skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As opposed to doing a "soft" degree like a PPE which will lead to a much more financially rewarding /powerful job :-)

Reading the article give me the impression that the authors just didn't understand the UK class system when looking at who does what degree.
I bought a 6p on launch day and my warranty has long expired. How is yours still active?
Here's just the ex-Tesla engineer: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=38...
Is this some kind of joke? There's literally just 1 job listed, and even that looks like a "Lorem ipsum dolor" type placeholder content.

https://www.jobenabler.org/job?id=2

POSITION : Are you our King of Dev?

COMPANY : Member Get Member Company.

If this is a landing page to gauge interest, it's a really poor attempt and definitely doesn't belong on Show HN (per guidelines).

> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then.

Source: Show HN Guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Why is this interesting or surprising? Of course almost all challengers have hacky tech under the hood because they don't have the resources. Winning from that position is possible not because of generally better tech but by delivering something that the incumbents don't.

Remember the demo of the first iPhone (vs the huge expertise of Nokia). Or how Microsoft won the desktop starting from a single user, cooperative multitasking system (vs all the sophisticated Unix-based systems). Or Facebook running on despised MySQL and PHP.

These hacks are part of the strategy. It's risky but probably doing these 'properly' would increase the risk even more.
There is no sea-level rise. Stop drinking the kool-aid.
I don't really want an app system, I would like a linux-like alternative where I can do a script to cat /dev/gps0 for example to record my location, or just ssh into my phone. I don't like at all the way Android is done.
If you're driving mostly city streets with heavy traffic, I don't think aerodynamics is a big concern. But mostly I'm sure it's just a non-functional design meant to grab headlines.
I have little faith in Sangoma's leadership when it comes to open source, it's not in their nature. Products and marketing is not the same as software. This is an old strange beast, and it's being put to sleep.

So Long Asterisk, And Thanks For All The Fish!
OneSignal Is Hiring for a Senior UI/UX position
How is this different from "influencers" who are required to disclose when they are paid to advertise a product on social media?

Amazon should be subject to the same disclosure requirement, which would negate the value of the tweets, which may remove the need for their employees to be put into this position.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/04/ftc-s...

> The FTC’s Endorsement Guides provide that if there is a “material connection” between an endorser and an advertiser – in other words, a connection that might affect the weight or credibility that consumers give the endorsement – that connection should be clearly and conspicuously disclosed, unless it is already clear from the context of the communication. A material connection could be a business or family relationship, monetary payment, or the gift of a free product. Importantly, the Endorsement Guides apply to both marketers and endorsers ... consumers viewing Instagram posts on mobile devices typically see only the first three lines of a longer post unless they click “more,” which many may not do. The staff’s letters informed recipients that when making endorsements on Instagram, they should disclose any material connection above the “more” button.
The risk with this is that eventually it will erode Facebook's legal argument that it isn't responsible for the content that its users post to the network or share through Facebook Groups.

As it is there are tens of thousands or even more Facebook groups dedicated to some kind of either illegal, rights-infringing, or grey market activity in the US alone. The more that Facebook holds itself responsible for moderating and controlling that content, the less weight that Facebook's arguments that it is just a dumb pipe will hold. This has been going under-remarked relating to this cluster of issues.

Strongly doubt that FB or any similar company will successfully navigate this issue in the long run.
I am an autodidact for all these things (FPGA, compiler). This is my first FPGA-Verilog project and my first compiler project. I have learned these things specifically for this project.
It took me 2 years to complete this project, during evenigs and week-ends. I have not counted exactly, but probably between 200 and 400 hours of work.
> I disagree; what spectrum are those on opposite ends of?

I also am not entirely sold on funfunfun's characterization, but if you think of this in terms of cultural hangups that cause excesses rather than concrete technical contributions then it makes some sense.

The excesses of OOP culture are distinctly different from the excesses of Functional culture.

OOP in excess looks like software architecture books with quotes from Alexander and FLW, programming as artform, etc.

Functional in excess looks like really bad descriptions of category theory promulgated by writers who couldn't tell you what group theory is good for.

So if we want to characterize these ways of programming in terms of what harmful excess looks like, then they are on sort of opposite sides of a spectrum. Where one side considers programming pure art and the other pure logic.

I'm still not sold that this is a good model of reality. But if you focus on excesses rather than useful insights, I can see what funfunfun is saying. I think.
maybe at least a prototype and expires after 2 years if you haven't commercialized it!
Definitely. Keep in mind they also recently unveiled this gem: https://taskandpurpose.com/kalashnikov-killer-robot-russia/

Publicity stunt for sure, and probably just trying to show they’re building something other than another slight mod on the AK-47 while flooded with oligarch lucre.
And "something like JSON" could mean YAML, which had it's own share of RCE bugs. It's still better than these object deserialization bugs one can find in Java or Python Pickle, which seems to be even more permissive.
Korkut – Quick and simple image processing at the command line
Re QA: To quote Dodge (via Deming), "You can not inspect quality into a product."

This poster seems to think well of the QA team they had. However,

It doesn't matter how great your QA team is, if the quality isn't in the system the QA team can't put it there. All they can do is tell you that you're making poor quality products, and attempt to inform management (as QA rarely has real authority) who should then act on that and work to improve the system. If quality isn't part of the corporate ethos, then they (QA) will make little difference in the end.
Probably nothing you haven't heard before. ;)

1. If the pay cheques stop clearing then you stop working and move on.

2. Always eat broccoli, metaphorically: every company wants for someone who is happy to do, and able to do, the work that others cannot or will not do.

3. Don't be afraid to ask how they're funded and what their business plan is; you are, in a sense, an investor who supplies labour.

4. Stock is _usually_ worth less than the paper it's printed on.

5. Manage your managers; they'll push you hard and squeeze blood from you, and only you are able to ensure work/life balance.
The survival of Dropbox and Box depend on making cloud sync work, so I suppose there's much more of an impetus for those companies to get cloud sync working.

Microsoft can take it or leave it. They've already got your money.
Traveler sues US Customs and Border Protection over iPhone search and seizure
Yep. Every company will face security issues; it's unavoidable. But what happened to Patreon should make people seriously question trusting them with your personal information or money. (They probably use a 3rd party payment processor who has much better security practices, but still. Also, that 3rd party doesn't do you much good if an attacker with control of your production web/application servers or CDNs is intercepting credit card form data before it's sent off.)

Facebook has had vulnerabilities and exposures, but nothing like that.
CVE-2018-15685 – Electron WebPreferences Remote Code Execution
I believe it is not illegal if they're not withholding who they are or their motivations.
I saw a dude wearing them at the gym a few days ago. I didn't know what to think.
Soviet cars were "reliable" in the sense that yes, they broke down very often and in predictable ways, so that most people could fix them.
This is a lovely deconstruction.
[edit: probably wrong, see below]

Great question. If married/college were the only relevant factors, it would not matter. However, there are cultural differences beyond just those.

Black women in the US do go to college at approximately the same rate as the rest of the US population, however they are far less likely to study STEM subjects, nor go to graduate school school, and are more likely to be going to a lower tier of school.

Also, even college educated black women are far less likely to be married or in long term relationships.
I'm pretty sure pretentiousness is not a cause for downvoting on HN, not from my observation.
Maybe just a symptom of getting old. After barely escaping the Holocaust.
I used to work at SpaceX on the team that did a piece of software called "WarpDrive". It was a massive monolithic ASP.NET application, with large swaths done with ASP.NET WebForms and a slow frontier of ASP.NET MVC gradually growing when I was working there. This application was responsible for practically everything that ran the factory: inventory, supply chain management, cost analysis, etc. Elon is a big Windows fan and pushed hard to run the whole shop on Microsoft tech. Thankfully the rockets fly with a heavily customized Linux install.
I don't know of a name for it off the top of my head, but it corresponds very closely with the migration flow of Scot, Irish, and German settlers from the late 18th Century through the early 20th Century.

My ancestors (and my wife's) all arrived in Virginia. Over the course of several generations they gradually moved West - first into the Shenandoah Valley, then down through SW VA and into Kentucky and Tennessee. They arrived in Northern Arkansas from 1840 or so through 1900.

This a common enough story that it's listed as a migratory group by Ancestry.com. It seems likely that what you're seeing here is a social norm among a discrete population with a mostly shared culture.
I may be wrong, but I suspect it is yet another case of "disconnection" between what the MS (in this case but I have seen the same phenomenon with other software) developers have (in terms of hardware, connection speed and bandwidth) and what your average Joe has or can afford.

Since several years softwares seems to be designed by people that have top of the range resources (which is normal since their hardware and connections are their tools of the trade) BUT that somehow don't have contact with "normal" people, using a few years old PC (or phone) and having slow internet for one reason or the other.
I Don't Like Notebooks – Joel Grus – #JupyterCon 2018
Would it be appropriate to change the title to "OneDrive leaves a lot to be desired"... I originally thought this was about Microsoft Azure.
> Waiting too long to have kids can involve problems for both mother and child.

While this is undeniably true, deferring childbirth the length of a traditional full-time undergraduate program immediately following high-school doesn't get you anywhere close to the age where that's an issue, so that concern isn't a good argument for a part-time “mommy track”. Conversely, part-time education for re-entering students is already a thing, though not necessarily well-supported by top-tier institutions. (Unfortunately, recently it's also one of the major focus of private for-profit predatory scam institutions, and federal efforts to fight that problem have been parked back under the current administration, so there are problems to address.)

> Historically, we resolved these conflicts by having women have babies young, but with a financially established husband who was typically older. Now, that is decried as evil patriarchy.

No, women choosing for themselves to resolve the balance of concerns that way is not, even by most people who decry the existence of “evil patriarchy”, described as an example of that problem. Women being externally compelled to do so without meaningful options—sometimes at ages where meaningful consent would be unlikely even if the girl had a choice—as has been true in many historical conditions and sometimes true in some places today may be, but that's because of the lack of women's (or girls') agency in the decision, not the outcome.
Well, they didn't really try to hide it.

The Twitter accounts have a standardised format, all bearing the Amazon smile logo as their background ... identical structures to their bios and the title "FC Ambassador" in their name, followed by a cardboard box emoji.
Do they have Docker? Jupyter maintains a few docker images with various parts of the scientific stack.
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On my application for food stamps, they ask for my bank account number as well as the service provider for my cell phone. So far I've left both blank, though I may have provided the latter the last time.

I don't know if they can find out about my bank account or not, but I'm guessing they can, so I am effectively discouraged from saving any money from side jobs (yard work, that sort of thing). I know for a fact they have access to any employment, so that is a big disincentive to pick up a job unless I really think it's going to work out.

As you have pointed out, there is a feeling that this kind of intrusion is justified since I am apparently getting something I don't deserve anyway ("other people's money").
You are misinterpreting my comment. She read quite a lot about fertility issues while pursuing fertility treatments. She forwarded me many articles on the topic and we talked a great deal about the subject.

She's currently a high ranking employee at the CDC.
I agree with the sentiment, and it is very easy to avoid this in Django through the use of either Environment Variables, or importing the relevant setting data with a JSON file. As long as you follow best practices (easier said than done) its easy to mitigate these sort of risks.

Also debug mode in production is just lazy.
Your substitution is inaccurate. The rulings effectively mean that the death penalty is cruel and unusual except in certain, very specific circumstances. Only the most extreme crimes qualify. Even the rape of a child is not extreme enough unless done multiple times. It might seem applicable to only a few cases, but that is only because few states attempt to apply the death penalty except in the most extreme circumstances.
No, so they should be taken with a grain of salt.
Based on some of the details within these tweets, I would assume this person provided enough information to identify himself/herself at this point.

Do software engineers typically have confidentiality agreements that prohibit releasing proprietary information?
Just wondering, is there any reason why the Yubico FIDO2 Python API[0] talks to a USB device by using custom code to handle the USB protocol instead of using a module like PyUSB[1]?

[0] https://github.com/Yubico/python-fido2

[1] https://pyusb.github.io/pyusb/
Researchers Found Simple Tests to Detect and Track Cancer at Very Early Stage
How did you learn to code?
Hey everyone,I'm curious- how did you go about learning how to code?

Was it self-taught and working on projects/bootcamps/through tutors?
I get what you're saying, but that doesn't really meet either the scientific nor the popular definition of "race".

Recent immigrants have higher birthrates than nth-generation descendants. I've not verified, but my initial assumption is that the less wealthy have higher birthrates than the more wealthy.

This isn't really a matter of race, but one of economics and social norms.
This is related to the recent disclosure about how open redirects in Google Chat can lead to RCE [0]. The bugs are related to security features not being correctly inherited across child windows (e.g. iframes).

[0]: https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/07/vulnerability-in-hangou...
I lost the hearing in one ear in a car accident when I was a kid (nerve damage) - I keep hoping that these advances will allow me to regrow my eardrum some day.
You don't generally have to force folks to get help. We (the US) do it in a small portion of the population: Severe mental illness, dementia, and substance abuse. They aren't talking about forcing folks to do things. You can encourage folks to do such things, though.

Most folks don't actually want to live like that, but some really do want to shun society. You can offer folks things like primitive cabins to help them shun society. Substance abuse, mental illness, and job loss are real problema with real solutions. Heck, if you can't solve someone's substance abuse or alcoholism, you can at least make sure they have shelter and food available to keep them safe even if they won't pay for such things. For a single person, it doesn't have to be luxurious: A dorm setup with private bathrooms and shared kitchen can work out.
> You'd immediately have to double the number of graphics

Because there are only two races?
Anecdata, but same story here. It's been syncing "all" my files for a few years now, and I've had no problems.
But Fortnite and Amazon are huge. It's almost possible for individual devs or smaller companies to sell apps outside the store. Not technically but logistically. Hence the preceeding "virtually".
>”Wait, what? OneDrive can’t handle Microsoft’s own file types? Sure enough, the official online help says you have to move the offending files to a different folder that OneDrive can’t see”

How does something like that ship? That’s going to affect virtually every Office user. Why not just filter out files that won’t sync and warn the user?
I'm not really seeing the downside of arbitrage. Do you have a better example?

Rich people deciding not to drive and hiring professional drivers and/or using Uber, Lyft, or a taxi doesn't seem like a problem. The incentive worked. I doubt people driving as a business are all that eager to lose their license.
The title for this article really should clarify that it is specific to OneDrive.
It's weird that the person who originally found the accounts thought they were bots - how advanced do people think chatbots are?
> Conversely, part-time education for re-entering students is already a thing, though not necessarily well-supported by top-tier institutions.

It is an option if you can pay for it yourself. It's just not an option for poorer people, who probably need it the most.
I don't think the solution is to put things you don't care about behind vlans and having applications on separate boxes. This box is/was an attack vector. It was holding secrets. Secrets provide other attack vectors.
Remember the Toyota uncontrolled acceleration bug and the report that came as a result of the trial. It seems like software is a bit of a second thought for some incumbents too.
Yes, but he's already marked as "former", so recovery is limited. See the Waymo lawsuit.
Cars weigh thousands of pounds and routinely drive upwards of 60 miles per hour.

The success of the first iPhone or Facebook app didn't depend on using it to navigate through life-and-death situations not only for the users but also for everyone around them.

There are places for 'move fast and break things'. But cars move fast already, and they can really break things.
Given the constant flow of mental health scandals, I'm not entirely sure what is worse: no mental health or mental health.

Just a few days ago an institution for mentally ill women got convicted for recording (and then discussing with the "patients" on their "evalution") what was said when they met with a lawyer.

Ok. So an investigation that was done earlier on the year was made public that already complained about this. When the press read that they published another few details:

* one patient was isolated and "fixated" (tied spread eagle to a bed) for 13 days because she bit her nails

* another patient had that done to her for over 2 months. The reason ? Nobody bothered to write anything down.

* several patients died without a clear reason

And ... no worries, the government agency responsible for it will "do a thorough review" of the system. Comments by the management on the issue are expected by the end of the year ...

Also, I seem to have no problem finding desperate pleas of patients on fora and on youtube about how they get incarcerated in such institutions for idiotically small reasons.

Mental health, when it does exist, seems like it's more a way for government employees to torture people who make a dumb legal mistake (like asking for help from a government psychiatrist) than it was ever meant to help anyone.

The people working there were on TV. Maybe it's just me but the impression I got was that these were incredibly dumb and definitely not the sort of people that can be trusted with the care over others. And, in case you're wondering, the psychiatrist on staff ? There is no psychiatrist on staff, one comes for 2 days per month. I'm sure it saved the government some money.

Is this really what you want to do to the homeless ? It does not seem like an improvement to me.
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> For people too poor to afford even the lowest fine, you can do something like community service at an effective pay rate of minimum wage in lieu of the fine.

The problem is the opposite of that -- it isn't that the fine on low income people is too high, it's that it's too low to be a deterrent unless you make it high enough that scaling it makes is unnecessarily harsh for middle class people.

> In the case of breaking the law for hire, you can make the employer jointly liable, as is already the case for most crimes.

At which point you might as well just disband all large enterprises immediately because you've set up a system where you multiply the base rate of misbehavior by both the number of employees and the company's total revenue, which are both just proxies for size and so the penalty isn't just proportional, it's N-squared.

You also can't avoid the problem unless you go all the way to the root of ownership or people will just outsource the activity to a shell company, but then you end up imposing a billion dollar fine for littering because the offender works for a company which is owned by a mutual fund.
> I'm convinced though that general AI will be achieved through NLP.

I think you're wrong. General AI is much more related to reinforcement learning and embodiment. Language without embodiment is ungrounded.
Yeah, but what if the microcode killed cinebench performance? Wouldn't that be interesting?
> a herd of sociopaths

I agree with everything you said except for this. The idea that many/most/all prisoners are violent or sociopathic is a myth propagated by those who stand to benefit from the prison industrial complex. Prisoners are human and prisons are inhumane. For another take, here's the IWW IWOC[0]:

> Incarcerated people are legally slaves as per the 13th Amendment which abolished "slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime". We are legally slaves. If you've been to prison you'd know we are treated like slaves.
Billions are made annually off our backs. Outrageously priced or grossly inadequate privatized 'services' like health care, food, phone calls, assault our humanity - they feed us like animals, suck our families dry, and when sick leave us to die. The government spends as much as an elite college tuition per person to keep each of us incarcerated, but this money does not develop us as human beings, reduce crime or make our communities safer.

[0]: https://incarceratedworkers.org/about