skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has shown time and again that they're open and enthusiastic about receiving properly reported bug reports which give them the chance to fix things before hitting the web. Usually that includes compensation. Why would you think this one would be any different? Maybe this guy just wasn't familiar with proper practice, in which case, well, what can you do. But it's extremely bad to go public with bugs without talking to the vendor first. How many sites might exploit this between the blog post going live and Google rolling out a fix?
Feel this could be a system that is 1. Not accessible to all 2. Not affordable 3. Could lead to contraindications with other techniques and systems if not implemented properly. I’m optimistic but have also worked in healthcare long enough to understand that these things happen.
They've been wooing me by sending my super saver packages in 2 days.
same. i _was_ looking at getting an HP Spectre x360 with the i7 8550U. Now, I'm going to look explicitly at laptops with Ryzen chips. I think the Spectre might have a Ryzen model, but don't know.
Ask HN: Are there many opportunities for part-time remote work in software?
I'm currently employed by a very flexible small company as a developer. I am also starting a vegetable farm which is requiring more and more of my attention, so I need to limit my hours behind a computer to 20-25 hrs/week, and it has to be remote. My employer is great because they will let me do that, however I don't enjoy the work and I feel stagnated. I want to look for another employer but I don't ever see part-time job listings. Are there many part-time remote software jobs, or is it hard to find?
The house was already affordable without the spouse needing a job, albeit with some possible unpleasantness like not being able to drive around for fun every day of the week. But if the spouse chooses to take a job, affording that house becomes really comfortable. Which only goes to show just how affordable housing really is.
Microsoft is throwing everything on Azure these days, I won’t be surpised if a significant proportion of these services are discontinued in the next years.
The UK has a lot more defences if your _home_ gets squatted. The rationale is that now we're considering two parties who both want to live somewhere, and so the legitimate owner/ occupier wins. Where squatters move into somewhere empty the court has to weigh up on the one hand property rights of the owner who left it empty but on the other the squatters desire to have a home. So these are unequal rights and the squatters may win under some circumstances.

The antidote is desirable for a community. If you don't want squatters in a building you never live in, let somebody else live there instead. Now if it comes to it (which it probably won't) any squatters will lose. Lots of places that somebody owns and might otherwise stay empty have people living in them for very little rent for this reason. If you've got a good reputation don't care where you live and don't mind potentially having to leave on very short notice when the real owner wants it back, you can get very, very cheap rent in crazy buildings because of this. People live in unused lighthouses, buildings that used to be part of defence systems, big factories, all sorts of stuff.
ThreadRipper seems more like a Xeon competitor to me. Something for the server room crowd.
If you wanna break unwanted habits you have to break bad neural paths and force your body to develop the new neural connections.

Try to scratch your beard gently, caress a cat, etc. Lace your shoes differently, switch from one loop wrap to bunny ears. Since I watched "Dealt" movie I've been shuffling a deck of cards while reading from screen, it feels very comforting.

You have to foster these good habits the hard way, through repetitions. Don't be hard on yourself plucking hairs or skin picking has occurred once again, but praise yourself for how much of a cat lover or agile deck shuffler you are.
Have you not heard of Valve's Proton? It's the next best thing!
some of the stuff i've wired up around my house:

* zwave motion sensors that can turn on the stairs lights at night when I start to walk down

* door/window sensors that will automatically turn the AC off if they are open for more than a minute.

* several methods of presence detection for anyone in the house, and ensuring the doors are locked, lights out, and garage doors down if nobody is home (after an announcement on the google homes just in case anyone somehow is still home)

* automatic notifications to my wife's phone when i'm on my way home after work so she would know when to start dinner (we don't use this one any more as I work from home, but it beat getting phone calls and me guessing how long I was from home every day!)

* notifications that show an image of who is at the front door when there is motion there

* an alert if a door in the house is left open for more than 1 minute

* a vibration sensor combined with a tiny hall sensor on the door of the washer/dryer to notify me when laundry is done (trying to measure power usage on 220v wiring was looking to be more annoyance than it was worth, so i went a different route!)

And one of my favorites that i'm working on right now:

* a system to measure rainfall amount and only turn on the reclaimed water sprinklers when it's not enough, but adjust the runtime accordingly.
>The difference is that when AMD's chips see a load instruction, the load isn't executed until it knows that the address isn't privileged. Intel's chips do execute the load (but then throw away the result when it realises the address was privileged)

Thank you for the detailed explanation, can't we conclude that AMD engineering is more defensive then Intel, this is what I concluded.
Since there are eyes on this thread: Has anyone successfully linked their HA Cloud account with Alexa? I keep on getting "We were unable to link Home Assistant at this time."
Another must-see is the museum right next to the dome, the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. Inside is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen--the hand-cast "Gates of Paradise" doors of the Baptistery, by Lorenzo Ghiberti. Simply incredible!

Fun fact about Ghiberti and the doors he made: he won a contest in 1401 to create the first set of the doors. The runner-up? Brunelleschi.
> I'm accurate but also kinda slow

Quality or speed you cant have both, there is lots of work in the tech world for people that can produce quality. You also talk about wanting to be organised, lots of work for organised people in the tech world. All of your personality traits that make you feel overwhelmed are probably your greatest assets if you can find work that makes use of them.

You have tried a lot of different types of work in the tech sector but there are more still, lots more. Try smaller businesses and other less corporate overlord tech companies.

In my experience there is more shitty work than there is good work, keep trying shit until you find something that works for you.
What are the backdoors in my Gmail account?
it should at least offer things like "show-type-of-expression-at-current-cursor-position"
Kubernetes Cluster Ops: Options for Configuration Management
Suburbs built in the 1970s have the same problems as houses built today - rapid, low-quality construction, cheap materials, etc. They're temporary buildings. (Levittown, in fact, was built in the 50s!) At the very least, a new house is further from it's expiry date than an older house. You'll probably find better construction where land costs more (downtown cities) or pre-1950s buildings, but these are quite rare.

EDIT: As a reminder of the endless progression of time, a 30-year-old house would have been built in 1988.
Shocking right ? that the world always changing. I personally welcome this change. This one is different than pop up ads in the past where it actually annoy me.
At the time I started rolling my own home automation software, Home Assistant didn't do what I needed, but if I was starting today with where it's at now, I would almost certainly also be using Home Assistant. It now supports what it was missing before.

Truly unreal number of integrations built for it now.
That's not the point - if you get your bills sent elsewhere, the address on the bill is not your own, so you have no proof of address anymore.
> There is no way that we are "alone" in a universe estimated to have practically infinite planets.

Maybe there is a lot of space out there, but not enough time? Maybe the universe is still pretty young and it takes a lot of time to go from zero to intelligent life that knows how to contact each other over great distances.
I don’t actually think tech is what we need to worry about. My concerns are with access and affordability.
> auschwitzean

Do you mean "arbeit macht frei" [1] or "work will set you free"?

Were you prevented from leaving?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei
It’s still there at an institutional and cultural level - I think the most glaring example of this is the amount of landlords who either openly or discreetly (with a phone call to your realtor) will not rent property to foreigners.
Yep, I caught that a while after posting and kicked myself for it but failed to edit it as I got distracted. Thanks nonetheless. :)
What are you talking about... “violence supporting”?!
Is it possible to combine this with snips.ai? So you have voice control on the device it self or run snips on another device and let it send commands to the home assistant device?
If you like Neal Stephenson, you'll like Cixin Liu (especially when translated by Ken Liu), but you'll have to give Liu a fresh chance and let his work be its own thing. I love NS's work, and I've really enjoyed Cixin Liu's trilogy.

Three Body Problem is very thrilling to read; fast paced with a lot of cliff hangers, and excellent world building. The sci-fi/speculative bits are extrodinary, and although the characters can sometimes feel like their only role is to give a 'first person perspective' of the science, Liu can surprise you with the emotional depth that his characters exude.

The Dark Forest is in my opinion harder to get through than Three Body Problem, but the payoff is extraordinary. The pacing is slower with more world-building, and the perspective bounces around between a lot of characters without much forward movement. I had to put it down for a while and read some other books before I built up the motivation to finish it (it helped that I already bought the next book, so I felt guilty not finishing).

Deaths End, the third book, is unbelievably amazing. The pacing is more similar to Three Body Problem, and the science is astounding. All of the patience necessary for Dark Forest pays off because Liu is able to bring his world-elements into a mesmerizing display of action and conflict. I'm only half-way through and I've lost count of the number of times I've had to take pause and simply exclaim "Wow!".
Home Office is probably the most difficult branch of the British government to work with, if they require a printed original even if no such thing ever existed, you better pull one out of your ass or the whole application will be declined. Not before they hold it for 8 months without any reply first though.
Visual UI Regression Testing with WebAssembly and the Kantu Selenium IDE
Thank you, really appreciate this kind of feedback :)

I store these kind comments in my notes and whenever people are asses online, I always go through the stored notes to know why we do what we do.
Intel no longer just has i3/5/7-- celeron, pentium, i3/5/7/9 and plus variants. Within those are dozens of variants
differentiated on things like PCIe bandwidth, SMT, instruction sets, accessible RAM, and so on.

In comparison, AMD's offerings are surprisingly easy. There's a handful of SKUs differentiated on core count and frequency. Generally they all have the same PCIe lanes, RAM access, SMT, instruction sets, and so on.
"Around the world, everyone is looking for ways to push back against American tech,".

Why?
There isnt a mono-ethnic country in the world where you won't face racism much worse than in multicultural societies as you will always be different. People don't call it racism there. its normal for you not to be treated like a japanese as you re not one. and don't worry they will make you feel that everyday. especially when they will see that you speak japanese and that you re not a tourist
For what it's worth, I love reading about this stuff, though I specialize in InfoSec so this sort of thing is actually pretty common in our communities.

You would have definitely had a much easier time with them than you are right now.

But for what it's worth, this will blow over soon enough, the internet does not have the greatest memory (unless you actually did something horrendous, which you didn't)
Object detection in just 3 lines of R code using Tiny YOLO
FlureeDB – Blockchain Graph Database – .9 Version Launch
This is fascinating! Unfortunately I don't understand even half of it, I've been wanting to learn music theory for some time

I should go back and learn to play a musical instrument
That compares the 1960s to the 1980s. A lot has changed in 30 years. In particular Financialisation has increased dramatically. Are there any more recent figures?

Also, less work being done at home isn't necessarily a good thing. More people eating microwaved ready meals or takeaways probably means lower quality of life overall.
Agreed 100%. I think a lot of the credit goes to @balloob (Paulus Schoutsen).
Been there, done that. Here's the TLDR approach:

Perform small, incremental refactoring.

Spend 2/3rds of your time adding / updating tests.

(If you can,) involve the original author in code reviews.

Figure out what the original author did right. If the project appears to work, something was done right. Make sure to maintain the right design patterns, libraries, frameworks, testing tools, ect, as long as you can.

Honestly, refactoring is my favorite part of programming. Taking something that "almost" works and turning it into something that's industrial strength and maintainable is what gives me the most professional joy.

(Edit) The last time I was in this situation, the product had very visible problems. I had to put my foot down and declare that they had to be fixed, because no one would use our product if they weren't fixed. If you can point to a problem, like hard scalability limits that management agrees will become an obstacle to company growth, that's your way to get buy-in for refactoring.
>Google would say: ‘We know, that’s why we are pushing to move everyone to https.’

Am I presuming too much to think Google's primary motivation for pushing HTTPS is to protect their revenue model by preventing their ads from being replaced as opposed to simply being motivated by benevolence?
To add weight to your point in regards to Australia's hypocrisy, there's an on-going case where a now ex-member of one of Australia's intelligence agencies blew the whistle on Australia's illegal surveillance of the East Timorese government.

Currently they're trying to prosecute the whistle-blower AND his lawyer for "revealing state secrets" as a tactic to draw out the process.

See here:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-28/witness-k-and-bernard-...

And for a larger history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93East_Timor_s...

The ASD (Australian Signals Directorate - equivalent to the NSA) mission statement is: Reveal their secrets - Protect our own.

Which I suppose is in keeping with banning any non-purely-Australian-owned vendors from participating in any communications infrastructure project. I don't think there are any purely-home-grown Australian 5G infrastructure manufacturers though.
How much do you like this job? If you're the only one motivated to do this cleanup and rewrite then there's a bad culture at that company, and I'd guess very little mentorship and room for you to grow. I'd look for another job soon.
My problem with the series is the premise that invasion of another star system is worth it.

With all the resources Trisolarians put into colonization of Earth, and all their superior technology - they could've made space habitats that had perfectly safe orbits around whichever star they prefer, and put all of their citizens on them.

What's the point of risking mutual destruction by hunter in the dark forest (and we know they were afraid of it since the start), if you can create habitats in your own star system, or choose any nearby uninhabited star system if the 3-body-problem is really making it impossible to put these in your own system (and realistically - it wouldn't be so bad, just make a dyson swarm around the whole system.
> but not enough time?

Or too much time, between different epochs even on the same planet.

We are intelligent. We know dinosaurs existed. They stood where we stand. We cannot contact them, we will never touch them, and we will never fully learn about them, nor they us.
Encryption isn't a magic bullet. If you have good visibility into the network there's a hell of a lot you can do with traffic analysis and metadata. Plus, if you own the end-user device you can just go around the encryption since the data, by definition, has to be displayed to the user decrypted.

It's a hard problem. Encryption is part of the solution, but it's not the solution.
The 80s Transformers movie takes place in “It is the year 2005”
Another look at the pinning API in Rust
How to Think about Space-Based Missile Defense
Smart observation. Another way to say it is that, for distinct primes p1 and p2, the events “p1 divides n”, and “p2 divides n”, are approximately statistically independent. So you get a near-diagonal covariance with entries as you wrote.
>> Consumers have spoken, and spoken extremely loudly, that they like Apple’s approach.

> This is not really supported by the evidence...

This isn’t about Apple vs Android or market share. The success of iOS speaks for itself, and in particular the success of the App Store speaks for itself. It is self-evident from the billions of dollars that apps have earned (is it tens of billions now?) that the model is successful and widely used both by developers and consumers. Apple users are much more prolific spenders on the Apple App Store than users of the Android market as well, the majority of that money going directly to developers. This is partly demographics, but also partly the security, reliability, and trust provided by the walled garden.

> And given a choice between a distribution method that restricts apps and then charges 30% more and one that doesn't and has lower prices

As long as apps that are not sold through the Apple Store do not use any Apple APIs to operate, that would be fair.

But if you want to use the massive infrastructure that Apple has built [1] then I think you have to play by Apple’s rules.

The iPhone is a device which you own, yes, but it is also a massive collection of services which Apple spends 10s of billions of dollars developing and supporting in order to deliver the overall experience.

As an app developer, the APIs, services, documentation, training, support, and marketing combine to justify the 30%. The “App Store” application itself, and all the search, discovery, reviews, auto-updates, billing, services, and support is just one piece of the massive infra that Apple provides to all the apps running on its platform.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823937
I use snips regularly, set it up for music and lighting control just like you haha. I really enjoy how easy it was to setup - have a ton of Pis sitting and gadgets sitting around. Are you looking to get their maker kit? Or use your own setup?
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you are an absolute madman you know that haha!
#NorthKorea-linked #Ryuk #Ransomware used in a targeted campaign
I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were just unaware of how things are supposed to be done (reporting exploits to the vendors privately and waiting for the fix before going public), but man, you did a fantastically dangerous thing even if it was unintentional.

I'd never condone beating up on somebody on the internet, but I dearly hope you've learned a valuable lesson here. You've put lots of people in danger of being exploited. It's not about whether or not you'd do anything malicious with it, it's about all the other people who now can because Google doesn't have a fix out there yet.
Your basic argument is just not solid, sorry. You're pointing out that one variable in the Drake equation is large and admitting that we literally have __no clue__ about several others. No clue means no clue, we don't know the mechanism by which they happened. They could under present knowledge turn out to be precisely as small as space is big, or even smaller.

The "space is big argument" is not good but hopefully it leads you down the rabbit hole of more interesting arguments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
It doesn't, it colors some keywords, it tries to follow symbols, but doesn't know the difference between 'let rec' and 'let', so it's tricky.
I’ve taken this course and it’s excellent, all three parts.

It makes me wish there were a modern standard ML, without laziness, typeclasses or Object Oriented-ness.
Maybe the oldest and most advanced civilizations decided to go tribal.

Maybe they are so advanced that they can hide their trail so belligerent civilizations like ours do not encounter them.

I don't think the easiest explanation is to assume that there is any sort of naturally occurring event in the universe that is one of a kind, save maybe for the big bang.
A cell has no way to conceive of a worm, and worms probably can't conceive of humans. But they probably have some conception of birds, and birds can perceive humans. Where are our birds? As you go up the intelligence chain the ability to see beyond seems to increase, but we don't see anything beyond us.
Yay lua!
Start with Snow Crash or Diamond Age - some of Neal Stephen's later work is too focused on the science/history, while neglecting the characters and the story, which is fine for most people here, but it might give the wrong impression of him as an author.
What are the teeth on an admitted-in-court EULA violation?

Looking at the license, the only thing it grants the end-user and which Intel could revoke is the license to use the software:

> Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Intel hereby grants to you a non-exclusive, non-
transferable right to use the Software (for the purpose of this Agreement, to use the Software includes to
download, install, and access the Software) listed in the Grant Letter solely for your own internal business
operations. You are not granted rights to Updates and Upgrades unless you have purchased Support (or a
service subscription granting rights to Updates and Upgrades).

So yeah, they could revoke your license to the update and leave you with a lot of insecure silicon...but that's what you had before the update (and, in all likelihood, what you still have after the update, just with a known flaw patched and the system lots slower). I don't even think they could sue you for copyright infringement, because you're not violating copyright, you're violating the EULA.
No not all. It’s why I said auschwitzean like.

O there is the corporate tag line. I think it goes improving lives through the power of work. I’ll get a source on that
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Fitbit Command Line SDK
No, I think SML was an attempt to standardize the various dialects of ML (which was the original) that had been invented. OCaml was a version of Caml with Object-Oriented additions. (I remember playing with Caml Light many years ago).