skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no such thing as job security in the USA anymore
Makes sense. Do you happen to know of any way this can cause null pointer dereference to result in something other than SIGSEGV in a "normal" situation (userspace, modern POSIX system, modern hardware, no prior mmap(NULL, ..., MAP_FIXED, ...) call, no huge offset into the null pointer)? I can see how it would if you relax any of those conditions. In particular, I see an example of the deleted null check you're describing here: https://lwn.net/Articles/342330/

In any case, I'd still say strlen(NULL) is qualitatively different than check_ip_header_sum(malloc(4095), 4095). The former's undefined behavior is standard (strlen is expected to dereference the pointer, so it makes sense that it has whatever problems doing that has). The latter shouldn't be expected to exceed the stated bounds without that being clearly stated.
What about a market that brings together buyers and sellers to bet on how companies are doing? A share price is really a function of how we expect a company to do in the future, but what if we bet on specific metrics? For example, I expect Company A to hit $100 in gross revenue this quarter, so I'd like to bet on it - as opposed to the several variables that affect share prices. The share price may reflect the Company's guidance - but revenues it expects in the future, but not really a reflection of history. This could also be a bet on other metrics - Snapchat number of users, etc. etc. I'd argue that this can be a more rational betting market. There are several metrics that aren't 100% correlated with stock prices.
Gradient Decent aims to please the average consumer, which often is not what is in-demand in the market place.

Had Henry Ford used ML he would've invented a faster horse.
I agree, and I struggled with calling out EDIF or just netlists. My choice was that the OP was "absolute noob just figured out Arduino" level and so netlists which are pretty obvious to anyone who has done schematic design are kind of a foreign concept to software only folks. But everyone seems to "get" that an FPGA dynamically wires together "gates" (even if they may be called LUTs, CLUTs, CLBs, or ALAs internally).

One of the ways I've helped SW types understand FPGAs was to describe the basic CLB as a subroutine that you program by setting very specific parameters and it has an input of some number of bits and a "clock" bit, and outputs the same number of bits. And the "program" is similar to the calling sequence of all these subroutines tied together.

Then I start rattling off VHDL books to read :-)
Python Package Installation Can Trigger Malicious Code
Not the first time. A good read is https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/597/hollywood-and-t...
It's all about the money, and never about ethics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails#Presidential_de...
It also wouldn't have been a crime at one time. There used to be wilderness and people just existed. Now, all the land is owned by someone. If you aren't one of the haves, it gets increasingly challenging to find someplace where it is legal for you to even exist.
The punishment for breaking this law is the same as breaking any other law. You can have a problem with the law but the punishment isn't cruel or unusual.
Evernote on windows is horrible. My two biggest annoyances were:
- No auto capitalization,
- no highlighting multiple words (wanting to change the font of specific words in different lines)

I moved over from onenote and decided to move back, maybe it's just more comfortable for me. They were both free versions anyway.
> The article mentions that Australia has no bill of rights which, whilst technically true, doesn't mean we don't have equivalent protections. Some are enshrined in our constitution

The protections provided by the Australian constitution (as interpreted by the High Court) are quite weak in comparison to those included in the US Bill of Rights, it isn't really a fair comparison.

> whilst others are parts of common law and other legislation.

Anything in common law or legislation isn't worth much, since a single ordinary Act of Parliament is all it takes to cancel them out.
They have some services that are "global", ie not tied to a given region. Those services' requests are actually processed all over the place, but south central is a big datacenter. The 9th biggest in the world, apparently. When it lost cooling and shut down, everything routed around it as planned... But it caused so much extra traffic that it overwhelmed the connections to other datacenters. The backlog of requests is tremendous of course, so even after they got south central back up, all the other datacenters are way over their traffic capacity. They've got the Datacenter back up, and are now restoring storage and storage dependent services.

Honestly it's hard to imagine a good mitigation for this. "Build more datacenters" is already happening as fast as it can. "Keep enough spare capacity around to handle losing one of the biggest datacenters in the world" is pretty unreasonable.

If you, as a customer, are uptime focused enough that it's worth paying extra, then the sensible practice has always been Cross-Cloud infrastructhre/failovers. At least since the Amazon Easter failure of 2011. That's what giants like Netflix do.
I don't know why the Five Eyes countries issued a joint statement the other day (tellingly, via the Aussie government's web site). Modus Operandi for each Five Eyes country since forever is to ship their secrets to another partner so they could claim not to be spying on their own people. All they need is for AUS to have the backdoor and then all data could be channeled that way.

I appreciate that the author mentioned the gross incompetence of our intelligence operation which I presume doesn't get much mention outside the country.

PS: nice original Mac illustration for that article!
I fear more 3CX as a monopoly, the bought elastix and ditched it.
3CX CEO bought lots of SANGOMA shares back 1n 2016 (and later sold a few of them in 2017)
Why your competitor's CEO would buy shares of your company?
tips tinfoil hat
What is someone supposed to do if they are tired or need to use the restroom but do not have the means to get a hotel?

I would rather sleep in my car on the side of the road and get fined than continue driving in a sleep-deprived state. I usually get away with using restrooms in restaurants when I am out, but if it was refused and there were no public restrooms, you bet I would find an alley.

Society's rules do not mean as much when there is no viable alternative.
The homeless advocates behind this lawsuit also assume that street life is somehow preferable to jail or prison, where occupants are provided 3 square meals a day, warm and clean clothing, a clean dedicated space to sleep, and all the free health services you need.

In Norway or Sweden maybe, not in the US.

3 Square meals a day?! Forget the piss poor quality and lousy portions, they’re not serving three of anything

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/07/07/what-s-in-a-pr...

Inmates at the Gordon County Jail in Calhoun, Ga. — according to a preliminary investigation by human rights attorneys last fall — are starving. The two meals a day weren't enough to sustain them, and some reportedly resorted to eating toothpaste and toilet paper. Inmates at the Montgomery County Jail in New York alleged that meager portions led to increased violence among the inmates; one inmate lost 90 pounds in less than six months. And a group of prisoners at the Schuylkill County Prison in Pennsylvania filed a federal civil rights lawsuit claiming the portions they received are “not even enough to fill a 5-year-old child.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/prison-fo...

Then again maybe less food is better than...

In August, the Detroit Free Press reported that a prison kitchen worker was fired for refusing to serve rotten potatoes. You can find nightmarish stories about maggots in national outlets like U.S.A. Today.

They do get clothes, of course they tend to already have clothes, but “clean dedicated place to sleep” is just... what year do you think it is? The prison system is very overcrowded, and regional jails are the worst. Getting banged up for a few days on a misdemeanor isn’t putting you in a prison, but a shared cell in a local jail. Plus, a huge number of homeless people are memtallly ill, and being thrown into a chaotic situation with a bunch of offenders of varying severity is not the best outcome. You may not give a toss about homeless people, you may want them in prison, but stop pretending that it’s good for them.

Plus it’s wasteful and expensive, a burden of non-violent people in an already overcrowded system, and does nothing to solve the underlying problems. The last thing we need is to further bloat our correctional system.
In the future, car ownership will start to decline quickly, so that's a moot point.
They're not saying the people are exempt from obeying the law, they're saying the law is wrong. If there's no room in shelters and someone has no home to sleep in or money for a hotel, what are they supposed to do? That's not a rhetorical question, what are they supposed to do? Go to jail? We already have laws against public indecency that cops are supposed to enforce but criminalizing the act of sleeping when you have no other choice is what this is about.
On the general Microsoft account issue, my Skype account I had for 10+ years also became inaccessable after a random criminal linked their Microsoft account to my Skype account to make fraudulent transactions. After trying to get my skype account back using the account recovery form, I realized that even though I should have had enough answers to successfully recover the account that it was failing probably because all the answers were now being checked against the criminal’s Microsoft account instead of my Skype account.

No amount of customer support chatting or Microsoft supoort calling could get that account back, or even get someone to investigate the fraud. I suppose that Skype makes money off these transactions so why bother to stop it.
What are “society’s rules”? Laws? Laws are arbitrary and regularly criminalize particular demographics or even singular entities for whatever reason to enforce an agenda.
>Is "at least we tried"-style blocking good enough?

Yea exactly. In absence of a mechanism to block users the discussion of who gets to police who is worthwhile. But if a company chooses not to comply with GDPR and at the same time doesn't utilize any available mechanism to block EU users then there is definitely intentional ignorance on their part.
You are conflating a whole lot of things that are barely related to this specific case, which is about a very specific situation: criminalizing sleeping on public property when shelters are full. What would you have these people do, exactly, to avoid this punishment?
What's cruel about a warm, clean bed with 3 meals a day and clean clothes?

The fine is far crueler than the time, since the fine robs them of money to spend on food.
Funsorting
The hardest thing to control is one's mouth. You either control it, or it controls you.
Not surprising to see this flagged, but still disappointing.
Without knowing much about the Australian system, I suspect the protections in the Constitution are equivalent, but not those in "common law and other legislation". In the US, the protections in the Constitution + Bill of Rights are considered much more fundamental than our common law and other legislation because it requires an amendment to override those protections, and amendments require an enormous level of national consensus to pass.
Unix shell and the friendly, no fuss UI. It's that simple really.
What the parent doesn't explicitly mention is that there is a government inquiry open RIGHT NOW. You have to get your submissions in by 10th of September (5 days time). Every Australian here needs to make a submission (please).

The parent's link, allows you to post a boilerplate submission with a single click. Far better to write and email your own submission, as form letters tend to get aggregated into one during evaluation. Your own submission only has to be a few lines, even if it just paraphrases a form submission. Uniqueness counts over bulk submissions.

The page for the inquiry is:

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consultations/assistanc...

The email address for submissions is:

AssistanceBill.Consultation@homeaffairs.gov.au

Less time critically, you also need to write to or call your federal MP, but I'd suggest that a personal submission to the inquiry is the most "bang for buck".
I think you are correct. It’s about where you draw the line. The line should be adjusted to account for this. What that looks like I don’t know but I agree even application of laws when they exist is only just.
I wish car companies would stop trying to make EVs so goddamn garish looking. This car is so abysmally covered in blue LEDs that is just fucking SCREAMS "I'M AN EV" in the least subtle way possible.
Again? I can't think how. It's already been dockerized.
Thanks for having a look. If I understand that correctly the DNS servers are returning IPv6 addresses for themselves, which aren't functioning. So he needs to get his host to stop returning the IPv6 addresses (or to fix IPv6).
Do you honestly believe that someone is better on the streets, exposed to the weather, without access to restroom facilities, food, or healthcare, than in a facility where they get all of that?
I feel my contribution is more in saving time by experience than anything purely programming language related. Instead of having ‘young people’ ‘iterate, move fast and break things’, I think up the basics and tell them that. It save stress not knowing what to do (in my opinion the iterating is just their way of figuring out what to do without that feeling you are wasting time; it is not a very efficient way as there is a limit on how fast you can iterate and in how many simultaneous areas) and less crappy software comes out as the iterating did not start in the completely wrong place.
Just today I was having issues with the Prettier extension in VS Code, and I uninstalled it to see if that would fix it (I read that usually fixes the issues I was having). Then I realized that I couldn't install it again because VS Marketplace was down.
This was like 8 hours ago and still no signs of recovery. Of course, all my builds are failing because of some stupid formatting issue that Prettier usually would solve, so yeah..thanks MSFT.
Why is this on the second page when it has >400 points + 135 comments in 2 hours? It was at the top position on the front page at first. Did someone manually alter it?
Works for me with Noscript, Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, and HTTPS Everywhere.
> You're missing the point, you're ignoring on whether or not he's actually been punished prior. If he had already been punished by "mob justice" (which you've ill-defined), then this is double-dipping.

That's irrelevant. Given Gunn endorses mob justice, then the mob decides what is and isn't right. That's what mob justice means. The number of times you've been punished is immaterial. My personal satisfaction in this outcome is immaterial. How much you've suffered is immaterial. The mob decides what you deserve.

Further, people being judged according to how they judge others is the definition of logical consistency. To do otherwise would be special pleading.

> Is that mob justice? I mean, what isn't mob justice according to you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochlocracy

Throngs of people driven by emotional motives rather than rational consideration of the facts and the context of any given scenario. No recognition of people's fallibility. No formal system recognizing the rights of both perpetrators and victims. Dehumanization of perpetrators. These are all characteristic of mob justice.

The rise of doxxing, shaming culture, and so on are virtually all forms of mob justice, and it's frankly abhorrent.

> And if the advertisers would have pulled from the show? And what if they just don't want her there for her views. And there are plenty of times where there's no cost and things get denied or cancelled. These decisions are never purely financial.

Those are all purely financial motivations. Advertisers pull from the show because the bad PR may affect sales. They don't want her there for the same reasons. It's frankly bizarre that you think there's any other motivation here, particularly for big corporations that are effectively amoral.
You do realize that the Anatole France quote is satire, no?

The point is that the law already places a greater burden for the poor to comply than the rich. The rich don't need to sleep under bridges or steal bread, the poor can't help it, therefore the law itself unjustly discriminates against the poor.
Very interesting! Another thing to consider however is how much work each instruction can do. In that regard x86 may have a big edge.
We're not talking about the Deep South, which doesn't have a homeless problem.

We're talking about the West Coast, which has good weather year round and clean prison facilities. Unlike 99.999% of HN, I've actually visited every jail, prison, and mental hospital in CA. I've seen the conditions first hand. They're not what you see in movies--they're what you see in Orange is the New Black, i.e., clean and relatively comfortable. Also, mentally ill prisoners get transferred--almost immediately--to state mental hospitals.

I agree that bloating the correctional system is a problem--but I would rather use prisons to house the homeless than to house otherwise employed and housed nonviolent offenders.
The reasonable solution from a practical point of view, then, is to use your political power as a homeowner to push your municipality to provide sufficient services to the homeless population to provide them with shelter and to help them find more permanent places to live. Criminalizing this stuff is very likely a lot more expensive than just providing enough beds and shelter and basic for everyone who needs one, anyway.
How and when to buy a new smartphone?
BLM land is free for camping and in large quantities in the West.
If poverty is no excuse for breaking the rules then wealth should not be either...

But that is not how it works in a land where a bunch of bankers can break all of the rules of sound lending and then demand that the government relieve them of them of the consequences of their actions and suffer few or no penalties. Literally the only people who have gone to jail over the 2008 mortgage banking crisis were whistleblowers who called out malfeasance on the part of their employers.

We can start jailing homeless people _after_ the CEO of Wells Fargo is in jail.
Cancer: a new hope
> Currently my app has a couple of issues with a few crashes a day which I am working to resolve but I don't think that is the culprit.

How sure are you about this? Speaking personally, if I installed an app that was otherwise good but crashed that often, I'd likely uninstall it.
If you want a business that is effectively a VC lottery ticket, ie flame out or go big in 18 months, you want folks under 30. They're stupid enough to believe the VC's and sign up, energetic enough to do something, and silly enough to keep up with the lifestyle fads that might produce something that goes exponential.

If you want a business that produces money, you want founders who know an industry, understand the holes and deficiencies, have a solid nose to avoid the bullshit and the swamps, keep tight control over their cashflow and realize that this will probably take about 5 years--that's someone 35+ and more probably 45+.

However, 5 years is WAY outside the return window for the modern lottery ticket VC. Consequently, they are going to give you every excuse in the book to avoid investing in a company other than "I'm buying a lottery ticket, not a business."
It's actually not that hard. For example, I've never called anyone a child rapist, because that would be a clear sign of schizophrenia.
No, I absolutely believe they should have access to all of that instead of sleeping on the streets. But I also absolutely know jail is not that place. See other comments about the quality of jail facilities or talk to somebody who has spent time in jail. This wouldn't be an issue if there were enough shelters for everyone who wanted to be in a facility.
Shelters only have so many beds, not to mention many are already overcrowded and rife with violence
I've worked with some overseas developers that were terrific and terrible. Typically the good ones wanted to stay put.
I think what they meant was in case none of those are available, they shouldn't be penalized.
Coincidentally enough, a judge actually recently passed a ruling that says the opposite.
Friend, everything in this world can be said to discriminate against the poor. What do you propose? That being poor legitimizes breaking the rules that protect all of us?
> I don't understand the hand-waving here. Does the phone have a comparably secure design to that of an iPhone or not?

To understand means to see beyond security design to see security principles. If one company magically decides to move your data to a government controlled cloud without any public discussion around why or if they even agree with it, the design is not going to matter. When the next internal decision occurs negatively affecting security in some undiscussed opaque way, you won't be able to point to security audits to explain the folly of human traits.
And in some cases they do get money! (https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2018/02/25/sean-miller...)
I saw from this image:

https://ia600600.us.archive.org/31/items/TerryADavis_TempleO...

That somebody [his family?] was encouraging people to donate to the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. I know from my own research into nonprofits that this is seemingly a good and legit charity for mental health research. I would encourage HN readers to check it out.
Allow them to sell their citizenship. I'm serious.
Https://redux.js.org/ Google indexed description seems to have been hijacked
They don't pay fines, come on. What is the government going to do? Garnishee their wages? Ruin their credit score? Prevent them from taking out a huge mortgage?

It's absurd that the police spend so much time and money "fining" people for things that they're just going to do again anyway. The solution involves not fining people, but instead having a system that can help treat the problems they have, not just throw them in jail over and over.
Deciding quality is a slippery slope. Who is going to decide the quality? Me? You? A committee? Government? Which one?

"Is that really that value that governments should be optimizing for? What about people who's content isn't all that good? Should they be ensuring payments for anyone who creates a new viral meme?"

That's exactly what government should do. Let the market to decide what content it perceives as good or not. The viral on its own means that the content is desired by some in the population. You or I may question its quality, but that doesn't discount its value to the ones who enjoy it.

I think that's where it should stop. Government shouldn't censure content (up until is outright harmful to the society [there are mechanisms in place already to deal with this]).

The curation should come from the platforms. Platform can compete for the eyeballs by picking the content they want to distribute. However creators, whoever they are, should be fairly compensated for it.