skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once i was at the same place. When i fixed my health issues (which i was unware of), i made good progress with my team.
Let me skip the job part.

I didn't even know that i could feel better than what i was feeling at that time. How do you know that you've got an issue when you don't know that something better exists.

How is your health?
Do you get sufficient sunlight (vitamin D?

How much body fat % do you've? What's your BMI?

Sometimes anexity is a singnal of something wrong going with our health.

About the job, if you've skills and you are healthy and motivated, you'll do a good job. No need to stress yourself.

If your performance is not optimum for the job you got, don't try too hard, you'll burn out. Be mindful, plan things and see where they take you. Maybe they'll fire you one day then you'll end up in other company.

Once i was at the same place. Once i fixed my health issues (which i was unware of), i made good progress with my team.
While the Euripides is an excellent counterpoint, you’re not acknowledging the clear rhetorical turn that started with the western novel (or shakespeare, I guess).
For anyone else curious & lazy, here's a size comparison to some older iphones -- the Sony is a little bigger than an SE.

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Sony-Xpe...
Don't stress it too much. Any high level job at a big company: unless you've got a concrete project assigned to you, the first couple of months are going to be eating out of your nose. As long as you don't stand in the way, nobody cares. They all had to go through the same phase, so no one thinks you are slacking unless it goes on for years.

Go to all the meetings you are invited to, help where you can and all will be OK.

As for reaching out to people: learn (project) management/ communication/leadership skills. There are a lot of good resources on amazon about this (research yourself what you actually need). You probably can talk to your boss about this, he then will feel happy he can help you with something and give you tips and explain about the culture etc.

Best of luck and as I said, don't worry too much: if the culture is a fit you will be fine.
Never had problems with Realtek on Linux in recent years. Had a lot of problems with it under *BSD a decade ago, though.

I still prefer Intel NICs, but IIRC, Realtek works just fine now. The new network antichrist is "Killer" WiFi NICs
Zirconium and zirconium carbide are about as different as aluminium and clay. One is a metal, the other is a ceramic.
Taxes automatically withheld by employers at the correct rate.

Yes please, this is how it should work for most of the population without special issues.
this exactly.
Yeah I'm still skeptical about this eSIM business
Is the source code for this game available somewhere to look at?
Only after the real powers are done using the exploit.
Can u recommend me one? Very much interested in itx with 12V power. Thanks
Nah, I’d look at the UI in this movie about starship and aliens stuck in South Africa (don’t remember the name, sorry), you’ll see that the guy in the end has to go through bunch of swipes and dig deep into nested UI in order to manage the ship.
Writing about it would drive you insane, here it is in image, gif and email form:

https://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com

shitnoisebridgesays.tumblr.com

A high point for me was getting my site ddos'd and ssh brute force attacked when I decided to run a course in another hacker space after being stuck for committee approval for 3 months. The saddest part is that I knew it would happen and scraped the site into a static html site served from nginx from a box that would could only be administered through a two hop tunnel. Then the guy who I know did it went around stalking me on social media telling everyone I ... I'll actually take my advice and just leave it there.
Such a nostalgia whack.

I fondly remember the days when I would spend hours editing metadata of songs so that they would show up correctly in winamp.

The absolute fun of listening to shuffled music from winamp in the background while reading text heavy web pages (thank you 2001 internet in India, dial-up, with super fast 128 kbps connection)
Why go with N3150?

That chip feels very slow (favorite in budget laptops thanks to Intel pricing, what a travesty)

J4105 has way better benchmarks: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Celeron-N3150-vs...
It can be simultaneously underdiagnosed and overdiagnosed.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/17/joint-over-and-underdia...

> Suppose that 3% of the population has ADHD.

> Suppose that of people with ADHD, 50% of them realize they have ADHD like symptoms and go to a psychiatrist to get checked out.

> Suppose that of people without ADHD, 10% of them falsely believe they have ADHD and also go to a psychiatrist to get checked out.
Zero-day in jQuery plugin sample code exploited for at least three years
Know What You're Pitching – Don't Kill Them with Confusion
> When traveling in the public we have to live with other people.

I agree. But in the case of the announcements, it's not the other passengers who are making the noise but a huge and mindless bureaucracy who makes the announcements only because it can. The bureaucrats or decision makers do not use public transportation and they don’t have to listen to it everyday. The trains or buses come with the technology to make announcements and managers activate it. Passengers are not asked if they want or need such announcements.

I remember subway in New York in the 80's. They were filthy, covered with graffiti, no air conditioning... but there were no recorded announcements. The conductor would make announcements if he felt like it. There is a huge difference between a live human being making the announcement and a robotic voice repeating the same thing over and over again. I remember getting in those hot and dirty trains and reading my book even if I had to stand up. You can block out human voice easily but not a recorded synthetic announcement.

Also these announcements are useless. They serve no purpose. It's not the train's duty to tell passengers the stop they need to get off. It's the duty of the passenger to know where to get out. It's no big deal if a passenger misses his stop.

But it is a huge deal to me if I cannot read my book during my commute. If I'm in the train 2 hours every day, the bureaucrats are stealing 2 hours of good reading time from me. Why? There is no reason.

Imagine traveling in a quiet train everyday! What a great feeling. I would look forward to such a commute because I can work best in busses and trains.

Sorry for the rant. But to me, these recorded announcements are one of the absurdest things in city living.
I agree with that, and also wonder if they're ignoring the research in order to continue with the current profitable trend of bigger every year, because that's one of the very few distinguishers they have. It's easy to market in one word ideas and easy to understand, same reason cars and cokes are getting bigger.
You probably mean well, but this is dangerous misinformation. There are no popular public-key encryption schemes that are safe against quantum computing.

The only popular public-key encryption schemes are based on RSA and ECC, both of which are broken by variants of Shor's algorithm.

Yes, popular symmetric cryptography is safe to the best of our knowledge, but that doesn't help much since virtually all symmetric crypto that is actually applicable at scale relies on some initial public-key crypto for bootstrapping.

And yes, there's research into post-quantum public-key cryptography, but it's pretty underwhelming so far. It seems possible, but at a horrible loss of performance (keys are sized on the order of kilobytes or more, as opposed to 32 bytes for ECC).

I'm pretty pessimistic about the consequences of quantum computing, to be honest.
Not even close to correct! I worked for a small company that paid me well and gave perks. I've also worked at a large company that didn't care for training and benefits.

I suspect I am not alone!
But wouldn't this, eventually, just lead to the factory farming of goats?
Hey. Sorry for the late reply. I'd be sure post new articles on this as follow-up once I have my personal experience with the system with my next trip to China.
How do we stop cutting-edge technology falling into the wrong hands?
Actually I think the interior looked really awesome. Nonetheless some more thinking should have been put to a scenario in case a fire starts. But still I think the problem is that modern media coverage causes every hazard to be a reason to implement even more rules and regulations for how a building or room has to be designed to be fit for a public event. That's another reason why those non- or semi-professional happenings become rarer - it's just too complex and expensive. Too many laws that you need to keep in mind to do anything nowadays pretty much.

It's the usual question on how to balance the trade off between safety and freedom. I myself am more inclined towards the latter.
No users will sign up for a podcast app / network that has no podcasters on it. And no podcasters are going to pay to reach a non-existent userbase.
You don't pay to develop, just publish. So hobby developers are fine.
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The author has two articles, one is this one and the other makes a case for veganism.

I understand that killing animals for their meat strikes some people as morally wrong but you're not going to change my mind by making me feel bad about how a cow, pig or chicken is raised and killed. This is not a moral problem for most people. We don't really care enough. We eat them because they taste good, are easily available and are satiating. Vegan and vegetarian foods are usually less so for all three categories.

No matter how many articles or appeals you make trying to instill some amount of empathy for animals or guilt for their situation it's not going to stop people from craving a steak. Most people can't control their cravings for a cookie. This is not a moral problem, this is a taste and option problem.

I'm honestly going to Texas Roadhouse tonight because you made me think about having a ribeye. Way to go.
It's been years since I took probability, but why start from these particular set of assumptions?

You've shown that the correct form and constant factors falls out from assuming rotational invariance and independent components. But why is this particular set of assumptions intuitively what we call the "normal distribution"?

The same distribution should fall out starting from other more useful equivalent definitions right? (e.g., the maximum entropy distribution for some mean/variance, or the limiting distribution under CLT assumptions, etc)
Lots of people are heavy on beliefs and light on reality these days. I prefer to stay grounded and to study actual real world phenomena instead. It's better to use the best proven tools and methods to enact the change you want to see than to swim upstream with ineffective methods because reality makes you feel uncomfortable.
That sounds like 2 extremes. There has to be a delicate middle ground.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
Lots of good advice here. I'll make some assumptions, such as that you were doing well as a contractor. And that generally means you've adapted some form of The "Feynman Algorithm":

1. Write down the problem.

2. Think real hard.

3. Write down the solution.

Crucially, you've had an approach to point 0 (only implied above) - figure out what the problem is. What is the domain? What is the data like? What does the problem suggest for transforming the data? About transforming the data model so the hard problem become easy?

As a contractor, you'd probably work on point zero with your client - and as the relationship would typically be new, both of you knew this part was essential. What does the client (want to) do? How can you help enable that?

Now, you need to figure out point zero again, in the context of a large organization: large new code base, large new domain(s), large new company culture.

Ask your manager or Co worker for a mentor. Pair program. Read code, read commits from your co-workers. Try to understand the data model(s). Read bug reports.

All those things should help with point zero (let's call it context). Now you should be ready to apply the "algorithm" ;)

[ed: and yes, learning/internalizing enough context to be useful takes time!]
I think that many people would care, they just aren't aware. How many people know, or even want to know, where their meat comes from? Factory farming is very much an inconvenient truth.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/jquery-file-u...
200MB for an IRC like app: "not too bad"? You must be 10 years old!
Letting your dog sleep with you is good for chronic pain sufferers,study shows
People don't care about people that much...saying that it's time to stop factory farming sounds like saying it's time to stop using materials from conflict zones or imported from non-democratic countries
I had a similar issue. I removed the device from my account with a call to Apple so it could fall back to SMS.
Similar here. (I was never tested for ADD; maybe I should.) And the worst thing for me is having a meeting.

Work at least keeps me somewhat awake. Over years I have developed some coping strategies, for example when I feel sleepy I open a text file and start writing detailed notes about what I am currently doing and why. That way I can continue to work, because when I fall asleep for a moment and lose the current thread of thought, I just read what I wrote recently and continue. Also, the act of typing, and seeing changes on the screen help to keep me awake.

But once in a while we have a long meeting, often in dark-ish and not well ventilated place, and that is like feeding me sleep pills.
Jaikoz, while Shareware, is the most powerful amd (Java) cross platform. It also uses MusicBrainz.
What does linux utilities like sed, awk use for text manipulation because they were very slow when I was changing a few table names in a sql file.
> CryptoAPI does not hand over the key and delegate signing and encryption to the application. Instead, it provides APIs for signing and encryption and does not disclose the private key.

There is no proxy, they keys live in your process. Because Windows is proprietary they can do the moral equivalent of:

if (key->flags & CRYPT_EXPORTABLE) {
export(key)
} else {
error_not_exportable
}

If you did this in OpenSSH, everybody would laugh because they could see it in the source code. "This doesn't make the key unexportable Beavis, you idiot". But in Windows they can solemnly announce that the key isn't exportable and as you've demonstrated, people believe them even though some introspection tells us this can't be true (Where is the key? Like, really, where - it isn't in a proxy because there isn't one... when we load it _our_ process gets bigger and in a debugger we can see it's in our memory, just CryptoAPI tells us we're not supposed to export it...)
So true. Reality is very complex and usually it's a very fine line between the best approach and the second best approach; there are a lot of factors to consider. If someone is overly confident about going in a particular direction, it often means that they haven't thought about it enough.

That said there is a big difference between being confident in your abilities and being confident in your arguments.
The video lecture calls for validation of ML results with regard to “appropriate social behaviour”. Is this actually a call to hide results that are politically inconvenient? A concrete example would help here.
Keep in mind that buyers are everyone from Big Corp down to Mom n Pop. The smaller the shop, the more you must rely on the metrics you are told. And even small places may value awareness and/or indirect conversion. In fact, a local, interest based ad may be totally focused on awareness, hoping to increase the chance that you walk into the store the next time you drive by.
> Some Amazon teams have multiple services of varying sizes

Yes. I'm not saying that is 1 team runs only 1 service, but with "microservices" people tend to refer to much smaller daemons.
tl;dr: the ends kind of justify the means.
I'm not convinced the crappy wifi cards can be fixed in software, though. I think they're just really crappy chips :/
Hey, the exact translation for the word does seem a bit odd, but I searched online and there doesn't seem to be good equivalent term in English, the translations are generally either circulation, market or currency.

So I will translate the explanation I got from the Chinese wiki[1]:

The field where the medium of exchange of goods is currency

[1] https://baike.baidu.com/item/流通领域
Today it may be optionally notarized.

Tomorrow it must be notarized.

Then it won't be notarized if it uses "dangerous" APIs.

Then it won't be notarized unless it's distributed through the AppStore.

You can't force every vendor into the AppStore, but you can gradually train users to distrust everything that's not in it. What we are seeing here is just an Act 1 of that.
Ask HN: What does an alternative to Play Store/Services need to be successful?
In the light of recent EU rulings and Google announcing that it would charge up to 40 € for the Google apps including Play Store for devices sold to Europe I was wondering what an alternative to Play Store / play services would need to be successful.

The ultimate goal is an alternative system that device makers would pre-install on devices sold to Europe.

Some random points on my mind to get started:

- It would need to be easy for developers to publish on play store and the new alternative with minimal extra effort.
- Google takes 30% of all revenue from developers. There's potentially some leverage in this.
- We'd need a proper alternative for Push Notifications.

- What are the most important features of your app that require play store / play services?
- How to keep it trustworthy / secure?
- What existing tools could we build upon?
- How do we attract developers to publish on this store while we don't have widespread adoption yet?
Agree. I humbly suggest that you add "revokable trust" to your "opt-in trust" thesis.
Not sure why you're greyed out (hopefully not because you're being downvoted) because you're absolutely right - all asymmetric cryptography we have right now will be broken.

On the other hand... I doubt we'll have working quantum computers for at least the next 500 years.
We’re all just spouting anecdata but I agree with walterbell.
If someone only has a phone, they’ll go for the largest device possible as it basically fills the role of laptop (‘serious’ stuff), iPad (media consumption) and phone (‘opportunistic’ stuff).
If someone owns a laptop as well, they still ‘need’ a big phone because they’ll use it for a lot of their media consumption.
However, once someone owns an iPad + phone or laptop + iPad + phone, the phone gets relegated to messaging, quick internet searches, transportation and music.
I had written a medium article about my experiences. It based on what I see, won't be the truth for everyone

1. Freelance: It really depends on the project you accepted. There are a lot of tasks which some company can’t solve and asked for the freelancer to help. But there is also a lot of repetitive work like creating WordPress sites which don’t improve your skills at all.

2. Software Agency: If it is a small software agency, you will be expected to do MVP(Minimum Viable Product) for other startups/companies over and over. There is some software agency that helps to maintain the apps, which you can understand the issues that happened when scale.

3. Small Startup: Build fast, learn fast. Usually, don’t have enough people, you need to do everything in a breakneck pace. It is hard to get someone to guide you along the way, you have to learn from your mistakes or lousy code from the previous colleague.

4. Medium Startup: This might seems to be the perfect ground, I haven’t work for this type of company. The startups should have a standard in the software development process and able to introduce changes if it is good for the team.

5. Big Corporation: Depends on the team you joined. Chances are you are working for a small part of the whole system and don’t know how everything works when put together.

You can read the full article: https://medium.com/@cylim/my-first-year-working-in-the-it-in...
GreyEnergy: Updated arsenal of one of the most dangerous threat actors
It's not depicting poverty as virtuous it's depicting sacrifice as virtuous.

Bill Gates is sacrificing basically nothing by giving away half (or even 90%) of his wealth. He lives the exact same life of supreme comfort that he did before.

Weirdly this is one of the few things the bible was actually abundantly clear about (and it's a pretty good point).
The article creates a false dichotomy. A startup is not necessarily a small company and a big company isn't necessarily not a startup (depending on your definition anyway).

I understand the two categories are supposed to be generalisations but I think there's a middle ground worth mentioning: small businesses.

Large corporations are the "low risk, low reward" extreme. They stereotypically offer good job security (although this has become increasingly untrue) and career growth opportunities. They are more likely to offer stable working hours at market rate but also require a lot of red tape if you want to do anything new or exciting.

Startups are the "high risk, high reward" extreme: typically pay below market rate, terrible working hours but possibly exciting technology with lots of self-guided work and in some cases you may even be offered the equivalent of a lottery ticket.

However there are small (5-50) companies that offer more reasonable working hours and quality of life than a startup while also enabling you to "leave your mark". The difference is that unlike startups these aren't necessarily "growth oriented" but that doesn't mean they won't have an impact -- just that they don't have to grow their impact exponentially to avoid dying.

In my country (Germany) there are entire industries that are dominated by small companies. Sure, those industries aren't always the kind you can brag about (but then again neither is "I built the address widget on the Amazon checkout page" and if you're honest, nobody really wants to hear about how you worked on "Facebook for cats" or "Uber but with rickshaws" either) but they're a legitimate middle ground.

That said, I find it telling that the article seems to mostly disregard the actual question and focus on finances -- both by going into unnecessary detail about startup viability and by talking about salary and "revenue opportunities" but nothing else that's relevant to quality of life (except for multiple stabs against Microsoft, that is).
I think you misunderstand me. If "new management" were to take over Apple and you no longer trusted them, why would you continue to trust their OS?

In that scenario code signing is irrelevant because an untrusted OS can undermine it.
AFAIR, the number is something really low like 100,000
> The worst part is that Tamar Zandberg, a leftist party leader, tried to get some of the companies' export license revoked, but the government flat out refused, saying that the export tax is prioritized higher than human rights violations.

Was this refusal made in public? I'd love to read more about this.
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I think some of the new APIs and general PWA support (workers, indexeddb etc.) are the more important changes since Palm Pre / iOS 1. Sure, better script engines and a few cycles of Moore's law seem neccessary, but that's sadly more of a reflection of all the performance wasted by the stack.

I'd argue that most apps are rather passive when it comes to displaying stuff, don't have to crunch numbers and don't manage a lot of data. So an 80s BASIC engine would be enough for it, if the APIs are done well (or 90s Tcl/Tk).

Games are an entirely different matter, of course. I don't see a lot of stuff in between.