skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not him, but good bosses I had listened what people said and treated people fairly even when they did not liked them. The latter also means that people who criticize things are not retaliated against in any way.

Note that listening does not mean agreeing nor doing exactly what employee said. It does not even mean trusting it all, because people do lie or make mistakes. It means that they knew what was said, thought about it, checked and verified it and allowed it to change their opinions based on result of said check.

The technical aspects like delegation, task assignment and general organization pretty much follows and are dependent on listening.

Meanwhile, the boss who did not listened to people ended up with mess, because she ended up not knowing what is going on and solving non-existing problems (while ignoring real ones).
He turned over details to gov, more will be coming I would imagine.
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Yes I did, I worked production line for an auto plant(union wages)and applied for a maintenance job at the post office. The auto plant paid Very well but the joke was "a monkey could do my job but he would be to smart to keep doing it". The Post office job paid less than half my current paycheck. Doing maintenance work was like a hobby for me and I liked fixing things (cars mostly). I took the job after much debate with my soon to be EX. I have to say it was hard at first but after 2 or 3 years it all came together for me, I actually liked going to work and the pay ramped up to a little better than "good enough". With training to work on computers I found what I really loved doing and have been in IT since. I guess the story is while the money is important there are other things that you will not see if you are blinded by it (ha, clever boy)
Probably not much, as I suspect the Israelis will keep a very close eye on the project and intervene if/as needed. They have a more realistic long-term view of the region IMO, and are capable of handling these issues effectively, if not quietly or gracefully.
The article is full of hot air. Poorly written and not sure what the point or conclusion is.

PErhaps its a teaser piece of what's to come.
I'm guessing it's a typo for "libraries".
Putting aside the politics / personal matters here, a nerd question (this is HN after all!):

Does anyone have a sense (even broadly) of the specific methods that were used to intercept Bezos' texts? Did he use an iOS or Android device? Were the cell towers attacked? Was he the victim of a good 'ol zero day piece of malware? (I presume Bezos isn't the kind of guy to click on random email attachments on his phone).

Just curious what universe they were playing in.

(Speculation welcome!)
> Heck, in some countries you are not allowed to even live in structures outside the habitable region.

Isn’t that the law in most developed countries? I live in an Eastern European country that is not quite well developed and we’ve had this type of law for as long as I can remember.
The trouble is that managers with non technical background do not make good managers either. It is not like they would have some awesome impressive track record.
> Have you ever even used a modern IDE?

Yes, I used PyCharm and RubyMine for over a year. The comment I was replying to said he was clicking around menu items to see what's available.

I don't really see a difference between using "search everywhere" vs using something like fzf with Vim (which lets you search through a ton of different things besides files).

But normally in my day to day I'm just hitting key binds or typing short commands without having to search for anything except files to open (which I could do with a sidebar instead, but I prefer fuzzy finding files based on typing out the name most of the time).
Probably the same spyware that was used to spy on Khashoggi's iPhone -- spyware sold to them by the NSO group of Israel: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/world/middleeast/saudi-kh...
There was some story here before about a person that figured out they could muse these kinds of semi-premium numbers for automated verification calls from online svcs (like Microsoft and Twitter). (If) They automated the process and could make some semi-reasonable amount of money per hour.

edit: here it is: https://www.arneswinnen.net/2016/07/how-i-could-steal-money-...
Your desire for premature standardization would have left our automobiles with one common standard of hand crank.

Everything that died in the Cambrian explosion would have died anyway if they had all been the same species; but having that variety available allowed the best designs to be selected. We wouldn't have humans without it.
It’s OK, if the post had gone anywhere I would. Either way it’s good to know what happened, thanks.
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”An example of job creation due to automation is the huge increase in the content creation industry.”

Is it? I would think audio and video recordings compete with local musicians and actors, taking away lots of jobs there.

Before recordings and amplifiers, a musician or acting group could serve, maybe, a few hundred people at a time; now, they can serve millions.

(Likely, a lot of that work historically was unpaid, but I don’t think that matters much for the point I make)
The title does not match the article at all. He didn’t find anything. He found that Saudis don’t like Bezos and that they hack phones. It’s quite a stretch to go from that to saying they hacked the Bezos phone.
That's completely different though. That's like referring to the Israeli government is a headline as "The Israelis" vs "The Jews". They're both overbroad when taken literally, but the former is standard shorthand that is clear from context and the latter strongly suggests that writer has an anti-Semitic motivation.
I would assume that a malicious CLEC on SS7 could easily intercept SMS or MMS messages like these .
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More people should be running their own mail servers, their own web servers, their own IRC servers, etc.

But I don't think we are ever going back to that direction. The arguments and benefits for running one locally are not enough the trouble as well.

Performance? Due to DNS caching at the resolver level, it is probably faster to use Google's 8.8.8.8 or CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1, than anything local (where all dns requests are a MISS).

Privacy? With DNS over TLS/DNS over HTTPS, your ISPs can't see what you are doing. If you run DNS locally, they can. Yes, they will see all the requests your resolvers are doing to the auth DNS servers.

Security? Some good resolvers, like Quad9 or CleanBrowsing will block malicious domains. CleanBrowsing will also help blocking adult content if you have kids. I don't think maintaining such control is practical for most people (pi-hole helps, but still hard to keep it updated and find good enough databases to use).

I would love a de-centralized web, but it is pretty hard to go back.
It is significantly easier to accidentally hit either of two keys than hit those two keys seconds apart in the right order. So I’d call that a pretty important clarification.

> Glad I won't have to give my Chromebook a screwdriver enema again!

If you’re willing to do that, you can disable this key sequence.
In a similar spirit, check out https://egbg.home.xs4all.nl/counterscript.html
Your last sentence reminded me of "The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute": https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/
(Speculation) Probably this: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvakb3/inside-nso...
It sounds like the investigator has no evidence that the Saudis did anything at all.

But yes, most governments that do any intelligence work at all do develop and/or buy Android and IOS 0day and rootkit tools from shady private companies.
Yup, you need to word it the right way! It's not device-generated data, it's "telemetry". And why call it a C&C server when you can sell it as a "centralized device management solution"?
Only 43.3 percent of women worked outside the home in 1970. It'd be some time yet after that before most of them did. The point was that your argument against the washing machine was incorrect. Those 10-15 hours a week were actual gains for the working class. Women didn't jump into the labor force right after that machine was created and sold, after all.
Your question is fair, but I believe a little misguided.

On one hand, VCs like YC need founders to build companies in order to get excess returns for their LPs.

On the other hand, founders still need to take excessive risks to start a company. Then they need to execute against incredible odds.

I say this as someone who left my job in 2014 to start a company. 14 months later it was over and I'd say that I set myself and family back substantially in the process from both a loss of cash to also a slower career path.

I don't regret the decision, but it does take excessive risk to launch.
I'm a recent convert from Visual Studio to Rider, and I love almost every aspect of it. The bit I really don't like is how it handles source control - it seems to try to generalise every source control provider, and I find the git functionality to be a real PITA - it automatically stages any new files, and I've encountered many quirks that I just don't like.

My solution thus far is to use VS Code for all git functions (yes, I prefer a UI over command line for git), and use Rider for everything else. It suits me well - VS is basically my dream git UI!

Having said that, I still wish JetBrains would fix the car-crash of their got functionality...
Calling RSS dead only sounded like marketing from media sites as they got scared of being consumed outside of their platform but it was never dead from consumers' perspective.
I think that I don't work for companies or managers, but clients. I'm director level at a consulting biz where basically no one on a project team is directly above me, but the client (or our client services team) can still kinda boss me around because they pay the fees. My actual manager runs tech for the company and she doesn't ever really do project work anymore because there's too much management and biz dev going on. I haven't even spoken to her one on one in like 2 months and it's great. I know what she wants to see (successful deliveries and inbound sales) and I know when I need to go find her to defuse some issue. Or I handle it myself. It's salutary neglect.
A skilled barber could make decent coin. I used to pay a dude $150 to come to my place b/c I couldn't spare the time.
As a physics smell test, TMS seems to be performed using quickly releasing a capacitor to create a 1-10 (order of magnitude) Tesla magnetic field over a very short period of time. 10T is similar to the magnetic field generated by an MRI. For comparison, a toaster produces a 100 nano-Tesla field, about 7 orders of magnitude smaller. So supposing TMS causes real effect, the clippers are so weak in comparison that I would think they are harmless.

In terms of electricity, which people have more intuition about, 7 orders of magnitude is the difference between a studio camera flash and a lightning strike
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Please see my answer to jaredmsmith -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19532560

In addition to that, and I'm going to approach this delicately because some people are uncomfortable with facing this fact. But since you're on here I'm sure you know this. If you have a cell phone, used a credit reporting agency (Equifax?) or used almost any website in the past 10 years, you're already being tracked and your data has already been stolen in, on average, one data breach a month to advertise or politically manipulate you. The horse has already left the barn. Your life is right now being sold and resold every millisecond.

But I'm doing you a favour. Because I'm giving your life away for free.

And that data is freely disseminated to everyone not just because it stands as unassailable proof an AI performed a difficult computation on human behaviour and earned those coins but because it's important that everyone knows the truth about events in the natural world for science, democracy, health, justice and all rational decision making. An embargo on stupidity and ignorance in that node's corner of the world at least. Advantage must then come from helpful innovation not parasites rent seeking on people's data.
What if Zuckerberg lives in a different neighborhood than you? In fact, most of the people your device would surveil if you did live near Zuckerberg would be his household staff.
That's not really how customer DNS works, so you're talking about a custom monitoring project. It doesn't seem very hard to monitor the consensus - get a stream of domains and run "dig" against the known endpoints.

But if you want an actual server doing that, I don't think there's much point. You'll get differences for various valid reasons. Entries changing, different anycasts getting different geo responses, etc. It's a bit like "a man with a watch knows the right time, a man with two watches can never be sure".

So the answer is really - why do you want to do this? Different reasons here lead to different approaches.
Zuckerberg is a rational actor that's smart enough to know that he's not going to want any knee-jerk solution put together by idiot politicians. I'm confident that he doesn't want FB being permanently hobbled by laws or acts of Congress.
There is no evidence that writer has an anti-Semitic motivation
Forbes says that they're effectively funded by tax payers to the tune of $18 billion a year.

http://fortune.com/2015/03/27/us-postal-service/
Value types are great, but they don't help cut down on cyclical references as the type of coding that will cause memory leaks is done in objects. Typically objects with complex dependencies and inheritance hierarchies.

Memory fragmentation is another legit concern I guess, as far as I can remember iOS has no memory compaction. Again not a necessarily an issue for a short live user space application, it is a larger one than memory leaks at least at my company. In some hot spots of our app we specifically slow down reading of some queries to reduce memory fragmentation.

Frankly Chris Lattner's claim that a GC leads to 2x-3x memory consumption over ARC is unfounded and sorta shocking coming from someone held is such high esteem. It's something thats continually shown to be untrue.

It always seems Swift's biggest selling point is it uses ARC instead of a GC, which is either not a large issue or a GC is actually more beneficial. Other than that you still haven't dealt with the toxic "Swifty" community, the terrible tooling situation, the immature libraries and frameworks, etc, etc.

There seems to be so many better solutions to writing server side code. This is all coming from someone who uses the language on a daily basis.
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I know it’s not gonna happen, but it would be great if Sony would develope their own phone OS from scratch again. In a parallel universe Sony is the third big OS developer next to Apple and Microsoft. Of all the smart phone manufacturers i found it always strange how Sony decided to go third party, and imagined them to be the most likely company to develope their own mobile OS.
That seems like a bit much. I think getting people to run a raspberry and pi-hole is a much more realistic aim in terms of usefulness and creating awareness.

Plus it's been pretty eye opening. I'm running uBlock Origin and Privacy badger...and still the pi-hole filter 25% of my traffic. A full fkin quarter after adblockers...
I remember that many years ago somebody told me (or did I read it?) that he expected Smalltalk to eventually succeed but he didn't expect that it would be called Ruby.

My guess: maybe a Smalltalkish language in a conventional environment? Don't underestimate the power of being close to what the average programmer used to experience in the years before a new language is released.

Python is from the end of the 80s and its classes look like OO in C (without ++, I mean the explicit self), plus functional methods (len, etc). Ruby and Java are from the middle 90s and take that for granted and hide self and go all in with method calls. They take small steps and adopt a syntax similar to other existing languages. Too much change and developers won't follow en masse.
The classic relation is a link. Atom has the Atom Threading Extensions, to document conversation in feeds.

One problem of course is notifying the thread starter of new decentralized comments. There were Trackback, Pingback, Webmentions for web pages. For feeds there was the Salmon protocol [2], enabling notification of new comments to swim upstream. According to Google's documentation Salmon would have been an API of Google Buzz. But that started with a privacy scandal and shortly thereafter Google decided they needed their own closed social network. Salmon was later used in OStatus 1, I think.

There was a lot of activity in the 2000s transforming the RSS/Atom ecosystem into something of a decentralized social network. Extensions like Activity Stream for richer data, AtomPub, Salmon, OpenID, Webfinger, PubSubHubbub (now WebSub) to turbocharge feeds with a Publish/Subscribe thingy and a lot more, that I'm now forgetting. The rule of thumb is that the problems stay the same, but the syntax and the name changes.

And yes, if you squint the right way stuff like ActivityPub (Mastodon) and the Indiewebcamp Microformats are practically feeds.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4685

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_(protocol)
Maybe, maybe not. Different countries have different resources available to them, and we don't know what they tried.
This is a funny comment but seems hyperbolic. Citation definitely needed.
Isn't seed funding for cooperatives also basically a cash handout from our rulers?
He can't have his cake and eat it. Either he has to deal with two separate identities, or he gets a sanitized 'work me' which will be as good as useless for advertising. Your choice Mark.
It’s kind of like that, except the reason he’s asking for the locks is so you don’t discover the kegs of Jagermeister hidden in the closet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/world/middleeast/saudi-kh...
If the accuracy is down to half a centimeter , this is something that would need to be re-calibrated several times a year. The tectonic plates move over 1 cm per year, and any type of earthquake can shift land by significantly more than a half centimeter
Another point to consider is that the more the internet is regulated, the more difficult it is for new entrants to compete , as they have to comply first with existing laws. This is an easy way for incumbents to protect themselves from potentially swift-footed competitors.
There's absolutely no evidence of this, and NSO says they didn't do this. Why should we believe your stories?
It only gets interesting to me when browsers (or for that matter node) get tail-call optimization.

Until then iteration makes way more sense than recursion in JS.
"Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity." -- Mark Zuckerberg

"Having two identities is a reflection of how much trust I have in your integrity." -- me, to Mark Zuckerberg.
Everyone has rivals. Everyone has people who are interested in selling to them. Everyone has people who are interested in finding out what they do, where they go etc etc. And no one more so than the rich and powerful.

Regardless, I think you're misunderstanding the algorithm. Nodes broadcast their data to other nodes because it stands as unassailable proof an AI performed a difficult computation on human behaviour and earned those coins. So you don't have to have a node in a part of the world you want information about. As long as there's someone there who either likes cryptographic money or wants to know more about the activities of that person beyond where the node tracks them, you're going to get that information one way or another.
that is great... you could pay back the 7p to legitimate callers... if only this could be automated (at least for numbers on your contact list)
Just don't hit a pothole while they're cleaning up the length around your ear with some scissors.
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You seem to be missing everyone's point.

Virtually anyone who would consider Elon Musk's ideas using your approach would immediately throw them out, for many many reasons. So your approach is meaningless unless you can tell everyone exactly what criteria to use when deciding if something "would not work."

If your assertion is just that you have to be so smart that you can analyze all the variables and correctly predict the future, then that's not really useful to anyone is it?
I have seen reasonable people when they try to copy this. Endless back and forths over a idea, risk analysis after risk analysis, hours after hour, and then finally, they do not take the leap, or withdraw midjump, and use that experience to justify the absence of further attempts.

If you want to hire at a startup, check for a mad-prophet-yes, but also check wether he rules unchecked- as in - is there someone to stand up to him execution wise. Otherwise, the good start idea might be sunk by lots execution novelties.
Usually, after the first great leap is done, there is also a silent take over by someone who is better able to manage "dull" execution of standard tasks, necessary for the novel idea.
Love it love it love it.

Can it work with existing public webcams? I'd love to track the comings and goings of every politician in Washington.
People in expensive neighborhoods tend to be less interested in getting $10 than people in less expensive neighborhoods because they already have money, so this thing will predominately target the not-zuckerbergs of the world. If you wanted even coverage, you'd have to compensate for the fact that rich people tend to live near other rich people who are less motivated by the same money than poor people who live near other poor people.
The AP Style Books lists "Saudi" and "Saudis" as the proper way to talk about people from Saudi Arabia.
:) You know I heard saying once. I think it goes something like this, "Every mathematician receives their best ideas in the three 'B's. 'Bed', 'Bath' and 'Bus'"
I like the take Mark Burgess gives in In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure where he states that separation of concerns is "a necessary consequence of loss of resolution due to scale ... a strategy for staying sane." Perhaps having scope-blinders and persistence is simply perceived by outsiders as irrational, whereas internally it is an intellectual tool for focus and achievement. Of course, there are drawbacks to mad focus...
Israelis have made friends with MBS. Color me surprised.

https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/MBS-youve-been-cleared-for-lan...
It says "successfully submitting fake data in the network is so computationally intractable that any self-interested node would find it more profitable to be honest", but that doesn't sound quite right.

I see the diagram and how it should enforce that the input frame is valid wrt the hidden layer, but it seems I could generate a fake overlay animation (for n POVs) and superimpose it over (or object detect and scrub it from) the input frame sequence.
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Ironically my ISP is using their DNS servers to block archive.is
That’s adding the value of supposeded benefits from congress but not actual dollars. Also congress mandates crazy shit that the usps must do so any benefits are probably wiped out by them.
The Livemarks extension duplicates the feature pretty acceptably.