skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people who think this post is too much of a rant (not me; I like it), perhaps this article might provide a more interesting read: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/the-u... which summary of the finding of the national academy of sciences report which can be downloaded from here https://www.nap.edu/download/25196

Personally, I'm all for more progress on quantum information science topics, but I think it will be better for the field if we rein in some of the claims about the potential for the technology, and the timeframe when it will become practical.
Agreed, but it can be done at higher layers. Just use some secure app instead of SMS and phone calls.

The carrier should not be able to know much about you, except some vague metadata (an histogram of the amount of data you exchanged with some IPs.)
RUM vs. APM: How They’re Similar and Different
I love pyenv. Brew is excellent for establishing a decent baseline, but pyenv is good for "we've tested this service to run under 3.5.7 and this one to run under 3.6.2, so I want to develop locally with those exact versions without them being upgraded from beneath me". And when upgrade, running "pyenv local 3.6.3" is almost all that's required to start working with the new one.
Even at low speeds bikes and cars shouldn't mix. Getting hit by a car sucks, at any speed. Of course the risk and severity of injury goes up as speed increases. We have a guideline that says that up to 30km/h cars and bicycles can mix, that bicycles need their own elevated lane at 50km/h and that they need a lane that's physically separated from motorised traffic at 70km/h or over.

There are some streets where cars and bikes mix, and where cars aren't permitted to overtike bikes (at all, ever, under any circumstance). Of course, motorists ignore this and will honk at "slow" cyclists.
It'd be interesting to see a large, comprehensive salary survey of programmers in various countries to see how pay varies by nation.
Interestingly, Walmart sells generic insulin. The same stuff used decades ago, for only $25 a vial.

However, the advances in insulin since then mean it’s a much more burdensome therapy.

https://insulinnation.com/treatment/why-walmart-insulins-are...
>I'll be downvoted to hell, but whatever. Js sucks

Ok. Now that you got this off your chest and you want to build an application that can run inside a browser (i.e. a platform available to billions)...what do you do?
> the best musicians all know basic music theory

Do you have any evidence for such a bold claim or is this just speculation?
I agree but my main consideration is as they grow 25-30 yrs older (when compared to their parents) before the kids inherit their parents wealth. We see this in the united states, as the parents of our baby boomers lived until their kids are almost retirement age and consume anything they saved by paying medical bills we have a large break in the amount of wealth that is handed down. Thomas Piketty researched this very idea in 'Capital in the 21st Century'. As an example, the kids of the baby boomers all have to pay for their own college via debt basically because there is no such thing as a family nest-egg anymore. Very few of the middle class families that were started in the 50's 60's have maintained their wealth through their entire lifetimes with enough left over to kick start the next generation. The idea of taking over the proverbial 'family farm' is dead, every generation now has to start from 0 or negative numbers.
> If Google is known for ads personalization...

If you ask 100 random people what is Google for, how many people do you think will answer "ads personalization"? My prediction is "close to 0%".

Google's "About" page states: "Our mission is to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful". No mention of personalization involved.

Therefore, Google is NOT known for ads personalization.
After having read "The Oxygen Advantage" about a month ago I haven't slept a single night without taping my mouth. I definitely feel a positive influence.
Ah, but if the 2-pint jugs of standard semi-skimmed milk are out of stock, maybe you buy the 1-pint or the 4-pint or the organic.

The customer response depends on both the product category and the time of day, for obvious reasons. And I guarantee the likes of Wal-Mart will have run studies on this and chosen the optimal ordering level for milk in their stores.
Precisely my point - it's not something an end user would notice. And if it doesn't even appear in CT logs or for the end user it would likely go completely unnoticed.

There really aren't "so many ways to detect this" - there's about 3: the user examines the certificate, CT logs catch it later and detection in browsers of major changes on the most high profile sites. Anything falling outside of those will almost certainly go unnoticed.
Hi, I'm one of the GNU Radio project officers (general busybody).

GNU Radio is used extensively in industry and academia. Hawkeye 360 and Spire use GNU Radio for satellite ground stations. Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, and a variety of other aerospace/defense use it as well for other wireless comms applications. DeepSig uses GNU Radio at least to generate test signals for their neural net based signal classification system and communication systems, possibly also internally. Analog Devices uses GNU Radio in their Scopy oscilloscope/spectrum analyzer/signal and logic analyzer application.

As said by the other commenter, check out the videos on our YouTube channel. The project is very fortunate to attract many interesting talks and speakers each year at the conference.

https://www.youtube.com/GNURadioProject
https://www.gnuradio.org
How much do doctors and lawyers typically make in Poland?
Building a Robot with AI – Part 2
Good point. With BGP you can cause a denial of service. But again, TLS should reduce the risk to just that and nothing worse (intercepted/counterfait information.)
The top of the CNIL site literally says:

> If you continue to browse this website, you accept third-party cookies used to offer you videos, social sharing buttons, contents from social platforms.

That looks like an illegal opt out. They should fine themselves :)
>Packages can be manually downloaded from packages.debian.org and they reference the same insecure mirrors.

That's a reasonable complaint. I think it would make sense for the individual packages to be signed as well (and checked during install). This way you'd get a warning if you install an untrusted package regardless of the source. I'm not sure why it doesn't work that way.

>Furthermore Debian also provides ISO downloads over the same HTTP mirrors, which are also not automatically checked. While they can theoretically be checked with PGP signatures it is wishful thinking to assume everyone will do that.

I do do that. If you care about such an attack vector why wouldn't you? And if you don't, why should Debian care for you? There are plenty of mirrors for Debian installers, I often get the mine from bittorent, trusting a PGP sig makes much more sense than relying on HTTPS for that IMO.

>Finally the chapter about CAs and TLS is - sorry - baseless fearmongering.

I don't think it's baseless (we have a long list of shady CAs and I'm sure may government agencies can easily generate forged certificates) but it's rather off-topic. Their main argument is that the trust model of HTTPs doesn't make sense for APT, if that's true then whether or not HTTPS is potentially hackable is irrelevant.
> Firstly - and somewhat controversially - the authors assert that low levels of competition lead to low levels of innovation (and hence lower levels of economic growth). This is controversial because Silicon Valley produces companies with very little competition (Google for example) that are clearly innovative

and they have eaten alive older companies that forgot how to innovate.

> Tepper and Hearn have written an angry book. It is angry at the regulators that have allowed non-competitive mergers to happen. It is angry at politicians and lobbyists in the pocket of supernormally profitable corporations.

What's wrong with an angry book? Those examples are things worth getting angry about.

> They endorse measures against tech companies that stop them leveraging monopolies on one sector into monopolies in another sector. They would have endorsed the break-up of Microsoft into an operating system company and an applications company.

Wouldn't have been the end of the world. Imagine if MS had split. Parts of it would have failed. But office on Linux would probably be a thing.
Assuming everything he says is 100% true. Why can’t some people just work on things that interest them because they interest them? Why does everything need to be “useful” (as in useful right here right now)? Okay resource is finite and has to be allocated. But so what? What’s the point of science and technology if not to enable others to have a more meaningful life? For some, that meaning is in exploring “useless” problems. Let the people who want to make better classical computers do so. Let people who want to study quantum computers do so. I can assure you that the number of people who study/work on quantum computers is so low that convincing all of them to drop their work and do something more “practical” will not make the world a better place.
This is pretty silly. Candidates routinely spend integer multiples of six hours running interview gauntlets for tech companies that are notorious for negging candidates. None of them expect to get paid for interviewing. An at-home work sample challenge is strictly less onerous than an interview gauntlet, but because it has the appearance of something people have heard other people get paid for, it's commonly suggested that they should be paid, too.
Autonomous cars need internet access to display relevant ads to the passengers.
Software like Decidim or CONSUL [0] are meant to be used by the city council or maybe at the regional or even national government level, like is the case of CONSUL. If you really want Citizen Participation having real decisions made in the platform are key to the success, and for that you need high level political support.
In the case of Madrid City Council, who wrote CONSUL, citizens have already decided what to do with 260M euros, have voted for the remodelling of one of the main squares in the city and several other spaces, have had their input in the writing of local ordinances, etc. You can see that in action at [1].

[0] https://github.com/consul/consul
[1] https://decide.madrid.es
> Given clear "I accept/I refuse" controls it wouldn't be any slower or difficult to quickly dismiss the dialog

1) It would definitely be slower than not having that dialogue at all (the less UI elements - the simpler).

Do you remember that typical user visits Google web site NOT to setup his privacy settings, but with a totally different goal (such as do web search)?

2) "Accept vs Deny" is easy to read, but how would most users know what choice is better for them?

In order to form a reasonable opinion on that cookie choice -- I personally spent multiple hours (if not days) of reading and thinking.
so for data scientists I guess you could ask them to hand calculate the variance and standard deviation for a sample and see how they do on that
It should be a requirement that the hassle is proportional to the data sharing. Want to share my data with 100 different places? Make me click 100 checkboxes.
Is this news or is it merely the daily “lets have the hive mind attack ${fill_in_tech_company_here}”?

We get these posts just about every day about why some tech company is horrible. It’s not why I personally come to hacker news to get indoctrinated with the political biases of these organizations. The quality of this site is decreasing because of this garbage.
>= $100K outside of a major city for a green undergrad doesn't seem typical. Do you hang with grads from big name schools?
I think part of the blame is also on aggregators like Google News; I've noticed that GN mixes opinion/editorial content in with real news articles, especially on the sidebar (e.g. "Spotlight" section).

It also seems like the ratio of opinion content to actual news has been increasing lately. In the print version of the NYT, opinion pieces were generally only found on two pages, sometimes maybe overflowing a bit, but you'd never see them on the front page and they certainly weren't the bulk of the paper. Now it seems like the majority of "news" content from some outlets are actually opinion pieces.
A.I. Policy Is Tricky. From Around the World, They Came to Hash It Out
1) I think part of this can be explained by the disproportionate living expenses on the west coast, especially in The Valley. I wonder how those numbers on doctors and lawyers would play out if you constrained them to San Francisco?

2) I do think there's a partial bubble, though. What I tell people is, programmers today are like literate people in the middle ages. You can do hard things with reading and writing, but reading and writing aren't inherently hard. It's just that they weren't taught to the masses back then, so you could be hired as a scribe simply because you knew those basic skills. I think once public education catches up (or affordable education; the bootcamps you see everywhere now are starting to close the gap), the basic ability to code will quickly drop in value. There will still be high value placed on skilled programmers (the poets and technical writers of the programming world) - though their salaries will probably see a bit of a correction too - but I think the bottom will drop out beneath them, and you'll have to do more than just learn JavaScript to be valuable.
A carbon tax is really the only immediately workable and impactful solution to climate change. We can't flip a switch and have the change activists want overnight. That both parties have abandoned a revenue-neutral carbon tax (sell it to the people as a replacement for other taxes, like payroll, rather than a new tax) is of the worst policy realities we have found ourselves in.

"Green New Deal" is a bunch of hysterics going nowhere fast, and the counter point are a bunch of idiots that think a snowstorm is proof global warming doesn't exist.

We've lost the boring middle ground solution that works, just like so many other areas of policy.
Sales people don't get anywhere near that kind of commission.

Most SWEs I know are not making more than they bring in profit.
No conclusion? What's the point of doing research or reporting it if you learned nothing?

Is this a koan?
to each their own. laptop display only, fullscreen all the time, took some time to get used to, but now my desk has nothing but a charging cable and i'm comfortable in any environment. i found having multiple windows in eyesight too distractive.
exercise helps, meditation too, but its just a short term solution. It always comes back
When I talk about shifts, I'm referring to things like the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, which increase the net-demand for software and along with an entirely new specializations of knowledge.

While there are some key concepts to things like databases, the fact remains that your 1985 database would not be considered sufficient in todays world: It would have too many limitations, lack features we now take for granted, would not scale to modern data requirements, etc. Supporting all that "modern" functionality is non-trivial and requires a huge amount of effort. You can't just say "Well, we figured out space and computationally-efficient hashing, so relational databases are well on their way to being feature-complete"

There's a reason we haven't stuck with 1.0 on our platforms, and it's not just security or a desire for a bigger version number: New demands required new functionality and new ways of building things.
That article lists four incidents that took place outside the U.S., plus one instance of what turns out to be the book's author arguing that its publisher should voluntarily stop printing it. No U.S. government censorship.

Obviously there've been cases in the U.S. that came closer to government censorship of literature than this, but in general it remains the case that it's nearly impossible to get a book banned in the U.S.
Ask HN: What is the best place to find/promote a team for short projects?
But the fine increases with non compliance up to 4% of their yearly revenue
As a recent reader of Reich's book "Who We Are and How We Got Here" I concur that he explicitly and forcefully refutes the notion of racial or ethnic categories as having any meaning over the lifetime of our species. Simply put, humans have migrated a lot and interbred with whoever. Your ancestry is a "tangled tree" (to borrow Quammen's term https://www.amazon.com/Tangled-Tree-Radical-History-Life/dp/...)
Tesla V100 has tensor cores which are supposed to massively accelerate deep learning compared to the Pascal architecture of a 1080, which lacks them.

I believe they are present in the Turing products from nVidia too.
Well, Google has offices around the world. In their Warsaw office, for example, the normal salary is definitely way below $100k.
> It was 4G that gave us the smartphone.

Smartphones existed since the early 2000's, well before the first 4G deployment in 2009. From the Smartphone wikipedia entry:

"The first iPhone also faced criticism for not supporting the latest 3G wireless network standards, but was praised for its hardware and software design, and its June 2007 release was met with heavy demand"
agreed. anyone who didn't already know Amazon was collecting a literal treasure trove of each and every one of their customers' buying habits has either been living under a rock, or is delusional.

these articles that just re-state the completely obvious are really getting old.
Well then that's good, because this may as well be a verbal warning
> You agree that "BASIC is a crappy language by modern standard". Why is Dijkstra not allowed to make that point?

But...that is not the point he is making. He is not saying BASIC is a crappy language - he is saying programmers which have learnt BASIC are bad programmers, even if they learn other languages and techniques. That is a pretty arrogant and not particularly clever thing to say.
Hope they go after one of the ”cookiebot”-type splash sites next. What I mean is those that only have ”consent” or “leave”.

It’s a clear violation of the GDPR and yet tons of sites do it.
Drive SF to San Diego a few times a year and there are a few all along the route when going off the main freeway, more in rural areas, but present. See a few while bicycling through Santa Cruz mountains to west of San Jose, there's one house I regularly pass in Pescadero that has two - it only takes a few miles of driving outside of downtown Los Gatos to get to more rural areas.
Although 50M EUR is a minor fine for a corporation the size of Google, this goes beyond a "warning in writing in cases of first and non-intentional non-compliance". Does this mean that Google has been previously given such a warning and violated it, or that they've been judged to have intentionally not complied?
Keep this in mind every single time you read a piece about the American healthcare system.
This might be a blessing in disguise, given how horrendous Amazon's product search is. If they target me correctly, I might not have to go through ten pages of useless results to find something...
I there anyone who is keeping track of the "probability of counterfeit" for various categories on Amazon?

I've heard that phone chargers almost always are fake, and perfume doesn't surprise me. I'd assume brand-name clothing is suspect. Would not have guessed board games, the market doesn't strike me as big enough to be worth it (though I'm not into board games so I could be wrong).
This seems awfully contrived.

Issue 1: It's very difficult to tell if your contribution got 50% improvement in performance because there were 10 other devs pushing in features and bug fixes. This is the attribution problem

Issue 2: This happens over time. It's very unlikely that your 50% improvement happens every year or month. Because, think for your self, this is compounding with large rates. It grows quickly. 1.5x improvement in 6 cycles (months or years) is 10x. This essentially is the time problem

Issue 3: even if you deliver the results you did, in a large company there's a large bureaucracy and no one person has the ability to increase your salary by that much. This is the control problem.
I was expecting a discussion around the safety around 5G, as there is no scientific consensus around whether 5g is actually harmful to humans. https://www.jrseco.com/european-union-5g-appeal-scientists-w...
I thought it was hilarious, personally, as we were discussing at the dinner table why quantum computing is probably nonsense. My interlocutor (who was more or less going along with the conventional opinion that QC is about to "change everything") thought I bribed the waiter to say this.
I'd love the boss where an avoidable €50m loss isn't a big deal.
I desire freedom and autonomy above all else. You don’t generally get that at BigCo.
The problem with this argument is that programmers don’t work alone in a vacuum. How do you account for the support staff? The recruiter that hired you? The cleaning lady? The DevOps people? And so on.

It’s avtually fairly non-trivial to be able to say with even a modicum of certainty how much value a given developer brings to their company.
The error here is in think of security as something you have or don't have. But of course, it doesn't work like that. Security is an economic problem. You deploy countermeasures to raise the cost of an effective attack beyond what rational or realistic attackers will be willing to pay. What does that mean for SS7? It's a little tough to say: you have to peel off all the layers above and below it and factor out the security they provide, and then map what's left to attacks that are meaningful to realistic attackers.

All this is to say, the kind of security most people think about when they discuss 5G and SS7 security --- universally trustworthy cryptographic secure channels --- is not a good fit.

I tend to think the same thing about BGP (vis a vis global signing schemes like RPKI), but I recognize that I'm an oddball in that regard.
Personalized ads require some sort of your information to be stored, which is why I think that it is not a reasonable default. In addition to that by making the information collection opt-out you could easily track the privacy-minded that decide to disable it - see DNT for example.
In maturing parts of the software industry you'll often see a desire to stay with the times in order to maintain a competitive edge, re-inventing the wheel often looks like full/partial re-writes of a system for minor marginal gains.

A great example of this is the evolution of FB/Google/Amazon. Portions of their core tech have been completely re-written over the years for marginal gain, but there is a large premium to being the best in tech.

In other parts of the industry every new cycle enables some new area of tech, and those marginal gains become the minimum bar for entry. e.g. Deep Learning and Computer Vision, distributed systems and cloud computing/SaaS.
since when is "secure" ever associated with "healthy"?