skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely if the criminal is an assassin, the judge wouldn’t order them to continue taking contracts for “the greater goood.”
I was going to say something similar. I'm 41, and when I was a child in the early 80s, work was simultaneously higher paying, a bit more intense than today's standards, but also had shorter hours and more leisure time. Where I live in Idaho, my family and friends were: a dentist (dad) dental office manager (mom), carpenter (godfather), minister, interior decorator, teacher, artist, mechanic, lots of military workers on the airbase by my hometown, etc. Maybe half or less of the mothers I knew worked outside the home. Fathers hunted in the fall to feed their families.

But our community was largely self-sufficient. We didn't have Walmart yet and its associated trade deficits which contributed to the national debt. I'll admit that we were dependent on the nearby military base, BUT that was during the Cold War. Had the base closed (as it probably should have after the Berlin Wall fell, say 1990), I think my home town would have survived on ranching, timber and mining (none of which I support by the way, as Idaho's environment is under constant attack).

Yes I see the contradictions in what I am saying. But I also believe that we could have had a more sustainable future had we faced facts and started the process of transitioning to a 21st century economy earlier. That might have even led to Gore being elected instead of Bush. So it's complicated, and not always easy to discern cause from effect. It's all been 20 years delayed, but there is work in green energy here today.

My feeling is that the American worker HAD MORE LEVERAGE then - in terms of being able to walk onto any construction job, or specialize in a 2 year education trade, or even get free college in many states. We still had unions. We didn't have the welfare cuts that happened under Clinton or the 100,000 factories shut down under GW Bush yet. Quality of life and the feeling of making one's own way was higher then.

If we want to fix our economy, we need to get organized and take a bigger piece of the pie for workers (perhaps we should call them makers or producers), rather than giving it to people who already have money. We can moan and complain about this simple fact from all political angles, but until we start electing people who understand how this works, our long slow decline will continue.
Why? Because you're invested in it. Or you feel a responsibility to the users, some kind of ethical sense for your fellow developers. Or maybe just wanting to do the best in your job in the new company.

We all have things we love, or responsibilities we feel.
It would be extremely cost-inefficient, as well as giving poor I/O performance.
They're novel instances of a bug class, the same way a new use-after-free in Chrome is a novel bug. This is what makes crypto vuln research so great: the published work deals mostly in bug classes, which can be leveraged against systems ad infinitum.
Apart from the security concerns this actually looks awesome.
Narrative is at the essence of what makes something premium, whether that narrative is true or not.

This is like the story around Yemeni coffee/Port of Mokha, Chinese companies buying defunct Japanese camera brands, etc. This happens with watch brands, clothing companies, motorcycles, etc.

That said, I'm a sucker for this bullshit and bought both of the 4-year aged sauces they sell. And yes, I bought Port of Mokha (which wasn't much different from other high-end coffee beans but at 2-3x the price) too
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So this sort of program would weed out individuals that couldn't hack it in the corporate environment, thereby mitigating the negative effects of those traits listed earlier to the business, which is obviously a good idea.
But from personal experience as a person who would probably score fairly low on conscientiousness, I've found that such programs don't encourage that trait in me. At the risk of trying to turn this into an advice thread, what would you recommend for an individual in that circumstance?
I thought that was ‘banter’ in your username.
I have the impression that machine learning is incredibly not transparent. Maybe I'm conflating machine learning with AI. Could you explain your vision of transparent AI a little more?
>People in this thread are way overly negative.

That's most of HN these days, and why I never visit anymore.
I imagine the google job description for a software engineer is something like:

* Write and maintain software in accordance with business strategy

* Assist other technical staff when their duties overlap your area of responsibility

* May be required to be available 24/7 up to 15 days per quarter

* Periodically provide feedback to management about coworkers' performance

* Interview and evaluate candidates for technical positions
Love what you folks do. Keep up the hard work!
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Adtech industry is about tools for things of questionable ethics. You shouldn't expect people doing and selling that to be paragons of honesty, who won't use their tools and methods against competition and customers within the industry.

Reminds me of this story about why whales don't die of cancer: because they're so large, that by the time their cancer grows to be dangerous, it gets its own cancer and dies.
To be honest 90% of the ad/location hypertargeting seems to be grasping at straws and much less effective than people think it is.

Retargeting/rebrokering it for ever smaller margins doesn't seem to make sense (except for those selling that snake oil).

Volume and campaign quality count more than just getting the exact words and the exact public (and remember you're paying more for a more targeted ad), targeted ads of course work for a targeted segment/audience, for most products that you would find in a high street/main street store, not really.
this is wrong, and sloppy thinking to say so.. sloppy people busy talking fast do not have data, but that does not at all equate to "no one has data"
Agree. It was mostly nostalgia. That is just what I learned on. Object pascal was (is) a real language at least
> C++ is not a superset of C

C++ contains a subset which is a dialect of C that is so compatible with C (in particular C90) that you can write code in it that compiles as C, and with very little effort. (Which I know from extensive personal experience, not just theory).

(Such code benefits from the extra checks and diagnostics C++ provide; and with some #ifdef switching and macros, it can take advantage of some additional C++ diagnostic fatures when being compiled as C++.)

Quotes from Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ FAQ:

"Well written C tends to be legal C++ also."

"It is not uncommon to be able to convert tens of thousands of lines of ANSI C to C-style C++ in a few hours. "
A possible justification is crime.

I believe it is cheaper to pay someone enough money to allow them to survive and educate themselves, than to put them in a position where they weigh the risk of being caught with a crime with the risk of them/loved ones dying due to not having enough wealth to purchase the things they need.

Currently progress leads to more poverty as wealth is concentrated to landowners collecting rent. Every increase in productivity is consumed by increases in rent payment. Holding land and waiting for it to become valuable is absolutely insane to me. It is theft from the common good to allow that speculation of land, out premium finite resource.

Without land and labor combined their would exist no capital.

By taxing land value, increases in productivity are swallowed up by increases in taxes, leading to increases in social wellbeing.

I believe, along with most people who would call themselves Georgists, that private property is theft from the public
I refuse to buy SanDisk. Have had multiple microSD and USB flash drives from them that are permanently stuck as Read-Only. According to them, it is a common manufacturing error in their process.
Previously I have been put off by the greater expense of specialty solutions, vs mass market products: generally, because despite the higher prices, the gains were illusory. A bit of tweaking gave the same (limited!) degree of security on stock hardware.

Purism is unique in their defense-in-depth approach. They earn every penny of the higher price, and the price is remarkably little higher. I ordered a Librem 5 phone last year, for more than I had ever paid for a phone, and don't mind waiting while they get it right.

The spook agencies should be their biggest customers -- alongside every legislative staff office and flagship-newspaper office.
No, this isn't true. CBC mode is generally fine. The problem is improperly authenticated CBC. But improperly authenticated CTR is also insecure, and CTR is an essential building block of a whole bunch of modern AEAD schemes, including GCM.

CBC mode is also susceptible to attacks based on predictable IVs. But again, CTR is susceptible to a sort of isomorphic class of bugs related to repeated nonces --- as, of course, is GCM, which you mention before; GCM not only inherits CTR's brittleness with respect to nonces but also fails in spectacular new ways with them.

Arguably, if you're going to have to build your own cryptosystem from primitives (don't do this), you have the best chance of success with random-IV CBC mode and HMAC-SHA2 in an EtM configuration. You're less likely to blow that up than GCM.

The research here is in detecting instances of the well-understood CBC padding oracle flaw. A new measurement technique that surfaced a whole bunch of new instances of heap overflows in server software would be an important contribution, in the same way this is.
What a funny article. I didn't expect the technique of leaving those name cards behind. I would guess most people would throw away a name card before they'd research the printed name, so maybe a little researcher bias showing through in this method?

I've been studying various models of charismatic behavior recently and I've come to wonder whether, given _any_ particular dominant interaction or communication style, if played up it will activate the "investigator/auditor" reflex/role of another style.

As an example, growing up around charismatic people, they are very much capable of doing something like this NYT article in reverse, for example getting the quiet, researcher-bean-counter-style approach of some government office critiqued on the evening news, organizing "irrational but passionate" protests, etc.
Move along, nothing to see here, folks. Everyone uses these servers and Amazon, Apple and others have already declared them safe and free of exploits for all time. Step over here for a taste of cognitive dissonance.
> I'm looking forward to observing this more closely in the near future. :)

There's something I remember reading about, years ago, by I think a linguist: there's a point during a child's development where their language skills appear to suddenly get worse, which they thought was because the kid stops just rote repeating and instead is trying to conjugate words themselves (and getting it wrong because it's so new).
My now deceased great aunt married when she was 13 to a man of 33.

Now, we'd be screaming "PEDO" from the rooftops while calling for castration and prison, or even execution. What actually happened, was marrying when you were 13 as a female was the norm. It was OK. She had 4 children.. And if you asked her, had a wonderful life.

But in a fairly short time, social norms went from "Puberty means you're an adult, or darn near one" to 'pushing up the definitions of adulthood up to 21 year olds'. And in this case, the social norms were also backed by loads of well-meaning laws that end up being abhorrent in practice (how dare two 17 year olds sext pictures, but they can have as much sex as they want).

If you didn't learn from 2016, laws and words matter. A lot.
>I bet I'd be hard pressed to find one person who genuinely reads Wikipedia as a hobby outside of the lone HNer who will claim "but I do."

Sounding off: I was 12 years old, with a dialup connection and a barely functional windows 98 computer, in a shithole town with no future. I got lost reading into the history of video game consoles, and from there, the history of computing and processors in general. I wouldn't have gotten into computers (and therefore, software development and an actual escape from the shithole town) without my limited access to Wikipedia.

What you're missing is that I wasn't looking for entertainment, I was looking for knowledge. Plenty of people seek it out for it's own merits, and I would love if people in other shitholes were able to be introduced to their hobby or passion.

In fact, before wikipedia, we had an actual, 1970s vintage cheapo encyclopedia set, and I read those multiple times. After that, we had Encarta 2000 on CD-ROM. Thank goodness too, because I probably would have moved on to our dictionary from that point
Well, yes, let's say that your flashlight app requested your location data and you agreed. You were in a park during dawn and you were looking for the stairs.

And there were like 2 ads shown to you during this 50 seconds period, while you were in the dark and not looking at your phone but using it as a duh, flashlight. And then you stopped the app to save your battery.

Do you really think some advertiser benefited by using this data?

And what "independent" ad-tech is dealing with is millions of cases above. Consistency is important. FB and GOOG have consistent data, collected over days and years, properly matched, correctly aggregated. All others are dealing with flashlight crap.
Ah, come on. Making generalizations about the entire world (population: 7,600,000,000) based on some subreddits? Or even a subset of online political arguments?

Look, if you get out there, and talk politics with people in person, in real life, you'll find that people are pretty reasonable. Their beliefs may be strange, but those are shaped by a massive amount of powerful outside factors. Yes, you have to go into it with an open mind, and find how to phrase your ideas in a way that they don't sound like an attack on the other person, but it's not too hard.

I have strong as well as unusual political beliefs, which you would imagine to be a problem. But of hundreds of political discussions, I've managed to have a reasonable discussion perhaps 98% of the time. I've talked with people who have political beliefs as radical as you can imagine: not simply hardcore Trump and Hillary supporters, but also people who:

- want to kill anyone who owns a business

- think <insert group here> is subhuman

- are strong anarcho-capitalists

- want to kill anyone who is <thing I am>

- support political executions

- think the world is controlled by an elite cabal of actors

Admittedly, most of these conversations are over hours or days, not years - if I was, say, roommates with them then I imagine things would be a bit trickier. But still, I've had long friendships with people who have very, very radical political beliefs in the opposite direction from mine.
Thank you! We only recently started working on this and ofcourse it’s not perfect.

All those concerns are very valid and will be addressed one-by-one. The project is open source under a decent license, I am VERY willing to accept any security PRs.
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While I agree that it's all baloney, I'd argue that many of them aren't "con men", since they honestly believe they have psychic powers. They're just wrong, and are confused by confirmation bias.
A fool and his money are soon parted. We can't really fix that, unfortunately.
What is fishy? This isn't even state of the art for program synthesis. Here's another simple example trained on the Linux kernel: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Do you think a neural net is not capable of generating the code in the gist? Because it's pretty easy to do that. The harder part that we're still trying to figure out is getting that code to do something meaningful.
They certainly won't order them to continue fulfilling contracts, but they might order them to continue accepting (and reporting) them.
A microscopic chip that merely makes it one step easier to exploit these controllers.
As someone who has had music put out on tape in 2018 and 2019, and as someone who owns and regularly plays over 300 modern (post-2015) tapes, it's just a part of the scene for some genres. There's a certain object fetishization among underground/niche/extreme music fans. We like to cop the physical releases because they're a direct, tangible way to connect with the artist. They're easy to DIY (moreso than vinyl, perhaps less easy than CDrs, though), and they're an interesting medium to package for (I have releases that have come in everything from ziplok bags to custom-built wooden boxes).

So, yeah. We do play them. At least those of us who are serious about the format.
Amazon shared Gartner's ratios at their last Re:Invent: https://youtu.be/ZOIkOnW640A

AWS: 51.8%
Azure: 13.3%
GCP: 3.3%
It’s like a dead-man switch. You can also set it so every few hours, you have to enter in a password to keep it up.

If you are held for questioning, most likely you won’t have access to a device to update it.
The point of the game would be to eliminate AIs, not mafia. No in-game "nights", just a free for all discussion with periodic elimination rounds.
It's for quick experiments and prototypes. PHP (without frameworks) was great for that.
True but it's very hard to rationalise. I only know a lot of (great) engineers who either don't believe it when they are told the level of income in BigCo, or think that the comp is that high because people are much better at BigCo and they'd never be able to get a job there.
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You can't just provide information. People also need help to do something with it. Most of us won't become math experts by reading a pile of math books. You also need teachers who help processing the material.
+1 on your positive approach to the negative comments. It looks like a great project: just remember not to loose your focus. :-)
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Please don't do this. All code has to have a CLA signed legitimately. Many many projects do this, and all Google projects do. You're basically going to poison the project you are trying to improve.

Disclaimer: Used to work in Google's Open Source office, which administers the CLA.
The article speaks about thigh muscle cells showing increased protein breakdown after bicycling[0]. Does the effect only occur in the muscles used? If so, it seems that in order to get the benefit throughout the body, you'd need to deliberately exercise all muscle groups.

[0] "...the researchers analyzed the effects of exercise on cells obtained from the thigh muscles of four human volunteers before and after vigorous biking. Following exercise, the proteasomes of these cells showed dramatically more molecular marks of enhanced protein degradation, including greater levels of cAMP."
One or more Jupyter notebooks?
Late to the game, but paring fasting with low-carbs, so you don't have the insulin/energy spikage (which makes it harder to fast), have been useful techniques for me.
It is probably not. Their neural network to optimize their warehouse efficiency had 6 neurons. The neural network used here is probably pretty small too
That extra $16K per year is your 'power' money. That's the stuff you'll spend on investments and status.
Both are correct. I've been a sysadmin fixing vulns in PCI infra identified by a Major Security Vendor, cussing about how pointless it is to fix most of them, all in order to change some magic number to get below the acceptable threshold. I've worked for that Major Security Vendor. And now I'm working elsewhere, using Docker images from god knows where. It truly is quite stunning how cavalier people can be about their container deployments, but the reality is the vast majority of these vulns have never mattered to the vast majority of people. But it's also important to be on top of what the vulns are, so you can assess if they matter to you or not.

We started in a place of way too little concern about security vulnerabilities. Some environments are still there, but many have been driven by draconian policy to go way overboard.
wages are drawn from the output of workers labor, not the other way around. At most, wages are an advance on the return a worker would expect from their labor. Subjugating half the population into not being part of the labor force is not an aspect of a free market in my opinion.
There's a downside to this, if you're trying to serve people running Safari on OSX Yosemite or older. Nobody cares about Windows Phone 8.1 though so you're probably safe there. [0]

[0]: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=qui.suis.je&s...
No, this isn't a fundamental weakness of CBC. In fact, CTR is even more susceptible to this problem (a CBC bitflip totally corrupts the block to which it's applied, and creates a predictable change in the subsequent block; a CTR bitflip simply flips the matching decrypted plaintext bit; in that sense CTR is totally and perfectly malleable).

Also: nobody uses SHA1 anymore, SHA1 and SHA2 aren't MACs (you're thinking of HMAC), and even MD5 is still unbroken in HMAC.
But reporting them not because their product is impossible, but simply because you think they’re selling it too cheaply?

Seems abusive. I could report my competitors for selling cheaper than I do and hope they get banned.
As someone new to people management, actually, prior to people management but with an interest in the topic, I found it very interesting and useful.

I was not even sure what "IC" meant or what an "engineering manager" might do.

Personally, I found there was lots of actionable advice and a clear "path" for how one might operate in different roles in an organisation.

Almost any non-fiction book could be described as a series of blog posts or articles, so I don't really understand that criticism.

YMMV but I would recommend it.
That page starts with "Not to be confused with Pink slime" and later goes on to say "mechanically separated beef is considered inedible and is prohibited for use as human food".

McDonalds doesn't use either one, and stopped using the "pink slime" stuff in 2011: https://www.cnet.com/news/pink-slime-in-burgers-mcdonalds-hi...

> "McDonald's does not use lean beef trimmings treated with ammonia, what some individuals call 'pink slime,' in our burgers, and hasn't since 2011," McDonald's website also stated.
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The difference between engineering and trade work is that trade work, like the jobs you mention, either follows a plan written by an engineer, or prescriptive standards designed by engineers (and usually certified by governing bodies of engineers). Prescriptive standards allow skipping all the engineering calculations as long as the guidelines are followed and tolerances respected.

Software development (and a lot of hardware development, to be fair) is unique in that doing it well requires functioning as both an engineer and a tradesperson. One's skill has to cover a wide section of the spectrum.
Flashing the Supermicro BMC is so easy and reliable that I used to do it frequently.

Flashing the Supermicro BIOS, yeah, that's a disaster.
You may be right about doctors. Their subject matter is repairing or maintaining, essentially, a mechanism.

Lawyers are different. Their subject matter is the interaction between human beings. A lawyer, for instance, must persuade a judge or jury or, in the transactional setting, the opposing party. So long as humans are governed by humans, there will be a role for lawyers.
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I'm surprised they didn't see it coming.
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