skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s also responsible for the flawless operation of multiple mobile nuclear reactors.

I didn’t say the military would be good at everything, but when you need massive coordinated response to an emergency, the military is the absolute best equipped to do it from a capability and coordination standpoint.

They already do tons of work for major mobile disaster relief.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23232/nav...
Do they really need to address scandals? My understanding was that there's always some ruckus but it seems to slide right off their backs in a matter of months.
I don't think the limit is unscientific. The official limit 600 Bq/kg for Cs-137 containing meat is accepted by scientists.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275270427_The_radio...

Activity of boar meat varies greatly, in some regions they found meat with 10x the acceptable activity.
Dogs are a pain in the ass. They smell bad, and make your home smell bad. They require constant attention. Leaving them at home, locked up, all day long while you're at work working long hours is cruel. Your apartment/condo will require you to pay a big fee to get their poop DNA tested, and when you don't pick up their poop, you'll be slapped with a huge fine. Honestly, it's easier having a child: at least children can go to the bathroom by themselves after a few years, and eventually can feed themselves too.
I think criddell is right. I think the amount of money makes people gloss over some of the ethics, as cynical as that probably sounds. I didn't say it in the article specifically because of it sounding so cynical (even though the article is very cynical).

I think you're right, that a lot of the people going into AdTech, and just marketing in general, aren't philosophical. But, you saying that made me chuckle, because I have a BA in Philosophy, and no computing qualification.
Writing Hello World in Web Assembly (2017)
You know I could let my dog look at your page and see if he barks :)

I haven't thought about the variety of the 40 eyes reviewers yet, I was still concerned to get all the people together but yesterday I got a lot of new reviewers on board. I offer the reviewers two options, they can give an anonymous review if they feel the need for it (so they can give their best roast) but they are supposed to link a social media account to their review so people can follow up with them. That would be a way how you could see how diverse the crowd was and if they all have a technical background or so.

In the next release I plan to offer a better interface to explore the many-eyes-reviews and for new reviewers to join the review process.
An employee council could provide a person to the board, with the power to replace that person as they see fit.
They're doing it to skirt GDPR laws. When GDPR passed, all users were automatically opted out of personal data sharing, targeted marketing, etc. With ZuckCoin, they're going to pay users a small amount of coins to use the site, but in order for users to be eligible for that they'll be required to opt into all of the personal data sharing stuff. And since it will be considered a monetary transaction, Facebook will be required to keep the data from every transaction for 10 years for tax purposes. People won't even be able to ask that Facebook delete their data because they'll be required to store it for 10 years.

edit: If you want to listen to the explanation in more detail, Meanhash explained it on a recent episode of the Hashr8 podcast: https://h4shr8.libsyn.com/meanhash

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/bx9dik/face...
Is Yeats saying lack of conviction is a good thing? Or commenting on the fact that the wrong people have conviction?
I think Digital Ocean shared your view, until recently, when false positives caused them to shutdown a customer business, and a broken support procedure caused them to keep it down. Search HN archives for Digital Ocean from the last week or two and you should be able to find that story.
I agree that in this instance a lawsuit would likely be unsuccessful. I was just putting out a couple legal theories that could be applied to this general fact pattern (Amazon putting a Ring video of you in a security-minded advertisement).
No open source firmware, network stack, details on encryption, or any protocols used in the product? Should I trust it?
Your definition is missing the "block" from blockchain and it's also missing a concensus protocol.
This is all wrong. When you have enough people working on a codebase such that not everyone knows everything about it, tests are a great way to document the behavior. They're much better than something like a wiki, in fact, because nobody actually keeps that kind of documentation up to date.
Backhoes cause damage in a small area, and generally it should be possible to notify the cable owner and for them to get a repair crew dispatched quickly.

A big storm can take out overhead cables in hundreds of places in a short time. It can take a day or more to even find all the damage, and you can have a lot more places that need repair than you have repair crews, so it can take days for some places to even get a repair crew on site.

Also, a storm that takes out overhead fiber or other telecom cables often also takes out power. I believe that in many areas the services that own non-power cables that share poles with power cables are not allows to touch anything on the pole until the power company restores power. That can further slow down scheduling telecom repairs.
The argument apple is making is a third party cannot manufacture for example a car door, because the door shape is a company trademark.

They are trying to prevent repair and maintenance of their products, so you will go buy a new one, which they receive a larger margin on, as well as they can deprecate old products and no longer support them.
I’ve recently had a similar problem, only in my case I’m the foreigner who can’t speak the local language. It’s fine except in meetings.

Junior dev me: meetings are a waste of time.

Senior dev me: meetings are the steering wheel, the developers are the engine (https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2018/01/29/utility-fun...)
I used the first person plural specifically because I was applying this logic to myself. I also used third-person in an attempt to de-personalize the observation, but really it's a first-person account.
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This is different from selling nuclear technology to Iran. Android is open source (albeit not in the "real open source" way) and available to everyone. Anyone can fork it at its own will. Forking Android by a non-US company would give up the control of the OS on phones, which would threaten the US security.
I haven't worked at Google in a while. Is this the same Claire Stapleton that was responsible for doing the quirky Company weekly update / TGIF email? If so, it's a bit sad because when I worked at Google (2009 - 2012) she was one of the voices of the company (kind of like Victoria for Reddit AMAs).
Then sometimes, you meet someone with the attitude, "I must be very intellectually humble, because I already know just about everything!" This sounds like a cheap joke, but I'm serious about this observation. It's easy to fall into this for someone who has been inculcated with the academy's values with regard to knowledge. This not only includes academics, but disciplines with some degree of intellectual rigor, like programming and software development.

Here's a good rule: Don't get so pumped up, that someone else wants to poke you to deflate you.
It is not about BLE beacons. Right, they are energy efficient. But receiving party needs to listen constantly and proces these messages. With 1000 beacons around at 1s interval it means the intermediary node needs to send 1000 notifications per second to Apple. That can be buffered and optimized, but still it is some non-trivial number and possible bottleneck to be exploited.
It's mainly used when discussing task and making architectural / design decision. Junior usually talk in techincal / implementation terms. While senior usually talk in broader / general / business term.

Moreover junior usually have hard time expressing techincal problem.
If you run a root cause analysis of SB or the explosion of VC in general, low rates will be at the top of the list. And this is by design.
There are absolutely things I was better at back then, mostly because then I spent all my time doing nothing but programming and now a lot of time goes to other activities (meetings, planning, writing, etc).
World is Changing maybe a little presumptuous. Maybe in the west where ground meat is a pervasive culinary ingredient. Good luck convincing ethnic cuisines with heavy use of offal or other meat components to adopt aka the rest of the world. Appetite for meat is increasing as developing countries move from subsistence to affluent diets. People are looking forward to enjoying regional meat dishes not science burgers.
I think one of the problems is that they're still seen as having a "good" work environment compared to Amazon (which has a reputation for being hard on its employees) and Facebook (which these days is seen as having an ethical "cloud" over it).

Whether or not these reputations are deserved is irrelevant, it seems like Google will have to do a lot of damage to its reputation before labor market forces push back. More meat for the grinder!

(As a side note, as I've gotten older I've noticed that every fresh batch of graduates who come into the workforce are equally terrible at advocating for themselves. There's a never-ending supply, and a never-ending task of educating/empowering workers.)
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Right. Put differently: any sufficiently long-lived codebase contains institutional knowledge. Knowledge that goes deeper than just the explicit interface boundaries that you're planning to re-implement. That doesn't mean rewrites are a bad idea, just a disruptive one. They'll introduce new fragility for a while before they start being a net gain. Code has to be broken-in, like a new pair of shoes.
I agree, economics, politics and philosophy are all intertwined. I think now that we have a surplus of labor, automation and globalization that we’re due for another shift in all of the above. The loneliness discussed in the OP seems like a symptom of larger societal and technological change.
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> HIGH

That's a curious word. The effects of LSD, MDMA, cocaine, heroin and weed are all described as "high", but they're very, drastically different from each other, and different people, in different life situations and psychological states, crave for different drugs.

Weed in particular is about relaxing, contemplating, slowing down and drifting off. I think that a person who wants to get high on weed is, in general, much more ethical in his subsequent actions than someone who snorts amphetamine lines or drinks shots of vodka, and that this shift in substance of choice in the last ~10 years is overall a positive change. So, it is somewhat connected to ethics.
There's no mention of what, specifically the warrant was a search for. In general, a warrant for search should include specifically what is being searched for. And generally only evidence of that or a major crime are punishable under the warrant or should be.

For example, they're searching for child porn, and they find you're pirating TV shows... they can't prosecute for the pirate shows. The exception is usually only for something like murder/manslaughter.

IANAL, and this is only my understanding. The warrant itself may have been excessively broad or generic though.
Fwiw, I started reading Hacker News ~8 years ago, fresh out of a CS degree and working in tech, and it was my first exposure to a word sense of hacking other than illegal access. I've used the term pretty differently in the years since, but I think the battle for the mainstream meaning of the word was lost long ago.
Yeah, I can't wait until FB starts selling my entire transaction history to anyone that wants it to pay for this magical free service.

Also, PayPal already tried to do this 20 years ago. It won't happen.
Is there anything more here than a payment system?
Thanks for that recommendation and advice, I appreciate it. Yeah, I'd definitely prefer to find and propose fixes for exploits over full pentesting (reporting/client work).
You could make a case for sharing a wasm-style byte array with a C subprocess, but Rust objects won't be safe if C can address them.
I mean, I'd like for that to be true, but look at Equifax. They leaked nearly every critical detail about nearly every single working American. Not only are they still alive, their stock is up ~130% since December and is getting back to where they were before the leak was exposed (~$140)[0]

Leaking data has little consequences.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EFX/
But they can ruin the beauty of our natural landscapes.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/15/national-gri...
Interesting to note the timing of the start of their stock decline (starting in late 2016)[1] and their bet on increased demand for fossil fuel based generation equipment.

It's almost as if they thought the current US administration would be able to stem or reverse the tide of the economics shifting towards favoring renewables.

1. From the original article: http://ieefa.org/ieefa-report-ge-made-a-massive-bet-on-the-f...
That is obviously not what is being discussed here.
Wow! I achieved my OSCP 3 years back, but could never find the time to prepare for OSCE though. Hopefully, I will achieve it one day.
My understanding of the great geniuses is they tend to not be very humble...is this concept empirically supported, or does it just sound nice?

In my experience, the really knowledgeable people tend to be quite opinionated, while also being willing to question their own ideas and receive critical feedback. So, it seems they have both great humility and arrogance, not one or the other.
I'm surprised at the title. Microsoft only said the database was "unavailable" because someone left the company.

Are there any citations or press releases of Microsoft saying it was deleted?
Correct. This is a common abuse of intellectual "property" law.

Check this one out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_S.A._v._Costco_Wholesale....

Corporations abuse these laws to restrict trade in goods already manufactured.

What you can see here is Apple's legal declaration: You do not own the device. Apple does. Apple has the right to refuse sale of the device and you have no recourse.

What you see is a fundamental attack on the notion of ownership. Do you own an Apple device? Apple decides what you may do with it. Apple even apparently decides who you may sell or give it to. Do you really own the device?

Even "buying" something doesn't really give you ownership of it, the corporation still controls it. You are a serf. This is the how of the danger of these intellectual "property" laws being misused against the public.
>More generally: It horrifies me that, when confronted with someone who created something neat and only wanted privacy, everyone's instinct is to deprive them of their privacy. What the fuck, humanity?

I'll be concerned about Satoshi's privacy when privacy is a concept that applies to anyone in modern society.

As it is, Satoshi is being treated no differently than anyone else the internet finds interesting.
IANAL, but it seems possible that intentionally or negligently selling someone a product that definitely isn't what they thought they were buying could constitute something like fraud or misrepresentation. They might be liable for the cost of the hamburger, at least, because you did not get what you paid for.

I also wonder if there might be punitive damages. Here's a random example of a case where there were punitive damages for a business-to-business negligent misrepresentation case: http://www.obrlaw.com/commercial-litigation.php?Third-Circui...

And I'd also wonder if there could be something like pain and suffering or emotional distress. I doubt it would work to demonstrate actual harm (health effects, etc.) in unwittingly/unwillingly eating meat, but I think it'd be pretty easy to argue that someone might feel a lot of distress from being forced to experience something they have deeply-held beliefs against.
Commentary? What's the difference between a GPU and a vector processor? Is vector processors being open-source a desirable quality (compared to general attractiveness of open-source)?
Acronyms that become words sometimes lose their capitalization. Nasa is headed there.

See also: laser, scuba, radar, modem.
Well, yeah, good point. I guess I should temper that with if you're still a full time professional software engineer. I wouldn't expect it to apply to someone that moves partially of fully to a different type of job or activity.
I suppose you have an incomplete model where you haven't thought of and understood all of the corner cases.

I don't think you ever 'finish' a refactor! But you get to be able to deal with your everyday without bumping into conflicting information that causes you to have to refactor every day.

I think a partial refactor would be bad because you're working on an inconsistent model, and if it's wildly inconsistent then it can cause you issues, and might not be a complete model.

For example, imagine you just learned that sugar is bad for you! But thats the sum of your new dietary knowledge. So you start going for fatty foods with lots of preservatives. This isn't going to be any better for you. And you'll have to 'refactor' when someone points out your new diet is still bad for you.
That intention is still a perversion of the actual intention of stocks and the stocks market, though. If you wanted to tie bonuses to share price, you can just do that instead of issuing these fake stocks. Plenty of people get paid with bonuses tied to share price or EPS.
It will give up control of the OS on phones that won't be sold in the US anyway. I'm not clear on how that will threaten the US security? Though it will no doubt threaten Google's profits and ability to benefit from their surveillance- and censorship-enabled search engine for the Chinese market.

Our tech companies should not be lining up to lick the boots of a hostile economic power. I can't even believe this is socially acceptable and am relieved it's starting to become legally unacceptable.
NASA I believe gets a certain number of slots and will be giving up an astronaut slot for each of these tourist flights. When Dragon and Starliner finally start flying though they'll be able to increase the number of people able to be on the station at once so net they're probably no worse off than before. Currently only 6 people (up to 9 but only briefly during a handover) can be on board at once because each Soyuz can only carry 3 people. Crew Dragon can hold up to 7 but most of the time will be flying with less, iirc 3-4.
As long you you don't have a size requirement, I would say go with an Arduino and an NFC expansion board. Then you could just do the software side. It also isn't too expensive. Here's a link to one https://www.arrow.com/en/products/x-nucleo-nfc05a1/stmicroel...
Scam others.
The bigger the attitude, the smaller the talent.
I have always noticed
Twelve classic computers I wish I’d owned (2017)
> ...The Resistance: Avalon, the most popular hidden role game.

I question this, because it seems more likely to me that the grade-school classics (Mafia/Werewolf) probably have The Resistance or any expansion/variant thereof beat for popularity there.
But using a database as a ledger would clear faster than even the fastest blockchain, wouldn’t it? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by “clearing”. I’m assuming you mean how long it takes for person A to get money to person B.
Future Intel Extremely Heterogeneous Architecture? [pdf]
You know that scene from Animal House where the 60's college kids are sitting around smoking a joint, and someone proposes the idea that every electron is a universe, and their minds are all blown? That's a parody, but it also really is what a human mental model refactor looks and feels like. (Both from the outside and the inside. Yes, I'm speaking from personal experience.)

how can you know when you have completed a refactor?

Before you've completed it, other people might think you're annoying because you want to talk about one particular thing a whole lot, and they're waiting for you to get over it. Most likely, you'll roll back some of the changes and make some bug fixes, and you'll stop feeling "whoa" and euphoric, and people will start treating you normally again.

The above answers:

why would a partial refactor be bad for the mind?

Probably good for your mind, but an interruption for your social progress.
It's not a bubble, but it definitely shouldn't be on a pedestal.
Texas is deregulated, so you have a ton of options to pick from. Common methods are setting up a table at a grocery store or the like, or door-to-door. You also see a lot of cable and alarm sales door-to-door.

On a related note, I went with Griddy, which is actually a cool startup approach to it.

https://www.gogriddy.com/
I never heard this before and it doesn't pass the sniff test.

Not giving NASA as much money as they and the public would like is one thing, every congress and administration since probably LBJ does that. Specifically "de-funding" one of their flagship projects would cause massive public backlash. Besides, congress writes the budget. Anything Trump "publishes" is just political posturing without much meaning. Therefore I suspect that this is just some out of context or misrepresented tidbit that worked its way in after the author googled around to figure out the recent history of privatization of space. Then again, I wouldn't at all be surprised if Trump published a wish list budget and literally forgot to put NASA on it. I'm betting reality is probably more nuanced than the one sentence the author distilled it down to.
That seems like it’s also an argument for blocking competition. If you think that Google is more able to secure phones than any other entity, and you think that any compromise to phone security is a national security threat, that implies that nobody but Google should be allowed to make phone operating systems.

I’m a bit dubious that Google is actually making that argument, given how obvious the consequences are.
I have exactly zero trust in Facebook but I have had so many irritating moments and missed opportunities due to ditching my account years ago that I am seriously considering reopening it again.

The main aspect I'm considering these days is that I'm not important in the grand scheme of things so there's no rational reason to increase difficulty in things that do really matter such as having memorable experiences while I can in exchange for privacy or to make some statement. In a sense, I will have privacy anyway out of just being a data point out of billions.

It's not that Facebook is convenient but rather that not having it can be inconvenient depending on your context.
Have you read the blog post? I think it gives a much needed context to whats going on with Russia at the moment.
That's just not true. The science is very clear on that.

"Weeks 6 to 7

Arm and leg buds start to grow.
Your baby's brain forms into 5 different areas. Some cranial nerves are visible.
Eyes and ears begin to form.
Tissue grows that will become your baby's spine and other bones.
Baby's heart continues to grow and now beats at a regular rhythm.
Blood pumps through the main vessels."

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002398.htm
Same story, different actors: Company throws Machine Learning at a problem, gets a good data set for training, uncovers horrifying implications (the data set is racist, the tools enable abuses of power, the model is incomprehensible, the tool is spreading anti-vax messages to sell more ads).
Automatic merge of GitHub security fixes
Legislators: Boeing wanted to wait 3 years to fix Max flaw