skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends, of course, on what you are interested in. I find that the presentation of a true expert or master beats, or at the very least complements, text. There are also times listening is more conducive than reading. A Feynman, or academic lecturer, or a truly goog author discussing their work, generally.

Mind: typical news or opinion pieces rarely reach this level.
> how do you recover?

* By using the TOTP recovery codes (you did write them down, right ?)

* By using a TOTP client on another device (the client I use syncs it's (encrypted) database with all my iDevices)

* By restoring from a backup of your phone (you do have a backup, right ?)
The difference is that other unsecure loans are only given out with some degree of expectation/evidence that the person will be able to repay them. A person with $10k/yr income does not get a $40k credit limit.

On the other hand, college loans are given out with zero consideration of that. You're just as eligible to take out tons of loans as a poor person majoring in underwater basket weaving as you are are getting a CS degree from Stanford. Even though those have very different probabilities of being able to repay them.
He's not an engineer that I know of so his videos lean on the history side more, and I am fine with that. The context he puts into his videos really helps you understand the "whys" of the tech.
> If someone is good at her job, she’ll be promoted...

This is exactly the opposite of how I understand the Peter Principle.

My understanding is that folks who are good at their job remain in their position (because they are good/effective workers adding value to the company). Meanwhile, employees that cause problems on the job get promoted out of a position where they can do damage, because it’s easier to promote than to fire for whatever reason.
It is possible. From the "universal wisdom" you see on the net, it would seem that connections > everything else. Execution matters very little, most people have no idea what are they doing and still succeed because they manage to iterate (eventually).

As for my self-worth, it is not a subject of this discussion. Whether I have or don't have self-worth problems, it has zero weight on the discussion at hand.
Thanks for this summary. Personally, I think at some point we're going to have to accept that non-proliferation is kind of a lost cause. We're rapidly approaching a time when anyone with some spare time and internet access can start CRISPRing a new plague or fly a drone spewing sarin above a crowd of people. Going to great lengths to cripple power production to prevent the production of some fissile material is like plugging a leak in your boat when there are multiple torpedoes about to hit. If you can go from some U-233 to a working weapon capable of threatening other nations, there are probably other avenues available to you as well.
One of the interesting -- or at least, I hope it'll prove to be interesting -- effects of GDPR is that we have the right to an explanation of important automated decisions and also the right to human review.

Before anyone comments that ML models are notoriously difficult to explain, the whole point of the regulation is that opaque models are intolerable. Also, https://github.com/slundberg/shap looks like it could be very useful.
Yes! We played through the first level so many times we found a way to beat it in ~90 seconds. If you lure out the guard on the right, the first in the game who protects the entrance to level 2, you can climb up through a false ceiling and drop down behind him. You never get the sword, but on level two you're assumed to have taken it and so you have it with you. This meant we could get a playthrough in once every hour or so of playing the first level...
Even if I do this, and most people reading this do this, I suspect there’s still a large number of people who don’t know they should be doing this (like older relatives).
Trying to compete against Dropbox/AWS/Box as a lone developer is like trying to build an international airline when all you have is a paper plane. Complaining about venture-backed companies beating you makes it seem like you aren't being realistic about what you can actually achieve.
www.soundcloud.com/user-266399672/friends
Swan sanctuary says bread is good for wildfowl
WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages
Fad or the Future? Robot-Made Burgers Wow the Crowds in San Francisco
>B) Own the actual content-distributing site (piratebay, etc). That's who litigators / law enforcement go after the most.

> C) If you don't own the site, you need to download ungodly amounts of content illegally. I'm talking 1000s of Gigabytes worth of content every month.

I suppose that depends on the current legal environment. Brenda made a pretty good living for a while. All it took was downloading one movie.

If this makes it easier for shady law firms to apply leverage, like Brenda, I could see this practice coming back.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law
This is why investing is a thing for people at almost all levels. People with reasonable wealth but limited appetite for risk and effort can simply (through equity purchase) pay other people to be entrepreneurs for them, and both parties share in the rewards (or losses).
They can't fire you if you've already quit.

The two week period is for your teammates' benefit. Not your company or the project. Any manager that knows they're losing someone is going to much rather spend money on hiring and ramping up a replacement than continuing to employ the person who's leaving. She won't care what you do.

But it is just one paycheck out of 24 per year that will now be returned to the budget. Shutting the door on an employee who's trying to be professional and give 2 weeks notice makes a manager look petty and sends the message that the project is in maximum cost cutting mode - that gaining a single paycheck for one person is worth depriving the other employees of any chance of getting needed knowledge or context from the person who resigned. To me that's a sure sign that layoffs are coming.
The Other Reason People Wear AirPods
I repeat this on related threads: taking over any US phone number's inbound/outbound SMS traffic with the ability to intercept inbound SMS as well as send SMS originating from a particular number is dangerously easy. It takes one minute, and ALL numbers are vulnerable. Worse, there is no fix for this. Never ever use SMS for authentication, or sensitive communication of any kind.

I believe this is being exploited on a regular basis and people just have no clue. This is likely used for anything from gaining access to email accounts to insider trading to political leverage to who the heck knows what else.
For someone who is into old games, I would also recommend book "It's behind you" which covers a story of porting R-Type to ZX-Spectrum:

http://www.bizzley.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-Type
Probably when and if mediatek releases new hardware.
It sounds like you might be interested in rhizomatic actor networks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor–network_theory
Mind your state for your state of mind
We're seeing more biometric authentication with fingerprints, face recognition, perhaps retina scan. How do these methods perform in practice, considering both their contribution to security and their practical application?

I currently authenticate on my iPhone with fingerprint. How hard is that to crack? If you had the victim's fingerprint, it's apparently trivial [1]. But accessing my fingerprint is not something that a random hacker/thief on the Internet would reasonably be able to do.

Since our phones are becoming our life-key. Would a 3-factor authentication sufficiently protect us?

Something you have: SmartPhone.

Something you know: Password.

Unique part of you: Fingerprint.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/fingerprint-hacked-smartphon...
https://web.archive.org/web/20180826011726/https://www.wsj.c...
Without asking too much detail, approximately where is there house? Is there any chance there is a regional WISP they could get service from?

In general, consumer grade VSAT service via geostationary satellite should be a last resort, if anything else is available. The economics of launching 5000 kilogram satellites into geostationary orbits mean that transponder kHz in Ku/Ka-band spot beams need to be significantly oversubscribed.

The actual cost of satellite capacity, translating dedicated (1:1 ratio) Mbps into transponder capacity, plus the cost of running earth stations on the ISP uplink side, can range from $1800 to $5500 per Mbps per month.

In order to make any money at all off a large number of $100 to $150/month consumer grade VSAT services it needs to be radically oversubscribed.

Xplornet has a particularly bad reputation as an ISP in general, which doesn't help.

Things like SpaceX's starlink or other upcoming LEO/MEO services like Oneweb are promising. But not available yet.

Point to multipoint wireless last mile via 2.4/3.5/3.65/5.2/5.8 GHz bands can be much more effective. It's even possible for WISPs to offer 75 Mbps x 25 Mbps packages based off the latest Ubiquiti 802.11ac gen2 platforms, Cambium PMP450 or Mimosa A5 AP radio platforms.

Disclaimer: I work in both satellite Internet and point-to-point/point-to-multipoint microwave and millimeter wave.
Can we just get rid of zoos altogether? Wild animals shouldn't be caged or confined just for our amusement. This goes for all wild animals. I don't think we should be allowed to keep wild animals as pets as it is inhumane.

I'd make an exception for research institutions, but with the rise of drone, camera, etc technology, we could and should be studying animals in the wild.
Fully agreed. And it's usually much easier to just get some high-speed centrifuges and enrich uranium and make a very simple gun-type nuclear bomb. This requires no nuclear reactor whatsoever and will not go away if we ban nuclear reactors.
Oh, come on... Is React really that hard to understand? It's one of the simplest libraries I know. I was a self-taught web dev with only about a year (though, quite an extensive year) of JS/jQuery experience when I switched to React. I had never worked with a JS framework before and I knew I was going to need one for my next project, and for some reason I chose the new (at that time - early 2014) React, rather than the established Angular. And after going through the official tutorial everything went so smooth I was amazed by the power of React.
A similar project, also good for educating but within a jupyter notebook for c++

https://github.com/QuantStack/xeus-cling
The iCloud backup of my phone when restored to another phone didn’t bring over any of my authenticators. I don’t know if a physical backup would or not but it’s worth noting.
Great game, had really fun
The idea of using (mappable/recordable) public amenities per capita as a measure of prosperity is good.

However, even discounting for the massive regional biases in OSM mapping, having 10 universities per capita doesn't mean anything. The qualitative part is extremely important on all aspects. Universities, hospitals, parks, even benches..

Using aerial photography you can probably infer things about the quality of the roadwork and efficiency of transportation, parking space availability, recreational park "quality", rooftop utilization etc. But with incomplete/heavily biased mapping and no quality index this is pretty much useless.
We should more than ever be teaching everyone not to use their real name on the internet, not to give out their phone number or private email address. In the internet and for businesses for advertising or any other avoidable purpose. This would eventually prevent the assumption that everybody has a phone number that can be used as authentication, or even worse, a Facebook account!
When can we call Bitcoin a failed experiment? And don't tell me it was "always about storing value", that's not in the original paper.
Yeah I'm mostly referring to engaging them in their unique ability to make 24/7 clean and low-footprint energy. I don't support using them for making nuclear weapons.
Calling in sick when you’re not is grounds for immediate termination. Doubly so if you made the grave error of announcing that - the announcement alone could be sufficient (Bundesarbeitsgericht, Urteil vom 12.03.2009, 2 AZR 251/07). That’s really field day for a lawyer.

Citation: http://m.hensche.de/Arbeitsrecht_aktuell_Kuendigung_vorgetae...

Calling in sick after handing in your notice is also a standard reason to send you to the Amtsarzt who will check your doctors diagnosis.

Calling in sick when you are, is not usually grounds for a termination, but that’s not what’s being discussed here.
The CFIUS Reform Bill
SEC Denial of Bitcoin ETFs Doesn't Really Matter
Not everyone has a Personalausweis.
If it's a repeat customer, at the same location, then you can avoid contacting the payment processor gateway, and just record the transaction on the local cluster for later payment processing. The expected value of the loss if someone stole their card, and used it at the same restaurant that they frequent as a regular, after the card was canceled, and the restaurant gave the thief a chicken sandwich, and now corporate needs to eat that cost because the asynchronous CC transaction doesn't go through when they finally run it... is absolutely miniscule.
I don't think one can really compare Enron with Goldman. Enron was an obvious case of accounting fraud. Goldman was a more subtle case of miselling. It's not like of there was any political will and anger to prosecute banks after 2008, but for that you need an actual crime to have been committed. Weak underwriting standards and over leverage is bad business but not a crime.
Another way to show https://dailycoinprice.com/
Will the Mac Mini Pro also be designed with insufficiently derated capacitors, shitty ribbon cables that short out, crappy thermal dissipation structures, and a shitty no-fix warranty just like every other post-2010 Apple product?
A failed experiment to me would be one that wasn't able to run its full course, or from which no information can be gleaned. Bitcoin has run for a long time, we have gleaned a ton of useful information - as far as experiments are concerned this seems like it went bigger and better than expected, so it should be a very GOOD experiment!
I take it to mean they paused the VM, allowing them to complete the game in sections when they had the time.
If you want to use TEA but with easier interop with JavaScript libraries, you can use ReasonML/OCaml with bucklescript-tea[1] instead

[1]: https://github.com/OvermindDL1/bucklescript-tea
Lawmakers Can't Ignore Facial Recognition's Bias Anymore
My kickstarter project for Studying
If they did that, nobody would bother looking at replacing their perfect laptop with next year's model. This kills Apple's profit model.
Ask HN: Those wanting or doing business in Africa what's your biggest challenge?
Picking up enough Django skills shouldn't take long. Java/Spring will be much more effort and you might hate it.
Better believe it could be like last year https://dailycoinprice.com/live/bitcoin
The game is timed, normally.
As it should remain!

The fundamental problem is this concept of "identity" is a bundled abstraction that is being used in order to ignore every way in which scaling to the Internet is intrinsically difficult. Because sitting down face-to-face with someone yesteryear was completely and totally safe, so if only we can replicate that and "know" the other person, then all of these newfangled problems will just disappear!

This is a partial list of actual problems "identity" is purporting to solve and an example of someone heavily relying on it: user-device security (Coinbase), cross-medium access (banks), Sybil problem (Google / IRS), persistent tracking (commercial surveillance), offline transactions (healthcare industry).

Each one of these is an area of research unto itself, but yet "identity" is going to solve all of them together! Really, it is just a crutch that allows organizations to pretend to have solved the issues, and then act entitled when their "solution" falls apart. After having architected their systems as if their identifiers are entirely reliable, any action purporting to have been done by you is then your mess to clean up! Because "your" identity was "stolen", see? Problem solved!

This article ultimately seems like a submarine for the industry consortium of the week. The primary reason a "good" identity system hasn't taken off is that the main thing demanded by users is to create arbitrary unlinkable nyms. Meanwhile these backwards-thinking organizations are looking to "identity" mainly to prevent people from doing just that!
I agree that full time jobs provide more security than contracts, but only to the extent the law requires. For instance, depending on the country you must be given a few weeks notice before being fired and a severance package. You agree to these terms upon being hired and shouldn't feel entitled to anything more.

I believe it would be more cruel to the rest of us if an employer was required to keep unnecessary employees just so that they can benefit from sense of security and community. It would be terribly inefficient and hurt the economy.

And it's unfair to discredit the success of employer only because employees did the majority of the jobs. The key here is that managers do the most important jobs and take more risks.
Bitcoin advocates have long suggested the virtual money would one day replace fiat currencies as a means of doing business

That's not the case anymore either. We have few powerful miners than own more than 50%. Sure they separate entity per se, but if they talk and agree together, they can do whatever they want.

They whole premise that crypto is free and decentralized and "banks cannot control it" is a good idea.. unless you quickly realize the flaw that biggest miners can get together and form a "crypto mob" if you will, and control currency future anyways.
It is much more likely that it will be economical to use in a similar method to o3b, to bring a decent amount of capacity to a single location (example: totally isolated very rural valley somewhere in northern BC), and then distribute bandwidth from there.

The link budget problems for gain and EIRP, and cost of CPE, may make it cost prohibitive to put individual CPEs on peoples' roofs as a competitor to last mile WISPs.

I can see a scenario where a WISP buys a $7000 to $15000 dual-antenna terminal and a monthly recurring service package in the $700 to $1200/mo range, for a decent chunk of semi-dedicated capacity, and then redistributes access from there.

For those who want to understand how this works, o3b at MEO works on the same general concept, but at a more expensive and high bandwidth scale. It's been operational for years now. There's lots of good reference material out there on O3B.

Take the same two-satellite make-before-break handoff system used by o3b and apply it to a much larger number of LEO satellites, and smaller terminals, that's the general idea of how oneweb and starlink are intended to work.
I've never met Jordan but I used to work with his brother, David, whom the motion capture is based on. He was always proud of his contribution to his brother's game. What a great experience for both of them to be involved with this in their youth.
The real name stuff got dropped. There is no way the project was 95% done.
> and young is only a function of how long you have spent in the field you’re negotiating

Not only in the field, i think it's also about general life experience and dealing with people.
Ask again after the next major financial crisis.
Why building trains in New York costs more than any other city
Yeah, if I hadn't been paranoid I would have lost $40k this way. Thankfully I'd kept my previous phone.
> The Therac-25 X-ray machine killed several people ... The reason? A race condition.

The problem with the Therac-25 was NOT the race condition. Complex devices will always have bugs, because humans haven't figured out a way to do perfect, bug-free engineering. The problem with the Therac-25 was that it wasn't designed to fail safe. The previous model had the same race condition bug, but it also had hardware monitors and interlocks which provided defense in depth.

The lesson of the Therac-25 is not writing perfect software; the lesson is recognizing that humans make mistakes so anything remotely safety-critical needs to be designed to fail safely when - not if - mistakes/bugs happen.
This is generally not true. While you can consume classics from your couch, putting together a critical edition of a book with provenance and, ideally, accompanying research and commentary takes expertise and devotion. And if you say, "I'll just read the great classics that everyone knows about," well, most of those were rediscovered or brought to prominence in the first place by a scholar who lovingly created a critical edition and made a case for why the book was important. As the humanities is gutted, increasingly there will be no one to do this work, and great pieces of literature will be lost at at a much faster clip.

Also, the idea that you can preserve anything from your armchair is laughable. If you knew the resources that go into preserving even one collection or digitizing a small set of works, you would be shocked. There have been a few people who have meaningfully preserved works outside of an institution of higher learning or a library system, but they are far outliers.
> But the United States doesn't offer any type of universal ID, which means private institutions and even the federal government itself have had to improvise.

Oh, please! No! No! No! India bulldozed a national identification number (called Aadhaar) on its residents and it has made more people vulnerable to many kinds of attacks, including phone number hijacking, draining people’s bank accounts, etc. To say that it’s been an unmitigated disaster would be an understatement. As with things related to government, the governing organization for Aadhaar, called UIDAI, always claims that it’s completely secure, while ignoring the fact that linking one number to everything in one’s life increases the attack surface and the severity of the threats.

So please research on the number of ways Aadhaar has failed, and is making some feeble attempts to recover, before getting into a “let’s create a new static number to identify people with instead of a phone number or SSN”. That’d just be changing the narrative without achieving anything.

Bottom line, it’s not the phone number that’s the problem, but having a unique and non-changing number and linking it to everything else (including one’s phone numbers).
Bitcoin (and crypto) is not a currency, commodity, stock or bond. It's a combination which makes it a completely new and different kind of asset class. It's a programmable asset that primarily serves as a 'trading vehicle' in the mind of traders and Wall St. Understanding this helps to understand why Goldman and others are stepping over themselves to setup trading desks for most crypto now and in the future.
Well, there are many things to consider:

- Code is small, most of it is calling well-know libraries with the algorithms.

- Every 3-4 lines of code you usually show the results of what is happening (either how the data changed, a graph or whatever)

- 95% of the errors in data science come from bad practices: you either didn't clean up the data correctly, you didn't split the train/test/validation sets correctly or at the right step in the process, you chosed the wrong algorithm, etc

- most of the time you don't know whether you are doing something wrong or not because you don't have enough knowledge, but the code shows something all the time. No bugs in the code.

Those are the reason I don't care very much about bugs in the code because usually there are bigger problems in the data science process rather than in the code.
That's why many countries have welfare programs and labour laws helping disadvantaged (for instance, disabled) members of society find employment. Shouldn't you instead blame government for not passing even stricter laws?
So 18 months then. Ok.