skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also noticed complete customer data access selling a bike part I had CAMd in China last year.

I realized an attack method where:

1. Find an unusual but generic product used by niche group such as a particilar adult toy.

2. Order product and sell in using existing amazon SKU (very common) at below market price point.

3. You now have difficult to procure personal data on a very specific customer segment, paid for in lost margins on the product.

Reminds me somewhat of the old days of Facebooks demographic targeting to get page likes. You could build interesting lists indirectly on the cheap.
Of the ones you list, only one has a wide focus, IMO. Three of those will essentially be web development conferences, and I don't know what the hell people do with Go these days, but I'll bet it's mostly a handful of things. Python probably has broad enough usage and scope to counter what I said. The exception proves the rule. :-)
German eID card system vulnerable to online identity spoofing
Here's a video of his landing program!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_hJ48LCXWs
I think you may be under appreciating the "basic" part of universal basic income, as well as the human drive to do better than their own baselines.

The "basic" part means that the level of income is generally set at an austere level. Think of living in the minimal existence of a monk. Some people would do fine with that, and would choose it, but the vast majority of people I believe would elect to work for more.

Humans over their history have always reached for more, including the most extremely wealthy, who basically have a capitalism granted equivalent of UBI, but significant numbers still choose to work.
Although I disagree with several things you write, I think you're engaging with the arguments very constructively, so thanks. I encourage you to spend more time thinking hard about it, in spite of the cost.

Some of our disagreement might be an issue of scope, or a misunderstanding of what's being argued by who. So let me just concentrate on this: Armstrong isn't making any claims about the proper measure on the space of possible minds/algorithms, or that purposely constructed minds will be randomly sampled according to that measure. The orthogonality thesis is not meant to convincingly address the difficulty/risk of creating good vs. bad intelligent minds in general, only to point out that the problem doesn't solve itself. Likewise, it's important to know that the space of nuclear devices includes nuclear bombs and nuclear reactors that accidentally melt down. The questions of whether anyone will choose to make bombs, or whether it's possible to create an accident despite good intentions, is separate, and requires additional considerations.

In other words, when you say

>... the author of the talk linked above claims that likely paths for complex minds will not involve them desiring orthogonal goals, because... if such being will created, it will be precisely created ...following similar principles as the other complex minds on the planet

this is outside the scope of what I was criticizing.
Sounds like a smart policy: the railway operator is pressured to serve areas where there is actually demand for the service, thus avoiding wasteful spending building non-performing lines, and is pressured to provide quality services to keep real estate prices up.
I can understand why you’d reject someone for that, but I have to wonder: would you have seen the resume at all without the keyword stuffing, and had you seen it, sans said keywords, would you have interviewed them anyway?
In normal Tor usage, the client sends a request through three chosen hops, each of which only knows the previous and next hops, so the entry node doesn't know the destination and the exit node doesn't know where the request originated. But this only hides the client, because the client needs to know the server's address to direct the exit node where to send the request. So to hide the server, there is a symmetrical setup with three extra hops on the server's side, and a published "rendezvous" address in the middle. So the server connects to the rendezvous without revealing its real IP, and the client can direct requests to the rendezvous without knowing the server's IP.
I’ve looked at this idea myself. At current cost per kg to LEO launch and kW/kg solar, even if you could totally ignore reaction mass (I dunno, invent a ramscoop for van Allen belts or something), it only becomes cost competitive with dynamite after a few years.
A lot of major apps are still Objective-C codebases (Facebook, Spotify), though I would imagine everyone will migrate eventually, considering the momentum of open source libraries seems to be heading that way. As someone who works fulltime in Swift and previously in Objective-C, I'm slightly nostalgic for the days of long, descriptive method names, and faster compile times, but overall glad to have migrated.
Here's the best resource that I know of for building ion wind "lifters":

http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm

So far their best result is 0.886 kW/kg (0.539 hp/lb), comparable to a helicopter, by using a pulsed DC power supply at 70 Hz:

http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lftphv.htm

So a helicopter with that could lift 1.13 kg/kW (1.86 lb/hp).

A plane with a 10:1 lift to drag ratio would fly with 0.0886 kW/Kg (0.0539 hp/lb). It could lift 11.3 kg/kW (18.6 lb/hp).

A 200 kg (440 lb) helicopter, including human passenger, would take 177 kW (237 hp).

The same mass airplane would take 17.7 kW (23.7 hp).

Of course the pulsing would add a buzz which may not be desirable. It looks like the pulsed DC uses 17.72 RMS W vs 69.58 DC W, so is about 3.927 times more efficient than DC. Maybe a plane could have both silent and high efficiency modes for takeoff and cruising.

I have no idea how these numbers compare to the ones in the article, but they should be within the same magnitude. Please someone double check my math :-)
2 years OS, 3 years monthly security, 4 years quarterly security. Plus, app updates are not tied to OS updates, so vulnerabilities in the browser and other built-in apps can be more easily patched.

Would 5 years of OS updates be appreciated? Of course! But 4 years of security updates isn't so bad.
Where do you propose drawing the line on too much versus just enough fortune? Is $1M enough but $1B isn't? There will always be one person that is the most wealthy person in the world unless you want to go the opposite route and turn the free market into a socialist society. I don't disagree with the problems of the world and healthcare and basic human needs are hard to come by for a large group of people. That problem need not be conflated with the disagreement that there is a single person who has more wealth than anyone else.

How was the system stacked in Jeff's favor exactly? He started a company and grew it to become what it is today. I really don't understand how the system is stacked in his or any one persons favor. I agree the rich get more wealthy and the poor less but that problem isn't systemic of Jeff Bezos' personal wealth accumulation.
I feel like a space battle that cuts back and forth between tense, Red October-style bridge scenes, and ships exploding in fire and chaos and absolute silence, would be pretty awesome.
Even a 10” neon tube needs enough amperage to cause a fatal electric shock.
Simple cohort analysis with PostgreSQL
It's interesting that many of the comments here (7 of 9 top-level comments currently) answer the question in the title, rather than respond to the blog post (which has some interesting points and a great list of relevant talks from conferences... starting to watch some of them right away).
I think there are B batteries, they are just obscure compared to C and A.

According to a cursory check of Wikipedia, a lantern battery such as "Energizer 3LR12 4.5 V Max Battery" sold in the UK contains three of what may be known as B cells.

Incidentally, someone once told me he had experience in "C+" programming and I've never been sure if he was joking.
Python is probably mostly data science if I had to guess. jupyter notebooks have made python excessively used for data science.
SBCL (a fork of cmucl) is implemented in common lisp and is the most popular common lisp implementation.
You've been to the wrong conferences.
In theory, I can get from watching the recordings most of the value I get from attending. CPPCon's YouTube channel is excellent.

In practice, I just don't seem to get round to watching them. Going to the conference means watching a whole bunch of them with no distractions. Very useful.
I think his guy is in that Tesla Roadster in space.
Unless the video is greatly slowed down, this launches significantly slower than every model rocket I've ever seen.
Clickhouse as a Replacement for ELK, Big Query and TimescaleDB
Ditto. I started out on a Spectrum 48K+ as a 10 year old kid in the mid-80s trying to write games in Sinclair BASIC. My dream was to write my own version of Defender/Defender II/Stargate[1].

Professionally, I have never worked in game development and doubt I ever will, but I have a couple of web versions of Star Castle (https://arcade.ly/games/starcastle/) and Asteroids (https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/) that I've built that I feel 10-year-old me would probably have enjoyed.

[1] Actually it still is, but now using WebGL. Watch this space.
Companies do want all the requirements listed. They're just well aware they're probably not ever going to get them.

Unfortunately not everyone knows this, I've had many conversations with people looking for jobs who decline to apply because they don't feel they meet all the requirements. My advice to them is: "No one meets all the requirements, if you meet even 50% of them and want to learn the other ones, you should be applying. You don't have to be the perfect applicant, just the best person who happened to apply in the time-frame of the hiring pool."

-- having read the article now:
I help write our job reqs, and I agree and use the author's "nice to have" section for non-critical "requirements".
Good, less cancer for Black Friday I guess.
I think Matt Levine is rather excellent, a model for the sort of dialectic reasoning that's sorely missing.

Yet I just don't get this argument of his. As far as I can tell, insider trading prohibitions are intended to protect the integrity of the market. That's why they are administered by the SEC. If you steal office supply, the SEC doesn't get involved. If you steal trade secrets to build an exact replica of <widget>, the SEC also has nothing to do with it.

"Integrity of the market" in this case means that every investor can at least somewhat accurately estimate where they stand in the competition with other investors. That doesn't mean it's a completely level playing field; Large funds with the resources to send employees to every walmart and count the cars in the parking lot will always have an advantage. And that's not a bug but a feature, since it's the mechanism by which investors are rewarded for uncovering information.

But those are what one might call "known unknowns". What could easily destroy the market are "unknown unknowns, the Deus Ex Machina taking all your money, with not even the theoretical chance to compete without leveraging insider information yourself.

As an analogy, it's like a usual casino, where you know your expected value is slightly negative. And one where, with no predictability, the staff sometimes just takes all your chips and kicks you out.

All that appears to me rather close to the concept of "fairness". Not for any moral considerations, but simply to avoid the inevitable death of an "unfair" market.

(There's a fair (stolen?) chance that Matt Levine is right and I'm wrong. If you are looking for investment or legal advice, he is far more capable than me.)

(I also think this very case somewhat supports the view above: Surely buying real estate ahead of the market is an opportunity that Amazon itself could have used profitably. Thus, it would appear to fit the definition of "theft of information that belongs to the company")
I can see Chinese capital flight as a driver of transactional bitcoin. How does that lead to holding bitcoin as an investment?
Perhaps I unreasonable assumed we were comparing a Cervelo (any) to a wood frame, not two high-tech carbon Cervelos (fwiw, I ride an S3). There absolutely are differences and the gamut is broad, but the differences are subtle when comparing two very similar products.

As an aside, the placebo effect is real, and I attribute a lot of strong product opinions re: fitness equipment (doesn't matter if bikes or running shoes) to how they make people feel, not how they objectively perform.
It's not so obvious who you are going to tax. Are you going to do it from income taxes, local property taxes,local business taxes, corporation taxes?
How would you deal with spam? Who's paying for this?
What's the take on people who have had a career break of 1 to 2yrs? Through travel or medical situations or whatever. A friend of mine took a year and half off after having worked non-stop for ~15yrs (burnt out), went exploring and is now trying to get back into work but is having some difficulty for recruiters to call him back after applying. He never had any breaks in his work history before the recent and only one.
Hey - WRT what's in it for the maintainer.. I run this on some servers that run a bunch of other sites.. and this was just a tiny project that I created because I was running a bunch of stuff on some servers that only had access to the internet through a proxy. Some of the things I was trying to run took a long time (10+ hours). So I wanted to get an easy notification and found signing up for other services to be a pain (need card info etc, because they expect bulk delivery)

WRT putting sensitive info through it... I completely agree, I wouldn't advise this - at the same time, I'd never advise sending any sensitive info over any email (without using GPG). The reason for suggesting custom content was, if I had several commands going that would send notifications, I wanted an easy way to identify which one completed (even just sending a number or simple word so I could idenity if).
The idea of piping to it was simply an idea of how I could expand it and suite other people's use-cases.

Hope this all makes sense.. so no mass data gathering etc, and, as I say, I wouldn't advise putting any sensitive info through it anyway :)
For the same reason why the NSA siphons up all data from the net, encrypted or not, and stores it. They know one day they'll be able to crack todays crypt. Being able to decrypt a backup 5 or 10 years from now will still provide a lot of useful data, whether it came from the darknet or someones icloud backup while it was in transit to Apples servers. Encryption really only protects you from "today", not what will happen to it in the future. It's one reason I kind of chuckle to myself when people put such high regard into companies that proclaim to be more self conscious about protecting user data and what they do with it. It doesn't really matter if the data is still being collected and stored for later decryption. It's basically just a "delay" of when it can be read. The only thing stopping them, currently, is not having enough qbits in a quantum computer. Things are going to get, strange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNV_3PkA9WM
WWDC is like, the only time Apple deigns to expose their own developers to the wider world to share their inside expertise and answer questions.
That's fair. Still, I suspect the use cases are very different. People who use guns for hunting and defense against large animals don't need concealed carry permits, nor do they need to carry their guns in the city. People who use guns for sport don't need their guns anywhere except at the firing range.
There is rate limiting on both sender IP, recipient email and recipient domain. As well as unsubscribing. Will improve this if it does start getting abused
https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/tree/master/src/runtime
Amazon employee here, but the statement I'm making is of my own.

Internally we treat customer names and email addresses as the second highest data classification. The highest one is credit card/financial/password data.

What does it mean? It means that there are a bunch of requirements that a software team must fulfill and pass (reviewed by an SDE trained in the process outside the team). This makes accessing this sort of data a PITA for a lot of people, and I can see why they why they would send out notifications when a breach like this happen. Amazon takes security very seriously, and it in fact creates quite a bit of friction to many engineers. However, I'd rather than than the break things and ask for forgiveness model like some other companies (not going to name names here)
Hey, since no one asked (as it's tradition :P), I'll bite.

Have you got any ideas about monetization? Are there any usage limits? How about unexpected things you learned while building this? An 'about' page would greatly help us learn more and appreciate the project. I personally love the idea, great work, and great project!
I'm guessing not. More like an electric fence: volts are high but current is low.
So true on the "afternoon drowsiness" thing! I hadn't thought of that.

A friend who is a USMC veteran used to tell me that standard procedure in a briefing was: if you're tired, go stand up in the back. Super hard to fall asleep standing up. I bet there's a big chunk of that here.
If you think that making connections with people working on same things you do is waste of time you’ve got another thing coming. But yeah nobody writes code at conferences, I thought that was pretty obvious.
Use objdump (or whatever the OSX equivalent is) and find out.
As I said below, there's various forms of rate limiting and it's running on servers that are already hosting other sites, so just the cost of a domain
Oh I don't know about that. I've gotten a lot out of every one I've ever attended.

It is possible to go to one of those in waste a lot of time, and party. For some people that's a once-a-year relief valve nothing wrong with that.

It's also possible to go have a lot of really meaningful, relevant conversations with people that are valuable to you.
Standing in line waiting for someone else to scan my groceries is just as much of a waste of time.

The faster I can be out of there, the happier I am. And, less labor spent on scanning items means the store can be open for longer hours, have more organized shelves and be cleaner, etc. All in all, this is automation that increases the efficiency of the operation. Yes, you pay some cost in that you have to place your items into bags (with the current iteration of the technology) but I think you the customer get something out of that work, even if it's just a slightly lower rate of price increases.

It is time to think seriously about how we are going to deal with fewer jobs available. Will the increased corporate profits that result be spent on giving cashiers education to become knowledge workers to further increase these profits and the efficiency of society? Will the money be fed into basic income or public services, so that everyone in society will be taken care of even if there are no low-skill jobs for them to do? We are already seeing what happens when we don't think about these things in certain industries, and it's not great. Someone will have to step up and say, we will be the country that takes care of everyone, because the "work 8 hours a day and you get a house" era is long over.
What’s the response rate on your resume? Mine was pretty abysmal in my last job search, and I don’t really know what the issue is. Maybe it’s my nice, PDF formatting, or maybe it’s the content; I just have no way of telling.
> Why doesn't Amazon give a shit about GDPR?

I would assume perceived toothlessness. A better question is why should they? Or else what? Is that "what" absorbable by them to not eagerly spend a bunch of money and be shown to kowtow to governments making very large internet laws? Can they just pay it some lip service for now like their peers?
Well there's Amber I suppose? Not popular, but not in C at least.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699065

Uses m-expressions instead of s-expressions though.
As you could learn from the linked summary, there was an increase in the pipeline that was canned/delayed by the new administration.
> Doing good ai while being privacy conscious is not easy

Is this fact or do we just think this because the only companies who have put resources into AI are companies that doesn't give a shit about your privacy (because they use it for their other products)?
The best setup I had was the focused window having 100% opacity, and other windows, say, 80%. Worked wonderfully under Linux.

Unfortunately, I had to switch to a Mac as my main machine, and OSX does not support that (and has pretty poor window management in general).
I could see it happening in the future.

There's has been a mini resurgence in C from (normally high level language) programmers who are getting sick of web development and are interested in data oriented design.

Conference benefits could be:

Pushing the C standard. C11 is barely supported.

Discussing new standards in a forum other than mailing lists. Did you guys know there is already a C17 standard?

Letting old C devs pass on their wisdom to new C devs. C has a lot of pitfalls but also has a lot of neat tricks.

Show off new and existing tools.

etc.
I'm not sure others have said this specifically when I started writing this. The point of reinventing the wheel is that you understand the domain and are focusing on the language, framework, or alternative approach. This is at the core of the programming Kata. Code retreats focus around things like Conway's Game of Life which participants have probably programmed many times before, but it lets them focus energy on learning in a specific way.

To be fair, I think there can be some value to the approach where everything is new, but it probably shouldn't be the norm. Feeling out of control because you don't understand multiple elements can generate energy and growth at times, but it may require more time to progress.

For people looking to demonstrate their skills for a job, having examples like these can be useful. They don't take time to for an interviewer to understand so the focus can be on how the interviewee built the solution.
corrent, but it would still be "silent-er"
see, that's why i asked for details. your last point about safety is an interesting wrinkle to consider.

but i view your example (a $63 bonus for 34 rides) to be more an incentive than a gamification because it involves real money, not simply "meaningless" points.

ratings are more akin to gamification in my view because (1) they're not directly tied to an incentive, and (2) it takes advantage of our human nature of wanting to do well, especially when it involves how other people view us.
An organism's reproductive gain factor isn't that sensible a metric of its success. A better one is how adaptable it is.

Because of our brains, humans are extremely adaptable. Even with primitive technology we spread throughout the globe, and unlike wild cats or bears we haven't needed to speciate into each climate, develop camouflage fur, etc. The biological investment in an advanced brain gave us the opportunity to thrive everywhere.
Python is probably mostly data science if I had to guess.

You think? I'll admit that my view of the Python community is super narrow, but I was thinking Django, me writing a bunch of test scripts, backend stuff. I know data science is a "thing" with Python, but I just didn't imagine that it had become it's main use. I guess TIL there's a whole other world of how people use Python, and it might be most of them. :-)
Hmm... it seems this drip of bad news in big tech is setting up for some heated debates on regulation. It will be interesting how proactive the Europeans are with GDPR.
> Who is defining progress that way?

It seems to be defined as convenience by any means necessary.
That is one way non-standard extensions become standard.