skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why you should block these trackers by modifying your hosts file (https://debugandrelease.blogspot.com/2019/01/how-to-block-on...). It doesn't just block ads, but trackers too.
Facebook is evil
Sounds like this is a definitive beginning of "The Internet of Things."
I also work for an ad tech supplier. And yes, there is lots of incompetence and inefficiencies going around. But they sure are trying anyway.

I recently saw the Minority Report targeted advertising scene[0] as an aspirational video in an internal document outlining business goals.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ
Good idea, yes!
MIT spinout offering $1.5M to ventures in Applied Category Theory
Figured this out by accident yesterday - a pleasant surprise. Didn't realize it was a result of the new feature. Nice work.
Did you discuss this at a 1:1 with the person?

As to introspection, perhaps some more is called for. You refer to your colleagues as "subordinates" and think of yourself as "boss, leader..."

That's not the proper mindset to be successful as a manager in high tech. You're there to clear hurdles for individual contributors who are more technical than you (if they're not, you are either a junior manager managing even more junior engineers, or your company does not have a technical track to attract/retain good engineers), so that they can do their jobs more efficiently.
I think much of this depends what you are employed to do.

Sometimes it's about making things less complex, which means good practices, code quality, clean code and testing means you can afford a bit more risk.

Equally, sometimes you employed to just get things done, make it work, even fake it till you make it, proof of concepts, minimum viable products, etc.

I've done both, I enjoy both, but they are two different modes of working.

Ultimately the answer is "it depends" and milage may vary.

Quality is a journey not a destination.

Yes, put delivering value above anything else, sometimes that value is quality.
That's incredible, I am sure all the webdevs that read your comment feel your pain.
> Without advertising, products would be cheaper because their producers would not have to spend money on adverts.

At the beginning the money comes from the product owner, who without any visibility will not have (as many) costumers
Is there anything that US gains from cutting off Huawei?
I feel similarly and agree about the responses. I typically avoid political arguments or heavily opinionated conversations. Maybe it's because I'm still young (I'll be 30 in a couple years) but I don't think this makes me an unenjoyable person to be around.

I like having _good_ conversations, and can still have them about controversial or opinionated subjects. If I don't know enough about a topic to offer my opinion I like to ask questions that will offer some insight as to why the person feels so strongly. Usually (not always) when someone feels very strongly about something, there is some kernel of truth somewhere that will at least be interesting. It's fun to at least figure out _why_ people think they way they do.

I used to have a bad habit of being a devil's advocate. I'm sure it was annoying when I was even younger, but I've found that faking (exploring) an opinion can help give the conversation some depth. Nowadays I do that less, but can get away with it if I preface it nicely enough.
Linux Commands Raspberry Pi Users Need to Know
Oh let me rush to defend my favorite platform, the iSeries.

The platform, regardless of which, is not to blame. It is the laziness of most IT shops which either don't have any process in place or only pay it lip service.

iSeries machines (AS/400) serve many different client interaction methods, from green screen, web services, ODBC, NodeJS via Qshell, and more. If employed properly the iSeries has some of the best security in the industry, reason why many are used by banks all over the world, hospitals, the gambling industry, and more. Failure occurs for the same reason it does anywhere else, not having a process in place and following it.

As for currency with what is available today, iSeries access is facilitated through a JAVA based client which works on Windows, OS X, and Linux. It is the same java application throughout and even provides ODBC access through java drivers and for windows you can opt into a subset of windows exe/dlls. There is a full blown web service hooked to it as well that runs on the server as needed. It is up and down fully SSL too.
This FastCo article is really a brilliant advertorial for Winston. Upvote for their cheeky video > https://winstonprivacy.com/
That’s not entirely my point. The whole point of JSFiddle (which I love) is at odds with the bulk of the demographic of Twitter. If your content sharing site inadvertently has malware you can remove it, JSFiddle will always be risky.

The bulk of the people I follow on Twitter would have no clue what it was or how to even begin to understand it.
If it would give up control of the OS on phones anyway and it would not threaten the US security, why did the US ban Google from providing Android updates to Huawei? It is the same logic why the US government bans Huawei, unless the US government ban Huawei for other reasons.
“cash you can email” may be a cool-sounding bumper-sticker but it's not how I'd describe something which requires operating a complex multi-party system. Similarly, “large amounts for ridiculously cheap” has historically not been true and given how much highly-visible and easily blocked infrastructure a blockchain requires to be online in order to operate, “uncensorable” is more of a hypothetical aspirational goal than a given (an envelope of USD is much safer).

“hostile monetary policy” is especially dubious in this context where it's supposedly pinned to the USD but even in other cases it's a hard sell for most people: do you a) put your money into a bank account, investment, or other asset you expect to do better than inflation or b) put everything into a complex system with no guarantees that it'll be operating in 5 years, fraud protection, etc. and hope that the conversion fees you pay on both sides will be lower than the difference?

“keeps working when you travel” could potentially be an area where it could match the credit card system except that it either means that you're traveling with a ton of cash and no recourse if someone steals it or, if like most people you use a managed service somewhere else, hoping that you don't trip the same kind of security measures which banks use for the same reasons. Given that most people do not travel that frequently and most travelers do not have significant issues using credit cards while abroad, it's unclear to me that this will be enough of a compelling advantage.
You should not be required to assist them. If they can get in on their own with a warrant, that's fair game.
Absolutely agree! Vivek's ASM tuts are amazing. Additionally, Nikhil's red team lab is highly recommended.
Ah that's where I recognized the name. I remember her being a minor Google celebrity, to the point that Manu made her into a comic book character.
I think they mean something like SSE/AVX, but with something like ARM Scalable Vector Extension (code that works on registers with 128 to 2048 bit size, unknown at compile time).
Softbank is essentially a PE fund now. Their numbers don't represent the same things that they do for a regular company.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/softbanks-debt-obsession/
"Some reason" was probably lack of money.
Yeah, that would be the case for almost any big company whose finances are in order, but afaik SoftBank is not that open when it comes to how it really does stuff, so there’s a lot of guessing going on, and generally speaking guessing is not that good for investors when a recession hits, you want to know the real numbers and especially the real money flow, so to speak.

To go back to the available numbers: what would happen in case SoftBank needs to re-finance half of its loans in the next 5 years? What would happen if that need for re-financing is coupled with a recession that will most probably drive many of SoftBank’s assets’ value down? Will the Japanese banks be willing to roll that debt over in the midst of great need for liquidity? Debt which will stand against a lower value of SoftBank’s assets? We don’t really know.

In any case, what SoftBank is doing looks to me like “conglomerate financial engineering”, i.e. doing a lot of financial fuzzy stuff while apparently being backed up by solid assets, assets which are managed in a very Byzantine way. That works very well until it doesn’t, the latest such example being General Electric, which went from being among the 3 biggest companies in the world to one step from financial insolvency, all this in a matter of couple of weeks/one month, all this because of GE Capital.

I guess the next recession will show who was really right and who wasn’t.
I agree with you but I can't bear to say code doesn't matter. Try not writing any and see how valuable software is without it. Better yet, delete it and see what happens :D. I expect Codeless will become a thing one day but, until that day comes you will write code, because the code is necessary and I have trouble saying that the code is needed but also doesn't matter. Least important necessity maybe?
While I generally agree with you, a court order to provide a password does bring with it a few problems.

1. Sometimes knowledge of the password itself could be considered testimonial. If there is doubt as to whether or not the an individual owns a particular computer, then being forced to provide the password is tantamount to being forced to concede ownership, which would violate protections against self incrimination.

2. People do legitimately forget passwords, and the courts have no way of distinguishing between people who have genuinely forgotten and those who falsely claim to have forgotten. Being subjected to indefinite detention for forgetting a password would violate due process, while keeping someone in jail until they comply with a legal warrant is legitimate. Since the court cannot distinguish between these two cases, any penalty the court may impose for contempt runs a variable (depending on the facts of the case) but non-zero risk of being a miscarriage of justice.
"You seem pretty upset" is a pretty passive aggressive statement. In fact, it's openly hostile since it's tantamount to stating that I am not in control of my (perceived by you) emotions (of which there are actually none). Coupled with you pretending to be the aggrieved, polite party, the irony is thick. In fact, needing to write this reply is pretty comical, thanks for the entertainment, I guess.

Edit: The more I think about it the funnier it gets. Do you think I am "not in the tech world" and upset by it? Or that I don't earn a lot of money and am upset at that? I am genuinely curious in the assumptions you made to arrive at the conclusion that I am upset/offended.
Also, data on Google's server is subject to US laws.
When you Balkanize android, so that part of the market uses Huawei's AOSP fork, you've got less data that's could be compelled on the grounds of US national security.

That would be a more convincing national security argument.
Perhaps in my area it's only non-whites who come to the door with clipboards as that's all I see posted to Ring Neighbors. Or what's posted is a reflection of what scares those neighbors, not who comes to their door.
>Tracking is bad, because even if you don’t have anything to hide now, you may find that your past activities make you a target under a future political system.

I've been screaming about this for years, but everyone thinks I'm crazy. Here's an interesting point of frustration: one one likes to give out phone numbers in the context of online dating anymore. Usually the request is to move from, say, tinder, to an app like Snapchat. People don't understand why I'm hesitant, especially when they want to discuss relatively personal, indirectly or directly politically charged politics on a platform built to harvest literally everything you write, photograph, and send.

On some level I start to feel like society is deserving of the dystopia it is building, because the average person simply doesn't care to understand the dangers of anything they do when everyone else is doing it. But maybe that's just vindictiveness brought on by jealousy of their blissful ignorance.
> asking the driver to inform people of the swap

Everything else aside, this is a horrible way for a business to handle the situation.

When you receive an order for something you know you definitely can't deliver, you don't plow forward and try to fob off some substitute thing on them. You either contact them and get their approval first, or you cancel the order.

On top of that, relying on the driver to inform them is another problem. Drivers aren't going to be 100% reliable at that (it's not their primary responsibility, they're in a hurry, they may fail to understand the situation, etc.), so that's a terrible plan, and you're just asking for the situation to go bad.
The oil industry is setup as nested subcontractors so that no-one with any money is responsible for these kinds of screwups.

Go look into the actual law, you legally can't call yourself an engineer in Texas without a PE, or a couple tiny carveouts (on the order of you work at NASA, and NASA calls you an engineer)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

Also make sure you're not overly invested in having the attitude of NGAF.
This is a little bit different than Iran. The US government specifically does not want Iran to have access to nuclear technology, so preventing US companies from providing technology to Iran is in itself the goal.

In the case of Huawei, the US government's concerns mostly seem to be about Huawei possibly spying on the devices they sell. On the other hand, there doesn't seem to be any particular basis for concern about allowing them to use US software such as android. Therefore, from the perspective of the security threat that is the putative basis for blacklisting Huawei, the fact that Huawei is now blocked from using Android is merely an incidental side effect.

(Of course, if the real goal is to hold Huawei hostage as a means to negotiate a trade deal, then threatening to destroy their smartphone business by blocking them from using Android may be precisely what is really intended.)
> And if not, what is the difference between being ordered to confess and being ordered to produce evidence harmful to yourself?

One has constitutional protection from the fifth amendment and the other doesn't.
Agreed. I just think this isn’t an example, or at least not an example of the worst of it.

I can’t think of any legitimate reason for my cousins who are on Twitter would want to go to JSFiddle. I’m ok with Twitter taking this stance. I’m not ok with many of the other policies.
Mixpanel introduces query-time sampling: fast, lossless user analytics at scale
> The innovations you can get on Stadia are mostly tied to rendering capabilities.

Which is my point exactly. They should have focused on innovations where cloud really can differentiate. Instead they run for "push pixels from the server, because your PC isn't strong enough" idea, which will be obsolete tomorrow, since PC hardware is getting better at pushing pixels every year.
http://www.hbmpartners.com/media/docs/industry-reports/Analy...
Based on my understanding of the learning process, typically you can tell when a refactor is occurring if you go through "Foundational Collapse," meaning that you've learned something that makes almost your entire understanding of the subject - even one that you've known for a while, to fail. This occurs until you are able to rework your entire understanding of the subject to fit the new criteria. This occurs more easily the better you understand the subject in the first place, as long as you understand what is happening and you give your brain an opportunity to contextualize the information.

Since this is done by the DMN instead of working memory, when this occurs I think that the best thing you can do is take a weekend off. When you are learning aggressively, like at a high level university, I imagine that a student will go through several of these a year in various subjects.
Books collected and given away for free
If you just want to see what it's about then google works I guess, but if you can't get registered on your own I'm not sure that Hackthebox is the best place to start for pentesting.
> very few animals other than these exhibit eusociality (humans aside,

Technically, humans are not eusocial, which by definition requires a biological division of reproductive labor. Most eusocial species actually have significant morphological differences in their classes (i.e. females that physically can or cannot reproduce).

Wilson tends to repeat the idea of humans and other primates as eusocial which I find confusing.

Eusociality and its evolution is indeed a fascinating topic. There are some great discussions on this from WD Hamilton (the study of led him to inclusive fitness theory and kin selection) and Richard Alexander (who discovered the only eusocial mammal - the naked mole-rat).
I'm sure some companies can benefit from employee representation on the board, but I don't think Google is one of them. Google is possibly the cushiest company to work for in the entire world. I and I imagine most shareholders would rather Google spend more money on self-driving cars than solving every little grievance employees have.
One dude insisting on one safety measure being added to a catastrophically stupid and unsafe design, while being resisted by everyone else, is very much within the realm of “relaxed safety.” In fact, I’d say that’s a rather mild and understated way to describe it. “Utterly negligent on safety” would be more accurate.
I didn’t downvote you, but I also don’t agree with the methodology- it doesn’t seem conducive to progress.
> Should a murder suspect be allowed to deny police access to his shed

A more accurate analogy is forcing the suspect to help the police in accessing his shed.
They've done this before. Charles Simonyi [0] went up to the ISS in 2007 and 2009. I got to talk to him via ham radio.

Space Adventures [1] has been doing it since 2001, but it seem they haven't had any recent trips.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simonyi
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Adventures
In Ontario, Canada you can call yourself a Software Engineer. It's prefixing that title with, Professional that will get you in trouble if you're not licensed with the Professional Engineers of Ontario under the Professional Engineers Act.

Requirements are pretty high: http://www.peo.on.ca/index.php/ci_id/2057/la_id/1.htm

But I suppose industry/capitalism loves the fact that we don't require licensing in order to produce software even if use of said software should be safeguarding health, property, economic interests, etc.
Yes he is saying that lack of conviction is a good thing.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explains why he's trying to colonize the moon
An IOU isn't automatically a token though. For the token analogy above, there is no reason for the arcade to start using blockchain instead of little metal tokens (even if there is some marginal benefit of the new tokens being usable at any location, and that the metal tokens no longer need to be produced).
We could trade arcade tokens wherever we wanted, but we don't because there is no expectation of value received for the token holder. If Facebook doesn't open some ecosystem for their coin soon, the whole measure seems to be nothing but a database (as parent commenters have noted).
Yes, I think so. (xoogler myself).
Once you're doing copies (in your example two copies!) it's game over.
All true, but there are many downsides to the adversarial approach so we should consider exploring other types. The most obvious downside is an adversarial system police and the state will default to intimidation because that's the most effective tactic on most people. This manifests most perniciously in the case of plea bargains. Economic analysis of criminal justice has led to an approach of deliberately threatening people with wildly disproportionate sentences because it's a powerful incentive to plead guilty to lesser crimes and keep the costs of running a prosecutor's office down. It also promotes an unhealthy zero-sum approach to justice where in order for me to win you must lose. We're seeing now how things work out when that attitude shapes the cognition of national leaders.

Most people think they can make a better adversarial system by tweaking this or that rule, but the unwanted outcomes are baked into the adversarial approach. What works between individual humans (more or less) doesn't translate well to conflicts between individual humans and collective entities which constitute facets of the state, bth because of the yawning asymmetries involved and because the state is necessarily and unavoidably schizoid due to the distributed nature of its consciousness and that of those who comprise its cellular elements.
Do you need a country to be a different culture? I guess Tibet has no different culture than Han Chinese since they don't have their own country, eh?
On the liability side the GDPR was already good progress
Everyone should learn basic programming like they learn math. Not everyone will continue on to become a professional mathematician of course.
I believe he's referring to something like this:
https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-...
Wouldn’t Facebook just become the middleman instead of visa or whoever?
>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?

That's pretty straight forward, someone from the US exchanges information with someone who has a Huawei phone who is outside the US, someone who has imported a Huawei phone, or someone who is travelling / working in the US and has one. Which given that it's the number 1/2 phone maker in the world, is pretty likely
> I use virtualenv. When I was first learning to program, and I believe python is a better choice for a first language than PHP or Javascript

I’m a seasoned programmer and I absolutely hate how you’re forced to use VirtualEnv with python. One of the absolutely biggest warts of its already poor package-management.

It literally makes everything which should be simple, something you suddenly need to handle. Atrocious.

I like it much better like .Net, Node or Rust (and many others) where the dependencies are entirely handled within a project, completely obsoleting the need for a hack solution like virtualenvs in the first place.
I’m no opponent of cannabis, having enjoyed it myself now and then. But I’ve known quite a few habitual users whose actions subsequent to getting high involve neglecting their personal obligations and their health. I’m not sure there’s anything ethical about watching cartoons for hours while consuming copious quantities of junk food, especially if this means ignoring your family or responsibilities. Of course, not every cannabis user does this, but, anecdotally, I’ve encountered this cluster of behaviors frequently.
This is why I will point out issues in code only on the form of stating potential improvements as best as I can. I especially try to avoid hating on the author - it might have been me or the boss who's standing nearby...

In fact, I often conciously refrain from using blame on an "interesting" piece of code because it doesn't matter who wrote it. Looking it up would just satisfy idle curiosity, but yield noninsight into how to improve the code. In fact, I think that blame should just list the commits, but hide the authors by default. "What changed? " and "how?" are always much more pressing questions than "who?".