skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the possibility that it's going to get sucked into a jet engine

I've often wondered why the turbine intakes don't have some sort of "filter" in front to prevent larger objects from entering? Birds have been a problem forever. Why isn't there a simple solution? Even a grid in front like a common 4"x4" chainlink fence would provide. Is there some reason why they're all just wide open?
The thing is, the amount of GPU processing power required to attack Ethereum is not readily available, and certainly not at a cost of only $106k. That $106k figure comes from extrapolating out marginal rental cost of a single GPU, never mind that there aren't enough GPUs rental to overwhelm the whole network.

To give you an idea, the overall Ethereum network is currently 190 PH/s, so you'd need significantly more than that to have a high chance of launching a short term attack with reasonable success rate (if you only control 51% then your odds actually aren't great). Let's say you need 300 PH/s.

Well, the average modern AMD graphics card that is suitable for mining Ethereum only does around 30 MH/s. That means that you need 10 million such graphics cards. They simply aren't available for rental anywhere at such scale.

That's why you're not seeing such an attack happening. The raw monetary figures are misleading.
Yeah, the prefixes are killer too because they work well so with IAM. So you if you have multiple teams sharing an AWS account, you can also prefix by team name and limit decryption rights to those users and their resources.

The only downside is that the path is limited to 5 items IIRC. Which you can actually get to pretty fast with stuff like:

/team/service/environment/keyParent/keyChild

"environment" above would be like "prod" or "dev".
When the shit hits the fan, everything is terrible.

Which asset is "safest" / will reduce the least in value in times of turmoil?
I know everyone is recommending the book Why We Sleep, but I'll pile on and say that I found it to be a fantastic read, and the consequences of alcohol consumption are devastating. Stats like 40+% reduction in retained information from just a few drinks the night after learning new facts. Or the night BEFORE learning new facts. And how the ill consequences occur even if you abstain for several DAYS after learning new facts, then have several drinks 3 days later.
> This just isn’t true.

Yes it is (but you need to be overall personable and have good communication skills). After 1 year at a small dev shop I started with 0 years of experience, I got an offer at a big company you've heard of (not FAANG but public) for double. I didn't take it because I got bad vibes from the management but it was great to know I could. I say this not to brag that I'm brilliant because I am decidedly NOT brilliant - there have always been better coders than me everywhere I've worked since.

However, I had some PM experience before learning development which helped my "business" bona-fides. If you are 19 going from taco bell to a bootcamp I imagine proving that you can fit into an actual business culture is more important to getting you a job than coding ability (which is the min bar).

Truthfully, if you have 3 years exp with solid references, you should have recruiters knocking down your door with (mostly) bad offers of underpaying shops. There's no reason you shouldn't unless theres big red flags on your resume.
It happens all the time. Apple's Siri means Ass in Japanese.
I see where you’re coming from but your personal involvement shouldn’t be how you validate what is and is not news.

Imagine this headline 15 years ago.
Yeah, advertisers dataset is what I'd want to target.

Make a crowdsourced list of 'uuids' or whatever these tones are decoded as, and then just inject a constant stream of random ones into any audio signal. With 1% participation, could probably make advertiser dataset worthless.
The 4 years is supposed to change the way you look at the world, on an unconscious level.

I've found that every major personal change I've gone through - college, entering a career, moving cross-country, working at Google, being an entrepreneur, and even my relationship with my wife - took about 4-5 years before I was really comfortable on a gut level with my new life and could accept it as part of my identity. The actual technical material takes much less time to master - I found I was pretty competent at Javascript after 6 months, I could make major changes to Google at a year, I knew where most of the important things in the Bay Area were within a year, etc. But that's not really the point. The point is that when you go about your daily life, without thinking too much, have you internalized the value system and worldview that you're being educated into? It's the transition into unconscious competence.

Now, whether the university system teaches a worldview that correlates well with what you need for success in the rest of the world is another question. Just a couple months ago, the President of the U.S. was tweetstorming about academic brainwashing in universities. And depending how you squint, that may even be accurate - a worldview looks like brainwashing to people outside of that worldview. But the fact is that the vast majority of people in positions of wealth and power have been through those 4 years and have adopted that worldview, and doing so yourself will significantly reduce the friction as you interact with them.
At 5'11", I fluctuate between 115 and 120 lbs and cannot comfortably sleep or sit on any hard surface. It feels like my bones are touching stone directly, and sometimes causes parts of my body to fall asleep. It also doesn't help that I sleep on my side.

Fairly certain I'm an outlier as well, but a soft mattress seems to give my body the contour and padding I lack naturally.
Same here. I haven't moved over my haaska routines but all other logic is in Node-Red and for some things I don't even need HA.
its possible they unintentionaly gave a scammer a sample of ransomware code they could then reverse engineer.
the results could be an asymetric irony.
they could have made the scammer even more formidable.
It works in all directions. Microsoft managed to commoditize upstack (Internet Explorer) and downstack (hardware) from its OS. The cloud vendors are attempting to commoditize the chips deeper in the stack (see Google's TPU and Amazon's new CPU thing) as well as AI tooling higher in the stack (Tensorflow). If you're a Vegas casino (and I mean, who hasn't been one at least once), you subsidize the flights to Vegas as well as the food on site. The flights get customers in the door and the food keeps them going. For the GCP, ML software gets them in the door. Cheaper processing keeps them going. Chipmakers like Nvidia and Intel are trying to do the same thing to ML software with projects like Rapids and BigDL.

Almost any layer can commoditize all around itself, as long as it has the critical mass of users. Google first got them with the search layer (who knew that was going to be such a thing in the late 90s?), which commoditized content. Netscape got it and then lost it.

Once you achieve dominance around a standard and necessary protocol at one layer of the stack, which is the whole game in tech, you can lay waste to competition in all directions, to ensure that no other layer of the stack commoditizes you.
Your link doesn’t show how a defaulted loan is more valuable to a private bank than a performing loan. It would be more accurate to say private banks are relatively indifferent to the performance of a loan. (They’re actually marginally incentivised to collect performing loans, since that is a cross-selling opportunity.)
Ah a sarcastic comment. I must have offended you! Not intended! Sometimes it's hard for me to explain to simpler minds what I really mean. I apologize for this.

For example the conversion of assembly programming to functional programming the shape of the abstraction changes. From a list of instructions to a single instruction that is a composition of functions!

I'm saying that the shape of the abstraction from functional programming to flow based programming doesn't change. It's the same abstraction of composing functions whether it be through typed text or graphical nodes! My question is simply asking if this is true. I hope my english wasn't too complicated. Do you understand the words I am typing? Do you get it?

Who I am kidding? No way you could've understood what I just typed. Too complicated for your mind to process. It's my fault for being unable to simplify the language into something you can chew.
*mostly grass fed but with other supplemental feed.

Mad cow disease propagates from feeding cows the ground up bits of other infected cows.[0]

[0]https://www.fda.gov/animalveterinary/resourcesforyou/animalh...
This is very wrong.

Of course miners are always adding blocks, even when the blocks are empty; they do so because there is a block reward. Even empty blocks, when mined by honest miners, are serving a purpose, because they are increasing the cost of a 51% attack. Look through the histories of many different blockchains and you'll see empty (or nearly empty) blocks that exist for a variety of reasons.

Also, transaction sizes differ drastically depending on what a transaction does, and blocks max out at a given size, not a given number of transactions. So when blocks are full (which they aren't most of the time except for the very highest used cryptocurrencies) the number of transactions per block still varies quite a bit.
> My point was more that you'll have to work pretty hard to find and attract people who actually need your platform,

Revisiting this: I've curious if you have any suggestions on how you might try to solve this problem?
Thanks!

(1) When we retire old exam questions, we will make them available for practice. We're working on creating more study materials! I can't promise anything before April though.

(2) Ah the 440 FE is a typo. We updated the scoring algorithm a few months back and didn't update those examples. Most people try completing all 6 subject sections. It's up to you, but we do discourage optimizing this kind of test taking strategy, and "teaching to the test" ;P
This is an interesting idea and generates a lot of questions.

How does this change the dynamic of 'going back to school' for an alternative degree? If the domain I initially studied starts hurting economically and I have to get a different degree, do I still owe the school for my initial degree if I get a job that meets the income threshold off my second degree? How do we determine which degree netted me my current job? (assuming I get the new degree and a job within the N year period during which I owe the initial institution a percentile of my income).

Am I able to 'pay out' at any time? Or, if I get a better paying job, does the institutions paycheck increase if I'm still in the payback time interval? Do I simply need to pay the pay cap?

Should I be comfortable with the notion that my institution is x% responsible for my wage-earnings and overall economic worth? Are there situations in which this isn't the case?

Does this change promote student assessments that are better or worse for the edification of the next generation? As the article states, would schools be tempted not to bother with 'high-risk' students? What does it mean to put a label like 'high-risk' on a student? What does it mean to treat a human being like an investment? Does this reduce interest in students to purely economic terms (a big part of how universities already conceive of their students today, but reputation to some degree still factors in)? Would such a model further exacerbate the gap between the wealthy and poor—would wealthy kids, who grow up in environments that promote study and make them 'low-risk' investments (likely to succeed) have an unfair advantage over kids growing up in poor households?

This also seems to imply that one's learning is the majority of what factors into one's getting a job. What about all the additional work it takes to get a job (networking, etc.) Will these institutions assist in these areas as well?

What of the notion of scholarship? Is it absent in this model?

Does this model actually work for all disciplines? Arguably, it creates a very tight coupling between the 'value' of an education and wage-earnings/income. What of those pursuits that seem to be valuable, in a different light and aren't (today) usually high-income generators ,e.g. the study of history, literature, and cultures, for instance. What will happen to those disciplines under this model? Is this a model that's more appropriate for trades and not all areas of education?

Seems like a very good change, potentially, but it will probably a lot of effects if its adopted nationwide, on both an economic and cultural level.
That's a pretty easy system to game. Got loans you can't afford to repay? Quit your job and claim to be unemployed, so you can stop paying your loans and live off your spouse's income.

A lot of people who can't pay their loans are in low-paying jobs they don't like, so this would be a very tempting option indeed.
You're correct, the George W. Bush administration banned student loans from bankruptcy in 2005:

https://bostonstudentloanlawyer.com/discharging-student-loan...

But you'll notice that it wasn't really talked about at the time in mainstream news (however, I knew about it as a progressive):

https://www.google.com/search?q=george+w+bush+student+loan+b...

For example, "student" is not mentioned on this page:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7575010/ns/business-personal_finan...

So many young people today think that this is how it always was, and don't realize that it's nonsense. Originally meant to decrease the deficit or whatnot, but having the opposite effect of raising the deficit as the US has become more uneducated and susceptible to ignorance.

Unfortunately a lot of other draconian legislation was passed at that time - see the DMCA, etc. Now that the truth is coming out though, there's hope that some of this can get reversed after 2020 if enough people learn about the true history of controversial issues like these.
I can’t help but feel that clarification on any of these points is absolutely useless to the thrust of what he was trying to say.

If I had to guess I’d probably go with the duplication, though. That’s probably how he did it.
I will freely admit that I had the same reaction to the headline. Ow! I think I'd remember something like that.

#forever12
I'd be more worried about skew. CAT5e and 6a seem to have the same delay skew spec, and I can easily imagine Ethernet PHYs that are simply unable to operate beyond 100Mbps with out-of-spec skew.

CAT7 seems dubious (not recognized at all by everyone in the industry) but has a tighter delay skew spec, so this would help.

Another potential issue would be if the PHY has an equalizer that can handle reflections due to not-quite-perfect termination at 100m or closer but has trouble beyond 100m.

Something like a 1000BASE-T-LR or something that just means "1 Gbps over CAT [whatever is needed] if properly installed at lengths up to 200m" would be quite nice. Most likely a lot of equipment would meet that spec out-of-the-box.
You sound like a really sad person. Best wishes to you. I hope you can become a happier person and stop using sarcasm to express your sadness to other people.
Well I am not doing any of the things in the comment chain leading up to this, but probably the mention of primary key was a red herring. The GP's [1] point was that some index constraint (they mentioned PK uniqueness, but it could really be any constraint) might not be correctly maintained if the DB was not aware of the correct collation order. So from the point of view of the renderer, which is locale aware and uses locale-based collation, the DB is violating the constraints.

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[1] The GP relative to my reply
Does this mean the company will sell it for as cheap as possible regardless of profit? And release all IP of course?

If not, the purpose is to make money and the "mission" is just marketing BS.
How about we start with not allowing people to legally kidnap individuals?

I never understood the whole concept of “bounty hunters” in the US it’s not the Wild West anymore.

The problem here is that “fugitive recovery” doesn’t need to meet any of the standards normal law enforcement does and unless they kill someone or injure bystanders there likely won’t be an investigation into their conduct and even if there is one the result is often that at worse that could happen is then loosing their license.
Criminal investigations against fugitive recovery agents are pretty darn rare and there is no internal affairs or any body that really investigates their conduct on a regular basis.

I’m pretty sure that a large amount of these people violate much more than the privacy of their targets on a regular basis.
It's worth pointing out that it's not chain length which ultimately wins out, but chain weight, which is the sum of the difficulties of each block on a given chain.

This is an important distinction, because by fudging timestamps you can generate a valid chain of arbitrarily long length where each block has very low difficulty, but said chain would still not be preferred over a chain with fewer blocks of much higher difficulties (i.e. the real chain).
Thank you for posting this. As in healthcare, the problem isn’t so much the inability to pay as it is that costs spiraling out of control for no added value.

Prices tend to do this is a supply constricted market when demand is artificially boosted by government subsidies.
I think about going back for my MBA sometimes (slightly different from the article, but still similar in other ways), but I'm at the mid point in my career and I'm not convinced the money and time I spend going back would actually help me further my career more than building connections and actually doing the work. Senior managers I've talked to have agreed with my assessment. At best, an MBA would get me back to where I've already managed to get myself, but with maybe more attention for certain recruiters.

I'm a big fan of anyone wanting to further their education for whatever the reason -- and I do wish I could sometimes just study really interesting subjects again -- but for a lot of working professionals, I sometimes wonder if the degree will really matter?

Obviously, some professions are different than others and really do require a certain degree to even get in the door (medicine, law, sciences), but by the time I was 34, I'd managed to successfully build two careers in different disciplines, and neither was the focus of my degree. (And I took forever to graduate.)

Every person and situation is different so I don't want to pretend my experiences are prescriptive for anyone else -- but what I value about my undergrad experience is much less "what I learned" and the experiences I had growing up, having time to explore things I care about, etc.

Frankly, I wish there was a collegiate equivalent of a GED that would cover undergrad required classes like a science, a math class, english lit, history, etc. Make people take the actual degree classes, but allow people to test out of all the basic requirements (I realize CLEP allows for some of this but CLEP isn't accepted everywhere and there can be CLEP caps for credits). I feel like for a lot of adult learners, this would greatly reduce the mental challenge of "going back."

What I wish this had touched on more is the pervasive and predatory nature of for-profit colleges and universities. I'm all for anyone going back to school, but it makes me sick when people pay tens of thousands of dollars for bad programs from fro-profit places that have a very small chance at even helping them get a better job.
In Australia, you are allowed to drive a manual if you do your test with an automatic when you are on your open license. It's only on your P's that you can't.
Or have two developers split time with the OSS project and your internal needs. That way you have resident experts in that OSS project and you're more flexible in meeting deadlines since you can shift time.
Messenger was not forced to wiretap but…
That's interesting.. I wasn't aware this was studied. I stopped drinking years ago because I noticed that alcohol reduced the amount of code I could hold in my head, even up to a week later.
Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist
Well, I am Austrian, and I consider them both desserts and main courses.
We've found that that is indeed true. The more senior and knowledgeable you are, the most likely the answer is "it depends", because all the nuances and edge cases you know about.

We try to solve this with the standard "choose the BEST answer". We also do post-mortems and analyze the responses to disqualify or discount bad questions.

These are issues the CSPA Technical Steering Committee, which is responsible for the exam content, will deal with, in collaboration with our research advisor: https://cspa.io/about/team
The Case for Artisanal Programming
Or, instead of bankrupt, they would likely focus on degrees that were marketable in the current economy. I feel that this option would really reduce the number students in some degree programs that aren't directly employable, or at least not at high wages.

Universities could offer this today in some programs (CS, medicine, law, etc). But what about arts programs? Music? Are these employable enough to incentivize a University to to take a chance on students ability to repay?
Guess that makes us a bunch of Code Monkeys? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYodWEKCuGg
Weirdly enough, at certain amounts of alcohol, I start to think about memories I haven't had in years. Nothing traumatic nor nostalgic, but just mundane memories from school or childhood. I suppose it's just the mind wandering to thoughts it normally doesn't think about while inebriated, forming unusual connections.
The "school" is "buying equity" in the student (which may or may not end up being worth something).
I still have never seen tuition that low, even subsidized
I didn't know about the limit although you might be able to get it bumped?

In my experience we haven't had any issues getting to that limit but we only ever use 1 level of depth (the service) and each environment has it's own AWS account so there is no path for environment.

Each service has a IAM Role with an IAM Policy attached that gives it access to all of the keys under the service path.

A way to fix the team prefix (what if 2 teams actually need access to that secret?) would be to not have it in the path but use roles that teams can assume to get access to those secrets.
The original Turbo/Borland Pascal compiler was a single-pass compiler written in assembly. Not sure if they ever rewrote it in a high-level language. The small, simple grammar helped, as did the unit system. With Delphi, linking became the most expensive stage of compilation.

Part of being single-pass was it hardly did any optimizations, and of course declaration order was completely rigid. Back in the 1990s there were competing commercial compilers like Stony Brook Pascal that did optimization, and at the time there were optimizers that you could run on the .exe files, but for the most part people stuck to Borland's tools.

I spend a good part of the 90s writing fast 2D and 3D graphics stuff, including a commercial game, and performance was never an issue, especially as Object Pascal supported embedding assembly blocks seamlessly into your code.
Bear looks amazing (maybe the best although not perfect) but has 2 serious turn-offs: Apple lock-in (a single-platform app in 2019, seriously?) and subscription (whatever humble it is, I hate subscriptions as compared to reasonable price once-and-forever payments).
> I know you said "supply chain", but do Sears really have much presence outside the US?

Depends how you count it. Sears Canada had about double the number of stores per capita as Sears USA. By the end, they were mostly a separate corporate entity from Sears USA, and shuttered all their stores over a year ago.