skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the constant push we get to finish and the fact that we enrolled in a class and in school and have to finish...not having elite level self-control

Especially for the slightly more esoteric things relating to programming, like the mathematical underpinnings, principles of programming languages, pushdown automata, big O notation for algorithms, somewhat complex tree data structures etc. On your own, with things coming up in the real world, the temptation would be to always learn more about the latest Javascript framework and what have you.

I had a class where I had to do a homework where I described the Completely Fair Scheduler of Linux and how it works. With self-study, there never would have been a night that I would have seen that as being a priority over other things, but being as it was needed for class, I found the time to learn how the CFS worked.
tl;dr:

A software opens a port to allow a remote website trigger "download and execute" actions on a URL pointing to an .exe file.

The security check they have is that they check the domain is dell.com and that the string starts with "https://". If it starts with http:// it is replaced by the https version. In theory I could consider this risky but safe.

The mistake is that they do not force a URL that starts with something else to fail. The attacker could bypass the check by providing " http://fakedns.dell.com/haxorz.exe" (with a space at the beginning) and it passed the check.

This is not the first flaw of this style I am seeing. I don't think a teacher ever explicitly told it to me but I always assumed that relying on DNS for authentication was a dangerous thing to do and that URLs were doing too many things behind the scenes to be trustworthy without being extremely picky.

Maybe it all changed with https, but trusting the execution of an exe without at least checking the a crypto signature lights some red flags in my brain.
Not the original poster however get where? Everyone has their own goal. The basic fire goal is $1M with a 3-4% withdrawal rate however you can "fatfire" and look to maintian the same lifestyle you have when you were earning, which is easier to do for someone who has start-up shares, or owns a business/commercial real estate. You just have to start and also know that the younger you are when you start the more your money grows via compound interest (especially if you are using the index fund investment approach.)
The only way to solve the problem is to build more housing, and the only way to do that is to change the zoning laws. A startup cannot do much about that.

The only way to change the zoning laws is to convince the majority of voters that they need to be changed. A nonprofit would have just as much luck doing this as a VC-backed startup.
The resemblance to the cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album is interesting. According to Wikipedia, the image used on the cover was of "the intensity of successive radio pulses" specifically from radio astronomy.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V3Ioohi9aqE/maxresdefault.jpg
I felt this way when my liquid assets exceeded my mortgage balance, a sort of "I could pay it off if I wanted to" feeling.

But I have decided not to pay it off yet, because the return on keeping my capital in equities is much higher than my mortgage rate.
The US is very walkable, but you might need to drive to walk.
In that respect, Epic is just as evil as Steam, since they don't offer Federation nor the same as support of users of their service as a hosting platform for interaction.

In respect to which platforms are objectively less evil, comparing features and actual interaction with community and developers...

The ONLY way I see Epic as being better is paying developers a larger cut (and as a result some titles selling for slightly less).

Steam is doing more to support /my/ platform (a competitor to Windows), and has done more to further competition in other aspects.

I don't want Discord to be the federation method either, and XMPP ended up failing due to several mistakes and not requiring full Federation and transparent (un-modified, future / client side extension enabling) message passing between end users of different platforms.
This literally makes no sense to me.

In your view, what action could they have taken other than "letting him do whatever he wanted" that would not have been retaliation?

Retaliation has the legal definition of a negative job action in response to a protected activity.

They explicitly found they did not do that.

Trying to redefine retaliation to include a negative job action in response to an unprotected activity makes the definition of retaliation include any negative job action in response to anything.
Bingo.

Take CallJoy, then add their new Duplex phone AI and this is where this is going. Perhaps not today, but definitely in a couple of years.
I'm guessing that droithomme meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19796933, but posted a top-level comment by mistake. That is not uncommon.

With that in mind, I've moved 19797118 to be a child of 19796933. Even if the guess is wrong, it makes more sense in that context anyway.
We need to define solved. Used in the Musk sense, it is solved because it's possible.

Used in the academic sense, it's not as reliable as depth from LiDAR.
Microsoft's antitrust settlement with the US only ended in 2011: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/long-antitru...

More importantly, the EU's decision on bundling IE with Windows came down in 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission

The EU has continued pursuing antitrust cases, and the FTC has now set up a task force to investigate antitrust in tech. The main problem is that the wheels of the legal system turn very slowly, much slower than the startups rise (and fall).
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One thing to remember here is that with RADAR it is, I have read, very hard to tell a soda can from a car from a above highway sign as you are cresting a hill. So they will often filter out anything that is stopped.

I read this a few months ago and it blew my mind.

Then I read about that LIDAR sensor burning a camera sensor and thought "how safe can that be?!?"
How about a gesture based programming language that translates to a visual one on screen? Is it so far fetched?

I've been typing programs for so many years I think we've gone as far as we could go with text, auto complete, live compilers, hot reload etc.

It wouldn't be that uncomfortable seeing a developer spends most of time reading / analysing and, god forbid, the open office would allow it (!@#$%^ noise): THINKING.

Here is a thought, want to make the future of programming languages? Remove distractions.
Those JS pickers are going to be needed for a long time still, because native widgets are a nightmare to style consistently. Apparently nothing has been learned from the <select> styling minefield of the past.
It does work with MQTT. What it doesn't do is install Owntracks as a HA plugin.
> I don't know how they didn't all get fired.

That seems extreme.

I've worked in some organizations where the assumption is that engineers aren't capable of making product decisions. They are merely walking, talking machines that are there to implement the vision of the PM and designers.

In other orgs engineers are very much in tune with how product decisions are made, what the business is optimizing for, and what constraints they need to be aware of. They will generally work with the product owners to shape the user experience.

I'm guessing that YouTube was much more in the latter category.
The title of the article “Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but few actually do” suggests that there is something called “agile methods” that can be followed. I don’t think I understand what you mean about it being a communication protocol. In any event, it seems beyond debate that the term “agile” is extremely widely misunderstood. I’m arguing that instead of tilting at windmills trying to correct everyone who is “understanding it wrong”, we give up, discard the term, and focus the pros and cons of specific, describable practices. Agile seems to be more of a feeling than a practice.
It its "in beta" as you say, keep it on private roads until out of beta. Sincerely, everyone else.
> I might be wrong, but there is a reason AWS is far ahead of GCP. And I feel gap is increasing

I disagree. I feel AWS definitely has more options, functionality, and better enterprise support, but in many areas GCP is much easier to manage for smaller teams. For example, if I were starting a startup, I would definitely favor GCP over AWS right now.
Training their AI to understand human conversation (see Google Duplex). Press fastforward a couple of years and you have a system that can automate call centers.
Companies are vehicles for accumulated wealth and power for the ownership class.

Labor, on the other hand, has very few vehicles to accumulate their wealth and power. In fact one such vehicle, the union, is often legally neutered such that private contracts made between unions and employers can be nullified in favor of the ownership class (see: right-to-work laws and union security agreements).

There's an inherent asymmetry of power between labor and the ownership class enshrined in both law and contemporary markets. We live in a nation started by the wealthy merchant class, for the wealthy merchant class, and it shows in our labor history.

So, yes, there are competing forces that are very unequal. You as an individual engineer will have little clout against, say, an industry-wide anti-poaching agreement like we saw in the High-Tech Employee Antitrust case.
analytics were valuable / helpful when they included keywords and search phrases used with google - ever since google starting stripping those away, I've spent little time looking at analytics unless some kind of attack issue or something.

I wish google had a privacy option to let users decide if their search phrases should be sent / captured by the web sites people visit. One could dream that they are auto stripped if opening in incognito mode and sent in regular mode unless another setting was changed by the user in chrome or via google account or such.
> When the market goes up, your rent will increase, but the price to stay in the house you own is still zero.

doesn't ur property tax go up with the market value?
I guess the question is are you willing to concede that you owning a home is incompatible with you living in SV?
The US is not the UK
This seems like a strategy everyone can appreciate: Epic pays indie developers to update their old games
> I think an argument could be made for "No Taxation without Representation", one of the causes of the American Revolution

People always have gripes, some valid and some invalid, against the powers that be.

One difference with the American revolution was a willingness to commit acts of violence against British soldiers. I would hope we're able to resolve most of our gripes without resorting to the horror of war.
> To be super clear, there are no new levels, no new characters, no new battle royale deathmatch mode. This is just a gentle remastering we did for fun.

This update is great and all, but I was actually... really hoping for new levels. I've wanted them for the past ten years. Pretty please? Maybe some day? :'(
Pascal-S (Self-Compiling(*) Subset of Pascal)
There is some active research in academia and there is also the factor that veteran programmers almost all develop an itch they would love to scratch. Text editors, programming language, debuggers, terminals...

I know that if I had a few more hours a day I would try to write yet another of these things.

(Where is my cross-platform, OSX-Linux-Windows one-file text editor that just has smart indent and syntax highlighting for python?)
If my house gets nuked, I'm probably dead.
>you can ride out housing market downturns until home values recover

not if you owned a house in detroit or any number of downturn cities.
Autopilots run the gamut from simple wing-levelers to fully automated departures, en route navigation, arrival procedures, landings, and runway rollouts. You'd be amazed what even a light piston single-engine can pack. Just today I flew a light single with an autopilot that can do climbs, descents, level-offs, en route nav, and precision approaches (lateral nav + glideslope) down to 200' AGL. That leaves maybe two minutes of the entire flight that require hand-flying, in a box the size of a small car stereo. Pretty good stuff.
By definition a donation cannot come with strings attached. but it will influence their admissions process, because they don’t want to discourage future no strings attached donations...
I'm glad you brought Europe up. Because I think that maybe I didn't quite make my ultimate point.

Its true that Europeans used to fight each other much more. That's also true of most areas of the planet.

I think that for the main part you have Europeans working together now under NATO.

I believe that actually the most core reason for NATO is common genetic and ethnic heritage. In fact, to me the major global factions are essentially just ancient tribal disputes write large.

Now, this may make sense if you have a sort of 19th century Social Darwinistic pre-gentic-science eugenic worldview where human life has little value to you and each group is essentially an ant colony battling it out so that the greatest "subspecies" may procreate.

But we understand now that humans are humans. We have instantaneous global communications with increasingly effective translation systems. Our technology provides a relative abundance for much of the population.

Would it make sense for this paradigm of deadly force to apply to the people who live on your block? No, of course not. What about within your city? No. What about between the United States and Canada? It seems unlikely.

But if I bring up the example of the United States and Mexico? The idea that there might be mass killing to resolve conflicts would be much more palatable for many people unfortunately. And I think it comes down to ethnic and cultural differences. In other words, they have different family histories, look different, speak a different language.
Yes, nevermind the video that emphasizes "the driver is doing nothing" on their tesla.com/autopilot page since 2016, or that all vehicles come with hardware for full autonomy.

There's nothing bizarre about threeseed's characterization.

https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
The real promise of unikernels is not a a "library OS", but "libraries OS". I.e. we should be combining reusable parts, not linking one huge chungus library.

I hope their initial demo really is just a straw man to get something in mainline which ends up realizing their most important longer term goal of modularizing the kernel.
You paid for it via a bailout
Your very definite endorsement makes me interested in looking at Scott's resume, but it requires permission to view. (Just curious, I'm not actually hiring. ;) Unless that's intentional, please make it readable, Scott!
The editing window had closed by the time we got clarification, so wasn't able to make the adjustment. Apologies for the confusion.
Run along little gamma. He said it in front of Congress. It's in the Congressional record. There is boatloads of coverage of what he said at the time and his prediction, like all of his others before it, is complete bollocks.
The MTA's 'Biggest Single Governance Problem' Is Governor Cuomo
Aren't people worried that they'll all be fired for protesting?

People are within their rights to protest in public places, of course, but not on private property and certainly not on the clock.

I'm not sure how it works from the business's perspective, but couldn't Google just get rid of all those people at once? Is that legal to do?

From Google's perspective, if they just fired all these people, there would be some blowback but there would be no future walkouts/protests/disruptions at work. There are plenty of smart people who would take those jobs at Google in a heartbeat.

Can someone explain this to me? Like if I did this at any place I've ever worked, I'd be gone in an instant.
Its impossible for me to overemphasize the impact the USDS can have, the question is never "will somoene let us do this" its always do we have the resources to do what needs to be done. What will crush you is the burden of service, and knowing the only thing limiting the impact you have is the amount of work you can physically put into it.

In terms of pay, I have kids and was a single income during my tour of duty. Its a better life then most Americans will live, so while your quality of life will not be as high as it may be on a private sector job, you won't be lacking anything you need.
That's one way to look at it, sure. But technically it is up to the Government though?
(*) It compiles itself to instructions which then run on its own internal VM...

"procedure interpret;" implements a tiny VM in 30-40 lines of code -- an amazing gem of CS, if you ask me...
That's not what the University thinks about you.
I'm not sure of the specifics - I would argue it should be mandated; at minimum they could have put barrels full of sand or water - whatever they use - as a stopgap.
But not _everything_. Is your city going to invade a neighboring city if it decides it wants a better property tax base?
You've probably not heard of the Australian Government's free bowel cancer screening program then, mailed out to everyone aged 50-74:

https://www.cancer.nsw.gov.au/how-we-help/screening-and-earl...
> this is very good for retirement.

i can buy a house in detroit for $400 and pay no rent . is it a good retirement?
Stack based concatenative operator languages are the future, if you haven't heard of them (and railroad programming) do yourself a treat and look them up!!
Is drop out still empirical or are there any proof of why it works in the overall model?

I recall reading up on CNN and playing around with it and it was interesting to add random drop off in there but was never explained why it works. I think the general thinking of why it works is that the network is overfitting so randomly dropping node is required for generalization?
I hope we don't also forget how we beat scurvy, then have to rediscover it.
Wasn’t that in the last tech preview? If so it wouldn’t be a new thing to list in this one?
Pretty awesome work. Looks like we don’t have obvious ways to avoid these classes of proteins in the same way we can just avoid tainted meat and abstain from cannibalism...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_protein
I don't think we need evidence, it's like common knowledge. Medicine, engineering or CS students don't have really time to party around like the art history, journalism and liberal studies folks do.
Also not many languages allow people to explore true powers of deeper stack modifications by delimited continuations. Using them the users would be able to create their own looping and threading constructs as well as custom exceptions and iterator mechanisms and effect handlers.

The concept of a "programmable" programming language is intuitively appealing, but in practice turns out to not be so helpful for actually shipping software. Everybody builds their own, incompatible versions of common utilities. This is why languages like Lisp or Forth are great for exploratory hacking with small teams but are very rarely used these days for larger scale development and lag far behind more mainstream languages in tooling.

What you really want is a tasteful "omakase" language design that gives you a carefully selected menu of building blocks that average developers can use to be productive. Languages like Kotlin and Swift are a good example of this. They cherry pick a lot of the good ideas from academic functional programming without going down the Scala/Haskell rabbit hole. Golang takes this to an extreme by providing native typed containers without exposing generics to the programmer.

The success of a language these days depends at least as much on the library ecosystem and tooling as it does on the language itself.
Building Apps with Dojo Blocks
For me also, on chrome in Android.
Works fine w one exe from Lenovo
@astro123

There’s a tautology in your critique. You’re attempting to suggest that there is evidence for dark matter. There isn’t. Dark matter is a theory, one that has not yet produced empirical evidence to support it (& perhaps cannot ever do so.)
He sure has an interesting story and great priorities! I also wish you best of luck and lots of fun, düde!

PS: Please talk to Brian Harvey and Ken Kahn about Snap! and ecraft2learn, if you like teaching AI to kids! The surfing's not great in Berkeley, but you'll love Santa Cruz!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18497830

https://snap.berkeley.edu/

https://ecraft2learn.github.io/ai/
Telsa's bet, and I think it's a really fair one, is that if humans only need two eyes to navigate as well as we do, a car with >2 eyes could eventually be as good or better than humans.

On the other hand, humans do not have lidar systems in their head, and so lidar is the real unproven technology. It's also clear that lidar is especially lacking in situations which require seeing longer distances (like say, driving!)

To be fair, lidar is winning in terms of problems vs. miles driven, but I believe their advancement will plateau far sooner (and perhaps permanently) than computer vision based systems.
There is a serious proposal for the Mainland Chinese to unilaterally build a civilian tunnel to Taiwan. If the Taiwanese bomb it, the Chinese have a pretext for retaliation. That might be tricky.
Maybe not, but a decent community college or state university should have sufficient courses for much much less than 40k
That's a nice anecdote. Here's mine- my orthodontist gives out a little wooden token for not breaking anything, wearing one of their t-shirts to the appointment, and answering a trivia question right. You can either return 30 tokens for a $10 gift card (great for teenagers, who always need more Amazon money, it seems), or he has this nice big box that you can put tokens in. Once the box is full, he plans a trip and goes to some third-world country to help out for a bit (generally it's his summer vacation.) He has gone on a trip for the last eight or nine years.

Maybe my population is skewed- two of the three doctors I see are Eagle Scouts, but not everyone is a cheapskate.
They don't eliminate inequality, they just facilitate a game of musical chairs. America has a very high and very well documented level of income inequality. It's also well documented that the people at the top often change. There's a lot of turnover at the top from generation to generation.

But the system property of inequality -- that is to say that American society is a highly stratified society with huge winners and huge losers -- is not going away, in fact American society is becoming more stratified. The elite universities perpetuate this system by conferring exceptional career benefits to their alumni.

Even though a few people will get promoted to the top, and nowadays some of them will even be women, people of color, etc., this system of inequality has some pretty painful drawbacks for most Americans, which manifest in long working hours, higher rates of mental illness, etc. as compared to more equal societies.
I wonder if AP is really 2x safer as Musk claims. Highway driving is already significantly safer per mile than local roads,

> The grim statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also show that drivers on rural roads die at a rate 2.5 times higher per mile traveled than on urban highways. Urban drivers travel twice as many miles but suffer close to half the fatal accidents. [1]

Could this explain away Musk's AP safety claims, given that it's mostly used on highways?

[1] https://www.npr.org/2009/11/29/120716625/the-deadliest-roads...
It's not because of that, it's because it's the next big free game on Epic's Game Store next week.
Basically everyone who gets to be world hegemon ends up acting like bastards a little or a lot.
What are the visa requirements for US citizen employees?