skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging a group by a subset of their membership is a bad idea. We "got it" with racism and sexism and stereotyping... but it appears we still haven't quite "got it".

If some posts on gab are direct incitement of violence, they should (and as I have heard, do) get removed. Trashing the entire service is IMHO something else entirely.

If a legal activity (gab acts entirely above board) simply cannot operate, not for lack of customers or other business operations but because they are blackballed, then something is rotten in the state of Denmark. I don't know what the right solution is.
Assuming these were already airgapped. I wonder if this could have been prevented with a 10 cent glue stick for USB ports.
Let’s wait and see how many actually participate before assuming only that number care?
I've been on a mac for five years now, and I still sometimes struggle to remember how to show hidden files in finder. In nearly every Linux file manager I've used it's either '<right click> > show hidden files' or 'View > show hidden files', usually both work. In Mojave you either have to know the keyboard shortcut or edit your finder defaults from the command line, but I swear I've seen it as an option in a dropdown menu in previous releases.
> it should be written that 40-45 percent is taken away as taxes. So, if someone is making a total comp of 200k, it is basically 120k.

Are you confident about this? My experience as a single guy in that total comp range is closer to 25 percent taxation. The marginal rate is that high, but only a small chunk of a 200k income is taxed at that rate. In fact, Social Security caps out before there. And if you're married, it's even lower.

But my impression was that Europeans are taxed at an even higher rate; is there some reason listing pretax salaries would be deceptively high?
(My response is from a US perspective)

You make a lot of very strong claims that you think are fair handed but are terribly biased. "solar farms that are super expensive and require crazy amounts of acres per watt". We can afford to cut taxes by $100B a year despite having a budget deficit. How crazy expensive is it for the US to maintain a vast military to secure our access to oil and gas (among other things)? We can afford $700B every single year to do that, but spending tens of billions of dollars on green energy would be crazy expensive. As for acres, we have lots of them to spare.

Yes, wind farms kill birds. Do the people who point this out ever weigh that against the number of dead animals and people and reduced health from coal and oil? Do they really care about the birds? Have they ever made an omelette?

Classifying electric cars as a "magic solution" is silly; they are just one small part of an incremental solution. Nobody says they are magic or the total solution. Your verbiage is emotion based and not fact based. Apparently these tactics worked on you, but I find them lazy and not compelling.

Finally, addressing your overall point: If I'm fat, I should eat better. You are right to say that cutting out sugar from my coffee won't solve my problems if I continue eating two hamburgers and fries for lunch. But to reason that I might as well have the sugar in my coffee because I haven't cut down on everything else is just factually wrong. Incomplete solutions may still buy time to address those other issues, and incrementally reducing use may mean we still suffer terrible consequences, but perhaps not quite as intensely.
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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” -George Orwell, Animal Farm

Rules have to be applied equally, not based on a sliding scale based on how high up the organization oligarchy you are.
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Meh, no delete button and I should've known better to ponder on such subjects...
The concept of carrying capacity estimates human consumption versus the planet’s ability to regenerate resources. Have a look at the reports and data cited on the Wikipedia page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint

I think you are suggesting that earth can carry many more people than 10B. I’d like to understand how you think that is possible.

Furthermore, even at the current population size human activity is causing potentially irreversible climate change. The scientific consensus is that even a small increase of 1.5C will have severe consequences on the planet. Limiting the increase to 1.5 C will require significant action by all of us. Addding many more people makes this much harder.

http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf

I hope the links can help convince you that we are facing a serious crisis that is causally related to the size of the human population.
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The first thing you want to know about this is that OCB3, which supersedes OCB2 and is going on 10 years old now, is not affected by this attack. The IETF RFC for OCB is OCB3.

Also, Internet cryptosystems generally don't use OCB at all, despite its elegance and performance, because of IPR issues.

The second thing you want to know (and you want to know it waaaaaay less than the first thing) is that this breaks authentication, not confidentiality; you can't use the attack to directly "decrypt" OCB2 messages, just to forge messages derived from a leaked plaintext/ciphertext pair.

This is a big deal for crypto people, though; see 'pbsd comment for more.
Edited the title, thanks!
Putting security to one side, disabling JS is an easy way to performance optimise their pages on their behalf.
I keep a windows xp VM around almost exclusively for Vector Magic. I've never tried it with photos though. Mostly for improving the quality of logos by vectorizing then exporting a higher-res PNG.

Maybe I will finally be able to get rid of it. I can't tell right now, I think Primitive is being hugged to death currently.
Diablo Memory1 used flash DIMMs with DRAM DIMMs as cache. When we tried it, it worked OK for some workloads and poorly for others, but it was also buggy and then the company went out of business. So a large part of "pans out" is simply a production-quality implementation that you can buy.

Note that Optane DIMMs have been delayed by around two years at this point and we still don't know what they will cost.
that due process matters
Like all things the truth is probably somewhere in the middle...

That’s a fallacy. Between anti-vaxxers and modern medicine the truth isn’t in the middle. Between Nazi ideology and its victims, the truth wasn’t in th middle. Between people who think that cell phone towers are controlling their minds with alien rays, and the rest of us, the truth isn’t in the middle.

Some shit is just wrong.
> If you look at the Linux kernel CVEs, they've been steadily increasing over time [...] I don't think those data points support your argument.

The number of CVEs don't support any argument really. More CVEs are assigned, yes. That doesn't mean more security issues. In the olden days of 8 years ago, a buffer overflow would be patched with no fanfare and no CVE assigned. Nowadays, often only theoretically exploitable issues will still be given a CVE.
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It is not my field, but I would guess that in the case of computational physics, the need for the results to be realistic (conforming to conservation and thermodynamic laws, for example) would help in verification.
Did she?

There's a book called The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein[1] that argues that it was actually her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who wrote it.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Wrote-Frankenstein/dp/0943742...
upthread:

> they are just sure the homeless are all drug addicts and thieves

/upthread

> but martial arts aren't much of a solution for malaise that isn't in the form of physical direct combat.

Attempted theft doesn't qualify? Most interesting.
Materialized views vs. Rollup tables in Postgres
but whats the story? some guy again picked an unknown usb stick en route to his job at super secret nuclear facility and just plugged it into a nuclear supervising computer again to see the contents?
If you're in Seattle, (or don't mind buying online) check out https://www.davidsongalleries.com.
The mathematical term "Embedding" refers to finding a lower dimensional representation of some high(er) dimensional data, whether this is done with single function (maybe hand chosen) or a neural network doesn't matter.
I made my living as a mastering engineer for two years...

To do good work in mixing and mastering, it's important to study the human perceptual mechanism and its propensity for illusion, and it's also important to understand masking effects and how to amplify certain components long enough to tweak them before dialing them back to recede into the gestalt.

It's also important to understand that in sound reproduction the vast majority of the distortion on the analog side comes from transducers (microphones and speakers), not amplifiers. (I'm not even going to bother with the article, because amplifiers aren't an important problem: buy something decently engineered and overpowered, and you're basically all set. Then worry about your speakers and your room, because they're the hard part.)

But it's likewise crucial to grok that the distortion introduced by digital components is disproportionately disturbing because it is enharmonic. And that practically speaking a lot of the damage that gets done in practice happens because people don't handle gain staging right and often don't understand the fundamental principle of preserving high resolution throughout production and only exporting to lower resolution as a final step.

In summary, there are a whole lot of interesting conversations to have on the subject of audio and how perception relates to production. But it's basically impossible to find a community to discuss these subjects with. Either it will be overrun by audiophiles and their pseudoscience, or well-meaning but undereducated skeptics will dominate the discussion with plausible but misguided debunking.

So every once in a while I throw up a piece like this into the middle of a giant discussion, with about as much hope as tossing a message in a bottle into the ocean.
Throttle based on what? IP address? This works for domestic IT departments looking to shut out automated attempts from specific ranges but at Google's scale IP based filtering could end up shutting out an entire country.
It doesn't warrant an ad hominem attack, it's pointing out an inconsistency - the claim about climate scientists' motives is as ad-hominem as many examples to be found in dictionaries. To his credit, credit_guy has been willing to consider alternative explanations than the one he started with.
Inflation benefits borrowers more than hoarders. Your example is strange because in the one you compare a base currency to economic activity in that currency and in the other you take a loan in one currency in order to transact in another. If you borrow bolivars to start a Venezuelan corner store, at least your debt would lose value as rapidly as the currency you receive from your customers. If the price of BTC continues to rise indefinitely, you would be in for an even worse time if you borrowed BTC to start your Venezuelan corner store.

I also don't see how infinite divisibility helps. It's still deflation. Let's say the world converts to BTC. Now if I take a loan of 1 BTC to start my corner store, the value of that 1 BTC will continue to increase, but if the goods selling do not increase in price, I will have to charge less and less for them over time. There's the same amount of space between 1 and 0 as there is between 1 and infinity.
I work for a company that was marked as "New" but there was no compensation. The levels were correct (close enough). Was wondering where you get the levels data from? Job postings? Or someone submitted levels w/o submitting compensation.
I too am in Toronto and this is my career progression:

2015 - Linux System Administrator - $65k - large company
2016 - DevOps Engineer - $79k - startup
2017 - DevOps Engineer - $95k - large company
2018 - Site Reliability Engineer - $115k - medium company
He starts with a simpler problem to elucidate the principle that is key to the original problem. Do continue reading.
I think you’re confusing “numbers some guy made up” with “stats.”
y, I don't think it's practical to DIY.

Although Patio11 did it with AppointmentReminder it sounds like basically their HIPAA plans were ran the same as their regular plans as far as servers/security. From what I read he just offered the agreement, etc to the higher paying customers.

There are lots of interesting apps that could benefit patients and doctors. HIPAA is just scary to tackle as a small company, it's way easier just to choose another niche.

People always say selling to the medical field is difficult too.
Is the reason you haven't received a salary increase since L6 because you reached the max base pay?

Why do you say you don't want a salary increase?

Regarding your last point, my focus is actually not on what I make vs my colleagues, but rather what I make vs what I could potentially be making elsewhere. You're of course right about the risk of a job change, but I wouldn't leave unless I felt confident that I found a good fit.
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Oorah Devil, I think tech is a good world for us. Pure logic separating the emotion.

My hard-headedness and willingness to sit in front of the problem longer than most civilian team members has given me a ladder to climb and respect without the degree.

It's been hard but worth it. I miss the brotherhood but I feel life as software engineers in today's age, we have an opportunity to make just as much (and debatably more) impact although maybe not as directly as when we were in the streets overseas.
Banks provide automatic transfers, official documents, etc... so I wonder what problem blockchain would solve there.
It's Nov 1 2018 in some parts of the world. Samsung has several tablets available on via it's web site that are shipping with android 4.4 kitkat.

(https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/tablets/all-other-tablets/... )

There are also several shipping with 5.1 and 5.1.1

Would it be safe to say that these will be vulnerable to the posted vulnerability noted in this article, and will likely never get patched to fix this, and who knows how many other publicly posted exploits?

If so, at what point do we say this is negligent, faulty equipment?

(I am sure there are many other manufacturers and web sites doing the same. I am only pointing out this example because I was looking there the other day for new tablet purchase considerations and the 4.4 kitkat jumped out at me)
As a hiring manager (not at Google) I would say yes, and significantly so. EU employees make far less than equivalent USA colleagues when factoring in job title and location. It costs a lot to employ someone in the EU and the workers are well protected. I can not easily terminate an employee in the EU like I can in the USA. Taxes paid to employ someone in the EU are significantly higher than in the USA.

This cuts both ways as you can see. You'll make far less in the EU generally but you have better job protection and the additional taxes we pay to hire an EU employee hopefully go to government programs you like. However, if you're an in-demand employee who does good work you're going to make significantly more money in the USA generally speaking.

The good news is the UK is compensated better than most EU countries in my experience. But still significantly lower than USA employees in the same role.

However, you get health care out of that and can retire early with a lowered risk in terms of health issues.
Amplifier designers most certainly are. Class D has significant energy efficiency advantages, and significant sonic challenges. It’s taking an analog waveform, whether decoded by a DAC or starting as pure analog, and chopping it into a series of pulses (pulse width modulation). The amp is switching transistors on and off very quickly, rather than using them as a variable linear gain stage. It’s not the same as PCM encoded digital audio, and shouldn’t be confused with it.
First you have to be famous, because any village idiot can say "LOL climate science is bunk". Like C-level executives, it's hard to get into the game.

But I guess it's pretty lucrative once you get in.
The developed countries have the means to pioneer technology that can then be adopted by poorer countries without having to do the R&D. Preventing catastrophic climate change is not cheap, it only makes sense to have the rich countries pay for it.

BTW, developed countries are harming the planet disproportionally. Per capita emissions are way higher. What you write about solar and wind is mostly FUD.
It would be more surprising to find open-source crypto that used OCB2 at all than it would be to find open-source crypto that was practically vulnerable to this attack. The open source patent release for OCB is younger than OCB3.
Dmd releases have been signed and submitted to Microsoft since 2.082.0 to fix the issue with Windows Defender.

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.082.0.html#signed_windows_bina...
I'll be the guy who says that while I recognize those are insults, they are also sufficiently descriptive of a point of view... it's not like he called someone Mr. Poopypants.
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That's the problem. Log odds are not intuitive. Hell, even probabilities aren't intuitive, and that's much easier to think about. Look at all the people start crying that "it was wrong" when the less likely event happens when the prediction said 90% probability.

This isn't a crazy minority position "logistic regression is not interpretable" is truism from basic ML courses, and blog posts all over the internet.
What other forms of protest would you suggest that _does_ do something? Or do you have an issue with protesting at all?

Can I summarize your reply as if you don't like it quit?
This came from a thought I had after posting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18312529

Any feedback is greatly welcome. Both in areas I have wrong in the programming, and in general presentation. Thanks!
Basically a model kit that inhibits your ability to generalize.
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I agree with the first, but on the second, I'd rather switch to a different system that more closely matches my opinion.

I've been doing this crap way too long to want to configure everything myself.
How can an animal give brand identity? Do you have a link to that post? I'm curious.
It's probably gotten better lately. A few years ago it took me several days to get it built.
>The problem is that the particular language of their interest probably changes every 6 months.

As a language nerd, one of the nice things about Lisp is that the language is easily extended into other paradigms. I've stuck with Clojure for a long time because of this. It had Go style CSP-concurrency as the core.async library within a few years of release. I can use types by just loading core.typed, or I can play around with logic programming with core.logic. Whenever I find a cool feature in another language, I usually find out that it's already available in Clojure as a library.
I’ve written extensive ruby at 2 of the companies listed on this site (including my current job which is 100% ruby)
Uh, if you want to "amplify" a digital signal, just multiply all the samples by some number.
The classic question to ask at this point is whether this affects you with a fresh install, or only once you have added all your extensions?
I leave JS off on this site and vote by middle clicking. There is no wait for a page reload.

In any case, you don't have to search for your place again, because the browser reloads with that comment on the top.
I'm in the weird Google Apps for Your Domain limbo right now myself. I've wondered what would happen if I switched to something other than GMail but kept my google account with that email address.

I know a long time ago you could set up a Google account using a non-GMail email address but I'm not sure if that's even a thing anymore. That's what I want though. Keep the email address with my own domain that I've used for 17 years and just have a regular old Google account using that email (and keep all my Google services and purchases associated with it).

Google has been absolutely terrible to Google Apps for Your Domain users (who were often Google's biggest supporters back in the day). They've been shoved into this weird second class status where their Google accounts only partially work with Google services. I completely regret ever setting it up.
Apologies - this shouldn't happen. Are you sure it never made it on the site? The comp page takes ~5 minutes to refresh new submissions.
I'm not really sure how it works if you don't want to use JavaScript, do you then whitelist sites that you're ok with it?

Wouldn't the solution for folks who don't want to run JavaScript just to whitelist it for Google?

Maybe I'm missing something but that seems pretty simple, would let Google do their thing and the folks who don't want to run it run it just for Google and places they want to.

If someone already doesn't trust Google, I gotta think they abandoned their products entirely already. Google's data collecting is so complete that JS or not, same objections.
I think that Chrome also suffers on this front? But it's better at doing pre-fetching than Firefox is

This could really just be that part. I have a hard time imagining explicit sabotage of FF on the gmail frontend. The likeliest explanation is that perf testing and the like only happens in Chrome
Assembly is one of the roots of computing, but so is lambda calculus. One might also argue for gates or boolean logic as fundamental concepts. Higher levels of abstraction are much, much more productive, but it's hard to compare like with like, since you are fundamentally measuring different quantities. Is a coder "faster" if their compiler generates much more code than necessary, or if they use optimizing flags to generate fewer instructions?

The point of abstraction is rarely (if ever) speed, either of coding or code execution. Abstraction is about managing complexity. It's not that one couldn't write a prime-finding algorithm just as quickly and easily either way, it's that you can't write Facebook in assembly, and if you did, you would have to reinvent a ton of features from higher-level languages. Are programmers using HLLs more productive overall? Probably: more abstract code uses fewer symbols to express the same concept. However, you lose precision. One can say, "make me a sandwich", and assuming that you have sufficient access privileges, you will likely get some kind of sandwich, but since that's a pretty high-level description, you may not get the kind of sandwich you were expecting. Most of the time, it's easier and faster to just say (e.g.) `let x = 5` than to get bogged down in the details of what that might actually mean. However, if what you really want is `mov eax, 5`, then all of the other things that your HLL might be doing may not be a net benefit.

Hopefully that thoroughly clarifimuddles the subject.
Overall the article is very informative. But I hit a Gell-Mann amnesia moment very early.

The author says: Airlines complain that they are losing money because so many flights are nearly empty. But airlines haven't complained about that in a while. Here's a quick google: https://www.statista.com/statistics/221085/passenger-load-fa...

Delta had a load factor of 85.6% last year. It would be hard to find "nearly empty" flights given that load factor. Many years ago airlines ran with 50% load factor. Nowadays they're selling most of their middle seats, most of the time!
Apparently there's a port of FAR to Linux: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l
seems this is a reasonable combination of characters to represent a specific kind of activity 𓂺
Right sorry. That is still only $95k or so if you are paying Californian + federal taxes and pay toll taxes.