skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is that the real goal?

Given that USians overwhelming reaction to Assange is negative thanks to our vibrant state run media, coupled with the tenuousness of the charge - yes I do think that most any attempt to pull wider "context" into the specific legal situation is essentially character assassination.

> The problem, to me, is that the context around the crime is exactly the thing that produced the crime! The charge was doubtless chosen based on what the government thinks it can prove. If it couldn't prove this, it would have selected another charge.

Except a major aspect that defines this situation is that the USG is claiming jurisdiction over a foreign national committing actions wholly on foreign soil. Even if Assange's actions were unquestionably hostile to the United States, and blatantly illegal if done on its soil, claiming jurisdiction over him still relies on purely technical legal reasoning!

So what USG really chose is a charge they can best hang some sort of nexus onto - and it's not really a surprise that the overbroad, overbearing, and draconian CFAA is what they ended up at. It mostly makes sense to use the CFAA to criminally prosecute a foreign actor breaking into US computers because they are still remotely committing actions on US soil, but Assange is essentially being charged in the US for talking to Manning about Manning committing a crime in the US!

Which is why the charge is chilling - because the same reasoning applies to any journalist receiving information from any source. Not because it's illegal for the journalist themselves to mishandle classified information, but because by talking to the source they're conspiring to further the source's own mishandling of classified (/tradesecret) information!
winseybash doesnt get jokes lol
It is used in embedded. I think that refutes the claim.
Video Blocker extension for chromium and firefox keeps me sane on YouTube. It is surprisingly quick to block the main offenders and have actually decent recommendations on the sidebar.
Sure, technically it can be done. Socially, though... we have a hard time saying no to people. That's a lot to overcome. We have tools for interruption and social inhibitions against not using them.
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I'm curious too. I'm currently on a project using Zephyr and while it's refreshing to use a lightweight system, there's still a lot here that's not done (e.g. filesystems). I'm kind of worried it's not getting the attention and support that was promoted for it.
> The only place I would cycle regularly is the Netherlands, because of the infrastructure and the attitude of drivers.

There are parts of the US where the infrastructure and attitude isn't so bad. Not as good as much of Europe, but good enough to make it OK. This is extremely variable, though. I've seen many parts of the nation where I wouldn't dare to bike.

Where I live, for instance, there is a law that requires a percentage of all road funds to be used for bicycle infrastructure. As a result, there is quite a lot of well maintained bike paths that are completely separate from the streets. About 2/3rd of my daily commute route is physically separated from road traffic -- to the point where the only time I even see a car is when they're going across an overpass of the bike path.
I mute at here in all channels. It should be banned.
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A country with a right of exit can still be quite authoritarian, just as an organization that you can leave can be as well. What's authoritarian is the structure: owners and especially managers nowadays controlling priorities and work rules, as opposed to the people actually doing the labor in companies. I'd generally opt for all those parties collaborating in decision making.

> don't try to use the club of government to change an existing for-profit, shareholder-controlled company into what you want it to be, just because you want it.

Do you think existing corporate management structures don't rely on state violence to maintain themselves? If a bunch of workers enacted control over their workplace, do you think shareholders would be the ones coming in and cracking heads, or government agents?

You're simply defining your narrow conception of property rights and economic organization to be the Right and Natural Way for Things to Be, and you choose to not see the club of government used to enforce it.
Same reason we dont live in shared houses, i suppose
Github issue got closed or removed it looks like. There is a new issue where people are complaining about the first getting closed:

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/issues/367
In the eyes of the law (or at least the courts), journalists have broader latitude in the course of investigative reporting.
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A fair point, but remember that credit cards leverage their fees towards outstanding credit (and incentivize you to access that credit). This is more like a debit card, where the fees are leveraged on transactions where you access your own holdings (incentivizing you to leave your funds in the account).
Then YouTube risks things being popular that aren't aligned with it's collective politcal views.
This book got me interested in physics and AI.

A full, pleasurable year of my programming life was inspired by this book. And what I learned from the physics part of the book made high school physics a piece of cake.

Thank you, Daniel Shiffman
Erasing the Boundary Between Development and CI
Once you discover later on in your career that seniority and respect of your peers is not transferable between companies, that hopping to the next job from the job board is vicious circle of working on dull dead end projects under authocratic and dumb at times people (with long length of service at the company), you might change your mind. Also you’ll discover that life is more complicated than „just walk away or start your own business”, at times neither of these is possible or even both of these are straight suicidal.
Yeah, if you have a week of free time. I planned to go this weekend but chickened out at the last second-turned out in my favor since they launched yesterday, four days after the original date.
Well, Google intends for this new OS to replace Android. They'll need to convince the public that this new OS is somehow better than Android, which everyone has come to know and love. It seems that they believe the best way to do that is a grassroots approach beginning with tech discussion hubs like HN and Reddit.

Of course, they could have just meme'd hard about the fact that they're moving away from evil Oracle technology and we'd have already all been on board.
Criticisms not entirely fair. Making specific investment recommendations depend on your goals. The job of a good book is to teach you principles, not to pre-digest your decisions for you.
Enforcement of copyright is following the law not manipulation. I'm sure their automated takedowns aren't perfect, but that's due to technical limitations.

This rewarding if "quality" content is straight up picking winners and losers. But you're right it's not like YouTube hasn't done this before. Plenty of very rapidly viewed videos (e.g PewDiePie's "Congratulations" and rewind videos) mysteriously didn't appear on trending.
If only there was something analogous to the inflationary monetary system except for equity instead. Shareholders equity in companies could be diluted just like workers' wages are diluted by inflation.
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I officially mentored someone at my previous company and helped him move from a support tech role into a software dev position. It was incredibly rewarding.

But to play devil's advocate for a moment, isn't there something of a natural disincentive to level up one's employees in such a tight labor market? To follow the author's analogy, by mentoring someone, we're effectively "adding a fish" to the pond, and if someone else "catches" the fish, that effort is largely wasted. One might argue that if everyone put more fish in the pond, then we'd all be better off (true), but we have a standard collective action problem where the free riders benefit at the expense of the fish growers.

I see two (partial) ways out of this trap.

1. Pay more than everyone around you. (Obviously, not generally viable.)

2. Make the culture of your company so awesome that people will want to stay, even if you can't pay the most. Make mentoring/growth a central strategy at every level so people will see a path to grow.

I'd be curious to hear other possibilities.
Thanks for your feedback.

Since I am working on scientific computing, I would use Fotran instead of C language, with which I have experience.

Geometric algebra isn't my only skill, but it is what sets me apart from most other programmers out there.

Geometric algebra can be used to make more efficient transformations in almost any field, including: automatic differentiation, optimizing electronic circuits, computatations involving relativity and spacetime, machine learning, and countless other scientifc computing applications. It is still largely unexplored in terms of applications and has very much to offer.
Words take on a range of meaning. "ground" and "earth" have overlapping meanings.
Matrix Security Breach
Who has greater resources to fall back on should they incur substantial losses?
>If we start with the premises that if people think that something is a crime, they can commit a crime to try and prove it, our legal system will quickly crumble.

How about starting with the solid facts, that what was unearthed is justified to be unearthed?

>Would it still be journalism, if they hacked the database and didn't find evidence.

We could just say no -- or, if they did find evidence, yes.

This keeps the risk of violating the law, but makes it OK if you indeed unearth something beneficial.

You know, as if we can make rational value judgements given the end result, and not give everyone a free pass, or condemn everyone from the start.
The article explicitly says they chose asynchronous by default -- which I interpret to mean that you switch off those notifications and make slack poll-only.

You talk about searching the history but to me the search tools are so weak that I figure only the recent slack messages have relevance -- instead slack is as transient as a text message. Mail at least can be searched as a corpus.
> some sort of pathological need to keep the application process shady.

True -

Sadly, the Hiring Process is most often driven by HR Flunkies.

Not Engineering, not even Sales & Marketing.

Why do we let the least informed people try to identify, assess, and attract talent?
It’s not that easy. Nobody is talking about app settings here. It’s about how companies essentially delegate communication preferences and etiquette to Slack without much discussion.
I've found a set of cultural rules for Slack that tends to work well for keeping Slack a high quality communication tool.

1. If it can be an email, put it in an email instead. Email has far better tooling than Slack for automatically filtering and triaging messages so that the recipient can focus on the important ones.

2. The busyness of a channel should be inversely proportional to the number of participants. Channels with >10 participants should be virtual ghost towns.

2a. Except when you are using the channel for crisis management.

2b. Except for channels where people are asking "how to" questions, for those, either have the current on-call people triage it and call in the experts as needed, or set the expectation that people will get answers eventually.

3. If you need a response in under an hour, do a voice call or find them in person.

4. Employees should not be expected to have Slack on their phones, and employees should not be expected to respond outside of work hours.

Edit: also rule #5: Social channels: they are neither forbidden nor discouraged, but for the sake of your own focus, you should keep them muted.
Arguably housing is too far on the side of democratic/social control. Sure you can live in a house by yourself, but you can't do what you want with your house or your land without first getting town approval, HOA approval, and so on.
> Employees share responsibility for the success of a company so they should also have stake in the company.

At a restaurant, a chef is not allowed to have a bite of your meal because s/he is the one who prepared it. That meal is owned by you in its entirety because that is what you paid for.

If a group of employees want a say in the how a business is run, they are free to purchase ownership, whether directly or through shares.
I agree that WSJ isn't perfect, I just think it's good about breaking news and original reporting. The rest, I get from other sources (including far-left and far-right ones). It's part of a balanced news diet, so to speak.

I understand not everyone is biased, but the NYT is still not good about it. The top of their front page today is the Israeli election "through the eyes of a palestinian". Top of the page has an article called, "How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy". Also top is an article entitled, "How Big Business Is Hedging Against the Apocalypse", followed by an article about how the "digital world is not designed to keep women safe." that advocates for regulation (but seriously, why would we design the internet to keep one group safe? And how?).

I understand that doesn't make everything they report wrong, and I still read articles by them, but I'd rather support the WSJ if I've got to pick one.
You can just do

found[key] = struct{}{}
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Show HN: Keysniffer – Linux kernel mode debugfs keylogger
Good point, "career security" is definitely more appropriate term.
No need for suggestions, as this one is obvious. If you want to do so, go for it.

It is a one-shot thing rather than research, BTW.
When you join the union, you lose the atomic individuality. I've been a union member and a manager outside of a union. When I was in the union, they tried to prevent me from getting paid more - they wanted me to fall in line with the collective agreement which specified my hourly rate. If you don't go with mob, they call you a scab. Not pretty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikebreaker
We've been exposed to static electricity through all of our history.
The BBC certainly doesn’t refuse to innovate. It has a massive history of technical innovation – not least broadcasting TV over IP multicast in 1999 and launching the iPlayer in 2005. There’s no point in them offering full scale 4k streaming given their catalogue, and the 4 week programme availability is a regulatory restriction due to competition concerns – this is demonstrated by the fact that they’re showing series back-to-back in the early hours to allow box-sets of older shows to be on iPlayer.

The BBC license fee is about £12.90/month, which to provide all the BBC National and Local Radio in addition to the multiple TV channels and their online offering is fantastic value.

Their shows will be disappearing from Netflix as rights expire in order to bring the content back to BritBox which will launch in the UK soon.

Edit - corrected fee
Bitcoin isn't a communication network, so this tradeoff isn't relevant.

That said, if you did try to use it as a communication network, it would be an extremely high bandwidth overhead as anything you send on it gets flood-filled to everyone else on the network. It'd also be somewhat high latency due to low-level details of how transactions are forwarded around the network (the 10 minute block interval isn't really relevant to privacy).

But like I say, Bitcoin isn't trying to be a communication network, so the comparison isn't really valid.
I lean more on the capitalist side, but this is a more interesting question than a basic view of capitalism would lead one to believe.

The ethics of capitalism are based on the assumption that the business owner rightfully has final say on all of the property of the business, and that the workers are merely guests on the property, paid to do something with the property, collect a paycheck, and go home. They have no right to it.

But then you can start asking questions like, did the capitalist have rightful ownership of the money to buy the thing in the first place? If you go far back enough, you have things like conquest, homesteading land (which is inherently ambiguous), government grants of land (open to favoritism), etc. The whole foundation can be called into question.

Again I'm not ultimately convinced by it, but I think there's at least a discussion to be had. I feel like I've heard some convincing arguments but they're not coming to me now. But if you have the patience for it (I didn't even finish it), you might check out "What is Property" by Proudhon. He lays out a philosophy called Mutualism that sort of has socialist ethics, but is still somewhat market based in the end. He enumerates all of the assumptions he sees as underlying private property ownership and makes an interesting argument against them.
Chelsea has already served her sentence for her crimes.

She is currently incarcerated for refusal to retestify in a sealed grand jury proceeding against Assange.
I mean, conspiracy to commit theft of documents to whistleblow is exactly the kind of thing that's protected by the first amendment's freedom of the press provision.
keysniffer is a Linux kernel module to grab keys pressed in the keyboard, or a keylogger.

keysniffer is also an academic project for devs willing to learn Linux kernel module programming, with extensive comments, checkpatch.pl scanned code, standards-compliant Makefile and DKMS support.

keysniffer was initially written for the US keyboard (and conforming laptops). By default it shows human-readable strings for the keys pressed. Optionally, the keycode shift_mask pair can be printed in hex or decimal. You can lookup the keycodes in /usr/include/linux/input-event-codes.h.

The keypress logs are recorded in debugfs as long as the module is loaded. Only root or sudoers can read the log. The module name has been camouflaged to blend-in with other kernel modules.

You can, however, execute a script at shutdown or reboot (the procedure would be distro-specific) to save the keys to a file.

DISCLAIMER: keysniffer is intended to track your own devices and NOT to trespass on others. The author has never used it to compromise any third-party device and is not responsible for any unethical application.
People aren't dumb, but I think people have poor information literacy skills, which is linked to the decline in liberal arts education in favor of the emphasis on STEM education. The lack of these skills leads to people being unable to distinguish between "sound argument" vs "intimidate and disconcert" (again, not related to their intelligence, this is a developed skill).

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10858.html

>We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable, productive, and empathetic individuals. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world.
Why not?

Who said it would be worse?

Where you asked before adopting the current system? Or you were just expected to sit and accept it?

Any why would a system that takes into account actual benefit to the public or not, to absolve someone of something that is otherwise a crime, would be tantamount to "anarchy"?
From what I have seen 6-pager process and more importantly the clear writing and efficient meetings that it fosters are pretty helpful. It's important to note that a 6-pager contains 6 pages of expected reading and can have as much additional appendix material as you want. I've seen "6-pager" documents that were dozens of pages long, and have heard possibly apocryphal stories of 6-pagers hundreds of pages long for major projects. If the question was specifically about AI being a required component, idk. But a VP at Amazon presides over a part of the business so large that it is implausible that there aren't useful applications for AI in their domain.
I recently asked a question where this answer would fit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627404

We have tried this with 3 different candidates:
1. No experience last year in university
2. No experience with BS
3. 1 year working experience

My experience with this approach is that it is a far more expensive investment that takes long time to pay off. The safe ratio that I can recommend is 5 seniors to 1 junior
This is a true story. One night, I went down into my basement and heard a snapping sound, and looked to see sparking between a 12-14G copper ground wire (from somewhere) and my water supply pipe. It turns out that my 1952-build house did NOT have a ground/earth for the panel, and a squirrel had chewed all but the last few strands of the neutral coming from the power pole. Most of the return from the house was going through this piddly ground strap, and it was not happy.

I called the power company, and they were kind enough to install an new neutral almost immediately (perhaps at night). I then called an electrician, who grounded my panel.

I am still amazed that my refrigerators and ovens worked, and wonder what would have happened if I had not heard the snapping sound.
In my experience, the % of students at Princeton using Apple computers is definitely north of 50%. However, given that they're students, I doubt they're the target audience for this utility, since they're likely not homeowners (if they're living in dorms, they likely don't have that many IoT devices to be worried about).

The target audience is likely "privacy-minded technically capable home network owners", a significant proportion of whom likely skew towards Apple products.
There's a difference between unionization and trying to get board representation. Also, in many states, you're stuck dealing with a union in many jobs. You now have to negotiate with the union as one atomic person...

The thing I personally hate about unions is their political advocacy. The idea that a worker is stuck supporting a politician he might not agree with is one that makes me very uncomfortable.

Also, I think appleiigs summarized it better than I did, with the lack of individuality.
I have heard too many stories of overworked programmers (lots of stories if you google it), especially in the gaming industry, and let's not forget Amazon's NY Times story a few years back, to think that there is no worker exploitation going on in the industry like you say.
> Businesses loose millions and they just burn cash because of toxic and arrogant developments teams

If a business is treated like that, maybe it should quit its current development team and try to get a job at another.
Yeah their "genius bar" left a lot to be desired, I switched away for that reason. At first they were great, but over the years the one I went to just stopped really trying and instead shifted more to sales.
Depending on how internal politics play out at Google, Android's kernel might eventually be replaced by Fuchsia (ART is already being ported, commits are visible on AOSP).

And Fuchsia is mikrokernel based.
And instead of adding those features to existing clients, let's create a brand new protocol, server, desktop client and mobile client. Because why not?
This story may or may not be true, either way it encapsulates what a scientist should be: distracted by reality and allowing other smart people to play their roles. Feynman had his own things to work on, and clearly there were more people needed for humans to advance.