skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually his essays are information dense, but this was a bit of a let down. It would have been a fine tweet though.

And the constant amazement at the IG founders' extraordinariness is very tiring. (They are obvioulsy not dumb, but they mainly got lucky, as it's not like there were no other apps with photo taking and filters trying to make it big in/on the Apple App Store at the time.)
Assuming 1 year has 52 weeks, and 1 week has 5 working days, and 1 working day has 8 hours, that's 23 prescriptions/hour, or 2:36 minutes per prescription.
Trump is an aberration and will likely be out of office in 2020, worst case 2024. No one is going to blow up old alliances because of Trump. Every foreign capital is just trying to ride out the storm.
Commercial loans or investments are necessary.

For personal use, mortgages is the only normally needed product. Non-mortgage personal loans and overdraft agreements are not necessities (and seems to invite poor financial management).

The rest are insurance products, which are also on the nice-to-have list.

However, loans and insurance are a tiny fraction of what the financial sector does. The vast majority of other products would go mostly unnoticed if gone.

> Today it would be total chaos.

Briefly, yes. Some things without real value would collapse. But I strongly believe that it would stabilize within the first year.
In most (good) companies team/group have budgets where large portions are at discretion to group manager. I would expect group managers to approve for such hardware requests. It’s much harder to justify $4K bills on cloud services. This is not IT issue and I think this thread has got derailed little here.
What tactics do SiriusXM employ to retain you? When my trial expired, they just sent me a few snail mails begging for money. Easy enough to bin.
> I think the best translation of "trivial" when used amongst mathematicians is that it is something you should be able to figure out with your current knowledge without too much difficulty

As i read through my old uni maths notes there are often wild leaps from a to e along with a little scrawl saying "trivially" or "obviously". They may have been true once, but god dammit 21 year old me was a knobber
If you like this then you’ll appreciate these guys:

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It's funny that democrats tried the dame russia collusion thing against sanders by pointing out his honeymoon location. This is all a ploy by establishment to prevent dems rallying under a better leader.
Can't go wrong with StarTalk :)
- The Ground Up Show

- The Minimalists

- Levar Burton Reads

I want to, but I don't have time for more podcasts. They distract me a lot so I only listen when I take a walk or commute.
>it's so sad that from where i live (SEA),

Well then. Move to Romania. Problem solved.
Europe, Russia and China
The news mediums do a great job with the FUD. It's how they keep you watching their ads. Gotta stay in business somehow.
I recent started listening to The Greatest Generation, a comedy podcast where two guys watch the whole of Star Trek: TNG in order (later they tackle DS9). They have a lot of fun riffing off it, especially the really bad early episodes, but there's also interesting discussion about the show's politics, whether it still holds up, etc. It's highly enjoyable, especially if you're of the age group who grew up with the show in the 80s and 90s.

https://www.maximumfun.org/shows/greatest-generation
I am filled with despair that this is normalised behaviour now. I can't honestly think what its going to take to back off from this direction - younger generations aren't cognisant of the risks enough to want such tracking to be illegal, are they?

What's it going to take to put these heinous actions in the grave?
Despite not working in infosec I tune into risky busisness (risky.biz) every week, it's a good round-up of the week without the overreaction you sometimes get from twitter and here in the immediate aftermath of a big leak or vuln.
I second your recommendation of Digital Apollo - an excellent book.

I also rate How Apollo Flew to the Moon by David Woods (Springer Praxis, 2011) very highly. The cover is kind of cheesy but its full of the kind of technical detail that is hard to find without reading through old NASA docs.
From the article

>There's also a wide body of research that's found that decreasing latency has a roughly linear effect on revenue over a pretty wide range of latencies for some businesses. Increasing performance also has the benefit of reducing costs.

I wish he cited some of that research, because Google doesn't show much except for this amazon study with the 100ms.

I'm especially interested if there's any research on engineering tools and their latency (long build times) etc., which are chronically under addressed in quite a few large corporations. I'm just wondering if there's some studies that would make the case for me if I were to present this to management.
I love the concept of the fingerprinting deception features

--fingerprinting-canvas-measuretext-noise
--fingerprinting-canvas-image-data-noise
--fingerprinting-client-rects-noise

I wonder whether we can get similar features in Mozilla Firefox or regular Chromium? Probably with an extension? Is anybody aware of something like that? Or does it really need to be baked into the core of the browser?
It does not, something like

char buff[100];

char func(int idx) {
char *ptr = buff;
return ptr[idx];
}

int main (void) {
printf("%c", func(200));
return 0;
}

Compiles nicely to something like this

(module
(type $FUNCSIG$ii (func (param i32) (result i32)))
(import "env" "putchar" (func $putchar (param i32) (result i32)))
(table 0 anyfunc)
(memory $0 1)
(export "memory" (memory $0))
(export "func" (func $func))
(export "main" (func $main))
(func $func (; 1 ;) (param $0 i32) (result i32)
(i32.load8_s
(i32.add
(get_local $0)
(i32.const 16)
)
)
)
(func $main (; 2 ;) (result i32)
(drop
(call $putchar
(i32.load8_s offset=216
(i32.const 0)
)
)
)
(i32.const 0)
)
)

Which will gladly blow up, or not, when i32.load8_s gets called.

https://webassembly.studio/
Time to give Bing a chance.
I find the ruby syntax much more self-explanatory than python.

Yes and no. Consider that these are different in Ruby but the same in almost every other language:

f(x)
f (x)

Ever had to debug code that relied on this behaviour? Or had to explain why exactly to someone unfamiliar with yacc?
I also have this problem, and it's a reason not to use Firefox for me. Maybe you only have 4.7% of users on MacOS precisely because of problems like these?
Some people spend that much time reading books printed on deas trees. Is that better?
I cycle out shows pretty fast but these are the ones that remain in my playlist:

* Trashfuture: A British politics podcast about the future is trash. Insightful, if a little madcap at times.

* Boonta Vista: Australian politics. The main host has an amazing radio voice.

* Citations Needed: Politics, helps analyse the media and its tropes to give you a better handle on issues and how to engage with them.

* Previously in Europe: European politics, often takes time to highlight issues and countries that do not get much mass media play.

* Revolutions: History podcast - really well constructed nuggets breaking down revolutions throughout history. I personally fled to this after getting exhausted by Hardcore History.

* Shift-F1: A formula 1 podcast. Both hosts are passionate and also have different levels of knowledge about the sport and history which engenders good discussion. The schedule is super disrupted right now due to on one of the hosts having a baby.

* The Irish Passport: Irish politics- more a series of investigative essays than "What is on this week???", very good and earnest topics and coverage.

* The Bugle: Political Satire. What John Oliver did before he got big. Andy Zaltzmann is an amazing satirist, and should be more widely appreciated. Warning: Puns

* Waypoint Radio: Video games from a set of interesting voices. Can be very Marmite due to how blinkered the hosts can be on some topics/ with certain people.

* 99% Invisible: See other comments!

And finally:
* Chapo Trap House: Political comedy. You know what this is.

* Reel Politik: Like Chapo, but recorded by angry young Brits. Awful sound quality, sometimes a golden nugget hidden within. Somehow gets some amazing guests. Listening to this gets you targeted by the Daily Mail, probably.
Exactly.

If France was the dominant world power we would be transacting in euros or francs and they would get to decide who was in the club. Until then ...
iTunes.com certificate seems to be invalid
That's just addressing the issue in a really tangential way. You want to fix it, go for the people who come up with the idea. Even a company that employs almost exclusively ethical engineers will still have a few willing to compromise. Go for the head and the body will follow. Change starts at the top.
This is terrible advice.

Even if you entire leave aside how immoral this advice is, it is still a terrible strategy for success: unless you are a Kasparov-level master of lies, you are going to make your life terribly complicated and this will weigh you down and make you miss a shit-ton of legit opportunities.
Hands On The Sigmund Freud Typeface (2014)
Getting my bachelors degree.

I had been working as a self-taught web developer before that and went into college already knowing much of what I needed to know to do the job. However, getting a degree significantly improved my ability to get the positions I wanted at the pay I deserved. Also, I learned some important things that I had never heard of before.
Staying long enough at a company to become indispensible, then working from home, and from a sunny island for a month or so in winter.
That's what RAID-5 (and variants) are. Btrfs (and maybe ZFS?) support making certain files or volumes use parity stripes so corruption is recoverable in-place.

Per Shannon, these things are all related. You can think of error-correcting codes as a form of replica compression: get the reliability of multiple replicas at a fraction of the size.

Like compression, there are CPU-time tradeoffs as well. Writing two replicas can happen completely in parallel (they're independent) and it imposes basically no CPU cost.
Writing an error-correcting code imposes a CPU penalty and for files that get mutated they impose write overhead (though SSDs have that anyway making it less of a concern).

I think a lot of people assume bitrot happens over time and you need backups anyway, so why take the hit on the primary for some small protection? The reasonableness of that depends on your specific use case and risk tolerance.
How is the experience of other folks here? I have found QT as true nightmare. The UX created with QT just doesn’t scale with 4K displays and framework is just pain to maintain on OS like Windows. I rather prefer UX frameworks that uses web technologies any day.
U2F is much narrower than full Yubikeys.
This is a shortcoming in general. There should be a binary format targeted for JIT-able intermediate representations. Or just a specification on how to put IR code inside ELF files.

Now we have (at least) three different IR formats that are very similar but have slight differences:

1. LLVM IR. Created for LLVM internal use and may only work with specific LLVM version(s) (correct me if I'm wrong here), is not portable across HW architectures.

2. WebAssembly. Made for web browsers.

3. SPIR-V. Made for OpenCL and Vulkan shaders/kernels.

All of the above have a specification, a binary representation, a text representation and associated tooling. Some (or most?) of the tools seem to operate by doing a source level translation from WASM or SPIR-V into LLVM, then doing optimizations or JIT and possibly converting the resulting LLVM IR back to WASM or SPIR-V. In my experience, the tooling with WASM and SPIR-V is inferior to LLVM IR tools or native code tools (binutils etc).

There's a lot of duplicate work going on here, but I understand that it's difficult to get the stakeholders of Web browsers, GPU APIs and compiler infrastructure to even discuss what could/should be done.

Compiler IR's suitable for AOT compilation (ie. the whole code is compiled before it's executed, although it might be done at runtime) are a game changer on how we deal with programming languages and runtimes and a huge improvement on Java-like bytecode+JIT which never quite delivered what it promised.
For me it's the same. I don't have much time to listen to podcasts so general chat or low density talk just isn't efficient.

I like some conversational podcasts like After On where they tend to stick to discussing the topic at hand but I couldn't get into Stuff You Should Know or Joe Rogan as there was a lot of general chat in there or not high enough information density.

I don't want to hear 5 minutes of why somebody thinks something is worth doing a podcast on: just tell me the interesting stuff and I'll judge for myself.
Lending money predates banks, does it not? One could argue that the banks has brought more fair terms, but I doubt that this was the case initially.

Checks are of course a product of banks, but I fail to see how that should have brought significant change (rather than a bit of convenience). They were certainly never more trustworthy than cash, and they are themselves not more than simply a form of currency. Things like credit agreements are a separate product.
I presume you never used the web right before popup blockers became a thing, it was terrible. Really not the same as the few shady sites that use tricks to show one popup these days.
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You are missing the embedded and factory automation market, blu ray players, cable TV boxes, where plenty of JVM vendors are happily selling bare metal JVMs.

The ones that never had any issue with either Sun or Oracle, because they always played by the license rules.
Background: http://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/about.html.

The recordings are mesmerizing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3guS2QRxY&list=PLSmCf-s1jG...

Here's the one about the two monks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3guS2QRxY#t=14m8s.

That's actually the second one about two monks. The first is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3guS2QRxY#t=1m.
Who knows. Startups are require very high degree of focus, long hours, etc. not everyone can do that for just one more year.
India Won't Scrap Aadhaar Biometric ID Database, but Imposes Some Restrictions
I mean closer economically. It would strengthen economic ties between EU and China or Russia.
Right. That also applies to N number of keys, too.
Yeah, I read some posts from a former employee. The ad model was there from day 1 and people can't just act like Page and Brin are brilliant yet failed to see the potential for harm in their business model.
Anyone would think that Google want to track you wouldn't they. Oh wait...
"Just" is never a good word in a technical discussion, especially around security vulnerabilities like Spectre.

That's a good idea, but there's also several reasons that may not be appropriate:

- WASM explicitly says that it may be extended to 64-bit indexing (more than 4GB of addressable memory is definitely useful for some things)

- Spending 4GB of (hopefully, virtual) memory on every WASM instance may be undesirable or impossible (e.g. 32-bit processor)

That said, it's very reasonable to impose restrictions on things running in ring-0, and wasmjit could well require a 64-bit machine with 32-bit WASM indices (which I imagine would be okay assumptions for things one would do with it anyway).
> It's funny that democrats tried the dame russia collusion thing against sanders by pointing out his honeymoon location

No, actually, Democrats and Republicans have used that over the years to suggest that Sanders had Communist sympathies and/or poor judgement, it was not a basis for attacks by Democrats (or anyone else, AFAIK) that his 2016 campaign benefited from Russian manipulation.

OTOH, his 2016 campaign (and Stein’s) was apparently a beneficiary of Russian manipulation (and I think Sanders has a acknowledged at least that the evidence suggests this), though information about that didn't come out in time for that information to be used in the campaign (and there's been, AFAIK, no indication or significant accusation of collusion on the part of his campaign, thogut Stein’s is a different story.)
To do error correction you need more bits than when you only need to detect errors.

With hard disks, error correction is done by adding a CRC code [0] (or something similarly short) to each block, so that when the device reads a block and the CRC check fails it can be fairly certain that that block isn't performing well anymore and stop using it. SSD's behave differently as far as I know but there's a similar mechanism in use.

To be able to not only detect errors but also correct the data you need more bits of error correction information. Offering up bits to store error correction information isn't worth the penalty of not having those bits available to store data in a lot of cases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check
does your company also disallow having backup keys to your office or company cars? you're supposed to have multiple keys so you're not effed if you lose one.
A classic case of two steps forward, one step backward. Google knew this would be a big change for the tech community and devised a release strategy accordingly.
https://github.com/indatawetrust/mongo-to-elastic
Who will go bust first? The big race is on!
> The social benefits feel largely like gimmicks

Until they or their wives become pregnant. Then suddenly those immigrants feel the need to come back for some years.
I believe we would miss it dearly if wasm gains significant traction.

I wouldn't like running closed binaries with monolithic architectures through my browser. Maybe for a few selected high performance applications.

Not because the security aspect but I think it will be detrimental to an open web. Maybe not, we'll see.

edit: I don't really understand people that are not horrified by the thought of replacing general javascript code with one that is written in c/c++... Because string operations are awesome in these languages, right?!
I don't claim to know how much he stole (I don't think even he knows it personally, that's what you use accountants for), but that major Zurich bank I mentioned ain't some empty talk - I've met the a bit too talkative wife of one of those bankers, and these kind of deals are still not uncommon in wealth management. And this is just one out of many examples, Panama papers reveal more.

He doesn't need the exit strategy now, but it would be stupid of him not to have one (probably more than one), because nobody knows what future will bring. You only need one charismatic opponent to undermine him.

Overall I think he isn't a bad person for the position he has - he is definitely not outright evil, also definitely not weak and probably quite a patriot. But Russia could have achieved much more than where they are right now, with better leadership. At least in theory.
Someone on here recommended Jocko podcast[1] and I love it, totally not the kind of thing I'd normally listen to but very motivating.

[1] http://jockopodcast.com/
Because it's a map app.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
The reality is that I don’t want a search engine in my phone.

Maybe it wasn’t the case when he said that quote, but the story here is they’re trying very hard to blur the line between their services and the device itself, in some very awkward ways that don’t make a lot of sense except except beyond their own business needs
Do you happen to know if any of this mysterious researcher's papers might be on the arxiv?

And have you looked into automated digitizing machines for your collection? The University of Tokyo seems to have a pretty good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ccxwNssmo :)
Its a much bigger stretch to have companies change the underlying method of verification instead of the method of transport though ...
False equivalency. These countries want freedoms and stability. Not the nightmare of Russian occupation.
For anyone else still reading, this paper from Philips Research describes the method I think you're referring to. (It's cited in Avery Wang's 2003 Shazam paper.) http://www.ismir2002.ismir.net/proceedings/02-FP04-2.pdf

This is a really nice paper as well, but the Shazam method is more exciting because of its focus on the search part of the problem. Audio fingerprinting wasn't an entirely new field of course - the Philips paper also cites several prior publications.

The big limitation of all these methods is that they are robust to EQ and other degradations but not at all to variations in timing between frames. So they work well for identifying different instances of the same recording, but not at all for matching different performances, or for "query-by-humming".
[video] perception and quantum mechanics by Buddhist monk
But do they stream the american ads ?
Indian Supreme Court Strikes Down Various Provisions of Aadhaar
I Googled slack channels list for things I am interested it. Like Front End, Startups, Laravel, WooCommerce etc. You would find 100s of channels. See the ones which have many members. They would have a online form to join them. Join the ones that are free. There would be some who would ask for a membership fee. I personally don't think paid ones are worth the money.
https://medium.com/startup-frontier/100-slack-communities-fo...
So much downvoting for a honest question :/
I think just having more people makes the area more lively. Less people will basically turn it into suburbs. Also higher density means public transportation can be better utilized and reduce the need for cars. I saw this at Arlington and Nova where right around the metro stations, there were high-rises and the area was very walkable and lively.
$3900 is our max target, but we could buy a second car for that.
A lot of stuff like ant/maven, other build tools, plugins, libraries broke due to hardening in JVM that puts a lot of more restrictions on reflection.
Read “Who moved my cheese?”, and promptly quit IBM. It was obvious they considered engineering a cost center and were determined to offshore as much head count as possible. I moved to another company where engineering was valued as the driver of innovation and the core competitive differentiator. It was like night and day.
>We recently made a change to simplify...

Next up is "we recently made a change to simplify giving us all of your movements."

https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/1044300922149588993

This is causing me to re-evaluate my personal technology stack.
Supreme Court allows for live-streaming for cases of constitutional importance
Vivaldi 2.0 – Your browser matters
Who would have known?
Unmaintained software eventually breaks!
Cue the tiny violins.