skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising allows those who have fleeting excess brain-seconds of attention to convert it into non-ephemeral money.

People give away their brain-seconds of attention based on interest, and the interest-providers are profiting on the difference in interestingness between advertisements and their own content. If they maintain interestingness above the boredom threshold, they can dilute their product with ads and pocket the difference.

If the advertisements were interesting in themselves, the advertisers wouldn't need to pay to get views.

Ad-tech is currently trying to shave ever closer to the boredom threshold. But people who value their own time are trying to maximize their interest-per-brain-second ratios. So they block ads, or multiplex their attention so they can switch to a different interesting thing while an ad is pre-empting another interesting thing.

So ad-tech should instead be focusing on making exposure to and information about the product on the market more interesting and useful.

Nothing stands out in my mind more as an example of doing things not just wrongly, but as the perfect antipode of correct, than the network-dependent insert-ad-here spots currently on DirecTV Now streaming video channels, that is literally nothing more than three static images paired with LOUDNESS-ENHANCED boring annoying synthetic music. It's the same ad, in every commercial break, on every channel, and it was boring and annoying to begin with. It only gets more boring and annoying with every repetition. It eventually generates antipathy in the viewer, toward the advertised products AND the advertiser. The natural reaction, of course, is to hit the mute button and switch to another attention sink until interesting content returns, or long-term to cancel DirecTV Now and switch to something with fewer or less-intrusive ads, or no ads at all.

The attention-reseller has to be aware that giving up control to someone else can possibly lead to a hostile advertiser that pushes negative-interest, such as audio of multiple babies screaming, over a video of Adolf Hitler shoveling kittens into a sausage grinder, or perhaps something else with less hyperbole. If the reseller cannot establish a minimum standard of interestingness, they risk a rogue advertiser killing off their audience. Again, the answer is more interesting ads, tailored to the channel audience--and not the individual viewer, because that's creepy and intrusive, which is anti-interesting.

In short, the advertisers are being too lazy, and too greedy. Pay the content creators to advertise the products themselves, in a way that they know will be above the boredom-threshold for their audience. Stop trying to figure out how to match prepackaged ads--that the attention-resellers have never had the chance to review--to audience members using tracking, profiling, and spyware.
How to Capture the Best Frame in an iOS Image Processing App
It's still a work-in-progress, but there should be some interesting news at the RISC-V Zurich conference next week [1]. For example, Imperas has announced an ISA simulator for the current 0.71 version of the specification [2].

[1] (https://tmt.knect365.com/risc-v-workshop-zurich/agenda/1)

[2] (http://imperas.com/articles/imperas-delivers-first-risc-v-si...)
unless you had a very weird vesting schedule, your GOOGL long since vested (mine finished in '17)
I posted this after reading about google concern for hwawei bans. since google seems to be based on locking users out of actual control of the OS, its unlikely big G will let people block data access or kill processes, so if google is so concerned about a security threat then the user should take control of the phone and defend themselves. When the threat is only a click away from you, and help is a business model away from you, your going to have to take care of it yourself.

looks like a fun toy, i have afew "undead" tracphones this may help to revive them.
Premature optimization comes in many forms, and at least these three cases are doing more harm than good:

1: "It's good practice"

For example: Wrapping every function implementation in a memoize function may seem like a good idea (= it prevents doing unnecessary work-heavy stuff), but it actually makes code both harder to read (more boilerplate to skip when reading) and most cases slower (= even when a function is executed only once, you're doing extra checks and function call).

2. "We're gonna need this soon"

For example: many times I've implemented an abstraction that makes sense for sharing code with a feature that I know we'll be implementing soon, only to find out priorities have changed and that other feature never gets implemented. What's left is an unnecessary abstraction that only makes the code harder to read and maintain.

3: Optimising for speed/lines of code

Unless you're building a game engine, it rarely makes bang for the buck to optimise for speed until you have identified an actual bottleneck in performance.

Same for one-liners. It may be cool that you know how to write 10-line function as one-liner nested ternary, but your "clever" code is probably less readable and harder to maintain.
I've been trying to learn infosec for a few years now with the eventual goal of either an offense/defense role. Plan to work on my OSCP next.

I have a few basic questions please:

1. Aside from: linux cmds, nmap, metasploit, sqlmap, mimikatz, kali's well known tools - what other tools are often used by pen testers ?

2. How is MFA beaten in today's enterprises ?

3. Do most engagements assume one is already in the network ? If not, how does one scan (basic OSINT towards their externally facing website, but let's assume that is very secure)

4. How well do pen testers know the defense side and amalgamation of so many defensive tools - how do they learn what to beat ? Is it really as simple as try to fingerprint and then look for known vulnerabilities on msf ? Or do pen testers not care if xyz enterprise is using this version of Palo Alto or a carbon black EDR etc.

e.g. Alphabet soup of products in a large enterprise for defensive solutions - NGAV, EDR, SIEM, honeypots etc. etc.

5. How do you keep up ? aside from Reddit

6. any advice to future job seekers working their way into learning more infosec ?
Space Travel: Obscure Unix-Adjacent Video Game
Huawei is not an advertising company. They could use a completely different approach to openness and privacy and eat Google's lunch in the current climate... if they were wise and not trying to be authoritarian or controlling. And considering Google basically privatized Linux, I would not see this as being a bad outcome... to make Android a Linux based system open source and community driven again.

As over time Google is planning on abandoning its Linux roots and moving it to what was called Fuschia.
If a Chinese vendor is a threat to US national security, does it mean that American vendors are threats to all other countries' security? It is easy to imagine how American company gives out important data from a phone of Chinese or Iranian government employee for example.
> hell most people don’t even seem to want to live in shared reality and have segmented themselves off into echo chambers on social media.

Most social media tend to be extremely sticky, and not segregated by echo chambers. It's not like the socialists went to twitter, rightwings went to instagram etc.
Sometimes people can be acting passive aggressive in the name of humility. It's hard to understand yourself to find out if you truly are willing to find out or just trying to prove another person wrong. I think I have lived in both spectrum in different phase of my life so I can vaguely relate.
You can still do that. It's just a move from one account to the other. "Undo" is booking the transaction in reverse.

It's fine if that's automated, the point is that it's recorded in the first place.

(OK, I misspent my youth as an assistant to an accountant. With actual hand-written ledger books. Maybe I am super-picky about these things :)
While full OS updates are rare and usually delayed(this is not specific to Huawei but the market as a whole), I do receive roughly once per month security updates that "integrate Google security patches" on my P10 with Android 9
VERY nice work! I haven't dug too deep into the application, yet, but being able to write flash cards in markdown and then study them using spaced repetition is a combo that will make me more inclined to use this technique when studying topics.

Thank you for creating this.
Huawei provides a bounty program for stolen trade secrets: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-28/from-boun...

Many U.S. companies have been afraid to report Chinese IP theft due to fears about retaliation and stock price: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/12/711779130/as-china-hacked-u-s...

Years back when I was still freelancing, I worked with a U.S. firm who sold specialized lightweight cases for a popular sporting product. Their Chinese manufacturer stole the tech, ignored the patent, sold the same product to the U.S. market at half the price and put my client out of business.

These claims are not unfounded or unsubstantiated. There has been an ongoing pattern of abuse from China for decades and until recently nobody in our government was giving a shit about it.
Heh. Langton's Ant was the first program I wrote when I was learning to program in Cobol on a mainframe, circa 2015, while working at <BIG FINANCIAL CORP>. I daresay I read about it in The Science of Discworld, like another commenter. The Cobol ant was not animated, mind- I just wrote out the end result after a sufficient number of iterations to get the characteristic shape, as in the wikipedia image.

I had a look though and I can't seem to find the code. Shame, as I think the square grid had a very natural representation in Cobol that gave me some nice insights about the language.
Shame on who?

Apple? Or the customer for buying a product they can't use without braking apples rules?

Who is committing the evil?
No, this is long term advice.

Regular donations decrease the overall wealth removing the drag of lifestyle creep.
New book idea...

SEO: Search Engine Optimization to expand markets both online and offline in the face of competition and substance
I'd imagine Larrabees failures primarily has been being competitive with AMD and nVidia?
We ask ourselves: do we actually need this? What do we need it for? And when can we delete it?

That is the minimum of every company's obligations under the European GDPR (Genderal Data Protection Regulation) and even then as far as "our promise to you" goes the answer can simply be "yes, to guide us making better services, for as long as you use anything from Mozilla".

Tech companies are using the word “privacy” a lot these days [..] They all want you to think they can be trusted.

mmhmm.
The US military called Taiwan a country
Well I guess you'd still be very involved in raising your kids, it's simply that culturally in that society what you'd consider "your kids" would be your sister's kids.

Possibly if you would want in that society to raise the children you fathered it'd be akin to you in our society wanting to raise your sister's children.
It has the potential to become VERY big. If i could have bought it at 45 dollars or so i would have put 80% of my net worth in that stock, i bought it at 80, expecting it to be $100+. These are the juul and vapes for traditional cigarettes. If vegetarian meat tasted good, is similarly priced, and doesn't prove to have adverse health consequences, why would anyone support the cruel practices of animal farming etc... Think about it, it is not easy to create fake meat which tastes like real meat, and all the money they make will enable their R&D to go further in a hard to enter market of which they are one of the first pioneers.
What are you looking for in deployment friendliness? There's TorchScript to run your code faster (which is a work in progress)
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Actually had an option to make something like this a teaching moment to my kids yesterday. I'd been reading articles about the bridge between Abell 0399 and Abell 0401. There was a Forbes article that said this provided supporting evidence for dark matter. https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/06/06/scie...

Dark matter bothers my sense of cosmic aesthetics. I'm not a physicist, I just like reading about how the universe works, so please don't attack my ignorance; there's only so much I can read. I'm painting with very broad strokes here.

Going back to the Forbes article, it provided some good arguments that this was supporting evidence. I had to concede that the blocks making up the argument seemed sound, so I started rearranging mental furniture.

Then there was the correction at the end of the article, and I'm at the position where I can understand how you can provide a situation that can at least provide supporting evidence to support dark matter.

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However, that's not the main point, it's just the foundation for where I'm going.

I used it to show my kids that you can understand/believe something that seems right or is "known" to be true. But when you come across evidence that shows you're wrong, or presents valid evidence to support a differing point of view, then you have to consider it outside of what you desire to be true. Mind, after examining it, poke at holes that exist and shred it if it's garbage, but if it's not susceptible to that, you need to change your world view.
I'm gonna need some hard evidence to believe what you just wrote there.

Also this assumption that "older people" are less capable of using the internet is such a load of ageist nonsense. Many of us "older people" were skilfully using the internet to find things out before most millenials were twinkles in their parent's loins.
Well there are two possible conclusions from this:

1- Women can't figure out how to effectively commit suicide and fail at the attempt at a rate that is 400% greater than men because they aren't capable - I don't believe this for a minute.

or

2- Women engage more in the cry for help attempt, while men go through with it all the way more often.

Personally I'd go with 2, but I'd be open to hearing any other alternative explanations.

The 'women do it wrong because they want to look pretty when dead' or 'women can't figure out violence' (a version of #1) seem like condescending conclusions drawn to avoid having to deal with the probability of #2, which sounds simpler.
Leverage in trade negotiations would be the main benefit I see.
This comment really highlights why the term SDN is pointless and needs to die. You are talking about something completely unrelated to topic of the article.
Were there flags that were supposedly "zuckcoins" or something similar?
But a password isn't evidence, it's testimony. The Supreme Court has held that you don't need to turn over "contents of the mind". The example of Wikipedia uses a bank password as an example [1]. In fact even the act of turning over the password demonstrates that the defendant had control of the device and could easily be argued to be self-incriminating.

Also, think about the implications of this. What if the person being ordered to hand over the password says "I forgot"? How do we know if they have genuinely forgotten the password?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
Song Title: Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand
I wish it came too :)
They might integrate with ChainLink, a decentralized oracle network: https://chain.link
The wifi (and they do literally have wifi on ISS) is $50/GB in this announcement. Considering the resource constraints on ISS, perfectly reasonable. Generous, even.
Rich is a relative term. You can't have everybody that is rich. You are only rich to relative to somebody who is not.

I've lived in West Africa for 2 years, and here you have plenty of "rich man of the village". But you would not consider them rich yourself.
Well, they showed only very mildly bad stuff about the Soviet Union. It was much worse than that. Millions of people were affected, not just in Pripyat. They were kept in the dark, they were not allowed to take vacations, they were lied to about being affected and were exposed to huge levels of radiation. Medication became immediately unavailable. Train tickets to leave were impossible to buy. There was a lot of disregard towards personal protection and anything related to human life. In Kiev grass on the ground was extremely dangerous, but that's a lot of people, so they were focusing on preventing panic at any cost, not helping people.

> There are few (if any) societies in history that could have done what the Soviet Union did in response to Chernobyl.

I completely disagree. Soviet Union handled the Chernobyl disaster very poorly. It's too bad the show gave you the opposite impression.
>the added burden of installing a better IDE means it's the one most often used by beginners.

Is it? My first reaction seeing Idle was "there's got to be something better" & started googling. I'd imagine most noobs would do the same.

That said my first encounter with Eclipse put me off that for life.

VS/VS Code on the other hand is a delight.
Responding by a Venn diagram, love it.

More to the point - there is a significant number of people who started learning about computer security precisely because they got some cryptocurrencies. And frankly, if someone wants to really understand the details, it's hard to miss all the frequent warnings and examples of scams, hacks, leaks.
> That's how capitalism and the free market is supposed to work.

It's wrong to talk about how a market is "supposed to work" because markets aren't a Platonic ideal; they're how people get together and deal with scarcity in aggregate. Some markets can be highly competitive, some are monopolies or monopsonies, some are more or less regulated, and so on.

Capitalism is an ideology so it has a way it's supposed to work, but I think they'd broadly agree that banning a category of volunatry transactions is not capitalist.

> Without advertising, these people would be forced to implement a profitable monetization strategy, or they would fail.

Very true, if the government intervened, businesses would be forced to work around it. That may wind up being worse than what you started with. If ads weren't allowed, you'd probably have more people recruited to do direct sales, for instance.

More likely, though, they would lobby the government and point out the massive human cost of large numbers of businesses failing.
This point was made recently about the NY Times having an editorial about advertising / tracking being invasive, while also having advertising / tracking on their own page.

The justification / defence given was that you want separation between editorial and business decisions. If the two are aligned, the freedom of the editorial team to write what they want will diminish, and the business will ultimately dictate what gets written.

If it feels a bit pessimistic, I agree, but pessimistically, I also feel like it's just realistic.
A cryptocurrency that violates one of the main tenants of cryptocurrencies. The fact is doesn't require a centralized authority.
This is basically Twitch bits and shouldn't be classified as a cryptocurrency. As others have stated, probably the only reason to use one is because an existing blockchain can simply be used under a new brand.
Right, and I think this illustrates well how linguistic this "problem" is.
Heh, sounds like you could possibly cause the bread to catch on fire.
This series of words masquerading as sentence makes zero sense.

What would signing video prove? Who signs it? Who controls the signing keys? How would blockchain, in any form, help here, in any capacity whatsoever?
Looking "tough on China" ahead of what will be another very bitter election.
Are people actually using BTC in Venezuela, or do they just claim to be from Venezuela, and are asking for donations into their wallet?

> Or for people without a bank account?

I'm having strong doubts that you actually understand how the world banks. There are hundreds of millions of people who don't have bank accounts, and use electronic payments through their cell providers.
Values or Virtues?
Another FYI - In Europe (e.g., Germany and France) a similar thing has happened. The difference there is a noticeable percentage of the immigrants are Muslim (and are generally less inclinced to assimilate). I remember reading a couple of years ago that soon enough (read: 25 to 50 years?) - if current trends continue - Muslims will be the majority in Germany. So while Germ's economy has fared well as of late, it might be sitting on a cultural powder-keg if the economy stagnates.

As for Japan's economic stagnation of the last couple decades? Relatively low immigration.
If you can sign anything then what purpose does a signature serve?
>Microsoft only said the database was "unavailable" because someone left the company.

People champion pet projects all the time. At my company we joke that every major website UI redesign is just another VP pissing on the web portal fire hydrant.

Without a key person to pitch the value of this project's continued existence it got killed.

Edit: If MS is anything like the BigCo I work at those servers are gonna be wiped and re-imaged after a bunch of automated "these servers were owned by X who has left the company, do you still need them?" emails are ignored by X's boss.
SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule ends its second flawless trip to space and back
Oh you're no fun at all :)
Do you know how many versions of how many operating systems across how many different platforms and products my company uses? Hundreds of variations, maybe thousands. Only a few groups have a solid handle on regular patching, and that's because of how hyper-standardized their systems are.

Even if an OS has automatic patching, you can't just immediately apply patches without going through an SDLC and QC process. And not every group even has those processes defined. Even if they do, you still need to address critical business problems before security ones.
"They built the enormous containment structure in just a few months, arguably the greatest feat of civil engineering in history" Slow down Igor have you not seen the B2 stealth bomber that at 172 ft long has a radar signature of a bumblebee, the Us highway system or the Hoover dam, which used so much concrete that it is still curing to this day 83 years later and hot to the touch. While the dome of Chernobyl and the bravery of the Russian clean up workers is admirable, As someone who has seen some of the worlds best feats of engineering and is an actually engineer I think you are getting ahead of your self with that statement.
I think this is Microsofts way to limit legal, but more importantly, public image liability. These models can be used for bad stuff, like the profiling thats happening in <insert unethical organization/government here> right now. And Microsoft wants nothing to do with it.
We learned hard way with google that company promises arnt really worth that much
CompTIA certs are a mixed bag, some are decent, but many are very surface level. CISSP is broad, and more managerial level, but certainly worthwhile. But if you'd like some in the trenches stuff, I'd suggest the OSCP.
One of the major benefits of TF 2.0 is apparently the capability to quickly deploy to TPU units with a single parameter change. (I haven't tried it, just followed the marketing).

AFAIK, This is still being worked on PyTorch via XLA, but not quite there yet.
Simple stuff like copy-paste or saving exported files is broken on 64 bit windows