skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think we're getting a good deal in terms of signal to noise here. If anything, the irrelevant chatter distracts from important messages; making it hard to tell fact from fiction. And that's not a coincidence: by doing so a person can retrospectively claim that whatever statement turns into a particularly hot potato wasn't to be taken seriously; or that they weren't being precise.

This is definitely true for musk, and even more so for trump. They say all kinds of things in contexts where it really isn't reasonable for the reader to tell how serious they are, that then turn out to be pretty absurd, misleading, and/or self-serving. And those lies matter: e.g. when musk says something like "funding secured" - the only reason he gets away with lies like that with as few consequences as there were is because of all the only noise in his channel.

So while it's amusing to see these know-it-alls spout nonsense about things they just don't know anything about (but might have honestly interesting takes on), it's harmful that that's mixed in with normal communication. I'm skeptical that beyond the entertainment factor it's actually all that helpful to hear all that rambling that may or may not be uninformed - who knows which mode they're in right now? Fine for Musk to speak his mind: but it should be clear when he's vaguely brainstorming, and when he's being precise - and vague rambling should not replace communication you can rely on. So I hope he's held to account for what he says, because noise is harmful, and that's not even accounting for deceptive comments, which he seems to make too (e.g. funding secured).
Wow, an interview should never be so traumatic.. Your experience shows how much the process is broken, one-sided and blind to a person's value and potential. I know it's no consolation, but recently I saw a site with many brilliant people sharing their rejection stories: https://rejected.us/ It just goes to show, if a company cannot see your real worth, don't let it get you down, keep going and prove them wrong.
I would pay for this, and I'd be willing to pay something approaching professional fees for individual attention, followed by a maintenance/insurance fee like you describe.

Things I'd need (as someone protected by GDPR):

1. strong privacy guarantees on your side

2. transparency about the process and techniques used

3. regular feedback

4. attention to data brokers, but also to anywhere else my pii might be on the internet, which could include shutting down e.g. old accounts on random shops

5. visibility into hacked data dumps (like haveibeenpwned, but for arbitrary information)

I'm pretty sure my information is spread all over at this point, but I'd like to get a handle on how big that spread is and to contain it wherever possible. I'd like to have an idea of how hard it would be for someone with some partial info e.g. a phone number, to determine my name or address.

This kind of service is something that I'm looking for now. I suspect that something like this already exists in "reputation management".
I have worked with Java for over a decade for large companies and I can sympathise. Restarting everything to reproduce the case just to see you forgot something very tiny is painful.

That's why my new framework of choice is Clojure (Leiningen, Luminus) on the server and ClojureScript with Reagent and Fighwheel on client side.

The app starts moderately quickly but once it starts I have REPLs to both server and client side and I have reasonably reliable reloading of everything when I edit it. Once it starts I can add services on backend side and then immediately write client side ui to consume them, all without even reloading the page. As soon as I save any file on either client or server side it is automatically reloaded without me having to do anything.

I can even use same code on client/server side.

Have I mentioned it is the same language?
Reality is racist. Racism is natural. We've had to force ourselves not to be racist for a reason.
I mostly agree. I just don't think the "you" thing works on engineers. If an engineer doesn't know anything about your product, they want facts about your product.
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It's normal interrogation techniques. They ask normal stuff to see if you lie or you get nervous. Just watch any of those airport security shows on TV to see how many people who end up smuggling stuff fail to answer those simple questions or change their story several times during the interrogation process.
> work ethic

I sometimes wish people explain what they mean by that, because I'm confused by the phrase. I assume it's some Americanism that has a broad range of meanings. Cramming trivia for interviews doesn't sound like the "work ethics" I see when I google the term, but then again, I recently had a German student explain to me that they understand hard (but dumb) work as what this phrase means.
They'd probably have to raise the price of their cheaper versions if they didn't do this. Seems like a good compromise for the consumer to me. Offset the cost of all of the fancy tech most people won't want or use to those willing to pay more and potentially use it.
Google cloud platform. Got certified as architect in exam beta.
Kubernetes...
... and Salesforce (as a sales representative).
I know, completely unrelated stuff; but worth every minute.
Alternatively you could buy something like the Yamaha MusicCast WXAD-10. It’s a little Spotify Connect enabled box that you plug your speakers into and it has a price tag of about 140 EUR in Europe ($160).

I haven’t tested it or listened to it myself but the first and only review I checked was favorable.

https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/accessori...

https://www.avforums.com/review/yamaha-wxad-10-musiccast-ada...

Likewise, a lot of AV receivers come with Spotify Connect these days. For example, Onkyo TX-NR585 ($380) which was recommended by CNET.

https://www.onkyousa.com/Products/model.php?m=TX-NR585&class...

https://www.cnet.com/topics/av-receivers/best-av-receivers/

That’s not to say that one should buy an AV receiver for this purpose alone. I only mentioned it because (a) some people might have a Spotify Connect capable receiver already without being aware of it or (b) they are planning on buying a receiver anyway and so might wish to consider this alongside their other criteria.
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I always thought it was bots and scams.
> Buy some Bitcoin, and then mix two or three times.

Simply exchange them to Monero. If you want, mix them, but only a single pass is needed. A mixer is a trusted 3rd-party, which introduces serious counterparty risk, and vulnerable to multiple forms to input-output correlation attacks, in the worst case, provides no security.

If you are paranoid, create multiple Monero wallets, and send the funds back and forth, each time with a randint(1, 100) hours delay to frustrate timing analysis. Please note that you should only run full node Monero, and must run it inside Whonix, otherwise, the unencrypted Monero traffic is exposed. The situation of P2P-level encryption of the entire cryptocurrency world is a disaster, almost all traffic is clear.

Ring-CT is possibly not the best cryptographic implementation of transaction anonymity, but currently the best practical implementation available. CoinJoin is a P2P version of mixer, but has no wide deployment, zn-SNARKs involves cutting-edge cryptography and provides 80-bit security (read, not confident), but 90% of Zcash transactions are clear transactions, makes private transactions vulnerable.

Or, once GNU/Taler is available, making an anonymous payment would be as easy as using PayPal.
There is no actual country border at any airport. It's an approximation that has its own rules and is not affected by the international treaty that sets these 100 miles.
Let him be a 2 year old BABY and give him some big colourful blocks that he won't choke on.

The kid is just a BABY and won't turn into an engineer for at least 10 more revolutions around this star.
My Amiga managed to do half-quality mono with a 40 MHz 030 under the bonnet (Hippoplayer IIRC). The 16 MHz 030 in the SE/30 would most likely not be able to do that in real-time, assuming that decoder isn't much more efficient compared to the MP3 datatype I used for the Amiga.

EDIT: Checked the web site. They're using the same encoder
I was just waiting for someone to mention the XKCD Universal Decryptor... a $5 wrench and a length of hose...
Yahoo Finance now available on Mashape
First thing I noticed, why is there a loose hanging cable on the side of the tunnel, plus how will a slightly taller car fit? Seems there is plenty of work still to be done.
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Maybe it's too early now, I would go with offline games (think of hiding some "treasures" and let him find them).

As time goes by, you might have a look at GCompris suite https://gcompris.net/screenshots-en.html
I often start off a little less ambitious - if I let it rest for a month, can I pick it up and use it myself again? :)
> Facebook empowered Apple to hide from Facebook users all indicators that its devices were asking for data. Apple devices also had access to the contact numbers and calendar entries of people who had changed their account settings to disable all sharing, the records show.

> Apple officials said they were not aware that Facebook had granted its devices any special access. They added that any shared data remained on the devices and was not available to anyone other than the users.

Any more information about that? I would be curious to know if we have actual proofs about those statements.
Person without a head https://photos.app.goo.gl/RyP2dwJ13S2Lv6Zh9
So then.. it does seem to be an Amazon problem because they offered shipping to such countries while promising 5-day delivery.

Agreed other vendors would have been much worse. That's why I initially chose Amazon over other vendors.
As silly as this sounds, it was standard procedure for one company I worked with. Don't bring your phone, get one from the US office. Same with laptops.

Didn't half speed up border crossings when your itinerary is a week and all you have are your clothes, your passport, some travel money and your tickets.
Is that for sure? It looks like it'd be a tight fit for a train.
relevant passage >

"Camera surveillance of a location where the public has access. Permission 8 § Camera surveillance is required for a surveillance camera to be posted so that it can be directed to a place where the public has access."

Swedish: http://rkrattsbaser.gov.se/sfst?bet=2013:460
(poor) translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&u=h...

(In separate guidelines it explicitly mentions the case of home cameras covering public area).
Cattle has pockets? Did you grow up on a kangaroo farm?
When NYT asks me to "please disable your ad blocker," I always mentally raise a finger to them and read on.

I think that finger just got a permanent hard on.
I’ve also really liked FsCheck, if well configured of course.

Just a shame that the university exam I took this summer was to implement binary trees and a parser...
Okay, even if I take your comment about attack surface at face value, what are you suggesting? Surely not avoiding AV completely.
DIY benchmark history
- Flutter: yes I did

- First project fully in javascript (as a backend developer this was a hard one): yes I did
> Recovering a satellite already in orbit safely back to Earth.

Shuttle was used for recovery only four times. It would have been cheaper to ditch all those satellites and build and send new ones compared to recovering them.

> Orbital bombing

ICBM's do it better.
GNU Ring is now Jami
> I have no problem with them asking questions of myself or other travelers, even a lot of questions.

According to your own rules you only really have to demonstrate citizenship. Whereas in this case that was already established and the person was still being harassed. I'm not a US citizen but did study in the US for a while. I've decided against going back to the US for almost a decade now because of this. Your own officers don't follow your own rules about your own citizens. I'm not chancing it as a foreigner.
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As someone who used to take about 50 flights per year for work, I’ve been abused by TSA officers of all races equally. Take your barely hidden racism somewhere else.
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You misunderstand me, it has nothing to do with Windows being "too expensive", the point is that you've paid for it and they still abuse your privacy and shove ads down your throat at every opportunity.

By way of comparison, I willingly and happily pay more to use Apple hardware and software specifically because that money buys me a hell of a lot more privacy, security, and functionality than the equivalent amount of money would buy me in the Microsoft / PC ecosystem.
Yeah. I need to call my dad.
When I was in college, the local robotics club had an annual barbecue with several oscilloscopes in attendance. Definitely one of the best events every summer.
"Why is your phone completely blank? What are you trying to hide? Give me your Facebook login or you're going nowhere. Okay thanks, but you're still going nowhere... and your flight just left. That'll be $2000 for a new ticket."
FPGA meets 6502
I don't really know what to call it, although I've seen tech sites call it a "chin". The screen doesn't extend right to the bottom.
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System.CommandLine for parsing arguments in .NET
Hardly. I use multiple search engines specifically because I lack trust.

While I'm more than likely to take the papers of record at their words, I've known more than enough police officers, journalists, and armchair philosophers to know that consciously or not, individual biases can color the processing and presentation of information.

Details that may seem obvious or superfluous through one lens may not be to another.

Only by extracting perspectives and datapoints from each source I access, can I confidently say that I have a reasonable understanding of the progression of any given event, as well as the metanarratives surrounding it.

Depending on the topic at hand, omission from one search engine can be as damning as the inclusion of propaganda in another.

The obsession with reputability is why I abandoned Google. In narrowing the array of sources the search engine surfaced in the hopes of protecting the average user from misinformation, it narrowed access to fringe sources of knowledge, which although unreliable can be a goldmine of supplemental information.

Say what you will of Baidu and Yandex, if you know a bit about their nation's leadership and international policies, you can guess their biases and can guess how they'll adjust what you see. That's useful. American companies can be much less predictable.
>Yeah... Good luck running the latest version of iOS on an older iPhone. (Many are still have a 5/6 and you really don't want to update those if you value a reasonable experience and latency.)

Spoken like someone who's never actually used a 5 or 6 running iOS 12.
> Except that Option<T> is a class not a struct

There is ValueOption<T> now.

It's a mouthful and you'll still have to deal with all the standard library, or other third-party libraries, which produces and consumes Option<T>, but you can address that with some aliases and conversion operators if you want to go all-in:

type 't voption = ValueOption<'t>
type VOption<'t> = ValueOption<'t>

let inline (!) opt =
if System.Object.ReferenceEquals(opt, null) then ValueNone else
match opt with None -> ValueNone | Some x -> ValueSome x

let inline (?) vopt =
match vopt with ValueNone -> None | ValueSome x -> Some x;;

// usage
let x = !(List.tryFind (fun x -> x = 0) [1]);;
// [<Struct>] val x : int voption = ValueNone
> Surely not avoiding AV completely.

Exactly that.
I guess we can change "I have nothing to hide" to "I have nothing hidden."
AFAIK current state-of-the-art in pathtracing are still metropolis light transport methods. Seems like current research is mostly focussed on denoising - which makes sense, since a good denoising provides a valuable shortcut for quicker results.

While I only occasionally glance at new results in this area it seems that CNN-based denoising techniques look quite promising, possibly getting us close to viable real-time pathtracing at least for "suitable" scenes. I am more confident than ever that a shift to traced renderers could be next - this has nothing to do with RTX and the buzz around it though...
> The goal wasn't an optimal algorithm or minimal resource consumption - the goal was to demonstrate the value of literate programming on a small data processing problem.

No. You obviously still haven't read the column and the article that explained what the goal actually was. The actual goal was to demonstrate Knuth's WEB system, which was explicitly made only for Pascal in 1986. That was what Bentley asked Knuth to do (quoting from the article "Programming pearls: literate programming", Communications of the ACM, Volume 29 Issue 5, May 1986 Pages 384-369):

"for
the first time, somebody was proud enough of a substantial
piece of code to publish it for public viewing,
in a way that is inviting to read. I was so fascinated
that I wrote Knuth a letter, asking whether he
had any spare programs handy that I might publish
as a “Programming Pearl.” But that was too easy for Knuth. He responded,
“Why should you let me choose the program? My
claim is that programming is an artistic endeavor
and that the WEB system gives me the best way to
write beautiful programs. Therefore I should be able
to meet a stiffer test: I should be able to write a
superliterate program that will be noticeably better
than an ordinary one, whatever the topic. So how
about this: You tell me what sort of program you
want me to write, Crin d I’ll try to prove the merits of
literate programming by finding the best possible solution
to whatever problem you pose’--at least the
best by current standards.”"

So, in the context of demonstrating Knuth's WEB on the substantial piece of code, the modification of the request was only that Knuth wasn't allowed to use the program he already wrote, but that he had to write a new one! (So the starting goal was in effectively all the premises exactly the opposite of what McIlroy then showed!)

So the goal was to write and present a wholly new program in Knuth's WEB, which, under the standards of evaluation of the quality of the solution as widely accepted by computer scientists, would be "the best solution." Which is exactly about the optimality of the algorithms, resources use etc.

If you still don't fully appreciate the context of the Knuth's program, do search for all the other columns and computer science books written by both Bentley and Knuth -- the topics of both were never "how to use existing programs" but how to develop/use the best algorithms.
I think the problem is not that windows pro costs money. The problem is that Microsoft also sells a second-class version of their OS that is really shitty.

From a pure brand perspective, the smart move for Microsoft would be to stop selling windows home.
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You're talking about the country of McCarthyism and the Red Scare here. Those same attitudes persist in much of the population.

Tolerant is absolutely not the word I would use.
Insider only for now. But a very good move imo.
Not having to risk your machine being compromised every time you run a third party executable is not fancy tech.
First thing I thought is now people are going to be looking for people having sex in the windows. I guess my expectations were too low.
I can't see how autonomous cars and Musky holes will be good for common people and not just turn into another form of exclusive transport for the rich.
> >The Geneva convention, for starters.

> Is the full statement.

And that statement is wrong, AFAICT; the Geneva Conventions do not address the conduct at issue here, whether “for starters” or otherwise.

They might prohibit somewhat analogous conduct in a very disanalogous context [0] but context and conduct are not orthogonal considerations in law.

[0] or, maybe not; the specific instrument you are probably thinking of is Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons; it does address booby-traps, but the device at issue here is not a booby-trap as defined in that protocol (not designed to kill or injure).
> people aren't open to it or are even hostile or dismissive.

Over the years I noticed that you have to keep repeating your idea. The first time everyone ignores it or is dismissive. But keep bringing it up. After some time, you might hear someone else bring up your idea, sometimes thinking they came up with it.

It seems you have to give the idea its own life. Maybe you can compare it to ads, where a person needs to have multiple contact points with it before getting ingrained.

I had multiple ideas like this, that were eventually accepted, without anyone knowing where it originally came from.
I don't get it. Linux never captured the desktop because they don't arbitrarily limit security features to people who pay more?
The 2007 ICFP-PC was similar (in that you got a big opaque data file and the spec of a VM for it) and also very enjoyable. I was on the team that came second and I think we understand only about half of what was in there during the competition.
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Apple Music tweets using Android
> Of course you still have the problem of the software writing files during its operation but that should be limited to $HOME (on POSIX systems) or any path that is writable by the owner / group of the user that application runs as (which should be limited even if it’s a system service).

The really tricky problem is when a package must modify an existing shared resource. Such as appending lines to an existing config for example.
Yep, that's usually the giveaway of these types of panorama shots. Sometimes you can even find the same person in multiple places depending on how far apart the pics are taken.
Why? Major GNU/Linux based distributions have browsers, LibreOffice and most of the software ordinary people usually want.
Charge more for enterprise features by all means, but if basic security concepts are something you feel the need to charge for, your priorities are fucked up.
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All vm's are sandboxes I suppose. The interesting difference between this and a normal VM is that the files are shared so that it's not using the space of a full VM.
You need dozens of those tunnels: the main transport, the side tunnels to speed up incoming and slow down exiting cars etc. etc.

And we also assume that all cars can enter and exit the system with no delays.

It'll be a miracle if it reaches bus capacity, much less train/subway capacity: https://www.thoughtco.com/passenger-capacity-of-transit-2798...
Perhaps a touch too dismissive when a huge amount of work and ingenuity has gone into this. I use Spotify Connect on my phone all the time to control other players, it's genuinely very useful.
TSA is a jobs program for people who aren’t willing to do real work.
It was originally developed to be used with IIS which handles all of that.
Yes, but at least it would be fair. I've tried Bastet for a few rounds and the fact the game can just throw the same piece at you 5+ times in a row makes it feel really cheap.