skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got to be honest, I initially reacted to this kind of emotionally, thinking that of course external circumstances don't have any bearing on intrinsic merit. I definitely have a bias toward thinking that everyone is more or less equal and that modern workplaces often enshrine a kind of cultural bias towards using inconsequential factors as proxies for merit.

That being said, it's been my impression for a while that IQ scores at least are mostly irrelevant, and not well correlated with economic performance. Is that a mistaken impression? I fully agree with the rest of the factors you bring up as positive influences, it's just the connection to IQ that I have a concern with.

I would argue, also, that the "equal competence" premise could be better stated as "that we all have an approximately equal potential for competence". I'm curious if you think this alternate premise would also be bad for business and society?

Thanks for prompting me to challenge my own assumptions and biases, btw
I have been a Tesla shareholder since 2016, and I find Elon has been very inspirational, but I agree. I think that Elon is too much of a micromanager. He seems to be trying to control everything at Tesla, and it's backfired multiple times. Gwynne Shotwell is doing a fine job running SpaceX. In my opinion, Elon should focus on the engineering side of things (e.g. BFR development) and let other people do the management and public relations.
I'm going to be the unfortunate hater, but it sounds like he should spend more time on actually learning how to be a baker and less time writing code in this particular case.

This is what I'd imagine most of the people on here would fall into the trap of when the monthly 'I want to quit and work with my hands' post comes up. It's the cliche, I want to disrupt the industry before I even learn it.

My girlfriend works at a bakery and I showed her this post and asked her what she thought about it. None of the bakers need to write down anything or make spreadsheets on how to make a loaf of bread or any of the other products they make every day. This is like having to google 'how to write a for loop' even though you're a programmer.

Bakeries make the same things every day, there's very little change even though as a customer(me) it might look crazy. Knowing recipes and quantities and how to adjust them are the most basic requirements of the job.

Huge props to this guy for doing it though! I hate making negative posts shitting on someones venture. If this is what makes it more fun for him, then keep doing it, and get better.
If you are interested in reading the original paper without the annotations, as I was, you can find it on Alan's Viewpoints Research Institute site here [0].

[0] http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1984001_comp_soft.pdf
It's kind of apples and oranges. Vagrant can used different container and vm runtimes as the runtime ("provider" in vagrant language). It's a configuration engine. So there is no single image format for Vagrant, and you might use kvm or LXD or VMware or Docker as your Vagrant provider.
Google Duo is now available on the web
Pretty much everything discussed in this article has been the general theory of proteostasis for at least the last decade - in part thanks to the work coming out of that lab.
Oh surprise, surprise, another click bait, low effort Node.js security blog by Snyk.io.
> you'd need _a lot_ of examples to deduce this with any certainty

Are you saying that "a lot" isn't almost semi-trivial to obtain, seeing how much code is available online?
Personalised Digital Hackschool Project
I'm a little curious why the BMC hardware is even exposed to the customer at all. Is it provided as a feature or is this just an oversight? Can't they just hide all of this hardware from the customer's OS?
Dart 2.2
Yes, that definition is fine for machine learning, but it's not quite complete for physics. To extend your definition for physics, a tensor is a function that takes an ordered set of N row vectors and M column vectors as arguments and spits back a real, coordinate-invariant number as a result.
Using emacs with 7 million keyboard shortcuts to accidentally press, and then... lisp!! No thanks. This would be more approachable in an Anaconda notebook.
I think your comment about scalability is accurate. Small apps become big apps, and small user bases get bigger. I’ve seen it happen — but I’m not going to think about scaling to thousands of users when I just need a small application to share with my team. If I spent five days building it to the utmost standards, instead of spending one day on something that solves a problem immediately, I’d be laughed at. It is the same with security.

> Your sort of thinking is how you end up with Yahoo levels of account leaks.

I wouldn’t store any of my customers’ data on an insecure internal service! I know that’s mad!

> Security always matters.

The first part of securing a system is to come up with your threat model, isn’t it?
If you read about both, it becomes pretty clear (at least, it did to me) that they aren't related.

Bloomberg's story was about a (supposed) backdoored chip installed into the server at the factory, this is about flipping a bit in the firmware installed on the existing BMC.
There are many aspects of Catholic teaching that can be modified and refined, as well as rules of discipline, but the doctrinal moral and theological teachings of the Church cannot be changed.

For instance, "No meat on Fridays during Lent" is a rule of discipline and bishops are free to modify this or even eliminate it should they wish. Holy Days of Obligation, aside from every Sunday, are also disciplinary rules, and are sometimes different from diocese to diocese, even within a single country (like the U.S.).

Priestly celibacy is also a discipline rule that could be modified (but almost certainly won't be, IMO). It's only been universal in the Roman Church for about 1000 years or so, and some Rites allow for married priests, which is fine.

But the immorality of murder, abortion, sex outside of marriage, the definition of marriage, etc., etc., as well as teachings regarding the Divinity of Christ, the Real Presence and the Sacraments, are moral and theological doctrines of the Church and not subject to revision, and any Pope or bishop that attempted to claim otherwise would be engaging in material heresy.

Now having said that, discipline with respect to the correct teaching of Catholic doctrine has massively broken down (e.g., the monks you described) in the past half century, but that doesn't make it right, and it will eventually be corrected. At one point the vast majority of the Church was Arian, but that wasn't right either, and was eventually corrected as well.

The Church was established by Christ, and exists to correctly pass down His teachings. It is only serving its members by passing down those teachings, which are not subject to change, and by properly exercising the authority granted to it by Christ. Church Doctrine has never changed, and cannot and will not change. This is why there are over 40,000 Christian denominations which split off from the Catholic Church and from each other by attempting to change doctrine.
Sadly too expensive for anybody to bother.
Yes. Re-iterating guidance is still material. Elon currently has a full month more of non-public information about Tesla's current demand and production. For him to publicly say "this number is still true" even if it is already public, is a material event.
But you don't NEED to kill forward secrecy to do that. TLS 1.3 doesn't seem to be a problem for the anti-malware, IPS, or even DLP use cases. You just need to decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt traffic at the firewall, using a CA cert trusted by your clients. The problem is lazy organizations that just want to passively collect all of the encrypted traffic and then decrypt it later at their leisure, which smells much more like surveillance than security.
If this is too complicated, it is the fault of the user agent. That's a different issue than whether a website should respect a requested language if it is available. You're arguing that the user agents are flawed, so we should have flawed content delivery to compensate. This is how flaws get folded into systems and magnified over time. Just fix whatever flaws exist in the user agents, language selection based on http headers is a pretty good solution for the half of the problem it covers.
This is really great!

I have to toss something in re: unionization and the percentage it may explain.

Executive salaries have exploded while worker salaries have stagnated. Could this be because executives by virtue of the social networks they belong to are effectively unionized? Unionization of executives is not necessarily explicit, but the executive pool is smaller and more tightly connected and therefore executives will tend to behave more like a coherent social group. The worker pool is enormous, more diverse, and far less organized with far less opportunity for "out-of-band" social connection.
It seems there is a shift in the terminology used - at least in the US - by explicitly referring to people being caged. This is the second article in a few weeks I read with this new language. The previous one was I think an article about the jail in NY left without electricity. I must say even if it seems at first to be a strong vocabulary it doesn't seem to me exaggerated. Maybe it will help people understand the overall inhumanity of the current situation.
Self-harm clips hidden in kids' cartoons
It's not going to cost you real money to have a contrary opinion. Just 0.1cents. You just won't get that 0.1 cent back if it's contrary. I didn't see any -0.09 for down just +0.09 for up. Or you could make it net with 0 minimum.
Which is about 45MB/second, about half of the published write speed for these 1TB cards.

The SD standards have been moving up the transfer rates. The UHS-III does 624MB/sec. The new SD Express standard will do 985 MB/sec by presenting a PCIe Gen3 or NVMe directly. (Obviously more contacts, but they are backward compatible with the older interfaces.)

They just announced the SD Express interface for microSD cards as well. I'm not sure any products are available for SD Express yet.
This entire depending on a base container for setup and then essentially throwing away everything you get from the package manager is part of the issue. There is no real package management for Docker. Hell, there isn't even an official way to determine if your image needs an upgrade (I wrote a ruby script that gets the latest tags from a docker repo, extracts the ones with numbers and sorts them in order and compares them to what I have running).

Relying on an Alpine/Debian/Ubuntu base helps to get dependencies installed quickly. Docker could have just created their own base distro and some mechanism to track package updates across images, but they did not.

There are guides for making bare containers, they contain nothing .. no ip, grep, bash .. only the bare minimum libraries and requirements to run your service. They are minimal, but incredibly difficult to debug (sysdig still sucks unless you shell out money for enterprise).

I feel like containers are alright, but Docker is a partial dumpster fire. cgroup isolation is good, the crazy way we deal with packages in container systems is not so good.

Sure if you're just checking for base-distro packages for security vulnerabilities, you're going to find security issues that don't apply (e.g. an exploit in libpng even though your container runs nothing that even links to libpng), but it does excuse the whole issue with the way containers are constructed.

I think this space is really open too, for people to find better systems that are also portable: image formats that are easy to build, easy to maintain dependencies for, and easy to run as FreeBSD jails OR Linux cgroup managed containers (Docker for FreeBSD translated images to jails, but it's been unmaintained for years).
New TLS Padding Oracles
What Do Humanitarian Groups Do with Surplus Supplies: Donate or Sell?
It will depend on the judge and circumstances, but given that Elon didn't seem to be fazed by a $20 million fine last time, I could easily see a much larger fine this time.
Until GPT-2 can participate in a formatting holy-war all our jobs are secure. It's time to get worried when it starts posting opinionated comments on the internet about "how spaces make my code look the same on everyone's machine" that's when it'd be a good idea to invest in a bunker.
Well, people have been jailed for less. My personal guess is they will try to disqualify him from being an officer of a public company.
Selenized: A CIELAB color space theme for terminals and text editors
Lexar recently changed hands, so it will be interesting to see if their reliability remains good.
Digital, mobile-bank... without crypto or blockchain, wait, what?!
If you don't care about reliability or read/write speeds, sure.

But for just $218 USD you can have a brand new 1 TB USB 3.1 Portable SSD that does sequential reads/writes at 400 megabytes per second.

Trying to write a terabyte at two or even ten megabytes per second would be excruciating.
Doesn't the browser pick up the OS language setting? That's going to be correct for most users.

And browsers could make the override easily discoverable in preferences (at least on MacOS, app preferences are in a standard place from the user's perspective: File -> Preferences).
Cassettes seem very durable compared to CDs and vinyl.
I don't see how he can reasonably defend himself in this situation. His tweet was both material and inaccurate. Tweeting material information without clearance is obviously against his settlement. Yet, if TSLA's price signals anything, it'd be that he's in no danger.
This is getting funny now.

Didn't "diplomatic cables, Hacking Group leaks, searching through Urdu texts" have anything on Osama bin Laden's whereabouts?
It's perfectly reasonable to do this for egregious cases, such as if somebody is advertising something for 6¢/GB when the cheapest legitimate entry-level products are at 10¢/GB. The market for flash storage devices is efficient enough that it really is possible to know when prices are too good to be true.
I didn't do IB, but I did work at BlackRock in strategy post MBA with a lot of IBers. The thing about IB is that it is super focused on getting deals done which inherently creates a lower stress level when looking for jobs or other transactional type work [1]. While most are from really solid backgrounds, many are not. The salaries give all IBers the ability to do things that most normal 22-25 year olds can't because the salaries are so big.

[1] My experience in business school was interesting because I didn't have a well known brand on my resume, or network outside of a niche industry I wanted to leave, but I did have transnational experience which made me super confident.

While my colleagues were trying to optimize grades or prep for interviews by learning every detail about the company, I was working on talking points. When I went to an interview I was stress fee because (even though it was 2009), I was confident that I would have multiple offers.

There are class divides, and there are divides based on experience.
Literally the only use is digital monetary instruments. Maybe "smart contracts." Everything else? Nope.
>None of the studies I've seen have even considered whether a privileged background does translate to higher than average merit. And why wouldn't it?

Because (on average) privilege kids eventually become soft, entitled, no-good jerks quite soon as generations pass. And even their education can (and often is) paid for. So much for merit. Many have had the "privilege" to witness the "intellectual capacity" of kids of the privileged classes in action...

To quote an article I've read:

The Chinese have a saying: “Wealth does not pass three
generations.” But it’s not unique to China; the same
sentiment is expressed across multiple cultures, from
Japan (“rice paddies to rice paddies in three
generations”), to Scotland (“the father buys, the son
builds, the grandchild begs”) to even here in the U.S.
(“shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations”).
Disco: Modern Session Encryption
So you can be in contempt now if you don’t match what analysts are saying?

The definition of materiality you provided clears him as the numbers Musk tweeted are in the their quarterly report, so nothing new was learned.
The real connection between interview performance and salary. Here's the data.
In this case the application also tries to auto-install dependencies, so making it read-only removes one of the stated features.

I think this framework hasn't been written with security in mind at all.
Pretty interesting offering! I travel quite a bit and certainly see the value.
Probably drawing a mask boundaries first and messing with the tone balance button inside the mask until achieving the desired tone
> You can use 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 ,10 Micro SD Cards at one time. Do not support 3/5/7/9 Micro SD cards together.

I don't know why but I found this note in the description really amusing.
Get even more detail in pull requests
> What is to stop them from lying?

Nothing, at the end of the day, whether giving someone else your data is a good idea or not remains a question of trust.

Do you trust them to stop updating the canary in case they become compromised?

If the answer is no, then you probably shouldn't be giving them valuable data.
You can think of Frankenstein's monster as the doctor's son, so they would also be a Frankenstein.
Imagine you have a private company. Somebody comes to you with a big fat acquisition offer and you get excited, but it's obviously not anywhere near inked yet. You send a celebratory e-mail to your investors and your option-holding employees that basically boils down to "we gonna get some bling bling!" Then the deal just totally vaporizes.

This is probably what happened. In a private company the CEO might get some egg on their face, but that's it. In a public company this could be illegal.

Elon is not the type of person who functions well in the heavily bureaucratized and regulated type of environment.

BTW I am not totally letting him off the hook, just saying that maybe staying away from environments like the public stock markets is a good idea if you don't want a bureaucratic culture.
> Fasting is possibly the most effective and powerful health tool I have come across.

What healthy changes have been observed? Has your doctor noted changes? Do you couple this with exercise?
While the Orange Pi 3 may have driver issues, the older models work quite well. Just as you suspect, I'm using an Orange Pi One combined with a usb arcade board/stick to run RetroOrangePi[0] and for game emulation it works great.

0. http://www.retrorangepi.org/

edit: typos
I'm sorry, but this is a flawed analogy. When you leave the room for the duration of the commercial, you are essentially skipping/ignoring/blocking it. This is the same as hiding an ad on a webpage in that you are taking steps (pun intended) to avoid seeing/hearing the advertisement.
So I can't tell from this if you need a RHEL subscription or not to use the docker images? I guess the most salient question will be can the images yum install things or not? I'm guessing they will have that functionality without requiring a subscription but that's just speculation based on my reading of that blurb.
I would say you are correct here, but some further clarity would help.

Depression doesn't have an off switch. When you are depressed for a long time your brain starts to rewire into those depressed patterns. So "turning it off" isn't really what's occurring, when you exercise or take medication, if anything its like a pause button. But hitting that pause button regularly can rewire you back to a normal state, but frequently adjusting your brain chemistry isn't enough. Which is why there's a high frequency of relapse with depression treated with medication.

You do correctly point out though that changing the relationship to moods and depression does help. Reorienting how you think about yourself and how you self-identify is critical to not falling backwards into depression mental patterns. The key is to realize that you are not your thoughts or feelings, they are merely an aspect of you and they change as frequently as the weather outside does.
Keep in mind that both the statement and the correction came while the markets were closed. This isn't about market manipulation.

This is about whether or not he intentionally crossed an arbitrary line by vaguely restating previous official company statements in an unofficial manner without complying with company policy on said utterance.
Anyone else think this was Synack at first with a short url?
I'm a little late to reply, but most towns formed around some type of localized economic activity: mining, forestry, shipping, hunting... something. Towns generally don't form for no reason at all.

That's not to say that EVERY town has such an opportunity. But it strikes me as the place to start.
Yep. It's too bad the CD format didn't specify this caddy, so that every commercial CD came in a caddy and was non-removable from it.
> why my money is not good enough for that.

It's likely not that they don't want your money, but rather that they don't have the legal right to sell you a piece of content in exchange for your money.
Yup. The spreadsheet is an amazing innovation, I just find all the repetition when adding something that should just be data to be monumentally frustrating. And I have no idea how to make a sheet that copes with orders for Friday and Saturday when a when each batch takes three calendar days. I suppose making a new copy of the basic sheet for each batch would do the job.
You also need to report this to security@npmjs.com so they post an advisory [1] and mark the existing versions as vulnerable.

[1] - https://www.npmjs.com/advisories
I wonder if it is in the government’s interest to serve warrants to all the canaried providers simultaneously . The thing about a warrant canary is that it is a one time use feature. If one day all the warrant canaries disappear from all the services that had them, what will the public do?
Yeah, I like that line "contempt of SEC". That is really what it feels like the SEC wanted to charge him with.
Every single person that I've met that is a huge fan of Emacs has also had a tendency to get stuck in the technical aspects of things rather than seeing the bigger (non-technical) picture. This isn't meant as flame bait, I genuinely mean that these people have all been very intelligent, but they have all shared this peculiar quirk of absolutely over-engineering things to the point where it's kind of amusing. Your comment made me think that this is exactly how that kind of person would approach baking.
There's a typo on your alert.

"You are doing an tomato now, if you start a new one, the urrent one will be abandoned."

It should be "a tomato" and "current"
It looks like Google's still investing heavily on Duo, which is confusing considering all the other chatting apps from this same company. Which app does it want me to use to chat with my friends after all?
Types of Types in Elm
Most IoT devices are being compromised by exploiting rudimentary vulnerabilities
Yup, it's great.
Amazing amount of work spent in constructing an efficient workstation. Makes me wonder what i am i doing with only custom .dotfiles. Clapping my hands
Tiny correction, the standard is actually `AppName` → Preferences under macOS X.