skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Hopefully people are leaving FB because of their toxic "political discussions" (more like insult-flinging)...

If that were the case, reddit should be suffering the same mass exodus plight but - it seems to me - that people (predominantly in the states) revel in that sort of behaviour.
I've got some bad news
Scientists Use AI to Decode the Ultrasonic Language of Rodents
I want to highlight a third possibility that isn't discussed which is people who can talk about code, but can't deliver (or can't deliver well), but really want to learn how to deliver.

It's fine if you don't want to hire that person, but I'm really annoyed that they often immediately get labeled a bullshit artist in a lot of these threads.

Considering how many shitty positions there are, it's honestly surprising we don't reflexively go "oh, you never learned to do X well because you haven't been with a good company that can teach you to do X well".
> Shame that this awesome visualization method he uses isn't used more ...

The animation engine is on GitHub so you can make your own:
https://github.com/3b1b/manim
Clearly it wouldn't be reasonable to impose a lower standard of safety and security than a non-smart lock. I don't think landlords would attempt to argue that principle.

The argument from them will be that smart locks do not regress security and safety.

Given the widespread and well known security problems with IoT devices across the industry, I think it'd be reasonable to demand assurances on this. For example, an audit trail provided to the resident for every unlock event and who authorised it, an agreement to immediately revert indefinitely to a physical lock at the landlord's expense if a vulnerability is discovered, and daily financial compensation for every day that the landlord fails to act on these mitigations.

Anything less than this I'd argue is a breach of contract, and any requirement that doesn't provide similar assurances would have to be by agreement by the tenant (ie. a new contract signed).
Car locks are one thing. They are hackable, but only in a very targeted and location-specific manner, basically the same risk as a physical key. But this is a centrally controlled system in which your landlord and a third party you have no control over are monitoring your movements and can remotely unlock the door via an Internet-connected device. So it's remotely monitorable and hackable. And since there's no physical presence required to monitor or hack it, it's actually a much bigger risk than remote car locks.

Also, cars are very different than homes. Typically we don't store truly valuable and irreplaceable items in our cars, unlike our homes. Typically we don't sleep in our cars, unlike our homes. You can easily see if someone is approaching your car, or trying to get in, when you are in it. Not necessarily the case with your home.
> On mobile, almost no one can see Verdana.

But it's included in iOS (http://iosfonts.com)?
For me it is:

- the product is SW

- great colleagues

- challenging problems

- cool technology

- having users

- good salary

- good tools

- max 40 hours a week

- minimal bureaucracy

- working remote when needed

https://henrikwarne.com/2013/03/26/what-do-programmers-want/
Ah, it is interesting insight, and sure, debugging with such broken middlebox must be serious bummer I believe. Are they really that frequent? (I'm not devop, so asking in all sincerity, since I cannot recall dealing with them myself.)

Anyway, I assume there are very few (if any?) scenarios with no way to overcome such bug in broken proxy (yes, after that exhausting investigation, but still) and there are obvious potential benefits in scenario when such middlebox does its work well.

With TLS (as I understand it) those potential benefits as well as potential bugs are just tossed away together (I'd not use therm 'bypassed' here) and every single download is forced to be made along full wire length, what could be pretty nasty in some locations. Eric Meyer recently wrote interesting article [0] on this topic. (I understand it is all quite obvious stuff, but well expressed IMO.)

[0] https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07/securing-sites...
[0][HN] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17707187
Might as well tell them to be born in the correct place. Hn in multinational, and english is not always a primary language.
Couldn’t this be used to identify possible hosts that are running exploited software. So you watch a target and keep track of their installed packages. You also monitor for zero day exploits. The instance you have identified a zero day you also have a list of high probability targets to test it out on or exploit. Privacy is more then just I know you have blue eyes or brown eyes
Good, it really honestly needs to happen. Unlimited speed increases pollution massively, and other countries do fine with 110-130kph limits on motorways.

The car industry has managed to turn it into a national pride issue, and will fight tooth and nail to preserve the unlimited sections of the autobahn, because it lets them sell more expensive more powerful cars, and market them as "tested on the Autobahn".

In general, German driving culture needs a bit of a kick in the pants. While they're generally quite courteous on normal streets, and very good at making room for emergency vehicles, they still have some issues to deal with.

First of all, they drive way too close at high speeds on the motorways, and they brake very late when coming up on slower traffic, for instance a Porsche going 200+kph coming up on an Opel at ~120kph overtaking slow traffic. The guy in the Porsche will brake hard at the last possible moment. This often leads to huge pileups in foggy or otherwise inclement weather.

Secondly, there is a very definite sense of entitlement based on the size and price of your car. The bigger and more expensive your car is, the more you expect people to just get out of your way, because they drive a "lesser" vehicle. It's extremely obvious to compare reactions when you're driving a small Citroën compared to even just a BMW 1-series. People will pull right out in front of you if they deem your car "lesser" than theirs.

Abolishing unlimited speed will reduce the number of accidents, reduce pollution and somewhat even the playing field on the roads.

E: For clarification, my girlfriend is from Baden-Württemberg and we spend a lot of time on the roads when we visit her family, 2-3 times a year.
An exposed slot for a battery could let an attacker instantly fry the lock from the outside.

A long time ago I got drunk at my birthday party so my wife drove us back to the beach house we rented. She parked my car so that it was about five inches overhanging someone’s driveway.

Their driveway wasn’t blocked but it was a dick move and they retaliated by shaving off candle wax into my car’s door locks. Fortunately I always used remote unlock but back then most people still used physical keys to unlock their car.

People can mess or destroy any lock. There are legitimate concerns about electronic locks for sure but I don’t understand setting the bar so much higher for them than mechanical locks.
It worked for the Great Lakes. :(
Can Gradient Boosting Learn Simple Arithmetic?
That just means „not suited for everyones needs and taste“ - tge same goes for another license that a company chose. Others like it less.
He Jiankui: China condemns 'baby gene editing' scientist
TiDB Open Sources Its Fast Import Tool Called Lightning
I do this a fair lot, and it doesn't fail to make me cry and feel embarassed for myself.
If there’s a recession in 2019, here’s what marketers should do
> I like to see how people type too... if you can’t type it’s usually easy to tell if you spend most of your time with a computer or not...

I disagree. When nobody's looking I type pretty fast, but when the whole interviewee team is looking at my screen I suddenly forget all the shortcuts and mistype a lot due to anxiety.
Nope. There's nothing wrong with your eyes. Some people are just better at noticing certain things, compared to others.
European power firms aim to harness electric car batteries
In my experience, one of the key ways to get an engineer interested in a role is to tell how much it pays up front, and make sure that number is appropriate for the experience level you're targeting.
Meta Programming in JavaScript with Proxies
Russia opens civil cases against Facebook and Twitter
Complicated truth about China's social credit system UK
VMware Ctrl and Click Issue
...adding fuel to the flames, Zuck is nuts.
Smaller, cheaper: How tiny satellites are spinning off new space data movement
On a vaguely related theme, are there any open-source frameworks or designs for building things like embedded industrial dashboards or mission-critical control software? I’d love to build on something that already incorporated best practices.
It's much the same on sites like Quora where a question that is answerable in a single line gets half a dozen answers each of which drags in pages of irrelevant material and in some cases actually fail to address the question at all.
British people less likely to waste tea in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
> The Aldi store next door just got a redesign and now looks confusingly welcoming

In the UK they seem to have taken store design up a notch, to the point that there's a discernible difference with the Lidl experience (along with now being a tad more expensive on equivalent products). I suspect it's an incremental differentiator in retaining the more affluent customers they captured over the past decade. Lidl, on the other hand, offers a more mixed experience: for the most part, they're still quite dowdy and utilitarian, although they have what seem like experimental stores that appear to be competing in affluent areas with an Aldi presence (larger, open layouts; brighter lighting; polished, natural floor tiles etc.). The kinds of customers I usually find at Lidl are notably absent.
When I was a student I almost attacked a strange guy I found creeping around our flat at night - turned out it was the landlord!

Citizen's Advice confirmed he had no right to be there without our permission.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, if you're talking about animals then reproduction death is pretty rare (compared to people), and if you're talking about people then reproduction death and infertility have not been cured. Even if they were that would just reduce two selection pressures, leaving every other pressure in place.
Finding out the packages based on file sizes? Nope - https would hide the sizes of individual files within the entire session.
My meaning was that the fundamentals for the task cannot be avoided. Nature doesn't shape itself for our convenience unbidden. You can change your approach and the ergonomics but there is no helping that digging a trench is going to involve moving a lot of heavy dirt.
The first edition of the C++ book was in 1985, so that is roughly the same timeframe as Smalltalk-80 getting popular.
Technically savvy people can think of lots of ways to overcome technology. It’s easy to get hung up on the problems with something new while ignoring the problems of current systems.

In addition to what you said, people often leave mechanical locks unlocked on at least one or more windows or doors. People often have easily broken glass on their doors. It’s commonly said that most locks are “courtesy locks” because they’re so easy to defeat. So I don’t understand many of the security concerns surrounding electronic locks. Privacy and failure concerns I can understand though.
In my experience, 10-bit also gives better results when transcoding, for instance smoother gradients and less banding.
When they run campaigns like these, they get more funding. When they get more funding, a few more children will avoid starvation.

Why are you getting so worked up over someone using a means that they have years worth of experience with showing it works in giving them the funds to save more people?
The problem is that FB is a business, not a public service providing proof of identity. It is wrong to force people to get into a commercial agreement with a private company to carry out civic duties. Same issue as authorities publishing only word documents that can only be read with MS Word.
One could argue that the anonymity of Reddit in addition to the mods encourages a civil discussion
You will instantly spot blocking because apt reports connection failure and hash failure and replay attack on update list is ineffective.

As for privacy, eh? It is visible you're connecting to a debian mirror and what size of update list you're getting. Barring that, indexing packages by size is trivial.

You want true privacy, you'd have to use Tor or such.
Yikes, keep this shit off HN, nobody wants to know what you think about this. I am partial to Marx myself, Capitalism is an amoral excuse for greed that has repeatedly destroyed itself and had to be saved many times, and I would hate to have to fight with people on the internet when I was hoping to enjoy today.
Well, people thought they could join FB to connect with their friends and family, but later on it turned to an insult-slinging platform, so hopefully the saner ones have left. As for reddit, I guess people are in the news and politics subreddits to actually fling shit at each other.
I read somewhere about zebra stripes long ago.
Diffuse Rewards, Concentrated Opposition.
"Why do you need a speedometer when you can just calculate your current speed using tachometer, odometer and time, it's real simple man"
If you don't mind pixels, you can get the exact originals (but packaged as a TTF, and incorporating many encodings).

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
Exactly. Thankfully in Europe, some of these deals can be deemed illegal state aid and the companies forced to give back the money they saved on taxes, if the state given advantage distorted the trade between Member States.
I took a look at 3270 font, and I definitely strongly prefer IBM VGA. I don't care about semi-consistent serifs etc - I'm not a font designer. But it's very readable.

Which, again, just goes to show that this stuff is all very subjective.
If you only start thinking about selling a candidate when you _meet_ one then you missed the bigger opportunity to build a corporate reputation of supporting developers in their careers (e.g. with open source, developer blogs, etc.).

With that in mind, focusing on the bits highlighted here doesn't make sense. Attract smart/experienced/motivated candidates and your boring hiring process or your flawed onboarding process doesn't matter as much.
Oops! I accidentally the last sentence. It should say something like: "It claims (I haven't checked any of its empirical claims or its theoretical analysis) to find the effects I described in the paragraph above: there are contracts, the market does its thing, and the result is efficient resource allocation."
Size fingerprinting defeats such "privacy". If you need this, use Tor instead.
In racing dinghies when tacking you often don't actually change sides until the boom has come across. Then when you do cross you are returning the boat to upright from nearly capsized. That drags the sail through the air creating a local increase in effective wind-speed, helping to re-accelerate after the speed lost during the tack.
>Furthermore, even over an encrypted connection it is not difficult to figure out which files you are downloading based on the size of the transfer[2]. HTTPS would therefore only be useful for downloading from a server that also offers other packages of similar or identical size.

That seems like a false dilemma imho.

What's preventing APT from splitting up downloads into identically sized chunks of say 4kb?
According to that wired article the repeater is $10 as well and lockpicking needs a little practice and skill, using a repeater not. :)
The biggest problem is that people don’t see the problem, because they can’t see it in historical context.
You shouldn’t mix units like that.

Everything should be experessed in nanometers only, and avoid micrometers, since expressing nanometer sizes in micrometer units requires confusing decimal points, and an extra cognitive load to translate fractional proportions.

Axons are 200 to 2000 nanometers in diameter.

Much easier to read and compare to the nanometer resolutions defined in the first paragraph.

Anyway, we’d need thousands of desireable human brains to draw conclusions. And my desireable, I mean smart, sociable people mostly. You’ll want total morons in the data set too, but only to distinguish total assholes in the training data, when we use AI to rationalize their extermination. That way, the Hitlers go to the concentration camp, this time.
"When hiring senior engineers, the company doesn’t choose the candidate, the candidate chooses the company."

That's totally true. I also choose the environment where I will be working and what conditions will be.

I prefer working remotely and have flexible working hours. It keeps me motivated.

"Your job posting probably sucks". I agree with it too. Because some recruiters write me that their company offers free alcohol in their office for stressful situations. I told them it looks unprofessional and seems that they just drink at their office. She said to me that people hate boring descriptions and I'm wrong.

But you know that more people like a healthy lifestyle. Especially in Silicon Valley. Do you agree?

So, if you sell your company, find more information about a candidate (their interests, lifestyle, values). Instagram, Facebook, Twitter show you who a person is. It helps you to write the best offer to a candidate.

Currently, I'm using three ways to find a job: FB groups, Networking, and Freelance Marketplaces. I used to get projects on Upwork but right now I check job boards.
BTW, if you want to save your time searching for projects, I found a service on Reddit comments that aggregates freelance projects from job boards (https://periodix.net/). I like it because it doesn't sell me bad projects.
> A cucumber that is ripe but isn't harvested because it was hiding behind some leaves, will be oversized the next day.

A year ago I would've shrugged this off as an exaggeration, but after my wife decided to grow cucumbers last summer I've seen first hand how fast those things grow.
Hi, thank you for your comment. I agree that writing a blog post is a good idea, as of matter of fact, we're in the middle of writing one right now:) We do think we've got the interesting offer though and wanted to share it with people asap. No bots ;) Cheers!
Why would the investor not like your startup?
1 million dollar is a low budget.
I dont think so.
pre-reproduction death. And in humans that is not something that necessarily needs a cure :)
Here's the simplest AI example I have found so far. It is called Binary Driver AI.

if (car.distance < 5) {

[car slowDown];

}

else if (car.distance >= 5) {

[car speedUp];

}

This AI was created by Apple. You can see it on Page 81 on this pdf:

https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015/608rpwq1...

So, AI means any algorithm, which can be run by a computer..
There's a big difference, privacy-wise, between being able to say "X is talking to this debian mirror and thus probably running debian" and "X is downloading exactly these packages from this debian mirror".
While I agree with a lot of the suggestions in this post, I disagree with the "you’re not buying, you’re selling" part. It's just not that one-sided.

I think the proces of hiring or applying works best when it's a conversation between equals. Both the employer and applicant have something of value to offer, and both expect something of equal value in return.

Many employers and applicants act like the other side should be happy to talk to them (they're granting them a favor). If you really think the other side has more to gain from talking to you than yourself, why did you decide to have the conversation in the first place?

Sure, markets are not perfect, so the most popular employer in a city and the best engineer with nowhere-to-find expertise might both be able to act as a buyer. For the rest of us: We're buying, and we're selling.
Yes. Is that only an issue in German passports or generally applies to all passports?
It's probably a great analogy because the best musicians all know basic music theory, whether they learned it in school or on the bandstand. As for the advanced theory that they teach in graduate programs, it isn't even applicable to most genres of music.
In OOP, I think the closest equivalent would be the visitor pattern.
I live near the border between the Netherlands and Germany and since German supermarkets are cheaper by a lot I go to Germany to buy groceries every now and then. The ALDI there has incredibly fast cashiers. And I mean REALLY fast: The only way to keep up with the cashier is almost to swipe everything in your cart with both hands, you have to as well, because there is only about 50-80cm of 'runway' after the scanning. There is some sort of docking bay for your cart right after that. So everything is designed for a speedy check-out. We once commented to the cashier that they are so incredibly fast and she said that it is due to the scanners they use, they can scan a product in almost any orientation so that she doesn't have to be very accurate or remember where the barcode is for every product.

Due to this incredible speed at check-out, the same number of employees can process a far larger number of customers than the super market in the Netherlands that I go to. Very smart.
re 1, rephrase that on funding mosquito nets specifically

1. Why does it need mosquito nets? Why not just fund stuff that do social good? Instead of giving out mosquito nets that will eventually deterioate
Hirefox – der einfache und sichere Stellenmarkt
We're all part of influencing that algorithm, so this is a ridiculous argument. We can choose to do nothing, or we can choose to try. Yes, we won't know if the results are good or not, but that is a shitty reason for doing nothing.

As for this argument being an obsession, I think you miss the point: It's a PR campaign. They've used it year after year, because it works. It gives them press attention. It results in increases in donations. It helps them achieve their goals.

If it's their goals you find "obsessive", then so be it. But this focus on the richest is pragmatic: It's something cheap they know they can milk year after year. I doubt most people at Oxfam goes around thinking all that much about the 26 richest people in the world - more likely they're busy actually trying to run their programs and keep them funded.
I want to see much ore of this kind of thing on HN!
iPhone SE goes back on sale as a $249 clearance item
When I said “modified septoplasty”, turbinate reduction was the modification. In addition to the collapse, they were very large.
There's a company that turns up here on HN sometimes that claims to find the best engines. They were looking for part time remote screeners/ evaluators. I figured I'd apply. Filled out some stuff online, and then their system wanted me to take a test on java script or something - not my language. It was then that I knew they don't really know how to interview people, so I stopped the application process.
People aren't exactly nicer to each other when they're anonymous...
None of your business.

But! As mentioned above, outside entities being able to monitor exactly which versions of which packages are being installed to which hosts is a significant security risk.
This is a great resource, but doesn't come up with anything that beats Monaco for me.

Does anyone have any known good reference sites for going about creating your own font? I've thought about this a lot yet never had the time to do. I think creating my own would be incredibly cool!
Hey, thanks for your detailed response. I agree with a lot of what you said, really helped me put my thoughts together.
Holy crap, I bought this book when it came out and lost it in a move long ago. I guess if I live long enough all my favorite computer texts will be available free at some point.
This is the 2013 presentation about firmware analysis / modification of the internal controller inside of uSD cards.