skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"said to be traced from either her computer — based off a unique identifier, known as a MAC address — and the network she allegedly used, either the campus’s wireless network or her off-campus residence. When her grades went up, sometimes other students’ grades went down, the school said."

I'm guessing that the evidence they've got is that the IT dept have the MAC address that was used by the devices that connected to their network, and have associated MAC addresses with the IP addresses allocated. Then that IP was used to connect to their internal system to change grades.

It's pretty flimsy evidence, as anybody who had received a packet from her machine on the same network (i.e. if she ever connected to the university, which she allegedly did) would know the MAC address. So when I say it's public knowledge, I suppose I should've said it's public knowledge given you can connect to the same network. It really wouldn't be that hard to frame someone that way, and things like iTunes library sharing really help – because they conveniently tell you whose library is being shared.

It's quite possible that somebody who knew who she was and who knew her MAC address could have done this. That could have been somebody sat in the same class. It's also entirely possible that she had the technical skills to pull of the technical side of the hack (bypassing 2fa) and didn't know a thing about networking.

It also sounds like they have figured out the IP address that she has used to connect to her own university intranet account and found that it matched the IP that accessed the hijacked account. That's again pretty inconclusive.
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"There is a separate dispute between EU and US, because US imposes visas on five EU states (Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania and Cyprus). According the EU law, all EU countries should be treated equally or otherwise reciprocal measures should apply. There have been calls within the EU to respond tit for tat and impose EU visas on US citizens, if the issue does not get resolved soon."

That is what I, and presumably several other commentators, have been responding to.

Edit: I see that one post referred to the ETIAS initiative. But what you’re saying makes perfect sense now. I’m only talking about the visa. My apologies.
> the top 15 pharma companies spend $75B in r&d

Large sum of that money is wasted because incentives are perverse.

Developing new molecular entities (NME) that do the same thing as already approved new chemical entity (NCE) just for competitive reasons is wasted R&D from the public health perspective.

Evergreening and pay-for-delay costs additional billons for pharma companies and it's just zero-sum game between manufacturers.
In Germany if you child is sick you have a right to stay home and take care of it. No need to work from home either during that time (but you can of course choose to do so).

Who pays for this will depend on your employer. Many of them pay for a few days per year. If you need more days or if they don't pay, you can get "Kinderkrankengeld²" from your national health insurance (another 10 days per year).

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² https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinderkrankengeld
Neat! I would pick one up right now if it weren't for the keyboard layout. I would shoot myself with the up arrow between comma and dot. Would have loved to see a 60% option, which is de-facto standard for semi-minimal mechanical keyboards. I feel there's a certain overlap between users of 60% keyboards and the target audience for this device.
Any Bulgarian may go to any EU country and get employed, no questions asked.

Citizenship is a different thing and I don't see how it's related to this discussion.
These GNU tools are really optimized so they will work well on even the cheapest Android phone. If you are comfortable with the small screen it should work.
This sounds amazing! When I first began traveling, I had to strategically time my time in the Schengen region to not overstay 90 days within a 180 day period. I ended up going to the Balkan region for a few months before circling back into the Schengen at the tail end.

This setup allows for 3-years multi-entry. That's insane! Well done, EU.
"oh he forgot to uncheck <component>, that's going to cost him..."
1. I don't know if there is enough volume there.
2. If there is, the weight balance of the car would be fucked.
Android Nougat has an experimental "Freeform Window Mode" that I've been playing with. I can connect my LG V30 to a USB-C dock and have a windowed desktop-style environment with a mechanical keyboard, Bluetooth mouse, monitor, etc. Most of my phone's apps are comfortable running like this. Chrome actually displays the desktop versions of sites.

This Thursday, I signed up for coder.com (featured here on HN) and was able to write some Go code using VS Code in the browser. It was a pretty solid experience.

Performance was fine. I had my email and a podcast player going in the background and, honestly, I could probably do a lot of my day-to-day work with this and an EC2 box for running sites.

But it was glitchy, because Android hasn't really invested in this use case. The Taskbar home screen replacement would close the start menu as soon as it opened 90% of the time. There was a black space at the bottom of the screen which would change height almost randomly. Large windows conflicted with the notification bar and I'd end up opening my notifications when I wanted a new tag in Chrome. Right clicking maps to the back arrow in Chrome for some reason.

But the point is, between modern phone hardware and the cloud, we're not far from a performance perspective. We just have to decide that's where we want to go and commit to it.
Oh I see, thanks. Do you know if there's any way to get it on other systems that don't come with it? I was so looking forward to getting Windows on my phone someday...
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>> Age beats idealism into place.

This is true. Also, it's practically impossible for idealistic people to make an impact in this world. Nobody who has power trusts idealists because they are difficult to predict and impossible to control. You can't just throw money at an idealist to keep them in line with your financial interests; they are unreliable cogs in the engines of capitalism.

Those who succeed in this society are opportunists who pose as idealists. They are people who can selectively signal idealism when engaging with the masses but who can also clearly signal opportunism when engaging with the powerful few.

That's why hypocrites rule the world.
California has some of the worst municipal governments in the country. Shockingly poorly governed. Live a year in Singapore. Live a year in San Francisco. Your opinions on many things will change.

Hearing the performative compassion of San Francisco‘s politicians and the results: streets covered in human shit, crazed heroin zombies colonizing them, a pathetic protest culture pushing zoning legislation that extracts rents from everyone; one is reminded of this Kipling poem:
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
If the only way to play is to go through entrenched gatekeepers, who watches the watchers, hmmm? If anything this should be seen as a power grab by entrenched interests to have a cryptographic lever to pull to shut people out of what should be a user's discretion decision pre-emptively. Walled gardening at it's finest.

Code signing is a bit like gun control. It really doesn't solve the problem at all. It just pushes it up a level, and makes things more difficult for legitimate users.

It also lines up incentives such that the preferred model of software distribution shifts in the grand scheme of things toward for profit code.

While code signing is a neat technical solution, it's still a technical solution parading about as a solution to a social problem. And the social problem it is a solution to (that of untrustworthy folks existing) is not in any way mitigated by the act of signing as mentioned previously.
I'm not trying to weigh in on the debate here, but it's perfectly reasonable to imagine having a statically linked binary that you wanted to run..
McDonald's in Germany is unlikely to pay your wage when you stay at home to take care of your kids, but many other employers do.

Anyway, you still have a right to get Kinderkrankengeld for 10 days per year, paid by the national health insurance. Enjoy!
Someone had a thread on Twitter trying to crash it ASAP and the key was the run dialogue box with "con\con" ... This even crashes the JavaScript Windows 95 emulators.
This reminded me of an incident in which the Netherlands intercepted generic drugs en route to Brazil from India.

https://www.kff.org/news-summary/india-brazil-launch-trade-d...
> "They can split the atom, but they can't recycle plastic?"

I think this was a quote from that documentary, it was either posted here or on reddit previously (I'm not complaining, it was fascinating) – that quote, by a worker in a Chinese recycling plant to the owner of the plant, after being told Americans can't handle plastic, has stuck with me for some reason.
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It was the other way for me. Test drove the Cayenne, Macan, GLC43, S, X and a few other vehicles. With the Porsches and Mercs, while the seats were super comfortable, it was like walking into a "button exhibition". And my god the typefaces they used on the Merc and the forced use of a barely working "joystick" instead of a touch-screen was all counter-intuitive.

Of course this was in 2017 and things could've changed now, but with my 2 years in the S, I'm sold on Tesla. Only rule being get a Tesla 1 year after the model is introduced so they iron out all the production issues.
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Well intentioned ideologies do not inherently produce a non-negative outcome. Negative outcomes are very much a possibility, particularly when views are flawed. And so at some point any ideology that is not extremely well supported by data should be challenged, even if that ideology is the nicest most well intentioned one in the world. Google's recent pay study is one little microcosm that demonstrates this. Under fire for the widely perceived belief that females are underpaid for doing the same work as males, Google engaged in substantial data crunching and analysis to correct any inequities. It turns out they were underpaying their male employees.

Why might this be? We already answered this. There is a widely held belief that females are underpaid for doing the same work as males. This may be true in some instances, but it's certainly nothing like a universal truth. But you can see even on these forums that many Google employees do treat it as something approaching a universal truth, many even refusing to belief it was false following Google's analyses. And so when a manager has discretionary funds to distribute, whom is he going to prefer? People, generally, want to do the right thing. And so in the pursuit of equality, you end up creating inequality. These sort of paradoxical outcomes are not uncommon.

Declaring that a view is not well supported by evidence, even when that view is nice, is not 'attacking'.
Accountable to whom? Who would even care if the us got more professionals?
I used to be concern over what happens to all the sensitive information I put out on google's servers, I was so concerned that I even started following Richard Stallman's guidelines until I realized how quality of my life decreased and how unhappy I've become for the sake of being secured. You can of course achieve some balance and protect only the most important things to you but don't fall into the trap of overdoing it.

I'm back to using Gmail again.
What's net financial wealth? 40% of U.S. adults don't have enough savings to cover a mere $400 emergency.

See also https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/budget-a...
It could be a blessing in disguise if recycling is considered appropriately. Reduce, reuse, recycle, dispose, in that order of priority.

Without that it is very difficult to claim, with any credibility at all, being environmentally responsible.

I'm not optimistic.
Has anyone successfully downloaded the report from https://hired.com/page/state-of-software-engineers/key-takea... ?

edit: Got it: http://pages.hired.email/rs/289-SIY-439/images/2019-State-of...
Note this uses golang.org/x/tools/go/packages and golang.org/x/tools/go/ssa to get to the go SSA AST and then generates some LLVM IR from that. It's not implementing a go parser or the transformation to SSA.
We consume too much. Driving out of my development on trash day shows me this. Bags and bags, boxes, loads of trash for a home of 4 people. Two adults, two children. I wonder what they’re going through?
I achieve the same thing simply by opening the site in incognito window. Too bad I cannot write a blog post about it.
Why would it be private?

At this point this isn't just a cynical position, it has to be your default if you've watched the privacy problems that every single facebook product has had in the past and is still having at the moment. Why would a company that is still breaking a number of ethical and legal norms suddenly decide to abide by any reasonable principles of decency? If information about your device and actions on a social platform is worth billions, what's the worth of full access to people's sensory information and behaviour?
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This note from 1969 implies that speech-recognition researchers were hardly more than charlatans. http://www.dragon-medical-transcription.com/history_speech_r... says that the founders of Dragon Systems (iirc the first successful speech-recognition company) started in 1970. (Though they didn't start the company until 1982.)

So in retrospect I'd guess the level of funding at the time was closer to right than this critique, even if most of the work was flimflam. (The author wrote a popular book about information theory which I liked, so this is disappointing.)
According to the Oregon Department of Agriculture:

Commercial evisceration zones and orders

Oregon crab: Crab containing viscera harvested from zone K are under an evisceration order effective 12:01 a.m. February 11, 2019, due to elevated levels of domoic acid in the crab viscera. Crab harvested from zones J and L are under an evisceration order effective 12:01 a.m. February 14, 2019, as a buffer zones to zone K. See the link below called Evisceration orders and recall information for details.

California crab: Crab containing viscera harvested from California waters are under an evisceration order effective 12:01 a.m. January 15, 2019, due to elevated levels of domoic acid in the crab viscera. This remains in effect until further notice.

https://www.oregon.gov/oda/programs/foodsafety/shellfish/pag...

Is it related? Looks likely, but not directly quantifiable:

Domoic acid is a naturally occurring biotoxin that does not present danger in small quantities. It becomes dangerous when it is present in large quantities. While we are uncertain of the causes of the influx of domoic acid in our oceans, scientists are researching possible causes for the increased levels. Possible contributing factors include global climate change, eutrophication from fertilizers, agricultural and urban runoff, aquaculture activity, coastal development and consequently the increased exposure to waters and foods contaminated by domoic acid.
https://www.oceansoffun.org/domoic_acid_poisoning

The increasing frequency and geographic extent of toxic algal blooms along populated coastlines is generally attributed to human activities
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996450/
1. Parsons ML, Dortch Q, Turner RE. Sedimentological evidence of an increase in Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae) abundance in response to coastal eutrophication. Limnol Oceanogr. 2002;47:551–558.
2. Hallegraeff GM. A review of harmful algal blooms and their apparent global increase. Phycologia. 1993;32:79–99.
Yet, outsourcing companies that are decidedly not hiring rare talent gobble up the majority of it.
They can stay at home, take care of their kids and receive money from the national health insurance (that's how it's in Germany).
Thanks for the link. This is the first time I’ve heard about this film. The trailer and reading about the film are sad and depressing. I’ll try to watch the film.

My impression is that China is making huge investments in cleaning up the country. Increasingly China has begun to assert itself and not allowing itself to be a dumping ground goes along with this change.
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I've never been much of a fan of Porsche interiors, but Mercedes have always felt quite intuitive to me, and very comfortable seating. I quite like the central wheel thing they've had forever, more so than the new touch pad thing I've seen on the newer models. I also prefer buttons and other physical interactions over touch screens though, never quite understood why they are the new hot thing. The big screen in the Tesla just made me stressed, and I couldn't use it while driving because of the need to look at the screen. Maybe this goes away with time, but I find the same with the big touch screens in the new Volvo models as well.

Touch screens are really bad to use on uneven roads too, where bumps will make you accidentally press whatever and now all my fans are at 100% and I don't know how to fix it...
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Agreed, completely. Most ICs overestimate their importance by far. Most people do regardless of title.
So many vehicles these days have really lousy sightlines. I rented some Dodge sporty car a few months back and I almost felt unsafe driving because I didn't have a good view when changing lanes.
Most people who have durably coded in java and say, Haskell or a Lisp (as I have) or any other trending language on HN will prefer the latter.

Knowing that (as I did) why not expand your horizon (as I did) ?
Just dump all the sorted garbage in sorted landfills. Recycling may become economical again at some point. In any event, future technology will deal with it better.
s10+ has up to 12 gb of ram. More than plenty of laptops. The videos of dex in action on that are awesome. Foldable phones that give a tablet sized display when on the go will be a piece of the puzzle, because a bunch of peripherals in tow doesn't solve anything.

I think we are there for performance, now it's a question of whether anyone gets the software right enough to make it practical. That includes the possibility of making a restorable image of everything on the phone so you can be up and running in an hour if you lose or break it. I have not used dex, so maybe they are already basically there.
Most of the abstract seems to be saying that unlike men, women can form tight cliques with other women, which gives them an advantage (the 2.5x boost) apparently unavailable to men.

But they also end with "Women who have networks that resemble those of high-placing men are low-placing, despite having leadership qualifications comparable to high-placing women." As they don't otherwise mention leadership qualifications, nor even define the term, it's unclear what's being hinted at here.
Good point. 997 and 991 generation 911 weight distribution is around 38%-62% split (front vs rear). I'm not too sure on weight numbers of battery packs these days, but perhaps these could be split between front and rear of the car to get to those distribution numbers as close as possible.

Otherwise yeah, you end up with 930 Widowmaker 2.0 and cars spinning rear-first into a tree.
For what it's worth, while I don't really disagree, Erlang's pattern matching is very powerful and covers a lot of the same ground as static typing.

Erlang is not in my opinion a “dynamic language gets us going fast” language. It's a language specifically designed to handle large scale reliably for long periods of time.
re: traffic
There are multiple larger US cities that have less traffic than Austin. The reason why people cite Austin's traffic as a problrm is because it's horrible relative to the population of the city. Most of Austin is very suburban, with windy/hilly roads that cause horrible congestion.

A few years ago, I was out from NYC visiting some family. I forgot to pack socks, and I had to drive 45mns to the nearest shopping center to buy some. After driving, parking, busy mall, the entire Saturday afternoon trip took me almost 2.5 hours just to get socks! In any other American city, I'd expect this to take 1 hour max (most parts of NYC would take 20-30mns).

Yes, there are many variables I'm not accounting for in my anecdotal example, time of day, distance from major conduits, etc. But I've talked to other people who live in Austin and this seems like the norm.
So it's ok with you if companies treat people like crap, because the alternative is fewer jobs? By that logic, it's ok for companies to kill off a few of their workers through horrible safety practices, than not offering any jobs at all, because ++ jobs is more important than anything. We've spent the last couple of centuries trying to correct that line of thinking, why hang on to it?

The alternative to crappy business practices isn't people starving in the streets because of lack of jobs. The alternative is that the people with excess resources distribute some of those resources to others that would otherwise starve.

There are many nations out there with working systems that don't accept that sort of abuse of it's workers - why do people insist on choosing ideologies that are so obviously not in the interests of the majority of the people?
Can you speedrun something that is not locked to specific hardware like a console game would be? Feels like hardware is most of the "speed"
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I think the interview process itself causes duress to candidates intrinsically. There is probably no way to eliminate it completely.

That said, there probably is a reason for testing candidates under duress. Some companies may want to push people hard, and knowing they can deal with stress is valuable.
aka. take a leave.

In Germany every employee is entitled to leave of absence if their child is ill - up to a maximum of ten working days per child in the calendar year. Many children are sick more than that.

A doctor’s note from the first day is required. Employees typically receive their full income the first few days taken off, but it varies.
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The 90 days within 180 days period restriction still applies. It's just that you will need a visa now and it will last 3 years whereas you didn't need one before.
porsche can be worse than an 80s cheap honda when they want to, so get them down of that high horse.

for proof, go see a 1999-2006 carrera 911/996.
As someone who lives in LA, I have to agree. Really poor local government structure. Our city council just 10-2 voted to authorize the city attorney to settle a lawsuit which will now restrict the city’s ability to cleanup homeless encampments as well. So, might be getting worse, not better.

I recently moved to Encino, which has its issues but our homeless encampment is hidden down by the dam. When I lived in Beverly Grove, I had people sleeping on my sidewalk, and clusters of people setting up camp in the alleyways 100 yards from my house.

What was remarkable was the volume of trash that accumulated, along with broken glass and hypodermic needles. It was absolutely jaw dropping.

It’s truly not compassionate to let people live on the steets. The city and the state must expand conservatorship and start getting these people the help they need.
I’ve heard the same “we don’t tell people we use Erlang because it gives us such an advantage” ~10 years ago.

Yup, those companies moved a lot of their business to Java, and C#, and Go, and even Ruby.
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