skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think few people would disagree with you. But this is really the biggest danger.

I was merely describing how such happens, not defending the process.

Take for contrast, astrology. We all now know it's obviously fake.

You happen to be speaking to someone who has studied astrology in earnest and believes it has some merit. Astrology is not immune to the rubric "90% of everything is crap." "Sun sign" or "popular" astrology is often quite badly done, but serious astrology is highly mathematical and the practice of marking retrogrades is a perfectly accurate assessment of where those planets appear in relation to the earth because it is a geocentric model, having nothing whatsoever to do with a scientific belief in a geocentric model rather than a solar system.

Astrology is part of the spiritual beliefs of many people. It wouldn't be okay to casually suggest that Christians are nutters for believing Jesus rose from the dead.
Wait, but you just admitted it was in depth, and not bad, parent gp said similar, so my question to both gp and you and those that think like this: why does that automatically equate to propaganda? Because it's not 'your side'? Why is the fact that it is a conservative think tank relevant? Evaluate the content on its merits and evidence. The fact that it doesn't cover one angle as extensively as you would have liked doesn't make it propaganda.
> Microsoft cannot put you in jail, confiscate your property etc.

Without a data protection law, the government can put you in jail and confiscate your property. Companies can spy on you.

With a data protection law, the government can put you in jail and confiscate your property. Companies cannot spy on you.
I think his argument is that these bombs are readily available. US military-style bombs are not that easily available which is why it’s not a big deal. If you could practically get one of those things at the corner store, the fact that it was US military is more coincidence than real problem.
Just record the important parts of an HTTP request using your server software, such as Node.js, save them to disk, and replay them on matching subsequent requests when offline mode is enabled. Or use a high level library that already does this; I'm looking into yakbak[0x00].

[0x00] https://github.com/flickr/yakbak
Haha it is rather ridiculous, but you can formalize big company decisions in a sort of company secretary’s binder. Honestly though, keeping the finances and contracts separate will basically always be enough to avoid personal liability. Basically you just want everything to be partitioned enough that no one you do business with would ever think that they are dealing with you in a purely personal capacity rather than as a representative of your company.
I've had the same experience with existing SAST tools.
I don’t know if it’s good heuristic of performance or not. Everyone has to be judged individually in this case. I do think that it is a measure of self-confidence, which may effect performance, and certainly risk taking.

I think about what Guido van Rossum said recently[0]. He’s seen incompetent men’s ideas gain acceptance more often than merited because they are more forceful in how they present them. I’m sure if you asked the incompetent man why his idea was chosen, he’d say it was because it was the best technically, and not because of some lesser reason, like politics.

[0] https://qz.com/1624252/pythons-creator-thinks-it-has-a-diver...
I stumbled into the realization that teams should be full stack instead of horizontally sliced. Once I figured out how to map out data dependencies end to end
as part of our planning process we made huge gains in productivity and similar reductions in stress.
0-day generally refers to the day the vulnerable party learns of the vulnerability, so it would be substantially earlier.
Try to make a company. You have to be full-full-fullstack.
It's a common misconception, at least in the US, that AC uses more power than heat. Tons of people leave the AC off to "save power" but almost nobody turns down heat in the winter.

The article touches on this, but AC in hot areas is far more energy efficient than heating in cold ones, because humans prefer a balmy ~75 degrees. Even in the hottest places, there's only a 30 degree difference inside and outside. In areas where temps get below freezing, you need to maintain 40 degree+ difference.

What the article doesn't mention, is that AC is also 3-10X more efficient than heat even without factoring in temperate difference. In warm areas we can use heat pumps for heat and AC which function by moving heat from one side to the other. The downside is that they don't work well in cold temperatures.

In cold areas you can't move heat, there's just not enough of it, so you have to create it. This is massively inneficient and makes living in warm/hot areas far more eco friendly than somewhere like chicago
So true. This is also the 'Dilbert Theory of Value Creation' that I have used to great profit. Scott Adams likes to say, he is not the funniest guy around but funnier than most people. At best, he'd be a mediocre comedian. He can also draw better than most but hardly a Picasso. And yet, by combining both skills he has something "rare and valuable" that has led to enormous financial success.

He also adds that it easier to do this (combining two or more skills) than it is to be the very best at one thing e.g. an NBA player--it is actually easier, statistically, to become a billionaire than it is to become an NBA player.

There are more than 2,000 billionaires worldwide but only about 480 NBA players (32 teams with roughly 15 people on the roster). And if you think about it, becoming a billionaire usually involves multiple skills (good at programming + business, bill gates. Good at research/analysis + cultivating a rare temperament that allows you to act on the insights produced by the research even when everyone around you is losing their shirt, Warren Buffett etc, etc).

Being an NBA player requires one skill at a minimum. Being tall!
I believe the same thing happened at IBM in the 90s.
Neal Stephenson Explains His Vision of the Digital Afterlife
It says it’s faster than a plane for Beijing to Shanghai. Planes have boarding times, extra security checks, and produce a lot more greenhouse gases.
> As years go by the industry is going deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole of developer-focused engineering process and developers go on to combine more and more responsibilities beneath the surface of single cranium.

Why do you think developer salaries are so high? As the advancement and sophistication of open-source and SaaS offerings increasingly empowers individual developers to do more for businesses, so do developers leverage those capabilities to demand higher salaries and become more and more integral, as individuals, to the business process. The natural consequence of this is that companies have increased their expectations across the board because they ultimately get more value out of a highly paid full-stack than paying three moderately smaller salaries to a FEE, BEE and a manager/architect/SME to coordinate their efforts.
I thought I’d feel that way but it turns out I need a break from Javascript sometimes. Doing a backend story once in a while got me a little break from that before Node. Now I’ve only got the build system and docker as relief valves and it’s not enough long term.
Somehow I knew before clicking that this was going to be a Scott Manley video. I love that guys channel, it's always so good. Even his less good stuff is still good!
Also note that “guilt by association” is a common and distasteful rhetorical tactic, often taking the form of an implication that unwanted speech is tainted because of a spurious association with the far right or far left.

Further note that whether the term “SJW” originated with the far right — it didn’t — is irrelevant to its usefulness or accuracy (genetic fallacy).

The hyperbolic and fallacious arguments are to be found in the first poster’s comments.
It was Minnesota, not Maryland. Employers in Minnesota do have to give a truthful reason for termination, if requested in writing [1]. I don't know if she requested that, but I would be interested how that would play out if the reason given is fundamentally wrong. In other words, was she fired "for being racist"? Or was she fired because "people on the Internet were mad at her"?

[1] https://www.dli.mn.gov/business/employment-practices/employm...
Thanks for the response. I just have one remark:

> one of my roommates is always cold and refuses to believe we sleep better cool

I don't think this is universal, although it is often stated as such. I too sleep best when the room is between 24 and 25 degrees Celsius (during the winter, too).
It "supports" it with a tu quoque "whataboutism" argument, i.e. a fallacy.
> Unlike a cold winter with no heat, a hot summer with no cooling won't definitely kill you.

That's very blatantly false. And it's going to get a lot worse if the planet continues to heat up.

2003 heat wave "In France, 14,802 heat-related deaths (mostly among the elderly) occurred during the heat wave, according to the French National Institute of Health."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave

NYT 2003: "The staggering number of deaths in France -- perhaps 5,000 by the government's estimate but possibly more than twice that ... The victims were generally found inside apartments, houses and hotels. In virtually every case, there was no air-conditioner."

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/22/world/lack-of-air-conditi...
I was going to be snarky but I read the article and the linked articles about how AC is eco friendly and there is nothing I can see that showecases that fact. haha. WTF
Could happen. Hope it does not.
When I lived in the States it felt unbelievably weird that people in summer would wear sweatshirts because it was so freezing cold inside. My fellow American colleagues thought however that was the most normal thing to do. I still don’t get it.
France imports electricity in summer when the rivers are too warm for nuclear power and in winter they also start to have problems (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-power-ana...).
Yes, the claim is that living in a warmer climate and using A/C to cool 10-20 degrees in the summer is more energy efficient than living in a cold one and heating by 40-50 degrees in the winter.
FCC Orders Residents to Disconnect Security Camera Causing Harmful Interference
“make friends with admins” is no joke!
Lynch mobs are deplorable, and the internet hive often becomes a bullying group, however it's a weird example that you decided to set your stake into.

What "critical thinking" was missing? Successful actor claims he was attacked by people wearing MAGA hats. It is unlikely (but not impossible, as shown), that someone with so much to lose would contrive such a scenario, and it's entirely likely that racists/assholes would be wearing MAGA hats (there have been many MAGA hat incidents). There is nothing that triggers any critical fault.

Let's be real -- whether deserved or not, for someone to unironically wear a MAGA hat today is a pretty unique niche.

The other person is being pushed to transparent for pointing out how unfortunate the term "SJW" is, especially on a reasonably enlightened forum like this. I support their statement. That's a statement that people use when speaking to partisans/the converted. It has no place in normal conversation.

It is the weekend though, when the “SIJs” are out in force on HN. My error in not sticking to weekdays.
When you consider something wasteful it trumps what another person thinks about the same? Are you using some objective criteria for this? I’m sure something you consider a good use of time is considered wasteful by a good number of people.

So my point is: should I consider binge watching Netflix (random example) as wasted time because you consider it a waste or should I keep doing it because I enjoy it? Especially if objectively speaking it doesn’t prevent me from being a useful member of society, perhaps more so than many people who don’t engage in such “wasteful” behavior.

You can probably find a counter example for most rules you can think of. A cherry picked example doesn’t negate the premises.

Years ago some guy was rambling about shadows in a cave. Not quite WoW but still pretty wasteful depending on who you asked.
Look into Alexander Shulgin and other intelligent old people who've openly used MDMA for decades and you won't see a lot of obvious brain damage.
> more people on HN agree with you on a topic than disagree with you

They don't even mean that. There's a (500?) karma threshold for being able to downvote, whereas anyone can upvote.
18 is pretty cool, I only push the ambient temperature down to that level at night, for sleeping. During the day 24 would be entirely normal for many Americans. If I tried to keep it at 20 during the day my wife would be pretty unhappy with me.
Similarly, my murdering my neighbor is OK because it's so many fewer murders than ISIS commits.
They (nissan) guarantee 75% capacity after 8 years or 160.000 km.
This goes along with a study I read a while back that you can do practically any job with an IQ of 120. Higher than average, but not anywhere close to genius level. With an average IQ of 100 you can still preform well in something like 80% of jobs.

Software engineers have an average IQ of 110ish so most HN readers are capable of doing almost any job. It's really about effort and things that are harder to measure like creativity
Isn’t 24-25C bad for typing? I know my arms sweat-stick to the desk at those temps.
It is not false. It says "won't definitely kill you". A cold winter will definitely kill you without heat, but a hot summer won't definitely kill you, it just might kill you.

Perhaps you read it as "definitely won't kill you", which would be false.
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I'll laugh at you blind nuclear supporters when one the French reactors inevitability fails catastrophically. Unless I'm busy dying or evacuating to some place that has spare housing for a few million people.

I mean, nuclear is still better than fossils, but it's still a ridiculously stupid idea.
To me it feels like a broader audience is starting to realize how much of an unlawful wild west the internet can be - and how much SIGINT and other entities abuse that. And how little preparations some networks have - networks with serious impacts when breached.

I'm working on the defensive side, so we can actively watch new exploits via HTTP being developed, assigned a CVE-ID and splatter on the IDP system on our application clusters in very large numbers. Others of our edge systems are under constant, automated, attacks even utilizing personal information about employees. It's kind of scary, but normal.

But now things are escalating into meatspace, if I may use that term. Norsk Hydro got hit with ransomware and only the engineers on site managed to avoid the loss of the entire smelting plants. Now we have an entire city hit hard enough to be seriously impacted.

Combine this actual impact end-users have with a flashy name from a secretive agency like the NSA, and of course that name gets used.

And I guess personally, if I have to tolerate flashy names in order to get broader awareness towards the importance of cyber security, I'm not that opposed.
No.

A properly designed and insulated building should not need very much of either.

So where are the KWh / sq m comparisons? Or comparing insulation levels? How did she reach this conclusion?

Maybe it's better than heating in a comparably insulated building. No chance of finding out from this rubbish.

Given McArdle's background, I probably shouldn't expect the piece to mention any of that.
I do have to agree with this article insofar as to what companies are expecting from potential candidates way more than is feasible that's unless the BE and FE use the same language. But as a technical founder you just do not have a choice but to wear all hats.
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Corporations can signal their values through acting morally and with regard to the health and safety of society. Check out Patagonia. They donated $10 million saved in tax cuts to environmental groups.

Tyler Cowen covers other instances in his new book: Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.
Downvoting is available for accounts with at least 501 karma.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
At least in the first instance it looks like there's a minor overestimation, but it depends on what you're looking at. Quoting my comment from previous submission:

The general effect still exists, yes. It's just reported on poorly in this instance.

The 'relative overplacement' in the first table (the extent that participants over-estimated their own performance) is a correlation of 0.04, while the 'actual rank' is a correlation of 0.13, both in comparison to 'subjective social class'. There are a lot of correlations of higher magnitude than 0.04, so it's disappointing that the article attempts to focus on nothing else.
But it does not work that well. Some individuals(not many) do apply to higher standard while the others just slack on the trend wave. And they can do more harm because their responsibility is almost everywhere.
In dry areas, you can also use a swamp cooler, though you might be SOL if you don’t have a backup during typhoon season.
If you're reliant on color to convey critical information, then your app is by default already much harder to use for colorblind users. Anyone who feels one needs these extra specific colors really ought to rethink the core design.
which products?
My bad, I considering buying i7 and got an i5 , I got confused.
Renewables are a somewhat less insane and less impossible plan.
Those people definitely died, so the lack of AC definitely did kill them. It was false in their thousands of cases.
Haven't we basically given up on maglev? It's too expensive, and advances in regular trains have shown it's quite possible to go 300 mph on (upgraded) old fashioned steel tracks.

Every time I see one of these projects in any country it seems like a big publicity stunt. Maglevs are cool, and if you have a few your country is cooler. At least that appears to be the prevailing wisdom.

You can see the political underpinnings in the plans, which invariably link the capitol or largest city with somewhere that has a nice airport
> Which gives ample room for a European competitior that does adhere to GDPR to clean up the EU market

Agreed. My point was with respect to an American start-up—compliance with GDPR is of lower priority than scaling. The priority, for both, should be scaling.

Advantage goes to the American start-up, however, in launching from a single market. But one might counter-argue that consumers in e.g. China will prefer to do business with European start-ups over American ones due to GDPR. (No evidence for that. But it’s a valid hypothesis.)
Everything NSA and the APT groups do now (in this arena) was done first by private actors, so, no, I don't think this argument works.
not that there's anything wrong with jquery or select2, both of which i used heavily in the past, but if you're working in vue it's a very nice feeling to just completely drop the jquery dependency. ive been using https://github.com/shentao/vue-multiselect for over a year now in production and despite its quirks i'd recommend it.
Yep, I drive a reliable but beat up ~300k-mi 90s car in CA and whenever I visit family in the west chicago suburbs by car I get viewed as white trash driving such a piece of crap and constantly checked out by city police. The salt destruction completely redefines what it means to operate such an old car there. The prevailing attitude is that only ghetto poor people drive old beat up cars because they can't get a loan for a new one, presuming everyone needs to replace their car often.

When I'm in CA, people in parking lots often strike up conversations about the car like it's a classic and make offers to buy it. Police never take any interest in me since it's so common for people to drive old cars in a place they continue working just fine. The culture is completely different, I often wonder how much of it is due to the road salt alone.
If you're a solo freelancer full-stack is exactly what you want to be. Being in charge of the whole development process is a big win. I'm not sure full-stack needs to include being an artistic graphic designer, though. Usually it's enough to be able to wield Photoshop well enough to produce business-grade (read boring) graphics. Farm it out to art school students if you need anything more exotic. They'll be glad of the extra income to supplement their grant.
The problem that I have seen is most companies don't want to pay a skilled full-stack developer what they are worth. They think $100k is the going rate and unfortunately a lot of junior developers are calling themselves full-stack and jumping at that salary. Then the lines get blurred and the true value of a full-stack developer gets diminished.
> Do the batteries decay over time?

Think about any product using rechargeable batteries that you have ever owned, and you'll get the idea. There will be a gradual reduction in range until the batteries really need to be replaced.
Experience shows that experts tend to lack humility. That's also why experts who are humble are more admired than usual, and why experts who fall from humility tend to fall out of popularity at the same time.
Actually it is possible to have some kind of really eco friendly air conditioning and it has been invented (a thousand years ago?) in Iran. It is called "Badgir" and it is a pity that their invention has not been much more adapted by modern society (Iranians themselves do not built new ones.... what a pity): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
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Expanding on your points, only AMD, SPARC and MIPS avoided Meltdown bugs, they were also found in ARM, and IBM POWER and mainframe/Z designs. All of these vendors have out-of-order speculative execution designs that are vulnerable to Spectre.

> If anything, the "capture 90% of the market." by Intel as you put it only ensures that these problems will usually be discovered on their processor's first.

Precisely. I haven't looked at the MDS set of flaws yet, but to take the first version of Foreshadow/L1TF, it targets the Intel SGX enclave, by definition the designs of other companies that don't have SGX won't be vulnerable. But as you note this doesn't mean they don't have their own design or implementation specific bugs.
They want to make everyone happy. If you feel it’s too cold, you can throw something on. In the other direction, you don’t have any option if you feel it’s too hot after you’ve taken off your sweater/jacket.
> The downside is that [heat pumps] don't work well in cold temperatures.

There are now low temperature or "hyper heat" heat pumps which can function effectively to temperatures well below freezing, some as low as 5° F (-15° C).

Your point is not "wrong", but simply "somewhat less true than it used to be".
It is more than pretty close; Metasploit has more offensive capabilities than simply popping a shell, which is what every exploit does by itself already.
Iran can sink U.S. warships with 'secret weapons', military official says
I feel that given the US government prosecution of the MalwareTech guy for use of an exploit package he wrote, but was not using, the US government should accept financial responsibility for the misuse of their own exploit.
Text is not how we optimize for correctness. I can already see my cheap synth failing on scientific notation oddities, BOM, and other JSON gotchas.

Please read up on langsec.