skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a direct response to two things (mostly): 1) CMU establishing a 'department' of AI (where MIT had merely an AI track within the CS program), and 2) Kai-Fu Lee's recent book on the rise and inevitable domination by China of all things AI-related -- inviting a new 'space race' between the superpowers. (A 'brain race'?)

Yet I can't imagine why an entire 'college' of AI is needed. AI simply isn't a field that's deep or broad enough to warrant an entire college with a handful of distinct majors, like an engineering college or medical school. Each of this college's AI degrees will span distinct problem or solution spaces? Not likely.

Maybe this was the only way to ensure the gift of all $350 million. Or to build multiple new buildings...
They also now send you an email which doesn't even require a new password. You click and it logs you in.
Ask for the 80% of the stake.
Just another thing to ignore.
A kernel should always be compiled with symbols / source code inside of it -- that the Linux kernel doesn't have full support for CTF says more about it than it does about CTF.

Yes, a SIGABRT will get you a core file and will kill a process, but if your process is hanging in an endless loop (like the author's was), one already has far bigger problems, and keeping such a process running will not amount to much.
>Billions of Tethers were printed seemingly out of thin air and used to purchase Bitcoin.

Do we know if it was BTC that was purchased?

I have half a mind to think that people who were smart enough to buy decentralized and scare BTC are different than the people who would buy a centralized fiat coin Tether.

The only people I know that use Tether are gamblers who are day trading alt coins.

It is become more and more apparent every day that Bitcoin is different than Alts.
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Not a direct answer, but Rails now includes ActiveJob which abstracts over the various jobs are available and is nice and simple to set up.
Getting my popcorn ready...

This is the silliest human endeavor that somehow seems to attract a few smart people too.
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We had one connected vending machine in the building. Its credit database was on a remote server, so such hacks would not work.

However, if you unplugged its ethernet connector and buy something, then somehow your would get your food/drinks and your transaction was stored into a buffer until the machine went online again.

That buffer being in volatile memory, unplugging the power cord of the machine was enough for it to forget you ever bought something.
I'm not a native English speaker. What's the difference?
The vending machine trusts the app without any checks, therefore its security posture depends on how secure the app is.
Idk, I buy burritos at taco bell with my Bitcoin Debit Card.

I dont trust my local government's always inflating currency.
I have been and continue to remain very skeptical about all this hoopla about AI.

Five years ago, I thought the hoopla about AI is just a fashion and it's all going to quickly pass.

Two years ago, I thought it's a bubble that will eventually burst.

At this point, I'm wondering whether what's happening is pure re-branding where we'll stop using the term CS and instead use the term AI.

If I think of AI as CS, I'm ok with it although I don't think graphics, comp. architecture, networking, and OS are AI. But if the rest of the world wants to call them AI, then let them.
That's exactly what will remain out of this pile of hot steaming garbage.
Foobar2000 is pretty much the only thing I miss about Windows.

Very (intentionally) bare-bones by default but it can be configured/extended to be amazing.
In general, if you pick the all time high as a starting point for your "research" it's all the way down from there. Bitcoin's daily transaction volume is moving to second layer so the metric used is not very useful.

More importantly, and I can't stress this enough, the FX value of a cryptocurrency is not directly related to the project's status (developer activity or security track record, etc) but it is correlated to public perception of its value, which is why these sort of article pops up every now and again at regular intervals.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9niw8x/lightning_n...
MIT announces new college of computing with $1B commitment
Implementing a Strong Code-Review Culture: Derek Prior (2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJjmw9TRB7s

I guess this is more of a 'soft talk' but I still reference this all the time and watch it at least once a year. One of the more relevant and practical talks for any software company.
Wasn’t there a HackerNews post last week about Bloomberg journalists getting paid for articles that move markets? This one seems like one of those articles.
You are free to change anything you like about VLC yourself. I don’t mind that it’s interfacr is “broken” because it:

- plays videos
- is free
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> Each of this college's AI degrees will span distinct problem or solution spaces? Not likely.

I don't see why not? We are a long way away from general AI.
It's great how much the potential of cryptocurrency depends on the market cap.

The scariest part to me about cryptocurrency is not the greed, lies and manipulation. It's a centralized cryptocurrency by a major government. Imagine if instead of cash, you had to pay for everything with a digital currency controlled by the US Govt. It'd be all the immutability of cryptocurrency with the monetary policy of the Fed Reserve. I'd bet the IRS and NSA would love the additional data.
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OK, so if I have a Huawei mobile phone running Android OS, who gets my data? US or Chinese governments and agencies?

Or maybe Russian hackers, cause they are the one controlling the world and have access to everything?
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I wouldn't say VLC has the best user interface in the world, but in no way is it as bad as the QuickTime/WinAmp [1] era UI we went through where UI looked cool but it wasn't obvious which part if it was actually functional or decoration. Not only that, but it was completely abstract in comparison to the OS's UI. VLC's interface is relatively honest in it's appearance in my opinion.

I think modern UI is becoming over simplistic - it's no longer obvious what is meant to be interacted with [2]. Humans usually have a good grasp of depth and things pretending to have depth.

I imagine OSX will eventually go the way of iOS and Android with a flat UI, where it's not obvious at all how you're supposed to interact with it. Apple products have been getting harder to use for a long time, with features such as the insane four/five finger scroll on an iPad to change apps, close windows, etc [3].

And don't even get me started with the Apple Newton [4].

[1] https://screenshots.en.sftcdn.net/en/scrn/30000/30671/winamp...

[2] https://www.soft32.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/WIndo...

[3] https://www.macworld.com/article/2975857/ios/6-only-for-ipad...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)
The association with Schwarzman tarnishes my perception of MIT.

http://noticingnewyork.blogspot.com/2014/10/plutocratic-clas...
Note that it is possible for sites to detect incognito mode...
https://gist.github.com/jherax/a81c8c132d09cc354a0e2cb911841...

(You are correct though: my suggestion still doesn't work, for other reasons!)
I like this one, here it is for Fish shell: https://gist.github.com/upvalue/4f34df2397786535732a77676a72...
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> distinguish between statistics and mathematics

It has always seemed to me that it is correct distinction. Although there exists a branch of mathematics called mathematical statistics, by its very nature statistics is more like physics, in that it is trying to develop efficient methods of getting information about the objective world based on a certain kind of observations and measurements; and, of course, just as theoretical physics, statistics is highly mathematical, which often creates confusion regarding the actual subject of investigation.
Based on Huawei's existing presence in Ottawa a couple years ago, I'd say that this ship has already sailed. Canada isn't going to kick out any of the companies that scooped up bits of what used to be Nortel.
There's huge demand for cellular-based broadband. I wasn't aware that TELUS' wireless coverage in the Interior was so bad, and slightly surprised that there isn't more negative news coverage when TELUS and Bell tout "national coverage". I'm sure the CRTC's roaming caps[1] will change some of the profitability scenarios per set of cell-sites.

I will note that Saskatchewan (through SaskTel) seems to cover the province quite well even outside of Regina and Saskatoon.

Re. cellular-based broadband - while there is huge demand in rural regions, the pricing is challenging. Basically, cellular-based "broadband" usually operates at a loss, but at least it's a loss that more carriers are willing to shoulder, in (small) part due to the CRTC's renewed call for action to review "universal broadband service"[2] in 2019.

[1] https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2018/2018-99.pdf

[2] https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/internet/internet.htm
Write for yourself -- I've no problem paying Apple Computer for a solution which I plop down on a table, turn on, and start using immediately after that without having to fiddle with it.
The early smart people are now rich smart people. The late smart people aren't very smart after all.
I don't really get it. Are the people commenting about how useless and stupid Bitcoin and Ethereum are, really putting themselves above Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and Peter Thiel's predictions? I mean. At most, you could be skeptical.

Thinking that it's a joke when even those kinda guys (First successful browser, first cloud computing, first online payment service) are all-in it's mind blowing.

I remember reading the same comments on HF when I was a kid. And even before, about LR.

Guess who found (and will find) himself on the wrong side of history?
And you're saying oranges aren't fruit because they aren't like apples.

It's actually a not-insignificant amount of code that creates an approach so cleverly transparent that you are able to interpret it as no approach at all.
There are also a fair number of other majors that aren't in the School of Humanities but also aren't what most people would consider STEM like the fairly large School of Architecture, which includes things like Urban Studies and Planning.

The overall number also includes a fairly large number of degrees, mostly masters, from the Sloan School of Management.
Is there any reason info showing this company to be any more evil than any other China based cell company? Just curious why they seem to be targeted more than others.
I think if I'm accused of something in court I should have presumption of innocence against the use of the government monopoly on violence.

I don't think I should have presumption of innocence in the privacy of people's minds, even multiple people's minds. OJ Simpson has not had any of his rights violated by people openly believing he did it, because the government does not believe he did it. And for the government to force people to believe differently would be an immense violation of their rights.

Should people act on their beliefs extrajudicially, the government will punish that—after due process and presumption of innocence to the alleged vigilantes, of course.
I think you are assuming that weak AI is being touted as strong AI.

What has happened is that methods have been discovered to do many very useful things using weak AI that have significant useful applications.

However, since it's weak AI the building blocks aren't that different from the AI we've had for decades. What makes it novel and worth its own academic specialization is that understanding how to combine and utilize those building blocks is not trivial.

I'd argue that it's currently a bit more of an art than a science, but surely it will eventually become a science.
Yeah, there's unity to it and no system other than "break the problem apart, look for these properties, think hard, and match them to the identity that also has these properties".

A lot of interpretation and intellectual confidence involved, difficult things to communicate.
I don't think you're making a counterargument here; I'm not saying caffeine doesn't have negative impacts on health at any level. I'm saying to the point of effect (which again I detailed), it is safer than cocaine is comparably.

The mechanism of ingest only matters if the latency of effect is so great that a user goes past the point of pleasurable effect. Drinking or snorting cocaine has negative physiological effect closer to the point of pleasurable pyschological effect than does caffeine.
Post 2008 the real estate industry was rife with fraud. I had a boss that got kickbacks from contractors fixing rigged bids on foreclures to the tune of 500-600k. He never got caught. It was blatantly illegal and involved federal agencies.
Regenerative braking.
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That’s what stopped Apache from building a certified java implementation
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Notice Telus is issuing Huawei routers to new households here in Canada. Telus, Bell, Rogers - the 3 monopolies here on internet - means you could have about a third or more of the country transitioning to Chinese hardware; that is a lot.

As a Canadian citizen, I urge Canada to snub Huawei too. Doing business with businesses based in China for any reason should be met with extreme criticism simply based on the human rights atrocities that are happening there all the time; not to mention Chinese government's dismantling of free speech in Hong Kong [0] and its continued aggression towards the independent and separate country of Taiwan [1].

China's businesses should fix China's government before they expect to be rewarded with lucrative international deals to the scale that Telus (and Apple, et all) is awarding them.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/10/14/beijing-taking-hong-ko...

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/10/11/exclusive-beijing-tell...
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The only inroad Oracle has made into my company has been EssBase (a component of their Hyperion platform), and we run that against MSSQL. They keep calling, hoping for more.

Last time I told the salesperson: "I will not bring any more Oracle products into my company for the simple reason that Larry Ellison is an asshole who is hostile to his customers." The response? "Yeah, I get that a lot."

Honestly, I felt sorry for the guy.
Very nice! I am getting an IndieHackers vibe from this (which is a good thing). I definitely think there's a need for a curated list of UX reads, so thanks for putting this together.

I would advise against the dark background though, it makes things harder to read as your eyes aren't able to make out the grid of elements as clearly. Like the aforementioned IndieHackers, if you want to go dark, use a not-quite-black shade, like a dark purple or dark blue.
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Perhaps there's a reason why smart people are attracted to it.
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My illumos based kernel begs to differ.

And I'll listen to the kids when they actually start understanding what they are doing and why they are doing it, that is, when they learn how to use a computer.
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I don't like this. A Skull and Bones Republican creating data-obsessed academics....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_A._Schwarzman#Politica...
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Noted! Still getting used to HN. :)
I can't think of a single OS that gives you kernel stack traces on SIGABRT.

Can you disambiguate CTF? I only know that as capture the flag, which doesn't really make sense here.

Edit: ok, I figured it out.

No theyre not going to give you that raw information because it's a kernel ASLR bypass. You can totally get all the same information with the dwarf symbols, but you're going to have to opt in on a kernel for it to mean anything.

Edit2: bitching about how people aren't using portable Unix techniques, and then citing features that are Solaris specific isn't a great look.
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It's not necessary for most applications, but it's extremely helpful for some. It can also be used to realize deployment scenarios where you cluster across clouds very easily provided you ensure connections are secure between nodes/containers/services.
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Would you be surprised by legislation or insurance regulations that required such disclosures?
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The most widely distributed embedded ARM system software in the world, Android, offers this. They use mini debug info (normal debug info sections compressed, IIRC) and then you can signal a daemon in the background to do a stacktrace on your application.

Not on production images, though.
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Fun stuff!

The article has an old vibe of hacking articles published in the '90s/'00s (in a good way).

> obviously, it was password protected

Not obvious at all. Last time I checked, WhatsApp or Telegram didn't password protect their database (that was a while ago admittedly). And obviously, it doesn't actually provide that much protection if the key is on the phone, as the article demonstrates.
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Any generic data type with a private ArrayList(T) member is an example. Unless you also expect callers to manually run destructors for elements of a type's private members, and their private members, etc. And it's not just about destroying the ArrayList entirely. Any function which just removes elements from an ArrayList needs to know how to destroy elements or else pass the buck for half its purpose to the caller. When I call shrink on an ArrayList(ArrayList(i32)) I'm supposed to preloop over the shrunken-over elements and call deinit on them before I call shrink? When I call the function that removes elements satisfying a predicate I'm supposed to preloop over the elements and call deinit on the ones I'm about to remove? Obviously not.

I already mentioned that hack. All you're doing there is introducing the ad-hoc notion of a destructors as a method named deinit. Again, in order for that to work in generic code that convention needs to be blessed by the language.
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It's supposed to be more than that. Sinatra is described as "a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort".

Entire web applications, with minimal effort. I have not found this to be the case with Sinatra.
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> A few self-serving white men (there are hardly any women or minorities in the blockchain universe) pretending to be messiahs for the world’s impoverished, marginalised and unbanked masses claim to have created billions of dollars of wealth out of nothing.

To be fair this spiel is almost the same message you hear out of the startup/VC industry. There is always a hustle when there is fast and easy money around and people wanting to get rich quick. That said there is also real opportunity there if you can see through the cruft, just like in the startup world.
Mass action is a form of democracy, if the mass is large enough. It doesn't have to mean violence.
Would you think that a company ought to publish at least the security bugs that make them end the service? Your straw man is ridiculous.
Sub-question. Are there any extant man-made objects in orbit around our moon right now? Around any of the planets?
This is the same Canada they're trying to start a trade wea war wor with, right?
That's exactly the right idea.
Yes. In many countries being laid off is called being made redundant, which is more descriptive. Redundancy means they are axing your role rather than yourself.
Right, that's money laundering.
I wouldn't call it silly. The idea behind cryptocurrency (distributed agreement) remains a difficult problem to solve efficiently and securely. If nothing else, it is a worthwhile thought experiment.

As for whether or not any cryptocurrency will ever be stable and widespread enough to be usable in the western world remains to be seen.
There was quite lot of politically motivated property destruction over that period. Often by people in tight groups that would be hard to infiltrate.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/pounds-15m-hawk-attack-wo...
Close the tab, app, etc. Walk away from the computer.
> Canada's best interests are different than those of the US.

Not really. Canada's economy can be described as trade with the US and some other stuff.