skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a wilder perspective, I like Takashi Miike. "Rainy Dog" is about a yakuza henchman whose boss had been killed. So he fled to Taiwan, and worked for triads as a contract killer. Because no other yakuza boss would have him, and his tattoos excluded him from mainstream society. Very tragic.
Sounds like you are in the wrong profession and the wrong neighborhood.

Or maybe you just enjoy being on the margin, which is fine.

Either way, hating railroads and sewer pipes and comptrollers is sort of pointless.

Finally: Every context is bounded but not every engineer is working in just one context. It takes roughly 3 decades for a dedicated engineer to reach, but infinite context is possible.
> How do we know that it's not just because he thought he was most likely to be convicted and didn't want to roll the dice?

It doesn't really matter. We want to incentivise guilty people pleading guilty mainly to lighten the load on the justice system. Being lenient to sincerely repenting people is a desirable side effect that nevertheless should not be pursued too hard.
It's used for margin trading at exchanges that do not accept fiat
All: this post was flagged. But it is obviously intellectually interesting and therefore on topic here, regardless of one's views on race and other issues. It's full of fascinating detail, and even has a technical aspect for the less-curious among us who only find technical things interesting. I've turned off the flags and rolled back the timestamp on the post.

We can debait the title a bit, but a substantive article with a slightly baity title is not one that should be flagged. If the title is your issue, you're welcome to let us know at hn@ycombinator.com, or suggest a better title in the thread, which we'll happily use if we see the suggestion.

One last thing: if you're going to comment on a thread like this, can you please top up on the site guidelines first? Especially this one: Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Remember that we're going for good conversation—respectful and two-sided—rather than ideological or political battle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't use Instagram, but I'm not surprised that they've decided to "customize" that behavior.
Not for the gesture I'm talking about.
That's exactly what he did, registered the domain on a whim with no actual facts to back his decision. I think that much is obvious.

My reading of the situation is also based on additional data that's public if you care to look. His skill level and intuition can be extrapolated if you watch a few of his youtube videos. Or if you happened to talk with him on IRC. You'd realize he's little more than a script kiddie.

Hutchins is not what he has been portrayed as by the media.
I just had this week last week. 12 hours of work straight through two weekends and a few drinks every night. It's like one super long day where you're locked in. Then I slept 12 hours and spent 5 full days home with kids.
> Apple did not get big chasing quarterly profit numbers, it got big releasing game changing products and product improvements at the right time.

they released those products over a decade ago. they got big because they took the momentum from those innovations and turned them into a lifestyle, creating “upgrade” fever and everything else that came with that. in the meantime, they became an industry bully, pressuring suppliers and vendors for more and more discounts while pressuring consumers to pay more and more for moderate iterations of their products.
The article makes it seem like he's a hero who was intent on stopping WannaCry, so should be pardoned for crimes he commited when he was younger. The reality is that he had no idea what registering the hard coded domain name would do, and got lucky that it was an ineffective method of VM detection that was effectively a kill switch. For all he knew, registering the domain name could have made the malware self-destruct and delete all the encrypted data. People shouldn't be pardoned for accidentally doing something good.
It’ll be very hard because it can be impossible to trace a model back to it’s constituent data, especially if it’s ephemeral
This is a good idea, we have to build so much swim-lane-diagrams, why not including him.

He only can learn from this.

Thank you for your feedback
It's been suggested that a large percentage of the crypto market cap is based on tethers which have been used to prop up prices but also used to hedge against falling BTC prices. Essentially, bitfinex prints tether whenever the price of BTC drops, and in the meantime, people use these printed tethers to hedge against BTC (and buy back in when the price trends upward again).

So there are many iterations of compounded phantom value folded into the market cap of BTC. If tether is found insolvent, essentially 80% of the value of BTC disappears overnight.

The entire value of the crypto market depends on people's belief that one tether is worth 1USD. Or so the theory goes.
True. Most do not allow tattoos.

I have never seen any other gangs at this sento, which is located not too far from Kabukicho. My guess is that it's a private arrangement between the owner and this boss. It would presumably only be a problem if another gang showed up. But the tinted-window black limo with driver outside is a pretty good clue of who is inside.
None of what Facebook has done here sounds plausibly legal to me. I'm not a lawyer, but this stuff is plain-as-day immoral and illegal from my eyes.
Maybe, but I would say it's a little less conspirator or crazy since we know such systems are being deployed to track people.

Radio waves never could read your thoughts or other crazy stuff so it would be less loony to see someone with a printed card than wearing a tinfoil hat.
I don’t dispute that.

But in the first paragraph, the side effect is that developing a not-quite-cure treatment for 50,000 people is more profitable than both the others.

As for the last paragraph, this is perhaps the essence of the problem. The motive is profit, so we only care about the advertisers. But the users are real people too, and they are getting screwed.
I am quite surprised at how the wheels have turned. I remember a year ago I was interviewing people and each single candidate listed SASS as a skill, and almost everyone during the interview claimed its their preferred method of working. (my team so far has been using plain css and are happy with it, so that surprised me a lot back then).

Is it considered bad practice now? How did it rise so quickly, how did it fall so quickly, what's going on in the web dev world?
Copha is hydrogenated coconut oil.
They are literally making those tethers out of thin air, you know that right? It's not backed 1 to 1 at all and this report clearly calls it out.
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None of those techniques work consistently. We plied out first kid with all the tricks and nothing worked. Second kid we just relaxed and accepted reality and he slept way better.
You are not alone. When the new keyboard actually works, it feels great. Going back to the old one feels mushy.
It's great that there is normal interesting archaeology news.

Hopefully the current curse of pseudoarchaelogy crap (looking in your direction discovery channel) will die out.

It's never aliens.
Thinness is highly correlated with lightness when the device is made out of aluminium.
Most nesting I do uses the '&' parent selector, so it's not "real" nesting.

.a-long-class-name {
background: firebrick;
&:hover {
background: red;
}
}

This approach has some clear benefits (less verbose and it groups related code together) with little or no downsides.
The books are all seriously cooked. There are few honest actors and it's shocking to me how many people are still willing to play the game.
Why are people taking jobs in governments? In oil companies? In tobacco companies?
This might have been an honest mistake. To do this for 1.5M users only when Facebook's user-base runs into billions might indicate that.
Not only that but they would change the behavior of a chip between revisions, so drivers for one revision, if they didn't take into account the changes, would suddenly stop working even though you bought the same ( but unknown to you, newer) version of the card.

(source: me, who worked at a company that made commercial Linux drivers for Matrox, ATI,NeoMagic etc. chips )
> You also seem to have missed the actual point

I think we disagree on the premise of the conversation.

This is what I'm getting (feel free to correct me):

* You think that it's a foregone conclusion that social media is evil. To you, it's obviously evil and you believe people who are working in the space also think this but actively don't care because they're in it for the money.

* I think that social media is incredibly nuanced and is a vehicle for a lot of fun, good, convenience, and utility but also comes with a lot of unmitigated consequences a lot of which we're just now beginning to understand and reason about.

I can totally see why you'd think what you'd think, but it's the very premise that I'm trying to challenge here.

Do you remember the "TV rots your brain" rhetoric from the 90s? It came from a similar place where people thought that it was a foregone conclusion that "TV is evil". And in many ways it was! But in many ways it also wasn't and became a cultural cornerstone for generations. So if we extend your argument to actors, actresses, and other personalities that made TV possible - are they willful conspirators too?

Media is a tricky subject because it makes us stare at our human reflection and come to terms with it. Again, I don't mean to say this to absolve Facebook or Twitter or X_SOCIAL_MEDIA of their responsibility. They absolutely have their work cut out for them and it won't be an easy path forward. It shouldn't be.

But I'm an optimist at heart and I think progress is being made in the new media world. Maybe not fast enough, but it's being made. The conversations are clearly being had. Society is adapting and figuring out what roles these services play in our lives. No massive technology shift is without it's awkward teenage years.
That is true (and relatively easy to do with OpenSSH's ProxyCommand) but that was not the implication of the statement that HAProxy was being used in TCP mode to direct incoming TCP sockets to the correct backend SSH server based on the hostname using any SSH client that understands the SSH protocol.
This quite an ignorant comment. I've been working with Blockchain tech (Crypto by extension) for a while now and there's a lot of experimenting, genuine projects being built right now. A lot of smart people are in this space building solutions. Major companies like Samsung / Facebook have teams working on PoCs.

Unfair to imply that everyone in Crypto is selling snake oil.
Google open-sources AI image segmentation models optimized for Cloud TPUs
I think the comment more than answers your question.
>The first step to training a neural net is to not touch any neural net code at all and instead begin by thoroughly inspecting your data. This step is critical.

This can't be overstated. I can't count the number of times I'm the first person to find a problem with the data. It's incredibly frustrating. Just look at your damned data to sanity check it and understand what's going on. Do the same with your model outputs. Don't just look at aggregates. Look at individual instances. Lots of them.
That's very interesting psychology, but it is horrible and psychopathic.

Nobody go out and trash people just to see if it sticks. Please.
As someone who’s not in the US, can someone enlighten me why there’s such a difference in school level in san francisco in the first place? If the schools have a similar budget shouldn’t they be pretty much the same?
So they admit that the money was once lost, just they recovered part of it? Of course, they forgot to disclose.
Is it a coincidence that the stock price would move on the day when FB releases earnings?
Fun fact: You havent worked for shady fortune 100 companies.

Lockheed is shady as fuck. I have stories. But will not share them here..
You're right, on OSX you can brew install sassc
Good
You put really very helpful information
Do you think that's some kind of permanent condition?

On a long enough timeline the world normalizes. These classifications of "first world" vs. "third world" countries can be viewed as an ordering of arrival to the modern high-energy high-tech life. Third-world countries don't stay in mud huts indefinitely. China is the fastest growing automotive market in the world, it wasn't too long ago they were riding bicycles in droves. Now we're hearing about manufacturing migrating from China to India where it's still cheap, the cycle repeats.

I don't think we can say that everyone in the world will ever be in the market for SpaceX products and services. But we can definitely say that's possible about electric vehicles. They are already often owned and operated by individuals, and the common utility is incredibly obvious.

All I'm hearing in your comment is that they're currently too expensive for most people. The price will decrease as the economies of scale take over, the buying power and interest across the world population will increase in spurts, it's only a matter of time.

Once EV-capable batteries are as commonplace as propane tanks, this picture is going to change dramatically. Eliminating a transmission and ICE from a vehicle design substantially lowers the cost to manufacture it. There's very little precision machining left in an EV, it's basically the steering rack, and myriad ball/roller bearings, wheel hubs, brake rotors and calipers, what else? It's a big difference.
I'm pretty sure most people here understand how fractional banking works. Tether isn't a bank, it's claiming to be a currency, and not only that but one that is fully backed by the reserves of their US dollars.

This is like a government claiming they lost their most sovereign currency and have no idea where it went.
Are these people being pushed out over the keyboard fiasco, or is no one in the company being held accountable for that disaster?
It seems weird to simultaneously argue that he shouldn't get a pardon because he's a dangerous hacker, and also that when he was being a dangerous hacker he was just a skill-less script kiddie kid.
From the New Yorker profile of Jony Ive a few years ago:

>Apple employs three recruiters whose sole task is to identify designers to join the group; they find perhaps one a year.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-c...
There is nothing magical about passing through a vagina to with life should start counting from then.
Tether was questionable since day one. They never really substantiated their claim of full-backing through a real audit of their currency reserves. Tether was the successor to Realcoin which was backed by Brock Pierce. Brock Pierce is co-founder of EOS which had the 4 billion dollar ICO.
Have you never committed a bug before?

> A Facebook spokesperson said before May 2016, it offered an option to verify a user's account using their email password and voluntarily upload their contacts at the same time. However, they said, the company changed the feature, and the text informing users that their contacts would be uploaded was deleted — but the underlying functionality was not.

I doubt it was an engineer who deliberately removed the text but kept the contact import functionality.
Whoops! Having said which. The shelf where copha is sold in Coles and Woolies has beef dripping including organic beef dripping. Three choices.

Virtually every link matching a search on "substitute" and "copha" is of course arguing for using vegetable shortening in place of lard but the reverse clearly works: if you know how to use copha, you can substitute lard for a more intense flavour.
There are lot of script kiddies in the malware-for-profit business, it doesn't take a lot of skill really. He's not at the bottom of the barrel but he's definitely not very far from it.
The title is very clickbait-y, iFixit themselves said they only took it down out of respect for their partner that let them use the review phone.

Samsung had no right (legal or otherwise) to ask to remove the post.
How about some light non-thinness in the form of air flowing through to cool it better!

(Unless you use all that extra internal space for cat hair storage.)
Samsung's Linux on Dex beta rolling out to more devices
> I'm hesitant to blindly take the scientists' side however

I'm not. It's not a lot of money, and the Pentagon can think of far worse ways to blow that kind of money.
You normally really like what a notorious racist has to say.. I guess that says a lot about who you are too.
To a point. I cant comment on regards to this being the goal of the company above.

We should consider the following:

A startup can have a product offering and also be the product itself.
Picture of human milk ducts goes viral
The article covers all of this closely, and I see nothing in it that can fairly be described as "hate on inventors". Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? I think you'll notice that they require HN comments to be more substantive than this one here.

For one, there's this: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." The author of an article is someone.

Then there's this: "Eschew flamebait." Taking an HN thread further into flamewar, which is the direction your comment points in and alas even moves a little into, definitely breaks that guideline. Keep in mind that once one person goes there, a lot of others are going to go there—for and against, bashing each other along the way—so the biggest responsibility is not to be first to go there. If we all avoid that, no flamewar.

There's also: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." It seems to me that the dismissals here were indeed shallow, reminiscent of instant objections that pop into one's mind when encountering what, for whatever reason, we dislike. That mechanism is hardly unique to you—it is active in 100% of us. But the HN guidelines have been carefully written to ask all of us to slow down and inhibit that mechanism—to be more reflective and less reflexive—because this is the only way to get good conversation on the internet.

There are two other guidelines that the comment breaks, but I'll leave them as an exercise for the curious.
Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight (2011)
The press release from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada:

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/20...
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> However, what you describe doesn't seem like one of those.

I actually am working on a project like that (database) so your point resonated with me. For what I am building I'll take my time and I won't release before it's stable because if it doesn't work properly for v1 then that could be a problem.

I guess the answer for the original question though is that it just depends.
Reminds me of updating the AutoCAD DOS video drivers for an S3 card back in the early/mid 90s. Our choices were Compuserve or dialing the company's BBS (calling the US from NZ). I think even with the international toll call we still chose the BBS on price, but it was still a very expensive download for a small firm.
940nm IREDs are not visible to the human eye but are visible to a CMOS sensor, so that would be pretty easy to rig up without being too noticeable. The main issue is that you would need a lot of them because most security cameras are filtered for IR light and you would have to sufficiently overpower them unless it was night time.
Its likely that the "foreign dignitaries" either paid for the work already (in exchange for access to research material) or by sponsoring museum tours on these or other objects.

The majority of digs are done (paid for) by foreign universities, with oversight and eventual ownership of the items by the Museum of Cairo. Most foreign digs that I know of are paused, and have been since 2011/2012 - the ousting of Mubarak. The "season" for excavation limited, and a disruption of a few years was enough for a heavy uptick in looting.

A lot of important (but less newsworthy) sites are now bare - funding for security is not limitless, and without even annual oversight very hard to maintain. Sites of greater value ($ value) are more closely guarded, and perhaps even less likely to be looted if the Egyptians are leading the dig.

I have no direct sources (and haven't looked), I've only heard secondhand from my wife who works in a related field.
I think there's something missing in this discussion.

Do you know everything before you start $JOB? Do you have absolutely every last skill required to get the job done?

I can only speak for myself here. I know I haven't.

There have been cases where I only checked half the boxes for a job I was interviewing for.

I'm certainly not the only one that's been in such a scenario.

Impostor syndrome runs strong and screams loud in my ears. I own it. I live with it.

If I (or anyone else for that matter) were to only apply to jobs or pick up tasks where I knew everything required, I suspect I and a lot of other people wouldn't be doing much.

Does that make me a bullshitter? Where does one cross the line from authentic to bullshitter?

I'm not going to stop doing hard things, things I don't know everything about, just because I'm afraid of what someone will think of me. I don't recommend anyone take that approach.

Do hard things. Sell yourself. Be confident. And I'm speaking to myself, as well as to anyone else who cares to listen.
We are getting new form factors, they're just so radical you don't recognize them: laptop->tablet/phone, phone->watch, desktop->VR headset, home assistant. None of them are perfect substitutes yet, which is why the old form factors persist, but look at how many people are doing on their phones today what used to require a laptop or desktop. It's not hard to imagine a watch plus earbuds replacing the phone for most (but not all) users, and home assistant replacing a desktop for some (but not most).
> he did a short stint at Facebook working on Messenger, before landing at Nori, a company addressing climate change with blockchain where he still works.

Blockchain. Interesting.
The topic is too broad for a “best,” but here are some really practical places to start:

Sales for engineers: https://hackernoon.com/sales-101-for-engineers-6fcd1b49cffa

Enterprise sales, which is the process that people often think of when they say “sales”: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterpris...

SaaS: https://stripe.com/en-US/atlas/guides/business-of-saas
No you simply convert the sole proprietorship to an LLC (or corporation). You "sell" your intellectual property to the newly created corporation in exchange for your founder stock. A sole proprietorship is sort of like the default business structure, you don't really need to do anything to start it, everything just ends up on your personal tax return.

"Piercing the corporate veil" is different. Google will be helpful if you're interested, but basically if you run a company don't do shady shit -- don't commit fraud or gross negligence, and respect the separation between company and personal finances. Otherwise you may lose the protection of the corporation (the "limited liability" part of LLC) and become personally liable if things go bad.
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No. They claim the money was seized from a "partner" (Crypto Capital) by various governments (~$400 million to Poland, etc), and they are trying to get it back.