carriers, with an interchangeable module. Exact specifications will follow as we are evaluating the data+voice modems that will be used." and "Separate mobile baseband" as a key tech spec on https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

I know that, for instance, Verizon has certified a variety of modules to work on it's network, and a phone (or laptop) that uses that module need not be certified by Verizon to work on their network, for instance. Every Verizon compatible laptop doesn't get certified, it just tends to use one of a handful of Sierra Wireless LTE modems which are. Similarly, my understanding (and hope) is that Purism is going to support dropping in various LTE modems so that people can get support for the networks they need.
Man that’s quite a good idea. Let the age of economic ostracism start.
Worse than misleading. From Wikipedia: "Pioneer Fund is an American non-profit foundation established in 1937 'to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences." The organization has been described as racist and 'white supremacist' in nature,[1][2][3] and as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[4]."
They are opposing goals, and personally I come down squarely on people not being free to express themselves however they want all the time. Work is a special place with special rules because we're forced to be there and we generally have little control over who is around us. There's a very high barrier for somebody to be able to walk away compared to just being out at a bar or something, so the behavioral standards should be more strict to compensate for that.

Basically, I think women should be able to work wherever they want without having deal with coworkers commenting on their tits. I'm extremely fine with limiting people's speech in the workplace.
Or the "Uniracers arrow".
Yes? It designs to filter people based on certain criteria. Nowadays, you just can't get a job by merely talking, the market is too hot, too many people want to get in.

I don't think design interview alone is that useful either. Someone without actual experience designing stuff could still fake it by reading other people's past solutions and answers, there are templates on the internet.

Nothing is inherently bad just because it fails you. Everyone saying Google's process is broken, blahblah, doesn't change the fact Google employees are hot AF on the job market.
Ford unveils exoskeleton vests to lighten the load for workers – CBS News
Thank you for the response. I appreciated your take on the situation in the original article and I am glad to hear that you accommodate developers like me that don’t perform well for strangers on the spot. This type of thing really pushes a company up the ranks if I’m interviewing with them.
Making it work is pretty easy. Got some friends who got it to work on a GNU/Linux running on the Nintendo Switch. The trouble is to properly integrate it into your device. You'd want android apps to access your contacts, things like that. Those are certainly complicated to setup.
It was made by https://twitter.com/Orteil42?s=17 .
That is one place you don't need hacking CPUs to hack the result. Plain files vetted by no one etc etc.
I call B.S. on this.

The real reason we have Atherosclerosis is because of chlorinated drinking water - not too much sleep.

Look:
https://twitter.com/TheMarkusAllen/status/998642583936077828
It absolutely should, but then, I'm fundamentally in favour of more services becoming government-owned public utilities. The way this would (ideally) shake out here in Australia, though, is that given hate speech is not protected speech, the result may not be so different.
That's almost a truism, no?
This is a HUGE wake-up call.

It really is incredible to see that a third party apparently has discovered a genuine backdoor in a production CPU with completely independent research. If that's within reach for a standalone researcher, what secrets lie in well-funded organizations at the nation level?

Perhaps this will bring further mindshare to the RISC-V approach in the future?
Having worked for many multinational clients as an advisor, I can say with 100% certainty that "business impact" is not "almost always a lie" and is in fact quite the opposite.

On the other hand, if you're talking about the personal business fiefdoms of billionaires, then you're quite right--they make decisions based on what the sole owner wants, financial consequences be damned.
Show HN: Trokam, an Internet search engine
https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/1025049961472253957

Not the statement an "avowed racist" makes.
And Mr. Levine's writing is highly entertaining, in addition to giving a clear explanation that the layman can understand of the story. And the entertainment value is because the situation is actually ridiculous to begin with.
Imagine we wanted to influence people to eat burritos instead of tacos. Tacos are currently very popular. The normal cost of a taco is $3 and the normal cost of a burrito is $4. Let's say I have $4.

If we subsidise the burrito by $2, then the burrito will cost $2 and the taco will cost $3. I have $4 so I can buy either of them. They are about the same price (with the burrito being just a little cheaper). However since I'm used to buying tacos, there's a good chance that I won't switch.

If I leave the burrito at $4 and tax the taco an extra $2, then the burrito will cost $4 and the taco will cost $5. I don't have $5 so I'm forced to buy a burrito.

Of course the problem is that in the second scenario everything costs more and the government is pocketing the tax. So while it's arguably going to be more effective at switching people to burritos (because a subset of people will no longer be able to afford tacos), it's easy to market against: "The government is destroying the economy by putting tacos out of reach of the everyday person. Food will be 33% more expensive because of this tax that is designed to funnel money into government coffers. There are 2 million taco makers who will lose their jobs because of this terrible tax. Vote for us and we will return the choice back to consumers."

A subsidy is easier to introduce.
You might want to refer to our measurement project for some numbers:

https://fluxometer.com/rainbow/

Also, you can be below threshold for circadian responses just by being very dim.
It's true that the majority of workplaces are not like this, but it's also true that damn near every woman has stories about behavior like this.
Stripping or modding a Tesla would be the only way I'd get one...and I'd really like to. Very interested in what happens in this thread.
Thank you for the quote pointed. I will remember that for next time! As to you’re point, I think others have covered it well, but I will add my agreement that communicating in an environment where you are comfortable and familiar with the topics ahead of time and won’t have your career prospects put in the line is much easier. Some people like myself simply can’t prepare for an infinite number of possible whiteboard scenarios and look competent.
Thanks :) I'm not sure how that happened.
So tell me how the "refuting" of the idea that Sandy Hook was a hoax caused the harassment of parents of children murdered there to stop?
> When you’re not in one of the big cities, it is in fact common that police has time for this type of stuff

I didn't do a nationwide survey, but you can add two places in Limburg (Maastricht and a small town near Echt) to the list of understaffed places since they also wouldn't respond to anything that was not life-threatening (literally asked whether we were threatened with our life).

For added fun, you should try calling the local police on a public holiday. Better have a good reason for bothering these busy bees when they're all out on parking meter patrol!
Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy
A website ban isn't even remotely the same thing as a legal sanction.

If you want to control the platform, create your own. You'll need the hardware and the software, and it could get expensive. But if you want to spread hate speech or libel, suck up the cost.

If you want to be on someone else's platform you accept the restrictions of using that platform. Hate speech is on the list of almost every major platform (except Twitter).
Do you have any evidence for that claim? Your article doesn't give any.
Microsoft now charges just 5%, if you do your own marketing.
Keybase vérification
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/sydneykt; my proof: https://keybase.io/sydneykt/sigs/0VzYjp0wbImUfxp_cMZtT9NmI4xfOsg1XmPnJnU3w3M ]
"Why is that a problem? "

Ask the parents of children murdered at Sandy Hook.
Wireguard looks awesome. Any news about a windows wireguard implementation?
Sure. But isn't it a valid dig?
Or, it could be that the two things being compared have entirely different contexts to them, and thus do have different rules.
The attacker could just wait outside your house for you to hold or move it as you head off to work in the morning then come back at night to pick the car up
Misleading title, buried lede:

sleeping longer than ten hours might be indicative of other problems that might give cardiologists concern, adds Brooke Aggarwal, Ph.D., a behavioral scientist and clinical health education specialist in the Division of Cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center who was not involved in the study. “Scientists are not totally sure if sleeping too much is a risk to health itself, or if it is simply a marker of increased risk, she tells Inverse.
Exercise Weekly Can Improve Your Brain Memory Functions
Hey that was a pretty cool read.

Interesting to see what the kids are up to.
In Russia and, I guess, similar countries, it's quite rare to encounter a car which isn't protected by an external protection system (not sure how it's called in English, in Russian it's usually called "Сигнализация") which includes shock sensors, alarm system, remote control and car block which protects some vital engine circuits. There are systems with dialog protocol between remote control and car with actual encryption inside, so it might be not so trivial to break it. In practice such cars are either stolen inside trucks or an entire system is by-passed by a separate automobile computer connected directly to necessary engine sensors, ignition coils, etc. Quite clever technique, you don't need to bypass protected electronics if you can bring and connect your own electronics.
That’s a great viewpoint, imho! Scientists in most fields have to write code nowadays, better to make it easier for them to hack together novel and useful tools.
I guess because remainder is simpler to implement? (anecdotally, the assembly generated by @code_native in Julia is much shorter for remainder)

In my opinion neither are used sufficiently often to justify taking up a valuable ASCII symbol (same with xor).
GL;HF Microsoft Azure, attempting to force your customers' content policy (in cases for which Azure is clearly not liable) is one more excellent reason not to buy Azure, right around only supporting IPv6 on load balancers (not directly on hosts).

Though on the flip side, I think some of these posts could violate Gab's own ToS, so even if their OP didn't remove them voluntarily, they would likely not have survived long anyway.
That's great to hear. I love getting feedback about this stuff, positive or negative! We're constantly evolving our process.
Today Chrome is at version 68. I understand that government departments love to have explicit version support but why does this site use Flash, require IE 11 (not Edge!), old browser versions and just all this stuff that is _basic_ infosec stuff.

Perhaps this has some good information in it but if they're going to build it in this way then it's probably worth keeping internally and not releasing to the world. I think at this point it's probably harder to build something in Flash and find someone to build it in Flash than in more modern web technology.
The article's central point seems to be that it's more difficult to track accountability and causality in an increasingly "overheated" and complicated world. True.

But the major system for addressing that currently seems to be People Getting Upset, and the article proposes more organizations for People Getting Upset. But this isn't very efficient; sometimes the global economy DOES need to make Gladstone a bit less pretty. And people have only a limited amount of Upset within them, not nearly enough to make the system work well.

We need better tools of addressing externalities as a society.

Or maybe just the ability to actually implement those we have. Property rights work pretty well where they can apply. Carbon taxes seem decent, but they usually go straight to government coffers and don't pay out to citizens (that seems like a flaw to me). I'm not an economist, but I'd be interested in better ideas.
> A common argument in philosophy is that bad ideas should occur in the open - where everyone may ridicule them.

Then let them occur in the open. I welcome them to the nearest soapbox.

It's not clear at all, to this student of philosophy, why neo-Nazis are entitled to time on Microsoft's servers.
And f-droid somehow is immune to this?
I've never considered that about "TFA" (I could see how 'RTFA' could be rude); no rudeness intended. The article as my browser displays it is a couple dozen paragraphs long; just in case you can't access it, here is the relevant section:

The spectre hanging, however genially, over every attempt to create a Chinese typewriter is Lin Yutang. While others repackaged Japanese machines, the Tsinghua and Harvard-educated Lin was inventing his own. A brilliant and congenial figurehead with two English-language bestsellers in the 1930s, in the 1940s Lin came up with his MingKwai (Clear, Quick) typewriter. Roughly the size of an English-language typewriter, and equipped with a recognisable keyboard, the MingKwai’s appearance belied its complexity. Its compact chassis concealed 43 rotating cylinders, and featured a viewfinder (‘the Magic Eye’) that allowed users to select characters by depressing keys marked with character components – some radicals, some strokes, and some bold and intuitive groupings of Lin’s own devising. IBM and Remington expressed their interest, and Lin’s typewriter was celebrated in dozens of newspapers across the US, from the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune to the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek. But it was never mass-manufactured: the plans were undone partly by the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, which didn’t seem to bode well for patent rights, and partly by the invention of the phonetic system Pinyin, which briefly threatened, at least in the eyes of American manufacturers, to make Chinese typewriters obsolete. Today if you open a laptop or unlock a phone to type in Chinese, the first thing you’ll notice is how intent the software is on doing all your work for you. The letters typed on your keyboard trigger the on-screen display of several dozen likely possibilities, arranged in order of frequency. This seems so obviously computational it is a surprise to learn that it originated with the actuating keys Lin devised for his typewriter, and with the fervour of the typists in the early days of the Revolution.

In 1951, typesetter Zhang Jiying shattered speed records by arranging characters in associative clusters, which he called lianchuan – ‘chain’ or ‘free-association’, later adopted as the term for what is now called predictive text. Zhang recognised how much of language is cliché. ‘Liberation’ (jiefang) was likely to be followed by ‘army’ (jun), ‘American’ (Mei) by ‘imperialist’ (di). While it is true that grammar and word-order impose certain expectations on form in every language, it is particularly true of Chinese, where collocations influenced by tone, metre and rhythm have, by a centuries-long process, migrated towards one another. Typists and typewriter manufacturers rejigged their keyboards in the wake of Zhang’s discovery. And so while typewriters became more attuned to the language of people generally, they became less like people personally.
It seems like a bait post to get people to go to an Amazon affiliate blog. It cites a paper from the 80s that has inconclusive results and then recommends you get some products from Amazon via affiliate links. I can't flag it or else I would.
Not in Texas A&M math department, for example, at least a few years ago.
Others have posted great links. But one great aspect is how simple it is. The hardest part is getting a kernel module that works with your kernel. In my experience, the best way to do that is to build it. And that's the hardest part in getting WireGuard working. In Debian, that means using the latest stable release (at least) with the latest kernel.

Once you have WireGuard working, creating tunnels is utterly trivial. For a toy implementation:

peer 0 with IPv4 address 1.2.3.4

# ip link add dev wg0 type wireguard
# ip link list
[see wg0]
# wg genkey | tee privatekey | wg pubkey > publickey
# mkdir wg
# mv privatekey publickey ./wg/
# ip address add dev wg0 10.0.10.1 peer 10.0.10.2
# wg set wg0 listen-port 51820 private-key ~/wg/privatekey
# ip link set wg0 up
# wg
interface: wg0
public key: 0GS...0U=
private key: (hidden)
listening port: 51820
# wg set wg0 peer IlC...QI= allowed-ips 0.0.0.0/0 endpoint 6.7.8.9:51820

peer 1 with IPv4 address 6.7.8.9

# ip link add dev wg0 type wireguard
# ip link list
[see wg0]
# wg genkey | tee privatekey | wg pubkey > publickey
# mkdir wg
# mv privatekey publickey ./wg/
# ip address add dev wg0 10.0.10.2 peer 10.0.10.1
# wg set wg0 listen-port 51820 private-key ~/wg/privatekey
# ip link set wg0 up
# wg
interface: wg0
public key: IlC...QI=
private key: (hidden)
listening port: 51820
# wg set wg0 peer 0GS...0U= allowed-ips 0.0.0.0/0 endpoint 1.2.3.4:51820
Anyone who follows the systemd-devel mailing list and the systemd github repo knows that there's just around four maintainers regularly active to varying degrees, including Lennart.
Do we know why bankers chose green instead of yellow for their eye shades? I know they wore them due to eye strain, but why green and not something else?
> Amsterdam currently has a big police shortage, that's why. It's not normal, it's just a problem in Amsterdam.

Or maybe Amsterdam has an excess of crime.
That's a very nice platitude, but as reality has shown, it's a terrible rule.
This depends on what the behavior is of the division operator. People should use floor division, then implementing modulo is easy.

I don’t know what is available as chip instructions, I could certainly believe hardware designers made the wrong choice.
> but bad ideas are forced to spread in hidden places without refute then bad ideas are the only ones getting any voice and they win by default.

They win by default in those dark places. Important distinction.
No, you're being pointed out that you're wrong. That "more speech" doesn't help, and can actually get people killed.
We’re Still Not Prepared for Global Warming
> so you are pushing additional expenses to the future.

Is that a necessarily bad thing? Serious question.

The nuclear waste that we generate is concentrated in the Nuclear Reactors and thus can be tracked and managed (I'm assuming a reasonable amount of competency and lack of natural disasters etc.). We could just store it locked away in concrete containers far from any human population centers.

Perhaps in the future we discover a use for all that waste. Or perhaps space travel becomes cheap enough that we start jettisoning the waste to the Sun, or any other low-cost orbital trajectory.

Right now, the CO2 generate from fossil fuels is just dumped into the environment and we know that is causing climate change and is a clear, immediate and existential threat to humanity.

Is the decision really that hard to make?
I can tell you with 90% confidence that if you’re working for a financial institution that offers bill pay, your entire bill pay infrastructure is dependent on a third party provider. I know the provider.

If you offer an iOS app, you’re dependent on closed source software. Your project management software would be a beast to migrate, etc.

Are you really suggesting that every company should “take over” every open source project they depend on and build “open source versions of commercial software?”
Trump Wants You to Choose a Space Force Logo for the Merch He'll Sell You
I think their point was that unless you're willing to accept Minitrue you don't have an authoritative source of truth to check against.
It's unfortunate when reading this that the realization is "they're gonna do the drugs whether or not the Fitbit is there, so I guess it might as well be there". :|

What happened to just not doing drugs?
Do you have a (Twitter? ;-) feed with these screenshots?
> Go goes into: oops our error handling requires 2 times as much code as the actual program, so people are just panicking everywhere.

That sounds more like laziness on the part of the programmer, rather than the language design.
Maybe I read too much about fooling fingerprint readers and think this is easier than it really is, but isn't it easy to check for prints in the car? In the general case, a shattered window means someone stole something and must have touched something in the car.

Of course not everyone is in the database, but if they are ever caught with anything they will be.
The other point is that remainder makes much more sense for floating point numbers, as it's exact. mod on the other hand is not, and is fiendishly difficult to get "right" (if that is even possible).
Ask HN: Cities underserved by tech jobs?
This question came up in a meeting today and I thought I would ask the HN community for their insights. The company (could be any company but happens to be the one I'm currently working for) is in a position to open an office "anywhere" in the continental US. The projects this company takes on happen to involve embedded Linux systems and software defined radio systems, but lets not focus too much on the flavor of tech.

What cities in the US could be helped by having a company that was employing 30 - 50 technical workers (engineers) locate there? Are the cities already attractive to technical talent (already living out there) or willing to relocate there?

Everyone knows "Austin" or "Denver" or "Research Triangle Park" but how about other heartland cities?
It doesn't work like that. This can't be recorded and replayed later. This attack works by extending the range of the exchange between car and key in real time using handheld repeaters.
I think 18F only really works at the Federal levels (please correct me if I'm mistaken). But there might be some Code for American fellowship people who could be embedded with the city.
Solidarity went out the window when noone would touch me for over a year after 10 yrs of service as an engineer in the armed forces.

Don't appeal to my emotions
And if they continued hosting, I would point an Azure sales rep to these groups as a reason why I would not engage with them.