skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stride | Android Engineer (all levels) | San Francisco, CA

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On the engineering side, we use Node, Python, Swift, Kotlin, Postgres, Akka and some cool machine learning models you're going to love hearing about.

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Agreed. As an added bonus, if they really need him to fix something, they can contract it out to him. And if he doesn't want anything to do with them anymore, he can just charge a high enough rate that they'll bugger off after the first bill comes due.

This is how our modern system works and I wish more people would see it this way because the corp see you (and everyone) as disposable.
Yes, ruining the content itself is not better than pausing for ads.
Did you tell this story years ago on hn? Someone did and I've mentioned it to a few people since. (although I guess it is a common situation)
Just one of the many things SEO has ruined. Searching "x reviews" for any x is completely worthless at best, actively hostile at worst.
it increases cloud revenues because of slow downs in CPU, and people can't move off cloud because they're locked in and can't hire datacenter engineers anyway
30% performance hit? I'm sure that heavily depends on the workload... and I'm also sure you lose performance when HT is on, depending on the workload as well.
But is it the same price as cable tv? Which I assume is what you mean by old large-catalog service.

I personally don't think they are even comparable services but I have not had cable service in ~15 years so things might have changed considerably.
Downvoted for the bad language perhaps? I'd accept that.

Or downvoted for recommending a blocklist to cap off ad networks? Or to disable JS to speed things up and increase my safety without new protocols? Or asking not to have my browsing turned into an Awesome Experience by web designers that don't understand the web is a means to an end for its users, not a way of life? Or something else?
I agree, at least for modern for-profit corporations. The USPS has a better track record than that class, is at least quasi-gov't, and, as a citizen, I'd be happy considering all USPS obligations backed by the full faith and credit of the US gov't.
I think it depends on how you define "left-wing". Some consider the "woke capitalism" of corporate media and SV to be "left", others consider only an explicitly anti-capitalist and pro-labor stance to be left.
After running into Inoreader's limits I found Feedbro, it is a free extension for Chrome and Firefox and it does the job very well.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

It is not open source but I haven't managed to find any negative comments on the developer.
When does AT&T never break a promise?

They broke promises here.

They broke promises with Time Warner merger.

They promise broadband speeds and deliver dial up speeds.

They promised raises after the tax break and only gave bonuses.

They promised to stop selling location data and kept doing it.

They promised 5G and only gave us 5Ge. (Ok, that ones a joke).

I mean, Randall is a master at lying on the scale of Zuckerberg.

There's lies, damn lies and then AT&T saying, "hold my beer!".
If you're not a fan of blocking ads, DuckDuckGo let's you disable ads in their search results.
I was comparing copper. AFAIK you can't text over copper.

The $15/mo was metered service for even local calls, which I would happily go back to. Cell ($10/mo) and VOIP (effectively free) manage the bulk of calling just fine.

Obviously the plan is to move off the copper, to stop getting robbed. But that isn't a justification of the robbers.

I'll note that the involvement here is mainly due to my older father, which is the demographic really meant to be squeezed by this rent extraction.
> How do you describe the meaning of this vulnerability name?

> We chose to communicate [Thrangrycat] through a visual representation of symbols, rather than “words.” Naming vulnerabilities using emoji sequences instead of other pronounceable natural languages have several advantages. First, emoji sequences are universally understood across nearly all natural languages. Choosing [Thrangrycat] instead of a name rooted in any one language ensures that the technical contents of our research can be discussed democratically and without latent cultural or linguistic bias. Second, emojis are indexical to the digital age. Third, clear communication is the foundation of friendship, and such a foundation must begin with proper ontological agreement. Just as the universal language of mathematics is largely expressed through interlinguistic symbology, so too is [Thrangrycat]. Fourth, cats are seen as almost paradoxical beings. While they exist in our lives as the ultimate creatures of leisure, cats are also fierce predators. “Cats are the most highly specialized of the terrestrial flesh-eating mammals. They are powerfully built, with a large brain and strong teeth. The teeth are adapted to three functions: stabbing (canines), anchoring (canines), and cutting (carnassial molars).”

Ironically, emoji don't work in Hacker News comments; so I had to insert their made up word "Thrangrycat" to convey their remarks on name choice.
> Personally I rarely carry any ID at all

I do usually carry ID, but (except for flying) I can't remember the last time I actually had to show it to anybody.
A municipal government doesn't have a way to impact anything China does. They're stuck between either doing ineffective things like drinking straw bans, or just admitting their helplessness.

On the national politics level it's only almost that bad: we (the US) have very little way to influence what China does with their trash. It might take Trumpish levels of confrontationalism from a Democrat administration to have any impact at all. Sad that candidates aren't taking on this reality... it's much easier to sell a rosy narrative to voters that we can fix everything by making sacrifices at home ala the Green New Deal or somethimg similar.
Indeed, and I was saying that government politics is ultimately no different.
It’s kind of the opposite — lots of museum pieces are privately owned and loaned to museums.
Any other examples of the big 3 US, German, or Japanese car makers having a similar issue? Where a media center issue causes the car to not run and the manufacturer refuses to fix the issue or even provide a part for it?
This is an area that I'm really interested in watching as there is more discussion around tech unions - the industry moves so fast, an emphasis on retraining seems essential when you'd be setting one up. Legacy unions haven't had to deal with making retraining as important a part of their value proposition in the past, but "we'll keep you safe, compensated, and relevant as the industry changes" is a pretty compelling platform.

The IATSE (union for technical/artisan roles related to film/tv/audio/events/etc) created a training trust for their members in 2011 and, from what I've heard, it seems to be working pretty well. https://www.iatsetrainingtrust.org/ I'd love to see other unions take notes when their industries start to modernize. They do all of the standard OSHA training, etc, but also keep Lynda.com subscriptions for their members, reimburse group craft training organized by local chapters, and have developed some specific certificate programs for retraining into A/V roles from less technical ones.
> It matters for websites, but only after fixing many other problems with performance and usability.

Or does it? Once you fix major performance, usability problems and it starts to feel fast - other efforts become kind of pointless and may even become sources of performance, usability problems themselves.
I have a 2013 model S with 55k miles. Hoping not to encounter this.
> I feel that 40 hours per week is a reasonable amount

I disagree. I want to work less and live more.
In nearly all of those cases, the content was removed because either the uploader wanted it removed, or the owner of the intellectual property in the video wanted it removed.

In both of those cases, I don't see how this is Youtube's fault or decentralized hosting would be better.

In the first case (uploader wants it gone) you have a sticky situation where loosely managed websites refuse (or can't) respond to requests to remove, which can start interfering with various laws in various places.

In the second case, where IP has been violated, those same loosely managed sites run significant legal risk of lawsuit by not responding.

From the perspective of a content owner or video creator, why would you want your work decentrally stored in places that you can't control it?

The other angles here have to do with monetization, too. When you use youtube, you can serve user aware ads and track who is watching your video as it spreads. If it is self-hosted, your content has been stolen and is enriching someone else illegally.

From a creators perspective I can't see how decentrally stored videos would be good.

Perhaps what we need is a Library of Congress type organization to begin a serious long-term archive of significant portions of this type of media.
The article is about the value of youtube lets play videos as secondary documentation. There is no mention of emulation. Some lets play videos feature emulated games but some others capture from original hardware.

The article also raises a good point (that I think echos your sentiment) about how lets play videos include some amount of the context that the game was played in. Even with the exact artifact, something is lost when it is transplanted to Now.
It seems that we need to move away from clever, complicated low-level micro-optimizations that rely on mangling instructions and just use more cores. That should allow for simpler security model.
As obnoxious as this is, it's still only promoting other shows on the same service you're already paying for. It isn't convincing your kid that they need you to buy them a hundred other products, or - more importantly - seeding them with the idea of constant consumerism as a lifestyle.

That said, I've made Hulu my default now specifically because of Netflix's pushy dark patterns.
Well that's probably what he was thinking! You'd think they'd be able to get it sorted a bit faster than "sorry guys, guess you'll have to tell your landlords to hold on a month!" Good on Dave.
Tips for Problem Solving
http://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2015/05/06_poles-of-inacc...
Didn't they already have a proof of concept Spectre or Meltdown exploit via a web page? Malicious ads seem like the best way to spread ransomware, etc.
It’s an OLAP database. Are you really that concerned about FK constraints?

The only other OLAP database that I’ve used is Amazon’s Redshift and FKs are for “informational purposes”.

Or is it considered a transactional database or an analytics database?
"David J. Benson is a 6th Century Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen." ? Piqued my curiosity!
If one single state actor was involved in pulling off that "major" event, then your point about all the consequences being "worth it" is irrelevant.
If you add the solar at the time of building the roof you'd probably reduce this dramatically, as the house would probably be shrouded in scaffolding.
PBS Kids is pretty good for that too.
You probably think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORD.LINK ? Building is in progress.
I agree that this is good, and my older child has similarly little exposure to commercials as other commenters.

I found this quote, however, a bit shocking: "The average 2-5 year old is spending over 1,600 hours a year watching television"

That is over four hours each day watching TV. And in my opinion, the quality of most of the programming on Netflix, Prime, etc. is not substantially higher than commercials. Like broadcast TV, many are just long-form commercials in and of themselves.
Here's "Zombieload" on Intel's Web site:

https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/softwa...
This is rather disingenuous. Of course Tesla doesn't replace the eMMC; that's a soldered on chip. No car manufacturer in the world does chip level electronics repairs. Instead you replace the entire board, and I have no doubt you can get this repair from Tesla.

That's not to entirely excuse Tesla. If you have a modern operating system running from flash that needs to work for 20+ years as people expect from a car, it needs to be very carefully designed - all logging and runtime data written only to a RAM disk, system and user data on entirely separate partitions, etc.
I do this just because I don't like watching trailers for movies I know I'll watch already (especially since trailers spoil more of the movie than the internet does sometimes), but taking in some in-ear earbuds (esp if they have noise cancelling) and just not looking at the screen is great if you wanna be more covert in your oddities.
Exactly. Wil421 Consulting Inc. would gladly accept a contract to fix your ailing system.
As I always say while fretting about getting out of my comfort zone - the worst thing that can happen is nothing.
Officially my employee works 40 hours because of the benefits if he were to need support from the government (ie parental leave, sickness leading to not being able to work). Off the record he does 30 hour weeks as I believe he will stay happy and more productive that way. I also pay full for gym membership and other stuff he might need.

Might be the same case here?
> We Must Defend Science

Yes!

> Because it matters who does science: Who the scientists are determines what science gets done

Uhm... no? Science is science and true scientists are not identitarians.

The author complains about politicizing science and then proceeds to politicize science:

> The fishing research I have done was most certainly informed by having a Jamaican father who showed me the cultural value of seafood

Because those of us unfortunate souls without Jamaican fathers would never understood the importance of seafood? Tell that to coastal people... anywhere where's a coast.
We don't need to revert to typewriters. We just need computers designed with a real security model in mind, instead of piles of ah-hoc mitigations. However, I bet no one will invest in it until one of these exploits bring down AWS, take over Google's crawlers or something else of that sort.
> Worker paychecks are showing their biggest gains since the recovery began a decade ago

Ok, but they didn't really grow at all for a decade.
Apparently disabling HT won't save you from this one in all cases.
Another thing to note: you will not find any JavaScript in Nim's repo. That's because Nim compiles to JS, I'm actually using an SPA framework written in Nim for most of the forum.
Where do you think the "spirit of the law" comes from and how does a judge apply it? It's by thinking about what others would expect. Whether it's about the past (original intent) or the future, this is an act of imagination (supported by research) where they are thinking about what others would want. There isn't any "view from nowhere".

If you don't care about what other people want and how the law affects people, then there is no morality or justice and it might as well be a coin flip.
The dangerous world of being paid in shares
Do you have any data to back up this assertion?
> But for SSN I do fib: when asked for SSN (say at a drugstore or whatever) I say "sorry, I'm a foreigner and don't have one".

I'm rarely asked unless there is a regulatory reason they're asking (and then I tell the truth). But when someone wants to know mine for no legitimate reason, I give them Richard Nixon's SSN.
Network Performance issue in Brazil
This sentence killed me:
"Daniel Gruss, one of the researchers who discovered the latest round of chip flaws, said it works “just like” it PCs and can read data off the processor. That’s potentially a major problem in cloud environments where different customers’ virtual machines run on the same server hardware."

What are they saying here?
This looks like it is from the same TU Graz people who also worked on Meltdown & Spectre

https://meltdownattack.com/
So the solution to bias in the sciences is to double down on bias? Make sure only the bias you support is present?

> Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ph.D. is a marine biologist and founder of Ocean Collectiv, a consulting firm for conservation solutions grounded in social justice.

Literally a think tank trying to advance scientific policies based on politics.
If hacker news is to preserve its community of diverse, exceptionally technical, and well-articulating members -- the site moderators must stop publishing left-wing propaganda.

I appreciate that they are left-leaning, however they use aggressively use 'plausible deniability' to infest (and allow others to) this site with NYT, VOX, scientific-american, NPR and other US-centric left propaganda machines.

'Plausible deniability' used by HN moderators involves, letting through articles and opinions that are just touching 'technology' (that's where plausible comes in), while mostly reflecting the left agenda and talking points.

Then, when conservative positions are being argued in comments, they will be massively downvoted and flagged -- as (not technology relevant or offensive).

Same approach the HN moderators are applying to new posts.

My ask is for everybody who thinks this is a problem, to either not participate in these discussions, or simply move over to lobste.rs, where there is still a sense of sane.
Huh. so shortly after the story broke, I bought a bunch of SMCI. (It's actually the first OTC stock I've ever bought. It was easier than I thought, too... I had to call vanguard to enable OTC trading, but after that? super easy.) I sold it months later, at a pretty good profit, mostly 'cause while I think the bloomburg accusations are clearly false, there are huge accounting irregularities surrounding supermicro; getting delisted is no joke, and I'm super not qualified to evaluate that sort of risk.

but, my reasoning? my reasoning was that if it was a widespread physical hack, someone would discover it fairly quickly; I mean, people were tearing these boards apart, looking for anything. There's no way they could keep that quiet, even if they were willing to disappear people.

I can tell you that within my peer group, Bloomberg has taken a pretty huge reputational hit. I mean, sure, we all still read 'money stuff' because it's "the daily show" for financial news. It's great entertainment, and moderately edifying. But, you know, it's one of those things where after a newspaper writes about something in your field, you start wondering if they are that ridiculously uninformed about the things that aren't in your field.

So, I felt really pretty safe with buying in the dip.
It must be about time for SHA-4.
I think at last we can agree on your more accurate description of your beliefs, just with the sole exception that we could simplify it by the removal of the first sentence. That is, I fully agree with the following:

Everyone perceives that their opinion/knowledge is based on facts, but very few are even slightly aware that their knowledge is actually based on a hodge podge of memes, each with varying levels of truthiness. If we could somehow manage to get a significant portion of the population to truly realize that much of what they believe, what they consider to be fact, their mental model of reality, is largely made up of meaningfully incorrect approximations, the impact on the world could be substantial.
This works on all websites, no exception. We do not track user's data.

Improvements: Include in-app speed control buttons and quality control buttons. Suggest if any more should be included.
I got Amazon to avoid shipping things to me using their own execrable AMZL (Amazon Logistics) service, by emailing Jeff Bezos. They said from now on they would only use AMZL if there is no other way to ship (e.g. for same-day shipping). So far this has been a good solution.
Carrefour and TerraCycle launch 'Loop' test in Paris to tackle waste
Here’s a cheap home version under development, funded through indiegogo. I was a backer and am hoping to receive one soon but it’s been a long wait so far:

https://solenica.com/
Can Facebook Be Fixed? Should It Be?
Start here:

Boolean Logic & Logic Gates: Crash Course Computer Science #3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI-qXk7XojA

It's a nice, simple, easily watchable and highly visual overview of what you're going to start learning.

From there, it's virtually guaranteed that YouTube will suggest more relevant videos, and you'll be on your way.

Then later, you might want some books on "Digital Logic" (that's the keyword to search for).

To go up from that level of abstraction, I recommend
"The Personal Computer from the Inside Out: The Programmer's Guide to Low-Level PC Hardware and Software (3rd Edition)" By Murray Sargent III and Richard L. Shoemaker:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201626462

To learn Assembly Language:
Randall Hyde's Art Of Assembly Language
http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm.c...

To learn Compilers:
Compiler Construction, by Niklaus Wirth
http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf

Let's Build A Compiler, Jack W. Crenshaw & Marco van de Voort:
https://www.stack.nl/~marcov/compiler.pdf

A Small C Compiler, by James E. Hendrix (sorry, this one is behind a pay/registration wall)
https://www.scribd.com/document/289762150/Small-C-compiler-v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C

Tiny C Compiler
https://bellard.org/tcc/

Wikipedia articles related to compilers:
Compilers, General:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler
BNF:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form
Shunting Yard Algorithm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm
Parse Trees:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_tree

Here's a great way to visually explore how various compilers create assembly language instructions:
https://godbolt.org/

Up the abstraction level from all of that is LISP and LISPlike languages, Tensorflow, ML, and related high-level abstractions -- but you probably are more aware of those than the lower levels...

Anyway, good luck! It's a wonderful journey to undertake!
Recently released records show how Nasa investigated 1989 WANK worm infection
AIUI, no. That package was added in Honeycomb (API level 12), whereas WhatsApp currently supports Gingerbread (API level 10).

However, two API levels of compat. seems like a good trade to me in order to avoid an RCE.
Probably if you spend enough time and effort you can find something political in, say, the mathematics papers written by any given university research team on any given year. But if a politician advocates for teaching that Pi is exactly three, in my opinion that's on a whole different level.

Your post advocates for false equivalence, in a somewhat indirect manner. We get to "all science is politicized". And then the muddling of the waters is complete.
I agree. That's not what the parent post was talking about. The post disparaged people based on who they are not what they do.