skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook users, as a whole, like the Facebook ads I run for my clients. They click, share, comment and buy the products or services or advertise, which are all pretty solid.

There's almost no where else on the web where my products (SMB services, mostly) can be connected to my customers (business owners) at scale and at a reasonable cost, by the way.
You're probably being downvoted for posting handwavey flamebait without much to learn from, and you've been doing this a lot. It's not substantive enough and doesn't lead to the kinds of intellectually gratifying discussions that readers come here for.

> Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
At the very least, it seems like there might be some prospect of combining the battery and voltage upticking tech here with the likes of the solar-powered Zephyr [1] which can fly at about 20km, which is apparently about the denser part of the ozone layer [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinetiq_Zephyr
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer , in particular: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Oz...

- ed

I suppose it would make more sense to pair the battery and voltage conversion tech with a high altitude balloon covered in thin film PV, so there's less competition between 'ozone generation' and the 'lift generation'.
Actually no, I'm not. In most of the times I've been in such places, it was after the company moving.
>Anyway, that massive list of must-have-words reminds me of the old days on the internet where web pages would have a block of content near the bottom that contained many keywords written in the same color as the background. Now I am wondering if that's the direction resumes go for some short period of time.

That's essentially the purpose of my "Technical Skills" section.
Woah! 112 points and no comments. Has anybody actually read it? Or is everyone upvoting in hopes that someone knowledgeable will comment about the quality of the content?
I think the article focused more on RPG-type communities, where direct interaction was possible with more than just words.

WoW certainly has Gods, but they are prevented by certain Covenants from manifesting their powers except in limited cases...
I'm building a blog platform that allows you to write executable program, like a mix of medium and jupyter.
Depends on the protests. E.g. the French beheading their king was also a protest.
Once you start using uMatrix, be prepared to never view the internet the same way again. The sheer quantity of malicious clientside traffic is stunning.
I'm looking into switching over to using MLflow or Polyaxon for experiment management and tracking. We currently us a a custom built django app for experiment tracking and run experiments by hand on desktop workstations but we're starting to move some of that over to GCP.

For people who have used either of the projects, what are your opinions and are there any hidden issues that you ran into?

Ideally we'd like to have a platform that makes it easy to schedule runs on the desktops or GCP depending on requirements and available resources. Seems like kubernetes might be the best option for that and it doesn't look like MLflow supports it out of the box yet.
Amazon’s employment NDA surely prohibits employees from using company confidential information outside work, for example as a side business doing real estate investing
> "All share similar social media photos that are nearly identical to a passport photo of Maksim Donakov, who is the individual behind Paranoy777"

I don't get it. How is this possible?
Didn’t load with my Crystal ad blocker on iOS Safari. Curious if other people with ad blockers noticed similar behaviors..
How does a GPU shader core work? [pdf]
Yes. If they sell them in three months they're using insider information for financial gain. If they live there they could have just been making an early start on finding somewhere convenient to live. Whatever the rules are there's definitely a moral difference.
You can replace "The City" by "the financial sector" here. Once again, the historical curiosity that the City of London has its own local government has nothing to do with the UK's approach to financial regulation. Barclays, Citigroup, and HSBC - all headquartered 3 miles to the east in Canary Wharf, like the FCA itself, instead of in the City - get just the same regulatory benefits and disadvantages as Lloyds or NatWest.
You can write or buy an option on anything — it’s just a legal contract.
Well said. Those efficient killing tools patriotic people like GP want to invent end up in the hands of Taliban or Colombian drug lords or on both sides of a civil war between African warlords making the lives of ordinary civilians in such places incomparably worse. A few will also end up on the streets in America or in the hands of mass shooters, though this is more tightly controlled and less of a problem.
The rules for when you are and aren't allowed to quote copyrighted material are long, boring, but fairly well established.

> Almost every thread on HN has somebody quote part of the article inline.

Which is very much a violation of copyright if it's pasted verbatim. However, those comments which quote line-by-line with responses and commentary is covered under fair use.
Also, your Amazon profile is public by default, especially any wishlists.
The victim is a mix. The previous owners, the people would have bought there if the Amazon's employees did not, and the people who now are going to buy in that neighborhood in the future.
This analyzes the benefit by a flawed mechanism; yes, per capita, the upper middle class has a higher load of student debt than lower economic classes. But the real drag of student loans on quality of life and opportunity is revealed by ratios like student loan debt to net worth it student loan debt to income; the people who would have the most weight lifted off of them aren't the upper middle class.

OTOH, I don't think any of those pushing simple universal student debt cancellation would be mind limiting any windfall for the rich that would result (not exempting the debt forgiveness from income tax for borrowers above a set income level would be a dirt simple way to do that.)
Repology is slightly misleading here.

NixOS includes packages for multiple Python versions, as well as a large fraction of PyPi multiplied by the number of Python versions on which they run, and Repology counts all of them despite these being basically the same package.

It's still a large package set even accounting for that, but it's not that large.
I'd love to know the context for this.
Great reason to setup wildcard e-mails so you can do something like amazon@yourdomain.com!
Here is the video, fwiw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boB6qu5dcCw
Space Tango plans in-orbit manufacturing
> I could see the most practical use of this technology for propulsion where crashing isn't a major concern.

Missiles jumped to mind. That's their whole purpose.
This is unfair and unreasonable. You pivoted a discussion about JS capabilities into a Nuremberg defense metaphor. We're talking about JS-triggered network activity, not murdering civilians. And inevitability, not a lack of responsibility.

Moreover, he's right. JS would have to be fundamentally crippled (no network activity at all) to enforce this. And if you did that, someone would have built equivalent functionality because people wanted it. In fact someone did build an equivalent, actually multiple: ActiveX, Flash, Java Applets.
EU ETS: Biggest CO2 emission trading scheme in the world
Show HN: Generate unique printable password books
Even 4 year olds comprehend much more than you seem to give them credit for. Do you think small children are somehow unable to understand things they are interested in if you explain to them on their level?

Maisa in this case probably learnt that there are grown-up text things like books on the computer, and it is a big thing if things do not line up and a letter is "sad". It is important to computers and people using computers.

And then to fix it for other people so that their "s" is not sad you write a letter with a computer and explain how they can fix it.

It might be interesting to hear her own memories of this, if she still remembers the episode.
Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
Thatcher did something similar in the 1980s when she allowed people to buy public housing at rock bottom rates. Those houses returned to the public stock before then when the occupants moved or passed. Now they were gone permanently causing the housing crisis which means lack of rentable properties push those available skyward to no longer be affordable by 95% of the population.

Thatcher and the tories are the worst things to have been inflicted on the English people for the last 40 years.
China Pushes Deeper with DRAM Anti-Monopoly Probe
NixOS containers, or systemd services or whatever, are not intended as a security mechanism. Neither are Docker containers, they've just gotten shoehorned into the role.

For security you'll need some other mechanism, but it does solve the immutability / replication problem.
I do!

Our trolley system isn't great, but it's better than nothing. I appreciate the free parking.
I've always felt that one way to change the way internet companies do business with a loose-style relationship with our data is to pass laws in small towns or even just one large city. Imagine if Portland OR made severe legal consequences for specific kinds of privacy breeches for people in its own town. The giants would have to decide to block people in that city or change general data processing rules internally. But I think it acts more of a starting point of an avalanche as more and more places see the good that comes from that.

It's also NOT just the big corps. Companies that use public records (and public records in and of themselves needs a LOT of additional laws in the digital age) so you can find your ex-girlfriends, etc... Can you imagine these ASSHAT websites being sued for 100k by people in Portland? Then New York, etc.. I would love to see that happen.
> The first thing that they say I should improve on is: Must-Have-Words.

They might as well expect everyone to read the following texts:

https://i.imgur.com/DQcks8u.jpg

https://john.do/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/buzzwordfirstdesi...
It will be interesting to see how their technology is used.

Here are some examples https://www.silklabs.com/

Instantly search cameras at a shopping mall to find your missing child

Recognize who’s coming home without training on specific faces

Know where people are spending their time in a retail store

Save power and storage by only recording when a person is seen

Count the vehicles that have entered a parking lot

Know when people are yelling to be alerted of commotion
> All I know is that if we're going to locate or communicate with any other advanced civilization out there, it's sure not going to be with radio waves.

Never say never, indeed.
I'm not talking about cryptographic keys, I'm talking about unique keys. Like a UUID or a serial number.

A barcode is not often used as the sole storage medium in an application. Typically it's used in conjunction with a piece of software that can connect to a database. In a manufacturing setting this could be a piece of shop floor control software. In that setting the barcode doesn't encode any information that could change in the database. It is instead used to encode a machine-readable identifier for the material that it is labeling.
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If I had stayed working for a company that was in the city I was interested in standing for election :-)

yes I am a wonk
Will you pay for it? How much would you pay?
> You’d be surprised by the number of candidates who say they are “senior software engineer” or “10 years experience as a lead developer” who still can’t do FizzBuzz. Or the ones who can do it but takes them 100 lines of code.

I see comments similar to this one all the time. Are folks literally referring to the 'FizzBuzz' problem, or is that just an alias for a problem they subjectively find easy?
"How is the buyer of a stock shorted based on insider information a victim? They weren't forced to buy at any price."
To use to protect you need an agression.

Or is the stat consider mere display a use case ? In that cas it should include display for intimidation. The stat feels off.
Google Brain and Geoffrey Hinton Technique Thwarts Adversarial Attacks
Re:3

Frankly, I think a lot of managers in some places (maybe places you wouldn’t like to work) would care more about their employee being good at inflating their accomplishments and engaging in low-scale office warfare with people outside the group than having really good technical skills.

At one of my employers I was hired at a probably bad time in my life where I was quite unskilled technically (spend a whole day or something to write a fairly simply SQL query), but I would start small office fights (and contribute to office fights of my manager) over any perceived slight, and always view anything my team, me, or my manager did as delusionally impactful and important and loudly proclaim it to everyone around. They bent over backwards to keep me on board. But the technical level of this group was extremely low, so if this was in a group where someone else could verify that I wasn’t that good it may have played out in a more normal manner.

As I invested a lot in my technical skills and got a lot better/more efficient at my actual work (while caring less about fighting office people about their choice of wording in an email or something) they all began to hate me, with my manager wondering aloud to me why I had become so much worse of an employee after a great start.
You are expected to USE confidential info. I don't think this counts as DISCLOSING confidential info.
Several years ago I worked for a company in the advertising industry, initially helping develop seedy browser extensions and "toolbars" that would essentially (among other things) inject referral cookies whenever the user's browser landed on a page that we had an affiliate link for.

That was bad enough, but eventually I was internally recruited to help launch a new mobile division at the company. The worst thing I built while there was a desktop application that we distributed through third party installer applications that bundled adware along with whatever application the user actually wanted to install. The thing I wrote was a background Windows service that would directly read the user's browser cookie databases and find any cookies they had for the Google Play store, then use those to push various apps to the user's Android phone (basically emulating all of the HTTP calls that happen when you click the install button from your desktop browser to have the app installed on your phone directly). We'd get paid per install of those Android apps.

I stayed at the company way longer than my conscience preferred, mainly because I really liked the team I was working with and the complete freedom the developers were given to tackle problems however they want (as long as you were putting money in the pockets of the higher ups). I wrote about this in more detail a few years back on my blog https://codeword.xyz/2015/08/09/exploiting-android-users-for...
Hot take I know, but this has not bee a good year for Facebook.
For me, it's the lack of the keys not getting stuck that is problematic on the new MacBook Pro.
> Everyone who's ever sat in traffic. It's a miserable experience and it is indeed a fundamentally better thing to be able to use that time in a more productive or entertaining fashion. Few people care if the steering wheel is entirely absent, so long as it's not needed and it's not in the way.

I'm sure many car enthusiasts care whether the steering wheel is entirely absent. Some people enjoy driving, albeit usually in times/places without much traffic. If someone who found driving therapeutic instead spends their commute time staring at a social media feed on their phone because that's their default action when they aren't sure what to do, would that be fundamentally better for them?

> Who is defining progress that way? Everyone I know who wants a self-driving car wants it to go where they tell it to.

Of course everyone wants self-driving cars to go where they tell it, but that is different from having control over where the car goes. What if the AI that controls the self-driving car takes 99% of people to their destination, but rounds up a few political dissidents and whisks them away to an unknown location. Most everyone would get what they want, but none of the passengers are able to control where the AI takes them. Like Stallman says, "Either the users control the program or the program controls the users."
Fundamentals of Testing for Programmers
"Besides the brevity, what's giving people pause is they sign the email http://Amazon.com Why cap the "a" and why no https://? Strange"

This one is easy to answer: the customer support people aren't particularly technical. In many ways, Amazon is a weird mashup of a traditional retailer and a tech company.
To understand whether this is even anomalous, you need to know:

- How many Amazon employees already live in NYC or are already planned for relocation there for non-HQ2 things.

- The frequency at which a typical person around there buys new condos

Without knowing those, it's hard to have priors, or to begin to decide whether this is a departure from those priors.
Does it? As far as I can tell it doesn't exist outside of the person's mind. Having played around with lifters myself using balsa, al foil, and a rectified neon sign transformer I just don't think the physics can work out. And there's no physical plane photos or videos to support otherwise. Until then I'm sticking with this being absurd.

That said, ionization does have it's place in aircraft in terms of controlling attachment or detachment of turbulent airflow over wings. It can significantly improve fuel consumption by reducing drag.

But it is not a viable propulsion source. At least not on Earth for things larger than a meter or so.
Whether you believe in it or not, read the Bible. It is full of symmetry. So much symmetry that it will bring one thing into sharp focus: that all of the awful qualities you recognize in other people are every bit as prevalent--if not more so--in yourself.

Not going to have much luck taking the needle out of the world's eye while the plank is still in your own.
I too, for a time, had setup my system so that windows were partially transparent. It looked cool, and helped to find windows when they were hidden behind other ones. Then, one day, I turned the partial transparency off, and found it to be very relaxing on my sight and brain. I didn't feel any strain when I started, but I guess it accumulated.

For context, I use a tiling window manager with an average of 4 to 7 windows per workspace-monitor combo. Back then, I also set up a moving background (a screensaver always on in the root window). In fact, I think that was the primary motivator. I had gone years without a wallpaper because having a tiling window manager made it meaningless and I was missing having some eye candy. Having partial transparency would let me see the moving background through the windows. Anyway, I digress and I'm back to no transparency, no background, in any case.
If I catch said human assistant reporting my daily activities to a third party, they will be terminated with extreme prejudice.
I thought about it, it's a great idea and could help a lot of other people out there.
So you have to click to load you emails ?
I read to remain an informed voter, and an informed investor. Don't care about the Kardashians enough to even look up how to spell their name. Don't care about popular sports (though I won't disparage those that like their "sportsball"). Nope, in my increasingly old age I care about which asshole needs to be voted out of office next time, and how can I make more money through capital investments. The rest is trivial noise, and perhaps even written to manipulate me.

That's not to say I don't enjoy a naughty little look at the occasional personal interest story. Oh, okay, I'll just take a quick sneak and see who Tom Cruise is sleeping with. But the vast, vast majority of the time the front page of, say, the NYT will suffice.
Hahaha mine too :'D
Human images from total body scanner unveiled
Charity exists on a scale from very considered to not at all considered, same scale with not very effective/$ to very effective/$. There are meta-charities that try to evaluate the effectiveness of other charities. The point is that this is at the "not considered/effective" end of the scale. The really pressing problems of the world aren't American homelessness, and homelessness is not a cost effective problem to try and solve (compared to eg. people dying of water-borne diseases in the third world). So he either hasn't thought about it, or doesn't really care (and the two are connected one implies the other).
When I started selling the first gadget I ever made on Amazon I was so excited and was only getting a couple sales a month. If you were one of my customers I looked at your house, judged your grass, found you on LinkedIn and Facebook, Instagram, mortgages, mugshots, everything lol. The sellers also get your full name and address even on fulfilled by Amazon.

If you have been on the net long enough this will creep you out: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Well, let's agree that 'wrong' doesn't mean 'bad.' I use the term in the Feynman sense, if your guess doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. The assertion that they found a statistically significant effect was wrong (or to Trevor's point in a sibling comment, is no longer true.)
This is especially interesting given all of the changes in the Instagram API and controversy surrounding what they do and do not allow. Downloading Instagram photos even from your own account is very difficult, so this solution is a powerful tool these days.
Wasn't there another post on HN of this?
Western money and technology enables the Communists to suppress the population of China. Until the Communists are overthrown then the Chinese people will always be prisoners.
Alex Jones/Infowars has been warning about this for a long time.

https://www.infowars.com/infowars-was-right-facebook-using-c...

https://www.infowars.com/journalist-unpersoned-by-chicom-soc...

https://www.infowars.com/democrat-2020-candidate-wants-govt-...
I don’t understand why there isn’t something more of a middle path discussed. Limit the amount of interest that can earned by creditors maybe. I do find it unethical and strange that we allow 18-year-olds to take out crippling debts, and I find it predatory that anyone can profit off of this.

However, canceling all the debt messages a big “screw you” to anyone who made the sober decision of not going to a more expensive school (or not going at all). Sorry to say, I think it’s unfair given this is the system we have and we can’t go back in time and undo poor decisions.
If people are going to go to fight until one side is wiped out, minimizing attrition and ending the war more quickly and convincingly may be seen as a measure to minimize casualty.

This is not necessarily my personal view, but one way logic could be applied to this statement.
I get how it's possible.

I get less why a hacker would create multiple social media accounts to conceal identity and use something “nearly identical to their own passport photo as a profile pic on all of them.

OTOH, real criminals are caught all the time because they did things that seem unbelievably stupid when described, so I'm not discounting the possibility that's it's true, just saying it seems odd...
I think understanding a code base should be an interactive process, because software's static form, i.e. its source code is different from its dynamic form when it's loaded into memory and runs. And it's really the later we want to understand. So the key tool should be a debugger, windbg , gdb. Other than that, grep, find, opengrok are good tools.